skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a young-ish (late 20s) sysadmin and I've been reflecting on how I'm becoming increasingly cynical and resistant to change over time. I will probably organize my thoughts at some point, but here are some unsorted ones:

* Infrastructure is often untestable. I've been bitten by the silliest changes in unexpected ways. We use IaC extensively, which makes things more organized and easier to operate, but still, testing stuff is insanely hard and time consuming, often impossible.

* Infrastructure is often thightly coupled. Many architectural decisions will come back to haunt you in the future, in very serious and unexpected ways.

* Infrastructure is often shared. Consequently, balancing requirements from different teams with different goals is very hard.

* Often, I have no skin in the game. I will not earn more money to implement changes that will benefit my peers, but my life will suck more if I do. Often, being a intransigent bureaucrat is the most rational path I can take.

* Often, devs have no skin in the game. They will earn more money if features get delivered, but won't have to deal with the long term operational and security consequences of the changes they ask for.

That was already repeated ad nauseam by others, but my best professional experiences were:

* The times I was responsible for software and infrastructure of a project.

* The times I was working in a small team, very close to devs and thinking about a single project.
They wanted to buy more Bitcoins...
Semi-related:

"The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28606962

Probably a better option for many people's next purchase (when they add Ryzen models anyway! ;>)
> I know what laptop I'm getting next. And it won't be a dell.

Tell me about these greener pastures!
I also wonder when people voicing environmental concerns will accept that there's a whole slew of newer Proof-of-stake blockchains that aren't using that much energy.

One example being Algorand which is carbon neutral: https://www.algorand.com/resources/blog/how-algorand-offsets...

Oh and speaking of usage of crypto in China - i wonder how that affects VET / VeChain which is, largely, used by Walmart China to track their wares:

https://seevechain.com/contracts
https://www.vechain.com/
It’s an externalities problem. I can not use it, but I can’t opt out of the climate impact.

(Save the “it’s not really that bad” arguments, I’ve heard all the industry’s gaslighting, but their claims don’t match reality)
Yes.

I'd believe the same reaction in Afghanistan, too.
The sandbox was me and the editor is react-simple-code-editor
But isn’t the embedded element already setting cookies before the user can reject the cookie notice?
Hydraulic car brakes can't be "completely dead". You step on a pedal, pedal pushes piston against hydraulic fluid, this increases pressure in the hydraulic fluid, fluid pushes a piston inside the brake caliper, piston pushes brake pads against rotor. No electricity involved.
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Unfortunately, the fact of the matter is that the only way for Apple to recognize a problem is to have a lot of news and influential tech media cover it.
I think they are doing the right near term but not long term. For the very reason wireless charging is in its infancy they should get in front of it. They will be back at square one doing the same thing with wireless chargers in 5 years unless industry leaders agree upon a standard before them.

Sounds to me like someone at the EU saw this as low hanging fruit quick win and yeah sounds good but it’s short sighted.
I don't see how this is related other than it also being a laptop.
Maybe in the short term it works like that, but ultimately a platform's value comes from its real users. And bots make the platform less attractive to real users.
Got it, will make better comments next time
You're right. I stopped tracking his formal roles (or caring in any capacity about them) since the time when the most prestigious position in the state was "the first vice-president of the government" (his, at the time) and the running joke was that everyone, including the PM and the president, were eyeing that position if they wanted to advance their career further.
How do you bury a patent? They are all published, aren't they?
Older Siemens-Fujitsu ones did, too. Consumer grade ones, so. The main reason I went to the "professional" ones over a decade ago. Hell, who doesn't carry around his open laptop on one corner from time to time?
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Azure Devops is clearly not being actively developed, or there is no way it would remain so bad for so long.

Simple things like being able to sort tables un the web UI have had open issues for years.
Plenty of people still use Ruby, there's a ruby project on the HN front page right now [1]. It just isn't mentioned anymore. The world pretty much runs on C, Java and C# but you won't hear about either, because what's normal isn't exciting. HN isn't a reflection of normalcy, it's a reflection of the unusual and the cutting edge.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634831
Only PoW cryptos need extensive electricity and hardware. Its completely absurd to ban crypto. Thats like if you would ban all motorized vehicles to get rid of coal blasting diesel trucks without catalytic converter.

Needless to say that its also technically impossible to ban crypto. Its like banning torrents or even harder and we all know torrent was attacked heavily in the past but it did not go away.
Good thing it’s only their economy and definitely won’t spread everywhere else! Kind of like that virus they had in Wuhan… that was a close one.
Reddit’s scale provides eyeballs
Facebook’s friend web provides a bunch of people you know
> energy consumption is beyond acceptable

Do you have any resources or studies to describe this more? I have really struggled to find actually nuanced discussions and unbiased sources for this. It’s all at the extremes of it’s either the worst thing ever to not a problem at all.

I’d also be interested in comparisons to energy usage of say servers that run Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.
I think the thing that’s baffling me is this: why? What’s the emergency, fake or otherwise, that governments are using to become so totalitarian. Seems like they’re just … going for it without even a fig leaf to hide behind.
“Nothing more volatile…” erm energy prices in the UK just jumped 70% and it’s not to do with crypto, co2 supply shrank to levels never seen before again nothing to do with crypto both of which affect whole populations. Try to avoid crypto hyperbole. Lastly, I don’t know anybody invested in crypto that hasn’t made money, so anecdotally that indicates the number is much higher than 5%.
Ha, someone on my project does exactly that...it never occurred to me it might be for perceived speed, I just figured ADHD... :^)
Most likely though, the foreign company will we operating in some way in the EU country. Even if indirectly, e.g. through PayPal or stripe, the country can probably intervene some billing.
Au contraire; no hint of "abuse" here. When I bought my first pair of LLBean boots in the mid 1990's, they were sold with an amazing, explicit (verbal and written) benefit: "never buy another pair of boots". It was a lifetime guarantee. A few years later after wearing them all over New England and much of Europe the interior GoreTex lining had started to wear thin in one heel, so I brought em back to the store. An LLBean sales associate helped me pick a slightly differently-sized new pair for a free exchange. He told me, with a smile, "bring em back for another replacement if you ever wear em out."
Maybe I should've been more clear that it is one of the problems that need to be solved. "Solving publishing is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to fix science as a system."

There's still room for disagreement here ofc, but at least that should make my point clear. :)
If I’m bored I can jump into either dota2 or cs:go and play and win and have fun.

If I join warzone modern warfare… omg i sometimes die right after dropping from the plane due to aimbots. Or I could be inside a building not standing next to wall not in line of sight with 1 door. Boom dead from someone shooting outside with wall hack. I didn’t install it on my gaming laptop because it’s filled with hackers now.
Define volatile. The only currency that has stood the test of time is gold, a private currency. Every fiat currency in history has failed.

Probably because heads of state like to print it to solve their short term problems essentially robbing everyone with an inflation tax. I dont call that stable or just. I work and save and expect my currency to hold up and not be abused which is not happening currently.

Edit: HN must be the worst platform in existence to debate. I have about 700 karma and cant comment more than 3 times on this thread. Your rules are not helping discussion or clearing clutter, they're just really annoying. Retrac: no ive hit a limit and cant respond anymore on the whole thread even with only a few comments.
Does anyone mine in Europe? I can't imagine that, considering the cost of electricity here.
I'm surprised the values haven't dropped more. How much of the demand for crypto was people trying to smuggle value out of the country?
Surreptitious tracking and breakout of proceed distributions are not really comparable. Does Best Buy tell you “we take a 20% cut out of every purchase you make here.” If they did, would you care? I’m not sure I would, especially if the in store experience is excellent.
You're wrong. Please see my other comment upthread
One could easily pull up stories of people in the 70s, 80s, or even 90s who were fired or ostracized for supporting homosexuality and gay rights. Left-wing causes like supporting unions or even more radical leftist politics was a firing offense deep into the 80s. The only thing that has changed over a couple of generations is that now those who were once on the receiving end of cancel culture have the power to turn the tables and people who grew up with the implicit assumption that their beliefs and behaviors were beyond reproach are learning what it means to face consequences for their speech or actions.
I don't think this is diversity specific. I know plenty of young people who just use LTE and tether their computer to their phone.

I think its more a legacy thing, when iPhones first came out this made somewhat sense, to spare the mobile networks the load.

If you have a 5G iPhone you can set it to download updates over 5G but its just plain stupid you can't do it over 4G. Over 2G or 3G it makes a little bit sense.
That is simple not how non-ionizing radiation works.
Mostly a) contracts to implement technologies b) watching people who could potentially expose corruption.
Emergency is that if current regime loses the elections, they will all have to be persecuted for various law violations.

It's a fight for survival.
Agreed. Every time I tried windows it was the same set of frustrating behaviors. Linux helps but needs some tinkering. My first step on a new laptop would be to wipe clean and install Linux.
Indeed. The best outcome of going to the frequent AWS events is meeting people from AWS who you can actually contact in these kind of situations.
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What's the endgame of this, given platforms like CodinGame, Kaggle or Topcoder? What sets it aside?
now, integrate that cable into the phone. even make it part of a SoC. that's innovation
If its banned then not only can government shutdown large mining operations but government resources can be spent on 51% attacks to discredit them.
Regardless of law, intent, etc, this is how it functionally ends up happening, a nonzero amount of the time.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Sweden has had 14,000 Corona deaths, Denmark 2600, Finland 1100 and Norway 840.
If by "allow this app to access all your data" you mean security, then yes, android is more secure. When an OS downloads and installs code without me having any control of it i call it RCE.
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This was written July 2 2022. The value has increased 57% since then.
There is plenty of profit being made from selling hardware and software services in the space.

Also, are you suggesting banning all assets whose volatility crosses a certain threshold?

As for energy consumption, does this also apply to Proof of Stake networks?
There's pretty much nothing different to serve with bitcoin-style "public blockchain" tech. Nothing needs to be trustless, and nothing would securely work as trustless without currency-style incentives (why namecoin is a coin, etc.). (And "private blockchain" is just a term based on marketing hype tied to bitcoin, there's no new tech there, that fundamentally just means incorporating the same concepts as Git.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHab0dNnj4
Probably not an apt comparison. Serbia actually is a unified state of sorts, Afghanistan is not and never really has been. How unified states and collections of tribes and warlords react to such things are quite different.
A friend of mine that works in the industry as a business developer for Chinese blockchain firms since 2017 said the exact same thing!

My market perspective:

"Everything is priced in."

Apparently, not in the crypto markets. Old news is new news, apparently.

Policy perspective:

The more DeFi becomes a thing, the less a policy like this will matter. It will still matter a lot, but it will pack less of a punch due to decentralized services.

My overall perspective:

If crypto still feels as speculative (in terms of trading crypto) 10 years later, then I feel the experiment to find a good use-case has ran for long enough.
Comparison with DuckDB:

- https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/292

- https://duckdb.org/2021/08/27/external-sorting.html
Not Crypto just Fifa, more profitable...

https://kotaku.com/ps4-crypto-warehouse-was-actually-farming...
That’s the real reason, yes. But usually such moves are paired with a Reichstag fire for a cover story.
Agreed. At this point there can't be that many people who would reject plant-based meat but would happily transition to lab-grown meat.
For those of you keeping track, this is about the 20th time China has declared to have banned Bitcoin or crypto. The only thing they've done is demonstrated that crypto is a threat to their all-reaching power grab and that they are mostly powerless to control it.
Is what you say less true of traditional exchanges? Maybe it is, but I haven't seen someone crunch the numbers - I'd be happy to read a comparison to that effect.
Adaptive Cruise Control is wonderful - I recently did a long-distance drive across Europe (~1000KM), and I swear I went through 100KM of roadworks. Adaptive Cruise Control would have been amazing for that (plus the other traffic jams caused by accidents/etc).

I have seen a good implementation of blind spot monitoring, in a VW, where it was just a simple light on the appropriate side mirror. Unobtrusive, but obvious enough that you're unlikely to miss it.

The most recent car I drove (a Ford Mondeo, I think? It was a rental) had a number of those but I never really noticed them. The only time it beeped at me was when it thought I wasn't braking hard enough to avoid ramming the car in front (oh, and the proximity alert).

The reverse camera and related sensors were really useful because (a) I don't drive an awful lot, renting a car maybe once a year, and (b) because I only rent cars, I don't know them well enough to know if I'm gonna get through a gap or turn a tight corner, so having something that beeps at me to say I'm close to a wall is handy.

If I was driving the same car every day, some of these features would probably be a lot less relevant.
Again, not what I was saying.

Usually there’s a cover story for such actions. A Reichstag fire, or a terrorist attack that makes a turn towards authoritarianism a necessity. I don’t see how one exists here other than “NATO scary”.
One might disagree on what exactly is a comparable resource. A digital currency could just as well store everyone's balance in a giant SQL database. In exchange for utter centralization the energy consumption drops to essentially zero. IIUC a PoS coin will also have much smaller energy consumption. So we have a situation where a collection of people are using huge, huge amounts of energy to speculate not only on digital assets, but on decentralized PoW digital assets.
Only PoW cryptos need extensive electricity and hardware.
Dont make crypto just bitcoins. If you really want to help make a dent in the energy consumption then people need to move away from PoW coins not from crypto in general.
Yep, you also can't opt out of the impact on the semiconductor market, the e-waste production (kinda part of the climate too), the ransomware explosion, the wider economic consequences of LITERAL BILLION DOLLAR PONZI SCHEMES…
Ah to be young again!

I'm afraid the OP is going to find that starting a business will NOT let you be a full-time developer. You're going to spend a lot of time learning aspects of doing business that didn't even know were happening. This can also be fulfilling if you look at growing the business as a development process but if you're really looking to code for 40 hours a week I'm afraid you'll be disappointed again.

I think part of your problem is the idea of a "dream job". Jobs are contracts that lead to you getting paid in exchange for hours. It sounds like management was wasting some of those hours but that's their perogative. My advice is that your identity is NOT your job and that if you feel the need for the zen of 8 straight hours of writing code then you should have a side-project.
Thanks. This looks like exactly what I'm looking for.
We have great success with F# (both backend and frontend).

Can’t recommend it enough.
Vertu is the only company who I know of who I think can lay full claim to "luxury" phones.

It's easy to find expensive phones, and the design-collaboration phones like the Porsche Blackberry are certainly high-end, but I feel like it was the concierge services on the Vertu phones that really stood out as luxury. The Blackphone probably comes closest out of the rest of the market because of the suite of "secure" services, but even that was pushing it.
Also fark.com and drudgereport.com

... and for the record, per the OP's request, these are examples of news aggregation sites, not necessarily recommendations.
Matrix is a massive upgrade from Discord, and I applaud you for trying to offer people healthy alternatives.

Humans love easy button tasty junk food that put "flavor" or "UX" above all else with no regard for long term consequences. Sometimes those of us that are decision makers have to put responsible healthy options on the table for everyone's benefit even if they don't care about the benefits and also in order to avoid excluding people with higher standards for themselves.

I for one don't accept the terms of service for centralized proprietary chat services like Discord, Slack, etc, and I have stopped attending or participating in communities and conferences that insist on them without at least an IRC or Matrix bridge option. I don't find it ethical to force people to accept privacy and freedom hostile terms of service in order to socialize. It is gross that has become normalized. I hope we look back on these times like when we allowing smoking everywhere in most US restaurants.

Some things matter more than having the absolute best in industry UX. Freedom, privacy, and security are not optional. I would go back to AIM UX before I would give those up. Thankfully Element and other matrix clients have dramatically better UX than that, and with federation, E2EE, message editing, etc.
Exactly. It's entirely possible to implement fast wakeups, but it requires thoughtful design. Smartphone go to sleep opportunistically whenever you shutdown the screen. Even an Intel CPU could probably do this in less than 500ms (and that is a boatload of cycles).
There is a new platform that helps groups have social updates without social media, it may be worth checking out. It's all email based. https://www.togetherletters.com/
> I now question where their priorities lie.

Informing and legally fighting for the user — seemingly the "informing the user" will be more cost effective in the Apple case.

They have billions of dollars for legal costs...
Agreed. Now, they'd make "Doors" (which doesn't run anything from Windows) instead of Windows 95, just leaving Windows 3.1 to rot as is. It's more likeways "sideways-incompatibility".
To explain all the UFO hoopla

/s

I guess that /s may be optional???

I agree though. Things like this dont come out of SKunkworks before they are operational.....or sometimes even after for that matter.
Congratulations, Ondrej. This is a great milestone for the project.
Ask HN: Did You hear China is cracking down on crypto? If so how many times?
Just wondering if anyone else noticed what seems to be a coordinated propaganda attack against BTC in the form of multiple articles re-announcing China's anti crypto efforts.
https://archive.is/jjKqP
I feel the IPFS blog post gave me a glimpse of how blockchain can be cool. In certain cases, the need for decentralization is so strong that it makes sense to build a blockchain system for it (or other secure P2P network thingy).

For example, authentication/identity using blockchain technology seems interesting to me.

[1] https://blog.ipfs.io/decentralizing-the-internet-s-root/
Here's an interesting take on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp86n7QCf0

This analysis suggests that the value of tracking every financial transaction will eventually cause governments to all want to institute there own crypto currencies and eventually outlaw independent crypto currencies.
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That's what ends up happening when an asset becomes economically meaningful. Crypto is still a joke to global economy, but on the off chance it gains mainstream adoption, it'll have the same kind of regulations, taxation and fraud attached to it.
Planes make up a small percentage of fossil fuel emissions, in fact, rice production is closely behind it in pollution statistics.
You can always dream, of course, but it ain't gonna happen.

Crypto's, especially Bitcoin, are too enshrined in the financial world to be banned in the West.
Literally irrelevant for any non-PoW coin out there aka the majority of all coins.
I didn’t downvote you, but perhaps it’s because you didn’t back up the word “criminal” with a source. What law does it break if facebook doesn’t send your post to everyone in the group?

If you wanted to send a letter to all of your friends in the traditional post, you’d have to pay 58 cents per person to do so, the business model hardly seems unusual.
I hear you! Same here, I'm also in my mid-40s and was thinking "huh, I guess I'm old now"... :-)
There is a new platform that helps groups have social updates without social media. It's all through email. https://www.togetherletters.com/

That may be worth a shot.
Improper storage is a perfectly reasonable reason to void a warranty. This is accidental damage, and Dell sells a separate plan for that.
There are some concerns which I share, that Bitcoin, when it finally fails, leaves huge damages to all financial markets as too much money is already bound in there. And directly, the environmental damage done by bitcoin is quite severe, so everyone should be concerned about that.
Yes i agree
No, maybe something with anti-corporation.
Waymo seems miles better then Tesla so I can be more objective when the tech is actual good.
I didn't mean to imply that Canada's relationship with the US is in any way via the UK. That may have been the case in some ways back in WW2 but certainly not since then. You're all growed up. The US is the lynch pin.
Source? I've been putting my 2017 MBP in a bag daily for 4+ years now and never had this issue.
Doge Coin to the moon!

/s