jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Escrow accounts and merchant layers are in development

Right, so that means that Bitcoin is not providing many of the services the financial system provides now, so comparing its energy footprint to the existing financial system is pointless.

That's the point I was making. You can't say "Bitcoin uses X electricity and Finance uses Y, which is bigger, and so is worse" when Bitcoin doesn't provide the same services or service the same size of audience as existing financial systems do.
The hilarity to me is watching people who always derided school as a remnant of the industrial age that denied creativity and could easily be replaced by Khan academy or what have you realize during Covid just how important that model was to actually educate people.

Pretty much anyone who was against homeschooling could have told you that yes, home-based education was always biased for the people who had enough resources to compensate for the ineffectiveness of that teaching method, and relied on the children also being intelligent self-starters too. Now that it is more or less forced, or forced "radio schooling" in a way, we are seeing people become suspiciously quiet about the matter.
Yep, I didn't see why the author decided to snipe at Emacs and Vim at the end of the piece. Maybe 4 or 5 years ago, that criticism of Emacs would have been valid, but packages like flycheck and lsp-mode have brought Emacs at least to parity with many IDEs. In terms of Git alone, Magit has catapulted Emacs past any other editor, IDE, or Git GUI client.
If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. Do you disagree? Why do you disagree? I'm being honest, no snark involved in my questions.
Many thanks! I will definitely work hard on getting the instructions on-parm as it seems to be common sentiment that the game is lacking in this regard (and I do agree...) :)

Global highscores are also high up on the todo list.
Many people (including Matz) discourage Ruby's Perlisms (or Perlish roots?), but at least for now, they're still there. (I say at least for now because Matz has said that they may go away at some point.)

Check man ruby and you'll see familiar (if you're used to Perl one-liners) command-line switches: -p, -l, -n, -F, -a, -i and so on.

See also here for some familiar friends: http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html#19
When I was a freshman at the Naval Academy, for Army-Navy week, we got access to the Pentagon and posted xeroxed Go Navy Beat Army signs all over the place. My buddy and I posted them square on the huge Army emblem outside the Chief of Staff's office. We slipped them under doors with big combo locks on them, which in retrospect probably led to quite a few SCIFs.

We probably walked every ring and level before we hailed a security guard to find our way out. His eyes were big as saucers and he said "The Secretary said you're not supposed to be here." Turns out we were the last ones out by quite a bit.

The Superintendent made it the centerpiece of the Pep rally the next night: "You know, admirals don't generally like to get phone calls from SecDef in the middle of the night, but what am I going to say? Go Navy, Sir!"

I wonder what would happen today?
Sorry, that was quite unreadable! My full inputrc is at https://gist.github.com/unhammer/130df5f3ebf61724d36f60c4bb1...
Restaurant meals aren't 10x more in no-tip countries.
By forcing its issuers to revise their chargeback policies to always allow a chargeback under these circumstances.

It’ll get really expensive for the vendor very fast.

Before, there were plenty of stories of issuers telling cardholders that they’re screwed and have to pay up.
“No more than 100 Sumatran rhinos remain in the wild (some estimates put the number as low as 30), scattered on the islands of Sumatra, Indonesia.”

Have to be hopeful.
Many artists are also similar, who experience flow in creating.

But then there are many successful ones who follow a schedule and still create amazing body of work. For example - Roald Dahl. Based on the notes in his books, he was someone who followed a daily time schedule and he did alright.

So, do what works for you I guess.
The article is less awful than the title. In short, the thesis is that ML seems only able to learn associations, rather than stronger, causal models.

It should be fairly obvious that ‘curve fitting’ is a misleading category—these models are clearly learning highly meaningful latent spaces that no prior approaches ever did. But I would agree that the actual high-level ability to make causal inferences seems to be lacking.

Where I disagree with Pearl is simply with the idea that these stronger models won't emerge through future research. It's too early to say this, after barely a decade of large-scale AI research that has been undergoing continual rapid progress. Greater generality and more powerful models are some of the most well-established goals of the field.
The guilty parties (where known) are local heroes. The US has a bad reputation in much of the world.
Yea I know, but this says nothing about Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
Samsung is new Nokia
The manifesto clearly states that

> While this work began as something of a joke, there are some very serious reasons that ternary logic may have value.

So, it's semi-serious.
> Because of downvotes? That's probably just because you brought partisan politics into the discussion.

Wut? Mentioning a politician’s name isn’t partisan politics. He said nothing about the politics of Cruz, he compared the Senator shifting blame onto his kids with this CEO blaming an intern. Don’t be like that.

(Edited to correct typo)
Thank you for the detailed info. I'll be on the lookout for cases to take advantage of this.
I really don't think it's empty, though if you think it's actually going to teach you an algorithm, then yes, it's empty in that sense.
First key comes up with a 3rd party performance library for go.. If you are parsing a stream, etc, it is always possible to have situations where you can stop reading when you get a first answer, but then you don't really know if the stream is valid JSON at all.
jwz says that explicitly in a lot of his writing.
> My view is that it would be good if the J&J vaccine was followed by a booster–perhaps of some other vaccine–but that it’s individually fine and in fact socially beneficial to get more people protected quickly by delaying the booster for at least 12 weeks to when vaccines are less scarce. I don’t currently see a reason for thinking differently about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Not an expert, not a researcher, but an economist...
The system is based on Scarcity and Inflation. There can never be abundance. A good example is the US has wasted 10 Trillion plus (since 2008) fighting Deflation and hasn't made the slightest difference, Technological Deflation continues to eat the world at an exponential rate.
Fred Wilson was asked this same question on his interview yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009662

He answers this on minute 30 of the interview. And mentions he'd just made his few pure Education investment.
At the same time, some books take a while to develop. The first third of Catch-22 was a struggle for me. I found it painfully slapstick. Once I finally got into the groove, the second third was a joy. But the final third was absolutely brilliant.
> This also explains why some of the lower megapixel cameras which create less pixel noise sometimes have better perceptual quality.

I'm pretty sure in those cases the higher megapixel cameras also have straight up lower SNR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrality
Focus on pain and fear.

For example, I'm the sole technical person for a number of projects. I leave my phone on at night, so that I can be alerted if things go terribly wrong.

That's both a pain and a fear. It's painful to be on-call all the time, and I'm afraid due to being the single point of failure, as well as the person responsible for cleaning up a mess.

(I'm lucky to live in a time when there are great tools available to make problems extremely rare, but you get my point.)

If someone pitched me: "Turn your phone off at night", that'd really hit home for me.

You need to find a similar way to illustrate how you're going to alleviate a pain point.
X forwarding is not really secure anyway if you are using it on an untrusted remote machine.

If you are an admin on a server and someone logs in with X forwarding then you can access his X server easily without any limitation (keylogger, screenshots, etc...).
I worked for a very large company with ties to the Bush administration that everyone loves to hate.

Here is my take, and I would never want to work at a company of that size again...

1) I can say I did learn a lot during my tenure there, however, they were such a huge collection of edge cases that not much was directly applicable to anywhere else I have worked. I can say that I got a good grasp on not breaking large complex systems though.

2) I found this to not be the case, and this was very disappointing to me. When I started there I was expecting to be surrounded by the best and brightest on a mission. I found that in the case of this company, in my group(say around 100-150 people) it was 5% of the people doing 95% of the work, surrounded by people content to do just enough to not get fired.

3) semi true, I do maintain contact with several people there.

4) Perks- NO NO NO NO NO NO!!! Benefits at this place sucked. After I left(2008) the company suspended raises for everyone for at least 18 months. While I was able to change titles to a much higher "paygrade", the company did not want to ever make my salary reflect the title.

5) Probably the biggest reason I never want to work at a large company again. Most managers were promoted beyond their competency, so decisions were made based on how much power they could wield and not what was best for the company. A great example is how they would not allow certain blackberrys to connect to the enterprise server because one of the managers thought the scroll wheel was a toy. iPhones were banned because it took > 1 hour to cut off your access if you were terminated. Thats right folks, exchange/Phone policy dictated by the fact that the company thinks they will probably fire you and they cant cut off your access quickly enough.

6) true

7) Absolutely. Im now at a small company(~150 employees) and the lack of all the crap I mention above has drastically improved my well being.
They may have met with Nintendo of America? Which would make this story plausible
The book "Fahrenheit 451" just called, it wants its dictatorial world back from the current society...

Why most people don't realize that censorship leads us to a very very dark futur?

In my opinion, everything would be so much better if we could educate kids and adult on "critical thinking" and "intelligence", instead of censoring everything that could be "fake" (for real or not) based on decision of the ruling cast of a country.
I must say that's impressive. I've been thinking about this for some time. I'm wondering if this new wave of companies would be a problem for the economy. Running a company is getting easier every year. That's good, more companies means more job opportunities. On the other hand, as we can see from the article, you can run a very lean remote company and still grow and be successful. Such companies would hire less and raise the hiring bar and if you're not great in what you do then you'll have a hard time finding a job. But long term it's a positive trend.
We're thinking of adding Twitch integration which will let you have Twitch watch parties as well :) What do you think?
Reviews for this app will definitely be kinda weird... it's all UGC targeted at children so a lot of reviews will be written by children, probably about the games on there (even though there are technically infinitely many game possibilities- anyone can make one).

Definitely an interesting platform, for sure.
Can you point to a single lawsuit that alleged actual fraud?
Please don't break the site guidelines against calling names and personal attacks, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A few things to add:

- Big connectors with lots of easy-to-bend pins

- Motherboard jumpers

- Customizing autoexec.bat and config.sys files to have enough program memory
stay away from blockchain related content, you can build a better service without it. Decentralization is not a feature users care much about, they care about the value they get from the experience.

In short, just learn to build applications. Understand a problem deeply and then use the best tools & technology for fixing it.
> Stack traces are not standardized in Common Lisp, so this is a non-sensical statement.

Yes, someone could have secretly implemented a common lisp implementation that has the most ergonomic stacktraces in the whole wide world or, equally, a posix shell that runs numerical code a gazillion times faster than the equivalent C compiled with gcc -O3 -mnative -ffast-math because after all the relevant standards do not explicitly forbid it!

I'm not quite sure why lispers in particular are so in love with this argument.

There is nothing nonsensical in saying that shell is a truly terrible language to write high performance numerical code in, even if that is not true by some sort of logical necessity.

In practice most languages have a dominant implementation (even those with ISO standards) and a range of capabilities that existing (and likely future) implementations fall within. Both are far more important than what standards say (try compiling code with djb's standard conformant usage of errno some time).
Know that, knowing which, one knows all.
Previous memo:
https://dodcio.defense.gov/portals/0/documents/foss/2009oss....
If Apple roles out GymKit more broadly to consumer devices, that will allow the average person to pay significantly less for both hardware and SaaS subscription. I imagine this would be a catastrophic event for Peloton.
> No software company wants to sell hardware outside of Apple.

You're right, but it's a strategic mistake. Hardware comes with more loyalty and brand awareness. How many consumers are aware of Square (cute little hardware squircle) vs Stripe? That brand awareness allowed Square to launch Cash App.

I think this extends to the rest of big tech too. Amazon and Facebook would do well to learn from this. Amazon and Facebook's most favourably viewed products are all hardware (Alexa, Kindle, Oculus)
Your second suggestion is not possible. iOS Apps must be installed through the App Store. Hence, Ben's point in the article that Apple has ultimate control over this process.
Generally, they talk about how its affects girls. My point is that flip-side (effeminate princes) is not a major social issue to them, the same way comic shops marketed and targeted to boys aren't a major issue to boys.

Now the "tough girl" trope is in full effect in fiction. If you portray a feminine girl in YA story you're going to deal with massive protests. We're going to look back at this period and wonder why we thought the Katnis Everdeening of all thing was a good idea and why we no longer have realistic girl characters. Unless they know kung-fu and are tough as nails they don't get published. This doesn't reflect real world girls at all.
The basis is that those signals must be paid for somehow.
It sounds a bit like a dollar auction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction to me (ish).

What he's probably trying to say though is that miners are likely operating at near break-even, so they continue to mine in the hopes of their luck improving and being able to pay their debts (ie Gambler's fallacy).

There are a bunch of reasons someone would do something illogical. Mining bitcoin is essentially gambling, and problem gamblers will continue to sit and gamble even if they're losing money. (Doubly so if they owe money to someone else).
Okay. That 1oz letter will be $150 at current Falcon 9 prices.

You know, that started as a joke, but cut it in half with reusable stages and that's really not too far off for intercontinental overnight delivery.
Well the Congressional Cinema Club could put on some special showings and ask for sponsorship

- Car Manufacturers Lobby: Bullit

- Anti Car Lobby: Duel

- Trans-Atlantic Airlines Lobby : Titanic

- Construction Lobby: Bridge over the River Kwai

- Elon Musk : Iron Man 1 or 3 (but not 2)

- The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man

- The Banjo Players association of America: Deliverance

- Tesla Car Showrooms: Death of a salesman

- Climate Change Deniers Lobby: Some Like It Hot

- Liberal Atheists for a kinder America: Any Harry Potter
lol this article is HORRIBLE

I like the part about it being irreversible...I recall a humorous back and forth between two politicians where one was arguing that we should outlaw all currencies that can't be logged or tracked and the other politician said "you mean like we do with cash? Oh well lets outlaw cash then!"
Security isn't ever easy. Sacrificing convenience is an easy trade.
By cloning and then improving.
It will be interesting to see just how useful the bed is. Angled sides are usually a non-starter for a work truck. Also, if this is supposed to be a bug-out vehicle, how do you charge it when it’s bugged-out?

Anyway, the design is certainly getting people talking. We’ll have to wait and see if Ford and Chevy have any response to this in terms of how their design language changes.
They're very popular in the countryside. Pick-ups from Ford, Mazda, Isuzu are also locally made in Thailand.

They're used a lot as utility and work vehicles. Road conditions can be pretty bad especially during the rainy season.

In Bangkok small cars are more popular.
Please don't conflate imaginary property with physical property.

They have set the terms under which she can have them publish her data. She doesn't like them. She has the choice to walk away.
Since I can't edit, I don't believe they have that option anymore:
https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200995456-The-Box-...
What more does this course offer compared to Introduction to Digital Currencies[1] by the university of Nicosia?

[1] digitalcurrency.s3.amazonaws.com/dfin-511.pdf
Well why don't we just stay hyper fertile till we drop dead? That would be very positive evolutionarily! Truth be told evolution is a chaotic imperfect process that does all kinds of glitchy seemingly suboptimal things so aging is not perfect and divine because it's evolution. Sorry Candide, we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
Someone's comment raising fear about unmitigated transmission risk got flagged to death, so here's the comment I originally wrote in response to it:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.06.21251283v...

The most recent un-reviewed publication looking into viral load, which is likely associated with the risk of transmission.

Lay reading: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/09/pfizerbionte...
This kind of comment is not ok on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While this is certainly a different model of the world - it would be incredibly irresponsible to operate if this were accurate, or that almost any model of the outcome would be in any way accurately predicable or controllable in the end.
I'm glad someone else is a fan of the email updates. I think it makes gradual adoption much more feasible.
Somehow, this sort of thing pisses me off way more than the TSA crap. Also, it's much more directly related to startups and their future in the US and elsewhere. I don't know what they do with the comments from the web, but I did take the time to contact my congressunits.

...

Unfortunately, the article seems to have had a virtual stone hung 'round its neck. Hrmph.
Complain to Amazon who is taking 40% of the cover price and restricting you.

I'm sure publishers likely love it, but read inside the cover of any book. Your right to resell it is enshrined in law (as long as you haven't destroyed it). Publishers have survived with books being traded and handed around. I'm sure they'd be fully satisfied if eBooks only had DRM to force the book to pass to someone else (IE not copying but truly transferring), as the industry has done exemplary with it.

Also, I can routinely find used books for $1 at garage sales. I bought the entire Ender series and Mars trilogy in almost mint condition for less than $1 a book as I couldn't move my collection with me when I immigrated to Canada. If cost was the true selling price for me on a book, I can get a lot of good quality books for a lot cheaper than anything on the open market, especially ebooks even when Amazon does ridiculously discount them.
"It's interesting that Charlie gets feedback saying "I don't care about formatting and design in ebooks!" "

I guess this is from the same people who watch a cam of a newly released movie with people walking by on the screen, from a 700mb divx, on a 15 inch screen, and who wonder why everybody doesn't do it this way, because I only waited for it to download for 4 hours, and yeah then I had to manually fix the synchronization of the subtitles (which I had to ask around on IRC for for half an hour before I found someone who had it), and oh I did have to install and download a couple of tools to decompress and fix and subtitle and play the movie, but dammit it was all worth it because I saved 5 bucks.
You can't make a XHR request to another domain. You only can include it via a <script> tag and that is going to fail.
Cloning data takes on a whole new meaning.
This sets a shocking precedent.
I'm not sure I fully understand you, but I'll try to answer: yes, "enterprises" don't run their business off a smartphone, but if they move to (internal) web applications or don't spend the extra funds to make their CRUD desktop applications even faster, they don't use, or need, the multi-core parallel programming model either.

If the above is not an answer to what you meant, could you please clarify?
Great to hear there'll be a hackerspace in Beijing soon!

Ours in Singapore is at http://hackerspace.sg =)

Hope to be able to visit some time!
I don't get the appeal of coding like this. To me, a unary operator shouldn't mutate its receiver. (Edit: neither should a binary one.) Instead, the resulting value is meant to be assigned to a new value or otherwise manipulated.

This is a sort of DSL, but it doesn't really give us any more clarity than traditional allow/disallow arrays, does it?

It's this:

+ url("your-url-here")

versus this:

allowed << url("your-url-here")

Why is the former more attractive?
What would you do if you wanted to put up a landing page for a company you weren't ready to go public with?

My hope was just to have some fun with it and garner a smile.

This community is really thoughtful and helpful. Really appreciate it.
Wasn't someone selling unlocked xboxes fined and/or imprisoned recently?
Agreed 100%. Haskell shines the brightest in Academic settings.
Its been posted twice in the past two days, neither story getting attention, a single comment or more than one upvote between the two stories combined. I think a repost is OK here.

// edit: http://searchyc.com/Raising+a+Botnet+in+Captivity
Use of dark patterns is lazy and unsustainable.
A consensus is starting to emerge for 29/30 (but would be instantly broken if Patrick can't do those days). Having said that:

How's 4PM-ish for you? If we ended up at Publican, 3.30-4 is actually a fantastic time for it, since you can just show up at that hour.
TL;DR - it does everything PDO does (thanks to class inheritance) but also has some nice short-hand methods for getting jobs done quicker. DRY and KISS.
He said, stroking his Unix beard.