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There's a lot to like about Solana, but one thing to dislike is the ongoing claim by the Solana community that Solana is actually fairly decentralized.

In reality, Solana is a highly centralized blockchain. Solana has zero protocol specs (the code is the spec), one production client, one main development organization (Solana Labs), limited exposure to the academic research community, and the entire network only runs in data centers due to extreme hardware & bandwidth requirements.

If we wanted to boil down decentralization into a narrow metric (we shouldn't want this, but if we did), that metric might be "how many guns to how many heads to force an invalid state transition?" And Solana scores very poorly on this metric.
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They should introduce "Discover Weekly", "Release Radar" and "Enhanced Playlists". Why are the recommendations lacking so much behind Spotify? That's the only reason I can't switch over and I would love to.
I wonder: does "is in the present" make sense (in the way that it makes sense "here"), in fact, at the cognitive level?
They combine with an ancient technique called "not reading it that way".
All I know is, a bunch of former GE people came over to a former company and basically tanked our engineering department. The engineers that migrated were successful overall (not 100% good hires, but definitely more than 50%), but all of the management that switched were terrible. It doesnt help that one of those managers also took over the Director of Engineering position, so had an outsized impact.
A fortress with a drawbridge in a peaceful biome guarantees you an easier time. With time, you'll learn that DF isn't meant to be a balanced game and that you can use that at your advantage.
The article doesn't link to or mention the case number; from Reuters[1]: (which might be a better URL for this item anyway?)

> The case is Hughes et al v. Apple Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 22-07668.

Link to the case filing: https://unicourt.com/case/pc-db5-hughes-et-al-v-apple-inc-13...

1: https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-is-sued-by-women-who-say...
No, not when the correlation is used as an argument against such measures (see, e.g., this thread). Such arguments are perniciously classist, anti-meritocratic, and anti-poor.
Dwarf Fortress is out NOW
Even if the plane's filtration is good, if the person 3 feet away from you is coughing it's not going to be that good. I'd rather rely on the combination of filtration & a mask. Defense in depth.

Day to day i'm not religious about masking, but for things like public transportation, airplanes, etc I try to always have face protection on.
And the Colorado River is the only water source in North America right?

People have a fetishization with hyping up disappearing water sources as leading to mass forced desertions of population centers, which is not rooted in any kind of reality.

We can already pipe oil from texas to Canada with ease, we can do the same from Canada to Arizona with water. Or wherever else. The economics and viability of it is obvious and clear.

Residents of water scarce areas would pay marginally higher taxes to support this
It's also one of the most poisoned by history. It has, for instance, been used in eugenics movements and forced sterilizations in the US.

It is influenced by all sorts of factors, from parental income to nutrition.

My family has folks in psych, and they universally regard IQ as "pretty bad, but useful for roughly measuring one form of intelligence".
>Salaries seem to be too low.

Yeah, seems so - 80k is on the higher end, but possible in Poland, while the CoL is laughably low compared to Germany.
Do you really think that's what I think?

No, I said that ONI crosses a threshold for me where I feel like I'm investing too much time into learning a simulation of a real-world trade to be worth it, it feels a bit hollow after a while that I'm devoting so much time to it and not learning the real thing.

I guess that Guitar Hero and Farm Simulator wouldn't be games for me either, I feel some guilt of not learning the actual thing after a while.

Edit: But to the credit of ONI, that's after ten hours of fun, and I go back to it once a year or so. My bases won't extend to the hundreds of hours and explore all the game mechanics, but I've still gotten a lot of enjoyment from the game.
That's great. Trying the Lutris installation guide for this is on my to-do list. Did you get it working with just the instructions
alone, or did you have to take additional steps?
Well, this article is certainly an example of cognitive decline it's talking about. Why would society want to encourage geniuses to work less thanks to welfare?

UBI does have several purposes worth considering:

- If people are in a temporary crisis, giving them enough spending money to live in a dorm and eat rice and lentils can let them recover rather than the crisis becoming worse and more permanent due to traumatic life experiences.

- Some adults are permanently incapable of fully supporting themselves through commercial employment. Could be because of physical or mental disability, or just a 50 year old coal miner too old to learn new marketable skills. So instead of having a fraction of the population be angry, miserable and fomenting trouble, we offer them an early retirement/semi-retirement. Let robots work for you, enjoy!

But that's at best a necessary evil, with many side effects. For example, when these functions are taken up by voluntary institutions, aid recipients are incentivized to not bite the hand that feeds them and to support themselves or pay it forward to the largest degree possible. The last thing we want to do is to impose dependency on people who least need it and are most able to benefit the rest of us through their hard work. Get all the obstacles out of their way, let them get their foot in the door through apprenticeships if college is not a good option and let them shine!
I still respect what they do, I don't respect their hiring practices or representatives. They are quite present on HN, for what it's worth.
Why, is having it still suck going to be better?

Plus the idea seems to be to add it on top, so if it flops, no big deal, the old stuff will still be there.
The running joke among my doctor friends is that pediatricians are immune to disease. Sick like a dog for the first couple years but then they become bullet proof.
I work in the adaptive reuse industry converting history office buildings into hotels or apartments. We've looked at a number of modern era office towers, and housing is simply not viable. To your point though.. ironically, urban factories and warehousing seems to me to be the best use. Can you build a small electric vehicle or iPhones with the assembly line going from top to bottom?

Banks are already there for unloading these properties. I can show you million-square-foot office towers today that are essentially free to acquire, but you get to pay tax, insurance, maintenance, keeping the lights on and functioning for any future use, a few million a year minimum, with no revenue.

Some groups thought they could mine bitcoin, but the floor fell out of that. At the end of the day, since there are substantial costs involved with the tower itself relative to a warehouse, the tower should used for something that also requires a large number of people. A datacenter-type use is best if located near cheap electricity - not usually city centers.

Lastly, office towers are usually located amongst excellent mass transit, even in cities with poor transit options, but the typical office tenant (bankers, lawyers, financiers) will not accept mass transit as an alternative to 1 parking space per employee. But factory workers will if it works!
Maybe there is an imbalance of risk taken or value added among founders and early employees. I think that's debatable, but assume it's true. It's never reasonably accounted for in the equity distribution.

It would be one thing for a founder to have 3x the equity of an early hire, but it is commonly more like 60x or 300x. Instead of a dozen people being able to cash out and support their families for the rest of their lives, one or maybe two people get to have many multiples of that and the rest barely make progress towards retirement.
AAC is already interleaved multi-channel. Two-channel L/R is obviously very common for music, but spatial audio and Dolby Atmos comes with more channels (up to 128, which can be arranged and binned into "beds"). 5.1 (6 channels) and 7.1 (8 channels) are also common for video. Having dedicated/isolated vocal tracks as a channel very trivial in the format. I'd expect this is how it's done, and not ML, because Apple have already been driving mixing and end to end workflow with studios for Spatial audio and mastered for iTunes.
> Whatever Elon Musk’s shortcomings might be, he applied his intellect and skills to self-evidently useful domains such as EVs and space travel.

The self-evidence of such is unknown to me.
Apart from the awkward misunderstanding of the word "universal", there are other issues with this proposal. For one, having a high IQ is neither necessary nor sufficient for making a major contribution to society. For a variety of reasons, most people with very high IQs never do anything important with it (in the sense of an invention, a company, a movement, a masterpiece, etc), and it's not because they lack a guaranteed income. If I had to guess, I'd say it's because IQ, vision, and motivation are three different qualities which are, at best, weakly correlated.

If you want to make your country better, make it easier for people with good ideas to get the resources to pursue them. For starters, make it easier to get grants. There are already projects trying to do this, but having 100x the resources wouldn't hurt.
I understand seeing the results everywhere, and taking over subreddits and hackernews front page, and other areas being a little frustrating or annoying... but personally, I love copilot and chatgpt (and stable diffusion).

It's super exciting for me, and a lot of my queries that would go to google can go straight to chatGPT. I'm just continually amazed at what is currently possible, and what the future holds.
> "automation is inductive proof that Marx was wrong"

He really said that? Plugging it into Google yields no results.

That's a really dumb thing to say, a very tech billionaire misunderstanding of Marx.
>In the Netherlands getting anything over €70k is incredibly hard.

Well, it's definitely possible in Poland.
Ask HN: What are some significant events/incidents in Crypto?
November 2022 - FTX Files for bankruptcy
February 2021 - Bitcoin hits $1tn in market value
February 2014 - Mt Gox Hack
Taiga was lunched as alpha in 2014. TaigaNext codebase comes from mid 2021 and will again be used by many devs around the world as best-practices reference, for sure!
I'm in Ukraine. What I seen from begin of war, there are extremely few positions for juniors - different sources say, 60-2000 cv's per position.

For experienced people, things slightly better - at 1 years exp, 5-20 cv/pos; 2 years exp ~1:1; 5+ years exp, there are much more positions, than candidates.
Show HN: withtyped – write SQL-in-TS and get 4 tailored dev engines
ChatGPT, Write an eBPF Program
IQ tests reliably measure IQ, where "IQ" is the name of the metric invented to describe what IQ tests measure.
Extracting vocal tracks from songs is something that is done trivially in all audio mixing software out there. This is hardly a "revolution", especially considering Apple isn't even going to let you export the results digitally.
You're right, that wouldn't fix it.

Fixing the problem would mean that instead of the 'owner' hiring an 'employee,' they instead form an equal partnership as co-owners. Because the business serves the interest of the owners, it will seek to maximize their compensation as the ultimate goal, rather than to minimize their salary as a way of reducing expenses.
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Where does "75%" come from? If I were trying to estimate what proportion of the population can read, or what proportion of the population is too busy to answer a questionnaire, then I wouldn't assume that the 75% who responded are representative of the whole population. Those are extreme examples but there are lots of things that might be correlated with people's willingness to respond.

Perhaps choice C was: Start again with a new random sample of students, but this time offer FREE FOOD to everyone who responds.
> cash-like respect for personal privacy.

This is false. If I go out on a date and my date sends me money on chain, I now know their public key and can look up every past and future transaction they make.

If they send me cash there’s no way the cash will help me do that.

Heck, even Venmo has protections against that.
I have no idea what you could be possibly referring to. IQ is known to be susceptible to practicing the exams. IQ itself is measured w/ different tests that don't necessarily completely agree.
> All it takes is one inconsiderate person to not cover their mouth and everyone is getting ill. And it happened all the time.

It's really depressing that even with the pandemic, the ratio of people covering their mouth didn't seem to have increased at all.
I came here with that question, why don't they call this karaoke?

Wondered if "karaoke" is trademarked? (or patented?!)

It doesn't seem to me likely that they didn't think their audience would know the word "karaoke" at this point, but I don't know.
What? The original dune 2 was house ordos.
And that revenue wouldn’t exist without labor. That’s the point. So offering to “share” that in the form of mostly fixed wages both betrays a presumption of ownership and gives a false appearance of charity or benevolence.
It's not one person. It's low hundreds of thousands to millions, depending how we count, against 1500 animal tortures. Seems like an easy choice to me.
>> What has democracy ever done for us?

Labor unions, for one thing.
I'm curious what % of offers coming from applicant's applying directly versus recruiter outreach/networking.

In my experience applying for jobs feels like a waste of time. Maybe 1/20 will acknowledge you. And you have no idea if the job really exists. But if you're contacted first by the recruiter the hit rate seems to be much higher.
I wish I’d had kids earlier, even if it would have been harder financially.

I love these new people.
A lot - we eat thousands of animals over our lives.
There is math statistics and non-math statistics. This question is a non-math statistics question.
> The more crucial the skill, the more leverage the employee should have over the founder and the more incentive the founder has in sharing equity

Unless the providers of said ability have to compete for business on price. One should not underestimate how hard it is to replace them.
"flatline" at 10 billion. I think we can make that work.
Oxygen Not Included has also much gaminess to it, like gating things behind having to build a Science Workbench Grade 1, Science Workbench Grade 2 etc which seem rather arbitrary.
I'd argue they're becoming more relevant, just less business-centric. A lot of people still like living near other people with easy access to goods, services, entertainment, etc without needing the excess of a large lawn and the isolation that comes with it. (The crowd on HN may be skewed towards the latter, but it doesn't make it wrong)

Being able to walk to pick your kids up from school, stop at a coffee shop on the way home, not have to worry about car seats, or waiting in an idling car for 30 minutes for your place in line, it can be a very nice life.
One is asking for a difference, the other is presenting analogies for bits of the tech that weren’t part of the discussion
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> Why does an AI need a human to feed it what to say? That's not a very good AI.

I'd say it's less about what, and more about how. AI can't simulate the emotional layer of the conversation in real-time just yet. Selecting the right words, tone, cadence, knowing when to pause and when to interrupt - it's all intuitive to us, and it's the core tool for the scammers[0] on the phone.

The companies are still trying to save on labor costs, hence outsourcing. The voice modification allows them to have their cake and eat it too - to move their call centers to countries with low labor costs, far away from their targets, while defeating the main heuristic people have to detect scammers: the caller sounding like a foreigner from a far-away country, despite claiming to represent a local company.

Until someone develops an AI for the emotional/manipulation layer, there's no point in adding AI for conversation here: the scripts the scam callers use are cheap, scalable, and work well enough.

> Have the AI hear the human voice, decide what to say that is relevant and useful, then generate a voice to deliver that information, then I'd almost be impressed.

That's actually what's been done for years now. Try calling the helpdesk of any large company, you'll most likely be greeted by a bot that tries to converse with you. It works as well as you can expect a chatbot attached to voice recognition to work - about the only thing it's good at is delaying and denying requests to connect you with a human.

In this case, the company can actually replace most of the support workers with a shitty chatbot because it's you who is calling them - they have no reason to care or make it easy for you to achieve anything.

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[0] - I classify first-party and third-party telemarketing, cold calls and tech support scams as just different flavors of the same thing: preying on the vulnerable.
> It's already bad enough that the developer needs to understand both target-based CMake and legacy CMake (...)

No. "Legacy cmake" has been made obsolete with the release of cmake 3.0, almost a decade ago. There is absolutely no excuse to use anything other than the declarative, target-based "modern cmake" style.

I'd go as far as claiming that 95% of all use cases boil down to simple straight-forward one-liners with modern cmake, with the remaining 5% corresponding to putting together custom cmake find modules, packaging, and deploying runtime dependencies.

> (...) now there need to be two more languages (slide 13) (...)

I'd argue that if anyone feels the need to write scripts to do something in cmake, they are already doing something awfully wrong to start with.
> Make better art. If you can’t be better than ai, you don’t “get” what art is in essence.

I think that first sentence invalidates the second. "Better than AI" implies the artist's work should be more commercially successful than an AI's.

Which of these two enterprises are more likely to have a sales team?
Sure, but we still need heating. For instance the last days (-8℃ to 6℃) from 17:30 to 10:00 in the morning I need from 1 to 1.8kW constant power for main home heat pump and VMC small one. When the Sun shine I do not need heating, large glass surfaces on the south side get enough heat directly from the Sun, but from p.v. I have around 3 hours with enough power for doing useful things, like dishwasher, washing machine, hot water heater etc not more now and Sunny days are still very few compared to cloudy/rainy/snowy ones.

In the coldest part of the winter (-25℃ to -3℃) sometimes I need 3kW just for heating. And even if not much used I also have to recharge my car witch eat around 60-70kWh/week.

If you go northern, for instance when I was in south Sweden the home ALONE, witch was not super-new but still relatively new and well insulated, eat around 60kWh/day...

Sure, from late May to September from the grid I consume VERY little, but as I said I live all the year, being unable to hibernate like bears...
> I don't need to care about the "absolute vast majority" of the tokens to make use of Uniswap

I didn't say "absolute vast majority of tokens". I said "absolute vast majority of things happening on uniswap".

> All I need is to have a market of people willing to trade.

There's absolutely a market for people willing to trade. If there wasn't, Amazon, eBay, AliExpress etc. wouldn't have been multi-trillion behemoths they are.

Uniswap isn't a "market for people willing to trade". It's a market for people willing to engage in currency speculation and flash loans using fantasy tokens. Even you are saying this. Quote: "make use of Uniswap to exchange, e.g, Storj/BAT/ETH for DAI/USDC/EURS". There's nothing new or revolutionary in this.
Even if your SSN is not an ID, there must be a use for the card/number is my point. If there is a use for the SSN, then you still need an ID to verify that you are the person to whom the SSN belongs to. So you still need the name on the SSN card to match the name on your ID. So you need to keep your SSN in sync with your other IDs.
Without any a priori information about the similarity of the responders and the non-responders, you should assume that the non-responders have colluded to hide the effect from you as much as possible. This is not a random sample anymore.

You can still get information out of your sample of that form, but its very bad, and you should only pay attention to it if you can't afford to get anything better.
> on incredible amounts of risk

These days 9/10 founders only take on opportunity risk. In real terms, they take on a tiny amount of risk. Undocumented immigrants on the other hand, that's risk. Astronauts, yep, an incredible amount of risk. Founders, no, just hard work.
He was kicked out of if not fired from PayPal is why you left it out.
It's conceivable that within a year or two, Copilot will be good enough to make the pain of the CMake language much more bearable.
Ask HN: Open-source license that limits usage by ML algorithms?
Let’s imagine I want to publish my awesome open source project so that others can contribute, use it for personal usage and all those good things. But I want to explicitly deny usage of my project as training data for any ML algorithm (e.g., copilot, chatGPT, etc.). Does any license exist already to address this? If not, can I just state that as an extra paragraph in my LICENSE file?
I have heard some men say things about women when they weren't around that I find appalling; I've had to work on eliminating misogyny from my own thinking, and it is a work in progress; I'm well aware of men and the toxicity that often goes along with them.

The narrative you have presented is frequently weaponized, specifically by the adherents to the ideology of Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism, to argue that trans women are "men in dresses" who's real goal is to infiltrate women's spaces in order to assault them (or, in the example you gave, violate their privacy and dignity). In practice this a widespread phenomenon. TERF activists use this narrative to attempt to enact legislation barring trans people from the bathroom of their gender - forcing trans women into men's bathrooms, and I'm sure that, as someone concerned about problematic men and bathrooms, that won't sound like a good prospect to you. I take you at your word this was context you weren't aware of; now that I've brought it to your attention, I hope you'll consider it and see if it alters your thinking.