skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yes I noticed that too. Have you also noticed that BTC itself also sort of tracks general market sentiment (irl I mean). Lots of dumb money around.
Argentina at the time had an official rate that was 4 to 1 the black market rate. If I used the official methods I'd be paying the contractor 25% of what I promised. In the US, this is not a large issue, but there are many countries where the gov't can manipulate their currency and exchange rates.
I can tell with certainty is that I was never ever under such pressure regarding my programming ability. I was never close to being fired and I seen only one company where people were often close to being fired due to temporary slip.

Even under pressure, programmers don't really get to have hard to reach targets else they will be fired.
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Thanks man! There's a lot of use cases for a platform like this, so we're focusing our efforts on user researchers but we agree that it can be (and already has been) used in very interesting and different ways.

We've already seen people use it for large-scale needs assessments, school curriculum co-creation, office Christmas party planning, startup problem statement creation, pizza company market research and more :)
What if those people had more to lose by pulling out than pretending nothing happened as long as the 51% attacker does not abuse it "too much"?
On a personal level I to have no need or want of cryptocurrencies, but the stated benefits are not for first world, white, city dwellers with ready access to the existing monetary system.

- Someone lives somewhere that the U.S refuses to bank with (Sanctions)

- Someone who lives somewhere that simply has no financial infrastructure readily accessible and relies on prepaid cards for things like water and electricity (Rural Africa?)

- Some industries are forbidden to use the majority of credit card processing facilities without excess fee's (Adult content for example)

These are examples where one could build processes around something like Ethereum, with the understanding that you are primarily just adding another input to the existing system but with the trade-offs being more access and lower fees but also less protections and greater risk.
A government can do a lot of things, and if you have Mao in command.

However, if you want to have a somewhat modern society taking away basic things like internet and power is very difficult. You can maybe to that for some individuals, but doing it for all is very tricky.

The argument that, its not 100% possible to prevent all ways for a government to do something, then you should do it at all, is a terrible argument.
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Is my browser bad or is there a reason whitespace is missing even from Expanded view?

Is it because the programs are supposed to fit into tweets?
(Yet another way good ideas get crippled by Twitter?)
I've heard of Ethereum "distributed apps". Is that different than currency, what is a use case for a distributed app?
iMiniMac sounds better i think ;)
It follows in a weird way: Processes requires more effort to communicate so you are less likely to send things across processes and when you do it is because it is worth it. You are also likely to batch the communication and then go off and compute.

All of the above improve performance. Nothing about it requires processes though, you can get the same results with threads if you take just as much care.

However processes do add one more thing: you can scale to multiple physical computers in ways threads can't.
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Honestly, the selling point is it is a demonstration of global consensus. whether that is useful as a service is debatable I suppose.
I've tried to setup the open source version of pol.is but never succeeded, so I think there is a definite market there for you.

I'd encourage you to write some case study blog posts about the analysis tools on offer, their blog posts about on topic was the most interesting thing about pol.is for me; their principle components analysis stuff with all the graphs and stuff.
Advice: if you don't understand, never invest.

About your other points: I see no benefit whatsoever in investing my own time trying to teach you about cryptocurrencies.

Think about it as a secret. Act as it doesn't exist and both our lives will be better.
Cell connectivity has been available on laptops for a while, but it's rarely actually present (IME) because the OEMs overcharge for it, and tethering plans exist for phones, so why pay twice?
Crypto is easy to transfer and keep and has more lasting value in countries that are facing hyperinflation, often moreso than USD. This particularly applies to Venezuela, which is exerting extra pressures and taxes in foreign currencies.
One of the consequences in the UK at least of having two parents working meant more money could be spent on housing costs, thus house prices increased, and then you had to have 2 people working decent jobs to provide the same lifestyle a generation before did with 1 person. This would have been offset by the extra money to be spent on childcare, but that was given large tax benefits.
> I.e. the ability to send "money" between people who do not trust each other digitally;

How does a cryptocurrency actually solve the lack of trust?

From the few things I do understand, I think it doesn't at all.

I think this article by Bruce Schneier is interesting:
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...

> with secrecy/privacy in manner which cannot be taken away by states/governments/banks etc.

I don't have a need for that kind of secrecy. I understand the Silk Roads of the world would like it though. But that doesn't sell cryptocurrencies to me.

If you need to hide stuff from the government, there are bigger problems that cryptocurrencies can't solve, as I can tell.
I'm surprised this is news. Here in europe you can work 32 hours if you wanted to, but you make 20% less money. Would you work one day less for 20% of your base salary?

In terms of reward, this is like a 25% raise. Imagine getting a raise of 25%.

I'm interested how much the raises the past ten years were. Is this a big thing, or is this an overdue raise for the past ten years.

Will they compensate the lost labor with new hires? If not, you could also see it as Unilever firing 20% of its workforce, and it could indicate something has gone wrong with their business (I know, corona is probably the cause, but what if it is something else).

Initiatives to work smarter sound promotional. It sure sounds better than 'our sales people have nothing to do during corona'.

Overall, I would be happy to have more free time.
Did it fall apart or was demolished?
> the ability to send "money" between people who do not trust each other digitally

How is this solved with crypto? I bought a few things with crypto that they were never delivered, so I got scammed. Yes, crypto helps the part receiving money, not the part sending money. This is not a solution, it's just moving the problem to the other side.
>I can do all these things already.

While I understand why you are confused you must understand that many people can't do what you can do and it's not guaranteed you will be able to do it in the future either. Just look at the situation in Venezuela for example. Even in SE Asia loads of people are still unbanked with no way of changing that.
A 51% staker who attempted to reverse transactions on ETH2 would be automatically penalized by the destruction of their stake. The network would keep running and the end result would be a large sudden deflation of ETH. On PoW this would be like an attacker's mining rig burning down.

A 51% staker who just censored transactions could hold out longer. If the problem were severe, the community would have to decide whether they want to manually fork off the attacker. The equivalent for PoW would be changing the hash function.

Gaining 51% can be more expensive to do on PoS than on PoW. If 10% of the tokens are staked, you need to accrue another 10% of the total market cap. On PoW, if the annual inflation rate is 2%, the hardware is good for two years, and half the mining cost is electricity, then the total value of mining equipment is only 2% of the market cap, and that's how much you'll have to spend to get 51%. (If miners are rentable, then much less for a brief attack.)
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I have similar feelings about the move away from native apps that others have about the move away from the “open web”: I like being able to control the update cycle of the applications I use and not accept new features I don’t like.
> Tokamaks have already made net fusion power.

Nope. The record for Q is .67 set by JET in 1997. The whole justification for ITER is that it would be able to do Q > 1.

Why do you think that net power has been achieved?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
I am 100% enthused about programming thanks to Logo. My first buzz, when I told the computer to make a circle. I'll never forget the awe I had, that I could tell the computer what to do. I guess some of us are born for this life.
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@qchris, thanks for your comment. I agree Medium is a bit of a pain for math. Equations cutout are not too bad in my opinion, they are mostly time consuming to make. Looking at the final result I do not see how readability is affected. I would say that inline math is the worst and may in this case affect readability.

The information in the Jupiter notebook is different than the one in the article; actually I find math in Jupiter Notebooks also not nice and readable, apart from the occasional equations here and there... for a full calculation it is not the best, even though some extensions help.
Most people have multiple devices that can act as hosts for content, and if their friends and the people who view it also serve it, that should scale pretty cleanly.
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Isn't the job of spy agency who only works on foreign soil to spread propaganda and to gather support for their respective county?

Obama is the top US figure and it's not shocking at all he was trying to get support from allies. It's also not shocking that allies support was boosted when they heard Obama was on board with whatever the issue was.

What does HN think the CIA job is? TBH I don't see anything here that is shocking and I bet almost all of the countries are doing the same exact thing. Wether it be the US's war in Afghanistan, China in the South China Sea or their Road and Belt projects, or even support for Brexit.
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And, unlike an F-35A, Arecibo has (sigh, _had_) a history of accomplishing its design goals.

RIP.
You might appreciate https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ (doesn’t help far future readers except when archived on Wayback or similar though).
This again.

I've been using Macs for 20 years (and Linux for 20, and Windows for 30). There's no evidence I can see that Apple is going to move the Mac away from being a general-purpose computer. People LOOOOOVE to say they will, though.
It's a good point but I would suspect that the timestamp being prefix is no accident. If your IDs were sortable in the past it's probably a good a idea to keep them sortable. And since tweets more often than not refer to tweets in the same time range or are paginated together with tweets in the same time range (roughly) having time as a prefix has other advantages
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No, as far as I understood the time between blocks in a PoS chain is basically just a timer (e.g. 10 seconds). There is no need to adjust that dynamically because there is no "race" to solve a problem. I guess it is even more predictable if it is not dynamically adjusted.
I'm also doing this, big time.. Between a full-time job, building a new home, renovating another and having a wife and kid, there's not any "me" time until past wife+kids bedtime.

I only get energy from being alone and doing stuff on my computer, so I trade sleep for time every night.
So that there's only one network connection delivering all the messages to apps, instead of 1,548 SSE/WS/XHR/GET(!) connections all ricocheting around and timing out and getting reconnected and sending 200MB of pings every minute.
It’s digital money. You buy things with it.
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This is really well written and helps make plain something that can get pretty dicey quite quickly. The main thing I would spotlight to new companies looking to add sales people: make their comp exactyl the same and use a formula (this one is pretty good) to structure the comp. It is easy to find yourself in a position where an attractive candidate is wanting to negotiate for a little more salary or better accelerator...resist the urge. Stick to the formula. You can find a good candidate eventually.
My favorite graffiti is in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY (transported from Egypt). British soldiers in Egypt to fight Napoleon, acting like naughty teenagers and carving their names.
Thus, a new problem is born. Governments regulate what securities people can buy or exchanges simply deny you services. then you're back to your former problem. Most people participating are doing so with fiat on-ramps.
You can see that the top of each tower has come off, so none of them are standing as tall as they were. Still, sure, it looks like a serene picture apart from the dust in the air.

Comparison before/after pic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoJsJl0XUAI3XfT?format=jpg&name=...
Didn't realize it was a family name until now. Part of me thought Charles Schultz invented a silly name for Snoopy's infatuation with driving the ice resurfacing machine.
I see, thanks for your explanations :).
That's the other thing I hate about Python, the concept of "Pythonic". It's literally the only language I have ever used where people will tell me my arguments are wrong because of (for lack of better words) a code of ethics.

Please don't take this as an insult, but I don't care what's Pythonic. I care what the community does, and they default to failing fast (to a fault, in my own opinion).
Just to be clear, these reasons are:

- To commit a crime

- Not a real use case (If someone has no access to normal financial infrastructure, including Venmo and similar, how would they ever use crypto)

- To avoid processing fees by paying higher fees?
What makes you have suicidal ideation?
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Great explanation. One interesting aspect of PoS is that attackers really only have 1 shot, and will get slashed or lose their assets. In PoW, you in theory can keep attacking again and again.
There are developers with biases for/against most major tech companies, Apple is no different. Developers tend to be extremely opinionated about stuff they use (e.g. vi vs. emacs) and aren't afraid to voice that opinion. HN is a good place to do that because usually there is good signal to noise ratio in the discussions.

Apple is a company that uses emotion when describing their products. I think this tends to bring out stronger opinions than a tech company like Google. People's perception of companies isn't going to be rational.

What is your end goal with proving/disproving a bias regarding Apple on HN?

I think what is more interesting is exploring the root cause for some of these biases - sometimes there is history of a person strongly disliking Microsoft so their perception of Apple is based in that. Sometimes someone really dislikes closed source/eco-system and prefers open-ness and tinker-ability.
People have said a lot to you already, and your only response has been "big words, what about average citizen, don't understand."

I think it's time to just say it, Ethereum is not for you and is never going to be, you seem to have an agenda in thinking it's a useless waste of time.

Ethereum is a decentralized commerce and application network. And no, you simply cannot do that with anything else but cryptocurrency. It has hefty aspirations to remove currency control from government entities and banks, but its unlikely that will ever happen.
What are your frame drop issues on your iMac 2017?
I can do all these things already.

You're absolutely right, but just like you can send a letter in the mail, email does the same thing but is digitally native to the internet.

Up until the invention of Bitcoin, there was ZERO scalable way for me @joeblau to send you @louwrentius money the way I send an email. By that, I mean the only thing I need to rely on is a protocol (like SMTP) and you'll receive it.

What problem / which problems are being solved here?

The problem is that money (paper money/currency) is not the only thing that has value which human beings transfer among each other. We share music, art, poetry, equity in companies, ideas, code, etc. What Ethereum does is take the idea of "Digital trustless money transfer" and expands it to "Digital trustless value transfer"

I don't understand what this means. What does this do for real-life applications?

Let's say I own TSLA stock and I want to sell it to you. I can't, without going through a middle-person. I need to send my shares to a brokerage (they take cuts and fees and do insider trading crap that they disguise as legal) then you buy the shares from then.

If it's mine, why can't I just transfer the shares straight to you for the listed price (Currently $567.60)? Because there is no platform digital trustless value transfer that will ensure that we both get what we want: Me getting the money, and you getting the shares.
How many thousands of grams of tritium are transported and stored onsite to supply the reactor? You should be a little worried.
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> While it's a far-out idea and rejected by the scientific community

Those are fun reads, but they always disappoint in the end.
Maybe it's the specific word, "power plant," that qualifies the claim.
Iran is using btc to settle international trade transactions[1]. Using a gold backed coupon for settling trade has been talked about for a really long time by a bunch of people. If you're confused why people are speculating about crypto they might know something you don't. The rewiring of the global economy off of the USD _is_ coming, the USD introduces counter-party risk (albiet small for most people) and if btc can avoid that its an improvement.

1 https://news.bitcoin.com/iran-bitcoin-sanctions-inflation/#:....
Although I do harbor an iota of skepticism of states and banks, enough to entertain the idea that cryptocurrencies could possibly maybe a-little-bit a point, the general public does not at all. I feel like the biggest thing standing in the way of cryptocurrencies is that the general public (not just me) needs a reason to use them other than “You don’t really trust banks to store your money, do you?”
It depends on what definition of inflation/deflation you use.

Some people, Austrians define any change in the amount of base currency as inflation/deflation. This is the traditional definition.

However the normal everyday usage of inflation/deflation talks about the 'General Price Level', usually measured with things like GDP Deflator, or CPI. Some way of trying to measure the general price level. All of those measures are imperfect.

By the first definition, both Bitcoin and ETH are inflationary but only slightly so.

By the second definition it is very hard to say because we don't really have a way to measure it.
Hi, here is most simple explanation what it does:

Simple solution for illegal/semi-legal activities. Think some goods, money laundering (try to transfer money to North Korea, Iran) even to your relative.

Also, there are some privacy minded individuals as well who would like to pay for things like VPN, domains, servers who don't want to get their account tied to theirs credit card.

Speaking of Ethereum, think of it like digital money + some js function which can be executed on demand. It allows you to make scams like bitconnect. In other words casino / gambling. Really hard to do legally but very easy to deploy casino function to Ethereum. Those markets are huge.
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Yes, in addition to the atomics and memory ordering primitives added in the C++11 standard [1], I find the Boost lock-free structures quite reasonable [2]. (Yes, I'm aware some have an automatic aversion to Boost. But it is well-designed and I believe is a header-only library.)

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic

[2] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_74_0/doc/html/lockfree.html
The problem with the "knowledge economy" is nobody knows how to measure it. If you sit there making 600 dohickys in a 40 hour week, and reduce hours to 32 hours, and you make more than 480, your productivity has increased. If you make 300, it's gone down.

If you work a 6 hour day or 10 hour day instead of an 8 hour day, do you have more or less output as a developer? If you're a sysadmin, what's more productive, the admin who automates everything and sits there on call in case something breaks, but otherwise watching TV or riding a bike, or the person who spends weeks doing repetitive work which looks busy but leads to a far worse outcome?
Yes they can, its logistics issue.
> Why would anyone risk investigating genetic differences in medicine, when the payoff is an accusation of racism by well-meaning but uneducated laymen?

You are replying in a thread that above has a link to a great deal of race-specific research done on just Covid-19. There is a large amount of race-specific medicinal research. There is a huge amount of scientific research into medical and sociological factors that pertain to race. You will find it in seconds if you Google for it. Many standard heart-health guides will factor in your ethnicity.

To suggest there isn’t, and there’s some kind of conspiracy is just a form of tired “race realism” bullshit. Just more suggesting that “if we let the facts speak” we’d find some races are superior to others.

People are maladapted to live almost everywhere, which is why we wear warm clothes and sun protection. This whole thing is a racist trope to give cover to the idea that people of colour don’t “belong” in places.
I guess it depends on what you mean by cataclysmic scenarios. I can’t imagine many cataclysmic scenarios with working electricity and internet, to say nothing of mass-produced phones/personal computers.