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Stephen Diehl is unfortunately blinded by anti crypto hate, so his arguments on the subject usually don't make much sense. Which is weird, because he's obviously a smart guy. This is no different, I don't know why his posts keep ending up on HN.
Speaking from experience, it sells better to bring along special soft skills in the package, than yet another technology stack.

Too many coders, generalists or not, cannot engange properly talking to something that isn't a computer.

Those that manage to merge coding skills, with UI/UX, marketing, understanding the customer point of view, already have an upper hand.
I had a go at this myself a few years ago [0]. But I wanted a dynamically linked ELF instead of a static one so that I could load SDL, OpenGL, etc. That requires extras like a DYNAMIC section which takes up quite a bit more space.

I ended up at 728 bytes without any self-extracting techniques. It played a nice animation though.

I have not tested it recently, I expect it won't run any more as it used "bad things", like relying on ecx having a specific value when the program started, but the ideas should still be relevant.

[0]: https://github.com/baines/demostuff
> Most of these arguments apply to recently produced art in general, don't they? Historical art is a little different, being a kind of combination of antiques and arts.

But none of your arguments apply to 'art in general' at all, do they? Because when you "buy art" you are actually... buying a piece of art.

The way we value 'art' obviously has culturally historical oddities attached to it. But none of them are comparable to what people are paying for when 'buying' NFTs (ie: their name in a database).

Which was the entire point of the Twitter thread.
Yeah sure.

Only that US companies with offices in other countries pay less than in US
Yes still not a problem as of today. These problems are nothing compared to the slag of old lead mines. There isn't anything to rebut, these problems are localised and trivial on the scale of 10% of the globe's electricity supply.

The waste issues of solar panels are going to be substantially bigger - because there is actual volumes of waste produced there. Waste issues from coal are already substantially bigger. Oil is substantially bigger. Hydro might produce less waste, but sterilises large areas and does a lot more ecological damage. Waste issue from any industrial process that is useful globally is going to create bigger waste problems than nuclear. The globe is big.

You can lose a plant's nuclear waste in a parking lot if you don't demarcate it (the part of the waste that is scary, anyway). There isn't a lot of waste. It is hard to describe how small that is compared to all the land and sea we have available and sitting unused.
In my experience it takes will power initially, but after I reached escape velocity I no longer needed much will power.

I'm talking about the day that I decided to "mute' my life. This was back in 2014 (I can't believe it's already been that long). Set my phone so that texts no longer caused alert sounds or vibration, only calls from those in my contacts would ring through, and I deleted crap like Facebook (and didn't log in again for over a year).

It took conscious effort initially, but then you adjust quicker than you think after you realize that exactly 0% of texts you will ever receive actually need your immediate attention. Maybe you the reader get important texts all the time, and I sort of feel sorry if you do, but I never ever do. If someone ever actually needs to reach me they will call, and they are never some rando number not in my contacts.

These devices and the services surrounding them don't necessarily deserve all the negative credit we attribute to them. People get addicted to things not just because those things have addicting qualities but because those people's needs aren't getting met in other areas. Technology makes it really easy to tickle those addiction centers in our brains, if you will, so that's the most common way to cope for people whom are missing something. It's not a personal failing (most of the time anyway) because even knowing that you are addicted, or that there's more to addiction than the surface level, is actually a really hard thing.

The other side of the equation is that not being addicted can be isolating in modern society. In my own life I sometimes have a hard time socializing with others, not out of shyness or anything like that, but because most people don't know how to relate to me when they find out that I don't surf social media, binge watch entertainment, or play video games for hours on end. They say "so what do you do with all that free time?" When I tell them that I am spending nearly all that time building things and learning, unless I'm among serious nerds, they don't get how my lifestyle is fulfilling to me. Truth be told, not living vicariously through the imaginary lives of others doesn't have to be boring.

I think there's a few kinds of people; the kind who don't get fulfillment or enjoyment outside of entertainment, and the kind who can be self-fulfilled but also deep down realize that it would separate them from much of society, which can be a scary thing. It might not be a conscious thought, but I think it's probably there.
I use Google Pinyin Input. (Which seems to have been deprioritized or something, but still...)

The general shape of input methods that let you produce 汉字 is that you provide some type of input that hints at the character(s) you want, the input method displays a menu of options that match your input, and you select the correct option from the menu. For example, if I'm using pinyin entry and I type `shi`, I can choose from 是, 时, 事, 使, 试, 世, 市, 十, 式, 师, 石, 室, ......, which are all pronounced shi. (And heck, those are just the top 12 suggestions. They mean things like "ten", "be", or "stone". The `shi`s go on for several pages.)

You can enter more than one character at once. If I type `bhys`, I'll see the suggestion 不好意思 ("sorry").

The presented options are chosen based on what the input method predicts I'm most likely to want. They are context-sensitive -- the order of suggestions will change depending on what I typed just beforehand -- and the likelihoods and the phrases are collected from what people elsewhere in the world type. Suggestions can be quite current! Without an internet connection, this would be a much worse experience; the predictions would be wrong or useless much, much more often.
There is a small percent of people susceptible to gambling and instead of helping them you 'solve' this problem by making the profits go to the government. Every engineer should feel embarassed by supporting this.
Whilst I almost certainly work in a different industry to that of most of HN readers, I can tell you that it's having a massive effect.

Our freelance pool has massively reduced in size - mostly through people moving on to find full-time work in completely different industries.

In our case (events + conferences) - I'm finding it quite hard to comprehend, as we were one of the only companies still paying our freelancers during COVID as we believed it was the right thing to do, so that we would still have freelance staff who we could rely on post-pandemic. We were paying them on a completely no strings attached basis too - there was no expectation that they would have to pay it back or work for us in future. Our rates are well above average too - which makes the issue even more hard to understand.

I suspect that in quite a few cases - people have gotten used to spending more time at home and with loved ones and have decided that they enjoy it more than travelling on a fairly regular basis.
No, the stock tcpdump works just fine for this attack. You were replying to a guy talking about this scenario where the attacker can run tcpdump as root:

>So if you are trying to privilege escalate a linux box and sudo -l returns: (root) /usr/sbin/tcpdump
And that's a good thing. k8s configurations are rarely written. It's better to make them as clear as possible, even if it makes them verbose and long-to-type.

Same thing can be said about build scripts. Those who strive for terseness (hey sbt) become unreadable mess 1 year after writing, when you need to read them again.
It has not affected us at all. My org offers pension and has been hiring certain type of person that would not risk losing the benefits for a potentially better salary
Summarize what you read. I started doing it by writing a tl;dr for each chapter and at end of the book a make a summary of the most important things. This is also handy to keep the summary digital to go back years after and have a quick read.

Apps changes but my current setup is using onenote and make pictures of important passage and summarize the book in a file.
Very cool project! It's exciting to see two reputable Qt & KDE devs doing fresh stuff.
(as a long-time linux user and Qt and KDE hobbyist I recognize their names like a sports fan recognizes their favorite players' names)
Not just the license costs, but also the license itself. The Office license is a known quantity, whereas alternatives would require a new license review. Especially important for companies that are worried about their data, for competitive or legal reasons.
Yeah I’m totally with you. I think many of us had a similar reaction the first time NFTs were explained to us. But the not I learn about them, an see them in action, it’s definitely starting to make more sense.

This (very uninteresting) Twitter rant doesn’t really make any good arguments. The comparison to ‘star naming’ services is very contrived & makes absolutely no sense.
Am I on Reddit?
I am struggling literally right now with this. Two days in a binge of commenting stuff on social networks, my tasks are dangerously late.
I worked at one place that had the worst of both worlds: SAP Hybris, customized to the nth degree with rushed features.

It was pretty awful and had significant, material negative impacts on revenue due to all the operational issues.
The reality is itselt preemptible and unreliable, you could be terminated without notice
I do. Some anyway.

I have seen some very smart acquaintances start talking about how bitcoin will replace the dollar or become the reserve currency of the world in just a few years.

It really does feel like a cult or something. It’s so far removed from reality I don’t know where to even begin.
Well, if the worst comes to the worst, US can always sell its gold reserve. It has like, what, more than double the metric tonnes compared to the second country with the most holdings? We get to enjoy cheaper gold price when that happens!
Sure (plus inheritance tax funk, which I learned thanks to my dad’s stamp collection), except:

> If it were possible to create one, an exact atom-for-atom duplicate of a piece of art would likely also only be worth a small fraction of the "original".

Is a hypothetical for now.

I don’t get most of the famous artists — Picasso, The Beatles, Shakespeare and so on all seem overrated to me — but high-value original works are mostly that way because they are distinguishable from copies. I expect atomically precise duplicates would destroy the market for collector items unless you can re-attach scarcity in some way.
The sentence you quoted does not occur in the article, so I'm not sure about the context. But generally speaking, the problem is that an app might accidentally do:

db.exec("INSERT INTO values (t) VALUES (?)", now())

and now your timezoneless column t probably contains the local time.

A lot of code (including ORMs) assumes local time zones everywhere. It's simply hard to avoid, and too easy to accidentally insert bad data.

But the above bug does not happen if your column is declared as something like "TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE" (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, etc., or just "TIMESTAMP" in MySQL).
Synthetic data vault is getting there with some of the recent model implementations. A blue ocean project if I ever saw one. Not ready for prod, but is able to learn relationships between tables.
> If you’re buying because it’s silly, funny or otherwise makes you happy, go for it. No scam there.

I think there's a significant group who are buying because under their understanding of what NFTs are, they're silly/funny/make them happy, but that they are mistaken about what NFTs are.

Arguably if it's bringing them joy, who cares, but at some level this is still a scam.
didnt facebook have the exact same issue the other day but theres was all there datacenters rather than a single DC?
Problem is that calling yourself an NFT collector is a way to raise the value of NFT's and therefore something an NFT scammer would do, so you doing that doesn't prove anything. Similarly buying an NFT from yourself for a million dollars is a good way to trick people into a buying frenzy buying all your other NFT's. So until I see evidence that these eccentric billionaires who pays a lot of money for these actually exists and aren't just parts of the scam I can't trust you on this.

But at least you are a data point, now I have seen one person claiming to buy NFT's to keep rather than resell, even if I don't necessarily trust you. So thanks!
He has a shop: http://handsolo.com/

Maybe that can help him :)

He's also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/handsolooficial
>But none of your arguments apply to 'art in general' at all, do they? Because when you "buy art" you are actually... buying a piece of art.

It's naive to think that the majority of the value of buying a painting of a pure black square comes from having the physical painting itself rather than almost exclusively out of the story and recognition by others. Once you recognize that it's not so hard to see that you can remove the physical painting aspect altogether.
I think they are trying to model it after the Apache foundation. They did request/demand admin privileges first.
You're clearly not familiar with the feature set of Slack.
Sure, I definitely agree that these situations can be problems. As a counterpoint, as in my GP comment, the devices with FaceID are also the ones at which I'm least likely to have clean and available hands. For instance, I might be cooking with hands covered in wet dough, I might be wearing gloves due to the cold, my hands might be wet from rain, or my hands might be dry due in part to winter.
It's "Newspaper Headlines English"

https://www.thoughtco.com/understanding-newspaper-headlines-...
minimum wage -> minimum work
The QR codes are security theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater

With cases now in the hundreds/thousands per day in Australia, plus widespread vaccinations, these QR codes are pointless... same as masks and international border restrictions.
Not gatekeeping, rather lament that the next generation doesn't tend to dive deeper into the nuts and bolts of how those things actually work and what the failure modes are.

Maybe the greybeards don't do a good job at educating their successors, or maybe it's the "tl;dr, YOLO" attitude at work. I don't know. I suspect a combination of both.
As an artist I would love to sell something for $69M. But I have not yet put a single item up for sale as an NFT as it seems so silly, you are selling a node in a merkle/patricia/etc tree, not a piece of art. The NFT art that is actually generated when you pay for it (and lives entirely in the blockchain), such as the bored apes, etc, is mostly predrawn parts assembled randomly; i.e. digital Potato Head toys. Some are based on interesting algorithms, but that has nothing to do with blockchains or crypto (other than using the hash as the random seed). I would rather create art (I do generational art as part of my work) on my own time and with my own tools. I would also prefer to sell art that people can put on their walls.

Some of what I see people selling for 10ETH are so unimaginative. But then again people in the past bought rocks as pets, so there is always someone with too much money and no sense...

Art itself is often overpriced, but it has a long history of increasing in value over time (since generally it is only made once and the artist eventually dies), and is a legit investment (and often handy for money laundering but then so is real estate and even startups). But NFTs are mostly uninteresting art, can be made in huge quantities with no work by an artist, and have no useful value other than bragging rights I guess. Museums who want to display NFTs are seriously hilarious.

Some NFTs are made by real artists who actually work hard on the works, but very few make any money at all (Beeple for example is a hard working real artist who got lucky) since NFT people seem to only gravitate to the auto-generated things like the apes.
Related – https://www.inputmag.com/culture/cyborg-chic-bionic-prosthet...
I don't remember Azure having the 24H cutoff. My spots/low priorities used to run for weeks

I used LP/spot both as scaling sets and the more recent single VMs

Also i wouldn't call the cutoff and grace period as "paths". There were much more substantial differences between the different clouds
What exactly does the blockchain contribute, that could not be accomplished in a superior way with an SQL database?
Yeah except you dropped an s, so maybe we shouldn't be so critical.
IMO, someone’s tangible value of putting an Ape as their avatar pic on social media might be greater than that of someone being able to use a ship purchased in Star Citizen.

It’s a little crazy to me how Twitter profiles with Apes are viewed as “influencers” and “pioneers” and get treated as such. Not my cup of tea per se, but there is tangible value for some people there.
The downfall of Facebook will be web3 social and/or the decentralized metaverse.
It's called an abuse of trust. Estimating programming effort is extremely hard, even for people who are about to do the actual work. It's even harder to estimate for your boss.

A boss that trusts their team will not blink when something that sounds easy turns out to take long. You're advocating for a culture where everybody's forced to estimate their work and is held accountable when they go over. I thought we all got past that?
There is no need to go to source code to view gemini:// URLs, they work just fine via any existing browser using portals. So here is a formatted link of the text above:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/drewdevault.com/2021/10/05/Ter...
> that the majority of the value of buying a painting of a pure black square comes from having the physical painting itself rather than almost exclusively out of the story and recognition by others

Most art isn’t celebrity art. It’s bought to support the artist and/or the gallery, with the side advantage of having something beautiful and/or culturally meaningful in your home.
> here is where I'd expect the civil libertarians to come marching in, but there's always curious silence when it's someone like this

Have you considered mentioning age of consent?
> What I see in the space however is a lot of opportunities to grow community-building tools

Technological solutions to what are fundamentally social problems don't typically work out.
Surely this will be circumvented primarily by people just registering with TLD registries that are not in Europe ?
Nice try Mark!
Eh, I can see a difference between commissioning a new piece (or likewise attending a live performance or a cinema) and spending the cost of the average U.K. home on William Shatner’s prop phaser: https://www.today.com/popculture/william-shatners-star-trek-...
Branding probably. Being inline with Azure and AWS is helpful when onboarding new customers
AWS us-east-2 (Cincinnati) is generally pretty reliable; it pays to use your head and not simply use the defaults.
Now how about border hopper hot spots?
Interesting! So, it looks like you can clobber the number of section header entries, because, with this alignment, the _size_ of a section header is 0. Cool!
The NFT ecosystem is people with bad engineering skills, poor social skills, and no understanding of economics, attempting to create a new economy of social contracts based on technology they have created.
"we" see? bullying? I shared my opinion on a fact for something I care about, what would the accusation be?
There's nothing wrong with pointing out what you think is the problem. It's just that you can't ignore reality, in the actual world it takes much longer to build and it's more expensive for whatever reason that may be.
You're not just buying "a piece of art" though. If that was the case, duplicates/prints/casts/reproductions or whatever would be worth a substantial portion of the original, relative to their true-ness.

The value in owning art isn't the physical object. The value comes from how owning that specific physical object means you "own" that art, whatever that means. I don't really understand why anyone would care about that either, but people clearly do.

And even if you disagree with that point, the other points about not owning copyright, lack of intrinsic value and using art for money laundering definitely apply to real art too.
I don't think the claim is dodgy at all. She advocates for a governmental body consisting of former social media employees to act as a content control mechanism. That is dodgy, extremely so.

Maybe she did work on censoring tools and was held back by management, who knows, but it is still dodgy. Maybe I am lost in translation here, but I think it extremely sketchy.
Except they don't pay themselves, that's why they don't care.
It wasn't a 24H guarantee, it was UP TO 24h

It did guard you from keeping things on by mistake but there are way more downsides to this kind of restrictions. Especially that you can simulate the daily shutoff like other comments here said
That doesn't invalidate the argument for the portion that is. And at any rate, there are also NFTs bought just to support the artist, too.
> Alcohol kills humans in relatively small quantities as well

In absolute quantities it's less toxic than fructose, paracetamol or THC. It's among least toxic substances found in nature. Almost no one dies from acute toxicity of alcohol - almost all alcohol-related deaths are due to accidents and chronic toxicity (long term exposure to toxicant).
Ah good ol net send… we had a lot of fun in high school with that in the 90s
I don't get it. That's just a commodity standard but this time with Bitcoin. Commodity standards are the old monetary system that we abandoned.
Well, I just think for me, it would have been a lot harder to get started if key words like ‘if’, ‘while’, ‘int’ etc were arbitrary gobbledygook instead of terms I already knew. I guess that’s wrong?
Yeh but sometimes what people value and like is a scam. You know, some people do like certain MLM brands or even cults, that doesn’t mean those aren’t scams/cults. Stop trying to normalize predatory behavior and institutions under the banner of “people value different things”
We recently decided as a company that the horizontal responsibilities structure doesn't work well at all, at least not at small scale. This was not in the software/infra teams but in our operations but I think there's some general truth here. The more vertically responsible your teams are, the better the final product is, and the more inefficiencies and impedance mismatches you can track down and fix.

For us it meant that the data processing teams have been made part of the drone operators team, so whenever we fly a mission a photography/3d rendering expert will also be part of the team that operates the drone. On paper it's more expensive to have office workers in the field, but in practice it leads to fewer reflights and happier and more productive employees.

I imagine that for the software departments, it could mean that every app development team has at least one member that has good operating system and network infrastructure knowledge, and/or maybe database expertise so that the team as a whole can largely operate a feature largely without having to depend on an outside SRE specialist.

And then the SRE's that you do have can focus on the site reliability, instead of having to constantly tell developers how the way they coded something is bad or whatever.