skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that BBS and compuserve/aol were in the 80s. It took 30 years before everyone had a computer in their pocket and Amazon took off.

A debit card is similar to crypto. Is a debit card any different than cash for an end user? Did it cause big changes in banking? I can show you my account balance with a debit card. It may convince you I have the assets to buy whatever you are selling. I can bring a debit card to another country and exchange it to local currency. The merchant is passing on the 2-5% fee to you so that you can use a debit card. There is a huge organization of people behind that debit card.
For this guy I think 10x is an insult...
What has happened in those 12 years has been a great deal of scams, get rich quick scheme a and instability. Bitcoin has also become dominated by a few major players and is a power structure in itself, not really benefitting ordinary people much at.
Ok. Use a proxy, or set up your own Proxy/VPN on a VPS? Then you also have a VPS - you can host your own website there, use it to download stuff and rsync it back to your local machine, deploy nextcloud, etc., all for less than the cost of ExpressVPN. And bonus points, you can use unlimited devices.
The way I put it: .NET async makes the easy things easier and the hard things harder.

The problem is that Task/Task<T> was the foundation for async, and it's a bad foundation. Even with the ability to write your own duck-typed awaiters (and the advent of ValueTask), the widespread use of Task means if you're writing async code you're going to have a tough time getting away from it.
Yeah, an NFT is more like a receipt. Except when you buy one, you only get the receipt. The actual item remains "out there".
You’re talking about borrowing and lending money, which becomes a moot point, when a foreign country invades your country and burns everything down. That doesn’t happen because we have the military and nukes that act as deterrents. That in turn props up the dollar and allows it to have the value it does.
>Have you seen how many Python 2 packages there still are out there?

Pretty much none. Can't say exactly how many, since http://py3readiness.org/ is dead.
What would you verify with an NFT? "the government created this NFT"? Also known as "a digital signature", if you leave off all the blockchain bits?
You may overestimate the sophistication of ad buyers, and underestimate the ability of Facebook to convince buyers that their ads are working
Well, Open AI's Dota 2 bot beats top players. It does not use
any extra info thats not available to any dota player + lower reaction time than humans.

https://www.techspot.com/news/70552-openai-bot-beats-world-b...
Indeed, as is appropriate; the ability to do both of those things are attractions of the iPhone.
> but still it seems like a reasonable decision once you realize that firmware updates can introduce new bugs/vulnerabilities.

As opposed to having only old bugs and vulns…
If it were not cromulent, one might choose a less disputatious synonym, such as "enlarge".
We are, but not Niger.
To be clear, I'm not saying to repeal it after five or ten years, I'm saying to make the original law only last that long. Nothing's going to get stuck or need to be changed that way. And this is a law that doesn't need employees, so you won't have that kind of pressure.
There's academia and then there's real life and in real life the leaders are realizing Defunding the Police is a stupid idea.

Can you explain why these leaders with highly paid staff of analysts who have way more knowledge and data, are doing this?

EDIT: while you're downvoting me, be sure to downvote the leaders and news media who lied to you as well.

"""In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would reinstate $92 million for a new precinct after scrapping the project last summer. The mayor of Baltimore, who led efforts as a city councilman to cut the police budget by $22 million last year, recently proposed a $27 million increase.

After attacks on Asian-Americans and a rise in homicides in Oakland, Calif., city lawmakers in April restored $3.3 million of the $29 million in police cuts, and the mayor is now proposing to increase the department’s budget by $24 million. Los Angeles’s mayor has proposed an increase of about $50 million after the city cut $150 million from its police department last year."""
I went back to Android from iPhone for a lot of reasons. This was one of them. :)
I'd like to see the look on everyone's face (who's now acting like Apple is this benevolent company looking out for their interest and privacy) when they'll launch their own Ad business in a couple of years; I'll eat my hat if Apple doesn't become one of the biggest Ad companies up there with Google and FB in a few years.

They're just being proactive about weeding out the competition from their platforms.
Pretty sure you are responding to the wrong person or misread my post or something.
And I am here wondering if my SQL server needs an upgrade, index rebuild, restructure indexes and keys or use other tables for long term rows.

I wish I could understand better the SQL Server beast
Not sure about having it as the main driver but for the times when you're away from your setup, like when you quickly adjust something on an iPad or something; They seem useful
Land almost everywhere comes with ownership issues which can be problematic for installing cables. The ocean is generally unambiguously nationally owned, and so it's much simpler to seek permission from a single source (government) than many sources (owners).
If an external source - say the Twitter account of an artist - can authenticate that the holder of the NFT is who the creator of the art work wants to be recognized as the owner, then social consensus will lead to widespread value assignment to that NFT.

The ability to hold and trade the NFT on the public blockchain makes that asset accessible to a large number of autonomous on-chain markets, like dApps which allow a person to take out self-executing loans that use the NFT as collateral.
There’s a similar guy, jezreal(?) who answers pandas ( python module) prolifically with beautiful idiomatic solutions.
Sorry, I'm not going to be dragged into a debate about if/when the collapse will happen. But if it does, your claim bitcoin is a pyramid will look silly, since it will be one of several assets that will be rushed into as a safe haven from inflationary forces. If you want to take the position such a collapse would cause a flight from crypto assets, be my guest.
I highly doubt it's cost-effective. These things are complicated and have specialized equipment. The endpoints also very different for data and electricity.
I don’t disagree with your statement at all. However, people who contribute useful edits to Wikipedia or high quality answers to Stack Overflow are doing a bit more work than your average Facebook poster :) sorry you’re getting buried on this, I assume your point wasn’t necessarily that it wasn’t more useful than that.
It seems to be part of an overall move to curb people from becoming too rich in China.
If you aren't used to captcha by now, I am not sure how you are using the internet.
They're more like tulips. Physically owning a tulip is rather transient.
Great app to help the indie makers and get high quality content out seamlessly!
Copper communications cable were in use from 1850 until the 1980s, when they were replaced one by one with fiber.
Almost all the copper cables ever laid are still in the depths of the ocean, as it's not worth salvaging them except near shore. A few of the more recent copper cables are still operational, but they are used only for scientific research.
Nice try robot!
That's an interesting way to look at it. If I understand Apple's position, it's that Facebook can't deny functionality based on privacy settings. But it's less clear to me whether they're prohibited from offering something of actual value. Like if Facebook had a point system—"Facebucks"?—where users could buy stickers/apps in exchange for targeted ads, I wonder if Apple would permit that.

That, I honestly wouldn't have an issue with. If people choose to sell their privacy for something they actually want, that's up to them. It's the shady coercive crap that I despise.
> 22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days

I wonder if his employer is on board + supportive with this use of his time.
As I understood their comment, they were pointing out the absurdity of the idea you are also pointing out the absurdity of.
Async, remote, and flexible: How 7 engineers rethought their work calendars
I see what you're saying, I just don't view it like that. There isn't any definitive way to say something is or isn't a product versus a proof of concept, my criterion included (it having customers).

Sure, maybe there are some really polished proofs of concept, and maybe there are absolutely horrendous products. Using your example of Outlook sending passwords, that doesn't suddenly mean it isn't a product and was reverted back to merely a POC. It's just a shit product.

Fortunately, it doesn't really matter. I just think folks shouldn't be so quick to shoot down one's accomplishments. Imagine seeing someone pursue their dreams and work on stuff they love, and the audiences reaction is "well, it's actually not a _real_ product." That's just lame.
So? Isn’t that what most enthusiast photographers would do? Also, there’s plenty of free or affordable software available for editing RAW photos.
It is actually less harder than FIAT (except Monero), if you want to track spending of corrupt politicians, not fungible cryptocurrencies as BTC are great tools.
Again, this data doesn't show that the labels are offensive, just that they're more likely to be used in text which was classified as offensive. If there's lots of 13 year old boys on the Internet using "gay" as an insult, filtering out those insults from the corpus (and it's gottta be correct to filter them) could fully explain the high PMI for the word "gay".
You are missing the point. When the us was on a gold standard, the army was not required to create the dollar's value. Now that the us is on a sovereign credit-based system, the might of the military is an integral part of the dollars value, both in the obvious sense that the military protects sea lanes and in the more subtle sense that government debt and the sustained credit cycle goes in no small chunk to the military.
I don't think we can equate the effort between answering technical questions and a comment on Reddit/Facebook.

While the occasional comment feels like work (e.g. citations), that isn't the norm so 23/day is meaningless.

Plus SO answers actually contribute positively to the world, whereas arguably social media comments do not.
Yes. The tweet crops out a following paragraph that says it should not be taken as evidence that an investigation is underway. So this is fake news.

You can see the full letter here: https://twitter.com/CryptoWhale/status/1429819156052983816
From what I can tell, Deno doesn't force you to use evented interfaces for I/O.
I personally never really figured out how to get it working properly when I was using it. I resorted to just returning data as the response page to see what I was debugging and testing "in production". This was a few months ago, so I don't remember the details of what didn't work or why, just that I gave up on it altogether.
That’s not what I said. It’s simple. Bitcoin has value because of proof-of-work which uses a ton of energy. US dollar has value because it’s propped up by the military which uses MORE energy (more so because there is no more gold standard)
How Environment Variables Work
"Getting man-in-the-middle'd on airport Wi-Fi is less feasible these days than it was 10 years ago. "

I think the "consensus" I'm referring to may actually have been from at least 10 years ago. I'm an old-timer!

Thanks for the feedback
Based on your phrasing of the SEC definition, the real estate market also feels like it fits the bill :-/

Edit: parent comment was edited, originally said:

> It actually matches the SEC definition of a Ponzi scheme haha, which happens to be a little bit less restrictive than a traditional definition.

> It's a negative sum wealth redistribution scheme the takes money from new entrants and gives it to miners and to old entrants. The miner portion is what makes it negative-sum.
> Dependig totaly on use case.

Photographing an interesting composition with a camera of mediocre image quality is superior to not snapping a picture at all because you left the expensive DSLR at home.

“The best camera is the one you have with you”[1] because the one you don’t have with you can’t take the picture.

[1]: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/873224
You can exchange FIAT using P2P.
That energy isn’t a fundamental requirement of the dollar as a currency though it’s a function of it but isn’t required. BTC on the other hand requires constant energy to process a fraction of the transactions.
I can bullshit for hours but answering even a few technical problems in a well written fashion is exhausting work.
I would argue that the 'degraded' stuff is a valid but different critique - and in fact is covered in a completely separate part of the article at some length.
Here's the WSJ article mentioned in the first paragraph, although it is pay-walled:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-det...
Au contraire it's trivial. Or are politicians somehow invulnerable to the same things engineers are?

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/comp7lr17243.htm
This surprised me. When they wrote LINQ and iterables, MS went to great lengths to ensure exceptions that could be thrown immediately (before iterating) were. I wonder why async/await are the opposite.
I'm not a slave.
That’s true for communication cables though, so what about cables for electricity? That’s mostly what my original comment was about, that the title seems to imply any submarine cable is automatically a data cable.
To me it's the other way around.

The blockchain space is just starting out and people try new things. But many can only see the crypto currency use-case.
I always felt this way and it made seeing a diet/exercise plan through to the end difficult. If the hard work of diet and exercise results in feeling more sluggish and sleeping more, then I am spending 1-2 hours a day to working out so that I need more sleep and have low energy?

Our bodies seem too complex for any simple diet or exercise fad to be the key, it really is just about showing up and iterating over what works and what doesn't and tweaking things to find your unique routine. You never win and eventually you die, but I guess it beats getting obese and sick.
I mean, of course you're not going to do much better at sorting, for example. But things like machine learning and optimization are advancing at a rapid pace, and I'm not sure I would characterize them as "open problems that no one is sure on yet." Unless you just want to apply that characterization to anything that's still improving, which would be a bit of a tautology.
All I know is that I actually feel in control of my money with crypto and can easily move it around the world. ACH and wire transfers are painful in comparison.
The fact that drawing any specific line is always wrong to an extent, and that it is difficult, is not a good argument against drawing a line at all.

We have tons of jobs you're even legally not allowed to do, no matter how profitable. We're literally talking about people who deal in vulnerabilities in software used by minors, with the express intent of keeping these open.

In my book, that is beyond the line. Change my mind.
I have knowledge about an area of computing that very few people in the world know about, and very few people need to learn about it. Very rarely a questions gets asked, but when it does it's guaranteed the question may sit for months without an appropriate answer. When I joined SO in 2012 I went through all the unanswered questions on that topic and was able to give good answers to like 60% of them. Got a bunch of medals. But then never did it again.
> if anything

Sounds real scientific like.
Sounds to me like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" basically impossible task without making ML aware of cultural intricacies, trigger warnings, age appropriate approaches and parental controls at the same time.

Like, it's not like this filtering was done for the purpose of silencing anyone — Google (among others) really learned the hard way to not feed smut to ML models, as it _will_ get regurgitated, always as a possible PR disaster in the making:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/fionarutherford/heres-why-some-peop...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/microsoft-tay-racist-tweets_n...

Still interesting research, but playing the devil's advocate, I think I can see why this part of the corpus was more extensively filtered away.

Sad issue, but I don't think we'd have a sane way out without massive, manual whitelisting.
I think this is technically possible.

Relatedly, can they jam Starlink?
No, the problem is the disclosures come out way too late. There isn't a way to track and move with the market in real-time.
Why should I use OCaml?
The clothes have no emperor
In my experience, it doesn't help in terms of interviews/hiring. It's often rewarding on its own right, but you're not missing out on jobs, anyway.

For context, I have a (now inactive) stackoverflow account with ~250,000 reputation. For a long time, I was the top answerer for many tags in the scientific python ecosystem (e.g. matplotlib, scipy, briefly top for numpy as well) and was in the top 10 for python as a whole at the time (i.e. showed up on the "top answers" page).

I was really proud of that once, and spent awhile going from "this is a fun distraction" to "oh, this could get me a job and help me switch careers, I should focus on it".

Not trying to brag there, just trying to put it in perspective. My SO track record was significant enough, particularly ~5 years ago when I was actively applying, that I really thought it would help me get jobs or at least give me an edge. It didn't.

I've never had my stackoverflow stuff asked about or mentioned in an interview before by the person interviewing. The couple of times I've incidentally brought it up during an interview (as an example of a specific problem they were asking about or as an example of teaching/training/communication), it went over as a lead balloon.

My OSS contributions (which are slim and were all a long time ago) have opened doors, but stackoverflow hasn't, at least that I know of.

I'm not saying it's not rewarding or that I regret it, just that, at least for me, it didn't seem to help in terms of job opportunities, and at the time, I was a bit disappointed in that.
My desired solution is for central banks and their abusive monetary policy to die in a fire. One way to achieve that is to have many competing currencies that are not controlled by a central bank. If any are a worthy replacement for government fiat people will use it. But, that is precisely why governments will do their best to regulate use of competing currencies.

China has the most restrictive capital controls in the world. It is not surprising at all that they have banned a legitimate threat to their control over the country's money.
"We can't give you these records because it'd interfere with law enforcement activities, which may not exist" seems like it'd be a pretty big loophole in FOIA if you could use it that way.
> I strongly doubt there are any non-fiber submarine cables.

not for telecom, not anymore, but a number of submarine cable laying ships are equipped specifically for laying high voltage power cables to offshore wind farms. And for things like high voltage cables linking medium sized islands to a nearby mainland (eg: Vancouver Island, BC to the continent).

After submarine telecom, the biggest uses for such vessels are offshore power and the oil/gas industry.
Very cool. It would be good if you could overlay Congress' returns with the returns of the market, or a median institutional investor, for comparison. Also, to disaggregate investments by asset class, active/passive funds, etc., so we can really figure out what's going on. Those things make a big difference. I realise this is a passion project though, and that's probably too much work.
It would change at least this much: The next 400 richest families would immediately move themselves and their assets to somewhere that didn't confiscate like that.
> A word so lovely that we really really don't want to risk putting it in our report...

I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not. Is the 'lovely word' disclosed somewhere else?
I'm certainly no expert here but I'm guessing it doesn't make sense for two reasons:

1) Modern communications fibers are complicated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable [1]) and presumably expensive so speculatively adding them to power cables would likely be a pricey endeavor.

2) AFAIK most submarine cables are systems — e.g. a ring the connects various places so that there are two paths between points — so trying to plan one to that co-opts existing bits of fiber piggy-backed on power probably wouldn't be easy. Also you'd have the issue of dealing with different generations of fiber, standards, etc.

[1] On reading this it turns out that modern fibers actually carry power as well so that repeaters en route can be powered.
If you go to his profile on SO, you will see that he advertises his company.

Also, I wasn't speaking about "professional gamers", I was speaking about every day people that forked over $100 for a game (or often $1,000 for many games) and then spend years playing it at home - unprofessionally, for no money.

It's just how some people chose to spend their time because they themselves find the experience gratifying. And in his case, there is at least a small pittance of financial gain through advertising and publicly verifiable reputation.
Somehow the English "ruin marble" name seems much dismissive, the Italian is "pietra paesina", where the paesina has the same root of paesaggi=landscapes.

Here is a gallery of pictures:

https://www.pietrapaesina.com/eng/photogallery.html

And some details:

https://www.pietrapaesina.com/eng/pietra_paesina_firenze.htm...
While Apple's recent behavior does seem bad, I'm personally wondering if there is some quantitate measure comparing iOS/Android before I make the opposite switch. I wonder if iOS still may be more privacy friendly compared to alternatives regardless of the recent issue (I genuinely have no clue)
Proof: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...
My argument that it's a net negative for society because of carbon emissions (among other externalized costs).
Decentralised VPNs are the future.

Edit: https://dvpnalliance.org/
You listed centralized services, so even with nfts they still can be made useless or revoked/etc.
How to kill your array - reboot your computer at a bad time. Who'd have thought raid1 could be so unreliable.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas#raid1_volume...

I did end up having to copy the array out because of this. Copied it into a zfs array and am glad to be out of the land of gotchas.
You do not mining to exchange Yuan to crypto.
Totally agree. The geoblocking is the most common reason a lot of people use VPNs, even if that isn’t always how they are directly marketed. A friend’s mom asked me a few weeks ago for VPN recommendations so she could watch British TV easier. She’s 70. Her concern isn’t about safer browsing stuff but watching GBB more easily.

*Disclosure: ExpressVPN has sponsored my podcast in the past (tho I don’t handle ad sales fwiw) and I’ve always chosen to do the “this is how I watch X service in X country” use case in ad reads, b/c that’s the value in it for me vs rolling my own Wireguard/Tailscale setup (I actually have Tailscale setup for my home network).
With new Samsungs (S21 ultra) and other Chinese phones like Xiaomi and Huawei you get quite a lot of optical zoom, like 10x

The new iPhone pro has a fairly decent 3x (71mm equivalent)