skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do they actually use that Bitcoin to buy things of real value like food on the table? That is, if you're a family in Lebanon, what actual steps do you go through, having received some bitcoin from somewhere, to get some flour or chickpeas or whatever in your hand?

Do you exchange the Bitcoin for local currency first (and if so, how) or do you pay the mill or butcher directly in Bitcoin (and what do they do with it at that point)?
While the article makes points that would be very good in a different era, if I want to know what time it is in Melbourne, I type "Melbourne time" into Google and it tells me. If I want to know whether it's daytime, I type "Melbourne sunrise" into Google and it tells me. Abolishing timezones is much more doable now than at any point since their invention, however the motivation to do it may also be reduced since I can also type things like "3PM Tokyo time in London" into Google
What I wanted to suggest is even if this communication is possible. This question has been the main theme of two of Stanisław Lem's books, "His Master's Voice" and "Solaris".

Essentially, an intelligence can be so alien that the concept of communicating with it would be impossible.
The speakers look nice but those shelfs will get old quickly, they bend under the wait of books and have the cheap look of a grocery store. If ur into design pay a carpenter for bespoke shelfs.
Presumably a certificate issue there too, just one that hasn’t been (publicly) diagnosed yet.
Why You Should Use QCObjects as the Full Stack Framework for Your Company
The comment explicitly stated that their comment was in the context of HP, not Amazon.

HP revoked its own signing certs rendering their existing signed code invalid. That it took them days to re-sign and published fixed binaries is HP’s fault not Apple’s
The article is about the lack of competition in and expansion of access to broadband internet access.

More discussion about broadband access issues (as well as other issues) here[0].

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/tech-companies-da...
Historically, a few were included in the Letterlike Symbols block¹ because they were present in some pre-Unicode character set. Much later it was argued that since a few were present, they all should be present.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterlike_Symbols
I agree with you, but I don't think it is a practical approach -- almost no one actually cares about the science.

We're all supposed to wash our hands after going to the bathroom, especially if we're preparing meals for others -- California makes this very clear with their mandatory signage!

But do I need to see the science behind it? I've never seen any hard data on hand-washing -- and yet...
Entirely irrelevant here.

Unless you are stating that Dalits are a larger number than a smaller population of Brahmins.

And that the latter is oppressing the former?

In which case: source?

Thanks.
They will have their own laws. Killing an earthman as part of the revolution will be rewarded....
Follow your gut and don't try and build something too fancy before you've proved out the idea.
Another printing mistake gave English the word "dord"[0] (at least temporarily, and from a prescriptivist point of view). While this "word" didn't influence Unicode, it is somewhat analogous to the situation in Japan where there are symbols that are arguably in the language but which are never meaningfully used.

I assume that the situation is even stranger in Japanese because these mistakenly created symbols do not have either an associated definition (even a mistaken one) or a pronunciation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb0YoRMXIY0
> Where is the right place to draw the line between your state's civic values, and respect for traditions that are not strictly yours? Are you bound to honor cultural traditions that are outside your laws and norms for civic rights and presence?

The line is drawn exactly where the law is. If a culture or tradition doesn't adhere to it, then it shouldn't be allowed. Either you live in a country and respect the law or you have to deal with the consequences - no exceptions. We should all be equal before the law and there shouldn't be any exceptions for voluntary actions of a group.

Culture and traditions do not supersede law. They are impediments to all kinds of progress, scientific, educational, social or otherwise, and that shouldn't be acceptable.
I think my usage of the term "business logic" was a bit misleading. What I meant was more the methods and ways which we expect the data to be processed; more like requirements than anything.
The introduction of the Fraktur font introduces different meaning. 'R' in Fraktur would mean something different than R in another font in the same text.
Virus, Spyware, Malware
Out of curiosity what is the context behind the code you think will have a long lifetime? As someone who works on “webcrap” as they say, I don’t think anything I contribute to will work for more than a few years.
They have now reverted to AGPL. I'm glad they didn't decide to die on that hill.

https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1#issuecom...
> Inflation is a vector NOT a real number, any asset that people care about has become generally unaffordable i.e: housing, education, healthcare.

Inflation is not the cause of unaffordability in those areas, the cause is limited supply. Using bitcoin as our currency wouldn’t make more houses, more medical professionals, or less administrative bloat in universities. However, it would probably mean a complete collapse of the economy during times like these when a central bank can intervene to stabilize things.
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Alice: Why do you have that cannon in your front yard?

Bob: To keep the tigers away.

Alice: But there are no tigers around here.

Bob: See? It works.

- - - -

It's hard to credit now, but I recall the real existential dread of the bomb. Reagan talking about the "Evil Empire". As a kid I was scared of nuclear war.

Today we still have the nukes but everybody's pretty relaxed about it. Hypersonic weapons are on the horizon (not literally, thank God) which are crazy destabilizing to the international détente. No one cares. "War is so last century."? "Space Force"!? We're not out of the woods yet.

The hippies were right: peace and love are the answers.
I mean this honestly, and not as a snide comment: is this even news, or surprising one iota to anyone?

Maybe it's interesting to post this in order to further raise people's awareness about the lack of "right to repair" of Apple hardware, but I'm pretty sure if they found a way to patent a screw, and then prosecute those making screwdrivers for it, they 100% would
By far the most expensive component of a nuclear warhead is the enriched uranium, which is much easier to recycle into a new warhead than make from scratch.

Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. government spent at least $9.49 trillion in present-day terms[5] on nuclear weapons, including platforms development (aircraft, rockets and facilities), command and control, maintenance, waste management and administrative costs. Saving ~8 trillion was very much a viable option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_...

By comparison China built about 600 warheads since 1964 which was a significant deterrent for the US. The US on the other hand built ~70,000.

PS: The Minuteman-III was in service from 1970 to now, it’s scheduled to be retire in 2030. While bombers where replaced ICBM’s where hardly a quickly outdated weapon.
Forget this 2% business. How does it do in snowy conditions at night? Because in some places, that's around 12.5%.
So what operating system do you use? Unix is 50. Windows is 35. Linux (even if it is Unix) is 30. I can't think of any commercially viable operating system that has been released in the past 20 years.
I wouldn't accept anyone's PR with explicit Thread usage in them. You should either use some high-level construct like CompletableFuture or a concurrent data structure instead.
> In fact, the 'further behind' the quicker growth should be. Most of the 'very poor' nations of the world today are growing very quickly.

That's exactly my point. Apply "per capita" to China several decades ago, it does not translate to its status today. It started with 1978 reform [1], per capita would eventually catch up.

> 'Russia Version X' has always been quite far behind ...

That's hand wavy, I can apply same rhetoric to Japan and some periods of China. In parallel universe USSR took required reforms and PRC didn't. Russian Empire had fourth GDP in the world, that's not Morocco, that's economy of Japan or Germany plus pool of cheap labor and natural resources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
Joke's on you; I don't need this. At work I still frequently use a winXP box to compile stuff.

But, impressive and awesome :)
Which is why Apple introduced this kind of thing - to try and limit or block malware and viruses, etc.

This is simply part of the many layers used to prevent viruses and malware from getting onto the system.

Back in the days of PPC macs didn’t get viruses (because why bother? :) )
bitcoin cash is the real bitcoin, but ethereum is gonna take the throne
It's ironic considering a good chunk of the world outside of the US doesn't recognize public domain. :D

To be more specific. Public domain is intended to mean "after copyrights have expired". It is not a sort of license that can be put on a creation.
I was not expecting Paint to actually save my file, let alone paint. Bravo.
But "knowing when you can relax" is the dangerous part. That's what makes humans unsuitable for monitoring something that goes right 99% of the time. Tesla's can swerve into an obstacle or oncoming traffic at any moment, it only happens maybe once per 100.000 driving hours, but at that moment the human behind the wheel is probably in the relax mode and completely incapable of taking over.

That's not just theory, the article describes there have been 3 serious accidents already with "self driving" Teslas that crashed while being monitored by the driver.
For me, writing code has became like making a sandcastle. I sure put a lot of time and effort in it, but I never try to preserve it. It's pointless. What I preserve is the lessons I learned while building it, and applying them to build a better sandcastle next time.
Customers don't know all competitors in a space like you do. A company might need a solution and only research a couple of days. I think it's not a matter of better marketing, just different marketing. In my industry niche some companies have fixed pricing per month, some per usage, some per seat, some target < 100 USD customers, some have only a free tier and the first paid tier is already 250 USD. There's no one pricing strategy that captures every customer. I have customers that only work with me because we're based in Europe (different data protection legislation), not related to anything in the product or pricing itself.
Not only that "noon" isn't necessarily when the sun is above your head as we have timezones, but solar noon isn't at the same point in the day throughout the year. You could be dead center in the time zone but the sun will be up to 16 minutes ahead or behind your time depending on the date.

For more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time
I haven't used PHP is a professional project for probably 10 years, aside from needing to poke around in Wordpress occasionally. When I see modern PHP, I barely recognize it.
Closer to 12:30 or slightly later on average, I think. But since it's a range at least an hour wide it's more like: the middle of the day/night will be as close to 12:00 as possible, but no earlier, anywhere the timezone reasonably fits.
So you like writing functions that take 3 functions as input parameters and returns a new function that also takes a function as an input parameter and returns another function? In general excessive use of this at great depth leads to code that is not only less readable but less modular.

The complexity of higher order functions can easily be reasoned about by looking at the cardinality of the type. Sum types and product types are standard and easy to reason about.

However an exponential type that takes in an exponential type and returns another exponential type leads to cardinalities and possibilities that are much harder to reason about.

Composition of combinators is a pattern promoted by point free programming that leads not only to higher readability but greater modularity due to the reduced cardinality. Additionally cardinality of the entire type can he reduced to only analyzing the the final result of the composition.

F = A . B . C

The cardinality of F is all that needs to be known. The cardinality of the individual components can be ignored and you don't have to reason about this. This is not the case for higher order functions.

In general business problems that we deal with do not Require higher order functions. Higher order functions share isomorphisms with two concepts we are already familiar with: frameworks and metaprogramming.

Frameworks are programs that call your code and metaprogramming is code that writes and calls code. These things are no different then a function that takes another function in as a parameter and calls it. All three concepts are aspects of the same thing.

Therefore all the downsides of metaprogramming and all the downsides of frameworks are applicable to higher order functions.

Most of the programming problems we solve in the real world do not require metaprogramming. It can easily be avoided and solved with much more composition of combinators. Again, not saying to avoid the usage completely but the usage of higher order functions like metaprogramming should be minimal and used sparingly.
In winter it's not about activities, just about the windows not being pitch black outside while you're still at work.

Sunlight coming in windows during the day improves our mood psychologically. I mean, it's the main reason we have windows at all in office buildings. (Windows are expensive and offices already have the indoor lights on anyways.)
I was around in the very early days of rust, and it was explicitly stated in many places in the docs that the trait system, ADTs, etc. were all inspired by Haskell experience. I don't think we ever mentioned OCaml or SML. The trait system in Rust has nothing whatsoever to do with SML or OCaml and everything to do with Haskell's typeclass system. So between that and ADTs, on what grounds do you think it was "heavily inspired by ML"?
On trade ins through tesla yes. They account for paid features in trade in value but then remove them and require used buyers to repurchase them.
> HP, the author of the software in question explicitly revoked the certificate

HP cannot revoke the cert. Only the CA, Apple, can revoke the cert. HP can only request that Apple revoke the cert, but there was no reason for Apple to grant this request.

See section 4.8 on certificate revocation:
https://images.apple.com/certificateauthority/pdf/Apple_Deve...
I think the primary "function" attributed to adult hippocampal neurogenesis is improved memory.

But the parent comment is unfair insofar as scientists don't randomly chose to food deprive or "vivisect" animals because they think it's intrinsically fun. Running these experiments requires a huge amount of annoying busy work that I can't imagine anyone choosing to do without being paid or having some other motive.

In particular, the reason intermittent fasting is studied is because there's a large and increasing body of research that suggests that it may be of benefit to a wide variety of health measures.
Given that (IIRC) part of the RIAA's complaint about youtube-dl was the presence of copyrighted videos in the README, I would give grave consideration to finding a new URL to serve as an example of its abilities

$ annie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Site: YouTube youtube.com
Title: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Video)

It seems there's even an issue for it: https://github.com/iawia002/annie/issues/811 but there doesn't seem to be any comment on whether the project's maintainers agree
> Back in the days of PPC macs didn’t get viruses (because why bother? :) )

This is simply not true. Not sure what your motives are.

https://lowendmac.com/2015/classic-mac-os-viruses/
I think calling an email spammer a technologist, and a technological risk-taker, is a bit much - as is the comparison to McAfee. Maybe in temperament but nowhere close in ability or accomplishment. Hawke was just a con artist with some computer skills.
You kind of have to wonder what went so terribly wrong in childhood that led to this behavior. McAfee is clearly a brilliant but very disturbed person. What a sad waste of that talent and intellect.
with this https://github.com/kkdai/youtube
I generally agree, but that is not the what a UBI is. You may be suggesting a different system that does not fit the definition of a UBI.
PHP follows a consistent philosophy as well. The PHP functions are usually named after the C functions they wrap. And in fact: The MySQL C client library contains a function called mysql_real_escape_string.

see: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/c-api/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-str...
> One of the major reasons to revoke a certificate is that the private key is compromised.

The private key was not compromised. The proof of this is that Apple un-revoked the very same certificate. The cert is valid again.
History shows that less conservative bridge culture will reduce costs at the detriment of safety.
I was on the same opinion as well. But I would like to borrow form Conway's Game of Life. The initial rules are simple, and to the untrained person, it just creates random blobs that disappear after a while. But then we have things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE
What I actually said was PHP 5 was "fine". To that I'll add the wildly controversial assertions that PHP 7 is "pretty good" and PHP 8 "looks nice".

I know that I'm supposed to have internalized that PHP Is Bad, but occasionally I have to do maintenance on a PHP project and I just can't find it within me to hate it.

> It was easier to deploy on $10 shared hosting than Perl/CGI and more capable than SSI.

Exactly. And for other folks who (unlike us) didn't use PHP at the time, the "Virtues of PHP" section of this Slack post that lists other notable reasons why people chose (and still might?) PHP: https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/
I can somewhat understand having to compile for XP (it's been 20 years but... legacy, I get it). However compiling on XP must be hell.

Do you mind me asking what you do that requires this?
huh. i kind of feel like they've already won...
I would just embrace the situation and use the opportunity get out of the Facebook ecosystem.

I did so more than a year ago, and couldn't be happier
how do I secure it?
Definitely, holds some similarities to Taking Lives: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364045/
Wow, thanks! That was a nice video. Still a beautiful plane, don't you agree?
BMW has a good middle ground, resistance increases if you go to the edge of the lane and if you almost touch the lines the wheel vibrates. That means you're still consciously steering but it's easier because the car has a tendency to follow the lanes just as any wheel has a tendency to return to center after a turn. But if you let go of the wheel it wouldn't keep a lane.
NAT Slipstreaming
Easy in theory, but not in practice. For good reasons there are very strong privacy protections in place for medical records, and significant administrative barriers. And this is not even getting into the technical / infrastructure challenges.

Maybe feasible for a VC funded company with several million dollars and >20 FTEs. Less so for an academic lab with a few grad students and postdocs being paid with pocket lint.
Nonsense.

We’re not talking about nightmare roundabouts like the “wheel of death” in my city, which are clearly not fit for purpose. We’re talking about roundabouts as an alternative to 4 way stop signs.

In a small residential roundabout there is a single lane going in a circle. Either you can safely enter the lane, or you can not. The roundabout serialises the traffic flow so that a driver entering the roundabout need only deal with the next vehicle in the lane. You don’t have to worry about the (potentially unsignalled) intent of any other drivers, make eye contact with them, time their arrival, etc.

To be honest though, I think you know all of this, and you’re simply engaging with me in bad faith.
Is it possible that it just needs calibration that is unique for item?
I am one of those people that is sensitive to the change, I always have been. I wish we just stayed on standard time year round. In the summer, the sky stays light too late and messes with my sleep. In late March and October, the sun comes up too late. I think I must be solar powered.
Create your own baby monitor (or generic sound detector) with a RPi+TensorFlow
> Perhaps a language barrier?

The two words in German are Komprimieren (compress) vs Dekomprimieren (decompress). Not much potential to mix up here.
We can provide those on request (reach out via the chat widget)
I just spent an hour on minesweeper
Also, is the diversity of metabolism found in humans taken into account? Some humans are 50kg, others are 100kg. Some are naturally skinnier, some are fatter. Surely it must have an impact on fasting rythmes too.
One thing that makes me think that is possible is Conway's Game of Life. The rules are simple, and on the face value, doesn't create anything exciting, but then we have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vgICfQawE
Looks like it uses the preflate library [1] which back-references precomp in its README:

> "precomp" is a tool which used to be able to do the bit-correct reconstruction very efficiently, but only for deflate streams that were created by the ZLIB library. (It only needed to store the three relevant ZLIB parameters to allow reconstruction.) It bailed out for anything created by 7zip, kzip, or similar tools. Of course, "precomp" also handles JPG, PNG, ZIP, GIF, PDF, MP3, etc, which makes a very nice tool, and it is open source. UPDATE The latest development version of "precomp" incorporates the "preflate" library.

so precomp used to work as you describe: it depended on having exactly the same zlib algorithm as the one that produced the original data. Now it uses preflate, which has some hybrid approach:

> for deflate streams created by ZLIB at any compression level, we want to be able to reconstruct it with only a few bytes of reconstruction information (like "precomp")

> for all other deflate streams, we want to be able to reconstruct them with reconstruction information that is not much larger than "reflate"

> "reflate" can reconstruct any deflate stream (also 7zip, kzip, etc), but it is only close to perfect for streams that were created by ZLIB, compression level 9. All lower compression levels of ZLIB require increasing reconstruction info, the further from level 9, the bigger the required reconstruction data. "reflate" only handles deflate streams, and is not open source. As far as I know, it is also part of PowerArchiver.

I'd be curious to learn a little more about the "reconstruction information" but I don't see a write-up. So far I'm not quite curious enough to dig through preflate's source code.

[1] https://github.com/deus-libri/preflate
> HP revoked its own signing certs rendering their existing signed code invalid. That it took them days to re-sign and published fixed binaries is HP’s fault not Apple’s

No, HP requested that Apple revoke the cert. Inexplicably, Apple complied with this unusual request. Apple later un-revoked the cert after Mac users started reporting problems.
I might actually need it for projects locked into its unique cheap look.
Assuming the project specified the license as AGPL, the contributions would be under AGPL as well.

Note that the project currently doesn't state any license (there's no license.md). No idea if there was a license specified before when the contributions were made.