skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These recurring technofutures perpetuate a familiar equation in which convenience equals freedom

This statement I agree with. When you view convenience through the lens of dependency, you see something like Ivan Illich's "radical monopoly," where a technological change subordinates everyone to it. The car and roads are the example he uses, and the internet and its platforms are another.
In another tab I have a Meduza article open listing how the rhetorics of President of Kazakhstan has shifted from using words like "a demonstration" to "an international terrorist group". Assuming that Meduza's compilation is accurate, and if Kazakhstan keeps redefining the narrative, what is so strange about many foreign media outlets not keeping up with that?
How about some proof instead of pulling numbers out of your ass?
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When I was teaching my then 14yo the basics of programming, I started him off with python instead of java.
It was way easier to explain pip install pygame or whatever than explaining how to import a jar he needs(and all it's dependencies)
I'm sure if you borrowed some power tool and half broke it he'd be more than happy to call the city on you every time you violate one of the million rules for the next few decades. Of course nobody is fighting over corn but there is no shortage of fairly obvious parallels.
Which is exactly what is happening in Ukraine now. Their attempts to align with NATO have Putin freaking out, with much saber-rattling & troop movement.
I’m confused. If you mean public debt, doesn’t central banking free the public from meeting debt obligations when those obligations are denominated in the national currency?

Countries can and do issue public debt in other currencies. If we all used gold or bitcoin, there’s no reason to think public debt would be lower. But the obligation to pay it back would, in a sense, be harder to dodge.

It’s worth noting, as an aside, that the trend line on cost of servicing public debt in the US has been downward (though I would expect this to change): https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/us-debt-has-increa....
If Common LISP had become popular I think there would be a popular distaste for everything about it and people would be wishing they could write code in PHP, Visual Basic, COBOL, Cold Fusion, etc. (There was a popular distaste for Common LISP at the time, it was hard to find a LISPer in the 1980s who liked it. Half of that was it was hard to fit it into a 16-bit machine and wouldn't become really implementable on microcomputers until a 32-bit OS was available... Thus BASIC got another decade of life extension.)

Until Java came around every book on Object Oriented programming (say "C++") had examples such as "Stack", "Queue", etc. In the case of Java you saw people starting to write objects mirroring the business and application domains. People who were trying to use objects in Smalltalk or C++ in 1990 just weren't accomplishing enough that somebody could step back and say "object orientation sucks", rather they were getting stuck and blaming themselves or blaming the tools, rather than the concept.
> families are at each other's throats for that bushel of corn one guys grandfather stole from the other fifty years ago, random shit gets stolen, the garden is trampled, trash is thrown over your yard because the neighbor wants to "save" on trash collection fees, people cut ahead of you around in the queues

If this is supposed to be the description of Kazakhstan, I haven't seen a post with more bullshit in my life. Like "bushel of corn ... fifty years ago", "the garden is trampled", "save on trash collection fees", "people cut ahead of you in the queues" gee.
You can be paid for the task and keep quiet, or be paid for the same task and still complain online about it. You don't have to be aligned with the company that employs you, and a lot of workers aren't.

Often what happens is that someone (hopefully you) will raise the issue internally, but if the company decided to ignore regulations and take the risk of legal punishment, well it's not an engineer that will be able to stop it from being implemented. Hopefully such fines will make product owners and upper management consider the problem more seriously, but I wouldn't bet on it.
i guess it means as much as USB "Full Speed" (1998 USB 1.1 12Mbps)
Title should have mentioned this is for Gerbil programming language.
I hadn't heard of eBPF before: "run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel" (https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf/).

Are there any interesting projects using the technology to check out?
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Do fun things that don't require alcohol?

Go cycling, rafting, build stuff, etc. One way I've participated in many large parties and events is by "working" them. So if I'm running around with heavy equipment or driving things or doing something I can't do while drinking, then I won't drink.

I think people end up drinking because the activities they're doing are kindof boring. Sitting in a bar is pretty boring, board games are extremely boring.

But then on the other hand: drinking alcohol is a lot of fun. So I think it's probably a lot healthier to just have a healthy relationship with it, as opposed to abstaining completely (unless there is a medical reason or something).
These things are constantly re-invented. Will StumbleUpon come back as well?
The point is it is so low, that combined with access to abortion, sex and having children are effectively decoupled.
Tiobe is next to useless, and Java doesn’t beget useless abstraction - it is entirely up to you how you write your code. Also, while it is indeed started out as an OOP language, it is a mixed paradigm one nowadays (just as almost all languages are) — you are entirely free to program it in a much more functional way. It is especially freeing with the new records.
This advice may be unique to the United States.

UK: It’s usually safest to get out of your car (using the doors facing away from passing traffic) and wait behind a barrier. https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice/what-to-do-moto...

France: Any passengers should get out of the car on the side away from traffic and take shelter behind safety rails at the side of the road, if there are any. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210820/breakdowns-crashes-and-poli...

I'm interested in this part from your link:

>However, more than half the deaths and almost 1 in 5 serious injuries occur when a vehicle strikes a pedestrian who is leaving, working on, or returning to a stopped vehicle.

Is a breakdown of the different groups available?

• Leaving

• Working on

• Returning to

I agree that groups 2 and 3 are to be strongly encouraged against.

Group 1, choosing to leave your vehicle and stand off the road, behind solid infrastructure, is actively reducing their risk, albeit at the tradeoff of being briefly exposed to traffic.

I wouldn't recommend anyone exit a vehicle into fast moving traffic. For my comment above, I condsidered adding "if a suitable break in the traffic appears", but I decided it was overly wordy and to some extent self-evident.
That's generally done with browser cookies. But not such a phantom account. Nowhere near the same.
I think it's wild that so many comments here are saying just get new friends. Coming out of college for the next couple of years, my friends and I drank all the time too. Now at 33, with all the same friends, many of us don't drink at all and the ones that do, do so in moderation.

Now we game together (both video and board), hike together, camp together, ski together, have heart to hearts together, etc.

Just take the activities you do now and start removing alcohol. What you are going through now is exactly what I did at your age. I just removed alcohol and others will likely reduce over time too.

I used to host happy hours to meet new friends and just wouldn't drink at them. You can do all the same things you do now without alcohol.
I meant the name of the company.
Scala has just as much historical baggage imo. It's community is split between functional zealots and "better java". You also have the Scala 2/3 split that is currently going on and just the general complexity of the language makes it not so appealing.

IMO if you're serious about using the JVM you should be using Java 17 and following the latest version. Kotlin is usable, but it doesn't bring that much more to that table other than longer compile times.
> I just use a command line client for my usual password manager. Any reason you can't do that?

The obvious issue with this is the need to be in a session on your local machine. For example you would have to run the cli password manager, then ssh, then login to postgres. Then say you need to go to another machine and use a different password, now you have to back out to your local machine, run the password command again, then login to the other machine. The tool passmgr for example copies the pw to clipboard for 30 seconds, so now you up against the clock to get in and use it, what if you sit on remote machine for half the day? Now you have to constantly flip back to your local machine then back to the remote machine.

With in integrated password manager it doesn't matter what machine I am on, or even if I am daisy chained several ssh sessions deep, I can always immediately get access to the passwords I need.
Similar thing taught for offshor survival training in the north sea.

If you give up you are a gonner if you dont you may make it, and everyone who has survived had a determination to struggle on even when it looked bleak (i think the stats say something like if you are not out of the water in 5 mins you are unlikely to survive - even with a survival suit.)

They show videos of people passing out as they are airlifted out of the sea too and falling out of the sling. or passing out and drowning when they see the helicopter overhead - assuming that they dont need to fight any more.
Ah, so what were we using before Bretton Woods?

I didn't know that the silver and gold minted coins traded by Roman merchants were in fact not money, but commodities. There's just so much utility in carrying around sacks of metal shards.
I have a big problem with this: where is the link to try it? I just don't understand when I read something about an "x that works in the browser" and there is no demo link.
> can you move into an if/while if it's not already selected?

Sorry I meant the condition of while, for and if.

> hmm, that's working for me, does anything at all happen when you drop it?

Now that I try it again it seems to be working. Before it would just drop the line bellow or above the "+ if".
> Java isn't sexy, for the most part.

In 1996, Java was pretty darn sexy. Managed runtimes in a high performance[1] language were an absolute revelation at the time.

It's absolutely true that as it evolved, Java grew to embrace the affects and aesthetics of its biggest customers (Enterprise backend coders). And that's not sexy at all. But at the time? We all thought this was going to be the systems language for the next century.

[1] Almost. At the time this email was written, the first JIT JVM was still a few months out from its early beta releases. But Gates could absolutely see where the wind was blowing.
This is generally regarded as bad programming practice. The standard recommendation is to always use descriptive variable names. Especially since your IDE will help you type them (you are using an IDE, and not trying to bro it out in unadorned vim or Emacs, aren't you?).
Yes, as a consumer and gamer i would love to see anti-cheat measures that work.

But i will never consent to having the gaming session recorded by a camera or using Microsoft Pluton for that matter.

That is simply a step too far for comfort, and not being able to purchase a CPU without Pluton tells me that this will be forced upon the consumer.
Other than the obvious, "don't use desktop/laptop while on phone", depends.

"don't use desktop/latptop while on phone" doesn't solve the dynamic advertisements constantly shifting the text on screen.

Really depends on how much want to "do it your self (diy)" or "throw $$ for a solution(s)".

========

A) Attach phone/laptop/desktop to same type display device:

1) Switch to text console & use lynx as browser (key sequence: <ctrl><alt><f1>)
(remotely log into phone if want to use phone web browser and/or physically connect phone & forward phone display to laptop/pc)

2) a mini-portable projector for phone/laptop/desktop.
set to same resolution/display size for phone/laptop/desktop
when using browser, then don't resize screen.

3) external usb led screen would provide for same fixed font experience
for phone/desktop/laptop

4) switch to a handheld pc & remotely log into phone/laptop/desktop would
provide a consistent font/display size experience.
diy ~$165: beaglebone gaming cape: https://bear24rw.blogspot.com/2013/07/beaglebone-gamingcape.html

5) Use a chromcast to send phone,laptop,pc to same display.

========

B) $$ solution:

a) Upgrade to something like aya neo next (https://next.ayaneo.com/ )
switch to on-line phone service/cloud computing

b) ditch current phone/laptop/desktop

c) Use browser to run os : https://ostechnix.com/run-linux-operating-systems-browser/

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-classic-operating-systems-can-access-browser/

https://www.os-js.org

=======

C) not totally practical ideas:

1) servo plotter: https://hackaday.com/2022/01/05/servo-plotter-needs-nothing-exotic/

2) external ping-pong display : https://hackaday.com/2022/01/04/modular-design-enables-huge-ping-pong-ball-led-displays/

3) Add voice command request (alexa?) & have software light up keyboard with numbers to push to type in the url to goto: https://hackaday.com/2021/10/30/a-hackable-keyboard-that-even-has-scr

=====
It means you're an extreme libertarian, but no anarchist.
>You need a new group of friends, firstly.

This is absolutely horrible advice. Alienating yourself from all of your friends simply because you don't want to drink the same things as them is not a good idea.

If you don't want alcohol, then just don't drink it? I have been to many, many, many music festivals, parties, etc. and not drank anything. I can't imagine just exiling myself from all of my friends instead of simply not drinking something.

(Obviously if you have a medical condition or something, or a history of addiction, then this might not apply)

edit: there are many replies to me talking about addiction and accusing me of encouraging an addict to engage with their addiction. I'm not. I said it above, but if you have a history of addiction, or if this is an addiction problem, obviously this advice does not apply, and you should distance yourself from addicts.
I too wish they'd spelled out that choice.

I speculate it's because Cloudflare's TOS prohibits you from using their CDN to serve "video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content" on typical plans. See section 2.8 on https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ . Since PolyHaven seems to be a purveyor purveyor of 3D assets and they use Bunny to host "all of our images shown on the website (thumbnails, renders, previews, etc.)", I'm guessing a lot of their assets exceed Cloudflare's TOS.

PolyHaven mentions using Bunny's image optimization service, so that'd factor into the decision too.
I was waiting for someone to make this point; It's funny how in other engineering disciplines there are clear repercussions for designing something that breaks the law, but software engineers are somehow exempt.

"The client didn't want to pay for a GFI so it's not my fault he got electrocuted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
> irresponsible central banking

Would you also consider triple bypass surgery done on morbidly obese patient as irresponsible? It enables bad behavior and arguably the patient may be better off dead than living in a life of pain, but it's undeniable that emergency heart surgery is a good thing.
https://youtu.be/T8SWmlQU1pU?t=34
Totally anecdotal, YMMV - but in my late 20s I drank an awful lot. (Probably) Not problem drinking, but we'd go out 3 or 4 times a week and I'd get pretty drunk on most of them. I also enjoyed (and still do!) a casual drink - particularly back then just sitting in a pub with a book while I had a few pints.

From time to time I went through phases where I challenged myself to just cut booze completely for a month. Often I liked how I felt at the end of the month, so it would roll for a few more weeks, until (usually something like) I was having dinner with someone and thought "I'll have a glass of wine".

Assuming you have no actual addiction to alcohol, it felt to me like I couldn't have fun for about 2 weeks, especially if everyone else was drinking. Then I realised that I could have fun and I was just self conscious. And then I'd either let myself go a bit and enjoy the evening, or realise that really drunk people are borderline intolerable and go home. Either way worked and no one cares in the morning.

Basically what I'm saying is you don't need to 'replace' anything, you just need to power through with not drinking for a few weeks - if you're used to doing something - going out and drinking, then going out without drinking will feel weird so you have to learn to enjoy it differently.

As an aside, "I'm on antibiotics so I can't drink but still wanted to come out" is an easy get out clause in the first few weeks if your friends are hassling you to 'get on it'.
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I agree. The person or group taking the decision is the one responsible.
Part of the stupidity of bitcoin's proof-of-waste algorithm is that increasing the hashrate increases transaction costs. The difficulty level adjusts automatically to maintain N blocks per hour, while the number of transactions in a block is fixed. So adding hashrate just increases the energy cost of blocks.

(The actual transaction cost to the user is driven by congestion and is set unilaterally by the user based on their tolerance for queueing, so it can be zero.)
Ethereum is PoW too at least until some undetermined moment in future.
Not the OP, I think you misunderstand. The idea is that the West is fine with Russia dispatching troops to Kazakhstan. They share a common interest in wanting to keep the oil flowing, and are not so much interested in how Kazakhstan is governed.

Contrast Kazakhstan with Ukraine. The U.S. would not sit silently by if Russia were to send troops into the Ukraine again.
IDK, it seems to me that it took an army of self-proclaimed experts to proclaim the benefits of getting off of the gold standard. Fiat money as it exists today is the result of a process that isn't entirely dissimilar to what is happening with Bitcoin.

I don't think the mere presence of a lot of internet arguers is particularly strong evidence of anything, tbh.
Criminal activity, depending on your skill set.

Commit fraud, launch a phishing campaign, sell drugs, buy bulk SSN and PCI info off the dark web. Hell ransomware a hospital if you’re desperate and have no soul.

Three weeks isn’t really enough time to find legitimate development work unless you have prior contracting relationships with folks who frequently need short term projects outsourced.

It’s a little easier if you have some security skills. Lots of banks or regulated industries get way behind on things like PCI audits and contract out that work close to deadlines.
> Nah… tether is less relevant today than ever.

Yeah, no, but I do wish you luck with that. [1] USDT is 50% more volume than BTC and ETH combined. It's all the liquidity in the entire market. It's more important now than ever.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
> A fiat currency will only collapse if you lose faith in the state, your fellow humans and the ability of the judicial system to enforce repayment.

Luckily that never happens.

https://morninginvest.com/venezuelas-currency-collapse/
It's funny you say that, because after adjusting for timezones, the two prior largest drops on that chart you shared are:

Dec 25th - Christmas (obs .worldwide)
Dec 16th - Kazakhstan Independence Day

Maybe not a robust analysis, but sure seems like events in Kazakhstan can have an impact on global hash rates.
You have to write very gently, else the tip gets damage and you need a new one.

Most people use ballpoint pen for writing, cause you can misuse them however you like and they won't break. They are also cheap, so you don't mind loosing them. Plus, they roll faster with less friction.
> Even as general programming language Python and JavaScript took over, and in dedicated areas like webservers it’s been long since Java’s time is gone.

I don't think this is true. Yes in the US in the startups Python, RoR and JS are more popular but in the enterprise Java (and .Net to some extent) still rules. In India right now the demand for Java programmers is sky high. Salaries for Java programmers have increased by 100% or more in the past 6 months or so. Actually overall salaries for programmers have increased a lot in India in the past 6 months due to very high outsourcing demand but Java is in especially high demand.

Note: I am in the outsourcing industry since past 12 years.
In my opinion, at this point in your life, you don't need to write off alcohol entirely until you've spent time away from it. Unless you're pathologically alcoholic, alcohol in itself isn't a bad thing.

Try occasionally taking time off from it. Have a week where you don't drink at all, then allow yourself to drink moderately, and repeat. Perhaps you can go even longer than a week. That way life without alcohol stays familiar.

In terms of fun without it, if you think you can't have fun without alcohol, that may mean you just don't know what's fun for you yet. Try participating in different activities, including things you think you won't like, and maybe you'll stumble across something you'll enjoy.

I think one's relationship with alcohol is much healthier when there's an alternative source of pleasure.

Oh yeah, and as others here have stated, find a different friend group to branch off to. It's not that you need to completely abandon your current friends, but our social groups really determine a lot in how we feel and behave because we all have a need to blend in and be a part of one. Maybe you can have you "alcohol friends", and then your friends for other things. If there can be some overlap there then great, but if your goal is to have fun without alcohol then you need to be around others on the same page as you.

Lots of people enjoy sports (watching and playing), video games, hiking, puzzles, board games, and movies without alcohol or at least alcoholism. It's possible to find others to do those things with over the internet, but don't let yourself think there's nobody to do them with IRL, as hard as that can be right now.
That's a classic slippery-slope argument there. That is to say, a non-argument:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

There's nothing "authoritarian" about imposing criminal penalties on those responsible for not just violations -- but as in this case, egregious, massive and intentional violations of consumer protection regulations. It's just how a civil society works.
Using "The Flintstones" as the basis for this article makes it even more depressing.
The current process is nearly as much of a clown show as sten.