skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the same is true of bitcoin deposits held by the public at crypto-exchanges. These bitcoin balances are bitcoin

No, those balances are not bitcoin.

If it is not a balance assigned in the distributed ledger, it is not bitcoin.

I understand that the ious in the dollar system are the money. You are misunderstanding the difference in how the reserves would be generated in a world backed by bitcoin. Saying bitcoin is the same as an iou not on chain is an egregious misrepresentation.

Bitcoin in a world with “bitcoin notes” backed by fractional reserve banking would be very similar to gold when dollars used to be exchangeable for a set amount of gold. It is not the dollar in that comparison, it is the gold. But it has the added property that it is easily transportable and could also act as a direct form of payment.

It is not practical to buy a sandwich with the equivalent dollar amount of gold, even when there was a static exchange rate between the two when we were on the gold standard.

It would, however, be practical to ALSO directly exchange bitcoin, in addition to exchanging “bitcoin notes”. Direct exchange is the original vision of crypto, but a world where people primarily exchange “bitcoin notes” instead of bitcoin still benefits from the fixed supply of what the note can be exchanged for.
Not measure individual software engineer performance
In other words, 44% comes from non-renewables.

It's not like those 56 are free either, we could use that energy to run more important things instead that crypto is taking away from.
You don't have wild pigs in the UK?
The default Samsung music player has a Spotify tab. I've never used it though so cannot comment on how it works.
CGI Proxy takes me back for exactly the reason you describe - bypassing filters on the school network :-)
Thank you for the links, very interesting studies on the possibly beneficial effects of probiotic supplements on autistic symptoms.

For my own reference, the probiotic strains mentioned are: Bifidobacteria longum, and Lactobacillus acidophilus/plantarum/rhamnosus.

> Lactobacilli comprise most food fermenting lactic acid bacteria, and are used as starter cultures in industry for controlled fermentation in the production of wine, yogurt, cheese, sauerkraut, pickles, beer, cider, kimchi, cocoa, kefir, and other fermented foods, as well as animal feeds and the bokashi soil amendment.

> Lactobacillus species are dominant in yogurt, cheese, and sourdough fermentations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus#Probiotics
Apparently Californians get a double whammy on cat thefts - a generic replacement
cat converter for most states costs about $500, but the exact same replacement cat that is certified by CARB (California Air Resources Board) runs about $2k.
This explains why older CA cars are more likely to be totaled out by a cat theft.
Yeah I don't think Lee is a super deep thinker and he gets a lot of basic things wrong. I corrected some of his obvious errors in this piece.

https://thefulcrum.us/amp/actually-approval-voting-beats-rcv...

As a general rule, it is true that plurality voting absolutely sucks. The vast majority of highly rated democracies use something different. The UK and US are ranked 16th and 25th respectively.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

Taiwan and South Korea both use a significant amount of proportional representation.

But Drutman's biggest fallacy is thinking that you have to have proportional representation. Simple approval voting would plausibly have as big or greater impact.
> places like Amazon

And places like this site right here, where it provides indentation for comments among other things! Search the source for `s.gif` - https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif
Unbelievable that someone considers big city life objectively superior (hint: on the odd occasion we need to go there, we get in and out as quickly as possible, while you consider an escape to the country a relaxing treat); that someone from a concrete jungle would lecture country people on fixing the environment; that the "culture" of cities is something appealing rather than repulsive... Just unbelievable.

I would sooner die than live within an hour of a large modern Western city. Yet more evidence the 'people' there have no soul.
The WORST is when you play on a a smart speaker. I asked to play "Despicable Me 2" sound track while my kids and I were cleaning the kitchen. Its starts off a song by a song by Ceelo Green that is on on the album, then another song from the album, then goes into the Fuck You song By Mr. Green. WTF spotify.

The Smart Speaker experience is pure Shite. Play the ENTIRE album I requested.

AND let me choose "Explicit" filtering based on what device I am on.
One can be concerned about things that do not directly affect themselves personally.
The problem with Director was that most of it's market had switched to Flash at this point. Early on, Flash was a competitor[0] to Director that outcompeted it to the point that Macromedia just bought it out. The way Macromedia differentiated two very similar products was that Director was for bigger projects Flash couldn't handle. Which meant that as Flash got more features, Director made less and less sense to use. There's a good few years where Flash basically was "Unity before Unity" in terms of what you could do with it easily.

Later on, right after Adobe released the last version of Director; they tried to market Flash itself as a platform for cross-compiling games to. Except they wanted to charge money for it, in a way that severely pissed off Flash developers and drove even people who did not care about mobile off the platform.

[0] Formerly known as FutureWave Splash
Undervolting the 3080 can help a lot with thermals and sacrifices minimal performance up to a point. I undervolted my 3090 and it improved thermals by like 5-10c depending on the workload which lowered the fan noise and as a bonus lowered the coil whine. I don't have numbers on the power draw though but it should be a significant difference
I am curious what you mean by slow.

CSharpier started as a prettier plugin, and it was definitely slow then. ~30 minutes for a project with around 10k files if I remember correctly and the formatting was just barely implemented. At this point it is ~40s without --fast, or ~27s with it. CSharpier is stable enough that I should make --fast the default option.

Individual file formatting is a bit slow which is the overhead of starting up a new .Net console app every time. NativeAOT is a potential solution, but probably not until .net7. Building plugins that keep csharpier running in the background and piping files to it is the other option. That is one of the next things on my list.
The "normal router" issue is BIG and make browsing github issues/PRs on mobile an awful experience.
>* A merchant account and Spreedly for payments

Can you explain why you go this route instead of something like Stripe?
These names are too short. Think of all the collisions. Use a full UUID, e.g: {84347ab5-45e1-4801-98fc-685624039068}

Googling your product will always be quite nice
I stopped buying Dells ~10 years ago when my last one stopped charging from the AC adapter. It used some hardware check to determine whether it was using an “authentic” Dell AC adapter, but if there was a failure with the check you were SOL.
news.ycombinator.com/s.gif
In the Expanse series of books/show, human bodies are sent to "the recycler" after death and used for continuing the living. The theory of this is fascinating and it's fascinating to see real life examples.
Not a redditor but I heard https://old.reddit.com/r/trees is one of the best examples of this. (/≧▽≦)/-~
The interface and the approach by the site owner makes a difference.

I hated looking at threads on Microsoft or Intel's forums. Many replies to postings were clearly level 1 outsourced agents in India or some other faraway place reading from a script. It was plainly obvious because many times their response would not have much to do at all with what the OP was asking after, and all it did was just aggravate people because they felt they were not being heard. Lots of noise, no signal.

On reddit, one doesn't have this infestation of script-reading call-centre agents and can often find the information you need. Of course, reddit is not perfect either. Rules are arbitrarily interpreted by many mods, and there is no avenue for review or appeal to a higher authority.

That said, I do like classic web forums. They're great, everything is subject-specific. But one downside to them is that you have to travel to them to view them as opposed to being on an aggregator like reddit where people are already there and might have subscribed to a sub.

A lot of companies use Facebook for their customer interactions because they don't need to do much.. the business page template is pre-defined.
On Korea: The National Assembly has 300 members elected for a four-year term, 253 in single-seat constituencies and 47 members by proportional representation.
You can be directive without being a jerk
It might be "common sense", but that doesn't even mean that it's not possible for competent and well-meaning people to fall into these traps when working in larger groups.
What do you mean? Whales and dolphins are mammals, too. I searched for the deepest-dive mammal, too, and found Cuvier's Beaked Whale.
A doctor at Mass General, which is one of Harvard's teaching hospitals. He's also an instructor at Harvard Med, so his claim to a Harvard affiliation seems about as solid as can be.
Procedurally Generated Djent
The developer experience is just subpar. I believe this is a big factor why there's far less amateur content today. In terms of multimedia, I was able to do more with my 512MB Windows XP on rust-prone spinning disks and Flash 8 than my 32GB SSD-based Ubuntu LTS. The former was also programmed by a highschool student; the latter, same highschool student but with a CS degree and almost a decade of industry experience.

Back then, I could rapidly prototype a small Flash project, maybe 10 scenes (is that the term then?). Today, yeah it's easy to get started but you have a project that's bit more than 3 scenes and you need to use webpack if you want any hope of keeping things organized.

Distribution-wise, Flash packaging is just superior. You can even make it an .exe to share with your friends (security be damned; that's what I did then). To distribute your HTML5 project you basically need a webserver and send your link around and hope they open it in a compatible browser (if they use a Mac with Safari, you better hope you didn't use too much cutting edge APIs). I guess today you could also use Electron, equivalent to me exporting to exe, but that's another battery that's sold separately.

Plus, animation is just loads better with a WYSIWYG editor like Flash. HTML5 is powerful but anything more than a simple motion tween and I have to pull up a pen and paper to calculate an object's movements. Though admittedly I've never looked into a visual editor for HTML5, that's if one even exists.

(Of course, something has to be said about the price too. HTML5 is basically costless. Flash...let's just say I rode on my school's license back then.)
I honestly do not understand what your getting at here. I think your suggesting my career is diminished because... I don't spend every waking minute with my co-workers or others in my profession? I wouldn't do that if I lived in NYC/LA/SFC either, I have no desire to be on 24/7/365, especially for the vague benefit of "serendipity".

If your career only advances because you went to the bar with your co-workers your workplace is broken. And I bet I'll find a far better start up partner at a hackathon or a conference (or just at work) than the local pub.
> Who are these legions of people? The few articles I have been able to find about it [2][3] indicate that it's Silicon Valley "trying things out" as usual, and assorted media loudly claiming that it doesn't work.

It's not legions of people, but "dopamine fasting" was (briefly) popular in certain social media and tech circles.

It started out as a "put down your phone and go outside" kind of trend with a pseudoscientific tie-in to dopamine (or at least the popular misconceptions about dopamine). Aside from egregiously abusing neuroscience terms, it was actually a decent idea to encourage people to take a break from the easy rewards like social media, video games, and TV. Probably feels like a revelation to people who were chronically online and forgot that there was an alternative way to live.

But then it spiraled into a fad where social media personalities tried to one-up each other or rush to add their own pseudoscientific twists in an attempt to have something new and unique to share. And it evolved into this silly idea that you shouldn't do anything enjoyable during your off time, or even that you had to specifically become uncomfortable or miserable.

Outside of those circles, everyone else is just rolling their eyes. But get caught in one of these bubbles and you'll hear a lot of one-upmanship about dopamine fasting and humble brags about not doing certain things.

At least until it becomes uncool again, at which point everyone will pretend it never happened.

This article probably sounds like nonsense if you haven't been in one of these circles, but it's actually a great resource to give to someone before they go down the "dopamine fasting" rabbit hole. Debunk early and save them the trouble.

Moderation is good. Putting down your phone and going outside is good. Having self-discipline is good. But turning it into a status-signaling social media game and applying a pseudoscientific name is a good way to completely miss the point. Just go outside and enjoy yourself.
Can you please write a blog post or book about your experience? I'm trying to get into solo SAAS, and this kind of post is pure gold for me!
Less is more.

C'mon, we're all dying here.

Finishing is a skill (per Derek Yu).

All measuring devices have noise.

Symmetry and continuity impart incredibly strong constraints on systems.

A dollar isn't worth a dollar to everyone.

I am probably overreacting or missing something.

Most of the value can be had by delivering less than 100%.

Many problems cannot be solved, simply changed into other problems.

If my team succeeds then I succeed.
So much software is in-house, and that's only part of commissioned software, are you sure it's a tiny chunk?
No, it's physically impossible. There is plenty of evidence that capillary blood simply isn't homogeneous enough in small volumes to do quantitative analysis.

But honestly, I actually don't think that's much of a big deal. The difference between taking a venous draw and doing a finger stick as not as big of a deal as Theranos made it out to be.

If instead Theranos had a small, portable analysis machine that could work with small volumes of venous blood, and they had a big deal with Walgreens to use that together with things like low, up-front pricing for tests, I think that still would have been a great advance. Note there are startups like Everlywell basically trying to make that vision (cheap, accessible, up-front pricing for medical tests) possible.
You should check and see how Amazon gets rid of a lot of their returns which is to say that, rather often, they just trash them.
Since we're ranting about shuffle...

I have a favorites playlist with over 3k songs and if i just press shuffle to start playing - it keeps playing the same freaking songs. It's a mix of most recently added + 20 of my most played song. I have to scroll all the way down, pick a random song, and then it will start picking more random songs from the playlist.

So frustrating.
My hypothesis is that when you’re selling a product to a price-sensitive customer you have to strip down things.
Depends on the type of game. There was a period of time in the 2010s where CPUs were rarely the bottleneck in gaming. But with the advent of better graphics techniques and more powerful graphics cards, along with more ambitious scenes and simulations, there are many cases today where a strong CPU is required for gaming.

A recent example is Battlefield 2042. When I first got the game I had an AMD 3700X, which is no slouch of a CPU. But it could only drive the game at about 70fps, no matter the resolution. After an upgrade to a 5900X, I can run the game at 110-120fps. The strongest i5s would likely struggle to hit a stable 60fps on this game.
The earliest adobe monumental architecture in the Americas
It all contributes, and depending on the sea state and heel angles also.
Giving Up on T-Mobile
1. Stripe didn't exist 20 years ago. A merchant account was how you accepted credit cards online before Stripe.

2. Stripe costs more. I pay "interchange plus" which means a small markup over what Visa/MC/Amex charge to processors. A debit card can cost as little as 0.05% to charge, but Stripe will charge you 2.9%.

3. If Stripe goes out of business or decides they don't like my business, I'd lose my customers. Spreedly is a payment gateway agnostic credit card vault that lets me own the payment data and switch processors at will. If Stripe became cheaper or better in some way for me tomorrow, I could start billing my existing customers through Stripe tomorrow just by changing one token in my code.
A NH-U 14S is able to cool a (overclocked) 3990X at 450W reported.

https://youtu.be/3GqqQQxdtUM
Covid-19 Breakthrough Hospitalizations Concentrated Among Most Vulnerable
What is wrong is JetBrains shipping a custom build of a version 11 JDK in 2021. Not using the JBR is the quickest way to a responsive JetBrains IDE.

Do you have any basis for this "best in class" claim? Have you tried VSCode recently? I think you'll find that it is much lower latency.

A quick search on the JetBrains bug tracker https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/ suggests that people have had problems over many years across different platforms.

For example: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=linux%20editor%20unr...
I'm not looking for major breakthroughs in science and technology, though always welcome. I'd like some basic things: (1) desktop linux to be a thing, (2) AR/VR to be mainstream, (3) a unified app platform (web, mobiles) maybe Flutter.

(+) One thing I'd like to see in my lifetime but perhaps won't is undoing so many years of 'have humans think like machines' programming languages replaced by functional or declarative for the mainstream.
https://archive.ph/61SxJ
The downvotes are coming because you've told us that cases are skyrocketing but the deaths are the same as they were last year, when cases were not skyrocketing. This shows that the vaccine is doing its job.

Deaths Nov 2020: 6.57
Nov 2021: 6.14
Cases Nov 2020: 386.14
Nov 2021: 894.86

So over 2x the cases, and yet lower death rate. I'm not sure what Ireland is like but if it's anything like where I'm from, people are out and about more this year so more cases are expected. But a lower death rate with 2x more cases seems like an unambiguous win for the vaccine to me.

You've said cases are exploding in Gibraltar, but no one has died there since October 15 due to Covid. Since they became highly vaccinated, only 4 people have died in total in Gibraltar. Almost 100 died last winter before vaccinations were distributed. Then the vaccine became available and they all got vaccinated. Now only 4 have died despite a huge outbreak. Again, seems like a huge win for the vaccine.
A highschool teacher of mine once told a story: They hit a deer, knocking it down but not killing it. Someone else pulled up, saw the deer was still alive, and called whoever the authority is to get permission to give the deer a merciful end. After getting permission, the deer chose that moment to remember it was ok, jumped up, and ran off into the woods. The person who now had permission to hunt this deer promptly ran off into the woods after it.

Never go up to a deer you're not 100% sure is dead. They're big, hurt, and can decide any moment to flee or attack.
Well I said salvage yard but in reality it could be buy it used from someone who crashed their car. Even my local salvage yard has some they will sell for cheap because they haven’t had the time to go under and remove it. The point is in some cases you can get the parts for scrap prices. Around here the most scrap cars go for is about $300. Lots of people have a yard with 2-3 dead cars. I have 3 currently. Yes if I take every part off and sell individually I can make more money but for just as is $300. The other means of fixing this issue is just not add a catalytic converter but then you need to install a cat delete device so you don’t get a CEL and fail emissions testing. That too would cost several hundred dollars. Wasn’t trying to be condescending perhaps you woke up wrong side of the bed. Good day.
Moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain
>Raising kids is hard, even now, but it's still easier than it's ever been.

I think the amount of two income households and longer work hours says otherwise. It's still a great time to have kids but there is a lot of time and financial pressure that we did not have in the 60s and 70s. In addition, kids commonly walked to school, went out to play without supervision, etc. I think children cost more and require more time than in the past.
The question is why the creator would care. It does not harm the creator or anyone else to read a book out of order, or the sentences backward.

I only play songs for the music and rhythm. I cannot easily make out the words, nor do I care to. If I did write songs, I would not care if someone listened to them in order or not, to each their own.
Safari is perfectly fine, thank you. When I swipe back, I want to go back to the previous website, where I came from. I don't care about your website's bespoke little internal navigation system.
> Since they never asked for the heat, they could be suffering from it isn't having the "advantage.

But we know it is an advantage to them. They said so.

And freeloading can be passive.

"You're freeloading, but there's not a good way to fix that." seems reasonable to me, in that the derogatory nature of 'freeloader' is basically suspended but it's not forgotten.
Every major chain except bitcoin and ethereum is proof-of-stake now. And in less than a year, ethereum will be proof of stake. People that say proof-of-stake "won't work" have no idea what they're talking about.
So I think this is exactly why there's not much of a discussion. There's folks that are really excited about what you described, no doubt.

But then there's folks like me that think that vision of commodification of everything is a dystopian nightmare that devalues humanity by forcing everything into an economic corset.

I fundamentally don't want financial stakes tied to anything, in my world view we'd ideally move past money and scarcity.

I don't see how you'd reconcile those two views and that's why there's two very polarized takes on crypto with little nuance in between.
Call your representative and ask them to support the Hearing Protection Act! https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/95

Contrary to movie magic/political posturing, these devices only decrease the report by about 10 decibels, generally just under the hearing damage threshold, but still very loud.