skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hopefully China will keep advancing science, while the West goes into another dark age due to its religions.

.. given this and the uighur thing, they certainly do seem to have a knack for atheist eugenics. Opium of the masses and the inevitable march of dialectical materialism, amirite?
Interesting read, thanks!
Regarding generating missing ids (quote from the blogpost: "If you know how one would generate the missing ids between the gaps (which could be of variable size)":
I don't have access to snowflake instance, but the following works in Postgres (if I understood the problem correctly):

with lead as (
select id, lead(id, 1) over (order by id) as lead_by_one
from gaps_table),
gaps as (
select id + 1 as start_gap,
lead_by_one - 1 as end_gap
from lead where lead_by_one - id > 1)
select generate_series(start_gap, end_gap) as missing_ids from gaps

So if Snowflake has a generating function similar to generate_series, it should do the trick.
Hasn't panned out that way for Tether... So far...
Working on the Neuralink Robot
>I could name names of friends who, in response, insisted on "people > property", "fuck the racist capitalist system"

How many of those friends are elected or appointed public officials?

And what political power/social clout does Ariel Atkins[0] have? Especially given that over 100 arrests were made and as the mayor of Chicago said[0]:

"This is not legitimate First Amendment-protected speech. … This was straight-up felony, criminal conduct"

So some of your friends and an "activist" made incendiary comments.

No one with any real power or media reach condoned or encouraged violence during the BLM protests. Not one.

If a bunch of randos mouthing off is a huge problem, how much of a problem do you consider the statements encouraging violence by some folks with real power and media reach[1][2][3][4]?

[0] https://www.wbez.org/stories/winning-has-come-through-revolt...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz-zWeqtVo8&feature=youtu.be

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/02/gop-r...

[3] https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/die-for-something-arizo...

[4] https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/461498-why-are-we-t...
You're not protecting from uncertainty with a currency whose value fluctuates against the dollar by 10% daily on a regular basis.
If it flashes to $1000 an ounce, you're not going to want to trade your silver for dollars, you're going to be too busy trying to empty your bank account to trade your dollars for anything.
Programming the anatomy of the classic arcade high score table
These 3 issues basically.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...

As Jackson is used in Spring, you can assume most banks, big corporations, etc. use it. So, update your dependencies and it's fine.

Gson is kind of to be avoided for the simple reason that it seems to be no longer maintained by Google. I've used it in the past and its fine but wouldn't pick it for something new because of this.

If you are using Kotlin, kotlinx serialization is worth a look. I've been using that recently. One of the nice things is that it relies on compiler plugins and code generation rather than a lot of reflective magic at runtime. From a security and performance point of view, that's a good thing.
Same Taleb. I recommend reading his books back to front because he's clearly difficult to edit and starting at the end means you don't have to go through the process of listening to him sound his ideas out. Most non-fiction works that way. If you only read his "Bed of Procrustes," and a selection of his technical papers, you'd be both better off, and following most of his advice.

A hagiography is a story that exalts the life of a saint. An "autohagiography," is what some writers call a shamelessly self-aggrandizing memoir. Motohagiography was a play on writing about motorcycles in a self-aggrandizing way, but could be extended to other technology. But thank you for giving it some thought!
A place I worked at a few years ago tried running HyperV for some use cases where it had licensing benefits. ~5000 VMs out of about 50000, mostly on VMWare.

At the time, the MS tooling was garbage, and we had a lot of operational networking issues. I would pay close attention to the tooling and the ops team capabilities.

If you need to use windows in prod, use Windows. Trying to get past a policy constraint with a hack like that ultimately isn’t a good idea for a variety of reasons. It’s not saving you money if the business breaks.
The original holders will die, and their heirs will sell. The original holdings will diffuse to the richest as with any asset, give it 100 years
> If by design, cryptocurrency has a finite volume of transferrable currency, do early adopters have an unfair advantage that could potentially make the currency unusable?

> I don’t see how it could possibly be fair when earlier mining yielded currency more quickly.

If by design, fiat currency has an infinite volume of transferrable currency, do governments have an unfair advantage that could potentially make the currency unstable?

I don't see how it could possibly be fair when just printing it yielded currency more quickly than properly earning it.
Isn’t it backwards now though? I rarely experience any library issues in Windows simply because there are nearly no shared libraries. For a desktop system that’s what I want. There are zero times on a desktop that I want to upgrade a shared package used by multiple apps, eg for security fixes.

It’s not worth the hassle. Isolated apps wins every time. Now Windows apps even ship their runtimes bundled (.NET core, C++ runtimes). This is a good thing.
I think you are saying tbe same thing. “Do the right thing” means “their beliefs are accurate with regard to what is the best action to take.” Of course, it assumes you are starting out with the “right” action, which is why a much better goal is “ensure everyone believes as accurately as possible.” That way you aren’t just persuading them (and in fact you aren’t even looking at it as an issue of persuading them), rather you are taking the view of how best to ensure both parties are optimally persuaded by the facts.

A goal to persuade without a goal to induce accurate beliefs is just manipulation.
This to me is the barrier that prevents the adoption of crypto everywhere. There are substantial advantages to centralized control.
I've spent a fair bit of time in Boise, as I have family there. The truth is more complicated than a word. The "city" is friendly in terms of favorable policies; the people who live there aren't uniformly friendly to immigrants. In the late 90s, my cousin was upset that his high school banned (iirc) jackboots and cuffed jeans, until he learned that the style he'd unwittingly adopted was equivalent to skinhead gang colors; the ban was a result of actual skinheads popularizing the style. Then, last June, the literal nazis marching downtown. Granted, it's much worse in Coeur D'Alene.
As much as I dislike the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit on the world, it is equally alarming that the actions of platform providers like Apple and Google can have such broad impact. Apple’s recent history in political manipulations includes swapping the gun emoji for a squirt gun emoji, banning Parler, and more. Now, I’m no less alarmed that they could “end” Facebook even if I’m not a fan of Facebook and even if privacy protections help me.

This issue is that there simply isn’t much choice in the market here - between Google and Apple it’s two companies from the same area espousing the same political culture. Having them influence and control the entire world between them is dangerous. Unfortunately I don’t see viable competition for them on mobile devices. Who would we look to - Purism?
And how do you measure the value of gold?
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ip6jnv/the_...
Elon Musk on Clubhouse tonight at 10pm
I dont understand how the new owner of the stock can ”re-short” it. Could you maybe explain? :)
I actually do not want VISA involved. That smacks as they thinking they can control it in the future.
Meshtastic has been talking about merging with Disaster.Radio for eons, because the two seem to have a lot of conceptual overlap. I can see uses for both feature sets and would love if they were just one thing.

It sounds like that's just not happening?
Right, I was more thinking a mesh network solar operated to let people report their location and status across rough terrain. I may try making a few of these over the year for next hunting season, and place them in a mile or so radius from basecamp for the duration of my trip, anyways. That way we could split up but still maintain contact, get help if we shoot an elk, etc. We're definitely outside direct walkie-talkie range, and I'm in the only one in the group with a HAM, so this could be pretty useful.
It would be a lot more productive of a conversation if you could speak in specifics.

I can't respond to something as vague as what you are saying.

And I never made that claim.
So what would have happened if he sold them all at the same time?
I’m using old Samsung S3 and S4 phones with Android7 Lineage on them. I would go any older than that, and the Bluetooth works more reliably if you can get Android 8 or newer (none of the Lineage images of 8 will boot on my S3s.)

You don’t need anything that you probably couldn’t find in the back of your or a family members junk drawer...
When it's not the purchase-a-thing model it's otherwise-disinterested third parties making large bets on possible future outcomes. It has more in common with a bookie's ledger than a warehouse of goods.

Why this is often harmful and dangerous is that the financial viability of businesses and individuals are often backing these bets. A person or company expecting financing to be predictable and stable may suddenly find it not so because their lender is desperate to cover their gambling losses.
That doesn't even make sense. For a start governments don't earn money. Secondly, a managed currency controlled by a central bank under the control of a democratic government is a good thing.
Dear Retail Whale Shorting GME Tomorrow
Again the problem is not in the crypto side but the cash (fiat) side
Do you think volatility will be the same 10 years from now? 20 years?

If so, why? I think volatility will down as volume and scale increase.
Actually all of those issues are exactly what Unions representing mangers and professionals do in the UK work on.

I have seen a lot of cases relating to "PRP" and Performance reviews.
Yes, please do! I think there is an inflated perception of risk because of the relentless media coverage. Risks are probably still higher than the meteor example, but the point of the example is to call for actual numbers! It's not enough to say "some bad thing COULD happen". Many bad things COULD happen.
Bitcoin allows transactions in the future. Thats effectively the same as a chargeback, since the sender of the money can decide at any point up to the time of the actual transfer to send the money elsewhere.

You could theoretically design a hardware wallet (like a credit card) to only sign transactions three days into the future. That would give you three days to 'charge back' anything you don't like.

Not sure merchants would be happy to accept that though...
Is it just me, or are you being needlessly sarcastic here?

The resistance is ridiculous, but it’s still the single most valuable thing we can be doing to improve our project delivery.

Given the current division of people that care/not care (or are disinclined to act on it?). It is entirely likely that none of my predecessors did.

That said, if they had been doing it (and made any progress), I really wonder what the previous situation was. Maybe there just weren’t any requirements at all?
Highway 1 is a weird bird, only existing for tourist purposes, and the rare people who like living in the middle of nowhere along the coast. It's not surprising that it's so run-down and random sections wash away every few years.
"You might notice that the comment you replied to (which I would argue is actually demonstrably factually wrong in a few ways, and yet) recovered from its time in the depths beyond. This is likely owing to the fact that it was at least tactfully written, so replies could be written without having to work around the expletive content of the original comment; yours did not, arguably because it was not."

Yes, I did notice it had been upvoted. The fact that is was no longer gray caused me to question whether it was the comment I was referring to. :-) But it had to be, of course. And so I take your point.

I obviously went off "half-cocked", as I have done a couple of times lately. :-)

Generally speaking I appreciate your points, and I like HN.

Below your [2] link (the PG comment) is one [1] by a petercooper. I think I share petercooper's concerns about downvoting being a means of registering one's disagreement. If your opinions drift too far to the edges of the Overton window, then you stand to be downvoted. I don't like that.

I do take your point that comments that are polite and well formed (so to speak) tend not to be penalised in the long term. I'll watch for that in future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=395197
If only he could.
In currencies which are not subject to maximum limits, no.

Managed currencies tend to devalue over time. Rich families must invest and risk capital to keep growing their fortune, not just sit on it.
I don’t think so. In fact there is actual theory about all this.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem

- https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/agree-econ.pdf

and in particular,

- https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/prior.pdf

If your goal is just to manipulate someone else into doing what you want, regardless of what the facts say nor what their beliefs say about the facts or about your beliefs, then sure, that is pure manipulation and not related to strategies for effective disagreement resolution.

It’s also not relevant or useful to bring up the fact that humans are not rational Bayesian actors, again because we’re talking about how best to achieve unified shared understanding of the true facts and to ensure we only derive beliefs from that (anything else can only be manipulation, not decision resolution, by definition). We may fall short of the best solution due to our flaws and limitations, but that doesn’t render the best solution any less the best, not make some other seemingly more attainable solution better or more worthwhile.
I don’t know if a government today could just seize crypto, but the USA did so with gold in the past. Imagine owning a whole bunch of gold, and then waking up one morning & finding out it’d been replaced with US Dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
And just for completeness on your comment, a naked short is the same as a regular short, but in the opposite order. First sold short, then borrowed after the fact.
You are starting with the assumption they've been forced to do something wrong, I think you have to explain what that is first
I was having this discussion with a friend recently, arguing over what the actual use cases are for crypto, and I came to a similar conclusion.

In terms of facilitating payments, cryptocurrencies are worse in almost every way I can think of compared to existing systems. They are (currently) slow, have high transaction fees, but most importantly the non-refundability of crypto transactions is a bug, not the feature crypto proponents suggest.

However, as a store of value (e.g. "digital gold"), I think crypto has real potential. There is a reason crypto is very popular in places with hyper-inflationary monetary systems like Venezuela and Iran. And compared to actual, physical gold, crypto is almost better in every way: it is much more easily transferred and stored, and the ledger means establishing "provenance" is not an issue. Yes, it's obviously currently extremely volatile, but it's not hard to imagine that volatility lessening over time.
Web nfc excites me because I want to play with an idea where my kids earn tokens and add them to their score cards. But I don't want to put a whole mobile application together.
> the price for that is probably 5-10x what you are describing.

Indeed the reason why I do what I do!

I can have 10x of them for the cost of 1 of your Nucs.

For example, my latest purchase was $15 per tablet with 8Gb of RAM, delivered. Add 2x brand new M2 2230 drives which cost about $20 apiece, and each node costs about $55.

> What are you running on them?

Sharded databases and Ceph clusters mostly. Each shard uses very little power (and does not run hot) but has 2x nvme in mirror. With raid10 f2 on linux or zfs mirror on bsd you gain in read speed on top of the raid1 safety.

Sometimes I add USB external storage: tablets often have 2 USBC ports, so $100 gives an extra 8Tb for warm storage. For HDD, USBC is not a restricting factor anymore.

Now I am trying VMs: with a dedicated NVMe, IO performance is good, but there is not enough RAM yet. When 16Gb becomes the new normal, that will be much easier.
Has ethereum actually switched to PoS? It was still in the pipeline last I heard.
Yeah, well, what Gnome does is if you ask it for 150% scaling, then it actually gives you 147% scaling or 152% scaling to make the number come out even.
What are your thoughts on certain bakers refusing to bake certain cakes, and refusing payment for them as well?
Honestly despite the bit wonky key layout, this looks like nice platform for generic retro-homecomputer building if one would be so inclined, even if you do not have any interest in speccy in specific.
The linked Wikipedia page has a graphic that explains it better than I can in text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)

Basically, a short sale is a 3-party transaction. The first person lends their shares to the short seller. The short seller then sells the shares to another buyer. The original owner is still owed 1 share, which the short seller must later buy.

In other words, you can't have a short sale unless someone buys the shares from the short seller. That new purchaser, who has the stock, is long.

The key is that there are 2 people with long interest and 1 person with short interest. The short seller must pay borrow fees to the lender for the privilege of selling the shares short, otherwise there's no reason to do it.
Cool, but why is the logo an SNES controller?
It looks cool but it renders horribly in Chromium based browsers at least. Where all the borders glitch out.

I looked at the source it's it's a neat use of CSS.
Bitcoin is in the same league as all datacenters in the world combined.

Datacenters use about 205 TWh/year.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531316/data-center-pow...

Bitcoin uses about 75 TWh/year.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Visa operates out of just two datacenters. They are famously secretive about their operations so I don't know how much power they use. The most I've found is that they have 'multi-megawatt' datacenters, which means they probably use more than three megawatts and less than 100.

https://youtu.be/fpmS0JYyCGs?t=66

Bitcoin uses about 8.5 gigawatts. Clearly it uses at least a few orders of magnitude more electricity than Visa. It can process four transactions per second compared to about 25,000 for Visa, so the energy per transaction is even worse by a few more orders of magnitude.

The inefficiency of Bitcoin is truly mind-boggling. If I were trying to write a hit piece, I wouldn't have the guts to make up numbers as bad as the reality.
Elon Musk on Clubhouse
> For a start governments don't earn money.

Build infrastructure = provide a service.

Get paid taxes for usage of said infrastructure = earn money for properly providing a service.

> Secondly, a managed currency controlled by a central bank under the control of a democratic government is a good thing.

That is a tautology, you merely rephrased the claim without providing any argument.
There is no reason that limited supply need be an inherent mechanism to a crypto currency.
That's a stated goal for the squeeze. It's a supply-to-market issue, not indicative of long term demand or massive depreciation of the dollar that you seem to be implying. It's a good opportunity to sell, not a reason to run the bank.

> On WallStreetBets, one user wrote in a highly-upvoted post they want to push up the price for an ounce of silver from around $25 to $1,000 in what they described as the “biggest short squeeze in the world.” The post was later deleted by moderators of the group.
Robert Cottrell of 'The Browser' newsletter gave a really good interview [1] on the North Star podcast about the emergence of newsletters and the future of journalism.

Interestingly, of course it's partly about seeking out writers whose work you value - when of course the Economist does not identify its writers on each piece.

Also, The Browser started on Substack but has now moved to Ghost - presumably to lower their costs and get more control - a good example of a major risk to the Substack model.

https://perell.com/podcast/robert-cottrell/
There's a little more depth to this. It's not just an influx of users or the margin they provide to fund accounts before user money arrives to RH's bank account.

Clearing houses, and clearing houses' clearing houses' have raised capital requirements for buying gme from 1%-2% to 100%. This has to be the brokers' capital. User capital doesn't count, so it doesn't matter that a user has fully paid for the share. This is unintuitive, but CEOs of several brokerages have confirmed.

That may let RH off the hook (even they they could have borrowed easily, to cover fully paid, unleveraged purchases), but it does push the "conspiracy" question downstream. Why did clearing houses make this call? After all, it's not RH's that's liable to be unable to pay. They've already paid.

At this point, there are enough credible reports confirming that clearing houses have been shutting down, or trying to, memestock buys at client brokerages. They probably do have market integrity reasons for doing so, but the specific mechanics are unclear.

Also regardless, this is a decision that changes the game/rules, affecting winners, losers, outcomes. Who was the power to make these calls. I guess it isn't a regulator.

Meanwhile, RH and other brokerages are responsible for whatever misunderstanding and conspiracies happened. "Because the stock is volatile and we're protecting our customers from volatility" is a naked lie. Start with a lie, and people will assume the worst.

FWIW, I think it's telling that the CEO of Robin Hood was willing to imply liquidity issues to avoid talking about market makers or clearing houses. I don't know what it tells, but I guess we'll find out in the coming weeks.

One thing that always comes out of these scandals is some insight into the wall street "infrastructure."
Your comment is literally nonsense:

1) Of course more security would be needed for a large rally.

2) The BLM activist is Sullivan:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/16/sullivan-vi...

3) But who was armed?
I don't think their rewards system is as valuable on you might think. When the cost of visa transactions are ultimately pushed to the consumer (~3%), they will eventually realize, those rewards are not worth the cost.

Off course, this will probably take some time. But in my opinion, Visa's moat is thin and mostly reliant on the behavior of their users. For US, I expect Visa to still be dominant, but not so much in other countries in Europe and Asia where people are much more savvy with their money habits.
How much of GME daily volume would you say is coming from retail?
You might take aa look at the SEC's December reports of fail-to-delivers, before the GME rocket lit: there were three days with over a million shares failed to be delivered, and several more weeks with over .5%. WSB had a post encouraging everyone to file a SEC report over this back then.
Multi-billion dollar multinationals that mostly only care about the next quarter’s earning call?