skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true! King disliked this series and only finished it because of fan insistence... And the ending is a middle finger to those fans!
Does this happen with lots of viruses or just SARS-CoV-2? Seems like it’s pretty rare and would not be a whole copy of the virus or that many cells, surely it would just be a small percentage to the point where it doesn’t matter?
usually no; the classical case is “making a military unit punish itself by killing every 10th man at the hands of the other 9”.
The logistics of moving cash is a problem on it's own.
* The titanic carbon footprint.

* Its use in facilitating illegal transactions.

* The fact that unlike cash it's used (as opposed to speculated with) for little else other than illegal transactions.**

This pretty much covers it ^^

** Yes, I'm aware. Not all prohibited transactions are bad. Donating to wikileaks is good.

The fact it is used for not much else other than illegal transactions would seem to me to be the biggest risk to its value. Regulatory crackdown will be coming sooner or later and when it does, there's gonna be investor tears.
Two things I find help reduce the fear of making a wrong choice (architects have this particularly bad, btw):

* Make the decision for just the next step, and try it out. The faster the feedback loop the better.
* Work as a team. The better the collaboration and support, the more effective the team. Good teams care about psychological safety and about the outcomes - there's no contradiction there.
I am not the author, but it could be important (all your past TODO) even if is not life threatening.

Also the service provided the active tasks as an export so same workflow could be copy-pasted and you update the SQL to include completed tasks too. The issue probably is that the priorities are different and implementing this would mean managers, designers and other "experts" would need to agree first.
regardless of this, I think there is no future for cryptocurrency as it is today, anyway.

it can't remain so unregulated as it is now. either corporations will take over and legitimize it but this means it will become centralized and owned by big tech. or, it will remain the wild west that it is now, for a while, and then gov will shut it down.

cryptocurrencies are the same as torrents. only popular while unregulated. but this only lasts until some big player decides to stop it
Gold has a practical application creating demand, in addition to it being a speculative product. I guess you could argue the same for BTC in that you can put short messages in it, but I don't think that's a very valuable thing to have.
Heck. I am not a fan of bitcoin but I think that statement is flawed. The technology is young and developing. Instead of killing it/or wanting it dead, work with its potential.
Stocks represent an ownership in a company. They can be speculated on but that's not the primary purpose.
Bitcoin doesn't have the equivalent of a "free press."

And TOR is rarely used. Journalists use apps like Signal now.
If the ability for normal people of every background and income to build wealth and savings wasn't being eroded at every step, maybe we wouldn't need it. Your savings are eroded by inflation, even if you own a property you're usually just renting the land it's on long term and taxed more for even having the audacity to buy property to begin with. The more you pick away at the fabric the more everything feels like a scam stacked against you.

You've built a world where Bitcoin despite not being "real" is the only real store of value, there will only ever be 21 million...
Facebook doesn't hold your chat data. As soon as message reaches recipient(s) it is deleted. That's why Whatsapp nags you every year about making a google drive backup (it archives data from your phone to drive, not sends it from its servers to drive). So no GDPR could resurrect your chats and it is not violation because they don't have such data.
Which is oh so much different then to add the new line into the imperative code? Adding new line into imperative code tend to be simple.
Managers -especially young ones- can be quite insecure. They don't want folks reporting to them that can call BS.

Basic human nature.

TBH, they have a point. I was a manager for many years, and know BS when I smell it. I had a management style that involved a lot of self-reflection and intimate feedback loops with my employees, but I also managed very experienced engineers that all knew more than I did, so treating them with respect, and listening to their counsel, became second nature. It wouldn't have bothered me a bit to have employees that used to be managers, as long as they were good engineers.

Not sure that most managers, these days, operate that way.
It wouldn't really change anything, it's just a data format. The problem is how to get people to both send and receive specific fields correctly. Lazy programmers/vendors would also still think they could throw together some crappy code and pretend it's generating JSON, but it would end up generating illegal JSON. Same for parsing.

There are a lot of things you need in order to prevent the lazy from fucking up:

- A version. A lazy programmer might either ignore or hard-code a version number, but at least you have a hint as to which standard you're trying to conform to, and can retain backwards compatibility. (The new RFC has a version, but the old one doesn't, preventing interoperability)

- A format that's easy enough for programmers to understand, but difficult (or "feature-filled") enough that they won't attempt to implement it all themselves and will reach for real libraries.

- Extensions. Vendors will always want to do something different than everyone else, so if you don't add the option of extensions, they will either fork the protocol and make breaking changes, or try to sneak changes into other parts of the protocol/format.

- A standard reference implementation + tests. Make it easy for vendors to test their versions against another one, so the developers don't have to do busy-work like "read a standard" or "write tests".

- Think about the future. Does your standard include a specific width integer? Does it preclude a specific network payload size? Will addressing change in the future? Can your data payload support arbitrary binary data? Can your standard change later and still be backwards compatible?
It’s front page because most of HN hates Bitcoin and it makes them feel better
Designed around mistrust? Surely you mean motivated by distrust in the financial system? You know, the same financial system that launders cartel money, rigs interest markets against the poor, and crashes housing markets to make pensioners go broke?
Berkshire like big bags love civilization. It’s the best. Trust them.
Why does any code start failing?

That’s not the point they were making. The point is that when you start chaining together so many calls, it can become difficult to debug. Prettier to write, but more difficult to debug. But that’s okay, you need to find the balance that’s appropriate for the particular project.
The only tension is for people that don't get how both are possible.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

- http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

- http://www.projectoberon.com/ (see https://www.astrobe.com)

- Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4)
I literally did this with GitHub they told me to get lost and go to court to force it through.
I also find it strange. The same thing could be said of airplanes, slow cookers, and propane tanks.
SymPy is a bit of a niche so I don't know that many books based on it, specifically. In general, I don't know that many math/phys/engineering books that take the "computation first" approach. I'm sure they exist (e.g. using Maple or numerical using MATLAB). I guess you don't need to have a book that is explicitly designed for SymPy—you could follow any basic math/science textbook and reproduce complicated calculations and derivations using SymPy in parallel with the narrative of the book. I bet most of UGRAD physics will be one-liners...

Here are some links to the best computer-based-science stuff I was able to find in my bookmarks:

[ The official docs]
tutorial https://docs.sympy.org/latest/tutorial/index.html
+ other docs https://docs.sympy.org/latest/index.html
+ SymPy links from the wiki https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/External-SymPy-Media%2C-...

[ Reference of equations from advanced physics in a very condensed manner ]
https://www.theoretical-physics.net/dev/index.html == https://www.theoretical-physics.net/dev/theoretical-physics....
It's mostly equations, but there are snippets of SymPy interspersed in there (written by Ondřej Čertík, who started SymPy)

And now for something in the other extreme—instead of exact equations, you can do physics with simulations:

[ Modelica ]
Imagine you had an ODE (ordinary differential equations) solver with pre-defined "modules" for electrical, mechanical, thermal, and other systems. Modelica is not Python-based, but has its own language for describing variables, differential equations, and initial conditions.
https://marcobonvini.com/modelica/2020/06/29/all-about-model...
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690788
Intro talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvEUuc-sWE
and a Modelica book https://mbe.modelica.university/
Another example of something which could be good but it's not because of surveillance.
I'm not familiar with foreign drug and weapons markets, but even so,

That is still a significant minority compared to USD as a whole. BTC as a whole is used for just that and gambling.
> political factors in 2020 (a major re-election year in the USA) which drove the completely unusual and unjustified lockdown response

I'm very interested to understand what part did the US 2020 election played in the (still continuing in some parts) lockdowns in Europe...
I love Berkshire, it will be one of the stocks I hold forever, but this is a blatant case of "old men yell at Internet cloud"
That should be the headline, really, lol.
Not like cash. Collecting a cash ransom is risky since the police will watch the location where the ransom will be received. Receiving a cash ransom electronically is pointless since the account can be frozen the moment the victim is free. With Bitcoin, you can be anywhere when you receive the ransom, it cannot be frozen, and you can transact in Bitcoin far from any jurisdiction where you might be arrested.
Cryptocurrency has not solved the problem of a few people owning the majority of the assets. The problem has just been recreated with different people.
Permission prompts are the wrong way to approach a generally good feature. It would be much more useful if you could configure the permissions you want to give once and for all in your client (browser), and there would be a standard to communicate that transparently to the server.

I keep making the same settings over and over again with different websites. That should not be necessary.
Yup; in $100 bills it weighs 10 kilos already.
Can somebody provide a link what this is all about? What's the objective?
it's like bimbofication but for crustaceans?
>There aren't very many innocent reasons to have accounts in tax havens.

I see. And the innocent ones? Just acceptable collateral damage in your guilty by association campaign?

The irony is that likely you and everyone else probably has a fair chunk of their net wealth flowing through these types of structures via their pension/insurance.

Pension funds don't just hop onto Robinhood app and buy a 100MM basket of shares. It gets structured through places like these. Same for large chunks of the cross jurisdiction M&A activity.

Unfortunately it's all confidential so the people that know can't talk, and everyone else has knowledge/opinion made up entirely out of clickbait and stuff like this...someone patching together a "how the elites screw you" article based on patchy partial leaks. The notion of patching together something that is global based on one leak from one bank in one jurisdiction is comical in itself. It's like looking at the left rear tyre of a car and speculating that cars are probably all scams because you can't see what makes it move forward.

The information asymetry is insane and 99.99% of the world is on the wrong side of it.

Alas...rage on hn
Depends, the future could already have been here, instead of playing catchup with the past.

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4
In 1957 the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite into space.

In 1969 America landed the first man on the moon, using the Saturn V rocket, capable of launching 140 tons to LEO.

In 2021 NASA has yet to build a single rocket better than the Saturn V, with the in-construction SLS being not realistically much cheaper, and no more powerful.

We have had zero advances in launch technology from old space in fifty years. There was an attempt in 1981, but that attempt was bad and then they just gave up.
The moral problems exist for a minority of USD, but a majority of BTC.
The two pictures are 11 years apart
Doubt they are rich enough to corner the BTC market if that is what you are suggesting.
Planet money has a good story about it: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/788003778/episode-216-how-fou...

Here is a text version: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/788003778
I had GitHub claim my private git repos were not personal data. Because it was code, forgetting that my name and email are attached to every commit. Until there are massive fines for not following GDPR, it's pointless. GDPR was meant to be a serious threat and it is in some regards but it is ignored so many times with stuff like this and the fines honestly, aren't that much. I've seen GDPR violations result in no fine even after they admitted the violation in court.
> And I hear that those MPW runs are starting to accept ~$10K for a guaranteed spot with a closed-source design.

That is absolutely not true.
Now imagine comparing child pornography (and other things) in mediums before the internet and after. These comparisons are not useful for exponential, paradigm changing technology.
Swede here. I cant even remember the last time I used cash.

Used to get it from my grandmother for christmas but now they send it to me digitally as well.

It was always a pain to get cash since you needed to find a place to deposit them into your account, and most banks don't even handle cash today.

Most of all I hate getting change, people look at you funny here if you say keep the change in a regular store.
Isn’t this already the case? Like SolarWinds?
They're not actuarially equivalent if you qualify for "enahnced cost sharing" subsidies: https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/the-acas-cost-shar...
I've parsed a lot of logs for our SIEM - adding a JSON parser is usually the nicest, barring overly-clever nesting, which does happen.
A series of tweets (having the noise of Twitter around it) is now the new blogging? It certainly does not qualify as a 'Show HN'.

Anyways, this seems just an ad as it ends with:

'Here's a great course by @XXXX that helped me grow my Twitter account from 150 -> ~20k followers in 11 months:'
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Do you consider the middleman banking system a sign of trust? How about the invasion of privacy required by the state in order to collect taxes?

It used to be that humans could exchange value without third parties. The third party was introduced exactly because of mistrust, and eventually this practice grew so widespread and big that it became a new industry all on its own. Cryptocurrency cuts out that third party, and makes business a one-to-one interaction again, where contracts can even be fully automated.

Of course all third parties out there dislike this, but there might still be a silver lining for them. For the state, all Bitcoin transactions are visible on the blockchain, for instance. This makes Bitcoin inherently less useful to kidnappers and extortionists and so forth... And for the banks it makes the transfer of big amounts of value extremely safe (contrast this to what's going on in South Africa at the moment, where value transports are being violently targeted by cutthroat bandits). It also opens up a wholly new business opportunity for them if they start exchanges and on- and offramps for crypto. Already new organizations are being made that grant interest on loaning out or staking crypto, for instance.
I'm a native French, and the french wiktionary seems to agree with me https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/bite https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit : Both are pronounced \bit\. You can listen to the pronunciation and it's exactly the same. I remember a few jokes around this in university. I've also found this where a few people suggest pronouncing "bit" exactly like "bite".

I don't really know what else to say other that I'm French, went through university in France and we had this confusion.
1 bundle of 1,000 CHF (1,112.51 USD) notes is 100,000 CHF which is only 1cm thick [1]. So 10 would be 10cm which easily fits in a small bag.

[1] https://www.bielertagblatt.ch/nachrichten/wirtschaft/eine-mi...
>I feel the same argument can be make about Tor. While it primary uses are probably illegal

I very much doubt that. Its primary uses are probably porn and researching embarrassing medical conditions.
So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

Richard Feynman

It sounds like giving up on "working" can sometimes be the first step to high output for some people. I know I've had that experience.
> the cult of Bitcoin is nuts

This is "very interesting" to you? It's completely obvious, is it not?

Same for the other (non-)criticisms they leveled. I just don't see the newsworthiness, even if everyone's just circlejerking against BTC.
My suspicion is kind of different- I think as tech has grown it’s become more corporate and has sucked the fun out of things and has become another corporate job where working hard means peanuts comparing to being able to do political games. Of course I’d protest butt-in-chair time as a measure of my hard work. I should be measured based on my accomplishments or efficiency.
That's why there are control systems in place. Institutions. Their effectiveness may be debatable, but by embracing Bitcoin (imho) we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater for not a good enough reason.

But what do I know. For me this whole Coin-Thing looks like Online Poker did 20 years ago. People like to gamble and they like Robin Hood type of stories..
In the past they have called it useless digital gold. Why do you think they should have significant comments to make on Bitcoin? They are experts are evaluating corporate balance sheets, and by his own admission Warren Buffet does not understand technology (which is why he mostly stays away from tech companies).
Startuponomy
There are some aspects of B2B AFAIK that are excluded. For example, b2b doesn't need the employees permission for the data processing. But for clients of the b2b they do.
Trustless systems expand who you can cooperate with. Systems which require trust limit you to cooperating with those you trust.

Furthermore, systems which are manipulable by a central group that you are supposed to trust are often used not because they are trusted, but because there are not good alternatives. The trust element is only a factor if there are options. Decentralized systems are about moving control to a protocol all participants agree to rather than a small group of people.
They are not Tesla. This would be very much against their risk profile.
Six-day week was a standard for the majority of firms and government offices in India till 2-3 years ago. It is still prevalent in some workplaces today.
I have used this at several work places for particularly thorny issues and architectural changes that require group buy in.

It's powerful, but it's also very expensive, especially if you have several opinionated devs on the team.
A nice guy! The Dukes! You disrespectful shit.
You forget the payment network without a third party.
>ANSI C compiler here in just 5 days

This is good work but let's be realistic - it doesn't work yet on any real C code I've tried it with.
I'm somewhat in agreement.

There are a lot of people in 2021 who - for whatever reason - feel like they need to program personal computers without using GC. As you point history shows that's a lot less true than people think, but nevertheless - that is the sentiment.

Dlang tries spends a lot of effort trying to attract these people, by making more and more of the stdlib nogc, having @nogc annotations, experimenting with deterministic manual memory management etc etc. But I feel like they'll never convert most of them.
Yes, there are several types of viruses that purposely insert things into DNA. In fact, a significant part (more than half?) of our DNA comes from viruses (but is inactive).

Coronaviruses are not known to do this, so I'd bet on a lab error for now. But it is conceivable.
This is made me think about the Black Mirror Episode 'Fifteen Million Merits', where the protagonist struggles hard to get into a casting show out of hate. After he successfully got in and held an angry rant holding a glass shard against the host's throat his 'performance' turned out to be so popular that they made a weekly show out of it.
The first point I won't refute. Some people like imperative style and that's fine. I personally don't and find the stream based approaches much simpler.

As for your second point, you could easily add such functionality to the code with a stateful mapping operation that sets the price to 0 for every other item encountered. In your code, you'd have to add another pass of the loop or you'd have to stick the logic for computing the price inside your for loop.

Personally, I've found that decomposing problems into stream based pipelines makes it much easier to decorate additional functionality than imperative code but that's just my personal experience.

public PriceAndRows getPriceAndRows(Cart cart) {
DiscountApplier discounts = new DiscountApplier()
return cart.getProducts()
.entrySet()
.stream()
.map(CartRow::new)
.map(cartRow -> discounts.apply(cartRow)) // Stateful discount application logic
.collect(Collectors.teeing(
Collectors.reducing(BigDecimal.ZERO, CartRow::getRowPrice, BigDecimal::add),
Collectors.toList(),
PriceAndRows::new
));
}
I don't disagree about weighing pros and cons, of course. But I think that bitcoin advocates would argue that the bitcoin has the same "non-infringing uses that benefit people" and that it's simply a matter of time/popularity until the proportion of "good" uses vs. "bad" uses is similar to the dollar.

Not saying that it's true, necessarily. Just that the current balance isn't the end game and it's not totally fair to criticize a brand new tech/tool/whatever against well-established and well-optimized status quo.
Why Audio Books Are a Great Alternative to Books?
There's another Sanderson Cosmere book called Warbreaker which crosses over with Stormlight pretty heavily from book 2 onwards (it's also very possibly there are references in book 1 which totally passed me by). You'll definitely have a better handle on why a particular object which shows up in the Stormlight books is so scary if you read Warbreaker first.

Book 4 of Stormlight does have some pretty big references to the original Mistborn trilogy, too.

On the whole I try to read books in the order I bought them (ish), but Sanderson is one of the authors I'll just drop everything for when a new book comes out. Disclaimer: he does have some bad habits (mainly inserting "wise ass" characters who don't fit the tone or setting, and who I strongly suspect carry the author's voice a little _too_ directly). But he does epic world building incredibly well, and very different to just about any other author I've read. He also writes action exceptionally well.