skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it the device has WiFi? It would be interesting to see what kind of controller hardware is inside.
They're saying it's illegal because a random person can't just walk into a bank with a proverbial suitcase full of cash, and deposit it, and use that money to buy stocks. It's quite possible, and certain people do it regularly, but these aren't hypothetical people with no background. These are people known to the bank, its manager, have a thoroughly checked back story, and a reason for doing this, likely as the owner of a mostly cash business. It's not a one time "oh I just got lucky at Vegas, don't mind me" story.
Eros. As articulated by Anne Carson:

"A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space."
But now we're back to a spot where bitcoin doesn't work as a fungible good without an appeal to an outside authority of some sort. Whether that's escrow/insurance/legal contract/etc.

We started with:

"Anyone who says blockchain-driven assets don't have intrinsic value seems to ignore the value of trust - the ability to trust that the ledger is accurate seems extremely valuable."

Except the ledger doesn't actually provide any remedy to counter-party risk at all - I still have to trust a 3rd party at the time of exchange.

So the value of bitcoin is entirely dependent on the risk of the counter-party (because I have to pay to offset that risk, whether that's insurance, a private militia, legal contract enforced by a gov that I pay taxes to, simply eating the lost coins, etc)

Which means the intrinsic value of bitcoin is dependent on my ability to offset that risk - which I realistically (as a law abiding citizen) have to rely on the government to do, because the government has a monopoly on violence and imprisonment.

Which means the intrinsic value of a bitcoin is entirely at the whim of government control anyways. (which we already have an intuitive understanding of - this is why the price will fluctuate so much when news about government regulation or enforcement breaks).
Cats – OpenApi fuzzer an negative testing tool
Wanted to say thanks for many hours of puzzling and enjoyment with my brothers growing up. I always appreciated that the puzzles you created had logical solutions, though I confess we also examined the strings embedded in the programs for clues!

And I remember being stuck and playfully trying to jump into a certain ravine and realizing that instead I had just found out how to get across it (I guess it was a smaller ravine than I had imagined). Another poster mentioned learning "flotsam & jetsam" - I also learned calliope - though not how to pronounce it.

But I think we never completed The Golden Voyage - I should see if I can convince my children raised with Minecraft and HD games to give your adventures a shot. This is good timing, as my family often plays older games over Thanksgiving.
A) We're discussing a marriage

B) If you read the study and not just the abstract, it puts the general lowest age for 60yo men at around 45 for purely sexual fantasy partners. A 25yo is wayyyyy outside that bounds.
Anyone with typescript code that references the non-optional field will get type errors if it is made optional. Though stuffing the string with the v6 subnet wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Any code that is blindly using it expecting v4 addresses will already be broken if a v6 only subnet is passed in.
I agree with the author but in the world of startup.. people come to your product/solution only if there is some issue with existing system. With crypto coins, a need is established.

Even though I agree that current crypto coins have no clear value, there is some aspect of it which people want but was probably not done right or sometimes illegal

Imagine being in 90s and everyone doing some silly websites and saying it is future. Then came the giants which actually solved the problem for the masses
It's less a political delineation and more of a class one. In nearly any city, whether it's left- or right- leaning, there's a class of landowners who intentionally reject rezoning to artificially restrict the supply of homes. If we followed the logic in your comment, a millennial in a southern red city would reject the right, and choose the left, for your reasoning: their conservative leaders failed their ability to get on the housing ladder. Make no mistake, it's about wealthy protecting their wealth.

Conservatives and liberals in cities nationwide block the construction of new housing. And it's perfectly rational for people to do so, without it being a judgment of their broader political beliefs. People like their private property and they want it to appreciate. You have to realize that ideal is present in both well-to-do left and right leaning areas.
tl;dr: Democratic voters often vote hypocritically on local ballots - i.e. voting to maintain single-family zoning, keep regressive state tax codes, or to defund poorer school districts.
Aside from what NateEag said, React is one thing, but the tooling is a completely different topic. When it comes to building your frontend, there was grunt and gulp (that I'm aware of), now the tools that get most love are I think webpack and esbuild. I didn't do anything with esbuild yet, but the way that applications are built changed a lot during the years, and webpack is much different that whatever there was before.
Also, all of those tools are massive pains in your ass if something breaks, because debugging what actually broke is hard when your build process becomes more complicated.
Is it just me or are they neglecting the treatment option here? Expanding manufacturing of monoclonal antibodies such that they're available everywhere for rapid treatment of actual cases rather than just vaccinating everyone might make more sense (particularly when vaccine breakthrough with new covid varients seems so common now). There's also several new antiviral meds that studies claim are quite effective.

This might mean accepting we have a new endemic disease that's going to be around for the foreseeable future, but that might be inevitable given the global distribution and all the new variants.

Incidentally, this is why I'm strongly opposed to gain-of-function research involving taking wild-type animal viruses and modifying them to include sequences that bind human cell receptors. It's likely possible to transform a wide variety of animal viruses into human pathogens with these approaches, and it doesn't add much value to the medical knowledge base. Yes we have learned how to create new diseases - oops - so let's stop doing it already.
So wait, it's simultaneously a Puritanical hang up from the past, and also contrary to the way things have always been?
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents, and especially not generic flamewar tangents. They have a way of taking over and drowning out actually-interesting discussion with repetitive, nasty stuff. Therefore the site guidelines ask everyone to try to avoid them here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They mutate 2 gnomes/month.

So we already have thousands of mutations. But changes we call variants happen much slower.

Still, the vaccins are based on the 2019 variant.
> Why would you want to depend on a central authority when you can have a network of trusted blockchain users all signing and broadcasting their transactions to each-other in real time, without an intermediary?

The choice here is between:

1. A known intermediary with a physical address to which a judge/magistrate can have a summons mailed and which my local elected government officials can at least in principle regulate, or

2. An unknown number of unidentified intermediaries, at least some of whom are almost certainly beyond jurisdictional reach.

If I'm fucking around with gambling money, whatever. If we're talking about national payment infrastructure, the choice is obvious.

> [databases and] upgradability woes therein, when you can use a blockchain

...huh? I don't understand.
> We’ve poured money into SETI

I'm going to echo here that this is categorically false. All government funding for SETI was canceled in 1993. So, unless you believe zero dollars is pouring money into SETI, this is misinformation.
I really enjoyed The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

It has a good condensed summary of practical philosophy as well as a great list of books to check out for further ideas.

Being short on time, the summary was very helpful.

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday was a short high level description of some aspects of Stoic Philosophy. It opens the door to some of the classics.

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle made me think a lot about being present, that the mind is apart from the consciousness.

Redirect by Timothy Wilson - I like that it is experimental based and debunks a lot of other stuff out there that has no basis for truth.

The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti - reading this now, I really like the daily meditation format. It gives you something to think about.
Good to know. I've now moved away from their territory but I'll try that the next time I do dine there.
Yet as vaccinations increase, the excess death rate increases
> paying for something doesn't guarantee good documentation.

Isn't that what I said when referring to commercial Linux distros? Of course it would be easy to continue enumerating.

But morally it entitles you much more the complain if you pay and it's poor quality than if you just get it for free with no promises.
The endless droning about Common Lisp IDEs
The very same people complain about Nanny State when they’re stopped from getting scammed, and scream for justice and legal action once they manage to get scammed after all.

See also: people getting absolutely furious when the bank stops them from wiring money to Nigerian scammers for their million-dollar lottery win - and then demanding the same bank reverses the transactions after the jig is up.

They want to freely gamble with cryptos now that everything is going to the moon, but are going to be demanding answers once the bubble pops and the casino takes their life savings
> Can someone explain to me why I should even entertain the idea of yet another booster.

It honestly sounds like this is a conversation for your doctor, considering the possible heart thing. Regardless of public policy (which will be to protect the most people and reduce hospital burden), individual health concerns will always be the final answer to your question. One reason for the healthy to get vaccinated is to reduce the risk for someone who can’t be vaccinated for some complication or another.

It’s also worth noting that both flu and COVID are dangerous and severe enough to not want to get them. (Way more so than the common cold, which doesn’t take long to get over.) Hence the yearly flu booster that some folks opt for.

Honestly, the political side of this will optimize towards reducing the burden COVID takes on the health system. If there are too many people with severe cases in the hospital, the rest of us can’t get treated for other ailments. That sort of thing just doesn’t happen with the flu regularly, and it’s the sort of thing public policy is supposed to solve.
March 5, 2018: Hacker gets root access and key material on a NordVPN server.

404 days after hack, NordVPN finally discovers server is compromised

594 days after hack, a twitter user boasts of experiments with NordVPN private key material that had "been floating around mostly unnoticed"

595 days after hack: NordVPN finally acknowledges they were breached. Apology hammers on two themes, "it's not our fault we had no way to restrict access to that server" and "you should still trust us because we confirmed this guy didn't do many of the awful things we allowed him the capability to do"

That's a whole year of running a compromised server, and 27 whole weeks of cover-up between discovering the breach and getting called out on twitter.
> Stablecoins piggyback on the legal aspects of dollars, and as long as you treat them as dollar-denominated assets, you're fine. The second you treat them as dollar-equivalents, you run the risk of a change in the value of that asset being something that the government is forced into supporting.

Why is that scenario worse than now? Why is bank the preferred medium to support when they default?
Why is an obfuscated JavaScript payload part of an NPM command?
So in a way, does the current political atmosphere fulfill our need to feel dissatisfied?
Please keep flamebait tangents off HN, for the same reason that you don't toss lit matches in dry forests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The parent commentor said the losers keep quiet. But in this market, it's really hard to be a loser.
Thanks all. I have cancelled my NordVPN subscription. I was not aware of all the shady stuff they were doing behind the scenes.
“ antivax people will die from COVID; this is well-known”

Lol when? You’re literally the meme “die already! // No.”
Sipeed LicheeRV – A $16.90 Allwinner D1 Linux RISC-V Board
Delos: Simple, flexible storage for the Facebook control plane
I work in games, where it's unlikely that you'll have the prerequisites installed for even setting up the dev environment, and where CLI usage is not common. Visual Studio licenses require interactive logins to microsoft accounts, perforce isn't installed by default (and is configured by the GUI often times, requiring things to be set up before syncing) and then syncing the content can take hours - my current projects' workspace is 42GB, and my last project was >150GB.
Author here. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have.
> seizing your savings

If I'm understanding this thread, you're saying that bit coin is simultaneously designed to allow for this kind of seizure and not.

Swap the mtGox hacker with the government.

It's useful keeping the two problems connected though, since both are features of competing payment methods
No one is denying the need for PMs. OP is pointing out that PMs have too much decision making power, with too little accountability in most organizations.

Your argument is akin to, "PMs can't code, so alas we need engineers, and that's why shitty engineering exists, and there is no way to make it better"! Nope! We need product practices, akin to engineering practices, with 360° feedback and analysis, and the product management should be held accountable for their decisions!
I mean they work but not exactly as we had hoped.
Not at all? Might wanna brush up on the manpage. The temp file is a feature but not essential to getting work done.
Perhaps this explains the quirky TV shows like Squid game, which basically revolves around the misplaced idea that if one can't have wealth, they might as well be dead.
For a company that sells a product, understanding customers is really important, so it makes sense to have new employees spend time in customer support. There is no faster way to understand what you should be building. The only problem I have with it is thinking of exposure to customers as a hazing ritual that ends after a certain point, after which you never have to deal with them for the rest of your career. This should probably be on a rotation!
The charade is that vaccinations will fix this. I'd be willing to take them if there were no bad effects from them, but I spent like 10 hours in bed and I don't wish to go through that again.
I’m persuaded governments make law what “most people want”, and media impacts what people want a lot. Measures don’t seem related to factual conditions (but to the current level of panic/impressions) so, to decide whether you need a jab, we should rather have a more paced media coverage.
Yes, sure. But you do still need to compare the total overhead associated with manual memory management (which is not zero) to the total overhead associated with GC. It's an empirical question which is larger in any given case. And of course it depends on the implementation of malloc and the implementation of GC.

I'm not expressing a view as to whether the overheads of manual memory management are typically comparable or not. I really don't know.
First, I very clearly didn't say that they're the same thing so I'm not sure why that would be relevant. Second, that analogy makes no sense other than as a dog-whistle.

Lastly, even all of that aside, there's no rule that says the government can only mandate actions or prohibit actions. There are plenty of examples of both things in the US legal code.
I disagreed at first, but it makes sense. This will probably not really affect high achievers while making math a more inclusive subject to minorities whose sub-cultures don't value math much. If math appreciation contributes to a love of learning then that's good enough for me.
+1 to less better built features. What I primarily see kill products is going after too many features and they all suck.

Often when you do one thing really well you may find there is more value in the primitives
I would vote Hephaestus. Aside from what is mentioned in the post, Hephaestus [is supposed to have] created Talos. Talos was a humanoid perimeter patrol robot with offences capabilities. Maybe that makes him more Tony Stark than god of programming?
I cannot fathom why Millennials of modest means would ever choose to live in San Francisco. It's a city run by incompetent elitists for the benefit of childless wealthy people. Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but that's the reality and it won't change any time soon. So why subject yourself to that kind of punishment?

It's a big country. There are plenty of cities where it's possible to buy a home and start a family on a regular salary. Have you been to Cleveland lately?
> makes issuing a UBI really easy

Query: Who produces the goods & services that create value in a country/society when everyone is collecting UBI? Is it just the people who 'enjoy' working? And, when UBI causes baseline consumable prices to rise, we just keep raising UBI, right? Can we just call it for what it really is... communism? Why keep pretending?
> Smart contracts are, in database terminology, stored procedures that run one of the various incarnations of distributed databases these technologies are built on.

This is a classic misrepresentation of the properties of a smart contract. It's nothing like a procedure and the environment that its executed is different.

A database procedure can be deployed, run and deleted by anyone being a database admin. Anyone else cannot even see the procedures. A procedure can be edited mid-lifecycle too. E.g. we cannot see DB procedures of FB, neither can we interact with them.

A database has mutable state. And every data base makes trust assumptions about the nodes and their operators. You wouldn't invite a malicious actor to run a node in your regular DB cluster.

Anyone can host a blockchain node but not all state can be arbitrarily edited. That may require "work" as in "Proof of Work".

A smart contract can be published by anyone, be run by anyone and it cannot be updated. And it's internal state can be read after any transaction. DB procedures have no internal state that's persisted. They are functional and pure. They update the DB records.

Smart contracts and DB procedures are very different.
How to Protect Your Brain from Injury
https://archive.ph/tJrTq
Lol, you are laughably bad to think that java is legacy.

The JVM is improving with never before seen speed, has state of the art GCs, a very good JIT compiler, upcoming green threads that will make blocking code automagically unblocking and once Valhalla hits with value types, there really will be very few areas where java would not be applicable.

And on top of that, there is also Graal, which is a novel way to run and optimize mixed-language code bases.
re-reading this now -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46192377/why-is-git-not-...
This pretty much sums up my experience. After signing up and successfully getting an account then they cancelled the account with no explanation. I tried reaching out to them through several channels and had to create several more accounts just to try and get support. In the end the other answer I ever received was "The error you are getting is intended." Nothing more was ever said or given and I gave up on it ever working.
Unfortunately, Alpine patched their version of Python in a way that is incompatible with musllinux wheels so we are back to where we started until Alpine Linux 3.16 in 2022[1].

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Apparently, they have decided to amend the patch in a way that is both backwards-compatible and compatible with musllinux wheels[2]. Hopefully, it will roll out soon.

[1]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13227
[2]: https://bugs.python.org/msg406939
You might want to do some research into the people in charge. You're kind of implying that those people would listen to bean counters over their pollsters. This is where the flaw in your logic is located. Also, you're using logic in the first place ;-)
they should teach them Grothendieck's Dessins d'Enfants!
Or you spend two days thrashing around because someone forgot to document a hidden dependency and nobody can remember what it is but everyone remembers that they hit it on their first day.
I think it's about the thin client, I imagine something like double 4k displays on light-weight googles and advanced finger tracking sensors so that you can "type" anywhere, even laying down. And plugged into a network cable, giving you close to zero latency while interacting with a high powered machine - in a data center fairly local.
> He does not understand crypto & is trying to sell his competing product.

This is the repeated refrain of crypto believers. "You just don't get it." And yet when I ask someone to explain it to me (not the technology, the economics) I get hand-waving, self-contradicting promises (e.g. universal identity + resistance to censorship), and appeals to greed ("you must like being poor").

When faced with this, I'm often reminded of Richard Feynman's oft-cited belief that "if you can't explain it to an undergrad student, you don't really understand it". So my conclusion is that either nobody understands cryptocurrency economics and thus no one has been able to sufficiently explain it or the explanations I've heard are complete and accurate - i.e. I do understand it, and it's an emperor with no clothes.
Also have a look at Future / a16z a list of DAO resources and reference articles:
https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/
There's a handful of articles about getting started in DAOs.
This talk of money motives is nonsense. There are far more economic interests involved in getting things opened up again than there would be in artificially prolonging the pandemic like you're claiming is happening.

Why do you think e.g. the EU would be more concerned with artificially boosting the profits of a couple of American pharma companies by billions than rescuing the wholly European tourist and restaurant industried which are about two trillion combined.
At a previous job, I was happily working away on a large project when our VPEng ambled by. We had this conversation, and I swear I'm representing this honestly:

VP: What editor is that?

Me: That's Emacs.

VP: Oh. Let's get you an IDE!

Me: I have an IDE: Emacs.

VP: I think you'd be more efficient with an IDE.

Me: This is an IDE, and anyway, I've been using this for decades.

VP: I think we can all be more efficient if we're using consistent tooling.

Me: Are you happy with my work? Have I met my deadlines?

VP: Yes...

Me: Then don't fix it. I'm sticking with this.

I was senior enough to get away with that. If I weren't, I'm sure I would've been stuck with whatever Eclipse-style thing he liked that year. Oh, this was the same VPEng that asked me when we should "upgrade from Python to Java". I don't think he loved me answer of "downgrade to Java? Never."