skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People are calling Web3 a fraud; a system where value is derived simply from the demand of crypto in general

The supply of ledger space is limited. When demand for that space not only goes up, but keeps going up, what does economics tell us happens to the price? I keep giving example after example of what people use this ledger space for, but all anyone every says is "Oh, but it's just moving tokens around." I have yet to see anyone say how that's any different from the stock market just moving fiat around. Deflection, deflection, deflection. Who's refusing to engage with the conversation now?

> and purely serves to benefit people who invested first (like MLM)

That is simply not true, and I've given example after example of the use cases that benefit the people using the chain. But after every explanation, you still resort to "Oh but I don't use it, so it must be an MLM." You haven't engaged at all with any of my points, you just keep repeating your own. Who's reframing the conversation now?

> When confronted about the possibility of all of it being a scam, your only response was "caveat emptor".

When confronted about the possibility of any single smart contract being a scam, my only response is "caveat emptor," yes. Because that's the whole point. You can't have censorship resistance without having this phenomenon.

But when it comes to the possibility of the whole thing being a scam, that's clearly ridiculous and as I've said, I've refuted it many times over. The next few sentences of your comment are just more of the same, so I'm not going to bother refuting every individual sentence.

> When people say that's stupid, you resort to "well that's fine, I didn't want your money anyways".

Yes, all people ever do is to call it "stupid" without backing their argument up. You said it yourself.

> This is a textbook scam

And by implication, I'm one of the scammers then, aren't I? And you expect me to respond to such accusations politely and demurely?

> your rhetoric will perpetually be at odds with the rest of the discussion unless you engage them on their own terms.

"On their own terms" meaning that we accept the premise that it's a scam? So you don't want a discussion, you just want me to affirm your pre-existing beliefs.

> I can imagine that you don't see yourself as "losing" these arguments, since you haven't even responded to them in the first place.

I notice you still haven't named any alternative technologies in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29588753 . You say "decentralization doesn't need the blockchain," implying that the blockchain doesn't really do much for decentralization. I respond asking for any other alternative that does what crypto does, and gave an example of a major decentralized platform that was only possible because of crypto. Once again, you're backed into a corner, and all you do is refuse to respond, and then deflect and project your own loss onto me. I rest my case.
If YouTube was banning people for being mean Crowder should be long gone. He is a bit of a dick sometimes.

But YouTube have banned him for crossing ideological lines not for being an ass.
> tech workers and we have to face facts that tech workers are predominantly white and Asian and male

In the US at least many tech companies have way more Indians that white. It's funny to me how Indians in the US are usually not in the white/asian conversation, and even often put in the "people of color" group. Just shows most people think race is about skin color.
I am a bit superstitious (even if not religious) about declaring that bad things can't happen to me. The culture I grew up in is pervaded with cautionary ideas like "pride goeth before a fall", "don't tempt fate", and "don't put God to the test".

Separately, declaring one's superiority can be interpreted as rude, or as compensation for lack of confidence.

I am curious about the traditions and norms you are used to. I haven't spent very much time in Florida or Texas, and the parts of Florida I've seen most of are the parts that are more like New York than the deep South.

Something I do associate with Florida is the occasional person with large, confrontational signs with way too much lettering on them. I saw someone who had put text describing a business dispute he had all over his truck.

I really wasn't sure if that was a crazy person or just how some people do things there.

While passing through Texas years ago, I remember it as my introduction to temperatures so high that the relatively cool air trapped by long shirt and pants was a blessing that kept me from being cooked momentarily. It made me think of the saying "If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas."
Well, they surely are. The stupid part it's that they are opinions of people that have no business having an opinion on such matters, them having no related qualifications, no education, no access to facts, not doing any research or having any idea how the research is done at all - and their opinion is taken as one trumping the opinion of the actual experts in the field. Out of all possible opinions Facebook chooses the worst to listen to.
I had the same happen to a mid-tier brand portable bluetooth speaker that was charging from the wall outlet on my night stand. Burst into a massive chemical flame right next to me, splattered the wall with molten plastic. It took me a few seconds to understand what was happening, at first I assumed it was my SO playing a really dumb fireworks prank on me. Took a few good inhalations of whatever black smoke came out of it while trying to put the fire out with a pillow. I was very, very lucky that this happened while I was in the same room, and not out at work with nobody at home to put out the fire. It would have easily caused a building-wide fire.

The company behind it offered to replace the product with whatever I wanted from their store as long as I signed a "I won't sue you" form and sent them the unit back for investigation. They said it was a manufacturing defect. I wasn't feeling like spending months or years in litigation, so I took the offer (no batteries this time) and moved on with my life. No regrets since.

The reality is that we're all surrounded by these ticking battery timebombs, and we're all at the mercy of manufacturing quality control and luck. Ever since that incident I never charge any new device unless I'm sitting next to it for a few hours, just to make sure nothing of the sort happens without my supervision. I realize it doesn't accomplish much, since these issues often happen hundreds of hours into the device's regular operation, but it gives me a false sense of safety.
sflc as well

https://softwarefreedom.org/services/
Ahh, you are correct, I misremembered.
> So far my strategy is to just ignore it and pray that the problem goes away by itself. If I have to deal with it eventually - quitting is the most appealing option.

It won't go away by itself because if they're asking it means you are in their corporate directory and showing up as noncompliant in the Drata dashboard.

It's extremely normal on company hardware used for business purposes. The conflict here is trying to run multiple clients on the same personal hardware. Never do that.

If they're willing to give you a company-owned laptop, take that. Then it is their machine to configure however they like. If not, tell them you'll lease a laptop dedicated to them only and pass on the monthly cost (with some profit margin) as part of your monthly invoice.
I bought a Kindle and that was nice, but I'm terrible at remembering to bring it with me when I leave the house, and the (admittedly small) effort of having to connect it to my computer to load epubs onto it is enough friction to stop me from doing it in the first place a lot of the time. I usually obtain them from less than legal sources and buy a hardcopy if I like it.

For awhile I was buying ebooks straight from the Kindle store on the device itself but something about paying the same price for a file as a hardcopy left a bad taste in my mouth. I'd rather have something to put on my shelf and I can loan to friends. Plus paying for the book up front is a bit of a risk if it sucks, because I can't return it or resell it or even give it away to someone else.

The past few months I've just been loading the books straight to my phone and I've read more new books in the last 3 months than I have in the last 3 years. Definitely a game changer.
A system of commissions and its consequences
Call a negligence lawyer. It won't cost you anything.
I need to vent out. I am an immigrant to USA at young age and now naturalized citizen. Ever since I got citizenship, I've for voted for Democrats because they represent my values. But today's left-wing is unbearable for me. We've thrown away meritocracy, liberty and rule of law. Instead, we have rampant racism (against Whites), authoritarian undertones at policy level, and straight up anarchy in many municipalities. It's constant barrage of identity politics to divide people into groups, its a constant government corruption and a constant attack on the spirit of of this nation that attracted my parents to move here. These people want to rewrite history in darkest possible terms.

People in my country of origin are shocked at what's going on in American left, they are already aware of the right. It's all fucked up.
No,
"Ninety-five percent of Americans identified misinformation as a problem when they’re trying to access important information."

"According to the poll, 79% of Republicans and 73% of Democrats said social media companies have a great deal or quite a bit of responsibility for misinformation."

(https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-b...)

Talk about "fact checking" you just make a statement about what people think and provided no evidence to back it up. That's the main problem here. Also "old media"?
I don't really agree, I can't recall any controversial videos of his that weren't cruel and bordering on hate speech. This is not "bit of a dick sometimes" it was some really nasty and mean-spirited stuff aimed at minorities. These weren't one-off comments either, they were entire videos. I don't think you can chalk that up to ideological lines.
Of course, none of the current fact-checkers on the major platforms are doing anything like that.

I might be wrong, but I imagine each has a binder with a bunch of bullet points under each topic, listing common claims determined to be false by management. Probably some post-it notes holding new claims that their manager saw the previous day and didn't like.

Maybe the 'lab-leak' claim is scratched out.. it's permitted to be spoken of, now.
If you're describing me, those people are free to reach me via an alternate method. Facebook is not obligated to facilitate it.
Well okay, I mean if you go all out North Korea, I suppose it's possible to ban crypto in your country.
Subscriptions are planned for 2022.
Ads in channels with more than 1000 subscribers are in testing phase now.
They won't spam the groups (private or public) and one to one conversations.
> PCB layout with an emphasis on signal integrity etc would make an excellent undergrad course in school.

This is strongly frequency and wave-form dependent. Just the difference between square waves and sine waves and say a few KHz to a few 10's of MHz can have dramatic consequences on how hard it will be to get a circuit to behave in the way you intended it to.

I think one of the bigger insights you can have when designing circuitry is that you may be working on a digital circuit but from an electrical engineering point of view digital simply doesn't exist, that's just a signalling convention, there is only analog.
I switched to Microsoft Sculpt for this reason. Muscle memory is fully compatible with a laptop keyboard. Except it’s much more comfortable, due to the tilt, width and superb tactile feeling for such low-travel keys. Totally took away all my wrist pains.

As a bonus it doesn’t look like a science-lab on your desk, like a lot of other ergonomic keyboards do. Got to say this new Advantage 360 has a really nice look though.
The present state of reading and the internet is another example of the familiar tension that a healthy diet and processed foods demonstrate. Those that still read and write are like those that jogged, abstained from smoking, and ate balanced meals in the seventies. There is an intrinsic good to reading, one that readers have an intuition for, and that good merely needs to be discovered again by the culture and made explicit. No few of us are lost to the negative effects of internet, just like no few people simply will not overcome their reliance on sweets. We do go on, but leave the kind of material in our wake that the likes of the Johns Stewart and Oliver can use to make their living.
So copyrightable is 2 char?
No it isn't. I check HN every three hours and manage to finish a book every two to three days. (On vacation from college)
On a Mac you can change the keyboard settings where it makes media keys the default.
If you 'don't have basic high school skills', you're 'not suited' to Engineering.

There is not much to interpret from that statement.

'Basic High School Skills' would be general subject matter competence, basic diligence and conscientiousness with respect to attendance, participation, learning, homework, socialization, organization.

Engineering is fairly advanced, it requires an even higher degree of general competence than most Uni subjects, and even those need a level of competency only found in the upper tranches (say top 1/3) of students in high school.

If you're not 'Generally Not Good At High School' then you are not going to make it through Engineering.

I don't think there's anything controversial here.
I am surprised by the reactions here. I did not receive that e-mail but I receive all sort of weird inquiries for my websites, (at least 2 or 3 per day).
I don't understand why people are so mad about it or even panicking.
I'm interested in the concept, but i couldnt find a demo or 'hello world' example to look at. This is a very important aspect of promoting a new product.

Look at how Prefect does that (I know they are well along the path), but sonething is missing.
Have you found the difference between formatting NTFS in older Windows versions compared to the recent releases?

Seems to me the MFT was in the middle of volumes commonly in older versions, and lately much closer to the beginning of the volume.

Could have something to do with the feature of shrinking a volume which became more common, and you can now more often shrink an NTFS volume by more than half, which was often impossible in earlier years.
I never thought it would happen to me either. I knew the risks. I took care of my devices. I treated my devices with lithium ion as a loaded gun. But it happened. It happened suddenly, and if I wasn't present, it would have taken out my home and killed my pets and possibly my wife.

I wrote this not to shame Bose. But to highlight the risk of personal wearables and lithium ion technologies.
That's fair, you're right. I should have been less inflammatory. This story struck a chord in me for... reasons. That's not meant as an excuse, I should have known better to have taken a step back before I said anything, especially something that could escalate tensions. Thank you for killing the comment. I'll be more mindful of it going forward.
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> they were exactly the things you would need to know in order to submit a request for information, but without the actual request.

This doesn’t seem accurate to me. The first and fourth questions especially aren’t relevant to submitting a valid CCPA request.

But my point was that, more generally if your goal is to use CCPA to compel a company to answer your questions, I think you’re going to be disappointed.

The law simply doesn’t compel companies to answer arbitrary questions. Heck, I don’t think CCPA even compels them to answer any of these questions.

Only questions 2 and 3 are relevant to submitting a request, and CCPA requires the company to publish that information, but I don’t think it compels them to answer emailed questions asking for that information. Open to being wrong on this point though.
It's a viral obit that has been making the rounds. Also shows you don't have to be famous to be dearly loved.
FYI i think Data Pipelines has not been actively developed for a while and is a 'zombie' product.
There is a simpler method. Rabbitmq for accepting new jobs. In the function start a job via spring batch. Basically you get the same effect but using existing tools.
I wouldn't say "close"; Breed is less than two years into her four-year term. The next mayoral elections aren't for another two years, at the end of 2023.

But I suppose it's possible that she believes she needs to start "doing something" about the crime problem even now (rather than waiting another year), or it could affect her chances at reelection.
I'm not in the whole anti-Internet camp, indeed my viewpoint is far closer to Randall Munroe's[1]. But it is a little sad how few of my peers read books. I just finished three volumes of the Robert Caro series on Lyndon Johnson along with The Power Broker. Now, granted, these are big tomes. They also cover a topic that most people would not find interesting. Yet I still find it very depressing how almost all of my peers balk at the idea of reading them. Part of the reason they balk is, yes, the length and topic, but also because reading has become such a chore, such an unusual event, that the idea of reading a 800 page book is akin to running a marathon. If you struggle to read a 200 page book, an 800 page book appears impossible.

And yet, inside these books, there is absolutely multitudes. There's more insight and political knowledge and facts than thousands of blog posts and news articles, aided by thorough, comprehensive decades-long research. There's also pure pleasure. The writing quality is so far and above the pedestrian prose that you see on the internet. It's like eating your first bite of top notch sushi after years of cold supermarket stuff. I can't tell you how emotional I got reading about the Civil Rights movement, about the trial of Emmett Till, about Coke Stevenson[2], about the Rural Electrification movement. There's no blog or article that compares.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1414/

[2]: Even if that portrayal is considered to be suspect. Although if you ask me, I think the rebuttal of "but Stevenson was a virulent racist" ignores the fact that everybody, LBJ included, was a virulent racist at the time and to tar Stevenson with that brush is to apply modern sensibilities to a different era.
obs should be able to do a cease and assist, right? hopefully more, that’s illegal to steal someone’s code so they must give it back and pay possibly pay retribution’s depending on the judgement
I think this is pretty awful, but I'd still give the person the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't intentional.
Maybe the result (a) is intended and expected, but is not literally "by design" in that there was no other known way to design it.
Ask HN: Best apps for removing paper texture from old photos?
I have just came into the possession of some family photos from the 50's that were printed on paper that has a crosshatch like pattern on it.

What are the best software tools that I can use to remove this texture from these scanned photos? I would prefer something that works on macOS but Windows or Linux is fine.
It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others. - the man who coined the term.

Basically meritocracy can turn into classism, and due to accumulated advantage it can entrench. Everyone has a chance in theory, but in practice advantage compounds.

There's also the simple human welfare problem that vicious never-ending competition every minute of your life is exhausting & demoralizing.
Call of Duty Vanguard and Battlefield 2042:the multi player is free this weekend
1. Great explanation of ELT, for a long time ETL monkey this broke through for me.
2. GDPR/COPPA means you really have to think about your data lake before dumping verbatim into long term storage.
Strassen's method is the only one practical on modern hardware
Those virtual drives are on a physical drive somewhere unless they're in RAM.
Advertising Role: How It Affects Business and How to Market the Right Way
>Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

If this wasn't a predictable outcome when inflation is triggered, it would be imposed by design.
I think a parallel argument to Socrates's could be made for the internet -- it is "alive", but in a much lower-dimensional way than real conversation with people in the world who have bodies and families. Online, everyone is a disembodied psyche -- so much is abstracted ideas, universalized groups and events, unbounded emotion/impulse. Talking with someone in real life almost requires confronting the shared humility and complexity of being a person. Avatars and text do not.
Everyone is aware of the risks, there were a bunch of stories about airplane cell phone fires a few years ago.

What are suggesting people do? Headphones only function while on your head.
I view it as Indian ⊆ Asian ⊆ people of color. I agree that Indians are often neglected in the Asian discourse, although I think there's been more work to include non-East Asians in the conversation lately.
paper was submitted here previously, but few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29445128
wow. i laughed and laughed. oh well i too am a man of culture.
I only use my phone when I have to. If I'm within 20 feet of a computer w/ a monitor I'll go use that. I know it's old fashioned but it is what it is.
It doesn't, I was being sarcastic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29598431
Things like poor customer service (the OP that we're commenting on right now), limited POPs [0], low service quotas with unpredictable results if you hit them [1], limited services (limited instance types, no long tail of value-add services), requiring manual tickets for things that hyperscalers have fully automated, etc. Things of that nature. These are things that stem directly from being a very small hosting company, and that you won't see at a hyperscaler.

[0] Linode got DDOS'ed literally entirely off the Internet in December 2016. You can't take AWS down with a DDOS. You can take down an individual customer server but you can't take AWS offline with a DDOS.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
Everything is a nail, why should I use anything but this hammer?
Run it in a VM.

Doing work for clients often involves installing other software of theirs i.e. their preferred VPN client. I just run up a VM because having 10 different VPN setups is a disaster waiting to happen.