skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some years back, I got myself a copy of Andrew Hodges "Alan Turing - The Enigma", a biography and IMO generally a good read, but also with some gems regarding very early computing history in it.

Specifically, after WWII, Turing worked on the ACE 1 (later reduced to Pilot ACE) project to build an electronic computer, which didn't really progress due to management and bureaucracy overhead. He eventually went to Manchester, once they got their Manchester Mark 1 off the ground, which they tried to commercialize as "Ferranti Mark 1" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Mark_1).

While employed for the University, Turing IIRC continued to work as an external consultant for whatever became of G.C. & C.S. on the side. According to the book, he convinced them to buy such a machine (presumably for crypt-analysis?) and, on the Manchester side of things, insisted on some modifications to be made, including a "horizontal adder", so it could count the number of bits set in a word with a single instruction, i.e. a popcount instruction. This would pre-date the IBM Stretch mentioned in the article.
This might be news to you, but many apps on Mac actually have preferences that allow you to change their behavior. That's one of them.
Yes, I miss the good old days when it was just me and the boys. Now even the cleaning lady in my Moroccan summer home has an effortless way to partake. Where is this world headed?!

But seriously, what's the difference?
No encryption? I'll pass
The use and release of CFCs was banned worldwide in 2000.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/ozone-layer-recov...

You think China will care? they will keep producing whatever makes money until they are caught, and not just Chinese companies, plenty in the developing world will circumvent legislation. And in the US they just don't bother with regulations to disregard. The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a “dead zone” in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey.

This happens because there are no regulations to prevent the dumping of untreated waste into the Mississippi
DRY I would argue doesn't conflict nearly as much with a nuanced approach. "Apply Aggressive Compression to Your Code" certainly flies in the face of many other nice features of code as a working body, though

My more nuanced take I guess is "don't duplicate logic, except if it may in fact be mutable data". It does take some forward thinking to think that this e.g. list of 10 rules should be unrolled and not compressed by meaningless helpers, etc
While it might sound like they're in charge of centrally drafting up communist-style policies, what it actually is is an institution that researches the effects of governments policies so the government has more data to plan their policies around.

This also means that this is in no way a sign that the Netherlands is anywhere near actually executing on this.
cables are almost never exclusive, the economics just make more sense if you have partners because adding extra capacity before you start laying cable has a very low marginal cost
Sure that's the risk but fortunately that's not reality. If anything, the job opportunities are so numerous now because companies are no longer geographically restricting themselves, finding a job is going to be much easier in an already saturated (software development) market.

I've seen salaries of my peers getting remote jobs increase by 50% across the board, it's kind of insane right now.
The World Bank provides a table of remittance fees to El Salvador.

https://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/en/corridor/United-St...

MoneyGram is free if you do it to a bank account. https://imgur.com/a/6B5G2ax
Even if you don't care about advertising to EU visitors implementing GDPR costs money. (But since a consent-management-system is useful for compliance with California's privacy law it'd make sense to allow EU visitors as well.)
I would say the less authoritarian world. No place is truly free until all of us are free. We still have a long way to go.
Fiat is valuable because of a never ending torrent of positive exposure https://Bitcoin.isNot.Money/
This is certainly how the school my children goes to teaches it (after all the home education recently I now have a pretty good idea how they teach!) And yet, I get the impression that most of the children still find the concept of fractions hard.

Mine (8 and 10) do have that conceptual understanding but that doesn't mean that they are totally fluent with adding, dividing fractions etc. yet despite both being at the top of their years at school in maths. I reckon 99% of 7-year olds would definitely struggle with those sheets. I think my 10 year old would enjoy them (he likes maths a great deal!) but that my 8 year old wouldn't.

On the other hand I think it's good to have high expectations of what children are capable of understanding mathematically - they often surprise you!
I would say visualisation is great to understand those mathematical concepts that can be visualised well. There are many mathematical concepts for which this is not true. Logic comes to mind.
In that case the objections seem reasonable.

Here in Belgium there is a growing controversy surrounding a chemical plant in Antwerp leaking PFOS [1] in the environment. Due to this, scientists from the University of Antwerp now advise local residents against eating eggs laid within 15km of the plant [2].

Of course there seem to be no plan to hold the responsible company accountable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanesulfonic_acid

[2] https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/173456/3...
> if it didn’t exist then China or Russia would be determining what you can post on here.

This is FUD and strawman. US military could probably be decreased by >50% without any negative consequences.
The problem is not the problem (building shared context is)
Why bitcoin over a bank account? What's the advantage?

I mean, if you don't have a bank account - "here, store everything you have on this phone [do you own a smartphone?], that requires an internet connection [can you afford that?]" - seems like a bigger step, no? Unless I'm missing something obvious?
How is tower of Babel relevant? It’s about why do we speak different languages. How is anything done in the previous tens of thousands of years similar to ordering a bunch of bots to say what I want? When could an arbitrary algorithm decide what is seen by whom, completely opaque to almost everyone? Yeah sure the Church censored some shit. But that’s not at all similar to youtube/facebook’s algorithm and it’s dishonest to say so.
This happened to Steam as well, where misconfigured caching leaked PII: https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/19852
I’m definitely free and my immigrant parents and grandparents who fled to the USA from an authoritarian Soviet Union shithole are also free.

So no, I will go ahead and boldly and proudly say it’s the free world. Don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Why photoshopping is so EASY?
There are also early adopters who are running their node and don't plan to cash their bitcoins. They just want this thing to exists for ideological reasons.

What worries me more are some "inhuman" traits in cryptocurrencies. Most notable is one where if your crypto gets stolen, there is no standard way to "enforce the justice" by catching the thief, and give the money back to the rightful holder. This is something very non-intuitive and I doubt majority of people would accept this model.
Adorable ignorance and lack of empathy
To throw another quote into the mix:

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso
As a think tank the WEF has a distinct public policy slant and agenda. Not all economists are members.

If we're operating under the premises of democracy, there's something troublesome about a single think-tank and their unelected technocrats dictating public policy. One would expect at least some dissenting views in the conversation.

As it concerns the individual's freedom to transact in the cryptocurrency of his choice, longtime proponents of a cashless society have a distinct bias.
Great article. The only nuance it misses is that not everybody is aligned with the "desired project outcomes". From a business (and often management) point of view, the "desired project outcome" is a product that works according to the company's established standard, delivered in a timeframe that is reasonable according to the company's standard. There are some other outcomes' properties that are hidden by that, such as: How better could the product work? How faster could the product be delivered? How satisfying is it for people to create the product?

All those people with their wishes and throughts which bloat one single project usually have precious insights on how to unbloat the overall processes of creation and maintenance. It's of course impossible to fix it all in the span of a single project, but managing every project with the "it works and was delivered on time" mindset is the best way to tank the overall productivity of the company and lose developers, because you missed the insights they had about to improve what they do, and do it well, and do it efficiently.
So wait ... this guy wants 2 things:

1) banning bitcoin

2) massive money injections into Dutch companies, Dutch government, and "in between" (ie. private companies in e.g. healthcare that effectively work exclusively for government). He has an article on how "basically every last Dutch political party wants a massive increase in spending" ( https://www.cpb.nl/column-een-ruk-aan-het-stuur )

And with Bitcoin his main argument is that it may present the government with even more debt (no explanation as to why a crash in Bitcoin would increase the Dutch government's debt burden)

However the last of his problems with Bitcoin is very out of step with the other ones: "financial instability". He is afraid, in other words, of the effect of Bitcoin's existence on the currencies he (helps) control. NOT of it's effect on people (it would be very weird of the "government bank" (that's what CPB is) to care about the effect of anything on people. That is very much not his job).

So the obvious explanation for this combination of behaviors is simple: he wants to use Dutch (or European) funds that aren't his (say pension funds, perhaps even savings accounts) for government policy, and is afraid of Bitcoin providing a way out of his measures. He is afraid of a massive RISE in Bitcoin, not a drop. He wants to safeguard his ability to take extreme measures (like confiscating things) to make massive government spending possible. That must mean concrete plans exist.

So I would say this guy is on the philosophical side of the Bitcoin "lunatics". He's just on the other side of the battle, and afraid of the effect on his own policies. He is afraid of the protection that Bitcoin offers.
Another thing that happens these days is that a game of telephone has gone from "there are lots of valid ways to understand things, so don't punish kids who get the right answer with a different method than the one and only way you've been told to teach" to "teach every kid a half dozen different analogies and algorithms for every concept and punish them if they don't know which one you want them to use."
Link to the Nature paper A graph placement methodology for fast chip design:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03544-w
The worst part of all this is the needless destruction of a lot of Science’s social capital.

Society is not going to solve any of its big problems if Science is viewed as just another source of political rhetoric.
The SEC has historically treated hacked earnings reports as material non-public information, so the post you're replying to is incorrect: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=fd5d5ca7-20c5...

(not a lawyer, not legal advice)
IIRC it is common to experience a lot of spinning disk failures after a cooling failure.
Please take this from a guy who is not in any way a finance/economy expert:

Why does the currency have anything to do with the wealth of the bankers.

Bitcoin is, as far as i know, a fiat currency too. The value depends on the believe (demand-supply) of the people. You accepting it as means of payment gives it value.

The reason bankers and others have yachts are interests, Investmens, tax avoidance schemes and so on.
Nothing Bitcoin solves. The issue is a political one and how we do business and laws.
> Should you be forced to put my stuff in your house?

This is a hyperbole because a private home is completely different from what we are discussing.

This should be obvious.
At least you're still working and haven't given up on that.
Because my email is for work, maybe some automated notifications I haven't moved to a messaging platform yet.

Email is not a thing I use to read long-form content like newsletters. It just doesn't match my workflow at all.

When I receive an email I expect it to be something actionable, something I need to react to, not "Hey, here's some cool stuff for you to read and a bunch of links". I have Twitter, RSS and other platforms for that.
Your experience is certainly invited :)

I think your experience is really interesting, because as a dev our work can be hard to measure, unless you're working on something huge and very visible, so this interpersonal part of the work becomes very important, kinda like your manager said, you have to be remembered for something more than just "that guy we pay to make code".
> and honestly it was only hard because some folks wanted the precious 10am zoom slot

There is a solution for that: work with companies in different timezones. Everybody will get the 10AM slot, and everybody will be happy.
According to who? You? I’ll go ahead and defer to the generals and admirals and the elected officials to determine true budgeting needs for the dangers abroad.
No one is going to buy and sell crypto on the streets, this is just nonsense.
There is a genetic mutation that a small minority carry that allows them to sleep less (6.2 hrs average). You simply may be one of those people.

Sleep duration is just a single metric; apnea, REM+NREM3 duration etc. all matter. You may be getting as much REM+NREM3 in 6.5 as someone gets in 8... and if you don't have apnea, you might get WAY more actual sleep than most people.

I went through a period where I believed my body would only accommodate a certain amount of sleep. Once I stopped caring about sleep duration... that duration slowly increased to eventually revert to 'normal'.

The key is to just _stop_caring_ about it. Do everything right, and let your body/mind handle the rest. It doesn't happen overnight.
Have you ever seen http://boxcar2d.com/? It requires Flash so it probably doesn't work anymore, but it used genetic algorithms to "design" a 2d car to travel over bumpy terrain.

It was ported here https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ but it's not quite the same thing.
Imagine if our real world is juste some github project
> My statement was that if you always switch, it doesn't matter whether the host is blind or not.

You responded to someone who said it's back to 50/50 once a random host reveals a goat.

I thought you were contradicting this or adding to it, but if you were saying it doesn't matter if you switch, then yeah, that's what 50/50 means.
It has nothing to do with lack of empathy, nor did I make any statement about banking in El Salvador. Your pearl clutching is the rather pathetic, desperate machinations of someone deep in BTC who is resorting to whatever foolish argument they can make to sell it. The vapid moralizing is embarrassing.

You used El Salvador to try to legitimize BTC. As a tiny economic "power" (literally 7-11 sized), with a functionally broken government, it counts for somewhere approximating zero in legitimizing the farce that is BTC. The only people who think it is notable are BTC hypesters.
Vue 1 did not use a VDOM
The correct answer to this question is that somebody other than you wants you to get out of bed
Always interesting to see standards across different groups. The kernel is also very interesting, being very strict and having reasoning that not all may agree with, but has proved to work well.

I think C is a beast for standard in general due to it's rogue history. Now when a language like Rust or Go is created, standards are released with the code via formatting tools that enforce consistency (which I'm all for).

The amount of time I've seen C code with inconsistencies within a single file (naming, spacing, you name it) from fellow students back when I was in college was insane.

Enforced code style standards are great, even if I don't agree with them. Go's public vs private distinction is a good example. I really am not a huge fan of the pascal vs camel case to denote private and public (it's grown on me a bit, but still not a fan), but I know their code is going to be reasonable (in looks) because Go is very picky about how the code looks.
I get the "malicious browser" message from my office connection, not from my home connection (using the same browser, just a different proxy).

My office connection is a business OVH fiber, and it's quite often banned, or subject to additional captchas and other annoyances, I assume because some admins see "OVH" and assume it's a bot.
The following link discusses the same experiment and has more specifics (does not discuss mass only in terms grains of rice or eyelashes - TL;DR 92mg). It also includes a clearer discussion of how well the results match Newton's equation (F=Gm1m2/r^2) vs the uncertainty of the experimental setup (TL;DR - this was inconclusive).

https://physicsworld.com/a/physicists-measure-smallest-gravi...
> So the solution has been to just flow with it, I sleep when I can, stay awake otherwise.

I did this for years. Felt great for a while, then starting having noticeable impacts on my ability to focus, my mood, and my physical health.

The same old advice took close to 6 months to really start helping me. It was an absolute grind to stick to a wake + bedtime routine. The discipline it takes is absolutely insane (weekends were the hardest). I stopped and started over and over and over again, but eventually stuck to it.

Low/medium dose ambien once or twice a week was the the thing that really got me into the habit/routine. Medication is not a long term fix (especially this stuff), but this was enough to get me through the fitful nights for a few months--it stopped me from getting out bed and breaking the routine.

Anecdote, so as usual, ymmv.
I guess the broken glass is dispersed over another account.
Catastrophic thinking is rarely based in good probabilistic thinking. Logically I know that, but my brain latches on to the worst possible rational outcome as the most likely outcome.

I do not try to think in this way. I wish I didn’t.
>And then how is the website jedberg likes supported?

What a bizarre argument; the implication that advertising is the sole method of remuneration and sourcing support for some venture is the responsibility of anyone besides the venture. The idea just reeks of entitlement.
The military should not be playing world police but having a large enough military to counter rivals is the only thing maintaining the sovereignty of the U.S. and other free nations.
I agree, haven’t used it (knowingly) and regularly order from other sites if klarna is the only payment option.
I like this idea, and now wonder why the radix point is placed where it is. I assume it has something to do with integers being invented first?
> Do you know everybody’s medical condition?

Does a layperson know about how his/her condition is relevant to vaccination? No. They will ask a doctor about that - who will give them an answer whether they can or can’t get the vaccine. And I’m not even living in the US, I’m just not crazy and know that it is the only way to protect ourselves and our community.
No, being prosecuted at the whim of the powerful is horrible, but Bitcoin claims to be a kind of technological "escape hatch" from this kind of abuse.

The sooner we find out that it isn't an escape hatch, the better. We can then return to social and political hard work of curbing the powerful, instead of pretending we can just take our cryptocurrencies and escape.
Do you also let the bear tell you how big your honey stockpile should be?
This is a common political technique which is a variant of "floating a trial balloon": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon You put an idea out there in a way that can later be very cheaply walked back (because it wasn't an "official" idea), and gauge the reaction by the various interesting people to see how you want to proceed going forward.

Bear in mind the various "interesting people" may not include "the general public", despite this being in a general public newsfeed. Or, as I expect is probably this case, they may be interested in "the general public's" reaction but it may be a secondary goal vs. simply using the news media to gauge the response from the rest of the financial industry insiders.

This directory is likely to get various calls from various important people making various points pro or con now. Sometime in the next couple of weeks there will probably be some other release from this organization couched in diplo-speak. That is, if they say something like "decided not to pursue this at this time" it's quite possibly because their inbox was a sea of flame from the important people, whereas "are continuing to consider the matter" means they may have gotten conflicting, neutral, or tepid responses, and "developing a plan to pursue this matter going forward" means they may have gotten uniformly positive responses behind the scenes and a strong order from the Powers that Be to go ahead and be the ones who pursue this and take the heat for doing it. But in diplo-speak you almost never make strong commitments, you just barely deviate from "neutral" and expect people in the know to pick up what you're laying down.
Isn't that itself a problem though? My issue with remote working is it feels more like I'm a code factory that doesn't get to have input on big picture/design stuff very often. Maybe some people like that though...
So you would trust the military to tell you that the military is important and should be given more money? To put it bluntly, trusting the government seems naive.
Working a lot is like suffering a perpetual hangover
How was ransomware's ransom paid before crypto?
Obviously I prefer lower fees. But integrating Bitcoin is not a guarantee that actual, practical fees will be lower. Given the risks of adopting Bitcoin (volatility, fixed economic policy, complexity, difficulty of use), I think potential benefits must be higher than “we maybe get lower transfer fees, or not”.
People get hungry and need to buy food. Shoes and clothing become worn and eventually need to be replaced (unless if people are willing to put up with decreased quality of life). Eventually people need to spend money, even if it may take longer than when there is inflation.
It never ceases to amuse how one group of people can see the worlds politicians, policy experts, and activists start to converge on an idea, and rather than assuming that the idea they are converging around is sound, they instead assume its due to a secretive cabal looking to further oppress the common man.

Assume for a moment that BTC actually was destructive and dangerous. What would you expect the response to be from these people?
I think that the nuance here was perfectly obvious, if not explicit, to everyone who wasn't busy burying it under a pile of whataboutism.

I would also say that I wouldn't be at all surprised if idiomatic Python is actually quite a bit faster than idiomatic Haskell in some interesting use cases. Which does not at all mean that the opposite is true. There are always interesting cases that make good fodder for "what about" comments, but getting carried away with them doesn't really make for particularly edifying discussion. Just mentally append "in my experience" to everyone's comments and move on.