skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When USB was first introduced, it really helped to reduce the proliferation of competing standards. USB2 was a good continuation of that mission. Further revisions have brought improvements but lack the elegance of the first two revisions. The current status quo is a rat nest.

At a certain point, I couldn’t bear to continue reading all of the details, because it all started to read as a brilliant satire. In that moment, I felt it simultaneously showed both total respect and disdain for simplicity and elegance in engineering.

I started reading this to bring myself up to speed on these matter, but I now find myself wanting to avoid all of these peripherals entirely. My confidence about predicting interoperability has diminished tremendously, not just here but with computing in general over the past decades. I suppose this is what leads people to “retro” computing.
On another note, it’s nice to see ETHBTC ratio going up
Similar style of argument that was used for piracy back in the day. It's just copying bytes.
It all depends on how you define self made. Traditionally, defining someone as self made means they didn't inherit their fortune. This is how Forbes does it for instance.

Today there seems to be a trend of saying that simply if you were born in a society, you're not self made, because after all, you didn't pave your own roads! This is just bizarre to me because everyone has access to roads and other basic functions of society.

If someone created a billion dollar fortune in their own lifetime, there's likely some unique and interesting character traits that they have.
Yea, sometimes if you engage in a behavior that creates negative externalities (like providing companies the ability to exploit others by bidding your rights to the floor) then we put limitations on your behavior. It is not a novel concept
All of them, unless your point is that Bitcoin was never accessible to anyone except tech people since the beginning. MtGox was originally an MTG card trading exchange. People also mined it on their crappy computer.

> Or do you mean the people who bought bitcoin early which was literally gambling that happened to pay off.

Life is a gamble.
That's gonna age great
Globalizing democracy means that increasingly , half of the population of the earth will be oppressed by the other half. At least the division of nations leaves people with the option to leave one democracy and go live in another that fits them better. We can't leave earth for something else yet. Global democracy controlled by global media is a bad outcome.
What I've started doing (and how I cover it in the book) is using the CDK to build and deploy the Lambda code. The `GoFunction`[0] construct handles building and deploying the code, so you don't have to set anything up manually.

Underneath it still happens by way of S3 & CloudFormation, but the CDK abstracts away a lot of the details, which makes it quite convenient to use.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-lambda-g...
Speaking from personal experience, it makes for an excellent Christmas present.
* Custodial Bitcoin loaning service reported losing (wrapped) Bitcoin when defi platform was compromised.

I don't remember a time they weren't compromised - https://rekt.news
It seems to me the subreddit has been appropriated somewhat by its users, rather than led by its moderators. I wouldn't expect anyone feels constrained by a "party line" of what's in the sidebar. I suspect many people using it on mobile (like me) haven't even seen those essays.
Shutting this thing down for now. Anyone speculating that this would devolve into a cesspit was totally right.
To the extent capitalist speculation on housing as an inflation hedge drives up the prices of assets workers store much of their wealth in, it benefits them a lot more than "not bothering to invest in anything at all, least of all job creation" being the rich's hedge against deflation

If it "makes sense to you" that the lack of Gold Standard is the real reason workers are poor, it probably helps to consider that workers were much poorer for the vast majority of human history with a Gold Standard...
The Scopes trial only settled things in the U.S.; presumably other nations and institutions needed at some point along the way to have their own equivalent. It's sad that New Zealand, normally regarded as a "developed nation" is nearly 100 years behind the U.S.
We’re on year 13 of a pump and dump?
Hi, I had a general question regarding intrinsics which you might be able to answer. `llvm.stacksave` and `llvm.stackrestore` are used for implementing VLAs in C (to my knowledge). Is it required to emit those for variable size allocas, or could you skip them? If skipping is possible, how is the case handled when the basic block does not post-dominate an exit block?
Technically the parsing itself and the grammar are the same, they don't depend on defined macros. Yes, defining a macro in an included file can make the resulting AST change, but the parsing algorithm doesn't really care about it.
This reads like a poor DHH impression.
Probably. And that may be beneficial to everyone. IMF aren't the good guys most of the time anyway.
> On a compute basis, blockchain networks don’t scale except by becoming the very same plutocratic and centralized systems they allegedly were designed to replace.

That sentence right there is when I stopped reading and realized the author doesn't understand the technology they are criticizing.

The word "plutocratic" is linked to the Wikipedia definition for Proof of Stake. PoS is not meant to increase scalability, its meant to increase efficiency and network decentralization and reduce the cost of running a validator. Switching to PoS on its own doesn't increase the ability of the network to handle more transactions or speed them up.
IIRC an eml is basically raw MIME data, so you need a MIME parser of some sort. The Python stdlib has one, for example. (Why can’t you then just push the CSV into Sheets using the Sheets API? Admittedly it’s supremely unpleasant, slow, and the client libraries are massive, but it does work.)
Lua is made to be embedded into another program and makes that easy, python is not. Python is for writing glue code, Lua is for writing code to be glued together.
Custom research-backed solutions to any business problem [algorithm]
And so has the absolute amount of living expenses? Absolute payout values don’t make sense when looking at growth patterns between two entities
The gold standard meant that QE style answers were not possible. It didn't cause the bubble or the crash, but it meant that there were stronger constraints on what the government could do in response.
I have a copy of this (not a first edition) and it's an amazing piece of art.
What work doesn’t involve some exploitation? Either natural or human?

If you’re someone who does fishing for a living, self-employed, is the haggler exploiting you are you exploiting them? Is the other boat exploiting you if they undersell you?

If you barter with someone who hunts deer who is exploiting whom?

Or does exploitation only come into focus when it’s private capital (as opposed to state capital)?
I mean, I remember back when people were outraged that they had to install steam. Relax and take the free stuff.
I wasn't referring to upgrades, I was referring to control of the existing, finite supply of Bitcoin.

In a Bitcoin-centered economy, a relatively small community of "whales" would have de-facto control of the supply, because the supply available for circulation would depend on what they decide to do with their holdings.
Per-capita wages are obviously the metric we’re talking about, and what matters when it comes to putting roofs over heads.
By that logic, there is no banning murder.
Or maybe you aren't as rational as you think you are and have a credulous attitude towards pseudo "scientific" reasoning than confirms your personal biases about race?

Who can say?
> All they really want is a program that will challenge their kids and surround them with an equally motivated peer group that has a goal of getting into a selective university.

You have part of that right. What most parents want is a magic piece of paper that says "Good for one admission to Prestigious University." The achievement of their child and whether it brings down other students is irrelevant to them. The credential is everything.

We see this with AP (Advanced Placement) programs. Parents will sue the district to get their child put into the AP class (who almost always also has an ADHD exemption for extra time on all tests due to "anxiety")--who is completely unequipped for the class and then doesn't succeed in the class and scores a 1 on the AP exam afterward. This is practically a tautology because if the parents were actually engaged in their child's education, the child would already be in the AP class by credential.

This, of course, brings down the children who do belong in the AP class. But the parents don't care because now their child is punching above their weight in terms of credential.

This is the standard "Something ceases to be a good metric once it becomes known to be a metric."
well, the conditions of the society you live in also 100% affect you. So contributing to things you think will improve this is just as logical.
Is Web3 bullshit? And is that even the right question?
Why are you putting "hacking" in quotes like it's inaccurate here?

What do you think the majority of hacking, as in what security professionals / malicious attackers do, entail? A small number of security vulnerabilities are low level or clever tricks, the majority are finding holes in people, processes, and systems that are blatantly obvious.
Sounds like the Re-birth of the "Expert System". Now with neural networks ;)

Learning from Artificial Intelligence’s Previous Awakenings: The History of Expert Systems

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2809
Framework laptop is not possible without the supply chain investments made by large conglomerates.
It was nonsensical in 1995 as well, and Gore’s key escrow bullshit cost him some votes. As you can guess I’m still salty about that.
It can move into stablecoins or the exchange's fiat accounts.

At the same time however you can't outright move a bunch of money off an exchange unless your account is rated for that. I don't particularly move a lot of value in cryptocurrency (I'm not remotely close to wealthy, just a SWE in an east coast, non-FAANG job) but I have a 250k USD daily withdraw limit on my exchange account.

At least on my main exchange, if you set up certain security restrictions(2FA, wallet quarantine periods, etc), do KYC, and have an active account for X duration in time, you get larger withdraw limits and access to higher trade volume tiers. It's all about how much risk you present to the exchange and the associated financial organisations. I represent a very low risk level (I'm very boring and generally risk adverse) so I get access to pretty high withdrawal and deposit volumes. I don't leverage them but if I wanted to I could.
Unless you think the price dipped because everyone was ignorant of that yesterday but all collectively realized it today, this comment isn't really timely or novel.
I don't think reductio ad absurdum is normally considered a logical fallacy? Maybe it's more like the fallacy of composition.
I once showed a colleague of mine how easy it is to compile brainfuck to C. He said that compiling to assembly was better and it would be easy to implement optimizations. I told him he was underestimating GCC optimizations capabilities. He them implemented a brainfuck compiler to x86 asm and optimized any sequence of repeating ops and the zero cell ([-]) sequence. Turned out that "gcc -O2" was still significantly faster.
I don't feel like you can treat aging as simply a sum of its parts.

Sure, there are some major causes of age related deaths like heart disease that we can work on and potentially expand average lifespan by a few years. However, the core problem of aging is probably best thought of as a disease in and of itself, where the things that actually kill you are symptoms.

We need to make progress on the underlying mechanism that makes us more brittle over time.
WSPR is completely independent of Inmarsat, and also of any other satellite or any navigation system. It uses signals exchanged between radio amateurs, and its intended purpose is to probe the changing radio propagation parameters of the atmosphere, globally. If Godfrey's method is effective, it provides an independent estimate of an airplane's position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software)
I agree that "If Norway can, surely Germany and Spain can", however the population centers in Norway are relatively temperate (for Norway!) and relatively close together. I was quite surprised at how small and slow even major roads were.
If, say, India makes the apps illegal, some people will find them anyway, but they won't be as popular. (And they won't run on an iPhone.) This will give other kinds of financial apps and investments an advantage.

This all depends on how motivated people are and how readily they will switch to alternatives.
The Ethereum beacon chain is one year old
Well ok but that is an external dependency irrelevant of language. Might as well use etcd also.
The paragraph containing this:

Scientific equipment can indeed be beautiful, and often is. Take, for instance, chemical retorts, prisms, microscopes and complicated structures built in laboratories. Museums house beautifully crafted scientific instruments and equipment from the past because we can appreciate their aesthetic features.

reminds me of my visit to Lick Observatory's refracting telescope. It's a 14-ton beast in a giant room that looks like almost every science fiction movie ever made [1].

But what stuck with me as much as that was the table with scientific equipment in the middle of the room. This was not some sissy plastic digital boxes! Oh no, this was really he-man stuff, with heavy metal frames, great big knobs, and analog dials. It was awesome.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkskyphotography/the-...
"The goal is to achieve ignition – a point at which the energy generated by the fusion process exceeds the total energy input.

The experiment, conducted on 8 August, fell just short of that mark"
Crypto is a monetary game, and bitcoin is an original game piece. You have to at least give it some weird collectible value
Alphabet is more like a holding company which Google was put under, right? Google kept its name and its trademark. Compare https://about.google/ with https://about.facebook.com/ . The first is all about Google not Alphabet, while the second is about Meta and Facebook is not mentioned aside from the URL address*.

Besides, I didn't see any good acronym with only A and M...

Edit: I earlier didn't notice the Facebook name and logo turning dynamically into the Meta name and logo, but that doesn't actually make the argument weaker.
Tyler1 was always a little bit of a nutcase. The only difference is now he's a rich one.
Good, someone finally put it into words.

It’s only crypto-bros who are trying to push “web3” as even a “thing”. Kind of like Zuckerberg and the metaverse. Their delusions of grandeur are so great as to warrant an increment in the web’s metaphorical major version number, but nobody else gives a shit.
Fools eventually will no longer be created at a rate sufficient enough to sustain current prices.
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Perhaps because it generated less energy (1.3 MJ) than was directed at it (1.9 MJ). The team calculated that the fuel capsule generated more energy than it absorbed, but the overall reactor did not generate net energy.
This is exactly the use case BrainTool[0] was built for. From its Bookmarker you can set a TODO and/or add a note as you close a tab and save it into the Topic Manager. Everything is saved to a private personal plain text file. I'm actively soliciting feedback so do please check it out!

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> I haven’t eaten at a restaurant, and COVID closed many, is it really essential?

Did you really just say that we should shut down all restaurants? I’m assuming not so it would be nice if you could explain more.
I really like the author’s writing style, so much so I just subscribed to their sub stack feed.

I agree with the author that the future is unclear. I think it possible that the current tech megacorps might suffer a decline but if I was betting money I am not sure what fair odds would be. Tossing my own prophecy into the discussion: I think that we will see a combination of smaller distributed decentralized tech and businesses, but some of the giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. will continue to do well as long as they keep enough customers happy.
If you're clever enough to abuse thermal printers, you can probably also apply that ingenuity to solving problems for profit. In this regard, perhaps the anti-work ideology is limiting. I understand and appreciate that some will find themselves in a rebellious phase. However, the narrow focus on "what is" ignores "what is possible".

Technology has created multifold opportunities for value creation. There are even fields where the same adversarial urges can be applied. Development and publishing is wide open for creators. Even after all of the big players and platforms, there's still open realestate for solo builders.

If you find work tedious, then become clever. Create something which will earn an income on the terms you define and find acceptable. When you fail, look inward and decide what you can do differently next time. Don't blame others. You can't change them. You'll only make yourself a powerless victim. Retain your individual agency and keep going. Learn and advance past your challenges.

1) Identify the problem correctly. It isn't work. It is tedious, unfulfilling work.

2) Create your solution

3) Profit!
Hmm must be the last (leave it to Harvard to persist in the persist in the pretence I guess) but fwiw this is the entirety of the task:

>Students may request to substitute the Italian language exam if it is relevant to their area of mathematics

Which is far far short of "learn a language". But these requirements were always like this (a pretentious formality completely insignificant in comparison to the actual research and course work).
You’ll find more of the independent moving parts thing in larger orgs that Katamari Damacy like Cisco.

But Coase’s Nature of the Firm postulates that a reason for a firm is to reduce transaction costs. Running as a planned economy inside is intentional.

Since Twitter is large, you’ll see that they’re counteracting this with the GM structure. Smart imho.
At what point does that stop being a logical fallacy? We’re on year 13, is it year 30? 50? If there’s no end date then this can be said about everything and is therefore not a fallacy.
Being from a country with a national health service, I can appreciate why they'd want one. It is a reasonable thing to ask.
I thought pirates were people who violently boarded ships, killed, ransomed and/or sold those on board and stole the ship and its contents.
This point is meant to be more about the futility of making Bitcoin illegal because it's just math and code. Similar to how strong encryption was an "illegal munitions export" from the USA in the 90s.

In a world where CNC machines were in every house, the same thing would apply re: gun control. People could just make their own guns.

I'm not saying it's a super effective point, but just making sure you get the framing.
I’m pointing and laughing. Why would I or anyone panic about a subreddit of lazy people who aren’t adept enough to find another job or don’t want to work?
In your first paragraph, I think your example is actually along the lines of what Anti-Work would support.

The independent people who are self-employed are already doing what they enjoy and their enjoyment results in other people getting their hair done. Doing hair for play, as opposed to doing it for a profit. The will of the person doing the hair is within their own agency and an expression of what they want to be doing and is self-fulfilling.

So you can style hair, and be self-fulfilled in doing it. You can take a scholarly approach and make better techniques for doing hair, create solutions to problems with hair, and you can share these things with others, and improve the society-level understanding of styling hair.

Take someone else who really needs to have an apartment to live in, and food on the table, and this is what they are trying to solve. They have a hair salon close by and they go get a job there, they trade their time and collect a wage to pay for the apartment. They are styling hair now to meet their basic needs, not as the fulfillment of their own self. This, I think, is the problem Anti-Work is pointing out.

That what you spend the majority of your life on, ought to be something which is an expression of yourself and a manifestation of your will, rather than an expression of someone else's business interest and a manifestation of your boss's will through you.

> That only works if everyone knows who that "one in ten thousand" person is, and does everything that they can to support that person, so that they don't have to spend all of their time doing the things that we would have to do individually

I suppose the counter idea here is that if everyone is fulfilling their own personal will and is within their own agency, the will of society itself will align to take care of everyone. It isn't that 1 in 10,000 people is special and should be given all of this extra support to do something that becomes massively beneficial, it's that if all needs are met, tens of thousands of people are now working on what they are interested in, rather than fulfilling other people's will, and you have far more of those 1-10,000 people actually doing massively beneficial things to improve society even further.
Yeah, but those getting the test usually have a good reason and are willing to pay for it

From the article you linked:

> The tests were carried out in cases where there was doubt about the identity of the child’s father. They were done for personal information reasons, rather than for legal purposes. The tests cost from £95.
This recent Anti work movement tends to apply to positions where negotiation isn’t on the table. Those skills aren’t going to help there. Even though wages in the US commonly popped up to 15/hr, it’s still set in stone at or around that rate, maybe some flux depending on experience. There just isn’t anything to negotiate around because these positions will often be a straight contribution of time and labor. You probably can’t offer twice the strength and speed of an average worker (definitely not 10x), so what are you negotiating with? The best thing those skills teach for these positions is to highlight that reality.
Good electric cars are not slow any more than good ICE cars are slow. If you don't think EVs can handle 120kph perhaps you should visit California. I quite regularly hold 140kph, it's simply not an issue.

By the way, where are you going 120kph? I think I averaged 80kph between Bergen and Oslo. I was shocked at how slow typical road speeds are in Norway.