skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thing is when was the last time a western country experienced hyperinflation?

So it's alright because western countries aren't suffering any side effects?

> Hyperinflation is a made-up problem.

My country suffered hyperinflation multiple times. It was so bad we had to create new currencies with every iteration. I think the most recent episode happened in the 90s or so.
Yes, though I qualified it as "major". In some US cities, it's almost one homeless person per bench.

And in other parts of the US, everyone has a family member or knows someone with a family member suffering from drug addiction.
It's possible to swap into monero without using any KYC exchange, but that requires liquidity. So it could take years.
The Jump Threading pass likely removes that unnecessary branch instruction.
From https://bitcoinbriefly.com/practical-guide-bitcoin-addresses... :

"Legacy addresses start with the digit “1”. These Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) addresses were once the standard address type up until August 2017. Many now advise against using them. Why?

Legacy addresses incur the most expensive transaction fees when sending payments. They also limit the Bitcoin network's ability to scale. And their case-sensitive nature often causes unwanted errors."
Well stated first paragraph, but you're going to lose a lot of people with that second paragraph.
There are parts of the world, South Korea for example, where people commonly wear masks year-round and have for ages, either because of fine dust pollution or just generally if you're not feeling great and go out, it's polite to others. Might see this being adopted in places like that. In additional, I personally am happy if we normalize the wearing of masks, I have awful seasonal allergies and masking up has been amazing for me.
> I don't think I've heard any dialects where there's a difference between whether you pronounce the "c" in a word as hard or soft.

Um, yes, I can't think of regular words where a "c" changes.

<thinks a bit more>

Place names. Place names - at least in England - can have significant differences between spelling and pronunciation, and the locals will often use or be aware of a local pronunciation that isn't obvious to outsiders. Examples include Bicester ('bister'), Leicester ('lester'), Salisbury ('solsbry'), Tottenham ('totnam') and many others. It's not quite the same effect as with dialects but it certainly complicates spelling reform.
It's an excuse but not a good reason. The reason is more that people on top of the income/wealth divide have the power to give themselves more power and keep growing the divide, and they're unafraid of the risks that come with the reward. Populist uprisings are a thing of the past in the info age. The little people are sufficiently surveiled and controlled by the network, by partisan propaganda that keeps them infighting, etc.
I'd normally post a 'start watching at' timestamp but this is really good right from the outset - one of the first things in the video is the 'recycling' symbol on plastic is a resin identifier code that just happens to look like the recycling symbol.
> PoS is closed-membership with a veneer of open-membership, because the means of coin production are tied to owning a coin already. What this means in practice is that no rational coin-owner is going to sell you coins at a fast enough rate that you'll be able to increase your means of coin production

It seems to me like they're arguing that PoW is more egalitarian/decentralized, which may be a fair point. But using the same argument, attackers being forced to buy stake in the open market should make PoS even more secure against 51% attacks than PoW.

I think this is a good post explaining the tradeoffs: https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
Am I the only one who finds it funny that Bernie Madoff died within hours of Coinbase going public?
Sure, iPad and Garageband.
Perhaps. But it seems to undercut your thesis that it was about that one specific person. You'd need to expand the thesis at least enough to make it about these two specific people.

Which is a bit difficult to swallow. He had a near-unanimous approval rating among his partisans, comparable to the partisan approval rating of his very popular predecessor. I wouldn't go so far as the "savior" insult by the OP, but I don't really think it can be held that his popularity was solely about rejection of another candidate.
> am just so put off by Wolfram's puffed up, bafflegab

This is basically the definition of an ad hominem.

He may be an asshole, but so were many other great scientists (Newton comes to mind).

That does not have any correlation to the value of the work.
Did he?
If he simply bought bitcoins with his $300.000 in 2012 (average bitcoin price of $8) then his net worth now would be .... 37500 bitcoins or $2.362.500.000 ... 2 point 3 billion frigging dollars...
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I get the sense we're talking past each other here. It seems pretty likely that's because you kindly assume I'm not a complete moron, and I'm not performing.

I'm confused about the evolution example; it seems to me that evolution is something of a triumph of Occam's razor. After all, for all it's myriad complexity the simple rule of natural selection explains pretty much all of it.

My gut says that the analogous component to 'natural selection' would be the laws of physics, but I might not be understanding that last bit. Are you going for more of an anthropological principle thing?
I think the tradeoff is that at least the AI discrimination is systemized, and there's one place you can manipulate to reduce that discrimination, while with pre-AI human discrimination, it's not at one place, so it's harder to eliminate.

As an example, it's the difference between being rejected by a central agent for a loan, versus going to your local branch, and being rejected by a random employee at the local branch. It's obviously much easier to change the central agent than it is to change every distributed employee.

Now, whether this is actually the case in practice, and whether this is a good or bad thing is open to interpretation.
That's an interesting angle to cash out... just start sending to 1,000s of addresses - who's to say which addresses are owned by the criminals, and which are owned by other people?

They'd get less than cashing it all out themselves obviously, but it would take forever to unravel what actually happened (if possible ever)
>We don't need "more theory".

>it's not very useful for the every day programmers out there

So, programmer's talent is not being used to their fullest. The ones which can't understand basic theory can be easily condemned to always be mere users of tools while never improving them. They run a greater risk of becoming obsolete or devalued.
Honestly, you should charge actual money for this.

Not a bad idea at all, plus the templates you already have are pretty neat. I could see applications w.r.t. professional development or even marketing to product people with the purpose of simplifying product roadmaps (and sharing with C-levels, etc.).

You have something here, screw donations. Free users suck anyway; my free project[1] has ~1500 MAU and I kind of want to stop working on it because the entitlement is unreal.

[1] https://www.lofi.rocks/
Binance has temporarily postponed the listing of COIN due to market volatility
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Heh.. I didn't copy the comment I was responding to!!

I was (clearly?) making a point against logbooks, thus stating the disadvantages of logbooks vs the advantages and simplicity (respecting privacy) of modern technology.
No. Seriously no.
One of the most important lessons I learned as a founder is that everyone will give you advice, and the advice will often conflict with other advice, and that's OK.

The trick is to look at the source of the advice and think about why that advice worked for them. What aspects of their situation are similar to yours?

So all advice is good, provided you use it all as inputs to your decision making and consider the context when you decide which advice to lean into.
The author receiving a strike can mean two things: a) the policy prohibits this b) a mistake was made.

The author seems to consider the latter more likely.

Likewise, Spiderman dry humping Elsa staying up can mean either that the policy allows it, or, much more likely, that they just didn't manage to identify and take it down yet.
>>"Right or wrong" maybe not, but for well managed communities on the internet, there are objective definitions for appropriate and inappropriate, based on shared values and context.

Objective in what sense? Consensus != Truth.

>>If you leave it up to each individual to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate, and provide them with the tools to block content they consider inappropriate, that's a burden on them, because you're not taking care of it at the community level.

You can't take care of anyone at the community level because a community as an indivisible unit does not exist. The word "community" is merely a label, an abstraction for the ideas and events that characters interactions between two or more different people.

>>And if the community's strength comes from shared values, and you leave that up to each individual to decide, what's shared, and what sort of "community" is actually offered?

Either this is a loaded question or you've really put the cart before the horse, but I'll bite. A community's value comes the achievements of its individual constituents. Shared values are not a required prerequisite. They naturally arise from personal observations and discovery, real or perceived. That's it. Every culture, superstition, law, religion was a consequence of personal examination by one person. What made these so-called shared values "shared" was war and trade.
While that may be true in some sense, you have to be able to see that completely ignoring the vernacular sense of the words 'left' and 'right' does nothing to help communication here. Literally nobody talks about the American political spectrum as divided between the far-right and kinda-far-right.
Why Rust strings seem hard
What's wrong with simply returning it? Any "tainted coin tracker" could easily build in a mechanism for detecting that
> politically no one is going to impose them at the levels needed to discourage consumption

This seems like one of those Overton-window true-if-and-only-if-the-media-say-it's-true things, like the supposed taboo against vaccine challenge trials which was recently falsified in a poll.

> where does that money go?

To the low-income people who are supposed to be the insuperable political obstacle to carbon taxes in the first place?

Politics is hard, yes, but this Overton-window kind of reasoning just drags at any real solution to anything. It's not worth any allegiance.
This is a claim that would need a citation.

There were no authorized private markets in the last week,and Coinbase's stock issuance documents forbid sales without company approval.

FTX was trading over $600 at one point, but that was a synthetic asset and based off of an inaccurate estimate of the share count. Was that what you were referring to?
This. I think this is the only reason why IT pays so much: it’s difficult, there is no documentation and you need to educate yourself.
You can definitely do this with bills... You realize when a bank gets robbed the serial numbers are tracked and confiscated when they show up, and often lead to the theives
I’ll second this. It’s an excellent intro that’s very approachable.
"In 2017, the Qt Company estimated a community of about 1 million developers worldwide[18] in over 70 industries."

See list of companies using C++ QT for GUI,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)
Yes. People do copy. You'd be lucky to even find attribution. This is one of the things which open source contributors need to make peace with. The way I look at it, the original grew out of my own experiences in my head and that can't be copied. As for manifestations... The more pretty / functional code and sites there are, the better!

A tip from over ten years of FOSS : never try to track your FOSS code, nothing good can possibly come of it
And to further clarify, as early as 2008 when I looked at it first, social insurance payments were required at the same rates employers and employees pay, with the main benefit being that if you already have other income (eg salary), your total social contributions should are capped at 5 times the average (eg if you've got a 3x the average salary, and a side gig getting you another 3x the average salary, you'd only be paying self-reported social insurance taxes on the extra 2x average salary).
There would be economic damage, no doubt. And maybe to the level where it's politically impossible to enact this kind of thing. And maybe it's a stupid idea :-)
iirc, a number of wallets allow you to specify which unspent TX outputs you use.

So if you got tainted coin sent to your address, you could avoid using that UTXO in future TXs.

That might protect you from some scrutiny.
Was lucky enough to take Serge's class when he was visiting UC Berkeley back in the 90's. And yet I'm still writing SQL :( Curious to know what the state in the art in solving the then-thornier theoretical problems (negation mostly) is.
It's been in Irish law for some time (which makes it applicable to the majority of US tech giants). Unfortunately Ireland isn't hq for a lot of the big finance and insurance firms which would probably be more useful in this situation. Anyway, here is the latest version of the law: TLDR; if it impacts you it should require a human decision and be appeal-able. Also there is a right to review code but I'm not sure how that works:

the right of a data subject not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her shall, in addition to the grounds identified in Article 22(2)(a) and (c), not apply where—

(a) the decision is authorised or required by or under an enactment, and

(b) either—

(i) the effect of that decision is to grant a request of the data subject, or

(ii) in all other cases (where subparagraph (i) is not applicable), adequate steps have been taken by the controller to safeguard the legitimate interests of the data subject which steps shall include the making of arrangements to enable him or her to—

(I) make representations to the controller in relation to the decision,

(II) request human intervention in the decision-making process,

(III) request to appeal the decision.
First, it’s not a binary (true or false). Second, what I meant was that some people get so caught up in being 100.00% mathematically precise that they hesitate to even say anything. No one is saying not to be humble or as correct as possible. You can be more confident just by being aware that most people don’t know that much more than you in many cases.
It’s so closed source, even the URL doesn’t work! :-)
I used to love Google - I can’t believe I’m feeling the same way. Everything is so downhill for them. Searching isn’t as great as it used to be. Popular services get killed to be replaced by replicas (thinking of messaging apps). What the heck is going on with Google? I used to think they were innovators, and now I feel like they’re just Big Brother.
It's meant to be the very bottom of the range, so it might be formulaic but it's not intended to represent the actual value at that moment.
It is actually interesting thought pattern, which would be better investment? With owning private equity there is also lots of work involved I would guess, with BTC you just sit on it... Latter is of course very hard in volatile market, while PE you probably can't liquidate.
You would need to provide professional indemnity insurance cover. Most policies likely don’t cover advising the whole internet.
I want to add a historical remark. Very early forms of human government, such as ancient kingdoms in various parts of the world, had one or a few prominent members of society hold full discretion and decision-making power. Later, we codified rules and decided that even monarchs are not above the law. Endowing the written laws with additional power by making them executable seems like a natural next step.
What is open speech tech? Clicked twice (GitHub, website's homepage) and didn't really get much out of it.
Why don't books have that ease of re-use? I've currently got an open book on every available surface. Restart is just a matter of going there and grabbing it. (The most important ones sit on my desk)

For ones I've already read, they're in a shelf right behind me. Not line of sight, but a 180 degree turn. Same as my guitar. It works very well. (It took a while to get my partner used to books lying around everywhere, but it was worth it)
The D programming language was originally named Mars (after my company name Digital Mars). But my friends and colleagues kept jokingly calling it "D" to the point where reality was accepted.

The D standard library is still called Phobos.
The flu vaccine is still called a vaccine and it’s delivered yearly and while not required is highly recommended indefinitely.

Why would this be any different?
Plan 9 had alef, after all.
Oh, I absolutely do not doubt that it could happen again more often, but at least we have Racketeering laws and a system to essentially minimize the degree to which it happens with impunity.
> swap into monero without using any KYC exchange

How? Links on this being done?
also airbnb is not dependent on the value of a speculative asset. There will always be demand for rentals.
No they can't, Deno is JavaScript compliant
Assuming normal distribution most fall in the middle of this spectrum. The notion that there’s some binary state of “chemical balance” where you either are -5 or positive 5 is a myth. I’m pro-medication mind you, but I’m also pro-reason. The reasoning here is filled with inconsistencies, bias and outright misinformation (eg debunked “chemical imbalance” theories)
Not guiding new people on critical aspects of existing systems or codebases is an indication of weak management. I think it is fair to assume that a developer knows the basic concepts pertinent to a given role, however the behavior of working systems is usually determined by a suite of proprietary configuration that is going to be confusing for anyone new. Unfortunately the people most familiar with that will have the hardest time communicating it to someone that is new.
Which std::vector though?

ISO C++ places no such requirement on std::vector, each implementation is free to choose their own implementation provided it matches the O() notation requirements.

C++ is not like Rust where the implementation dictates the semantics.
This is so dope! Love it.

I actually have been working on something related but not exactly - mine is more generally a Youtube video zapper. Works well for music and also for other genres, was a fun quarantine project.

Check it out!
https://zapper.video/
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I do see your point better now, thank you.

You're right, of course. Our visual perception of the space can't cause things to become occluded when they weren't before, and vice-versa.

So maybe that ends up being a side-effect of an implementation detail, and in their zeal to explain how, to achieve a realistic-feeling FOV, they had to change how light bends through space, they ended up harping too much on this side-effect as a way to describe what they meant.

I think the question is simply whether a better transform exists using just the 2D image. If one exists that feels like a not-too-distorted wide-angle view like our natural vision, then people should be using that. If this turns out to be the best way to achieve that currently, and it has a slight side-effect of a change in occlusion, then this seems like a good thing.
Downvoting can also have a snowball effect. If someone disagrees with you, especially in a contested topic where it's opinion or unclear who is correct, downvotes signal other people to also downvote. You can see the effect on Reddit.

Comments that hit -1 can still recover. Comments rarely recover after -3 or so. The only counter is for the commenter to edit and call out readers for frivolous downvoting.
> Can you give an example of non crypto speculative investments which are not expected to produce revenues?

How about any commodity or foreign currency? Gold, oil, etc.

> That’s how 100% of business promise to eventually provide returns.

Exactly. Since Bitcoin obviously isn't a business, it couldn't be a Ponzi scheme (because investors in Bitcoin aren't being mislead into believing that the returns are coming from a business activity).

> To make the limit argument: if bitcoin was run by a single person selling coins and claiming their value would go up because of network value, but this claim was not true, this would be a ponzi correct? Assuming the proferred proof was reported coin value appreciation to date. (I.e. the returns)

No, that couldn't be a Ponzi scheme because the person isn't lying about the origin of the returns. They really do come from other investors. That might be considered a pyramid scheme, though.
To me the most non-sensical part in this kind of arguments is that most of the people identifying themselves as “Latino” are people from the US. Most people actually born in latin america will self-identify with their country of origin (Argentinian, Colombian,..)
>making downvotes costly seems like a good system

Habr.com makes both up and downvotes costly, and they have an evolved system checks and balances. The best I´ve seen. They can even fight off Kremlin bots successfully, this is major feat in their region/language of choice.
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> this site and its newsletter costs about $130 USD a month to run

I have toy site that gets around 100k users a month, with background services like a postgres db... and it costs me under $20 to run. I do everything in CloudRun (serverless) with a managed DB. What in the hell is this person doing?
I remember when Zilog tried to trademark the letter Z, and Intel tried to trademark 386.

That didn't work.
In theory yes.

In practice, cashing out billions of dollars worth of stocks is easier than cashing out billions of dollars worth of crypto.
I've no problem with a company pricing a product to be what the market will bear.

However, Teenage Engineering claiming they were jacking the price due to "supply issues" is just insulting.
Apple insists jailbreaking is illegal, and in their initial complaint against Corellium they seriously tried to argue that its use by pwn20wnd to help him while developing unc0ver (a jailbreak) was an "unlawful end" :/.
I've tried that in my own community but it's a real struggle because in my experience newbies drive the conversation much more than pros so in my case gatekeeping was creating a silent community of highly skilled lurkers.

With no gatekeeping, there's lots of activity and pros feel like participating once in a while with deep discussions sparked from seemingly simple questions, but on the other hand a lot of pros feel alienated and leave if the average level of competency is too low.

I've been toying with the idea of pro:newbie ratios but haven't implemented anything yet.
Yeah definitely. This is good example of privilege.
How do you think the college more experienced than you has learned all he knows? Could be through another experienced college, yes, but chances are he learned by himself. We, IT people, are somehow elitist when it comes to knowledge: we think meritocracy is the way. I don’t like it but that’s how it is.