skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software was slow, crashes were common, interfaces sucked, UX was horrible. That’s my memory of the olden days.

Sure, maybe it’s not 1000x faster, but many programs nowadays are very fast, very stable, and have a usable interface. Almost every program I regularly use has a search for its settings, back then I’d be happy if it even had all settings in a single location.

A big part of that was paid by hardware improvements. And that’s okay with me. There are exceptions, like electron which (in almost all cases, a notable exception to the exception is VS Code with discord as a distant 2nd) is slow even on a very fast PC, but generally developing got easier and software got faster and better.

But hey, I’m only 36, so maybe it was in the 80s when everything was as awesome as those articles paint it, and by the 90s everything already sucked.
It is a little bit different, if you are doing it in centralised way - you have to control and secure everything - from databases to access to admin panels. It is quite complicated, requires robust processes, etc. Most of the finances are not really programmable, everything is done via simple scripts on some machine that just turns the knobs. You have to secure this part also.

It is a lot of work.

While for crypto-escrow you can just do a simple multi-sig with a hot keys that running on admin machines and they sign results there and they couldn't get the money, so no reason to try to hack the system.

Much easier setup.
According to Siri: “Animals and French nouns have genders, I do not”
> The US and the rest of the West uses Ukrainians as cheap/disposable peons in a war against Russia. Even before February 24th, Ukrainians have lost their country to western interests. Today, Zelensky (who is not a Slav) sells the last bits and pieces to Americans for pennies on the dollar.

The Russians literally invaded, the Russians are the ones who are solely responsible for this war.

> ADDEDENDUM: I forgot this, highly relevant for the previously said, quote regarding the NATO (you wrote "strong military alliance like NATO"). NATO's first Secretary General has said that the NATO was created to "keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." [1]

whats totally relevant is the era that, that quote was said in.

NATO was formed in 1949, a mere 5 years after the end of WW2.

Given how Nazi Germany and the USSR had a alliance at the start of WW2, it is wholly unsurprising that NATO, was looking to keep both of them at bay.
Companies can now trade data as commodities in Shenzhen exchange
Looks like Magic3D doesn't depend on any additional training, which means that open-source methods like StableDreamFusion can be adapted to this new method quite easily.

They use https://deepimagination.cc/eDiffi/ as the text-to-image diffusion model, which can be replaced with Stable Diffusion or something else.
It's not just his behavior, but how the writing and presentation of the show frame those behaviors. You can have a sexist character, but how the show treats that behavior reveals what the people creating the show want the audience to take away. The show can present bad behavior as leading to negative consequences. But Gilfoyle's sexism is presented uncritically as comedy, with no negative consequences. It is the framing of this behavior that I take issue with.
> Ledgers are quite easy to build. Git is a ledger. It doesn't use a block chain but it does link commits via their hashes; which makes it an audit proof ledger. Unless you can break the hashes, you can't modify its history.

Easy as an arm chair theory, impossible in practice without a complete rewrite of git from scratch. You are also disregarding the immutability of the data and the append-only property of stored datasets in ledger DB's: the entire temporal history of changes to a document (or a table) must be available in a ledger database. Changes are linked by virtue a Merkle tree, and the content of each node (i.e. revision) can be cryptographically proven to be untampered with. QLDB documentation provides a visualisation of the cryptographic verification process and of a sequence of steps: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/verif...

Git is absolutely the wrong tool for the job as hashes in git are used as identifiers to identify a specific change, but not to cyrptographically checksum the document/the change to the data. Git commits can also merged, rewritten, squashed or deleted – something is absolutely unacceptable in the compliance space.

So no, Git it is not easy to build a ledger database out of git if there are strict compliance requirements as I can pull out a revision M out of N revisions of my documents stored in a ledger database, run the revision N through the proof interface and use it in a court hearing as evidence or turn it over to external auditors. And no external auditing body will ever certify a git based solution.
Have you tried GraalVM (not native, but as a pluggable JIT compiler)? It has slightly better escape analysis which might help Scala, which tends to create small helper classes. Nonetheless, hotspot and graal and hand-in-hand, but you may find one working better for your particular situation.
It's a modern Web Audio implementation of this Mac software from 1986 (last updated in 2004).

Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument - https://web.archive.org/web/20220629172536fw_/http://retiary... (Archived because the original site is quite slow: http://retiary.org/ls/programs.html)

It was written by Laurie Spiegel, a composer and early pioneer in electronic music.

> Music Mouse is an algorithmic musical composition software developed by Laurie Spiegel. The "intelligent instrument" name refers to the program's built-in knowledge of chord and scale convention and stylistic constraints. Automating these processes allows the user to focus on other aspects of the music in real time.

> In addition to improvisations using this software, Spiegel composed several works for "Music Mouse", including Cavis muris in 1986, Three Sonic Spaces in 1989, and Sound Zones in 1990. She continued to update the program through Macintosh OS 9 and, as of 2021, it remained available for purchase or demo download from her website.

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

She was featured in the documentary, Sisters with Transistors. https://sisterswithtransistors.com/
> Do those make you actively deeply angry?

On occasion, yes.

> I don't know how you have the energy for that.

My wife asks me the same thing.

> [M]ost people in the world haven't faced disasters like those.

I think we are facing them. My daughter will live to see a dramatically different climate than my parents experienced.
how fun.

maybe the author does not know this, but shift+/ doesn't work on a portuguese keyboard at least in safari; shift-7 is / and shift-' is ?

all of the other keys work.
Is that sarcasm? Tox came out from 4chan and has a very questionable security record.
Your assumption of his naiveté is quite charitable. Before becoming the mouthpiece/patsy for ETH he was doing a quantum computing scam. He claimed he was going to compute NP problems in P time by simulating a quantum computer in software. Absolute hogwash obviously

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/buterins-quantum-quest/

A more cogent explanation is that Vitalik finally found the right way to pull a con.
I’m curious about how tools like this could intersect w skilled workflows in something like Rhino/Grasshopper.
> Just saying it was "simply a matter of upgrading a dependency." is so amazingly far from what such an event requires

5 people total?

that have too look at the problem for a few days and then go back to their regular duties.

Which is their job, BTW, you don't need "special teams".

I work for a company that has more than 20 thousand employees.

How we fixed it?

Every team checked if their dependencies contained a vulnerable version of log4j, fixed it, ran the tests, submitted the new code, the CI/CD did the rest.
Amen to this. I bank with Starling and having decided to minimise my phone usage am having to move away from them. Likewise a variety of other services.
I’ve heard some decent tips when talking with friends, some that come to mind:

1.) Apple devices. Think of the walled garden what you will, but they tend to have less ways in which Someone not tech savvy enough could break things. They also keep getting security updates for a long time.

2.) whitelisting. Especially with phone numbers. There are so many phone scams that specifically target elderly people. It’s especially easy with elderly who only use their landline. Just block incoming calls from unknown numbers. Also works relatively well with websites and emails. I don’t know how well this would work with smartphones.

3.) adblocking. uBlock origin is a must, even for tech savvy folks, even more for non. Ideally you would also have some kind of DNS solution with a PiHole, AdGuard or NextDNS approach as well.

4.) parental controls in reverse. Elderly folks are often very similar to kids when it comes to the use of technology. So the tools you use to keep your kids safe can also be of great help there.

There are plenty of tools around, however, keep in mind that as much as you want to care about them, just like with kids, people in need of additional security also deserve their privacy. This can be difficult to balance with technical solutions. So, depending on the overall health of the family members you care about, talking about risks, keeping in touch and up to date on what they are doing is probably the best way to keep them safe.
Yes, that's why there's a spectrum of stable coins with varying levels of centralized control, governance, risk, etc. Stable-ish coins like RAI and LUSD are backed by ETH only, but they do not have a hard peg, they allow for some small wiggle room (typically <10%) that allows the protocols to catch up with dramatic supply/demand imbalances when they occur.
USDC, USDH, DAI, the list goes on
It's not that it allows it, it doesn't say anything about a similar-but-different version of the code running on a different network in parallel.
This is so funny. Self-styled geniuses inventing infinitely iterable levels of complexity to invent infinite levels of why they should have infinite governance around the concept of digital money is probably the best grift in generations.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great. In the US, it’s mostly the worst folks actually losing to this game and I’m overall entertained.

edit: I should maybe clarify that my crypto holdings are now about $20, entirely from folks losing bets to me.
Although I take slight issue with how you've worded it, I think I'm in agreement. I'll attempt to add clarification to the parts I find difficult to parse.

Blockchains only ensure that coins are never spent twice. They make no attempts to ensure that coins are sent to the correct recipients. At the end of the block, they only care that debits are equal to credits.

This can be confusing because the term "double spend" is also frequently used in cryptocurrency in the context of fraud prevention. In this context, you definitely do care that the coins get to the correct recipients but this concern is outside of the functional scope of the blockchain mechanism.

Instead, fraud prevention is typically satisfied through additional code, adjacent to the "blockchain stuff", which establishes signaling networks and transaction inclusion criteria.

They're very different mechanisms inside blockchain clients but, confusingly, they both make frequent use of the term "double spend".
The author is right that money can correct a lot of wrongs, and that’s what we will probably see in Twitter for a while.

One of the problems with cutting 80% of the workforce even if you know which 20% is useful and manage to only spare them is that competitors exist. You don’t just need people to make sure your product works, but you also need people to make sure your product runs slightly better than every competitor.

An existing social graph is a significant moat, but it’s not foolproof.

The problem is that if we assume that the 20% useful people can be identified perfectly, then someone else could build a company that has 25% more useful people than the company that just cut 80% of its staff and probably out deliver you for long enough that they’d be able to easily chip into the moat you’ve built fairly quickly.

As an aside, the Pareto principle is often misused and isn’t close to being any sort of law. It applies in vastly fewer situations that it doesn’t apply in…try applying the Pareto principle to the floor of any manufacturing facility, for example.
>the problem of fraudulent business practices isn't specific to crypto at all

The scale and the percentage of "legit" to "scam" definitely is.
It's interesting enough to share with others.
So you are saying that double spending attack is not a theft? "It's only a fork" after all.
Well a Canadian man in the USA making fun of a Pakistani man in the USA could easily be racism, even if it is subconscious. White men are the socially dominant group in the USA, and it is people of color who have told me about this issue with masculinity. A man from Pakistan and a man from Canada get treated very differently in our society.

But the behavior is also just plainly sexist. The implication of racism is just extra bad.
In my reading I don't think this is the point. The deprogramming doesn't force the individual to adopt any beliefs to access those services. I think the point of the article is for the reader to consider - no matter what they and their opponents believe - that all are in a cult.

Perhaps I missed a meta level of satire with every cult starting out this way, however, but the point seems more about our existing cults.
I don't think any engineer left would have the bandwidth to attempt anything like a rewrite. It would be DOA.
> many others became millionaires or billionaires believing into it

Yeah, being first in a Ponzi scheme tend to work well for some people. For every winner in cryptocurrency there are losers as cryptocurrencies are a zero-sum game.
>The apologists for this sort of thing are every bit as disgusting as those presiding over it.

Holier-than-thou much?
I use video game soundtracks. They tend to be designed to hit that sweet spot of easy to tune out but engaging enough to placate a distracted brain. A few I can recommend:

Samarost 3
Hundered Days
Far Lone Sails
Far Changing Tides
Obduction and Myst series
The Red Strings Club
Conspiravision (which is a remake of Deus Ex OST)
Hyper Light Drifter
I did, my Blood Pressure is not great either but luckily, not enough to prevent taking anything, but enough to be careful. I'm in ok shape, not the best I've ever been in, but not terrible. I just take something to help reduce my heart rate at night.

Unfortunately stimulants don't have much of an affect on me so I take quite a high dose at the moment. I'm doing all the suggested things to help them along, like increasing protein, getting more Zinc, Magnesium, Vitamin D etc, staying away from citrus. Ensuring good sleep hygiene.

I see a psychologist regularly to unpick the weight of all the masking and coping mechanisms. It's a long process, but making much more progress than when I thought it was just depression and perfectionism issues.

I'm starting Neurofeedback to see if that helps and planning to use an ADHD specific performance coach in the new year to help with work.
Depends on your definition of weird. Someone who cares about primes in any way is already off of the mainstream charts to begin with.
> It didn't replace the traded stocks with it's own stock

I guess I still don't fully understand what you're implying, but I am interested.

If we go back to your original comment:

> The problem with crypto is that instead of speculating on the premise of the actual inovative technology, the speculation is centered around the close money substitute that the technology enabled.

I would argue that an investment in e.g. Ether is speculation on the promise of (an implementation of) the technology, rather than a "money substitute". The chain is designed such that as it charges usage fees, that value accrues to holders of the native token, ETH. It behaves not unlike a (hopefully) profitable autonomous company of some sort.
That somehow neger brought up against Go, which is in fact much more verbose than Java. I recommend trying Java out again if you haven’t been up-to-date, because I think it is more about how we remember it vs how it actually is (but it may not apply to you).

Also, Java IDEs are still the best imo, so I wouldn’t be surprised if in fact you would type less for equivalent Java programs than in case of a much less verbose language sheerly due to the killer autocomplete.
On Swissair website there was a time where I couldn't purchase tickets because my name contains the name of a musical instrument. So out there there are people that did worse than that in my personal experience :(
Same thing for the ZX-80 and ZX-81. If you were careful with your text prompts, you could save several bytes by injecting a keyword instead of typing it out, but anything that was a "start of line only" could be tricky injecting into a string.
> the problem of fraudulent business practices isn't specific to crypto at all.

Sure, and droughts aren't exclusive to the desert either, but I've been living in a desert for the past 4 months and I'm yet to see it rain.
I was very positively surprised by Andor. I really like the way they show the empire side of things and how one (presumably) "advances" in such a system.
There are also joint issues, and they can actually be accelerated via keeping fit. Walking up the stairs with an aching knee or hip is no fun.
"If the company is left only with 20% of engineers (even the best ones), it will be way deep in survival mode (just barely providing support for an existing product, not building some new exciting things or even improving existing ones)."

This is completely ignoring the number of engineers you start with. Let's say you have Twitter with 10000 engineers and Twitter with 40000 engineers, in one case I end up with 2000 engineers, in other with 8000 engineers, you are telling me the result will be same?

First you need to find out how big overemployment and how productive employees you have to come up with some percentages, some companies are efficient, some companies ar stagnating hardly introducing any new features over years (cough Twitter cough), so clearly there is big overhead of engineers.
Public transit in Austria allows dogs, as long as they're leashed and muzzled. It doesn't seem to be a problem there.
A Pomodoro timer app helped me regain my focus
Yeah and we’ve seen how well they’re going.
I dont even have Twitter. I noticed how it drags us into things that we dont care about so I ditched it after brief use. I applaud your ability to only stick to your feed and not wonder off anywhere else on that site.
Came here to say this. Basically if you are worried about control in the Mastodon ecosystem (as a general issue, not specific technical flaws or vulnerabilities)... you didn't really understand it. Not an insult, its complicated, and a lot of information right now is a variation on the theme of "pick from these big existing sites/people who run mastodon so you can bail on twitter right now with very little effort"

If your worried about privacy, or control, or anything else like this. Just look at running your own self hosted Mastodon instance... Thats. The. Point. Of. Decentralised.
Well said, Well said!
Thanks a bunch! I definitely underestimated the amount.

Important to note that 80% of those are what the study calls "charge cards", which is 'credit cards' that resolve against an associated debit account. Not sure if those even allow overdrawing it. And 82% prefer paying with a debit card rather than credit if given the option, which indicates to me that this is a mere reaction to the online prevalence of credit cards which will go down as stores offer more non-credit card options. (As we can see by the slight reduction in '21.)

In other words, I believe this prevalence represents a desire to be able to interface with websites, rather than a desire for credit. People largely don't own a "credit card" so much as a "debit-VISA adapter."
I think you're underestimating how difficult operating at that scale is. There's no "just" here. It's hundreds of millions of people, all over the world, using your app 24/7, with the expectation that your platform is always there, that it shows consistent data and that it responds instantly. That's very difficult to build and maintain.
Yup it was. It has nothing to do with blog. I am just stating my problem with Twitter like others in this comment section.
A Mysterious China Screenshot Spurred $450B Rally
Side rant: Worst fourth wall break in history. If they really wanted to do the K.E.V.I.N. storyline they should have made the show a grittier legal/detective thriller (a la Jessica Jones) with a season long conspiracy arc about K.E.V.I.N. taking over Disney by infiltrating Marvel.

Bonus woke points if they imply that K.E.V.I.N. is a sexist AI made by SV techbros that’s sabotaging She-Hulk’s series.
No way. If I were a solitary hunter-gatherer I would still have the right to speak. In fact I seem to gain more rights the fewer other humans are around, so obviously those rights are not coming from other humans. That's how you know they're innate. But if I'm alone there's no one to hear my speech of course, which actually sounds pretty good right about now. I hate this "community," so why am I on here talking about Twitter, something I have never given a shit about? Well I got sucked in. I logged out of HN months ago as a "participant" for what I intended to be the last time, but then as a reader I ended up logging back in so I could use the "hide" feature (because I'm not interested in the vast majority of articles) and from there was gradually tempted into making a small comment here and there, and then today just being sick and tired of hearing about the delicate majesty of Twitter, well I guess I wanted to call bullshit. Twitter is shit and I DGAF about it or Elon. Anyway sorry I didn't read any of these replies, some of them actually look like good ones, and good-faith attempts to answer the question. All I did was reply to the shitty ones. I've asked YC to delete my account, couple times now, but they continue to not do it, so I take it that's not a thing that is done? So HN is just like any other social media site I guess - an addiction you have to break. And not enough hamsters running in the wheels that power it, to provide for an account deletion feature. Anyway I apologize for taking my hate of you guys, out on you guys. I know that sounds sarcastic as hell but I mean it literally. If I hate everybody, that's my problem to deal with. Which I will do by forgetting it all, probably. So have fun y'all and go outside.
As shmerl pointed out in their first comment, once Vulkan support is there, you get OpenGL support for free through Mesa's Zinc driver.
> Not your keys, not your coins. If some random company that you don't trust has permission on the chain to transfer your funds, you're not doing it right.

0 caution about this was offered in the MSM. Everyone agrees that the average crypto investor was clueless about how it all worked behind the scenes, but that didn't stop them from FOMO and wanting to jump on the fail whale anyway because investment firms like Sequoia Capital pumped it up.

> FTX was plain old fashioned fraud, the fraud wasn't committed on a blockchain.

Whether it was legitimately committed on a blockchain or not is not really relevant here. It was marketed as being a way to prevent fraud for all these exchanges who claimed they were using it for its intended purpose. How is the average investor, who got shafted thinking everything was safe thanks to this emerging new technology, supposed to keep thinking that any exchanges existing presently are going to implement it the way it was intended if they got so duped by what was supposed to be the one exchange that legitimized the whole industry?