skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The odd thing about their repeated attempts to damage crypto is that it feels like a strategic miss to me.

If I was the CCP I'd try to leverage BTC (and others) as a weapon against the dominance of USD.

Instead it looks like they just want to implement their own variant that gives them total control and transparency of in-country transactions. At a minimum they could do both (ban BTC use internally, but still allow mining in the country). I must be missing something.

Their authoritarian currency does allow for some interesting things like expiring credits or instant distribution of benefits, refunds, stimulus to the public (with constraints baked in) - but the obvious negatives are pretty extreme especially with the CCP's track record.
Yes, that just means that any studies based on this platform were already wrong, it's just that no one knew.
> Contract tests allow us to describe the interactions between our services through expectations to be met by their inputs and outputs.

If you say so, and I wish you luck but... I've seen that tried many, many times and never seen it actually work out in practice. It seems like it ought to be workable - there are only a finite number of ways that each service can be invoked after all - but if the goal of automated testing is to find problems before they become production problems, I've never seen "defined contracts" fulfill that goal.
You could also tape a banana to a wall and sell it for $120k in the traditional art world. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maurizio-cattelan-banana-c...

Don't mistake extreme technical skill as being the sole reason humans value things. Sometimes, it's just about being the first to effectively convey a new idea, and the crudeness of the execution doesn't matter. And there are plenty of extremely skilled artists that spend decades mastering their craft whose work is effectively worthless, because they're not actually breaking new ground.
I really don't understand it when people today say that a phone has obsolete hardware from 2017 or so. What are you doing with your phone, running high-performance calculations? Librem 5 is capable of 3d graphics and desktop mode. What else do you need?

AFAIK it's the most performant smartphone capable of running the mainline Linux.
"Modern Standby" is such a crock of shit. As far as anyone knows, it doesn't do anything useful, but it consumes FIFTY PERCENT (50%!) of the battery each night.

Luckily you can turn it off, at least in Linux, and then the machine functions more-or-less normally.
It doesn't have to be laissez-faire.

Laws only have to be applied fairly. In this case, congress cannot hide their purchases for months before disclosure. They are a representative of the people or their state. The people must know immediately about their backdoor dealings.

Immediate release will cause some gamification of the market. But it will also attract strong monitors on bad faith congresspeople.
But they're all scientists who have a lot of data to send back and because of the isolation are desperate for live streaming media and video calls.
Back in university, I had a class that required I get up early some mornings so I walked past a lot of sushi places as fish was getting delivered. Lots of places getting boxes labelled escolar, but nobody had anything but tuna on the menu.
Am I the only one for whom the link is broken? I get sent to a Captcha, but after completing it, I get redirected to stackoverflow.com.
> I don't think this is true. Judaism and Islam both feature the same fundamental concept: there is a single god who cares about you personally and that your behavior and belief will shape that relationship in terms of direct, personal consequence. This is not true of the pre-Abrahamic faiths, it's not true of the religions of Asia or Africa.

"Personal relationship with God" refers to the idea that God knows us as individuals and cares about us individually (rather than as an abstract collective). That's a uniquely Christian theology. Islam and Judaism both believe that God knows and cares about his creation in general, but that a relationship with God isn't possible because God is beyond human understanding (Christianity also agrees that God transcends human understanding, but disagrees that this prevents a personal relationship). Indeed, both Islam and Judaism maintain that "God is not a person", while Christianity maintains that Jesus is the literal personification of God.

> Can you name any other conquerors in history who had a clearly and repeatedly stated goal of the complete elimination of the conquered?

1. I don't accept that this is true for European powers in any general sense at any point in history.

2. Selection bias--even if prehistoric peoples did have this stated goal, we would be far less likely to have any evidence. We do have evidence of prehistoric genocides and all manner of other violence, and we don't have any compelling framework for why Europeans would be uniquely evil. Even still, history records many attempted and successful genocides by non-European powers (e.g., Rwanda, Cambodia, Ottoman Empire, etc) and many European genocides which predate the Christianization of Europe (contrary to your framework about why Europeans are/were uniquely evil).

3. I don't accept that "repeated stated goals of genocide" is the right metric when we can look at actual genocides.
The cannabis industry has become a refuge for retail and restaurant workers
I would argue that it's mobile ready. I only have to zoom a bit. No ads, no cookie popups, the text isn't that wide.
Honestly I though it was going to be the story of an early bug where dwarves would carry around an arm in their mouth forever.
(Comment mentions title mentioning mining because it was posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28642415 before we merged the threads.)
Been using old quake 1&3 maps that I used to play in when younger to form palaces, so far it's working great
Equally weighted ETFs exist. Those would give a lot more exposure to smaller companies.
Actually, I should add that even in the unlikely extreme scenario, the upper bound would be the number of candidates on the parties' lists (Landeslisten). Even if a party would have a right to more seats, they cannot fill more than they have approved candidates on their lists. One could determine this actual upper bound by looking at each state's lists, which are public of course, but I haven't quickly found them compiled in one place, so I won't bother.

(Berlin's pirate party once won a surprisingly high share in the state parliament but wasn't able to fill all seats, because they were polling way lower when compiling their list.)
I'm not sure that's a word. Could you use it in a sentence?
I'm not discounting geopolymers as a viable technology, I just think dedicating the majority of your site to defending a hypothesis instead of promoting your technology is odd.

Also it seems like it would be pretty simple to prove or disprove the hypothesis scientifically but no one seems to care enough to try, which doesn't speak to it's credibility. Instead they argue about the provenance of samples analyzed 40 years ago and subsequently destroyed.
Does cloudflare WARP not work?

Or AWS self hosted VPN?
Yes, tiny.

Not sure what you're on about with the "overrelease" bit, but all ARC did was automate things with additional compiler support that were already automated.

And it caused additional crashes in code that shouldn't even be able to crash:

https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/compiler-writers-gone-wi...
St. Helena has been lobbying for years to get one. I was glad to see that finally working out for them.
When people talk about historical Bitcoin returns being attractive, they are talking about an extremely short history full of incredible variance and an uncertain legal future. You can’t easily make long term predictions based on that
Google's in-house editor, Monaco from Microsoft, Jupyter notebooks, etc. are
all browser-embedded text editors. I believe the confusion you're experiencing
is the same one felt by manual drivers when the automatic transmission took over.
A thermodynamic explanation doesn't explain everything as well as a lot of folks act like. The same thermodynamic laws apply to growing a tumor rather than growing a great fat mass.

Our way of assessing food's caloric values are also imprecise. We act like all carbs and protein are 4kcal/g and all fat is 9kcal/g, but there is clearly some level of variation, some of it due to food and some due to individual. And of course we don't know for most ingredients how much of each macro and how much water they _actually_ have, we just use mostly-ancient reference values.

All of that said, when we accurately track the amount of food people are eating, their weight does pretty predictably move with the calories in almost all circumstances. A lot of folks think they had other experiences, but people are really, really bad at accurately tracking their food intake. Shockingly bad, even when they're clearly trying.

Similarly, when we measure people's oxygen usage, it tracks fairly predictably with weight changes, suggesting that we don't see outsized changes in 'metabolism' defeating folks.

That still doesn't answer the question of why this is all happening.
I really want to make a joke about me wearing mine every day… But I also don’t want to contribute to the redditification of HN.
It hard to leverage it as a hedge against USD when it can be used against you, so many miners are already in China, and no real international transactions are happening in it (oil still USD).
Of course it's organic. The community is divided on the topic same way it is on every divisive topic. Both sides overgeneralize and think the community is against them—people on sides always do that.
Not to mention that there are still no mandatory security courses in CS curriculum at most major universities.
These sorts of projects are always fascinating to me. The hard part of these sorts of visualizations always seems to be acquiring the data in the first place. I would have no idea where to begin looking for a record of exactly how all of the underwater fiber optic cables are positioned. I wonder whether people come across this sort of data and think to do something with it, or whether people start by deciding to make this visualization and then go forth and search out the data.
Money. Lots and lots of money.

Given the population is always under 10k, and it doesn't serve as an interconnection point for any further points along the way (unlike e.g. Hawaii or Guam), it's just not worth it, apparently.
I didn't read the article but this must be Gordon, the guy who answered every SQL question I asked, within very short period of time. This guy is a legend. Love him.
Interesting system. How are districts boundaries defined?
Ask HN: Where should I work if I want to work in person
It seems that every software development job these days is remote. I'm early in my career and I'm finding it very difficult to connect with my colleagues. Do you have any recommendations for someone looking for more in person interactions?
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Because JS is an ever-evolving language. ChakraCore has been "abandoned" by MS (technically transitioned to community ownership) for less than a year and it's already behind on ES6 and ESNext compatibility.

I've used QuickJS but when I got stuck on an issue (stack overflow in win32 because of passing by-value) I got no help from the tiny community on the mailing list and had to abandon the attempt and go back to (overweight) V8.
Yeah it's really really not the same thing as actual Lightroom Classic or Lightroom on an iPad.
I wonder if anyone has done an analysis of kernel code to find all the cases where brace-less statements introduced bugs.
As mentioned a few days back:

Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28613673
To me its not a question of some technical image quality but more so about expressiveness and the ergonomics of that expression. If you just want pretty pictures, then I think iPhone will probably work just great. But if you want to photograph for photographys sake then I feel like phone is still pretty constrictive and unergonomic. It's hard to beat physical dials, buttons, and rings positioned at your fingertips with touchscreens in the general case (admitting that there are cases where touchscreen indeed can be more convenient). Doing something like studio photography with iPhone still sounds like an exercise in pain. While the triple-camera setup certainly is improvement over single-cameras of past, its still only three options instead of the nearly limitless options you have with dSLRs, and you are getting compromises (like losing max iso) when you move off the "main" camera.
I do like this idea, but for their bigger customers a cap where billing (and services) all stop is not what customers are asking for. Instead they are asking for durability / resilience / object locks etc.

I'm serious, what large businesses wants to lose EVERYTHING (all static IP's, all glacier and S3 data, all database and compute) over a billing issue.
Can you use MaxDegreeOfParallelism or var throttler = new SemaphoreSlim(initialCount: MAX_CALLS)?
>*are collecting, storing, likely selling my data and that they are 100% going to comply with any government requests from my government (I don't even trust that they would only respond to legal requests).*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)

And this was the very very crude version, what is happening today is obviously light years ahead of what Carnivore was...

We really need a "*Moore's Law For Surveillance Capabilities Multiplying by X Every N Period*"
The only thing that will prevent Apple from introducing on-device scanning is people voting with their feet.

Nothing else will persuade them to stop this madness.
I do not like Facebook and Twitter and the rest of these companies at all, I’m not a fan of the credibility crisis that exists in the world when it comes to government and media. I think it’s one of the biggest problems plaguing us at the moment. It makes us weaker. With that, at least in my opinion if we want a real solution to it then maybe we need to look into and reform the source of this crisis instead of turning every major tech company into WeChat. Mind you, I’m not smart enough to offer that many solutions to it but the fact that most American institutions have very low public approval is a sign that things are not going great at least.
I think the main problem is that many people simply say "I can't lose weight because of my metabolism." And this isn't true whatsoever. If instead they said "I lose weight at a slower rate than normal people because of my metabolism," or perhaps "cheat days have an inordinate effect on me because of my metabolism," I might be more sympathetic. The playing field is definitely not level, but weight remains calories in / calories out.
> An NFT is decent evidence in favour of the keyholder being the creator of a work, if there's no earlier evidence of somebody else being the creator of the work.

The second clause shows why the first is not true: the other evidence is what gives you the information you need. In every context where it really matters it comes down to what a court would accept and … uh … I would not want to be the one having to tell a judge that something is proof of ownership when anyone on the internet could submit the same record.
I used to have a t-shirt from a now-defunct television recap website that said “perfectly cromulent” and it was the best “in joke” shirt. Would always bring out the fellow Simpsons nerds.
I suspect what is triggering this crackdown is that the enforcement of capital controls is becoming more critical as more people are nervous of a financial crisis in China because of bad debt / bad banks. Need to make sure those depositors have no place to go.

Though to be honest I don't understand how bitcoin can be used for getting money out of the country. Who would be willing to accept onshore CNY in payment for bitcoin in volumes if everyone is trying to move out?
Fire off one task per row, but within each of those tasks use a SemaphoreSlim to rate limit your requests to the API.
> most .NET programmers who I knew, would just hammer at things to make it work.

I hope the examples you listed are facetious or from the very early days of async/await in C#, otherwise I'd seriously question the skillset of the supposed .NET programmers.

Visual Studio is fairly good at handling incorrect use of async/await, and in all of the examples you listed, the actual solution should've been "read the IDE error, hit the bulb and apply the automatically suggested fix", not "ignore the IDE error and smash keyboard until it works".

ConfigureAwait usage is also not something you'll usually see outside of library code in modern C#.
Back in the old internet days, there was a camera review site that always took the same picture of some toys on a shelf. It was pretty boring photography, but did a great job a highlighting the difference between cameras.
> I bought a Sony Xperia 5 II - thinking the OLED would give me a better picture - and it objectively looks much much worse than my much older LCD based Xiaomi 5 Note Pro (the camera is also amazingly worse)

Objectively? How did you measure that? Or did you mean subjectively?
blockchains are databases.

transactions change the state of the database. they aren't limited to trading-related transactions.
Use the wiki. Even better, abuse the wiki, and use tutorials excessively.

Even better imo is to play until you get really confused, then use all the internet resources possible to understand wtf is going on.Then repeat.

I tend to avoid things like the lazy been pack or graphics packs. That's up to your taste though.
It is and so is one of the (uninhabited) Aleutian islands.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_the_...
Wow, this is all over the place. A few thoughts:

1. We didn’t fix any problems in Iraq or Afghanistan. We made things worse. The reason was not really a preference, it was revenge, bad info, and protecting strategic reserves.

2. Charities do work locally. They also work internationally. If I am passionate about a specific issue, or about helping as many humans as possible, it’s not clear that it’s preferable to only help others after you’ve fixed all your internal problems.

I definitely agree that people take cues from their leaders. That’s why the investigation into January 6 is such a big deal.
This is an endless debate. Each situation requires a different test setup but ultimately you can't say end-to-end tests are not worth it. You can have perfectly functioning units of software that are all perfectly unit tested but the units are not working together (insert a related meme GIF about working drawers colliding when opened). This can happen with strongest inter-unit communication protocols such as strong types and validation mechanisms.

E2E tests are very hard to maintain but in many situations they are required.
If I could I would hook you up with your eyes held open Clockwork Orange style and make you watch Blues Clues gender parade on repeat until you understand the pain of trans oppression.
I've never heard of the buyer having to pay a mortgage broker a fee. When I bought my house I didn't have to pay them. The guy used gets a commission from the bank when he sales a mortgage.

However when I refinanced I didn't use a mortgage broker. I just went through my credit union.
What’s the lag time on congressional trade reporting? Too bad it’s not fast enough for me to make the same trades. (And would it be considered insider trading then?)
See the other responses, but my comment was really suggesting that if LLVM barely supports Z80 then the GameBoy CPU is a hopeless lost cause.
Not all of these lines go across the ocean. If you're trying to move power between São Paolo and Beunos Aries, it might be cheaper to lay a sea cable than to deal with all the terrain, land rights and borders involved in an overland route.
> Most recently, the apparel world has been roiled by revelations that cotton from Xinjiang, in China, is being grown and processed using forced labour. The scandal...prompted sanctions and restrictions in the west on imports made of Xinjiang cotton.

This is super weird because the US _also_ still uses forced prison labor to pick cotton.
Keep in mind that Bitcoin is vulnerable to cracking by quantum computers some time in the next couple decades.
Too bad they didn't write it in Rust.

I believe C is much too fragile for interpreters to be written in them, especially for high-usage scenarios like the web.
They have this with their cost explorers, alarms, budgets and more.

Realize that most customers are more focused on will their data be preserved.

Blowing out your entire EC2 / RDS / S3 / Glacier backup stack over a billing issue (or someone setting a cap up in the accounting department) makes no sense.

Are major customers really asking for this? Why risk it, why even build a tool that can blow out a customers setup so completely.

This is why I don't understand HN sometime saying AWS is "BS" etc. Does HN not thing AWS talks to their big customers to find out what they want?
USGS describes the site as a "large playa," and the Science abstract says they were "stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers" so I interpret that to mean they were made in wet sand and buried under layers of more sand.
It’s funny express has you advertise as being able to watch X service considering when I used express I couldn’t watch Netflix because they throw an error saying they know I’m using a VPN. Same with Amazon prime. I’ve switched to nordvpn but they are no different I can’t even use fast.com to check the speed when the vpn is on.

False advertising I’d say
It's someone who doesn't fit the mold that people expect for this kind of attack. For both the buckets of right wing extremists and religious extremists, it tends to be younger people, at least on the ground.
I will concede that switching out of a high-inflation currency to a stable one is a good idea, and that for many people using cryptocurrency is the only way of circumventing their country's laws on the subject.

However, bitcoin experiences 10-20% drops against the USD on a regular basis. It looks like this announcement has triggered another one. It's not stable, it's just (a) appreciated over time a lot and (b) is doing better against the USD than, say, the Argentine peso.

> By definition, inflation is what happens when the price of a currency is not stable

Inflation is what happens when the price of goods and services in a currency is not stable. It can be triggered without a change in the money supply by underlying shocks to the real economy (e.g. 70s oil shocks)

Bitcoin claims to guarantee money supply stability, but it cannot guarantee price stability.
The other reason those Parallel methods did use async/await is that async/await did not exist in .NET at the time those methods were introduced.

But good news! The upcoming .NET 6 release will have a Parallel.ForEachAsync method:

https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks...
I really do think grinding code is a young person’s game. It takes the kind of mental stamina you can only sustain for so long before life gets in the way.
It's the same for me
I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. We're working on removing a lot of friction from the onboarding process, and making it easier to introspect what everything's doing. Thank you for your feedback!
How is that relevant to the post I replied to?