skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agreed on those economic points. Also not a fan of negative real rates and increased direct control over the economy that it could enable. And I'm a bigger fan of (effective) big government than most.

Depending on how much tinfoil is in your hat, central bank digital currencies open the door to surveillance and control. Consider the elimination of physical cash and the implementation of a social credit system that sees exactly what you buy, and from who. I don't think the US will get that far, especially not soon, but also think having cash as an option is fine.

China has moved faster with the digital yuan; there are discussions over things like whether there will be capability for anonymous small transactions, or just private transactions, still viewable by the government, just not by the other party.

I'm not versed in the space but also heard payment processors and especially banks are against CBDCs, since they would get cut out of various transactions and even loans.
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Seems like an API that the OS should expose. I'm sure other apps like banking/financial would benefit from this, too.
“Commercial paper” (aka IOUs from crypto exchanges)
Wet bulb 35C is equivalent to a heat index of 160F.

One issue that people who haven't experienced extreme heat might not realize is a lot of people just pass out really quickly. While it takes a while to go past the point of no return and they theoretically could be egressed to somewhere they can cool off and recover, if they're alone, they're not going to.
What's interesting is how many more Europeans emigrate to the USA compared to American's that move to Europe. 3 times as many, in fact.
If you think USDC is backed 1:1 by US dollars, you should try selling them all and see what you get.

If you sell early enough, you might get most of your money back because other people aren't paying attention, or have been similarly misled.
Roughly, and that's only the united states.
https://www.insider.com/coober-pedy-australia-underground-mi...

Coober Pedy everywhere I guess.
The Skype mafia looks to me rather “diverse” international https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/08/21/the-skype-m...

Anyway, my point is that whether correctly or incorrectly, that thanks to Zennström, many people do associate Skype also with Sweden, and he acted as an early role model for other future startup entrepreneurs from Sweden.
GPS tracking: All eyes on the road
And do they get a pay raise if they work from a more expensive place? It’s impossible to be consistent with policies like this unless they specifically state that the whole point is to pay you as little as possible and still keep you. None of this is. About economics. Just profits.
> Why let cash sit in an account when you can make interest on low or no risk, short term debt?

Because you've promised "investors," or at least made lots of strong statements that led them to believe, that you're letting cash sit in an account?

When I invest in a fund, and it says that it does X, but then secretly does Y because they believe it's obviously better, that's something between totally untrustworthy and outright fraud.
PG&E power line suspected in Dixie fire was set to be buried underground
Because I have limited empathy and scope insensitivity.

If I'm emotionally burnt out about the crimes of a strongman like Putin who I have zero ability to change how will I put pressure on my local police chief to fire bad cops?
These days we can achieve insulation with better materials without sacrificing real estate.
Congrats Kenneth. We are also developing a hands on experience tailwindcss courses https://tailwind.academy using Stackblitz.
This may be the worst thing i read on HN ever.
Ask HN: The 'block' concept in WordPress is the future – your take?
It's been a few years since I took a look at WordPress (front-end UI only - I'm not familar with the front-end and back-end code).

Recently I took a look at WordPress 5.8 (July 2021) to see what has changed.

The lastest version of WordPress has enabled 'blocks' for full site editing i.e. blocks are not just for the main content part of a website but also for the surrounding site furniture like headers, footers, sidebars etc.

My first impression is that the block pattern is more flexible and rich in functionality for site editing. Is it too complicated as well?

Overall, I like where WordPress is heading with the 'block' concept. It's not unique to WordPress, but different Content Management Systems have a slightly diffrent interpretation. Other publishing platforms are taking a different focus (e.g. Ghost), but WordPress continues to dominate.

I don't how the changes have been met by the WordPress Community, but I'm interested in your take on the future of WordPress, including the focus on the 'blocks' pattern.
How is giving someone the option of dying peacefully, as I suggested, equivalent to mass murder?

Do you think societies have unlimited resources to spend on everyone? Should they be directed only to people with healthcare problems? What about people that suffer non healthcare tragedies?

Not spending $2M of resources to keep a baby alive that has a 99% chance of not having any quality of life is not “killing people”.
Again, that's looking the wrong direction through the employee's window. If Google has offered a transfer to someone, then they are giving them a new job offer, and it might be "take it or leave it", but the employee still gets to the chance to decide if any/no compensation changes are worth the offer.

But if Google gives that person the ability to work from home as much as they want, but then Google chooses to cut their pay if they incidentally move, that's snooping on the employee's private life.

What other snooping behaviors are they going to start engaging in? One employee could eat out a lot more than another, or an employee could choose to stop eating out frequently to cut their expenses. Adult children of employees can get jobs and move out. People moving within cities can find drastically different costs of living. You could end up with a financial windfall from an inheritance.

You're arguing from the side of universal corporate surveillance of employees.
Sorting replies on Twitter by some formula that pushes nonsense down and lets replies with substance raise to the top.

I have no idea why they don't do it. But replies to Tweets are a total shitshow.
I agree, but I also think that reserves are only part of the game. A lot of the story resides in Coinbase' market transactions. How do they stabilize their stablecoin, precisely?
Either this person does not run or they have serious foot issues.
It's better not to start wars, and sometimes troops need to stay, but a bad peace is better than a good war, so recent American withdrawal from Middle East could be overall good in the long run. We can remember Churchill, with his "Americans will always do the right thing, after trying all others", but things still go to the right direction.
This strikes me as a case particularly well-suited/well-matched for solar.
> It's not about obscene secrets, I was just a different person at 18 than I am at 40.

I don't know why so few people consider this point. People change, social norms change, so it's very easy for an older conversation to be used in such a way as to make someone look horrible, even if they were not, and are not, a horrible person.
Students are hardly the smartest people, unless you believe that growing up and acquiring decades of practical experience actually makes you dumber.

Canada: A "filmmaker" claims that one of the police officers had a rock in their hand, why would I believe a "documentary filmmaker" without any actual evidence (you'd expect a video evidence from the guy) participating in a protest more than actual police officers? or than the minister of public safety? or than the journalist who obviously could not verify it and as such did no mention it?

There's only one logical reason that comes to my mind: because you want to, like the person who choose the title "Canadian Undercover Police Officers Caught Trying to Start a Riot", that's not an honest title, "Canadian Filmmaker Pretends Police Officers Tried to Start a Riot" would have been actually honest. Who's manipulating who now?

Nice description under the video too, but it's only one side of the story: we also hold tons of evidence that people actually lie and plan to lie just to cause agitation, protests and so on. Is that something that you would be interested in as well? Or are you just interested in "anything against the elected government"?
The fact that a stable coin should be assumed to be high risk betrays a major problem of the crypto crowd.
Introduction to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
My comment cleared up that the quotes were out of context, and in pretty dry words explained in what context they were said. If simply stating the context is pushing a narrative, we can’t converse.
In the US, employment is generally at-will, which means either side can unilaterally terminate the agreement but either way, these are the people whose employment conditions presently include having to physically show up to work. So, there's no "existing employment contract" here either legally or morally - if want to change one side of the contract (from working in the office to working from home), then it's reasonable for the other side of the contract (compensation) to have to be renegotiated.
27,000 light years in just 20 years. This is crazy, I never would have thought these relativistic effects have such impact. I guess we could create a travel into the future this way if the rocket was designed to eventually come back to Earth.

I was wondering, what if there was a spaceship circling outside the solar system at near light speed (not dwelving into whether it is possible ever to design such a ship or what the centigular forces inside would be), if there were people on such ship, that would experience 27,000 years in 20 years, would it be possible to communicate with them given the close proximity? Wouldn't it be weird that they are experiencing time in a much different way?

Heck, even with a rocket that is simply moving away from Earth, the messages that are sent should eventually reach the ship? (because it's not travelling faster than light, and at times it's even slower) How can the ship receive 27,000 years worth of messages in 20 years?
Qt has a reduced version of HTML and CSS that it uses for Widgets styling, which is why you can make words bold, or underlined or whatever, in labels and pretty much everywhere in the GUI. This is very useful to have. Many more basic toolkits include no such functionality, or have a divide between "plain text" widgets, which can do no formatting at all, and a real browser-ish HTML widget. (There's also capital-R-T Rich Text used in some parts of Windows but you really don't want to go there)
This article is perfect. I'm 50 and it describes perfectly the kind of career I've had and techniques I've used successfully. read it carefully if you're a young guy.
Getting rich text right is a huge undertaking. I spent a lot of time on getting text working really well on a few GUI projects I worked on.

This is the last big GUI/application framework I coauthored. It’s still getting maintained 10 years later. It’s primarily been used for creative applications, but could just as well build cross platform media rich application.
https://github.com/Downstream/ds_cinder
They've built and earned their (negative) reputation. This is cool, but it's like Philip Morris Tobacco Company coming out with a useful home appliance. Uhh....thanks?
They can use their internal render engine. What they can't use is their Javascript framework because a modern JIT requires taking compiled javascript code in memory and marking it as executable (e.g. taking any memory page of data and telling the system that this is code now, thus allowing to execute it). This goes against the iOS security mechanism / sandbox because a bug here would allow executing any remote code in the context of the current process.

You can even ship a custom Javascript engine on iOS if you disable JIT, it will just be slow. Or, you do it like iSH (https://ish.app) and implement custom execution via a hard-to-debug genius assembly.

As an exempla, Ejecta is a custom Javascript library for iOS - just without the JIT to make it fast. https://impactjs.com/ejecta
Anecdotal (but nevertheless true): I have (at least) two millionaire neighbours (less than 3 doors/gates away). Both won the lottery - one euromillions and one national lotto draw.

And if we are talking average income, then everyone on this side of the village is a millionaire simply because of those two. However, most of the rest of us seem to struggle daily.
Facebook can afford manual moderation. What do you think the mental health cost of waiting for AI moderation to be good enough in 111 languages that understand the nuances of speech in text/audio/video?
What's the worst/best part of your position that people outside of it would rarely acknowledge publicly?
Is it a right to post as many times as one wants or can we consider a throttling mechanism?

Obviously throttling means less revenue and that collides with commercial interests. However, given people are over reliant on social media and social media with engagement, moderating this perniciousness might be worth trying out.
Just FYI, you are most likely arguing with a Russian bot or paid propagandist.
> Disappearing messages by default could further weaken social protections.

> Police and authorities can have logs (either of everyone or high value targets) and those people won't have access to their own messages to defend themselves.

> It even means chat conversations can be entirely fabricated by one side, and the other has no way to refute it.

I don't think that's a realistic threat, and if it was, the defense you propose wouldn't work.

Given that Signal is E2E encrypted, I don't see the mechanism where the police and authorities could even have logs without compromising the endpoints. Furthermore, even if they did fabricate a message, it's not like your phone is some inviolable log of what you actually sent. Even with Signal today, you can delete messages on an ah-hoc basis, so their rebuttal (that you sent it but deleted it from your phone) would be exactly the same.
Amazing work on this!

I spotted a typo in your blog post.
When you start talking about code on pizza boxes, you can read “Anyway, writing code by hand is very due for a serious experimentation.”, there's something missing between "very" and "due" :)
Yes, generally law doesn’t work as code and allows for retroactive human interpretation rewriting of transactions.

But the DAO contract specifically said, “we are bound by the results of this state machine, and it takes precedence over any human description of it”, and then wanted take-backsies as soon ask they didn’t like the result.
>This seems to me allegory for the difficulty Vietnam vets had in readjusting to civilian life.

Perhaps it's also to give some perspective of what it can be like for gay people sometimes by providing an opposite world.
If you're running the software on hardware you "control" (like phones or IoT things) you can use "secure enclave" features to support a complex PKI for the software runNing on the Thing.

But this is less about copy protection than about the need to keep rogue (i.e., bot/malware) from being installed on the box.
That’s a good thing. If you’re not the intended audience they save on their resources and your time.

I’d call that a win-win and not worthy of a critique.
What's with the USDC right now? Is it going to follow the footsteps of Tether? Why did they remove the claim as the purpose of USDC is converting the paper to digital 1:1?
Of the things I'm familiar with that are out there, this looks most familiar to Idris 2. Also, while Lean is primarily used for mathematical proofs, Lean 4 is beefing up its capabilities to be used as a regular programming language as well. Can anyone speak to the differences between this and those?
Thank you for elaborating. That makes perfect sense.
The difference between the orgs is massive, but the practical functioning of these stablecoins isn’t.

If you can’t see how stablecoins backed by “commercial paper” (Mostly IOUs from crypto exchanges) is a bad idea I’m not sure what to tell you.

I mean we have a name for when a company does this with actual dollars and it’s called a bank, and we regulate and license those.
I'm in the same boat. Seriously, WTF?! We really can't have centralized entities issuing stable coins, can we.

The real solution is DAI, right?
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ah yes the tacoma... awesome.

check out this 1999 tacoma base for $14K with 186K miles:
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or this 2000 tacoma for $9K with 319,945 miles!
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you have one of the lowest mileage 1999 tacomas in the usa right now. congratulations.

even this 2001 tacoma was just listed yesterday for $10K... it looks like its been running the baja 1000 for decades:
https://driverbase.com/vehicle/8804882/2001-toyota-tacoma-in...
Big budget video games sometimes have Denuvo. I'm not 100% sure of how it works, but it's sometimes nasty enough to have a noticeable performance impact, even on high-end PCs. This is another example of pirates providing a better product.
Pretty much Twitter at this point for me. There's too much pessimism on HN when it comes to crypto. I appreciate criticism but Twitter has all the deep thinkers
>Exactly, and all you need is Any

If you're using Any, then your program is (at least in part) dynamically typed. I don't think it's fair to say "look! Static typing is better than dynamic typing in any and all situations! (so long as it can use dynamic typing)"
Yep, nothing gets me salivating as much as the idea of a digital Euro issued by the EU, implemented to be fully private (can't see sender/receiver/transaction count/transaction amounts), bulletproofs [0], combined with view keys that are single-use only when the law needs to intervene. Zero-knowledge proofs used to determine if I paid my taxes without knowing how much I earn and similar exotic behavior.

Was quite surprised something like this is possible and I love seeing new crypto tech on HN.

0: https://crypto.stanford.edu/bulletproofs/
How amazing...great job sir the site/app looks very promising!

Being a mid-50s dev with 35 years of programming experience, I'm finding ageism (or something) blocking my ability to get hired these days, so teaching is something I've been seriously thinking about. Your platform could very well be an ideal way to explore this path.

So a practical question...do you have any way to gauge course interest before one spends the time creating it as to make sure there will be a profitable number of students when the course starts?

As someone who is needing some income, I would hate to blindly spend a few weeks creating a course on, say, LAMP-stack + Bootstrap webapp development...only to find out that only 2 people are interested in this tech and I just spent a month to make $100 bucks or whatever.

I'm sorry if this is perhaps coming across as "crass" or something like that with simply focusing on the income side of things, but in general having a list of course topics that potential students have expressed interest in sure could be a useful thing to help one build courses that people actually want.

Anyway...congrats on the launch. So far the site seems really easy to use (LOVE the single email registration/login prompt! You have no idea how much I've argued for this sort of thing with past clients) and hopefully this will be the start of something mutually beneficial.

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I go to a large gathering every week. It’s called the supermarket. In light of that, it seems silly to suspend civil rights.
You don't have to pick one or the other. Most people who hold cryptocurrencies including stable coins representing various currencies also keep US dollars as well as bonds and traditional financial instruments.
There's no such thing as just holding dollars when operating at this kind of billion-dollar scale. Even if you could, say, find a bank that would let you just keep that amount in an account with them, the bank would have to do the same things behind the scenes (along with, typically, some riskier stuff) in order to back those dollars. It just isn't a meaningful concept.
it's a pretty low impost obligation. But I'd refer to it as a minor duty to the community.
> I don't verbally abuse people face to face because there is a non zero chance of being punched. I am almost entirely liberated from consequences in the online world. Online I can't see the person I'm abusing, I don't see their pain, I have zero chance of empathising with them.

This makes me think that if I am physically weaker and guaranteed not to beat you, you will abuse me in person until I cry or am otherwise seriously disturbed.
I agree. This is a big issue. I often have to scroll for a while to find good replies.
A few days ago HN had an article about dumb vs stupid or something. The first being a low quality brain, but the second could happen when smart people work with the wrong mental framework.

I fear GNOME is locked in the second problem. Clearly they have a lot of smart people over there, but I also see a lot of wasted effort and dumbing down. One aspect of the wrong mental framework would be working for the nonexistant elastic average user. Another example would be their stance on the unimportance of backward compatibility.
A store of value is a meaningless term. Value can't be stored. Stuff can be stored. And no assurances can be made as to whether stuff will keep its value over time. Anyone who does that is a charlatan.
What do you mean the FDP disappeared? They're at >12% in current estimates, which is higher than in the 2017/2013 elections. They've only been ranked higher in 2009 (14.6%, financial crisis), and in 1961 (12.8%).
Are these COBOL programs running on obsolete hardware, or are the systems virtualized these days?

I suspect the way forward for COBOL is to modernize the development tools around it, rather then rewrite the code itself.
It's actually probably easier since the government would be asking its own people to kill its own people. If the local government were in broadly thought to be tyrannical, a guerilla civil war would have a high chance of success. Ask Cuba.
Suuuuper nice!!
The basic idea has been around since the 80s, although not to the extent you describe it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle
They call it a “Time Appliance”, or a “Time Device”.

Missed opportunity to call it a “time machine”.

Or, I guess, more prosaically, a “clock”.
The Slip approach for interactive courses is what is missing in most of learning platforms. For developers the learning process happens when you start coding not by watching videos. But most of the platforms like Udemy they only support text and video materials. We actually wrote an article about importance of learn by doing https://dev.to/corpcubite/why-learn-by-doing-is-important-5a... hope you find it helpful.
HN is extremely skeptical about everything, because being skeptical about unproven things is a pretty important part of being an engineer
That's exactly why the Fed would be best for an actual perfect stable 1:1 USD to Token equivalent. They can print and delete money at a whim, it will always be worth 1 dollar.
The profit incentive in crypto created a real incentive to creating and exploiting asymmetric / proprietary information that mirrors existing finance markets. The sad truth is that this causes basically every crypto community to devolve into shilling and pricing discussions. It’s the same thing you see with stocks; anyone willing to give you insight into the market is likely playing the other side.

Even technical discussions devolve into arguments about how things will be priced; but this is all because everyone is trying to make their altcoin a meme and become rich. When success equals a huge payday and the risk to shilling is so low, it infiltrates all discussion around a topic.