skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's clear which way the tide is moving

It's only clear that the way this is measured is heavily biased: 4 options out of 8 are against current FSF/RMS' statu quo. Only 2 are for supporting the statu quo. And 1 is for indifference, and the last one for more discussion needed.

If you overcharge the negative choices, it's kind of given most of the answers will fall in them. Survey design 101.

For reference:

- Option 1 "Call for the FSF board removal, as in rms-open-letter.github.io"

- Option 2 "Call for Stallman's resignation from all FSF bodies"

- Option 3 "Discourage collaboration with the FSF while Stallman is in a leading position"

- Option 4 "Call on the FSF to further its governance processes"

- Option 5 "Support Stallman's reinstatement, as in rms-support-letter.github.io"

- Option 6 "Denounce the witch-hunt against RMS and the FSF"

- Option 7 "Debian will not issue a public statement on this issue"

- Option 8 "Further Discussion"
My surmise is that debt is slavery and those controlling the debt seek to add to their thrall collection.
I was aiming for a tongue-in-cheek way of noting this had been recently discussed, without quite naming this a dupe, though by HN guidelines it probably is.

HN isn't beyond a level of repeated discussion, and even has accrued a set of perennial favourites. Diamonds in particular are forever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26701421 Also eyeglasses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19317023

Ongoing stories / long-term developing issues and phenomena can see new developments/understanding hashed out. Largely-similar stories without new developments, not so much. See dang's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22014114

With new research, there's a fairly predictable progression from pre-publication releases, journal article, discussion of article, hot- and cold-takes, researcher interviews, criticisms, books, reviews of book, etc., etc. Each adding to the earlier in a manner much as this particular article discussus. Though that's in large part simply a dynamic of today's media environment.

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
Maybe the subtle influences that led you to buying such a drink in the first place are directly related to increased advertising for them. Also Amazon has your Whole Foods purchasing data, so that probably trickled down somewhere.
In a honest non-secure version, just like in the old times.
you are not as bad as the last person who miss understood you.

if people generally understand you and one person does not its them. if most people don’t understand you its you.
> this is the first time I've heard someone trying to say PoS would lead to MORE decentralization.

As time goes by, the number of people holding a token goes up, and competition among the staking services goes up, which results in more decentralization.

Take for instance on Tezos, with better internet we can eventually get RPi connected to Starlink which can be installed by the users themselves and start staking.

As hardware technology progresses, PoW goes in the opposite direction. Initially anyone can mine, but later only the most specialized optimized hardware will mine irrespective of the number of people holding the token.
But what are the externalities?! You and the upthread poster aren't elucidating any. All we have at hand is the linked article, which is... a fire. Batteries burn, in a safer and more controlled way than gasoline.

How is that a bad thing? What are you asking for battery or car manufacturers to do that they aren't already doing simply by replacing existing more-dangerous technology?
No you see that is what the heteropatriarchal meanies at the Free Software Foundation wants you to believe in reality if you don’t completely change your institution every time a pink haired person complains in Twitter it means you are a nazi and or rapist

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Edit: it’s sarcasm just on case
I buy $15 worth of bitcoin every 2 weeks, so $30 a month. I'm not comfortable investing any more than that. So far this has worked out really well for me because I never invest more than I'm comfortable losing, and therefore feel immune to crashes.
Governments have banned many things, wildly popular things, even in democratic nations.

While I agree popularity reduces risk, some Governments have banned alcohol for years, or how about even banning certain types of securities (2008 crash)?

To say it is not the same is moot, for, the point is things get banned, popular or not.
> Anyway, the point is that he has a great job at a booming

> company, with nothing but bright days ahead, and he can’t

> enjoy it because he knows other people are getting a lot

> more.

That's only partially true. You might have just realized that you're worth more, and that you could do about the same job at a different company and get better remuneration.

I can offer an anecdotal example: back in my first job I had reached quite a happy point. I was able to do my job without much problems, I was competent for my tasks, and my compensation was okay-ish. Not great, but I could sustain myself and get me something nice every now and then.

Then I started seeing people as competent as me leave and get waaaay better remuneration, doing jobs maybe different but still interesting/engaging, still rewarding.

Anyway, I stayed there for about two more years, then I left. My next job was a ton of fun, got competent at it again after some initial ramp-up, and was making waaay more than my first job.
So if the US scrapped USD in favor of bitcoin, we wouldn't need the army anymore? This argument never makes sense to me.
These guys are amazingly productive, while also running a commercial company
How do you get to 2/3rds? I am not familiar with Debian's voting system, but I get just under 1/2 in favor publically supporting removal.

I define "support" as preferring an option over "Further Discussion".

According to [0], there were 420 unique voters. Using 420 as the denominator, and collumn 8 [1] as the numerator, we get the following approval voting results:

1) Call for the FSF board removal, as in rms-open-letter.github.io - 203/420 = 48%

2) Call for Stallman's resignation from all FSF bodies - 222/42 = 53%

3) Discourage collaboration with the FSF while Stallman is in a leading position - 19/420 - 52%

4) Call on the FSF to further its governance processes - 221/42 = 53%

5) Support Stallman's reinstatement, as in rms-support-letter.github.io - 52/420 = 12%

6) Denounce the witch-hunt against RMS and the FSF - 84/420 = 20%

7) Debian will not issue a public statement on this issue - 277/420 = 65%

8) Further Discussion - N/A

It does not look like individual votes have been released yet. If they were, I would like to see how accurate my assumption that no one "approves" of both his presence and absence from the board. The sum of approval for both 1 and 5 is 255 = 61%, so it seems like most of the no statement voters actively disprove of a statement in either direction (instead of simply preferring no statement)

[0] https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_rms/

[1] https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_rms/results.txt
Agents aren’t required in the US at all.
Full paths are probably used to avoid malicious $PATH issues (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html).

It should just be `sort -rn | uniq`, no point in sorting the list twice.
> Or am I smart not to gamble in such an obviously rigged game?

This can not be understated. Everything about “crypto currencies” and NFTs are a complete and total rig job. It’s not even hidden by the large SV capital, simply justified on the basis that...so what it’s the same thing the markets or art collectors have always done.

Instead of backroom dealings, it all takes place in chat rooms and discord servers. I’ll admit as somewhat of an artist I thought I’d submit my work to a “invite only” NFT marketplace and sure enough I get a DM from one of the most prolific and successful artists shaking me down for Bitcoin in exchange for the invite promising me a minimum amount in monthly NFT sales. Of course thinking that was a potential scam, I inquired about the pay to play and was not only told how the whole thing works from the founders down to these “anonymous” NFT collectors on Twitter run by the marketplaces themselves, and to confirm it I posted a tweet immediately liked by one such profile (to put in perspective the profile had bought an NFT from Musk’s partner for I think around $750k).

I never sent the Bitcoin on the basis of being disgusted with the whole thing, which in hindsight makes me a complete moron. Everyday as I see “artists” thanking the anonymous Twitter account for changing their life with a purchase of their NFT or how they are in tears because they can pay their student loan off...I consider giving the discord art submission, dm, and tweet to the news media...but then I realize they don’t care they probably are in on it too, or at least would calculate the amount of money on ad revenue and clicks they would lose if they exposed this scam and they could no longer write daily stories about NFTs.

You can definitely make money, just always remember it is a repeat of the gold rush and just marketing to poor people about life changing opportunity and gold so plentiful you can just pickup nuggets as large as your head, all you need to do if move to their town and buy their shovels. If you have no morals about it the better bet is to tell them you aren’t much of a digger but one hell of a shovel salesmen with a wink.
https://twitter.com/DereckCoatney/status/1383440872679739394

A more detailed table with a breakdown
Walking Fosters Creativity
No, they should have used a standard process for general resolutions and not special cased it. Which is what they did. They have a constitution and a democratic process that requires proposals, seconding, a period of open discussion, and then a vote.

They agreed on their voting system in advance exactly to handle cases where the vote might be contentious.
What about Java? As far as I know, everyone was very happy OpenJDK existed and Oracle eventually relented too. Now we have even more interesting stuff like Graal.

Disclaimer : I'm still new and learning Java.
No- care is basically the same, but the risks can be much larger. Your gums etc. are still at risk from bacterial buildup, and plaque etc live on your teeth more than they use it as a food source. Implants still develop plaque and calculus.

If the gum starts receding from a tooth or an infection occurs, there are still barriers between it and the bone, and the body can repair some damage. Implants pass the point of no return far more quickly. If you get an infection around the implant, the bone around the implant will start breaking down and the implant will reject.
Living in a walkable city, it's remarkable when I go back to my hometown. There, everything is spread out so people don't really walk. The difference in people's body sizes is noticeable immediately.
He isn't perfect, he said something insensitive in the Epstein causa, now all kinds of ridiculous allegations and warranted criticism gets mixed into a toxic cocktail, which doesn't allow anyone to move forward productively.

If RMS accepts his cancellation, he basically caves to wrongful accusations. If he stays, we can't move forward and get work done because of the drama and all the viable reasons why he shouldn't be a central, public FSF spokesperson anymore.

Plus, everyone really just wants to see the FSF fail anyway, for some reason.
You should ask Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad founder) about this, was an early Pinterest employee but left early to start Gumroad.
Emotional reductions are only effective when there is power behind them, constantly pushing to make them a dominant narrative. Authoritarianism thrives on asymmetry and inconsistency - fighting back by imitating its techniques is ineffectual.
> Many companies build their infrastructure on open source software, with proprietary glue being a small percent.

This too is a sweeping generalization ;), a good one though. We're pretty fortunate to have a lot of our building blocks made using open source software. Boost libraries to openssl, most of the stack is open source including the programming language. Although, the proprietary glue is the important bit.

An architect's work is more than just bricks and mortar.
No. Do you have evidence that anonymity would have mattered?

The vote totals seem in line with historical votes.
So if "the tide is moving" in some direction, it's a foregone conclusion? Globally the tide seems to be moving towards socialism, so let's just get it over with?
I didn't lose my first baby-tooth until I was nine years old—and I lost that one in an accident where I slipped and hit my mouth on the bathroom sink. For the next couple of years I lost a few teeth naturally. Around 13, I had nine baby teeth pulled in the space of a couple months to encourage the permanent teeth I did have underneath to move in and one had to be sort-of anchored and pulled up over time. But I still have several baby teeth in my mouth even now and I'm over 40. The only good part of it is that I was also missing wisdom teeth so never had to worry about having those removed.
I agree, I think at the end of the day, every asset gets 100% of it's value based on speculation. Though it may not be obvious.

Let's say that a stock has value because of some combination of:
1. The underlying's earnings/cash flow, and
2. Speculation (I want to buy stocks that I think other people will want to buy)

But if you think about it, #1 is also just speculation. Because at the end of the day, you are risking $X to make $Y. You are placing a bet that tomorrow, some other people will come to value this stock (perhaps based on earnings) higher than you do today.

So basically, speculation has always been a thing and there are enduring assets whose price is more or less agreed to be entirely based on speculation and speculation alone (e.g. gold).
Bitcoin is very practical for me. I use it primarily to protect my savings, but also to send anonymous donations to causes I support.
Really funny to see stuff like this on hackers news.

Liberals arts majors appropriate mathematical language in an attempt to appropriate mathematics' reputation. Why is racism "prejudice + power" in this philosophy rather than "prejudice AND power"? It's because liberal art majors know that the lay public is more likely to believe mathematical conclusions than e.g. psychology or sociology or critical race theory conclusions. So they wrap their race theory arguments in mathematical language in order to trade on mathematics' sterling reputation for rigour and correctness.

It's always funny to see things like this on hacker news because well... There are a lot of mathematicians here. We know what "plus" actually means, and well, there's no sense in which "plus" fits.
Which Frame? Search a Video Semantically with OpenAI’s CLIP Neural Network
Sounds like you're fetishizing credentials. WebMD is a terrible resource, and nobody here is suggesting otherwise.

Doctors complete their CME eduction credits on sites like Medscape, which are 1) owned by WebMD
2) Are supported by dark pattern Pharma Marketing on sites.
3) Are frequently visited (and bribed) by Pharma reps.

Doing ones own research, and becoming informed are necessary first steps before engaging with Doctors.
> obesity, racism, worker mistreatment by employers

Not going to lie, but I feel most people don't care about these either. All I see are platitudes.
Did anything changed about tether having to reveal anything about their reserves?

This has been going on for years, and it seemed that nobody was able to force them to prove anything.
Source? My layman's understanding was that sex isn't a primary motivator for rapists and that for other kinds of impulsive behaviors the use of a surrogate strengthened rather than quelled, e.g., violent tendencies. Is that not a correct worldview?
The behaviour with UTF8 is still so strange to me. I get random behaviour during piping commands because utf8 still isn't the default for everything.
The introduction of the idea of a "Market-focused" company is so trivial and unimaginative here that I can't think for a second anyone worth their salt as an operator would do much more than roll their eyes. This kind of content that creates these sort of false dichotomies that capture some bad aspects of poor business strategy and then present some idea where you correct these wrongs as novel is just so... brutally uninteresting. The fact that this stuff floats to the top of HN as become as unsurprising as it is disappointing. Some "bad thing bad" title that people don't even bother reading gets pumped up, and then when you take a moment to dig in and digest the content, it's a whole bunch of nothin'.
Yeah it "can" be valued but we can also see that it doesn't really seem like valuations are connected to actual company value
Technically the system is designed such that the CC company knows nothing of the receipt and the merchant knows nothing of the buyer.

If you're using a store card, the merchant == the CC company and so knows everything about you anyways.

If you're not using the store card, the merchant probably has an agreement with the CC company to share the information, so the technical implementation is irrelevant.
Which turns out to be the right answer.
It depends upon what is available for your device and what you want out of the firmware.

What I will suggest is looking at the device specific forums at XDA. You will get an idea of what is available and what is reliable. Personally, I shy away from distributions that don't include a "what works" and "what doesn't work" section in the first post. I also prefer "official" distributions. At the very least, it is easier to track updates. The next filter I use is feature based. In this context, look for distributions that don't include Gapps and offer additional privacy enhancing features. Once you have something that you think you want, read the thread for the distribution. It often reveals pitfalls, variations within the model, and variations between carriers. These pitfalls exist even with the popular distributions, which is another reason to check out the forums.

I went with OmniROM this time around, but I have been happy with Resurrection Remix on other devices. Some devices have nice alternatives that are specific to them. As an example, I use KatKiss on the Asus TF300T. For a while, it was running a more recent version of Android than my much newer phone!
What I wonder is if that would be a good thing, at least from a selfish standpoint. Wechat is gaining traction in Western markets.
> In my experience, successful people go work hard and are excited about "the right things" and incur financial benefits along the way. If you are working on the right stuff in the right way, on average you should get good comp/bonuses.

Is this true, or a form or survival biais ? I am most of us agree that working hard is somewhat a requirement for meaningful success. What is in question here is whether it's sufficient.
We all know a lot of hard working people who aren't successful

From my experience, in the business world, unless one if very lucky or incredibly talented incuring financial benefits doesn't just happen from hard work. And the first step is the ability to ask a fair share of the value one is generating.

> "Sometimes people mistake generosity for not being fair. Generosity is good, entitlement is bad, and they can easily be confused, so be crystal clear on which is which. Decisions should be based on what you believe is warranted" -- Ray Salio

I think one can be unfair in the way one is generous.
nothing a "img = document.createElement('img'); img.src = 'https://your-server.net/t=' + Date.now() + '&u=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href); document.body.append(img);" won't fix
> If you overcharge the negative choices, it's kind of given most of the answers will fall in them

That's not how it works. The voters are asked to rank all options according to their preference, and a winner is chosen according to an extended Condorcet criterion. Adding similar options doesn't affect the outcome.
While dieting contributes the most to weight loss, I believe some simple exercises + calorie counting goes a long way. When you understand how much physical effort is needed to burn off that snickers bar you're thinking about snacking on, it becomes much easier to put it off.
He is stating h facts not a thing more than that it could be read as speculation only by the very naive so let’s drop the dishonesty we know how canonical has been acting lately in regards to the whole Linux community so let’s drop any pretende of why the canonical employee acted we all know why
How it really works, even (especially) at FAANG:

1. Get one thing right.

2. Sit back and make my monies.
CNN and its ilk haven't been news for a very long time. Moreover, classifying them as "middle of the road" is insulting to those of use who are centrist, middle of the roaders.
I’m not saying that all artists are in on it (probably very few of them are). But the truth is that the artists who are getting paid are the ones pushing NFTs as “the future of art” and who have the influence to rope in newcomers. Collectors in the space refer to this as “engaging with the community”.

The crypto-famous NFT collector “Silver Surfer”, known for dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on NFTs [1], tweets “celebrities that fail to get engaged with their communities will continue to have weak secondary [NFT] sales.” [2] That’s weird, I wonder why the money would stop flowing if the artist stopped tweeting about NFTs? Doesn’t their art still have value?

The truth is, if you spend enough time around the crypto art community, you realize that there aren’t any “real” art collectors in the space. There are crypto speculators, and there are artists who feel obliged to “engage with the community”. The lack of real money flowing into the space is what leads me to label this as a marketing campaign, as opposed to a completely organic movement. It’s a somewhat decentralized marketing campaign, but it’s a marketing campaign nonetheless.

[1] https://twitter.com/makersplaceco/status/1359654252944105473

[2] https://twitter.com/7Surfer7Silver7/status/13827818844433367...
In my experience, relying on "prettifier" websites is directly a result of the lack of canonical, well-supported CLI tools for prettifying most programming and markup languages. It's such a weird glaring gap in dev tooling.

I'd love to see "standard" prettifiers for HTML, CSS, JSON, YAML, and TOML. The required libraries exist and the problem isn't terribly hard if you aren't picky about corner cases. I'm sure countless programmers have written such tools already. Where is the disconnect?
Is that true over short time periods for stocks though? I get the sense that publications / news media can come up for reasoning on why a stock went up or down after it occurred, but I'm not convinced it's truly causation in most cases, but instead just correlation that they came up with.

In general, I think trying to reason about assets over short periods of times typically comes down to emotions rather than fundamentals. Over longer periods of time, fundamentals can start to have some affect.

For crypto, I do think there is a narrative that can be pointed to for the run up over the past year - a mix of defi projects that are actually getting traction, scaling solutions for Ethereum allowing it to catch up to demand, and a general inflation scare that drives interest in fixed supply assets not controlled by a central party.
Is it difficult to migrate an existing database to Citus? In my project I designed the database so that each table includes a tenantId - so in this regard I'm well prepared I guess.