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And I'm sure some COBOL developer out there is working on new projects.

That doesn't change the fact that .NET roots are in old enterprise and Java - which was dumbed down by design to make it easy to onboard unskilled developers (look at their arguments against local type inference and lambdas before they were added).

Things like ASP.NET core slam you with heavy duty abstractions from ground up and justify it by project scaling and reducing maintenance cost at the expense of iteration speed - again tradeoffs made for large enterprise const center style projects.

With recent iterations (minimal APIs, top level functions, namespace declaration, etc.) they are trying to reduce those tradeoffs and cater to the startup crowd but the MS + corporate budget development stigma is going to be there.
I think there are a ton of people who see a huge amount of money piled into cryptocurrencies which have not seen much adoption and are trying to come up with things which could give normal people a need to start using it. NFTs are just part of the larger frenzy trying to be the one who finds a winning combination.

If you recall, that first big NFT sale was when a major Ethereum holder paid a lot of money for an NFT but not the rights to one of Beeple’s paintings. That lead to a ton of free advertising, and since this was all paper money based on a fraction of their total Ethereum holdings I’m sure they were expecting the cost to be outweighed by the increased demand for their remaining tokens.
> On a longer time-frame, months, years, these funds trend towards zero.

Over the past 10 years, TQQQ is up ~150x and UPRO ~50x.
This is a very good point, thank you for making it. I've always approached HN with my own bias, which is an interest in underground technology, hacking, and of course crypto. I never really saw the crowd as mostly normies, but I guess I never paused to reflect that there's a lot of content here I ignore, precisely because it is that.
Could it also be our understanding is gradually improving and the externalities are just lagging more than first thought?
Felony. Which implies not only years of prison, but fines, restitution (compensating the victim for the loss) and probation.
Good points. JSON processing tools I find helpful in addition to JavaScript include Gron aka "grep for JavaScript" ( https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron ), jq for querying, json_pp for pretty-printing and `bat` for syntax highlighting.
Nothing. Creators are getting paid because NFTs are associated with their brand, not just magically having a value because you minted one.
I don't think the risk to yourself is the reason why operating a motor vehicle is a licensed activity.
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Does an NFT provide a mechanism for enforcement of ownership? If not, how is it better than copyright law? Under copyright law, I immediately own a work of art I create (in your example, a Twitter profile pic I created) and have the right to decide who can display copies of my art. The issue isn’t proving ownership, the issue is copyright enforcement (I may not be able to afford the cost of defending my copyright claim in court).
Other interests often supersede a naïve outsider calculation of self-interest. For example: Log Cabin Republicans, Caitlyn Jenner endorsing Trump (before conceding it was a mistake while continuing to follow the party line), me voting for Democrats even though I know that they will, at best, hold the line against oblivion while grassroots organizers do the real work in the space created by that line.
I largely follow the "Three-fund portfolio"

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

For finding the funds - I look for passively managed funds with low expenses ratios. I use Fidelity and Merrell Lynch as my brokerages and I largely prefer ETFs over index funds.
Everything you describe has been possible for decades, without the need of NFTs or other cryptocurrency concepts. Even the market aspect has been done in the past, you have for example Diablo 3's Auction House where users could trade for real money, and was a horrible gaming experience.
> The two hardest problems are naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

> In this case, there's a naming problem. "Class 1" and "Class 2" don't give any semantic content.

To me, the names suggested a connection or analogy to Type 1 and Type 2 errors, also known as False Positives and False Negatives. I was wrong, as it turns out, but the opaqueness of the labels, while annoying and unnecessary, isn't unprecedented.
Lol!

So they aren't really fixing anything, they're just offering an equally broken, alternative bias.

"Truth" is apolitical.

But they do deserve credit for clearly stating their political motivation and bias up front.
We repeat the mantra because it's Microsoft's own flavor of the same tactic that many have used before, and will use in the future too. The strategy itself is not unique to Microsoft, it's just a way to gain power over an established player, and I don't expect Microsoft, or any other entity in any power struggle, to play any nicer than the laws allow them.
I guess I can stop unplugging and plugging my router.
Concerns with KYC, privacy, centralization? /shrug
It would be great to help the newcomers browse for previous discussions compared to the chat software.
check out paperless and get a document scanner. Really helps
https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
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I am too eagerly awaiting an M1 Max based Mini with 64 gigs of RAM. Or an iMac Pro with one. I find the 16GB limit a bit constraining for a computer that should be useful for at least half a decade.

I also totally didn't notice the Debian thing, but I have moved a couple scripts I use to have `command` instead of which for detecting whether a given executable is available or not (those scripts need to run unmodified on Linux and macOS) and `command` is the POSIX way to do it.

I'd strongly suggest flagging avoidable non-POSIX approaches whenever possible. POSIX still is the standard and, if you play nice, you'll be able to run a script everywhere, from MINIX to AIX to zOS's POSIX environment (an EBCDIC Unix!). So far, shellcheck has been ruthlessly teaching me to write better shell scripts.
Even when you fill out the online police reports they'll often reject it for whatever reason that they want to, and then force you to call it in if you really want it submitted.
You have to be daft or a scammer to actual believe this.
It's complex.

Imagine you inherit a COBOL codebase, would you expand it further or would you try to add a functional microservice in the language of the day?

Ok, you can say: the codebase is not COBOL, is C and is beautifully done. However all architects studied Art History and Aesthetics, so, at least, they have a more informed opinion on what defines a good codebase than a layman. Probably we could give them the benefit of the doubt.
> Ownership is always based on social constructs

I mean, no? Ownership is always based on societal constructs; in the useful sense it means that the state is enforcing it. If someone takes it you can use violence or the threat of violence (legitimately, by proxy) to retrieve it. If someone else claims that it is theirs they can attempt to retrieve it through courts (with the the backing of legitimate violence or threat of violence by proxy again). You may exclude people from the use of the thing you own (with violence or threat of violence by proxy, or sometimes, by direct violence for which the state will excuse you).

It devolves always to the state having an effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This is a social construct in a sense, but NFTs are a poor substitute.

Notably, most NFTs can be replicated bit-for-bit, and anyone else can emit a new NFT with the same exact payload, only lacking the traceability, but otherwise indistinguishable from the original. The only way to prevent that would be legal action, in which case you might as well dispense with the notion of the NFT itself.

In fact, a great business if you want to get in on this scam is to just sell counterfeit NFTs; even openly counterfeit! Call yourself "The Copy-Cat" and just resell Copy-Cat original copies of existing high-value NFTs. Even in the real life art world it has transpired that well-done forgeries have acquired a value of their own.
Yes, docker compose is a fantastic little tool.
All people ideally should live in places free of deleterious crime.

If I live in Walnut Creek I don’t care what happens on international boulevard in Oakland. If they pull all police it does not affect me much. It will affect the locals. Just as pulling police in WC would be a negative for me if I lived in Walnut Creek.

Even poor people do not want to live in crime zones but some people believe they be better are off living with crime because statistical policing is worse than no policing. I would disagree.
Then is this not the perfect opportunity for right and left to agree that monopolies are the problem?

If Google was split into four companies with three or four viable competitors, might not those new competitive marketplaces contain some companies that conservatives prefer, some that liberals prefer?

If Instagram was a separate site from Facebook, might they not organically develop different internal policies to encourage new customers to choose them over competitors?

Accepting your premise Google "so clearly do everything in their power to censor right wing people at every turn", would not creating a market for Google-provided services be the most market-driven way to explore alternatives?

The only alternatives I see are "Communism of the Media", with extra steps.
Other games or apps can import your ship.
No reason is actually given why love is supposed to be important?

Many societies seem to work very well without it? Parents choose marriage partners for their kids, and things seem to work out? Not sure what percentage of such marriages also end up with love?
As a business owner, I really don’t like how dependent I am on Google services. If I loose my Google Ads, I’m in trouble. I prefer the more decentralized world where one private entity does not have life or death impact on my business.
We just talked about this further up in this very same thread. Let's go through the process so hopefully you'll see how easy this is to solve:

1. Gucci decides to create "NFT clothes", whatever the fuck that means, but let's just go with it

2. For each item they release, they also release a .txt file with all the valid IDs for items they have released (or better, link their address that is doing the minting from their official website)

2. Game decide they want to integrate these "NFT clothes", so they download and integrate the .obj/.mat files for viewing, and hooks things up to the Gucci address/website

3. Game UI can now display a "Validate" button that will take the item ID, check if it comes from the Gucci address/published in the official "Gucci NFT .txt file" or similar.

The validation happens by the user, by checking that the NFT is actually released by Gucci. Gucci is the ones that need to publish which NFTs are legit. Game developers need to do nothing except adding UI/content.
>So going by those figures, we had 20 years of limitless duplication and it utterly destroyed the revenue of the music industry. Exactly what they feared would happen if there was ever a digital writable medium to play music from.

right, but that's more of a economics issue (ie. how content creation would be funded) than GP's claim of

"people who are forced to reckon with the concept of infinite abundance lose their minds and bend their whole will toward reintroducing scarcity by any means possible.".

>NFTs are not DRM. They produce scarcity in a different way than DRM does.

the NFT equivalent in ye olden days would be signed records/cds/posters. they have similar characteristics to NFTs (scarcity, bragging rights, etc.), but people aren't "losing their minds" over them. I haven't heard owners of signed records making fun of napster/itunes users for "right-clicker mentality" or whatever.
>That's something like $70/mo just to host some git repos on a major cloud provider.

Don't use a major cloud provider. That's $20/mo with Digital Ocean.
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I think its great example, the one youve put about your grandfather, but that is personal experience. What if your grandfather couldnt work at desk or work at all? Would he stay on same pay/level of life like before?

Could you give me/us some examples of family busisnesses ran for generations that were "given" to people who were hired and dont come from family or didnt marry into family? And that happened within last 20 years lets say?
And that didnt happen because owner died and no1 from real family knew how to run business? Just of pure love/apprieciation for your workers family ;)

I think those are rather exceptions, and exceptions confirmz the rule. Im not saying all companies are bad, im saying family style doesnt work for everyone and as you said yourself, its conditional. So its not really a family and pretending it is or acting like it would be is just cheating yourself and your workers. Youve responded to 3 years argument, but what about ten mills? If your company gets 150% profit will that be split evenly... So you'll get equal part to your boss and his real family members that work there? Did you experience this? If no then why create this illusion that people who arent... are brothers and sisters (unless you pull in religion in)?

No 1 said about "paper entity". Im hiring people and i give them great rates, sense of security like not many companies do. I guide them to growth so theyre not dependent on my company and if they decide they want to go they dont have the guilt trip (which was one of yhings described in that article). I dont tell them theyre family, because they have their own families. But if you say that someones open company not for profits from what they create/serve then its actually called charity.

If company makes money just to exist then its a hammster wheel. And of course, if you tell your hammsters they're your familly they're going to run that mill at 150%.
The trend has definitely been towards lower and lower TTLs with cloud deployments and such. What used to be a 1 day TTL with a static host is now 5 minutes in the cloud.

Servers that use geo DNS (EDNS-Client-Subnet) also cause considerable cache misses since the caching becomes very granular.
>It’s really hard to find anyone who doesn’t love great historical buildings

Good luck getting the average modern architect to even consider to design anything like that...
I believe that at least part of the problem is that buildings aren't built to last, they are built to be torn down in a few decades - so the people building them have no sense of making something lasting, or pride in making something beautiful. Instead they just want the cheapest space they can get, resulting in using the cheapest materials and maximizing internal space - meaning the outside will almost certainly be some kind of cube. So it's a question of both cost and attitude.
They did leave a source pointing to examples. It was a bit of a long read but I found it relieving.
A lot of people get this one wrong, risk is not volatility, risk is losing a portion (or in some cases all) of your money.
The builders/maintainers (AKA the "Quartz Core Team") seemed to have a poor view of the users (AKA the "Line of Business" development teams). Of course you wouldn't catch them saying that openly, but it was sometimes implied during interactions. I will admit, that view was not completely unwarranted.
> W98SE was better as a desktop back then.

Other than nonexistent USB drive support, it is a great desktop back then. I have many fond memories tinkering with Win98SE. I upgraded to WinME (stupid stupid move...) then went back to 98SE, then upgraded to WinXP pre-SP1 and hated it. So I went back to 98SE and remained in 98SE until WinXP SP2 came out. I felt 98SE was the last version (Perhaps 2000, again I only used it in high school) that caters on the interactivity between the people and the computer.

Now... it is like "screw you, we decide what is BEST for you and you have to suck it up". I do miss using 98SE and looking back of how it is a security nightmare because I deleted like drwatson.exe and few system files to get more space back for my Diablo II. You can imagine my reaction when it failed to boot up Windows next time. Ahh so much memories.
I don't agree at all. I think you can see this is in action with the reaction to COVID in the last couple of years. They've censored anyone who questioned measures to the point where they created massive swaths of the public who don't even believe the disease is real and mistrust the vaccine.

Just because you're not seeing these people on your daily social media doesn't mean they're not gathering elsewhere. It's mostly likely a place that doesn't have any alternative views as well.

How do you explain large hate groups that existed long before the internet was invented? White supremacy is barely even a threat now, it's such a small minority of people compared to what it was in the past.
Are scanners worthwhile?

Phone cameras are easy and good, and I'll never need a perfectly cropped scan
Paperless + a custom telegram bot I wrote that receives any document I sent to it (usually taken with an app called Notebloc)

The bot names and places the file in the right folder for paperless to ingest.
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Well, the article did also mention leftists favoring Brutalist architecture, and not just architecture award panels. So I suppose you could be a leftist too.
How?

Literally how would this work? The art and assets in the game are actually copyright in the real world as property of the game developer.
Most crime isn’t well organized. Which is why catching outsiders is still quite useful.
It's also continuing even today in "India" (itself a false British invention), for example with the imperialists in Delhi forcing themselves on Tamil Nadu, and banning important traditions like Jallikattu.
Our current understanding of physics leaves no place for free will. Of course, many disagree with this.

https://physicsworld.com/a/why-free-will-is-beyond-physics/

https://aeon.co/essays/heres-why-so-many-physicists-are-wron...
My guess is people buying hardware for their Windows, and then try to install Linux, and some of the hardware doesn't end up working, or is weird in some way.

I personally had very good luck, all of the random laptops I have tries ran the current Linux well, and on desktop I had even fewer problems, especially because I have checked Linux compatibility before buying.
>Yeah there’s more money floating around, so perhaps more people want to spend it, but why?

Even if they don't spend the money, it still drives demand. That's because investment also drives demand. How do you get a return on investment? If you invest in a company, it will expand. Even if you put money into property that will drive renovations and new construction. All profits from investment come from profitable economic activities somewhere down the chain.
(2) shouldn't be that painful since Linux distributions are generally perfectly happy with you booting off of different kernels at random.
For anyone interested, I have written the 'which' for Windows (cmd.exe) some time ago:
https://metacpan.org/release/DOLMEN/Win32-App-which-1.030/so...
Of course you can avoid all those businesses. Plenty of people do. It would merely be inconvenient. There are many alternative search engines (granted, a lot of them powered by Bing, but at least you wouldn't submit their data to Microsoft - surely there are also some who have their own search corpus). Instead of Amazon, just use price comparison sites and order from other businesses (you may be surprised to find that Amazon does not always have the best price). Microsoft may be the hardest, but you can demand a Mac or a Linux machine at work and use LibreOffice.

They are also not "infrastructure". Their crime apparently is to have created a product that is so convenient to use that everybody wants to use it. I don't think that is a healthy attitude for society.
My pynto https://github.com/punkbrwstr/pynto is a similar framework for creating dataframes, but using a concatenative paradigm that treats the frame as a stack of columns. Functions ("words") operate on the stack to set up the graph for each column, and execution happens afterwards in parallel. Instead of function modifiers like @does it uses combinators to apply quoted operations to multiple columns. The postfix syntax (think postscript or factor) is unambiguous, if a bit old-school.
> Sure everyone only use 5% of the features of Word - but they use different 5%, which is why nobody uses your elegant minimalist bare-bones word processor.

That still is an insufficient apologia for Word, and paints the wrong picture: 95% of the features that everyone uses are the same, but the remaining 5% are different.

Never mind the bloat in the implementation of the 95% and the bad UI of presenting these various features.
This article doesn't really explain the wonderful wonderfulness of these bills that evil, evil Google is fighting by telling small business owners what it thinks about how these bills will affect them.

It's just the flip side of Google's propaganda, no "morally better" than what Google is doing.

Ticks me off when people talk as if any regulation is prima facie angelic and companies are evil to tell people they don't like it. Sorry, but I don't have a regulation fetish. Make the case!
This does some clever stuff in the background, e.g. query optimization and performing the computations of a 'for'-loop concurrently (potentially over multiple machines in a cluster). So in my experience there was a bit of latency for the query to execute, but then it executes faster and on much larger datasets than regular JS could handle.

Just like how you could easily manipulate tabular data using numpy or pandas (or excel), but SQL allows you to do it declaratively, which has benefits in some cases.
Please provide an example.

I find it more likely that most of what you're labeling as hate is just a difference in opinion.
Ask HN: How do you deal with slow / phone culture?
I recently started a new job where I'm building a website and some software infrastructure for a brand new company. I have been a professional developer for over a decade and worked in many teams large and small, as well as both business and tech driven orgs.

The company exists because the person who founded another organization got some investment and now he's moving forward with part of the business the investment org isn't interested in.

The challenge I have is that I'm a very software / technical oriented person who is used to thinks like Slack, emailing to setup appointments and scheduling things in the future.

I am working with a group of people who are older than me who prefer email and telephone over anything else. Rather than scheduling time to talk they will just call each other up at random times. Often I will send emails with direct requests asking "what time is good for everyone?" and not receive a response at all. I want to plead with the team for better communications but I have not been at the organization long enough to have the political capital to make this happen.

Can anybody suggest articles / books / materials that might help me figure out how to best communicate with this audience? These are not new challenges but I'm failing to describe it to Google in a way that gives me any meaningful responses.

Thanks