skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol it cannot borrow 10 trillion $$. Where are these make believe numbers coming from? And it can carry the employees at somewhere between moderate to severe risk of bankruptcy (in the case of amazon, it is lower than moderate).

If you have a crystal ball and know when the economy will reverse, no one will fire anyone. Otherwise you have to cut costs and human labor are the biggest costs in most companies. Sure, we could get into a culture where we ask people to take pay cuts for a brief period in return for stability but that seems to not work for some reason so people get laid off.
>> "What made you think it was true?"

The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

We don't know what it is, it is only experiential. Some call it Tao, some call it God, some ... Energy. Some work against it, some work with it in a non-striving way.

When you think about it, energy underpins every single process in the universe, yet we do not know what it is or whence it came, only it's effects and transformation.
SICP - recursion
In C, “discarding” a pointer in a way that leaves the value visible is quite common. At least if one doesn’t accidentally use the pointer, it’s harmless. (In the way that all manner of unsafeness is harmless in C as long as no actual UB occurs, which is to say it’s not great.)

But Go is a garbage collected language, and there is so such thing as “discarding” a pointer. Either it’s there or it isn’t, and this kind of leak has side effects. I find it baffling that the language designers and the community consider this acceptable.

(One thing I really like about Rust is that you can’t play fast and loose with lifetimes like this. If you have function taking &'a Vec<T> and you return &'a T, you can’t arbitrarily “discard” and leak that reference up the call chain. You need to genuinely get rid of it by the time the vector is gone.)
If you failed the tech screens why would they be desperate to hire you?
Appreciate the correction! Credit (to most people including myself) is somewhat of a black box. I've just always done what I've done and maintained scores high enough to get access to credit with great rates, etc. I'm very surprised to hear having a store card (who they seem to hand out to anyone with a pulse) with a $300 limit can ever be a good factor on a report. This goes against everything I've ever "heard" and read about these cards. I trust your experience but I'm really struggling to understand how being issued a card in minutes at checkout at Best Buy (or wherever) is any sign of credit worthiness and a contributer to a "perfect" report.

To be pedantic I don't think I ever implied dropping a store card will have any significant impact on an otherwise bad (or good) credit report.

That said, OP started with his nightmare of an experience with the shady banks store cards end up with so (to me) that's reason enough to stay away from them.
>Interestingly, Washington State passed a carbon fee proposal that's basically the same as that, shortly after

Source? It took me a few minutes to find what the piece of legislation was called (Climate Commitment Act), but it's surprisingly hard to find what the bill actually does. The first result I found was a website from the state of washington[1], which only contains vague statements like "A market-based solution" and "Cleaner air for overburdened communities", without actual concrete measures. The second result from washington state university[2] isn't much better. It seems like the bill institutes some sort of cap and trade system with details to be hammered out later, which isn't the same as a straight carbon tax (as proposed in the ballot measure) and the financial impact is much less clear. I suspect the latter is why it was passed at all.

[1] https://ecology.wa.gov/Air-Climate/Climate-Commitment-Act

[2] https://csanr.wsu.edu/the-climate-commitment-act-is-coming/
2) Consulting makes sense, companies are less likely to hire in a downturn (because they want to avoid increasing ongoing cost). However,is still work to be done, and timelines to be made. A "one time" expense is easier to justify.
How can you say that Binance is one of the "good" actors?

Just like with all the previous cases, you really lack the info needed to make a meaningful determination. But based strictly on human nature, I'd say anything other than self serving is most likely just wishful thinking.
Some mastodon instances allow for much longer than 500-character posts. The qoto.org mentioned in the article allows 64K, perfect for blogging.
When Ethereum/ another crypto VM becomes fast enough, decentralised applications will be the new iPhone - stuff we can’t imagine will be built there.

As far as NFTs, 90-99% of the activity is nonsense, fraud and money laundering, but there are real artists in the space. Whether that’s satisfactory for you is really a matter of perspective.
And then there's the Nokia Goatse phone https://twitter.com/cooperlund/status/1185243122210656261
Antuino – first look at a “compact radio lab”
note that probably after hackernews caught the page (before all the data was in) I added a link by Boeing about this and what their belief is about CO2 levels at takeoff and in flight.
> Instead, it's pointing out a risk that sometimes they are too good, leading to a system that can't function when the normal level of locality and memoization are not available.

And at that point cache management starts to be a huge problem. Clearing caches becomes a death spiral because your system can't actually support your normal load.

For example I worked with a large retailer, who had a giant monolithic enterprise Java ecommerce system. It was so slow that product detail pages took upwards of 30 seconds to render. There was a cache in front of that system (Ehcache), then a page-level cache (Varnish) in front of that, then finally Akamai took 98% of the load.

Rollouts were terrifying, you cleared the cache and the site might come back up. Changing Akamai configuration was also similarly risky.

It's critical that systems don't become cache dependent for load, they should be a performance boost, not a required component.
Mega?

Host it yourself using Plexamp?
I thought the list was missing Japanese phones too! I went on holiday to Japan in the early 00s, and I remember thinking how all of the phones were way ahead of their time. Phones with flip-and-swivel screens, phones that looked sleek, metallic, sexy and modern, phones with full colour displays that were not some Palm monstrosity, phones that didn't look like phones and instead looked like some leather-and-metal accessory (only took calls), so many cool phones! I wanted them so bad.

I wonder why they never became popular overseas. The iPhone, sure, but there was a whole period before the iPhone where Japanese phones were way ahead of their time.
Problem is there is no real way to know if a virus is engineered due to commonly used splicing techniques that leave no imprinting. The argument used was it's not how they would alter the virus if their own labs. Additionally a lot of research is done through serial passaging which is done by passing the virus through host species as it adapts naturally kind of like selective breeding. In fact serial passaging techniques were originally used to make an airborne version of the extremely deadly H5N1 virus(bird flu) which triggered a temporary ban during the Obama Administration https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-controvers...
> You are freee to keep your money and die if you prefer.

Just to be clear, you're proposing that "freedom" means "do what this corporations wants you to do or die".

If this were anywhere but Hacker News, I'd think you were joking, but... you're being serious, aren't you?

And let me guess: if a government says, "do what we want you to do, or die", that's regulation and therefore bad, because it's a government doing it, not a corporation?

SMH.
Try government.

Though I had no luck finding government jobs, because the red tape is ridiculous.
SNSUDDFFDD
Yeah that's true. Though many (most?) religions believe their path/destination is the only true one, so believing there would be different outcomes for different groups would be a new religion those religions would vehemently disagree with. And of course that belief would be itself one of the possible final destinations of all the paths of which only one is true.
>if I have to choose between (no space): or unwanted emojis ending up in docs

We absolutely do not have to choose between those two things. We need to stop implementing cute automatic bullshit that makes assumptions about the way people interact with UIs.
That was a top one. I rather liked "cash". They think Vyvyan is pregnant so they make Neil join the police to make some money.

Ending: https://youtu.be/mhxkY9adDCg?t=146
Python's Mock.patch in JavaScript
Hello all, I recently wrote a library to solve a huge pain point of mine in JS: Mocking.

The current defacto tool `jest.mock` is a hammer -- it only lets you mock out entire modules and its limited to patching the interface of a module, if you wanted to change a detail within the implementation then you'd have to reimplement it and risk losing test coverage due to an unfaithful reproduction.

Contrastingly, JSPatch is a chisel. It lets you target any identifier at any scope level. Similar to what you can do using `mock.patch` in Python.

I'm hoping that this library will allow us to more easily draw boundaries around what we're testing. For example if you have a React component that uses a hook then normally you'll need to mock the hook via `jest.mock`. In the simple case this works fine but but it's still extremely tedious to setup and get right.

One of the cool benefits of the approach (code-transformation) is that modules that are patched get loaded lazily (if they end up unpatched in the test) leading to improvied test speed.

I'm looking for collaborators, feel free to open PRs, issues or discussion threads. https://github.com/salazarm/jspatch/
Any suggestions on how to look for good contracting roles? LinkedIn only seems to have FTE roles.
See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...
There's loads of ways. Dead keys is one, the compose key is another suitable one for multilingual folk. I can write ä ö ü ß pretty much automatically with the compose key on a US layout, as well as any é ë ê ü I might need in Dutch.

In the Netherlands letters with diacritics don't even have their own key (Dutch computers tend to use US plus €).
Knuth had serious doubts in his college days, but ultimately decided it was "OK to believe in something unprovable." Which to me speaks to his humility.
> I live in Muenchen, not München

As someone from Espanya, I welcome you to the club.
And time spent is probably not accounted for, so in the books you don't feel the costs in time and money of hiring.
as for Dovecot (IMAP) honestly their page has good instruction. It's very modular program but I just used basics. https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/quick_configura...

Postfix itself is, uh, well I knew it well coz we also use it at work, but it was a bit of work, as my setup was a bit specific. The config itself was simple (mostly off their docs again), but I did a bit of customization.

I did extremely simple auth with just a text file with list of all the accounts + a bunch of aliases. Auth was provided by dovecot

...
passdb {
driver = passwd-file
args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
}
userdb {
driver = static
args = uid=vmail gid=vmail home=/home/vmail/%u
}
...

# auth for postfix submission
service auth {
unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
group = postfix
mode = 0660
user = postfix
}
}

that just allowed to give smtpd auth this as extra parameters:

+ -o smtpd_sasl_type=dovecot
+ -o smtpd_sasl_path=private/auth

In the "other direction" (postfix sending mails to dovecot for delivery) I set up this in master.cf

dovecot unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f ${sender} -d ${user}@${nexthop} -m tag.${extension}

that is entirely standard except one thing, -m tag.${extension} is a bit of a "trick"; it will create any +address as a directory under tag/ (if you have "lda_mailbox_autocreate" set to "yes" in "protocol lda"

So, for example email to "me@domain.com" would land in INBOX but "me+badsite@example.com" would land in tag/badsite directory.

that just needs something like

dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
virtual_mailbox_domains = example1.com, example2.com
virtual_transport = dovecot
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

to set up
I don't support a "name and shame" approach, but if I did then I think this would be effective. That's essentially what it is now, just targeting corps. Celebrities have a massively higher amount of power than non celeb people, and higher power than most corps. Putting the spotlight on them would be effective.
I've given up and just use a NAS as kind of a cold storage solution. I rotate tracks from it on my cellphone whenever I feel like it.
I'm continuously amazed that people fall for this sort of thing. Does it actually seem normal and reasonable to give thousands of dollars to strangers ???
> A decentralized exchange won't give you free money, so less people will use it.

UNI and SUSHI are prime examples of a DEX giving out free money.
1. It seems to me that they do care about user privacy. I haven't seen any evidence yet to suggest that they don't. Tim Cook, of all people, has every reason for this to be a priority and a truthful statement.

2. The privacy tracking controls only restrict tracking across apps and websites. Individual apps are allowed to collect data and it would be impossible for Apple to guarantee that an app couldn't collect data since they clearly can't be aware of every since implementation within the app. Notice what the terms for end-users explicitly state since a company like Meta can't get info from Apple about users across FB and Insta, for example, but may have ways to tie users together based on data they're collecting on the platform itself. Apple can't really stop that. They can only make it more difficult (which they have, as evidence by FB's reaction to the new privacy controls).

3. Where do you get the idea that they're not subject to the same restrictions? I don't see any evidence that this is the case.
Yeah, all you have to do is keep track of the number of closing parens in your head.

It’s a lot easier when the editor highlights matching pairs.
Alameda Amassed Crypto Tokens Ahead of FTX Listings
> Perhaps you're repeating this lesson from central bankers

Yup. That’s what they taught me at the secret anti-buttcoin training camp. (Or it could be that I studied economics, who knows?)
BEVs and biofuels are not even comparable at all. For starters, biofuel is always at least as expensive as oil-based fuel if not more. Electricity is almost always dramatically cheaper except for maybe those few areas that get electricity from oil.
I've always been interested in history, and the History 5 podcasts from UC Berkeley really took my interest to the next level. There are a number of versions; the original platform is long gone, but luckily archive.org has it. A few faculty have taught it but I've found the versions by Thomas W. Laqueur the most helpful.

https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_91921...
> where he speculates that maybe God is a big computer.

I cringe at phrases like that. It's empty theologically and technologically. It represents a complete inability in imagining what God could be, and a naive, childish pride in our little creations, these computers. While in his internal driven world view it might make sense, to me it has no more or less truth than "maybe God is a big steam engine"
> What would stop a gamma ray from glitching my steering program full left turn while driving at 80mph on the freeway?

The processor running this (ASIL D) software almost certainly has hardware mitigations for SEUs. The most common such mitigation is lockstep cores (see e.g. TI Hercules, Infineon Aurix) where the same computation is run through two copies of the core (usually physically displaced and rotated to reduce common cause errors), and the output cross-checked between the two. Handling a mismatch has various approaches, ranging from pure hardware (three lockstep cores with voting) to pure software (on detected SEU issue a reset and try again) to pure analysis (show that failing to issue a steering command in this time slice has no safety impact as long as a correct one is issued in the next time slice), with many middle grounds.
Wonder if there's any connection in the name of Sakamoto Elementary.
> Yes, in C/C++ heap allocations are proportionately pretty expensive, but I've seen Java programs have just ridiculous amounts of implicit allocations but there really isn't much of a problem.

Java programs make "ridiculous amounts of implicit allocations" because allocations are cheap in Java. And they need to be cheap because Java doesn't have value semantics so it leans hard on escape analysis + cheap allocations.

I agree with the rest of your comment, although I think most of Rust's "cognitive load" amounts to borrow-checker-vs-garbage-collection. You could envision a Rust with explicit allocations and a GC, and that language would have a "cognitive load" approaching that of Go while also being a fair bit more performant insofar as people can much more easily reason about allocations and thus performance.
But the charity doesn’t need to liquidate as quickly as he does if he intends to give it away by the end of his life.
i know we live in a selfish society, but did you know the earth and the sun are not immortal?
Which can be confusing because there are two amazons - the Walmart competitor and the cloud company.

Same with Apple, to be fair. Apple retail may employ more than Apple corporate.
> you end up with both the old monolith and new microservices, the monolith never gets fully broken up, and now you need to support two development paradigms forever.

It's not a bad thing, it's actually a quite pragmatic approach. Some folks call it The Citadel:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith-can-become-...

Building monolith is the best way to learn about domain and domain boundaries. Monolith is way more forgiving for your mistakes.

Going all in on microservices is like believing you learned everything there is. Some folks believe that, most of the time they are wrong.
Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
Incorrect, that is a laymans view.

This was the original definition by the creator of bitcoin and the people that took it over. Maybe you should think about who the 'layman' is here.

"Dont trust, verify" means nothing to you, I can see.

When you say stuff like this, it's obvious you don't understand how cryptocurrencies even work. You aren't going to be able to forge a different chain without mining blocks yourself. You aren't going to be able to out mine the miners. This is the whole point and you seem desperate to ignore it.

Download and validate is the objective, not just download. Do that math for an avg dual core vps. It takes about 48 hours. Now calculate the same for full 10-100x sized blocks and realize how silly the idea of onchain scaling gets.

I've been syncing with the chain on desktops, raspberry pis and old cell phones for 10 years. You are probably basing this on downloading a block then verifying in lockstep on a very inefficient implementation. Blocks take fractions of a second to verify even on the slow reference implementation with bizarre vector copying and memory allocation choices. All these are the same arguments people have made on /r/bitcoin for years, since they delete replies from anyone who proves them wrong.

Lol, I'm sure vps hosts will allow you to plug thumb drives in as storage or sell storage to you at the off-the-shelf price /s. Putting that absurdity aside for a second, 10-100x the chain size and do the same math.

I did all the math for you, you still have no evidence. All you're saying is "what about 100x the capacity??" It would obviously work fine, which I showed you with numbers and basic stats of the current blockchain. 10x would be literally $70 of hard drive space.

Where are you getting your information and why do you think these things won't work? Other cryptocurrencies are literally doing what you keep saying is impossible and you haven't given any actual numbers.
Using xkb map us(intl-unicode) it's a then alt gr + shift + " (I'm not totally sure if that's the correct, and ß is alt-gr + s.
I am the OP :-)

It's actually a "CASEMATIX Portable Credit Card Reader Case Compatible with Square Contactless and Chip Reader, Case Only", which was the best possibility I could find. It would be nice if someone would make a dedicated case for the aranet4 as it is fairly sensitive. I'm fairly happy with this cheap case, but I'd like something that was better fit and designed for air intake, eg.
What's unnecessarily cynical? They have a duty to shareholders.
What explains SBF's latest tweets?
I'd argue quite the reverse. Allocation can be quite efficient if done properly, but copying involves a lot of other work.
In a more general sense, the "main cast made up exclusively of irredeemable characters" trope really blossomed in the subsequent decades. You see it in Seinfeld, It's Always Sunny, etc.

I think it existed before The Young Ones but that's where I first saw it.
Who is willing to trade it other than exchanges to purchase fiat currency? I've never found an item that I can actually buy with crypto, where the seller is not simply using crypto as a money transfer service. If a seller 'accepts' crypto via an exchange that converts it to fiat... that's not really crypto. That's just using it for money transfer, but we have way better solutions for that.

Other than one off gags, I've never actually seen anything being sold for crypto. Perhaps things are different where you live
The "fix" will be that Europeans will only be able to buy from a handful of the largest smartphone manufacturers, and there will never be another European company selling smartphones.
> If my business is valued at a million dollars and I take out a loan for a million, my business is now valued at 0.

No, my business would have the existing assets of $1m, new assets of $1m in cash a liability of $1m, leaving a value of $1m

(minus any interest payments)
Is it possible that you're not passing a DEI filter? A lot of companies are running into trouble for not meeting their diversity goals, especially bumping into the end of the year.
The cost does not scale with the business' size though, so large players can easily eat it while small ones can't even play :/
Naaa this is the best thing to happen to bitcoin. Over the last 2 years bitcoin was being eaten up by wall street and technocrats.

The OG crypto people were being bribed by all the money coming in and the ones that remained "pure" were being shunned as "toxic btc maxis".

This is like a massive wildfire that gets rid of all the "overgrowth". If it wasn't for this, there was a non zero chance that bitcoin would slowly die out.

Worse we would've ended up in a dystopian future of CBDCs and social credit etc.
Is that "doubled its work force" for the corporate roles or entire amazon?
> I live in Muenchen, not München.

That's… quite certainly not an opinion shared with all of your fellow inhabitants.
I'm coming at this from a different angle. It should be possible to have a heated disagreement, even in public, and not have it result in a same-day firing. In fact, some countries have it explicitly on the law books.

All this does is create an environment where people are afraid to voice opinions and address issues, e.g. because they're afraid of shoot-the-messenger. In my line of work (I make cars), dysfunctional discourse environments like that can get people killed.