skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I speak both Swahili and Somali. While the two languages are written in Latin alphabet, I find Somali harder than Swahili. Yet, Somali is supposed to be my mother tongue. Thus, this grouping in many ways reflects ny experience too.
Interesting move donating $1 billion in COVID relief to India. Will it make them rethink banning crypto?
Cursive, or printed lettering?

My cursive was always terrible! Sometimes, just the initial letter, some squiggles and maybe the end, done!

I could read it, but... yeah.

When I switched to lettering, I also was beginning to do a lot of detail work with my hands. Basically took everything I had apart.

You know, "What's inside?"

Most of it went back together.

And I switched to lettering because there was just no fucking way. Cursive and I just do not get along. It is fast, but I just do not flow that way at. All.

That saw an improvement in writing, but the big one was just knocking out essays. Had one high school teacher who wanted one every week. They would pick a rando topic, and GO!

You got about 40 mins to get it said, whatever it was.

He struggled to read them, said I should use pencil, and also said don't cut it short for being neat. He wanted the words, however ugly.

But do patch it up where I can.

So I did. This guy graded them over the weekend and basically wrote back to us. Was a little bit like a message forum. The following Monday we got them back, and all the good stuff was in the margins. Often, he would read excerpts too, for discussion.

This was extremely high value to me personally, BTW.

On some of mine, he would highlight letter combos that sucked. Would suggest challenge words to emphasize them and if I could pack those into the next go, cool! (And points!)

TL;DR: Write every day.

I suggest a journal. Write it, glance at it, patch it up a little and keep going. Get a cool book and a great pencil you just want to write with.

I bet you will improve in a month being able to go back and see where your writing glitches up here and there.

If someone reads it, great. Do what that teacher did. It was fun.

I also suggest lettering, no cursive. If you want, upper case only, making capitals bigger. That is how I started. Kept the problem scope down.

Roughly a decade after polishing it up, I did half a decade of adult tech training where I put notes, problems, you name it on whiteboards. Nobody ever said they could not read it, and yeah, was still upper case, caps bigger.

For techy stuff, you can totally skate on that method. I still use it.

If you can weave detail hand work in, say some craft, or hobby, electronics maybe, it could really help.

I still do scribble a sort of cursive fast for my own consumption. Fast note taking usually. These days I can almost always record or take pictures so that is fading.

But, I gained a little odd skill out of all that, and that is I can usually read most terrible writing! If it has a hint or two in there, mostly right, I am usually good. Can almost always read what doctors write, for example.

Good luck.

Oh and just care a little. Not much, but form the glyphs your way. Have a way. It counts. Adds up.
Yes, please check: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27175980
>> I find it frustrating that crypto-currencies are judged by their energy usage, meanwhile traditional fiat currencies are secured by massive banking industries, governments, and militaries. The total energy required to maintain a secure and stable fiat currency is likely orders of magnitude greater than that of Bitcoin today.

1. By that logic bitcoin is also supported by the military, education system, banking industries etc. It relies on a secure society that has power and internet and computers and wealth for citizens to have and use these things as a prerequisite.

2. The military etc you mention actually is the basis of alot more in society than just fiat currency. So your formula "Energy used / total value secured". If you want to include those things in "energy used" then under "total value secured" you need to include basically all value ever created by humans in western countries which is in the hundreds of trillions (if not more). Not just fiat currency. And actually if we went back to the gold standard all those institutions would still need to exist to secure society. (banks, governments, and militaries existed long before we abandoned the gold standard.)

Overall its a silly concept/argument.
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Simply looking at the number value might be too surface level for this. The bay area has high wages because of the cost of living - due to the housing crisis and overall pay required to live in the area, FAANG and non-FAANG alike pay more simply in order to have employees that can actually afford living somewhere within an hour of the city - and with remote work, companies are docking employee pay to more competitive rates if they move out of SF[0] (although, with Covid, every metropolitan area has began gravitating towards this issue[1]). While this might mean an overall higher standard of living and nicer cars, it isn't crazy and, after the mortgage, chances are it's closer to the SoL in other cities and possibly Australia.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-cutting-salar...

1: https://www.zillow.com/home-values/ (12% YoY for two years is scary).
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Yeah I was happy when they added scanning to the notes app, which I believe was the first time apple added scanning (the time period was before files).
Companies doing business, at least with the DoD, are already required to report: https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dars/dfars/html/current/252204....

What the hell is the government going to do? The government can't even protect it's own systems, they sure as hell aren't going to be helicoptering in to save some power company from malware...
A very confusing “article”.
The coins were not really worth 1 billion in the sense of being able to convert them into a billion in covid relief, since the market for them is very thin. They are worth far more as a mark to market charitable deduction.

Now the puzzle of what to do with this nonsense is in someone else's hands.
> But for anyone making coins (or daos, or whatever else) in the future, PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME COINS OR POWER IN YOUR PROJECT WITHOUT MY CONSENT! I don’t want to be a locus of power of that kind. Better to just print the coins into the hands of a worthy charity directly (though do talk to them first)

Vitalik feels like the right kind of person for the job that he has.
There's no way these are advanced technology from any country. If someone invented any technology that's 100X better than the state of the art, not to mention something that violates the laws of physics as we know them, it would be impossible to keep it a secret. There would have to be too many people involved. At a minimum you'd have credible rumors, like there were during the Manhattan and Apollo projects
Shhh, buddy, he’s saying raising salaries here we don’t need to give alternate ideas ;)
From Wikipedia:

> In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, a monoid is a set equipped with an associative binary operation and an identity element.

So M = (S, op, id)

My go-to example of a monoid is (the set of strings, string concatenation, the empty string). It's my go-to because there's e.g. no `x` such that `concat("blah", x) == ""`. Another example is (integers, +, 0), but it is not my go-to example because it also more than a monoid.

I did not find a clear explanation of what the stack monoid is here. Can someone state it, please?
> _this_ blurry splotch is an alien spacecraft is really just annoying at this point.

I don't think anyone taking themselves seriously is considering these alien spacecraft; 'UFO' simply means unidentified flying object, which very well might be some another world superpower testing their own tech or testing the U.S. military's reaction and response to these things, likely using simple drone tech with outer shells that make it easy to stay 'unknown' by keeping their distance.
It's not $1 billion. It's $1 billion worth of shitcoin. If the charity actually tried to liquidate this donation the token would be finished.
Alibaba prepares investment spree as company looks past antitrust woes
Its not "truthful but misleading". Its either true or not true since they are making a single claim against a specific fact. Either Amazon had keys to the mailbox used to mail ballots or they did not.
Does he still get to write it off?
I think all of your points are very valid. But I still have a few thoughts:

>> Also, a student's ability to succeed in subject-specific exams is more dependent upon the HS's offerings.

While some schools don't offer all of these subjects as courses. I don't know of a single school that offers "SAT/ACT" as a course. So while my school may not have all the AP classes, I could select from the classes that are offered and at least take those exams. Students can also take AP exams without taking the course (which is what they already do for the SAT).

>> Lastly, most students take a plurality+ of their subject-specific exams in 12th grade

You are right that many students don't take AP classes at all, or not until 12th grade. In that case, I think SAT II subject tests are preferable to SAT I, because at least students spend time studying a subject that is useful and transferable.

Basically, I think a system of: Pick 1-3 SAT II or AP exams in subjects of the student's choosing to add value to their application would be better than using SAT 1 scores. That way:

-Students show their college readiness by learning transferable knowledge.

-It is standardized so it compares apples to apples.

-Students can learn the material in school, and focus on the subjects that they prefer or are offered in their school.

-If the subject is not offered in their school they can still self study (like they do with SAT 1) and take the exam anyway.

-I think the exams should just be used to assess "college readiness" not what major they can enter. That way students aren't pigeonholed into a specific major.

-I think these exams should be way to add value to a college application rather than a requirement to address the issues of accessibility. If someone went to a high school that offered 0 AP classes, and they don't take these exams I don't think they should be rejected from college. If they take 1 AP exam that they self-studied for, that shows a lot of initiative and could add value to their application.
> It seems like that argument could equally apply to PoW or startups.

It isn’t clear to me what you meant to say here. Early investors tend to be by far the biggest winners in general, crypto or not. However, we were discussing mining revenue, not profits in general.

Importantly, early PoW miners had to source new ASIC mining rigs from China year after year, pay to install those ASICs in datacenters, and pay for the electricity to power them. For the better part of a decade. Only then would they have continued earning bitcoin mining revenue at all.

Conversely, PoS staking yield requires little more than showing up with cash on day one. From then on out, PoS stakers earn mining revenue in proportion to their holdings. It costs them almost nothing to do this in perpetuity.

In addition, PoS is sadly linked with ICOs, pre-ICOs and pre-mines. These financial shenanigans allow early investors to stake disproportionately more coins than later investors. IMO it’s highly misleading to present this situation as being somehow “more fair” than PoW mining.
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As long as he can prove that was the market value at the time.
Pretty sure you were already decidedly pro-union size you already jumped to a conclusion without reading the article.
Java does not have http server, json, html template as part of std.
What is an Ethernet driver but CRUD against a DMA ring?
Why do you think its confusing?
Rationally - the source of money shouldn't change people's opinion about the source. If it's meant to, we usually call that a bribe, or if it's from a company to a politician we call that bribe donation/lobbying.

Taken to the extreme - if you got $1B earned from assassinations, would you rethink banning assassination?
You're also describing what Mnesia does in Erlang.

But of course, you ARE playing around here - you're shifting the system(s) you're talking about when defining consistency.

Consistency applies to the whole system, and just because you introduce a partition does not mean you now re-apply CAP considerations to the two systems independently, but still claim it applies to the original. You've changed your frame of reference. You either have one partitioned system that has given up consistency in favor of availability, or you have two systems, neither of which are partitioned (and which from the purposes of CAP are unrelated, since the initial source of seed data for the system is immaterial). Not some grammatical superposition of being both one and two systems.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/xlib it's a "kitchen sink" library for typescript.

Probably a bit long in the tooth right now, am going to port to mjs in the next few weeks.

unfortunate name I guess, but it is what it is.
I'm building a general-purpose data format for the modern age. The old ones are too bulky, too insecure, and too limiting.

* Secure: As a tightly specified format, Concise Encoding doesn't suffer from the security problems that the more loosely defined formats do. Everything is done one way only, leaving less of an attack surface.

* Efficient: As a twin binary/text format, Concise Encoding retains the text-based ease-of-use of the old text formats, but is stored and transmitted in the simpler and smaller binary form, making it more secure, easier on the energy bill, and easier on the planet.

* Versatile: Supports all common types natively. 90% of users won't need any form of customization.

* Future-proof: As a versioned format, Concise Encoding can respond to a changing world without degenerating into deprecations and awkward encodings or painting itself into a corner.

* Plug and play: No extra compilation steps or special description formats or crazy boilerplate.

https://concise-encoding.org

Reference implementation (golang): https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding

Enctool, converter for playing around with the format: https://github.com/kstenerud/enctool
As a user I don't want to have to subscribe through anything but the app/play store. Whenever that happens I have no guarantee, at all, how easy it is to cancel, etc.
> Japan is very very behind in IT/digitalization compared to most western countries. This doesn't just mean it's behind in product portfolio and quality, but that perception of software engineer & managers and still quite behind.

Have you used anything digital in Japan? I find the interfaces to be fast, user friendly, and energy dense. Far better quality than what most of the western software people put out. You might need to clarify what you mean by behind - just business culture?
Yeah, I'm choosing not to die on this hill. I'm just saying that Go has first-class table and resizable array ADTs.
You could use https://www.codetriage.com/ to receive a daily email reminder to triage an open issue in an open source project of your choice. (I haven’t tried that service myself.)
Exactly how do you convert from crypto to regular currency? If you can't how do you convince the full supplier ecosystem to take crypto as payment? and If you do, then who benefits from the rise in crypto currency use in one of the largest country. I'm an Indian, and I don't want to malign the intent behind it. But it is not going to convert into COVID-19 relief anytime soon, and not sure it will matter by the time it can be converted/translated into relief.
But wasn't this clustered mailbox only installed for the union votes? Why would Amazon or USPS be using it for package delivery?
There's typically a fixed number of rewards per block, or the emission rates are on a schedule based on block height.

Unless your argument is simply "stonks go up", in which case, sure, I agree. Is that a real problem?

If you bought $1000 of AMZN shares 20 years ago you'd have orders of magnitude more voting power than someone who buys $1000 of AMZN shares today.
They were very simple in the 70s, and could be frustrating. I'm sure that in 2021 we could come up with a better system.
Go is a language for writing microservices that handle http requests and/or client-side networking "clients" to an api served by said microservices. My guess is the tradeoff is okay in 95% of those scenarios.
Even if you do work at a place like that, you can just get a job elsewhere (with similar pay, if you're outside of the US).

I used to work full time (50 hour week including commute) for a company with a really high-performing software culture full time, and quit to do my own thing just before COVID.

I now work about 20 hours a week and pull in a slightly higher wage compared to before. Better yet, any productivity improvements go directly to the bottom line, so I experience more wage growth in a month now than I did in a year back in industry.
Italic is another option that's sort of between lettering and cursive. In some circles, it's recommended for kids with dysgraphia.
Is it a coincidence that sony and nintendo have horrendous online offerings?
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The pitch sounds a lot like that for Amazon Ion:

https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/
Wait, Seymour never dug a tunnel under his house? Damn.
> Its not "truthful but misleading"

Absolutely it is, if the keys do not give access to outbound mail. It gives the impression that Amazon may have tampered with votes, which would be impossible if the keys only give access to inbound parcels.
This is a tangent, but I have a feeling that the Icelandic reluctance to use loan words is actually slowly killing the language. I know people that acually prefer speakning english to each other despite beeing native Icelandic speakers. Apperently having a conversation about modern life is just too complicated.
I would if the shopping center widely advertised this feature.
> For years, Mr. Gates continued to go to dinners and meetings at Mr. Epstein’s home, where Mr. Epstein usually surrounded himself with young and attractive women, said two people who were there and two others who were told about the gatherings.

Why all of a sudden we now hear stories about Gates's relationship with Epstein. Feel more like people relating to Melinda's circle leaking to the press. This is a good thing, we didn't get the chance to hear from Epstein himself maybe now we know some of the hidden truth.

And there's this piece of course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071016
According to Matt Levine's Money Stuff, the IRS is likely not going to accept the 1 billion valuation at face value.
And you still haven't - because he was a machinist at the start, not a janitor.
Exchanges, mainly Binance and Coinbase right now, have to offer SHIB/USD trading for there to be a market for this, and if there really was an unannounced selloff of this magnitude right now (with the relatively low transaction rate), the coin's value would instantly crash.

There's also the issue that, since nobody is going to use it to trade commodities or actual goods and services, the value of this coin is entirely based on speculation of its future value by investors.
I created a PWA wrapper to search for covid vaccine availability without logging in to the main app. This is based on the public api provided by the government.

1. https://cowin-helper.krishnamohan.dev/dashboard

2. https://apisetu.gov.in/public/api/cowin
secure-electron-template [0], a secure-by-default Electron template.

0: https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template
This is an interesting dynamic I noticed when living in China, too.

There are no "good" or "bad" areas, only "rich" and "poor". If you're a student/minimum-wage worker who can only afford to live in certain areas, you're not forced to deal with the crime/drugs/general shitheads you usually encounter in the "bad" areas in the West.
Lol, there is no such thing as worth in a Ponzi scheme.

There is no way to cash it out without a crash.

More generally, an attempt to apply a concept of worth to a Ponzi is a type error.
Most criminals aren't particularly forward-thinking. Those that are, usually don't get caught as often, so the ones you see are those that aren't. I used to break a lot of drug laws when I was an addict (I'll leave which ones up to your imagination, for obvious reasons) -- I used to be called paranoid by those I associated with as I refused to travel with phones, changed number and phone once a month, among other things.

Unlike them, I was never caught and have no record. A lot of that is down to lucky, obviously, but the ones I know of who are still active and not in prison do similar things (burners, never have a device on them if possible, rotate burner SIMs constantly, use encrypted messaging, etc.).

Anyway, its been years, but it's a lot less stressful to be sober and law abiding!
> Errors as values is a far superior approach to exceptions.

Why is that? I have never seen a cogent explanation for why this is the case.

I can tell you why exceptions (as implemented in Java) are cool: You can write code as if every function call is successful, as opposed to adding a line (or more) of error handling code after every function call, which makes it harder to follow the logic.
Yes, and soil can be such a rich place for life to exist and carry on. Hydroponics is cool and useful, and I’m going to keep converting my previously-grass yard into meadow, woodland, and no-till farm because I love the feeling of being surrounded by so much life, above and below.
Soil is also a carbon-sink. At the Bell Museum in the Twin Cities there are examples of prairie grasses whose roots went down about six feet (maybe more; trying to be conservative here).
I live in a graveyard of massive, long-dead tree-stumps, new trees around my age. What it used to be I like to imagine and to help bring about again, for its own sake.
Ok I see. In practice this reminds me of the issue of downloading the client and of seed peers that every cryptocurrency has:

- everyone downloads the client/code of a cryptocurrency from the same place

- that client also hardcodes a list of peers that you first connect to in order to discover more peers

The first issue is more problematic, and the second issue usually matters less.

My guess is that algorand rely on relay nodes because they are targeting a high throughput, and thus need quick communication between nodes.
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I agree with that. It also has the advantage of more strokes following ones natural inclinations.
This is backwards, the high cost of living in the bay area is a result of the high salaries (and the barriers to expanding the housing supply).
Definitely, liquidation would trigger mass collapse of the coin prices, making the donation only useful prominently in the ETH form. News outlets ate this up, yet the liquidity issue of the transaction was not mentioned at all.
> It's also interesting how these alleged observations seem to exclusively happen within restricted US airspace over oceans - but not over US land.

and they almost all happen over declared testing areas where the air force has trialed new stuff on navy crews without telling them in the past...
Well, the recipient needs to sell them on an exchange or find a party which would be ready to swap the coins for something else.

AFAIK Buterin never wanted these coins, which is why he donated them. What happens with them after that really isn’t his concern. It’s still free money