skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a contentless response.

The author literally rehashed _every single point_ us crypto detractors have been claiming since forever. Phrases such as:

"If you are going to invest in cryptocurrency, you invest for the reasons which make it technologically superior to the current system, not the potential value it will give you in 3 months."

In which some of us have been waiting for a decade to see said innovations actually make a dent. To give you some perspective, in that span of time we went from DOOM to Half-Life 2, from Altavista's launch to Google's IPO, and so on. The pace of uptake of crypto for its stated purposes is _appalling_ as a supposedly state-of-the-art tech.

"These properties of cryptocurrency give people reason to buy into and
transact with it. The people who find value in cryptocurrency are the ones who
actually use it. Remember there was a short period when people could buy games
off Playstation Network and Steam, and still there are some services offering to
purchase items in cryptocurrency."

And you basically can't buy any consumer good with crypto, because it turns out most of it is pretty bad for that. It says something when digital wallets and finance products dominate over, you know, actually transacting with said digital currency.

"Back on topic: the decentralization issue will soon be resolved when systems
like proof of stake begin to dominate (hello Ethereum 2 again). China is most
likely contains the largest mining pools because they manufacture the ASICs
there."

And again with this trite. There's always some magical tech in the future of crypto which will suddenly solve its most salient problems preventing it from fulfilling its stated purpose.

I've been around the block. I've seen how economic incentives push research. It's simple: if people were actually interested in transacting with crypto, you'd see all the people building the thousandth wallet app actually working on solving these problems.

But they don't.

Because speculative trading and parting fools with their money is a greater incentive than building an actually useful technology.

"How Pinboard can say it's not a store of value is dumbfounding. I feel like
staring at a wall. How is something where people have literally stored billions
of dollars into, not a store of value."

This means the author doesn't know what a store of value is.

The part about his counter-critiques to smart contracts is hilarious. _This time_ we'll have flawless, formally verified, bug-free software and auditors that can competently find all bugs.
> If you are going to invest in cryptocurrency, you invest for the reasons which make it technologically superior to the current system, not the potential value it will give you in 3 months.

How many people right now are investing in cryptocurrency for the ideals and how many are investing to get rich? Cryptocurrency isn’t even used as currency primarily, it’s an investment vehicle.
Eye glasses frames.
Extinction :(
> The reason is to hurt you

I'm not sure how this reasoning works. Some company making money using your information isn't with intent to hurt an individual, generally speaking. It's rare that such an opportunity even exists.
There was more money seized civilly in the us by the government then all of the thefts in the USA last year. Most of these seizures came from suspected drug dealers. Most of that money went into state and federal coffers. Starting to see a pattern?
Is there a specific law forbidding the creation of a private agreement that stipulates as such?

I ask because I'm not sure. There are obviously some limitations to what a private contract can require, but i don't think this is one of those things.
Corruption by itself can't hold a country down, otherwise China would not present such enormous growth during last decades. Human capital is the underlying factor that contributes to corruption, slow economic growth, criminality, etc. I wish there was a straightforward way to improve that, but I am a bit cynical.
Honestly, a lot of Americans don't even seem to be aware of massacres committed by former enemies like North Vietnam after they won the Vietnam War. It's not a surprise they're not aware of what a distant ally did outside of the Korean War
Disease was purposely spread in the Americas as part of a biological warfare operation (the quotes from military leaders are easy to find)...

> “I will try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets that may fall in their hands, taking care however not to get the disease myself. As it is a pity to appose good men against them, I wish we could make use of the Spaniards’ method, and hunt them with English dogs, supported by Rangers and some light horse, who would, I think, effectively extirpate or remove that vermin.” — Col. Henry Bouquet, 13 July, 1763

> ”You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Exorable Race. I should be very glad your scheme for hunting them down by Dogs could take effect, but England is at too great a distance to think of that at present.” — Gen. Jeffery Amherst, 16 July 1763

...Which is part of the reason I believe covid may have been dropped in China by our allies. We have a long history of doing this to our economic competitors, China does not.

China also doesn't have a history of sending regime change operatives into countries, completely decimating them and killing millions of innocent foreign civilians. We follow this pattern almost every decade. The idea that the Chinese are a threat at your border and the US are not, is comical (as we see in the case of Xinjiang).

You seem to know nothing about Xinjiang other than what you are fed through media by CIA assets (Zenz, NED, Radio Free Asia). US/Turkey assisted extremists are being branded genocide victims to stop the belt and road project, unfortunately the ISIS/AlQ trained ones are also given Turkish passports and exported to other places in the world with the aid of and under the blind eye of the US.

The US killed the most innocent Muslim civilians in the past 2 decades and you really believe they care about the Muslims in Xinjiang? If the US was actually interested in stopping Uyghur extremism, you would see a large % of the population dead, instead we get 0 mass murder and the Chinese training civilians so economic prosperity leaves little room for extremism...

~3+ million dead innocent Iraqi/Syrian/Yemeni civilians would rather have had the Chinese approach than a guaranteed death sentence from the US, I expect.
Honestly 80 models that differ by clock speed, core count, or target form factor bothers me way less than trying to figure out the difference between Comet Lake, Cascade Lake, Ice Like, Rocket Lake, etc.
Good point, and thank you for the clarification. I had been interpreting "manifestly not obvious" as a rhetorical device to state that the board were clearly decided and set that shutter-colors were within the scope of what an HOA board might reasonably decide, and therefore it is "manifestly not obvious" that it is outside the scope. (Sort of how somebody saying the words "There are some here who may disagree with you." is implicitly stating that they disagree and is inviting others to join in disagreement.)

I agree that it is not obvious where the line is, and was attempting to a hypothetical where even a single person might be unsure.
Then why would you choose to live among a community of people who agree to live by a set of standards with respect to their property if all you want to do is go home and chill?

HOAs exist mostly for those who want to live in a community of people where everyone else does care about one another, where there are common properties that are shared and taken care of, and where everyone has a responsibility to maintain their property.

That is not for everyone, absolutely, but if it's not for you, then don't live there. From the way your post is written, it suggests you wanted the benefit of living in an HOA without contributing to any of the responsibilities.
Yep, so assuming this is a figure relevant for SF, which it may not be, $1000 would be about 15% of revenue. Walgreen's net income was about 5 Billion on revenues of about 130 B, so they are running on razor thin margins of about 4% of revenue, which is generally the case for retail. A hit of 15% of revenue would put them well into the red. Even a hit of 5% of revenue, or $350 of shoplifting losses per day, would put them into the red.

Of course if you are walgreens, then you are not operating to break even, you have a given cost of capital that requires a return greater than 0%, as an investor could pull their money out of walgreens and buy federally insured mortgage bonds and make about 2.0% risk free.

But investing in walgreens bears substantial risk and volatility, so they expect returns of about 6-7% to compensate for the possibility of losing money. And most stores generally invest right up until they reach that threshold, so really any shoplifting that is out of what the store projected and budgeted for in their original investment calculation may be enough to close the store.

In other words, there is no "free" money to be had. Just because a company wont go into the red if only $100 a day of extra costs are imposed doesn't mean the company can afford to keep the store open, as it is answerable to opportunity cost, not just break-even requirements. Even if a store is making money, the scrap value of closing the store and selling off the land, moving the inventory to stores in other states where it wont get stolen, etc, is such that it is more profitable to close the store than to keep it open. And it may even make more sense to expand in new growing areas where police keep shoplifting in check and pull resources out of the legacy locations where shoplifting is high. This is also one reason why you get "food deserts" and other types of areas where retail doesn't seem to be able to survive or only survives by charging extra high prices.
I presume the OP is going to be hired as a contractor, so out of that $30 comes payroll taxes, health insurance, office space, computer equipment, software tools, ongoing training, conferences, etc. If you work as a traditional employee, then the employer is paying for all (or most) of that, and it's not cheap.
I ususally don't remember what I called it. I remember where and when I saved it.
Since they dont have any Sub Coordinate, it seems those C title are basically doing everything themselves.

Edit: I think that Salaries are for Top Executive only. There are 450 [1] in Wikimedia. In the case 55M isn't that much.

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/
No. 1Gbps FTTH is very common choice even in rural area. Fibre covers 98.3% of family in 2020 [1], thanks to NTT Flets. Sometimes FTTH internet in rural residence is better than VDSL or crap internet service in urban apartment because of some apartments won't allow to sign up another fibre line instead of those crap.

[1] https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000680621.pdf
I had a starling Revelation today. People just don't read anymore, instead they buy a book so they can take some photos for Instagram and then shove it under a couch or something.

The biggest problem with so much access to information, is it's simply impossible to absorb it all. You can read tweets from hundreds of people before you can get through the first chapter of Harry Potter.

I fear this has caused a permanent dumbing down of society
The main things that keeps me from relapsing are that California makes it really hard to smoke in public and that none of my friends smoke.

I occasionally relapse when with some specific friends from a point in my past. Luckily we live far away from each other so the meetings are rare.

The one other reason I don't just pick smoking back up by myself is how nasty my clothes (no hair left any more !) smell after a cigarette. It's very easy to not notice that when you smoke, but impossible to miss when you don't. I certainly don't want my apartment smelling like that either.

If they ever made cigarettes that don't smell bad (not weenie vape pens, come on :) ), I'd probably be dead of lung cancer in a decade.

It is a tough addiction.
lol yeah wow, who is this?
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Screenshot at the command line. Isn’t that just pipe to file? ;)
"You have 88 untitled Preview documents."

Well there's your problem, sir.
Yet Win32 programs still conflate closing a document with closing the application to this day.
Sawyer's "Calculating God" was the first book I would consider "real sci-fi" that I ever read, at around age 13 or so. A friend's older brother had recommended it to me and it blew my mind.

It was, for me, the turning point from reading what I now recognize to be mostly trash (primarily very early 'Star Wars' expanded universe books) to instead looking for things that had real impact. Books that made me think.

Not everything he's written has been as good, but I read whatever this man publishes- even blog posts about old text editors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(law)

>Like ownership, the possession of anything is commonly regulated by country under property law. In all cases, to possess something, a person must have an intention to possess it.

Custody might be a more appropriate term to use against ownership.
Why are enterprise systems so terrible?
"Law and order" has never, and will never address the material conditions that drives a person to shoplifting.
> On the practical level, rustc is written in rust and self-hosting, so reusing code from it in gcc would mean that you needed a rust compiler as well as a c compiler to compile gcc.

I see, they want a full Rust implementation written in C++ rather than in Rust?
This law only applies to companies that have operations inside of Colorado.
> Alcohol hangs around because it was accessible in earlier eras. There will come a time, I suspect in the very near future, when it will look ridiculous. Where having a `drink' will be an anachronism

Why do you think this? It seems an extremely puritan outlook, I'm a bit sceptical that puritanism is saleable without enforcement of society-wide religious norms. Smoking, sure, but smoking is not at all like alcohol consumption.
Because nothing else can do what they do.

Yes they’re expensive. Yes they’re more vulnerable than in the past. But they can do things nothing else can.
Is there another cheaper way to set up a complete airbase wherever you want 10000 miles from home?
I am making a philosophical argument for free speech, not a legalistic one.
There are no book reviews any more. There are books that stir up the internet outrage machine, and books nobody knows about.
it is quite possible that nicotine is a carcinogen itself and there is no safe form
Theres lots of info about C60 on Longecity but I think that forum is slowly dying now.
Could you share where you're reading info about SkQ1? Is it another life extension forum?
> In that regard, humanism is essentially nothing else than treating all humans as a single tribe, and it is an extension of the same trend and practice; we know that dissolving the smaller tribes in order the larger tribe stronger works and is possible as we have done that before; though, often the unification was facilitated and driven by external threats.

Sure, but it always comes at the expense of "smaller" tribes. Either in the form of losing their language and culture, or their economic independence. Even within countries you get tribalism in many forms, whether it be accents/dialects or their morality that varies state to state. So making people to conform to a single ideology [in public] only works with tyranny. Of course secretly they resent it.
To those that have tried this, I found something a bit different, and I'm not even sure if I should say anything.

Again--to those that tried to stop completely, and failed, maybe cut way back?

I have never been successful at quitting anything.

Diets have failed. Drinking abstinance has failed.

What worked though is drastically cutting back.

Ok, I was never a two pack a day smoker. I couldn't even imagine it.

I did smoke though.

That said, I cut way back.

Cut back to a few cigarettes a week.

I use rolling papers, and only buy one pack of cigarettes every few weeks. (probally 6 week interval, but I don't like to think about it). I roll tiny bits of tobacco into a paper, and smoke it, when I get that urge. Only when I get the urge.

I can't recommend it because the research on smoking a little bit of tobacco is fuzzy.

What I feel is wrong with most methods of stopping any substance, including food, and booze, is telling the brain you will never have this again.

As my grandfather told me so many times, moderation my son.

(I am not very successful in any part of my life, but smoke no more than three packs a year.)
My intuition is that a safety factor is neither as safe, or as expensive as it seems; since people know they are working with safety factors, they start cutting corners.

It might be a good idea to lie to the contractors for a project about the margin of safety so they take better care to make it right. But that may not be possible.
Hopefully the HOA can’t just leverage unlimited power by voting to give itself that power.
Another one with some relevance right now in an era where GPUs are hard to get is "F" which signifies that it doesn't have an integrated GPU.
Have you ever seen middle-class TikTok in the UK? 'Every day I'm Schoffel-ing...'
The Apple HIG says there's a difference between applications and documents. An application might have a bunch of utility windows but those are hidden unless the application is in the foreground. So an application with no open documents running in the background isn't visually cluttering the screen. Application launch tends to be (and definitely used to be twenty years ago) pretty expensive in terms of resources. So leaving an application open without documents tends to make opening new documents faster.

The red button on windows on macOS is meant to convey the action is potentially destructive to the window's contents. Even if the "destruction" of a utility window just means it goes away. It's not tied to quitting the application, with exception of single-window applications like System Preferences, for the above launch cost reasoning.

This has all gotten muddy over the past twenty years. The App Resume/Restore feature in Lion (peak Forstall) is terrible and I disable it on every Mac I use for more than a minute. I can see it being helpful for some people but it breaks the way I expect the system to behave after using Macs for 30+ years.
The decline in smoking has absolutely been accompanied and/or caused by a massive array of state coercion, from requiring all their advertising to prominently state "THIS WILL KILL YOU" to limiting who's allowed to sell it to banning it in almost all public spaces. (Which isn't even mentioning the "softer" approaches of massive state-funded PR campaigns against it.)

It seems quite likely that absent all of these, smoking would still be as popular as it ever was.
> If the Iranians could have they would have done so already. There's a reason why they had resorted to militias and sectarian violence in Iraq instead.

A successful strike on a US carrier group would inevitably lead to large scale reprisals on both the attacking force and the nation launching the attack. Iran wouldn't kill a carrier just to prove they could, and would instead reserve such an attack for the event of a Carrier group attacking something of existential importance to the Iranian state.
Best source to purchase?
My first experience with an Amiga was in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I took video production classes in junior high and we had a freshly minted Amiga 2000 with all the video editing accoutrements. I was blown away by its capabilities. It felt like nothing else on the market at the time.
A lot of it is presumably binning [0]. They make a bunch of CPUs and check each to find the number of defective cores and the max clock speed it can run at before malfunctioning, then slap on the appropriate product number for that combination.

[0]: https://www.techspot.com/article/2039-chip-binning/
The quirky thing I'll put in my future kitchen remodel is a pedal activated faucet on the sink.
I would like to read the last 10 books I bought none of which I finished and only a couple of which I've started. Instead I find myself scrolling hacker news and Twitter.

But at least I'm not on Facebook and Instagram!
Yup, everyone's different. I like both reading and audiobooks, but I audiobook more because I can do it when I'm driving or walking the dog. Killer feature.
No, the HOA would just say no ponds allowed, and oh by the way, you have to chop down that tree [that has every right to live as a living being]. Oh and yeah you can't paint your house blue.

Fuck that. The municipality on the other hand will only care about the mosquitoes and such public health issues and unless it's a historic neighborhood they couldn't care less about what color your house is. That's the way it should be.

And if the municipality doesn't care, go to a city council meeting with the 20 other people who are affected and make them care.
I was referring more to the web as a runtime for apps. YouTube is full of great content but the app on my TV is pretty rubbbish. The website’s not bad in fairness
I concur. It's difficult, impractical and making my brain hurt. A grasp of (and availability of) synonym information is vitally important.
The mass adoption that Apple's embrace brings is a step function for things that hit economies of scale thresholds (iPad lidar) and anything with a network effect (airtag).
In the 90s, I was talking about this problem to a structural engineering professor. He observed that they now had computers fast enough to do Monte Carlo simulations of buildings where the strengths of the beams and fasteners (and the number of bolts correctly inserted) can be varied. Then you see if it falls down under the design load.

I asked whether it gave different answers than the standard 1.5 safety factor. As I expected, the answer was yes. It turns out that in a conventional skyscraper, there is a tiny proportion of the structure that needs to be done right. This is good news as you can x-ray those beams, and check and double check that all the bolts are installed correctly. The cost to do this is tiny. The rest of the building can be built with an effectively smaller safety factor, and it will be fine. This leads to overall cost reductions.
To add further: the ancient Greeks already had democracy. And yet most of history since then is not filled with democratic systems of governance.
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He did say "most", which isn't everyone. He still may be incorrect, however. I've never seen any data in this.
> just have each person's arbitrary "taste"

cocks gun

https://i.imgur.com/iRtrBOr.png

Always has been
What does it mean to "make your build system in charge of building/packaging things"? Like push your code out to Jenkins and have it build it? Or have Gradle make something that runs for you?
Weirdly, the thing I remember most about my time in California was how hard it was to avoid being constantly exposed to second-hand smoke anywhere I walked in the city. It really hit me when a friend visited from out of town and said something to me along the lines of, "You know, for how green-obsessed everyone here seems to be, it's truly remarkable how much smoke there is everywhere on the streets."

Doubtless, this is more a city problem than it is a California problem. I spent most of my life in the suburbs far from any city downtowns growing up and I am truly grateful to have been able to relocate back to the quiet, leafy suburbs once again to start my family.

There are some things I miss about downtown, but the constant presence of second-hand smoke on the sidewalks everywhere is definitely not one of them.