skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't write the comment... but I would probably second this. I suppose in general smart contracts "replace" escrow companies. There are escrows for tiny things like buying random stuff in Alibaba. There are escrows for large things - like buying a house/property.

I would say that in general it seems weird to handle either of those cases with a smart contract. For example. Let's say I am on Alibaba as a seller. The escrow unlock is probably based on arrival of an item - which is tied to freight companies or possibly a fedex tracking number. This "seems" like it's totally amenable to a smart contract. But where things break is fraud. Let's say an alibaba seller starts shipping empty boxes so that the funds are released.

Now one could say that a smart contract as well as an escrow company would make the same mistake. But it's still not the same. If that seller repeatedly sends empty boxes - it will quickly catch up to them with an escrow company. At some point the escrow company will stop believing the company and start trusting the pictures of empty boxes arriving. Not so with a smart contract. It would mean un-ending fraud. Now you could back things up by saying there could be a company that the smart contract is tied to, not specifically fedex tracking. But then what is that? It's an escrow company.

For houses - if anyone has been involved in a real estate transaction I would say you are probably familiar with the notion that there are 15 days to attempt getting your loan. Some contracts can be 45 or even 90 days (or years for complex business/government escrows). There are also situations where the seller decides to not cause grief because of some other issues or mistakes. Again a smart contract is not going to understand this shit. It's very peoply.

Again, not the OP on this, but just some perspectives. Maybe someone else has a great use case on people betting on weather outcomes - but what great societal use is that?
Are you saying that not getting a raise is so much worse than having to pee in a bottle at work that it isn't even in the same league?
I think %w makes sense in libraries, too. They're structured errors that behave like strings. It's a neat trick.
I've actually worked in this area. You are basically correct.

Sometimes you have to make a choice on which brands/chipsets you support. Devices on different ends of the compatibility spectrum can basically be mutually exclusive. IIRC if you advertise A2DP some devices supporting only HSP won't work, so you can make some hacky workaround but then your nicer A2DP equipment is harder to use. If you only need to guarantee support for X subset of devices you control, it's easy to tweak the settings so they work well together.
Yes, rules for conducting elections are in the CFR as section 102.69 of 29(b)I part 102. I'm far from a lawyer but I do suspect that the NLRB granting one-off additions to these rules outside of the normal rulemaking process would put them in a difficult situation going forward.
Well, at least Magic Trackpad, Keyboard etc. work really well with a Mac. Never had any issues.

Bose bluetooth headphones, third party "high end" bluetooth devices... not so great. Lately it's been better, though.
The FSF did not pay him.
What if you are switching from a datacenter that's carbon neutral to one that isn't?

Also as a note, the google analytics js is heavily cached and thus doesn't have to travel as far or at all. Also Google has onramps to their carbon neutral infrastructure everywhere, so theres also that.
Sarcasm is not data.

Tweets are not actions.

There will always be sadomasochistic cops.

There will always be blowhards who are interested in promoting themselves who are confused as 'racists' when really they are just mega jerks.

During Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump 'things got better', broadly.
The Environmental Case for Hemp
Hah, I've experienced the absolute/relative volume bug. Sony headphones sometimes end up connecting with independent (relative?) volume controls and then switching the volume control from independent to absolute when you use a track skip gesture. The volume goes to the max instantly as a result. One of the reasons I'm staying away from wireless Sony headphones.
I think the proposal is that sanitizer induces more risk than it mitigates, since it's now unlikely that hand sanitation is related to covid transmission.

Nonetheless, other things are transmitted by unclean hands, which is almost certainly a greater risk than the benzene.
The interface is customizable, if you want you can hide everything except the code editor with those preferences:

{
"workbench.editor.showTabs": false,
"workbench.statusBar.visible": false,
"workbench.activityBar.visible": false,
"editor.minimap.enabled": false,
"breadcrumbs.enabled": false
}
GPU go Brrrrr
I meant token in the literal dictionary sense, as in a symbolic voucher
It's time to revisit the satanic panic
Visual Studio Code March 2021
Mandatory, this is anecdotal...

I do this every morning when I wake up and have for a good year or so.

I honestly don't notice much of a difference.
That article really helped me understand what this is all about, ty!
It depends how well-known you have to be to be well known, but for some level of well-known, off the top of my head:

Leiber and Stoller, Ashford and Simpson, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, Rod Temperton, Diane Warren, Desmond Child, and Max Martin are well known songwriters from more modern times.

However, their hits are much better known than they are, compared to the great American songbook guys. Although there are other very successful songwriters from that era with less name recongnition, for example, Johnny Mercer or Harry Warren.
So a cell isn't alive? It moves in a stream of water and other stuff(s). I guess not that surprising.
CDK is the first time I experienced the benefits of TypeScript. If nothing else it’s a great playground to learn that stack. Testing stacks in the CDK is pretty rad.
"You are using the wrong denominator."

> I did not use a denominator. It was the CDC. Do you have a problem with their methodology?

"Deaths reported as adverse events aren't necessarily due to the vaccine (they may be reported simply because they happen after administration of the vaccine)."

> You repeated what I said, but omitted a part. This distinction is not made (and cannot be made most of the time) with COVID-19. It's therefore an equivalent comparison. Well, as long as you compare it to mortality rate on population rather than infected that is (0.23% is for infected).

"The vaccines do not gene edit (this is what 'gene therapy' implies)."

> I'm not even sure why you are so annoyed by gene therapy. It plays no part in my argument. If you don't like gene therapy, then call it new vaccination method X. It's weird how people are alarmed by the moniker "gene therapy", but do it anyway if you don't call it like that.

"Like I said, you are confused in multiple ways and should stop. "

> You said I spread misinformation while using CDC and WHO. That was clearly not correct. Direct your anger at my argument and not at me please; maybe you see the futility of your anger then.
That's fine, but is there an Intel chipset yet with PCIe 4 and even PCIe 5? AMD had PCIe 4 two years ago. How about Thunderbolt 4?
Modernizing your .NET application with AWS
I think you're right, it's difficult to imagine the scale.

Let's also look at something else: the US department of defense:

"...The U.S. military also produced more greenhouse gases than Morocco, Peru, Hungary, Finland, New Zealand and Norway. According to the research from Brown University, the Pentagon would be the world's 55th largest CO2 emitter if it was a country..." [0]

I think reasonable people could disagree as to whether or not all those emissions were worth it. The point is that many people think the U.S. military is by and large a complete waste of resources analogous to the waste of the Bitcoin network.

If we're going to condemn Bitcoin, let's condemn all the other resource and energy wastes out there.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...
Which plugins do you use exactly? The last time I tried to set this up, there were multiple options, and I ended up never really figuring it out.
Shit like that is why I always wondered where all the claims of Android being superior to iOS came from.
How we got our first paying customers for a Chrome extension
> I can't say more good things about the program.

what were some of the top benefits for you in your career from attending this program?
That is my understanding of REPL driven development, too.
Though it's not millions in this case, the top marginal tax rate in CA is 12%, so he's saving at most $850K if this was a one-time $7M payment.

Not sure that 12% is worth picking up my family and moving to another state if that's the only reason to relocate. CA and WA weather and lifestyle is much different than what he saw in Southern California (I'm guessing that's where he lived since he was in the music industry).

I made that move (from SF Bay Area to Seattle) about 5 years ago (but for work, not taxes), and I'm thinking about going back to CA for the milder winters.
Consent has to do with mental maturity, not physical.
Since you recognize it - and it sounds like you’re able to get work... I think you should start a software company! Be a product person - hire people smarter than you to code!
> If 0.01% of these visitors left a dollar,

You're correct, but reality doesn't agree. It has been proven time and time again that 0.01% almost always DON'T leave a dollar for anything.
It's astounding how these nocoiners refuse to understand Bitcoin is the ONLY asset that is always worth exactly 1 BTC.

The rest of the world's unstable goods like gold, fiat currency, real estate, stocks, cars, and even groceries are always fluctuating in BTC value but BTC stays perfectly level.
Ah yes, I thought I read that somewhere. Which makes this whole witch hunt even more absurd.
The Verge Tech Survey (2020)
Sept 2019: https://lwn.net/Articles/799375/
Yes, exactly. CDK is the abstraction which compiles down to CloudFormation. You can see CF here as the assembly that gets generated.
Wow, $24k for the program?
How is moving between an editor and terminal splits any less effort than moving between separate editor and terminal apps? They both require either one keyboard shortcut or one click to go between? What’s the difference?
Sorry I was talking about the Novamin one... I think the nano-hydroxyapatite one is available in the US.
I wanna die... WTH this undigest stuff :Ð unmaintanable, awfully
Whataboutism is about hypocrisy.

Argument: X is bad because Y. Counter: But Z is also bad because Y and I don't hear you saying anything about that! Conclusion: So X isn't bad.

E.g. the typical Soviet whataboutism:

Argument: The USSR doesn't respect human rights and that's bad. Counter: A u vas negrov linchuyut (but at your place, you lynch negroes). I.e. the US doesn't respect human rights either. Conclusion: So the USSR isn't bad.

The mere presence of Z does not invalidate the argument that X is bad because of Y. It's irrelevant, which is why tu quoque is just that, a fallacy of relevance.
Providing a few examples of places where smart contracts do not replace existing solutions does not mean smart contracts are "a hilariously bad idea." Someone more creative than you will come up with a good application for them. Your lack of imagination is not a good enough argument to call something useless...
Gotta disagree here. This article is acknowledging a pattern, that data is misused in many different areas.

I think the problem goes even deeper, which is a misunderstanding of the scientific method. Good discussion about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26122712
No that is not how it is done, the math is written directly in C++.

If you have fast iterative build times, lots of assertions, and good debugger there is no reason to waste time writing it in another language first.

Almost every system uses basic vectors and matrices/quats, most gameplay code also uses them etc.
I don't know if things changed since then, but the people I know who went through the French math system had some of the strongest technical abilities in math I've seen. They also would have exactly 0 difficulty drawing that parametric equation so I don't know what to take away from this as it seems overly sensational.
I use 70% isopropyl alcohol. I hate the smells and weird feelings the other hand sanitizers leave on my hands.
I couldn't agree more. Cloudformation is a nightmare in my opinion and never should have seen public release. CDK is what Cloudformation always should have been.
What distinction are you making? I take your comment as pointing at the fact they they are not owners of the software when it’s done, but developing software for others still makes one a software developer, or no?
Tor is explicitly not private, only anonymous. The end node can see all the traffic you send through it if it's not encrypted. If privacy is your main concern, tor is definitely not the right tool to use.
Aho and Ullman has a great book about Parsing, Translating and Compiling that I'm currently reading, it's not a either or thing - you
can learn about both and they are related to each other
https://thetranscenter.com/transwomen/gcs/

"The decision to have gender confirmation surgery (GCS) is a very personal, private matter, and not all transwomen will elect to undergo this procedure. It is important to keep in mind that GCS is not a requirement for transition, and many transwomen feel happy and content with their bodies without undergoing GCS."

So yea, its elective.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ceejayoz

Any dead material with moisture or air exposed to it will cause it to move. Typical really!

/s

I poke because, I mean of course we're considering those things. I am not trying to peddle conspiracy theories. I want to fundamentally know why; generalizations don't help here.
Mickey mouse went to the store. On the way there he slipped on a banana peel and fell.

No royalty paid.
I just find it odd that they'd lose customers over lack of communication. I'm not the only person in this thread who didn't realise it was under active development.

I'm all for small dev teams doing things that let them stay small, but we're not talking about substantial changes here, we're talking about a sentence on their website saying "ST4 is in active development, you can follow progress on the forums", or other small changes like that.
I'm aware, I was referring to the core binary, `nats-server`. NATS streaming server seems to be still receiving attention, but the client library (for Java) hasn't been committed to since 2019, so I'm not sure I'd build a new project with it. JetStream is out (as of this week, I believe) and is an optional module to `nats-server`, as you said.

To the folks at Synadia -- I love NATS, but the naming and organization of these projects could use some work. What's with the `stan.*` repository names? Where did "jetstream" come from? Why is it baked into `nats-server` but `nats-streaming-server` isn't? Is `nats-streaming-server` on the back burner?
This is so completely wrong on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin arguing it with.

1. The Founder of a project is the one who gets the biggest say in who should lead it, not some random virtue signalling dude from the internet.

2. Why should I stop conflating these issues? You judge the person for his actions, just like criminal judges do. However, the very criminal and ugly offense of rape is NOT punishable by the law after a number of years. But you are such a severe judge that you demand a punishment with no lenience or clemency and no statute of limitations for being an unpleasant person who is very awkward with women, and allegedly made someone uncomfortable three decades ago.

3. Found your own project, run it the way you like, decide who will have a 'privilege' to lead it.
I use my data skills to bet on politics.

It’s been a very lucrative endeavor for the past 5 years or so.
There is no "core" reason for cryptocurrencies. This is romantic bullshit perpetuated by people invested in it.

The reality is, as I have predicted long ago, if bitcoin becomes large portion of worlds financial flow it will just be taken over by financial institutions and perverted for their use.

These guys have much more experience at this (ie subverting financial systems) than you can imagine.

Bitcoin is not going to stop wars and bring law and order.

If bitcoin was supposed to be the safest method to move funds around then why people have higher chance of loosing their bitcoin for various reasons than almost any other kind of equity?

You are just naive.
Maybe animated gif horizontal rule is more accurate. One that comes to mind is a lightsaber, laying on its side. Placed between paragraphs (hopefully) about Star Wars.

Alternatively, page visitor counters would have been another example of outdated web aesthetics.
> There is no perfect language

> It's pointless discussing this

I don't see how the first implies the second. This is a programming forum; it's good to discuss and debate the specifics of these things.

C may not have been the best example of the category, but I think the category stands. Rust for example, much as I love it, is exploring uncharted territory. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now we have ownership-based languages that are much easier to use, simply because lessons will have been learned by that point. Arguably Java's OOP fundamentals are not as good as C#'s because Java had to explore that territory first (setting aside technicalities about what the term "OOP" really means). Etc.
Thankfully I'm starting to read sane comments again. Yes.
I used to be pretty bad too... I think it took me about 5 years to get to decent... and probably 5 more to get to damn good. A lot of software is about having the right mental models... for me the book that helped was Steven's Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment... after that book I knew a LOT more about OS's and all my mental models were improved greatly.

also learn to recognize what parts you don't know and figure those parts out with tiny test programs... THEN code your solutions.
> transaction must be denominated in dollars, but must dollars actually change hands?

I believe it's the other way around. It can be denominated in anything, but trading e.g. the deed to your house for some Apple stock is a no no. (Doesn't have to be U.S. dollars, though.)
I agree that you won't think about this too often. However, if you're trying to use the reflect package to get type information about variables, you may end up having to think about it (and like me, you may end up feeling very confused!).
CDK is managed IaC, allowing compile-time checks and also to debug your infrastructure.

CloudFormation is just JSON or YAML (treated as assembly by CDK, by spitting out a CFN template after synthesis)
In the last 5 days bitcoin has fluctuated (by my quick math) 7% compared to both CAD and USD dollars. That seems to indicate to me that's its instability, not the currency of either nation.
Nothing that lasts more than a dozen seconds or so.
Want to Take a Psychedelic Trip Without Drugs? There’s Now an App for That
Some states actually have laws specifically to prevent this.

For example, if you work remote for a company based in NY, PA, CT, DE, AR, or NE; your income is taxable in that state regardless of where you live or work. This is known as a "convenience of the employer" test. In fact, before a certain SCOTUS ruling you couldn't even claim a refund on that tax for your residence state's tax return (and even after, that refund is taxable).

California is already considering a wealth exit tax that would apply 10 years worth of tax nexus to anyone who leaves the state. I'd complain about this more, as it goes against the whole concept of freedom of movement... but the US already does the same thing. Emigrate from the US and you'll still be expected to pay US taxes on foreign income. I've heard there's a rule that exempts you from said taxes if you spend the entire tax year outside the US. Some people also take the really risky step of throwing out their US citizenship... which is actually grounds to be permanently banned from entering the US for any reason if they find out that you did so for tax purposes.
Ah, so according to you my first sentence is false then? Let's see what a simple Google search yields:

>Inflation is the decrease in the purchasing power of a currency.

>Inflation is the decline of purchasing power of a given currency over time.

>Inflation is a persistent rise in the average level of prices over time in a given currency.

> Inflation occurs when prices rise, decreasing the purchasing power of your dollars.

Those are literally the top search results for "inflation" when I Google the term. Now certainly your Google search for that term may differ from mine and you are certainly welcome to share your findings. Until then I will rest satisfied that my first sentence expressing that inflation is almost always understood to be with respect to a currency is also true.
Lessons from a Journey of Database Discovery
I agree there is another can of worms waiting to be opened: agreeing on the schema of said json output. Also structured output is probably way more useful downstream from the likes of ls, exa, ps (say) rather than from grep like tools
Are Samsung devices buggier than other android brands, or just so much more popular within your userbase, that more bugs surface?
That's because it's not common sense to compare sanitizer-induced cancer rates to overall COVID rates. To determine whether the use of hand sanitizer is a net positive, you have to compare the deaths caused by hand sanitizer to the deaths prevented by hand sanitizer. Unfortunately, it would be pretty difficult to get accurate numbers for either of those figures, even if you just narrow it down to cancer and COVID.
For those who don't remember, this is the same company that was bilked $46 million in an email spoof attack.

https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/09/ubiquiti_stung_by_ema...

They're used as a bad example in my annual corporate infosec compliance training.
So to be clear would you categories Steve Jobs as "a great leader" or "a dictator"? Because he fell between your two chairs being both extremely abusive but were also able to manage people.
I like this video. IMHO it is a good example of REPL driven development.
Nothing to do with typing things into the REPL.

https://youtu.be/C-kF25fWTO8?t=1039
I can relate in my distaste for the paranoia and for test code complexity and volume exceeding that of implementation and in the false sense of security offerred by 100% unit test coverage.

But manual testing is for the birds and you cant put breakpoints in a distributed cloud architecure. Better to strike a balance with a variety of testing scopes depending on the complexity of a given area of the system.
Yes, I'm not complaining that Tina Turner or Diana Ross didn't write the songs they sang (with the odd exception).
Vegetable glycerin also works well for hydration in place of aloe, and has the advantage of not leaving residue on your hands. A bit harder to get your hands on, though.
> San Jose-based GlobalLogic is currently owned 45% each by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Swiss investment firm Partners Group

Man, what? What a weird set of owners
Unfortunately, stuff like this is what makes it clear to me that all claims of slowing aging / reversal are a complete joke. We can't even put a hard layer on a tooth that mimics a natural layer, seriously? Not to mention that we can't prevent baldness, nor do we REALLY know how much muscle control can reverse myopia. We can't even re-attach nails to the nail base, etc, etc, etc.
Keep It Local, or: (part of) what “reasoning about your code” means
Anyone who uses Firefox as their browser, wants to start using a VPN, and has not yet done significant research on a VPN.
Who governs the government!? Surely a disarmed population.