skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they are income. They can use it directly as collateral for loans, they can use it to increase their assets, they can convert it to cash just about any time they want, etc.
Although I don't condone hacks like this of course, I think it would be amazing for someone to interpret the engineering and mechanics behind a title like FIFA for the rest of us; I'd look through the code myself though I'd imagine it would take a long time to make sense of it.

Same for Frostbite.

I'm just curious about the tech behind AAA games and it would be fascinating to explore the innards.
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> Thousands of matches isn’t a good thing.

He didn't say it was, he said it was preferable to having no matches.

I recall seeing the OkCupid stats once (okstats?). The numbers pretty much said that although women were getting most of the messages, they were all only responding to the same 10% of males, while most men were sending messages to almost all the women.

You've pretty much got 80% of the women competing for the top 10% of the males.
The argument is that every year the us government will demand you pay a certain amount in USD (taxes). If you fail to comply men with guns (the police) will arrest you and put you in prison.
TSMC Considers Setting Up the First Chip Plant in Japan
Wow. Goes to show how long CPUs can stay relevant these days, because it has been about that long since I've built a machine from scratch...

Time makes fools of us all, eh?
Doctors heavily rely on FDA to filter for effective drugs, they're not researchers with the skills to identify whether a drug has efficacy.
With Bitcoin, if you want make a transaction in the distributed database, you have to "work" to burn an ungodly amount of electricity doing useless busywork in giant data centers across the world.

It's a cancer.
Actually they lost 1% and are now at 81%
I actually HATE crypto discussions on HN, and clicked on this link before thinking -- and wow this is a great comment. It is very deep! I'm very glad I clicked. Well done.
I wonder how it compares to restic or borg. Besides the gui anyway…
Mind you though, I'm not blindly advocating for CDNs. :)

In fact, I think that the performance gain is not worth the extra complexity for most sites out there. The recent fastly outage, klarna outage, ... all show that CDNs are no silver bullet.
Lightning network enables almost instant and practically free Bitcoin payments, that's what they are using in El Salvador.

Current financial system is pretty broken in my opinion, for example, I'm trying to transfer money into a business checking account I have, my options are:

- using Plaid, which will take banking credentials in clear text and store them somewhere for transactions, which is insane to me that this is what we need to enable all the FinTech stuff,

- using wire transfers which costs 20$ each,

- using check deposits (with 500$ limits), which is like the 1990s.

Current financial system has a trust problem, especially for new users, Bitcoin solves that.
But you have that option. Remote work is available and plentiful, now more than ever. So work remote if that’s what you need. It sounds like that should be non-negotiable requirement number 1 for any job you consider.

All I was pointing out in my original comment is office work is not a conspiracy by management to torture you: it’s by far the best work environment for many people and many kinds of jobs. If you could understand that - while also understanding yourself and that it’s not a fit for you - you might be able to let some of that anger go and find a more comfortable fit on a team.
We seem to live in an age of such abundance and freedom that it's now possible to live in all manner of ways which seems to exacerbate these extremes.

In the past if you were a man and wanted to eat and have a home you had to work. We also relied far more on children to look after us in our old age than we do today.

Today welfare and the affordability of essentials like food make it possible for people not to work and not worry about the implications of growing old without family.

I agree it's cultural, but it's a cultural trend being fuelled by the abundance of modern day living. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know. I guess it's nice people can choose to play video games all day and not worry about working or having a family, but I worry about the impact this will have on our mental health. I also wonder what this means for economic inequality and the stability of society in general. I'm a big believer that people only care to preserve societies they have a stake in and if a large enough percentage of the population own nothing and offer no value it's very easy to see this causing a division. Should I as someone who works, pays tax, pays for his own home and pays for his own food be happy with someone who chooses not to work and have everything paid for them by people who work like me? And if you don't work and don't pay tax wouldn't you naturally want to see higher taxes and more government welfare?
If there were no problem writing secure code in C and C++ we would have a lot fewer vulnerabilities based on some form of memory corruption.
See, Hear, Explore: Curiosity via Audio-Visual Association
Plus, this would be a goldmine for finding game exploits, and creating PC mods for all the Frostbite-powered games.
You’ve painted a black and white painting and are now trying to fit everything in the world into one side or the other. Read through the other comments in the top thread, it’s not nearly as simple as you’re making it out. And as usual the people trying to make it seem simple are either being naive or ignorant.
I have an idea I've been toying with for a dating tool (I refuse to call it an app) based on the premise that all dating "apps" and "sites" are horrible because their incentives are aligned toward wanting people to actually use them. You pretty much have ad-driven and subscription models and both have perverse incentives. Further, the whole "wink", "like" and "swipe" nonsense increases the "meat market" commoditization and dehumanization of the whole thing.

So my idea is to put all the incentives the other way. The tool is designed to operate on a budget of ~$0. I would accept donations, but otherwise have no monetization and therefore no desire to increase "engagement" of any kind. My incentive is such that I actually don't want you to interact with the tool, because that will cost me bandwidth and processing time. I will allow you to have a profile of text and one single image of restricted size, because I don't want to have to host anything else. You will fill out a multiple choice questionnaire with as few questions as I feel I can get away with to ensure at least some level of basic compatibility, and then you do nothing.

Periodically, a cron job will run and see if anyone matches, then it will send you both each others profiles (through good old-fashion email) and ask if you'd like to go on a date. If you've both agreed, there will be a sequence of messages from the system proposing date ideas, locations, and times until consensus is reached. Then it's all up to you. This is designed to ensure that you make a real human connection to the person in a real life interaction before any contact information is ever exchanged.

It probably sounds as though this sort of thing would have a hard time attracting users. I consider that a feature, because it means it'll cost less to run and it will avoid attracting ego-inflation seekers, low effort numbers gamers, and other ungenuine people.

As envisioned, I would expect this sort of thing could cover a moderately sized state on a raspberry pi.
It's less about not having good jobs more about:

1. Most want to start business and become rich, not work for someone else. Starting business is difficult, needs lots of work, even if you are smart and hardworking, have capital to start, still you need social skills which present generation didn't develop, so getting along with others and leading others is still difficult which limits the success.

2. Anything you'll come up, there are guys who are already doing it better.

3. Work hard for what!? Beyond basic needs, even in dating women demand millionaires, average Joes are treated like disposable good for nothing who women say are creeps because they don't have money to build their IG brand and devour women with lavish gifts.

At the end of day, most people simply will not be motivated to take part in such system now that internet makes it possible for you to remotely live any life you dream of living even if it's only through some YouTube. A lot of things now seem less enticing.

Even guys who society might say are successful can't afford real estate at today's price, only way to afford considerable land is to move away from cities but moving away from cities also takes away your income source.

All these reasons are why I don't hustle hard anymore. I just try to make enough to coast in life and explore my hobbies, not working hard to get rich or any such goal. Because I don't really see how more money will change my life.
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Which is why I'm personally anti-PoS, I think it's a fundamentally broken system which codefies "rich gets richer" down to the protocol and brings us to the old world where those with capital control everything.

PoW requires constant spending on energy and hardware.
Only by people with no understanding of economics.

The demand for Gold is primarily functional and is generally larger that the speculative demand. This puts a floor on on its value.

Cryptocurrency is almost pure speculation and thus has no floor to its value.
It's a cultural quirk of HN to go into linguistic hair-splitting mode when it comes cybersecurity incidents as described by a media outlet whose audience is the general public.

All I can say is thank you to danG for implementing expand/collapse on comment threads so you can quickly move on to comments discussing the topic itself.
To the contrary: It must be a pretty strong narrative if it convinces people to commit violence.
Who cares? Outsourcing has been a big stick waved by management to scare employees for decades now, but its had pretty mixed results. The reality is, at least for programmers, there isn't enough local talent to go around. There's plenty to be found overseas, but companies are still clearly hesitant to go after it. There are cultural, language, governmental, and time-based issues that can't be ignored. Perhaps someday we get to a point where companies are willing to ignore all of that and ship everything overseas, but I doubt it, and in the mean time, there is absolutely no reason to not call their bluff.
IIRC, the author of SQLite uses TCL.
It’s continued operation is unsustainable based on water availability in the region. It’s stretching to find process water, so I wouldn’t hold it up as a success story, more as “it works for now, but we’re going to need a Plan B when it is no longer sustainable to run.” Its Arizona, so solar, storage, and transmission are fine replacements when it’s retirement is near.
Certainly not.

Just saying that we can’t be too hard on the folks that are a little hesitant with the vaccine as things evolve. Simply have a bit of empathy, at least for folks that are simply uncertain about how to handle things for themselves and their family (vs. those trying to stop the world from getting vaccinated).

I’m fully vaccinated, but I know some that I wouldn’t consider “antivaxx” but are just not sure about this one for them/their families, and I’m trying not to be judgmental of them.
Don't you have a home office anyway with a monitor, desk, and chair for normal life things?

For managing your finances, writing to people, planning projects, working on hobbies, and so on?
> These are extraordinarily complex choices that seldom have a right answer for all possible patients.

I think "is there any evidence that this drug actually works" can a remarkably simple decision, given the results of clinical trials.

The fact that desperate people may be willing to blow tens of thousands of dollars on something that doesn't work, doesn't make it more complex.
I appreciate the immediate problem and I guess policy like this is better than nothing. But to me the cause of this is less of a lack of "rights" as it is a lack of competition in the market. I would much rather choose products that have a more open and repairable architecture rather than have additional regulation.
> If I started my own country in the middle of the ocean and started issuing my own currency it would be worthless.

Not necessarily, if you were using it within your own country, the use case for most currencies. A fiat currency is little more than a promissory note or IOU (think about how I could go to a bank and exchange my dollar for a dollar's worth of gold during the gold-backed fiat period). In fact, less than 200 years ago many banks were able to issue their own currencies as promissory notes in many US states and were valid, but only with those banks.

The idea of an all-powerful national currency that bans all others is relatively new from a global perspective and even today, there are parts of the world where small communities have and still do issue their own local currencies in order to facilitate local trade.
You can’t make a snapshot of Big Sur’s System volume to roll back
A good standing desk, a good chair, 2 or 3 other monitors. These are all standard at my office, but I had to give them up working from home. Total investment if I would have replicated my office environment would have been 2 to 4 thousand USD easily.
Reminds me of gridworld: https://store.steampowered.com/app/396890/Gridworld/
I'm not a fan of proprietary frameworks like CUDA.
Makes you too dependent on the manufacturer.
Right, what probably happened is that an `/accounts/me` endpoint got cached.

But what GP seems to be asking about is: “Would having your app always encode a user ID into the endpoint have helped?”.
I think this also gets to the heart of it. My general feeling was that women wanted equality but didn't want to put in any effort whatsoever, and so a lot of women I came across just seemed like bums.

I'm not saying that is what you're saying. It just made me recall my experiences.
The only control I need for RGB lighting is "off", thank you very much.

And I'm not being facetious - I made the mistake of buying a board with a bunch of useless red LED lights on board (an ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming). I should have known better I guess...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeF8GcjtiCQ

(facepalm)
Amazon, Other Tech Giants Could Be Forced to Shed Assets Under House Bill
Functional Programming in Scala (3)
Curious: what effect do you think culture has? The economic plays a big role, but there’s a tendency nowadays to call the root problem for everything economic and act like cultural effects are just “holidays and religion” or other marginal effects.

The culture has changed dramatically since the 50s when these trends started. For the men, their role has gone from default “protector, provider, head of the home, in charge, theist, conservative, married young” to “equal bread winner, often oppressive, too often toxic, without innate greater purpose or role, etc”.

Obviously these are broad generalizations, but we would probably agree that men get a worse wrap now than then (even if that came at the expense of others). Does that large cultural shift have a large effect? Are men lacking purpose now and how much of the current problem men face is because of that cultural shift? The economic is important, but the cultural factors are huge too
I used to fix some bugs in Tcl/Tk program a long time ago and it was the opposite of "fun".

But frankly it was about 10 years ago (and the program in question was ancient even back then) and I don't really remember much, and if it was a fault of Tcl, Tk, or the actual program.
> spending £650/$900 a month on a train ticket

Holy cow! People switch jobs when offered smaller raises than that.
And Copernicus was still wrong about the ontology and there are many critiques of MWI not just by people scared to accept its metaphysical weight.

I think it's unfair to criticize too harshly those who aren't ready to dive in with MWI. It's not that incomprehensible or too crazy, but it is far beyond what current physics says exists. We'd go from spacetime to some infinite or extremely high-dimensional space. Why should we need to go that far when other interpretations maybe ask less of us.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhd6s3rewniz2q6b3...

pp. 21-35 307-355 355-368 (and more) if you or anyone wants some critiques of MWI
Yeah, seems like a missed opportunity since the Mac/Linux crowed would eat this up.
Talk on engineering productivity, metrics, and morale
The most popular OS and the most popular GPU? I can run this easily.
> because it's not transactions that cost, it's security of those transactions.

Logically wrong, but let's follow the reasoning.

Let's assume Bitcoin transactions were indeed not secure (and thus, according to you, costing little energy).

- Would these unsafe-but-cheap transactions still be considered "Bitcoin transactions" in the way that we know them?
- Would these unsafe-but-cheap transactions fulfill the requirements that Bitcoin has in place for itself?
- Would an unsafe-but-cheap Bitcoin still be a great option in your eyes to replace the worldwide financial system?

If you agree with all these statements and their corollaries, I can follow you in saying "Bitcoin transactions do not cost energy".

You are creating a false dichotomy: security is an integral component of bitcoin transactions, and if security costs, transactions cost as well. You cannot just summon it away and pretend it is unrelated to the nature of Bitcoin transactions itself, when in fact it is one of its largest selling points.
Women has long been the "secret sacrifice zone" of domestic economics. Or, as Connelly put it, "woman is the slave of the slave."

> we just culturally pass around this idea that math is scary

There are thriving zones of anti-intellectualism in countries that have just one simple excuse for cultivating primitive thinking: it's lucrative to exploit.

Math, reasoning, debate, science, and democracy itself constitute educated civilisation. Everything else is a collection of stale bread and mournful circuses.
cost/room is far more interesting than cost/sqft. Both are less interesting than location.
It was written by the author of SQLite, which is basically a Tcl extension that escaped into the wild.

There's a talk by DRH at the Tcl 2019 Conference regarding Wapp [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/Aq4NI5NTUpU time code 1:49:34
He runs a shop that supports many employees and himself, so, yes, the economics obviously work in his favor. One doesn’t need to like the choices of a company to offer to service their products.
> I fundamentally disagree with this. Rights exist regardless of society, society merely limits them.

I'm curious what "exist" means here and am very surprised at the "merely".
There are many risks to offshoring as well. The accidental and irreversible 500 million dollar wire from Citibank for example.
Physical money has value because we have an economy. If you have a USD, you can come to the US and spend that dollar. Bitcoin doesn't have an economy, it is literally a meme. The only thing you can do with it is trade it for real money.

The value of USD is based on the US economy. The value of Bitcoin is based on people's perception of the value of Bitcoin.
> Are you saying that surpluses allowed for a large class of people to just not work at all?

Apparently this is the case today, since it's happening.

Historically, agrarian societies did require everyone to work - twice a year. During harvesting and planting, as much manpower as possible was needed. The rest of the time didn't require 40h of work 50 weeks out of the year. It left time for leisure, building, crafting, etc.

We're also not really in a traditional agrarian society today; most of the work required to create food is done by a vast minority of society using force-multiplying tools.
On Firefox I regularly get "Your browser can't play this video." when opening youtube videos, which magically gets resolved when refreshing the page. Gmail also prints an error on first load then works after a few refreshes.
>>I'd expect it to manifest many years later

You're spot on. Long term risks take many years to evaluate.
> Either you eventually sell your assets and pay capital gains

Or, you wait until the government makes a 'temporary' change to the tax code that allows you to reduce your tax more than normal and do it then. Which, to my understanding, is what actually happens...
> It's not like this would've affected companies at all

How can you be so sure? Tens of billions of profit every year/quarter make these companies very appealing for investors, allowing them to spend unlimited cash to expand their business.

A well run company that has limited profits and expansion will then in turn have less R&D. Think IBM, Oracle - they haven't kept up the pace and got seriously behind MS, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google etc.

Not only the companies in this list https://spendmenot.com/blog/rd-spenders/ spend the most, they also offer really high salaries, because they are successful.

I don't have a crystal ball or a degree in economics, but to me it's pretty clear that a successful company will make life better for everyone, including R&D and menial jobs. Say what you want, but Amazon warehouse jobs are better than other no skill needed job in their respective areas.
The article itself supposes that the entire philosophical activity somewhat works like an accepted view of epistemology (Popper-like or Hempel-like). I really like Deleuze about this, the philosopher works and creates concepts within a philosophical system or frame of reference. Also I don't see how the article demonstrate the lack of advancement (as it doesn't really define it properly in the first place).

I think we are making tremendous progress the last years on the question of time (a little stuck but at least it's being worked on), on political philosophy (Lordon for example on Spinoza and social sciences). As we go further we need to be aware of what has been done. I think for example that Nietzsche killed the field of morals and Wittgenstein killed logic (like I don't know, Grothendieck killed functional analysis in mathematics). I quite understand then why some questions are being avoided.

Maybe too academic philosophers should do the effort to communicate better also, might be an issue ?
Isn't this all assuming the simulation is running on a "computer" in a universe like ours.

Couldn't the universe where the simulation runs be so entirely different to ours that computing all that stuff is just easy.
I see, so the it's likely that a generic URL pattern (like your example) was accidentally included in their caching rules.

I guess I didn't think of that originally because I thought if you wanted to cache some kind of response data like this, why on earth would you use a generic URL? But perhaps they probably didn't intend to cache this endpoint.
The rationale for this style seems to be to make it appealing to Lisp programmers, which will find it familiar.

I also dislike it for C (as much as I appreciate GNU's contribution). As we all know, K&R is the one true style.
This is exactly what happens when you sort the number ascending and compute the sum starting from the smallest. Like in the article.

Except this doesn't work if you must handle negative numbers. So what matters is not the smallest numbers but the number nearer from zero.
Rooster Ultimate Team, or RUT.

An apt description of the franchise since FIFA 2013.
Good point, but this isn't really a good thing :-/
I meant mines applied to the ship directly. Not floating around.
You joke, but LG makes a <3lb (1.36kg) 17” laptop. That’s impressive. (I can’t vouch for its quality, I don’t have one).

Samsung makes a 15.6” laptop that weighs 2.6lbs, which is extremely practical. I’m planning on getting one. I wouldn’t be if it had the bulk and weight of a removable battery.