skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to gravity being constant at the surface over time.

I'm not convinced friction with the wall is going to result in any additional air loss. There is no 'upward' (towards the top of the wall) force component.
For instance, the primary USDC contract on Ethereum is a proxy contract — it’s upgradable by design.

By whom?

"Upgrading" a contract should require the approval of all parties to the contract.
Why would you assume that the demand remains constant?

Demand for a cryptocurrency is set by some combination of (a) it's utility as a payment tool and (b) it's value as an investment vehicle.

Legal restrictions reduce it's utility as a payment tool, driving down demand. They also disallow a significant group of investors from using it for investment, both reducing demand, and temporarily increasing supply as many legitimate investors (especially institutions) would have to sell off their holdings before the law coming into force. There's no obvious mechanism how these restrictions would somehow curtail supply more than the demand.
I have been dirt poor most of my life. And I can tell you I was careful about where I shopped.

And many other poor people I knew _blew_ tons of money on McDonald's because "they couldn't afford to cook"

It's not so cut and dry.
It's kinda hard to get what the "different" is in the approach.

I think they are trying to combine the pages of a physical notebook with the endlessly long digital page. So just like pages in a notebook, you align your markdown documents next to eachother.

Also, if you scroll down and click the squares on the features page, you get taken to little animations that shows off each feature. They're pretty good. https://www.ummm.co/features
I am still trying to figure out why anyone wants a database in their document display program. As far as I am concerned browsers were complete a while ago, and devs are just adding random stuff so they can keep getting a paycheck.
With tonight’s launch, NASA starts getting serious about planetary defense
Just plain rice and plain beans every day? I think there is a lot of work that goes into preparation you're willfully ignoring for in making it less boring and soulcrushing.
> I’d put that in the category of code that really could benefit from carefully controlled upgradability.

First, if you're saying that you need a way to upgrade your money-managing code periodically because you will likely ship versions of it with show-stopping bugs (such as those that enable the destruction or theft of the users' funds), then why should I trust that you will ship flawless code for upgrades?

Second, if the combined security budget of the people who can carry out the upgrade is less than that of the majority of the block producers on the chain, then why build an upgrade procedure at all? Why risk it? Instead, just deploy a new version of the smart contract, and ask users to use that one instead. If it gets confirmed, then an honest majority of block producers will ensure that it stays confirmed. This takes no code at all. You simply sign the new code with the same key that deployed the old code to demonstrate that it originates from the same author(s). Let users decide on their own whether or not to use your upgraded code -- after all, it might introduce new bugs, and the "bugs" you are fixing might be features to other people. It's not your place to tell users what version of the code should be used, and what should not be used.
Very cool, but people with long hair might object to having it flown near them.
If I'm not mistaken, the bitcoin price has been unaffected by this news - how does that work?
Just to clarify: half-doses are only used for booster shots (following EMA recommendation). First and second shots still use full dosage.
This seems like a potential huge plus to me.
> it all sounds like delusional charity work to me.

To me, it sounds like a constructive alternative to Sunday morning sermons.

I'll never tithe in my life. Where does that money go instead? Well, where did it go originally? 90% of tithing these days goes to supporting a developed world middle-class lifestyle for folks who give one lecture a week and spend the rest of their time providing constitutionally protected unlicensed mental health services.

So, there is a business model here. Professors are paid so poorly that individual tutoring for the intellectually curious in the professional class could provide meaningful additional income. $60,000/(24 x 3 x 3) = $277/student/class for a typical 3+3 load. But I'd happily pay $500 to take a 3-4 person class with a good prof on a topic I enjoy. $500 x 4 = $2,000 per seminar. Which is quite a lot of money when you're only making $60,000 -- especially if you're already prepped to teach that seminar. And my guesstimates here are actually high for the humanities at some institutions!

I'd happily pay $500/mo to attend intellectually engaging seminars with a small group of like-minded folks, even online. And I view that as morally equivalent to tithing, since it's achieving roughly the same thing (sponsoring someone's life-of-mind).

So, there is a market for the idea outlines in thep ost.

(The Plato's Republic thing feels pretty off-topic; I also think it's over-rated fwiw, but if others want to read it more power to them.)
> But why would you want to sell a house this way instead for a permitted means of payment?

I can think of a few reasons. The buyer offers you a large premium, you know people who can help you offload the currency, you have no interest in keeping your capital in a controlled environment, maybe you're selling your house because you're leaving a country and taking bitcoin or whatever is the easiest way to take your capital with you.
Same, it works offline, loads faster with bad mobile connection, better gestures & UX overall.
"const" ;)
The Goldtouch V2 has a hefty clamp that keeps the keyboard in position. It also has 30-degree tenting.
Planet Scale is probably the closest to what you're describing here.

https://planetscale.com/
let them go
Uneasy Lies the Beard
The Salience Network
(Original author here: I agree completely. I’m… one of those older hackers. That said, I’m also fascinated and, frankly, a bit alarmed by this sudden change in the balance of value capture and creation. I think it’s worth looking at and contemplating face-on. That doesn’t mean I like it!)
Here's a repo that does something a little more generic that you can adapt for that.

https://github.com/madler/spoof/

(you can naively use this to flip case where the case is not semantically important, but you can also extend this as needed)
You don't need to launder money through GBTC to get exposure to the assets that money launderers use (BTC) to launder money and reap the upside of a growth market in cryptocurrency based moneylaundering. its a smart play tbh, but the 99% off chain economic benefit from crypto today is money laundering, evading KYC protocols, tax evasion, ransomware related transfers.
The US has instead taken the view through various upcoming 2022 IRS procedural rules that — as long as there's a complete paper trail documenting who the origin of, and who is responsible for paying taxes for, the cryptocoin when it is converted into currency — then there is no harm in offramps that collect tax ID information and report it appropriately.

Their focus on requiring "origin of and taxation of" attestation may impact the perceived value of cryptocoins when traded for currency, but they don't seem to much care if people want to generate hashes and sell them to each other, just as long as it's not used to launder money or avoid taxes.

It is of significant debate whether the perceived value of cryptocoins is in part due to its value for both laundering money and avoiding taxes, but that's distinct from whether the perceived value is in part due to the ability to sell cryptocoins for currency.
If you give one half of the station twice the mass of the other, you can test out living in lunar gravity and Mars gravity at the same time. Maybe only one of those will turn out to be enough to stop bone loss. Maybe neither one. It would be better to know that before building a base.

The zipline would be trickier to make work, then. Probably you have a gadget that walks up the tether, and then you flip around and it walks down to the other end.
I have (limited) experience scaling long-lived websocket connections and it _sucked_. It is _way_ easier to scale out little Node servers that are "stateless" than it is to ensure that Client A is connected to Socket A.

I would much rather scale out my REST/Graph/RPC API instead of having to scale out a WS API.
Someone on Reddit had a lot of insider knowledge about the max headroom incident and he claimed he was 90% sure he knew who they were. Two brothers if I recall - let me try to find it.

Edit: Seems over the years he determined it was not them! Still an interesting read. https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eeb6e/i_believe_i_kno...
Which distro are you talking about?
> It's more difficult to see the surface area of a package. It's more difficult to navigate between major versions of a given module.

This is too vague for me to understand what you mean exactly. If I were rsc I would have no idea how to make you happy. The same goes for the rest of your comment, honestly.
Cocaine is a far more mild stimulant than most prescription speed. Though it is sometimes cut with more potent stimulants.
Inflation isn't bad. Most of the world doesn't suffer from hyper-inflation. Decentralized finance doesn't provide a tremendous benefit over a trusted third party. High volatility and high transaction cost makes it a poor choice for a currency. Most of the worlds economy already runs on digital transactions without the need for crypto. There are plenty of reasons why crypto doesn't make sense and it is perfectly rational to distance your financial market from crypto.
It is not a mere coincidence that discussing Marx’s Capital is never the point.

They are approximately equivalent in their influence on humanity, but only one of them offers a critique of the immediate situation.
>the many US government 3 letter agencies would love to have full read access to every single iPhone in the world

They 100% already do
Yeah, the correct terms for these would probably be "diversification" and "information asymmetry".

I think the main reason for these onerous terms is the fact that without them, the founders would cheat (not people like you or me, but rather, they would attract cheaters if they didn't work so hard to prevent them for succeeding)
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what the technology can do. There is a system that currently exists, and that system will protect itself through regulation. Cryptocurrencies will come within the fold or they will be outlawed. It is irrelevant what is technologically feasible. Governments and state actors don't exist in stasis, any advance in technology will be met with an appropriate response even if that response is "banks are not allowed to accept any funds that have any connection to X cryptocurrency." If that doesn't work, the response will be "banks are not allowed to accept any funds without perfect knowledge of the two parties transacting and where the cash is coming from." What bank would possibly risk going against the government? Even the well-known money laundering banks balk in the face of government scrutiny. What company would possibly risk losing their relationship with their bank?

Cryptocurrency fanatics think that they can digitally outcompete physical reality. They cannot. The governments of the world are the Borg - you will be assimilated.
Instead of only looking at one side, consider the IMF is mostly a lender of last resort. So when a country needs IMF help, it's IMF or likely even worse outcomes.

If you want a more accurate view, read research papers on google scholar. Here's papers on IMF from 2017 [1].

The short take is the IMF provides lots of help to ailing countries, saves some and loses some. Pop culture doesn't tend to spread news of the winners since spreading lopsided arguments sells more books and blog posts.

Google scholar is a much more balanced and accurate place.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2017&q=imf&hl=en&a...
I mean... if you think the animals actually maliciously conspired I suppose
Alcohol also causes ischemia. Prescription amphetamines also cause ischemia but are legal.

> As mentioned, coke is high on the abuse potential scale due to its rapid onset and withdrawal, short loop between behavior and reward.

I wonder if attaching an amino acid (a la Vyvanse) would improve its pharmacokinetic profile to reduce this addiction potential. We'll never know, because its not legal to do research on medical potential for Schedule I drugs.
No really, it’s about to pop
Hackers is still one of my favorite movies. Forgetting the Hollywood exaggerations, that is pretty much how the culture was in the late 80s and throughout the 90s. It was entirely nerdy, a little punk, there were a lot of arcades and pizza deliveries and dumpsters involved, and there were some incredibly douchey self-described villains suffering from megalomania.

The wild west hacker days were pretty amazing, and that movie portrays all of the insanity pretty well, if cheesily.

Edit: Got caught up in the nostalgia and forgot to mention that the hacking moments, however cheesy, are all based on real hacks. The TV station take over, Kevin Mitnick's social engineering, John Draper's (Captain Crunch) phone phreaking and others. Not to say that those people are the originators of those methods, just the most infamous ones at the time the movie was made.
A hypergraph can always be viewed as a bipartite graph
Don't forget to support these rapacious eugenicists by wasting your hard earned cash on doge coin the silly meme lol facebook is fun.
Very good list.

[22] Avoid using real-time for correctness guarantees or comparing clocks across machines unless you have (and understand) error bounds on the clock.

I shudder to think of the hours spent head-scratching that went into this Lesson Learned :)
Thanks, pushed a fix
Not hyperbolic at all. CBDCs are a permissioned private ledger controlled by the central bank. The central bank controls what addresses are allowed to transact and have access to every transaction. If they dont like what you are spending your money on you are no longer allowed to transact. If they think you have too much money they can just take it.

https://youtu.be/UW9LbfuCTP0
If transacting in certain cryptocurrencies is prohibited, then any money traded for these cryptocurrencies is quite literally acquired through illegal means.
> Classic analysis by someone who seemingly has never been dirt poor.

I’ve been dirt poor; I’ve never been in a situation where “dollar store as regular grocery source” made sense (though I’ve shopped in dollar stores, and occasionally when I did found deals on grocery items that were worthwhile), and I am very much aware of why that was never the case for me and why it is and was sometimes for other people.

Also, not all people who shop at dollar stores are dirt poor.

> It may be tough to believe, but y'know what'd surprise literally none of the poors if you told them? That they pay more money for less product at the dollar store than elsewhere.

Actually, it would probably suprise some of them. Believe it or not, poorly informed poor people do exist. The idea that they don't is as misguided as the idea that all poor people are poorly informed.

> Despite their limited ability, they ARE able to look at price tags in different stores

Not really, when reason #3 (“Lack of actual grocery stores conveniently located”) applies. Comparison shopping takes time and effort that is something of a luxury in the best of cases, but it also takes having alternatives in the first place.

> If you're dollar store level poor, it's expensive and stressful, and you're constantly weighing spending money now versus keeping what little remains for whatever awful thing is going to leave you destitute.

That's true, but it doesn't contradict anything I said. It's like you have a canned rant about poor people that you arr trotting out independent of its actual relevance to the discussion.

> There's a fair amount of conflicting and complex psychology going on in that shopping decision beyond not just knowing that they should comparison shop.

Which would perhaps be an insightful counterargument if I had said something even approximately like “poor people who shop at dollar stores do it because they don't realize they should comparison shop”. Of the three reasons I gave for people shopping at dollar stores, only one relates to a failure to understand the price realities, and I never suggested that one was particularly common among the poor.
Number of Turkeys Produced in U.S. Continues to Fall
> There even have been some attempts to make Go run on the JVM. Apparently performance, concurrency and memory management were big motivators for attempting that (you know, stuff the JVM does at scale):

This seems legit. Just links to their website/Wiki are not working right now.
It's lack of creativity in entertainment. To many reboots of television shows, no new movie topics, dual acting, political correctness, and not wanting to offend people has made entertainment dull. You can never get enough culture.
For sure, but for the convenience of being able to use bash commands on Windows it's well worth it.
Well, two things:

1) It's not profit generating, this is a not-for-profit organisation, so 'business model' is a bit of a loaded term.

2) The practice of having clubs / social groups where members are encouraged to donate money to help with the running costs is pretty common, and is not typically considered begging.

I help run a local theatre group which we fund with a whip-around with our members to assist with the venue hire and a donations bucket at the door of our to shows. Is that begging? I don't think so (I look at it as people giving money to keep something they enjoy experiencing running, which is different to begging).
At that time we were pretty much fundraising full-time, and given there were only 2 of us and the product was at early stage we couldn't really do a meaningful push on traction, so we mostly focused on the updates on the fundraising side.

The basic format of the follow-up was "Hey, you mentioned you'd follow-up in X days so I wanted to check if you are still interested in investing?". Then I would, if applicable, also add a line like e.g. "since we last spoke, we raised another $X from investor Y" or "we almost closed the part of the round dedicated to the angels and have only $X available".

I would send over a SAFE only if the investor agreed to invest and had completed the handshake protocol (https://www.ycombinator.com/handshake/).
Affinity is a very good choice. Probably the best you will find.

As a Mac user I prefer Acorn though, since its GUI feels more native.
For [22] taken to an extreme level, read the original Spanner paper from 2012 (?):

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

It goes into a lot of detail on this
Small (400B, 11 keys, 3 layers)
Medium (13KB, 300+ key, 6 layers)
Large (635KB, 10000+ key, 6 layers)

I would be so happy to work somewhere where a 0.000635 GB json file is "large".
One should separate anti-China with anti-CCP. The majority of comments are not the former, but the latter, and for good reason, as the CCP itself works in opposition to the Chinese people much of the time.
So that’s how you keep it from rolling over.
Thank you!

> Do you have any plans for something like that?

It's a good idea, and in general I think a clear path to generally making frontend much easier so I'll think about it.

> Can DOM nodes be mixed with react native nodes?

Yep, they won't render on native but its totally fine to do if you're just targeting web. Theres only lockout if you want 100% sharing but it's easy enough to fork any component into web and native by having a `.native.ts` file.
In theory, communism works. In theory. -- Homer Simpson
It's because the law specifically applies to metal coins.
Render in Vue, 16 Ways
There's always the problem with a little one that has to accept the big one's terms. Actually in Germany and probably elsewhere there is clear jurisdiction what is allowed in a terms and conditions type contract. It actually applies to any contract that is not created from scratch on an eye to eye basis. Other laws like the GDPR also restrict what can be part of a contract. So while nobody is reading all this stuff at least we have some assurance that it's not totally unfair. Otherwise is typically safe to assume that companies try to shape everything to their own benefit. So it boils down to trusting a company in general.

Not being a lawyer and having no clue abou US jurisdiction: I am really curious if this EULA thing works though. Normally under copyright law wrongdoing would normally just mean that your licence is terminated. Illegal use typically just requires paying damages twice the licence cost afaik. I would actually find it kind of scary if I could be pulled into any kind of jurisdiction about something not directly related to the contract just because I accepted a software licence agreement.
I'm not sure if you're correct or wrong? But its a strange statement to make.

Like, any graph can have a "minimum spanning tree" representation for example. But the minimum-spanning tree has some degree of information loss compared to the original.

Similarly: a graph / tree could have a Lexicographic ordering (ie: a list representation), but this list-representation lost a lot of information in the translation process.

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It just turns out that a lot of algorithms could work on the minimum-spanning tree (or the lexicographic list) of the graph.

So instead of working on the general graph of a problem, you simplify it down into a simpler structure, and THEN work on the simplified structure.
I don’t think you appreciate that everything at “Dollar Tree” actually costs a dollar or at leas did.
The miners have the actual power, but want to avoid a situation where they are directly fighting against Buterin and the developers, because that would cause a crisis and tank the value of ETH and hence their income going forward. A hard fork in this situation (developers update protocol with POS, miners keep using existing version) would start with the miners having the biggest chain by far, but the new POS chain would be followed by a large part of non-miners immediately, and grow from there over time, eventually becoming the largest chain.

So miners have to make a cost-benefit analysis as to how much control they can exercise while not causing a hard fork as well as what the consequences of causing a hard fork would be. Likely right now they're using accrued coins to prime their stake in PoS rather than directly working against it - delay helps them here.
If you like the art, you might enjoy https://spacehabs.com/ too.
> I’ve seen plenty of secrets go to a married pair’s grave.

Is that possible?
this is helpful, thank you!
Well, it's not just about templating (awful as that is). But, I hear you.
This and more. I find it beyond farce that Apple & it's adherents chief defense seems to be that there are other people making products that aren't Lawful-Evil to humanity. If Google one day woke up and said, we're just going to try to do what Apple does to it's users, there would be nothing left. This pretense that Apple's behavior is anything but anti-competitive, anti-trust worthy rings so hollow to me. The excuses that there are other places to go completely fail to wash for me.

It's as if these folks are saying the Carterphone victory was only won because AT&T was a monopoly. That's not how consumer rights work. That's not a solid enough platform for humanity to remain upright.