skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some context I would agree, there is theoretical value to a decentralized trustless ledger[0]. What I can't agree with, however, is that entries in a decentralized trustless ledger are inherently valuable as cryptocurrency proponents would like us to believe. The entries in the ledger have no inherent meaning, they're just a number associated with another number and the only reason anyone equates that with a monetary value is that, for the moment, they can find someone else[1] to give them money to shuffle those numbers around. I think that, at best, one could say that BTC is backed by hype and speculation. I am not convinced that is a useful basis for a currency[2].

This is in contrast to fiat currencies which their various governments offer guarantees that they will honor.

NFTs, on the other hand, make even less sense to me. They seem like they are just cryptocurrency in disguise trying to fool people who otherwise question the concept of inherent value by claiming (falsely) that they are equivalent to ownership of digital goods[3].

[0] I have yet to hear a use case for which they are actually better than traditional alternatives, but I can imagine that one might exists.

[1] read: greater fool.

[2] Leaving aside all the energy wasted on PoW.

[3] And that's before we get into my conviction that attempts to force artificial scarcity into a post-scarcity space are backward and perverted.
> This is also why taking a picture of your ballot will nullify it

In what jurisdiction is this the case? I have never heard of it.
It's kind of a caste society where you can have some mobility, but you can't really move out of your place in society.
Exactly! While "the numbers don't lie" those telling the story with numbers can tell a very deceptive story with their help.
You missed the most important part, pictures of your finished masterpiece.
In theory, they could. In practice, the typical way to "print money" is to do things like lower interest rates (incentivizing more borrowing, which increases the money in circulation) and lowering bank reserve requirements (letting them loan more in proportion to their reserves). Both depend on people voluntarily taking out loans, which they might avoid if they're pessimistic about the economy or expect deflation.
It's "magic", yes. Replit is not for you to mess around with the VNC or anything, that directly defeats its purpose. Replit is not a framework for building a Replit-like system. Replit is effectively just a way for you to save and interact with VMs in the cloud from your browser.

The whole point of this demo is "someone ran VICE on Replit". The VNC is completely besides the point.
Not being pegged to a centralized, state-controlled currency is a dealbreaker for me. It's still in infancy and it's true that 99% of the projects are get-rich-quick schemes with no intrinsic value. Though, I think the author lives in a country with a trustworthy government because that's not the case for many people including me. In the last two days my country's currency has shaken much more than crypto and I don't trust a single word my government says. In this case, crypto really shines. In addition, as more services get integrated into crypto ecosystem and as get-rich bubbles wear off, combined with solutions to scalability and speed problems, many will see much more value in crypto.

12 years is nothing when reinventing fundamental workings of economics is at stake. Give it more time.
" as mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency has grown, the percentage of transactions used to promote or conceal crime has also decreased."

- FinCEN Chief Digital Currency Advisor, Michele Korver

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/07/06/fincen-hires-doj-...
Eeeeh damnit, looks like you're right. Didn't even read the whole comment, got triggered right at the beginning. :D
Check out Monero. Untraceable, decentralised transactions have no use case?
Seconded, I'm envious of your new NAS though :)
I thought it was parent's code.

Source seems to take into account the buffer overflow:

DWORD length = required_length + 2; // The +2 is for the maybe optional zero later on. Probably we are over-allocating.
Decentralisation offers the following value over centralisation:

* Control by a majority, not a minority. (democratic)

* Open ecosystem that visible and able to be analysed by anyone (transparent)

* Immutable (no one makes up assets without everyone knowing about it)

* Fair. Same price for everyone at all times, no chance of a monopoly.

Those don't exist in central systems and so the price you must pay for that is speed, scalability and anonymity (which is both used for good or bad). I don't believe crypto is the answer to everything, but I certainly don't see it as useless.
Samsung $17B chip plant in Texas
Curious about
“ And asking for it afterwards almost guarantees you will be turned down. ”
She seems to know most people wont approve it, so the solution is to not ask.
I imagine my daughter:
“Dad, i didnt ask for permission because you would say no, so i not asked for it and Im safe for being grounded.”
Weird thinking
Yes but real assets have a lower chance of their value completely evaporating in an instant.

You can also use some of them, like live in a house asset.
The hard part here is figuring out which pixel to diff to. You would almost certainly have to look at all 64 pixels which would be a lot slower. That said, you can probably get noticably better compression from it.
> Your job is gone due to automation, immigration, or globalization? It's entirely reasonable to reach for the conservative button to make things go back. Populists promising your job back is an appealing message.

Much like the left-right spectrum muddies things, so does the limited choice of political parties. Consider that (mostly) the only ones promising to bring back jobs/protect local industry are on the right, while the left sees this as something nasty and nativist, that just shouldn't be done. So even if you disagree with the rest of the right's platform, many will vote for them anyway, since the left's promise of turning your country into nothing but an economic and social platform on which you have to compete with the whole world makes them too nervous, despite the social safety net supposed to protect them. With their economic and social status dramatically diminished, how long will the safety net hold?
I tried Golang while I was experimenting on Linux. Fun little language, but I haven't got used to it's type notation.

What is the state of Golang's Windows support?
Yes, you have it exactly right. We basically had three different hand-coded implementations of the same classes, each in a different language.
I'd like to be able to see what the input data look like.
Isn’t there a douchebag contest you can compete in somewhere..? Away from here preferably?
If you care, just install the `coreutils` package and it'll overwrite the default symlinks and you'll get GNU coreutils by default.
> But it isn't on a block chain and it isn't extensible.

It is very extensible. My bank has an API.

> With our current digital cash I can not create NFTs and trade then around.

I'd call that a feature rather than a bug. I am absolutely able to buy and sell items traceably with other people though. For example I recently bought a house. The transfer was facilitated by my solicitor and recorded in a central government registry.

> It also doesn't allow for arbitrarily large transfers.

Transactions of many millions of dollars are routinely made using existing digital banking technology. My personal account has a 10k/day cap due to money laundering rules but that seems fairly sensible. I can call them up and have it raised for one offs.
Yes, I should have been more accurate and said "accessible by phone", not necessarily stored on the phone.

One would think with any significant amount of crypto that you store it somewhere non-network accessible (at the very least, not holding it all in a single online exchange).
Fwiw, my experience is that generally a lot of blame for over engineeering tends to be lumped on engineering when in reality its usually a wider business failure.

Every competent engineers I have met has been capable of grasping that:
- They shouldn't rely on the use of crystal balls.
- Complexity should be minimised.
- If it can be done today, it can be done tomorrow.

So if a business provides its engineers with:
- A process that helps them develop an intuitive understanding of their customers' needs.
- At least one other similarly capable person to work with so they know they're not the only person going to be looking after the project off into the future.
- A procurement process for off-the-shelf solutions that is less painful for them than rolling their own.
- Time to test and document where projects should go if the initial version is successful.
- And crucially, confidence that they'll be given enough time to do the additional work if it becomes necessary.

Then the business, at least in my experience, will be in a pretty good position to prevent almost all over engineering.
Was this at all related to Apportable, which Google acquired?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apportable
BRB, buying an NFT horse
You're right, the popup feels quite annoying when first visiting the page. We removed it.
Amazon’s eternally parochial Alexa team has just recently rendered my Rainbow Echo Dot useless, by updating it to demand a kids profile, in a country where Amazon does not support kids profiles, and despite it having worked for years prior across four continents.

There never was a more apt term coined for all of this than “Internet of Shit”.
with Tesla, SpaceX, Samsung and other tech investing this heavy in Texas, when/will it surpass CA as a tech powerhouse of the future?
> You don't see how people are unhappy with getting their savings diluted by unlimited money printing?

Money printing dilutes wealth if you hold it in cash, but every other asset appreciates. Moreover if you have more debt than wealth, money printing reduces that burden.

How many people actually have more wealth than debt but keep it largely in cash? I never understood who exactly has this problem.
The one thing that I'd challenge about this line of thought is that the product isn't necessarily "done", there are expectations to add features & fix bugs.

If the product is poorly crafted, and especially if it's also poorly tested, adding features can introduce bugs, and fixing bugs in one place can cause issues elsewhere. Development then slows to handle these occurrences, which can then impact product viability.
Cryptocurrency actually does solve that if you kinda ignore the scalability limitations of blockchain.

Of course, the minute you add another transaction layer or exchanges or other third parties, then that wipes out most of that advantage and generally the more it facilitates cheap and fast transactions the more power is given to the third party and/or more fee is taken.

I’m still a fan of first layer transactions and just making the blockchain much faster using brute force increases in block frequency and block size. Might be able to keep transaction fees low enough to be a useful alternative. But as long as more people are interested in cryptocurrency (and related tech) as a Ponzi get rich quick scheme than as a practical way to facilitate transactions, I don’t see it making a significant dent in the regular financial system.
I use it as an hourly clock but anymore than every half hour would be a miserable experience since it is far from silent.
I've programmed in some capacity for a long time. I never got into MS programming, except when I was a kid with DOS and some BASICs (gwbasic, mostly).

The reason I've stayed away from MS is that it's always felt inelegant to me. Not only are the systems clunky but the code just looks so ugly to me.

AnExtremelyLongFunctionNameThatWrapsTwiceOnTheScreen(MsI.BillGates.IncrementValueOnlyIfNotInWindows95).

It is not an elegant system by any stretch of the imagination. Same goes for Powershell.
I like to think I am open minded to freedom of knowledge, but there is definitely information that shouldn't be available in K-12 libraries.

"TidePods are Safe and Nutritious to eat (seriously kids, don't believe the lies)" should not be a book in a public school library visited by children. I think most people agree with that and they aren't authoritarian conservatives. Some knowledge is very dangerous for people not old enough to understand better.
Exactly. At most churches, tithes mostly pay for the physical plant and the full-time staff (who provide services in the form of weekly lectures, counseling, misc. community organizing, and sometimes directly contribute to physical plant upkeep as well).

Tithing is more like a PBS membership or seomthing.
How do you figure either HN or Reddit (anonymous, unverified accounts) are trustworthy when there’s money to be made by astroturfing? The incentives are stacked against you.
Don't laugh, it's actually three sets of options now:

- UNIX options, which may be grouped and must be preceded by a dash.

- BSD options, which may be grouped and must not be used with a dash.

- GNU long options, which are preceded by two dashes.

Reference: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ps.1.html
Wow... the immediate email nag is pretty catastrophically bad already, but then your "top" VPNs are... Nord? ProtonVPN? I'm not here to point fingers or assign blame, but I've gone through a fair handful of VPNs and I can tell you firsthand that those are faaaaaar from the best options, especially if you're trying to get the most out of your service. Mullvad and Azire are head-and-shoulders above anything I see on the top. Kinda disappointed.

Edit: Also, your "about" page is surprisingly non-informative.
He's saying rich people have assets with large intrinsic value that won't be hurt by inflation, like houses and stock shares, while poor people just have a little cash on hand and cash flow from their jobs.

I have no comment/insight into the rest of the statements though
From slide 4: "Cases [of myocarditis] have tended to be clinically mild"

I'm not a cardiologist but is there really such thing as a "mild" case of myocarditis? I'm pretty sure that's not a condition I would ever want to affect my heart.
That's because Java is used to run huge systems (dare I say, "enterprise scale"), whereas golang, especially today with microservices" is not seen in such areas.

However, we still see issues in golang like

* https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21670110
SmartLocks are actually really convenient. Being able give a temporary code to someone instead of a key is really nice and our children know how to lock and unlock without needing to remember their key.
The headline was quite good IMHO, I understood immediately what it was meant, even before clicking - and I found it quite smart. But, of course, is not to be read literally.
So it's just a different institution doing transactions internally with extra steps.
That cult leader is a crazy story on its own. She killed a presidential nominee in a ritual

Definitely check it out

Oh and she used to be a popstar too
it’s impossible to persuade crypto fantasists because they are in a cult
Algorand is carbon negative.
This title is an atrocity
The people Verizon/ATT are more fallible, because of the implicit risk/threat model that is imposed on us by duopolistic infrastructure.

They have vastly more power without the required training.

This asymmetry makes them larger targets, and therefore, more fallible.

ATT/Verizon employees are the weakest link in almost all threat models, including our national one.

I don't think I am personally infallible; and I am/used to be the reason you have to take cyber, social engineer, and spear attack trainings every year.

It is because I know the true weakest links (humans with unrelegated access) that compel me to remind others:

do not use SMS for 2FA.

There are other ways of getting the nonce/temporal secret to the end-user without pitting the security to a overworked 27 year old druggy CSR in upstate new york.
1) No one was realistically compiling C++ or Python to Java though. WASM is not new tech as the other poster said — it’s people coming together to support one compile target that also works on the web, which itself is the crowning achievement.

2) Building a secure VM is easy. You only need to give it access to things it should have access to. If a VM has only math instructions, it’s not going to access the file system. My computer can’t poke my nose because there is literally no machine instruction for it.

Java did not build its VM that way. Instead, the JVM had full access to everything and individual functions were blacklisted within Java applications and this was enforced by Java code running in the same machine as the attacker’s code. Naturally every blacklist works like a sieve.
I think that's certainly a part of it, but it's not the whole story, and I suspect it's perhaps responsible for 1/3 of the story.

A bigger motivation, and perhaps the most quixotic one, is financial security.

No, I don't mean that cryptocurrencies haven't been highly unstable in value.

But the more that the cabal chooses to truly enter the 21st century, the greater the danger of that technology being used as a means of coercion. This has already been seen in the porn industry (both amateur and commercial) and, say what you want about the possible ethical issues with it, but people have the right to produce pornography in the United States and also participate in the same economic system as everyone else. The danger of companies like Visa and Paypal exercising political control over their customers for other reasons is non-zero, and I would even predict that the danger is at least moderate.

Whether you agree with that perspective is another thing. Many crypto enthusiasts, whether they are explicit about it or not, like the idea of creating an economic system that everyone can participate in that doesn't involve countless middle-men. If that wasn't the case, there wouldn't be a big push to create the Lightning network.

The other part of the desire for crypto, from my perspective, is a desire to be a part of a new frontier. We had the personal computing revolution, the internet, the web, web 2.0... and for those who missed out on those or merely miss them, crypto fills that void and provides a new realm of possibilities to explore.
“Let me explain why crypto is bad by showing how it doesn’t fit neatly into the definitions of any of the monetary instruments that preceded it”
Really did think this was the unix command 'cat' being Turing complete which makes sense.
Feel free to elaborate at any time
pro tip: you don't have to launder $46 million at once. you can treat it like a lottery annuity and just skim off a little here and there.
> With any luck, COVID (and tarrifs) has transformed business for the future.

Until we're far enough removed from the situation, everything is comfortable again, and the MBAs start saying "you know, if we just offshored fabrication..."
If you happen to see this, feel free to ignore this entire post. :)
Sheep.exe on Microsoft Store
Japan is a very rigid economy where doing things a bureaucratic, traditional way is prized and new innovations are difficult and slow. They have low immigration and culturally non-Japanese cannot assimilate fully. Their birth rate is low, they can't replace population with immigrants, and an ever increasing percentage of those who are alive are old, no longer productive / contributing to the economy, and spending money on end-of-life things in retirement.

No matter how much money they print, it can't solve for an economy where there are fewer consumers and producers every year.
At this point the CCP doesn't even have to (although it may have). Shareholders know, and they probably complained.
Yes, the law is clear on this and case law evolved back when photography was expensive and relatively uncommon. People want to reconsider now that everyone has a camera all the time and it is very easy. This is a common pattern with tech.
>Is there some reason why a country experiencing deflation can't print money and hand it out to voters until inflation returns?

That's a great question. Japan has been doing this for about a decade. Shinzo Abe kind of called it abenomics; aka quantative easing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenomics

It has worked, no question, effectively exactly as you propose. The problem is that it clearly didn't solve the problem. While also creating new problems and since the original problem never gets solved, when you are forced to cut spending because the cost of debt has become too crippling. You retain all the new problems and now feel the old problems.

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-spending-to-gd...

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-debt-to-gdp

266% debt to gdp is about 24% higher than the peak drama about Greece's collapse.

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-budget

Haven't balanced their budget since the 1990s.

Tough decisions coming for Japan.
> left right axis is supposed to represent economics

Most political compasses place the left right axis separate from the liberty/authoritarian axis. So the 'top left' is 'authoritarian-left' and the bottom right is 'liberty-right'.

I think economics is represented across the entire surface of the compass, not just one axis or another. You might be liberty-left, for instance, and believe in some mixture of gift economies, communalism, etc.
I was thinking about merge conflicts in the context of Rust recently. In a way, the borrow checker would prevent any merge conflicts, because two people won't edit the same file at the same time. But this would require a central authority to give you permissions on a file to edit it for a certain duration, during which nobody else can edit it.

More software engineering research is good, I feel like we are lacking in that area. However, this was only for public code and analysis of private (company) code is not mentioned in the directions for future work. Would there be a way to extract information about conflicts and conflict resolution without giving away important parts of your code? I know that deobfuscation and retroengineering are whole fields, so I think companies wouldn't take the risk. But if there is a way to extract only the git information, maybe that would be possible.
> One IMO realistic use-case is providing a wealth preservation

Any other fiat currency already provides this such as usd, euro, Israeli currency etc and they are at least currently far easier to aquire and done have any gas feeds other than consumption tax if any

On Lebanon where electricity is unreliable seems like a particularly bad idea to use any sort of Crypto, let alone the user friction as a consequence of network gas prices

On real world scenarios, if a country is having issues relating to inflation or is a small market to begin with, consumer prices are denominated on Usd or some other currency anyway
The goal is to decrease the size of the economy while simultaneously increasing the quality of life for the majority of people on the planet. Most people already work in useless jobs (e.g., marketing, administration, etc.), and a shutdown of most extractive industries would give people substantially more free time. We can thank capitalism and technology for today’s high productivity level, but we need a properly functioning welfare/UBI system to take actually advantage of it, and so the global distribution of wealth will will need to change to ensure peoples’ basic needs are met.

Addressing inequality is similarly important for halting the rise of political authoritarianism (as it grows in reaction to the former), which is an obstacle to all these changes.
Whoa. How did this work? Custom map? Which game?
It's not exactly that, but in Belgium penalties written in law are an amount that is multiplied by a factor that is regularly updated.

It went from 5.5 to 6 in 2011, then to 8 in 2017 and is still there AFAIK. It seems a bit haphazardly managed to me, but it's something.