skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your whole four paragraphs can be simplified to:

90% of projects out there are scams and have a crypto-token attached to it with a pyramid scheme on it and there also exists a 10% of projects somewhere that it is not purely a 'get-rich-quick-scheme', or a 'web3' crypto project that doesn't require a crypto-token attached to the product that has utility?

Thus, it also must mean that it is not going away 100% guaranteed, despite the rampant scams?

> So today I mostly dismiss anything cryptocurrency-related as a scam and move on. It works well, too.

So since 2017, there has been no regulations, crackdowns and legislation that has been proposed to regulate anything related to crypto and nothing has changed?

I really hope you try your best to avoid it and 'move on'. I should not expect you to continue to react to yet another HN post about crypto projects since you think all of them are a scam.
Not all RFCs have a HTML version available, sadly.
Has anyone found another job that pays so well for so little, yet? Anything I found is a significant pay cut or significantly harder and more stressful work, so I'm still programming.
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>I actually built an app before that which would easily transfer money between countries, by finding matching local trades.

Is this the same idea as Wise (aka TransferWise)/hawala?
I read news/comments about it but I'm not experience it myself
Dell XPS has a Linux-specific line, called "Developer edition", which is intended to be Linux-compatible (it can be indeed be configured with Ubuntu on purchase).

Their compatibility is not as good as they say (it needs a couple of tweaks, one of which is crucial, otherwise the machine eats batteries while on standby), but it's still decent. Definitely not "VERY bad".
I can confirm that. Also have a T440p And I'm very happy with it. Added a 1 TB SSD, 16 GB RAM, Kubuntu, keep some spare CPUs with different performance levels because I travel a lot. Everything is very easily interchangeable, designed to military standards. I've had my device for 3 years, and it's already suffered bumps and scratches that would break other devices. Got myself a docking station for 25€ for when I am home. It hasn't even crossed my mind to get another device since then.
> I looked into the Framework laptops and so far it looks like they are still a bit beta.

I'm not sure that's fair, (and it's pedantically wrong - they're in production - but I know what you mean) the hardware is the nicest I've seen besides Macbooks (I agree with you about macOS, but I do like the hardware, keen for Asahi one day but that is very much beta (alpha actually I think)) and Linux is Linux? It works fine out of the box, everything 'in-tree'.

Unless you just don't want to buy any company's first product of course, which I suppose is fair enough, but I hope (for the longevity of a company I like & spares/upgrades for my laptop) that enough people don't feel that way.
By the way, since ClickHouse is a column database, so it can be faster to ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN with the default value and then send a separate query to materialise those columns because the ALTER itself doesn't do that.
Which is hardly fair if the takedown notice doesn't even have information you'd need to respond - like what exactly is meant to be the infringing content.

Also, the claimant allowing one business day (whatever that even means, given the scummy company is in Pakistan and the scummy hiring company is in the US, and the alleged infringees are all over the place!) is quite obviously ridiculous.
After three it's too late.
It’s a problem with Windows. I’ve a dual boot MacBook Pro and I run into that issue only when I put the laptop to sleep when running Windows. I don’t have the issue when running MacOS. You would think after 30 years Microsoft would figure out how to keep a computer asleep.
Came here just to weight in for each and every point. This is the best answer so far.

PhD is seem as a magical badge of super power, even if you can get a job without one, consider having it, is a 1.5x-2x salary multiplier.
Based on jobs data: Python, SQL, R, and Tableau are all in very high demand. See: https://i.imgur.com/WXn8Cny.png

Source:
https://www.kaggle.com/code/nomilk/data-science-language-and...
Yes, these are energy recovery ventilator (ERV) units. They exchange air while keeping both heat and humidity in. They are absolutely critical to health in tight house construction.
What kind of example is this?

Try that with a credit card transaction and you'll get kicked out for ordering 5 beers and only trying to pay 1. :D
I believe both points have their origin in an underdeveloped "theory of mind".

Understanding the capabilities and motives of others depends on haaving developed a theory of mind.

Going by Keagans developmental stages, people are getting stuck in stage 3.
I don't think I am ever going to get used to "crypto" meaning "cryptocurrency" and not "cryptography". Can't we just keep calling it "cryptocurrency"? I thought this article would be about the various misguided governments' attempts to outlaw cryptography.
If it was an Australian citizen that was under the threat of an extradition to China for exposing the shit they did, the outrage will be total! But here it is supposed to be the "good guys" doing it. Funny how the yard stick can change... but the rest of the world will see it for what it is.
If you share objects between wasm and JS then you want to share garbage collectors so you don’t have to pin them.
dear would discriminate against those who are not so beloved.
Le Corbusier's project Plan Voisin – a radical urban design for Paris from 1925
That's really irrelevant in 2022, since 90% of blockchains are not Proof of Work anymore.
Seconding this. Take Tableau off of your resume unless you want to be a dashboard monkey (sorry, “BI Developer”). Dashboards != analytics, but lots of companies seem to think they do.

I would suggest looking at the Certified Analytics Professional certification from INFORMS. Operations Research is the original data science, and preparing for and passing the test is a good signal that you understand analytics.

Machine learning is just one tool in the arsenal of providing value using data.
Good, well-maintained connections with long built-up trust in each other. Then experience doesn't even matter.
Perfect background to fund startups like liquid robotics - much of startup investment is art, groupthink, luck and casino. Traditional financial background is of limited use in early stage startups
> Would you prefer being deported to Siberia or blown apart by a drone?

Russian way of solving that is not what you wrote. It is more: blow you up with a drone and deport all your family to Siberia.

I've lived with Russia shadow all my life, my country was multiple times invaded by it, tore apart, occupied - and this was happening over centuries.

If you think that what US is doing is in any way comparable you must live in a safe bubble somewhere in US (or in Russia) and have the freedom to write anything. It is your freedom that people in Russia don't (and never did), or my parents didn't have.
From an operational standpoint, however, WebGPU is a much better fit for Vulkan/Metal/DirectX than OpenGL is, since it (mostly) exposes abstractions that all three actually support efficiently (and more generally, was designed with modern GPUs in mind, so unless GPU design fundamentally changes it's unlikely that it will require doubling or tripling the API surface to keep up, unlike OpenGL). That represents a pretty significant improvement over OpenGL (particularly the older versions of OpenGL that you have to use if you actually care about portability), and also over solutions like MoltenVK (it's hard to efficiently implement a lower-level API on top of a higher-level one).

This doesn't invalidate your point, I just think when you say "yet another cross-platform abstraction" you're implying that this is an xkcd "now there are 15 standards" situation, when in reality the competition is basically just ancient versions of OpenGL. And OpenGL is effectively deprecated--Khronos has no plans to release any more major updates. Unfortunately, without the browser usecase bringing many of the stakeholders on board, there is not a lot of money in this kind of work, which is why there aren't any serious competitors.
Hey folks,

I noticed pre-covid that businesses tend to make internal decisions such as spending and hiring, that even when not directly related to my department, ultimately affected the compensation they were available to offer me. Now with the pandemic closing a number of businesses it seems the issue of bad business decisions is even higher.

It's simply a matter of trust. If an employer is not providing the absolute maximum hypothetical compensation then we can all agree that is a truly disgusting and untrustworthy employer. I don't have exact numbers for my employer yet.

First of all, I'd like to figure out how I can identify an employer making business decisions I am unaware of. Generally it would be fine for me what businesses do internally but when it affects my salary, then it's not acceptable.

Secondly, if one has figured out that a business is taking private actions that one doesn't like, how should one handle that? I would need to quit that job the next day, but from a personal finance perspective I cannot easily afford leaving and acquiring new jobs from one day to another.

I'm looking forward to your experiences and ideas.
Do you have any thermal and/or noise problems with the HP?

I've had several HPs over the years, including ZBooks, and every single one got very hot and blasts the fans all the feckin time :/

They were all company machines, but it's put me off ever buying one myself.
I strongly disagree with the points that you make. There are many ways to implement fair financial systems. Crypto activists chose to ignore them, refused to understand the sources of failures and just attact principles.

Instead, crypto advocates brandish an apparent technological solution that is at amost a very leaky abstraction. I can’t even stop screaming at how offensive is “wireless energy transport technology”. In doing so, you ignore that the scales in play are absurd: securing dozens of transactions should not have a larger environmental footprint than taking a billion people out of poverty. That you think this is even an argument is horrifying.
Intel patent suggests drones may be used to create mobile billboards
But that’s just an argument against any technology that will increase electricity demand, such as EVs.

When the web was growing the electrical demands were similarly criticised:

“The current fuel-economy rating: about 1 pound of coal to create, package, store and move 2 megabytes of data. The digital age, it turns out, is very energy-intensive. The Internet may someday save us bricks, mortar and catalog paper, but it is burning up an awful lot of fossil fuel in the process.”

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311070a.html?sh=5db...
That’s not the only advantage, you can also store extra data in them which is extremely useful for performance (tagged objects) and security (PAC).

Although an abstract machine could have metadata with each pointer that isn’t part of the official bit size, I suppose.
It's hard for me to be sympathtic to cryptocoin maximalists when there are so many in their camp that push "shit" coins and coin-drop scams. Then there's power usage. It's use in aiding fraud and crime (something cash does as well and money laundering with fiat is not new...) as well as it's inability to scale compared to existing solutions to be used as a clearing house (yes, there are other blockchains that seek to speed this up but it's not at parity from what I can tell).

So all of this allows me to not feel bad about reveling in the latest crash, or scam, or exchange hack, or when the price falls or what not because I have no skin in this game and can't care any less than I do. I think the whole thing is a speculative farce that has hit a critical mass of adoption and intertia (at least for bitcoin) that will continue to be a puzzle (at best and a scam at worse) for years to come.
Sensors help, but this is just a fan, and it needs to be on all the time in my experience.
Perhaps... but 5 years without progress in some areas is an eternity. Rust in Firefox was super interesting and they run out of funding. It is really hard to explain to a client: "your application would work on WASM, on a browser, with no installation, but it will not scale in time and memory, and there is not a clear roadmap of then things will improve (despite OS and compiler guys know how to fix those things)".
Why did github disable the whole website when a single page was reported? From the other notices I see that there are specific files which get removed. Doesn't even make sense
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In a pluralistic society like ours, religious freedom and pluralism demands something of schools here. Article 18.4 of the UN convention on civil and political rights states: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

> 4. The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.

This is not a simple matter of “inclusiveness.” The nature of men, women, the purposes of marriage, is a fundamental moral and religious concept. In my part of the world, it has nothing to do with “two people who love each other” but is instead a fulfillment of Mohammad’s exhortation to get married and have children as a central moral obligation of life. It’s deeply intertwined with what God’s purpose is for us on earth.

The reason people want to talk about this in school is to counterbalance the influence of the world’s largest religion and alter the moral views of children on a question central to religious morality. The very reason they want to do it is why it’s not a legitimate purpose of instruction in public schools.

NB: As a convert to mainline Protestant Christianity, I happen to think it’s okay. Most people in the world, including the world’s fastest growing religion and the religion followed by the fastest growing minority group in the US, do not think it’s okay.
It took me quite a while to understand what Bitcoin is about. Of course, decentralised systems are exciting tech, but what's really interesting is that Bitcoin focuses attention onto fundamental questions of society:

- How can we transport value through space at the speed of light?

- How can we transport value through time?

- How can we protect our life savings from inflation?

- How can we develop a free market of currencies which solves the issues of centrally controlled currencies?

- How can we align incentives such that we stop consuming low quality products that produce lots of waste and start valuing high quality products that last for decades?

- In general: How can we, as a society, enjoy the benefits of a low time preference?

Such questions are the reason why I believe Bitcoin is one of the most disruptive technologies of our century.
The Ethereum Merge
UK court formally issues order to extradite Julian Assange to US
> As is the way with most government debt - ideally, economic growth will outpace the cumulative interest accrued by the debt.

Actual growth might not, but as most infra spending is financed with fixed rate bonds, a couple more years of Biden’s 9.6% inflation will take a nice bite out of those costs in future dollars.
It’s for security reasons and enabling static code analysis, there’s no particular need to make compilation “easier”.

PNaCL also had a lot of limitations though I don’t remember what they actually were.
I'm personally hoping during the subway tunnel dig they uncover a Byzantine era svbway station already built. Sure it would completely upend our understanding of history and technology of the era, but it would also be quite the useful serendipity.
Bombing was done because Serbia was doing ethnic cleansing.

It was justified and any sane person would do it again. Serbia is a mini-Russia. That's why one supports the other.

It should be done to Russia, but you know unfortunately there are nukes now.
Not to be confused with MapR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapR
'clear sign that there’s so much free money sloshing around our economy'

Then we wonder gow come asset prices and house prices are so high.

But for some reason this money cant be directed into infrastructure we need to deal with climate change?
Judge sends Assange extradition decision to UK government
Every browser is adware, though? Basically every browser in existence is funded through search engine deals, and Google, Microsoft and Apple are all ad agencies themselves.

Even more privacy-respecting options like Vivaldi make their money from search deals, and as much as they try to build their model to be privacy respecting, Brave is still an ad agency.

Next to no one is actually building browsers for a subscription or some other model in that vein. It'd be really hard to get an appreciable userbase that way.
I've been running Ubuntu on an LG Gram 17. Huge screen (true 17"), 18 hour battery and weighs Les than 4 lbs. It also has a metal chassis. Only device that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader.
How this is giving power to US?

Destroying Russia dictatorship is good for everyone, even poor Russians that can't even show a blank piece of paper.
I believe the Thrust SSC is still the fastest land vehicle.

This train may be the fastest public transportation land vehicle.
I thought this article was going to be about what people do when they assume their devices are compromised and yet realize it is too difficult to rebuild everything (which will just get compromised again, or the devices are compromised by design) so they alter their behavior to deal with the knowledge that the devices are compromised. So that would mean not keeping your most important secrets on any device and altering your behavior on all devices, assuming that communications are being viewed by someone, assuming location tracking is happening when your phone is on, and so on, which leads to some rational adjustments to your behavior. I think we're already there for anyone who has been paying attention (do you take your fitness tracker off when having sex? Do you try to manage when location services are turned on?). It's been called "the chilling effect" when applied to free speech. Maybe we need a new term for this kind of behavior effect applied to behavior on devices? I'd guess that one effect is reduced productivity in all digital aspects of life because people can't take full advantage of their digitally enhanced lives. Another would be an increased level of chronic stress due to worrying about being tracked (which everyone knows is ubiquitous. Maybe that should be the new name for IoT, "Ubiquitous Tracking". It all started with the "mother of all demos".)
Well for the things you mentioned, health insurance and broadband, there's often not a lot of competition here, with only a small handful of choices available in any particular area. Also health insurance is usually either through your employer, who will offer only a limited set of plans or "Obamacare" which is all very complex and differs a lot from state to state and even between locations within a state, but there are government websites for finding plans.

For physical products there's Google Shopping, which will usually get you a pretty good idea of the price ranges for an item. For large items, like cars, I'm sure there are several specific sites for those.

I'm not sure there's a huge unmet need here. Could you give some more examples of how people would use these types of sites ?

EDIT: Also for many products (especially lower cost products) it's hard to beat Amazon's prices and their customer experience is so much better than virtually everyone else's (both online and in terms of how the deliveries are handled) that it's often not worth shopping around much.
Prioritize getting a job and go all in on the skills that job needs and wants. Consider applying for Amazon Scholars or an equivalent programme.

> The Amazon Scholars program has broadened opportunities for academics to join Amazon in a flexible capacity, in particular part-time arrangements and sabbaticals.

https://www.amazon.science/scholars#:~:text=Amazon%20Scholar....
If I replace crypto with "web", your comment still feels the same, yet the WWW is more popular than ever. Maybe look under the rug a bit deeper, but at the same time I'm not saying that the abuses aren't there.
The issue is that with so many more scams than real projects, and so much focus on buzzwords, it’s more likely to fall for a scam than to actually find a real useful project.

And even the not-entirely-a-scam projects, be it NFTs, the entire ETH or BTC sphere, are so full of money laundering, trade front running, people using it as investment vehicle, etc. that you can’t trust these projects either.
There's a lot of progress over the past 5 years, every month there's something new and exciting.

But it's not yet ready for mass adoption, yeah.
> it should be obvious why we don’t let AI run that show.

It is not that obvious for me, maybe I miss something important but AI may be better in growing humane values in super human speed.

> why we don’t let AI run that show.

Believe me, we will let it happen. One enough clever guy who disagrees with your statement is enough.
If you an engineer at a VC, their jobs would be due dilligence to check how much of a startup is smoke and mirrors. Much of it is, so you want to know if it's 50% or 90%

Checking that their product is being built with Kafka or whatever is worthless - you cam throw money at that problem later and fix it.
> Libertarians, minarchists and "anarcho-capitalists" take one of the things which inherently need a state to uphold it (private property) and use it as the conceptual foundation of their social order - while not liking "the state".

Very well said. As someone who was a "libertarian" in my high school days, I ultimately abandoned the philosophy after realizing that it was at its root far more about "property" than "liberty" and ought to have been termed "propertarianism". Furthermore, none of it's logico-moral justifications for property rights actually worked for the most fundamental forms of property (land and unproduced natural resources).
How is this different from cash?
Light is not needed. Life on Earth got along fine without photosynthesis for hundreds of millions of years, and the hypothesis that life first appeared on Earth on the seafloor around thermal vents is quite plausible, even if we might never know for sure.
Really?
Personally, I've always enjoyed writing services with high I/O and low computation in Node.js. I usually consider Node.js first when having to create a new REST API (which usually just gaps between http and the database) or websocket server.
Oh for sure, H1B visas are all about bringing in good brains. No country ever wants to hold back on brains. All you need is basically any university degree.
No crypto software I know makes a transaction based on a QR code scan. It always shows you the address, and then you have to enter the total in the check and then complete the transaction. If you paid 5x more than was asked, have your 5 beers.
Above Russia, because they have scale Russia can't even dream of (fortunately).