skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How does DRM fit into this? Isn't that kind of an attempt to make digital media scarce?

Not really? There's a song on itunes for $0.99. No matter how many copies you buy, there's still going to be the song available. They're definitely restricting access, but it's an entirely different dynamic from limited edition trading cards, or signed vinyl records. That's why an vintage record can fetch hundreds of dollars on the secondary market, but good luck selling that mp3 you got from itunes in the early 2000s.
Lest anyone thing Taibbi is some right wing partisan on this; here's some actual, honestly partisan reporting on recent developments here: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/396383.php
DC Tracks Legal Changes with Git
because of remote work, I have to heat the house 7 days per week, instead of about 0.25*5+2=3.25 => that's about twice as much. Given the rise in energy cost, this will have a huge impact.
It's also hilarious that the right clickers are recreating the steak with gold for $90 instead of a plain steak for $20.
Google at Emnlp 2021
"This page used to list bugs in Cython that made the semantics of compiled code differ from that in Python. Most of the missing features have been fixed in Cython 0.15. A future version of Cython is planned to provide full Python language compatibility."
Disclaimer: I'm on the YJIT team.

In general it's not a big change. You should only turn on YJIT for long-running jobs -- the prod Rails server, plus probably background workers if you have them. YJIT does nothing unless you turn it on with the --yjit flag.

YJIT's going to affect memory usage, so it'll change your optimal number of processes and threads for your Rails server - play with it for your app specifically, because the percent speedup and mem expansion vary a lot from app to app. YJIT works fine with Puma and Webrick. I don't think anybody's tried it seriously with less-common servers like Falcon or Thin, but I'd expect it to work -- file a bug if it doesn't, because it should.

YJIT does speed up Rails - we're seeing about a 20%-25% speedup on little "hello, world" Rails apps (see: https://speed.yjit.org/), and about 11% on Discourse for a single thread. We don't have good multithreaded or multiprocess numbers yet, but it's in the works. YJIT scales with multiple threads/processes just like existing CRuby.

(All speed numbers are accurate as of right now, but may change over time.)

I would probably not use it in dev mode. While YJIT has pretty good warmup numbers, Rails throws away all existing application code for every request in dev mode. That's going to make YJIT a lot less useful. Play with it -- maybe I'm wrong for your app, especially if you use a lot of non-reloaded code (e.g. methods inside gems.) But I wouldn't expect great results in the development RAILS_ENV.

For deployment the short version is: add --yjit as a command line parameter in production mode and (probably) for your background workers. You can do this with "export RUBYOPT='--yjit'" or use your local preferred way.

Where I give weaselly-sounding qualifiers like "probably," that's because it can depend on your config. If you have plenty of memory but are often CPU-bound, YJIT is usually good. If you have really limited memory and your server CPUs are mostly idle, YJIT is usually bad. YJIT is also currently x86-only and runs on Mac and Linux but not Windows.

There has been a lot of historical demand for a Ruby config for servers: something that uses more memory to get faster operations, and that is optimised for long-running processes. YJIT is aimed directly at that. Non-JITted CRuby is mostly the opposite: fast startup, modest memory requirements, doesn't get significantly faster over time.
Can you link me to some sources? I'm not familiar with PyPy but I thought it's a normal tracing JIT. In fact quick googling shows a blog post explicitly saying PyPy does NOT use PE: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pyp....

Besides not every PE instance is a Futurama Projection.
“Russiagate misinformation”

Do you have an example of a mainstream outlet making a false Russiagate statement?
All those poo-pooing NFT's will miss NFT gaming and gambling like a freight train to the face.

Reading the comments, I see too many people focused on the art aspect (of course this is OP's articles focus). NFT's applied to art is a bit stupid and makes only nominal sense. NFT art is really just flexing for the rich, because as anyone realizes, right-click save-as is all you need to have the art too, just not the "key" or "ownership proof" to that art.

However when it comes to gameing, its a whole different story. Think of it more like a key to unlock something unique in some digital world.

Want to own the unique special edition sword with rare attributes in the Zelda-verse or the uber lazer in your favorite open world space game? Buy the NFT block chain address to it that says you and only you can have it (check out Phantom Galaxies). Want to own the penthouse apartment in the zuckers-verse? Buy the NFT key that says only you have ownership rights. There are already people buying up digital lots in VR games in development. Want to be a unique character with unique pets in World-of-crypto-craft? Buy the NFT's to unlock these. Want to own a special randomly generated horse in a horse race gambling game? Buy the NFT to unlock, and feed your NFT in with someone else to "breed" a new horse with chances of getting the same rare attributes (this is the concept of D-race). Want to own the rare uber-pokemon in the poke-verse to battle with others (check out Illuvium, same concept)? Buy the NFT to unlock. Sell them if you get bored for more/less money, and the game developer gets a cut!

The gaming and even the gambling application scenarios are enormous. That's why crypto gaming will likely be huge and I myself have invested in it's foundations for the long term (Enjin, Seedify-fund, D-race, etc). It's one of the few applications that makes sense outside of rich snobs flexing.

Tell me I'm wrong.
Because every time I try Linux Desktop, I spend hours fixing and configuring stuff. I just don't care and want to waste time with this. So Windows on the Desktop is perfect for me and then I just use WSL2 to be in my Linux Terminal environment.
AirDrop IRL: Audio of pilot dropping iPhone on the runway (and it still works)
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/thorstein-veblen/the-theor...

Book that introduced the phrase.
> Architects don't give a shit about interior spaces. They have interns do the plans.

As a rule of thumb, main architects are just sellers. They sell projects to clients and authorities - only. Most senior architects are project managers, they don't plan anymore, at most they give some ideas and impose limitations. The rest, including "interns", do the bulk of the project, interiors or facades.
You can already access Windows drives through WSL2.
I'm no expert at all, but this is how see it from an outsider perspective.

With an NFT you can prove the ownership of X digital asset, that proof of ownership is what is non-fungible

In order for NFTs-art to make sense to me, artist must attest that "whoever owns that digital asset in the ______ (ethereum blockchain?) " has the artist's recognition of ownership, and is a big UX problem for artists to really prove that, which I believe it's "solved" by platforms like opensea attesting on behalf of artist

So in practice, your buying the recognition of opensea that you own X asset, which opensea claims that is approved by X artist (it's also claimed by the artist on social networks or alike). there's still a problem there if the relationship between artist and opensea will be intact in the future, I don't know if or how they try to solve it

So in practice, most of it could have been done with a centralized database, but that would be missing the point.

There surely are knowledgeable NFT-creators who knows what they are doing and they can provide the attestation by themselfs, without any intermediary party, and that's where things get interesting with NFTs, look for example in gaming, especially where assets are shared among multiple games (otherwise it still could have been done with a database), it's just all impractical for non crypto-savvy folks
What are you talking about? Where is the OS locking mechanism? The anti-MS conspiracies are really out of control.
Nah. It's another term for common sense. Nobody with common sense goes to the trouble of buying something that is easier to get for free.
Do you have a second backup copy somewhere?
Attempts to change by fiat what has been arrived at through organic, evolutionary adaptation will likely fail as pontificators such as the author fail to understand how the current state of affairs materialized in the first place.

> The most obvious solution to make the English rule suck less, is to require bilinguality from everyone in the team, not just non-native English speakers.

The value of a lingua Franca is that there is ONE. Once one becomes established, it becomes a stable equilibrium due to the positive network externalities it creates.

The rest of the points:

> * Let employees choose their communication medium

That really depends on the kind of business one is in and cannot be solely up to the employee.

> * Relax the English-first rule in social settings, as long as it doesn't foster exclusivity.

What does "social setting" mean? If I am meeting with a work friend after-hours, why would the business be able to say anything about that? If an employee is meeting a client for lunch, say, a client who does not wish to communicate in the employee's preferred language but prefers English, how can the English-first rule be relaxed? Why does the business have anything to do with "social settings"?

> * Having a 1:1? Do whatever you want. Say the CMO and the CEO are both native speakers of Japanese. During their weekly 1:1, they can (and should!) meet in Japanese, and take notes in Japanese. But as soon as they develop a new initiative involving others, they should document it in English.

English? Or, in the company's preferred language?

If two people are communicating in private, how is anyone else involved in it? Why does there need to be a blog post about what language two people having a conversation in private ought to use?

Now, the example is CMO and CEO, both members of the C-suite. What if a new CEO takes over and decrees that everyone must now learn to communicate in a language other than English? What do I do?
I'm also not sure why I'd use WSL2 and there are at least three big problems I ran into with it straight after upgrading:

* It broke my ability to flash my ESP32 via USB (guessing WSL2 has trouble accessing USB devices)

* It uses significantly more RAM than WSL1

* There is performance problems when working on NTFS partitions, or at least there were when I tried it: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4401
It depends on the platform.

On Hicetnunc.xyz, buying a token on the marketplace automatically deducts 2.5% of sale to the platform (for services rendered), 10-25% to the artist (or whatever they set as royalty amount for the token), and the remainder to the seller. This is enforced via the blockchain contract, i.e. it cannot easily be circumvented on that marketplace (but it can be circumvented via peer-to-peer transfer or an alternative marketplace/contract).

The wallets can all be anonymous; it just sends these tokens to different addresses.
> Some of the stats say property crime is actually down in San Francisco, but that is probably a reporting issue, because some store managers have stopped bothering to waste their time filing police complaints.

Seems like these stats could have done with a more rigorous investigation, given that they contradict the thesis of the article?
How much faux-flexing is done in large corps ? it seems everybody is trying to inflate reality to impress or protect from the people around.
Wall-painting robot: A million paint spots, 3 colors and 1 mind hack
Mining crypto with the high cost of electricity in Mass would be a big mistake
Linux isn't a desktop, it's a kernel.
Is Comcast Down?
Comcast appears to be down since around ~8:05am Eastern Time.

https://downdetector.com/status/xfinity/

Update 9:30am: seems to maybe be back now.
Isn't it already the case with Azure? And now even Visual Studio has great support for Linux :)
yes, WSL2+Docker works well enough and a lot of tools have wsl and Docker integration so it's easy.

If you already use docker containers it's a win win.
I find and follow seemingly credible investors on twitter and take their advice on stock picks, funds, and assets.
Embrace, extend, extinguish... Soon enough WSL2 will have (nice) capabilities that the natively installed Linux won't.
What do you own when the game is shut down?
In this case, it creates extra confusion and extra mental overhead, because of double meaning of "they".
Only the criminals in my neighbourhood are robbing my house, hackers all over the world are trying to get access to your wallet or exchange.

Robberies are down from 30 years ago, flat for the past 5. Cybercrime is soaring.
How is that different from paying for it with a microtransaction? You still have no rights outside of what the developer implements[1] and when they shut down, your token’s value rapidly approaches zero.

1. For example, say they sell to one of the big companies and the new boss with an MBA in gamer milking decides that virtual land needs annual property taxes, utilities, and improvements purchased from the company store or it’ll be reclaimed or simply that they’re creating new, more desirable terrain which will devalue yours. They control the code and servers, so your options are paying, giving up, or trying to convince other players to build, operate, and adopt a clone. The blockchain’s heavy cost doesn’t appear to be providing anything significant.
>most of the blockchain buzz has been based on the idea that people with lots of capital can buy in early so everyone else will be forced to pay them an ever-increasing premium just to be able to make transactions

So you think NFTs are a plot by people to drive up ETH gas fees?
Well, it made money for someone, just not the ones who used the product.
Right, but those are you-problems. You use a way to get dependencies that's very slow. That's not a Pyjion problem.
Their employer who provides and provisions the developers' workstations.
It's so that the next generation of developers don't need to learn Virtualbox or any other virtualization stuff. I think the power tools are not en vogue in general. I have seen many of my software engineer colleagues doing their work with basic tools like Notepad and Windows Explorer.

So answer your question: this is one Microsoft's newer efforts to lock people into Windows. This is one of the ways which are not locking people in by force; this one works by inducing complacency.
Have only read a few of his books, but can't help but think he was more of a great man who wrote than a great writer independent of his persona. He was an artifact of a time in need of stories. Criticism of him by lesser writers through modern eyes falls into the category of, "no man is a hero to his valet," but there is some truth in looking back now at what we thought of novelists even just 20 years ago and wondering how much of what we idealized about them could have been true.

The particular criticisms in the article are dismissable, an attempt to fold old icons into a current critical theory, with the familiar clunk and rattle of grinding his memory through the cogs of an ideology, but the question of why a man of any physical substance would write fiction today seems still to be with us. The Hemmingway mystique of masculinity is completely absent from pop culture now, where even news anchors and world leaders aren't the sort of men anyone would call in an emergency.

The upside for writers is to compete for attention with pictures of others' butts on instagram. I happen to know more than a few men who would meet the description of great or Hemmingway'esque and none of them are writing. Maybe this signals the opportunity, as it's obvious to anyone who looks that the authors critical theory of writers and men represents a nadir in the culture, and the guy who gets people to use instagram "for the articles," will become a literary king?
> Also, as a side note ETFs can provide tax-advantages over mutual funds when you sell.

The main advantage is the tax benefit while you're holding them (no phantom gains, usually).

Vanguard's most popular mutual funds manage to use a hack to replicate this tax advantage.
Metallurgist admits faking steel test results for US Navy subs
By this stage it's almost like re-reappropriation.
In a virtual world why the shit are you paying for a "plot of land"? It's not real land. There's not a finite amount. It's not made out of only the finest free range grass fed bits.
I'm from the UK rather than the US and, although I'm no fan of the way we pulled out of Afghanistan (it has a certain sense of washing our hands of the situation about it given how involved we were in creating that situation), in general I do think we might be better to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries that we ill-understand. The other most obvious canonical example here would be Iraq. Saddam was a complete scumbag but, honestly, WTF were we thinking? We basically had a very large hand in giving birth to IS and allowing them to spread, and look at all the trouble that's caused.
If that's the first time you have heard at, I suppose it discredits the whole field of economics. Of course they are a monopoly, or trying to form one, to enforce their demands.
Looks like you have to do more stuff on mac
Decentralised finance is booming, but it has yet to find its purpose
As long as I don't have to use his products.
Queen Elizabeth?
> There's utility in buying the steak at the restaurant though.

Exactly. No one would pay $1500 for a bottle of vodka at a liquor store, but the same bottle in the VIP section of some celeb filled club is a different experience. (I still wouldn’t pay it, but I get the difference.)
So, this sounds pretty grim, but I'd be curious to hear from any SF residents if things look like this at all to them. If we were lucky enough to have an actual employee or owner of a business in SF, that would be even better. Is this article a fair depiction of reality in SF today?
>But to assure left-leaning businesses that Google doesn't just hang with the right politically, Google offers another "authoritative" source: the Chamber of Progress, a "coalition of technology firms that supports pro-business public policies and left-of-center cultural values."

Give me a break. Sure the company removing the words blacklist and whitelist from all of their products is "right leaning". What a crock.

The irony in this author pointing about propaganda...

It's obvious everyone dislikes google but I just find it totally strange that left leaning individuals somehow twist things to make it seem like these massive silicon valley companies are right leaning. They cater to everything on the left.

People need to focus on the real issue which is they are too big and too powerful, regardless of which side they currently bend to.
In Houston we had this exact problem. Most of the stores around our house, (Museum District), switched to shopping carts that won't move if you push them out of the parking lot. That cut down on a lot of that activity.

They should get those shopping carts in SF.
Nothing captured my imagination and horror more than an advertisement I once saw for "splinter-free" toilet paper.
I find the ones the author hates quite beautiful actually. They could use a bit more green though.
Mozilla’s Firefox browser arrives in the Windows store
Yeah, gold literally doesn't have any flavor (it's inert so there's nothing for your taste buds to react to), so putting it on the steak is also "all about the flex".
What's your opinion on MobX versus Redux? I've used them both and MobX just seemed more compact.
I agree with you. Large risk tolerance? 5 years? Hell that's an eternity in crypto-land.
> who expects to be more productive

Someone not "sitting at a desk", e.g. moving around. Better phrased: e.g. someone who wants to make more use of timeframes in which they cannot be "at the desk".
An elephant the soize of a tangerine. The Burmans had been throwing them away.
Agreed. Set your asset allocation. Buy a small number of diversified funds with low fees. Rebalance once per year to match your asset allocation in response to market fluctuations.

Vanguard funds are excellent at this. Fidelity are good too.

For Vanguard, Total Stock Market, Total Bond Market, Total International Equity. Those three funds based on a mix catering to your own risk tolerance and circumstances and you’re done.

Or you can go with an investment management company that will charge you 1-2% of assets under management, put you in 15 high fee funds that they rebalance you in monthly to generate not only buy/sell fees but also they mark up the price of your buys and mark down the price of your sells. So many horrible companies out there.
How Industry Weaponizes Science and Sows Doubt to Serve Their Agenda
Do you see the difference though? One is something you can control, and the other is something you rely on other parties mot to do or to later fix.
National Review is an American conservative rag that extends a long tradition of American conservative editorialism in the style of William F. Buckley. It would still be pushing for racial segregation were it allowed to.
Never knew this existed. The web site has always been perfectly fine.
Hey, article author here.
Don’t give it away, but this post is actually a big tutorial on using Ruby Next to modify Ruby to do some really cool things. Here’s hoping you’ll have as much fun reading this fantasy as I did creating it.
> to students in Paraguay, the history of Paraguay feels vital and interesting.

That's the kind of thing said by people who (a) do not remember their own schooling and (b) who have not spoken to actual schoolkids in a long time if ever.

This reads like someone sanded "KKK" off their plans for schools in the 60's and is claiming its original work now. "Separate but Equal" was what they called it then. The idea isn't any better now.
Going to the gym takes time. Even if you’re just walking for 20 minutes each way that’s still 40 minutes of light exercise 5 days a week for 40 years. Which from a public health standpoint is quite significant as few people go to the gym every week for their entire working life.

E-bikes combine that basic level of exercise with being able to travel significant distances or across steep hills. Driving is faster but takes longer to park and doesn’t scale nearly as well in terms of infrastructure so it’s not a major time saver compared to short bike commutes. Granted, bike infrastructure is often unused in the US but it’s often a question of critical mass. There needs to be enough in place to get to everything safely and it needs to be around long enough for people to start using it.
And anyone can create their own NFT for the same artwork. Now we just need a (centralized) registry of "official NFTs" to know which one you're supposed to consider, from a trusted authority :)
For years economists debated the things that are now being worked out experimentally. And it turns out the economists were dead wrong about a lot of it, as this article demonstrates.
Well actualy it is. In my own wery oldtown, there is a piece of palace remaining next to parking lot. All the submitions were nothing of rebuild, although plenty of historical data. Only glass, concrete and boxy shapes. Something is broken with architects in general.
Imagine what that would do to the console shortage
It is actually extremely nice. It probably depends on the work.