skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, you can learn from their Open Source without supporting their cash cow product. Also, maybe the German startup ecosystem would be better off with Facebook's engineering talent being spread out over 100 small start-ups (all of which would pay taxes) instead of bundled in one huge entity (which doesn't pay taxes).

And if I remember correctly, "fairseq" (the foundation of Facebook's recent wav2vec2 ASR breakthrough) and the foundation of Microsoft Translator were both designed by PhDs at the University of Edinburgh. (EU Grant 688139 initially funded what became Microsoft Translator). I applaud Facebook and Microsoft for hiring promising PhDs and giving them the resources to succeed, but I'm not convinced that European countries are better off with these people working at FAANGs - as opposed to local competitors.
So, illegally overcoming sanctions.

That's literally the problem
The point is not to compare proprietary software to slavery. The point is that Stallman does not find proprietary software bad for the user, he finds it morally wrong.

That means in this case it doesn't make sense to complain and argue about his answer to the developer, as his answer makes perfect sense given his premises. If you want to disagree with his advice, you have to disagree with his moral position on proprietary software and argue about that.

Expecting Stallman to help someone make money with proprietary software is like expecting a vegan advocate to help someone kill cows more humanely.

Note that I'm not expressing an agreement or disagreement with Stallman's worldview, only that his answer is exactly what follows from his worldview, and you should argue about that and not about the answer.
LSD, Ketamine, 2CB and MDMA. It’s cryptos only use for me personally.
I wouldn't have expected anything less from Alex Jones. Now he has something to be truly paranoid about. Welcome to the OJ Simpson "hide my assets" club.
I’ve been working for very large corporations for 24 years.

In that time I’ve gotten over 30 certifications including three AWS certifications last year.

Your take on corporate jobs is completely foreign to me. I’m sure it exists somewhere but I’m wondering - how long have you been doing corporate work?
Me and my wife are allergic to dust mites and mold and try to eliminate them, and we have an air purifier in the bedroom. But I'm trying to find what inflames my nasal passages and generates mucus (wife's having it slightly worse). Is there a similar experiment guide for this?
On the flip side I've also experienced the opposite. Someone modifies existing code from an open source library and then we aren't able to safely upgrade it because of tons of merge conflicts with the modifications that were added.
I've long felt that cryptocoins real promise to sellers is the lack of chargebacks / fraud. Once you've received the money, you've received the money.

For a bunch of coins the high transaction fees make it pretty pointless (why pay 20$ worth of BTC for a 5$ exchange). But something like monero's with ~0.0007$ fees [1] (which the buyer pays anyways) should be attractive to a seller.

[1]: https://www.monero.how/monero-transaction-fees
From my experience, you only become 'slower' due to avoiding challenges. When you are young, you are forced to mastering challenges: at school, college, in life (moving out, organizing your life independently), etc.

Once you are settled in this routine, there are no forced challenges anymore. You need to keep looking for them. ;)
If "de-banking" gains popularity as a way to suppress and punish dissident populations[1][2], crypto stands to gain. There are still issues with traceability and privacy but the basic technology seems pretty sound as an alternative to a state-run currency.

1. https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2022/02/23/canad...

2. https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindells-b...
>If only that were true, they wouldn't wage all of the senseless wars that the US has fought since WW2.

Take your low effort trope and shove it somewhere unpleasant.

Of course the war machine is gonna war. That's what they do. You don't see Newport making their cigs kill their customers faster unless there's something in it for them. The air force is the same way. They might be in the death business but they're not gonna go around wasting bombs on people who are no threat to anyone unless they think that's how they're gonna accomplish their goal, which you can pretty much guarantee they don't after 'nam.

Are you really so blinded by ideology that you can't see that no military wants to spend resources in a manner that does not help them achieve their goal? Spending the fewest resources to get the most done while forcing your enemy to waste his is one of the most basic concepts in military strategy.
> Practicality always comes first

... famous first words of many people who engineer yet another piece of software which later needs to be rewritten, since they / their company could not be bothered to write a decent library. :-(
> Or take the AGPL, for instance, sponsored by now-defunct startup Affero. There are many people (myself included) who believe the AGPL is a restriction on use, freedom 0, because it prevents you from using AGPL software in certain contexts where the requirements cannot be fulfilled.

> The GPLv2 itself starts by saying, "To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions" - there is a coherent political view that this is contradictory.

There will _always_ be such restrictions. For an extreme, but derived from the same philosophical core, example: the act of murder is an individual freedom, but it imposes on other peoples' freedoms. So we have to make a choice between which freedom is more important: that of the person whose life is at risk, or that of the person who wants to take lives. The formal concepts are referred to as negative liberty (freedom from murder) and positive liberty (freedom to murder someone).

The modern world leans heavily towards negative liberty because we recognise that freedom isn't some absolute individualistic freedom, but rather that it is better to balance freedom in favour of most people. That's why stealing, killing, sexual assault, and many other things are freedoms we deem unethical and unnecessary.

Some people say, "well, it's just software" which is dismissive of the idea that software can have very bad effects, indirect and direct, on the world, so we must empower ourselves.

> Or, in the left-libertarian direction, consider the folks who want to abolish copyright entirely.

There are also those on the left who want this, but also to go _beyond_ simply abolishing. If you abolish copyright without requiring code and build instructions to be open source as well, you just end up with people and companies who instead keep their code secret.

It's why, when slavery was abolished, it wasn't enough. The former slaves were free, but were now in a world where the power structures were not in their favour, meaning they could still be taken advantage of and treated like slaves and were still being oppressed.

Libertarian views are usually rejected by the left as right wing, instead when you talk about leftists with less authoritarian views, they call themselves anarchists (or even reject that label, and say they're "doing anarchism" rather than being "anarchists").
The domain name system is a hierarchical database of records that computers use to associate names ("news.ycombinator.com") with an IP address where the corresponding server is listening for connections. It's like how the post office knows how to get to your house to deliver a letter given only your address. It's a map of addresses.

Computers query this system all of the time to figure out where they're going. It's helpful for people to be able to query this system too, if only to help themselves understand where the computers are going to go. People create these records, after all, not the computers that use them.
If you squint hard enough, Git is kind of a permissioned blockchain. So, I wouldn't dismiss the possibility completely. But yeah, it's difficult to see it becoming mainstream. Git certainly isn't mainstream.
This is completely wrong, sorry. The 1936-1939 Spanish civil war was a coup from the right-wing against the left-wing government. Of course, Catalan autonomy was an issue there too and one of the motivations for the coup, it but was nowhere near the main reason. And no, catalan independence is absolutely not at all equivalent to neo-confederate secessionism.
It would classified a service, not goods. But feels a bit pedantic in this context.
That one is at least a little more understandable, same phy, just operates in a different spectrum.
"That's assuming Einstein was even human."

If English is your native language and you interpret that literally, then yeah, I don't know what to tell you.

The downvotes for you and the rest of the people that took that literally should also probably indicate that the majority of people thought you were being ridiculous. Yet... you continue on.
What do certifications have to do with creativity?
End to end secure email definitely is, I agree. No matter what you have to trust the server. (Maybe a Tor-based email system would be better, where each user is their own server? reminds me of `cables`).

If you do trust the server then it can be acceptably secure.
Walmart any other major retailers are about to start taking payments via Lightning Network this year. Will be able to pay from cash app or others without explicitly converting from USD. Cheaper and faster than Visa etc.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1515324097223225345.html
What would be a good target for someone who wants to get out of the house and be a bit more active than just generically going to the gym, and doesn't want to anticipate winding up with "oh no I'm awake" pain later in life?

In terms of what the minimum and maximum baselines would be discipline-wise.
Love questions like this since they're way more practical than some Leet Code algorithm I haven't seen since my sophomore year algorithms text book.

Looks pretty fun too actually! Nice work and I hope you got some good engineers out of it. Any other retired interview questions you're particularly fond of?
> What makes you think that shareholders in Twitter or Uber don't care that they'll never make a penny?

Well, do they believe they'll be able to sell their stock for more than they paid it?

Were they caught up in the excitement and bought the stock against better judgement?
We do this but with a perpetual Zoom meeting. It works for us. But i think my team is strange. We build software to do some vital business task, which is used by people actually responsible for that task. There are four developers and two users. All six of us are on the chat.

95% of the time, the chat is silence, as everyone is doing their job. 4% of the time, it's the users talking to each other to coordinate something they're doing; i can mostly tune this out because it doesn't directly involve me, but it's good for the developers to maintain some vague awareness of it, because it might be something we can help with, or suggest a way to improve the software. The other 1% of the time, it's developers talking about something urgent, that's worth interrupting me for.

We also have regular meetings, separate to the chat, where we have deep conversations. And we have a couple of Slack channels (one for the four developers, and one for all six of us), which we use for conversations which aren't worth taking to chat.

A key fact, i think, is that the channel is mostly silent. If it was full of developers getting into deep technical conversations all day, it would be a productivity destroyer.
hyperscript is designed for small, embedded front end scripting needs: toggling classes, listening for events from its sister project, https://htmx.org, etc. It isn't a general purpose programming language for use, for example, on the server side in a node-like environment.

you can still perform things asynchronously by wrapping any expression or command in an `async` prefix:

https://hyperscript.org/commands/async/

but there isn't a mechanism for resolving all of them

although, now, come to think of it, the following would work:

set results to {result1: somethingThatReturnsAPromise(), result2: somethingElseThatReturnsAPromise()}

That would work out because under the covers the hyperscript runtime calls a Promise.all() on those field values before it continues. Kind of a hack, but it would work.

Anyway, again, hyperscript is a DSL targeted at small front end scripting needs rather than being a large scale concurrent systems programming language.
Only a problem if you’re a fan of U.S. imperialism.
Noam Chomsky on How to Prevent World War III
How about this: That stuff is bad for your heart and you should stop taking it.
To prevailing reasoning for not letting Catalunya decide that without involving the rest of Spain seems to be because Catalunya is one of the biggest contributor to the overall economy of Spain, so if Catalunya leaves Spain, it'll impact the entire country, not just Catalunya itself.
This seems like a good time to remember when an (apparently solo) spanish speaking hacker completely owned Hacking Team's (italian company that sells spyware to governments and that was mentioned/used in this post/attack) network and then detailed all the steps in what is still a really fascinating read. [0]

The sysadmin's password was, wait for it... P4ssword

[0] https://pastebin.com/kHUzWWm9
> I'd like to see a unified country

Careful 'what you wish. You want options.

If all your rooms get painted green but your colour is white...
International Solar Alliance
Yep. A lot of major institutions want to get in but can’t until there’s a regulatory framework in place.
This was tested, specifically about weed, in 2005

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
There are three phases of learning: computational, associative, and automatic. When you are older you may be able to transition into the associative stage more quickly when you attempt to learn something.
It does make sense that all new features are optional. E.g. 8k resolution does not need to be supported by your TV/monitor or VRR does as well not need to be supported by a Bluray player.

As long as the devices can communicate and agree on signal, resolution etc. it's all fine.

If anything is a mess, it's the cables, where you have to be careful to read whether high resolutions or ethernet or what passes through that cable is supported.

If anything, it showed Verge (I think it was them who published that article) don't understand the purpose of the standard and intentionally tried to create controversy, where really isn't one.
> we will see the rise of a new blockchain economy, not one driven by greed, but instead driven by trust, not trustlessness.

it sounds to me like he is talking about the holochain p2p app framework, and other projects like Ceptr, Hypercore/DAT, Secure Scuttlebutt, etc., loosely united under the umbrella term 'DWeb'.

this is Cronje doing a code review of holochain a few years ago:

"The Holochain scalable distributed computing model seems to be taking decentralization to a new level, but bloody hell, is this thing just too good to be true?"

[...]

"I think the above is an important distinction. “A holochain is a validating distributed hash table (DHT) where every node enforces validation rules on data against the signed chains where the data originated, this is not consensus [instead it's agent-centric like Git]"

[...]

"The idea here, is that not all data needs to be shared with everyone. If A and B wish to transfer value, and they agree, C doesn’t have to know about it. This is a good idea for systems where not all parties need to participate, social networks, chat programs, p2p platforms, things like shared document updates. It’s essentially a large scale hosted shared git repository for collaboration."

[...]

"Holo, Holochain, Ceptr, and MetaCurrency are all the same thing, this is confusing at first, but MetaCurrency is the root, they have their next generation Operating System (Ceptr), and Ceptr is Holochain, with Holo being their first real world application system."

[...]

"First impressions, this is really good code. New standard kind of good."

[...]

"A lot of production considerations already in. This code is scary good."

[...]

"I love this code. File after file after file is just amazing. I’m going to be spending a lot more time here."

Credit given and optimization added. I can’t get enough of this code. (Editor’s note: cold water thrown at Andre about this point.)"

[...]

"Guys, this is something else, after seeing the above code, I started exploring a bit more."

[...]

"Clutter, a fully distributed twitter built on holochain."

[...]

"Holochat, a distributed Slack. This is actually insane. There is so much here already. Everyone is going on about the new distributed Internet, here it is. Ready to be used."

https://cryptobriefing.com/holochain-code-review-and-distrib...
It didn’t become widely known until after the M1s had shipped - I was caught unexpected after someone at work couldn’t connect two to theirs.
Those are crushing numbers. 90% of 43% of voters who made a choice to vote and leave. Such overwhelming numbers. Do you think the other side would have gotten everyone who didn't vote?
Why do you think the marketers screwed this up and not technical people? Doesn't seem like the style of screw-up they usually make.
What does permissionless even mean in the context of an automated trading strategy? Ultimately, someone needs to put up the initial capital, meet marginal calls when required, and cover losses when they happen. What happens when your smart contract goes to initiate a sell and there are no buyers (a real possibility in any market but especially illiquid crypto markets)? Exchanges exist for a reason.
Part of what you are saying is misleading for the simple reason that Catalonia does not consist solely of Catalans (i.e. an ethnic group as opposed to just anyone living in that region). It is a part of Spain, and thus people from anywhere in Spain can move there. They did not participate in the referendum with the argument that it was illegitimate.

The closest parallel is probably Quebec in Canada, for what it's worth. Highly contentious. One thing I've learnt is that if I want to keep my friends in these places, I don't mention politics.
I like that we can generate a unique searchable phrase by the simple trick of pairing a term with its hypernym.

"qdnsquerytool"
I have thought about why it is much harder to follow the general best practice of Unity Tests + Automated Tests we find in web development and I think it is because the amount of "state" a video game has.

In the web we have our cursor and it clicks on an element. In video game design the character can widely vary when it interacts with an element such as a "door".

The classic "why doors are hard" might explain why having a "regression suite for happy paths" might be near-impossible.

Though that the core reason for using the Entity, Component, Systems (ECS) in their coming Data Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) it does help create far more maintainable code.

https://www.vox.com/videos/22661048/video-game-development-d...

https://unity.com/dots
Within the next year you will literally be able to go to CVS and buy whatever you want via Lightning Network and it’ll be nearly instant. An actual completed transaction too, not something that doesn’t settle until later.
Does it matter? The question was stated rather neutral and the answers he/she got are very insightful imo. No need to drag this in a (forum-) political direction (:
The amount of nonsense is staggering

> the generation that we call the Baby Boomers have been in control of their respective societies for over forty years

So they grabbed control when they were in their 20s and didn't let go? That's a bit unlikely, isn't it? And most of the people in that generation had no power whatsoever.

> You can see the age

If you define a group by its age, of course you bloody can see the age. Do you add sentences in the hope that a random true one strengthens other ramblings?

> and the apathy

Strange. In the last years, apathy under adolescents and young adults seems to be getting out of control. Or are you calling them boomers too?
Interesting. I made a lot of progress learning Spanish via online films interchanging the subtitles and soundtrack in both languages. A form of inter linear learning as explained in this piece?
I find malice difficult to believe.

Instead, I wonder if your router or something else on your network stack is a little wonky. Do speeds increase when you reboot your router or cable modem? When you have slow speeds, does another device on the network also suffer slow speeds?
Presumably because similarly priced Intel Macs could connect to 2 or 3 displays with it's pathetically underpowered iGPU?
Most features apply: a map to select available lobbyiees nearby, lobby sharing, low cost lobbying. Even price jacking for peak lobbying hours!
>No country likes itself to be split apart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia
Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself
> Work camps are just the extreme of the policies that we have yet to implement.

Yet to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

> We seem to be lubing the slippery slope towards it though, with political correctness and cancel culture.

No we are not.
You've described how to send someone in China, Nigeria, or Peru etheriums, but not how to send them money. It turns out when there are capital controls, taxes, laws against crypto, etc., the two are not quite the same.
World’s oldest painting of animals discovered in an Indonesian cave
Tricking people into buying new hardware while incurring zero marginal cost of development, sales, distribution? Sounds like a winner. /s
>If I go to CVS to buy a Coke I don't want to be there for fifteen minutes.

Nor do you want to pay a transaction fee that is twice the value of the item you are purchasing.
> I think the USB naming is the result of not using marketers.

No, it's specifically to give marketers what they want, which is the ability to advertise support for the latest version of the spec without actually having to improve the product.

It's not USB-IF's marketers that want this, it's the vendors who pay USB-IF whose marketers want this.
It's not overcoming sanctions if you are not a sanctioned individual.
Taylor Swift, the millipede: Scientists name a new species after the singer
KEK!
Those are literally Bernie Madoff returns.
Too many bureaucrats and public servants are more occupied with growing their own power and protecting their space, than serving the public interest.
Website is a bit too minimalistic to persuade me to join. some demo video would be nice.
Yes agreed on peak emotional intelligence coming later (at least in my case).

I'm 51 and have never been happier nor more balanced in my life. I can't run as fast nor program as long into the night as I could a decade ago (or maybe I can but I know better now) but as far as my approach towards people and life in general I'm feel much advanced over my neurotic 900 mile an hour have to show everyone how smart I am younger years.
Privacy.com and delete the card when you want to cancel. Screw these people, I may not be able to cancel but I can sure stop paying.
Free software doesn't mean you get to see all the hard work that went into it, though, or that you get to see all the UML diagrams, or napkins, or other design documents. You might not even get all the supporting code, if it isn't required to build the software from the freely-released source (think about what kind of emacs configs developers might use in developing free software, but never release). That's not really what's at issue.

Those things you mentioned behind the scenes of a film do not have ongoing side-effects on the audience. The hidden algorithms and obfuscated execution of non-free software do.