skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are tons of coins that do what Bitcoin is doing, except better. They also create their own concept of time. They handle distributed anonymity better, they integrate very clever concepts like zero-knowledge proofs and proof of stake. Bitcoin does not have a monopoly on the concept of a distributed ledger or any of the other concepts that are actually interesting about blockchain technology.

But Bitcoin is particularly bad at everything surrounding the concept of a distributed ledger. In fact, it is set up in such a way as to make working with its distributed ledger more difficult than it needs to be. It was an interesting first pass at this technology, but it has been very clearly surpassed by other coins in pretty much every single way.

So the question is, given that Bitcoin is particularly bad at what it does, given that other cryptocurrencies are doing the same things that the article praises except better, why are people sticking with an outdated technology? I would posit that people who are really genuinely excited about concepts of "creating time" would be moving to better coins that are doing even more clever things than Bitcoin is, and the people who remain are largely remaining because they're interested in the speculation part and for them concepts like "first to market" are very important.

But I don't see how anybody would ever say they prefer Bitcoin because of the technology. It's outdated.
After working in the industry for many years, I have aversions to learning many things. Usually, it's clearly a failed recycled idea with a small twist, poor approach to a problem, or someone selling new shiny.

I have no aversion to learning something when it shows potential value, but you must explain the value without gimmicks. Maybe typing hasn't been well sold to this person. The new thing I learn should make my life easier, not harder. If you don't apply a filter, cargo cult and marketing nonsense will sweep you away in a world hidden in unnecessary complexity to make a few bucks.

If learning and using something new adds more stress and difficulty and little-to-no benefit than life without it, I'll pass. When it comes to typing... I don't think that's the case. Typing can be annoying when you first use it (I'm sure I complained a lot) but it's well worth it when you need a stable maintainable codebase.
There were some interesting theories floating around about how everyone was home so the residential TP market demand jumped but the commercial demand fell.
Did you go back to using JS?
NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998
Those arguments always drive me nuts because they're all so bro sciencey, and I'm not even vegan or vegetarian. Sure, meat offers a different set of nutritional value than vegetables - you can most definitely replace it entirely with other sources and remain very healthy. Billions of people have done it for centuries and continue to do so, as you've said.
For the most part, our high housing prices are purely a matter of supply and demand. If you own a piece of land, and you want to build housing, you're not allowed to build as much as you want. NEARLY EVERY building proposed builds to the maximum currently allowed on that land.

The market wants to supply more housing. We don't let it, based on laws that originally were created to keep black people out of neighborhoods. Those laws continue to be very effective at that goal.
Do your beliefs forbid you from having more than 250g of food in your plate at a given time? If not that's not quite relevant.
See also this paper with more in-depth details:

The Mars 2020 Engineering Cameras and Microphone on the Perseverance Rover: A Next-Generation Imaging System for Mars Exploration

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9
But those factors would have been priced in prior to this announcement.
Microsoft: Chinese Cyberspies Used 4 Exchange Server Flaws to Plunder Emails
Which is fair, but also kind of funny. In theory, what most of us do day to day is software engineering and computer science is a niche corner of mathematics. But the broader expectation is that the math-niche teaches day to day programming.
It was always part of the language, http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-05-04.html...
The best I can figure out there has been a massive increase in global methane levels in the last millenia or so.

I suppose we could argue about the source but livestock is the most obvious candidate.

Edit: Okay turns out fossil fuels are also responsible fro some non-negligible part of the methane emissions, and it's not just livestock but all agriculture and the resulting waste.
The video [1] on your page is a well-designed demo. It's self-evident, gets to the point, and shows off what the app does in a clear and practical way, in 1.5min.

Cool work!

[1] https://vimeo.com/516043699
> it is not going to happen if they allow systematic exclusion* and abuse of expats that are trying to settle in the city.

I don't think its deliberate exclusion/racism as you say.

When we looked we always found that there were other people more deserving than us. Like a pregnant couple with baby always needs more room more than us. If you are German, speak German, and are going to live here a long time, it makes more sense for landlord. If you don't earn a tech salary you will struggle to find anything within the city, so you are probably more deserving.

The tech foreigners usually can pay more, they just see cheaper rents that they can't get because of rent control and feel hard done-by.

If Berlin was your city, Germany your country, would you prioritize apartments for the wealthy tech people over the teachers for example?
The author explains one of their main concerns:

> its attack on “tracking” — which goes far beyond the IDFA — makes it increasingly impossible to acquire users in one place and convert them in another

Somehow I can't bring myself to feel sympathy for business models affected by this.
| you want less responsibility and want to live in a crowded place. I feel bad for you.

You are not the rugged individualist yeoman you imagine yourself to be.
With cancel culture security of all personal and public communication is now a matter of making a living. Especially in this domain. This is a fact, if you wish it censored you are a liar.
This is like saying pound for pound lead is more dense than iron. It's a useless comparison. Meats have some nutritional content that plants have less of, and plants have some nutritional content that meats have less of. Look up comparisons between beef and broccoli, for example.
You don’t think less factory-farming is a good thing?
The EU was founded in 1993.
And the camera system uses an Intel processor running Linux and FFmpeg
Once we remove that 2.6% though, we'll have a whole new 100% to fight against.
You literally just did the exact same thing
Is beyond meat actually healthier than meat? If you search my question you’ll see the results are hardly conclusive.

What’s everyone’s take?
Not sure what you mean by "vertically integrated" they do not own cattle ranches or potato farms. They buy Heinz or Hunts catsup, etc. They do have a lot of proprietary recipes and process, but the ingredients are mostly sourced from other wholesale producers.
Well, the assembly is literally all you have, so you're not going to make much progress otherwise..
Do they open source their OS? I'd be interested to see what they're actually changing in stock Android.
You're describing the concept known as "money".
I'm comparing it by ... comparing the nutrients in each. There are lots of examples of nutrients in meat that aren't found in plants (carnitine, b12 etc) and even more where the type found in plants must be consumed in far greater quantities and converted to a form we can use (retinol vs beta-carotene, DHA vs EPA/ALA etc)

Millions of vegetarians doesn't mean meat is suddenly less nutritious.
I agree with this 100%. Even though "vanilla JS" is more powerful now, JQuery is still much easier to work with.
Indonesian payments infra startup Xendit raises $64.6M in Accel-led Series B
They'd be SOL anyway. Honestly there is no downside here, because this happens anyway.
Yes, that’s basically what I was thinking. New test suite runs against old code, new tags are created if the tests pass.

As for code coverage, that is always a problem, and not one to sneeze at.

So follow me here. I do a lot of tech selection for teams. Not just which libraries have he features we need, which ones are going to result in. One pair programming due to human error.

If I see that the poorly documented (accidental?) feature I care about has poor code coverage, should I use it? Should I use it and file a PR with pinning tests?
Are we also considering the pounds of plants that the animal had to eat to grow to such a size? I should imagine it takes quite a lot of food to raise a one ton cow for slaughter. At least one ton of plant material as food, right? To produce how many pounds of meat? 750lbs seems reasonable.

So if you had 2750lbs of plant food for yourself, vs just the 750 lbs of meat -- which has more nutrients?

(I do not know the answer myself, but I can see where it could be argued that meat is not more nutritious, pound for pound)
I don't really buy this argument about readability because the sort of information stored in types very quickly becomes pretty meaningless for humans. I remember working on a Haskell codebase and getting into an argument about this with a developer who was very much in the typed language camp.

Then I saw a function that had like 8 parameters, some were just String, or Int, some where synonyms, and I asked him what it does based on the type signature. He didn't know. I didn't know either. Int -> Int -> Foo -> String -> Foo very quickly starts to mean nothing.

Types don't enhance the meaning of the code. if you want to understand your code better, what you're looking for is better names, not better types. As far as understanding code is concerned, in the best case types have the exact function as names, in the worst case they entice people to write 'int x' rather than giving something a proper name.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in GNU Grub: UEFI Secure Boot Bypass
I've had a similar experience. My team is using Vue 2 and, while the VueX store is almost entirely correctly typed, inside the Vue components everything was typed as 'any'. There was no value being added in the slightest, but attempting to upgrade packages resulted in many new TypeScript and ESLint errors.

I ended up opening a PR to strip out TypeScript from all the Vue components so I could get things up to date (and ease a possible transition to Vue 3, which behaves much better with TypeScript).

I'm starting a new job soon and really hope I can work with React and TypeScript again.
Others have pointed out the misread here, but I'll add that typically the thing you are actually expert in after this amount of study is typically very narrow. So when they say "the surprise of experts in the field" on many topics "the experts" they are referring to is often a few dozen people.
The problem is that usually supply isn't the problem, it's demand. For example, America's main problem with agricultural products is finding enough people to buy and eat them. That's why the government spends lots of money on agricultural supports. Hell, even welfare programs, as inadequate as they are, help stabilize prices by basically injecting a minimum amount of demand into the system. So, usually, supply shocks are temporary and resolvable without needing to resort to price gouging. The producers know that prices of a particular commodity aren't going to collapse if they invest money in switching over to produce it. Instead of getting a 10x jump in the price of, say, bread; it gets a little hard to find at first and then goes up 5%.

Housing is almost completely the opposite; supply of the underlying land is fixed and most cities cap density. We can, of course, uncap density; but that still requires we basically displace everyone living in the city eventually to make way for larger buildings that can house more people. The thing that really grinds my gears is that the solutions to housing scarcity effectively amount to building a wall around a city and making foreigners pay for it - and they're often championed by exactly the same kinds of people who otherwise are rightly opposed to immigration formalities.
I’ll eat fake meat from time to time but I still eat real meat the vast majority of time. The main reasons are that it’s only distributed in restaurants where I live, it is less protein-dense (I lift heavy) and I’m not 100% sure about its safety. But I would be willing to eat more of it as these issues are solved.
Here's a general principle: if people repeatedly bring up the same small handful of examples to convince you something is a broad trend, that means it probably isn't a broad trend. Those examples are famous because they are exceptional. That story made it into the papers not because it is representative but because it is not representative. When something is actually widespread, I usually can't usually rattle off a half-dozen examples because they aren't salient.

I don't doubt there have been a few dramatic examples of people being fired for innocuous actions. I don't even doubt that there's a widespread trend. What I do doubt is that this is a new thing, that it is perpetrated by one side of the aisle against the other, that most people who are "canceled" are innocent, and that we are in a crisis.

>because for a few months the mainstream media tried to convince everyone that the OK sign is a white supremacist symbol

No, because white supremacists tried to convince everyone that the OK sign is a white supremacist symbol. They started it as a joke: "Hey, what if we tricked the idiots in the MSM that white supremacists are using the OK symbol?" Somehow they missed the fact that trying to pull such a hoax instantly makes the association real.

The mainstream media was well aware it was intended as a hoax. They are not completely clueless about how the internet works. I guarantee you there are people from big news outlets reading /pol/ as we speak. See this article from the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/ok-sign-white-power.ht...
It has been high but it's already coming down, I don't know how permanently. Currently Impossible is:

- Costco: $16 for 2lbs

- Trader Joes: $5.99 for 12oz
This distinction is captured in "Thinking Fast and Slow"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
It's a fork of Android, so it's not Google-free.
yes. maybe a 5 minute call once a week.
> Ford announced it was exiting the personal auto market

Not sure if you're just trolling me now?

Ford haven't exited the personal auto market. The Ford F-150 is the best selling car in the US isn't it? And they're building new electric Mustangs? The Ford Focus is the second best selling car in the UK.

> I said no major government will ban sales of ICE vehicles in the next 9 years. Care to respond to the actual point?

For example:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54981425

(It's actually out to 2035 if you include hybrids.)
It's pretty widely accepted in the medical community that pesticides are correlated to Parkinson's. It seems to be connected to exposure over time, not necessarily build up in the body.

You are right that a so-called natural pesticide like rotenone seems to be even worse. They were able to induce parkinson with it in rats in just a few weeks. But also Glyphosate is looked at with a lot of suspicion.

Take this case study, they refer to several cases and epidemiologic research:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30799335/

Considering the medical attention and research it gets, I see no reason to be as sure as you are. Especially your believe that "it's completely harmless" seems to have no solid reasoning behind it.
| How else do you propose to have a distributed ledger that is resistant to inflation?

A deflationary distributed ledger has yet to prove itself as having any kind of real utility in the first place.
I am commenting on the core foundation of the "article", to quote:

> "A quick review of Gab’s open source code shows that the critical vulnerability—or at least one very much like it—was introduced by the company’s chief technology officer."

What would the writer have without the open source?
You missed it.

Bourgain guessed that some of these lower-dimensional slices must have substantial area. In particular, he conjectured that there is some universal constant, independent of the dimension, such that every shape contains at least one slice with area greater than this constant.

In other words there exists C > 0 such that if the n-dimensional hypervolume of an n-dimensional convex shape is 1, then there must be an n-1'th dimensional slice of n-1-dimensional hypervolume at least C.

What was proven is weaker. For any ε > 0 there is an N such that if N < n, then any n-dimensional convex shape of n-dimensional hypervolume 1 must have an n-1'th dimensional slice of n-1-dimensional hypervolume at least 1/n^ε.

It turns out that the exact things that were proven are good enough to improve our bounds on how quickly various machine learning algorithms will converge. Which means we aren't just hoping based on how they worked in a few examples, we have a theory explaining it.
Maybe. As someone who isn't a fan of the meat production process and accidentally bought some vegan "meat" due to Amazon pushing it on everyone it's not the same. I threw it out because I couldn't eat it.
I don't understand how someone removing the contents they themselves posted goes against free speech?
> It might just be that the social sciences and medicine are really hard

As one field often builds upon another, the so-called soft/social sciences could also be called Higher/high-order sciences; and the complexity progression might not be linear, since at the high-level these topics tend to merge such that they are no longer layers but rather aspects of the same societal mega-graph e.g. economics is the study societal economy, political science is the study societal politics etc, all of which are part of the same system, and hence inter-react, in the same way a study of volcanic activity, the tides, the magnetic field, the atmosphere, weather and the terrestrial water table/system are all inter-related topics of the same planetary model (I expect all these things to become distinct topics of study too, at a greater scale if they aren't already).

Another consideration; Natural versus "human" sciences - any system that involves humans (any study of an aspect of human society) differs from the study of natural processes.

1) the scientists, or scientific institution is a part of society,

2) humans can react to scientific investigation and inquiry - a natural process doesn't do PR, no matter how strange the quantum is.

3) humans culture and behaviour is both complex, and changes over time in a way e.g. chemistry, does not.
That's true to a point but it depends on perspective. On a big team with a mix of experience levels, you are going to want to put up as many barriers to mistakes as possible and it doesn't matter how much it slows anyone down because it can't be more than dealing with the problems will be.

But less people, smaller projects, higher experience levels, and better testing are all factors that shift the balance between effort and expected return. Before TypeScript came around I wrote multiple 5-10k loc apps alone in JS and the number of bugs that TypeScript would have caught in those was pretty minimal. Working on a team of 5 on apps twice that big, I see errors that TS could catch in almost every single file.
Trust minimization doesn't equal no trust. Also the trust that a currency works as intended and that a transaction goes through isn't the same kind of trust than trusting a vendor, which is why there will probably always be other systems in place for that particular issue. Some people are interested in that because their trust has been abused by a centralized authority. And we're not only talking about the transaction systems, but also about currency.

All in all it's all about the choice and preferences of individuals.
I'm not sure how the comparison is made, however Vitamin B12 can only be found in meat and eggs.

If you do not have supplements or eat this type of vitamin containing protein, you risk paralysis and death with a 2+ year absence of the vitamin.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are other missing nutrients as well.
They likely do (but with hardened hardware), as they've done previously.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/278160-nasa-switches-cur...
My life is such that my first and only thought was dismay that I will never be well known enough to have my own deepfake porn.

I know what you are thinking and no I will not stoop to making my own. Proper deepfake porn needs to be done too you not by you ;)-
Look, this isn't the whole picture and it super misleading. Just because humans survived with a particular diet doesn't mean that they wouldn't have been healthier had they eaten meat. You can't just point to historical populations who didn't have widespread access to animal products and be like "see they lived."

I'm not saying your not correct that vegetarian diets are fine from a health perspective but this isn't evidence of it.
Yep, Nano is all the things bitcoin was attempting to be initially. Using Nano is a breeze, it feels like the future, especially compared to bitcoin in terms of speed.
Bummer - the Impossible burger is 100x better than Beyond Meat. I've tried the stuff at Del Taco too and it is pretty dismal. Even my veggie sister was disappointed.
>I remember reading that Germans in general are more likely to to rent than own their housing. Is that not true?

The majority rent not because of a lifestyle choice but because they can't afford to buy anything so renting is their only choice. What else are they gonna do, be homeless? All mid-upper class German families I met owned their properties.
> 1.5 years to find an apartment, that is not cheap but bordering the acceptable

Curious - how far outside of the center of Berlin did your search extend, and what was your parameters for an acceptable place/rent?
why is it so old?
It's the same thing with PHP (and Ruby). You can write reasonable code in it, the problem is that the engineering culture leaves a lot to be desired.

In Java, the engineering culture is strong but stagnant.

Python is toxic, it's full of scientists, the engineering is bad (but a little better than PHP because the community is of a higher calibre).
I am also an old computer hobbyist, with an apparent emphasis on Macs between '90 and '05. I used to try to get them up to the highest spec and newest software they could support, but found that they feel so much more usable when running either their original release OS or something in the middle. I have used Mac OS 9 and OSX 10.4 on my '99 iMac DV (PPC 750/G3, 400MHz), and they feel worlds apart to use. Same with my Performa 6116CD (PPC 601, 60MHz) on System 7 vs. OS 8.

(Of course, the rules are totally different with BSD and Linux, where you generally want the newest software that supports the architecture and it works great as long as you choose your packages wisely.)
They actually did a better job of that with this problem than I usually see.

But if you don't have a substantial background, it may be hard to track.
The bytes i refer to are immutable blobs, the content in an immutable content store. IPFS would hypothetically work fine, my only concern is having too much needless history. Eg, once all clients are up to date the history could be pruned.

There would be basically no need to store weeks/months old data, as i'd be just using Matrix for P2P not storage.

(just replying for posterity)
Del Taco already has a Beyond Meat taco and it tastes like shit.
A move at my alma mater to switch the introductory course from Java to Python was criticized on the same grounds. The students had a hard time in successive levels of coursework.

It seems to be a lot harder to get people who learn dynamic typing first to learn static typing, than the other way around.