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One of my goals for 2022 is to write my first real web app. I want to understand things like authentication, creating an API, and security. My initial impression is that the JS/Node world is miserable. Rails looks 1000 times more pleasant.
If you read what I wrote the purpose of the A in my LGPL is so big coorps can't use the source for profit without sharing something back if they improve it; avoiding the whole elastic search debacle, like the comment above about MIT use your common sense and morale to judge if this is unplesant or honest!?
>But now imagine if 10 different AAA game studios realize that they can create a market in which people instead of paying $5 for a hat or $1 for a loot box with 10% chance of finding a hat-they pay $100 for a hat NFT and $10 of that is a transaction fee to the studio. They pay $100 for it, because a) it will work across games and b) it might be worth $10k tomorrow. So these studios just scaled up their hat business a lot and all they had to do was agree to honor the hat ledger which says that only the hat's rightful owners can wear the hats.

This seems like a whole huge can of worms to open for what is to the studios a mild gain. The hat market has scaled up by 10-20x in your example, but 90% of that isn't captured by the studios. What happens when two players each have NFTs that point to different URLs where the same digital hat is? Now the game studio has to adjudicate property rights? If a bunch of game studios wanted to band together and sell more expensive for 10x or 100x the current price that could interoperate, why would they give 90% of the proceeds to the hat designer?! Designing a hat is not the hard part of this thing.
Show HN: Camellia, a lightweight, persistent, hierarchical key-value store
Hi HN, this is a small Golang project I was developing for myself and then decided to open source.
Let me know your comments, advices, complaints etc.
They argue against regulations because:

- Regulations are often used as a tool of corruption and cronyism, e.g. regulation of housing construction entrenching landowner power.

- Regulations can block legitimate progress, e.g. the private antigen tests that were blocked throughout 2020.

- Regulations create complexity which acts as both a barrier to entry which creates monopolies, and as a hidden tax.

- Regulations are often theatre.

- Bad regulations are sticky; they don't sunset.

That's why I favor less regulations overall. But I don't favor no regulations. I still want regulations (or just "laws") that stop pollution, deceptive marketing, and so on.
Then maybe the whole system is wrong. If so many people from all walks intuitively judge their experience of the results to be so inhumane, then maybe we are optimizing for the wrong variables.
If my "geometric intuition" is working properly, the "problem" is that the figure in the picture wouldn't meet in a point. There would be a line at the top, and it wouldn't be a pyramid. But there's nothing "impossible" about that. The impossibility simply seems to be an assertion of impossibility.

It feels like it's a problem similar to spending to much time doing "2 + 5 = _" problems and thinking the equality symbol is directional, in this case, spending too much time looking at figures that do meet at a point and thinking that is obligatory for all figures.
I’m confused. How would adding more stuff change the picture that dramatically? No matter how you slice it Bitcoin has extremely prohibitive transaction costs
There is a monetary compensation in most fields.
Even though the PhD student might be bad, it is all his doing and choices, he can freely learn new skills and develop himself.

Even a horrible degree can lead to a comfy job.

It depends on the field, in chemistry it looks like exploitation in engineering it's totally different.

In art, languages, etc getting paid to learn is already a cherry on top.
There was https://git.rip but the creator got raided for other hacktivism and it was seized. (They need help with legal bills, donate at https://arson.cat)
And every other form of government. What's the point?
Sierra Leone to tackle hunger with better crops through nuclear tech (2019)
“ Whether that cultural habit is to reduce the incidence of inbreeding I've yet to find out, but it makes me wonder.”

That’s racist. “The only way these people are going to be able to stop fucking their cousins as if they come up with a naming system that makes it extremely clear who is related to who.” There are probably other explanations other than being inbred as to why they do this. Like how some people go by Junior or Senior. Do you think that’s to prevent inbreeding also?
Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’
> Your cellular plan doesn't support iCloud Private Relay.

If I understand correctly, there's no special "support" required from an ISP for Private Relay - they just have to be a dumb pipe. So wouldn't it be more accurate to say "you cellular plan is actively blocking Private Relay"?

I'd expect that kind of deceptive phrasing from the phone carriers, not, in this case, Apple, who has no interest in covering for the carriers.
What was cool was Rails, IMHO, and Ruby was the surprise inside it.

I've had my own personal Advent of Code these holidays, coding a small API for a personal need. Ruby (Sinatra) took one morning to full deployment in Heroku. Then I tried Crystal (Kemal) and it took me a couple of days to figure out how to map JSON to Crystal data structures. Then I rewrote it again in Rust (Rocket). Two weeks till I figured out, well, almost everything.

My opinion: they will take dynamic typing from my dead cold hands.
Bicycles locked wherever is possible are not nice to look at but to be fair the seas of parked cars along the streets are also not aesthetically nice and cars move maybe 2 or 3 hours per day, then most of them loot the streets. Abandoned cycle shares bicycles are definitely sad to look at and should be removed as soon as possible especially when they belong to a failed company. Disclaimer: I drive much more than I cycle.
> And if it were to be true, I'm not sure how it speaks against the claims made in this article?

I'm not sure how this somehow, every month, is "hacker" "news"
> , and they can reissue another one to replace it. I can make my own website that accepts only apes with mustaches into my site's private area.

What's not obvious to you? If you pick up a unique stone off the street with an art printed on it and value that at 50K USD (remember anybody can pickup a stone and it's not difficult to put art on a stone). And then you have a group of people trading that at 50K isn't it obvious the value will go to 0$ when their interest dries up?
shrug I'm sure you can find much more examples of companies not behaving this way. This kind of behavior can be lessened with laws and penalties against frivolous lawsuits. It's hardly an indictment against the system itself.
Yeah, I agree, but I think there probably exists economic systems that are far more resilient to cronyism then capitalism. Whereas I think capitalism will always result in cronyism.
I am in the UK.
I buy from eBay, there are a number of big sellers to choose from.
I tend to get my batteries from Amazon, I've probably bought 6 generic unbranded for my thinpads over the years, generally they seem to be about 90% capacity of genuine, but low prices mean great value. One I bought in 2020 was faulty on arrival, rest have all been good.
All hail the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the Webb telescope’s lifetime
> Recently went to the doc for a normal cold.

Why see a doctor for a regular cold? I've never heard anyone do that here in Sweden.
And I would expect many of capitalism's detractors would say that capitalism encourages cronyism.

Personally, I think all governments of all persuasions have proved their ability to line their own pockets, sometimes subtly and sometimes with bare-faced shame.

Many people think the go-to is more laws to try and dictate what is and isn't acceptable but that also doesn't seem to work, just creates more jobs and more money for the lawyers.

I think the old adage, "don't curse the darkness, light a candle" is the best back-stop. If anyone knows a better way, do it and show how it is better, then others will copy it.
The only contract that counts here is if they signed, you know, and actual written contract. With money changing hands, a consideration of services rendered for money paid.

No such thing was in place while money-rich corps got rich off his back. I can't blame him for getting fed up with this and reacting.
It's overwhelmingly likely to be hooligans. Pointing a (visible) laser pointer is at a pilot is a great way of pissing them off, and is dangerous, but fundamentally isn't a great military weapon. Many military nations have signed the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons [1] which explicitly forbids attacks of this sort. If you were a rouge state, doing this with a far IR CO2 laser is (a) more likely to have a "military effect" (big bang) and (b) harder to trace and not visible (think Cuba syndrome).

For what it's worth, this is a good application of military technology with no loss of life. Firing lasers at aeroplanes is a Bad Thing™.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
It's a category error to blame ideas for anything. Ideas don't have agency, thus they cannot have guilt. Giving human attributes like intent and blame to ideas is reviving the old gods and giving them new names.

Ideas don't have people, people have ideas. Every human action is carried out by a person. No action has ever been carried out by an idea.
Why such a narrow range? Why wouldn't it fluctuate between $0.10 and $10,000,000.00?
But I wasn't mapping the Libyan civil war onto crypto. I was mapping it onto a factional attack on the systems maintaining a government fiat currency. My whole point is a fiat systems are weak to 51% attack too. I didn't say the factions that destroyed Libyan government could or wanted to destroy bitcoin or any other crypto.

I think we're both acknowledging reality of 51% attack.
Facebook's data collection is well-known and does not require a client-side "study". You can just reverse-engineer the Facebook Pixel JS code. Similarly, tracking instances of the FB pixel in the wild can be done with a web scraper.

This is yet another puff of hot air typical of Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy. You want to actually commit to privacy? Bundle (or reimplement) uBlock Origin as a default feature of the browser, or at the very least blackhole requests to *.facebook.com if the parent tab's URL is not facebook.com.

But Mozilla will never do so because this would actually mean living with the consequences of their choice - ie. websites blocking Firefox meaning they'd have to masquerade as another browser and defend against fingerprinting which requires developer effort. They'd rather merely claim (very loudly) that they're pro-privacy without actually doing anything.
Activision implements hats on the blockchain and releases the $10k GOLDEN HAT.

EA Games starts selling an exact copy of the GOLDEN HAT for $1. What now? It's data on a decentralized network. I start selling GOLDEN HAT WITH A DICK ON IT for $0.69. What now?

If Activision wants to sell cross game cosmetics, they should do so on their own servers. Which is totally normal frankly. It's common to get rewards for having content on other games. The blockchain adds nothing.
Haha, that's right. Thanks for the shout-out @petters!
Legally speaking, notarization doesn't count for much or provide any ironclad guarantees. For real estate titles what counts is the centralized county registry.
> I think either they either don't know or don't care that their market share makes them an adoption blocker.

The truth seems to be that between 2014 and mid-2021 the "transmission dev team" was a single (probably part-time) maintainer:

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/graphs/contribu...
If metaverse and smart home are on place 1 and 2, I think it is safe to say that nothing too spectacular is on the radar yet.
He expressed a concern and said he's "not sure how to feel". Your response seems way over the top.
I help organize a yearly event at the Boston Cyclorama building. The building itself hosts about 700 guests, and is designed for art exhibits to be shown on the inner side of its perimeter (the building is a huge ring, with a domed ceiling).

While I've never seen it used to present a single image, I _do_ know that it was originally built to host exactly that - a 360-degree painting commemorating the Battle of Gettysburg.
> Permission is hereby granted, *free of charge*, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software *without restriction*, including *without limitation* the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software

Emphasis mine.

I'm not a lawyer, but are you sure your words can contradict another right you specifically gave with that license?
Everyone votes with their purchases, except the people with the most money get the most votes, and if you don't participate in the "elections" you starve? Sounds very democratic.

Regulations typically limit the power of the most powerful in society, whose power in turn restricts the rest of us. Thus, regulation frequently increases the freedom of most citizens.

Consider a business owner who treats his workers poorly. The workers could find new employers, but odds are they'd be treated just as poorly there, because these labour conditions are not atypical. Then a bill is passed which forces employers to improve labour conditions. Less power for elites means workers' freedom from having power exerted upon them increases.
The existence of all these protections against cronyism in the public sector is evidence that it is an inherent problem. If it wasn't, there would be no need for all the protections.

Edit: the problem is kind of moral hazard. Much like a chemical plant or nuclear reactor needs a range of protection systems to prevent the dangerous chemicals from going out of control, public administration needs a range of systems to prevent corruption getting too out of hand.
There are several factors that make healthcare a specific type of product that laissez-faire markets fail to efficiently produce by nature:

* tight connection to insurance

* typical consumer-producer relation relation broken into consumer(patient)-prescriber(doctor)-producer-payer(insurance or government)

* large externalities

These factors led to health care being provided by the public sector in most of the countries.
You don't see any ethical difference between powering a hospital versus thousands of video cards to solve a useless puzzle? None? Not even a little tiny bit?

What about the fact that those video cards use HUNDREDS of times more power than even a relatively busy hospital?
I'm pushing back because I've had the opposite experience. I've started in a new team with exceptionally talented people, all of whom who have never written a line of ruby, all providing incredible contributions and hitting all our (pretty crazy) dates. All in a large highly complex ruby monolith.

It takes like 1 month to ramp on ruby, maybe even less. The cost of one month of ramp is highly justifiable given the fact that it's hard to find anyone who knows ruby (for real knows ruby) & most of the ramp is on system specifics anyways
So a guy tickles a rat and the rat makes sounds. This apparently amounts to "laughing" and somehow should make us feel the rat more closely resembles a human.

What a load of bunk.
Exactly. If you need longswords to be scarce, you're going to have a bad time when marty minecraft builds 1,000 longswords and wants to bring them into your game.
The incentive for lobbying would remain and turn more deeply to black markets. To end lobbying you'd need to remove the incentive for lobbyists to seduce lawmakers.

Instead, remove the power of lawmakers or reduce/decentralize the power as much as pragmatically possible.
They're only useless if you're the one paying for them. If you're getting paid, well... not so useless.
> Looking at countries like the Netherlands this is not true. Train stations have rentable bikes

Only for residents of NL, I believe (which in no way invalidates your point and I agree with everything you wrote).
> create a market... cut on each transfer

This would almost certainly result in KYC requirements, and I'm skeptical that the delta in profit is big enough to justify that lift.
Don’t Mix URL Parsers
> I’d like to thank Intel here for making this possible. The CPU innovation stagnation between 2012-2017 has resulted in 4 cores still being an acceptable low-end CPU in early 2022. Without this, my laptop would likely be obsolete by now.

Hahaha, this last sentence seals the overall tone of the article.
Now that I think about it, BitTorrent is the best example of how well decentralisation can work, and basically the only reason I believe that a decentralised web is possible.
They didn't say it was a positive for users. But users aren't the ones who are going to add NFTs to games.

Penny Arcade explains: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2021/12/22/ubisoft
Whats the cause of amazon workers reportedly having to pee in bottles? Is that the government?

Capitalism is just evolution without physical war. It has the same beauty and horror as a lion eating a gazelle alive.
I get that an NFT typically contains just a URL, because actual data is too expensive to store on the Enormous Work Disposal Unit(TM).

Surely it's at least possible that accessing the actual asset behind the URL is authenticated by the same public key that verifies your "ownership"? And indeed for the rest of the concept of ownership of the asset to be taken seriously - i.e. I the buyer can tell the hoster "I have made a local copy, or just plain feel like burning stuff, delete your copy please". Or "please move the asset to this hosting service instead".

Obviously that still has the same copying issues that the RIAA and MPAA and whoever else have failed to deal with so you probably aren't going to do any better. But, at least try?
OK so... the "no true scotsman" game between warring ideologies is what it is. Marx more or less invents "capitalism" in his critique of it. Pro capitalists then came in with their own definitions of capitalism. Later anti-communists insist(ed) that socialism=stalin, and capitalism means liberalism. Whatever. Capitalism means different things. I'm not going to unknot that mess.

But... I will say that etymologically (ie in the early rhetoric), the word "capitalism" meant "regime where capitalists rule." Monarchy = monarchs rule; democracy means the people rule, etc. IE, the old banana republics would have represented near perfect capitalism.

In any case, I don't see why "Academy of Management Perspectives" decided to bring big-c
"Capitalism" into it. What part of capitalism are they examining/exonerating? Defining capitalism simply as "private ownership & the existence of markets" is silly. This exists in many times and places that you couldn't credibly call capitalism.

Considering the context (Macedonia?) I think what is meant by "capitalism" is economic policies & changes of the last 30 years. Washington Consensus monetary policies, international/american compatible corporate/contracts law and such.
The project it's still in pre-alpha, it even stopped paying rewards to its token stakers/seeders due some technical issues during the implementation. Perhaps it just rushed onto it too fast just to catch the hype.
I suspect the idea is to address stupid arguments by fixing the ignorance creating them. Communication is an easy way to improve.

Still, it could be that the stupid arguments are malicious. In that case, perhaps one could prove it.
I experienced this same moment when I was ~24 years old and digging through a codebase I'd written a few years prior after returning to a former employer. Once you've hit rock-bottom there's no place to go but up :P.

I've subsequently noticed that those who are quickest to talk trash about nuanced engineering decisions and minor bugs are often the ones with the most fundamentally-indefensible coding practices (5000-line source files that throw innumerable compiler warnings, using deprecated frameworks, explicit silent failure modes, etc). Latent insecurity is a very real phenomenon.
Does depends on usage, there's a free tier and a $20 / month tier.
That's another old saying - you should try to make code readable not only for the sake of other developers who will work on it in the future, but also for your own sake...
It's not as bad as in other places but there should be less trash and dog shit around. About dogs, owners started to pick up their poo and dispose of it years ago so it's not as bad as it used to be. However everything is relative. I was in Japan, maybe Tokyo, with a friend of mine from Switzerland (regarded by Italians as a very clean place) and he looked around and told me with a sad face "It looks cleaner than home."
Like many things in life, wealth inequality is good in moderation. Excessive wealth inequality is very bad, especially if it is due to unfair/rigged situations.
Medieval warhorses no bigger than modern-day ponies, study finds
The reason people attend therapy is to answer exactly that question. And if you really want answers and you find the right therapist/psychologist, you will probably find answers.
Blame Expectations, Not Reality
A single person using their RTX3080 to make money back from it, while slightly problematic, is well within the expected power usage and will pay electricity prices that are expected of individual payers.

However, the miners with 150 GPUs, 500 GPUs, thousands of GPUs are absolutely a problem.
I don't even want to look and debug my old code.
Not a very useful thought experiment once you accept that you’d have to out-lobby the lobbyists to get it done.
To give parent the most charitable interpretation of their comment, they dislike dealing with antisocial and/or poorly communicating people at work.

Whether that's because the individual is on the spectrum, or because they're a dick who just doesn't care... is a medical diagnosis question.

But there's a reason "reasonable accommodation" exists in disability law. There's a balance to be struck between increasing workplace equality and doing so at the expense of coworkers.

I think everyone who's worked in the industry 5+ years has been on a team or project with someone who "reasonable" probably shouldn't have covered, whatever the underlying diagnosis.
Capitalism will lead to wealth inequality even apart from cronyism.

Yet in general it makes a populace who tries it, more fat, and grants a life of more pleasure, than any of its counterparts.

This itself might be bad for a nation though.

First you get a bunch of people in government who think they should get a percentage of that wealth made by the merchants (just like the feudal lords of old)

Second, the nation becomes so wealthy it has to just keep consuming more and more, and at some point people start having to come up with insane ideas, and gladiator sports, and just become a bunch of addicts because life has no purpose and is too easy.

I think I’m personally ready for some socialist/communist policies so people in my country can experience some actual suffering, and maybe even go hungry, and then at least they will stop talking about the pointless crap they always go on about it.
Ask HN: Are any of you using CentOS Stream?
Haha, this happened to me for the first time recently. Asked a question, didn’t get any answers, ended up updating my post with the answer I eventually found. Even had a couple of responses thanking me for the follow up. Five years later, ran into the same problem and forgot the answer, my answer was the top result on google.