skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adam <-> Relay <-> ... <-> Relay <-> Bob
PickBetterPack is now open source
Two thoughts spring to mind.

The first is RethinkDB [1], which was a darling for awhile but couldn't seem to find a business model. I really wonder if it came later how much money it could've raised. There were claims made that the cloud killed RethinkDB. This past year seems to fly in the face of that theory.

The second is: is this just database "success" (as measured by funding rounds and valuations) or is this just the general case with all startups? I honestly don't know.

Still, I wasn't aware of all these players and it was a good post so thanks for that.

[1]: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/
It misses that Tim Berners-Lee and early internet architects perhaps were thinking of decentralised and also peer-to-peer in the same way that web3/crypto guys do. What TBL had no interest in was the container (DB or server, whatever). Some 20 years later Tor people got interested in the decentralised and redundant storage for HTML and IPfS for files. So this is kind of… already invented. But not anywhere near to mass adoption.

While I agree that FB, twitter and alike are just big content holders and providers, I cannot agree that vast majority (of users) even understand the implications or care to go decentralised and redundant (in respect to content).

So it seems the appeal of the so called web3 is still very weak. And btw It’s not even a web, really. It seems to me rather an extremely bloated approach to ‘torrenting’ assets. And extremely energy-pricey.
I think you're looking at this all wrong. If Telegram did this officially with Google, would they have had to craft this klunky workaround for breaking up RPC strings and randomizing the user agent? I don't think so.

Also the Google Pay analogy seems off. Telegram backdooring free access to Google Translate is not at all the same as Google partnering with 4 banks for transaction processing. One is totally unofficial, the other is an actual partnership.
Traefik is great, but their documentation is awful IMO. I moved to Caddy which I prefer currently.
Buddha Rush: A story of art and its consequences
China's Xi'an lockdown hits some of the largest chipmakers
Between banning books and firearms, and the unconstitutionality… which of the two is the enumerated right that ends with shall not be infringed?

TO THE TOPIC… it isn’t making something too simple at all. In fact, I never stated my thoughts on an overview. Just that if you want to argue “who can possibly support Thea things” change the topic to something even more protected and look in the mirror.
I've used the Intel VTune Profiler, I think it's free. It's a pretty good tool for profiling code and gives you quite a lot of information on how you're using the core pipelines, but you need an Intel processor to use it. I think it would have quickly flagged this kind of problem and told you that the processor were stalled waiting for cache.
Apple. Went from being an unprofitable 1990s personal computer manufacturer like IBM, Dell, Compaq, etc. to being a high end AV consumer electronics company like Sony.
They didn't mislead. I don't think the DOD mandated full POSIX compliance, and they really only wanted POSIX-style fine-grained ACLs.
Nulls are easy compared to invalid non-null pointers.
Why would they do that? If you like the picture you can just download it, if you want to access gatekeeped communities having the same picture with a different contract won't work, it will also have a value of 0$ so you won't sell it.
Matrix still has ways to go but Elemental is now actually usable.

On the Telegram security side of things my group of friends uses it as a more modern IRC. So no NSA proof security is truly even expected. We even bridge some IRC channels to Telegram with bots.
That's a nice property, but it seems like only a marginal benefit to Axie? Something like, players are more likely to invest money and energy into the game if there's some chance their assets' value will outlive Axie, thus slightly reducing the risks to their investment. Seems like that would be a small effect, or am I missing something? I guess what I'm trying to understand here is how crypto is a big game changer.

Thanks for the discussion in any case.
Enthusiastically agree with the title and content

Except the "these days" part.

Yes, it is getting worse, but having started back in the 1980s, there always seemed to be a developer attitude hostile to the users, and not merely being (mostly legitimately) fed up with having to deal with "pebcac" and "1D10T" errors, but actively designing to manipulate the user.

I also have to ask how much of it is the tendency for organizations as they get larger to almost actively select for the dark triad personality traits in mgt & executives.

Solution? IDK, mine has been to stay independent as possible. Probably leave a lot of money on the table, but retain more sanity.
I think its doable. You implement minting contract to be triggered by scanning QR code, and each minting contract to self-destruct/stop working after minting one token. You also need to have a treasury where the 10 dollars would live, either another smart-contract prefilled with stable coins that are redeemable from sending the token to the contract.
Yes, and I am ready for anything like that.
The iphone’s depth sensor is one factor. I don’t know of any lidar integrated cameras that aren’t phones, for example.

Also, because phone cameras have gotten so good, the skill floor for what you’re talking about is higher. There’s more skill involved in using software like lightroom than you might think. I’m a hobbyist photographer, and sometimes my iphone just seems more skillful than I am using my nicer camera and Lightroom.
This is a property of fine art in general. Even if you don't own the Mona Lisa, you could probably buy a very detailed replica of that you could frame and hang in your room. It would probably be an almost perfect replica in terms of reproducing the actual aesthetic qualities of it, the only thing you wouldn't be able to say is 'I own the original'. I think NFT's are BS as art, but I also think this is BS as well.
Even the FDA advisory panel raised questions about side effect data with children.

And if it’s a giant conspiracy theory, why are so many other countries (in Europe, Taiwan, etc.) explicitly disallowing the vaccines (in some cases specific ones) young age cohorts?
Oof. Sorry to hear that. I have some tactics I can provide if you’re interested.
> There is lots of trading, borrowing, arbitraging, building and releasing new products, marketplaces.

I’ve seen you post about crypto many times before, and you obviously have a large bag.

But all of the trading you’re talking about is of crypto, the very thing we’re trying to establish what the usecase is. There are no products outside of crypto, and building a bridge/exchange/marketplace for assets does not automatically confer value to either the assets or the venue.
The STL Dispatch covered every single angle of responsibility before and during taking this action. Even if they violated the letter of some law, the only outcome of a court case will be to embarass the state by exposing how incompetent they were, and how responsible the reporter and the paper were in disclosure.

My guess is the prosecutor will decline to pursue.
>C and C++ development on Windows is great. No sanity is needed.

C++ is bearable (except the bloated piece of crap that is Visual Studio). but C is almost nonexistent. For many years their compiler lagged in standardized C features (this only somewhat improved recently) and you cannot use vast majority of system APIs, which use COM interfaces.
Are you thinking of the Lodash random() function? Or Crypto.getRandomValues()?
Why doesn't Rust default to one crate per source file then? Wouldn't that make the build massively parallelized :-)
Where do you go to monitor these Hillsboro OVH sales?
The Disappearance of Harold Holt
It's a rule of mine to avoid any financial area that looks, acts, and talks like a mania after reading Charles Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)," which I discovered at random in a strip mall bookstore in Rhode Island. Reading it saved me over $300,000 dollars before the dotcom crash because I sold everything and got out (my timing was very lucky.)

Crypto, NFT's, blockchain & web3 are currently in a mania phase so my 2022 resolution is to aggressively ignore them so I don't get sucked in before the inevitable correction. I can't afford to be stuck with a pile of tulip bulbs.
No, that would not make a significant difference here. The problem is that the same line has to bounce around all of the threads that share it; pinning doesn’t reduce that very much on this time-scale. Thread migrations will be very infrequent relative to atomic operations, especially when the number of runnable threads is lower than number of physical cores.
Deep recursion is a bad idea in the kernel too; that doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

Code running in the kernel has a limited stack space. I think it's tiny, something like just a few pages.

Interrupts (which can nest) run in that stack space, not just the mainline code in syscall context. I think that might have changed though (there are interrupt specific stacks), which might also depend on the specific arch port of Linux. Still, those stacks are small and all the caveats apply to interrupt context. Don't be searching a linked list with linear recursion or using crazy VLA's.

If I had to put virtual machine execution into the kernel, though, I would definitely use VLA's or alloca to get the space required for each function to be as tight as possible to its actual requirements, the same way that the C compiler emits code for each function to allocate its frame size to exactly the needed size. Right tool for the right job.
Would love to hear a breakdown of what the term 'withdrawal' in "Data collected from 414 employees and 103 leaders showed that employees’ faking positive emotions in interactions with leaders was positively associated with employee withdrawal, but withdrawal was not significantly related to leader-rated task performance" means.
They believe the current Supreme Court, as stacked by Trump, won't strike them down.

And considering the precedent set by Texas' unconstitutional abortion law, they may be correct.
I think the problem is you've parsed the sentence wrong. The phrase Mozilla uses is "Automated Audit Letter Validation" and you've said to yourself, oh, there's an "Automated Audit" and this is validation of letters connected with that. Nope. There are "Audit Letters" - letters reporting the outcome of each audit - and they need to be Validated, now Mozilla has Automated part of that work.

Judging from other reactions I think the vast majority of people parsed this correctly in context, though it's possible I'm wrong. Occasionally poor editing will result in text that most native speakers parse wrongly, these are named "Crash Blossoms" from the naming example headline, "Violinist linked to JAL crash blossoms". A violinist (metaphorically) blossomed, and the headline is explaining which one by telling us it's the one "linked to JAL crash". This bug (statements which have ambiguous parsing) is probably unavoidable in natural languages, although similar bugs in programming languages are arguably a design mistake.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you or not.

I can see that if there's an NFT minted in eg 2020 and no record of the associated work existing prior to that, that provides a bit of evidence in favour of the (earliest) NFT holder being the legitimate IP owner. Is that what you're saying, or something more than that?
Unless I'm misunderstanding the diagram, it does not look like fatigue at all but rather yielding from shear loading.

The definition of fatigue is a small crack (in fact microscopic in the beginning) that grows through the application of cyclical loading (typically about 10k cycles is the lower bound for high cycle fatigue, which does not involve macro yielding).

Thus a fatigue failure would look like a fully ruptured part , usually with two distinct zones of the fracture face: one smooth zone from crack growth ( sometimes with characteristic "beach marks") and the final sudden rupture which is usually rough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)
It's not implausible that deepfake child porn ultimately causes harm to children. Allowing people to repeatedly indulge in a weak fetish may reinforce it into a strong one, or blunt a disgust response which would prevent them from acting it out.
Join activity groups/clubs. Eg: running, hiking, cycling, sports, etc — something that takes the focus off of the need to start or keep up conversations.

It’s also important to learn that everyone else has insecurities, self-doubts, has to poop and so on. From the coolest to the loneliest. It’s all about how you manage it.

Never apologize for yourself unless you’ve actually done something wrong.
You can use COM from C... it's just even more painful.
Unless I'm mistaken, POSIX find does not have -delete
So much this. Woe to you if you got to ipo on a pile of garbage. But ipo you say! Good luck scaling, adopting dev ops best practices, and keeping any sort of sla’s on that. And reducing cost or on boarding new hires? Pain is in your future.
No, that’s not what people are doing or saying. If the side effect rate/safety curve for the vaccines is not age specific then it’s entirely plausible there’s an age crossover point with the disease risk curve given COVID’s risk is wildly slanted towards older ages.
Direct URL to the post: https://www.groundedsage.dev/posts/the-clojure-mindshare/
Kambo and ayahuasca are great (in my experience) for letting go of past traumas and old/stuck ways of thinking. They'll meet you halfway; as with any therapy you do need to be willing to do the work and resolve the issues.
We don't have lifetime to deal with climate crisis.
> Why allow file names? OS should provide a UUID for all files. No names, nothing.

On an application level that's sort-of starting happen. It's annoying though. Sometimes you just need to know where the actual F Apple put your photo's (it's not obvious). If different applications need to work with the same files, then there's an annoying coordination problem if one application tries to pretend that "files" don't exist and another needs a file path.

Autodesk Fusion 360 tucks your projects into a cloud. I know there's some local cache, but there's no need to think about it because only Fusion-360 handles those "files" and I just worry about my project assets as presented to me by the UI. In that case, it's OK, but it also suggests a "walled-garden" of files for each application.
Fair, apologies. Won’t happen again.
Nope. I guess though that with lots and lots of money you can make even an Electron app work well ?
>We need to realize our problem is not with censoring people, it's with who does the censoring.

No, the problem is with censoring people.

You make it seem like censorship is a given. I disagree and feel no need to have a third party prune unwanted ideas for me. This will seem like a strange idea for some but I don't need a priest in between myself and God. I don't need a doctor in between myself and good health. Why would I need a censor in between myself and information?

No need for governments, no need for corporations, just me and my silly brain will decide what to digest. What a concept!

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We need to realize our problem is not with censoring people, it's not with who does the censoring, it's people that try and normalize censorship.
Why does it need to be implemented somewhere?
Employers are looking for stability, so a poor credit score is a proxy for a risky hire (in their minds). Even if 50% of the low scores are due to either medical debt or student loans, it helps them weed out "undesirables."
In OP the biggest crate after the split-up is 1,513 loc, with most of them a few hundred loc.
I don’t think the majority of people would be interested in a project like this.
Fireball Tool is a great YouTube channel! I recommend it for any hackers interested in fabrication. The content is very approachable.
What do you mean by "free port"?
Deserializing JSON Fast (2020)
Not quite accurate. If you become a distributor of content, then you fall under the rules for distributors.

That's (part of) why videos typically had that "not for rent" / "only for home viewing" stuff.
There's a difference between you lending or renting out a dvd once, versus this being a business model.

How this works out exactly in a US legal context, you ask?
Well: always follow legal advice from strangers on the Internet. Also IANAL.
Converting to Rocky, Alma, or Oracle Linux will extend support to 2029 with minimal changes to the installed system. Most CentOS 8 users would likely have done this by now.

Red Hat also offered a conversion procedure the last time I looked, but it replaced every installed RPM with equivalents from its own repositories. This is quite violent, and it would be far from my first choice for a critical system.
How about as a means to provide financial security to the world's 1.7 billion unbanked, a means for those who live under oppressive rule to preserve wealth in the face of rampant currency debasement, in a form that cannot be confiscated or stolen. Money-printing drives inflation which is is a regressive tax that disproportionally hurts the poor, who don't own real estate or stocks. It accelerates the wealth gap, which further strains our society. Bitcoin is a means to expand financial inclusion, and help level the playing field just a bit. It's not just about greed.

Regarding energy use, Bitcoin mining inherently seeks out the lowest cost electricity which turns out to be either stranded energy (not usable for anything else) or renewable (solar, wind, hydro). This is yet another reason to push governments to stop subsidizing fossil fuels. Also, since Bitcoin mining can be done at any time and in any place, it is able to act as the buyer of last resort for renewable projects whose energy production does not line up with grid demand. Having this extra buyer can greatly reduce the payback period for a proposed solar/wind project that otherwise would not have been able to attract the investment to build it.
I don't necessarily think it is fair, but my guess is that even in your example, the inventor is unlikely to get paid very much by the community unless they had a maintenance agreement worked out in advance. They might be able to get some funding through something like the Nobel prize or Gates foundation.

Like the author of the article, I've observed that if you give a gift, it's very hard to charge for it after it’s been accepted. Whether this is innate to human psychology or caused by social constructs, I don't know, but it basically feels like a law of the universe.
It sounds to me like you do get it. Everyone knows you can right-click and save a regular old digital image, and that any copy of that digital image is probably not going to be valued by people.
It was announced a year in advance, if that’s a rug pull your org has bigger problems.
Having been in or associated with many database startups, I would not invest in one. You need to evangelize a product on which the life of someone’s project or company depends. in such a situation, you want boring technology that just works. Hard to imagine a new feature, or performance win, that justifies the vastly increased risk of obtaining it.
The VC market is super frothy at the moment.

That drives up valuations in the short term and results in a very easy time to raise capital (aka Gold Rush). However what follows is a period where the market will turn the screws really hard on companies to show they have a viable and economically justifiable business or they’ll get washed out real quick.

We’re not in a bubble like dot com but it will get very uncomfortable for companies that don’t have a clear path to self-sustaining economics.
Surely, interesting questions and topics can arise from the NFT space - like any other tech, really. But that's not the question. Did this particular story gave you any new insight into copyright issues with NFTs? For me it didn't.
There are many places today in the middle of the pandemic that don’t care about masks.

I’m sure some people will choose to mask forever but the mandates will end.
Gotta finish Software Foundations series.
> "mild brain impairment/damage of unknown cause"

Is ADHD not a developmental disorder, causing an underdevelopment or delayed development of the frontal lobe? It seems incorrect to refer to this as "brain damage"?

Edit: I guess I'm referring to the official "medical narrative" as it stands.

I do happen to believe that the DSM-5 criteria is wildly out of date for ADHD diagnosis and at odds with the findings of a lot of more recent research. But I'm just questioning the "brain damage" terminology - I've never heard it described in that way before.

Most medical professionals that I've encountered stick firmly to the line that ADHD is a lifelong condition that develops in very early childhood and is not currently curable. You can almost entirely alleviate symptoms. But this is != a cure.

My current understanding is that if your ADHD is "curable" by eg. vitamins or a change in sleep pattern then it is unlikely to be considered to have been ADHD in the first place (but the symptoms may well have been indistinguishable). That's not to say that the symptoms of ADHD can't be greatly reduced by these things.

However, I'm not a doctor. Happy to be corrected by anyone who is.
Right, I forgot that Tesla threw out every single line of code, every single model, and crushed all AP2 cars when AP 2.5 came around. Same again for AP 3.

(Those of us who live in reality like to use the concept of inference)
Yes and no. As a thought exercise it can be thought of as two parties even if you have to pay off more than one entity in the real world.

Its part of the reason gov projects are almost always over budget and behind schedule. The only way to prevent corruption is to make the corruption more expensive than just paying upfront. However by putting these endless bureaucracies in place it also raises the total cost of the project.
It was a little fast, but that's not why it was a rug pull. It was a rug pull because IBM retroactively shortened its lifespan after a bunch of people had already started using it in production.
This seems like an incredibly strong claim presented without evidence (unless you believe in fairly debunked "skills are fixed at birth" nature-vs-nurture ideas).

The vast majority of pedagogical literature and science from the last couple of decades is talking about the importance of instilling a "growth mindset", depicting a whole zoo of interventions shown to improve cognitive skills in students, including as measured by SAT scores and IQ tests (even if they are imperfect measurement tools).

There is a relatively easy way to disprove your claim if you believe in IQ tests (an assumption I am making). You can improve your test score by practicing on similar tests (or even unrelated things like crosswords). Trivial exercises can improve your IQ test score or any other cognitive measure.
It was actually a leaf from a foreground tree, not an image processing artifact:

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
> Reading it saved me over $300,000 dollars before the dotcom crash because I sold everything and got out (my timing was very lucky.)

Are there not other books that you could also read that would tell you to buy mutual funds tracking a broad market index, hold, never sell, no matter what? aka don't time the market
The people who cry about censorship on big platforms are people who want to access the audience. They aren't crying for the censorship itself (they usually love when people with opposing views get banned), they are just using that word to complain about them losing an audience. Setting up a personal website doesn't meet that goal, and probably a thing like this doesn't either. Most of the nazis etc. are quite miserable in their "censorship-free" platforms, because they can't reach normal people there.