skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bunch of things, which also define what web3 means to me:

- Yes, NFTs: just like most websites are crap, so are most NFTs, and the tulip bubble that has formed around them will eventually bust (but return in different ways...). What will IMO almost certainly remain is the significant paradigm shift on two aspects: 1. indisputable ownership of digital goods that unlock other things: logins to apps, usage of software, access to certain communities / social clubs. 2. A dramatic unbundling of the way software is designed and used. Entire game universes will be build in the NFT space that are permissionlessly composable. A game designer may take an character NFT and build a game around them. Take a look at Loot Project, the first of this kind. Corruption(s*) by Dom is my favorite here: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1470525607104684032

- DAOs will profoundly change the way in which we work. Wrote an article here: https://www.daos.fm/blog/daos-and-the-civstack
Most NFT communities eventually become minimal DAOs as they often at some point pool a bunch of NFTs into a community wallet that they govern together. Sometimes for lols, sometimes to fund public goods

- Permissionlessness may sound like a buzzword, but it's huge. I think the NFT space will move toward a CC0 model in many parts, which means that anyone can build on top of existing things and expand on a successful model with an existing community.

- Most importantly, community, and this isn't fluff: consider this - most on chain tech is by definition open source and easily forkable - it's on a public chain! The differentiating factor for a project then is solely how well the community works, and how well its community is rewarded for helping the project out. Take the ENS (Ethereum Naming Service), which let's you shorten your ETH public key to a "domain.eth" one. They incorporated as a DAO and as a token of gratitude to their early adopters airdropped ENS tokens into every early users wallet. These tokens were immediately worth around 15k USD and instantly tradeable. Many didn't trade them but instead used them to vote for a delegate to represent them in the ENS DAO.

It's mindblowing how fast the space moves.
If you remove every occurence of the notion of payments and/or currency and instead focus on the good parts like IPFS and BitTorrent, maybe it stands a chance.

Like it or not, people will always have love hate relationships with money.
That sounds fascinating. Where can I learn more? Other than writing the same data out to multiple tapes, do you have any capacity for redundancy, should a tape go bad?
I accept that I contribute to the outcome but I can’t control the outcome. Therefore I choose my actions on the basis of how I want to define myself. I don’t do this for any other reason than that I want to define the way in which I give my life meaning. I try and stay true to my self definition in all my actions. For everything that I can’t control I adopt a Stoic attitude of acceptance. Acceptance does not mean resignation. I still act, but I accept that the outcome a not down to just me. Because I act in accordance with my self-definition, and because I try to adopt an attitude of acceptance, I can sleep at nights. Mostly.

That’s not very specific, but I hope it helps you in some way.
I bet if you figured out a way to offer this with fiber-optic 10GbE to the music server, you could double your margins.
Never seen this before! I started asking where to find features like that but clicked around first and found "lists" at the bottom

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
CoinMarketCap Hacked?
I'm picturing it the same way BTC/Dogecoin/Shibacoins are tied to the USD in that you as an owner can freely convert back and forth at the going exchange rate and they would be run with a predefined supply algorithm.

And yes Nike would have the ability to devalue the Nikecoins but it'd actually not be in there best interest to do so because Nikecoin holders would then just cash out and offramp to USD. You'd then have negative PR associated with the brand versus free PR when Nikecoin increased in value.

Also if Nike itself maintains ownership of a portion of the ICO, then they'd be incentivized not to devalue the Nikecoin.
It's definitely not weird. It's quite common and normal.

It takes some social awareness to know when it's appropriate and when it isn't. A lot of people lack that level of social awareness and for them the best plan is to avoid such situations.

But it's still common, and it's still not weird.
I remember using something like this for a system based in ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL server circa 2005.

The missing magic in tools like liquibase is a low-maintenance parser framework. If we had composable grammars it wouldn't be that hard for a tool to track the SQL syntax of various databases and be able to apply some real intelligence to SQL definitions.

Trouble is nothing good ever happens in parsing frameworks because everybody things they have the same problem as Go and they worry too much about the speed of parsing.
So your definition of “web 2.0” includes every programming language and library used to build web 1 or 2 apps, along with all kinds of other things? That’s quite the stretch — and it’s telling that you’re only using that as a negative to attack things which you don’t have a personal financial stake in. I don’t imagine you’d like it if every vulnerability in some library used by a blockchain-related project was billed as a cryptocurrency problem.
> It's something that forces everybody to visibly declare an affiliation with a side at all times in public.

No. Forcing people to wear a police badge or a yellow star or a hijab or a a beard in some places would fit that outlook but the first reason to wear a mask is a medical/prophylactic one. The fact some people (right or left) decided to associate that with political beliefs is another matter that has nothing to do with the inherent advantages that wearing a mask provides in some occasions.
While it's good to get up-to-date, I don't think anyone should go re-write code or radically change their programming style to use generics. There's no need to over-complicate things. Anywhere that you're either copy-pasting a bunch, or using code generation might be a good fit for generics.
If you want sources I will find them, but there are studied and not simply anecdotal instances of multiple infections of covid, yes. The outcomes range somewhat across the board from subsequent risks of severe infection or death, in a way that resembles vaccination.
No ambition is clearly false when we examine their recent actions of territorial claims and seizures from the entire South China Sea (the name has little to do with who it historically belonged to) to sword rattling for Taiwan to violent takeovers of land borders residing in India to straight up seizure of Tibet and the forced disappearance of the next Dalai Lama, literally the future head of the most peaceful faith on the planet.
Sure. We have a codebase and app stack that has grown over 40 years. Responsible Parties have come and gone, sometimes handing off ownership responsibly, but often there wasn't enough time. So someone may be "responsible" for application X, but they haven't looked at the code in any detail. Or application X was installed by a vendor who provided documentation back in 2002 that is long gone.

Nothing is trivial in large organizations.
> It is a part of the industrial policy of China that broadly raises living standard and wealth of the society.

I agree. It doesn't contradict what I said, though. Both are true.

> only true in sense that economic growth may increase the ruling party's popularity

No. It also gives them better weapons, AI, surveillance technology, etc. It literally increases their power, both abroad and within their borders.

CCP's popularity is guaranteed because it is criminal in China to tell negative truths about them. Their popularity is irrelevant because they have control over the entire country's military and surveillance networks. If they can intern and slaughter millions of Uyghurs, it's almost impossible for a rebellion to overthrow them.

They don't need this program for popularity.
Blah blah blah. The data shows that nearly 1 in 4 couples met at work.
Not that long ago (2000 years) the Earth's climate was warmer than it is today:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22040-tree-rings-sugg...

The Romans did just fine.

From the link:

"In fact, it shows that human CO2 emissions have interrupted a long cooling period that would ultimately have delivered the next ice age."

You know what...the Earth's climate has changed multiple times and we're still here. So the alarmist attitude that we're all going to die is not warranted IMHO.
My Dell Precision 5520 (née XPS 9560) battery came with obvious spelling and grammatical errors.. just like the cheap Chinese clones I bought to replace it after a few years did (because Dell doesn’t sell the battery online). The clone I received was garbage and not up to the advertised specs so I tossed it and called my Dell sales rep and managed to get him to order me a new battery (it’s apparently not considered a user-replaceable part although it really is) and lo and behold the new one came with the same spelling errors as the one I got from China.

I have zero faith in their supply chain.
It's growing exponentially and deaths are a lagging indicator. The true denominator is far from 78k people.
Just want to echo the above sentiment—mouse-based acceleration curves are in need of just as much love as touch pads, and I'd love to see both!
They need to be able to do it on Mars, so the only options are solar or nuclear power.
I doubt it works well without a golden oxygen free ethernet cable that costs at least $1,500 per meter.
The practical issue for me is: how to do less and still feel like I’m a member of a functional group of people? Doing less is easy. Being part of a group of people that do little is doable. But I’ve yet to find such a group that isn’t made of crazies or depressive people.

Doing stuff and consuming resources and spending is a religion. We don’t have temples to make offerings. Our entire cultural environment is dedicated to the symbolic activity of producing and sacrificing. Taking part in it is a requirement to be recognized as a legitimate member of society. Problems that are seen as legit are all related to this religious endeavour.
>I've tried to explain this to people, and I've been met with blank stares from even the most intelligent folks.

That's definitely an experience I've had with similar topics. I particularly remember talking to a friend who I generally respect and admire about something that isn't socially acceptable for no obvious reason, and upon explaining my thoughts and asking what the deal was with it, they completely shut down and acted like I was totally insane.

It's just particularly annoying that so many people claim to be for truth or actions based on some ultimate moral value, but then act totally differently because all they were ever really for was tradition which includes hypocrisy about what it's for.
People are quick to forget the cesspool that 90s internet was with the spam, fraud and abuse that happened in that new technology during those times.

Shit, I remember I received snail mail spam of penis enlargement crap in my town here in Mexico . They forget what brought the US legislators to the CAN SPAM act, and being 100% legal, also to the DMCA and all new legislation to prevent rampant copyright infringement (now... I dont agree with copyright law, but it's still the law).

We are at the same stage in the crypto space. Theres really interesting new tech and ideas (the Yahoos, Amazons, Googles, CD-Nows, MySpaces of the 90s), and theres also plenty of shady and blatantly illegal stuff (the Napsters, emules, Edward Davidsons of the 90s') .

That doesn't decrease the value of the technology.
personally i've got a logitech mx master mouse, it has the logitech hyperscroll technology. Quite wonderfull to use on linux.
Beware of the jitter, that's what the audiophiles say.

But like how much buffer do you need to completely eliminate any effects of jitter?
Buddy of mine went from EE Major, test engineer, to PM
I really don't know if the web is satire or for real.

I tried the manufacturer site: https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/ethernet-swi...

I still do not know.
What if the polarization is the result of the economic system becoming bankrupt and that large structural changes are actually necessary? There's a baked in idea here that compromise and centrism is always right, when it may be that during periods of history when centrism is the wrong path that political polarization naturally increases. By trying to avoid deeper structural change it becomes like pressure building up on a fault line and the longer it goes on the worse the resulting political Earthquake becomes.
Exactly! Same problem with GPT-3. That’s why most of the commercial applications people have found for it so far are in marketing. Even if you tell it explicitly not to make up stuff and only chose from applicable answers, it will confabule. And you never know when it does.
I look at it the other way around, the driver update is a rare case where it was publicly exposed just how widespread of an issue forgery is in the electronics industry. FTDI likely expected the number of fake devices already in the field to be significantly lower than they actually were. If that was the case, it is unlikely it would have become the story it did.
The spoon farted.
A study was done testing samples pulled from ~1.5 million blood donations in the US looking for Covid antibodies.

>By May 2021, the combined infection- and vaccination-induced seroprevalence estimate increased to 83.3% (95% CI, 82.9%-83.7%)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2784013

The delta variant surge didn't hit the States until after this study concluded, so one would expect the numbers to be quite a bit higher today.
For what it is worth, here is the actual product page: https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/ethernet-swi...

I wonder if it crossed any of these reviewers minds that the audio they listened to traversed countless switches, network routers, fiber amplifiers and who knows what else before it ever hit that switch.

I have zero clue who buys this stuff. Perhaps I'm in the wrong business!
Security researchers did swarm on it and none of them could corroborate the story. It's been widely discredited in security researcher circles.
2 feet of sea level rise could easily end civilisation as we know it.
I think with the majority of instances it's a matter of repeating what they've seen online somewhere, where it is nearly unilaterally presented in similar tone. Some cases are malicious intent I'm sure, but I wouldn't guess the most of them.
Their website seems to download a minimal Linux webassembly to provide the demo something to connect to. That probably accounts for most of the perceived slowness of page load and the terminal
Japanese not knowing about things Japanese seems to be common. Most younger Japanese don't seem to know the difference between a Buddhist temple (tera) and a Shinto shrine (jinja). I'm pretty sure the kintsugi stuff stems from Shinto ideas. Shinto can enshrine anything as sacred. Usually it is an object from nature, but it doesn't have to be; it can be something people have created (matsuru (verb) - to make a god; matsuri (noun) - a festival (celebrating a god). It can be an object that someone has loved or used for a long time. If used in a negative way, such objects can become "cursed," or perhaps "angry" that they have been abused. This seems to be projection, of course. This isn't voodoo; Japanese are probably aware of this. The enshrining in this case has been degraded to "care for," at least in terms of repairing the item. This may be more recent as a more prevalent idea, but I think the inclination, due to Shinto, has been there for a long time.
Take a look at Loot project by Dom Hof (the creator of vine, but now mostly known for Loot...:)

It is exactly how you describe, but so so much more: why limit your Halo / skyrim character to one game world when you could take it into any other format and play with it there? NFT composability is a huge topic and extremely exciting in terms of these optionalities. Again: https://www.lootproject.com/

Also see my comment above with some more examples in response to another question...
Absolutely not hurting myself. I love Linux. :D I don't think I'll ever switch back. I actually understand how every aspect of my machine works, and this feeling of control is absolutely addictive.

I kinda lost the thread at this point, but I was just trying to make the point the Macs aren't magically usable out of the box, at least for power users.
Site author here. Thanks for helping to get the word out - every bit may help someone.

While I consider my page to provide useful color, and I validate and summarize and cache info updates locally to add value ... it won't scale for long. It's really a stopgap - to buy defenders time until better efforts emerge.

A few efforts likely to become higher leverage than mine, because they can be driven by pull requests:

* https://github.com/NCSC-NL/log4shell - already quite comprehensive

* Whatever CISA may spin up - https://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db

* Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) - turns out he worked with CISA on this

That being said, I'll keep working on mine as long as it still provides value; updates/corrections welcome.
His arguments are all garbage. Easily the lamest article I've read on HN. For instance, he claims:

> “Linux Kernel Support” is the lowest priority for The Linux Foundation.

First, this implies that dollars spent equals priority. A lower priority project may need more dollars. The test of priority is which things take priority when dollar needs can't be met. It also assumes large donors have no say at all where there donations go and a million other things.

Second, it ignores the fact that when someone says "Linux" they don't automatically mean only the kernel. It's true that some and perhaps most do and it is maybe even the correct view, but that's demonstrably not the view of the Linux Foundation. Even if it were, there's lots of argument to be made for supporting people who may support or work on the kernel now or in the future.

Third, even though he admits he doesn't know how the financials break down, he somehow knows every project receives more than direct Linux kernel support. That's the best interpretation of his claim. The worst is that he's disingenuously lumping all projects together.

Fourth, he ignores the fact that some of these supported Projects themselves support the Linux kernel.
The node_modules folder includes compiled native libraries (.so, .dylib, etc.), so this also has the benefit of not working if anyone has a different architecture or OS than anyone else.
CVE in Apache Log4j 2.15.0 was incomplete in certain non-default configurations
Ah, the perfect companion for a NAS with audiophile-grade SSD storage

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62753-nvme-ssd-desi...
> What would distinguish an ethernet switch "for audiophiles" vs a regular ethernet switch?

price?
FYI, when people are talking about helping "the Planet" they're not talking about lifeless rocks, they're talking about preserving the diversity of life on the Planet.

And by balance I mean not precipitating another extinction event. Sure, they're going to happen anyway eventually, but we probably shouldn't cause an extra one if we don't have to...
Why are you being rude?

I don’t see how that changes what I said.

Taking some statistic about where people met doesn’t invalidate what I’ve said.

Does it tell you if the 1/4 actually began by asking the other out during a meeting?

I’ve dated someone at work, but our relationship started outside of work and we didn’t work in the same department.
I think this is the appropriate answer. In my experience as Staff engineer, the tasks I was best suited to were the nebulously defined "the customer needs X" where X cross cut a lot of domains and required input from a variety of people that would be affected by that feature X. This usually meant that I'd have to get them all together at some point and find a way to satisfy all their contradictory needs before even coming up with what the real task definition of X was.

That's generally more than you'd expect from a typical Senior Engineer.
OK, then what do you call something astronomically worse than this, say a mile wide astroid strike?

You see that you have no more granularity? That you can't describe it as worse than a meter of sea level rise?
Companies scramble to defend against newly discovered 'Log4j ' digital flaw
We do, but at the same time, we can't contextualize it very well necessarily.

For example 'spikes' can mean all sorts of things. CFRs and test positivity rates have to be hugely contextualized.

We also have 'studies' about Ivermectin some of which are good, some of which ar flawed, that lack context i.e. 'study shows Ivermectin works! - if that's all they see, well, then they might be inclined to believe it.

And a huge amount of anecdotal data that is very misleading as well.

It's good the data is out there, but we also need sources to make sense of it.
So, if it's true that these KH-12 spy satellites are basically modified versions the Hubble space telescope, would it be reasonable to assume that Webb will get copied in a similar way for spy satellites?
> I was with her for the butt grabbing incident but that part sounds absolutely insane. Either you have blatant sexism incidents, or you don't, and then you resort to spin random stuff into a drama.

Huh. To me it all sounds like sexual harassment, further details reinforcing the point, devoid of anything sounding so insane that I'd doubt everything else, but instead reasonable grievances reinforcing that it is a toxic environment for women. In fact, I'd be somewhat surprised if the details in the description were not accurate. And even if the last statement was "and the coffee was terrible, tasted like corn candy," it would not lead me to say, "aha! So this is all BS!" That would be a fallacious argument (A is reasonable, but B is nuts, so A&B are false.) I would not dismiss the accusations, they are too serious, nor would I ever sympathize with or try to frame sexual harassers as victims of slander.
It can be used for proof of ownership not to be confused with proof of identity because anyone can check the public blockchain to determine that funds sent from account a belongs to whoever setup account a.

It allows proof ownership without proof of identity.
As someone who absolutely despises libinput (I have an unsupported use-case which will never be supported) I applaud this effort.

Thank you!
It doesn't make you a bad engineer, but it does, generally, put a ceiling on the value you are able to provide to the company. Individual contributors can only get so much done in a given amount of time, and over a long enough time scale, are generally interchangeable with one another.

Sure, you might have some specialized knowledge or understand system X better than anybody else, but there's diminishing returns on that, hence why you won't get big raises forever.

As you move up the chain, it eventually stops being about your direct technical contributions and about your ability to multiply the value of everybody under you in your org.
Wirecutter Union Reaches a Deal with the New York Times Company
Do people get what they deserve? It seems unclear. Therefor, no logical contradiction.

Logic is a great tool by the way, but unless you are applying it formally you might be better off not trying to invoke it casually.
> people looking to acquire life-changing wealth for themselves by hyping things that they have a vested financial interest in

What's wrong with hyping things you've invested in, or seeking life-changing wealth for yourself?