skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The silly thing is that crypto is now following the stock market for the most part, at least the big coins like BTC/LTC/Doge/etc are.

Market goes down, crypto seems to go down with it. Look at something like 1-month BTC and 1-month APPL or something.

It's not supposed to be doing this. I think this is happening because it's become so easy to purchase that people now just have it in their "portfolio", basket of everything, and when they want to sell, they just sell everything, stocks and crypto. They are the same thing to a lot of people.

This means it is getting tied into the existing financial system anyway, even without specific "controls" like central banking.
Gruyère and Emmental.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I have a bit of insight here. I've been happily employed in the games industry for the past 10 years and don't have any plans to leave it, but while I have absolutely recommended programming/software dev as a career field to people before, I would hesitate to _suggest_ the games industry to someone who wasn't already excited about it.

To your comment, making games is great and fun and I think it's great you want to do it. Working in the games industry is different from making your own games though.

For one - you pretty much will never have creative input on the game you're making as a programmer (unless you're on a really small team).

Probably the biggest reason to avoid the games industry is salary. Game developers make less than their peers in other areas of software development. Lots of people blame this on there being a huge supply of fresh grads to hire cheaply, but that explanation feels like a myopic/simplified view from people on the outside looking in to me. My opinions aside, the fact is that if I left my job today and got a job programming something that wasn't games, I'd almost certainly make more money. I'm paid well enough to live a very comfortable life, but if your goal is just to maximize how much money you make, game dev is a bad choice.

Next thing to point to is crunch. Game development is notorious for "crunch" (aka - long periods of 70-80 hour weeks). Some studios do this more than others. It always sucks. It's also a fact of life in games. Even teams that "don't crunch" will usually wind up doing something like it at some point. I honestly have no idea if other programming fields do this too, it's just a common criticism that I've seen levelled at games industry jobs.

Being a game developer also means that you're not working with the kinds of tech stacks that the larger software industry as a whole is using, which feels like it would make switching fields more difficult (not that I've tried). For example: I haven't had to build a real database since college, have written maybe two unit tests in my life and don't think I've ever worked anywhere that's used the C++ standard library, despite working in C++ for most of my career.

It's also super unstable. It feels like most game studios will close (or transition to not making games) within ~10 years of starting up. Layoffs and studio closures are also a really common occurrence. Every time a meeting gets randomly added to my calendar at the last minute, my first thought is that a layoff is going to be announced (even though this has literally never happened at my current job). This is less of a concern at large studios (although definitely still a thing), it's a huge deal if your dream is to work at indie studios though.

There are lots of great things about working in games, but the above wall of text are some of the reasons why I'd hesitate to encourage folks who aren't already interested in the field to choose game development as a career.
There's a lot more to it than that. For example, two links to a file in the same directory shouldn't count as doubling the space it consumes in that directory nor all its parents -- that's an easy case to consider, but there are others that are much harder.
New Orleans could only afford to start fixing its streets and sewers with the FEMA money after Katrina.
> I still do not agree that it helps the greater cause do dismiss identity politics aggressively.

I think that in some cases the woke identity politics not only doesn't help, it actively hinders things.
Apologies for attacking Dave's credibility on an unrelated thread, but his comments on Linux are absolutely falsehoods. He said that all Linux machines have some sort of proprietary blob Linus Torvalds put in there on EVERY release, for his own purposes. Compared to Windows, which is entirely closed source.. I just blocked his channel after that.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rb2xzk/dave_plummer_...

Related falsehoods about Linux's SysRq (now deleted, comments relevant):

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rva3ui/so_before_i_g...

Related, his company's settlement for incredibly shady business practices, lying to customers that they "really needed his software, for security of course":

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rb2xzk/dave_plummer_...
I think complaining about ‘think of the children’ arguments is bad because:

1. These arguments appeal to people and making fun of them makes you sound like an ass. If your goal is to just complain to your in-group then I suppose that’s fine, but it won’t convince many people outside.

2. The arguments are true to some extent. CSAM online is a big thing, it’s hard to combat and seems shockingly common. (Though I’ve not worked for a big internet company that is likely to interact with this problem so this is all second hand). We are fortunate to mostly not be exposed to this part of society.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t support e2ee, but it does mean that it’s unfair to dismiss these arguments as a secret ploy to spy on your communications and unrelated to any actual problem.
lack of any kind of control

Multiple choice question: Which of the following groups have lots of control over BTC?

A. BTC Core Developers

B. BTC Exchanges

C. Credit Card Processors/ACH Entities/Payment apps that allow people to buy BTC from fiat without exchanging physical cash

D. BTC Miners

E. Any judge in the country that can order you to hand over your BTC just like he/she can order you to dig up the cash he/she suspects you have and hand it over.

F. All of the above and many more

(It's F)
This different article from STH explains what the AMD PSB is, without having to watch a video: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-psb-vendor-locks-epyc-cpus-...

> An OEM who trusts only their own cryptographically signed BIOS code to run on their platforms will use a PSB enabled motherboard and set one-time-programmable fuses in the processor to bind the processor to the OEM’s firmware code signing key. AMD processors are shipped unlocked from the factory, and can initially be used with any OEM’s motherboard. But once they are used with a motherboard with PSB enabled, the security fuses will be set, and from that point on, that processor can only be used with motherboards that use the same code signing key.

Basically, the CPU once in that mode will only work with the same signing key, and cannot be put on a motherboard from another brand (or potentially another model from the same manufacturer).
> and figure out the hard way what `f` is used for.

In a 20 LOC function, that takes me about a second, if that long.

> aside from Notepad pretty much every editor offers some completion feature

It's still easier to type `f` than `fi` + leadkey + N or whatever the editor uses. Bonus points if the first prediction is wrong, or ambivalent.

And the more important reason is "easier to read", especially in long expressions;

for e := getFirst(); e != nil; e.Next()

is much easier to read than

for currentElement := getFirst(); currentElement != nil; currentElement.Next()

Finally, not only the name itself, but also it's length should convey meaning. If I see a variable like `currentElement` in my code, I immediately know that it probably lives beyond the scope it is defined in. If I see a variable named `c` I know that it is a short lived throwaway.
$56k is €49k at the current moment.

Europe is not all one market price wise, with big differences internally. But you can certainly get a developer for €49k. You might have trouble retaining them, as based on salary surveys on the subreddit Irish developers it's like a 20th-30th percentile salary, and this developer has a track record of leading a successful customer facing web service, but not preposterous.
They’re in bogs and historic buildings.
Search “Kronos” on reddit to find testimonials of end-users affected by this. It’s a broad set of large hourly employers.

https://old.reddit.com/search?q=Kronos
Historic taxes like the window tax etc. were as much a result of the government having very limited access to economic data at the time as anything. You couldn't say how much someone was earning, but the size of their domicile was a pretty good indicator, and one they couldn't hide. Well, until the unexpected consequences, like fake windows, kicked in, anyway.
> when you get to thinking that your Idea is more important than people, tread really, really carefully. The ground under you isn’t as solid as you think.

> Usually the more desperately you find yourself wishing things like “if only those idiots would see the light then of course we could Solve Everything!!”, the less solid the ground becomes.

As a former vegan that was in the movement for years, I can say in hindsight that those statements are very true.
Reblochon is seen as Cantal (quite sure).

How huge is the dataset?
"We should never ever rely on emails for anything important. "

This made me laugh out loud. I don't think "hackers" here on HN realize how much business is done by email these days, including plenty of important business. And no, if you are a CEO, and call your counterparty after your emails to confirm - you're not going to get anything done.

Meanwhile, a lot of these same hackers working in software development put email account control at the root of their trust chains (ie, with an email account I can drive a password reset).
The motivation from Lenovo's customer perspective is theoretically the customer knows this was the processor intended for the machine by Lenovo and nobody swapped it out in between the Lenovo factory and the customer's hands.

Of course, no system is perfect so it's not a full guarantee and also there's the impact to the secondary market. But if you're an enterprise leasing these machines you don't care about the secondhand market anyways.
Perhaps I see it differently than you.

> It is perfectly legitimate to critique someone's ideas.

I totally agree.
Sure, just like “hacker” these days is mostly a synonym for “criminal”, so the site needs to be renamed.

Let’s try to maintain some hype inertia.
Zut alors!
> You'll have plenty of offers in the future, probably including more meaningful ones.

That would be great. I'm sure that one can and will find stimulating and interesting work without the PhD too - sometimes the ivory tower of academia makes it seem different though. What worries me more is the aspect of leaving machine learning for a different field, and then not finding my way back later on.

> (and yes, I did decline a job offer with a much higher salary that my current one, but I'm happy to have made this call: my salary is still decent, and I do something meaningful to me, and geographically close to where my friends are)

Glad to hear it all worked out for you!

> I wish you the best. There's no wrong answer. Relax and enjoy life.

Thanks mate! It sometimes feels so overwhelmingly difficult to navigate life in your early career. Appreciate it!
Here's some info on it, I believe your question is answered near the top where they talk about the transition mechanism.

https://ethmerge.com/
Also not true. The Queen is a lobbyist with legally enshrined privileges, see this report:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-que...

"A series of government memos unearthed in the National Archives reveal that Elizabeth Windsor’s private lawyer put pressure on ministers to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public."

Not to mention the lobbying Charles undertook, which took years to uncover, again because of his privileges as part of the royal family:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/29/prince-charl...

""I would explain that our policy was not to expand grammar schools, and he didn't like that," said Blunkett, who held the post from 1997 to 2001. "He was very keen that we should go back to a different era where youngsters had what he would have seen as the opportunity to escape from their background, whereas I wanted to change their background."

Call it influence or power, fundamentally it is rich people getting to exert pressure on the legislative and executive that none of us get to exert.
What odor transducer do you use?
I'm talking about organization/corporate taxes

French taxes $4,352.94 $52,235.29
Accountancy $430.00 $5,160.00
Independent Audit $500.00 $6,000.00

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk...
What puzzles me: if you focus on tax revenue per plot area/width, dense cities have a huge advantage - not even considering economies of scale and stuff like savings for heating/AC. And yet dense cities tend to have much higher cost of living and run huge deficits. How can this be explained?
You can request server analysis for your own games, up to 40 per day. They use fishnet.
Can you name one city that did not escape it, and was drowned in infrastructure costs? Galesburg is certainly not one of them, given how roads constitute a small fraction of its spending.
>... You realize that that hasn't been the case for ~20 years, right?

that's not true, try submitting an app to apple store, and you will get hit with a lot of Encryption Export Regulations prompts.

please see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying...

>When you submit your app to TestFlight or the App Store, you upload your app to a server in the United States. If you distribute your app outside the U.S. or Canada, your app is subject to U.S. export laws, regardless of where your legal entity is based. If your app uses, accesses, contains, implements, or incorporates encryption, this is considered an export of encryption software, which means your app is subject to U.S. export compliance requirements, as well as the import compliance requirements of the countries where you distribute your app.
If you buy a Lenovo, then the CPU dies and you replace it with an unlocked retail one, will the motherboard blow the fuses in the new one and lock it too as soon as you power it up?
except those arent server chips
FWIW, they're not locked to Lenovo boards you just need to have a board that can be configured to not care about the PSB.
This website hasn't been updated since April 2007. It's a blog/blogging platform named "Creating Passionate Users" not about creating them. The most visible[0] entry (April 6th) seems to be lamenting users. The site has been posted to HN numerous times[1], mostly in 2008 and before (when the context was more obvious?)

[0]: https://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=headrush.typepad.com
Well for example on Mac it seems to be impossible to turn off stuff like "App Nap" completely. I want my workstation to run 24/7 so it is ready and responsive whenever I need it. Yet in the latest versions I used every time I returned to my Mac I saw all the apps 'catching up' for a while, they had obviously been sleeping. And I had all sleep functions turned off in the GUI and with CLI commands like pmset. Yet they persist in pushing this. Another time I was decrypting a FileVault external drive, and went to bed after a few minutes when it was at 3%. In the morning when I looked it was at 5% and when I moved the mouse I heard the external drive spin up. Again it had been sleeping without being asked to do so, and this really screwed me up because I needed to clone that drive before going on a flight. I don't want Apple overriding what I want, probably so they can publish higher battery lifetime (and in fact in this case it was a Mac Mini so 'battery' lifetime was completely irrelevant).

Another thing is SSH access. I want to permit only public key access to my SSH daemon. Since about 10.12 or so (when SIP really started taking effect), macOS has been removing my changes from /private/etc/ssh/sshd_config and dumping them on the desktop when upgrades were done, in a passive-agressive way of saying "keep your shit to yourself". Not sure if it's even still possible to do this now with the sealed system volume because by the time Mojave and Big Sur came out I was already off the platform in terms of personal use.

Caffeinate (a CLI command to keep the machine awake) and a tool to constantly move the mouse (Jiggler) combined did work, but this is too hacky for my liking. If I want my OS not to do sleep of any kind, I should be able to tell it so.

Customisation with Gnome and Mac is possible but requires a ton of third-party tools which are often broken by system upgrades. I've tried all that both on Gnome and Mac but I got too annoyed with things constantly breaking. As a user wishing for great amounts of customisation you are clearly an undesirable on the platform.

I've used Mac as a daily driver from 10.2 until 10.14 or so, and I've had enough of these issues over the years that I just gave up on it. I still use every OS under the sun every day :) Because of work. But my main driver is FreeBSD + KDE and I like it a lot better.
Just thinking, ideologies are mostly just what people invoke when they want to get their way. There are far more unprincipled opportunists than ideologues from what I've seen. In politics for example, we have leaders and challengers jumping on trends to try and divide people, get support, and get elected. We have vanishingly fewer principled actors involved (at least in outward behavior) who are choosing their political positions based on some defined ideology. There is always some loose alignment (left/right) but at least imo these have completely strayed from any original meaning or principles around liberal or conservative and are more like two positions defined as the opposite or each others designed as poles voters can be rallied around.

I'd argue the same is true in most kinds of activism, it's rarely principled, and more defined by some broad dislike of something that eventually causes some ideological principles to get parroted as justification.

All that to say, I think some ideology might be welcome
Notably this seems to happen to CPUs that you might purchase yourself, which seems like a huge liability. If you somehow burn a $1000 CPU on a shitty mobo I can't see most people eating that.
But Math.random() returns a value in the range of [0, 1), that is it never returns 1.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Alas, it's lost to the sands of time. Also, I could never touch Silvia Plath, but for all she spoke to me in that time... I think I just dislike poetry as an art form. Are you saying my disdain for the work could make me good at it? I somehow expect that other self-loathing poets have already trodden that path to muck. But yeah, I realize that I could reformat the above and call it a poem. Oh noem.
Also, having self-taught from the previous edition of his excellent book, I can say that it is very useful even if you aren't able to attend his class.
I'm pretty sure that if a bridge collapses underneath you, you're just as likely to die in a SUV as in a sedan.
Right; it allows not using middlemen but it doesn't force it. Forced decentralization is a mostly unsolved problem.
Bezos famously sleeps 8 hours a night. Personally I like getting good rest but I also find my most productive moments are when sleep deprived or in the midst of insomnia.
I had this same experience trying to find some good science magazines for my 14yr old. They are quite interested in genetics and I looked and looked and none of the available magazines were any good.

I think that looking at the advertisements in the magazines tells you what part of the problem is. They are aimed at a fairly old demographic and probably the one remaining that still buys magazines.

The other significant issue is ads. No-one wants to spend ad money on ads that do not provide the type stats that Facebook and Google do. Before the internet the relationship between an ad campaign and increased sales wasn't causal. Maybe the ads worked. Maybe they didn't.

Now advertisers have far more information about the success of their campaigns and much, much more control over how ads are targeted.

So why would anyone do print or newspaper ads?

So magazines and newspapers are left with a diminishing pool of advertisers who target a declining demographic.
I think thats what the previous gen did, so most likely yes.
It's a gold idea from an advertising agency. It's sadly just fluff for award shows.
Even with Omicron, if everybody were vaccinated, the pandemic would be over, and we could open up society with endemic Covid, with hospitalization for a fully vaccinated population being lower than seasonal flu.
Rutland sea dragon: How remarkable ichthyosaur fossil was protected
The other day I was telling my mum about how in China they can monitor and delete anything you post online. Even delete an entire type of post made by millions of people based on a keyword etc etc.

Her response, rather than the horror I was trying to i instil, was “I think we ought to have that here!”

So it does worry me that public support could go the wrong way on this if they spend a lot of time on messaging.

I hope that the high level of mistrust of the government - built up especially through covid - will prevail.
Could it be because large investors in Kronos are also large investors in the companies that use Kronos, thereby having a vested interest in keeping the money flowing? Sincere question.
How is that less reliable? UDP has no delivery or ordering guarantee and no storage.
Fascinating. Even after the last eruption it was quickly colonized by plants and birds. The mud found on it in the last expedition must have been from the volcano!

https://youtu.be/Hds1OBxVg4s?s=209

Has footage from the island before it blew up!
I'm sorry, but where did I say 'all FOSS software'?
I wonder whether he actually believes these things, or Microsoft convinced him to knowingly lie about them.
Is there any theory at all of how this could possibly matter? Maybe there is and I don’t see it… but I really really don’t see it.

These fossils have been in the ground for millions of years, well before humans or their rich and poor states were ever dreamed of. Indeed before there was anyone to dream of anything.

It would be great if Tunisia had the financial resources to support a robust paleontological community. As it stands they have higher priorities. This is understandable!

Is there any reason to care if fossils which are tens or hundreds of millions of years old are dug up by the French, the Germans, or the Tunisians??
Hence the reason TV would only attract half of the adult population then.

Those still exist and presumably attract similar numbers, but there are far more options in the 'sitting on couch' area, hence TV viewership is massively down, and what remains is split amongst far more options
> Crypto isn't intented to remove middlemen

That isn’t what the sales pitch has been for the last 13 years, with lots of fanciful rhetoric about removing the need for banks (“you can be your own bank!” is basically a cliché by now).

> If I choose to self-custody, it's much safer to memorize a seed phrase than to store cash in my mattress.

Are you sure about this? Lots of people have been phished or compromised, whereas someone breaking in and searching your house is relatively uncommon and limited to people in the same area whereas your cryptocurrency can be stolen by anyone in the world.