skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> commoditize and focus

You say that as if there were any agreement about what that means. But the point of the article is that this is not true; you'll always find someone that insists on using technology (or technique) X for your project, only technology X will be different for each person. Moreover, X might be actually making the project harder to understand, longer to develop or have other significant downsides.

The point of reaching step 3 is not necessarily to be able to develop your own custom solution (although that can be sometimes valuable), but to able to pick the right technologies for a given project given the myriad options available.
You can use the releases page of their github https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases
These are obviously intended to be caractectures of stereotypical Jewish people with stereotypical anti-semetic libels.

Even if you could argue for some reason the particular people were relevant and actually looked like this... christ why woudln't you stop yourself and say 'wait a minute this could be misconstrued as anti-semetic, maybe I should adjust it'?

How many examples of anti-semitism in the British progressive left do you need?

How many people sacked by their own party and described by their own party as anti-semetic before you think 'oh right maybe these people are anti-semetic'?

https://news.sky.com/story/12-shocking-claims-of-abuse-in-le...

'This is fine, nothing to see here', huh?
I'm fairly certain that's what Common Core was trying to do... And parents around the US freaked out because it was different than how they learned math and states like Texas made it illegal...
I know - I also don't understand what your comment has to do with the statement nuke plants need to be near a large source of water...

I don't think that using waste water from a city an hour away would be considered "close to a large source of water".

Also, thanks for the link - it was interesting. Maybe they can get my electric bill down some more :-)
Don’t repeat yourself or making code “DRY” sounds/sells so much better than tightly coupled.
> Most of the hashi stack just lost a node and chugged along at reduced redundancy.

Amazon had released a version of their AWS Linux edition that rebooted randomly due to a kernel bug, and I was working on our staging cluster, but I didn't even notice that I had EC2 instances that randomly rebooted and dropped because Nomad just kept the workload up.
>So you want a mechanical door lock, manual windows, no car stereo, no power steering, no thermostat, no cruise control, etc...

I actually just bought a 2010 which has mechanical door locks, manual windows, and no cruise control. It's great. What's the problem?
Yep, I've used __builtin_popcountll for ORB from OpenCV (256 bit binary descriptors).
If I'm not mistaken, that 22% is not fees, but the actual wire transfers from people abroad [1,2]. IMHO, it doesn't indicate that transfers are too expensive, but that a lot of people can't find enough work or support in El Salvador and they need to rely on family/friends that emigrated. I don't know how that is going to be solved by Bitcoin.

1: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS?lo...
2: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/bop/2005/05-09.pdf
can't talk for OP, but they got a 10 year boycott from me because of this : https://wikileaks.org/PayPal-freezes-WikiLeaks-donations.htm...
Codebases with high levels of abstraction and metaprogramming are often easier to understand in IDA/Ghidra, if your goal is to understand how a specific part of the program works.
I sometimes wonder if software developers who share these sentiments are often disappointed by the way things work in the industry because they expected to be coding/interacting with machines and toys the whole working time but in reality there is a lot more to building software that solves business problems than just coding.
An attempt to answer your "what's next?" question:

"What about you guys floating $1 billion in “Volcano Bonds” (backed by future #BTC mining output) for El Salvador to pay off the IMF loan - so they can tell the IMF to beat it."

https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1403023717429559299
What exactly does "additional landings" mean here. I usually think of a cable as connecting two places.

Is it basically multiple cables that connect to the same exchange onshore?

Or is there a router "at sea" where the cables fork?

Or does some of the cable from the US terminates in Brazil, some terminate in Punta del Este, ...
I am interested in taking an anti anxiety med, but I find the sexual side effects terrifying.
I’m curious are all these companies going to cover the costs of setting up and maintaining home offices?
My very very very very large company doesn’t have stock lockup like that. I can sell my granted and vested stock at any time, unlike previous employers. Weird.
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This scenario doesn't have any particular features that make access to energy or mining bitcoin the differentiating factor. Illicit fiat and extortion can be used in order to launder illicit fiat in many ways.

The underlying problem actually lies in the fiat system, not the Bitcoin one.
Sounds like your company and the company I work for operate in similar areas. We focus on the indoor routing and positioning aspects, but are quite constrained by the effort of converting a floor plan or PDF of a CAD into a map. May be worth us connecting on LinkedIn to see if our companies could mutually benefit each other. My profile is my username here, without the “i am”.
People do things for reasons. That doesn't make life bleak, that just means you should be careful about incentives in your relationships. Shun people who have an incentive to harm you, embrace people who have an incentive to help you and seek out people who think that their best chance at an easy life is making those around them prosper.
Good point. I find outlining the two (or more) possible scenarios as explicit options and asking "I'm on the fence, which would you do?" is the best way to get that type of opinionated advice from "the foxes". Otherwise you quickly get the "it depends" answer.
Multi vitamins are generally a complete waste of money. Check how much magnesium and what type yours has. Magnesium oxide for instance practically does not absorb into the body.
Yeah, when I worked for a FAANG, I was often asked to move to the US, which never worked for me because of family/lifestyle commitments. Even if I do say so myself, I was a lot better than the equivalent US team, simply because we hired less in Europe and paid much better, resulting in a higher quality of candidates.

Now, at a relatively less competent company overall, the difference between the quality of the US employees and the European ones in the same position is much larger (and not in a good for the US kind of way).

Like, almost none of my current colleagues based in SF would have passed a FAANG loop, but they get paid 2x to 3x what I do.

I don't mind, as I like where I live and I get a really good salary for my area, but if I could take one of the now remote FAANG jobs and get an SV salary (even SV-20%) I would do so in a heartbeat.

It's gonna be interesting times ahead for sure, and I'm definitely glad that I don't have any investments in California property.
That is good, as we are a model of good Federalist Republic.

The continued attempts to make the U.S. a national democracy is an ongoing problem, we need and should revert many of the "democratic" elements that have been put into our system, such as repealing the 17th amendment, we should more limit the power and scope of the federal government reversing bad Supreme Court Rulings such as Wickard v filburn which expended the power of the federal government far beyond what is should be, we should also expand the size of the House (using the Wyoming Rule) there by limiting the power of any one representative person. We should also make the House a 4 year term Elected with a 2 year offset of the president.

And Ofcourse we should be using Instant Runoff / Ranked Choice voting not First past the post.
I thought the same, their customer stories go back to Oct 2018.
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Data/Research is from Pew Research:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image...
> It takes an average of 20 years and $120M/mile (60M €/km) to open a new metro station.

Light rail transit or streetcars can be a lot cheaper than that, while still avoiding quite a bit of car traffic. The best system for any given atea is going to depend on density and local demand.
Multiple shops can have the exact same sign. Domains and phone numbers are controlled by a single entity at a time, and that is an important attribute.
Wouldn‘t the money already need to be laundered to buy energy with it in the first place?
I was reading some Madoff stuff the other day - I think generally true, but he had his share of "one of a kind offer invest this week"
I love this - thank you.
You know how much each wallet contains but not whom it belongs to.
Hypothetically, if you cannot use a western exchange you might figure out how to buy Hondurian assests, and then resell for dollars. It entirely depends on how Honduras will setup KYC laws, if any at all.
Genesis 3:16

1 Corinthians 14:34

1 Corinthians 11:5-9

I don't know, why do people still have to do that?
> Even Persians are (largely) of Indo-European ancestry, migrating from the same steppes that filled Europe.

It is worth emphasizing that "Indo-European" is a linguistic description, not a genetic one. The Indo-European languages spread through Europe, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent largely through the people already living there shifting from the language they had been speaking before to Indo-European, because Indo-European had higher social prestige. That Iranians today speak an Indo-European language does not mean that their ancestors all came down from the steppe.

(In the last decades, work on historical DNA has identified certain genes that do appear to testify to some Indo-European population movements, but the impact of this is less than one might think for a discussion like this one.)
If you answer "no", the same logic can be used to strip you of all your rights. How much domestic violence and murder could be prevented if every home was required to have cameras and microphones installed?
Are lightning transactions completely transparent?
> The problem comes from privacy coins like Monero, which arguably should be outlawed (if not already)

You cannot (and should not try to) outlaw maths.
> I think you are in Germany, and COVID-19 numbers are going down. It's spreading a lot less these days, largely because people around you have started getting the vaccine

The official position of the government here in The Netherlands is that you can still spread the virus after being vaccinated [1]. If I recall correctly, this has been the official position internationally since the beginning.

Also, cases went down sharply during the same period last year in all Europe thanks to the weather and without vaccines. In the UK, which has a much higher vaccination rate than the EU, cases are currently rising.

Correlation is not causation.

[1] https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiti...
The research wasn't by Newsweek, it was by the Pew Research Center. Newsweek is just reporting it.
It’s funny how lots of students (rightly so) get defensive about software that scans your hard drive and monitors processes, but then they install all these random games or apps like TikTok on their phone which comes with a cocktail of more invasive access.
This a good framework for identifying a particular type of bad, or useless, feedback. I've added "non-contingent" to my vocabulary.

For example, another type of useless feedback is so general as to be insulting; "this needs to scale" or "it needs to be high quality".

"too general" vs "non-contingent" are nice distinct buckets.
In part yes.

Had GNU/Linux not taken off, in the alternative universe from Windows, BeOS, Mac OS, OS/2, commercial UNIX (remember Motif++ and CORBA?) would kept writing the software in C++, instead of caring about creating FOSS stuff in C.

GNOME vs KDE is a good example of that schism and language wars.
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A bit off topic but that article -- as well as the rest of the site -- is absolutely gorgeous. The smart use of context-specific text colors such as green for section headers, red for emphasis, white-on-blue for code blocks, and (my favorite example) orange for external links vs yellow for internal links; the highly readable but nevertheless classic console font; the razor sharp lines/boxes; and the jet-black background come together to make it feel like I'm reading a BBS in high school in 1992. One of the reasons I really like i3wm is this particular aesthetic, combining modern content with authentic retro design.
It's a $1B loan to a country with a low debt rating. It's a risky investment already, and now you add Bitcoin with its price volatility? I don't know how that's a good idea from the investors point of view.
Even so, they could have defended perfectly against a threat model, which might have been completely reasonable. But it might have been pure bad luck. Although I don't know any of the details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severan_Tondo
Iran doesn't need to launder money to buy electricity in their own country.
This isn’t remotely true. The Berber-speaking population of North Africa, i.e. the autochtonous population that was living there before the Arab invasion (and, of course, before Roman influence) is generally swarthier than those who can demonstrate pure Arab descent.
That depends on how data driven player appearance, animations and behaviors are. I would start with the AI code and see if there are any player specific exceptions (that is, hacks) in there to match a certain play style.
Nice methaphor. 3.75 million is meaningless. I'd rather compare the 3% eaten by sharks to 0.0...1?% slipped and died on the bridge. And I'd rather trust these statistics than the architects (assuming I can trust the ones who collected the data)
They will literally have more money in their pockets.

Good things happen when people have more money in their pockets - people save more, invest more, build more.
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> So tell me, why did your civilisation built a Dyson sphere

> BTC lmao XDDD

This world is sick
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> The underlying problem actually lies in the fiat system, not the Bitcoin one.

How so?
Newsweek has an been an independent publication since 2018.
> makes BTC fiat

Did I miss a memo?

Or is this a sort of Freduian slip wherein you said 'fiat' when you meant to say 'official'?

It seems to me that we've been conditioned to conflate the two.
My anecdotal evidence is that the majority of people in my network are not working anywhere close 8 hours. I don't think they're less productive than they were in the office.
Your second little fact is that "factoid" means a lie that has been spread so widely that it's treated as a fact, and doesn't mean a little fact
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Can I get a second opinion on this (from someone here who feels they know, that is)? Say the stock option is at a call at a high valuation, but you know all exits would be higher, is the underlying stock that much more valuable?
Geothermal, similar to Iceland ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power_in_Iceland
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Check out the intro-to-calculus section in the preview PDF of my book: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr...
It's just a few pages and you'll know the basic ideas.

Learning calculus and all the prerequisites is really not that bad. Yes you'll need to do some review on prerequisites like algebra, functions, and maybe a bit of trigonometry, but it won't take you more than a month or two. See also Figures 1, 2, and 4 in this concept map of the different "game levels" you'll have to go through: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...

As a coder you've had to learn much more complex things, so I bet calculus will turn out to be easier than you think. Also, if you know Python syntax you will have SymPy on your side which is like math superpowers, see https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd...
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Not at all! I’m obviously not qualified to say, but it seems to me to be a great overview of a very complicated topic - clear, concise, comprehensive and not patronising. Stuff I don’t understand off the bat I can always look up, but it gives me a framework to begin to hang stuff on/explore from. Even if you had written several tome-like textbooks you couldn’t have compensated for my ignorance of the basic principles of computer science/informatics/programming etc.! :)
I enjoyed that read. I suspect that it probably pissed off a few folks.

I'm a grizzled, scarred old codger that spent most of his career, saying "Are you sure that's a good idea?", only to be ignored, and then put in charge of mopping up the blood.

I have learned that "I told you so." is absolutely, 1000% worthless. It doesn't even feel good, saying it.

What I have learned, is that, when I see someone dancing along a cliff edge, I quietly start figuring out where the mops are kept. If that person has any authority at all, I'll never be able to stop them from their calisthenics.

One of my favorite quotes is one that pretty much describes "hedgehogs":

"There's always an easy solution to every human problem; Neat, plausible and wrong."

There's another one, by the same chap (H. L. Mencken):

"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake."

Of course, the issue is that for every 10,000 appalling, messy, featured-on-rotten-dot-com failures, there's one spectacular success. Since humans are biased to think of successful outcomes as more likely than they actually are, the ingredients for that success become a "recipe," and are slavishly reproduced, without any critical thought, or flexibility.

It's like a witch doctor's formula for headache cure is bat urine, dandruff from the shrunken head of a fallen warrior chief, eye of newt, boiled alligator snot, and ground willow bark. The willow bark is what did it, but the dandruff thing is the most eye-catching ingredient, so it gets the credit, and everytime the chief gets a hangover, they start a war.

Somewhere down the road, a copycat substitutes hemlock for the willow bark, and headaches become a death sentence.
yeah try with a family of 5, when u need to bring shopping or stuff you bought.
Rounding errors might be small, but catastrophic cancellation can make errors much larger than parts per billion. Maybe for your application it doesn't matter, but sometimes it does, and you need to be aware of these cases.

You wouldn't want those kind of rounding errors in financial applications, in rocket science applications, etc ...
> Romans were white even more than current Italians.

What does "to be white" even mean, especially when applied to a culture in which the modern primarily-American understanding of the word was completely absent? To me it seems as pointless an argument as it would be for hypothetical time-travelling ancient Romans to argue whether 21st century Americans are Roman citizens or not.
Your post is a bit unclear to me, I'm not sure which side of the argument you're defending, but

> every person who has used the product without paying for it is such a loss.

No, because like you said, that implies that you'd have bought the product if pirating it wasn't possible. If I want to pirate a game but it's not available, I won't buy it either.

> It is an argument to justify the thieves.

I'm not justifying "theft" - or piracy in this case -, I'm just saying that you can't equate the two. Piracy and theft are two very different things, with different motives, and different consequences of the distributor.
ES has not "made BTC fiat". It is making it legal tender. All that means is debts can be settled with BTC.

As for "tapping volcanoes" it's a PR exercise - El Salvador is one of the countries in the world with largest geothermal generation capacity.

"Tapping volcanoes" here in effect simply means mining bitcoin with part of their geothermal generating capacity. But "tapping volcanoes" got this a whole lot more attention than it otherwise would.
The average C++ code base has as many segfaults than the average C code base.

Windows has more exploits than Linux. But you know all that, so I wonder why you keep making these statements, which are then upvoted by the "memory-safe" crowd.
Yeah, this is really annoying because I keep getting silently dropped off of mailing lists because "I don't engage".
Almost half the electricity produced in El Salvador is from fossil sources (they don't have nuclear power): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.PETR.ZS?location...

Option A: invest in that volcano and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Option B: invest in that volcano and mine bitcoin.

B makes them richer so long as other people keep expecting Bitcoin prices to rise (increasing demand), so I can see why they do this, but I'm not sure I like it. Even if the equipment, installation, and operation are all compensated for, it's wasting renewable energy on making heat and some money by gambling on future demand of a PoW-based system. But for a poor country, making money to get up to rich country living standards makes sense so... I can't even fault them.
If you're developing floating point code, you're in for a huge surprise, eventually. What happens for example when you subtract two close numbers with an error like this? There are a lot of mechanisms for small errors to become significant.

Many of us have had their attitudes readjusted by a bug where these "insignificant" errors became anything but.

We're often wrong in ways we can't imagine, so it is wise to remain humble and try to strive for correctness over our potentially misguided ideas how things work.

For example, you'd better still have multiple layers of security even though we've already made some other layer "impenetrable". And still check for those "impossible" error cases before they create nearly undebuggable issues.
If you had nothing to do all day except play and were surrounded by adults speaking four different languages 24/7, you'd easily pick up all four to a basic child level within four years.

Languages aren't actually hard. They're only hard when you're trying to fit them into the many other demands an adult has on their time and because you're expected to have at least a minimal adult vocabulary, which is much broader than a child's.

The one element that gets harder with age is learning to control your mouth muscles to make unfamiliar phonemes. Learning to make new sounds with native fluency is harder at 40 than it is at 4.

If you want to do this properly you'll have to hire a voice coach who specialises in native intonation and can take you through a detailed physical retraining program. This isn't something most language courses/teachers can give you.

Full immersion works too, ideally with a native partner. But it takes longer and you'll usually still some have accent left.
Although the immunity from having had covid is about the same as having had a vaccine.