skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental purpose stated in the bitcoin whitepaper is to provide an electronic equivalent to physical cash.

The first line of the whitepaper[0] is "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another"

In practice some "third" party (bank, paypal, square, venmo, etc) will still be involved in most transactions because of the scenarios you have described. But this would be because they are helpful and add value not because they are necessary.

[0] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
I said this and everyone hated me - he said it and it's suddenly a big awe moment, lol.
Looks nice, I'll give it a whirl.
I didn't try that one-- I put in Hills Like White Elephants and it was mostly okay.
As opposed to external non-human controlled factors, such as meteorites, I suppose.
It depends on your use-case.

For most companies I guess you would just ignore it as any alternative would be not worth it by a far shot.

For some special cases using the private use area(s) + a db storing images of the glyph + auto generating a font including glyph generated from the images could be one solution. Another would be to force people to change their names.

For other use cases (e.g. historic) storing a Unicode "approximation" of the name and a picture for the name (full or parts of it) can be a viable alternative, allowing you to generally just have Unicode but still store the information which was discarded when approximating the name in Unicode.

Also trying to extend Unicode can always be a option.
> Not that I think Israel has South Africa level apartheid

What is Israel doing better than pre apartheid South Africa? Or rather, what are the positive differences between the two regimes?
Recruiters don’t make the final decisions on hiring. The bonuses incentivize them or seek out diverse clients, not to lower standards. And your whole argument is, unfortunately, the standard-issue objection to any efforts to change an unfair system by, just to rub it in, once again blaming its victims.

Why don’t you ever suspect that young white guy to just have the job bececause their father knows the CXO from golf? Did that sysadmin use to room with the tech lead in colleges? Empirically, such employment biographies are far more common than your hypotheticals. Gut somehow, they do not seem to provoke this righteous anger of meritocracy.
Times like these make it critical to discern between those of a certain gender vs those without talent (or discipline, or perhaps both).

This is difficult to do without unfairly discounting the cases where people with talent still encounter unfair discrimination ...but this isn't it.

There are plenty of female developers / engineers who have their colleagues' respect. They would also never find out they are diversity hires.

If you are simply bad at your job, but also [protected status here], it's suddenly somehow newsworthy - I never liked this part of our culture.
Yes, if you remember, this is exactly the scandal that was Cambridge Analytica. The user also consents that their data is used in a certain way.

For example, if you scraped tinder profiles and published a map of all tinder users in a city most would agree that’s a privacy invasion.
This theory doesn't work because the decline has nothing to do with print. Look at where cable news is now -- it's somehow, seemingly impossibly, even worse than the NYT. It's as if CNN and MSNBC looked at Fox News and reacted with a jealously-based compulsion to outmatch their pathology.
That requires trusting that none of the miners will deflect (e.g. have a hidden stash of hardware waiting offline until it can perform 51% attack). If you need to trust that miners are not cheating, it kinda defeats the whole point of a trust-no-one cryptocurrency.

So sadly, in a proof-of-work scheme the secure steady state is only when miners are fiercely competing, and that means maxing out their hardware and electricity usage.
This has yet to be shown.
It's certainly true that it's gotten more topical and hence more overtly political. Part of this is surely a change to having more of an online readership (and online-only articles). When you're writing a magazine piece, it can be at best a week behind the news. This constraint doesn't exist for online pieces.

That being said, I think the New Yorker still offers some of the best and nuanced political analysis. I certainly prefer it to the New York Times.
Building a Confidential Data Mesh
M-Pesa seems to only be available in like 4 countries, not a valid contender.
Not every bug is worth fixing
IANAL, but I think the general perception is that by giving reasons, one exposes the employer to additional risk of a lawsuit.

So IIUC, the legal system carries some of the blame here.
as someone who would make a diversity hire myself I am aghast at how this situation isn't taken as a opportunity to show the fools who hired me how utterly wrongly they've judged me. this reads like it's creating the very conditions for not achieving that, born out by the litany of positions held too briefly for making anything out of them at all.
Don't forget about removing native RSS support from their browser. Combined with the knock on effects of other browsers removing support "because Google did it" or "because Google Reader is the de-facto RSS reader" hurt RSS even more.
Just hit F2 while editing a formula to toggle between Edit and Enter modes, one of which will behave as you expect. The other mode, which you hate, is very useful when you want to add references to other cells into your formula
People will kill each other over the energy resources needed to run the Bitcoin network.
Show HN: Long-form reads turn 3-minutes audio
You are talking about Starship (second stage). Super Heavy (first stage booster) will not do belly flop and will use special "catching" structure, its details are unknown as of today.
I don't have many female colleges. The ones I work with, I like them.

They are in avg more social.

But I also had one boss who did not want to hire one woman because " what happens when she gets pregnant" and we did hire her because she was good and I stood up for her.

I should not need do so this!

I think we would be better if with have more woman in our teams.
I've found editing, not writing, to have gone right down the drain in modern newspapers. It's clear many stories are poorly edited if at all.

I don't want to be That Guy, but I've also noted a huge increase in terrible, incredible examples of the need for the Serial Comma, all by clueless editors. One big one was last week in the WP:

> Jackson’s former colleagues vastly disapproved of his conduct and leadership within the White House Medical Unit, including screaming, belittling colleagues and fits of rage, which demoralized nurses and doctors, the report found.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/03/03/...)

So what we've learned is that Jackson's conduct and leadership somehow included rounding up colleagues who screamed and belittled. And the presence of these horrible colleagues, plus his fits of rage, demoralized nurses and doctors...
Agreed. Google sheets feels great initially. Then you go to do that thing that you do in Excel, and...you look for it, and it seems like a basic omission, so you figure you just missed it, and Google around for it, and no, it's just not there.

Even silly little things, like the fact that Sheets doesn't have an indent function, which makes it harder to neatly format financial data. I think the accepted workaround is to manually put spaces in front of every single row you need indented.
That would be the "observing" approach I described.

The upside of an action-based (signalling) approach is that you have a better time separating concerns as actions (if used correctly) represent intent, so your component emits an event and the state acts accordingly, removing state logic from your representational components. Might also be a lot easier to see in the DevTools what happened when and why.

Of course not every app needs a pattern like that, that's why I said both approaches are valid.
Do others here still recommend using Excel/Google Sheets despite having programming knowledge, or are there more powerful tools available (eg. Airtable) which might be less accessible to people without tech backgrounds? If spreadsheets are still the way to go, any recommended resources on learning some best practices with them?

I never got into spreadsheets because it seemed unnecessary after learning how to program, but I end up missing out on applications that might work in excel but which I don't care enough about to hand-write.
Thanks a lot, Bryan. I know/knew some of those things (like being close to water in general) - I guess I was concerned about how close it appeared to be :)
We couldn’t agree with you more about people avoiding the dentist when cutting costs, which is always sad to see given the long-term importance of oral health. Our test is initially designed for the population of Americans who already don’t see the dentist, value the convenience of at-home care, and are interested in incorporating preventive health into their daily lives.

There is a large population of Americans (60 – 80MM) who regularly avoid seeing the dentist out of fear/anxiety or inconvenience, many of whom are millennials in major cities.
Our goal is to provide these individuals an opportunity to understand their oral health in a non-invasive and convenient way, and then pair that with treatments delivered directly to their doorstep. Many of these treatments such as prescription toothpastes or mouthwashes are underutilized, largely because they are only effective if diseases like gum disease are caught early enough. Analyzing the oral microbiome enables us to do exactly that, and then we can remotely monitor patients to ensure that disease risk subsides. A major focus area for us is educating consumers about the impact of maintaining good oral health and preventing early signs of disease from progressing in order to avoid expensive procedures like cavity fillings and root canals in the future.
The key difference is ignorability. If you're not attracted to men you may not even notice that the camera lingers on his chest or she looks down before looking at his face. It also doesn't go on for minutes at a time. Maybe a woman is showing more cleavage that is normal, but the camera doesn't spend five straight minutes panning up and down her body. What exactly does five minutes of looking at grasping hands and contorted expressions contribute to the experience of a film, besides a convenient time to take a bathroom break?
Username doesn't check out with logic.

Do you mean to tell me you just cannot understand why some people want money with total finality to use with anonymous people across a network? I mean, at this point I have no argument with you I just can't understand your line of thinking. Cryptocurrency, or digital cash, digital money was an idea for a decade+ before Bitcoin finally solved the problem. It's an obvious money with many obvious use cases. Many thousands of folks around the world are using Bitcoin on a daily basis. It's like the phony fees story people spread about Bitcoin, while those of us using Bitcoin daily can send any amounts of money we like for payments to folks around the internet for a couple dollars.

Let me be totally blunt with you since you are acting clueless as to how people use money on the internets.

I pay people ALL THE TIME, in Bitcoin, for codebase work that they perform. I do not want banks involved, I do not want to know their real life identity, I do not want them to know my identity, etc. Therefore, do the work, I pay you. We have a Web-of-Trust (Something folks here in general just seem ENTIRELY clueless about) and we trust eachother just as far as the Web of Trust and our online chat history and trust level allows. Do people get ripped off at times with payments? Sure. You lost $50 bucks, or whatever. Maybe you'll learn not to trust that party again. It's very simple. You don't need to act clueless. It's money, and if you use it correctly it just works. It's not reversible. If I were paying someone who ran off with my cash, it's the same shit.
Arguing from the conclusion, are we?
Or, alternatively, integration as equals?
Native Windows XP + Excel was badass. No new features were needed. No one asked for anything else. It was feature complete.

Have you tried running an older version of Excel (2007 era) even in a VM? It is lightning fast. No cell-movement animations and this unibar crap at the top, saving a file is 2 clicks away unlike the newer version going off to the cloud, making requests and having to back out to save locally. WTF.

Excel is an amazing app. UI engineers and PMs at Microsoft are trying to kill it.
One man's quest to purge pictures from his Google results (2012)
In academic data management I have identified what I suspect is a common progression over the course of a career. Obliviousness to the problem. Rage at the inadequacy. Search for alternatives. Realization that you do not have the resources to build and maintain something else, much less train all the labs to use it. Further realization that it is harder to explain how to set the right file encoding and the fact that a csv file is not a colon separated file to hundreds of labs than to just accept xlsx. Acceptance that Excel is a more reasonable user interface for data deposition than anything you could come up with.

It is sad, but at the end of the day, however bad Excel is for life sciences data (to the point where standards bodies renamed genes due to autoformat issues!?), it ends up being better when usability and bad data edge cases are considered. Defaults matter for non-technical users, and even asking them to change the format they save in to csv is likely to cause issues because it is one more manual step that can go wrong, or there is some locale nonsense that will cause something to break etc.
And maybe a recipe for a lawsuit here in the US. The only female developer? It looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck.
The Case for Logical Fallacies
Look at Bitcoin.orgs own marketing. https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#what-are-the-advantages-of-bitcoi...

"Payment Freedom" and "Choose your own fees" are both things that no longer apply to Bitcoin.
A lot of environments do not have easy to use hot reloading out-of-the-box (and also quick GUI creation support). This is the primary reason why development feels less intuitive in a lot of text based languages versus more visual tooling like Excel which can give instantaneous feedback.

Hot reloading is most famous for being a staple of Lisp languages (but they tie it to the repl rather than as a standalone feature). For Microsoft languages this is provided by Visual Studio (commonly known as edit-and-continue, it is available in some form or other since the original VB days). You can try it out with the embedded VBA interpreter in Excel (under the Developer tab).

For JavaScript this is a recent innovation (driven primarily by the React/SPA crowd). In Java, most IDEs have the feature but it requires a fair bit of setup and configuration (look up hot swap for Intellij). The closest thing Python has is Jupyter which admittedly is not that pleasant to use.
Well, you can """Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#""": http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/write-your-own-excel/#

Posted here but didn't get traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24980325
Oh, come on! Dozens of threads and thousands of comments for the weekly Dr. Seuss pearl-clutching. But mentioning that, on occasion, tech orgs are shitty to women is immediately flagged?

Whose the snowflake that can’t take any criticism and wants to stop others from seeing it here?
Honestly, not really. It sucks, but from a risk management perspective, less information given out is always better. Was she fired for legit reasons? Who knows. There is no advantage to the employer to give reasons. You can't really blame anyone for trying not to be sued.
Power loss is a function of current. So major transmission lines use very high voltage to lower the current (and thus the power loss). Of course, there are losses at the transformer(s) the step the voltage up and down. Unsurprisingly, it's a very use-case-dependent engineering problem.
I imagine the US government would do something similar to what they did in the past and it would push Bitcoin underground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
Right, and can still be the trigger for the visible fallout
It’s a good question and one I don’t know how to answer absolutely.

The reason why I think it most generally applies to “business writing” is because this area is most likely to value efficiency over others.

I don’t think it’s meant to say business folk should write like Hemingway, but that Hemingway is the most popular writer in this style.
Of course. But there is a difference between expecting someone to learn what it does, and why it does it, and expecting them to learn how to implement/modify it themselves.

People have work to do, work that has computers as a tool, not a goal. Lowering the bar from "Learn the exploits" to "Be careful and stay in the lines" is a Good Thing, imho.

Qubes provides an effective framework to say "This is how to use it, this is what you should be aware of, don't do this".
Unfortunate, BUT how many engineers/people are placed on teams they have no interest in?
Yes, because CPI is a product of both market forces and changes in money supply. The former is not controlled much by anyone, while the latter is controlled by some very rough and not easily predictable knobs held by guys at Fed. Guys at Fed are committed to keep CPI at something like constant 2%, so the must turn these knobs, but for that they need a good feedback as to what their movements are doing.

And sure, they could use something different as a measure of inflation than CPI, but what would that be, and why it would be better than CPI? These questions need to be answered first before we move away from CPI.
Peloton Unplugged: How Digitization Upends Business Models and Industries
there is another project, the eastMed pipeline for the transfer of natgas to europe
I am an author of the paper. Great question on the signal of the actual keystroke vs output being printed to a terminal. We did test that, and the attack works perfectly also without ECHOing characters in the terminal emulator (i.e., printing to the terminal is not a requirement).
> Some places I've even seen a "diversity quota" for tech recruiters that's tied to a bonus.

It makes sense if you want to increase diversity to have the beginning of the funnel get lots of diverse candidates in. The recruiter is not a decision maker in most places, so the hiring bar is not necessarily affected by whether the recruiter got more diversity candidates into the funnel or not.

As an example, in my experience there were not a lot of female candidate resumes coming in via normal channels. If the recruiter wants a bonus for increasing gender diversity, they are doing extra work to go and find female candidates and convincing them to apply. That is probably exactly what you want to be happening.
You can do that with the lightning network.
The problem is double spend. With cash, it’s hard to copy. With anything electronic, it’s trivial to copy. That’s why it has to be a ledger. Notice visa requires internet connection as wel
There's probably a business opportunity here. Same way a handful of companies control the email marketing business by selling spam bucket avoidance, there's probably companies out there that will pay to keep their social media presence healthy. Charge marketers a monthly fee to own the relationships with Insta/Twitter/Google. Reputation insurance.
The comment that kicked off this whole thread is about the Pixel 3a being a mess, so while I'll agree that Samsung and their Android version are a mess, Google isn't exactly helping here either
Not with web tech. I could argue there are numerous systems available to program vsts and other audio plugins visually, but maxMSP still adds something unique and useful.
I might agree, but had anyone asked him about environmental impact of ms-windows?
The race to scale up green hydrogen
Damn that spellchecker! :D Thanks for spotting, I'll fix it shortly.
What Is Developer Marketing?
But how many newspapers/magazines can get a critical mass of people to spend $100/year? The NYT, WSJ, Economist, maybe New Yorker?
> there are those that you know are there because of their skills (non-diverse individuals) and there are the other ones.

Wow this is not at all correct based on my experience.

It is so common for "non-diverse individuals" to have gotten where they are based on things like network that I really don't think you can tell just by looking at someone.

The worst developers I have worked with are often traditional "non-diverse" candidates.
You've described the internet in a nutshell. Computers make it possible to make money off the long tail, that would have otherwise languished in obscurity.

The alternatives are either a return to syndication, or a transition to some kind of non-market public cultural utility for distributing and promoting my cat videos. Or, we remain in what currently seems to be a local maximum, where distribution and marketing is cheap, but not so cheap that most content creators are doing it themselves.
Spot on, I've never been to that side of the pond, mate :P
With a lot of hand-written boilerplate, many required manual optimizations and performance that will in the best case be equal but often doesn't even get close. Context cannot rerender selectively. You change one property in a context object, all subscribers rerender, no matter if they access that property.
Does Signal use Jitsi in the background? If yes why can't I find this anywhere?
I mean of course for conference calling.
What are they using in the background? Shouldn't they be open-sourcing that?
good point, i hope so
Can we just agree neither of them are children and they're fine to communicate how they see fit - It's their marriage?

You can't boil other folk's relationships down to your preferences, and what you're expressing here feels a lot more like personal projection than anything that OP said.
I'm not an export but i can print off a wallet key and give it to someone, on paper or usb. Sure i can give that same wallet to someone else but it's pretty quick to check the value of a wallet before accepting it.

Why do you even need physical cash? I can carry my countries currency around with me easily enough but i generally don't bother as i don't ever need to.
i suspect the assertion was thought of as "nowadays", whereas 150 years ago infectious disease might have been humanity's biggest problem.
Enterprises Don't Self Serve - Analysis of Slack acquisition by Salesforce
> This is an example of how methods to empower women, when wrongly applied, can have the opposite effect, making them feel even more insecure and powerless.

The soft bigotry of low expectations and affirmative action rears its ugly head yet again.

Hire people of all races, genders and creeds based on _merit_, not diversity quotas. No one should have to show up to work feeling like a second class citizen and that they're only there because of their sex or the color of their skin.
Amazon buys more wind and solar energy than any other company
> The thing about money is that I can hand it to someone.

Honestly don’t know if you’re trolling or just old.

I used paper money once last year. To buy weed. Because the federal government has determined I am not responsible enough to use or own weed.

No one I know uses physical cash anymore. We’re moving away from physical items where possible, not toward it. I would rather have my currency on a public DLT than controlled by the government.