skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All bitcoin transactions use the blockchain.

Depends on how you define bitcoin transaction. The majority of BTC <> USD transactions (or any other currency) has no involvement of the blockchain at all. They happen purely within the databases of the markets.

> the same could be said about nearly any financial instrument

Well, that's kind of my point. People say that Bitcoin, the technology, is being used for lots of transactions already. However, most BTC, the cryptocurrency, transactions don't use the Bitcoin blockchain at all. They use the same basic technology that traditional banks and markets use. So where's the value add in the blockchain if it isn't being used?
As for GPU (ML/DL) intensive classes or projects, using google colab worked just fine - at least if you're going to write in Python. Also, schools tend to have their own dedicated machines with good GPU power - you could always just SSH into these and let them do the heavy lifting.
No company runs on ETH... lol. I'm sure the private VCs invested in thousands of projects (like Uniswap, Maker, etc.) feel exactly the same way.
If you dynamically set this to the current year, you’re doing it wrong.

The copyright notice is there to indicate when the copyright started; i.e. when the creative work was first fixed into a tangible medium. If you created something in 2020 and you tell people that it’s copyright 2021, you are in essence cheating to get an extra year of the already absurdly long copyright period. If you created something in 2020 and then modified it in 2021, then use a range of 2020–2021.

The copyright notice is not there to tell you what the current year is. What would the point of that be? Everybody knows what the current year is.
Buying hardware to mine vs buying tokens to stake... really there is no difference in accessibility here.
Which OS? Does not work on Linux.

There's new hidepid mount option on Linux though.
Great answer, I buy all of those reasons as strong justifications to prioritize simplicity.

I think it seems a little bit extreme in some ways, because when we talk about Gemini's implementation being simple, the FAQ isn't just talking about structure/readability, it's saying 100-200 lines for a basic client. To me that crosses from 'should be auditable' into something else entirely -- I'm not sure why having a 1000 line client would make this significantly harder to audit, or build, or re-implement in Rust. I'm not sure Rust is that complicated of a language.

But :shrug:, I guess if you shoot for an extreme metric, then you know you'll end up with something that meets all of your other goals as well, so those requirements do make some sense to me when phrased as part an overall architectural stability/reliability goal.
Battery life on linux laptops are always bad. Unless you want to try a bunch of custom hacks that could break things in the future for you (when you update) in the name of saving battery...

It's the last thing that's stopped me from using linux on a laptop day to day. A macbook is far superior for mobile needs (though more pricey) and I can justify a linux desktop for my day-to-day development activities because it's plugged into the power.
> Conveniently ignoring how the exponentially increasing fiat supply incentivises pulling forward consumption from the future to be spent on unnecessary things today.

Isn't that called keeping the economy going? There are people and physical capital that need something to do today. You can't save today's time for tomorrow, no matter what kind of money you have.

> Thereby massively misallocating investment in the world simply because people don't have a sound money which they can save for the future.

That sounds a lot like a depression, which probably wouldn't be too painful of an experience to the few people sitting on hoards of money, waiting for the choicest investment opportunities. Everyone else on the other hand...
Agreed. I wasn’t a big fan of seveneves.

Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash are must reads. Anathem is a beast that I just couldn’t get into, though I tried several times.
It's almost like developers flock to the most interesting, innovative, and lucrative space currently on the market today. The fact so many developers on here dismiss without doing even basic research is kind of sad
That's an interesting question. Sometimes I experiment with my meds into micro dosage levels if I have a long weekend. Sometimes I'll even keep a journal and sometimes I'll mix with other agents like microdosed psilocybe or LSD and run tests on neuroplacticity.

Some times on the weekends I'll take 2mg or less of my ADHD meds just to clear the noise out of my head so I can get a nap. It works a treat, I wake up feeling refreshed and I can tackle some chores or do nothing at all with only muted versions of my normal symptoms.

I wouldn't say this is not recreational. It's my body and am curious about how it works and also I think it's always good to experiment with making very low doses or even medication fasts (in relation to stims specifically THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE) part of any regimen. Testing out strategies on my free time and not at work is just responsible. My ADHD medication makes me employable and has helped tremendously with my ability to maintain valuable relationships, it's crucial for me to make my way in a world designed around shit that is nearly torture for me, but I really hope to not be on the stims one day and I think it's going to take some work to figure that out. I'm a long time psychonaut so what is recreation to you might not be the same thing it is to me but I consider the observations and experiments to be recreational.
This is a blind spot for Americans, but the main reason you can print so much money without a penalty, is because foreign entities that hold dollars as a reserve currency, have a vested interest in keeping the dollar stable.[1] They buy up dollars to increase their reserves and keep the dollar inflation low. America can do this because they can protect their world reserve currency status by show of force.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex-currencies/09231...

[2] https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lecture/transcript/print/when-curr...
I guess because of Attenuation?
While WinDev keeps pushing their C++ agenda that hope is definitly naive.
IMO these people are shooting themselves in the foot long term. If companies learn to WFH full time these people will eventually be replaced with cheaper labour from oversees.
I’m struggling a bit with the layout of the arguments in this article. In particular, it seems to conflate several related, but different things.

- Face/voice recognition, which is just statistical modeling and threshold testing at the end of the day.
- (Mis)use of face/voice recognition to test for things that these technologies aren’t going to accurately measure
- Equating the former to phrenology, when it’s a more accurate of an analogy to equate the latter to phrenology.

Overall, I agree with the basic premise that face/voice recognition being misused to apply prejudice is a valid concern.
How is the first case ("Don't do :") in base64 example different from the second one? It seems to me to be exactly same thing. In both cases base64 reads from stdin and echo builtin is used. What am I missing?
Without a nationwide Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Infrastructure to Vehicle (I2V) communication system the answer is probably "No" and that's the elephant in the room no one is really talking about yet.

That's because the I2V would be hugely expensive to implement and maintain. Car companies are not going to pay for it, and it'd be a tough sell to taxpayers.

More expensive cars and roads are not a great move right now. When we need is more efficient and less expensive cars and better driver training programs.
Next step, can it run Crysis?
Proxmox Backup Server has LTO tape support now:

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/tape-backup.html

IIRC they rewrote the tape driver in userspace in rust.
I moved to Germany a couple of years ago and since learning the language, I started to understand and enjoy the “hidden” meanings behind many German names. “Morgenbesser” literally translates to “better tomorrow”.
I'm afraid so. The Democratic party has "more" people willing to help the masses, but not a big enough group to get effective policy. Both parties have traded full control back and forth, yet nothing gets done to help our insane wealth inequality.

Look at how quickly Biden's minimum wage increase got smashed. More interesting, look at how some populists on the right are also calling for it. And look at how populists and progressives on both sides are asking for regulations on big tech.

The progressive wing is split. Trump picked up a ton of voters that were mad Obama didn't help them. These voters otherwise align more with Bernie Sanders and AOC. You'll notice some MAGA voters have a begrudging respect for those two. It's because they honestly want to help people, reputation be damned.

The US is on a path towards oligarchy unless the voters can shake our parties free from their corporate overlords.
Not all vaccines are created equal. Grouping people in "pro/anti-vax" carries a risk of creating a huge backlash against vaccination in general, if the relatively new and unproven mRNA vaccines end up less than ideal. For example the virus mutates to bypass the very specific protein the vaccine targets, or there are serious side effects, possibly on the reproductive path, a few years down the pipeline. Consider being more specific, for example 'pro/anti mRNA Covid vaccines'.
Central banks never held beanie baby reserves, whereas thousands of tons of gold are held among central bank reserves. Why do you suppose they hold it?
Ironically, if you succeed in your argument that heresy is the way to to go, you'll find yourself in a logical absurdity.

If you are successful in your argument and convert sufficient numbers to aim at heresy, then "be a heretic" becomes the new orthodoxy. When that happens, "be orthodox" will be the new heresy, and it will be impossible not to be a heretic: the orthodox will aim at heresy, and those aiming at orthodoxy will be heretical.
You sound like a fun person to work with!
> Read about the lightning network

How does the lighting network obviate the need for mining, which is the deliberately wasteful part?
Another guy got Doom running on potatoes, so I'd say yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFDlVgBMomQ
Reminds me of this comic:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
I'm currently re-reading Seveneves again. Great book. I even like the third part which many people have criticized. However, that might have actually planted the seed for this new book.

This book looks like it might be a bit in the same spirit in the sense that our home planet is abused a bit. Part three of Seveneves is about the aftermath of essentially terra forming Earth in the distant future after it gets destroyed in part 1.

People think about other planets when it comes to terra forming but of course our home planet might be the easiest one to practice on and doing so might get a bit urgent as we seem to be destroying it. Great premise for a near future science fiction novel.

If you are looking for recommendations. Ian Banks can be a bit hard to read but can be very entertaining. Arthur C Clarke wrote some awesome science fiction. More recently, The Martian (Andy Weir) was great. And Andy Weir just published another book that's on my list to read soon. The expanse series of books (James S. A. Corey) is a good read. 2312 (Stanley Robinson) is also worth a look.

And of course if you at all enjoyed Seveneves, you might want to read the rest of what NS wrote. Anathem is great. Snow Crash, the Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon are classics at this point.
Also: Xcode has been able to parse and display the Markdown documentation comments in Swift code for years. It's really nice! Doesn't mean DocC isn't worthwhile, but at least the PSOTU and Meet DocC presentation seemed to not only ignore outside prior art, but Xcode's existing capabilities too.
Do you think Seveneves is weaker than Fall? That seems like a really hard sell to me.
They seem to be the same site as https://hcqmeta.com/, and while their data collection and aggregation looks excellent, their use of meta-statistics seemed mathematically questionable to me in the past, potentially leading to confusing messaging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949919.

Also perhaps worth highlighting the note at the top of their pages saying they believe vaccination is better: "While many treatments have some level of efficacy, they do not replace vaccines and other measures to avoid infection." This seems mathematically defensible to me, since a vaccine that is 95% effective is a 33% risk reduction over a treatment that is 80% effective, per some of the estimated averages on that page (since going from 5% remaining risk to 15% risk is 3 times more cases).
Anathem was (surprisingly!) my first book by him. I then read Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, and am now a cryptographer, in no small part due to these books =)
Will humans ever learn to speak whale?
The Pali canon contains one sects idea of the kernel of Buddha’s teaching. It so happens that sect has survived to this day while many of its competitors did not. That does not make its claims any more valid. The site you quote itself says that it began to be redacted around 300+ years after Buddhas demise. By contrast the books of the New Testament were composed 40-100 years after Jesus’s death and even then scholars hotly contest how much were his actual words. All the prominent figures in late stage Indian Buddhism were Mahayanists of various stripes. They would certainly disagree that Pali texts were the kernel of the Buddhas teaching.

I am mystified as to what you think I’ve got wrong about karma. As you say Nirvana involves the cessation of karma. Jnana alone is its cause. This is the same as Advaita Vedanta (and several other darshanas.). The point of difference is what pragmatic concessions are to be given to those who cannot become monks. To be a Buddhist in ancient India was to be a monk. There were lay people who donated to the monks but they otherwise carried on their ancestral traditions. There was no specifically Buddhist way to be a layman until after the religion left India. In Smartism, to learn Advaita Vedanta and give up karma and become a monk is the highest goal but if you can’t, rituals and worldly life still have some positive worth. Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Tantra were even more this-world oriented and in actual practice more egalitarian and accessible than Buddhism nevermind whatever rhetoric was put forth.

I don’t understand the distinction you are trying to make between sectarian division and philosophical difference. A philosophical difference is what makes a sect a sect no?

We agree that Buddha was not a Hindu. For exactly the same reasons we must say Buddha was not not a Hindu. The whole question anachronistically projects latter day concerns and concepts too far into the past. But was Buddhism (or is or could it be) Hinduism? That’s the real bone of contention anyway and its a much more ambiguous question. We could mention how Buddha is an avatar of Vishnu or Yoga borrows concepts from Mahayana or the wholesale adoption of Shaiva tantric concepts in Vajrayana. I personally like to compare with Jainism. It is just as old as Buddhism, heretical to Astikas for exactly the same reasons as Buddhism and yet thoroughly integrated into social structures, modes of worship, and literary traditions to the extent that the man in the street is not even aware that Jainism is anything more than another Hindu sect. I think that would have been the fate of Buddhism if it had survived to this day. And that’s the key. It went extinct a long time ago. So the correct answer to my question is: “we don’t know.”
some of these appear to not actually have curated tasks. it lists exiv2 for example which links to an issues tag on github, but it's empty https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/issues?q=label%3A%22good+firs...
Same goes for all makers of those "independent games". If just one of those goes rogue, th system is void. You need trust in all of them, not just those that you are playing.

Worse, if your game currency is a decentraliced ledger, then it's much harder to do something about the rogue participant. That's by design. If it's instead a central entity, they can kick out that party on a whim.
Oh fun, now I can watch someone think a solution on zoom. Jesus, it was painful enough doing it in person.
Says who? For what threat?

Recall the Pan Am flight exploded over Scotland. Explosives were concealed in a radio.

Who is to say that grandma isn’t packing such a device?

The threat of a 9/11 style hijacking is largely neutralizes by reinforced cockpit doors. But any person can be a mule, knowingly or unknowingly, for contraband of various types.
I always love the "grinding to a halt" metaphor because it's so terrible. Bitcoin average block times don't change when lots of people are using it, and neither does tx throughput. Nothing grinds to a halt.
Social hierarchies have their downsides, but if history is a guide, they are necessary. Any behavior that appears in all recorded cultures is likely to be a core survival advantage, and therefore very fundamental to us as humans operationally and unlikely to change.
> > has strong similarities to the drug trade.

> well that's a bit over the top.

“There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.” — Edward Tufte
Thanks for the links. EPA and DHA being the key components, the following is often missed when discussing omega-3 fats. So fish fed on vegetable based feed don’t get the EPA and DHA.

“DHA and EPA are present in fish, fish oils, and krill oils, but they are originally synthesized by microalgae, not by the fish. When fish consume phytoplankton that consumed microalgae, they accumulate the omega-3s in their tissues [3].“
Totally true. They're already being replaced domestically by cheaper labor coming here from overseas. Imagine if there wasn't all that paperwork involved and their hiring pool gets larger at the same time.
>I think many people now realize the inherent inefficiencies when teams are 12 time zones apart

Having people 12 hours offset from the US is useful if you would otherwise have to recruit US employees to work a night shift.
That culture has been long gone for thousands of years. The current culture of anti-intellectualism, pseudo-nationalism and hatemongering will not take India to any forefront of world leadership.

The sooner we Indians stop living in the past and live in the present - and work for our future, the better.
The gateway books, the mote in gods eye, ringworld series, robots series from asimov, the expanse series, three body problem series, the culture series of books by Ian Banks. There are tons more lol.
Having had to restore from tape in very stressful circumstances, if I still did sys admin on that sort of thing I would definitely be paranoid enough to want a second tape off-site. If not daily, then at least on some sort of regular rotation. Though it would depend on the criticality, and for anything really critical I'd want a colo storage server as well. If the data is critical then even for a relatively small business $15k in upfront costs for the tape drives and lots of tapes and annual costs at the colo center wouldn't be all that much.
The example contract in the link I posted doesn't rely on third-party data sources (with the exception, perhaps, of time).

Does the oracle problem still apply?
I mean maybe? I don't think it's that consiquential for hobbyists as the lack of microcontrollers or other components. For instance, I can electroplate quite a few different substrates if I want to cut my own boards. Also after years of doing this, I have so much proto crap I'm probably good till the next pandemic but probably only have a couple unused Teensys and maybe an arduino or two laying around. I don't see the supply chain ever springing back to what it was. We are in a whole new world of scarcity for at least a few years IMO. Which I'm not that upset about at all really. It's inconvenient and possibly dangerous but I think the reorganization will create resilience in our supply chains and also the lack of gear will encourage people to do very interesting things with stuff that would be considered trash in 2019 and we need more of that. E-Waste is a huge problem.
A lot of time and complexity went into inventing those simple things. If you ever made something 'large' in a very constraint environment (like a mcu with 24kb for all including the drivers and the OS) which is what old home computers and consoles had in common with that and demo programming in another but similar way (getting every ounce from the system which has (artificial or real) limitations, you will have noticed that this is hardly comparable with what the author is saying. You are mixing glue and other code and try to sometimes mix them into one thing (stuff a hardware driver inside the business logic) etc. In the modern demoscene potentially more (depending on the allowed size of the end result), but in the other cases the end result will have far less resemblance of something that called be considered and architecture. Or something you want to work with afterwards. The code fits in your head and you understand every byte; that does not scale to much more than indeed these examples. Not something the author is targeting or referencing besides line count. And we are indeed talking line count then k/j or code golfing would fit with different degrees of readability of the end result, just like your examples and most embedded code (not talking rasberry pis; talking what runs in your dishwasher).
What does free have to redirect to another project. At minimum it should redirect to github examples page.
Now your argument hinges on it not being security theater. You have to make the case that airport security is so vital and effective that we need to profile people to get that slight edge.
Space opera:

- The Culture series by Banks

- Dune, at least the first book

Psycho paranoia classics:

- Anything by Philip K Dick, especially Ubik

- Solaris by Lem

1000+ pages of terraforming epic: Mars trilogy by KS Robinson

Hardest sci fi ever, a HN classic whenever cellular automata are discussed: Permutation City by Greg Egan
Per the later comments on the issue, the documentation on doing it in Azure Console is no longer accurate. This makes Powershell the only option.