skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without mainstream acceptance through purchase transactions Bitcoin has no hope of going anywhere. People holding for investment, while profitable, is absurd if ultimately the final holder can not exchange it for goods. I am not an economist, but I do hold the position that money is used for the exchange of goods and its only value is in its acceptance and exchange rate.
> criminal law includes the idea of intent

Yes, but intent alone isn't sufficient. We need a precise, side-effect light definition of the kinds of activities we want to ban and by whom. To date, I haven't seen that.

Passing a law which bans "surveillance-based advertising" with little more specificity is a recipe for disaster.
It is admittedly an oversimplification for affect, but it’s more or less what you said. Maybe I’ve worked at bigger companies, we have over 1000 devs in my division, and trying to get them all aligned is very very difficult. I think central planning is a good analogy for that. The architecture that requires less central planning/coordination will likely do better in such a dynamic.
Not much? They were never afraid to disappear them either.
I think part of the reason the JWST took so long to build was the complexity of the design. As in, it was difficult to manufacture and assemble and test due to the way it was designed. It might be cheaper to do it a second time based on the lessons (avoiding mistakes) from the first, but it would probably still be quite expensive.
It’s true that mostly these are young people who choose to live there, and have party oriented lifestyles. I think packed 4 to an apartment would be more reasonable than homeless though.
Sad to say, there seems to be little going on with CB these days. Even living inside a major metro area, I got one (and exactly one) call on a radio left tuned to channel 9 for close to six months: sadly, the man was elderly and senile, and did not actually have an emergency. I'd be willing to bet that's par for the course.

The last I heard any substantive CB chatter was around 2014, while driving to Kentucky. Two things I recall from that trip:

1. I was able to get on the radio and ask what the source of bumper-to-bumper traffic was - it was "a chopper in the road". I figured it was CB slang for a motorcycle, but, no, this actually was a medflight helicopter in the middle of the road. So, be prepared to learn not just a language, but also context - or just use Waze, Google Maps, or your other live traffic tool of choice.

2. There is spam on the trucker channels, 17 and 19 - actual, legit spam for 10% off your next meal at Burger King at the truck stop. This accounted for a solid 20% of what I did hear, which is probably on par with the signal-to-noise ratio of e-mail.
(Can someone please clarify) how was that ideological rhetoric? Are these not historical facts? And if they are, aren't they relevant to a story about political instability in Haiti? Is Haitian politics itself off-topic? It seems like it's such emotionally charged territory due to its agonizing history that containing all the flame wars would constitute a de facto ban on the topic.

Edit: really? There's a whole other thread making these exact same points that didn't get flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761847
This is different from transducers in Clojure (note how `dept` and `salary` show up in multiple levels despite not being manually threaded through). This is much more similar to the way SQL syntax works.

Transducers in Haskell (and really in any language, including in Clojure) are functions of the form `a -> List b` (yes this is a fully polymorphic transducer despite the use of `List`; it can be applied to concrete data structures as well as e.g. streams of the form found in core.async, I can explain more if you're interested).

I actually think the design of transducers is a bit of a wart in Clojure. Clojure usually goes for the least powerful abstraction (so e.g. data < higher-order functions < macros), but for some reason when designing transducers decided to move away from the simple `List` based approach and instead do a Church encoding of the list to end up with a higher-order function. I wonder if it was performance related (although I'd be slightly surprised to see a higher-order function performing better)?

One of these days I hope to see a library expressing the alternative form of transducers since I find those much much easier to understand and write from scratch without pre-existing transducer generating functions.
> while suggesting that a company offering six figures can’t find people because of comp.

Never said that - but if you had answered $50k, I probably would have!

I'm surprised you are having trouble hiring people - but perhaps if you are in the Bay and hiring new grads, they might be surprised when it is in the low $100ks.
This is great!

Allows bad-fits to leave asap rather than hanging around till 366 days
Who says they even have to be trans? If your security agents' brains are broken by a person not looking like a narrow stereotype of their sex, they're just bad at their jobs full stop (especially considering that they also have to identify children for example)
Why safe harbor is the best way forward for data protection
Is there actual science behind being lazy?
I can think of many internet-based platforms that had a much lower growth rate than the internet.
People hold it because historically it appreciated greatly, so they expect that to continue. But it can't appreciate the average of 300% YoY forever, sooner or later, it will hit diminishing returns at which point people will be more willing to spend it.

It's essentially Gresham's law in action[1]. Also for those that want to spend it, there are lots of options now for crypto backed debit/credit cards.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
a) it was yesterday.

b) getting back to zero does not mean staying at zero. China has had long stretches of time with zero reported cases of local transmission, punctuated by brief outbreaks like the current one.
The main effect of NIMBY and low density development policy is to confine most Americans to the small boxes known as cars.

I want to have a life where I can walk places.
From the post:

dbcritic came to life as a Channable Hackathon project. dbcritic is written in Idris, a functional programming language, to get an idea of what the language and tooling are like. It is quite similar to Haskell, which we use for some of our larger projects, but it has some neat extra features, such as the early returns in do expressions, and of course dependent types (which we didn’t really use in dbcritic).
But it's not like the one year cliff is a hidden detail that you don't find out until you join; employees have all the information up front. If you choose to take the job anyway, you know that your compensation will be lower if you leave within the first 365 days, so if you still choose to leave, that's on you.
Hopefully it'll tell us about the period of reionisation, when the light of the first galaxies made the universe transparent again.
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All fair game. By the same token, those who have not been bitten by the Tesla bug have all the rights to point at the highest beneficiary of Tesla shares appreciation which is the CEO who goes by Musk Reeve Lyndon Elon and ask him:

"Hey chap, what are you doing for the consumer? Meaning those who buy products, not those who buy stocks. What's the concrete quality of life value your company is producing in exchange for all that wealth? How does it compare against Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Daimler, Ford, Porsche?"

And if enough people ask the question and the response is unsatisfactory and there are not enough people to defend him , then he'd be expropriated. You can see pockets of the population which are more and more asking the question. Especially here on HN, one of them was the one which started the discussion. Game recognizes game after all.

And again, just like Tesla market cap is fair game, and Musk wealth is fair game... so is people asking questions and the expropriation if the answer is unsatisfactory.

The only rule to the game is that there are no rules and that everything is fair game... never explain, never complain, for this sort of things have always happened and it goes with the territory really. It already happened with J.D Rockefeller, and nearly happened again with William Henry Gates III.

At least those chaps produced lots quality of life, people went after them due to the hedonistic treadmill effect and the inability of Standard Oil and Microsoft to keep the pace of quality of life improvement after the initial burst which happens when a new tech such as Petroleum oil or the Chip emerges for the first time.

Musk Reeve Lyndon Elon has yet to produce some tangible quality of life which is not to the benefit of Musk Reeve Lyndon Elon, or one of his cousins.

Tesla most successful product is the common stock of the company, it's also the most pitched and promoted by the CEO. Not even close.
I received a notification from Uber on the weekend. It said something to the effect of "it's a nice day today, why don't you take a ride?" I've never told my phone to fuck off faster.

How many people out there were in the middle of an important task, only to have their phone ask them if they wanted to take a car somewhere for no reason? The collective man-hours of distraction being generated must be staggering; years of work and progress lost every day so that Uber can presumably see a small uptick in engagement.
It's beyond me why potential alternatives to lockdowns and restrictions in general are hardly ever discussed.

I understand that games like this one have to be based on actually available data and models. Still, testing and efficient track & trace schemes could be (have been) a huge factor in preventing COVID-19 spread.

For example, if everyone took a rapid antigene test twice a day, we'd be able to track new infections very quickly and before those can spread any further.

If implemented properly, with such a scheme we perhaps could even do without any additional measures (other than vaccination, that is), incur merely a fraction of the current costs, and still keep the numbers of deaths and severe cases much lower than they are with the blunt instrument that is blanket lockdowns.
> Are we to believe a team of elderly Pacific Islander females wouldn’t make such choices, when the high level business goal is to retain people’s attention for as long as possible?

The business goals were defined by the people in question. Your hypothetical group of Polynesian women might not even entertain that goal. The people who started Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon all had a common worldview which informed the goals they set. The attention economy model is just an expression of that.

> The incentives and rewards are provided by the market in the form of capital returns on clicks and viewership… globally across all demographics.

That particular formulation is part of the neoliberal economic consensus. It has nothing to do with how a group of people with no particular fealty to that world view would act.
What about gold? It's been around for thousands of years first as a medium of exchange and today as store-of-value, but is never used for transactions today. That's doesnt make it "bad money", it just makes it different than a currency.
How does that negate anything that I said?
Because that 50k isn't necessarily exercised immediately and means that you are potentially going to benefit from a rising stock price.
You have a legacy safety-critical system, which incorporates legacy hardware peripherals. How sensitive is it to changes in timing? You may not actually know. Do you want to do the engineering analysis necessary to prove that replacing one part of that system with potentially different timing is not going to cause problems? Or do you just seek out a replacement whose timing is as close as possible to the original?

The big issue may not be with the trains themselves but the communications protocols used to talk to signalling equipment and other peripherals. Changing the timing in the communication with them may lead to problems.

And what if the original software has race condition bugs which have never been surfaced, and the occasional inaccuracy in timing starts to surface them? Good luck fixing bugs in some obscure piece of PDP-11 software that was written in the 1970s.
Sorry, yes this is correct in the sense that at the founding this wasn't the bargain per se but a result from the separation. It should be noted that what taxes the government could levy were also not determined entirely at the founding. As you have mentioned, the exemptions to religious institutions go back to colonial times, pre-constitution.
The captain-only requirement is an interesting one. While it makes sense that you'd want the more experienced pilot doing the landing, how do you get more captains? I.e. if a First officer can't land there with a more senior pilot ready to advise/supervise/take over, it would mean each person's first time landing there is when there's no one else more experienced to advise.
The Haskell one is polymorphic with respect to rank (and is indeed polymorphic even with respect to whether it's backed by a data structure or not).

Haskell's infelicities for numeric code come from other places.
There are a surprising number of people who graduate CS/CE without writing any meaningful amount of code.

To me a decent junior should be able to build a basic Hacker News.

There are a lot out there who have never done so much as make a web page with more than copy/pasted Jquery and expect to get jobs.
The point is that religious institutions like the Catholic Church, in exchange for their charity status are, at least in principle, supposed to be apolitical and not get involved in electoral politics. The Pope did not endorse Biden, for example.

Remove tax-free status and that's no longer required. You could have priests giving their parishioners strong 'advice' on how to vote for every name on the ballot. (Not that that doesn't happen to some degree already in practice...)
This is very common. It's basically the point of paying in RSUs and not in fixed dollars, to give employees incentive to care about the company/stock performance.
There definitely was time for the tesla to react. But I'm discussing the truck driver's actions. They signaled for a reasonable amount of time, then cut in front of the tesla despite it not slowing down. And I'm discussing your claim of 5 seconds of gap, because when you follow the ground movement there wasn't that much space between the vehicles, especially once the truck actually crossed between lanes.

Honestly the truck driver would have been better off not signalling, or changing lanes immediately upon signalling, because then there would have been much more space and they probably wouldn't have slowed down so much.
Keep in mind: in a variable length instruction set like x86, you can jump into the middle of an instruction, and have it interpreted as another instruction. If you have

mov $0x123, %r16

you can think of it as a sequence of bytes, which (oversimplified) encodes to something like:

0: $0xb8 # opcode for mov
1: $0x10 # destination register
2: $0x23 0x01 0x00 0x00 # constant

if you jump to address 2, you're in the middle of your constant. If that constant happens to be a malicious opcode, you're screwed.

So you can't just decode instructions starting from the program entry to find out if an opcode is trying to execute malicious code. You need to find all possible paths, including all computed jumps, to make that decision.
„Hammer and dance“ seems to be the best strategy in this game. Acceptance of population does not seem to be affected by doing so.
My worst try was 140k deaths, best 20k. The range seems quite extrem- can this be backed by real world data?
A great thing I did couple months ago was to turn off iOS notifications for email and gmail. I don't quite recollect how email went from an asynchronous mode of communication to a near real-time mode of communication where people often respond within minutes of getting email.

Changing my notification settings have reduced a large number of interruptions and I still end up opening the email app a number of times during the day and responding in a timely way. Highly recommend.
The number of people looking for full-time jobs and intending to only work for 3-9 months is way less than you think.
Source on Google doing front loading?
There's too much to type on a phone but...

Assuming it's possible to fix this through government action, it'd probably be by enforcing education that teaches values and mindful decision-making. Right now I think what we get is a collective mindset of enduring education, enduring the workday, and then distracting ourselves into oblivion. The things that suck our attention are the best pastimes because we can do them morning to night and never stop to deal with how sucky life and being self-aware are!

I don't think you can regulate how engagement is turned into dollars. But that engagement is addictive, and we are weak to it. So can it really be solved?
A similarly strange runway is located at Barra Airport in scotland: it's made of sand, and tide covers it up twice a day.

Here's a Tom Scott video about it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_2SlqF0kA0
I see what you're saying, but then I also don't share the author's viewpoint. That may have a little to do with it.

It is an interesting thought. What if you, as a company, create some open source that eliminates or genuinely competes with other companies?

When a large company has the resources to foot the bill on some project, and just give it away as open source because it is not a core product, is that just as bad as any of the article cases?
Some FB, Google, Amazon, MS et al. tool could be someone's entire business.

Is it fair, open source or not, to release software for free, because you make money elsewhere such that you don't care about monetizing it? Is harming a competitors admissible if you literally never intend to directly profit off the endeavor?

Imo, this line of thinking really challenges the point of the article, I don't know where you draw that line.
I feel it would be interesting to evaluate a real example, though admittedly I can't think of one on the spot.
like tesla
My speculation is that most of the wars and violence in the world is due to cats... well, toxoplasmosis in people's brains, which came from cats.
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Yeah, difficult to correlate number of addresses with users. Ethereum is probably a better approximation since users there tend to use a single address for everything.

Another way I estimate usage/adoption is looking at Google Trends and comparing it against something I can use as a baseline (in my case "reddit"), right now Bitcoin averages around ~30-40% of search query volume compared to reddit [1] (and even more if you look at worldwide queries) which is obviously not perfect comparison, but is an interesting datapoint.

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
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This can cause problems.
Imagine the code is written as to keep trying to reconnect or write logs every time it fails to connect. It's probably more convinient to remove the code trying to access the network than to inspect what this code does in case it is unable to connect to the network (and possibly modify it).
It's number of shares based on when you joined. It is the original format as 1-yr cliff but now you just get your stock faster.
There already is software called audacious. Apparently it's called Tenacity now.
You are using the term "homeopathy", which includes osteopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic treatments, and other "holistic" areas of treatment.

Homeopathy is a very broad area, and some of it isn't just pseudoscience, although we may not yet know the mechanism of operation for some of the 'treatments' (and some are almost certainly actively harmful).

It's probably a weak analogy, but homeopathy is to medicine as supplements are to FDA-approved pharmaceuticals. There's always going to be some crazies, but there will also be some good things there, too, and by banning it, we will miss out on some really good innovation and ideas.
You're completely right—to be fair, the company I was referring to is giant and likely has several months' worth of things to learn, which is very different than joining a startup. But even if a one-year cliff seems excessive for most companies, I still don't think there's anything wrong with a cliff of some sort. Maybe 6 months makes more sense for a medium-sized company, but there's still a breakeven point for new hires, and unless you're one of the first 5 or so employees, that point is probably somewhere between 3 and 9 months. I don't think it's unreasonable for companies to want to pay less during that "trial" period; if you don't like it, join a different company, or just hold out until your equity vests.
"most stressful day of his life", "were the result of".

He died of a clot in an artery. What you are saying is speculative.
Yeah well the comparison did not stand in the first place.
Oh, a notification that tells me a distracting device has been distracting me for too long, and that I should take a break. That's effectively nothing: it hasn't challenged the attention model itself. It's like if a casino had scantily-clad women wandering the floor offering men at the slot machines a free drink. They aren't doing that to help the gentlemen, they are just adjusting the incentives.
I’m waiting the day someone discovers a simpler alternative to k8s. It will be like that day in which we realized that http verbs >>> Corba/rmi for web services.
Oh wow - last I heard it kept being delayed. It'll be much better for traffic, but the cool factor of "I'm waiting at a level crossing FOR A PLANE" will be lost .
Maybe fungi, which turn ants is zombies, is also part of some sick fiction... except that is true. The world is full of evil biological schemes. And toxoplasmosis is one of the most widely spread mind-control on this planet.
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> HFT is pretty much as far from making markets "efficient" prediction mechanisms as you can

? HFT facilitates liquidity, liquidity facilitates efficiency.
The F-22 was sufficient for threat mitigation. The F-35 raison d'être was cost reduction, after that was exportability which again was supposed to help with cost reduction.

Edit; comparing the logic of a 'but for' vs a 'necessary' condition. Was the F-35 necessary for threat mitigation. No. Was it framed as the necessary for cost savings, yes.