skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving comments is a different kind of participation than curating a personal website. The assertion originally under discussion here (a few posts back) is that most people don't care to curate their own personal website, or, really, any sort of distinguished online identity. I think that is true. Most people are on Facebook/Instagram/Nextdoor/whatever are doom scrolling it, not trying to become an influencer. The assortment of people leaving comments on NYT, Amazon reviews, or chattering on a forum somewhere, or whatever else, are doing just that, but not trying to drive traffic to their personal home page.
I thought they were a clever way of the founders buying private islands.
100% it's a scam. scams take advantage of people in some way and in this case, if the target is amoral and greedy enough to think it's a good idea, then they're hooked.
I needed this, thank you for posting this.
I'm fully aware of the lightning network. I'm also aware of something called VISA and American express. Which number do I call to get concierge service with bitcoin? That's what I thought.
Typographic nerd: technically, you should you use a non-breaking space (espace insécable) before colons in french. Doing that does not show the popup. Wait, what do you mean your keyboard layout does not have it?

Keyboard layout nerd: you should use a keymap that has it. Like AFNOR's latest AZERTY or BÉPO.

Historical nerd: traditionally wordprocessors have auto-inserted non-breaking spaces before colons, why should I care now ?
Talking about narratives and Elon Musk, I think that the man has been given a pass by too many people for too long.

He has been strangely avoiding scrutiny on many of his grandiose promises and I believe that Tesla stock (and thus most of his fortune) is built on hype.
Skin is more glossy in theses IA photos than it should be.
I am assuming the "doubling" might have come from delivery drivers and workers at warehouses mostly. Looks like the good folks who are let go are now mostly from non-engineering.
Pretty good analogy. Discovery and trade (clones/PRs) are so much easier in a centralized system.

At one point I asked (rather naively - not trying to sound wise here) whether our dependence on GitHub was an outage risk. Response from CTO was that git is distributed and everyone has a copy and whatnot. In retrospect, yeah, the code is not lost, but we had never actually built the infrastructure / tested the procedures to actually handle that fallback to a distributed world...
@dang can we update the link to https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1591907714208518145 please?
This space before the colon and other marks in French should actually be a narrow non-breaking space (U+202F) [0]. There's no key for it in the AZERTY layout.

This has been a problem since the typewriter age. People having to get on with their jobs coped with it by using a full, breaking em-space. Unless this gets replaced automatically by the word processor, you get horrid typography and misplaced line breaks all over the place.

The Académie Française should have dealt with this years ago, if their ass wasn't stuck in the 17th century.

[0] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+202F
Multiple times I have found the impact of cache performance to be dramatic. I find that the usual optimisations in three aspects are usually obvious to achieve and can bring surprisingly big improvements.

The first is that RAM accessed randomly or in the wrong direction performs very poorly compared to sequential access in order. The same is true of cache because its much easier to predict and prefetched data when its accessed serially. The effect is so dramatic that its sometimes worth "accessing" data you don't need to get access to this hardware optimisation to maintain serial access. At times for example I have found Treemaps and listmaps perform better than hashmaps as the cheap search serially and in memory order surprisingly out does the O(log(n)) or O(n) algorithms and the cost of the hash.

If you have a data structure that is larger than optimal and overflows cache lines it can have big impacts on cache utilisation and performance if the algorithm doesn't need all the fields. Object orientation impacts quite heavily on this and certain designs can make very large objects and these often get poor cache usage.

Unnecessary allocation and deallocation of memory in algorithms often results in the cache getting thrashed and avoiding this and using the same memory can result in better hot cache usage and reducing garbage collection usage.

Most profilers can give you a good idea of the allocations but the other two are often harder to find and mostly just show up in cache misses.
Small sample set, but I recently saw a poll on a DeFi fb group that I'm in and the question was: "where are you moving your crypto during this sh*t show?"

The majority of the people answered 'binance'.
"In Bill 2005/2006:76, the Persson Government stated the reasons for abolishing the law when it stated that there *had never been any ban on thought*, but that the "incorrect perception of the meaning of the provision is well established"
We will see, but the focus will be placed more on American collaborators to share records they have been withholding. The culpability is shared amongst virologists around the world.
Unless it's changed recently, IntelliJ IDEA has similar annoyances[0]. Again, using the equivalently placed key works instead. Are they using scan-codes for some reason? Seems extra bizarre given that JetBrains isn't even a US based company!

[0] https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po...
[further note: I'm pretty consistent about using an N95 mask at nearly all times when I'm not actively eating or drinking]
I mean, what are they doing to generate you that money, and how safe is it?

FTX gave customer deposits to Alameda, without much knowledge I'd guess they wanted Alameda to generate that 8% APY, but customers weren't in the know

"literally no one does what you claim", except in the FIAT world, which I see crypto enthusiasts claim FTX was under just as strict government oversight as a FIAT exchange/bank

If your point is to say, even Coinbase are risking traders money, then yeah they are. If someone were to build "the TD ameritrade" of the crypto world, I guess they'd fail because they aren't giving away free money
> You have an in demand skill that won't go out of demand any time soon.

How do you know? OP didn't mention what he did.
It's super funny that identity verification of authors of things published was basically more than half of the value twitter provided to its users, both readers and writers and the first thing Elon did was to destroy it.

Just to replace it with what he calls "payment verified", which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing.

It kind of reminds me how a while back somebody posted proposed redesign of stackoverflow to make it more nice from UX perspective. However this person wasn't a user of stackoverflow and didn't understand how much value which features provide and suggested changes that would make very valuable features removed or made less easily accessible while bringing to the front features that are not very useful.

I think it just helps to be a user of the product and have a deep understanding for it before you make any changes. Elon used twitter a lot, but in pretty unusual fashion (because he's world famous billionaire) so he really didn't understand what's most valuable part and took it for granted.

It's really a bit surprising that noone told him that his tweets are worth anything only because people reading them can know they come from Elon not some guy who paid 8$ to call himself Elon on Twitter.
Same here. I have songs ripped from CDs in the 90s and I’ve never had a problem with losing music.

Every other music service I’ve used-free and paid- has problems with songs no longer being available.

It’s kind of funny because it’s the only data that made it from that time of my life.
> Do none of them actually use their tools and internal expertise to model their own hiring practices and historical market trends?

This! It’s exactly what have occupied my mind since layoffs started. May they did use tools. But, remember the output is a forecast, not a shining light out of a crystal ball. Estimates/Forecasts can go wrong and clearly turned out that way.
Did the Ad Work?
Depends on the cost basis. When FTT was created Binance could have received 500MM worth of tokens for providing say 10MM of UST. Such is common for early token sales to gain support of large players to convince commoners to pump the token.
a) They intentionally want to segregate NPM imports, because this is a stopgap, not the way forward they're trying to lay out for the ecosystem. The future Deno is aiming for is one where you don't have repositories (as we've known them), only web domains.

b) The above introduces non-standard JS syntax and semantics, which also goes against Deno's philosophy
As I said: It depends what you are writing. If you write big libraries and major codebases that are meant to represent the foundation for something big, maybe you should not follow my advice. If however you are writing a small tool where good enough is indeed good enough (and still 10 times faster than equivalent python code), who cares.

Rust can go anywhere inbetween counting every bit and byte and doing no such thing at all. My point was that counting every bit will probably be not be the way 90% of the programs will be written if they are written in Rust (mostly due to the fact that programming in such a way is both much harder and takes longer — independent of the programming language).

So if someone who does not count bits programs a software in a field where it would be paramount to do precisely that, then this is not the fault of the programming language, but the fault of that person, their organisation or whatever.
This is great news for the Rails community!
Looking forward to what this will bring.
I can see some value in ethereum's VM. The upside there is a bootstrapped cloud that every computer can join when not in use, unlocking tons of value that currently is just sitting around. Seems reasonable to believe that 10 years from now ML training/other compute intensive async tasks might be done via the ethereum VM.

Probably would be easier to just do this via a centralized organizer, but getting enough buy in to actually attract users might be difficult. Ethereum already has it.
UX testing should be done in a stressful and chaotic environment. Good UX becomes invisible, bad UX becomes abundantly obvious.
I would also lay a chunk of blame on the use of type inference which causes the information about the behaviour to be hidden from view.

Had the author been looking at the type information within the syntax of the code the profile output may not have been a surprise. Perhaps the problem would never have existed in the first place.
Is there any reason not to tick 'African American' and 'Female' on those forms? Surely they can't prove anything, right?
It may work for you, but there are users of languages that simply cannot be covered by QWERTY, and in these cases they would like from developers to simply fix their goddamn code, and bind to keys, not characters.
It is very simple. Pick a nonprofit that has an exciting cause. Go on their website and look for openings. It’s going to need to be a very large org to have developers on staff as almost all IT needs typically are heavily outsourced to vendors. You can also work for one of these vendors.

Expected to leave massive amounts of salary on the table. You could be talking 50-150k less.
down 80 percent in a year.already close to dead
This is why it must be a requirement for politicians to be self-funded. If you can't succeed in the financial world why should I trust you to manage a country? I miss Trump.
Yup, Roon is great. They just a big 2.0 release that improved mobile streaming support.
Be sure to read and observe the Health Risks section! Informative!
Volatility aside, stuff like Bitcoin _is_ already used for payments, albeit in a much lower volume than the crypto proponents wish it would be. I pay contractors now and then with BTC, particularly in South America and Africa, and works MUCH better than SWIFT (even if I have to convert from USD to BTC and they have to convert from BTC to whatever on their side).

Projects like Ripple also have their use - it's mostly a replacement for SWIFT & similar systems (you'd be surprised by just how fragile these interbank systems are).

Some countries are implementing their own "digital currencies" as well (notably China), and they may end up being some flavor of crypto currency (although a public blockchain is not mandatory for these cases - see the example of PIX in Brazil, which works incredibly well without any public chain shenanigans).

So yea, there's value on the whole thing, but the amount of fraud, money laundering and flat out scams (in particular now that mainstream VCs are propping up the entire system) is really too big of a downside to ignore.
French on US intl here ä ö ü ß are easy to make on such a setup but also the accented letters like é à ô or the infamous ç. It is even easier to type them in capital than it typically is on AZERTY (French keyboard) or QWERTZ (German one)
Stick to protocols that have been around for even a year and you'll do much better than those listed in that article. How much has been lost via hacks from Uniswap, Aave or MakerDAO?

Most of those examples you linked are bridges that aren't considered Defi or half-baked protocols that scream "scam".
> Try consulting/contracting - That space is still brimming w hiring. Much faster on-boarding /hiring.

Hiring is faster, yes, but onboarding is often still a dreadful mess. At least if it's at a company that expects you to use their equipment and their closed system.
>Yes, it'd be nice if oil refineries were run tightly enough that they had no local emissions, but those refined products are all going into the fuel tanks of jet planes, ships, trucks, power plants and personal vehicles, from whene they will be combusted to CO2 and injected into the atmosphere, so does it really matter where the emissions take place

If you can avoid waste at the refineries and the fields, less fossil fuels will have to be dig up to fulfill the same demand. Of course waste is an important issue to tackle. Sure, lowering demand or restricting supply may do more, but waste is often a relatively easy thing to tackle.
Amazon mass layoffs will reportedly ax 10k people this week
Tether is now perhaps the biggest fraud in history and anyone who has any doubts about it really needs to read these documents and the history of the players involved.

They’ve been caught lying again and again and again
Bird said it had recorded revenue on certain trips
even when customers lacked sufficient
“preloaded ‘wallet’ balances.”
The company said it should have
reported the unpaid balances on
its financial statements as
deferred revenue."

This doesn't make sense.

Deferred revenue is money you've received, that's not yet due.

But the paragraph describes the opposite: money you've not yet received, that is already due.

Unpaid balances are just accounts receivable and, unless you don't expect to be paid, you should count them in your revenue.
Precisely. Also all the other works (philosphy/religion) have elaborate contraptions to describe what it/God/ is. TTC is the only one that starts out with it cannot be told.

No go live it.
which was caused by the pandemic.
Not necessarily -- you can create a profitable exchange by having a standard taker fee or commission. That's how exchanges have made money since the dawn of time and there's nothing wrong with it.

The issue with FTX etc is that they didn't segregate their revenue model from their customer accounts. That's a no-no not only from a legal perspective but from a risk management perspective.
Ironically historical bank runs were mostly on thrifts or savings & loans, which also aren’t banks.
I run a podcast that regularly has comics on as guests. These comics are typically on the level of filling theaters across the country. I’m sure the open-mic early-career comics would be happy to play a college
You're on a site full of intellectual types. Of course we're going to over-analyze everything. That's part of the fun!

While you have a fair point, I see it as being overly reductive. Yeah, what's being stimulated is the child-like imagination, and that's certainly the most terse way of describing it, but leaving it at that seems to dismiss the inherent mechanics of that type of entertainment. It takes a lot to put a grown adult into that imaginative state, and most people can't do it effectively. If they wanted to, they might struggle because they are no longer children and don't know what it takes to really tickle that part of the brain. I'm not pretending like I would even approach the skill level of someone like Teller, but I like to think I can somewhat understand what he's saying in a similar way to appreciating the artistry of a painting even though I am a lousy artist.
I started to read this book but it seems to be full of political bile. How does it compare to Economics in One Lesson?
What's your salary? Where are you located?
TIL Heroku v1 was a web editor like Replit or Codespaces, and they had a side feature to import an existing app as a ZIP file and people were using that for easy deploys even if they didn't use the editor. Also TIL "folk practice."

> We sometimes call this a "folk practice" in the product design world, which is the idea of someone's using something in a way that is not really quite how it was intended or designed for but they're pointing the way towards their true problems.
That seems like a bad way to think about security threats. The fact that the door is open at all is severely problematic, regardless of how many people have walked through it.
We're probably about the same age, but that is definitely the case! If anything, Gates was likely seen as somewhat worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Meta is also not selling data to advertisers. Advertisers buy ads and Meta decides who sees them. Advertisers only find out who sees their ads once they click on them.

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
I worked for Alexa before. If I remember correctly there are only 4 use cases of it like weather, smart devices, music and timers/alarms. There used to be 10k employees at that time of which 3k were working in music alone. There was definitely a bloat at that time.

The third party ecosystem never caught up and there is no killer app for Alexa other than those 4 use cases. The API (slots/intents) is limited and hard to create any useful interaction with it. My gut feeling is many divisions will be affected in Alexa.
It's absolutely true that almost all of the remote jobs I'm seeing are explicitly senior or above, or require 3+ years of experience. I meet this, but for entry level people looking for something immediately, I'd recommend support or QA work to stay afloat while building a personal portfolio and hoping to get lucky with an employer who is actually desperate for developers.
accurate, making no difference in anything I wrote about the user experience. custody is simulated by the exchange, and demands for self-custody is initiated at the exchange.
Just a note that this is an "Internet Draft", without any particular standards status. I.e., anyone can submit an I-D and the IETF will publish it.

As a general matter, if you see a document with the name "draft-ietf-<something>" that means it's been accepted by an IETF WG and so is potentially on its way to being an RFC (though of course some documents never make it). If it is named "draft-<someones-name>-<something>" then it's just a document someone submitted. That doesn't make it bad: most RFCs start this way, but it just means it's not anything the IETF is officially working on. This document is "draft-sporny" and AFAIK, no IETF WG has taken it up.

This is something that often confuses people about the IETF, so hopefully this helps.
What is the ballpark of corporate employees count?
>they either don't want to understand it or can't grasp its concepts like lifetimes (liveness) or move.

I think it's funny/sad when I hear C++ programmers complain about this. If you don't understand lifetimes in Rust, you don't understand lifetimes in C++ either. Rust however will prevent you making a mistake. That makes it less complex for you. If you can't get your program to compile in Rust, you might get it to compile in C++, but you shouldn't.
Companies have diversity goals? I thought that the diversity related info wasn't used in hiring, as is stated in all the job application forms
Because customers are demanding CarPlay

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/29/apple-carplay-massive-succes...
I have my money parked at various (legitimate) financial institutions, and I don’t personally know any individuals who work there. The marks do not think they are giving money to strangers, they think they are depositing it into their own account and assume the app corresponds to a real brokerage because it is listed on the Apple App Store (per article)
https://localbitcoins.net/ There are other options as well.
Yes and no. That's why third party auditors exist. It's not like you're just asking people to trust your bank balance screenshots.
Any one for Neural Networks?
Google to pay nearly $400M to settle state location-tracking probe
Long ago I remember talking with colleague working for big brand anti-burglary alarm manufacturer. They had to obtain CE certification of their equipment releases, and once they have put a hair across box seal taped it. The hair came back uncut...
In Java, the mistake happens only when there's an abstraction that hides the copying from you, so it isn't implicit in the same way, but it's still implicit.
> their own work communications app, Teams, doesn't allow you to paste small pieces of code in a chat because it replaces punctuation with emoji.

Don't you just put it in backticks `like this`? Even for really short things, it seems clearer and it avoids the machine "helpfully" changing things.

(Your general point is correct, of course, just suggesting a solution to this very particular nuisance)
Similar? The US law focuses on how federal agencies acquire and review OSS software—the EU law throws bureaucracy across the entire OSS landscape.
Probably because he beat a homeless man to a bloody pulp and now his guilt won't let him sleep.
UK Home Office uses GPS fingerprint scanner to track people facing deportation
That's not true. Public media gets very little government funding. The CPB gets a Congressional appropriation once a year and sends it via grants to various public media orgs. But PBS, NPR all their affiliates, the Associated Press, Pro Publica etc are all private orgs that get most of their funding from donors and sponsors.
Theoretically, the coins also act as an ownership share in their respective technology. Or are a transaction unit for it. You could have a deed to something on a blockchain instead of at a title company.

But to your point, if 99.99% of the technology the coins represent is... more coins? Then yeah, it's a big ol' Ponzi scheme.

I always thought it would be interesting to have a coin specifically based on its demand. You have to post something for sale in that coin for a new coin to be minted. So the coin only propagates so long as there is actual demand for it.
I doubt anyone at Binance would lose any sleep over a 500 million hole in their balance sheet. (Because I believe that Tether is, was, and will be significantly undercapitalized.)

The only thing that can unravel Binance and Tether is a big enough bank run.
This is bullshit for: "Prepare for radio silence, but don't be alarmed. Please continue to hold the bag for us."
Sure, and I'm a big proponent of labor. Musk is certainly not.

That said, Twitter's architecture is a Rube Goldberg contraption and Musk is clearly on a warpath to fix it, so to come out publicly and yell, "It's fine," is kind of crazy. It's not fine and you're saying you're not interested in fixing it.