skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the elephant in the room. It definitely seems that something is up when $100M in tokens flow into exchanges and the price immediately jumps.

I am trying to find moderate-resolution market data to evaluate the effect that Tether issuances have had on prices. Does anyone know of a public data source that's higher resolution than 24h?
> I feel that the core of programming, just making the computer do things other people want it to for money, will always lead us back to a highly individualized workflow

I would be willing to bet against that. In fact, it's safe to bet that "always X" is false regardless of X, especially when humans are in that equation. "Always" is a very long time :)
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Look at how rust changes when you select age. The younger people are the more they dislike it, and it even goes negative at the lowest bracket (and in total)
I'd imagine a lot of the people complaining use Android devices any way.
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>> the JPEG produced by the Pentax cameras we own are 90% of the time better than what we achieve with hours of raw conversion tweaking

Canon, Fuji and Olympus OOC JPEGs also have great reputations.

>> Given that I'm not doing retouching most of the time, dealing with raw files becoming more and more a pain, without an actual gain.

If you're not retouching, there probably is no point for you to edit RAW. I use RAW myself mainly to correct color temp and high iso noise reduction. The noise reduction in particular is useful for me because I prefer to use smaller sensor cameras.
I started in 1981 when I was 15 on an Apple ][. This was in Germany and I was a tiny minority, most kids didn't start until late high-school or early university.
You've had a few answers already.

They could start by adding a daily-fine for each day they don't pay the fine; then interest on top. Then, you can imagine all smartphones with a Qualcomm chipset suddenly being banned from a 510M+ people market. All companies in Europe being barred from doing any business with Qualcomm; all Qualcomm IP nullified in Europe. Imagine having any of your officials not being able to travel inside Europe and cross-extradition countries, forever. The list goes on.
maybe set up a special account similar to an IRA.
Steve Wozniak: Bitcoin is better than gold and USD
Her National Book Award speech is short but very good. I like her expression "realists of a larger reality," but she also talks a lot about publishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TFeL_aPiA
Think about the differences in the environment:

80s: databases, programming, administration, networks ... that's what you did with computers, and nobody did this yet. Computers were the future and parents wanted their kids to know the future, a computer. Only thing to do ? Developing, and later administration.

Today: cell phones, games and ADS ADS ADS. Distractions, ADS, LOOK HERE, ADS, ADS, ADS. Everything is a computer, and actual computers (the ones you can actually program) are the past, not the future, and they won't come back.

Oh and by the way, to develop for those ADS ADS ADS computer/"phone", you need either a $1200+ machine (ie. a macbook), or a $800+ machine (one that can reasonably run the android emulator + full IDE, which is bloody heavy, more if you want it in laptop form).
I’m excited about vertical tracking for arkit.
Thanks to my trusty Atari 800 in 1981 I learned to program through magazine articles and books and experimenting with code at home. It was a great experience.
I really want to get a copy of his book Computer Lib/Dream Machines but I just can't justify the $100 or so for a beat up copy.
NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' from Core Values
Thanks for the response. I can see how it would seem to be a dodge type of a response.

Thoughtfully however, I argue that the statements you offer:

"enjoyment is subjective" and "who is the critic to judge,"

...are both valid positions and ones that I hold axiomatically true. So I'm genuinely saying that, although I personally find casinos irreducibly depressing from my subjective perspective, there exist people who find the same level of "happiness", "enjoyment" and "joy" - broadly defined - from slot machines as from any other activity.
My machine org professor plans on teaching it this semester because employers in the area are preferring it. I was surprised by how many people knew it already.
The context? Tumblr? They have over 400 employees.
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All of that was the first baby steps. Everyone my age that had a computer soon went further and began to modify and write their own programs and games.
I will implement the "final walk around" in my dev/thought process, this is a really valuable advice, thank you.

PS. `git add -p` is amazing, thank you for this too.
What age did you read them at?

There is something about reading your first Tolkien fantasy book around 13-15 that just feels different. If you had read any of the Tolkien facsimiles at that age (Shannara, Wheel of Time etc) you may feel the same way. But if you reread those books now, you may feel different.
You're going to have to qualify that claim.
It's probably not that they think you are wrong or can't be trusted. Think of it like defending a thesis. A typical code review process for me is to just ask the author a bunch of questions. If they have satisfying answers then great, the code goes in and we now have recorded answers for a bunch of questions about it (helpful if issues arise later on). But it shouldn't be surprising if there is something they haven't considered, despite being someone who writes quality code. Perhaps your team is guessing about correctness rather than asking about it and it comes across badly?
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One thing to keep in mind: Disabling UAC is a VERY BAD IDEA. No matter how you look at it. Look at it this way, if you do that, then any moderately smart ransomware will be able to do wonders on your PC.

That's reminiscent of a 4chan post where the user downloads a program, tries to execute, is then warned by Firefox, but ignores it, warned by the AV Software, but disables it, warned by Defender, and disabled, and finally warned by UAC and disables it, only to get it infected and flame away because Windows sucks.
$=${$}[$]; $($);

Actually some time ago I found some piece of alien PHP code (a backdoor) in my server, and I couldn't understand it! I did't know the $($); syntax.
After searching for that and not finding anything I discovery that exist one special Unicode character that is invisible.

Full code here:
https://imgur.com/a/Cggdx
I understand how reproducibility is necessary to hold value but I don't understand how irreproducibility innately creates value. If I randomly forked bitcoin a bunch the coins would be irreproducible but the value would still be negligible
What is the difference between TimescaleDB and a conventional column-store data warehouse with a time partition key?
And golang is a relativley "safe" FOTM language in that basically anybody ought to be able to learn enough about it to work with it in a short amount of time. When Scala was a FOTM, it probably did a lot more damage.
A Factor-Based Bayesian Framework for Risk Analysis in Stochastic Simulations
This implies you are trying to simulate fully. Just as most programmers don't have to simulate the rather complex circuitry in an adder, you probably don't have to simulate the complexities of most of your system. Or, when you do, you can take the simple parts for granted.

Similar to plotting a trip to the grocery. You don't think of the effort your body is doing to stay balanced. Nor of reading labels
Yet you probably have a decent idea how long the trip will take.
Shouldn't it be "Gen X kids"? I thought that "millennial" referred to the generation born during the 80s and 90s.
Something about how ideas in an era end up being distorded in the next one. It seems like any important new thing shifts the gravity of society and thus society itself. A cool idea in the 60s will become the root of a bad one in the 70s. It's not linear
Then why isn't Apple getting fined? Has it just not been announced, maybe?
I'm not sure how anachronism applies to a fictional setting, but have you never played with words to coin a new one?

Pulling apart words and putting them back together is one of the more relatable demonstrations of intelligence, imo.
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The main problem with programming is that it is seemingly useless as a hobby. I have been programming for many years and am quite experienced, yet I never managed to keep it up consistently because programming project ideas were either way too complicated requiring hours of research, or really boring. The main issue with programming as a hobby is coming up with realistic and non-tedious projects to do.
Which is a great reason to get a dumb little cubesat comms relay into lunar orbit...
I made a similar argument to a friend while eating at a small street food vendor in Bangkok a couple of months ago. I was turned off by the flies and the fact I was a couple of feet from a dirty alley. My friend, who likely grew up eating in similar shops in Nigeria, pointed out I was looking at it from a very Western pov.

He argued that these kind of establishments were safe to eat at because their entire livelihood is dependent on their reputation among locals. Looking around at all the competition along the street we just walked down, it kind of made sense.

In my north american city if a shop fails inspection they are closed down for 48 hours, after which they can open back up and operate until next inspection. In Bangkok if a vendor makes some one sick the news spreads via word of mouth and their business is DONE.

I was able to enjoy an amazing meal after calming down.
mostly agree, although the sales/asst folks being able to use spreadsheets and understanding equations and similar is helpful in many situations, although most folks wouldn't think of that as 'code' so much. I'm working with a client and I'm surprised (sort of) as to how much they can get done in spreadsheets. Coding would make their lives even easier wrt to many tasks, but managing electronic data with some excel scripting is 'good enough' (compared the where they were with paper 10 years ago).
> However they damn well better submit to oversight and respect my constitutional rights as a citizen.

And which watchdog is ensuring this exactly? hint: It's not the politicians...
Don't think I've ever been as disappointed in the second half of a book as "Stranger in a Strange Land". Starts off with a very interesting high concept about the awkwardness of interacting with a human who has no idea of human values (as well as a solid stock plot about people trying to control him) and then rapidly turns said vulnerable, weird protagonist into a powerful free love cult-leader promoting all the very human preoccupations and social systems Heinlein happened to find intriguing at the time.

As for Starship Troopers, I think it's very clearly written and generally read as exactly the paean to military discipline Heinlein intended at the time (with Heinlein himself being the one who rowed back on the ideas in it having become more libertarian later in life)
That's an awesome explanation - thanks! I just copied and pasted from other people's code and prettified it a bit so it's easier to use, but I didn't really understand why it worked. Now I do a bit better.
nit: segue, not segway
What exactly is wrong with what he said?
>> Can't get a perceived color cast if there's no color.

But you can still have other problems depending on the dynamic range of your photos.

I often edit my photos so that stuff in shadows are not perceptible. The problem is that I edit on my laptop LCD screen, but on my phone OLED at default settings, I see clearly everything that was supposed to be hidden in the shadows.
I wonder is this is in part because the older home computers often needed the users (kids) to write out the BASIC game programs in order to play them. This seems like a nice way to get kids interested in programming.
My first experience with programming was with ZZT, where we could use it to make our own levels and interactive thingies in said levels - basically, gamification. Of sorts.
Oh that's nice, thanks for the explanation. I'm currently working on a social network and I like the idea of being able to connect with other ones via open standards. I need to do more research on implementation.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. Such an interesting look into the world of HFT. I particularly like the parte of tapping into the cable directly, looking at the first bytes of the packet, and sending the order before the entire packet arrived. Awesome stuff!
There are 5, though admittedly there's a long gap between the first 3 and the last 2 (Thehanu and The Other Wind), and not insignificant stylistic change. There's also the short story collection Tales from Earthsea.
Serial port forwarding over network
You can use dnsmasq as your host resolver.
I was thinking about this the other day. As I see it, American companies and probably many companies in the world have a really f'ed up attitude about how employees fit into the mix. I don't see how the cost of entrepreneurship could be nearly as high as it is. Sure, from the point of view of an average person, starting a business is risky and should lead to potentially high reward. But how many average people are able or willing to start a business at all nowadays? In reality, the sorts of people who end up starting businesses are those for whom starting a business is not as risky e.g. people who are wealthy or whose families are wealthy or who are just burning VC money. The risk is lower and so the cost of entrepreneurship should be lower. Also, it seems there's a lot of talk in tech about wanting to use the great wealth accumulated to help the world or whatever. So then why not just start with the actual people in tech and not just the founders? Why act so uncharitable to the people directly working for you?
I came here to say basically this. Checklists are unreasonably effective. And if you can automate them with some form of metaprogramming, even better!
>>As if such things as hygiene regulations didn't exist and you can just open a restaurant by hanging a sign out and telling someone to deliver whatever you just produced in your kitchen.

personally I find that to be a sad commentary on the state of "Free" societies when we are regulated to the point where you can not even cook for other people with out government permission.

Really highlights how much freedom has been lost and that most people view that as a good thing. Falsely putting their faith in government health inspections often which only occur once every several years and are often highly corrupt, as the reason eating in restaurants are "safe"
Don't fool yourself into thinking society writ large is wise enough to value them. So look at the people getting steamrolled and dismissed and somewhere in that pile you'll find them.
There are interesting programming environments for kids that aren't iOS and Android. Roblox comes to mind.

Your comments on computer prices leave me scratching my head. The Commodore 64 launched at $595 and that didn't include the disk drive. Adjust that for inflation.

Also, the tools are free today. I don't remember what I paid for Editor/Assembler on my TI-99/4A, or my first copy of Borland C for MS-DOS... but it was a lot.
Ah the innocence of youth...

Or in this case, someone's first startup job.
Of course those ROM BASIC interpreters tended to be very minimal implementations. It almost always made more sense to boot up DOS and run GWBASIC instead.

I remember getting the full Hypercard development stack with the Mac LC my parents bought when I was a kid. It just came with System 7, and given that there was no Stack Exchange or anybody around to ask I had to figure it out by reading other stacks. There aren't many languages you can learn with virtually no other programming experience from just reading the source, but Hypertalk had lots of syntactic sugar to help the young reader.

For anybody who has not seen it, Hypertalk code looked like:

ask "What is your name?"

put it into card field "yourName"

The language came with the UI builder built in, so making a button was as simple as dragging it onto the stack, then opening it up to write the callback directly into the object.

When you opened the button, you would see the text editor with:

on mouseUp

end mouseUp

already populated
> Imagine you build an AirBnb like solution limited to Switzerland market. AirBnb will eventually come and eat your lunch.

Not true. Domestic alternatives are often preferred over foreign competition. Two examples that leap to mind are eBay and Uber. Both failed in Japan because people preferred Yahoo! Japan auctions, and the Japanese taxi system. eBay and Uber can't compete there.

To take it down to the niche level, the big national real estate blogs all failed in Houston because they can't compete against HAIF or Swamplot.
I have to agree. I tried typing in programs from magazines and such but that didn't make me interested in programming at all. I didn't really get serious about writing code until late in High School / College.
I'd say total compensation has worked out roughly the same.

It's a little hard to compare since I've sometimes worked remotely, and with companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Cambridge (MA), and in less techy regions.

The non-startups were actually located outside of Silicon Valley and Cambridge. If I adjust for the different regions' cost of living, the (salary+benefits) dollar value were about the same across the board.

One caveat: The non-startups in SV and Cambridge gave me stock grants that vested over a number of years. If I'd stayed long enough for them to vest, the total compensation for those non-startups would have been about $7k-10k/year higher (pre-tax) that the compensation I got from startups.
I was reading through this, seeing some similarities to my work. Then i got a real shock at the end:

> Previously published under the pseudonym Thomas Anderson.

Er, that's me!
Thanks for the link. I found some fairly interesting articles there.
Is most of the removed code functionality that is now in the crypto library used, Botan?

A blog post on the decision to use an external library might be good. Is there a reason to think that the library will be better maintained than code with similar functionality in GPG?

Great work by the way! Thank you!
You talk as if word of mouth doesn't exist in the US.
And? So what? A bank account is nothing like gold either so that statement is totally meaningless in the context of this thread.
This was in Vancouver
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Nowadays, you turn it on and you get access to most of the collective knowledge of the world, can connect with anyone, that kinda thing. Computers and devices are several orders of magnitude more capable in various dimensions than they were back then, and IMO "kids these days" get to use it to get access to a LOT more possible areas of employment than they did back in the BASIC era. I mean what could you do with a computer back then besides basic text entry, some simple games, and programming? The last part was for some people - the privileged few that actually had access to a computer - the most exciting part.
Litecoin volume has regularly been $1 billion+ per day during the past several months, and Ethereum has been suffering from the same issues as Bitcoin. LTC's median transaction fee is literally pennies, you don't think that's cheap?

The fact that you think ETH is more suitable for use as a currency only shows how little you know about crypto. ETH isn't even meant to be a currency.
Maybe kids today are focused more on "disrupting" markets rather than take a step back and learn how to program those tools in order to disrupt.
The title to me read as:

Gen X kids programmed at a younger age than millennials.
As a taxpayer, I'd like to see HUMINT continued and supported. However, SIGINT deserves nothing less than a full (and orderly) shutdown.
This ‘mind-reading’ algorithm can decode the pictures in your head
How does it compare to LOGO?
We've pretty much got it in the Raspberry Pi. Having a distro that boots straight to a python REPL is not a significant challenge at all.

I mean, you can do the same on any computer, but SBCs seem to make people approach them differently. By not looking at all like a PC, people simply forget to treat them like a PC. And it's fantastic.

I don't think this actually solves the problem though. The problem is that there's no magic anymore. It's just normal. I know children who aren't quite walking yet, can't quite form the word "banana", but can operate an iPad comfortably enough. They will never, ever, approach a computer with the sense of wonder that I did my Atari.

Computing is simply so universal that today's children approach it with the same awe and wonder as you would electric lights or running water. That doesn't mean we'll have no plumbers, electricians, no-one will be fascinated by electronics, etc. But it does mean that it'll never be the same as the 80s.
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I would reframe that as "Not everyone is in a position to make the world a better place through their work, so it would be nice if didn't pretend they were"
I'm a huge user of Jetbrains IDEs and I feel like they make me a little dependent. What language do you mostly write in?
Also, it's so much more accessible now. I've been working with kids and it's amazing how many know how to do some basic work in the browser's Javascript console.

Even if most people never go on to program more than that, those are the baby steps that you climb from if you do.
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My favorite part of reading Knuth and Martin Gardner has been how much they cite others.

That is the field has always had a lot of people with ideas. Selecting for the best communicators is limiting. Especially if they do self promotion.

So, where are the big names? Out doing work, most likely. Most of it work that won't go anywhere. The barrier to entry impact has risen, after all. Even as participation barriers have dropped. I say this as someone that probably would not be participating years ago.
https://youtu.be/eaCHH5D74Fs?t=21

Steve, I can't think of a better way to satirize the gestalt at Google. Genius! Or maybe sandwich genius, where crowds can critique whether cheese goes over or under the meat.
>Things got even better for us in Korea. Now that I had the bits streaming off one by one, or at least byte by byte, you could see that the packets took a long time on the wire. Milliseconds. A common technique in network monitoring is slicing, where you just take the first part of the packet. I did this with the HDLC bypass code and we were now a long way ahead of the game as the bid and ask fields were at the front of the quote packets. Save 100 bytes at 128 kbps and you’re 6.1 milliseconds ahead. As specifications changed and KRX feeds sped up, our advantage reduced but life remained good. Now we were sending out orders before the data packet arrived.

I love it when HFT seems to violate causality.