skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might as well as be "Against Tidal Force", because suppressing meme activism is about as tall a challenge.

First, admit that it will never happen by voluntary action. The rumor mill, at least, will keep grinding until the last free-range human is gone, who will tell it to a volleyball if there is nobody else. Then imagine the scale of intervention that would be required to significantly suppress it. It would mean continual monitoring, punishment, isolation, and we'd find ways to signal our discontent through masks and straight jackets. If instead you just opt out, go your own way, plug your ears, you've exited the arena, and the memes will happily steamroll along without you, and with you having less warning to get out of the way.

I too have a beef with meme activism, and also the gravitational constant, and the speed of light. Those are all equally winnable battles.
lotnet.com
Lawsuits from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs, sometimes called “patent trolls”) can be a drain on resources for any company. With software a primary PAE target, and software becoming an integral part of all industries — putting nearly all companies at risk of being sued.

That’s why leading companies have come together to form a collaborative, voluntary community to reduce this risk – one that grows in importance as the economic environment becomes increasingly uncertain.
Yeah, and my point is that
he shouldn’t be listening to people on HN.

The guy is either going to do it or not, and when he looks back, he’s not going to say, “Wow, I’m so glad bugblaster1337 told me to reach for the stars.”
The beauty of crypto is that you can elect which ecosystem you participate in. If you don't like bitcoin because it's dominated by whales, go to eth. If not eth, try doge or Monero. Or start your own. It's pretty easy to move money between cryptos, that you only hold Monero and your friends only holds doge does not stop the two of you from transacting
Aren't adults aware that everyone poops and there is no shame in going to the bathroom?
They have much more orders of magnitude of unproductive free money lying around.

Even so, they do pay less. Bezos claimed a tax credit for his children, FFS. Why are Amazon workers subsidizing their boss, they are the the ones that should be receiving the money.
Twitter is vile. I thought that the day the company started, and never created an account; nothing good can come from a platform like Twitter.
It's a failure of our laws that there's no recourse to this kind of libel, either against Twitter for basing their business model on it, or the individuals responsible for spreading it. Lives are consistently destroyed and everyone just shrugs their shoulders and goes "aw-shucks."

Natalie Wynn talks about this on Contrapoints, worth watching as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8
Yep. Smart contracts and cryptocurrencies really helped accelerate the ransomware market.
humans collaborating together, in person, to work on a common goal, has been a thing since humans existed. everyone working individually at home by themselves, only interacting with others digitally is pretty far removed from that. i might go so far as to suggest preferring the latter is what is not normal.

having distracting kids at home is not an "undesirable home situation", in fact its a great home sitaution, so great that it makes it impossible to focus on getting work done because i'd rather just play with my kids. there is a reason most workplaces don't typically have your children in them.

the fact that so many are happy being isolated at home with no real interactions with any peers is concerning in itself.
The point here is that EXR has taken care of being an intermediate format for 20 years but this person is using pngs and is hoping jpegxl fills the same slot of a solved problem.

> It can do pretty fast encode/decode (for mezzanine use cases)

I'm not sure what this means, but zipping individual lines takes care of the interactivity problem of working with compressed intermediary frames.
The very first paragraph:

> A few weeks ago, in the midst of the latest Israel-Hamas conflict, Andrew Yang, a mayoral candidate in New York, tweeted in support of Israel. The backlash came fast, and by the next day, #YangSupportsGenocide was trending on Twitter. The aggressive public shaming worked: Yang backtracked and issued a follow-up clarification. And now, politicians with progressive constituencies will likely think twice before publicly expressing support for Israel.
This is why we were supposed to eat the fruits, not the plants themselves.
I think of a Ponzi as a scheme where someone is managing the game

I agree, but there's also not really a better word to describe something that is like a Ponzi scheme in every respect except the lack of central coordination.

Having a distributed hive mind of people all collectively trying to pump the value of a coin basically yields the same end result as a conventional Ponzi scheme, but makes it much harder to regulate or shut down.

Even worse is the fact that many of the people involved truly believe in their own evangelism, and don't realize that they're part of a negative-sum game. With the amount of value destroyed via mining, and the lack of any new value being created by the people investing in crypto, there will inevitably be more losers than winners in the long run, but that doesn't stop people from spouting HODL memes because they genuinely think that value is being created from nothing and that everyone is somehow going to get rich off of this stuff.
> Meanwhile, anyone who cares can dress plenty well enough to start in a lower-level management position by hitting Goodwill or eBay and dropping low-hundreds of dollars

Would second Ebay if on a budget, lots of very cheap options compared to what things go for retail. Back when I was in school I bought around 10 designer silk ties for 20$ (retail new for 200$+ each) and a few suit jackets. Knowing your measurements can't be overstated, and only costs a tape measure. Alterations are also very affordable and can make a world of difference.
>Is holding Doge skin in the game?

Yes.

>So by holding fiat, we could consider that skin in the game on some level.

Also yes. However, the leader of the fed is, for all intents and purposes, king fiat. There is no person with more interest in maintaining the current system than someone in charge of the fed.
Not everyone can afford or attract top level developers. Saying Keep motivation high and keep autonomy high and I assure you software will get produced at a high quality. is handwaving some extremely hard problems, especially if you're not working on an exciting problem and can't afford $200K salaries.

You didn't really answer the question. Say I'm a non-technical manager and I suspect one of my employees is slacking off, they just respond with "oh, the load router was misconfigured, luckily I caught it in time. I'll need to hot patch it, it will probably take another 2 weeks" what do I do?
"Ponzi scheme" was never particularly well defined. Paying off early investors with new fundraising is pretty common.

It's all in the intent, which is sometimes hard to prove, but easier when it involves lots of lying.
My data point is that it sucks, distance learning sucked, and my wife just quit her full time job so we could at least get to your manager's state.

None of this bears on whether people should be allowed to work remotely, of course.
Ethereum is inflationary.
Icicle chart uses a divergent colormap when it should probably use a sequential one.

Sometimes I wish I never saw that one talk
that happens to coincide with the 79 ways to "power off" windows.
A service that you enter a username and it checks all of the major social media services, email services, other popular website etc and provides a list of sites your preffered username is available and taken on.
In my most recent case, we settled the patent lawsuit for approximately 10% of the estimated cost to litigate, which was well into six figures.

If we had chosen to litigate, it would have taken years, been very stressful and possibly created issues with future company financings etc.

And even if we had won - the NPE has zero assets to attach so you always bear the legal cost.
Points 2 and 3 are actually very powerful. Do not underestimate how effective silencing dissent can be, even in a “free and Democratic” society. In fact, maybe it’s even more effective precisely because “it isn’t the government doing it”.
At what point does Windows 10 cross into what people would generally call "unstable software" and call Microsoft's classification of "stable release" as being way too low a bar?
Rejuvenate Pogoplug v4 with Debian 10(buster)
> The only way to get a raise is to change companies. Pretty much everyone in the software industry will agree on this.

I can certainly agree with you here. The only times I've received significant raises are when I leave, or threaten to leave. I'm getting pretty sick of hopping around every year or two...but hopping is the only time where I have any leverage.
Be anonymous. Be obscure. Stop talking to people on the internet.
When I bought my house, I paid the title escrow company thousands of dollars to perform a very simple service. Hold the deposit money in escrow, and release it specific parties based on certain conditions.

There's no reason in the future why that service couldn't be performed by an off-the-shelf smart contract for essentially nothing. Home buyer sends deposit money to the contract. If buyer exercises a contingency before date M, release money back. If user doesn't, transfer funds to home seller. In case of dispute, defer decision to a pre-agreed upon adjudication agent and pay said agent to render a decision.

There are so many stories like this in the plumbing of the financial system. It's ironic, because high finance is built upon layers and layers of complex abstraction. The way someone a sophisticated hedge fund decides how to allocates assets, hedge exposures, levers positions, manage risk, and execute trades is like something straight out of science fiction.

But the way the money actually moves from point A to point B is stuck in the 19th century. It's hard to overstate how much of the value collected by the financial industry is actually just handling the nuts and bolts of physically moving money around in a trusted way. For every quant building a derivatives pricing model based on stochastic calculus, there's a dozen low-level clerks sending each other wire instructions by fax and filling out boilerplate KYC notifications.
When they expire they will no longer be useful. You will need new patents to operate 100G networks.
I guess, where would you place a publicly traded stock that doesn't pay dividends or do buybacks? Old investors are literally being paid by newer investors, but it doesn't indicate any fraud.
If there was a stock that advertised it self as never going to pay dividends/buybacks, I'd totally call it a ponzi scheme.
"Your fun is bland, hollow and empty" is so hilariously self-righteous, presumptive and condescending that it sounds like you're trying to convince yourself.

I enjoy translating poetry from Japanese and Spanish. I enjoy playing classic and modern music on piano-- I played violin in an orchestra when I was younger. I enjoy learning to read various writing systems. I love watching films new and old, including those of Kieślowski & Roy Andersson. I have fallen in love and been loved. I have eaten a Liège waffle in a park watching the sunset. I have arrived in Paris at 6pm and walked around with a camera until my train left at 10am. I have sat on the grass outside a Mexican airport drinking beer with other travelers and employees waiting for the massively delayed single flight of the day. I enjoy sailing, swimming, cycling.

In addition to those other bland, hollow and empty pursuits and experiences, I also have a passion for driving and autosport.

Every trip I make by car requires me to, from a stop sign with no ramp, enter or cross a 65 mph divided highway that is often busy. It's happened many times where I've pulled into an empty lane and a car going faster than 70 switches to my lane and closes in at a dangerous rate behind me as I'm still accelerating. Sometimes cars accelerate spontaneously after I've entered a gap that is normally plenty of room. Other times, drivers behind me rage with horns or dangerous maneuvers if I don't enter when they feel it's safe. All those are solved (save for errant hypercars) with a simple sub 4 second 0-60 time and the stability of all wheel drive.

In addition, on road trips, I can close the exhaust valves, raise the ride height and soften the suspension. Then, I can talk to other people in the car without shouting, and I don't have tinnitus ringing in my ears for hours after. Those two things are definitely not boring.

Hooking up a trailer ramps up the inconvenience significantly if you're just driving to a beach condo or attempting to park in a normal lot. That said, my vehicle can tow around 4 US tons if I wanted to go that path.
With the fed itself acknowledging it's losing the battle to inflation--4.2% over the last year--then I'd say by your definition, that, alone, renders _dollars_ unsuited as money.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/consumer-price-index-up-4-...

And again, that's just the CPI. Many other metrics have it higher, and asset prices like housing have skyrocketed.
After the EIP 1559, Ethereum will be deflationary, no?
I'm a bit sceptical about this because it talks very little about what happened that caused OP to get "cancelled", and an awful lot about how they came back from it. I do understand, first-hand, the trauma that comes from being cancelled (although I have like 1500 followers on Twitter so you could argue the stakes are less) and there's no doubt that it is a bitch. But there is something to take away from it - or at least there was in my case - which was that I, in fact, was an asshole. That does not seem to be the overarching narrative of this post, and I do not see a lot of learning they have done from being cancelled.

In conclusion, kudos to the way you bounced back but I really wish there was a bit more introspection into how you see your past behaviour in the light of being cancelled.
You can assume in the vast majority of cases patent trolls don't have valid patents. And if even if they are "valid", the patent system is so messed up, that they have to be invalid in reality.

Trolls' method is exactly racketeering because it's extorting money using threat tactics. "You don't want something worse happening to you? Better pay up XYZ amount!". It's not going get much more classic protection racket than that. Except they threaten not with beating you up, but with you spending millions on court cases. I'd say trolls getting jail time for this garbage should be a good medicine for them.
While googles business apps lack in features, office365 seems to be extremely buggy, documents look different online and offline (had the case last week), their authentication is pure horror (multiple accounts with different passwords for the same email address), teams is only logged in to one account at the time, one drive (or how it is called) is always using "significant energy".
We actually wanted to switch and bought a few licenses, but after trying it for 2 weeks with a small group of employees we discarded the idea. I was surprised and very much disappointed.
That is - stop using the internet as the disruptive communications network it way designed to be.
In the current system, schools need to have an equivalent number of sports teams (and slots) for men and women, with the same number of scholarships (the law governing this is called Title IX). Generally speaking, women's sports don't bring in money for schools, whereas football at a competitive school will bring in money in the form of TV deals and even donations from alumni. So essentially, the football and basketball teams subsidize the rest of the athletic department. If you had to pay the athletes in these sports, then there'd be less money to go around for other teams that don't generate revenue. But at a minimum, you'd still need a few women's teams because of Title IX.

EDIT: to clarify, I personally think it's ridiculous that star college athletes don't get paid given how much time those athletes put in and how much money they bring in for schools, but I also think that at least at the schools with huge athletic programs it'll have some effect on other sports.
> crypto has none of this

It's pretty easy to think of a counterexample to this..

Cross border payments, collateralized loans, drugs, gambling, prediction markets, inflation/instability hedge.

Whether or not you disagree that crypto is a good solution for any of these, it's pretty wild to claim "zero utility" in 2021.
No, in a typical investment, you don't really care about what the market thinks, if your time horizon is long enough. Investments generate cash or utility to the owners.

Dogecoin doesn't generate any value, it consumes it. It's fully dependent on market sentiment. It's a negative-sum game.
On my current gaming PC (i7-7700) I have installed W10 in 2017 and... no problem whatsoever? SSD, 10s boot. idk how do people end up with all the problems. I'm really curious because there must be an underlying reason
I wonder that too, it's a joke, but context where the Neel is answering is rather strange...
You should absolutely do it. Chances are the startup won't be successful, but it's a life experience you won't regret having.

Start building something on the side, and make sure you have enough savings to maintain your life without getting paid for a while. Once you have some traction, you should be able to raise money and hopefully pay yourself a reasonable salary.

If you do fail, you shouldn't have any problems getting re-hired. Sounds like you've been successful in your career so far, and the skills you learn as a founder will only make you more valuable.
> aggressive public shaming worked

Being the key. Does not imply that meme activism was effective at doing anything but making people think twice out of fear of shame, not out of reasoned principles.
There's a little more context here: https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2020/06/noah-bradley-admi...
I looked into this briefly (against my better judgment). He stated in his apology that he was a 'sexual predator' and that he 'pressured women into sex'. So yeah, a lot of organisations now don't want to associate with him. It's nice that he's sorry for what he did, but actions have consequences. And the line between pressuring people into sex and raping them is very, very fine.
I think the point is that if you want to name the office in four words without being misleading, you should go with something like "Minneapolis Federal Reserve President", not just "Federal Reserve Bank President". I'm familiar with the FRB structure and I did not pick up on that "president" was used and not "chair".
The difference is that you can't tell the difference between a counterfeit beanie baby and a real one.
I guess the simple rule of not being a dick still holds a little truth.
How much money do we spend on career public servants to gatekeep poor people from the services they need?
I have an older laptop with an hdd. It always was under powered but still usable for things like streaming to a tv every once in a while. The latest Win10 updates have it taking minutes to run a search or context switch. Feels like we are getting into phone territory of forced HW upgrades for everything now.
Seconded.

Also, Discord works perfectly for us since switching from Slack and coats us nothing for a team of nearly 20.

All our text chat, screen sharing, group and 1-1 calling (voice or video) plus adhoc "drop in meetings" are all in a single app.

Which is available now for every desktop and mobile platform. (We're all Mac + Linux)
The issue with it is that if your performance isn't up to scratch managers are more incentivized to force you out than to work with you to get your performance up.
I think the biggest problem with Twitter is that we can’t determine a denominator. Twitter knows, but we don’t know.

100 people tweeting about how this guy is bad might be indicative of a general consensus or might just be 100 people out of a billion Twitter users. People then interpret it as general consensus and pile on.

We know the numerator but since we don’t know the denominator of people who didn’t comment, or disagree, or never saw, or don’t care. So we can’t figure out a ratio and many people assume the denominator is the numerator and the ratio is 1.

“The world won’t do business with this guy, I better fire him” doesn’t make sense if it’s just a very small ratio as who cares if 100 people are upset and 1,000,000 customers don’t care.

I wish Twitter had some ratio of who viewed vs who acted. Or had downvotes or something. Currently, people assuming that a few commenters is everyone is doing bad things.

This coupled with there’s always someone or a small group who holds an opinion so putting too much weight into a few commenters is not smart. Yet frequently done.
I don't think this is news to anyone. Yes, Amazon has an "unregretted attrition" target. The only surprising thing was this:

> The company expects more than one-third of employees on performance improvement plans to fail, documents show

I assumed it was much higher.
If you find yourself the target of a cancellation attempt, never give in. Never apologize. If you do, the problem isn’t going to go away, it will get worse. No apology is ever enough. No punishment is ever enough. There is no way to redeem yourself in the eyes of the public. Apologizing is making yourself humbled and vulnerable to a mob that does not deserve it. You will roll over to expose your belly in submission asking for mercy and instead get your guts torn out and burned.

Instead you must harden. Deny everything. Gaslight. You will know you have won when the mob grows tired and cynical from their inability to destroy you.

When the dust has settled, all that will matter is that no one came forward with hard evidence, only he-said-she-said bullshit.

You can downvote me all you want, it does not change the truth.
> No amount of planning or estimates will ever change that a feature will be done when it's done.

I've been on teams where we got good enough at estimating that we were +/- a couple of hours each sprint on our burn down charts.

Long tenure, good knowledge of the code, and a healthy amount of time spent on reducing technical debt all combine to make accurate estimations possible.

Of course things can go awry in regards to partner team or 3rd party API integrations, those are always wild cards, but that is why you first do an exploratory task to figure out how hard integration will be (my current team calls these stories "spikes" in our workflow), which de-risks future estimates around the work.

And it also makes more sense. "Spend this week learning how to use this API and figuring out its warts, then come back and give an estimate next week on how much work it'll be to get it up and running for real."

A rather reasonable way to do things.
Homebrew/Brew 3.2.0
"Performance Improvement Plan"