skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia at least, the wearing of wedding rings can be dated back to about the 1950s when lots of European migrants arrived. Those migrants were mainly from Greece and Italy, though many refugees from other European nationalities also arrived post-WW2.

Prior to that, when the population was almost all of Anglo-Saxon (British) descent, it was very unusual to see men wearing wedding rings,
Minor in majority would agree and 70 percent will disagree for 1 percent that is i will completely bust the situation the more sleep I get the more my brain is resting so when I past away I die smart and my soul can be free knowing that my body had its tribulance so waking up period is a must when the mind sees in the dark it calls for organs to unrespond. Unfortunately theirs a line on someone’s bound to find out what true power of hacking means maximum level coding. The end
Yeah, this is my situation. I am AWS certified and started working on a team that uses it, sort of. So maybe I can transition off of there in a year or two because the subject matter sucks.
I think pretty much anything can be quality food if it's done well enough.
Exactly. The whole "anonymous, decentralized, peer-to-peer" thing went out the window a long time ago.

Now, Bitcoin is a digital yuan with an infinite history of every purchase made with it (the blockchain). No thanks.

At this point, I'm starting to think the only viable alternative, from a medium-of-exchange perspective, is in commodity money -- metals and other materials that possess intrinsic value.
Are you saying economies grow by inflating their currency?
Hm. That’s interesting — it’s an upgraded mine. I think the indiscriminate nature of it makes it more acceptable, at least to me; you’re creating a no-go zone for all — allies, enemies and nuetrals.

With this you’re creating a no-go zone for your enemies, and very likely safe for your allies (who you can tag properly with markers), but the difference between enemy and neutral is rather unclear (especially in the Middle East, where the line between combatant and civilian is very thin, almost indistinguishable even to humans on-site)
I believe the goal is driven by the desire for the drone to continue to operate even if humans are not reachable because of communications jamming - if you're fighting against some low-resourced guerillas, you can have humans in the decision loop, but if the loitering munitions/drones are to be used against an opponent with some air defence and EW/ECM systems (e.g. the recent Azerbaijan-Armenia war, where Turkish drones/loitering munitions systems were widely used, especially against AD systems) then an autonomous operation capability seems a quite desirable goal for practical reasons.
All signs of excellent design, I would say.
Sure. They'll sell at the peak and buy at the bottom because it's a well known 4 year cycle programmed into the protocol. If the price is expected to appreciate 5-10x from any other asset in the market every 4 years that's a bet you should make, even if the timing of the peak and trough is hard to see. But the price floor increases over time as the trade becomes better known globally and the lottery odds expand. Eventually there is so much noise it all evens out and becomes a generally smooth slide into a stable store of value. It's network science and game theory that I personally consider much smarter than anything I could create (having deployed technology built on network science in exchange for money in the financial sector). And much more democratic than is possible in the traditional financial world. Frankly, the longer I study this the more impressed I am.

Usage as in number of network participants. People investing time, energy, risk into the system. Miners, traders, validators, second layer operators. Similar to members of facebook, servers in the internet. Price as in market price. And I'm only talking Bitcoin here.
No, I completely get that. I'm just adding some of my background to show my thoughts. I know there are other areas and other people that command higher prices.
Interesting. The Vornado fan I linked is pure mechanical. I have three that have been running without problem for years, the oldest since 2017, fwiw (during the warm half of the years).
yeah, it is referenced later on.. it's a drunken post, so a bit disorganized :D
It’s not about having a monopoly on good information. It’s about a monopoly on attention. What use is it if the WHO is wrong and someone else is right, but everybody listens to the WHO?
One metric might be how long it takes a developer to build it from scratch given all the esoteric builds in C/C++ land. Another might be lines per cve in a given language. Another still might be time to fix cves per language.

I'm thinking rust would come out on top of those, but would be interesting to measure!
That’s a big if. People are offering 10+% interest for USDC, but not for USD. This implies massive risk, as those interest rates are much higher than junk bonds.
Who am I to trust more? Matt Levine, someone with years of equities capital market experience while at Goldman Sachs and who now opines on the capital markets at Bloomberg for a living? Or you? No offense intended, but he is a subject matter expert.
Reason I always check the seller first these days,
As if there isn't ample ability to obfuscate things through a nonprofit, foreign corps, or other techniques.

This is the land of Enron after all.
With Apple Business leasing-program laptops, Apple Store employees come to you to replace/repair the device. Of course, that only exists in the places that Apple Stores do.
Sorry, you have a point. I re-read my comment and it's not very clear. We need two things to achieve the Byzantine fault tolerance:

- a way to ensure that users of the system can't cheat by creating a vast number of nodes and inflate their "voting power" (think of a poll where you can get behind a proxy to vote multiple times because the only security is weather or not the IP voted): this is the hash-cash, proof of work computation that ensures you have real hardware behind your "vote"

- an incentive to mine and secure the network: the cryptocurrency. The amount of cryptocurrency you mined is just a translation of the energy and work you did to secure the network the same way as a banknote is a conversion of X number of hours you worked for someone.

The question, like I stated in another comment, is whether or not this distributed ledger is useful. Let's say we haven't discovered the killer use case for this yet (putting my skeptic hat). Is it fair to dismiss it just because of all the scams related to its current use ? Do we do the same for email just because there's so many phishing attacks that happen on the protocol ?
I don't know, who purposefully lied to the people treating it like sheep to be shepherded with confident lies and half-truths?

These organizations have burned through a tremendous amount of credibility by virtue of not being honest about what they did and didn't know. And Joe Sixpack, on the other hand, gained a lot. What are they going to be able to do when he starts using that to peddle dangerous products or make even worse recommendations but now with so much more influence?

There's no fastest way to erode the usefulness of a government than making negligent use of its credibility.
The issue does arise when you aren’t able to understand the problem space enough to realize that what you copied from stack overflow has a mistake or doesn’t fit the requirement you need (e.g. perhaps it doesn’t match your error handling architecture or so on).

That said, stack overflow can be a great source and I’ve written plenty of code with a comment pointing to a SO link to further explain a pattern or snippet for a future reader.
Seems many (most? all?) modern cars have the idle engine shutoff feature. My 2016 car had the option to permanently disable it with a switch. My 2018 car no longer has that option - only the option to disable it for the current trip. And according to the salesman, all new cars are like that?
Cash App is Square.
I'd like to share my response on Twitter here as well:

> I agree but I raise you one better.

> We in tech need to talk about how graft and lies are not qualities of entrepreneurship, and that they are disqualifying.

> We need to dispel the myth of moving from con to legitimacy, and that fraud may be justified if founders do it.
Who's going around listening to the WHO?
There are window particle filters (like insect nets):

https://www.respilon.com/products/products/window-membranes/
Yield farm generator Madoff levels of returns (10+%). Why do you assume these are risk equivalent to a USD savings account?

There’s no free lunch.
To put another angle on this, approximately 48% of BHE’s generating capacity is renewable [1] compared to approximately 20% of the United States’ overall generating capacity [2].

BHE also publishes environmental reports and emissions data [3] for anyone, including investors, to assess to what degree they are preparing against climate change risk.

[1]: https://www.brkenergy.com/energy/

[2]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/

[3]: https://www.brkenergy.com/about-us/sustainability.aspx
Taking the Wikipedia article at face value, and taking for granted the exact word it cites, I fail to see anything sexist in what Tim Hunt said in that conference. If anything, he was joking about sexism itself. The people who say are offended by his words either read a quote out of context, or did the cherry picking themselves.

Assuming you followed the same Wikipedia link I did, it would seam you are guilty of cherry picking. Let's explore this mistake together:

> Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry. Perhaps we should make separate labs for boys and girls?

So at a first glance, it seems to be as you say. That would indeed be disgusting. Wait a minute though. In your haste, it seems you failed to read the words that preceded:

> It's strange that such a chauvinist monster like me has been asked to speak to women scientists.

…as well as the words that followed:

> Now, seriously, I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without a doubt, an important role in it. Science needs women, and you should do science, despite all the obstacles, and despite monsters like me.

So first, he tells his audience to take the words that will follow with a grain of salt: "Hey, I'm a monster, don't be surprised if I say monstrous things!". Then he says the thing (with less than ideal words, he could have said "me" instead of using the generic "you"). And finally he explicitly signals that the joke is over ("seriously"), and go on encouraging women to do science, and fight the very misogyny he just incarnated in his joke.

Did he actually used rank sexist stereotypes to suggest that women should be pushed out of men's labs? Of course not, and you know this.

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Now let's stop the cherry picking, and acknowledge that we have both false positives (people getting fired over misplaced outrage), and false negatives (people not getting prosecuted for serious offences). While I understand the need for getting fewer false negatives (rape prosecution rates for instance are appallingly low), the solution is not to move the cursor all the way to hair trigger sensitivity: you'd just end up with far too many false positives, and not enough attention left to solve the real issues.
100%. I've been thinking about writing an article about McMaster-Carr's design and user experience. I've been using it for 10+ years. It's so much deeper than the web design - the moment you place an order, their return process, obtaining technical specs, datasheets and alternate unit system measurement, the entire experience of shopping on McMaster-Carr. Furthermore, their physical catalog design is also exceptional - from typography to layout, it's the pinnacle of what good design is and exemplifies what's wrong with everything today.

I just fear one day some new intern, engineer, designer or manager is going to join and ruin it. It will be a sad day.
Just another incredibly sleazy move by Microsoft.
The original question wasn't whether computer science is a science, it was whether computer science is a branch of mathematics.

My position is that computer science is neither a science nor is it a branch of mathematics.
Anything that calls into ObjC benefits as well, and if you built another programming language that used a very similar mechanism, presumably you could also use it.
Why is it a pyramid scheme? I’ll give you my opinion.

I think bitcoin was a research project - it wasn’t designed to succeed as a real currency. Consider:

1) It has a fixed money supply. There will only ever be a fixed amount of bitcoin once it is all mined (or technically, the amount will grow more and more slowly forever— effectively, it’s a fixed amount). We’ve known for a long time what effect this has on a currency. A fixed supply will be deflationary, i.e. the value of 1 btc will only grow. To be stable, the total amount of currency in circulation must equal the economic value that it represents. This is why the Federal Reserve must continually expand the money supply - it’s because the US economy grows. (They actually expand it slightly faster than the economy grows, causing a small amount of inflation, on purpose. This is preferable to undershooting and creating a deflationary currency). Deflation makes for a terrible currency, because it inhibits spending. If you think your dollar will be worth more tomorrow, you’ll wait to spend it. That waiting cascades into the broader economy, causing a recession. Bitcoin can therefore never, ever be a true currency. Its deflationary design prevents it.

2) Transactions are public. Far from being a cash replacement, which is both anonymous and private, Bitcoin transactions are publicly recorded on the blockchain. There are elaborate work-arounds to improve privacy, but fundamentally the ledger is public. This is not a good feature for a cash replacement.

3) There is no one in charge. Would you trust the US dollar if a loose collection of volunteers struggled for control over key monetary decisions? Despite best efforts, governance of bitcoin is a disaster — because it wasn’t designed for governance.

4) It’s extremely expensive. Search recent news for the estimated electricity usage of bitcoin mining. It’s so large that a hedge fund recently restarted a decommissioned fossil fuel power plant just to mine bitcoin. Do you think this is a good design?

5) It’s inconvenient. Have you tried to make a bitcoin transaction? Were you surprised that you could pay extra in order for the transaction to settle faster? Did you think that was ridiculous? You’d be right!

I’m glad more people are speaking up about bitcoin. The emperor indeed has no clothes. Bitcoin is getting out of hand.
Very simple game theory answer to this question: tragedy of the commons. There is a reason popular culture stereotypes financiers as greedy sociopaths. If the system can be cracked then it will be cracked. No shortage of examples, Bernie Madoffs, subprime lending crises, endless financial crashes and crises.

Blockchains solve this problem, as in mathematically proves that certain classes of exploits requiring information asymmetry are impossible.

We could have all of this with open banking standards? You're looking at them!
Everyone? No

Some people, but not others? Also no.
Presuming a centralized corporate IT department that has 100+ of the same laptop in service, one advantage of repairability over time-in-service is that two half-broken laptops can be made into one working laptop. Very-repairable products are essentially just bags of parts that happen to come assembled; you can buy a few extra, take them apart, and now you have a couple of full sets of parts to use to repair any problem that comes up in the rest of the "fleet."
>> You can drive 2000 miles and chew on identical food

For people with food allergies, I don't think you understand what a life-changer that is.
I would like to see less of this kind of content on HN. What a hateful comment.
I think the prudent thing is neither fork of your dilemma, but instead a synthesis of prevailing opinions that is skewed as conservatively (in life preservation terms) as afforded by my personal capacity to save lives by sacrificing leisure.

For Instance, I have been treating covid like an airborne pathogen since the /first/ time the CDC didn't recommend masking, based upon an epidemiologists take on early cruise ship data.

Of course I risked being wrong the whole time, but the cost of my leisure and convenience and income turned out to be worthwhile.
> you need cooperation

Sure.

> You can't just have Joe Sixpack decided to not quarantine himself or not wear masks.

So, cooperation, via coercion? Got it. I guess the ends justify the means.
Lots of Chinese sellers lie about their location on eBay.
If this didn't completely ruin my browser history records it would be quite neat!
> I'd argue it's for a good reason the same way we burn gasoline at a traffic light

Burning gas at a traffic light isn't for a “good reason”, except insofar as the dominance of environmentally hostile technology through the de facto subsidy of externalized costs is a “good reason”.

But I don’t disagree that the analogy being drawn between that pollution and bitcoin is apt.
Monopoly can also be achieved by colluding (even just implicitly without formal agreement) with other similar scale companies in the same trench. It's difficult to prove.
maybe because of https://longnow.org/
Dehumanizing all life-forms, just another justification of genocide.

MIL blows stuff up and kills people, they have no other purpose to exist. Especially in SV, where 90% of all work is essentially DOD of course CIA-NSA owns all the big, like google, oracle, facebook, amazon.

ET is here, they can look just like us, and their execution should cause no alarm, thus the narrative is born, see the more on TV.

...

Some say the MIL dis-information about ET (UFO) is to reduce populate and cause world panic, true but its best to call 'population reduction' what it is, and that is genocide.

On the subject Feynman, said it best long ago when asked this question, "In our entire human history, we have no proof of aliens, what hasn't happened yesterday, isn't likely to happen tomorrow".
So, how does it depend on the virus? When it is when it is not?
Income tax is tax on production. Taxing on gifts/inheritance just makes it harder to move money. One person lost the the same money someone else lost.
Trading on a DEX is free trading on an exchange costs you fees.
People are just lazy and use exchanges because they provide easy to use apps and stuff and cash out to fiat etc. but this changes because exchanges are horrible at staying up when the market moves fast and everyone wants to trade.

Sologenic DEX [1] is an modern UI for a DEX to trade.
Cutting out the middlemen was once a key point of p2p and decentral systems. It was kinda lost with all the non tech savvy people storming the crypto space.

[1] https://www.sologenic.com/ecosystem/sologenic-decentralized-...
(The DEX runs on the XRPL, Manticore Securities AS(the company behind sologenic) has no control over it)
Properties go up for auction if the player that lands on them chooses not to buy.

The losing player had the option to bid a total of $4 and get Electric company, Illinois Avenue, Pennsylvania Rail Road, and Baltic Avenue.

Mortgaging those properties would give them enough money to afford rent, and having a mortgaged property is still better than not having the property at all.

It is irrational to not bid up to the mortgage price.
There is some sort of devirtualization that might bypass it. When they announced, Twitter was going crazy about how it might kill ObjC dynamism.

However, what I was to was that you can store the method in a variable, and call it directly, thus bypassing objcMsgSend.

:)
Honest question. Why not just use C/subset of C++ with a template language like Python+Jinja2 for meta programming?

Code generation is already popular with popular C++ libraries like protobuf and in game dev.
One shouldn't extrapolate the difficulty of making something out of metal, from a video montage of somebody making a miniature version out of cardboard. However, there is (or, was, as I haven't been on the skytrain since march of last year) something up with escalators in the Vancouver area. Not just the frequency of outages, but I've seen quite a few go out of service for weeks, in service for a few days, and then back out again. It brings to mind some absurd conspiracy theories; my favorite being that there simply aren't enough parts to go around, and the technicians are cannibalizing one to fix another.
> Personally, I don't think I've found anything that beats Apple's laptop trackpads,

Trackoads are one of those items that I don't know of a good way to compare them, because most differences become unnoticeable habits over time. Sure, there's an obvious difference between a 20-year old copier whose buttons require a small hammer to activate and modern capacitative touchscreens, but beyond that I can't tell much difference.

Definitely if I use the trackpad on a new computer or on somebody else's computer, it feels wrong. The mouse moves to quickly or too slowly. The mouse continues moving after I thought I lifted my finger up, or stops slightly too soon. But those feel more like acclimatizing to a particular set of device parameters, rather than there being anything actually better or worse with the device.
Is crypto even necessary for that kind transaction monitoring? I don't think so. Most money is essentially electronic, bits flowing through the financial system. Even for exchanges on craigslist, unless you use cash. But that's such a minuscule part of the economy.
I think you did. The article makes it sounds like there were more or as many changes to the US version:

"Mitchell was presented with a substantial list of changes for the US edition".

And the article makes clear that the author was uninterested in tracking the changes:
"'It’s a lot of faff – you have to keep track of your changes and send them along to whichever side is currently behind – and as I have a low faff-tolerance threshold, I’m still not very conscientious about it, which is why my US and UK editors now have their assistants liaise closely.... I really never dreamed back then that anyone would ever notice or care enough to email me about it, or that the book would still be in print 13 years later, let alone sell a couple of million copies and be studied or thought about by academics.'"
Florida Man: Why one Bay Area startup founder joined the Miami migration
Is anyone actually really sure that Proof of Steak is secure though?

Anyway, none of this matters because Bitcoin exists and is the dominant shitcoin (due to first mover advantage). All these other shitcoins can claim whatever efficiency, but it doesn't matter because that's a very isolated view of the problem. The shitcoin economy as a whole will still be fueled by mining unless somehow Bitcoin gets dethroned and the whole mining thing just goes away. I can't imagine that happening without the whole economy crashing completely into the ground – but that would bring all these efficient coins down with it.