skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree... but, unfortunately, I suspect this is because of who currently holds cultural and institutional power, not because of anything inherent in the religions or ideologies in question. (There probably exist enclaves even today where religion is dominant, wherein literal holier-than-thou shaming of the less-than-totally-devout acts similarly to today's shaming by SJWs.)

Maybe someone will design a religion or ideology that would be resistant to being used for that kind of thing even if it becomes dominant. The fact that "tolerance" is such a central idea in social justice stuff, and yet here we are today, is evidence against this being possible... but I dunno, maybe there's an approach that would work. (Flying Spaghetti Monster? Some have said that humor—beyond "mocking the enemy"—is a good antidote to fanaticism.)
Long winded but appropriately so given the technical nature of the article.
These literally just contain the compiled assembly and are usually used on, for example, the 4k demoscene.

There are plenty of 1k demos too, on Windows and otherwise:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=1k
Show HN: TXTMODE – Turn small files to text and back
From my understanding, insolate-endogenous D production has the potential to deliver up to several 100k IU in a day and is self-limiting, under optimal conditions, irrespective of ionizing radiation potential. On balance, most people tend to produce only around 1k IU/day incidentally. 2k IU/day from all sources is a typical upper advisory number (not a UL) for average individuals.

Ultimately, personalized recommendation that considers microcalcification deposition potential could determine the proper amount for a given patient.
If every employee knew what all other employees earn, what their training is, what their workload is and what degree of productivity they have, as well as the return on investment generated by their own labor force.

And, what this would mean in comparison with other employers (i.e. comparative salaries, etc), we could think about whether we can speak of an (ideal) free market. To do so, the possibilities to change the company as well as the actual profession would have to be transparent and open.

In addition, most theories on the free market also assume rational actors. Which has been sufficiently refuted as a model of reality.

But even this would not be the problem if the basic assumptions above were fulfilled. But in most cases they are not. I do not know what the colleague next to me earns. I don't know how much ROI my employer gets with my work performance and I certainly don't have the chance to get analogous data to other companies in the market. In addition, as an employee I am also very much tied to the local area due to family situations and therefore cannot act like capital on the free market worldwide.

All in all, in this "game" of the employee is always the weaker market participant - which is why, for example, there are facilities and institutions in consumer markets that protect the consumer, because there is an imbalance in information.

For this reason there is (at least in Germany) state intervention in the employee market just as there are trade unions or works councils. There are analogous instruments in many markets worldwide - to create a counterweight to the imbalance of information and power.
Thank you, I'm surprised it didn't mention anything about all employee stock options being voided...
So, I believe you're thinking about this in the classic sense of security, transactions, and decentralizations. It's actually better to think of Ethereum as an ATM that replaces bank tellers - i.e. a fundamental technology shift.

Forget about decentralization/transactions for a second and let's take an example of your company transitioning your 401k to another plan. Think of all the people moving this money, all the legal process that it has to go through, all the find print that must be followed, etc. There's a TON of work to move a 401k and the process typically takes months. What if I told you that you could transfer your 401k plan, without the additional overhead of people, and you could do it in seconds? That's Ethereum.

Let's take another example of buying a house. If you've ever gone through this process it takes months to finish, theres tons of middlemen (bank loan process, approval, selling the loan, lawyers to secure the property, real estate agents, etc). What if I told you that you could buy a house, without this overhead, in seconds? That's Ethereum.

The bottom line is our current financial system is based on an army of lawyers, middlemen, banks etc. and large transactions take time and money to solve. With a concept like Ethereum you just don't need any of that, you can transfer large amounts of value instantly and you don't need this army of people.

It is frankly the difference between horses and cars. It's a technological shift that makes previously impossible actions possible.
In your example, that middle-person verifies that what you are purporting to sell, TSLA stock, is in fact TSLA stock. They provide value by way of quality assurance and recourse if fraud is involved.

How can I be sure what you're selling me is in fact what you say it is? And if it's not, what recourse do I have?

If I buy something directly from another person on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, I'm not going to pay full retail price, even if the item is unused, because I'm giving up any form of recourse if the item is defective that I would have received had I purchased directly from the manufacturer.
That's funny, Bruce Schneier has written something on that topic.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...
Japan did aggressive contact tracing (which people actually respect) and there is already a mask wearing culture - people already wore facemasks when feeling ill. In the US there was a plan to send free cloth facemasks to every household that was stopped because it could "cause too much panic".

Americans bring up examples of countries with 10X the discipline, like America would have an infection rate closer to Japan if we _had not_ locked down.

It's fucking ridiculous.
I must say the new build scripts on GitHub work really well now. Our Lab build is built via these scripts. It's also on vcpkg as well if you use that.
How to have a peaceful world.
> Heidelberg [...] not a lot of variation in the patients' ethnicity

You'd be surprised. There might not be a lot of black people but Heidelberg is a university town and rather diverse. 27% are ethnic minorities, though only maybe 1% are black (4% Asian, 4% Russian/CIS, 3% southern Europe, 3% Turkey, 2% US-American, 2% Latin American, 2% Polish, 2% ex-Yugoslav)
Honest question, what are the propaganda agencies for Germany, UK, Rusia and China?
Of course, what's actually not good for you is having to work twelve hours a day. Leisure time isn't the problem.
> in a few years

Pure speculation: I suspect that Apple will support x86 longer than it supported PPC.

Why? The macOS platform is "older" now and more popular than when PPC was around. There's more old applications laying around, unmaintained. Also, don't forget that "windows compatibility" was a huge Mac selling point when they switched to x86.

So, I suspect a minimum of 8 years support, but possibly indefinitely if Windows can't make the jump to ARM. Again, pure speculation, but what will be the deciding factor is if x86 virtualization on ARM Mac ever becomes a thing. (And I hope it does!)
Source: https://github.com/c9fe/txtmode

I use this to send myself source code and zips on email, which sometimes blocks such attachments but not when "texted"
> Crypto isn’t going to do anything for global warming

Actually this is a pretty good example of a problem that quadratic funding has a good chance of helping with. It's really hard to coordinate all nations on Earth but not actually that hard to coordinate people from all over the Earth. https://wtfisqf.com/
Then I don't understand this keen interest in crypto by Americans and Europeans.

I think this is not why there is such a hype around cryptocurrencies.
Aren't you misrepresenting this situation quite a bit? When it comes to business you are always on the hook for your own mistakes. If your company engaged in a risky business model then as the owner you are personally bearing that risk.

There is nothing dishonest about asking Apple about its future business plans and following Apple's rules. If you base your entire business on skirting rules then don't come crying when they are suddenly being enforced. It's on you to make your business work.
Forget about the developing world.

I'm an American living in Europe. My money is in the US banking system and in crypto.

There's no easy way for me to "Venmo" money to my friends here, I'd have to use an international bank transfer which would take over a week and cost high fees.

But with my friends in crypto: I can just transfer them Dai. It takes about 15 seconds and costs less than a dollar (and will get cheaper with things like Eth2)
Bitcoin wastes an obscene amount of energy for a theoretical maximum of seven transactions per second globally. How is that even remotely scalable?
A bias towards 'vectors must be points' crops in as an unwritten legacy axiom, leading to a broken correspondence with Group theory (which again cannot be turned around, discrete symmetries compose into continuous ones, but not the other way around). A further restriction to the unfortunately very symmetric 3D Euclidean space hides many of the problems with that approach. (for example only in this space the even subalgebra is shared, and bivectors are self-dual).

Consider for example R_(2,0,1) in both scenarios.

Using Geometric Product as Group Composition

e1 = reflection w.r.t. x=0 axis
e2 = reflection w.r.t. y=0 axis
e12 = reflection w.r.t. y=0 axis followed by reflection w.r.t. x=0 axis
= 180 rotation around origin.

Using Anti-Geometric Product as Group Composition

e1 = not a group element, because anti-norm is zero.
e2 = not a group element, because anti-norm is zero.
e12 = not a group element, because anti-norm is zero.

So to get the same behavior you need the following elements when using the Anti-Geometric product as composition

e02 = reflection w.r.t. x=0 axis
e01 = reflection w.r.t. y=0 axis
e0 = reflection w.r.t. y=0 axis followed by reflection w.r.t. x=0 axis
= 180 rotation around origin.

So choosing the geometric anti-product as group composition operator is possible, but imho breaks the readability of your transformations completely.

All I can say is that I hope that those linked articles do not give people an excuse to not consider the model in which vectors, grade-1 elements, are reflections. This is the true half of the picture that is new and being missed.
Patreon to make Linux to work on Apple M1 chips
There's a limit to the power of deep pockets in court, especially if the remedy is not $billions. Many civil cases spend more time on damages than they do the actual dispute at hand.
A self-hosted RSS setup
Why am I paying fees if there's no middle-person?
Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses
C# 9 Cheat Sheet with code example and pros and cons
python is the front end, a language that most Technical Artists use and know well. If you look at the core libraries behind this you will see some really good modern C++, including other libraries such as OpenImageIO, OpenColourIO OpenSubDiv etc all of which are C++ (including SIMD and CUDA routes for most).
So the point is moot, you can't have a simple 1k C example.
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"In the long term this will lead to novel types of assets, and make ownership extremely liquid. Imagine using your phone to buy shares in a recording artist you just discovered, and selling those shares when they win a grammy."

I'm sorry but I really totally fail to see what is appealing about this future hellscape where literally every aspect of our lives is transacted, monetised and profitable.
What is good about this? Why is this something to aim for?
What are you bringing to the table? Money? Domain expertise? A long list of people who already agreed to buy your product as soon as it becomes available? A working business that is already generating revenue, but needs automation to handle more customers?
Now route your Ethereum node through the Tor network
Very educational.

I take exception with the common assertion that 'code is broken' if it doesn't work everywhere for every architecture. Code deployed for a particular purpose on a particular machine with a particular toolchain can work great and be 'correct' for that environment. I work in such environments all the time. And taking the time/performance hit seeking ill-conceived perfection wastes the clients time and money.

But for the vast majority of cloud-deployed or open-source prjects, its certainly wise to err on the side of 'perfect'.
Homebrew 2.6.0
LA County Supervisor dines restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining
Because tens of thousands of devs working on other platforms would be able to rent a Mac for half an hour, build their cross-platform framework code as an XCode project, and then submit to the App Store, without ever touching a Mac, testing on a Mac, and so on.

At least this puts a barrier to entry.
Building a Multi-Region Serverless App with AWS AppSync
"For this project, I’m using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), since it allows me to define my infrastructure in JavaScript, and because it comes with some abstractions that AWS CloudFormation (CFN) doesn’t bring. These abstractions remove much of the boilerplate YAML code I would otherwise have to write myself."

https://iamondemand.com/blog/building-a-multi-region-serverless-app-with-aws-appsync/
> I hope more people get it.

I really didn't.

Why should I care about any this?

How can you explain this to an average person in the street?
Tried stimulants?
It's way out off my budget.
> The most significant changes since 2.5.0 are macOS Big Sur support on Intel, brew commands replacing all brew cask commands, the beginnings of macOS M1/Apple Silicon/ARM support and API deprecations.
That is part of the museum experience :-)
I don't see how this fixes it at all?

Are you suggesting they do their own things in the morning instead? They would still be sleep deprived, plus the issue is that they actually would have trouble forcing themselves to go to bed earlier as they procrastinate.
Let's start by killing crypto-coin, which is basically global-warming-as-money...
I get paid in stablecoins on Ethereum.

Then, I deposit them in lending protocols like Aave to earn ~6% interest.

Would you say that I'm using them for their original intended purpose?
- I imagine that some HN users are not from USA or Europe.

- A lot of them are very into get-rich-quick-by-"disruption".

- A lot of them are complexity fetishists.
Ah 10 hours a month limit.
Oh how I got yelled at for being online for 2 hours one night.
What makes you think that Apple selected this business? Don't you think it's more likely that this business simply reduced it's risk exposure by asking Apple what it's plans for Macs in data centers are? Apple is making the rules, not some third party company that is following them.
> Well, one of the popular uses of Ethereum is gambling,

You are really selling this to me...
The difference is that the sale also depend in the customer. It’s like firing the programmer because a failed integration when he never got any docs or anyone answered any questions about the remote system.
> Yes you've endured some volatility in price

Not if you use stablecoins like Dai :)
Quit - different job.

Its a management/company culture thing.

Burn out, find something healthy. The fact that most wont since they need the money tells us how nasty this is.
Author here! Happy to answer any questions about this post.

I still work with Samantha about once per year for a tune-up. Coincidentally, she edited the article I'm planning to publish later this week.

Trivia: I submitted this article to HN when I originally wrote it[0], but I was still pretty new to this community and didn't realize how clickbaity the original title came across. I changed the title a year later and resubmitted,[1] but it didn't get any traction then either, so I figured it wasn't up HN's alley. I just changed the title this weekend because I realized it was doing well in search queries for the term "blog editor,"[2] and I wanted to make it obvious that the post explained how to repeat my process, so I guess the new title made a difference.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14847499

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724508

[2] https://twitter.com/deliberatecoder/status/13337813383405936...
The BBC has turned quite a spin in the sub-headline:

"Many young Chinese workers prioritise leisure time over sleep after long work days – even though they know it’s unhealthy."

It's clear even from this formulation that what's really been prioritised (and really unhealthy) is the long work day.
Eventually Proof of Work WILL kill Bitcoin - but I have to admit this may be decades out in the future.

Right now, most of the mining is financed via inflation. But as this comes to an end, eventually, the cost of mining will be borne by anyone making transactions on the network through tx fees.

Somebody has to pay the electricity bill on all these ASICs.

EDIT: One could try to argue that high transaction costs are not a problem because nobody wants to trade bitcoin, people just hodl it. Cool. But if that's what people will do, then the money raised through transaction fees will not be enough to support a sufficient hash rate to protect the network.

I wrote about all this two years ago already: https://www.konstantinschubert.com/2018/11/28/proof-of-stake...
Anedocte: after I gave up folling recomendations from doctors that were happy after I just got from 17 to barely 25, I kept taking vitamin D and I'm aiming at 50. Asthma, severe allergic reactions (due to auto-immune), overall better hormone levels...
> The required amount is greater than 2/3 (67%)

I'm not sure that's correct (the tweet doesn't get into any details so I went to ethereum's website https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms...)

> The threat of a 51% attack still exists in proof-of-stake but it's even more risky for the attackers. To do so, you'd need to control 51% of the staked ETH. Not only is this a lot of money but it would probably cause ETH's value to drop. There's very little incentive to destroy the value of a currency you have a majority stake in. There are stronger incentives to keep the network secure and healthy.

The keypoint seems to be that if your attack fails your stake gets destroyed so besides the positive incentives (a good stable network working for all) this system also relies on punishing failed attacks.
wow man. Get a life. This is such a dramatic reaction. Is this hurting you somehow?
Spacehey.com blog functionality is pretty good
The "hard part" being crunching the numbers and working to falsify your hypotheses, not lockdowns in this context.
I'm glad you asked this!

I generally give these business systems the name of "interactive information systems." That's exactly primarily what I work on as well (and I imagine what most people work on, but not all of course).

Maybe counterintuitively, this kind of system is what brought me to math. I kept hearing things like "oh this is just a CRUD app" and it's a solved problem - yet we were opening 50 bug tickets per week (and that's not an exaggeration, we have a large application, and we measure our bug intake and report on it every sprint).

So the first place where math can help with this is at the source - the data! I know not everyone is using a relational database, but the relational model of data is firmly based on math. Learning more about set theory explicitly has improved my interactions with our relational DB immensely.

In my experience, I was taught data access through ORMs. Honestly, the relational model is so much simpler and more elegant. I read somewhere that Edgar Codd used to express relational queries using only predicate logic notation, and I imagine that that would be so much simpler than SQL, and certainly more simpler than bloated ORM code.

On the query front, we like to treat the database as an implementation detail, but I find that this is not practical. Practically, lots of domain logic has to live in queries. I have had 2 bugs recently where a query itself was not returning the right data. Improving my formal reasoning via sets and predicate logic has improved my querying immensely.
The multimillion dollar audits for $100k of corruption makes perfect sense to me.

The goal isn't financial but cultural. You don't want a corrupt culture. At the time you've hit billions of dollars of corruption, it's like termites hollowing out your house structure or COVID19 shutting down your country for 9 months. If killing those first few termites costs THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS or you were spending A MILLION DOLLARS for each COVID19 case coming into your country to definitely get it under control, it's a bargain.
You will get more time once your children grow up, which will in hindsight happen much faster than you think.
Not that my situation is anywhere near as dire as a worker on the 996 plan in China, but I do a similar tradeoff. During work I also help the kids get through their school day, so my workday gets a bit longer, then after that I have my own schooling in the evening, and then there's no time left. So I steal it from sleep time or else I get nothing at all.

Can't tell you how much I look forward to 1) being done with OMSCS, and 2) the pandemic ending and the kids going back to in-person school. Never going to complain about teacher salaries again (not that I really ever did, but still...)
Yeah, but so does cash in the physical world. We shouldn't abolish cash tho.

Just because something can be used for "bad" doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. The internet also could be considered an enabler for sites like Silk Road, but its not gona get shut down for that reason.

So... the follow up question is, "Are there any good use cases?"

Yes, the biggest that comes to mind is it allows people who may be doing nothing wrong a payment system that cant be stoped. For example, someone of X religion could still make purchases in a society where religious freedom isn't allowed by its governing body.

May not be a concern for you today, but having the option for it is 100% I will support.
Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2020?
I found rajesh-s' thread [1] from last year to be an extremely valuable resource for knowledge and entertainment. I'd love to see a 2020 version (especially given explosion in popularity of podcasts this year).

Some of my favourites I've listened to this year have been Dan Carlin's Hardcode History "Blueprint for Armageddon" series, Freakonomics Radio "Does Advertising Actually Work?" (very recent!) and The Blindboy Podcast "Graham Norton". Enjoyed some episodes from the Darknet Diaries and the Indie Hackers too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027315
>To trust a cryptocurrency, you must trust the algorithm that runs it. It's fully auditable and predictable.

What happens when Ethereum 2 inevitably hits a security bug, much like the ones Ethereum 1 hit that led to the DAO hack/theft (some might say... worked exactly as coded)?
100% agree.

I come from a country with strong currency controls, US/EU sanctions, no access to international credit cards or money, and an almost 1000% inflation rate. No one cares about crypto currencies, everyone wants hard cash US Dollars, money you can actually use on the streets and hold in your hands. You don't want money that adds another layer of indirection and confusion that you somehow need to trust will get you groceries next time you go to the shops.