skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol, it will prove them broke. The overwhelming majority of people own bitcoin because number go up. Banning it will make number not go up. This will cause them to divest. Substantially nobody is in it for the ancap utopia espoused by $20 transaction fees and 30 minute long confirmation times.
I suspect that's more racks of storage, not racks of compute. Nothing to suggest it's compute.
“We didn’t touch the app for a year and after we upgraded to Gradle 13, everything went to hell”?
Perhaps! My money is on Elastic including an approximate nearest neighbor search in 8.0 which uses the new HNSW feature in Lucene 9, which is going to be hard to do in a distributed capacity and will be a significant feature if they can pull it off.

PS - I've never seen gitsense before and it's really cool. I especially like the focus quadrant!
>banks

The entities where almost everyones non-physical assets is stored.
Yes, they can indeed do things private person cant do.
PlantUML is becoming the standard
What’s your take on BitClout?
No responsible distro still ships 2.7
Another important point is that the top 350 US companies today are much larger than the top 350 US companies of 1989. To have an accurate comparison, the authors should have compared the compansation ratio of similarly sized firms, maybe the top 50 of 1989 to the 100th to 150th largest company of today.
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My post was meant to be factual rather than advocating specific policy positions.

It's important to consider absolute quality of life in addition to inequality. "Equality" is a relative measure, but what matters in the end is how well each individual is doing.

I'm in favor of policies that would help the less fortunate, though we need to be careful to implement them in an effective way.

I do think manufacturing will shift from globalization to localization once enough of the process can be automated. Once shipping costs start to exceed production costs, manufacturing will move back home. Of course, if the manufacturing is automated, it means those jobs aren't coming back. This also depends on whether it's cheaper to ship the raw materials vs the finished product, and where those materials can be sourced from.

That being said, a lot of the recent rise in inequality has been driven by government policy. Some things like housing are becoming prohibitively expensive to most due to short term focused policy by the Fed and perhaps congress as well.

The policy reaction we've seen has been quite effective, but is creating many potential asset bubbles that can cause bigger problems down the line.

These bubbles obviously inflate the wealth of the rich and lead to much greater inequality (often described as the k shaped recovery).

Hyper targeted policy, and letting things reach equilibrium through mostly free market forces often produces healthier outcomes in the long run.
Not if the recent Oracle vs Google supreme court ruling is to be acknowledged.

DocumentDB is to MongoDB 4.0+ as Dalvik runtime was to JVM.

Here is their 4.0 compatibility update:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide...
If you have a chain of conditions what you do?

if (condition1) {
// something
}
if (!condition1 && condition2) {
// other stuff
}
if (!condition1 || !condition2) {
// finally
}

An if-else is more clear:

if (condition1) {
// something
} else if (condition2) {
// other stuff
} else {
// finally
}

To me if-else is more easy to reason about (since it's clear that you enter in one of the 3 possible branches without even looking at the conditions), but also it's more efficient, especially if the condition is not a trivial comparison (for example you are comparing strings, or doing some other linear operation. And yes, computer are fast these days, but there are no excuse for wasting resources for nothing to me).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLiirA5ooS0 shows that deuterium ice sinks, but the density is only a bit more than water, so it doesn’t sink “properly”. Although perhaps they didn’t get pure deuterium, since heavy water is about 11% denser than regular water.

For better sinking ice, mix deuterium and oxygen-18.

For the best sinking ice use super heavy water[1] (substitute tritium instead of deuterium) although it is toxic: “The median lethal dose (LD50) of tritium assimilated by the body is estimated to be 370 GBq (10 Ci). Higher doses can be tolerated with forced fluid intake to reduce the biological half life.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritiated_water
It's hard to imagine that until a few months ago it was very difficult to get a decent Arm desktop / laptop. I imagine lots of developers working now to fix outstanding Arm bugs / issues.
zk-SNARKs are a practical application of ZKPs in crypto.
I've been living in a place with a softener on a well for a while now. Many people have asked about salty water, but I don't find it to be an issue at all. I even prefer water from our softened tap over the unsoftened one. I don't notice rings or residue in my drinking glasses.

I think a common misconception is that your water runs through the salt. In reality, the water runs through a filter and the salt water is used to periodically flush the accumulated metals out of the filter. This could lead to some residual salt, but it will get flushed away quickly. The other source of salty water is a busted valve. Replace it and the water will be fine again.
>Binance and Coinbase are large, successful companies

I don't think you should group Binance with Coinbase. Binance is mostly unregulated, literally on the run, refusing to admit where it is headquartered[0], possibly because it avoiding paying taxes.

It seems like more and more likely that Binance is just a mechanism for CZ to exit via a massive BNB pump and dump.

[0]https://www.coindesk.com/binance-doesnt-have-a-headquarters-...
That's about 6% annual growth. Hardly astounding at a time when worker wages have been stagnant, companies have seen big growth is average size, CEOs have become much more important and educated, oh and investors have seen vastly better outcomes.
All plausible except "more people believe in magic" IMO. Superstition seems to have a long and universal history.
You can't get a CEO without offering a golden parachute. This is because you're not hire a loser CEO, you're going to hire a winner, and you'll need to attract him away from his current lucrative position.

It's the same thing as top athletes getting contracts paying them millions of dollars whether or not they continue to win games.
This was the biggest mistake

All the issues that are brought up the article could have been avoided by doing a simple proof of concept demo.

We are about to rebuild our Android app in Flutter

Spend a week doing a proof of concept first, so we don't have to read this in six months time.
> But these don't come from the cashflow of the business like wages and salary. They come from diluting Wall Street.

This distinction doesn’t make sense. Cash and stock are fungible for a public company.
Yes, and that the only point of taxes is to reduce inflation, since the govt doesn't need taxes anyway since it can print money. Taxes don't even cover the cost of govt expenditures so it makes sense.
A bit disheartening that there is a reproducibility crisis not only in psychology (and maybe social sciences in general?), but also physics...

On the other hand, after the breakthroughs in physics in the first half (third?) of the 20th century and the stagnation in the latter half of that century, it seems to me (as a layperson) that the number of anomalies in physics seems to be increasing, so that maybe we'll transition from a period of "normal" science to a scientific revolution again soon (in Kuhnian terms). Exciting!
2025: Why you should NOT use Kotlin

It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick Kotlin to create and maintain our Android App. This was the third-biggest mistake our now nearly-defunct company made in the last 8 years. We are about to rebuild our Android app in Java from scratch now…
I wouldn't call NeXT a success. They did some really great R&D, lost a ton of money, and basically donated all that work back to Apple. They did great work, but weren't successful as a corporate entity. Pixar, OTOH, was hugely successful on its on terms.
For new homes absolutely. In the UK gas boilers are the norm and every new home should have a heat pump instead.

But retrofitting requires a lot of work - replacing radiators with much larger ones, maybe ripping out pipes, and for ground source digging up the garden / street.
> Note: stock options are not stocks. You're not given a share in the company, you're given the opportunity to invest in the company. You have to put money in to _potentially_ get money back.

As a technicality that's true, but irrelevant in practice. Employees receiving options are nearly always going to do a same day sale where the option is excercised and immediately sold and you get the difference. No need to put any money in.
> I’m not aware of any other digital transaction methods that can send un-printable money besides cryptos.

That's because it's not a useful feature heh. Money is meant to be a medium of exchange and temporary store of value. To the extent it holds its value for the duration of your ownership of it, it's met its goal.
Can I say "I agree" but also add that there may be more to the story than 3D printing? That is, I'd call out "personal fabrication" in an even more general sense, to include both 3D printing and things like inexpensive, personal CNC milling machines and other "personal scale" fabricating devices. Even going as far as more highly specialized devices, like at-home reflow ovens for SMD soldering, and laser cutters. Heck, even items as exotic as plasma cutters are getting cheap enough that almost anybody can own one. See, for example, https://www.amazon.com/Reboot-Portable-Digital-Frequency-Inv...

Edit: I should also add something about the 3rd party fabrication / assembly services that are bringing a lot of capabilities to bear, for the average person, who would not have been able to afford them a few years ago. Look at OSH Park, OSH Cut, JLCPCB and the like. Need PCB's? Done. Need later cut metal parts? Done. There are similar services for injection molding, etc., etc., etc.

I'm pretty excited about this space. I just bought my first desktop mill (so new I haven't even unboxed it yet) and my first 3D printer. And picked up a cheap Black and Decker convection oven to convert into a reflow oven about the same time. Definitely excited to start exploring the intersection of all of these tools for "building things" without needing a full fledged machine shop, wood shop, yadda, yadda, yadda.
>What business opportunities have been created outside of the crypto space?

They're probably just talking about all the pickaxe selling. NFTs are possibly an answer if you assume good faith and not just speculation.
Fun fact: in C, gcc and clang can(and will) replace the sum of n first integers with a loop (and slight variations) with Euler formula n(n+1)/2. Impressive.
Money printing is not a helpful term.

We need publicly created money because all money is ultimately publicly created - all the money any of us earns was created by the US government.

"Printing money with impunity" is a loaded phrase if ever there was one. Behind it is a whole narrative and belief structure which thinks money is something other than a unit of account, that has to be "earned" even by the entities that issue it, or somehow tied to other tangible assets. This is a bogus understanding of money, imo. Warren Mosler explains this in a variety of books and YouTube presentations.
I don't understand why so many bones could be found in the latrine. To me that indicates either that humans commonly ate bones during the middle ages or that latrines were used not just for toilets but as cooking-scraps dumps as well.
The invention of farming also counts towards that narrative
They aren't. In almost every case I have seen, the big CEO job will be the peak of that person's career.

And CEOs are not like top tier athletes. The comparison is ludicrous because most CEOs are paid like Lebron but have the skill of his teammates. The number of actually good CEOs is far smaller than the number of CEOs...as in, there is usually one proven value creator per 10,000 CEOs.

Btw, my sample isn't small. I worked in equity research, I can only think of one CEO I have personally come across who was actually good. One out of thousands (I say personally, there are probably ~5 that I have come across outside of my circle). Your average CEO is not just bad, they are usually actively harmful (because they tend to view becoming CEO as an achievement, they tend to apply few standards of common sense to their decision-making, the way Boards incentivize behaviour also makes no sense).

The reason why this happens is two-fold: there is a culture of "the CEO", and most Boards are full of people who were also CEOs and believe they were very special. It is possible to prove this behaviour is irrational quite easily: how many CEOs have done nothing but fail, and still get hired? Lots.

It is out of this world, irrational behaviour.
Thanks for the insights. I like the more nuanced spectrum you present. I find myself too often in a simplistic left/right divide. I think there is great value in a more fine-grained spectrum coming into common usage.

The conundrum that stands out for me though is when one group defends another group’s right to censor, and then that group uses that right, to censor the other. I think that’s where we are today. The legislative restraint of the Republicans to regulate seems they are living up to their principles to their own disadvantage. But this just leaves them to be taken advantage of by the other group to the point of severely damaging the next election prospects of Trump runs again.

Will defenders of freedom always be subjugated to those who want to use freedom to restrict others? Sustaining this freedom is the challenge of humanity and a very careful balance. We’ve seen so many free countries fall to left/right authoritarianism over the ages. It’s almost like we cycle back and forth between authoritarianism and freedom. This century will surely be a big test.

I think we are quickly heading into left authoritarianism which is ironic because the most vocal complaints are of right authoritarianism which I really didn’t see any evidence of the past 4 years. It was just a trendy thing to say. I don’t even know where the accusation of Trump authoritarianism began.
Because there are people being left behind. Productivity per person has increased massively over the last half century, yet income per worker has been stagnant unless you break into a few specific contexts. This doesn't appear to be a necessary part of innovation as PG and others claim, but rather is a reflection of concentrated wealth's ability to restructure the market and even the legal system to better serve those concentrated interests. This is the pernicious problem we have to fight. It is in no way somehow exogenously necessary for people to have half billion dollar yachts in order to advance the life of the typical human. "Markets measure merit" is a lie told by those best positioned to control markets to manufacture their own "merit."
I would usually agree, but the suggested code would allow for multiple errors to be shown before they’re thrown.
Why are you asking this question here? While I agree with this idea, it has nothing to do with crypto.
Yeah, an improvement I reckon.
> If you actually get invited to join

being the key part. Augusta has 300 members. Rest assured you won't be one of them even if you manage to scrape together the initiation fee.
Humanity already solved this problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax

Most white collar crime is obvious and where the bodies are buried is largely known.

There’s simply no political will to do anything about it.

Crypto becoming mainstream isn’t going to change indifferent minds.

Physical reality is a thing. Burying our heads in ephemeral concepts is distraction, not change.
They didn't plant a GPS tracker, you bought it and use it for navigation, messaging, and social media.
Replace alcohol with 2 hours of sleep, then :)
> why

Because their decisions can drive a company into bankruptcy or transform it into a trillion dollar company. Your average line employee has no such leverage from their actions.
You just need to get luckier. Wake up tomorrow and be lucky.
Average exit event (going public or getting bought) won't out-pay working for FAANG. The chances that it does are like 10%, and that's if there is a real exit, instead of just a wind-down.
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How is this a counterpoint? It's just a couple numbers thrown around to fan the flames. There is no effort to analyze the numbers, and deliberate effort in the opposite direction:

"Last year, McDonald’s boss Steve Easterbrook earned $21.7m while the McDonald’s workers earned a median wage of just $7,017 – a CEO to worker pay ratio of 3,101 to one. The average Walmart worker earned $19,177 in 2017 while CEO Doug McMillon took home $22.8m – a ratio of 1,188 to one."

Comparing ratios of yearly earnings between a CEO and part time workers can only be deliberate manipulation of numbers. This article is garbage designed to outrage and that's all it is.
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Thanks. I know it wasn't ill willed.
What a mess. Is the hangar on the first photos abandoned? Can anyone freely get inside?

(Beautiful photos!)
In general I'm supportive of an Amazon open source fork here.

But the name re-use is unfortunate.

Amazon's argument seems to be "Don’t worry, we own the trademark for ‘OpenSearch’ cause it came out of Amazon originally, so it’s cool!”

That is really poor stewardship of the Intellectual Property of the trademark of a name that was part of a standard that was meant to be an open multi-vendor standard. Amazon owned the trademark to protect it's use under that standard, not to re-use it for something totally different harming the standard further.

But it's just another indication that the original Opensearch, like the era of believing in open web standards for inter-operability that it was part of, is dead.
3 - proof of stake (Cardano etc) solves this, no?
This was great! Still amazing that we had a Chevy Volt, as Jay calls it, in 1909. I love his depth of technical knowledge and storytelling ability.
The hip, shiny framework/project that everyone is going to jump to in 2025 has yet to be written.
I've heard great things about Flutter, and Flutter 2 sounds very interesting. However, I don't trust Google not to get bored and change directions, and so I won't invest my time until Flutter is strategically important to their business.
The value of crypto would decrease but never be completely gone. A whole pandora's box was opened and they can't put the genie back in the bottle no matter how hard they try.

If they were to kill the offramps, the ecosystem would move on websites on Tor or I2P that would work P2P, they can use high privacy coins such as Monero or zcash. Or people will trade it in person using escrow systems. It's not like the first BTC trasactions had the privilege of nice exchanges. The possibilities are there. Just the incentives are not yet present.
LOL at the "you gotta treat them like slaves for maximum productivity" argument.
As far as I know DocumentDB is closed source. Btw: I can name zero OSS projects from Amazon and this is not the same for Microsoft (VScode, TS) and FB (React, Jest).
Dart just had a significant language update a few weeks ago in 2.12.
Another example is salesmen. They get paid mostly on commission. Their sales are good, they take home $$. If they sell less, they take home less.
What's on the Opposite Side of the World?
Well, as the ancient legend goes: Over 3 Billion devices do run Java
Can you say more about why you aren’t clicking? It’s not at all obvious.

I found it fascinating.

I wasn’t aware that Nadine Strossen was president of the ACLU, and a friend of RBG, for example.
The latest i9 and the latest Ryzen 9, ie the competition.
Microsoft can see a lot of data which means they can have plenty of dirt on people involved in anti trust stuff. Beyond certain point companies can do what they want.
Yes, I agree. I just thought it was a nice example on some high-quality recently written Perl code, implementing something entirely new.
Fun story explaining this to the PR reviewers though :D
I think the issue is sealing the panels for expansion and contraction during seasonal temperature changes. Layers of shingles can expand and contract by sliding overtop of each other and butting into each other. There are gaps in the shingle installation for this purpose and only two nails are used per shingle to keep them from buckling and splitting. The overlap of many shingles is what typically keeps the water from being able to get underneath (which will start rotting wood and shorting connections). So if you didn’t have layers of paneling like Tesla is doing, you really don’t have a roof, since it will get water under it and eventually leak a lot.

Source: norm on this old house
Oh yeah SSMS was one thing I missed. Switching to Azure Data Studio was slightly painful since it didn't handle big SQL files as well and the UI was generally a bit slower, especially with large result sets.

However, I forgot to mention - FreeRDP is a wonderful tool and it works perfectly for me. If and when I need to use a Windows only tool like SQL Server Profiler, it's easy to RDP over to a Windows machine to do that.

I know lots of people do everything on their one computer, but I just love keeping all the OSes separate so I don't have to deal with the possibility that some interoperability layer is actually causing me issues. And look what you can get for $299 that Linux will run perfectly on after you throw an SSD in there - https://www.amazon.com/HP-EliteDesk-800-Cerfified-Refurbishe... - and you can go even cheaper if you get an i5-4590 or i5-3470 instead. For a laptop, I have an old (2015) Acer Aspire E5 that runs Manjaro perfectly as well.

Here are the instructions to setup the dotnet host and runtime on an Arch based distro (Although, I just use the GUI add/remove software control panel in Manjaro called Pamac) - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/.NET_Core
Duolingo Toilet Paper: best April fools day prank
HSBC bans customers from buying Bitcoin-backer MicroStrategy shares
switch (Math.floor(version)) {
case 1:
return 'result_1';
case 2:
return 'result_2';
case 3:
return 'result_3';
default:
throw new Error('...');
}

Isn't that more clear?
it's a direct consequence of capital becoming top-heavy and inefficient. once all that money is sloshing around with nothing better to do, it gets hard to argue against giving just a little more to your friends in exchange for loyalty.

in a truly capitalistic economy, you'd expect capital to dissipate away from inefficiencies like that. that it doesn't is a serious signal of deficiency. in a fair labor market, you'd expect ratios to be much more equitable, as no one is 312X as efficient at value creation as another.
Just add bags of char to the machine and sprinkle some in during assembly.

> French tacos seems good because the meat can be cooked as it is Panini pressed.

I don't think I've ever seen a panini press capable of cooking raw meat inside of a panino without basically destroying everything else. Tacos is made with already cooked meat.