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The dForce and Hegic DeFi exploits, and why Smart Contracts are bad
> we could be a lot happier if everybody starts having 10x more sex tomorrow.

If we ignore all the caveats (most obviously disease, emotional issues, and pregnancy), surely that's a foregone conclusion?
I don't know if this is normal for iPhones, but the SE got a big price break through carriers towards the end. I bought the 32GB model new for $50. Even if I didn't want that carrier, I could have bought the phone and the minimum 6 months service for under $250 total.

As a "not a phone person", I think even $400 for a phone is nuts. The (first) iPhone SE is still perfectly usable (why would that be surprising?), and doesn't lag on anything I do. I don't see why I'd need to upgrade. That video seems to confirm that newer phones are really only faster at things I never do (games, video encoding, benchmarks).
It only tells me I've visited HN.
Doesn't "source no longer available only concerns projects that have migrated to a nonfree license?

This is a problem on F-droid, as the app you're installing will not get updates, and are out-of-sync with upstream. I was pretty sure F-droid archived the source tarball, but i can't find it now.

Disappearing sources are also an issue, as it has every disadvantage proprietary software has, with none of the upsides. It's much harder to patch in case it is needed, for instance. And hard to tell if someone tampered with the binary archives, I guess? (IIRC, the hash in Nix is based on the configuration, not the resulting binary).
"You'll have to rebuild from the rubble."

This terrifies people more than anything...and the more entitled someone is, the more they fear it.
> the middleman cares more about it’s own cut over either of them.

Rational self interest, as they say.
I wish adults understood the realities of being young in 2020. Even when I graduated HS in 2007 I could tell my experience and the academic expectations I needed to live up to were much higher than it was for my mom. After I graduated I saw younger friends take more AP classes than I did and do more leadership activities than I did. Expectations are always ramping up. It is no party.

Our laws and bureaucracies haven’t caught up to life from 50 years ago, and that is something young people today have to deal with too. There are a lot of incongruities in programs offered. One example is Federal Work Study. In college I qualified, it was a benefit, and my attitude was to not leave anything on the table. In reality the money I made was not enough to make a difference and the time I spent working could have been spent taking another class. If I didn’t do work study I could have graduated a semester sooner and that would have been much more valuable financially. The only reason to work in college would be at a job that is directly related to your field.

And of course the adults don’t get it. Every once in a while you’ll hear about a congress person or a business leader say that college students aren’t pulling their own weight in society. The friends of your parents will ask you how you like going to college parties. Reality is you have a deep backlog of work from 6 classes, which are related but have very different concepts and you need to master them all in four months.
A lot of the angst against the post office is fueled by various political motivations. It’s one of the few remaining federal-ish organizations governed by merit based civil service, which is the root of a lot of objections in certain quarters. Exams don’t really care who you are or what you look like.

You also have other entities with their eyes on potentially lucrative contracts for first class mail and other mandated carve outs like delivery to Alaska. Similarly to how certain Senators from Pennsylvania are always concerned about the National Weather Service giving away data that Accuweather would like to sell, shippers would love to 10x the cost of delivering mail.
Women are almost certainly not looking down on you for being successful and making money.

Unless they had literally said that to your face, I would just say it’s something related but more specific about your success and income. Given the context in the rest of comment, that seems likely.
Yes, npm package maintainers spend a lot of time on node version compatibility. Here is a quote from prettier on their recent v2 release:

> The main focus should be dropping support for unsupported Node.js versions.

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/6888
That is a frustrating aspect of open-source

In the old days you would have a binary shell tool or a dll, and then you could call it from any language. It did not matter in which language the tool was written in.
Top New JavaScript UI Frameworks and Libraries for 2020
A tin, suggestion: I can't see anywhere on the page the year of finalisation/publication. Might be helpful to add as tech books are so quickly outdated :-)
It might surprise you to know (/s) that people in high school talk about sex. A lot. It's not unreasonable to assert that he does know roughly what's going on.
tl;dr Please trust these proven untrustworthy entities because they say it's good for you.

I think the HN privacy concern is well placed. They are not advocating covering our ears and screaming to ignore the pandemic, just that this phone-based contact-tracing plan has all the makes of a bad idea. It's the perfect way to shift the needle further towards acceptance of mass contact tracking. These institutions have all shown us if we give them an inch, they'll take a mile.

Meanwhile, experts still say this is no substitute for proper, interview-based contact tracing, so it's almost a moot effort anyway.

My most charitable interpretation is that Google and Apple are scrambling for SOMETHING to do with their respective holds on the mobile market, and this is something. It still doesn't mean it's a good idea.
I'm not sure about CP, but AP is "advanced placement". You get college credit for it if you do well on a standardized test at the end.
It's a hard and interesting signals problem with surely many other benefits but surely money would be better spent just buying better mics and audio gear for an office.
If the rate of false positives and false negatives is the same but the true prevalence is << 0.5, then you will overestimate the number of positives.
I could see this making sense for tobacco users that don't smoke (e.g. chewing tobacco) but for people that smoke...I mean this is a respiratory illness. If you have compromised lungs this seems like it would be a nightmare for smokers. Are you concerned at all with the veracity of these claims?
I did not write it to be useful. I just wanted to say it can handle large integers.

I am implementing the XPath standard. The standard says there need to be a function to convert integers to English, but it does not specify an upper limit on the integers
> mail with just a name and zip code tended to get to its destination

Is that unexpected? In Britain a (real but random) address like

36
B30 1QR

is sufficient. This format is most useful for a return address. Adding the street name would be helpful to the postman.

Addresses that receive a lot of post usually have their own postcode. "SW1A 2AA" is a minimum complete address for a letter to the Prime Minister's office (10 Downing Street).
The post 9/11 period has markedly less tolerance for rebellious behaviour (anti-sociaL or otherwise) than prior to that. I feel like there are things we did back in the 90s with warehouse and squat parties and underground raves and political occupations and mass blatant MDMA use that could result in far more serious treatment by law enforcement in this era than prior to it.
> I do really messy stuff locally, and then I rebase to organize it into commits that tell a story, which makes it easier for reviewers (and archaeologists, such as me in 5 months) to understand.

So people review commit-by-commit? What review tool are you using for that? Github and Bitbucket very much nudge you towards reviewing the PR's diff as a whole, IME.

And do you find that you actually look at the history in 5 months' time? People worry about this a lot but I find it's pretty rare to actually need more history than what's in the diffs.

> But in the editing process, I often end up doing additional refactoring before I'm done with the feature work, so I use rebase -i to reorder and squash the changes appropriately. (I also run tests at both commits to make sure that my story is true, heh.)

I do that but without the reordering - it just seems like a lot of overhead (and lots of potential for conflicts since the refactoring will almost necessarily be in the same code area as the feature work) plus running the build/tests again etc.

> (This way, you can even do things like later revert the feature change without undoing the refactoring work.)

You can do that either way, though I guess if all the refactoring commits were before the feature commits then that means fewer conflicts (though you still have to worry about subsequent refactorings in the same area). Is that something that happens often?
This was probably more true a decade ago than it is now. Pirating shows isn't hard, but it's slightly less easy than watching Netflix, so it only matters if the shows on The Pirate Bay are enough better than the shows on whichever streaming service you have to be worth the inconvenience.

There are a lot of good shows on Netflix. Enough that people don't have time to watch even them -- especially now that the Internet is a thing and a lot of the time people used to spend watching TV is now spent watching YouTube or hanging out on Reddit or whatever.

So if you have Netflix and not HBO then you're several times more likely to have watched Stranger Things than Game of Thrones because it was easier to do it. And for the same reason, people don't subscribe to twelve different streaming services, because they don't even have time to watch all the shows on one of them. Which means there's now a lot more fragmentation in what people have watched.
That man can sell excess fish and buy his own rod.
>> To think they see nations entrenched by Wahhabism, or Shariah Law to be on equal footing with Quebec

It's not this - the laws around insurance, contests and many contracts are different than the rest of Canada; many companies find it's not cost-effective to have to support another jurisdiction for the potential customer base so they just exclude it.
Quote by Issac Asimov: “There Is a Cult of Ignorance in the United States”
There's plenty of heavy showers during summer in Denmark too.
> 1) How positive one is. Americans always smile. They're always doing "well," "fantastic," or similar. Eggs start at medium, and go up from there. That's not true of most of the world.

Whenever our American boss comes to visit this side of the pond, this drives me so nuts. Like, if things suck, just say so ffs. We royally fucked something up? We've had challenges. Some new thing is good but not mindblowingly amazing? Excellent.

Your language has a range of expression, please use it :'D
Knock, knock. Who’s there?

Smell mop.

Smell mop who...
Show HN: Hacker News as a Programmable Event Stream
Here's an inteview with one of them from 2019 [1], which would be pretty hard if he immediately died. I have never found any piece of evidence that they immediately died; most sources that say this seem to draw it from the HBO series as if it were a documentary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOo3Rp7rCE
The partying portrayed in the media is more representative of student life in universities.

There's not much going on in high schools, 15 years old kids living at their parents who can't even buy alcohol.
This is the core question. Can you teach good software engineering, or does it come from years of working with more experienced people/making mistakes and learning?

I have met a few "born SREs" who had little or no training but knew exactly what to do in production outage situations. But I haven't met anybody who was a "Great Software Engineer" out of the box.

And scientists aren't going to take a lot of time out of their education to get that day-to-day programming experience. I was lucky- I worked in a theory lab, next to a team of good software developers, and worked/learned from them over a period of years.

I think what we need are more research engineers, who are people who do software engineering for scientists, so the scientists don't have to become software engineering experts. The scientists also need to learn a bit better to ask for the right tools.
Great.. government regulation of information.. all the stazis wet dreams come true.

How about we just go back to teaching critical thinking instead of pretending technical solutions and "authority figures" can solve social problems caused by stupid people?

Fuck it, let's have IQ tests before being allowed to post online! /s
Sure if money is what you want to optimize for, that's the route to take.
For me it was always more about the passion in building things, money is nice but IMHO other things are more important.
28 June 2019 - https://www.president.gov.ua/ru/news/volodimir-zelenskij-pri... Official document by Ukrainian president granting the divers the title of Heroes of Ukraine. Only one is mentioned posthumously - Boris Baranov.

Boris Baranov - died in 2005 of heart attack.
https://24smi.org/celebrity/98385-boris-baranov.html

Ananenko Alexey - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5...

Bespalov Valeriy - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0...
Why? You can email package maintainer just as well, or better yet - open an issue on GitHub.
5 digit US zip codes are pretty course, thousands and thousands of people each.

The newer 9 digit codes are something like the delivery route for the address (I'm not sure that is exactly right, but they are much finer grained).
Yeah, I think we largely agree. I'm mostly aiming for #2, because I'm hoping that if we can get enough people using something that's hard to centralize, network effects will take care of #1.

Consider email for example: I think the main reason it's stuck around with us for so long is that we're at the point where being reachable by email is just expected. With everyone using email, someone trying to replace it with a centralized option would need to get everyone on board, while someone who wants to interoperate with email in general doesn't have that issue.

ISPs and phone companies are similar; nobody's going to start one that can't interoperate with the others nowadays. The public wouldn't stand for it, even if they couldn't explain why in terms of the underlying protocols.

While I would certainly love it if we could get people to care about open protocols, I think getting enough adoption of an open protocol would really be sufficient, so long as it's not easy for one big player to lock it down. (Google Talk for example; it was XMPP, but Google was the only player that mattered then as far as the public was concerned. Matrix is in a better position than that now.)
> 100-1000x less on any regular basis

I didn't say I could get 100-1000x on a regular basis. What I said was:

> There are domains in which I can get 100x or 1000x improvements

Domains like that exist, but they are outliers. Normal improvement is 10x.

> I was hoping for practical things that fundamentally impossible to describe concisely in non-lisp languages.

Most programming languages are Turing-complete so nothing is "fundamentally impossible" to express in any of them. The thing that is fundamentally impossible in most non-Lisp languages is to extend the language with new syntax and control constructs within the language itself.

It is of course trivial to embed a Lisp interpreter within any language, and that will let you do Lisp-y things within that language. But then your performance will suck, which is why no one does that despite the fact that it is theoretically possible. It is not so much about what is possible as it is about the ways in which your language molds your thought processes. For a C programmer, embedding a DSL is an esoteric advanced technique. For a Lisp programmer, it's as easy and therefore as common as writing a function.
Seconded! Companies that intentionally leave out the pricing is automatically blacklisted to me. It shows that the company is not transparent.
Dear trend-following worrier,

For all the effort you're making know this: you'll eventually be evaluated by a Gen-X or Millennial hiring manager. We largely don't care where you went to college. We've learned that name recognition means very little. It'll get you a job, but if you're one of those kids who "does nothing" on an extracurricular team, it'll show through on the job. You won't get promoted. We fucking hate micromanaging Ivy League grads who are too scared to take initiative and possibly make mistakes.

Sincerely,

An engineering manager who went to one of the "second-tier" schools you listed.
Sure, but you're also running a browser at the same time probably with a ton of tabs open as separate processes. Our computers do quite a lot these days, in parallel, and more cores help.

Both AMD and Intel are ridiculously fast! You can't really go wrong with either.
In what format did you write the source?
The authors of HMMER know what they are doing. That's an extremely rare situation.
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin's daily volume 3X what Apple stock is?
It looks like Bitcoin's is $30B whereas Apple Stock is $9B.

data: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

https://www.barchart.com/stocks/most-active/daily-volume-leaders
> Why are these threads filled with people who know nothing about node?

That’s a quite bad assumption from your part based on almost no information.

I don’t know about the rest of the thread but I’m personally quite familiar with node. A lock file doesn’t fix the same issues vendoring does. The lock file gives you an explicit list of version used, vendoring save the exact copies of the dependency with the rest of your code.

By vendoring anyone who is working on the project is using the exact same version of a dependency, AND you don’t have to care about an external provider (the registry being up, etc, that’s way easier for you CI too), AND you can review dependencies upgrade via git as if it was your code.

Of course that’s a mess when the JavaScript ecosystem has an infinite amount of dependencies for a hello world.
I have worked at a Royal Mail manual data entry centre several times, typing addresses which the machines cannot read. The rule is that if there is a valid country, it must be sent to that country (it is a legal requirement). Otherwise it gets sent to the Royal Mail Santa office which is in Belfast (who have legal permission to open mail which cannot be delivered) and they will, if possible, send a card in reply. If I recall correctly, their postcode is BT1 1SX.

It is reasonably common to send mail to 'Santa, Lapland' which of course is an area of Finland so must be sent there and they have their own offices who reply. Also Greenland was used I don't know what they did.
Could you do the reference sound beyond the range of human hearing so that you could do it continuously?
That's the kind of inflexible deal-making that makes negotiation impossible in real life. Sometimes I wish time machine simulations were real so we could send people back in the past and let them try their hand at navigating historical global crises. That'll be sure to teach some humility after the umpteenth time the world gets nuked.
There seem to be published papers, in respectable journals, that have higher numbers:

* https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...
More on this analogy from CPG Grey

https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
I think that needs a loud "WARNING: RABBIT HOLE" notation.

Wildbow is great at writing, kind of bad at monetization. If he sold any merch, his many fans would have bought lots of it. I'd love a a hoodie that had "Property of Parahuman Response Team ENE: Brockton Bay" on it. Or even just some black sweatpants with "VILLAIN" printed down one leg. I've given off and on with Patreon, but that is somehow much less compelling.
i second this, una pizza is delicious, but you can find a slightly better pizza at song e napoli on west houston

https://songenapule.nyc/
I disagree with you, and I think you're wrong, but I suspect political arguments of this nature are extremely offtopic on HN. If I'm going to make enemies here, I'd like it to be over my intense dislike of JavaScript, Docker and Apple, and not over my political persuasions.

In closing, before anyone puts me in a category I don't belong: I'm not american, and I don't follow or care particularly about american politics.
The only city in America that is even remotely capable of going car free is NYC. And really it’s just Manhattan because in the other boroughs the train service starts to get spotty.

Bus service in NYC would suffice if they killed off most of the other vehicle traffic. It is sometimes faster to walk than take the bus.

Honestly, the amount of vehicle traffic in NYC right now is perfect. They should just cap it at current levels.
> Postal workers used to provide all sorts of informal, impromptu community services

There's even a Wiki page for one of the more discreet services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkman_joke
Postal Experiments:

https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/p...
opps, grazie
> lost conversions

I'm not selling anything. This isn't a business.

> I've actually bounced off your front page about three times the last six (maybe?) years and the copy/messaging has always put me off.

Working as intended. :)
> If I had to characterize my generation with a pathology, it would be exhibitionism.

I'm not sure it's about exhibitionism, or some ego-driven motivation, but rather a profound fear about being left out of the group.

We know humans have biological social behaviors like cooperation but until social media we didn't really have ways to measure how others reacted to us. Seeing a number of likes, shares, upvotes, etc, is the ultimate drug for the social animal.
Adding a personal connection to the topic is true of almost all HN threads. Most of the time I find it interesting and read through the comments, but sometimes it irritates me as I'm only interested in the topic itself, in which case I skip the comments but am thankful the article made the front page.
My cursive “x” looks quite similar to my cursive “n”. In my Real and Abstract Analysis exam, IIRC, I remember writing a limit expression, as n goes to infinity, that involved no “x” variable. The professor read it as an “x”, despite the context, and promptly marked it incorrect. It taught me to make my handwriting unambiguous, but I’m still bitter about this, some 15+ years later :P
I think a lot of it was how "magical" it all was. All of it was so new. Same with all these websites being mentioned. I don't want to go back to the technologies we had then, but it was all paradigm changing then.

My mom would threaten to hide my keyboard. I was lucky that we got a DSL line really early (we lived in Silicon Valley and my dad was a software engineer) so taking my keyboard was the only way she knew I would be up still.