skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is indeed for a tax dodge, what's funny is that the US Government helped fund Google. Or, more accurately, they funded the research into the seemingly esoteric problem that became Google;

> In 1995, one of the first and most promising MDDS grants went to a computer-science research team at Stanford University with a decade-long history of working with NSF and DARPA grants. The primary objective of this grant was “query optimization of very complex queries that are described using the ‘query flocks’ approach.” A second grant—the DARPA-NSF grant most closely associated with Google’s origin—was part of a coordinated effort to build a massive digital library using the internet as its backbone. Both grants funded research by two graduate students who were making rapid advances in web-page ranking, as well as tracking (and making sense of) user queries: future Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

> The research by Brin and Page under these grants became the heart of Google: people using search functions to find precisely what they wanted inside a very large data set. The intelligence community, however, saw a slightly different benefit in their research: Could the network be organized so efficiently that individual users could be uniquely identified and tracked?

Not to mention In-Q-Tel's investment into one of their key products, Google Maps via Keyhole. And DARPA's Grand Challenge that led to the Stanley car that was acquired and scaled up to make Google's automated car division.

Google has done an admirable job of taking Government sponsored R&D and maturing it into products. They deserve their success. But, in my opinion, the systemic lack of reinvestment into the pipeline that created them and their most successful products is equivalent to sawing off the branch that they're sitting on.

The US Govt couldn't have invented the iPhone or Google's search engine, but they did fund the first Integrated Circuits, the first IC-based computer, the internet, GPS, discrete problems in computer science involving searching large amounts of data, display technologies, battery technologies, MEMS sensors etc etc.
Yeah, I can see how the desire to pour over extra 00's on your bank statement would warrant a move out of the US.

That being said, it makes no sense to sit on that money unless he plans to use to benefit the people of Cyprus

Edit: As others have pointed out...for someone with such legal resources at their disposal, why the need for citizenship when he could simply apply for an investors visa at a much lower cost?
Almost nothing about the technology itself. Some juicy quotes from the author:

> [...] and the far-right actors who gave birth to the ideas of cryptocurrency and blockchain in the first place. Repeating these claims only helps to promote their values, the values of those with the deepest vested interest in the “revolutionary” aspects of blockchain, the vast majority of whom span the ideological spectrum from the moderately far right to outright Nazis.

> David Gerard writes that “they are small computer programs. In conventional IT jargon, these are called ‘database triggers’ or ‘stored procedures,’ and they are considered bad software engineering that should only be used when you absolutely have to.”

> It may seem improbable at first glance to think that there might be connections between the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and white supremacy. Yet the more you examine the question the clearer and more disturbing the links get. (from another article)

I leave you to decide whether the article is worth reading...
Many who were even pro-bitcoin like Peter Thiel gave up on the idea that it is a good platform for transactions, and instead argue that it is like "digital gold." A wildly volatile digital gold, of course, given that it has no other uses beyond speculation.

But you are correct. It is bad at transactions but not incapable of them. Just as it is bad at storing value. As for being a unit of account that seems more theoretical, but in theory anything could be a unit of account.
I think they must not be cooking it correctly. I've had the Beyond Burger patties and ground meat. If you only warm it up some of the "gristle" feels like plastic bits. Yuck. If you low and slow cook it, seems like it integrates better

And salt and spices help too, I feel they purposely under season it
Similarly, I use vsvim. I like vim, it’s much more responsive, but setting up vscode to work with debuggers and external tools is so much more streamlined. I do desktop, web and embedded development and have never spent more than half an hour setting everything up. This isn’t true for vim.
A visa is in fact very different from citizenship in many ways. For example but not limited to: judicial protection, extradition privileges, voting rights, travel rights in other member states, social security, diplomatic protection in other countries, ...
I thought it had something to do with the day they changed their prices by changing the names - what was a short became a 'tall', and the tall became a 'venti'. Essentially charging more for each size (charging the tall price for what used to be a short) etc.
I've got a Brother MFC L2710DW that both Linux and ChromeOS print to without any trouble at all. Newer Chromebooks with the Google Playstore also give you access to the Brother Print & Scan app, which also works.
FYI not just any citizenship.

On top of the obvious tax benefits in Cyprus, the country is also member state of the EU since 2004.

That means 'Citizenship of the European Union', that includes the ability to travel to anywhere in the EU (visa free), the Ability to reside anywhere in the EU, hell Schmidt could even run for public office in any EU local governments municipal elections if he so wishes.
I bought an HP-branded keyboard in Best Buy a number of years ago, and it was the best small form factor bluetooth keyboard I've ever used to date. Sadly, it was lost, and they don't sell it anymore.
Examples? Can't name a lot of prime ministers that left and came back.
Hard to argue with the lack of meaningful blockchain projects outside of cryptocurrency even though untold billions were invested.
> Any amount of community transmission will eventually lead to an out of control epidemic, unfortunately.

The countries mentioned have had community transmission, but they use contact tracing, testing, and shutdowns to stop it.
The build vs buy question should definitely never go one way or another dogmatically, it's context-specific. Buy for parity, build for competitive advantage. Only within the context of the business can you decide.
I think it's safe to assume that someone at Starlink has crunched the numbers and thinks they can make a profit from fully-utilized satellites. I doubt "what if there's too many customers?" is a problem Starlink is worried about; if that happens, they're raking in money hand over fist and they can afford to launch more satellites.
Just shipped 31st beta AFAIK.
Just to be clear, I am not saying that very restricted languages in some very restricted domains (such as configuration or hypertext) are not useful. I'm saying that in general purpose languages, restricting the programming language is not a generally fruitful avenue if analysis and correctness are the goal.

> For example, with a strongly normalizing lambda calculus, I can prove intentional equality for any two functions

What's the complexity of that?

> You can construct the minimal FSM with the same behavior as once you've created

The complexity of that is more than linear in the number of states, that is usually at least exponential in the size of the program.

> This means that I can prove e.g. that refactors that aren't supposed to change behavior in fact don't

But that's often the case in Turing-complete languages, too. Moreover, the easy cases are usually not harder to detect in those languages.

Any benefits can't be true in general because it is trivial to transform any program to an "effectively equivalent" FSM. A claim that could be true is that in restricted languages, many more programs people write happen to be easier to analyse than the programs they would have written to do the same thing in an unrestricted language. That's certainly a very interesting empirical claim, but it requires empirical evidence.
it's beautiful :,)
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I'll take a shot at least at refuting the claims in the first bulleted point:

"they are deliberately incompatible with the rest of the financial system"

so is the north korean won (or the venezuelan bolivar, or, on the other side of the "good faith" spectrum, the brazilian real at its inception), but you wouldn't claim that they aren't currencies.

"Most merchants who accept cryptocurrency aren’t actually accepting cryptocurrency, they’re using a service that turns it into dollars"

Arguably the same would be true for certain types of bank notes in the 19th-20th century (like 5k, 10k, notes). Still currency.

"they are provably inferior to alternative payment mechanisms."

this is basically a concession that it is a payment mechanism, if a poor one.
Plus, with extensions, it’s easily a huge vim as well.
> I'll grant you, ammonium nitrate isn't a terribly common substance to have around an apartment. I still don't think it's very compelling evidence that he was building a bomb, and weaker evidence that if he was building a bomb, it was to hurt people. Maybe he was just trying to make his own fireworks. He shouldn't be doing that in an apartment, cuz risk of accidental explosions, but it seems hasty to start painting him as a domestic terrorist.

For what it's worth, I fully agree with this. All I'm saying is, we shouldn't outright dismiss the possibility that he was building a bomb, simply because he's an open source developer.
this "crypto is bad for the environment" meme is a zombie meme.

https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...
For what it's worth, the US is outperforming several EU member states with fewer deaths per population.
>cryptocurrency is fraught with fraud

Ya know, unlike fiat markets with marketcaps 100x the entire crypto space. Those are 100% legitimate.

>literal Nazis

Nazis use currency? :O jfc Nazis drank water too. The sooner Reductio ad Hitlerum gets invoked, the sooner I stop reading.
How many people if any are actually losing internet access? The closest I've seen is people having their hosting providers drop them.
Is it really so different from the "EB-5" immigrant investor visa, which gives a citizenship path to foreigners who invest at least $1.8M in the US?
I play a lot of minecraft and GC related framerate issues are usually not a problem, but when they are a problem they can be quite annoying. You tune gc performance for your gameplay workload to a certain extent but obviously most players don't.
> So you are arguing for no more states.

Where did I argue for that? I'm arguing for the state one lives in having no impact on how much one's vote for president counts. I never said that the US should eliminate federalism and run everything directly out of DC.

> Under a popular vote we might as well disband congress.

I don't follow your logic here. Based on my reasoning, it would make sense to either make Senate representation proportional to population, or to disband the Senate altogether, but some representative legislative body obviously has to remain. The House of Representatives is just such a body.
A Theory of Universal Learning [pdf]
Yeah, it's a real mystery.

https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/cyprus-tax-for-non-re...
Privacy isn't secrecy.

That's the argument.

I prefer my conversations to be secret, not just private
You do usually find the C preprocessor where you find C, yes.
proof-of-work is supported by value of cryptocurrency, and does not something of inherent value. Contrast this with stocks, for which trading value depends on technical analysis and is slightly random, but in the end it is supported by some concrete thing.
A compromise is to use a single stage splitter PON architecture. Each ISP is provided dark fiber to the splitter and each ISP can use either splitters or WDM muxes at this flexibility point.
As far as I know, freebsd uses libxo, which allows you to use "--libxo" to choose your output format. I hope linux distros will follow that.
What on earth? Why would that matter? Does somebody lose their vegan powers if a particle of fat gets into their burger?
Same here, this makes it easy! https://github.com/VSpaceCode/VSpaceCode/
It might be worth noting that one of the authorities the author refers to, Emin Gün Sirer, has started his own cryptocurrency project, Avalanche. His critiques of the blockchain space are thus presumably a bit more nuanced that the author's own.
I find keeping a library, while a pain in the ass to move, keeps the books and their contents more fresh in my mind. Sometimes I browse the shelves and get reminded of interesting ideas or just feel compelled to pick something up again. I don't get the same from scrolling through my Kindle library for some reason.
Operators Ep 14: Keith Rabois
API vs. SDK vs. Webhooks Explained: Various Ways to Power a Headless CMS
NestJS deserves way more publicity, and this guide is actually a pretty solid step-by-step, even if we’re jumping to step 17 here.
A 13th-century guide to fraud and skulduggery
Read carefully: I'm refusing to read it unless you give me a compelling short synopsis. Why? I'm not going to read just a bunch of links that you throw at me. I want you to at least show me some indications that you have spend some effort thinking about it, especially after you've made a claim that is trivially refutable by personal experience.

If a flat-earther just gave you a wall of links, would you read it? No. You would demand at least a short synopsis of why these are compelling reads.
Yeah, HN ironically has a deep hate for any Crypto. Quite frankly a lot of HN probs missed out/dismissed BTC earlier years and now it just continues to trend up whilst the best money managers in the world/companies are adding it to their portfolio...the denial is real.

https://youtu.be/_L3gNaAVjQ4?t=8307

Describes HN comments and attitude towards next level/pushing boundaries tech.

Enjoy the sidelines.
Anyone old enough to remember what the press said in the 90s about the Internet will recognize the similarities.

The Internet is full of fraudulent websites. It's full of porn. Email isn't as warm as a hand-written letter. Communicating online isn't professional. Etc.

Guess what, all those things were true but they turned out not to matter. You can do whatever else you want in a network that also carries porn. You learn to dodge fraud. Email is freaking convenient once everybody is using it, standards of behavior change, etc.

Cryptocurrency may be something or it may not. It's in very early stages. Even those who are interested have trouble following everything that is happening. But it's not even Internet-in-the-90s. It's Internet-in-the-70s. You can be skeptical about it, you can ignore it, but I don't see why someone would spend so much of their time being opposed to it.
None of what the parent said is correct. You would be treated like any other citizen of Cyprus if you revoked your US citizenship. Besides that, Schmidt is part of the Davos zillionaire elite, the US isn't going to deny him access.
>America, the land of opportunity, is an incredible place for all cultures, and the best of its kind in the world. If you're looking for utopia, you won't find it anywhere, but this is nowhere near the hell you claim it to be. I would advise you experience what racism really is like when it's the entire nation and government like in the Middle East or even countries like Japan. Maybe that perspective would help.

Stop trying argue with strawmen. No one is saying that America is more racist than the middle east. It is in fact possible to be less racist than Saudi Arabia and still have racist elements.

The context of this discussion is about comparative racism between different segments of the American population. It has nothing to do with America's international position on the racism scale.
Why wouldn't we use them?

- FOSS, That means we don't have to pay money to be allowed to code by somebody else

- Available everywhere, even in terminals

- Low resource usage, so I have more available for the other tools I need to use (browser, chat, vm, compiler, streaming...)

- Fast, they are extremely fast at editing code, with low latency

- Easy to extend, at least Emacs is, you write a function in a file and boom, done

- Feature rich, at least for some languages like Ruby there is nothing commercial editors offer you that you don't already have, or 99% there

- No mouse needed, so my wrist does not hurt anymore.

- No spyware, seriously, why do I have to disable google anlytics in my code editor, and keep an eye out in case an update re-enables it

And the "price" you have to pay to use them? Just learn their keybindings, literally what you have to do in any code editor as each has their own, just that these two have more, and they're quite different compared to what you might already know.

Note, I've tried out many editors over the years: Visual Studio, Notepad++, Eclipse, Netbeans, Intellij and it's language specific clones like WebStorm and RubyMine, Sublime, Atom, VSCode, pure Vim, pure Emacs, and now finally Spacemacs. Only the last one managed to fit the bill for me perfectly, being feature rich, fast, and it stood out of my way when I needed to focus.

If they dissapeared over night, it might surprise you, but I would go back to Netbeans, for the same reasons, as far as I'm concerned, giving me just enough functionality and then staying out of my way when I need to do my work is what I value the most in them.

That being said, I acknowledge both Vim and Emacs have their quirks and baggage, but so do the others, and I preffer to deal with learning Vim movements compared to staring blankly at a screen until I remember where to click through menues.

My advice, use all of them, but take it seriously, dedicate x > 2 months to each one you would like to try and use them intensively, learn as much about their capabilities as possible. At the end choose what works best for you. And don't just use something because somebody else tells you (or makes fun of you because you're not on the latest trend). You are you, not them. It might not be what I would choose but why do you, or I, care?
The same as the government funding a road and the asphalt company pocketing the money and not delivering? Just standard government contract.
The same way me eating a chicken liver is different from Hannibal Lecter eating your liver.

Yes, we're both eating a liver but we're not the same kind of person.

Oligarchs travel, just like you and me. That's not what makes them oligarchs.

And where exactly do they travel that is not accessible to you and me?

I'm pretty sure that when governments ban air travel, they also ban private jet travel.
No, you could always share your code, "Open" source adds nothing to that.

"Free" software is about preventing technology lock-in. As in "I'll share with you but only if you agree to share with me."
You mean, you consider the creation of abusive monopolist as something positive?

Interesting point of view!
Did I just correctly hear you describe a patented innovation by VirNetX? Careful with that, Apple just paid half a billion dollar for it.
The issue isn’t anything to do with copying - the issue is that a string_view is a non-owning reference, and that std::string on the right side is an rvalue. Meaning that when you deref the char* in the string_view you’ll segfault or summon demons or something.
How much of a separation is there in reality though? AFAIK ISPs have continuously handed that kind of data over as a standard matter whenever the government asked and even gave the government direct taps in their network to run as they pleased.
Mariana Mazzucato's book "The Entrepreneurial State" is a good read on the matter of public funding for innovation:

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781610396134
Ironically, you're the one trying to redefine violence to mean the narrow single definition you're accustomed to.

Now you're appealing to identity and trying to claim I'm in the same camp as vegans, which is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

If you have something substantial to say, please stop teasing us.
> it's just messy to speak in ethical absolutes about unpaid labor

I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that unpaid labor where the other side is profiting is definitely bad.

> if it only applies to change requests and not the software itself.

I tried to break down why I think it is necessary to split these in the context of open source. I'll try to refine that point in the future.

> It's also messy to focus on the economic value of change requests and ignore the economic value of the software itself.

Much remains to be said about the economic value of the software itself. That's just not what I'm harping on right now.

> It's messy to be perfectly comfortable with the open source license, but later expect that any communication with the author about the software

I never said 'any.' Change requests are a very specific thing in our industry.

> should not fall under the terms of the license the author chose.

I don't get that. Why would communication with the developer fall under a software license?

Edit: I think you might mean that, because the source code was free, it's implied that the changes should be free. If so, that's exactly the norm I want to change and also why I split up the offer of source code from change requests. Getting the source code free should not imply you get changes free for reasons I laid out elsewhere in this discussion.
For anyone interested in trying SuperMemo, you can get a trial of latest version here: https://supermemo.wiki/learn
> It may come as a surprise, but you basically have to bake networking into the engine. It's not easy as an afterthought. Rust doesn't help with this. In fact, multiplayer and all its challenges have nothing to do with Rust.

I think multiplayer is an area where you'd want "fearless concurrency". Rust could do well here.
Just observing that every time this guy publishes a paper about crypto, there's a bull market.

* David Golumbia, “Cryptocurrencies Aren’t Currencies. They Aren’t Stocks, Either” (Motherboard, Aug 22, 2017)

* David Golumbia, The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism (University of Minnesota, 2016), chapter 5
The methodology is in the sentence you quoted.
I'm working in the US under a TN Visa at the moment as a Canadian citizen, and until this changes I'm never going to apply for a green card, and have been advising all my friends in similar situations to do the same.

We choose to live & work here because SV is the Mecca of software development, but that could very easily change within our lifetimes, so tying ourselves down with this ridiculous obligation for life doesn't make any sense in the long term.
Eritrea aswell.
I wouldn't recommend Debian with KDE. Debian is using an unsupported version of KDE and not one of the LTS version. Instead KDE Neon can be a good KDE experience for "muggles" (Ubuntu LTS + latest KDE stuff), because this is very much supported upstream.
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