skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2002 I joined a software company where we each had personal folders on a shared 2TB volume. 2TB was a lot back then, but it was needed because we work working with gene and protein sequences so you end up with quite a bit of data.

People used these folders for builds of our systems which could be accessed from any of our various supported environments (basically every flavour of UNIX under the sun - no pun intended there). Lots of them would also use them for development work, since many people simply remoted into a convenient UNIX box and fired up emacs or vi. I was one of the few people using my local machine for development because I was working on a Java application, and running an IDE locally was simply very convenient.

We also had our own CI system that built everything for every supported system overnight, and ran huge suites of automated tests, which also used this 2TB volume.

The key word here is shared. I had my own folder but I could do `cd ..` and see everybody else's folders, and then go poking around in them with full read/write access.

You can see where this is going, can't you?

A handful of weeks before I joined the company somebody had updated a script in a test case (I forget whether it was a pre or post) that did some cleanup. The clean-up was basically an `rm -fR *` in the current directory. What they hadn't spotted before commiting the script is that they'd `cd`ed up one or two directories too far, meaning that they ran an `rm -fR *` in the root folder of the volume.

Everything was gone. Nobody could get anything done, and it took them a day or two to restore the volume from backups (which, fortunately, they had).

Some people lost a day or two's work so, fortunately, it wasn't a business ending event or anything like that. More a cautionary tale and an object lesson about the dangers of running commands like this with unrestricted access to volumes.
So in other words NFTs are scams just like designer clothes, luxury watches and fancy cars.
You can even neatly do it in a docker container that you throw away after if you don't want to mess up anything locally.
> I have a 5 year investment horizon, and are willing to take on a large risk.

These two statements would be considered contradictory by common financial standards. 5 year horizon means you need the money in 5 years. However, high risk means that in 5 years (a short amount of time compared to normal equity volatility) there's a sizeable probability that you will have negative returns.

I recommend the questionnaire here as a starting point:

https://retirementplans.vanguard.com/VGApp/pe/PubQuizActivit...
He Sold His Last Business for $500M
> Which OS works better for POSIX-stack development?

Linux. The one you're _actually_ using. Skip the proprietary ad company desktop and use what you're wanting to.
Because it's a fundamental right, and no contract of any kind can bypass nor overrule it whatsoever?
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The answer to your question is "it depends". Mainly on your level of involvement in your portfolio and what your goals are in life. Also is your account qualified or non-qualified (taxable vs non-taxable). So there's no one-size-fits-all.

Personally, I am a "set it and forget it" kind of person. You can buy a low-cost target date mutual fund that takes care of all the portfolio management under the hood. If this is in a taxable account - you may have the benefit of tax free portfolio management (Youll have to check if the fund has paid or could pay out capital gains that would be taxable).

Ultimately on a long timescale I wouldn't get distracted by the side shows (highly focused thematic funds). Bet on broad diversification with low management fees and dividend reinvestment and you'll be golden.

Caveat: I dont want to sound overly prescriptive. Again, theres no one-size-fits-all solution.

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Whoops I Rewrote it in Rust
Funny, I've had the opposite journey. I learnt Unix shell recently and then needed to use the Windows command line. Hence I found this guide.

CMD is very rudimentary compared to shell/bash, but it is quickly enough learnt for simple Windows tasks.
How is this being collected/enforced with anonymous wallets and transactions?
> These companies can afford good cybersecurity but don't want to spend more money than the damages they would incur from a successful attack.

A bit off your "real" point: No company should ever spend more mitigating a risk than the potential cost they could incur from the risk. That is just good business, but the reality is that companies generally won't spend more on cybersecurity than their peers (either as a percentage of revenue or percentage of IT spend). Whether that is the proper balance for a risk/spend calculation is the real topic.

The problem is that we can't accurately calculate the probability of a cyber event and the cost impact of that event. So the company is stuck waiting for an attack on themselves or one of their cohorts so they can adjust.
this sounds like the definition of government. country control all of power in one region in
There are plenty of projects that store either the art or verifiable metadata directly on chain.
Well for one I can't run Python 3.10 in production because I use AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which currently only supports 3.8. And my development environment is Ubuntu, which also doesn't support it out of the box. So short of scheduling two weeks to retool both my production and local development environments, which I'm not going to do because it would be a complete waste of time, there is zero benefit to me to even looking into this.
So basically a current-owner database for some list of products, maybe a brand?

There's simple ways of running such databases that don't require blockchain.
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> Compact cassettes were not a lossless medium. The DAT cassette was fought against with tooth and nail. The CD was okay as a read only medium.

even if we accept that, that still means we had more than 3 decades of limitless duplication, yet people aren't "lose their minds and bend their whole will toward reintroducing scarcity by any means possible".

>Look how long it took for the music industry to accept DRM free audio formats. Without Apple's dominance we probably wouldn't still have them now.

1. DRM realistically wasn't an issue due to pirates (remember naptster?)

2. games have DRM that are sometimes unbroken for years. Yet nothing noticeable changes when the DRM is finally broken. there's also DRM-free games, that people aren't clamoring for scarcity over. therefore I doubt something being DRM protected or not has any effect on its scarcity value.
The question was if anybody was using cryptocurrencies to buy stuff. Well, I am. When I buy stuff, my crypto balance goes down and I get the purchased item. What happens outside that is invisible to me. From what I see on my end, I am spending crypto.

If I used a US credit card to buy something from a European store with prices in euro, am I spending USD from my USD balance or am I spending euro? From my perspective, I would say that I’m spending USD, even though the bank is exchanging it to euro under the hood and sending the merchant euro. How is it any different with crypto in my case?
You're referring to what's called an "employer of record" (EOR) and this isn't as straightforward or risk-free as you think it is.

First, there are some countries in which the law would consider your business to be the employer of a worker even if the worker was hired by an EOR. And others place limits on EOR relationships, such as the length of time a worker can be continuously employed by an EOR.

Second, an individual you employ through an EOR can still take actions that potentially expose your business to risk. Think data breaches, intellectual property theft, etc. In many legal matters, since you are not the employer, you would not even have the ability to take direct action against the worker and would instead have to have the EOR act on your behalf, which is of course another source of counterparty risk.

Finally, your relationship with the EOR is not a one-way street as you seem to think ("the local firm will have to face the consequences"). Under any EOR contract, your business has obligations to the EOR as well and a reputable EOR is actually probably far more likely than an average employee to go after you in your home country if you breach the contract.

As an expat who has done business in numerous countries, I offer the following blanket advice: never do business (in any shape or form) in a country where you're not capable of and prepared to get your hands dirty locally (with the legal system, etc.).
... There’s a thing called “conspicuous consumption”, and it’s apparently old as the hills (are there any pol sci people here who actually know this stuff and can tell me I got everything backwards?). That NFTs are indeed it is a good point and I appreciate the insight, but in view of the aforementioned hills the remaining commentary about modern first-world humans seems unfounded.
Weirdly, I feel like I entirely agree with that Twitter post, but take the exact opposite lesson from it.

So, this steak that they are imitating. It's not a good steak. As the tweet suggests, its sole purpose for existing is conspicous consumption.

You can't steal/copy/right-click that, and you shouldn't want to. Hopefully the person doing the at home imitation is at least in part trying to deflate and ridicule the whole idea.
Replying to myself, it's actually not even that, you didn't even have the guy on the corner write anything about authenticity on the napkin, you just had him write the title "Mona Lisa" and sign it.

But you can prove this is really the very same napkin you had a guy on the corner of Park and High write "Mona Lisa" on, at 9:45ET on November 9th 2020. It's the very same napkin! So surely you should pay me what the Mona Lisa is worth for it, right?

I can throw in a napkin with "Brooklyn Bridge" written on it if you like...
Processes like systemd. Does the average developer or sysadmin really pare their Linux down to 50mb?

Look, if you want to tune your VM exactly to your liking then use a VM. It will give you a lot more control.
Isn't this the entire purpose of smart contracts in Ethereum, the underlying system for most NFTs? What do NFTs add?
Just a few days I have been told:

> To achieve an effective resolution of 1920x1080 you're looking at a scaling factor of 1.5, and it just doesn't work well. It also increases battery drain on a system that already has battery life issues.

But I don't know the details.
hardware acceleration in browser I think is somewhat new? Last half year or so, is it now by default?
You only have stereo and max HD on linux with most streaming providers. No surroundsound.
I invite you all to open your eyes a little. Sure, NFTs are a little ridiculous... but there's an evolving marriage between crypto and IPFS which I find very exciting.

We've all been complaining about the dangers of centralization, censorship, and impermanence on the modern web for years, and now there's billions flowing into an absolutely ridiculous application of decentralized tech.

Crypto is currently a very expensive toy, but I think there's immense opportunity for those who can help it mature.

Edit: If you're still arguing about whether NFTs are useful or cypto is currency, you're missing the point. We have a new substrate. It's fun, it's interesting. Go play!

And yes, paying millions for a jpeg is dumb.
You might be thinking of the GNU version of rm (the version on any modern linux). There you need `rm -rf --no-preserve-root /` to delete everything, which prevents GP's typo (`rm -rf /*` might still work though).
It is the same now, and officially so. One of the dimensions for perf/promo is complexity.
The simple answer, is you just have to try it.

It's not a use case. It's linux. Fusion and Virtualbox are terrible in comparison. With WSL2(g) you get GPU acceleration, audio, X apps and whatever distro you want (and running them in parallel if you so wish). VS Code in WSL with Docker is great - much better experience than MacOS if you ask me - especially with an architecture change.
I won't move to Linux, because ultimately I've realized I want people who keep developer perfectionism in check.

For a semi-recent example, a lone Debian developer decided that Which should longer be used, and a huge fight ensued ( https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/874049/bf89a969ed3dde87/ )

In a large corporation, their boss would swing by and tell them customers need that tool, and it can't be removed willy-nilly.

And I won't move to Mac, because of the missing link in Apple's product lineup. I'd move over in a heartbeat, if they had a midrange tower, beefier than an Mini, less expensive than a Pro, and sans monitor (iMac)
The difference here of course is that you can perfectly reproduce the digital artifact, you can't do that with the Ansel Adams print.
Bumblebee (related to NVIDIA hybrid graphics offload):

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

There so many comments on that commit that Microsoft Github's backend apparently cannot load the page -- I just get the "unicorn".

Anyway, this issue also points it out: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
>If you need a Linux VM, I have no idea why you wouldn't run a full-blown VM software like Fusion or VitualBox,

If anyone is confused about the benefits of WSL2 like the above statement, here's a video demonstrating the automatic integration of Linux+Windows. A deep link to get past the install & setup:

https://youtu.be/A0eqZujVfYU?t=5m46s

tldw: The difference is WSL2 is more tightly integrated with Windows.

E.g. the WSL2 "Linux" environment can automatically "see" Windows drives and likewise, Windows can see into Linux mount points. You can immediately type "ls /mnt" and see the C: drive of Windows without any setup. In contrast, with full VMware/VirtualBox, I'd have to type in something like:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=administrator //mywindesktop/c\$ /mnt/win-c

Of course, entering a command isn't a big deal for technical folks but with WSL2, you don't even bother with the ceremony of it. Also, network ports are automatically set up, so Windows & Linux can communicate with each other. It's lightning fast and seamless, unlike a full vm. Another UI convenience with WSL2 is normal Ctrl+V paste works unlike a Ubuntu vm where I had to mentally pause and remember to press Shift+Ctrl+V.

I stopped running a full Linux VM unless I need the extra isolation for investigating malware.
> WAS THE CONSTRUCTION WORKER AT THE BOTTOM ASKED IF HE LIKED THE BUILDING? IF NOT, WHY NOT? SURELY HIS INPUT SHOULD HAVE MATTERED.

A construction worker is strictly implementation. Soliciting design input that isn't relevant to implementation is a recipe for chaos.
This only works if the developers choose to spend time implementing an import/export system. That’s a lot of work and since they need to have an arrangement for that anyway, why wouldn’t they use their existing billing system to retain control of it and a greater share of the profits?
I'd love to hear some anecdotes from SF residents. Do you see these gangs operating? How do people react? Have you had stores close near you due to theft?
No OS is special here, nor is ZSH/bash... Tried this with bash on linux:

$ touch -- -rf
$ mkdir subdir1
$ touch subdir1/test1
$ rm *
$ ls
-rf
$

With zsh it's almost the same, it just warns me first:

$ touch -- -rf
$ mkdir subdir1
$ touch subdir1/test1
$ rm *
zsh: sure you want to delete all 2 files in /path/to/test [yn]? y
$ ls
-rf
$

Since there was a file called -rf, `rm *` expands to `rm -rf subdir1`, and that's what it does. The actual file named -rf survives because -rf was interpreted as an option rather than a filename. It would only have been removed if I did `rm -rf -- *`.
Yeah docker for repeatability.
Has the advantage of making it much more reproducible for others. A dockerfile and docker-compose.yml are much easier to check into git than a full VM image.
My similar lesson was towards the end of the 90s, following a tutorial on how to install redhat on my windows machine. It went something like:

First, you need to create a partition: Run fdisk.

A few short seconds later I unfortunately no longer had a windows machine.
General advice is find low expense ratio, highly diversified funds and let them sit. Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard all have excellent options.
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

It sounds like you are looking for something a little more aggressive though. Wisdomtree and State Street offer ETFs tracking a variety of indexes. Keep an eye on expense ratio though. Anything over 0.75% is rather high.

Also, as a side note ETFs can provide tax-advantages over mutual funds when you sell.
Sure, WWAN modems are not only a thing that exists inside mobile phones. ThinkPads (and I'm sure other business-oriented brands as well) often (always?) have optional slots for WWAN modems, so you can use them for a mobile internet connection without tethering. I've been using that feature for over ten years now.
Rwanda goes electric with locally made motorbikes
If you want to pay to be the only person in the Facebook VR world to own a Yacht, you need a legal contract that gives you ownership of that. If you don't have a contract you cannot sue him for selling Yachts to other people inside of his VR world.

Now if you built a VR application where objects were only displayed if you could prove ownership of the private keys that would work, but there would be nothing stopping someone from modifying the VR application, or building their own VR application to give you access to a Yacht.
> Both DuckDuckGo and You.com partner with Bing on some search results.

> It also announced a $20 million seed funding round led by Marc Benioff's TIME Ventures. Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures and Day One Ventures also participated in the funding round

How do you get $20 million dollars for literally just tapping into Bings api? ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/bing-web-search-ap... )

It doesn't make any sense at all. It's not even an afternoons project.
> Source: I am a pip maintainer and a PyPA member.

Oh damn, well consider me schooled. Fair enough!
> Who here is writing software which runs on Linux, yet needs to be running Windows while they do it?

There are plenty of companies that are locked in to Windows for their workstations but have servers running on Linux. Many financial companies for instance.
As a developer you have the choice of developing in Windows, in a VM or in WSL2. I personally find WSL2 the lesser evil of the three.
5 years - large risk. Those are contradictions. A 5 year investment horizon going to be some kind of fixed income stream.

In general though when searching for a fund you want to look for low cost index funds. The lower cost the better.
Lot of choice of hardware (vs macos), Visual Studio, and Windows has a great desktop experience IMHO
Really bad advice.

Risk has a time-dimension. If you want to invest in triple leveraged funds, do so on a very short time-scale. ie a few days.

On a longer time-frame, months, years, these funds trend towards zero.

There are a lot of articles and whitepapers on the math behind leveraged funds. I would recommend reading them before investing.

These are not "investments" btw. These are tactical trading tools.
Sounds to me like PyPy has been using Futamura projections for a decade or so.
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Is there a readable summary of this NFT thing. I was only vaguely following it but assumed it was some way to support artists, kind of like rich people getting a hospital wing named after your family trust fund. Not great, as you don't want to rely on philanthropy of the super rich, but probably better than many of the alternatives.

But is the idea to generate a secondary market for this stuff and sell it on at higher prices?
> Never in history has anyone been able to buy shares of highly coveted art... maybe now you can?

Umm, hasn't this been a thing since art has been seen as an investment?
The discussion of DRM has ended since the 00s , there is really not much to say about it.
No. DRM is literally the attempt to block right-clicking. NFTs don't try to block it.
I've seen this. Decades later, I still don't know how it happened.

Civil engineering company hired CAD savvy engineer. A rarity back then. Jared. Then sent him to advanced training. Before his first day in office. Then bought him the best gear, including extra monitor and custom desk. Which caused a little bit of resentment, of course. (New hires generally got hand me downs.)

Second day on the job. Yay, welcome to the team. Jared got his machine booted. Pulled up a drawing. Stared at the screen for a while. Then he asked me how to draw a line.

Smart ass me: "Ell eye n e, then hit enter."

Jared presses the keys, repeating the letters out loud, hits enter. Then says "LINE. Oh."

The rest of the drafters and engineers looked up, unbelieving.

Jared was also adept at sloughing his workload and tasks onto others.

I'm now remembering some other Jared stories.

Jared tells me his machine is broken. He kept erasing a line. And when he did 'refresh', the line was still there. Of course I debug. Turns out Jared had made dozens of copies of his entire design, in exactly the same location. So he was just erasing the top instance, one at at time.

Remember acoustic ceiling tile? Jared was adept at flicking pencils up so they'd stick in the ceiling, like darts. One of his hobbies. He'd lay multiple pencils flat in his hand. Then kinda slapped that arm against the other hand. Jared proudly claimed his personal record was something like 4 pencils at once (successfully stuck in the ceiling).

Remember when GIS systems were the new hotness? Jared scored a job at the county, becoming the director of GIS systems. I'm sure if any actual work happened during his reign, it was accidental. Our tax dollars hard at work.
Using double-dash solves almost all such issues. One notable exception: a file named dash will still be interpreted as stdin.

echo a > -
echo b | cat -- -

Output: b
I definitely see your point: Android re-designed and stayed in the game against Apple, while Palm, Blackberry, Nokia, etc. did not re-design immediately - just like Windows Mobile - and failed.

But that does not automatically mean that Apple was (literally) brilliant and (genuinely) revolutionary, it only means that Apple was right in their decision to obsessively prioritize "simplified, polished and packaged" over everything else. Being excellent at product development, manufacturing and marketing does not automatically make a company brilliant and revolutionary. I guess it depends on how you define "brilliant" and "revolutionary", but as far as I can tell Apple rather rarely invented something truly "never seen before". (The only iPhone innovation that really made me go "WOW!" was the dot-less, curve-ful retina display. Now THAT was an idea, indeed, "never seen before".)

It seems to me that while Apple of course did do something right (although not necessarily brilliant and revolutionary), everyone else (except Android) was indeed dumb as a bag'o'hammers. For years they failed to significantly improve their platforms to remain competitive and that was all it took for Apple to win.
https://archive.md/TchSb
NFTs, like bitcoin and other blockchains, are another step on the road to digital property rights. They don't work yet and no one has figured out how they will work.

One thing to remember is that the first stage of a technological advancement is the bubble stage that leads to an influx of capital to build out the infrastructure.

Eventually we will be able to use this infrastructure to build out businesses with more economic value.
But it is also satisfying having read the article want to give your hot take on the matter and the top comment nails it already. Saved me at least a half hour.