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Scandal in Racket community: Matthew Butterick left in anger
A long-time well-known member of the Racket community, author of Pollen and the book “Beautiful Racket,” left the community in anger and grief. He says he doesn't want to have anything to do with them anymore. Reason: violent and bullying behavior of one of the main community members. As an explanation, he also left this letter: https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/why-i-no-longer-contribute-to-racket.html

I remember Matthew writing this post on the Racket Group two years ago: https://groups.google.com/g/racket-users/c/TU5n-Z_odLY/m/f2KzHK7eCQAJ
Unfortunately, that post can now be read in a completely different light, as a kind of alarm that no one heard at the time.

Interestingly, recently another member, Leandro Facchinetti, also left the Racket community, reportedly for similar reasons. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c )
Obviously, something is rotten at the very core of the Racket community when things like this happen so frequently.
Maybe it's not as simple as you think? These countries generally chose to use USD, do you really believe that they all just made a stupid decision with no upsides?
In April and May 2021 I worked 4 days a week because I had holidays to use up but could not leave the office for an extended period time. It was truly great! I much more appreciated my weekends and was more focused at work. I am pretty sure I had a higher productivity, in the sense of amount of work per time unit. I am of the type that needs deadlines to remain motivated. That condensed work week suited me.
Was it along the lines of, trying to convince OPEC to stop accepting dollars?
Logseq is one I highly recommend: http://logseq.com/ Outliner, local file storage, API plugins, todo's and loads more. On top of everything, it is free.
When it's something like exercise, it's a bit easier to power through that inner voice. I can feel that and it might persist through the entire workout, but it's doable. I don't have to think about much, just have to perform physical tasks. It also does help "clear up" my brain in a sense, much like sitting in the shower does. This can create better results for other tasks that require more brainpower, though the effects don't really persist very long after I stop exercising, unfortunately.

Sometimes starting on tasks that require my brain to work with me can be enough momentum to push start it into whatever it is that I need to complete. But a lot of the time it is exactly as you describe; no matter how long I work at it it's extremely hard to get through or even impossible. If my brain doesn't want to retain information or process information to create something, it won't.

There are strategies and things that can help with this, but a lot of them require external resources and understanding. Having well defined tasks with good external accountability can be really helpful. Having strong incentives for completing tasks can help too. The problem is that finding people that can accommodate your needs here is pretty damn hard.
I'm with you. The focus on this line also ignores context.

Gladwell is directly quoting Nassim Taleb, and openly says how little he follows the math Taleb discusses earlier in the same chapter. The point is "Look at how smart Taleb is, I don't even know what half these words mean", he was never trying to understand the math or imply he did. In that context mis-transcribing eigenvalues doesn't feel nearly as damning as it's made out to be around these parts?
Ooh interesting constraint. The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel[1] is just a little over 100 pages but very easy to read in a single sitting so surely still counts. It's more-or-less the same as the full novel, which is what inspired The Phoenix Project. For a book genuinely under 100 pages, I'll go with The Little Prince[2]. Just a delightful story that reminds you to focus on what's important in life.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35528537-the-goal

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157993.The_Little_Prince
Not quite what they said, however, IRCCloud is all but Open Source.
You have to be careful. Otherwise you run into a version of Pascal's Mugging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging
> They have to wait a full year for the planets to realign

This actually shouldn't be true for much longer. The only reason it's true now is that we don't have spaceships that can produce constant thrust for the entire trip; our ships spend most of their time in free fall, which, as Robert Heinlein pointed out decades ago, is the equivalent of floating down the Mississippi on a raft. As he said, what we need are the equivalent of sailing ships: ships that can put out a constant thrust, even if it's small, for an entire trip. Even a thrust of 1/100 gee, which is well within our technical capability if we get serious about things like ion drives, would greatly reduce trip time to Mars (and would reduce trip times to more distant planets even more, since the advantage over free fall increases as the distance increases) and would open up a lot of options for travel that we don't currently have.

Note that this doesn't change the fact that humans on Mars will have to be self-reliant; payload mass is still payload mass and a spaceship just won't be able to carry enough of it to Mars to supply life support for any length of time staying there. Sending unmanned missions in advance might help, but I don't think even that would be enough.
There is if you have somehow decided that “the woke” is the enemy. But this behaviour is general and can be seen left and right. Stupid tribalism, manufactured outrage, and overreaction. People are regularly killed as a consequence of this. It’s a disease of our times, and it does not give any hope in our future.
I remember two versions of Finnish parliament voting machine. 1965 it was like restaurant refrigerator and 1975 it was just one wire-wrap board in a lunchbox. Never has there been such a giant leap in few years, methinks. And this is probably due to the Apollo program.
Why? It seems very rational. Especially if you're just going to run it once to get a value and not as a part of some system.
Totally agree there. Then again, without the pie in the sky goal, nobody will fund the necessary research it seems.
It's not a comprehensive list, but a good rule of thumb is that any computer spinning around computing a number that no one cares about the value of is pretend work.
Not sure if there's a mistake in that expression, since if they're similar, you're already going to get some ridiculously large magnitude (unphysical) result. Maybe you mean calculating the error between two values or convergence testing? In that case, it hardly matters if whether you do

quantity2/quantity1 - 1

or

(quantity2 - quantity1) / quantity1

with double precision and physically reasonable values.
One random (small) country adopting bitcoin doesn't do that.

Ongoing geopolitical events on the other hand (e.g. rise of china, changing energy geopolitics) probably do a lot more to reduce usa's influence
Polygon got the funding from Mark Cuban. It was not an investment in the DeFi product built on the Polygon technology.
I suppose you could stockpile stubs until you get the glue - although with my memory thats a sure-fire way to end up with a 12m pencil :p

Drying up in the bottle is an issue too :(
If everyone refuses to work for themm under those conditions, they will have to adapt, or go under.
Sanction resistant too.
I enjoyed that video when he launched it, but since then I can’t help wonder: “if the damage was so severe, how did any dinos survive and evolve into birds?” I wonder if maybe it’s a more extreme version of events.
Hope you try to avoid allowing jadedness to cloud your interpretation of & openness to reality.
It's not a conspiracy theory that he wanted to create a gold backed Pan-African currency. He openly promoted it. It's not a conspiracy theory that this would have very possibly undermined the petrodollar and all Western currencies. It's not a conspiracy theory that the United States and its allies have supported coups, rebellions, and the like to maintain their power in the past.
Ghaddafi planned to stop selling oil for dollars and sell it for gold.

It would be a disaster for US, because US enjoys benefits of printing as much money as it needs to purchase anything from abroad exchanging zeros and ones that cost nothing for real natural resources and goods from other countries.

Just about any country leader that announced plans to stop using USD for trade, was killed in some way.

Or, if USA isn't brave enough to openly attack the country, they declare it "hostile" and try to suffocate using sanctions (e.g. Iran).
Covid, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century: Pierre Kory and Bret Weinstein
Then again, investment to mitigate these kinds of risk could lead to profitable advancements even if the original cause does not happen. It's a matter of priorities.

After all, there were many important and also generally useful advancement due to space program.

In my educated opinion, we should focus on climate change first, especially securing cheap food, water and electricity for everyone. Additionally, prepare for the catastrophe that would be 5 C warming since it is likely in our lifetime. The same approaches to survive this lesser ecological problem may prove useful for space travel or terraforming.
I don't particularly care under which budget this research is done as long as it commences.
For me that actually is one thing I really love about OneNote and hate about everything that tries forcing my notes from something paper-like into something text-file-like because that's just not how I take notes. I tend to scribble into corners or wherever there's space. It doesn't linearize well, but it doesn't have to (at least for me).
I feel like a lot of people posting in this thread would benefit from reading Dang's post [0] from a few days ago about how shallow cryptocurrency discussions tend to be on HN and how we should all aim for a better level of discourse.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27497207
Countries that use the Euro for their official currency, and are not the European Union, have a broken financial system. They need to fix that to a point where they can implement their own sovereign currency.
If you expect bit-for-bit reproducible results, then yea, you'd have to know about the nitty-gritty details. The values should usually still correspond to the same thing in common real world precision though.
That's a neat idea! Adding to the list.
Did you watch the video pmoriarty linked? If that is a valid model of the aftermath of a very large asteroid collision, then no, you would not be better off here than on Mars. It would literally be hotter than Venus for an extended period of time, if what they are saying is correct.
Meh, bitcoin is an interesting solution to a difficult to solve problem, but "biggest breakthrough" is rediculously hyperbolic. The applications beyond decentralized trustless tradeable tokens have mostly been toy examples.

Examples of bigger breakthroughs in the field of p2p communication: the internet. Distributed hash tables.
not really. Just an internet connection.

of course the more people that adopt it means the more people needs a reliable internet connection. so if you go from 35% of the population with reliable internet to 80% of the population wanting to/being forced to use BTC then you may have a maturity issue...
The shoulder-mount one fires a net. The one that's pointing down can knock out a drone that's a long way away...
https://www.droneshield.com/dronegun-tactical
I write markdown in text files and organize them into directories backed up by dropbox ( but could be anything really ). It works way better than all the different note taking apps I've used.
Tiny Habits by B.J. Fogg would likely help you further.

The key trick is to start really small to remove the hurdle of getting going and establishing the habit, and returning to small in moments of low motivation or other impediment (eg 1 pushup will keep the momentum. 0 pushups won't)
> I am where I am intentionally and I am meant to be there

Sounds very Calvinist.
The adhesive strength of inks to the substrate is measured with two tests: a tape test with 3M Scotch 234 and the conventional cross cut test. Usually, the change in electrical resistance is taken into account while performing these tests.
For high frequency or radio applications, the surface roughness of the dry film is important.
That's better than the flu shot most years. Why is the bar so high for covid?
There is, along with all other modern forms of commerce, jit, logistics, and delivery systems.

If your argument is btc doesn't work without the internet, you should keep in mind that nothing else does either.
Inside a transistorized shift register box, built in 1965 for Apollo testing
Plus ~$6k in federal income tax on the $18.3k at a marginal tax rate of 32%. And maybe state taxes on equity comp too, not sure if or how that would be taxed in CA.
Diving into Toolchain
I don’t think they’ve ever made a $95 billion acquisition. Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, each ~$4-7 billion. I believe Fox was their biggest acquisition by far, and it was decently close to Stripe, at $71 billion.

But yeah, a $95 billion acquisition would be huge, and very rare.
The public justification for killing Gaddafi is 'stopping the imminent genocide', which by the way, he literally declared he was about to commit.

If a country that doesn't have vast amounts of oil "declares imminent genocide", would US or EU intervene? Of course, no.

Also we all know that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction".
I don't think its cencorship resistence is that impressive. The amount of data you can publish is pretty limited, which is a key property of cencorship resistence.
It's a kademlia based app, this shit was around in the 90s. I'd argue the biggest breakthrough was the Turing machine but sure the consensus math is interesting.
>It's especially good since "market cap" of a crypto is a made-up marketing number

I've never heard this before. What makes you think this?

If there's one thing I've learned, an open market is rarely wrong, esp. in the mid to long term.
> There is a perception that jazz is dead, and Davis himself even famously declared that jazz was dead. This is pretty unfair. For one thing, almost all of jazz is on Spotify now at amazingly high quality.

I think the recognition of this trend is what led people to start declaring "jazz is dead".
Yes. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder) talks about this in his talk with Lex Fridman. According to him, the overhead of running a Quantum computer will be higher than the speed-up advantage you get by using it for mining.

Link to his talk https://youtu.be/3x1b_S6Qp2Q?t=2580 (43:00)
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>The public justification for killing Gaddafi is 'stopping the imminent genocide', which by the way, he literally declared he was about to commit.
>The thing is, geopolitics is messy and there are quite a number of 'factors' many of them true to some extent.

Yes, exactly. It's not that I know I am right, or that there's one answer. But it is interesting only one of the discussions is allowed, and one very plausible explanation is universally labeled as a "conspiracy theory".

>The real question to ask someone when they are talking about 'Bitcoin' is how much Bitcoin (or other crypto) do you own? Because I find it's like talking to people in Amway or Scientology.

FWIW, basically none. Might have an old wallet on the computer in my closet with ~.1 left on it, from back when I used to buy drugs off the silk road. But I'm not a crypto fanatic, though I do find it interesting.
Any construction project generates significant greenhouse gas - concrete and its production are major GHG generators, and disturbing the soil, displacing living plants also tends to generate emissions.

Building a new power plant in addition to all your existing ones will never reduce GHG emissions, regardless of how clean the new one is. We need to start tearing down old power plants and reducing consumption overall, not finding new things to spend countries' worth of energy on.
Exactly, that's not a flaw, that's rational behaviour. Why design an intricate solution for a one-off. Using 15 times the amount of time it would have taken you manually to automate a pretty standard task is just stupid, though we all do it.

Do the first thing that works, don't overthink it.
Definitely better than K-Means Most of the times
That is a good point, although I used to work for a US multinational with people based in France and they often took 3-4 weeks in one go. More than that might be pushing it a bit.
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> The world bank responding to such a request shows how big of a thing Bitcoin has become.

No, not really. The World Bank answers the questions their members ask them.

In this case El Salvador's president asked the World Bank to help him out implementing his plan to adopt Bitcoin as a parallel legal currency, but the World Bank rejected the request citing environmental and transparency concerns.

If anything, the only big thing in this story is that El Salvador's president made a promise to adopt a new currency even though he has no clear plan, or realistic, to pull it off.
His point is not about what C abstract machine is, rather that there existed C implementations that used a stack machine as target.

You can start with "A Book on C" for such implementation description,

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-10233-4
I guess this went under the radar (heh), but they also introduced a new React component called Stripe Payment Element, to help with local payment methods around the world: https://twitter.com/jordanstaniscia/status/14052064129473822...
Kademlia had no consensus mechanism.

>I'd argue the biggest breakthrough was the Turing machine

Witty, but that's not peer to peer computing.
That is true.

On the other hand, while I'm (unfortunately for this discussion) not an expert in money laundering laws, the police tend to confiscate money that is known to have been laundered (or even before they know for sure apparently). Since Bitcoins are trackable, tumbled bitcoins should be "confiscated" (by marking them as illegal for use in @countries in some kind of database) and then, if the previous owner proves that they weren't doing anything illegal, unmarked. Once there is proof of illegal activity, the previous owner could be forced to return them to the rightful owner (if a rightful owner exists, such as in the case of ransomware), or either kept marked as confiscated or even marked as permanently invalid.
I think there's a high chance that they are all linked. That perhaps the founders of each great religion were all "teachers at the same school", but that the teachings they brought to humanity were given according to humanity's state of evolution, similar to how students have to go through different grades. Each teacher would then teach only what that grade is ready to learn, though they have all the knowledge.
That's an interesting idea. It was tried in 2015 as a DIY process.[1] They had a little CNC drilling rig, and they'd use it for both drilling and ink depositing. Don't know if anyone picked up on that.

Might not work if you put component pins through via holes. Plated through holes have enough hard metal to withstand that. Conductive ink, maybe not.

As usual, making your own boards is more trouble than it's worth. Board making services are cheap and all the DIY processes produce an inferior product to even low-end board services.

[1] https://youtu.be/oJyoXwNONho
One other thing - I hate the term "conspiracy theory". It was literally coined by the CIA to discredit discussion of actual conspiracies. But that's just another crazy conspiracy theory for another HN thread.
maybe you worry about drunk driving, so you never leave your house again and die alone and penniless due to tremendous opportunity costs of avoiding all possibility of a drunk driver ever hitting you.
>- How about people stop accepting laundered bitcoins first and foremost?

How do people know its laundered? If they know, its likely they're complicit so unlikely to stop if being asked to...

> - Any bitcoins that have provably been involved in illegal stuff

See above

> - Any monero/whathaveyou that come from exchanges that accept bitcoin that have received Bitcoins that were involved in illegal stuff

See above also

>- Will bitcoin still have value when quantum computers are around?

Why not?
Its reasonable to assume that any increasing capability in hardware will likely also benefit design and capability of software.
They'll just make the maths a lot lot harder (to be absurdly simplistic)
Another day, another Stripe product.
What does it mean? Even a session cookie is used at a later date, e.g. 5 minutes later. The law does not specify minimum retention time.
Man, I feel you. High intensity trumpet can be so grating. If a trumpet is going to be played in it’s higher registers with a lot of intensity it’s usually more palatable if it’s blended into other sounds to create a composite. Adding some lower tones really softens the edge and balances it out.

That’s the art of arranging music. You can write a good song and you can perform it well, but an arranger who knows how to blend the colors of sound will make you feel it in a tactile way. It’s probably the aspect of music that feels most like cooking to me: It’s like having a savory base with an acidic note that cuts across everything. Control of musical texture is so broad and rewarding when you stumble on something exciting and “right”.
Overkill. KISS. n counts moving the decimal left 3 places until there are <=3 digits left. Keep one place to the right.

"BKMGTPE". n==0 => 'B'; n==4 => 'T'.

810 has 3 digits. n==0, 810B.

999950 has 6 digits. n==1, you've got 999.9K

1100000 has 7 digits. n==2, 1.1M

1234567890 has 10 digits. n==3, 1.2G
Besides the blatant whataboutism, is there anything in OP's message that you don't agree with?
I've read online (take it with a pinch of salt) that one of the reasons for the Premier League's global success is making sure that the "presentation" layer* of what the audience sees is pristine. Early investment by Sky Sports in HD technology and pristine pitches are part of this. Contrast that to say Serie A, where the camera feeds looked slightly "muddy" by comparison, and the pitches not as good.

* In some cases, it's really just a facade, e.g. with Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium. United's American owners have quite literally let the stadium rot, to the point where the roof is leaking and the wifi didn't work on match days, which is quite embarrassing for one of the most storied stadiums in world football. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B87aESnOWKg