skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That all really sounds great, I just don't understand how it works without a lot of people just performing labor in the hopes others will do it and also do it for free. There aren't goods if people don't make them, and people have to have incentive to make them. We have a way of making sure people get value from what they put in, it is trade. Surely someone is gonna say "hey I made this widget so I would like to demand compensation for it." And someone else is going to say "I want that widget and I'm willing to compensate them for it." How are you going to get the masses to just make stuff and give it away? Personally I won't do it, except to maybe some charities I like or for the occasionally gesture of good will to someone I feel for. Guess people like me gotta be put in the gulag.

>Again, under an anarchist system you wouldn't need to pay to feed your family

Perhaps, but what if no one wishes to feed me for free voluntarily. Won't I be forced to either engage in trade, do everything myself, or take it by force? What if I want to spin up my PnP machine, make some boards, and trade it with somebody who's not down with the whole make stuff without money and hope it all works out. I'm not going to let you stop me, are you going to come kill me or what's going to happen?

My personal view of what ends up happening to leftist communities is their either become dystopian to ensure your property is now the public's property, slide into democracies, or go into limited-government libertarian type scenarios. The latter is basically what Rojava is in practice and kind of my experience with the Kurds in general who I would describe as basically very generous capitalists who just want to chill in the fucking mountains away from the 4 nasty governments surrounding them.

If you can keep it small like a family unit some communist like organization may stay together, although even families can have a hard time with it. You need the consent of everyone for that sort of thing to be non-coercive, and you may not be able to get it.
> I personally don't find JavaScript specific benchmarks to be a good indicator of general computing power.

Many of us spend substantial periods of time writing up the technical documentation in Confluence or use JIRA. Confluence alone loads approximately 22Mb of mangled and compacted JavaScript for each open page in a separate browser tab.

Before M1, Confluence and JIRA were the single most source of a sustained battery drain, irrespective of the browser. On M1 based laptops, the battery impact is so negligible that it can be considered non-existent. How much of this subjected experience can be attributed just to the the ARM 8.3 JavaScript hardware acceleration is an interesting question as the JavaScript browser performance on Intel CPU's has also been affected by Spectre and Meltdown mitigations in the CPU microcode.
> Sure, if it were agreed upon, backed by some real value and not solely speculation, and rather stable.

So like Tether, TrueUSD, or Diem? Backed by fiat currency and commercial paper.

Or do you mean like Digix where each coin is backed by 1 gram of gold?
I'm not suggesting "an appropriate time" in which an invention can be deemed impactful, because that isn't how history works. This is the point I am trying to convey. If we look at other inventions and broadly speaking, "knowledge," it's quite common for the real impact to not be seen for quite a long time. E.g. the Renaissance and re-interest in / rediscovery of classical sources.

I don't know why this is so controversial, but I suspect it's because of #2 in my original comment.

Again, I didn't say that crypto will become extremely useful and important in the future, but simply that declaring it useless or unimportant now is foolish and unlike virtually every other technology.
Checkout the documentary 'Ayurveda: the art of being' by Pan Nalin. Very much speaks about this ancient tradition, how everything is energy and healing with herbs. Recommended.
> if you lose access to your device with ssh keys, you're locked out with no hope of getting back in.

I'd rather do backups than risking password bruteforcing on servers.
I think there is vast gulf between jailing people for saying things and rebutting bullshit online.

The fact we as a society struggle to even discuss the difference is worrying.

The "slippery slope" meme has poisoned our ability to see nuance and pushed otherwise reasonable people into extremist positions.
That number seems off by a few orders of magnitude.

I tried searching for familiar collections and couldn't find any of them:

- Corruption(*s)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club
- Lonely Aliens Space Club
- NFT Worlds

You also have neither entries for the major Art Blocks series (Curated/Playground/Factory) nor any of the hundreds of individual artist collections contained in them.

So, I think your crawl might be off.

Additionally, individual artists tend to not use OpenSea but instead use Rarible, Foundation, and SuperRare (or skip ethereum altogether and use something on Tezos like fxhash).
How cybercriminals turn paper checks stolen from mailboxes into bitcoin
If anyone else is curious, YKK is a Japanese company that makes roughly half the world’s zippers:

https://slate.com/business/2012/04/ykk-zippers-why-so-many-d...
You can use different TCP congestion control algorithms, not just cubic. BBR2 has no issues with high RTT even with packet loss and is fair to other TCP streams.

It serves 25Mbps stream in real time to users in Japan and the US from a data-centre in Europe with no issues.
Parent is referring to the accredited investor definition in the US [0] specifically ($1M+ in assets as one test), but more broadly to similar financial gatekeeping.

I'm skeptical it's an overall social good to remove guard rails that prevent sophisticated sellers from fleecing unsophisticated buyers (say what you want about the SEC, but they do enforce some rules), but I agree the current scheme prevents all people from equally freely investing in all opportunities.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp
>ancestors

What kind of clock is this!?
Check out these books:

* Fluent Python — takes you through Python’s core language features and libraries, and shows you how to make your code shorter, faster, and more readable at the same time

* Serious Python — deployment, scalability, testing, and more

* Practices of the Python Pro — learn to design professional-level, clean, easily maintainable software at scale, includes examples for software development best practices
Exactly, kids simply reflect what they hear at home.

Go to any store, chin-maskers are with maskless kids, while parents with N95 masks are without kids or with fully masked kids.
> If there was a good time to consider full lockdown, it was at the beginning of the pandemic when little information about it was known.

Agreed. A really aggressive lockdown right at the start would have made sense.
I don't understand how any take on crypto can not mention that it is now the de-facto currency of online black markets, from pornhub to silk road 9.0 or whatever version we're up to.

This is crypto's utility and the only thing I've seen crypto being used for seriously that isn't speculation. Cryptocurrency is disrupting the black markets the same way amazon/ebay/online shopping disrupted the retail markets.

Crypto isn't a solution looking for a problem, the problem was found back in 2011 - it's just that nobody wants to admit it. It reminds how everyone used to say that BitTorrent was used for downloading Linix ISOs, but with less self-awareness.
Why Nuclear Power Is Bad for Your Wallet and the Climate
> How does this enable new people to play? The rich can still gamble the most and come in early to earn the biggest rewards.

So far this stuff has circumvented the accredited investor regulations.
Looks like Twitch might be banned in Vietnam: https://twitter.com/freshminhtea/status/1083718396410097664?...
> But if you go build Linux From Scratch, you get a total of 68 packages, most of which are part of the GNU project and come from common authors. That gets you an entire operating system.

Sure, because dependency management for C is a joke^H^H extremely cumbersome and so you get coarse-grained packages that bundle lots of functionality and are a pain to upgrade.

Why is number of dependencies something you care about? Bundling 10 functions together and calling them a library doesn't make them any easier to audit than auditing them individually, all it does is bloat programs that only needed one of them. Getting supply chain attestation to scale is a legitimate problem, but a solvable one - e.g. we could have organisations that would vouch for a large range of authors or packages.
There’s a mass of theory out there. For some, that puts a spring in their step but others shouldn’t let their spirits be dampened.
I’m not a fan of the fossil power plants coming online, but this is one small example. Many fossil fuel plants actually increased production during the pandemic too. Nuclear plants were taken offline too. But this is not cryptocurrency to blame. The fundamental disconnect here is that you want to tell people how they can and can’t use energy. That’s authoritarian nonsense and I reject your wishes. I am saying use it how you wish, but optimize it to be green. Ideally, the use will drive it to be more green as that is the cheapest and more sustainable way to generate power in the long run. Do you see the difference in position?
Being able to transfer value across the internet without the permission of a middle man, is valuable in the real world.
I had those HAM images and also ran this on the Amiga Mac emulator (it was included in the pirate copy of the OS): https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/macplaym...
The transaction fees for paying with Visa/PayPal etc are MUCH lower than paying with Bitcoin or Ethereum, especially for small donations - for small donations, it's quite possible for BTC/ETH transaction fees to be well over 100% of the transaction value. Quoting the additional BitPay fee only is completely misleading.
Nothing, this wouldn't make sense.
Genuinely interested how this will self-fix after August 2022.
Speculation is a use case and a market too
Personally, I listen to podcasts and audiobooks at 2X. Otherwise I’d be swallowed by the torrential wave of content. I still am at that, to some extent.
stupid question because I have not touched a Mac since 1999. What kind of apps are you using on Mac that if you were forced to switch to Linux you feel that you can't live without?

the appeal back then (and from I hear people say until today) was always how everything is neatly integrated. a coherent system from the hardware all the way up the stack. not sure if that is overselling it but at least that's how I understand is what people are happy to pay for.
My father brought home the pictured Compaq portable computer back in the 80s. It's what started my fascination computers and ultimately 25+ year career in tech.
Composing narrative fiction by ending every chapter in a cliffhanger is an excellent way to get your readers to skip to the end and then throw it away.
It was consistently bad. During the first year or so I was motivated and focused on trying to solve the problems of my department. The writings were on the wall everywhere, but it didn't discourage me and I turned a blind eye on many of the issues. I would lie, if I would say that at the time money wasn't a factor.

Most importantly, Amazon's culture is toxic. Poor leadership (shouting and swearing during meetings) leading to bad hires. It's a cut-throat working environment with high staff rotation. I struggled to cope with the fact how people were treated (planned attrition and PIPs). I was working under 5 different managers during this time, being bullied by the last one. HR did nothing, so I voted with my feet. When this occurred, I was close to reaching a 2yr tenure, so it was easy money for me on the table.
Not arguing for "do homework whenever" weekly pop quiz/assignments to keep them on track instead. I understand that you had a great experience with online learning but not all schools have teachers who can take effective classes online.
It's not crawling. Perhaps in their api. You can just check it, since it's an aggregation of their collection endpoint.

OpenSea is still the biggest NFT market and had an api, that's why I checked their api.

Edit: sorry, the linqpad link was to pastebin instead of the source. Adjusted it
I am sorry to see them go, but more for the principle than for the site itself.

I gave up on the site when I realized that I was spending more time scrolling for something interesting than actually reading articles. Even now, out of their top 10 "best of 2021" I find only 3 of those even remotely interesting, and IMHO one of them is garbage (I read it when it came out).

The type of articles I like the most are those when someone takes a ridiculous amount of time to explain something mundane. The Guardian's article on what will happen when the Queen dies [1] is my go-to example of long form journalism done right. longform.org articles always felt more like "here's a sad story about some global issue", which is not the type of article I want to read during my commute.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...
> the only thing I've seen crypto being used for seriously that isn't speculation

When paying for domain names or VPS (or anything online, but those are the cases where it's easy), I prefer paying with crypto because I don't want to give my credit card information to some stranger so they can misuse or lose it. This is not illegal and a legitimate use case.
"Given the current trend of MPB's with huge specs and associated huge cost, it seems foolish to me that we as developers spend that much money on what is basically a desktop machine. A machine that makes compromises due to thermals and power efficiency while actually being a desktop machine."

This only applies if you never/rarely actually use your laptop for mobile purposes. While I have a monitor and desk setup that my laptop is plugged into, I travel enough or work away from my desk enough times a year that having a laptop makes sense. I prefer having one machine over having a powerful desktop and a cheap laptop. Ultimately everyone have different preferences for how they work. You should do what works best for you.
I believe that would just attract people that satisfy their narcissism with isolated gestures of patronage. The only exception I would see is to set high standards. People always get there if you let them. Many cannot even help themselves, it is like having to climb a mountain. A mentor that can leverage such ambitions and can provide assistance is probably priceless.
> I have a feed for this blog

it doesn't seem to be linked anywhere, but I think that's:
https://www.wilcosky.com/atom
A fiat (aka unbacked) currency that is issued privately is indistinguishable from a scam, because a fiat currency has a nominal value that is higher than what it costs to produce. This is true of bitcoins, because bitcoins are fiat money too (just not very convenient to use). The average production cost of all bitcoins in circulation is likely less than $1. These bitcoins are now being sold for tens of thousands of dollars. People profiting from this, largely early producers of bitcoins, are being rewarded with millions of dollars for basically doing nothing. They took no risk, they did absolutely nothing that would justify the profits that they have made. I call this a scam.
> It is a good idea for (a) the top 5% of wealthy who would send their kids to private school anyway and save money with backpacking (b) the top 5% of wealthy who hold shares in private education startups and providers. Hence you would expect it to be popular in the HN bubble where nearly everyone is in the top 5%.

>

> It is a bad idea for smart kids whose parents are poor or don't care - they will still get the lowest-cost 'public option' but now get left behind by the 50-80% of kids whose parents care to get their kids into selective schools or ones that need top-up payments, thus cementing hereditary stratification of society.

Maybe I am missing something, but how is that worse than the current system? The top 5% are already sending their kids to the best schools currently, right?

The people who are too poor to afford the top-up in the proposed voucher system are currently not getting the best schools anyway. Under the voucher system I expect that some of the currently poor people who are not getting the best school would be able to switch to the best school that doesn't require a top-up.

Right now, as I understand it, poor people have no option to switch schools.
Honestly, it's a start. There's some inherent value, and Visa even announced settling via USDC which I found interesting, given how conservative the big guys are.
The fight for privacy and security in a centralized system is a battle that is lost before it has even begun for all participants.

You need to redesign everything from scratch and be aware how the old system was flawed. The tradeoffs are usually complex high energy vs. simple low energy and it's always a good idea to start with the simple low energy.

SMTP(1971), ETHERNET(1973), IP(1974), UDP(1980), C64(1982), TCP&DNS(1983), HTTP&BGP(1989), DHCP(1993) and RASPBERRY4(2019) are never going away because they are simple. If you want to use something new make sure you are not wasting everyones time!

Edit: I added two hardware devices because they mark the first and last open personal device humans made at scale big enough to matter so that you can see the timeline properly; it took us 50 years to complete the creation loop of a global computer network.

It's going to be REALLY interesting to see what the Raspberry 5 looks like. My guess it's going to flop like the PS5 unless they REALLY increase the energy consumption of the GPU by a factor of atleast 2x, but they need to make that dynamic or the 4 will retain it's low energy value and hurt adoption (think C64 vs. 128)!
>That seems false, the form is asking me for Name, Address, Phone number and more AFK details if I try to donate

Only the name and e-mail fields are marked as required, dunno if the name would accept anonymous for small donations.

>Again, antithetical to the original purpose of cryptocurrencies.

Sure, but donations have certain laws an organization needs to follow.
High Levels of PFAS Found in Anti-Fogging Sprays and Cloths
Money predates governments, though, and there are many examples of successful money that did not require a government to prop it up. Consider e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones.

Note that in the latter case, the physical money doesn't even change hands - it's all in a ledger, but the ledger is in people's heads. In fact, you could say it's a proof-of-work system, since making the stones is expensive in terms of amount of effort spent, even though they don't have any utility as such.
I view it as a way to apply a somewhat relevant filter to a large pool of candidates. It's something coding related with simple appeals such as scalability which makes every engineer quiver at the knees.
Thanks for the link. I do agree that playing without guardrails is problematic.
Hence the weekly assessment. Tests or assignments every week will keep them on a sort of schedule. The most you can postpone is 7 days. It's not a perfect approach but I'd say it's a lot better than live virtual classes.
Well, if you ignore everything but "uint64_t counter go brrrr", it turns out dates and times are pretty easy.

But even a uint64_t TAI counter is incredibly underspecced. How do you handle clock drift when your local counter gets out of sync with TAI - is the counter monotonically increasing, or will time potentially replay, with all the issues that entails? What if the local clock was off by hours, days, even years? Will you clock smear if the correction is small? Within what bounds? GPS satellites will still need to correct for relativistic effects for accurate position measurement.

TAI nanoseconds since epoch will still need to be converted to and from human readable formats - doing so correctly touches on geopolitical issues (DST, timezones, leap seconds, recognized soverigenty of contested borders, etc.)

I also don't schedule relative to TAI. Suppose I schedule lunch for 1PM. What timezone? Will it track DST on reoccurences? If I move timezones, is 1PM relative to me, my device, or perhaps the device of my coworker who remains behind in the original timezone, with whom I've coordinated lunch with so we have an opportunity to chat? It turns out this is basically a natural language parsing / DWIM issue. Storing this 1PM task in TAI isn't right, even if it's not reoccuring - if I change timezones, I'm likely to be changing when my schedule is in "absolute" terms, to the degree that's even a thing, and when DST does or doesn't kick in, that also changes when my schedule is in "absolute" terms.

Dates are complicated because everything is relative. And relative to what? Well, that's suprisingly vague, even in the minds of the people using them. Between conversion bugs, ambiguous inputs, and both relativity and clock issues making any notion of absolute time an absolute farce not just in theory but in practice... dates and times end up complicated.

Is it 1:05 AM, 1:06 AM, or 1:07 AM? Depends on which clock in eyesight I'm looking at, and I'm just in my apartment.
It just goes round in circles for eternity; the never-ending search for the Aptest of Comparisons.
RSS and others are good, but many popular readers, like Feedly, sucks.

Currently using InoReader, I reported one issue, not once but 3 times, still no light on it.
Context Switching Is Killing Your Productivity
The thing is that in the US and increasingly in the UK, if you're sick it's considered your own fault, responsibility, and expense. Employers do not care about you, if you do not work they do not want you.

From a purely utilitarian / capitalist viewpoint it makes sense, why pay for a service (an employee) if they do not provide? But there's a difference between an employee and a contractor. And it's not a human way to deal with things.

So in the US, since people lose their income and possibly their job, they can't afford to take rest, they'll take some medication to power through it.

In my own country, thankfully, we get paid time off if we're sick. If we're sick long-term (I don't know what the cutoff is), the employer has to pay us 70% of wages for a year, after which the government takes over (this used to be two years). It really blows for the employer, but in a lot of cases, it's the job that makes you long-term sick in the first place - workplace accidents, overwork, etc. Overwork / stress was the one for my previous employer, the department managers had multiple roles (people management, account management, hiring, finances, etc) they had to juggle simultaneously and for quite a few, it became too much within 6-12 months. To manage it, the employer offered a subscription to some meditation app, instead of reducing workload or making it OK to go offline outside of working hours.

I mean I remember getting a text message at 3 in the morning from a manager telling everyone to not forget to bring some post-its and sharpies to the all-hands meeting the next day. That guy ended up sick for 6+ months after which he quit and became a manager somewhere else.
Internet trolls are the real therapists.
This is true. Biotech/Physics/Math grads getting into the ad-tech/SaaS grind kind of makes me sad though. Under-utlization of talent. No doubt there are interesting challenges in literally every field, just that scientists are good at doing science - Design of Experiments, Theorizing stuff, grokking mathematics that would make me faint, etc. and the same people fucking around with webpack/JS tooling, learning how IAM works or spending their time on fixing CI/CD pipelines is depressing. We need some sort of a division of labor here.
You can see a similar chart for the entire country (or other countries) here:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-variants-area?count...