skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you need very little to use Bitcoin - basically, just internet access. And, potentially, you only need to smuggle as little as 250 bytes.

Banking systems has more choke points. If money is on your bank account and it gets blocked, that's it, nothing can be done about it.

With Bitcoin, even if internet in the entire country is blocked, you still have options: you can transmit data by phone. There are many ways to smuggle 250 bytes out of a country.

You can also just memorize the mnemonic phrase (so-called brainwallet) and move yourself out. They won't find your bitcoins even if they strip-search you. (But if they know you have them, wrench attack might work, no defense against that if your privacy is compromised.)

All the other things are not necessary for using cryptocurrency, they just need to happen somewhere. So the system can route around the damage. Mining is not possible in your country? That's OK, it will work as long as there's at least one country where mining is possible.

So Bitcoin resilience is not about working when power is out, obviously. It is about giving people options to route around the damage. If your bank blocks you, you can't go to another bank to get money on your account, since that money resides within a particular bank. But Bitcoin is global - you can access your funds from any computer in any country, as long as you have a private key.
I heard it years ago, can't find a source either. I believe it was something related to a court case. Some legal argument that could apply if total employees was over 50% contractors.
Let me use an analogy:

Imagine that you are walking by someone and accidentally elbow them in the ribs. They double over in pain, and exclaim loudly that you hurt them really bad and you should apologize. Now you could get defensive and say "Well I didn't mean to elbow you in the ribs, it wasn't on purpose so I did nothing wrong" and "Also getting elbowed in the ribs isn't actually that painful, there's no reason to make a scene about it."

But what you don't realize is this person was in a car accident last week, and below their shirt their ribs are broken. Your elbow just hit them on a sensitive bruise and jostled a broken rib. Your unintentional action was actually extremely hurtful. By protesting that you didn't do anything to hurt them you are just looking like a jerk. All it would have taken was an "I'm sorry, I'll be more careful" and it probably would have been fine.

This is similar to what racism and the effects of racism are: there are people who have suffered trauma from heinous acts. As a result they are already in a wounded state, and something "not racist" in your mind can still hurt because it pokes in the same place as the "actual racism". Just like you can't accurately judge whether someone is actually in physical pain and how much physical pain they are in, you can't always tell how much your action hurts someone emotionally.

In both cases the empathetic and moral thing to do is to believe the person in pain who says that your actions are hurtful.
Not everyone working there can be promoted, because there aren’t enough of the good jobs to go around. Saying it boils down to personal responsibility ignores the fact that in many ways it is a game of musical chairs and there aren’t enough good jobs.

Granted, jobs can be created and the more skilled the labor force the better the jobs, so the number of chairs in the game can be increased, but on the other hand those aren’t the kind of skills you’re going to pick up serving burgers at mcdonalds.
Valid question that needs to be asked. Hopefully, this will wake up people from their populist fever dream.
Mumbai has been hit quite badly too.

I have a feeling everyone in the districts lands up in Indian cities during such events cause the district/block level health care facilities in India are a crap shoot.

According to the sustainability dev goals India has 10 docs per 10k ppl. 30 per 10k if you include nurses and other support staff.

What can anyone do with such numbers when the tsunami hits other than say send the patient to the nearest city with the most resources.
Except that’s not how value works in a human, emotional sense . Without agreements (maybe some crypto’s have that implicitly? Idk) the value will plummet, scale, inflate, deflate without reason or sometimes apparent cause.

There might be countries where there are advantages to crypto (say Turkey who was in the news) where it’s a better short term alternative, but crypto in my book is as speculative as ever, and I have seen nothing that changes my mind.

I’ve heard (don’t know how true it is) there also there are also some big players who have big hoards of a coin and can dump or pump a value at their wim.
There isn’t. The protests were at their peak last year. If you look at the case growth, it begins in feb/March. Since case reporting tends to lags infection by 14 days, we know that they have nothing to do with the protests.

Sadly though, the protests continue even today, and I have not heard of any response from the govt.
“Free” money is free. And maybe that’s all they were caught accepting?
I don't know my history. Are they saying that working in a factory was more fatigue inducing than working on a farm? Or just that working in a factory was fatigue inducing and not comparing it to other ways of living that were common at the time. In any case I'm glad I am fortunate not to work in a factory
You can comment hundreds of times all the use cases for crypto and there is always a reason why MySQL is better...
Humble Bundle Creator Brings Antitrust Lawsuit Against Valve over Steam
Why would you want stock in a company that has no intention of being sold? Especially when they're making up the difference in cold hard cash that you can use to buy whatever other rocketship you think is out there.

If you're looking to cash in on a unicorn, you are almost always better off working somewhere else that will pay you the most in cash and using that cash to make your unicorn bets.
The same ethos added to pro cycling is pretty much considered cheating but I’d guess not in the inner chambers. Fair game as long as you pass the tests? Draw oxygenated blood out and put it back in halfway through a tour. Now that’s called blood doping. Rinse and repeat, for decades:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_cycl...
I dunno, if you get upset about being referred to with your legal gender maybe you are the one with a problem instead?

I find it hard to emphathise with someone making a big deal out of that.

I can sort of see how you’d like to be called differently if you are changing your gender, but at the same time I cannot really blame the person calling a boy a boy.

I’d try to, but probably find it exhausting to try and keep track of how people want to be called.
Basecamp tire fire grows as employees tweet they're leaving the company
Ask HN: How to learn ReactJS and Node.js in 1 hour chunks?
Hi! I'm a Python dev and I was wondering if there was a way to learn ReactJS and Node.js in my free time each day in 1 hour chunks?

I'd really want to get a personal project done but I don't know where to start and what are the best resources for these? I want to be as efficient as possible since I don't have much free time as a parent of 1 (soon to be 2!).

Thank you in advance!
Yep, it almost seems like a "Gish Gallop" of a lot of terms none of which have any sound standing.
Political propaganda is the last thing on my mind right now. Here's some sources for the lack of cremation facilities.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/pushed-to-the...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/indias-crematoriums-...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/at-delhi-cr...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/104th-in-the...

This is not in line with only 3500 people dying all over the country. This is in line with the range the above comment mentions. My anecdote of people dying my inner circle is not political. Neither is my opinion that the official numbers are to be not trusted given the evidence.
So shouldn't likewise a business pays for what it needs, so if it doesn't find enough employees at a lower pay it needs to increase pay?
You need an EV one to get past SmartScreen and I don’t even think they sell them to individuals (business only).
Don’t know, I’ve never had any need to do that. But I can pay a merchant $50 by credit card without spending $30 in transaction fees or waiting 30-60 minutes for confirmations.
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I have recently acquired a small swimming pool, and my wife has taught me the expression to “flocc and shock” for removing debris. This appears to be the etymology
Any evidence of that? From my anecdotal experience, each and every place in my town where such public viewing used to be organized was cancelled. I would believe that to be the case throughout the country.
Crypto is valuable only if we believe it is. Once we discover a way to transmit money that has benefits over crypto, we'll gradually move to that, the same way transactions that felt limited by fiat moved to crypto.
How do you get through the SmartScreen filter without warnings on windows?
80% of ocean plastic comes from 1000 rivers
Same here. Mid 30s and my memory is completely shot. Here's hoping it's not permanent or an early sign of things to come :(.
Good point. Last year when the north of Italy was particularly affected it was during a huge air pollution episode. At the time I had heard particulate pollution helps the virus circulate, but maybe it also worsen the symptoms.
NN is doing matrix multiplications anyway. That's what it does, basically.

The property of matrix multiplications is that they are composable, i.e. `X * (Y * z) = (X * Y) * z` that is, in the end you only need one matrix.

So what this means in practice is that you have FFT for free. NN is doing a matrix multiplication anyway. Discrete time Fourier Transform is a matrix multiplication. Thus it can simply fold DTFT together with whatever other transform it is doing - it doesn't cost anything.
Thanks, that's good to keep in mind. ECC is great, though I personally don't want IPMI. (The only IPMI implementation I looked at so far appeared likely chock full of vulnerabilities, and it was sharing a NIC. There was a jumper that ostensibly disabled the BMC, but didn't appear to disable it fully.)
That's almost more surprising to me. In small companies I usually expect most people to stick together because everyone knows everyone. Having 1/3 leave isn't something I'd ever imagine.
Why would the “what if inter-generational wealth” point impact what twin studies and such show? If the correlation between the measured IQ of monozygotic twins is substantially more than between other siblings, how would wealthy/poor ancestors impact that? Even if wealth had an impact on the probability of having twins, I still don’t see how that would result in the correlation between twins being more, even when raised apart.
I expect this to be just like Spectre. The media sizes it as a tool to use fear to drive engagement, vendors partially cripple their hardware to guard against it, and literally nobody ever bothers trying to actually use it against innocent people.
There have been more than enough scientific sources published for the effectiveness of masks. I hope you still don't doubt that part. I will not cite them. People have been crowding and not wearing masks across the country. Do you want a scientific source for that? There may never be one. The Indians who step out of their homes are aware of this already.

No government or healthcare system can keep up with people flouting the scientific recommendations on such a scale.
Transactions are very small and can be even sent via HAM radio, or weak satellite link.

There are also devices for offline transactions.
I actually kind of don't agree. Even in our system, legislation is far more powerful than judicial. Fixing the legislative system is imperative regardless of judicial system
Who believes that?

Farmer protests happened during December-feb, while COVID surge started in March.

Govt. is just blaming farmers for everything, instead of kumbh mela, lowering restrictions and election rallies
Because anyone still holding Bitcoin is in too deep to entertain the possibility that they’re wrong

(Try telling a Bitcoin maximalist that software has bugs...)
but you can’t transfer the rights to whatever you did with mysql, in a way the administrators can’t arbitrarily reverse or be compelled to reverse

the market has been saying “hey this is useful in some circumstances” for over a decade
Sure now, but Maharashtra has been overflowing since early March when other states where there were no gatherings, didn't have cases. Point is, not single govt alone has failed. Pretty much everyone failed, including citizens like us who forgot precautions in January and February when cases dropped considerably.

I still see public ignoring safety norms like nothing has happened.

As for people running for hospitals, a primary reason (as per a doctor who treated my dad for Covid) is that people are ignoring symptoms for days (over a week at times) after which virus does enough damage that only option they're left with is getting oxygen assistance.
Or a job in actual politics
Did Maharashtra had a Khumb Mela? Or an election rally? There is a reason they are being called super spreader, not super incubator. I think all of these replies are somehow missing my point. I am not saying that this one incident is responsible for our current state, it is the government. However, I don't think somehow excluding a mass gathering like the farmer's protest from the list of superspreader's is doing any good, it will just convince some people that the gathering for their cause is somehow invincible, as you right said the attitude has been for a majority of Indians.
https://dronedj.com/2019/11/24/drone-pilot-fined-20000-mccar...
Functional Hypoglycemia is a real thing. I did a high school paper on it back when I had a rotary phone and pet dinosaur.

At the time -- nearly four decades ago -- there was no known cause and the only useful treatment was diet and taking high doses of vitamins.

When glucose levels get depleted, the body starts drawing on stored stuff in the liver. The mechanism for releasing that is adrenaline.

When the liver stores run out, you have no further backups. So then you start waking up out of nightmares that involve running because your heart is racing in your sleep as the body tries and fails to access your depleted emergency stores.

I've never heard of it as a neurological diagnosis, but it is known to impact mental functioning and promote terrible anxiety.
This makes me think of LazyCoin.

https://lav.io/2014/05/lazycoin-officially-patented/
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This is such an awful disrespectful comment. Some of the people leaving are veterans who have been working there for 15 years. How can you say such unsubstantiated nonsense?
I think Convox estimated their racks were around $140/mo min on AWS
Consumer 100Mbps internet will also not match datacenter 100Mbps internet. Consumer coffee maker wont match industrial coffee maker when you try to make coffee continuously, it will overheat the sensor area and start making bad coffee and eventually fail much sooner than the industrial one.

It all comes to the use case scenarios. It's not really a dirty secret but cost issue where you can pay up more for robustness and buy the industrial use one if the consumer grade stuff doesn't fit your needs. On 99.99% of its users it's fine, almost everyone is happy with a consumer SSD.
What are Fried and DHH supposed to do, flagellate themselves?
One of the best comments in the thread, actually describing the utility of crypto and the power of DeFi, and you're getting downvoted to oblivion.
Thank you for answering my questions. I appreciate your insight.

In your opinion as a professional, what should Armstrong and DHH have done without kowtowing to their employees?

And while I still have your attention on Twitch, what is with the company's hypocritical stance on scantily-clad women (a la Alinity) and copyright abuses while claiming that it isn't allowed? Your employment seems to have been contemporaneous with those episodes, so it seems like you would know a few things.
Theoretically this would be possible but probably wouldn't help much in practice. Writes on an SSD aren't mapped 1:1 from "logical" address to physical address - they constantly balance and move writes around the entire device (the "Flash Translation Layer" it's sometimes called). As a result once you have exhausted the normal reserve capacity (perhaps allowing for some early life failures) I suspect it's likely the rest of the device will soon follow and you wouldn't extend it's life by that useful an amount.

I don't have hard data however on like the "curve" of flash cell failures as an SSD ages and therefor exactly how much longer you might get based on the minimum to median cell failure.
20 years ago, computer magazines wrote about single-core 10GHz CPUs. Billions of transistors. What we have can barely be described as performance gains more than "add SIMD and more cores, and performance hacks".
There's also a risk management calculation here. Sure the easy money and high leverage works if your life circumstances only change for the positive.

I've also seen lots of people in the last two years who had made similar sound decisions who were then furloughed, or lost their jobs, or got sick, or got REALLY sick and ended up losing everything.

If you want to make higher risk bets, there are better avenues for it and certainly ones that you don't live in and risk losing.
Yes. In hindsight this type of analysis is obviously critical. Sadly it seems india only started focusing on improving sequencing in December 2020.
I mean it doesn't have to be one reason. Like all big decisions, there's lots of factors involved, some weighed more heavily than others. Maybe for one person, money is worth 10 points, policy worth 5, and a new job prospect is worth 3.
The response from the government for this wave is pretty bad and they took way too much time to act for sure. But, what you are saying is polar opposite from the article that OP posted.
The reason isn't one or the another, it is the combination of both. Yes, Indians deserved better but the people's recklessness is so out of bounds in large cities (speaking from my own experience) that many knew this type of wave can happen and it did happen. The worst part is people ignored all the self-precautions and acted like everything is back to normal.
So in the end, it is the combination of both, people's recklessness and delayed (unplanned as well) response from the government.
Psychologically average Indian young person is more unhappy and unstatisfied than ever, this is both because of lack of new opportunities and employment and now Indians are able to see on YouTube and compare living standards to people in foreign countries, psychologically most Indians are devastated because of this new found info.

When you are in doom and gloom state, probably immune system also doesn't perform quite as well and it doesn't help that even basic medicines and healthcare facilities are not available to many of us in India now.
The crazy thing about infinite pockets is that the strategy will favour the gambler even if the odds are 1-99 (or any nonzero probability of winning).

Using expected value for assess winning strategies don’t work with infinite bankroll.
Its not like people were not dying before Covid. Covid just increased the number of deaths. If you visited hindu cremation before covid you would have seen 2-3 funerals on a day(just based on my small city).

Bangalore i think now has the highest case in India. Kumbh mela or elections did not cause that spike or the spike all around India.
Author here. That's actually a bug in the `zip` command. InfoZIP inserts \r\n into zip comments every 256 bytes and I have no idea why, since APPNOTE.TXT doesn't specify that. I intend to find a workaround soon. If you're curious about the Makefile code used to generate the demo zip, see here: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/c029e83dd893b733c1...
I have to agree with a psychological disorder, brought to a severe point by stress (note: I'm not a doctor or psychiatrist).
>Its fundamental statements are about what tasks are possible, what are impossible, and why. This allows one to incorporate more of physical reality, including entities, such as information, that have inherently been regarded as approximate and derivative as a result of the traditional physics take on things.

This is a typical crank website that tries to pass off metaphysics as physics.

>The researchers are David Deutsch, Chiara Marletto, and collaborators in Oxford Physics, Wolfson College, ISI Turin and CQT Singapore.

Great, now Oxford is running crank websites...
At the level of compensation from Basecamp (at least what they say) it would be very easy to do that in 1 year: just put aside 50% of salary each month and you will have full 6 months of salary or (as you already lived on 50%) you will have one year of half salary to take time off.

Of course putting 50% aside is huge but I think 20% is achievable and will still create in one year a couple of months to live without a job.

I find myself sometimes hearing people saying things like this “if my company will give me X salaries I will leave” but few will actually do it. I always push back saying how about in the next 6 months you put aside some money and take 1 month unpaid vacation. I listen the arguments why they will not do it and realise people say will leave job if compensated but mostly they dont walk the talk as there are other risks/loans/friends/promises that keeps them there.
By that criteria the migration last year when the abrupt lockdown was called would count as a super spreader event.

However the crucial need is for an event to actually spread the virus. Or more precisely, spread the variant that is currently adapted to india.
Its possible that there are technical reasons related to virtual networks that may be restricting what kind of configurations are possible on their infrastructure. I would expect them to disclose it as such, but cloud providers haven't been very open about sharing those details.
Humanity must not allow technology that marries self reinforcing emergent AI with a blockchain.
That’s all well and good for weather data, but if anything in your backup is in any way related to user behaviors or transactions, immutability is a crime.
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Giving thought to principles and those principles being "good" or realistic have nothing to do with each other. I don't want to bring up obvious examples but there are tons of examples where principles with a great deal of thought have been clearly destructive. I cannot believe the kind of childish simplistic thinking going on in this thread
Middle aged here. Almost, but not quite, no autobiographical memory. Been that way since I was really young. So that’s fun.

Often I remember that something happened. Order gets wonky, even a week back. Sometimes I can kinda remember an image or a snippet, but not reliably. I gather most people hold on to a lot more than that.

Fine with facts and such. Never a problem in school.

I do have trouble remembering the names of characters and details of incidents in books I read, shows I watch, et c. Not as bad as my autobiographical memory, but not great.

And yeah, it’s frequently annoying for my wife, too.

“Tell me about a time when…” questions in interviews are interesting. I have to prep things from my notes ahead of time or I literally won’t be able to answer them. I’ll not be able to come up with a damn thing. The most stressful questions in elementary school were ones like “what did you do over summer break?”