skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it should be law that paying ransomware is a crime since it only makes these ransomware people more bold, and rich.
Machine Learning: A First Course for Engineers and Scientists
> fire 80-90% of developers over the next year and just optimize the system to reduce infrastructure costs by 95%

"just"

The presumption here is that 90% of the staff weren't doing anything useful, and that 95% of the infrastructure costs were wasted, and both of those would be extremely surprising?

Also very non-efficient-markets-hypothesis, that a public company would just sit there wasting almost all of its money.
This organic standard has failed completely.

I have to serve five different charging ports (Magsafe, Lightning, USB C, micro USB, and some proprietary thing for my watch). The watch charger only comes with an USB A cable, so now either I need an extra dongle or two charging bricks.

USB C was introduced in 2014 and really came about in 2016. These companies had six+ years to converge on something reasonable. But they didn't. Be it out of greed or plain laziness.

So yes, this law is an improvement.
Deployment previews on K8s using ArgoCD
Deployment previews are not commonplace in microservice architectures. This is one approach you can take for bringing deployment previews to K8s using ArgoCD.
While it was a EU standard, was it also an EU law ?

If so, is the law removed, or is everyone breaking that law these days(As I don't see any phones being sold with micro-usb) but noone cares ?
Not using an optional part of the standard is not "crippling" USB-C. And yes, I believe there are already Android phones which have only USB 2, or only USB 2 plus Gen 1x1 (5 Gbit/s) USB 3.
Whatever you recommend to take, I'm sure one of the people I know took it. Did it improve their already normal life? I highly doubt it.

I'm not discussing that when you have an illness or mental problem that drugs might help (or which drugs). But just take it because somehow it would "enhance" your life... still need to see proof of that. Most of the "enhancement" that I saw went to other direction.
> In French this concept is called 'je ne sais quoi'.

Is that accurate? I would have said in English that French phrase names a concept - we say 'it has a certain je ne sais quois' etc. - but in French it's just words right? Sure a phrase, but isn't this like saying 'in English this concept is called "this is a hill I will die on"'?

Anyway, if you're addicted to using something and do not know why you should probably make a conscious effort to cease.
It's common for newer gaming laptops to have both USB-C and proprietary charging capability. When not under load, the 65W or 100W suffices for charging.
> There is nothing being produced of value from the assets.

A guy like Warren Buffet can clearly appreciate value in the sense of institutions, after all he made his fortune largely in the insurance sector.

We are still in the early stages of Crypto, only now we see serious DAO structures start to emerge.

There is also a good chance that he will see his entire industry disrupted in some years as more efficient ways to govern small-scale institutions, like an insurance company, are emerging.
USB-C as a connector is fine for many years and backwards compatible improvements are more than possible. Once we outgrown this I’m sure lobby groups will be sitting in Brussels.
Last I checked the EU part of legislation, it has an expiry built into the process.
They don't make it clear but it seems like that only supports 240 watt over the barrel plug.
You think you'll need more than 240W of charging power on your phone?

Maybe, but will it be so small to make two ports cumbersome? Doubtful imo
Mortgage rates plunge, largest weekly drop since 1981
They still need to sell accessories.
Sure, there's some consistency. But compared to the consistency of experience of the real world, it is lacking and full of holes. Not enough to be called "real", in my opinion.
"his work" at telsa and spacex is securing funding, its the engineers there that achieve things despite musk.

It will be interesting to see how things go now the free money tap is turned off for the casino stock market
git is fine, one just needs to learn how to use it properly.

one has yet to witness the abomination that is svn, sourcesafe, or "software working on my machine" delivered by a zip file in order repent and mend ones ways
HR ultimately exists to provide some massive amount of value to the company, otherwise they wouldn't exist. The question then is what value do they deliver? If the low-level humans serving as resources don't know what that value is, the odds are that HR's existence is not to their benefit.
I think what he means is that, things are basically on hold there and nothing has broken yet.

So I think his point his kinda valid, Twitter doesn't need that much employees to work as expected. It's possibly a very low maintenance platform that can go for days without the need of any sort of maintenance.
Standards take time for them to filter through the industry. It only looks good in context of today. Imagine looking back on today from 10 years in the future with us being stuck on the legacy USB-C standard because of a variety of disparate legislation all over the world holding the new standard back.

Or that the standard that could have happened, never does. We can never know what future we could have had if not for actions in the past.
No one, to my knowledge, talked about "DMT elves" before McKenna. The people who talked about them afterwards were very likely directly or indirectly primed by him to expect to see them, and we all know that expectations can strongly influence what one experiences on psychedelics.
Except for the FIFA officials’ booths, of course! There’s tiers to piety!
"Industry progress" doesn't happen if companies are banned from selling new devices with new standards.
They can see this great new hypothetical charging port during their trip to the USA, the land of cable freedom.
> Except for market demands of smaller phones
Aren't phones getting larger and larger pretty much every year?
Thank you, it is much needed, right now the most reliable way of generating PDF's I used not so long time ago is
- create DOCX with content and some template variable strings, like {{}}
- unpack document and get into text, replace text
- use DOCX->PDF linux tool to generate document.

Maybe this will be the good solution
He sorta forced his own hand here by saddling the company with so much debt that it couldn’t afford not to drastically cut back spending.
> The key question is whether crypto will rebound. I would expect it to, particularly as governments move more into digital currencies.

The “when” and the “what” matter immensely though.

A rebound after a couple years of global recession is much different than one early next year.

A rebound of the existing big names (e.g. BTC and ETH) is much different than the rise of “fed coin” or some other chain.

An investment strategy of dollar cost average, spray, and pray, is gonna eat quite a few losers.
Why does it load cystom fonts where as far as I can tell there isn't a single character on the page?
The "invisible hand" as used in the context of economcis is not a "cult". It's a widely accepted basic metaphor in economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand

The only disagreement is in how much of an effect it has.
Spotlighting Afro Fashion: Justwomanly Just Launched
According to Google Arts & Culture, Lagos, Johannesburg, Dakar, and Nairobi: These four cities, and several more on the continent have proven themselves to be unparalleled incubators for fashion and design.

They are nexuses for the creative visual arts and most pertinent of all for sustainable growth, and financial and commercial hubs. Indeed in a recent Forbes Magazine study of the most influential cities in the world Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Lagos found themselves on the list.

This too is reflected in their dominance of the fashion industry in Africa. However, also of critical importance is how Africa is perceived and its goods and services are received in the global fashion context.

Hence, it's imperative that Afro-fashion like Afro-beats gets the respect and awareness it deserves. If you have been following creatives across Africa, you'll realize they lack the representation and needed branding to scale globally.

This is why I am proud to have Norah Onyejeni as a co-founder, as we have now launched Justwomanly. Justwomanly is a B2B2C eCommerce luxury fashion platform that is focused on spotlighting Afro-fashion by creatives globally.

From concept and design to sale, Justwomanly will support thousands of fashion creatives across Africa to scale. In this light, we are officially open for business, and we're adding more awesome products made by amazing, and under-represented creatives.

If you're a fashion creative, we are looking to work with you to tell your story and spotlight your products to the largest audience. As we continue to provide a safe path to support women in their creative process, the end goal is to ensure we have DEI globally especially when it comes to Afro-fashion.

After over 9 months of working behind the scenes to roll this out, I am proud and excited. We've ensured that if you're in Lagos, the maximum delivery is NGN 2,000!!!!

In the meantime, if you're an investor, we are currently raising a pre-seed, reach out via DM or send us an email, and we'll be excited to follow up.

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It is not about engineering, it is about conformity. As you implicitly acknowledge, Twitter does not need as much engineering, nor does it need creative engineering. For engineering, Elon needs cogs, preferably those who buy into his cult of personality.

As for the hard to quantify work, Elon needs people he can trust. Even if the existing people are good, they can not be trusted. Committing to something like Twitter 2 is as good an oath as it gets. The other alternative is to just fire everyone he did not hire himself.
What does its compatibility with Linux have to do with how good it was as a chip?
I've always thought that purely from a physical engineering standpoint the lightening port made more sense.

With USB-C the fragile part (male plug) of the connector is in the phone. While the lightening port weakest part is on the cable. From purely a physical standpoint I much prefer a lightening cable.
I personally don't own any Bitcoin, but would you have bought it in 2018 you'd still be up approx. ~370% at the current dip, while you would have been profitable a whopping ~1700% at ATH. I find their contrarian takes rather regressive and self-serving.
New Chief Calls FTX’s Corporate Control a ‘Complete Failure’
Exactly. They sure 'nailed it' alright. [0] /s

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/19/buffett-backed-digital-bank-...
No. This is just a dirty, yet ingenious, strategy to fire the most of employees without paying severance. It's the cheapest way of removing the "dead weight" from the company without spending too much money.
Kind of an unfortunate name…
Sorry but these two are not that great and their track record for the past decade is also not that great. They basically missed out on 10x type of opportunity just from 2018. They are in the money making business right? Last I checked, BTC is still 5x from 2018 low. Money is money. Return is return.

Edit: from a purely financial point of view, you can make the same argument for companies that do not pay dividends/share repo. Until they actually pay you for your shares, you’re effectively invested in a ponzi scheme.
But they blocked access to the HQ. That should definitely stop rogue employees (with company hardware and full system access) from doing anything malicious right?
This is often repeated, but wrong. The EU issued a Memorandum of Understanding asking phone manufacturers to use micro B. MoU are not laws, they have no force behind them. Micro B was never required or mandated.

It was literally the EU saying "hey guys, please use micro-B on your phone" (with an implicit threat that actual legislation may follow if you don't).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Elon doesn't hire/use PR firms.
Unfortunately if you take away ponzi schemes and money laundering there's not much left of the crypto market.
Apparently usage of Twitter is growing, instead of decreasing. So you as an advertiser will just ignore a platform with a massive user base just because you don't like the owner?
Yup. Its not at a stretch, but it became my filler activity.

And before sleeping at night.
FTX bought its way to become the 'most regulated' crypto exchange
Wow! Knowing that security guards have access to user accounts certainly instills a lot of confidence in their privacy policies and protections.

/s
>You are looking for a Crypto utopia where everyone is as "enlightened" as you.

I'm not sure how you read my comment as elitist or utopian. All I'm asking here is that paternalists don't ruin it with saviorism, regulatory capture and gatekeeping.

>When something goes mainstream that gets lost.

Isn't this an elitist sentiment?

Our community has fun with people who aren't deep into tech at all. I started it with faucet rewards integrated into an io game. Anyone can install a wallet when transactions are free. Couldn't be further from what you're projecting.
In most cases, you can keep a platform going for a tiny fraction of the manpower that it takes to keep stuff alive while building new stuff. If Twitter hasn't dropped its killer feature by this point, they can probably make do without it.

I've seen companies in Twitter's position with much worse tech stacks and much worse engineers have their stuff hang on for decades in the financial services world. Any maintenance problem can be pushed back indefinitely if you keep throwing money at the right consultants.
This made it click for me: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside...
What's important to understand about git is that it allows time travel, and time travel enables changing history, and changing history is a really bad idea. Do not ever change the history without knowing what you're doing. In git, this means mostly rebasing and other stuff that messes with existing commits.

Messing with existing commits can be fine as long as you're messing with the only existing version of that commit. Commits that exist in other branches, have been shared with other people, have been pushed to remote, etc, should be left alone. Rebasing local, unpushed single commits in your one working branch is fine. Rebasing anything else will cause problems. If rebase is causing you problems, do not rebase.

Also: small commits, short branches, merge often.
A common fungus eliminates toxic mercury from soil and water: researcher
It's meant to convey emotional sincerity with positive connotations, compared to the un-punctuated and often sardonic or sarcastic chatroom and text message writing that millennials were the first generation to grow up with.

In that writing style, a period "." means you are serious enough to use punctuation, but in a negative way: you are annoyed or upset. A "!" means that you are also serious enough to use punctuation, but trying to convey earnestness or something positive.

People love to psychoanalize the millennial generation from a distance. Why not ask some millennials why they do it?
There are no servers in the Twitter HQ?
In that case it's not such a big deal to close the HQ for a weekend plus one day.
Show HN: A visual guide to Box Breathing
A recent post on HN got me thinking about how to visualize box breathing, and this is the result. I hope you'll find it useful

It can easily be installed as an app (PWA) on mobile or desktop for offline/easy access. Instructions are at the bottom of the page.

Reference post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33586383

Source code:
https://github.com/lassebomh/box-breathing

Happy breathing HN
I find it curious that Musk has simultaneously demanded that all employees cease working from home and return to the office whilst also locking them out of the office.
"Twitter had roughly 2,900 remaining employees before the deadline Thursday,"

That's still a lot of employees... Hopefully for Musk, they kept the better ones.
They phrased a little differently, though, didn't they?
right, because by definition the most talented and productive employees have the best prospects at other employers
Not gonna lie, if my current contract was ending id take a stint at twitter for a while just to be a fly on the wall for the insanity even knowing id get the arse at any time.
Seems like a waste of electricity. Maybe it needs to be legislated awaI thought Google cared about the environment.
Now I just have to learn what a DAG is
> With USB-C the fragile part (male plug) of the connector is in the phone. While the lightening port weakest part is on the cable.

AFAIK, the fragile part of the connector is actually the springs (which also weaken with every insertion/removal cycle). With lightning and USB-A, the springs are in the device. With USB-C, the springs are in the cable.
This is wrong. The EU issued an MoU and a charging standard which was voluntary. It was nothing more than them asking nicely to please use Micro-B.

This is a law. It's completely different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Can someone ELI5 coinductive data types and cofixpoints? Also curious how they interact with the termination checker
Is an insurance DAO fundamentally any different from mutual insurance? What benefit does the blockchain provide?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance
I just ran into this problem last night... if you shouldn't rebase after pushing to remote, how do you update a PR days after you originally created it to be on top of the latest origin/master and be able to resolve merge conflicts locally?
This: my introduction to git involved reading an architectural overview. From that it was obvious that it was a DAG. About an hour of playing with the operations (particularly rebase!) was enough.

Just goes to show the power of understanding the fundamentals of CS :-)
Reading this[1] and getting the data structures/mental model correctly internalised in my head.

Although I do use git from the cli (or magit) primarily, this knowledge has helped me pick-up front end tools intuitively and have helped others when I've never used their preferred tool. All of this doesn't seem possible unless you've put in the effort learning what's going on behind the scenes. That is to say, git itself it neither user friendly nor intuitive it must be learned.

Knowing mercurial (hg) beforehand did slow my learning progress a bit with all the false-friends. You may find it easier to learn if you don't have to re-learn some naming.

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
This is 100% going to happen. Twitter will crash and burn, and then fanboys will go "This was Elon's plan all along! He hated Twitter, and just wanted to kill it to own the libs. Everything he was doing was an act. What a genius!!"
You mean like the EU-FOSSA program, or its recent continuation?

The EU has been funding bug bounty programs since 2014, has organized hackathons, and is explicitly promoting the use of open standards and open source software.

Sure, the funding isn't massive, but it's still a few million a year.
My college friend worked part time as an undertaker - the pay was surprisingly good considering the options a sophomore year student had.

He had fond memories of the experience - flexible hours, physical activity outside and nobody bothering you for hours on end.
Next cloud plus only office. Gets you realtime collaboration and auto saving. Web based and desktop based editors.
Playing through this game https://learngitbranching.js.org
Postfix is fine, you get used to it fairly quickly. But when you've finished and want to go the the toilet, you walk there backwards.
Being the go-to git guy for a whole project when everyone was new to it.

Are you using it from the command line? I feel that helps a lot. Get a good log alias[1] and get hacking. I almost exclusively use the official CLI, with the exception of git-gui for committing and rolling back patches (lines / hunks). (I find it's easier than `add -p` and that CTRL+J is a good time saver.)

1: As an example, https://github.com/aib/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig#L29
This took me from "add/commit/push, and pull" to being able to do rebases:
https://learngitbranching.js.org/
Is it that simple though? By your logic it's possible to never fire anyone, just change the contract until they resign... doesn't really make sense to me.
Ah, the Winamp approach to versioning.
I am running Nextcloud v23 with the Draw.io package installed using the autosave feature. Works great. I am looking to install the Only Office (or LibreOffice) to see if they also have the auto save feature.
Better yet, only rebase what you haven't pushed yet.
Learned this from A Series of Unfortunate Events. Another one I've always liked is "This, too, shall pass."
Custom PC cooling solutions, probably building a custom water loop
It will when it actually start delivering value. It might be cross national digital money or somekind nft Ticketmaster competitor or some kinda cross game NFT items.
>I admit to seeing some valuable use-cases

Could you write them here? Genuinely curious.
Why would it be surprising? Without any pressure to cut costs engineers find countless ways to "be useful" that ads little value while adding massive complexity to the organization, ballooning maintenance costs in the long-term.

I've heard so many bullshit work stories from FAANG friends that I'm not sure why you'd expect markets to be efficient regarding these hugely subsidized tech companies.
A lot of people have already lost a lot of money speculating on crypto since 2018, because of volatility, fraud, and exchanges that turned out to have spent all their customers money.

Cherry picking a specific period where you would have made a lot of money is easy in hindsight, especially since I'm pretty sure the big crash is yet to come. (I'm not sure enough to bet on a crash, but sure enough to go nowhere close to crypto)
Add dates and it clarifies what’s going on.

In 2022 you get 10 million in A) RSU’s that vest in 5 years or B) cash in 2022 C) cash in 2027.

Of course no company actually pays people before they do work, but this does explain why Amazon’s RSU’s don’t vest 25%, 25%, 25, 25% instead the last 2 years are 40% and 40%. And people get issues new RSU’s before the old ones finished vesting.
My bad, stands for directed (not acrylic) acyclic graph, which is just a fancy way saying a graph with no loops.

Edit: yeah, it's acyclic not acrylic :).
Can we stop parroting the term "hardcore engineering"? It makes never-ending crunch sound virtuous, rather than dumb. "Dumbcore engineering".
There's a third issue besides price and range in the EV market right now. Wait time. e.g. that VW ID.3 has a wait time of over a year for delivery. That crosses it off my shopping list, unfortunately.
Are there size requirements? Some devices are just too small for a C port to be practical.
Nim does “checked exceptions”-ish via its effects system and {.raises: […].} pragma. Though it’s not just limited to exceptions. Can be used for all sorts of useful things!
I have two questions - 1) is it still possible to get vanced these days, or do I need to back up whatever apks I may or may not have. and 2) where is this main screen option? I can't find it from a cursory look in the youtube vanced or vanced manager apps
The hard drive is 64 gb. I have 20 left over. The other 40 is the base arch os install and all my apps with the files I’m working on.
can it be linked to outlook.com?
What kind of "government digital currencies" are you referring to?