skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin innovated through a blockchain years ago and the world has already adopted that. But the current state of bitcoin makes it bad at its other 'innovation', digital currency.

Bitcoin is far too volatile to be a widespread, standard currency which seems to be the "reason" people say it's worth as much as it is. But it will never be a widespread currency until it has stability. So it's a chicken/egg situation, one of the two has to come first for the other, and both ideas rely on each other.

Most people that hold bitcoin today are doing so because they think it will increase in value, NOT because they care about the stability or viability of currency. That's pretty selfish insofar there are plenty of developing nations that would benefit greatly from a stable currency. Bitcoin might still be more stable than some countries, but that doesn't negate the issues.

So, because many people look at bitcoin as a wealth generator that produces tons of heat and waste, and it starts to look like a perfect marriage of shitty human behaviors.
So like, was the vuln more or less made widely known at some point? This feels like the scope grew so large because many groups obtained the 0day before Microsoft expected it to go wide, which is not what folks seem to have expected.

It'd be interesting to see more info in the timeline about when that might have happened. Just feels like this info is entirely based on what the research community was seeing, not based on any info from the adversary side of this event (not that collecting that kind of data is easy, so fair enough).
>After you live in a house a long time it falls apart. Capital Expenditure restores the asset to its previous value. Bread just depreciates faster. but can still be traded, bought and sold. In Japan houses are often only ever used by one family, and the house is destroyed when the land is sold. I am taking your insistence on a cash flow perspective to its logical extreme to show that it is not always applicable.

1. the part of a house that's getting expensive isn't the house itself, it's the land. the multi-million dollar homes in san francisco would only be worth a few hundred thousand tops if they were moved to rural idaho.

2. corporations fall part too. more specifically, their physical assets (eg. machines in factories) fall apart. In both cases they're kept up by routine maintenance. The only difference is that in a corporation the maintenance is paid from revenue before profits/dividends are paid out, whereas in a house the maintenance is paid out of pocket by the owner.

3. it's not a question of deprecation. after you eat a piece of bread it's gone. that's not due to depreciation, it's due to you consuming it.

>I clearly say at the end that if CPI is not measuring these price increases we should use a different measure. I'm not sure you understand what's going on in this conversation, but food is in the CPI.

That's my original point. Rent (and imputed rent) is directly measured in the CPI, so there's no need to measure home prices.
Microsoft built Azure CosmosDB based on TLA+: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cosmos-tla
Thanks for the patient explanations! :-)
Economics is also statistics.
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I've spent time around more babies & toddlers than most people see in a lifetime (sometimes >50 per day; probably no more than 2000 per year though; for >decade; [working at baby & toddler groups]).

Could you say if this was a fixed behaviour (ie they always sought a private place to poop), had a fixed location (eg always behind the couch), if you used a potty at the time, and exactly which month it appeared at so I can note it with my own observations. Cheers.
Developers have tried to build metrics for "complexity" over the years. Cyclomatic Complexity is often pointed to as one of the more successfully deployed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

As with any metric, it's something to take as useful "advice" and becomes a terrible burden if you are optimizing for/against it directly. (Such as if you are incentivized by a manager to play a game of hitting certain metric targets.)

It's also interesting to note that a complete and accurate complexity metric for software is likely impossible due to it being an extension/corollary of the Halting Problem.
Is a virus a problem or is it a new challenge for humanity to take on, just as our understanding of molecular biology has become ready to address it? I respect the loss of people just as I respect the loss of all who have gone before, soldiers, explorers, pioneers, even those who did not intend risk but lived unknowingly under risk that existed nonetheless.

These “problems” are opportunities to serve.
Is that the fault of the app? The rabbit does nothing wrong. However, I am confident in the usability and functionality of LearnObit. Perhaps the most similar to LO is RemNote, but more than that, more than any other app.
Stopped going to the dentist several years ago because I've never gotten a cavity in my life. Would be interested to try this just to check and make sure my luck isn't running out.
> every single British TV comedy I've ever watched has a cast of 90% white haired elderly people

In contrast, every time US studios have to film an actor over 35, they blood-sacrifice a weeping marsupial to the attractiveness pantheon.
Have you tried Feedly? It allows you to categorize and aggregate content from any site that you care about. Available as both a mobile and web app. Keeps track of what you've read.

It was the go-to tool back when Google Reader shut down, but I'm not sure where it stands in the ecosystem now.
I think it's in the application for DE Shaw that you're asked to number the lines of code you've written in your career in the various languages you claim to have experience in.
Here's how we make money. It's not from your data.
https://startpage.com/privacy-please/featured-article/how-st...
> Once you lose garbage collection does .net give you anything over C++?

You don't need to lose garbage collection altogether. There's a middle ground here: if you can switch to manual buffer management for the most GC-heavy, speed-critical code, that still lets you use GC with impunity everywhere else.
I think it's backed by the hope that on a couple of years it will be worth lot more (instead of looking backwards, people look forward and hope to get rich).
The company I work for has their CAM manufacturing calculations run through excel.

The non technical director has calculated every possible route line required for our CNC process. This is something that would be very hard to do in a conventional programming language. He did it with no coding background and it's one of the most maintainable pieces of software in the business. It's all laid out in front of you. If they need a diagram to explain something, it's there inline. There are no unreadable long nested if statements. He didn't even know you could nest them. It is truly amazing, I've not seen anything like it. I've seen plenty of train wrecks where people try to run other parts of the business through excel.
The value is providing the ownership of a digital scarce fixed-supply item that can be transferred and traded.
That's the product. And the market gives it a price.
Also, it has everything to do with monetary policy.
It was effectively canned. Without first party exclusive games to bring people onto the system it has no chance of success.
I don't dismiss the profession. I dismiss the professionals. They need to provide more proof then identifying as a professional exactly because it is not a science. I also need to understand their biases and agenda.
Honestly it's usually easier to just ignore them and give their opinion no weight greater then anyone else.
I mean, hilarious point, but I'm not sure it's valid. Clearly he's numbering things here, but I am guessing in the real world you're far likelier to see tests of typing or some not-numerically-indexed value rather than literally numbered ENUMs
The Swiss tried geothermal power at large scale but the initial tests caused two earthquakes of 3.5 and 3.4 respectively. They then stopped the project.

Maybe somebody else has examples of well running geothermal power plants but at least the Swiss are quite vary of them.
One of the greats is "number of bugs fixed". You're practically begging your less-than-ethical programmers to create silly bugs so they can "fix" them and get a cookie.

Edit to add: This happens outside of programming as well. I know a guy who worked at AT&T as a DSL Installation & Repair tech. They had such a focus on how long techs spent on a given job (less time was encouraged, more time was penalized) that a lot of his co-workers would go to the DSLAM and snip a wire so that they would be called out the next day to fix the problem. He pushed back so heavily on the poor incentive of "getting your numbers up" that he eventually got written up for insubordination. We need a larger eye-roll emoji.
I think it's more simple than that. The way the data is presented to you in Excel makes it incredibly easy to grok.
> but from an analytical perspective there's no difference

Only for embarrassingly impoverished analytical frameworks.

Unless you know of a bank that will loan me seven figures at sub-3% interest rates based on 10% down and my income, and then let me spend that money in the stock market :)
If you do have his books then the reference lists in the back provide a good starting point for further reading.
The problem isn't with US banks but central banks, and it isn't with concentration of wealth but confiscation of wealth through money printing

We very well might have Coinbase, BlockFi etc. act as crypto banks, and BTC whales as the new rich. That's reward for their work and belief. What do you think is the threat vector from BTC miners? The protocol nullifies such threats.

What would be bad is if a central authority could confiscate your work output at its leisure. That's the real battle here
It's fun to joke about it but it's much sadder hearing a real developer talk about it IRL. Someone whose team worked on the previous Google Pay project for 10yrs(!).

Thanks for the link.
It’s not safe to assume that putting information into a profile means that they want it be utilized in a programmatic search or be collected off-site for marketing use.

Users have a wide range of potential motivations for using IG. I know a good cross-section of startup founders and another cross-section of artists and the use-case and expectations for both groups is wildly different!

Further, many IG users are simply using it as the latest iteration of Facebook. Scraping personal information — even if it’s exposed in their profile — might feel like a violation of the relationship they expect to have with a vendor in IG.

This is just, like, my opinion, man.... and I don’t know if it can work for your business but if you find your way out of this mess I encourage you to look at it more from the perspective of users who engage heavily with you, not users who have the most leverage. A subset of your engaged users will also have a lot of leverage.

You want your evangelists to evangelize because they really believe in you. You can manage a relationship with a small number of good evangelists personally rather than through a soulless mass E-Mail (or whatever medium you might use).

A rev share (like you were trying to do) is great but you want to think about it like you’re supporting your key evangelists and reducing their friction in talking about what you’re working on.

Best of luck! I hope you sort things out.
At a larger scale of things given what Bitcoin just made possible and what it's trying to disrupt (decentralized, uncensored), Bitcoin is literally just 12 years old and I feel these judgements are too harsh and too soon for something which is still yet to be adopted or even understood by 95% of the population. The benefits of Bitcoin can truly be appreciated or judged once the tech has been adopted in a relatively larger segment.

Even so, let's say Bitcoin is extremely inefficient and should just be abandoned as a failure (I'm of the opposite view though obviously), what's happening with Ethereum is far more interesting. I've been in the space for a while and the kinds of innovation that's happening on one layer on top of another - ALL on a soon-to-be efficient Proof-of-stake system is absolutely amazing.

I'm actually very surprised I don't see enough discussion and threads on HN regarding the various things happening at such a fast pace (DeFi, Dexes, NFTs, Layer-2 and Sidechains, Eth2 Validation and sharding, other interesting Dapp use-cases).

Given all of these developments, it would be fair to say at least on Ethereum that such "energy inefficient" narrative is soon going to be obsolete. I would love to hear Bill Gates' thoughts on the tech then.

Bill is the one that persued Warren Buffet and tried to get him onboard with Tech companies. I'm surprised it's Bill Gates that now needs someone to get him on board with this massive new emerging field.
That sounds like the Sunk Cost Fallacy. Just because something valuable was already wasted, doesn't make the result valuable.
This is all true (not sure about the "white" part but the "tall" part definitely appears to hold true). But as an introvert, it's been an effective way to just get past the cold introduction hurdle. Met a couple wives this way. Snort.
I wonder if they then normalize this by years of experience
Pokemon cards, collectors card, Fortnite skins, art, watches and I could go on. All these and many many more things are thing people pay money for without any conspiracy behind.

These tokens are already diversified beyond anyones control.
I do use it. All I am saying is that you can't trust anything the terminal tells you. The only way to be sure what you paid is checking the statements at the end of the month and requesting chargebacks if anything isn't correct.
Why does my mind jump to -> {$Important_Figure} says BTC is bad -> People will buy BTC -> The price will rise.
> There is/was a rent moratorium in the US

But that's just not true. There may have been some small local/regional areas that did (not aware of any, but maybe...) and some individual landlords may have, but there was never a federal rent moratorium.

What was done at the federal level was a temporary _eviction_ moratorium... but rents are still incurred and due (plus penalties and interest for late payments.) The restriction is simply that landlords can't evict during the period of the moratorium for late/non-payment anyone who lost jobs/hours during the pandemic and would likely become homeless or be forced to live with additional people.
That’s what I often think. We have the technology. Sure it will take some time to iron out the kinks and there will be transmission losses but we can do this with current technology.

Despite all the recent talk the real barriers are lack of political will and investment, it was viewed as an emergency we could pull it off very quickly indeed.
I am all for sharing. The problem is this tendency for people to use language that implies their way is "correct" - or worse, "Authentic" as if authenticity has ever made anything taste better by default. I've been told everything from I "haven't really had" tea if it wasn't served properly from a seasoned Yixing pot. Tea fans are gatekeepers of the worst sort.
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AKA Hi I got my first 40,000 users from SEO.
I have no intention of refuting his arguments. I have no strong position on the value of the CPI. OTOH I’ve noticed repeated vociferous defenses of the CPI across various Internet forums which seems out of the ordinary for me, so I’m naturally curious in what drives it. This is not trying to dismiss his argument, I just want to understand from where it’s coming because I think I’m missing something.
Keyshot and Redshift have put PIXAR level rendering within reach of anyone with a modern GPU and can make great use of 64 core AMD now too.
I disagree. Stuff like "Dependency injection" or "Inversion of control" are by far the most inflated names for such simple techniques.

These names were deliberately chosen to inflate academic worth at the expense of clarity.
Access is an interesting beast. Much maligned by IT shops everywhere. But it’s pretty powerful when you think about it as excel with a relational table model and a built-in reporting interface. I mean it makes all the sense in the world why it exists as a business tool, but it’s a cul-de-sac, usually tipping you off that it’s time for a “real” database and/or some COTS apps. Been decades since I seriously used Access, was before I ever got really exposed to true RDBMS’s and writing against them. But it’s probably where I got introduced to SQL, something a surprising number of developers don’t know these days.
Officially by whom?

Go look at the UN Council on Human Rights, which is historically a literal who's who of human rights abusers.

The UN Security Council is actually the only UN group that can officially declare Human Rights Abuses... but of course a single veto prevents that.

The ICC has its own host of issues around bias.

I guess my point is most issues are not as clear cut in the moment as they are in retrospect.

Some are clearer than others, of course. But life is messy, and the victors have always written the narrative that past events are judged. It's a relatively recent artifact where we can argue about this stuff in real time.
But in a sense I realize why this is a problem in English: German an some latin languages have grammatical structure to make it easier to create and understand long phrases. English lacks much of that structure. So, long phrases are difficult to parse. Compare for example Proust novels written in English and in his French original. In English it is almost gibberish, even in good translations.
Please do not abuse Microsoft/GitHub's goodwill of giving free resources. This will just get them taken away from everyone.
> My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

~Dijkstra (1988) "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD1036).

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
Do you think it's true that bitcoin is the solution to a couple of problems that don't exist?
no its not, sign a TX and let the new owner broadcast it whenever he wants to (if ever)

Alice has never given Bob her bank account, more like created another account just for Bob
Why would they feel bad or offended about you asking them where they're from? That's already a weird state for people's psyche to be in. That negative link between "asking where they're from" and the person having negative feelings is precisely the effect that the "propaganda" as OP called it is having on people.
I guess that they're going to ship RISC-V CPUs? Makes sense. Do they still have design chops for making fast implementations?
Not peer-reviewed research but we do lots of tracking of things like marketing materials in various media. Outside organizations do this sort of work as well. And we see a clear decline in the length of content that people want to consume.

I agree that scripted TV hasn't really decreased in length. On the other hand, a lot of video content being consumed is shorter pieces on YouTube.
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If you have lived a good life, is dying a problem?
So you would, I'm assuming they asked you so there's no issue of forcing beliefs on people.

Why is 'forcing beliefs' even at question, you surely don't think whether you're forcing your beliefs on someone when the issue is carrying luggage?

Or, maybe they're different classes of activity and you already realise this ...
Not that it isn't an underdeveloped area, but the needs of the streaming cases are different. One key difference is if there is no feedback/interaction on the livestream, then there could easily be a relatively long time buffer that would not be noticed. Vs moving a mouse pointer around on a desktop where it would get annoying at a few hundred milliseconds. It also leads to differences in how the encoders and decoders need to be applied.
Sorry what are the mandated changes which require phone-based authentication which can't be tied to a Google account? Which authorities? Why did this require the website to be locked down?
It's honestly just unpleasant working over a laptop when your work is video or 3D. It's the difference between working over a hot jet engine or just a gently humming tower.

Not to mention some 3D/video workflows are just unfeasible with the lack of power available in laptops.
Why even comment out? We have version control for a reason
Must be great for those teams. Want to make an argument for a raise to non-tech management? Start writing paragraph comments and flowery code.
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The tricky side of this is languages that encourage terseness through "clever" syntax.

But that's arguing syntax instead of principle, I think generally "less code" means "fewer expressions to evaluate"
Is there anywhere which optimizes for LOC count today? I figure everyone knows by now LOC is a bad metric.
> making thinly veiled insinuations that his opponent is a shill for the BLS or whatever.

That was definitely not what I was doing at all. If I am giving off that impression then that’s my mistake but this is purely a curiosity.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

> Assume good faith.

Please do me the same courtesy friend. This is out of a genuine curiosity for knowledge.
Excuse me, our Tory government has a long history of competence.

/s
Sounds like a nightmare for the artist compared to the status quo. Specially, I could imagine that the thought of your workstation being ephemeral does not sit well with somebody that is not used to the sophisticated version control tools available to software engineers
> My personal point of view is that: every line of code you write is a liability.

Very true... but also false in a way.

Here's a little bit of functionality that has to be in there to implement the way we're solving the problem. That code is a liability; it would be better to solve the problem in a way where we don't need this bit of code.

But given that we're solving it this way, let's say that this little bit of functionality may be implemented in one line, which is almost unreadable, or in five very clear lines. That one line is far more of a liability than the five lines are.
I haven't had any issues on Android 11 with FairEmail using a foreground service. I believe that the changes coming in 12 are able to be worked around though, and at minimum a version distributed outside of the Play Store won't be affected. There's some get-outs to Google's changes at least as they stand right now, but who knows if that will remain the case in subsequent versions.

I haven't seen any suggestion the radio is being pinned active - it seems to still sleep fine, and I believe an incoming messages triggers a downlink page to the phone, which will then wake the radio to deliver the packets.
You might want to start with something "comfortable" , which may not be a digital tool. If you learn well kinesthetically, pencil and paper might be a great start that then becomes easier to translate into a raster or vector based tool.

Or if you feel otherwise, really, its more about understanding some basic fundamentals about spatial relationships, telling stories with visuals, etc. look for content around that rather than tool-specific guidance. Those skills can be abstracted to any tool (much like drum rudiments can be adapted to any configuration of drum kit you could play).
"GDP per capita is income per capita" Stopped reading after this.
I hit a file in Webstorm that literally freezes the app for 4 minutes while it analyzes the syntax. The same file in VScode was done within a couple of seconds. VSCode imo is definitively faster.