skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in the Bible at least? There a million verses with “He who does not xxx… is“ that are intended to be gender neutral.
But statistically speaking it empirically isn't. Piketty, as mentioned by Tenev in the article, does indeed point out that one of the reasons return on capital is higher for the wealthy is because of access to lower-cost asset management and higher-return esoteric investments that the rest of us don't enjoy, but it's absurd to suggest (as Tenev does) that this is materially changed by bringing the cost of retail stock purchases from $4 down to $0.
> The (consistent) impression I was given was that if you didn’t try to constantly talk about being a girl/woman the majority of people just didn’t really care.

Not mentioning your gender when you have a gender-neutral username means people “don’t really care” you’re a woman because they just assume you’re a man. But often the mere mention of the fact you’re a woman, however relevant to the discussion, is viewed as “constantly talking about” your gender.
Are you okay with staying in the same field so you can still leverage all your experience?

I recently (Dec. 2020) switched to Engineering Manager from Engineering Lead, and it's been a pretty welcome change over all. I was pretty weary about stepping away from code (it's been my life's work for 20 years), but it has opened the door to learn a whole host of interpersonal skills that I had not previously valued that much. It has also put me in a position to help mentor and guide my direct reports (all devs) in our 1:1 meetings that I have not previously had as much of a chance to do even as lead. It's been very rewarding, and if you're looking for a way out of the day to day code itself (but still in the ecosystem), it's a great option to try.
I use it under KDE.

Or are you on Wayland?
Blockchain doesn't solve any of the problems and in fact introduces new ones (like non-reversible theft). The question is why should we start using blockchain?
Did a lawyer vet this post? This is a weird response to active litigation, although in the case of Lambda School, par for the course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26948258
Multitasking Stems from the Fear of Death
The word "Libera" definitely initially speaks like "Liberia" the West African country. I wonder if one would mistakenly think this was African chat.
Agreed, would be easier to agree that they're harmless enough if the energy use aspect had been addressed.

But also isn't it a little crazy to think about how many unestablished / small-time artists are dropping $50~$150 on minting NFTs that might never even sell. And how their participation just drives the hype engine and makes the whole thing look like even more of a thing?
Much in the same way as how North Korea is a democratic people's republic.
The most interesting thing is probably that in 1982 or whatever you could find a nice summer gig, work 20h/week for the summer, and pay a full academic year and a computer.
I'm sure people will come up with a new bullet point to demonize NFTs after that. Not that there isn't a laundry list of things that are wrong with them, but the alleged environmental impact is the least of such issues yet it's the easiest to "understand" and so it overtakes any kind of discussion.
Having watched the Lockpicking Lawyer's channel, I'd guess that a locksmith would prefer a well-designed mechanical lock to anything electronic.
I'm a little confused by all this controversy. I'm no stranger to people trying to exert secret influence in open-source projects, and put themselves in positions of power to satisfy egos, etc. and I certainly don't like that kind of thing.

But what was actually done on Freenode? I've read several of the volunteer resignations and it seems to just be that they're obviously now in control and people don't like that. Is there something more concrete they've done that points to a particular ulterior motive or the negative impact of their ownership? Am I just missing some historical baggage?
"Sorry, my phone was on do not disturb"
One of the benefits of old decentralized protocols: The community is not locked in and can move as nomads, so it can't be sold. At best they get an archive of stale information.
Couldn't it spin up another one from the old version by doing execve("/proc/self/exe", ...)?

99% of the Firefox code is in libxul.so, so you'd need to get the file handles from the original process or something similar.
When I was a kid, some of our phones were hard wired, some used a giant 4-pin modular plug. RJ11 wasn't invented yet. Pepperidge Farm remembers... http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=336...
No, it's actually nothing like that.
The politics involved in the community are fascinating. They have local committees that decide the rules for a community, anywhere from a neighborhood to a small town. But those local committees also coordinate at a higher regional level to set overall policy, and the various regions also coordinate at the top level. This means a decision made at the top level, like "no electricity in the home" gets filtered down through the communities with different interpretations of the rules. A particularly strict community might ban all automation in the home, while another will ban power lines but allow battery operated tools, while another will ban all electricity but allow air tools causing people to develop air powered hand mixers and refrigerators. You see a lot of clever workarounds for arbitrary rules in the Amish community. It is very common to see rules bent or broken when necessary for a job, like a farmer being allowed to burn gasoline/diesel to run farm equipment even when his local community bans using it for anything else. Some of the furniture makers have rather sophisticated workshops (although nothing CNC) which allow them to make the furniture efficiently enough to sell it for a very low price.
I'm not sure what your argument is here. Are you claiming that masks are ineffective in general or that vaccines are so effective that further protection is pointless?
Microsoft Authenticator extension for Chrome not Microsoft
If punishment doesn't work (and it doesn't) then we don't need prisons and jails as they currently exist, nor do we need police as they currently exist. There's no point to improving the police. Get rid of the punishment angle to policing, then give all the non-punishment jobs that police do to people who are far, far more qualified to handle them than the police are. Then you have essentially no police, so there's no need to improve them.
No, but the RSA did put backdoors into ciphers on behalf of the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
While I agree real estate transactions are ripe for innovation, the problem is that real estate law and title can be complicated, with legal encumbrances on a property and title that are not digitized in any way. Some (such as traditional rights of access) may not even be written down. A title company is supposed to help with all that.

Making these sorts of encumbarances be written to a digitized ledger to have legal would definitely be a good innovation, but a blockchain solution isn't necessary or even desirable for a ledger. A government run database is just fine.
Not many though, and not much discussion going on there. It seems that German language MUCs are more popular. It would be nice to see more.
I guess that explains the SEC settlement where RH paid a large fine for deliberately misrepresenting their use of PFOF (though, as always, they didn't admit to wrongdoing... classic SEC!) I'm sure they're totally squeaky clean aside from that and it's all just a Big Finance conspiracy...
What is a “natural limitation” of food? Should we get rid of mechanized farming, genetically enhanced plant varieties, modern logistics, and everything else that makes the modern world so spectacular and quality of life so high for billions of people as well?

The solutions for the future will be ones that improve technology to allow more to be produced more efficiently. We should look to the future, not “return to monke”.
> without knowing a single name or face behind it.

That's because we are ensconced in a framework of corporate and consumer protection laws that makes that generally safe to do and provides legal recourse when it isn't. Even so, fraud and bad experiences with businesses happen all the time.
At this point the true believers are one more "short squeeze" missed deadline away from being recruited by cults and militia groups.
I'm curious what you do with the several seconds per day those automations save you. I imagine at least some of that time is spent troubleshooting and reconfiguring it.
zzstructures are both graphs where you can have many edges (of different types) between any two nodes and a method of visual presentation and navigation of that structure.
> 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

Do you know anyone who works in retail, a warehouse or a pharmacy? Nothing is ever where it should be in the quantities the computer thinks it’s in.
Agreed here. I quite openly will say I’m lucky to have an intense interest in computers and to develop enough skill with them to get a job in the high paying tech industry. I didn’t choose what my passions, talents, or skills are after all.

I’m always surprised that people tend to take exception to this, saying it’s nothing to do with luck, I worked hard.

That’s also true. I did and still do work hard.

But that doesn’t invalidate the fact that I had zero control over the fact I happen to live in a society that relies upon, and therefore places a high value on, the area I happen to be skilled in. There’s people with great talent in other areas that are very hard to make a living from.

Much of where we end up in life is determined by luck and chance. That doesn’t mean we’re not also working for what we have. Just means there’s multiple variables, life is unpredictable and isn’t fully within our control, and if we happen to be highly talented at something society places great value on there’s an element of luck at play.
I use a simple Google Doc format exported to PDF, and LinkedIn.
I hope the crypto prices keeps crashing, let's get rid of the speculators and posers.
If you find it already accurate the overwhelming majority of the time, what improvement do you think blockchain would bring?
As I understand this, this book is the one that Ramanujan read that helped him unleash his inner genius. When I first read the link title, I thought this was a book written by (or at least co-written by) Ramanujan that unleashed his genius to the greater Mathematical world. I now understand this to be the former, not the latter.
There can be mechanisims for recovery. Social recovery wallets, multi-sign wallets, DAOs all can be part of the solution to loss of keys.

The question really is: is this all necessary? And are inefficencies/issues/costs with current centralized gov systems worth replacing?
Is the search box at the bottom of HN new?
I'm so glad the current FTC (and the end of Ajit Pai's to a lesser extent) to audit these DSL companies who claim their DSL connections offer reliable broadband. My DSL was so bad I had to use cellular to reliably connect to video calls.
> For users on Windows

I recommend WinCompose: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
No, you don’t understand how that works. Citadel wants the retail order flow because it’s a huge pool filled with uninformed investors. They can actually offer you better spreads because on average you have no edge.

It’s similar to a casino offering free hotel rooms to people who play blackjack but who do not know how to card count. They even offer 3/2 on blackjack instead of 6/5.
The whole UI should be in a transparent hierarchical structure (the DOM? XML? Lisp?) and I should be able to apply any projection or operation on it. Context sensitive bold, or make click targets larger, or script things.

The extensions that the vendor makes, anyone else should be able to make. I'd like to put a soft border around whatever element currently has focus. I'd like to configure my own tab order. I'd like click-lock, drag, unlock, drop so that stuff doesn't magically disappear during a botched drag-and-drop operation.

The desktop UI was a nice hack-demo, but it really isn't that good, anywhere.
Even for collectables it doesn't really make any sense. It's not like you have to own a Black Lotus to sell a NFT of it. Nor is there any benefit to collectors in buying the NFT except for the possibility of finding a bigger sucker somewhere down the line to buy it off of them.
I've been using arch for a few years as daily driver, and I mostly like it, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't break at random intervals during system updates. Nothing unrecoverable, but it's definitely a thing that comes with frequent upgrades.
Should be easy enough to look up what was happening that motivated those rules in the first place, for anyone who cares about them enough to consider removing them.

I tend to find "argument from reality" more compelling than arguments based on feeling, ideology, guesses about why people support a position, or reasoning from some moral axioms like one is completing mathematical proofs, personally. Possibly there were no major problems without those rules and it would be fine to remove them. Possibly a bunch of people were being significantly hurt with no recourse. Which was it?
American law allows for a very wide range of legal trusts. Courts will generally enforce any legal entity that the grantor chooses to structure. It's easy enough to setup the DAO as a formal legal trust that grants ownership rights to whoever can demonstrate ownership of an NFT.

Some people might ask what the point is. After all, you're still relying on a fair and enforceable court system at a base layer. That's true, but it allows you to abstract away all the other complexities from higher layers in the financial system. For example the cost of transferring title on land tends to be fairly high. You have stamp tax, title insurance, lawyers to review the contract, etc. With a DAO as the nominal owner, selling property simply becomes a matter of executing a smart contract transaction on the blockchain.

From there, you can imagine increasingly complex structures built entirely in the blockchain. A mortgage based smart contract can allow for a specific owner, but transfer the property to the creditor once the payment is missed. Mortgage underwriters can pool their blockchain based loans into pooled securities, and sell CDO-like products as smart contracts. This allows investors to completely bypass all the financial regulations and restrictions that exist on subprime mortgages.

It also cuts out an enormous amount of the legal, settlement, and due diligence costs associated with the creation of these securities. Everything's executed atomically and autonomously through smart contracts. The point is you can use a mix-and-match hybrid model, where some layers are secured through fiat law while other layers are secured through crypto law.
Shorter version: if real estate is on the blockchain, and you guess my password or threaten me with a crowbar until I give it to you, do you get to keep my house?
Even the examples of people forgetting their crypto password and not being able to sell their asset is an example of this. That is completely dysfunctional.
Why is energy usage that important? Isn't the issue that society allows energy creation through fossil fuels? Like the sun 'uses' 384.6 septillion watts.
Wrong.. ether is up 30% on the month.

They are only both massively down if you cherry-pick the absolute peak as your point of comparison.
I for one do not trust the ISO at all. They are a profit-seeking organization with an opaque standardizing process. That the ISO9660 standard (you might know it as the .iso file format) from 1988 is still locked behind a 140chf payment is a disgrace. And that won't even give you the full standard, because ISO loves doing this thing where a standard will reference 5 others, which themselves reference 5 others, etc...

IETF is one of the best standardizing organizations out there, I'll certainly give you that. They have fairly transparent process, and a really good track record when it comes to creating robust protocols.

Thing is, I don't see why Matrix.org would have any more or less "cachet" than WHATWG, or Khronos Group. In the end, the identity of the standardizing org doesn't really matter too much. What matters is that the incentives of the standardizing org are aligned with those of the community.
Frontier has advertised different tiers of speeds to consumers, including an August 2018 mailer that offered download speeds of 12 Megabits per second for $12, the complaint said. Assholes.
Yes .. but.

I had a great education/CV early in my career, and had the opportunity to interview at some of the top most companies prior to their IPO (some when they were tiny companies). Google, Facebook, Stripe and maybe 3 more that went on to be billion dollar exits. I screwed up every single time. Either I did not take the interview seriously, or took a more prestigious academic job compared to the start up opportunity. Talk about being in the right place, at the right time and still missing out. I have barely paid off a small fraction of my starter home (no longer in the Bay area). I really wonder if it is just luck or more complex than that. (Good) Luck got me the right opportunity,but it can't just be (Bad) luck that snatched away all those opportunities from materializing? Clear, I made extremely bad decisions, missed out on the greatest wealth creation event in history, and must live with this till my end.

Edit. There is a rich-dad, poor-dad point I'd like to make. My parents were extremely bad with investments and not very educated. This made me chase the higher prestige academic jobs as opposed to the lucrative startups. Also, when my white friends (with moderately-rich parents) were buying houses at 5% down, I said they were crazy and I was paying off 5% interest education loans, saving up for a bigger down-payment, buying my car for cash, etc. My parents went through the days of 20% interest and never understood the power of leverage. They passed on risk-aversion to me. Even now, I understand the power of leverage, but am still scared to use it.
Failed how?

Was subjected to a corporate takeover? This happened, but it's hard to see the cause and effect, and the proposed solution is basically to do this out the gate.

Didn't become discord? Was that a goal? To be a big VC funded chat service with lots of users and a looming prospect of having to be profitable without losing them.

Wasn't a profitable business? It was always intended as a non-profit, and it's not clear they were running out of money to run the network without sponsorship, but rather used it to set up new events like freenode live.
They used to work like that. You would come up to comrade cashier, and tell her what you wanted one by one, and pay. I still remember the shock when I went into a supermarket for the first time. Felt like going to a "authorized personnel only" place.
> Many of the comments on this article are so cold.

I mean, the tone of the article is pretty much "me vs them", so is really any surprise that some people would take offense?

The anecdotes range anywhere from caricatures (hot cheetos) to gaffes (cheering over a bonus cheque). What you're implying is that one ought to be empathetic about the OP's struggles w/ "rich person etiquette". But that in itself is a bit tone deaf: it comes across as "first world problems" to those who aren't in the "silicon valley bubble" and it comes across as elitism strawmen to those whose entire careers are in Bay Area tech.

It's kinda like listening to Justin Bieber sing about how lonely he is. It might strictly be true that he struggles w/ loneliness, and it might strictly be true that empathizing with him is "the right thing to do", but it's also strictly true that everyone has a right to not give a rats ass.

The "poor" mindset varies from person to person. Sure there are people that struggle w/ ghetto mindset, but I've had conversations with many people who self-identified as "cheap bastards" (in their own words) who would talk about slowly coming to terms with the fact that they now had decent incomes and disposable money.
> They already have five cryptocurrencies of their own

The first four didn't create the speculative frenzy they were hoping for, huh?

Just kidding(?)
Ok, tell me who outside of the crypto circlejerk of speculators is actually putting in their money to use this for something outside of crypto.
Those problems are all solved by backups, not blockchain.
this happens at Ikea a lot - people take the thing and then decide they don't want it... there's a lot of places for things to go in the warehouse pickup section of an ikea store
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I don’t think it is realistic to expect an ordinary home listener of some old SACD 5.0 recording to carry out some elaborate simulation involving the specific furniture in his home, just to listen to something on headphones.
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I suspect this thought experiment is overly simplistic to the point of not being useful. Person A has $50k worth of BTC. Person B has $50k worth of cash (some % of which they got from the stimulus). So now 'the room' has $100k in assets. A and B exchange their assets. A+B still equals $100k. $BTC drops by $15k. A+B=$85k. There is now $85k in assets in the room. $15k was lost.
A centralized goverment is one mechanism of enforcement yes.

No reason there can't be others. One that doesn't require blind faith/trust.

Arguably police are decentralized mechanisms of enforcement, no reason to formalize that responsibilty in a DAO.
I think you mean `with`, not `where`? Yes, it helps a bit in some cases, but it's not a replacement for a pipeline - mainly because you'd need to name your intermediate results and "thread" them through the calls yourself.

I think I gave a bad example, the better one would be a function returning datetime in the format of :erlang.localtime: `{{Year,Month,Day},{Hour,Min,Sec}}`. I would like to be able to use this value in a pipeline, by passing only a `{Hour, Min}` tuple to the next call in the pipeline.

With pattern_tap it looks like this:

:erlang.localtime()
|> tap({_, {H,M,_}} ~> {H, M})
|> do_something

Without - there are at least 3-4 ways of doing this, each with pros and cons, but all of them are more verbose than pattern_tap. If you want a single value only, there's `elem`, but if you need a few - you're out of luck. `destructure` only works on lists, and `match?` only return a boolean, not whatever was matched.

`then` macro makes it a bit better, but you still need to create a lambda with the longhand syntax, which is exactly what I wanted to avoid, so it's hardly a solution, even though it may be the best way to do this for now...

EDIT: this is in contrast to Clojure, where maps and vectors are callable, and you get `juxt` in the stdlib. So it's not like pipelines in general can't support convenient extraction of subsets of data flowing through the pipe, it's just that Elixir decided not to support this.
> There’s no reply option for the answer to your question

HN tip: The reply link on new comments in a thread may not appear immediately. I think this is a measure to discourage heated back-and-forth replies.

But you can always click the "n minutes ago" link to open the individual comment and reply there.
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Do you have a preferred browser extension for finding RSS feeds for a site?
Not really, the supply of bitcoin is, except in the short term (< 2 weeks), independent of the amount of mining effort. And that's all that really matters (especially because there's no single price where all miners stop making a profit, and miners will continue to mine and sell even when they are no longer making a profit just to lessen losses on hardware).