skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this argument is that it requires a good deal more effort than dropping off a garment. I have to list it somewhere and deal with inquiries and postage. How often to garments get thrown out because people don't have the time or interest in going through this process.

Personally, I end up donating many items to avoid the need to deal with eBay/Gumtree (Australia/UK marketplace).
Suppose there is a 1% risk of nuclear war this century killing a billion people. That is in some sense equivalent to a 100% chance of a nuclear war killing 10 million people.

To put that in perspective, "Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress."[0] which is 5 million in 20 years, or 10 million by 2070.

So it's possible to ask the question: Does building new civilian nuclear reactors increase the risk of nuclear war more than it decreases the damage of climate change?

It might seem that the answer has to be "No", but we have to consider the possibility that preventing nuclear proliferation and geopolitical instability would be much easier if all non-rogue nations agreed to not build any more nuclear power stations.

Even if the risk of nuclear war could only be decreased by 1%, that's still 100,000 expected lives saved, and eventually the contribution of nuclear energy to solving climate change might drop below that threshold[1], if renewables and energy storage systems prove to be sufficient replacements.

[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-cha...

[1] https://futurism.com/use-nuclear-power-decline-why
React is written in JavaScript, a OOP language with prototype inheritance similar to SELF, it doesn't get more OOP than that.

Take anything that has object semantics on the JavaScript VM out of React source code, and it will be reduced to almost nothing.
> is suddenly portrayed as being an achievement

It's not an achievement.

It's a sign of how hard the USA-based bullying had come so that a country cannot export goods or services so it has to export people.
You probably wouldn't get anything for your stock unless the acquisition price is higher than the price the investors paid though.
It's enough to post a comment on YouTube which doesn't entirely agree with the mainstream. I got a ban when I suggested on 20th Feb that Russia might attack Ukraine, and it took down the one (fortunately non-production) thing I had in GCP. Don't use them at all - especially not GCP - problem solved.
There is a bit of truth in your friends thoughts - when cars are crash tested it's using their own kinetic energy, so a bigger heavier car must be proportionally stronger to resist the crash forces, and get the same rating. So all things being equal, a big heavy car with the same crash occupancy rating as a small light car will be better to be in in crashes which involve another car.
Can we apply it in reverse so we can finally understand what Keynes actually meant?
> That's not "leveling the playing field". It's either "financial education" (because it's something you could always do in "traditional finance")

OK. Now we are really splitting hairs, because "education" actually doesn't count as "leveling the playing field." I'm totally done here, you just played yourself.

You go ahead and educate yourself in the traditional exploitative financial system, and I'll continue my education here in the exploitative crypto-financial system. And we shall never talk again. That would be a positive outcome, right?
This happens very commonly if an account isn't used, I had it happen a few times too for my side project accounts but appealing always worked relatively quickly.
Cuban life expectancy is almost exactly equal to American life expectancy; likely better over the last two years, actually (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...). They don't seem to be doing that badly at keeping folks alive.
Smart contracts are NOT contracts. They are software that run on the EVM. That's it.
Why Do We Always Hit a Wall?
Not the GP, but I think they mean keeping an organization alive in the exact state it exists now vs. enabling it to change to adapt to a changing world portend opposite chances that an organization will remain around in the long term.
The way I see it, there are two fundamental very different but conflated drivers of high tech salaries.

1) Software companies are enormously profitable per employee, because of zero duplication- and low scaling- costs. Consequently, companies with high total customer counts can afford high compensation.

2) New software companies often have extremely high growth, which makes them attractive to capital, which overvalues their shares (relative to other businesses and pre- and post-IPO), which allows them to cheaply (for them) boost compensation.

I'd expect companies in the first bucket to continue paying high salaries (aka MAMAA), but monetary policy has severely cut the second bucket's ability to do so. Consequently, lower salary increase pressure across the board.
As a Sysadmin/DevOps engineer, I am expected to be an expert in some new paradigm every 2 years which I have done consistently for 25 years. Working hard and doing solid, consistent, useful work isn't enough to break through a salary ceiling.

Not everybody is an influencer, an MIT grad or a genius.
I'm using Chrome browser without any ad-block.
Can someone explain why the move to PoS isn't going to reduce transaction time, increase network capacity, and reduce gas prices? Is this because of arbitrary parameters in place in order to keep that true?

From a technical perspective, I don't know how a consensus mechanism moving from a system for which slowness/hardness is the mechanism...to instead moving to a system for which slowness need not even be a factor, could possibly not result in faster transaction speeds.
For image manipulation is, nonen omen, GIMP.

For drawing I would say Krita.
That's a mind-boggling theory actually, that some general survival skills are encoded in the parent-child relationship. Basically you have to become a parent to level-up your survival skills.

I wouldn't put it past evolution to encode useful information wherever possible, but it would be hard to prove that theory.
This is an irrelevant comment.
I started GEB a couple of weeks ago and I have to agree to some extend (I also have a CS background). The information density is low and the authors style of writing feels very self-indulgent and even pretentious. In the foreword of the recent edition he portrays himself as a very petty, narrow-minded and unpleasant person.

But at the same time, when it really gets going I can't help but being swept away and entertained by the unfiltered enthusiasm he displays and the work he has done to put it to paper. It's like a conversation with a very exhausting but at the same time very interesting person. It's like trying to put that tingling in the back of the brain when some kind of insight looms in words.

I feel like it's probably best read as a curious psychograph of a nerd in the seventies who is deeply interested in theoretical computer science and its implications on awareness and (artificial) intelligence. Not as a scientific non-fiction-book which is trying to educate the reader or trying to make a strong argument for something
Can the Hawaiians place similar sanctions on the US for doing the same thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United... looks like it could get... expensive.
>Just like you've got no human right to stab people as much as you like, you can't cause other people distress at a funeral.

Right. Because words that are unpleasant are exactly the same as violence, right?

Shall we jail anyone who says something that annoys, disturbs or is unpleasant to anyone else? Based on the unpleasantness in your comment, let's start with you.

Yes, it's rude and obnoxious to intrude on others, especially at gatherings like funerals. And most of us (myself included) try not to do so.

However, some folks are jerks, and will do so anyway. But making such a thing a crime rather than just removing the disruptive individual from the area is a recipe for abuse.

Who decides what's a crime or not in a given circumstance? You?

I'd note that I'm neither angry nor insulted by you. Rather, I'm trying (I hope successfully this time) to get you to see that making someone a criminal for being a jerk is a really bad idea.

Remove such a person from your sight. Shun them. Verbally abuse them right back. But the idea that someone should be criminalised for being insensitive and/or obnoxious is risible at best.

I expect you will continue to disagree with me and think I'm being nasty, disruptive and a jerk. Shall we arrest me too? How long should I spend in prison for pissing you off?

Edit: Fixed typo.
Probably would end up as:

- [flagged] Alternating Current considered harmful
Scarce energy does not secure PoW, the value of the mined currency does, in the same way that scarce supply does not secure the gold standard, it's the value of gold (the 'fiat' shared illusion that it's a reserve).

I can fork a PoW chain with a difficulty bomb so that the difficulty is 1000x that of mainnet for any given hashrate. Energy is still scarce, you can't double spend energy on my chain and the 'real' one. Yet my chain isn't secure, because no one will recognize it as canonical: the rewards it yields aren't worth expending effort for.

I think you're confused about what the chain is securing. It's not who owns what, it's who spends WHEN. Distributed consensus of ownership does not require PoW/PoS, these were invented to solve double spending/censorship attacks that were a problem in P2P networks.

You can't attack a chain to muddle the past, only the present. A successful attack on ETH won't change who holds ETH, it will only prevent agreeing on who receives it.
My friend, you keep showing your “ignorance” and lack of empathy. Or course that I’d prefer to use USD. But we CAN NOT! It’s literally ilegal.

Your comment is like telling someone poor “just go to work”, or telling people dying of hunger: “you don’t need to die of hunger, you can eat!”.
Where are you based?

Jobs advertised as remote are often not globally remote - as in, there's an expectation that the person they hire will be in the same country. If you're applying for US jobs from a developing country you'll probably get a different response than a developer based in the US (or no response at all).

If that's not the case, and you're a US based dev applying for remote jobs in the US, then there's probably some red flags on your resumé - impossible to know without seeing it.

17 years experience / late 30s doesn't put you in the ageism bracket.
Never going to happen, it doesn't make Apple any money.
The article seems misguided. There was no "regulation" of the internet in the 90ies in the EU, which could have hampered the creation of "internet unicorns". As the author tries to present regulation as the main culprit also for future developments, this kind of renders the whole article moot.

Also the statistics it brings forward are plainly wrong - the one European "internet company" it presents for 1995, Axel Springer, was not even engaged much on the internet in 1995, but was mainly a press company, which only recently expanded to the internet.

If you search for reasons, why it's more difficult for EU companies to grow big, I'd bet on a missing culture of venture capital and smaller market sizes: While the EU market as whole is large, it is still compromised of many countries with many languages und many different cultures.
> Just because the Russians are saying it doesn't mean anyone has to be propagandized to also say it.

The only claim was that they are saying it.
I have never worked at FAANG and had no problem making 200k+ at several companies doing webdev, sysadmin, and security over the last decade. Same for most of my friends.

Now I do independent consulting so I get to set my own pay and < 40 hours which is worth more to me than maximal income, but if you want to make 500k+ a year you totally can without working adtech or FAANG especially if you are independent with niche skillsets.
Adobe's statement: https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/intent-to-acquire-20220915...
I’m not an expert, but iirc banana-pi and beagleboard are SBCs with more of an open source bent.
“Nest” a New Take on Linux Kernel Scheduling for Better CPU Performance
If true, congratulations for Figma founders, and a bad day for designers that were looking for a way to escape from Adobe.

I don’t think that in the long term this will give Figma as an ecosystem any benefit — unless Adobe will keep it separate from the main Creative Cloud.

This reminds me of the Trello acquisition.

As a loyal Figma user I’m pretty sceptical of the future. Hope to be wrong.

UPDATE: Looks like it is indeed true…
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acqui...
This was hilariously brilliant! :-D
Using Chrome I can understand, but not using ad-block?!
I think that crypto-currencies as a fairly direct replacement for traditional currencies is probably not the future. I don't think it's a 'fad', but I think it'll settle into a niche position in the long term.

The underlying problem that blockchains solve is 'distributed consensus'. This is a solution with a much broader range of applications. For example Maersk has a system for signing handover of shipping containers in ports (https://www.maersk.com/apa-tradelens). This is an international problem with a lot of it happening in countries with a lot of corruption (i.e. you can't rely on legal mechanism). Not being able to forge who is responsible for which container eliminates a lot of problems.

Ethereum does something even more interesting, which is that the network can agree on the result of computations (these are called dapps for "distributed apps"). These can be used to implement simple "smart contracts" for financial purposes but they have a much broader applications. To some extent I'm slightly underwhelmed by the things people are doing with them, but the potential is enormous.
(r_dist * n) / <max value of r_dist>
is better than
r_dist % n
that linear scaling should mitigate such bias from modulo bias.
Yeah, as a Figma and Adobe consumer this feels like an intentional effort to limit my choice and enable Adobe creative cloud to continue to be more-or-less the only realistic option for design work.

I’m perennially frustrated that I live in an era with nearly-dead antitrust.
I left denmark many moons ago for the same reason. Tipping point was when i wanted to buy a car. When i was the amount in tax i basically packed and left. Somehow people think that denmark is expensive because somehow products are better quality, but they arent really. It’s just high taxes. At hospitals you have to wait in long queues for anything serious and universities are meh. Paid for my public uk degree a very tiny amount and was rather happy with it.
Just like with Bitcoin.
Sorry, I don’t understand your comment. And I don’t think Switzerland is a 3rd world country (6th country by GDP per capita).
American life expectancy is absurdly bad. I live in the places in Europe/EU where it's much higher, so to me it really is very bad (and yes we are making fun of US because of it too).
> which is that long-term effects could not have been sufficiently monitored at the time they were thrust upon the general population

Sure, that'd require a time machine. Thus, we're left going "hey, what happened with every other vaccination we've ever done?" and making decisions based on that wealth of information.

People attempting to make this point like to pretend the same isn't true for not getting the vaccine. What's the long-term effect of unvaccinated people getting COVID? Do we have a 20 year safety study on going unvaccinated in this pandemic?
Personally, I don't see Ticket To Europe conflicting with Ticket to Ride: Europe. If it was Ticket to Europe: Ride then fair enough, but otherwise we're saying that all words/phrases have a margin around them, which I disagree with.
It's interesting to think that if you found yourself in a '59 and looking like you were going to hit an oncoming car, that the best chance you had was to turn in towards them!

Also, i'm wondering if there is any equivalent of the dieselgate scandal for crash testing - given the tests are controlled and repeatable, is there any suggestion that optimising to ace the tests creates any compromises in other areas which mean that overall injuries are more serious than otherwise would occur?
Ah but you see, once you are ready for your estate to take the money you set up a granter retained annuity trust.

So long as you don’t die, and your trust earns more than the IRS theoretical rate you can pass on the money almost tax free. While still getting loans against it.
Quote from the article:

> “I feel very proud, you know, that I'll be able to look back and say I've had a role to play in removing a megaton of carbon from the atmosphere every week." -- Edgington

There's a very important difference in not emitting carbon into the atmosphere and actively removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Both are critically necessary and complementary, but I don't see how Edgington thinks that switching off PoW suddenly makes Ethereum carbon-negative.
These "defaults" are the 4-bit colors linearly mapped onto the RGB space. It made the color generation easier to implement in hardware.

I think the sensible use case for this color is as background color, like the Norton Commander, derivatives of it, and several other ncurses programs do.
Adobe will be facing an existential crisis trying to maintain this monopoly vs AI generated content, AI augmented content generation tools and cheap image and layout apps.
Ugh, I'm still sad about what happened to Macromedia Fireworks after Adobe takeover. Have been boycotting their products ever since.
I’d put the odds at about 95% that Adobe will ruin Figma with bloat, 14 different “Creative Cloud” background processes, and hostile pricing models within 5 years.

This is huge news for Sketch.

However, to be honest, this is the type of acquisition that should be blocked IMO. Adobe is literally acquiring a direct competitor here.

To me the consumer harm is pretty clear. Instead of a more competent org (Figma) growing further to disrupt more of Adobe’s business, we’re going to be stuck with Adobe forever.

Great outcome for the founders and investors in Figma, terrible outcome for consumers.
I am generally pro-regulation in my politics (police for the rich and powerful) but I agree that the power can be and is often abused. Just like regular police, firewalls should be built to prevent politicians from abusing regulations for political purposes.
But this change also means that "Decentralisation" and "Power to the people" are fading away right?

Don't look now but "decentralization" and "power to the people" are already gone in the crypto market.

Blockchain is a novel accounting system. But has any organization *ever* derived any real power from an accounting system? Are Google and Apple and Amazon market leaders because of a novel accounting system? I don't think so.

In a capitalist system, real power is derived from marketplace control. Accounting is just a way of keeping score.

Likewise, in the crypto market, Binance has now consolidated it's power position as marketplace leader and has effectively become the "central bank" of crypto with the power to mint it's own currency (Tether and BUSD) and use it to manipulate the marketplace at will. In a brazen demonstration of their power, they plan to crush other stable coins by simply replacing them with their own.

https://fortune.com/2022/09/06/binance-moves-against-rival-s...

What are "the people" going to do about this? What does blockchain have to do with this? Not a damn thing.

Power to the Binance! They are now driving the crypto bus and everyone else is just along for the ride.
Way overblown... tell that to a game developer. The privacy and security argument was used time and again by Apple in court as a reason for booting Epic's Fortnite off the App Store for not using their payment system.
I expect the major stakers to find themselves looking at OFAC sanctions in about 48 hours contingent on implementing strict AML/KYC procedures.
It’s relatively common in the US as well but having backup is important for visitors, when apps need a forgotten password rentered etc. Way too many ticketing and other systems are way too unfriendly for the occasional user as it is without requiring that an app has to be used.
Independent contractors where not doing anything different than larger agencies. Same service, just with more attractive pricing.

The difference between a small business and agency is that agency can actually afford to properly avoid paying tax.

The taxes have been changed anyway, so the mythical small salary + dividend, does not offer meaningful advantage any more when it comes to tax.

The real problem is that IR35 removes profit from the company and the company has no way of offsetting legitimate business costs against tax (like your office, accountant, insurance, tools, software etc.) and you also can't retain part of the invoice and taking lower salary and dividend to have a cushion for the times out of clients or when you want to build capital for a start up idea.

It has completely killed entrepreneurship. It means less competition, less jobs and smaller growth of the economy. Not sure how is that a good idea.
> OK. Now we are really splitting hairs

We're not. I'v directly responding to what you write, and not to hat you think you write.

You started with "leveling the playing field" and continued with "Being able to take a risky asset, and hedge it against itself, is not a strategy that I was aware of two years ago".

> You go ahead and educate yourself in the traditional exploitative financial system

Ah yes, you continue to use the words you don't fully understand, but since they are emotionally charged, this makes them the right arguments in your mind.

> And we shall never talk again.

As I already said, "Crypto maximalists ... only speak vague trivialities and then disappear."
Those colors never looked great, but I remember them being a lot less jarring back then.

At least some of the colors weren't pure binary RGB values as claimed in the article. For example, "dark yellow" was closer to a brown #804000 than #808000. Maybe that depended on the graphics card? Otherwise, I'm not sure why many terminal emulators would have gone with a pure dark yellow instead.

Also, maybe the overall contrast was lower on CRTs. At least I think the blacks were less dark on early monitors, which might have helped to make the colors look less harsh.
Adobe acquires Figma
And yet you use intentional language when talking about yourself, but humans are just another set of biological machines subject to Darwinian evolution. Where do you draw the line?