skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read. One thing I don't understand is that he still presents decentralization as something to strive for (as lots of people in the crypto space do), but then he criticizes the consequences of decentralization:

> Despite claims of “decentralization”, the cryptocurrency industry is controlled by a powerful cartel of wealthy figures who, with time, have evolved to incorporate many of the same institutions tied to the existing centralized financial system they supposedly set out to replace.

> Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system (eg. corruption, fraud, inequality) and using software to technically limit the use of interventions (eg. audits, regulation, taxation) which serve as protections or safety nets for the average person.

From what I understand, people in that space seem to think that because something is decentralized, people will automatically distribute equally between themselves power and authority. That seems really naive. As with any "free for all" type of space, the law of the strongest applies. The "cartel" that he speaks of taking control of crypto is a natural consequence of decentralization. An important part of central authorities in the modern world is to guarantee some freedom from exploitive forces. Democracy, unions, laws are a way to achieve that goal.

I wonder if it's a consequence of people thinking about the state as fundamentally bad? I often see criticism from some people, both left and right-wing, that the state is good for nothing, but it seems clear (in the view of the author) who wins when the state can't exercise its authority. Maybe it's time for some people to review their views about decentralization and its consequences.
Well, the flip-side of that is that if ethical people don't work for Oracle, then Oracle never changes.

Companies act on the will of the people within them, and as the people change, so do they.
The branch predictor can't do a great job here as the branching is very data dependent. The conditional move prevents speculative execution (at the cost of adding a dependency).
> I only have so much time left in my life to waste

So does everyone else. Which is why we don’t get PhDs in psychology, but instead use in-group memes to communicate information about each other.

I’ve absolutely been in conversations—in work, politics and play—where we assigned people we knew to characters in a book, movie or TV show we shared. Ignoring this overlooks a fundamental way people communicate.
I feel that this is an excuse often used by people who want to do virtue signalling but also want a big paycheck along with it.

The number of talented people in any industry are always limited. If enough people refuse to work at places that they don't ideologically agree with (and maybe dedicate their time working on solutions), at the very least, the operational cost of these companies would increase.
> You’re replacing a single actor you can sue in court with a dynamic, pseudo-anonymous committee one can lobby that will make its decision based on rules or whims. That sounds like a step backwards.

This is exactly the problem that decentralized oracles are trying to solve. Consensus courtesy of cryptography and game theory.

> Separately, why would anyone pay the premium? If you want a bug fixed and are willing to pay for it, you’d get the job done faster hiring the dev on freelance.

Nothing solves bugs faster than the original dev being financially incentivized to fix it ASAP.
> I'm helping Python dev get up-to-speed with web development.
They are creating a desktop app, and wanted to use MS FluentUI, a React UI component library.

Creating a desktop app isn't web development, it's desktop app development.

You've got to teach web dev from the basics outwards. We (developers) have taken a platform for "document" delivery and layered it with tools for app development. Teach it this way. Start with simple content - including a little style, enough layout to get going, some rollovers or form helpers, and basic accessibility. Then talk about templating (static sites, or server-side apps). Then talk about single page apps. Then talk about desktop apps.
Aw thanks - hearing that makes me disproportionately happy :D
Was inspired by https://pry.co/, so props to them!
putting everything on the same connector seemed like such a great idea at the time, but now we just have a bunch of cables that you have no idea what they can/can't do
Chances of getting to an influential position in a corporation if you're not already an influential person are a good approximation to zero.

And even if you did get somehow manage to get into an influential position, you're still going to get pushback from the board, from shareholders, from customers, and sometimes also from employees.

How many examples can you give of people successfully improving toxic industries from the inside?
Outrage in the cycling world about blocking YT account Tour de Tietema by ASO
This comes more from the early Catholic theology dogmas of an all-knowing, all-powerful benevolent god, which creates a contradiction.

If God is not actively controlling everything, then you have to either admit that He can't control everything (but that clashes with the all-knowing, all-powerful aspect that the church really wants to preserve), or that He can intervene but chooses not to, in which case He is responsible for every awful thing that He lets happen, and you either need to assert that "it's all for a good reason in the end" and letting these awful things happen is not a bad thing, or give up the presumption of benevolence.

So the tricky thing is that you have to give up something of these assumptions; you can keep any of them, but if you want to keep all of them, then there's a contradiction - and the discussion becomes very different depending on which assumption you give up; if you keep omnipotence, then you have to "demonize God"; if you keep both omnipotence and benevolence, then you have to ignore any awful thing in our reality that does not have a plausible good reason justifying the awfulness; if you want to keep benevolence and a common-sense look on our reality, then you get (perhaps, I hope I'm not misinterpreting you) something like your approach - which, IMHO, is quite reasonable, but essentially surrenders omnipotence and thus strongly goes against dogma of many churches that do assert a God that actively intervenes all the time.
Original title : Great indignation in the cycling world about blocking YouTube account Tour de Tietema by ASO

ASO is the Tour de France organizer. Tangential, ASO is the Dutch abbrevation and curse for asocial (person).
So the dependency is taken care of with register renaming? Trading renamed registers (which are basically "free" as modern processors have so many of them) for speculation. Interesting ...
I'm thinking now about buying this because of your comment, but I'm wondering if full edition is worth extra 50$ compared to standard
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Electron is Flash for the Desktop.

History is repeating. Instead of investing into hard work and portability with programmers, the management decides to take the short part which looks cheap. The result are bloated, memory hungry applications which do not integrate well into the operating system and native toolkits. The last part is maybe not so much noticed on Windows but Linux and Mac users notice it. These companies save money with Electron and the customers have to pay with hardware, reliability and usability. In times of soldered main-memory the memory consumption is a huge issue for everyone. I recommend using native toolkits like Gtk, Qt or Win32 (currently maybe WinUI?) and using appropriate languages (language bindings for important languages are available).

Some nice application developers actually store data locally, therefore the applications are working fast and self-reliant. Imaging a chat application which doesn't lag and doesn't repeatedly load the conversation from the server just because you're scrolling upwards. A little bit off-topic ;)
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ok so my conjecture: an electric VTOL aircraft will mean cities rebuild airports. Of course it means Kitty Pride will be flying a Electric VTOL ...

But this will free up enormous tracts of land - the railways don't just use land for stations, but the railtrack takes up most of the land (in long strips as it were).

Imagine cities in 50 years, with rail land reclaimed, with Tokyo-like laws that prevent on-street parking (a valuable gift to car owners), freer flowing traffic, more walkable neighbourhoods. There is a lot to unpick.
Okay, but still thousands for gcc then?
I'm sure it was a massive decision after 14 years. I wonder if he thought about whether his comics have surpassed his career in importance. He was in a unique position to criticise and publicise mis-doings of the most powerful company in the world and he appeared to have the patronage to do so. It's a very privileged position with the potential to really influence many things. In a way, I feel sad for this loss, but it is a very personal decision in the end and one must respect it for whatever it is. Hope someone else will continue the torch because - "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to say nothing."
still better than ps/2 where you can never quite be sure if you're plugging it in successfully or bending all the pins of the connector successfully
You are thrown off because I tried to make positive statement and everything is interpreted as normative in the internet.

positive vs. normative statements.

positive: opinion about what is, the state of the world.

normative: what ought to be. a value judgment.
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No way, and now I can't edit it haha

I really should turn that off...
I once met a man who worked in oil & gas who was a pretty vocal (and frankly, unpleasant) "young Earth creationist". As he was in a relationship with someone in my professional social-circle at the time I wound up coming across him on a regular basis for a couple of years.

I don't believe I have had a more uncomfortable, baffling, and frustrating conversation in my sixty years of existence than the one I had with him at social gathering where after him bringing it up, I asked him how he balanced his work and religion.
But why? Not every cryptocurrency has rich-get-richer dynamics. Lots of chains have blessed authories or validators involved, and don't incentive holding money. Bitcoin and Ethereum are like this. But there's so much more out there.
When I was diagnosed with high blood pressure I asked my doctor if I could donate more blood to lower it and she laughed and said your veins are not rigid pipes so it's not that easy.
I just thought that maybe this is a response to a widespread experience of loss of control over life circumstances and decisions. You struggle for a while, then you accept and surrender to realizing you won't get rich, you will be forever at the whim of a landlord ... natrual reaction then is to establish a dissociated emotional way of life / thinking and conceptualize it - voilà Stoicism. You can't do anything about it so you might just as well stop complaining and worrying about it. If that works is another question and if that is Stoicism as it was meant originally also questionable - but I think this is the dynamic behind the Stoicism fad.
Arguably, "hard times" are pretty much defined by serious external or environmental problems threatening normal life, and only in good times you're left with interpersonal problems as the main source of adversity.
Manual parsing of complex binary formats (in this case a netfilter control protocol) in hand rolled C code in ring 0. An approach from the innocent 1990's.

Quipping aside, an interesting thing is that this kind of thing used to be callable by root only and even in the early days of putting things behind more fine grained capabilities, CAP_NET_ADMIN probably wasn't taken very seriously as representing untrusted users. Which begs the question of whether it would be more secure to keep these things root-only and make people do the hard and dangerous part of untrusted input handling in userspace, where it's also easier (and not forbidden by kernel coding style rules...) to use safer PLT techniques to do it.
No no no - it's only bad when Chinese and Russians collect data. Americans are good and friends. Meantime American diplomatic venues over the world are concrete impenetrable fortresses with multiple layers of fences and permanent monitoring of electromagnetic spectrum:)
If you look at TFA there's a photo of a haystack in front of a small manor sized brick house :)

The photos of traditional wooden cabins are more for tourists, or in very remote areas.

Edit: come to think of it, wooden cabins aren't so traditional outside the mountains.

https://gatzi.sunphoto.ro/case_traditionale_romanesti

This looks more like the traditional poor peasant's houses (photos from 1933) and they're made of mud bricks (not sure what the english term actually is) with some wood reinforcement in the walls.
please don't start this again
The EU addresses the problem at least.
> After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology

?

> It doesn't align with my politics or belief system, and I don't have the energy to try and discuss that with those unwilling to engage in a grounded conversation.

Like himself. Given what he just said about cryptocurrency being 'inherently right-wing' which that is completely baseless.

Obviously it is heavily manipulated and it is not exclusive to cryptocurrencies, just like forex and the stock market but the main difference is that it is highly unregulated. I expect more exchanges to use more than just KYC, AML checks and the rise of implementing CBDCs to drive cryptocurrencies past the wild west stage that it is today.

Good luck trying to ignore it because it is here to stay. (Even if you are the creator of a meme coin)
It really depends how much $50 is worth to you. The book is brilliant by itself, but the datasets and unit test examples are a really good tool for playing with. Maybe if you have some data from a real-world project you could use that instead.
Why let their politics "ruin" a thing? If someone odeous holds or even wears my favorite sweater, it doesn't cease being my favorite sweater.
DonKnuth comes to mind.
It might not have had the psychological impact that it did in the US, but the world became a drastically different place afterwards with the "war" on terrorism.

In my mind there was weird post Soviet innocence in the 90s where the West felt invincible and many believe Western style democracy would take over the world within decades. 9/11 was a rude awakening, and we have been living in its shadow for the last 20 years.
Changing your mind is hypocritical, your opinions must be kept consistent and non changing no matter what.

Really though, it's surprising that a lot of people have this same knee-jerk reaction to someone having an opinion and then changing it when making a comment (here, Reddit, etc.). Obviously it's not great to change your opinion with the wind or to simply please others but it's sad that any form of changing your opinion is seen as negative. Even for people that I would trust to be authorities on the subject like Jackson Palmer are not given the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's a natural reaction to someone who doesn't conform to the group mentality on some subject.
I am really hoping efforts like Blazor Desktop allow for us to escape this kind of hell.

You can already build really powerful component systems by combining the current iteration of blazor with stuff like WebGL.

You only need to screw around with just enough javascript to interop the canvas from C# land. Then, from that point forward all you need to worry about is C#/HTML (Razor) and CSS.

With this approach we have been able to construct ridiculously complex web interfaces that sit directly on top of some monster state machine implementations.

Think about the dependencies involved above in terms of vendors. If you do it right, you can answer to just Microsoft. I know not everyone agrees with doing business with them, but having a single vendor stack is so compelling in the B2B space when your customers are very security sensitive (e.g. finance).

There is always the concern of transitive dependencies, but SQLite is already inside your car so you probably have to trust that one by default... I'm open to arguments on others.
I really like the product Pento are building, interested to hear how robust the HR syncing proves to be. Sounds like it's going well for you?
I am unclear how audits, regulation, taxation serve as protections or safety nets for the average person.

Seems like the kind of thing large corporations can manipulate and avoid whereas individuals cannot. I'm not a crypto person but it seems like crypto at least has the potential to offer some of those protections to individuals that were once the province of the powerful.
I live in places where light doesn't shine not of really my own choosing, because the Western establishment is really determined on destroying its business, and industry.

It's a shame that people who do have an option to not to live in hellholes, and having functioning democracy can't lift a finger to do something about that instead of doing nothing, while rambling on internet forums.
> But how is this different from anything else in life?

In other things in life, there are things like consumer protection. You can tell your credit card agency to refund you, you can use the judicial system to sue scammers. If you lose login secrets to your bank account, you can call the bank, they know who you are, the problem can be solved.

Crypto currency is designed from the ground up with the goal of eliminating all such centralized power and protection mechanisms. Anything that goes wrong is your fault and you have no recourse, and that is not a flaw that will be fixed, that is the most central thing in its design.

Society has protections for the weak, crypto is designed to remove those protections.
They also share a blood supply with the baby

The mother and child's blood supply remain separate throughout the pregnancy. Some mixing can occur during childbirth (which is why Rh- women can have one baby that's fine and the next one gets ill).
You're not getting it, they already do.

He's saying that there may be centrists or conservative people with Google level engineering skills that have no issue with things like ICE or military contracts.

I'd imagine such characters would not be popular inside the company, and best shut up. Hence, you could argue the culture already pre-selects for progressive ideology.

The "women in tech" memo is a perfect example of it. Sure enough, it was clumsy and likely full of inaccuracies. But the core thesis is hardly harmful or controversial. It was saying that women have less "tendency" to be interested in hardcore tech, therefore aggressively enforcing quotas on this representation is something you could at the very least debate.

The memo doesn't even classify as specifically right-wing. It's just a counter point against how to achieve diversity and how far to take that goal, and which method to use.

The consequence is that he's fired on the spot.

So that proves the point. Centrists and conservatives, or anybody challenging the most progressive views can work at Google yet best shut up. Ideological selection is already in place.
Not exactly. In France the Front National is usually recognized as the most right-wing party, but LREM are way more economically liberal than them, and are considered center/center right. This is why using "right-wing" or "left-wing" is often useless and serves only to create more division.
> Vulnerabilities once you have access to the machine are not really worth spending time on

That's absolute nonsense. There's so many platforms, Android/iOS, where applications are compartmentalized: local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities is what enables a rogue application (or remote code execution into one, such as a browser/chat), into full control of the device and its data. Sometimes LPEs are needed to achieve some level of persistence. In VMs, a guest LPE is frequently needed to interface (and exploit) directly the emulated/paravirtualized devices and VM-escape into the host OS.

Yes, it is a big deal.
Companies are empires, and empires don't change because an underling thinks they should.

Empires change because they're overrun from outside, or - vanishingly rarely, on moral issues - because the emperor decrees it and/or is replaced.

Amazon may go in a different direction with Bezos gone. It almost certainly won't, but there's always a tiny sliver of potential when the big jobs change.

The political opinions of an Ln are irrelevant. Not even L10s get to set moral policy.
Interesting to hear your experience, thanks!
https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/02/m1-mac-mini-in-the-cloud/
I would love to hear of analogues from other cultures. Brewer’s Phrase & Fable 14th edition (the pink one) came up with this:

“To look for a needle in a bottle of hay”, after the french botte for ‘bundle’.

On the odd use of bottle: [Puck, to Titania] I could munch your good dry oats, methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Interestingly, haywire is derived from a frenzied behaviour likened to the chaotic uncoiling of a feel of hay baling wire.
> Chances of getting to an influential position in a corporation if you're not already an influential person are a good approximation to zero.

All of the influential people that will ever exist, already exist. No new people will ever become influential.
It's meant to be breadboard-compatible, and breadboard pin sockets are normally spaced at 0.1 inch.

You can see in the first schematic that it's 0.9" by 2.0", which gives you 9x20 hole positions.
Maybe pick an industry? That way the fails add up to deep knowledge?
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I guess we need to determine ownership first. Most people are determined ownership in legal terms, yes. But legal terms are invented by people as an NFT.

The answer to your first 2 questions is no. Those are reasonable questions — NFT doesn't allow full control over the content in it.

Why do people buy NFT? Except for buy-sell purposes, what do you think?

I'm looking for NFT collectors and creators btw to speak with them about it. And if you're interested, I can share their answers with you later.
I use Postgres window functions with Hibernate and Doctrine, plus lots of other Postgres-specific functionality.

The real benefit of the ORM to me are that:

* some query results are cached

* the "unit of work" pattern allows me to distribute changes to an entity and then commit it as a transaction.

Anyway, the ability to suddenly switch RDBMS only works out in practice if you actively maintain support for multiple engines.
How different is the increase of heart disease risk for men above 50?
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It's its own legal entity, that is owned by other people.

And there is very little privilege that incorporation grants corporations that is not entirely contractual. Limited liability for shareholders for tort is the only one I can think of, and that, in my opinion, should be repealed.

Limited liability for debt can be entirely contractual in its basis, and established by shareholders/companies operating outside of the corporate structure too, simply by stipulating that condition in any loan agreememt the business enter into with another party.
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I read his study at the time and it said no such thing, he was vilifed for questioning an orthodoxy that said any difference in representation must necessarily be caused by discrimination. Respected psychologists like Steven Pinker agreed with Damore.

This guy either didn't read it or he's easily influenced by cancel mobs.