skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The race to build a commercial fusion reactor hots up
Steve McConnell - Code Complete (Second Edition) is really good.
Maybe Twitter has more bots on the platform than real users, which is why Snap is still alive.

Given they are a $100B dollar company, they are far from 'dying'.
Android 12, iOS 15, personalisation and minml app
It will definitely use lightning, and 99% chance it will be a custodial version no different in actual execution to venmo or paypal, as this is exactly what the present solution du jour there has been (strike in custodial mode) specifically to address the underlying fact that without such a config, lightning doesn't really work. (routability of payments scaling based on size sucks, inbound transfers suck, you need to run your own full node which most regular end users are flatly not going to do)

In terms of that obviously negating any of the original promises of cryptocurrency in terms of censorship resistance, financial sovereignty, be your own bank, audit the state of the ledger upon which everybody is actively transacting, etc, yes, of course, that's the entire point of the hijack and sabotage of BTC.
Fair points, I agree
> You don't need every QR code software to be fixed anyway. Only the one which will use those QR codes which don't yet exist.

No, the existing software misbehaves (and possibly crashes) when scanning pure binary data. If it did nothing problematic then the use of binary data would not matter, only the sofware which “will have to understand base45 anyway” would need to be binary-clean.

And here qrcode software does not need to understand base45: the user can copy the base45 textual data to whichever other program cares for it.

> If you wrote that QRcode is not extensible (I don't know if that's the case) I would have agreed.

Why would I write that when it has nothing to do with the issue?

And qrcode can be extended: the encoding mode is specified by a nibble, only 9 values are currently in use.
> After sleeping all my window move to one of my displays.

Well Windows 10 does that randomly as well, don't even need to use mixed DPI. Arguably "better than Windows for multihead" is a very low bar to clear, since Windows is utter garbage at dealing with it.
If it is so irrelevant and meaningless, why are you bothered enough to post?

WRT "toxic", could you describe what damage this does or could do (before I just assume "majkinetor doesn't like it so it is bad" is the reasoning).
Don't you think that's a bit of an extreme statement? There must be a price where the price-to-risk ratio makes it worth it. Nothing is 100% certain, after all. Every investment has some amount of risk.
> all of it will disappear in a plume of smoke, like crumbs on a dirty plate.

Are you in the habit of nuking your plates?
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I am somewhat sympathetic to thy viewpoint, but I think that ship has sailed.
We're pre-populating NUM with useful data, so it doesn't require domain registrants to adopt it.

NUM modules are much simpler than other comparable web standards so any data stored will be consistent and easy for developers that consume the data.

Edit: typo
How secure is it compared to real transactions?
> Even if you manage to get it secure, how do you transparently proof this to everyone, including those who can't grok cryptography.

Even those who can grok cryptography can't check that the implementation matches the specification.

No human being can review the complete software running on a computer. Even less a distributed system.

But most human beings can understand the paper ballot system.
And a small leap from there to start your vibrating ring.
Thats a weird thing to brag about - if talking about past returns there's few 'cash flow producing assets' that'd have done as well as just putting the money in btc.

Also flash loans don't take anything out of your wallet/account either and I know of people whose bank accounts have been hacked.

There's plenty to complain about btc but you've somehow chosen the least convincing argument for why you are a noncoiner.
I worked in this lab (on a different project)!
It’s not very “open source” when your datasets aren’t available for download (unless that has changed?)
Give me some more of that -4 bastards. I still have 3K+
¿Te haces un lío con las facturas y los tickets?
¿Sabes todas las características que tienen tickets y facturas, y en que difieren Si tienes un negocio y eres el responsable de su administración, es importante que conozcas sus diferencias. Utilizándolos adecuadamente puedes beneficiarte de una reducción importante en tu carga de trabajo y simplificar la gestión.
I've lived in a city that imposed a hard border in 1934 and has kept it since then. It left enough space to grow outwards for decades, but not any more, and it does concentrate growth inwards quite strongly now.

I think the most important aspect here is that this is a well-known city and the policy is uncontroversial to the point of being unknown. People who live there take it for granted, people who don't haven't heard of it.

The city is in the rich world, close to a million people live there if you include the suburbs, it's had this policy for almost ninety years, you (the reader) consider yourself knowledgeable about the world, and you don't know which city it is unless I tell you (rot13: Bfyb). That's how uncontroversial such a rule is, once it's in place.
cool finally found out the names of the trees beside my home in Bologna
Not if the humor is as strongly political charged as the original "joke". There are plenty of other places to debate about israel and palestine. Can we here focus on ancient history?
Absolutely, I'm just trying to do some sense-making: figuring out monetisation seems a B series kind of problem, isn't it?
> There are several human fossils from the caves of Qesem, Zuttiyeh and Tabun that date back to that time that we could not attribute to any specific known group of humans.

Are there any geologists or experts who can explain the difference between these caves in Israel and the ones in Europe and North America? They all seem incredibly different.
There is no equilibrating condition in the dynamics that brings that about and certainly nothing that is politically viable.

There's an inductive connection between the monetary economy and the real economy, not a direct one. It works more like an iPhone charger than a 1 bar electric fire, and that means you need greater monetary 'apparent power' to get the maximum level of real economy 'true power'.
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Happened to me too!
The core problem about this is that they don't have money.

My statement about money laundering is their attempt to fix it partially. But Bitcoin by itselve won't fix their core issue.

Another one is is connectivity ( to make faster payments and not take the bus), bitcoin won't fix that either.

They are pushing internet access to help Bitcoin, but it creates a false dogma. Since Bitcoin was not the answer, it was internet access for all to make faster payments.

PS. Africa has payments by text, this could have worked there too without Bitcoin: https://onereach.ai/what-the-u-s-can-learn-from-mobile-payme...
As a company, they can only take what belongs to the company. Even if you're selfemployed they should only be able (IIRC, IANAL) to take things that are 100% part of the business.
The sad thing about it that most of his attackers also want more men to come forward and admit their wrong-doings. Their reaction will men only more reluctant to admit anything.
I don't think blockchains are particularly well suited for solving El Salvador's actual problems, like gang violence.

There's a not entirely implausible theory that says Bukele is going for Bitcoin specifically because El Salvador uses the US dollar and is thus prevented from taking the typical path of printing more its own currency to "solve" problems. With Tether and various dodgy custom apps in the mix, they can now print money.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/el-salvador-bitcoin-off...
Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out
Another useful thing to have in one's PS1 is an optional newline if the last output didn't print one itself. Turns out this is non-trivial to get working perfectly (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943482/configure-shell..., https://work.lisk.in/2020/11/20/even-faster-bash-startup.htm...). The version that I've been using for a while without problems is this one:

function __col1_ps1 {
[[ $MC_SID ]] && return

local termios cur_y
# ask the terminal for any pending (line buffered) input
termios=$(stty --save) && stty -icanon && stty "$termios"
# if there's pending input, assume it's been echoed and we're not in first column
# otherwise ask the terminal for current column and read it from input
if read -t 0 || { IFS='[;' read -s -r -d'R' -p$'\033[6n' _ _ cur_y && [[ $cur_y != 1 ]]; }; then
echo $'\001\033[41m↵\033[m\002\n\001\r\002'
fi
}

PS1='$(__col1_ps1)<the rest of my prompt>'

My full prompt is here: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/9785740f7f97d7da1f84...
Building Generative Grid Layouts with Quadtrees
You should be grateful that someone else did it because it is a bad idea. Everyone of those services is easily replaceable with a library call. For example there is no language in the top 20 Tiobe index that doesn't implement all of this stuff already: image resize, key value store, id generation. And also you should not split your system into microservices like that.
You? :-)
Well... Those with strong unions are the ones that can more clearly articulate the benefits for the worker.
It works for me. (FF Linux)
I don't mind either way, but the he/she thing always felt clunky.
It seems like many here don't get what I think they're doing: government buys 180 million USD worth of Bitcoin, stores it in their wallet, and creates an SQL database (well, with a bank as a wrapper) with 6 million entries with $30 (or whatever that is in BTC) each.

The transactions can just be recorded in this SQL database, and the "reserve" would be untouched. If someone wants to exchange their BTC to USD or Euro, they can go to a money changer, their SQL database entry will be decreased, the money changer's SQL database entry will be incremented, and the total BTC in the reserve remains.

Hmm, I think I just described the so-called Lightning Network, which means in the end you have to trust a central authority after all. (EDIT: After reading about LN, it seems this isn't how the Lightning Network works).

They might as well make something like "El-Salvador-Coin" without needing dumb blockchain stuff.
Except that there already is a legislated solution requiring manufacturers to supply parts for (depending on where) ~10 years, irrespective of warranty.

The fact that there is after-market suppliers is more that manufacturers haven't worked out how to stop that on purely mechanical parts.

They would much prefer to tie you to their own maintenance network and parts if they could.
About 1/4 of the citizen's wealth comes from US dollar transfers from abroad (ie., from immigrant families). (Their currency is the US dollar.)

Presently very high transaction fees and poor banking-system support eats up a significant amount of this wealth.

Can you see why this isn't "populist none-sense" ?
Bitcoins do not produce any cash flow, the only way to profit is to sell them to a greater fool.
Here in Palestine. Fixed it.

Abrahamists are always attempting to skew science to support their biblical agenda.

#BDS

Fuck israel
That's not completely true. I left it at ~18 k. A couple of years ago as i didn't saw a path to become profitable. I suppose a lot of HN'ers joined early on and left by now.

My stocks are doing good enough for me to not care at all about crypto since then. Even if that wouldn't be the case, I wouldn't invest in something that I don't think has a viable path.

Eg. The current solutions are using off-chain centralized transactions to fix core things ( eg. transaction fee).
"They are at the door right now, please open it asap" requires no count. It is fundamentally unambiguous in its phrasing, it could be 1 person or 50.

"They are at the door right now, please open it asap [and let a singular individual in]". If that bracketed portion is the intent, requires context. It implies a specific individual who you could identify by name or by a gendered pronoun if known (and unique in context) or description. Either way, you need to let the person you're speaking to know which "they" of the potentially many individuals at the door you want to permit in.

This context may have already been supplied. For instance, on visiting an office for an interview a name will already be supplied and the person (security, admin) doing the opening may already know the identity and that it is a singular person who is expected. In which case, "they", because of prior context, is entirely unambiguous again.
The other key difference here as far as I understand, is that Telnic required you to register .tel domains, you couldn't bring your own domain and store contact information against that.
Replying to my own comment to address the backlash as I can't possibly reply to every one (my account has been throttled for well over a year at this point).

For a start I find it telling that my comment was downvoted to -4 instantly. How can you downvote someone for stating what they do or don't find natural in their own language? Do you think I'm lying? Maybe I should start making comments about what I find natural in French instead?

You've all given examples of contexts where you don't find it unnatural. I agree with s some of them, so let me correct my original comment: it doesn't always sound natural.

> "I interviewed a developer yesterday." "Were they any good?"

This sounds OK if the gender has not yet been mentioned, but as soon as it has been mentioned it would be unnatural to use "they".

> Do they have grey hair? Yes, they do.

Also OK, until the gender has been established, as above.

> "Fin updated their profile picture"

This sounds completely unnatural to me and yes, I have noticed it. This is the same usage as in the PR in question here.

I also find it unnatural when "they" is used as the subject of a sentence in singular, like "When they travelled to London, they drank tea". If that's a single person, it sounds really jarring.

I think it's probably to do with the verb conjugation rather than the pronoun. As a French speaker you probably understand that the verb is equally, if not more, important than the pronoun. In Spanish they don't even bother with pronouns, it's all about about the verb. Unfortunately "they is" sounds totally wrong to every native speaker, so you're stuck with "they are", which is used for plural.
As far as I know you have to be on the internet at least once in 30 days, so it's good only for hot wallets. Also for payments over $1k probably right now Bitcoin transaction is more practical (I have heard of $100k lightning transactions though).
Because it is over hyped by coin owners who want you to buy coins and make them rich
This seems a hardcore case of moral damage worth at least some hundreds thousands dollars in a settlement or even suing some millions dollars out of them, doesn't it? Perhaps you should at least ask a lawyer before just humbly reporting the bug to them and forgetting.
It definitely made sense because Snapchat is only used for ephemeral photos, and taking a "proper" photo is extremely slow on many Android phones (or at least it was until recently).

That said they should have just implemented both solutions and let the user pick.
Teams are now an integrated part of Windows. Smells like an another antitrust case, or Europeans are going to get a version without this.
Ah, that's kind of reassuring for canvas, because I was really disappointed when I' tried to play a bit with it. I was like: “meh, how is that even worth a press release?”
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There's absolutely no ambiguity introduced in the PR's changes. And I don't think any grammar guide would prefer "he/she" for these particular uses.
Sure having blameless postmortems would be amazing, but I think the informal process I described is probably the closest you will get to it. The reason being that any given subfield can't make this decision in isolation, because the people to who it matters (funding agencies, faculty search committees, journal editors to a degree) are not part of the field, and when they see such a 'blameless postmortem' they will think 'whoa, this person really messed up, we'd better stay away'.

Maybe I am wrong though, and a better culture is possible, like the shift to preprints has happened in a lot of fields and was probably previously unthinkable. So good on you for taking an idealistic stance, I am probably just being grumpy. That being said, whatever culture changes may be beneficial, I stand by my original point that simply dumping code and model alongside the paper is not unambiguously good and may even obscure problems.
It is a problem not only for indie developer. I have witnessed same problem with Borland Kylix (Borland Delphi for Linux). In general it was a great idea, IDE was good, creating Linux apps easily using RAD tool was really tempting. Having ability to use all the Delphi plugins people created for years was also a big advantage.

Yet...

The problem was that Kylix required very specific kernel version (I think it also required some kernel module), so it mostly did not work out of the box and people got discouraged.

The fact that Borland failed to advertise it correctly and never put more effort into making this tool better is another story. Those were times of Borland identity change from RAD tool vendor to super-enterprise corpo Inprise with some crazily expensive ALM tools that were competing with the likes like Telelogic Doors (now IBM brand), etc.
Its toxic because it just took up some of my attention that humans have limited capacity for and because it takes limited time from devs to participate in meaningless stuff.
I think that we need to separate the life of the hardware (WD My Book) and the life of the cloud service (the "Live" bit).

The drives themselves and their function as a NAS on a LAN is still fine.

When "Live" EOLed, they should have turned off the servers and disabled the function. If they weren't going to service/support it anymore, then they should have been honest about it.

Of course, their consumers would have screamed, so they did the worst possible thing, kept the service running as-is and didn't make it clear that people were leaving themselves open to attack.
tbf computer science has not changed. Despite all the tech, we humans still use language to express our ideas so i don't think the coding of thoughts into serial text will go away
and chia-mining have started
> Product doesn't deal with budgets, profits, markets.

This is different at every organization. I have seen companies that make PMs 100% about profit and market, who then delegate everything else down to others. I've seen ones who work exactly as you describe. And I've seen one where Product manager == Jira monkey.

Based on my experience, while there is a lot of variety, most PMs do worry about the markets and profits as part of their job, even though other teams do the actual sales and marketing. Those concerns are part of understanding the product - who is the market, what are they willing to pay, what monetary value aligns with the solution value. Those answers help drive decisions on roadmap prioritization.
I recently started working through the first volume of "Software Foundations" [1] by Pierce et al. If anyone wants to learn Coq with me this summer, feel free to email me at [hn username]@gmail.com :)

[1] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
The Art of Electronics is on my technical reading list as well.

If you are into Clojure, you will probably enjoy Elements of Clojure by Zachary Tellman. It is not a tutorial, it's more like an attempt to bring tacit knowledge of idiomatic programming practices into light.
There's plenty of crypto (including e.g. ETH) that does so via staking but that wasn't the point anyway.
Transaction fees is one thing, but going to the city by bus to pick up the money is extra cost and hours of time. I sometimes wish people from US would travel to these places to understand the life other people were born into.
> Short term profits might come (...) from bitcoin whales

I don't understand. How are you supposed to make money from wealth hoarders? The trickle-down fairy?
One of my former bosses said “everyone is replaceable” whenever anyone left. Which is trueish I suppose. But when our director and sr analyst left within the same week and then I put in my two weeks they begged me to stay at least until the team was full again since at that point I was the sr most person on the team. I did not stay. Then later I learned the entirety of the rest of the team walked out in one day, as they had all coordinated new jobs together.
> HARD disagree. Use a separate personal machine and a KVM switch or hub/dock.

This! Especially with Thunderbolt being widely available n high end machines, switching between computers is easier than it ever was. I have a work Windows machine and a personal Macbook. Switching from work to personal system is a matter of unplugging and changing a single cable.
Thank you, I needed to hear this.

> I'm not sure therapy is healthy if conformity is the desired outcome.

It's taken me an embarrassingly long time to realise this. Somehow I always knew it in the back of my mind, a sort of quiet rebellion, but the "logical" part of my mind (actually the little voice of society) always took the reins.

> Earn your own money, your own way. Embrace your eccentricities. Use them to your advantage.

This is something I've been dreaming of for years, but actually following through on it is difficult. In my experience conquering the self-doubt has been the hardest part, but after that there's still the hurdles of finding customers.
Market share is how much money you make. So for example if apple sells 1M ipads for $500 and android tablets cost $50, at 45.57% it would mean there are 9M android tablets sold. Which makes the proportions more like 11% ipad / 89% android.
What I assume the poster meant - I might of course be wrong - is that the in the US discoveries are named after the location names of white settlers, not by the names of the locations that the people called them, that the white settlers killed to take the land. e.g. someone says "Discovered in New York" instead of how the land was named by the Native Americans who lived there and were killed.
There's no need to do that. They could render the internet connectivity part inert during the last patch when they don't want to maintain it anymore. Make it LAN-only. If the firmware is locked, unlock it so people can run their own stack.
Victims of bank fraud mostly receive their money back by the bank.

This one recent example of an crypto exchange that fled with the money, has defrauded more in value than the entire ACH payment system worth ~51T ( fraud = 0,0008 % = 0,08 basis points).

https://www.engadget.com/africrypt-bitcoin-disappearance-174...
https://silamoney.com/ach/understanding-the-basics-of-ach-fr...
Another rejected thread. Presumably because of malicious flagging rather than done by the mods.