skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have thought about this with Bitcoin: if the protocol and potential capabilities are so interesting, why is 99% of the conversation related to Bitcoin about the current price. It does make me believe that greed is the predominant driver of most Bitcoin holders, which to me makes the whole concept a lot less principled than people pretend it is.
Couldn't you for art have a separate right for being allowed to hang the actual piece in your living room, and for selling prints?

Then somebody could own it for their living room, somebody else could make money selling prints.

In that case a NFT could work just fine.
Or he could just take people's word that they're honest human beings. You know — default to believing that people are good, not evil.

Since he's charging to be on the list, there a very low chance that he'll get flooded with bots from China, India, and Russia pushing low-quality web sites.

someone can get by with paying $1 for installing ransomware, they may do it.

Or some ransomware company may take over an abandoned domain that' s linked from his page. Or some ransomware company may buy one of the sites. Or some ransomware company... Nevermind. Just don't build anything ever anywhere, because of edge cases.
Scaling out Postgres with the Citus open source shard rebalancer
Fortran has been using `int8`, `int16`, `int32`, `int64`, and `real32`, `real64`, `real128` kinds officially for at least 2 decades. `double precision` has been long declared obsolescent, although still supported by many compilers. Regarding types and kind, (modern) Fortran is tremendously more accurate and explicit about the kinds of types an values.
These small cars are illegal in big cities in China (just not enforced) so it’s not strategic
We have lots of non-crypto digital money protocols. Millions of people use them every day.

Crypto currencies and block chains are mostly reinventing existing wheels, with a weak promise of decentralization on top, which seems to break down whenever a big-enough event happens.
But here is the thing. If you compare Tesla’s with some of the other higher end cars, they have a higher mortality.

https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
The community around Bitcoin is one of the most toxic. It's the main reason I haven't bought, and won't buy, any BTC (regardless of the fact I think the tech is completely subpar). Having said that, there's plenty of really great communities around crypto that shouldn't be pooled together along with Bitcoin. Nano, for example, is probably the most hated altcoin by Bitcoin maximalists (probably because they feel threatened?) and coincidently is one of the most tight-knit and constructive communities I found (don't take my word for it, check out the nanocurrency subreddit). There's tons of developers sharing their projects, users tipping all over the place like the good 'ol BTC days, people brainstorming ways of dropping Nano in places where the local currency is in hyperinflation via WeNano. It's just a really cool bunch of peeps.

I frankly don't care if the price of Nano plummets to 1 cent. And I actually hope it doesn't skyrocket and get the attention BTC got, because, to quote the article, "I came for the money", but I stayed for the community. The tech being superior to Bitcoin is just a bonus.
Something strange I have noticed in the last couple years on leftist social media is the contempt harbored by some for Musk. I can’t quite place it but it feels like a mix of envy and a hatred of success, in part because he seems like proof that capitalism works. I think the emphasis on his character flaws - which we all have - is disproportionate and frankly totally irrelevant considering the scale of his achievements. But he is a centrist not a progressive, he solves problems within the framework of capitalism, and he has an aggressive disregard for the norms of society. That makes him a target for those who are ideologically committed, dislike market driven economies, and favor big government/centralized restrictions. Those sentiments have increasingly bled into the Democratic Party as it has lurched leftward.

I’m not sure if this is it, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see this administration try to reign him in. And when it happens, I wonder how news media and society will perceive it. Will they compare it to the relationship between China and Jack Ma? Or will they view these actions as virtuous, moral, and therefore justified?
The mayor of Paris (Anne Hidalgo) is relatively popular and respected by even her detractors.

(not many members of the Socialist Party you can say that about these days)
Not significantly from what I can tell.
Covid? What Covid? Taiwan Thrives as a Bubble of Normality
And bad whether and stuff. Would you ride a scooter in rainy days or in this?
Pretty much every large company will play nasty when it suits them and if they think they can get away with it. That’s why they call it “corporate warfare”, not “corporate hugs and kisses”.
What part of PeerTube's UX is complex compared to Youtube? You just click the videos and search in the search box. To leave comments you type them and click submit.

Uploading a video is also WAY easier than Youtube, because Youtube assumes you've used their interface a ton, so they don't have to try to make it as friendly. Dominant players tend to think that way - I'm the big guy so YOU should have to learn to think like ME
Agreed. The following is particularly cringeworthy:

>"And it’s no coincidence that Microsoft’s newfound interest in attacking us comes on the heels of the SolarWinds attack and at a moment when they’ve allowed tens of thousands of their customers — including government agencies in the U.S., NATO allies, banks, nonprofits, telecommunications providers, public utilities, police, fire and rescue units, hospitals and, presumably, news organizations — to be actively hacked via major Microsoft vulnerabilities."

What does the Solar Winds hack have to do with news publishing regulation? Mentioning Bing here would have been logical but this poorly written run-on sentence is just pure mud slinging of the same type he is accusing MS of. Are there no corporate PR officers at Google who need to approve such posts prior to publishing? What an embarrassment.
Canada is a democracy though. If what you’re saying is true, why won’t residents elect a government that can do something?
I think basic income solves it nicely. You still get the allure of money (folks want to make more), but they can also now focus on innovation and creative endeavors. It's a win win in my opinion.
> The community around Bitcoin is one of the most toxic.

If you go on places like Twitter and reddit somewhat, I agree with you. But if you look on Github, you'll see some of the smartest engineers of our generation working real hard and I wouldn't discount their work based on some loud mouths on social networks.
Greed until Gold market-cap, idealism afterwards
Python 3 has shown the world what happens when that is done without bringing the ecosystem along.
This is a weird, angry screed.

Op should read The Ascent of Money and maybe worry less about the moral failings of other humans.

Peace and trust cannot exist without currency. Money lubricates peaceful resolution of conflict.

If you need food and I have it, trade or violence are your only options if currency doesn’t exist.

Screaming at Bitcoin is like screaming at evolution. As long as humans evolve, money will keep pace.
renault dacia is about to go out in europe. it is a 12kEur (after tax rebate) car. Id say its a real huge market tesla can't reach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHstY5pKhw&ab_channel=YOUCA...
Not that there shouldn't be any regulations, but that the direction regulations are going in are pretty heavy-handed when you consider how accepting as a society we are to have thousands of car accidents every single day, and thousands of car-related deaths every year (in the USA at least). Self-driving cars are already much safer than human-driven cars.
Actually, it's not. I tried to make a meaningful comment about building apps in this thread and it got downvoted... [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448222
Greed isn't good or bad, it just is. It's a known variable. Greed makes something that's very complicated (human behavior) simpler to understand.
Pickups trucks are an American phenomenon due to the Chicken Tax and how that sector of manufacturing is protected. European and Japanese manufacturers that trounce the big three in every other sector are forbidden to compete fairly in the land of the free when it comes to these bizarre pickup trucks that make little sense in normal countries.

In the UK we have the Ford Transit van and people that can do things for you. You get stuff delivered or collected. The guy with the Transit van gets a high level of utilisation out of it. People can therefore have normal cars and SUVs. Or a bicycle.

We don't have those man size trucks with dual tyres in the UK and certainly not at US prices. You can buy Ranger and Hilux size trucks and those are a bit too large for UK roads. In the US these would be toys, not man size at all.

In the UK you can play a game watching cars and counting how many have more than one person in them. In the US you can count how many trucks are hauling stuff. They ain't.
Under the US system, everyone's savings is also lower -- because of extremely high insurance premiums, co-pays, coinsurance, deductibles, high out-of-pocket payment maximums, uncovered care, predatory billing complexity designed to minimize "medical loss", lesser job mobility due to linkage of employment with the ability to get medical care, far higher drug prices, and so forth. It's a system full of holes into which almost anyone without wealth can fall -- even people with good insurance.

If you simplify and subtract the need for intermediaries to extract profit from this kind of system, remove all risk of anyone in the country being personally financially destroyed by their health care needs, remove from US businesses the obligation to manage and pay for their share of their employee health benefits, and distribute the resulting costs across the entire population, would you argue that would somehow cost more? That the resulting "higher taxes" would exceed the lowering of all the systemic, business, and personal costs and risk above?
Tesla isn't selling exclusively in the luxury market. If you want a high performance or road-trip capable electric car, you basically have just one option.

So you should compare against overall cars, not just "high end" luxury cars. Being electric has made them more expensive, but they're not really true luxury cars for the most part and are not driven by the same people or under the same conditions or under the same driving style as luxury cars.
This thread sounds like a whole bunch of poor nerds who are mad they didn't buy bitcoin. Just admit you don't have the courage or foresight to invest, and stop upvoting this trash... oh btw you can still buy in while its cheap ;)
Atoms and Bits (2018)
How do you think people functioned before the invention of money?
> these technical interviews are a lot more about "did the candidate approach the problem the same way you would?"

honest question, I can only evaluate the correctness of a thing if I am familiar with the tech the candidate used to answer the question. Is this being unfair? Should I instead use the technical interview as a time to do as much information gathering as possible then take it back to the wider technical team for evaluation (provided I am not able to understand the technical answer myself).
Villains are those the media makers want you to dislike. Try sometimes noticing how many "villains" only want to disrupt the status quo, with some murder superficially tacked on for easy moral superiority.
> From the perspective of most of the world, having to limit yourselves to medical care that's provided by a particular company seems very broken.

from the perspective of some people in the US, this is exactly what socialized medicine looks like, except you can't change the company.
Thank you for writing this. Real world, qualitative experience reports are vital.

My experience using Rust vs C aligns with yours as well.
How a Working-Class Couple Amassed a Priceless Art Collection (2013)
> (If you don't get what I am saying here, it might help to know that performance programmers consider malloc to be tremendously slow and don't use it except at startup or in cases when it is amortized by a factor of 1000 or more).

Rust is now getting support for custom local allocators ala C++, including in default core types like Box<>, Vec<> and HashMap<>. It's an unstable feature, hence not yet part of stable Rust but it's absolutely being worked on.
I just write the article in the code editor, then go back and add the tags.

Seems obvious to me, but maybe because back when I was a journalist, that's how we did it. The tags (how and what varied by system) triggered chryons and video playback and other events.
> why is 99% of the conversation related to Bitcoin about the current price.

Because of the circles you're in and the loud minority that's constantly talking about the price. There's a whole community of people just building stuff without wasting their time constantly arguing for price on social networks.
After working in Python and Ruby I don't think I could ever choose a dynamically typed language for a project with more than a few thousand lines. There's just a lot of safety, and documentation, you get cheaply when using static types.
All of this can be done in Lua.
Myanmar's first satellite being held by Japan on space station after coup
Wealthy democracies have a fairly wide range of acceptable views and policy decisions about firearms but in almost all of them except the US "civilians should have nearly unrestricted access to personal weapons" is an extreme view yes.
> We value the means over then ends.

I find this hard to square with a large segment of society just matter-of-factly espousing "equity", which is a less obvious way of saying what was expressed in the past as "equality of outcome".

Of course, through societies of the past experimenting, it was largely recognized as only possible through systems that end up being miserable and authoritarian.

So it's easier to push it again to a new generation under a vague, benign-sounding new term.
Those engineers are so smart they refuse to scale Bitcoin.
Companies should be required to monitor distances driven and report crashes when L2+ systems are active.

If it's proven that a system performs significantly worse than a human then regulate it further.
This is something I've been considering for a future project for a long time. Is there any reputable vender you can recommend?
Four Boom Engineers Ready to Break Barriers
This is also being added to pytorch

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/46750
We're experiencing this a bit with our startup, except we're not building developer tools, we've built a (semi-personal) knowledge management platform.

In the era of COVID, it seems like every developer with some extra free time has decided that they want to build their own PKM/note-taking/etc app, so competition has scaled up massively in the last year.
Why even be part of these communities? It's possible to buy cryptocurrency and avoid all the hype and negativity.
> regardless of the fact I think the tech is completely subpar

> Bitcoin uses the Hashcash proof of work system.

Do you feel that way about all proof of work systems? Do you prefer proof of stake instead? Can you elaborate on what you find subpar about the tech surrounding Bitcoin?
Python isn't really something I would even think as possible example, Common Lisp, D, Nim, Swift, most likely.
Ask HN: Biggest cultural changes in tech since 2010s
What was it like to work in tech before 2010s? How was the dynamics between colleagues? more/less politics (like diversity & inclusion etc)?
If you can get decent drivers, that is...
100% agree about water and about setting smaller goals that you can celebrate. This thought clicked for me.

If you can lose 10 lbs (4.5 kg), that’s like setting down a bowling ball you are carrying all the time. You will definitely experience a quality of life improvement when you do that. Good luck. Then, do it again.
Historically fizzbuzz was meant as a sanity check. Can this dev code a simple for loop with some conditionals in it? It was made up because some dev realized that too many poor candidates were making it to late stages of his hiring process. It’s not meant to make candidates stand out, it’s meant to be a practical filter. My personal experience as a dev is that my weakest teamates would visibly deflate anytime a work problem came up that required a simple for loop, so it’s not a terrible bar to filter on.

https://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-de...
Bit of generic advice:

At the end of the day, it's all "calories in / calories out", but the real trick is figuring out how to change your calorie balance in a way that works for you, long term.

Some people do really well on some sort of rigid "I will eat an exact, precise amount of food each day", be it something like Nutrisystem or Soylent or just very carefully counting calories each day; other people can't stick with it. Some people do better just adding a solid, regular block of exercise each day, be it the gym or just walking; other people have trouble carving out the regular time. Intermittent fasting, eating windows, changing the composition of your diet, eliminating snacks or liquid calories, taking up a sport, becoming a gym rat ... there are a lot of reasonable ways to change how many calories you're consuming or how many you're burning.

The hard part -- besides actually doing it, because that's rarely easy -- is finding one that you can commit to forever, so you aren't, as you say, just trying out yo-yo diets.
The US does not have a track record that gives them the right to "enforce civil rights" in South America either, yet you don't fault their interference. And if you don't object to it as FDR technically broke no law why do you object to what either Morales or Putin did?
For the people who look around at the current world and think "ah yes, the problem is too much wealth redistribution?"
Actually if you really want to save 60k with a net annual salary of 111k, you could do it in prob 2 years (cancel you Amazon account). Ard 6,500 CAD per month should be enough to live by, shouldn't it.
No, they built some of the most well thought scaling solutions in forms of layer 2 (payment channels, lightning network, zk-rollups) and many other solutions like sharding, etc.

You're the one who refuses to see those solutions.
adjective: hand-written written with a pen, pencil, or other handheld implement.

Lately I've been writing my personal web pages on my TRS-80 Model 100. I can hold that in my hands.
I‘m not so sure if nicely is the right term. Mass starvation as an outcome is not off the table I would say
Making money and wealth is more interesting to more people than some nerdy engineering crap. Is this a surprise?
After the over-the-top section about the bright lights and loud beeping, I started to imagine this as a parody of an English person complaining about stuff...
Bigger cars are almost always safer, which isn't a weird fascination at all.
The interface. All that grid of available actions, just too many options. Later quests evolved to have fewer actions (see Full Throttle), and later the only option left was general 'interact' action.

In this regard Loom was already ahead, with all actions replaced by general 'cast' action, and the exact combination of notes was the puzzle.
This has nothing to do with copy and paste.

It’s trivial to suggest a mechanism for consolidating update notifications. That’s a solved problem.

On its own, it does nothing to solve the trust problem.
The US situation is bad but also unique because of guaranteed demand for the dollar for at least the short to medium term. So you can’t really compare the numbers. Other countries don’t control the printing press for the world reserve currency.
A Great Malaise
This entire thread is depression and responses like this are pure depression. Why does any of this matter? All I see are a bunch of apologists or a bunch of people making assumptions and no one really discussing anything without their extreme bias and prejudices in the way.

The first comments here are people bashing the Microsoft of 20 years ago..

And this one... "The Verge sounds very Pro-Microsoft" - for no other reason than to perpetuate the bias here.

Why do we do this to ourselves people? This is absurd.

The Verge is very much in love with Apple, they're not in love with Google. That doesn't make them Pro-Microsoft. The verge DID hire a a fantastic Microsoft writer who knows Microsoft inside and out, so they're not Oblivious to Microsoft - but that doesn't make them "Pro Microsoft".

And for Christ's sake - NONE of what is mentioned here makes Microsoft bad. They're a business making products and building services doing what businesses do and its certainly not Balmer's Microsoft anymore.

Who cares what Google isn't happy with when its painfully apparent no one is is happy with anything around here...
I question your premise that lobbying = bribery, but let’s let it stand unchallenged because it’s irrelevant here.

If Google, Apple and Microsoft are all competing with each other and also doing business with each other in different markets, and they’re also all lobbying legislators, whose metaphorical bag of money is the winner and gets all of their hopes and dreams fulfilled when Congress starts meddling?
A happy conclusion. We're in general agreement.
Isn’t the problem also on the seller side, where anyone can claim that they’re Bansky and then a trusted central 3rd party has to verify if they actually are?
Scott Galloway raises $30M to upskill managers
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Great! More Academic articles about how to lie to users and convince them that your software is better than the competition without actually making it better.

Dark Patterns are the new Light Patterns!
Because most of the interesting solutions are alternatives. You have a strange focus just on bitcoin and not the larger crypto ecosystem.
Nothing wrong with "testing" imho. But like in any grand real-world experiment -- except tech, which has split from science in terms of ethics norms, perhaps in its own meta-experiment of sorts -- in experiments, the public should have ability to consent or withhold consent to be tested on. The Sidewalk Toronto public consultations did not have a way to say "no" and withhold consent.

The consultation was of the format of "getting to yes", which is all-too-common but the low bar for public consultations. It's the sort that property developers run hand-in-hand with cities who really want to just build something. Initiatives running meaningful and fair public consultations don't do that.

tl;dr - The fact that there was no lever to decline to participate was a major criticism of the whole effort.
Quantum Money
This guy thinks outside the box.
It's difficult to build layers on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. The base asset, Bitcoin, is volatile. Its volatility affects the assets on 2nd layers. There isn't a one-one peg between the 2nd layer and the base chain. You'd need to trust an oracle. In your gold example, you'd need to trust the miner for authenticity and their books. For use-cases with oracles, it's more efficient to use a database. There's no need to use a blockchain.

Some projects on Ethereum, like DAI, have explored these use-cases. I think they have not been successful. DAI requires high reserve ratio (1-1.5) to manage the volatility of the base chain. You're using 1.5 USD to get 1 USDDAI. It's not very efficient. I'm less excited about assets on blockchain. I think the market is not ready. We need to reduce volatility first.
Cheating in online chess is notoriously difficult to check, in a way not too different from how it's virtually impossible to stop piracy of content