skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly I didn't explain my point very well. I'm responding specifically to the author's throwing shade on big tech's focus on profits. He mentions this five times:

* "It was all about one thing… MONEY!"

* "Why all the tracking? Well, again it comes down to one thing…money."

* "If you’re more likely to click, they make more money."

* "As with social media, it’s all about money."

* "Do you know why, dear reader? You guessed it…MONEY!"

To me, this just seems like a ridiculous thing to harp on when the author works for a massive financial institution. Is BoA's motivation not all about money? Why would you expect big tech companies, or big companies in any industry, to be any different?
Bitcoin is a new thing, new things can exist that didn't exist before, and just because any old terms don't fit it, doesn't stop it from being its own real separate thing.
Wow, the ending of this blog post felt like an incredible twist in a movie was just revealed.
I think maybe people with this condition over-idealize what it means to visualize something.

I think I'm very good at visualization. I can visualize things and recall visual scenes from my past but it doesn't look anywhere near as vivid or detailed as the real experience... Except when it comes to emotions; my emotions are heightened when visualizing things (especially memories from my past) - I'm pretty sure that I didn't feel as strongly back then as I feel recalling the memory (I suspect so because I rarely feel very strongly about anything in the present). Emotions help make the visualizations seem real in spite of the lack of detail. For me, even the appearance of an inanimate object or a movement has a distinct feeling associated with it.

My mind doesn't separate emotions and logic. When I react to things strongly (which is very rare), there is a logical reason behind it and I always know why I'm doing things and why I'm feeling a certain way. I'm immune to depression because I can always enumerate everything that makes me sad and when I resolve these issues, I always feel happy... Until new issues arise.

I never got into situations whereby I thought something would make me happy but it didn't or I started to take it for granted. If I think something will make me happy, it will make me happy 100%.

I usually run scenarios through in my head before I make any decision; I guess that's also a form of visualization. When I'm looking at the menu at a restaurant, I visualize myself eating each dish on the menu (and imagine the smell and flavor) in order to make a decision. Actually one of my siblings joked that they always try to choose the same dishes as me when we go to a restaurant together because it almost always turns out good.
It's not experience with Scala at all, but we all have different journeys. Should you ever find yourself using Scala again, I hope you make the same pleasant discoveries as I have.

Thanks for elaborating your point of view.
Caused by... Anthropological climate change due to CO2 dissolution into oceans' waters, so it's a subset of the larger issue, fix pumping CO2 into the atmosphere then tackling ocean acidification becomes more easily approachable.
It's not only this, but it's covid19, the policital situation, disrupting democracy by Qanon and fakenews, drug criminality that is a threat to the state, plus the usual mess that is political life. On top of that, or maybe on the bottom of it, my personal life is a mess in several ways, although I have a job, my own house, and I live in one of the best countries of the world (see my name).

There is too much happening at the moment, and I'm afraid this is just the beginning for this century. But there is only so much that I can do. I cannot stop arctic climate change. I cannot stop the GOP from destroying democracy in the US. I cannot stop drug criminality in my country. So often, I zap away, I just don't want to see it. I've paid to compensate for the gas use of my car, but I don't think that is a solution. My financial situation is not really good, so I cannot do much.

I'm addicted to my lifestyle, which is real average for where I live, but going lower would be a real challenge and make life a lot less attractive. I don't go 3x per year on holiday. The last time I flew was in 2013.

My coping strategy is mostly: ignore it.
You could have said the same thing about the ~2017 ICO bubble, which had a bunch of smart money VC involvement. As far as I can tell, the big VCs did just fine, because they liquidated enough of their tokens on the little guy before the market crashed.
I already see comments downplaying this issue. Take a moment to acknowledge the series of events: 1) multiple women felt harassment at at work, 2) they reported it to the company (which can be hard) 3) the issues did not get fixed.

I hear about this pattern across companies and industries. It's awful. Quit systematically downplaying it. It's real and needs fixing.
Spot on.

Easy to destroy a poorly constructed argument.

Those who could have a well constructed argument often choose to spend their explanation energy on those who are less skeptical.
Sure, you may be able to download an ISO or USB image and relatively easily install Linux today without worrying about what sound or graphics driver you need like you could with other OSes 20 years ago. But that doesn't mean the competition didn't move forward as well.

Today I can wipe the entire drive on my MacBook and re-install everything from scratch over the internet, without install media, directly from the firmware. When can I buy an off-the-shelf computer that can do this with Linux ?

After installing macOS I set up my account, enter my iCloud details and all my photo's just appear, I can send and receive text messages, phone and video calls. My clipboard syncs to my phone, and I use my phone to take a photo or scan a document and insert it directly into whatever document I was typing. I can start typing an e-mail on my phone, decide it's too long to type on the little on-screen keyboard and seamlessly move the task to my desktop. I can take a photo of some text on my phone, copy it as plain text, and then paste the text into anything on my desktop.

All of this with no setup required.

How much time will it take Linux to be able to do all of this ? And what else will it have to catch up to by then ?
Wow. I totally did not see this coming. Obviously, they have more money than they know what do with. And they don’t need any more of it.
I donate to Xerces, bat conservation and non-human-oriented charities. It’s the only thing I can do and unpopular nature charities are desperately in need.
For WebAssembly, use the TinyGo Go compiler:

https://tinygo.org/
> Are we fighting pollution or looking for emotional excuses to pollute?

No, we are looking for the most efficient way of cutting carbon emissions with the solutions available right now.

Sadly, electric planes are a lifetime away, still. But cars are not, neither are buses or trains, or even freighters it seems. Air travel makes for an insignificant chunk of the emissions, compared to any other mode of transportation.
If I’m spending thousands of dollars on these devices, I expect them to not screw up something like that.

It would not be the first time someone sends a device for RMA to be told it’s out of warranty because it has been tampered, when in reality it was a manufacturing mistake.
> But the math and incentives are there.

Can you elaborate on this?

The best critiques of blockchain tech, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi, etc. describe fatal flaws at the core of those technologies. For example, the lack of monetary policy and regulations, privacy and security shortcomings, and high transaction costs.

It'd be great to read a positive analysis of the core merits (the math and the incentives) and how those can be applied to solve problems.
They only lose out in the long term by doing this if you believe they can compete in the long term.

If you're an exec at Hex-rays and you believe that Ghidra will eventually out compete you, then it makes sense to squeeze every penny you can before you're irrelevant.
Site should be called NFTisgoinggreat.com
I do feel for the person. but the NFT pitch was a little much at the bottom. NFT's are horrible for the planet.
Ex-SpaceX Engineer Claims Elon Musk Is 'Sadistic,' Misogyny Is 'Rampant'
I'm not saying that the climate isn't going to change drastically, I'm saying that as long there isn't mass death, people will adapt, and most likely will continue to have a higher standard of living than people did for most of history.

And certainly the pace of change is very alarming, but millions of years ago, when the temperature was so high, I'm pretty sure the Earth was capable of supporting just as much or more biomass.

"People have never seen anything close to what we are facing in the near term, and absolutely nothing like what awaits for us in 100 years." I keep seeing people make this claim, assuming it is self-evident that this means apocalypse. It's true that this has never happened before, and that's the only thing that's set in stone. Humans possess tremendous ingenuity and flexibility. Like I keep saying, assuming everyone doesn't starve to death, people can adapt to anything else.
That's the first I've heard of eyeworms. Interesting!
I was only aware of a few households that owned a computer in the late 90s/early 00s. And only one had reliable dialup.

My closest friend got DSL in 2000-ish. But again, it was because his dad worked from home occasionally. No one else in my large extended family or friendgroup was online in any significant way.

Among my peers at school, I think most of them had heard of AIM by that point, but most didn't have screennames.

Personally, we couldn't afford a PC at that time.
Six Tesla workers file additional lawsuits alleging sexual harassment
there really can't be an "exponential" increase in the number of cases, whatever that means, given that there's a hard upper bound which is the number of hosts.
Haha this is excellent. Am gonna link this the next time someone shills their shitcoin and web3 BS.

But who am I kidding, theyre gonna call me uninformed and chase after the next upcoming scam to make quick buck.
Scrt.link vs. One-Time Secret
> Distributed systems where you own the data and there's no single point of failure.

That's too abstract, can you be more specific?

> I'm not an expert on the mining mechanics, I might be wrong but not due to the reasons you claim, transaction fees will approach zero as more people move into lightning and block reward will keep getting halved.

Transaction costs could go down but that doesn't change the incentives for the mining itself very much.
> There's no reason why anyone should get "involved in the space" before expressing their opinion.

I think this really depends on what you mean by involved in the space. Far too often, someone will start commenting on something based on nothing other than a 2nd hand understanding of the thing, and that commentary is often misleading or naive (or both) as a result.

I’d argue that expressing opinions prematurely is one of the fundamental problems with society today, and one that is amplified by tech.

And even thinking about this in terms of “good” and “bad” seems problematic, when it’s not inherently either, much like the majority of modern technology.

I’m not arguing against the creation of “here are some bad things about x” posts, but there is a subcategory that is not useful.
Their financial report appears to be quite opaque and closed, as opposed to the Linux project and community.
My mouse hovered over the downvote button given your language here, but I understand that web3 has become this insanely emotional issue, so here's a comment instead: for every moronic ponzi scheme in crypto, there's one community that will blow your mind with their creativity and spirit. They're out there. Just consider the possibility that not all of it is crap, and that parts of it will play a significant role in our future. Give it a chance and you might be very positively surprised about what you can find on it.
That's all true, and yet, and yet.

> and seeing your influence grow as you are trusted with more things.

That's the ideal scenario, that you earn the esteem and trust of your peers because the work you do speaks for itself.

The flipside with this is, this process takes time. It really takes years. Sometimes there will not be that time. You are a new hire brought in to do a high-impact thing; or a high-impact project crosses across the entire organization where suddenly all participants are relative stranger; or the team you worked in was of very low external visibility but a mentor recognized your potential and pulled you out to help recalibrate a different but malfunctioning team, etc...

Then titles are important. It is very unfortunate that we are very cynical of titles, because, in well-run organizations, they are meaningful, and in fact, should be meaningful. Imagine in the military if every officer had to prove themselves over and over again. It's unworkable.

At some point, larger organizations will need to grant leverage to a technical individual. A title helps with providing that.
Failing to acknowledge what the Congress was doing at the time makes it very difficult to believe that you're arguing in good faith. Every argument about labeling it in "insurrection" has to do with interrupting the counting of votes. If you cannot address that, then you've already lost the argument.
> 10+ mins, overpaying for the fees

This is what lightning will fix.

> If that is 'web3',

C'mon, don't argue in bad faith, Bitcoin is not web3 just like AJAX is not web2.0. Web3 can and should be built atop bitcoin lightning, but bitcoin can exist separately.
Exactly! Or on Windows 64-bit, where 'long' is 32-bit and 'size_t' is 'unsigned long long'.
People will pile in here and argue in all earnestness that stirring the pot and making an earnest, snarky, and (maybe) contentious point out in the open is not an effective manner of brushing up against the “discourse”. But they’re wrong.

In a world where data brokers can (and will) shake out your whoIS info for the right price which can cost you personally, I commend any effort to re-frame the conversation and “speak truth to power” as corny as that sounds.

This type of thing is an actual example of effective altruism. You’re not saving the snow leopard, sure, but it’s important to do what you can as much as possible.

Web 3 is a marketing grift aimed at high-minded idealism with one goal: to turn your lights off in the name of the next “new thing” because god forbid you don’t get in on the first floor.
We all know that money goes into CEO pocket
Linux on the desktop.
See also: Ann-benchmarks[0], Annoy[1], ScaNN[2]

[0]: http://ann-benchmarks.com
[1]: https://github.com/spotify/annoy
[2]: https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...
Google has lame boring marketing and is just not fashionable enough at this moment, just wait until Apple iGlass ProPrivacy™ appears on the market, lines at the Apple Store will be record long and owners will wear it with pride and sense of accomplishment/superiority.
One can't wipe his own ass these days without it being scientifically proven to exist by a study. The same studies that can't get no replication. And even if they do, aren't actionable at all. Decision paralysis as religion.

"Things are complicated" gets thrown against every opinion that people don't like. Not saying anything is wisdom. God forbid anybody has any opinion and may God strike him down if he ever supports anything but tabula rasa.

Things got done before studies existed, you know. People built models from intuition and tested them in practice. Or observed patterns. But that's the old wrong ways, right? We publish something on a piece of paper now and unless a committee publishes it and calls it a study it can't be true. And if they do it's true and will remain this way forever, right?
Like Pascal's Wager, but denominated in ETH.
As someone building in web3, I'll give an example. When I sold my first business, escrow.com wanted >$20K for the domain transfer from godaddy. If you sell a domain on ethereum (ENS), the escrow requires only a smart contract and fees scale with the network so like $50 right now. I'm working on connecting the two.

Intermediaries are a huge reason the web is the way it is. If we can eliminate them, the internet looks very different. My biggest prediction is that fundamental protocols like TLS will altered to integrate with blockchain protocols.

Web3 isn't just a scam or waste of resources. It will enable us to do things we already do but much cheaper than we do them now. Lots of smart people are flooding into the space. It will take at least a decade but it's already happening.
> I'm flabberghasted at the amount of hate this space is getting from parts of the dev community and in particular HN. Web3 has its fair share of issues, but there's community and energy in the space that I haven't seen online since the early days of the world wide web.

If you're familiar with the space, you have to at least admit that it's filled to the brim with grifters and people looking to acquire life-changing wealth for themselves by hyping things that they have a vested financial interest in.

There is a lot of energy in the space, but that's because it's just about the only thing web3 has going for it right now. The value of an asset has an exponential relationship with the hype around it, so everyone is working overtime to hype hype hype. Few people are interested in discussing what's underneath all of the hype, though, and instead allude to all of the vague future uses of the technology (which will allow everyone to flip their current investments for huge profits, or so the narrative goes).
Seriously? You are going to call the hyperbole in this thread "legitimate criticism"?

Sure, there are legitimate things to criticism Electron for, but it is not very helpful to dog-pile on every project that uses the framework _just for using it._

In this case you have a literal webapp that they also want to bundle as a desktop application. Turns out Electron is the most convenient way to do this.
Looks like they on the same path as academia. Which ceded to a parasitic administrative class eating all the resources with made up bullshit jobs for the overproduced elite.
> A few software markets have been completely dominated by FLOSS: system software, compilers, lexers, shells, kernels, codecs, programming languages, arduino-like tools...

While not discounting how good coreutils are, everything you've listed is basically a commodity at this point.

Companies who live higher in the stack swoop in and claim all of the value.
This would be like if one day you found “MicronSoft Word” installed on your computer, when you went to write a document.

Or your compiler started saying it was “Jawa 9”.

Maybe someone just typo’d the name in an update.
While technically correct, you and I both know what they meant by exponential. Sure, there's a limit, but if we're looking at function that is exponential until it reaches an inflection point where there's simply less hosts to infect than possible...
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt, I assume.
> but he had studied the machinery and memorized plans for it

Did he? There's no evidence for that.

To me, it sounds like a smart Harvard grad just figured out a few missing pieces required to get textile manufacturing going. Wasn't his first time doing industrial processes at scale either: he successfully ran a distillery before that.

It's also interesting to remember that it happened at a time England was in open war against the United States. It's not really the same right now with Chinese companies trying to get into the US market and vice versa. Both countries claim to be allied but there's a clear disregard for the laws of one particular country!

Maybe a better analogy to what Francis Lowell did would be operation paperclip. The US did steal technology from Germany at the end of the war [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
> Firstly, a marginally lower case fatality rate is a linear improvement, whereas much higher transmissibility is an exponential worsening.

No it's not, if delta infected say 1b humans and omicron infects 4b humans deaths can easily be offset by a lower fatality rate
Decentralized publishing platform aims to artificially constrain access to books
Open Source Sponsorship: Goals and Principles – The DevX Initiative
See, this is what I mean by a legitimate criticism. I agree that a new version of a critical tool like this should do a bit more than have tabs and sync.

"It is 250MB" alone isn't.
I think you misinterpreted that part. It's talking about how cults who believe in weird stuff grow, despite there being no real danger of ultrasonic humidifiers or whatever.
Oh I misread. That type of linking definitely feels doable. Images & styles are a whole other can of worms though
Having worked with countless museums the opportunity of a private viewing - especially with a knowledgable curator - is never to be passed up.
The BSD coreutils are inferior to the GNU ones, and using the GNU coreutils on Macs is a hassle.
I wonder if the biggest section, Project Support, is actually used to... well... finance projects that make Linux better. Most of the criticism I hear about Linux is definitely not about the Kernel, but about its ecosystem. Drivers, high quality utility programs, etc.

I agree with the fact that it should be explained, but I definitely do not think the conspirational/rational-right-wingism/omgwokes tone is so pertinent.
> That's too abstract, can you be more specific?

Depends on which technology you'll use, one of them is www.gun.eco

For the end user just imagine twitter but you can't get banned nor any comment deleted oh and they also cannot read your private messages.
The article mentions JAX many times and literally has a flow chart for RL and when to use JAX.
The topic is divisive because of human nature. People need to believe in the foundations of their life and the decisions they make, there are a lot of people who don’t want to see the change that crypto could bring and fundamentally no one knows if crypto will change the world but if it does it will change everyone’s lives.

I try to reduce the flames by just talking about the technical or logical aspects with these types of topics.

Personally I think education systems gear us up for difficulties later in life through competitiveness - the drive to win, come first, be right. We should be learning that it’s ok not to come first and sometimes everybody is wrong. We can be wrong on our opinion of crypto as well.
Problem is blockchain is a test to see if humans will set their own home on fire, while they're still living it, for the promise of a quick buck.

Promoted by people who think government is a terrible idea, an idea so terrible that literally every large group of people invented it.

Of course if I had mined some bitcoin when it was new, I'd be telling you how great it was to ensure my own profits
From build reliability engineer and mission integration engineer to... program manager?
Create-React-App v5 has been released
Do you have a link? I'd like to see it.

I googled and did not find much pertaining to "ant financial" and "postgres". Perhaps your google-fu is better than mine...
I like how you wrapped condescension and a humble brag in the same breath.

You invested in a company and profited by it. That's all that tells us. B can follow A, it doesn't follow that A caused B.

I see this in finance all the time. Traders perform so inconsistently at long timeframes, no better than chance, but think their training—domain knowledge—gives them systems knowledge. Systems are more than the sum of their parts or the individual actions of agents.

Boxing people into USDA grades like flesh is only ever constraining and I don't think the abstraction here collapses any uncertainty in exchange.