skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency has severe flaws that are either well known (insane energy use) or severely overlooked (securing data is hard, securing data that is also cash is insanely hard). But calling it a ponzi scheme is a lazy and unhelpful as calling "fascist" any dictator or authoritarian movement.

Anyway, the article argues that it fits the moniker because it has no value besides senseless speculation. It just ignores the one legitimate use it has, and it's one that should be hard to miss because it's right in the name: payments, like coins.

That's not to say it's a particularly good tool for that, you can argue all you want about it, but that's what it's for. International reply coupons are of really limited use as well, but they're not a ponzi scheme, the ponzi scheme used them.
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B&H Photo website observed the sabbath and won’t sell you anything during.

There are things which are actually life critical that you want to be up and then there’s everything else, many people have really strange opinions about downtime and treat it like some kind of immorality.

I don’t really buy the power arguments about extra capacity but that’s a big thing.
People believe many things. But they are usually not so emotionally invested in proclaiming a belief.

Especially when they are not involved. People who think crypto is a scam could just ignore it.

So the strong emotional energy here is interesting.
Problem is there is almost no opposition to that. In almost every country we see liberal parties failing to defend liberties.

On the contrary, they quickly side with pearl clutchers that have no problem with broad user surveillance and in some cases even champion laws that selectively punish one or two unsavory people in hope it might be seen as a precedent. Corporations primarily think of their advertisers that dislike any controversy.

I think ultimately we need different platforms for kids and adults. If you have a problem with comments that undeniably sometimes cross several lines, you might need to visit the former. That said, experience says that some people aren't content if there is disapproved content anywhere, but those need to be ignored.
Constructive possession.
> survey employees to figure out if they’re satisfied by their pay.

If those are done they are likely ignored or used to figure out how much lower the pay can be. And a strike is a result of that.

The idea that employees cannot profit from a company doing well, not profit from their own labor and simply get a fixed low pay is insulting.
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You are ignoring the million dead civilians in Iraq alone, aren’t you?
I think this is part of the problem GP is highlighting: you have to know which type of doctor you want advice from. They specialize so hard that there's barely any overlap. Which ends up meaning you have to see a boatload of doctors to find something you can use to finally draw your own conclusions.

I hate visiting doctors for some reason. Probably because we're supposed to just default-respect them, and I just see no reason to do that with how they're not able to help me.

Edit: able to help rather than helping.
Union workers being lazy is pretty terrible stereotype. But a popular one in America.
I don't believe your graph

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/03/precariou...

i never said their wealth made them live longer, science did
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One of the last straws for a job I had once was realizing that the oracle python client would convert money fields into float.

Oracle had its tentacles everywhere in that company. I think even they wanted to stop using it but it was just integrated to too much.
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Meh. It’s such a good trackpad, but the way dragging works (for resizing, selecting, drag and drop) makes it borderline hostile on a 4k monitor. Once you reach the edge of trackpad, it stops.

Logitech trackball is not so accurate, but dragging and fast movement is miles better.
Yeah, when I saw Brown and PhD in the same headline, I assumed Brown University.
3-way merges suffer from two problems:

- They are not "associative", as mathematicians say, which means that if a remote branch has two commits A, followed by B, merging A then B might give you a different result from merging just B. Stockholm syndrome has convinced many programmers that this isn't a problem, but it actually prevents the very sane reviewing process of reading individual proposed changes along a branch. In other words, this is one of the main reasons Git users have to follow "flows".

- Conflicts! 3-way merge treats conflicts as a failure to merge, and tools based on 3-way merge (Git, SVN, Mercurial, Fossil, CVS…) stop everything when a conflict happens. Now, remember that these tools are based on snapshots, and snapshots can never have conflicts. Therefore, conflict resolutions are forgotten, the only thing remembered is that "Commit [insert SHA1-hash] (Revision number [insert integer] in SVN) comes after these two parents".
This is so wrong that Git even has a command to "pseudo-fix" it, called `git rerere`.
Again, if this doesn't sound like a problem to you, this could be because Stockholm syndrome taught you that the tool gets upset if you merge from the same remote branch twice, or if you fork a branch that isn't called "master" and isn't on GitHub. In other words, because you're actually using a centralised version control tool ;-)
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Your argument is cleanly refuted by the article under the header "The operator must lie to investors about the source of profits.".

No one is saying anything that goes up in value is a Ponzi scheme, that's an absurd statement.

You're not making a good case for your cause. Maybe mention some more important points that the author misses?
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That was true initially, but because of its price it became impractical as a currency.

People are now only buying it as an investment, investment in what? It inherently doesn't have any value or utility.
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for an actual job or for an interview? That two rarely align.
What's vertical replication?
>These drives would be particularly bad at resilvering as they are cmr drives.

Are you mixing up CMR and SMR drives?
I like this way of describing it.

Things like the beyond sausage are so far beyond the quality and flavour of a cheap meat sausage. I love sausages (although I find them disgusting so often) and I’ve found these plant based ones kind of fill the void that cheap, gross meats create for me.

I don’t eat much meat in the first place anymore so I guess that void has grown a lot, making the plant based options increasingly appealing. I’m pretty excited to see these options expand and evolve.
The EU commission wants broad surveillance laws and doesn't really behave any differently, the implementation is different in detail, but moves towards the same ambitions. They don't understand the costs and are just slow to implement the same dragnet surveillance as the US did.
I love this thread - it feels like therapy to me. Perhaps because I believe there's a few (if not many) people lurking around that I can relate to, and partly because I'm lacking the human connection I had with friends in my pre-parenthood years.

Anyway, lately I've been enjoying putting together "mixtapes" (not recording them live, just putting the tracks together and then exporting to MP3) and uploading them to Mixcloud. It's been creative and when I see that someone listens to it, I feel like I'm connecting with them in some way.
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Just use PGP, but keep in mind headers won't be encrypted.
If it doesn't fit your bill, just give up and use other methods of communication that aren't email. Email just wasn't built for this sort of purpose in mind.
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While true, it is no reason for not doing so.

On the other hand if you cut the entire c-suite, other board members and top management in half there is a significant amount. Usually with companies this size there are many mini CEOs in divisions and it starts to add up.
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It was supposed to solve the problem of trust in third parties.

Satoshi made this absolutely clear when he released the software and final version of the whitepaper, and he mentions it twice in the whitepaper.

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/p2pfoundation/1/...
To my knowledge, Nextxloud only offers an email client. There's no MTA involved, is this correct?
to be honest, I think this is all solely due to caffeine. I sleep 5-6h if I'm on caffeine, I sleep 8-9h if I'm off caffeine. When I first started drinking caffeinated drinks at age ~23 (yes really), I had a short period where I could still sleep full nights but eventually I was always down to 6h.
In my opinion most people don't attribute any of these sleep changes to caffeine because they've been on caffeine for a long time, never fully stop and when you are younger it doesn't have this effect yet or immediately.
Related:

The Problem with Calling Bitcoin a “Ponzi Scheme” - https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/
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Yes yes yes!
I think part of the problem is, no matter how trivial "X" is, or how complex "Library Y" is, someone will always say "To do X, just use Library Y". Before you know it, your app has 100+ dependencies. And you can't change one without breaking three others.
I once used VPNs as proxies for web scraping, using 2-3 VPN providers with multiple servers in different countries. It was a while ago, so my memory is a little hazy but I'll try to describe how I did it as best I remember.

I configured an Alpine Linux docker container with openvpn and a proxy server (I think I settled on squid for stability), and a bash script to to start up the openvpn connection and proxy server with config for both passed into the container. Then just generated a long, line by line list of every possible vpn connection config line by line, shuffled and duplicated.

Then in my outer scraping function: grab a line from the config file, start up a vpn-proxy container (passing in the config), do one page download through the container proxy and then stop and delete the docker container. This allowed me to download pages in parallel, with all connections originating from different IP addresses (as long as I made sure not to exceed VPN simultaneous connection limits).

Kinda messy, and I spent ages fiddling to get the container config just right, but it worked.
Of course, it is possible to do a 90 ECTS masters (1 year full time) for two years part time.

And it's possible to do a 180 ECTS masters (2 year full time) for four years part time.
There is no small company here, just an opportunist.
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And you connect with someone here, by saying that. Mixtapes are special, even in the era where we don't burn CDs and use magic sharpie all over it :D
Regarding plant based “meat” why are we trying to fool our selfs that we are eating meat. Inovation would be here to inovate and create new food, not to mimic the existing. I know, existing consumers and whole industry waiting to be disrupted, but still this starts to look like “save” icon represented by floppy disk, when in reality “save” does not have anything to do with floppies anymore.
Is McDonalds paying more in *same* locale? If so the offer will fail as people have other fallback jobs. Also you are assuming people will prefer McD jobs as they may require lower skill but may provide lower growth worse working conditions.
That's false perspective. People keep repeating things like "why India sends a probe to Mars, heck, there are so many poor people in India". In the long run investments in new technologies always leads to common people life improvement. Even building pyramids in Egypt was beneficial for peasants living there, as it required development of skilled workforce, required building efficient administration, "project management" skills that were used in other fields (agriculture, warfare).
Does anyone here know who developed this technology? A frequent complaint I have with Indian historiography is that the actual inventors and developers are forgotten, and kings get all the credit. All that my middle-school textbooks said was Tipu Sultan used them against the Brits.
The same logic applies to the management and design. There is no reason a cheaper workforce cannot do that as well. I wonder why that has not been done yet...
Any references on what's a log structured cache ?

Also I don't understand this claim in the paper -
"At a high level,
KSet minimizes DRAM usage and KLog minimizes flash
writes." Why ?
This is really refreshing and encouraging for me to hear, as a father of a 2-yo. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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When I was in grad school (Econ, not CS) teaching, etc., was less than 10h a week. The rest of the time was research. So yeah, 60+ hours of actual research a week.
This is the first time I've read something positive about FB that too on a post involving kids, Thanks for sharing.

But what do you think is the endgame for Facebook in providing a service for kids which are approved by the parents? None other than improving their prospects of LTV i.e. getting the 6 year old invested in the platform so they could yield conversions when 13(or what ever the age in which they get access to broader content i.e. Ads).

So the real question here to a parent is, Do you want your child to get invested in a platform which has consistently proven to be unethical, immoral, indulge in outright illegal activities or has been attributed with degrading democracies around the world?

May be Facebook wouldn't sell the data of kids until they're 13 or 18 but If I'm a parent I wouldn't want even my 18 year old to do anything with a platform like Facebook.
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For me drill is best suite for many reasons.
1. Its simplicity - Simple installation, simple to use, smaller learning curve. Works both in stand alone and in cluster mode.
2. Documentation - Simple and to the point documentation.
3. Support for multiple data sources - It supports almost all required data sources and use same Standard SQL to query data from. Best part is to join multiple data sources (different databases of different types) in a single query
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So for my use case this really fits and I guess it will be for others.
absolute nonsense.

Most boards are cohorts with CEOs.
As they describe being open to ideas and feedback: maybe using static compression could help. The concept is to pre-compress files (have foo.html.gz available next to foo.html) so that the web server does not have to compress on-the-fly. nginx supports it[0] and gzip_static does not appear in their nginx config[1].

It might not make a difference if nginx has a in-RAM cache of the compressed files. Otherwise, it has the potential to be pretty significant assuming most requests are made using "Accept-Encoding: gzip" and assuming the web server does not prefer other compression algorithms (eg. Brotli).

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Speculation is a distraction from the greater goal. When there are volatile exchange markets, people will always try to take advantage of them to make money.

The fact that people see bitcoin as an investment is really a testament to just how awful fiat money is. Is bitcoin going up, or is fiat going down? It's probably both, but the reason people expect bitcoin to continue going up is precisely because the fiat money is being expanded and their purchasing power is being robbed via the inflation caused by that expansion.

The expectation to continue going up isn't just guesswork or gambling either. If you study the history of money, then you learn that almost any time two monies are competing, the harder money displaces the easy money.

All value is subjective, and always has been. If it the case that historically, people subjectively prefer to save the harder money (Gresham's Law), then what reason do you have to think this time is any different?
So the load balancers would still need 100% reliability? If they go down your browser can't connect to anything which would render you unable to send the "nice message".

I think we'd have to have a pretty different internet in this hypothetical world.
Ask HN: Do you have meetings to share struggles within your teams?
I am on working level in a division of around 60 people at a public institution. We are producing key sets of data, wrangling them and providing various products derived from them to colleagues downstream.

I often notice that the less "techie" colleagues of mine are dealing with a simple problem for days, wasting time.

I would like to establish a meeting of some sort where people exchange problems they are struggling with. The main point would be to exchange knowledge and in this way increase efficiency.

Example: renaming 50 files by hand. Why not write a two line program for this task?!

Does anyone have experience with this type of gathering? How do I get people to share their struggles and make them learn new ways of dealing with them?
If you’re using React the same applies in the dev tools component tree - $r is the currently highlighted component.
Ain't that's what govt. are for? Elect representative who favour higher min. wage
Which is really really correlated with the number of hours you put in. Hard work means working hard, whatever context you’re imagining.
Unfortunately Gene Deitch passed last year.
Have fun explaining to everyone why their browser now takes up 20GB.