skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you explain banks and hedge funds putting their money into it? Your explanation is that they want a digital currency, which you're saying is impossible. But it seems like the BTC advocates aren't arguing that, but instead that it's a store of value as a hedge against inflation?
I think you have this backwards.

One of the big problems at the moment in news media is that a tiny number of papers have _so much more prestige_ than their competitors that its sucked the oxygen out of the industry: instead of (eg) Philadelphians reading the Inquirer, they read the Times, and so the Times can grow, and it's a self-reinforcing feedback loop.

This is pretty bad for local news, which is bad because there are a lot of local issues in the US! It's important to have good newspapers in (eg) North Dakota because the state has a lot of power.

It's also kinda ironic that you mentioned this on a thread about this article, because the author in question is the child of writers/academics/judges/lawyers, educated privately on the UWS, graduated summa cum laude from Yale where we wrote for "prestige" magazines, and then built his career through a bunch of lower prestige publications. He's an exact poster child for the NYTimes being near the top of the prestige chain!
South Padre may be 4 miles away as the crow flies, but it's a one hour drive due to the lack of bridges over the Brownsville harbour.
What about keeping the workplace safe and friendly from people that make these kinds of "grievance" complaints?
> if the economy tanks tomorrow and you have bitcoin

Precisely which economy? The world?

You're going to have a lot more problems than just spending money if the world economy crashes.
It's also common for papers with code to not generalize well at all.
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The conclusion is as moronic as the rest of the article. Every single organ in the body "truly rests" only when dead.
I've lived all over the United States. The local culture varies drastically. Where I work, no one would even blink if I opened a beer in the office, let alone on a video call. They typically send us DoorDash vouchers whenever we have to do lunch calls.
I'd say generally not, unless there's some sort of social event in the evening.
You're absolutely right that what I'm saying is like data mesh.

The data mesh ideas aren't necessarily new - as this idea that data has been managed/owned by what some would call "federated teams" (optimistic view) and others might call "silos" (pessimistic view) isn't really new - especially in certain industries.

Certainly, the current energy and focus on building collaborative organizational service models, process, standards, etc. and standardizing this around the concept of data mesh is "fresh" and very much on the tip of many people's minds.

I worked at a company that had built a tool which was a data federation engine, and we dabbled with the concepts of "data fabric", "mesh", "network" etc. but we were more talking about tech/implementation vs. architecture and organizational structure. Still, we thought the right tech could enable this architecture/organizational structure and that it wasn't something totally figured out.

Thanks for sharing and mentioning it, and also Terminus. Certainly, I agree that knowledge graph is another approach and one that can also fit very well with the idea of linking data that is both common and specific to domains.

However, I've rarely seen graph databases that had the kind of versioning/time travel that a temporal database (such as relational ones) had built in natively (or anything like "diff").

I don't agree this can't map to SQL tables.. tables and relations (tuples) are just a form of data. People do collaborative data management using relational-based master data management systems already today and have been for many, many years.

That is not to say that graphs aren't a good match for storing common/reference datasets or linking data together. Given that graphs can be considered a superset of relational model, I don't see any reason that you can't do the same thing in graph databases, just that doing diffs and enabling the same kind of workflow might be more difficult in a graph data model - but definitely not impossible.

Lest we forget things like "Linked Data" [1], triple stores, etc. also that have been trying to get at linked data across the entire Internet. However, I never saw collaborative data management as part of that vision, it was mostly for querying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data
Israel encouraged immigration, yes. And the countries the Mizrahi Jews left did all sorts of things that encouraged their Jews to leave.

> Yes, I think Israel is attempting a genocide against the Palestinians.

OK, we have that clear. I asked three other questions in the paragraph where I asked that question, and I'd love to know what your answers to those are.

> The ICC is currently investigating war crimes

As they should, yes. I don't think everything Israel does is either acceptable or even justified, by any means.
Iceland does lots of geothermal power.. indeed power intensive industries like aluminum refining favor Iceland due to low power cost.

Sure, it's hard to know how far geothermal in Iceland could scale..

But there is an active volcano, how much worse can it get? :)
> 12 years old

> too soon

In today's terms, a decade of existing but somewhat mediocre results means it's time to move on. It's already proven useful; at the same time, already proven non-disruptive/revolutionary.
IMAP is not an email provider, it's just another protocol for reading your mail. It is the successor of POP3, having several key improvements. Somewhat like HTTP2 is to HTTP.

If both your email provider and your client (aka mail reading software) support it, there really is no reason to use POP instead of IMAP.
Well, we got Cities: Skylines out of their mistake, so...
I have a memory of reading that the strategy Nintendo have used from the n64 days, was always make a slight loss on each console but make big profit on games and developer licences, so that they start making profit after the third or fourth game sold per console

Edit: looked for proof but for the life of me I can't find evidence amongst all the results for articles and blog posts reminiscing about old games and consoles!
Yep. There's a reasonable argument to be made that the decline in the Western Roman Empire's ability to raise taxes led in part to feudalism and the decline of cities and the transformation of rural peasantry into serfs. Authoritarian landholders and aristocratic armies replaced an (admittedly oppressive but also moderately concerned with some social welfare) organized state.

The state is a double-edged sword for sure. But denying its ability to raise revenues seems like a great way to hasten dystopia.
Those 4k livestreams have a latency measured in seconds. We have made massive advances in recent years and if you have good bandwidth you can now have 4k livestreams with maybe 2-4 seconds of latency. But for moving a mouse that's still one to two orders of magnitude too much.

If you allow less latency you can't do as good a job at video encoding, and can't allow for any buffering (client side or encoder side) to smooth out bandwidth fluctuations or allow for more dynamic bitrates. That drastically lowers the achievable quality.
Why would I listen to that power hungry money driven billionaire?

He probably flies on a private jet more often than everyone posting here flies in a year. Why doesn't her stop running computers and tell people to stop using computers xboxes and azure?
And Opera before that also has the "place the tab bar at any side you want" option (Vivaldi's founder is one of Opera's founders who left after the Chinese takeover of Opera).
This is exactly statistics. This is an expectation of a utility function with respect to some distribution.
> Because, they aren't being discriminated in their favour

On that specific point they are being discriminated in favor of, though. Please show the specific harm, of how not forcing someone to join the military but still allowing them to if they want, is harm, if you disagree.

If you have other examples of them being discriminated against, just use those.

> they cannot be TRUSTED

They are allowed to volunteer if they want. They aren't being prevented from joining. Instead they are only not being forced to, which is discrimination in favor of the people who are not forced to join.

You need to show an actual specific law that harms them, to support your argument. Not forcing people to join the military is a benefit, not a drawback.

There are basically no circumstances, where not forcing someone to join the military, is a drawback.
This article feels like it has gone 8 rounds with Google Translate.
i prefer MANGA for the list of desirable bigcos to work. Don't know anyone who wants to work at FB (that isnt currently there) and its a much better acronym.
Bitcoin seems like a huge Ponzi scheme, just with any other Ponzi scheme, its adopters fiercely fighting and trying to silence anyone who dares to utter anything opposing it.
Bitcoin as it stands today has potential to destroy all the gains we have made in clean energy and bringing zero carbon offsets.
Bill gates is right that it is massively inefficient in what is supposed to be doing. That is doing transactions.
Just like previous bubble runs this Bitcoin bull run again will die down, with many of same people holding this worthless bag.
+1 to this. Code is fundamentally harder to read than write. If I use clever syntax, my plain-English comments make up the difference for characters saved :)
As long as you wait for them to stop patching, you'll be fine \s.
People will ALWAYS cheat others given the chance, and especially when facing very little online repercussions. I am not sure who you were replying to here. I do live in a small community, I have relied on a few others for survival, and I have been both stolen from, and price gouged due to others who would try to make skin off my back. I assume you've got less real life experience in these matters. I live on the basis of trusting nobody else but a very select few and being very self sufficient and reliant. I grow hundreds of pounds of my own vegetables, for instance, and I would seldom ever buy vegetables from a store throughout the season. Least of all, my trust in government. Most who initially got into bitcoin very early on did so for libertarian values towards government and monetary systems. I can really assure you that most of us who got into Bitcoin in 2010 did NOT do so because we initially thought we were getting lucratively rich or having thoughts we were selling assets to folks for a higher price just to get out. No, we got into Bitcoin because we see USD fiat paper as trash cash that is ever losing value and is backed by nothing but a phony government system. Used to keep people poor, used for financial control.
Those 1% cash back rewards cost everybody you buy from 3%
Absolutely. I was painfully awkward as an adolescent, but forced myself to be friends with cute girls and hang out with them. That got me used to interacting and joking with women, making flirting much easier.

My advice is to force yourself to do that which is limiting you. Exposure therapy makes future exposure easier as long as you aren't adjusting maladaptively with ruminative anxiety or panic attacks.
> Hydro and wind have the opposite seasonal variability to solar.

There isn't much growth potential for hydro since it's more dependent on geography than the others and many sites are already occupied. Short of mega-projects trying to exploit ocean currents.

> Build enough wind and solar to cover the total energy needs evenly during the year

That means you need to overbuild PV and wind independently, which may be an option but a costly one. And you'd still need more storage, 6 days are too short, there are lulls that last longer than that.

If seasonal storage can be built then it would complement both sources and could decrease the required overbuild factor. So it's still good idea to pursue it to reduce cost and reliance on a single source type.
I played Doom on my tv ( 10 years old with Chromecast ultra ) over wifi with a 50mb connection ( VDSL ) and was really impressed by the quality, responsiveness, how to setup things ect ... It's basically plug and play and it just works.

What do you define as unplayable? Reading your comments that you have fiber meaning low latency sounds very suspicious.
To be fair, "Elon time" for the first orbital Starship launch was 2020. Shotwell was saying that she would bet yes on an orbital Starship in 2021.

I think "Shotwell" time is generally much closer to 1:1 time than Elon time.

But I agree, Starship has a fairly plausible path to being orbital by the end of the year.
Use Java, problem solved.
Their point seems to be in the mismatch of names. Imagine seeing this sequence, with names instead of numbers:

switch(HTTP_METHOD) {
case PUT: processPut(...);
case POST: processPost(...);
case GET: processDelete(...); // wtf
case DELETE: processGet(...); // mate?
}

To the reader that appears to be an error even if it is precisely the thing you want to happen.
I'm not sure I buy that. There's not any proof that a more advanced civilization exists. Even if we assume that one does exist, why does it follow that they are immune to war, oppression, power struggles etc? The only data point we have suggests otherwise.

Or maybe the aliens are all holding hands in a circle singing kumbayah?
Long-form journalism has been written with an eye to "adding texture" for decades. Some of the most celebrated non-fiction writers of the last half-century—Tom Wolfe, David Foster Wallace, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson—followed in that tradition.

"In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out of sorts, and unwilling to be interviewed. So Talese remained in L.A., hoping Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and he began talking to many of the people around Sinatra—his friends, his associates, his family, his countless hangers-on—and observing the man himself wherever he could. The result, 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,' ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism—a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction. The piece conjures a deeply rich portrait of one of the era's most guarded figures and tells a larger story about entertainment, celebrity, and America itself."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has...
The best code is the code I don't write.

As a manager, I would value a developer that spent a week, refining a small, high-quality, robust and performant class, than one that churned out rococo monsters in a short period of time.

I tend to write a lot of code, and one of the things that I do, when I refactor, is look for chunks I can consolidate or remove.

OO is a good way to do that. It's a shame it's so "out of fashion," these days. The ability to reduce ten classes into ten little declarations of five lines each, because I was able to factor out the 300 lines of common functionality, is a nice feeling.

An interesting metric for me, is when I run cloc on my codebase. I tend to have about a 50/50 LoC (Lines of Code) vs. LoC (Lines of Comments).
> It's completely subjective and BS

Any measure of inflation is subjective. That doesn't make it B.S.

Inflation is a measure on a basket of goods. There is no single basket because people buy different things. This is why there is no single CPI statistic.

Find a CPI that works for you. The federally-provided ones go as fine-grained as income bracket and metropolitan area. They're extremely precise, but may not be accurate if you have unusual purchasing habits.
Our old apartment in Chicago, which was in a nice neighborhood had its rent prices drop by at least $500/month. It might be more now.

When I look at real estate in general in Chicago, it's been dropping a little, not a ton, but it's not like how other are describing the huge increase in housing costs in other parts of the country.

It seems like there are big regional differences going on with housing costs in the US. Supply/demand and policy I'm guessing are making the difference.
And I never claimed that all podcasting is journalism...

Journalism is a subset of (text/audio), and some (writers/podcasters) care a lot more about journalistic standards than others.

I would argue that podcasting institutions - npr and affiliates, gimlet, radiotopia - actually do have a lot of understanding and respect for journalistic standards, and also represent a very large share of the most popular podcasts. I don't think the two media are as different in this regard as you seem to believe.
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I don't really know either. Maybe you're right, but as a (maybe ridiculous) counterpoint, what benefit does it give a government to have their own currency? I think the main benefit is not having to rely on another government to keep it stable... or to avoid the subservience that follows from having to rely on acquiring said currency from another government. For most countries now practically I think this means 'not giving the US complete control over our politics and not having to buy USD from them'.

Are there any other benefits? If not, wouldn't adopting bitcoin be an easy solution to monetary policy while avoiding this issue? Or am I missing something?
To be more precise, every line of code is debt. You get immediate benefits (working software) but you need to pay recurring obligations (bugs).

Just like debt, there is a right amount to have: too much and you are incapacitated because you owe more than you can produce, too little and you don't have enough runway to produce what you want. Note that I'm talking about from a company's point of view.
To be honest, I'm curious to know about this as well! Haven't read anything on this but I wonder at times how is the core Bitcoin team looking at what's happening with PoS and deciding "Nope. This tech is good for 200 more years". I guess time will tell.

The inability to move / be more versatile is the reason why Ethereum came to be in the first place. I guess Bitcoin's main USP is "You can be sure Bitcoin will be Bitcoin as you know it for a long time".

Also there's one section of the community that thinks Bitcoin mining will actually help move to greener tech faster since it incentivizes you do so.
New sheets are your friend.
What specific optimization are referring to? The one you mentioned, moving access auth checks to retirement, was something both ARM and POWER did.
Taxation will not disappear in a crypto world, and that's how government would fund themselves. Societal wealth will continue in the form of roads, police, healthcare etc. Govt. will have to be resourceful about how it spends its tax earnings. The key difference is that Government can't go money printer brr whenever tax revenues aren't enough simply because they don't allocate resources efficiently. Tax rates in the US are high enough already. If they were increased more, people might leave. In a crypto world, there would be genuine pressure for the Government to lean up and cut back on unnecessary spending.

In a world where resources are constrained, you will not have SF county spending $61k per year per tent for the homeless. The state would die if they spent with such unconcern.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/S-F-pays-61-000-a-...
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If your decision substantially involves or derives from making an estimate about a population based on a sample, it is statistics. "Making decisions under uncertainty" is well-studied in statistical literature, just like "quantifying uncertainty" is well-studied. It sounds like you think the latter is "actual statistics", but these things are both statistics.

In particular:

> But if the market crashes, and very badly, how might that affect my life? To make a good decision I would need to think of all the things that come with a market crash (job loss, savings loss). This is not statistics.

This is all statistics, not just the part where you're forecasting likelihood of the market crashing. The reason is because making decisions about the future under the constraints of uncertainty implicitly involves a forecast. When you decide how to diversify your personal investment portfolio, how much to allocate to your Roth versus traditional IRA or 401k, etc, you are making forecasts about which allocation will provide you with a more favorable outcome.

Stated more concisely: there is no rational reason to use statistics for forecasting market events but not for deciding what to do in the event specific market events occur.
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Fantastic and valid points, though I think pkulak also has a fair point in identifying that this big picture setup negatively impacts folks in Portland via air pollution and other side effects of more coal plants than would otherwise be required.
In the early days, when I was implementing Stripe and we were about to launch, he gave me his phone number in case anything went wrong or I had an emergency. And he answered (I think it was the middle of the night). :)
I live near the forest. Deer constantly eat our garden. I've seen motion sensors products that hook up to a sprinkler but I'd much prefer this tuned to deer with a water cannon instead of a laser.
Buying the time of a Nasa engineer and buying the time of a day labourer are different classes of activity. Just because it costs more for one than the other does not change the ethics of the situation.

You feel differently about someone charging for sex than someone charging to use their brain or their brawn, but that does not mean that everyone feels the same way. Why should your feeling rule the day and be enforced on adults who feel differently about it? Sounds like the church of old.

My initial post in this thread was about the legality of consenting adults engaging in whatever activities they both agree to. I tried to highlight the distinction being made and think it has a lot to do with slightly prudish notions of sexuality and frankly a notion that men and especially women aren't capable enough to make the correct choice for themselves.
Why not just use Citrix HDX Pro? Tech has been around for ages, works well for accessing virtual desktop, providing virtual desktop with big GPU and IO since it is in a central facility. We were doing this 10+ years ago. What am I missing?
I'd go even further and say that the way most people treat "documentary" to be equivalent to "unbiased recitation of factual events" is problematic itself.

I love docs but often research the subject after watching and it's INCREDIBLY rare to see a doc that doesn't play fast and loose with the facts for the sake of creating a dramatic arc or thrilling moments.

It's ESPECIALLY true in "true crime" docs. The director has an idea of painting the subject as either sympathetic guy who was wronged by a corrupt system (Making a Murderer) or evil mastermind (The Jinx) just to give two recent examples.

Turned out years later the giant reveal at the center of The Jinx which made it such a viral hit was 100% manufactured by the director cutting up audio to make Durst say things he didn't. He also lied to the police about the audio so it wouldn't spoil the ending of the doc.

Jarecki never had to apologize for the blatant dishonesty in the doc, never had to give back the Emmy. It's still universally acclaimed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/arts/television/robert-du...

Sorry to rant, but the "documentary" film industry is a fucking joke. I have so many more examples...
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