skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arent youtube channels generally male dominated? At least most of what I watch is by males and they are not ashamed to show their faces.

I watch art, some crafts occasionally tech and pop commentary. Some sport.

I dont see people being interested in 50 years old women either in general.
Maybe. I'll try to read his books :)
I mean 99% as in I didn't use any external libraries.

Alternate title for the article: "How I Used My Boundless Arrogance To Saddle A Non-Profit With Unmaintainable Software"
Hello my friend :)
https://knockout.chat/subforum/11
I'm sure you will see a few familiar usernames there.
It’s human nature to follow only young influencers? That’s a weird claim. Sounds like we take the current situation and justify it afterwards by saying “that’s human nature”.
Wrong. Don't bring Bitcoin into this. This is an Ethereum scam thing.
Without a subscription, the visibility of their content is at the mercy of the algorithm. What choice do they have? It's no different from subscribing to someone's email list. It's annoying, but nobody bookmarks anything these days.
It’s just how economic of YouTube works. If you don’t have likes, subscribes and views, you don’t make money. And if you want high quality content, it costs money.

Lots of educational channels I watch do it, and I fully understand why they do it.
Local news app News Break raises $115M
Well, yes, of course. Rust is not made by Apple, MS or Google who can just make it new "official" language on their platform and force adoption. Also, by its very nature (low-level-ish language without GC) it cannot have Python-level adoption in modern software development ecosystem.

Why would you want Rust to target lowest-common-denominator developers and become new VB or php? All it needs is enough momentum to become self-sufficient, which seems to be actually happening now with Rust Foundation and news of its usage in some major companies that can set the trends for whole industry (Amazon, Google, etc.).
Distributed finance is one big distributed CTF game. You can exploit other people's software for real money, and you get to keep it because law enforcement doesn't understand any of this and the tokens are fairly pseudonymous.

Of course, that makes it a very perilous place to build a business.
I just looked at the rankings and they seem ok at a glance. Can you give a concrete example of how and why they are wrong? Or tell us more specifically why we shouldn’t trust the organization running it? I’m not familiar with them.
Thanks. Looks like their cheapest system goes for $3,404.59. It has VGA output, but no DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort.
FWIW, we'd love to help there eventually, we just think that the vendor side of the market is so abysmally underserved that we wanted to start there.

The goal of this whole thing is to speed up the entire process of security review and actually reduce 3p vendor risk while getting business done.

I guess we've got our work cut out for us...
Is there an actual cost to
The provider in providing this data?

Or do providers just charge because they can, as with commissions?

(Turns out in a post Robin-Hood world, transactions could be zero-commission, but the commission charging providers just chose to continue despite other revenue available to cover the cost).
Another alternative look at the Frozen story is in Disney's Twisted Tales version
( https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Conceal,_Don%27t_Feel_(A_Twis... ) which shows an alternative way that the parents could have dealt with the situation. Still not ideal, but better that the canon version in terms of the mental impacts on various characters!
Please don't unnecessarily bring politics into the discussion. (It wasn't me, I don't have enough karma to downvote.)
Have no idea what fruit loops are. But I loved ludlum's novels

Haven't read one since a long time now though.
My one input: please consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan a world leader, since she is leading the majority of the world (90%) in terms of providing everyone access to the world's scientific information.
If the very well paid jobs stay in the home country, how do you call that?

If the interesting work all stays in the home country, how do you call that?

We like to kid ourselves that multinational companies are truly multinational, companies of the world. What's the percentage of non-American top managers, for example, working for American based multinationals? It's probably in the low 1-digit percentages.

There is a definite advantage to bejng an early investor. For these companies the risk is comparatively small and the rewards they reap are huge and on very long time horizons.

It's not super clear cut that it's all nationalist BS.
A Soviet Union studio made a pretty good movie of Anderson's story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen_(1957_film)
Less so, arguably. Although DC is part of the Boston-New York-Washington corridor, it has a thriving culture that originated with the migration of black people out of the south. It is in no sense a rural culture, but it has roots and relatives in rural parts all over the south.
This is still just a way to validate when something existed, isn't it?
It's phenomenal. I use an M1 Air to develop a webapp with Rails + multiple independent large Webpack builds (Make sure your `node_modules` and other speed-sensitive folders are all in named volumes not bind mounts). It is insanely fast compared to my 2017 15", and battery can last all day even when using Docker, something unheard of on my last laptop.
Real exchanges do not take custody of assets (unlike crypto exchanges) and do not sell info to end users. In the retail space, brokers provide this data. Their policies vary. From free for all traders, free for active/fee for inactive, no level-2, etc.
No. ETC was simply a hard fork of a minority of people that didn’t like a change to the blockchain that fixed that DAO contract bug. A 51% attack involves a group acquiring 51% of the hashing power in order to confirm transactions that otherwise would be rejected (like double spends)

Any group of miners (less than 51% in the case of ETC) are free to update or not update their clients as they choose. When any set of groups begin to diverge, then you have a hard fork.

The difference being with a 51% attack there’s one chain everyone agrees on, however, someone’s been able to get everyone to agree on fraudulent transactions. A hard fork creates 2 chains that those two groups then maintain totally separate transaction histories on.
> The man reportedly said that nobody wants to see an "uncle", and so, he turned himself into a "beautiful woman" so that his photos would be popular.

He self identifies as a 50 year old man. He admits that he just did it for attention near the end of the article.
Abstraction doesn't mean syntactic constructs. It means the ability to specify arbitrary aspects of behaviour and then provide interchangeable implementations of the behaviour. When abstractions can have more satisfying implementations, you have high abstraction; when they have less you have low abstraction (i.e. you can abstract only smaller groups of things). Replacing, say, a concrete type with a trait is about as much work in Rust as it is in Assembly. It's not a feature of Rust specifically, but of low-level programming. If you want control over object layout, placement, and lifetime, it means that you abstract over things with specific low-level details, so fewer things. This isn't a problem, but a tradeoff that low-level programming intentionally makes, that no syntax can erase.
> not the standard way web developers build a simple website

I would like to see this standard described and what level of agreement you get.
Am I the only one who grew up pronouncing it "where-ez"?
There are some out there. I was working on a game using the original Rise of the Triad engine which did 2D sprites, but the idea evolved to larger than that engine could really support. I'm now making a modern engine but keeping some of the philosophy to target low spec machines, so some of my "models" are 2D sprites.
NFT of Torvald's email "What would you like to see most in minix?"
I know about everything you say here, and it’s all true. But it has nothing to do with the two novels under discussion.
No, it isn't. British in India were colonizers who sought to divide and subjugate the Indian population. The PoC who live in Europe aren't there to colonize it. They are part of the population and therefore the culture.
Interesting, that might be a dealbreaker then. Have you found significant slowdowns in working in a VM vs native, both in terms of compilation and day-to-day work, or has it been negligible/unnoticeable?

P.S. thanks for making an account just for this reply :)
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-pr... says that 4.8% of professional developers are using Rust.

From the perspective of someone who's been writing Rust professionally for the last few years, the hockey-stick curve started kicking in in late 2020 or so.
Offline-first or offline-only can be a major barrier to accessibility. Those who cannot travel (due to a disability) or cannot travel far (due to cost) are disadvantaged.

Offering services online is a major game-changer for such folks.
Tired Goldman Sachs underlings beg to work ‘just’ 80 hours a week,instead of 100
I think I’m just not used to faster package managers and I don’t install packages often enough for it to feel disruptive to wait a few seconds.

I do like tools to be as fast as possible, though, and I’d forgotten about that update it does sometimes when I run it - that does seem to take a long time.

I’ll have a look at how it works and see what the things are that take time. I would expect network traffic for updates, perhaps whatever it’s getting updates from does some processing (I’m sure it said something about GitHub), perhaps there is some dependency resolution that needs CPU...

It would be interesting to compare its architecture to other package managers if they’re significantly faster.
Very true. I came across a channel run by a 60 something man where he sits in his music room, puts on a record and talks about what that piece of music means to him, when he first heard it.

I usually don't watch the whole video as it can get a bit dry, but otherwise it is nice to just see someone expressing themself without shilling their Patreon or using clickbait thumbnails and titles like the more commercial "personal" channels do.
Is there like a guide somewhere telling people to bring up some specific incident every time a particular UnPerson's name is brought up? I swear there's a few dozen people for which, as soon as their name is mentioned, a dozen green accounts will suddenly post what somebody has determined is "critical context" under which we are supposed to see them.

Okay she made one silly facebook post that doesn't really quite say that. If we're gonna popularize the absurd things said by every freshman congressperson on social media, well we've got a long book to write.
Capitalism isn’t anarchy.
"The leaked slideshow, which was shared with managers, includes testimonials of working 20-hour shifts that one worker called “inhumane.”

“What is not ok to me is 110-120 hours over the course of a week! The math is simple, that leaves 4 hours for eating, sleeping, showering bathroom and general transition time. This is beyond the level of ‘hard-working,’ it is inhuman/ abuse,” the analyst complained.

“The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers and physical stress… I’ve been through foster care and this is arguably worse,” another added."
Do traders buy arbitrary tokens? This is a custom token that op created, not the ETH token, correct? I suppose sandwich traders don't mind buying salmonella because there's another buyer at the other end.

This is quite interesting. I need to read up more!
Maybe the "reflection" they used to catch him was the fake, and all the others are real.
I got an idea, don’t let world leaders use it at all.

They have official means of communicating with the public. Leave Twitter for people without a voice, posting memes, and general bullshitting.

World leaders don’t need to get caught up in quippy bickering.
Lying is not a new phenomenon. Whether or not it's useful or good is a philosophical question with many answers which don't matter because if it becomes possible we will (have to) adjust and there will always be some upside if you want to see it.

Today, lying with video is really expensive, but if in the future everyone is able to do it and everyone knows that it's possible then we're back to he-said-she-said, which is how society has worked since the beginning, except the last 200-ish years. I can easily lie and say I saw Bill Clinton murder someone in 1990. Maybe in the future I'll be able to generate fake video evidence of it just as easily as I typed out that sentence. If everyone has a feel for how easy it is, then so what?

The danger is in the transition, when lying using video is affordable by a select few, and not everyone knows about it. Then it's powerful. If you're worried about that then we need to develop and teach this technology as quickly as possible. We can also do something fun like collect a time capsule of important videos before this becomes easy and timestamp it in a verifiable way (by posting the hash to a blockchain or some authority for example).
Okay, I'll hate the game. The game has existed since the first radio ad spot in 1922, the first TV ad spot in 1941, and the first banner ad in 1994.

I would far rather pay an honest few cents for a page view or a video roll than be subjected to in-content advertising and begging from the creators. Certainly, creators would prefer to do their thing instead of beg and scrape.

What can we do to accelerate micropayment tech and patronage communities for creators?
Oblique Strategies: ideas for creative lateral thinking (GitHub repo)

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/oblique_strategies
It seems like they only publish articles concerning new moralism/cancel culture. These inevitably descend into flame wars and such.
It would be awesome to find something similar to windows...I can imagine "boosting up" my taskbar with this kind of stuff.
If anyone knows a similar app to Windows please let us know
Yeah, occasionally a reputable channel will show how many views are from non subscribers and it’s a pretty massive ratio. These creators aren’t begging, they are just trying to carve out an audience.
I hate twitter.

It's slowly ruining the internet.
Nice writeup.

One likely factor for Josh Gee's notable successes is his youth. Because he's outside of the power structures and politics.

I started "adult" (office) work at 15yo. I got a lot done. Everyone loved the geeky computer whiz who could fix stuff. I got bonuses, perks, praise. This track record set me up for long-term failure.

By the time I turned 25yo, I hit a wall. I was now an adult. With my own power. So I was now perceived as a threat. Sadly, I was completely oblivious to the changed dynamic. And I didn't have a mentor or any one else to clue me in.

Since then, I've encouraged promising young talent to color outside the lines (eg be bold, don't wait for permission) while they still can.

Just from his writing style, I think Josh Gee will avoid my mistakes.
Did anyone say it creates an obligation for Amazon or eBay to ban them? Those companies chose to do so voluntarily under their existing policies, which used to be a thing conservatives supported.

The Mein Kampf comparisons also tend to leave out two key factors: most of Dr. Seuss’ books are intended for children and they’re presented without critical analysis. I don’t think you’d find much objection to the same kind of scholarly work discussing Seuss’ works in the historical context – Dr. Seuss Goes to War being a good example of what that might look like.
This is a reason why an accessible national mail system is also a good thing.
Can you be more specific about your friends codebase? How large, what industry/ problem space?

Of course, you can write bad/ unmaintainable code in any language. I have seen such code in Clojure(Script) as well. But some languages really encourage bad code where other languages already feel like you are doing something wrong when you write bad code. (e.g. Using many atoms in Clojure, doing boolean transformations etc. just from the top of my head.)

Strongly typed languages in my experience don't help anything, make programming harder for everybody and the benefit is (for most software) questionable. Compilers should handle most types for us and only give us a hint something could be better, if we were more specific e.g. with a type hint. Humans should think about the problems not about deep implementation details (like integer vs float vs double), when not strictly needed.
I think there would be some potential for an photo-based journalism platform that only publishes crypto-signed geo-tagged photos. It seems that stock photos, and even fake photos are the norm on mainstream news sites these days. It's very hard to get verified photographic evidence of news stories.
While I agree with the first and second point.

Theme development is the same as any other system. It's very similar to a Drupal or Wordpress commerce. I am not sure I fully see what you mean.

Obviously they don't allow you to use another payment processor, why would they? They make money by having people use their payment processor. There is no benefit to them allowing people to bypass this and implement their own payment system.

The custom checkout can be a con, but it's also a pro. It allows your customers to feel at home in a native environment. Not having to deal with every ecommerce site completely different checkout system.
I have had a really ignorant question for a long time and will go ahead and ask it now: is it pronounced likes "wears" or like "Juarez"?
I've heard shopify has been shaking down SaaS apps for past revenue % which they charge outside of the shopify ecosystem. Does anyone know if this is true or have more details?
Could you expand on what is better about macoorts over brew? I quickly got onto the Macports page and saw first off that sudo is needed for updating itself and second that I have to select the right version for my OS: Brew is a single install that does not require sudo to update so there’s a few things that already make Brew more appealing for me. What does MacPorts do better?
When the west does it → Colonization
When the east does it → Charitable Chinese living to Communist ideals, totally not trying to subjugate a country economically when they can't pay back loans.

It's actually a bit of both.
I don't think that's the point, as conversion in both directions is near trivial. It is a straightforward mechanical process, it may not always be easy or simple but it's more likely tedious than hard or complex.

More importantly, in the listed languages (excepting a handful of compiler optimization options) the semantics of procedure calls are different than Scheme's semantics for procedure calls. So if you, in C, convert a for loop into a tail recursive procedure you have changed the behavior of the program, not just its appearance (and same in reverse). In Scheme or another language with tail call elimination, then this conversion ought not actually change the behavior of your program (done in either direction). This also has the effect of removing the loop constructs as a necessity of the language. You can describe an efficient iterative process in Scheme with tail recursion, but you cannot describe it (in a general sense, same caveat for some optimization options) with tail recursion in the listed procedural languages and must use a special syntax element (their loop constructs) to achieve the same program semantics.
I believe the book title is The Gone-Away World. At least that's what I just bought. :)

Thanks for the recommendation.
Saudi Arabia apparently has stopped using flogging:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-t...

However, plenty places still use corporal punishment, including Singapore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment
I do. Brings back some memories - as someone whose handle appeared in the video a few times. :)
I developed on the Shopify platform for a while. I found it very odd how restrictive their endpoint was. Most of my job involved creating really hacky workaround for their weirdly missing features.
or that CPAN is a non-profit run by the networks to bring you full realtime video access into the senate, congress etc?
Fair observation. But consider that proponents of "wokism" have busily engaged in censorship of thought and speech - showing no interest in a fair and open debate - while simultaneously demanding unquestioning fealty to its principles. For me, that speaks to an intrinsic and inherent moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
I had the same issue with rate limiting and they doubled mine just by asking. YMMV
If you know who the first Lord Beaverbrook was, or have read The Fountainhead and remember the character of Gail Wynand, you can understand and almost predict the next moves of Dorsey/Twitter.

Its the same reason for Bezos' purchase of the Washington Post.... having a media outlet gives you political power.
Love your newsletter! It's the only thing I've found that curates diverse topics and viewpoints that authors written thoughtfully about. Thank you and keep it up!
Unlike lockpicking or actual arms races, it is possible to write software such that the only weak point is the people using it. Ideally all software would be formally verified, but that's a bit too cost/time expensive to be practical for everything, so instead computer security focuses a lot on minimizing attack surface and getting as close as possible to that "humans are the weak point" goal. Even if a 0day exists for particular software, if there's no way to reach it, then it's as good as being nonexistent.
I'm curious because I didn't realize this was a trend. Can anyone share some more info/sources on the decline outside the US?
I wonder if this will end up as much of a cluster as Canberra.
You have other blockchains than Ethereum, with lower fees.
I’ve never seen any indication than he takes the laptop as gospel. Can you support this assertion at all?
(I ask that question disrespectfully.)
> they had to buy the local supermarkets in the first place

When foreign owners extract profits to recover their investment or pay whomever, wealth is in fact leaving the country - because they still own the capital (stores) yet get money back.

It's not clear cut based on this. They could have invested beyond price, brought knowledge, improved efficiency ...
It's also possible they are in effect extracting wealth colonialist style, which is something to beware of - at scale it can have severe consequences for local economies.
Wanna mint your own NFT?
I can live with it if there's a pool of such channels and a system for sharing access across them, which is more or less the case for white house press conferences.

If the president were to just pick one favorite channel and only ever be interviewed by them and have them as the only invitee for press conferences, then no.
‘The Market Seems Crazy’: Startups Wrestle with Flood of Offers
I'm not. There's a natural scarcity of space for physical cameras and reporters. As far as I understand, the press themselves are largely responsible for figuring out these logistics via the WHCA. (Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.)

There isn't any practical scarcity for text streams coming from the White House though, so I can't think of a reason why consuming them should be tied to a closed platform like Twitter, other than marginal costs of setting up and operating the infrastructure (perhaps not so marginal once we start talking about government contracts?).
White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn