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Like most other new technologies, crypto is going through a hype-and-bust cycle, but greatly exaggerated because of the possibility of crazy ponzi-like speculation, and for people who know nothing about what it really is to get highly involved financially, seeming to make wild profits before the inevitable popping of the speculative bubble. Most new technologies don't have remotely the same degree of opportunities for utter craziness.

BUT... that does not mean that the technology is fundamentally BS. It just means that it happens to be extraordinarily susceptible to the kinds of abuses we are seeing.

This year, Ethereum will become Proof-of-Stake based, and "Layer 2" solutions will be emerging which greatly reduce transactions costs, and sharding will be emerging that will GREATLY reduce transaction costs. It's a real technology with a real future. And to transact with Eth you'll need to own Eth, providing non-ponzi motivation to buy, and it will be a deflationary currency (i.e. there will be less of it over time rather than more). IFF the tech is successful, its price may still go up by a LOT. I don't know that it will be successful, but I've been following its development closely and I think this is a very competent team making good decisions.

I'm bullish on Ethereum long-term. Once it's converted to PoS, it will have by far the largest market cap of any PoS chain, and the security of a PoS chain is ultimately based on its market cap (and how decentralized it is, something the Ethereum world is very aware of). So, it should be the most secure PoS chain, as well as having at least as much high-quality technical development going on as any other when you include the Layer 2 teams.

But it will take a few years for many of the practical potentialities to start to be manifested in the real world. It needs Layer 2 and sharding before it will happen. In between now and then, the price of Eth is anyone's guess. I don't think anything, in particular, should be read into any short-term price trends. Instead, the question should be whether the fundamental technology is moving forward toward its goals, and whether another technology emerges in the meantime that has the same potential benefits but somehow does them better.
Steam Deck: The Ratio of Verified Titles Is Falling. What's Happening?
There are several fertilizers required to maintain current global agricultural productivity. Phosphate and potassium are mostly from mineral (mined) sources today, but the one that is captured from the air is nitrogen, and to be used by plants it must be reduced from N2 to NH3 (ammonia) at which point it can also be converted to NO3 (nitrate). Since the early 20th century this has been accomplished by the Bosch-Haber process which utilizes natural gas as the source of the hydrogen to convert N2 to NH3.

The point is that you can make H2 via the electrolysis of water at scale, eliminating the need for the natural gas, and feed that H2 into the existing Haber-Bosch plants. Since sunlight and water are available basically everywhere, this eliminates a lot of the geopolitical and supply chain problems that are currently plagueing countries around the world with respect to nitrogen fertilizers (mined fertilizers are another story, of course).
My lesson from the past couple weeks has been: don’t give Google money. 0 customer support whatsoever. I got locked out of my Google account, and for some reason their 2fa kept sending the code to the account I was trying to log into. So for 3 weeks I didn’t have access to YouTube premium, for which I pay actual money.

Now, they “say” there is customer support available, but you have to log into your account (which I couldn’t do) to get support! Otherwise they direct you to their very unhelpful support page, which just directed me to log into my account and follow the 2fa steps which didn’t work! And of course there is zero recourse whatsoever when locked out of your account, not a phone number, not even and email address.

So the only solution to stop YouTube from charging me was to issue fraud chargebacks with my credit card. How can a company of Google’s size operate without customer support? I had to turn to Reddit for help. It’s completely insane to me.
I have always borrowed the sewing machine to bind small books quickly. It takes about 1 minute, less messy then glue perhaps, and doesn’t need to dry.

You can tape over the stitch if you don’t like the look of it, but I personally like the texture.
Green tech isn't terrible - I spent 4.5 years there. But here's my review of where I was: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Inspire-RV...
Mullvad is now available on Amazon
As european I agree, kilo-kilograms are redundant. Either 100 000kg or 100t.
I suspect that "stay is bad" is propagated by headhunters, who have interest in candidates taking the offer and leaving the original company.
I too purchase a lot from the junk bin that has become Amazon. Even still if there is anything I want to buy from the specialty retailer - it is almost certainly a shopify store. Probably dozens in the last year. They white label them fairly well.
Whatever Happened to Hyperloop?
Nobara, a Fedora Derivative, Focused on Ease of Use
Have you considered a more simple setup such as a local text file that is encrypted? Of course, there is always a risk but reducing the attack surface can help.
"the game is entirely rigged for those who have money. "

I'd say the game's outcome for an individual is determined by whether or not that individual puts in the effort to grow an in-demand skillset (i.e. development of competency), followed by marketing their skillset.

I used to live in a tent. But during that time I began teaching myself software development skills. Now I make nearly $200k, 100% remotely.

The only reason my career worked out:

- I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and saw SWE as a top 20 fastest growing occupation, and as a field with a very high amount of job openings & among the highest pay rate. Yet requires no degree.

- While living in a tent in the US, and later got sick of living in a tent and drove into the developing country next door where I survived on a $5/day food budget (got malnourished, health declined a bit), I sat at a table and built my skills daily. Once I had decent skills, I marketed my skillset via open source projects, a web portfolio, and a linkedin presence

I literally just had a strategy which I knew was foolproof, and I knew the outcome was guaranteed because the data demonstrated such.
Jobs that pay more generally are worse than jobs that pay less? Given similar positions and industry, i.e. not jumping from being an engineer to sales. I've had better bosses and more respect at places that paid more.
The slowly rising "consolization" of PC, as my friend put it, is unnerving to watch.
If we teach them tools that aren't awful, then offices can use those instead.
Do you really think that ppl owning the global data of gogol, facebook/meta, linkedin and more would not use this data to get an unfair advantage in one way or another?

Get real: It did happen, it is happening, and will keep to happen.
Does anyone know of a good way of searching textbooks? Sort of a search engine where I can type in "astrodynamics" and a list like this would be returned.
> How about - as an employee - using external offer to get a raise and stay at current job? Is that always a bad idea?

I'm too lazy to look it up and verify but IIRC the majority of employees who ask for a raise with another job offer on the table end up leaving within about 6 months even if they get the raise. So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if doing that basically puts a red flag beside your name for management. You also probably don't want to go that route unless you are actually prepared to leave... there's no guarantee that they will agree to give you a raise. I left a company this spring after ~4 years and thought I was in a very good position to get a counter offer. I was lead for one of their most important projects and was slated to move into an architect role to oversee a major revamp and expansion of that project. When I turned in my notice I told them (truthfully) that I wasn't necessarily look to leave if they were willing to make a counter offer, but the answer unfortunately was that they couldn't go that high for my role.
You think the government builds desks, blackboards, buildings, directly.

Everything is outsourced to private companies. That's how economics works.
"Use nothing commercial ever" is probably too extreme.

I'd agree with the parent that schools shouldn't be getting kids to use things like GSuite, but not solely because it's commercial - the problem is the data management practices of these companies, which the state should not be supporting by forcing children to use these services to complete their education and inevitably giving companies like Google huge amounts of personal data.

This isn't a problem with textbooks, commercial or otherwise.
Tech M&A’s surprising acceleration despite a sputtering economy
This has not been true for years. My google ads account was blocked, I had several google engineer friends create internal tickets for my case, and none of it worked out.
> Of course, it is not feasible to provide it to all users

Maybe it should be made illegal to provide paid services without adequate customer support, just pushing the costs back onto the customer, which is what Google is doing, is pure fraud.
start up is probably not a good place to be.

if Peter Zeihan is right about population and boomers. our world is shrinking with less young people for consumption, boomers retiring and taking their money to less risky investment. the money that prop up start up could be dry pretty soon.
Lost aversion to subtitles because of anime watching in youth. Mostly its because the kids are loud as hell. If i turn up the tv they just scream and play louder. Subtitles prevent the escalation of volume in the house.
The safest companies are the ones that understand the basics of burn rate and do not hoover up VC money to show fake growth, by growing its headcount to insane levels (and employ an army of engineers who design and maintain ridiculously complicated systems as part of resume-driven development).
The High Cost of Free Money
Sometimes those people are also the most grumpy or disillusioned and quite a drag on morale.

You know the ones, always talking about leaving but never actually doing it.

Sometimes they're just rusty or afraid about the outside world, just because they haven't interviewed in so long.
New Zealand’s ‘tobacco endgame’ law will be a world first for health
In business, optimism usually wins over pessimism - but reality always settles the account.
I don't get it. Why is the chip shortage affecting cars more than other smart devices? I have no issues buying anything else. For example, phones, fridges, computers, smart TVs, etc.
I disagree that this is a modern thing. I think the usage of "tribe" in your comment is telling that this kind of thinking has long predated modern political interactions.
DICOM supports MP4 (and HVEC/H.265, various flavors of JPG, and various other encoders, etc). I don't think PNG is supported, though and I'm not entire certain why but possibly it's a licensing issue. DICOM objects are basically just generic containers.
Yes and yes, they just raised a $4.5B round a few months ago.
I actually managed to crash the application by choosing "while" then trying to while over the -> object.

Crashes with error:

[mobx] uncaught error in 'Reaction[Reaction]' Error: a reference of type 'PCRef/ReferencedDeclaration' could not resolve an object with id '__PCGlobalComponentDeclarationpaint'

And because the program appears stored in localStorage, refreshing the page doesn't help and now I'm "permanently" locked out.

(of course I can clear my LS).
"Schools have no place supporting or teaching proprietary software in the first place. They should teach concepts using publicly available software"

Schools teach using proprietary books, and every piece of equipment in a school, from a projector to a powertool is proprietary too.

I am not against the idea, but I am just pointing out it gors against the grain of current customs and norms.
I live in NYC and you’re wrong. If you are cooking with meat and you insist on buying organic, then it is cheaper to go to a food truck than to cook for one.

Additionally, unless you meal plan very well, some of your ingredients are going to go bad; you can’t really purchase enough celery for just one meal.
16 weeks of severance pay.

Additional week for every year of tenure at Shopify.

No Equity cliff.

Medical benefits (for 16 weeks?).

Internet costs reimbursement (16 weeks?).

Get to keep home office furniture.

Kickstart allowance that can be used to buy new laptops.

Outplacement services.

Free Shopify account those who wants to start on their own.
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Let's be more specific than "weird": you're being belligerent and using the personally identifying information you can gather about someone to accost them on a tech forum.
Balancing innovation in software engineering teams
"...like nothing on earth seen before..."

was this video made by an AI?
Sounds like you need better placed friends.
The entire four-decade scam called "The Federalist Society" has been a devil's bargain between the "rich people should be richer" monopolists you identify and pro-lifers. The rich lobbyists held their noses and tolerated the pro-lifers. The pro-lifers were on the whole too dumb to realize that Gilded-Age levels of wealth inequality are not good for poor dumb people or for unborn babies. Either of these groups by itself would not hold six seats on the Supreme Court. Ethical people should seek similar collaborations that could improve our society rather than devastating it.
PixieBrix: A crafty tool that lets you tailor any website for your team
I had this same experience over a decade ago doing some test marketing/questionnaire type stuff for a Big Data tech product. Exactly this (minus the mobile ad ids, they didn't exist then). It must be by design.
New bill aims to make digital ID pervasive in the United States
yep. it's really a challenge to set up ads only on desktop. IMO, Mobile ads, albeit huge traffic, generate almost no real deals.
I think Hanlon's razor applies here. Any benefit would be overwhelmed by the reputational damage of "if you use Google there's a non-zero chance they'll completely rugpull you for no reason and with no possibility of appeal".
Refreshing to see such a fast wiki.

Is there something like this which supports multiple users, permissions etc?
> Even in the case of "broken" families, a mother and her children that escape domestic violence are probably still better off overall, even though it's harder for them to make ends meet. I'm sure you wouldn't advocate that they stay in a harmful environment just to maintain the family structure?

I think you're reading into GP's comment a lot that isn't there. I didn't even see a value judgment in their comment, let alone a suggestion that a mother and child subject to domestic violence should stay in that environment purely for maintaining the family structure.
LOL, I was sure that the UTC had no leap seconds which were exclusive to calendar date and time calculations.

If true, oooooh goooood! I agree with big tech on this one.

Redefine the UTC starting point at the last 17th update and be done with it.
This is well written. Explains the problem well, and sincerely blames himself for the end result.
This is a real shame. I met many interesting people on VR chat. Some were exploring identities that only a virtual world would allow them to. Mods enabled these people to lose themselves in the fantasy of their identity. I heard sad stories about how VRchat was where they could be themselves.

They're going to lose that opportunity now. For what? Tighter control so VRchat can engineer their own knock off mods? Greedy. Sad.
If you grew up with emacs and vim there is not so much chance you cannot use an ide in the real world? I mean: vim/emacs are considered harder to use and going to something easier is, well, easier? I am not really sure what you are saying?

Someone who can write elisp macros and have muscle memories for complex actions won’t be bothered with VS or VS code at all.

The other way around however…
It definitely was a fashion then to add "open" to names but this predates the wide use of the term "open source".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_t...
Healthcare, energy, government should be safe. I spent a year at a DOE lab during an economic crisis. The pay sucked but the checks cleared.
I can only add my anecdotal story here.

I recently had mouth surgery where they had to open up the lower part to access the jaw bones. From what I understand, they sterilize your mouth pretty well beforehand. I had to rinse my mouth out with a foul tasting mouthwash and woke up with strange tastes and dark products around my lips. Since then, I've felt like crap. At first I thought it was the surgery itself. Then a long effect of the anesthesia. Except that it did not go away.

Anyway, I recently read a lot about probiotics and decided to try L. reuteri orally.

The result is so instantaneous that I was scared it might be psychosomatic from a placebo. But if it is indeed a placebo, it is the strongest I have experienced, so I doubt it.

My mouth went from always dry and smelly to well hydrated in one day. After 5 days, my mood completely changed, including the quality of my sleep.

I don't know if I was depressed per se, I had not consulted anyone. However, I had a heavy weight on my shoulders that is now gone.

Since that experience, I have added L. reuteri pills made for gut health to my diet. I am now considering making my own probiotic yogurts and as a family we have started to experiment with fermented sauces and pickled vegetables.

There is something very important about probiotics that is almost overlooked. I think we should all pay much more attention to it.
Gen Z Designers Made It Big on Depop. Now They’re Graduating
> StepN, a move-to-earn app reportedly made $120M in profit in its first year of operation.

Did they actually, or did they make a bunch of Solana, which is now worth about 20% of what it was when they launched?
Seems like you are just improperly reifying everything to create a locus of accountability. Isn't this really just expressing outrage, not actually describe the world as it is?
Incident: https://status.slack.com/2022-07/1387a8fab7d2e2ec
for me, journaling should should be balanced by new input--usually from a combo of experience and reading. when i write, i only do so because i want to see how my inputs have changed me--the output reflects this.
I simply think that I started seeing more and more of people at least talking about ostracism as if it were a primary go-to since about then. I now also think that you are probably also right; people for whom ostracism is the only option left now have an easier time doing it.
For a contrarian view, Edward Said in Orientalism points out that this is all taking place in Morocco, i.e. on what had been occupied territory long before the Germans got there.
> It’s better to correct one’s behavior if one knows what the hell they are correcting. Correction and rehabilitation can’t have progress if you just put them in their own echo chamber.

This is still assuming good faith on the commenter's part—some people don't want to correct their behavior. Maybe they're doing it for money, or for attention, or maybe they just like annoying others.

And even if you are someone that might be willing to correct your behavior, it's not HN's responsibility to guide you to rehabilitation, when it comes at the cost of making the conversation worse for everyone else along the way.
That's easy to say if the bombs are not falling on your head. And I'm also not so sure that the current system can save itself from within. Evolution has navigated us into a dead by favouring immediate benefits over long term ones, now that our influence on the planet transcends our own lifetime. Getting out of that will require something pretty radical.
Backstage: An open platform for building developer portals
I never understood why CDE/Motif was chosen over OLVWM/OpenView since the latter was both nicer looking and much easier to use.
classic whataboutism.
Now that is fascinating.
Do you have a link about this? I would love to experiment with it.
There is something I don't understand about the way those big companies work.

From what I can see they are providing software and services.

Even the biggest software teams I have seen were rarely larger than 50-80 people.

And they were working on large complex codebase for AAA games.

Of course you need support, admin, HR, and sales, and R&D on new projects, but still.

How can they manage to productively use the time of 10000+ people?

What are they doing?
I don't want to enrage anyone, but.. is there a Docker image or Dockerfile?
Google doesn't know how to do any non-competing product ... they ether build the best in class, and scale it so much that the edge cases don't matter or compete and lose each time from smartphones to cloud to all the services where it wasn't google in the lead by far.

What I understood from people who work there it's impossible to even know how's responsible for what, so chaotic organizational structure and lake of accountability / ownership / freedom to take something to the finish line.
What do you mean, they're paid for by public money? I don't think that's true at all - at least in EU. Some of them get public donations (to support the independence of the authors, usually), and some of them are written by people paid by a university, but there's so much more completely independently funded textbooks...
I have 25 years of software engineering experience in a dozen languages and vim and the supporting plugin ecosystem cover everything I could ever need.

Modern IDEs are not at all required for success in this industry. They can sometimes even be a crutch.

I still teach people Vim. Some learn other things later but the important thing is they have a fast and free baseline available in every package manager.
It’s not insane when you look at the revenue growth over the same period. Especially if most are operations focused employees eg support staff.
Likewise there is very few Open in POSIX and UNIX standards, for a long time, just like with ISO C and C++, one really needed to buy them in paper form to read them.
There are two main ways of book binding. One uses glue/adhesive, the other uses string/wire/tying. I'd assume the bailing wire would be used for the second type in a pinch if for some reason duct tape wasn't usable.
Elsinore's mayor seems to be of a different opinion:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benediktekiaerhelsingor_educa... (in Danish)

Long story short, she claims this will have far-reaching consequences not just for Elsinore, but for other school districs as well.

Elsinore did, indeed, do an analysis, which is clearly stated in the report:
https://www.datatilsynet.dk/afgoerelser/afgoerelser/2022/jul... (also in Danish -- translator link in a sibling comment)

The main points are that Elsinore concluded that the risks with using Google Workspace are low, but that it cannot be guaranteed that US authorities won't be able to get hold of the data. In order to be allowed to use Google Workspace, Elsinore must re-evaluate that position and be absolutely sure that such leaks cannot happen. This is the part that might have far-reaching consequences, since Elsinore -- and many others -- don't see that as possible.

I'm in no way an expert when it comes to GDPR, but there's a lot of people who're quite upset about this, since it means any school using Google Workspace is expected to prove data transfer to non-EU entities isn't possible without adequate protection.