skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always fun to see HN hot takes on bitcoin. Similar to browsing the buttcoin subreddit. But apparently this group of people is much more enlightened than everyone else.
Am waiting a moment where Bitcoin will go to zero, the market and all that is bullshit.
The NICD has (presumably) been doing sample sequencing of local positive covid cases. This is how the NICD knows that almost all new covid cases in Tshwana are omicron.

The SBAH lab is using PCR tests to confirm cases. Some PCR tests detect the "s gene", which omicron lacks. Thus a positive PCR test that lacks the s-gene is quite probably a case of omicron. The SBAH lab's PCR tests doesn't check for the "s gene" so can't be a direct indicator that the particular strain of covid is omicron. However, because the NICD sequencing has shown that almost all covid cases in the area are omicron, it is pretty safe to assume that almost all the cases at SBAH are omicron (as long as you trust NICD's data.) The responsible thing as a scientist is make such assumptions explicit, even when those assumptions are pretty safe. This statement should increase your confidence in the credibility of the scientist issuing it, not call it into question.

Edit: If you don't think the assumption is safe, do you think it is less safe than relying on the lack of an "s gene" to indicate omicron without doing the sequencing? Both are assumptions whose reasonableness depend entirely on assumptions about the current local genetic pool of variations.
The thing with Tyler1, and anyone who is aware of him and his persona on Twitch also knows this, is that when the guy plays or does anything other than League of Legends it is incredibly entertaining and fun. The man has excellent comedic timing and is a genuine performer who knows how to interact with the viewers in brilliant ways. He really doesn't need to play solely this game. Most people would love to watch him to play different stuff, and he would still rake in a lot of money.

He's just addicted to the game.
That may be the most beautiful and least informative page I've ever seen. I had no idea what this even was until I got to the FAQ section. Why not explain it up front?
The anti-work folks are different than past activists. They may be anti something but they are not explicitly for an alternative. This is revealing.

They are actually for work, just a better kind. It's basically a corporation and capitalist friendly activism and as such is harmless.
Bitcoin is a gambling token. Nothing more.
Really good article!
Death of old age /is/ a natural part of life, but so was high infant mortality until we found solutions to that. The problem is that until we actually have solid proof of anti aging science, people will continue to believe it's part of life.
Would love if you can elaborate on your bitcoin tulip equivalency with the methods that were used to make tulips durable, scarce, programmable, fungible, verifiable, divisible, transferrable at global distances and portable within a human mind. Please be sure to include primary document citations in your explainer and thank you!
If I understand you, you are saying that in a democracy the majority "oppress" the minority(ies).

It maybe a "no true scotsman" argument but a society that legally oppresses a minority is hard to call a democracy- it is quite possible to argue that America was not a democracy until 1965.

And it is highly unlikely we will all become some homogeneous voting lump - there are enough modern democracies that are so distinct in just their voting processes, let alone choices in fiscal policy, culture and so on to keep diversity alive.
Unless people will eventually do without on and off ramps.
Tulip Mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong:
https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of...
It wasn’t a simple sell off.

Some not to be named hedge funds that were very long spot started selling aftermarket Friday to test the liquidity while taking out short positions.

Then when they felt the market was illiquid enough after probing it for a few hours, they quickly dumped their long positions, liquidated the leveraged longs, cashed in their shorts, and bought back into the ensuing panic sell off.
blub sounds like the prefect language to implement bubble-sort
You're missing the point. How many people would be "doing cryptocurrency" if it were as strong regulated against as child pornography? Some minuscule number, I would imagine; at which point how interesting or useful would it be?

You don't have to drive something to zero to restrict it successfully.
I once told a girlfriend that's what I did. It worked, she wasn't impressed with my job at all after that.
Bitcoin has gone sky-high or fallen off a cliff? That's normal.
There was a time I would have suggested not using nslookup due to its maintainers saying it would be deprecated. They have since rolled back that decision. [1]

[1] - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93808/dig-vs-nslook...
And really, aren't loops just ifs and jumps under the hood? So coding is just ifs
It's much different to shut down the trade of assets than to shut down a cloud computing service (Ethereum). That would be very counterproductive, like shutting down the freeway because of a traffic jam, or stopping a train service because the seats are sold out.

It just means that the backbone has to work even harder to clear the backlog once it's back online.
JetBrains launches cross-platform UI framework for Kotlin
My bigger complaint is... how you cleanly do synchronous RPC style calling? Even with clever async/await tricks, the serialization to and from input/output complicated structs seems so expensive.
The issue is that you will get the results on the subjects after your life is over or coming to end, unless it is the case that we could make life of a person currently >60 years old long which seems unlikely to me. So you would have to wait for 40 years before you know the results with good enough certainty.
Yeah I have these same concerns about the US dollar. People are like "oh but it's so stable yada yada". At most it's been that way since WW2. It's not THAT long. A blip in the history of human civilization at best.
The article said the snakes were okay. But here is the kicker. They were running a snake business from their home. You would think people in the business would have contingency plans for such situations.
This is not an algorithm.
Have seen this one a few times, still impressive
> prevents exactly what's happening right now with inflation

Seems like a funny time to be making the inflation hedge argument. Say what you will about USD inflation, but it's never lost ~30% of its buying power in a month, as Bitcoin has in the past month.
The value proposition has long been rephrased as digital gold, with ETH being silver.
I wish I could have a son who understands Turing completeness without being explicitly told... I guess that's the power of the Carmack bloodline.
I really wish it was as simple as that.
Nothing would have prevented tearful management from managing better over the past year. Managing better is hard work. But it is more exciting to chase the next funding round.
The secret is to build scalable monoliths. You probably need a few microservices to achieve that at this scale.
This is funny, but it's like saying "Math is basically pluses and minuses".

I see coding as playing with hardware without having to use soldering iron.
Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.. But software engineering (or development) is much more than just coding.
> In the final stages the computer again evaluated the game as drawn, but presumed Nepo could defend perfectly for tens of moves without a single inaccuracy.

I agree that it’s not very useful to compare with table bases, especially given the “30 seconds time added per move” regime this was played under by the time they reached the position.

However, I don’t think the table bases even have enough information to indicate how close to losing a theoretically drawn position is. So, i don’t think this required perfect accuracy to defend against (defining ‘inaccuracy’ as any move for black that either makes it take longer to reach a draw or moves to a losing position. That, I think, is the most reasonable definition)
"Australian concentration camp" do you mean temporary quarantine to stop the spread of Covid?

People who were held in real concentration camps would be disgusted with this comparison.
There is no soul left in these companies. It has become a day job to collect a paycheck. One guy working on ec2 can move to internal finance reporting can move to s3 and then move to retail (at amazon). Without the soul, at some point the hollowness will cause you to implode. Yes AWS can keep selling tech infra, but the net new innovation is where they suck. Look at how lackluster the reinvent keynotes were.

So what do you do? Innovate with passion. And then what? They come and copy you and sell it at a greater scale, with more marketing $, growing some VPs pnl.

I do think where you still have a chance is software. Big tech still hasn’t cracked software. But it can’t be tech infra software (AWS) and not social software (Fb). So compete where they don’t play is the safest. Because when they try to compete at least they will go through buy or build and will either buy you (and kill your soul) or build a shitty version within.
That's a good idea thanks.
> You could create a website with all the technical features of Facebook, and few would use it because their friends aren't on it.

Much easier said than done. FB is a massive product, I don't think anyone can realistically predict how something that really had all the features of FB would actually fare. Beyond that, we know that new networks are created all the time despite the existence of other big ones. Based on your premise, tiktok shouldn't have existed, nor insta, nor snapchat. Network effects matter but if the product actually does something useful or better and is well designed, people will come.
> As of 2021, PWA features are supported to varying degrees by Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Firefox for Android, and Microsoft Edge[2][3] but not by Firefox for desktop.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_application
10 years on and I'm still converting relational data into HTML or JSON
If you have a particularly bad ISP or are on a controlled network, dig might not use the specified DNS server because the network is intercepting outgoing DNS traffic.

Edit: It's not necessarily something to be worried about, just that "strange results" may occur if unaware. E.g. "why and how does 8.8.8.8 resolve a domain-local host?"
Amazon isn't known for Silicon Valley comp levels either.
People don't employ other people to put roofs over their heads, but because they have work that needs to be done.

Why don't you put a roof over the head of somebody in need?
> Hi HN, I've been working a lot lately as usual, but since I'm taking a 15 - 30 minutes per day to work on a fun project and giving how mad I am about those recommendations you get on streaming platforms (the same movies / TV shows in different categories) I've decided to make this joke recommendation system, which I feel represents pretty close the actual experience with real streaming services.
Hope you like it.

Since I got down voted yesterday for this comment, I've decided to re-post my joke / rant project alongside some screenshots and pictures of video streaming services recommending the same show over and over again.

https://imgur.com/a/APBtLxC

Some days are worst than others, but these screenshots and pictures were all taken today in a spam of 10 minutes without having to navigate too much.
It's not novel - crypto-skeptics have been saying this for a decade. And crypto-believers and speculators have been ignoring it for just as long.

But I don't think the comment was aimed at explaining this specific correction, I think it was aimed at predicting a future, more precipitous fall.
Conductive polymers are commonly used these days. Pedot:pss can be engineered expressly this way, but less exotic ones like polyamides can do this too.
Any libraries that make this nicer/easier to do instead of rewriting the same thing over and over?
Panini's grammar of Sanskrit is an incredible artifact, all the more so since it was likely composed and transmitted entirely orally at first. It is a completely formalized generative grammar of Sanskrit morphophonemics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini
it's unsafe if you don't stop when you feel the need to stop.

Also: never drive long distances alone.

I worked as a roadie in the music business, and I would never put in danger the 5-6 sometimes 9 people I had in the van with me, with all the equipment.

I just drive at a regular pace around 100 kms/h and use the cruise control whenever possible

I also set the limiter to something below the speed limit, to remind me to not go too fast (sometimes you find yourself speeding without even noticing because the road allows you to)

I never drove more than ~5 hours straight and of course it all depends on the road conditions, crossing the Italian Alps toward Austria with snow it's not the same as cruising on German highways (where there's always some kind of fixing going on, so you aren't really going that fast)

All in all the safest safety device right now is the human driving.

But modern safety technologies are more than welcome , you can set a safety distance from the car in front of you, they follow the lines on the road so they actually can correct you if you make a mistake or are distracted, it got a lot better than the 90s where I drove my dad's car for 9 hours from my house to go snowboarding on the Alps.
We were a gang of four and took turns.
Humans are basically just ifs and for loops
Your comment would be relevant if it was minimum wage, but the strawman you’re generating isn’t rooted in any reality.
True. Also leverage further distorts the true market cap. With Bitcoin $100k can easily be used to buy $800k worth of Bitcoin or more in some platforms.

And yes, same is true for the stock market. Everything is made up. Nothing is real.
Ride-Hailing: Is It Sustainable?
This seems like a good idea but how would you prevent reskins?
About:blank

That’s the only home page I want to have set on any browser I use.
Employers don't determine the living expenses.
You can easily imagine a situation though where the government bans crypto and as a result, Bitcoin crashes irrecoverably and trades for maybe a few hundred dollars a coin at best.

Think about it - all of the legitimate institutional money would have to divest, all of the loosely interested Coinbase users would sell because they don't want fines/jail, the only way to buy the coin would be with cash because your bank and credit card would report any BTC purchases to the feds...

It would be a much smaller and less liquid market. Bitcoin isn't going away obviously, but that doesn't mean it's worth $50k a coin in the event it's banned.
You’re defending a currency that fluctuates wildly in value by saying it’s better than a traditional currency seeing a few percent inflation. Tell me more.
Agner Fog's writings are all well worth the read if you care about optimization. Some of the techniques he uses in his optimized versions of common C functions are really interesting.

For example, he uses SIMD in several of these, but one of the performance problems associated with SIMD is the last 'n' bytes. If you processing, say, 16 or 32 bytes at a time, what do you do when you get towards the end of your buffer and that process would over-read past the end of the buffer? Most code I've seen just uses a simple linear process for the last few bytes but this is often very slow. Agner's solution was to just read past the end of the buffer, but use some assembly tricks to ensure there is always valid memory available after the end of the buffer, that way reading past the end of the buffer would (almost) never cause a problem.
We're data plumbers
Indeed. Jump on zero and integer manipulation are sufficient for turing-completeness. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_machine
I do not disagree with your point that the vaccine does not work on people who have an immundefect.

But that point was never in dispute, at least not in my comment.

Of course it would be great if the vaccine would also stop the transmission, but even if not, if less people get sick, less people will spread it, which will lead to smaller clusters.

It also allows the medical system to keep on working and providing the best medical help to people who do get sick.

Of course covid-19 is still an ongoing situation, viruses mutate, situations and recommendations change, but I don't see any indication that we can protect the population and even more the vulnerable population without a high enough vaccination rate.

Edit: Wording
Are you thinking of COVAD? IIRC, they were a competitive local exchange carrier, unrelated to Comcast.

As a CLEC, they could place DSL equipment in the incumbent carriers (mostly Pacific Bell/ATT, but Los Gatos Telephone company was absorbed by GTE/Verizon and I think sold to Frontier) and use the existing wiring to run DSL. In silicon valley, this doesn't offer great coverage; to get reasonable line lengths, you need to be in the telephone company's remote terminals and that's not available to CLECs.
Avoiding the humiliation of senate subpoenas seems to be motivating the most recent rash of FAANG restructurings. No founder, deserved or otherwise, would willingly subject themselves to the indignation of senators making names for themselves. Google saw the stitches on the fast ball and had Pichai prepped and ready go, but apparently Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Zuckerberg were far more confident, and the results of their testimony spoke for itself.
In terms of suckers, there was a big shift in the last year or two, as big corporations, banks, and even nations started to buy Bitcoin.

Here's a site that tracks it:
https://bitcointreasuries.net/

Again, if you know deeply that Bitcoin is a fraud then this probably just further confirms how crazy wacky the world is and doomed for a fall. I get it.

To me it's something else.
Market capitalization is a reflection of the total number of outstanding shares (i.e., Bitcoin) times the last price someone paid to by a single share (i.e., market value). There is no inherent relationship between market capitalization and the total "value" of all of the assets, as might be indicated by, say, the total money spent by each Bitcoin holder to acquire their share of Bitcoin (call this, say, "total capital basis").

Note that this applies to all asset classes, although many asset classes do have some rules of thumb that can indicate if the current market value seems overvalued or undervalued. (It should be noted that as of late, these rules of thumb suggest that many asset classes range from "overvalued" to "holy hell, where is this valuation coming from‽").

Bitcoin is somewhat unusual in that many people invest in Bitcoin primarily, if not solely, expecting to make money only by selling it off to somebody else later for a higher price--holding Bitcoin doesn't offer any kind of dividend like holding money in stocks, real estate, bonds, or even the miserly rate offered in a bank account. Thus, compared to other assets, you should be extremely skeptical that the actual "total capital basis" has any close relation to the market capitalization. (I personally suspect that the market capitalization is several multiples of the "total capital basis", and I suspect there's even less money sitting in the cryptocurrency ecosystem than even the "total capital basis").
Offtopic: the design of Google Apps Script puzzles me.

It’s done in an extremely verbose OO style (everything must be treated as an active object, even things that are by their nature dumb data), tries to compensate for that by providing shortcuts for the resulting multiple-level accessor chains, but with no rhyme or reason wrt which shortcuts exist and which don’t. There are also some things that ought by the nature of the problem exist in the implementation, but are not exposed, and the official docs literally have you reimplementing them (IIRC an official way to see which Sheets rows are selected by the currently active Sheets filter was only provided relatively recently, and you still have to redo date formatting yourself). And maybe the verbosity is no big deal for the original consumers of the API, but in the GAS environment my impression is that every method call is an RPC that takes tens of milliseconds. The bottom line for me was that fetching a couple thousand cells from Sheets as a JS array and then just processing them in JS without touching any of the Apps interfaces turned out to be a couple of orders of magnitude faster than trying to figure out exactly which cells I needed and fetching then individually, even if I only really needed a couple dozen in the end.

I guess the real question is: why would anyone do it this way? I recognize that what the API is doing is in fact much more complex than it appears, because it’s a complicated distributed system (then again, when it was a VBA macro running on my desktop it didn’t need to be...), but why does it give the impression that noöne actually cares about the ergonomics? Even its original Javaish ergonomics, let alone given the fact that JavaScript is not Java.
Odd, I’ve had it 4 or 5 times maybe and only the first was like the real flu. But the long COVID is an annoyance. I did get the vaxxx do maybe that’s why the later rounds were so mild.
I would say that as long as there is a communication channel provided to a person, they can interact with the bitcoin network. That is the great invention, a boring grey (digital) metal that can be transmitted over a communication channel. Plaintext channel level censorship can be circumvented by encryption and steganography. The blocks can be received by satellite today.

Sending Transactions over SMS is a thing. This may exist today, but I assume in the future bots on WhatsApp will broadcast raw hex/base64 encoded transactions to the network for peers in restricted countries. Policing WhatsApp content is extremely difficult, we have seen in the recent years.

One can restrict the centralized exchanges. One cannot control every communication channel, or prevent every ECDSA signature from being signed.
I think the biggest problem with crypto is leverage. Over 2 billion liquidated in 12 hours. This is how a normal 5% drop turns into a 20% drop.

One person selling a few million in Bitcoin can cause a few billion drop in the whole market lol.

I think regulations on leverage would be the best thing for the crypto market as a whole.

You can sign up for an account at an exchange and get 10x leverage without KYC or anything. That's insane.
That first reply is so funny to me because it hits too close to home

https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273

The more I do this, the more I gravitate towards the simple things.
I agree that wages haven't kept pace with productivity gains. However, proposed solutions such as increased costs, regulations and further currency devaluation won't get us there. They are the causes rather than the solutions.
I guess the comparison breaks down when it comes to usability. If you could make a gun and bullets at home there’d be nothing stopping you from using it. But if India bans apps that allow you to pay with Bitcoin then it becomes a far less viable proposition.
Coding is just electrons having fun.
Are there any plans to create a work around for the Firefox Nitter Redirect addon? Could the addon perform the proxying, rewriting and mapping?
Personal Data Is Worth Billions. These Startups Want You to Get a Cut
Oh I see, thanks for the explanation!
I'm really looking forward to having all my working stuff in the cloud. however, it's so annoying sometimes that networking is not suitable yet to work from ANYWHERE. especially in public places where you can pull a laptop from the bag and start working, with remote it's mostly a challenge
That seems unlikely. How would it do that?
You faggot.