skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who doesn't own a Windows machine and only uses Macs for work, this feels like an outdated perspective. It's been many years since using desktop Linux has required magical terminal incantations (for me at least).
If it says Nvidia, don't touch it. Otherwise, everything seems to just work, and things at least don't get broken arbitrarily by companies whose goals don't match mine. Even all the games I've tried have run solidly with Steam's Proton support.

Maybe I've become numb to them, but I just don't see these painful interactions that get referenced, and don't see why their bogeyman would be worth giving up your freedom to use your machine.
Looking at the whole 2021, both the daily avg. and total monthly queries seem to be flat. Only October and November were positive outliers.
Economists are pretty dumb here. If you allow superwealthy parasites to exist, they become "host-controlling" parasites and abolish democracy and establish plutocracy. Economists don't model that and it makes their models useless.
Decentralized cryptoapps may have a point, but somehow "web3" proponents forget that there there can be decentralization without crypto at all.

Web2 succeeded because Web1 protocols haven't been developed to withstand abuse. For instance, the email protocol (Web1) hasn't got an extension that would enable receiving emails only from authorized senders. As a result, email is heavily abused by spam and phishing to a degree that only a handful of large email providers can effectively deal with it. The centralization of email services is typical for Web2.

RSS (Web1) hasn't got an extension that would enable access restriction and following. As a result, centralized proprietary ad-driven social networks (Web2) took over.

HTTP (Web1) hasn't developed a micropayment mechanism. As a result, the current internet is monetized through all-pervasive ads (Web2) with all the terrible destructive downsides that come from ad-driven media.
Last question, what's the reason for the spiral gear?

Aperture ring belt, looks like it grips the adjusting part of lens body and then something turns it, spiral is just excess material.
I'm not convinced.

People talk grand about "permissionless data" but I fail to see any practical applications. NFTs are a scam and are retroactively obsoleted by digital signatures. All of the ideas about logistics tracking, deed tracking, etc etc are all rendered pointless by the oracle problem, you can get identical guarantees with digital signatures minus the blockchain.

DeFi is DOA. Gas fees are insane, "layer 2" is just a diplomatic way of saying "offchain centralization", every DeFi scheme is a money loser relative to just buying eth and waiting for a pump, "collateralized" loans where you pay coin so someone will loan you coin is not a valuable use-case to the vast majority of the population...

None of this is about giving power back to individuals, it's all about making money on mining fees and cryptocurrency speculation.
> Perhaps specific aspects of crypto (e.g. NFT used for real estate transactions) will be the killer app?

I consider myself to be very good at security, offsite encrypted backups, managing private keys, and other opsec details.

But there's no way I'd ever want the ownership of my house or cars or other property controlled by an NFT. If something happens to my private keys, am I stuck with the house forever? If my private keys are stolen, does someone else suddenly own my house because they have the NFT?

In a hypothetical world where NFTs were the token of real estate ownership, governments would simply step in and make sets of laws to override and re-issue the NFTs according to legal outcomes. They would store the overrides and other information in a centralized database that they control, and everyone would be bound to respect the overrides in the centralized database. So the NFT becomes a gimmick.
> The fact that I think that all cryptocurrencies are worthless in their current form does not mean that I need to convince people at large of this.

How did you convince yourself of this ?

A thought is just an idea - it can come from reasoned analysis or irrational feelings.

What’s the basis for your thought that current cryptocurrencies are worthless ?
like your sibling poster, you didn't actually engage with the point I made repeatedly above, which is the mass-migration-to-achieve-political-change part. do you believe that this concept is generally justifiable and everyone should be encouraging it everywhere to further their own goals of political change? or just this one specific instance?
Because parents are the primary stakeholder group for public schools, and elections provide a mechanism for a modicum of accountability. Although it's rare for parents to get outraged enough to actually turn up en masse for school board elections and vote for substantive change.

As for why school boards have editorial oversight... What do you do if a school librarian goes off the deep end and starts spending 100% of the library budget on say, Scientologist propaganda? It's not against any laws and has been selected by the administrative staff, so how would that situation be resolved without oversight?
I think the more people creating game engines and open-source game frameworks the better, since every now and then something like Godot will emerge and continue to prevent a Unity-or-Unreal mono-culture. Which, to be clear, I don't think we're close to; to pick just one example Monogame, for instance, has been doing its thing for ages now and is going strong. As someone who's full-time job is working in Unity I think this sort of thing ends up being healthy for the whole developer ecosystem.
I'm sure they're using a strict subset of C++ but it is still complex. I wonder if they'll move to Rust some day.
Agreed. This whole operation has been a superb advert for Ariane 5.
> The video is clear enough to see the attack, but too grainy to identify who did it. It is obvious from the video, however, that the perpetrator is checking his cell phone as he walks out of the alley.

Use a fake phone like an ipod touch to waste investigator's time and pin it on the nearest person with an outstanding warrant.

Have fun with the Innocence Project! "acquittal" never seems to mean "find the accurate perpetrator"
Please show me the studies that suggest people would arrange kidnapping of their children for tax improvement if the IRS hadn't put this in the codes.
luckily we have statistics textbooks we dont need twitter celebrities to teach about probability.
> Only a single process can write to the database at any time; it does not support concurrent writers.

I think you can do concurrent writing now with Write-Ahead Logging (WAL): https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

I've never tried it though, so I don't know how suitable it is for web apps that might potentially have multiple processes trying to write to the DB at the same time.
1. Because it's a ponzi scheme and they get to get in on the ground floor. See: https://mobile.twitter.com/intangiblecoins/status/1473302581...

2. Because they're rich libertarians who see crypto as a way to protect their assets from the government
Don’t those officers still have qualified immunity?
I've never used Facebook, so I don't know. If it's about sending messages via facebook website, I would call it an encrypted way of communication. Because https traffic is encrypted.

I've posted my definition of "encrypted" because someone asked, check the whole thread if you are interested
It's not, though. The code was written with a certain emotional state. If Senator Jones of the Great State of Wherever's kids were kidnapped, we'd have the Jones amendment to the tax code saying that kids were dependents until they clearly weren't, because we were all sad for Senator Jones at the time we wrote the code. Ignoring that fact means that we treat the law as some piece of inviolable logic, as opposed to something we thought made sense at the time, and prevents us from seeing it as something we both can and ought to change should it not deliver the results we want.
My score is 0.
Do they though really...

Microsoft Linux contribution is almost completely around making run better on azure or wsl not making Linux itself better.

For open source they are attempting to control the mind share with dotnet, vscode, GitHub aka embrace phase

We have started seeing signs of the extended phase in all 3 projects

We all know what phase 3 of eee is
You need to define "we"...because that is part of the point. We as parents should be setting our kids up to deal with adult issues...schools should stick to learning the basics and not necessarily expanding the minds of middle schoolers with graphic books.
Apple is the most prestigious company to work for on planet earth and they attract the best hardware designers because design and UX is the core of Apple but that comes at a cost: subpar software engineering. Apple as an org isn't structured to deliver top tier, efficient software like Google, Microsoft and Meta and I don't they'll ever will. Just look at iCloud, Apple Music or any of their services. They are all built on inefficient and outdated tech.
> NFS and SMB are options that can convey access to remote systems, but performance will not likely be good.

And the safety of your data depends on the quality of your network filesystem's locking implementation. It's not too difficult to design a locking method that works most of the time, but it's a lot harder to build something that guarantees mutual exclusion over an imperfect network.

On a single machine, file locking is generally reliable (mediated by the kernel). Multiple clients can access the same database simultaneously, with readers and writers taking turns, and all that happens is you pay the performance penalty of serialized access.

But if your client thinks it has a lock on a remotely-stored database file, but the server-side lock has actually expired and another client is writing to the database, your data is likely to get hosed.

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
It implied a degree of success in the crypto markets to me but I'll admit I was reading into things a bit much - I have no idea how much Bitcoin was worth back then vs. now. Apologies.
Kind of, yes.

Health care for profit rewards companies who limit supply, increase prices, and set the goal of having long-term “customers” because each of those things brings in more cash.

It’s not economic thinking that’s driving the ship though.
ha ha hero worship
Ah, thank you. I had found the earlier 2016 video and information surrounding it, but failed to find this more recent information.
Not necessarily. Your security model should be that any computer on your network could be infected. It’s very likely to happen and if there’s any flaw that allows infection it’s not your whole network that gets compromised.
So I see configurations in:
.emacs
.emacs.d/init.el
.config/emacs/init.el
Which is preferred?
I'm a retired software developer. I have my computer and my non-techie wife's computer running Linux Mint. For me, doing some hobby coding, yes, I paste some incantations, but for her, I don't have to do anything. A clean install just works fine as is.
Why would UI need to be centralized? Even in normal SPAs the client is making most of the work, the UI is fairly trivial to decentralize and there were a few examples on hn already.
Want to share where I can read the unified opinion from the "tech community"? I'd consider myself as part of the tech community, but never said anything of those things, are you sure you can speak for everyone in the community?
I use Emacs, but not exclusively. It's my daily driver but I'll still open VS Code sometimes, and I'll still do a bunch of stuff in nano or Vim if I need to.

What motivates me? The lisp-based config is a big one, I can learn how to configure Emacs and the knowledge of lisp is transferrable outside of it. I enjoy hacking on Emacs that way because I also like lisp.

It's also been 10 years and I'm just used to some of the emacs conventions. I don't use vim keybindings, I have a minimal config that sets up language modes and syntax. It's comfortable for me.

So the simple explanation is that I find joy in working with emacs, and as much as I find joy in working with other tools too, I still come back to the joy that emacs offers me. It's a comfortable and familiar environment for the things that I spend the most time on, and I use other tools for everything else.
This is a great point- I dramatically oversimplified what is going on. I do wonder how this is discussed internally. Since I started working as a dev back in the late 90s I feel like a lot of the optimism I had from tech improving our lives has largely been erased. Its probably just me getting old and pessimistic though :).
For the domain of webapps, where multiple concurrent writers are often expected, yes, I would say it's a stigma.
"The unreliable 'facts' of a fact-checking site"
https://archive.is/t6sDN
I use Hubitat for the actual HA stuff in my house, and have HOOBS running as well which connects to it, and a bunch of other home stuff that isn't HomeKit native (Unifi Protect cameras, Ring alarm, etc) and creates devices.

The Home app is a fantastic dashboard which I use mainly to monitor state, as well as to control (mainly lights and shades) with Siri.

Hubitat does all the core automation stuff, like tying together multiple sensor states. It also acts as a Z-Wave and Zigbee hub.
But not on the game art or game design department, apply to internal tools team.
A bacterium is a single cell. The neurons in our brains are also single cells. If we think consciousness is in the brain, then isn't it also in the neurons? If its in the neurons, is it in a neuron?
Possibly passed away… it would be hard for anyone to resist the amount of money his early coin holding is now worth.
I totally disagree with you. Giving a single word "guidance" and pretending to read a manuscript is not enough to qualify for authorship in most journals submission guidelines. Likewise, all the thing about money, lab space etc. (which in my case is funded by a national scholarship, not my supervisor) has nothing to do with research ideas, which is what papers are about. If people who are making my live easier as a grad student were to be giving authorship, the secretary and the cleaning lady would both rank higher than the head the lab. I'm putting the name of my supervisor because I'm forced to and because I belong to his lab but anyone who worked with him knows his involvement in lot of papers is close to 0.

So if someone has done the research and wrote the paper it is normal he got credit as first author for it. Whatever money is lying around isn't writing paper by itself. The monetary compensation is meager enough not to be robbed on top of that of what we created.
It's more theoretical. While it's possible to write a dissertation in a short amount of time (I wrote mine in 2 months), it really should represent multiple years worth of dedicated research. For example, I had a figure in my dissertation which took 4 months to create, in terms of data collection and processing. Just one single figure out of several dozen!

That's one aspect is that most dissertations are not very impactful. The general idea is that a good dissertation should extend the field of knowledge in just a small way. It doesn't have to represent a titanic shift in thought or be revolutionary in any way. So really most dissertations are not supposed to have much thunder at all to steal.

At that level of specificity, it's possible to know all the big players by name and what they're working on. It's easy to find your own corner in such a small group, and it's very rare for a dark horse researcher to enter the field and suddenly steal your topic. It's hard to become an expert in a field without being noticed by already experts.
EDIT: Please explain in the comments - because I seriously do not understand that - why on earth you are downvoting this!? You're advocating something cruel. WTF? What is the problem about saying "leave a person alone who apparently WANTS to be left alone?". You're advocating stalking.

The people who trying to figure out who Satoshi is and make it public should realize this:

What they're effectively doing is trying to completely destroy someone's life just for them having written a piece of software.

Because then everyone will assume (EDIT: not *know*, see the comments) that the person is insanely rich. And beyond the glorification of being rich everyone forgets what it actually means:

You're a prisoner of your money.

Want to go to a pub and have a beer? Not possible, you might get kidnapped or at least harassed by paparazzi.

Want to go outside for a walk? Same as above.

Want friends? Nope, how are you gonna find them if you cannot go outside? How can you trust anyone? Maybe they just want your money?

Of course, the rich can mingle among each other. But this very much limits your possible circle of social contacts, and there's no law of nature which says that someone like Sathoshi might even want to be friends with Justin Bieber etc., or vice versa.

Hobbies? Only those you can do alone.

Want a girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse? See above.

Also as a bonus a large portion of the public will HATE you, no matter what you do. Just see how much HN hates crypto.

You might get tortured for money, lynched or whatever cruel imagination you can come up with. Enough people know you = anything is possible.

Satoshi apparently wants to be left alone so you should do just that.

They gave you a software for free which spawned a whole industry, they don't deserve to be harassed for that. If you don't like it then don't use it, but don't destroy the developer's life. Nobody forces you to use it - and even if someone did then go harass them, not the developer.
Sure, you and others like you make pretty valid points. I believe we are talking about different use cases, hence the confusion. I was thinking of my most common use case of archiving events, usually experimental data, with a non ambiguous time reference.

If you need to schedule future events it gets obviously a lot more complicated, you don't need a timestamp you need local time and you need it to be robust to future changes in timezones, DSTs, politics.
Does anyone else find it hard to remember information from audiobooks?
It seems to me that it's harder to retain knowledge gained from audiobooks. Has this been scientifically validated? What's your approach to counter this effect (if it exists)
I have yet to be able to manual focus through code the Arducam. :'‑(
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Mongo’s “return before write” behavior is what earned it this title. It makes it look better on benchmarks, convincing unwitting devs that it is a better choice.
> If, on the other hand, the database is an open public database that is not controlled and administered by a single company, but instead is a truly open system available to all, then that kind of market power cannot be built up around a data asset

That's just so blatantly and obviously false it's rather remarkable that he wrote it.

Absolutely nothing stops companies from becoming the dominant providers - aka big tech - that utilize said database at the application layer. Indeed that's exactly what will happen. You don't need to own the database to build a big tech monopoly on top of it. Microsoft didn't own the primary distribution channel for Windows 95, and they didn't own the hardware it ran on either. Google (search, circa 1999) didn't own the Internet, or the PC, or the operating system, or the cable line, or the telecom infrastructure, and so on. Consumers develop preferences, companies develop advantages (through superior products or other means), and the market dominance centralizes to one or a few providers. That's always inevitable short of government intervention. You don't have to own the database to build a monopoly on top of it. The better products (or via other leverage points) will win out and dominate and will be extraordinarily difficult to compete with, their advantage will become entrenched as their product gains in complexity and capability (ie competing with Google in 1998 was far easier than it would have been by 2012, as they scaled their capabilities and made enormous investments globally); the cost to keep up the with the winners soars and few will try (see: lack of dozens or hundreds of new competitors to Uber and Lyft, few are even trying at this point, the potential competition gives up for obvious reasons).

Say hello to Coinbase & Co. We've already seen this process in action in crypto, many times over.
I have a hard time trusting wikipedia to have bias free information at this point. With politicians able to scrub their bios prior to running and the general sense from reading the more popular pages.

The citation for his "self-medication" is from a Salon piece. Is this really where we've come to, a big circle jerk of citing low quality references to seem legitimate? How about linking to some actual long form media of what he said, not clips without context or articles even more removed.

I remember when first hand sources were sought after. It would be nice to see them used given how much more prevalent they are in modern society.
SQLite is great, but it's not a more simple drop in replacement for DB servers like HN often suggests it is.

My team at work has adopted it and generally likes it, but the biggest hurdle we've found is that it's not easy to inspect or fix data in production the way we would with postgres.
Be careful! If you copy a database file while it is being modified, you may end up with an inconsistent view of the database depending on the order in which different parts of the file are modified.

There are ways around this (filesystem snapshots and potentially file locking) but it's not trivial and failing to handle this correctly is a very good way to build a system which passes tests under low load (when the file-copying operation will win all the relevant races) but fail catastrophically under heavy load.
Two economically uncompetitive systems is no better than one such and one even more such.
This article is a very good demonstration of the problem with fact checking, thanks for sharing.

> Many of these issues were already discussed on HN. Anyone could dig up dozens of such cases with a bit of searching...

I imagine I could find more if I wanted to as well, but it probably kicks off a more interesting discussion if we focus on real examples instead of imagined hypotheticals. I was just trying to drive the discussion in that direction.
crypto is elegant - nothing is produced and indeed much is burned, but you just have to trick people into playing the game and someone will capture all that money as it flows in. its a purely behavioral hack that taps into our mindless greed and fear. We are herd animals and crypto is a typical stampede.
I'm going to guess that work 60% as much for 25% of the pay is what's actually being offered, and then working 120% as much for 25% of the pay will be the eventual result.
Cray/HPE, presumably, has a contract to provide support to the customer with nuclear weapons. If this fix is necessary to that contract, Cray/HPE should set the bounty needed to get it done as part of the necessary cost of fulfilling their contract (if they didn't figure it in, and it's not a cost-plus contract, and it cuts into the profit margin, well, that's the risk you take with fixed-cost contracting.) Free Software may often tend to be free-as-in-beer as well as free-as-in-speech but, where it is, that is as is. If you have special, and especially time-sensitive, needs that aren't as is, you pay someone to do it. It's not a gratis support contract with response time guarantees. As Cray/HPE ought to be well aware, that kind of support is expensive, and doesn't happen if no one is paying.