skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Bitcoin's "coinbase" mining reward halves every 210,000 blocks. Is it conceivable that miners band together and quietly remove that part of the code? (I guess that you'd then have a "good miners" and "bad miners" hard fork, and it all depends on who's in the majority, so it boils down to a good old 51% attack. But what are the game theoretic elements there?)

2. Those that have gotten rich - where did the money come from? It seems like a negative sum game to me (as you have to pay the ASICs and power, ie mining rewards). How is that different from a "normal" stock?
Twitter is a private organization that owns the physical infrastructure it’s managing.

When did we switch from capitalism to socialism? You own their infra and agency now?

The slippery slope is every pleb thinking they’re David going against Goliath. Really you’re all just berating and competing with your neighbors. Turning them into ephemeral ideas all living behind a blue bird logo.

The masses cheered this all on ignoring the political reality they exist in. The chemical bath washing through your brain isn’t the same as others.
That's maddening for sure, but not as maddening as the argument that it's okay to censor something that is wrong or fake news or misinformation. History is littered with wrong takes that turned out to be correct, fake news that turned out to be real, and misinformation that turned out to be informative.

And the worst of all is the censorship of hate speech, because hate speech has become a malleable term used simply to eventually become an opinion I don't like.

Remember the whole "punch a Nazi", meme? Who doesn't think a Nazi deserves punching? But eventually, everyone becomes a Nazi, so any violence against them is justified.

This artificially constructed right not to be offended needs to die in a fire.
Selfishness and Narcissism are IMHO the driving force for many of these estrangements.

It's just more of the same from the Boomers, or the Me generation. They people who fully embraced the Me generation raised a group of children who make the me generation look like communal hippies.

I work with people who are difficult at work because of their self centered view of the world, but when I listen to them talk about their families I am horrified by what they expect, to and from family members. I suspect that these people are a joy at work because nobody will tolerate their selfish behavior, so they need to behave.

Almost to a person these difficult people have limited interaction with their children, initiated by the children because of the parents toxic self centered nature.
My main issue with it is that we don't have complete data to feed into the formula to make a good decision. Some aspects of your job can't be quantified and entered into an algorithm.

It's the same as when project managers track how many commits per week each employee makes and use that as a metric for how much work they're doing - an exceptionally dumb example but it literally happens at a lot of companies. And for an algorithm such as this, I doubt they have much better/more useful data to feed it.

Humans have their own set of issues as well though, as you've mentioned. I feel that the problem stems from the way companies are organized with a single entity having full control over resources and decision making, as opposed to responsibility, resources, and power being divided among the people doing the work, in a self-organized and likely democratic way.
Yes, probably true.

Those (cars, housing, renovations, education) are things financed by debt and can continue rising. But I suspect they are conveniently down-weighted from the CPI.

For example, if they let the CPI-entry be monthly car payments instead of cash price, then CPI inflation is flat as long as rates are falling.
> What is the origin of this

Joe Biden originally said it to highlight that Trump is the former President, at a time when Trump and his supporters were insisting that Biden's victory was fraudulent and Trump is actually still president. I imagine people are still saying this because Trump and his supporters continue to insist the election was stolen, and Trump is the rightful occupant of the White House.

“I’m tired of talking about Donald Trump. I don’t want to talk about him anymore,” Biden said Tuesday night during a CNN town hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“For four years, all that’s been in the news is Trump,” Biden said at another point. “For the next four years, I wanna make sure the news is the American people.”

“You had the former guy saying that, ‘Well, you know, we’re just going to open things up and that’s all we need to do.’ We said no, you’ve got to deal with the disease before you deal with getting the economy going,” Biden said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/biden-steers-clear-of-trump-...
Why is there a massive, high resolution, unflattering picture of Zuckerberg at the top of this article? What does he have to do with this?
Right, first example I pick:

Will Ferrell, via wikipedia:

After graduating with a B.A. degree in sports information in 1990, he knew he did not want to do broadcasting.

He took up a job as a hotel valet where, on his second day, he tore a baggage rack off the top of a van by trying to drive it under a low beam.
He also worked as a teller at Wells Fargo, but came up short $300 the first day and $280 the second; he was not stealing the money, but was just careless and error-prone.

In 1991, encouraged by his mother to pursue something he liked, Ferrell moved to Los Angeles.
He successfully auditioned for the comedy group The Groundlings where he spent time developing his improvisation skills.
There's nothing about SMTP that makes it slow. There's lots about public e-mail infrastructure that sometimes makes it slow.
On macOS brew? Yeah, tons. To even get somewhat close with Ubuntu or Debian you'd have to add a bunch of non-standard package repositories, and because of the way most Linux distros tie up user-facing programs with system releases, you'd have to do similar to stay up-to-date on packages that are in the default repos.

Arch does much better, but a quick search of ones I guessed might be missing turned up the following missing, from what I have installed on my Mac:

- rolldice

- android studio (package name android-studio in homebrew)

- tealdeer

- heroku (these are the Heroku command line tools)

- sublime text (package name: sublime)

- postman

- slack

Maybe you can add other repos to get them on there, but I usually just guess the package name and get what I want. I don't think I have a single thing on my Mac, as far as software I directly use (not project dependencies), that I didn't install with Homebrew, aside from first-party Apple software (Pages, Numbers, Safari, Xcode, Mail, and so on). And that's not bringing up all the Mac-only software I've installed with it, which obviously wouldn't be fair.

I haven't added a single extra repo. That's just with the defaults. You used to have to do a one-time invocation to enable binary-only packages (mostly closed-source stuff) and then use a different keyword for operating with them, but that's no longer the case and hasn't been for IIRC at least a year—it's all transparent. "brew install [guess at package name]" works almost every time I need it, and a "brew search" finds the rare failures. I basically never need to open a browser to find & download software, and it's all up-to-date, and it's all totally separate from my base system so is extremely unlikely to ruin my morning because I ran a blanket update-everything-to-latest and didn't pay enough attention.
You can also click/tap the innkeeper for interaction.

When tapping on a location in the image during the conversation, the eyes will move towards that target.
Twitter literally censored presidents and ex-presidents. We're already way down the slope. Twitter can't act like they are victim of government pressure when they act like an extension of a certain political party in power and literally does their bidding...
I know middle-aged managers of small town banks. They are encouraging their children to take their careers completely differently.

You might see the entitled “just walk in and apply” from someone who worked their way up into an insulated position at a large Chase branch, but you won’t see it in a modest position in a small town that directly encounters dozens of struggling people every week.
If US govt does that. Sure other countries govt just write the laws so it's legal to do taht
This is completely unethical and unreasonable. It's like arguing that police don't need more accountability because it makes it harder for them to do their jobs, and most of them aren't bad people, so who cares about a few bad apples?

Yeah it sucks, but it's part of the job. Start thinking about the people you're supposedly serving instead of yourself first. I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority of facebook users want to hear about tighter privacy protections at facebook, not fewer.
That’s not the message of the cartoon at all. Quite the opposite.
https://archive.is/DFIdE
Probably not you? Probably not me?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox

The real world is purely emergent so thinking you are a main character is just a fallacy, an absurdism.

What you seem to be pushing back on is that when someone describes themself as a side character it implies that they still buy into "narrative drive" and they just think poorly of themselves.

I think while one could argue that there are no main or side characters the simple fact is you can look at the friendship paradox to inform how you think about the problem.

Let's forget narrative in the manufactured sense and talk about what scale of perception a person referring to themselves as a "side character" may be implicitly using as a reference. Does the universe revolve around you to any impactful degree and the answer is that it doesn't at all, one asteroid and we are all done, we are here by happenstance, on any cosmic scale or timeline we currently hardly exist.

From an experiential human society scale some people function as higher power nodes than others and there is a good chance you are a lower powered node than the people you know, meaning each person is their self probably the least significant person they know.

I'd argue that internalizing the friendship paradox and what we know about social graphs could reasonably lead someone to refer to themselves
colloquially as a side character, "pretty much everyone I know is probably more important than me." is a fair self assessment for people to make.
Depopulation of cockroaches in post-Soviet states
The author merely disagreed on the stigmatizing tone of crackpot. But given that Eric Weinstein has a large following, is regularly invited to speak in publicized venues, has an important position in industry which should net him some nice connections, and has the money to actualize his ideas...

The failure to pursue his own ideas of unified physics for well over a decade, and the failure to develop consensus while saying everyone else is in conspiracy against him is what makes him, in the sum of all things, a crackpot.
Disclaimer: was at FB in 2014

You could at the time start trying to log in as a user and MULTIPLE red warnings came up that proceeding further would automatically notify your manager and skip of access and a reminder of data policies. Now at that point I did not go further but I did know that content moderation and security teams had special access so I imagine they did both, heavily warn avg FB eng AND restrict access.
uBlock Origin (and uMatrix) DoS with strict-blocking filter and crafted URL
The government of India probably doesn't give a shit about Twitter's First Amendment rights.
Having worked until recently for a European bank, they were still using Skype for Business, and I agreed it was a horrific experience. Naturally they now migrate to Microsoft Teams.

I agree with others in this thread, however, that Meet is quite popular in US otherwise. I guess it's because pretty much everyone here has a GMail account, and it's super easy to get everyone join the meeting without any hassle.
NB: I appreciate your calm responses, I hope my frustration isn’t coming across too aggressive.

> our political system doesn't give enough opportunities to give fine-grained feedback about specific issues

IMO, this is a universal problem. Sadly, while freedom of speech is useful, it is overrated relative to actionability on governance.

All the atrocities we discussed have occurred and continue to be fueled regardless of ever-present outspoken individuals.
The problem is that bad actors can abuse these platforms from multiple sides. In this case the issue is censorship, but there’s also the spreading of misinformation and propaganda that can also pose serious threats to democracy. I don’t know why the anti-censorship crowd doesn’t acknowledge this.

In the US, Trump used social media to spread lies about the results of the elections. He tried to pull all the stops to stay in power. This is the same President who attacked journalism, rescinded access to White House press events for news sources that were critical of Jim, and used the Justice department to seize records of journalists. Trump was a bigger threat to journalism while he was in office than any content moderation rules Twitter could ever enforce.
It could be that temps are stored and converted from Celsius.

20C = 68F, 21C = 69.8F which gets rounded up to 70F.
> I find that most propaganda comes from unions as they increasingly seek a political relationship with workers rather than the economic relationship that workers want.

This is probably the purest, and most direct example of the insane propaganda trying to separate economics and politics as if they weren’t inherently and inseparably tied together.

“Oh, I’m so sorry that we can’t spend money on health care, or pay a living wage, or provide elder care, unfortunately, due to ECONOMICS.

Ah, you need some corporate pork, and a bailout..? Of course! Let’s shower private enterprise with tax payer money, it’s the best course of action due to ECONOMICS”

None of this shit is apolitical, and the suggestion that it is, is deeply political, no matter how much people try to define themselves out of reality.

The fact that you have already have been convinced that unions are the big problem, while corporations are stealing tax payer-money (while utilizing “tax avoidance” to not even contribute in the US), says it all doesn’t it?
I honestly thought most people would recognize it. It just reads so well as a prose comment, that I didn't want to spoil its beauty.
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I remember that. MBS had a huge number of princes and other high-level officials arrested and locked up in the local Hilton. It was called the most expensive prison in the world. I understand they were tortured etc. while they were held there. To be released, from bogus charges of "corruption" they had to pay enormous ransoms. Basically, the government needed quick cash and MBS wanted to consolidate his position a bit more.
the first door in their video is built that way because you can choose which way it opens… a lot of poor ux is a cost cutting effort. It can be frustrating to find building fixtures that exist between lazy low-end and overthought high-end. Maybe because of how the middle class has been hollowed out?
Suach a nice work
The train station in my city has 80 million travellers per year compared to the airport which only has 27 million. And while I do not think many train stations have been built since the 1950s many have been expanded.
After a long time dabbling with nix packages on OSX, never quite understanding what the heck I was doing syntax wise, I finally "got it" after watching these _excellent_ tutorials [1] by @burke. I still have no idea what CLI commands to use for anything, but I never need to understand that since I only use Home Manager and work directly in derivations.

The revelation that _everything_ is an attribute set was the key I think, along with understanding syntactic quirks like the multiline string ('') and attribute set merge (//). The latter is especially disorienting if you aren't familiar with it. With that small foundation you can easily dig through the source code for nix packages and craft whatever you need, or at least I so far have been able to. I am now fully on a nix packages / Home Manager setup except for various homebrew casks I haven't ported. That isn't fully necessary, but it would be nice to have everything in one place (although I _do_ manage my homebrew Brewfile by way of Home Manager).

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYyImy-lqaA&list=PLRGI9KQ3_H...
This would only apply to local town squares.

You can not reasonably argue that a worldwide forum is a US town square.
Obligatory rant that tau is better than pi.

Tau (2 * pi) is a better constant. Especially for teaching people trigonometry.
It makes radians so much more intuitive (90 degree angle becomes 1/4th tau radians).

In general, mathematics characterizes circles by their radius, not their diameter.
Tau codifies this practice by giving us the relation between a circles radius, and its circumference.

This isn't a change that will make academic mathematics better. Its a change that will make high-school mathematics better. If anything, that makes it more important.

/rant
I just think it is a different mindset from people who build things for other people, vs people who don't. If you build consumer facing software you have to have a level of empathy for the user, otherwise you are going to create a hostile UX, similar to doors that don't indicate which direction they go. A small detail, but something that will at some level annoy every person that uses it for the first time. In software a similar example would be things like animations that take too long for often repeated tasks.

In software, small affordances to improve UX are usually easy and cheap, requiring a few extra lines of code and a little more thought..and in the case of a door the only affordance needed is a $2 sign saying "push" somewhere.
I like seeing devs embrace native frameworks. Electron apps just do UI so differently that its just a pain to use. For example dragging a file tab out of vs code doesnt create a new window like every other editor.
Why Europeans Don't Refrigerate Eggs but Americans Do
DSL all the way for this. Imagine refactoring ASCII art.
Ask HN: How do you manage forearm/wrist pain?
Today is the first day that I had to admit to myself that I'm not capable of finishing any work, because of my forearm pain.

I'm glad to be at a point where I realise that it's only that - for about two years I thought i began to hate coding and any computer related work. Looking back i now realise that was me rationalizing my forearm pain.

I have a difficult time accepting that this will be like this forever. I'm optimistic that there's a way to significantly reduce the pain, without surgery.

What is your experience?
Go away. Stop talking to us. We don't know you.
> Moving to cloud provides very little advantage (definitely not financially) to such companies.

As someone who has worked as a software developer for big NY banks for the past 25 years, that's simply not true.

The answer is, it's complicated. JPMorganChase for instance has a $12 billion annual IT spend. They do a LOT of different things. Admittedly certain things are best left on prem for regulatory audit points (more with respect to resilience/business continuity rather than security.) But a substantial portion of it could be moved to the cloud at some cost savings.

Additionally the brittleness of the service and database infrastructure is a pathology of the on-prem environment rather than an argument for it. Cohorts of SA's and DBA's are wasting their time doing work which in a modern environment would be scripted and more flexible.
I don't think parent-child relationships were fundamentally better in the past, just read some Dickens or George Eliot or Henry James and you'll find plenty of agonizing both ways.

The article headline suggests there's a "shift" but doesn't really go into enough detail to explain why a shift from relationships based on duty to relationships based on fulfilment would fuel estrangement. A little more data on that would be helpful.
Wonder how much of this is driven by social media and the internet today. The word 'Toxic' is just thrown around now and everything is 'Toxic'. Its a word that has ceased to have any real meaning but virtually every behavior that used to just be normal every day activity is Toxic. Everyone has flaws and no one has all the answers. Parents are just people doing the best they can and for the most part making what they think are the best decisions in the moment while struggling with everything that everyone else struggles with. Children want to put their parents on a pedestal and assume that all decisions; and any harm caused was intentional. There are of course bad parents and bad people and I don't mean to discount the effect that those people have on their kids. Social media is quick these days to tell you that your parents are narcissists when in reality they are just distracted trying to figure out what happened to their lives and trying to get by. At the end of every day I look back and see choices I made that were probably not great or see where I ignored my kid as I was trying to get something done for work. These things pile up and then are focused through the lens of the internet and suddenly you are a bad parent.
Note that the author indeed asks:

"But the most effective prompt? In terms of producing a realistic but dramatically lit landscape with recognizable mountains and hills and (okay not sheep)?"
Here's my theory: software developers are usually empowered to fix their own problems. You speak about offices, these offices are often filled with people working on computers. Most of them, when they have an error, refer to someone else. Few feel empowered to fix their problems. On the other hand, software developers usually know that there's a huge chance they can fix this error, and thus make things righht themselves. That habit translates to things like doors or elevator lights.
Amazon has significantly ramped up hiring efforts for Project Kuiper at its Redmond headquarters, with 500 employees currently aboard and 200 open positions
> It's very hard for a 55 year old manager of a small town bank to understand his daughter literally will not have the same opportunities he had as globalization eats all of the small town opportunities.

I am 50. I make good money as a software developer in an agrarian community of 50,000. I have 4 children with one left at home.

It IS (and has been) very clear to me that my children are having a harder time enjoying the same opportunities I have. Which makes me profoundly sad and frustrated. The comforts and excess I do enjoy, can't offset that, as much as I am willing to try.

So I'm not sure what the conclusion you're reaching here is? Are you saying that bank managers (and other moderately successful/wealthy people) are inherently self absorbed?
As someone who leans right wing.... I have 0 trust in these types of institutions. They overwhelmingly have views that are aligned directly with the far left and they seem to exercise their authority when given it to further their own political objectives. Take the SPLC which is used by some tech platforms to decide who to censor. They wield their power to label people as white supremacist to get them banned not because they are in any reasonable persons view based on evidence have said or done things that are clearly racist.... but its just the labeling of an enemy to fit narrative. We don't need censorship with extra steps... we need free speech.
Nothing preventing offering delivery on alternative ports for people with incompetent security teams that thing port numbers is sufficient to determine if it's a threat.

As for "being hammered", rejection of invalid recipients before even getting to the DATA verb is cheap.

Having actually run both an e-mail service and SMTP used as messaging middleware, I have dealt with these issues.