skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but Qualcomm... They’re perfectly happy sitting in their arses if there’s nobody to kick them around, and they’re just a nuisance generally. I hope I’m wrong, but they won’t have direct competition from Apple because it looks unlikely that M1 devices will run Windows. They seem to be more or less happy with being 2 generations behind Apple on phone SoCs. And they basically gave up on wearables.

So instead of having Wintel/Mac we’ll have Wincomm/Mac or Wintel/Wincomm/Mac; not sure it’ll be much better.
That one hurt when it deteriorated into adware. At its prime, it was a great app, and being able to control my TV using the IR Blaster in my HTC One M7 really felt like The Future™ for a brief couple years.

Now the app is gone and phones have removed the IR Blaster.
I don't think discussing the current state of US law is particularly interesting. My argument is from a moral standpoint.
You should see what it does to The Old Man And The Sea!

8 of 263 sentences are hard to read.
15 of 263 sentences are very hard to read.
The article has a one sentence quote from Gates in it, in which he shows a level of expertise anyone could reach from reading one of the hundreds of recent articles about bitcoin.

Why is this noteworthy? I don't really disagree with his assessment, but his words are being given undue importance here.
I've renamed my working branch to never-ending-story because that's how I feel about rust, it's not fun anymore.

Often, I do a small PoC which works but then I put it inside bigger project I'm hitting one wall after another. Sure, simple examples work fine but advanced usage almost always break and I don't have any expectations anymore (I will avoid new features next time).

Some examples:

- it's still not possible to write your own smart pointer
which would work with dyn traits, including coercions

- macros have artificial limits when called from other
macros (which is exactly why you can't do a PoC and put it into bigger project)

- borrow-checker is very dumb and even simple things like
x(&mut self.a, &mut self.b) don't work and require you
to do destructures, inners and other mumbo-jumbos.

- often, solution is to write macro, I feel like I'm
writing macros all the time lately
(and macros are entirely different language BTW)
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I like the Hemingway app, but it is very much designed to make you write like Hemingway (ie short, clear sentences _only_). Obviously most great writing is not in this style.

The Hemingway app is good for work emails and marketing copy, or if you happen to like that style. It is hardly the universal arbiter of "poor or confusing writing".
You might even argue that they require a blockchain not to exist. A coin that's designed to be centralized needs blockchain (as opposed to something simpler like a hash chain) like a fish needs a snorkel.
This is Bill Gates: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

Stop giving so much credence to every utterance that comes out of this guys mouth.
> Contactless debit cards can be skimmed without being authd too;

nitpicking, but contactless cards as far as I am aware cannot be "skimmed" (a process of copying the information from a magnetic stripe and creating a cloned card). If the payment terminal can handle a chip, it will refuse to downgrade the security. In addition, countries are marked as chip only, which means it's almost impossible to get a bank to authorise a transaction for a card that should have a chip in a country where most readers are chip-capable. And if the card was suddenly used in a non-chip region, any good bank would block it.

All you can do with contactless is relay the signal over the internet, but that introduces delay and can sometimes be detected by the reader.
Polluting and overheating the planet to make numbers in a computer go up.
A "blight on Soviet Science" is redundant. "Soviet science" was science blighted by soviet ideology.

The achievements of soviet scientists stands as testimony to their perseverance and skill in-spite of the crushing weight of ideology. One wonders what they could have achieved in those 70 years absent that crushing force.
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With bitcoin, you are paying for security. I know if I send you a bitcoin transaction there is a high probability it won't be reverted in our lifetime, possibly ever. I'm not a maxi but these new projects don't have that guarantee yet; likely they never will.
Tell the AMA to allow more MDs.
Inflation is caused by somebody asking for more money and somebody else paying it.

That's a failure of competition keeping prices in check, and little else.

The wealthy person you are looking for is Warren Mosler. He retired to the US Virgin Islands many years ago having made a fortune off the back of people who believed in the Quantity Theory of Money

You can read his conclusions in the book "Soft Currency Economics".
> There's no point in arguing what she should have done because we can't change the past

There is, so we can prevent the next person from making the same mistake.
>But there’s one software product born in 1985

Excel born in 85? Ok, but spreadsheets were around long before Excel
> You don’t have to be a nationalist far-right in order to have an objective look at the situation in EU

Sure, but I didn't say that. I said those are the only ones I hear making unsubstantiated alarmist claims about Europe, and/or their respective home countries, "declining and sinking". I have no problem with people pointing out specific problems, like you did with wages and tech innovations. This opens up for constructive debate. Screaming that we're doomed does not.
False choice. Bitcoin mining isn’t going to replace military force as they address different problems.
There is no final plan yet, but it won't pass through Turkey's EEZ unless they join the eastMed forum.

Here s another image https://trendsresearch.org/insight/turkey-and-the-geopolitic...
I agree. Centralized media equals a controlled narrative. Gone are the days of investigating prestige and bi-partisan reporting. Maybe it never really existing though...

It's clear that the majority of reporters lean center to far left politically. When it comes to topics that will make their "side" look bad, there's usually a lack of intellectual curiosity for the truth. This happens on both sides, of course, but the frequency and instances are much greater on the left-leaning reporting.

There's daily examples of where political narratives override digging in the truth. Project Veritas covers a lot examples of this: https://www.projectveritas.com/search/videos/?query=new%20yo...

No matter what you believe in, the publisher should be honest about their viewpoint instead of pretending they are not biased. Ben Shapiro is a good example of this. You know who he is and he clearly lays out the framework of evaluation. If you know where someone is coming from, you can then properly evaluate their points at a rational level rather than an emotional level.
> Bitcoin has finality

Indeed, and that's the source of many issues.

> on top of bitcoin you can build the arsenal of tools.

Which shows again that you didn't read the article, or read it and didn't understand a single argument in it.

> Lower value transfers got priced out because fees that previously were low in dollar terms have become high in dollar terms because Bitcoin was previously $1 and now it’s $50,000.

So, both the article and me were correct about transfer fees.

> Payments in payment channel are settled as fast as your internet latency

Once again, payment channels are required due to inherent limitations of Bitcoin. So, in order to combat the absolutely real and valid issues raised in the article, you dismiss them out of hand, while... advocating for additional systems built on top to valiantly combat these issues. smh

--- start quote ---

Only two transactions are settle on the Bitcoin blockchain. the first transaction and the last. The first transaction is used to open the channel by locking the funds, and the last one to close channel and get each participant his final balance back. So in a typical payment channel, only two transactions are added to the block chain but an unlimited number of payments can be made between the participants.

--- end quote ---

So, all transactions are happening outside bitcoin in a completely separate system just because Bitcoin can't handle all this.

> so for all intents and purposes transaction capacity in bitcoin payment channels is infinite.

Of course it's not :)

It's two transactions in Bitcoin, so the actual transaction time of the actual assets in Bitcoin that people care about will be (10 to 30 minutes) times 2.

And it's the capacity of the payment channel, and that depends on the implementation.

And on top of that the actual true transaction time and transaction capacity will depend solely on when the payment chain will commit those transactions to blockchain.

Congratulations, you've invented classical banking.

Oh, yes. They still don't solve the actual use-case of "micropayments": receiving multiple "micropayments" from multiple people. So, a cafe would get flooded with "micropayments" from dozens of people during rush hour. In payment channel terms this will be two transactions per person with a micropayment on a blockchain with unknown fees and waiting times. Perfect.

> Payment channel systems are already built and they don’t require centralisation.

Of course they do. It's a separate system built outside of bitcoin that aggregates multiple transactions between users. Aggregation simply by definition implies centralisation.

> You obviously know next to nothing yet you keep arguing trying to pretend to be smart and knowledgeable.

These ad hominem attacks sure do make you look smart and knowledgeable.*
Steve Balmer and Bill also used to call Linux a cancer
but look now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-07/hackers-b...

their OS filled with malicious stuff and who knows what kind of backdoors is when exploited by hackers, they blame it on China rather than taking responsibility of putting users at risk with vulnerable OS
> it’s no silver bullet: your software is not going to crash and burn if you don’t write your tests first, and the presence of tests alone does not mean you won’t have maintainability issues

This is not what tests are for. Tests rarely catch bugs for the first version of their code. They often catch bugs in modifications to that code, and any bugs that aren't caught can be added as a test. Tests are like checkpoints in video games. They guarantee that you don't regress past a point. Over time you build up so many checkpoints that your code is hard to break without a test failing. It's an evolutionary process.
> PoS is not secure.

That is quite a huge claim. You need to give some arguments for this.
I write semi-professionally, and it amazes me how much you have to unlearn from your time in college, which required unlearning from your time in high school, which required unlearning from your time in grade school.

I still remember a horrifying 2-page (gasp!) paper from 5th grade where the requirements where so stringent (The 5th sentence has to be a thesis statement! Start each paragraph with a transition. Each paragraph has to support the thesis.), writing it mostly meant plugging in key words in the template like a mad-lib. And it really messed up my writing for a while.

When trying to convey nuanced topics, I often feel like a Neanderthal (no offense I guess?) trying to bang adjectives together hoping for meaning to appear. I think a lot of the stuff I was taught about composition and sentence structures was worse than not learning anything. And I wish I could go back and learn from an actual writer instead of a teacher.

I think we have a larger problem where our education system is laser focused on "knowledge" and often abjectly refuses to teach anything that can be called a "skill".
New tools, same old tricks. We've just upgraded from turtle shells to web apps.
> who was presumably thought to have zero counterparty risk?

By my understanding: people just forgot about counterparty risk in 2008.

You have to remember: banks like Lehman Brothers have been around for over 100 years. The idea that a big bank would collapse was a completely alien thought in 2007.

It was one of those "don't care" situations. Oh, they're a big bank. They wouldn't choose to take on more insurance than they can handle (or whatever). I don't care which bank is the CDS insurance, I just want some insurance from somebody. Besides, mortgages have been reliable for decades, getting CDSes to cover my ass on an already safe mortgage is the height of paranoia. Etc. etc.

-------------

You also have to remember that various banks work pretty hard to "hide their hands". If you hear that a big bank is selling CDOs, the all the smaller banks will similarly sell CDOs (trying to get a "piece of the action").

If you're a big bank deciding to make a $500 Billion bet, you really want to make sure that the details of your bet remains a secret. Otherwise, the smaller banks (who are more agile than you) will make those deals before you finish your deal.
Come on - you’d say the same thing about the freeway that plowed through some wonderful neighborhoods and blights us with noise and pollution. It’s all good. Cars are going electric, Ethereum is going to become efficient - problem solved. /s
Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer
why present a false dichotomy? it's more like you choose bitcoin mining and military force or just military force
It's sad to think that the lousy state of journalism in the 90s and early 2000s might have actually been a golden age.
If surveillance is increased a bit more, the government won't need to use force to get your money.. they'll just use some rootkit chip on whatever device to get your private key.

I am also doubtful of PoS but perhaps there's a way to make a greener coin using some amount of trust and regulation?
Indeed this is a rather confused map, the zones demarcated in that map are the EEZ(Exclusive Economic Zones). As they are claimed by Greece and Cyprus. Two hundred nautical miles from their shores or the middle line where they overlap with the Turkish EEZ.

The crux of the dispute though is that while that's how Greece and Cyprus interpret their rights, there is no provision in UNCLOS for handling overlaps, it only says there should be an agreement.

As far as the pipeline is concerned, I think the Greek plan would be to make the pipeline, a bit more to the south where Greek and Cypriot zones meet.
> If I chose to have sex with whats regarded as very good protection and birth control, and I still get pregnant

Are you saying that's the most likely case here?
Arguably it may also be because without JAOT compilation as in Julia, multiple dispatch normally comes with a significant runtime performance cost, as far as I understand.
There are a lot of terrible things that we use or were using. I don't want to sound mean, but Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 were not that great. Not to mention Windows Millennium Edition.

Think of all that electricity wasted because people could not get their work done, they had to stay longer in the office wasting water, electricity, getting frustrated, etc.

And that's all because Bill's mom was working in IBM management.
“In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.”

Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō
1330 - 1332 AD

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...

Congrats on joining the long, proud, ancient history of saying society is going to hell.

—

But as to contemporary TV: it ain’t junk. You want to see junk? Go back to the 1970s. Three’s Company? The Love Boat? The Brady Bunch? Any of the awful cheesey variety shows? Modern TV is vastly, hugely better than what it used to be, in terms of acting, cinematography, and music. And I’d argue more intellectually challenging—so many of the hit shows have long, ongoing arcs, instead of standalone episodes, that require viewers to get invested and understand the plot threads. Takes a lot more brainpower to keep track of what’s going on in Watchmen than The Dukes of Hazzard.
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What about proof of stake is not secure?

I think it's clear that the electrical use of proof of work will become a serious issue if Bitcoin (or similar blockchain) becomes widely adopted. Do you have a suggestion on how to address that issue, or do you believe it's a non-issue entirely?
I sometimes write for one of the online tech pubs. The tool you publish through has a reading difficulty score which I always fail. (I mostly ignore it; at most I might tweak a couple of things.) Also all sorts of SEO-related stuff.
My team is in Canada. When I visited them (pre-pandemic) it was routine for the group to have a beer at lunch and maybe even two on a Friday. I've literally never seen anyone do that on any team I've worked on in the States and I've heard it both implied and stated directly, depending on the boss, that doing so could lead to termination. I ordered a beer a few times on those trips and it felt scandalous!
Just because you don't like a piece of writing does not mean the writing is bad.

> I have so many questions.
> Is the person a writer for New Yorker? Is The Drunken Canal somehow related to the New Yorker? What is The Drunken Canal? How was she “regretting” something at that point in time? Vocally or otherwise? What publication was being stored in those unmarked white newspaper boxes? Wait, is The Drunken Canal a publication?

> Something like this would be more clear:

It's also more boring. There are people who like things to be a bit more entangled, as real life often is, and that's what that writing caters for.

--

People like this guy who seem to be believe there's only one correct way to write, who actually believe you can put writing that is supposed to be pushing the envelope into "an app that identifies poor writing" and use the results piss me off. Grammarly and similar have their uses of course, but I dread the day people actually use it to clamp down on anything that's slightly different than the norm (as this guy is doing), and everyone will be forced to write in a style that conforms with what an ML model says is okay. It is my personal nightmare.
Wow. What? This may be the worst false dichotomy I've ever seen.
The intro is a parody, so don't turn it off after 1 or 2 minutes. I almost did.
Central banks will never truly produce a blockchain based crypto, they won't be able to control it and they will also never make it gold backed, they can't control it.
In the past few hundred years, technological progress has been anti-correlated with environmental health. We live in an age with the most prosperity and luxury but also the most pollution. Bitcoin is no different.

As bitcoin has descended into a new culture war, I'll mention that I believe decentralized payment systems are a huge step in the right direction, but I'll also mention that I do not think this comment should be used as part of the bitcoin crusades. Take it on my word that my opinion is nuanced and that I don't own any cryptocurrencies.

This article is a culture war article itself that does not say anything appreciably new. My opinion is that once everyone knows what side of the culture war they are on, discussion about the topic becomes meaningless.
Military force and law enforcement provide solutions for consensus across great many domains, so they're marginally near-free to use for consensus in any single area of interest. You could say, they are consensus factored out and made incarnate.

Conversely, if all money suddenly become Bitcoin, military force and police would still be needed, in mostly the same amount they are today.
They are talking about POS in ethereum since years.
Author complains about bad writing and includes the following error before the fold:
`her decision to not include an piece`
Pointing this out for the irony, not to denigrate what the author has to say.
> Ada doesn't have the numerical or data frame or stats libraries

Ada has a pretty nice set of numerics (Ada.Numerics.*), but the "lack of libraries" is almost a non-issue when the foreign-function interface is as simple as:

Function Example_1(Item : Some_Matrix) result Some_Matrix
with Import, Convention => Fortran,
External_Name => "EX1";

> or any REPL functionality

There are a few people coming in from data-science who lament the lack of REPL, while I might do one, it's rather low on my list, though I think HAC is trying for REPL or something like it. (I haven't used HAC yet.)

> Language ecosystems are the thing that matters. I'd rather write Avionics or high speed trading systems in Ada, but data science? Maybe for some very niche problems.

I agree that the ecosystems are what matters, and this alone would be enough to fuel my general hatred of C: the amount of time, effort, and money spent on C, whether "making a better C" or crippling tools (eg text-diff vs real semantic diff) or making "it 'mostly' works" accepted is simply astronomical.
> Knowing full well what it would think of James Joyce, I skipped over him

I like to imagine that Finnegans Wake would result in a crash.
I never said I was against welfare, nice slander though! I actually support a UBI. I just also think you shouldn't make decisions that you can't financially support, at any time.
Not only newspapers but even publishers of books. As a translator occasionally hired to translate works of literature, I do the best I can, but my manuscript still needs to go before a good proofreader and copyeditor to make everything just perfect before it is published. I have been dismayed at how now, publishers no longer use in-house staff but just hire an incompetent or lazy copywriter from the developing world off some freelancing platform. The same holds for typesetting. Sometimes the end result is worse than my original manuscript!

Sadly, publishers 1) are competing with e.g. books self-published on Amazon, and 2) noticed that the mass market consuming those Amazon self-published efforts seems pretty OK with content that is full of typos and bad-quality typesetting, so why even bother any more?
The Cobra Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
What would be great is make the code windows tabbed where each code block is listed in R, Python, and Julia... something similar to Dive into Deep Learning.
For example: https://d2l.ai/chapter_linear-networks/linear-regression-scr....

To the book author, thank you so much for all of the hard work on this. I bookmarked it and will refer to it in the future.
Bill Gates and other stupid goverment lobists are bad for the planet.
Not just design. I was so excited to get a 5g oneplus 8,I'd heard great things about the 7 and 7t.

Well I went through three of them with T-mobile and all 3 had serious issues which varied, but all 3 had a very serious battery issue.

All 3 phones were new out of box, and all 3 needed to be charged multiple times per day, probably about 4 with light use. All 3 got hot, and I believe the culprit on all 3 was the front screen fingerprint reader. Upon checking advanced battery usage tab, screen took up 98% of the battery, something I've never even heard of.

Constant random reboots, loss of signal and having to reboot to re-obtain, so hot it was uncomfortable to hold or have in pocket.

I thought about getting a 7t McLaren or whatever, but decided against it due to lack if 5g at the time.

I really hope they ironed out the issues because I'm definitely over Samsung and can't wait to get rid of my current S20+. And the 8 was really a joy to use, wasn't even the pro version and seemed far faster than my s20. Shoot, it took me three failures to finally be forced to try another phone.

Edit: fix words.
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