jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Personally I'm not so concerned about the step "store of value" -> "medium of exchange".

Let's imagine for a second that most people on earth want to hold bitcoin, becuase they believe the price will not go down (i.e., it will remain stable or go up).

Then, they would rather accept bitcoin for payment, were it as easy to accept the fiat of whereever they live. This is because fiat is designed to lose purchasing power.

The way to make it "easy" will be solved by second layer solutions like lightning or even custodial solutions, these need not occur on the bottom layer all the time.

Anyway, to your last sentence. Why it must rise in value.

Satoshi created "number go up" technology which aligns perfectly with human greed and adjusted to occur in large swings on a four-year basis. No growth in price can be linear btw, because how would the front-running look?

Believers in bitcoin believe in "number go up" [1]

[1]: https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/2021/01/26/what-is-number...
World war Z is cool, but it's a fantazy. For example it pretends that tanks can't drive through a zombie horde because the tracks would come off. Thats conoletely absurd - tanks can drive through trees, let alone people, tank crews call infantry 'crunchies'.

If you want to see how a zombie horde would fare on a battlefield, look at how infantry and cavalary charges did against ww1 machineguns. It would be like that, but 10x worse.

Besides, there is the whole issue of zombies rotting and concervation of energy - after a few months they should turn to rotten goo, or motionless husks.
> 99% of the opposition to Signal integrating cryptocurrency payment seems to be from people who generally disagree with the idea of cryptocurrencies

Most crypto projects are a scam, but some are great. I do hold bitcoin since I started doing research on cryptocurrencies for my bachelor thesis on that topic back in 2013.

Adding cryptocurrency capabilities to Signal is a very bad idea for many reasons.

It has almost no practical value for users of Signal. Those who want to use a wallet for the currency of their choice can always download one and probably already did so. That's the superior solution because it's not just coin-agnostic, but promotes choice: if it's not a good wallet they can change the app without suffering though network effects, something they can't do with their messenger.

The regulatory environment for messaging is drastically different from the regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies. The latter is less consistent, less clear and still faces high regulatory risks in some markets. The first one has clear advocates and strong theoretical backing in all democracies while the second is still on very shaky grounds with varying degrees of good will in society. I have yet to read an argument why stretching one product to fit both environments might be a great idea, or even just a prudent choice of risk management.

It is hurting Signals reputation, which is Signals main selling point. For several reasons:

That direction surprised many people as Signal is far from a feature complete messenger. Almost everyone agrees that there is real work to do regarding, for example, multi-device support, history portability or the decoupling of phone number and identity. A wallet for an almost unheard cryptocurrency might feel random to many, given the many features users are still waiting for.

Another reason for why this feature is hurting Signals reputation is that cryptocurrencies, just as you said in your comment, are controversial for many. Some projects are more, others are less controversial and MobileCoin - for now - seems to be in the more suspicious camp.

It's generally, in branding, not a winning strategy to tie your good brands to your bad brands. You would want to keep them neatly separated until they are both successful just so that you can drop your less successful brands without putting your winners at risk. ... and you would do that despite believing in the success of all your projects.
That's probably the best written TC article I've ever seen.
I'm sending you good vibes imp. Good luck to you!
Very timely article, thanks for sharing it j_baker.
You didn't say where you live. In the New York City area the reality is that driving a car is neither fun or convenient.

Have you ever spent 40 minutes looking for a parking spot? We already have a problem and providing alternatives to driving is the only solution.
> But Apple don't seem intent on capturing the mass market.

Absolutely - they're clearly more interested in profitability and not having to kow-tow to partners than market share. And who can blame them - would you rather be Porsche or General Motors?

Market share is massively over-rated as a metric - someone in the circulation dept of a major newspaper group once told me that when companies start talking about market share, they're usually trying to hide the real story, such as lack of or decline in customers/revenues/profits. Obviously smartphones are a completely different industry, but there are multiple ways to measure business performance, and the ones which are most loudly trumpeted aren't necessarily the most important ones.
I think your example is 100% wrong.

I think you've conjured the word 'ordinary' out of the air and made up an example that supports your made up word. This book like all children's books is a way for parents to put something into their child's mind. In this case it is a book that tells children and reminds parents that dreaming is great.

The 'ordinary' people you feel are getting portrayed so badly aren't 'unable' to dream or disadvantaged in any way they just don't dream of very impressive things.
I'm not so sure we'll see the price of phones come down as component costs come down. The niche part of the market for mobile phones has always existed... the phones just get better.

You can see this exact trend in microcosm in the iPhone. The price has been pretty much constant but the tech available has rocketed.
"I can't possibly see what could go wrong"
This is easy: Most people don't and will never directly feel the consequences of that stuff. Millions of people fly every day and directly experience the TSA nonsense.
I guess your position and reputation come into it to, I could go insight as much violence on Twitter right now and nothing would come of it.

Drawing a parallel though, if someone prominent with influence did this in America what would the repercussions towards them be?
Some stuff, like OO and TDD cant really be learned in few days.
What you can do is follow some gives about this, read books, go to class and program stuff, its something that you gain knowledge with projects under your belt and with some guidance.
This interview process assumes candidates don't have anything else to do. I think they should pay the candidate for time spent looking at their code and making suggestions for improvements
How would you know what a joke looks like?
Last time I spun up an Azure instance someone from Microsoft sales called or emailed me. I don’t really understand the issue; the behavior is expected except one company shares marketable data with another and because Linux.
People seem to have forgotten eBay exists -- the A1242/3 is still readily available on there.

I cringe a little seeing all this affection for the A1243, after having seen scads of them go into the scrap heap at my local nonprofit electronics recycler.
Average just causes other issues. Teams should probably have their own rating not derived from the individual elo.

But honestly, elo is a shit system for fun matchmaking anyhow.
> essentially identical to the browning hi-power.

BHP is hammer-fired, Glock safe-action is striker-fired.
To me it's a toss-up between Windows 98:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tajDxBaPBBM

...and Classic Mac:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ1mpI01evk

The Windows sound doesn't play until after a very long, grinding boot sequence with an ambiguous moment of completion, so its slow, grand crescendo is a fitting indicator that the show has now begun. The Mac sound by contrast is played the instant you push the power button, and correspondingly it has a satisfyingly immediate beginning; its single richly textured chord seems to want to convey that pushing that button was the correct decision, and your day can only get better now that your Mac(tm) is powered up.
> First of all, you suggested eliminating (among other things) medicaid in favor of UBI.

Medicaid is a pretty predatory program in its implementation. It provides the bare minimum of care and comes after your personal effects to try and pay for it - for those over 55, states are required by law to recover whatever they spend on you, and they put a lien on your house. [1]

This serves to lock in systemic inequalities by taking away the inheritance from poor children while wealthy folks see their estate tax burdens removed or eliminated - it's a regressive tax on the poorest.

The program is an atrocity. It deserves to be nuked from orbit and replaced with something humane. It's only one step above "just let them die at the entrance to the hospital."

There's two ways to move forward if you choose to eliminate Medicaid. You either take a portion of the UBI payments and purchase private care, or you expand Medicare to, well, All.

> Secondly, define "medical needs" if you are mentally incapable of managing your life, then someone has to care for you in a non-medical manner. As an extreme case, there are people who, if you walk up to them and say "please give me all your money," they will ... give you all their money.

I do actually consider those to be medical needs but understand the point of contention there.

[1] https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/medicaid-liens
I've been using my desktop with a portable monitor and a lapdesk, due to recent high demand for work-from-home space in my apartment. We shouldn't undervalue those USB ports, it is really nice to have all the non-monitor user interface stuff go through a single wire, if the alternative is to have a bunch of wires tangled around you on the couch.
> It's still his linkedin profile plastered all over twitter right now though more than Azure's EULA/T&C's.

This is pretty disgusting that someone didn't think to cover his name or image while complaining about what is essentially privacy and having a central beef with two companies. That said, while it's disgusting to me, it can easily be shrugged off as "thoughtless" by others because privacy is not a mainstream concept.
The world has a severe shortage of opiate-based pain killers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid#Global_shortage_of_poppy...

Opium poppies grow well in Afghanistan and farmers already know how to cultivate and prepare it for shipping in large quantities.

Potential mineral riches are spiffy and all, but it seems foolish to toss money at projects which require large-scale construction and worker training when an existing high-demand product already exists to productively employ the populace.

These folks don't yet have infrastructure capable of large-scale mineral extraction. Why not build upon useful agricultural exports and start from there?
I've worked with display walls before and trust me, even a one-pixel gap between displays is too distracting for any real use. Considering the tiny size of these pixels it would be impossible to get the screens that close together.
Web 2.0 = Ajax + Social Media, basically. Websites that don't have to refresh the entire page to conduct user interaction, plus social news/networking/blogging/etc.
As a rule, soldiers follow merchants

That struck me as the most important comment regarding this article.
Somebody would surely find a way to spin that into an act of war, clear out the scuttled ships, and invade Iran.
I have never heard this. Citation please?
The Belgian Congo did very well for itself. It had a very fast growing economy, the resources really helpd. Read about it: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,866343,00.html The question is whether Afghanistan can find it's Governor Pétillon. My guess is no, because democracy does not produce men like Petlillon.
Twitter isn't insular. My mom knows Twitter conventions. That's not from my influence: I think she may still her mail on AOL.
I also encourage you to keep Appleseed on the radar in this way. It makes sense to mention Appleseed when a bunch of people who are interested in discussing social networking (especially opensource options) are nearby.
Many foods like wheat flours are already fortified with B12 and iron. At least where I live.
I was bored until the author referenced German Tanks.
I've been using this to prepare for Discrete Math. It's pretty interesting; the authors do a good job of putting mathematical concepts in historical contexts, which keeps me engaged.
OK, fixed it. I wanted to link the full screen version, but I guess posterous puts some kind of access restriction on them.
Well for one, fonts. Make it look better, I don't know how, I'm no designer, but it looks like it's been done by a programmer. It's ok, but it can be gorgeous! Also perhaps underline the search results. It should be clearer what is clickable and what not.

Also the background going green on hover isn't looking good I think.
I think that's a general concern with distributed social networking, and something that I've struggled with.

Part of it is a social problem, resulting in the years we've spent in centralized walled gardens. Nobody has the expectation that you can rescind an email, because the decentralized nature disallows that, so people socially adjust to that.

Better distributed protocols shorten the window, so you can send out an update, then delete it, and hope nobody's seen it, and that the delete command was followed by all points.

But there hasn't been a satisfactory solution to ensure that the data can be completely rescinded, regardless of whether a receiving host acts improperly.

I'm always open to ideas on that front, as I bet most people in distributed social networking are.
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We build our product backend in Rust and take a very pragmatic approach to keep things simple. No complicated cloud setups, no distributed computing, no unnecessary glitter. A focus on a good user experience with a target of very low response times for everything.

We are looking for a (mostly) backend engineer that is comfortable in a start-up environment in a very small team. You should be able to diagnose problems and come up with solutions on your own from end to end, including some frontend or devops work when necessary. The work requires good organization and carefulness, a tiny mistake can cost a lot of money. Experience in logistics is preferred as you will need to learn a lot about the domain.

We are based in the Netherlands but it might not be an issue if you are located elsewhere in the EU.

If you are interested and want to know more, you can reach me at: dirk - leancustoms.com
Interesting idea, but wouldn't you get better coverage of people using GSM addresses, rather than Wifi MAC addresses?

Also it could be rather easily tricked by competitors, by constantly switching the MAC address.
If you think you are good at coding, why not get into any of the top IT (by employees) companies. I know they are recruiting the lowest of the bottom barrel. Why not join them and make a decent pay and a career while meeting some experienced people who actually know stuff.

I think it's impossible for anyone even just barely decent in programming to get a job in India. I have seen people get into Motorola while searching for jobs like nomads. They were not from premier or even well known institutes. What you are subjecting yourself to is incomprehensible based on your objectives.
The CAIB asked for options for a hypothetical scenario. They were given options for a hypothetical scenario. It's unknown whether anyone would have had the guts to actually try to do it if the opportunity arose. Furthermore, sacrifice for the sake of rescue is one of the better aspects of humanity that is respected. Otherwise, all risky rescue missions should not happen.
Are you asking about the proprietary ARM instruction set extension for speeding up interpreting Java bytecodes? It failed because JITs were faster, so as soon as devices had enough RAM/Flash/CPU to JIT they stopped using Jazelle.
There's also a factor of compliance and regulation that affects what doctors are able to say to their patients.
Nice content marketing
You might be interested in Fieldbook; I think we got the master-detail thing right: https://fieldbookapp.com
Does Aerospike offer transactions?
Just because something is a long-lasting bubble doesn't meant it's not a bubble. The housing bubble lasted what, the better part of two decades?
Then make it a lottery. Payouts for certain licence plates at certain times of the day.
That's a delightful read, the story of the rise of the "clerk", and the growth of office work.

A useful question today: when do we hit "peak office"? At some point, the demand for office workers and office space should max out. More of that work is being done by computers, of course. In particular, new companies tend to have much smaller office staffs than older ones.

We passed "peak paper" a few years ago, much to the annoyance of the paper industry. (Packaging usage is up, but paper documents are way down.) Why hasn't "peak office" been reached yet?
Well, I'm the reverse. I'm an American that dated a foreigner. While my friends didn't actively joke about it, I had many conversations from concerned friends and family.

"It is humiliating and wrong"

While I don't think it's right, I can understand why it might cross a person's mind.

Many cultures have a different idea about marriage. If you are living in a country where there is no future because the economy is horrible and there are no jobs, and all you need to do is marry an American to not only get out of this situation, but also help your family. Wouldn't you do it?

Many choose to do this and because it's so prevalent from some countries, it becomes the rule, not the exception.
Sure, so long as you never have to open a document created by an external entity.
The title says "ID card". First you need to read the printed texts so that you can be able to read the chip of ID cards.
Clearly, graceless barbarians and children cannot be afforded the luxury of a sturdy table, then.
There are tons of rule of thumb routing design choices made that lead to being able to route incredibly complex PCB's which becomes a topological problem. Rules that would need to be either programmed into such a system, or somehow potentially AI could use a huge corpus of board designs and schematics to make a better auto router.

My point is that as they stand currently, autorouters are absolute trash and you should not be depending on them.

The only real place they work is when you have a trivial routing situation but it would be incredibly tedious to route by hand, like a bus with 100+ traces or something.
Take all of this with a grain of salt: I'm an Excel and VBA developer. I'm a bit of a dinosaur and I'm looking to pivot to Java + JavaScript as I'm just a smidge underpaid.

However, I have this to say about Excel. MicroSoft is making a push to kill VBA with two prong. One, replace VBA with JavaScript through OfficeJS. Two, beef up Power Query and Power Pivot so that you can do enough ETL in Excel through a point and click interface.

But the nasty truth is that on the ground in offices worldwide, there are ETL flows that shouldn't exist, but middle managers do not possess the political capital, incentives, or technical skill to remove. And while Power Query, M, DAX and Power Pivot are excellent, in, let's say, 5% of workflows, you need some business logic in some language that is more flexible. And this is the real problem with VBA; it papers over dirty workflows, even if the data structures you are provided are not good.
And I just ordered an HP laptop with a Ryzen APU.

Voting with wallets counts, people! If you want to see more AMD laptops, buy them!
Too bad the information on this website isn't open data (like OpenStreetMap). I'd love to contribute otherwise.
They commit patches to OpenBLAS which is still 2-3x slower on Zen 2 than MKL on Intel hardware. Intel has better software engineers for high-performance math it seems.
Link to the paper: https://www.etoncollege.com/userfiles/files/KS%202011%20Gene...

The question should be viewed in context. There's an excerpt from Machiavelli on cruelty in politics and then the test subject has to answer three questions:

(a) summarize the argument,

(b) form an opinion of the argument,

(c) use the argument in a practical situation.

These questions are clearly ordered by increasing complexity and test the ability to (a) understand, (b) evaluate, and (c) use an argument. It's intellectually dishonest to take the question out of context. The point of the question is to adapt an argument, not to justify violence.

2010 paper has a similar question. It asks the test subject to adapt Thamus's argument to express concerns about the invention of computer technology.
+1 for feeling your pain, had the same nightmare myself about 6 months ago.
This makes a lot of sense - either the software is maintained, at which point the handing of the header (without the prefix) is updated when the spec changes, or the software is not maintained and broken.
I was planning to go to vacation to either Estonia or Lithuania this summer. I could adjust my plans to make it to the meetup. Maybe.

When are you planning it?
Presumably you are from the US since in the civilised world most people get a month off every year ;)

A relatively simple but interesting and easy-to-branch-from trip would be to hit one of the big Mediterranean cities; say, Rome, Marseille, Barcelona, Mostar, Athens, Istanbul, Tunis, Tripoli, even Cairo. Hang out there for a bit and then take a ferry to another one (or a smaller place). If you get bored of the Med, you can make trips inland.
Where did you hear of Science Hack Day ?! I've never heard of it and would give a lot to have been there.

Now really annoyed (mutters to self under breath .. muttter mutter mutter ...)
I constantly use Maps to explore areas where I haven’t been before which involves a lot of dragging around, not searching. Maps is tremendously helpful when your goal is to get a feel for the area and more consistent labels could certainly help making Maps much better.
How far away are these things? Don't send a grunt, make sure it's someone who can think on their feet because the closer you get to these places the more obvious it may become that you need to turn around. ;)
Superb list.

Can I ask, which points are borne out of personal experience, and which points are advice from others? i would love to read some of your sources of information. Even if I have read them already, it would be good to re-read em :)
The code is, yes, but repackaging the actual live site content is a bit iffier. From what I can tell, pg's never either explicitly blessed or objected to it--- he seems to benignly tolerate it (though I may have missed somewhere where he addresses it?).
If you want to take a hardline attitude towards it, then TAAG itself is in iffy territory, because many of the fonts it uses were just thrown on BBSs or the internet with no explicit open licenses. He seems to have just assumed (probably correctly) that if they were put online, or as part of "figlet font packs", then a BSD-style license was intended, but there isn't an explicit one on most of them.
The article is quite clear - "NASA's Kepler spacecraft hunting for Earth-like planets around other stars has found 706 candidates for potential alien worlds while gazing at more than 156,000 stars packed into a single patch of the sky."

Potential. No claim that any of them are 'earth-like'. The person who wrote the title either doesn't know how to read or is being deliberately sensationalist.