skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin XT is a an old client, not a chain.

Bitcoin Unlimited is a group of developers, not a chain.

Bitcoin Gold doesn't even use the same hash algo, is an unrelated airdrop.

There are only 3 sha256 Bitcoin forks. BTC, BCH, BSV

BTC ticker symbol does not mean it is "the original", it means it was most popular among exchanges at the time of the fork.

BCH was a demonstration of Bitcoin's resilience. When devs tried to alter the protocol in a way that was very controversial, the network forked.

BCH most closely resembled Bitcoin as defined by its' white-paper at that time.

Eventually BCH devs also made controversial changes, and guess what? Bitcoin forked again. Shocker. Bitcoin survives by design.

What I find fascinating is how many people think fundamentally altering it should be acceptable, even though it is the most obvious attack vector.
If the OP really thinks this will be a worldwide pandemic, far dated put options are the best bet. Wall Street has definitely not priced that in. Everyone is assuming this will be over with in a few months.
I believe one reason buying books is so popular is the reader leans the direction of being spoon fed. How many times have we picked up books and never actually read em?

My anecdote, since I already had projects in mind and just wanted to synthesize how things were glued together A to Z: I went to SourceForge/GitHub/BitBucket and cloned repos for projects for the language of choice, build them, run the tests.

Also, https://github.com/search and lookup stuff of similar topic / using the same libraries (words like MIT, ISC, Apache 2, BSD are a good sign). Then check if it's permissively licensed. Also, in the end, you likely won't ever end up forking or copying. You're just getting the knowledge of how it's glued, and probably will wire stuff in uniquely for your case.

Building these projects in itself teaches the ropes of getting an environment setup (googling build errors, checking issue tracker), dependencies, test suites, and building a production-ready package.

I kept the best projects I found at https://github.com/tony/.dot-config/blob/master/.vcspull.yam.... Purely for studying the source of.

Python : Flask, Werkzeug, Django, SQLAlchemy

JS : Express, Backbone, blog posts by Addy Osmani and JS enterprise architecture and Derick Bailey on Marionette (but i don't think the backbone would be as relevant today, it def paved the way to modern frontend we see today)

C++ : OpenTTD

In the end, there weren't many books I found espoused building projects. I already had an idea of what to build - I just needed enough to "ramp up", but if you want books:

JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns

Examples applied directly to the task at hand. All about scoping.

A python book, that hits different areas than this JS book would be The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python: https://docs.python-guide.org/

C++: Scott Meyer books are great

General programming: Code Complete
Would you have been able to do that in python if you hadn't previously programmed in python, read the docs, seen examples?
Thats because they're realizing that the boomer population is aging out of las vegas. Meanwhile the millenials are turning into prime spending age, and they're going wherevcer they want to go. They've been trying to get millenials in for at least the last 10 years with big name electronic artists and now also e-sports. For the most part it seems to be working.

That said, I do tend to agree with you that overall that there's a bigger nerd market there per capita than most cities.
It appears US is better than Indonesia in reporting, but worse than Singapore, according to their preprint [1].

AFAIK, the coronavirus test is not being conducted for people who have no history of visiting China or traveling outside, and the virus can be transmitted before symptoms could appear. Based on the article, it is conceivable that the virus could soon be found from a person who has no travel history outside US, but only when the person gets dangerously sick.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020495v...
In my experience, some small businesses avoid Apple Pay/Google Pay because you can add American Express cards to them, and they want to not accept Amex cards in order to save on the fee, despite the service agreement of their payment processor obligating them to.
It's not a given you will use it for the rest of your career. As two examples, neither Google nor Facebook use git.
That rationale seems off, I don't know of any accounting requirements for bank account creation / tracking for customers.

And like other poster said, KYC and financial regulation. This sounds sketchy from the outside.
> the supposedly obtuse interface makes a lot more sense when you approach it with an understanding of the fundamentals in hand.

Agreed. I always said the best git tutorial is https://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/

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The conclusion I draw from this is that you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Merely memorizing which commands you should run at what times will work in the short run, but it’s only a matter of time before you get stuck or, worse, break something.
Basically, it’s really hard to actually develop totally separate UIs in the same app, e.g. another user brought up the Catalyst project, which is bringing poor-fit touch paradigms into macOS despite the developers’ intentions in many cases. One paradigm will be dominant. Care must also be taken to not load too many unused resources.

Interactive workflows also differ between UIs.

Since so much of an OS is the native UI and the first-party applications, even if the mobile, tablet and PC versions of an OS share some libraries, they can’t really share enough to meaningfully call them one OS without compromising the experience on all three.

So while there may be three pane email on the iPad as well as Mac, and email on iOS, they don’t really share enough to be called the same app, and if they did, at least one of them would suffer. And some of the interactions on the macOS version effectively can’t be brought over.
The NSA has likely harvested and cached thousands of PGP secret keys from passive monitoring of internet links public and private (Google famously failed to use encryption on internal WAN links for a long time), active exploitation of host and workstation systems, and bulk exfiltration of nonpublic data from service providers (think stored records: emails and files).

(Unrelated: As well as TLS long term keys, passwords, hashes, usernames, and any other kind of metadata or secrets that may be useful one day in the future, if nothing more than for dictionary attack prefix/suffix fodder.)

I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some more creative secret key sources too: stolen and glitched smart cards, laptops that disappeared out of targets’ cars, tossed offices via evil maid, dumpster diving, all of it, including some I probably haven’t thought of because I’m a computer nerd and not a military intelligence cloak-and-dagger type.

Put all the recovered secrets into a big ol’ database, because disk is cheap and keys are small. Keep it for all time, Just In Case.

Of course, there is a request system frontending this capability.

There are many PGP messages they can decrypt, simply because they slurped up the specific private keys for those messages at some point, and simply saved every secret key, hash, or password that they ever saw, as a general organizational policy.

That doesn’t mean they have broken PGP.
>Is there any betting market that is taking bets and has good volume on whether there is going to be a novel coronavirus pandemic?

That would be the Housing Market.

However, the biggest impact may very well be the reaction in the public towards this and that in itself would cause more avenues of betting. Like facemask filters, only so many get made, so whatever companies make that will see a share price increase, if they are listed. Equally, the usual suspects in vaccines will be all hedged by the money market in trading from now until a winner (vaccine found) is made. Which will probably be around the time for winter 2020 flu vaccine from what I've read so far from best estimates.

That all said, if they said London would get 1" of snow, the amount of panic would be greater than what we are seeing so far.

But that may well change quickly, though at least we never had a flu riot that I'm aware of in history.
Yeah, because it's easier to find what you need. I think I came across only big guides or irrelevant examples/answers - pretty old too.

Comparatively, perl was also easier to find stuff for in their docs. I ended up using that for some places.
It's not called "quitting", it's called "having a weak ethical compass and low personal standard for behavior". And I disagree with the rest of your ideas, too.
In my experience, much more damage has been done by people who implement EDA and fancy cloud architecture in general. Something like 95% of applications are simple CRUD with a minuscule amount of custom domain logic. Doing anything beyond a sanely laid out monolith for these is resume padding and potentially project killing. I think people just don't want to admit that their job is validation, presentation, and shuffling data in and out of a database.
I'd take that as a given. As someone who worked remotely for several years, it is more difficult to communicate as well when you are not in the same room.

When you know someone better because you talk in person every day about work, but also life in general, and maybe have lunch every now and then... it's easier to have frank (yet still professional) discussions about difficult decisions.
When I see elm I think mail, like as in Pine Is Not Elm
> But there is others, like: - work/life balance. - autonomy/work load balance. - acknowledgement of the work done by the company. The manager or else. - clear vision of what the company is doing and the role you have in it.

Yes. This is by now decades old rehashed trope in corporate america.

> There is a nice startup[0] that tries to bring happiness at work to other company. What is in for the company ? Better productivity of the employees and less turn over.

Just like happier cows produce more milk/money. So ultimately, the workers and happiness are just a means to an end ( more money for the shareholders ).

> [0] Wittyfit. Full disclosure: I worked for them. They are not alone in the field, but I think they are the only one to have a scientific research based product.

Let us pray that "scientific" research doesn't one day conclude unhappy workers lead to higher productivity.

Dystopian indeed.
This is because the center point of your models do not expect a foreground/background boundary. By putting a hole at the center, the boundaries seek to stabilize the system by bubbling outward. The best way to put it is that there is no stable state where a doughnut hole exists at the center. An interference pattern ripples outward and destroys the system.
Not sure I need blurry glow everywhere, but anything that re-convinces designers that interactive things should be distinguishable from non-interactive things would be a step up.
This is a real issue. In principle, we can often install whatever, but it takes years in the Linux world before one can assume that any given tool or feature is ubiquitous.

And even then, things can fall apart. Python2 made it, but now it's going away. (Yes, there is a Python3 often present, but neither is a substitute for the other.)
DNA rewrites itself all the time... we just cant change it at will, much, yet.
Yes, if you don’t “punish” incorrect predictions in your loss function your neural net could just get “perfect” accuracy by putting a giant bounding box around the entire image.

Technically that’s “right”; it did put a box around all the obstacles just like you asked it to. But that “solution” is not useful. You want it to find what it’s looking for and only what it’s looking for.

In this case, if it detects an unlabeled pedestrian the loss function will penalize it a bit for that “wrong” answer and it will slightly deviate to try to not find that pedestrian but still find the correctly labeled examples. It’s trying to fit the examples you give it best as possible.
" I submit I may have a very different definition of reasonable use."

That's fine - you can go ahead and vote. There's an election coming up. Collectively, most Americans probably agree with the current use, and there are actual control and oversight by the Judicial system. Which is unlike China.
Interesting, thanks. I thought I got my definition from Design and Evolution of C++ by Stroustrup but it's a very long time since I read it. (It's also possible that Stroustrup has used that term in different ways over the years, but it's much more likely that I'm just mistaken.)
That may be the explanation they've settled on but there are build artifacts at that company which would be impossible to link without -fno-exceptions, so there are also practical problems.
nCoV-2019 is the virus and COVID-2019 is the disease.
The other amusing thing is that said leaders often ignore all that useful information when making their decisions, because they believe that they know better.
The first commercial lithium ion battery dates to 1991:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Commercial...

The lithium ion battery has incrementally improved energy density every year since its commercialization (see Figure 4):

https://www.intechopen.com/books/ict-energy-concepts-towards...

Most breakthroughs or projected-breakthroughs that get Popular Science articles written about them are overstated or never materialize at all. But battery technology is improving over time. It's not improving at the pace of microelectronics, but hardly anything improves that quickly.
Does it have you write queries that exceed 30 lines?
Proji v0.18.1 released: Fast and powerful CLI project scaffolding tool
> Exceptions do not conform to C++'s "zero-overhead" principle. That's why numerous large organizations from NASA to the Dept. of Defense to Google decree that C++ exceptions must not be used.

I don't know about NASA's case, but Google's style guide forbids exceptions only for legacy reasons. In fact it praises them:

"On their face, the benefits of using exceptions outweigh the costs, especially in new projects. However, for existing code, the introduction of exceptions has implications on all dependent code. ... Because most existing C++ code at Google is not prepared to deal with exceptions, it is comparatively difficult to adopt new code that generates exceptions."

Since I'm not working on Google's old code base I do use exceptions.
It's possible to handle the character escaping with some care.

I do this on occasion, it is fun~
The Samsung Tab S6 with the keyboard cover would give you DeX in a laptop form factor.
CNBC coverage also mentioning the CIA Rubicon program https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UYIt8Y0XHU
Volko Ruhnke’s Nevsky is a fiddly that has its own quality
Ask HN: What are your windows aesthetics?
Do you use a tiling window manager? If so, which one and why? Do you use a non-standard to your distro window manager? If so why?

Are you strictly full screen terminal? Terminals with tabs?

Do you use regular old floating windows? (the default)

Who's gone full "ricing" of their desktop, micro managing their launcher and status bar and fonts?

And finally which of you are monsters that leave a litter of various icons all over your desktops? Yuck.
Don't worry, it wasn't anything I wasn't okay losing :)
IMO (as a PhD student and active user of science/research Twitter) your perception of science Twitter is largely wrong.

Yes there are hot (wrong) takes, snark, etc., but most of it is just plain old paper / blog post announcements with some helpful summaries in a thread (eg https://twitter.com/kelvin_guu/status/1227378652318330885 , https://twitter.com/lmthang/status/1222234237262159872).

It has definitely allowed me to come across papers and researchers I would not have seen otherwise, and this is it's main utility (aside from just being a great way to keep up with new stuff).
OMNY is neat. You do not need to turn your phone's screen on to use it, and it works for a while after your phone's battery dies.

It is still slower than what I'm used to in Japan, where people have been paying for transit with their phone since 2001 or 2002. (Tokyo also went from 50-ish pilot stations to 500 production stations in just a few months. In New York, I think 2023 is the estimated completion date?)
We printed our way into this problem; we can print our way out! /s

Seriously, though; S&P puts yields are implicitly discounted by inflation — do we really think they won’t sacrifice the dollar on the alter of asset price nominal “stability”?

Gold calls get you a positive real yield on both stock market drop & inflationary response, no?
Thank you for linking that report, very interesting.

I also read through the article[0] that the report linked. I think a significant factor in the difference in risk is how much contact tampons are making with the vaginal canal vs menstrual cups; the article mentions that the risk is higher if the cup is allowed to overflow (and the toxins from within the cup make contact with the vaginal canal).

So I suppose that even though the cup can be left inside for longer than a tampon can, that (as advised) it should definitely not be left inside for longer than necessary.

[0] https://aem.asm.org/content/84/12/e00351-18.full
What an Orwellian use of the word "coerced". There is presently no coercion to work: only the necessity of survival (just as it always has). On the other hand, the future you envision would require the coercion of the productive minority.
> to do a simple task of making a template engine

Not quite sure what you mean but it does sound like awk was the wrong tool for the job there. For the sort of templating I'm thinking of shell scripts or m4 would have been a better tool. Taking some structured data and piping it to one of those is where awk shines (that and pattern matching).
> "I don't trust anyone in government" that's a pretty weak argument, no?

Not trusting the government is the entire point of large portions of the US constitution...
Why did they have to say "cross platform"? Isn't HTML supposed to be cross platform anyway? What do they even mean by 'platform'?

Disclaimer: I really don't know anything about doing games in html/js. The question is honest.

Disclaimer 2: I do remember "write once, run anywhere". It was only mostly right back then.
Right, making something up is a way to solve the infinite regress problem. Other religions have similar moral systems with similar problems in terms of evidentiary basis. Another example of this is natural law, which is not actually a thing, however much we might wish it were.
"The coming IP landgrab of facts derived from books".

There probably will be such an attempt, making it at least as far as hearings in Congress. (Hopefully no further - hopefully no attempted legislation.)
I believe in the UK it's by the card issuers as a security measure (it's definitely a flat £30 for most cards). They're happy to be liable for that amount a few times until the fraud prevention measures kick in, but not more. Apple's appetite for risk is perhaps a little bigger.

I don't think I've signed anything for 10+ years tbh, but the UK went pretty heavily for chip and pin early one. But honestly it's a coinflip whether I remember my pin these days.
John Schindler (Former NSA) has hinted Signal isn't secure either...
Not the parent, but they mentioned that they are a startup. AWS "dying" has killed zero startups so far. Time to market has killed many more, same for "not-invented-here" syndrome, and prematurely building for the future.
It's not even a thing "in Germany". There may be some banks that do this, but I would say most don't. But then, most banks are relatively regional, so while you can use any branch of the bank, there won't be any branches of your bank if you travel far enough--and if you are with your local Sparkasse, for example, then that is your bank, the Sparkasse in the next bigger city over has nothing to do with them (well, yeah, they have, but they most definitely are a separate bank).
Ummm Trump's biggest critics aren't dropping dead left and right. That is exactly what happens to Putin's critics.
A company that sells cables now shares a name with the new coronavirus
Ideally by not creating systems where people within the same organization view each other as (more than friendly) competitors, and by weeding out the sociopaths who can’t help but view life through that lens.
Sure, but I also use a mouse. I could learn how the optical mouse works. I have some guesses about it too, but never actually learned the details.

But I'm a user of it - it works even if I don't understand exactly how and nobody tells me that I learned using the mouse "the wrong way" because of it.
Interesting. I'd have expected more than a 50% code expansion going to Go, maybe even 3x or 5x.

Similarly, he's using 40x speedup as a rule of thumb. I usually think of Python as 20x slower than C.

Personally I'd be loathe to convert a working Python system to Go, but it sounds like he had good reasons. I do wonder a bit whether divide-and-conquer or a C extension might not have worked instead.
Growing Risk to America’s Seniors: Themselves
I'm not an IP lawyer, I just play one on the interwebz, so don't pretend like this is legal advice, but:

Yes, technically, you could patent a recipe, provided that it was sufficiently novel and sufficiently non-obvious to a practitioner of ordinary skill in the art.

An ordinary recipe that only takes well-known ingredients and combines them in well-understood ways, applying well-known techniques is going to have a difficult time passing either the novelty or non-obviousness tests.

I would anticipate that, if your recipe-based patent application were to prevail, that your recipe would need to include some preparation steps that are themselves new and unusual. For example, if you described a novel method of processing an ingredient, or a novel way of combining two ingredients that relied on some previously-unexplored aspect of their chemistry (such as making use of the small ash content of coconut milk products, for example)
Really? Huh. I'm surprised other people's experiences have been so different. There are tons of forum complaints about the problems I've had. There's even an official faq about all the tabs going blank [1], which tells you to restart the browser and hope it goes away. Mozilla themselves gave up on the whole codebase two and a half years ago and started work on Firefox Preview/Fenix instead [2].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-android-display...

[2] https://www.xda-developers.com/mozilla-transition-users-from...
That's not really exactly what the categorical imperative says, if I understand it correctly. It basically says you should not do things s.t. if everyone did them it would lead to an absurd conclusion. The terms here are pretty nebulous, and I would say that a skeptic could easily ask, "So? Why not?" "Well, because you would not like the world that results." Ah, consequentialism again.
dumb * giving their private data way for free, what's new
>The conclusion I draw from this is that you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works.

I say this as someone who uses git regularly, and who prefers it to all other version control systems I have tried:

A tool that breaks the principle of encapsulation by forcing you to grok its internals if you are to have any hope of understanding its arcane and inconsistent usage syntax is frankly not a very good tool.

By contrast, I don't understand how vim works beyond the base conceptual level (keypress goes in, character shows up on screen or command is executed) and yet I don't have any trouble using it. I don't need to know vim's internals to use it effectively. Vim is a good tool.