skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not everything I need to know. It doesn't explain why a bitcoin is worth $25,000 rather than being worth, say, $5. None of this seems to boil down to any sort of fundamentals, and I'm not even sure what it is anymore. What's the purpose of a bitcoin?

Bitcoin used to be an alternative currency that was anonymous, but with a current $7 transaction fee it's clearly not going to be used as a currency to buy a morning coffee (i.e. it fails the transferability requirement of a currency). It's also not useful to a merchant to lower the transaction fee and wait a day for your coffee payment to clear compared to other payment methods.

It's entire value is predicated on the idea that it's value will go up, with no clear use-case for what a bitcoin will do in the future. The more bitcoin goes up in value, the higher the transaction fees and the less useful it is as a currency.

So I guess the question is, what's the purpose of a bitcoin?

Is the purpose just to become more valuable because of its scarcity with no utility?
Not foot?
I feel like I do more for open source by not contributing - given my staggering incompetence, I'd only make things worse.
RTS games are fairly unique in that you always know you could be doing things slightly faster, constantly. Yes, you can make a big mistake that loses you the game (like losing a queen badly in chess), but often if you just did your macro tasks a little faster you would have won, or scouted every 30 seconds instead of 35. The article touches on this in respect to APM.
During the 2016 US Election, undecided voters were targeted and bombarded with negative Clinton (much of which was false) and pro trump political ads. Studies show that this played a significant role in DJT's victory, and that Russia had a hand in it.

If Facebook did not allow such deep personalized ad targeting then this strategy would not have been effective.

Look into: Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Just watched his interview with Lex, inspiring engineer
Is there a Godwin’s Law for discussions eventually leading to LotR topics?
Sharing video content is not an issue per se anymore. The cost of bandwith is when you become even remotely popular.
if you ask for next page of results, with parameters like offset=20&limit=10, then you, as a client, can try to reason and manipulate those parameters. Ask for multiple pages in parallel, ask for offset=18 etc. Make calculations on those parameters.
If you only providing a token, like "next_page=abcdef1234" with some encoded structure, you're limiting your client in what it can actually do, but simultaneously simplify backend architecture and make it more forward compatible with future changes in backend (after all, that next_page token can actually be just an offset and limit encoded)
Deregulate the environment and you will be drinking polluted water, and breathing polluted air. Your food will be likely exposed to pollution too.

Deregulate labor and you'll have exploited workers working 100 hours per week, being constantly harassed by their employers, people being discriminated at the workplace, as well as people exposed to poor safety conditions where they can get injured or killed.

Deregulate consumer rights and now anyone can scam you and sell you something that doesn't work with no right to a refund.

Deregulate restaurants and now noone is liable if you end up with food poisoining or die from allergies due to poor hygiene and bad practices.

And the list goes on and on. Regulations are not bad. Excessive regulations are bad. The opposite excess, no regulations, is equally bad.
Ok cool so the questions for the regulators are:

Would you rather have something that works at best at 75% or something that works at 67%?

Are there any risks in giving a smaller dose to the older cohorts (besides maybe smaller efficiency?)
I dont even remember how many facebook accounts and domains i burned for legit business. Working in the FB environment always feels like a hack because i know its going to break. Soon.
Maybe

WHERE NOT EXIST (SELECT ...)

can help?
That's one of these moments in life where you see tech and you know it will change the world, but don't see the problem yet.
How I would explain Transformers to my past self
I'm not sure I get this. You can be pretty sure the platform on which your js package is installed has a js runtime. But it might not have shell or make (eg: windows). If you have specific needs and no ambition for being cross-platform ; sure, go ahead and use rc, batch, shell scripts.

And no, just staying with js isn't enough to be cross platform - but you'll be closer.

I don't see why a package would have a backdoor in install, but not run - or not in the package code itself?
>What I don't like about this quote is that it pretends you just have to choose between all these attractive and worthwhile goals and that the choosing is the difficult part.

For sure, however it is better to have tried and experienced than not have. I have tried and failed at picking many of those figs, and it is worth it, the good and bad. Don't stand there, give yourself a time, and then chose freely.
I'm in the same position. No advice yet. I've been trying to figure out why I want a meaningful career/job so much (rather than being satisfied with cushy) but no insights yet.
Deliberate accounting negligence to force other parties to cover the bill.
> there was an X64 version of XP but I didn’t realize there was also an IA64 version of XP

:) It may be forgotten now, but all the infrastructure Microsoft added for running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS was first added for Itanium's sake!
> Non-Boolean logics are rare, and relations more general than partial order are almost never useful.

That's a bold claim! In set theory, a relation is just some set of pairs made from some base set of elements. I guess the sentence should say "orderings more exotic than the partial order" instead or something, to be more specific.

For example, if I'm implementing a Sokoban engine, I might define a "step" relation on game states, informally saying that two game states are "step"-related if you can get from one state to the other in a single move. From another perspective, this is just an implicit definition of the edges in a large or infinite graph of game states. That's because the concept of a set-theoretic relation is in a sense isomorphic to the concept of a graph-theoretic edge set: A relation is a subset of the possible pairs of elements, just like an edge set is a subset of the possible pairs of vertices. And just like a relation can be symmetric ("for all a,b, if a is related to b, then b is related to a"), so can an edge set be symmetric or undirected.
I agree with everything here.
The learning curve is too steep for RTS in general: it is not clear how to improve. It’s also not fun that there is no mechanism to cap APM. I’ve also always dreaded starting 1v1 due to the mental stress. I get the same playing Go. I really wish there were more competitive 2v2 or more.

Anyone here remembers natural selection I and II? They were hybrid RTS/FPS where a single player would play an RTS game and other players would play units. I felt like there was something to be explored more there...

Also one thing that always created great space control were front lines: total commander has that, and capture the flag (I remember league of legends having a “dominion” mode that was really fun). I also remember an RTS where you could occupy buildings.
> “Sadly, they are not the same company as a few years ago when they passionately stood up to Russia and Putin.”

They're still the same company. The difference is simply that Russia is an "evil enemy" while Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest allies and arms importers of the US, even though it's doing far more "evil" things if you truly use objective standards of "human rights" or whatnot. Simply how politics works, full of hypocrisy and double standards, as always.
Offer them better pay to care.
Issues of Ethics in Philosophy of History
ah i see so some kind of tradeoff between power to the API consumer vs power to the API maintainer. thank you!

i don't see anyone arguing for "next_page=abcdef1234". realistically it's more like "cursor=abcdef1234&limit=10". slightly less opaque. still your point about asking for multiple pages in parallel still stands.

i think i agree with mostly everyone here in that this is a fine tradeoff to make and so would favor cursors over offsets. (unclear how cursors relate to "keysets")
gotcha, thank you!
The mRNA vaccines can’t be produced quickly enough.
> you've reinvented something not unlike X-as-it-originally was

Sounds good to me. Technology advances by the continued reinvention of the wheel, that offers new opportunities for simplification and improvement at each iteration.
Yes, and my guess is that there is more money to be made off of deregulation than on regulation. Thus, more corruption related to the party that wants to deregulate.
"What If You Could Do It All Over?" - well without the benefit of hindsight it would be exactly the same of course. Free will exists up to the time we make a choice, but that is just the weighing up of the situation. The choice itself is inevitable.

When we release a dice from our hand it could land on any face, but the face it lands on isn't truly random, it is just too hard to establish the factors which caused it. So with our choices.

A sure belief that my choices right or wrong were all I could do at the time has saved me from endless doubt and speculation. The only choices I can make are today.

I saw the film About Time recently which is based on this whole idea of going back and doing it differently - with hindsight. Whilst it was quite enjoyable, the inconsistencies caused by the idea just shouted out throughout. Life isn't and can't be like that.
> Nintendo actual devices use microkernel based designs

That's very interesting, can you provide a source?
Well I read how foobar2000 dev (Peter) developed his apps on Windows Phone. He said it was so annoying compared to other two major mobile platform and he was considering to refund the crowdsourced money which comes from pledging Windows Phone.
I think they are trying to imply that refueling a starship in orbit is worth it, whatever the cost - it gives a capability we didn't have before.
Why Do We Yawn and Why Is It Contagious?
Yes, there is a thing that almost guarantees things in the future will materialize, it’s called a contract. People and businesses have been dealing in futures for centuries. For instance, Italian banks have special vaults for Parmigiano Reggiano taken as collateral. If some of their customers didn’t have access to these tools they probably would’ve gone out of business long ago, and we’d all have lost access to great cheese.

They’re just tools, as such expected to be held the wrong way by some people.

PS: I had a lot of fun developing an accounting system for a client that needed to solve exactly this problem :)
> Sounds levels in particular will be extreme at launch (as in, deadly even outside the blast radius)

Though that's generally true, Everyday Astronaut watched the SN8 launch up "close" and reported the sound was (relatively) mild. Indeed the raptors sounded differently, with less of the violent "cracking up". There may be a bit of a surprise coming here.
I think that Supreme Commander has the best UI in the RTS world.

This is the only game where I saw things like queing tasks for all units (whole construction schemes), estimated time of finishing each task, unrestricted zoom (from map view to the single unit) and multiple minor utility functions, like patrols of engineers (that can help creating units) or "help" function for factories (queued units in one factory and the other ones helping it).

Those functions greatly reduced cognitive load and micromanagement of most task, allowing the player to focus on the grand strategy.

I really hope that next AAA RTS game will be greatly inspired by this UI.
It's funny how memory works. Human memory that is.

When I read the title of this article and thread, I thought, "This sounds a bit like that fraudulent DOS memory doubler. What was it called again, RAM Doubler?"

Oops. Thanks for setting the record straight!
Maybe but the images being in google image search are worthless as one can not get to the actual image. (even by following the link)
In my experience this only reinforces the behavior, it does nothing to quell it.
It would be standard deviations in some specific situation. Maybe in 2-3 situations. Like answering questions of a psychologist and inflating a balloon in a kind of a computer game.

Does it influence a driving style of a person? People could overcome biases, and possibly driving as a habit would be more strong than acetaminophen.

The only reason to go numeric with this study is to measure statistical significance of their findings. I'm sure they did it, but their numbers have no meaning outside of their study.
What's shocking in all of this is how they handled two conflicting potency results.

A rational person would see two conflicting measurements and then stop to figure out why they are different, and then re-run measurements to verify the results until they know why they're different and which one is wrong.

These guys just said "We'll just trust the results from OUR measurements over THEIR measurements", which is the height of arrogance and stupidity. These kinds of mistakes can have dire consequences because you're no longer testing based on how the vaccine will be used in the real world once approved. To say "Well, it worked out in the end so no harm" is also incredibly arrogant and foolish.
Requiring two factor authentication via SMS is not acceptable and should be downright illegal. I will never use it unless I have absolutely no choice.

It completely discounts all the people that ever leave one country and spend time in another, and I've been permanently banned from some apps (Tinder was one) just because they have absolutely no option, support, or recourse if you can't access your old phone number.

No, American Tech Company, I will not be quitting my job, spending 20,000$ and a month of my life on plane tickets and sitting in hotel quarantine just to get an SMS just because you it didn't occur to you that sometimes people are in a different country to the country they were in before.
I wonder if they could locate it with an antineutrino detector? Though I suspect there isn't a lot of fission happening in a radioisotope thermal generator fuel cell, and maybe the signal would be too weak. Granted, I don't really know how antineutrino detectors work (and for that matter anything nuclear seems like a weird sort of magic to me).
I'm really happy for everyone to have the toys they like :) I don't mind/care if people are excited and want to move to the M1 as long as I'm allowed to be happy on my Ryzen/nvidia machine.
Do I understand correctly that so far it's not really known which dosage is good and there has been virtually no large enough scale testing to confirm the efficacy of any dosage?
How Steven Wong Moves 80,000 Pounds of Lobster a Week
Early teens is a time when kids should focus on social activities, not be obsessed by some individualistic activity... because the most important skill they can develop at this age is their social skill. I would trade my best technical skills for better social skills (which I didn't manage to develop at this crucial age) as I can see from experience now that that's what brings you what really matters in life: good friends, success in romantic relationships, even success at work where I observe that most people who get "promoted" are the people who others like, not necessarily the best technically.
Well, she wasn't hired to cause problems and rocks people's boats. Now these hard working fellas even got bad press

May sound sarcastic but...
I think the question was about excluding columns, not rows.

I don't know any way to do that personally.
For people misled by the headline: No new issues seem to have been discovered; the article just seems to explain why some study participants received a half dose (which was already reported and actually turned out to likely be _more_ effective than the full dose).
> By hiring a lot of employees from poorer EU countries the NHS left those places with shortages.

Not so. My sister-in-law is Filipino by birth, now a U.K. citizen, and trained as a nurse in the Philippines specifically in order to leave her old country. This is apparently a common thing, and a way for Filipino kids to support their families in ways that aren’t possible by remaining in the local economy.

> The Brexit vote was in 2016. The NHS has had plenty of time to prepare.

AFAICT, it’s a 3-4 year degree even just for nursing (and way longer for doctors). Given the U.K. academic year, students starting a degree in 2016 would’ve already chosen a course before the referendum, so the U.K. has really only had one full cycle of nurse training, while doctors are still limited by the decisions Labour made when they were last in office.

How well or badly this goes depends entirely on if the Home Office is willing to turn a blind eye to useful foreigners who may not be technically compliant with the new rules, and how good everyone else in government is at details. I’m not saying you’re doomed, but the current U.K. administration doesn’t have a good record with either of these things.
I can't say I have improved much by passively watching Eric Rosen videos on youtube but I have definitely thoroughly enjoyed it! He has a super relaxing voice and is incredibly good at explaining his thoughts while playing https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXy10-NEFGxQ3b4NVrzHw1Q
> I have self hosted trilium and used to self host matrix.

Wait, you’re self hosting multiple apps on one system, and not using K8?!? Your apps can’t autoscale or do blue/green upgrades or any of the cool stuff you are now mandated to do by the cargo cult. How do you sleep at night??

/s
War Model: Analyse the Front Yourself
The problem isn't 500 MB disk footprint, it's all the RAM memory going to waste when loading in redundant libraries. Chrome already is a memory hog on its own, imagine all applications suddenly bringing in their versions of their libraries.
Does world really work like that?
“What John says in this post about "Pinterest as a source of inbound links" is false. Pinterest uses rel="nofollow" on external links, which severs any value the links have for SEO.”

I almost didn’t read the article when I saw your comment, but I’m glad I did.

You’ve misunderstood what he said. There are two ways to parse the quote you claim is false.

1. "Pinterest as a source of inbound links [that enhance of your site’s rank on Google]"

2. "Pinterest as a source of inbound links [that delivers valuable traffic from a highly visible site like Pinterest]"

The 1st interpretation is easy to arrive at if you are reading the article with a how do I improve my rank on the SERP?, aka SEO mindset.
This interpretation cares about improving domain authority.

The 2nd interpretation comes from a growth marketing mindset. Essentially, it seeks to answer a different question: how do I grow my referral traffic using well-placed pins on a high traffic site like Pinterest? This interpretation doesn’t care about domain authority, it cares about delivering more referral traffic to your website, increasing the likelihood of some of them converting into paying customers.

The article was clearly about the 2nd as is clearly evident from the last sentence of the section where the quote was lifted from:

“So, getting good at Pinterest doesn’t just help improve your Pinterest referral traffic, it can also improve your traffic from places like Google!”

This was an excellent article!
While it's obviously easier to change something you built yourself I wouldn't attribute this factor to productive-in-this-codebase alone. I've seen tons of cases where taking in a senior developer to the team in just weeks outrun the juniors who's been in the code base for years. You can pair program to keep everybody on same level but let go of that and guess what, same developers as before will take the lead again.

Pairing, documenting the system, keeping everybody up to date and involved in decisions is obviously still important but i really don't buy the claim that this is what constitutes these differences alone.

There are these gurus who know how know how to hook up all kinds of debuggers, cross-compilers, IDE, profilers, fuzzers and packet sniffers which can jump into any other teams unknown module and in just a day or two kill of bugs they have been struggling with for weeks. I've seen this happen over and over again. These guys know how to systematically break down a problem, find the external dependencies, google-fu how to set up a dev-environment, create a minimum isolated test case for it, and get to the bottom of the problem, regardless if it's Java, Python, Node, C++, their own codebase or someone elses. In bigger systems they know how to build a mental model of all the microservice relations and database tables.

On the other extreme end of the spectrum you have the trial-and-error developer who will happily add a dependency to your database inside the otherwise stateless math-module. This difference has absolutely nothing to do with productive-in-this-codebase.

You could also stretch the original definition to say productive-in-X also includes any past experience with surrounding external dependencies. Such as linux, the programming language, its libraries and ecosystem. Those years of experience can't easily be shared with others, as the article explains.
token based pagination is how infinity scrolling pages are implemented. It definitely has usability problems, but beyond a certain scale offset based pagination is not viable from a performance point of view, especially if users are given option to chose sorting order.
Wow, that's surely one of the most amazing feats of human achievement I've ever witnessed - incredible!
How to recover lost Bitcoin to scammers
How to recover lost Bitcoin to scammers.
Interestingly that’s my biggest issue with dota2, and with ssb (I thought the first ssb64 was amazing because it was pure skill, after that it’s just a mess)
I second that. I have not followed the news about the Gremlin-to-SPARQL (or SPARQL-to-Cypher) bridge. But afaiu, making your graph system Gremlin-compatible is a first step in the right direction. (And yes, doing that on top of a SQL backend sounds not that natural).
This is so true. I had a college mate who was truly useless with academics - struggling with pretty much all the courses and math gave him nightmares. (But he did have the determination to retry until he passed).

Yet he could disassemble your computer, your motor-bike, your car, diagnose and fix any problem - all within a couple of hours. It was really fun to watch him work. This was sadly before the youtube era. Today, I would have taken videos of him doing this. It was amazing how he knew precisely where every part was and how smooth he was de-assembling and assembling. A mechanical savant. He always used to nail the practicals - welding, foundry, etc.