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I am so very tired of these articles and the "opinions" that always leap to the forefront when they receive any attention at all.

The funny thing about most them is that they are always, always written by someone "talking their book." In other words, the old guard defending their turf from a new way of doing things. This 2017 article is written by a person who runs a financial services company for elders. A FinServices company, by the way, which is aimed at a market which will never uses crypto or the blockchain. So his opinion is worthless and pointless.

The rest of us, those of us whom the banking and finance industries have left behind and ignored, now have the ability to create currency, terms and trade amongst ourselves or anyone who agrees to our terms without being summarily denied, lied to or cheated.

Native Americans now have the opportunity to build on their own land by setting up a separate SOR from the one the Government forces them to use and they can document ownership to the farthest point and have it all be maintained digitally. Instead of the old oil and gas software they modified to use to split royalty payments, they can now do it all digitally and those records can be held wherever they want them to be.

I could cite new possibilities all day long....but if Bank Of America has enough sense to commission a report about the changes crypto is making in emerging markets, I should not have to...

Crypto is NOT for everyone, but neither are credit cards. For some of us the ability to be our own bank and insurance etc is far better than constantly being ignored/denied/fleeced or whatever else wall street and the tech world comes up with next. The simple fact is this: if you don't see the potential, then don't participate. Leave it for those of us who do. Your "but what about" systems whatever they are didn't work for us....but these might if they can be left alone long enough for us to build what we need from the parts we were given.

My main worry is that all of you "but-in skis" will cause the powers that be to pay attention to your ridiculous whining and regulate far too heavily and ruin our first real chance to be apart of the global financial system on terms that don't penalize us heavily. As all the others do.
Those are the kinds of financial engineering shenanigans we can look forward to in the brave new world of crypto. Just faster and on a larger scale than before.
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I'm basically me as long as you don't take out thinking parts.

I agree with this, at least mostly. I argue one can make certain modifications without causing problems. Most people would probably agree that we can swap out an atom here or there, this already happens naturally anyway. And I see no upper limit for replacing pieces of the brain as long as the replacement is functionally equivalent.

[...] we don't know if the arrangement of the atoms is enough to define a conscious mind.

It does not matter, it is a thought experiment, we assume something and then think about the consequences of that assumption. So my description of the teletransporter is not to be understood literally, it will just do whatever is necessary to make it work. Sure, it is not impossible to make pointless thought experiments - assume X is true and X is false, what are the consequences - but in the case of the teletransporter I do not see why it matters for the discussion of person identity whether it is actually realizable.

If we send not only the data but also the atoms over, then the teletransporter is in a certain sense a trivial device, going through the teletransporter is indistinguishable from you just walking from one device to the other, i.e. if we put the two devices onto a stage and hide them for some time behind the curtain, then the audience should be unable to figure out whether you used the teletransporter or whether you just walked over to the second device.

If one wants to argue that a teleported person is not the same person afterwards, then - so it seems to me - one would either have to accept that walking also changes one person into another or one would have to explain why the details of how the person moved from A to B matters for person identity even though initial and final states are identical.
This is a terrible piece. The implication is that Google was set up as a government spying program from the beginning through sneaky programs within DARPA. And this is just flat on its face ridiculous if you've spent any time at all with funding agencies or CS research.
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In one of his podcasts, he talks about the "pendulum of history" and how it swings, depending on the time, between more story (ie more emotion and look as to feelings of the time) or more fact (ie 10k people died in this battle). He mentioned that he preferred to be on the more story side; giving eyewitness accounts and showing the emotion of the history. I wouldn't put him near Gladwell though, but on the more story side of the pendulum.
It's the "John Walsh" effect. His son's kidnapping was all over the news and then later he had "America's Most Wanted" and he literally started scaring people from allowing their kids out of their sight. To this day, people still think their kid is going to be abducted if they let them go play.

I remember being 9 and riding my bike miles away to the mall and back. Kids can't do that anymore.
Matthias was the PhD advisor of Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi at the time where (what would eventually become) the Racket project started. Virtually all of the core contributors are either his PhD students over the years, or students of his former PhD students after they became professors. He's the project's steward, being the person primarily responsible for securing grant funding for the work that goes into Racket, and the project's "visionary" (as much as such a thing can really exist), being the one who has most explicitly philosophized the concept of "language-oriented programming" (though there are plenty of other researchers now interested in the subject, including independently from Matthias' lineage). It'd be difficult not to understate the importance he has had to the careers of his former students (both in terms of the research they've done and in terms of his support in doing the politics necessary to have a successful career in academia).
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> around half of them understand the cause

I’m in the half that doesn’t know, apparently.

I considered that with hard sciences, the cost, time, equipment, conditions, etc were limiting factors. I think this paper on subatomic particles changing into antimatter is interesting, it was observed in a unique facility, once, under some condition that can never repeat, etc. Just kinda have to take your word for it.

As to soft sciences… I really don’t know there. Give me a hint?
There's not much difference, and that's the problem. Mobile games are notorious for being asset flips and shovelware because being funded by ads means they don't have to worry about making something worth paying for. I imagine people who were excited about AAA VR games are disappointed that it looks like VR technology is turning into a race to the bottom with ads subsidizing hardware costs.
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You're probably thinking about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c

Leandro submitted it to HN but it didn't get any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25620711
OpenSCAD is fine so long as:

- the model is describable mathematically
- the model description is simple enough that performance isn't an issue
- a supported form of output is workable (DXF, SVG using straight lines, STL)

It's not possible to get a nice text file out of it w/o jumping through hoops, doing CAM directly is frowned upon, and quickly brings the program to its knees (just modeling cutting out a hemisphere w/ an endmill resulted in a file which took minutes to render, and left the program barely usable).

Apparently these folks did an article on Medium.com as well:

https://medium.com/embedded-ventures/mechanical-cad-yesterda...
If you think those rules are vague and unclear, it's even worse when there is no code of conduct and the project's entire policy is "we do whatever the moderators feel that day."
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They generally do. As per the article this time was an accident.
3-6 months after it begins to affect the ultra wealthy would be my guess.
This set is from Lego Ideas, a site where people can add their own ideas and vote for them. The sets coming from there are usualy for adults, collectors, fans. They had single set from franchises like Voltron, WALL-E, Doctor Who, Mickey Mouse. But also have Artful sets like a Piano, this typewriter. Or even sets of real space-stuff like Saturn V-Rocket, ISS or Apollo Moonlander.

For kids they still have their regular simple or mildly complex sets, depending on age and franchise.
Slightly off-topic question: What program are you using to record the screen?
> > But according to dang, because people on both sides perceive a bias against them, HN must be unbiased.

> I've never made that argument.

You certainly have. It's one you make frequently, with copious citations of your own comments about how you get emails from people on the left saying they feel biased against, and from people on the right saying they feel biased against, therefore HN must be well balanced.

However, you neglect to address the issue that comments from one political perspective are heavily downvoted and flagged by users having the other political perspective, while the inverse doesn't happen, leading to a natural, obvious bias in the comments.

As well, prominent members of the community, like Thomas Ptacek and Don Hopkins, are regularly seen abusing others based on their political and religious beliefs, and I have yet to see you ask them to obey the rules or threaten to ban them. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26663440 Of course, your standard response is, "We can't see everything. Email us if you want us to do something about something." But that rings hollow, considering how long it's been going on--I can't fathom that you've never seen either of those two karma leaders act that way before.

And whether you have or not is beside the point, which is: HN is heavily biased in one direction. Users who make comments like that are not downvoted, flagged, or reported to anywhere near the degree that users on the other side of those issues are--this is obvious to anyone who takes a few minutes to browse submissions on these topics with showdead on (or even with it off, just looking at the gray comments).

If I had posted a comment like Hopkins's, but about Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc, it would have quickly been flagged, and you would have been summoned, and the account would probably have been instantly banned. There is one set of rules for the haves (high-karma accounts), and another set for the have-nots.

But even if you would personally act on egregious comments from both sides the same way (which is hard to believe, given Ptacek's and Hopkins's regular, unchastised rants), the fact remains that the majority of the user base is biased, and the end result reflects that.

And despite your regular explanations of how you feel HN is well balanced, I have never seen you acknowledge this. Maybe it should be known as HN's open secret, the elephant in the room that no one--not even the curious--is allowed to talk about.
This reads more like an ad for ANTLR than a criticism of flex&bison. Very few criticisms are offered, and most of them are quite handwavy.
Haaretz (deep-linked) has more details that some have brought up.

"Asked what it’s like to excavate a thousand-year-old toilet, Nagorsky explains that in the interim, the waste became dirt. They’re simply digging in dirt. It’s fine."

Dating of the egg is so far incidental, done by relational strata:

"That lamp was of a type only made in the late Abbasid period, Nagorsky explains – about 1,000 years ago. And thusly, they dated the chicken egg to that time."

High-res image with the crack(s): https://img.haarets.co.il/img/1.9888354/233647132.jpg

No description of the yolk yet that I could see.
I'm speculating, but it might be a number designed to discourage purchase rather than reflect actual value. IE, we don't want personal users to buy these so we will price it higher than their data is worth but low enough that we won't completely alienate potential corporate clients. They don't want regular users getting the idea that they can opt out by paying extra because it messes with their whole business model. FB is just dark patterns all the way down.
Oh that was pretty recent I’d have held off submitting if I saw that.
> she doesn't think trans women should be allowed in women's bathrooms, ... a shibboleth amongst people who are, as it's often posed against the statement "trans women are women.

Because the right to call yourself "trans woman" has been widened to the point of including people who didn't undergo any gender reassignment surgery or hormone therapy. And yes, I don't think that those "trans women" are, or should be considered, women. Actually, not even "trans".
I'm not opposed to seeing ads if they're relevant and stylized thematically for the game / app
"At a previous company, there was an “infamous” commit in our main repository. The commit was about 10 years old, and it replaced every tab with 4 spaces."

Why is this bad? I try to avoid tabs in my code.
Still huge.
It was 34%. Which is quite literally one in three women.

Labor participation of men was much higher, but it is absurd to claim that 34% represents nearly non existent phenomenom.
Completely, but it is still worth mentioning the age. I don't know why people get triggered by it.

It's like saying the 16yo chess champion, or the 18yo self made billionaire
Okay, so yes it is good to note that the GNU lexical generator toolkit does not generate unicode parsers and isn't re-entrant.
In general, parsing the same text from multiple threads seems like it could probably lead to more problems than just the fact that the parser generator toolkit for compiler writers isn't re-entrant, but that sounds more like a problem for the 'design' of these folk's client's codebases than anything else to me.
It would be nice to see a simple LL(1) lexer/parser generator in C that handles unicode and re-entrancy, although again, the latter one seems like something of a complex concept to me. Having the library generate parsers which are stable across multiple threads using generated parsers to parse different things at once seems like the only stable notion that I'd care about, so I will assume that is what this fellow is talking about.
Here's Outline's version: https://www.outline.com/gEuVje
The American Rescue Act act did boost CISA, GSA, and USDS funding [1]. Whether they can further push salaries beyond what they're already doing with tours of duty (short tenures allow for higher GS pay scale during assignments), I cannot speak to.

> The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will get $650 million for cybersecurity risk mitigation. The agency has been leading the federal government’s investigation into the SolarWinds hack that breached several federal agencies.

> Also included in the relief funding is $200 million for the U.S. Digital Service, a technology team based within the Executive Office of the President. The General Services Administration will receive two appropriations through the COVID Relief Act: $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund and $150 million for its Federal Citizen Services Fund. The citizen services fund enables public access and engagement with government programs through a variety of operational programs and public-facing products, and supports the implementation of emerging technologies in agency-facing programs.

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2021/03/covid-relief-bi...
Now let's start counting US startups
I just immediately trapped it in a tight circle and then kept replacing the circle.
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> Many (most?) people are simply not curious.

Is this really so? With respect, this take seems too cynical to me. I say this as a person to whom many come when they can't figure things out.

I often initially feel much like you do, but I temper that feeling with the knowledge that the asker is likely under delivery pressure, etc and has to subvert their curiosity in order to maintain velocity.
The argument I've seen is that worldwide adoption of BTC will somehow end armies and therefore be a net improvement worldwide. How? Not sure.
Anything thats mono or saturated fat. Mono is probably healthier. But coconut oil, beef tallow, duck fat, butter are all healthier than canola, sunflower, or soybean oil or crisco.
Oh! What kind of audience is there on HN? Sorry for my novice question but I am new to HN hence asking. Thanks
Bitcoin alone emits the equivalent of almost 2% of the aggregate greenhouse emissions from the military and defense worldwide? Holy shit!
Insulting to whom?
You have to be utterly delusional to make this comparison as a positive in the first place.
Debatable. For one, we already know who his sources are. Chelsea Manning was already convicted, jailed and commuted. Roger Stone was convicted and pardoned. His friends at GRU are under indictment and likely beyond prosecution. Assange himself barely qualifies as a journalist. I mentioned James Risen with the NY Times before. He went to trial for his sources and faced no punishment. Assange isn't being pursued for protecting sources, he's being pursued for actively engaging in hacking. There may not be enough evidence to convict, but the indictment isn't for normal journalism activities. It's for his own activities.
My feeling has always been... I've been wearing soft contacts for decades--and now multifocals. I do wear reading glasses for, well, reading and other close work when I have the contacts in. (Probably more than I really need to.) So maybe LASIK is super-safe at this point but, honestly, there's very little about my current situation that inconveniences me in any appreciable way.
Good idea. I'm adding your idea now to my open source git commit template: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/git-commit-template

What you're suggesting is essentially a "git trailer". A trailer can be automatically parsed by git (and related tools) and needs to be at the end of the message.

The template above explains more about trailers, such as "See:" which can help documentation systems (such as a link to an issue tracker) and "Co-authored-by:" which can help social coding systems (such as a GitHub/GitLab username or email address).
You’re certainly better off reading both.

But I have a bigger issue with the fact that developers who use Stack Overflow are more often than not just going to copy and paste and not understand what they’re doing.

And that’s predominantly how the site is used.

Yeah, there are plenty of manpages that are verbose, but frankly a lot of them are easier to parse than reading hacked together Stack Overflow answers that don’t explain how the poster arrived at their answer.

They literally don’t show their work.
Uhhh… I wonder what that number is, normalized by number of BTC transactions that take place today, and scaled by the total number of financial payment transactions.
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I disagree. Nintendo and Sony don't earn the majority of their profits by selling ads. Facebook does. Nintendo and Sony customer base is people buying games while FB's customer base is advertisers. At the end of the day, each company will do what it must to retain/acquire customers.

Edit: fixing typos
> I think, academic psychology should have full access to all cooperation databases that contain behavioral data.

No thanks. We already have quack science from the 1950s still driving policy discussions on wedge issues today. I don’t want more convincing shit, I want less shit.
It's an interesting relationship.

The banks take the current interest rate from the Fed into account and base the mortgage rate on that. They can try to project out and add some percentage for risk + inflation but if they add too much then there are 100 other banks ready to undercut them.

So you get a fixed-rate mortgage based on the current interest rate from the central bank. And the amount of money that your mortgage covers (basically the price of your house) doesn't change. Which means that every year, as inflation causes wages to go up, you are paying for a house that cost whatever it cost when you bought it.

But! Most people shop for houses based on what they can afford as an all-in payment. To put it another way, people can afford $x/month on housing, and it doesn't matter to them really how much is going to the price of the house and how much is going to interest. If interest rates rise (which happens along with inflation) then that means the percentage of someone's monthly payment that goes to the price of the house goes down, which has a depressing effect on housing prices. So your house payment becomes more affordable but the amount you can expect to get when you sell your house goes down (or rises more slowly).
>the sorts of people who will harangue mods for admonishing them to be nice will, instead, harangue the mods about how their statement wasn't actually a personal attack.

The solution there would be to make clear what constitutes a personal attack. No reason to bikeshed over it.
"objectively"? no. What has become clear to all unbiased parties is that all FB has done is invest billions of dollars in developing a new ad revenue stream.

it's amazing to me how often someone on HN defending FB...turns out to be a FB employee.
Will you pay for this kind of service?

Are you already paying for such services?
Here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210615035229/https://next-hack...
I asked the question because Prettier Markdown formatting will convert asterisks-to-underscores for italics, but keep asterisks for bold.

I'm guessing that's a CommonMark rule?
It's a symmetric key algorithm not a public/private key algorithm.
I'm very sorry to hear that Matthew Butterick had some bad experiences. He's been a brilliant and energetic contributor to the Racket community. Clearly, something went wrong.

For what it's worth (looking at some of the comments from people not very familiar), my own experiences with Matthias Felleisen have been positive. (I started contributing to what was then called PLT Scheme around 2000, have had lunch with him twice, and a few times over the years have had some mutually-candid conversations with him, about concerns affecting the project/community.)

While I might describe Matthias as a freethinker and straight-talker, everything I'm aware of that he's said or done in the two decades I've been around seems to come from altruistic intentions.

I know Matthias cares about the community. (He was very welcoming when I started, and we've discussed it over the years.) I think he'll want to personally investigate and consider what happened that resulted in alienating Matthew B., and try to correct any problems that he can.

This isn't just about Matthew B., but also about constantly seeing how we can be the best community for everyone. That's not a solved problem, and I suggest it's best approached as an ongoing process of humility, honesty, and support -- everyone feeling safe to raise concerns/problems, and everyone feeling safe to examine how we can improve.
I worked with their tech, testing it, and I loved the product. It was definitely ahead of its time. Similar in some ways to what Fly is doing these days, without the edge.