skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the upside is that all of the traffic that would normally go to Google is gonna be shifted towards their own private line. That may not be a latency improvement like Google services would get, but it is still a throughput improvement.
Google's confusing new Play Store redesign is showing up for more users
> opt-out of a USD system where their money is being debased by 20%+ in the last year

You know Bitcoin has taken a 40% tumble in the last month, right?
>Could you please explain how that ad-hominem

So, you're saying Baye's rule doesn't work anymore?
This is purely the personal opinion of a pubic official. Neither organization has any regulatory power on this topic. CPB is an independent agency providing economic prognoses and analysis. DNB is in charge of monetary policy but doesn't have the power to completely ban cryptocurrency.

Anyway, when the ministry of finance investigated a crypto ban back in 2018 they concluded that it would be completely impractical to enforce such a ban. I don't think that has changed in any way.
Most of these look very designed, though "emerging" from simple rules on agents/particles.

Others look evolved inside the sandbox. (see doc here: https://alien-project.org/documentation/Evolutionexperiments...)
What you say makes sense in a good atmosphere. I work in a very toxic culture. Once people start blaming someone, their own blood boils with their rhetoric, and then it becomes a bitter fight.

I see it as etiology vs. teleology - rather than thinking "how did we get here?" we think "how do we get out of here?" The two are interrelated, but the second somehow gets things moving, and reduces resentment in toxic workplaces.
El Salvador only passed a vote where they agreed to pass a law sometime in the future.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-approves-...

From the article:

> With 62 out of 84 possible votes, lawmakers voted in favor of the move to create a law to adopt bitcoin (...)

> (...)

> Its use as legal tender will begin in 90 days, with the bitcoin-dollar exchange rate set by the market.
Probably, like openstreetmap.org, the page may be intended mostly for editors.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27470109
Supporters of Bitcoin should be in favor of making it illegal in as many jurisdictions as possible. It's the only way to be sure it's as resistant to government power as it claims to be.
I’m surprised someone is allowed to post is super biased personal opinion as if it’s the cpb’s
bitcoins show the nasty nature of the people

all about profits, nobody care about solving problems, they just want the price to grow to make profit from their investment
In this cheap debt environment, I'm not sure "sensible" applies to the market's mindset when it comes to leverage
>Sounds like we should ban options trading also.

Or oil and real estate.

They keep going up and down in a completely unpredictable manner !
It will be a blend in the end.

Right now it is more a fashion thing. Depending on the structure of your company it will work very well or not at at all.

Sometimes throwing 3 people in a room with a whiteboard and a few markers fixes a lot of issues. That sort of thing does not usually happen remote from my exp. But in an office it happens all the time. Sometimes there are too many help vampires. They are good enough but require a lot of hand holding to get up to 'works independent'. The ones they goto are usually the most productive people and that does not happen as much remote. So the more productive ones say 'this is awesome' because they get so much done, but meanwhile the rest of the org is struggling.

Also when you work remote after a few years people 'forget' about you. You get left out of things. Because they just do not see you. If they do not see you, you do not exist to them. I worked remote for about 10 years. I had to be very diligent to be included into things. Recently a few years ago I got to work in an office again with a great group. It was amazing. I learned so much so quickly. I became way more productive. I was able to share a lot more to more jr devs. But now it is back to the same things where I have to spend a lot of time being noticed for anything, and basically having to play a interesting game of 'be nice in email'. Also if you do not have an advocates in management it will be even worse (luckily I do not have that issue this time). Remote work has a lot going for it but also a lot going against it.

But in the end companies will need to measure it. If they don't it is nothing but a guess.
Are you certain you haven’t used it? Some shopping sites use them as payment processor for regular CC transactions without much visibility. You have to look at the T&C to even notice.
No, it's not a regulator and thus has no actual say over this matter. It supports policymakers by evaluating the economic effects of their plans.

https://www.cpb.nl/en/what-does-cpb-do
Dragonbox algebra uses a shy dragon in a box for this concept: https://dragonbox.com/products/algebra-5 .
I noticed also that a teacher admitting to be bad at math is seen as normal. As a parent, your really need to be careful and support your child in math more so that in other subjects.
CDC plans “emergency meeting” on rare heart inflammation after Covid-19 vaccines
mv doesn’t do that anymore. Is there any reason to use cp and rm instead of mv today?
I do. Mainly for things I don't really intend to memorize. It's just an easier reference than, say, a man page.
It's semantics, but in this case, semantics do matter. There's a real difference in result between taxing gasoline per gallon and taxing the ownership of a fuel-inefficient vehicle.

The latter is roughly equivalent to the US's CAFE standards and leads to gaming the system by manufacturers.

The former is much harder to game - either you use the gasoline (and paid the tax at purchase) or you don't. Doesn't matter (to the tax authority) what car you drive - only how much gasoline you burn.
If this means less Audi/BMW/Mercedes cars blinding me with their headlights and tailing 2m behind me, let them sleep.
Sure they can. Ban all legal exchanges, continue auditing income as usual usual. Bitcoin will still exist for illegal purposes, but that's fine.
There is nothing conspiratorial or notable that most of the people in the financial industry...work in the financial industry. Are experienced in the financial industry.
> First off, I’d suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. Burn them, it’s a great symbolic gesture.

- The doc on Linux kernel coding style
According to this logic, perhaps we should give the plunge protection team a mandate to guarantee BTC price stability and protect consumers from "danger"?
An appropriate response to a company asking anyone to share anything is asking for revenue share.
The nature of the work changes automatically when you’re this remote (I am too). Results start to matter much more than how people experience you (although that’s pretty important as well). You’ll get given work that has clearly defined inputs and outputs, or given goals that have defined or obvious success measures.

This allows you to bypass the politics situation pretty well. Interact professionally with the people you need to, get your work done, and get your social and drama needs met elsewhere, like with real friends and family :-P
Being backed by a government, or multiple governments, with an army and lots of financial tools is a very real thing.
And evidently there still isn’t, as this drug doesn’t appear to work.
Give back to the tech community to get free hosting
I immediately went to save this file to my collection of ebooks/pdfs. I have the same file from mid 2019 apparently!
Man, wow.

What if, like, you know, solving problems like 70% of the population not having a bank could actually reduce crime. Bitcoin is a pretty easy fix for that problem.

And “it’s a tiny country”…like do they not deserve a better life since they have such a small gdp. This is the most inhumane sentiment I keep seeing about this news “who cares, they are a tiny country with small gdp”
Reminds me of the characterization of Harry Markopolos in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers.

His takeaway is that society is a pretty bleak place when we all lose our “default to trust” mode of operation.
Having your account locked out of the blue with no reason given, where paypal seizes your funds and the onus is on you to call them and spend many hours / weeks / months to get back your money.

Even if you never have funds on your account, suddenly getting banned means forgoing the use of paypal ever again with that card / address / name, unless you sort it out.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27470109
Sadsa
These manufacturers flouted the rules and were eventually caught as well. If we hadn't had the rules, they could have gone on with that unopposed, so this is basically making my point?
Bloomberg LP – NY – Sr Software Engineer – Derivatives Team
It is also incredibly useful for doing string scanning - look at strlen/strchr in various libc imp lementations
This prattles on too much about things that don't answer the titled question. The list of problems is fine, but also light on helpful solutions.

This guide is more comprehensive - https://insomniasos.net/, and Andrew Huberman's video on sleep is also quite good - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1TxQj9IsQ
Same line of reasoning used by every racketeer's victim trying to convince themselves paying up is the reasonable thing to do.
I was happily surprised to see someone proposing this, assuming it was about PoW when reading the headline... but unfortunately it's just someone trying to time the market on our behalf?! Like, should we also ban stock trading when we expect the next pandemic or .com bubble?
Convert New York's Entire Grid to Renewables with This One Trick
Bloomberg LP – NY – Senior Software Engineer – Storage Engineering
You're missing that you are fuelling half of the equation and letting the people that your are trying to pay deal with the bad half.
Bloomberg LP | NY | Senior Software Engineer - Storage Engineering
https://careers.bloomberg.com/job/detail/81144
And while your experience was poor the practice of turning away those with a fever is a sane best practice.

It happened one time in am embarrassing manner, and that sucks, but when you put your grief next to the millions of people that died we can probably just continue to do this thing and deal with the embarrassing outcomes as they crop up.
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but I do wonder about the idea that by making the power source impossible to remove, the phone can be a surveillance device even when the user thinks it's powered off.

I wonder what the minds of HN think about this scenario. Is the move towards non-removable batteries perhaps related to this?

I also wonder about the movement away from physical headphone jacks....I imagine bluetooth is easier to hack then a physical cable.

Edit: thanks for engaging on this. You helped me discount this theory.
There's plenty of valid criticisms against crypto, I feel like they've picked some of the weakest ones.

> cryptocurrencies are used because people think they will one day replace traditional money

Maybe a tiny minority, sounds like a strawman.

> a contagious story in which people believe because other people believe in it

Isn't fiat the same? Money only has value because people believe it has value / will have value in the future / trust whoever prints it.
As everyone else is saying: ban the points of contact. It's basically going to look like the War On Drugs (ironic, for NL). And likewise, it won't be 100% effective.

All of the following are entirely feasible measures for "banning bitcoin" that are already applied to other things:

- directly ban sales or receipts through normal financial intermediaries (banks etc). Try to wire money to Coinbase and get prosecuted.

- directly ban advertising of cryptocurrency products (problem here is you hit the celebrities, good luck prosecuting Musk in NL)

- directly ban holding or making cryptocurrency transactions. Not very effective, but provides an additional charge that can be made against people who've been prosecuted and had their computers seized for other reasons (e.g. drugs, CP). Incidentally criminalizes paying ransoms!

- use all the anti-CP measures against Bitcoin related sites; put the exchanges and known network nodes on the IWF blocklist.

- put bitcoin related software on AV alert lists (I think this has already happened with miner software because it keeps getting installed by malware)

- add it to the list of things checked in border phone sweeps. I don't think NL does a lot of these, but you occasionally hear about the US doing them. Some countries have also started doing device searches as part of other police searches, e.g. https://www.scotland.police.uk/spa-media/zqxibu3s/cyber-kios... ; combine with the ban on crypto tech and this can be used to prosecute people for having cryptocurrency apps on their phones.

Does anyone else remember the "crypto is a munition" era? It used to be illegal to export actually secure crypto from the US, which meant in practice it was illegal to host it on US-based websites. I'm not sure it's possible to go back to that era, but it's possible to imagine github banning crypto-related apps due to international pressure.
I'm guessing they do it by emitting a ton of CO2. /s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27472360
It makes everything disposable. I’ve seen a few 200 dollar health devices that fail quickly because they use cheap cr 2032 batteries that can’t be accessed.

I miss the days of clip in batteries. I still have a 2013 laptop like that.
Apple says its new logon tech is as easy as passwords but far more secure
Decadence and Andreessen's Dilemma
Some of them are CDU members that want to stop the Energiewende.

They usually come up with empty claims that make no sense. For example, there was a commercial forest for paper/cardboard production and it would have to be chopped early to make room for the Tesla plant. Suddenly people started fighting to protect a privately owned commercial forest that was nothing but a monoculture of the same tree species.

Of course if the complaint is about chemical waste leaking from a factory that's serious and should be addressed but all the bullshit claims make it harder to actually protect the environment.
Not OP but will give my uninvited experience. I have also been remote a majority of the last 10+ years of my work life.

Politics is tricky. I have/had to do a lot more public relations. Starting/running book/video clubs, making time for 1:1s with coworkers, I even did a 2+ year stint of starting off the morning slack chats with a dad joke, that was very appreciated. There are many ways to be productive, but I had to find ways to stay noticed, likable, relevant, and appreciated outside the pull requests. As my former manager said, if no one remembers who you are, you will become just a line item on the payroll.
Usually there are muster stations where a designated emergency captain takes attendance for everyone who is expected to be present and a remote operations center that has access to HRIS data to know who is out/on vacation when that attendance is known.

Door locks during an emergency are usually denoted to be fail-open so someone doesn't get trapped, though that may differ depending on the security level of the facility.
Also 1800s has good coverage of sources. Like this one in Europe: https://maps.arcanum.com/en/ (actually this one is probably licensed - but some of those maps have public domain version).
The electoral college was never meant to be influenced at all by political party membership; and Washington warned against the siren call of the National political party when he left office.
TheSum #7 Indexes near new all-time highs
This is a difficult thing to describe for any pre-modern polity, where vassalage and weak frontiers make it difficult to describe if a central power actually controlled a territory. The Ottoman Empire de-facto exercised little control its North African vassals, the Roman Empire had increasingly weak control over its frontiers due to migrations and incursions, etc.
GPU-programmers use popcount-based programming all the time these days, but the abstractions are built on top and are hardware accelerated.

CUDA's __activemask(); returns the 32-bit value of your current 32-wide EXEC mask. That is to say, if your current warp is:

int foo = 0;
if(threadIdx.x %= 2){
foo = __activemask();
}

foo will be "0b01010101...." or 0x55555555. This __activemask() has a number of useful properties should you use __popc with it.

popcount(__activemask()); returns the number of threads executing.

lanemask_lt() returns "0b0000000000000001" for the 0th lane. 0b0000000000000011 for the 1st lane. 0b0000000000000111... for the 2nd lane... and 111111111...111 for the last 31st lane.

popcount(__activemask() & lanemask_lt()); returns the "active lane count". All together now, we can make a parallel SIMD-stack that can push/pop together in parallel.

int head = 0;
char buffer[0x1000];

while(fooBar()){ // Dynamic! We don't know who is, or is not active anymore
int localPrefix = __popc(__activemask() & __lanemask_lt());
int totalWarpActive = __popc(__activemask());
buffer[head + localPrefix] = generateValueThisThread();
if(localPrefix == 0){
head += totalWarpActive; // Move the head forward, much like a "push" operation in single-thread land
// Only one thread should move the head
}
__syncthreads(); // Thread barrier, make sure everyone is waiting on activeThread#0 before continuing.
}

------------

As such, you can dynamically load-balance between GPU threads (!!!) from a shared stack with minimal overheads.

If you want to extend this larger than one 32-wide CUDA-warp, you'll need to use __shared __ memory to share the prefix with the rest of the block.

It is a bad idea (too much overhead) to extend this much larger than a block, as there's no quick way to communicate outside of your block. Still though, having chunks of up to 1024 threads synchronized through a shared data-structure that only has nanoseconds of overhead is a nifty trick.

-----------

EDIT: Oh right, and this concept is now replicated very, very quickly in the dedicated __ballot_sync(...) function (which compiles down to just a few assembly instructions).

Playing with the "Exec-mask" is a hugely efficient way to synchronously, and dynamically gather information across your warp. So lots of little tricks have been built around this.
>"Cryptocurrencies are essentially neither money nor a financial product, but an example of what Nobel laureate Robert Shiller calls a 'contagious narrative': a contagious story in which people believe because other people believe in it."

How is this different from money or the financial markets? Why do those continue to exist if not for the belief we collectively have in them? And why is that only a problem for bitcoin?
I did reach out about the multi-buy situation - apparently BC doesn't have a useful way to say "this part of my collection sell for a price and this other stuff exclude it" because almost no one sells a discog and when I emailed them the responses I got were generally "we sell vinyl and other stuff in our store and selling it in one big bundle doesnt make sense"
boom there goes probably thousands of us dollars
Even if cryptocurrencies had unique features that some people demand, the fact remains that these cryptocurrencies could provide the same exact features without wasting enormous amounts of energy (e.g. by using a "proof of stake" mechanism). Therefore the wastefulness can't be justified on these grounds.
There’s an old pithy quote about this that I won’t repeat here. I’ve seen the same results, but I also know that I may be totally underestimating their competency in an interview: I am not always competent to judge someone’s competency. Keep an open mind —teaching can become a skill trap like any other and it may take time for people to readjust if that’s no longer their primary responsibility.
Definitely true that confidence is inversely correlated to accuracy. I personally have derived this truth from my own personal interactions, and it's demonstrated by different scenarios and theories.

Confidence (and its cousin, charisma) being dead-ends-- that's a profound thought shift from the dominant perspective that confidence is a modern leadership quality.
You're Probably Not Using the Web's Best Browser
> Instead of every historian writing their own magnum opus of a particular area and timespan, all the geographical information can be combined in a single system.

The two options are not mutually exclusive: Dr Shmoe and Dr Kroe can write fascinating books on the movement of the border between Hannover and Braunschweig that mostly agree but disagree on a couple of fundamental points; both could be represented, and perhaps compared, via different views.

For an existence proof: Wikipedia is able to have decent articles about (some) subjects where strong consensus does not exist.
We should call a ban for banning ban calls.

Whether this ban call should apply to itself is left as an exercise.
A Half Dose of Moderna Is More Effective Than a Full Dose of AstraZeneca
I'm definitely not elderly, but i've found I need ever increasing intensity of weight training to "tire out" my body over the years. The alternative is an intense day of production issues or high-stakes meetings to tire out my mind.
housing, policing.
I don't think young people are using bitcoin for any reason other than to get rich quick. The young these days are highly conformant and compliant - got jabs? It's gen x and older who are thoughtfully rebellious.
They got away with it for a long time and at a huge scale and barely got a slap on the wrist. Your point is not proven. If anything it is harmed by this reality because it suggests environmental concerns are not actually that high up on Germany’s priorities and it seems like a concern-troll for them to cite environmental concerns now lol. They’re afraid of American muscle challenging their brands.

Anyway, a Gigafactory in Romania would have many awesome loyal workers and it’d be a beautiful facility in a beautiful country. :)
Stop trolling. You make this about age. You are the agist one. Why would young people not be allowed to drive oldtimers and enjoy 70's style interior? Who are you to decide that such a thing is only allowed for those of a certain age. We live in a world where age should not matter and anybody of any age should be allowed to partake in society. You should real change your views.
Did you start your career as a remote contractor? Or, did you spend those early years on-site in a more traditional setting?

Training new employees (literally new graduates, but also new to team) can be more difficult with remotes. There are probably solutions, but having hired both remote and on-site employees, it was definitely easier to bring the on-site employees up to speed.

I fall into the "there's some value to co-located teams" camp, but I also believe that value is WAY overstated by most managers and senior leadership. In my perfect world, my team would all be located near enough to the office to come in when it makes sense, but free to work remote most of the time.
Why are you bringing this up? Sounds like a straw man to me.
> Maybe a tiny minority, sounds like a strawman.

I don't think so, i believe many people think that a private and decentralized solution will replace traditional money. That just isn't an argument against it. If anything, it's an argument FOR cryptocurrencies.

> Isn't fiat the same?

haha yes.
I think their argument is that cryptocurrencies not just (PoW) but (PoS) too are just a meme with no social benefit (unlike the stock market), yet people put large amounts of money on them and it will end in tears.