skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The real exploitation for 99% of the population isn't someone currency-manipulating your fortunes, it's being a de facto wage slave because we live in a system that decides at birth that you're a slave and 1% of people aren't.

Coincidentally, the 1% are always people who have ties with the State and who have access to cheap credit. Bitcoin solves this.

> Crypto doesn't help you with that, ironically it makes it worse because it helps the kleptocracy move their money. That's who has a use for anonymous money, and they're normally robbing the locals. See: the Panama Papers, Russia

So you see Panama Papers and you infer that that the kleptocracy has any problems with storing their billions in bank accounts? The little guy needs Bitcoin, the kleptocracy does not.
Agreed 100%

Making it easier to stack PRs feels like entirely the wrong direction - "when you're in a hole, stop digging" - stacking is giving the people in the hole better shovels to keep digging with, instead of getting PRs flowing through more easily so that stacking is not needed so much.
I wish for a Firefox fork that support Qutebrowser style navigation natively instead of those barely functional extension...
Just stepping in to mention that kombucha has enough B12 even for people who have an autoimmune disorder that interferes with absorbing B12.

It runs $2.50 - $3.50 / pint in grocery stores, but I make it at home for under $0.20.
Literally all your statements are factually incorrect.
The reason why the argument that it is only using 0.1% of the worlds energy consumption so it doesn't matter is a stupid argument is because it can be used about absolutely everything. This particular coal plant only emits a 0.01% of all greenhouse gas emissions, so it doesn't matter. That is true about that coal plant too, and that one. So just leave them all because no single coal plant matters in the whole.
Not Religion, Pyramid Scheme.

The key point about BTC is money and the 'believers' area all holding at least some BTC and they promote it with zealotry for that reason.

It's the money and the dream of fabulous riches. Religion generally doesn't really go there in any serious way.

It's a really, really good example of bias, and how it works. Someone holds a few magic numbers and it really distorts their worldview.

Religion would be far more popular of people thought they could get rich by attending service.
It’s nice that the article provides the metric equivalent to the emperial values.
Data is useless to you?
I think you're just showing how much you're unwilling to attempt to stray from the religion of anti-crypto.

I'm not really a big fan of crypto, but you do have to admit that some of the projects would do some good for the world when they catch on.

I would love to have an easy system to distribute ML models and databases for projects without having to pay AWS fees for example.
I have been using tridactyl for the better part of three years now and it's pretty great. It has a feature similar to DDG bang search, where you can add your own search prefixes to search any site. The "hinting" is also very powerful and scriptable. I have used vimium in the past and it never clicked with me as well as tridactyl.
Raw fiat is NOT a new experiment, the Yuan dynasty in China printed paper money in the 13th century, not backed by any precious metal or commodity. They printed too much and had inflation problems, so that's not a new problem either.
Fun fact. The first super computer in Denmark was called DASK. https://amp.ww.en.freejournal.org/2647879/1/dask.html
If there is one thing Jaap van Dissel has not done then it is to import knowledge from abroad. A giant case of NIH.

Also I note that the WHO representative says 'alone', an
important qualification.
It's not necessarily just buying parts. It's the knowledge associated with building and fixing them. That's no different to any other engineering hobby.
There's a comment on YouTube explaining how the ready assembled hinges are made:

> Michael Karnesis
> 1 month ago
> I'm coming here way after the fact even though I missed the boat on the first wave of comments because nobody has explained the leg inner frame correctly.

> The leg inner frame is molded in sequence in ABS plastic, which is semi-crystaline and only bonds to itself. The second plastic is in Polypropylene which is fully crystalline and also only bonds to itself. This creates working joints without having to have radically different thermoset temperatures because the two plastics chosen simply don't cling to each other. No additional coating of release agent is required at all, it just uses the plastics' innate properties.

That's awesome!
Worth noting two things:

First, I'd hardly call infertile a man who had several children of whom a decent percentage lived to see early to later adulthood (good by late medieval standards, even among the wealthiest).

Secondly: Even today millions of people all over the world live their lives with undiagnosed or poorly diagnosed and incorrectly treated venereal diseases that can cause all sorts of long-term fertility problems. This despite such things being mostly curable and reasonably easy to diagnose even in fairly poor countries with basic medicine. Now imagine those numbers and their related complications in a time when medical knowledge around anything except obvious injuries and broken bones consisted of blaming bad humors and maybe witchcraft for random ills... Yeah... Either Henry or any of his wives could have been harbouring the long-term effects of any one of a dozen common sexually transmitted or other types of infections without having a clue about how these things were screwing with their capacity to screw their way into healthy children.
Roadrunner looks cool, thanks for the recommendation!
For me, the low code perspective is a little different.

I think that no/low code is the secret end goal for any B2B line of business product. You eventually want to be able to have sales engineers directly setting up your products for customers, with developers standing by to support or enhance the shared code pile. You never want to be in a situation where you need 1 developer and code pile per customer when you are trying to capture an entire market segment with hundreds or thousands of businesses.

Once you figure out all the likely paths through the jungle, you can expose configuration and scripting at the various decision points.

Our specific flavor of "low" code leverages SQL and projections of business state to allow for very precise tuning of certain logic. Being able to employ SQL to solve problems implies a very intimate understanding of the problem domain. You have to do battle with the business and iterate the model until you know 99% of it will never have to change. Anything less than this is walking across quicksand, as changes to schemas per already-configured customers quickly turns into a nightmare factory of regressions and otherworldly suffering.
I use it at work together with Azure Functions. Power Apps is great for small functionalities you need for Azure resources. My latest example is a logic app that triggers an Azure DevOps release. When I trigger this logic app via HTTP I also pass some parameters that the release definition expects.

Another example I made is to get Microsoft Forms answers that users submitted straight into a SQL Server DB. You literally cannot programmatically get the answers in any other way, by design. Its either logic app component or export to XLSX.
Whenever I visit people and they have the TV on I'm fascinated that the people that produce that crap think they can get away with it, it is so blatantly manipulative and often downright false. And then I realize they do. They get away with it all the time.
exactly my case. this is why I sometimes subscribe but only on Apple iOS devices, which helps me cancel all those things much easier... and cheers! I also subscribe to the WSJ. A little bit biased here and there but very high quality and neutral. Reading nyt, washpost, etc. can be very exhausting.
This is most likely one of the most unintelligent statements I have ever heard. Value is subjective, period. End of story. The US dollar literally only has value if people have confidence in it. Because we are still bartering and trading, the US dollar is simply a standardization of value. Again, value will always differ from person to person. In fact, I think commodity based tokens would be interesting. Cryptocurrency, as it is, has no value to me. The dollar bill is a standard that will certainly change. Hopefully we can have a utility/commodity based currency in the future. We used to have that when the Dollar was actually backed by bars of gold. LOL
I read the page on an Android phone in Chrome and it worked perfectly.
> No, an extension which overrides all the bloated pile of crap after it's already been processed and rendered does not count

afaik, extensions that set chrome_url_overrides.newtab in their manifests file prevent the native NTP from loading at all.
Hungary Water
Absolutely agree, 4.5K USD (3,970€) is certainly not a "massively good salary for Europe" although that heavily depends on the country. Here in Germany its about entry level for a CS major
So I should rest assured that the rich people are all wrong, and fully plan on eventually paying more taxes? And I’m just supposed to believe that? They are purposely doing all of this to intentionally pay more taxes? And they’re just too dumb to realize it? You don’t think they haven’t thought this through? First, there’s the death loophole in capital gains taxes. Two, assets are reliably outpacing interest rates and inflation, so even if it’s simply deferred taxation, that’s a de facto reduction (and yes that’s a problem, ask Piketty). Three, I’d imagine the billionaire class recognizes the trend of their increased power and influence, and could even just be betting on re-writing the rules before their bill comes due, fueled by the outsized influence bought by their lifetime of not paying taxes. So excuse me if I’m not OK with an upper echelon of society simply excusing themselves from taxation via mechanisms that are not available to regular wage earners.
A “you’re about to be charged” email would be friendlier and give the customer a feeling of more control. That’s what we do. (We of course will also refund the charge if you email us after it happens.)
The only thing said about he manufacture is "it's green". It does at least not misrepresent the location of manufacturing.

These days, I would expect most consumers to assume "tech is made in China/Taiwan/Korea/Japan" unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Of course. Any app that is blocked in app store is uninstallable on any of your devices. On a new one or after reset.

It won't go away from your phone if already installed, but Apple sure has this ability.
Is this chip somehow special and prone to supply chain issues? I am just curious.

Edit: I get tons of marketing materials daily about new various electric components. Fun thing is that while marketing department is sending advertising I can buy the parts mostly only in 2023.
I tried it. It tasted too much like beef.
DOI's allow Sci-Hub to function pretty well. One good example of how they have found a purpose to serve no one else was doing.

DOI's also apply to datasets ie. - https://www.ands.org.au/guides/doi

DOI's can theoretically apply to paragraphs, sentences, words. Each having a different DOI. There's a lot to them.

The in practice case for DOI's seems to be like a approximate hash function for things, with the location included. From memory retracted articles will have the same DOI, even though it will be different since it'll say it's retracted.
Svadilfari – Gesture Control for Safari on iPhone/iPad
In the academic world you can run Dask on the typical clusters using slurm or grid-engine, without any additional setup. You're not going to get a university IT department to create a Spark cluster for you.
Avalanche launches Blizzard, a $200m fund for development and innovation
You can put a 2 TB microSD in it.
Countless startups have been started on this idea
Thanks. I'll finish off the apps but just put in for short contracts as you say. The "years of experience" thing is putting me off though.

The apps I'm building aren't from tutorials. They are solving my problems and those around me.
> I heard them planning their political moves and their plans to screw partners. I heard them slagging coworkers ... until that coworker showed up, and without missing a beat everyone started slagging the other coworker who just left. I heard what the male Amazonians said about their female colleagues. Overall it seemed very exploitative, hyper-competitive, and exhaustingly bro-ish. Just like Jeff Bezos - imagine that.

You heard all of this at restaurants?
Sensitivity varies wildly for for different people. I seem to have a very low sensitivity - the only time I have felt the effects was on a barista course where I think I was up to 6-7 double espresso shots in the 90 minutes.

I drink espresso in the morning, black coffee through out the day and stop before dinner. It's around 4-8 mugs every day. On holidays I often go a days without any coffee for various reasons with no ill effects. I have gone an entire month substituting coffee with water to test the hypothesis that it doesn't really affect me and I felt no different. HR, BP, sleep quality, tiredness, mental performance, digestion all remained stable.

My neighbour gets a headache if he skips coffee for a day.
Stack Overflow’s Copy / Paste Keyboard Is No Joke
But does China restrict paper fiat transactions?

The basic question is whether you can force forfeiture of an innocent receiver of a tainted bill. You can always legally do this, but it diminishes the utility of the medium--the very purpose of currency, afterall, is to provide an efficient substitute for barter, and the greater the fungibility the greater the efficiency. Is the benefit in suppressing criminal activity worth the cost imposed on economic activity? The more potential innocent, protected receivers, the greater potential for effective money laundering, the less effectively you can suppress illegal activity.

The cost is a function of determining provenance at the point of a transaction, and the benefit a function of degree of ubiquity. This cost is most minimal when all transactions already occur electronically, online, and in real-time, as with Bitcoin. Similarly, it's precisely such a system where you can impose the burden most ubiquitously--literally every individual and every transaction subject to your legal authority without very much technical effort. So it's with something like Bitcoin where you're most likely to see heavy reliance on tracing and tainting because shifting the burden onto innocent receivers imposes the least cost to them individually and to the transaction system generally. By contrast, paper fiat is the place you're least likely to see this strictly employed, so long as it remains a substantial medium for exchange. (Rather, the tracing is most useful for catching criminals, not passively diminishing their ability to utilize the transactional system itself.)

AFAIU, not only does China have systems in place to more ubiquitously trace bills at certain points in the system, they're also actively encouraging (i.e. forcing) a shift to electronic payment platforms. The details of precisely what they're doing, when, and how I don't know much about. But the basic principles and concepts are clear, making the trajectory of what they need to accomplish easy to predict.

Especially in jurisdictions with long established, legally mandated fungibility guarantees regarding paper fiat, many Bitcoin advocates are unwittingly ushering in the future they claim to fear most.
As someone who's not from the US, good.
Here's one: If you want your operations to be as easy as they can be (LAMP), go with PHP.
If, you mean if that will change.

A new dictatorship in western Europe seems more likely than a cryptocoin becoming universal currency.
Maybe not Firefox itself but Mozilla’s “We need more than deplatforming” blog post burnt a lot of good will towards them. I think that kind of censorial ethos is at odds with the majority of people who would specifically choose firefox over chrome.
There are different timescales involved.

The resolvability of a DOI is obviously important, and you have found a few examples where the steward of the content (ie publisher) hasn’t updated the links. But in that case DOIs can in theory be redirected to archived versions. That's the price you pay for a large, diverse community of publishers. Don't imagine that publishers would magically be any better at fixing their own websites.

But more broadly, as identifiers, having an agreed scheme helps link publications, datasets, other entities such as funders and institutions. It allows discovery of metadata in a way that’s discoverable by all.

Someone will want to follow those links in 100 years and whatever state DNS or WWW is in, the metadata will be in an open archive somewhere.

(I'm at Crossref, AMA)
I am not sure I entirely understand LBRY and its relation to Odysee. I see an explanation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY but it feels confusing for a newbie.
> When your thesis is "bitcoin will fail for these reasons" and Bitcoin doesn't fail, your reasons are not correct.

Unless there was a time-limit on the prediction, your assertion is incorrect.

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", after all.
Watching Age-Restricted Videos
This is from 2018.

I can do free SEPA wire transfers, where's the innovation?

Also, if you have $194 million laying around, perhaps Bitcoin is the right platform for you.

For others, average fees of above $2 for a single slow transfer of funds that takes a long time to confirm are just not competetive any longer. We're not even talking about the environmental damage to the planet.
I take the (facetious) position that English people don't learn other languages because we already learned at least two, if not three.

cf. Uncleftish Beholding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
That course looks great and I'm sure that at the end of if I will be absolutely rocking at regex. Then I won't use it for 4 months and need it for something and all but the basics will be gone. I'll essentially have to relearn it each time. I don't think it's the learning material that's the problem, I've even done interactive Jupyter training, there's something about Regex itself that just won't stick.
I always suspect modern php makes the language nicer but actually reduces it's core feature, the ease of use.

Don't get me wrong, I would not like to use older php these days. But just throwing 2 files onto an ftp was always php's biggest strength. It somewhat retains that for "installing" php, which still is often just "copy to server" which makes it really nice for users. But I feel it mostly lost that ease of use for people learning to program.

Now, it is still a solid language considering performance and such. It has proven itself to be. But without the easy way from zero to programmer, I am also not sure it is a better choice than anything else. Especially since it always had so many terrible footguns and at least in my opinion is also atrocious to look at.
> Lattice’s portfolio ends where Xilinx starts.

Sorry for nitpicking, but there is some overlap when looking at the high-end Lattice FPGA offerings, e.g. ECP3 with >500 IO and ~150k LUTs in its top configuration (the usual caveats apply regarding comparing LUT counts from different FPGA designs).
It's absolutely astonishing how some scientific apparatuses started out. Here is an image of the first atomic force microscope (AFM) for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscopy#/media...
Unity, Weta, and Faceless Platforms
I just wanted to thank you for replying so candidly and I did not mean to turn this post in a discussion about youtube thumbnails, your post otherwise was quite interesting!
Agreed. It's a matter of discipline. It is a a balancing act between:

1. A constrained specification where its difficult(but not impossible) to shoot yourself in the foot.

2. Devops: as in equitable participation of operators and developers in maintaining configuration on a build it, run it basis.

Languages like skylark/starlark, dhall, cuelang, jsonnet promise a constrained spec(for operators) while being expressive enough(for developers). But after using skylark, jsonnet and dhall in production, personally I haven't seen enough adoption in terms of developer contribution so the promise of expressiveness which is attractive enough for developers hasn't been true for me.

At my current workplace, we have taken a middle approach. We use typescript to generate/emit yaml/json and use "official" validators to validate this configuration. The developers get a familiar and "blessed" frontend to the configuration while the operators can still enforce schema validation, resources and security policy on the generated config.

But yes, if one could import this base typescript package directly in their application, and generate the configuration which can be then picked up by the operator pipeline and isapplied to the infrastructure. That would be bad. Really bad.
If reviewing is the bottleneck for your team then having some slack where people sit around waiting to do reviews may well be the most efficient use of time (e.g. having a reviewer rotation where each week one person is a designated reviewer).
My first paper was on reaction diffusion equations. They're very dear to my heart -- and they are also very expressive. So expressive, in fact, that one senior academic I knew made a career out of applying them in interesting and novel ways. He was close to retirement (when I was an undergrad) and had published nearly 500 papers, pretty much all math bio. People told him a problem. He writes down equations. They're right. That's kinda his business model. [You might like some of it -- e.g. TGF-Beta and wound repair]

His main passion in life, however, was (European) football. Specifically, playing Championship Manager 1999 [an old football management sim, with wonderfully terrible graphics]. He was _really_ good at it, and did very well in all the fantasy football sweepstakes that are popular -- one of his former students won the Premiership Fantasy Football league a few years ago, for example. [https://www.ox.ac.uk/event/joshua-bull-can-maths-tell-us-how...].

Now, I aged about 20 got the opportunity to go into this professor's office, to talk briefly about parameter space and stability and all that jazz in a set of reaction diffusion equations that I wrote down. I looked around. It was absolutely covered in framed letters. They're not "you're brilliant" or "here's your doctorate" letters. Every time Manchester United, Arsenal, Madrid or any other seriously good club has an opening for a manager, he had sent in his full academic CV – all 500 papers, ten books, the whole shebang. And he writes a covering letter explaining how he'd be perfect for the role -- 'coz he's really good at Championship Manager 1999. And the clubs inevitably write back, saying "Dear Professor X, Thank you very much for your application to be the next Manager of Manchester United. As you can imagine, we have had a lot of interest in this role, and are unable to enter into individual conversations with every applicant. If you do not hear from us again after $DATE, please assume that unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful". And that's it. That's what he frames and puts on his walls. Hundreds of rejection letters from premiership football clubs. That's the kind of brain that becomes a world-leading authority on reaction diffusion equations, and made loads of seminal contributions in the field. (I still love them).