skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the technology blockchain has only demonstrated success in 1 application which is cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency has only demonstrated success in 2 applications: speculative investment and illegal online purchases. I would include NFT’s under the speculative investment category.

These applications are obviously problematic for 3 main reasons: it wastes enormous amounts of energy, the investment is often at the expense of less tech/financial savvy people, and most people don’t want it to be easier for criminals to conduct financial transactions.

IMO, it is not a few bad apples spoiling the bunch. It is a bunch of bad apples with a few good apples mixed in. Even if your motivations in working in this space are good (not simply for your own technical stimulation/amusement), you are trading off furthering/enabling real world harm now against optimistic speculation about future positive outcomes.
oh. that's an excellent point. I hadn't thought about that.
right letter wrong place is far less useful than right letter right place.
>slowest modern languages

Horizontal scaling is going to be an issue eventually, no matter the language. You can serve tens of thousands of people off a single django server. Unless you're going to hit a growth limit at specifically 3-5x what a single vertically scaled django server can do, or you know for a fact that webserver compute is going to be the bottleneck, development speed rules all else.
Can't you just unplug the Ethernet cable/turn off the Wi-Fi module? (At least if the website was not lazy-loading resources.)
These seem closer to being a Corolla:

* Organic Transit ELF ( https://organictransit.com/ )

* Better Bikes Pebl ( https://www.better.bike/ )
Perhaps because you might want to live in a society where our economic activity is directed at activities which actually promote our collective wealth and wellbeing.
> In New York, isn't it mandatory to show your vaccine card to go into any building that isn't your house?

That doesn't prevent you leaving your house, and are people really checking the vaccine passes of friends who visit their home? I suspect the rules are much less strict than the original comment suggested.

> Which policies are these?

By making the issuance (and renewal) of IDs require attending a government building, and limiting the locations of those buildings and the times they are open, it can be made disproportionately difficult for poor and working people to obtain those IDs, just like the removal of polling places. A state can also invent entirely new types of excuses, like "paper shortages".[0]

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/590213-texas-blames...
Won't simply doing

ssh win-PC
wsl

give you the same result as SSHing directly into WSL distro?
Can We Turn a Desert into a Forest?
> It seems pretty clear cut to me that if your company hasn't been found guilty of discrimination in the past, then it's illegal for the company to institute "affirmative action."

That's not what United Steelworkers v. Weber established though. The supreme court said:

> An affirmative action plan has to be (1) necessary (2) aiming to correct a statistical imbalance (3) not result in an absolute bar to hiring non-minorities (4) temporary, with an end date or goal (5) allow flexibility for hiring non-minorities.

There's no bar for "has been found guilty in the past".
The first versions of Anki (ca 2006) were based on spaced repetition algorithms developed for a piece of software called SuperMemo, which came out 21 years earlier in 1985 [0].

Piotr Wozniak, the author of SuperMemo, writes a lot about spaced repetition and memory in general. What you're describing are basically items 1 and 2 of his "Twenty rules of formulating knowledge" [1]: "Do not learn if you don't understand," and "Learn before you memorize." It's an extremely useful article if you're a heavy Anki user.

0: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/SuperMemo_Algorithm:_30-year-lon...

1: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/20ru...
Archived: https://archive.ph/bHsJW
an interesting project.

the size of the image concerns me:

kernel+boot 100MB, with C it could be 4MB.

kernel+boot+basicpackages 500MB, with C it could be 16MB.

Golang is designed to be static all-in-one packages for each application(e.g. microservices), when you run a lot of them in any given system, it becomes really large together.

I don't mind to use one or two go binaries in my embedded board, when I need a few of them, I am concerned about the storage size(possibly memory size as well).
Because they’re no longer competing. They wield monopoly power that is anticompetitive, and it’s bad for everything else you value. (Assuming you value more than streaming media, two retailers, and ads.)
Carbon Capture and Storage, the Way Forward
The problem with “blockchain” is it is a textbook example of a solution in search of a problem.
100% agree, I couldn’t replied better!
I mean, Aeon is pretty bad
In fairness, “all languages are tools; choose the most appropriate one for your task” is also an old-school language flamewar response.
This is a widely-held belief, but it isn't true. Maybe once upon a time in the land of spinning rust that was true, but it certainly isn't now. Databases are fast enough that a scripting language frequently is the performance bottleneck.

https://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-a...
The arrogance of Dan in this video is only exceeded by the number of provably incorrect claims. It's up to par with the crypto-critical community, which has painted itself into a corner where only the most outrageous claims about the evils of the feared dystopian future suffice.

A deep dive into the scammy world of those NFT Discord groups is a fantastic idea, it's a shame what became of the video.
Rules for Rulers is real.

It's not that management is dumb, it's that every layer of management is self-interested. Every hierarchy has to contend with principal agent problems. Organizations can do a better or worse job of it, but the incentives are always there and they lead to predictable inefficiencies which are frequently observed. Everyone knows this, but unless you know how to get someone to manage without self-interest, you aren't in a position to solve the problem. Nobody is. That's why it lingers.
> A better way to promote innovation might be through cultivating a spirit of entrepreneurship in young people, supporting startup accelerators, and handing out grants to promising candidates like the one in the article.

Taxing large corporations seems like it would be an excellent way in which to fund such grants.
That doesn't sound too much worse than some HR in industry...

OT: could I ask you some questions about another thread (semiconductor fabs), privately? My twitter contact info is in my profile.
I still don't understand why Tinder and Bumble and other dating sites will let any user verify their humanity and yet Twitter won't. I think it would get rid of so much of its spam problem if it just let anyone verify their account, and didn't play these popularity games with blue checks.
You posted on related topics a few weeks back with your Marginalia projects and I spent an hour browsing your sites. Making the "small web" and its creative weirdness visible again pulls on my nostalgia strings. Good work!
Are you referring to the qualified cis bipoc male who is being redlined?

Sex vs gender is a legit disambiguation.

Based on the recent post of a guy who said he represented as a black lesbian woman on his resume to get a job, verification is also legit.

(There was also a recent study that said that 30% of Whites misrepresented their race on their college application.)
Obviously IANAL, but I don't read "remediate past failures" as requiring a guilty verdict in court to institute affirmative action.
What is the use case for this technology? If it's permissioned, it might as well be a normal database with the "append-only" setting enabled.
Worth noting that Jeopardy Watson had very little ML and absolutely no deep learning (it was a few years pre-AlexNet). I don’t even think it used any neural networks; certainly not in any major way because they’re not a major topic anywhere in the press releases, working group notes, or the papers published by the Watson research group. Watson was an incredibly complex mixture of bespoke implementations of “classical” AI and NLP techniques to handle questions of different classes by transforming them into search & information retrieval problems. They were able to make it work pretty well for the very limited domain of questions that arise in Jeopardy, but it was also obviously a Herculean task to generalize that approach. I can totally believe that as executives started to grok what Watson really was they realized that it had more value as a brand than as a technology.
Jax: Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs (Google)
No, quite the opposite. The contention that 'psyops' were being conducted using bots is now in serious doubt because of this new research.

And far from such 'psyops' being the act of the American federal government, as you suggest, instead it was argued that the Russian government was responsible.

And the accusation that there was collusion with Russians to achieve this was the central driving force behind the impeachment and near-removal of the U.S. president.

It's completely irrelevant and nonsensical to respond to this research by claiming it proves "the feds" are "doing psyops" domestically.
Done! https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/sayz3d/am_i_be...
Best advice I ever read came from an indiehacker post, years ago. Someone asked for advice for improving their landing page, and someone with marketing experience weighed in:

Don't believe for one moment that 5 hours on Product Hunt or anywhere else for that matter represents a serious marketing effort.

If you want to run a business rather just create stuff, your work has only just begun. In the light of Facebook and other social media revelations, the idea of a truly disposable email address which means your entire life is not analysed and spammed to death has to be worth something.

You haven't told anyone about it though. And I mean you shout from the rooftops every day and everywhere you can think of. You market. People are not going to come looking for you. You have to start approaching influencers, be seen and be heard everywhere you think your potential users might lurk.

And, by the way, everyone sees a million new ideas a day so you have to be consistent, appear to be permanent and appear to be solid. No-one is going to entrust communications with you if they think you are a small, one-man band with an idea and little else.

Time to start reading marketing articles and strategies and applying them.

And expect it to take time.

Added bit : I've just watched your video. No, I won't be using your service and nor will anyone else. I have no idea how good it is and I am not going to find out. And nor is anyone else.

Why not? Because you uploaded a silent, technical video. You have made the classic mistake of trying to show me how something works before I even know if I care. This is a technical video, not a selling one.

You need a voice.

You need to tell me what my problem is and make it resonate with me.

You need to tell me how to solve it.

You need to tell me it is simple.

You need to tell me what it costs.

You need to tell me to link right now to the place I can sign up.

You might need some other things but these are the basics.

You need to sell your idea to me, not explain how the software works. I do not give a damn about the bloody software until I give a damn about the bloody problem!

Tell me where I'm hurting, sympathise and then magic-kiss it better. You know - just like Mummy did when I was small!
The tech sector prints money. Large companies can leech off past heroics built by former employees for decades, even if the current employees are incompetent. A zombie company if you will.
Yes, but keyword arguments are a good fallback option.

They indicate that you are indeed passing the required arguments.
So, the

def foo(val, querry=querry):
...

doesn't look as funny as you might think.
No, because a d12 has a uniform probability distribution across all numbers which is explicitly not what is wanted for Catan
Studying "1-in-1,000 fastest growing new ventures" is completely misunderstanding tech. Startup returns are about power-laws and extraordinary outliers. If we instead study the age of founders of tech companies which actually generated almost all of the ecosystem gains over the past few decades:

1. Apple: $2.65T

- Jobs: 21

- Woz: 26

2. Alphabet: $1.73T

- Larry/Sergey: 25ish

3. Microsoft: $2.22T

- Gates: 19

- Allen: 22

4. Amazon: $1.45T

- Bezos: 29

5. Facebook: $0.84T

- Zuckerberg: 19

Looking at just the age of founders instead of other substance is stupid. But if we're just looking at age and nothing else, then younger founders make for better outliers, and generating outliers is the whole point of this endeavor.

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EDIT: With its high market cap, Tesla belongs on this list, and actually had some older founders. Problem: the older founders left the company/were forcibly removed, didn't retain much equity, and aren't credited with much early success when they were actually in charge. Still, some interesting data points.

Tesla: $0.94T

- Elon Musk: 32

- J.B. Straubel: 28

- Martin Eberhard: 43 (forcibly removed due to late/over budget Roadsters)

- Marc Tappening: 39 (left Tesla in 2008)
> Universities in modern day are used by staff and admins as a free tax payer funded paycheck.

No. University staff - academic and administrative - work for their paycheck. I would assume most of them work hard, although my evidence is local/anecdotal.

> While the students are hammered with having to make money to afford to live there

This is not a problem in every country, but yes, I agree that university education should be gratis.

> We are pushing out students with little to no real world experience

To the extent that the university is not the real-world - this is a tautology.

> very little ability to critically think or find answers on their own.... we give them no time to and instead make them write about what Plato did, or how we can create more gender neutral environments.

This is an over-generalization. Perhaps this happens in your department, in your university, in your country - and perhaps some others; I doubt this is true in the majority of cases. Although I'll grant you that institutions properly fostering critical thought is somewhat of a rarity.

> There is no accountability. A university can offer a degree and teach nothing

In many/most countries this is false: There are periodic appraisals of various academic tracks by other universities, the state, relevant industries etc (details vary by country).

> people don't realize just how bad COVID rules destroyed some of these uni's

This may be true, but I'm not in academia these days so I wouldn't know.
I have an opposite question: why not just use Windows?
I wish there was a way to learn mainframes that were accessible to mere mortals. Some toying around with a (almost certainly illicit) emulated copy of z/OS revealed an extremely complex, no doubt powerful, but entirely alien system that I'd have loved to get my head around, but alas, I could find no good resources.
It sounds like you're referring to exceptions. While I would take exceptions over the stringly-typed nightmare that is Go errors, you should know that there are far better error handling schemes out there.
> It's functionally inferior, because if you go into it expecting modern elasticsearch you'll be sorely disappointed.

Or, for a large number of people, won't notice the difference. There are some important questions about how ElasticSearch's license & community works, and whether you're risking lock-in by using a managed service, but detail-free hyperbole contributes noise but not value to that discussion.

For example, what are the features you think no user of ElasticSearch could live without which are in ElasticSearch after 7.10 but not OpenSearch 1.1? What percentage of users depend on those features? How concerned are you about vendor lock-in with ElasticSearch's unilateral control of the project's roadmap? Do you think there's more or less risk from an open source project you can run anywhere which, you fear, will not be updated as frequently or from one which has a history of backwards-incompatible changes requiring you to stay current or fall out of support by popular clients?
We have this health system to avoid taxes, but this crazy US system probably costs 97-98% of Americans pay more for health stuff than all of their actual taxes combined.
100% agree. I know many capable developers who will never do anything other than close tickets because they cannot build relationships. Some of them do not even understand why building a relationship might be fruitful.
I would guess that most people entering NP programs at this point have less than 3 years of work experience as a nurse, a job where you are not diagnosing, coming up with treatment plans, performing procedures or doing any other physician tasks.

I don't know if 500hrs of shadowing after a 2yr part-time online only program that you don't need any nursing degree or experience to enter would count as highly trained or skilled. Here's a list of direct entry nursing masters programs - https://nursinglicensemap.com/nursing-degrees/masters-in-nur...

Here's Johns Hopkins doctor of nursing practice program's curriculum - https://nursing.jhu.edu/academics/programs/doctoral/msn-dnp/... - where more than half of your classes are not medicine related and which requires an astounding 1000 clinical hours and less than 10 credits a semester before you can call yourself "doctor". Most medical students will have 1000hrs after 3 months in 3rd year, where they will be expected to diagnose and come up with treatment plans vs just shadowing, and they still have 9 more months of 3rd year, 4th year, and a minimum of 3 more years in residency. Doctors will likely end up with a minimum of 15000 hours of training. The difference really is that large, and I feel bad for the patients and for the NPs who have no idea how deficient their education is. PAs have 2000hrs of clinical experience. Here's a chart - https://i.imgur.com/Cj5z4f8.jpg
Solid is awesome. But while its reactivity is simpler than React hooks in that they have fewer rules (i.e. you can call them conditionally), it imposes other rules that people may find challenging (limits on destructuring, requiring functions where you might expect to be able to use a reference directly).

Preact is actually a good alternative not just for its size/perf advantages. It’s also significantly easier to read and understand the internals, which may help some learners find their way where they would otherwise get lost in React.
This looks super neat. I'm building something very similar called graphjson. It's a super competitive space, but I think your OS + privacy friendly angle is a good one.

Best of luck on your journey!
Part of the job, as stipulated by medical regulators around the world, is keeping up-to-date with evidence. This can be achieved by reading journals and attending conferences, in theory.

But.... journal publishers exploit their monopolies, and conferences are funded by corporate sponsors. So perhaps they're not so different.
The Lisp ecosystem is in excellent shape. Here's a nice curated list of libraries[1].

[1] https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl
And Instagram have their own CPython fork called Cinder - https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder
Ahh, the author is a philosopher. That explains idiocy.

The only thing that this text points to is that it's better not to be strict utilitarian if you have iq below 50 or a mentality of evil djinni.
This feels like what StumbleUpon was (a positive correlation :) ) -- would you be willing to add what criteria "similar" is based on in the info box upper left? For example I have no clue what this below domain is, so would be curious as to what the algorithm uses as "similar" to show me more (keywords? links? domain names? hosting providers? tech used? country located? etc.) https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/cblgh.org
And btw: This whole debate is outdated, and like something out of a socialist pamphlet ca 1995.

Public vs. private transport has mostly been settled, and the private sector won.

All over Europe and in much of the rest of the world, public transit is operated by private companies. (Usually with great results.)

There’s no way governments would start nationalizing tens of billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in a time where finances are already stretched.
The big difference is that lots of python libraries use C under the hood, and a lot of internals of the language are leaked via the C api. It's a lot harder to do fancy things with a JIT when there are more people observing and depending on the internals.
The Better Bikes Pebl are great in the rain or snow: https://www.better.bike/

The Organic Transit ELF doesn't come with a floor but owners have fitted their own: https://organictransit.com/
If you are worried that you are being asked to do something illegal, you should get your own legal advice. The companies lawyer is obliged to protect them, not you.

Having said that, the above is probably good advice in many situations. Just not if you have an concern that you might personally get sued or prosecuted.
Thanks for these ideas. Do you have any recs on where or how to find a lawyer for the advice call?
I'm in New Zealand and it's not too far from what was described.
There were many, myself included, who called Watson vaporware since day one. Glad to see it go. It was almost as bad as Theanos, frankly.
I use Zoho for a small company and indeed the pricing is really good and the product is reliable. The UI is really well designed and they have thought about (and implemented) nearly any feature I can ever think of. Really great service.

I plan to move my family to Zoho in the next couple of years. I only haven't yet because I've got so many other items on the to-do list.
This is intriguing. What exactly is so good about it? And does it vape flower? My Arizer is getting a little clogged and I was thinking about upgrading soon.
Breakthrough Shot of Engineered Immune Cells Helps Heal Heart Damage
Well at least on Linux I can do something like below with native apps

firejail --net=none firefox

Disables internet for firefox
I rarely drink, it just do not think of it.

Friday and Saturday nights are spend making music with friends (jamming with synthesizers mostly) or online gaming with friends ( 7 days to die mostly)

It is creative, can be really social and can mostly be done at home.
I stopped using Softlayer after IBM took over. I still get emails about the daily "incidents" in "IBM Cloud", as well as monthly billing notices for my $0 bill. I don't know my "IBM Id" or "Softlayer Id" to log in any more as it's been almost a decade, so I can't unsubscribe from any of it.
I do think a lot of recommendation algorithms these days are bit too good at finding things that are similar to what we like. Which means you never discover things that you'll like, but are not similar to the things you've tried before. It becomes incredibly samey after a while.

The great joy of, say, flipping through a magazine or browsing a library is that they are passive, and don't know who you are, and can't adapt what you read based on what you're likely to read. So you might read something unexpected, you might discover something you didn't even know about yourself.
Google warns of ‘devastating’ impact of defamatory hyperlinks ruling
Rational comes to mind
What do you think is a good prescreening test for candidates?
How do you prove causation instead of correlation exactly?