skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a blockchain company for 5 years and recently quit because I finally realised blockchain has no feasible real world uses.

What typically happens is that a company suggests they want blockchain to solve some problem, like trade reconciliations for example and gets together a groups of likeminded partners. After lots of deliberation they then build some blockchain thing. However it turns out that the blockchain solution is more expensive (hardware and devs), more difficult to understand (see upgrades comment below) and generally worse in most regards compared to a centralised solution.

Furthermore, there are difficult technical problems to overcome like versioning (eg flag days vs rolling upgrades, backward compatibility of protocol upgrades) which there are no good compromises to. Eg company A wants to upgrade but B doesn’t, so no one can upgrade. Because of this you can’t really use a single network so you need a federation of networks and this gets really complicated.

The other issue is around systems of record. Companies - of sufficient size - by law need to maintain financial and operation records and of course they manage the golden source for these records. Conventional wisdom is that blockchain can be the new golden source but it doesn’t work like that because what’s ends up needing to happen is that all the participants end up reconciling what’s in the blockchain to their own systems! The blockchain becomes another system! They need to do this because the blockchain can’t contain any private/enriched data for a particular company (eg company A reports using UK GAAP and company B reports using IFRS).

Some companies struggle on with the blockchain because there is a true believer sponsoring the project. They waste a lot of effort. I’ve seen companies Chuck away tens of millions and have nothing to show for it. Most companies end up ditching the blockchain and build a centralised solution using something like a clearing house model where all participants are owners and get a proportionate say on governance for the centralised entity.

Don’t get me wrong… There are uses for blockchain but they are typically infeasible to implement because the costs outweigh the benefits.

I was doing blockchain for 10 years before I gave up. I was really enthusiastic about it before but now I know that the enterprise space won’t go anywhere and the permissionless/web3 space will likely get regulated out of existence in due course.
> You need common sense to parse them.

The problem is that common sense also depends on context. In this case the target audience is not paleontologists, so the headline should be adjusted.
Make Joyful Things (CSS)
> what would be the alternative?

I'm pretty sure that before English become what it is nowadays - a tool that helps bridging the communication, it was French that people were using and way earlier, it was Latin. Russian language was the one used in USSR on a daily basis (even taught in schools as mandatory subject of Warsaw Pact countries back then) and still is being recognized in post-soviet countries as a language that you can communicate in. It's still being used in international organizations.

The dominance of the particular language or languages doesn't come out of nowhere - it is indeed tied to geopolitical actions of the countries and their people.
'...they should also try to speak this universal dialect that everyone understands.'

My take on this is to speak regular English with a slight foreign accent, which sounds ridiculous, but it actually does seem to be effective.

Incidentally, I am from the North of England but have lived in the South for the past ten years and people sometimes struggle to understand what I am saying. Repeating myself has become the norm.
Then what is "quantum theory based on the real numbers"? I think your notion of "real amplitudes" cannot be the complete answer because the Schrodinger equation is linear, and complex linear algebra is just a special case of real linear algebra.

I looked at the appendix of the paper and their claim seems to hinge on some form of non-decomposibility of a certain tensor product state? It is the paragraph below equation A2.

More generally I got a bit frustrated reading the paper because the axioms of real quantum mechanics did not seem to be properly formulated.
But OpenSea is cool and SecondSea is not. Anyone can own things on SecondSea so it's basically worthless.

"I own a Mona Lisa NFT."

"Oh really?? You mean THE Mona Lisa NFT?? How did you manage? I thought that was owned by Louvre!"

"No, i mean, I bought this one on SecondSea"

"Ah ok. I bought it on ThirdSea just to test. It's free after all. But nice, good for you."
The texting culture we have today only makes matters worse. I'm seeing more people not capitalizing the first word of a sentence, ending declarations with question marks, puting a space between the sentence and the question mark, etc...
It may depend on personality. When I lived in Malaysia my English rapidly took on an accent and developed an unusual grammar, friends commented on it. I found it embarrassing but I couldn't easily stop myself doing it. OTOH, my friend has a long time Asian girlfriend, and speaks 100% native English regardless of whether she understands it or not. He is the type to correct your pronunciation.
Commenting on flammability is rather odd, but I have actually seen flammability warning tags attached to kids clothing — perhaps a sign of our overly litigious society.
At the time all cash found on you would be taken from you at the airport. What is there to add up?

It was their way of sticking it to people for "abandoning" the country.
How about "Geht mir am Arsch vorbei"?
I think he does though. He mentions that many assets are priced on a level that is only realistic if interest rates remain on the current level for decades.
But the plural of "species" is "species". When you are talking about one species, you say "species". When you are talking about multiple species, like all the species of dinosaurs, you say "species". "Dinosaurs were the dominant species" is correct, talking about multiple species. "Humans are the dominant species" is correct, talking about one species.
I can see an update release on their Twitter[1] as of Dec 8th, doesn't look much stalled IMO

1: https://twitter.com/AppShrugs/status/1468576646856851460
> I’m so tired of this.

... and so do I, as someone supporting a company, looking at why users complain that their shiny new M1 laptops' batteries still sucks. I can tolerate Electron if it's battery-efficient, but everytime we analysed which apps are battery-hungry? Electron apps always tops the list. Not to mention genuine UI concerns like why are some developers insisting on a thin grey font that's genuinely unreadable? And even if it has a decent UI, navigation outside of a mouse-keyboard duo is never there. We have to file multiple bugs on behalf of disabled users because most web devs don't care about accessibility.

In a sense, I wouldn't complain about Electron if these three problems (battery life, genuinely user-hostile UI, poor accessibility) didn't exist (or are few and far between that it became an annoyance instead of being monsters), but here we are. Again, I don't want to waste dev time on inconsequential things like most UI toolkits are insisting. I've worked on apps with Qt and it genuinely sucks, and web development has been genuinely a better development platform (still sucked, but much less), but developing an application predicates on that application not being user-hostile, and Electron (and to be honest, web in general) doesn't encourage the developers to think about these issues.
>Yes. It's a valid riposte: I cannot imagine a European proudly "debunking" something by saying "yeah, we have 28 million people uninsured, it's their own fault"

The US is a country of 330 million. I can say that out of 80 million Germans at least 2-3 million (3%) are without health insurance. Is that something to be "proud" of? Or, as I said, are such gaps inevitable in any health-insurance system that a) requires some sort of membership (i.e., almost all developed countries outside the UK NHS), plus b) the US's unique situation of another 3-4% without health insurance inherent from having 10 million illegal aliens within its borders?

>> The US mixed system of public and private healthcare coverage is quite similar to the system used in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries

>It's not.

In what way are the systems greatly different? In both the US and Germany/Switzerland/etc., people obtain insurance from either a variety of private sources (in the US, nonprofit or for-profit) or public (in the US, Medicare, Medicaid, military Tricare, Indian Health Service). Post-Obamacare, the US also mandates that those without insurance obtain it from some source, whether public or private.

Now, you may quibble and say that the hundreds of German sickness funds are not really "private" because they are nonprofit, but they are independent from the government like their US counterparts, both nonprofit (example: Kaiser) and profit (example: Aetna). Both countries' systems differ from, say, the UK NHS (which handles both payment and delivery), the Canadian single-payer system (which handles payment, with no alternative allowed by law), or the Australian system (single-payer, but with a heavy emphasis on encouraging people to move to private plans).

>Your medical insurance is not tied to your job in Germany (or anywhere in Europe).

I didn't say that insurance in Germany is tied to one's job. However, German coverage offerings, providers, and types of providers (public or private) differ depending on whether one is an ordinary private-sector employee, a government employee, or student. Also, German employers pay for part of employees' premiums, as in the US.

>- even "uninsured" still have free access to emergency care and care during pregnancy (e.g. Romania)

This is true as well in the US; the EMTALA law prohibits turning away anyone from hospitals regardless of ability to pay.
No, this rags to riches story is just a myth that Finland (the same goes for Norway) tell to themselves.

In reality, in the early 1900s, Finland was poorer than Western Europe and some British colonies, but richer than just about any other place in the world. Richer than Japan, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland - and about as rich as Austria or Italy.

Fast-forward to 2021 - Finland is poorer than Western Europe and some British colonies, but richer than just about any other place in the world. Not much of a change, really. This is an unfortunate, but repeated finding of development economics - policy, unless intentionally malevolent, matters very little to the long-run wealth
Great, that just leaves the possibility that the system to install keys will itself be compromised, perhaps something like happened a few years ago with a downgrade attack to the old USA “export grade encryption” back when crypto was counted as a munition. The use of e2e encryption started to become a general standard in chat apps precisely because centralised keys proved to be a weak point after Snowden.

As for revocation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642783

Snowden got a lot of data without anyone stopping him. The risk is what if he’d been malicious instead of a whistleblower?
I don't know. It was fairly shocking and I couldn't think clearly. I wish I didn't abandon Japanese though.
I minimise when I want to get the content, fx a VS code workspace, out of the way to retrieve it later.

Close is when I am done with that particular window/workspace.

Command+Q is when I’m done working in VS code entirely.
I wonder if he will be sentenced to 4 years of fund raising for Eric Swalwell's campaigns?
Windows conflates windows and applications, macOS doesn’t. It’s a mental model thing, I personally like the Mac version better — closing the last window doesn’t have a special case behaviour, and it plays nicer with things like Spotify or Discord that you want running continuously and don’t want to close the whole application inadvertently.

Not sure what you mean about lagging context menu?
And "market pay" being HR's idea of the going rate, not what a good engineer with niche knowledge and startup experience could command at a big tech company.
I don't think the issue is the task's perceived complexity; the issue is that it is simply not considered to be the most important task in their likely very long backlog of tasks.
People who have never learned a second language often have mind blindless of how difficult it is. Speaking slower, not using advanced idioms, avoiding ambiguous expressions like "I'm good" could make a world of difference but I rarely see people do it.
We got a one of these in Scotland, and I have to say a few years on, we're only just getting rid of the last of the items. Some items were arguably more useful than others (but I think the inventory is reviewed and updated constantly) - we never used the baby box as intended and it could be argued that we never really needed the support, but I can't understand the people who would argue against such an initiative.

People in this country were up in arms when this was first suggested ... bristling with the absolute indignity at the thought of money being spent to help others.
I think Rick would be the first to admit he didn't invent DynamoDB.
I disagree. Currently I have a company provided Macbook Pro (butterfly keyboard) and a Thinkpad. I very much prefer to work on the Macbook. Software issues aside - Macbook is less preloaded with company snake oil crapware, also gives easy access to Unixy commandline tools. Hardware - I much prefer the Macbook. It's completely quiet 99% of the time, whereas the Thinkpad has it's fans blazing as soon as I open Chrome. The build quality feels much better on the Macbook and I love how sleek and thin it is. Meanwhile Thinkpad feels like a brick.
Brain hallucinates your conscious reality
> Let the AP be a dispensable component, not the main component of your network.

Yes. Agreed. Let routing and WiFi be 2 separate concerns handled by 2 different devices (or in the case of mesh-networking, classes of devices).

> You don't need much CPU power for a router.

Depends on how fast your link is. I could get decent routing on a mid-range MIPS-based device until I needed more than 300mbps. The CPU peaked and throttled traffic, because it was responsible for the NATing (ie actual routing, not just passing ethernet frames or TCP packets around untouched)

After that I needed a router with support for hardware NAT-offloading and it can do 1gbps actual routing just fine.

You probably don’t need to go full X86 + Debian, but depending on your needs, you may still find yourself bandwidth-limited because of CPU constraints.
Oh no. As a non-native English speaker I'd rather forget and learn English all over again than touch Mandarin. My life is too short for that.
It isn't often I find a commit in a project that is rather offensive, racist, and works against the goals of the software development community to be reasonable, approachable, and welcoming to all types of people.

The only reason to remove "The Elements of Style" by name is that it is objectively wrong, and subjectively dry as fuck. Go use AP or Chicago instead.
WebStorm is a good IDE for static analysis and understanding connections between modules and procedures. You can click your way through the call stack with decent accuracy.

A lot of people in this thread are recommending grep and ripgrep, but you do not have context with those tools, so it isn't as helpful, imo. With an IDE, you can find usages of symbols, trace connections, build graphs, etc.
That's why I edited the title is more like an introduction to some types of reasoning
Just get a mid-level gaming PC and you will be ready to tackle almost any development workflow. Some basic specs to ensure:

1. AMD Ryzen 5 (3rd gen)

2. 32GB RAM

3. NVMe SSD from WD/Samsung

4. 1440p/4k monitor with 144Hz refresh rate

5. Decent gaming mouse/keyboard

6. Entry level GPU (RTX 3060ti)

That's all it takes. This setup will run circles around any laptop you can get, when it comes to stuff like compiling, VS code, browsing stack overflow, etc. Also you can game on it during the weekends.
I wonder how many programmers don't like pair programming. I love programming because it's me and the computer, working at my pace. When collaborating, asynchronous work better I feel.
What does "paying for things by handing out rope" mean?
Some companies will offer either an annual increase in the number of paid vacation days based on seniority/time employed, a generous allowance from the start, or just the fabled "unlimited" vacation days.

There are also all the national holidays that result in 3-day weekends, the week long vacation that is Thanksgiving for many workers, as well as Christmas shutdowns.

It really varies on the industry/job-type, but the bare minimum two weeks of paid vacation can be found in many other places too.

Something that gets missed a lot in these conversations is that hourly workers are often on a vacation accrual type system. Time worked = time vacation earned at a certain ratio. The more senior you become, the higher that ratio. This is anecdata, but I've seen guys be able to take a week-long vacation every three months without ever depleting their two week allowance because they have "refilled" their vacation time by that point.

For job offers that can be negotiated prior to going in, it's been observed that some people might have completely, almost wildly, different vacation plans than what is standard because of what they negotiated at the offer-stage of their employment.

That all being said, I'd rather much have just a simpler, 4-5 week standard across the board vacation law. Would cut the headache out of trying to figure out vacation accrual vs. usage ratios, play guessing games on exactly how unlimited that unlimited plan is, random gossip of that ONE guy at work who's on some different vacation plan because he strongarmed HR during hiring to get it, etc.
https://archive.md/etgjU
Well, that's nice because drug sellers are armed with AK-47s here.

And crime is not limited to selling drugs and stealing credit card numbers (which is actually not a thriving business anymore ...), example:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-abuse-idUSKCN1GO1...
Hand jobs, foot jobs and fingering but yeah “for science”
Invest in tooling, Jetbrains IDEs have served me well.
I have never seen anyone argue Mac OS was anything but beautiful but I guess there’s a first for everything. These threads pop up constantly and I always jump in to ask people claiming they find the blocky beige of late 90s OSS more aesthetically pleasing to explain how it is they believe this to be true.

There are lots of complaints about modern OSs one can make but none of the major three are anything close to ugly and are all easy on the eyes. So I ask you to explain why you believe UI design peaked in the 90s, when just using these OSs was unintuitive to anyone but a tech enthusiast, other than you are looking through rose colored glasses.

I started on Win95 and remember how I couldn’t wait to switch to XP and where there were actual colors and it didn’t feel so empty. I then wanted to switch to vista so bad that when my PC wouldn’t handle it I download SUSE Community Edition (a Linux) because Vista copied a lot of its fancy new UI (like previews and 3D icons) from Gnome (at least it seemed that way to me, may not be true or it could be they just happened to be tested on Gnome first.)

I get rose colored glasses for sure but romanticizing about a UI that only looked as plain as it did due to technical limitations just seems weird to me.

Then again I suppose their were people who thought black and white cartoons were objectively prettier than technicolor. People have a way of convincing themselves what they initially got used to is the best way and any change is a regression.
Intelligence is indeed just one tool. But as we see, maybe one of the best tools after a critical point. So it could be expected that after a while, evolution does converge to create intelligent beings who are able to control the environment and other species and even themselves, and with it, be the most successful of them all.
1. isn't bitcoin essentially worth $0 at that point? the technology is provably not safe and everyone will (should?) dump. getting it back is pointless. If I drag it out for a week or two it might not even make it to small claims.

2. having a court force someone to give bitcoin to someone else because they "don't own it" is also against what bitcoin stands for: decentralized. the blockchain decides who owns the bitcoin. regardless of how it got there. if some entity decides who should own what amount of bitcoin then the blockchain becomes irrelevant.

3. the blockchain is not irrelevant and is not under anyone's control (is it?). how can a court enforce bitcoin ownership transfer? if I burn the private key out of spite then good luck. you're not made whole, I don't have access to said bitcoin. now what? should I go to jail? what does that solve? it only tells the next guy to not brag about finding private keys left and right.
I'm sorry this happened to you.

Unfortunately in Japanese culture it can considered acceptable (and even friendly) to laugh at people in this way. If you hang out with people who understand the pain of language learning (English learners, people with an interest in foreign culture) it's less likely to happen and you'll get empathy instead.

I hope it doesn't discourage you because learning Japanese (or any language) pays off for a lifetime. There is still time to start again.
Not really relevant to the topic in question but... Isn't this how most languages begin?

First you have a continuum of language dialects, then one of them dominates for political reasons, then it gets codified, then enforced onto everybody through centralised education. Dialects not under direct unified political control become related but separate languages... And so on.
I can totally relate. Reading lots of english makes very little to your listening skills.

I mostly "solved" it by listening lots and lots of podcasts, but I can still remember googling the word "ossom" which a podcast host repeated every two or three sentences. I was puzzled to discover that he was actually saying "awesome", a word I definitely knew and I was familiar with.
It’s probably not obvious to the English guy that what is being spoken is not UK (or US) English, but is instead a "Global English" that is (mostly) a subset of the language they already speak.

It’s very easy for a native English speaker to unknowingly step outside the boundary of what constitutes “Global English” and use constructs & vocabulary that are not taught to Global English speakers.
This phenomena also scales not only up to a room full of internationals but also down to within countries. For example, if you're American and have a stronger accent you'll typically use a more universal one at work, even if everyone you work with is from the same geographic area as you. That's my experience as a Southerner.
The naming could be revisited or clarified for sure.
Stimulus is separate as it’s entirely independent of Turbo, but it doesn’t come across like that in the docs.
Don’t think anyone really knows what Strada is yet.
I think there is a difference between gradually adapting in immersion (which I think most people will do unless they actively work to avoid it, the way a number of celebrities where an accent/dialect foreign to their new home is part of their brand will literally employ a language coach to maintain it) and identifying a need to learn distinct rules and code switch to them in a particular occasional environment.
Ironically software programmers have least trust in autopilot for obvious reasons.