skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's still recommending blockchain.

He's literally not recommending it in the paper linked. [1]

> There's quite a bit of spirited discussion regarding these points elsewhere.

You'd think that if there was such a discussion, there would be links to it, or articles addressing these points. But,... no.

[1] Edit.

Here's section on permissioned blockchains as a datastore (emphasis mine):

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Solutions can be built on either open source datastores (like mysql or postgres), on proprietary datastores (Oracle), or on blockchains.

Our position on this topic is that the proof is in the pudding: let the bidders describe the system they can build and the costs, let them choose the underlying technologies they will employ, and let the state’s procurement officials select the most competitive bid. If blockchain offers an advantage, they will be well positioned to win in the marketplace.

--- end quote ---

Here's section on unpermissioned or semi-permissioned blockchains as a datastore (emphasis by the authors):

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recall that the most complex and burdensome aspect of maintaining a non-Torrens ledger is preventing false data from entering the system. Absent tremendous progress in digital identity, we believe the types of title fraud commonly seen in the lived experience of the several states would be increased by such a system rather than decreased.

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And then:

--- start quote ---

(v1) We do not see any reason that a permissioned blockchain is inherently more likely to be error-free or fraud-free than the existing system, and so do not believe new technology supports a move to Torrens any more than was the case in the past. (We are open to being proved wrong!)

(v2) Torrens title system implemented on an unpermissioned blockchain. For the reasons described above, we believe this would be a disaster

(v3) imagines that the potential for fraudulent transactions being entered into the blockchain is reduced by using smart contracts or similar means. ... [lists the very serious issue with fraud]

We do not believe the technology is ready to seriously consider moving tens of millions of property owners collectively holding $4 trillion worth of real property in California onto a system such as this one... In contrast, if the adoption was mandatory and universal, it seems likely that just its first year adoption of a system like this would lead to thousands or even tens of thousands of homes being irrevocably and fraudulently transferred

--- end quote ---

And the only "recommendation" is this: if you're evaluating technologies, evaluate all tech, including emerging tech like blockchains on equal footing, and that includes, quote, "potential to make search, record validation, or detection of error or fraud cheaper, faster, or more accurate". In all the points above they considered blockchain on equal footing, and found it wanting.
It looks one-two semi-moves ahead at maximum.
So much can be done within Excel to automate the spreadsheet processes that people are already using Excel/Office to do.

What platform are you using for your product?
the almighty hippopotomus. love playing it against humans too (with limited success)
Microsoft Edge just got a killer upgrade Chrome can’t match
It's a fake desexualization though. They're not showing anyone doing taxes, but they're also not showing extremely good accountants around the place or joke about the huge tax returns. That bare chest, preferably wet after the shower though, spotted by a woman across the room - obligatory.

It's in other aspects of Marvel too. I actually really enjoyed it with Thor Ragnarok when they seemed to stop pretending it's not a stupid comedy with cartoon violence flavouring. Previous ones were "No, no, we're totally serious. Ignore that half the characters are here for comedy value."
But what's discussed here isn't turn-taking, but the fact that conversations tend to wrap up usually well after both parties would rather they end, but also sometimes even when both parties would rather see it continue.
softwaredoug (GP poster) used the word “documentary”
I've had malaria many times. My friend's sister died from it. It is not a laughing matter.
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At it was expected the program is very very weak. The elo should be around 1100-1200. Based on my game it doesn't see more than 1-2 semimoves ahead and doesn't have an opening repertoire. The evaluation function is weak because the program starts the opening by moving lateral pawns and neglecting good piece development and central control
In what contexts and use cases do you see lo-fi video outweighing text or the traditional mediums most? I can see some use cases where this would definitely make since. As some of the other comments mention, I imagine getting people to initially using this new medium is key.
This is the same NPR which says the internet permits information to spread to easily, and that the whole internet needs to be redesigned to more easily censor.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/04/973791961/with-trump-out-of-o...
> Companies IPO mostly because they need money not because investors want liquidity

The amount of money US companies that need money get via initial or secondary public offerings is minuscule compared to other methods companies raise money (credit lines, bonds etc.) It has been that way since at least World War II.
The pieces were meant to be displayed on a composite (NTSC) display rather than with 4-color CGA graphics. Check out the Twitter thread at https://mobile.twitter.com/pinot/status/1330544777847332879.
A recursive acronym of "GNU's Not Unix". (Seriously.)
I am sort of speechless. Am totally put off by the amount of egomaniacal and warmongering posts in this thread.

Sorry you honor. I am the nice guy here. I've only raped few thousands. Lemme off.
AIG insured many of the AAA tranches. Once those started becoming at risk, AIG had to respond to a collateral call--which they couldn't (as the AAA tranches were so huge).

They were further hurt by the fact they kept a huge amount of their assets in AAA MBS. Which had now become illiquid and (temporarily) lost value.

AIG's bailout by the government was a critical inflection point; if they hadn't, the entire insurance/financial services industry was at risk.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b150qdkrd30ggk...
Ruby, too, IIRC. And likely others.
This sounds like a communication / internal messaging issue, especially because the financial outcome (end of day share price) is the exact same.
What is "original people"? Did you mean "ordinary" people? In that case almost every branch of mathematics is useful for "ordinary" people if they have the skills or inclination to make use of it.
I feel the same way - it kind of screwed up my brain up a bit. Most of the results of this seem obvious when you look around, but seeing this articulated so simply was a major surprise.
> but it's the anti-feature

> again, all anti features.

Ah yes. "Anti-features" like protecting your money.

It's easy to "refute" the point and call the author "clueless" if you just call anything useful an anti-feature.

> this also shows how clueless you yourself are in anything bitcoin related.

and immediately:

> And yeah, fees today are higher than fees last year

So you're just confirming the point tht the author said and my update to his numbers.

> micropayments were never supposed to be on chain to begin with.

That's some interesting mental gymnastics. So, according to you, bitcoin is not a worthless payment system, but at the same time you're claiming that it's not supposed to handle the largest chunk of what payment systems routinely handle. I guess, micropayments are an anti-feature, too?
Origin of life: The chicken-and-egg problem
AIG wasn't even in "The Big Short".

That's how crappy of a movie it was from a documentary perspective. They're missing the perspective of one of the major players entirely.
And Bayer now makes aspirin instead of chemical weapons. They've come a long way since their US and Canadian property was confiscated during WWI.

In WWII Bayer used slave labor in its factories that were inside of concentration camps.
Ask HN: What's the best crypto related jobs site?
All the ones I find in google are stale. No active listings.

I'm looking for a site where I can apply on the site, not an aggregator that just links me somewhere else.
60Hz touch scan rate (16.67ms) was common in 2017, but now we can easily buy a phone with 240Hz(4.17ms) touch scan rate. It should be much improvement.
That's true but there's the woke / me-too movement now. I have a "friend" that I met from Tinder during early pandemic, we only met once because of it, and then it was purely sexting exchange of pictures and so on.

Last month she started following a local me-too movement FB group that had women sharing about their past harassment experiences and calling out their aggressors, that ranged from total abuse of power, to sexual innuendos over IM.

Last couple of times we texted each other mostly consisted of her showing me past screenshots of chats where someone (from Tinder) would be sexually suggestive, nothing explicit, and would start to tell me how she didn't realize that she was being harassed and that she's being disgusted by them.
It's a drift over time. Also 90s is just the beginning of tv ratings. TV-PG was founded in late 90s and not fully enforced / known at the beginning.

The change happened over many years since the time we could get ratings only from box office numbers and the review feedback took months.
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And I was confused by that word choice, thinking I was/am unaware of HBO's Chernobyl documentary, which they must have produced to accompany the excellent film/miniseries.
The plan of LambdaChip v0.1.0 and the current status
The big problem is there are few great Android tablets (mostly from Samsung, previously Huawei), and small community to buy them. It's also make less apps released for Android tablets. I prefer Android but I choose iPad because of this situation.
When would Mac OS X ship?
Defending the Indefensible
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Graphics on this need some serious work. Can't tell the difference between a bishop and a pawn. Would love to play it otherwise.
> I wasn't aware that ebay still sold Mein Kampf, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing.

Mein Kampf is listed as a Best Seller on Amazon.

Edit: I'm not sure why I was downvoted. What I wrote is literally true. There is a Best Seller badge next to the first version that is listed, when searching for Mein Kampf.
> The NASA manager who bullied them into agreeing to launch because they couldn’t prove that it was unsafe basically says that if he had his time over he would kill all of the astronauts again. Truly terrifying.

I only know two people who spent their careers at NASA, but with my small sample size this isn't surprising at all. Both of them have never been wrong in their lives. Their hubris is off the charts.
So much for "a woman's right to choose"
Tries to make massive judgemental claims, doesn't account for basics.

How about relative social position of the 2 people to begin with, where is that taken into account?

CEO talking to a junior employee who do you think decides when the conversation ends and how long it's going to be?

Entrepreneur pitching to a hotshot VC at a packed conference. Who decides when the conversation ends?

Context, power dynamic and bunch of other things determine how long the conversation goes on.

Keeping a conversation on or not is a social signal of interest - it means I am ready to give you my time (or not) - which itself is communication.

There is more nuance than asking 2 parties if the conversation ended at the right time and then proclaiming, "People don't know when to stop talking".
In what way does it limit women's rights?

Have you ever been to the beach? Have you noticed that in many western countries, all the men have bare chests and all the women are covering their breasts? Does this custom limit women's rights? Providing that women have the same legal right as men to go bare chested, as far as I can tell no rights are being infringed.

But maybe you disagree, do you think a law banning the wearing of bikinis by women would be a victory for women's rights?
For the record, most (not all) of those quotes are taken somewhat out of context. Even in 1950, it was trivial to come up with examples of sets with more than (for example) 2^32 elements.

When it comes to address space allocation (ie IPv6) I agree; I'm skeptical that 128 bits will prove to be sufficient. But as far as simple enumeration goes, 2^128 is unimaginably large and I don't see how changes in computing could possibly affect that assessment.

An example. Partition a 2^128 address space evenly between 2^64 individual computers (it's difficult to imagine humanity ever possessing anywhere near this many devices). Each computer does nothing more than visit each value in its segment of the address space sequentially. No additional computations, nothing, just visits it. At 1 value per nanosecond (ie 1 GHz) this otherwise pointless exercise requires approximately 585 years to complete.
Apparently, one of showing HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186864
Not sure if it's a taste thing, but I don't find any single character on Sherlock to be particularly attractive, having just binged on the entirely of the show in the past two weeks.
> We aren’t disturbed when young children mimic violence

I hope you don't mean "we" globally? There's quite a few people who do find it disturbing.
I mean, we can go back to the original article for that. Why are we praising McDonald? Why did his obituary get posted here, and why did Mulloy, who passed in October, not get any press? Their consciences were unknowable, yes, but fortunately we're not actually looking for the ineffable conscience. McDonald did a praiseworthy thing, which we wish to encourage. And maybe Mulloy had a stronger conscience, but he just was more deferential to the pressure on him to launch. Maybe he did listen carefully to his conscience, but he had too much of a sense of optimism and so didn't internalize the worry. Who knows? In the end, whatever the reason, he pushed for Challenger to launch.

We're looking for whether someone is empirically willing to make a decision that's unpopular but right, whatever the reason. If they did something like McDonald did, where they were under pressure (including career pressure) to do something, they refuse to do it, and the data eventually shows they had good reason for it, then you've got some data. If they do like his colleague Bob Ebeling did and they write a memo to upper management because they don't feel their direct management is taking concerns seriously, you've got some data, too.

What I'm saying is that, if the person you're considering promoting has never faced a hard decision, and you're promoting them because they had the good fortune to face years of easy decisions through which they could do high-quality work, you know you don't have any data. I agree that it's hard to get the data (and there are obvious problems with that metric turning into a target), but if you don't even try, you're certainly not going to succeed.

All the engineering process in the world will not save you if your hiring and promotion processes incentivize the wrong things. Hence my question: did NASA have a process for deciding that Mulloy and Hardy were good at making life-or-death decisions, or did it simply have a process that determined that they were good engineers?
It didn’t just “happen” with boomers. My parents didn’t have their first home until in their mid thirties, payed 13% interest on their mortgage, worked plenty of shit jobs on the way there, saving etc. Your description of the boomers is idealized and I think not remotely the norm. They enjoyed far fewer material possessions than we do today, and by many measures had fewer money-making opportunities than exist today, and capital wasn’t nearly as free as it is today. When you’re in your 40’s (provided you make smart choices in your 20’s and 30’s) you’ll have far more wealth than the kids of that time will. Part of it is just a function of longevity and saving. Stop expecting to be able to buy a house when you graduate. It wasn’t true for my boomer parents, wasn’t true for me (younger genX), and doesn’t seem to have changed now. If you seriously think you’re a more dour generation with tougher problems, it should be all the more motivation to stop spending money on frivolous services and throw-away possessions and save, save, save. Focus on bringing social and chemical stability to your life and creating a new, stable family. Leverage the myriad money making opportunities out there. I read comments like yours and then read an article in a business rag talking about the disrupted workforce of today, specifically how easy money is giving younger workers more freedom to set the terms of their employment. I would have killed for the low-barrier-to-entry opportunities available today on the Internet when I was in my teens. If you can’t make it in America in today’s environment, it’s a product more of your informal environmental education. Get new teachers - don’t complain, up your game.
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When I used to do software consulting I would create an unshakeable confidence that I knew what I was talking about by sitting back in an armchair and tenting my fingers in front of me as I spoke.

If I didn’t need hands to type that’s probably how I would also deliver most of my comments here on HN.
At least SLS puts its solid rocket boosters well below the crew capsule, though. So compared with the Shuttle, there's some nonzero possibility of safe abort in the event of an SRB explosion.
Going one step further I looked up the author and intend to dive into more of her writing. It hasn't happened to be in quite a while.
Extremely low interest rates, deferring principal payments and the still-raising prices of apartments mean that landlords 1) continue to make money even if they have no tenants 2) don’t have to dump the properties, because interest-payments-only carrying cost are so low.
Being sexually active is a choice. Nothing's stopping you from going out there and meeting people. There's plenty going on if you're willing to step out of your house and meet people. (And no, swiping on apps doesn't count.)

(Pandemic lockdowns of course might get in the way, but I'm speaking generally when those restrictions aren't there)
Game of Thrones is/was very popular despite featuring all of these (maybe except pedophilia)
Almost as if large organizations are made of people with different viewpoints.

Almost as if the technical appreciation of unbloated web pages is orthogonal to the writing within them.
Only if the finely comply with GPL.
Do you think that this four minute interview is somehow a policy statement from NPR?
The role and scope of it, as well as its function in tax evasion and political control. The book is worth a read if you're interested.
Since you don't mention your level of experience and/or what sorts of projects you have worked on and/or whether you have UI skills and in what framework, it's going to be difficult for people to decide how much effort they will need to expend.

As an earlier commenter hinted at, I would suggest trawling GitHub for any C/C++ projects that have tags matching one or more of your personal interests. Find projects that need support rather then just 'throwaway' projects and ask to get involved.

Just my 2c.
Most of the Goliath results in faster, safer, more reliable code. By design.

Avoiding new features means slower, unsafe, less reliable code. At the extremum, in this direction, is the C subset that (e.g.) Linux and BSD kernels wallow in.
Can you point me to where in that article the NPR (or an NPR reporter) says that (NOT anywhere they clearly report a third party's thoughts)?

Please include the entire sentence in your quote for context.
This just depends on what you search for and think of as porn. I was exposed to a world of more female friendly hardcore porn by a female friend which I had little idea about. Other than that, porn bodies have a range that is far wider than mainstream media, you can find everything from SSBBWs to super skinny women, and lot of variations inbetween.
Using a loop induction variable is a form of iteration over the elements of a sequence, but it is not using an iterator (technique, pattern, or whatever you want to call it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_variable

Heck, originally, looping was performed by physically looping your instruction tape, and a break was pausing the machine to physically break the tape. Talk about a fragile design pattern!

The implementation matters. That's why people suggest using the iterator technique. It's not the best strategy for all cases, but it's generally better practice.
Things can be made endlessly complicated, or absolutely simple. So it's better to lean towards simplicity as one can converge towards minimal confusion.
Pedro Almodovar made a similar point about how Marvel movies lack sex. And yeah, if you compare an Almodovar movie to a Marvel movie, it's astonishing how the Marvel is so bland and sexless in comparison.

I'm not sure if this argument extends to the vast cultural critique that the author makes about weight. Americans are overweight and should probably care more about diet than they do currently. Worrying about fitness isn't some sign that we're preparing to defend ourselves. That said, I've held the theory that diet and weight obsession is extremely class driven. The obsession with thinness is very much an upper class ideal. Good food, personal trainers, sports are all expensive. It's no surprise that Hollywood reflects the rich.
Historically, the veil was considered a huge step forward for women's rights/freedoms as it allowed them to leave the house more than three times in their life. Before that, they left the house to marry and move from their father's home to their husband's and when they died....and maybe I am misremembering that number of "three times" or maybe I just can't remember the third instance.

(I'm a woman. I've had a college class in Women's History. FWIW.)
Its the syntax, not the idea that I forget. I use it rarely which is why I have to relearn from some cheat sheet what each symbol means.
Given that they're spending 60k/yr per tent and 100k/yr per hotel room to kick the homeless can down the road, which is about 5 and 8 times what I spend on my own housing per year, it does seem like there are easy, better, cheaper solutions, actually --- give them apartments. That might require building some. I hear SF residents are against that idea though.
I was so confused by this when I saw which British TV shows were being broadcast in America, I lived there for a year as a 17 year old. Suddenly dated stereotypes and the general lack of awareness about contemporary British culture, accents, etc. made complete sense.

Even back then (about 17 years ago) the titles mentioned above were equivalent to the lowest tier cable re-runs on one of those retro TV channels that thrives on being cheap.
SCPS-TP and SCPS-NP are probably a good starting point for further protocol research into bit-efficient and "hostile" communications environments (long-delay, error prone, etc).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Communications_Protocol_...
Flutter deserves the hype it's getting. I've been developing apps for 20 years, it's the real deal. We're using it at our company to rebuild our app and now have a single front-end codebase which compiles to web, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and macOS.

You can try the demo here: https://demo.invoiceninja.com
This is correct.

There were squib explosions in various assembly and disassembly buildings when too many pits were put on the same cart.

One I read about destroyed an entire building, plus damaged the buildings on either side. A worker noticed a blue glow beforehand, and I think all the workers were able to run far enough away to survive the explosion(s).