skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better wording would be that the aim of decentralization is the option to eliminate the third party. If someone wants to use a third party to transact then he should have the freedom to do so. Similarly, if someone wants to transact with another party directly then this should also be allowed.
How do you know we are not already seeing the effects and have just failed to attribute them? Wouldn't be a stretch, there's a lot we don't know about how and why health outcomes have changed in the last few generations.
No I said :

> This is the first time I have seen the word labor used in the context of US politics.
Not mentioned here, but if you want an academic job in the humanities, in the US, don't be white. Universities have adopted explicitly racist hiring policies for the time being.
iPhone SE are sold starting at $400, 11 at $500, 12 at $600. I used the original SE, which I also got well under $1,000, for 4 years before getting the new SE. And the original SE still works.

There has not been a need to update every two years for many years. And there is far more waste from lower quality products that last fewer years.
A more recent (fairly famous) example, the Big Bang theory was formulated by a Catholic priest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
I'm mad because network "engineers" use that word without realising what it entails to earn that title.

The painting has been on the wall for decades. IPv4 exhaustion was predicted to the week.

Did anyone do anything about it? No.

There are people talking about how Kubernetes is the "future" on this very forum, yet it simply does not work with IPv6. Instead, it uses NAT and RFC1918 ranges... but you've got to be careful not to accidentally overlap those subnets with the rest of your network!

I have a customer that screwed this up and now they're facing a rebuild of 3 out of 4 of their clusters. Fun times.

I have another customer undergoing mergers, where renumbering their IPv4 RFC1918 ranges is going to cost them on the order of $10M.

IPv4 is the legacy, and its costing real money to keep it going decades after its expiry.
Some things are just beyond what Humans will ever understand in my opinion. Consciousness is one of those things. A computer that is able to understand itself completely would be infinitely powerful since its understanding would be recursive over each new understanding state.
> decades of car UX

Truth to be told, it was stagnant for last 10 years:

- adding more buttons increases user's fatigue and decreases feature discoverability. With cars getting more integrated into various software features, there is no going back from touch.

- no voice interaction UX or a very bad one

Perhaps several programmable buttons for advanced users would be nice. But that depends on whether user really needs those custom routines and actions.
For my own mental health why would I take pride in a job I hate? A job where I can't agree with my boss? Why would I care about more money when I have enough?

This sounds like accepting and denying more than anything. I would wish anyone a job they are actually valued in, a job they like.
Unsupported premises. Assumptions. Good writing should help us see things we didn't before. This does not.
Ask HN: What do you wish you knew when you were a CS student?
So it did. But not without controversy. And consequently, there's still defvar. Emacs Lisp is binding dynamically by default to this day, iirc.
> A billboard is something that tons of people can't help but notice.

That's an interesting definition of a billboard. So if there is a billboard next to a road, and the road goes under construction for weeks/months it ceases to be a billboard for that time? Or if most people leave a village and it empties out.

> This requires installing a bunch of software, identifying peers on the Ethererum mainnet, asking them for their idea of the latest block, determining the most-worked-branch, validating its entire history, looking up a particular contract, determining its state at that block, extracting some text from it, and then somehow displaying it, for one person to see. At least that would be the somewhat trustless and decentralized way to do it.

Trustless and decentralized are not the same thing. I agree that would be "somewhat" trustless (Do you trust your OS? Do you trust your compile toolchain? How deep does trustless need to go?)

Instead, this is a webapp with a link to a blockchain explorer. It's trivial to check another blockchain explorer or your own node if you want.
>Desperate times call for desperate measures, and if the past year of climate catastrophes has shown us anything, it’s high time we act.

This same rhetoric has been repeated for decades, and has continually received the same, hostile response from the public and politicians.

I'm not arguing that it's wrong or untruthful, but alarmist statements like this are a demonstrably poor tool for rousing the public into action and creating real change.

Why do climate activists continually insist on using persuasive techniques that are proven to not work?
It's not a good idea to conjecture and argue from total ignorance. There are commonly used battery chemistries, such as LiFePO4/graphite, that simply do not use any scarce resources.
Mile range is competitive, and being able to plug into a wall charger means there are more places to charge than places to refill.

I think the downsides are that carrying extra fuel is easier (although it wouldn't surprise me if extra batteries you can load onto the truck become a thing), and also that the refill time is much worse.
I really don't know if that's overdoing it. Da Vinci might compare, but I suspect that even he would be in awe at some of Neumann's abilities.
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Hey Netflix, why can Linux users screencap your movies?
and why did mainstream browsers lose their 100% open source nature due to drm then?
You are talking of the same thing. The typical wolf tone in quarter comma meantone was G#-Eb, which sounded so bad that some instruments added a separate key for Ab.
Fun fact: I know a frontend dev who only used ie6 for development for as long as I knew him which sounded like masochism. But he had a point: "hey, if it works on ie6, it will work on a potato with a VGA stuck in it".
Considering that Italy will be hit hard by climate change, I find this a weird opinion to hold for an Italian.
Last thing I heard there's no garbage pickup in the capital city in Rome, so these Ferrari companies must somehow forgot to pay their taxes a lot or?
> and Apple haven’t yet (at least to the same degree)

Do you consider Apple's participation in the NSA's PRISM program to be worse than selling info to advertisers?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
People are voting with their wallets. They are voting they don't care.
Let Us Just Call It “Anti-German”
Do they sell your data, or does your data allow them to profit by showing you more targeted ads?
Dublin Core reminds me of SAML. Designed as a bag of standards parts, not as a complete standard.
Forget the anarchist's cookbook. The army has a few excellent manuals on improvised munitions and incendiary devices. You can usually find someone selling a copy at local gun shows.

https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Army-Improvised-Munitions-Handboo...

Don't mess with primary explosives though. They're either too difficult to manufacture cleanly in an amateur setting or too unstable to be made by anyone who isn't a complete moron.
It is their acid nature combined with there very high consumption of water, which is a consequence of their very rapid rate of growth. Modern pine trees grow like inflating ballon toys. You can almost watch them grow overnight.

Old-school pine, like scots pine, are not so bad. But these are not grown commercially as much. Pity, it is a nice timber… more red than modern pine.
Since it no longer serves to advertise to the public, its utility as a billboard ceases. So yes, it stops being a billboard.
2 effing dollars price difference
From the outside it appeared very strongly that Microsoft deliberately allowed IE to stagnate with the end goal that the web should mean IE and IE only.

That wasn’t a response to government but a strategy to tie the web to Windows as the only platform which could run real IE6.

They could bundle a browser with macOS or Linux but it was much use if it wouldn’t work with your bank, corporate or government sites.

They used the same strategy to have Office files be memory dumps of the programs that created them and formidably hard to support by 3rd parties.
I was waiting for someone to rip-off the one from last month and just lower the fee and pretty much nothing else

https://sagivo.com/2021/09/13/Crypto-Billboard.html
That's actually a good illustration of my point - he believed science and religion shouldn't mix.

Contrast with Judaism, or Buddhism, where integration of the spiritual and scientific is often encouraged.
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> So if there is a billboard next to a road, and the road goes under construction for weeks/months it ceases to be a billboard for that time?

You could still call it a billboard but I am pretty sure the company paying for the ad on it will pause their payments. Maybe even sue if they were not given any notice in advance.
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> You can just spend most of time loitering. Also hangover passes super quickly so you don’t waste a whole day after a party.

I started work at 15, so no responsibility-less loitering for me. And those hangovers can only happen if you save up enough cash after paying for school lunch and car insurance, which the 6-month cost was about the same as the price of my car $1000.

My guess is that the "happy" sample size came from the Kardashian/Jenner family. Given that they have a lot to lose here, I would think, as well.

And yes, I technically got "free" lunch, but do you want to be in THAT line? I mean, the cool kids are in the subway and burger line for a bargain of $6 a lunch... So why wouldn't I do that, too?

Thank goodness I didn't have an incessant window into all their lives outside of school, while I was working 30-40 hour weeks at 7/hr.
We live in a weird world where blowing up money containers to get the money inside will only net you a meager $2mio over 15 ATMs while getting people to click on your scam crypto IPO link can easily net you $20mio in an hour.
Human beings have been going down this path since the start of civilization. Human beings have been acting like this since we have had hierarchies of power and wealth. For us to solve the climate issue would require us as a species to do a complete 180. At that point we won't even be human anymore, which is why I say it is a lot cause. I assume the criteria for a solution to climate change has always included our survival as a species, but if it doesn't then I agree with the idea that it isn't a lost cause.
> Finally, electric cars charge at ~96% efficiency, while hydrogen is something like 40%.

>> This claim has little substance and credibility.

The efficiency of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles versus battery vehicles is considered in some detail in this video [1]. The conclusion [2] is that, in the best case, the energy efficiency from power generation to road for existing or near future hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is about 25%, compared to about 65% for typical existing battery vehicles.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MzFfuNOtY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=651&v=f7MzFfuNOtY
Christ you are insufferable. The thing can drive. We all understand that it requires an attentive driver. There's nothing to argue about.
And those 'bastards' were often treated horrifically for the mother's crimes. This lasted well up into the last century.

Even today children of single mothers are at a large disadvantage, but at least it's not quite as institutional and savage.
Wait, how is his blog taking the whole screen on his mac? Does he zoom on his own blog? Does he uses a 700px wide screen?
Vinegar is the troll of cuisine. It spots something good and immediately initiates an agenda to interfere and corrupt. It's a pugnacious product and can drive innocent people to madness. This is exhibited by the apple cider version, which a quick perusal of the interwebs will show those who come into contact with it often becoming delusional, attributing such panaceal powers to it as healing decapitation, curing plane crashes, stopping AIDS, and detoxifying the absence of good taste. The practice of not changing one's socks for months in tropical climates is not a recipe for good sauce. Why, then, foist this squalid fomentation onto mustard, or anything that hasn't wronged our species?

The entire Prohibition was based on the simple misunderstanding of this stuff usurping alcohol. If they had only known.
Please don’t use the described approach, which doesn’t un-bias or decorrelate the samples. And where do you get the seed for your PRNG anyway?

There are literally thousands of academic papers written on the topic of un-biasing and “extracting entropy” from noise sources. Most are overly complex; if you want a practical but secure approach see Yarrow, Fortuna, or the Linux kernel entropy pool.
You know, if someone predicted the apocalypse was right around the corner, and the only way to avert it was to dramatically change my lifestyle in a way that was orthogonal to the catastrophe...

I'd say you're peddling religion. Especially if I don't change, and the doomsday prophecies fail. (Again, and again, and again...)
To be fair I've spent like 4 months in Thailand and sex tourism is focused to just a few small touristic areas. It's barely visibly up in the north, and even Bangkok you only see it if you go near walking street or drive out to Pattaya.

In Amsterdam its way more obvious for example, than in most nice touristic islands.
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Fair enough. Apparently most POC employees didn’t leave Coinbase, but yes, it’s too early to tell.
I've been approached by FB recruiters 3 times and turned them down 3 times. I've removed FB from all my devices except one. The only thing keeping me on the platform is that my sports clubs use it to organise matches and runs. I check FB once a day. All notifications are off.

I really don't want anything to do with them. I'd still work for a military software developer. But not Facebook.

Frankly, I was also surprised recently, though I shouldn't be, that there are (or were) some quite 'famous' developers / comp-sci researchers working there.
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We only managed the short walk, with a 2 year old that's about all we can manage. There are some longer walks which I'd like to go back and do. The overnight stays would be amazing, though they were reassuringly expensive when we had a look.
Hahahaha, the same author is responsible for both of them. It's weird to see someone start ranting about 'clickbait' when this is in fact the opposite. The original piece advocated for an `offline-first` approach with RXDB. This piece (also a part of the RXDB docs) openly and transparently acknowledges reasons why the RXDB methodology might not be for you.

> And as for everything related to software, I am reading again what was good is bad, and what was bad is good

Before baselessly accusing someone of writing and submitting clickbait, maybe spend a little more time reading the content and evaluating the context.
In my day, Web 3.0 meant the Semantic Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web#Web_3.0 .
This goes for all big corporations, all of them lie through their teeth and only care about the appearance of caring, because that's a lot more profitable than actually caring.

Reduce your consumption and lifestyle. Buy as little as possible, preferably second-hand. Maintain and repair what you already own. Become politically active or at least vote for people who are not in the pockets of big business.
Among Firefox, uBlock Origin, AdGuard Home and buying (for a couple dollars) ad-free versions of apps I use frequently, the web is virtually entirely ad-free for me. It blows my mind that it's different for most people.

Every time I use YouTube on Amazon FireTV, I lose interest in the video content very fast. Just atrocious to sift through the ads, popups etc.
In the Canadian federal election a couple of weeks ago, 95% of votes went to parties that had a carbon tax of some sort in their platform.

Canadians aren't very different from Americans. It can be done.
This video will make you angry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
... probably that learning Smalltalk and Lisp would elevate my thinking and make it much easier to think about languages I've had to learn since.

Also, watch the SICP video series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY if you haven't yet read the book -- it's quite a gentle introduction.

Good luck!
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Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (2012)
Even when the only possible "consumer goods" was a rock, there were luxury rocks.

"What were they used for?" is asked like there's only one answer. They were probably used for anything else a rock is useful for, but being nicely sized for a hand, pretty, etc made them easier to use, more effective, or just flashier.

AFAIK the class of objects referred to here don't share a lot of qualities that would make them a class in other contexts; there's no single shape, some have wear that may indicate original uses, etc etc. It just appears to be some of the early personal artifacts that people valued that are durable enough to see today.
Author decides that liability of individual engineers, rather than firms, is the answer.

Who writes the regulations?
The best solution to climate change is a price on Carbon.

Anything else is just pork.

If we don't want to impose a carbon price on ourselves, we can do it to others via import tariffs.
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Another drastic emergency rationalizing further government largess. Take a few steps back from the minutiae of the arguments for catastrophic warming. Leave that to the side if you can.

Is there anything more hysterical than an appeal to apocalypse?

Have we seen this pattern before, where fear is used to rationalize expanded governance?
Corporate death penalty plus prison time for relevant people. How wide to cast the net would have to be worked out.
Nah, it would be limited by its stack size ;)
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>It's a shame, because different tunings can really change the tone of the instrument in interesting ways.

I find this with guitar, but guitarists on the whole aren't snobbish about alternate tunings. DADGAD is my favourite guitar tuning for similar reasons.
I would much rather tend a field of poppies than a mamba snake ranch. Poppies hardly ever run away from thunderstorms.
Do people out of college even do Leetcode anymore? Surely there's a better use of time once you're in a paying job.
> Where did all these workers go? How are they making ends meet? Did people realize what they actually value and cut back both spending and work?

Yes. Prices are set at the margin, so even if 5% or 10% of people make a move, especially the lowest paid ones, and there is no slack because the system was running at capacity before, then it will have a knock on effect because prices for those 5% to 10% go up, and that causes others to make moves, and then so on and so forth until a new steady state is reached.

Prices at the low end were also dependent on a certain amount of immigrants, illegal or otherwise.

The US has been grinding down its lowest paid workers for many decades though. I actually saw the trend start reversing almost 10 years ago for the least paid laborers, and prices have been going up long before COVID. COVID just caused the changes to accelerate.
> It is similar to how many still don't belief in GC enabled systems languages.

Well... don't give my application as an example.

I have worked around the GC problem by using CL as kind of compiler for the application -- I built high level DSL that was then compiled to binary supplemented with small blocks written in ANSI C.

If you think about it, SBCL already does this and so does JIT in JVM.

I will give you an example:

Before the order goes to the exchange, it needs to be validated against a set of rules. Like "do we have enough money to run this order?" or "How much of allotted limit this algorithm still has?" or "Is volatility on this market within bounds for this algorithm to be used?"

The rules were written in Common Lisp DSL, then Common Lisp code converted it to a decision tree, then optimized decision tree, then compiled optimized version of the decision tree to a binary function. That function itself had no longer anything to do with Common Lisp, it could have just as well been written in ANSI C.

Then Common Lisp code wired these functions to form the application.

While most of the application code was actually Common Lisp (and some 20% of ANSI C), if you were market order and observed what instructions are handling you, none of them would actually be Common Lisp.

After the initial setup, the Common Lisp application was running on only one core, and the constructed binary took over all over cores and was running without garbage collection on memory regions allocated outside of Common Lisp system.

I hope this description makes sense... I have never before or after met an application that was built this way. As far as I know it is only one of its kind.
“It’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission”.

Never truer.
I've never heard anyone before making the claim that Hungarian in any way assists intellectual capacity.

I do believe there is something to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, but not to this degree. I know that, for example, Chinese students have a greater aptitude for basic arithmetic because in Chinese the sounds for the numbers are shorter and simpler than in most languages. This makes longer numbers easier to hold in short-term memory, assisting mental arithmetic. But... that's not going to churn out award-winning theoreticians!

I'm curious to know why anyone would make the claim that Hungarian is "that special" for intellectual thought. It's a bit of an odd duck of a language, sure. But not that special. To my knowledge the main beneficial property it has is that its structure makes it especially suitable for poetry. However, it shares that trait with Latin and I believe French also.