skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does Bitcoin scarcity compare with the availability of other crypto products ?

I think this question doesn't totally make sense, but I get what you're getting at.

BTC because of PoW and mostly first mover advantage (more mining network capacity, therefore more secure) has more shared value. A lot of the other crypto products are relatively insecure proof of stake with problematic on chain governance. The scarcity is not that there are lots of crypto products, but that there will only be a maximum number of BTC mined ever. The existence of Venezuela dollars doesn't really impact the value of USD - they're different currencies with different reasons for their value. Many others 'coins' are ERC-20 tokens on ETH and while they support their applications/create shared incentives they don't have nearly the same network size as BTC (or shared sense of value) so they're less robust. Those tokens are less like a currency and more like company stock (where the 'company' is the on chain application). There are some others on their own block chains that have interesting properties (ZCash), but the risk there is adoption.

Lots of commodities are traded, but gold has a shared store of value property above its inherent value for social reasons. I'd argue BTC has that for similar social reasons.

Ethereum is different because of its programmable smart contracts, it has a lot more potential as a protocol that applications can be built on top of (and we're seeing a lot of cool stuff here, DeFi - Uniswap, Compound, see: https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/what-explains-the-rise...). As a result I think its token has value and its more exciting than BTC, but it's a different kind of thing - BTC is simpler.

Doge is a joke - just straight speculative gambling, you might luckily make money (and it's fun to gamble), but there's no scarcity built in. It definitely has the meme aspect going for it though.
Correct

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925044
Print debugging is basically variable watch points, but IMHO easier.

The only time to really beware is embedded and real time systems where printing can throw timing way off or cause other side effects.

I heard of a case once where printing via JTAG caused an issue due to the power draw of sending all the extra data out. But that was trying to debug a novel board design and its software at once.

You won’t hit that kind of thing on normal computers like desktop, mobile, or cloud unless you are writing drivers.
> But with print statements if the first place I put them doesn't work, I can start doing bisects and quickly find the right place to print.

Can't I also bisect with breakpoints?
‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock the world
What an irresponsible behaviour.

Kids by definition require parents to take responsibility for choices among other things.

If kids are to make their own choices - they are not kids anymore.
Convergence vs collusion is a distinction without a difference when the prices are public.

Any market dominated by only a few participants where none of the participants is willing to compete on price needs government intervention.
BSP is a specific model for parallel computation, but it still operates on the fundamentals of Amdahl's Law, and the whole reason it exists is find the optimal divide-and-conquer solution given a set of real-world limitations.

One might even say that the cost of implementing your algorithm with BSP is higher than PRAM, because of the extra layers. But you can't ignore some of the things that you can in a strict PRAM model, so you have to incorporate those into the cost as well.

Given Gustafson's law, if you have enough data, enough to work to do, you can sort of ignore the un-parallelizable fraction by throwing enough processors at the computation.

What starts to trip things up at this scale is synchronization.
This person is still comparing themselves to their peers in high school. Doesn't check out.
Crowds without mask don't transmit? Where have you been this past year!!!
Electric car startup Lordstown ginned up 10k pre-orders per year
I think you got the better end of the deal. Similar things have happened to me and I am happy to have known them and the joy they added to our transient lives.
That's perfectly doable. I routinely navigate / extend / debug / refactor a 600 KLOC Java codebase with nvim + ctags + ripgrep and will have the job done well before the language server has even completed digging through those 600 KLOC.
In case of Kolomoyski, he owned the bank he defrauded.
I was just in mild shock. I clicked through his Twitter profile and saw his icon, and my heart dropped.

Perhaps appreciate the people around you, I suppose. Never know when they’ll be the last words you exchange with them.
I’m in my late thirties. I make more than enough money for my family to eat well and accomplish Dave Ramsey’s financial baby steps. I have a loving family and several good friends. I enjoy my job well enough. My health needs improvement but nothing that can’t be made good enough after a few months of small but permanent changes. I feel like I’ve made it. I still have goals and aspirations but when I hear, “I’ve made it” I think of having achieved a relatively comfortable life, and that I do.
Don't answer this if it isn't legal to answer, but do you have any examples you can share? I can entirely picture the process, and completely believe that it happens, but I don't have a mental image of what the end result looks like.
https://archive.is/DzjqV
Relevant quote: "Every time you double producing capacity, you reduce the cost of PV solar by 28%."

Current worldwide PV manufacturing capacity is roughly 165 GW [1] [2], with a utility scale price close to $0.01/kWh [3]. Manufacturing capacity is doubling every ~4 years. Global PV capacity in service is ~600 GW.

IEA Average global annual capacity additions in main and accelerated cases, 2023-2025: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/average-globa... [4]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/668764/annual-solar-modu...

[2] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/solar-pv-modu...

[3] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/04/12/saudi-arabias-second-...

[4] https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2020/solar-pv

EDIT: Thanks to /u/gok for the correction on energy units.
Tangent on a tangent, but my daughter was recently binge-watching The Clone Wars animated series and at one point I had to ask: "So they have Space Asians there?"

Well, they already have Space Knights, Space Gunmen, and Space Witches, so why not.
Those statistics are probably "correct," but missing lots of context.

First of all, most police stops and arrests aren't for murder, but for various petty crimes (particularly drugs and traffic violations) that are certainly unevenly enforced, even controlling for other factors (see e.g. see e.g. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...), so citing murder statistics here to seems a little irrelevant, as they are such a small fraction of police stops. It is also probably not an effective means of catching murderers (instead turning communities against the police, perhaps contributing to the pathetic murder clearance rates achieved by police). As you probably know, many have argued that there is both overpolicing of petty crimes and underpolicing of violent crimes in minority communities ( see, e.g. https://www.vox.com/2015/4/14/8411733/black-community-polici...).

But, sticking to murder rates, these statistics also ignore a lot of dynamics. At least in urban areas (I don't have much familiarity with rural areas), most murders aren't individuals acting independently to commit murder. Instead, a large fraction of murders are gang-related (either directly, or collaterally), suggesting that to large extent, differential gang prevalence might be a dominant factor in the difference in murder rates.

Why are gangs prevalent today in some communities and not others? 100 years ago, gangs in places like Chicago were predominantly ethnic white (think Al Capone), though those gangs have largely declined and no longer play a larger role as far as I can tell. Nowadays, 90% of gang members appear to be Black or Hispanic (https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/survey-analysis/demograph...). Gangs of course are not all the same (some are probably more violent than others), but maybe the right question to be asking is why are gangs so prevalent among urban minorities.

I don't have any special knowledge here, but I imagine that in many cases, differential policing may certainly be a direct or indirect contributor to high gang prevalence. . There of course other many other reasons (community disinvestment, inertia, the "war on drugs."), but differential policing has the potential to cause a positive feedback loop here (unfair treatment -> higher gang membership -> higher violent rates -> unfair treatment) that probably needs to be broken. Of course, historically, unfair treatment of Blacks well predates the formation of Black street gangs (according to https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/434..., Black street gangs didn't become prevalent in large urban areas until the 50's/60's).

It might be "natural" for police to treat communities with higher murder rates differently, but that does not mean that it's the smart or right thing to do.
The <menu>[1] and <dialog>[2] elements are also pretty good for menus and dialogs.

Full working example of a modal dialog:

<dialog id="dialog">
<form method="dialog">
What is your favorite color?
<input name="color">
<button>Save</button>
</form>
</dialog>

<button onclick="dialog.showModal()">
Show dialog
</button>

The dialog element is fully supported in Chrome/Edge and Firefox nightly, and there's a polyfill[3] for the others.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...

[3]: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/dialog-polyfill
He's hoping for "a million times faster", and "that it might be possible, with today’s technology".
Switch to iparty?
> it's designed to be monopoly

How is being designed to be illegal a defense? If anything, that makes it worse.
WAVM and SSVM do normal compilation.
or maybe ask the question regarding why we're not all running ipv6.
$0.01 per kilowatt hour
"Firefox Can’t Open This Page

To protect your security, [domain name] will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window."
How to generate video content you might not have thought of
The Austin and San Antonio rates are backwards.
The java case is actually pretty universal ... you run the JVM with debugging enabled (fixed string of flags) and then tell your IDE to attach to the JVM on the port you gave it. You don't need compileable source, can be on a remote server, different OS etc - if you have just the source for the bit you want to debug you can set a breakpoint in it and it'll stop there.

Being able to debug third party code in remote / hostile environments (even when its mixed with proprietary vendor code) is one of the things I like about Java.
Several experiments have already been carried out, but none have been able to fully prove or refute the existence of life on mars. There is still room for more evidence and precision, but most likely there is no life there.
Actually I think I'm not understanding this properly... does the phrase 'messaging service' mean the email service, i.e the server? So the server would not store my mail, but the client would?

I guess the answer is obvious. Sorry, I didn't read this properly. Good work on this!
I've been pretty happy with my vivosmart, and there are libraries for pulling data off of it. It's not open in the same way this project is, though
They already did strongly limit the supply of beanie babies to increase hype, at least for many variants. The problem wasn't the supply, it was that the value was entirely based on speculation.

And bitcoin won't be a better store of value until we can be sure the demand for it will last a very long time.
Only thing I hate about this .... regular point of code review: remove the debugger breakpoint you left in your code!

We haven't had one hit production yet, but it came close. Print statement is a lot more harmless.
Another meditation on technology, that is perhaps more grounded than Zen. Worth a read:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/truck-on-rebuilding-a-worn-out...

What he does find, however, is that he must make peace with technology; it’s a mistake, he says, to "assume there is a point on that line between the caveman’s club and the moon shot that marks the moral turnaround, before which technology was somehow benign, after which it is malign."
That wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. It comes to mind that the album titled "John Wesley Harding" is named after the outlaw John Wesley Hardin (no g). I'm genuinely not sure if these changes are a result of sloppiness or creativity.
Yeah - I think holding value in BTC and then converting to other stuff to do different things is likely a common use case.

You can move BTC to Zcash and then have shielded transactions.

The worst kind of outcome is what the CCP is building - a digital on chain currency to completely surveil their population's every financial transaction. There are some interesting things a government run digital currency can do though - expiring money stimulus (money that must be spent in a short time or somehow otherwise constrained). The ability to very quickly give money to people securely. Though obviously even with some of these interesting things, the CCP's currency is very bad for the privacy and freedom of their people - China is basically already in that dystopia.
I could see that being the case - the Intel Internet Party Line was recently mentioned in the top comment of a different front page thread.
People getting forcibly removed from overbooked flights was another. When policies rely solely on computer automation, and human employees aren't allowed to make common sense ad hoc decisions, you end up with some ridiculous injustices (however petty).
But have you seen inside of FAANG?
I guess there really is no such thing as a free lunch.
I've actually been meaning to write something up about this. I've found you can get fairly good error messages from a parser combinator style parser just by saving the deepest location you successfully parsed to and the parser you failed in.
It might all still go the way of the TV [0]. We've been seeing the demise of general computing in real time. The current generation may be the last that got to pop the hood on the internal workings of the Internet, from inspecting HTML source of a web-page to disassembly of whatever was running it, if source code was not available (or at least port scanning and possible stack bashing).

With corporations doing their best to remove that ability, and consumers gladly buying curated experience boxes, it all might culminate with an encapsulated silo park selling all you can eat broadcasting (think one-way directed stream, with consumer only getting to send back analytics). So in a way, Gibson got very many things right, maybe even the core thing. I remember thinking in the 90's "Oh, he got it so wrong, the Internet changes everything". Hah.

Alan Kay's "the computer revolution has not happened yet" is more relevant today than ever [1]. It's up to us to change that.

[0]I think JWZ (Jaimie Zawinski) spoke about that in "Coders at work", can't find the exact source.

[1]PDF: http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20The%20Real%20Computer%2...
There's also a youtube video of his presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0
Wow, I know nothing about this project, but if the person who reached out to this developer is actually employed by Reddit, this reads as one of the most unprofessional things I've ever seen from a company of Riot's size? It sounds like there's some questions regarding the legitimacy in the comments of the original thread, but OP provided email headers from a person with the same email as the handle in the discord screencaps.

Highlights:

>The courts are always an option, but it's long and messy so we thought we'd do some outreach to see if we could work together to prevent everyone the trouble

>You've obviously put a lot of work into Chrono shift, but I assure you that the Chrono break is coming

>If it were scare tactics Riot wanted you wouldn't be speaking to me
Hagoromo changed hands after those articles, and now runs from South Korea, I think. An Amazon review says it's no longer the Rolls Royce of chalk, but more like a "really dope Lexus".
Oh no! I met Dan during my time first working on DNS in 2008. He came to many of us with the cache poisoning bug he discovered and pulled us together to address the vulnerabilities before it became public. I remember thinking thank god this guy is using his powers for good, because the damage he could easily do would be significant. After that I ran into him numerous times over the years, at conferences and airports (we seemed to always be leaving or arriving from different places at the same time), and he was always so kind, interesting and interested. I feel lucky to have known him. The works is a sadder, emptier place today.
I was sitting pretty high until I got divorced...now I'm back to square one.
> Presumably his family already knows

That's a bit of an assumption. Working out how someone died can be tricky.
Depending on where you live there may be a community tool library or shared workshop space available for a small fee. And if you take a woodworking course at a local community college or something they'll supply whatever tools you need, at least during the course!
Linux vs. Windows hosted .NET Core application performance analysis
You're seeing identifier-first authentication, also known as identity discovery.

When you enter your username, the system decides, from some part of it, what possible credential store, out of many, needs to be queried. It may discover that your identity is actually part of some federated SSO protocol, and send you off to be authenticated there, or it might have your ID locally and just ask for a password.

The alternative UX is MUCH worse. Asking the user to pick from a list which of a hundred different federated systems before accepting credentials.

Example: go here and click the Login button. https://www.educause.edu/
Is that true of eg, the graphics chip in an older android phone, that only supports gles2? That's mainly what I mean by that statement.
I have absolutely zero problem with cities putting whatever policies they want in place. And folks deciding whether to come into the city for whatever reason will make whatever decisions they want. (Which will often include cost of parking.) I'd also observe that a lot of on-street parking is allocated for local residents.
Most under appreciated aspect of proper debuggers is not about the code line of interest but the context they give you about the whole application, ie: the stack frames and their state. When handed a new codebase I often fire up the debugger and attach and set various breakpoints in interesting places and then execute the application to see where / when they get hit. It's a great way to learn a codebase - things that are hard to discover ("when is the database driver created and how does it know its password") just pop out where you might have to spend ages working it out if you were just examining the source tree.
https://rya.nc/files/paketto-2.00pre5.tar.gz

I'm not sure whether I got it directly from him or if I had a saved copy, but that's the most recent version.
Let us recall that France is 100% nuclear. If we have 20 years to save ourselves from climate change it's hard to understand why environmentalists didn't embrace this proven solution decades ago.
Check out Peter Norvig's neat BASIC Interpreter
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/ipynb/BASIC.ip...
It is normal there. These elements surface on anonymous forums precisely because they are not tolerated elsewhere.

A very simple pattern of 4chan posting culture is to offend others in order to provoke a debate about what you actually want to discuss. It's the 4chan version of clickbait. The /g/ catalog is absolutely filled with people doing this. Want to talk about Linux? Pretend you're a superior Windows user and mock Linux for not having some feature. File picker thumbnails are a common example. This happens all the time and can generate some rather unique discussions.

Because it's anonymous, you'll see a lot of frowned-upon behavior which can nevertheless be interesting. Everytime some drama happens on GitHub or LKML there might be a random 4chan thread discussing it in the usual offensive tone. It's interesting to read about what people think, especially opinions they wouldn't express if they had to sign the post with their real names.
Very interesting. Why would you send some junior engineer to have this chat over Discord? It seems like all he accomplished was confessing to violating Discord's ToS and saying "yeah well I'm gonna sic the lawyers on you". Why not just sent the lawyers directly? It almost sounds like "legal told us not to go after you guys, but I personally really want to" at this point. It just doesn't add up.

Since this is a Reddit thread, how would you "maliciously comply" with this guy? Convince him, someone who probably doesn't dot their Is and cross their Ts, that he successfully got your domain, then pull it out from under them in a few weeks? I can't think of anything, and it obviously doesn't seem like a good legal strategy, but if someone else did it I would sure enjoy reading about it.
Who would buy it?

Apple is in a position where it can move swiftly and decisively. They have an army of software engineers who can port Apple's OS and associated Apps to a new architecture. They can force their entire ecosystem to move to a new architecture, and are emboldened by the fact that they've done it twice in the past (the first time they were more hesitant).

If Samsung wanted to pull down the latest Qualcomm ARM chip, slap a Macbook-sized heatsink on it, and go head-to-head with Wintel and Apple, they would fail. What are you gonna run? Linux? Some abortive version of Windows on ARM that doesn't support the vast number of x86 apps?

Even ChromeOS is missing barebones necessities like Photoshop, so professionals won't touch it. So the ChromeOS market is doomed (at present) to have "thin & light" and "long battery life" as it's only selling point.

I think we'll see M1-style ARM devices come out of the woodwork in 2021-2022, running ARM Windows and Linux and ChromeOS, simply to attempt to copy Apple. But I don't think they'll be as successful, simply because the apps aren't there, and no one can force developers to port to the new architecture as Apple can.
For Black Lives Matter. Many sites including FAANG show this type of support although more explicitly.
Weights and exercise equipment was unobtainable in early 2020 in the UK I wanted to buy some just before the lockdown but my GF said it would be silly.

Pull ups and some body weight exercise was the best I could do and honestly it wasn’t easy to keep going and I have found myself turning from a 6 day PPL to a couch potato especially during the 2nd lockdown.

I still run 5K 3-4 times a week and did a 10K run every other week but it wasn’t enough to prevent weight gain and muscle loss over nearly a year of interruption due to lockdown.

The biggest factor was also the lack of daily mobility I went down from 21K Aveo daily steps in 2019 to less than half of that in 2020 and early 2021.

You’ll be surprised just how much you lose from really only having to walk from the bed to your desk in the living room or spare bedroom for a year.
From Wikipedia, "Swanson's law is the observation that the price of solar photovoltaic modules tends to drop 20 percent for every doubling of cumulative shipped volume." (Swanson's law is a special case of Wright's law for more general manufacturing costs, and is a misnomer.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law
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Security Researcher Dan Kaminsky Passes Away