skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Signal integrated MobileCoin last year (in the UK), there was a lot of uproar here on HN – some well-founded ("Why equip a slick and lightweight standalone app for privacy-preserving messaging with payments, a feature that adds bloat and will likely attract government regulation and oversight?"), some less so ("The Signal developers are just scamming everyone"). Given WhatsApp's move toward a WeChat-like app now, I think some of the criticism against Signal/MobileCoin needs to be reconsidered: Moxie et al. might have seen that coming (which I guess wasn't too difficult in light of WhatsApp's involvement in payments in India) and they are possibly just trying to stay competitive in the long term.

Addendum: Not that I'm a huge fan of the idea of crypto payments in Signal – I am not. But if the market (and especially the network effect of messaging apps) dictates it, what can they do? Moreover, I'm sure the Signal people looked into whether it'd be better/possible to move the payments feature into a second, optional app but there might have been architectural or security reasons not to do so(?)
yes, google lightning network.
If the issue is health & safety, and the dangerous failure mode is pretty rare - then how much time should be spent in validation, testing, etc. - to make sure the fix you rush out the door ASAP does not actually make things worse?
I'm talking about a hypothetical scheme where you get some capital from some investors, and then go out and pump and dump penny stocks onto other people who aren't your investors, and then return your winnings as interest to your investors. You are genuinely earning money for your investors (and defrauding other people).

In a Ponzi, you can't satisfy all your investors- you literally don't have the money you say you do. Eventually it will collapse and piss off most of your investors. But if you are really good at pumping and dumping you could in theory just keep doing that until you can't make money anymore, and then close up shop with a tidy profit for you and your investors.

They're both frauds, but they're different.
I see kids today doing this a lot with "Among Us", Fortnite and Minecraft still. Among us basically functions like a chat room but you can control who enters, password protect it, set rules for the game etc
Voting, freedom of movement, free speech . . . the possibilities are endless. New Zealand is certainly on the vanguard of this sort of political innovation.
I will have you know our corporate overlords own a good chunk of New Zealand also and any resistance is futile!

But what's up with Jacinda? Is she afraid of Maori adults, why not just ban tobacco entirely?
Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?
Deep Mouse Trap: deep neural nets are more like the mouse brain than we thought
78 is definitely not young, and various age-related health conditions develop rather abruptly with age. While your mind might be crystal clear, the rest of the daily life is far harder at 78 than say at 48.
To oversize the problem related to those islands. And make the people agree upon a common ennemy.

[USA did a similar oversizing trick with WMD and the belief that Irak was the 4th biggest army in the world]

[calm down, USA patriots, all the countries do use the same tricks.]
Yes, well, my son cannot get a facebook account because his first attempt was a sock puppet account (photo was a gecco, username "Gordon". Kid has class). He's tried 4 times since and usually gets shut out within 30 seconds.

so sock puppet might not be as easy as it once was.
If this happened under Trump, we'd be all losing our shit about hpw this was a malicious act, directed from the top.
For feedback, I would suggest people like a mentor, trusted friend who is a good communicator, or a paid professional resource.

Full disclosure: I provide paid professional career mentorship and coaching. Contact info is in my profile.

I know some people are opposed to hiring a paid resource, yet when I hired someone for myself, my career abilities and achievements increased much faster than before. And I still meet with a professional mentor regularly.

Of course, both the compatibility and quality of the resource matter, so by all means talk with a few people until you find the right match for you.

If CEOs, actors, athletes, and other pros hire someone to help, why shouldn't you?
Well, there's apparently one by Sedgewick himself. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QZDe28peZk&list=PLwwk4BHih4...

I can't vouch for it, as I haven't watched them.
> then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Congress it was a simple matter of bad apples who would be punished, not a systematic problem with new U.S. military policy.

Fischback's story is symptomatic of how the US treats whistleblowers: once you go down that road, you will be alone, shunned, with a meager safety net and with a crippled ability to make a living. For all of the hoo ha about American individualism, organizations are sacrosanct and individuals are devalued: in the courts, in government, in the workplace, and in culture.
CBDCs have nothing to do with crypto. It's just PR by politicians.
Fully automated commercial flight is impossible. There, I’ve said it.
Building Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Models Using Multi-Party Computation
An investigation, and the legal system. Corporations exist because they make a deal with the state. In exchange for limited liability, they're required to respect the corporate form which entails things like meeting minutes, preservation of certain business records and communications, conducting audits, imposing oversight, etc. If they don't abide by these rules, plaintiffs can sue the company and bypass the limitation of liability to recover from individuals in their personal capacity.

This system of incentives and disincentives does work, and the US had a better handle on it in the past.
It absolutely has every time I've launched it in the last 5-10 years.
What was the requirement that was satisfied by the battery swap?
I appreciate that you're likely struggling with self doubt and the sunk cost fallacy so you might need to suspend your disbelief for a few moments, but... forget technology, if you're a competent programmer, then you have a great deal of value to a lot of companies regardless of their technology choices. You're clouding your view of employment by applying feelings about your current situation to all employment which isn't rational: if the company is treating you poorly, they're almost certainly doing everything else poorly too.

A company will hire you when they have confidence that you can meet their needs, so your goal is to find roles that you're confident you can deliver value to and then help the hiring managers share in your confidence. That's it. You need confidence. A technology match might be a component of delivering confidence but it is not a fundamental. My most recent software engineering job hired me because... I was the candidate with a specific experience _outside_ of software engineering, as they valued that experience _more than they valued my experience with the technology they use_!

I don't know what motivates you, whether it's internal or external, but on the chance that you're motivated by external factors... I have a challenge for you to complete. First part is to be completed this week: explore job boards (e.g: linkedin, stackoverflow, workatastartup) and look at many different roles, but rather than focus on the requirements or technology, consider what the day to day is like for each role and decide if you think you'd be capable of it. Make notes of each role you look at, and keep track of the commonalities between roles you think you can do day to day and the commonalities between roles you think you can't do day to day. Then, next week, compile that information into a single document that represents things you're confident you can do, marrying up to the language used by hiring managers.

The goal is to get to a point where you can look at a job posting know whether or not you can give the hiring manager confidence that you are a good candidate. You don't need to be the best candidate, you don't need to be a genius or expert, you just need the hiring manager to think "Yes, giantg2 could do this job" ... and then it's a numbers game: find jobs you're confident about, apply with a bespoke application that emphasises why you're a candidate they can be confident in, and repeat.

There'll be hard days and I don't mean to downplay the hardship of the situation you're in, I absolutely appreciate that "just be optimistic" is unhelpful at best or offensive at worst... but that really is the key, and so anything you can do to bring yourself the optimism and energy to apply to new jobs will pay dividends. You deserve to be happy at work, you deserve to be treated with respect, and there are companies out there that will give you that, you've just got to find a way to get yourself into the right mindset.
You don't. That's the point.

Police are a much more effective tool for enforcing government policy (especially the unpopular ones) if the citizenry distrust and fear them.

Police who the citizenry can be confident will respect their rights are much less useful as a deterrent to those considering violating "hard to convict on". Making the public not want to even interact with the police has a force multiplier effect.
It is a statement of fact that a lost private key is unrecoverable. But there is nothing I can do, neither by malice nor accident, which will irrevocably prevent me from accessing my Bank of America balance. You are equivocating two inarguably and fundamentally different things.
“In real terms” $39,490 today is $39,490 today.
Great documentary/film!

Pairs well with Ken Burns' Ali https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/muhammad-ali/
My car locks out the GPS if you are not in park. Never mind that the screen is right in the middle and the passenger can control it.

This irritated me so much I use a separate GPS.

I'll greatly prefer it if my car did not try to control my behavior. I'm quite capable of deciding for myself what to do.
If you listen to newest episode of Breaking Points. They say they have been demonetized just for reporting on CNN and the Cuomo brothers.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qXx9lOhB4APrV3HecKiEv at 1:25
Avoid toxic chemicals - drink Coca Cola!
K&R. It's short, quick to get through, and the exercises are great for beginner CS. At the end you'll have a good working knowledge of C, which will act as an excellent base to move into other languages/disciplines.
Ah, an in-the-wild explanation of the Gervais Principle.
I would argue that you cannot paper over the horrors of war with government programs or culture or patriotism or whatever. If you want to go to war you need to be willing to accept you're going to permanently damage a segment of your population. This doesn't mean don't fund the VA or try to improve/reform it, but if your benchmark for a successful veterans organization is a majority of people just simply cope with their trauma with limited impact on their lives.... that just doesn't seem realistic.

Something to think about before you tell your local politicians you support armed conflict. Abstinence works well in this situation.
gcc has the ability to target different architectures (look up the -march and -mtune flags for example). Linux distributions are typically set to be compatible with a pretty wide range of devices, so they often don't take advantage of recent instructions.

Compiling a big program can be a bit of a pain, though, so it is probably only worthwhile if you have a program that you use very frequently. Also compilers aren't magic, the bottleneck in the program you want to run could be various things: CPU stuff, memory bandwidth, weird memory access patterns, disk access, network access, etc. The compiler mostly just helps with the first one.

Also, note that some libraries, like Intel's MKL, are able to check what processor you are using and just dispatch the appropriate code (your mileage may vary, they sometimes don't keep up with changes in AMD processors, causing great annoyance).
an ex-army Vietnam veteran here in Calif. became a lawyer and took a lot of art classes.. he eventually learned to game the VA system and get endless cases of common medicines, plus the hard stuff, which he used vigorously. I found him dead, in filthy conditions, but he seemed OK with it since he made his own choices, and was medicated beyond belief as he died of regular bad health.
Yeah, you'll see defi yields go a lot lower in a bear market. They were tiny for a couple months over the summer.
If you participate in the economic system at all, the failure of over-sized banking institutions will fuck you up whether you have an account or loan with them or not.

Yes, we do indeed to need to deal with the banking system, but until that's done, if large elements within it fail, the pain is going to be felt by a lot of the little people much more than the bankers.
The current touch targets on mobile are much too small and definitely fall below most UX / accessibility standards.

I don't know how many times I've accidentally flagged a post when using my iPad because the text is so small. And there's no unflag button.

Fortunately, I have a controversial commenting history, so the system only very rarely allows me to flag anything.
I can understand disagreements over the wording and how it's interpreted, but would you at least agree that Teams should be disabled or removed in some manner, until the bug is fixed?

Personally, I frown on Google/Apple/whoever mass disabling apps for all users without warning, but if there is ever a case for a mass disabling, this is absolutely it IMO.
* The elements of computer systems

* The little schemer

* The c programming language (k&r)
Most of their own apps have no ads...

And google doesn't require a share of revenue for mobile ads either.

Some users clearly prefer apps without ads, and will have a better user experience without ads. Google makes lots of product design decisions to attempt to improve user experience (even if they fail often).

Therefore there isn't a clear incentive to prevent the user finding an app without ads.
Do you support cannabis being illegal? This is a pretty similar stance. Personally, I don’t think tobacco should be illegal. Do I partake? No. But I certainly don’t want to jail people for partaking.
> But, what really works best (but never quickest) for many apps is to find an APK somewhere else, like Github.

My phone isn't totally de-Googled, but I always make a point of seeing if what I need can be found on F-Droid, and only searching the Play Store if nothing there will serve.
> “ By constraining it to transfer of an intermediate representation you're not making a good faith representation of the process.”

Yeah, I’m betting on the future utility enabled by the tech, not what it can do right now. Similarly people said the web was useless in the 90s [0] when the future utility (imo) was obvious.

> “Second, the only thing you can do better with crypto than a centralized exchange is crime, grift and regulatory arbitrage.”

There are non-crime advantages to being able to use decentralized systems. These are most obvious in places with hostile governments and unstable currencies. The new stuff you can do with decentralized state and public auditable records is super new and the applications there I think will be really interesting.

> “ What takes longer sometimes is AML/KYC and security.”

Is this true? I thought there was a complex system of clearing houses, record updates, etc. a lot of which is done manually? Am I wrong?

> “Like any other regulatory arbitrage you can certainly make things faster or cheaper, for instance by dumping chemical waste into lakes. Once again comparing a car to a little buggy with a 2-stroke engine and no catalytic converter on the basis of fuel efficiency is disingenuous too.”

I think you’re failing to steelman this. It’s possible to build a lot of stuff to handle things like KYC in a way that’s better because of crypto tech. Imagine using an NFT as a pseudonymous ID that you KYC once and then can use anywhere unless it changes wallets. There are also likely better ways to determine credit worthiness than FICO enabled by the new stuff. A lot of your arguments feel like someone saying “ever heard of radio” when someone else says you can stream sports on the internet. I think you’re being a little myopic.

I guess we’ll see how it shakes out, but for better or worse I’m betting against you.

[0]: https://youtu.be/lskpNmUl8yQ
curious, why USDP and not USDC or any of the other alternatives?

also, why didn’t libra/the likes work out?
soon we'll own our lives to some 'benign' all knowledgeable government...I guess it's where everything is heading, all needs to be measured, assessed, risks calculated, resources optimized.. and nobody seems to be too worried, maybe it's just evolution in action... quite terrifying if you ask me.
I don't think you read the complete post.

Let's take fluoroquinolones for example. It is an extremely dangerous antibiotic, no longer recommended as a first line treatment for simple infection. Yet, patients are being prescribed it for SUSPECTED unconfirmed infections. This screams either incompetent physician or lack of familiarity with current scientific knowledge/new guidelines.
That is a result of people choosing to spend more on land (i.e. location) than the house. Probably explained by population exploding more than the number of desirable places to live.

But the underlying fact remains that the structure and infrastructure (electrical, plumbing, gas, air ventilation) of a 2021 house are likely going to be much better than those of a home from a previous era.
How to implement asynchronous requests in your Python code
The price increases (10% per year since 2011) have created a market for stolen and counterfeit cigarettes already. Creating a slow-roll prohibition will not stop people wanting to smoke tobacco products - in fact, previous evidence (e.g. alcohol and cannabis as things most people know about) shows that people are motivated to partake by the very idea of it being illicit.

The product of US prohibition was the creation of extremely wealthy alcohol running families who are nowadays big (legitimate) businesses in North America, built up through the wealth of the illegal operations during prohibition.

While the intention (zero smoking) would save many from suffering horrible deaths, observation of basic human motivation suggests the NZ experiment is more likely to make a few people extremely wealthy and not actually stop tobacco smoking at all, no matter how much better off people would be by not smoking.
Perhaps "on hand" means "in a hot wallet?"
What's stopping you from pulling your kids out of school if you hate it so much? Genuinely curious..

is it childcare, a fear that you don't know how to teach, how to get started, worries about social learning? A lot of families are doing homeschooling, modular learning, microschooling...

Also as someone who has taught in public and private schools, I will tell you that even the most elite private schools are not that much better. It's still a group of kids in one class doing way too much homework and very little freedom to pursue their own interests.

Just as public school students are being indoctrinated, so are private school students. Indoctrinated, perhaps into different systems. The elite want to keep their kids elite, so maybe they are being indoctrinated into becoming the future leaders of wall Street and tech companies - and the government wants to control its citizens (there are some good reasons of course, for that, but a lot of bad reasons). Oddly, a lot of public school systems like bells and desks are designed to prepare kids to work for jobs in factories, so I'm not even sure this indoctrination is successful because it's a bit antiquated. Just hard to change.
It's possible to bail out a bank while letting it go bankrupt. In Europe it became standard practice: you bail out the bank, but shareholders and bond holders lose their assets. It becomes nationalized instead.
I found one! OP, please check out this Mathematics for Computer Science book from MIT. [1]

That book can be found on the Teach Yourself Computer Science page. [2]

The TYCS page says this book is advanced... but they teach this content to 1st years at University of Waterloo.. so really it's just difficult beginner material.

[1]: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

[2]: https://teachyourselfcs.com/#math
In addition to what other people have mentioned, in my city, nearly all new builds are in decent to good school districts, while most houses over ~25 years old are in declining or already-bad school districts. If you deliberately set out to find a 50+ year old house in my city, the only options in decent school districts would be a handful of very old farm houses that've managed to survive the building of the suburbs, so you'd have to hope the ~10 of those that come on the market in a given year were something you wanted. There are some very nice older houses in the city, but the only people who buy those can afford both the house and private school.
>This seems heavy handed and unreasonable.

Only in our dystopian software hellscape where we rely on software for absolutely everything, but get considered a rube for expecting anything to actually be reliable.
IMHO discussion about Georgism (as extreme position) is detrimental to reasonable discussion about property tax vs land value tax with more realistic parameters (say 3 % of value).
I’m at a point where I’m willing to throw the word away. It’s just too imprecise.

I know what a reporter is, and I know what a columnist is. I know what an editor is, and I know what an editorial stance is. I know what it means for people to do these things professionally as their vocation. “Journalism” might still have some life left in it, but if somebody told me they were a journalist, my follow up question would still be “what do you do?”.
My contracts either stipulated set work hours or was contract work for which I billed for the hours. If the project is completed outside of the stipulated work hours or not billed for and not using company resources such as computers, then they have no claim to it.

If I’m meeting my contactual obligations, anything more is mine. If I go above and beyond, then that is, essentially, a gift from me to the company, because I’m only compensated for what the contract says I’m compensated for.

If I spend my leisure time to build something that makes my job easier, I see that akin to using the time to go to the gym or get more sleep because that also makes my job easier. If it’s my leisure time, what I do is my business even if it helps my work.

Of course we don’t know when this person built the tool and maybe it was done in a less clear way. I always try to keep things I do for myself clearly separate. Eg if I’m WFH and the last hour is quiet maybe I’ll also put some food on while I finish work, but I would never use that time to work on a personal project but rather wait until I’m clearly clocked out.
This is a funny example of something I think crypto maxis completely fail to account for.

They genuinely believe that fiat will "go to 0", but have put zero though into what the state of the internet or connectivity will be in a world where the USD is worthless. What use is the blockchain if you can't access it?
Japan's life expectancy is a bit higher.
Wasn't the CIA one of the groups pushing the Russia conspiracy angle? I remember John Brennan, former head of the CIA, was on MSNBC for years pushing this theory.
Yes, this is definitely the reason, and it's unrelated to the fact that the store is operated by an ad company.

Lie to yourself, but please don't lie to others.