jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also use to kinda wonder about the connection between the onchain data, and the offchain reality, especially when people talk about using blockchains for supply chains. What mechanism do you have in place to get them to sync?

But when it came to NFTs and art, I think it lines up. It use to be the enjoyment of a piece was inextricably tied with the ownership of something. It was the way physics worked.

And then, we had photography and subsequently digital tech, and now we are able to separate the ownership of a piece from the enjoyment of a piece through a digital copy. Now you can enjoy a piece without ownership!

But aghast! What does that mean for value of ownership? Well, the social contract we all collectively came up with is that the original physical piece is worth a lot, and a copy isn't, regardless of the technique. And we have lots of mechanisms in society to enforce that, from people that specialize in detecting fakes to the court of law.

It also kinda worked, because while you could digitize the painting, you couldn't digitize the ownership of an art piece--because there was only still one original. So the ownership (not the enjoyment) of a art was still scarce due to physics and not digital, because for the longest time, we didn't know how to make digital things scarce and original. In fact, we thought that's why digital was so great. No cost duplication has changed the world.

But, apparently, you can make digital things scarce. Through cryptography.

So if you view this as a progression of the separation of ownership and enjoyment, the enjoyment got digitized first. And now, we're seeing ownership being digitized. But ownership is kinda weird because it's both digital and scarce!

Back to the connection, I think the connection is simply a social contract in the way money is a social contract. "This NFT represent an ownership for this art piece."

I think there are ways around it, for future works. I can imagine art pieces being procedurally generated by a computer, but hand picked by the artist. The artist then records the parameters for the procedural generation inside of the NFT. Then, any owner for the NFT will be able to generate the art, and that would be the connection.

At the end of the day, that still relies on some social contracts, like agreement that these parameters is applied by this procedural generation algorithm, etc.
Excavation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uO-1f0gw_U
I did have an H-11. I loved that computer. See my background picture:

https://twitter.com/WalterBright
Bought a new smart TV a few months ago.

The move for me was never, not even at setup, connecting my new TV to wifi and simply routing everything through the Apple TV.

Seems to be working great so far at avoiding a lot of common “smart TV” problems.
>You inherently can't do that in a stock market, since stocks are capital.

This is just a distinction we’ve invented. It doesn’t have to exist.

> Why not? If I think Tesla is a good buy and you think it's a bad buy, you can borrow a share (go short) and sell it to me at the current market price.

If you think it’s a good value, you buy it. If I don’t think it’s a good value, I don’t buy it. You know, like literally every single market except the stock market.

We should absolutely ban options trading. We should ban every single market mechanism other than buying, holding, and selling. The market is not a casino, and these traders are not providing any net value to America.
Coincidentally, Google just announced a "basic TV" mode, although we don't know what TVs will ship with this feature. https://9to5google.com/2021/02/24/google-tv-basic-tv-mode/

Maybe Framework's next product should be a dumb TV, perhaps based on the latest LG OLED panels.
During the interview, you find yourself fending for yourself alone, your corporate framework is gone, and you realise how you miss your desk phone, and somewhere out in space a voice you can't hear is hollering: "The secret is banging those rocks together, dude!"
So < 10% discrepancy and they didn't wait for it to fully finish registering? Given that and the fact that calorie labels are presumably not precise(e.g., every Snickers isn't exactly the same), this seems pretty exciting. I've been trying not to get too excited about this device because of all of the negative press, but this is very promising.
impressive - looking forward to see some browser graphics from you in 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706699
If it's any consolation, most of these will be one trick ponies. One big exit, and forever chasing that rabbit.
I think this is a great point. Not sure why it's getting so many downvotes. Though I might quibble that medical research should not be exclusively government funded, or that it should not depend on government money. I'm OK with the government steering some extra money to the projects that need it (sometimes good social policy and private economic incentives don't align the way you'd like), but I agree a system where research is totally dependent on government money could be very bad.
Sorry for the late reply as I didn't see this until now.

There is no reason for there to be a difference in English loanword usage in North Korea between the border area and the far far North. Remember, the DMZ is a tightly sealed border and there has been virtually zero cross-border exchange that would influence the language since the Korean War. If we were talking about normal national boundaries with some cross-border linguistic exchange then there would be a gradient of linguistic features taken from the neighbouring state near the border and diminishing as you move away from it, but with the DMZ there is no such thing.

찍개 is a recent South Korean neologism for 'stapler'. There is no reason that North Korea would use the same word. I don't know what they call staplers in North Korea, though.

Once again, the point is that English loanwords were being used in Korean before the division of the peninsula, and afterwards, North and South Korea followed completely separate paths of linguistic evolution. There was no way for people near the border regions to be influenced by what people were speaking on the other side. You might flip the question and ask whether South Koreans near the DMZ are more likely to use pure Korean words due to North Korean influence, and again the answer is no for the same reasons.

도꾜 is the traditionally common spelling for Tokyo that is based on maximum phonetic similarity. In South Korea, the spelling was reformed to 도쿄 to conform to standardized rules about how to write Japanese loanwords, where all non-initial "k" sounds were to be mapped to ㅋ. So this is more of a phonemic spelling. Roughly speaking, "phonetic" refers purely to the sounds, while "phonemic" goes into the more abstract level of grouping the sounds that are considered mere variations of a single sound to the speakers of that language. However, due to widespread resistance, the South Korean reform didn't go all the way in making it phonemically regular—otherwise, we would be writing 토쿄 instead, using ㅌ everywhere for "t" (in concession to the traditional practice, we write ㄷ for initial "t").

This reform took place in the 1980s in South Korea, and didn't affect North Korea, which still writes 도꾜 for Tokyo. It has nothing to do with Russian pronunciation. If we imitated Russian pronunciation, it would come up as something like 또끼오 or even 또끼워.
For the record, my relative is very good looking and fun to hang out with.
That's what the lamestream media is for.
It's like that Red Dwarf episode, but not a parody.
One thing to keep in mind here... some of those "you can't predict" things are utterly predictable in light of experience. That part can't be faked to well, there aren't a good set of rules about it. But experience is a good teacher, and you do eventually learn to be reasonably accurate about when to do C+P vs DRY, even if you can't explain the why of it.

I think it comes down to this - when I first learned to code, it was hard enough to keep track of a couple different functions. As experience came, what I could track and reason about and keep in my mental model grew, so now that I've got some experience I can see more of how the whole system will grow and interact. I'm not really smarter per se, but rather I just have more practice as putting it all together.
It's worse now.

Back then, we had Pidgin, Trillian, Kopete, etc. that would let us connect to all our messaging services with one client.

But nowadays nobody even tries to reverse-engineer protocols anymore. Where are all the people reverse-engineering Hangouts or Facebook Messenger? I wish we could teleport the people who reverse-engineered AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN to the present day, because they don't seem to exist anymore.
Calling this an "accident" is entirely too kind to Comcast. They're happy to claim they'll serve almost anything within particular geographic areas, whether or not they can or will.

(He mentioned DSL providers, too, which are their own brand of fun.)
Mongo does have a global write lock. A per-db lock does me very little good when I only have one DB.

As to your linked doc, emphasis added:

> In some situations, read and write operations can yield their locks.

> Long running read and write operations, such as queries, updates, and deletes, yield under many conditions.

In practice, I've been bitten hard by this. A new feature rolls out, and users can't log in anymore, because a query is taking 2 minutes to run.
If you wanted an "error" function that would take string literals directly (and only string literals)

And how about some convenient "either or"?
> If the intention of the language is to "properly" work with a lot of strings (and it should be) it would be good not to have glaring inefficiencies? Wouldn't it be a good optimization to have the free routine check if the pointer is inside of the static area and then not do anything.

You can implement that yourself, by using an enum for example or by using a custom smart pointer. The moment you start adding more magic to "free" beyond "call free" you become less low level of a language.
Ok, the economics may make sense... but I fail to see how it is a "duty" to effectively subsidize these more affordable establishments.

If you choose to spend you hard-earned money in a way that I don't approve... well, it's your money.
I have no idea what the end product will actually look like, but I have the greatest hope for it.
I'd really hate to debug the app.
Interview situations are very, very different than the others.

Agreed. I once interviewed for a job within the company I already worked for (crazy bureaucratic process aside), and I was being interviewed by my existing boss, and a colleague that used to be on the same team as me.

I was asked a question about ASP.NET ViewState which I drew a complete blank on. I just couldn't wrap my ahead around the question because of nerves. It was only when my boss reminded me that this was something I had actually taught him and my colleague only 6 months ago that my nerves cleared, I relaxed, and then I could suddenly think clearly again.

The interview process creates a dynamic relationship between interviewer and interviewee that never exists between colleagues and bosses.
Another option is to include the pricefeed order id in the order submit ack message sent on the order channel to the submitter.
Apparently tungsten is what forgers use to (fraudulently) pad gold bars. Its mass is pretty close, so it takes something similar to a ground penetrating radar to detect that it is fake, unless you drill or cut it.

I guess a side effect is that you instinctively know what the weight of that size of a piece of gold feels like. A piece of gilded lead or iron the same size won't weigh in enough to convince you. But a piece of gilded tungsten? Not so obvious, apparently.
fun game! Much more polished than my submission was - http://10k.aneventapart.com/Uploads/243/ - a spatial bookmark manager. I ran out of time to fix the bugs.
Glad you liked it. The pricing is only tentative. I thought it would be better to set expectations higher rather than set expectations lower and then irk people by raising prices (if required).

I do agree that making it two months free would be a better incentive than one month free.

Thanks for the language correction too. English is not my first language and at times I mess it up. Will fix ASAP.
To be more accurate, CGI Federal won a contract vehicle that allowed task orders to be given to them under said vehicle without doing a full bidding process. It would be like having a services contract with a company and giving them multiple projects under that contract.

Awarding work in this way isn't necessarily a mistake. But when the selection process itself is broken, you end up giving a lot of work over time to a contractor that can't do the work.

Even then, a lot of the problems with Healthcare.gov were caused by incompetence on the government side of things.
The bit that got me as incontrovertibly hilariously-stupid was... they got all upset that he hadn't identified to them that he'd checked some baggage.

If the guy is an adversary, you can't rely on him to bring that fact to your attention. If the guy isn't an adversary, his failure to identify it is (by definition) innocent in nature. In neither sense does harassing the guy about it make sense.
Will this result in the problem getting addressed?

Google likely assigns these preference quirks to be low priority bugs, which when combined with an under-resourced, unprofitable/breakeven service means it will be eternally neglected.
Hot Doug's is awesome, but the line is reliably 40 minutes long. You can phone orders ahead, but Hot Dougs doesn't keep well. If you're going to go out to Avondale for a sausage and some fries, you might as well suck it up and stand in line.

The Publican, at Fulton Market, makes duck fat fries. It too fills up quickly, but they open at 3.30P every day and don't get crowded 'til 5.30 or so. And: absolutely fantastic beer list. So that's your best bet in Chicago.
So... the only thing that's real is Tao.

Wicked!
The military has its own classified, peer-reviewed journals to provide an outlet for people with legitimate analysis that they'd like to keep out of the hands of foreign agents.

His excuse is remarkably thin.
The N900 has skype and google talk video calling already, and people don't call that epic. It also works on 3G, unlike the iphone.
Thanks for the link, I'm going to put playing with that as priority #1. The api looks like it supports everything I'm doing with Youtube right now and the addition of more sources makes it really interesting. Thanks!
Looks like a B-movie robot
"I wish these companies well in retaining their hires."

I suspect that they aren't very good at that, and are counting on the fact that most of the companies that they would like to hire people from aren't very good at it, either.

Even if that's not correct, it's still staggeringly asinine.
i can't help but think it is like bundleware and the PC, which would subsidize the cost of the system, maybe by $50.

same thing is happening with TVs. This crap subsidizes the price of the TV, so then the $279 tv looks more attractive than the more expensive tvs without ads/tracking/data gathering (which then disappear)
Anyone know when it's coming?
Re: iOS 4 upgrade price, "We finally found a way to get them for free to our iPod touch users."

I'd guess the GAAP changes Apple lobbied for [1] made the difference.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/09/accounting-rules-c...
This reminds me of the concept of "karuna" in Bhuddism.

To me what the author is discussing is the difference between the direction translation of the word, often taken as "compassion" vs. the intention to seek truth and deeply act upon it. What Jay Garfield (Smith College) referred to as "sloppy sympathy" is what I think the author here is referring to as moral incompetence.
For practical reasons, I have to admit gradle is better than maven. Gradle is least bad.

However, I do have to say turing completeness in a build system is an anti-goal for me. You shouldn't have to guess if your build will halt. I've seen terrible things done in builds, and most importantly, static analysis is the point of these systems... it's what makes IDEs able to work.

From what I understand the turing complete code in gradle merely builds the model, which the IDE (or gradle) can then use to run the build, but still...

Finally, if you do have to use a turing complete language, it sure would be nice to use one with static types. I know groovy syntax reasonably well, but without auto-complete on my build scripts (less my project), except at run time it's crazy hard to know what to type. And god forbid you have to debug it. I've added for loops to print out every variable, and for god sakes I've even had to attach a debugger to my build to figure out what it's doing. That's just nuts.

[edit] And finally, let's not ignore that fact that groovy tries very hard with it's closure syntax to look like JSON, so many developers paste in code from stack overflow and think it's actually configuration. (I actually kind of like that for other uses of groovy).

[edit2] apparently they know it's so bad gradle (the "gr" comes from "groovy") now uses kotlin for it's own build scripts (like on their github repo). If anyone's done gradle with kotlin I'd love to know if it actually helps.
> Generally your client should close the connection when it's done. Server-side close should mostly be related to idle timeouts.

To achieve that, the client must have an extra thread listening for the close event, or a periodic check to purge the dead TCP connections.

But there's a gotcha, some TCP connections without KEEPALIVE just timeout naturally, and FIN packets may never reach the client, you only know the connections is dead when you initiate a real request. This is when most connection pool fail apart.
Graphic/ UI design plus audio and video production. Affinity/ Sketch/ Final Cut / Resolve / Fusion / Logic.
It's amazing how many gates and locks are unlocked or broken when urban explorers come across them...
It doesn't have to change with the Doctor. Having it just be from 13's Doctor even after she leaves doesn't make it less cool or engaging.

It's not like anybody stopped loving David Tennant or buying related toys when Matt Smith showed up.
Is pilog just a mini logic programming language implementation or what you would call a full prolog engine?
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Not saying I agree or disagree with you - but - what is your opinion of real estate investors who own parking lots in crowded urban neighborhoods? If you don't think it's the same thing, I would love to hear your argument.
My University CS department used classical music composers: copland, holst, strauss, &c.
I generally think the same but locally, our grocery store can't keep items in stock either. Its only gotten worse over the last two weeks. Bread, milk, eggs, meat, paper products, trash bags, cleaning supplies all are either very low or just gone early morning or well into the evening.

Last night I even asked if there was a good time to come and the cashier just said, "there is no good time, the shelves will still be empty".
It's a URL list of child abuse content?
Which is one reason why pigouvian taxes are better than banning it completely.
To be fair, that's mostly because people on average don't understand statistics.
Just to put my two cents out there in case someone knows someone who does this. I consider what Apple does to be exactly what I want on the web. I just fork over 30% (no minimums) and literally never think about it. I get that I need to integrate for the web, but I don't want much more than that.

I'm not trying to build a big business, just some side stuff where any time spent on payment processing is a huge impediment. I don't want a merchant account. Subscriptions would be nice.
I just sent them an e-mail. I'm hoping this is a payment gateway :D Have a call with Braintree, but they require monthly minimums and a setup fee. If there was a scalable solution as follows, I'd jump onboard immediately:

-Create an account (Free)

-Start accepting payments at a slightly higher percent (3.5%?)

-Percentage goes down as volume increases

End the negotiation, setup fees, etc that are stuck in this archaic business please :(
I reject the premise that architecting and programming are two separate fields.
I think there is a lot of people here who hate their offices/coworkers. I haven't worked at a FAANG(?) company but I've always enjoyed my office. I've learned a lot from random coffee runs with people in the sales team or support team. I've randomly glimpsed someone traversing our logs in a way I didn't know possible and asked them to teach me. I've had great technical discussions with people at lunch that couldn't be planned. I hope to have these again some day.
I would imagine the socialization benefits of family income probably massively enhance interview skill and (even more) letters of recommendation as well, no? And for the essay, this seems easiest to fix with wealth as you can hire someone to either write it for you or massively edit it and assist you with it.

Any time someone proposes to get rid of this or that requirement for being correlated to wealth, I'd like to see what the alternative is and see if it's any better.

We want something somewhat meritocratic, where we can tell the difference between natural capability and hard work on the one hand and simply being lucky to be born into wealth on the other... but it's not clear to me that objective measures like the SAT are going to be worse than interviews/letters-of-rec/essays in discerning that.
Both the professor as well as the police detective at the latter part of the video. Very informative!
The big iffy assumption being made in your post is that any kind of foreknowledge of the outcome exists. In reality you're probably looking at survivorship bias at work. A thousand artists throw their output at a wall, one manages to stick and rakes in the big bucks.
we're talking about the code released today.
You just didn't specify warehouse workers. But anyway, there are corroborating accounts of that too: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...
See #5 for more details: https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin#faq

> 5. Will I need to put my keys on a remote server to scan the blockchain for incoming transactions?

> Keys will never leave your mobile device. This is a challenging problem and we are very excited to share our solution when we release our mobile SDK software.
Signal creator is actively against 3rd party clients, because they "use his infrastructure for free":

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It looks like you've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It looks like this algorithm will give you better and better accuracy as you get farther from the equator. There must be some way to compress the location information with that in mind and shave a couple of digits off the result?