skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you should always have at least two and keep one in a reasonably fire resistant safe. You may want to enroll multiple and keep them in other places too, but you can't enroll a key you don't have so things like a safe deposit box are not useful for the average case.
My problem with the bullshit jobs thesis is the "inherent value." There are plenty of jobs that have little societal value, but provide plenty of value to the person employing the person.

For example, plenty of jurisdictions give large tax breaks to farms, so it is reasonably common for developers holding land to turn their land into a "farm." One fellow I heard of put 6 cows on a plot of development land and paid someone to drop hay off for the cows as the land had next to no grass, as it was under development.

No real value is being generated from the cows. The output of 6 poorly fed and housed beef cows is well under the money paid to the cow carer and for the hay and for the damage caused by the cows to the neighbourhood when they escaped.

But the developer saved 80K a year in various property tax after all expenses were considered.
Halfway through this pod. This is terrifying.
The only university courses I know of that are about rote memorization are biology classes, but those aren't liberal arts per se.
I jumped ship from LastPass when they changed their subscription model so that I'd be paying for features that had previously been free. I'm now using Bitwarden for personal use and 1Password for work and I'm a fan.

I previously tried offline password managers but syncing the files between devices and such was a huge pain.
Paris Hilton launches metaverse business on Roblox
> So who are the early investors here

"Gameplay requires the purchase of three Axies, which currently cost in the hundreds of US dollars each."

> what's the legitimate business

"By blurring the line between “player” and “worker”, the game has effectively built a Ponzi scheme with built-in deniability. Sure, some users will be net gainers and other users will be net losers, but who am I to say the net losers aren’t in it for the joy of the game?"

So I guess the "legitimate business" is making the game interesting for people who.. enjoy it?

> and how are we taking money from later investors to give to early investors

I don't know how the in-game mechanics work but later investors also purchase Axies and somehow that money ends up in the hands of the former investors. Maybe not automatically, I guess it depends on what in-game actions you take, but given that you first have to invest before you can play...
No no. Everything has to be hosted on the cloud with a monthly subscription.
You can point to "sin", but in practice math just doesn't use multi-char variable names. The trig functions are special cases. Doesn't mean you're allowed to name arbitrary vars like that.
I used Scala over Python for lots of Spark work. The only thing I didn’t like is that I really struggled with the functional syntax for working with lists and maps. I felt the learning curve was steep in that specific area. Aside from that, really nice, elegant language.

Is Kotlin still that relevant after the latest releases of Java?
No. Earth for the past 2 million years has been in an ice age, several degrees cooler than the hundreds of millions of years before, when there was plenty of life thriving.
This has to be a security issue with LastPass, right? Something like an as-yet unidentified usage of Log4j.

> Some customers have also reported changing their master passwords since they received the login warning, only to receive another alert after the password was changed.

This sounds to me like either a widely-compromised browser extension (LP itself?) or LP infrastructure.
Several years ago, I chose LastPass, bought it, and did all the set up. Then they were acquired by someone I didn't trust, so I immediately switched to 1Password, and never regretted it for a second. If 1Password sold out, I'd switch again, in a second.
I think for shared libraries, the convention is to have the major version number of the API in the name (e.g. foo.so, foo2.so) and then to put any ABI changes as a trailing extension (e.g. foo.so.2, foo.so.3, foo2.so.2, foo2.so.3). It's kind of a hack, but it makes sure that you can link unambiguously to one if you need it.

EDIT: didn't realize you were talking about Gobo specifically; not sure how they deal with this, but theoretically a similar strategy seems like it could work
U.S. judge dismisses claims that LinkedIn overcharged advertisers
Let us search for novelty and new niches! That’s why I love this forum, above all else it brings in similar types who blaze epistemic trails.
This makes sense. But somehow something happened where the implied acceptance of risk when riding ATV’s and Snowmobiles was basically nonexistent, leaving responsibility with the manufacturers who felt the need to start labeling?
"In Minnesota, the emphasis is on working hard at whatever you do, and living a good life."

Having done my undergrad at the University of Michigan and spent a year and half in Detroit afterwards, I relate a lot to this article. People are just nicer and more personable here, there is less arrogance and an attitude of "doing the work".
One of the reasons USB-PD has active power negotiation is because of all the terrible $1-to-make chargers that flood phone stores and degrade your battery capacity over time. The kind that either: (A) charges your battery in pulses, (B) tries to force-send more current than the phone can handle for "faster charging", or (C) improperly protects the connected device from power grid spikes.

USB-PD then makes power negotiation a protocol rather than a dance of resistors, forces the device to have a dedicated charging circuit (regulate current), and allows for a device to say "please send less power now" or shut off charging if it overheats.

Manufacturers change the ports and occasionally you have a Nintendo that wants to reuse a port with their own mini-spec, but most of the blame lies with those outright malicious chargers.
This is the key. Everyone claims Python/MATLAB proficiency, yet there is honestly a vast competency spectrum. A polished public repo, in my experience, will really help you stand out.
They're not doing it for a day, they are doing it once a month. Eventually they will get out of the newbie persona and into the casual one, which is the vast majority of drivers for these kinds of apps AFAIK.

Eating your own dogfood is powerful at many companies, and a bad sign at a B2C company if your staff don't use it unless there are special circumstances that prevent them.
The ultimate example to me is the nissan.com guy.
Your definitions don’t agree with the dictionary at all. It’s relevant to this discussion and important that you can sell and buy services for which you may or may not have control. I really can’t abide with crappy incorrect definitions you’ve made up on the spot that don’t agree with the ways all other people use these words. Your list of definitions here also isn’t helping clarify anything other than you’re giving me the impression that you didn’t read the actual transaction text before you paid for some online movies?

Yes, I do agree that pirating something is somehow bad. I don’t see the point you’re trying to make by quoting me. You’re going to have to state it rather than expect I can read your mind.

I don’t agree with your snarky summary of my position. What you’ve demonstrated here is that you 1) didn’t listen to and/or didn’t understand what I said but believe you do, 2) don’t understand copyright law, why it exists and what shapes it, and 3) what the boundaries and distinctions are between copyright law and DRM.

Instead of being vague, can you give some specific examples of movies you paid for where the language used in the actual transaction said you were purchasing a copy of the movie, but it ended up being a rental? I’m not aware of any streaming service that uses either of those words, but it seems like you might have expectations that are outside of what the thing being offered was. Please give an example of how you were cheated by linking to the product.
Distributed systems need some way of keeping track of configuration and other control plane information.

Most of those systems such as Zookeeper, Kubernetes, and the IBM zSystem Parallel Sysplex Coupling Facility are more of a problem than a solution.

I know some people run Hazelcast as a cluster separate from the application cluster (think Redis) but you can embed it inside the application servers in which case it disappears as an element of infrastructure (one less problem!) and you benefit from having shared data structures that implement the Java collection interfaces. In a lot of cases you don't have to think much about how the data structures span multiple address spaces. Application servers can discover each other and self-organize the data structures required to coordinate them, whether you are running N instances of the same application server or if you are running M different services.

What is great is that it "just works" if N=1 and M=1 so you can do a lot of testing without having to spin up extra infrastructure servers (points of failure! headaches of configuration! more gigabytes of docker downloads!) to do control plane coordination.

If there isn't something like that for go there should be.
Given the distributed nature of a business like door dash using the app as a driver is about as close as you can come to walking around the floor.
Agree. Krugman is really good on pure economic questions like trade theory. Unfortunately he is a lot less trustworthy on issues where economics and current politics intersect, e.g., NYT opinion pieces. I read those with a fair degree of skepticism though he has produced a few that were economic gems.
I dunno how to put this but consider seeking therapy. 2 years of constant fear being cranked out by public health “experts” and the media have done a number on people. Fretting over Covid forever and trying to usher in some “new normal” is not rational thinking at all. I know plenty of smart people whose brains have been seriously messed up by all this Covid crap.

Learning to live with Covid doesn’t mean accepting some crazy dystopian “new normal”. It means accepting the small risk of Covid and going back to 2019 living. The one where you didn’t spend all your brainpower on “slowing the spread” of other viral diseases like the flu or the common cold.

We have vaccines for Covid now. It’s time to move on.
Yes exactly, thank you.

A lot of phones already support eSIM. Apple will claim they invented it and some will copy the no Sim slot but there are still carriers that don't support eSIM so I don't see this taking off like removing the headphone jack.
Why do you need something fancier? Couldn't you commit to n=1..6 by hashing a k*n where k is a random integer?
Because all the good obvious ones are already taken. Simple ones like "kevin" or "a". Unless your name is super unique, your username from the last 4 years has some sort of quirky thing, like a weird spelling with extra letters or numbers to get around that.
I guess they reasoned about it and decided it's not worth their effort with a growth rate of 40%
LastPass has had enough other security issues that I am doubtful of them to this day.

https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/enterprise/cloud-security/lastp...

Unfortunately the only password solutions I would recommend at this point are 1Password for something turn key, and BitWarden if you want to self host.
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Yeah, it's so slow that I'm wondering if they were actually measuring TCP/unix socket overhead. I wouldn't expect to see a difference at such a low frequency.
The Fed's mandate "so as to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates"

It does not mention asset price bubbles, or inequality.

> stoke dangerous asset bubbles

Maybe low interest rates increase the risk of asset bubbles, but there were plenty of asset bubbles when interest rates were higher than today. But are we willing to accept less than full employment for the risk of maybe causing an asset bubble that will lead to less than full employment? It's trading something bad today for a risk of something bad tomorrow. Seems like a poor trade to me.

> enrich the biggest banks over everyone else

Investopedia doesn't think so, but who cares if banks get rich if it means we have full employment.

> that would deepen income inequality

There is plenty of evidence that full employment helps reduce income inequality. Anecdotally the recent shortage of employees means I'm seeing gas stations advertising $15/hr instead of the $8 they used to pay. Meanwhile everyone I know who was making $100k didn't see a 100% raise.

Research backs up that full employment reduces inequality [1].

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041015/how-do-inter...
[1] https://equitablegrowth.org/wages-full-employment-reducing-i...
Reading books and maintaining personal cleanliness are controversial activities now? In what clown world should anyone ever be advised to play video games instead of doing those things?
The investors are the players hoping to make money from the game. The players have to buy Axies to play the game.

The "legitimate business" is playing the game to get more Axies that you can then sell.

The later investors then buy Axies that the early investors earned by playing the game.

As soon as exponential growth stops the system collapses.
Imagine there’s a multi-billion dollar industry where some people record sound waves made with their vocal cords, and other people pay _real money_ monthly to have a chance to replay those waves for entertainment only.
If you want the super simple version that doesn't hurt wallets, then tax dirty energy but give the money back to people, evenly divided per-capita.
Maybe it's octal?
Hyundai reportedly stops developing new combustion engines
I agree with your take, but I still find the article really informative regarding the relative high-levelness of x86 instructions and as someone else wrote: “while js, java, etc. developers learned that the programming model used by the language is quite distinct from the CPU’s one, C programmers like to live in their fantasy land where they just have a very fast PDP-11” (I may have combined a few sentences from the thread, but the point is the same)

By the way: what’s your take on VLIW architectures? Possibly with the currently hardware level optimizations moved to software?
Not sure if this is what you want, but I occasionally "buy" a TV show from Google Play. There's no forced ads.

I mostly do it because it's cheaper than a cable subscription, and the player is easier to use than Kodi.
Are you opposed to the cloud? You could get an even beefier machine on the spot market for under a buck an hour while you’re using it, then turn it down when you’re not.
When I hire a Ph.D., I hire someone that has undergone something that I know from own experience requires a lot of curiosity, perseverance, drive, self-motivation, self-management, and an ability to communicate well in writing and orally, to convince adversarial audiences, systematic thinking, analytical problem solving skills - each one of them priceless skills.
The smoke coming out of a coal powerplant exists for a good reason. Its still pollution.

The fire alarm example is a bad one. They don't go off hundreds of times a day for hours on end. If they did, yes, we'd need a different solution.

The construction project across my street has been going on for 6 years. 6 years of beep beep beep beep. There is technology and solutions that serve the same safety purpose but do it better. We can use directional beeper alarms, they can use different noise patterns and frequencies that are more easily blocked by windows and are easier to hear by people near by. They don't need to be as loud, too. There's no reason a backup alarm needs to be audible from 5 blocks in FRONT of the truck when its going BACKWARD.

> Don't show up mid-construction and ask people to disable the safety alarms.

What kind of strawman is this? Folks are asking for better safety code so that future construction can be handled safer with less disturbance. Not asking for a truck on a construction site right now turn off the alarm.
Volcker is pretty much believed to have ended the periods of high inflation, so what makes you blame him for a "crash"?
I'm running a decommissioned rack computer in my basement. It works good with some caveats and recommendations:

* Buy a 2U server, not a 1U server. The 1U server fans are VERY LOUD and very annoying. The 2U server fans are still pretty loud, but more tolerable. If you are in the same room, even the 2U servers can be annoying.

* Check the CPU benchmarks (e.g. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/). Older systems with older CPUs might not be as fast as you expect.

* Check how much RAM the system supports and get as much RAM as possible when you buy the system. I had problems trying to add RAM sticks that had the same specs but the BIOS would not accept them because they were not identical (it apparently matched manufacturer IDs as well as timing).

* Efficiency will be less than a new CPU; same or higher wattage with slower performance.
Generally refers to decentralized technologies that somehow benefit from blockchain-like data structures. For example, you can compost these three technologies to build a decentralized webserver.

- Filecoin & AR Weave: decentralized file storage. Spend tokens to store files, earn tokens by storing others' files.

- ENS (Ethereum Name Service): DNS-like system for addresses.

- Smart Contracts of various sorts (e.g. Ethereum): Similar to perpetual AWS lambda functions. Spend tokens to publish & call functions; earn tokens by executing functions.

The blockchain aspect is merely a way to have verifiable incentives without explicit trust between actors.
I'm not sure "value" is the correct question. Value depends on... values, I guess.

In any case, I suspect Graeber would have advised asking them. The grinders in manilla. The currency buyers, traders, etc. Cultural reasons are hard to extract from their cultural context without resorting to essentialism.

There are differences between a game where money comes from grinding, even if 3rd party and outsourced, and a pay-to-play currency. I suspect the people participating in that economy have a narrative, and that it makes some sort of internal sense. That's culture.
How much money people make is a separate question, but playing games is likely worse for the body than most forms agrarian labor. Excluding accidents with heavy machinery.
Just for the record, some of the examples Graeber uses include airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive, middle management, and corporate compliance officers.

You can call these jobs “bullshit” if you rely on an oversimplified version of the world where perfect airlines, perfect employees, and automatically enforced laws exist. Unfortunately, that’s also the exact view I often see in tech, where people tend to devalue work of others because its value does not seem to be self-explanatory in the first 60 seconds they spend on analysis of the situation.

In real life your lost baggage experience would suck without the person behind the airline desk, you org won’t be able to scale without middle management, and your business would suffer budget cuts due to legal fines because the only proper way to stay legally compliant today is (surprise!) to hire a compliance officer.

Good luck inventing some imaginary perfect-world systems where those issues do not exist and do not require extra staff you label as “bullshit”. Any kind of system which is designed and managed by people will have flaws and will require extra jobs handling these flaws. These jobs are not bullshit, they are valuable because they allow the system to exist and stay efficient.
I don't think they're absurd.

Humans are tribal to the core of our being.

Race matters, culturally, genetically, and is how we typically organized throughout history and even today.

The Irish, French, and British are pretty similar racially but divide pretty significantly on the tiny differences in that race.

To cast aside race as an arbitrary characteristic seems inaccurate view of reality.

Race is one of the most important attributes that makes us human.
I want an offline voice recognition speaker that can do timers and stream audio from my phone, although that's optional to be honest. I wonder how hard making such a thing is.
Apples eSIM is not the same as that open eSIM standard. eSIMs that work with iPhones have to be supplied via a direct agreement with Apple as far as I understand.
It’s fun to sit in the same room/office and brainstorm and actually build something together.

Gives that sense of camaraderie, we’re-in-this-together feeling, if it’s with the right people.

I also think it’s about 20x more productive if in a high-stakes, high-uncertainty regime.

But the median remote work is probably better than the median in person work, even if the very best work is in person.

Try to imagine starting SpaceX or Apple as a remote company… I think that kind of magic just wouldn’t happen.
I agree with your point that the operative word here is "earn", and not "play".

To play the devil's advocate: many crypto developers continue to build in the space (or have done it in the past) despite large drawdowns in token prices (denominated in USD). Would that constitute a sufficient signal that "there is something real there", distinct from the question of "is the valuation too high"?
I've read his essays, but not his books. Graeber does what every popular nonfiction writer does. He starts with a provocative conclusion, and cherrypicks data to support it. Bullshit Jobs is particularly bad in this aspect.

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/05/why-the-bullsh...
Unfortunately, if we can't agree on what words mean, I can't justify continuing to waste time in this discussion.

Cheerio!
IANAL but the legal concerns with an unauthorized portrait seem something of a stretch - it's not promoting something else, the portraits were the product and thus I'd be surprised if they were covered.

This is clearly very different from using a photo, along with "John Doe approves of our wonderful new electric toothbrush", which clearly would need John Doe's approval.

I'm sure there are some jurisdictions that are tougher but here I'm thinking mainly about US/UK general approach.

The portrait that was based on a copyright image may well be a problem though.

Of course it's understandable why the subjects might not be keen on the idea, but that's a different aspect.
I guess try to follow 3-2-1 backups as closely as possible:

3 copies of your 2-factor, 2 different mediums (a Yubikey and recovery tokens printed on paper), at least 1 in a different location (safety deposit box, trusted family members house, etc).
> Yes, such as when you use someone's creative work contrary to their express desire.

No, that's not theft.

That's infringement of rights.

But I speak with many artists and creators, they are more mad than me, I have a job where I get paid no matter what the result is, because they pay for my time.

they are between a rock and a stone: accept to work for these platforms and get paid shit, while they nmake billion, or don't and get paid shit, but at least own your work.
Guess which way many are starting to take...

> The principled, ethical stance is not to watch things you don't want to pay for.

according to what ethical stance, exactly?

yours?

do you really think it is so relevant?

or the ethic of corporations, which is objectively something to stay way from.
Not everybody’s brain is wired to monitor chat tools, streams of jira tickets, and piles of email. Many are much more effective when they can just roll their chair over to their colleagues desk and work something out.
I delivered postmates to handle boredom during the pandemic. If I didn't have to deal with entitled dick customers, I probably would've kept it up.

Someone gave me a 20$ tip for a bag of egg rolls once.