skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Enter your email: billg@microsoft.com

> Email is invalid or already taken

oooh!
I forgot my github password (so my account is secure), so i can't access the signup page anymore as i'm signed in.
So why can't you use high quality translation tech for that purpose?
To be fair the just scooped the Chagossians out, whereas ethnic cleansing usually refers to extermination. Those who ended up in the UK have been fighting a legal battle since and seem to be making slow progress. From the British point of view it was a slam dunk, since they didn't care about the "man Fridays" and they got trident missiles in return.
You might be thinking of io.js, which was a fork almost entirely due to politics. The advisory board came out of it, and a push for semver, but it started here: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...
Zig is great for writing fast software and I’m really productive in Zig.
The government printed a lot of Nairas starting 2020 (COVID) when oil revenues dried up.

The Naira's value plunged against the dollar. The Central Bank still insists the Naira is worth around 453/$1 while the free market insists it's much worse.

So, the Central Bank continues to advertise N453/$1 but you can't swap your Nairas to dollars - only at black (i.e., free) market dealers who will give you the true market rate.
After. That was also closer to a decade ago now than not. (It was settled in October 2015. Microsoft released an Open Patent Agreement with Android manufacturers a few years after that and dropped licensing fees at that time.)
> Do checks still exist in the US?

Of course. I was stuck behind an older lady writing one for groceries, just the other day.
Yeah, I’d be curious what the overall numbers look like for a large swath of users. I’ve never had a Mac I support fail do to RAM - hard drives back in the day, fans, GPU, or logic boards - but I did have multiple PC & Mac users who had reliability problems which were fixed by reseating DIMMs which had come slightly loose.
You're in for a treat: that library already exists and has been ported to multiple programming languages:

http://docopt.org
>I've seen Node forked (to Deno I think) and then eventually they merged it back.

You're thinking of the io.js debacle
Good point! There's an open issue regarding that, and it seems to be due to the fact that under the hood, QuestPDF uses Skia which itself lacks support for tagged PDF's: https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF/issues/193
Different languages have different libraries with different functions that take different arguments and have different data structures. The tools you used with the old language might be different or required modification to work with the new language.

Maybe libraries they had written to solve problems in their domain have to be recreated.

It seems like switching from Delphi to Java or Go and changing the entire ecosystem would take a bit of time to get back to making the same productivity as with the toolset one has been using for a decade?
https://docopt.org/ may be of interest.
there's no account. its just your checking account. and their checking account.

facebook fronts the money, deposits it as a non pending transaction. then it takes your money.

ive done it with multiple people at multiple banks. its never been more than minutes.
I have no interest in those things, they're good examples of what I don't want in my password manager.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like an ass, they look like very well put together features. They just remind me of when Dropbox decided to start offering document editing. Not what I go there for.
It's easier to manage until it breaks as the recent example last month when Bitwarden updated their client and Vaultwarden had to play catch up and reverse engineer the changes.

That experience sent me back to just letting Bitwarden host for me, I know it's all free and I can't expect anything which is fine, but I can't be without my passwords either.
You mean github.io isn't for projects relating to the Indian Ocean‽
The same as was true 40 years ago. Now we just need some action.
Welcome to Microsoft, where standards and interoperability are a vague suggestion.
> Each IPv6-enabled VM will be assigned a /96 address range from the subnet, which provides you with 4 billion unique IPv6 addresses for each VM interface.

That's odd. Almost every attempt to reflect IPv4 blacklisting seems to treat /56 or even /48 blocks the same as a regular IP address, since that is (or was) the recommended size to hand out to end users for residential ISPs. /64 is the smallest network size available for most applications so network level firewalls will often use that as the smallest range to ban in case of abuse.

Of course ULA networks aren't going reach out to the internet, but even on internal load balancers and attack detection mechanisms will need to be configured for this default. Which is very strange, given that ULAs are /48s with arbitrary 16 bit subnets and then a /64 at the end. I can't imagine exceeding 65k subnets being a common use case on these networks.

That said, I applaud the native availability of ULAs on cloud platforms. You can make it work yourself with VPNs and other overlay networks, but this is a much cleaner solution.
I was thinking about something similar, but less cringy. More like: hey you haven't messaged your friend in 6 months, maybe you should ask them how they are doing. A priority queue but to help keep friendships alive.
This headline instantly conjured up an image of Norwegian black metal bands thrashing away as a black basalt island rises slowly out of the abyss with smoke and fire and lightning...
> poor people can't afford to stock up

Sure, that's a problem. But that's not the problem I was talking about.

> have access to car shares and delivery services. Yes there is a cost, but it's usually quite cheap.

It is most definitely not cheap! You can't buy much because you don't have room, and the cost savings of what you can buy are destroyed by this added expense, making it pointless.

> most storage spaces can be optimized quite a bit

Sure - up to a point. I mean you can also just fill your bedroom with stuff, and have a narrow corridor to walk in. But realistically, people in dense cities just don't have much space for bulk purchases.
Harvard Finance Professor: Crypto Is Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism
People report gun theft in order to make possession of it unambiguously a crime same as with cars and other serialized property.

Nobody with a brain actually thinks the police in the next state over are gonna seriously suspect them of something when their handgun inevitably gets recovered in an unrelated crime.
As a young programmer back then, the guys who could write image libraries were wizards to me.
I got a company-wide email approximately two hours after it was already all over the news. Ideally the insiders should know first and at worst, the press release and internal should go at the same time. This is just absurd.
"But until it comes I will take an option that is significantly better than anything I can get locally."

You support the idea of a just and equitable economy, but until it comes you'll sit on the sidelines and perpetuate and support entities that maintain the opposite? Look, I admire where you came from and your success, but you've internalized capitalism and justified its side effects as a result. I too came from nothing and am now successful (relatively).
Yeah, the USA is way behind many other nations here. Exercise left for reader as to why.
If fnord works I'm happy with it.
What I only realized today is that his watch restoration channel has more subscribers than the official Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel now. That's insane.
I'm not going to bother responding to most of your points because most of them are poorly thought out and not worth my time, however this one stands out to me and I think captures the thrust of it..

>I'm not passing judgement

Oh I think you are. For many people in the world the decision around using synthetic fertilizers or pesticides is a decision between having a crop or not. This choice you want to make is a privilege that can only be made in the context of additional resources not accounted for, like having sufficient area to do crop rotation, additional land for the cultivation of fertilizers, or additional time and resources to dedicate to cultural practices.

Have you done the math on what are you would need to grow an acre of corn using only animal fertilizers? What about the carbon cost of moving that fertilizer around? What about the cost to the soil for tilling it in? How much additional land would need to be dedicated to animals to do? What about the methane and water quality issues for raising those animals? What if you live in an urban or sub-urban area?

There are real issues around over fertilization, intensified crop rotations, and pesticide use. Rejecting these tools outright, and more specifically, the attitude that we have the privilege to reject them outright is deeply problematic. If what you actually want is for people to grow into being more food self-sufficient, this attitude creates more barriers than it resolves.

If we could run the Haber-bosch process on what is effectively waste electricity, this would be a huge deal. Home gardeners could have something not too dissimilar to a battery bank that kicks on when there is surplus electricity, and fix nitrogen for storage into a tank for later use. Farmers could dedicate small sections of their farms to solar panels which can optimize between grid usage or the filling of fertilizer tanks depending on the economics. It would reduce the cost of producing and moving around that fertilizer. It would be a really good thing.
It is like when you give away mosquito nets and put all the local makers out of business. It is worse in the long run if you tank the job market then leave.
I never suggested I thought it, was just curious what level of testing might have been done allowing human players unlimited time vs bots.
That a bot would be still win in such cases, even against a GM, is not so surprising based on my understanding of chess.
Learn US History
What a weirdly specific prophetic message from Crowley. Anyone who knows anything about an "aeon" of children immediately thinks of the line from the Timaeus[1].

> O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are but children.

What's even more frustrating is that in the Timaeus, an Egyptian priest utters that line and that Crowley, channeling Aiwass ostensibly an Egyptian diety, really should have had this all sorted a bit more because it makes Crowley look like he's completely unaware of this fact.

Either way, given the rise and fall of Hellenism[2] in no way should a prophecy of an aeon of the child exclude that very elephant in the room.

1. Plat. Tim. 22b https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...

2. Debatable whether anyone wants to argue our modern culture is a continuation or descendant of the Hellenism of antiquity.
Not currently; however, there's an open issue regarding this very topic: https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF/issues/283
A personal CRM
This is a very good explanation of impedance in audio circuits, where it's all about sources and sinks, and less about the transmission lines in between.

For RF, the transmission line is an equally important part, and the very best explanation I've ever found is this:

https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/AC/AC_14.h...
Another example:the active ingredient in the sleep remedy pushed on TV by Huckabee (US guy who ran for US president) is just melatonin. You can the same effect for way cheaper.
Not 100% what you describe, but functionally the same: https://github.com/monicahq/monica
Layoffs over a certain size in a location have to be announced legally, WARN act I think is the name.

Usually reductions in staff are well received by Wall Street because operating expenses should be reduced. I think there's a joke about a CEO saying "oh stocks down, time for layoffs!"
Yes, according to what 1Password is telling us. But as we've seen, what these companies say and what they actually do in practice are not always aligned. And oftentimes customers are inserting a lot of their own assumptions into the mix, not only with respect to vault encryption but vault storage and operational security.
What does OP mean by unusable?
From my side, if I click on the link, I get signed in and logged in straight to my feed. Cookies are working as I would expect.

The new thing is the "onboarding cards" which I dismissed because I'm already familiar with GitHub and have a set of habits when using the platform (managing my own repos).

Definitely, I do not understand the title. Don't see proof of unusability.
> Is Microsoft laying off executives too?

You must be new here. I work for a blue chip Fortune 200 widely known for their binge-and-purge cycles. Management is never affected. They just reshuffle the cards.

I've been predicting another "purge" in 2Q, but I suspect we will lag the tech sector, so maybe it will be EOY.
> It's always, "If someone else sees nipples, it will harm them."

... I find it more compelling to put it this way: "If we make [something currently seen as sexual] normal in public, it will harm society".

There isn't anything more magically sexual about the nipple than there was about the thigh. It's an arbitrary line in the sand. Culture/advertising has exposed the fact it's arbitrary by pushing up against it, but maybe it's just as sensible to argue that the line should move back towards being more modest than being less so.

There is a separate discussion about why women's norms are more restrictive than men's, but I think things have gotten more libertine across the board.
is it free anywhere else?
We're not in the same market as this article. Typically, in a bad economy salary expectations are lower making a startup launch more "affordable." Unfortunately, that is not the case currently with ongoing inflation. Salary expectations continue to increase on average, not decrease.
I wish this comment was on the top level comment in this thread. The divergence of pg from his original message is really sad. The more you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you.
I've been to Diego Garcia. It is boring as hell; about all there is to say. We got in trouble for trying to organize an expedition to secretly catch and eat some of the coconut crabs (which is verboten).

Also played D&D in the service. Most active tabletop gaming group I've ever been in too.

Didn't D&D in DG tho.
like IMF hindered korea?
I don't like the extra padding that every designer is adding into every web site and application. I need to keep multiple sites/apps on my screen as I need to look at references, work on my tasks, and communicate with others. but every designer thinks I should maximize their site/app. It's forcing me to resize and move windows all the time.
This is about Kenya though, not Nigeria.

Minimum wage in Kenya is twice that in Nigeria at $122 a month.
How would this work? If suddenly a brand new island appeared, who owns it? Assuming it's off Norways coast, Norway owns it. But what happens if it's between two country coasts or nobodies?
Hmm
As the dog from adventure time said, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something. (You probably don't actually suck, it's just going to look that way in the beginning.)

For me it's way too hard to stop worrying and think positive, so instead of trying to get rid of the concerns i kinda try to accept them and give myself a vague plan for it. (Like if this part fails it will take 3 months to catch up again, or if everything catastrophically fails it will take a year at a normal job to be out of debt again, etc)
What scientist is going to want to write JS when they can choose Python?

I've worked with hundreds of scientists from different domains over the past two decades and I've literally never once heard of wanting to use Javascript for anything remotely scientific.

Furthermore, given that WebAssembly seems poised to (eventually) make strides in how browser-oriented applications are built then the logical conclusion is a sort of reduce function on languages where you choose the language that's the most pleasant to write and maintain since you will eventually be able to just target the browser from anything. For the life of me, I can't see a future where large, STEM-educated groups and agencies decide "Well yeah, I guess if we can use this cooked-in-a-weekend piece of $^&# then why would we ever use Python?"

I think a lot of language enthusiasts see python projects entering into spaces where it wasn't previously viable and think that the same principle applies to their language, which misses something fundamental about why Python has so deeply entrenched itself into the STEM/ML world, and why it will NEVER be uprooted. When I see things like Brython/Pyscript/Pyodide, it's obvious to me that people would rather write Python for ~accomplishing the task they set out to~ than have to muck around with another language entirely. Python is a winner in so many spaces because of that element of taking the programmer from Point A to Point B the easiest way. It's a language designed for accomplishing tasks, for getting stuff done, for being understood at a glance. Javascript was made up by one guy, in a very short period of time, for a singular purpose that it didn't even do well when it was introduced and has stuck around due to sheer coincidence and convenience. All languages on a long enough timescale converge to a point of usefulness but if we're pitting Python against JS I just can't see the scales tipping enough to warrant choosing it for real work.
According to my buddy the Canadian Navy is absolutely crawling with Warhammer players, apparently being a player has been pretty good for their career.
Generative AI and The Future of Work
Are Passkeys exportable and re-importable by another service, site, or system?

I am strongly opposed to any authentication system that makes my authorization workflow for unrelated third-party sites dependent on any company whose terms of service allow them to suspend or terminate my use without reasonable recourse or recovery.

Passwords have problems, but I can print them out on a piece of paper in a fire safe.
Yeah, well pretty insignificant market share. Working many year in this market, Linux, Linux Desktops and etc, I can tell you: Microsoft isnt looking to the Linux desktop market share, but to the Mac OSX market share. Windows + WSL is a real contender to Mac OSX as development desktop.
Instead of trying to “do dev ops” why not try to build a functional continuous integration pipeline that developers like to use. You can name it whatever you want.
I would wait and see. It's not like they're ignoring fraud management:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2022/fednow-pilo...

"FedNow Service features will help participating financial institutions conduct investigations and provide returned funds connected to fraud and errors. Beyond mitigating fraud through the design of the service, Stanescu noted that the Fed is exploring opportunities to collaborate with the industry on consumer education and outreach programs to help identify and prevent scams and promote strong enrollment and authentication processes. In the meantime, the value proposition inherent in irrevocability remains intact: receivers have protection and a guarantee that good funds have hit their account and can be used immediately."
> It's unfortunately absolutely dog slow

Seems like a common chicken-egg problem of niche languages. Performance doesn't improve until lots of people are using it, but lots of people won't use it until performance improves.
If you know C#, you aren't going to have to "relearn programming", and C#/.Net isn't going the way of VB anytime soon. Moreover, there's so much code in the wild written on this language/platform that there's not going to be any great loss of employability.
>That's not highly skilled work even in a country where native English fluency and internet connections aren't as universal as the US

Just as a point to that - English is one of 2 official languages in Kenya, and is the national language of business and education. Practically everyone speaks it well enough to get by.
ESG is a "good in theory, horrible in practice" sort of thing.

In theory, we want to make it easier to invest in businesses that are sustainably aligned. This is great! We all like our planet, we want our planet to be good and to aide those people who align with that goal while also building good products.

In practice, ESG is a bunch of removed bureaucrats casting laws that result in prohibiting the free movement of people (https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/roads-and-transport...) or removing the farms (and income) of farmers (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62335287).
It's fragile if you do that. Bitwarden updated their API last month on the clients so you couldn't connect to Vaultwarden at all until the Vaultwarden team could reverse engineer the change and produce a new release.
Not a New Xi
F# has been working on much better language servers for VS Code (building on top of the good parts of C#'s work and the larger Roslyn compiler infrastructure ecosystem), but also F# is much more a "community" project than much of the rest of .NET and a lot of it is "at the pace of open source" rather than "at the pace of corporate initiatives", for both good and bad.
I live in Kentucky, work for a FANG and my total comp is scaled to ~75% of what I made in the bay. It's worth it because my options here are limited.

A bay area worker may view this as exploitation, while I say "please god may this never end"
Oh, bonus annoyance for Parents:

Let's say you have kids and you want to use any of the family settings (e.g. Screen Time) Apple, Google, etc provide for an iPad or Chromebook: All app based.

I happen to use an old iPad just as an admin panel for these cases, but the almost complete lack of any desktop or web interface is stupidly depressing.
Dev productivity metrics have come a long way from the time when one use to measure the number of lines of code written or the PRs created. I think Dora metrics is still a step up from that as it focuses on measuring team productivity vs individuals, and provides some indicator of the true bottlenecks for productivity.
Here's what it looked like: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/images/signup.png
There are some pretty neat devices that are similar to audio recording devices that you can speak into and it will speak the translation for you. A friend of mine got one for a trip to Japan and apparently it worked pretty well!
I'm not attacking anything. If anything, I mostly agree with the argument being made. I just think Nibley's prolific work as an apologist is interesting context to his words.
Yes we can degenerate into inordinate amounts of rabbit holes. For 1, you can audit the JS that runs on your browser, it's not hiding (so it's not strictly fair to say that just because you loaded a webpage in your browser from their server it can't be trusted). And anyway, generally, your argument holds for any software interaction ever. GH doesn't have to ship you the repo that you browsed on the web client. A malicious actor could have compromised their infra and be serving fake code in the web UI but have added all sorts of malware to the stuff you download. Apple app store doesn't eve ship you the exact binary the developer uploaded. Scary. At some point you have to decide which threat vectors you actually care about. Give me a scenario and I can tell you how someone can theoretically attack it and why you're not safe. The only thing you can be 100% sure about is manually auditing every single release at the source level and building it yourself.
No. Foot is right, meaning "pay". "Fit the bill" is also used, but not in this context.