skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US does that sort of thing, in general. But so far, the US hasn't been terribly subtle about it. Usually when the US government wants to get rid of a government, you'll know it (if you pay attention). Where are the "National Endowment for Democracy"-funded front groups? Where's the immediate condemnation of the couped leader?
Cryptocurrencies are harmful to the banking system and may weaken the state apparatus.

Totally agreed. Lucky it’s opt-in and voluntary! You are welcome to earn and spend money in whatever currency you wish.
>> Bitcoin also has some utility as a transaction medium.

> It really doesn't.

It is pretty difficult to support an argument that Bitcoin has zero value as a transaction medium.
Being young (like you) I drank, but never a lot, for fun, during parties. Kids came, drinking now means pain, poor sleep, disappointed family. I don't like it anymore.

How do I have fun (with friends) now? Activities! Mountain biking, Hiking, Watching a movie (yeah we have some beers), DnD, roller skating, go for a weekend into the mountains, 4x4 driving... Etc.

When I was 23 I also had 2 groups of friends, drinkers indeed, but also the sporty types, we did many things, snowboarding, swimming, walking on the beach during the night. Always something challenging. That was a nice group, I wish for my kids (and you!) to find similar groups.

Maybe find new friends, these ones will drag you down, hold you back. Find a team sport? Easier said than done, I never did it consciously, my sporty group of friends formed spontaneously because we were the only guys doing gymnastics (ironically not a team sport), we stuck together though and now, after 30 years (and I quite gymnastics some 10 years ago) they are still close friends who do sporty things together. But we also like a beer or 2.
The admin of WebOasis posted a suicide note
I originally posted a link to his work as a comment on this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29793770

I would like to introduce you to The Crafsman on YouTube. He's a hell of a lot of fun to listen to, the production quality is too sweet, and he keeps it classy. However, the breadth of subjects on hand-making things is fantastic.
Includes a variety of topics including how to use silver solder, an epic Return of the Jedi scene overdub, practical video effects, plastic toy making, injection molding, ASMR reading of Frog and Toad, rain on a tin roof during a Gulf coast temperate forest rainy afternoon, audio/video equipment setup.

Start here:

[0] Making silicon molds
[1] The best dubbing of a classic Star Wars scene you've ever seen.

Enjoy! And keep on steady craftin'.

[0] https://youtu.be/RC9TgAO5mGo
[1] https://youtu.be/VzlkSjFXRlM
I doubt they are able to accurately measure mental state of wounded soldiers in the middle of fight. And keep track of those records.
Eleven years ago, Saudi Arabia sent troops into Bahrain to help quell Arab Spring protests there:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/3/15/saudi-soldiers-sent...
There's a chance of holocene/human era becoming a mainstream calendaring system.

Whether that chance is greater than the chance of the human race lasting another 8000 years; I'm not sure.
Find new friends. Move. Change schools. Do whatever you need to or nothing will change. You’re a small tribe that has defined yourselves through a drinking lifestyle. You’re reinforcing each other’s behavior and that will continue indefinitely unless you break away from the tribe.

Trust me I’ve been there in Cape Town (was in a grunge band) and London (hard working hard partying tech crowd). I had ambitions to sit in a room and code and couldn’t do that because I was surrounded by party animals all the time and could not get away from them. I eventually met a girl who was intensely cerebral, smart and hard working, and she inspired and enables me to focus on being a geek. We left London together, moved to the States and built several startups together. We run a 40 person cybersecurity company these days that’s quite well known. I’m ceo and she’s COO and CFO and still smarter and harder working than me. We’re also married and still very much in love.

I’m still in touch with many of my old buddies and some of them also made something of their lives. One who I chatted to this morning runs a big software business and is also a very famous musician. Others went off the rails, ended up in rehab and in some cases found religion which seems to have helped.

What I’ve discovered is that life is very short, if you are smart and capable and apply yourself it can provide amazing experiences far beyond what alcohol or drugs can provide, and if you blink you’ll miss out on those opportunities. There are many other people out there living lives with their eyes wide open who you’ll have incredible experiences with if you break your current cycle.

Find new friends.
Yea, I have no idea what the reasons are, that could totally be a factor. It's not a super high-quality commenter community, but the vote patterns are more bizarre than a lot of decidedly lower-quality fora, so there are clearly other factors.
That idea about 'tower blocks in gardens' reminds me what happened 11 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Charter
Italy introduces mandatory vaccination for the over 50s
why didn't you use grpc?

Also, a standard kubernetes client (e.g. the go client), uses cache on the client side for queries, and does not hit the api server.
It's probably more likely that OP is throwing around the term without a true appreciation for its meaning. Me and my friends get stupid drunk when were together on the weekend and I want to do other activities is very different than me and my friends all have 10+ drinks a day (top 10% of adult consumption).
I agree in theory, but disagree in practice.

Covid lockdowns taught me the general public is superb at wasting time and being inefficient. Their mind turned to Netflixing all day, making Tiktok dance numbers, etc.

I am bullish on machines & software improving because people are incentivized through salaries to improve them. I am bearish / pessimistic on the average humans productive use of time outside of amusement or relaxation. Humanity has taught me that Pareto's principle applies to humans.
Mining will continue. The rewards will decrease. At some point, the only reward for mining a block will be transaction fees.
>I do not only think he was right to lose sleep over it: I think Java delivered.

He's not losing sleep over Java, the language, becoming popular. He's losing sleep over the threat to the business (at the time, operating systems). I think if you consider Microsoft's market cap ($2.39 trillion this morning), despite some bumps along the way, Microsoft protected and grew its value.

It's not to say Java hasn't enabled monetization. But if you have "billions of Java smartcards" and the long tail of those installs don't create much value or affect Microsoft's bottom line, then, to Bill, that particular point is moot.

(Edited typo)
I think I’m still not being clear.

The passenger can’t change their mind and get a refund if they decide they don’t want to fly anymore even if the flight goes on as scheduled.

The airline can change their mind and not provide the flight (and offer refund but that’s beside the point) if they decide they don’t want to fly as scheduled because it’s not profitable for them.

It’s a one sided contract. The airline has my money guaranteed (unless they decide they don’t want it) but I am not guaranteed to have the flight. It’s not about getting refunded if the flight gets canceled.
You can substantially only buy drugs directly for Bitcoin - still, to this day. Otherwise you have to exchange it for dollars, the things humans use for payments. This can be done via transparent gateway like Bitpay, but directly exchanging Bitcoin for legal goods and services is still not something you can do. Not least because 4tx/sec wouldn't even service a mid-sized Costco.
Saw this one on PH, can be useful. It claims that it can cut login verification costs by 80%

A new way of phone number verification that uses IM platforms as an alternative to SMS. Make use of WhatsApp and Telegram to verify your users and cut your verification costs by 80%, while supporting traditional SMS to reach every single customer out there.
Google has a TON of Java. Some of the largest, most widely used systems in the world are written mostly in Java.
What makes them happy that is unavailable to you?
OP said "all my friends are alcoholic" not "all my friends are alcoholics".

I read that as: all of my friends drink alcohol, not all of my friends are addicted to alcohol.

If OP and all of his friends are alcohol addicted, then yeah: that's a medical problem and my advice doesn't apply, which I already said.
What you said is false, if they are operating in my country (and that is true if they are opening accounts/etc to people in my country) they must comply, it doesn't matter that the server is located in another country or anything like that. About the second point sure if they are not operating from a country that requires id identification and are only dealing with clients from places like that it is true, otherwise they will get in trouble, it is just a matter of time (if I'm not mistaken there are even examples of less dumb crypto exchanges creating multiple entities in multiple countries with slightly different urls so that they can have it both ways).
I was being sarcastic, but yes, I do think these threads tend to encourage a groupthink mentality.

The vast majority of users like free websites and do not feel like targeted advertising is a serious problem. This was true before GDPR and these silly cookie warnings, and it continues to be true. Likewise, implementing a cookie dialog that requires more clicks to opt out completely is not so morally questionable as to justify the discussion I had responded to.
> [C#] feels slightly more like a "Java done right"

This is how I feel about Kotlin.
You are looking at the wrong metric. Generally you want median fee or even minimal fee, not the average, which includes very complex transactions irrelevant for the case.
Related: Have an Enemy

https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.5-have-an-enemy
A huge reason why some people can't have fun without alcohol is because they suffer from anxiety problems that disappear temporarily with alcohol. If you feel far less nervous to try new things or talk to new people when you're drinking, you may want to discuss your anxiety with a doctor.
Most of the URLs of that thread are broken including Archive.org.
I don’t drink and all my friends don’t drink

you admit surrounding yourself with alcoholics

undo that by pressing CMD+Z
Understand that most Americans who oppose this don't hate their fellow citizens; they see their government as an unwieldy monster bigger than any corporation, and they just want to put on the brakes.
No really. The one use, buying things on black markets, is much better served by Monero.
> And yet, it's Russia and it's strong-arm tactics that are desperately trying to keep Kazakhstan's regime in power.

If Russia is so influential over Kazakhstan, why all natural resources and power plants in Kazakhstan belong to Western companies?

Why Nazarbaev had replaced Cyrillic alphabet with Latin? It was clearly a jab at Russia.

Kazakhstan was/is clearly under heavy western influence.

> Think about it: Russia is even sending it's paratroopers to Kazakhstan to stomp out unrest. Not the US. Not the EU. Not Switzerland. No, Russia.

What will US do if in case of civil unrest in Mexico, Russia will send troops to Mexico?
Ravelry, the social network for knitters
Finally an answer thar is plausible.
2014 called, they want their unbridled optimism about the inevitability of self-driving back

> But once autonomous vehicles come online, as they already are starting to

The current status of autonomous vehicles is pretty miserable on city streets. Tesla's new "full self driving" has a reported error rate of one incident requiring manual intervention per 2 miles. Nobody is going to get into a taxi that tries to drive into a wall or onto train tracks a couple of times every hour.

Uber and Lyft have already given up on them, selling off their AI divisions. They have no near-term automation plans.
You could try keto chow. They started with the Soylent recipe and made it carb free (if you don't count fiber as carbs).

https://www.ketochow.xyz/
Interesting that the 2 books referenced at the end are from 2008 and 2012 (I read them when I was learning more about testing) - nothing new since then?
"Artificiality" is poorly defined and not clearly linked to being 'bad' in any way.

Scarcity in blockchains is not, let's say trivial, since you haven't described how being artificial is a detriment. If the Bitcoin Core developers, the exchanges, and all the largest whales all collaborated to increase the supply of Bitcoin in their interest, they would fail lest they somehow convinced everyone who puts value in the network (many put value in for the reason that the supply will likely never change) that the supply should change.

You should do a bit more research on how blockchains work and where there security comes from.
When I stopped drinking 9 years ago, I discovered that those drinking buddies aren't actually friends. In fact, what I discovered was that almost everyone I knew wasn't actually my friend. What a relationships revolve around getting loaded, they're really fun, at least for a little while, but those really aren't friends. It's a hard decision to make. So much of our society revolves around alcohol and the acceptance of alcohol. Good luck!
You shouldn't have commented here then if you didn't care. I did tell you to ignore the thread, but here we are.

Those 'useless things' have me money as I already sold some at more than $60k months ago and now I watch everyone hodling at $68k whilst shorting it from $59k.

So, yes I am happily watching more money come in as it drops lower.
Just a note but android doesn’t run javaTM, especially not in a runtime. It compiles Google’s decade old java version AOT and native code gets executed on mobile phones.
> The overuse of design patterns, etc.

Java has been trending away from this for some time now. A modern Spring app looks nothing like an old J2EE app.
That fuel what?
Inside Amazon’s GRAVITON3 ARM Server Processor
In the 1950s, comic book detective Dick Tracy wore a two-way wrist radio, which later included video.
> A couple of rich oligarchs playing around with their money in the west doesn't benefit the western economy much.

They don't have to, benefiting just the right people is enough. Schröder & friends say hi.
Happiness is better then fun.
In most of the west, capital already has the highest power. Unfortunate, but folks seem ok with it. I’m a big believer in sound money and sound fiscal policy.

Deficit spending is stealing from the future. Bitcoin is sound money, hard money. You can’t steal from your children to pay your bills today.
The number of transistors produced in 2021 is a bit mind boggling if you do the math. These are nanotechnology produced at a rate by humans that rivals any large physics number. By my calculation, Apple alone via TSMC produces something like 1x10^18 transistors per year. Add up Intel, Samsung and the rest of TSMC's customers and the number goes far higher. We are so used to it, we don't boggle at the concept any more but we should.
No they didn't?
Are there no third party repair services in the US? In Europe these are basically on every corner.
It's certainly not "backed by the west".

This characterization is simply naive.

True, it's not like the western powers are shouting their support from the rooftops. But they are more than happy to play ball with these regimes (including high-level military cooperation and lucrative trade agreements) as long as it it doesn't get, you know, "too" embarrassing for them to do so.
> Desktop apps are still C++ and some newer apps are Javascript(Electron)

I think the reason java failed on desktop and electron works is because electron is an entire runtime packaged into the app. The java team failed to recognize that people want to install an app without worrying about external dependencies. Later on the Adobe AIR team failed to realize this as well and while AIR had a promising start it flopped as well due to external dependencies.
I'm almost 40 and never drank in my life. I have fun talking with people, eating food, playing games, making and enjoying artwork, watching and playing sports, etc. etc. You know, life.
my argument was not that it was done 200 years ago, hence it should stay. My argument was the initial reasoning was to have a neutral ground, which is as valid today as it was 200 years ago.

As a counter-example, the European Parliament is being moved EVERY MONTH between Bruxelles and Strassbourg, because France wanted to have the capitol on their ground at least partially. A neutral city built from scratch at the border would have made more sense in the 1990s just like 200 years ago.
Cuba and Iran have been under sanctions for a long time. Dictators are very interested in not losing their jobs. I think, from the comfort of my home, that there are two paths out of a dictatorship: one is military and involves a brutal invasion of the country with the willingness to stay there for decades, the other is a progressive improvement of life conditions and gentle external influence
Is it sabotage? If he's being hired to write code, and his code is a problem, I would expect that he shouldn't get the position. He didn't tell Initrode "don't hire". He told them "look at the code". And maybe Initrode doesn't have a problem with the code.
Alright, the civilian protesters are now “criminals” who are getting shot down by government forces. I guess these “terrorists” deserve what they get. Thanks for enlightening me.
It's harder when you're in your early 20's. The breakthrough of 21 and the exuberance of the freedom of being allowed to buy alcohol and go to bars tends to overshadow everything else in the life of our lives when we're that age in America and a lot of us fall into a bit of a social trap to keep on drinking out of fear of being ostracized.

First to know, you won't be alone. There are groups to reach out to, if you want... but you don't have to. A lot can be done online. Virtual chats sometimes make people more comfortable, should you want to go that route - if you think you're an actual alcoholic and not an "alcoholic" (if that distinction makes sense).

Second, as has been suggested, you need to get a new hang out crowd. You're hanging out with a bunch of people who center around drinking. I've done it, and I drank - and I didn't even like drinking that much; was never that good at it. The hangovers were BRUTAL. I just drink diet cokes now, when I hang out with people who are drinking. I'm not an alcoholic, I just don't like drinking =/ It's poison to a lot of people for a lot of reasons.

As for meeting people, I'd suggest (and this might be a HORRIBLE idea - I'm older, so translate it into 23) get on a dating app and put in your profile that you don't drink and would like someone who doesn't want to drink. Then, when you have one other person, the two of you can find another person or two who don't drunk, and so on and so forth. Chip away at the problem and build up a friend group, one or two people at a time, just like you would solve a coding problem.

In reading my answer, I may know why I only have a few very good, very nerdy friends =)
I'll have to give this a go and see if it works.
That link doesn't work for me, I get an infinitely loading spinner (in the address bar, behind the overlay, it says something about intent://) and the back button doesn't work so I have to kill the browser. Probably because I'm not using official chrome or something but a foss webview browser, it pops over and disables the app I was coming from but the content never loads. Can someone translate it into a regular link, or a screenshot of the content?

Edit: it works in Firefox (Fennec), here is the content in a normal picture: https://snipboard.io/uxGWaZ.jpg
KDBindings
Adding to this, Jose was also streaming his solutions on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim/videos

I was learning Elixir through advent of code, and this was an invaluable resource for getting my head around an more functional (or Elixir-y?) style of problem-solving.
There has to be some pull. If people are conditioned to be happy with say UBI + Netflix and conditioned to think that you should have a small impact on the planet (little consumption) and your daily needs met (food, shelter) innovation will go down in a generation or so.

[to answer weakfish who appears "dead": no it's not wrong to revert to a subsistence existence, but it has trade-offs. Just be aware of the trade-offs.]
Tell that to the numerous people who see an ad for something actually relevant to them instead of something only vaguely relevant to the site's primary audience.

Imagine your own mother being subjected to this kind of thing. Wouldn't you want jail time for the perpetrator? Would you stop there?
> As long as companies are driven by profits

As long as people want more stuff. Company profits have a dependent relationship on consumption. It wouldn't matter if the company produced twice as much if people didn't consume the increased output. You hint at that in your last statement, I just wanted to spell it out.
I think we do have more time off. This page (https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours) indicates working hours are nearly half of what they were 150 years ago in wealthy countries. Even assuming some faults in the source, I can't believe working hours haven't dropped significantly in that time, and many household chores are also taking less time due to technology.

While I also would enjoy more leisure time, I agree with the parent that most of it would go to consuming media. What specific interesting things do you think would happen if the typical working week dropped to say 30 hours a week instead of ~40?
Is there some sense in which this is not a "conspiracy theory"?
It is not. If it wouldn't be true, why then US incessantly unleashes "revolutions" in all countries around Russia? Why US invests millions of dollars into rusophobic propaganda in all countries bordering Russia? Why US attempts to build military bases in all the countries that border Russia?

If it's all just a "cold war mindset".
We still have people who want to move us back to the gold standard. Certainly moving away from it came with plenty of controversy. I think there are a lot of parallels in general.

A lot of people still haven't fully internalized what it means for cash not to be tied to any particularly tangible item in terms of value.
I've heard arguments for and against the justifications to use nukes against Japan, and while I think it was probably unnecessary, at least it only happened at the very end of the war. If it had been introduced a couple years earlier then I worry our perception might be that it's just another thing you use during war.
I guess it depends on the location and wealth. Eating healthy is wayyyy more expensive than cooking healthy in some cities, even when you can buy a meal virtually everywhere.
A lot of machinery has been getting smaller. You can do GC/MS with a desktop device now.