skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Contract work can take many forms. I found great success with informal "please keep my business online" work when I was very raw -- part time network admin is how it was called, and I was a PTE of a couple of small orgs.

2. Later, I was more seriously into contract work, and I was dealing with companies that wanted me to incorporate. In my jurisdiction, this cost $300 and happened instantaneously after a visit to a government website.

3. If you live in a jurisdiction with sales tax(es), you will need to collect your sales tax. This is actually one of the worst/most irritating aspects.

4. do purchase private dental and health care insurance. You never know what will break loose next, because you're mortal. (A fact that tech folks can easily forget, myself included).

5. Back to the primary frustration. In my jurisdiction, the government can be *really harsh* with folks that aren't collecting sales tax. This can result in frozen accounts. I have a friend who forgot to collect sales tax while driving a literal taxi cab, and wound up, over half a decade and several careers later, with frozen bank accounts and an emerg move back home with the parents -- at 35, because of a tax mistake he made in his twenties.

If you're a business, you are subject to business-grade laws, and you can get in a lot of trouble, especially if you're ever asked to certify or attest that a particular system is effective, safe, or secure.

So, yeah, if you wind up doing this work for more than a few months, get a lawyer on retainer and get an accountant.

This sounds like more hassle than it actually is.
I've been using "Tree Style Tab" in combination with [1] to hide the old tabs and it's such a joy. I can group tabs by "topic" which is helpful when I'm working on multiple things in parallel which is pretty much always.

[1] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...
Global population hits 8B as growth poses more challenges for the planet
It feels like certain terms (eg. "ponzi scheme", "money laundering", "shell companies") get thrown around any time there's any sort of financial malfeasance, without regard to their specific meaning. For the money laundering claim, do we have any reason to believe that SBF is trying to launder money (ie. trying to conceal the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source[1])? Is he secretly also a darknet drug dealer or something? I guess you could argue the embezzle angle, but the guy isn't exactly known for a lavish lifestyle. He does use company funds to fund his charities/PACs and buy expensive properties (I think there was a group penthouse in Bermuda that's for sale now), but that's all in the open.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering
How do you know it wasn't a Ukrainian AA missile? Someone posted a telegram photo suggesting it was a S300 AA missile [1]

What scares me is that everyone is speculating and jumping to conclusions without hard facts. Behaving this way can easily escalate some trivial situation into something more serious.

[1]: https://t.me/intelslava/41141
Contracts the wrote themselves for themselves.
Disney owns Hulu and ABC and ABC owns Grey’s Anatomy.

They aren't being forced to show ads. They chose too.
> a-fib detection

As a paramedic, not a physician, atrial fibrillation is not a life threatening event. Many people happily live with it for decades, unmedicated. It is more problematic if you are diabetic or hypertensive, but still not an acute medical event.
As a Meta employee for almost 4 years what I will say is I was skeptical at first coming from git, but the sapling system works very well in practice in my experience. I still use git for everything outside of work, but I may consider sapling now.
MIPS and SPARC blew everybody out of the water at their introduction, but they sacrificed elements of the instruction set for immediate/generational performance gains.

"RISC II proved to be much more successful in silicon and in testing outperformed almost all minicomputers on almost all tasks. For instance, performance ranged from 85% of VAX speed to 256% on a variety of loads. RISC II was also benched against the famous Motorola 68000, then considered to be the best commercial chip implementation, and outperformed it by 140% to 420%."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_RISC

[Not really much mention of MIPS performance relative to CISC minis.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_MIPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2000_microprocessor
Less foolish than the person bought at $69,044.77.
Is Dune that bad? I at least liked the first two books and the movie.
And most of the small authors think that copyright should not be longer then 5 years, the only one's against it are the big publishers, so as a small author you cannot choose if you want at least a bit money.

But yeah its not a completely fair comparison.
Yes, it has improved. However I always use it to write new code and my code is simple - it didn't start out trying to be standards compliant so you may still run into trouble if you are using the full vocabulary of C and in this case you may find cc65 or the LLVM-MOS 6502 backend more suitable. KickC's advantage is that it does produce reasonably fast code and it integrates into the Kick assembler workflow.
There are quite a number of them, with a few dating back to the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_languages...
You're assuming that the intelligence of a consumer of well designed products is at parity with that of a consumer of cheap products.

You're also assuming that the critical mass of people have enough money to choose.
For anyone taking this the wrong way, I'll frame it differently: My OS has my structured and unstructured contact data (including their relationships with me and to each other), a way to attach contacts to calendar events and notes, and a standard API that apps can use (at my discretion) to access that data. How does Monica use/improve on that?
White House asks Congress to approve $37B for Ukraine
Those two operations were made using snow mobiles, but yes, as soon as helicopters com into the picture, the costs skyrocket.
Sorry to hear that. It works for me.

You could also check https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter

And of course https://api.twitterstat.us/
> International transfer is a good use, as is irrevocable payment for purchased goods.

In what ways do cash bank transfers not work for international transfers or irrevocable payments?
Liquid fuel can be created from carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/carbon-en...
If Rimac makes a car with that name, it’s probably going to be Bura because that’s how we write it in Croatia.
Interesting. If that turns out to be true then Western European media are going to look a bit silly and untrustworthy. But nothing new there: by the time reliable information is available the media has usually moved onto the next "breaking" story. In any case, whoever's missile it was, it was presumably an accident and I don't suppose any diplomatic or military people are getting very excited about it whatever the noise on social media.
What does that have to do with SBF and others at FTX being Jews?
Documenting all this seems more daunting than the actual conversion
This is what the Wikimedia VP said in 2013:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March...

"WMF has operated in the past without staffing and with very minimal staffing, so clearly it's _possible_ to host a high traffic website on an absolute shoestring. But I would argue that an endowment, to actually be worthwhile, should aim for a significantly higher base level of minimal annual operating expenses, more in the order of magnitude of $10M+/year, to ensure not only bare survival, but actual sustainability of Wikimedia's mission."

Revenue goal for the current year has been set at $175 million. The WMF more than doubles its expenses every five years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial...

This is not about keeping Wikipedia online – it's about financing the growth of the Wikimedia organisation. Donors by and large are left quite unaware of this fact; they mostly think Wikipedia is in some sort of trouble.
The Decline of Work
Thanks! I did try downforeveryoneorjustme.com, but I figured that, as the actual page was loading, and it was just some API methods that seemed to be timing out, it would appear up when it isn't necessarily.
I agree it's not necessary, but i like having it because it lets me separate what's going to be added before i actually commit.

I still commit small, frequent. But i like `git add -p` to skip debug lines, hardcoded conditions, etc. I don't want to mistakenly auto commit a whole pile of lines and then have to remove debugs/hacks/etc from things i've committed.

Stage + Unstaged is my working area, and the two live together quite nicely to me personally. I could live without it, definitely.. but i'm not sure i'd want to.
>my daily desktop

Samesame ;)
My guess is no, only a small subset of every country's population is that blindly vindictive.

However, if it was my family who died I might feel otherwise.
The AI landscape continues to amaze. Seems like it may do better with prompts for wiki articles or blog posts than questions.
NATO should take contol over ukrains airspace and shoot it all down :p
Giving up freedom to buy security does not work. Whatever temporary security you gain will be taken away from you tomorrow, because you've shown them that you will not resist.

Appeasement does not work, especially when you're dealing with a fascist state. You can sell out Poland today, but you will still not stop Russia from "accidentally" attacking the Baltic States tomorrow.
This is not what the query in the post is doing.

You are counting all stars of all repos, they are counting stars of one (parameterized) repo id.
So far the way the war is going I don't think we desperately need to respond to these missiles, and it may be a gambit to try to draw NATO more directly into the war for Russian domestic political consumption.

Putin is losing right now, just continue to let him keep losing. That is going to be the course of action right now which is most damaging to him.
> Apple's phone app has one HUGE design failure: touching anything in the app will dial a number immediately

Agreed 100%. I hate that I have to be super careful and really think through each time I press something to make sure it's not going to be a shortcut that immediately dials a phone number. I too have called spammers back.
Boston really is a city of riches in terms of college radio, and each one has its own appeal.

WERS has professional-level radio production, solid music that has broad appeal without being "mainstream". Emerson is one of the few schools I know of where some people will go to the school specifically for the radio station. It's why they have such a large, consistent listnership.

WMBR's DJs are fantastic. The station itself definitely has a more college feel but it's still very well-produced and the station itself seems to be really good at playing obscure tunes, especially in the psych/garage/punk/shoegaze realm. There's a distinct sort of sound I expect with them that almost reminds me of WFMU where I grew up, which is high praise.

WHRB tends to favor classical and jazz more than the other schools' stations because they dedicate large blocs of time to those genres

And then there's my WRBB. We sometimes had some gaps in production (depending on who was DJing) but it's still a great listen since there tends to be a wider range of tunes that come through the station. It also helped that many of our DJs were stalwarts of the local DIY music scene, so we gave airtime to a lot of small local artists that might not have a ton of promotion otherwise.

Personally, I'll always have a soft spot for WRBB owing to my time there but really you can't go wrong with any of these.
This one is particularly egregious:

> "Mr. Bankman-Fried’s circle of colleagues was bound by a commitment to effective altruism, a charitable movement that urges adherents to give away their wealth in efficient and logical ways."

Not "Bankman-Fried CLAIMS his circle of colleagues were bound by a commitment to effective altruism" The article isn't reporting the claim Bankman-Fried makes about himself. As written, the journalist is the one making this claim. That's far over the line. This man stole billions of dollars and the New York Times is asserting that he's an altruist.
On second thought:

It may be a general safari problem

https://www.getdroidtips.com/safari-crashing-macos-ventura/
It really is.

I've been in CV since 2009 and it's face melting how many things we thought were impossible are effectively "solved."
Actually, it is Google’s fault. Had it insisted that all OEM vendors upstream the drivers it’d have happened long ago. Especially because of Google’s monopoly on Android. The thing is - it’s in Google’s interest to obsolete these devices so that people buy newer devices with more Google “features” (which in turn are designed to collect more and more data about the user, the whole Google Android being the 2nd largest advertising platform for Google, after the “search” engine)..
GOFAI was never more than a rules engine. If-then statements.

Agree with you about probabilistic AI being useful in low-stakes situations, at least at first.
A Smooth-Talking Crypto Founder Bamboozled Executives and Investors
> Even in some of our SF Bay Area counties

Even? no (and you'd probably know better than me) but as a fellow bay area person, there are tons and tons and tons of roads and places that aren't covered by cell service, just go into the mountains a little bit. and then you also have to ask which cell carrier everybody has. there's a real digital divide once you get out of the city and the towns that surround it
The fossil fuel industry certainly sees it as a competition, and they're playing for a very different goal of preserving profits at pretty much any cost - including broad social costs. Trying to play that off as "no competition between fossil fuels and renewables" seems very naive at best.

I do think it is an interesting question on "phaseout" of fossil fuels as a carbon emitting energy consumable, vs a feedstock for various chemical processes, like fertilizer production. But the fossil fuel industry very much does not want to go from a centralized role in energy vs a smaller role in chem feedstocks.
Amazing that high schoolers are casually learning CAD and JavaScript!
> that girl

boy, actually, in this case. You've made quite a causal leap here otherwise, though.
I wonder if my extension would work faster for you. I built it to be quick and simple so i can find a tab visually across many windows. basic features: click on a link to go to the tab, groups the tabs by windows, shows the favicon next to it, shows the tabs that are making noise, and allows you to close the tab via middle mouse button. cmd(or ctrl on pc)-shift-e opens it up in a tab. I'd be curious if you do try it to see how fast it is.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

https://www.github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
Yes, and on an Apple news site that makes sense.

However, in a more general (not Apple-focused) context it might be more appropriate to start with what the company does (chip foundry/fab) and if needed then note their most important customers (Apple, AMD, NVidia).
If a whole bunch of banks trading in corn/apples did that, though, things start to be a bit different.
Exploding energy costs will do that.
> I was just thinking how convenient it is to type emojis right into strings in Python and print them. I assumed C didn't have much unicode compatibility, though I didn't research it.

Libgrapheme is a nice library, but it doesn't really have anything to do with this.

Almost all modern terminal emulators use the UTF-8 character encoding. In order to successfully output Unicode characters, your programming language doesn't actually need much "Unicode support"; it just needs to be able to send UTF-8-encoded bytes to stdout. (That's why many modern programming languages like Go and Zig define strings as a simple array of bytes.) Modern C compilers allow you to printf("é") and get the appropriate behavior.

As you mention, the terminal emulator also needs to be able to decode and display those UTF-8 bytes correctly, and a lot of terminals don't get it right in some situations. Off the top of my head, I don't know of a terminal that actually implements the entire (very complex) set of Unicode text rendering behaviors; maybe one of the web-based ones that run in Electron? macOS's Terminal.app is also pretty good IIRC.

Where libgrapheme comes in is if you want to analyze or manipulate a UTF-8-encoded string. It provides operations like "split into words" and "convert to uppercase". A surprising number of programs never need to do that stuff, but if you do, libgrapheme will give you a Unicode-compatible implementation. (Many more basic operations, like concatenating two strings, will work just fine without libgrapheme.)
War as practiced by real-world entities (of which Russia is one) does not work this way. We are talking about a barbaric, incompetent and highly belligerent enemy. You can't be thinking in terms of individual houses or short-term outcomes in situations like this.
I remember when git was new, and the subversion crowd didn't jump on. Same discussion, different subjects. Git is/was awesome... but there is certainly room for improvement.
Somehow that doesn't matter for FB. Yarn is not 10x better than NPM and it took off. React is.... ugh... React and it took over the whole dang industry.
My favorite example of the staging area being super weird is `git diff` behavior. By default, git diff will show unstaged changes as well as committed changes, but _not_ staged changes; to see staged changes, you need to use `--cached`. This is especially weird when diffing between a fixed point (e.g. a commit hash) while going through the motions. If it's not clear why this would be weird, try out the following:

* get the hash of the HEAD commit
* run `git diff <hash>` and see that there are no changes
* make some change to a file
* run `git diff <hash>` again and see the change you made
* stage the change with `git add`
* run `git diff <hash>` again and no changes are show!
* commit the change
* run `git diff <hash>` again and the changes are back

It's super bizarre to me that there would be some sort of intermediate state where changes aren't visible. I feel like it would make more sense to have some sort of formatting difference indicating unstaged versus staged but not committed versus committed, but I imagine changing that now would break all sorts of scripts, so we're stuck with it.
It seems that Dash cannot take the Hacker News traffic, here is a screenshot until it is online again: https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/ElMG6yee19KT.png?o=1
This is from the PapersWithCode team? They were always super impressive at data mining papers, and this is rather incredible. Excellent work!
Follow requests are a relatively weak spam vector: you have a tiny 32x32 avatar and an "email address" format username. Maybe you hope people visit your profile page from there but no one sees it by default in their follow request list. If you try to put spam content in the avatar or username people automatically block you. If you don't and hope on someone glancing at your profile, a lot of people ignore follow requests from unknown/unexpected usernames by habit. If you try to put the spam in your domain name people automatically block your entire instance.
2022 FIFA World Cup Controversies
A fast and generic algorithm for automaton minimization
> https://petra.carrion.io/job-market-analytics/slides/#/6/0/0

Is there some German/EU law that requires job postings to be available for at minimum one calendar month? Cause that spike at ~30-31 days is real conspicuous.

Or at HR people just defaulting to 30/60/90 days for the posting being automatically removed?
Tree Style Tabs. Changed my life.
Hearing the Language of Trees
It would be astonishing if Cal didn’t liquidate immediately.
Well, then we're going to have SBFs and Kervels going well into the future. Kervel was 5 billion, SBF is, what, 10 to 15 billion, going by the same progression in 5 years' or 10 years' time the next guy is going to swindle 30 billion or so.

All the while the IBs and the algo traders and all those fancy financial shops will keep saying: "how could we have known? We're not mind-readers! These are not our people!". Madness.

Also, by "JS risk control" people I was not only thinking about the spreadsheet guys. I hope to the gods of Mammon that there still is some sense of "is this guy trustful? Does he belong in this trust-based industry?" active inside of those firms, and, no, I don't expect the spreadsheet guys from credit risk to be in charge of it.

If you're telling me that "no, there's no such department in any of those institutions! Any crook can get hired as long as he passes the technical interview" then I think the industry has a whole has a big f.ing problem.
In those cases, I find it best to either 1) use the interactive commit tool to not commit debug junk, or 2) put the debug junk in its own commit, which I'll later discard (and, plus, that means you can't accidentally include it in a real commit).
No, it really doesn't take it too far. If anything, it doesn't go far enough.

You know those ads in Minority Report that track people viewing them? They're here now. Maybe not out on the street, and maybe not via retinal scan per se, but there certainly are eye tracking and facial recognition technologies watching to see if you're looking in the direction of indoor digital ads.
Everything nondeterministic adds difficulty to the Scientific Method. Maybe we'll have better ways to filter the noise in the future, I certainly hope so, but that's not where we are now. But this is a little whataboutism.

Caches in the CPU or anywhere else are a leaky abstraction, and sometimes you learn more about a problem by having the abstraction, sometimes you learn more by not having it. Part of being on a growing project is that you get more opportunities to see both sides of a transition and learn from it.

When you have coworkers who clearly have only learned from one half of a timeline and have a great deal to learn about the other, wanting to put the brakes on and have them learn some discipline first is not a crime. Or rather it is, but it shouldn't be. It's like a weird version of Fake it Til You Make it that is verging on fraud. We'll keep up the fakery until someone notices and then we'll get a new job and reset the clock.
Per this page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment the Endowment at the Tides Foundation held over $113 million in January of this year. That is the latest data available.

The Wikimedia Foundation itself reported assets of $239 million in addition to that, as of June this year:

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWi...
I find it interesting that this is open sourced a few days after 11K were laid off.

Was bulk of the team behind this laid off wherein it made sense to open source it to involve the community to take it forward rather than paid resources?

To be clear: I'm NOT criticizing them open sourcing this.
Fake? Got a link so I can dig in a bit. Thanks.

EDIT: found this thread

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.archaeology.moderated/c/5Jec...

Damnit, seemed so plausible.
There's tons of context in the article. It lists everything they did wrong. That Bloomberg piece is very much an opinion column and says so at the top.
The Times should be deeply embarrassed by that article.

SBF is equal parts Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes but the Times is trying to paint him as an unlucky entrepreneur, down on his luck. The author doesn't even seem to understand that he stole billions from his customers to try and paper over losses from his trading.