skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> New tipping and micropayments features will hopefully make it easier for smaller creators to get paid. But for now, much of the creator economy is still supported by pricier subscriptions, forcing consumers to be selective.

The primary reason smaller creators aren't "getting paid" isn't because technology is impeding it. It's because the number of people who actually see fit to pay them anything is very limited.

Consumer content is largely a commodity. There's an almost infinite supply of it, and the bar to it having any meaningful monetary value is very high and increasing constantly. Even content that has decent entertainment or informational quality is often close to worthless commercially because there is so much of it.

If everyone had a browser-based digital wallet and could easily "tip" creators nominal amounts with one or two clicks, I believe very few creators would see a lift in their earnings.

This is really no different than street performers, except the performances are available online. Lots of people will stand by and watch a street performer do something cool, but most put nothing into the tip jar and the number of street performers who earn a respectable wage from their performances is close to nil.
Just because Java implements object oriented programming in a rigid and clunky way doesn't make your Java anecdote a general principle. This isn't a very good blogpost.

But I'm glad HN is back about arguing about petty programming stuff nonless rather than partisan politics.
What you are saying is generalists are cheaper to hire and that you can train them. That's true.

That's why, as a seller (worker) you should try to specialize in at least one area to sell yourself better.
> What does that even mean? Innocent of what, having an immune system?

Innocent of a crime. That's it's usual meaning, and we compel those guilty of crimes to do things they don't want to.

> Financial incentives, such as being fired if you create a hazardous workplace by refusing vaccination, are a form of compulsion on an escalating ladder of methods to convince people.

That's not an incentive, that's a punishment. I do agree, however, that it is a form of compulsion (a compulsion is never also an incentive).
Since MEV is a thing, miners have a lot of power.
They don't need to "prove" shit. If you're vaccinated, you're not in danger of dying. Moreover, you will get COVID anyway eventually, with or without the vaccine. It's endemic, and it'll be with us forever.
It's a protease inhibitor as well as anti parasitic. Much easier to get the animal brands. Overdosing is difficult unless your doing it on purpose. People ingesting the pour on cattle version or consuming products that mix ivermectin with other related but unsafe active ingredients likely caused the very small number of legitimate issues.

For me, taking ivermectin and having it clear up my long covid almost instantly was great. Then weeks later witnessing this coordinated take down was a real turning point for me. Hard to trust anything now.
This about matches the real inflation rate
noted: edited the comment to reflect
I actually think naming colledge/university where you got your degree, has to be prohibited.

It adds to discrimination and unequal treatment.

Asking if you a have a degree form an accredited university is OK.

But which one of the universities -- is like asking how much are you paying for your rent/house, and what type of neighborhood you are living in (and so asking for address has to be prohibited too)
Divergence Ventures Returns 702 ETH to Ribbon Finance After Gaming Airdrop
I very much liked your response. :)
> Money is a promise that someone will work for you.

Incorrect. Money is (supposed to be) proof you did work/ created value.
Classes turn out to conflate two or three different, unrelated concepts. Better languages split those things out so that you can use them separately. (Believe it or not, Java actually advanced best practices in this area: in C++ interfaces were just a "pattern", and many C++ fans were sceptical of the value of making a language-level distinction between interfaces and classes).

When we say "A extends B" we mean a) an instance of A composes in an instance of B b) A implements the interface that B implicitly expresses c) this implementation, by default, delegates to the instance of A from a). Sometimes you really do want to do all three of those things. But often you want to do some subset of them instead. So the language should give you ways to do parts of that without doing all of that, and then "extends" should be at most lightweight syntax sugar over that.
Predictable yet unlikely events (especially expensive) are what insurance is optimally for.
I ran into a fun bug in W10 where my arrow keys were moving the mouse cursor around. Turns out MS Paint does this as a feature and somehow it leaked beyond Paint.

https://superuser.com/questions/1467313/mouse-pointer-moving...
There are things like static classes and functions that can co-exist.
Mountain View was a lot nicer place for people to actually live before Google and LinkedIn showed up. If you talk to long time residents they're not thrilled about the changes.
It's dishonest to paint them that way, but it's fair to point out they're trying to solve the wrong problem.

You say "a lot of employees take advantage of work from home to work as little as possible" - I guarantee you that's not what employees are setting out to do. No one went, at the start of the pandemic "oh thank God I am remote; now I can not do my job". What they're facing is a variety of things; reduced social bonds (not just at work but generally), a deviation from normalcy (which creates stress and makes productivity harder), and likely a culture that was transplanted from in person, without figuring out how to make remote work.

But your statement is definitely how a lot of managers think, "people are taking advantage", which is why the fix, according to those managers, is to bring people back in, where they can feel the pressure of being watched.

So you're not wrong in describing motivation...but the implication that these managers have correctly diagnosed and solved the problem is wrong.

What I've noticed is that without going into the office, the -already existing issues- become more apparent and more morale sucking, and it makes it harder to care about (and thus do) the work. Every obstacle feels harder because I don't have social glue to make me feel it needs to be overcome. Etc. The correct solution isn't to reinforce that social glue to better trick people into overlooking the issues, but to identify and fix the issues. But that's harder than mandating people come back into the office.
The implementation of the fix was done by a small, early community who moved to effectively eliminate the 184 billion Bitcoin from circulation as humans, fixing a client. As noted, I think its a similar straw man (read: not the same).

Really, it just seems intellectually lazy to me to use The DAO as a way to gauge Ethereum today. Folks should instead focus on what devs are doing now (e.g. EIP 1559 would be something of concern) to have an honest debate about mutability today vs. whinging about Vitalik then.
If your comment is just saying "managers who do things to their own benefit, to the expense of their reports, are bad," then we're in agreement.
That was 30 years ago in another city. The rioters are 50 years old now.
I’m genuinely curious what reason there is for women and people of colour to not want to return to office.

Parents I get. (Also; why make the ‘working parents’ distinction? Isn’t that implied?) I have multiple colleagues working mostly from home right note because the family situation demands it.

I just wonder why the employee satisfaction and retention would be threatened more for women and people of colour than for people not in those groups.
You do not have to use SemVer if you do not like it, and your considerations are valid and are good points. However, there are other considerations.

Allow marking old version numbers as "regressive"; any regressive version number is never considered compatible with any other version, whether regressive or not.

Allow a version to have multiple version numbers that alias each other; that might be appropriate in the case of radically rewriting the implementation in a way that is supposed to remain compatible.

However, that won't solve everything (nor does it even come close). It is necessary for package maintainers to notice if a version has security problems that older and/or newer versions don't, and to do whatever is appropriate in the given situation. Sometimes a program is compatible with multiple versions of a package even if they are not otherwise compatible (it is related to what you describe). Sometimes a program depends on internal details (or bugs) which are subjected to being changed. Sometimes there are other reasons why a user might not want to upgrade (including hardware compatibility). Sometimes conflicts are possible; depending on the situation there might or might not be a way to resolve this.

So, like some other messages mentions, using semantic version numbers won't solve everything, but they won't break everything either. Use or don't use semantic version numbers according to your choice, but whichever way you choose should be documented, and anyone using them should be aware of these considerations.

FOSS is helpful that you can fork software and modify it for your use if needed, in case you want some but not all of the changes that have been made, or if you can make your own improvements.
> There is no such thing as fractional reserve banking in Bitcoin.

Wrong. There's such a thing as fractional reserve banking in bitcoin. Any entity that takes bitcoin deposits from customers can engage in fractional reserve banking and create new bitcoins out of thin air. Fractional reserve banking works perfectly well with bitcoin just like it works perfectly well with gold or with any commodity. It doesn't rely on fiat money at all, in fact fractional reserve banking was invented long before fiat money was a thing.
Quite a spectacular feat considering all the spending.
The majority of the US states have no minimum age of criminal responsibility. Other ex-colonial federations have states with their own laws and courts, too, yet do not have this problem.

In fact, the US is the only country in the world to lack these legal protections.
> But I know it's not quite so easy and especially now a lot of people are hardened and less willing to work together to smooth things over.

The whole point of enforcing public health and safety rules is that a significant percentage of the population is uninformed/misinformed and shows poor decision-making skills based on their personal risk perception and how they value the impact of their own actions on everyone else's risk.

If it only takes one ignorant fool to spread a deadly disease to dozens around him, how do you expect to mitigate or contain a pandemic?
I think if you look into Twitter for a couple minutes you’ll see…

Here’s foone complaining about it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/foone/status/1440375176604966924
Just make your own major websites and services?

Every other country has their own ecosystem, EU seems to be capable enough.
Part of me wonders if anyone has run these numbers at big pharma. I would guess that at some point in July, unvaccinated people became the bigger cash cow, since not only did they have to discard that vaccine that Trump had already brought for them and been produced, we have perhaps gone past the point of having done that a second time with the dose that Biden bought and was produced for them. This comes as the percentage of doses in arms drops. And they are also much more likely to end up in the hospital and buying yet even more expensive experimental treatments such as this one. </rant> Sigh.
Except that it's not necessary waste for Russia. At least some of this 'waste' can be used as fuel now or in future.

France does have at least some of necessary technologies to do so too. USA/Finland doesn't.

See https://habr.com/ru/post/473028/ (in Russian) and links from it
They and Amazon could be sued (I'm not saying it's likely, or there is a case for it) for stealing trade secrets though.
yeah, i guess a lot of it is a matter of taste. i find hobb's style very engaging and readable, and there are other popular writers like c j cherryh and david drake whose style i have a hard time getting into. (not read watts; from what i've heard of him i suspect his sf will have too many horrific elements for me.)
> hina caused every single COVID death in the world, whether through labs or wet markets, so I wouldn't sing praises of authoritarian governments.

> in the long term their society would be better for it

No, I think successful suppression was both shown to be very possible and the better option. Political failure means that millions have already died, and more will follow. Of course, suppression is a no-go now, I'm not denying that.

> China caused every single COVID death in the world, whether through labs or wet markets, so I wouldn't sing praises of authoritarian governments.

It's a nation of 1.2 billion, many new viruses are bound to originate there. I think it is disingenuous to blame the governance of China for the outbreak.

We all know how our own government works. Are we honestly supposed to believe if this outbreak had originated domestically that we would have reacted fast enough to contain it? We couldn't even avert it when we had multiple months advance warning, China controlled an active infection within their own borders and has successfully suppressed a potential pandemic in the past (SARS). I don't think we've demonstrated any capacity to do the same.
Robot Dogs Now Have Assault Rifles Mounted on Their Backs
I think that's kinda the path I followed too. Once I started working on really hard problems that racked my brain (problems that take months to solve _after_ I've gained expertise in the area) I started thinking about the world differently and seeing how nuanced it is. That first order approximations weren't enough to make even remotely reasonable approximations. I remember in one of my jobs my friend told me "there's a book on o-rings that's over a thousand of pages. O-rings. Just one simple device." Nuance matters a lot. It's the difference between a space shuttle exploding and not.

In a way, it is also liberating. I don't have to know everything. I can know to trust experts in the field. I know how to vet experts in fields adjacent to mine. And importantly, I know how to ask nuanced questions to people outside my field and to lean on them for help understanding problems I'm not an expert in.

Not that I don't also get egotistical and overstep my bounds. I definitely do. But it no longer hurts (as bad) when someone calls me out on it. It is more about the passion to learn now and getting rid of bad habits. Being called out now is an opportunity to learn.
If I were to emit a signal for people (beings) to find I wouldn't make it so random. Or, I'd try and make it as regular as possible.
A boy wrote about his suicide attempt. His school’s Gaggle software was watching
Except that (presumably) there is no guarantee that any spot instances are available. You could wind up in a state where you have no instances running. No user-facing production service can tolerate that.
Among other things, the price cuts are a nice change for ultra-cheap hobby projects that have extremely low resource demands. So far the lowest Spot VM price I've found is e2-micro in us-west4, which costs a whopping $0.69/month for 2GB of RAM and 0.25 of a shared core. That's only 25% the cost of Amazon's comparable t3a.small.
Pokhran-II
I still refuse to own crypto because its still just a purely speculative investment but there are some insanely talented people working on it. Plenty of turing award winners working on crypto at Algorand for example. Maybe after the hype dies a bit, we will see some real value be generated OR maybe even very smart people can fool themselves into working on useless projects.
Well except that on peak hours their infrastructure would disappear :)

You always need some traditional instances to serve things that need to be available at all time, like your website. Now you could run things using spot instances and switch to traditional during peak hours but that requires confidence that enough capacity is going to be available when you need it (which is going to be at the same time as everyone else, so it's always a bet :))
Most replies to this comment of mine are debating whether this was the right thing to do, or was it a 'blunder'.

I don't care about the morality of rights and wrongs. I'm making a limited categorical claim: this event by itself is proof that Eth is not immutable nor is it decentralized.

That is all I am saying.
> Young children are not getting critical development years back.

This sentence alone is true, but it misses the fact that a) young children suffer from this disease too, b) these young children live with older people that are at more at risk, hence they can bring something back from their schools that may cost the lives of their parents (I don't think losing your parents when you're a kid is great for your development), and c) there's always the risk of more deadly variants emerging due to more transmission.

> [...] individuals should have a role in deciding what's right for them.

For matters that only concern them, yes. For matters of public health, where you can transmit something to others without their consent and potentially cause their death or long-term disability, no, you don't have that luxury. None of us do. Same reason why a single nation can't/shouldn't just pollute all the seas and cause tons of greenhouse gas emissions and kill the world for everyone. We may not like it but we [have to] live together and being in a society means looking out for each other.

You are free to not wear a mask or party by yourself, in your house, away from society.
To those who are thinking about it, I say: just do it like Nike.

I left to live abroad and it was the best decision of my life. Interestingly, leaving made me appreciate certain things about the Bay Area more, just not enough to move back.

The good thing is that if you leave and don't find you're happier wherever you go, you can always go back.
Author concludes that it's natural immunity and bases this on "experts" but does not give any hint as to who these experts are, and refuses to consider the difference in weather/climate between California and Maine.
Nevertheless, doesn't that force you to divide your work up into units somehow and manage external storage to track what/how much is done?
With Spark you can indeed run batch jobs on multiple VMs. We are currently working having dynamic allocation and preemption on Kubernetes. This is for us essential for our on premise cluster, as we want fair sharing. But for our cloud GCP jobs we could indeed save money by having a pool of spot instances. If deadlines are important, you could replace them by normal instances.
But how do you measure it? What is the degree of centralisation of the "traditional value-transfer networks of the old centralized financial world" (your words)? You said it was greater than that of the ethereum network so you must have measured both.
> leaving made me appreciate certain things about the Bay Area more.

What did you miss? The weather?
What an empty apology. They banned the people who pointed this out to begin with in the hopes people wouldn't notice the DRM.
Exactly. It's unlikely to happen to you personally, but it's certain to happen to some proportion of the whole population in a given time period. That's what makes meteorites different - they're unlikely to happen even to the population as a whole.
Plot twist: two developers of your remote team live in Rome and have been raised by a female wolf. How to account for that?
One of the things I've adopted in the pandemic, and which has shed some light on this, is moving more things that would have been discussions, into collaborative documents. I.e., rather than "let me get the team together and discuss this" I instead write a doc, and then ask people to comment on it, and I seek to resolve the comments.

What I've seen is that people who frequently would speak little in person, will sometimes have a LOT to say on the doc. They're more direct and less self-deprecating too.

The changes that remote has forced in many ways have changed, and potentially removed some of the cultural barriers that were in place before; much like an internet forum allows a level of confidence and directness that a person may not feel in person, so too has that particular change seemed to enable some people to find their voice.

I'd imagine that even for things that are still zoom meetings, it has changed things too; more agenda driven, more need to raise your hand or be polite when you realize multiple people have started to respond and still carve out time for the people who spoke up but aren't going next, rather than just interrupt and now soandso has the floor, etc.

I don't know any of these things to be the reason, but I could easily see it leading to a different and more egalitarian experience for women and people of color.
> IFR. Why haven’t they? We’ve known it for quite some time.

Well, it's not constant. Vaccination rates have a big impact.

And honestly, what "experts" are you even talking about? Of course the numbers are out there.
Pass by Value Using Java Primitive Types
Example:

public class PassByValue {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int a = 2;
int b = 3;
add(a,b);
System.out.println("Result from main: " +(a+b));
}

private static void add(int a, int b){
a = 10;
System.out.println("Result from method: " +(a+b));
}

}

Result:

Result from method: 13
Result from main: 5

Reference: Scaler Topics
> With the current cost of large-scale renewables

"The project was initiated in May 2008 and gained final approval in February 2009."
Just wait till you see their Terms of Use.

https://axieinfinity.com/terms/

Whatever blockchain (supposedly) giveth, Axie taketh away
The likelihood of it happening to one specific person is small. The likelihood of it happening at all is huge.
Classes are nice when used in conjunction with a framework. Most developers realize that the Car that extends Vehicle from CS 101 is a limited pattern that isn’t very useful. And OO languages often force developers to declare classes when they really need namespaces or first class functions.

But if you are working with something like Spring Beans or React Components, classes serve as a decent unit within a framework. They help guide developers to factor their code in blocks of roughly similar size and scope. They help organize a codebase into something explorable for new members. Like chapters in a book, they don’t have to all be the same size, and may vary between books/codebases. That being said, most languages overload classes to be record/objects and namespace modules.

I like functions, and generally agree with the post. But when all you have is functions calling functions it’s not much better than spaghetti in large projects. You can still make a mess with classes, but they give a conventional way to delineate layers.
Disabling /all chat in matchmade queues