skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is focusing on the technical side, but the economics are also silly. The ECB says that the Digital Euro will be free of charge for consumers as a "public service". And that it will ensure low fees for merchants because of mandatory acceptance laws. But they also claim that the Digital Euro will be operated by commercial payment service providers. So who will be in the business of operating a public service where they only can charge low, capped fees from merchants? Obviously the existing high-fee payment service providers will not line up here to ruin their working business models. However, the model will work for one group: criminals, that basically run completely insecure low-quality payment services and that fail to provide good customer service or even steal customer's money at a large scale. That business model will work, because the Digital Euro is designed to be a liability of the central bank, even though the operation will be done by commercial operators. So they didn't just mess up the technology (as you would expect from big government), they also messed up the economics (which may surprise some, given that this is largely a central bank proposal).
> Why startups needs to spam for candidates?

Because if you could save money on hiring, you would. When you are in survival mode (not saying anything about the company referenced, just startups in general) you tend to get fast and loose with the truth. There's always a reason to justify what you did last week because "if we didn't do $AWFUL_THING everybody would have been fired."

I think if you live in this headspace long enough you begin to devalue / depersonalize the "cogs" in the machine you are constructing.

Being ramen profitable used to be a thing that was done because it was a necessity for survival and getting started. It became fashionable at some point as opposed to something done out of necessity. The idea of cost cutting everything "unnecessary" is so attractive to people who are not involved in actually DOING things. It's impossible for them to resist the urge given sufficient time and profit.

If they were involved with actual work, their minds would be occupied with something useful instead of inventing ways to justify their value.

The whole "spamming HN for hires" behavior to me is like orca whales swimming around with dead fish on their heads. Cheapness as a fad. Don't try to understand it.
How is this relevant? Do these people define what science or is it an established set of principles and methods? You think scientists are the only ones who can do science and what they do, wrong or not, defines what science is??
This is true for Windows. Free software has helped keep operating systems like Windows XP and 7 still modern and secure, and many applications have been patched to work on these older systems. Here is for instance a port of Firefox Quantum to XP and a fork of Chromium maintaining support for 7, but I like to stick to the last Ungoogled Chromium version because I hate Google.

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium
Everyone complaining about this here has posted their email in a thread that is literally called "Who wants to be hired?" and now they're upset that a company is reaching out? What am I missing?
Well, look at Gaza. If you are Israel, you hate that it exists (and of course, vice versa).

In 2006, Gaza had the borders closed and was sealed in. Gaza's population was 473,257 people. Instead of giving in, Gaza decided to have a lot of children, resulting in a population of 2.048 million people as of 2020.

Kind of a failure on multiple levels. And now all those people want to kill you for what you did to them. That sucks. Your prime minister who has served for over 16 years is taking the blame with about ~20% popularity. Things need to be fixed.

One day, you wake up, and find out Gaza's planning an attack. And for once, instead of responding forcefully, you decide: What if we did nothing? They attack, we respond with the world behind our backs, and solve this problem.

I'm not saying that what's happened. It just seems plausible.
> By all intents, purposes and employment contracts, it was always meant to be a "work for payment" type deals, nothing more

That's exactly the opposite of what 99% of the companies sell to candidates. You must have seen stuff like this is a great place work, join the family, etc. So maybe you mean the hidden intent was that but that's not the message being broadcasted.
Your comment was pretty good, but didn't need the weird potshot at libertarians at the end.

What your comment touched on though is how the companies already are "punished" in a way for it because it affects their unemployment insurance rates. That was established as a way to balance the needs of the company (unintended bad consequences happen to unemployment rates when you tie the hands of firing) with the needs of the people who are affected. Arguing that the balance is off seems like a much different argument than GP though.
I did, when I saw this thread I was curious if I got one. I'm not sure what prize I won yet...
> It's not like Israel has been, or is, a friend of Gaza. So when Gaza was planning the attack

This is an odd way to decribe things considering Gaza is not a state. Its population is mostly refugees who were ethnically cleansed from nearby villages and functionally it operates as a concentration camp preventing those people from trying to return to those villages which are now occupied by settlers.
Quite a stretch from "This company hired too many people and ended up having to lay off some" and "Hmm, maybe we're not as irreplaceable as we like to think" to "Let's all make ourselves less attractive to our employers by threatening to gang up on them."

But I guess unionization is the universal solvent for every HR problem around here.
they buried the lede quite far there.

yes, they are trying to shift opinions for this stretch of a case and masquerading it as academic. this is an enthusiast blog post at best, should have just posted it on Seeking Alpha or even just Medium

its good entertainment, they should have left a patreon link at the bottom
Society generally being shocked is not inconsistent with a few people secretly not being shocked.
The EVSE is a glorified RCD/GFCI cord with a contactor that turns on power, so the cord is dead until that happens. It also generates a signal that tells the car how much power it's allowed to draw; the EVSE is configured at install time to know what size breaker feeds it upstream, so it tells the car not to trip that breaker, but the EVSE has no means of actually enforcing such a limit. There's some basic negotiation between the EVSE and the car, to decide when the plug is inserted and it's OK to turn on the contactor.

The AC power passes straight through the EVSE, unaltered in voltage, current, or waveform. The EVSE may monitor the current to perform logging, and the EVSE is required to monitor the AC imbalance like any other RCD/GFCI does so it can open the contactor if there's a ground fault, but that's it. It's just a smart extension cord, basically.

The charger is in the car, and is the component that actually converts the AC from the grid to DC for the batteries. The charger is what has all the silicon (or these days, probably gallium nitride?), and the inductors and capacitors and stuff to actually transform the power from one form to another. It changes the voltage to match whatever the battery needs at the moment. It controls its own DC output to match the battery's needs, and it limits its own AC input according to the signal from the EVSE so it doesn't trip the upstream breaker.

The charger is also responsible for immediately turning itself off, reducing its input draw to zero, within a few milliseconds of someone pressing the latch of the EVSE connector handle. This indicates they're about to pull it out, and the contacts aren't designed to handle arcing, so the charger is required to drop its current _very_ quickly, allowing the contacts to be separated without creating an arc. That signal (called PP) is produced in the handle itself, there's just a tiny switch underneath the latch. The handle is technically part of the cord which is technically part of the EVSE, but the EVSE has no responsibilities related to the signal, that's all on the charger.

If the SAE hadn't mandated that the EVSE perform RCD functions, it could be replaced by a literal extension cord. Many small DIY EVs do precisely that; the charge cord is the exact same one you'd use to run any appliance. It works just fine. But even small DIY EVs have a real charger too, which converts the AC from the cord to DC for the batteries. The charger plugs into the cord, but the charger is not the cord.
> if you buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s, the building will become unsafe

OTOH if I buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s....
What has been your challenges as non-tech founder?
Indeed, even the script you linked is not good enough; it does not deal with trailing newlines in the file or directory name, and the ls parsing will fail with a file like 'my malicious -> file'.
They're the only big company that are doing any practical development on database systems (MongoDB doesn't count; and Yandex, while fantastic, is removed from the count for being Russian, in these times).

Every company has their warts. Some warts don't matter to me.
The hordes of drugged out zombies and gangs of smash and grab looters arent helping though
Because Mossad is one of the best in the world and they were reporting of suspicions Hamas activity. An Egyptian official also warned Israel of incoming Hamas attack. The attack took years to prepare.

"The groups carried out joint drills in Gaza which closely resembled the tactics used during the deadly assault - including at a site less than 1km (0.6 miles) from the barrier with Israel - and posted them on social media.

They practised hostage-taking, raiding compounds and breaching Israel's defences during these exercises, the last of which was held just 25 days before the attack."
Ideas are a better way to extend a civilization or to have the essence that makes it good live on in other civilizations.
Check Ars Technica ?
Largely agree, with the addendum that it's a really good idea to collect metrics as to how much tolerance your code has been required to show. Whether you need to present those metrics to the sender and ask them to tweak their emissions or simply keen an eye on them is situation dependent, but having them at all is definitely in the "future you will thank current you later" ... and I will absolutely confess that current me has cursed past me for not doing so on more than one occasion, and I can only hope I remember more often in the future ;)
Famous HN (reddit) post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476421

"Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job"
> But it seems likely governments will make sure social trust is maintained when problems arise in that regard.

It is a conspiracy theory of course (and therefore wrong, of course), but some people are of the opinion that somewhere within the vast unknown/unknowable mechanisms of government, there are forces that deliberately slice the population up into various opposing mini-ideological camps so as to keep their attention focused on their fellow citizens rather than their government.

It could be simple emergence, or something else, but it is physically possible to wonder what the truth of the matter is, despite it typically not being metaphysically possible.

> The game theory here is simply not in our favor. It rewards the most reckless state actors with wealth and power, until it is too late.

There are many games being played simultaneously: some seen, most not. And there is also the realm of potentiality: actions we could take, but consistently "choose" to not (which could be substantially a consequence of various other "conspiracy theories", like teaching humans to use and process language in a flawed manner, or think in a flawed manner).
Thanks for letting me know. RMSBolt is a nice plugin which provides many languages and smooth interaction. It also inspired me that I can do more on real time editing of the input.
I thought for a long time that I’d like some sort of Epaper tablet. But I eventually gave up on that idea because I realized I like my particular (not even that fancy, just familiar) mechanical pencil that I’ve been using for ages.

I wonder if that is a well known or widespread phenomenon. The people who would be most enthusiastic about a particular type of device are the most invested in the previous solution, so replacing it for the seemingly “best” customers is a surprisingly high bar.
I work with both Oracle and SQL Server, and this is absolutely true. There is a common standard you can stick to, but there is also a considerable universe of Oracle-specific features even just in the query language, to say nothing of temp tables etc.
Some of us have bills to pay.
In case the title confuses someone like me.

The paper suggests that people who knew about the October attacks (so probably not Israelis, we can have a few guesses who) were short selling Israeli companies, as well as index funds based on Israeli companies, just in time. This happened both on US markets and elsewhere. So that while blood was being spilled they lined their pockets. It'd be interesting but I guess impossible to see how much it is later converted to crypto and reinvested into terrorism and how much is just blood profits that get reinvested.

The paper obviously can't tell who is trading and why, so it's not a positive proof, but it'd be interesting to see if money could be followed. Looks like they did a lot of work to eliminate any false signals.

I wish their typography was more readable, that line height is a major pain to read and why is it a PDF for crying out loud.
I think they may have misunderstood the meaning of the word tenure (note "with tenure") and not realised it meant only duration of employment here (versus its use in US academia).
This article has platinum ore at 50oz/ton, or 1,400 PPM. Do you have a source for your claim that it is in fact one third of one percent of the stated value? https://technology.matthey.com/article/7/4/136-143/

Edit: I see now that it is in fact 1,400 PPM of some intermediary matte, not raw ore. Th matte/ore ratio is not stated. But that matte is nickel/copper rich, and the platinum is in some sense a impurity in the existing ore that would likely be mined for its other metals anyways.

Even still: not all ore is equal. Platinum mining is a heavily industrialized process where machines do the hard labor, cobalt is child labor camps digging.
There was never a plan to decapitate the Ukrainian state. That is utterly absurd when you consider there were Russian intelligence assets in Zelensky’s inner circle for a very long time. Russia could have killed him day 1 if they wanted to (or before). Encircling Kyiv was merely for negotiating pressure. As evidenced by them withdrawing from that position as part of the ceasefire negotiations in Turkey in the Spring of 2022– the ones that the US and UK undermined, recently confirmed by additional parties.
Nnnno; lack of fiber leads to chronic constipation.

There was a period in my life where I experienced this firsthand. Do not recommend.
Just finished removing this encoding in our production services.

It panics on malformed input which is a no go for us since high availability is really important for us, and it showed quite a lot in the performance and memory profiles (roughly 5 times the time and memory as doing the same with JSON).

The code was converting some data to gob, and storing it in the database for later.

We now just do the same but in json, it’s human readable and Postgres validates that the data is valid JSON.

And unmarshaling it does not panic.
I don't buy into the grander conspiracy, but it does seem increasingly likely Israeli leadership "knew about it." It has been now well-reported that Israeli intelligence got multiple warnings both from their own SIGINT and from Egypt. They essentially had the blueprint for the plans a year ago, they observed a huge training exercise that was identical to the plan a few months ago.

Now the problem with retrospectively "knowing about things" is that it's hard to account for the thousand other threats these people are constantly being made aware of and which ultimately don't materialize. Or at least I presume that's the case.
Yeah, but who’s hiring threads the company is supposed to read your skills and respond if you are an actual fit, not just send it to every single person who posted. I’d bet dollars to donuts that half the candidates they sent it to don’t even qualify for the position.
I’m not sure I understand the argument. Is he saying crypto will be viable as an alternative to traditional reserve currencies once stable coins are actually stable? I’m a little confused.

Either way, we’re gonna burn this planet down before the money runs out. A process accelerated by crypto mining. cough
That's hilarious and fascinating. Thanks for the input.

I suppose the issue still stands, as VC based trickle down isn't a very scalable redistribution system.
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Is there a word for describing becoming desensitized from false alarms? A similar situation is instead of a shared calendar for OOF status (at work) we are asked to send a calendar invite to our team and immediate team. My calendar is filled with “doctor appointment” invitations from people I don’t often interact with or need to know their in-office status. I started missing meetings and appointments because I was so desensitized from appointment reminders that were meaningless, I’d just ignore the notification because they were rarely valid. Since then I’ve tried automatically deleting out of office invites but they don’t always follow the same format. I’m apparently alone here because I brought this up as an issue and no one else felt like it was a practice that needed to change.
...it is also the plot device of the latest bond movie...
Is it not the case that, knowingly or not, people actually implicitly trust government when they say they trust businesses? i.e. they are able to trust businesses because the businesses themselves operate within a well regulated and legally enforced environment provided by the government (notwithstanding the odd exception here and there).
It might not be a state, but it is a "polity" (politically identifiable identity).

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

Also, it has been de facto ruled by Hamas since (edit: 2007) despite formally being under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip
Confusing the Israeli president and prime minister shows the level of insight here.
That is how it should be read, because this is how these companies operate. My company's CFO was talking about this as we pushed for profitability (since the market expectations changed) and rationale for investment was exactly like you said.

"It's our job to grow, profitably, so if we think we can generate more than what we spend, we can invest. But if its not working, we will cut it."

Unless you have a specific reason to believe it to be otherwise.
And? You're willfully ignoring what puts the used car on the market in the first place.
I thought those pictures were all being sent to the feds for facial rec processing. Apparently that is not true.
Today's modern recruitment process in volunteer armies is more like:

1) Start with children who don't know any better.

2) See #1.

The reason that Russia is enlisting prisoners, is because the MOD needs more people than their peace-time mandatory service contracts are able to provide, but knows that a full draft would be highly unpopular.

Roman recruitment was nothing of the sort. It was not voluntary, it was expected that everyone would participate, and there would be serious consequences for draft-dodgers, both on the level of their local communities, and on a wider social scope.
But can they do it again (now)?
There is still no crystal ball. You take the opportunities as they are presented, especially given that your competitors are doing the same. Where exactly was your commentary on Spotify's business when times were better, urging them to leave more people without jobs?
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I wrote a book on low power AM broadcasting. It's pretty rare that pirate stations cause meaningful interference, they operate at very low wattages (sometimes 100 watts or less) and usually have low pass filters installed in-line that prevent harmonics interference, whereas commercial stations operate at 100,000 watts and are far more likely to cause interference issues even when designed correctly. It's more likely competing FM stations calling in to complain than the airport calling in to say their planes can't land.

Not making an ethics call on pirate radio, just commenting that the argument that they regularly cause dangerous interference is somewhere between nonsense and propaganda.

I think the bigger critique I would have is why even bother to do pirate stations anymore now that the Internet is here and it's much easier to subvert corporate media that way anyways. Clear Channel's radio monopoly went from a dangerous culture lock that could ban Beatles songs "because of 9/11" to useless junk pretty quickly, there's a reason I got out of the space a long time ago. The commenter alludes to this when they describe how important the station is by referencing their Spotify playlist (BIG 103.3, which doesn't look dancehall, subversive or frankly very good).
Put a cost to unwanted behavior and make people think twice with siding with Moloch
Building a platform for spatially aware communication and coordination seems pretty valuable. But it seems pretty unrelated to AI. Their only other blogpost is also a vacuous AI buzz piece. I can only guess that someone not involved with the product has decided that putting out AI-related content for non-technical audiences is a good way to build brand awareness right now?

https://hivekit.io/blog/
the correct way is obviously away from genitals not towards.
I'm repeating a theory I've heard that sounds interesting, that I'd like more evidence to support or deny, and slipped on a detail. You can see from my other comments I am aware that he is the prime minister and apologize for the oversight.
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>acute issues created by the hard street drugs, minimizing drug related crime and so on.

You talk about this as if its small potatoes!

These are major major issues that poison society even in richer countries like the UK. Having lived in London for half a decade and seen what a regime of prohibition has led to there - I would take the "flawed" Portuguese program.
> To understand this decision, I think it is important to assess Spotify with a clear, objective lens

... then proceeds to vague MBA word without a single number to support them.

> We debated making smaller reductions throughout 2024 and 2025

What was not debated was keeping people they hired.

> we still have too many people dedicated to supporting work and even doing work around the work rather than contributing to opportunities with real impact

We're left to guess what this means. What's work around the work? If that work is now unsavory, why can't they work on work rather than around it? Is this describing reducing the management layer? (support) or customer/partner support? Will they be replaced by automation? I get you don't want to go into specifics of who's let go, but then don't pretend you're providing a clear analysis, and don't give a washed out business lingo salad instead.

TBH I don't see what changed on Spotify for a customer perspective in the past few years. I still see bugs I reported years ago, the UI is largely the same. Not that I'm complaining, I just care about the music. But that leads me to think either the dev team is producing stuff that's on the fringe and optional, being quite inefficient, or mainly working on maintenance, and the bulk of the opex is going elsewhere.