skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenSea was a YCombinator-incubated and promoted company. Ironic that you say HN downvotes it. It is quintessentially that VC-backed Web2 play that may as well cut out the web3 entirely since all wallets just use their APIs. They may as well BE the platform for NFTs. And according to you, that would be an improvement over the current space! That’s a great example actually, it’s very telling that you’re calling out a company that is literally the epitome of VC backed startups trying to turn Web3 into Web2 again, and call it “the bad decentralization”. Sure — the vast majority in the NFT space are looking for a viable alternative to OpenSea exactly BECAUSE it’s that.

Whereas IPFS and BitTorrent were explicitly started as decentralized alternatives with no central point of failure (the latter as a response to the shutdown of Napster). And then they went ahead and created FileCoin and BTT to pay for things in this decentralized ecosystem.

So puh-leeze, you Web2 maxis haven’t been able to even produce good open source alternatives to the Big Tech that totally captured everything in your space. And Web3 guys have captured a lot more momentum and people. And you don’t get to say that FileCoin and BTT aren’t Web3, and that Web3 is whatever you don’t like.

Sure, Web3 was also captured by greed (of the early speculators who finally got to play VC) which is why we need Web4 and Web5. Things evolve. Web2 and Bitcoin maxis want things to stay the same as they were 12 years ago. But the world is moving on. Just wait the next few years as most Web2 things you know (badges, communities) go decentralized (NFTs and DAOs). Metaverse, Apple Glass and then neuralink etc. thankfully we won’t have corporate-controlled metaverses be the only solution, that would be even more dystopian than today’s Big Tech. You’d literally be the Borg.

But hey, I guess you LIKE to be locked into AWS for their totally centralized and overpriced data centers (which they call “the cloud” to evoke feelings of decentralized Internet) and believe that’s the only way you can be compliant with regulations of your centralized governments. Where actually, end-to-end encryption and resilience can increasingly be found in decentralized systems, and credit cards with their PCI compliance are replaced with self-custodied private keys and cryptocurrency.
Just looking at download trends redux is literally in a class of its own. What I do wonder is how often people are abusing context, state, and reducers to make their own terrible state managers rather than using redux? I bet that number is higher haha.

https://npmtrends.com/mobx-vs-redux-vs-xstate
Most of them let you prepay before you leave to keep the flow of traffic moving, but I figure you could look up the fee by tag too since they already record it. lol.
> It is useful and essentially a standard way of communicating by now

perfect. beautiful. AMAZING!

the smtp crypto situation is a mess, sure, but work emails usually all stay on the same machine or hosting provider anyway. more importantly, it comes from an era before zomg smartphone notifications now now now and as such has respectful communications properties built-in.

> Second, there is nothing toxic about scheduling a text. My father is one of the people who never silences his phone, so when he gets a text or call at night he always wakes up. He gets annoyed if it's not urgent, so a scheduled text message in the morning would make him much happier.

personal matters are just that and i was referring to work stuff mostly.... buuuuut that said...

you should try sending him an e-mail! even if you schedule your text for when he's awake, you're still sending him a demanding interrupt! old people love their e-mails they sit in their big comfy chairs and read them at their leisure with their favorite glasses on with their nice big lamps! he probably will appreciate that even more! if it's urgent and he hasn't responded, THEN you can send an interrupt by giving him a call or sending a text.

instead you're instructing robots to steal your dad's attention at some predetermined time in the future while you do something else... do you see the dystopic themes here?
This is why I disagree fundamentally with TDD - it kills the creative spark. Whatever happened to hiring dedicated testers in order to give the creatives freedom to do what they do best?
Didn't do anything for me... Saw the light flashing with different frequencies through my eyelids and that's it. Maybe some vague geometric artifacts like zebra stripes and such, depending on the flashing frequency, but didn't feel anything.

If this is what shrooms supposed to do, then it's very much overblown.
I just made up something. I wasn't intending to come back, but I could always create another one if it was worth it.
You did do something different. There were two different applications correct? One had more urgency as a solution than the other. Why was that?
Long story there. It's an artifact of bankruptcy and tax law.

A company exists to pay dividends, and its value is the present value of all future dividends. That's the classic view, and it was the normal pattern for companies until the 1970s or so.

Two things changed. One, bankruptcy became less painful. "Secured creditors" became a more general concept. This meant that banks and bondholders moved up in priority, at the expense of unpaid vendors, customers with deposits, and others who never wanted to lend money in the first place. This paved the way for Michael Milken and the junk bond industry.

Second, interest and principal payments on debt are not taxed, while dividends are. This makes debt more attractive than equity as a means of obtaining capital. A high-interest loan with the strong possibility of bankruptcy is effectively an equity investment but is taxed as a debt.

This combination has warped capital markets out of shape. It's why there's "private equity", which is essentially a leveraged buyout. It's what powered the financialization of everything.
We had J2EE almost 30 years ago. 1 file which described everything and contained everything
You're going to think I'm a horrible person who's telling you your baby is ugly. But that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm sure your game is great. Some day I will push past my login-fatigue and log in to start playing.

My constructive criticism... and I'm not trying to be a jerk about this, what little I saw of the game looks pretty cool... but... would you consider not having to sign up for an account before playing. Even if an account is required for the game mechanics, maybe randomly generate a user id and let the user start playing. Then if they like it they can change their username and add a password.

Again. Not trying to be a jerk here. I appreciate the hard work you've put into this thing.
> Even the name "speakeasy" comes from the fact that people could and did speak quietly in the bars!

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

The more common explanation is that it's a place where you have to speak easy to not attract attention.

It makes sense too, since without amplified music being popular why would the speakeasy be specifically quiet rather than just "like everywhere else".
we all know. we just can’t figure out how the fuck to get it funded.

That sort of blue-sky culture needs a whole lot of disinterested money, and that’s hard to come by. In previous generations, we’ve used monopolists, the gentry, and other ways…always a challenge.
Well he’s already mentioned his disability will be denied by the state and that he will have to appeal. Most countries don’t have a default policy of assuming disability claims are fraudulent and doing everything in their power to minimize them. So there is that.

The fact that you have one border with one country that is significantly behind you economically and people cross that border to try and find a better life is not evidence you’re the best place ever. Maybe Mexico is a hellhole and America is thoroughly mediocre but still better than a hellhole. Most people in most parts of the west won’t trade their rights and benefits for the American side of the equation. The world is watching in disbelief as your Supreme Court sets you back 50 years on basic bodily autonomy, freedom from religious coercion, or the ability to have environmental standards. People of the world mostly don’t want to trade their rights for whatever rights Christian Facists deem acceptable.
Very true. Though less “prestigious”, the most fun I ever had was actually working as an SDET in the beginning of my career at Microsoft in Azure. I would spend hours dreaming up corner cases on how to break dev code in a distributed systems setting and came up with (for that time) quite a few unique frameworks that helped catch bugs that would’ve otherwise slipped through the usual unit, functional and smoke test archetypes. Unfortunately, I believe this job function has been removed entirely within MS
Reading this, I’m wondering why we settled on those particular questions, as a civilization. The civilization next door must have a slew of “What is your address?” / “Record your voice!” / “Scream ‘NETFLIX’ to the street” / “Upload your fingerprint to get access to our free content” dialogs.
PicoCart64: Nintendo 64 flash cart using a Raspberry Pi RP2040
Awesomeness. Thank you for sharing. Saved to read later.
Well it’s an ARM chip. it’s still not backwards compatible..
Time Off Summer ’22
Didn’t they say the results are already taking effect?

If I was going to buy an olive farm should I consider buying it further north away from the famous olive growing southern Andalusian region in preparation for climate change or is it really just a scare story?

Great article to a thx for posting
Retraction watch.

Btw many people (even trained) fail to reproduce legitimate work. It may not actually be fake or falsified, typically not being able to reproduce an experiment is insufficient evidence for retraction. I didn't watch the YouTube video.
> if everyone mutes their phones and there’s a real emergency then nobody will be able to get in touch with anybody

You can tell Android and iOS to make noise when someone calls a 2nd time.
> But I've thought about this a bit recently, and I don't think I should have to worry about bothering someone at 3 AM. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect other people to have do not disturb on / notifications off whenever they don't want to be disturbed.

I'm very direct about this with new hires.

"I'm awake and work weird hours. Please don't take a message from me outside your normal hours to mean I want or need an immediate response unless the message is directly talking about a production outage in which case i'll be explicit about that. If you're around and you want to spend a few hours debating the merits of embedding a lua interpreter into a data processing pipeline vs trying to figure out how to droplessly reload golang code great, if not, we can pick it up the next time we're both around.

On the same note, please don't not message me because it's late where you think I am at the moment and please don't not let me know about something because 'it's normal US hours, he probably already knows.'

Please also don't take offense if I don't respond immediately, despite appearances, I do sometimes actually sleep."

Setting the actual expectations works great. Some people respond simply by saying that they won't put slack on their phone, or will turn notifications for slack off and I'm fine with that (having their number to call for actual emergencies).

I think the problem arises not from the direct actions here (messaging someone at 3am) but by the implicit expectation of a reply. I think some people don't realize what they're doing but I think a lot do and they want to create that implicit must-reply-24-7 nature.
I liked the style of that book, fun story. Except for the 15 year old getting it on with an (estimated) 30+ year old.

But I can see how and why Mark thinks he should build the Metaverse ... (and why I'll never visit it)
All the devices are already synced to an NTP server. I don’t need millisecond accuracy here.
Hey has anybody created and open API or just downloaded it all to a single source?
Chinese real-estate developers accepting crops as down payments for properties
And? The point of the parent was that either of those are better than native - doesn't matter how much div soup you have, at least the information exists, unlike the bucket of raw pixels that're all you get from native UIs sometimes.
From the CEO's point of view, line managers and employees are basically an undifferentiated mass of potential dead wood. Getting managers to "do their jobs" is exactly the intention of a policy like this.
c) there is another correlation - poor people are more likely to be murderers and victims of murder, and there are other systems set up to push black people into poverty
Same with failing crypto coins. As soon as they tell you it'll be ok is the moment they're fire saleing
Upstart predated systemd. I never understand the negativity that surrounds it.
Debt dilutes the currency because money is created every time someone takes on debt, it means your overseas creditors ie other countries get their money back, but its worthless today than in the past, because this is monetary inflation, not to be confused with the man on the streets inflation which is price rises. At the end of the day its just an intellectuals way of keeping the plates spinning and the uneducated in their place. Now it also happens this is a way for banks to wrestle power away from the politicians, just like stock market listed companies can put a ban on recruitment when a new political party comes to power, increasing unemployment. Its hard for Govt's to prove this, because legislation isnt the brightest, in fact, legislation can create fake science. Its a massively complex subject and education is the first step in divide and conquer.
Yeah I think we can reasonably disagree, that was just my take. I think this article suffers from the same thing a lot of articles suffer from which is a quotable topic in the first 5 paragraphs that doesn't really od justice to the article. The broad question that others argue is definitely worth debate (Some of which might belong here), but this article is more of an ode to the OED, and to the underlying methodology of the OED.

If you look at the other main conversation here, it is far more literal than methodological about these topics - literally is X thing Y. Sure, you can have that argument, but (a) it's not a conversation this article really invites and (b) even if it were, it's not a topic we're really eqiuped for.

Maybe I'm just pointing out we suffer from a failure to find a more generic news source.
You should not compare your own ideas to others. If an idea is extremely stupid but at the same time it gets you going in the morning you should stick to it.

Some of the most useful inventions that we use today every day have been made by very stubborn people who were told thousands of times that their idea was stupid.

I still have the motivation and desire to work on some very interesting and super hard stuff one day -- and I am 42. You should get back to that enthusiasm. Maybe that business' ideas and actual products are much more useful and interesting on a general socially-accepted level. That doesn't mean that your thing isn't the best in the world to work on for you.

So IMO get back to doing your own stuff when you have the time and energy for it.
Yes, lying to people makes them believe things that benefit you more. It also nukes your relationship with them.
That sounds like some a case of a random repo by someone who didn't do anything for public consumption. This is not a norm and I don't think you can judge the Python ecosystem by this case just as one cannot judge the JS world from one rouge package or a package that contains a one liner. I work a lot with both python and javascript and the points you raise just don't seem applicable. Neither are more "stable" than the other. They are what they are - cons and pros and all that.
> If a distant metropolis does not have to care what people in the flyover land think, why not declare independence?

The distant metropolis is rich enough to pay a lot of taxes to support a long war. Flyoverland is definitionally low density meaning it has relatively few people. All they have to fight the war is some extremely stubborn people. That can be enough but an awful lot of people are going to die. There’s a great deal of good on avoiding civil war.
Yeah having a full time job does limit you a lot with what you can do after the day is done.

When I was younger (10+ years ago) I had all kinds of crazy ideas/things to make. High traffic websites, get rich, that kind of thing. But they were all dumb... unvalidated, went nowhere. But now that I know how to build things (web) I don't have any ideas. Funny how that works.

When you look at indie projects seems like there's so many niches/ways to make money out there. But personally I found it hard to do hence 9-5er.
I love these definitions and will bookmark. But there's a point where you can't really explain FP concepts in plain English right?.
breastfeed as long as possible (well your wife), minimum one year

talk to your kid as you world talk to adult without gibberish, otherwise you are just asking for speech development issues, I've seen it way too often and I'm not really surprised, you can talk to your kid nice and still stay clear

maybe try to introduce allergens like peanuts in extremely small doses to build tolerance early

if you are in US please don't follow your local crazy rituals with genital mutilation

depending on quality of air I'd consider air purifier

security cam in kids room (don't fall for overpriced single purpose kid monitors walkie talkie style, security cams with two way audio and night vision are much more versatile)

buy gender neutral colors like orange and green instead pink/blue, you can use them with second kid or donate to someone and they will be good for any gender
Reminds me of the Theranos CEO, Elizabeth Holmes using the same old trick.

Startups that have CEOs with this infatuation with the Steve Jobs turtle neck and jeans look are essentially playing the scammer and are taking part in the delusion or attempting to hypnotise VCs by cargo-culting and re-creating his dark reality distortion spells.
What it really happens is that they will refuse to cancel and will put you in a public defaulters list. And then your insurance will start billing more than double overnight, for example, until you surrender.

Big companies always have leverage over small people. This is why the law was necessary.
Also spend quality time with your job and hobbies too.

Sometimes people become resentful of their kids ("If only I didn't have kids, I'd...")

Your kids will not appreciate such "sacrifices". It's unfair to them. Take care of yourself too.
I'm only sharing my experience, but the reason I figured out it was a power thing was in the summer my AC would stop for a second too. I never noticed any problems with anything else in the winter.
My reaction was only meant as a response to @Sanzig calling PIOs innovative.

The logic analyzer itself, even the usage of cheap Pico in it is very cool.
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It's important to note that this isn't strictly price discrimination too - it's actually product segmentation.

Price discrimination happens when it's the same product sold at different prices (e.g. senior discount for movie tickets) - but actually there IS a difference between a $1 burger at McDonalds and one of the $7 premium ones.
Pursuing art as someone of mediocre skill can be extremely fulfilling and worthwhile endeavor. Fixating over whether you are a genius is probably not.
Excession. Iain Banks.

The culture series explores a universe where machine intelligence has obsoleted mankind, mostly through the perspective of individual people interacting with earlier stage societies.

Excession explores that higher intelligence interacting with a power they cannot comprehend.

I read that each vacation as a reminder of where I want tech to end up.
The big reason I almost never eat bread at home is because I'd either have to throw out most of it or freeze it. Of course, I will freeze it to avoid wasting it but frozen bread is really inconvenient and the taste and texture are unappealing and it really needs to be toasted to be edible but it still tastes off.

So I end up just not buying bread for the house.
It's ironic that you have opted to castigate an entire cadre of people (MBA holders) rather than to focus solely on the bad behaviour (scapegoating) done by whomsoever.
I think that demonstrates the typical issue of not having leadership change for a long period of time. Under Merkel - who grew up in socialist East Germany - the Germany got a lot of structural characteristics of a socialist economy, in particular being dominated by large manufacturers who have been getting preferential treatment from the government, and losing the ability to adjust and maneuver. She also didn't have that gut check of dealing with Russia and has put all the Germany's eggs into one basket which has been held by Putin. Thus what happens right now is a light form of shock-therapy of getting adjusted back to the new reality of the current global economy. Their leadership still seems to hope that some form of the old trade relationship with Russia will survive. The faster they ditch that hope the faster the shock-therapy will get completed. Germany needs to bite the bullet and massively build the LNG terminals (one would expect that North Stream 2 landing point has all the connection into the infrastructure to take it in). The second best thing Germany can do for its economy is to supply Ukraine with a lot of weapons. Germany naturally has significant hesitancy to meddle into Ukraine war, yet the faster, stronger and earlier Russia stopped - the better for everybody, including Germany. Russia getting onto the Poland border is much worse than Russia forcefully stopped where for example it is now. Germany for now has been very slow at supplying weapons to Ukraine and thus prolonging the chances of Russia moving closer to Europe.
A few years ago my friends started call NYT "Pravda", saying that it's turned into the mouthpiece of the "party line".

Grudgingly, I had eventually to agree.
I don’t see why TDD would kill the creative spark, but I do think “Agile” development does.
Well, there are probably a couple of old timers on HN who really appreciate the kind of skill that it took, even though it doesn't show in your bank balance.

It also makes me very grateful for the magic that goes on behind the scenes whenever I plug in a high speed USB device and it 'just works', the kind of wizardry involved for this sort of thing is highly underappreciated.
As I often say, open-source is the 7th wonder of the world. In no previous situation have humans worked together on a larger scale to create a software that powers literally everything in the world, and even a helicoper on Mars.

And just to put it at scale, the engineers of Apollo were so early before our times that they had to code the timestamps in negative.
Okay you can find the bits, but what about the screws? I was specifically looking for them a while back and turns out the vast majority of screws that I was finding at stores (home depot, lowes, various local places) were still phillips. The ones that were robertsons or torx were the wrong configuration (metal, size, head type, etc). I ended up buying some online instead.

Just to show some data, go to home depot page and look at the screws categorized by drive style: I'm seeing ~2600 phillips heads, ~500 star (which appears to be torx under a different name), 55 square, and 27 torx (under the torx name).
Whose work hours? Times have changed where many people no longer have the same 8ish work hour overlap. There are tz differences and Flex Time. It’s up to you to manage your messages.
Yep, and the spammers know that too so they call twice in a row.

And I’m pretty sure you’re only entitled to one phone call…