skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the wording is a little vague, but now you're just being pedantic. Her point still stands. "Freeze exchange of tokens" doesn't have to mean "stop the Bitcoin network from operating", it could also mean simply issuing a government order to all exchanges to not accept a particular UTXO. Anybody operating an exchange who doesn't want to go to prison has to comply with the order. Governments can do that -- it's not that hard to issue an Interpol alert for a particular UTXO, legislation and enforcement just haven't caught up yet. That effectively "freezes the money", because then the person holding that UTXO cannot withdraw it anywhere. Governments already do this with paper money, which is why laundering cash is such a headache, and Bitcoin only makes it EASIER to track and prevent illegal flows of money. Paper cash is still more decentralized than Bitcoin, hence the article's main point stands: Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are.
> This sounds similar to what is going on in Germany. We also have reports of systematic hospizalization where ambulant treatment would be possible and recommended. Intubations which aren't required and actually harmful and traumatizing. Same reason - financial incentives.

Never heard of that in any of a variety of news sources I consume, without a credible source I heavily doubt it. Instead it seems like doctors currently urge people to take precaution (like getting vaccinated) to keep them away from hospital because of the work load.

> Recently went to the doc for a normal cold. Was standing in a small unventilated corridor for half an hour with several coughing people.

A lot of doctors now offer visits via video chat, if you need a sick leave for work it's often enough just to call the doctor and they send you the papers.

True, there are problems with resistant bugs in hospitals and there are problems with testing facilities. The 'ashamed, stupefied and angry' feeling in Germany however can't be generalized like that: Some feel like they're living in a dictatorship because they have to wear a mask, some are angry because of the unclear and reactionary handling of the pandemic on a political level, some don't believe in science but follow alternative medicine or just think all of it is a big hoax, and there probably many more reasons people have.

Overall, Germany still has a pretty good record on keeping people alive while never using really hard measures. What we really could use though is a more civil communication.
Sponsorship and donations are the popularity driven funding mechanisms. I want to fund the unpopular long tail of software maintainers (like the log4j guys who were not well known before the incident).

I want to fund maintainers based on whether the software is *used* commercially or not. Not on whether it's popular or not.

OpenFare doesn't lead to extreme individualism. It aims to fund collaborative software development. The OpenFare scheme is flexible enough to reflect how the collective wants to manage funding.

The OpenFare is *equivalent* to the MIT License in non-commercial settings. It isn't even close to a closed source license.
What were the main technical challenges? why did it take so many years? did it take research breakthrough, or was it something else (organisational issue / technical debt...)?
Perhaps not the question you expected, but ..

> (for maybe the second to last time)

How come?
My laptop is a 32 bit dual core from 2008ish. Just needed a new battery and an upgrade from hdd to ssd. Works pretty well for most stuff.
>> If the government kept funding the NHS by an extra X percent every year, we run out of public funds

Lets say the uk gov allocated 10x to the nhs in the next budget - to be clear, this would put just nhs spending at more than total govt income for the year. If this were a company we’re talking about, they’d be insolvent.

But we’re talking about a govt with a sovereign currency. So what would happen in this scenario? It doesn’t go bankrupt…

How is money created? What is fractional reserve lending? How is money destroyed? Can a country issue a fiat currency without an associated public debt? Or to put that last bit another way - could you settle your tax bill in GBP if there was £0 public debt?
Fascinating, thanks!

Yeah, here in the US, I don't think you can call a carbonated beverage "lemonade", even if it has lemons in it. That would be "lemon soda", I suppose, though I don't think I've ever seen that. Lemonade is a mixture of still water and lemons, sometimes sweetened, with ice, that you drink out on the porch during summer in the afternoon.

Your question hit me like: "does 'wine' always mean 'beer', in Finland, or only sake (rice wine)?" I knew there must be a culturally different usage of language somewhere but I had no idea where! Turns out it was lemonade that was different. TIL that other places have carbonated lemon drinks.
I personally find the value prop of my 2020 and 2021 model laptops, and my 2022 model desktop, to be rather good.

2020: Razer Book 13: 4 core, 8 threads, AVX-512, Thunderbolt 4. Weird gaming company, yes, but also competent thermal design and the machine works perfectly. This CPU when cooled properly is going to be at least 200% faster than that old Sandy Bridge CPU in the article, and that CPU has a much higher TDP so cooling an 11th gen properly is a piece of cake comparatively.

2021: MacBook Pro 14, M1 Pro CPU. The CPU that scared the pants off Intel. Say no more.

2022: 12th gen Intel Core. The empire strikes back. More than doubles the single-threaded performance of 11th gen Core in many cases.

And these machines are cheaper than ever. Competition works.
How do you create a society that limits positions of power?

The US Constitution tries to do that by pitting different groups in power against each other, diffusing their power and forcing them to cooperate to achieve anything. And then adding a Bill of Rights specifically limiting the power government has over the individual.

Do you have a better idea?
> change the license for the book examples to AGPL, but for people who purchase a book, they get a commercial use license

I love this idea.

Would you sell it as "Buy Book (includes bonus commercial use license)" or "Buy Commercial License (includes bonus printed book)" or both? Might make a difference for organizational programmers trying to expense the purchase.

Speak of organizational customers... how would you make that work? Each book grants a license to one dev, allowing derivative works to be relicensed once?

N.B.: IAAL but IANAIPL and IANYL. Please don't take anything I say as endorsing any particular course of action.
Italian here: good weather, bikes are kinda cheap, why wouldn't you bike often? The more you bike, the better the infrastructure gets around you.
Wouldn’t the IR laser be flashed anyway? How much time would they need to be on?
> Python I find equally if not more simple. Would you agree?

Simple, yes. But when I want to write a script as fast as possible with the least amount of effort I don't want simple. I want convenient and powerful. Many things which in Python take multiple lines in Ruby are simple one liners.

There's a certain dichotomy between Ruby and Python that I also see in many other pairs of languages. One language is simple, easy to learn and easy to read (Python), but is not as powerful or convenient to write. The other language is more complex, harder to learn and harder to read (Ruby), but is more powerful and convenient to write.

It seems like most people prefer the first category, which I think is why languages like Python or Go are so popular. There's nothing wrong with that as it's a tradeoff, but I personally prefer the second category, which is the reason why I do all of my scripting in Ruby and not in Python like everybody else.

Simply put I don't really mind the extra complexity since it is essentially mostly a one time cost, so I always pick whichever tool will make me more efficient in the long run. And out of the two (Python and Ruby) that's Ruby. (With a few exceptions like, e.g. machine learning, where you don't really have a choice.)
not me and not anybody I know. for what it's worth I don't know anybody who got any health issues from corona much less having to seek medical help.

https://www1.wdr.de/daserste/monitor/sendungen/gefaehrliche-...

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article207311157/Cor...
It's inefficient. If capital becomes too concentrated, it won't be used as effectively if distributed more. There's probably a balance, but under capitalism wealth inequality tends to increase, if left unchecked.
Ah yes, one of the first things I learned when working on my own big code base: I can no longer blame those other idiots for their stupid design decisions. Because suddenly it is all on me.

And that probably made me actually grow as a developer. Because I write good code. I write bad code. Depending on the time of day, my mental condition and external pressures. The same like everyone else.

And I also was once placed in front of a half finished but abandoned PHP project, for me to finish it. That surely was no fun.
That code was not good. And I was stressed and angry with it.
But today I would no longer direct my anger at that actual person. He also just did, what he could with the given ressources.
And venting anger might be therapeutic in some instances, but I am not sure, it helps get stuff done. And it definitely makes for a bad social dynamic.

So anyway, related dilbert comic:

https://dilbert.com/strip/2013-02-24
It's because it is. The money they get from intubating and all care required covers the cost and makes a little profit, but there is no reason at all why they would do that to a person that doesn't need it. It takes a heavy toll on the doctors and nurses too. If a hospital director would run rampant and tell docs to willy nilly intubate someone it would be all over the news and doctors wouldn't agree to it either (they are in very short supply in Germany and wouldn't bother putting their reputation on the line).

You also have to be aware that around 25% of all Germans are in one way or another prone to believe in conspiracy theories, e.g. great reset and so on. Sadly I only have a German source on this, but this was a major point of discussion in the long running "Mitte Studie" which is one of the best and most rigorous studies about Germans and their political beliefs.
We have 200 m total of segregated bike paths in my city so I don't have too much of an opinion on them.

My complaint is the feeling of being forced to use them when they are the dirtiest and most dangerous part of the road. They are just dashed white lines that were designed by someone who drove down the street in a Transit van once.

Since I've been moved to WFH I exclusively cycle on country roads, I feel like if we had more segregated bike paths in the city I wouldn't mind being stuck behind people, I feel like commuting or cycling into town is a different thing from cycling for exercise or as a sport.

I live in a country where cycling as a mode of transport is basically non-existent, 95% of the people I see on bikes are on road bikes and wearing lycra, so it's possible I'd feel differently about segregated lanes if there more of a cycling-as-transport culture here.
Very little defense for the average user if the site looks good enough on mobile. Police should be able to trace the flow of money, but the scammers are probably using dodgy overseas processing for payments.
One person being handed health care on a silver platter while I work the better part of a week to pay for it for my family doesn't sound equitable to me.
No, that sentence looks correct: if you treat bitcoin transaction fees as revenue, then you compare to Visa's revenue, which was $24.1B.
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Some different views. For instance, to give some sense of a scale for the 250 or so v2 torrents seen every day is, here's a view of the total number of torrents it discovers each day [1]. (Or, more properly, this is the number of torrents it gathered complete metadata and validated against the infohash each day).

One of these days I should find somewhere to put all these bits of metadata I've been downloading.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/8pWhjxD
Prosemirror is a good place to start. https://prosemirror.net/docs/guide/
https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html

They have a well architected model, including plugins to extend functionality, see https://tiptap.dev/ which is built ontop of Prosemirror

bonus: The author talks about collaborative editing here: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html
Building a Wordle Solver with Regular Expressions and Elixir
> If my "geometric intuition" is working properly, the "problem" is that the figure in the picture wouldn't meet in a point. There would be a line at the top, and it wouldn't be a pyramid. But there's nothing "impossible" about that.

The proof given in the article seems fine. Assuming the figure has three flat faces, the arrangement of those faces is impossible. A figure such as you describe, with a line on the top, would not be ruled out by the proof, but the depicted figure cannot match that description.

For a quick summary-style restatement of the proof:

1. Consider the three sides (as opposed to the top and bottom) of the shape to be flat. Each of them will come to a separate point. Those three points are labeled G, H, and I.

2. We can easily show that the point G lies in the same plane as each side of the shape. We can symmetrically show that this is also true of H and of I.

3. When G, H, and I are the same point, this doesn't restrict the sides in any meaningful way - no matter what the "angles" of three planes are, you can always translate them such that they'll all intersect at an arbitrary point.

4. But when G, H, and I are all different points, there is only a single plane that contains them all. ("Three points determine a plane".) This tells us that the three faces of such a shape would all be coplanar, which obviously can't happen.

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(5. You are positing that, for example, G and H might coincide while I is a different, second point. But the depicted figure doesn't satisfy that description.)
but i have a choice to not lease
> hence the limited vaccination rate).

Of checks notes 73% of all eligible ( 5 years or older, all doses required ( booster included), and it was 12 years or older until yesterday, so there's a huge drop since then). Many were forced by restrictions on everyday life, but still, that's certainly not "limited".
What are those systems? And where is the real world evidence they are more resilient to cronyism?
Yes it could be used as a man-in-the-middle tool to view and intercept network traffic in ios project
For myself cycling takes about twice as long. Assuming a peak physical condition, then driving.

Taking the metro is a bit faster than cycling, I consider myself to be an okay shape. I still need to lose about 20 lb to get to where I want to be, and I still don't think I'd be up to the challenge of hopping on a bike for all my commuting needs.

If you want to propose something, you have to factor in what people are willing to actually do. The typical overweight American, it's not going to be open to biking 4 hours a day to get to and from work.
So an indie dev is going to spend the time to create an interface between Stardew Valley and Slay the Spire cards?

It's a huge undertaking that would need to be custom done for each game's data it interacts with. And indie games are less likely to conform to standards than others.
> Is the vision that there is some hot market place for art and other assets that are traded so frequently that we need a live 24/7 market and exchange for them?

Sort of. You can and people have sold digital art (note this is not the same as owning the copyright) with contracts before, but NFTs make it accessible in a way that inspired a much larger group of people to participate (and yes, speculate).
That is precisely the problem here. Phone carriers do not want to be a dumb pipe - and having Private Relay go through their networks breaks:

- HTTP header enrichment (which they use for self-care/customer sites/services),

- zero rating (which they set up deals for with social networks, music streaming services, etc., often applying specific QoS tags) and

- all sorts of value added services (many using deep packet inspection and DNS analytics) that they offer instead of raw, unfettered connectivity.

I don't think many people are aware of exactly how much data telcos are sitting on, anonymized or not.

And, of course, it also plays havoc with legal interception because there is no easy way to do MITM.

(edit: readability)
Fwiw a friend mine had a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis that went undetected for months because of COVID. They have a 92% chance of dying in the next five years.

My uncle is got final approval for a heart transplant in December. We are currently unsure if there will hospital room if he gets called this week.

COVID is killing people just fine with or without the disease and the unvaccinated by choice need to stop taking up hospitals beds.
Pfizer was BioNTech, developed in Germany. They might have also had Astrazeneca (UK) or any number of vaccines developed in tandem globally. Also, worth pointing out that healthcare is a separate and distinct industry from pharma. Co-dependent but dealt with under very different rules globally.
You're missing a crucial element here. The government actually helps keep companies like Company A in power.
Glad to see this here. This is was my original thought too as one of the original data structures for text editing. It's used to quickly insert/delete within a very large string.

Has anyone used other mechanisms for large document types? It seems like an array of paragraphs, each containing a simple string could probably handle most editing tasks and might be easier to layout and manage. Curious what other data structures people have used!
tokenId is a uint256, so there are at most 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639935 NFTs per contract.
Elixir with Phoenix and Liveview.
The issue is about which edges are in the same plane as which other edges. If this is a polyhedron, AD and BE must be coplanar, and BE and CF must be coplanar. Extending the edges into lines, they don't form a 3-way intersection. G gets projected to the same screen point as some point on line AD, but the only way G can be on line AD is if AD and FC are coplanar. If all three of AD, BE, and FC are coplanar, the entire figure is a flat pentagon (and DE, BE, and FE are not edges).

If G isn't on line AD, then BE and CF can't be a side of the same truncated pyramid.
My laptop is from 2012 too. It has got an i5 processor with 2 HT cores, so the OS sees 4 cores. I upgraded its RAM to 8GB and replaced the HD by a 1TB SSD. Good enough for what I do.

I tried a recent machine with a modern i5 and the same amount of RAM and a 1TB SSD. The owner asked me to update the OS to windows 11. It didn't seemed faster than my laptop with ubuntu 20.04.

A 10 year old laptop may be still good with enough RAM and a SSD, but I doubt recent versions of windows will run well on such machines.
With how slowly the F-Droid team moves (with all love and respect), this may be a feature.
There are a variety of factors that add up to many ms of lag. USB and HDMI are a few that come to mind. USB is incredibly complex when compared to e.g. ps/2. If you are building an embedded board like rasberry pi and you want to add ps/2, you just add a couple pins. If you want to add usb, you buy an extra chip.
no specs, but they know the cost and price structure, sounds legit
One can make any statement and if the "opposition" wants to see some proof you just deflect it and require them to bring proof that your statement is incorrect? That sounds incredible one-sided.
It is not possible to 'catch immediately'. People spread it, government notices, lock-downs go into effect. A few dozen cases in a country of 1.4B is laughable.
I've had an ASIC miner (the only viable way to mine Bitcoin) at home for testing purposes and you can rest assured, that the power usage and noise profile of those devices is incomparable to any home purpose device. We're talking 3 kW constant load, meaning 26 MWh or 26,000 kWh per year. Per capita electricity usage in Europe is around
5,600 kWh per year [1], that is about ~4,6 times less, including your whole gaming setup all other appliances.

Also, the noise of the fans required to cool such an electric load will get you thrown out of any apartment complex fast, not even considering that this heat is dissipated into your living room which would lead to somewhat uncomfortable room temperatures of over 30°C even in the coldest of winters.

What you're probably thinking about is GPU-based mining, but that has nothing to do with Bitocin.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1262471/per-capita-elect...
The laws of the country you live in have answers to those questions. Usually, you are the only person legally allowed to use your bank account. Nobody else is legally allowed to publish your book under their name, etc. There are no laws protecting "ownership" of NFTs
I don't have a solution. I don't have much knowledge of such extremely complex systems and I have no hope of coming up with a solution myself.

I can see that my car is sputtering black smoke when I drive it and correctly identify that it's a problem, but I bring it to an expert for a suggestion to fix it since I don't have much knowledge in this topic either.
Gee, I wonder if anyone thought of testing conditions similar to real life. Nah, nobody did, because everyone is stupid.

https://www.mpg.de/17916867/coronavirus-masks-risk-protectio...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8

Even bad masks poorly worn are better than no masks, and the effect is statistically significant.

Also reducing the areas in which there is unmitigated exposure is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Exactly to avoid the thing you are complaining about doctors are allowed to give those out over phone during the pandemic.
In my opinion the moment POSIX shell is not enough, one better use more appropriate language than learning all Bash-specific syntax rules and exceptions.

And with containers bash may not be even there.
Those are pictures of a Cambridge roundabout, trying to imitate a Dutch roundabout. However except for very light traffic situations all (as far as I am aware) roundabouts newly constructed in the Netherlands are so called turbo-roundabouts [1].
Other than that, I agree that the standard of roads and infrastructure in the Netherlands is a fair bit higher than anywhere else I know of. Of course there are nice roads in every country, but in the Netherlands, there are almost no really bad roads, and every freeway is properly designed and maintained.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundaboutsle... turbo-roundabouts.
Startup Retrofits a Tesla Model S with Battery That More Than Doubles Its Range