skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could ask the same question about human drivers, yet zero attention is paid to this question, and zero time is spent on it during driver training.
Dilbert’s One-Page Guide to Everything Financial:

* Make a will.
* Pay off your credit cards.
* Get term life insurance if you have a family to support.
* Fund your 401k to the maximum.
* Fund your IRA to the maximum.
* Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it.
* Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account.
* Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement.

If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio.
The article talks about Dapps and decentralized finance, but WBTC is centralized and managed by a custodians.

Sure you could use it in your smart contract, but it has the same kind of risks as using Tether. I think it can be dangerous to build layers of decentralized apps on top of something that's not.

(Or maybe I'm not understanding it correctly)
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For years I have resisted allowing the creation of a google+ profile on my behalf. I wonder, on April 2nd will my plus-less YouTube account finally be able to comment and message again?
Maybe more like passion in the "crime of..." sense?
If I had to guess I would say the overlap is not as sizeable as you think, at least in the Common Lisp and Scheme camps.

Python really has very few things in common with Lisp and its philosophy is in many ways orthogonal to the philosophy of Lisp. From the idiotic moto "There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it" (which isn't even true in Python-land) to all the compromises that Python accepted to attract marketshare that would make any hardened Lisp user want to barf, it's crystal clear to me that Python makes an even worse platform than the JVM for Lisp.

Some examples of serious differences between Python and Common Lisp - that would make any serious CL user run away from Python/Hy - are:

+ CL (like Smalltalk) is a fully interactive language. Python's focus on interactivity is minimal if not entirely unproductive. Approaches like Jupyter come across as terrible hacks that lack most of the features that matter to people immersed in Lisp.

+ CL can be very performant. Implementations like SBCL can produce native code competitive with C compilers.

+ CL is truly multiparadigm (one can do imperative, functional, OOP, logic, aspect, nondeterministic, lazy, parallel/multicore and not feel as if the language is fighting him every step of the way). Python has too many limitations for that to be true.

+ Lisp feels conceptually clean and internally consistent. The metacircular evaluator is a thing of beauty. Python feels like a collection of gross hacks and adhoc rules thrown together by humans who didn't know better.
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I think you're missing something important in this.

If you make the fundamental assumption that what happens to people has a level of randomness to it (don't think we'll ever be able to escape this assumption) then insurance always will have a point even if your bucket size is the size of the individual.

This is because insurers provide a hedge against a certain amount of negative randomness over a time peroid. They calculate the risk on a policy as if they provided it to you a million times and then base their pricing on that. Since they do this across a body of customers the pooling system still functions, it just is more accurately priced.

So as long as there is a risk instability over time they eill have the ability to provide a service worth paying for.
At least there's an effort - it's slightly better that yet another fork looking to separate people from their hard earned BTC.

Still, 1/10, nothing to see, move along!
What assumptions other than 'thou shalt not assume the government is acting altruistically'* have I made? This is hardly an unfair or unreasonable assumption, see: History, all of. I don't believe I was at any point unclear on this assumption, in fact I made a point to clarify it. If you have a specific disagreement you can back up, lets hear it.

If anything my argument is so simple because it is basically a truism:
- regulations benefit someone (duh)
- regulations don't necessarily benefit the someone the other someone writing them says (duh)
- lacking game theoretical* evidence of regulation benefiting aforementioned somebody (here due to vagueness) one cannot fairly assume that said regulation does in fact, benefit the someones (and only the someones) it is purported to.

Quite frankly I don't see how any of these points are particularly arguable, but I always enjoy being proven wrong (so that I won't be next time).

#Even if you want to assume altruism, surely one cannot fairly assume competence.

## I'd even say to the point of being useless except these sorts of conversations always seem to degrade into 'regulations are good'/'regulations are bad' pissing matches instead of actually looking at A. what the regulation does and B. is that a good thing? I was trying to discuss A in view of our imperfect information but that hasn't exactly happened, pity.

### I use 'game theoretical' somewhat loosely here, aiming for succinctness.
I'll add I saw a number of Docker image discussions where people asked about TLS 1.3 support, and the answer was "blocked in Alpine, which is blocked in Libressl".
Agree 100%. A handful are awesome. Many are doing software for the wrong reasons and most are generating mountains of shit code.
Rising compared to what? Junior engineers are doubling or tripling up to live near work in metropolitan areas or face crushing commutes. It's a sign that even in software engineering, capital is crushing labor.
It's kind of weird that work experience can't replace the master degree in this case.
They don't "terminate" in GC but rest of your comment is correct.
Well if they do know, then who cares. You do you. But, at least in FB's case, they don't.
I've never used FB Watch, but based off this comment I decided to go and see what it played for me.

Video 1: Sheet Pan Chicken Fajita Crunchwrap (recipe video).
My comment: I basically never cook and I would never watch a cooking video.

Video 2: "THE NUN PRANK" (some young idiots doing a prank in an underground parking lot).
My comment: I find this totally moronic.

Video 3: Banana Bread on a stick (another recipe video).
My comment: Zero interest in this.

Video 4: Brave Boy Kills Giant Tiger (looks like a trailer for a cheesy Bollywood kind of movie)
My comment: I don't watch this kind of thing at all and have zero interest.

Video 5: "Lilwin" (looks like an amateur video set in Africa with two people speaking an unknown language)
My comment: I have no fucking clue why this was recommended to me.

Conclusion: FB watch is total shit.
It’s too bad g+ destroyed Reader before it died. Reader could have been just a few development sprints away from replicating most of facebooks features.
Websites should give users the option to disable character key shortcuts
And so has our pay. But, like I said, there are million other variables besides the size of the labor pool that affect salaries. In general, though, more candidates available for a position means a lower salary.

And there are more serious problems with H1B than just lowering salaries. It's very difficult for H1B workers to switch jobs once they're here, and employers (especially contracting shops) use that as leverage against them.

And don't even get me started on H2B workers, who often make minimum wage, have to live in employee housing, and have even less recourse than H1B workers because they make far less money.

We need better immigration policies, and I don't think tying immigration status to job status is the best way forward.
You have to look for the equal and opposite reaction. A normal jet creates a stream of fast air behind it. There's no such thing for a reverse jet that sucks air in.

With your concrete block example, as I start pulling the block towards me I experience an impulse forward. But when it approaches my body I slow it down to zero speed, creating an opposite impulse. So although I might have moved forward a few inches during the motion, my momentum is zero at the end. When you scale this up to large numbers of air molecules, the result is the same.
Lord, Nintendo, _why_?

That's like killing a fly with a suitcase nuke.
You would think they would let existing developers continue to use the free tier under the old API for good PR but it seems they're intentionally pushing devs away from the platform.

"Hey, you need to rewrite your app to use our new API and pay us for the privilege of doing so."
"We have to continue to help people grow out of poverty. But that’s a different issue than minimum wage, which is supposed to be your first job entering the market. You’re not supposed to be able to support a family on minimum wage."

Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Is the argument that teenagers deserve to get paid less than real grown up humans just because they are younger, or that those who are making minimum wage as adults have failed to live up to some basic standard?

Either way, if you work, you should get paid a decent wage for it. You should be able to support your family, or at least yourself on what you make in a week. Is that really so radical?
Bryan Lunduke.
The difference is person in H1B faces same issues as you but there are more issues which are frankly more complicated and time consuming due to visa related things.
The goal of probably secure computing would be merely to (hopefully) extend the mathematical certainties of cryptography to computers and software. The politics of cryptography wouldn’t change, they would only be broadened. Intentional back doors would still be possible, and the ramifications of building them would be just as dire.

So the best provable security could do would be to eliminate security holes like buffer overflow/etc. Trust issues (and even side-channel attacks) would still be present as always.
Why do we care about a masters degree from some India degree farm? It seems like the emphasis on accreditation misses the point entirely. There's no quality control in the US immigration process. For every brilliant engineer we get someone garbage. For every innovator or entrepreneur we get someone who is just the mother's uncle's in-law.
Ha. Damn. Thanks :)
The real ethical question is not asked: should a driverless car be allowed on the street if it waits 10 minutes at the left turn while making a traffic jam?

Real autonomous cars are already making real problems. I believe it's Waymo's job to take over the left turns if the waiting line is too long.
Yeah.

I appreciate you trying to correct me, but I never was saying that this was an instance of “public key encryption”, whichever version you mean.

This is a scheme by which you can intentionally create a key that can be re-generated in a fixed amount of time, and use it as part of normal symmetric encryption to protect a secret. One usage of that is creating intentionally crackable schemes, such as protecting other signing keys in a way you can later crack if you need to. This allows a device, such as a phone, to emit a masked secret that we have cryptographic guarantees it still takes time to recover.

Hashchains for time locking is a studied mechanism, and though it predates crypto currencies, it’s deployed as a mechanism in several kinds of applications there. A second usage is in storing paper copies of master signing keys in a safe, since the key cannot be exposed in the event of a robbery before a certain period of time — giving you time to rekey your system. (Generally, people use multipart keys instead, because they’re less cumbersome to recover; however, if you only have one secure location — multipart keys don’t help. Hash chains still do.)

So it’s literally how (part of) modern cryptography works.
Countries should do what makes sense for them. Canada is behind, they want to jump start their tech sector. They’re not a challenge to the US, China, Japan or even Russia. So good on them. We have a need for some specialists and we have a need for many low skills laborers. We need a system to evaluate need, address it appropriately and manage the foreign workforce to the advantage of Americans. Panama is free to invite all the high skilled labor if they want and become a tech power too. Let them. I encourage it.
History we also the bane of anyone who thought man could walk on the moon.
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You implied "every case" when not addressing the list of web apps, while also rejecting my premise that there is a distinction between "websites" and "web apps" by stating:

> Webapps can be implemented just fine without Javascript; I’ve been doing it for years.

You never addressed any of the examples, so I don't see why it's wrong to assume you believe that the listed applications can be implemented, in the browser, without JavaScript.

You flat out rejected the idea.

> How do you think webapps were written before React came along?

Jquery / Prototype / ExtJS, and others where written in Flash or Java.

I think it's fine to want parts of the internet to work without JavaScript or having any programming language involved. I highly suggest you checkout IPLD[0]. I've always thought that having a graph browser, much like the original intent of www may of been when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the original web browser.

It would be fascinating if the entire internet functioned as workers extending the graph that is the internet. Web applications adding to the graph, while web browser, walked through it. There is a lot to be imagined. I think there is room for both applications and data to exists together.

[0] https://ipld.io/
> As the latest step in its program to develop effective defenses, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has winnowed the group of potential encryption tools—known as cryptographic algorithms—down to a bracket of 26. These algorithms are the ones NIST mathematicians and computer scientists consider to be the strongest candidates submitted to its Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization project, whose goal is to create a set of standards for protecting electronic information from attack by the computers of both tomorrow and today.

> “These 26 algorithms are the ones we are considering for potential standardization, and for the next 12 months we are requesting that the cryptography community focus on analyzing their performance,”

Links to the 17 public-key encryption and key-establishment algorithms and 9 digital signature algorithms are here: "Round 2 Submissions" https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Rou...

"Quantum Algorithm Zoo" has moved to https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org .
The internet is fun and weird but all my links got caught in the spam filter.
But this is just making the choice and then pretending it hasn't been made.
> H1B's are immigrant visas

No, H-1B visas are explicitly nonimmigrant visas for temporary workers. [1]

> They terminate in greencards after one renewal

No, they don't. You can apply for a GC, but there's nothing automatic about the process, and the GC is not guaranteed to be approved either.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
It reminds me of the story of the pencil:

too cool to do drugs

cool to do drugs

to do drugs

do drugs

drugs

(https://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/the-story-behind-the-too-c...)

This famous writer may have been negatively affected by drugs, but then they show the cover of his book with crabs. Maybe not the best message to sent around.
The other extreme is a scenario where insurers magically have perfect knowledge about your individual risk and insurance becomes completely pointless.

You will not receive exactly what you pay. Some people will receive much more, and their payouts are subsidized by the others who receive much less. That is the nature of insurance.

What's the difference between your question and "How would you like it if you had to pay just as much flood insurance as someone down the street whose house actually gets flooded next year?" The only difference is that you can't reliably predict things with that level of accuracy.

Insurance companies and low-risk insurance buyers are both incentivized to predict individual risk profiles as accurately as possible, but this gradually drives the system towards uselessness.
Wow, those are some impressive results! I've been wanting to do some ascii art on a dot-matrix printer for a little while now, and I was thinking of something similar to your "sub-pixel rendering" but had no idea how to research/implement it. I look forward to reading through your code and references more, and I really appreciate the history that you've written up here.
How does this work when people want to buy different amounts of life insurance?
Moving my side project to Kubernetes, a year and a half later
Because they can hold BTC for the purpose of using ethereum apps instead of selling BTC.
You're describing two different problems. Housing supply in the Bay Area and New York -- the areas I'm assuming you're talking about, because most other metropolitan cities are building to keep up with supply just fine -- is incredibly low. In addition, in the Bay Area especially, the incredibly high salaries in combination with that supply is causing skyrocketing prices.
It sounds like they took their own advice and did just that.
Ask HN: Which large tech company will best prepare me to be a startup founder?
- I'm soon to graduate from university.

- I want to go into big tech for a few years as a software developer to do things like knock out student debt fast and have a secure job as I find my feet.

- I also know that I want to found a startup a few years later.

- Of the big tech companies, which cultures will help prepare me for this role most? Why and how?
Nah, there are plenty of countries that operate fine without cheap imported labor. They just need to...you know...pay fair wages. Which apparently has everyone up in arms I guess?

It's really just about the bottom line. Exploiting people is cheap. Paying or treating people properly is expensive. That's it. Tim Cook or your California farmer don't give a flying fuck about these people.

It's just about the $$$. Immigrants work hard for cheap.
He meant you were the example. I am not saying it was your intention, but the way you mentioned a particular issue and then added your opinion on the issue in your comment is one way people inject their beliefs into otherwise unrelated conversation. I know you needed an example to make your point, but the grandparent was trying to make a point of your comment.
Norm Matloff at UC Davis has blogged about this for a decade. A sampling of one paper has several references about the bias toward much younger and cheaper H1-B candidates in academia and professional workforce. He also argues diversity is better.

https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/reforming-h-1b-a...
> I've never used FB Watch

> Conclusion: FB watch is total shit.

Did you expect it to just magically know your preferences?
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Not just that transaction are faster and cheaper on Ethereum.

So you can move bitcoin without actually transacting bitcoins on bitcoin network.

Less fee and faster transactions
Be aware that Silicon Valley is an extreme global outlier in real estate prices.
Saving comes first. Even before spending.

That's practically my advice to everyone. You'd be surprised to see many people live paycheck-to-paycheck even when their salary grow double or triple.

Lifestyle inflation is very real.
From an economics perspective, unless the hiring of more software engineers results in an increased demand for software engineers (i.e. there being a significant latent demand), H1B absolutely then lowers the earnings potential of engineers. Especially those earning more towards the middle and bottom of the market.

I'd also add that BLS data suggests that this induced demand isn't true. As the projected employment growth for engineers between 2016 and 2026 is 600,000 where there are around 60,000 people graduating with computer science bachelor's degrees every year in the US and even more getting masters or doing bootcamps.
I would guess our lawn sizes are larger on average. You have cities where there are no lawns, suburbs where they would have a use, and a lot of rural areas where the lawns are simply too large. It takes me 2 hours to mow my lawn using a riding lawnmower.
True, but if one of them doesn't have that constraint, then they would indeed immediately be full-blown competitors.

Maybe Scripto only sells to folks with "correct" political opinions, but if I'm willing to sell my version (maybe call it "CueCard-o-Matic" or something) to anyone, then provided my version is competitive on features and/or price, Scripto's target demographic is suddenly a subset of my own rather than a different demographic entirely.

Doesn't sound that hard to do, either, if it's indeed an Etherpad Lite fork + Elasticsearch + ENPS database compatibility + other bits to make it familiar to ENPS users. The ENPS-compatibility-and-familiarity bits could probably even be left out if customers don't actually need that (e.g. for orgs that don't already use ENPS). Of course, I lack any exposure to the target industry whatsoever, so I'm very likely falling victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect here, but someone who does have that experience might be a different story.
+1

"Opinions expressed by our employees, students, faculty or administrators don't have to be politic or polite. However personally offended we might be, however unfair the association of the University to the opinion might be, I insist that we remain a certain trumpet on this most precious of Constitutional rights."

Seems like 18 years later Colleges/ Social Media / etc love to censor and silence speech. THIS site included.......
Can you define "not-image content"? Steganography begs to differ.
Erwin Schrodinger – What Is Life? [pdf]
Is that perhaps why the question is so nettlesome?, it reveals something we've been living with all along and would've preferred to continue ignoring.
I don't think the contents of the poem are really particularly relevant, but for anyone else who is curious here it is:

https://www.thefire.org/linda-mccarristons-indian-girls-2/
Well, apparently they needed the existing environmental regulations to be waived. It was never revealed why, e.g., what chemicals they wanted to dump. They could simply be required to re-use their wastewater in a closed system, like nuclear power plants (for a different reason, heat generation). Then it can be as dirty or clean as it needs to be.

Also, the water doesn't belong to us. Use of Great Lakes water is governed by a treaty with Canada and administered by an international body that includes the states and provinces in the Great Lakes watershed.
Not only that, but even if you could create something in the traditional way (without having to go through all those extra hoops you described), how many of the younger generation know how to run an executable locally (either downloaded, compiled from source, or received on a USB stick) when they've been raised on computer systems where everything takes place in the browser?
Totally agreed. Weird, as always, persists in small communities. Not large. Weird is still alive and kicking, but it's just as hard as ever to find, and e.g. Google prioritizes large (normal) results over small (weird) so the normal tools are unlikely to find them without effort.

In the Good Old Days, you were weird simply by being on the internet, so as an internet user you found it a bit more easily. That's unlikely to return. Improvise, adapt, be weird.