skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bitcoin can, as of now, scale to support the current needs of 10 billion humans"

If every single human were mining, no, it certainly could not. If there are only a few miners and a bunch of participants, maybe. To boot, Bitcoin can't even support my needs. It's too slow for transactions unless I pay some other middleman, it can't cut my gemstones, it can't solder my LEDs, it can't run my Verilog sims, it can't raise my cat or feed my husband. Bitcoin doesn't sate my thirst nor does it provide me with my medicine - actual needs.

"Most likely you don't understand what bitcoin actually is."

I don't need to understand bitcoin to understand that we tried exactly this back in the 70s and apparently people didn't learn the lesson THEN. Distributed permissionless databases simply can not scale if everyone participates. The technology then, as now, simply does not exist to handle that amount of storage and bandwidth. It likely won't in another 50 years, if we even make it that far.

Having over 30 years of experience in computers and networking and databases, I look at this and say "Go back to school, one with a proper education involving some actual history regarding computers and databases and networking." All you learn is how to code and don't learn about what's already been done or tried, so everything is new to you when it was already seen, tested, or envisioned before I was even born.
So thats enough for all of Puerto Rico right there?
> It's not "crazy", it's pure, thoughtless hype.

What a well thought out argument, thanks so much for your insight.
This seems like a more realistic, tangible criticism.
We just had the largest ever European Ruby Conference. Ruby has fallen off the Hacker News hype list, but it's far from dying, let alone dead. At 24 years old it's simply matured.
After reading the whole article, it seemed impressive .. Although didn't like his way of writing so simple ideas in a very very very long article.

Anyway, TLA+ and Formal Methods seem a promising thing and definitely need to check that out. I totally agree with him with the way we are not giving a good weight to planning especially for applications that need robust security and safety. Especially after the appearance of Agile methodology and alike. (no system is perfect anyway)
But definitely we need more of that verification and we don't need it in the esoteric way they mentioned but in the easy way that allows every programmer to use without so much complexity. Maybe tooling around something like TLA+ could make it easier to understand. People in here though say that it's not that hard but it's not beneficial in every single situation just when you have complex algorithms.

I got convinced though with another idea that's easier to apply at least for now, using type systems (type theory) through using a programming language with sound type system (Facebook is making nice progress in that) on the front end FB made ReasonML , a language derived from OCaml to generate javascript. It really erases a whole set of bugs by getting a good type system like that. I'm learning these days OCaml and Reason. New languages as Rust are doing great too. I think writing code is improving these days but it'll get definitely better in the future as we understand more about how we actually do it. The field is just around 70 years old and it's still in its infancy I think.
Curious, have you compared this idea to what Darcs does (I don't know Darcs well enough to do justice to it, but it sounds related).
For the job that JavaScript does, there is simply no alternative. The only thing that ever came close was ActionScript, but even that didn't didn't do what JavaScript does. There is only one programming language that embraces and enhances HTML & CSS; JavaScript.

And it's a horrible language. I write JavaScript all day everyday. It's how I earn my living. But I'll admit that it's a terrible, quirky, cumbersome programming language. But then it does its job in a terrible, quirky, and cumbersome environment. The JS I write has to run in several different runtime systems. Run times that change at random, in a way we the developers have no control over. My JS code has to embrace uncertainty, unlike my Swift or PHP or Python that comes with concrete guarantees. But I know that as much as I love Swift, it couldn't do what JS does. Not as succinctly as JS. Not as effortlessly as JS. Swift isn't as street wise as JS. Swift doesn't have to put up with the crap that JS has to put up with. And so Swift can be elegant and modern. But it will never be as versatile as JS.
There are definitely some ridiculously bright LED lamps driving around my neighborhood, as is easy to confirm by looking at them through diffraction grating glasses.
You're gonna get hop ons
Tungsten is noticeably lighter, by about 7%. Hand-in-hand comparison with another similar-sized bar of pure gold would give it away instantly.
Supercharging Front End Development with VS Code
In the vector graphics world there is the notion of "nudging" with the arrow keys. This way you can make fine adjustments without zooming in, and you don't have to worry about sloppy clicks accidentally moving things 1 px.
Probably used the top of the tube to get mechanical advantage and tipped it towards the narrow part of the rectangular base.
All Macs have NVRAM for settings like default boot disk, volume and display brightness.
Feynman Sprinkler:How does a submerged sprinkler that sucks water behave?[video]
Uncontained engine failures can still cause a significant amount of damage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_32
This is actually not too uncommon. Natural phenomena like hurricanes, tsunamis, etc are very good at keeping the diversity of ecosystems fresh. Parts of the southern Pacific Ocean are, by and large, a wasteland--not a lot of life in the water.

However, the small islands in the middle of the ocean are awash with all sorts of interesting life, commonly having landed there in some violent event. The warm climate actually is very good for growing vegetation, so herbivores can proliferate if they make it on-land.

The BBC documentary South Pacific covers this v well, definitely recommend watching.
Ask HN: Searching for an article on the evolution of the scroll feed
Hello,

I've done a search on google and hn.algolia.com but I'm unable to find an article I saw on here form a year back. It was talking about the team of developers at facebook that popularized the scroll feed. Does anyone have any links for write up's on the evolution of the scroll feed?
She is reaching out for help, not for herself but for her people, u suggested she to shut up because that makes your President look bad?
I'm not saying the labels wanted to go DRM-free. I'm saying that it was the only option they had at that point. They got legitimately scared of Apple's dominance in the market, and the only way to introduce a viable competitor was to do what they did with Amazon and a DRM-free store.

And just for the record, responses like "ROFL" and calling things "moronic" (as you did in your other comment) don't really make you look like you know what you're talking about or like you're someone who should be taken seriously.
Also in the category of "generally regarded as objectively bad yet also immensely popular," see junk food.

Junk food is not engineered to leave you feeling satisfied--in fact, it's quite the opposite. Junk food is designed to give you a brief and fleeting pleasure only for as long as it is in your mouth, and then leave you feeling empty and unsatisfied afterward--that's why "you can't eat just one," and people will eat through an entire bag of potato chips and still want another bag. It is momentary, fleeting pleasure--and the fact that it leaves you feeling unsatisfied is exactly the thing that makes it addictive.

I'd compare Dan Brown's books to addictive junk food: the act of consuming it is unsatisfying, and that's a feature, not a bug. The page you're reading isn't satisfying, but he does a great job of creating this sense of anticipation that, on the next page, some amazing mystery is about to be unraveled. They're "page-turners:" you don't really get a ton of satisfaction from the page you're currently reading, but you want so badly to see what is on the next page that you speed through the page, usually reading quickly enough that you don't really notice how unsatisfying it is.

If you ask people why they find it impossible to put Dan Brown's books down, you'll always get some answer indicating this, like "I just had to see what would happen next!" This is also why many people read "page-turners" like Dan Brown's in a single sitting: each chapter ends on a cliffhanger. There's no logical stopping points, because the "effectiveness" of each page is predicated on the anticipation of the page that follows.
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@blueblarflubar/if-you-wa...
I'm wondering if anyone has ever done a disaster recovery analysis for PR before, is there anything down on paper regarding how supplies could be airlifted in to strategic locations, some subset of roads (starting aqt the port, working outward) improved to be "guaranteed" to be working for distribution in the event of a worst case scenario, etc?

A strategy that maximizes possibility of success regardless of who is president rather than expecting whoever happens to be president at the time to figure it all out after the fact seems like it would be a better idea, yet from the little I've read on the matter it seems like the latter was the chosen approach.
Columbia broke up over the continental United States and a large number of the pieces that did not burn up in reentry were recovered and no one was hurt on the ground by being hit by debris AFAIK. Not sure of the direct comparison but it seems less likely than getting hit by lightning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...
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EME is big binary blob plugins called CDM's

The plugin world had big binary blobs that need the ability to absolutely control at least most or all of the browser and possibly other parts of the computer too.

The EME world has far smaller binary blobs communicating over a narrow defined API which does not give them control of the browser.

So. You don't actually know what you're talking about, and resort to misrepresentations and insults to try to cover up for it. Real great "principled" stand you're taking there.
"Natural" is defined as: existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind.

So by definition, there are things that are natural, such as other galaxies, and all things a million years ago.
But they have to put pressure on cops to make arrests, because if they don't, cops will only make an arrest when someone pisses them off or does something so bad and so public it's going to make the papers.

Speeding tickets are a perfect example. The sergeant has a life outside work - he gets days off, he runs errands, he drives to and from work. And all the while he sees people doing stupid stuff just like the rest of us. So it's hard for him to imagine his officers can drive around for an entire shift and never see someone speeding, running a red light, or making an illegal u-turn.

What do you think your boss would do if you sat at your desk and did nothing all day?
Good by carpel-tunnel, hello glass arm. Looks like a fun project.
I can't find an explanation in your excerpt nor in the paper that gives specific details as to how the blockchain is uniquely beneficial for property title management. I see some examples of how certain qualities of the blockchain could be beneficial, (e.g. property owners being identified by a private key), but you don't need a blockchain to get any of those benefits.
Thanks, the 104% profit number doesn’t make sense to me and I couldn’t see it explained the the article.

How do you get >100% of the profits available in a given industry?
> consumer price inflation will drastically rise

Excuse me being naive but why? It would be a unique situation and as such any predictions of what's gonna happen are purely hypothetical.

Your last point is kind of moot as it could be used to argue against any kind of wage or income increase for poor and middle class "They just all gonna spend it paying their landlords".

If the basic income accounts for "average living costs" then ideally the average rent should be calculated too and factored into it, so landlords can't just jack up rents and expect their tenants to "reach through" their UBI.

A UBI would give the poor and middle class at least some bargaining power with employers, that's already progress. The whole situation about affordable living space becoming rarer and protection of tenants are valid concerns, but you can't expect a UBI to fix everything, different issues need different approaches and solutions.
Sorry for not seeing this earlier!

I'm in dailies, so I'm kind of a weird case. Makes sense though because I use them predominately for social events and athletics.

The ones that get itchy for me are Acuvue Moist.

A step better is Dailies AquaComfort Plus by Alcon/Novartis.

The really nice ones (comfortable for 12+ hours) are Dailies Total 1 by Alcon/Novartis. My optometrist described them as "the Cadillac of contacts," so I'm guessing they're expensive (I'm still working through my stock of Acuvue contacts).
Hg user here. One interesting hg/git difference is that Hg allows file history across renames by explicitly tracking the rename operation, whereas git just does a fuzzy content match.
Here’s What to Ask the Former Equifax CEO
That wiki page says "Although the Landauer limit was millions of times below the energy consumption of computers in the 2000s and thousands of times less in the 2010s,[3] proponents of reversible computing argue that this can be attributed largely to architectural overheads which effectively magnify the impact of Landauer's limit in practical circuit designs, so that it may prove difficult for practical technology to progress very far beyond current levels of energy efficiency if reversible computing principles are not used.[4]"

On a skim it looks like [4]'s argument is that people have been criticizing the overhead of fully reversible circuits, but only 'conditionally reversible' circuits are needed for the power benefits.
Here's one data point:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=USDTRY

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=EURTRY

Lira has about 1/3rd of the US dollar value it had in 2009, even if it's been going up slightly this year. In Euro it's lost about 65% of it's value in the same time frame.

Average wages in Turkey went from 1300 Lira to close to 1600 Lira in the same period. So Turks have lost between 30% and 50% of their spending power in the last ~10 years.
>I can purchase a droplet on digital ocean than has gigabit and a terabyte of transfer every month for $5

>I am sure most people could afford that to manage their interneting

And before the spec has even seen real adoption, we've already seen it centralize into a few major providers.

A bit tongue-in-cheek, but it's a real issue. HTTP isn't the reason things are centralizing so much as economies of scale and convenience are. I see nothing about IPFS that fundamentally changes that, and think we'd likely see similar centralization over time.

Git, one of the inspirational technologies, is in theory distributed as well and in practice hyper-centralized to only a few major providers.
Reminds me of this PSD parsing code comment that isn't happy about the file format.

https://github.com/zepouet/Xee-xCode-4.5/blob/83394493f51991...
> without results!

Surely they can at least get a movie out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcgVztdMrX4
But then the 8mil solution would catch it.
> And, "hopelessly intertwined"? Is that your viewpoint as a software developer, or are you an aircraft designer? Because I'm sure that an outsider would see my code as "hopelessly intertwined" even when it isn't.

Even with modern aircraft, even with the A380, when a fan lets go or the engine grenades bad things happen.

Qantas Flight 32, an A380, suffered a UCE and everyone was very lucky that there were additional, experienced pilots on board. Take a look at the ATSB report. Pretty much everything that could fail, did. Engine control for the #1 (IIRC) engine had been destroyed and it took the firefighters three hours to pump enough water to shut down the engine. Without the extra crew things could have gone very differently.

British Airways 2276, a 777 -- a plane that has an excellent safety record, suffered a UCE and the plane caught fire. Luckily the pilots were able to abort the takeoff, but fire on a plane is about the worst possible failure mode.

AA #383, a 767, also suffered a UCE on takeoff that resulted in a massive fire.

Cameroon Airlines Flight 786, same deal. UCE, punctured fuel tank, fire.

So, yes, things have almost certainly gotten better but given how much energy is released when a high bypass turbofan lets go, it's pretty damn hard to design something that's completely failsafe.
Source on 'mandatory goodies'? I know of plenty of patreon pages where the only tier is "Reward ($1.00): My thanks for your support"
>I have tried every single git UI under the sun, command line and not, and they all fall short outside of the basic use cases

I haven't found any git UI that matches TortoiseHg, for new and experienced users alike - my best picks were "Git Extensions" (Windows-only) and gitk + git-gui elsewhere.

I had high hopes for QGit but it seems to be missing a lot of features.
Hopefully I will have something to show you soon
“The dreaded three engines approach”
Looks like there are quite a few posts by the same author on the blog: http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/richard_s...
I think topology is mentioned in recent Microsoft Ignite Quantum Computing discussions from at least 1 panel who is a mathematician. I wonder how it might be related.
> In Santa Clara, California, there are several crosswalks at intersections not controlled by a traffic light.

Isn't that what a zebra crossing is for? Give pedestrians permanent right of way so they can always go and don't need a light and everyone understands that they need to yield.
Better known as the 'CHMSL' (Center High-Mounted Stop Lamps)
One example. The mentioned Imam Hatip schools were a headway for religious education after a very heavy secularization of the country. It was just an alternative to ultra secular education system so people could send their children to have them get some religious education. They were never meant to train preachers only. Their graduates have become anything but preachers mostly. In my family there are physicians, lawyers, engineers who attended that school (Alas, I did not).

In the article it is presented as if these schools are training ultra religious people even "Jihadist" in the sense Western conception has these day. That is the biggest lie and misdirection.

These schools are actually anti-thesis of such movements like people who join ISIS. The fundamental reason is that they teach religion, and if one knows Islam as it should be one can not join such groups.

For example, The coup attempt executed by Gulenist (a pseudo-religious modern looking power hungry group) have been against these schools. Because these schools were teaching Islam as opposed to a version filled with superstitions, like believing the Gulen himself (the leader of the group) is Mahdi to put the world in order. During the coup attempt they have killed over 250 ordinary citizens. They shot to crowds from helicopter gunships. Due to their so called religious understanding those killed were killed for a greater good anyway or deserved such death. Do you see any resemblance to ISIS? They are more dangerous than ISIS though, at least those thugs show their true color unlike Gulenists.

Where there's lack of proper education and understanding of religion there will always be someone to abuse it. Painting these schools as if training jihadists is nothing but disservice to the public.
It's covered in the PBS documentary, Ho Chi Minh asked Woodrow Wilson for help during the armistice talks for WWI Wilson had proclaimed support for self determination over colonialism, the PBS doc claims Wilson never got Ho Chi Minh's letter, history showed Wilson to be a pretty big racist so he might not have done anything anyways and Wilson was incapacitated for the last years of his presidency as well. Wilson also sent US troops into the USSR to try to stop the Bolshevik revolution so showed his preference towards preserving the old order.

On the other hand it's kind of a crazy what if to imagine there not being a French/US involved civil war in Vietnam.
"small number of companies in primary control" is how everything else works. Why do you expect the internet to be any different?

Look on the bright side — it's one day closer to large scale adoption of the distributed web...
> in order to get their own declaration of independence recognized.

In that context, it is worth knowing that this is how the Vietnamese declaration of independence[1] starts:

> All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

> This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.

While Ho was a radical from relatively early on, he also admired the US greatly for a long time. Much like Castro (though the concrete missed opportunities for the US is much clearer in the case of Castro).

[1] http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5139
F*.
This is an unfatomable loss both him as a amazing person and him as an outstanding mathematician.

We just lost the Hilbert of the new Hilbert program.
Topology of course is fundamental to all of physics, but in that context my guess would be on topological quantum computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer

I once attended a talk on the subject by Michael Freedman who is with Microsoft Station Q. They are trying to build just such a computer.