skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time a Musk tweet swings the value of BTC by 20% --- in either direction --- Bitcoin loses credibility as a store of value. "Price greater than zero" is not enough to make something a good store of value.

BTC as a means of payment is a joke. Most Bitcoin fans I engage with have actually given up on that. In fact, the scaling limitations of Bitcoin transactions are now touted as a good thing because that bounds the eventual energy usage of the network.

The Bitcoin cult is strong enough that I have no doubt Bitcoin is here to stay. It's sad, but it doesn't bother me. On the other hand it's obvious why Bitcoin HODLers have a deep financial interest in crypto being "here to stay".
When I take mushrooms I don't have deep experiences. But I usually feel better for weeks after. I think it highly depends on the person but there are enough people describing the benefits they are getting. So it should be taken seriously.
Here's what I've learned as a senior SWE:

1) People skills dominate quality of work output in terms of value to the business starting at around this level. Really, introverts should avoid programming altogether which is weird because this was one of the few disciplines in which introverts could truly thrive but those days are gone.

2) What company leadership tells you they value has nothing to do with what they actually value. Look instead to what the company punishes you for doing or not doing.
It also includes provisions about notifying current employees and such.

It sounds simple, but it can raise a lot of legal questions. For example, what qualifies as a “promotion opportunity”? Once you have to start running things past the lawyers just to make sure you’re not opening the company up to various new liabilities by simply posting a job offer, it becomes an issue.

It adds more than 2% overhead because you have to overhaul all of your processes to comply and have the lawyers and or HR review. Even if it did only add 2%, you’re only opening up to 1.5% of the US population.
Indeed. AWS has kicked customers off too. Never said they didn’t. I’ve heard more stories from people getting booted from GCP than AWS. By order of 10x it seems like. I’m sure someone’s been kicked off Azure too. Hybrid cloud with some on-prem backup solution is the only way to truly be cloud agnostic and protect yourself and your data from deletion due to a variety of issues. GCP kicked off a game developer (and deleted his data). AWS kicked off Parler. What I’m saying is that if you’re a VP in charge of cloud strategy, make sure you have a solid DR plan should you intentionally or unintentionally run afoul of that providers rules. Either from policy or politically. Doesn’t matter. GCP just has more of a track record in my news feed of deplatforming than AWS.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/terraria-developer-c...
This is largely a function of Anesthesiologists making a cash grab out of vulnerable populations.

This is the same medical specialty that brought you:
Pain pill clinics (opiates)
Interventional pain clinics (scams)
And now ketamine for rip-off prices.
I went for a tower server for those exact reasons - sensible idle power draw and quiet even under full load (I've got an x265 encode running at the moment, and it's not quite silent but there's just a very gentle hum) without losing ECC.

Some of the older dual Xeon servers on eBay were tempting, but the noise/power draw made it a non-starter.
Even better - he answered “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” to every question at his Superbowl press conference. Osaka included video of that in her post announcing her press policy for this event, so clearly she’s thinking along the same lines.
You can apply that same logic towards teaching kids trades or skills. Like forcibly telling kids to learn how to drive a semi because it's the backbone of our infrastructure. Doesn't mean they're gonna do it, but they should be exposed to it.

What I'm talking about is that our education system teaches kids a lot of pointless things, especially in the arts for the sake of thinking it is going to achieve some "third eye" opening greater good somehow. And people like me who decry it as some utter waste of time nonsense end up getting bashed because we should do it. It's just nonsense that does not need to be taught. If a shop-class kid is forced to read Poe, are we really helping him? Forcing him to stay back a semester to write a report on Poe when he is destined to be a welder, is that really necessary? Human civilization has done it for millennia, but now all of a sudden in this modern era students need a broad understanding of the world through the sub-par education system that is in the US?

I'm not buying it. If you can call the US education system "education." More like glorified taxpayer funded babysitting with some basic instructional stuff in between.
Organic, in my opinion, is a marketing term for the most part.
I think it depends on how you want to rank popularity, but I’d say the most popular coins in the field are
The server doesn't need to be compromised, as from the point of the user it is an independent security zone and loads whatever js it wants. Perhaps you could install a browser extension that would compute a hash of the js and only allow the load to proceed if it was verified, but apart from that your browser is going to execute whatever js the server loads.

And that would be fine if the threat model was such that the server was trusted with the keys to the channel (because, for example, you control the server), but in that case what is the point of the end-to-end encryption, which is supposed to protect you from the server? If the server was trusted with the channel key, you can roll a much simpler system without end to end encryption.

Again, this is why I was asking for an actual description of the security design. If you are trusting the server to handle the key, then you can really simplify this system. If you are not trusting the server to handle the key (which would be the case if it was not under your control), then this design doesn't appear adequate.

I really wish these types of projects disclosed these types of design assumptions and operational details so that people could review the security efficiently instead of peering through code and trying to guess what the developer's intentions and assumptions are. It would also help the developers. If they are forced to write down: we don't trust the server to access the key but we must trust the server to not try to access the key, then such an exercise would hopefully trigger a moment of clarity that would lead to the creation of more secure systems. For example, they may want to include a browser extension under the control of the user as a part of the overall system, and have the browser extension touch the key in an origin not controlled by the server or have a key establishment protocol run between the browser extension and the ssh server with the webserver being just a transport layer.
And let’s not forget Marshawn Lynch’s Super Bowl media day classic: “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.” in response to 30 different questions.
Thanks, I actually intended to put the word "surviving" in there.
Programming is programming no matter the language, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They are all just tools. If you have a masters degree you should be able to pick up anything proficiently in a matter of a few months, just grok the existing codebase as much as you can.
why do humans do this sort of thing?
"Everyone focuses" = nothing gets done. I've been at places like that, where a post-mortem happens, a course of action is decided on...and then no one owns actually carrying out that course of action.

You could argue that "It should be assigned" - yeah, it should. But assigning it implies either "here is the team that is responsible for it", i.e., this is the team responsible and they need to be told to fix their shit (which very much sounds like blame), OR it implies "here is the team that I am entrusting to fix it DESPITE their obviously not being responsible for it", which is just as bad, since it implies that the team that 'is' responsible for it is incompetent.

The only healthy option is that the 'responsible' team stands up to say "hey, that's ours; we'll fix it", and the only way they'll do that is if you have a culture of safety and ownership.

Also, one thing to make clear - ownership = responsible = blame. They're all words for the same thing, just different implications. You can't have someone 'own' something without making them responsible, and apt to be blamed if you don't ensure the culture is one that does not attach blame. That's really what I was getting at; of course you shouldn't blame. But, you can't also avoid ownership. But ownership implies you know WHO to blame, and so blame comes very easily. And it's very easy to mistake pointing out responsibility/ownership for something as blame; I have had multiple managers tell me "it's not us vs them" when I've raised up the fact that I'm unable to deliver to deadlines because I have been unable to get anything from product.
If I were running things in Mexico I would legalize or decriminalize all drugs. Setup compounds to securely house the police forces. Change the policy to "balazos, muchos balazos".
Congo Volcano
I’m not sure how you’re qualifying impact. A lot of people seem to have unrealistic expectations for these currencies to take over right away. It’s just not possible without massive adoption, stability, etc. It takes time to get there, technology-wise, and ecosystem-wise.

If I wanted to be more optimistic I would look at the level of adoption today as insane compared to 5y ago.
> I should just be going to the bose.com store and cutting out amazon.

There is one significant negative with going direct, which is the fact that online stores are often hacked. Amazon has yet to be hacked (afaik) so leaving your data with Bose is a higher risk than with Amazon.
> It is simply not true that if governments removed all fossil-fuel subsidies today then electricity production would become 100% carbon-free overnight.

Certainly not, but that isn't what I claimed. Electricity production using fossil fuels is too expensive for Bitcoin miners; like aluminum smelters, they are forced to move their operations to places with cheaper renewable electricity in order to remain profitable, and governments subsidizing fossil-fuel consumption are forced to eliminate those subsidies in order to remain solvent, which drives the Bitcoin miners elsewhere. None of the issues of base load and construction lead time and so on are relevant to this process at all. The Harvard Business Review article I linked above goes into some detail about how this happens.

> we aren't able to recycle grid-scale batteries or turbine blades yet and those produced today may never be recycled.

This is basically nonsense. It isn't the Carboniferous Period any more, and even the wastes of the Carboniferous are getting recycled now. In fact, that's sort of the whole problem with global warming: that in the eyeblink since salt miners in the Song Dynasty started drilling for oil, we have recycled a significant fraction of the carboniferous wastes of the Carboniferous Period.

> those of us who believe Bitcoin achieves nothing useful

Well, that's basically the issue, isn't it? Because you judge our lives useless, you engage in motivated reasoning to find excuses to sweep us away, like your genocidal rapist namesake*, regardless of whether your arguments make any sense objectively or not.

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* You thought nobody here would know who Roca was, didn't you? You thought that by naming yourself after a less famous white supremacist mass murderer than Hitler, you'd get away scot-free? You thought wrong.
Different languages help because the different parts of the program expose different needs.

You want the generated code to be low-level, because you want it to be fast, free of dependencies (interpreter, JIT, GC, etc.), and you care less about abstractions. You want the metaprogram to be high-level because you want nice abstractions, and it runs at compile-time anyway so you care less about performance.

Sure, people are working on languages that can do both, but it's easier to make it work with two different languages that can be tuned specifically to their niches.
To be clear, I’m saying that I sent private messages to the company on FB, I didn’t post comments to any public location. From a company’s point of view, there wouldn’t be any difference between ignoring my emails or ignoring my FB messages, it’s purely a procedural difference in how they respond to one vs the other.
When they applied for statehood, it wasn't a complicated vote. Now to secede their statehood with someone else whom aligns better with them, they require the state and federal government to agree with it?

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
I've had the same conversation with Spectrum reps, as well. In fact, more typically, they don't even say "per second", it's just "megabytes".
I live in the land of salt and snow and rust, never having been to CA at all, and I prefer (larger) knobs and have never said to myself I wish I had buttons - for volume or temperature or anything.

Sometimes - I don't know how many current model cars have them - they have dedicated up/down buttons that nevertheless are apparently capacitive touch operated. I remember the Buick Regal of a few years ago being like that, and I think I remember pictures of Cadillacs that looked similar.
I wonder if it was a course at something like a conference? I think those are expensive. I can't imagine anyone is charging 5k that seems absurd
It has been guiding principle of revolutions or as they sing in the Russian version of the "Internationale" - "we'll demolish completely the old world, and then we'll build our new world". The results have been mixed to say the least.
I’d really appreciate a site like that. Light switches in particular piss me off. Every single switch sold at Lowes or Home Depot are crap and I’ve yet to figure out where to buy something that’s actually decent with proper tactility.

What light switches do you use?
The politicians are probably much less powerful than the cartels (if they are not allies). To try to pass a bill to decriminalize all drugs would probably fail and get you killed.
These days you can hire from around the globe, instead of looking at off shoring companies, just look to hire a few talented people directly. Theres no reason a company can't afford to hire a few people remotely. Basically create a small team that is focused and invest in them.

Enforcing code standards and reviewing pull requests is a suitable role for a senior engineer. Not all things need to be architected, there's ton of glue stuff and features that can be developed by juniors provided the code around them is laid out nicely. Focus on the bigger picture, if u implement every little detail, then it starts to feel like everything is so important that it can only be done by you. That's a trap.
Please set the title on PDF documents

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/PDF18.html
Can you take your Bitcoin out of Robinhood? Of course not.

You do not actually own any Bitcoin at Robinhood.

There's the "middleman" in your scenario without a middleman...just a different kind of middleman.
That isn't what happened after 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Why would this be different?
That's only for one of the isomers of ketamine (rather than the mixture of two used in ketamine clinics), and only for using a nasal spray. That is because the drug company has a patent for using that specific isomer in a nasal spray. None of the esketamine research can be used as evidence for regular (off patent) ketamine. It will need it's own studies.

https://qz.com/1889308/why-isnt-ketamine-approved-as-an-anti...
I still do it. And I feel much better if I take a 1.5 to 2 hour sleep after lunch. Of course, I don't go immediately after lunch. But I sit in /Vajraasana/ for 15 mins and 15 min quick reading; and then sleep.
Sisal Fibres. Biodegradable Fashion
At some point, Mexico ought to be considered a failed state…
Dude run from your current employer. I actually transitioned into software dev after working as a Mech Eng after 2 years and I started at $120k. With you experience I feel like you could do way better.
Thats an excellent find, and an excellent idea! Id donate money to that gofundme. Also could have text from his scanner darkly afterword, gets me literally every time. Kindred...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/1hbexo/text_philli...
These are also the least interesting interviews that exist in the world of journalism.
> Would love to see a source on the every other week for their life.

There is no standard maintenance treatment interval, but maintenance treatments are commonly practiced. I can’t find anyone recommending 26 treatments of ketamine a year for depression.
Did you ever get it? Because I still don’t really get it and would be very interested in hearing an explanation from an uninterested party.
blame drug addicted garbage that keep shoving that shit up their noses.
There's a bunch of liquidator/clearance sites promising lower prices with the caveat of "all sales are final".

My guess is that people buying high-end headphones are just not comfortable with such setup.
> Unlike East Germany there's no HUMINT apparatus in the west or in China.

I think I wouldn't want to rely on that assumption
> did they actually believe that you had real nerve pain

The way you phrase this makes me think you've already assumed a whole lot about me. The worst part about chronic pain is all of the doctors and other people assuming you're just faking symptoms for a quick fix. Hoping that I've misinterpreted your intention, I'll answer honestly:

> did you have to nudge-nudge-wink-wink at the doctor to get this prescription

The complete opposite: It was suggested by my pain specialist. I had not heard of it being used to treat pain before meeting him. And he's not a "Ketamine practitioner" or an "alternative healer" or whatever, it was a from an MD specializing in pain management within a reputable hospital in Seattle.

> Could you go in to detail on the exact symptoms of this nerve pain?

Bi-lateral burning arm and hand pain and numbness. Severe headaches and neck pain. The symptoms are consistent with conditions such as thoracic outlet, cervical radiculopothy, and median/ulnar/radial nerve compression. However, tests always come back showing completely normal nerve and muscle function, and radiology imaging always shows perfectly normal everything.

It's been a multi-decade journey and I'm really coming to terms with the idea that my brain is just signaling pain even when there's no actual problem or damage. That's the idea behind the Ketamine trial.

Edit: I should add that this was more like a 3rd or 4th line medicinal treatment. All of the typical nerve pain medicines like Amitryptaline, Gaba, Pregabalin, Noortyptaline, etc have responded very poorly in my body and brain.
ITU predates the UN by almost a century. And if it had been left to ITU, the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist. Thank goodness for IANA and IETF.
It's very interesting. But it's also noteworthy that there are very few gamechanging use cases for the consumer or business worlds, despite an enormous amount of attention and investment.
>People have been saying this for over a decade now. Mainstream applications are just around the corner, wait and see! We have waited, and all we've seen is baseless speculation

DeFi isn't even 2 years old yet. This whole space really only started building applications in the last few years. Ethereum itself isn't even 6 years old yet.
> If I were running things in Mexico I would legalize or decriminalize all drugs

This is a naïve "Bernie bro"-style take. What do you with cartel turf wars? Legalize murder? The problem is not only complex on a local scale (city or country), but there are geopolitical pressures at play as well.

Cartels tend to be very populist, often funneling money back in their communities making them (paradoxically) better. On the other hand, you've also got offshore banks that protect cartels, laundering their money, just as they protect the likes of large tech companies stash their money in tax-free havens. If you want to change that whole machinery, be prepared to take on the world's billionaires.
Won't work on iOS, only Android. Kiwi Browser is great, Chromium with extension support. Or Firefox on Android, also with extension support.
Thanks TIL, I had no idea. I'll stop giving medical advice I guess.
Good for her, sports interviews are all the same bullshit.
Compounds to house the extended families of police as well? Otherwise what's the point?

Stopping cartels requires true international effort and coordination. Unless the bankers and money launderers bear some responsibility for the murders and drug flow nothing will change. It's nearly impossible I think, given the absolutely vast sums of money and profit on the table. Life sentences are not too much for the people enabling the corruption and destruction of Mexico.
Within the precision limits of what they'll publicly tell you from ARIN registration data for your ISP's netblocks and other geolocation services like maxmind, yes. But not in terms of what data they actually have access to for peoples' android phones in their homes, with full location services and GPS turned on, in IPs directly adjacent to you in the same last mile service segment. They don't share that.
>It's really not alright to step on the pulpit to point fingers left and right when your house is also not in order, it makes it seem more like you're trying to move forward your business agenda rather than really caring about the issue.

What does this mean? Are you speaking to the author of the parent comment or in general? What is this un-orderliness you've alluded to?
"This is certainly spy justice.", according to Google Translate.
Selling to Iran as the motivation of sanctioning Huawei?

How poorly you are informed about international politics? If selling to Iran was a problem, then you can just do whatever you want in the legal process to fix the issue.

Force companies to not work with huawei, even against those companies' own interests. And detaining the Huwei founder's daughter and internationally to drag her into a legal marathon that has no end in sight, virtually sentence her to life time home arrest.

How naïve you are!

Or should I say how consistently you are sugarcoating the bullshit, bravo!
According to this fan wiki I found (https://kairosoft.fandom.com/wiki/Kairosoft_Wiki), Kairosoft hasn’t touched PCs since 2001, and has been doing mobile stuff. They have done more than a few games that seem to be in the same general genre as this one, but haven’t done a new version of Book Store Story.

Maybe this will result in them seeing this outpouring of love for a 24 year old game and deciding to do a remake to their modern standards!

Or maybe a Cease & Desist letter from a lawyer. We shall see.
Seems to me people trying to raise similar issues about domesticated bees in contradiction of the "colony collapse" narratives have been squashed for 20+ years. Thats a much shallower gene pool in the US than the dairy herd.

Also the regulation vs money ratio in bull spunk suggests strongly that there's a large opportunity and incentive to counterfeit the certifications: there's a lot of cows out there whose pedigree isn't what its thought to be.