skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if he were found to have upended both the cryptographic industry and financial industry

How exactly has he up-ended the financial industry?

None of the differences in how 99.9% of the world pays for things, over the past 10 years, have anything to do with BTC.

How has he upended the cryptographic industry? Nobody actually building products, or using cryptography for useful things is basing it off BTC.

BTC created a new financial market, sure. It has not 'upended' industries that solve actual problems.
threading lisp through clojure is probably just going to get messy tbh.
> Its popular to create false dichotomies. Like this one.

It's not a false dichotomy, it's a practical issue.

eg
> Kids tease each other, they call each other names, they occasionally get into fist-fights, but that's not necessarily bullying

There's no nuance between dominance behavior and bullying. It looks like bullying, regardless if you call it teasing or horsing around. Laws and policies are, in large, black or white. It's not practical to pretend that, because there is a subjective element, that it will be legislated that way.
Might be better to ask this on Quora. Maybe someone not bound by an NDA will answer.

On the other hand, the single-tenant customer is plausible. I know Samsung invested in a lot of technology in the past five years. The Viv team is still around (acquired around the same time as Joyent), and there is quite a bit of IoT Samsung is building into their appliances.
A good longer play to bust out of that is to start working out of an independent cafe. Find one with a lower rate of laptop jockeys but that still has a couple.

Bounce around until you find one that feels right: a good amount of regulars, people doodling, and bullshitting with baristas.

Show up a couple times a week, drop into the odd conversation. And be ready to say “anyone want to grab a beer” come quitting time.

This is just about the fastest (week to a month) way to find yourself a new in person social circle.
Saving this. So many people follow the "happy path" when talking about UBI and never mention the what ifs or the hard decisions we'd have to make if it was implemented to prevent gaming (such as, "sorry you spent it all on drugs this month? You don't get any more, including money for food.").

Great article.
I'm also single (again), almost 40, do sport twice a week (with people) and usually go outonce a week with somebody. I because I wanna see other people than just the guys on work an friends, I use for example public transportation for going to work.
I would argue that the decline of the family is directly linked to feminism, or better stated, the liberation of women from the home and from conservative sexual values. The two forces behind that are birth control and women entering the work force. These two are magnified by online dating and social media. I am not saying at all that these are bad things, just that we have yet to see the true effects of feminism on society. Again, I am not asserting that feminism is a bad thing, just that when modes and patterns of societal interaction break down after hundreds of years (or more) of existence, we should take a step back and think about what is really happening.

It's too early to tell how this will play out, but we as a society have underestimated the effects and consequences of rapid change. It may be another one hundred years before we can look back and understand what we are currently going through.
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The vampires we have now are a creation of literature, conscious borrowings, and deliberate de- and reconstructions. Ancient beliefs were varied and inconsistent, as you'd expect from a vague category comprised of "various folklore people used to believe about dead bodies getting up and being pests to the living"; in some ways, ancient vampires are closer to what we'd call zombies, and ancient zombies are closer to what we'd consider robots, in terms of being used for slave labor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
I find this interesting because it's an easy pattern in Rust and yet very difficult to emulate in most other languages.
Covert Incest and Family Culture of Achievement
Maybe a local book or movie club? I find these are a great way to meet some new people as an adult.
I have to agree on Crystal

issue for Windows support has been open for... 6 years

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/26
I had the same situation. A non sustainable life. With her all changed. I go to the gym so she does not have a skinny boyfriend. When I find something good at netflix I wait until she is home and we can watch it together. When I find a nice place, I remmember it so I can show her the nice bench under that tree in my hometown.

I always have flashback about the time I moved to another city without family bondings. Then I smiley because it's over.
<completely my theory>

Personally, I blame the decoupling of the dollar to the gold standard and the distribution of newly minted dollars from the federal reserve into the well connected via banks and corporations that are controlled by a small social segment that all attend the same schools.

Once money became a thing that doesn't cost anything but the changing of zeros, then growth becomes a question not of how to produce something to get money, and but how to get the both the connection and the pedigree needed to receive cheap dollars.

This has created money silos, where the US aristocracy will take hundreds of billions in loses to capture a market and then extract value in monopolistic ways.

You can see this with google, facebook, amazon, etc.

It wasn't always the best companies that won. It was the best companies that had access to the vast capitals pools created out of thin air and who could promise to operate at the monopolistic scales the monied classes were aiming for from the beginning. That is why Ivy leaguers (whether drop outs or not) were chosen as the princelings. They are people who have a lot committed into the system and wouldn't dare betray it: they can be counted on to take things to their logical extreme.

I think also pertinent is the locking out of the middle and lower clases from growth fases of company creation (incentive angel investors and delaying IPOs + legally enforced discrimination against investors based on social class) - Oh and the pooling of legally stolen funds (pensions) into 'safe' stocks. Not to mention the legalization of bribery which has further accelerated our current state of legislative capture.

</completely my theory>
This is a great answer. Thanks.
Reads like a conspiracy theory.

That being said, as much merit as the theory has, there's far too much allusion to circumstance to believe this.
My mind was cast back to "LEMINGS", an amusingly named clone for the Acorn Archimedes. Don't know the license status.

https://youtu.be/c-WrhrA6ny0?t=228

Some amusing messages if you run `strings` on the binary:

http://acorn.revivalteam.de/?site=Downloads
Those things do not follow from one another, even if he could so prove. Which he has not done.
How to Use Open Source and Shut the Fuck Up at the Same Time (2016)
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The digital divide was vast because computers cost thousands of dollars and the Internet was something available only to corporations and universities. As a result, most of the paid software out there was targeted at rich users for professional work and priced accordingly.

BTW, how are ads incentivizing user-focused development? Look at the Top 100 apps in any apps store, and tell me they're not virtual clones of Clash of Clans, Plants v Zombies and Candy Crush. Every developer is heeding self-interest first.
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Other areas I've been working in and interested are:

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I think upper atmosphere study would be great. There are some colony designs that suggest an oxygen filled colony would float at earth pressure. And with the sulfuric acid and co2 you have everything you need to make water air and fuel. Not to mention protection from asteroids and deadly rays. It would be a challenge but all of the planets and other bodies present their own challenges.
Say if we suddenly realize earth is going to be unsuitable for all life forms in a year. What would we do? I would fire as many rockets as possible to Mars, carrying all kind of life forms on earth, and hope a few of them will survive and possibly evolve to Mars' environment.
Yeah the people pushing all these different ideologies basically engineered a culture to be like this. With various ideologies replacing religion (which are themselves really modern religions) that don't really work out the implications of their ideas in any sort of consistent system... instead down with this and down with that, and sure individually those things might be bad but they form some sort of coherent system and when you get rid of a part of that system the whole thing falls apart.
Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint
It’s not just complacency, there’s been a significant push for deregulation and gutting of oversight by business interests since the economic problems of the 70s. It’s been one of the top issues for the followers of Milton Friedman, of which there are many in government.
By the way, this might seem revolutionary, but there are plenty of societies ( in history) that didn't have rule by Men and an awakening of feminism.

The studies I'm familiar with didn't mention loneliness, but rather the social responsibility.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/08/army-ube...
Say we could break any physical rules of our current universe, is there a good theory that would explain how something might have been created out of nothing? i.e. imagine for a second that we're in a simulation and that the current laws of physic are just arbitrary created by a "host". This "host" could have very different physical laws. Could we think of any theory that would explain the creation of something out of nothing in this "host"?

I'm very puzzled as to why the universe even exist.. wouldn't it have been much simpler not to have anything at all? I can only think of one answer: It couldn't have been otherwise. I.e. physically speaking, it had to happen.

Maybe that's how we should approach the problem? Let's try to "create nothing"... maybe we'll realize that it's actually impossible to "have nothing" unless X happens, and maybe we'll figure out that X happening would explain how our universe was created?

Or said in a different way, maybe the universe is actually "nothing", like it always was and will always be. But "nothing" may just be physically impossible so you need "positive" and "negative" things to cancel each other out so that the end result is "0".

I'm not too sure where I'm going with this, but it reminds me of the quote "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." So, whatever the theories about big bang, multi-verse, universe expanding/collapsing indefinitely or even God-based theories, all of it comes back to "how did the first thing come out out of nowhere?" People talk about "Singularity", but this is just "kicking the can down the road". Still, by kicking the can I guess we keep learning new things, and maybe someday we will have the technology to answer these questions. Unfortunately, it seems like answering the next frontier seems to be an order of magnitude harder (time-wise and cost-wise) than answering the previous question.
another fun fact: a lot of the early HackerNews posts were the daily drama of Twitter's RoR struggles.
If you are talking about the blackout event in South Australia back in 2016, it was due to misconfigured wind farms:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-28/wind-farm-settings-to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout

Soaring energy prices are because of privatisation, not because of green policies.
It's sort of funny how knee-jerk "Wikipedia is not a reliable source" has become. It is among other things a user-editable encyclopedia. It's also the largest project of the Wikimedia foundation, an online-encyclopedia development initiative with a paid staff, and one of the highest-traffic websites in the world.

As you say, it is a primary source here. The question isn't what's on the Daily Mail's anyone-can-edit Wikipedia page, it's what a closed group of encyclopedia overseers have decided constitutes an acceptable source. What's more, the closest competitor, Britannica, relies on finding expert contributors instead of listing specific reputable sources, so its editors wouldn't be nearly as relevant here!
Is Apple a privacy-first company?
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Other areas I've been working in and interested are:

1) security

2) machine learning

3) marketing

-------

My latest projects 2 ecommerce stores I've built from zero, they're live.

Full list: https://gildedhonour.me/projects
True, but his inability to move those coins does cast doubt on his claim. It's the one thing we know Satoshi has the ability to do, and Wright can't do that.
As ridiculous as it is, that's still more researched than that idiotic Newsweek article...
YouTube’s anti-extremism crackdown targets journalist who documents extremism
Preformance impact of Intel Spectre-class builtin mitigations on CPU preformance
Subtitle: Apple wants consumers to view it as the privacy-centric tech company — but some security experts aren't impressed
This is a misrepresentation of the facts. Zig can use libcurl just as much as C can. Unlike other languages, zig does not need bindings to use C libraries. It's one of the main features.

The issue you linked is saying tht zig standard library will not introduce a dependency on libcurl.
I had the same thought. The clause is (which I just copied from original):

"15. use, under any circumstance, any open source software subject to the GNU Affero General Public License v.3, or greater;"

Which perhaps could be interpreted as version 0.3 or later?
I don't know what the music scene is like in your area, but there is a vast plethora of people who want to compose/improvise with others. You can turn your coding/art-fu into a social asset if you see how to use it.

libcinder, openframeworks, pure data, faust, three.js, tone.js, there are a multitude of things regular musicians could use but don't know about.
That's just pride and puffery. Extravagant kid stuff is about you, not the kids!

If you choose to join the cool kids club, you're paying the price of admission. I coach little league ($120/season) and do all sorts of activities with the kids that are fun, enriching and not outrageous. My kids will not see the Louvre or work on their Spanish in Barcelona on a school trip, but will somehow muddle through.
My suggestion is to keep a few close friends for these times. I don't find it hard, but I genuinely enjoy my friends.
>So then if you lose your job you're no longer rich?

A rich person will have enough of a buffer to still spend like a rich person until they find their next job. If you can't find one then yeah eventually you slide down from rich.
Name one major bank not working on blockchain tech right now.

I guess an upending isn't a totally accurate description but I haven't seen banks this motivated to innovate in a long time.
I don't think there's an upper bound on spending though.

There will always be some subset of people that will spend everything, as my example attempted to show.
lol. It's just MVC framework + Javascript framework. Basically what a software web developer should know.
Ask HN: -Who Got Acquired- What happened after in your life after you got paid?
Did your personability improve or deteriorate?

Did you decide to work or start a company again?

What keeps you motivated to keep doing things?

What did you "Treat Yo' Self" with?

What other feelings came about?
Join something! A band, a chamber group, an orchestra? An artists' collective with shared studio space?
Joyent was a public cloud provider, that offered a VPS/Container style offering built on Illuminos (open source Solaris). The expanded into offering Linux using some clever stuff to support Linux runtime on Solaris (kind of like WINE, but much simpler since Linux is much more similar to Solaris and also fully open source). All with DTrace so you had some great transparency on what was going on with the underlying hardware.
The whole point of DPDK is to avoid the context switches by dedicating the adapter to a single application, and letting the application take over management. Once you have multiplexing, you're right back to where you started. There has been a secure multiplexing scheme based on packet buffers... the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), ie. what this paper is talking about as prior art.
The atmosphere is opaque, so you can't see much from high up.

The most interesting science (to me) would be to look for fossils or other signs of life, for which you have to land and dig.
Do people actually use all these "note taking" apps? I just use Google Docs for longer notes, and Apple Notes for ephemeral stuff, like dimensions of stuff I need to buy at Home Depot. The benefit of Docs is I can work with them anywhere and search is quite good. I've tried a few of such apps but for the life of me I can't see why I'd want to use them.

The app looks great. The dev is clearly talented.
I've heard people observe how many support lines have transformed into these impeccably polite, but completely unempowered people--which is more frustrating than being on hold or getting stuck in an automated menu loop because their protocol deflects any anger away from that person (which isn't fair in any circumstance) and leaves you helpless.
Because people have fully inculcated the notion David cannot beat Goliath, so now we have to hope that the lesser evil "wins".
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Whatever it is today, I fear the future will be much worse. The most devastating existential consequences of loneliness can take decades to manifest. You feel a little lonely in your day to day life now, but wake up twenty years from now and realize you're socially isolated with no meaningful relationships or community and it's "too late" to make up the lost time. Most dangerous of all may be that online social networks provide participants with the feeling of deep social and community engagement that turns out to be a surface-level mirage beneath which we were just each staring at ourselves in the mirror the entire time.
macOS Catalina's 'Sidecar' Feature Limited to Newer Macs
Google Maps offline has saved me a lot of headaches when traveling
How does it go beyond? The systems discussed either grab public social media, or monitor information created on the schools' machines. I don't know that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy on either.
Truthfully more testing isn’t always better because the negative consequences of false positives often outweighs the value of tests. It’s the reason you don’t get prostate exams until you’re middle aged. Humans are weird and lumpy and all different. Testing can be bad for you until you until the math works out, and (risk of disease * consequences of missing it) exceeds (risk of false positive * consequences of exploring/treating). It’s just a numbers game.
Opioid-Maker Insys Admits to Bribing Doctors, Agrees to Pay $225 Million
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Intel Core i5 8400 vs. i5 9400F means very little to anyone without good knowledge of difference between Intel CPU generations.

The new 9xxx series CPUs have mitigations baked into the CPU hardware out of the box, vs the 8xxx series which do not.
He also created many great childrens books
Why does it matter? 150 MB is pennies now.

Caring about resource utilization like it's 2000 is an absurd exercise, I really wish the community would stop.
Is this lake wobegon?
This was well put:

> The ACM started giving the Turing Award in 1966.
That helps! Thanks :)
I'm a big fan of testing basic CS knowledge in technical interviews, which puts me against the dominant narrative on HN.

But even I think knowing how to implement an RB tree off the top of your head is more about having prepared for whiteboard interviews than about actual knowledge or skill.

I'd say it'd be a bonus for me to have a general understanding of how some sort of self-balancing tree works. For example, for red-black trees I'd be happy with stating the invariant about same number of black nodes along any given path and no two red nodes in a row, explaining why this guarantees O(log(n)) worst-case lookups, and also mentioning the basic notion that you can bubble rotations up the tree so the time it takes to do an update or delete is proportional to path length and so again O(log(n)).

I don't think that remembering off the top of your head the exact code for all 7 (or however many it is, idk) different rotation cases provides any additional signal.
> matter in the universe isn't slowing down in spreading apart, but accelerating

How come this does not violate the law of conservation of energy which says there's a fixed amount of energy in the universe? For matter to accelerate would require energy right? Where is the energy fueling this universal acceleration coming from? According to Newton's laws, doesn't there also need to be an external actor causing this acceleration? (Sorry if this sounds like a basic question--I don't know much physics besides some required intro courses I took for my CS major).
It's not the fact that they're trying to understand how people use the app, it's that they're using services like Facebook and thereby syphoning more personal data towards corporate entities that have a genuinely terrible track record when it comes to using and abusing people's data.
I'm guessing lag will depend on how far from the data center you are and might not be great initially but then could prove to be awesome in a year or two as more localised render farms appear.
>We aren’t in your country yet

Sounds about right. By the time it comes to EU it will be abandoned by Google and shut down in a year or so
Another theory says that is the perfect way to hide in plain sight if you were the real Satosh
$5000 Drone Fine – NEVER flying drones again?
Medium is also blocked in China. Meaning 1.4B people can’t access your content.
It's surely not a particularly contentious point that hard to deploy systems that require lots of attention to keep running are less likely to achieve commercial objectives.

Just like your website being stable and easy to update helps your business use it to make money. Of course it also needs to be tied to commercial usefulness.
DConf 2019: All Spreadsheets Must Die
There are capitalistic (albeit not thorough) versions of 1 - rentals [0] and services (Uber/etc)

[0] https://www.divvybikes.com/
Having worked for eons in production, I can tell you that's not true. You see, coloring and tech prep work can be done on 95% monitors (compared to sony for example). Certain broadcast techies need 100% (broadcast engineering isn't in studios), and I would definitely challenge that as well - knowing and working with these people over the years.

What is happening in studios is this a) there needs to be a monitor that one can work on (95% IS FINE, broadcast engineering isn't in studios) b) wow factor for clients and dick showing contest in-front of them.