skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A part of it is definitely perception. If this country is so great, why does it have so many problems?

As to what distinguishes the US from European countries is probably the lack of continuity and history. One doesn't really feel like an "American" as one might feel "Spanish" or "French." An unfortunate consequence of this lack of unity is that democracy becomes very, very messy, and what might have unified the US--a common set of values, hopes, ideals, etc.--is being chipped away at. On the flip side US culture promotes individualism which sometimes leads people away from unity.

With respect to the issue at hand, there's a great quote by David Foster Wallace: “This is so American, man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.” There's a bizarre zeal that's valued in US life and culture (think startup culture) that's great if you find that something to "worship," but if not you're left with this overzealous impulse to do something, something great, something worthy of your time, but you don't have anywhere to direct that energy. It becomes destructive. Europeans have a steadier pace of life that recognizes that 90% of the people aren't going to becomes famous, have amazing carers, be important figures, and that instead of that they can have good, stable, happy lives. In the US, that just doesn't cut it.
You and everyone else here can stop leaving me shitty comments in this thread with dumb advice.

What this boils down to is most men will not email me unless they are hoping for a hookup. Because they are apparently scared shitless that a private conversation via email with a woman is too intimate or some crap.

Those private discussions are how men make strong professional connections and eventually get work. When I tell a guy he can email me, 99% of the time he only emails me looking for a hookup.

Making public comments about how I am just doing it wrong and wishing me luck makes you part of the problem. It essentially drags my name through the mud like I am just an idiot and virtue signals about what a great guy you are while you don't actually do a fucking thing to actually help me.

It is just another waste of my time exercise in futility while giving the world another opportunity to see me as pitiable rather than competent, respectable and in need of business connections and paid work.
"Philosophy is dead" - Stephen Hawking.

Philosophers haven't bothered to learn modern science, they do not have the expertise necessary to do anything but pontificate on vagaries. Philosophy these days seems more about finding clever places to hide religious beliefs than it is about explaining the world as it is and answering questions in useful and productive ways. Scientists do that now.
How does one even correctly report these earnings:

In Canada there is a form called a T1135, i was filling mine out today :) This form asks for a few key things related to any securities you hold in foreign countries: 1) Max Fair Market Value, Current Fair Market Value, Grioss Income (I.e. rents extracted before expenses), Gain (loss) of any depositions.

Which country do I hold my asset in if I purchase bitcoins? Are they Canadian or foreign? Does it depend where they are kept? It doesn't in the case of stocks, even those on the NYSE but for Canadian corps do not fall under this reporting requirement, and inversely those on the TSX for US companies do fall under this requirement! So what nationality are bitcoins and all other crypto for that instance?

You need to fill this out if you have > $100,000 CAD worth of foreign assets, once for each country you hold assets in (regardless of purchase price, we're talking max fair market value).

The fee for not filing this form is a flat $2,500 + interest of any taxes owed.

The question this raises for me, if someone bought $1000 worth of bitcoin in 2012 and retained them until today, they easily have over this limit. I am sure there are a fair few people that will get messed up here. I'd love for governments to provide clearer guidance here to prevent upsets later.

Also, T1135's are almost impossible to file correctly. Seriously, they're a stupid form. IMO the CRA should just ask for a report of all your trades and the relevant countries (assuming we can answer the country question, i suppose?) and leave it there - and they do in the form of a T5008 or you can report it under the Capital Gain / Loss section (I think it's called Schedule 3).

I guess what I'm saying is this: It's effing hard to report correctly, even when you try. In my life, I've spent more on tax lawyers than I have on cars. I feel like I do everything I can, I feel like I've been good...but i sometimes get kept up late at night worried I messed up and no one will believe it was an honest mistake.
We mostly played soccer. But there were running days and the occasional 12 minute run (which was really exhausting). There were also one or two compulsory lessons where we had to work on the parallel bars and the same also for gymnastics on the horizontal bar. And lastly there was a school wide track and field day, which we had to practice for. We had 4 hours of PE each week.
Couldn't the IRS look at the blockchain and ask for details about users associated with transaction IDs of substantial volume?
Yes. Emacs is more akin to fantastically-extensible shell.

Which is what makes it well-suited for managing the display windows of subprocesses, if you ignore the threading issues.
Either lower the weights or just avoid injury prone exercises. Not much roi is there if you injure yourself. There's countless of ways to exercise specific body parts. If you keep hurting yourself by doing deadlifts for example at some point you have to consider if it's worth it. It's not just about the weight but how you concentrate the muscle and reps.

> The other thing I want is to be able to do it without making my hands all rough

Gloves or go to a gym that has equipment that doesn't make hands rough. Best bet is to look for franchises not UG strength gyms.
That might be the best time to crack a joke.
Has it actually backslided, or has enforcement just caught up with the technological capabilities of the people trying to avoid it?

Was China actually more free in the 90s, or the 00s, or was it just easier to get away with it?
Maybe it's not a problem, but I don't think it helps is when asking and/or researching what to go do, enjoy, see, explore, experience when traveling or moving to a new city. The most common responses almost exclusively and only mention food and local places to eat or drink. As if it's the only thing to do and enjoy? Anyone else notice this or is it just me?

I don't know about other people, but I only spend a small percentage of my day actually eating, needing, or hungry enough to sit down and eat. I've got a whole day not including sleep to do so much more! Food is good, but I want to have some fun, see things, explore, meet people, relax and not eat.
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Ah! I stand corrected. I wasn't able to find a link to that info anywhere from the download page (https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html).

I was also confused before when browsing through Google's Android repos because they don't seem to do any development on the master branch: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/maste... ...instead developing on project or release-specific branches: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/idea/+/studi...

I have to say, I'm glad to have been wrong!
What have you built with the Gmail API?
I recently started looking into the Gmail API for a new project, it's huge!

Has anyone built anything with it & how did you find it?
Oh, yeah, you can see the strip mine type thing in this photo:

http://www.swaggartbrothers.com/swaggart/wp-content/uploads/...

That's visible in the bottom of this satellite image:

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.4370941,-104.8992241,5680a,3...
MLATs can throw a wrench in that, though.
I guess this advice is for non-coinbase customers since the ruling removes the ability to choose.
Oh! Well that pleases me.
The usecase imtringued was talking about:

> assuming you already know the pointer to the linked list node

For example a LinkedHashMap where a hash provides the primary means of looking up elements and the nodes contain an intrusive linked list. Removing an element from that list doesn't involve chasing pointers from the start of it.

The linked benchmark is for a different scenario.
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I must be misspeaking then. I'm not suggesting it run during training, but run the classification algorithm X number of times over an input image with chunks areas removed/suppressed from the data.
> something like Mozilla's Servo technology in something like Electron combined with WebAssembly (...)

That still seems too heavy to me. Surely a native runtime for WebAssembly doesn't necessarily require Node and Chromium and all of Electron's bloat?
very common, also in Germany (https://www.gulp.de/knowledge-base/17/iv/mehr-ist-mehr-3-pro...)
I'm just waiting until serverless platforms develop build scripts that create file system deltas to make deployments more storage efficient.
> ISP's government granted local monopolies

This really needed to be part of the public discourse. It is a component which received little attention. However, it is quite typical IMHO. Government creates a problem for itself to solve. Infinite recursion then ensues.
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Well, they get paid for putting that capital at risk and for keeping it locked into the system to provide consensus. It's a kind of a service.
I imagine this is exactly what the IRS will do if it feels it has to.
Centralization of BTC in progress? Could anyone knowledgeable chime in?
For a single user with no need to share access, you can also just stick everything in a VeraCrypt vault stored on Dropbox. Dropbox seems pretty good at updating only the parts of the vault that have changed, versus the entire (sometimes huge) vault file. I've heard OneDrive updates the entire vault file every time, although I haven't experimented with it myself.
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We were using the term serverless at PiCloud since 2010.

Source: memory and https://www.techcrunch.com/2010/07/19/picloud-launches-serve...
I'm trying but I don't understand your question
PoW distributes block rewards proportionally to hash power and these proceeds can be used to buy more hash power to achieve a compounding effect. From what I understand all of the viable PoS systems offer a fixed rate of return on the stake. This is like PoW forcing everybody to use the exact same hardware; a benefit to the little guy at the expense of the large account holders.
> AFAIK, there really haven't been any negative consequences.

None at all? Not a single one? Did Uber pinky swear this?
To me, having to cut a big check to the IRS is the ultimate first world problem. I'd love to owe the IRS a million bucks because I made way more than that :)
Or you know, to anyone willing to pay $20 to a corrupt cop/employee on wechat? Feels pretty public to me.
Well, I was speaking conceptually when I said 'something like'. There are parts of the evolving web platform that are very capable of delivering very high performance rivaling native.
I have a friend who makes high-end violin, &c, bows (think: five-figure price tags) who was recently at a conference of sorts for musicians, bow makers, and such.

An acquaintance of his was carrying a Stradivarius, on loan from some foundation or other which had it insured for a silly amount of money. The acquaintance played it during a performance at this event. To my friend's somewhat experienced ears, it actually sounded pretty flat (not poorly tuned, but rather dull), relative to so many of the other instruments he's heard. In telling me about this, he didn't seem particularly surprised by that.

It's anecdata, but it clearly supports the notion that people will pay mightily for a name and attendant reputation, over actual quality.
It’s the same as any other profit you might make through currency speculation. If you can’t figure out the relevant corns, maybe you shouldn’t be trading in these markets in the first place?
It's funny you mention anti-fraud departments and AML/KYC compliance teams since Bitcoin does not provide those and thus their cost exists in addition to the cost of mining.
I loathe slot machines and casinos, but recently started trading crypto. I feel a wonderful rush when I take in profits, and a wrench when I take losses. Oh dear, I'm gambling and enjoying it.
And "I'd like to share three lessons I learned while building my startup, which is called ___ and includes innovative features such as ___ and here's where you can sign up for the email list..."
I understand that the OP was calling the model of the microcontroller incorrect.

To recap:
The article said "Rust doesn't allow you to do X"
The OP said "Wrong!!!! The mocrocontoller totally allows you to do X"
I pointed out that the article never said the microcontroller doesn't allow X.
Centralization was finished a half-decade ago.
5) You are asking a general question and get a "not possible, see paper X" from pretty much every expert you ask. You look up the paper or book and see that it's giving a specific result, NOT a general answer at all. For example, in the late 1970's I asked "what about neural nets for AI" and got the uniform answer "No possible, as Minsky and Papert have proven that mathematically. Forget about it." When I looked into that... the proof wasn't general at all, it only applied to one quite specific method of training neural nets. So I set about programming a function to generate perfect tic-tac-toe players that were neural nets, successfully, using another method (but couldn't get any traction even so, Minsky had made the topic far too toxic.)
It's only wasted if there was a cheaper alternative. There isn't.
Was curious about this as well. It would be a huge oversight if the encrypted blobs could be decrypted with a 4 - 6 digit pin. Couldn’t it be brute forced?

My amateur understanding is the pin unlocks a hardware “safe” on the device which contains the actual decryption key, requiring physicAl access to the device even if the pin was caught on security cam.
Wonder if there was something else that triggered it. Doesn't seem like it would be worth their time over that little, but then again IRS is kinda weird like that.
What evidence is there 90% of Nano distribution isn't owned by a single person?

This is a major aspect of transparency in decenteralized p2p protocols, and the issue with Nano is there's no paper trail or proof that the devs didn't take all the supply.

We do know 13% of all Nano in circulation was stolen in the Bitgrail hack.
Dropbox has been managed by literal war criminals for nearly 5 years.

http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
Segwit is simply a new transaction format where the txid can be calculated before signing. It has nothing to do with centralization.
Every Windows computer comes with VBScript that’s just as streightfirward and a lot more powerful. Macs have AppleScript and Python among others. Even on the iPad and iPhone there are quite a few simple, powerful options like Codea and Pythonista. There are loads of great ways to code on modern systems.

What they don’t have is the low level, close to the metal feel the old BASICs has. Even though they were interpreted, you could address hardware such as video memory and devices directly which made them a great gateway to low level programming.
I call BS. Anything under 50¢ is rounded down to $0 by IRS's own accounting.
I was hoping the author would talk more about the underlying technical reasons for the problems, as I would have thought he would have insight into that as a plugin developer. It seems like his reasons are really mostly around it losing mindshare and being a waste of his life and the technical is actually less important (even if it is a cause of the former).

I still use eclipse because I haven't found anything else that embraces true full multi-language development the way Eclipse does. That is, in one IDE I have front end, middle tier and back end code all in different languages, sitting next to each other as first class citizens. I can set a breakpoint in my PHP code and my Java code and my Python code, and I can have the source windows right next to each other and debug them in parallel. I just don't know anything else that does that so well.

I also find Eclipse's incremental compile model invaluable. I was kind of shocked when I tried out IntelliJ and had to wait 15 seconds while it ran Gradle for it to tell me about a compile error.

So I'm definitely in the club of being sad it's losing mindshare.
Who knows if it had been found by a black hat and had been exploited? If a BH had found it, they would certainly try to figure out a way to make one or more viable exploits from it.
A national government (CIA, Israel etc) would say nothing and quietly proceed with exploitation - as would most other crooks. White hats would tell Intel and probably set a revelation clock ticking to make sure Intel got to work.

Once Intel knows it, there is no duty to tell the world, but there is a strong duty to fix it and to also monitor DH web sites to see if an exploit is in the wild. They want it secret until fixed. No duty to tell the government at all - they leak like a sieve. In any event, exploits for these problems are hard to setup and execute - they may never be a good live exploit - too hard to arrange.
So far I have not heard of any losses from these problems, the greater loss is from the repair patches that slow server throughput down.
Intel has been educated. I am sure that Intel will be made to kick some cash to server farms
Well, I guess. Same as happened in email decades ago. I don't really see the issue.
My limited knowledge tells me that BTC will lose its main reason for existence - solution of Byzantine generals problem, allowing trustless store of value. With what I've read about SegWit, it's a practical solution to improve transaction throughput by moving transactions off blockchain, which in turn removes trustlessness from the equation. I'd like to know if my conclusion is correct.
Yes, but the memo you quote is fairly recent. Before that, the prevailing guidance seemed to be that bitcoin should be treated as currency, not property. So as of what date does this rule take hold?
You can also discretely disable Face ID by holding down power and a volume button.
"and held" must be interpreted as "and didn't move the bitcoin out of Coinbase." I don't otherwise see how Coinbase would know whether it was held or sold.
Yes, I don't know if it is checked scientifically, but people have different figures. If we take several people of the same height and age and will give them the same food and the same amount of physical load, they still will have different body mass.
> are still more ergonomic and, ironically, safer than Rust's poorly-designed `mem::transmute()` API.

Eh, I disagree. I find:

let x: f32 = ...;
let y: i32 = mem::transmute(x);

is nicer than

float x = ...;
int y;
memcpy(&y, &x, sizeof x);

And, in terms of safety, transmute manages the sizes of everything and makes sure they match. There's no risk of passing the wrong size, or having types with mismatched sizes (resulting in either "slicing", or buffer overflows).

The only way I can see transmute being more dangerous than the equivalent is that one can allow the types to be inferred, which can result in badness if the inferred type isn't what the programmer is expecting. This is especially dangerous when type involves a lifetime. (I suppose one could argue that it also makes this dangerous operation easier to do, since there's an easy-to-find function for it. But... this goes both ways, since it also stops people being tempted into using undefined pointer casting like ^(float ^)(x) (using ^ for * since HN likes italics too much).)

> Language-lawyering is quite the rabbit hole, BTW; for example, it was discovered a few years ago that the wording of the formal C++ memory model defined in the C++11 and later standards means all non-trivial C programs (technically-speaking, not according to any existing or sane implementation) invoke undefined behavior in C++. We'll be lucky if the bikeshedding over the fix for this gets resolved in time to make C++20.

I'm curious if you've got a defect report link or similar, because my reading of "6.8 Object Lifetime" in the C++17 draft implies that the lifetime has started for those int objects since the two conditions are both satisfied:

- "storage with the proper alignment and size for type T is obtained": the malloc'd pointer is fine.

- "if the object has non-vacuous initialization, its initialization is complete": ints have vacuous initialization.

But, I'm probably wrong, and would appreciate being corrected.
Wouldn't it be great if someone could figure out a way to express the logic that implements a function service as a compact, machine readable package which could be locally "cached" by all services that depend on it?
yeah, seems very strange. That said banks do report interest income from saving accounts usually. So maybe the total amount from their W2/1099s + interest income didn't match up and that triggered an automatic audit. They probably were in a fairly high income bracket too I imagine.
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> With what I've read about SegWit, it's a practical solution to improve transaction throughput by moving transactions off blockchain

SegWit has nothing to do with this — maybe you are thinking of Lightning Network?
Hmm, two-phase commit Informix included in like late 90s, which is pretty much the only thing related to distributed systems it had. None of them were really distributed databases in any way of course. The closest thing to a distributed database you could have back then was NonStop SQL, but it was designed with an assumption of a fast reliable network or more like a supercomputer.
Plus it only takes somebody spiteful who missed out to rat you out.
I agree with much of what you’ve written, with a caveat about spicy food. I’m fact the vanilloid receptors which capsaicin binds to is damaged over time by exposure to spice. In other words the more spicy food you eat, the less sensitive you will be to spice on a physical level. Where spicy food is concerned, it’s more like opiate addicts requiring higher doses; it is a form of acquired tolerance, albeit on the tongue rather than in the brain.
What happened to their Nevada site up in the White Pine Mountains? What made them choose the Van Horn area instead?

Long Now, by the way, has a great center and bar at Fort Mason in San Francisco. It's my favorite place to get a drink in the city--great bartenders, very low-key, and lots of interesting stuff to look at.
It's replacing all the auth, provisioning, billing, load balancing, throttling and other crap. Sure you might still duplicate ur business logic, but at least no team is reinventing the serving infra
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
I had kinda thought that providing 1099 to the IRS would've already been a necessary condition of Coinbase being able to get a financial services licence, or is that not usual?
I think that's off-chain networks like Lightning, not segwit