skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this was the whole point of crypto, a completely public and traceable system to stop people doing shady shit, particularly aimed at shady people in the finance world. It’s kind of ironic that it’s ended up that the biggest crypto users are also the planet’s shadiest people. I’d be interested to know how much money would be in crypto markets if drugs were legalised globally when the original Bitcoin paper dropped. My guess would be less than a quarter of what we’ve got now and that crypto would be looked at with even more disinterest than Zuckerberg’s Metaverse.

People can shout and scream about it all they want but it’s just not going to be the tech utopia people dream of. As soon as it gains any kind of significant traction, central banks will release their own coins, allow people a grace period to transfer existing Bitcoin/Ethereum into central bank coin after which they’ll outlaw transactions in coins that aren’t backed by a central bank. The elites will not simply roll over and give up control of the money supply. They’ll stop it in its tracks long before it gets enough traction to take over as a legitimate alternative.

Realistically, I’d say somewhere in the ball park of 1/3 to 2/3 of global gdp would have to be in crypto for the people to have enough power to just ignore the central banks and governments. Even then, the big players would have to be able to convince the right lawyers and military personnel to bet on crypto because it would most likely be a long and bloody takeover.

Blockchain might have other legitimate uses, but I just do not see it taking over standard currencies unless there is some kind of central authority that maintains control over it. I hope I’m proved wrong, and that we can live in a less corrupt world as a result. But I can’t see a path to getting there. Every other successful piece of tech ends up with large controlling players e.g Facebook for social, Google for search. The general public does not have the time or patience to learn the ins and outs of decentralised tech. They do not care about tech nor should they. Firefighters, nurses and factory workers do not want to be finishing 12 hour shifts to read up for hours on how to set up a mastodon account. They have bigger things to worry about like doing their jobs, keeping a roof over their heads and feeding their families. They only care about what tech can do for them. They want convenience. Which means opinionated decisions on how something should be. Which inevitably leads to the quelling of decentralisation and individuality in favour of a few big power players. I don’t see why crypto would be any different.
Do those places sell you food?

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3...
>I don't expect to win regardless of the prize. I buy a ticket for fun.

Plenty of pleasant brain chemicals and time daydreaming for the low low cost of a couple bucks.

It’s transactional entertainment, no different than dropping $2.99 to watch an old episode of Law and Order on Prime Video.

Harmless fun for those who can afford it.
It’s ok to charge money.
You have both non-technical people ruining it as well as purists that say zero trust is a paradox in itself. They are both wrong in my opinion. I just gave a response on the latter in the CSA (message 57... long thread) - https://circle.cloudsecurityalliance.org/discussion/zero-tru...
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Something that’s open source can’t be killed.
Is it monopolizing transportation, or is it monopolizing driver/rider incentives?
What is IaaC? Infrastructure as a container?
I would not be so brazen as to call the engineers behind this "average" or their work so. Unless you can make the argument that a plane would fly for 51 days straight, being required to reboot the on-board systems is not a major deal-breaker, especially as the larger Boeing's take 60 minutes to refuel.

The engineers behind Boeing planes have built an incredibly sophisticated machine which omitting a very nessescary but not so inconvient task of rebooting every n days, performs its primary directive well.
That's not how mental illness works. I am not diagnosing Kanye, but look up the progression of bipolar disorder. It is truly terrifying and heartbreaking.
> To program my Amstrad CPC646

Now I wonder if you meant CPC464 or CPC664 :)

(Probably the former, as the 664 was relatively rare, at least in my experience. I’m not sure I ever saw one.)
If I print a trillion schrute bucks, have I devalued the US dollar? If I print another trillion schrute bucks, does the US dollar suffer inflation, or does the schrute buck?

Yes people can make an infinite number of currencies, but they are all parallel systems. Making a new coin doesn't inflate the supply of bitcoin, it is just one more thing that bitcoin could potentially be exchanged for. And in practice it seems unlikely that more than a few thousand could be adopted by enough people to have a value appreciably different from zero.
As mentioned in comment you replied too, both cash withdrawals & deposits are scanned — and most cash is only used once between receipt and being spent before entering banks again. For small volume of cash, might be possible to remain anonymous, but for large volumes, it would be extremely hard without there being a cost to doing so and might even be technically money laundering, which is illegal. Most retail locations will not break bills without transactions and will not take unusually large bills for transactions. When combined with other methods of surveillance, such as asset tracking, location-data, security cameras, etc, it’s virtually impossible to stay anonymous at any significant scale.

Core point is like blockchain, people do not realize how traceable cash is and many falsely assume it’s completely anonymous, which it is not.
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But don't you actually want a certain amount of coupling in the operations part? After all you need to ensure they run in a place and in a manner that allows them to find and talk to each other and usually in a combination determined by the goal of a specific deployment, i.e. sometimes you might not need a rail-cargo-service because the customer only ships by truck, etc. Then scaling/autoscaling (if any) needs to be compatible, versions need to be within a certain range, any central data store must be coordinated as well, not to speak of service meshes, chaos experiments and the like. It's a good thing to develop services with minimal coupling, but that stage has different risks and goals from devops/ops, at least in my experience on both sides of the dev/ops transition zone.
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I was agreeing with you, but I was probably being too sarcastic.
Rule #1-1 doesn't really apply though. American Airlines seems to be shooting itself in the foot by making working for them harder. This is somebody doing something for free that brings them value.
no, parlement (the parent) is trying to be a "uncancellable cloud host": https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/16/parler-parlement-web-hosti...

ye is buying parler specifically not the whole thing, parler currently runs on parlement but he could presumably move to anything else. the "consulting" part is pretty normal for a transition like this.
I‘m interested in the reasoning why API pagination is hard to add later, or rather what the benefit is of „leaving space“ in the API response while in reality returning all items at once.

Wouldn’t have to adapt the way the frontend consumes the API either way, keeping track of the current list state? Or is that what the author meant, that you should always write your list UIs as if they consumed a paginated API?
Foucault is a fraud and charlatan, also, evidence of his pedophilia in Algeria came out recently. No surprise since he fought against age of consent laws in France - along with most of the other post moderist french critical theorists...

Beyond that, most of his books are extremely anti-historical and filled with literal falsehoods. Foucaults take on leprosy is literally conspiracy theory tier BS and is anti-scientific.
This is shameful. You couldn't ask for a clearer example of taking advantage of a vulnerable person.
I'm genuinely curious how those who claimed full self-driving would be a thing by today broke out between:

1.) Techno-optimists including those who saw the extremely rapid progress in ML across various domains after very little progress for decades. If we've made so much progress in 5 years, surely we can achieve almost anything in ten more even if we're not quite sure how!

2.) People whose self-interest was wrapped up in it happening so they just didn't want to probe too deeply.

3.) Those who knew it was probably flim flam, but hey whatever parts the rubes from their money

4.) Those who just figured that so many people who apparently believed in it can't possibly be wrong. (And there were a bunch of, especially, younger people who really wanted this world where they didn't need to own a car.)
I don't think it would be. You'd have to detect them on the data bus and also differentiate between data and instruction accesses which I don't /think/ the Z80 does, at least not easily.
Saying that you're "going death [sic] con 3 on the Jews" is not really what I would call "criticism".
> still have no clue what a "roster"

> ‘reserve’ flight attendants

These words aren't specific to flight attendants. They're just english words with standard definitions. You're reading this on a device with an internal dictionary as well as internet access.
I believe this also plays into "right to be forgotten legislation" such as in the GDPR. Suppose you log PII and then a user requests all their PII be deleted. I believe you would then also be required to scrub those logs instead of just dropping records from a database.
I wrote an article for the ACM which covers how Google uses frameworks: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3447806

It discusses many of the same trade-offs, but reaches different conclusions. It is true that frameworks are not for everyone, and their benefits are likely more pronounced in larger organizations.
> as the true nature of who holds power hasn't shifted in any significant way from what I can tell.

Well, in some sense the big, true power-holders haven't really shifted all that much. You still have an unfortunate amount of Iraq war fanboys in the Federal world. There is still a mess of "old white guy" in business. Only, this isn't a whole, true, and good picture for the Average Joe. To a bottom-status person there is a contiuum of power above.

Now, if a "victim class" makes a stink at work a non-victim is liable to be on the losing end even if the "victim" is a genuine shit-bag. This isn't particularly new to the era, the "Jesse Jackson" victim-grifter class has existed for decades now but much like publishing, the internet has democratized the ability to raise a lynch mob against a target.

EDIT: It would be swell if the down-voter would be forced to provide some semblance of feedback...
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Elon Musk, for instance, claims to be a free speech absolutist. However, in practice, he attempts to suppress speech that is expressed through bots that advertise crypto currency in replies to him.
4chan has hosted anything and has done so for longer than other social media sites.

Maybe toxic people just congregate in places where their speech is accepted, therefore making the rest of the site toxic as well.

Maybe it’s not “hate mongers and trolls” that overrun sites and that the concept of free speech and being able to say anything just naturally brings out the worst people and the worst in people.
I believe your perception is accurate.

Nixon also took the dollar off the gold standard "temporarily", and government proceeded to debase the currency continuously since then, hand in hand with the financial sector.
My partner gets a little embarrassed when I make a scene about this, but I persist. My bar tab is one of the last things I want going on my permanent record.
It tells me there's places of free speech on the internet but what is really wanted here is forced listening.

Free speech on small fringe sites somehow doesn't count because it's not forced on people that don't want to see it. It's pretty clearly not a free speech issue at this point.
I feel there's a big difference between people who say something like, "here's why I think I'm a victim of [x]" and "I'm a victim, so I deserve [y]".

I know when kids say they "deserve" anything I try to shut it down because while it may be true in some cases I think to embrace that kind of perspective can be damaging. In my opinion you shouldn't expect anything from the world, you should simply seek to be understood. If people understand your struggles then they most of the time they'll treat you well instinctively. Simply demanding that your understood and that you should be given what you deserve isn't a good way to approach things.

That said, I'll be honest and admit that I 100% weaponise victimhood if I feel I'm being attacked unfairly. When people start accusing me of being x, y or z, then I'll happily twist that back around on them by playing my own victim cards.
Do accounting or tax rules block more efficient approaches of selling furniture and re-buying at destination?

Relocation expenses are deductible, but I don't think furnishing allowances are, e.g.
If only because impermeable cities will flood constantly and you'll move to a better one.
What's a legality checker?
> Nice strawman you got there.

> It's not like the only way to contribute is by solving the problem in its entirety

You responded with "go ahead. There's nothing between you and the edit button" to somebody that compared what was actually there unfavourably with a child's book. This isn't an "it's a bit outdated" or "somebody's vandalised the page" problem; literally the only way of solving the problems with that (not unrepresentative) article by editing it would be to rewrite it in its entirety. On Wikimedia's platform, not their own or one of many better-run course creation platforms...

Lack of people interested in contributing is an explanation for lack of quantity of content. But content that makes GPT3-authored content mills look respectable is a quality problem, and that absolutely guarantees lack of adoption[1]. So yes, you absolutely can suggest that the problem with poorly conceived and poorly seeded projects doesn't lie with the critics not getting involved, it lies with the originators not giving them any reason to consider getting involved. And sticking an edit button on things doesn't entitle anyone to a community, not even if they're funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.

[1]tbf the default is for stuff to not get adopted, so questions about attracting contributors are more interestingly framed as why other Wikimedia projects have succeeded (I'd say novelty, fandom and SEO/publicity, not necessarily in that order)
If it’s your employers you do

If it’s an app on apples App Store you do
The oddest thing about Stanford's renewable energy program is that it's funded by something called the GCEP (Global Climate and Energy Program) which in turn counts ExxonMobile as a major sponsor. Does ExxonMobil really have any interest in seeing its fossil fuel market destroyed by renewable energy competition?

https://gcep.stanford.edu/about/exxonmobil.html

There are also some interesting provisions about Exxon having some control of intellectual property arising from GCEP work in the details of the agreements. Not really surprising that nothing much has come out of that program.
That, or you can actually read the article instead.
> isn't Audit Log supposed to be consumed by customers directly? Hence it's a domain entity. And DB table is implementation detail that may or may not corelate to domain entity?

You could return an abstraction of the audit log and decouple consumers from your table schema?

Triggers give you a simple way to ensure the log tracks the changes. Another popular approach is change-data-capture which allows you to record logs in a different store.
Yes, type-driven development saves so much hassle, both in ingesting user-provided data (parsing request bodies etc) as well as limiting the API surface of what you can do to things.

Sadly, one very useful feature is missing from most languages, and that is, the ability to make opaque or partially transparent wrapper types. For example in C# before record types, you'd need about 30 lines of boilerplate if you wanted to make a wrapper for an identifier that can only be compared for equality.

Wrapper and rich types allow writing shared behaviours for those specific kinds of information, and greatly reduce the "accidental API surface" of primitive types that plagues us with so many bugs and data leaks.
He's diagnosed with bipolar back in 2016 and talks about refusing medication because it messes with his ability to create/be creative.

It's possible that he's exhibited symptoms for far longer but it was brushed aside under the guise of kooky genius. I mean, the Taylor Swift thing was, what, 2009?
Agree, explained in more detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33234678
Yeah, I agree. I'm not a conservative, but if I were I wouldn't want Kanye (or Trump) to be the one championing my views. Find someone who (1) actually has conservative views, (2) isn't mentally ill, and (3) can articulate those views persuasively. Thomas Sowell might be considered a good example.
Pollution is an example of an externality which unregulated <anything>ism fails to address, but since capitalism is the dominant economic model and many capitalists advocate for less regulation, it’s not a dramatic leap of logic to say capitalism is the problem.
$625k seems like a lot but in the world of government contracting it’s often not. It may be motivating this, but I’m kinda skeptical.
>We're now in a situation where, distasteful and dangerous as they may be, technological solutions like this are the only possible solutions.

What about degrowth?
When have employers ever been anything other than hostile with their workforces? America in particular doesnt have a good track record with "employment". Anytime something positive is done its because a company is forced to do it or compelled to do it because their competitors are.
My bluetooth headphones will always change to left side only when reconnecting. If I accidentally walk to far from my laptop and come back, same deal.

It is absolutely wild this bug exists.
Because normal-brained people announce that they're going "deathcon 3" on Jews all the time.
that never happened. the tweet was only removed
It is zero-sum when the employee burdens the cost of the training when they leave and makes up the difference in that higher wage in the new job, but that's what is considered a problem here. The suggestion is that a zero-sum situation isn't fair to workers; that the employer should both burden the cost of training and pay a higher wage to those already trained. That is not zero-sum.
and these Parler people are scamming him - that's an interesting point I hadn't thought of. My first thought on hearing this news was so what? I don't care about Parler or Kanye West, but if Parler is taking advantage of Kanye's mental decline then that's next-level awful. Like I said, I'm no fan of Kanye, but that's horrible to take advantage of people like that.
Both bipolar and schizophrenia can manifest late. They're often latent and triggered by unusual stress.
> Don’t waste time on code coverage

Is it really that useless? I was about to start doing code coverage and now wonder if I should reconsider.
Indeed. There's also UZI - a v7 UNIX for Z80.
Yeah, quit your job over it.
Does anything stop employers from combining this with mandatory arbitration clauses?
You are onto something, but companies doing the moderating are doing what they can to ensure that:

a) new entrants can't exist ( Parler, Truth.. whatever )
b) the rules are so generic that they ensure given platform can ban whatever

And this is why people clamor for simple free speech slogan.

If this is how we understand it, then we do need free speech.
I don't think MMUs were common on machines that ran on a Z80 however.
> Buying a powerball ticket doesn't measurably change your chance of winning.

This doesn't feel right. There must be a statistical difference between zero chances of winning and 1 in a billion chances of winning. Close to imperceptible maybe, but zero is pretty absolute.
When I run across words that I don't understand, I often find a dictionary gives me faster response than posting on HN.

But HN can be more entertaining.
If everyone has that 3-month notice requirement, then it’s not such a big deal.
My guess is it checks whether their shifts are compliant with labour laws.
I actually agree that moving in that direction is useful. I happen to have started from a quite high level (C# and VB.net), but I've been steadily moving down the stack towards embedded devices. I've been surprised many times by how many problems we've created for ourselves, and how much easier they become once you simplify.
This is due to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. When efficiency gains mean that a business's main costs are labor, then attempts to increase profit will be focused on cutting labor costs.

It would be hard to get away with actually decreasing wages and salaries, so they get effectively frozen against rising efficiency and inflation (which we've seen happening for the last 40 years). But soon this becomes the new ceiling, and labor costs must keep getting cut, otherwise profits don't increase (at the expected rate).

That's when we start seeing the laborer take on the costs of working: transportation, uniforms, training, etc. Did you know that car mechanics have to buy their own tools? Can you imagine developing software and having to bring your own computer and devices? Having to own the latest iPhone just to test on, because the company won't provide it but expects iOS compatibility?

This is why labor rights organizations matter. Employers are guided by a very simple algorithm, whose total application to all job markets leads to the immiseration of all people who have to work for a living. This is also why solidarity matters: when we are in a position to make demands of employers, we are morally obligated to make demands also in the name of those employees who are powerless.

First they came for the blue-collars, but I didn't care because my collar was white. Next they came for the wage workers, but I didn't care because I had a salary. When they finally came for me, there was no one else left to care.
That development was built up over time and very much in blood though. Channels like Mentour are quite illuminating on that subject.

And in fairness, reliability is a major point of automation.
Was going to say this. People pay for a lottery ticket to dream about what their life could be like if they won (similar to people who never launch that buiness idea). Many people derive a lot of happiness from this, moreover (in the uk) a large proportion of the takings goes to good causes and people generally accept it is extremely unlikely they will win but instead of just donating to charity they at least have a slim chance of a massive gain.
> The infected group also displayed a 0.2%-to-2% greater reduction in brain size compared with those who hadn’t been infected and showed greater cognitive decline based on their performance undertaking complex tasks. This was associated with atrophy, or shrinkage, in a specific part of the cerebellum -- an area at the back and bottom of the brain -- linked to cognition. Differences between infected and non-infected participants was more marked in older people.

I was always under the impression that grey matter can rebound with time. For smokers, after they quit they would increase their grey matter over a couple years. The same for those who work out regularly, they increase the amount of grey matter. Let alone consuming mushrooms like lion's mane which also helps. So long as the virus is completely eradicated from the body, one would begin to recover. Severe cases and long covid might be another story though.