skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does the Strike app use LN or crypto at all? I just can't wrap my head around this.

They're a custodial wallet for your fiat currency, right? You deposit fiat with them. You withdraw fiat from them. You move it between accounts on their service. They, or a designed entity must hold that fiat on deposit on behalf of users.

When you 'send' that money (according to Jack Maller), they buy BTC for you, send it over the LN network, then convert it into a stablecoins. Which ends up, notionally, in one of the Strike custodial accounts.

So this Rube Goldberg machine of crypto is used for internal account transfers within Strike? Am I missing something? They're a centralized, trusted custodian (and a registered money services business). Why are they sending money from a Strike-owned account to another Strike-owned account this way?
Could they not simply record a debit on one account and a credit on another account in any kind of traditional store? One they clearly already have?

Why wouldn't they have one account for each country, a small slush fund and/or debt facility to cover near-term transfers, then just record how much of the pot is attributed to each user account - and if money has to move across borders, send a wire from time to time.

Is this really just the most complicated intra-company account transfer of all time?

Or are they just doing it to avoid regulation?
Come on, do you seriously believe I'm paid by the Chinese government? I just went to the Wikipedia entry and read it. I can't vouch for its correctness, but it contains more info than the GP. If you're in doubt, you can check it and check the relative discussion in the talk page - sometimes if there is bias in the entry the talk page highlights it (I didn't check it).
I was one of those who disagreed with that, but then I was forced to learn several new languages for work. Now I agree with it wholeheartedly.

my favs:

-clojure for processing deeply nested data

-rust for general stuff

-java for concurrency support and general stuff

-c for easy pointer manipulation and "tricks"

-sql

-bash for scripting (I'm that weirdo who would rather make a huge shell script rather than using python)

I still need to find something good for arrays/ matrices. MATLAB was kinda fun I can't see it being used in production in anger too easily
> Classes were never definitional for OO, so prototypes, as originated in Self and adopted in JS, are not a violation of it.

If we put classes and prototypes in stark opposition, we can say yes, classes are not foundational. But what's the main distinction between classes and prototypes? One is defined statically and other dynamically. Static/dynamic distinction is a matter of optimization, it's not fundamental to the concept.

So I think when someone says "classes" when discussing OOP, they also imply prototypes, templates and all other forms of "molds" for objects that provides for their initial definition when created. In living systems we'd call this DNA. In engineering it's the combination of technical specifications and the equipment we use to materialize them in a factory.
you can download plain img from the end of the page
https://submarine-cable-map-2021.telegeography.com/images/Su...
Why the horror when someone asks how a free service is making their money, and how much? The quantification matters because we want to know if, in the future once they've spent all their VC money and have to make payroll themselves, it represents a better deal or not.
> The only consensus is no consensus. We may never know.

Well that's refreshing. Of course, the preceding paragraph gives a lot of strong evidence for a lab link.

> Baseless conspiracy theories will run wild, like the American government did it on purpose... or that the Chinese government released it on their own citizens. These aren’t true.

And here again we fall into the "things I don't like can't possibly be true" trap, which is just as ridiculous as the wild-eye'd absolutist conspiracy theory position. Consider: There were military games in Wuhan just before the outbreak.[1] Apparently intelligence knew about the coronavirus as early as November[2]. Iran's senior leadership was hit very hard by the virus[3].

Do these facts prove that the virus was intentionally released? Of course not. But we have to at least consider the possibility. If it was intentionally released, does that mean the US or China did it? Of course not. It could have been a rogue group within either of those two countries, another country entirely (trying to stir up tensions?), or a non-governmental group.

As the author noted previously: we may never know.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

[2] - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-c...

[3] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-irans-leaders-contract-coron...
I came across this analogy recently and found it very appropriate https://www.quora.com/Why-are-software-development-task-esti.... It is a fictional story of two friends who want to walk from San Francisco to LA down the coast in 10 days and how all their assumptions are shown wrong when they start doing it.
For the third I got:

triangle never in circle - circle never in triangle

compared to the given answer:

triangle bigger than circle - circle bigger than triangle

My solution is more general (worse), because it ignores size in non-containment arrangements, but also slightly more specific (better), because it constrains the single containment example in each set.

Neither of the rules say anything about overlapping cases, but there are no overlapping examples in the given sets. So there is a underlying constraint of no overlaps, but it applies to both sides, so it is not a distinguishing factor.
The thing is, Strike doesn't open LN channels for people. In fact, they only use LN to move money between custodial accounts they themselves are beneficial owners of. I can't for the life of me figure out why they'd use LN - or crypto at all - for this and not just an entry in the centralized database they already have tracking balances. Avoid regulation, maybe? But like why?

I've listened to an hour long Maller podcast and I simply don't get it.
Does somebody know the environmental impact of this? Would the lithium concentration in seawater become meaningfully lower, and if so have we verified that organisms aren’t dependent on it?
Haven't heard of decentralized vpn yet, have any suggestions to look into?
This is more or less how it works in Israel. The EMR is owned and controlled by the state. Four private HMOs compete (in the literal sense) to provide services as efficiently and high quality as possible, according to their government licenses.

It marries the public sector ability to build giant-ass systems for its citizens, with the private sector's ability to compete. Moving here from Canada I'm beyond shocked how much more efficient, higher quality, and cheaper this system is. I could never go back now.

For example: the second I get a prescription it's available in 100% of the pharmacies in the country (that carry my drug). All I have to do is walk in to the one I want, swipe y card, and ya'ala done. I can even check on an app what pharmacies have said drug in stock, and plot a route there.
The brine problem is played up because environmentalists don’t like building new industry to solve environmental problems. A big part of their psyche is that man must suffer for his sins against nature. IMO.
>People don’t understand that modest inflation in a currency is actually a good thing because it’s a natural incentive to spend, and velocity of money is a critical aspect of economic growth and health.

I looked up hyperinflation in MMOs and honestly the hyperinflation is by design. The fundamental problem is that veterans should not prevent new players from earning money. If the supply was fixed then veterans would acquire the majority of the currency. By letting monsters and NPC vendors print money you are stealing from the rich players robin hood style. It's impossible to solve without just outright taking the money that NPCs printed from wealthy players.

I've seen other approaches that just try to limit the supply of ingame currency and tie it to some random cryptocurrency or just plain old dollars and that is such an overengineered solution that doesn't even address the robin hood problem, which isn't a bug, stealing wealth from old players is 100% intentional.
In relation to this, there's a great quote "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data." by John Tukey.
Product-Led Growth's Failure
Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argentina’s waters
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Could this be done far away at sea, perhaps close to oil and gas platforms?
I can already see the 2050 headlines: fish populations rapidly depleting from lithium deprivation.
Rick Beato: I Finally Claimed Fair Use on a Video - Got Rejected (Rant)
Small roundabouts in Europe are typically just a disk of white paint in the middle. Anything too big to go around just drives over it.
Let's also keep in mind that the timeline for approving the vaccine still pales in comparison to the timeline for manufacturing and distributing it.

Phase III trials for Pfizer took ~16 weeks. It has been 26 weeks since the US granted an EUA based on that trial. In the 26 weeks since then, ~14% of the world has been vaccinated.

And that's after we spent those 16 weeks of the trial building out manufacturing capacity.

We did skip a lot of steps on this vaccine. When we started mass administration of it, we had no idea whether it would prevent or reduce transmission or just symptomatic infection. We are still figuring out how long we expect immunity to last, whether we need boosters every six months or never.

Maybe once we have the technological capacity to manufacture and distribute 8 billion vaccine doses ~instantly it will make sense to skip the "does this even work?" step, but as long as that remains the bottleneck I have a hard time believing it.
This just seems like blog spam
I just saw their demo. Fresh approach.
I had the same exact issue but was exacerbated by cycling unfortunately. If you do get into cycling which is a great post burnout stress reliever, I highly recommend a bike fitting - it’ll make cycling so much more enjoyable and avoid further injury. This with plenty of stretching and a standing desk mostly solved my back issues.
There must be some creative solutions to the brine problem. At the end of the day we’re really not processing much seawater compared to the size of the ocean.
Kay is said to have coined the term "object-oriented", but his conception of object orientation differs considerably from that of Dahl and Nygaard as well as from all current OO languages. Dahl and Nygaard invented the first object-oriented programming language (Simula 67) but didn't use the term. And yes, active objects reacting to messages (events) passed to them were already part of Simula I (1962).

The referenced article - like many others - moreover quotes Kay incompletely; Kay in the sentence next to the one quoted in the article said "the important thing here is that I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk"; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=633s. Smalltalk-76 and 80 (in contrast to Smalltalk-72) implement inheritance and virtual methods as it was done in Simula 67, just like C++ and Java do.
14 Years Ago Steve Jobs Sent the Most Important Email in the History of Business
No, CyberDildonics is right - and asking the pertinent question. Strike doesn't denominate customer deposits in any kind of crypto. They're a traditional custodial wallet for fiat deposits, and a registered money services business. They appear to be using the lightning network to move money between Strike's own accounts.

They seem to use their own lightning nodes - that they don't allow third parties onto - to move money between their own accounts, rather than amending the centralized database of who owns how many dollars directly. However, it's all closed and internal, and I simply do not get why they would do this.
Are you the guy who wrote this? Would love to interview you for my podcast.
Trying to be aware of your limitations and exposing those in your speech is one way of reducing the frequency of having to eat your hat. "If we do that, I think this would happen . . ." is so much more productive than "that won't work," because it allows you to start discussing the why, without the proposer feeling attacked.
Not sure how to read this, but have you heard of the Mariana Trench?
No as they can already get that from drug sales figures via the distribution suppliers like https://www.alliance-healthcare.co.uk/pharmacy-solutions/who... and few other players in the market who do all the logistics of supplying drugs to hospitals and pharmacies.

I worked at Unichem (now alliance-healtcare) upon the system that would produce that data that other companies would buy. No patient specific - just volume of drugs for area's and with that, still happens today.
A GUI, and a quick tour of a two dimensional language
German pancakes (Eierkuchen) are considerably more flat, especially in Eastern Germany.
you people visit Reddit as well

That’s a generalization, not everyone visits reddit.
You don't even need a "real workstation". A desktop with a 5 year old (heck, probably even 10 year old) CPU will beat the snot out of any mobile x86 CPU. Intel stagnated mobile performance for a long time, favoring terrible performance over battery life. Maybe the M1 can finally propel the laptop market back on track so we can actually get pro devices which rival desktops.
There's existing terminology for this idea. Rationalists are positivists and meta-rationalists are constructivists. These are terms from the philosophy of science, and directly relate to how one treats the map-territory relationship.

They also relate directly to the philosophies of materialism and emergentism.
Careful with Bash...
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
0.1mm is not very smooth. According to wikipedia, 150 grit sandpaper has average particle size of 90-100µm

edit: of course there is vigorous internet commentary about billiard ball smoothness compared to earth:

https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/is-the-earth-...

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/10763/is-earth-...

https://billiards.colostate.edu/faq/ball/smooth/

Which mostly seem to agree that earth definitely is not as smooth as a (new) billiards ball, but there is lots of debate about the details.
You can use the CI to publish you md files with tools like https://docusaurus.io/
Got you. It's indeed very subtle to map UI controls over different mechanisms
It wasn't rude, it was a good way to describe it. People who would write me off for using that word don't deserve my time.
You missed the point, it wasn't about that word or about me.
What do you mean by "have the option?" There is not an option to avoid the random traffic bottlenecks causes by construction, accidents, road closures, and just generally poor infrastructures and even worse drivers. The traffic lights have also been increased in both count and magnitude to induce even more delay. The speed limits have been lowered. The road conditions are abysmal, potholes, cracks, and unevenness abound. You know nothing Jon Snow.
The health service itself is arguing for it.

Branding aside, there is no single health service in England. The NHS is made up of many organisations and they cooperate to provide each individual's healthcare. To be clear, it is NHS England and the DHSC who are apparently pushing for this, and neither of those organisations has a direct clinical role.
Every OO proponent seems to have their own definition of OO. Another I’ve heard is “message passing”, although that one even has many different flavors since it isn’t well defined and some argue that methods constitute message passing and others envision something closer to an Actor model.

This is all well and good as long as people are clear about what their definition is (although it is weird how many proponents have wildly different definitions and yet still seem to feel some kind of kinship). The maddening folks are those who deflect all criticism of OOP by saying “that’s not true OOP without ever asserting any particular definitional qualities. These people seem to have an undying love for the sequence of letters O-O-P. So we have these weird conversations where I say, “fine, I contend that anything that might make OOP unique from other paradigms (e.g., inheritance) is a misfeature”.
Not really. The NHS is a function of life, as much as a publicly owned road or school. I don't owe it anything.
>I've never seen MVC used in anything but single-run applications that end with an discrete output.

Wut? Every desktop GUI framework in widespread use is some variant of MVC (i.e. MVC, MVVM, MVP, whatever…).
I could (as a European) write a moralizing piece here about how shameful Indians treat others and how all people are equal.

But the hard truth is that Europe is hoarding vaccines and not forcing it’s bio industries to sell at a discount (or better, free the mRNA vaccine patents) for the poorer parts of this planet...
Which by saying that you imply that I was acting childishly. Culturally we are different then. That part of the system sucked as it was currently implemented. It was and still is an apt description. I will be happy if we don't attempt to communicate in the future, since we have a different culture.
Anyone here from the 2008 graduating class?
In the words of my grandfather “you could stand on a tuna can and see the back of your head it’s so flat”
FYI, it is a synonym for the epistemology (philosophy of knowledge) called constructivism.
Thanks for the edit. I view this all through the lens of the politics of science. Some radio technician figures out a really unexpected natural effect, it gets major news coverage by a scientifically illiterate press (claiming free energy), and the scientific mainstream pounce: "how foolish they were to think that energy could be extracted from water!" And yet (and this is the thing that makes me jump up and down), we still have a really unexpected property of nature! Study that shit, people! I might be wrong, but it seems that the reason the topic isn't studied—even to measure the inefficiency—is due to some unhealthy politics in modern science.

I expect it will first be studied by YouTubers like "the plasma channel".
No, not really. Advice for police interrogation is: never talk to the police.

If you don't know why, you must watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Also, I never said this is my advice. In general I like to volunteer information during interview when I am the candidate. I think it lets me control the situation a little bit better and move to ground that I have much more expertise in.

I am just saying that I can't fault candidate for not doing this.
Incidentally, ASAN / MSAN / TSAN are part of Clang and GCC, not C++ itself, so they're available for other languages, e.g. Rust (https://github.com/japaric/rust-san describes how to use them) and Golang (well, TSAN and MSAN at this time).

Related: MSAN is made so much better by -fsanitize-memory-track-origins. I can't count how many times MSAN caught an error, and with that flag enabled, it directly pointed to the exact line of code at fault.
> fresh water produced along

Oh, if they are producing fresh water as well then isn't this good as desalination is already needed in some area's. So the studies upon the brine they output would be useful to measure any impact. Which would be localised - how localised and impacting is really the question here and for that we can look at existing drinking water from sea water production.
> At this point the treaty in not yet legally binding, although according to international law the signatory country has an obligation "to refrain, in good faith, from acts that would defeat the object and the purpose of the treaty."

International "law" is always entertaining like this: Who enforces this "obligation"?
"deciding what's a positive environment at work" != "whoever is in charge has all the power".

You're the conflating one.
If you read my comment closely you would know the answer to that question. But you missed the point anyway.
Add tamper checking to a package manager
Science Fiction Novels for Economists
Paul Krugman has talked about Asimov's Foundation inspiring him:

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/04/paul-krugman-a...

* https://archive.is/gKofh
It still works ok, just not as nicely.

The copy editor updates the repo and while their changes won’t be in the same commit, they should be nearby.

So you still get the benefit of docs history, and being in the same place.
This brine argument makes no sense - they are extracting lithium - you can pump everything else back if you want
Background noises happen. People take notes using a keyboard.
People cough. If it's a few people interactively chatting, sure, leave things unmuted. In a big group call where someone's presenting, please mute however leet your audio setup is.
This is all a lot more complicated than you make it out to be.

Regardless, it looks like Capcom probably did take the images from her collection and it’s pretty dumb for them not to just pay for the license which would probably have been cheaper than this case, whether they win or lose it.

It’s also possible though that they took the images from someone else who they paid or who marketed them as free, or that this lady took free images and is marketing them as her own.
Yes, the military is serious about rocketing supplies around the planet
Have a cupboard full of disparate coin format batteries, it's just 10 minutes I won't make back in reboot-BIOS-twiddling. Repairing a different Dell XPS right now, boots to BSOD. Gonna Linux it and VM the dozeness.
Kare's art is full of character. The Solitaire cards are different from everything else in Windows. I recognize the Chicago font immediately upon seeing like three words for a split second (it's still used a lot in headings on videos and presentations, and sometimes even physical lettering). This is despite never having used the classic Mac or iPod.

Every time I need a good icon for my personal interfaces, I mourn that the art of 16x16 icons seems to be lost. In image search, ‘icon’ now means something like 256x256.
The first patent on a transistor was assigned in 1933 to a man named Julius Lilienfeld, who invented (conceptualized) the MESFET. He didn't get the same press coverage as Shockley, and also failed to commercialize. Shockley's 1948 patent was relatively late.

Perhaps we just haven't had a "Shockley moment" in graphene yet. It would be nice if these other people stopped getting so much press, though.
> Is this your alter ego on HN?

Come now, let's not be obtuse. People naturally behave differently in different social contexts, a thing that is totally normal and expected.

For instance, consider how you'd behave in a professional situation, vs when drinking with your friends, vs when catching up with your grandmother.

Having different standards in different online communities seems no different.
I get where you are coming from but arguing with me won't change the facts we're witnessing out there in the world.