skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the incredibly long and consistent history of being considered valuable. It cannot easily be devalued by any government, unlike any fiat currency. It’s extremely portable, even for relatively large values of it.

And faith in all those things is what gives it value.
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May not be the right post to ask, but here I go.

I am a credit card geek and am very interested in this space. I have some questions

1. Your rewards are insane. How do you even manage to give 7x on rideshare?

2. Most millennials and Gen Z spend a lot on rideshare, Airbnbs, online subscriptions and restaurants. Many personal credit cards provide rewards only on restaurants, but not on any of the other categories. It's a huge untapped market. Do you see entering personal credit card space in near future?
Yeah it's weird to me the amount of hate Facebook gets when Twitter, reddit, and tumblr all seem worse.
I should go and backup my photos asap then...
Mainly my knowledge of the history of the financial system in the U.S. which was characterized by regular panics, crises, and bank runs before the Federal Reserve was founded. (Of course, the Fed bungled it badly in the Great Depression, but has done a pretty reasonable job since then.) Looking now at the history of free banking in other parts of the world it looks like it is not invariably catastrophic. Maybe it's a cultural thing. I suspect that free banking works better in a world where everyone knows everyone else, and the banker's customers know where the banker lives so if he screws things up too badly there's a real risk that people will literally show up on his doorstep with pitchforks.
I was just debating about this book and read not so favorable reviews about it. can anyone recommend something similar to 2001 oddysey (book) specially the past about going through the stargate?
s/was/is/g

One of the biggest insights I gained was reading about "intention revealing selector".

Before that I had thought that we needed "higher level" programming languages, whatever that meant, exactly.

This made me realise the importance of naming (one of the two, three? hard things I computer science). If I could find an intention-revealing selector, I didn't need any higher level, because the current level was just fine.

This was the case much more often that I would have thought, it just required work. (eek)

And it also gave you an indicator that you might, in fact, need a "higher" language level, or more accurately an architecturally more appropriate one: when you can't create intention-revealing selectors.
Nope, because the market doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t care if you have a place to live, if you are healthy, if you are safe…

Not restricting "the market" at all leads to a worse life for humans.
Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides
Bryan kept a track of what flavors have dropped i386 from their images. https://bryanquigley.com/pages/papers/ubuntu-drop-i386.html
This is a good way to ensure a relatively slow (by comparison) security review for your PRs as every dumb string manipulation and every allocation needs to be checked.
If FAANG are the new digital nation states, one can see why they want their own currency
> I'm confident somebody out there has this working without writing device drivers.

I google search for it now and then, and come up with nothing that can be simply installed and used.
Publicly traded doesn't mean owned by the gov't or a gov't entity. The 1st Amendment of the Constitution says the gov't can't infringe on free speech. Just like you can restrict speech within your own house, a company - private or public - can do the same. Neither can be told by the gov't that certain speech is not allowed.
What this truly mimics is a 'security' analogous to a basket of foreign currency traded as an ETF. Once you give them US $1 it is backed by a POOL of currency from multiple countries (i.e. the other people who have traded their currency for Libra).

Once you decide to take your US $1 you will get back a different amount based on the underlying value of the pool based on the fluctuating FX market. May be >=<...no one will know.

Given they are seeking to bring in "underbanked" people (i.e. the charitable patina on this operation) there will be a focused % of currency in the pool from countries with a high % of underbanked people. Logic says this will likely be less stable currency than say the US $, etc.

Thus, your US $ will be diluted by "lesser" or more "volatile" currencies and will diminish the purchase power of your US $1. Conversely it will increase the purchase power of the lesser currency.

Thoughts?
I was a data wrangler for a large retail company that put a microVAX in each store for pricing and stock tracking, about the same time as scan guns were first introduced.

It helped me get that job that my dad had worked at DEC for years and I had an RT-11 system sitting on my bedroom desk for years. Knew VAX ops fairly well then. Also about 30 years ago.
Total now owns the world’s most powerful commercial supercomputer
That's one of the things being done. Problem is that for a while they didn't (that's what happens when you get people who think the market magically fixes things in power) and building new ones takes time. To get that time a stop gap measure was needed, hence freezing prices for five years for existing houses, no price freeze on new houses.
The French have, in my opinion, overall a much healthier approach to sexuality than say, the British or Americans and I think there's much we can learn from them.
Speaking as a Seattle resident, heavy skepticism should follow any mynorthwest.com article. It basically exists as a foil to Seattle predominantly progressive culture.
Younger generations are growing horns in the back of their head
Slippery slope. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
This is worth getting angry at Linked in, sorry
Where did those people live before? How did the Bay Area grow to its current size if people kept saying the same thing?

"We only have one bus route and a school, how can we grow this place? It's too crowded". Complete BS.
Wait, housing is socialized in Japan? Or is there some kind of non-socialized-but-non-privatized ownership situation? Do you have any further reading on this?
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Top engineering university to open jobs exclusively to women
Your bug report is amusing, but isn't it unnecessarily personal? Couldn't you file a similar bug against the project that makes the point more concretely without the personal attack?
California governor, lawmaker alter proposed vaccine rules
Sperm counts in men are on decline as well. There might be some environmental factor.
You can think it as a cross platform networking library.

From the post.

"Low-level networking improvements like HTTP/2, QUIC, QUIC to TCP failover, gRPC, DNS replacements, push/streaming, observability, analytics, state of the art TLS, retry and timeout policies, etc. take a tremendous amount of effort both to implement robustly as well as to make consistent across all of the Android and iOS versions in common use. Envoy Mobile will provide all of this functionality in a consistent cross-platform manner, especially when paired with Envoy running at the edge, similar to how server-side Envoy provides consistency to polyglot distributed application architectures."
Life on Earth lived in CO2-dominated atmosphere for 1.5B years. If anything, CO2-rich world which is not overrun by SO2 and chlorine and phosphoric anhydride and scorching heat, like Venus, is as "potentially life-supporting" as it gets, save for a world with actual oxygen-producing life like ours.
This is worrying, yet unsurprising. LinkedIn has become a necessary evil for most professionals, unfortunately. The quality of IT opportunities isn't as high as on other smaller job boards in my experience, but I still keep my LinkedIn profile up to date, to get a feel of the market mostly. I look forward to the day I can disable that social network as well.

In the meantime, we should build and use simpler web browsers, without extension support for one. I've found surf[0] to be the most usable of all WebKit wrappers. Without much C experience, I've managed to use my own fork[1] for a few months now, which wasn't much work thanks to the lean sub-3KLOC codebase of very readable C code and helpful comments.

I imagine that an experienced group of C programmers could take surf as base and easily build a secure and user-friendly web browser with most of the features of the big boys. WebKit is still a concern, but with some work it too could be abstracted away and made easily replaceable.

For LinkedIn specifically, I use a separate cookie file, and with the surf process isolation it gives me a degree of sandboxing similar to Chrome. A modern browser should be built on sandboxing principles for web content, and expose this functionality for each site by default.

[0]: https://surf.suckless.org/

[1]: https://github.com/imiric/surf
This would ignore any human-specific negative vaccine interactions so is not convincing.
Correct.

Libra coin is backed by Visa. The whole point of cryptocurrency to avoid having to go through middlemen like Visa or even require banks.

This is a way for the intermediaries to cash in on the cryptocurrency hype and squash it before cryptocurrency payments become mainstream. They want to insert their own thing that looks like a cryptocurrency but will allow them to continue to profit from and control the exchange of money.

It will become a central point of control by providing many governments a convenient one-stop shop for their spying and interference over people's business.
They'll pay lip service to KYC etc, and then hope to do an end run around regulation by becoming ubiquitous before it can be properly regulated.

That's probably why they've chosen a blockchain (which is of negative value here technically) - to bamboozle regulators and avoid responsibility for managing it till it is too late to do anything about it.
Yup, I think carbon taxes are the one thing we can actively do. This will create a market incentive to find and use other power sources.

It might not work, but we should at least try.
Perhaps another way to word it is: "Adding a boolean parameter is a strong indication that you're about to cross the single-responsibility threshold. Try to think of different ways to structure the code in which the bool isn't needed."
Government bonds. The affordable rent would go towards paying off those bonds. Tenants would be selected by income level and lottery. If cities can build huge stadiums, they can build huge housing complexes.
As far as I understand, viewed from Earth's reference frame, a spaceship accelerating by constant force will get heavier and heavier as it gets faster, and thus get less and less speed out of it, asymptotically approaching the speed of light but never exceeding it. Moreover, crucially, any pingbacks from clocks on the spaceship we observe will appear to be progressively going slower than they should. (Time dilation)

The spaceship's own reference frame will be a whole different story. If I understand correctly, it will perceive its own mass to be constant, the rest of the universe's relative speed to asymptotically approach the speed of light, but also the rest of the universe to get progressively squashed in the direction of travel (length contraction dual to time dilation), with the two effects multiplying up in such a fashion that the Newtonian relation between the integral of your acceleration and the time it takes to the destination seems to hold throughout.

In other words, for the spacefarer's schedule, it's as if the speed of light does not actually play a role: they can always accelerate more/go arbitrarily faster to get to their destination faster. However, from their point of view, it is as if the universe around them will deform in the process to accommodate this, and from the stationary observer's point of view, it is as if they are actually still moving slowly but tricking themselves into thinking otherwise by accelerating their passage of time.
Could you give an example of something with this decentralization quality as you described?
Don't know if it's what referred to, but you need to be accepted as a validating node by the other nodes.
>Let's say the origin of life is a million to one filter, and the successful development of sentience is another million to one filter. Those are actually pretty high odds for those two events, and the combination of those two togehter is enough to make it likely we're alone in the Milky Way.

The Drake equation has 7 terms. When it was first proposed, all but the first were complete unknowns. We're just barely starting to gather enough data to start tightening our guesses for the next two. The rest (which include the two you used) are complete unknowns. You say "those are actually pretty high odds", but by whose measure? There's exactly one data point to support that assertion, and right now that data point suggests that the odds are 100% (with an uncertainty also approaching 100%). We're still decades away from really having the data to assert anything at all about the presence of life outside of our solar system with confidence.
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that's not the right breakdown; it's really far-left progressive democrats who associate with natural living.
> The concept of nationalized central banks is new.

And it's still pretty unclear if those are a good idea at all.

According to this guy, the average lifespan of a national currency is 27 years: https://www.dinardirham.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-fiat-curren...
But you can arbitrarily depress it. Its value is the sum of all positive aspects (such as good infrastructure, nice views at a river) and all negative aspects (such as air pollution, noise). Implementing a restriction on rents adds a huge negative aspect that however is only negative for those interested in investing for appreciation, not at all for those who eventually live in that place. This should indeed depress the lands' value, just like it would happen if an airport opened up right next to it, but without all that noise. But as long as land costs plus construction costs are still lower than whatever you can get in return via rents, investors should still be inclined to invest in new buildings, they should just not be willing to pay too much for the land, because there's this big negative aspect connected to it.
Same for me and most travelers, but previously there hasn’t been much of a reason to care.

If nothing else, now I’m glaringly aware that Southwest and AA are the primary U.S. carriers that fly Max’s. Chances are it would at least be a passing thought if either had a good option on a metasearch site.
From the link you cite:

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I have used FaunaDB's GraphQL API with the Ember Apollo Client and it was so dope! The cloud product coupled with GraphQL can get your SPA very far, making the backend an implementation detail.
Much of my family uses Google Calendar. Mostly because it's integrated into Android itself.
Here's a scenario that gives me pause: you as a company goes all in to re-engineer your critical apps to use AWS as efficiently as possible. Your apps are now no longer portable away from AWS without a lot of time and work.

Then Amazon enters your business space in direct competition to you. Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.

Anyone else think of this, or am I just being paranoid?
The construction costs would be recouped by the renters. Are you being obtuse on purpose?
I'm banned from facebook for having names they don't approve of.
I wonder if Amazon will offer any up any spare freight capacity on their planes? After all if they're not using they can always sell that capacity.
I clicked around a bit but I really disliked the experience.

At one point I thought I was clicking on a button to do something and it turns out that it was an ad and I was redirected to another site.

Resorting to dark patterns like this for ad clicks is scummy IMO.
As someone who lives in a single-family home, I'm totally for public transit, having fewer cars on the streets, more walkability, etc.

But until cities solve the issues of smell and noise, I'm not interested in living in a dense area. Keep it clean and quiet. Invest in urban forestry. Then it starts to look appealing.
But there is limited amount of apartments in good places like city center. Are you suggesting they should be for people with low salary and talented people with good pay should live in a suburb without public transportation and spend hours in traffic jams? And tourists won't be happy with this too.
For the uninitiated, this is the consensus protocol used in Libra.
That really depends on the hack. Maybe it's fragile because it is building based on a bug, and if the library changes, the code will have to be updated. Or perhaps it's there based on bad behavior of a chip and a hardware update could change the nature of the issue (say, it relies on a particular instruction that's generated by the particular compiler in use to happen just before the code in question).

A hack could be completely reliable (for the same hardware, library versions, and compiler), but still be a "dirty hack". And whether a hack is "dirty" is very subjective and, IMO, based more on how obvious the fix is (e.g. radians -> degrees -> function -> back to radians because the library documentation is wrong is less bad than a non-obvious hack like multiplying by 1 or something to avoid a compiler codegen bug because of a hardware bug).

I think this horse has been thoroughly beaten, so I'll leave it here.
I've read and nearly memorized large portions of 6016 as well and I can commiserate with you. I feel a bit of pride mixed with shame at the fact that I know how to quickly jump around in the document and follow all the threads of logic. On the whole I think it's an interesting read, though. And I'm sure knowing it so well doesn't hurt my employability in the industry.

Technically I think platforms are supposed to document the areas where they're noncompliant with 6016 and submit it for approval. The name of the process escapes me at the moment. Not sure if anybody ever does it, though.
Bitcoin is more like "gold coin" currency, regarding its volatility at least. Its use cases as everyday currency are more or less limited to illegal drugs.
Actually, HSBC prints Hong Kong Dollars (shared with Bank of China and another bank).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Hong_Kong_dol...
As the article admits, the sticker price for a year at Newbury was over $52,000. Yes, many students pay less, but the article also admits that colleges like Newbury have trouble staying financially solvent if they offer too many tuition reductions.

I'd like to ask the Newbury's president if he would honestly advise a student who's not from a wealthy family to take out ~$200,000 loan and get a liberal arts degree at his (former) university.

I believe in the importance of liberal arts education, but schools like that are simply asking for too much. Pretty much the only career paths where a student could get anything that even resembles a decent return on that investment would be as a doctor or lawyer (assuming they went to a top law school). For those students, though, I think suspect they'll be better served going to a larger state school, get a 4.0 GPA, and spend their spare time studying for their LSAT or MCAT.
This is pure ad hominem. Do you have nothing to contribute?

You're saying:

1. I don't like vc's, because a startup founder said "move fast and break things"

2. Paul Graham didn't fund that founder, but he was a vc

3. Ergo, every idea paul graham has is bad

4. Ergo, this specific essay is bad

5. So, anything that mentions this essay's ideas is wrong

6. Your post is wrong

Do you disagree with the concept of default dead? Are you arguing that it's impossible to be in such a state as a civilization? If you have an actual critique I'd be interested to hear it.
Finding such a citation depends on what you call an ecological collapse. In 2019 we have an environment where global indicators of ecosystem extent have declined by 47% from baseline. If the stock market lost 47% of its value in 150 years, it would be in a state of ongoing collapse. 85% of wetlands were lost between 1700 and 2000- I would certainly say that is an ecological collapse.
I thought creating a currency was illegal. What makes cryptocurrencies so different that it's ok for companies to do it?
Education is a transformation of your thoughts and how you think. So does education sound wrong to you?
> a fad before cities become less popular again

The only way this happens is if cities like Berlin putting rent freezes prevent construction that would increase capacity and lower prices to allow people to live in cities. There will be no new economic growth where people are spread thin - all future productivity will only emerge where people are. Any country trying to do anything but centralize their human capital in cities will find themselves at economic disadvantage going forward.
Can you explain why the ledger being run by ~27 different entities is NOT decentralized?

How many governing entities (or validators; or people running blockchain servers) do you need before it qualifies as decentralized?

I'm wondering about your definitions, not defending Facebook here.
But it's not an issue to begin with if you just store it in the correct local time zone.
Well, perhaps a deep exploration of the pros and cons are warranted, but...

FB has been caught willfully and negligently lying multiple times. (And yes, I'm aware that many banks have done the same.) Nonetheless, why would I choose to trust them over any other payment system?

What's Zuck's testimony to Congress going to be in five years? "We could have done better. We will do better. Who could have forseen this nightmare mess...?"
Today you can get the highest quality consumer appliances ever available in human history...if you are willing to pay.

https://www.mieleusa.com/domestic/full-size-dishwashers-1532...

The auto open feature is fantastic, drys out your plastic ware.
There's no moral issue here. Sales people are going in and copying and pasting data field by field, and we made that process more efficient. All that software did is replace multiple clicks with one. Scrape the DOM and dump it into their salesforce instance. A sales person still needs to initiate the action. I'm happy to admit that I don't like sales people, I don't like cold calls, and what we did made it slightly more efficient for them to cold call people. But calling it a/immoral or an invasion of privacy is silly, unless you've already established that cold calls are immoral and I missed that.
Regarding 1: Germany's economy is doing well compared to the surrounding countries, so they're attracting many foreigners, especially in Berlin. These foreigners need a place to live, which is one big driver of rent increases.

Regarding 3: landlords are successfully invoking the "right of own use" to evict tenants. They are basically claiming that they need the apartment for themselves, a relative, etc. [1]
Furthermore, thanks a relatively recent law, the landlord can't raise the rent for older buildings indefinitely - there's a cap.
New buildings are exempt. For those rents start high and there's a standard ~2.5% increase per year.

[1] Article in German: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/mietwohnungen-eig...
C# also has them and it's amazing !
50 shades of Gray is perfect book for office manager to be "awww, you see, we are not so boring office hamsters, hehehe. We may be informal and naughty"

I promise you, when people give a f*ck about you they don't gift you the most plastic overhyped book they can find you don't even need to open.