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Ask HN: Where can I educate myself on modern tech trends: blockchains, NFT?
Hi HN!

I'm web developer (mostly BE) with 13 years of professional experience. While I'm trying to keep up with modern tech, I started to notice that lately I feel a bit like a dinosaur: I don't get all this latest hype about blockchains, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, etc. I hear people build games on top of these technologies and earn a lot of money, but I just don't get it: How, why?

Am I missing out on something big happening? Do you feel the same?

I would like to educate myself more on the topic, and would be nice if you could advise some helpful resources.
OpenSLO Specification Moves to Version 1.0
OpenBSD will disable all but the first thread on any Intel processor by default. I'm assuming that an Intel i5-3320M (2 cores 4 threads) is too old to have microcode updates addressing the Spectre exploits (Meltdown, Foreshadow, Fallout, Zombieload, RIDL etc.), and disabling SMT/HT might be the most secure thing to do by default.

This script produces a good assessment of Spectre problems for a wide variety of CPUs. I know that they are difficult to exploit, and the mitigations are disabled by many because of their performance impact.

https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
> Ah! This I have evidence against. Senators have high approval ratings! https://morningconsult.com/senator-rankings/

Your evidence seems to show the opposite of your conclusion. According to this data, only 14 out of 100 senators have an approval rating of higher than 50%. Mostly small state senators.

It looks like the data is 2 years old, but I doubt that voters are much more approving now.

> All I have to do is avoid finding out about moral situations and I am automatically doing the right thing.

We're not talking about morality here, we're talking about whether voting is an accurate reflection of a person's "values" - moral values, immoral values, self-interested values, whatever they happen to be. I'm arguing that voting is a very poor, opaque indicator of that, given the constraints of voting.

I'd also mention that big moneyed interests have spent big money on propaganda against the science of climate change. It's not simply a matter of a person learning what is uncontroversial, like math; there's a war of ideas occurring in public, and sides must be chosen. Often friends and family are on the opposite side of the debate, which is never easy to live with. Who do you trust, anonymous scientists or... your parents who love you and raised you?
Self-describing, not self-documenting. I'm claiming that `"path": "foo", "value": "bar"` is a bit easier to pick up and learn than `["add" "/path" "value"]`.

This is probably a personal-preference thing; speaking from years of slinging both JSON and elisp, I have to go to the docs to remember the contents of a JSON object far less often than I do to remember the relevant positional arguments to a defun.
FAA changes course on eVTOL certification
No need for a plugin. Just add the channel ID to this link:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=

And add that to your RSS reader.

I get everything in perfect chronological order, including livestream schedules.
There's also one of Robert Conquest's laws:

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
Anything can be a nootropic if you have a deficiency.
iPhones do not require a phone contract either.

iPod touches also sent iMessages, since all you need is an Apple ID.

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipod-touch/set-up-messages-i...
This legislation means the EC gets to decide what is allowed and what's not in private communications. It always starts with child pornography, because everybody finds it abhorrent. But once you open that door...
This is just Conquest's second law in action:

'Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.'
Have to jump through a few links to get to the 'protest' part.

> Protest now by contacting the responsible EU Commissioners! Experience shows that a phone call is more effective than e-mails or letters. Officially, the planned obligation for messaging and chat control is called “legislation to effectively tackle child sexual abuse online”.

> If an office tries to redirect you to the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs (Directorate-General for Home Affairs), point out that all EU Commissioners vote on draft legislation and can raise concerns at an early stage.

* EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ms Johansson (lead responsible): Tel. +32-229-50170, E-Mail cab-johansson-contact@ec.europa.eu
* EU Commission President Ms von der Leyen: Tel. +32-229-56070, E-Mail ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu
* Executive Vice President for a Europe for the Digital Age, Ms Vestager: tTel. +32-229-55136, E-Mail margrethe-vestager-contact@ec.europa.eu
* EU Internal Market Commissioner Mr Breton, Tel. +32-229-90200, E-Mail cab-breton-contact@ec.europa.eu
* Vice-President for Values and Transparency, Ms Jourova: Tel. +32-229-55144, E-Mail cab-jourova-contact@ec.europa.eu
* Vice President for Promoting our European Way of Life, Mr. Schinas: Tel. +32-229-60524, E-Mail cab-schinas-contact@ec.europa.eu
* Justice Commissioner Mr Reynders, Tel. +32-229-50900, E-Mail cab-reynders-contact@ec.europa.eu

[from https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...]
> A unique high-concurrency VM with easy-to-use primitives that would require huge gobs of code and lots of added dependencies in other languages.

Truth is most web devs don't care about concurrency - it's a thing left for the ops team and with today's tools (k8s) its getting more and more trivial by the minute and it's only gonna get simpler and cheaper.

I'm not saying there aren't any use cases for Elixir, I'm just saying they're not that obvious or common.
Looks like you can first volunteer to work as a reviewer of manuscripts for the journal, to earn rights for reduced submission fees, or completely free submissions.

Maybe the Economics community has problems to find reviewers, the journal is resorting to that trick to find some balance between submitted manuscripts and available reviewers.
> IRS takes issue when tightly held C-corps pay themselves large amounts via W-2’s because they would want to reclassify those as dividends

Isn’t dividend income taxed less than W-2 income?
How to find quick temp Django work for financial emergency?
Last year when I switched employers I found out there'd been a payroll mistake and my taxes were underpaid by almost 8k between state & federal taxes.

I've paid part out of savings (and sold a few things that had value) but the IRS is approaching a very grumpy stage and sending letters saying that it's insufficient (it's more complex, apparently I discarded a notice that would have let me appeal but I get so much junk mail I think I mistook it for a scam) and I seem to be approaching some kind of deadline before they'll show up at my house even more angry.

To avoid this I'd like to try to find some extra part-time income.

I've done a load of full-stack (lowjs lately) work over the last 15 years in legal/regulatory management, legislative informatics, & data analysis pipelines. Django, HTML, HTMX, _hyperscript, LESS, CSS, Tailwind, HTMX, JQuery (still haha! ), RPM packaging, DEB packaging, containerization, etc...

Given that skillset, can anyone recommend anyplace to look (or know someone who needs a hand)?

I've poked around skillest, djangojobs, freelancer, (and heaven forbid, LinkedIn but they're all looking for fulltime) etc... but folks on the sites I've checked out, frankly, seem to be unwilling to pay reasonable $$ and instead think a whole custom webapp with a DB backend can be built for $300 USD.

If anyone has any advice or suggestions I'd really appreciate ideas for working myself out of this frustrating hole. Cheers!
I read some of the documents you linked and they say nothing like what you claim. Quotes?
* 1x MacBook Pro 2021 16in (work)
* 1x MacBook Pro 2021 14in (personal)
* 2x Raspberry Pi 3Bs (I think)
* 1x Raspberry Pi Zero W
* 1x TinyFPGA BX
* Pixel 5
* Self-built desktop (5900X, RTX 2060, 2TiB NVME SSD)
How do you deal with the fact that the patch operations are not associative? This seems like a recipe for conflicting effects... you don't want the result to depend on the order you picked up items. Do you batch the effects? (e.g. deletes, then inserts, then modifications?)

What is the behavior of your chosen library--mutable or immutable operations? I.e. do you pay the penalty of making a deeply nested copy of your scene graph for each turn?

Asking for a friend....
Honestly I'm surprised that it took Apple this long to take this product behind the barn and shoot it.

My first device was an iPod touch - but the iPhone is better (clearly). A consolidated line-of-effort for one less platform will be helpful, I think, in allocating talent behind the other products that matter.
What's that "%ef%bf%bc" at the end of the link ?
I don't think Switzerland is subject to this but I could be wrong. I setup my own mail and xmpp server to be safe. I recommend others to do the same. Yunohost.org makes it easy.
OMG, I just went to Eluktronics' site out of curiosity and saw LPP which sounds AMAZING. I've been thinking of something like that for a long time and seeing it readily available just blew my socks off.
The current iPod touch runs iOS 15 and will be just as good 5 years from now.

The only downside of buying a discontinued Apple product is knowing that you'll have to switch devices if/when it dies, but even that's mitigated by the fact that you'll likely be able to buy used ones for many years.
it's not that they don't believe in climate change -- that's a bit naive, tbh. it's that it's an incredibly weak bargaining position. the thinking goes like this: you care about the earth so much? then you cut back on your emissions. go ahead. that's the US's stance. it's the same stance Brazil uses re: deforestation & agricultural sprawl. they're negotiating in bad faith; they're not stupid.

the US in effect wants to be the last person to exit the room and turn off the lights. do you want them to move faster? then you need to get out of the room first. the smaller players need to stop pretending that they're the same size as the US, China, and India. That's just foolish wishful thinking. nobody's going to hold them accountable to environmental treaties or any carbon targets.

when everyone small leaves the room, then the US will shove the last remaining countries out before it, too. because it can. because you care more about the "environment" than they do, collectively.
Another Algorithmic Stablecoin Isn’t
> GPS artillery shells are also completely inferior to guided MLRS for every use case.

Well, there's the "hidden" effect of suddenly making a random M777 gun on the battlefield suddenly a guided weapon.

If Russia sees a battery (6x M777 guns) moving into 40km range of a battalion headquarters, or an airport with expensive helicopters... or some other important defense point, what does Russia do about it? (Assume the M777 guns are shooting-and-scooting, so there's a very low chance you actually hit them with any long-range guided munition)

If the M777 guns have dumb shells (only 20km range), the threat can be ignored. But if the M777 guns have Excalibur rounds, then all your $million helicopters are about to be blown up

-------

Ukraine doesn't need a lot of Excalibur rounds. They just need "enough" to demonstrate to Russia that they're on the battlefield, and that Russian commanders need to plan around them.
Ah, 'Thank you'! Yes that's the skit I remembered, and by golly, as fucked up an idea as it is, he's entirely right.

"I don't know what to do with that information. I don't have way to apply that to anything that's helpful", indeed.
what is it then? $ raised and trajectory are also part of the story.
I mean, intercepting private business communications about say, factory openings or closings, would put the people with that information in a position to make large amounts of money by buying or selling property in those areas. There are dozens of similar examples that don't require much imagination to envisage. Blackmail material on politicians, insider knowledge on energy transactions and plans, advance warning on populist protests against EU policies, etc.

Just look at the history of any mass surveillance state to see how that works out in practice. The East German STASI is a relevant example, and there are others one could think of as well. Recommended watching: "The Lives of Others".
To each their own. I think the whole context is relevant on a subject and would prefer understanding habitat and human impact when I’m trying to learn about something. To me, the habitat destruction is a crucial part of the story, and if you left it out it would be like teaching about life in America during ww2 without mentioning Japanese internments. Or discussing the 1960s without mentioning civil rights.

These things are critical topics necessary in order to understand a topic. It honestly feels a bit like you would prefer a space where the downsides or costs are not mentioned - I prefer to not elide the uncomfortable.

Edit - maybe it’s like a dinosaur documentary not mentioning their extinction? I could understand that, if it were a matter of prioritizing based on available time. Still, it does seem like the meteor event is pretty important when talking about dinosaurs. I guess we just see things differently.
The CGI was really well done. Helped by our brains not triggering the uncanny valley on alien faces(or at least, not nearly as much)
(Non-English native speaker here) What is a "XO"?
Given the number of security holes we ended up with in JavaScript and HTML, I think possibly a strong-ish case could even be made that reducing it all to LISP would have made the world objectively worse.

"One hammer, and everything is a nail" sounds like a smorgasbord for malicious actors in a world where we know how often SQL injection and HTML injection proved to be common threat vectors (both being "trick the system into interpreting symbols that look the same in a different way" types of attacks). Imagine if all layers of the HTTP story had been the same language. Yikes.
Supabase seems cool. Is there something like it if I want to run Rust code as edge functions?
I don't feel so at all. The quality of YouTube recommendations (and video essays in particular!) for me at least is higher than ever. Absolutely astonishing at times. I am grateful for all the great content the algorithm helped me to discover, be it in the sciences, music, commentary, anything. Time spent on YouTube actually almost never feels wasted. Also I don't care about the disappearance of the dislike count, I don't need it to gauge the quality of a video. Not to say there aren't any problems with the "algorithm", but overall it works really well for me.
That’s about the scale of a single Jimmy John’s franchise location.
You have grossly misunderstood my comment if you think I was arguing for "free speech absolutism", which I think is an insane idea.

To be completely honest, this entire comment reads to me as rambling largely unrelated to my first comment.
> in my life

Lucky you?
Remix seems to be a counter-example. The jokes app tutorial [1] is as monolithic as they come.

[1]: https://remix.run/docs/en/v1/tutorials/jokes
While 2016-2020 did seem particularly crazy in how every little thing got outrage coverage, I remember similar things from Obama's presidency. Things like the week long outrage over him asking for dijon mustard on his burger. I also felt a lot of parallels between Trump and his tax returns / ties with Russia and Obama with his citizenship conspiracies/outrage.

I don't know if recency bias plays into the Trump stuff feeling way more covered, or if it actually was, but I'm not sure media did particularly more this time around compared to last. Maybe it was just who the target audience for outrage was this time, instead of the amount of coverage.

Not really sure of my point, but food for thought to the lurkers I guess.
Couldn't it also be a really old style of panel without a singular main breaker, either falling under the "rule of 6" or perhaps dating from before it?
So I think what they are talking about with platform here is just more and better tooling above the data store - like the prisma studio product for a uniform interface to data for different teams, abstracted above the detail of the specific store etc. So not just an ORM on the techincal level but that same sort of idea on a business level perhaps.

I don't see anything in there about this including plans to build their own native data store. Nor do I suspect that would be a great idea (really really hard, not their competency, nor their point of leverage!)
Depends on your definition of all, successful, and lucky.

If you change successful to be defined as people like OP, I believe a large majority of successful people are extremely lucky. Probably over 99.9%. They owe their success to being extremely fortunate in a combination of many factors, not limited to:

- Where they were born

- Who their parents were

- What food their parents gave them when they were kids

- What other types of nurture they received

- Where they went to school

- When they went to school

- Who they met at school

- Who their parents knew

- The time they were born

- The time they ...

You can go on and on here ...
Is XO a typo of SO or a very interesting acronym
"unless the U.S. admits more high-skilled immigrants"

Some things never change
For real, most VC's could take 100 different shots on solo devs who just need their living expenses paid... like me.
Man, Russia still calls this war "a special operation" and jails anyone who calls it "a war". You are delusional.
That's some extreme 4D chess. An organization originally founded to support free speech is infiltrated by people who support free speech who start promoting anti-free speech ideals or cases in order to weak man the anti-free speech argument.
MKV can literally contains anything includes but not limited to text based effected subtitle, image based subtitle, multi alternative audio channel, chapter separated video and even font.

And the used codec also isn't even limited. H265 10bit + flac 96khz? Fine. You can pack it as long as you want. And it's your own problem to play it. And that is basically why you see youtube-dl merges best audio + best video into MKV. Because it is the one only format that allow you to merge something like vp9+opus into playable single file.

It is basically a 'one format rule them all' format. The browser is unlikely to actually properly implement all of them. (In fact, there are only a few players actually implement all of them outside of players on windows) And even browser does want to implement everything, there isn't proper API for browser to expose these capabilities to the DOM and JavaScript to properly control them. (I think we are unlikely to see browser support native multi audio track video)
Isn't what you're describing just running a regular company?
Dropbox migrated to Go microservices
These tyrants have to be stopped.

A tyrannical government is far more dangerous to people, including children than your regular criminal. Ironically, by giving the state too much power and therefore increasing the symptoms of corruption, we allow the same sort of crimes to be practiced by corrupt state officials with little means for people enact accountability. China, the country with the most mass-surveillance in the world has huge problems with sex trafficking, rape and prostitution. And you guessed it, state officials are involved. All these cameras and this online surveillance didn’t make a dent to the social rot that China is suffering from. In fact, this moral (/s) state is running concentration camps, and is justifying it.

Mass-surveillance is a form of power-transfer from the majority of people to a select few. When you, as individuals, as families, as communities, as the people lack power, you’ll be less able to prevent your children from falling prey to government officials. Instead of facing a weak outcast, you’re facing an individual that’s linked to your government.

> This spying attack on our private messages and photos by error-prone algorithms is a giant step towards a Chinese-style surveillance state.

Well said. I’d like to add that even if the system was free from errors, it’s terrible.
Why isn't this a variant on a bloom filter that supports deletion? eg vacuum filter
> Southern Poverty Law Center

That organization is one of the most harmful organizations in the US. In my opinion.
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Because of the nondeterminism we get from the metalanguage being a logic language, we don't have to worry about applying optimizers in a particular order. You can compose optimizers together, produce the possible results, and then select the best using a heuristic. Of course, the search space is potentially huge, so I'm looking into integrating constraints.
Dunno, sometimes they screw up in dumb ways too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
Yes. But you’re not expressing what you mean. You don’t want the remainder.

It’s like doing a for(i=0; i<items.length:i++) { e=items[i] } to iterate over each element instead of something like foreach, or a lambda.
That's asking for corrosion damage from the battery.

I've got a bathroom scale that goes several years on it's pair of coins even though it turns on only when stepped on. I suspect there's a physical switch involved, though.
> Am I just lacking imagination?

Yes.

The EU is becoming a totalitarian regional government of elites.

Originally it wasn't even supposed to have a military presence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_forces_of_the_European...

It was supposed to prevent the need of passports. https://www.covidpasscertificate.com/europe-digital-green-pa...

All the good things are going out the door and all the bad things are walking on in.
I agree, I don't mean to suggest you should discount advice just because someone is successful.
It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
Just a friendly reminder - toxicity is all about the dose. Never forget what happened to Seth Roberts, who was overdosing on omega-3s! Also, there are tons of studies that most omega-3 sold are rancid and do more harm than good!
It's like those pictures of bulldogs from the early 20th century. They look like real dogs, they don't have the health problems, and they just seem to be better. But then it becomes a competition. There is a public standard for success. And now we have flat faced monsters that can't breed on their own and need surgery just to breathe.

We're just seeing the natural progression of American individualism. What used to mean - be strong in the face of adversity, work toward a positive goal, and bring others along once you make it, has become a monstrosity. Winning means amassing resources, regardless of the steps you take to get those resources. Oh, and don't forget to pull the ladder up after you, because if someone else wins, you lose.

What we're seeing is the evolution, the simple, natural evolution of stoic individualism taken to the nth degree.
This chart is from 2016. Both zstd and brotli are under active development, so I'd like to see a more recent comparison presented in this same format.
c'mon man.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220510172623/https://www.nytim...
I think ISDIN carries those sorts of sunscreens: https://www.isdin.com/en/product/fotoprotector-isdin/fusion-...

It was the first time I realized sunscreen doesn’t need to be greasy and/or a thick paste that never absorbs. And my Mexican girlfriend pointed out that state of sunscreen tech is much better than what we have in the US.

It blew my mind to use sunscreen that spreads like a watery cream that instantly absorbs and leaves behind no residue. I finally became a daily user.
Yeah, this whole idea is ridiculous and wildly biased by the incredible over-valuations of some of these startups.
It was also 100% bullshit then.
GP programmed an AI that could run on a green OLPC computer.