skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “She said she couldn’t stand the current state of politics and actually had found some job opportunities over there,” he said.

Hate to break this to everyone, the state of politics in Australia isn’t ideal either
It's kind of frustrating because I don't know a single person (besides myself) who uses crypto for anything but investing. Maybe one person because they bought an NFT (also for investment).

I felt like games/fantasy sports/betting would have come online by now. But, actually using crypto to buy anything is usually a convoluted process.

For betting and fantasy sports, you have better options. Most the games are still fumbling around/obvious vaporware. Your best bet is probably Axie Infinity, and it's not very fun, and also hard to play for free. Also, 80% of the people playing these games are using them for income streams, so they get min-maxed to hell, and there is even more botting than usual.

All of these altcoins, even bitcoin to a degree, are all barely usable unless you're letting them sit on an exchange somewhere.

I've had a good experience purchasing a good or service with exactly one altcoin.

Even all the DeFi stuff you hear about in articles/podcasts is too complicated, or you're going to have to pay $500 in gas fees to do anything.

It's pretty obvious most of the people who are "into" crypto, aren't really doing anything with it besides honing their investment skills once you actually talk to them about what they do with it.
You say kowtow, I say keep essential manufacturing going.

Upset the CCP enough, you might not even get parts out of China to assemble elsewhere. Perhaps why Apple has invested in having multiple sources for all of their components, multiple manufacturing facilities in different countries, etc.
As someone considering this setup, does this have any performance cost at all, even small ? Or is it totally identical, framerate and otherwise, to native ?
This surely has more to do with his "meaning" is being measured than anything else.
The comment I initially replied to is choosing against democracy, you continued the argument, hence, it's not a straw man but the position you are defending. If you wish to distance yourself from that initial position then be my guest, but thus far you haven't, except to imply it through ad hominem against me - please don't do that, it's tiresome.
Boiling the current lockdown regime to "can't shop in stores" is needlessly dismissive and reductionist.

The current policy in Australia is that foreign citizens are forbidden from leaving the country. This violates numerous international agreements on the freedom of movement for citizens, including ones Australia is signatory to. The only other countries preventing exit of foreign citizens are names like North Korea, China and others.

I think it's fair to say that a country should be able to control inbound immigration to some extent. But preventing outbound immigration to foreign citizens is despicable.

I know dozens of foreign citizens who have been stuck in Australia because they cannot leave without a permit, that isn't guaranteed even for compelling reasons. Numerous valid permits are being denied.

That's one element. Then there's blatant police state policies and abuses such as a curfew with absolutely zero health evidence backing, police throwing unarmed people to the ground unprovoked into a pool of their blood and refusing medical attention for them [1], pepper spraying elderly people for peacefully protesting and more.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/video-emerges-of-c...
I don’t think it will be.

I talked to a person that valuates art. When I heard her talk, I felt that cryptocurrency valuation had a lot in common with it.

Where art is valued on:

- Rarity

- Popularity of artist

- Perceived craftsmanship then

- Perceived craftmanship now

- Emotional elicitation (indirectly, i.e. if we didn’t “like” or “felt” something through art it wouldn’t hold value, probably).

Now cryptocurrencies:

- Rarity

- Popularity

- Innovativeness of idea at the time

- Innovativeness of idea now

- The ideology that a certain coin or cryptocurrencies as a whole represent (e.g. if it didn’t have an anarchistic and innovative bend then it would be worth a lot less)

- To a small extent: its utility (e.g. the unbanked using it)

Obviously I am handwaving and simplifying. My point: they are more similar than you think.
Hrm, overall I still lean toward pro rata being a net positive. The two situations this is advice is handling are these:

> I insisted on getting pro rata in tight rounds where the founder wanted to bring in new investors or limit dilution.

> I learned this through rough conversations with founders who expected a pro rata investment during a difficult fundraise and didn’t get it.

The 2nd situation isn't really something to protect against. To expect pro rata during a difficult fundraise is weird because the expectation is to be able to force someone to invest in your dying company? A non-situation to me.

The 1st one is the most realistic and understandable. Hot rounds really become a fight of letting the right people in at the right price. Without pro-rata small guys would disproportionately not be able to continue their investment.

So then it becomes negotiating with the incoming round's lead to lower post-money to avoid overall dilution.

Which, is always a welcomed problem.
Steve Jobs definitely wasn't proposing technical solutions in any version of events I've read.
Oh sure, some countries may also require quarantine before you can enter, and obviously that will vary by country.

I'm just saying they will all require proof of vaccination for covid to be allowed in.
You got 2x (or whatever) the salary until then.
That should give you plenty of time to catch up.

You can catch up, but your resume can't.

Let's say you take a cushy COBOL job for X years and then spend Y years on your own "catching up."

At that point you're pretty proficient in whatever the trendy thing is at that time.

But what do recruiters see? They see, "this person hasn't worked with anything modern in X+Y years, and hasn't even had a job in Y years"

It can be overcome, but... not ideal.

Currently anybody is employed anyways if one knows
how to use a keyboard. I don't think that is ending
anytime soon.

It might still be that way in X+Y years. It might not.
Could it be that there's a bit of bias in the study?

Similar to the biases related to the fact that the majority of psychological studies were run on predominantly rich, predominantly white students at well-funded universities?
I think a previous law allows them to demand that hardware or software developers (people or companies) modify their products to aid in intercepting communications. Theoretically, this could even be by request of foreign countries with targets in foreign countries.
Actually I understand _exactly_ what they do, and how Bitcoin (and crypto in general) threatens their business model. But go on with your strawman, please.
Why is it normal for Americans to wear a monitoring bracelet on their ankle at home? See what I did there? Please don't spread deliberate misinformation.
TSNC has a plant at Nanjing, China (TSMC Nanjing Company Limited, Fab 16).
It's true that a pro-rata has material value.

But the author doesn't indicate how that can be problematic.

How do existing requirement to allow previous investors in the round, contribute to a 'warping' or 'problems'?

I mean, if pro-rata is only designed to prevent dilution - well that should not be so bad. That means in any given new round, there should be enough room for new investors, no?

It also should be less painful in early rounds when investors own a smaller amount.

Would it possible to do 'partial pro-rata'?
If that is true; how could I refinance my 30 year loan on a 20 year old post tension pedistal slab condo? And why isn’t replacing the slab in our reserves budget?
Gotta love when the Hacker News crowd sides with Wall Street kingpin Jamie Dimon just to own Bitcoin. This guy became a billionaire thanks to taxpayer subsidized bailouts after the 2008 crisis while regular people lost their homes, and while I don’t know that it is proven, it is very likely he was personally involved with or at the very least aware about the subprime mortgage derivative schemes that set off the entire thing.
As a hiring manager, I dig cover letters. Show me you can write and that you can communicate effectively, tell me why you’re interested in the gig, put your resume into some perspective, give me some sense of your personality…

At least in my world, a good Dev is a lot more than just a monkey who writes code.
JPMorgan and friends are so hyperregulated they literally have regulators who sit in their offices, company officers who are required to report to regulators on a whim, regular scheduled updates with regulators, audits, etc. etc. there is probably no industry more regulated than finance.
Needs a (2015) label.
Indeed. It's generally an interesting newsletter, covers some interesting topics.
What happened is that MS support has a script they are not allowed to deviate from, and, in their infinite wisdom, it was never considered that their support scripts could be incomplete, that things like this could happen.

Back when I did IT, occasionally changing someone's name would work for everything but Office 365. Only, Office 365 would appear to have the correct name everywhere that we could see, and that MS support could see, but sign into Office on a fresh Windows install to activate it and the wrong name pops up every single time. Some system failed to update somewhere inside the underbelly of MS, which their support cannot acknowledge as a possibility - it must be one of our systems (though they never say what exactly, since then we could disprove their claims).

The only workaround we found was to change the affected users' accounts to something else, wait a couple days, then change it to the correct name, and it usually worked. Keyword: usually. Sometimes you had to repeat the process before whatever mystery system MS runs got fixed. All the while, their support would staunchly deny that this could ever be a problem with their systems. Not a "we'll look into it" form response, even, just a very toned-down version of "you're lying, it's all your fault, fuck off."

The best part is that they know that there's no way we could just stop using Office (or Windows, for that matter), so there's no incentive for them to fix these things. Instead, they can just have support give us the run around claiming their products are perfect.
No wonder Elon Musk left California
I hear what you're saying.

However, i loved being tapped and then helping people. it was my very favourite distraction, and assuming i was actually helping them with work, I felt zero guilt about losing my focus. it's very personality specific, I suppose * shrug *
Bitcoin is important to a global industry worth around 2.8 trillion USD.

"A comparatively simple crime-economic model, constructed from readily available international databases, closely predicts a range of such expert assessments, and appears to offer a framework for determining and monitoring the size of money laundering flows around the world. Further research is required to complete the model, but the nature of that research is made clear, and it appears that existing data sources are likely to be adequate.

Initial output from the model suggests a global money laundering total of $2.85 trillion per year, heavily
concentrated in Europe and North America."

http://www.johnwalkercrimetrendsanalysis.com.au/ML%20method....
Pentagon Official Resigns over Belief China Has Won AI Battle
Crash pads. It’s what boulderers (climbers who climb smaller technical routes) use to fall on. They usually have straps and you wear them like backpacks.
There are millions paying family in their home countries, it is a significant slice of local GDP in some ways places. You want to throw a straw man to make this look sketchy. I’m sorry but you are many many years too late for such antics.
Well, I said “experimenting”

Also, I didn’t comment on whether the experiment is ethical. Crypto and morality is a whole can of worms that I find hard to understand in a satisfactory manner due to the high stakes of different groups abd they all seem to have a point.
why pay a traditional gatekeeper when you can pay a nontraditional gatekeeper and make it generally more convoluted
I've done you the favour of finding out about these companies, and I think you'll find they all have diverse staff and founders. I think the problem is companies are now forced to jump over themselves to prove how diverse they are because if they don't people like you are all to eager to dogwhistle about how if they aren't "diverse enough" they must secretly be racist.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/roboflow-ai/people/
https://www.experiencewelcome.com/about-us
https://www.linkedin.com/company/returnly-technologies-inc/p...
For me, the isolation of the pandemic was detrimental to mental health but the remote work has been incredibly positive.

Is it possible that these two circumstances are overlapping in your case?

Do you miss the commute and sitting in an office (on-location work) or do you miss speaking with people (socialization)?
Keep in mind though that the well-built structures are also going to be the ones which survive the best.

We have a degree of material quality control (at an affordable price) that the Roman empire could really only dream of.
Ok, this is for a Maybe/Option, but can't see how can work for any algebraic type.

I have this for mine:

struct Ag {
tag :String, //like "Option.None"
data:Vec<Value> //The data inside, if any
}
Protesting is not illegal
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The US was 80% against getting involved in WW2, so democracies aren’t as predictable as one would think.
> France, Germany and Italy have really disappointed with their heavyhanded approach against those that are not vaccinated.

Disappointed who? The anti-vaxxer community? Good.
I think "Digital Gold" is a legit use case, similar to "regular gold"

Though it's not a very satisfying use case because it's like "hold bitcoin because we all agree we should hold bitcoin"
That’s correct understanding as of 1943 when the “artificial neural network“ model your professor is teaching was developed.

There is a whole lot of new knowledge on how live neurons and networks of neurons work that had been collected in the last 75 years in the neuroscience domain but it’s mostly ignored by computer scientists.
Yes, the criminal uses are dominating the non-criminal, but the non-criminal continue to mature.

The way to think about it is that crypto is reinventing all of the historical aspects and nuances both of money and also of public systems of record- both of which are millenia old- on a much faster timeline.

There are orders of magnitude more people alive and participating in this money/ledger maturation process than all the previous times put together, of course. Much of the learning is just being implemented, rather than discovered. (Many of the mistakes, however, are being rediscovered.) So it is going very fast, but there is still a LOT to cover.

I would posit the system of record use cases are much more profound than the money use cases. Those are still years away- we don't really know how far- but it appears to me the infrastructure is still on track to have a role there.

In response to a question- in X years will there be jurisdictions using public blockchains for, eg Real Property ledger, rather than the mix of paper and digital non-blockchain systems variously in use now- I would say yes, and put greater than 50% odds that X is less than 10.

Real Property ledger is much more important than money. You can use any old thing for money, but in any civilization there is only one Real Property ledger.
> I have to repeatedly tell Discord that I’m not a student and not interested in their scholastic channels

I am a student but I don't want to link my personal Discord account with school things, which they keep recommending, FFS.
I see the 'European' connection moreso than some other cities here in the US. I've visited Boston twice - once just a few weeks ago - and I could definitely see some attraction of living/working there. It seemed way too expensive to actually live in for my budget, but I may have just gotten too accustomed to a LCOL area. I enjoyed the breadth and depth of the city, and have some family living there at the moment, so I expect I'll get to enjoy a bit more of it next year.
There are good reasons for male-only organizations as well, mainly to do with having something private of their own that men can bring back to their marriages and homes. It provides a social support network for men (literal fraternity), and by extension, their families, where men are not left dependent on their wives for managing their social lives, as is common in many marriages. The lodges still provide a fabric for civil society that persists across party lines and through periods of strife. To dismiss the lodges as merely sexist is more trivializing than anything else, as we're equal, not indifferent or interchangeable, etc.

Racism doesn't really figure into regular Freemasonry either, as it was founded as a universalist enlightenment society. When you look at who has historically made a point of suppressing them, it's worth asking who the good guys really were. They're a reliable canary for civil liberty. Prince Hall masonry, founded by and for African American men is still going strong in the US, and it is in concordance with most north american grand lodges. The main thing is you can't be an atheist in regular masonry, which is analogous to having a policy against racism in that atheism is traditionally also viewed as an obtuse and unnecessarily irreconcilable belief that can call someones moral judgment into question. The continental/european stuff is different, and much of it isn't connected to the mainstream anglosphere masonic culture.
I guess if the hiring manager cannot read and understand good code I guess that's a win win.
Well, there was not such a thing as intrinsic value in neither cryptos nor in any fiats. Fiats at least are backed by the governments. For cryptos, there is nothing backing them nor would anyone really believe in them. The only potential value is to speculate. They claim to have resolved centralization issue but ironically people speculate cryptos in centralized exchanges. Centralization in financial areas are there for a reason, it just cannot be resolved by decentralization and that why people need crypto exchanges.

As a matter of fact, lots of regulations are on the way, and some countries go further even try to criminalize them, which will accelerate the decline for sure. Myself actually tried to speculate BTC in late 2008 or early 2009 which I cannot remember exactly, as I was pretty sure people were going to speculate in it. It was shame that I was too early, the price was super low ($0.001 or might be $0.01) but there was no venue for me to buy any. The next time BTC returned to my sight was around 2017, the price went up to $1000. I chilled out thought those people were crazy. But it turned out they were actually much crazier than I speculated. I look forward to seeing how this drama is going to end.
I didn't make that comment to have a political discussion, only to remark on the public's attitude to surveillance laws.

However, I would like to point out the legislation to force people to provide ID to use social media and dating sites has been in the works for some time.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Hou...

Also note ALP's remarks on the bill, which call for sooner action and do not disagree with the report's findings.

Again, I'm not here to discuss partisan politics. I am only saying these laws seem to enjoy wide support.
Curious if you could make a nuclear only system?
Man. You can't outrun the government. You can vote, you can try armed insurrection. Reform or revolt, those are the choices, and revolt is guaranteed suicide.

Believe me, you can't outrun it with your fancy digital currency with "so many nodes in operation no single government on earth has any hope..." is terribly naive. They can seize the networks man, they can arrest you, they can shoot you. They eat your bitcoin for lunch.
> with a much smaller cost per unit for build, launch and maintenance

Somebody further down in the comments estimates $250k in launch costs for each Starlink satellite^[1]. Elsewhere, I found a claim that SpaceX execs said in 2019 that the per-satellite cost was "well below" $500k^[2]. So let's say $400k per satellite including manufacturing and launch, just to pick a number.

Once it's in orbit, you need to pay for operations, but not maintenance (except on your ground-based infrastructure). And multiple factors (e.g. cheaper launch) stand to bring that price down.

Realistically, how much do we expect one Starlink satellite's worth of telecom UAS to cost on an ongoing basis, including the maintenance and operations costs that don't apply to Starlink? Where is the analysis? OP's article makes the "cheaper" claim with (AFAICT) absolutely nothing to back it up, and the fact is that full size aircraft are not cheap.

The service density flexibility and possibility for additional radio bands Starlink can't provide might be a good argument for this system to exist, but all this talk of it being cheaper seems very vague and presumptuous. What am I missing?

^[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28832257

^[2] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-launch-s...
The yanks had the people die because they were so out of shape a flight of stairs is an existential danger to a minority of protests and police.
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TAOCP uses a significantly different methodology of teaching, and it's also very explicitly aimed at a significantly different market of programmer and in a significantly different area of endeavor within computer science.

It's a great work (I'd be lying if I'd said I'd poured into the entirety of it extensively, but I've spent weeks on certain portions, like the MMIX fascicle and Sorting and Searching), but PAIP has a significantly better claim at "kickstarting" the "read code instead of write it" trend, because in TAOCP the code doesn't take center stage, and it was never the point for it to (hence the creation of MIX & MMIX).
I think you've nailed the reason they have gravitated towards bolted tube frame design, despite the quite glaring mechanical downsides to that style of assembly. They are driving down the number of custom operations and shrinking the BOM as much as possible. Bolting on more struts is preferable to welding custom angle brackets (which would be more skookum) when that's yet another part you have to jig and fabricate yourself.
my comment was downvoted so fast i thought i accidently posted on jpmorgan's chat board :)
As an Australian, is the best approach to encrypt all my storage and communications? Is that even possible when the potential threat is the government?
Also, the first rebar structure, in golden gate park, is still extant https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-81-rebar-and-...
I have a theory that their strategy is to submit as many resumes as possible and then check back for anybody that has actually taken the job, no thanks to them, and then sending the company a bill for the referral.

This happened to me once after getting hired by internal referral. The company ended up rescinding my offer to avoid dealing with the recruiter whose email I had responded to long ago. That was the one time I really needed a job - life took some very strange turns after that.
we are human beings on average in the world.

surely some people are worse off than in 1990, but the number of people worse-off is significantlly reducing.

If one had a choice to be born on planet earth now or 1990, much better bet is now.