jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A friend once tossed a $100 bill from her birthday into
the wood stove with birthday wrapping paper. There was no
expectation this form of currency could recover access by
negligence, fraud, theft, acts of god, or otherwise, yet
she was thrilled to mass-adopt that $100 until it turned
into ash.

Remove the negligence item and fraud and theft are still there. Banks and other regular institutions have remedies for these and they are an "improvement" for most users in this area.

Put that together with the fact that it is far and away easier to lose your cryptocoin holdings than it is to lose cash or money in your bank account and a cryptocoin is in most ways a step backward for consumers. They benefits they tout (Easier to send money to someone else, Proof against government meddling) sound good but the second is why it's a step backward for most people and the first is hampered by the combination long transaction times and the volatility of the coins value.

Is it possible that these will all get remedied? Sure. But until you remedy them most people shouldn't be using a cryptocoin unless they can afford to lose what they put in there.
I think we’re just starting to have ideas on how to have ideas for AGI.
>At least on Reddit you can find a subreddit that aligns with your political and ideological views. Unlike here where you have to understand that your political views will be suppressed if it doesn’t align to the majority.

Maybe I'm seeing different things than you are, but when I see "alternative" view points being downvoted, it's not because their viewpoints are "wrong" it's cause the comment is pure shit, and contains logical fallacies and personal attacks out the wazoo.

This particular comment wags a finger at the community, and is essentially making the point that "nobody here listens to alternative viewpoints, and if you disagree with my comment, it's cause your own political agenda is biasing you." It basically dismisses offhand anyone who isn't completely on board with its ideology:

>Unlike here where you have to understand that your political views will be suppressed if it doesn’t align to the majority... If you don’t notice that agenda, know that it is because it aligns with your own political agenda.

I mean look at how the comment starts:

>Did you just call Hacker News apolitical?

Yes. We all read it. This whole, "your comment is so absurd that I have to question it," is condescending bullshit. Not everyone comes into the discussion with the same context as you, and condescending to people who may not see the world the same as you in this way turns off a lot of people here who are trying to be open minded to other view points.

You definitely get dinged a _point or two_ of karma when you have radical viewpoints (anyone who comments here knows this). But huge downvotes turning the comment invisible come when the comment is trash, not when the message is just so offensive to the community that everyone has to silence it.
It makes me sad the web isn't what it used to be.
I've seen at least a dozen pro-Trump videos in my For You timeline since I joined TikTok a few weeks ago. Haven't seen any dissenting views or posts, and I have stayed away from politics myself.
I agree it’s worth it, but for slightly different reasons. No ads, yet the creators are getting a significant amount more money for me watching their content.

It’s the easiest, and most sanity-proof way to get money to most content creators I watch.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll be bringing this up with the team.
"bounded integers" not entirely sure what you mean. But the integers are big integers that can take up the entirety of your computer memory to represent a single rational number if you so wish.
TL;DR - It's not perfectly fine if I don't want it. Capiche?
I'm sorry to hear this story. Maybe the idea is to temper the character, maybe test it but not break it.
> But for your reference, to respond to some of the attitudes of your account, I just don't believe the Western media narrative about Xinjiang.

Apologists for totalitarian regimes usually deny the atrocities those regimes commit. I just wanted to see you do it and discredit yourself in the process.
I've come to the conclusion that the worst thing about how developers design their products is the existence of "features" that override the user without the user ever telling it to. It assumes you wanted to do something other than was was inputted without getting further input from the user indicating they wanted to carry out that action. Pretty much every massive technology fuck-up in my life has been the result of the computer doing something other than what I told it to do and me not realizing or not being able to fix it after it did so. Things like "open restored document" helpfully deleting the older, unrestored document for me, attaching signatures to emails when I didn't configure a signature, etc. I want to start a movement that forces us to ask every new feature "did the user tell the computer to do X and if so, where is it indicated that X will happen?" There are a million examples when you look out for it and they're all infuriating.
Don't apologize! We really do appreciate the feedback, so thank you.
> I decided not to and instead did the old-school thing of actually charging for the value I create

Did you convert the license from open source to proprietary, or was it never open source in the first place?
> For a meritocracy to work, it needs to engender a culture where there is an "obligation to dissent" Eric Schmidt, et al. "How Google Works", (pp 41-42)

So now with a ship full of passengers thinking they are headed to "bring your whole self to work" town, they are changing course, and are headed to "shut up or you'll be fired" town. I can imagine the passengers are not going to be happy about it.

As they say, it's their company and they can go anywhere they want. It's just hard to understand why they had to change course, and couldn't be the place they kept telling the kids out of college about. It doesn't seem like they are struggling to turn out profits.

I wonder what the original founders think of this? Are they happy about it. Is it the company they thought Google would be...

On the good side, it seems Rebecca already got some offers. At least other companies like people who stand up for their principles.
Not ad account. I think doubleclick is used for surveys.
... and you can't seem to follow through with your research - if you read past the first paragraph, you'll see that the 2004 PCLOB was completely disbanded by Congress and replaced with an entirely separate organization whose members were approved by Congress rather than appointed solely by the President. A cursory glance at their own website would tell you the same in more detail. Ironically, that was entire point I was making - people shouldn't assume take the first document they read on a given subject (or in this case, the first paragraph of the first document they read) and assume it's the complete story.

You'll note that I even "Draw what conclusion you may want from those numbers" in my original post. I offered those three reports because out of everything I've read on the subject, those were the most comprehensive. So far, you've offered a whole lot of ad hominem, a Wikipedia link and an argument that boils down to "it's a government agency, therefore corrupt and inept". If you're going to make a point, try backing it up with an actual argument and ditching the insults.
I've used ad blockers since ad started to appears on the web because ads are annoying sure but the real reason is that it is a severe privacy intrusion. This is exactly why I installed µBlock as soon as I heard about it, because contrary to ad blockers it states clearly that it is about privacy and shows that the author actually gets it.

I could not care less about stupid justification for spying on me and sending all this data about me to google, either use piwik or learn to apply analytics to your web server logs.

Anyways I was already invisible to you because I have js disabled by default, and a few extension dedicated to blocking trackers and google spefically, with fanboy's lists to block trackers.
The average american has 15k in credit card debt[1]

1) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/money101/lesson9/
The Samsung boatware is outrageous, but LG's was also pretty bad. The reason I got an LG, which I've been mostly happy with, is that they offered an Android One certified model (the LG G7 One) that came with nearly stock Android.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
You "vehemently disagree" with the "Democratic Party line" that "speech is at the mercy of a handful of mega corporations with the ability to steer public opinion"?

That being the case...

I assume you must feel that speech is not threatened by the likes of Facebook and Twitter and thus you would certainly agree there would be no reason to regulate them. They should be free to exercise their corporate free speech rights to censure content for any reason or no reason at all. Right?
Which properties?

For front-office risk and pricing calcs, speed of calculation matters most. Hence IEEE754 float64.

Fixed precision decimals really only matter for middle and back-office, for trade confirmation and settlement.
https://patentlyo.com/patent/2017/05/overlapping-protecting-...
> In 2014, a federal appeals court ruled that the APIs could be subject to copyright in a controversial decision overturning a ruling by Judge William Alsup. (The Supreme Court declined to hear Google’s appeal the following year, letting the appellate ruling stand.)

- https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/google-oracle-sup...
I weaned off my AD medication once a few years back. I felt guilty about needing a medication to keep my head straight.

I was fine for maybe 5-6 months. And one day I literally woke up with the familiar, heavy depression. It was very sudden and I knew I needed to resume treatment.

If you need treatment, it's good to get it and maintain it.
The marketing side is pretty impressive, but it seems like the logistics side might be even more impressive. I'm not sure how they manage this, but it's the only consumer product that seems to be virtually impossible to purchase in bulk at a reduced price, at least in any quantity below a full pallet. The price per can is remarkably consistent even in widely varying geographic areas.
as suggested by many hn users in this thread, I've implemented './' to execute files and it's live now.
That link does not show the instructions? Is it correct?
I think anything that crushes one's spirit leads to lower productivity.
I have built a Qt app using this approach. I created a vdom for Qt to allow for the view to be a pure function of state. However, the app also has some extensive animation, and it runs on a slow embedded processor. I needed an escape hatch to not recompute the entire view on every animation frame on some screens. I think using something like MobX computed expressions could provide the necessary performance to avoid needing the escape hatch. However, the code base is now large and dynamically typed and extensive change is now hard.
In general this approach involves recomputing the entire UI and diffing against the previous UI on every state change or maybe every 33ms. If the above takes too long, then it’s a problem.
I hear you, and I appreciate the advice. There is a vesting cycle that's yearly, but ultimately it all depends on them selling them the company a few years from now (2023 or so).

While I fully expect them to sell, I expect them to stab me in the back so hard that the shares are effectively worthless.

I've been learning ruby in my spare time, so hoping to transition to a job that uses that in their stack eventually. I think I'm going to take a long break though, I'm very burnt out from the entire experience.
Thank you, I see he's got a section on Docker. I'll read into it see if it dives in how the app behaves in a k8s environment.
Just to make sure it's clear to everyone, you need to extract every dose with the special syringes - not just the 6th one. If you use the low dead space syringes for the first 5 doses, the efficiencies add up to enough solution left over for a guaranteed 6th one.
I'm using woocommerce with a bunch of home built extras. As for the expense: there's no comparison, we crunched the numbers.

The problem is also there's a bunch of custom functionality needed and Shopify plugins do not cut it. Neither do woocommerce ones, for that matter, but I can code them up easily enough.
Why sooner?
> Does anyone have any knowledge about whether Gold use spread like other ideas or if there was convergent discovery all over the world?

Commodity currency (using a common commodity as a currency) was convergent discovery. Using gold specifically is a fairly modern state of affairs and spread with global commerce.

Medieval Europe mostly used silver for a long time. China used bronze then copper and Japan didn't adopt a gold standard until it started trading with Europe.

For a time, Europe used both gold and silver but the value of silver somewhat crashed after large mines were discovered in South America. Still the idea of using a single metallic standard or two different metals was a subject of debate until the switch to purely fiat money.
I highly encourage anyone critical of this to have a look at your list of "Liked" YouTube videos and see just how many are now inaccessible.
There is a http://coinpal.ndrix.com/ for buying but they have a very low limits due to paypal fraud, and http://coincard.ndrix.com/ for converting to paypal.
Patterns of the share market...

Step 1: create fear through speculation

Step 2: investors get cold feet from step 1

Step 3: the tech sector suffers again
In all fairness, there's nothing wrong with raising $41 million dollars if you're not burning through it. Color Labs could be stashing all that money in a mattress somewhere. Also, the founders of Color Labs have a history of extremely profitable exits (LaLa, Onebox, Photobucket, etc).
I don't see another way to bootstrap a new currency. BTW
currently the whole bitcoin economy is 1/30 the size of e-gold reserves in 2007. So to be at least like e-gold it has to rise 30 times current price.

If people hold the currency to get twice next week, than this logic apply to dollars too. Why spend dollars today, if you can convert them to bitcoins and spend twice the amount next week? Either this logic works both for bitcoins and dollars, or don't work at all.

You can hedge BTC value on exchange instantly via exchanges API, i think i explained that in the previous post. That is the reason we need a high volume exchanges (currently mtgox have around $10000-$50000 volume per day). Merchants do it automatically, not by hand. I think we'll see a bitcoin billing soon, that will help to do this without programming knowledge.

Of course there are a lot of difficulties now, but how will you explain, that amount of traders is rising despite all this difficulties? Compare this page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade from the February and now.
I think we will be able to tell if it's only speculations 1-2 years from now.
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>I don't get this recent idea that a laptop needs to be as thin and light as an envelope to be "mobile".

Weight is hardly a big differentiator for MacBook Pros, as I understand it. The difference in weight between the ThinkPad T420, which the grandparent mentions, and the latest 15" MacBook Pro isn't that great: they weigh 4.9 lb (2.24 kg) and 4.5 pounds (2.06 kg) respectively according to the official specs. I suppose the ThinkPad will have a slightly heavier power adapter as well.
Elixir sounds like it might be worth a look. Nice for scripting and as good as it gets for concurrent programming. Some of its design is inspired by clojure so you might feel right at home. http://elixir-lang.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_for_Castle...

First edit:

13:06, 9 July 2013‎ Khanate General (talk | contribs)‎ . . (704 bytes) (+704)‎ . . (←Created page with 'The '''Battle for Castle Itter''' was a battle fought in the final months of World War II, days after the death of Adolf Hitler. The 23rd Tank Battalion ...')

2008 reference: http://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm

Not to take away from the story, but "first time ever" hyperbole is trivially verified (or invalidated) online.
For a Python-like core language with an expressive type system that is simple, clean and immediately absorbable, you're really looking for Nim, not Go.

The following produces a single binary with native code generation via compilation to C, no VM:

import rdstdin, strutils

let
time24 = readLineFromStdin("Enter a 24-hour time: ").split(':').map(parseInt)
hours24 = time24[0]
minutes24 = time24[1]
flights: array[8, tuple[since: int,
depart: string,
arrive: string]] = [(480, "8:00 a.m.", "10:16 a.m."),
(583, "9:43 a.m.", "11:52 a.m."),
(679, "11:19 a.m.", "1:31 p.m."),
(767, "12:47 p.m.", "3:00 p.m."),
(840, "2:00 p.m.", "4:08 p.m."),
(945, "3:45 p.m.", "5:55 p.m."),
(1140, "7:00 p.m.", "9:20 p.m."),
(1305, "9:45 p.m.", "11:58 p.m.")]

proc minutesSinceMidnight(hours: int = hours24, minutes: int = minutes24): int =
hours * 60 + minutes

proc cmpFlights(m = minutesSinceMidnight()): seq[int] =
result = newSeq[int](flights.len)
for i in 0 .. <flights.len:
result[i] = abs(m - flights[i].since)

proc getClosest(): int =
for k,v in cmpFlights():
if v == cmpFlights().min: return k

echo "Closest departure time is ", flights[getClosest()].depart,
", arriving at ", flights[getClosest()].arrive

Statistics (on an x86_64 Intel Core2Quad Q9300):

Lang Time [ms] Memory [KB] Compile Time [ms] Compressed Code [B]
Nim 1400 1460 893 486
C++ 1478 2717 774 728
D 1518 2388 1614 669
Rust 1623 2632 6735 934
Java 1874 24428 812 778
OCaml 2384 4496 125 782
Go 3116 1664 596 618
Haskell 3329 5268 3002 1091
LuaJit 3857 2368 - 519
Lisp 8219 15876 1043 1007
Racket 8503 130284 24793 741

Not only is this syntax far more approachable for anyone who likes Python, as opposed to Go, Nim is actually suitable for systems and embedded programming. Optional GC and manual memory management makes Nim one of the few up and coming systems programming language that ventures into C territory while still being safe and pragmatic enough for general usage.

http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/20/i-missed-nim/

https://github.com/Araq/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-C-programmers
You may try out using Scala as script language like this: "scala myScript.scala". The first startup times are slower, and even after that it may be slower than Python/Ruby but it still may be sufficient for your use case.

Using "sbt ~run" (re-runs your program automatically at every file change) may also be an option.
Unmaintained software is a problem and vanilla NaCl also left unfixed issues.

For example, the signature system was a prototype that shouldn't be used any more. The portable AES128 implementation produces incorrect output on some other platforms, one of the Curve25519 implementations performs out of bounds memory accesses, and one of the poly1305 implementations will produce incorrect output if your application changes the FP rounding mode. CurveCP was also a fantastic idea, but the NaCl implementation was just a proof of concept that cannot really be used in actual projects.

But would you rather have djb spend time addressing qmail compilation issues on Ubuntu 14.10, or keep making significant advances in applied cryptography (and security in general) instead?

In addition to organizing competitions, the amount of game-changing publications he made or contributed to is very impressive. And it might not have been the case if he didn't move on from software he wrote years ago.
As opposed to urban America, which struggles with endemic crime levels, useless educational structures, and is barely capable of providing clean water. But hey, at least we’re making money for shareholders.

We must understand that the economic model does not matter as much as the regulations that govern it. If socialism is implemented in a way that can be overthrown by government officials and their cronies, then it is bound to fail. Similarly, antitrust and consumer protection laws were built to stop juggernaut monopolies from ruining the market. You may have notice those laws haven’t been enforced in the last few decades - there might be a causation between that and our runaway levels of income inequality.

Nordic countries seem to have a good balance between capitalism and socialistic policies. It allows them to provide care for their populace while also participating in the global economy.

There are no absolutes when talking about systems involving humans.
Maybe one day people will stop posting about this inane nonsense.
Guilty as charged. In my defense the repo sat unchanged for almost the entire year haha
Paypal is fine for sending and receiving payments, but just don't store your funds in PayPal. They have a tendency to seize your money at the drop of a hat. Sweep to bank account every day.
That's absolutely true! Haven't noticed that before. I guess me and most people don't look for the title while responding to a comment.
The PlantUML Website used to look like you were about to download a whole bunch of malware into your computer, but the software is really great. Diagrams are simple text files that are then rendered by the tool. This frees you from having to drag and drop circles and arrows into an editor, and allows you to easily version-control your diagrams.
> or valuations soar beyond

Can you explain why you think Fed purchases would cause stock market soar instead of decline to slow down a little?
> Keep in mind they're only able to buy US treasuries and mortgage backed securities.

They announced they will buy municiple bonds also.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/the-federal-reserve-is-expan...

> If Congress changes the rules to allow the Fed to purchase stocks

Corporate bonds first. If that fails, then stocks. Baby steps.
Kinda makes you wonder why they aren't using methods from the multi armed bandit literature.
For Android there are few fully free & open-source alternatives.

I use OpenNoteScanner.[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/ctodobom/OpenNoteScanner

[1] https://github.com/yeyeto2788/OpenNoteScannerPDF
They have this "zero-out" campaign, effectively goading local officials into reporting zero cases, you will need to think about your political career before reporting one.
I've played recorder (soprano) in a baroque ensemble - the instrument is beautiful in the right context. For playing alone, I enjoy my wood tenor recorder.
Da. Kamrad.
Actually it's a type of sequencer used to make music for sound chips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
That's my point - it took pretty harsh measures before we started getting any signs of the spread slowing down (and we'll need a few more days to verify that those signs are actually reliable).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22663318
Pretty cool, mouse was way off for me in chrome.