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Ask HN: Favorite Quotes
Sometime when reading I find quotes that express an idea in a perfect way. e.g.:

> But I'm studying hard -- I started up again a few days ago - and I've demonstrated to myself quite a few times that if I do anything daily for a few years I can get pretty good at it -- Steve Yegge

> In the curl project we’re deliberately conservative and we stick to old standards, to remain a viable and reliable library for everyone. Right now and for the foreseeable future. Things that worked in curl 15 years ago still work like that today. The same way. Users can rely on curl. We stick around. We don’t knee-jerk react to modern trends. We sit still in the boat. -- Daniel Stenberg

> "Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the great programmers"

and lots of others[1].

What are you favorite quotes?

[1] https://mhasbini.com/highlights.html
Apple Is Killing Email Read Receipts, Like Entirely
It sometimes gets easier if you first define a negative number as an "opposite positive." You can then engage in a discussion of what the opposite of an opposite is. Ultimately though, finding multiple approaches for the teaching the same concept is going to serve you better than locking in one specific analogy.

There's no one right way to teach math (or anything, really) because teaching is a dynamic relationship between teacher and student that is highly contextual and subjective. That, I think, is one of the underlying issues with standardization in schools. Something that works for 80% of kids will unfortunately fail that remaining 20%.
At this point, Apple isn't just 12 years behind industry leader Waymo, they might be chasing a tech that's still decades away.

I think it's infinitely more likely that Apple creates a non-self driving car that millions will buy than creating a self-driving car beyond level 2.
I hate that formatting style personally.
A physical clock showing how much percent of your life is completed
I love Bandcamp, but man do they need to improve their app and website. It's been pretty much stagnant for a long time and there's just so much potential. Handling of collections is just terrible. You cannot sort or group your collection in any way. You cannot even easily distinguish between single tracks and albums! You cannot create playlists. You cannot download several things at once. And most egregiously: Bandcamp must sit on a ton of data to make good suggestions to what other music I'd probably like, and they do pretty much nothing with it. The only thing I could find is when you click on an album, you see a few suggestions at the bottom, that's it. Such a shame.

Again: I love Bandcamp and regularly buy stuff there, but it could be SO much better!
I don't think it's fair to compare the specific, fairly measurable consequences of not fully considering how to "prevent highly poisonous gas from escaping from the factory" vs. the more vague and complex environmental impact of a delay in car production.

But lets put that aside and let me ask you this:

What amount of delay would you be ok with in addressing environmental concerns?
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If on a site without accounts, of course each comment needs to be taken individually. But if a site has accounts and someone makes a head-scratching comment, I'll sometimes look through their post history to try to get a better understanding of the context.

If there's functionality available to view people's previous comments, then the system partly intends this to be a measure to help assess integrity and credibility, among other things.

>If we go through a users history and use it against people the only thing it does is push people to use more throwaway accounts.

What's wrong with using throwaway accounts?

>Each comment needs to stand on its own for HN to function.

I don't agree. If that's the case, then why are comments associated with usernames? Why can you see accounts' karma? That information is visible because it's intended to be visible.

Personally, I actually do tend to prefer account-less sites on average (where everything is solely a throwaway, so to speak). But if you're going to give me the tools, then I'm sometimes going to use them, especially if I suspect potential for motivated reasoning.

So I'd be happy with an anonymous HN fork. But if I'm on a non-anonymous one, I'm going to be looking at people's usernames; often reflexively. If I see something from a name I trust, it'll increase credibility for me, and if I see something from a name I distrust, it'll decrease credibility for me. And if I don't recognize it, I may look at their history and may adjust my perception based on what I see. For example, if they seem to be a "single-issue commenter".

I agree you shouldn't actually mention someone's post history in a reply unless you think it's highly, egregiously relevant. In this case, I think it's justified.
Pickpockets work by just chatting with you while someone else does the work. Stay vigilant!
Global banking regulators need to be investigated and brought to justice.
Which checks will the compiler remove? If you haven't invoked undefined behaviour then that should be a bug in the compiler
Absolutely, with the productivity gains I wonder if the world will need less developers.
Google Deploys AI to Build Better AI Hardware Accelerators
Note that there are three things going on here:

- how good is your office environment as a work environment? (e.g. does it have productivity-destroying measures like being open, or is it acoustically quiet, or has nice facilities, etc). Also applies to home environment!

- how good is your commute (time/cost/gruellingness/exposure to infection from other humans)

- how much are you paying in land/real estate cost to have (a) an office in a prestige location and (b) workers within commuting range to it? There is a huge amount of money being paid to landlords and rentiers in the broader sense, and it would be a big efficiency for the economy as a whole to .. not do that.
Reminds me of my first trip to a datacenter, where the guy who accompanied us said: "In the event of a fire this room is filled with nitrogen in 20 seconds. But don't worry: nitrogen is not toxic!" Well, I was a little worried :)
We’ve had COVId vaccines for ages? Where you been hiding them?

So as per your wiki article no country is requiring them. So really not sure what you’re talking about. There are absolutely some vaccines required for travel, but COVID is not one of them. Just like influenza and a whole host of other vaccines.
The notion that there is a fixed line between cultures is itself a farce, but, historically the majority of such maps drawn for empires are written using the implied borders from latter-day interpretations of geography that was mentioned by an eventual victor as annexed. However, the reality on the ground is usually much different. In some cases, thousands of years different.
Does that military count towards the US dollar's impact on the climate?
If you want to keep your country beautiful, you might want to consider enforcing some rules so that it stays like that. That's exactly what German groups are trying here. You do not get nice countries by lowering the standards there.
I am tempted to see how far I can get with an IBM carbon design component set using this.
James Webb space telescope will be at L2 point. My point is that station keeping is probably not that hard.
However, it said looser rules could apply to stablecoins – a new form of digital asset usually pegged to the value of a traditional currency – that may require only a level of capital rules applied to traditional assets such as bonds, loans, deposits, equities or commodities.

Isn't that assuming that stablecoins are inherently lower risk than Bitcoin? Why should we take that assumption at face value? This just seems like it'd offer banks a way to launder their crypto risk by funneling it through stablecoins. Then, when a big spike or drop in the value of Bitcoin causes a stablecoin to break its peg, a bunch of banks who've put their crypto assets in the stablecoin in order to take advantage of the looser rules are suddenly caught out.
There aren't such big cities in Switzerland to actually need a metro. Surface transport does just fine, plus some transit trains going under where it can't be avoided. So yes lately many investments go in new train tunnels, you can load your car and go that way for really long distances or across mountains, you have the sleeping wagons back in fashion, you can send your heavy luggage ahead via same train for a minor charge, you have night transport for when you come back drunk from clubbing... so you can keep your car for the casual shopping trip and for taxiing kid's football team to the weekend match. Not much need otherwise, and yes, it works already.
Who bribed or put the pressure on El Salvador? Outwardly, it doesn’t make any sense except as a publicity stunt.
Looks like Conway's game of life next generation.
Not so. The US government can require you to pay them it, under certain (very common) circumstances.
I think it depends. I have lupus so I’ve got a low grade fever pretty frequently even though for the most part I’m perfectly fine. I’m certainly not contagious. In the early days of the pandemic I was turned away once — in front of everyone! The judgment I felt from the others in line was awful. Like I’d done something wrong for being unable to control sometime completely beyond my control. The anxiety from that one experience was enough to keep me home unless I had absolutely no choice but to go somewhere. It was certainly more than just an “inconvenience” to me and my family and no one around me was ever at risk of death because I had been diligent in masking and social distancing from the beginning.
Tether is holding US commercial paper, yes, but they won't reveal WHO they've loaned to, or under what terms. Most likely, they have created new shell corporations, made sweetheart loans to them from the Tether bank account, and then had them pay out distributions to the owners. In other words, they've replaced the cash that should be backing the Tether with likely worthless IOUs. Tether is a bomb waiting to explode the crypto space.
I know people at AWS, Alexa, Prime Video, PeopleTech and they all have roughly the same experience.

I have heard this at Facebook though, where 9-to-9 is more typical, but you know, you don't see people complaining about that online.
Democracy died in the USA the minute they gave corporations "personhood" and declared that money was "speech".
You obviously haven't done macOS updates in many years
Tesla tried it and scrapped it.

Overall, charging really will not be an issue. Most people will charge at home or work.

And in 2025-2030 there will be plenty of chargers that will push 200-300 km in 15 min on longer trips.
Crypto allows for easy instant global money laundering and sanctions evasion, in a way that cash USD could never.

It is par for the course that government regulators do not react to these threats to the global financial system until they are glaringly obvious.

It's also likely that it'll take them a few more years to actually figure out how to implement this in any meaningful way.

My guess would be that their first step will be to ban crypto exchanges from using privacy coins.

Not sure what comes next though other than an outright ban. Bitcoin's support for atomic swaps to privacy coins might mean a forced de-listing for it as well.
It’s not very effective…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_tra...
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I meant his website.
Some context to this plan:

This idea was presented to President Bukele during a Twitter Spaces[1] session where he discussed the bill with the Bitcoin community whilst it was going through voting. Mining Bitcoin was not something he has previously considered and openly ideated on the call with the community. It seems like a fully proposed plan for how Bitcoin mining will play a part in the country's overall energy policy has likely not yet been fully formed.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRnygiyuG0k&t=4s
> bit more of an attitude that one had to "pay one's dues"

I think people started asking questions like "to whom am I paying and do I get a receipt" and "what do I get in return for these dues". If there's zero loyalty from the employer side and everyone's just an instantly replaceable gig worker, the concept vanishes.

> good for a company to offer flexibility and to be very clear about exactly what is being offered.

100% this.
Is it known what kind of source code hosting solution EA is using that got hacked, and how it got hacked?
sure it's possible both the public and the government officials making the decisions might get alarm fatigue but from what we are seeing, more and more people are caring about environmental impact (even when it comes to electric cars) and think that we aren't doing enough to prevent it. The scrutiny of all major construction projects will probably only continue to increase as public perception continues to shift.
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> It seems reasonable to have personal vehicles without climate change or other environmental damage.

If you sell it like that sure...

afaik no one has found the solution to that equation, and lithium powered 2 tonnes metal cages transporting 1.4 person (on average) doesn't seem like a good fit to solve it. Sounds like a very inefficient way to do it actually.

It's much more complex than "electric -> green -> good"
Cryptocurrency is a tool that is useful to ransomware perpetrators. That's not the same as being an enabler, unless you want to classify computers and digital data storage as enablers of ransomware.
Just my personal opinion: go to a doctor with a sleep laboratory and get consultation there. Also if I were you I would try to get a brain CT scan.
Yes, and we shouldn't. Your scenario is completely plausible. Though I don't know why a bank would want to hold any significant amount of stablecoins.
He does not say that though: he acts like he wants to protect the 'dumb people' (dumb is mine: but what else fits?) by banning stuff (which NL seems to want to do more and more) (I am Dutch). Does not explain why he would not want to ban stock markets as assets like MSFT are massively overvalued as well and will crash badly next crisis. Sure cryptocurrencies have no intrinsic value and energy waste etc etc but banning something because it might crash... is somewhat weird. Especially as you screw over all people who currently are in it. So you protected far too late. And actually hurt a lot of people.

Make the ponzi/pyramid scheme case from top to bottom and educate people if you cannot make a case for illegal practice.
Thunderbird doesn't load images automatically since basically forever...
Well the pay is about half the market rate and I'm leaving soon because my SO's research group is moving across the country. I suppose I'll just go work for industry and be able to pay off student loans/own a house in my life.

Science could hold on to talent if only there was a budget for it.
The volatility isn't the issue for the regulators. What they're worried about is the ability of countries like Iran to circumvent sanctions.

My suspicion is that they will order exchanges to de-list privacy coins.
He was from Lybia, though. How dark is that? A funny anecdote from a book of my friend who backpacked Africa 15 years ago: A (dark skinned) Sudanese man was referring to some other Sudanese people from his village as "they are black". He himself also appeared black to my friend, but the man didn't consider himself black. It appears that (many?) people from North Africa are quite precise in differences of their spectrum of skin tone :)
The only thing that happened in El Salvador was a public politician making a populist statement.

It would make sense to point to Venezuela or Iran, but those examples don't get much attention for some reason.
I just re-read my comment and saying Citadel was Robinhood’s prime brokerage was definitely an error (too late to edit the comment now). I should’ve said market-maker.

Nonetheless, all the conflicts-of-interest between Citadel, Robinhood, and Melvin still stand. Citadel own Melvin, Citadel are market-makers for Robinhood, Citadel are members of the DTCC, Robinhood users cost Melvin billions, Citadel are footing the bill.
The news is a little bit short, but the objection to the first tests of their machines is, that in a case of emergency the current safety concept lacks measures to prevent the escaping of hydrogen fluoride (see the open letter in German by the Grüne Liga Brandenburg here: https://www.grueneliga-brandenburg.de/index.php?cat=2&pageID...). They claim that changes to this safety concept will require changes to the factory itself and this changes need to be implemented first, before Tesla can start with it's tests.
>lots of learning the soft skills

This is actually something that didn't cross my mind through this whole thing, and I don't know why. I love WFH, and wish my employer would extend the option, rather than take a hardline stance against it (old administration doesn't understand productivity tools so we all suffer).

That being said, if I was just starting out in the working world, my prospects absolutely would've been different as time went on. Working in an office full time 100% helped me realize that soft skills are as, if not more important than technical skill.

As a director of a very diverse department now, I actually look for soft skills more than anything. Technical aspects can be learned via the on-boarding process. Soft skills are so much harder to hone, though. Especially if you're entirely remote.
Thanks for reaching out. I'll def keep watching the project. Really happy to see there is a C version.

What is the roadmap for I/O and common data formats support on the C side (like csv, json, xml...etc), or do you get all of that with the bootstrapping?
22% of their GDP is remittance based.

The US treats them like shit since they have the USD as currency. God forbid a country wants more independence

70% of the country has no bank, for Bitcoin all you need is the internet and a simple wallet app.
Just south of this manufactury in Lausitz there are the largest open-pit mines of brown coal in Europe. Somehow this is not a problem, or vast open-pit mines are an asset to the countryside and the environment?
Normally the next step would be a vote on an identical bill in the state’s Assembly.

But Thursday is the last day of session for the NY legislature, and the bill has not yet escaped committee, making a vote by the full Assembly unlikely.

The battle for fair repair in New York will continue into next year’s session, with a strong record of success.

So eventually... maybe.
Nvidia GPUs only.
https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/poundland/poundland-writes-to-po...
I wonder if only a few got to use it due to the high costs?
Sometimes children seek this kind of stimulation. I used to love trying to solve 'advanced' problems. Making new connections, i.e. "wow, so THATS why that is the way it is" were some of my favorite memories. I did Math Olympiad as a kid not because my parents pushed me - on the contrary - I pushed on them (and my teacher) to get into the program.

Obviously it's not for everyone, but I personally I would have killed to have started learning the 'interesting' stuff earlier in my life.
1) A market correction is deflationary pretty much by definition 2) Inflation is a lagging indicator. The obvious expectation months ago would have been economic activity increasing after COVID 3) Valuation is often disconnected from revenue or anything else you'd consider rational, and it has nothing to do with inflation. An equity is its own thing, not a perfect indicator of economic reality
look/feel very reminiscent Osmos game, even the audio:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QADU5SHHO-w
Yes absolutely, plex is just the player. All the media is still files stored where you want, and you can use another player any time.
So does the Euro, which is used in his country, and so was the Dutch Guild, the one that came before. So does any other currency in use in the world.

> Fiat money does not have intrinsic value and does not have use value. It has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
We have 100% power back up here in most apartments

Thanks for illustrating the point.

you can truly live life king size

In Chinese there is a saying, 井底之蛙 (jǐng dǐ zhī wā).
https://www.echineselearning.com/blog/kids-chinese-learning-... (PS. I am not Chinese)
Tether seems like a time bomb: https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...
Interesting how this narrative is forming. Politicians and bureaucrats around the globe are saying the same things in unison.

BTC is framed as destructive or dangerous and CBDC is their solution.

The same conclusion was arrived at in a recent Senate hearing chaired by Elizabeth Warren. Three out of four of her panelists had connections to the World Economic Forum. The fourth had connections to the US central bank.

https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/building-a-stronger-...

https://www.weforum.org/people/neha-narula

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/darrell-duffie

https://digitaldollarproject.org/
This tool is great. I found it after noticing an entire CPU core being constantly fully utilized by ASUS's lighting control service. It's great being able to stop the unicorn vomit without bloated utilities and drivers from multiple vendors.
Mining is absolutely productive, as a secondary effect of course. The process creates potential money that is impossible to counterfeit. This simply did not exist before, maintaining that is of enormous value.

Of course, if this can be done without ongoing expenditure that would be better.
I think there’s something to be said for the fixed “work” environment having an impact on your thinking and productivity.

At work = work mode, at home = home mode.
Hmm, how much of this do you think is observed today?

Next question, why are you spot picking the negatives for females but not males?

Final question, do you know at all the story as to why these restrictions are in place?
I guess, if you specify that by “others” you mean “men with guns” and “may accept” means “require you to pay them in”.
Ok, I'll ask the big question: How do you deal with politics? Specially when you are the only remote person in the team. Do you feel you have a disadvantage to someone that works in person when it comes to being recognized and growth?
El Salvador hasn't adopted it yet.
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> It's also a bit ill-timed as Bitcoin is "now a fiat currency", if you go by El Salvador's wiki page

It's probably timed right now by the Dutch CPB because El Salvador accepted BTC as a fiat currency.
Reminds me of my favorite programming game that no one has heard of: http://grobots.sourceforge.net

(Old video of grobots in action at https://youtu.be/BLXKedZHls4?t=801)

Alien looks awesome!
Google does wonders for access to information in developing countries. It empowers a whole generation to tap into the world's knowledge efficiently and learn new skills and ideas. Facebook does wonders as well for connecting people together and empowering small business owners.

The glass half-full. Of course there are problems with what they're doing and they're definitely not being altruistic. But IMO the benefits outweigh the costs.

Faster internet access for developing countries? Sign me up.

I'm flabbergasted - I come to expect more nuance from HN, and all I'm seeing in this thread is "to hell with this potentially great thing, because fuck the great evils Google and Facebook".