skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes way beyond, since Let's Encrypt influence the ecosystem a lot and the standards that are used.

If you use Let's Encrypt, you are likely using Certbot, which means that everybody uses a tool that a central authority strongly recommends to you.

I wonder how they generate the key, for example, it may be using secp256r1: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/5c111d0bd1206d864d7c...
(this seems to be the default?)

Some time ago, I remember seeing secp256r1 in some tech talks like here:
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/08/21/a-tale-of-two-elli...

"The “k” in sepc256k1 stands for Koblitz and the “r” in sepc256r1 stands for random. A Koblitz elliptic curve has some special properties that make it possible to implement the group operation more efficiently. It is believed that there is a small security trade-off, that more “randomly” selected parameters are more secure. However, some people suspect that the random coefficients may have been selected to provide a back door."

If a solution is plausible, and this solution can bring dozens of billions of USD in in direct economic value or protect populations, certainly the smart people would/should think about a way to do it (and this could even be the right thing to do).

I'm not saying that Let's Encrypt is backdoored; what I'm saying is that it's a juicy target and that one potential solution to this problem is to encourage decentralization.
>Basically creates a strong incentive for HQ to run things hyper lean and rely on this as a backstop routinely

That is absolutely what happens. In my youth I worked at a corporate franchise with such a structure. The manager was paid a salary, which was barely higher than the salary of the front line workers, but was responsible for covering all shifts that were not otherwise covered. To make matters much worse, corporate brass decreed that he was not allowed to pay overtime or schedule workers to work enough hours to be considered "full-time". This left the manager scrambling with no choice but to seek a drove of low-wage, part-time workers that were difficult to find, hard to retain, and prone to calling in sick and/or quitting suddenly. The end result was the manager routinely working 60+ hours a week (which sometimes actually drove his average hourly wage below that of the part-time workers), never knowing when he would have to race into work for an unknown period of time. At several points they asked me to become a manager and I flatly refused.
> Obviously $150 is a lot of money for a lot of people making a much lower income!… but those people likely aren’t in the market for a 3-way diff & merge tool

Are you suggesting students and other people earning much less than 7 figures aren't supposed to be using a basic dev tool? Unless you have a very specific meaning of "aren't in the market for a diff tool".

It's not luck: our tools cost so little because we are tool makers - I don't imagine iron smiths had trouble with expensive anvils either.
Nonsense. My notes are for me, a synthesis of my observations or things of utility to me, why obligate the effort to everyone to make it all make sense to anyone else?
Alas, your profile does not include contact information.
Safari is like internet explorer and where I spend the majority of my day fixing issues related to quirks and bugs
You can stop eating too many cookies too.
Miami’s mayor backed MiamiCoin–then its price dropped 95% – Quartz
Utilities: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
"on" the cards?
Bitcoin mining also enables keeping coal plants online that would otherwise be totally shut down.

I'm not sure how separation of money and state works. If you have taxes, they're not really all that separate. If you don't have taxes, you can't have much of a state, can you?

Most crypto types seem to want very low or zero taxes, it's unclear how social programs and large scale infrastructure is going to work.
As I understood it, the difference between the $2.50 and $3.50 Vultr VPSes is an IPv4 address. I don't know why that page doesn't explain. Maybe it's changed.
> Pro sports athletes have unions, and their compensation is usually much larger than ours.

I would be curious to see an analysis of all professional athletes. Looking at baseball, the sport I'm familiar with, shows that there are huge salary disparities between the major leagues (who have the MLBPA as their union) and the minor leagues (who have no union, this is news to me). Both are still considered pro sports athletes, though I'm sure you meant only MLB athletes by that term.

There are 902 major league players and a conservative estimate of 3,000 to 4,000 minor league players (excluding rookie and international players).

The major leagues have an average salary of $4.17 million, with a median salary of $1.15 million. But compensation is not distributed evenly. 33.4% of all pay goes to the top 50 players. 52.4% goes to the top 100. Of 902 players on opening-day rosters, 417 (62%) had salaries under $1 million, including 316 (35%) under $600,000. Details taken from [1].

Minor league salaries have minimums that are at most $700 per week for AAA players, and lower minimums for the rest of the minor leagues. For a 10 week season that gives $7,000 for the maximum minor league minimum. There are some exceptions with players on the 40 man MLB roster playing in the minors that make a minimum of $46,000 / season [2]. The interesting part of [2] is the comparison with the NBA minor leagues (they have union representation) which has a minimum monthly salary of $7,000, and the AHL (also has union representation) minimum season salary of $52,000.

Another source for athlete salaries is the BLS, which seems to show there are 16,700 athletes and entertainers with a median salary of $77,300 per year [3]. BLS shows higher median salaries for developers.

So, I guess if you include all professional athletes, then the median software developer makes more than the median professional athlete. I have heard of Google giving an employee $100 million in stock to stay at Google, but I'm not sure what the stock options are like for early developers at start ups. I guess that would be the equivalent to the top talent in the professional sports leagues making 10s of millions a season?

[1] https://apnews.com/article/mlb-new-york-baseball-new-york-ya...

[2] https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/even-after-overdue-...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/entertainment-and-sports/athletes-an...
> people not only don't care about Quality; they are actively hostile towards it. It almost seems to be a race to the bottom.

I think this largely depends on industry and platform.

e.g. quality isn't how enterprise software is sold and is therefore not an appreciated trait.

e.g.2. selling quality software on the iOS app store is like trying to sell a ferrari in a literal dollar store. It's going to be an uphill battle.
That's what he appears to be using in one of the linked articles.
> Why would you need 5 web workers, would one running on primary not be ideal?

It's not ideal due to some frameworks using background jobs to handle pushing events through to your web UI, such as broadcasting changes over websockets with Hotwire Turbo.

The UI would update when that job completes and if you only have 1 worker then it's back to waiting 100-350ms to reach the primary worker to see UI changes based on your location which loses the appeal of global distribution. You might as well consider running everything on 1 DigitalOcean server for 15x less at this point and bypass the idea of global distribution if your goal was to reduce latency for your visitors.

> Crazy idea: Use SQLite (replicated with Litestream) instead of Redis and save 50 bucks

A number of web frameworks let you use Redis as a session, cache and job queue back-end with no alternatives (or having to make pretty big compromises to use a SQL DB as an alternative). Also, Rails depends on Redis for Action Cable, swapping that for SQLite isn't an option.
BSD License. Free, as in properly free. It's in the name.

If you're a small business and want to build proprietary system, and don't have the money to shell out millions in licensing fees; FreeBSD is your system. It's the only way to beat mega corps and incumbents. FreeBSD keeps this asymmetry in check. Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary. For those applications, FreeBSD is a boon.
Why not use GObject?
Eth fell by about 10% relative to BTC pretty much immediately as the Terra/Luna stuff went south. yeah, there's absolutely connections between all the different currencies out there, but they're not equal strength. it's hard to draw good conclusions from price data just because there's so little of it. the last year's been stable with Eth:BTC confined to within 0.06 - 0.08. but zoom out just one more year and the range triples. over more meaningful durations, the different currencies show a lot less correlation.
> It takes a long time to introduce a new cat, we have 3 indoor cats all introduced one at a time.

Yep.

> It took around a month for both the second and third cat to be completely accepted.

Oh boy that's nothing. I think we were like 10 months. They still don't get along flawlessly but it is now tolerable. We did precisely the recommended steps (scent swapping, separate spaces, associating each other with food, play nearby each other).
The original post is "fine", although a bit antagonistic. The point still stands though.

I do not think that this feature should be on the road and it's not "that the car is drunk" it's that the Autopilot feature is fundamentally is mis-designed. Take a look at any thread related to Tesla Autopilot and you have experts calling out that the lack of Radar/Lidar is absolutely reckless. This is a clear reason why: the cameras ability to discern objects is limited and can cause erratic behavior under normal circumstances.

The cost/part cutting option of removing these sensors (or not using them) has time and time again shown that it can act erratically. I don't want to have drunk drivers on the road and I don't want this Autopilot on the road. Both are bad options, but the way that this is marketed to the every-day person makes it seem like it is ready to ship and you can "be drunk and Autopilot will take the wheel". We are quite far from that. FSD needs to exceed the capabilities of a human or prove that it has dramatically less deaths/accidents per mile than human drivers.

I work in software, I work with ML algorithms. I don't trust either with mine or my families life right now. I know that there are life-critical software deployments, but who is regulating Tesla Autopilot right now and are they doing enough? The NTSB is trying... we will see how it works out.
Kdiff3
Switched from a career of a windows/.net/c# to a max/ruby/js shop. Docker skills transferred. Had to learn Unix commands but it didn’t feel much different from cmd/powershell
How do they make money off this?
I rarely feel the need for sandboxie but the times I do, I feel that I'd be better served by a full VM. Got burned once because I misjudged risk level and the thing I ran within sandboxie managed to grab my browser's saved passwords.
People want authentic social media and realize anonymity does not provide that in the face of any monetary value to the content creation and distribution.

The world you're pining for does not exist.
Still? It's been thirty years
Elon Musk’s silence on how he’d moderate the Buffalo shooting video is deafening
How about for information?
Yes, totally agree. The somewhat dated Scribus UI can be quite non-intuitive unless one uses it regularly and takes the time to learn how to work around its quirks.
While I agree with other commenters here that this setup probably isn't a good idea for most people, I want to go out on a limb and say it seems to me the author may have good reason to have undertaken such a project (he specifically mentions that this article is NOT about his motivations). Specifically, just profiling based on the apparent age of the gentleman in the photos, I would not be surprised if this reason was some sort of injury, arthritis, or similar source of pain caused by ordinary sitting-at-a-desk posture. All that is to say, good for him for making a thing that seems to work for his needs, and shame on people jumping to poo-poo this because it's not solving a problem they personally have.
For awhile now I've been wondering just who exactly the metaverse is for. I guess this answers that question to some degree.
Is this a good book if one is essentially an APL newb? Also, I’m interested in BQN, would this be a good read to better understand BQN as well?
that's understandable, and also a harbinger of a future I'd like to help prevent. There's lots of great commercial software that's worth paying for and that isn't made by megacorps
Probably because it's single threaded going through multiple slow compatibility APIs.
Scope.

The land train goes "anywhere on land" (clearly not anywhere but many/most places) as opposed to "anywhere on rails".
"FOSS is starting to get left behind in the dust"

What does your TV or car boot?

Design space ... what do you use day to day - I'd love to see your blog/show piece?
Thanks, I appreciate that :D
That seems to be an unfair dismissal of these products. The vast majority of everything built with these tools will be public facing. Marketing designs, UI design, etc.

Design is a very collaborative process, especially with remote work which has made having everyone see and edit the same thing at once critical. It's not "braindead" to work in a team, its a requirement. I really want to see FOSS succeed but its hard to see how the open source benefits translate over to this kind of software where you no longer run the software locally and consistency is needed so others have the same version of the tool as you.
Thank you. This hit hard.
Well if we're going down this dystopia, letting corporations vote would dilute billionaires and would provide a cheaper alternative to making corporations get lobbiests.
I don't get it. I make a lot less than your average SV software dev but even I understand that goog software that makes you productive is worth investing in.

Take Jetbrains' software: I happily pay for that every year and it's 100% worth it. I could stop paying and use the fallback licence the rest of my lifr but I use the newer features and support often enough that I want to invest.

I've never used the tool in question but from what I can see it does a whole of a lot more than Meld or even Jetbrains' merge tool. It supports diffing a wild range of file formats that makes it useful for programmers but also helps out when cloud sync runs into conflicts.

Good tools often cost money. A carpenter doesn't buy value brand hardware for their most important tools and while a developer has the advantage of access to open source, paying for good tools shouldn't be controversial.

A one-time purchase of $150 is less than what I pay for Netflix in a year. It's not a meaningless amount, it's a fair price for a piece of software. Were it subscription, you'd pay paying $5 per month for years to come, with the software broken the moment you stop paying. I'll take my purchased software that will just keep working, thank you very much.
The fact that such poor communication and process can come from a giant employing so many clever people really makes me wonder. Is it more likely to be incompetence or intentional?

I have a few domains aliased to my main one on GSuite Legacy, with aliased email for friends and family that I brought in with the understanding that it was always free. And now I have to shoulder monthly costs for these people. Or push them out and be doing tech support to help them set up elsewhere.
I am sincerely having difficulty parsing your argument.

I think you are saying:

1. Despite the news articles, tech workers by and large are underpaid.

2. Some exceptions to 1 exist that are sufficiently large and outsized that they are carrying the average. After discounting those individuals, tech wages are below what they should be.

3. Free trade and H1B visas are allowing large numbers of non-US tech talent into the hiring supply; this is driving down wages at the expense of the American tech worker.

4. Regardless of the fact that the supply of these workers is driving down wages as econ 1 would dictate, actual market wages should be much higher, because... (this is where I’m losing you)?
Lots of people rushing to use the tragic actions of a psychopath for political gain.
Agreed. The magic button the top have saved me dev years of time.
My last Sun box was a Sparc 20 IIRC, and I had that until 2007ish or thereabouts, before I gave it up. Sun is still one of the best companies I ever worked at, and I was there when the E10K and Java was released, really exciting times without a hint of the circus/surreality show the industry has become.
This is the answer. Google is a bad partner. Learn from this.
Some people consider reference counting a form of garbage collection, and in such case you can have deterministic destruction of any kind of resource (PHP and Swift use that).
> You're addicted, you just don't know it.

I smoked cigarettes for ~10 years and I went to rehab for cocaine as a teenager, I am pretty familiar with addiction. I have never exceeded 1x/weekly phenibut and I've taken weeks off for travel, studying, etc, with no problems. I use some other substances recreationally with various cadences, set according to my understanding of how the body reacts to them (e.g. LSD never more often than every 2 weeks).

It's shocking to me that some people can smoke the occasional cigarette without getting hooked, but the fact of the matter is that the psychological impact of drug use varies quite a lot according to the (person + substance) in question. Nicotine is something that happens to appeal to me a lot more than it seems to appeal to other people.

> If you're referring to phenibut, I wasn't taking it every day

I'm replying to phenthrowAway, who said he used phenibut for "just a few weeks" before getting dependent.
Relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/641/
> Could you summarize how much money depositors across the entire United States lost to bank busts over the past, say 40 years?

Nominal or actual? Just the Federal Savings and Loan crisis + the TARP bailouts were billions from the dilution of dollars.

And that's just the US.
okay, I think this one made it make sense for me.

Also the "Eventually it goes to zero, but at first it increases".

Maybe that's what the graphs were saying, and usually I skim text and read graphs, but the graphs were confusing
Sure, it's a coarse and crude method that isn't perfect, but the point is that almost no one that practices "secular meditation" has any problems whatsoever - there is simply no good evidence supporting that meditation practice is dangerous in any way. The vast body of research available shows mild benefits.

The claimed hypothesis is absurd on its face. It's a wild and strong claim that needs strong evidence, so we don't need to be super precise here, if the effects were nearly as strong as 5-10%, we would see it.
What's so "complicated" about sticking a f.Close() before those latter two nil, err returns?
I like the Sandbox app / feature built into Win10/11 (very fast to boot). I wish it'd allow saving snapshots and being automated. I want to set one up with a full dev environment for example.

Full HyperV VMs are significantly slower to boot and run.
Vaughan Pratt designed the original Sun Microsystems logo, which is an ambigram (and also a swastikoid rotation group):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Pratt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram

https://www.famouslogos.org/logos/sun-microsystems-logo

It originally had a square orientation:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jtWyvhXXKw8/WMhYGNM4huI/AAAAAAAAG...

John Gage suggested turning it 45 degrees (making it even more swastikier).

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TM7J2yqhR1E/WMhYGME0LaI/AAAAAAAAG...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gage

That's the same John Gage who's on Nixon's Enemies List.

https://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463
Is this feature available in Gitlab CI? I'd love to use it if it is...
one usually hears the opposite argument: Bitcoin becomes more scarce as users lose their private keys. lost keys => smaller supply => higher price per unit. i can see the opposite argument though: lost keys => less desire to interact with bitcoin => lower demand => lower price per unit. so it might just be a wash.
Wait, can someone remind me of something?

GPT-3 is just the worlds largest char-rnn right?
Good employees find ways to collaborate no matter what. That’s to say that real-time collaboration is a luxury feature. Also, many projects have only one designer. Not to mention, it’s rare to find designers that work in tandem.

Also, from a dev perspective having designs updates without some process is undesirable.
if bitcoin constitutes an insignificant portion of their activities, why would they oppose such a term?
I'm not talking about low level infrastructure, but the user facing software. Offline desktop tools have rapidly started to become obsolete. Products like Office had to scramble to pivot because Google Docs was replacing them. Its been a while now since I have been emailed an actual office file instead of being sent a link to the live version.

A while ago it was common for Photoshop or illustrator to be used for UI designs and then it would be thrown over the wall to you as a PNG which you had to make sure you had the latest version of. These days everywhere I have worked has used a tool like Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch, and gives out a link which is always up to date, which you can fiddle with, write comments on, etc.

The market is rapidly shifting and I'm just not sure how FOSS is going to stay relevant in this space.
Why Should Async Get All the Love?: Advanced Control Flow with Threads
I'm sure people hang on your words with bated breath
The fact that this comment is downvoted means that at least some people here doesn’t understand how to use the downvoting function. I think the comment highly contributed to the discussion by pointing out what Tether states today (and asking for more information if available). How is this not a constructive comment?
Nvidia’s monster RTX 4090 GPU tipped to arrive mid-July
People were upset that federally backed mortgages were being used to build / purchase homes in flood prone areas.

So they passed a law to stop doing that unless the borrower got adequate flood insurance.

However, no insurance company in their right mind would offer insurance for such properties.

People said this was not fair, so the federal government created subsidized flood insurance.

Reagan was right. "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps on moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it."
I couldn't disagree more. I'm far more concerned about device vendors leveraging encrypted DNS in order to remove my ability to intercept and filter DNS resolution on my own network.

For example, I'm sure Google and pretty much every Smart TV vendor would love it if we could no longer easily block traffic for streaming ads, sending telemetry, etc.
I'm not wed to GPL specifically but I feel better if the license is tested rather than theoretical so cases like this are a step forward. Without getting into details, I've released BSD-licensed software that has been used in commercial products and integrated into the surveillance apparatus (without my knowledge or consent). A copyleft license would have made that more difficult so the stronger the better IMO.