skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The social class metaphor is stretched pretty thin, but it can be interested to follow such threads and see where they lead. I suppose it's endlessly interpretable, but here's my take on bringing it down to earth.

- Different "classes" have different interests. (1)Miners. (2) Big, rich coin owners. (3) Rule makers and influencers. Group 2 & 3 overlap and might collaborate to screw miners.

- The author is thinks fundamentals/promises like "code is law" and such will gradually crack, because absolute adherence will be broken.

- Rule making is corruptible.

"sounds just like the corrupt fiat money system we’re trying to escape"

Sounds to me like you have arrived at "governance." The hope a lot of people had/have for crypto is that it replaces people, institutions and rules with explicit code. Coins would be governed by code instead of people, which works until it doesn't work.

Since this is already framed in a historical materialism sense... Imagine a society where all laws come from God, are engraved in stone and adjudicated with trials by duel, ordeal or some other way of leaving things in His mighty hands. This works until it doesn't. A currency crisis leaves 90% of people in debt slavery, and the army can't find enough recruits. A UFC champion is abusing trial by combat to get away with all crime and rob everyone. Stuff no one could have foreseen. One of the rules isn't perfect.

IRL, such societies will go one of two ways: (1) They have systemic instability, where the stone tablets can be broken and new rules adopted. Or, (2) they fudge. They have a complete and perfect constitution, and a supreme court that interprets it liberally like the US. Maybe they pretend to have a constitution even though one has never been written, like the UK. It turns out we can make that guy fight a bear instead of some poor prisoner.

There's a theoretical option 3: adhere. Play out the consequences whatever that requires. Maybe god wants everyone in debt slavery, and that ufc champion running around robbing old ladies.

Everything crypto seems to drive to the extremes. An obsession with perfect. There is no perfect.

Say smart contracts work great for collectible sneakers. Yes, it collapses when a judge rules to give a sneaker collection back to a guy that got robbed. Does that really make it worthless? Is an institution responsible for cancelling and issuing sneaker coin, on court order, really such a blasphemy?
That’s exactly the beauty. Not being beholden to the exact phrasing of something texted a year ago. It doesn’t matter. The Entire History Of You was spot on.

Interrupting conversations with “lemme check that” followed by fondling a phone is a nasty habit anyway.
Microsoft's August 2021 Patch Tuesday: 44 flaws fixed, seven critical
I really like the comment you made, as it's constructive:

"I wonder what makes TikTok different from other social networks regarding divisiveness" is an interesting question that adds value to the discussion. It's an invitation to ponder, research, and share perspectives.

It differs from the ones before it:

"You like it now, but give it time, it will be bad just like the rest" is not a statement of the same kind. It's little more than dull cynicism.
The OP alleges it can't sufficiently mutate among the vaccinated, so their recommendation of full vaccination to eliminate the virus is perfectly consistent. Opening up and letting everyone get delta, vaccinated or not, is going to happen sooner and is not good because passing through the unvaccinated will cause many new mutations some of which might start new waves.
The vax has an effectiveness of 40%, decreasing every day. This is not about health - not one can reasonably believe that anymore.
These were all a bit limited for me. I've settled on yabai[1] (window manager) and SKHD[2] (hotkeys), cannot recommend it enough.
[0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
> and g729 with 8kbps voice bitrate for inter-office communication

Why do they do that?

Even if 1000 people are making a phone call at the same time, that's just 64 Mbps each way if go for the full bandwidth, and an office this size surely must have a beefier Internet connection than that. Why skimp on something so cheap?
Remember it as well. Our friend said "It's 2 songs for the price of 1!".
> One of my real pet hates is software developers who assume everyone's running their software on an excellent internet connection.

It's not the developers' job to assume anything about users. It's the project managers'.
the rule customization is match rules and index generation rules, and all these customizations are data source specific. And a large company with a lot of departments and divisions, some of them being former acquisitions, would have a number of different data sources, as well some external ones too, reference ones in particular. Beside the pure basic issue of connecting those data sources and pulling data from it, the data in them have different reliability/quality, different standard of maintenance, etc. as well as different role in the system - some of those sources are master sources, some are only used to extract matches without update, some are [also] consumers of the match/deduplication results, so they have to be updated back. As as result any of such actually implemented ER systems is totally one-off.
For a grocery store, it's location location location. A grocery store is going to want to be located there. It'll happen organically. I've lived in Europe, there always seems to be a grocery store of some sort nearby. Nobody centrally planned it.
Persistent messenges always were, and remain, the default.
https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy...
I've always been curious about Portland. The pictures are gorgeous but the headlines are scary.
“mitigations strategies such as personal protection equipment, social distancing, etc., should continue to be employed to prevent viral transmission until the virus is eradicated”

I’m sorry to say, but its not ever going be eradicated, especially with vaccines that don’t stop you getting the virus, or transmitting it.
I had a very similar impression. He has no ability to admit when he doesn't know something or is wrong. His understand of bitcoin was very limited in his earlier tweets yet got reactive and defensive and dug himself into a hole like I've never seen before

And his bullying of critics is a little uncomfortable to watch as this point. The reaction to Snowden is too much
> Reminds me of Windows 7

and Vista
It is also impressive that this is achieved despite TikTok being banned in India which takes a particularly large market offline for them.
>made to fix a broken financial system, where banks unjustly control too much wealth...

I don't think that's quite what you mean to say. The function of banks is to manage wealth. That's their one job. It's like blaming them for being too much of what they are.

Bitcoin has not eliminated banks, it's just created new ones called bitcoin exchanges, online wallets, etc. The only reason they don't function even more like banks (paying interest on deposits, making loans, etc) is because coins are predominantly used more like assets than like currency so there's not much of a market for financial-like services.
While reading the article all I could think about was that it sounded like it was written by a bitcoin maximalist, so many things were framed in bad faith that it makes it difficult to take for granted that it is an honest attempt at discussing the issues surrounding Ethereum, especially when it is basically rehashing things that have been discussed many times before. It makes me wonder how this got to the top of HN, maybe an enemy of an enemy is a cryptocurrency skeptic's friend or something.
As a platform engineer, that's quite a cynical take you have there. What I've found works best is to write tools that take away complexity so that teams don't all need to reinvent the wheel. Then make it so well-documented and easy to use that teams don't need to be _forced_ to use the platform tooling, they'll just use it because it's the most convenient thing to do.
>Not even fans to move the air around?

Only in the hottest days when all room were occupied, as I no longer live there with my siblings, they no longer have fans there. There was one bath-vent-like-fan before.

>fully passive systems are awesome - though not always easy or possible.

I wouldn't install this in the UK as gardens are tiny, full of concrete and air humidity is high. Works well in central Poland.

>or larger loads, your exchanger will need to be large and buried deep. This might be another factor limiting application in cities.

yes, you need trees around, and grass not concrete or bricks.
The six icons below your "try it now" button are broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/jVmm6Vr.png
A proper state would make the vaccine mandatory instead of these lame coercion attempts.

With delta, you will not reach anything close to herd immunity unless you vaccine about >=90% of the population. There is limited data on the relative safety of these new vaccines on <12 year olds.
I've gambled a lot.

But honestly:

No playing field has been as level/fair as that of crypto.

The nature of crypto means 'The house' is more transparently verifiable & cost-efficient than.. anything else.

Be it tokens, prediction markets, nft markets etc.

It seems to be the one place where disconnected individuals anywhere on earth with little but an internet connection can get a decent seat at the economic table.
The STIKO does not currently recommend the vaccine for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.

And these groups will continue to be able to get tested for free.
Can we perhaps agree that there is a possibility for things to go bad in the future (in regards to data collection and privacy), but that today we have no concrete evidence of it?
Yes local materials production on Mars will be important. But I think there will be a period before that is running where we could still send like ten simple rovers and that would be an interesting mission compared to how we have been doing it.

One thing of note, it’s too cold on Mars for rubber (as far as I can tell). The tires are one part of my robot that wouldn’t work. NASA developed some elastic-mode Nitinol tires that would do the trick.
Isn't that already the requirement?

Hence why Lord whatever is in trouble.
If they had read Sun Tzu, they would have won successfully. They mainly lost at weather similarly how China assisted NK to beat Americans. Westerners rarely factor in weather as war elements.
The article says that those who have health conditions that specifically prevent them from taking the vaccine will still get free tests.
Of course money is not the issue, it's just a (poor) excuse for increasing the pressure on people who do not wish to get this vaccination. I'd like to see the faces of citizens who support this kind of thing when the government decides that, due to the increased transmissions with the Delta variant even among vaccinated people, paid tests will be required for them too.
It is a variable that would make game theory much more applicable.
I don't reckon Signal disappearing messages have much to do with "large-scale blanket surveillance of the whole population". This seems more about reducing potentially incriminating evidence in the absence of blanket surveillance.
You should receive a medal!

I feel so dirty after just reading this, that I have to take a shower! ;)
You are mistaking your personal experience with various companies and positions to the actual industry standard. I've worked on the same roles as you did and my experience is completely different and very positive.
Quoting the C++ 17 standard draft [0]:

> There can be more than one definition in a program of [...an] inline function [...] as long as all of the following is true:

> - each definition consists of the same sequence of tokens (typically, appears in the same header file)

> [...]

> If all these requirements are satisfied, the program behaves as if there is only one definition in the entire program. Otherwise, the program is ill-formed, no diagnostic required.

[0]: https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4659/basic.def.odr#6.1
>You might not care about the future. But others on this forum do.

See, at no point did I ever make claim about what other people here are, or claim to know how they feel or think.

But the implication just made regarding me and caring about the future is the kind of unprovoked hostility that I feel safe from on TikTok, but not here.

Whether I care about future, or cats, or fancy tea is not up for discussion.
I personally enjoy the absurd concept of decentralization that crypto proponents have while centralizing the governance and law of global monetary policy. If you wanted to create a global government, this is where you would start. It takes financing to enact laws and the board directing the dominant coin are defacto legislators of this new world order.
Mandatory, or what? You go to prison?
ouu not a bad attempt with the dash of humour included, but overall little tasteless here. you'll improve at this ;)
How would you change that?
I’m quite certain that this is a coercion of those hesitant groups rather than a conspiracy to cover up anything. Vaccines used in Germany are good enough against Alpha and Beta, but the government was pretty clear about risks coming with Delta, when they added „Virusvariantengebiet“ category for some countries requiring the mandatory quarantine even for vaccinated people (now they are actually less alarmist on this matter).
I supposed instead of saying DevOps has lost its meaning it has been co-opted from it's original meaning to something else. Problem is just that it isn't well defined. I like a definition like this, but as an earlier comment talked about a DevOps role is about facilitating the DevOps culture values, which is quite the different thing.

On another note, how amazing it is to define our systems so we can more systematically iterate on them and improve. I love it when developers get integrated into the process as well.

The general consensus where i work is that everyone does DevOps, you develop the app, you make sure you deliver the app, if there's any issues you debug. You ain't done until your ticket is in production, and you can't point to other to solve it for you, only help you.

Where does the DevOps engineer fit in there?
The cost for a shot of vaccine and for a single test are roughly the same. Most people would need 2 shots of vaccine in total, the test needs to be done every day you want to go to a restaurant or participate in a similar activity.
Humanity adapts and carries on. People are fucked.
I started reading it and it’s the most grabbing and realistic writing on climate collapse that I’ve encountered to date.

The prediction of how people react to the changes - from individuals to institutions to governments is spot on.

Highly recommended.
Oz is part of the 5 eyes. The West in general, but especially the 5 eyes (anglosphere) have been waging an economic and propaganda war on China since Obama "pivoted east".

Anti Chinese rhetoric in Oz media and from their politicians has been strident.

It is quite possible that the 5 eyes are ramping up methods of internal control in expectation of a war with China.
yes, let's launch a 10-year plan and a Great Leap Forward!
Down with people that don't trust the Government!

I say Science is with us, let's vaccinate children and force people with cancer to get the Shot before we continue their treatment...

/s

It's been 20 years since the last time any official media and mainstream political party used logic to analyze anything.

Did anyone see that the average life expectancy of the 10% additional boomer population is coming to an end?

Wouldn't that give us at least 10% more mortality?
It's a flawed argument of course because vaccination does not prevent transmission - even if it occurs at a lower rate among vaccinated people, a vaccination cannot replace a test. So this is another reason to reject this kind of coercion.
> There is no other crypto-currency that does solve this problem

Perhaps the best thing a cryptocurrency can do is be neutral, and let society sort its own equality out. Like gold-backed currency, only global and instant.

No smart contracts, no de-fi, no staking, no miners, no new coins or coins burned on a timer. Just extremely divisible coins that can be sent completely without fees.

And there is a coin like this; Nano. Their community has the full expectation of being always fee-less. It even solved the spamming problem, at least to a point of 'good enough', without adding fees.

I'm not sure there's much reason, to my mind, to try and add more stuff on top of that. Expecting a crypto currency to be both widely adopted and solve inequality is - possibly - just too tall an order.
My main chat platforms are IRC, Telegram and Discord. None of them are E2E encrypted and don't sell themselves as such.

I keep that in mind when discussing things.

If I want to start doing something shady, I can pick up something else than Signal, since I don't want my phone number ending up on random people's phones.
Grab an old office computer stick and Intel NIC and run OPNsense [0] on it. I've got an old Lenovo ThinkStation and it works brilliantly.

[0] https://opnsense.org/
If you're going to tell me that "Yahoo" means Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle you misses the point in the same way as the previous poster.

The point is that if you take a random person off the street who has never heard of Google, Yahoo, Nike, BMW and ask them what these mean to them the answer will be 'Nothing'.

No-one knows that Nike is a greek goddess or that BMW is an acronym for some German words that mean nothing to 99% of the world population.

What these names have in common is that they are simple and easy to remember. Success is then to make them mean something, and better yet, own a category like Google owns 'search engine' to the point it's become a generic verb.

I would highly recommend reading the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Ries and Trout.
Yeah folks don't seem to realize every monetary system requires 'sacrifice' for its security (whether this is lock-up of capital, work etc.)

The market most efficiently determines whether [& which] to sacrifice (e.g. computation or capital lock-up) is worthwhile.
> EVs aren't competing with bicycles and trains, they're competing with ICE cars. Both for market and attention. If bicycles could work instead of EVs where people want to introduce EVs, they would've already replaced ICEs in that role.

This feels like a free market fallacy. “No one is buying it therefore it is not useful.” Well actually we have to plan our cities as we build, expand, and improve upon them. So we could decide to make them more bike friendly and then bikes would be a viable alternative to cars. But since the US doesn’t have a lot of bike friendly cities, that hasn’t happened.

But it is our choice whether or not to build those cities. We have to exercise foresight to find the best solution. Otherwise we’re just making incremental changes which may not be best in the broader picture.
The problem: the libertarian ideology that inspired Bitcoin explicitly denies that there can be a ruling class because free markets are optimal, distributed, and stay free forever.

But a Pareto distribution is kind of the default wherever people interact. So a system needs to be deliberately constructed to counteract it, if that's its goal. And saying "praise the market" won't be enough.
If I read it right, the new law removes a requirement added in 2009.

The summary at https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/Meas... is:

> Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring for high school diploma that student show proficiency in any academic content area if student successfully completed credit requirements. Applies to high school diplomas awarded on or after July 1, 2023.

Students are still required to have three credits of mathematics and four credits of English in order to graduate.

That's how it was when I graduated. What's the fuss?
I think all the above.
> Needing to also deal with image plane curvature would throw a pretty big wrench into that...

While opening a host of opportunities for selling lenses.
I would recommend you put it behind Cloudflare, it will mask your home IP address and will absorb any attacks

https://skylar.tech/create-fast-websites-from-your-home-netw...
The usual surveillance scapegoats, terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles. Organized crime used to be the other one, but "foreign state sponsored cyber attacks" are very in vogue at the moment.
Yes, those exactly are criteria that PCC was developed in mind with: "examples of safety properties that are covered in this paper are memory safety and compliance with data access policies, resource usage bounds, and data abstraction boundaries" (from the abstract of [0]). That's what safety is, after all: that something bad does not happen.

[0] George C. Necula, Peter Lee. Safe, Untrusted Agents using Proof-Carrying Code. 1998. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/pop-10/member/petel/www...
Your confusion is caused by conflating two effects: the reduction in impacts from extreme weather driven by improved technology and scientific knowledge, and the increase in impacts driven by an increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events.

The reductions you discuss are attributable to the first of those two effects. Climate change drives the second. If we mitigate climate change then we can spare ourselves the increases attributable to the second effect.

You may reply that the first effect can always outpace the second, but I hope with some thought you can recognise that there is no evidence to support that claim, and it is essentially just an article of faith.
Time to brush up those CV's folks!
I am genuinely happy for those who feel they have found a place online that has less doom, gloom and hatred then other corners of the internet.

For my part though, I am aware (and concerned) of the potential for social networks to use their troves of data for ML/NN training (see the Cambridge Analytica scandal).

What could the largest social video platform in the world with strong ties to a totalitarian regime do with their data, if they so wished?

Call me a cynic, but I do not believe that the potential for misuse will be left untouched. The allure of it is simply too strong.
I’ve played this and it’s fantastic. Do play it to the end.

I found it extremely insightful and their observations connected long standing disparate dots for me. It’s as if a big jumbled up puzzle suddenly clicked into place.
I have implemented plenty of SPA (for years) that use the pattern of A) allow the user to download their current state as JSON/EDN and then B) allow the user to upload a new state from JSON/EDN file and continue from where they last downloaded their state.

This has been easy to implement for as long as I can remember, so not sure why'd you say it's terrible. What stopped you previous times?
The problem, at least speaking as a US citizen, is that children cannot be vaccinated and are subject to testing requirements if they become ill. Also, even the vaccinated are having breakthrough cases and if not, are afraid of them or are being required to get tested again.

I see this exempts children but makes the mistake of tying specific vaccination decisions to the public health benefit of having free testing. It's abusing a public health tool as a cudgel, a pattern I'm seeing in various places.

If this happened in the US, it would just lead to undocumented spreading and delays in care, worsening outcomes.

Im worried with things like this, and similar missteps by the US government, we're heading back to March 2020.
I've been listening to the "DevOps is a culture, not a role" mantras on HN and elsewhere for years now. Meanwhile, I've been working precisely as a DevOps Engineer/SRE and doubling my income every year or two.

The job is what you and your colleagues make it out to be. You are there to fill a certain need and a knowledge gap within the team. Figure out what that is and you are golden.