skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More interested in how it works than what it does later with that mechanism.

Also, this is great but it'd be helpful to add "employees hired" (not necessarily by the same companies that are laying off) since March 2020 too to calculate the net impact instead of having a linear metric that just grows.
Preprint for the curious : https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/Disrupt...

Interesting bits : The reversal after 2010 and subsequentproductivity growth tends for remote collaboration to follow a J-curve as complementary investments and organisational changes are required to realise the benefits of new technologies
This problem is already well solved and deployed to millions of people. That it is my point.

To your dicekeys example, a much better solution, IMO is using bip39-diceware which allows you to roll for 256 bits of entropy in the form of 24 BIP39 words with dice, using only a paper worksheet. You can use these with a KDF to determinstically generate any type of key material be it for PGP, FIDO2, mutual TLS, or whatever you like.

BIP39 is a general purpose innovation in human friendly cryptography, and so are the general purpose personal HSM devices that support it.

I don't feel it is productive to balk at a generally useful technology just because one dislikes the biggest audience creating demand for it.

Someone can have a religious objection to porn and still enjoy the bandwidth growth and other improvements to the internet that porn demand helped create.

Just because a toaster is marketed for toast, does not mean you can't enjoy it for pop tarts. Just because a pressure cooker has a "chicken" button, dosen't make it any less useful to a vegan.

The examples are endless.

Those that are fundamentally against experiments in decentalizated governance should at least try to appreciate that space presents high stakes security problems that engineers will innovate to solve.

Many of the best cryptographers in the world, like Dan Boneh and team at Stanford, spend a huge amount of their time focusing on innovations in privacy, computational effenciency, and cryptography to meet demand created by popular decentralized systems experiments.

If anything, buy products like hardware wallets that improve security for you and recommend their teams spin up marketing and product development approaches more inclusive of customers that have moral objections to decentralized governance and value storage use cases like yourself.
I posted a bunch of minute long math solution videos to tiktok while improving an old admission test score. Some of them caught on and the most popular has 16k views. Slightly tempted to continue, but I find myself pouring my energy elsewhere.
i very much agree with this
But now they focus on accurate bedsheet physics, to attract undead, ghosted investors..
Wow, is it that bad? Cause all you hear is mostly large rounds floating around everywhere.
Especially for web3 these days.
-v is also used for --verbose. In this case -V is often used for --version.

Another common option I am thinking about is -r for --recursive.

I could advocate to use only commonly accepted short options.
Ionic React vs. React Native
I never understand this or any hot take related to WFH. Why is it necessary to assume something negative about another person simply because you’re different? It’s nonsense.

It truly doesn’t matter. WFH can be great, working from the office can be great. Find a company where the social and work culture fit with what you prefer.
Since the word "tank" was just a cover word used by the Brits, IMHO the Germans should have continued to use "Traktor" for theirs ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichttraktor
It is mind-blowing that some programmers cannot understand that autonomous programs — software that continues running independently of control over individual hardware nodes in the network — are an incredibly powerful and compelling tool. Computers that can make commitments that last beyond the initial promises of the authors of their software.
> I am wildly more productive when I'm in the office with my co-workers compared to at home alone.

I get next to nothing done during a whole day in the office. Over 2 1/2 hours commute a day, and then I have to sit there with (my own) ANC headphones on because people talk all day. Then there's coordinating where and when to go eat which can take up to half an hour. People come around to talk. I'm basically at 10-20% of productivity compared to WFH.
@[1]: 'list', I assume.
If person A invests monthly and achieves a 7%/yr return, how much more does person B have to invest every month to get the same pot after 30 years?

50% more
I backed it very early and while not calling it a scam, I moved it from "In development" to "basically failed" in my head because frankly it didn't deliver close to what it promised in a reasonable time.

They are clearly working on something and apparently people are happy with it but I'd be very surprised if they ever deliver what I payed them for: A cinematic ,mediocre to good, single player space shooter to keep me entertained for a few hours.

They seem unable to put a cut in it and just finish this part of the project. It'll probably never live up to their ever increasing expectations.

(Not blaming anyone but me for giving them money. I learned a lot since then)
> The benefit of a well designed GUI is that it can give you high quality feedback,

In theory, yes. In practice, what happens is the progress bar would seem to freeze.

What do you do now? Some computers still have a blinking HDD LED, maybe you can glance there.

Otherwise you have to know a great deal of the mechanics behind the curtain to find where the relevant log is, and how to inspect the running process. Is it a stale mount? A shared library that wasn't found? Or perhaps an automatic operation triggered on a magic filename?

A CLI has the benefit on being conceptually simple. There's going to be a result, and it's going to the console. It may be cryptic, and you may have to look up the meaning it it's something unusual (notorious ones like "lp0 on fire" are the joke of the Internet, hilariously cryptic GUI messages are a dime a dozen), but it's seldom going to surprise you. It's not going to freeze the terminal, or suddenly boil your coffee.

It's certainly not the silver bullet that fits all, but things that are conceptually simple are often a good default.
Show HN: High performance ordered priority queue package with Redis (Node.js)
I've spent a lot of time looking into it and there doesn't seem to be much actual utility there.

What there is is people saying "here's some artificial scarcity you can buy into early and make a fortune from!"

So it's a scammer haven of minimal utility. That's why.
I think it is the combination of 2 points:

1: It is hard to grasp.

And the majority of tech people have a hard time coping with the fact that there is something they can't grasp while some others do. We tech people think of us as smart. So accepting that others are smarter in some areas is hard for us. Especially when it is in the tech area.

There are investors who see value in crypto and put hundreds of billions of dollars where their mouth is?

It's easier to say "Bah! Idiots!" then to accept that there is something that is beyond ones mental reach.

2: Some people got very rich by grasping it early on.

This creates envy and the fear of loss. You can see a similar disdain for technology in programmers and how they think about programming languages they are not used to. They don't know the benefits of the other language and they are invested in an alternative. That creates a strong "with us or against us" drive.
Show HN: High performance ordered priority queue package with Redis (Go)
Statistical Theodicy
> i don't really agree with this - the money used to purchase financial products don't disappear, because for every product bought, there was a seller. This seller now has cash, which would be invested elsewhere.

Make no confusion, please. Quantitative easing was intended to give credit institutions greater ability to lend money to entrepreneurs, so as to boost real economy. When capitals are invested in financial products the entities closing their positions (e.g., selling stocks) and, in turn, getting the cash are not necessarily credit institutions (i.e., they are typically fund managers and private investors) – which is to say they pocket the money.
Here is one source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWf98aCvkOQ
I was much better off when I was among a small group of people free to go or not go to the office.

Now that everyone wants to do that, without the knowledge or the experience to do it, but only because they want to work in their pajamas (let's be honest!) I am forced to go through endless meetings where the first half is about "can you hear me?" "can you see me?" "where is X?" "coming, is in another meeting" "OK let's wait another 5 minutes then" and then half of them has an horrible voice quality, worse video, you have to repeat the same things over and over for the benefit of those not listening (let's be honest!) etc etc

it's exhausting and the fact that we aren't physically in the same room make people think two hours meetings are something normal

It's making me frankly think that all of this "freedom to work everywhere" trope has gone too far.
> In retrospect, my correction to her should have taken the angle "That's kinda like calling a Chevy Cavalier a 'limo', or a 'Rolls-Royce'. Yes, it has 4 wheels, a hood, a trunk, a motor, it drives on roads... And the Chevy fans and salesmen are talking about how great it is...but NO, it NOT a limo, and NOT a Rolls-Royce."

As someone who does not drive, I would have a difficult time identifying vehicle types beyond half a dozen very broad categories. The only reason why I can do that much is because I am literally surrounded by them.

The only real difference with warships and tanks is that I hope I am never surrounded by warships and tanks.

The point is, the nuances of classification are typically of interest to people who have an above average interest in a topic.
What real world use does this have right now

It's been a decade. What can I do with it that isn't a variant of "here's some artificial scarcity you can buy into early to make some cash"?
Simple: There are a lot of computer scientists and software engineers on HN, and they understand that blockchain is an inferior technology in most (if not all) ways. Futhermore, they understand that this technology will never solve real problems better than the status quo. Therefore, they conclude, that almost all crypto projects are scam, and it disgusts them.
Ships similar to that one were a regular item in navies long before the British decided to call their secret new armored & treaded battlefield thingies with guns "water carriers", "water tanks", or "tanks", in an attempt to avoid the attention of spies.

The German term for gauntlets, in the sense of "hardened leather or metal glove, worn in hand-to-hand combat by knights" is "panzerhandschuhe".

What if, in German, the root meaning of "panzer" is something far closer to "armored" than to "motor-driven, treaded, all-terrain direct fires combat vehicle"?
FederatedScope: Alibaba opensourced its federated learning platform is
“I hope I never become as intensely default-skeptical of new technologies.” Bitcoin is 12 years old. HN is just a little ahead of people who just discovered it a year ago. Plus the HN audience knows a little more about technology than “crypto twitter” (they mean blockchain twitter).
Github : https://github.com/alibaba/FederatedScope
Except that is mostly printed money. You can't take the crypto market cap seriously. If a significant portion of it tries to get converted from "magic internet money" to real money the price will plummet.
> I genuinely believe many people who prefer working at home rather than an office have unfulfilling work lives and struggle to form meaningful friendships/relationships with colleagues.

Absolutely not true.

I've been WFH since 2008. Many followed overtime and the company went full WFH in 2015 closing our office. We have a video call 3x a week and shoot the shit learn about each others lives just the same before we talk about work. I don't feel any less connected to my coworkers than my physical friends.

I also am part of a telegram group with ~10 old college buddies who live all over the country where we chat everyday and hop on voice to play video games or a monthly poker. This obviously isn't the same since we started out as physical friends and went to chat groups after going out separate ways, but again I haven't lost touch with any of them or felt less connected/meaningful because we are now remote only.

Not only that but with all the various video games we have added random people we connected with to that group, I don't even know what their face looks like but I know just as much about them as my physical friends. They are just part of the daily discussions about sports, politics, movies/tv, whatever.

I think if you are not connecting with someone you maybe aren't trying enough because it is totally possible. What exactly can't you talk about remotely that you can in person? I've yet to find a topic myself
A bit confused, because Synology DSM is closed source and vendor locked-in.
Ok but it's not value if you can't spend it on things. In order to spend it on things you have to convert it to something that can be spent. So it's disingenuous to exclude that conversion step from your calculus.

> ... but any merchant or online platform that decides to accept XTZ as a form of payment can already do so to mitigate the 2-5% payment processing fees that I mentioned earlier.

But of course they won't because they can't spend it on things, like the inputs to the goods they sell (be that physical, rent or mortgage). They'll need to convert it, and that conversion fee will be something you pay by marking up the cost of goods.
I've installed it via the windows store and it's working fine.
You are categorizing it way to one sided in an offensive way. "Bad home lives" can be as simple as having too much social interaction e.g. by having children at home, which can be quite distracting. And of course, a lot of people don't have a separate room set aside at home for work. Real estate in many places is prohibitively expensive. And even if there is one, with full home office, both partners might compete for that working space and on many days even need 2 office rooms.

Also, the "social interactions" at the office are usually not about replacing private social life, but well, interacting with your colleagues about work related topics which go beyond the range of scheduled meetings. There is a lot of value in meeting random people over a coffee without a set agenda. No surprise, that during the pandemic there were a lot of meetings schedule with no agenda set, just to keep conversation between people alive, the more so as they don't work directly together.

On the one side I certainly appreciated the ability to work undisturbed at home for certain tasks, on the other side, I am working in a large organization (and I don't mean by large just a large headcount but a lot of people on joint or related projects), which mostly are not software engineers (but engineers of other disciplines). A lot of that goes online too - and as our organization is spread across large distances, always has been online - but I am aware of the benefits of direct interaction. At minimum, I like to have had some direct interactions with people I am working online with.

But of course, one cannot (and should not) just turn back the clock. The pandemic happened, and a lot of people had a taste of the advantages of work from home and a lot of companies had to work hard at facilitating that, so for a huge amount of jobs this is technically possible now. Working from an office isn't the only option any more and employers should understand that. Forcing people to come back into the office is a huge warning sign. It means that there are actually no convincing reasons, or the employees wouldn't have to be pressured.

Which of course raises the questions, why did spend Apple 5 billion on that fancy new headquarter and didn't put emphasis onto making this a place people want to go to? In the contrary, it was designed with open office spaces, which especially software engineers just hate. It was unpopular even before the pandemic. Instead, they should have asked groups and single employees how an office attractive for their line of work should look. It couldn't possibly have been a problem of the budget :).
The UI in the mod was honestly working better and the mod had more features, better working zombies than the standalone game for a long time. The zombie mechanics was mostly a distraction and what the main draw was the long realistic weather and survival mechanics in a vast well simulated world, with realistic weapons / injury mechanics.
You are propably right, even though my experience with explicitly socialist (using the European meaning of the word here) topics nd discussions like this one is, that it does not get much traction outside of already quite leftist circles.
I for example didn't know of the discussion they had until I read the article.
Completely agree - Technology is supposed to solve a problem, and the usual approach is to say "Here is a problem I have identified, here are the requirements I want it to meet, and considering that here is an array of technology choices I can choose from, and based on that X is the best fit".

With Crypto, it seems to go the opposite way, i.e. "Let's think of possible problems that Crypto could tenuously solve, and then build a blockchain".

Going the other way though leads to solving problems that might not exist, and a technology choice that isn't necessarily best-fit. I work in Supply Chain, and as an example, while Supply Chain Traceability has long been touted as a 'golden child' example of where the blockchain can help, in the last 15 years centralised solutions have had much more traction and success. My personal explanation? Starting with blockchain as the solution led to the problem statement focussing on decentralisation, which actually hasn't turned out to be that important compared to other NFR's.

Look at other technologies such as a REST APIs, which solved lots more propblems across the first 15 years of their life despite being much a more subtle improvement from a technology perspective. Despite this, REST API's didn't come with the same level of hype from the general public, because you couldn't sell REST-API-COINS and speculate on them.
34 year old, around 22 when crypto started.

I'm not old, you're just looking for an excuse :)
How Observable Runs
It has been over 13 years now since the release of Bitcoin.
I never said I "think [I am] entitled to returns just because [I] took a risk". There is no entitled, it's simply a trade-off.

It's a basic precept of investing. In a very simplified way - higher returns require higher risk of invested capital - why else would you invest in something higher risk unless the return justifies it? And likewise, people will accept lower returns if they know the risk is low.

Nobody is doing payday loans at prime because the risk isn't justified by the return.

When you start looking at portfolio allocation across multiple investments, it gets more complicated because you can actually achieve the same return at lower risk through diversification across classes of assets.

But to answer your original question - the only way to guarantee short-term and long-term positive returns (as you put it "if my goals change, I don't want to lose money") is to invest in low risk investments. Low risk investments mean low returns.
> not really. I just checked a CEX - to exchange 1,000 XTZ into 2,268K GBP and have it directly deposited into fiat account, the fee is 3.76 GBP, i.e. 0.17% rather than 1-2%.

Cool. So the same as a debit card payment in Europe, which is capped at 0.2%. It's also way more expensive than a Faster Payments UK transaction. In exchange you take on huge counter-party risk, and massive forex risk. This doesn't sound better, in fact, it sounds a lot worse.

> fwiw, if more merchants did accept crypto and taxes were payable in crypto (as it is becoming the case in some very specific jurisdictions around the world), there would be less need to exchange to fiat via a CEX.

Taxes are only 'payable' everywhere on earth for crypto in the sense that some governments offer a gateways that exchange it to fiat. Like Pay1040 does for credit card tax payments in the US. That doesn't make 'taxes payable in credit card.' The issue isn't payable it's denominated in.
Companies like COST can increase the prices of their goods and services to maintain margin during inflationary periods (where their own costs go up).

With your government bond you're at the mercy of the Fed
I had to agree with this. While Wikipedia doesn't necessarily provide a sound information, it does provide links to different topics, which honestly I had not idea how to 'google search'
You're biased by a priori knowing you were about to read computer generated text. I hereby invoke the right to a fair and public Turing test.
> Unfortunately I did not have a phone number associated with this account. My understanding is I would have been able to recover my account, If I had one.

This is not true, in my experience. Having a phone number verified and linked to the account as a recovery number may help, but it does not always mean that you’d be able to recover the account. I recently had trouble with one of my Gmail accounts where I successfully changed my password and linked a phone number, but it wouldn’t allow me to login again or allow me to go through the recovery process.

As more stories of such casualties come up, one can only hope that more people stop using Gmail (it seems to me that this is what Google really wants).

Good luck, and I hope you’re able to get back into your account and/or move to a reliable provider.
Is it normal for 2-year-olds to watch television?
Hackernews is full of people who know what they are doing. Blind faith is rarely what we use to be who we are.

But I have to add: if you are rich enough and have money to spent, why wouldn't you believe in crypto? It's like web3: it takes a lot of knowledge to figure out what it is really about. Rich people don't have this time because they are busy. Why shouldn't we monetize this? If people really want to believe in fairy tales and it doesn't hurt anyone then you should just let them, life is probably more fun for gullible people anyways.
Freedom to decide about one’s own body - the right to abortion is a direct consequence of - isn’t written in constitution?
Cryptocurrency has been around for 13 years, and all we've seen is scams, pump-and-dumps and a way to pay for hit men.
Borrowing / lending money to other people without the parties having to trust each other or having to wait for a slow and expensive legal system to work it out.
That is the case, because Engineers have a bad understand of global finance, business and money.

That’s why they don’t understand the problems that crypto is solving.

If you look at the comments here, you’ll see that many comments are saying that crypto isn’t doing anything useful.

However, crypto is literally solving the extreme problem of infinitely printable FIAT money and very slow and expensive cross-border transfers, which might be the most impfactful invention of the last 2 decades.

On top of that, crypto adds transparency, accountability, interoperability, decreases fraud in every possible market.

However, hacker news doesn’t understand that, because they simply don’t global finance, global markets, business and moneys.
With half a dozen flags you're talking about an operation like "hard link all the files older than a week, preserving metadata", which honestly would not be easy for the average user independently of the user interface used.