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Immediately stopped reading & flagged this after the “enter your email address to keep reading” dark pattern pop up appeared.

Nothing will ever change if we keep rewarding this kind of behavior.
Lovely article. The symbolic checker approach is awesome. It seems trivial/simple in retrospect, but what a powerful testing approach for this problem!
It’s not really about trust for me, it’s an employer requirement to have Bitlocker turned on.
I don't think parent is promoting NFT's.

I think he or she is saying that "climate change" is a ridiculously hyperbolic attack vector. And they're right. Of all the idiotic aspects there are to NFT's, Ethereum energy consumption may not crack the Top 100.
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Yup, absolutely true. And I think people underestimate how good electric cars are. They have about half the emissions of conventional cars even if all their electricity comes from gas (but about 40% of electricity in the US is carbonfree—about half nuclear and the rest wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal).

Each new conventional car sold is a locked-in 100 tons of CO2 (lower if we we crush them sooner). Electric cars are much smaller (half to start with), and depending on how fast we transition the electric grid could be only like 10-25 tons and then next to nothing (as even manufacture becomes decarbonized).
Workloads aren't just about sustained bandwidth. The available bandwidth and IOPS also determine how fast a burst can be finished. OS hibernation, application startup, loading game/3D assets, system updates (unless you're on windows), autosave features, ripgrep...
They all can saturate some of those limits momentarily. And those moments gets shorter if you have more bandwidth and lower latency.

avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.19 0.00 1.96 1.21 0.00 96.64

Device r/s rkB/s rrqm/s %rrqm r_await rareq-sz w/s wkB/s wrqm/s %wrqm w_await wareq-sz d/s dkB/s drqm/s %drqm d_await dareq-sz f/s f_await aqu-sz %util
nvme0n1 4180.00 332544.00 0.00 0.00 0.21 79.56 2518.00 1332796.00 74.00 2.85 6.89 529.31 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 18.21 81.60

it's wrapping code blocks :( you had one job.
Sorry to hear about your prognosis. I hope you get to enjoy the time you have.
This is exactly same as art 99.9% of non-utilitarian art is wothless and people who buy any of it will never see their money again. But 0.1% is fasionable among wealthy. And people pour millions into it and gain and loose millions, same way they do on the stock market.
I sort of see this as a situation where an imperfect SBOM is worse than nothing. It would do nothing but add false confidence. I still haven't seen an example of a single supply-chain attack that an SBOM would have prevented.
it's a much smaller bank than its competitors (40k vs 204k at Citi, for example)

Not a like-for-like comparison as Citi and JPMC have huge retail operations. The size of their investment banking divisions isn’t as wildly disparate as you think
Data science. Static typing is a complete PITA when you're doing exploratory data work. Type inference only fixes things on a superficial level.

For data engineering, I haven't had a chance to try this due to lack of language options, but I strongly suspect that structural typing would be much more useful than nominal typing.
I think they actually reduce the traffic, a single van can deliver what 20 SUVs used to do for 20 families.
I love mypy and use it in my job.

I would love to use it for personal pytorch projects, but only if I could type-check that tensors are the correct shape, etc. Is that possible?
And you fundamentally do not understand NFTs. It is perfectly fine and acceptable and within the contract of the NTF for the owner of the physical item to sell said physical item separate from that item's NFT. They are separate assets. An NTF was never said to represent the physical object, the NTF represents itself as the unique only NFT representing the physical object, but the two are wholly separate independent things. The owner and/or transfer of ownership of the physical object has no relation to the NFT beyond the claim of it being the one and only NFT of that physical object. The entire concept is a grifter's game for fools.
You're right about the Add(1) and defer. defer in itself is pretty interesting in how it's called. Basically there's the main body of your function and then a list of things to do before return, of which defers get added to. So, your theory is correct.

I think intuitively I probably knew that a panic in a goroutine will shut down the main thread, it just didn't occur logically to me when I read it; which is an interesting paradox. Maybe that's a me-thing though.
At least if you have a really rare baseball card,

a) You have the physical card. It is in your possession, and the only way for you to lose it is for something physical to happen to it.

b) You can look at and enjoy the card in its physicality. You can show it to others, and the only reason that is the case is that it is physically in your possession.

Contrast that with NFTs, where all you "own" is the idea of owning a thing. If the thing your particular NFT says you own is a digital image, anyone can still see that image, and it can be deleted from the internet without your permission or any warning. You lose the exclusivity that's the main draw of owning something rare and special, and you don't have any practical control over the thing either.
NBA Topshot is already worthless without the express written consent of the NBA.

NBA Topshot would be better served by a DB. The NFT part is there for hype.
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Sage espresso machine with coffee beans from Costco.

I was lucky enough that I bought the coffee machine off Amazon last year right before lockdown (here in UK), since then the price has gone up £100-£150 when in stock.
package managers tend to give you something wherein you can read exactly what is in your solution, which I suppose is why people are always reading what their dependencies are and making sure that everything is updated as it should be and security holes plugged.

So, given the existence of modern package managers, surely problem solved.
As an EE you should know what goes in front of ADC to avoid aliasing.
I don't think that's true in practice. Try it. I did here: https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1

It's basically impossible with today's tooling and practices to come up with a list of dependencies for a moderately complex application.
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> Are you really outsourcing labor or are you outsourcing the risks associated with abuses of labor needed to meet your demands?

The same thing companies do when they go to a different state within the US with weaker labor and environmental laws. And the same thing individuals do when choosing to purchase products at cheaper prices from places with weaker labor/environmental laws.

Blaming individual companies for regulatory arbitrage is a fruitless endeavor.
only a casual space enthusiast, but I don't really see how this is viable. if you want to reuse your cleaning drone, you pretty much have to match orbit with every single piece of debris you pick up. this seems like it would be prohibitively expensive in delta-v for the foreseeable future.
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Thats why it is often hard to follow a meeting! Often they mention acronyms and concepts without bothering to explain them. So it is just a setup because decissions were made in advance, so why do they bother to hold these big meetings? I mean all these commoners could do something productive instead.
> They focused on the people because they were either scammers

The scamming came after the failure of the core premise of the startup: microfluidic lab-on-a-chip. My point was not to excuse the scamming, it was to switch focus back to the core ideas and not the people sporting black turtlenecks.

I suspect that if the original strategy worked the story would be different. Transparently reporting technical/business failure is an admirable trait but it is a different thing than innovation. Journalists and analysts should have been reporting on the scorecard (strategy/tactics/execution). When the company did a technical pivot why was this not enough to investigate the underlying cause? I'm a potential customer that wants this solution; I feel like I've been cheated by all involved.

QUESTION: if someone else succeeds with a microfluidic lab-on-a-chip can the regulators validate its efficacy?
The difference is that when you buy a collectible you get a collectible. When you buy an NFT you get a meaningless number.
Perhaps make it an optional setting?

"Enhanced Sandboxing (Warning: This feature is experimental, and may cause issues for some apps.)" or something of the sort.
I find some of that attention neccessary for enjoyment. The joy of going fast, rowing your own gears, etc
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Python 3 type annotations are part of the language spec. Whether you use mypy or a different library for type checking shouldn’t necessarily make a difference to the code.
Thanks for sharing.

"And Amazon's senior leadership has rewarded these sociopaths"

I'm too small to make a dent, but rest assured, I am "rewarding" them back with my wallet. Never again shopping on Amazon. I simply can't justify saving a few £ knowing that the people delivering / manipulating what I buy are abused. I read quite frequently about the issue and unless we protest with our wallets this abuse will continue.
While I don't necessarily agree with the dismissal over vocation, I do think it is problematic that this article completely ignores the fact that Vaccinated Grandma isn't going to spread the virus around, while Unvaccinated Kid very easily could.

Focusing solely on who gets sick and who doesn't completely misses the boat when it comes to the pandemic aspect of this virus.
Not of individual applications which (commonly) need adapting to make use of them.
> I really enjoy it and it comes with a nice shot of adrenaline when you're able to tweak your environment just how you want it.

This is so true. I too enjoy tweaking my Vim setup recreationally. It’s fun for me. Sometimes my wife will ask what I’m doing on the computer, and I have to try and figure out a way to explain that I’m customizing a text editor...
By "providing for your kid" I assume you mean financially?

There is no secret. I go without some things I would like but are not as important to me, such as an expensive car and expensive holidays.

Basically if it qualifies as "expensive" I usually forgo it. Not for everything but I try to balance if spending more on something is worth it.

Financially we have a comfortable life. We have no debts at all. My wife has a good income and a "safe" job. We have a decent amount in savings. And so we just live a simple life.

Is there anything specific you would like to know? I am happy to share.
Congrats stranger!!
Few people are responsibly having kids in their early twenties

In most of human history your kids would old enough to help you on the farm by the time you reached your early 20’s!
License plate reader are needed because tax on gasoline isn't exactly fair. A hybrid/electric car uses the same amount of road as an ICE car, but pays far less tax. Variable rate tolling is beneficial because it encourages people to take alternatives during rush hour, preventing everyone from piling on (because the road is free) and causing gridlock.
Personally, I miss Notepad++'s tab and shift-tab behavior with multiple selected lines on nearly everything, but except for that, I don't usually miss a tool behavior on another tool.

It helps that I set tooling based on language, so if I decide to use Pycharm for Python¹, I will expect Pycharm's behavior on every Python file. But I won't expect it on C, or Haskell, or SQL.

1 - I do change my opinnion over "a specialized IDE is best than emacs when it exists" a lot, currently I'm liking the interaction-free emacs interface more.
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Good question.

There seem to be ... quite a lot of them.

https://coinmarketcap.com/nfts/
So no GPIO access or anything? If someone told me they were working on a "Raspberry Pi Project" I would have assumed it would be something taking advantage of that hardware. Do they really only mean they are programming something on Linux?
The GME stuff was a big thing (2008 was too early) for “introducing” the younger side of vice target audience to the outrage directed at large finance firms. Young grads are relatable to readers who are recently stirred up by state of the institution.
Studying Russian. What a beautiful language and culture. I just love to listen about Russian culture and history. Their museums have wonderful social media channels.
At that point, wouldn't it make more sense to just emulate the whole thing in the FPGA, instead of individual chips?
Yeah, you wouldn’t be alone there. I think it’s the opposite of muddled, it is being precise; the words are chosen very carefully! They’re chosen to try and convey very specific meanings. And everyone does this, my own choice of “wordplay” is meant to evoke meaning for specific reasons to convey what I was trying to, to specifically acknowledge that some folks feel the way you do. Heck, the parent chose “lingua franca,” which is not from English, to convey the specific meaning evoked from that phrase’s time and space!

In the end, talking about talking is hard (oh no there I go accidentally elevating speech above writing again), but not everyone is interested in everything or every methodology. We’re all trying to figure it out in our own ways.
Low code isn't inherently that bad as long as it offers a way to integrate with traditional code. Microsoft Excel is tremendously succesful in this area.
You’re right and I’ll refrain in the future.

Is there anything being done by HN to curb misinformation? Or is it left up to users to downvote purposeful misinformation campaigns by users?

Unfortunately HN is becoming less useful as the same types of tactics which are occurring on Facebook and other social media platform begin to manifest here.

Twitter at least now tags for posts with misleading claims.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/updating-...

I do appreciate all the work you do, I’m sure it’s a constant battle. And I definitely regret getting personal.

But please also have some compassion for users that want this to be a place of facts and elevated discussion. When threads are flooded with these comments it gets super frustrating.

I attempt to combat actively misleading information with facts, data, and neutral discussion, and am met with more of the same falsehoods, prejudice without any data or facts to support their assertions. And then I find that some users get swayed by the falsehoods.

In addition there are clearly vote rings, since my most balanced positive contributes with facts that counter false assertions are heavily downvoted, while thin comments posting blatant misleading information often get upvoted.

So I have gotten angry with those posts, and I do regret that.

But please... HN is drastically in need of a better moderation system. It can’t rely on the positive nature of a limited crowd of users any more as it gets more popular.

Again, thanks for all you do. I hope HN rises to the occasion.
Its easier, and you can lauder the money across millions of NFTs.
To the four bullet points you mention, I'll add a meta-point: this all needs to be easy to set up simultaneously, per language. That's where commercial IDEs and editors shine - you get all these things properly set up out of the box.

In Emacs, I ordinarily have to wire half a dozen components to get this to work, and a different language may use different components. LSP is a great step forward here, in that most of the data and actions for aforementioned features come through a single pipe, so it's a matter of patching up the UI to taste.
Show HN: Thoughts as NFTs
Howdy! As many have recently understood or discovered, NFTs usually don't contain the actual art work on sale, but rather just point to it.

I've had a bit of a think on what "art work" could actually be stored inside the actual token, and thus "live" on the blockchain, and the obvious answer to me is: thoughts!

You can put a thought directly into the token, and mint it as an NFT. Even the biggest thoughts are small enough to be stored directly on the blockchain.

Based on this I have launched NFThoughts.com, and minted what I believe to be the first ever thought to be stored on chain as a NFT - https://opensea.io/collection/nfthoughts

This is of course only half-serious, but it is also only half-joking, and I'd love to see what discussion ensues on the merits or idiocy of this idea :)
There's a corollary with illiteracy but for mathematics, called innumeracy. Perhaps there's another for software, which is essentially a language of logic. It could be called illogicity. You could make up your own term if you don't like that one.

Literature is not just spelling and grammar, and mathematics is not just numbers and equations. Likewise, software is not just code and computers. Each of these are ways of thinking, methods of communicating, realms to explore, and systems for organizing the world.

I would not be surprised if there are other systems like these which we have not yet discovered or invented. At least, I hope that there are.
You don't need to be a Swiss citizen to work in Switzerland. EU citizens are entitled to move to CH and work there — all that's needed is a job offer. Of course, there may be issues like language to overcome (many jobs will use the local language, though some companies are English-speaking) or a bias against non-Swiss folks but those aren't legal or technical hurdles.

It's much harder to get a job as a non-Swiss/non-EU.
I wonder if it’d be better to not try and prevent global warming, but instead spend money and research on preparing for it. Can someone tell me why this is a terrible idea?
I am not really following you. The appeal of an nft is that it doesn't rely on a saas, it doesn't rely on a trusted third party that needs up time that needs to be available in the future.

Jacob Collier tried to sell an nft that granted lifetime access to his concerts.

The appeal of such an nft is that it can be traded independently of any third party, on the open market.

Of course it depends on Jacob's promise to honor it.

He went back on it when people raised environmental issues.
While the separation can be helpful, it also minimizes the actual carbon footprint of our food system. Petrochemical production, for instance, is a different category according to the epa. But one of the biggest uses of petrochemicals is fertilizer production. Trucking and shipping is its own category. Guess what relies on a lot of trucking and shipping? And so on.

Typically what counts as agricultural emissions are literally tilling, tractor fuel, cow emissions, etc. we really need to look at the whole system, together, for a clear picture. When we do that it obvious that our industrial food production is deeply tied to every aspect of fossil fuel use, land use, and atmospheric c02 in general.
The virtual reality social network would also need to be decentralized. Otherwise, why use NFTs when the social network host could just manage ownership through traditional means?
The early web was a bubble that burst. Yes it also reminds me of that time.
opensource the database (just as dying companies should opensource repair manuals and signing keys - have fun with your blockchain-authenticated John Deere). and regularly archive the state hash in a public archive.
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Maybe someone can reverse engineer the webpage and fix them?
The ecosystem is already pretty split on several fronts, not just typing. Python 2 vs 3, async vs blocking, packaging tools, etc.

I left python 3 or 4 years ago and not planning to go back (basically the company I was working for mandated they were not going to ever upgrade to python 3 because of the effort required and thus stopped all migration related projects).

The language is nice, and frameworks such as Django are great, but the mess the ecosystem has become is not something I miss.
It’s not anything like diamonds - diamond prices have slowly and consistently increased over the last 100 years and doesn’t see the crazy 20-30% swings in weekly prices that NFTs and even BTC sees. It’s considered a safe investment with a solid store or value. And dismissing them as “only useful for grinders” dismisses their value in jewelry. If millions find joy in having diamonds in their jewelry then I’d say there’s plenty of use for them.
I think people are willing to accept the environmental impact of concerts. If you're not, then you'll quickly fall into the "no ethical consumption in a capitalist society" pit of despair.

People can see the value created by a concert: the socializing, the experience. And they can take steps to mitigate the impact.

How do you mitigate the environmental impact of a proof of work blockchain?
I don't get the point. Why not just send monthly payments to a programme like Ecologi (https://ecologi.com/)? Of course, if you can convince people who you can't convince otherwise, this is helpful too.
It's not common at all, but it's very achievable for most engineers in the US if they're willing to live below their means. Engineers in the US make 2-3x the median income. The difference in disposable income is even greater when you subtract off the costs of necessities. And yet, those other people aren't working 2-3x as many years.

It may mean not going out to eat all the time, not buying a fancy new car all the time, not having a fancy house in the most prestigious neighborhood, etc. I'm not saying it's bad to buy or want these things, but they are luxuries you pay for with hours in the office.

Early retirement is even easier if retire doesn't mean, "never work for money again", and instead means, "I don't have to take salary into consideration when deciding when/where to work".
I'm an engineer living in the SF Bay area who doesn't make tech money and I'll still be able to retire after 15-20 years, easily, while still having waaaay more than my parents did when I was growing up.
Are you asking if customers are willing to pay more for products that feature a SBOM? I think this is more a regulation idea.
That's large part of what Bjorn Lomborg is advocating: https://www.lomborg.com
I first tried wellbutrin, which is used for both depression and mild ADD.

It was not the right choice (it's hard to describe, but it felt like trying to push through a sheet of latex- I could it helping, but it felt like that. also, I was getting some physical side effects), but gaining that mild stimulant and then losing it caused me to bring it up. Combined with my parents trying ADD meds when I was young caused my doctor give me one of those ADD tests, and I was far enough over the line to try it. And it worked.

I'm only on 25mg which is too much some days (but you can adjust the dosage yourself), but my doctor was very open to the conversation (maybe because I paid him directly, no insurance).

It's the kind of thing (both Anti-Deps and Stimulants) everyone should explore if they think they might help.

Hit me with questions. Mental Health is not something I am ashamed of (nor should anyone else be IMO)

EDIT. Lexapro was the 2nd med tried, and it works well enough where I don't feel like rolling the dice again.
You can't even verify you donated money to an artist. Unless the artist confirms the public key used for the token, you have no fucking clue who made the token.
You might enjoy Tiny Rails for Android then ;)
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