skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it annoying too, but some of it is a rightfully acquired allergy. Crypto maximalists tend to outright brush off the hard problems an inherently valueless, pseudonymous, electronic currency brings to the table:

- Its failures at being a store and measure of value (wild and arational daily value swings) and medium of exchange (long confirm times)

- Real life environmental impacts (overblown, yes, but still glossed over)

- Criminal enablement (there's a reason most forms of ransomware use crypto)

- Scams everywhere

- Knock-on effects on the real world (tried to buy a GPU lately?)

- OPSEC issues (it's a lot harder to secure a crypto wallet than a credit card)
It’s probably a waste of time to argue this, but the arguments for central banking were the same as the arguments put forth by Alexander Hamilton. More stability, greater resilience, etc.

The arguments against it were vague references to tyranny, orchestrated by people whose wealth is generated from resource extraction and inherited wealth.
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I think you hit the nail on the head.

Yes, Java is successful, both as a language and as a runtime. Obviously. You can't argue with billions of Android phones. Or the (possible?) news that FB has already given up and will be simply using Android for Meta.

I don't think a lot of folks here were around at the time to remember that a lot of the early hype around Java and the Web were both about unseating Microsoft.

Microsoft has thrived.

Sun is in the dustbin of history. Yes, mountains of cool tech came out of Sun, but as a company, as a existential threat to MS? Java didn't deliver.

That's not to say it couldn't have, had Sun managed it differently. But if Sun had managed it differently, it probably wouldn't have been the success that it is as a technology.
It's about 24 seconds in. Look at the bottom left corner.
> I think it's a bit like ego thing and positive feedback loop. She takes pride in her longevity.

Sounds like she has a mission.
"Out of memory: Kill process X or sacrifice child"

The "Feed me a stray cat" of kernel error messages.
Why is KiCad such a massive software package? I wanted to use it but ~1.4 GiB is pretty large in contrast with EasyEDA (156 MB). On my Macbook Air, a gigabyte isn't that trivial, especially if you want to use things like Parallels.
So all investments which do not generate revenue are Ponzis then? What about precious metals - the by far number one use case for that material is sitting in a vault to hedge inflation.
Java chose not to implement (general) operator overloading because it's really hard to do right. We're left with just a fluent syntax for appending text to strings.

Java was one of the first language specifications to be written by adults (maybe Common Lisp was the first, but it drives Common Lisp fans crazy to compare Common Lisp to Java, Python, etc.)

Python's operator overloading works remarkably well given that it has a very simple model (always look to the left hand side to decide how to interpret the operator.) C++ on the other hand ought to make anybody skeptical of the idea, but C++ would make anybody thoughtful and sensitive question the idea of computers entirely.
As sibling says: applets. They were there from launch, and they offered the never-before-seen combination of "write once, run anywhere" and zero-installation and sandboxed code.

They were kind of clunky, but anyone who had the responsibility of managing a client-server app across a fleet of PCs would have had a lightbulb go on over their head on seeing that.

The university hype seems to have been real as well; I was being taught Java in late 1997, when it had only launched in 1996 and was maybe on version 1.1? Previous years were taught object orientation through Modula-3, and you really don't see a lot of that these days. Java offers the decisive advantage of braces rather than BEGIN..END.
You can still use Eclipse for Android dev, or just run your own builds with cli tools.

I'll agree Android dev is pretty frustrating, it's much better than it was just a few years ago, but it's still nowhere close to iOS. iOS users also tend to be much more willing to pay money, so there's that.
That's very difficult to do because it will increase prices of said natural resources (for example natural gas). As you've seen in Kazakhstan itself the tolerance for fuel increases is not very high in the population. A very noble thinking government can be ousted very quickly just because it tries to do the "right thing" and punish said exporters. The best thing to do is to reduce reliance on these countries exports, investing in alternative energy sources or develop domestic resources. But there's often an even stronger opposition to develop let's say a domestic natural gas field than to send money to corrupt regimes somewhere far away. So that's where we're at.
Maybe they just want you to avoid being a distraction to other soldiers in the heat of battle. Crying out for your mother can't be good for morale.
"so I only had access for a few hours a week"

That must have been pretty rough - I was a CS student from 84 to 88 (Scotland so 4 years first degrees) and we had pretty much unlimited access to kit (HLH Unix minis, BBC micros, Atari STs) and we all got keys so we had 24 hour access.

If there were any issues with access to stuff, being based in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh, we'd just go to one of the many excellent pubs in the vicinity.
Nice board he designed. I always am in awe of people that can make very small consolations in best possible design (like say moving the clock and bypass caps further away than required) to make nicely layed out boards. I make smaller things and rarely have the room.
Lots of marketing backed by lots of money..
I remember trying to use Java in the Java2 days when every magazine would tell you how it's great, but the reality was that I was wasting a lot of time working around bugs in the Java libraries (and once even a bug in the JVM itself).
tuples and thruples are my thing but they aren't the norm in my language :(
Go browse their website.It's very much transparent, which is both scary and somewhat surreal.
Legitimately, this seems to be the result of MSNBC/CNN/FOX. A persistent source of existential anxiety.

I'm not even sure that's their intention -- maybe it is. But it's certainly the result.
In a social setting outside your house this isn't possible.

When I hear people ask about fun without alcohol it isn't that just drinking is fun for them but makes whatever they engage in during/after fun or more fun.
And the fat arrow: "=>"

https://play.rust-lang.org/?code=fn%20main()%20%7B%0Amatch%2...
Mobile gaming has the lowest retention on the market - 90% of users leave on day 7.

Mobile gaming is catered towards more casual audience succeeds better with micro-transactions (i.e. $0.99 - $2 like in-app purchases)

Most of the notifications get turned off if spamming most of the time and do not really help that much if the gamer is not intrinsically into that game. So its like fake marketing when you push but loose out anyways.

The dark pattern is really gacha style and gambling related casino games where slots are not real but you need to pay to spin. Users who get hooked spend thousands of dollars on it.
And this is all you need to do really.
I think that's because people are tired and are constantly thinking about how they have to go back to work / school soon. If people had more time off, I think more interesting things would happen.
That only seems relevant if the author of this had a vast number of predictions.

Overall, yeah, there were tons. That doesn't detract from how accurate this particular piece was.
> it is very likely that they are simply not following my local laws

Places outside of your local jurisdiction are not beholden to your laws.

Also, even you have a third option, which is to just not open a bank account. So again, it's a false dichotomy. Not to mention you could move somewhere that allows non-KYC banking. There are definitely more options than you let on.
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Alternatively people have found their own way to be happy and want to fill their lives with more experiences and less work for someone else's wealth.
Anyone else remember Excite Chat[1] from the late 1990s? Same idea, except chat rooms instead of "comments".

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/2ruqbg
While I've never worked with someone who had all those eccentricities at once, I have worked with people who:

* Only referred to themselves in the third person.

* Apparently thought they lived in the 17th century.

* Wrote software at work but intentionally had no computers or electronics at home.

* Lived in one of the buildings at work.

The 90s were indeed a unique time in the software development industry.
I actually implemented one of those. It's not as bad as the Google one, but still asymmetrical (accept is just a large button and reject is small, non-highlighted text next to it).

The customer in this case was rather non-technical and just wanted his tracking, so he wanted to have it like everyone else does. I/We actually told him very clearly that this is most likely illegal and talked it down a notch (from having "reject" hidden in the text), but he said he checked that with legal and we should do it. Loosing the customer over this was really not worth it (especially since this is basically the way cookie dialogs are done everywhere), so we did what he asked, with our asses covered in case it backfires. I might send him this case, though.

On a side note, it was really hard to implement the cookie dialog correctly so that it only loads Google Analytics and our tracking when ok is clicked. We thought this was a solved problem, but nope. Especially when you want to delete cookies when consent is revoked. I would not be surprised at all if most dialogs actually don't work at all.
Writing Java in my day job currently, I really miss C#. It feels slightly more like a "Java done right" -- the same strategy of bringing "fancier" features from F# or other languages, but it has just a _few_ more features that make day to day development just a little more pleasant.
1) STOP DRINKING IT

2) Get new friends (seriously). If you continue to associate with the same friends, you'll have the same problem and point of view.

3) Let yourself go through the withdrawal of the "fun"

4) Get on with life, figure out what you consider without including alcohol.
Reason Java gets so much hate: It's never cool to be an advocate for the old, warted, battle-tested, reliable, supported option.

And everybody wants to be cool.

It's the Toyota A series or Volvo B18 of programming languages.
Except that:

> I'm sure that technological advancement in 2022 will be amazing, but they will be nothing as amazing as the present day than it is over 100 years ago (i.e. 1822).

I don't know about that statement.
Tell me how Bitcoin will function once all the mining is done?
I like this part that is glossed over in the closing paragraphs towards the end:

> Through a Zoom window, he comes across as rational, intelligent, and mathematically minded, if somewhat lacking in social graces.

Sometimes it's not about what you say but how you say it. I even once bought a similarly titled book for a colleague of mine that was terrible at communication.
Unfortunately, western medicine doesn’t honor this approach. We focus so much on fast quick fix…
> * non-voting stock shares

No. Share value isn't determined by voting rights alone. It's determined by your ownership stake in a productive enterprise. You own a share of assets and future cash flows whether you vote or not. At some point every business will make a distribution - either share buybacks, dividends or at dissolution. Your share entitles you to a fraction of that. Shares have value regardless of whether someone else will buy them from you. It may be less than you paid, but that's not the same thing.

> Art, coins stamps.

These are much closer to NFTs than they are crypto. Each is unique. Due to their uniqueness there isn't a party constantly extracting value from your existing unique items (as miners do, by constantly producing more Bitcoin and selling it to pay their electric bills).

> Bitcoin also has some utility as a transaction medium.

It really doesn't.
Hey, thanks!

I'll look at that.
I love to see tech giants get fined as much as the next guy but I find these cookie laws a bit ridiculous.

A better browser could just make cookies more visible. I should be able to configure what kind of cookies I save or don't. Oh wait, I can. It just takes an extension.

Anyway the cookie banners are a nuisance. Every site has their own banner but they all do the same thing. And I can do that thing by myself in the browser.
When your local pub has at least half the lobbyist the google has. The level of legality depends on the size of the corporation.
Don't be so US-centric. Just cause one country is failing doesn't mean that all are.
Samsung Freestyle portable projector can put Netflix just about anywhere
This too. I sometimes boot a PowerPC iMac from 2004 to rip a CD, and it's amazing how little Apple has broken/removed since then, while adding gestures, cloud syncing, and all sorts of tiny quality-of-life improvements.
NFT marketplace OpenSea valued at more than $13bn
From a Calvin & Hobbes strip:

[DAD] It used to be that if a client wanted something in a week, it was considered a rush job, and he was lucky to get it. Now, with modems, faxes, and car phones, everybody wants everything instantly! Improved technology just increases expectations. These machines don't make life easier -- they make like more harassed. If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently.

[CALVIN] Six minutes to microwave this?? Who's got that kind of time?!
Supernova in Action Caught on Hubble?
If you have your direct manager outright lying to you and you're indeed not absolutely certain about the legal situation yourself, yeah that's a tough situation. I don't readily have advice in that case, aside from 'shit manager, might want to consider leaving' (which is obviously only possible in luxury positions).
It’s awful.

The worst part is the ugly truth of how easy it is to get away with violence against women.
"...those who had retired were 40% more likely to have had a heart attack or stroke..." (italics added)

My first thought - many retirees' daily routines suddenly included far more / longer periods of inactivity. Which changed their potential health issues related to blood clots into very real health issues related to blood clots.
Interesting that the author here made the assumption opposite of WaitButWhy's Tim Urban in his AI article (see below). Author asserted pretty early that future progress wouldn't advance as quickly as past progress has. Or at least that's how I interpreted it.

(https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...)

"Imagine taking a time machine back to 1750—a time when the world was in a permanent power outage, long-distance communication meant either yelling loudly or firing a cannon in the air, and all transportation ran on hay. When you get there, you retrieve a dude, bring him to 2015, and then walk him around and watch him react to everything. It’s impossible for us to understand what it would be like for him to see shiny capsules racing by on a highway, talk to people who had been on the other side of the ocean earlier in the day, watch sports that were being played 1,000 miles away, hear a musical performance that happened 50 years ago, and play with my magical wizard rectangle that he could use to capture a real-life image or record a living moment, generate a map with a paranormal moving blue dot that shows him where he is, look at someone’s face and chat with them even though they’re on the other side of the country, and worlds of other inconceivable sorcery. This is all before you show him the internet or explain things like the International Space Station, the Large Hadron Collider, nuclear weapons, or general relativity.

This experience for him wouldn’t be surprising or shocking or even mind-blowing—those words aren’t big enough. He might actually die.

But here’s the interesting thing—if he then went back to 1750 and got jealous that we got to see his reaction and decided he wanted to try the same thing, he’d take the time machine and go back the same distance, get someone from around the year 1500, bring him to 1750, and show him everything. And the 1500 guy would be shocked by a lot of things—but he wouldn’t die. It would be far less of an insane experience for him, because while 1500 and 1750 were very different, they were much less different than 1750 to 2015. The 1500 guy would learn some mind-bending shit about space and physics, he’d be impressed with how committed Europe turned out to be with that new imperialism fad, and he’d have to do some major revisions of his world map conception. But watching everyday life go by in 1750—transportation, communication, etc.—definitely wouldn’t make him die."
Tuning packages for a CPU micro-architecture
Once you can come to the point of not caring what others think of you when you're having fun you realise you don't need the alcohol/drugs. For instance, go dance on the dancefloor with the knowledge that most others are too busy worrying about how they look and are envious that you're enjoying the moment.

You don't need to completely remove alcohol, a good first step is to have 2 glasses/bottles over a binge session so you can feel more "socially integrated".

I realise this is easier said than done but it's an attainable mindset.
> GPU ain’t mined BTC since 2011. I think you mean eth.

Shortages are still produced as everyone competes for the same limited silicon.

> Ultimately everything is a ponzi, for some definition of a ponzi. Likewise securities fraud.

No, it most certainly is not lol.
> Modern medicine is designed to solve a problem, but create many new ones through side effects. That's how they get patients always coming back and more money.

Come on. No one is designing for side effects to bring in repeat business.

The truth is we barely understand how anything works and there is a lot of two steps forward and one step back… or sideways.
The base one is "physiological", psychological is higher up. However, we are having problems with that due to bad food giving us diabetes, pollution in the water, and too much physical labor destroying bodies in blue collar work (the Sacklers really seized on this to get people addicted to opiates) and not enough physical labor causing health problems in white collar work (diabetes, heart disease, nerve damage from too much sitting).
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Focus on Concepts, Not Approaches
Aged well I see...
I’m 37 and stopped drink at 18 after I realised I didn’t really like it nor a lot of the people I hung around with. Other than a small drink at a wedding I’ve not had a drink in almost twenty years. Just isn’t for me.

To answer your question though I do all the normal stuff everyone else does just without the alcohol. I still went to the pub with new friends and colleagues. I just didn’t drink alcohol. Sure it was a bit odd at first, more so for others than me I think. But it soon became normal and I had just as much fun as I did before but without feeling crap the next morning.

You mention your friends are alcoholics. If that is true I would probably suggest finding new friends as it sounds like they’re just a big of an issue on your desensitisation of fun as alcohol is.
When I worked in the auto industry we had to fight for every bit on the CAN bus since it was always on the verge of congestion. We did insane statemachines to carry payload in unrelated bits.

I can easily see someone doing:

unsigned date = 202201011758;
*(unsigned*)&tx[0] = date;

And in another ECU:

int date = *(int*)&rx [0];
int y = date / 100000000; // -20
int M = date / 1000000 - y*100; // -93
...

Or just saturating negative numbers to 0, since integer values over 0xFD00 0000 (something) are reserved for error handling.
TS is just fancy JS. If it didn't exist, Flow, Haxe or Dart would just be in the same place (static types languages with JS-ish syntax that compile to JS).
Mozilla already promised to do that.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozillas-climate-commitm...
Possible step 5: integrate old friends one by one into your new circle, saving them from alcoholism
My childhood in the 80s was much more comfortable than my children's current life. Some of that is just that I'm paid worse than my father was at the same age, but a lot of it is the rising cost of healthcare and housing. The things that are better today for us are mostly pretty trivial - kids movies on demand via Netflix rather than on a schedule via HBO, for example.
I don't know why you're being downvoted: You've hit the nail on the head - Bitcoin is a Pyramid scheme, not a Ponzi scheme.

I've been seeing comparisons to Ponzi schemes a lot in the last few weeks. AFAICS "Bitcoin as Ponzi scheme" is a useful strawman for pro-bitcoin arguments because it's so easily defeated. Bitcoin as Pyramid scheme is a much stronger argument, with far fewer articles dedicated to it.
I didn't say that anyone was trying, but ultimately even as a producer if your export market suddenly increases pricing by 3x, the local producers have very little incentive to distribute locally rather than exporting, which will knock domestic pricing too. And the heads of the fuel companies in Kazakhstan are not the people protesting on the streets and bringing down the government.
Don't look for things through the lenses of "alcohol free" - that will just make them all seem boring.

Look for activities that alcohol would get in the way of, and find something you like. Could be video games, sports / exercise, sex, reading, driving around, or other hobbies. To some extent, its harder work to find something that requires as little effort to be fun as just drinking, but there are lots of things you can't enjoy when drinking / drunk, so focus on those.
I did - assuming that brief moment when he was a substitute lecturer on a course I attended in college extrapolated into the rest of his life.
Give yourself permission to play. Get yourself in a goofy mindset (within socially acceptable reason - you don’t want to annoy your friends (too much)).

If anyone asks why you aren’t drinking just tell them you are just having fun (“goofing”). Internalize a story about yourself that let’s you play without needing alcohol.

I really enjoyed improv because that’s sort of how they led. People are stiff and need an excuse to be playful. Most use alcohol as permission but you don’t need to.

If your friends keep peer pressuring you to drink, consider changing what environment you guys are in as perhaps it’s the same old environment leading to the same old desires.

Hope this helps internet friend!
FWIW, some languages like Vietnamese don't really use pronouns in a Western sense, and it's common to refer even to yourself by name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_avoidance
It's the 3d models. The package is called `kicad-packages3d` on Ubuntu distros.
The complete library is included. Especially the last one of these repos is huge:

https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-symbols

https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-footprints

https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-packages3D
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Make friends with Muslims or Mormons?