skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one actively working on bitcoin actually expects it to take government control out of money. It simply isn't possible, no grass roots digital project can strip such a fundamental power from the government once it already has it. If that were ever a serious possibility the government would simply ban the project all together, or effectively take it over with its own version of government run bitcoin.

Also don't let Lightning fool you. It still doesn't work and is forever 18 months from ready. Its developed and run by a private company and is very centralized, how is that better than fiat or anywhere near what bitcoin's white paper laid out?
This is not sound analysis, as it revolves around the mistaken notion that a currency is inflationary or deflationary depending on its supply. This is not the case, there are other variables involved. For a cryptocurrency to be inflationary or deflationary, or have a predictable price at all, it would require a governing body that is capable of adjusting its supply as needed. Since they don't have that, because the whole point of cryptocurrencies is to do away with central banks due to a strange paranoia, cryptocurrencies are neither inflationary or deflationary, but simply price unstable.
Better Place already tried this and failed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
for a delightfully humorous take on the same idea hunt up theodore cogswell's short story "the spectre general"
First of all, this is a very cool web hack, I like it very much.

I have a question. It's a 668.8MB database file. What does actually happen if the query has to scan 300 mb before finding the right answer? Wouldn't it be better to do the work up front and deliver the answers as static json files? Sure you loose the flexibility of dynamic queries, but do you really have that flexibility in non trivial cases (e.g. 300 mb search)?
Making up numbers for sake of argument.

You only have enough farms to feed half your people. You can feed half your people or export something twice as expensive and import enough food to feed everyone. That’s the whole argument of globalization. Everyone has different geography and cultures and thus produce what makes the most money since they can import anything they need from elsewhere.
Would a nuclear-armed Taiwan deter China?
Here's a talk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [0] for the same idea from Jonathan Blow.

He mentioned Bob Colwell, who was the chief microprocessor architect at Intel, once encountering some issues with chips from TI. He went to TI, and those people told him they couldn't figure it out either because those fundamentals were done by first-generation magicians. And it's not just TI, Motorola, and Fairchild all have this kind of problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
TLDR: This technology is in its infancy but is very much so in the R&D phase. He needs to retain top scientists and avoid making promises.

The research isn't there yet, which is why Elon should be trying to retain people who have deeply studied the hippocampus and brain. What the heck is he doing? Find the best people in this domain. The potential is there with the electrode technology he's built. It's an AI problem now, to make sense of the data. Supervised learning mostly. You can measure what the brain does when certain things happen. He needs more researchers in the fundamentals. I think if they've built the robot that inserts the electrodes non-invasively, they can continue to add additional electrodes and get an even more accurate measurement of what's happening elsewhere in the brain. This tech will takes years and years to master. Neuralink a science company. Or at least, it should be at this point if I'm taking it seriously. God knows there are hundreds of tech companies selling SAAS software for domains that have negligible research. Neuralink shouldn't be like that. Don't overpromise and underdeliver just yet, causing best people to leave. This company has tons of potential.
This entire thread is kinda the point. I feel like I've wasted days of my life reading about master versus main. Even went and converted my biggest open source projects to "release" myself cause I typically work on develop then push to master and tag as a release. So to me master is "most recent release". In my head it was always like "master recording". It's not even "main" cause work is being done on develop and the release branch gets it last. I honestly don't care either way, didn't bring it up at work, and no one else did either but the virtue signaling with this is just toxic. Your implication that someone not wanting to change their branch name makes them inherently racist is super toxic. It's just gate keeping being woke. You don't have woke enough points if you don't do this, that, and the other thing.

Also does a single POC represent their entire race? Isn't that itself racist to think that way? In any population you'll find people who can claim to support literally anything.
Well telcos did led the pack worldwide regarding networking and mobile coms (GSM started as a French acronym), as said Unix, c and c++, many mobile concepts and services before Apple and Google replaced those.
Apparently it's not obvious to all why this is the best, so let's be explicit:

Dates in this format can be sorted lexicographically
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I agree, it's expensive, but they need to fly anyway to maintain their skills, so whether it will be some capture flag combat emulating exercise or "recon" for earthquake damage, I prefer it to be latter, given that it's national guard.
> It's been tried before

Not arguing... Legitimately asking. Outside of gold or other materially limited resources, what are some examples?

> it is an idea that favors people who already have lots of money over those who don't

Please elaborate on this. Particularly in comparison to our current debt->create system that seems to benefit those with enough to loan.
Maybe this an option that’s in place just in case Apple decides to license the chip/boards to one or more OEM’s.

OEM licensing makes sense for a SOC, plus the more the chip sells the lower the price per unit, so Apple would make money on the license, and lower their costs.
Even the solution in the article seems to suggest using cookies.

I don’t understand the problem, if people want to try or sign-up for your service they’ll locate the signup button. That’s a one time problem. A hidden login button just annoys existing customers.

My feeling is that this is down to testing without privacy in mind. Your site might be fine, but others aren’t so a minority of users will clear cookies at the end of each browser session. That’s not a senario most will test for or experience.
He was replying to some questions I asked him in my reply to his top-level post. I was confused too, but now that I figured it out, I appreciate the reply.
What is a sign of success, multicasting every transaction in the world and storing it on a public ledger? I don't remember that being in the white paper.
This could make it even more annoying imo. Sometimes the sign up button is the first thing you see, and then other times its the sign in button. You'd end up clicking on one or the other out of habit and realizing it was the wrong thing afterwards.

If I'm signing in, there's a good chance there is no cookie saying I have ever signed in.
They have poor cache performance when you want to iterate over them, and more size overhead, because there's one pointer lookup per item. Also, the common definition of a linked list has the list responsible for allocating each item, meaning it can't be a member of more than one list at once. The actual useful version of this is called instrusive linked lists, which isn't the one taught.

> That's an incredibly valuable feature for correctness and safety.

Are you thinking of something else? That's an effect of call by value, but linked lists actually aren't good at that and you have to copy them to pass them around. You need something like these to make it efficient:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update
Well not helping people in order to stick it to the rich is neither productive nor effective. There’s a reason for these handouts and it’s not as if left-wing parties don’t advocate for higher minimum wage. A problem can always be attacked from multiple sides.
Did you find my reply there and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27022013 informative?
And you are forgetting the whole "securing bitcoin" part.

If bitcoin was to be the dominant currency, it needs a lot of mining to secure the network, otherwise attacks would be very appealing. But a lot of mining means a high transaction fee.
That is exactly my point. This creates a chain that is valid with the pre-taproot software and invalid with the post-taproot software.

Both will hold value.

And my question is how funds like Grayscale (And 21shares, exchanges, etc) will handle this.
This is National Guard, it is by design has dual responsibilities: state and federal. Under state command it is actually expected to respond to natural disaster, including earthquake. If federal government took over and put it to the task of flying over civilian objects, that would be a concerting. But since it was done under state command, reposing to a natural disaster is fine.

To me a bigger concern, when police gets military grade tech, as there is much less transparency in how it is being used.
Every YC company is constantly hiring here
Surface luminescence testing depends on the sample not having been exposed to light since it was placed, something hard to ascertain for items shipped to a museum.
Building software pays my bills. Also, we know what makes the secret sauce (or doesn’t). Skepticism is warranted.
So what is the materially relevant difference then?
For https://sqwok.im, I explicitly placed the login/signup prominently at top right for all users on mobile and desktop because I want it to be clearly visible always. I could see some value in detecting whether the user has already created an account and highlighting the "login" portion like the author has.

There’s a business service site I have to log into once a month who’ve hidden the login behind a drop down and it’s really annoying!
anyone that is upgraded just
ignores their block

Yes, but everyone who is not upgraded does not. So there will be two chains that hold value. One run by a network of pre-taproot software and one run by a network of post-taproot software.
I cannot afford an iPhone, sadly.
I'm sure UX research shows that the login button is seldom used on a particular site, therefore not that important.

Why seldom used? Because you stay logged in for a long time.

Is UX bull on this issue? Maybe, but if you are logged in for a long time, and then you come to log in when you've been logged out, it might be that you accept the lousy experience on this issue because you actually want to use the site... all that said I wouldn't care if the UX research suggested it was a good move. I wouldn't do it (on anything I owned, I would just argue against it if asked to implement it)
Illustrative examples from The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) is found in this two reports:

Deceived by design (2018) -
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/201...

Every step you take (2018) - https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/27-...

Most of the focus is on Facebook, Microsoft and Google.
My initial intuition was that uwb localization was still in research paper territory.

The only previous commercial example I can think of is those Razer Hydra gaming controllers.

Pretty interesting that is come around to a mass consumer product with Apple.
What Is SAP? (2020)
Any source on the miner statement. Would love to get my research itch satiated. Thanks
I was thinking you could implement a write API using the GitHub API, every write can be its own commit.
In many areas of the world EVs are more expensive to buy, much more expensive to repair, and not really cheaper to drive, because electricity is about the same price as gas. Add to that they are less convenient and slower on large distances because of the time wasted for looking for a charging station and then charging, and I can see how most people don't want them now.
A dual-charger Chargepoint is something like $12k, so for a large tech company it's straightforward to throw in a dozen or so when they're putting up a new building and parking lot/garage.

For the bay area, though, I think the major constraint is actually transmission -- how many amps the utility can deliver to your campus. PG&E has some technical debt here, as the public safety power shut-offs and fires of the last few years have shown.

$dayjob often has a waitlist of folks waiting for the finite EV chargers; folks with backup gas tanks (plug-in hybrid EVs) and Teslas have to give priority to folks who need to charge to get home.

Beyond "just add more chargers" it would be nice to make the apps better reflect ground truth. I'll find chargers that are listed as available in the app but are actually unavailable: Chargers in basement levels that have been closed due to lower COVID-induced parking volumes. In garages that are only open 9-5 M-F. Or ones that are broken and wrapped with caution tape.

I think every long-distance-EV-drive story I've seen has at least one case of "just having enough range to make it to a charger" only to find the charger is broken.
Whenever I'm adding a new table, I almost always try to add an "internal_notes" text field and a "config" JSONB field, no matter how static we think the data definition is going to be. Because at an early stage startup stage, you're going to need to hack some fixes together. And given a choice between needing to QA a database migration vs. just adding {{foo.config.extra_whatever}} in a template, or using it in a single line of logic, the latter is just so much more feasible and easy-to-understand for a same-day bugfix, and you can always move to a dedicated column with a data migration later.

Of course, if you're adding this to a few dozen rows, then you might need to jump into SQL to do this at scale. And then you run into the wonderful situations described in the article. I've had to write the following a great many times:

config = jsonb_set(coalesce(config, '{}'::jsonb), '{"some","key","path"}', to_jsonb(something::text))

Or this, which is great if you need to set a top-level key to something static; the || operator just mixes the two together similar to Object.assign:

config = coalesce(config, '{}'::jsonb) || '{"foo": "bar"}'::jsonb

And honestly, the syntax, especially the second one, isn't half bad once you get used to it. That said, the syntax from the article is amazing, and it will go a long way towards people reaching for Postgres even when their data model has a lot of unknowns.
I always laugh when people talk about ECS vs OO as if the entities, components and systems weren't objects. Its an OO pattern.

Even in the most abstract form when entities are just ids, and you combine components and systems, you're still going to implement the component-system like an object because OO is super useful. Using arrays doesn't mean you're not using OO.
You’re thinking of copyright which seems infinite. Patents aren’t
I have one! Here's my (proud :)) TIL repository: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/personal_notes.
I skimmed the article and it seems to be a description of a web tool that uses DH or something like it so that two people can come up with a common password without exchanging the password. However, it doesn’t explain the DH algorithm. I suggest re-titling the article for better accuracy.
> the english dialect here is English-India

Do you think that users of Firefox in India would like to have “English-India” as one of the language preference choices for the browser? At present, Firefox seems to offer only United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.

In contrast, Mac OS offers eight versions of English for the system language: Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom, and United States.
This is one of several reasons why I would never consider paying for Plex Pass again. The other reasons include spending a LOT of resources on rolling out features I imagine few users are likely to be interested in, such as DVR.
To Stripe: Winning the hearts of Valley startups is not winning payments (2014)
You're probably on the right track.

One thing to mention, though, is that all the easy-to-dig carbon fuel has been dug, so "use coal to power X" just isn't quite as feasible. Biomass just doesn't work for a lot of it.
But not fountain pen cartridges (the “international format” seems not to be an ISO standard). However there are ISO standards for the inks themselves, which can be the contents of these cartridges.

Unsurprisingly there are also national ink standards. For example certain contracts like marriage licenses in Germany are only legal if signed with one of two DIN standard inks that are certified to last at least a century.
I think the difference is that With this feature Apple is not asking for compliance but enforcing it. At least when it comes to the IDFA tracking. Fingerprinting might still be possible but its a start.
Yeah he really fooled all those Tesla and spacex investors into those massive returns. They must be so pissed.
> It is a “i” and not a “j”. **J**ulius Caesar said …

Why not "Iulius Caesar", for consistency? :-)

In any case, English may not be the right language to bicker about spelling and pronunciation in. It sports one of the most idiosyncratic orthographic systems in existence.

English also has a long history of butchering names, words and sounds, including its own (e.g. the Great Vowel Shift [0]). Iulius vs Julius is the least of its worries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
"Losing out without the tech" would be a better title.

Also, Europe may start to realize that it has to develop some tech, such as Cloud services, itself. As @jbverschoor mentions, the European attitude needs to change to consider tech as a core business, instead of a cost center, and pay engineers accordingly.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-pledges-e10-billion-to-po...
Well, one obvious alternative would be to decide that everyone has a right to legal support, similar to how most countries have decided that anyone has a right to healthcare. Similar as for healthcare there could be a single payer system for legal support. Everyone could pay a bit more tax, and then get legal support when needed.
Main question is how you keep costs under control, and avoid abuse of the system.

Could be done, not sure if it would be a better system...
And then that creates other sorts of specific problems. What of mine conventional schools? Seniors who make their own schedule ? Home school kids ? Are now drop-outs dropped from making an income ?
Yes, and it wouldn't need to be a sensitive spectrum analyser.

If the RF field is strong enough to affect human tissue, then a crude broadband RF detector would do the job.

Something as simple as a wire dipole and a schottky diode with a meter.

Plus in such a strong field, most of your domestic electronics equipment would be going crazy. Just like a mobile phone near a blue tooth speaker.
I just use my pocket knife to sharpen pencils, but I live where it is legal to carry one.
> Why would anybody who knew they were talented and got hired or promoted, assume it had to do with anything other than their talent?

Affirmative hiring, diversity quotas etc are actively aimed at identity based hiring and promotion. In addition to this a candidate in a favored identity group often go through different hiring and promotion procedures with involvement from the DEI officer.

> It is possible to recognize that a certain groups of people on average face more obstacles and barriers, without equating individuals with the groups they belong to or vice versa.

In a different working environment this may have been the case, but according to the silicon valley index more than 2/3[1] of silicon valley workers 20-45 are immigrants of asian descent so the woke assertion that its a white mans business is not accurate.

In addition to this there are official company policies that discriminate against white men, and there are policies actively working to give special consideration in hiring and promotion to BIPOC. Their aim is to create asymmetry between groups.

[1] https://jointventure.org/download-the-2020-index
Not quite what you were asking, but the first thing that popped into my head are "dispute resolution organizations" which come from Libertarianism and other schools of thought. Might be an interesting avenue of reading if you want to learn more about inter-actor relations and contracts in the absence of centralized control.
Seriously. I honestly don't mind to have "sign up" being more prominent, but see very little reason why they go further and hide login button..
One avocado a day doesn't sound like too much.
For adults who depend on these kind of jobs to pay the bills, I cannot see this as a good thing in anyway.
The outrage many Americans on HN extol over the GDPR is amusing when it’s US law that has been exported globally for decades.
Git blame is not for blaming others
Winamp didn't stream all music in existence over the internet. How is it really comparable?
What I was getting at was that some of these reports may be from people or organisations whose account closures WERE in error, and that is much worse than the possibility that they were not.

Any sufficient system of meting out justice requires a sufficient level of assurance that it won't get it wrong and punish an innocent person. Perfection is obviously not possible here, but increasing that level of assurance is.
I miss going to foo.com and having user/pass fields on the top row of the screen, with maybe a sign up link next to it.
Service Now is the bane of my existence. Pray tell if the behind-the-scenes code base is as bad as the experience.
Saw the post on What is Salesforce? And immediately thought about SAP. Looks like the folks over at http://retool.com have one for SAP as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016600
U.K. is still covered by gdpr
Easy to filter out the microwave jammer.

How do you think radio comms work on a warship equipped with high power radars?

Or even on a domestic airliner?

And of course if it were happening, the communications techs would be well aware of it.
It's also unambiguous. Nobody uses yyyy-dd-mm, whereas xx/xx/yy can be misinterpreted.
For soldiers and medical personnel there are ethical guidances and law to follow. Why not make one for developers?
I think you missed the point. Parent is saying that without compiler optimization everything would be even slower.
Pentel's Energel refills have two followers: first a transparent then a solid white one. Pilot's G1/G2 refills' stoppers are grease yellow / translucent orange.

Similarly Faber Castell's Super True Gel refills are stopped by a composite follower. A transparent one, then a white one.

Parker's gel refills' follower sometimes leaks and it is messy.
This article / talk seems entirely focused on company boundaries - what's in-sourced and outsourced - but isn't that sort of secondary?

If you have a group of 500 people contributing to the making of a toaster, whether they all call themselves Company A (with many divisions) or are split into many companies, it's kind of the same when the rubber meets the road - it's 500 people working together in some fashion to produce a toaster.

How you draw the lines around them and what company/division names you write on top is sort of secondary.
W3W have shorter words for urban areas and longer words for rural areas.

And this in various languages (all incompatible to each other, obviously).
Use Http Range (normally used for pausing and continuing large file downloads) to request specific byte ranges from the file. From there you can pull only what you need. With sql indexes it'll be very tiny since the lookup is optimized. Of course if you select *, you're still going to pull the entire database locally.