skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how the coins themselves seem to be viewed to some extent as well.

Price of Bitcoin will continue to rise as each year people figure out that, if someone can hack wallets, they're not doing it widespread enough for it to be a concern to the average bear, pun intended.
Hahah, precisely. "Imagine, you put on your headset and are in your home space" . . i cringed so hard.

I've been very critical of Apple on here, but i take my hat off to their dedication in shipping technology that no other company comes close to be able to ship. Globally, at consistent quality.

Outside of the US, buying an Xbox sucks, buying any hardware from Google or Facebook is a gamble (I tried, portal and Chromecast from official stores for relatives) and Apple is the only company that seems to delight.

I hated the keynote from Facebook yesterday, i can't believe they had the arrogance to think anyone outside of their offices would give a fuck about their fantasies and that there was ZERO substance.
one reason the cost of housing it’s so high is regulation. building a 4 unit apartment will cost you about 400-600k in city and permit fees
No contingency for “fool me three times”.
“A woman who was trespassed by two Timaru supermarkets for failing to comply with mandatory mask wearing rules, …”

I’m Australian (NZ-adjacent) and have no idea what that means.
Takes to long to construct, overruns its coasts. Pushing it is just a stalling strategy from big coal, gas and oil.
Bikeshare riders respond to bad weather
Dotsies
Microsoft passes Apple to become the most valuable company
Still! why must I log in to simply download an app!? Perhaps publishing an app is a more sensitive matter, then maybe it's worth validating things strictly behind closed doors... but to simply download and use software on a device I own, I can't fathom how we've slipped so far.
Is there any actual substance behind this rumor? It is propagating without not even a shred of supporting evidence.
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> I am utterly annoyed with selfish people effectively pulling the whole collectivity back to the office

You might want to re-read their comment — there was no call for everyone to go back to the office, and the parent comment is right that you're being antagonizing for no reason.

Here's an analogy for you: I had a childhood I very much enjoyed, where I wasn't on the computer as often and I spent more time in nature. If I were to state this and how much happier I felt, would you start harassing me for trying to drag everyone back to the dark ages and ruining productivity? (No! I can express my own personal opinion and preference, just as you can express yours, and it's not automatically a call for everyone to do the same as me!)
That's a really great article, thanks for sharing!
Not just in-memory.
It's pretty convenient if you have a set of Parquet files with common schema. Fairly snappy and doesn't have to fit in memory.
What does this have to do w/ the article about service being disrupted?

This is a common trend where someone posts an article about company or product X and top replies say "X bad". It's not on topic or adding anything to the conversation
One of the best things that happened to our daughter was parting ways with a toxic classmate from her old school who became her Roblox-mate. She’s finally putting the Switch Animal Crossing Edition that we bought her for Eid to good use. She did get scammed once into giving up a villager for free, but she’s hopefully learned her lesson. Her entire personality and attitude have changed, especially after finding out the girl she recently started carpooling with also likes Animal Crossing.

Like Facebook for many people, I think Roblox is literally a disease for most kids. Hoping for more disruptions.
The system is coming apart, shaking itself to bits because it's become unmoored from its foundations. It seems like a lot of different reasons because the system is so complex that it's fractal; you can zoom in to any one part and still see complexity, so it's easy to pick out PhD-thesis-size problems and just get lost in it. But fundamentally, if you zoom out, it's really simple.

It's greed. I'm not religious or spiritual, but I am really talking about a serious psychological/spiritual disease that has infected our society. It's not just about getting enough to survive, or even enough to thrive, but there are so many actors out there out to get as much as possible that they simply cannot be satisfied anymore. Their stomachs are bottomless pits.

How else can you possibly explain multiple individuals being worth more than $200 billion (Sixty. Thousand. Lifetimes. Of Wealth), and yet it is not enough for them. They must command huge empires, the boards of which must "motivate" them with more money. These people have serious psychological problems. Like, please, just disappear to your islands and enjoy the rest of your short lives, please!

The entire world economy has been just one massive casino, one huge get-rich-quick scheme. And TV too. Fame and fortune without working for it, getting famous with no talent or skills. Think of how many millions and billions of people worldwide have been programmed to think they can and should be millionaires and that it can happen at the drop of a hat?

And now, a CEO has 1000x the pay of a median worker. They're all mini warlords, their plunder is bullshit bonuses and hollowing out business after business. A huge pump-and-dump scheme.

Just a couple decades ago, people dreamed of simpler lives. Plumbers, electricians, doctors, lawyers, engineers, small business owners. People dreamed of a kitchen renovation and saved up money for years to afford a new garage or that nice car at retirement. They couldn't imagine becoming YouTube starts or overnight millionaires because of some reality TV show or viral video.

Everything is fucked and it's because everyone thinks they are getting rich tomorrow. It's a mad dash to grab as much as possible, and people don't even enjoy the stuff they do have!

Society is sick and decades of neglect are coming due; the blighted pillars are crumbling.
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Sure sounds like fraud to me, but even if technically not, I’m happy to have more public examples on display for regulators to demonstrate their need for tighter regulatory authority (and legislation) around crypto.
I completely missed that in my first pass. This crazy donor negotiated absolutely authority over the design by covering less than 20% of the cost. That's both impressive and alarming.
This doesn't make any sense......gaming hardware for office work sucks and I used to be an avid gamer. Gaming chairs are garbage. Gaming keyboards do not have much ergonomics in mind, there are much better and comfortable options from logitech and microsoft but they don't light up like a Christmas tree. Gaming mice have many buttons and DPI switches and logitech mx master is much more comfortable than any gaming mouse I used over the years.

If you want to be comfortable you need to research and be willing to drop $1000+ on a chair and peripherals.
Worth reading the "incredibly complex transaction" link in the article: https://twitter.com/Mudit__Gupta/status/1453401698563596293

It's not "incredibly complex". Someone just laundered the magic beans through a series of intermediate cryptocurrencies until they got to one they could just conjure out of thin air. You know, like Tether.

Don't worry though, this is good for Bitcoin.
Post author here. We made the NFT Starter Kit to help fellow developers make sense of the NFT space using data. We're looking to improve the project in the coming months, so I'd be curious to hear your take and suggestions for improvement!
The US government disagrees that non-citizens can violate its secrecy laws at will with no repercussions. I cannot blame them.
You still might want to read that first, if you haven't.
And just like this building (Munger Hall), your startup is presumably funded by investor money. ;) Correlation!
Can you provide an article about the Ethereum launch incident ?
The Miller-Urey experiment isn't relevant to me after learning more about the hydrothermal vent theory for abiogenesis. "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane is a great read for anyone interested in the topic
Resolution. VR screens don't yet have small enough pixels to use them for typical tasks like word processing, spreadsheets, and code development. It's hard to cram 4000 horizontal pixels into a 1" wide screen.
> the U.S. Department of Justice should congratulate itself on a job well-done

I wouldn’t consider the successful prosecution of someone who exposed the truth ‘a job well-done’ unless I was very cynical about the departments job.
if its true i'll buy them for my kids xmas pressies.
Heh. I’m not disagreeing with your experience (as it’s yours, obviously) but I’m amused because I also have ADHD and an way less productive with WFH because home has so much more distraction; in an office where others are working it was much easier for me to focus than at home where Netflix or hacker news is only a tab away, and there’s no risk of anyone walking by. Plus, pairing was sort of focusing by default as well, and that’s harder (though not impossible) to do now.
Well it is the pump of the pump & dump. Everyone assumes that they can get out of the pyramid scheme before it crashes.
Regulatory capture operates to eliminate the power of government to enforce responsible behavior in regulated industries.

Pretending otherwise is libertarian fantasy absolutely opposite to the objective facts.
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> This is not a cyberattack hack. It is just someone cleverly exploiting loopholes.

Could you not use the same exact description of anyone exploiting bugs in software to gain access to a system?

I believe there is actually a case making its way through the courts as we speak where someone is making the case that "code is law" is binding and should be able to keep the proceeds of his "loophole exploitation." Personally I'm with him haha. Sow -> Reap. [1]

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/22/after-stealing-16m-...
This brings up an interesting point, even if it doesn't apply to this case: at what point does something become a "hack"? Most reasonable, tech literate people in this case would agree that inspect element doesn't qualify as a "hack." I just wonder what would qualify as crossing the line from legal to illegal.
The question isn't about " hav[ing] someone over for dinner"; but whether you let them use your bathroom.

Sounds like you have a different attitude wrt your own, private facilities compared to the public, common ones. Maybe the difference is you don't have to clean the public toilet?
Preparing/conditioning today's young adults for the dystopian future, where all our jobs are being done by robots, and the elite class needs to warehouse the rest of us safely away in 2mx2m cells in gigantic concrete honeycomb dormitories, where we're given a TV and one Soma per day.
“Munger maintains the small living quarters would coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate.”

Ever wonder why housing in communist countries is dark and small but subways are grand and built with marble?
Because it's unregulated!
I did not link directly to the study discussed in this article because it is only available as a PDF and over an insecure connection, but if you would like to skip to the source, it is here: http://elvumgar.fea.st/papers/Bike_Sharing_accepted.pdf
It was boomers vs millenials, because well boomers. But they are trying to switch the conversation to millenials vs zoomers. But the boomers ARE in charge of these lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJvj4i4Oi0
> This could be super useful for deduplicating large photo datasets!

That is indeed the use case mentioned in the article. A hash like this is useful for deduplicating large _file_ datasets but for deduplicating images in particular, you really want a perceptual hash. Because two images files can _look_ identical but have slightly (or wildly) different byte streams. The trade-off is that perceptual hashes are notorious for false positives in large datasets.
> yet every one of them seems to ignore the elephant in the room which is demand for goods vs services

Considering almost every article I read about the causes cites the shift from services to goods (to the point of feeling like it's filler at this point), I wonder how we are reading such different sources. I'm thinking about sources like the NYT.
This is really not a high quality comment.
Flash loans are a software exploit, rather a vulnerability within the "economic" system of the platform. Flash loans are simply fascinating, but if this is the third time this happened to this platform, they deserve what they got.

Also, that method man song is awesome, I can't believe I haven't heard of that until now. Crypto rules everything around me! Cream!
I may have some useful hardware sitting around here at the house. Some of it may be 20 years old. How can I tell whether any of it will be useful to this project?

I have cards, dongles, etc.

I am in the US but I would like to assist this project if I have any useful hardware to contribute.

OT: I also have obsolete equipment such as keyboards and maybe docks for dead tech like Handspring Visor, Palm devices, various obsolete data storage devices, SCSI components, old graphics cards, network cards, sound cards, RAM from PCs bought at least 15 years ago, an original Mac128k converted to 512k with printer and external floppy drive, and lots of cables for lots of things.

What do y'all do with stuff like this?
one group believes in small government? What group is that? Not the GOP, certainly. In 2017, trump asked congress for huge cuts in many departments/agencies (e.g,. EPA (-33%), DOL (-21%), and many others)...however, congress offered a budget to trump that had no cuts, essentially, and actually increased the budget....who controlled congress (senate and house) in 2017? The GOP controlled both senate and the house...

so which group wants smaller government?
Chuckles in Gen X...
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When you think of the most complex operational challenge you'll see solved in your lifetime, is that the one that makes you excited about the future? If not, spend the trillions of dollars and years of widespread disruption to literally everything on something you value.
Please remind me what "tyranny" is revealed by releasing a dump of unredacted diplomatic cables. Be specific if at all possible.
That seems to accord with what the fox does at 1:08 here: https://youtu.be/D2SoGHFM18I
They absolutely do eat fried rice in Thailand, but they call it "fly lie" :)
> This design came from an amateur architect, someone who has never designed ANY building before and is surely clueless about safety laws and even basic physical structural limits. To imagine the design has seen anywhere sufficient review by others who DO know what they're doing is assuming a lot.

This is false statement. The architectural design was provided by Van Tilburg, Banvard, & Soderberg, AIA.
Side note, I found this channel the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsDUyQI88LLvpu9RCevwQEA

Which I thought was quite entertaining.
We Can All Be Social Engineers
Code is law. Lol.
Not satire.

It's from a 4x5 negative, so you're correct, probably not an SLR or a rangefinder, he did favor the 4x5 view camera. Which is an even more complicated mechanism to use than SLR or rangefinder types. Still highlights that good-quality photographs were taken in decades past.
China is also constructing many new nuclear power plants. However they're also constructing new fossil fuel plants at the same time. It's tough to keep up with the increasing demand for electricity.
I mean building a bootable image compatible with UEFI vs compatible with BIOS. Not building UEFI nor BIOS.

Like creating an "EFI System Partition" (FAT-based) or having a simple BIOS bootloader (usually with 2 stages, MBR + partition). With UEFI, it feels like you are booting an extra OS in between.

UEFI brings a lot of logic to the firmware. If you just want to boot one OS it's overkill, IMHO.
Very true but it felt strange how everything that evenhovercraft listed as something gained from remote work was also something that I had lost. I don't think a post-Covid world would change that for me. My office is downtown, with restaurants and attractions and people. My home is in a streetcar suburb and while it has lots of nice things to walk to, it doesn't have what you would call a night life.
> By what metric are you making the claim that humanity does not reproduce?

I'm not. I was replying to the following question:

> What if there's a level of intelligence above which humans decide not to reproduce?

It seems obvious to me that a species that drives itself to extinction cannot be considered intelligent. Doubly so if it does that due to lack of reproduction.

> it’s not critical to the species for everyone to reproduce

It is. Every couple must have a certain amount of children in order to simply maintain a stable population.
Sure thing chief, cost is very important when facing a global existential crisis. That's why global CO2 output is now on the rise because people asking for more nuclear power plants (the only reliable low carbon source at this point in time) are stooges for big coal, gas, and oil.
Yes, but even in that scenario, it should be consistent, not flaky. If it always works in some environments and always fails in others, that is not ideal, but at least can be accepted. But if it sometimes works and sometimes fails, it should be investigated.
I disagree with your opinion, and I’m proud that SF is performing the experiment, even if unintentionally.

Yes, there is a line, but my opinion is that it’s closer to physical violence against another person’s body.

A possibly more interesting question: In what ways has the line been shifting over time, in what places, and why? What benefits have been reaped from increasing permissiveness, and why? What areas of the world are low-permissiveness, and what problems do they see as a result?

Is all of this coincident or causal to innovation, and why?

Why does this topic impassion people? Is clear thinking hindered by passion, and why?
We tried to change things I faced down 15 cops with loaded shotguns to protest Gulf War 1. I'm not depressed or substance addicted and I started doing web development in 1995 and continue to work as an a self taught engineer even though I'm pushing 50.
Understand, there's a lot of distance between 'we don't need a military', 'we need a military to defend American soil', and what we have today.

I am strongly in the 'we only need to defend American soil' camp. I'm not sure how much that costs, but considering we're a nuclear power, we have two relatively friendly neighbors and thousands of miles of ocean between us and our nearest peer enemies, it wouldn't surprise me if we could get away with spending a miniscule fraction of the 700B we do today.
Smart contract dev is a lot more like hardware development then software development. You kind of have to get it right out the door the first time. Our tooling here is perhaps inadequate.
> Generations aren't a monolith

I feel like that should be obvious. But generations do have some commonalities based on the societal changes at the time, and that is what this "generations" talk is all about.

As a Gen Xer, I feel like the defining characteristic of my generation was parental divorce. It was really the first generation whose mothers entered the workforce in droves, and due to a widespread societal change of the roles and possibilities of women, this caused a ton of marital strife and divorce (in no way putting a judgment on this, it's just what happened).

My parents did not divorce, but my mom did work full time since I was in kindergarten, and we were pretty much all on our own until late in the evening, at a time before cell phones where parents could easily contact us.

Thus, this "shmuck" may not speak for me, but I see where he's coming from.
> Qt can (and is, for instance by default in Debian) be configured with -xcb-native-painting which does what you'd expect it to

It seems to me that -xcb-native-painting does the exact opposite of what I "expect Qt to do"? In any case, if it can use server-side X11 painting, that doesn't mean that it doesn't support the opposite, which is what I meant -- unless the Qt devs completely removed the code for client-side rendering, it's basically already ready for that scenario (passing pixmaps), isn't it?

> and has the very nice benefit of using my .Xresources (e.g. for my local screen's hi DPI)

Not quite sure how that is relevant. Isn't it possible to query that from the client, then produce a pixmap in an appropriate resolution? That should be transparent.
Generation SSRI doesn't care what you think.
Meta removing Facebook login requirement for Quest headsets by next year
It's lucky that the author put such a ludicrous claim right up top in the first sentence, because that will save an awful lot of people having to sit through the rest of his twaddle.
I don't fully get the use case either, but it's in a different category than Postgres or Microsoft SQL because it runs in the browser and can be made part of your web app.
Nothing conspirational about it. In the follow up to the Grenfell fire[1], my development was reviewed and the cladding in use on several buildings was found… less than ideal. The homeowner’s association is currently drafting a plan to have it replaced.

This isn’t some theoretical, conspiracy-laden issue. It’s an actual problem.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
The US gets a neglible amount of toilet paper, if any, from China. And there was never a supply disruption: there was a demand disruption, a distribution disruption and a run.
How is he subject to US law but not the US constitution?
Yup...

Junkies are destroying a lot of our world unfortunately.

I don't even blame the junkies as humans are just bags of chemicals and meth / fentanyl can override most of the other chemicals we have. My thought is we need to ship them all to an island where they have no chance of getting drugs and let them live their lives out there. And to prevent criminals from bringing them drugs, institute the death penalty like Singapore did for it.
Ya I've been thinking about this too, that personal shame needs to play a bigger role today.

For example, if I designed a cell phone that wasn't waterproof, I would feel a tremendous sense of personal shame as an engineer.

If I took a campaign contribution and voted against the people I my district, I would feel a tremendous sense of personal shame as an elected official.

And so on and so forth. This lack of transparency, accountability, critical thinking, personal responsibility, professionalism, etc has given us this bizarro world 21st century reality where one rich guy can soil the lives of countless others in a seemingly impeccable way. To name one undesired outcome of this local optimum in the multiverse of possible realities..

Edit: $200 million is nothing to sneeze at, so nothing against Charlie Munger for that. I do wish though that philanthropists would donate without strings attached, or else it ends up being an extension of their egos.