skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like your contention is that PoS coins are priced based on discounted cash flow, correct? I think that's a reasonable model, but it's hardly unique to PoS coins, and it doesn't really seem problematic.

It's very problematic if the system's liveness is tied to owning a coin. If I can knock PoS nodes offline, I can not only cause a quorum failure, but also I can cause the offline nodes's coins to get slashed (which is usually how PoS chains deal with this problem). Moreover, there's no recovery from this -- the temporarily-offline nodes are forever slashed, even if they come online later. (EDIT: I'm not limited to knocking nodes offline -- if I can commandeer them through a zero-day, the effect is the same: I make your nodes commit a slashable offense).

Contrast this to PoW, where even if you manage to knock a majority of miners offline, you ultimately have to keep them offline in order to prevent them from later generating and broadcasting a better chain than the one you want to exist. Even if you can physically destroy the majority of miners, the chain still lives on, and new miners can be built and brought online elsewhere.

> This point applies to any assets that generate cash flow, like stocks, yet they seem to have plenty of trading volume

Trading volume is easily faked in crypto-land -- a whale just sends coins to themselves. I'd like to see some hard evidence that the volumes are not from wash-trading. Also, this isn't relevant at all to the system's resilience.

> In practice there are other reasons for selling, like wanting to offset gains/losses for tax purposes, or wanting to buy food.

I didn't say you don't sell coins. I said you don't sell enough of them that the buyer can use them to increase their rate of coin production.
What matters to me is the specific language of the license and the enforcement or non-enforcement of it.

I think the GPL licenses that exist can be quite useful for people who choose them.

However, they are not perfect for everyone. My assumption is that to make progress for those groups, you need some substantive change to the license as well as enforcement strategies.

And, whether it's Stallman or anyone else, you are going to get very little support for really substantive changes to GPL or FSF.

That's why from my perspective, this is mainly an irrelevant political struggle which is not actually going to push software freedom or anything forward, regardless of the outcome.

I think you need people who deeply understand the purpose of copyleft licenses and also really deeply understand new technologies and paradigms such as distributed public computing and ledgers. And it's not going to be easy to improve upon the licenses and other things we already have.

But in any case the idea that some particular individual is so important (or problematic) in how we organize all of our software business makes no sense to me.
.. Again that's all good in theory but in practice you can verify by trading. My orders do get filled faster on Binance, I can take advantage of the better spread and liquidity etc. The majority of orders aren't just disappearing randomly or anything.

It's especially obvious when trading higher amounts or trading a smaller liquidity token in the first place. Maybe I can't verify the actual numbers but I can very much verify there's more liquidity etc. than when I do the same transactions on a smaller exchange (and I'm on ~5 exchanges).
>> His decision to sue Leong was one that he had arrived at after consultation with his lawyer

> That speaks volumes. "I am probably corrupt, but definitely too lazy to chase the original source, because a) it will cost more, and b) I'm corrupt probably corrupt and the article is speaks the truth". I believe that the "b)" is more likely (let's see if he will sue me!!)

The Singapore government has set multiple precendents about ministers having to sue to protect their integrity [1]:

> But if they've defamed us, we have to sue them -- because if we don't, our own integrity will be suspect. We have an understanding that if a minister is defamed and he does not sue, he must leave cabinet.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/interview/goh.chok.t...
https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/
The function that BTC provides is a deflationary hedge. If you look at the big existing things for that, gold and silver etc... check out their market cap and you see btc has a ways more to go.
As has been said elsewhere, beware that zealot on your team who keeps on with the whys until the user gives up and screams, in tears, “because I don’t want to die alone!”
This is why I bought dollar store plastic boxes for my cables and put them in specific categories. I have one box for microUSB, one for USB-C, one for mini, one for HDMI, etc. It's been great in reducing clutter and finding a cable.

Cables create tangled messes in a way that most things do not, and it's been great that my drawers are mostly free of cables now.
They make their cents (or less) on the bid-ask spread, as do all market makers. They do this while also improving the execution of the trade for the end user. Some of that spread goes back to Robin Hood via PFOF. Citadel allows people to buy stocks for less than they would normally, this is an irrefutable fact.

What do you think they're doing in that time? Please be specific because I have no idea what part of this mutually beneficial, standard operating procedure is meant to be a criminal conspiracy. The people losing out are institutional investors who cannot access the same execution quality as a retail investor, because they trade in greater volume and are more likely to be behind a market move.
Idiomatic Panics in Go
For me it was "awry" and "lichen". I didn't even recognize "lichen" when I first heard it spoken (on an episode of QI).

There are quite a few others that tripped me up over the years like "cleanliness".

In general, "Chaos" aka "Dearest creature in creation" shows this problem (I would still struggle to read it even if I know every word there): https://pages.hep.wisc.edu/~jnb/charivarius.html
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/migrating-to-typescript/

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/puppeteer-typescript/

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

Pure => not mixed with anything else

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pure?q=P...
Maybe downvotes should cost some karma? might be a trigger to think before downvoting
Or pretty smart, using SaaS to kill SaaS
From a Slavic perspective, the really complex thing about English grammar is the sequence of tenses.

Having spoken English for almost 30 years by now, I am still not sure if "X has died" or "X died" is correct, or in which context.

But the other direction would be worse. Languages like Czech, with its 20+ classes of declension, must be a true nightmare for any English native speaker to learn.
Is that money trapped in the system? The moment they sell to USD that account is now linked to a real person no?
Yeah, agreed this probably isn't very relevant at human scales. The more hard drives you can fit in a station wagon speeding down a highway, the higher your bandwidth ;) [1]

BTW, check out this video (especially starting at 10:15) for a better explanation than I gave for the Bekenstein bound [2]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab8JIzckx_M
The customers of the enterprises.

Many devs are too religious arguing for home team and don't embrace polyglot programming.

Just because a product is mainly written in managed language X, doesn't mean some library can't be written in something else.

C and C++ devs have forgotten the days when their beloved programs in 8 and 16 bit home computers, were a pile of inline Assembly if performance was to be anywhere of an acceptable level.

Embrace the safety and productivity of higher level languages (with AOT and JIT compilers), and let a couple of native libs be the "inline Assembly" if and only if, a profiler proves it is actually required instead of choosing a better data structure or algorithm.
Folks in this thread are assuming the author is trying to present a failproof method for creating a successful startup. But i don't think this is true. It seems more like simply words of advice.
With words of advice, you take what you can when it applies. But words of advice are hardly comprehensive or sufficient.
>A decade or two of stagnation would be frustrating for those in the field but probably overall a good thing.

Won't they just leave? They could just go somewhere where this isn't banned.
Netscape moment…' says Mike Novogratz — Is that a scary quote or what? Netscape did their IPO in 1995 and IE 6 killed them in 2001 but the "body" was finally buried in 2008. It sounds like a self-inflicted curse tempting Goldman or JP Morgan to become their "IE6." YMMV.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-listing-is-crypto-s-...
Any plans to switch to Opentelemetry?
It still makes no sense to me. It makes sense in the sense that if people believe in it it becomes real. But I don't get why people believe in it. And frankly I'm still pretty skeptical that it's being floated by more than money laundering.
> way ... that doesn't either have horrendous externalities

The CO2 emission externality need have nothing to do with Bitcoin or any other proof-of-work chain. Tax carbon at whatever level makes sense and Bitcoin will adjust. (As I understand it, even currently Bitcoin mining mainly uses renewable energy, because it's cheaper; and it's trending cheaper still.)

The externality is at the power plant, not the use. Banning a use is like basing your server's security on client-side Javascript.
I’m not sure I agree. I tend to say things that are somewhat controversial on HN, and if I said them in San Francisco I’d be liable to be tarred and feathered, being a Libertarian from Kansas, but I try to be diplomatic and haven’t yet had a comment that’s gotten hidden. I think people are fairly charitable as long as you’re presenting a cogent argument.

I always show dead comments and honestly, people aren’t missing out on much. To get your comment dead in my experience you have to either be extremely inflammatory or just spout absolute nonsense.
"Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Can we unify this to simply "data structures are essential to algorithms". It's really weird to put these in opposition, when algorithm with no data and data without algorithm make no sense.

Data structures are encoded with use cases in mind, those use cases at least at the very low level are their algorithms.
The other side of that coin being that the more the script is reformed, the less accessible to non-specialists become a culture’s great works of literature. Shakespeare being the obvious example.
> Acceptable forms of these apps can be used by parents to track their children. However, these apps cannot be used to track a person (a spouse, for example) without their knowledge or permission unless a persistent notification is displayed while the data is being transmitted.

Why is it ethical to track children, but not adults? If phones existed when I was a kid, I would have been horrified to discover my parents had installed spyware on my phone.
I'm not sure if the hive mind is at play here. You should have the right to privacy, period. Some companies/messaging apps respect that, some don't. Users react accordingly. Plain and simple.
Wow. Assuming he put in just $10,000 (and I imagine it was probably more than that), 6000x return would be 60 million dollars.

Any early companies out there right now seem like it could potentially offer even a 10th of that in ~5-10 years?
How would you prevent the puff of gas from diffusing into nothing?
Where did you get ~35km/sec? ISS orbital speed is 7.66 km/s and it only gets slower the higher you go up.

I was thinking something similar but instead launching equivalent mass of water in the exact same orbit in the opposite direction. Right before the collision, release the water. The water would spread enough that the entire spacecraft would basically slam into a wall. The net momentum post collision should be 0. Most spacecraft debris would fall straight down to earth.
Why does it have to be "more"?
C++ is not just a low level language. It's consists both high level and low level. C however a low level language.

I bench-marked using Intel vTune.

for loop is interesting. It's why Tensorflow Core written in C++ instead Java.

I don't know any complex C++ program that employ their own GCs when C++ has RAII which is superior to GC.

Just give a try for C++11/14/17 and you will see which one is more maintainable and expressive.

Look at Chromium codebase. It's the most beautiful codebase I've ever been to.

I've done a lot of CRUD web apps in C++ using expresscpp [1] and I would say it's easy as ABC.

A lot of Java folks haven't tried C++11/14/17 (Modern C++).

C++ is Zen of OOP.

[1] https://github.com/expresscpp/expresscpp
I believe this is the proof why VCs chase those 10x numbers, I bet that that single investment has paid off all their failed investments and then some.
Fair enough. Maybe trolling is a value laden term with negative connotations that don’t apply here.

What’s the thrill of the practical joke?

To share my POV, I never really found the banana peel or the pie in the face amusing. Guy fell down. She got hit in face. Seems bad. I wouldn’t enjoy receiving it.

This joke seems 99% invisible. Like most likely overwhelming likely, no one sees it. In some rare cases they find it and take some action. Maybe look for the money. Maybe email you.

If they look for it without contacting you, you never know.

Are we playing for the tiny corner case where they contact you?

Or the pleasure of telling people we did this funny thing?
Coding to Hide Health Prices from Web Searches Is Barred by Regulators
How can you expect us to not create one when corporations are constantly trying to screw us? How do you mean keeping it from becoming corrupt? Are you suggesting that not having one is somehow better? Anything the corporations have to pay in order to lobby is a plus. Even if you just stack up the money they have to pay and light it on fire.
> Not a very good way to encourage a diverse culture

I'd guess that's the point - giving power over visibility to users who've proved themselves in line with the forum zeitgeist helps maintain a site's culture as-is and prevent it "diversifying" into Smaller Facebook #50691.
This might be somewhat subjective, as I don't know how you'd measure correlation between spoken and written, but French seems to have a much higher match between written and spoken language than English.

Going from spelling to pronunciation in French follows (admittedly complex) rules that are rarely broken except for common words (or endings such as -ent). Vowel pronunciations for a given spelling are far more variable in English, and often depend on the etymology of the word. Plus, English has word-level stress that is not marked in writing (French has none, and it's marked in Spanish), and moving the stress will usually make a word unintelligible! That alone makes writing => pronunciation very difficult.
JSON is allowed, but not required. They just required open, non-proprietary, formats. They specifically gave YAML and XML as other examples.
Year programmers have ignored relational theory since:
Airbnb market cap is at 105 billion and Coinbase is currently at 86.

Personally I'm very sceptical that current valuation for Coinbase is justified. It is a great company for sure but there definitely arent similar network effects as with Airbnb. There's plenty of competition in the crypto exchange space.
>hey would be happy to monetize every video on the site if they could, but advertisers pay the bills, and since advertisers are sensitive to their public image

Thats the excuse, but in reality, google still runs ads on demonetized channels. And there are companies that want to advertise on these other channels. Google is actually doing a disservice to stock holders by excluding profits, but many suspect that they want to be a cable network in the long run, siding with media corps.

There are tiers of advertisers, lower tier companies will gladly pay to advertise on lower quality channels.
The hypocrisy from Google here is palpable. First this content creator got a strike for showing users how GPG works and now for linking to academic research. On the other hand you have Google project zero who openly publish vulnerability research to the detriment of some software vendors.

You can’t have it both ways and as someone who works in this space I’m pretty upset by this ham fisted approach to censoring content.

I look forward to google becoming the next AOL.
Coinbase did a direct listing and didn’t raise money from this event. They provided liquidity for their shareholders.
I tend to downvote at the nexus of stuff I disagree with + expressed in an unproductive, rude, spammy, abusive, or flip manner. It's certainly true that when a flippant post is something I agree with I'm more likely to elide on by it. I assume most people do the same thing.
Amazon Automated My Job
One I can think of off the top of my head (statistics, not AI, although AI would also allow it) is that the actuarial calculations for home/car insurance quotes rely on risk data by zip code, education level, income, and any and all other socioeconomic variables not including protected class, but which often correlate/group by protected class, and which are also reliable indicators of risk.

Depending on who you talk to these algorithms either are or are not discriminating against protected classes "through the back door".
UFS Boot Environments (FreeBSD)
my $250 order didn't go through...
> I believe WhatsApp Web being connected makes you appear "Online" all the time.

Somewhere else in this thread people claim the opposite.
> an enormous java program with a 10,000 line Utils.java file

That type of code, in the hands of a gifted programmer (not java) using a decent programming language (not java) can usually be subsumed to less than a 100 lines.

There is therefore a good case for looking for simple rules :D
Well I bought BTC at $1 and so did many others, now it trades at $60k...
>Democratic Republic of the Congo has GDP per capita below 1000 USD per year and is one of the least developed countries in the world -- affected by unfortunate tropical diseases and civil war. (2) Republic of the Congo

Reminds me of the heuristic, the more modifiers a country's name has, the more likely it is to have economic or political issues. See for example, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea vs Republic of Korea.
> I see, so Breivik can go kill a bunch of children and hang out in "prison" with his XBox and hope to leave on parole? And that's normal for you?

Breivik is unlikely to get out because he is likely to continue to be deemed a threat on every re-evaluation. But if he demonstrates that he is reforming and is no longer likely to be a threat, then yes, that is not just normal to me but desirable.

It is a system that works given that re-offending rates in Norway are low.

I'd consider it an absolute insult to victims of violent crime to focus on things like retribution over policies shown to actually reduce the rates of future crime.

Valuing the perpetuation of violence for the sake of retribution over reducing the number of victims seems to me the height of barbaric and immoral behaviour.

But even without any benefits to re-offending rates I'd still consider it barbaric to threat prisoners badly for retributive purposes. Free will is a fiction, and so when we are punishing people for anything other than the practical purposes of keeping society safe we are no better than those we assign blame for crimes, we just tell ourselves we are.
Show HN: A new place for Flutter developers to complete challenges
The fact that people refer to google's own Go as golang relatively frequently indicates to me that googleable names are important.

These days when I use a language in a query it's usually in combination with something. I might not google go, but I might google go time...

which my test run indicates has an entirely different problem than what I expected, the results are go related - there is a go related podcast called GoTime, funnily enough.

But I've definitely needed to disambiguate programming technologies from entirely different contexts in some queries.
>It might surprise you to learn that this site and its newsletter costs about $130 USD a month to run

Yes it does. I know you can never criticize someone else's infra nowadays without coming across as "I could clone StackOverflow and get it to run on a Raspberry Pi over a weekend," I have no idea what or how much stuff his backend is doing, and I know serverless is an added and often worthwhile expense....but man, that's way more than I'd expect.
I would like the ability to see my ratio of upvotes to downvotes. I think it would help show me if I was applying the same zeal to promote ideas as I use to demote them.
$NET if you're looking for slightly undervalued tech stocks.

The recently announced products to take on zscaler, crowdstrike et al looks commendable whilst they are also at the same time going after the cloud incumbents with Workers. I'd reckon, they've got the engineering chops and the infrastructure to bat both those out of the park.
It inflates the money supply, reducing the value of the money we already have. Inflation is essentially a tax that gets constantly applied.
Memorize your private keys. Destroy any physical or digital copies of the keys in a “boating accident”. Tell the authorities you can’t recover the funds. Wait 25 years or so. Move to somewhere outside jurisdiction or extradition from the relevant authorities. Cash out.
From the video in the article, it looks like the dog was deployed just to help make an arrest. Article is worded to imply the dog is in those projects permanently “surveilling” but there’s no facts to back that up.
$130/month for a website and newsletter considered minimal! Wow!
China’s ‘Little Blue Men’ aren’t fishermen, they’re a maritime militia
Looks like 1-2 deaths per day.

But then again, we are vaccinating the most vulnerable populations first. And they won't see much delay.

Personally, I think this is going to further increase the risk of additional delays.
Ruling by fiat is becoming more common, accountability less so.

Well, PG&E cut down a whole bunch of trees in my town just recently, against the objections of the locals and the city council. And Judge Alsop, who supervises their bankruptcy chided them for this slap-dash, crude effort to show they were doing thing (didn't stop them, darn it).

So you see a bunch of actions that look like the state or industry acting by fiat. But it only looks that way. The many institutions of this society are at loggerheads with each other, the parties are in gridlock, etc. The main thing is they've shut out the average person from their debates - which is a bit different.
The whole "protecting children" thing ... these apps are no better when used to watch your kids than they are when used to spy on your spouse.

Spying on kids is just as creepy as spying on a spouse imo, and the whole "it comes from a place of love and concern" can apply to both just as well. It's all excuses by overzealous parents. Shit should be outlawed, period, none of these creepy exceptions.
Detox: Replace Problematic Characters in Filenames
Is this link your writing? It's very interesting!
I like the idea of only showing the number of up boats and when her user is negative, and possibly taking action at some point.

And avoid users speaking to the audience opposed to directly addressing the parent comment

Hacker news gates some functionality based on accumulated Votes, so maybe once you hit the necessary threshold it is hidden
You should ask the AI why it decided those terms were worse than others
I did not, thankfully. I went to a follow up appointment and it seems there are several potential causes so I’m working on figuring out proper therapy with my doctor.