skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say, for the sake of argument that Ukraine legalizes BTC, while it's illegal everywhere else.

What you think will happen:

- Ukraine will make fat stacks from all the people who care about BTC. Crypto-libertarians will rejoice, issue fifty billion ICOs, and Ukraine's GDP will exceed that of the rest of the world. BTC will go to the moon, and anyone who didn't get on that train when its future was in doubt will be starving to death in a ditch, or working as an indebtured servant, soldering mining rigs for early adopters.

What will actually happen:

- Any Ukranian bank that touches BTC will be barred from doing business in USD. For a bank, this is as good as suicide.

- Any intermediary that exchanges BTC for a local currency (Hryvnia), without touching USD will be barred from transacting with any Ukranian banks, that don't want to be barred from doing business in USD.

- Anyone trying to use Hryvnia for any international transactions will be subject to strict AML scrutiny, because it is a well-known intermediary currency for laundering BTC. The burden of proof with AML is on you, not your accuser.

- The Ukranian Rada will quickly come to its senses, and, in order not piss in the cornflakes of the 99% of its citizenry that doesn't give a shit about BTC, will ban it, and stop being a pariah state in the world of international finance.
yeah, I'd think of removing that. It just looks bad. No one can tell if you are lying about it.
> Combining the two most growth-oriented segments of the digital economy – blockchain technology and travel, HoweyCoin is the newest and only coin offering that captures the magic of coin trading profits AND the excitement and guaranteed returns of the travel industry.

"Guaranteed returns of the travel industry." No way this turns out to be a scam!
Second that.

In my life I did everything from programming in pure machine codes (big device control, data processing an presentation system) to modern firmware to desktop apps with multimedia and high performance graphics to back end enterprise grade middleware like business process servers, publish subscribe, NoSql, etc. etc, To me they were not that different in difficulty. Just different scope techniques and tooling. For example by concepts message passing part in that machine code system and large publish subscribe looked very close.
I think the comment was asking about the quote in the linked comment, not the name (which was chosen as an alias many months ago).
Malaysia Colossus Tin Mine Landslide (1993) [video]
I love Perl - the syntax, community, Larry Wall's writings and The Monastery. Occupationally I'm forced to write Ruby for a living these days but Perl's influence is there and enhances my appreciation or Ruby. I came into programming after reading in the Dreaweaver Bible that you could extend the search facility with regular expressions. Jeffrey Friedl's monumental Mastering Regular Expressions was listed for further reference and I was hooked. Perl was the natural language to learn if you were inspired by regexen and wanted to create dynamic websites back in the early 2000s so I sought-out Larry Wall's Programming Perl. That book is such a joy to read. I still dip into it today just for the quality of the writing ... and a little nostalgia.

Take time to really grok Perl and you may find the soundbite swipes at Perl don't make sense any longer.
They don't mention exactly what they mean by tea in this abstract, so I kind of assume they're talking about typical tea on the green to black spectrum, and probably caffeinated.

They do mention herbal teas at one point, but there are lots of different kinds of herbal teas.

I drink a lot of lemon ginger, mint, and roasted dandelion root (my favorite), and also some chai decaf. I wonder if these kinds of teas show similar effects.

I like to have a yerba mate every once in a while too but usually have trouble sleeping afterwards.
What resources did you use to learn how to build something like this?
Since Libra isn't distributed, in the sense that anyone can start mining it, one of the key premises for its trust was that governance and operation will be handled by a group of powerful and trustworthy companies.

The more companies leave the initiative the more centralized it becomes and the less its trust model is valid. If only Facebook remains it isn't any different than a simple virtual currency (like the discontinued Facebook Credits).

And to preempt the argument that visa and mastercard aren't trustworthy - there is an inherent trust that most people give to big companies because their processes and checks and balances developed over years to be robust - usually from having to handle lawsuits and regulations which small companies rarely do.
I'm guessing that means we're hopelessly off topic by now. Kinda like Reddit, but slower and less pathetic.
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing! We find zippers to be great, especially the ones that start at the feet. Never found them to be a hazard for skin, through thousands of openings and closings. Also, snaps are definitely the least sensible option for us, since there are so many of them on each outfit. We never buy those, and the ones we've received are used much less than the zippered ones. Glad you've found something that works for you and your baby.
Thanks so much for your reply! I should have mentioned that my impediment is a problem across all communication areas of my life... not just interviews.

I have a couple interviews coming up and I will take your advice to just let them know beforehand.
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I agree with you that in the discussions of these issues on the Western internet sites, anti-China sentiment dominates and often blends with ignorance and prejudice. Unfortunately, if you post like you just did to HN, using inflammatory language like "I saw the hypocrisy of the Americans", you're guaranteed to take the thread further into nationalistic flamewar, and of course such language will be downvoted because it breaks HN's guidelines too (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
So if you're going to continue to post on HN, can you please make sure that your comments stay factual and neutral, and don't pour fuel on the fire? We ask the same of every user here.
Facebook Sued for Trademark Infringement over Libra Logo Design
Perl certainly has a similar spread of problems and solutions, some of which clearly were inspired by python and ruby solutions. local::lib, Carton, perlbrew/plenv are all recommended immediately to solve these problems, but they are still solutions one has to go looking for, it's easy to first fall into problematic setups by not using them (at least all modern CPAN clients will set up a local::lib by default now).
So, if you feel older than you really are, walk faster. Problem solved. Got it.
> You know, come to think of it I’d be weirded out by anyone saying something equivalent, like being proud of being Asian instead of saying “I’m proud of being Korean.” When black Americans talk about black pride that has a specific context: they are proud of a heritage that includes not knowing where they are from because of the slave trade.

That’s an interesting theory, but it doesn’t have much to do with reality.

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

Also re: your second edit, yikes. How about assuming I have good motives (like pointing out hypocrisy / double standards / “what you can’t say”) instead of assuming I’m on the side of a terrorist?
The issuing company needs to have already built the infrastructure that the token commoditizes, otherwise its a speculative investment, even if the token is just a voucher or grants access to a service.
Really not obvious to me... just as MS released internal Kusto as a product, and Google did BigQuery, I've been curious if some internal more integrated Amazon tool would surface. E.g., see the direction of CloudWatch to go from metrics queries to log queries (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/07/cloudwatc...) and how GuardDuty is marching towards a modern SIEM. What the cloud vendors can do vs. splunk/elk/cisco makes it feel more like a "when" not "if". Zero judgement here on technical quality, this is just the nature of big tech co's.

Do most AWS teams use ES, or something else? Is CloudWatch Insights on a scaling & parity path?
True, but not exactly what I meant.

Constructor bots instead of explorer bots.
The reality is actually the opposite. They rely pretty much solely on manual QA and only in the past few years started writing unit tests, sometimes. Apple is actually quite an old school company some ways.
Bitwise Refuse La Proposition Bitcoin ETF: Brian Kelly
then the axioms themselves can be argued until a conclusion is reached, otherwise debate can be suspended. the underlying axiom here is that debate can be had, and that people can be convinced through reason.
Vitalik Buterin d’Ethereum propose des méthodes de pontage entre eth1 et eth2
Re-reading Dune many years later I found it to be pretty cringey. Laurence of Outer Space basically. Maybe the 2nd book was better ...?
" If only Facebook remains it isn't any different than a simple virtual currency"

Regardless, it never was different than a simple virtual currency, unless it's truly decentralized, which was never in the cards.
No it doesn't work very well. Because AWS organisation absorb billing as well.
We use reseller billing in both AWS and GCP.

In GCP, the projects don't affect the billing. However in AWS, I can't have accounts in one organisation and consolidated billing in another (the reseller Organization).

Its a mess.
Forbes revokes Adam Neumann's billionaire status; estimate of net worth is $600M
Cmon folks, let’s be realistic. If someone at NASA had indeed reason to believe life exist(s/ed) on Mars it would 200% have leaked by now. No funding discussion would inhibit someone from leaking this information. It’s the biggest discovery in human history and you think someone’s sitting on it for funding reasons?! Especially since the immediate reaction would be to pour billions into them following up?

A big discovery has a high burden of proof and that’s basically where we’re at. There’s definitely reason not to rule it out but I can’t believe conclusive evidence is being sat on by all of NASA for funding reasons.

Let’s speculate for a sec. Tardigrades can survive space. Things have been hitting us knocking earth stuff into space for billions of years. Some of that stuff probably made it to Mars and back in the day it was pretty liveable. It’s not far fetched. None of that negates the above.
I love Python and I don't see the subset of the world dominated by Python changing to Raku any time soon. But there are some things that made me smile and nod and want to read more about the language. Two, off the top of my head.

1. Raku treats math in a manner that wouldn't surprise a mathematician. Or grade school student, for that matter. Witness:

$ python3 -c 'print(0.3 == 0.1 + 0.2)'
False
$ ruby -e 'puts 0.3 == 0.1 + 0.2'
false
$ perl6 -e 'say 0.3 == 0.1 + 0.2'
True

(Raku prefers rational to floating point math when possible, but of course you can force floating point if you prefer that behaviour.)

2. Concurrency is a language goal in Raku and I think that's notable, compared to Python. Parallelism, concurrency, and asynchrony including multi-core support.[1]

[1] https://docs.perl6.org/language/concurrency
Just because something is faster and more convenient doesn't mean it succeeds.

Here, I can do it too: 50 years ago, I'd make fresh-squeezed juice by hand over the course of about 2 hours. Fast forward to a couple years ago, and juicero let me create fresh juice in under 5 minutes with no effort. Yet, somehow, juicero no longer exists and had very few users.

Or again, 50 years ago I'd wire money to people via a bank transfer which would take multiple days, and back in 2012 I could use liberty reserve to do the same thing instantly. And yet, somehow, liberty reserve no longer exists and had almost no users.

Comparisons that are as glancingly related as "more convenient" or "are new technology" are absolutely worthless.
The irony of NPR calling racism an undercovered story is rather intense. The only show not about racism on NPR was Car Talk, and Car Talk got canceled.
For me, it is finding a music video I like, and then clicking another tab to read something. Now the music stopped. I'd like at least enough multitasking to allow that. Otherwise, we're weirdly back to something akin to the old DOS days... just prettier.
You'll note though that Wikipedia's entry starts "The causes of World War I remain controversial." and says:

> The immediate causes lay in decisions made by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914. This crisis was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by the Bosnian-Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip who had been supported by a nationalist organization in Serbia.

While in the example I gave, it's certain that defense of slavery was the primary reason for the US Civil War. Or, are you really not willing to accept even that?

Go back to retrocryptid's statement "There would be no interstate highway system, only a collection of toll roads that went between los angeles and new york"

We can look at the interstate system and see that "Some large sections of Interstate Highways that were planned or constructed before [the Federal Aid Highway Act of] 1956 are still operated as toll roads".

This lends support retrocryptid's statement, while you said there was little to no support for any of those statements.
One way to mitigate spreading logic between SQL and Ruby is by using SQL views with something like Scenic [0] which can back an ActiveRecord model just like an ordinary table. This is especially nice for complex reporting because it centralizes your query logic in a single view as a sort of virtual table that can be queried from both ActiveRecord and normal Postgres queries.

[0] https://github.com/scenic-views/scenic
Whatever the evidence, a major factor in this man's belief is likely to be the emotional attachment to the idea.

It's his life's crowning achievement as the project leader, and seeing indicators that turned out to be nothing must be a tough thing to come to terms with.
How do grocery stores act as pseudo-banks? I've never seen my local Jewel-Osco give out loans.
> these days on Amazon I've had too many fake products

I keep seeing this kind of posts on HN, and even though I shop several times a week on Amazon I have never received a fake product. Is this limited to very specific categories?
> Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

> If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think what you're told.

I’ve never quite understood this argument, because it seems to imply that people’s beliefs are or should be a random, unpredictable process, and that any regularity in the data should be treated with apprehension. But if beliefs are not in fact random, but can be guided by some common forces, then it wouldn’t be strange to expect people’s beliefs to in some cases largely converge. Should I “stop and think about” the fact that I oppose murder, even though my parents and all my friends and even most of my “enemies” hold that same belief?” Of course not.
It's funny how prescient some of the people in the sixties and seventies were. I'd lump Alvin Toffler alongside Frank Herbertm personally. They both had a somewhat weird point about the future (Herbert was kind of looking at a macro level through Paul, Toffler was kind of thinking about something similar at the individual level), and I think they're both slowly being proven right in a way.
Yes, I want to find a doc to prescribe me this and also understands the negatives. Why aren't there more docs doing this kind of stuff? Maybe bc it is not so simple?
> “Dune” ’s lack of true fandom among science-fiction fans

I'm not sure what sci-fi fans he's hanging out with...

> This de-emphasis on technology

There is de-emphasis on thinking technology -- there is still "magic level" technology everywhere else.
Apple TV+ exec warned creators not to anger China when creating shows
Why is Brian Herbert as lucid as this talking about his dad, but so terrible when trying to write a book following on from his work? Bit of a puzzle to me.
Cross-border transactions are quick and cheap, if you value counterparty risk appropriately.
They were put in a lose-lose situation from the start.
Things may get pretty shitty for them, but if I could wager on such a thing, I'd wager on the species surviving.
this sums up so many things wrong with capitalism in general. you get charged for stuff the moment you get to have no other choice. healthcare being the worst case.
There's always <STDIN> if <> is too cryptic. I think what most fail to grok, if they've only glanced at Perl, is context. Above all Perl is a context-based language. It's the opposite of Python's spell-everything-out approach but just as valid. Perl also excels at whipupitude.
Both USGOV and EU countries are against it. You would have to be stupid to poke the bear in the eye after being warned.
care to share the groups that were banned you disagreed with?
Why have mSATA or MiniPCIe on a 2018/2019 design? M.2 replaced both of those as of literally years ago, and anything remotely modern is only available in that format. mSATA is flat out dead and MiniPCIe has very few modern offerings.

It's not like there's a meaningful hardware difference, it's just a different slot pinout for the same technologies, but one's the modern standard and the others are outdated trash.

This should have two M.2 B-keyed and one M-keyed slot rather than the three legacy slots it has. And really, if I were in charge, it would have two M-keyed slots and only one B-keyed for WWAN. The SSD slot should be a M-keyed PCIe slot, not SATA nonsense. SATA is for spinning rust, PCIe NVMe is for SSDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair happened in 2002, before Paul's article in 2004.
Maybe it's to sway people who are on the fence, if such a demographic actually exists. This statement might be enough for them to think "See, Blizzard isn't that bad, from now on I will assume the people still complaining are the wrong ones, and I will say 'Blizzard apologized, what more do you want?!?'.".

Maybe the CEO even thinks "you can't make everyone happy, at least I did something.". And in the back of his head he probably thinks "but make sure China is happy!".
I’ve never used Mail because I’ve never felt comfortable with Apple’s apps when it comes to long term data storage. Here Mail is said to delete data. This has happened before, IIRC. Someone in this discussion has written that their old downloaded podcast episodes were deleted on upgrade. In the distant past, Apple has also broken compatibility in data formats (for its iWork apps) and left those who upgraded with almost nothing.

Apple seems to focus too much on reinventing things, as if every app team gets a new (and inexperienced) set of developers each year and they see whatever is there as bad, incomprehensible code...so they write things from scratch, introducing tons of bugs and removing backward compatibility. Look at its app history and you’ll see a lot of work just thrown away every few years, only to be replaced with crippled applications that would take long to mature but aren’t allowed to.

Mozilla Thunderbird is “boring software”, and hasn’t made huge strides in UX in the last several years, but I trust it more than I would ever trust Apple Mail.

If I want “office software”, I have LibreOffice, which has its own issues in UX, but I can trust that it won’t drop backward compatibility at the drop of a hat.

If I want a browser, there’s Firefox. Safari 13 has become just ok now (from decent) because of the new extensions system that has junked all old extensions. It’s fine for firing up an ephemeral window, and it still provides the best battery life.

I feel the days of power users on the platform are numbered. I doubt if AppleScript and Automator will survive and be around in the next two years.

Is there any Apple app on Mac that’s been great and really improved in a stable manner?
She's mocking the free speech line in that tweet.
Why is that? Potentially they have a lot of power, but did they exercise it in a wrong way in public so far? I don’t think so
Manually.
Biodegradation and Mineralization of Polystyrene by Plastic-Eating Mealworms
I don't disagree with you but it's a sad state of things.
But mah decentralization
I'm happy to beg the State to come thin (log) the land next to me. I'd hate to see how overgrown and unhealthy it would be if it were up to the Sierra club and friends.

The government isn't great at managing forests, but if had my way it would already be done.
The Dune 2 soundtrack is still my favourite video game OST.

Even allowing for the fact that it doesn't faithfully replicate the Dune universe (e.g. House Ordos exists in the game) - some of the music is great for looking at Dune through a different set of eyes. As an example of this, the track "Prophecy part 1" kind of feels like there's a mundane reality that the coming of a saviour inhabits and it doesn't go away as a result of the saviour's presence.[1] Even better, this doesn't have to be the only interpretation of the track or any of the others in the soundtrack. It's wonderful.

[1] https://youtu.be/UlQDWzeWuKg?list=PL738DEE2001BC5C1C&t=19
That doesn't seem consistent with their stated stance on the LGBTQ+ community:

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/the-lgbtq-community-and...
It's annoying and could probably be made easier, but these things are required by law. Also, not everyone can be trusted and it's not easy to tell.
Yep, however that way they'd atleast have a better chance of reducing the impact the drama is gonna have on blizzcon.
She said a whole lot more. You choose not to understand.
I also really enjoyed the movie for the most part.
More than any most movies from a book I read first, it really captured the spirit of the universe to an amazing degree. The just need to get rid of the the added cruft that wasn't in the book.
Within a 16 day test period, 47.7% of the ingested Styrofoam carbon was converted into CO2 and the residue (ca. 49.2%) was egested as fecula with a limited fraction incorporated into biomass (ca. 0.5%).
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Until we get more details about what these workplace standards are, the bigger news is still that IBM bought them, and Red Hat is showing the picture of being dismantled.
Why does there need to be a replacement? Apple already sells the hardware and their software (iOS and the preinstalled apps) and makes money off of that.

If I make my app available via my website as a PWA, and all the hosting costs are my own, and don't use any of the app store's services, why does Apple deserve a share of the in app (in PWA?) purchases?
I listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered almost every weekday. I occasionally pop in on Fresh Air. Race comes up occasionally but it's not common at all IMO.

I'm not sure, maybe you're joking? Car Talk was probably canceled because of Tom's death.
When playing chords on the piano in Garageband, the new three finger gesture is activated. The new gesture cannot be deactivated on iPadOS. It makes making music on the iPad, really hard. Three finger gesture activates the undo function. Music you record suddenly gets deleted now and then.
Study link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

The study was done in NZ in Dunedin. I wonder how much difference/coorelation there is between locales. I've found that Wellingtonians walk very fast in general - I thought I was a fast walker always passing people in San Francisco, but when I moved to Wellington everybody was passing me.