skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are just looking at one specific type of pyramid scheme. See for example:

> Matrix schemes use the same fraudulent, unsustainable system as a pyramid; here, the participants pay to join a waiting list for a desirable product, which only a fraction of them can ever receive.

You pay dollars expecting to get a lot of dollars in the future. This is why most pay for bitcoin, and since it is impossible for everyone to make money it is a pyramid scheme. The future payoff can only happen if a lot of other people pay more dollars, which will be used to pay you. And since the system constantly extracts money to pay for all the hashing it is impossible for everyone to even break even, people will lose a ton of money in the end.

This is different from normal currency trading. When you buy dollars you are betting on the US government and the US market to be strong so the dollar gains value. Bitcoin however doesn't have any backing like that, it is a negative sum game.

Edit: The core concept of pyramid schemes is this, basically it is a business model which requires infinite new entrants to be sustainable. Bitcoin is like that, it only works as long as bitcoin enthusiasts continue to recruit new people to invest in bitcoin. Hence bitcoin is a pyramid scheme, even if there isn't any tax on sub transactions.

> Pyramid schemes are based on network marketing, where each person in the pyramid is tasked with bringing in their own subordinates and in turn profiting from their sales or recruitments. This fails because it essentially requires an infinite number of people to join the company.
Nice twist. A country that is a tax heaven and enables a lot of business to avoid due taxes in other jurisdictions is now concerned that it can't get its own share of taxes.
The thing is that you guys from Russia have started thinking that you're the solo holder of human sufference, I come from Southern Italy with Mafia and absent government, where rich get richer, kids play on the street surrounded by heroin needles, all with few castles of rich people being the kings among the shit, so yeah I won't dare to tell you how entitled you are to your ideas, but probably if the people that took power had the feeling that doing what they did was fair, maybe had their reasons
go there and check with people, huh?
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> It ain't as bad as you think.

It was for the people in Afghanistan and Iraq.

> Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

That one certainly didn't age well.
There's a limit of 30 nights per year that private individuals can let out their homes. Before the mandatory registration, there was no way for the municipality to enforce or even check that people complied. Now that people can't let out their properties all year round it's not worth it so they're selling up or getting in long term renters.
He was also successfully honey-pot-ed by my country, Romania, at about the same time (early 2000s), googling "corina cretu" and "colin powell" should reveal some Romanian texts (easily translatable via Google Translate) plus some photos. Old habits die hard, I guess (I'm talking about my country's tactics, which I guess we learned from our big neighbour further East).
> Where do we draw the line on abusive language?

Social interactions are full of gray areas and legislation obviously doesn't and can't catch it all. Some people have rather controversial definitions of violence and abuse. Though, I think social consensus is that physical violence threats are well beyond any grayness.
> but Iraq war was a good thing for Iraq

I wouldn't even know where to start. This is such an obviously illogical argument. I mean, man, c'mon.
> A nuclear plant failure, I'm faced with something I can do nothing about.

You can evacuate.

> Coal .. well unless our case of whole-plane-pollution .. you can mitigate.

What can you mitigate with regards to the dangers of fossil fuels? If an oil tanker spills, or a mine collapses, or the Earth warms to the point that crops no longer grow in areas where agriculture is comfortable, or your children must breathe carcinogen particulates, then what can you do?
I spent 6 years there, including some time "on the economy".

Iran-Iraq War and Post-Gulf War 1 sanctions were each worse for Iraq than the 2003 invasion (by far). The various problems with the occupation (which mostly fall on Bremer/CPA and GWB/Cheney) were probably within an order of magnitude of Iran-Iraq and sanctions, maybe even directly comparable. Rise of ISIS (also a separate thing) and general sectarian violence as also bad at that level.

It's hard to tell how far back the causality chain you should go. A simple "kill Saddam, put any reasonable other person in, don't extensively reconstruct the government, GTFO" was what I was assuming would happen in 2003, which probably would have been net-positive for Iraqis. If you are bundling "invasion in 2003" with CPA + sectarianism + ISIS, then they're collectively highly net-negative for Iraqis, but I don't think they were necessarily linked in 2003.

I still would have opposed it as a US person (because it was a distraction from Afghanistan, which ALSO should have been concluded in late 2001 vs turned into a 20 year quagmire...)

Colin Powell has a decent place in my memory for his work in the 1990s and before, but he definitely spent his reputational capital in lying to UN, even if it didn't ultimately influence the course of action. I could certainly agree with him perhaps even overdrawing that account in total.
There's no value to a distributed ownership record of things in a game that is centralized anyway.

And even in a partly decentralized game where players can run their own servers, there's no way to force the private servers to respect the distributed ownership records.
IO is 512B sectors here? Or 4KiB?

EDIT: 512, looking at the screenshot..
You're speaking for an awful lot of people. Maybe HN skews towards Apple fans and therefore might just possibly have a few extra upvotes for Apples defaults?
The estimates vary, but between half a million and a million people have died from the war and its aftermath. Not including Syrian Civil War or Libya, which were absolutely consequences of destabilizing the region.

No matter how bad Saddam was, invading was a bad solution.
Also, check out the bow tie on the guy doing the demo. Snappy.
Not even remotely the same situation. Nuremberg was about officers delivering and obeying direct orders to kill civilians and commit war crimes. Powell simply delivered a speech to get international support for a war the US was going to fight no matter what. He had nothing to do with the war crimes.
not to mention petrmikheev isnt even the main developer, let alone the lead of openmw, psi29a is.
What you want is called Apache Pulsar. Log when you need it, work queue when you need that instead.

As for ensuring transactional consistency that isn't so bad, you can use an table to track offset inserts making sure you verify from that before you update consumer offsets (or Pulsar subscription if you go that route).
Loved the unspoken jab at Apple.

He's a True nerd. It's why I recently switched to exclusively hire people who don't use Apple products. So far everyone has been fantastic performers.
There are other reasons but for one Pop doesn't push Snap. Flatpak is available and well integrated, but isn't forced down your throat (as Snap is in Ubuntu).
There's some good and some bad out of Silicon Valley like with most things but you can always ban the bad and take advantage of the good.
I am reminded of the “To Be or To Do” [1] story about the late Colonel John Boyd.

Powell had a hard choice, yet life often puts us in such situations. He should have resigned, in my view. If he did not, he shares in the responsibility for what was done.

[1] https://dnipogo.org/john-r-boyd/to-be-or-to-do/
Many disagree.

As to "company man" ... Watch "Mars Attacks!" for the best portrayal of Colin Powell to hit the big screen.
Science is great, and I love science, but it paradoxically has a way of limiting our understanding. Things that the scientific method cannot be successfully applied to are immediately written off by such skeptics. The rejection of anything not deemed scientific is a close-minded approach to understanding the universe.

Take a look at WIMPs[0] (weakly interacting massive particles) and a slew of other theorized forms of matter and energy that we are currently incapable of detecting. It may be the case that there are physical phenomena we will never be able to detect. Does that make them false? No, that is a logical fallacy.

I think the prefix pseudo- is used as a pejorative by dogmatic disciples of science. If they applied the prefix pseudo- to everything not supported by direct observation (rather than just things of a spiritual or metaphysical nature), then theoretical physics would have been branded as pseudophysics a long time ago. Any crackpot can write down some equations that the scientific community will except as a substitute for direct observation, without applying the term pseudo-.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_par...
My favorite republican :(
IMO, only the operator of a vehicle should ever be responsible for moving violations, not the owner, and it also shouldn't be the owner's job to identify the operator. (In other words, I don't think you should ever be ticketed or fined for moving violations by any means other than being pulled over by a police officer.)
Yeah, not a lot of marketing money behind not liking Apple things, or anyone's things, for that matter.
Some regulations.
If you're in the Go ecosystem, Gazette [0] offers transactional integrations [1] with remote DB's for stateful processing pipelines, as well as local stores for embedded in-process state management.

It also natively stores data as files in cloud storage. Brokers are ephemeral, you don't need to migrate data between them, and you're not constrained by their disk size. Gazette defaults to exactly-once semantics, and has stronger replication guarantees (your R factor is your R factor, period -- no "in sync replicas").

Estuary Flow [2] is building on Gazette as an implementation detail to offer end-to-end integrations with external SaaS & DB's for building real-time dataflows, as a managed service.

[0]: https://github.com/gazette/core
[1]: https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/consumers-concepts....
[2]: https://github.com/estuary/flow
Rest In Peace.

Thank you for putting up a black banner for Mr. Powell. Very appropriate.
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Should’ve sounded the alarm 15 years ago when S3 was invented.
I'm not taking a stance here, I'm atheist myself, that being said:

> Christianity never kept society together unless you are totally oblivious to the number of wars fought on European soil during this so called 1000 years of stability.

Some people argue that it does to some extent. It gave people something greater than them, a community, traditions (church on sunday, &c.), a common set of rules to follow and a cohesive framework to "navigate" through life. It told you what was wrong, what was right, gave you a sense of spirituality and the sacred. Even the classical family values are christian concepts (Christianity didn't invent the family but theorised our modern take on it).

Now that we're past that a lot of people navigate life as atomized individuals without any moral compass, nothing is right nor wrong anymore, do whatever you want, be whatever you want, anything as long as you work and consume

People went to war for their religion, died peacefully knowing they'd go to some form of paradise, now we send kids to foreign deserts to fight for petrol, they're dying so that you can have the next iphone or a fill up your car, there is no transcendental greater good they could look for, the new religion is globalization and consumerism

The judeo christian civilisation lasted ~2000 years and clearly is on the decline, it's neither good nor bad in itself but you can't deny that it is a pillar of our current western world

> you will be hard pressed to find a Western Historian who says there is a 1000 year period of stability.

The fact that something existed for so long and that a lot of our modern philosophical and societal takes are direct descendant of it are good enough to prove stability, they've never been any era of "stability" if you define stability as "no war".
This is my main issue with python. The whole GIL thing is basically necessary because of Python's heavily dynamic model, which is almost always used improperly.

Mypy and other static analysis tools are becoming more common in part because IMO they basically require you to stop and think about your "Pythonic" dynamic patterns (containers of mixed element types, duck typing of function arguments, mutable OOP etc.), and often realize that they are a bad idea.

So in some way we are hampering multithreading to support programming constructs that are mostly used to make python flavoured spaghetti, especially in the hands of beginners and non-programmers who are encouraged to learn Python...

I'm not sure Python is fixable at this point. Oh well.
I've also had much more success with "queues in postgres" than "queues in kafka". I'm sure the use cases exist where kafka works better, but you have to architect it so carefully, and there are so many ways to trip up. Whereas most of your team probably already understands a RDMS and you're probably already running one reliably.
Isn't "argumentum ad populum" a fallacy?
And because taxis are so heavily regulated it wasn't possible to compete with those bad taxis either. Regulation can cement an oligopoly.
I agree, I also try and keep sun visors in the down position for this reason. Way too many cameras on all the motorways.
That would not be very profitable for the entrepreneur that leases the canteen. No, cheaper ingredients at the same price point, and more sponsored candy bars. You can only go down once they get used to new quality level, hence the AI to measure. Want one too? It has broad application, of course.
No silver bullet exists.

"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improvement ... in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." -- Fredrick Brooks

Source: http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

Nevertheless, Rust has shown great promise and implemented great ideas for high performance and safer low-level / system programming.

We need to keep on improving and using Rust and its ideas to improve the high performance, low-level / system programming space.
I was assuming they would be even higher. However, look at the economic damage being done by things like the opioid epidemic or the lives lost from these lies inside Boeing. We spend hundreds of billions on boondoggles, it doesn't seem like putting aside $5B per year to make the world better is much of a strain for the US government.
See also- You can't make someone else's choices. (except who their president is)
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When you use words like sociopath et Al in this kind of environment, you cheapen them such that they end up meaning very little.
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“Bundling” in some form was almost always their power move.
example? I cant think of anyone especially combative working on openmw
Cross-gender pen names are an common tradition. Have they also condemned the Bronte sisters or George Elliot or George Sand for creating a different gender persona for their writing? Or JK Rowling and Andre Norton literally changing their name for marketing purposes so that their gender would not be apparent on the books cover while they were still unknown as authors?
By the way, KDE has kind of an reimplementation of Space War with gravity, KSpaceDuel

https://apps.kde.org/kspaceduel/

It's a great game! It has been updated to work with latest KDE and Qt, but it's otherwise unchanged from the KDE 2.x times (as far I can remember)
The school is in the UK, and Scotland at that - barely anyone has health insurance.

The system uses face recognition for interactions at the till, when paying for food, the likelihood of it filming usable footage of the dining hall that will be kept until leaked is pretty low.

A more likely threat model is that rather than video analysis, the system records Tommy bought five doughnuts each day and that database get leaked/sold.
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Trying to pitch empathy to somebody who just referred to "person" and "woman" as exclusive concepts may be a waste of your time. You seem like a much better person than they do, at least.
>Colin lie is inexcusable, but Iraq war was a good thing for Iraq.

Well, citizens of Iraq tend to disagree with you.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-life-in-iraq-was-...

Not to mention all the destruction of priceless monuments that the war brought about:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24590678
> I don't really see rising through the ranks of the U.S. military through the 70s/80s/90s as particularly praiseworthy either

Did you see any other black men doing the same thing?
For those who want to read more, this is the attention schema theory of consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory
You don’t get rewarded for questioning the state (or any large power) unfortunately, at least not in media attention or promotions.

That said, of course he should have.
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I hate that what's considered necessary transactional/'service update' is up to the service provider too though.

I use a pretty scammy credit score tracker thing in the UK, (it's not at all like it is in the US, not even a single 'it', but this service would love you to think 'it' is) just to keep an eye on for fraud really. But they recently decided that their monthly updates (don't tell you new score or if there's anything alarming or changed at all in the email obviously, click through to the website!) are a core component, a service update, and are therefore not required to feature an 'unsubscribe' link, nor to respect users' pre-existing 'unsubscribed' preference.
Phil Donahue is 85. I imagine he's been taking things a bit easier for 10 or 15 years. It's not as though Colin Powell has been making headlines for a while either, and for no doubt similar reasons. This has nothing to do with whether or not he should have taken a stand against the war in Iraq. I agree with disneygibson: Colin Powell had an exceptional career, all of which led up to that moment, where he simply blew it.
In the case when the patient suspects a brain tumour it would be easier for her to lie about having headaches or different physical symptoms. The story with voices is way too elaborate to result in desired brain scan.
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He was also seriously convinced Stanislaw Lem is a team of communist agents, he didn't believe one person could ever produce that kind of content. So I'd take everything he says with more than a grain of salt.
Good article, thanks for submiting!

The challenge for AWS is one lots of incumbents have experienced: they created a market and it's economics
and now they're being attacked by the next generation of market entrants who've structured their businesses to _specifically_ attack those economics.

What's interesting is that challenge can be a really big problem for incumbents, as those economics can form a core (very rigid) part of their operating model; it can make it VERY hard to address without fundamental (read: risky) change to a business. There aren't many examples of incumbent businesses doing it successfully, as it needs a kind of 'self-inflicted disruption' that's very hard to do in large organisations where politics and empire building can make it difficult.

If someone could do Managed NAT Gateway next I'd appreciate it!
Faster than DRAM from the 90's.
So the interesting thing, back then I think we were willing because of the nascent state of cloud services. We hadn't fully bought into any of this because most were still just buying hardware or renting servers and building their own software. S3 and EC2 were pretty pivotal in the move to this lock-in from a pure infrastructure perspective. Luckily s3 equivalent apis exist on every cloud provider now, its a staple cloud service but I think in 2021 as more things appear, they should be open source first. The open source companies start with that, I think cloud companies should actually open source the tech too.
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How could we possibly think of changing with the times?

Why wouldn't we want to continue have mobs of drunken British yobbos throwing up in the streets? (Note: I'm British for a little bit longer, so I can say such things.)

And we're seriously thinking of banning cruise ships here in Amsterdam - against, too much hassle, not enough revenue, lot of pollution. If that happens, they will raise the bed of the river IJ 4 meters and put a bike tunnel underneath it!
Why would you think that the economy would be limited to some small value? The value of the maximum limit can be very large.
Other than that, the maximum is personal to each resident. It is to reduce the size of giant enterprises, such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon. Imagine that these companies would have competitors in the form of ordinary start-ups. The startups would have plenty of money to do that.
Maximum restrictions will not reduce the incentive to work in any way. On the contrary, there will be even more incentive to work, because you can make a lot more money and buy a lot more things with that money.
The maximum can be from 0 to infinity.
No parasitism will occur. Businesses will plan their budgets properly.

I think this article is out of your hands. You didn't even realize that the discussion should be in a Telegram group. You read and do not understand what is written.
I recommend you reread the article many times before commenting.
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I don't know about that. Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul both raised their profile significantly, and while there have been hiccups since then, they're both much more prominent than they were before 2003 — Ron Paul's son may have even benefited by association.
Unfortunately many C++ tutorials mention or use iostreams which makes it look like it's a good idea to use iostreams.
I actually am even more skeptic of these kind of stories. People back then retold tales, and as somebody who has observed how these stories warp over time, i came to the conclusion that the human memory and prophecies is often nothing more then rewritten memorie errors. As in timewise sequence scrambling and rearranging, which can only be interpreted as "magic" knowledge.
You are going in circles...

constexpr is an interface guarantee. If it were not there the entire optimization stack would become brittle. Imagine updating a dependency or rewriting a function and suddenly your program is 10x slower. Things like this are known in other languages. For example Haskell and fusion optimization. It's fine for you to disagree with this reasoning. But then you should not be using C++ as you don't really care for performance and can use many other better suited languages.

Then you say constexpr doesn't make it possible for the caller to specify whether something is cte'd while this is precisely what the caller decides. You are confusing constexpr and consteval. consteval doesn't make it possible for the caller to decide whether the function is cte'd.

Please answer the points I have brought up instead of simply referring to something I have already refuted.