skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the 18th century, it was suggested as a gender-neutral pronoun, and was thereafter often prescribed in manuals of style and school textbooks until around the 1960s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_(pronoun)#Gender

(Wikipedia sources https://web.archive.org/web/20120530024829/http://www.nytime...)

Of course:

> More recently, this use of he has become less accepted, and singular they is becoming the dominant form

But linguistic change isn't a binary process, nobody flips a switch and everyone across the world updates their habits, so it takes time.

While gender neutral he was not encouraged when I was in school, singular they was very much discouraged, with "he or she" being the taught solution for a single person of unknown gender. Of course, in today's world that also is going out of favour.
decentralized exchanges on EVM-compatible proof of stake chains are still cheap, available, and fast.

e.g. xdai
> Certainly it's not harmful — some people collect coins, some people collect stamps, some people collect NFTs. If they want to pay money for this, it's fine with me.

Exactly. If someone makes some purposeless set of objects and others buy and sell them and money is lost and gained by informed adults in the process then.. nothing?

If one thinks that NFTs are inherently a BAD THING then it may be more accurate to say that it is a bad thing that humans are easily persuaded to acquire shiny things and things they think will rise in value.

If so, the problem lies in human nature.

Energy expense of NFTs is not covered in the article.
Do you never say hi to a contractor ever in the workplace? Dude, that's cold.
Or someone had it on their cart on the way to the checkout, changed their mind, and somehow managed to cram it in a freezer behind some milk or something.
CNSA is under MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) not PLA.
I would also love to have that source.
Any statistics on % of crypto used for actual transactions vs only for trading?
"Matrix as a protocol is neither bloated or slow"

The protocol may not be, but in practice, the servers and clients that nearly everyone uses sure as hell are.

I run a synapse server for half a dozen people on a reasonably beefy box and it sure feels that way when I'm using it on a daily basis.
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I think an important Achilles' heel of cryptocurrencies is just how hoarded they are. Whales -- in general, they're just early adopters -- own huge swathes of the total amount of crypto out there. If we were to actually move to a world where crypto is used as currency, we'd have trillionaires who "earned" their wealth simply by being early adopters. Government issued currencies can solve this through taxation or more generally through monetary policy.
I think you miss the point, my point is that point is moot. A community is about people, if the people don't move the community stays. Sure there seems to be some very vocal very committed staffers leaving but a major part of Freenode when I was using it was the people who had massive amount of knowledge and were sharing it on a regular basis. If those people stay then Freenode lives on even as a corporate sell out.
Yeah, it's not a general loss of quality. He actually showed me a really cool YouTube video that explained what is lost with compression, where the person making the video played the same passage of a song compressed and uncompressed, and then showed visually the parts of the waveform that were clipped, and then played the clipped parts isolated. It was a lot of high-pitched, tinny noise, presumably from the upper end of the high hat cymbals and stuff. Wish I still had it handy.
> This means that Firefox can't spin up a new content process if the update has replaced the executable with a different version.

Couldn't it spin up another one from the old version by doing execve("/proc/self/exe", ...)? Or by keeping a template process around with all the libraries loaded from which a child process can then be forked.
Yep this was my impression too. I'm from a professional class family in the rural part of the midwest now living in a cosmopolitan "crunchy" wealthy town. A lot of the stuff in here (like the stuff about food choices and tampons) is similar to things that set my teeth on edge just a bit in my town (and also, but not exclusively, at my office). I don't interpret it as stemming from wealth disparity but rather cultural and class disparity, which is related but not identical. For instance, people at the same wealth level as my family are much more likely to eschew fast food here and generally form more of their identity around their food choices. It's cultural.

But a lot of the article does strike me as stemming from wealth disparity, and is very interesting. Indeed, another thing to add to the list is being unable to distinguish between behaviors that are different because of culture vs. because of wealth.
Or the box got stabbed with a forklift, bent a bunch of the pieces, and they are piled in the back somewhere, and the assistant manager handling it no longer works there.

Or the customer returned it because it was damaged, so now it is in inventory again.

Or, inventory is batched processes, so it will take at least a few hours before inventory is current.
Can also just use Winkey + . to open the Emoji picker that has a unicode section with the – and — em if you press the Ω icon
It's sort of an in-between lifestyle.

Great opportunities and great quality of life, but high cost of living, and prohibitively so if you're looking to own property. Money moves faster than people or construction.
I had $200k+ TC new grad offers from FAANGs in 2013, and one of them wasn't even for a role in the Bay Area. It's not a stark contrast at all. The market has been consistently willing to pay strongly for new talent.
>what? no, the original repo is the real repo. my point is, is that the transparency makes it impossible for you to not trust me/GitHub.

So we are back to trusting you again. transparency is not certain from github or from you
I agree with you on that completely but it also depends on the role you are being interviewed for

For instance if you are being interviewed for a role like devops or sys admin then i don’t think you’ll be asked ds algo questions but also depends on the company
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Sorry about that. Social media :)
The last sentence in the article:

>"All in all: when your source of truth is the legal system, there is absolutely no point for a blockchain and you might as well record ownership in a database."

Could be generalized a lot further than the author seems to imagine. For 99.999% of proposed blockchain use cases you absolutely would be better off just using a database.
What have you used to synthetically underwrite your own mortgage?
How can you know nothing was altered, even if you stay in constant sync with the git repo, if github wanted they could selectively send different copies to different people. The entire point is that it's a trustless system where malicious actors get drowned out by others, especially if they're uncoordinated.
The drug dealer argument is the only actual use for bitcoin out there. How exactly does a dirt-poor Venezuelan acquire BTC to trade?
You've hit the nail on an issue that bothers me about the tech industry in general - not understanding how the real world works and trying to create problems where none exist. This is in an attempt to shoehorn "tech" into the process when there is no need. The block chain in real estate is a great example.

The blockchain and crypto currencies in general both seem to be solutions looking for a problem.
This hits very close to home.

When I was starting out I didn’t take the jobs in Boston or SF because I couldn’t conceive of paying such high rents. I knew that if I stumbled and lost a job that I’d be stuck in an apartment that I couldn’t afford. So I didn’t go. I took the crappy jobs with crappy people in crappy towns while working on my own projects.

Moved to NYC. Tried to meet with investors but had a hard time getting meetings because I wasn’t in any of the networks. Not a soul was impressed. I made $180k in profit the year after launching my company. “Who cares? I could just raise money and crush you.”

Was injured and lost my company because I didn’t have a safety net. Had to leave NYC for a few years while I rebuilt.

When I was young my school and early jobs were the issue. Now that I’m in my mid-thirties the fact that I haven’t been funded before is the issue. There’s always going to be a reason to exclude you. Why bother?

Today I just make companies that make money and I don’t even think about investors or the startup “scene”. I’m even leaving NYC (again) to move back to my “crappy” hometown.

Being poor in tech means that there are no reinforcements coming to help you. It also might mean making it and realizing that you don’t have any interest in the idea of “it” anymore.
BBC BASIC V is one of the best of the classic BASIC interpreters too!
> if a call at the beginning of the pipeline returns a tuple of `{:ok, result}`

In my understanding, pipeline are mostly reserved for “unfailable” operations operating on raw data; whereas the where/else/do macro is more oriented towards errors handling; would it work better in your case?
How would you handle this Node.js project?
Hello!

I work at a startup and have been working on a cool project NodeJS based project. Even though, it is a WordPress position, when I'm free, I take my time to work on interesting projects. Given what we're trying to achieve in this soon-to-be proprietary system, I noticed optimization issues with it. I tried bombarding the endpoints with 200 requests at a time and pm2 monit showed a few issues.

Before I talk about the pm2 stats, I would like to talk about what the system actually does. We sent a domain name to our endpoint, for example, say, dev.to. The endpoint makes an entry to database and it emits an event to analyze that website. The endpoint quickly does what it is supposed and sends back a 200 response but the process afterwards takes a lot of time as it involves HTTP requests a huge sets of things it needs to analysis the website for, a long with Puppeteer, potentially a lot of loops with hundreds, if not thousands of iterations.

What I talked about above, resulted in at almost 100% of CPU usage in PM2 stats, the heap was almost 100% too, EventEmitter gave us memory leaks warnings. Given that there is no queue or in-memory DS like Redis, I think the event loop was overwhelmed with 200 requests at the same time which involves a lot of processing! I'm not happy with the results and will present issues further down the road.

NOTE: Keep in mind that the slow process I am talking about takes place on an app level. The ExpressJS route only emits and event to start the process for that specific domain that it just saved into the database. I did this because there was no need to keep a user waiting for 10 seconds!

I discussed this with my boss and he encouraged me to take time and ask for help around the community. This is why I am here! Have you worked on such a project? If so, how did you handle it? What would you recommend me to do in this case? Should I go for cronjobs instead of event based system? Would really appreciate an answer. Thanks!
Are there any authoritative, proven books on nutrition? A 1-2-3 step programme to eating healthy?

No, people are expected to get an intuition themselves. I think that's a great issue. Biology class teaches carbs, protein, and fats but not how to apply that knowledge. The Internet is full of anecdotes, paid meal plans by has-beens, and homeopathy.

Anyone have good reads to share?
Okay, but surely this is rare? I’ve used online stock checks for retail stores and found them to be accurate the overwhelming majority of the time. Obviously it’s going to occasionally happen that someone stole an item or has an item in their cart when you check, but that hardly means that inventory databases are useless.
When no one wants to pay you anything for your seashells, you are stuck with the seashells.
Everyone who is buying Dogecoin right now is not buying BTC. That reduces the value of BTC.
Your plan sounds much more practical for non-violent offenders.

For violent offenders, no amount of tech is going to keep them from hurting others.
People in general: Understand basic statistics and risk estimates. Know how to balance a checkbook. Have an open mind and be careful when dealing with "experts". Such people are not the same as "knowledgeable people"...

Young scientists: I assume this means PhD in a scientific or biomedical field. Those with the latter could go into medical work, which requires empathy and an ability to handle stress. Either of these could go into academic work, which requires luck, a publication record and the ability to secure funding.

For those interested in "working", (reasonably) strong computer chops are becoming a necessity. One either works with professional developers, handles the output from such or become professional developers themselves. Appreciating the data that is created, its limitations and how to participate in and run a project (people skills, too) are critical. There's a number of scientific developers reaching retirement, and the codes they maintain and expand need new people or we need new alternatives.

Finally, if you're a rock star interested in scientific/biomedical works, get enough background to understand the jargon and nomenclature of these fields. Trust me, dealing with chemists without knowing proper nomenclature makes them think you're an idiot. Yeah, there are translators in the middle but better to not need one. Remember Egan's Rule - the number of failures before the project ignores you is 1.
lol, who cares what they think.
> When BTC was smaller in capitalization it was easier to double your money.

Do you mean perceptually, or in actuality?
What Happened to Ripe.net?
https://www.ripe.net/

Every single RIPE resource is unavailable.

Are they under DoS attack?
happened back in 2013/4 as well
"making" lol
trusting implies believing, right? you don't need to believe or trust, you can just see the repo yourself. git diff hash1 hash2.

if the repo is public it's inherently transparent. I'm not sure I follow your rebuttal.
My issue with JEE and the entrance examination system as a whole in India is that it grades students based on a combination of just 3 subjects, physics, chemistry and maths. It dosent matter if you are passionate about computer science and you have the talent to code well, it won't get you a seat into the CS department at any IIT. Atleast it was like this when I was preparing for it. I don't know if the system is the same currently. It would be nice if there was some other optional exam that you could take to prove your competence in other subjects.
Its weird how luck plays a part in all this - I remember as a Student temping for the giant Audit firm, Arthur Andersen (become accenture eventually). I was doing something like typing from one system to another. I think I found VBA and demonstrated how I could do a weeks work in a lunch hour.

My boss took one look, freaked out and I was back at the Temping agency.

We are still very far from a Software Literate society.
This was 25 years ago. I've long ago made the shift more to your line of thinking and motivation.
If there's no other utility than speculation like is the case with BTC, then yes I agree.
I love RSS and hope this brings it back into the mainstream.

Another article on the front page is about the Amish and carefully evaluating how tech fits into your life and values, and who it serves.

Applying that here -- RSS does serve those who want to get updates from a site, and does not serve advertisers and cookie-traffickers. RSS is peak "good old days" of the Web.
and if miners rage-quit then those who are left will make more bitcoin per unit of energy, thus lowering the cost of mining... rinse and repeat and you can go to 0$$
> This in itself is a meme - "All criticism is ignorance!"

No, as I pointed out to the OP I was appreciative of his reasoned criticism because for years the top comments say things like, "Bitcoin is a ponzi; bitcoin is used only for illegal activity; Bitcoin failed." All wrong, and the only way I learned those were wrong was by understanding it and learning from smart people who are involved in the industry.

> The truth is that bitcoin is an instrument of speculation.

Public companies have no business speculating except for R&D. By claiming it is an "instrument of speculation" you are claiming they are not living up to their fiduciary duties? And what sort of speculation has gone on for 11 years?

> And Bitcoin is for settlement now is it?

Yep. That's where it is currently headed. Could change, never know (edit: what I mean here is Bitcoin devs/miners could change/adopt the software so it works more like a currency). Brian Chesky, CEO of AirBnB, insisted breakfast be served at all AirBnBs. He was wrong. Didn't matter. Some original Bitcoin adopters, particularly Hal Finney, noted early on that Bitcoin could end up being more of a store of value than currency. Even if buying a coffee with Bitcoin directly doesn't make sense, the spirit of the original paper in wake of the 2008 crisis is still alive and well.
It's a speculative investment (or asset). Whatever you call it, not including that word is disingenuous.
Sort of.

From Wikipedia: "He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965."
Or some customer moved the boxes behind other product boxes, to "save it".

Etc. etc.

Inventory management is a whole industry of it's own for a reason.
Yes, I would be happy to see more of the criticism aimed at Robinhood focus on its more pointed flaws as an actual brokerage. I used it for “fun money” speculating/investing because of the easy interface, but it has repeatedly failed to transfer into my fidelity account. The transfer will succeed partially, leave a ton of margin debt in my fidelity account, and then reverse entirely in a few days. When the transfer does succeed, I still manually need to move the shares from margin holdings to real ownership because you don’t actually own the stocks you hold on robinhood. And Robinhood doesn't do much to make this process easy or well supported because they don’t want you to use another broker anyway.

During the GME debacle I decided to close my account and migrate entirely to fidelity and the transfer half-completed like described above, then failed entirely. It seems to me Robinhood was using my money to meet other obligations during a liquidity challenge.
can't you just compare your repo with the main one? this is pretty trivial no?
If that's the case, most of the same trades that you'd make with persistent inflation still make sense. You still want to be out of cash, out of fixed-income, in gold, in crypto, and in stocks with significant pricing power. The value of supply-limited or cash-generating assets will rise along with price levels, while your debt levels will remain denominated in pre-inflation dollars.
Pretty much the only trade you wouldn't want to be in is commodities like lumber, wheat, or steel, where there is constantly new supply coming online.

I'm still skeptical that this will actually be the case: once "sticky" prices like wages or consumer durables start going up, it puts more money in consumer pockets, which means they can spend more, which means businesses can raise prices, which gives employees leverage to demand more CoL increases. Cue wage/price spiral. And we're already seeing these increases in wages, consumer durables, and advertising, with no signs of a Fed tightening yet.

The anatomy of the 1970s inflation wasn't a uniform increase in all prices across the board: it was a set of transient price increases in specific industries, which then abated but were followed by price increases in other industries, which again abated but were followed by increases in wages (in some professions - income inequality increased dramatically in the 70s) and financing costs. We didn't realize inflation was a problem until it started showing up in mortgage rates around 1977 - inflation dropped rapidly from 1974-1976 (from 12.2% - 4.8%), and it appeared that it was a transitory problem resulting from the 1973 oil shocks.
I’m not saying that people in prison lack training or qualifications. That assumption would actually probably hold true, on average, but I have not studied that and that was not my point.

My point was that fruit picking, in contrast to many other potential professional activities, is not something that is likely to help an inmate build a post-release career.

When you apply for a job as a fruit picker, the employer is not going to reject those candidates who lack former experience.
> CNSA is not a cilivllian agency

Look at Wikipedia:
CNSA is under the jurisdiction Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工信部）, which itself is a civilian department, at least not less so than US department of energy.

What's the proof for your claim that CNSA is not a civilian agency?
But the only useful thing BTC does is transfer money/property from one party to another. Take that away and it's nothing at all. The block rewards are just there to operate the network. That the rewards were allowed to get so valuable that they consume the energy equivalent of Norway is a fatal flaw in the design, no?
We as a society have entrusted upon the court system to sort out ownership of properties, so yes, the court can declare ownership. The court issuing a transaction is just like the court issuing a paper declaring a judgement.

The consent of everyone on the blockchain only applies to the integrity of the transaction, i.e. yes, this transaction is issued from this particular wallet. That's it. No more. No less.

Everyone on the blockchain consents that the transaction is indeed from the court's wallet, not from some random guy off the street. The court's wallet is a well known one and carries some authority. Once the question of ownership is contested again, everyone can trace it back to the court's issuing of the transaction.
> But I would trust [...] Matrix.org as far as I would trust Microsoft.

Ouch. Did you read https://matrix.org/foundation or https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177...?

I'd agree that skepticism was warranted if we hadn't split out the Foundation and the protocol was de facto controlled by Element. But instead we made damn sure to create the Foundation independently and frankly protect it from being sabotaged by Element or any other commercial entity building on Matrix. To suggest otherwise is pretty insulting to the other Guardians/Directors whose only role is literally to oversee and ensure that the protocol isn't sabotaged by commercial entities.

This is very different from Microsoft's model.
Looks like they are using Godot engine.
The problem with C++ is that every firm has their own flavour of C++ that they use.

Someone experienced in C++ will be able to pick it up a lot faster than someone transitioning from the Java world, but there's always going to be a fair learning curve for a new hire.
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A lot of people here can’t separate emotion from logic. They love Element / Matrix because it’s decentralized. They love Apple because of their focus on privacy. But they hate Bitcoin: a private, decentralized currency.

They say it’s because of “volatility” or “power consumption”, but when these problems are fixed they move the goalposts (see the ETH proof of stake thread).

The truth is, they missed out on the bull run, and whether they consciously realize it or not they’re letting their emotions cloud their judgement.
I imagine it will be like Google Glass. Tons of hype with the initial announcement, sobering realization that it's too expensive for mass market adoption, and its eventual settling into a niche market.

And its inevitable discontinuation.
These last two comments and replies really have a strong The Last Question vibe.

https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/...

Really great short story