skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So then the ceiling of adoption for this entire ecosystem is Tor or BitTorrent at best. Far cry from the "next internet" it is being touted as.
For me the productivity can be super high in some weeks, but when my hip slow pain occurs(painful enough to make me feel listless) I can not do techie job as efficient as I want to be, sometimes it last for weeks, which is really bad, that really bugs me as it happens quite often these days. exercise might help but so far it did not help, Doctors do not know much either.
I don't think that's an argument against KYC and AML, personally.
I think you're using the wrong ones.
It's not. CDNs have proven better for use cases that aren't piracy.
> This has got to be trolling.

Considering the source, I don't find this likely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/;login:

(the colon needs to be the last character in the URL above, which this site's markdown parser truncates)
Simply hasn't been my experience at all, and I've worked with numerous Rails projects large and small since 2008. If you prefer Java/Go/Elixir, knock yourself out, but I'm throughly satisfied with Ruby-based solutions.
Hopefully the dev makes a new game for less hiveminded users.

NFTease is real, but they can provide some killer functionality.

The mistake they made was trying to announce and cash in on hype.
The show 'Calls' is one of the most innovative pieces of television I've seen in years.
Economists are universally in favor of things like carbon pricing, healthcare for all etc etc, don't be so quick to judge
It must be incredibly anxiety-inducing to have a camera in your own home that someone else could be looking through. And I thought the horror stories about at-home test proctoring were bad.
Disagree strongly. Just look at suburb housing prices in the Bay Area versus within SF itself.

People want to be close to cities, but if it means giving up a single family home they’ll gladly live in the suburbs.
The cumulative inflation will not be undone even if the inflation rate falls next year.
Any card details that are being stored in the merchant's database need to be tokenised. It applies to all entities who are retrieving card details from customers, irrespective of PCI/DSS compliance.
Yeah, I posted one elsewhere in the thread

> It also makes it easier for people to vote for trash parties like One Nation. In other countries people would think twice before voting for small, extremist parties like that lest they waste their vote if the party doesn't make it past the threshold for getting a seat. (this is just one of the many problems I see with the Australian system)
When we talk about inflation peaking at 7.1%, is that over the prior December? So, y/y or is this m/m?
I can't conduct the experiment anymore obviously, but to qualify my perceptions -- if you try to do a linear read from a 90% fragmented filesystem, performance would definitely suck and defragging would obviously provide perceptible benefit.

Most of the time however, my disk was probably only about 30% fragmented (if I recall correctly from Speed Disk). I was running DOS on a FAT file system where there was no swap file or anything that would cause massive fragmentation except deleting and installing programs, and maybe some temp files created by certain programs. The performance delta for me was barely noticeable on a 40MB Seagate IDE drive.
Well when the target platform only had 512KB ram, or 640K if they could afford it, and a 30MB drive cost $400, you had to squeeze every last bit out of your program.

Norton Utilities were slick. Slicker than any MSDOS tools, or even Apple Dos 3.0 or ProDOS (or ProntoDOS for that matter) utilities for that matter.
IPFS has ways of dealing with that. E.g. your node can backlist hashes.
Nothing so serious as a cup of coffee.
What’s the percent of population living in those condos? 99% of Americans don’t live there.
> make this API patcher a kernel module

You mean an unsigned one?
And then there’s the one where every single asset class is too expensive for workers - but official inflation is sub-2-percent
In a population that’s 97% vaccinated, who else is there but vaccinated people to get it? 3% that already had Covid or are medically exempt? Even if they were 3x as likely to get Covid that would still mean 90% of the cases were vaccinated. Other than vaccinated people are able to catch it at an unknown rate, not much can be said about the article except I thought it might have been talking about yahoo employees due to the weird title.
One of the piping macro packages + dataframes.jl works as well.
Credit cards are already a privacy catastrophe for anything where you have to pay money, but people will push back if you demand one for anything where you're not supposed to be paying anything because people are rightly wary of being charged when they ought not to be. Anyone who gives their credit card number for a "free trial" learns that the hard way and then becomes appropriately cynical.

A state-issued ID generally doesn't work over the internet, which is good. Some of them can be read electronically in person, which is already being abused to a limited extent and should be gotten rid of.

Which is the general response to your concern: "This is already a problem" means we need to go the other way and address that so that doesn't happen anymore, not intensify the problem and set it in concrete so it can never be fixed.

Centralized identity is a design flaw. Your bank needs to know if you're authorized to withdraw from your account, which is why you have a bank card. Your email provider needs to know if you're allowed to access your email account, which is why you have an email password. Your apartment building needs to know if you're authorized to enter, which is why you have an access card. What we don't need, and should not have, is a single primary key binding all of these things together so it can be correlated in a single database.
80% of dollar ever in circulation was printed in last 2 years.
Any alternative to dollar is incredibly valued. People are underestimating crypto. There are here to stay, including Bitcoin.
I don’t think multiplayer games are running a blockchain and they agree on shared state. Humans being humans tend to reject cheaters who manipulate the state in their favor. But you don’t need a blockchain for any of this, and in fact, it’s too slow to have shared state /in real time/.
Recurring payment for less than 5000Rs do not require a separate auth.
The bank has to notify the user by sending a message.

Recurring payment greater than 5000Rs requires a separate auth. (EMI's are not impacted by this)
How the Loft Generation Refused to Fit In
Without humans around does the environment matter at all?
Golden Rules of Engagement from Todays Most Succes
We asked 10 top marketing leaders for their #1 rule for customer engagement. This is what they shared.
For you maybe. I make specific effort to make it a rational exercise because my life has been better for it. You are not slave to your primitive monkey brain desires. And our post-modern world contains much that confuses it, some even maliciously engineered to parasitically manipulate you. Like this stupid article and its "I'm not going to tell you to get breast implants, but this data here clearly shows you should."
When I die, will my Dapps still run forever as long as people access them? User pays?

This is the only great use case I can think of.
fascinating read, and Raymond seems like an immensely productive person.
This is great...There was nothing worse than seeing the dreaded "B" symbol for bad blocks.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lxZyxxHOw3Y/maxresdefault.jpg
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov explores this very idea of what would happen if two parallel universes were to interact but had different laws of physics.
Its only a problem if the delta between adjacent bits grows too large. "Wear-leveling" is a type of auto-defrag that will shuffle data around intentionally to keep these deltas equivalent. "Program-erase" cycles (the lifetime of the gate oxide layer that you literally destroy) are an order of magnitude less worrisome, and the larger the drive the less this matters.
It is largely because of the power imbalance between capital and labor. Capital sets the prices of goods and also sets the price it pays for labor. The solution is strong and broad based labor unions, but capital has labor convinced that it is against their interest to organize. I hope this boils over and we start hanging capital from the street lights.
I’ve had coworkers like op almost in every team that I worked for and google was one of the only places where some folks like that got walked out so may not be the best advice ;)
First step for an individual who has given very little thought to bitcoin, sure. It's definitely one of the more legit, systemic criticisms of the system's ability to be self sustaining long term.

First step for this specific concern at all? Definitely not. It's been raised and debated for years.
I know people sometimes take Windows XP as a peak of Windows design, but damn, I always hated the "simplified" control panel view.

It was never what to do there.

Still better than the stupid dog when trying to search files.
I’m very interested in asking a question to you; what is intelligence? When deep blue beat a grandmaster it was just memory and algorithms. When GPT3 writes creatively from prompts and answers it’s just a transformer with a lot of parameters. When we use deep learning it’s just gradient descent. When we we have object recognition it’s just matrixes. When we use text prediction, it’s not intelligent, it’s just a markov chain.

The goalposts for intelligence keep changing. What exactly is intelligence?
In my experience, by the time the OOMKiller actually comes into play, the system has already stalled for minutes if not more. This especially applies to headless servers; good luck trying to SSH into a machine that keeps trying to launch a service configured to consume too much RAM.
On the other hand, avax had a negative balance bug a couple months ago that tanked the price

That's the risk you get when investing large sums into newer cryptos, one significant network problem to break trust and your investment is gone
> Where's your "YouTube"? Where's your killer app?

Where's the "Youtube" of the dark web? The famed red rooms don't even exist.

What's the "killer app" of the dark web? Doesn't even exist, unless maybe you count the drug markets. I'd hazard a guess that they're by far the most popular.

> Everything you've listed is just different ways to throw away cryptocurrency.

I literally gave as an example how you could use fiat-backed crypto to buy gold-backed crypto. These assets literally track their real-world equivalents. Or do you have an issue with modern banking and the stock market too, because it's "just different ways to throw away" fake fiat money?

> The average Joe is going to look at that list, chuckle, and go back to browsing Twitter on their iPhone.

Good. The average Joe has no business using Tor. Hell, the average Joe doesn't even care enough about privacy to stop using Facebook. The average Joe doesn't need a lot of things. Who cares what the average Joe wants or doesn't want, unless you're trying specifically to market a product to the average Joe?

Crypto exists for those who actually find a use for it. You seem either unable or unwilling to acknowledge this fact. Which is it?
Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, et al, are absolutely never going to put this sort of hopeware alternative root into their operating systems.
I think that's a very defeatist/nihilistic point of view. Since we're all going to die eventually anyway, we should aim to improve our standards as much as possible so we or our kids get to enjoy a better old age than what old people get right now. Our ancestors have gone through much worse to build the better world we enjoy today.
I think your comment means that the "will of the people" isn't why democracy is broken, but it's the extra-democratic processes involved in making legislation that is the problem. Do you have an example of some policy that is generally popular, but not passed because of corporate lobbying?

I think solutions to immigration/health care/climate change are generally contentious and don't have a popular consensus. Something smaller like a "simpler" tax code seems more convincing, where a small industry of tax preparation software or something lobbies to keep income taxes complicated. At the same time, many deductions are quite popular, and these are necessarily complications to the tax code. I'm just not entirely convinced that lobbying is hurting us in any meaningful way, though a stronger example or argumentation might change my mind.
The token is a random number, so depending on context it's fair to say that the token is not credit card information.
> Today, government sterilization clinics are chiefly aimed at women; just 0.5% of contraceptive use is male sterilization.

Male fragility leading to bad choices? Vasectomies are far cheaper and less invasive than tubectomies for women.

More on this, from an Indian source: https://theprint.in/health/male-sterilisations-simpler-but-t...
Amazon chose to get deep into bed with China. This is part and parcel of favoring the Chinese vendors that sell on your platform. Just be glad there haven't been any reports of toys painted with lead (yet).
You must have a different definition of most. Everyone I knew was always needing a new drive because the current one was full. Empty drive? What's that? The thing in the box. 30 seconds after turning it on, it was 80% full!
A good VPN would only cost another $10 or less each month, or you could set up a vps hosted in the US. A barebones Linode runs $5ish. Huggingface is definitely sufficient though, and if you're messing with local apis or tinkering, gpt-neo-125m can be run on cpu with under a gig of ram.
While I'm not really big on "Blockchain all the things!" this might be a poor analogy, considering just how many big multiplayer games use very intrusive, almost rootkit level anticheat software to, effectively, try and force all clients to behave and share state fairly...
What's that base64 string all about? A naive decode just produces what looks like binary gibberish
I do not know Drata, but an endpoint agent on a company machine is not that odd. Generally, they come from the big EDR companies, such as Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, etc. They would mostly run in the background and scan for malware, push out Group Policy changes, and yes, provide a backdoor to run scripts on your machine. Drata sounds a bit more like spyware though. Technically, EDR agents can do session captures (recording the screen, showing what was run on the computer over history, processes, network traffic). Generally, though its only utilized for incident response and not tracking a contractors time, making sure they are working, etc. Although I must admit, theoretically there is nothing preventing that, although its at a more technical level then most management would know how to decipher.
I second the recommendations above. Only agree to install it on a company machine, same for any agent or company AV, etc. If they wont provide it then its a no go on any personal hardware of yours.
UFS is fragmentation resistant by virtue of its allocation algorithms. It still get fragmented under certain patterns or if free space gets low. I'm not sure if FreeBSD did any online defragmentation back then, maybe it does now with softupdates? I know Linux never did only deframentation with ext2/3 (despite being inspired by UFS), although it did have an offline e2defrag tool.

But yes these designs generally seemed to be much better than FAT under DOS or Windows at avoiding excessive fragmentation.
The guy has absolutely no idea what he's writing about. He lost me at:

money issued by central banks, fiat money, acts as a ‘store of value’ – it preserves the spending power of income and wealth, so that you can be confident that a pound, say, will buy about as much in a year’s time as it would today.
> Good luck raiding every single Ethereum node

I’m just waiting for the day when governments decide that all this crypto is hurting the environment more than necessary for no real gain and forces ISPs to block this traffic. Similar to how many ISPs block serving DNS or SMTP from residential IPs.
Cryptocurrencies can default as well, when a glaring vulnerability is discovered and the blockchain forked. It's happened before and it'll happen again.
You should learn a bit about adult ADHD and see if it sounds like you, and perhaps get a psychiatrist to see if you match an ADHD diagnosis. It changed my life to find out I was ADHD, and what you said has some correlation.
Can you make a PR to https://github.com/oscardssmith/db-benchmark? I don't know DuckDB, so I don't know what the change would be.
The reason the allies won this battle might include bravery, but the obvious reason is the dramatic increase of man and equipment. I don't think that one or the other side was braver or smarter. I'm sure most axis, as well as allied soldiers thought they fight for the right thing.

A brief timeline:

16 December:

Allies:
228,741 men
483 tanks

Axis:
406,342 men
557 tanks

24 December:

Allies:
c. 541,000 men
1,616 tanks

Axis:
c. 449,000 men
423 tanks

2 January:

Allies:
c. 705,000 men
2,409 tanks

Axis:
c. 401,000 men
287 tanks

16 January:

Allies:
700,520 men
2,428 tanks

Axis:
383,016 men
216 tanks

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge

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What was component X? Was it a buggy rollout?
I'm approximately a millionaire in my late 20s and have only really built 1 little thing since 2017...

Might it catch up to me this year? Perhaps, but that's when I will go get an unrelated masters and change to my "retirement career"
That site is like one big meme.
The key term there is "a year's time".

That's generally true for most fiat money in stable countries, but it becomes an absolutely terrible store of value for anything longer than a few years.
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Flatland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Very much not true.

I'm a manager at an F50 company and we have no monitoring tools out side of normal security scans of outgoing e-mail content and such. I couldn't even get stats on employees hours at their laptops if I wanted to.

I watch what is produced, if it is good and constant there isn't a problem.

Yes, there are many options for companies to do this but for most it is not worth the investment in time/money/maintenance to let you catch a low performer potentially a bit earlier than just using their output as your yardstick.
Probably ten years ago my Dad invited me to a dinner with a bunch of his friends. I had just seen a movie days before on the Battle of the Bulge. One of his younger friends was a high school history teacher. So I started chatting with him about the movie.

Out of the blue one of my dad's friends says real quietly I was there. Now I had known this guy for over forty years at this time and never knew he was even in the war. I ask if he could tell us a little bit about his experience. He said I've never talked about it, never even told my late wife. I don't know if it was the beer that flowed freely that night or what but he started a stream of consciousness about that battle.

He talked about the bitter cold. How he never wanted to be that cold ever again in his life. He talked about his best friend who died right next to him in that battle. The absolute randomness of who lived and who died. How they had to scrounge for supplies and improvise. They'd been told if they surrendered the Germans would kill them. How the battle turned when the skies cleared enough for them to get air support.

The history teacher wanted to get him to speak to his class. But before it could be set up he died. My dad learned from his brother afterward that he'd had nightmares every night of his life over the war. This guy was a brick of the community, he and my father did all sorts of volunteer work after they retired. I hope telling his story that night gave him some peace. Truly they were the greatest generation.
If the tv is vulnerable you can install your payload. Once somebody buys it and brings it home you are in their network.
That's a strong claim. Depends a lot on what the regulatory landscape is going to look like in the future. I'm guessing you're no more a Congress insider than I am.

Having used both defi and traditional financial infrastructure, defi definitely feels a lot, lot more frictionless to me, at least while acting within the Ethereum ecosystem. Time will tell, but I find it hard to believe such frictionlessness won't eventually force its way into the world.
Whatever Happened to Airships?
> Stop caring about how much time (salaried) people are spending at work.

Personally I think salaried work is the problem. "Meeting deadlines" only makes sense as long as the deadlines are reasonable, and how do we decide if they are reasonable other than how much time they take? There's always more work to do, always more bugs that can be fixed, code or processes that can be improved, etc. At least in software engineering, salaried work makes no sense to me at all, and my eventual goal is to become hourly, because otherwise it's just a nebulous set of expectations and constant (explicit or implied) negotiating about how much time is worked.

It should also be easier to do less than 8 hours a day, but I view that as a mostly separate issue than the salaried vs hourly discussion. Salaried work just is just another way of saying the company gets free overtime work out of its employees.
The rate can fall to negative, i.e. deflation can happen. It probably won't overtake inflation overall but it will be expected in areas like used cars. It isn't a one way ratchet.
Yes. But the reply above was regarding how recurring payments would work
If, as with Ethereum, your users pay me $100 per transaction to execute a few trivial lines of code, I and my future children will happily keep a server running immutably for you forever.
Pretty much my only skill is leetcode easy/med + basic sys design and knowing some SRE principles. I almost wish the interview wasn't as gameable so I could move on with my life in a new field
Yes, this is the case. Quoting myself from another comment:

> On a blockchain, once I've deployed my app, I can walk away and never think about the app again. I only have to pay for the initial deployment of the contract without any further ongoing cost. The app will always be there ready to be used by an end user who's willing to pay to interact with it.
interesting, how do you implement such a test?
Life is a series of unknowns and nothing is certain, especially in business.

There's only one thing that really matters at this juncture is that they better damn sure be offering you a significant retention bonus -- something on the order of 3-6 months of salary, just to help you "ride the wave", as it were. And because most likely the principals are getting far more significant retention packages, so you better to be sure to get your deserved share of "crumbs" as well.

If they're not offering a bonus (or only a very meager one), then I would consider that a very red flag.
There is this 40% or so of the population that will not switch jobs. I don't know why you would ever give them a raise because as their reaction to it is just going be to complain and go back to work.
The problem is that I have been hearing about all these amazing use cases for crypto/blockchain for over a decade now, and not a single one has materialized that is useful for me or any other common user who is not involved in the community. The entire ecosystem is circular. All web3 apps are about web3. And what point does it start adding value outside of pushing itself?
A verbal contract is still a contract, including amendments to it. Being on salary vs paid hourly also doesn't mean anything about whether there is a contract.