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This list is absolute rubbish.

1. OneCoin: Not even a cryptocurrency, a centralized currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

2. Thodex: A centralized cryptocurrency exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thodex

Actual DeFi cannot be rug-pulled, by design. Not even the US can taken down something like Tornado Cash. What a smart contract can or cannot do is written in open source code. How are you going to rug-pull it, if it's not coded there?
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I worked at Amazon for 5 years and was in over 100 interview loops. Amazon won't hire you if you don't have the skills, but they are/were relatively lax in hiring compared to other big FAANG companies. It is also helpful that they historically have been such a huge and growing company that if you have the skills and the basic interview techniques down, they will try pretty hard to find a place for you. Amazon at least used to also offer a down-leveled role if it was obvious that you were a good programmer but couldn't prove to the capricious hiring loop that you were going to perform at the level you were applying for. This means if you are a mid-senior level programmer that interviewing for Amazon is kind of a slam-dunk in the sense that you'll definitely get hired even if for a lower level.

I have thought similar to the grand-parent commenter about having Amazon as a fallback in the Seattle area. Not my ideal but somewhere that is always recruiting me and would pay the bills if the smaller company I am working for went under.
This is crazy. No one is out there kidnapping and sex-trafficking 8-year olds in any numbers more than typical child kidnappings. That's a politically-motivated myth.

Minor sex-trafficking is almost always done by someone known to the child, usually a relative. And the child is usually in their teens, although occasionally younger.
That was more likely cut with meth or coke, based on the behaviour of drinkers
How are there still people that take everything Elon says as facts?
A recent podcast episode from 99% Invisible explores this contrast in societal norms:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/first-errand/
This sounds really cool, except it was written in 1978 and has nothing to do with modern realities of functional programming or tools.

> RxJs abstraction soup comes to mind

Merely a side effect of being implemented in a language that wasn’t really designed for it.
But before investigating and clearing them, they forced the parents to sign an agreement giving up certain parental rights.

So while the buck did eventually stop with them, it wasn't before they did harm of their own.
I love that they make an assertion that “Science is not a method, it is an approach to knowledge” and cite something from 2012, as if science didn’t exist before that. And the fact that they conflate “science” and “scientific method” is quite hilarious as well.
It used to be easier to start an internet business before the Great Monopolization of the '10s happened. For us it was simply the WWW. Now you have to look for a platform that still has a window of opportunity open before the monopoly in charge of it decides to choke everyone out. A kind soul mentioned the iOS app store.

Perhaps there is a window of opportunity in content, video content. For youtube, start with making shorts or just copy popular shorts from tiktok. Youtube promotes them so you can get subscribers (but no money), that you can then use to upload longer, money-making videos.

Gaming is also a possible niche. If you can create something that complements a popular game, you have a dedicated community to monetize.
Whether it's easy or not depends on the OS you're working on. On Windows, it's just another executable installer, so it's trivial. On macOS, the official installers are terrible (they have no uninstaller), so you want another way. On Linux etc., some distros have only one Python version in the repos, some have two or three, but the latest versions of all reasonable distros won't let you install Python 3.4.
Was that standard, or an instance of the dealer stripping the accessories and marketing them as as add-ons? First I've heard of this.

(Minivans often mount the spare in weird places around the undercarriage, not anywhere obvious...)
> That was only while they investigated (which I'm fine with).

I’m not; there should be some reasonable basis for this level of intrusion, which there was not (note that the facts of the report were true and confirmed and still did not violate family law that CPS enforces; this isn't a case where someone reported something which would have warranted CPS intervention if confirmed.)
> Do we really need to test our code on 50ish Chrome versions, 25is Firefox versions and so on.

Probably not, unless you're a really big outfit with a vast user base. But you should test on at least a recent Chrome version and a recent Firefox version, and probably Safari.

And unless your product is irrelevant to mobile users, on both iOS (Safari) and Android (Chrome, Firefox), with both phone and tablet form factors.
There’s no verified journalists or faculty or domain experts, etc, on Reddit.
> (3) Autism epidemic.

How breathtakingly insulting to the 100,000s of parents and caregivers of autistic children over the past 30 years, who have sacrificed 1,000s of hours, $MM of lost revenue, their own health, their own goals, and even attention that could have been paid to their other children and their community, exerting heroic efforts and sparing no expense to reach into a single child's mind to teach him or her basic skills and share some kind of human connection, starting from zero with no answers, no training, and sometimes not even family or a support network.

Unlike these scientists, most of these parents and caregivers will not be thanked or applauded for their work by society, but they only did it because it happened to be their child.

Let's not acknowledge that that their efforts correspond to a real event-- instead, let's dismiss all of the potential links uncovered and directions for future research, and wave it all away, feeling self-assured that we are being skeptical and rigorous while eating up taxpayer money from these same parents who still have no answers.
Being asked what my greatest fear is on HackerNews
Thank you for clarifying, this distinction is useful to me.

Do you see the possibility for a constructive approach which could address the situation with TikTok?

And, by extension, the toxic destructive influence of social media addiction, especially for youth?
The word Karen in your post is an ageist and racist dog whistle and it is also incredibly insulting to people who happen to be named Karen.
Electric vehicles require 40% less maintenance.

The consumer and the environment are the winners.
I don't think you want a lot of "Ron Swanson types", by which I infer you mean libertarians, getting involved in child protective services.
Japanese parents reading this story: "???"
xraying all the bags is something thats only done to meet the rules. The staff don't care what you have in your bag

I wish this was true.

In Spain recently something in my bag tripped the Xray alarm. I had to unpack my bag and take "something metal" out for inspection. It turned out it was an empty food packaging with a shiny foil bit on the side. Over all, it's not so big a deal, but they certainly cared about it.
> To use a similar featureset but in the same Git repository you normally use

What do you mean? Can't you use Sapling in the same Git repository you normally use? The first sentence is "Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client". Is there something they're not telling us?

EDIT: Looks like it calls out to the git executable occasionally (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615576) and presumably works on the git object model under the hood, but you can't use `git` on a repo checked out using `sl` nor vice versa. It's a stretch to call it Git-compatible but I guess not completely wrong.

EDIT2: Here's a good summary https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617689
> exchanges have generally been great businesses. lots of small fees add up to significant revenue. Binance generated $20 billion revenue in 2021

Lots of things are good businesses, that doesn’t give a neighbouring trash pile value. Any amount of cash pumped into FTX would be better spent capitalising a new exchange. They’re not only insolvent, but fraudulently so in a very public way.
I understand, but it’s also disingenuous to say that medical staff “too busy” and ignore the fact that many people were straight up turned away or intentionally placed on waiting lists.
> I like the idea of "anti-compression"

I learned this from business books: even the (incredibly tiny number of) good ones are mostly a few pages long. But you can't sell that in an airport, so they are expanded to the size where they can get a binding and go on a news stand shelf.

Really no different from the padding in clothes laundry to keep people from burning holes in their clothes.
Or you know, you mandate most of the stuff in the core arch document with the assumption that on tiny cores that lack.. say multiply instructions its handed by.. wait for it... microcode.

Which actually given the toy CPU's i've implemented is pretty easy to do even if your talking something that fits on a small/medium sized FPGA.

Illegal instruction traps are a lot worse/harder to get right than just cracking an unsupported opcode into a string of microops, particularly if the arch has simple addressing modes that themselves won't ever need to be part of multiple micro ops. AKA you won't have to deal with fault handling in the middle of a sequence. And even worse, the optimal sequence is likely diffrent for every tiny micro arch change, or even change in memory subsystem characteristics. So it needs to be tied to the core and associated memory subsystem, which on a popular arch implemented across the scale of platforms you find x86/arm is going to be unachievable without lots of unoptimal code being used.
I don't recall this coming up in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, but it was definitely in The Soul of A New Machine, the story about Data General trying to build their first 32-bit computer.
Maybe we should remind everyone about this when they cry about cashless bail.
They have a Alexa skill development kit where you can make your own commands but yeah, as far as I know it’s all cloud based:

https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/ge...
You can start with the basic console documentation: https://docs.helium.com/use-the-network/console

Helium is interesting because its literally everywhere in the US and western europe, everywhere people exist that is (not super remote mountainous regions).

I'd bet 99% of people reading this comment section have great coverage.
I want both. I want a stable ordering, which is roughly the order that I opened the tabs. And I want a recency ordering, to be able to quickly switch between the most recent handful of tabs I'm working with.

Fortunately, I have exactly that already. The native tab bar gives the stable ordering, except I ignore that because I'm a tab hoarder and only look at the Tree Style Tabs sidebar. Ctrl-Tab gives the recency ordering.

I certainly have complaints about how TST isn't able to provide all of the native functionality (eg the Send Tab To Device menu is empty, and the stupid native tab bar is still visible without a userChrome.css hack). But in terms of ordering, Firefox already gives me the two different orders I care about in a form that works for me.
Mine rarely turn on, so I'll take your word for it
I’m glad he’s giving it a shot. No idea if it will work, but I am quite sure that progress as a species is dependent on a culture of open conjecture and criticism. Old Twitter was trending the other way imo, esp when it came to working with the government to decide what was true or not.
No it can't. There's loads of stuff C can't do, which is why inline assembly & compiler intrinsics are quite common in the space.

Otherwise you're basically just saying C is Turing-complete. Which, yeah, so are most languages. That's not actually a special property.
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for mentioning it! https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/189/brandenburg-v-o.... I would have expected it to have been Vietnam War resistance, instead of civil rights of KKK type speech.
As someone replied above, it's because SQL is just 1 backend and it's weird to expose an API that only works on 1 backend. Once you have many devs working together, you need a remote server. If you have a remote abstracted backend, it needs to have a unified API surface so the same client can talk to any backend. You might argue "This interface should be SQL", and to that I would say there are many file stores (like your local file system) that are not easy to control with SQL.
> how in the world are lending instruments not categorized as securities?

I suppose that the answer to this question generally, which applies to banks, is: I don't think anyone wants a world where you have to be an accredited investor just to open a savings account. The definition of a security is complicated enough that the US Supreme Court weighed in.

https://www.kramerlevin.com/en/perspectives-search/when-migh...

So, complex subject with lots of ambiguous legal precedent, grey zones, inconsistent enforcement. And new technology that doesn't perfectly fit into the previous system of rules. Yeah, it's a mess, and it will probably be decades before it all gets sorted out.
> I sure hope social psychologists don't use torture.

Read up on psychologist’s participation in the Guantanamo prison camp torture program. Indeed many psychologists did use torture, and it is something of a really dark spot in the history of the American Psychology Association.
Risk of death during interaction with the police is practically zero where I live. Whenever that happens, it’s on the media for months or years.
Uh, they definitely ask you a bunch of questions and you basically need to speak to their leadership principles. Being good at leetcode alone can't get you in, or that's the impression I've gotten from friends who work there. But I suppose it depends.
> why would anyone actually stay?

People who are on a work visa would likely be hesitant to not click 'yes' at this point. Given all of the recent layoffs there are probably also some people who are afraid of being able to find another job and have medical/family/debt issues.

But yeah, if you're confident you could find another gig and have money saved up, the 3 months severance to escape that mess would probably look really good right now.
even a "voice-driven command line" would still be pretty useful if it actually worked reliably. Google's implementation misinterprets my parents' address about 50% of the time, choosing some town I've never visited in another state as the most likely alternative. I navigate to that address at least once a month, and I even have it as a saved place in maps.
Now do the same for Helium!
This is the first time I've heard of the word "jangle" existing independently of the onomatopoeiac phrase "jingle jangle"! That said, I definitely agree that this is an ironically-poor choice of name due the lack of relation between the name and the referent.
>They verified where the child lived, which was just down the block, and still proceeded to call the police instead of... escorting the kid home?

That would probably not be a safe thing for the neighbor to do in a place like Waco--he/she could be arrested as a pedophile.

But the whole thing sounds totally crazy to me. I walked a half mile to and from school alone from first grade to high school almost every day.
Can you summarize how it works? You highlight something on kindle and it gets sent to your online db for storage?
Long thread, anyone posted the brass eye episode yet?
Right, forgot about the armed forces :)
This won't work, because the emulation will be too slow to provide usable fallback.

This kind of approach has been used in the past, but the problem is that the overhead of trapping invalid instructions is massive compared to almost anything you do in an instruction, to the point that if you actually use such instructions, your program will be completely unusable on platforms that don't provide them.
WSL gives me hope that the right people are making engineering decisions at Microsoft. Truly one of the most transformative pieces of tech we've gotten in the last decade, for developers.
Why wouldn't it be? Clearly people don't mean anything sexist by it, given that most don't know about it, and nobody as far as I know is offended. Who do you want to ban the word for?
> it’s because FP is "sold" as the perfect solution for readability and code maintainability. Just use FP and nothing can go wrong. That’s at least the impression I get when I read about FP.

That’s because it is. FP is not immune to incorrect implementation. Both statements are true.
My sample size is two - one departing flight each from LHR and DUB - but they were way less painful experiences than any airport I've flown out of in the US.
You can bulk export all your Notes through appleid.apple.com. They can come down as text files, or a JSON, I believe. I just went through the process recently to migrate notes into Joplin.
Not coming from a Real-Time background, I'm quite curious as to why? Do you have some sources to point me to?
> just give the thing decades of emails and giant PDF folders and make sense of it.

just?
You could be concerned with your own goals... Or just pass judgement to feed your frail ego... The choice is yours alone :)
I think a lot of people take this to mean "laws bad" when in reality I think LBJ was saying to be careful in how you craft your laws so you can prevent this kind of abuse.
Quit, take severance , look for a job or don’t quit and look for a job. Guess it depends how fast you think you can get a new job.
Is FTX role in FTX collapse also under congressional scrutiny ?
Amazon got that reputation a decade ago when they were vigorously growing in user base and revenue. They couldn't hire fast enough if they even wanted to without wrecking the organization, so there was a ton of teams/people that felt immense pressure.

These days things have leveled out a little bit and I think of Amazon as a new IBM in the making. More corporate, more cruft, more politicking. This is especially true on the retail side, as Amazon has become so complicated and specialized that you'll have specific tech teams for handling edge cases for particular types of products. I think I recall there basically being a 'shoes' team that would implement features just for selling shoes on the site, etc.

I will say though that when I was in AWS a few years ago, that I was downright shocked at how lean some of the teams were. IIRC there were less than 100 developers that maintain all of dynamodb for instance.
Related ongoing thread:

Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623402 - Nov 2022 (113 comments)
venv is great, but it requires the Python version you want already installed. This is pyenv's job.
Oh, so much to rant about! Let me address specifically the "git is a power tool" part.
Actual dangerous power tools used in industry have a lot of safety requirements, and even may require license to operate. You do not put lathe in your lobby and expect everyone to know how to use it properly.

If there would be qualified git technicians, that would take care of all git related activities developers need, I don't think there would be so much complaining.

However, what actually is happening, is dev, still being absorbed in his project, suddenly needs to confront index, stage and cache (these three are one, yet are not the same), figure out whic of the soft hard mixed reset, no, revert to use.

So I want to put my local changes in new branch? Use "git checkout"! But checkout was the dangerous one!? And you "cp -a" your whole dir, because you are afraid to mess up...
Great resource; it would be nice if each board record could be updated with a list of the sellers, each one with stock and prices. That could be a service many sellers would probably pay a small quid for, ultimately helping to support the site.

Also, take a look at the following list, which is updated at least yearly.

https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-b...
I live in Seattle. 8 year olds walk past my house to-and-from school every day without parents. I can't say I've seen this in any other major US city though.
> you dont really want to learn how to do something new. You just want to use your existing skill set to make money

Yeah for the short term, i have been thinking of ways to leverage the person I am now. Developing new skills and talents is a long term investment, which is useful just not my immediate goal. hope that makes sense
Related ongoing thread:

Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626047 - Nov 2022 (143 comments)
Unless your income is depending on carrying out the exact demands of some money guy that's most common phrase while using a computer is "it won't let me" and they want "big data".

Then you just suck it up and build one of the totally unnecessary big data systems that have been excreted all over the business world these days. I don't think the problem is that devs are over-engineering.

I wonder what its called, makes me think of tragedy of the commons but probably not quite right.
I actually used the DNOS operating system on the mini line where the 9900 originated.

I flew around the country ripping these out of industrial equipment dealerships (replacing them with SCO), so I never saw any of the DNOS networking features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-DNOS
This reminds me of when I consulted with a company that wanted to use Rails as their backend. Rails made it incredibly easy to get database results on a web page. Too easy. They spent the next several months certain that they could "wing it" and still keep developing features. The harsh truth is, they needed to understand what was going on underneath all that "magic". Thankfully they took my advice and hired some Ruby devs. Probably a lot of us can fall into this trap. We do the same 3 steps day in and day out and are lulled into the belief that we "know the system". Until, like you mention, we fall off the happy path.
My wife is a pediatric occupational therapist and I'm a physician in government. I'm still not sure which direction your comment is pointing: is it insulting that the term Autism epidemic is exists, or that this paper suggests it should be avoided?
you would think someone would take a look at the allegation and determine that this was not necessary anyone with an ounce of sense knows that an 8 year old can walk half a mile on the street.

Every parent within my hometown would be getting arrested. And god forbid when these people learn that we were riding the public bus service to and from school at 10 years old...
People who do not understand things are poised to reinvent them badly.

The post manage to analyse terminal input without having acknowledging readline. So yeah, they have no idea what they are talking about.

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-shortcuts-ev...
Plenty of C jobs around, most are where there's a need for extreme performance (optimising usage/making the best of limited RAM/limited CPU), talking to bare metal or for things that have to last a long time (kernels, telecoms, other critical stuff).

There is less turnover though (stability again) so employers are selective (and quieter). One suggestion would be put C as your preferred language on your CV, with a little background why (not if you want to work with BigCo or anywhere with a buzzword-driven culture though).