skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$GME was always going to be a "Revolution That Wasn’t." Almost everyone playing knew it.

IMO, it was kind of an exemplifier of postmodernism, used colloquially. All the "beat down hedgies" stuff was just part of the game, just like "fuck the fundamentals" was part of the game.

IMO it has had an influence. A neurotic, dramatic lens through which we can look at financial institutions, more abstract economics. What is capital? What is money? Etc. Obviously, it all happens within a context with crypto, a long term bull market, and such. I think one of the features of being a basket case, meme-ish phenomenon is a sort of openness to ideas. Mentality-wise it allows exploring concepts with the vigour of a believer, but without really being bought into the position long term. Meme trading, and maybe trading generally, kind of lends to this. You can believe a "case" a hold the position with caveat.

As is typical of "movements" today, there is no expectation of winning... just as there is no expectation that market rationality "wins." Everything, in our times, is a "just so story," in economic rhetoric terms.
The prices may be there, but that does not mean supply is able to pick up. There are non-monetary barriers to entry the market. Knowledge, access to tools and materials, permits from gov agencies, source of water, power etc.

And the time scale to establish new capacity from scratch is many years to a decade or more. Look at the capacity build up in China. It has taken decades, and that is with all the power of the nation, and in some cases loose on regulations regarding IP rights.
So?

People are acting like shutting it down has zero consequences. That's crazy.
I agree. Whenever someone has tried this approach with me the result has always been me shutting down and avoiding to confide in that person. I am already tough in myself, that's why I always feel like a failure, I don't need this kind of stupid anime protagonist motivational speech bullshit.
Wow it's next to impossible here in NZ.
20 years on from its original release, Worms Aramegeddon is still getting occasional patches, from Deadcode, who has access to the source code and Team17's blessing:

https://worms2d.info/Updates_(Worms_Armageddon)

The game also works perfectly under WINE as a result
Man, this is a book that really needs to be paired with an explainer, or you will miss the subtext and come across the exact opposite conclusions: The Prince is a _satire_, a gift to the Medici family that arrested, tortured and exiled him. Everything it praises should be avoided, especially the hypocrisy and corruption of Italy. It dwells on the virtue of a guy who was appointed to lead the papal armies after his dad(!) was elected Pope. It should be obvious its not a straight book by the time you get to the part where it recommends nobles arm the populace, but we see countless "Machiavelli for the boardroom" books that didn't quite pick that up.

It was published posthumously, but was banned by the Church. Ostensibly because it recommended nobles behave awfully while pretending to be pious, but more likely because it pointed out the church was corrupt and its patrons more so.
Cash actually has a ton of middlemen, if you consider the lifecycle of most cash. From printing it, transporting it, counting it, etc. I bet each $20 bill is handled dozens of times in it’s lifespan by a person who is not the owner of it (think bank tellers, cashiers, armoured car drivers, the people that load ATMs, etc).
You don't make commercial chips on a shuttle run. If you sit on the same mask as somebody else, you forsake all the flexibility, and you are limited to fabs with own mask shops — just taking your masks, and moving to another fab with them is near impossible. Asking the fab to make just any process tweaks is similarly impossible.
I still fail to see said consequences. All I see are consequences of FB's continued existence.

There's a quote I heard recently you may enjoy when one of the conservatives told off PM Johnson.

"You've sat there too long for all the good that you've done. In the name of God, go."
The extent of their mutability is dictated by their immutable code. But you're right in that such a setup allows a contract system to be mutable in practice.
An accusation of hypocricy is not an argument in the debate; it is a simple ad-hominem, and as such it is a fallacy which can be disregarded.
GNU screen because it also works.
I mostly agree. But Rogan’s physical appearance and demeanor in his apology reminds me of Anthony Jeselnik’s shark story from “Thoughts and Prayers”. To paraphrase: it’s one thing to put your own job on the line to take a stand, it’s something else entirely to put the jobs of everyone who depends on you on the line.
After I got vaccinated and my wife and I experienced the myocarditis (although we're both over 45), I turned against the mRNA vaccines and the method of giving them without aspiration. I was never fond of the adenovirus ones as there's enough science against that vector.
This reads less of a threat from Meta, and more of outlining all possible outcomes in an annual report - one they have to do, else risk shareholders suing, and winning, in the extremely unlikely case they would restrict some of their product offering in Europe as a flex. This is similar to how, if you read S1 filings, they will list all possible things that could go wrong, and ways the business can stumble, for the same reason.

Meta is reasoning how they would be unable to do cross-region ad targeting with the current regulation.

None of what they write has anything to with Instagram or Facebook's ability to operate. It all has to do with how accurate and profitable Facebooks' cross-region ad targeting would be.

An underlying story not reported by Mashable is how the increasingly restrictive EU regulations do, in fact, present more cost and headaches for all companies operating globally. For any small and medium-sized business, it's increasingly not economical to implement adhering to regulations themselves: and it increasingly makes sense to use middlemen who provide these services - from payments processing to user data storage.

It feels we're entering a time when operating globally will mean investing resources and custom development to operate within the regulations in the EU, in India (also pushing for more EU-style regulations) and in China (a different beast altogether). The regions who have not yet implemented similar regulations and are more of an "operate however you want" model are the US, Canada, LatAm and Africa.
> but reading your post I have realized that I really don't like solving problem together in person with whiteboard etc

I used to really hate it, now I just hate it -- like letting someone else sample my food.

I really hated it because of all of the pollitics and egos and because I was really passionate and brought a lot of insight to the table while 90% the time the others just brought their egos to the table.

Now I'm just jaded and I hate it because 90% of the time the solution really doesen't matter and people just waste eachothers times in endless meetings about details that really don't matter.
Dune. I'd like to recommend all 6 by Herbert, but since I can only recommend one I'll say Dune. My favourite book. I even have this beautiful edition: https://imgur.com/LQPoi4m
> And it's worth noting that Japan is pretty far behind in terms of integrated ticketing for occasional journeys (although commuter passes are integrated between different companies).

Firstly, Japan actually has very good integrated ticketing, namely you don't buy tickets at all. You wave your phone/card over the stall on entry and wave it again at whatever station you exit from, and the system calculates the fare at exit. (And it's discounted from the price of actually buying tickets.) Japanese train station gates allow more people to move in and out of the station than any other model of station I have seen in any country.

Secondly, the over-focus on integrated ticketing misses that the important thing is integrated payment. It wasn't the case until some number of years ago, but nowadays everything but the most rural of rural lines has a single shared national system for IC card payment that is easy to use. The IC cards can even be used at most grocery stores and restaurants. They even work for foreigners and are a great alternative to cash to avoid having to calculate payments.
Most of the time there is a "supplier" / "consumer" pattern in the use of smart contracts.

The supplier will provide incremental versions of its contract, and the customer has the freedom of upgrading or not to the latest version. At least that's how clean contracts are deployed.

The Gnosis Safe is a good example of this pattern.
Yes. Overhead wires make the value of the rail go up and so the taxes the railroads pay is more and thus it isn't worth it.

For the busy routes it would still be worth it, but the is a lot of used just often enough to not abandon the tracks rail. Electric is all or nothing (not 100%,but close) in that if even a small line isn't electric you only run diesel engines so you can run trains one that one line.

It is easier to load and unload without electric overhead.

Still if the cost of diesel went to $15/gallon the us would put up those wires, but until then diesel is cheaper. Don't forget to adjust for inflation.
With this theory, you are making it impossible to talk about institutional failure and about culture within institutions. It also makes it impossible to reform those.

Because whenever caught, bad stuff will be always framed as individual failure, despite those individual being encouraged to act that way by their bosses and peers.
That list includes many fabless players and isn't a good indication of how much the sanctions would play out in the next few years, as we undergo a massive migration to EUV process nodes, which China is effectively barred from.
I think the whole blog post is floating in the air, because it's detached from all surrounding discussion and core event itself.

It reads like a rambling at this point.
I think a better way to phrase his point is that responsibility rolls upward. You cannot delegate responsibility for an outcome, though you can share it.
If you pick up a bag of apples and find one bad, do you take that particular bag home?

Probably not. You would be reasonable for avoiding the bags touching that one, just to avoid the rot. The reason "on bad apple spoils the bushel" exists is because obvious rot generally means there is other rot you cannot see without further inquiry - and that those without rot will probably be tainted soon.

And that's the problem: Once you find one bad speaker, you have to be suspicious of so many more. It is probably better to move onto something more trustworthy because watching nonsense means you've increased your chances of remembering and repeating nonsense later.
Yet this internet myth of "PHP no bueno" persists.

Don't confuse the tool with the artisan. PHP is an incredible language that's getting more mature with each new release.
I've mentioned these before and so at the risk of repeating myself:

1. Heptabase is interesting software.

2. Whiteboard feature of Diagrams.net is underrated.

3. Otter.AI is amazing voice to text transcription

4. SnagIt is useful to be able to easily screenshot almost anything

https://heptabase.com/
https://sketch.diagrams.net
https://otter.ai/
https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html
The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile [1]

It's one of the biggest longitudinal qualitative studies on work life and company succes. It has given me by far the most valuable insight into what really matters in building happy and effective workspace.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721498-the-progress-pr...
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/psa-please-specify-precise-dep...

Essentially there are a few popular Rust libraries that add functions in patch versions (or have done so in the past). This makes it necessary for users of that library to include the patch number when specifying the minimal version that they need because they can't assume an earlier patch will include all the functions they use.

The original forum poster said such libraries were in "violation" of the semver.org spec. This blog post disagrees on using the term "violation" because this is a minor issue (no pun intended... or was it).
In NZ we basically have this in law when it comes to safety. If someone gets hurt it's Management's fault. If they pulled all the safeties off the machine and stuck their hands in while it was running, then it's your fault for not training them not too. Unless you have paperwork to prove you did train them not to.
And once you've read that, continue with "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces", and "Crafting Interpreters".

CODE is great to get a sense of what a processor is and does.

Operating Systems shows how processes, file systems, and hardware abstractions make a processor useful to users.

Crafting Interpreters implements a programming language on top of that.

With these three books, you have a good overview of how a computer works.
That's not really mutability of a contract, that's a seamless way to switch between immutable contracts. It doesn't eliminate the risks of immutable contracts, so I think the arguments based on that are still valid then.
But what's the point?

The beauty of perl scripts, and later php templates, was in their BASIC-like simplicity. They were not secure or structured in any way, but very accessible.

Once you add these frameworks, you realize you could have started with Python or Java in the first place and get more mature infrastructure and better language along the way.
AV/EDR evasion via direct system calls
I think it's a valid political complaint considering the role of the book in the world but I don't think it's a valid literary complaint because men (and groups of men) write some books and women (and groups of women) write other books and neither are bad for the reason that they are written by only one gender. If the latter were true, then all books written by groups of women are also bad, which is absurd.
>Why would the author refer the themself in the female?

It's a thing that has become more popular to get away from assumptions that one sex or another is predominantly associated with some manner of activity. I've noticed it in several different authors writings. Or it could be that that by 'she', the author is referring to their aircraft, which I believe traditionally is considered a "she" just as a ship or boat is.
> you get more chips per wafer but if the machines cost 10x as much, let's say, then it's not necessarily worth it

That's sort of the point I'm making here: there is fundamentally no real cost differential unless you go really far back to when the equipment was really rudimentary. The old machines are cheap because they're used. If there was someone still manufacturing them, their cost would not be greatly different from modern equipment.

The best analogy I can make is an old car. Being older doesn't mean it's a whole lot cheaper to manufacture. Maybe a little -- no fancy computers or direct fuel injection -- but you lose that benefit really fast because of the shitty fuel economy.

Most of the modern equipment is "backward compatible"; modern CVD or PVD or CMP or etch equipment would work fine at any trailing node, with the exception of the fact that they would work only with 300mm wafers (which is actually an added cost efficiency).

The biggest difference I could imagine is with litho equipment. 193nm immersion is expensive and EUV is even more outrageous. You could probably use old non-immersion litho technology with modern multiple patterning instead.
I would miss Meta as I use messenger frequently and greatly enjoy using my oculus/meta quest 2.
If a lot of them are frauds, how the heck are you supposed to know that these are high quality content, especially if you are being introduced to a theory and/or have little previous knowledge of the subject matter?

You don't. Knowing that there is garbage peppered into everything makes it all less reliable.
> I don't see why should our regulators care at all to keep Meta here though.

Because there are an awful lot of small businesses that sell almost exclusively through Facebook, and the major industries of Europe (i.e. the car manufacturers) which conveniently are major donors to the political parties depend on social media for their marketing as classic ATL advertising spend is going back.

Not to mention Instagram "influencers" - a couple of them have millions of followers. What do you think will happen when even one tells their followers to blast the offices of politicians with calls and letters?

Not that I like Meta, their products and their attitude towards privacy very much, but using the "Scientology method" may get them their will in the end.
Foobar 2000. Just a clean, simple and yet still configurable player for music. Unpopular for many streaming users, but I still grab copies of music.

Keepass for Windows. A simple key manager. Perhaps not for enterprise because access rights management is basic, but I couldn't live without it anymore since it is so convenient. I think some 'fan' ported it to other systems.

edit: didn't read that you already mentioned Keepass. Yes, it is awesome.

As a hobby painter I wouldn't want to miss Krita and Blender ever again. Both made impressive developments in recent times and I laugh at our advertising department about the problems their "professional" and moderately creative cloud solutions cause.

On server side:

Gitea - just a round solution for my projects.
honorable mention:
Trac - A bit older, but I just like it.
It was the embedded software engineer (s) who didn't do any redundancy. Knowing this is for an airliner, how on earth do you reconcile the two?
It must be different in some parts of the country because the teachers I know are doing perfectly fine, even without the net present value of their pension.

The biggest complaint is they are just tired of all the nonsense with covid.

I feel like this conversation is pretty much a constant across time though that teachers are underpaid.

Underpaid compared to what? A plumber? Going to quit teaching to fix pipes in the cold?

Everyone is underpaid compared to this idealized job in the abstract that almost no one actually has.
So pandemic kids will be two years more feral and two years less able to focus on what doesn’t interest them. All fields will experience two school-years loss of civility. That sounds bad!

It doesn’t seem like you buy the premise in my statement (if indeed we can cut two years of school with no ill effects) so we don’t need to argue about the conclusion.
FB didn't invent the internet, they are just trying to colonize it, so they can charge rent on the labour of others.

We had chat, messaging, pages. All decentralized. No ads. Just worked. Jabber, email, etc.

FB is a national security issue. If you love your country, you pray or fight for the ban of anything Mark touches.
In theory yes, but they can't use the data for legitimate business while also complying with the regulations.
1. There would be cash flow, the data just would need to stay in Europe.

2. Metas biggest advantage is the fact that social media are a natural monopoly
in the sense that you really want to be in the same social network as everybody else. Hence the largest must win.

If meta were to leave Europe, there would be a short phase in which there would be several aspiring alternatives, than the market would consolidate.
Archived: https://archive.ph/zfRy9
In the mid-00s the main selling point of PHP were shared hostings with mod_php which was a cheap way to host your own web site and database.

Now with the cloud that advantage is utterly gone.
>Meta says the ability to process user data in between countries is crucial for its business both operationally and for ad targeting

And yet there's Amazon Japan.
To have or to be - Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm is a great author and in this book he looks at the difference of having (owning stuff) vs. being (enjoying experiences). He argues that too many people are focused on "having", and that our whole society and even language is built around that. For example, you would say "I have a relationship". He argues that it's a weird choice of words, since you don't own the relationship.
I seriously believe that they should have stopped producing TED talks after Reggie Watts. He said everything that needed to be said. All talks afterwards were just reformulations of his core point.
I would only recommend Ripptoe if you’re already strength training or have a passion for the mechanics of strength exercises, because if it’s not immediately practical or a fascination, the book will likely bore you.
作戦 is a single word and can't be broken down further.

I'll use this moment to remind people that Japanese is not Chinese and bears little relation to it despite borrowing parts of it's writing system and some vocabulary. (China also reverse-borrowed Japanese invented vocabulary.)
You mean the same google maps that claims that outdoor trails and statues have been closed for business since 2020? It’s completely unreliable in some markets
Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm
Such contract can proxy call another (upgraded) contract by changing references.
This is defined on the contract source code and, by signing it, you agree its implications of "upgradable".

The proxy contract and the actual contract is immutable. The references and variables are not, as it is meant to be programmable.
Onion Talks, a satirical view from The Onion on TED, is to me all that we need to watch to know how vapid most of TED content ever was. Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4NL9i-Fu15hhYGB-d0hm...
This article is weird. It centres on the central premise that pie charts are useless because you can't tell exactly the relative sizes of slices that are very similarly sized. That's not the point of a pie chart, which is to show clearly which areas are big and which are insignificant.

The article then poses the question "Let’s See if it actually rains more on the weekend." Looking at the pie chart, it's immediately obvious at a glance, that YES, it does rain more at the weekend, as the two segments for Saturday and Sunday together account for nearly half the pie. Clearly the pie chart is perfect for answering this question. But then, the article launches into a whole spiel about how pie charts are useless because you can't tell which was rainier between Saturday or Sunday.

However, if you used an alternative presentation e.g. the lollipop charts as they suggest, then it's NOT obvious for answering the question of whether the 2 weekend days rained more or less than the 5 other days. Rather it's benefit is in determining which days were the rainiest.

The obvious take-home is to use the appropriate graph to illustrate the conclusion you're trying to make from the data, but also include the raw data so that others can analyse it if they think there might be other details that are important.
I do not think it matters whether a book is written by a man or woman, if the discussion is about worthwhile books to read.

The bible is not just any other book though, and I understand why you'd have political, moral or religious ideas against anyone reading it. I do not think it was being recommended for any of those reasons though. Looked at as just a book, its very much worth reading regardless of what was edited out or translated out.

The idea is to read it as a book, and not some 100% accurate 100% inclusive 100% politically correct collection of books.