skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. I thought I posted on the other thread about 2020s predictions but apparently I didn't hit the reply button:

Bitcoin will definitely singularly emerge as the new common 'numéraire' in the near to mid-term (5 to 10 years). I love that you specifically call out the omnipresent crypto scams, because they are what disappointed me from the whole endeavor once they emerged in the ICO craze. Once 1 bitcoin has price of 500,000 to a few million in USD per individual 'bitcoin' UXTO, it'll be obvious for governments to just start using it, and create dual money systems that are just layers on top of the (maybe single, maybe not) existing, working blockchain, despite its slowness. China is pursuing this now, even in anticipation of large price increases.

IMO Bitcoin is definitely the numeraire of the future, and it is certainly not a sure thing right now but I am extremely certain of this. It then becomes so trivial to do aggregate balance of payments calculations without so much sketchy behavior by fraudulent sovereigns that want to represent their own vision of 'real trade' for various purposes, such as economic warfare.

For non-finance people, numeraire is a representative abstraction of a 'unit of exchange', used to simplify things. You can then idealize situations like having riskless borrowing, which simplifies many formulae. But this is not an accurate portrayal of reality, (look up sovereign defaults, as one example. Greece, Spain, Italy, some Asian countries at different times, Argentina, Venezuela, etc.) So having a numeraire that isn't sovereign would be really impactful in making all economic participants way more honest, outside of the immediate smaller-scale effects of allowing people to get their cryptos ropped by unscrupulous people on the darknet.

From Wiki: "The numéraire is a basic standard by which value is computed. In mathematical economics it is a tradable economic entity in terms of whose price the relative prices of all other tradables are expressed"

Anyways, the Bitcoin protocol could definitely fail, for any number of a few different reasons, but at present barring some kind of major technological paradigm shift that breaks existing cryptography (maybe QC, maybe something different) it is uniquely positioned to become the de-facto standard for all balance of payments activity internationally. Scalability issues are definitely a factor, but hey, the mempool is working its hardest until they rewrite the underlying consensus mechanisms to work at larger scale. But as a settlement system and a darknet unit of exchange, it is extremely clear that this is the first hard asset that won't just vanish at the mercy of sovereigns. Very powerful new technology.
What improvement can a cheat offer a League of Legends player?
Governments make use of money laundering and they're willing to pay quite a bit for it
What are you using for web? We're using react, and are planning to move to react-native-web for better web + mobile code sharing, and for Catalyst for having a native macOS app — not sure also if Flutter will work for that.

But it's key for us, since we started with JS, to stay in JS due to the knowledge out there and within our team — already. It, of course, depends on your team and in your hiring options.

I feel Flutter/Dart is still too immature to be deployed all across the stack. Maybe if you're today starting from scratch it would be doable, like it is for you. Mind sharing your landing page? I'm interested in seeing your product.
This article is fantastic and answers a lot of questions I didn't know I had!
28mph/28kmh?

Still pretty slow for full leathers which would be heavy, hot, sweaty, horrible to pedal in and a pain changing in and out of.

A full face mounting bike helmet might be a lot lighter and offer very good protection for the speeds you are travelling as designed for fast downhill riding. The thing with motorcycle helmets is they are heavy and not designed for high intensity cardio so hard to breath in doing anything slightly intensive. Motorcross style helmets have a larger chin and visor area to allow for better air flow for breathing plus vision as motorcross can be quite physical.

Also instead of full leathers if you are interested in safety the motorcycle Kevlar jeans and tops should be a little more comfortable cycling although I’d still find them not great for any physical work. Another option would be one of the motorcycle pressure suits for your torso, I think they do them for mounting biking to and offer a bit of airflow with the padding. A bit more convenient than full leathers, abrasion wouldn’t be the main issue at your speeds, it’d be impact force.
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I look forward to reading what you say after they are late for you in the future.
> lets me treat my laptops like cattle rather than pets. If you lose your device, just grab another one. All your stuff is up in the cloud. Strange bug? just power wash the machine and start over.

This is my argument for

- Nix or Guix as my main package manager

- having daily backups--encrypted and stored off-site

I don't want to rent my right to use a computer.
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People are talking about all the different sound subsystems and input modules, etc... All that choice is great except it fragments the market like crazy.

I was wondering if EA and the other gaming companies had designated a particular configuration as "the" supported Linux configuration.
It hit with the energy of 5lbs of tnt. There are thousands of weapons out there with thousands of times that power.
I mean Armstrong is calling it "economic freedom" so he's not that far off base, in any case.
Back in 2006 I wanted to learn more about how search engines worked, so I started porting Lucene to Common Lisp. Actually, I wrote a Common Lisp port of Ferret. Ferret is a Ruby port of Lucene. Lucene is sort of Doug Cutting's Java version of Text Database (TDB), which he and Jan Pedersen developed at Xerox PARC, and which, to complete the circle, was written in Common Lisp.

I didn't know Ruby, and I didn't know search engines, but I did know Common Lisp. It took me 7 months to create a binary-compatible, pretty dang functional port of Lucene. I called it Montezuma[1], and it's still actually used by people.

About half the time was spent implementing the text analyzer, document store, and indices. The remaining 50% was spent implementing search (and parsing the query language). It was a very rewarding experience--It was one of the largest projects I'd worked on, mostly solo (I got some help near the end), in an area I knew nothing about, working in an extremely test-driven fashion (over 2000 unit tests when I was done).

I did not, however, learn as much about indexing and search as I expected. I learned a lot, yes, but quite a bit of the Ruby code was so easy to translate to Common Lisp that I didn't have to understand everything in order to make it work.

I still recommend writing a small search engine as an interesting exercise, though.

1. https://github.com/sharplispers/montezuma
The article makes it sound like he came to it separately from just playing around with light refraction in water, using an easily-available container.
I've also had great success sitting down with a real user for an hour and getting them to go through what they do.

One particularly memorable product I did that with, I was sitting with a low level, call center type employee who was taking me through their daily job, and he pointed to a frequently needed report on screen and said "this is wrong though, I'll show you how we get the right report".

He then proceeded to fire up SQL Server Management Studio, connected to the production db and ran a script he'd been given.

All of them had read permission to the entire, extremely large, highly sensitive, db.

Because that was apparently easier for one of the devs before me than fixing the bug.

That company was bought for 9 figures a few months after that, just goes to show shoddy code and practices certainly isn't a reflection of value.
Everywhere I've lived in California, you own to the middle of the street, and the sidewalk and streets are easements. Here in Oakland, the property owner is responsible to maintain the sidewalk even.
Tinkersphere Electronics, 152 Allen St (Manhattan) - as the name indicates, hobbyist focused.

Allstate Electronics - Jamaica Queens - Old school distributor, has basically every electronic component under the sun.

If you head out to NJ, there's a couple big shops as well (Wayne Electronics, Green Brook Electronics) but they're not transit-accessible or closer to the city.
Flutter uses the Chrome rendering engine (Skia) and scrolling is fully fluid (in release mode). React native uses native views (if implemented correctly) and is usually very fluid too
You fixated on one bit of the argument, but if you want to discuss that: Memory on logic processes is expensive. That's why SRAM is precious on microcontrollers. Also, already the largest memory sizes require much larger than typical packages.

A microcontroller with a few megabytes of RAM to support several crypto sessions with this cipher is going to be a big cost multiple over current micros.
Do all the Matrix clients implement the E2E functionality that exists today, the functionality people talk about when they say Matrix is E2E encrypted? If not: that's decentralization in action.

Downthread, you were explaining that you're waiting to flip a switch to require E2E support for clients, and that there's a "pantalaimon" proxy service that people are going to have to use to retrofit E2E onto clients that don't support it. So I think I know the answer to this.

I'm always going to come across like I'm rooting against Matrix, which isn't what's happening.
> Perhaps intuition is just fast thinking? To be able to connect bits and pieces of seemingly disparate information cogently?

That's intelligence. Intuition is more akin to a sense. It can be practiced and improved like a skill.

I've never actually seen the Red Book. I did an image search though and I see what you mean.

I probably should have asked you this before blathering at you, but what are you going for here? What's your motivation to study astrology? If you don't mind me asking.
> They don't want to have a constantly changing foundation, but something stable they can build on

For how many generations?
Who eats the cost when one of these borrowers defaults?
>> You'd have to hire an auditor to verify the blockchain software too

No. You wouldn't.
They're letting anyone affected go buy a new uniform of their choosing at whatever store they want at Delta's cost. I'd say that's absolutely doing right by their employees...
I built a web prototype in Flutter. I started in May and was using a web specific branch then Flutter's master branch. Doesn't run well (and I haven't optimized anything) but I am on stable now and its getting better.

Sent you an email with a link to it.
I'm not familiar with this product. How do you "close out" one of these loans? If you mean pay it off, nobody would take a loan they can just pay off at anytime, or where the interest rate can be just arbitrarily voted up.
> the main utility of blockchains is money laundering and speculation

Where did you get the data that justifies that assertion?

In any case, don't bother with cryptocurrencies. I'd recommend that you keep all your wealth anchored in US Dollars for the next 3-5 years.
The answer is yes, but that's a known compliance problem. So, you would have the same issues with the user deciding they "don't need it today" seen with canes or walkers.

Physical therapy is the better solution for long-term, with a device like this serving as a guide rail to get to health, like an assisted chin-up machine helping someone build muscle to be able to do an unassisted pull-up eventually.

This question definitely highlights the big thing: Your future health will be determined in large part to how compliant with medical recommendations you're willing to be.
You can also get this mini basic phone for $20: https://www.amazon.com/Unlocked-Bluetooth-Phones-BM70-Earpho...
Are apps with hundreds of views common enough that the flutter workflow with hundreds of views something to consider
An app I’ve seen with a lot of views is grab but I don’t think they number in the hundreds.
A related talk, delivered a few months before TFA: "Neil Postman, 1998: six questions on technology" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlfPhsrvtw

Neil Postman was very far-sighted; "Amusing Ourselves to Death" still stands up extraordinarily well. He was heavily influenced by Marshall McLuhan but is much less opaque.
The barely viable hospital here in po-dunk has a ~25 minute wait at the walk in clinic.

Most affiliated PCPs will do same or next days.
> "hmm what happened here!?" as they would point to my C+

Man that would be an instant turn off for me.

Having said that I'm unlikely to end up in a room with folks who would say something like that anyway, mostly because I wouldn't make it past the resume filter... for good reason, and a good outcome for everyone involved probabbly.
I'm curious why you take the battery life claim about the Light Phone at face value. My assumption is that most every company tests in optimal conditions that users won't achieve in real life, so I think it's generally fair enough to compare between two manufacturer claims given that we don't have side-by-side comparisons yet.
Please try this exercise and report back :) Suppose it happened that when setting up your parameter space you found yourself working with ξ and η instead of x and y, where the relationship is given simply by (ξ, η) = A (x, y) for A an invertible linear mapping (2×2 matrix). This could easily happen in practice. Is gradient descent in (ξ, η) the same procedure as gradient descent in (x, y)? What should we make of any difference?
>Sacrificing a small percent of your playerbase in the name of having a functioning online system at all seems like a reasonable solution to me.

That's like saying it's acceptable for innocent people to rot in prison as an acceptable price to pay for catching criminals.

Obviously this isn't as serious, but the comparison stands. Then again, I would argue that in an MMO context, banning a long-time player who's innocent could easily lead to their suicide.

>It’s often difficult to distinguish anti-cheat software from rootkits or spyware.

>It's unfortunate that it is necessary, ...

I don't think it is necessary. Virtually anything can be defeated, including invasive rootkits.

The best defense is simply updating the game on a regular basis, and in doing so changing up the game's internal data structures such that reversing it on any sort of ongoing basis becomes completely untenable.

To do this however, you would have to integrate anti-cheat into the very fabric of the software, and unfortunately nobody does this. Instead, anti-cheat is usually approached as a third-party add-on service after the fact.

Statistical analysis is another promising angle that's passive and has a very low false positive rate if used correctly.

In other words, a small amount of players end up fucked over because larger publishers are cheap and lazy.
> For really hard woods I get about 30-45 min out of the chain saw per battery.

One of the things that might not be clear to users of the gas equipment, when you say "30-45 min" that means active cutting. Unlike a 2-stroke, it doesn't have to be burning gas to be ready to cut.
I did one of their early courses, crypto 1, which I found useful and enlightening.

Shamr it didn't take off but then there was no business model AFAICT
The scheduling is even worse for free services where hours the services are offered are limited especially if you're holding down a job, and once you make it work by waking up a couple hours earlier thna normal and jumping through a bunch of hoops... the care is temporary and you need to find something else in a few months.

If anything I think part of the value of seeking out mental healthcare is symbolic. I.E. it's so difficult and costly you convince yourself that you must really want to get better, can work hard, and that something so burdensome must work or nobody would bother with it (a sort of placebo effect). Yet it's easy to get jaded and easy to find yourself going through some ineffectual therapy at great personal cost.

I also think that people are really hung-up on two specific approaches, namely talk therapy and drugs, when they can simply not be cost-effective. It's really costly to put a specialist through years of school, and heat up those counselling offices, and all of that. If you're poor enough that money can make a HUGE impact on the diet you can afford and the exercise you can get. People seem to have this funny idea that somebody living an impoverished miserable life will be happy if somebody says some kind words to them and drugs are altering their neurotransmitter levels.
Sure! Send it over to jp@standups.io :) Cheers!
If you view SoftBank as a way for Saudi oil money to move out of the country and into public markets at a ~30% discount it takes on a whole new perspective.
I think it's just hard because they really are completely different in behaviour. A conventional switch is just selecting an integer value— under the hood it can be a jump table, a binary search, or something else entirely. This, on the other hand, is always going to be an if-cascade.
You may want to check Countly too (open source and self hosted) - could be easily downloaded or there is also a 1-click installation option on Digital Ocean.
Was hoping to see a comparison with https://www.nativescript.org/
Would be cool to just accept a DNS instead. Servers could poll it at a fixed interval to update whitelists and clients can run a DNS updater, i.e no-ip.
>In the mid-1990s, before high-speed internet connections made software easy to download, the stores served as a teenage hangout, allowing customers to play video games and try new hardware.

>[link:] PAGE ONE -- '90s Kids Find New Hangout -- Computer Store

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-90s-Kids-F...

>Harrison's one complaint is that the game manuals are not near the demonstration computers. "You have to figure out what weapon to kill what people with on your own, and that's hard to do without the manual," he said.

In the late 70's - early 80's, I used to hang out at the mall Radio Shack after school with a few other regular kids, where we played games and learned to program BASIC on the TRS-80's.

They had a similar attitude about kids hanging out there, and gave us a place to store our cassette tapes, because it helped sell computers to the adult customers, who we would demonstrate the computers to all the time.

Plus we got to listen to great music (like "My Sharona" by The Knack, who were supposed to be the next Beatles) as the Radio Shack sales people sold stereos and speakers to customers.

Kids these days know "My Bologna" better than "My Sharona" and Weird Al better than the Beatles. (And JavaScript better than BASIC!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxLaFJf9Jk
> If you mean pay it off, nobody would take a loan they can just pay off at anytime, or where the interest rate can be just arbitrarily voted up.

It's true that the interest rate can be arbitrarily voted up. Despite this, 1.46% of all existing Ether (currently valued at $210,036,816) is staked as collateral in the system, so it's not accurate to say nobody would do this.
> You can only create a new, almost identical language,

Thats demonstrably false. Python was a loud transition, but most of the language warts and syntax is still there. Same as the Php and perl transitions and the wacky es6 or java. The list goes on.
Yeah, but right now their location is in Fry's headquarters and their promised permanent location (that Fry was building) is far from finished.
I am so glad you like them! Working on Pion and the KVS WebRTC stuff has been super rewarding because people want it. I have built so many things that flopped, so this is a welcome change of pace. Thank you so much for being part of the community, talking to people on the Pion slack about WebRTC is the highpoint of my week :)

> Having implemented the entire WebRTC spec a couple times now, what wisdoms have you learned that can be shared with us mortals?

The biggest thing I learned during all this was community/collaboration. With all the RFCs I could grind it out and learn them/write unit tests, but working with people took a lot more. With Pion I wanted to build a community/get people excited. I don't always get it right, but I love when I can figure out where mine and other peoples interests lie.

The next big one is convincing people that WebRTC/P2P is important. It has been really hard to convince the Go community that this stuff is important, I have gotten LOTS of talk rejections. I feel so strongly that WebRTC/P2P is the future I want to see. I just want to see an internet that is resilient to monoliths going down and encourages direct collaboration between people.

> If you could write a protocol for the same use-case right now that instantly became as popular and standard as WebRTC, what would be different about it?

I think WebRTC as a protocol is really wonderful. I love that it took established/working technologies and wrapped them up into a nice package. This has let me bridge WebRTC with lots of other interesting projects/hacks. I think that is why WebRTC will eventually eat the RTC/VoIP world, since it is a standard and uses existing technologies it works everywhere.

I would like to see lots of changes to WebRTC as an API though. The W3C/Javascript protocol doesn't allow you access to enough things, I think the more things developers can tweak the more interesting things we will see built. This was a slide I did for the W3C https://i.imgur.com/vHTnlFY.png it hasn't gotten much reception yet, but I am going to keep trying :)
Everything in Tokyo is because of density.
Ed tech is mostly a set of tools for administers and banks to get between teachers and students. Often they charge the students (or their parents) for it too!

Anything more than sftp, a spreadsheet calculator a pdf reader and something to do basic word processing with is probably ”Ed tech” you don’t want.
Splunk is that product, but it’s only free up to 500MB/day of indexing
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Running Loki with multiple instances is insanely hard