skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I get where you are coming from, realistically speaking we do have to accept the "extortion" that comes with having a governing body. I am happy to hand over my tax Rands (Dollars), provided me and my fellow citizens can benefit from it.

The point here is that is in most cases a "de facto" contract between a citizen and his/her government. As this is a contract, the citizen has rights to oversight on how his/her money is being spent.
Memento te crescere
Oh lilbytes,

My heart goes out to you.

I know exactly how you feel my only advice is to do your best to let those feelings come. Wallow a little. Feel and experience your grief.

Locking it away doesn’t work and the tears will become fond smiles in time.

Wishing you peace.
Elon Musk as Hank Rearden, Peter Theil as John Galt, and Elon's baby mommas as Dagny Taggart
Not new. Lot of examples from history under the Theory of Bounded Rationality. Theory says there is an upper limit to the complexity any group of chimps can handle.
Languages Pre-Fortran
Some thoughts here:

* A lot of people's taxes changed for 2020 due to COVID and various federal legislation passed in response.

* Outstanding IRS bills, in general, are a common fraud vector (although admittedly not via US Postal Mail).

* Ignored notices eventually start accruing interest/penalties (although the ordering seems to refute this theory).

As with any interaction with any level of government, your first step should always be to contact your elected representative to get their constituent services staffer looking into it on your behalf.
You're probably right, not sure how old you are but growers kept selectively breeding solely for appearance up to (I think) the 2010s.
Lots of times teachers are the author of the book, getting kickbacks and / or perks from the publishers, or are simply too lazy to care how atrocious the status quo is.
Thanks, I might have been misinformed then. I'll look into it in detail to set my perception straight when I have more time.
Wow. He just completely roasted SBF. It is completely insane to see this laid bare.
mic drop, he doesn't even feel the need to explain the impact of this statement lmfao
https://archive.ph/WC0Gx
Will it sync to iCloud calendar?
Good point - I wonder if the XML really is "diffable" or if it's basically encoded binary data and has to be stored as a blob anyway.
There's some compromising text messages and emails that elude to Biden being involved in Hunter's corruption. Specifically one that calls out '10% for the big guy' when discussing equity split where hunter and his partner are already covered. Contextual information around those emails indicate there may be a 'there there' but, a proper investigation would need to be conducted to determine if the evidence indicates what it appears to indicate.

I absolutely guarantee the FBI didn't do a proper investigation into the information on the laptop.
Thank you, translator of slang.
I was a big Honeycrisp fan for a long time, but they have gotten too sweet for me now. They also seem to grow them the size of grapefruits these days.
I didn't point out meetings because they are required by the company therefore the company deems them valuable enough to consider work time. So it stands to reason those meetings you think are useless will still exist In a 30 hour work week.

As opposed to fraternizing at a person's desk, which is not considered work time. Generally speaking. I'm sure there exists companies that encourage fraternization as part of work but they are definitely the minority.
It also gives more time to look for new jobs as a backup
I set up a raspberry pi to auto boot into Commodore 64 mode with a BASIC command line. It was a fantastic start, there is something magical about that experience. The boy then shifted to scratch and also uses REPLIT.
If they catch him. It’s probably a hard process to extradite someone from the Bahamas.
To be clear, my intent is not to single you out. I apologize if my reply came across this way. I tried to phrase it in a neutral way but in hindsight this was not sufficient in the comms department.

My hope was to shed light on this phenomenon and learn how we, collectively, may do better.

Seriously, my bad. Please don't stay quiet when your intentions are good! Speaking up can be the first step towards a better future. <3
"You might get sued if you use this software you paid for" is already covered via an indemnification clause in any reasonable enterprise software license agreement. I'm sure Microsoft/GitHub will be no different in indemnifying their customers who purchase Copilot.
His lieutenant was a major Republican donor.
Savage

>Oh how the mighty have fallen! Believe it or not, the coffee grinds in a leather glove known as “The Red Delicious Apple” was once a robust firebrand credited with reinventing the apple from mere cider-fruit into a full-fledged lunch-worthy sidepiece. It even won the Stark Brothers apple contest in 1894. Likely your great-grandma’s favorite apple, this once flavorful Prometheus has been mass-produced into desolation.

> Nowadays, you can find this thick-skinned, flavorless, mealy imposter unwashed in a dirty wicker basket on the floor of a convenience store. What a sad state of affairs. It’s time to hang them up old man, your time has passed.
If I read it right, it described there being a "code review team." Whether they're responsible for reviewing all code, or just for coming up with these sorts of practices was not clear. ETA: with that said, the "reviewer recommender" to me would imply it's people who work on the same codebase.
>> that cutting taxes, and having no way to pay for them, in the midst of rampant inflation is an idiotic idea.

Let's see what happens here in the U.S. :-/
This I agree with. Context is a thing, saying as the article did things along the line of "Nietzsche was sick so this explains x" is another
So it seems, but I wouldn't bet on it yet.

So far, Do Kwon, Mashinsky, Three Arrows Capital, and all those other scammers are not in jail. Not a single one.
This is art:

-'The audit firm for the Dotcom Silo was Prager Metis, a firm with
which I am not familiar and whose website indicates that they are the “first-ever CPA firm to
officially open its Metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform Decentraland.”'

-'The Debtors did not have the type of disbursement controls that I believe
are appropriate for a business enterprise. For example, employees of the FTX Group submitted
payment requests through an on-line ‘chat’ platform where a disparate group of supervisors
approved disbursements by responding with personalized emojis. '
Usually hard to learn and hard to use are very correlated concepts. If something is hard to learn, it usually requires more mental energy to read. For an example closer to APL, mathematical notation is harder to read than the verbose equivalents. You not only need to keep the concepts in mind but also how the symbols are translated to the concepts. Maybe when you’re very familiarized with them they’re as easy and a little bit more terse, but it’s easy to slip back if you’re tired or just woke up less bright that day.

And that’s just in math, where there isn’t as much symbol density as in APL and where symbols don’t depend on context too much (it’s usually not a good practice and avoided if possible to have the same symbol having very different meanings depending on the context).
No, this is incorrect. They already do regulate it. It is already illegal. The problem is the regulations and penalties are pretty hard to enforce when any ship in the world can go anywhere else. Italy can pass all the regulations it likes, and a Chinese ship full of somewhat desperate people can illegally fish there anyway with whatever equipment they brought with them, until the ship gets individually caught. And please note: Italy's coastline is ... Big. Really big.
Interesting thoughts. But does this warrant unarmed, senior citizens, to go through the reported abuse?
Ha good to know!
With adequate breaks (that don’t count against the 20h), yes.
There is a local business in Oxford, run by a retired railway engineer and countertenor, called Tiddly Pommes. They (well, he) produces hyper-local apple juice, often from a single tree or small collection of trees in someone's garden, harvested by hand, pressed, and pasteurised. It's amazingly, amazingly delicious. I really didn't expect it to be quite as delicious as it is; all store bought juice is somehow forever disappointing in comparison. He runs grading systems and seeks out more obscure varieties from old Victorian trees, many of which might be sourer but somehow crisp and refreshingly delicious juiced.
I think a lot of this boils down to the distribution you install, what kind of background services it runs, and how effective its energy tunings are.

As an example, IMO an idle computer should have all CPU save one or two at 0% utilization, and that remaining CPU(s) shouldn't be averaging more than a few percent, in short spiky bursts. FreeBSD or Debian are like this, but Ubuntu is not.
Happened on November 5th 2022.
Go read the worst ranked apples it is absolutely worth it. I've waken up my wife laughing out loud...
We’ve been working on a way for browser-based apps to run a rendering thread on the server and streaming back to the client, possibly composited into client-sode-rendered UI. So far the results are promising: you get the power of a server-side GPU with no additional latency for the normal UI interactions that can be drawn without a server round-trip.

Here’s a demo of a full-blown Blender “running in the browser” (I don’t have a demo with local compositing yet, so this is all server-side)

https://twitter.com/drifting_corp/status/1583460106963820545...
Coinbase is under investigation, listed tons of shxtcoins and probably helped employees pump them. I don't know if I would defend them in light of what happened at FTX. That being said, nobody wants to see a true white knight in Crypto more than me.

Just pointing out that what they were saying about FTX, before, that is now proven correct, is also being said about Coinbase and has been for some time.
I initially had this same concern too about migrating from Ubuntu as well, but for any Debian based distro those same commands are going to be almost exactly the same, and really the main differences are what comes default and package versions.

How Debian feeds into downstream distros is something that Linux novices might not know, but I think that the differences aren't as intimidating as they might seem.

It's called The Universal OS for a reason, and I think if people give themselves enough credit for using Linux in the first place they would be surprised at how capable in using other distros and they can be and how much the skills transfer over.

I think part of that is because if you're used to using Windows you get a sense of learned helplessness because you're taught you're not worthy of learning how the OS works, so if the first distro people use is Ubuntu that same feeling will carry over, and you tell yourself "this is the only Linux I'm capable of using". Also when you've only ever used one distro having dozens of different options makes it seem like every one is radically different, despite having similar conventions and using the same code within distro families.

So never be afraid to "fuck around and find out" and see what else is out there, if you can use Ubuntu you're capable of using many other distros. Ubuntu is geared for enterprise deployments and cloud VMs nowadays, instead of regular people just dipping their toes into Linux like it used to be. So its status as the default user friendliest distro isn't valid anymore.

You can also get the "just works" experience from other distros, and in fact maybe more so because of all the issues with snap based applications that Canonical forces on you that add complexity, makes troubleshooting more difficult and creates a much worse overall user experience.
Fell is just a particular "failure state". ;)
The design of web APIs means that a lot of stuff has to happen as if it were on the main UI thread, so while you can do fork/join stuff to optimize it - for example, doing layout in parallel, etc - you're still bottlenecked by how fast the main thread is able to do all the stuff it needs to do. This is why many APIs disallow synchronous use or have serious constraints on synchronous use now.
I still haven't seen evidence that he's a genius.
Twitter's engineering workforce could be down by 90%
Even the world leaders need to meet in person. When you have people with that level of impact on policy - virtual meetings just do not have the same effect. They need to meet in person, talk, have side-bars, read body-language, get a drink together, do human things while solving human problems.
Using eBPF-TC to securely mangle packets in kernel and pass them to userspace
Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions.
I came to the conclusion long ago that mandatory code reviews are a waste of time. For critical stuff, absolutely.

But PRs and review cycles over burden dev teams and don’t seem to move the quality needle higher one bit.

A better way is to ensure multiple hands touch a given area of the code, so that multiple eyes ultimately are seeing and manipulating those bits. If they are given a task to do in that area they will be motivated to understand it (and potentially improve it). By contrast, with code reviews often the reviewer does not have time to really deep dive into the code and will only have a superficial understanding of it.

Oh, also use code quality scanners to keep an eye on tactical code debt.
I strongly disagree. If you're in favor of small government and in control you would, absent political concerns, simply shutter government organizations you don't believe in. "Starve the beast" is an entirely different tactic where you don't want to be seen as destroying popular services and so, instead, undermine their ability to function efficiently until they become unpopular enough to cancel. It comes with an understanding that the majority of the political will in a country appreciates these programs when they're well funded and that their cancelation is only politically actionable when they've been starved to ineffectualness.

"Starve the beast" is also really only a realistic strategy in a corrupt duopoly like America has since the defunding of popular programs is generally political suicide - unless you can reduce everything to "Us vs. Them"ism.
I'm surprised they didn't go for a Protonmail account and only access it through the hidden service..
Understood, thank you for your reply. You make a good point about the overall problem for sure.
we are working on this, being able to see all the products without an account/membership. Thanks for the feedback we appreciate it.
Ronnametres and quettagrams may soon join the ranks of SI units
New prefixes in the International System of Units could be confirmed on Friday, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and quetta for very large numbers, like the amount of data on internet servers
you work for a smartphone?
Yes. 20% longer for black men for the same crime.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/16/black...

(Some would say this is the point.)
This is most certainly the real culprit. There are undoubtedly markets where the Red Delicious lives up to its name. The rest of us end up with whatever freshness roulette is played by the local supplier; while I too have occasionally eaten a 'good' one, the number of times I end up with an abomination in my taste buds far outweighs it.
> I posit it becomes increasingly likely over large periods of time over many engineers that severe bug or security issue will be introduced via an AI provided suggestion.

AI can also do code review and documentation helping us reduce the number of bugs. Overall it might actually help.
> no desktop environment

> I have all services a modern desktop has

LMAO

I visit this comment section for the same reason I visit a zoo.
It's a term that was _coined by_ fiscal conservatives, it's not a "rebranding as a propaganda exercise".
Not working for me in Duck Duck Go or Chrome:

net::ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
I wonder how much of the $30(?) million he donated to democratic political campaigns this cycle will turn out to have been customers’ funds too?

Had to have been one of the top donors.
>Fast forward a few weeks, and they got the bill. They ended up charging his insurance $2,200, and the insurance company valued the trip at $3,500 (presumably to bump up his co-pay? not sure).

This makes no sense. Insurance companies NEVER pay more than they are asked to pay. It's half the reason why medical billing is such a royal pain. A doctor or pharmacy knows they've left money on the table if they get exactly what they ask for from the insurance company.

And there's no way that increasing the coinsurance for the patient (co-pays are fixed dollar amounts so there's no "bumping it up") does anything for the insurance company. If your coinsurance is 20%, the insurance company is still paying paying 80% whether that's 80% of the $2200 or the $3500. Even if the person had an HDHP plan and was paying all of that out of pocket, all the insurance company raising the the cost from 2200 to 3500 would have done was move the patient $1300 closer to their deductible and out of pocket limits and make it more likely the insurance company is paying out more money in the future.

More likely is that the ER billed $3500 and the insurance's allowed amount was $2200.
UnBankmanYourself.com – tracking FTX's meltdown
For the curious:

https://wapo.st/3GmTZJH (no paywall)

The article links to a PDF of the court filing, including this One Weird Trick:

> In a somewhat remarkable Motion to Dismiss, Plaintiffs Buzzfeed, Inc. (“Buzzfeed”) and Ben Smith (“Mr. Smith”) intimate that their ties to Florida are so sparse that, collectively, they can barely find Florida on a map and that, as a result, the present case should be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction or transferred to the Southern District of New York.
"Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm's length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he's about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, I haven't touched you yet."

-- Carlos Castaneda
Memento Musk
Why is it a competition? If you give me a slice of cake, and I give you $5, and we're both happy with that, why should I care if you're somehow "winning" or I'm "losing"? That mindset seems like a self-fulling prophecy that robs me of my satisfaction.

Also, I would argue that receiving money does not mean the producer wins, since ultimately the producer is also a consumer, and who will thus be spending those dollars on the same things as every other consumer… comfort and status, as you put it.
Yeah, that's a fair point, and I agree. I don't think it's ideal.
In theory yes, but if you don't pay and use the money for Lobby, you get power, which equals to more rights. That's the foundation of a democracy or let's say society from the times of Pharaos.
Not only cruel but unproductive. If I’m on a bloated team at Amazon right now, why would I be working on anything but my resume?
That's not my branding, or a re-branding at all: the first known use of the term was by a Libertarian party member. It's the term of art for this style of financial governance, one that is used somewhat proudly by its disciples.

It's a problem for both state governments and the Federal government: wage theft might span from state tax fraud, federal tax fraud, unemployment insurance fraud, federal contract falsification, etc. Making it into a states' issue is overly simplistic.
This is surely the fastest way to evaporate $44 billion that I have ever seen.
> Cryptocurrencies are, at least from what I can see, are losing steam.

Not the first time that's happened. This is like the fourth or fifth crypto winter in the past ten years or so. It will probably start coming back in a year or two.

As for Web3, there are people still quietly building out there. I think it's still pretty early, much like there wasn't much infrastructure around bitcoin three crypto winters ago. People just kept building around it, and some of those things eventually became a big deal as people slowly started accumulating coins again.

I could be wrong about the latter. Web3 might have just been a flash in the pan, although I suspect smart contracts are here to stay in some form (if not under the term 'Web3').

But I'm pretty sure crypto is going to have another bull run in the next couple of years. Maybe bitcoin won't get back up to it's current ATH of $68k, but I suspect it will at least 2x or 3x where it's at now again.

Unless something like WWIII kicks off in the next couple of years, then none of this will matter anymore.
The model that is most fair to the vendor and their users is a perpetual license + termed upgrade/support coverage.

That is, users buy a license for currently available version and get, say, a year of support and upgrades. After a year they have an option of buying another year of upgrades or staying on their version.

That's it. As fair as it gets to all parties involved and it gives a lot of freedom to the vendor to release as they want.

Macrium is like this, Bvckup2 is like this, RamDisk is like this, etc.

On the other hand, if you really want to milk your users, subscription is a way to go, but it's universally hated. You will get a LOT of friction, goodwill will be non-existent and the word of the mouth will be near zero. So you'd better be sure your numbers add up.
I wish Mighty had succeeded for a different audience. The core value prop "make figma faster" was not very compelling--people who need to use Figma can buy a mac.

You know who does struggle with slow computers and memory issues? Call center employees who have to run Front, Slack, Chrome, and probably one or two other electron-based apps.

At our startup (not in USA), these issues are so bad we've ended up getting people who earn $700usd/mo M1 macbook airs anyway because otherwise an electron-based workflow is unamnageable.

I would have loved to buy them cheaper computers instead that ran entirely in the cloud...plus extra permission management, no local storage, and other "really, really, really nice to haves" for remote workers dealing with PII.

If Mighty's value prop had been "never worry about remote wiping an employee's computer ever again, oh, and it's faster too, and it's all OPEX, and we charge you by minute instead of by the computer" I would have signed up immediately.
If you're going to invest in the latest fad proprietary 'thing', you have to be prepared to lose all your investment in that 'thing'.

Companies fail. All too often that proprietary 'thing' they had becomes non-supported and you have to just throw away everything you have connected with that 'thing' such as files written in formats that nothing can access, or hardware that there are no supplies for, etc, etc.

When was the last time that you were able to buy a 16-hard-sectored 8-inch floppy? When were you last able to access that Wang-written word-processing file? Can you even buy a fresh video-tape for a Betamax video recorder?

If you stick to open hardware and open software formats, you can still find them useful even decades after their makers have turned to dust.
I'm sure Apple would have rejected the app from the store, unfortunately. Lots of vendors have failed to get streaming apps of this sort onto the store and had to (heh) distribute them via Safari as web pages instead.
Yeah but nobody is waving a magic won, as production of EV will go up, ways in the network would be found to handle this.

Many studies have been done and this and every study I have seen agrees that its not as big of a problem as many make it out to be.

In fact, I assume infrastructure for charging for EV owners without a home is the much larger infrastructure challenge.