skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you feel this impacts you directly - you have to do more work, or there aren't raises in the budget b/c of their comp - I suggest addressing it directly. Focus on the impact and work delivered, rather than whether they are working or not.

Best to understand, however, there may be undesirable consequences. You might get them fired, or you might get yourself put in the doghouse b/c this person is the manager's sister in law.

But if there is unfairness in compensation, and it bothers you, address it. You may have quite a bit of leverage if you're holding the productivity line up, but you may shoot yourself (or your colleague) in the foot. My rec would be to focus on the impact of your work compared to your expectations.

Comp should be fair. I would not accept a situation where I feel I'm being treated unfairly.

(Now, if this colleague is not giving you more work, is not in the way of a raise or promo, and is not a bad person... you definitely don't owe the company any "efficiency gains" conversations. Let that person milk the situation, if it doesn't impact you!)
I simply do not see a anything in that study that refutes that college is just a proxy for parental income. The study only discusses parental background in terms of parental education and I don't see any controlling for parental income (though those two factors are clearly correlated, but are not identical and conflate them in several places.)

In reality, a significant part of the correlation between of college and is indeed due to college being a partial proxy for parental wealth. At the same time a significant part of the correlation between parental wealth and child income is to the that same proxy.

Even when you control for parental wealth, there are large heterogeneities in the effect of college on income in different groups. This makes it hard to argue for a simple, direct causal link between college and income.

While I think you and me tend to agree on this subject, I think you should focus less on being the "thread secretary" and more on understanding the opposing argument and clearly explaining your argument rather than posting dense statistical papers with no analysis and using abstruse acronyms.
I liked it a lot!

I wrote a very substantive rebuttal that I hope you like as well: https://community.intercoin.org/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
In Italy, the same service was called Videotel[0] and the terminals were sold by the state-owned phone company, Sip. there was a model where the keyboard would slide out from under the CRT screen[1], and another model where the hinged keyboard would fold onto the screen (similar to a laptop keyboard, except in this case it's the keyboard that folds up, not the screen that folds down)[2].

I remember in my area some pubs had these, they were on the tables and you could use them while you were there, it was the first time in my life that I was chatting with someone on the other side of the globe. (I had tried visiting some of the popular BBS on my Amiga to look at cool stuff but had never actually exchanged messages with anyone online). It was cool because you could talk to perfect strangers but sometimes the discussion would go deep. I remember I was so excited about it and my friends were too. I think in the modern Internet we don't really have something like that.

[0] (Italian Wikipedia) - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotel

[1] (picture) https://forum.telefonino.net/images_fotodb/pict001494862_7_1...

[2] (picture) https://i.ebayimg.com/00/z/3UcAAOSwT5RdB2AU/$_59.JPG
What bothers me personally is that they use so much energy _now_, even though they’re still pretty fringe. Sure, a lot of people have a little crypto floating around, but not most people, and almost no one is using it as a medium for exchange on a daily basis. And yet it’s still using ~0.5% of the world’s energy (aka as much as a mid-sized country).

I feel like you have to pick one: Either argue that crypto is a niche hobby that won’t get much more traction, and that 0.5% of humanity’s total power usage is not that bad. Or express your ambition for crypto to run the world and become a fundamental part of everyone’s life, and have an explanation for how to square this with a multiplication of humanity’s total energy usage and the effects that will have on energy prices, silicon prices and the climate. But I’m tired of people arguing for tomorrow’s revolution using today’s energy usage numbers.
I would like to see an actual measured critique or discussion of NFTs and adjacent cryptocurrencies.

I'm absolutely willing to hear that NFTs (and related cryptocurrencies) are bad for the environment, bad for society, have no "intrinsic" value, but I'd really like to hear some counterpoints.

For example.

* Which is worse in terms of environmental costs: ordering 100 T-shirts or minting an NFT [0]?

* There will always be fads, regardless of NFTs. Beanie Babies were the fad in the 2000s that bootstrapped PayPal and EBay [1]

* There is at least an argument, whether it's true or not, that cryptocurrency can/will bootstrap solar adoption [2]

* Explorations of what it means to have "unique" art, especially as it pertains to the current ability to mass produce and copy maybe with real attempts at a critique against academic artists who believe in intrinsic value of fine art vs. digital art.

Though I'm not sure if there's any concrete statistics, it's at least a well accepted hypothesis that fine art is used as a tax evasion and/or money laundering device. If anyone has references on this point, I would appreciate it.

Again, maybe NFTs are an indication of societal decline, but I'd like to have a good faith discussion about it instead of incredulous dismissals.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20211112062740/https://twitter.c...

[1] https://morfene.com/021.pdf (pg 43-44)

[2] https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...
You don't need it on “every surface” though, merely on the front.
This is the standard rebuttal, but I don't buy it.

> would the startup even exist if they had spent 2 or 3 times as long developing the MVP?

It does not take 2-3 times longer to write good software. Arguably a non-shitty version of our MVP would've actually been faster to develop, because we have a custom web framework, ORM, and build tool when we could've used mature open-source projects in their place.

> it takes more expensive engineers to execute

This is probably true, or perhaps "more carefully selected" (which just means a more expensive recruitment process).
To me it sits somewhere between the Mozilla Public License and AGPL. It seems as though a closed source application could use a Round Robin licensed library so long as the library is unmodified and the application doesn't "[expose] so much of this software’s interfaces or functionality to users, programmers, or other software that it becomes a practical substitute for this software for any substantial portion of its use cases"
What’s so great about ASN.1 and it’s encoding rules is that anyone writing type-length-value serialization for networking purposes, for example[1], is basically independently reinventing ASN.1 because it’s so fundamentally optimal.

It truly will make you wonder why Protobufs and others exist.

[1]: https://github.com/Planimeter/grid-sdk/blob/master/engine/sh...
"Worrisome"?

New tech will always bring out fear and anxiety, and fear and anxiety secures eyeballs and votes. Blockchain is here to stay, and Art will always leverage new tech.

Simialar arguments were made at the dawn of the internet, and at the dawn of photography as far as Art is concerned.

NFTs are Art, that's for sure. The concept of ownership that is challenged might as well be part of the Art itself.
The CPU performance should not be as important as GPU. How is the i7-1165G7 GPU vs XR2 GPU in terms of performance and power consumption?
While this is (in most cases) true, you still own, say, a poster you bought of some artwork. The NFT is a sort of "poster" you own. You still own it, so I don't understand your criticism.
This is a great addition. Diagrams are a huge hole in documentation-as-code, particularly in something that should be easy to dynamically generate.
Even worse is that a bunch of NFTs are sold by people that didn't even own the art in the first place. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vxe7/people-are-stealing-a...
Only one voice here, but in this case I'd vote for retaining the way that the article has been titled by the poster (and content authors).
The real annoyance with SAX is its push model. Similar pull APIs (e.g. XmlReader in .NET: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.xml.xmlre...) let you parse XML in much the same way as a recursive-descent parser parses text, with the reader working much like a lexer.
"NFT" means "Non-fungible token". It means that one token of a type is not strictly equivalent to another token of the same type. It does not mean "a link to a JPEG that is hosted on OpenSea."

> You do not own an NFT in any legal or moral sense.

Often this is the case, but it doesn't need to be the case, it shouldn't be the case, and it was never intended to be the case.

Yes, it is stupid that people are buying NFTs that are not linked to a legal or contractual grant of intellectual property. However, it is also the case that there are in fact NFTs being sold that do in fact attempt to convey an ownership right via contract.
>Russians are weak to keep autocracy off their backs

And that weakness comes from the complete lack of the political culture needed for a functional democracy. The elite of the Russian empire that had a prototypical form of that culture had been eradicated by the communists, and about 10 years of relative lack of authoritarianism in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't nearly enough to form even a semblance of such culture. An ordinary Russian doesn't know what separation of powers is for, how freedom of speech/expression protects their interests, that it's their taxes that Putin spends, not government's money, the norms of civil debate, the individualist thinking etc etc.
The Future of Programming (talk by Bret Victor in fake 1973)
>They're on Ethereum which is switching over to PoS.

It's been switching over to PoS for years. I distinctly remember articles in 2019 about how they'd switch by the end of 2020, articles in 2020 about how they'd switch by the end of 2021, and here we are in 2022.

The point holds until they actually do make the switch.
Focus on what you need to get done. Saying bad things about others is more of a negative reflection on you than others.

It sounds like you’re frustrated on something of the lines of ‘fairness’. I’d take some time to figure out what you want and what it takes to get that. (Not just I want money), instead things along the lines of (I want to work on a team that is cohesive, I want to be valued[and maybe that is by money], etc)
The comment is neutral. If the blockchain is decentralized, it's a lot harder to take the entries from people, but to your point, if it's hosted by a central entity, your ownership of anything is a lot weaker.
another option is in an env variable (from an encrypted file).

gpg -d ~/secrets/nuclear_launch_codes.gpg
source ~/secrets/nuclear_launch_codes

where the gpg key has a password and is stored on a hardware dongle that doesn't allow copying the private key off. If you really want to be fancy, there are some hardware security keys that also require a biometric to confirm.

The other option is something like Hasicorp Vault, but we're way out of "one line bash" territory :p
Digital goods have proven to be viable goods that people will pay for, trade, and hold. Counter Strike Cosmetics, Fortnite Skins, and iTunes downloads are just a few examples of something that used to be a labeled as a gimmick, but are now big money makers. It's very easy to extends these to NFTs, a seemingly more generic digital good that is not tied to a specific company.

But In Game Cosmetics have something that NFTs still seem to lack, a way to use them. Sure you can use an NFT in a Twitter Profile, but so can I with a simple copy/paste. Is anyone really going to surf a metamask wallet gallery to look at others' NFTs? Probably not. But that cool Counter Strike Knife skin can be used in an actual game that people actually play. Until NFTs can be used in a way that is not easily stolen, they will be relegated to speculation and money laundering vehicles like every other shitcoin out there. In theory games could plug into federated markets where an NFT could be used in multiple games, but where is the incentive to open a walled garden that prints money?

The economic and energy arguments are just bikeshedding the real issue of finding an actual purpose for NFTs. 90% of people probably have never been to a museum to look existing art outside of school field trips, why will that change just because it's digital? Just because digital goods are viable, doesn't make NFTs viable by association.
That's a good point. Even though my remark was mostly about the fact that there seems[1] to be few modern weapon systems for which there exists such an effective armor.

[1] at least from an amateur's point of view
Wow, thanks. I did not know that.
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As far as Rube Goldberg machines go, taking somebody else's machine and painting it red hardly qualifies for re-examination of the concept by anyone.
Slackers are the number one reason I do not enjoy corporate America anymore. I don’t care if you are not able to perform and need help or produce crap, as long as you put in the effort and try to pull your weight.

In my decade of experience I have witnessed people, technical people, who magically manage to just not do anything at all, ever. They jump from initiative to initiative without producing anything, and somehow still manage to get some credit with management.

Paradoxically, I find these people more among “tech lead” and managers roles, where their leverage is much higher and they could be having massive positive impact in the organization. I am acutely aware of how incredibly effective a tech lead or manager can be by providing the right context to a team in need even without directly contributing. Here I am not talking about this profile, I am talking about people who have no freaking clue, they are literally leeches who go from meeting to meeting pretending to make some insightful observation, then leave and repeat. The organization is too messy and they can move “faster than they can shoot them”.

The solution in my experience tends to be to go in small startups that are not run by mentally unstable founders: you’ll get paid less but typically people with zero/negative productivity won’t be found there, there’s not enough bureaucracy to support their façade. They’ll start coming once the headcount surpasses 200 or so.
Doesn't that include YouTube Music which gives you the same live music videos and let you store them offline?

e.g. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfkm4Vp-1o&list=PLZGh95p3...
Even aside from the baloney idea of ownership they offer, the thing that continues to baffle me about NFTs is that the very nature of them assumes that ownership is inherently valuable.

Buying a painting allows me to hang it on the wall and admire it, where is where I derive the value of owning that painting. Buying a digital videogame allows me play it, even though there is no physical good (and is also a questionable definition of ownership due to DRM).

Buying an NFT allows me to...show off I guess? It entirely separates the ownership from the ability the experience the owned thing, which I find bewildering. To me, 100% of the value of owning something is the ability to experience it. If I can freely experience something, then the concept of "owning" it is worthless. It would be different if it endowed some semblance of actual ownership, e.g. copyright, but that has been functioning perfectly well without blockchains for hundreds of years.
> Satellites? They can be jammed, blinded, or destroyed.

But you can only jam, blind or destroy them starting from some point. There are currently private companies building up satellite constellations that will look at and record the entire surface of the earth more than once a day. It is entirely within the capability of US, China or Russia to today build a satellite constellation that will track the position of every potentially hostile naval surface asset in real time.

Then, if someone starts jamming/blinding your satellites, you will pick up the phone, call them, and tell them that doing so is an act of war and if they do not stop you will have to sink their ships now, while you still know where they are, instead of waiting long enough to kindly let them wander far enough from their last known positions to be able to evade strikes.

The sensor density of the modern battlefield is yes. Hiding something that can literally be seen from space will not work. Defending from strikes will possibly work -- hypersonics/ballistic missiles are generally not very nimble and with modern tech intercepting them with a slower missile can be very economical for the defender.
Heh, so I installed a new faucet in our kitchen sink and thought I’d done a good job, I had hoses snaking all over the place and my wife was like “I can’t even use the pull-out sprayer because it won’t go back in once I pull it out.” So a few months later I call my plumber and ask if he can replace the valves under my kitchen sink because they’re old and the tolerances are outside my skill level for trying to saw them off and replace them. He comes out, spends an hour replacing the valves and then he’s like “oh yeah, I fixed all the hoses under the sink for no charge, the last guy did a horrible job, you can’t even use the sprayer!” I look under the sink and it’s like NASA came in and rerouted everything, tons of room, no crazy hoses hanging down, and the sprayer works!
Commercial aviation is at least useful: every year many millions of people travel for business, school, family, and pleasure needs which would be non-trivial to replace and aviation cargo is a key part of the global supply chain.

If Bitcoin turned off tomorrow, some speculators would be very upset and nobody else would notice because 13 years in it still hasn't found something it can do competitively with alternatives which are significantly cheaper, easier to use, and less polluting.
I'd replace the 'as' with 'if' above. I'm not convinced the Fed has the guts to significantly tighten monetary policy at this point. It's not just the NFT market that would crash, it's stocks and real estate as well - followed by a pretty significant recession.
I think this is a core part of the aesthetic of Star Wars as originally created by Lucas. In particular, those characters were amalgams of 50s greasers, 70s punks and 80s mods. If you haven't seen American Grafitti, it's worth watching as a reference, but basically, they're going for landspeeder physics and landspeeders kind of hover a constant distance over the ground.
I’m honestly surprised that hysterics about NFTs have dragged on so long. People must be super bored to give a fuck about this or become upset. People just want to trade proof of ownership, as defined in their own sense. They aren’t really bothering anyone or causing any havoc. Why are people so bloody crazy about it? Just ignore it for fucks sake.
Yeah, I second this. Something like Scratch.

Then move on to an easy to learn language such as Python probably. Simple, no fuss.
Gnome41 on Debian Bookworm is my current setup and am actually typing this comment from there.

I use it about once a week and as far as I can tell, Gnome40+ is giving off signs that I might be able to use it as a daily driver (for work).

Looking forward to the updated Files application and whatever else is coming in G42.

That said, there are a lot of design choices that cater more to mobile form factors and the desktop experience suffers as a result.

Then there are non DE related issues like application installation. Chromium has bizarre window and mouse performance issues related to Wayland. Graphics card drivers are difficult to install, even as someone who knows how to read documentation. Flatpak has a permissions structure that doesn't always make sense for certain applications (like OBS, Discord, IDEs) and installing applications using a package manager is very hit and miss (e.g. OBS is broken in Debian Bookworm when installed via apt because of a qt5 dependency)

I don't mean to sound negative - I only complain because I love Linux and want to be able to go to my friends and colleagues and say "you can use this" - feeling confident that they will have an experience on par with MacOS.
The Quest 2 has a few things that prevents me from using it for long sessions.

1. It's way too heavy, which makes it uncomfortable.

2. It gets too hot.

3. It lacks a hinge that would make it possible to easily flip it open, while it's still on your head. Taking it off all the time is annoying.

4. It's been really difficult for me to keep the content I'm viewing looking sharp. It always looks kind of blurry, especially toward the edges.
Like most definitions in legal terms, the definition of "small business" in the license is functional and context-specific. It needn't be a good dictionary definition of "small business" for use elsewhere.

Functionally, each of the prongs of Big Time's definition works as an independent tripwire. Cross one, the license no longer covers your business and you need to reach out for a deal. This approach, based on revenue, headcount, and capital, isn't unique to Big Time. It comes up in laws and regulations, as well.

With all that in mind, I don't think it's important for the figures, read together, to add up to a single, consistent picture of any one hypothetical business. I don't think they need to be convincingly proportional. Rather, each needs to prevent "end runs" around the others. If you're running accounting losses but paying lots of people, you need to make a deal. If you're three founders in a garage who haven't even tried to charge any customers yet, but just raised $3m in venture capital, you need to do a deal.
They use "effective pixels", just like CSS pixels are not actual pixels:

> Because of how the scaling system works, when you design your UWP app, you're designing in effective pixels, not actual physical pixels. Effective pixels (epx) are a virtual unit of measurement, and they're used to express layout dimensions and spacing, independent of screen density. (In our guidelines, epx, ep, and px are used interchangeably.)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/layout/...

Also, Windows scales the pixel size when you use a legacy application (non DPI aware) on high DPI displays.
On average unconscious bias training has no statistically significant effect on average.
This is something the US navy does need. It's crazy that we're still building a ship design from the 1980s. Letting the Ticonderoga's age out without a replacement was also extremely short sighted as they fill a vital role in the defense of a carrier group. Hopefully lessons learned from the Zumwalt are taken to heart.
Although I agree that we should not consider an extinction level event inevitable, your comment discounts the real possibility of runaway with what amounts to a hand wave.
Ethereum is already running PoS for over a year.

Just not all of Ethereum is running PoS. All of Ethereum will switch over and it's currently planned for July.
I bet they have spent a lot of money on it. How about those folks at Google that, when they were unknowingly reviewing their own packets from when they originally interviewed, decided that they wouldn't even hire themselves?

Google also found that interview performance isn't a good predictor of on-the-job performance.

Sorry, but it's hard to take this style of interview seriously after hearing about these things.
The Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Changes in Aerosol Microenvironment [pdf]
Interesting idea, and maybe we already have a step toward remote piloting in the form of Youtube videos that explain how to do various tasks: plumbing, home improvement, auto repair, hvac, and so on.
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