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Bitcoin has been around for about a decade now. It didn’t take anywhere near that long for the internet, large touch screen phones, the cloud, etc. to really catch on.

And for every technological advance met with skepticism that eventually succeeded, there are orders of magnitude more that crashed and burned (e.g., the segway, 3D televisions, HD DVD, and countless others)
Seems like they knew exactly where it was going to fail.
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the cost/speed of transaction value of Bitcoin is probably overstates vs existing alternatives. The real bitcoin advantage is that bitcoin transactions require no authority's approval in order to make the transaction. Meaning you can still make the transaction even your residing country decides you are an enemy of the state. Imagine having the power to control your finances as you wish even if you are a dissident in an authoritarian regime.
> The top three derogatory terms Facebook’s automated systems removed were “white trash,” a gay slur and “cracker,” according to an internal chart obtained by The Post

Literally in the article it says that anti-white comments by blacks were the top hate speech comments made. I’d like to hear your explanation why they needed to turn off the anti-white comment filter. Seems pretty obvious that there were so many of them that they had to turn it off or risk alienating certain groups (which is also corroborated by the article). What other explanation could there be? You can't possibly believe that this was done because there were so many critical race theory students that had trouble de-constructing whiteness on Facebook which apparently is Facebook's ridiculous position.
I mostly just write my own stuff directly in CL like Runge-Kutta solvers, FFT, etc.

Here's a library I trust for linear algebra that uses BLAS and LAPACK. I haven't tried it on Windows.

https://github.com/rigetti/magicl

And of course there's always Maxima, the clone of Macsyma which was the grandfather of Mathematica:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_(software)
> Are you seriously arguing that whatever fraction of Americans are below "middle income category" should should be ok with not being able to house, feed, cloth, heat themselves

No, I'm saying that people who are below the middle income category (as that adjusts locally) often cannot reliably, securely "afford someplace relatively clean to live, feed themselves, afford heat in winter, etc.". I'm not saying that they should accept that, just that if you are advocating for a living wage, you are, in fact, advocating to move the floor up to something that fits what is commonly styled "middle class" income currently.
I don’t know anything about B2C sales, but I think Apple is good example to research for “enterprise” (up-market) level sales/marketing in B2C.

They went from 90 days away from bankruptcy to 2+ trillion B2C company in 20 years. They’re have most successful retail stores in the world and they’re always in the top of customer satisfaction.
Organized crime does maintain violent monopolies on legal goods in various times and places, but that tends to be much smaller than illegal markets.
Some Chinese frankenboards for Xeons have very crappy videocards onboard.
Wanna quickly check an article on Reuters? 548 vendors might get data about it!?
Am I the only to be shocked? Though no I'm not surprised.

Here is the list of 548 vendors I quickly scrapped from their Data Privacy consent popup (might have missed a few): https://justpaste.it/3lna1

Just open reuters.com, wait for the Consent pop-up, click the tiny "Show vendors" at the bottom and enjoy the list.
Note: my IP is in the EU, maybe you don't get the pop-up if you visit from outside the GDPR zone?

A nice and a clear reminder of how things got out of hand with the internet IMHO.
Other than the formula being public (Which again doesn't make a difference since we already roughly know it), how much wiggle room would you have in a company with 50k+ employees? Would you have any more of a wiggle room than you did before? Is the union going to argue for your personal individual salary?

I think you're inflating an issue that happens when a company is really large, to an issue with lack of union.
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Feeling glib, but passwords are hot potatoes best to avoid if you can. There are plenty of OpenID Connect providers to pass off the buck to, or an increasing number of "passwordless" options including the simple scheme of one-time codes delivered to user email addresses.
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Sagan wept.
LeCunn may not be correct, but attacking his character for be incorrect is even worse. Moralizing even scientific debate is the road to destruction.
I don’t think shareholders would be very happy to have that money spent on capex instead of paying dividends.
I must not have been clear, because you seem to have missed my point.

I don't believe that capitalism is a nebulous concept because I am not informed about it. I believe it is a nebulous concept because I have actually witnessed people in arguments using it to mean different things. Some people consider capitalism as simply a rhetorical foil to Marxism. Some people consider capitalism an economy that while capital is private, the economy may be mercantilist. Others insist that free trade is part and parcel of capitalism. Etc., etc. That's all I meant.

And there's a (not small) difference between bad faith and sarcasm. And tossing around Dunning-Krueger after one extremely shallow interaction is the height of irony.
I read an excellent article years ago (that I've sadly never been able to find again) that talked about how it would be possible to legalize all drugs by putting them into different levels. The lowest level would be things like caffeine where you can just buy it at the store with zero checks. Weed would be in the next level with alcohol where the only check is an age check (this was before legalization of weed had become mainstream in the US).

I forget the exact number of levels and where all the specific drugs landed but there would a level where you get a physical and prescription for a certain class and it requires regular check ins.

The final level would be for the hardest most addicting drugs where you could only use them in certain places under supervision of a nurse.

There would still be the people who get drugs illegally that are willing to go out side the system (same as there are kids willing to pay a premium to a homeless guy for beer) but it would destroy or greatly reduce the market for illegal drugs
I feel like many of the comments here are missing the greater point of the legalization. It seems fairly well targeted at the 200k Colombians that are employed in the production of cocaine.

These people have multiple generations that have grown up with this industry being a fantastic way to make a living. The cat and mouse game of destroying the growing fields has led to an expanded destruction of Columbia’s rain forrest.

To me this policy seems like a social policy to bring these people on the right side of the law, limit the additives, and most important have a hand in distribution.

Honestly, the point the author makes about protecting the lives of Columbians is included by necessity, but it is argued weakly. It seems that other comments seemed to have latched onto this idea.

To me, this seems like a pretty innovative policy for a Columbia.
I kept doing things I wasn’t good at. Eventually found something.
I wonder how much difference the scripting language would have made to these benchmarks if any. OP if you are up to it, I would suggest using Python, Go with Chromedp and also rod[1] next time for same tests.

[1]https://github.com/go-rod/rod
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> Prohibition in the US is when people started drinking a lot more liquor and less beer or wine

Here's a graph I found, it looks like prohibition happened at the end of a huge swing from 90% liquor in 1850 to majority beer in 1915 (with wine always a tiny slice):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/alcohol-consumption-per-p...

That doesn't have data during prohibition, consumption was obviously not zero, and I'm sure it swung towards hard stuff. But I think there are estimates, maybe 30-40% of pre-prohibition levels (with some lasting effect, but not huge, 1980 above the 1910 peak). I also believe that consumption in say 1700 was considerably higher than 1900.
> Of course Amazon isn't likely to ever do such a thing, because god forbid we don't have the ability to suddenly order something from Amazon on every device at all times.

Comically, that's actually one of the things its the worst at. I tried to do it exactly once and swore I would never do it again. In the time it takes to read the first search result, I could have found and ordered what I want from my phone. If that's what they were going for, I can't believe they didn't scrap the project.

Supposedly they're fairly good at re-ordering, but given how often Alexa mis-hears me, I'm not a fan of doing anything involving money on it.
After reading the mailing list mail in question (pending confirmation that it is authentic) I think Jeff Dean should have been well aware of the situation.

I quoted the relevant parts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25292266

Assuming Dean was aware, this civil discussion should have happened either in the meeting described, or shortly thereafter. So far we only know her story on this meeting, but that story sure makes it sound like there was no discussion to be had.
> Were they trying to prepare you for a world without paper or computers

Yes, most high schools spend a few months teaching “trigonometry” as a system for simplifying formulas that was primarily useful historically to save time for human calculators working with pen/paper and a printed lookup table. In the modern world this is entirely anachronistic and the content could be profitably compressed down to a couple weeks, with the saved time spent on something else. The main remaining utility is as rather cumbersome, unpleasant, and unenlightening algebra practice.
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It's not like PVC pipes are perfect either.
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I don't know if I agree with that. Like take the example of a country whose currency collapses due to government mismanagement and its people decide that they would be better off with a cryptocurrency. I'm not sure how realistic this is, but it's at least a scenario that I see proposed from time to time. Those citizens face a trade-off when deciding between Bitcoin and Bitcoin2. Bitcoin has a lot of active miners, which is valuable, as it means their future transactions will be more secure. But Bitcoin is also very expensive, and difficult to acquire. Joining the bitcoin economy is entering into a game where other players (bitcoin early adopters) have a huge head start, and these newcomers have nothing. If they instead start a new chain, they will need to bring their own compute power, but will have an opportunity to have a meaningful share of the tokens, and therefore some amount of influence on steering the currency.

It's probably unlikely that an enfranchised bitcoin user would be incentivized to jump to a newborn chain, but I don't think it's the case that a new user is always incentivized to adopt the existing chain. As the price of bitcoin increases, and the remaining coins to be issued decreases, a new chain becomes more attractive for new users.
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I can surely understand how that can be the case. I just don't see why that would be specifically relevant to generally working on Google Brain.
Not OP and YMMV but I really like my team and the engineering/research challenges we face are interesting.

I read the infamous "stay the fk away from Amazon" (https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3ce0s8/dear_amazon...) before I was hired and the author's experience is completely misaligned with mine.
Thank you, so happy to see reasonable people here. The crowd jumping into defending her on twitter makes me sad for humanity.
I don't know what industry you are in or what kind of data your users entrust in you, but "just get a copy of prod" is not an idea that would EVER fly in any organisation I have worked in. Developers do not get access to production customers' financial records, medical data or PII, ever.
Intelligence is pattern recognition, and the ability to understand and process complex ideas. Many other things inform decision making - emotion, tribal allegiance, ego, paranoia, perspective, etc. And so, a more intelligent person can definitely come to a worse conclusion. And can even do so selectively: they may come to an excellent conclusion on one topic, and a foolish conclusion on another.
I can assure you that still is how many high-end web apps are built today.

Just delivered one last month with plenty of T-SQL code in it.
> My impression is that Amazon responds to customer requests to solve specific problems and they make a decent effort to continuously improve the performance and other aspects of their services.

I get that, but I would have thought it would make more sense to approach TimescaleDB for a licensing deal. That way, right from day one they get a mature product with incredible features and performance. And they'd win developer mindshare by supporting OSS.
Different cryptocurrencies are not fungible. New altcoins don't increase the supply of Bitcoin. It's not like they siphon much demand from Bitcoin either. Someone discovering a huge new source of Platinum doesn't fundamentally effect supply/demand of gold.
If you are such a wonderful, caring employer what difference would it make if your employees were unionised? I think that part of the problem here is that the history of unions and union busting in the US appears to be one of corruption on both sides; but this is not a necessary or inevitable feature of unionisation.
I am arguing that the speed is a delusion and the reason why people love it so much. It seems very attractive to design things super fast since you have instant control in the same context as HTML, but I question the maintainability, readability and most importantly - design unity that breaks apart in this way of developing things. Especially, if there already exists a great solution - Sass.

I am not sold.
Whether the drug war should end, whether that would be a good thing for columbia, is a different question. Whether the US will allow the war to end, whether the international community will permit columbia to make those changes, must be determined first. No country live in a vacuum, especially countries so reliant on commodity exports.
I always think it's funny when people use large planes as a reference for heavy weights, since they're designed to be as light as possible for the volume.
In this thread: Far too many people seeing human rights as a dangerous slippery slope.
How can this be with Tether existing? Does anyone really honestly think that USDT is legit?
> You don't need to take on higher risk for a higher return

The lower the risk of an instrument, the more it will be saturated with investors, the more thinly per-investor share of profit will be spread. Therefore there is no such thing as "low risk, high returns", unless it is a scam. There is no unexploited profit opportunity that is risk free, if one thinks they have found one, they must have just missed accounting for the hidden risks.
> I think the problem with the prohibition was that alcohol was widely used already and regarded as ok by most of the general public

Cocaine and marijuana are widely used. Whether they're okay depends a lot on your circles, but generally marijuana use is tracking towards "deemed okay" as well.

> As a counter example there are plenty of countries where alcohol has been prohibited for a much longer time and they certainly have a lot less people with alcohol problems than the US.

They also have a lot less people :)
There are way to fight back. If you choose to. Convenience usually comes first it seems.
Comparing JS frameworks and libraries was always a hurdle to me - its hard to find an unbiased up-to-date side by side comparison of the libraries one needs.
Tons of blog posts and surveys come out every year trying to answer questions like "What framework to use in 2021", "Redux vs Recoil", etc. But all of them tend to have the same shortcomings:
- biased
- limited number of metrics and data sources
- become outdated very fast
- usually consider only 2-3 libraries

I wanted to create a tool that solves that problem

I quickly realised I need to solve the following problems/questions:
1. Moderated list of libraries vs automatic non-moderated (e.g. from Github, NPM).
I didn't want to limit users in what libraries they can compare. At the same time I wanted to provide data from different platforms (npm, Github, Google Trends, etc.), the more different data sources the better. I couldn't come up with a solution how, for example, to map every npm package to every data source. Therefore I decided to have a moderated list of libraries and configure data sources for every library manually.

2. Scale nicely in both directions - horizontally (supported libraries) and vertically (charts and data sources).
It was a pure technical problem and quite easy to solve - I created a configuration file where I configure charts and data sources for every library

3. Shareable comparisons.
Selected apps are saved as url query parameters.

4. Find the right data sources for charts/diagrams.
Sometimes it's easy to find the right api and use it, sometimes not.
For example, I wanted to add a "Release frequency" (number of releases per year) chart. I thought it's easy to do and I just need to use Github api for that. Turned out not all js libraries provide release history data via Github api (not sure why). Then I had an idea of using jsdelivr.com data, but they don't have release dates.
Finally I found an npm api which probably provides the needed data for all the packages, but it can take ~1Mb per package...

5. Do not abuse data sources and avoid "Service Unavailable" kind of problems.
Currently every api call is cached for 24 hours (though it seems to not work the way I expect. Need to dive deeper here)

Ideas for the next charts:
- build size (raw/minified/gzipped)
- contributors
- real usage of libraries (share of sites that use the library)
- vacancies per technology
- salaries per technology
- licenses
- use of stateofjs survey

TechStack: Vercel, Vue, Tailwind, Fauna (database)

Request for comments/questions
Right now I'm keen to know if https://jsdiff.dev is something that can be interesting to others and worth building.
What metrics users need the most.
Any questions, comments and suggestions are very welcome and valuable.
But probably only the worst would actually sell to kids.

Dealers are not all fucked up devils trying to lure people into total submission.

This type surely exist, but I never met one. (but I also never was into hard drugs)
The purpose of the poverty line isn’t to demarcate who is poor and who is not.

It’s purpose is to establish a level at which poverty is 100% ensured.

Being below the poverty line means you are certainly poor. Being slightly above the poverty line means you are very probably poor.
Probably depends where you shop. At the more expensive, bougie, "socially-conscious" grocery stores in the US, this is pretty normal or even encouraged. Whole Foods is the most prominent example of the kind of store I'm thinking of.
> There isn’t a mechanism or support to DELETE or UPDATE existing data. The only way to remove data is to drop the entire table.

This largely accords with my experience with DynamoDB (a few years ago) as well - sql-class data management tooling was just missing.
> Isn't Columbia already the de facto global supplier of cocaine? Not of just the American market, but the... global ~~supplier~~ market.

I'm not a drug expert, but I seem to recall island nations of S. East Asia being a large exporter of cocaine, too. It was on one of those drug Vice series.

Specifically coming from the 'golden triangle.' I'm not savvy enough to know if it was all just synthetic versions of it or simply product from Columbia that is re-packaged/cut for the Asian Market.

Personally speaking, I dislike all amphetamines but some people are equally as addicted to caffeine as they are to cocaine, I've worked in 2 Industries where both are consumed in large quantities on a daily basis. Which is why I personally want nothing to do with them, but if consenting adults are willing to take on the responsibility and we get one step closer to ending all of the cronyist BS that comes from the drug war than I hope it happens.

Especially if it gives subsistence farmers in Columbia a cash crop they can increase their standard of living from and sell in open market trades rather than in some clandestine cartel operation.
Citrix has made a whole thing out of speeding up this scenario. It's a big part of why customers still use their software despite their other numerous failings.
Very interesting - some US examples that come to mind are Chime, Current, and Petal, all sporting the same modern "sleek" design.

Was the Robinhood debit card the first mainstream card for this? I distinctly recall my friends and I thinking it looked cool, and we wanted it just for how it looked.

Though I guess it's always been about the status - thinking back to the American Express Centurion card. It seems like modern cards are shifting from signaling wealth (old metal cards) to hipness (new sleek cards).
Regarding monitors, OLEDs have a much faster response compared to LCDs. See this [1] for an example. As of why keyboard scanning has become so abysmally slow, it's beyond me. You'd think that this would be a solved problem even for cheap wired keyboards.

[1] https://youtu.be/x9n8Hz_RLqw
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The difference is that cocaine use is only really harmful to the user whereas murder obviously involves a third party.

You also have to consider the impact of the policies themselves. Cocaine prohibition may reduce cocaine addiction but it also creates legal issues for cocaine users that are often more harmful than the drug itself in addition to creating the space for a criminal blackmarket to exist and thrive. On the other hand, murder prohibition reduces the number of murders and is generally considered to be worthwhile.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, because wasting network bandwith for going through needless data on the client is such a clever idea.
> There are APUs in the Ryzen series, they perform worse, but everything is a trade off, you can’t have your cake and eat it.

From what I've seen, the APUs perform pretty similar to the CPUs they're derived from. The thing is the APUs are the last thing AMD releases, and the model numbers are confusing, and Zen2 APUs aren't widely available. Zen+ quad core isn't very exciting anymore, but it's the APU you can buy at retail in the US.
Look at the insanity we are descending to...
Now if only someone made a 34” ultra wide with 120Hz+. In particular one with 5120 x 2160 resolution. Maybe in 2022 at the rate high hertz monitors are coming for non-gaming uses...