skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 20 (c1997) I took this job, it had a FileMaker database for tracking tickets. And then my team mates all had to review that system to manually fill out a Word document with hours.

So I made a little code to pull from FM and put into Word. So we could fill these forms, required for payroll, in minutes rather than hours (not a joke). And my team mates loved it. And then our lead claimed it as his own work, presented his accomplishment to the next boss up, bonus, congratulated and promoted. (Fuck you Ed)

Most folk only got they own back.

It had no impact on my career path and I'm still making stuff GPL and BSD and MIT.
But maybe the signal is even better in the subpopulation
Classifying drugs is, itself, a problem. For example, fentanyl is used in medical settings. The US has pushed an international categorizations of "no medical use" which paradoxically has prevented research into drugs that would find medical uses (research with a hypothesis that "drugs are bad," however, was allowed). We're finally seeing research into positive effects of what were once seen as recreational drugs. And that's why I dislike OC's statement about not using drugs -- it's playing to the propagandized distinction that drugs are evil (but coffee, nicotine, alcohol, thorazine and gabapentin are all fine)
although this is funny, there are some important points in this article to keep in mind.
> is there anything inherent to NFTs that they need to be on a decentralized blockchain?

Technically you absolutely can run a centralized blockchain and mint NFTs on it (EVE Online did this recently in their latest Alliance Tournament, where IIRC the corpses of player characters who were killed during the event became immortalized as NFTs on an isolated branch of Tezos that was created for the event). But at that point congratulations, you've just made a worse database. The only point of blockchain tech is decentralization (if you care about features and not just branding your product with the latest hype).
Rust also relies on best practices. It is best practice not to use `unsafe` blocks unless absolutely needed. That does not mean Rust is an unsafe language.
That date is probably part of the story. The page first appeared on the WayBackMachine in 2007. I imagine it was written then.
No, it is just a set of standardized functions. A class. Can be in any language, any platform.
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We can have url rot on both centralized and decentralized systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
Pedantically, basing your stance purely on being tired of being told what to do _isn’t_ an intelligent strategy. Not saying that’s your entire stance, but emotional contrarianism is not a good reason to update your priors.
I find it interesting you see Apple a national asset needing special scrutiny.

It might as well be true, but then you should also expect other countries to start dealing with Apple as a part of the US gov. and not a purely private party.
If not many people use it, there will be much less incentive to shill
I've found switching to the web version of social apps to be better anyway. Stops me visiting them as frequently if nothing else. I'm actively deciding to visit now rather than mindlessly opening the apps in order

Feelin kinda smug right now
I watch This Week in Virology occasionally. A discussion among virology professors. Vincent Racaniello who kind of seems to run TWiV has been skeptical about boosters. His argument is that they're not needed (unless you got the J&J) because your first 2 vaccinations will protect you from serious illness. You might something akin to a nasty cold but you'll be protected from hospitalization or worse. His argument is also that we need to get the rest of the world fully vaccinated before we start looking at boosters here in the US.

Also, Pfizer is only looking at antibody responses here, not T-Cell & memory B cell responses and other parts of the immune system that were primed by vaccination.
It hinders the product. By controlling the ledger and being able to make changes, user submitted products are possible. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to respond to DMCA in the case of accidentally accepting copyrighted material
an NFT plan can make sense for the issuer and the consumer

this one only makes sense for the issuer

consumers want one that makes sense for consumers

obviously there is an audience that doesn’t want any NFT plan to exist at all, that audience matters the least
The whole point of engineering is to engineer yourself out of your current job? What? I think I must be misunderstanding you. Are people who engineer planes supposed to be engineering spacecraft or consider themselves failures or something? I'm confused.
Awareness with surveillance is important. Leaded gasoline (TEL), lead pipes, and leaded paint were a problem for IQ before the 1980's that most Americans view as "solved" today.

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth

Here's what the CDC recommends:

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/sources.htm
You appear to be assuming that the entire team of people at twitter who work on these problems either haven't considered or aren't able to address these issues. While there often are challenges with moderation and rules enforcement, this kind of stuff is pretty easy to address.
The recent Virginia gubernatorial race seemed focused on that issue.
I've bought multiple products in a category on Amazon, from different Chinese brands, using separate resellers, and received items that were identical aside from the labels even when the product descriptions and price points were wildly different. It's like AliExpress without the low prices.
Blind faith in so-called science is the religion of this age.

Pfizer's history (and J&J...and every pharma company) is shocking. It seems like a couple of years ago I heard about the evils of "Big Pharma" constantly.
> Uhh what? Isn't it's largest ...

the premise for my reply was security not market share.
just because something is popular does not imply a good security posture. In fact most popular things are dumpster fires from an infosec perspective.

what I'm saying is: familiarity with Ubuntu desktop translates easily into let's install this on a server.

All of AppSec in Linux is hard. SELinux/AppArmor/firejail/systemd-hardening especially cost effort.

if you think snap/flatpack are better go for it - for me they are a major reason to stay away from Ubuntu in production. But I'm not the boss of you.
Why do you consider it unproductive? I think the perspective provided is very reasonable - if something did not work once, maybe you shouldn't stop doing it forever.

What do you think would be a productive response to this complaint?
Can someone tell if this would be a good personal/societal strategy: once you had covid, or fully vaxxed, it’s much better to be among other people, to be exposed to the virus and continuously train your immune system.
I just put in a countertop RO system. It's likely too late for me, but if I have kids I'll do my best to keep them from having dementia.
Announcement here: https://github.blog/2021-12-08-improving-github-code-search/
No one cares at youtube whether people can or cannot make an extension that brings back the dislike count. If there is a way to do it, it might be intentional for guys like you to stay on the platform.
Covid is endemic and will be with us forever. The terror threat indicator on news networks lasted many years and I suspect the attention to covid will follow a similar attention cycle unless something else major happens and dominates the news cycle. You'll need biannual boosters until then
Im not blaming anyone, I am identifying a root cause. Any durable changes in population behavior will individuals to take primary responsibility for their social media consumption.

Like obesity, no amount of health warnings, sugar taxes, ect on products will solve the obesity epidemic if more individuals don't assume agency for what they put in their body and the bodies of their children.
We had the same thing in software and in media content.
"Just reacting" is questioning Twitter's motives to suspend an account for reporting court proceedings of the most scandalous case in recent US history which entangles everyone on the top political echelons, wall street, hollywood, academia and big tech. Sure go ahead supress the discussion here too.
Wow that's a next level shitty.

Holy shit.

I would not want you and your philosophy around me at all.
The crux of the article is that the NFTs are on a blockchain, but that Ubisoft has published some legalese:

> For a supposedly decentralized and "open" technology, Ubisoft places a lot of restrictions on who can own and use Digits. Quartz users have to be 18 years old, reside in one of a handful of countries ("USA, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Australia, or Brazil" for now), and use two-factor authentication on their Ubisoft Connect accounts.

> Quartz owners also have to reach "XP Level 5" in Ghost Recon Breakpoint before they can collect or use the NFTs, a system seemingly designed to discourage pure speculators and to ensure "the Ubisoft Quartz platform is made for players, and for players only," the company says. That XP level status is confirmed by linking Quartz to your Ubisoft account, which is, of course, centrally controlled and subject to its own terms of use above and beyond the detailed Quartz terms of use.

To me, that's kind of a minor point. Just because some lawyers made them put a bunch of tiny font writing in their EULA doesn't really mean much at all. If it's possible for a player to control their private keys (which it is if there's any ability to transfer NFTs to a wallet outside of the game), then these restrictions are meaningless. If this is the case, players will be able to transfer their owned items to other games (which support them), even games not produced by Ubisoft.

That's what would be really interesting to look into, not just some 15 minute dunk piece from some writer skimming a EULA.
I find that I am able to make the engine run more smoothly when my colleagues and I trust each other and can amicably discuss problems that come up.
Some “true believers” in space settlement are starting to make it happen
I don't want to minimize the impact from cognito and r53, but that's quite a different scale of failure than the OP implies. It's been a while since I used AWS, but we had multiple regions and saw no impact to our services in other regions the one time that us-east-1 had a major failure. And we used r53.
The obvious solution to this problem is to do actual random sampling: pick members of the public in as close to a random fashion as possible, test them for Covid regardless of vaccination status or symptoms, and you should be able to get a reasonably unbiased estimate of actual infection levels in the community. The UK has been doing this since about spring 2020, but weirdly no-one else seems to even though it's obviously useful.
They could always block stuff they don't want from actually doing anything in the games and not host it, which would resolve that problem. (similar to how with IPFS public gateways often have blocklists of content they won't deliver, even if it is available in the IPFS network)
Are there NFT plans that make sense?

The tax fraud schemes make sense for now. Party A makes 10 NFTs and sells 1 to Party B for $10,000. Party B makes 10 NFTs and sells 1 to Party A for $10,000.

They both then donate their remaining NFTs to a charity and take a $90,000 tax write-off each.

Will work until the IRS is able to hire the additional 80,000 enforcement agents they’ve asked for.
I’m sorry, maybe it’s just my experience at work where I have to use it, but I really honestly hate these bash emulations on windows. Like, I honestly don’t get the point. It will die with the stupidest errors due to mismatches between the underlying abstractions, it is slow and not even its terminal emulation is on point.
I wish there was some mechanism the EuroNCAP together with the EU could use to make SUVs semi-banned. I’ve heard so many people who buy those kinds of cars say “well at least if I get into a crash I will be okay since I have the bigger car”, which is a disgusting attitude since it implies that they expect the other car to be smaller and are okay with hurting that other person as long as they have an X% more chance to get through it with minor injuries only.
It's more of latter. We want to trace the whole SDLC lifecycle from story creation to production, with development lifecycle being one part of the funnel.
Right now tools exist for each part of the lifecycle but the visibility and context drop significantly when we cross team and tool lines.

We are building integrations both up and downstream of development to give you a complete picture and let you identify and solve blockers as we feel that each function affects development lifecycle and looking it as a blackbox might just create local optimizations rather than driving a system level efficiency
> "Ford is contributing to car accidents and monetizing the safety hardware"

Or (and I can predict the reaction to this, but it's a thought-provoking analogy): pharma companies coming up with treatments that aren't strong/cheap/scalable enough to eradicate a disease, so the virus evolves to become immune, requiring governments to keep buying more doses.
From the TV show 24:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0502186/
I actually use a slightly modified unifont exclusively on a linux system, deleted all other fonts, disabled browser font downloading, and use firefox to get proper rendering. If you use a tiling wm, without borders or spaces between windows, then three windows of 80 columns of 8x16 font works.
Alternate opinion: I kind of liked the animation, but I can understand removing it, too.
> Lots of things are 3-5 years old

That's ancient!! I need tools that are 2 weeks old tops.
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You can start with the C64 definition as a base and rewrite it expanding it (e.g. instead of 40x25 cells, 320x200 pixels on 1000 bytes pointing to 8x8 sized chars, you could provide a similarly working mode but 120x64 cells, 1920x1024 pixels on 7680 bytes pointing to 16x16 sized multicolor chars). Have four SID instead of one, 64 sprites, use a large number of switchable 64Kb regions as modules (and/or a huge disk in physical RAM) etc. You can just take inspiration from the original and see how the traditional ideas could be adapted for current hardware.
We are writing software!

It's our fucking job to optimize the world around us.

How do you think can we, as a society, advance while doing bullshit jobs?

Make me obsolete!
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So...local politicians, in a market where Apple was making money hand-over-fist, were feeling kinda used. By a huge foreign corporation. And the they started getting sticky on all sorts of regulatory things that Apple needed. Until Apple's CEO promised to do a bunch of "local investing" in their country.

How different is this from the 1980's in the U.S., when Japanese auto makers decided that they needed to start building cars in America, and otherwise placating American politicians and voters with big piles of money?
The elephant in the room here is the GDPR. None of this is compliant (has never been) and yet is allowed to continue out in the open despite the regulation going into effect almost 4 years ago now.

In fact, an argument could be made that Apple is complicit. Apple has a history of removing/rejecting apps that are used for illegal activities such as copyright infringement or even just breaking some company's ToS. Yet, they do nothing for apps that brazenly breach the GDPR.
But if you knew the tank model a computed offset would negate that...
Don't forget to vaccinate the wild deer and other animals that catch and spread COVID.
>It feels to me like NFTs are one of those things that sounds really good in concept and seems so sensical and appealing from people in the "business" but looking at it form the outside it seems like just complete nonsenese.

I would have almost said the opposite (for certain use cases).

From a totally rationalist point of view (which many tech people like to think they have), artificial scarcity of digital artifacts--especially those related to fashion--seems like nonsense. However, if you concede that there is a such a thing as fashion, collectibles, etc., why wouldn't it extend to an online environment?

IMO, it breaks down once you aren't owning a digital thing and it just becomes effectively an online receipt for something you don't actually own. But in a game/online world environment it makes as much sense as a lot of unique collectibles. What is also true though is to the degree those collectibles exist within one company's playground, there's no need for decentralized ledgers.
>Your comment was about three brothers where the third was complaining that he was working too much and that the first was working too little.

To demonstrate the progressive tax system. Completely valid to the real world.

>All the examples you listed don't have anything to do with your thought experiment. I hope you didn't interpret my comment as normative or as the right would say "market intervention" I was merely describing one way that the three brothers could get along.

That's just not practical. People choose to work 20 hour weeks for various reason, people choose to work more than 40 hour weeks for various reasons. You cant form society into everyone working exactly the same hours. It probably would be a great thing if we could. Allow productive people who work 60 hour weeks to do something different and do more.

However, the reality is that we discover income inequality is just a fact because of individual choices. Trying to 'fix' this using a progressive tax system in fact only makes it worse.

>I find your comment quite amusing.

How do you mean?
> I ran into one recently...setting the metric value for an ip interface (not a route, an interface). Powershell has that, C# does not, in any way that I can find.

It can be done in C# via WMI (System.Management), but that's a strange old world if you're not used to it. But it's more convenient in Powershell because MS provide modules such as NetTCPIP so you don't need to touch WMI directly.
Of course they are.

If you don't want to be tracked by Facebook, stop running their code on your device.

Apple provides you with the app privacy labels in the App Store. Read them and use them.
I meant supplanted but I can see why the distinction may matter. I meant that today people may blame the Internet but at sometime later the Internet is no longer a concern because we've found some other boogeyman to blame. I believe the ancient Greeks, with their strong oral traditions, felt that written history would erode society. Not many people are lamenting the downsides of books today.

>was the cause really "internet addiction?"

According to the study, it would appear so.

"They reported developing a preoccupation with being on-line again which they
compared to "cravings" that smokers feel when they have gone a length of time without a cigarette."

Although the authors do acknowledge possible sampling bias.
Two key reasons why Pruneyard is inapposite:

1) Everyone agreed that there was no chance of the presence of petitioners implied that they were endorsed by the shopping center. This is key: Pruneyard's speech isn't being impacted, so such a law isn't infringing Pruneyard's rights. This does NOT hold true for social media--the reputation of even the largest social media sites is driven by the content posted on them, which means any restrictions on sites' ability to regulate their own posted content necessarily infringes those sites' rights.

2) The California state constitution has a stronger guarantee than the US constitution, and the right of the protestors to set up a table was only granted by the former and not the latter. But this is only permissible so long as it doesn't infringe the US constitutional rights, which, see the first point.
This week I had the opportunity of revisiting C++. I had not used it in a project in nearly twenty years and I found modern C++ an absolute joy to use. Of course it is still blazingly fast. But now I could build a complete app with no explicit memory management at all. Lamdas are a joy to use and integrate cleanly with STL and boost. Compiler error message are now much much better. Cross platform compatibility was awesome. The same program compiled cleanly with VC++ clang on MacOS and GCC on Linux cleanly. Finally there is a ton of documentation on every weird nuance of the language just a web search away. Both CPP reference and MSDN are just amazing. Overall I’m really happy with how much progress the language and tools have made.
This is just inane. There's nothing in this piece, or in anything from the previous decade, that suggests Microsoft is intentionally putting people at risk. The only thing I can think about is potential dealings with the NSA, but you could say as much of any large American tech company.

The fact is that Microsoft has continuously improved its process for the past fifteen years while being the most exposed company in IT.

Backwards compatibility, including keeping arcane and dangerous features, is the killer product of Microsoft and companies value it enough to accept increased risk exposure. That's all there is to it.

>The design of Active Directory, Office macros, PowerShell, and other tools has enabled successive generations of threat actors to compromise entire environments undetected.

And SSH and Bash contribute to arbitrary remote code execution !
As usual, bad reporting.

"‘We’re losing IQ points’: the lead poisoning crisis unfolding among US children"

no mention in the article how many IQ points. based on my research, it's not that much.
The target architectures of the rust compiler are very limited compared to GCC.

So if you port some core functionality of the kernel to rust, that would make rust a hard dependency for the whole kernel.
>you can avoid heap allocations but that would be unidiomatic

AFAIK until recently (with the introduction of the Span<T> types), the only way to avoid heap allocations for arrays or any other kind of collections in C# was with stackalloc, which is unsafe.
I’ve been iterating and abstracting a project layout tool into just the right thing for about a decade.

It’s like remix and all those frontend bootstrap wizards/tools, but it bootstraps projects in any language with my preferences.

It prompts me to ask if it should fetch my favorite deps (Requests for Python, or my own go CLI builder since Cobra is to bloated and complex for my needs) depending on the language I’m using for the project. I don’t always need them but I can get them in place fast.

IMO using everyone else’s tools is boring. I don’t see a blacksmith getting tongs from another blacksmith. I can’t hope to be an expert if I just import experts code. Seeing something like bash and being expected to believe that means anything when I can just write my own; those old guys made syntax art which actually just made “computing” hard. That was job security as much as anything.

Too many people don’t realize listening to others tell you not to do X is just giving them a monopoly.
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It sounds like a problem of poverty means old buildings were never decontaminated.