skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a commenter takes strong stands on the relative merits of projects or commercial products, and there's a whiff of involved partisanship, a clickthrough is pretty easy & wise.

And, it often has the added benefit of more useful credibility context than just revealing blatant conflicts.

It's impractical to expect a commenter to consider, for every comment, "how much involvement in these particular topics should I declare?". That's especially the case on topics for which the commenter often comments, or multiple comments in related threads in a long discussion - where such a standard would be onerous for both the author, and the readers.

Add major affiliations to the bio, and I'd say you're covered for comments related to those affiliations, as it's then easy to check for anyone observing any partisanship, without encumbering all writing/reading with redundant disclosure-noise.
>I guess that, like me, a lot of us didn't want to store their BTC with MtGOX

Who in their right mind would store Bitcoin anywhere else than a well backed up hard drive?

I was trading the ups and downs, they didn't have any fees for a long time, so you could buy low, sell high, and repeat. Today a limit order could have bought at 31,000 and then turned around and sold at 36,000 or more.

But... never try to catch a falling knife. ;-)
Coming from the opposite direction, there is a theory of humor that basically says that what humans find funny are things that are not usually ok made ok.

This is also known and the "benign-violation theory"[1]. Things are funny when they should offend or violate (even at some simplistic level) but don't. Someone slips and falls? It can be funny as long as we judge them to be mostly unharmed.

Back into your context, and to reinforce what you said: it's possible you're instinctively trying to communicate that, as dry as the communication is, you're trying to add levity to the subject matter.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/funny-h...
To install a Type 1 font on Windows, you must have the .PFM file that normally accompanies the font's .PFB file and should be in the same directory as the .PFB file. You right click on the .PFM file and select Install.

(This won't work as-is for .PFA/.AFM file pairs.)
Trying to register with NickServ with my gmail, which is by far my primary email address.

> Sorry, we do not accept registrations with email addresses from that domain. Use another address.

That's going to limit adoption.
To what?

If you want to remain in the industry, but just switch job to something non-Engineering, like management, an MBA could work.

If you want to try something completely different, you may need to re-educate yourself, if it's a different professional job / licensed profession (nursing, medicine, accounting, etc.)

If you want to try something that doesn't need a new degree, well, try reaching out to your employer of choice, and explain your situation.
Globalist advice is to shit up and conform.
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Since I've upgraded to Fedora 34 (been on Walyand before though) Firefox disconnects from Wayland and crashes whenever there's a bit of IO going on.

Haven't had a tab crash in quite some time though.
Because of the way that Phoenix handles HTML templates it’s probably one of the most memory efficient.

https://bignerdranch.com/blog/elixir-and-io-lists-part-2-io-...
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Making money is when your revenues are higher than your costs.
Before 1973, the phone company owned the wires right up to the phone on the wall, and often owned the phone as well.

Then the FCC mandated that customer-provided equipment be supported, assuming it met standards.

The RJ11 jack (and siblings, right up to the RJ45 for ethernet) came into widespread use after that.
> a partnership doesn’t seem to cover what went down in any way

True, but we only know that in hindsight. At the time the claim about acquisition was disputed [1] [2]. If somebody replied with information about voting rights [3] then perhaps the "joining forces" title would have been treated as misleading and replaced with "purchased by".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102301

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102139

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207992
Aaand it's gone (the $15k). My point is that the Fed effectively devalued the world's reserve currency in order to stimulate the American economy. But some, perhaps significant, percentage of people instead blew that stimulus on a risky, volatile investment that does nothing to boost our productivity. And now the gains have been erased.
So you're saying that in this distributed ledger where we proof-of-stake and proof-of-work and proof-of-doge everything, there are some agents which are more special than other and we should trust them?

Interesting.
> Look at the data.

The way that the death rate in SF is very low comparatively suggests that overshooting with social policy has been very effective.

Those "performative displays of mask wearing in public when it isn't really necessary" actually worked.

Wearing masks when you don't have to produced social pressure towards wearing masks all the time and when it was more necessary and that turns out to have saved lives.

They should start unwinding that now, but it'll take a few months.

For all the people who fixate on the fact that "its not necessary" -- yes, it was, because humans aren't rational like you think they should be. Yep, we're often just "sheep" and "follow the herd", but the "irrational" policies in SF saved lives.

Looking at the graphs of the SF metro area they did about as good as Seattle metro did even though SF is more densely packed. They were way better than Dallas and saved a lot of lives compared to LA.
Reading this reminds me of discussions I have seen about "The Gang Problem" in Denmark. Often this includes lots of racism. Of course it isn't fun if you get caught in the crossfire but looking at the numbers of gang-members does show how tiny a problem it is compared to lots of other places and other kinds of crime.

Wiki says "130 Bandidos and 290 Hells Angels" in the War but looking up the numbers show that in Denmark there's a total of 1257 people know to be gang affiliated (out of 5,8 million). Outside these flare-ups The Gang Problem is close to non-existent. Looking at Sweden though it is a completely different picture (and
Wiki states that motorcycle gangs in Scandinavia started out in Sweden). I wonder why that is?
And that is exactly what led to the current problem with freenode, right?

I mean, I am not disagreeing that the "old internet way" has it's perks. But it is also the lack of any formal organization or legal rights that let one person who had enough money/power to do so destroy freenode by claiming he owned it.

You want that not to happen again, you might want to do something different. And indeed the announcement acknowledges that, that's why there is "a non-profit association in Sweden, with all our staff holding equal stakes" in the first place. It would just be helpful for a bit more transparency around that too. I personally assume it will come, it's just an oversight (no pun intended).
Remember those IBM commercials talking about blockchain for coffee supply chains?

What prevents the Colombian farmer from putting whatever beans they want in the bag?
I totally agree and it is not only a step in the direction of redistributing the internet and information, but it also concerns me a lot that Google is working on this because I have next to zero amount of confidence that they will not abuse RSS and this will not track you and essentially kill RSS by simply taking it over.

What is that dark pattern called again that Microsoft is so famous for? … join and effort, co-opt/compromise it, and then take it over and make it their own; leaving the original effort totally eviscerated?

Edit: apparently someone else (sthnblllII) smells exactly the same trap but knew the term/phrase; "embrace extend extinguish".
That's basically it, yes for sure I could install some external pubsub software & associated frontend & backend boilerplate with any other stack but I just wouldn't bother doing it for just refreshing a tiny counter whereas with phoenix pubsub & liveview, it's just one line of code.

It helps you to add lots of tiny quality of life improvements to your product that you wouldn't bother with normally.
It's not about lawyers being good or not. What we currently have in financial markets is far from a lawful or just system. Just look how Musk manipulated TSLA and got away with a slap on the wrist $20 Million fine. He openly mocked it on twitter afterwards. And that's just a blatant example from someone who doesn't even care to hide it. That recent GME manipulation wasn't an exception, it's the norm. There are a ton of hedge funds engaged in "technically" illegal trades worth billions of dollars. But who's going to stop them when they're in uncovered short positions, which happens all the time. There is no higher power. The SEC is a paper tiger. If you want to sue Citadel, be their guest. The lawyer's fees and occasional fines they pay are already taken into account. Not that someone like you and me could even afford to bring a case against them.
Essentially, possession is nine-tenths of the law, and controlling a cryptographic token is unlikely to change that.
Usually a generator outside that you have to walk to.
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I've sold a few projects like this, ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. Some were a week or two of my time, versus the $20,000 exit was 3 years that I'm sure in this market would have been worth 3x that amount (such is life).

I don't have time to devout 40 hrs/week to projects, but can spend a few hours here and there. So for me, if I can turn some free time into cash and scratch that itch, all the better.
This doesn't look like a crash to me at all.

Yes, this just looks like normal volatility. The price of Bitcoin is still 4x what it was a year ago.

The DJIA is down to where it was last month. Big deal. That's more driven by macroeconomic policy and the real world.
I personally don't mind, I use the Elizabeth Arden 8h cream myself, which contains petrolatum and vitamin E as well. Btw do you think the salicylic acid in the cream helps? It's one of the ingredients that's "uncommon".

Maybe you could even highlight why you use petrolatum.
I can only speak about my experience and other people have their experiences, which do not want to invalidate.

Back in my IRC days in the 90s (from somewhere around '91) I only knew people on (German) #Linuxger, #Linux.de and #Java.de channel by nick, no clue about gender or anything beside Linux and Java.

Ah the times of Nickbot.

Years later when some people met IRL for the first time, everyone was suprised about everyone else.

(this was some years before the WWW, and before digital photography etc.)
Great work Mozilla! I can't remember the last time Firefox crashed for me (Linux). I am using the upstream version though, as I prefer security fixes in my browser to be applied as soon as possible.
Nicely offsets their crappy AMP stuff.

Also allows them to sidestep all sorts of cookie limitations on personal data. Smart.
Yes but are those outages linked to specific stocks/crypto or happen randomly? RH had a major outage on one of the busiest trading days and people were upset but quickly forgiving. What's happened recently is not the same.
If you push yourself beyond the bounds of the expected, one good thing happens. Other companies are more willing to hire you.

Pay rises happened to me several times. Promotions within the same company, never. The way to step up, as on a proper stairway, is to also step forward.
Yes, we will struggle with the inflation and currency devaluation caused by the stimulus for years to come. If that money actually made its way into the US economy it might not matter, but some nonzero percentage was used to buy crypto at a peak, the value of which is now gone.
I grew up in a small village and hadn't heard of JEE before I entered the 12th grade. I tried to prepare by myself and failed spectacularly. A lot of the questions rely on tricks or insights that you typically learn only in coaching classes. My neighbor's son, who actually went to school in a nearby big town, had signed up for coaching classes. He did much better than me, and from chatting with him (post-exam), I could tell he had learned these tricks in his coaching classes.

So, clearly, lack of coaching classes hurt my chances.

In any case, I never joined the IITs, but joined another engineering college thanks to my scoring very well in the final exam.
And what if some engineer at github changes the original one to say that all my money has been sent to his account?
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Arch Linux does not do this, instead preferring to upstream patches [0]:

> Arch Linux defines simplicity as without unnecessary additions or modifications. It ships software as released by the original developers (upstream) with minimal distribution-specific (downstream) changes: patches not accepted by upstream are avoided, and Arch's downstream patches consist almost entirely of backported bug fixes that are obsoleted by the project's next release.

It's one of the core things that has kept me on Arch as a daily driver, even long after I've lost the urge to endlessly tweak my system configuration. I can trust that the software I use is simply vanilla upstream software with little or no modifications, and that's a great advantage when it comes to filing upstream bug reports and working on patches. In addition, it means the Arch Wiki is fairly general in its applicability, and effort spent documenting software for Arch can apply equally well to, for example, Void Linux (which also has this "vanilla software" philosophy).

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux
Inventory databases are not useless as you have correctly observed. However, blockchains offer zero advantages over conventional inventory databases.
Apparently London Trust Media, the company founded by Andrew Lee and which purchased Freenode, has now rebranded under the name "Imperial Family Companies". londontrustmedia.com now redirects to https://imperialfamily.com/ and it lists Freenode under Technology.

Andrew Lee also claims to be the crown prince of Korea, which was no doubt the inspiration for this move: https://www.latimes.com/business/real-estate/story/2020-12-0...

Lee also hired Mark Karpelès (of Mt.Gox infamy) as CTO of London Trust Media. and he is still listed as CTO of Shells.com, which is also owned by Imperial Family Companies: https://www.shells.com/l/en-US/team

Edit: Comment was moved, reworded to make it work in its new context.
> unintended consequences

I'm sorry but you have to be very short sighted to call single dose coffee in non-recyclable capsules "unintended" waste.
They'd have the consent of everyone to do it. The network controls the applicable laws, the court could be something defined by those laws with the authority to do this.

It could be something where like:

Any party in the chain of transaction (so anyone who used to own something) can use their key to initiate a "claim of wrongdoing".

When doing so, the network could assign say 5 jury from a pool, and grant them the power to vote on "remediation".

Now if the network started to feel like this became a means for abuse and loopholes, it could choose to modify the laws of the network to something else.

Basically, at the end of the day, it works very similarly to a democratic society. But things are run and managed on the blockchain network instead of pen/paper and various other systems.
It's not a hard problem, it's an impossible problem, because it violates the first law of cybersecurity: physical access means game over. When you start allowing untrained and un-punishable customers to mess with your meatspace database, of course it will lose all semblance of usefulness.

This problem is not hard to solve when you limit physical access, i.e. in a warehouse, pharmacy, or locked room where multiple employees are responsible for checking in and out items. These solutions arose directly out of your conundrum in retail, and investigations are launched when someone discovers a mismatch between inventory and real life (think toxic chemicals, drugs, etc).

Of course it just so happens that nobody wants to go to a grocery store where they're not allowed to touch the items.
Perhaps the problem is the concept of a default button. The practical application for it is simply to push the user to the company preferred path rather than provide a choice.

In any case if one button is the more common choice it can be indicated by position or by a more subtle way than making it appear like there is only one button.
I love this story because the story has a an unwritten and deeper title "Do what you love and love what you do". True, while the unwritten title may not have grabbed most of those here who really appreciated it (myself included), it underlies what arguably really motivates a lot of teens to work any job, which is working a job doing what they like.

I was "tricked" or "crimped" into my first job the day before my 16th birthday. I accompanied my dad on a shopping trip, and he asked the manager there if he was hiring, gesturing to me. I didn't have a chance to express my own point of view in the course of this conversation. And by the time we left the store, I was supposed to show up the next day to be hired.

I wasn't thrilled to work there, but the first paycheck I received motivated me to continue working. It funded my evenings out and my sci-fi and comic book collecting, and let me save for my first car, a '71 red Buick Skylark with powerful V8.

But I would have liked it better if the story of my first job was more like this story.
This is great. I've done my fair share of griping about Firefox's many UI and functional regressions, but these types of stability improvments are very welcome and much appreciated.
Weird. It let me use my Gmail address.
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Typically such theft happens not on the blockchain but rather blockchain-adjacent.

This works because blockchains are too expensive and inconvenient to use. Instead people use exchanges, which provide none of the guarantees.

And that’s a basic rule of finance (and fraud): security measures will be bypassed because trusting people is always cheaper and easier, until it fails.

I read a fantastic book about this recently:

Lying For Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World

https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings...
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>Spending money to help someone who committed a crime that you wouldn't spend to help them if they hadn't is not a widely agreeable position.

It seems to me that doing so is a great idea. Firstly, given that these folks have (presumably so, but many folks plead guilty to crimes they have not committed, which is a travesty, but beyond the scope of this comment) committed a crime is pretty clear proof that they are having issues integrating into society.

Secondly, except for those who commit violent crimes (a minority of inmates), most folks will be released at some point.

Once those folks are released, they are now responsible for taking care of themselves economically and living in society. If we continue doing what we do now, by not giving them tools and skills to reintegrate into society and stigmatizing them for life, we severely limit their ability to live as productive members of society.

This has a negative effect on society (in that these folks are being actively discriminated against and shut out from many decent jobs) and limits the productivity and economic output of these people in performing jobs compatible with society.

Those are huge negatives for all of us. We're reducing economic output, creating pariahs and increasing the possibility of recidivism, which costs society more when those folks re-offend and are then re-incarcerated.

As such, I posit that rehabilitation along with reducing/removing the stigma of a felony conviction would increase both economic output and societal well-being.

And IMHO those benefits far outweigh how much you (or anyone else) wants to stick it to those dirty criminals.
For "chat built on email" there's Delta Chat.[0]

For "social built on email" I think that the Fediverse[1] solves the "nobody owns" part, but there's an impedance mismatch between social networks and email because people want to be able to join conversations with strangers on Twitter, but don't want those strangers to necessarily be able to send them direct messages.

Perhaps what email really needs is a concept like "Following", so you could have an account which only accepts messages from people you've whitelisted, and their mail client could check your server to discover whether they are on that whitelist or not.

[0] https://delta.chat/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
To be fair (and I'm not a Trump fan), there's more than one reason someone might support Trump.

I know a fair number of people who supported Trump because he was a departure from the Bush/Clinton oligopoly and promised no more "wars like Iraq." He also promised to push back on grossly unfair trade policies with China.

Had Trump not run in 2016 it's entirely likely that we would have had, starting in 1992: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama (more or less Clinton), and then a race between (drum roll...) Bush and Clinton!

Though I gotta say... many of them didn't vote for Trump the second time because even if he did have a few good points his personality is too repellent and humiliating to tolerate.
> The problem really seems to stem from the fact that authorities have recommended an extremely unhealthy low-fat diet for so long.

I imagine that might have some contribution, but my personal experience suggests that the government's bad advice is not to blame for the food choices I make.
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I've also thought about this a lot wrt microsaas projects. Specifically, looking to acquire projects that are small but match my tech expertise such that I can consolidate certain aspects of them easily. Ultimately maintenance will probably be the biggest problem with acquiring numerous small projects, so making that as easy as possible is important.

It would probably not be "viable" in the sense of it becoming a unicorn, but it probably is a viable small business or side project. I get the feeling that once you become a medium sized business, you kind of necessarily outgrow the "micro" part of the monicker.
That's a very specific market, and I suppose your 25 years of experience in the field helps you market it. I don't think I can sell anything (other than my skills), which I don't want to do anymore.
Ahh, I haven’t used it before. Appreciate the feedback, probably makes Matrix a less attractive option for this case then.
Ahhh, the rm -rf approach to problem solving. My favourite!
You might try it again later; my coworkers and I have been having problems registering all morning.
This is reminiscent of Seaborg's work in the 1960's that lead to the discovery of lots of new heavy elements. Everyone was pretty sure they could be created but someone had to build an accelerator to do it.
If you have a blockchain like that wouldn’t you be able to rewrite the blockchain if you are the only one with the access? Isn’t the idea that that there should be enough others so you can’t rewrite it? AFICT this is what happens when you fork a chain?