skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than two things can be bad at once. What is the point of this hot-take?
How little could Bezos have been paid before he would have done something less productive than founding and running Amazon instead? Maybe millions, at most. That's how much he has earned. He's been very lucky to have the right set of talents in the right circumstances. That doesn't make him so ridiculously hard working or his job so unpleasant that he's earned billions.

> Most people would argue

That isn't an argument.
Funny how the HN headline is turned into an accusation about 'the wealthy' while the actual article is worded as financial advice available to anyone.
Why would getPrice start failing? If you have side effects or anything other than a trivial implementation inside getPrice, you have more fundamental problems with what you are building than whether to use a for loop or streams.
Actually the syslog protocol has it's own structured format for log messages [1].

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5424
Those grapes sure are sour.
I think the problem is with the whole virtue signaling thing. Telegram is so much ahead of the competition in everything except video calls and having E2E enabled by default. (Which doesn’t matter to normal users, and will make the multi-device UX much worse.) Signal’s UX is almost as bad as WhatsApp. Their only upside is that they are more privacy-conscious. Most people don’t care about that level of privacy, when they’re so many features missing, and so much free UX money left on the ground.
TFA is arguing that raw, unsupported data that is difficult to consume is neither 'public' or 'open'.

Regarding hiding data, there can be many good justifications for that. Carelessly sharing data with the public is not particularly safe or wise.
Given a premise that perfect evolution is possible:

The following is dependent on the unknown likely duration to perfect evolution, and how it overlaps with unknown (but widely-assumed to be light-speed) travelling limits.

Given appropriate overlap distance of the two, there will inevitably arise the first civilisation to perform the following steps in order:

1) Attain self-mastery of internal planetary conflict and resource management. (Permanently sustainable peace and sustenance.)

2) Use their now abundance of time to perfect mastery of physics as is physically possible (something we know to have barely-conceivable limits in terms of size/scale etc).

3) Traverse the universe looking for any others, who - by not being the first - will therefore likely be behind them in terms of any conceivable aspect.

4) Immediately upon finding them, imprison them virtually in a seemingly "empty" but otherwise identical universe. This forces the same conditions upon them that were known to cause success, and also eliminates all risk of contamination of the existing peaceful equilibrium.

6) Wait.

7) The found species either:

a) achieves mastery of peace and sustainability, at which point contact is initiated as peaceful equals.

b) the species fails and dies.

8) Permanent universal peace is the only possible outcome, no matter how many times the above process is repeated.

Given the age of the universe, and how far we have come in such a short time, to me the above seems a likely resolution to the paradox.

With slight modification, it also explain various unexplained "contacts".

Perhaps the "virtual imprisonment period" does not ideally have a definitive binary on/off, instead is progressive in a reversible way (hence the lack of believability and proof for many "encounters"). Such non-invasive contact events may serve as research/assessment, and non-polluting "helping hands" for those who may be watching and waiting.

It would certainly appear we are very near (relatively speaking), to the point mastery of the physical world, making us likely virtual imprisonment and observation targets.

Whether we can do the peace and sustainability bit remains to be seen.
I...what. What kind of comment is that? It's just a meaningless remark.
"And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful to kidnappers and extortionists and so forth"

You mean like cash?

I'm sorry, I'm sure Warren is a nice guy but that picture reminds me of the Dukes in the movie Trading Places [1] with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
In other news, the Bloomberg Agriculture Index (price of food) is hockey-sticking: https://twitter.com/KarelMercx/status/1387108408139161600

At the least, bitcoin is a possible way to protect against this, if you think it's a risk.
Missed opportunity to title this article: “The Twisted World of Degenerate Spirals.”
I did it for 11 months (see comments elsewhere here) and I found it was both effective and rewarding.

Some key points are that helped me:

1. You have to get on well with the person/people you're pairing with. You're working very closely with them, after all.

2. You have to take regular breaks. Pairing is mentally exhausting. But its not like 2 hours of conversations, we often sat there one person driving and being silent, the other person watching and making suggestions or pointing out issues. Usually when we needed to have actual discussions we would step away from the computer to do so. We also worked remotely a lot (I miss screenhero...) which probably also helped.

3. We never did overtime. We worked what the contract said and then no more work whatsoever. You need your downtime to recharge. We also usually went outside for lunch, to get a change of scenery and some air to clear our heads. (When we were in the office, when working from home, I dunno what the other guy did)

4. Sometimes you need some alone time to think, separate from a break. That's ok, take the time. Just make sure you both stop coding during this time. If the other person doesn't need time to think, they can go for a coffee or jot down the next tasks to tackle while coding. Or go for a walk.

5. When one person is out (sick, holidays, whatever) obviously the other person can't just sit around doing nothing. But when the other person is back, spend a day just doing code review with them so they can see what you did and why.

6. You need buy-in from all involved. In my case, it was a team of just me and another guy on that project. We were the ones who decided to try it, nobody told us to do it and we weren't forced to.
Perhaps you could make a course adjustment, to work in an industry where you'd do work you see as more important?

I decided years ago that I didn't want to work on adtech or fintech, and while it's meant passing over some opportunities, it hasn't limited my career much.
The context of the quote:

> I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful to kidnappers and extortionists and so forth... So, I think I should say modestly that the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization.

I find it strange to criticize an asset for how it gets used in extremis. I feel like the same criticism could be levied against the dollar.
Shout on it ;)
A fairly old guide I wrote but the core ideas remain the same: https://uzakov.io/2017/05/08/pretty-good-setup-pgs/ Mentions many things mentioned in the comments as well as other good security measures
It's not about a disparity as such. I've had great pairs who I'd say are about equally "good" as me (if one must project to a 1d scale), but who have complementary skills to mine.
Sounds like we are going to end up with a tautological definition. Women reject men who are weak as defined by men who women reject.
Working together is in the best interest of humans. Humans require trust to operate. A system designed around mistrust is inherently against our nature.
If you think of all investments as a bet, what are you betting on when you buy crypto?

In my opinion, you're betting that crypto will be useful as an exchange of value, which means the people exchanging it are either: A) criminals or B) living in a failed state.

Personally, if crypto becomes so widely used that it justifies its market caps, that means a lot of states have failed, and I don't want to live in (or bet on) that world.

It's also scary that some very rich and powerful people are betting against our society continuing to be viable.
SMS used to be a very effective channel for getting conversions from people. But marketing channels are limited resources, they are most effective early in their discovery when organizations begin using it, but once their novelty is sucked dry the effectiveness tapers off until it’s no more effective than a flashing banner ad.
I work in corporate software development, and the incredible inefficiencies astound me every day.

There's a lot of useless work mandated by law as well... I've spent years of my life developing useless anti-money laundering software because a lawmaker somewhere thought of a convoluted potential possible money laundering insurance fraud scheme (while ignoring the actually used ones).

The insurance company had upwards of TWO THOUSAND developers working... and the software was incredibly bloated and slow crap. It's mind boggling.
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I just posted an article that talks about how awful Bitcoin is. One thing to have in mind is that many who are contrary to Bitcoin love the legal tender we are forced to use... which is also awful.

* https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/
> In the 1950s you could afford a nice middle class lifestyle, own a home, raise multiple children, all on a single income and no college education.

This was a unique situation, only in the US, which was a small fraction of the world population. The majority of the world was in poverty. The average human lifestyle has seen drastic improvements since then. This comment seems to suggest that things have been getting worse, but it's the exact opposite at the global level. Things have never been better.
Another arrow for the Four Horsemen of the infocalypse:

- child pornographers,
- terrorists,
- drug dealers,
- money launderers / organized crimes
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I'm not a fan of Bitcoin,

but often "contrary to the interest of civilization" means "contrary to the interest of me".
Most parts of a rocket engine are structurally pressure vessels, where this rule doesn't apply, as wall thickness also scales with size.

As I understand it, the main driver of scale is that the combustion chamber has an optimal size. Too small and you get incomplete mixing, too large and you get instabilities.
Hard workers should be praised. It is hard and it works. It is the only lever we actually have some control over to move forward in life.

On the other hand there is nothing admirable about taking it easy. Anyone can do it and it does not lead to any achievement.
Of course some people care about achievement and some do not, that is fine, but lets not pretend hard work is not necessary for it.
There's also the other extreme, Mob Programming, where you get everyone in a room together with one projected screen.

The idea is you can have several people in the room thinking and researching while someone drives and others observe. The idea is it keeps everyone in the loop. I've never tried it but there's some long videos floating around of an example in work.

https://mobprogramming.org/
> Warren Buffett: "I knew there’d be a question on bitcoin or crypto and I thought to myself, well, I watch these politicians dodge questions all the time … The truth is, I’m going to dodge that question. Because the truth is, we’ve probably got hundreds of thousands of people that are watching this that own bitcoin. And we’ve probably got two people that are short. So, we’ve got a choice of making 400,000 people mad at us and unhappy and making two people happy. And it’s just a dumb equation."

> Charlie Munger: “Those who know me well are just waving the red flag at the bull. Of course, I hate the bitcoin success. And I don’t welcome a currency that’s so useful to kidnappers and extortionists and so forth. Nor do I like shoveling out a few extra billions and billions and billions of dollars to somebody who just invented a new financial product out of thin air. So, I think I should say modestly that the whole damn development is disgusting and contrary to the interest of civilization."

That's all they have to say about this? None of this is particularly insightful (in fact I think it's disappointingly devoid of interesting insight). I don't see why this is on the frontpage.
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I'll reply here as the other post seems to have been removed before I could submit. As a s.c. "progressive", I see plenty of pepe and his derivatives in all kinds of circles, from lgbtq to social liberals, marxists, anarchists and whatever else people cram under that umbrella. Really quite far from being a right-wing or even far-right symbol, even if many use him for that purpose aswell. Shitposting crosses party lines.
> I don’t like the business of coding. Doing coding for a living strips away a lot of the joy

This is sad but I think a lot of people have the same experience. Then again, I had a recent programming job that I really enjoyed. I think the team you're in and how they work has a huge influence on keeping the joy.
Except the primary use of the dollar is good. The same can't be said about the primary use for Bitcoin (which is, at best, speculation).
Same for China isn't it? How to deal with a perfectly friendly person who you know from other sources is abusing his wife? Do shareholders feel ok profiting from a company which is polluting the environment? Same shit happens everywhere, what to do?
He probably does. In Sweden, everything is going cashless in the name of convenience and cracking down on tax avoidance.
I really enjoyed the post and yes immediately thought of Uzumaki. I think it’s my favorite thing that he’s done.
Yes, MPS and Xtext are the best language workbenches in the market.
The main difference is that MPS uses a Projectional editor, so you can use different notation (not only text): https://youtu.be/XGm_khXZl44
Coding is hell in the wrong environment. Requirements always changing, not being allowed to go back and fix or improve things...
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Dollars are inflationary and therefore primarily currency, not assets. They're also far more useful, so people are likely to only pay the massive crypto tax (exchange fee, loss of liquidity) if they need to be outside of a legal system.

Also, is it "in extremis"? It seems like the vast majority of transactions of crypto are for ransomware, contraband (guns, drugs, humans), or exchange between speculators.
Remember that Coca-Cola is responsible for one of the biggest health issue of our civilisation: obesity, and Berkshire invested heavily in it.
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Genuine question: why do some websites do this overtly hostile anti-highlighting anyway?
Yes, and yes. But, if Berkshire wanted to they could pump BTC to new heights and undoubtedly make a profit.
I'm not sure why exactly subsistence farming households would have to manufacture everything -- farmer can sell produce on the market and buy stuff.

You quote quite a long article - yet you do not give the full data. 7.35 labor hours per day whole year is to produce 21 sq meters of cloth, using estimates about ancient world, not pre-modern Europe.

20 sq meters of cloth using a bit more modern (Middle ages) estimate would give you 3 hours per day whole year by one person. Also keep in mind that those farmer households would not change their clothes every year (and that's an understatement)
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Not a great ending! I’ve been giving Envel a go so far looking like a great alternative, they have an envelope system like simple to manage expenses, love the direction they are taking, they are releasing many new features like simple and really responsive support team..only negative is no interest on savings accounts which doesn’t bother me much anyway as automated savings helps me more, but I think they are looking at interest soon but more interested in where they are heading and being with a bank that gives a **t

https://twitter.com/envel_ai/status/1390705174335918083?s=21
Have you traveled? Enough places where the dollar is not the national currency but still accepted and used for purchasing drug and weapons.
The article says kids make people (Europeans, anyway) happy except for the financial stress.
I'm willing to accept it as yet another thing I don't understand, but it still isn't obvious to me how the field being curved solves the issue. Even if we have bent our coordinate system around the earth (which I think is equivalent to what you're saying), how can the two sides of the earth both be accelerating "upwards", or now "outwards", without the earth being pulled apart?

Do you know of any diagrams that might illustrate this idea to a layperson?
How was that feeling? Did you simply not care or did it take your energy away to be around them?

I've actively tried to change and engage more with kids for a few years, this dread never went away, it's not only I don't take enjoyment but it saps something out of me, it's quite strange as I don't feel that strongly against anything else considered normal in life...
Started using Grafana Loki recently, so far it seems very good at consuming all the various log formats you might encounter and you can parse them into metrics etc as needed using regular expressions. Much nicer than dumping everything on a central syslog. My only "gripe" is the high learning curve compared to say elk stack.
Pursuing your own idea of what's cool to make is sometimes possible in paid work too. Within constraints, to be sure, but it can be one of the great joys of being a dev on a product team.
This is really cool.

I see a lot of people my age afraid of decisions. It is exactly because it cuts off what they think future possibilities are.

The issue is that it is paralyzing for them, they can’t make any important decisions.
When was the last time you tried to move a million in cash? It's not that easy...
For any thing that has both positive uses and negative uses, it seems reasonable to weigh the positives against the negatives. The dollar has substantial non-infringing uses that benefit people. Bitcoin less so, and particularly when weighed against the great harms (environmental or criminal) that Bitcoin brings, I don’t find the criticism baseless.
Because this is more than a builder from the looks of it - it’s executing and fetching data too. (I thought the same thing)
I don't comment on grammar as it's not generally in the spirit of assuming good intention and borders on snark. However, from a website called lithub, they should really change the title to:

For whom is public data?
Isn’t that the same for gold? That it’s for speculation? Or stocks.
I love coding.

Only issue I have is that I don't talk to many people during the day. I rent an office and I just sit at work the whole day. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but I wish there was a setting in which I could network with more people. What has worked for you?
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Ransomers don’t choose cash first, they choose Bitcoin, because they know it is safe.
Hmm, makes sense. It also seems like I have not paid enough attention to NoScript which is also available for Firefox Android.
It's just one more investment vehicle/speculative asset among thousands. What is the specific factor about Bitcoin that makes it "contrary to the interest of civilization"? Are these financiers telling us that the financialisation of literally everything on the planet and in low orbit might actually have negative externalities?
with a similar base of “to cut or shear off”, the words “shit” and “science” are related.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/shit

https://www.etymonline.com/word/science
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The difference is that someone can safely collect a Bitcoin ransom far from the police and can use it far from the police (no way to freeze a wallet etc.). This is called the "perfect crime" in research on ecash dating back to the early 90s.
Lol. So the relatively few mega-wealthy — who hoarded practically all the USD in the world — are angry that the relatively-poor have come up with a new system of value within which they are now relatively-rich? Well maybe the wealthy class should have left some for the rest of the people. Maybe the wealthy shouldn’t have fleeced every market they cornered as aggressively. Maybe they should not have constantly avoided providing healthcare, education, maternal/paternal, and quality-of-life benefits because they would cost them a few percent of annual profits.

Is it a wonder that so many hope that mankind abandon the USD for BTC with such force that half the billionaires become millionaires and the other half go broke?
How do you deal with deflation?
I feel the same argument can be make about Tor. While it primary uses are probably illegal (doesn't necessary mean immoral) activity, it helps a lot free press in oppressed regimes (also illegal, but by western standards moral).
Well I am 40 this year and in the best shape of my life. I lost some flexibility in my lower regions but that's because I don't do taekwondo anymore, but instead switched to competitive running, cycling, and triathlon. 30 year old me would have wrecked 20 year old me, when I was in the Army, and 40 year old me can out-run, out-sprint, and out-lift 30 year old me handily.

What's my secret? Staying positive, staying disciplined, and HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY!

Men and women need to get on this train. You don't have to age ungracefully. Steroids are for everyone to enjoy - not just body builders.
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Even if only right wing used that symbol it would not make the symbol itself right wing.

Like sigma letter is used mostly by statisticians, but the sigma is not a symbol of statistics.
To steelman the argument here, it sounds me like the concerns isn't in how it's used, but it's usefulness in certain applications.

Bitcoin has many of the traceability problems as cash, while also being easier to transact. While I personally think it's a good thing that companies banned from traditional banking / merchant services are using Bitcoin to fund their operations, there is a reason for them using it.
Ironic right?
The big tax avoiders don't horde cash.
I had a very positive experience pairing for 11 months, but yes, it was a team of just two of us on the project, we got on well, and we were the ones who decided to try pair programming. Nobody forced us to or told us to.
It's very interesting, actually.

I interpreted as "Bitcoin is bad but the cult of Bitcoin is nuts so we have to be careful about what we say."

What's more interesting is how the Bitcoin investor club is managing to delude themselves even with inputs from real proven financiers.
One of the shocking things is how much cryptocurrency has poisoned the minds of youth who see it as their easy path to riches. Young people simply don’t want to work anymore, everyone is planning to retire very soon and a job is only a temporary inconvenience while they wait for their crypto coins to moon in value and make them millionaires set for life.

The truth is while many people did get very rich getting in early on the cryptocurrency wave, less and less people these days are actually growing meaningful wealth by investing in crypto. Eventually reality will catch up and people will not be able to afford keeping a bunch of coins with questionable prospects, and when they begin liquidating all at once I guarantee some people will become very poor, poorer than they could ever imagine.