skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t monetization also indirectly help the other issues?
No. Cryto credentials are the public and private key both. Losing a credit card credentials is the exact same scenario as losing a private key
It is not. Nice try.
Because the fix is already in, it's not science, it's fundraising to do what you're told to do.
The articles from the review (as far as I've scanned them) seem to take a common view of static typing, but the studies themselves are obviously weak. There's almost no way to test such statements, because how are you going to generalize that? Some studies use restricted tasks, which would provides some indication of the usefulness of static typing for e.g. beginners, but then the reviewer starts mixing up all kinds of problems and concepts. E.g., who cares that there's more variation between programmers than between languages?

To use that review as an authoritative statement is ingenuous, to say the least.
Mobile wallets are quite popular for the unbanked in those countries. You don’t need a decentralised ledger for that.
So you would define an airline pilot as skilled labor but driving an Uber (I have never used Uber, so I will compare it to a taxi) as unskilled labor.

Flying a plain certainly takes a skill. So does driving a car. Both are skills. They certainly differ in the time required to obtain that skill, but that does not change the fact than an unskilled person can't drive a car through dense urban traffic bringing you safely to your destination, neither can they land a an airplane.

If a job was really unskilled, anybody could do it without any training at all. People usually don't pay for actually unskilled things because they can do it themselves just as good
> Anyone else in a similar position?

Yes.

I’ve worked in fintech and recently transitioned to cryptocurrencies (implementing cryptography). The backlash I received from my peers for even going into finance was very comparable.

> the constant backlash from the public is nagging me

I’ve lost friends, and I’ve resorted to say that I work with cryptography (which is 100% true, but omits the application).

It feels like you need to either double down on your beliefs or selectively inform people what you do for a living, to keep working with crypto.

It’s hard to be a conscientious cypherpunk when you see how average people will bend towards being cheated by stonks.

Since people’s judgement matters to you, consider working with something that you’re proud to tell people. That’s part of why I quit my first job in finance.

When friends of friends ask for investment advice, I don’t get back to them; it feels like selling people drugs. I don’t mind that they invest, but I spent years understanding the landscape, and I avoid most of what I see, including NFTs.

> will I be unemployable

Yes, your skills and personality will get you another job. Presumably, the technical level of your current job is the best you’ve done so far.

If you’re reading Hacker News, you’re over-exposed to the criticism. In reality, people don’t think that much about it.
It's not wasteful. The energy is used for something, not deliberately wasted.
If you have to work to live then you are a slave.
Didn’t bitcoin survived the chinese crackdown on mining that yanked ~25%-ish of its hashrate overnight?
Another problem with electric grills/BBQs from my experience is that they’re just not powerful enough - even the smallest breeze is enough to blow away the little heat created by the heating element and the food takes ages to cook as a result if outdoors. I’m sure it’ll perform better indoors but then you have to deal with the fumes.
You could try not being racist.
>The point is not reducing input per se, but reducing entitled input that doesn't give back anything to the community

That's true, and it's a good goal.

But, my point is that if we try to reduce entitled input by simply asking people not to behave entitled, then the result may be that we increase entitled input (as a proportion of all input), because many 'entitled' users will ignore the request, because they feel entitled.

In the common scenario where developers are already overwhelmed with suggestions and demands, then they will have even less time to separate out the good suggestions from the bad.
I don't find your examples convincing. Like in banking and finance, everyone is fair until they are proven to be not. For example, Knight Capital, Bernie Madoff, SAC, The Galleon Group, or banks like Merrill, HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Deutsche, not to mention banks that went bust in recent years [1]... and yet, no one suggests that finance and banking world are scams.

As I mentioned, you need to know where to look, do your own research, and read numbers. Just like the above examples, they had some pretty unrealistic traces before they went down, but people wanted to believe otherwise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...
> If you were to develop a closed source iOS app and charge for it in the Apple App Store your user base will have certain expectations.

What's weird is that paying users have lower expectations and are much nicer than those who don't pay. Why do free users feel entitled? It's a bit of a mystery, yet can be observed often.
Just a thought (vaguely connected here) but voting on features to be implemented is ... pretty much same as voting IRL on policies not parties.

I have often wondered what would be the thing to trigger companies to stop being totalitarian dictatorships and become democratic to their (employees / stakeholders) - is it crazy to say voting on features to build would be the one?
> Everyone blaming "meat" for global warming is just a shill for the petrol industry, distracting from the real cause (fossil fuels).

How so? Even the article itself brings up various reasons that don't include CO2 emissions; deforestation and water use for example. Cattle in particular are a major source for methane emissions - a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

The direct contribution to global warming (via methane emissions) is very low, yes. The problem arises from feeding and waste removal. It's a multi-dimensional issue and no, cows are not just recycled grass - if that were the case they wouldn't have the same impact. Most dairy cows (appr. half the overall cow population) are fed maize, soy, and high-energy supplements in order increase yield. Silages are also frequently used and the fermenting process also adds to the GHG emissions.

> Everyone blaming "meat" for global warming is just a shill for the petrol industry, distracting from the real cause (fossil fuels).

That doesn't make sense. Modern farm operations rely heavily on fossil fuels and fertiliser. This isn't the 18th century anymore, there aren't herdsmen watching over cows grazing on meadows. This: https://www.agdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bg-dairy_... is what a modern dairy farm looks like and these feed pellets https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/pellet-feed-for-cows-pi... aren't made of just grass either.

It's a romanticised image that many still have in mind when thinking of meat production, but it's a heavily mechanised industry today and pictures like this https://ak0.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/4426340/thumb/1.jp... don't reflect a large part of the industry anymore.
I'm still very curious, that's not the issue.

Jes Webb for example.

But political drama like trump is not entertainment.

New advances in science are always great but it stopped impacting my life.

Would I like a robot who is doing everything for me? Yes sure, will that actually change anything nor me? Not really. I can already hire someone or go outside or use convince food.

I don't envy people who can travel 365 days a year in the nicest hotels and location in the world (don't get me wrong I would love to do that for a few years) but not forever. And especially not in the constrains of our society.
> On the other hand it increases development time and makes modifications and new features much harder to implement

I am not sure that that is correct. Type inference significantly decreases development time imho, and access to compiler errors means significantly less testing time because a certain class of errors is avoided.

Personally, I find that my productivity w/ Haskell was significantly higher than with python exactly because of the type system even though I have 3x the experience in years w/ Python.

I have inherited (hah) a project at work and had to introduce all sorts sanity checks (mypy, pylint, etc) as pre-commit hooks to make my life easier wrt bug hunting.
In my country, $200k is what a senior dev makes in 10 years. The issue is, I very much doubt people like Rui could be expected to live in places like mine. So comparing against US salaries is probably what you should do anyway.
See you in the revolution.
Raspberry Pi 4 music player with analogue controls
If you're asking this question, to me you're saying you know how science works, maybe, but you have absolutely no clue how newscycles and the news work.
If you'd knew both, you would definitely see the (honestly unsolvable) incompatibility between the pace and approach of science and the need for ephemeral news-able items to make a science publication actually compelling to a larger non-technical audience.

A science publication that wouldn't care about news economics and readership -- therefore maybe only a publicly-funded no-profit -- could maybe approach science news in a way that would solve the problem illustrated here.
Full text of the letter here https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/read-spacex...
> TV and outdoor lightning aren't necessary.

General populace would disagree.
> Since the AI actually works with a shared mind, it can seem unnatural that each AI character knows what all the others are doing without any voice communication.

Isn't that an argument for simulation of the type citybound is doing, rather against it? Even the dumbest most "gamified" AIs can have that fault. E.g. think about the enemy AI in Far Cry.
The last map seems to show several houses on that street with same numbers, because it looks like on the west side of that border the numbers go up to 443 from west to east, and on the east side of it, the numbers go up towards 443 from east to west.

Google Maps[1] seems to confirm it, there are two 441's several houses away from each other separated by the two 443's (actually just separated by 1 house because they're semi-detached houses), and then two 439's, two 437's, and it goes on..

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/wTtQKtRqdLv2rfZ5A
Corporate managers, price noise and the investment factor
Building cool shit doesn't require being a bigot.
The word you are looking for is consumers' co-operative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative).
Interesting that the website advertise fortran as natively parallel, was it the case in the 60s too or just some marketing trick to get people to pay attention to this old friend ? (honest question)
Unfortunately in order for it to be accessible for a person to actually use it, the exchange takes a cut anyway, unless they're running the exchange solely from the goodness of their heart. Which as a business, it isn't. So instead of paying the established middle man who supports eg Western Union, the cut goes to the Bitcoin exchange middleman instead.

Eg, the easiest way for a US person to buy Bitcoin is through Coinbase who will gladly charge you a fee, which is entirely justifiable because they're facilitating the transaction. Without them there's no transaction. So Coinbase takes their cut, same as everybody else in the system.
Sure. We could also not use a container registry. Or resource management. Or liveness/readiness probes. For the database we could use RDS and take the latency/$$$ overhead. For file storage set up a separate EBS volume or whatever. But... why?
Musk has done nothing for humanity.

It is literally just wasting resources.
This is not my observation at all. I encounter the exact opposite with paying users, and much prefer interactions with free users who are very understanding and empathetic.
CBDCs have nothing to do with crypto. Even if they did, it would clearly be a replacement and not an addition
> Cryptosphere is certainly a place for predators, that don't give a slightest f*ck about where the money come from.

No many do care where it comes from.

They deliberately seek and out target vulnerable people e.g. third world countries, retirees who they know will be susceptible to their scams.
That alone will not prevent connections to port 22 on the public IP: the 1:1 non-port-based NAT means that any incoming packets to the public IP will show up at your instance with the private IP as their destination adderess. The TCP/IP stack on your instance knows nothing about the public IPv4 address.
Edit: Nevermind, we're saying the same thing since you're talking about commenting with a +1 not reactions.

> Adding a +1 comment really does nothing - it's just one more useless notifications for everyone

I don't think reactions trigger notification emails.
The lottery isn't hard either, it's just a handful of simple numbers. Consider:

10 19 40 45 58 25

Or:

20 36 53 56 69 16

Both worth several hundred million dollars.
Does this book address how potentially the first cell ever came to exist? If not, do you have any suggestions?
I would suggest anything that completely tangential to software engineering. In effect, get a hobby.

Or just relax. People generally don't relax enough.
Being in Vietnam i can attest the gap, and the gap also exists within the country. It isn't unusual to see customers at Starbucks opening their wallet to show they filled all the debit card pockets in full.

The population has an instinctive distrust for centralised authorities for the most part. Although very patriotic, they wouldn't place their life's worth of wealth in any of the several government controlled banks. Nor to the more independent or even foreign banks either. And it's good that way, Vietnam has a thriving crypto scene and may very well be one of top adopters of crypto. For what business use case they don't know quite yet, but it will come.
> That's also where most of the mining is still happening.

Not true. Almost 40% of the hashrate is being generated from the US. https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map
But which one is better ? Voyager is on since 1970, your car key since max 10 years.
Paying users are often not the ones using and making reports of the software.

In companies you're told "use this software that we have a license for" and that's that. You don't get a choice to use it or not, and so you gotta roll with it.

If the device were the ones making the decision to use or not, you'd see a different attitude
I’m sure you do have a substantive point to make, but all that you actually do in the text of your post is throw shade at Go programmers. I can’t find the back and forth to which you refer.

I'm aware of the potential for data races to lead to data corruption in Go, although as an exploitable issue it seems a bit theoretical. There are also soundness bugs in Rust from time to time (as for example with the whole Pin saga).
Well at a minimum it has to load into RAM all the built objects, which probably include debugging symbols. For something like Chrome, thats probably 20 Gigs...
Russia does not have a million soldiers. The total employed in the armed forces is about a million, including Air Force, Navy, logistics, mechanics etc. Actual men on the ground with rifles is much lower.
So is MSFT from Jan 2013 to now so…
Also consider that random will give you random. A lot of things can be better if they follow different distributions (e.g. gaussian or a bounded random walk)
I think so, as long as you're using a managed cluster on a cloud that has automatic handling of Ingress and LoadBalancer. My first production experience with it was at a start-up with 3 initial engineering staff. We already knew how to build docker containers. A basic helm chart was easy to create and push to the container registry. All we needed to do was set the kubeconfig and helm install v0.1. Even if you're not sure how it all works under the covers, your tiny team is pushing to dev cluster several times a day, and your dev site is online (you can hide it behind Cloudflare Access for free). Extras like Cluster Autoscaling, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, ExternDNS and cert-manager are easy to add when you need to. Anyone can fumble-install Grafana/Prometheus/Loki and have metrics and logs. At that point you have elastic infrastructure, dashboards, alerts, TLS, LoadBalancers, DNS... How long would a small developer team take to do this without k8s? Imagine trying to figure out ECS, Fargate, Lambda, ACM, CloudWatch logs, alarms and metrics? And how much AWS-specific code is in every single one of your services to get it to work on native AWS?
Interesting discussion whether GPUs are used or not. i don't know the answer and obviously many others don't.

So instead of being dependent on central banks, crypto is dependent on inside knowledge held by plain criminals or at least very shady businessmen. That much about the openness and transparency in real life.
Well it's a good thing one other person still trusts it.
Same reason we fall for AI-generated artworks and AI-generated voices. The presentation is sometimes immaculate to the expert, even more difficult for the untrained eye.

It is much easier to fall for any given piece of media or writing when the meaning is pre-established and non-interactive. A dating profile already has many many narratives and language uses filtered out that a machine doesn't convincingly filter out on it's own.

I can't reliably determine reposts of old social media content by karma farming bot accounts, which is a more basic version of the same concept. It's not too surprising I would fall for GPT trained, copy & pasting of dating profile text.
The article mentions this at the end!

In this case, the author wasn’t sending Secundus good luck :)
They do, but such event is rather considered the victim's fault for being a careless idiot. Stealing a phone isn't more an act of selfish robbery than a merciless lesson for those who don't keep valuable items safe. Better the phone than the house!
Sounds like they'd like him fired.

Having seen the full text of the letter it has a bit "But for all our technical achievements, SpaceX fails to apply these principles to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion with equal priority across the company, resulting in a workplace culture that remains firmly rooted in the status quo." Which sounds quite cancel culture.

(letter https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/read-spacex...)
Grafana is a bad example.

They switched to agpl and pushing companies in paying for it.

Which is okay of course but grafana labs is no longer a free open source project.

Of course potentially feature request might come in by key account manager or other hidden business agreements but I myself still comment on the opensource front like GitHub issues.

When my company now pays money for it, my expectation definitely changes.
My startup just bypassed all this container stuff and went straight for AWS Serverless. If you design it well, it works excellently.

If/when we need long-running workloads we'll go to containers but thus far we're just rocking out with lambda, and sns/sqs and Eventbridge.
Then again, it depends on the prices that you pay.

If you have customers paying somewhat decent prices for your service/product, they interact in an empathetic manner. However, if you price your services too low, you'll get a bunch of entitled people who want things to be done "right now" and throw a tantrum if their demands aren't met immediately.
Let's put some polar bears on Antarctica
I hugely enjoy watching people play cities skylines. There is not a lot that is more relaxing out there.
Thank you. I took the vacation for self studying and not for relaxation.
I work in the crypto industry also. I've thought about leaving because (especially as market sentiments turn so negative), I feel like it could become a stain on my resume that hurts my employability if crypto becomes irrelevant in the future.

At the same time, it may become more relevant in the future (I'm thinking along the lines of 3-10 years out, probably not any time too soon with current market conditions). In that case, my skills may be incredibly valuable.

Until recently I've mainly been doing React+node+Typescript dev and system administration+AWS management anyway, all of which are skills that translate well to any other domain. Recently I've been doing some web3 stuff (which is completely new to me), so that's an area where I especially worry the skills I'm developing could become irrelevant.

But I don't think/hope they will. Even if they do, I have all the other skills to "fall back on" and as with any niche skill you develop, you have to consider its future value. For web3 development, I think if it has any value in the future, it will have a lot of value, so I'm happy with this time investment.

As for other considerations, I really like the company and people I work with. We provide financial services to other crypto companies (so we're essentially B2B). There is a ton of toxicity in the crypto industry unfortunately (Coinbase and Kraken are two prominent examples) so that's my biggest gripe with publicly identifying with "crypto values" (I'm pretty far from libertarian anyway). So my main concern really is people forming an opinion about how my values might align with their company values due to my work history.

But that could be said for working for any FAANG also (since they're all largely amoral, capitalistic, profit-drive companies)
> This can be useful to maintainers because they can sort by thumb up and see the most popular ones.

TIL, but I also think it's not really clear what a reaction does. Does adding a reaction to a comment in an issue thread bump the whole issue, does it have to be added to the top issue to show up in sorting? I think a global "Vote for this issue" button would make this a bit more clearer than just a reaction within the issue.

I was always under the impression that just adding a reaction wouldn't actually give the issue a bump. Maybe it would be good if Github actually guides people towards it by either saying something like "You added a comment reflecting a +1, do you want to add a vote for the issue instead".
Agreed, it's a shame the wording on this license is so confusing as it's a really nice framework... just way to confusing about what you can/can't do with it
I would risk to say that nowadays any news suck which implies that it’s not a problem of science but journalism in general.
It's bad either way. "Me too" should not be mixed with "I got a reliable reproduction, here's how".

Edit: I mean people probably want a notification on the second one but not the first.
Causal ordering is what emerges when messages can only arrive after they have been sent right? How would a message arrive before it has been sent?
They are talking about a literal comment saying something like "+1", which is very common. Not a thumbs up reaction.
I often wonder if people who make these things think terminator was a "how to". Feel like it.
How do these cars handle network outages? It’s not too hard to cause a permanent network outage by removing/damaging the wireless interface.
The last company I worked for was essentially finance bros who had a no-code investment solution but wanted to sprinkle ML on top to get clients. Suddenly it needed to be able to run air-gapped on prem. Oh also on Ali cloud in china. Oh also on GCP and AWS hybrid. Business promised the clients it was ready before we even started building. 90% of the team was under 25. We tried our damned hardest. Used K8s to make the whole thing platform agnostic. It worked but it cost a lot. Business people are the worst.
It's not that science (or tech) news is bad, it's that all news is that bad. We just don't notice it outside our area of expertise. The next time you're reading an article about some field you're not an expert in, try to remember that it is just as bad as the news in your area of expertise.