skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people do not want to be engaged in the process of running a bank or a government

But casual users can choose to store their crypto assets with a bank/custodian/exchange. Granted, it defeats some of the benefits, but not all. E.g. most crypto has low inflation compared to USD. Even though CPI inflation is ~2%, the money supply inflates around ~10% per year, whereas most crypto will inflate <1% long term.

> the utility of the network is trivial to compromise or destroy for a state level actor

For smaller PoW currencies, absolutely -- a state level actor could acquire majority hash power, then build their own fork which contained no transactions. For Bitcoin, it'd take time and lots of money, but it's possible.

But PoS currencies are more resilient. With something like Cardano, I don't see what governments could do, apart from banning its use within their own jurisdiction. Even if they purchased a 51% stake, once they start the malicious fork, the community would know which accounts were participating and could organize a hard fork to ban them.

> most crypto is actually regressive from a privacy/personal liberty standpoint when compared with cash, or even the current banking system in many ways

That's a fair criticism of Bitcoin etc., but future iterations of cryptocurrencies will surely include ZeroCash-style privacy at least as an optional feature, if not for every transaction.

> The classic "remittances" use case makes no sense because you still have to change the crypto for real currency, which is where the cost is, (yes, only until the currency is meaningfully bootstrapped, let me know when that happens).

Here's how bootstrapping could happen:

- {Apple,Google,Samsung}Pay add support for various cryptocurrencies. Initially, most stores may not support crypto payments, either because the POS (often Verifone) doesn't support it, or because the merchant doesn't want to deal with it.

- POS vendors start supporting crypto, starting with more agile companies like Square. For them, there's no downside apart from development costs. Online processors like Stripe and PayPal add support as well.

- As processor support improves, gradually more and more merchants accept crypto payments, either for PR reasons, or for the low fees, quick settlement, lack of chargebacks, etc. Some offer discounts for crypto payments.

- Payroll providers and and tax services eventually add support crypto payments. Again, no downside besides development costs. So people who want to can do everything in their favorite cryptocurrency, even though it's converted to and from fiat in the background.

- After several generations, taxes are the one thing people still (indirectly) use fiat for. The government still makes money from inflation tax, but eventually they realize that it's essentially a wealth tax, with tons of fees going to exchanges. They replace it with an explicit wealth tax, or (optimistically) something that makes more economic sense, like land value tax.

I'm not saying it's a sure thing at all, but it seems somewhat plausible, no?
> I think it's terrible we accept this idea that it takes an asshole to make a community

Or, even if you want to think that sometimes it requires someone to be an asshole, that's still different than thinking that this should always be the case in that same community.

I didn't use or even know about Linux when Torvalds first created it, so I won't presume to say he was an asshole back then or that he shouldn't have been one. But I'm assuming the set of contributors back then was much smaller than what it is now. And that Torvalds largely appreciates and maybe even depends on this bigger community -- if he's accepting their pull requests.

Why should we believe that him changing his views on personal and management behavior is some kind of surrender on his part, rather than a rational assessment that this will materially benefit the software and its community?
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This is pretty typical behavior for a lot of startups. I once witnessed a situation where management (knowing that most people's options were way underwater) got a 'top slice' agreement where X% of an acquisition would go straight to key personnel.

Amusingly, this identical vague mechanism was given 2 different names: "Management top slice" when talking to investors/managers, and "Engineering top slice" when talking to the engineering staff.

This ridiculous mechanism was never defined (and ultimately no acquisition occurred in that time-frame), arguments over it ultimately may have helped a few engineers get out so that was about all the impact it had.

The lesson is not to count on verbal agreements. If they don't put anything on paper it's because they don't want to and don't value you enough to care, not because "the time isn't right" or similar nonsense.
Now imagine that you didn't get any equity also.
These both serve different purposes. RSS is for sources you like and want to see everything from. Social aggregators are for getting exposed to things from sites you're not already aware of or aren't usually interested in.

I want to read every XKCD comic, so I subscribe to its RSS feed. I like to read a little tech news when I'm bored, so I go to Hacker News.
There’s a couple of magazines I pick up every month purely to support their journalism. Paying for news is kind of like Patreon at this stage, but it’s also nice to have something in the canteen for us to lead through over lunch.
I've never worked for a large company but it sounds like a sound policy across the board for businesses and organizations large and small, and perhaps even the major mailbox providers (e.g., gmail)?
Suggesting the largest philanthropic donor in history (Bill Gates at 27 billion USD) is an asshole ('MS is now under a leader who isn't an asshole') seems like an oversimplification.
DuckDuckGo just really doesn’t matter to this piece (which is about ideology and power, not tech). Still an error that they shouldn’t have made, but it is a “minor” error.
Somebody actually got me a years subscription to Time magazine about 10 years ago. I never read it. It was awful.
I think they had been burned by someone else before, and were not very trustworthy people. I learned later just how shady they were, things I hadn’t seen because I was too busy trying to actually build something that worked.

I think after that it was pure greed. It was a “family-run” business and the wealth stayed with “family”.... and I was just an employee.

The reason I said I can sleep at night is because later in life I realized, I was better off without their money. I would have not felt as good if I’d had gotten it given what I learned about their character and business practices which I had not known about.
Yes. Good point. Identity isn't ipso facto legit.
We had our photo taken during an acquisition, and of the engineering staff, 3/4 of us (me included) were all going magnificently bald by the time of the acquisition. It's probably safe to say we would have lost most of our hair anyhow, but it was amusing to see us in photos circa 2006 vs 2013. I would say the due diligence probably cost me a few percent of my hair...
As much as I want to like sentdex he's a bit lacking in depth and experience. For security you forgot Gynvael if you have the time for a 2 hour livestream vod.
Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism
I imagine a world in which the F/OSS community chose to implement and innovate on GNUStep or some other OpenSTEP/NeXT/Cocoa compatible implementation. This project is exciting by way of providing a more complete nucleus of what that desktop might look like.

The KDE/Gnome schism really divided the mindshare of the open *nix desktop. If we’d gone this route, I like to imagine the differences between Mac and Linux or BSD would be small enough that

- Mac apps would be a recompile away from running on Linux

And

- Linux would be a viable developer environment to target macOS

Apple’s commitment to the desktop has waned and caused some longtime users like me to go back to Linux/BSD. Meanwhile, desktop facilities on Linux/BSD have lacked coherence and singularity of vision. A viable, modern post-OpenSTEP Linux and BSD desktop would have the capacity to keep Apple honest, while giving the Free community a benchmark for consistency.

I’d love to see something like this project blossom into a 3rd way GUI layer for Linux and BSD.
The argument that making batteries structural massively contributes to the flight time doesn't seem to be particularly valid anyway. The structural component is likely a tiny proportion of the overall weight. Battery and motors would surely account for the greater part.
Forget driverless cars: it’s time for robotic Russian ice cream trucks
Apparantly the author hasn’t flown much if he thinks it’s a “harrowing experience “.

I hate flying simply because it’s annoying. The only time I actually enjoyed flying was when I was in the Navy.

I upgrade to business or first class as often as I can at this point. Economy seats are literally painful to sit in. Fortunately I live in east Asia now, where economy seats are cheap and I’ll ride them in short two hour flights. And you still get treated really well, unlike in the States where economy makes you treated like you’re a piece of shit staining the inside of an aircraft.
That is the case, yes.
Seconded, don’t count on verbal agreements, and vet ANY agreement very carefully and with legal and/or tax advice wherever possible.

If they intend for you to reap the reward, they won’t care if you do everything above board and legally. They might even respect you for it.
I for one, love this.
I'm looking forward to Hitler quoting that Sonic kid.
Ah glorious, I love this new age we've entered.
What is this? "Jessup's defense" (from a few good men) or somesuch? What sort of bad behavior is allowed by FOSS project contributions? Can it be used to get out of parking tickets?
I was a bit surprised it attempts to optimize worst case, not average case. I feel like average case is a more practical problem, and one which likely has some pretty nice results by thinking of the map as a probability distribution. Simply walk in the direction which narrowed down your possible location the most.
It’s truly horrible. I’ve been at a startup for 4 years now, all my options are vested and partially exercised (including some painful amt tax ugh), but I’m paranoid that at the last minute, if it even arrives to that point, everything will be pulled away from me with some magic trick.

That’s one of the reasons why I am not moving on to other opportunities even if my grant is almost all mature, I don’t want them to “forget my face” when the time comes, it might help them screwing me.

And I’m not talking about dilution, liquidation preferences, ... that stuff is business risk, I’m talking about dealing with greed of people.
Amazon can’t eliminate bribery with certainty only by paying more. The principle of bribery is someone exploiting greed in the weakest link to get something they want.

The Chinese sellers/brokers are also successfully bribing employees because they want the information more.

They have the manufacturing to produce the things to sell on Amazon, the cheap labor to write fake reviews, and the cheap distribution/shipping to make the sale economically viable while also low-price for buyers. This is a great scenario for Chinese sellers, and a huge advantage over many US sellers that don’t have those abilities (or have to go through a middle-man to work with Chinese production anyways). The stakes are much higher with the potential to have Amazon be Alibaba 2.0.
This is bad. One of the things that kept all these people in check was fear that Linus will yell at them if they're sloppy or lazy and deliver crap quality. If he mellows his tone, the already low architectural and system engineering quality will drop to dismal levels.

His apology has nothing to do with professionalism, which in this case is system and kernel engineering; resist all attempts at behavioral correction any time someone tries to pass it off as unprofessional, because it is that someone trying to subjugate you with their values and morals. And that's just so inherently wrong: nobody should be attempting to subjugate anybody. We must stop such people from trying to pass their judgment on others as "being uncivil" or "unprofessional"; it's not right, and has nothing to do with how well one writes code or designs hardware: the level of quality is the level of professionalism. As the old adage says: "if you can't take the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen!"
And people happily store their 20 years of photo memories there...one day it will not be a custom inbox view or a voicemail transcript that will disappear.
DBus based tooling gives you ways with the sysadmin complexities introduced by the same brilliant minds that brought us systemd and pulseaudio.
I thought it became BuzzFeed for baby boomers stuck in medical(ish) waiting rooms? My 70 something year old dad gave up his subscription a while ago
- Works

- for

- me.

Just put a blank line after each item.
One important fact that many "baby-naming" materials gloss over is that you're choosing not a baby name, but a person name. The child will carry that name for their entire life, including adolescence and adulthood, unless they get so sick of it that they decide to change it. To avoid the latter situation, perhaps it's best not to choose something whimsical, ridiculous, or creatively misspelled.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17940356
I knew how to code in the first place. At the time, I was dismayed by the inability for most software developers to take UX/UI seriously, and decided that "the way forward" was to work with design professionals instead of being inside a party that was ostensibly on the same team but usually fought against designers.

Since then, the world has changed… some design firms have transitioned to be purely marketers, others just hire development firms that are happy to defer all UX to their partners, and others still have transitioned to be UX/UI design firms.
For a large part of the traffic being driven to wapo, the headline, and possibly picture, is the only thing that drives people to the site. When someone shares an article to social media, you don't get much more. Look right here at HN; how many times has a thread languished in obscurity just for a slightly differently worded headline to drive it to the front page? Headline quality is incredibly vital in this age.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17968527
A power-only wired cable is more secure than a data+power wired cable.
Most great people have a flaw that hinders them or even brings them down. That same flaw is also part of the trait that drove them to greatness. Linus's flaw fits that model and he's self aware enough to grok it and try to mitigate the problem. That said, if you removed 100% of the asshole from Linus you'd have removed the drive that made him a hero. I hope he finds the balance. Regardless, he'll always be one of my heroes.
I miss the NeXTSTEP menus, that Mac toolbar is horrid on large monitors. Also, the Finder is a poor second compared to Workspace Manager. The lack of EOF and the Digital Librarian is painful.
Actually some people do go for Rolex because +/- 2 spd guarantees much less of a hassle than certain other mechanical watches' upper bound of +5, +6, or +10 spd.
I've not dug deeper than reading the page and looking at the screenshots, but it looks like he’s making some sane default choices such as to use WindowMaker for the dock rather than GWorkspace’s dock. And it appears he's working to put more and more into the Prefs app (rather than, for example, configuring WindowMaker through WindowMaker’s preference manager app).

GNUStep already has quite a lot there for making a desktop. What it’s lacking is the implementation of the desktop. This, on the surface, appears to be an attempt to round that out.
> I can’t stand working with polite people.

LOL. I think you mean you can't stand working with people who don't get right to the point. I'm guessing anyone reading HK agrees.
Do you mean USB-C, which is what people are now using? Micro USB is the much older, non-reversible tech.
Then a million dollars is nothing. That's not even one graduate's earnings.
Sorry to say the iPhone might still be sorta competitive, but lost the war a while ago

And yes every way possible reason, its on my list "don't recommend unless I hate the person" if I could give a yelp review, it edge out Samsumng slightly
"I can't wait for the mass exodus from Linux now that it's been infiltrated by SJWs. Hahahah"

Poe's law in effect?
The ownership is important - but (personally) i think that that gives chnage to the governace of the enterprise is the real big chnage - we live in a (mostly) democratic society, with the biggest actors being undemocratic feudal lordships - and changing that will I suspect unleash much more effective uses of the capital.

Good luck

Love the diversity comment
I know this does not have anithing to do with knives but Samurai swords are made from four different kinds of steel. The core, back, sides and the cutting edge. The sword is straight when forged and the arc comes from the hardening when the cutting edge expands more than the rest. Source: witnessed in person the first time when a katana was forged outside of japan at a festival at the japanese culture institute in cologne. The swordsmiths have the rank of a priest and wear white robes.
Taxes could also be a lot easier if Congress didn’t buy into lobbying from Intuit and other tax preparers to keep taxes complicated so individuals had to figure out their own taxes and spend inordinate amounts of time and effort determining out how to properly fill out every form.
>He's cursing the code not the coder.

That's objectively not true. He may intend to curse the code, but he is clearly cursing the coder.
No offense but this seems like blinding fanaticism for a man who is, admitedly right 99.99999% of the other time, not perfect.

In this case however you are arguing that when he said, "we don't break userland, period" he instead meant the opposite? There was no asterix on his statement saying to read the fine print.
Good timing.

I am in a similar boat. Will not elaborate much publicly but I was disillusioned with my work and quit to pretty much... do nothing, and develop my creative skills until I absolutely have to work. Definitely don’t have a great “story” to pitch for my next job on why I have taken so much time off or what I have been doing with my time, but I have an opportunity to work on software that should allow me to get back on my feet without too much interviewing hassle.
I mean:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

is totally a thing. And ipdb is even better.
I use RSS for machine to machine syndication. It still is a real simple and brilliant way to scrap content in an easy way. For me RSS is part of the open web.
Shipwrights / Shipbuilding:

* Tips from a Shipwright: https://www.youtube.com/user/TipsfromaShipWright

* Sampson Boat Co: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg-_lYeV8hBnDSay7nmphUA

* SV Seeker: https://www.youtube.com/svseeker

* Acorn To Arabella: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiDWnTP0WB1xCp6uuUo0VA

* Six Points Wood Works: https://www.youtube.com/user/scott2640
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998912
There are plenty of examples of great leaders who were direct, driven, and hard, yet still treated people with respect. It's not an easy trick to pull of, which is why people like Steve Jobs just said fuck it.
Agatha

Gertrund

Winget

....not sage advice
> The gravitational waves from the collision reverberated in LIGO the morning of Aug. 17, 2017, followed by detections of gamma-rays, X-rays, radio waves, and optical and infrared light. If gravity were leaking into other dimensions along the way, then the signal they measured in the gravitational wave detectors would have been weaker than expected. But it wasn't.

Do they really mean to say "followed by detections"? Don't gravitational waves propagate at c? Also, I'm puzzled by "weaker than expected". One issue is calculating expected intensities for gravitational waves vs electromagnetic radiation. The other is calibration of LIGO signals. It's not obvious that resulting uncertainties are small enough for drawing reliable conclusions about gravity leakage.
I was left to my own devices, which didn't change for the four years I worked there.

Actually looking back over my career I think the first day for each job was pretty representative of what was to come. At my worst job I got a desk with moldy sandwiches in the drawer and a company car with bullet holes in it. The best had a spotless desk, new computer and welcome card along with plenty of attention to get me up and running.
>What do you do? Just take it?

Take what? You have a manufacturer warranty. Contact the manufacturer. Don't take it out on the store. It's really that simple. In all my years of buying stuff that was under manufacturer warranty, I have never had a problem with the manufacturer honoring their warranty.

There's nothing to "take". The store has a return policy. If you are within that policy, they take the item back (or exchange, or whatever). Beyond that, just deal with the manufacturer.
Well said. You can tear the work apart if needed but don't get personal. Ever.
Yeah, Linus is the classic heroe with the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Can’t wait for the upcoming DLCs “Flight Simulator: Security Check” and “Flight Simulator: Baggage Reclaim“ – now that’s realism!
Seems hugged to death to me

http://web.archive.org/web/20180916230012/https://www.jonoba...
I didn’t stick through it in my case since I was “asked to leave” and had nothing in writing, one of the weirdest experiences of my life but a clear sign that something was not right.

But if you can stick through it I hope that on the other side of it you come out in a good way.

Depending on your agreement and country, one can only hope that what you have protects your interests well and can be enforced.

In my case, I could have gone after them because verbal agreements are actually still valid and enforceable, although complex and legally expensive to pursue. But I couldn’t get myself to do it and by now it is years past the statute of limitations.

I don’t know but somehow greed and survival and the human condition are all inextricably linked. All I can say is I wish you sincerely the best.

I still came out with something at the end - a cautionary tale, a lot more experience, and my honor. Depending on how you measure things, that counts for a lot to me, although it doesn’t necessarily put food on the table, or a roof over your head.
“Eat More Onions”: Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918
In my own experience ticket prices have been plummeting over the years. This [1] article provides data indicating a > 50% drop since 1979. That article is up to 2013 and they also seem to have been constantly dropping since then as well. Interestingly the article gets into the reason that many individuals seem to have not noticed this.

[1] - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-air...
An EFF member has tried to convince me that Google is subject to the whims of the CAB, but failed to explain to me how. Google's Root CA policy doesn't mention the CAB, and specifically provides Google's own authority to remove CAs as it sees fit.

Whether or not Mozilla, Microsoft, or Apple follow suit, if Google were to chose to distrust a CA, such as they did with Symantec, due to Chrome's 60%+ market share, that CA is out of business, regardless of what any other browser vendor says on the matter. Whether or not the other vendors choose to follow suit doesn't change the fact that the CAB has no legal authority over Google, and Google is a significant majority of the browser market.