skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this a lot. It sounds nice.

Yet trying to set up crypto as a person in a developed country in 2021 is kind of a pain in the ass. It's not too hard to exchange between types of crypto, but getting real money that I can buy a pizza with in and out of an exchange? Not too easy. There are requirements for credit cards or confirmed bank accounts for payment, scans of an ID card or driver's license to prove I'm a human, the possibility banks can at any point determine it's a scam and block transfers to any exchange, and so on.

If it's that hard for me, a person in a developed and ostensibly free country to do it, how the hell is some average person--not a government official or wealthy person with connections--in North Korea or Eritrea going to set it up and secure their financial future to any degree better than a pocket full of cash and old jewelry?
There is probably not an infinite supply of dna evidence, and testing it is destructive. So I can imagine they don’t want to testany plausible theory but save it for when they are really convinced.
This was a good essay. Covers the entire book perfectly. When I was 11 years old I asked my brother for a book to read, and he gave me this. I read it at summer camp. It was the first book that made me really and truly THINK.

And I found I liked thinking.
6502 is extra fun, because it has "unstable" instructions, whose result would be dependent on specific chip, temperature, and other factors. I can't find the article that dissected some of them anymore, but as I recall it was because of stuff like an (internal) bus conflict with multiple drivers enabled (EDIT: close, but it's even wilder than that).

EDIT: Thanks to IcePic's answer, I found it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210405071521/http://visual6502...
Like I said, no comparison. You will occasionally find false things reported on CNN. But it's mostly low stakes stuff. Nothing like OAN.
Does it really make sense to hold USD if your only goal is liquidity? Maybe if you need it immediately, but honestly stocks and some other investments can usually be sold with the money accessible in seconds (or you can use credit). Really what I feel the value prop is for cash is low volatility (aka security as you mentioned).

With low inflation like we have seen in the past, risk adjusted it might be a better spot to hold that money relative to other investments. So yes, I hold a small portion of my portfolio in USD for that gain.

If it was not providing that low volatility (inflation spikes like crazy), then I'd be much less inclined to keep my money in USD outside of the minimum I'd need for immediate spending. Because returns are low. So the "gain" is in the risk adjusted return relative to other assets (which could ultimately be slightly negative).
It's a bit ironic that Norway is able to buy all those electric cars because of all that oil money they make. Production of electric cars still costs more than that of fossil fuel cars.
> wouldn't it have been easier to get into programing through PCs than through these very restricted calculators?

The restrictions are what made it easy to get into.
With complex iterator types that carry additional state themselves (for example think iterators to sparse data or generators), it definitely makes a difference
Yes, but Bitcoin is missing the liquidity of cash. Especially if an average transaction costs between $5 and $20
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In fact, while bitcoins are created in a fixed amount only when the miners have expended a large amount of work, the creation of those bitcoins costs nothing. The reward per block is defined by two lines of code in a program. By changing those lines, the reward could be sixty or six million bitcoins per block, with no extra work being required from the miners.

This sentence is proof enough that this person doesn't get bitcoin.

You're welcome to change those two lines, start mining and then see what happens.

Your mined blocks will be rejected by other nodes in the network and you'll be spending energy costs without getting anything in return.

The whole point of bitcoin is that you can't just change the source code and thereby the properties of the emergent network. You need to get a majority of nodes (not just miners) to support your change. This is not easy to do, and won't happen if your change is detrimental to the majority of network participants.
Because Facebook's algorithms actively amplify negative and provocative information. They could choose not to do this and accept lower profits.

If they had a purely linear chronological feed then a lot of these problems would vastly diminish.
If you give a C++ compiler the opportunity, it will change the assembly into something that gives mathematically impossible results in the name of optimization. It might even generate assembly that crashes on certain values. That's what busts the myth.

If you set -fwrapv then they're the same. But that's not standard and not default.
So many rust-fans triggered. It's comical.
They've been trying to kill c++ since the 90s, get over yourselves.
An open exchange is progressive. A verified list of people who can transact is a closed stockmarket. Democratic imples a direct vote which is very far from true.
"Don't look behind the curtain"
Many of these same arguments apply to gold. Do you think gold is (mostly) useless today? If yes, when did it stop becoming useful? Do you think it was always useless?
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They definitely haven't placed any cap on the speed you can reach with cars, even though there are legal speed limits. They also are in the business of advertising horse power as a marketing argument.
If P9 had been able to run a reasonable number of computer programs not written by people at the Labs, it might have survived or at least been more influential beyond "UTF-8, some odd remnant uses of 9P, and /dev/proc". The gratuitous incompatibility assured that the other interesting ideas were buried.
> This is true for anyone making any claim here, including the claim that it is race alone (which i am pointing out is unaccounted for in op post)

That's not the claim being made, the claim is the observed gap when grouping the data by race. That is a fact of the data as represented.

Why that gap exists is an open question, and so is how to potentially reduce the gap.

I think the fact that some people like you jump to believe immediately that it could be due to culture is just showing of your inherent bias. The same is true for those immediately jumping to believe it is caused by racism, that's showing of their inherent bias too.

Bias is unsubtiantied beliefs that you bring to the search space.

> Our culture is generally less work centric, which may look like worse outcomes on paper, but there are so many things that cant be or aren't measured

Three things. The first is that the article is about American jobs in the US. That means culturally we're talking about sub-groups within an American cultural context. The second is that we're comparing the same jobs in the same sector against each other. And the third is that I'd be interested in testing your theory, if true, it would mean that it should predict that if you grouped US tech salaries by your EU based culture, we should also see a lower pay compared to white American culture. I think that be interesting if the data was available for it. And if that does show, then I'd start to say that your theory is on the path of being more demonstrated correct, since it shows predictive capabilities.
This doesn't violate privacy.

But it is very very annoying.
In post-apocalyptic crunch we are likely to go back to food, water and ammo. You and I will likely be long dead before society reverts to something like gold, so I doubt gold as post-apocalyptic hedge.
> Goods and services provided by humans have no intrinsic value but become precious simply there being demand by other humans.

This incorrect. I can purchase a home or food from humans and they have intrinsic value. If whatever market they were purchased on collapses, I simply live in the home and eat the food to realize their value, no further transacting required. Similarly with services I can pay for someone to build the home and harvest the food, the value is immediately realized because I can still eat, have a place to live and my time free to do other things. This is literally why the term "intrinsic" was uh, coined, to contrast these types of goods and services with things like precious metals which may have little intrinsic value.
Are you at all concerned about the selection of the workspace ID as the partition key? With every workspace on a single partition, couldn't a high-throughput workspace create a "hot" partition that will negatively impact other workspaces on that partition?

At the cost of potentially introducing more cross-partition queries, you might benefit from splitting up high-throughput workspaces. See strategy in https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Multi_Tenant_SaaS_Stora..., pages 17-20.
>In none of those cases are you creating the account within the app.

why not?
> She literally made a 1-line change in a configuration file with basically no downsides.

Yes, but did she get her t-shirt?
Didn’t Zuckerberg’s hot or not type website include both men and women? I thought Aaron Sorkin made up the part about it being only women for his movie.
> have to check ID, can only sell to people 21+

hum... not in France
> No. They instead take your money, buy coal, and burn it. Nothing is left.

Interesting, I never thought of it that way, and it makes sense.

Since money is not created or destroyed the balance sheet on inflows and outflows of BTC to dollars must be zero at all times. And some x% (which is variable) of it is transferred to miners which is the so-called "transaction" cost.

I guess there must be a point at which the bubble bursts, and that's when a run on BTC happens. At which point it should go swiftly down as the value of BTC has been taken out by the miners.
The fact that integer overflow is undefined in C++ is ugly, but this leaves the solution of this problem to the compiler.

The final behavior is decided by the programmer, by using or not using "-fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow" or equivalent options for the compilation.

So after the programmer makes a decision, the behavior in C++ is defined and it is either like in debug Rust or like in release Rust, depending on the programmer's decision.

While I hate undefined behaviors in C/C++, I prefer to be able to make my own decisions on the behavior of integer overflow, instead of being forced by Rust to ignore overflows in release builds.

Edit:
Thanks for the Cargo link. If you can change the overflow checking option in the Cargo profile, then there remains absolutely no difference between C++ and Rust regarding integer overflow.

The Rust RFC "Integer overflow #560" is totally misleading in this case.
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C++ is sooo much better than any other compiled language!
For example, using std::cout to print the value 97 will produce different results depending on whether this value is of the type int8_t or int32_t (but in Rust, printing 97 always outputs "97" without depending on the type of 97 that can be i8, i32, whatever).
This is because C++ uses C headers to typedef int into int32_t (or whatever is 32 bits on the implementation that is being used) and to typedef char into int8_t (so the value 97 of type int8_t is printed as "a"), at least that is the case with glibc. What a good language, in comparison Rust is so boring and uninteresting.
> A refugee could store their wealth in Bitcoin, leave their country, settle somewhere else

Problem: Who is selling Bitcoin for local currency in an area where there is a problem which is generating refugees?

Sure - you can electronically send Bitcoin to people, but how is the seller going to receive local currency from a war torn region without being local themselves? And if they are local...why are they selling their Bitcoin?

Remember - this is an area presumably in some form of collapse. How is a refugee going to transact their savings to another party who can accept them safely in the first place (rather then say, just being robbed - presumably why they're fleeing).
I have used Visual Studio before and it's excellent for C++ type of projects, especially when combined with vim bindings and auto complete / auto suggestion features. Plus, Microsoft C++ Compiler (MSVC) is very well written and maintained, and at many times, I find the compiler warning to be very helpful. I wish I had the luxury of using Visual Studio at work.
There was a guy on reddit that tested various lego clones from China and he didn't find any toxicity actually.
When Java was just breaking out, before 1.0, some people proposed changes for capability security, but it didn't get anywhere. Java went with stack inspection instead.

Worth noting that a language-based OS is not necessary for capabilities -- they were invented in the context of the usual hardware memory-protection in the 1960s.
I don't think am being unreasonable. There is nothing stopping you or any user from consuming the product without proof of government ID. Besides social media networks get hacked all the time.
Didn't say it was trivial. But that's what users expect: a reasonable right to data privacy.
Gold's coveted status is fairly easy to identify. It's one of the few physical elements that is (a) somewhat rare and difficult to mine (b) has an exceptionally long shelf life, even under harsh conditions e.g. under ocean water and (c) can be authenticated with simple tests e.g. nitric acid.
I'm pretty sure all those Bitcoin ATMs are deposit-only. No withdrawals. There may be some two-way, but I suspect they're exceedingly rare.
There is GC in C++/CLI, Unreal C++, and the optional C++11 API, which is getting dropped in C++23, though.
pump and dumping, front running, money laundering, and risk hedging are all more accurate descriptions than Ponzi
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You could have a special "California tyre" which has a state approved logo on the side, and require all cars registered in the state use them.

They could be designed to last however many miles the state likes by putting more or less tread on them. And have a very obvious marker they are worn out so police can easily give tickets for people driving on worn out tyres.
While I agree that crypto[speculation] generally seems to have the structure of a Ponzi scheme, I don't see any problem with that, as I assume everyone participating has the same idea.
It's just a matter of who has the guts to stay on for long enough to cash out big, who gives up too early, and who does not get off before the train crashes into the mountain.
You might have multiple inputs or outputs for an ordinary payment. There are several other types, see https://developer.bitcoin.org/devguide/transactions.html#sta...
I didn't see a Bonferroni adjustment either, would would suggest actively fishing for statistically significant differences
So Bitcoin uses more energy than an entire country of 110 million people (the Philippines).

That's absolutely nuts. If you said you could reduce an entire country's CO2 emissions to zero overnight, and you had a valid plan to do so, you'd be on the cover of every newspaper for your revolutionary plan to help save the earth.

But say you want to flip a switch and turn off a single cryptocurrency in order to do it, and you'll have floods of people trivializing it, saying "well, let me tell you why 110 million people's CO2 emissions aren't that big of a deal..."
By showing you more relevant things? Youtube and tiktok do it too. The alternative is people watching fox news all day long.
I was at Microsoft when Silverlight & XNA were the only supported platforms on Windows Phone 7.

Less than a year after launch, just as some devs started writing windows phone apps, “we” decided to deprecate Silverlight and XNA in favor of WinRT for Windows Phone 8.

Devs were just pissed and vowed to never touch Windows Phone after that.

Also, all the customers that bought WP7 phones - they couldn’t upgrade to WP8, because “security”. These were the Microsoft fanboys and early adopters.

I left Microsoft the following year. But it looks like they haven’t improved very much over the years.
This does not follow from what I said at all.
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I'd argue $100/hr isn't enough for that work, but sounds about right from what I've seen.

Whereas I've done a java, scala, kafka, spark, postgres job and easily gotten $150/hr, and that work isn't anywhere as technically challenging.

I think my point is business doesn't understand how to value technology experience and they skew towards business value vs difficulty and skill.
There are plenty of places and ways to bet against bitcoin best of luck to you.
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> Bitcoin is a ponzi

If reading that kind of delusion (this guy Jorge Stolfi has been at it since 2014), here's some additional fuel to kindle your fire:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoReality/comments/o7v5xs/is_bi...
Thanks, it sounds like you both believe in the mission and reading between the lines still have a financial interest via your stock. That's useful for calibration given your strongly pro-FB comments.
I think you miss the point. Ponzi schemes can be run by multiple organizations, and agreeing to a scheme together without signing legal formalities.

The big example of this would be the 2008 banking crisis where CDO's were bought and sold by multiple banks, but ended up being worth less than the pieces of paper they were printed on -- even though the banking industry should have known this were the case.

Once it was known, they sought to protect themselves first -- "Too big to fail", TARP were common terms of the time.
For example’s sake, it would be fine to just remove that and do it manually:

defmacro __using__(:view), do: view()

But I think explaining what each element does in that dispatcher would be helpful. Especially in cases with typos.
I invested in BTC years ago because of those 2, I expected the value to grow as adoption grows. And BTC seems to me back then that it was a great way to store my hard earned money and I can bring it with me anywhere safely.
If you want to protect your money, wouldn't it be easier to open an account in another country and transfer the money there? In Europe we can do it very simple with Revolut or Monese.

When you have money in the Revolut account you can spend them in any country and it would be very difficult for some entity to block your funds.
Congratulations, you turned a trivial problem into an unsolvable one for no reason at all.
Were seashells a Ponzi? What about glass beads? These were used as “currency” in our history, but nobody uses them as such anymore.

Let’s say Bitcoin is a Ponzi. What or who will do the inevitable rug pull that comes with those scams? What if the rug pull never comes (or does 1000 years from now)? Is it still a Ponzi? Was it a Ponzi for those people who benefited from it in that 1000 years?
NASA originally spec'd a mixed gas atmosphere for Apollo, it just got too heavy. After the fire in Apollo 1, they switched to mixed-gas at launch, with this gradually bleeding out to pure O2 as the mission progressed.

This was discussed in my comment in my linked submission.
I think they would just kill each other, or take contracts out on each other for reneging on verbal agreements.
An entire country is using btc as their currency of exchange. Is it a major economy no but now its your turn to move the goal post.
They're the only province to run a balanced budget for last 50 years.
Both CDK and TF are really bad dealing with several apps spread over different repos that share resources (e.g.: ECS Clusters, VPCs, etc...).

I had good experience by going a submodule route. One multirepo containing a CDK infra submodule and multiple repositories as submodules which each output resources (lambda code, etc.) which in turn can be imported more easily by cdk.
Curious, from your POV, what is the other side?
We are literally living inside that world but people don't see it. :)
Such as? What are the good things that Facebook does that make them net positives?
Are you saying that companies should never do AB testing to determine if their products can have psychological effects on their users? Doesn’t that make it harder to avoid any negative effects?
That’s only 1 small issue of the bigger issue of projects being pulled into the DNF org with no one’s knowledge.
By "glibc" i meant the GNU C++ standard library implementation, not glibc
Sorry, my comment was tongue-in-cheek.

In my opinion, it takes quite a bit of hypocrisy or doublethink for people who drive cars (but not bycicles), who live in apartments or houses (but not in dormitories), to type on their Macs and iPhones (but not the cheapest barely-working lagging knockoff dumbphone) about Bitcoin’s waste or pollution with plastic straws, all while having their free time, instead of working in Gulags.

There’s a market price for electricity, anyone who pays can do whatever they want with it. Just stop the subsidies, include externalities in the price, and let things figure themselves out. Let people consume, and enjoy life, let them have hobbies, and do stupid things that they pay for.
You could say the same thing about lead, asbestos, etc.
Never mind the banks. UK companies have to keep VAT records for 6 years
Prejudice.

Just six seemingly harmless letters arranged in a way to form a word with more power than the pieces of metal which is forged to make swords.

Just a couple of G's, an R and an E, an I and an N....

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
What kind of support are we talking about?
There is one true scotsman, amirite?
Not to mention 1, 2, and 6 :)

7! = 5040 shows up as well in the OEIS sequence. Buuut, 8! = 40320 does not...too many useless 2's in the prime factorization?
a++; means do nothing then increment a, ++a means increment a then do nothing, what should be the difference? (Of course you can define operator++ to format the hard drive. )
That’s very strange. Why would you change phone numbers? It seems like you’re being deliberately hard to reach?

It seems similar to deleting your Facebook account every year.
I'd suggest ripgrep [0] for even faster results.

[0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
How is this anything but good for right to repair? The average user is unequipped to repair modern electronics. I wouldn't advise the average consumer to try and repair even the framework laptop. But that's not the point of right to repair. The point of right to repair is that manufacturers are required to release parts and schematics/instructions on how to repair their product. Advanced users or independent repair shops can then fix it.
The linked article does not study long term reinfection rates, it studies systemic antibody response. Unfortunately, the topic of long-term covid antibody research is a difficult area: both exponential antibody decay and antibody location are relevant. Extrapolating epidemiological conclusions from small population antibody studies is reaching.
My understanding is the reason FORTRAN is faster than C isn't because of stupid stuff like noalias and the like. It's because FORTRAN has arrays and C doesn't.
There is no replacement for Excel. Those who think there is are either ignorant of Excel's capability, or are fooling themselves.