skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cringe doesn't mean bad - I would say 90% of Jim'll paint it is cringe and awesome https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ And having 5000 daily pieces is art by itself.
Agreed. It’s a minuscule probability per planet multiplied by a vast number of planets and it’s hard to say which factor carries greater weight. The fact that we haven’t detected any signals from space also sets a limit on the likelihood/duration of intelligent life in our area of the universe.
The logic seems to be that having X use Y if it's available at runtime is less coupled than having X hard-depend on Y at build time. But IME the end result is similar to a "distributed monolith": you haven't actually decoupled it, you've just swept the coupling under the rug.
It is normal for booster shots to have more side effects.
You can tell based on the complete lack of success
and following they've had

If the world were a perfect meritocracy that would settle it.
At least for software, the vast majority are in some sort of niche you've either never heard of or thought about. Software for managing operating theater procedures, software for managing doctors/dentists, software for managing money exchanges, software for managing legal conveyancing, software for managing schools, etc. Those are examples from places that I've worked that were purely software shops, add to that just about any sizeable company in any industry that have software developers, everything from you pet food brand to your toothbrush manufacturer likely started outside of silicon valley, most without little to no venture capital.

They used to be called micro independent software vendors (mISV) and before the silicon valley gold rush this was the dream of young entrepreneurs.
There was an interview many years ago, back when I was a student maybe, but I cannot remember where I read it (best guess is Sourceforge "Project of the Month" which used to be a thing back then at least.

The only thing I think I can remember clearly however was the question about the biggest regret which I think was one particular core datastructure that was an array but which they later wished they had used a linked list for instead.
1.) It's standard practice for COOs to take over when CEOs leave. Jamie Dimon's COO position was a result of the merger between Bank One and JPMorgan. Nothing unique.

2.) Different banks had different focus areas, and not everyone jumped into the MBS bandwagon. If you notice, all investment-banking oriented banks got rekted while all the consumer banks stayed afloat, bar some exceptional risky bets by the likes of Wachovia and Chase. All the survivors were consumer banks eating up investment banks.

3.) A profit that can be attributed from the consumer banking side.

4.) Most of the annualized return you mentioned comes from 2017 on, when the tax cuts came. Not the 15 years you mention. Before that, it was lagging at 50$ per share.
Nitpick: unless ancient Greek changed the sounds of vowels between my high school class and today, ἀγωγή is ah-go-ghee, not ah-go-GAY.
“Fractional reserve banking.
Since bitcoin hasn't lived up to its original vision, it caused a periodical shift in narrative and splintering of its early core developers and adherents. Currently its 21 million coins cap is the last remaining “perk”* assuming the code won't be altered. This artificial scarcity might make for an attractive appreciating asset, like postage stamps—because “one man's trash is another man's treasure”—but it does not stop fractional reserve banking. Just as governments went off the gold standard, they can get off the envisioned bitcoin standard. And just as banks lend out money that doesn't exist, exchanges can lend out bitcoin that don't exist, which already happens (24). As predicted by one of its earliest pioneers:

“I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking. Banks could issue digital cash with greater anonymity and lighter weight, more efficient transactions.” —Hal Finney (25)

While his prescience is eerily accurate and impressive, it lacks imagination. The irony is that this envisioned system breeds the same environment that led to the 2008 financial crisis, which instigated the development of bitcoin.
My point here is not that fractional reserve banking is fundamentally bad. I don't think it is. My point is that if fractional reserve banking is good then bitcoin is redundant. Whereas if fractional reserve banking is bad then bitcoin is redundant as well because it does not prevent it. Once more, prosperity boils down to good policy and governance.” —https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
I'm not the only one who agrees - Elon Musk is offering 100M in prizes for carbon removal solutions: https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk
If you were his manager, why couldn’t you can him?
Interesting, I don't know groovy much but Kotlin has two major points in addition to interop it has idiomatic interop:

1) The kotlin standard library is the Java standard library.

2) kotlin feel similar with Java and has analogues to almost every Java feature e.g SAM conversions.

The fact that groovy is dynamic make much less suitable for hybrid code bases (half Java half X)
Sure but one bank went under in 2008 versus how many crypto exchanges that stole or “lost” deposits since then? The scale of issues is not even the same order of magnitude, likely at least 100 to 1 given how many banks there are and how many crypto scams there have been
From the zsh manpage:

>| word
>! word
Same as >, except that the file is truncated to
zero length if it exists, even if CLOBBER is unset.

Note: If you're a bash user the >| syntax is available, but not >!.
> Cringe doesn't mean bad - I would say 90% of Jim'll paint it is cringe and awesome https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

There are different kinds of cringe though.

Also, Jim'll paint it definitely looks like he's more talented than Beeple.

> And having 5000 daily pieces is art by itself.

Quantity over quality?
Others already pointed out that you can use a core method.
What I see is that I actually rewrote a query that had 7 joins (yes, it was not great), and rewrote it in SQLAlchemy that made for a the query to have a lot fewer total lines of code to write.

I validated it by checking out what it would generate via its internal SQL compiler.

So for me, it was more like, am I competent enough to write less code and fewer mistakes, due to functions, autocomplete, etc. versus writing the full SQL.

It's a time saving for me, and the queries are expected. I also echo the SQL query to make sure that that's the exact query I want.

Lastly, I then groused at the engineer who decided that the query pulled in so much crap from so many tables in 1 query.
There was no shock when iPhone was launched. Nokia had tried touch display phones already by that time and they had gone the way of N900 and deemed unviable. Disarray yes, but not because of iPhone. Of course there were people that appreciated the threat that iPhone might become, but if anything it was laughed at and ridiculed. I mean come on - no 3G and no QWERTY keyboard. Who in the world would use that! ;)
I wonder how close it is to how the ancient Greek pronounced it. Would our Greek scholars sound like non-native speakers to the ancient Greek? Or maybe barely even intelligible?
Generally agreed but I still think its navigation isn't good.

source: I should use Eclipse at work for a few years
Ask HN: How do I find energy to work on hobbies after the work day ends?
I’m sitting here at 11 at night watching my 3rd straight hour of TV. It’s embarrassing, but I’m so wiped out after a day of work, that my brain just doesn’t feel like doing anything.

I’m sitting here in my bedroom looking at a book I’ve been meaning to finish for months, but it’s complex enough that when I start working on the next chapter, I get a quarter of the way through it and have to put it down, because I just dont “get it” when I feel this way.

Across from me is my desk, with a computer where somewhere on it, is a half built personal website I was using as a way to teach myself web development. But when I open it up and start working on it, I feel like I’m missing that spark that makes the right connections to learn new things like JavaScript objects and how they work.

I have Duolingo on my phone, which I complete in spurts lasting 2 or 3 days then I drop for maybe a week or so, even though I know it’s only “10 minutes a day”. If I do it now, I won’t remember most of it tomorrow.

My job isn’t particularly demanding. It’s average. I don’t work more than maybe 8-9 hours a day on stuff that I understand most of but still have a chance to learn new things. My point is it’s not like it’s a brutal work culture at all.

I even exercise mid day or after work (depending on how busy I am) which is proportioned to give one energy, not take it away.

But yet at the end of the day, I’m just beat.

How do you find the motivation to do the things you genuinely enjoy, when you’re too wiped out to do them?

Is this normal?
As I was reading about the Spartan systems for indoctrinating and conditioning children, I couldn’t help but wonder how far future historians will regard our modern school systems. I went through the public school system and consider it barbaric, traumatizing, indoctrinating, etc. and yet... I still sent my own kids to public school. Why? Because... that’s just what we do. I suspect that is one of the reasons the Spartans sent their own kids. I also suspect future people will be as horrified by our current school system as we are by the Spartan system.
I'll take greed over institutionalized theft any day of the week.
I built exactly this in my Manim-based library, code-video-generator [1] (via the code-video-generator command and the --slides flag). It basically turns any Manim scene.wait() call into a pause that I can then advance with a clicker. I used it for this video [2], where I was recording in front of a green screen, but wanted the exact control when the animation continued. code-video-generator played the video fullscreen, which I then captured via obs [3] and used the obs display as a monitor to see if I was pointing at the right spot. Was a bit tricky to get all set up but worked pretty well.

[1] https://github.com/sleuth-io/code-video-generator
[2] https://youtu.be/e21hJnB9J5k?t=44
[3] https://obsproject.com/
Try using old.reddit.com:

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/a...

(And there are browser extensions that will turn all reddit links into old.reddit.com links).
> "No point digging into this important task, it's 30 minutes before that meeting. I guess I'll kill time looking at hacker news"
"I'm exhausted from having be part of that meeting, I need 30 minutes or so to recharge before I dig into that important task."

This is me exactly. A meeting to me isn't just a 1 hour slot, that leaves me 7 hours for other things. If I have a task that takes 90 minutes of focused work, I'll have 90 minutes before that meeting where I can't work on that task. And at least 15 minutes before the meeting will be spent getting into the right mindset / catching up on what's relevant to the meeting, plus 15 minutes after to get everything in motion that was decided during the meeting itself. Also, I've started to try to do meetings only from 5 to, lasting til 5 to. e.g. if I find a slot for a meeting with someone from 10-11, I'll make the meeting 10:05 - 10:55 instead of the full hour. Really helps when the rest of the day is packed with meetings as well.
Slightly off-topic: I'm completely amazed by the whole blog. It's structured well, fast, and they pay attention to details.

In the figure caption of the charts/maps the author and sources are mentioned. The data is directly embedded and downloadable via octed-stream.

The figure annotations in the margins are nice. There are different sizes of figures: some with the width of the text content, some with full screen width.

There are different blog post categories which are listed in the blog header.

All blog authors are listed on a page. In each blog post the author briefly introduces himself/herself.
I looked and looked and looked and for the life of me could not see the excessive gradients that he was talking about in the image captions. And then towards the end of the article, as my mouse was gliding over one of the images, I noticed it change :)

And then I enjoyed the article all over again. Properly this time.
Your observation:

> I bet someone would buy a preserved notebook of someone semi-famous with 5000 pages of drawings, mostly regardless of contents

...is, I think, kind of what the article author is trying to get at. Beeple is arguably semi-famous not for his art, but for getting a staggering price for these 5000 images. It's as if someone bought a preserved notebook with 5000 pages drawings for tens of millions of dollars, and the notebook belong to someone who is semi-famous because... they sold that notebook for tens of millions of dollars.

While I keep trying to give NFTs a benefit of the doubt -- I think it's great for creators to be paid for their work! -- I'm not convinced that introducing artificial scarcity is the way to go about it, and this sort of "it commanded a high price because it commanded a high price" recursiveness doesn't exactly give us a great example for why NFTs are not a peculiar techno-bubble.
Coinbase releases investor education resources
I realized I was not having enough time/energy to work on personal projects and this is a big part of my happiness.

I switched to consulting work so I could dedicate a week a month to work on non paying open source work that makes me happy.
Yes, they are opposed to having their assets diluted by a government they have no say in.
How long is that? From what I can recall, Jericho has been continuously inhabited for 10,000 years.
> Cringe doesn't mean bad

But “rando-tier” does; the description wasn't just “cringe”, but rando-tier and often cringe.
I run one of these companies.
USD 50M+ ARR, USD 20M+ profit. 3 people company.

Could grow 10x if we want to. But we are enjoying staying low and enjoying our family lives.

Excellent article by the Canary guys. They seem like really honest people.

We didn't raise any money. Only focus was how to do faster iterations. By the time 25 of my ideas didn't succeed, every iteration became very fast. Idea to launch in 3 months. Happy to answer any questions.

Looks like this is dead. Happy to answer any questions @dang
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Once kids are in high school, maybe will try something bigger!
Hey, I have your book Age of Intoxication!

When I was in Lisbon I'd visited the Museu da Farmácia (mostly because my grandfather was a pharmacist), but after reading your book I realized that (despite also having spent a little time there) I'd overlooked multiple things going on in the park across the street.
Those are absolutely terrible companies for software developers to work for though. I have several family members that work for them. If you want average pay and the owners to take all the profits, go for it. Otherwise, work for FAANG, a great startup or a finance company (hedge fund or investment bank).
I mean discussing this is going to be pointless because art is in the eye of the beholder. The fact that the author didn't even mention what their favorites were of beeple's work indicates pretty clearly to me that they're viewing his collection through a narrow, maybe ivory tower, potentially envious lens of what it means to be a "real artist", and instead they wrote this as a clickbait hit-piece for exposure. The armchair psychologist in me envisions a sense of insult to someone well educated in fine arts with numerous accolades that such a frivolous, amateur collection art could be rewarded so greatly.

At the end of the day, it's much easier to be a critic than an artist, and despite that fact, this is still a lazy ass critique, especially because it glosses almost entirely over the fact that beeple was precisely about creating SOMETHING every day. There has to be.. something that can be said about that, in the same way that people somehow find a reason for a canvas painted entirely one color worthy of being featured in the MOMA.

And even if the actual art won't "age well" (whatever that means to the author), beeple is going down in the art / history books ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, if you discount the risks of the disease they are for, it turns out it’s safer not to take the vaccines.
Part III of the linked blog demolishes that pretty effectively:

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/29/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

TL;DR: Spartan elite women were slightly freer than Athenian women, mostly because all their housework was outsourced to an army of slaves. But they were not citizens, could not choose who to marry, and were by and large treated as property, up to and including lending to other men.

The 95+% of Spartan women who were not in the elite, on the other hand, led lives that were miserable even by the low standards of antiquity, including random rape and murder during the yearly crypteia purges.
Note that the celebration of Sparta goes all the way back to their contemporaries in the rest of Greece. Generally, like today, their image was used as a rhetorical cudgel to beat your opponents with; usually for being too democratic, not "manly" enough, too attached to the civilian economy, &c

That celebration is an expression of a long-running thread of similarly abhorrent tendencies in Western intellectual tradition.
I once made a graphic to illustrate Dante’s universe to scale as best I could (the moon is 1px). Just a bit of fun, not a scholarly work. https://postimg.cc/YLfDrSvW
Slack has a Java server managing real-time messaging: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-tech-stack-behind-Slack

“This part of our back-end, responsible for most of the real-time interactions happening in various clients, is implemented in Java, and accessed via a WebSocket API described here: Real Time Messaging API. A great deal of the user experience that makes Slack feel like Slack is the result of careful work on the message server. Many of the distributed systems challenges we face on the back-end are in coordinating this service with the rest of the (LAMP-ier) back-end.”
Did you check the repo? You can download and build your own app easily, they have instructions for all 3 platforms:

https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard#building-and-runnin...
Really interesting read which very eloquently describes the experience I had when searching for an Iranian cookbook. We ended up settling on the Batmanglij, which really is as much a textbook as it is a cookbook. It reminds me of something like Chocolates and Confections (Greweling & Culinary Institute of America), which focuses on fundamentals in addition to recipes.

I found that Batmanglij exhaustively covered the meals we had as a first-generation immigrant family (my brother and I were the second generation). There were some notable differences in her recipes - she adds rosewater to many dishes whereas my family did not. I assume that's partly due to regional differences, and partly just family tradition, akin to how different American families might cook something like lasagna. She also sometimes recommends different meats, but this is something I'd already come to expect when meals were cooked by different family members.

I also really appreciated her ingredient glossary because some of the ingredients that I remember by Farsi name aren't really available in the west, or have more generic names. For example, we always used chives in place of 'tareh', which it turns out is actually a Persian leek. But it's nothing like the leeks you find in western supermarkets.

Persiana was a little disappointing, as I imagine most of the more Anglophone cookbooks would be if you're looking for Iranian home style cooking instead of elevated, somewhat generic Middle Eastern cuisine. But to be fair, it does have some delicious recipes nonetheless.

The author's comments about the lack of southern cuisine are interesting. I suspect part of that is simply due to the fact that the north of Iran is far more populated, but I'd be interested in seeing more recipes because of the different cultural and culinary influences in the south.
Understanding the Application and Request Contexts in Flask
Global warming doesn't need your tech skills as much as they require your sales skills. Get yourself elected and make meaningful change while gettig paid.

Otherwise invent something that impacts people and make it open.
Klara and the Sun Imagines a Social Schism Driven by AI
There were quite a lot of differences for sure, and many more modifiers on vowels than modern Greek, but I never heard that particular example. That particular modifier doesn't make it sound like that especially.

Think of it similar to Latin where real pronunciation was quite different to how you hear it quoted in media today, e.g. Veni, Vidi Vici sounding more like Weni, Widi, Wiki.
As I mentioned, I think it's too ambiguous to talk about "transactions" if we want to compare something measurable - if you want to restrict yourself to on-chain transaction numbers or volume, you'd have to just look at the on-chain activity - I am just assuming BTC is dwarfing USDT here, but that's just a small part of the story. On-chain activity is also meaningless for what I guess you're after, since there's no reliable way to separate self-transfers from other transactions.

If we go by what your sources allude to - trades on centralized exchanges - it'd be a matter of summing up the trading volume for each par involving either asset on any side.

Let's first look at Binance for the past 24h. I get:

BTC: 1.9 BUSD
USDT: 3.8 BUSD

Not so far off from the 70/30 number. This is not so surprising though, as USDT is a popular base-pair on Binance - but this is way different than saying that Bitcoin rests on USDT. There are other stablecoins on Binance, and if trouble or further doubts of confidence comes to Tether, liquidity will migrate fast. Indeed, it already is, gradually.

If we look at more exchanges (here 31 in total):

BTC: 7.6 BUSD
USDT: 9.6 BUSD

In either way, claiming that Binance or even the sum of all exchanges represent the whole bitcoin economy is ludicruous. Consider that USDT is almost only used for off-chain trading on exchanges, where Bitcoin is transacted in a lot of other ways.

OTC transactions (even those run by exchanges, like Coinbase) are not included here, for example. Neither are payments, on-chain transactions, or L2. Some will argue (I don't) that derivatives markets like BitMEX (margined/settled in BTC) and CME (margined/settled in USD) are reasonable to include as well, which are huge in BTC and again negligible in USDT.

As for sources - any serious exchange provide APIs for trades, and there are vendors that aggregate them. Coindesk and Coinlib acquire APIs and data from such vendors, who base them on the self-reporting of exchanges.

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I don't think there's any published recent study that looks at this properly. It takes effort or money to get the proper data, knowledge to model it, and time to compile it. Most of the people I know with the means are having their hands full with other stuff right now ;)