skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead he pointed to the principle of decentralization, and key technologies, such as blockchain, as the solution.

Ah... so that's how he's going to get the funding: https://external-preview.redd.it/CypLdP3MLDVm15Lwm1f-M98gyMh...

Why else would you need to insert a blockchain into the solution? Scuttlebutt (https://scuttlebutt.nz/) is already one possible solution and they wouldn't have to reinvent some new protocol.
> ActivityPub? Who cares about what JSON schema gets adopted?

It's less the wire format (JSON-LD) and more the semantics (ActivityStreams) that are important, to be honest.
Two different things. Taxes raise revenue, increasing the government's ability to pay for things. Inflation erodes the government's ability to pay for things. You as a consumer/taxpayer might experience the two similarly, but to say they're the same (and therefore that having one reduces need for the other) is ridiculous.

[ETA after parent ninja-edited instead of responding properly. Above is a response to the original flippant one-sentence version.]

It's a bit strange to point out that inflation mostly hurts "regular folks" and then advocate the inflationary tactic of issuing more money in lieu of taxes. Is that really so fair, or good, or practical? I'm not totally against deficit spending, but it's a bit like a shotgun where a readily-available scalpel might be a better choice.
How do you write a tweet that cribs the ideals of existing federated social media projects (Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed, Write Freely etc.) without at least acknowledging their existence?

Also: Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
My feeling is that they're hackers who are already working in dweb/crypto
Something with safe memory handling.
I didn't claim they were tricked, I think anyone that comes graduates high school should be able to understand amortizations and model cash flows in a spreadsheet so they now how much they need to earn to pay for their loans. But they don't. And neither do their parents. And a few clicks later, they are given $50k+/year to go to whatever "school" they want.
Until Stellar, I've never been followed or contacted by some rando. Now if I see either from a person who only has stellar and bitcoin attached to their profile I just block them. Hopefully this Dec 10th announcement returns some peace and quiet to keybase.
I don't think I can follow your argument. What's intrinsic value? The market is supposed to arrive at a fair value for a stock (and there's no reason to assume it doesn't because that would create arbitrage opportunities). If you buyback at the fair value no shareholder value is created or destroyed, the only change is in the ownership of the assets and future dividends.
So, so many of the use-cases for osxfuse/macfuse involve people using sshfs to mount SFTP-capable logins into the Finder.

All of this could be very simply avoided if Apple just made SFTP a supported protocol under "Connect to Server".

I've asked/wished/pleaded for this since 2005.

It's one of those Apple deficiencies that makes you wonder just how do people at apple get work done if they don't have this feature ? It's like the multi-year failure of OSX to properly or sanely support 2+ monitor setups ... just what were all those apple employees doing during that time ?

How do they not need these things ?
This whole race to plop tens of thousands of satellites in orbit blows my mind. I'm just sitting here waiting for 60k satellites to come crashing back down.
I only cared to list languages whose complexity is in the same ballpark as Rust, hence why I left Go out.
Your data does not say what you are claiming it says. It is possible (or even probable) for the ultra-wealthy to have retirement accounts. Once we admit that, then the obvious question becomes: Who do you think owns most of the money in those retirement accounts, the rich or the poor?
Sure, Mastodon doesn't implement the full ActivityPub spec [0]. They're still very much behind the effort though, it seems [1] (or at least they were in 2018).

Not only this, but they go against it in multiple places. How they've implemented 'summary' and the bizarre things they've done to create compatibility with Misskey (but not in an actually-compatible way, Misskey's had to patch their own solution every time) has made every implementation have to implement an against-spec trashfire.

I'm not a Mastodon developer, nor have I developed with it, but surely there are learnings there that could potentially be contributed back to the W3C to make ActivityPub better (including making it more rigorously spec'd).

Alternatively, the AP spec is fundamentally broken in many ways, and that effort would be better off going into a protocol like Secure Scuttlebutt (not a fan, but it's much better than AP) or Diaspora (also not a fan, but it's much better than AP).

The people at the W3C are not gods - they're human beings just like the rest of us. Why not get involved in the conversation there?

The only genuine reason I can think of to split away from the ActivityPub effort to build a completely different protocol would be if the W3C's working group on ActivityPub is filled with such toxic politics that it's impossible to make any progress on making the spec better. (That's been the only reason I could see in the past when I've been part of protocol standardization efforts).

Not only politics, but it's incredibly slow. Webber has written a post on how troublesome the standardization process was, though he doesn't go into just how bad it was:

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collabora...

Without evidence of that, however, I'd say that it's far better for the community to get involved in making the existing spec better. Robust debate (supported by evidence, such as that which Mastodon's built up) is incredibly valuable to the community as a whole.

There are already existing specifications, none of them as bad as ActivityPub. I'm fully for going in one of those directions, but AP is more or less a failed experiment.

Also, it's incredibly valuable from a political decentralization perspective to have as neutral a party as possible facilitating the standardization efforts, to minimize the risk of Big Tech shaping standards in ways that would suit them financially (and potentially against the interests of the average internet user).

W3C is not neutral, and not only are they not neutral, but the RIAA and MPAA are people with enough sway to have messed up the entire web multiple times (see: making EME a standard).

A neutral party sounds great! The W3C should not get to be involved, however.
I suggest the biggest problem we have in the industry is a laziness towards engineering and an unwillingness by business to accept the law of fast, good and cheap.

Very few organizations use real data and the scientific method to make decisions on architectures and design. Most rely on anecdotes, gut feel, politics and software cults to make these decisions.

Consequently, there's rarely real proof on the advantages of one approach over another. The rigor, and thus cost, needed to make those determinations is perceived to be too great but the reality is, those perceptions are often unfounded when considering the total cost of software.

This all hit me years ago when working for company that had to go through CMMI certification. As part of the effort, a consultant would come out quarterly to coach us along and monitor our progress. During that time period I noticed a significant portion of my time was now spent on the implementation of the process. When the consultant was out for a visit I told him I had concerns because we did not have a charge number for the extra time it was taking to implement the process. He asked why that would be necessary and I asked, how else could you make an objective determination on the benefit/cost ratio of implementing the process being greater than one. Disappointingly, the blank stare ensued.
That would be ActivityPub.
I used to work for a company that did desktop search hijacking. Looking back I can't believe how normalized it was internally.
> The problem is there is no money in that for big pharma & co.

This doesn't stop things like surgery from being highly profitable. Pharmaceuticals are hardly the only way to make money in medicine.
Have you offered equity shares or options to your FOSS providers, as you do for your direct employees? If not, why not?
> Like child abuse imagery

you would call that a filter, like spam, and of course it's essential and can be deployed in multiple points (before sending, between servers, at the client). Both users and server instance owners can have control of what they allow. There is little disagreement that these filters should exist, so i expect all server to implement them.

Censorship is about allowing e.g. governments to request takedowns globally. most servers will reject such lists.
wars for resources happen every single day. Why do we even care about the middle east? Because of oil.

Im not sure why you think it is not a popular opinion, it is the status quo.

Water is actually an energy problem. Water is generally not created/destroyed and so energy is the limiting factor. With unlimited energy a city would essentially recycle the vast majority of its water.
I think you've actually made my case. Blenders all do pretty much the same thing. If you need one that can crush nuts or has a special attachment, well then that's what you buy. Especially if that is park of your livelihood.

> going to various stores, and trialing various different brands (because rememember I'm very fastidious about my blender), yeah I'd be pretty put out. Maybe this all sounds a bit stupid

It does sound stupid when you apply it to blenders, computers, or just about anything. Why is it less stupid to be fastidious about your computer than your blender? I get that being a careful consumer is just smart especially when what you are buying is expensive, but soul searching implies a whole other level of involvement.

People tie their identities up in the products they buy. I've been thinking about this a lot since the dustup where Scorcese expressed his opinion about Marvel movies and their production system. Some Marvel superfans got very upset and it makes no sense to me.
Now if we could get

- a few proper web frontends (and especially one like Google+),

- groups (like Google+, WhatsApp, Telegram)

then this would start to look seriously promising.

I'd happily pay a 20-40 bucks a year for that and (if Telegram didn't exist) a bit more to get a hosted but private instance for my extended family.

(That said I have been experimenting with hubzilla this year and it seems seriously promising but all instances seems to be locked down really hard or doesn't acvept new members and testing on my own instance alone doesn't really give me a feel for how it works in practice.)
Find a cert you want to go for and start studying.
> Canada collects more than enough transfusion blood through volunteers -- there isn't some underclass that is bled as if that's their value. This accounts for the bulk of normal blood products. Canada imports plasma products because a) the US generates lots of it, b) it's a specialty product.

That’s why you don’t get enough plasma without paying for it: it’s a longer and more invasive process.

Volunteer systems are great, when they work.

I’d argue that if the entire donation program was volunteer-driven, we wouldn’t have had quite the tainted blood coverups that we did. CEOs would be less afraid of losing their job and saying « we have a problem » if it didn’t pay anything. The problem is that you can’t scale every organization into a « just get altruistic people to do everything you need for free » model.

I recognize the issues with hiring/paying people that want to be paid.

You can try to move toward a fully volunteer model, but they’ve paid a lot of people to try to build that and still fail.
I have been a bit fascinated by this, but perhaps you could explain to me what fascinates you about Z80. Just for reference I am a Motorola 68000 fan, mostly because I grew up with Amiga. My first computer was an Amiga 1000. After Amiga Basic some of the first programming I did was 68000 assembly.

I really liked it, and I absolutely hated x86 assembly when I tried that later. x86 seemed so quirky to me, with its segment registers and the naming of assembly instructions just didn't seem as nicely organized as for 68000, which almost felt like high level language in comparison.

x86 turned me off assembly for years. I have gotten some interest again these last years by playing around with AVR. I like AVR for the simplicity and low price.

Perhaps you could sell me on Z80, how does it compare to using AVR chips?
A wealth tax exists already, it's called inflation.
We Developed a $6K/Month Online Video Editing Software
Oof. I would honestly look for another job and tell them you want to be able to learn new stuff on the job. If you have a job you can go as far as saying, if "I'm not learning anything new I am wasting my time".

Companies should encourage people to learn stuff on the job, because no tutorials or classes can really teach you the day to day struggles.
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Yeah what you said.

There probably are exceptions. Software can sometimes be complex for no good reason except maybe its architects didn’t have a good plan and folks just added more bad code on top of existing bad code. I’m just not sure if that’s as common as the crusaders want it to be, and when folks say they want to simplify, I think that most of the time it’s because they don’t understand what they’re getting themselves into.
Flycast world’s first Dreamcast emulator with Vulkan support – on RetroArch
ExpanDrive [which I maintain], has a certificate to sign our fork of FUSE
Won't it mechanically increase skilled people's wages?
Web support for Flutter goes beta
Simple 3dim Fluid Sim
Personal Growth for Developers: What’s a Trajectory Look Like
Yes I feel like personal ownership of the recommendation engine is the key battleground..otherwise whatever the data is a third party is always deciding what you see.
LinkedIn has a huge control panel of privacy controls, along with controls to manage what you get notified on.

There’s no way you can get “crawled” if your settings are correct.
Unrelated to article content, but related to the question: Wealth is justified by the fact that it is okay to pursue what's best for you. Wealth tax (if worked as intended) would incentivize the opposite - don't save and invest. You can only pursue what is best for you only if its to the level your government decided its okay
It's actually not totally insane anymore. If you could afford a Tesla Roadster you can build yourself a 4PB storage solution. With some high density top loading storage servers (4HE for 90 HDDs), 6TB HDDs and some SSDs thrown in for caching you can build that in 36HE for less than 300k$ (not counting time needed to assemble and configure). So if that's your hobby, go ahead :D If one takes more than 5 minutes to research this I'm pretty sure that it's possible to push that number below 250k$.
You could start undercutting bids when your competitor's games come out, hoping that if their game's multiplayer is shitty enough on opening weekend it'll reduce the game's playing population in the long run.
According to worldbank.org, HS92 3002 includes human and animal vaccines:

> Antisera and other blood fractions

> Vaccines for human medicine

> Vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease

> Other vaccines for veterinary medicine (excl. f

> Human and animal blood; microbial cultures; tox

http://wits.worldbank.org/data/public/CountryProfile-Product...
Kafka rolling upgrade and dynamic configuration on Kubernetes
There likely appears to be only 1 way the Max can be redeemed, and that is for Boeing to accept it's a different enough plane that 737 pilots need new training for it.
Correct - thanks.

@dang: would you consider merging the two threads together?
Yes but not really? Intel just made it easier than oldschool hardware attacks:

> adversary abuses an undocumented Intel Core voltage scaling interface

Instead of having to buy hardware to mess with the power rail in a controlled manner, you can now just do it with a code snippet!
Is anything in this economic system "free" ?
You can live just off your usual salary, you don't need grants if you're frugal.
A similar treatment is available for uterine fibroids (benign smooth muscle tumors, which affect many to most women by age 50):

https://www.uclahealth.org/fibroids/mr-guided-focused-ultras...
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Would transcranial ultrasound have the problem of unwanted hotspots because of reflections and a focusing effect of the curvature of the skull?
I would assume that this could only be done by scanning the head with a MRI, modelling the tissues in detail, simulating the process and then constructing a wave front from many emitters that does what one wants. Ideally all of that in real time as I guess the heating process will change the properties of the treated tissue in a way that would require it.
> What I don't understand about this is... Why can't I partake?

Honestly: because you're not rich and connected enough to have the rules written for to your benefit your naked self-interest. If it was legal and economical for ordinary people to evade taxes, too many people would do it and the country would collapse.
Why use C? Constrained with no macros? What about undefined behavior?

Rewrite in Zig!
I don't.

If only 20 widgetshares exists in the world and we each have 50% (you have 10 and I have 10) and the market for widgetshares is $200.

Should you be taxed for your theoretical $5.26 gain if I destroy 1 widgetshare but you haven't sold any. Buy backs are no different. You will pay taxes if you sell.

Personally, I think you should pay taxes if you take out a loan using the market value of the shares as collateral. This is where everything starts getting funny and companies and individuals start being able to avoid taxes forever.
Is there a plan for following up in 5 years?
I have a machine design book which ends with "Students think engineers spend their time doing calculations, and when hired, are usually shocked to find the job is all communication."

That communication, it isn't kindergarten. My impression of it is more like Dodge City or Deadwood, 100% adversarial. Pay you $1 only if you move and spend $2. Warmly welcome young people because they were trained in something they make money off of. Move the market with their tech, only to pull the rug out from under their customer. Completely arbitrary barrier after barrier of entry with nothing applicable to the market, usually just to hide their own mistakes and profit greatly from it.

All they do is make their money churning people. Customers, employees, everyone. When you pass the interview, you find out the boss just dumped $100,000 on some service contract, sold so they only buy their stuff.

It's never about doing the right thing or even just making life nice and fun. It's about being right, and being the only one who is right. What bosses don't understand is the graveyard's full of millions of tycoons, millions of leaders. Whatever they are trying to do doesn't work. They just go bumbling along trying to stay out of prison.

Make something on your own that's better, right out of the gate they set you up to dump all their problems on you. You're not winning anything, just opening up a gate unleashing hell on everyone. Tread water long enough, you get fire bombed. Cops really don't care. They just work for the biggest guy, and do the minimal to make that palatable. It is funny how they just roll out, on cue, to take all your stuff.

So here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to make things I want to use, and just send it out. Go ahead and steal it. Make everyone work the way I work. I want you to steal it. Level the playing field, and just be good at what I do and everyone has access to it.

Here's something

Decentralization is at a point where I can setup purchasing bots and run a payment api off of that. Someone wants to buy something, they use someone else's card, and there's no central server, so there.
I don’t know if “racist” is the right word for what the GP poster meant, but there’s certainly a concept of “complaining about something while ignorant of the fact that it isn’t a problem outside of your own particular culture.” Whatever the adjective for that is.

It’s the same property that applies to the people who, 20 years ago, initially argued for UTF-8 specifically because of how efficiently it encodes from-ASCII codepoints, ignoring that for most text in most languages on Earth, UTF-8 is less efficient than UTF-16. (Of course, UTF-8 won out anyway, but more because it’s easier to parse, auto-resynchronizing, not limited to the first 16 planes, and because we ended up inventing all sorts of XML/JSON-based document formats, like ePub and OfficeXML, that cause even documents in other languages to be mostly from-ASCII codepoints by weight.)

It’s also the relevant property for Americans who complain about large downloads for games, or who have cellphone service but don’t have data, and think “the world” needs solutions to these problems, when really, North American ISPs are uniquely horrible (to the point that a game developed excluding North America as a potential target market could probably do things we’d think of as “impossible” right now, like live-streaming mesh co-AR or something.)
I disagree. I went to a state University and it really made me a better person. I worked in groups with diverse group of people and while it was tough I enjoyed the experience. Plus, it wasn't really that expensive considering my income now and before.

However, I guess non-technical/engineering degrees have different results.
Sound a lot like me in the 80s. Hard to find information. Came across random books in the library.

My latest experience is with AVR assembly. What is it about Z80 that makes you prefer it? Wider variety of practical instructions? Cleaner design?

This blog got me curious about looking into Z80. Not a chip I ever learned anything about. I started out as an Amiga guy and I would occasionally come across books and stuff about 6502. Z80 is just a name I heard from time to time.
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Is it like ablation but through skin?
Sincere question: what is dystopian about people making a few bucks from donating their blood?

Is there suffering involved? Are there long-term health impacts? Are there major risks?
It's not against the law at all. It's just expensive because you forgo labor protections, social security contributions, medicare contributions, paying for accountant's time to file for international income, etc.

Wages are taxed differently than a company's income. If you were to distribute the income to yourself every 2 weeks, you'd end up paying all the same taxes as wages.
They use it on client side for higher resolutions, you will not be able to watch 4k content on laptop/PC without Intel SGX.
Maybe it's because I do a lot of hiking, but I'm always acutely aware of scale when I'm looking at a map--and it annoys me if it's not immediately obvious.
Right. Assuming that they're not competent because they can't recall a slice of domain-specific knowlege from memory is not good.
Yes, due to the vocational focus, the broader topics are often watered down introductions.
Even though I knew this day was coming, it's still a bummer. Wunderlist hasn't been updated in ages and didn't need to. It was functional and stable enough to get out of your own way. It's clean, concise and not overly complicated.

I still haven't found a good alternative to switch to. Microsoft's Todo app is garbage and I don't care to deal with that ecosystem just for a Todo app either.
Can't they just open source the entire thing so we can just self host it?