skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theres a lot of people on here who have no idea what they're talking about but make claims there is a better coin. Theres always a tradeoff they dont fully comprehend.
Which is exactly why you need to add feedback loops to the system (minimum wage, progressive taxation, etc), to prevent it from devolving into Bioshock.
I know someone who just took out a loan on Ethereum to buy a house.

That's its usage.

https://defipulse.com/

Every one of those "apps" is usage on Ethereum, everything from trading (Uniswap, think of it as a Coinbase competitor), loans (Maker), to mutual fund like assets (Yearn).

It's hard to convey in a few words how much better buying a house using Maker/Eth was compared to going to a bank. Everything about the process smashes the traditional system.
Of course, Project Veritas isn't honest. People pretend they are but know they aren't, and then assume "the other side" must be just as bad.
When I started working with the internet in 1995, it truly did feel like a commons. You were free to put up your own site, on your own server, whether your purpose was business, art, or simply being there. This glorious phase of freedom unfortunately did not even last the 150 years that Hickel examined between the plague and the capitalist acceleration of the European enclosure movement, but rather a brief 15 or so.

I'm having a really, really hard time getting past this paragraph. In what way am I not free to put up my own site, on my own server? I have literally done that, many times.
Starving to death together with the rest of your tribe - your parents, your siblings, your friends, your kids - must be mentally excruciating. Famine has been considered one of the worst curses of humanity since the dawn of written records at least.

How happy are we who have never experienced that! How would our ancestors envy us!
And what stops the bitcoin miners from collectively deciding that their current bitcoin reward is too puny and changing the code to give them 1M bitcoin per block?
You doubted me for wondering? Ok.
XMR has the Bitcoin core devs developing for it and it has nothing technologically "surpassing" Bitcoin. Bulletproofs for Monero were written by GMaxwell. Do all people on HackerNews outside of my own bubble also constantly speak about things from a position like they know things when they clearly know nothing of the subject matter?
Yes it will. You should preserve it and/or donate it once you no longer want or need it.
I don't think you need a book. When commodities are priced primarily in USD then a decrease in the value of USD leads to an increase in the number of dollars required to make the same purchase.

Increase in any price can be seen as an increase in item value or a decrease in USD value. It takes a more in depth analysis of the market to determine which is the cause of price increase.
Along with dehydration, I'm surprised he does not mention salt/carb manipulation, which I'm sure he did as well.

Step 7 here is likely counterintuitive for most - to look big and shredded you typically want to carb-load right before the camera comes out: https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-scientific-steps-to-c...
with all due respect, have you ever talked with a poly person or known one?
Taiwan Says Semiconductor Industry Has Enough Water to Operate Until Late May
Not any time soon as can still buy them: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/single-board-computers/125330...
You can probably get Google Play Music working with local mp3s if you reset to the factory version of the app and disable auto updates(worked on my Pixel 3).
And that's great! But there's a reason I used qualifiers like "most", not "all".

If you bill by the hour, there's a reasonable (but not necessarily correct or optimal) case to be made for measuring your productivity in terms of billable hours.

But it makes zero sense to do so if your hours are disconnected from the economic activity that results from your work. In such cases, it would be completely arbitrary to measure hours and call that a measure of productivity. Just as arbitrary as lines of code.
http://www.chapwoodindex.org/
C++ was pretty horrible prior to C++98 as well (and likely 33 out of 50 ways to initialize a variable already existed by then). It did improve considerably within the past decade under the auspices of the committee.
Aren't the audio watermarks still present regardless?
How much electricity does the Microsoft OS use globally?
I think the trick for PoS coins has to come from keeping their transactions flowing without censorship. PoS coins feel to me like I can call someone, and they could freeze funds somehow. I cannot prove my suspicion, but PoS coins should trend towards fewer and fewer validators which means fewer and fewer points of failure edit:(or rather, more and more single points of failure).
It was unclear if "v8" of the MIPS architecture is a re-branded RISC-V or if v8 MIPS is a combined RISC-V + MIPS or what.
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning in 13 Lines of Code Using PettingZoo
This is a greater issue with the extension/app ecosystem.

This morning I wanted to find a android app which would help me time exercises, specifically planking.

It should be simple, set up countdown times for front and each side with 5 second breaks in between, playing a tone to let me know when I can move on or I am done with the exercise.

I looked through at least the top 20 apps on the play store and all of them require at least full network access and to run at startup. Many were so invasive as to request location and to be able to record audio and take pictures.

Being able to monetize these apps is an important thing for developers but it is becoming a real problem I do not see getting any better soon.
Whenever I see them eaten on a cooking show I get the impression I couldn't handle the texture.
Why can't it be the hope that it's worth something (not necessarily a lot more)?
Aaah, now I understand how people came up with the strange idea to place opening curly brackets into a new line. Suddenly this all makes sense.
I can see why, my limited experience with white shoe law firms was they billed us 100 hours for the 10 minutes it took a legal secretary to do a search and replace on another contract they did for someone else.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/search?q=video+g...
Last time I looked into this, K9 didn't work in background continuously (since Android requires displaying a notification for that, and K9 never implemented it). And nothing seems to be happening in this regard.

However, I wasn't able to make FairMail to deliver without a considerable delay either—despite it displaying a notification and being excluded from ‘battery optimization’. But apparently it's just me.
You take what affordances are offered when there's no hope in the future.
Thanks for sharing! What a neat moment to observe a friendly in-person interaction, reconnected via the internet years later.

To me it seems like this is an example of how "the explosive expansion in access to opportunity facilitated by the internet" isn't limited to business opportunity.
Bitcoin is divisible to 0.00000001, so if a bitcoin was worth $10 million, the smallest possible transaction would still be worth just 10 cents (+ transaction fees).
An article from Brave saying how good Brave is. Not much source criticism.
Someday accountants and business people everywhere will bite the bullet and spend the 5 hours or so it takes to get a working knowledge of R and finally step into the first world of programming languages.
Let's start with getting code, then working code, before we start complaining that your new proposed novel method doesn't generalize well
I've always wondered this myself, how many bugs in my own backyard have never been studied or classified? When you include microscopic organisms, it is definitely in the many thousands.
> polyamory is O(n!)

wow, that,s the best explanation i,ve seen yet. the rewards are also up there.
TBH the perspective that humans will learn to control meteorites is a bit frightening.

Because I would like to believe that this capability will only ever be used to protect the Earth from them, but our history says otherwise. Anything that can be used as a weapon will ... well, at least enter the arsenals, and only fear of devastating retaliation will stop people from actually using it. Or has, so far.
PS1, PS2 and PSP also used MIPS processors and were each much more successful than the N64.
There are certainly a lot of people who use it for tax evasion, to be sure. One interesting tangible example that this problem exists is the recent removal of large bank notes by the Indian Central Bank, which was done expressly to combat tax evasion and money laundering.

The fact that lots of people in India have had serious issues because they were unbanked does seem to indicate that there's a sizable population of people using cash for everything*. I'm curious if there's any research into whether that's for tax-evasion reasons or for some other reason.

My personal belief is that the number one use is for money laundering, and that people who are using it that way would be willing to pay taxes on the money they are laundering from some other illegal activity. For instance, there are all-cash drug dealers who pay taxes on their drug money. I'm sure Al Capone wishes in retrospect that he'd paid taxes...
Astrocytes derived from patients with bipolar disorder malfunction
I work on Jump Desktop (https://jumpdesktop.com) that's being used for remote video editing @ 60fps on up to 3 monitors. It supports very low latency remote desktop and even works in environments that have high latency. For example here's Jump connected from the east coast to a physical server in Paris with 150ms ping times between the two: https://twitter.com/jumpdesktop/status/1356679263806763013?s...

It works on Macs and Windows. It works really well with text as well as full motion video.
It totally is. R is even faster and more productive than Excel.
The problem with SQL is that it is not great with pivoting. But maybe that is not a big problem when you auto-generate the SQL.

I agree, SQL is what I like more for mangling. Except for the pivot/melt part that is
Your post listed a bunch of political positions and tropes from two rough areas: far right and centrist. It’s true that the two camps are particularly upset at each other in the US over pointless culture differences despite having little disagreement materially.

You didn’t list any examples of anyone even railing against left or far left positions, either real or perceived. No seizing of means of productions, forming worker’s councils, arming the working class, general strikes, abolishing private (not personal) property, black nationalism, revolution, etc. Not even just trade unions.

You can argue all you want that the two camps you described both perceive HN to be biased against them, but both you and them entirely ignore the existence of actual communists. The range of your comparisons stops well before going that far left. So how can you even analyse whether HN is biased towards the (global) right if your range of politics doesn’t even extend to the left past the US mainstream?
NASA leadership escaped consequences for designing a ridiculously unsafe launch system, and playing politics to choose their 4th rated SRB design to get Utah’s congressional vote.
I went to make a SQL to AST parser; was absolutely shocked to discover you had to purchase the SQL standard.
I would put it differently. Rust sacrifices anything -- including things that may hurt other aspects of correctness -- to soundly guarantee (assuming the compiler is correct) no undefined behaviour in its safe subset (and yet makes some concessions, as a large percentage of Rust programs do employ unsafe code, and so don't make such a strong guarantee), while Zig finds a different balance, at times sacrificing possible UB for the sake of helping with functional correctness. Even if you look at correctness only, it is unclear which approach, if any, offers a better story.
Check out the book "The Charisma Myth" by Olivia Fox Cabane. The premise of the book is Charisma is just another skill - something that can be learned and practiced, and is something the author coaches to C-level execs with a history of success.
>> I live in Boston, where I think talking with your hands isn't particularly popular...

What made you come to that conclusion, or are you spending all your time amongst a very particular subset of the Boston population?
Also ECMA (C# and JavaScr... er, ECMAScript) which provides standards at no cost vs ANSI (no notable language specs since C and Pascal) which charges a fee.
Defending the commons, the case of free music
My understanding is that they want to control the user experience and supporting hardware they have little control over prevents that.

They sell the Apple TV hardware for that and, in my experience, it's much better than anything Samsung has ever come up with.
For one it lets you avoid controlling for the wrong variables and causing e.g. spurious correlations by doing so. In fact this is one of the best examples of why a causal model is necessary, because without one you can easily end up with a correlation that doesn’t exist as is illustrated quite nicely in his book.
Oh god, why??

I made a point, which you missed and you're telling me that I missed your point? seriously?

I'm just telling you that this technology is suitable for doing the job of a paper-title, but in a digital way. Is it that hard?
I think the key here is "tech oriented" companies. If the product of the company is tech, then it's more possible for the devs to make a significant positive revenue impact.

In those cases, if the numbers add up (600k dev generates +3+MM revenue per year because of what and how they do), then it makes sense.

Perhaps the biggest shift in EU developer salaries will come from a shift in what types of businesses operate here. If that begins with US tech companies expanding here, then great. But I would like to see EU founded and grown tech companies to compete. I'm afraid what probably happens is the good ideas get built here and bought up by the US giants.
Litecoin is literally a fork of Bitcoin with the hashing algo switched to Scrypt and made by Charlie Lee (which was hardened against ASICs mining) with a 4x supply release, and which ironically became mined primarily by custom Scrypt ASICs only. Whatever in the world would make you say "Isn't Litecoin better than Bitcoin?"
They were procreating 45 years ago with S.
A bank is good at storing value over time. I'd argue that bitcoin is not, considering all the lost wallets and wild swings in value.

From my limited vantage point, BitCoin's actual use cases are underground/gray markets and speculation.
But bitcoin can't be transferred and traded.

Nobody accepts it as payment, because its value is too volatile, speculation-driven, and nobody wants to spend it, because it is deflationary.

And that's not even considering the fact that it can only be transferred at around 6 transactions per second, less than 1/10,000th of the transaction volume of Visa.
There are plenty of writers - I know several - that seem to think Hemingway's style is the "correct" one. And it may be, for business use-cases, where clarity is more important than beauty, insight, nuance, individuality, or consonance with the meaning of the text.
Decisions are moral/political/biological, not statistical
I would argue that bitcoin isn't money. It's an asset that has to be converted to/from money on each end to be useful. There's not a lot you can buy directly with bitcoin. Sure there is more every day, but even then the vendor is really just providing a hidden bitcoin conversation service, because I don't think there exists an entire supply chain that can be done with Bitcoin (as opposed to say USD or EUR).

Furthermore, all bitcoin transactions involve many 3rd parties. The key feature is that you don't have to trust the third parties, not that they don't exist.
IMO it's more likely a result of a global pandemic disrupting labor and supply chains combined with some unlucky weather events hurting crop yields.
When you get done I suspect you will have a strong urge to take a shower and also a newer, deeper understanding of "ignorance is bliss"

Google are amateurs compared to LN....
Tech companies say they can’t find good employees – companies may be the problem
This is indeed huge.

Should open the path for the modernization of the auto chip industry, according to [1], 80% of ADAS chips are based on mips.

[1] https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/02/28/174460...
Does this include factoring in the difference of how much it costs to maintain a centralized banking system? Because for all we know Bitcoin is actually better for the planet.
Thank you for providing some sorely needed color photos!
Housing and health expenditure are listed as components of the CPI [0], so it's almost certain that they're included in its calculation.

Again, inflation means an increase in the general price level. An increase in the price of bread is not inflation, because the price of bread is not the price level. It can be used as a data point to try to estimate a change in the price level, but by itself it doesn't tell us anything about the inflation rate (unless of course bread is the only good being produced in the economy).

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm
so basically the same architecutes that have been widely deployed for the past 20+ years?
.mil servers unreachable on Cloudflare DNS
In a time of vast databases of paywalled scientific papers you're telling me nobody has a collection of ISO standards?
My comment was rather extensive and I feel it explained my point rather well. Nowhere did it say that I doubted you, so I'm going to be charitable and guess that you just didn't really read it.
And what is the value of a distributed computer?

Turns out, virtually nil, because it's been around for 8 years and nobody is using it, because there is no real-world use case for contracts written as software.
Moreover, it is just like any other code you write. It's undecidable whether a function you write will ever stop in the general case, but I'm pretty sure you are able to easily prove most of your functions are going to finish.
Gaisler and the ESA are launching SPARC into space.

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/components/gr740
I love 'Ted Lasso,' but man do I hate Apple TV Plus
Yes, I absolutely still recommend Excel/Sheets.

It highly depends on what work you need to do, but in general I use Excel for quick and dirty data crunching where the number of rows isn't that big (<100,000) and I don't expect to need to repeat the analysis often. For example, as a cyber security analyst, one-off sifting through some CSV format logs. Being able to do some basic transforms on the data with the benefit of real-time visualization is nice.
Knowing the specifics matters.

The Thiokol SRB design wasn’t safe in very cold weather, and the Challenger launch was on the coldest weather ever attempted.

That’s why the warnings for this flight.
I am a rather seasoned database person at this point, but when I wasn't - when I was just getting into database interactions - I had an academic background in relational algebra and I knew that SQL was the main communication language. For day to day work this was fine but at one point I was tasked with making our application DBMS neutral with support for running on top of SQLServer (TSQL), PostgreSQL, and MySQL. My first thought when coming to this problem was, well, let's take a good look at the grand daddy doco so I attempted to find the SQL standard.

It disappoints me that, to this day, the best reference for pure SQL out there are the postgres docs, postgres is actually pretty good about calling out non-compliances so you can get a really good grounding of what code is likely to be cross platform compatible.

I 100% agree with Tim Sweeney's sentiment. ISO are terrible at their job.
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I was going to say "I didn't say all", but you're right, I didn't qualify. I meant the majority of lawyers, which I think is still accurate.

I also agree it doesn't break down along professional lines. Just used lawyers as an example, but I shoulda been clearer about my intent.
Thanks for this perspective, I think from my naive standpoint I would build a flow-based system at the application layer and simply code generate/translate to standard networking calls.

However even with such a paradigm I could see plenty of potential for abuse, even unwittingly - while sequential programming forces you to try-catch, flow based programmers may end up connecting the “error flow” back to the original flow that caused the error, creating an infinite loop that would be much harder to debug.
I think it's pretty elitist to think that only the highly educated can read your sentence.
How does DO handle overlapping VPC IP space per customer?
Drones in Ghana deliver Covid vaccines to rural communities
What RISC-V achieves is architectural diversity over the boring mov, add, mul instructions: the interesting part is in vector and matrix manipulation, and while RISC-V is working on a great solution, it allows for other accelerators to be added.
From that article, after a bunch of paragraphs about how Facebook probably isn't listening to your speech (but also isn't trustworthy):

> Another report, published in Wired last year, explained how hundreds of apps use “ultrasonic tones” to track where you’re going in physical space. These apps need access to your microphone, but not to actually listen to you, just to “beacon” noises emitted in stores and by advertisements. So ... rest easy.
The iMac Pro has been discontinued
Criticism of Google
UK Wartime Broadcasting Service – WTBS
That makes a little bit of sense if by "component" you mean not a software component but a unit of work users care about (e.g. a document).
If you want a resource that's limited and can't be created by central banks, why not use something like Gold/Silver like we used to? While not going trying to debate on whether we should
or should not use a limited resource as currency, but if we did Bitcoin seems like a wasteful thing to use.
Julia in VSCode is nice. The speed gains from Julia are worth it alone if you are working with large datasets.
Not sure these models are accurate as they don't provide citation.

They seem to equate kwh to some co2 emissions value and just multiplies them to create a comparative value.
But wouldn't we always want block space to be at least a little bit of a bidding war? After all anything I add to the blockchain is stored permanently and massively georeplicated.

Miners don't have to store the full chain, end users don't need to store the full chain, but somebody has to store it. Seems like those people, the people running full nodes, should have the final say on how big the blocks are and therefore what the throughput of the network is. I guess in reality, they do, since they decide which fork to run. Right?