skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too wish it had SSH certificates. We use Dropbear on some embedded targets (Linux on FPGA), and the support for only keys, and difficulty of updating the target, means all our devs share one SSH key to access the target. It's not great.
There are significantly more air changes per hour on an airliner than in an office building or on a train. I personally put airliner travel as being reasonably low risk for COVID transmission during the flight. (It's obviously higher than staying at home alone.)
NFTs in regards to digital licences and tickets to events are game-changers in my eyes. I wish the focus was on that instead of on jpegs. If anyone is working on these, or wants to work on these, I'd be keen to collaborate.
What about common nootropics people take to get into 'programmer flow', like nicotine, lions mane, choline, caffeine, theanine, etc

Surely they're more effective than cannabis, which typically makes everything feel great, but in a sober frame of mind, and on hindsight, seem trivial and over-hyped when sober.

I've tried various nootropic 'blends' (stacks) over the years and they've all been great. Cannabis has its uses, like experiencing the various vibes and feel of a new city for the first time, or making a snowman when it's snowing, but it's not some panacea that makes you super-productive.

Not saying nootropics are a panacea either. You have to have the base multiplier before using nootropics, and already be in a flow state before getting any leverage from them. They don't automatically make you more productive or creative.
> Since the logo had already been created, I couldn’t just go in and change the letter at this point.

Why not?
In terms of photo editing, Gimp is far more featureful. I give some examples here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29664606
How is that any relevant? Any international competition will have a significant aviation footprint - especially something like the Olympics which involves far more countries than the World cup. In fact, I'd reckon the aviation footprint will be lower because of Qatar's relatively central position in the old world, from where fans are more likely to travel to watch a live football game.

What's more relevant here from an environmental standpoint is the cost of adding lifestyle amenities (water, energy, landscaping, construction, etc) on the ground for the million or so football fans who will descend upon a country not especially designed to handle such a high volume of traffic without committing some serious ecological cost.
> not funding drug lords. I avoid illegal drugs for this reason.

I hate to break it to you...

[Edit: it's best if I expand this comment. The people who currently sell "legal" weed whitewashed illegal operations and coordinated it with lawmakers to put them at the top. Chinese, oddly enough, play a big part at this, since we're on an anti-China bend right now it might be useful to know. This whole legal drug thing... no, it doesn't exist. Anyone thinking otherwise needs to get a wake up call. You're supporting massive drug lords that wear suits and work alongside law enforcement.]
If you're in your mid-20s in most US metro areas (except in the South, perhaps) - this is what it's like.
Thank you for the response! And sorry for taking so long with mine.

I agree that the example you provided is a more "objective" one, more grounded in physical reality - a tulip costing the same as a 10 years' salary.

> Obviously this is absurd, and history proved it so.

Had the tulips kept their scarcity, and had social interest remained at such high levels, couldn't it have kept its value?

An example I have is gold: people have been hoarding and valuing it for millennia. Sure, it occasionally crashes, but so do a lot of assets. Is it in a constant bubble? Is it overvalued? What is the intrinsic value of gold? It is not very useful in itself, but it is in demand and scarce, as opposed to fiat currency, which is in free fall.

http://pricedingold.com/us-dollar/

I argue that value comes from what people attribute it to be. The markets are an aggregation of such value decisions from many people.
I wonder…

People are seeing NFTs as a kind of payment system of sorts. A modern turn on donations or alms.

Can the likes of the Times, National Review, WaPo, WSJ, etc., use NFTs in lieu of a subscription model?

You buy the rights to “own” an article or whatever.
I think that people thinking that mind altering substances cannot be a useful tool should keep an open mind about it and let those people who are getting real results out of it keep doing their thing. And yes these people do exist. They are not going to be too open about it because of how taboo it is.

It’s well known that many of the greatest rock bands, highly productive mathematicians like Paul Erdos and comedians like George Carlin found great benefits in the disciplined use of mind altering substances. Not the addictive side which he regretted but the occasional one as a creative boost.
Steve Jobs swore that it changed him. Not that it was perfect but he himself claimed it played a pivotal role in shaping him into the unique person that he was.

There are peer reviewed studies that show that psychedelics are among the most effective tools for treating depression. ADHD medication is prescribed quite often today and it’s a game changer for many people.

This is not without its dangers so proceed with caution and have other people in your life to check on you often. But let’s not deny the enormous power.

Why should some stimulants like caffeine or alcohol be permitted for responsible use while others have to be kept away ? Many of them are less addictive than either.

And besides far beyond any argument about utility it’s also one about aesthetics and spirituality. It’s an entire new dimension to the human experience.

If you don’t have a good track record of practicing moderation then stay away.
Wow, I'm the exact same way. I basically never get anything done before 12 but I'm perfectly happy working until 10pm. I wish I could work earlier because it really disrupts my family life.
That’s an incredibly serious claim to make, do you have evidence to support your claims?
A preschool is making 3-4 year olds, who are extremely low risk, wear masks outside? Why are we treating this as normal?
I don't even bother hunting for checkboxes to turn off when making accounts anymore. Any email they send I just instinctively mark as spam.
No, just chiming in with agreement :)
This is all well and nice in theory, but in practice a feeble government just means leaving abandoning the weak to the whims of the strong
> In the letter dated Thursday and addressed to President Russell Nelson, Green explained that he unofficially left the church about a decade ago and has just recently, "requested the removal" of his records.

Seems like someone trying to make some noise and publicity.
People are different. My personal limit with the mask is about 30 min. After that I starting to suffocate. Maybe it is mental but feels real. And I do not have any particular condition which would make me feel that way, on a contrary I am very fit and do cardio every day.
That isn’t an answer to my question, but it does explain your financial interest in defending NFTs throughout this thread.
When I was at Facebook (2018-2020) there were in fact few permission barriers (click through the screen warning you to follow the rules, and that's at the UI level not to mention pulling stuff directly from Tao through the old PHP interfaces still laying around, or just building a user context from scratch), but plenty of auditing and automated detection.
It's just lovely to hear how honest you are about your "situation". I enjoy smoking occasionally. I would say that sometimes I dismiss my thoughts too quickly when I'm sober, and rarely engage in thought process about particular details too intensively when I'm a bit off the ground. Otherwise it's great no matter what's being done, just need to be active.
>> I kinda disagree with the implied notion that there's only these two options mentioned in the article

I took that away from the article as well, although I doubt that is the author's original intent.

One thing I like to do, if I have the extra time, is pull out a couple of different algorithm's books (Cormen always being one) and see if I can find a new way of viewing a problem in light of an "algorithmic approach."

Admittedly the research takes time and is always a lot of fun as I explore many other "rabbit holes" but it leads to other insights as well. The thing I will try to do is capture a few bullet points that I may have gleaned during this exercise. The approach is not conducive to goal, or time, sensitive deadlines, however.
I know why that is, Google abusing their dominate position in search to sway the entire market to a single service.
So it implies itself to be non-scientific? I guess I can disregard it as nonsense then.
Follow-up to “Counting website visitors is hard”
oh yes - But what I produce is open-source and meant to be as widely distributed as wanted anyway.

My ethical framework allows me to justify the use ad-blockers without creating too much cognitive dissonance. Poor Twitter, Facebook and Google and their employers will survive without my donations. But my local newspaper on the other hand...
I compared[0] a few of the popular options a while back. TLDR; GoatCounter.

[0]: https://apitman.com/20/#get-off-google-analytics
SSE have a lot of restrictions that make them unattractive, like a global limit of 6 per browser session. This can cause confusing behavior for power users...
If they were mining rare earths there I doubt this statement would have made it past the "hey this sounds good and makes us seem friendly" stage of marketing...
Ah. Also needed: offline editing and instant-on. Even Apple’s Notes is too slow from launch to editing.
If there's "pricing", "plans" or "subscription" tab on the website I will ignore the tool 100%, especially for this purpose
probably docker stack
The people that are most hesitant in France and Germany are African and muslim minorities. Is this study implying they're cognitively weaker? Yikes
Why do you care, and why is it important to the conversation? People work different hours. Some people choose to work those hours.
This has definitely been my experience. If you take an Indica gummy, you're most likely going to want to just lay on the couch and take a nap. On the other hand, I've had hybrids and sativas that will really lock me in on what I'm doing. I don't know if I could say I was more productive, but I definitely felt more focused.
I've done enough neural net stuff to know that noise can knock you out of local minima / local maxima. Well, not even neural nets... machine learning in general benefits.

But there's a difference between noise that you can control (ie: on during training and you can increase/decrease at will) and noise that's fundamental to the system and uncontrollable.

Still, since all neural nets show a resilience to a degree of noise, maybe that makes analog-circuits suddenly viable.
I tried to use Cygwin a handful of times, but having to stop, close, and re-run the installer every time I forgot some package was overbearing. WSL was much easier to get running (it's a part of Windows!), and since it's a real ubuntu/debian/etc. installation, it behaves like one, too. Far and away much better UX with WSL.
You're taking this extremely personally. My comment is about a scientific paper, not about you.

> Well, it's a profession, so yes.

I meant from a scientific perspective. I.e., here's the point: "can we lump all programmers together, randomly sample, do a correlational study or survey, and draw conclusions about the underlying population?"

I assert that such studies will generally fail to replicate and will mostly tell you about the properties of a skewed convenience sample.

> They both write code all day. Professionally.

You could say the same thing about people who work in hospitals. Or people who work in offices. What's the difference between a novelist and a listicle author? They both write all day, professionally.

Heck, what's the difference between a journalist and a lawyer? Again, they both write natural language all day. Professionally.

And sometimes you can do studies that generalize. But, generally speaking, an empirical study about what makes novelists productive won't necessarily tell you how to make legal clerks more productive.

It's not income. In fact, I didn't even mention the salary of the senior engineer in my hypothetical! $FANCY_CO was supposed to be a sign-post for difficult problems and/or complex politics, not compensation. (The $10/hr web dev does sign-post the complexity of the work, and wasn't meant as a hyperbole... I started my career making $10/hr doing PHP dev for local businesses. It was really easy work. Requirements were simple, code was trivial, and there was never more than 1 counter-party. The job was low-paying for a reason.)

It's the type of work. I've done a lot of programming, of lots of varieties at nearly all pay scales. Here are some buckets:

There's a lot of programming that is easy and mechanical (at all payscales). There's a lot of programming that is extremely complex and requires intense symbolic/mathematical reasoning.

There's a lot of programming where the code is simple but you need to think long and hard about some complex technical topic separate from the code.

There's a lot of programming that is extremely social and requires an incredible amount of intentional interaction with customers or internal stakeholders.

These are the same job in the same sense that all medical professions are the same job or all people who write natural language all day have the same job.

There is a strong relationship between pay and the degree to which an inebriating drug would impair your ability to perform well. But it's of course not a perfect correlation. Some highly paid people do trivial work. Some low paid people do complex work.
Because they're not effective. It's safety theatre, just like the TSA is security theatre.

"Everyone has to wear a face mask on a plane at all times to stop the spread, except for an hour here and there where everyone removes their masks at the same time to eat."

On international flights where everyone has to be tested beforehand, it's even more ridiculous and performative.
That seems like an understatement. If your link archiving system somehow relies on Bitcoin(?!) it may be too complicated.
It seems like you are in full agreement with me that the way we value NFTs is exactly equivalent to the valuing of Tulips during the bubble of 1637.

> Had the tulips kept their scarcity,

They did.

> and had social interest remained at such high levels, couldn't it have kept its value?

You mean if the tulip bubble had never burst would we still be paying 10 years of a skilled persons salary for one? Sure.

It’s worth noting that the courts ultimately held the debts owed for Tulip futures to be ‘gambling debts’…
Congrats on the release! I _really_ love the simple approach this tool takes. Though personally, I view note taking as “commodity” enough, that I prefer to own my data, and use my existing editor setup. If folks are looking for a productive, yet low-ceremony note taking workflow, GitHub.dev might be worth a look, since it provides the benefits of using Markdown, a GitHub repo, and VS Code, all from the browser: http://aka.ms/githubdev-fun, https://twitter.com/lostintangent/status/1429483662257446916.

I also _really_ like the concept of “spells”, so congrats on this experience as well. It would be interesting to explore implementing the same behavior using GitHub Actions (many of which, probably already exist?), with push/cron triggers. The benefit of that is that you could share your note taking workflow as a repo template, and then others could fork it and be up-and-running without any new accounts/tools/etc.
Just use wc, it's close enough.

$ wc
void main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hi, I'm %s\n", argv[0]); }
1 11 70
lines words chars

$ tr '()[]{}*+.>,";'"'"- ' ' | wc
void main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("Hi, I'm %s\n", argv[0]); }
1 13 70
>A game company can disappear, and the players can pick right up where they left off, with a new game, remake, or a reverse engineered copy of the server.

If there is demand, this can and will happen anyway. There are countless examples of fans continuing to mod and/or host games after they were abandoned by the original creators. The only difference is that you want to import your assets from one game to another. The only thing being preserved here are the assets from the old game. The only added value from NFTs is preserving an investment in the old game.

>Why cant financial gain be a PART of the whole? People can both collect pokemon cards, and play with them. It's not mutually exclusive that you have to declare youre one or the other. Although NFTs probably should include a "you opened the wrapper" function, to create additional scarcity as people destroy the value of their items by making them less digitally pristine.

No one is saying that you can't have fun with your Pokemon cards. But Pokemon cards and decentralized digital scarcity are not interchangeable concepts. Decentralized digital scarcity appears to only be motivated by money.
> The GFX ROM and the 68000 instructions ROM as burned separately. The problem Akiman describe is that the GFX ROM had been burned but he could still make changes to the instructions.

The sprite data was already burned to ROMs, but they could still change the code.
The Purdue Bankruptcy Didn’t Work
In Canada you are not allowed on a commercial flight if you are not double-vaxxed. Not surprised to see a rise in people seeking alternatives.
If you publicly state which smart contract is your NFT, then that would be the real one. Similarly someone could claim a physical painting is yours, but you could publicly say it isn't. The blockchain doesn't know anymore than a physical canvas "knows" what is real and what is fake. The blockchain is a tool, the artist is the creator and arbiter of what the real NFT is.
First of all, watch this, and learn that there's a whole stack of layers below what Linux can even touch these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo

For a theoretical understanding, with a much simpler model, I suggest the Nand2Tetris course.
What's the deal with that? Never seen a thread drop off so quickly before.
I have a rule about ZERO copy-pasting from SO or anywhere else on the internet for that matter. If you don't understand the code, when you have all the time in the world to understand it, seek help, test it, and figure it out; you certain won't suddenly understand it better, when it breaks in production. Just because 100 idiots upvoted something, doesn't make it right.

Personally, I avoid SO because I've seen too many wrong answers. I prefer documentation, or blogs explaining approaches. But, it can be a resource, especially to new developers, to help you understand how you need to think and how to approach problems. As a replacement for coding it yourself, it's might be hot garbage, so you should understand it before committing to having produced that code and assign your name to it.
I disagree. Get your government to break them up.

Also, my logic applies to any company really. So I’m having a hard time reconciling your position with a smaller company that tracks and uses ads.

Basically you feel it’s ok to not compensate content creators because they’re using big techs platform. Weird
For a secure/minimal set I'd just avoid sftp and it's client-commanded resource management. Just use plain scp, the protocol is very simple.
Can you describe a bit more what you mean 'startup in large companies.' There are definitely some things to know, but only if I'm understanding what you're asking about.

At a minimum, you might start with understanding that there are essential differences between existing large organizations and startups. Most noteably that startups exist to SEARCH for a business model that works. In this world, failure is a 'good' thing if it produces learning about the product you 'should' be building. In contrast large organizations exist to EXECUTE a functioning business model. In that world failure of any kind (to hit a growth target, to generate a certain amount of revenue, etc.) is a career ending mistake.

For this reason, startup in a large organization is hard because everything about the organizational structure is about execution. The metrics you'll be evaluated on are about execution, not about learning and assessing progress towards product market fit. Even if you think it will be different it won't because there will always be one level higher in the organization that doesn't really fully GET this difference and try to impose execution metrics or leadership styles on your 'startup' team.

Steve Blank has a LOT of really good content about this difference and some others about how to do B2B product development.

I'd start here - https://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/

And then read on until you've mined his message fully.
They're not using NaCl, they're using a custom code implementation of the relevant NaCl interfaces.
Yeah, but it's not using NaCl or libsodium. It just says it's "compatible with" them.
From my experience and some of the comments, it seems like a common thread is that weed is good for "clean the garage" tasks - not cognitively challenging but tedious, something you'd like to be distracted from - and not good for reading and retaining new information.

In programming terms, I think it's great for refactoring, or let's say working through a bunch of corner cases on some weird business data you have to parse, and terrible for learning a new framework or implementing something new you where you need to read several articles about something and combine them into a coherent plan.
Unfortunately no brew install skipt for this gem?
Anybody knows why?
This is why your comments are disingenuous. Both the comments here and the article itself discuss what went wrong legally with LendUp. You are willfully ignoring those.

If you want to weigh in with your "hot take" you should at least read the article, rather than coming in claiming LendUp did nothing wrong and then when presented with evidence fall back on well "I don't know" and "know little about the space".

This is exactly why your comment is disingenuous, because you specifically stated "turns out that there's no possible way of making a sustainable business in this space that's less-terrible than that was there before" as a defense of LendUp's actions, when as I have pointed out to you, there are plenty of sustainable businesses operating in this sector. If you want to quibble around "sustainable" vs. "good" then at the very least you should acknowledge there are companies that are operating legally vs. ones shut down (e.g. LendUp) after committing multiple violations.

I mean seriously, are you just going to ignore this statement:

“LendUp was backed by some of the biggest names in venture capital,” said CFPB director Rohit Chopra. “We are shuttering the lending operations of this fintech for repeatedly lying and illegally cheating its customers.”

The Director of the CFPB doesn't just come out and call everyone liars and cheaters.

This is very much worth harping on, because you are perpetuating and defending the idea that YC can do no wrong, instead of accepting that it is possible it made a mistake in funding and supporting these founders.
I wouldn't say people forget as a lot of people don't have the extra capital to shop for soy vegan lates every morning for breakfast. These decisions are firmly in the realm of the political economics.

Either cut off the product supply through embargoes or taxes or build a competing supply chain...