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Crypto is an evolving technology. Why is HN so bitter towards it? I find it strange that everyone here simply dismisses it as a worthless concept. What brand-new, experimental technologies with open-source development have ever been perfect from the get-go?

What other technology today provides rapid exchange of unlimited amounts of value, instantly? What other technology today can do so in a censorship-resistant manner?

ACH and wire transfer take way longer to settle. The same goes for PayPal, Venmo, and CashApp to hit your bank. Zelle works, only sometimes. All solutions are centralized, proprietary, and KYC. There is no way for the average person or small community to exchange value without being at the mercy of a big bank.

What we have with crypto is a way to exchange actual value in a decentralized, democratic manner in anywhere from <5 seconds to just a few minutes (depending on your currency). We also have a way to recreate many financial concepts with smart contracts. This could be a huge win for humanity - the democratization of finance, banking the unbanked, and bringing financial privacy and power back to the individual.

And sure, crypto has an energy problem today. A lot of cryptos are solving this. This is a temporary, intermediate problem. In the meantime, I guarantee you that plenty of things that provide less benefit to humanity but consume more energy.

Again, I don’t know where everyone suddenly decided that crypto has to be perfect today. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Crypto is very much in its infancy and a ton of work is being done at the protocol level across all cryptocurrencies every day.
Tldr (the original paper); Fine tuned ResNet-50 and VGG-16 classifiers are pretty good at identifying ancient pottery fragments found in the South Western USA while human expert seem quite poor at it.

Also, archeology papers have nice maps and photos. Open access paper here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032...
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Hello friends,

Like the potter who constantly puts the ball of clay back on the wheel,
never satisfied with the result, I am retouching this page,
always the same one but in constant evolution:

http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=coding

without worrying too much about a particular audience,
looking for, but apparently not succeeding in, the most fluid presentation,
the most progressive, the most appropriate examples,
trying to avoid, but apparently not succeeding, grey areas and logical biases,
hoping not to bore the potential reader from the very first lines,
and his patience until the end of the document.

Without your friendly attention I have little chance of succeeding.

Thank you in advance.

marty.alain_at_free.fr
Store of value means that your share of ownership is not diluted. It has nothing to do with relative value to other currencies.
https://electrek.co/2020/08/04/tesla-wiper-controls-ruled-il...

Not exactly a lawsuit but on the judicial axis.
I’ve found SEPA to be highly overrated. Upon further investigation I learned that Europeans have little experience with cross-border SEPA.

Its free but not anywhere near instant (although your conversation was not about speed). The instant version of SEPA exists in a thin patchwork, which might solve the most common use cases of people in the same country using that country’s largest banks. Everything else is pretty much the same as ACH in the US in that it also takes several business days, and is also free.
it is noticeably peculiar to compare one of the most significant technical inventions of our century with a half-baked hair dryer.

such innovations only appear now and then, one should have the intuition to recognize them as such, otherwise he will miss the opportunities of such developments.
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Same in pretty much every sane country
> Nobody is asking for the destruction of anything, that's pure hyperbole. Opening up a marketplace in which you are both a participant and controller is not "destruction". It's what's fair for everyone.

Apple creates the hardware and the OS. No matter what they do, even if you crucify Tim Cook, they'll never be considered equal to some random guy with a Mac who submits their app to the store, for as long as they made the hardware and the OS. Which they have to do. So this "it needs to be fair" argument is simply a backdoor for Apple to make greater and greater concessions over their control of the ecosystem, until there's no control over the ecosystem.

But the ecosystem needs control. Countries need governments. Employees need bosses. And so on. Fair doesn't mean everyone is the same. We can't all be the same. Systems don't work this way.

"Fairness" is always contextual, and it's always a deliberate decision. It's not a default. Apple has created a system that's fair in some aspects, to some people, in the interest of the whole.

So you need to find another argument here.
The sooner Fedora differentiates itself from Red Hat entirely, the better off it'll be.
Most folk don't even know it exists because it's been the default option in their Internet banking for so long..
Ryanair’s statement on diversion to Minsk Airport
> The interviewers

Wow, they are seriously missing a beat. If someone is making useless stuff, it shows they are passionate, which is hugely valuable because people will work hard and make great code because they enjoy themselves.

Maybe I've just got lucky but here in the UK whenever my passion has bled through in an interview it's been recognised and I've got an offer.
Which ones those would be? $CUMROCKET? Sounds like you holding some bags.
One of the best Francis Bacon art books (and best art books in general) is https://www.amazon.com/Camera-Francis-Photography-Practice-P...

It juxtaposes the source material Bacon used for his paintings (pictures, film, other painting mostly by Velazquez etc.) with the eventual paintings.

This is briefly mentioned in the New Yorker article but a fascinating aspect of his work: he was remixing / paraphrasing all the time!
Cool, and when China miners are all gone the ESG footprint of bitcoin mining increases by double!

Bye bye coal miners
> It is not a very straightfoward task.

I'd well believe it. I used to write computer vision applications for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and there we were able to strictly control the distance from camera to object, lighting etc. and even still getting necessary reliability was not simple. When a failure could lead to damaging a whole wafer, i.e. hundreds of thousands of dollars, 99% accurate is not good enough.
That's quite a broad statement. I'd say that most bitcoiners are in it for bitcoin.
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> "the 300-mile version begins at $90,000."

The article is incorrect on this point. The 300-mile model actually starts in the "mid-$50,000s". It's the top end, fully specced-out version which runs $90k.
You have to take into account the error rate of human counting when making the comparison.

I can also imagine the new process have other benefits. Like before, if a customer complained of getting fewer than ordered pearls, they would probably have to acknowledge that as a counting error on their side but not knowing. Now they have a picture/data to refer back to.

At least that's how it is where I work; the automation leads to reduced errors, and when they happen the amount of data makes it easier to track where it went wrong.
http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=coding
'shannonigans'
As always when there is hype, there will be an equal (or even larger) and opposite counter-hype.

Both are rather tiresome.
I stopped reading when the author claimed that Bitcoin failed. If you think a virtual coin that has reached 1T market cap recently has failed I don't know what to tell you. Your definition of "failing" or "don't work" is flawed.
If you can afford choosing your employer, this is a good test. Who wants to work with people that wouldn't be enthousiastic about such cool hobby projects? :)
Hm, personally I feel Google is cheating. While they catch also all spam they also catch a lot of legitimate mails. I have a couple of accounts at Google and one at a company which uses SoamAssasin and I prefer that SoamAssasin setup since it has way less false positives but still catch most spam.
What is FedeProxy? Online service to federate forges
Most alt-coins created these days are designed as pure pyramid schemes (coin burned to artificially reduce the supply, n% of every transaction is spread among existing wallets etc...). Blatant scams like SafeMoon have hundreds of thousand of "holders". Beyond that one of the most successful cryptocurrencies over the past few months was DogeCoin, which has absolutely no value proposition besides using a meme dog as a mascot.

This shows pretty clearly that behind all the posturing and deflecting we've seen over the past decade, the crypto world is really embracing its profound pyramid scheme nature. Any supposed "tech" is only valuable if it can be used to pump the price. Projects like Monero or Ethereum that actually attempted to improve the tech fare no better than LiteCoin clone #25156. Projects like Iota and Nano who once aimed to revolutionize cryptocurrencies have faded into irrelevancy and are now largely ignored.

At this point there's usually somebody who replies "but I actually use Bitcoin for grocery shopping, it works" and I'm sure that you do, but you have to be aware that you're part of a vanishingly small minority.
> This actually rakes meading tomments colerable.
> Remember when 5 years ago people claimed that as soon car companies make electric cars they would outsell Tesla?

Remember 5 years ago when Telsa fans claimed BEV range and acceleration wasn't possible for legacy automakers?

Ford sell more F series vehicles per year than all tesla models combined - why are you assuming they need to pivot asap to EV only?
I’ll tell you one thing about useless stuff. Sometimes it turns out to be useful, only in a way you hadn’t imagined.
> I think to a large extent coding can be like making art.

That resonates very strongly with me.

> I enjoyed doing it. People don't seem to think that's good enough.

Yeah, I've found that a lot of times when you want to show something you've made to someone, they'll automatically expect it to be useful and judge it from that perspective. Perhaps that would be different if we could frame it in a way that from the beginning helps align expectations?
> it will distort every image to some extent

I'm not sure, but is there "Orthographic camera" setting?
Fewer, bigger, more intensive: EU vows to stem drastic loss of small farms
You could even be statistically better with a probabilistic guess from the size of the entry and still no memory used.
People often don't know what's really needed by businesses until they see the use case. I remember 2 decades ago a family friend making fun of his son's project where they identified bad apples on a processing line in a packing facility. Pretty close to this project. He saw it and still didn't get it.
Cheaper? You mean $5 of plastic and rubber versus a overpriced tablet? Consumers lose functionality and gain nothing. I don't want to play angry birds or whatever Tesla offers, I want to hit the AC button for the AC, or the radio button for the radio. All cars have these basic features.
You can do anti aliasing in the fragment shader using 4 vertices per segment. See:
Shader-Based Antialiased Dashed Stroked Polylines- Nicolas Rougier

And:

https://blog.mapbox.com/drawing-antialiased-lines-with-openg...

I am also rendering round caps in the fragment shader. You can then render multiple lines with 1 draw call. The only problem is drawing transparent lines, because of the overlap between segments.
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Quite. And the time period for changes to evolve is comparatively long -- up to 12 hours -- if the heart muscle is damaged and a scar forms later on, leading to the potential for life-threatening arrhythmias. Bradycardia is also sometimes reported long after the event. On top of that, there are reported "cTNI +ve without pain" events indicating significant cardiac injury detected only via ECG or blood tests (for cardiac troponin).

A very good summary article is here: https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1418 .

Take home points:

-- Arrhythmias (superventricular and ventricular) are common

-- Exposure to high voltage can cause asystole directly

-- Delayed [life threatening!] ventricular arrhythmias have been reported for up to 12 hours post incident, both with high and low voltage shocks

-- Delayed, serious bradycardia can result months or years after the accident

-- The SA nodes are particularly vulnerable; patients may effectively give themselves an SA node ablation

-- Direct myocardial injury may occur without chest pain (due to nerve damage)

-- MI may also occur via coronary spasm or thrombus.

That neglects the rest of the body -- where the effects can also be significant.

Electricity in large amounts is bad for you – c.f. the electric chair!
> A neural network would likely do reasonably well at sorting other types of decorated pottery, but so-called plainware—ceramics without any visible decoration or markings—would probably be a bridge too far.

I am think it might well work with microscopy. A 224x224 pixel zoomed out piece of plan white pottery isnt going to have any features worth extracting, but there could be a wealth of features at a ultra high zoom levels.
Why does a premium vehicle with a premium tablet have faulty components not seen even on consumer devices?
Sure. Hacking with Swift [0] is great, CS193P [1] is very good (previous years were UIKit, now it's SwiftUI). Ray Wenderlich [2] and Swift by Sundell [3] are also good resources. The OG was NSHipster [4], but they haven't published much recently (some articles may be a bit outdated). For SwiftUI specifically, Swift with Majid [5] is a godsend and has amazing content. Finally, for learning good Swift language practices, the Swift book [6] is very friendly.

Edit: forgot https://www.objc.io, definitely one of the best

[0]: https://www.hackingwithswift.com

[1]: https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu

[2]: https://www.raywenderlich.com

[3]: https://www.swiftbysundell.com

[4]: https://nshipster.com

[5]: https://swiftwithmajid.com

[6]: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/
While I think this is broadly true, there are hidden costs that normal consumers undervalue.

Like having the video and music and ebook (and VR headset!) you've paid for (and therefore think it belongs to you) arbitrarily removed or rendered inoperable with no recourse. If that happened with a DVD it'd be considered theft. Most normal people just don't think that can happen, or assume that if it did the legal system would be on their side, but it has and it does.

Ultimately, while I'd like to see more use of decentralized systems and API standard systems and federated systems, it's more likely that the biggest problems with centralized systems will be addressed ultimately through regulation, once the legal system catches up.
Do metal-poor stars have terrestrial planets?
Or maybe Elon Sperm [0], surely going to Mars is better than going to the Moon!

$25.000.000+ …

[0] https://elonsperm.com/en
A delayed response, however it should be noted that the comment above is indicative of someone who isn't trying to contribute or improve anything.

SF has peaked? What do you mean, like the price of a crypto coin or a stock?

Your comment suggests that you first moved to SF sometime in the past eighteen months expecting to discover a get rich quick scheme and now consider yourself an expert on the place. It's possible you're merely <30 and lack context. Perhaps all the aforementioned hypotheses are true.

"Longtime" SF/BA residents have observed an influx of treasure seekers arriving with schemes to earn fortunes since the mid 2000s. If you ask a majority of those longtime residents they would likely tell you that certain things "peaked" in 1998.

You could also go back to the 1970s and 80s when Apple was in its infancy, or when HP was founded in 1939. Residents living then might've given you a different "peak." Of course you could go all the way back to the 1800s and I'd wager that a majority of indigenous peoples felt SF peaked prior to the arrival of Europeans. You can find people who still believe that now if you're curious enough.

The point is that making a comment like yours is unproductive because cities/regions are constantly evolving. Again, probably the majority of longtime residents are hoping SF and the BA will "peak" when the people who moved to the region looking for a quick buck move elsewhere.

Sorry to be confrontational, but when you attack a region or city then you better not miss. If you're always focused on looking for negatives in a place, person, or idea then you'll always be able to identify something to criticize.
There exists an entire industry for counting and sorting things(e.g. optical bean sorting).

There also are rather cheap optical tachometers(measuring rotations by applying reflective tape on rotating surface). I would guess such devices could also be tailored for counting falling objects.

And also there are multiple old- school tricks for similar tasks. E.g. if you need to count nails, weight them all, then weight a single nail, then divide the weights to get count.
I didn't! It was written by a different person
Unironically.

- Reduces the alleged hold on China's bitcoin dominance to either attack the network or weaponize it.

- Reduces the network reliance on china subsided coal power.

The network will still function after the Chinese miner turn off their machines. Although its going to be a bit slower until next difficulty adjustment.
I bought a laptop (Clevo clone) from Schenker year before last. They have videos on YouTube on how to open it up for repair... So apparently some manufacturers are a bit better.
Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting
Xinjiang Gov. Believed to Be Behind Social Campaign to Deny Human Rights Abuses
Istiod: Simplifying the Control Plane (2020)
I think this is an important point. It doesn't have to be "machines took my job". When I helped automate/streamline a government welfare program, it didn't mean case workers suddenly were without a job. It meant they could spend less time clicking on a computer, and more time doing the important human to human stuff and provide better care.
It has been "evolving" for 12 years. iPhones have been around for about as long as cryptocurrency has.

This is a million years in tech. They are still absolute unusable junk with a million problems. It's not early days, it's the twilight of a failing technology.
I never liked vendor-locked proprietary languages or tech stacks, I think it is even worse when it is from Apple.

I use C/C++ on iOS and I'll abandon the platform if they ever remove the support.
11 years of evolution and counting, and still nothing to show for it besides the now habitual pump-and-dump cycle.

If cryptocurrencies are so good at transferring money what's stopping them from replacing existing solutions? Literal billions have been poured in the tech and it still fails to reach any significant adoption outside of get-rich-quick schemes.

In 2017 during the previous bubble I asked people on this forum how long it'd be before cryptocurrencies actually delivered on that mythical "tech" and we'd get actual mainstream real world applications. A couple of people replied that it would take a year or two. Can I get an update on that?
I am really nerdy (including the awkward at school stuff etc.) and am married. This goes for most nerdy tech people i know. The ones that stayed single usually had some other issues like hygiene or erratic behavior. From what i can gather this seems to be the case for most people that label themselves "incel". The full meaning of the word itself is evidence of problematic sovial behavior, as if somebody owes them sex lol
I have crushed so many of my cool ideas by "who would use this".
Now I know why should I create stuff even if no one is going to use it.
What frustrates me the most in every blogging platform out there is the requirement for every post to have a title. Inventing titles for every idea you want to share is immense pain and annihilates all the will to write. In fact I have never started (like I had an idea, some enthusiasm but postponed and forgot about them) with countless articles, computer programs, products and other kinds of projects just because inventing the title/name turned out too hard.
Reminds me of that Huawei lady who was pulled of her private jet in Canada because the US had a warrant on her.
For the first time since Babe Ruth, baseball has a dominant two-way player
Pearls come in all different sizes.
Not in the sense of an end state.

This is something that requires eternal vigilance from voters.

Yeah. Right. Maybe.
Yes but the privacy people need to be less angry about it and life in general. When signal makes a phone I will certainly consider it. Until then Apple is the only game that really makes sense that is still mainstream and usable without having to accept a bunch of bugs and subpar performance.
Then participants who are obligated to keep 4 years of history around will run nodes that keep that data around.
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It is quite interesting to watch people rationalize what they experienced under Trump, even as a person that was not a fan of the sensationalist coverage he received in the MSM... IMO he was an objectively bad leader and his short-termist approach has upcoming 2nd and 3rd order effects that most people are not prepared for.

The global immune system is in the process of responding to the re-emergence and attempted normalization of western (white) chauvinism that he played a role in reviving.
No, I was responding to the idea that the existence at food banks means nobody needs to go hungry.

But I do think folks here have a lot of illusions about the nature of poverty and who is poor that they've gathered mostly by vague cultural osmosis and conservative propagated myths, not by working with or for poor folks, talking to those who do, academic studies (either doing, or reading), or even watching documentaries.
Wikipedia should be data driven.

Let the bikeshedders all try out their design in AB tests, and pick whichever the user metrics say is best.

You're going to get much better results that way than spending 4 years writing specifications and having meetings.
Do you know the true cost of a developer? When they are already hired they may seem free, but in practice that $100 dollars is probably less than hour worth of time.
Interesting. For me a post without title would be weird. How do you determine the subject at a glance without having to read it first? :)
I just wanted to say that if you can count particles of things in microscope images, you can probably make great inroads at companies that do drug testing, like Covance or PPD in America. They're paying chemists to circle blobs on paper and count them. I bet they'd even appreciate someone to count their circles!
@dang An hour into this submission, this was flagged despite ~100 upvotes. Was there anything off about the flagging behaviour?

It seemed like a reputed source article of interest to a lot of folks here, so I was surprised.
Kernel development would be a stupid thing to put in your requirements list as it would generate too many false negatives, but it should definitely be a nice bonus for any candidate since it demonstrates a fairly high basic level of competence across the board.

Nobody's complaining about whiteboard coding challenges because people who ace them suck at writing code. It's because a far greater number of perfectly competent programmers will fail any given challenge of that type above trivial complexity.