skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And all the virtue signalling apparently leads to people like me, who are adults and can very well stand for themselves, not attending such conferences anymore. I truely think that people who are not willing or able to defend themselves in a social setting have bigger problems then FLOSS conferences. They have skipped a part of growing up. I feel sorry for them. But I dont agree that we should plaster everything with pseudo-laws to give them a false sense of security.

So it is apparently ok if the mentally weak feel welcome, and those which have learnt to defend themselves no longer showing up because they dont feel at home? Great, reminds me of one of the last interactions I had in a conference setting. Small children in the conference room. As a blind individual, I really rely on hearing what the speaker says. I cant just look at the slides. I already knew it wouldnt go well, but I tried to discuss the issue. At first, I heard some sympathy for my point of view. And 2 hours later, the same person didnt want to stand up for the issue anymore. So I guess womens right to bring their 1 year olds everywhere they want was trumping the needs of a disabled person attending the same conference. Thanks, I am done with this hypocrity.
Making an accusation of bad faith is different from giving credit. The standard behaviour on HN for disagreement is not to immediately jump to accusations of bad faith but to have a polite discussion without necessarily giving credit. I can make the same accusation of bad faith against you but that leads nowhere.
I'm right with you. 20 years experience, I guess I'm a senior dev. I'm worried about ageism, being an imposter, having to leet code, endless rounds, etc.

How was it out there? I haven't been getting the recruiters hitting me up on linkedin as much, I wasn't sure how hot or cool the market is.
Here is a little hint. These women don't think you're funny. They are humouring you. Most likely they've heard all the jokes before and they think you're boring at best or an asshole at worst.

Imagine for a moment that your name was Seymour Butts and then imagine how bored you'd feel by the people that continued to make the same lame jokes about your name, as adults in a professional environment.
The rising teen suicide proves everyone’s favorite social critique. Declining church attendance. Declining corporeal punishment. The academic rat race. Climate change.

Whatever I don’t like about the world is why the kids are killing themselves. Having had friends struggle with this when I was a teenager, I find it incredibly disrespectful and in poor taste to leverage their suffering in this lazy and offhand way as an argument for your political opinions.
>all we know about ancient times is what ancient authors have written

Contemporary approaches to ancient history do not rely exclusively on literary sources, but build a much fuller picture from epigraphy (inscriptions and graffiti can tell us a lot), archaeology, and numismatics.
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Can confirm, built my own markdown-to-HTML PHP blog: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
Actually this is quickly becoming the standard. Once you mint an NFT on opensea, you have the option to "freeze" the metadata, which transfers the image and everything else to IPFS storage.
"Oh my God, Jerry? When you check your email, you go to AltaVista and type 'please go to yahoo.com'?"-Tom Haverford.
Dimensional analysis of units is absolutely a special case (I said "primordial example") of type systems.

Proof: "constrained operations" and "notional objects" are very limited/somewhat concrete - "additive/comparative/conversion-y" and "measured things". Modern notions abstract both ideas.

This is, however, not unimportant (not to suggest I think @10000truths said so, exactly). In educational settings one usually wants to begin with the most familiar examples and then generalize. { Why, this probably even applies to greats like Russell. :-) } Further, in attributional settings, giving general names/notions to things is often less seminal than the things one is naming. (Both are often worthy of attention, but I tend to push back when "namers get all the credit".)

There is probably no single, famous big name like Russell to attach to the idea of units of measure/standard conversion/comparison. There may be a King of Olden Times who beheaded those who didn't follow his particular "system" when taxing crop growing areas or converting area to expected weights or volumes of grain/etc. ;-)

In some ways the very idea of "money" itself incorporates standardized exchange/comparison within it. Money itself is taken to be pre-historic [1], though there may have been a few original "coins"/tokens of money. Little tick marks in clay ledgers may have been the first and we can be fairly sure even before all the spice trade/wars that not all crops/goods were deemed equal/additive unconverted. On the contrary, money was useful specifically to help convert.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money
What I really want is just for the core of popular python interpreters (CPython, pypy) to support MicroPython's native or viper code emitters.

https://docs.micropython.org/en/v1.9.3/pyboard/reference/spe...

There are plenty of solutions for this, but having a standard that works cleanly across all kinds of python interpreters would be really good.

Maybe someone can make the viper code emitter into a PEP?
It fits general "progressive" agenda, so exception applies.
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Superhero passwords may be your kryptonite wherever you go online
Don’t miss the past paragraph in the article, “In the United States, Netflix has been paying a fee to broadband provider Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) for over seven years for faster streaming speeds. https://reut.rs/2Y8wOzb”
The users are paying the ISP to have that content served to them through their connection.

Is the ISP mad that more users are using more of their promised service allowance? Too bad, maybe they shouldn't oversell their networks.
The Verge bought gadgets from Amazon’s banned brands and it was a piece of cake
A user’s computer? Written with a possessive? What a bizarre idea!
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Same thought crossed my mind.
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, and no industrial process we have destroys it. If released into the atmosphere it will escape into space, but it still exists. Right now we have no reason to venture out into space to acquire helium because we still have vast reserves here, but if we had sufficient demand to justify the expense then we could.

When you hear about a helium shortage, that's not a shortage of Helium on Earth, that's a shortage of Helium in the strategic helium reserve, which has been a source of extremely cheap helium for decades and made helium extraction uneconomical. When the reserve eventually runs out, and the price of helium subsequently increases, helium extraction will resume.
Not great to be honest. I cannot imagine how to use this idea to support or reject a decision.

Maybe as a slogan or sales pitch...

Reminds me of Fujitsu's Vision Statement: Human-centric Computing. I asked a dozen employees of that company what it meant, and not one could give a coherent answer
Maybe the heuristic was, "something this heavy must be power dense, hence may need oil cooling".
You know that high you get when your software finally works, with all the little cogs churning away and producing something much bigger than any one of them as a system effect? That, but with people. Feeling powerful feels good.
Seems pretty far fetched to me that there would have ever been a chance to have IPv6 in Win9x. For comparison, afain FreeBSD was the forerunner with IPv6 support, and they got it in 2000. So I'd say they "missed the deadline" by 5+ years. It was probably around 2005 when we realistically had somewhat usable IPv6 support at base OS level.
first of all, difficulty D is a float, and there are no floats in the actual computation. Second, a float is not a number of hashes. bzzzzt

edit- In plain English, this explanation is incorrect because it relies on floating point number D. Difficulty D is a convenience representation as float of the ratio of two very large integers; one of those large integers is the fixed MAX Target. The other vary large integer is varied by a prescribed formula, once every two weeks.
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That's exactly what happened with me. When people ask why I retired "so early" (I'm 56) my first answer is always that I did it because I could. I was fortunate to have accrued enough that I didn't have to keep doing something that had become more burdensome than satisfying, so I stopped.

As to why it had become more burdensome, some of the OP's points ring pretty true. Software development is much more rushed than it used to be, which is not at all to say it's more efficient or productive. Everybody wants to rush into coding without having a real anchored discussion about approaches and pitfalls, then rush into coding the next thing before all the really "interesting" bugs that live in the interstices between unit-testable components are dealt with. Yeah, I know the excuses, and I'm sure they'll be repeated in replies here. Basically they all come down to "don't worry we'll rewrite it next year anyway" which is not entirely wrong but I got tired of being disparaged for wanting to be even a tiny bit further on the "get it right the first time" side.

And then there's the ageism. Like other -isms it's never as simple as "I hate X" but more about failing to consider X. Open-plan offices are more problematic for older people because of hearing and personal-comfort issues. Mandatory oncall shifts are more burdensome for people with kids than those without. A senior developer trying to apply an idea learned on other systems will often be blocked because those systems are assumed to be irrelevant, but a junior developer reinventing the exact same idea in the context of the current system will get a bonus or promotion. To some extent it's just good old NIH, but when it consistently gives one group an advantage over another it's discrimination. "Only people who grew up in this environment can add value to it" is ageism.

A lot of these issues are much more prevalent at certain companies, notably FAANG, so arguably they could be improved by going elsewhere. Which would have meant going through another one or more BS interview processes for what was likely to be a slight improvement because everybody imitates FAANG. "I prefer not to" as Bartleby the scrivener famously said, and I suspect that's the same conclusion many other senior developers reach. We've made it so that development usually becomes more and more of a chore as people become more senior (no it didn't used to be that way), so we shouldn't be surprised when they take the earliest exit.
The problem is high performers using their performance to justify abusive behavior, either implicitly or explicitly. A 10x engineer who is also an asshole (or a predator) can easily do enough damage to counteract all of his productivity.
No one knows for sure. This question is still not answered in the judiciary (of any country afaik) when it comes to cripto contracts and protocols. It is not as simple as "money wired to a wrong account", those protocols are based on smart contracts, and the concept that the code is the contract (something that also is not tested in court). So a bug in the smart contract code would be akin to signing a contract without properly reading it, and it ends up having a clause you didn't originally want (but you did sign), that kind of "buggy" contract may be 100% enforceable or not depending on the country and the situation.

Other analogy that may be relevant are cases where casinos had slot machines with bugs awarding more prizes than the casino intended. In some cases/jurisdictions the courts ruled in favor of casinos, that the money was awarded incorrectly and should be returned; but in other cases/jurisdictions favored the winner, saying that the winner did everything right according to the rules of the game and should keep the winnings.

Also the Pepsi 349 Scandal in the Philippines in 1992 comes to mind [1]. In that case courts side with Pepsi, but I suspect that money has some inertia in Judges minds, so it was easy to side with Pepsi when it haven't paid yet. I suspect that if all that money had actually been automatically transfered to the many winners, then Pepsi would have a much harder task to convince the judges to make everyone transfer the money back.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Number_Fever
Yes, that's definitely the case for a lot of NFTs being minted and sold.

And if an NFT did represent the right to download and play a particular game from Steam (like, you had to present proof of ownership of an NFT to Steam to be allowed to play the game), such that I could sell that NFT outside of Steam to someone else... well, the value of that NFT is only as good as Steam's willingness to abide by the agreement it embodies, which they can unilaterally withdraw at any time, so there's little value in Steam honoring such a thing. If they wanted to permit game resale, they can do that, inside their own database, without any NFT nonsense.

So yeah, it's still a bit of a mystery if or whether this actually adds anything, but I'm just trying to put myself into the mindset of people who are excited by this and trying to figure out what excites them, rather than just assuming they're all dumb because they think buying numbers is going to change the world.
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This is a pretty good analysis of the situation I think. The only thing that I would like to point out is that only a description of the API is available via the Zanzibar paper. We, and other clean-room implementations, have had to fill in the gaps around what the APIs actually look like. We've even made some of our own improvements such as resource lookup by subject[0] and a filter-based delete that mirrors the read API[1].

[0] https://authzed.com/blog/acl-filtering-in-authzed/

[1] https://buf.build/authzed/api/docs/main/authzed.api.v1#authz...
I can't imagine they re-use four-year-old laptops that have been getting carted around to and from school by teenagers for years. Nobody buys a Celeron laptop with 4GB of RAM thinking they're getting a future-proof system that'll last a decade.

At most, you might issue returned ones to people who lost or broke the one they were issued.
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Near as I can find, baseline Swiss beef prices are already 4x the global average. I'd certainly be eating beef a lot less if it was 4x more expensive, never mind a premium on top of that.
If you haven't worked in Finance, here are a few items you might want to consider before commenting one way or the other on stories from the world of finance:

-There are regulations on paper only and VERY rarely is monitoring conducted because of the firms asserting "confidentiality" to not share data

-Regulators are fully aware of illegal practices such as literally creating fake shares from thin air which has been illegal for over a decade and yet, THERE IS NO WAY to know if this is happening or has happened in the past year. The data is not public[1]

-Even when such blatant illegal behavior amounting to billions of dollars , the penalties are mostly fines and no one goes to jail

-Court filings indicate suspicious sales of specific securities by insiders at Citadel before they restricted retail sales. Contrast this with you, as an employee of a FAANG tech firm, trade stock on inside information and you're looking at prison time.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/m9bfp0/naked_short_sel...
From the PR: https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/pull/2690

> @hmdne commented yesterday

> @Try2Code A protected class is a group of people that has been historically discriminated or a group of people we (as humanity) want to privilege to offset the years of discrimination - but that's not all. For example the People of Color are a protected class, because of slavery. Members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class because they financially contribute to the cause. The non-heterosexuals are a protected class, because of discrimination. Women are a protected class obviously. I don't know how to better define it. The dictionaries should have a more understandable definition.

Side note: anyone follow what this means? “Members of board of directors of the big corporations are a protected class because they financially contribute to the cause.”?

> @peterc commented yesterday

> Since California has been mentioned, I'm guessing these: https://www.senate.ca.gov/content/protected-classes
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> How was it out there? I haven't been getting the recruiters hitting me up on linkedin as much

Not nearly as much experience, but I had the same issue. I was expecting once I opened up, I’d have a flood of messages in my inbox, given how everyone is saying how hot the market is. However, I feel like I’ve seen less than previous job searches, and filtering out irrelevant, low paying, shit jobs from those the number is even more disappointing.
An alternative: a native app.
And, if they don’t, this creates an opportunity for others to outcompete them (on average) by doing just that
Consumerism, in which purchasing is "related to the display of status and not to functionality or usefulness" was used to describe the American economy at least as far back as 1955.
Uh, there is?[1]

[1]https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console...
Yes I tell everyone who ll listen this distinction too. I've arrived in a project based financial institution. It boggles my mind the software mind set: get project "done" toss / handover to some poor bastard to struggle with. Repeat. I actually think handovers should be banned. They don't work.
That would kinda be the idea, using someone who has a similar looking photo to you. I'm thinking in terms of kids getting into clubs. Physical fake ID's are easy for a knowledgeable bouncer to spot, but if it's all digital data, then it's significantly harder for the bouncer to spot fakes when the data is validated by a system. They'd need entirely new training.

And it's not like there isn't already a black market of stolen IDs already. Get a photo of your client, run it against a database of stolen info, get a match. I understand I'm simplifying this immensely, but if the system can be broken, then it will be exploited. And really it's not if, but when.

I can see this being a useful technology in the case of law enforcement, pharmacies, doctors offices, or anywhere you would need to check in with your driver's license.
That's very far from the truth. Here is an incidence of a hack, ripping $81m from a poor country: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/insane-81m-bangladesh-bank-hei...

Here is $24bn of losses due to credit card fraud: https://shiftprocessing.com/credit-card-fraud-statistics/

If the bank bears the losses, then the burden is indirectly distributed to all its customers/shareholders. If the government bears the losses, then its distributed to the whole economy.

> Bank runs like from the movie "Its a wonderful life" - they don't happen anymore.

In the Western developed countries. There are billions living in countries/systems where currencies are devaluating like hell and where banking regulations is looser than crypto.
The requirement to have a crypto wallet feels like requiring a hunting license in order to watch Netflix.
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The variation of your example would be:

"If this community introduces a CoC, all participants start to suspect there were some incidents involving bigots and assholes in the community"
yes, agree it is roughly true that miners will very likely maximize their efforts.. this is not the question however
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I should give some context. We're developing an internal application for the staff at the branch. A customer comes into the branch and a company employee sets it up in the app. We have a release every two months and the demo is every two weeks. The problem is that not many people come to the demo because they are not interested. Our agile coach says it's because we're not delivering enough new features and we should be doing more. For us, it's not the app that sells, it's the people. An app is a tool to get somewhere, store data, but it has a lot of bugs in it. I'd rather have a functional product than useless metrics that in our case doesn't increase sales. That seems silly to me.
It's the inverse of a casino, because economies grow instead of shrink. If you bought shares at random, you'd make money on average, like a casino where the house loses more often than it wins.

Rich people and politicians are absolutely skimming off the top in various legal and illegal ways, but they skim off less than economic growth adds.
I wish we responded to situations more proportionally.

In this case, someone made a joke about women not liking to reveal their true age as they get older. It's a boring cliched joke. Something I've heard too many times in my life (and, most often from women). Is it sexist? I can see the argument. Is it professional to make such a joke on a ruby mailing list? I don't know, perhaps not.

Does it warrant responses like "Knock that bullshit off." or "you made an ass of yourself"... I don't know. Seems a little ironic to use unprofessional language in this situation. Maybe even worse than the joke itself? I don't know.

Then, folks take the discussion to github and twitter (and, eventually reddit and hn). Presenting only their verdict: "A newer member made a sexist joke, and was called out on it as being inappropriate." No links to the joke. No evidence that the joke is sexist. This makes it so much easier to imagine something really bad. No, we just get a verdict and we should all rise up against this sexism (which absolutely is bad, of course). Let's get our pitchforks. This amplifies one side of the argument and shuts down any useful conversation. Worse, it's used to rush through a CoC change without allowing any thoughtful discussion.

Is this reaction proportional to the original joke? Is the reaction itself exemplar of how we would like to conduct ourselves?
The amount of mining being done would be driven by the price of mining (fixed + recurring) and the reward for mining.

If you make mining cheaper you just get more mining, lowering energy usage per unit mining will increase the mining done to balance the reward.

Actually lowering total energy usage would require lowering total reward or raising the price of energy.
native to what?
I personally don't think baseball cards are a good investment either
I’m a “true believer” in CRDTs, which I have some experience in. You can implement a useful CRDT for simple applications in under 100 lines if all you care about are standard database objects - like maps, sets and values. List CRDTs are where they get complicated, but most applications aren’t collaborative text editors.

The promise of CRDTs is that unlike most conflict resolution systems, you can layer over a crdt library and basically ignore all the implantation details. Applications should (can) mostly ignore how a CRDT works when building up the stack.

The biggest roadblock to their use is that they’re poorly understood. Well, that and implementation maturity. Automerge-rs merged a PR the other day which brought a 5 minute benchmark run down to 2 seconds. But by bit we’re getting there.