skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found where I think I had originally read it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/06/13/why-b...

It sounded plausible enough to me.

Relevant quote is below:

"""

Bitcoin is a protest against corruption.

Naval Ravikant, founder of Angelist once tweeted: "Bitcoin is a tool for freeing humanity from oligarchs and tyrants, dressed up as a get-rich-quick scheme."

With this perspective in mind, it’s no surprise that Bitcoin has a much higher rate of adoption in countries that have a history of government oppression - Germany, China, Venezuela - and a lower rate of adoption in the U.S. Americans are much more likely to have faith in their U.S. Dollar than a new cryptocurrency.

One story was shared with me anonymously by a Ukranian software engineer - let’s call him Greg. In 2014, what began as a peaceful protest in Ukraine quickly grew into a civil war, riddling the country with violence and unrest. As expected, due to political instability, the local currency was devalued by 70%. Greg lost his job and was looking for a way to escape the rebellion.

“There was nothing left for me there, I was surrounded by death and destruction. I started plotting an escape.”

Airports and roads were guarded by soldiers to prevent people from fleeing - temporary visits to family, however, were permitted by car. It was well known that many of the officials charged with guarding the borders were corrupt and would confiscate money and valuables at checkpoints. And so Greg, having kept most of his savings in USD, decided to trade it all for Bitcoin. He memorized the 12 words from his seed phrase like “his life depended on it” and ran, with nothing but a small backpack on his person, managing to escape with all of his wealth intact.

[For anyone new to Bitcoin, you can access a Bitcoin wallet from anywhere on the internet as long as you know your seed phrase.]

There are countless stories like Greg’s. Tales of people fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe, South America and Africa, using Bitcoin as a means to carry value with them. For many, Bitcoin is what saved their wealth and, by extension, their life.

Skeptics often use the argument that Bitcoin “isn’t backed by anything.” But this is an inherently privileged North American view. Bitcoin is backed by a demand for financial freedom, for an asset outside the control of governments, and one that cannot be confiscated easily.

"""
His four social media links at the top do not link to him - just the generic websites.
GPUs are somewhat more like "Super powerful SIMD". That is, you tell a GPU "I want n cores to run this block of code" and that's just what it will do.

SIMD is much more primitive. It is more along the scale of "Multiple these 4 numbers by 5" and that's it. A GPU kernel can have branching, conditionals, etc. SIMD is limited to one operation on a small set of data (512 bytes for AVX-512).
At a large scale, the question "what is money" actually gets pretty complicated. This may help:

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-macr...
> so why is this year's COVID-19 such a big deal then?

Because the combination of infectiousness and impact of infection gives it the capacity to overwhelm health systems, making all kinds of conditions (including itself) more deadly than they would be with a non-overwhelmed system, unless unusually strong measures are taken to control the spread (and even if and for a while after they are, if they aren't taken early enough), a potentiality that has been realized in a number of places.

> with about 800.000 deaths it's a medium flu season.

Both the CDC and WHO have around 650,000 as the high end of the normal annual global range of flu deaths, so, no, 800,000 would be a very bad year for flu deaths. COVID-19 alone has killed around 570,000 globally in less than a year, despite fairly intense control measures that aren't usually taken for the flu (and, of course, the flu didn't take a break, though the COVID-19 motivated control measures adopted late in flu season also reduced flu numbers.)

> with about 800.000 deaths it's a medium flu season.

Yeah, if a country took effective steps to control COVID-19 early enough, it got a big benefit on flu numbers and avoided much impact, in terms of deaths at least, from COVID-19. And lots of countries did that, and that's great.

The countries that didn’t, either because the need wasn't clear before they were too heavily infected or because they simply dawdled because of leadership incompetence have enormous excess mortality. (The US already has nearly triple the deaths from COVID-19 as it has from flu during the particularly bad 2017-2018 flu season, and, that's not even counting the actual flu deaths it also had in the 2019-2020 season.

> from which family the saisonal flu comes from is not really interesting (other than vaccination planners) and only politically relevant. The disease is always the same.

No, it's not always the same, even when talking about actual seasonal flus. But especially when talking about a disease that is neither seasonal nor a flu.
We're definitely there already.

At least on the west coast, in each major city, we have thousands of people living in tents, if not tens of thousands. Seattle has over 10k now officially (and speaking with food bank workers 20 years ago, they said it was that number then, when times were less shit). Los Angeles per their recent count has over 40k.

https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-ange...
> But what is the real-life practical alternative?

> But life is short and any art takes long to learn to sufficient depth that you can solve dynamic complex problems.

In the time I spent playing DOTA my brother learned Chinese AND learned enough about programming to get his first programming gig paying about $80k/year.

While it can take a long time, even a lifetime, to master a field you can get to a competent level surprisingly quickly.
There's almost no search engine competition, so whether it's easy to switch is irrelevant because for the average user, there's no option to switch to.

Echo/Siri/Google assistant actually make it harder for people to switch, because the average user is not going to install google assistant on an echo device, which means they have to spend money and learn a new device in order to use a new assistant. So if in your future you're treating assistants as search engines, lock-in becomes worse.

>If Google starts to make decisions that are bad for users

Google has already made plenty of decisions that are bad for users, and they still have 90% market share because there's no meaningful competition.

You're basically envisioning a dystopian future where facts are controlled by a small set of mega corporations.
I was very much looking forward to this book, pre-purchased it the instant I saw the email it available. I have been enjoying it so far. Best part is that you can follow along with making it in any language, for any input and output language. The author just happens to use Typescript as the language for the compiler, a subset of typescript for the input, and ARM for the output. I'm keeping the same input and output languages for the compiler, but switching to using C++ for actually building the compiler.
If only we could use trees as a building material!
Mesh networks over HAM radio, to tie it back to the article. ;-)
Can you really prove its a ruse? You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
Note, that it's more like a rental. You are required to return the equipment at the end of the beta period.
...or in the case of most offices which require cublicles -- WFH and be done.
Fun Fact: These types of bets are how life insurance started, with milk maids and cow pox.
The escrow can build up trust with high volume low amount transactions, i.e. your regular drug transactions.

I think all dark markets to date had some escrow systems in place eventually.
Python 2.7 was the last of the Python 2.x releases. They likely started with an earlier version, kept upgrading to 2.7 and then had to bite the bullet and actually rework it for Python 3.x (which is a highly similar but different programming language). Which is why that quote makes sense.
If you write SoA code, know what are you doing, and aren't memory bound, 100% speedup isn't unreasonable.

Current AVX512 implementations might not always get there, as I believe some instructions are dual issuing at 256bit under the hood.
Amateur J.C. Penney Traders Beg Judge to Save Them from Bankruptcy Wipeout
For first year, you can not take rrsp contributions.
And starting the second year, rrsp contribution room is 18% of your previous year salary. for 100 000 salary, you can only contribute 18 000 (maximum is about 22000 something).
Want to know if you have source code, I can help to contribute the calculations. I've accounting background studying react and python right now.
I remember discussion on HN a few months back wondering if breathing through one's nose lets COVID through the blood-brain barrier to start wreaking neurological havoc.

It would be interesting to read thoughts on whether this is still a concern, as opposed to this article, claiming breathing through the nose has antiviral effects.
I wonder why this page doesn't support TLS 1.2?
What's the difference between the two (genuine question)?
Written, not by the author of Clan of the Cave Bear, but by the author of Stranger in a Strange Land.

Interesting.
Related article by Russell O’Connor about copyright assignment I recently stumbled onto: http://r6.ca/blog/20110930T012533Z.html
Go's authors didn't pick LLVM because they weren't sufficiently familiar with it to implement what they needed (e.g. segmented stacks). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990 for the full explanation.
This would be a more biting argument if we weren't talking about features that are universally present in other messengers. It's practically the premise of Signal to replicate those messaging experiences without sacrificing privacy.

It's an interesting pickle Signal finds itself in. If it remains too austere, vocal nerds tear it apart for providing inadequate UX compared to other popular messengers. If they invest in trying to reach feature parity with less secure messengers, a different set of vocal nerds tear it apart for being untrue to its roots as a specialist nerd tool.

All the while, to a first approximation, no nerd is Signal's actual audience; they're trying to replace SMS, iMessage, and WhatsApp, the most popular messengers in the world.

That's a general observation, not something particular to your comment.
If anyone out there is reading this and wondering whether the switch to ARM is part of some plan to eventually lock down macOS to the same level as iOS, they need only click the above link. Why would Apple dedicate engineers to fixing up all these open source projects if they were planning to lock them out?

I think this very clearly demonstrates Apple’s commitment to supporting open source, user-installed software on Macs, outside of the Mac App Store.
I highly recommend spending an entire day at Bletchley Park. They have lots of activities for children too. The operational bombe was fascinating
Is there a central list of these safe instructions?
"software archaeology" is definitely a way I'd choose to describe it as well!
Yeah. It's a bummer because Rust would be a fantastic language for gamedev otherwise, and a lot of people are interested in it for this reason. It's got everything else you'd want out of a good gamedev language - no GC, smart memory model, blazing perf, really expressive...
Maybe they ordered items at random it could be art?

https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/
Neil Harbisson: world's first cyborg
This is a rather good way to explain the phenomenon!

Add a simple criteria how to detect whether a situation is not accidental, and teach it to your young.
I've been working on similar productive things (i.e. reading, jogging, projects), to keep out the 'what-ifs'. One of those projects I intend to start soon is building a small game. I've come across a lot of discussion about engines, frameworks, and hand-built options. A large majority push for larger engines like Unity or Godot that 'do it all' to focus more on the game and less on what's needed to build it. That seems alright, but being a backend dev, I generally enjoy understanding the full operation and building it out as close to my needs as possible.

What have you used for your smaller games? And what would you recommend for someone with programming experience, but lacking experience in pretty much every other facet of game development?
Not all cryptocurrency content is a scam, but there's a ton of scams in the cryptocurrency space, so it's not surprising that places in the cryptocurrency space might be heavily moderated to try to counter that and have some false positives.
I'd suggest also taking a look at the Blocknet Protocol which is similar.
> Here's a microcontroller: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/maxim-integrated/M...

Not a microcontroller.
Open it in incognito/private. Then it'll work fine.
> the environment is commonly referred to as ENV in technical literature

No, it isn't.
And the fact that the intern didn't care/foresee we would suffer downtime or at the very least a major inconvenience if our accounts were suspended as long as they could finish their personal task.
What constitutes a "sound"? (Googling "Conway linguistic game" just brings up the Game of Life)
Funny enough, I lived in Mataró for a while and didn't know about him.

I am also colour blind (I just confuse some colours, thought). I saw him tell with absolute pitch, tell colour/note associations, including in which colour a dog was barking.
> Laughs in Usenet

The rise in pirate binary groups is what killed Usenet feeds on most ISPs.

I used to be a great follower of text groups but it became more and more difficult to find a feed and the overall signal:noise ratio faded.

Eventually I gave up. Thanks for nothing, you folks who want to watch other people's content for free.
With inflation, the return is not near 0, it's negative.
Except the dark net reputation system is completely broken.

It's trivially easy to create new accounts and maintain parallel alternate accounts on dark net marketplaces, even going so far as giving yourself fake reviews to pump up reputations.

This is such a common scam on dark net markets that it has a name, known as exit scamming. A vendor will build themselves up a good reputation (usually fake) and then scam everyone who transacts with them, cashing out on the reputation. Wash, rinse, repeat with new accounts.

You also run a risk when leaving a bad review. Even if you never buy from that vendor again, you could buy from one of their alternate accounts, and they'll send you fentanyl in your product as retaliation.
Why is this news? Thousands of projects are in this position where they are porting to a new platform. This is normal.
If all we can ever do is submit to our most basic instincts we will never make progress.

Thinking collectively is what created civilized society and enabled the modern world.

I agree that consumption has created a lot of good in the world, I absolutely believe in capitalism, successful ideas need to triumph over bad ones.

I also understand that many innovations start out as extremely expensive luxury goods that are eventually commoditized. This is an important part of why I don't believe we should make excessive consumption illegal.

I know there will always be people who submit to these urges and buy fancy crap, and sometimes them doing that will help society at large more than it hurts. Some things are just objectively not helpful and are just gratuitous displays of wealth. I am happy to hear otherwise, but I just don't think that Yacht building has trickled down to a bunch of consumer goods that help the world.

High end fashion and beauty products I think reasonably belong in the same category. I think there are plenty of opportunities for more decentralized markets, local designers, that would be possible if rich people weren't buying so much mindshare and influence. And that's not to say I think the government should regulate everything, some if it just has to be individuals talking about things and changing consumption behavior.
> meaning of a fraction changes if you move stuff between the top and the bottom

Sure it was not his 8 year old child?
When I was younger, out of curiosity I've downloaded leaked source code of Windows or video games.

Got an impression that code is not that useful to an outsider. It can help answering extremely specific questions how a particular small isolated function is implemented. Even ignoring legal issues, it won't significantly help building competing products, let alone building a successful business around such product.

When we hire people, they gain access to complete source code, documentation, continuous integration environment, bug tracker, and most importantly to the current developers. It usually takes them months to become productive. With just the source code, would probably take a year even for very smart person.
Same here. On 78.0.2 on macOS 10.15.4
Also supports subnet notation, so you could add /24 to the end of the URL for example.
At the same time he is using a call spread so the upside is limited to the difference between the contract he bought and sold. Also at the same time, losses are limited.

Suppose $TWTR is $49 a share, you buy a call for $50 and sell a call for $60. Suppose the $50 call is $3 that means you paid $3. Then you sell the $60 for suppose $1. So now you are out $2. That's your max loss.

Now tomorrow $TWTR goes to $35. Everything expires and you lose $2.
Suppose it goes to $300. Then your profits are ($60-50)-$2=$8 Profits
Suppose it went to $55. Suppose this is after expiry, then your contract is worth $5 but you paid $3 so you made $2 profit, but you also sold 1 contract, so now you have $3 profits.

So in essence, the spread limits your upside, further limits your downside while you are bullish.
Pretty sure this is exactly what Linus is complaining about. It's not that he doesn't get it, he's upset that intel is spending resources on what he sees as advertising instead of making the product better.
Replace "Bitcoin" with "Ethereum" in everything that @clemensley said, and it will make even more sense.
Atlas of Surveillance
Would it would work under Rosetta 2 (Apple's x64 emulation/translation layer) until the aarch64/darwin ABI can be ported to GCC? Or is there a reason to assume it might not?
Its basic regional history, not my "say so." Japan had an extreme isolationist policy for the two hundred years leading up until the Meiji Restoration.

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

The Qing dynasty was on its last legs, following the disruption of the Opium wars, the chaos of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions, and the nascent, internal modernization movements. The independence of Korea's Joeson dynasty was put to an end when Yi Un was put under Japanese control by Ito Hirobumi in 1907. Taiwan quickly transitioned from being a Chinese Vassal state to a Japanese one. The Philippines had been colonized by the Spanish for a few hundred years, then the Americans in the period leading up to the war. They were able to so quickly build an empire because the countries around them were in a poor position to resist their sudden outburst of aggression.
An alternative to a meltdown is what's been happening since 2008- the poor start killing themselves and maybe they vote for the wrong guy, but the trend doesn't stop. Given that the market says 30% of the workers don't really matter (and remember, that's people participating in the labor market, which is at a historic low IIRC), maybe they just ignored. They can cause some level of social unrest, but the rich are mobile, and the factories are pretty automated. What we'll see soon is more private security and automated security.
AFAIK it adjusts after a fixed number of blocks have been mined. So if 99.999% of your compute power is gone, you won't be mining enough blocks to adjust the difficulty for a very long time.
For most disorders, a mild case is "normal". People who have more severe cases are classified as "abnormal". (And people who have less severe cases than normal are classified gifted/talented/superpowered.)
Yes, but not the kind of parallelization technique most think of (multi-threading).

SIMD is still very useful elsewhere of course, but there is a lot of software for which it's not very relevant.
> while people in tech say "I want to save the world" while thinking "I want to make a ton of money"

Citation needed. The number of people in "tech" who say that is remarkably low -- in my experience in Silicon Valley: zero.

Far more often, I hear employees who are driven by "the mission" of the company/product. I work on a newer generation cybersecurity product because the ones that exist in the space have terrible usability and probably aren't very accurate/comprehensive/ergonomic. I'm not "saving the world", but I am making marginal improvements in a high impact space.

Personally I haven't the foggiest idea of what a Hedge Fund actually is. I've seen The Big Short, Margin Call, Barbarians at the Gate and I don't find myself sympathetic with any of those characters (except the Ben Rickert[1] in The Big Short, but only because he saw how terrible the industry was and got out years before the story takes place).

[1] https://www.bustle.com/articles/128208-what-does-the-real-be...
On the topic of country of origin, they list the country of origin on all produce I've purchased here in the UK. It blows my mind that it is profitable to ship grapes to the UK from South Africa.
> why go through this transition with macOS as a developer instead of Linux or Windows?

With everything still in beta/ pre-release, it's impossible to know how big a transition this is going to be for me personally. By the time I get my next computer most of this will likely be resolved.

> Is there something that macOS provides developers that other operating systems don't?

I prefer MacOS to Windows. In my experience the platform just has less bullshit to deal with. That said, Windows has gotten quite a bit better for Web Developers over the past 10 years or so, so it might be worth revisiting, but I suspect the headache of migrating to Windows will be just as bad for me as the headache of migrating to MacOS ARM (or worse).

If you are a Mobile developer, the transition is almost a no-brainer. Running iPhone apps native is a pretty slam dunk feature. For Web Devs, it's a bit less clear, particularly if you use VMs or Docker as part of your workflow.

It's really a huge unknown right now and until they start shipping hardware to end users, I suspect we won't really know what the whole picture looks like.
A lot of people would argue the idea of privilege is not a neutral or valueless observation at all, and more precisely, it resembles a new original sin invented by a secular movement instead of a religious one. Critical frameworks that rely on it earn extra scrutiny. I recommend taking that personally.