skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should understand that this is a very USA centred opinion.

Hmm. IMHO libertarianism (which is at the core of the crypto movement) is much more striking as a USA-centric belief system than “KYC / AML is desirable”. In fact, most developed countries seem to have anti money laundering regulations.

Your “what about the children?” is a straw man whereas “you’re helping North Korea” is a fact. See the exponential growth of the ransomware market when cryptocurrencies took of.

We all universally agree that we should build infra that helps people within oppressed regimes. The disagreement is that not only crypto fails to do so meaningfully, it empowers those oppressive regimes by providing them with ways to circumvent trade restrictions.
I only understand Train Station
Yes, I agree...I just hate to see revenue used out of context. I can sell $5 bills for $4 and rake in the revenue :)
Can you give one single example when it was Russia's guilt for not delivering gas?

The only time when we had issue with gas it was some ten years ago when Ukraine stopped the transit hoping to blackmail both Russia and the EU to get a better deal for themselves. Ukraine was a failed state then that couldn't pay for gas they used.
Can you please share a link to the programming set you mentioned, I can't find it?
Yeah, I don't hear lyrics when I listen to music while multi-tasking; just the rhythm that the words make along with the instruments.

I like Loreena McKennitt and can listen to her albums on loop. I also enjoy trance but less so over the years as the beat has become boring.
I feel the same way. My biggest pet peeve is that scrapers/bots traversing my site generates more data than the target audience of users. The scrapers get all of this data for "free" at my expense of the hosting costs to provide them that "free" data.
I disagree. If you can design a PoW system where the distinguishing factor between profitable mining and unprofitable mining is the depreciation of generic hardware, then the public will generally have control over the network so long as the public owns most of the world's generic computing power as opposed to some special interest group like ASIC miners.
Many circuits take "3.3 - 5V" inputs, so a 3.3V driver will usually work... unless literally anything goes wrong.

They will usually work as far down as 3V, for that matter. These are analog systems, and there's a big difference between "works" and "works reliably, for months and years".
That's a great piece of information that I'd have never known about without an insider telling me. So thanks!
> 1903

> 1640s

Lol, no. I'm using the definition from this century:

> Someone who does way too much for a person they like
Linux as a desktop machine is horrible. Dozens of package managers, distros, UIs, everything. Instead of creating one thing right and bug-free, linux devs prefer to waste their time reinventing the wheel.
Python has basically already done exactly that with 2.7 to 3 and we came out of that relatively fine.

I say bring it.
True enough, but that is more than counter-acted by a larger number of opportunities existing for small amounts of capital. As a person's capital holdings grow larger, it becomes progressively harder to find investments that can absorb a significant share of their capital. That means having to find multiple superior investment opportunities to divide their investment capital across, to fetch high rates of return.

The empirical evidence does not suggest that capital investment is a process that is inherently inequality generating. Capital's share of income has actually declined in the G7 when you exclude housing (see Figure 3):

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r...
It's more subtle than that. You must have legal access. Loaning from a library allows you to make a copy and return the original.
Encrypted chats need device/key verification/permission before the receiver can see any message contents.

Even if Matrix were to limit chats by protocol, a malicious sysadmin could probably fake a cross-signed device if they had access to the client like this. I don't think this is actually a problem, a chat room is as good a representation as anything.
Litestream author here. You're correct. Also, there's no plans for multi-master replication right now. I do think it'd be an interesting project to make a eventually consistent distributed database using the SQLite session extension[1] but I haven't put much thought into that.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html
What does everyone think about this argument for functional languages especially with regards to parametricity in languages like Haskell?
If I read between the lines of your response, it seems tech founders should absolutely move to the US to get a bit of that infinite money, as they can pivot and re-pivot while improving VC tax benefits.

I'm still trying to track down the J-L G quote.

https://books.google.com/books?id=CLxzUW4V_2cC&lpg=PA218&ots...

shows a matching few snippets from "Understanding Silicon Valley: The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region" (2001), like

> 4. Many have remarked that in Silicon Valley there is little stigma attached to failure. Many have attributed this to a "cultural" trait; few have considered that it is in the interest of the venture capitalists to lower the cost of failure. It is critical to the entire system that entrepreneurs continue to venture. Discouragement and punishment increases the cost of failure and offers little economic return to the venture capitalists.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/03068291... attributes this "failure" explanation to the "flexible recycling mechanism" of Bahrami and Evans, 1995 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2307/41165799 .

My memory of the J-L G quote is from the late 1990s/early 2000s, so almost certainly derives from ideas passed around at the time from one wag to the next.

Another phrase I found in this context is "learning by doing and failing".

Oh, you'll totally love (not!) this paper, "Failing Better: What We Learn" at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Thierer/publicatio...

Seems the US is so great at internet companies because the Data Protection Directive, "instituted highly restrictive policies governing online data collection and use" prevented innovation in Europe.

Quoting it: "Often overlooked in the success of American start-ups is the even greater number of failures. “Fail fast, fail often” is a Silicon Valley mantra, and the freedom to innovate is inextricably linked to the freedom to fail. In Europe, failure carries a much greater stigma than it does in the United States."

citing “A Fearless Culture Fuels U.S. Tech Giants,” New York Times, June 19, 2015, http://www.nytimes.
com/2015/06/19/business/the-american-way-of-tech-and-europes.html

Yeah, don't go reading that rah-rah-America-is-so-much-better NYT piece. Apparently "Even the vaunted European child-rearing, she believes, is too prescriptive" and "European children may be better behaved, but American children may end up being more free to explore new things."
At one of my earliest jobs, in a previous century, if statements were introduced to the language (RPG-3).

I was delighted, but the old-timers were quite suspicious of this experimental technology.
Thank you! I appreciate the correction, and this exactly shows how challenging it is for the average consumer to actually use these chargemasters in the first place to do their own research.
You can only be sure in hindsight which solution is comparatively or net good. Not all hard work done by smart and nice people turns out to be worthwhile. There are always trade-offs and cryptoassets bring them too. You have good reasons to be worried about centralization, but concerns that this technology empowers crime and totalitarianism, just in a different way, are valid too.
30% of all cards were printed in the past two years.

Wow I’m so off on predicting trends it’s crazy
The middle ground is to encourage longer vacations, rather than cruise ships full of people who just hit the most popular destinations for a day and then leave for the next city. When tourists take longer trips they spread out to different places and don't all concentrate in one area.
This article is acting like DRY means "never repeat yourself in any circumstance". And it's easy to come up with counter-examples if that's your starting point.

While there are certainly some DRY proponents that treat it like that, most discussions I've seen advocating for DRY treat it as a rule of thumb. There are always exceptions, but DRY will steer you in the right direction more often then not.
This article's conclusion and headline is shallow. The example is a good one about where (depending on context), adding abstraction to reduce repetition might add complexity. Great point! Repetition is fine in reasons like that.

It does not invalidate DRY concerns in general! For example, an important reason to avoid repetition is that it adds maintenance inertia. Where a setup that a single-location change is easy to experiment with and improve, one that's repeated several places becomes tougher to change. Ie, friction. I would argue this is also adding complexity - what the author seeks to avoid.

You could imagine contexts for the pizza example where the repetition doesn't make sense, and a refactor could make things easier. You can't tell alone from the snippet.

From the headline and concluding paragraph, it feels like a straw-man. eg overrated, and:

> "Well, obviously I'm not saying we should throw DRY completely out the window. I'm not sure it would actually be possible to write code that "never doesn't repeat itself". But I do think we should tone down knee jerk reactions to PRs that contain several repetitions of a block of code. There are at least a few cases where that might be the exact right thing to do."
yeah... but i remember it not being their core focus and it ending up kinda like a mcdonald's salad. you can do it, but there are better places to go for that.

is it good? like if i'm doing something new and something new wants to pop a floating window, can i just keep doing my thing or do i have to start thinking about my window manager?

i find that dedicating a screen to tmux and another screen to a classic desktop environment gives the best of both worlds. (subject to the limitation of becoming dependent on multiple screens)
To be honest, I would be completely fine with a use case that offloads conflict prevention to the application.

I think there's a lot of cases where you can guarantee that your data conforms to some sort of CRDT [1] and therefore massively reduce complexity in the DB.

[1] even if it's last-write-wins
Phishers and scammers will like this. If they don't have links they resort to using pictures of text instead and hope for lack of OCR scanning.

But I am sure this can be also defeated by OCR.
Abortions aren't deaths. Even if they were I wasn't looking to draw comparisons, these were just examples of things people don't have informed opinions on.
100 unit complex, no onsite maintenance, each owner is responsible for maintaining their own unit. All exterior entrances, so common areas are outdoors and maintained by contractors.
> There’s a whole big world of different cultures and politics, and it is possible to believe there are other approaches where we reject violence and authority.

The post you're replying to was discussing sanctions, not violence.
I was assuming that in this case, a person's authority was specifically granted by the ToS.

I wondered if the interplay of those two concepts muddied the waters.
The US government made nuclear plants pay into a fund for long-term waste storage. Last I saw, that fund had accumulated over $40 billion. But since the Yucca Mountain facility was canceled, the government never provided the waste storage they were charging for. It's not surprising if nuclear operators don't want to pay twice.
Cannot say about Amsterdam, but this is a street in the center of Florence around lunch time (and yes "normal" residents live in it):

https://corrierefiorentino.corriere.it/methode_image/2020/06...

There was quite a bit of discussions last year when an ambulance called for a resident emergency took some 15 minutes to drive 100-150 meters to get to the patient.
That's a strawman. The reason is the option would break code due to C's semantics, in the best case it would fail to compile, and in the worst case it would still compile but change what the code did.

What you're asking for is equivalent to changing the semantics of the language, which is frankly untenable for C.
I keep hoping that you'll eventually write this :)

Let me know when you do so I can chip in with some money.
The reason the output is "garbled" is because it was obfuscated with ProGuard - there's no real way around that except for manually renaming variables and classes.

Any idea whether any of these two decompilers work with Dalvik bytecode?
13 seems like an arbitrary number. Why not 16? Or 12? 18, 21?
Why are DSH payments bad?
Watson and Crick gave all necessary and proper attributions.
The only argument I have here (sadly in favor of FB) is with "safeguard people against clone sites". While I did give my data to FB, I didn't approve that transfer to another site/system. That is the only place I could possibly see some legal foot hold.
No, choice is far better, for there is no single solution for all. There just isn't.

It is as if you are arguing that there should only be one motorized personal transportation device. No small or large cars, no trucks or motorcycles.

Different people have different needs.
Playstation Store will remove customers' purchased movies
That's the social consensus, or "L0 consensus". It's a fork, so on only on this fork the attackers would lose the ETH.

The social consensus means that actual humans, in front of these 2 forks of ETH , the original chain being attacked, and the one where all the attackers stake has been deleted so it's safe (and also non-attackers "richer"), humans would call the latter "Ethereum" and use that. And the former would fall into irrelevance.
I believe so. Attitude represents action. Knowledge represents potential.

You don’t have to be that smart to be successful in life. You do have to have an attitude of placing the next brick to create something of value.

Your wealth of knowledge is your unfair advantage. But your attitude is what will put that into action in the first place.

> Give a boy a purpose and determination, no matter how poor his chance, and you will hear from him.

> Good fortune consists of untiring perseverance and a right heart.

- Orison Swett Marden
It’s clear to anyone who looks at a stock chart from 2020-2022 the entire economy was artificially pumped and we’re living through the dump.

I don’t really know what else people expect voting for gerontocrats who have made their names on leveraged buyouts, insider trader, gaming the courts after their businesses commit fraud and the like. Neither “side” of the political spectrum is innocent of such things, including the voters.

Elder Americans are straight up grifters, free loaders with no ability to accept the rest of the world is not a post-WW2 crater. They were able to win big easy, they are the gold star for nothing generation, due to the rest of the world having been obliterated shortly before their birth.

Electing Romneys, Feinsteins, and the rest is lunacy. They have no idea how to do productive work as the world rebuilt itself without them; they all huddled in offices learning how to design models decoupled from reality, convincing themselves of their genius and work ethic as their families expropriated earnings from workers; because of course they’re owed a cut for producing nothing. It just makes perfect sense.
Rust Engineer - Core Products

Phantom Network (PxN) is seeking a Rust Engineer for our Core Products team. The Core Product team is responsible for the foundational application, including text/voice chats, an NFT-gated authentication system, a peer-to-peer marketplace, and a job board.

At PxN, Rust Engineers are passionate about creating an end-user experience that is fast, efficient, and secure by collaborating with engineers and management. Our engineers drive impact at scale and are empowered to own features end to end on our customer facing application. Our mission is to shape the future of NFTs, digital identity, and Web3 browsing, and this role is pivotal to achieving this.

In this role you will:
Develop microservices for our social application to be efficient, secure, and scalable.
Take systems from design to product and operate on a large scale.
Work cross functionally with product and backend teams to ensure features shipped are aligned with overall product strategy.
Extracting core components into optimal, clean Rust code
Institute best practices and industry standards in the development process.

Basic Qualifications:
3+ years of experience with Rust
2+ years contributing to system design and architecture (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of existing and new systems.
Solid Experience with Tokio, Active Web, Rocket
Familiarity with functional or component testing of services
Deep understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST, etc)
Basic understanding of crypto, DeFi, & blockchains

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Salary is available in ETH or USDC
Please email your Resume & Portfolio to x4@phantom.sh & dex@phantom.sh & doops@phantom.sh
Homework taught me to physically suffer and degrade myself to the extent I couldn't avoid it. Can't imagine how it encourages positive work ethic.
Yes, dad.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140516191215/http://c2.com/cgi...

I still lament that the C2 wiki switched to JS rendering.
" MATTHIAS: Look. I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

CROWD: Oooooh!

OFFICIAL: Blasphemy! He's said it again!"
Depends on your definition of interesting. Is this 'interesting' as in intellectually stimulating and maybe even makes me a better person? Or as in 'interesting' because it solves a useful problem for the world but maybe a bit boring to actually work on?
wrong. some of it sucked maybe even the majority of it (if you insist) but most of it is not all of it.
> 2. you completely ignore the problem. you hope some activist won’t notify the european authorities.

has that ever happened?
From the article: "[T]he Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its original decision and found that scraping data that is publicly accessible on the internet is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act."

The key phrase is "publicly accessible." This wasn't that. The scraping was done by automating Facebook accounts, which have terms of service, which forbid scraping.

ToS/EULAs make a big difference. They're the reason Blizzard could shut down bnetd's StarCraft server. They're why no one can legally reverse engineer Oracle to create a drop-in replacement, despite interoperability provisions.

More and more platforms are putting the majority of your user-generated content behind auth walls with ToS because that's how they prevent competitors from swiping it.
Even the successful PE stories get bad press - as they often involve painful restructuring. But the big failures do get much more coverage for obvious reasons.
Boris Johnson resignation: What happens now?
Just a reminder, as this is sometimes confusing - a plain old rsync.net account is running on a ZFS filesystem and has all of the benefits that that entails (point in time snapshots, checksummed integrity, CoW efficiency, etc.) but they do not have their own zpool to themselves.

If you want to zfs send to an rsync.net account you need to have an account enabled for that which is the same price, but has a higher (4TB) minimum account size.
The procedure Ethereum uses to generate randomness is called RANDAO. You can see an explanation here:

https://benjaminion.xyz/eth2-annotated-spec/phase0/beacon-ch...
Attitude scales. It adapts to what others actually want. Knowledge is leverage, which is decisively valuable, but only appropriate when you are solving a problem using leverage, and less often when you are responding to desire.

I asked someone the other day if he met a lot of people who he seemed a lot smarter than, and if he had to spend a lot of time explaining his ideas to others. When he answered, "yes," I asked whether he had considered that he had to spend so much effort explaining his concepts was because he was an objectively terrible communicator? If explaining my ideas is hard, it's possible that's because I just suck at explaining them, and not that they are so amazing nobody can understand them. If I thought people who didn't understand me were clearly just more evidence of my superior intellect, you'd think I was insane.

I've had a punk-ass attitude for most of my career, and at the root of it was feelings of being an impostor because I relied almost exclusively on my knowledge (security) and intensity (consulting). What's changed is I have developed what I call a "fearless ignorance," which is that I share what I know as openly and efficiently as possible, while treating points where I have gaps as an opportunity to create openness on the teams I work with by asking the questions that reveal my often humbling ignorance.

Nobody owes me an explanation of anything, but I don't worry about who it bothers because I'm merely ignorant, not stupid. Knowledge is valuable and I respect competence above everything else, but it's also just temporary leverage. So I'd bet on attitude every single time.
> Is "dig a hole in a salt deposit and keep it there" really good enough for the very, very, very long term?

Yes. It's not that dangerous, the whole reason it is waste is that it's no longer radioactive enough to power the plant. (And as plant technology improves, the threshold for "no longer radioactive enough" will get even lower)

> Can we really claim to be able to handle worst case scenarios well (e.g. Fukushima)?

Fukushima led to 1 death from radiation. Nuclear's overall safety record is far better that any alternative
Yes, attitude, but you also have to ask what you think makes a "successful entrepreneur".

Sales; knowledge rarely helps here, attitude, being able to read people, knowing people, knowing how to make people want your solution to their problem. Being able to handle rejection over and over (those first 10 legitimate paying customers can be tough)

Software development; knowledge is important for a proprietary technology (a search/data algorithm) but most web technology projects aren't top secret. Knowledge might help much more at a defense think tank. But for non proprietary stuff, attitude is important because you want to connect with the business use cases, you'll likely have to do "stupid" stuff for repeating obvious solutions.

Executive; much more in line with sales; attitude is important; many other people have knowledge here and your job is to choose the one that you sell to your customers, employees, and executives.

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Otherwise, "ignorance is bliss", attitude will help you much more than knowledge in life.
Coal: C + O2 -> CO2

Gas: CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2O

I don't know off hand exactly how many joules of energy (heat) are produced per mole in each case but it's not surprising that gas gives more joules per mole of CO2: it's a bit like you're burning hydrogen at the same time.

EDIT: It's relevant that O-H bonds are stronger than C-H bonds, presumably.
I don't follow your logic here. Why can't a company legitimately focus on a niche sub set of users who value privacy in their products? I'm thinking of products like protonmail, standard notes, and signal.
doubt that, will test. read the descr of my link. extremely optimized for simd, and parallel access in bigger clusters than stockfish.
The worst one is "if x=true", which to me says the writer doesn't know what the if statement does...

That said, if x is data read from elsewhere that just happens to be boolean, I can write code like that in Python.