skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is incredibly misleading.

Inflation definition:
"3.(economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money."
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inflation#English

This comment implies price instability taking USD as a reference. Who cares what is the USD value of BTC? Once all coins have been mined 1 BTC will always represent the same fraction of the total supply of BTC, i.e.: 1 / 21,000,000. This is not true for any of the fiat currencies.
If we take gold as a reference then USD lost 95%+ of its purchasing power over the last century.
Source (one of so many): https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1900?amount=100

As for central bank paranoia, opening a history book should help (keyword: uncontrolled inflation periods + Germany || Hungary || Yugoslavia || Greece || France || Venezuela || Iran || Turkey and I am sure I miss plenty I am not aware of). There's a good reason why the EU has removed this power from its member states to give it to a central bank uncontrolled by the political power.
If one does not want to look at history then simply looking at FY2020 and how much USD currency have been debased should help:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE/

Make no mistake, large corporations with billions of cash on hands start to understand that if not invested, that money is worth less and less year after year and at an unprecedented pace.
The semantic difference between `jsonb_set` and the new subscripting syntax reminds me of ES6 arrow function situation: a new and improved syntax built seemingly to replace the old one, except there's a slight semantic difference such that you sometimes still have to fall back to the old syntax for the specific effect. Not complaining, but just an additional quirk to have to teach beginners.
The F-15 wing in Fresno has an air defense mission. They are on 24/7 alert in case US airspace is threatened. The fact that they are assigned to the National Guard instead of the active duty Air Force is a money-saving move: Guard wings are much cheaper than Active Duty wings. As soon as the airplanes launch in response to a perceived threat (e.g. a civilian plane with a broken transponder), the pilots are put on active duty orders.
I mean that’s a separate issue to optimum farm size? Whether it’s one mega farm or hundreds of family farms, the issue is water usage, not farm size.
Thanks! I like this, it's also simpler than such backups and keeping them safe
IIRC Daimler wanted to integrate w3w into their onboard navigation units.
After the Covid fiasco I'd fully expect that over cautios bioethics becomes itself controversial. We're still counting extra hundreds of thousands dead because regulatory agencies refused to even consider challenge trials, not to mention dropping the ball in almost any possible way: actively discouraging masks, forbidding rapid tests, and lately hurting trust in vaccines with a fully reflex banning of AZ and JJ that had a clear outcome from the beginning.

Since nazi germany and Mao I don't think there was a category of people that caused as many death and suffering as bioethicists. Moderna was clearly ready to bring a product to market, but it took a pandemic for us to get rna vaccines. God know how many people died needlessly because people created a whole career path by chanting "thalidomide".
Salesforce is uniquely amazing in that its development and extension environment is extremely close to the dreams of Smalltalk developers and the like. Loads of extensibility and introspection possible on basically every view of your system.

Yeah it’s slow but honestly you’re spending most of your time looking at the data and writing it up, the slowness doesn’t matter that much in the long run imo.
I even saw one with a “prove you’re not a robot by clicking ‘accept’” on a notification consent form.

I guess I’m a robot, then.
I don't see why that should be an issue. I'm not an electrician and regularly plug and unplug 415v three phase devices.

The process as demonstrated by Tesla was automated too.
It's even worse when they use terms sign in and sign up, like Github! English is not my native language and it always confuses me.
It was the CIA that put a stop to Taiwan's nuclear program:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39252502
I think Zuckernerg is a good person. Heck, I think most people are good people who simply disagree with me in what is right, or what trade offs to make. Going about thinking your enemies are evil is no way to run a polite society. After all, evil people ought to be jailed and jailing your political opponents is a poor way of winning an argument.
“Avoid unnecessary JavaScript, plugins and bloat, and make your site easy-to-use.”

If only web developers would follow this advice...
I think it is the other way round. I saw this discussed for microwave from mobile phones, so no movement of fluids makes excessive heat more dangerous.
This is not possible with a miner activated soft fork, because the upgraded fork will have the longest chain. This is guaranteed by the activation process, which requires a supermajority of miners to agree.

This longest chain is valid for both upgraded and not-upgraded participants. So that's the consensus that everybody follows.
American spellings are gaining a lot of ground though, especially if you are not writing in a formal context. Maybe en-ca is accepting both variants?
Yes that was before 2019 so maybe it has changed now.
OP didn't specify.

As for payments, your card provider should be able to show you what services are deducting money from your account.

And it should also give you a way to "pause" or revoke payment subscriptions.

It is not "powerless" as NYT doesn't control your bank account.
Rules for contributing to the list:
https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget/blob/master/CONTR...
Sorry but just because a crime is committed a lot, does not make it less of a crime.
https://treo.sh/ perhaps ?
The "How to make everything" YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIqCzQJXvYj9ssCoHq327g) does that. He started from digging up clay with his bare hands to make pots, and is now roughly in the iron age IIRC, melting iron using only stuff from earlier 'tech tiers'.

One thing I found interesting is that apparently many metals used to be collected from ores just laying around. Those sites are all exhausted today. So a full 'reset' of the earth wouldn't be possible today. Of course metals could be scavenged from the machines we have now (in a nuclear disaster style scenario), but we could never fully 'redo' the technical evolution we did over the last 10's of k's of years.
Which makes an excellent case for mandatory docs.

I don't want my speakers to stop working because I stopped paying subscription.
The latest one about the Cecil hotel is hot trash. They take an interesting story about the missing woman, entertain ridiculous conspiracy theories, interview so called “Internet sleuths” (what the hell?) only to wrap up at the end with “yeah, no mystery, she had a mental illness”.

Reminds me of the YouTube video that take 15 min to explain a 30 second concept.
Not hastily: the National Guard goes back to 1636 and is the oldest military force in the United States.
> It's up to one trillion dollars now.

This sounds sustainable. /s
> What is this idea that Qt can't be used? You can license with the community license under LGPL.

The Terms and Conditions on their website [1] say otherwise, especially "APPENDIX 4: SMALL BUSINESS AND STARTUP". No, sir, I'm not touching that library for anything I want to make money with.

[1] https://www.qt.io/terms-conditions/
The Natufian culture and the origins of agriculture
My cynical guess is that when companies A/B test this, they find that a clear sign-in button reduces the number of new sign ups (because if the sign-in button is hard to find, some existing users will create a new account). A/B testing is great but it's very easy to optimize for something that's easy to measure rather than what you fundamentally care about.
Agree. I've built CRM's for multiple industries now, starting prior to any interaction with salesforce.

There are many reasons to keep leads out of contacts, messy imports and the unstructured nature of what a "lead" can be are big ones, traceability, unauthenticated data capture issues and ease in reporting are a few others.

It's always less of a kludge to have a system that keeps them separate but lets you seamlessly convert or associate a lead object into a contact object, when it makes sense (for lead objects that have sufficient similarity to a contact), and has an option to bypass the lead table and create a contact directly.

In my experience trying to shoe horn into a _contact only_ abstraction creates more problems because the abstraction is too simplistic or even flat incorrect for many businesses.

edit: From a sales agent "user" perspective you do often want to hide these abstractions from the UI depending on the industry and/or lead type, too many systems force their users into unnecessary duplication of effort.
Had a similar experience with mangos. For me in Western Europe a mango is this rather tasty yellow fruit. Turns out in India mangos are orange and taste so much fuller, sweeter and better overall (even after having been on a plane, this was a gift from a colleague) I basically stopped eating mangos here.
I do think it's a bit telling that we have a lot of automated software that exists to help us style our code, but there doesn't seem to be nearly as much investment in documenting code.

Simple things like a linter that yells at you if a class has an undocumented method would probably at least be a step in the right direction. People may complain that it would lead to overdocumentation but I'd argue that it's probably better than underdocumentation.

Even something as simple as providing a warning when there appears to be an long code block without documentation would probably be a step in a decent direction. What seems trivial and obvious today likely will not in a matter of weeks - and it generally just gets worse from there.
If things work one or a few columns at a time this isn't necessarily true. Prosumer CPU L3 caches are already up to 128MB and will be up to 1GB before long. If one or a few full columns fits fully in cache but all the data doesn't, columnar layout may still be faster in the face of random access within the column.
There is gas pressure pens that have a small amount of pressurize inert gas at the end instead, which means that those are in fact closed on the end and operate much longer due to no evaporation issues.
Tell that to what3words... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020810
Just an anecdote of what I remember seeing in New Zealand recently...on the northernmost tip...huge intensive avocado farms being set up....kind of sickening really but very much in tune with their economy which seems intent on ruining their environment for a a few export dollars (in this case sucking up aquifers and inviting in salination, in other cases such as dairy farming polluting the said aquifiers so they can sell dried milk to China)
My point is that on a historical level you create ecological disasters so a certain middle class can survive in artificial comfort while sending stuff to other countries so their middle classes can live in a similarily artificial environment
Mapping numbers to words from lists has been used for a while. I first saw it in S/KEY in the mid-'90s, maybe it was elsewhere before (phone numbers?), and have seen it numerous other places since then (including XKCD's bit on easy-to-remember passwords).

It doesn't seem great for a locale -- especially a developing nation -- to use a geo addressing scheme that is outright owned by some company. Especially not a scheme that appears (from this post) to be excessively proprietary.

I wonder whether it would make sense for some subset of OpenStreetMap, Google (Maps), GIS-using government orgs, UN, development NGOs, etc., to agree on a free open standard for number-to-word lists for geographic locations.

And maybe provide free-as-in-beer (preferably FLOSS) technology implementations in support of those open standards.

Some of those organizations might also have relevant "shield" patents that might come in handy.

This could be a good thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY

https://xkcd.com/936/
> the problem is not everyone can afford (a IT dept with) software programmers that can build out custom software.

Agreed, though isn't this often just a problem at a strategic level? C-level doesn't understand digital transformation, so there is no strategy and no budget, or they think they can just buy it with platforms like Salesforce.

Having custom software built is only getting cheaper because our development tools are getting more and more powerful and managed cloud infrastructure is extremely compelling due to removing most of the ops from devops and being cheap at the same time, so costs could hardly be an argument anymore, right?

But yeah, there's always the risk of hiring a firm that has a quality problem, or uses terrible tools to build software in the first place (which is what I was referring to with the joke in my first comment in this thread).

Enterprise software is a minefield, how can we fix that? :)
> intended users of Salesforce are most certainly the sales team.

Alas, intended users are seldom the ones writing checks. As the old saying goes, decision to go with Oracle happens on golf course, not meeting room.
English is my native language and this annoys me because it slows me down
Analyse is the "correct" spelling that we're taught in school, but there has been a gradual shift towards American English due to the dominance that Americans have over the media (e.g. "math" instead of "maths"). Analyse/analyze is one of those words that is in transition, and I suspect we'll be using the American spelling in 50 years' time.
Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn are the big ones yeah. Sure they left before the 2018 drama but they did leave due to block size disagreements. But that's not here nor there.

The developers that left bitcoin aren't the developers putting commits on the protocol implementation. It's the developers that made tools on top of bitcoin itself. From not so legitimate sites like betting sites to sites and apps like openbazaar, retailers/payments processors, etc. After the 2018 debacle and the ever growing mempool/fee market most developers put bitcoin in legacy mode and started adopting other more frictionless coins like ethereum, bcash, litecoin, etc.

I have a multireddit setup that has the big crypto subreddits inside (r/btc, r/bitcoin, r/bitcoincash, r/ethereum, r/monero), I check it once or twice a week when I'm bored, and I barely hear anything new coming from the bitcoin camp, no development discussion, no cool new service, no adoption talk. It's all HODL memes, value talk and the occasional lightning network update. I don't see development talk among the bitcoin community anymore.

I'll repeat what I said, the developers that cared about bitcoin have left, the only people left that have a saying are people building layer 2 solutions (blockstream mostly) and miners. This upgrade doesn't affect miners, so I doubt they will contest.
The Agas Map of Early Modern London
I understand you find it cognitively and rhetorically convenient to focus on an example rather than the point it’s exemplifying. But, if you’re capable of imagining alternative viewpoints, try swapping the example to one more to your taste to help you focus on the argument.
Plenty of examples for these in finance and economics (term structure, asset pricing factors).
Universal swappable battery packs with loaners and original return service is the way to go. Remember the Model S had that capability but it was never deployed.

It's critical to killing ICE to get EVs right.
Decentralized systems allow privacy preserving verification of credentials. Coupled with continued changes in law to both protect privacy and increase efficiency of government interactions this will eventually lead to a world without paper forms. No more time spent waiting in line at the DMV, the Registrar's office, etc.

The technology is part of it, but it's really more of a mindset change. Through enforcing organizations not having your private information, it can actually to a lot more transparency and efficiency in operations.
Not if many columns in your data are driven by some common latent factors.
DuckDB can directly & selectively query Parquet files over HTTP/S3 as well. See here for examples: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/blob/6c7c9805fdf1604039ebed...
You didn't have to pay taxes on unfinshied buildings. Also, I heard that there was a swimming pool tax in Greece. But there was no tax on emergency water reservoirs, if you know what I mean :)
To be fair the title doesn't mention "Algorithm".
> Instead, people break ground knowing they do not yet have the funds to finish.

This is pretty common actually. You build one room, make it livable, and then build the next room, then the next, and when you run out of land, start on the second story. The end result is that a young family with children can own their own home, and live within their means immediately, rather than spend a decade renting and saving towards a down payment. You can see this over and over in the favellas of South America, and even on the outskirts of major cities in Vietnam like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City ("Saigon").

Modern/western building codes do not allow for this kind of piecemeal construction, which is probably why it seems so odd to us.
What private information about your computer is it sending? Browser, OS, screen size, location, ISP. Under GDPR, and the way i see things, none of that is PII.
Was Shoutcast all that fast? It didn't seem nearly as rock solid as the rest of winamp but I guess it could have been my internet at the time.
Yes, other countries have something like that. In national football (soccer) there is fierce competition between clubs, but if its international countries such rivalry counts instead. If I am in Germany, I feel Dutch, but if I am in USA I feel European.
I do the same with a snippet manager. The one I use [1] is also a decent markdown editor / viewer.

[1] https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/
Vanguard is another one that drives me up the wall. Going to Vanguard.com doesn't have a sign in area to autofill with a password manager; you have to go to the personal investors page. And sessions are hard limited to 15 minutes so you have to jump through these hoops every time. I have the correct page bookmarked but even on that page the log in boxes don't appear until half way down.
The math behind DH is pretty simple and really interesting.
Crow poo?
Like a normal black hole. They all move at relativistic speed relative to something.
Sounds like just the next calculated step.

1. Introduce $badThing with claims about page load performance.

2. tell sites they need to use $badThing to get into the “carousel”

3. Scale back the requirement of #2 just soon enough that you can argue against any claims of market manipulation via your monopoly.

4. (Continue to) Profit, because 80% of the sites that implemented it aren’t going to just rip it out now that it’s there.
They can but it is more expensive than filing them and you generally need deep pockets to do so. The issue with US patents specifically is that the whole system is rigged to big corporations flooding the system with patents that are not challenged because the patent offices are underfunded. This allows these big corporations to create a defensive buffer that they use against each other and much smaller competitors. Challenging that requires deep pockets. Companies like Apple, routinely settle patent licensing conflicts outside the courts. E.g. Nokia still receives a fair bit of revenue from them for patents the iphone and related products obviously infringe upon. Likewise Qualcomm taps into mobile phone sales revenue using their heavily patented proprietary solution for building 4G and 5G modems.

But like patents or not, they are real and they are a factor to take into account when doing business.

In this case, what3words seems to have genuinely come up with a way to translate coordinates into pronounceable words. You might not agree their method is particularly interesting, sophisticated, valuable, etc. But a similar enough method did not really exist prior to them. And they patented that method. And they got the patent. What that means legally is that the claims in the patent are legally enforceable against others doing a me too service. Unless they challenge all of those claims of course. The issue with prior art is that it usually only affects some of the claims. So, you might feasibly manage to weaken the patent somewhat in court at great cost but probably not in it's entirety.

So, e.g. Apple or Google suddenly promoting a service that allows you to refer a map location on their using a bunch of words would be a problem as it would obviously infringe on one or more claims in the patent. Of course they have deep enough pockets that they could try to challenge the patent. But they might lose. It's more likely they'd attempt an acquisition and add the patent to their portfolio. That in a nut shell is why what3words might be considered a good investment by some: they are an obvious acquisition target with a customer base, some revenue, a brand name, etc. To me 80M raised in funding sounds excessive though. But it explains why they are eager to defend their IP: without that their valuation tanks.

This lawsuit interestingly is not about the patent but about copyright. I assume the list of words used by their patented algorithm is the issue here. That list of words is not part of the patent. That copyright seems defensible as well. It's a list they came up with, that they own the copyright of, that is essential to them and somebody else is publishing that list without their permission. Copyright exists to allow people to put a stop to that sort of thing. Hard to argue against that.
> A currency needs to be inflationary or people hoard it instead of spending it [...]

No, not at all. All you need is a sufficiently high rate of interest. The higher the rate of interest, the more you miss out on if you hoard instead of lend.
I think about the same thing a lot lately. It was not supposed to be a prediction but just a warning, I thought, but apparently it was a prediction all along.

It's very easy for people to slip into self-indulgence and pleasant illusions but when something important breaks then nobody has a clue what to do. This happens more and more around me.

I never thought I'd live to see something like this. And I am only 41.
Github hid their sign-in button and added annoying animations.

Why, github, why?!
If your statistic or whatever can be precomputed, you can precompute it and put it in db table rather than compute it each time by reading the 300MB.
It is definitely possible to run a lightning node using a pruned backend. The official implementation doesn't "support" it, but that is only because some additional thinking is required on the end user's part. It is really just a matter of implementing the code to instruct the backend to get the pruned, but still needed by lnd, transactions - and the work is happening:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/pull/5154
That’s not terrifying, that’s awesome. Economists were saying decades ago that near the year 2000 we shouldn’t working much because of the gains of productivity. We would be free while everything would be automated. But instead we have billionaires confiscating the gains and owning the means of production. Not arguing, just saying automating work isn’t bad and can be good in itself, that’s the society rules that make it so.