skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anytime someone says "impossible", I would take that opinion with a grain of salt.

Or to quote Arthur C Clarke:

> When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Crypto++ 8.6
I would agree that I am mixed about it. It's not binary but it does seem to be difficult to build a board around a hypothetical fantastic growth trajectory.

That said I don't think it's the boards sole responsibility on ethical choices - that's the management team and rolling up to the board.

It feels a bit how HR is complicit in the company outcome and is a fraught position. The board of directors is the same. Maybe the rest of the world has thought about the board of directors in the wrong way in that they have assumed that they represent an ethical, independent thinking group of people with different incentives then how boards are actually set up.

Not using this as a scape goat of responsibilities but more observing how things seem to be in the real world.
Is my opinion, the company is cheating the employee by paying them less for the same work just because they live somewhere else.
In every post about remote work, this argument always gets trotted out. The easiest retort is “if it were that advantageous for companies, it would have happened already.”

Outsourcing has been around for decades now and the overwhelming evidence is that it only gets you so far. “You get what you pay for.”

Sure there’s probably some offshore/nearshore firms that hire great developers but the lions share of them are low-skilled, associate-level developers that are usually paraded around as senior/architects. I say this as someone whose worked in a large consulting firm and had to work with numerous offshore/nearshore teams.
How to sort a list – Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Most products/startups fail. This is part of the reason why. But all of this is survivable if you have customers and revenue. That needs to always be the primary focus.
> There are 3 functions of money: store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin fulfill all 3.

Bitcoin fails miserably at all three. Come on. Bitcoin can do a measly three transactions per second for exorbitant fees, it is massively unstable and unsuitable as a store of value.
But what is your problem with this? Do you really care which JVM is being packaged or you are just picking on something that isn't a problem?

Have you had a problem running IntelliJ IDEA?

I am pretty sure that if I was distributing a very, very complex Java application for a very, very wide variety of audience (like people who aren't even developers because IDEA also caters to these people) I would distribute it with JVM packaged.

And then the user should not care which JVM exactly is being distributed. You only need to care about the end result.

Let me know the last time you cared which version of JVM is used by any of the SAS products you subscribe to.
I love this idea and, as a person with a special devotion to St. Catherine of Alexandria (who persuaded all the mighty scholars of her truth, which got them executed), I love the name. But isn't it ironic that, for a project named after a woman who schooled haughty men, all the listed books have male authors (except George Eliot, who felt she had to disguise her gender)? Catherine teaches us to look for wisdom outside the canon of official authorities.
> That is not the point. The point is that you don't want legislators, left or right-wing, picking the books that students can access in the library system of their school. School librarians are the ones who do that, and it's a decentralized system that works extraordinarily well.

Are we arguing about what's accessible in "public libraries" to adults in a community, or what is being pushed on young children who are forced to attend public schools?

These books aren't just being made available in some public school's archives for 10th grade "researchers" to access like you find in large university systems. They're being used by the activist teachers themselves in homework assignments i.e. coerced indoctrination on impressionable kids who have no right to refuse the assignments.

> The only takeaway for me from a lot of this discussion has been that a lot of people don't seem to have much of an idea about libraries in general, school or public; or the role they play in society.

I don't disagree that I might not understand how public libraries are utilized these days. My experiences in the last decade were varied. In the very left leaning cities I've lived, it seemed the libraries had been taken over by homeless and drug addicts. In the lily-white suburbs, it was mostly retirees drinking coffee and browsing Oprah book club material (that they could have easily purchased on their own for $10 on Amazon) and bored housewives checking out stacks of garbage DVDs for their toddlers.

My own guess is that the library "profession" has been taken over by leftist activists groups, similar to the public school unions and accreditation schools, and are now being used for very partisan organization and indoctrination that a majority of the taxpayers who are forced to fund them would either not appreciate or actively oppose.

I do not believe that public libraries are a main source of actual research or non-political education these days, and online sources and public university libraries have far more relevant material than any public library could even hope to obtain.

And we also need to admit that there is a BIG difference between the censorship that the right is now pushing (i.e. tax payer funded entities) and that which the left has been engaged in for years now (censoring at the source e.g. publishers, content distributers, big tech, and sellers) which means NOBODY can access it, even on their own dime.
>Nobody said it was "ideal". Sheesh. But nobody has found a better way.

I mean, there are plenty of people who have found a better way. They get pushback from folks who think testing is the end-all-be-all of knowledge assessment.

>News flash: some tests are poorly conceived.

It's more like they are flawed from the get-go

>Allow me to reframe that. Would you get on an airplane piloted by a fellow who was never tested on his flying knowledge and skill?

I don't think it really benefits anyone to come up with irrelevant strawmen. Just like athletes, with pilots we care about their performance under specific conditions. Of course pilots should be tested in the conditions they should be working in. Obviously testing for specific things is necessary.

The problem with the analogy is that the testing we use in K-16 doesn't mimic any real world conditions.

A QB needs to be able to perform on the field and thats what we gauge them by. There is no reason an 8th grader needs to be able to solve X amount of problems in 50 minutes or whatever. It's adding elements to the assessment that are irrelevant for gauging knowledge.
That's not how reason (or falsifiability) works.
If you have assets and debt (and a job that will actually pay well, keep up with inflation), money printing is awesome for you!

If you're in the majority of people who don't have those things, life just gets harder and wealth gap keeps getting larger and larger.
Pray tell, what is the size of a wchar_t on your system?
> You'd think that the corporate overlords would prefer the machine to be working so they make money from the sales...

And that's where the intrigue and accusations of foul play are coming in. It seems like McD's has mandated this model of Machine and Taylor agreed to make it worse (they supply better machines without these issues to other fast food chains). Taylor profits from the service calls and I'd bet some McD's exec are getting kickbacks to keep it that way (by mandating a worse machine that makes franchise owners less money). The Kytch device came along and upset that status quo.
1837 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837

1873 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

1910 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1910%E2%80%931911

1929 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

Monetary consistency sounds good, until it doesn't.
I'm sure you have nothing to hide, and so nothing to fear, hmm? If the world is to move towards digital currencies one way or another, we might as well protect our human rights.

Have you ever used an anonymizing network for your Internet activities? Some of us have to use them for most of our activities, and while you might deem us criminals for that, privacy tech is used for legal activity the vast majority of the time. There are countless people who are currently alive only because of encryption and various privacy technologies, yet your only response is "some criminals could abuse it though"? Is not the most widespread crime in our world the violation of privacy by governments/corporations?
Thanks Cloudflare
and as for NFT. I imagine watermarking will be added and apple made billions selling music for 99cents when pirating was at an all time high.

Most people want to see creators create and get paid.

In the long run its going to be about network transaction fees going to near 0.

so as long as distributed means fair competition baked into the networks, crypto will thrive maybe not as an investment but as a way to handle micro payments and funding creators
I'd say about zero.
> We're stuck with images stored in the display profile of old CRTs by default, because that was the most practical option at the time.

The analogue in photography is photographs lose color clarity and fade as they age. Why should I care if this is the case in images as display technology evolves when this is already a problem with every physical medium?

> For correct editing operations, and correct display. Sadly, it's not pedantry, it's reality.

I've been designing images and graphics for the web and sometimes for print off and on as a regular part of my various job functions since ~2009 and I have yet to see a situation where a color profile on an image isn't a huge pain and something that needs to be stripped away to get seemingly correct results.

Back to my point, I still don't see the value of having a color profile applied to an image. Images exist in the ether as platonic ideals, and we try to approximate them with our various display technologies. Why complicate the matter by also having multiple "flavors" of the platonic ideal itself? When I say (255, 0, 0), I expect the display to show me its best approximation of red. When I say (255, 255, 255), I expect the display to show me something as close to white as possible (and at the brightest possible setting). When I say (0, 0, 0), I expect the display to show me something that looks as close to black as possible. It's up to the display technology to decide whether this means just turn off that pixel on the screen or disengage the backlight or do whatever, but at the end of the day it's just trying to approximate black.

This is complicated enough, why do I need an image that will look good on only one kind of display and will have it's greens look pink on other displays. Isn't having a color profile for the display enough?
I think you're right. There seems to be two sorts of attention in the mind, narrowly focused attention and broad diffuse attention.

I see the goal of meditation not so much as alternating between the two modes but rather like balancing them and running them both in parallel.

This entire video is really excellent, but see particularly this bit here, where Iain McGilchrist describes the concept.

https://youtu.be/dFs9WO2B8uI?t=88
Additionally, I think there is a perception problem.

If you have a normal wall thermostat switch you expect that it switches heating on when its sensor(s) believe it is too cold, and switches heating off when it becomes too hot.

The device is very basic, does one thing (and does it correctly 99.99% of times, with the only rare cases when the switch actually breaks or wires get loose or contacts get oxidated, or batteries - if any - needs to be replaced).

If you replace that with something else (that does "more" things) the basic expectation should be for it to work the SAME (with the same reliability) for the same basic scope AND add some other feature.

Yet most people I know that tried (and still try) to have this or that kind of home automation are more tolerant when the thingy doesn't work (as expected and as it should) and insist on those crappy devices, hoping that an OTA will fix0 the issue or buying a new (WHY?) "version 2.0" as that is said to solve problems.

Why you (average user) accept that your stupid net connected thermostat does whatever it feels like doing, including NOT switching heat on and off when needed?
Mastodon[0] does work at scale.

[0] Or, to be more correct, the ActivityPub ecosystem which is bigger than Mastodon itself.
I know some folks were quite excited about low dose aspirin for heart conditions in the 90s to the point of selling their own pills they had gotten made; i can't find any references but I'm pretty sure they got stomped. As I recall, and I could be wrong in any or all the details here, their thing was a 10mg dose and they'd gotten a Mexican (?) pill mill to make them a batch, because no one in the US would. and they tried to sell it as "Supplements".

1994? maybe? around then.
IMO this is the single biggest malaise in society. “Investing” (speculating) in real estate creates nothing of value to society and instead serves only to artificially drive up the cost of shelter, a basic necessity. It also directs capital away from investing in technology and businesses.

Due to the zero-sum nature of real estate, it fundamentally breaks the positive sum theory of capitalism. Adam Smith even called landlord’s right “theft”.
Same, but replace Atom with Sublime. Vim is too much of a time suck (I will customize until the end of time and get nothing done), VS Code is a bit busy and hectic for my tastes. Sublime is just lean and solid, I love it.
> Occasionally, it is because of that though. If not 'stupid', at least inexperienced. I've had plenty of things I've done that worked, but were, in hindsight, 'stupid' (and have been called out on that). Sometimes, people try to make a lot of post-hoc justifications for a block of code or a data/tech decision that really is, just... 'stupid'. Again, that's more likely down to inexperience than anything else, but not every decision is a 'good' one just because people 'had their reasons'.

I agree on the point regarding the decision being 'stupid' but in this case it was not because of inexperience. On the contrary, it was because an overruling decision by an experienced manager. So the point is that it is not always technical or due to inexperience (though that does happen) - from what I've seen, it is quite common for such things to happen due to hierarchical/ego/political issues as well.
For me personally it was mostly idle curiosity of a "what would it take..." kind, but it's a very nice write up!
VS Code is fine with with big projects, I've been using it for 2 years. The language server is Eclipse after all.
> you'd better be paying me extra to cover my increased rent

The corollary of what you said is to pay remote employees with the same title less, which they won't all accept... especially the ones living in the same geo area due to the fact that they were commuting before the pandemic or are still occasionally commuting in and haven't moved to a lower COL area yet.
Gives government more ability to track flow of capital. Hugely awful move for the world to give government more control.
Julia Evans [1] has a very lovely blog that ,ales reading pure joy. She talks about a
Lot of technical stuff, and explains from first principles.

1. https://jvns.ca/
Mainframes!
Banks are the government's instrument of total surveillance and enforcement in the financial sector.
Cryptocurrency involves numerous middle men, all of which charge very high fees. Miners, exchanges, smart contracts, they're all middlemen and they all charge fees.

It's not that crypto enthusiasts don't like middle men, it's that they want to be the middle men.
Tesla Self-Driving Beta Drivers to Be Recorded When They Crash
Very much the kind of expert group design-by-committee type of requirement that this simple compression scheme was designed not to handle.

Since this scheme works primarily on exact cross-channel pixel matches, no. No it won’t work well for 25 channel images.

Which is a good thing. Most people are not trying to encode 25 channel hyperspectral data and if they are they can use their own format designed well for that purpose (or a committee-derived format that handles it adequately).

Or they can split the 25 channels across 7 4 channel images and encode them using this.
I was thinking about trying EnGenius or even Cisco next, but I'd like to stay within the Unifi universe because of my investment in wifi access points and video cameras. I should definitely investigate the edgeswitch line! I sort of ignored them thinking that they were last generation, but I'm going to take a look.
But you said “their friends to print money” not “print money for their friends”.
Ok - so follow along with me here:

I owned no bitcoins at the time I desired to trade bitcoins for a physical product (in this case: ~7g of Cannabis)

What recourse do I have that does not require trusting a third party?

I do not own the required compute power to mine it myself (not technically true at the time, although certainly true today)

I'd like to have you walk me through the exact set of steps to acquire my bitcoin and use them to purchase that physical good, where I can magically avoid placing any trust in a 3rd party.
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure: Common Misconceptions
Yeah, but then you have to use Oracle
My understanding is that the US definitely _could_ produce everything needed, it's just not financially viable or desirable to do so. With tax changes, automation and the rise in cost of labor in non-western countries, it might just become viable.
Some friends and co-workers of mine have an ongoing bet/joke...
Who can find something that the Raspberry Pi can NOT do.

One more thing scratched off the list!!
I'm a little surprised that the author is missing the critical innovation of crypto which is digital trust and observability. Sure it is easy to make an argument that one cryptocurrency or another is a bubble, but don't underestimate the importance of being able to distribute work and verify trust at scale.

Just look at how git has transformed software development by mapping code to a hash. Or how DNS + SSL has transformed how people trust and transact online. Is the scalable future one where people and organizations trust their data to the cloud or other 3rd parties with no way to verify integrity?

Do people think that the future of human agreements is signatures on little pieces of paper managed by courts and lawyers? Personally I think it will be digital. Given it is digital, do you think there will be some "centralized database" run by government or a commercial entity that can be trusted as single point of failure? Personally I sure hope that there is some way to distribute and verify data integrity even if it isn't full blown proof of work. I'd sure prefer something more like git where I can see if two branches are the same even from different sources.
I don’t think so. I think they were saying there’s a benefit to being able to transact using a concurrency of a trusted govt when you’re own govt is not trusted.
As I understand the law "commercial use" as requiring a release form does not include 'advertising yourself as an artist, or selling your photos as art'.

This is different from offering your pictures as stock photography, as PR materials, or in advertising of anything other than yourself.
Sure this is a nice and concise (yet somewhat trite) example, but this can be done easily with 1 line in sudoers as well (and is usually configured like this by default anyway).

Not that doas isn't great, but this particular reason isn't that compelling (to me).
Readers, please don't accept anything anyone writes about "FORTRAN", unless in a historical context. They probably last encountered the leading edge of the language 40 years ago.
You are so wrong. I literally had anthem as required reading in high school. I assure you that ayn rand can be found in many if not most high school libraries in the USA.
Does anyone know where there are screenshots of this on the website? I like to see how a desktop looks before I try a new distro. Seems absent on the site
Sometimes I worry that powerful IDEs just make people write more complicated code.

If all you have is a basic text editor, you are limited by what can fit inside your head. If your IDE makes navigation too easy, you end up writing callbacks that call callbacks that call callbacks until you end up in abstraction hell and have no idea what your code is doing anymore.

Then again, better tooling makes refactoring/simplifying code easier so it may just as well lead to easier to understand code...
> From AWS’s perspective the whole VM is in the same security context.

That's AWS's perspective. But my perspective, as an AWS customer, is important as well. And I might want to run something on a VM that I myself don't necessarily trust - that is the ultimate benefit of an ephemeral, isolated VM.
It generally won't, because the systems are designed to make it difficult to nullify a specific person's ballot after the fact. In some jurisdictions, though, there are specified criminal penalties for doing this.
AWS giving you 95GB egress for free is not at all a direct answer to the insane prices
Shenandoah isn't an Oracle maintained feature, so they'll never allow it to become the OpenJDK default (though another vendor make it so in their distribution).
I think that's what the person you're replying to is saying. The government should subsidize domestic production because it's a prestige issue for the nation. Sort of like having an aircraft carrier group but in the form of economic power.
Fore-edge painting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore-edge_painting
These are just fantastical musings of a product manager, who is pretty far from engineering, and thinks that their products fail because of engineers, not because they didn't get their product right, and/or think that every engineer who doesn't produce a fully functional Facebook with news feed and friends, in 39 days is overengineering their product and are far removed from users!
Being willing to accept risk that if crime happens at the same place, the CCTV might go viral still can dislike idea of photographer making I intentional photo of him and make it viral. Those are very different situations.

Your second point does not address comment you respond to.
I've been in exactly this position, in fact I conceived and created the situation at my last company. I found it uncanny how on point OP was.

The trouble with "Let's build out a handful of integrations. Make sure they're going to deliver the value we want. Then abstract it into a repeatable pattern" is that when you're building an integration marketplace, you need partners, and they don't want to be your research bitches.

They just want to build their integrations once, and gtfo. If they think you're signing then up for a revolving wheel of experimentation, they'll just politely stay away until someone else has done the hard yards.

Sure if you're a Microsoft or a Google you'll have any number of willing partners who will put up with anything to be the pioneers in your integrations marketplace.

But otherwise, they're using your integrations marketplace purely for the benefits, and they don't want to be building on sand.