skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you ~never do, doesn't mean there's no market. In this case, there's a huge market for remittances, on the order of hundreds of billion (USD) in 2020 for the industry globally. Every immigrant with family back home is saving local currency and sending as much as they can back home because of the difference in exchange rate. The incumbent players aren't very good, having been created before the Internet. Western Union is still a choice in this area, though it's worth noting that they did close down their telegram service in 2006. Whether cryptocurrencies are competitive in this area depends on if theres a way locally to get local cash for crypto. In countries where this illegal, it's a bit harder to do so, and the old ways are still the best, depending on how high the service fees are.
I actually dislike a lot of service in the US, not because it is slow or anything, but because it often makes me feel really uncomfortable.
Kitty has extensions (kittens) for displaying graphics: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

Not something I use, I tend to just `xdg-open .` to view them in Nautilus/EOG.
But the things I mentioned aren't technical minutiae, they're real technological advances with real applications, today.

> ...not related to finance.

Why place that arbitrary restriction? If all this stuff does is improve finance is that not enough? Again, I'm not a web3 evangelist, this stuff was originally created strictly to create financial tools. All I expect any of this stuff to do is change finance.

But still, the development of new cryptography, new consensus mechanisms, new routing protocols and network topologies, these are all advances that have come as a result of all this and they're not related to finance. Again, just because you don't know about an advancement doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I'd be willing to bet that everyone who works for cash cheats their taxes.

But not as much as millionaires do.
It's really crazy how much expensive are the RAM modules, compared to a almost high-end GPU and high-end CPU.
Blockchain analytics are a big sector. Companies like Coinbase and Binance have spent billions acquiring blockchain analytics firms.

Additionally, I think there is big money in selling blockchain analytics to governments for the money laundering, darknet markets, and fraud sector.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/02/19/coinbase-acquire...

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/04/30/coinbase-to-acq...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/mastercard-to-buy-blockchain...

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/12/03/binance-acquires...
My experience is that tips certainly make for better repeat service. "Oh hey it's that nice lady comes in every week or two and always tips" gets a little extra something pretty regularly.
>"When Google goes out of business.."

Losing access to the account is bigger concern. You need backups, wherever you store your important files. I wish Google made it easier to make incremental backups of Google Drive.
You say this on a thread that confirms Tether to be an unmitigated fraud. How and why are we supposed to trust in USDC, USDP and all the other permutations of USD to not be frauds themselves. It is easy to give a 10% return when all your really doing is offering unbacked IOUs
> capitalism to develop and grow while relying on force (through coercion, intimidation, violence, discrimination...) for "efficiencies"--for the greater good.

This is why the entire PoW/force labour accusation is entirely stupid.

Undereducated/underqualified Uyghurs with poor mandarin skills are frankly shit workers that's a massive hassle to exploit for economic efficiencies. There's a reason XPCC had a hard time developing XJ. On top of onerous security, movement, reeducation and other requirements, the amount of money poured into these labour transfer programs for Uyghur worker opportunities are much better spent on Han/other integrated minorities. It doesn't pass the most basic of smell test except by useful idiots who don't know the economics behind labour transfer programs, that again, affects 10s of millions from every province (45M across country in just 2000s). There are 100s of millions poor rural Chinese idle workers with prerequisite language skills that could fill theses roles easier and cheaper. XJ labour transfer is an expensive privilege - these programs are publicized by CCP loudly as wank for poverty alleviation, which is what they are considering the amount of subsidies required to rationalize giving XJ these programs in the first place. It takes extreme ignorance and brainwashing to misconstrue it as PoW slave camps for capitalism. Which is what you'll find on wikipedia citing propaganda sources that some people post like it's impartial while claiming anyone who disagrees is a wumao.
Simple vehicle safety alerts as effective as complicated warning systems
We've at least tried to break up the telecom one before?
European* idea of good service: take my order, serve me good food, accept my payment, otherwise leave me alone to talk with my friends. (*: can vary highly from one country to another.)

American idea of good service: promptly bring me water, promptly ask what I'd like to drink, serve drink quickly, promptly take my order, promptly serve my food, continuously check in to see if everything is ok, expect a tip.

Cultures are just a natural insult to each other. There is no real way to say, please check in on me more often to a European (their pay doesn't depend on it, they might humor you, but probably not). There is really no way to say, please leave me alone, without being insulting or not taken seriously.

Any idea of good service is heavily biased by norms of what service means in the first place. Some people will grow up with one sense of norm and immediately take to the other when experiencing it. Generally though, people growing up with one set of norms finds the other set obnoxious.
Then again, the title of the post says "practically free" and goes on to say it's actually $5 a month, so I took the rest of the figures with a grain of salt...
We only notice the most obvious instances of cancel culture. Those are attempts to cancel someone popular. If he had an audience of 2 people (or 3 including his mom), nobody would be talking about it now.
At the end of the day several things made fexprs unnecessary.

One was the development of the macro which offered more powerful syntactic transformations (i.e. greater expressive power) in a simpler way.

The second was that they weren’t really powerful enough to provide metasyntactic extension at runtime.

You could get a lot of that power by running the macroexpander at runtime but I’ve never seen anyone do that…because who really needs it?

I worked on the 3-Lisp implementation at PARC. What I realized was that while indeed it unlocked the power to write metasyntactic operations (I.e. special forms like new control flow) it turned out the same set of existing control flow operators (e.g. cond, booleans, throw) seem to be adequate. The overhead (cognitive and in the implementation) of fexprs isn’t really worth the ability to do things like lazy evaluation and generators when there are already perfectly adequate mechanisms available
The viewfinders in mirrorless (at least in Canons) are all electronic. I know, it sounds weird, I know it sucks up battery life, I know there are concerns about lag. However, I resisted them for a long time until I actually used one.

They're pretty awesome, I recommend anyone that they're zero issues, and yet, I still don't feel right about them.
In many zones of Berlin the Buses are mostly full electric right now with some backup on Diesel, especially in Winter time or hotty summer days.

But I guess buses are and will be allowed still allowed in the new plan
Had a relevant interaction just yesterday. Made it to a place about 5 minutes before closing without realizing it myself. But once inside, it was clear they were getting ready to lock up.

They insisted they were happy to make my order, and I insisted the meal was worth about 3x what they charged.
BPI-M2 Pro vs BPI-M5 vs Odroid C4 vs RPI 4
Future will tell. But the author is either acting on bad faith or they are not informed on the innovations that happened since then and are currently happening in the crypto space. And I am not even focusing on NFTs but on hardcore crypto stuff such as multisig and zero-knowledge proof protocols.
didn't you post on the 'dex a few years ago? (just curious, seen a similar username in some older threads)
>It's one thing to have a preference, and another thing altogether to lie about the things you don't like to bolster your preference.

step back for a moment and realize that you're calling another human a bullshitter and a liar about their preference in cooking equipment. They're explaining their anecdotal position on the matter -- not teaching a college course.

I'm a big cook, i'm always in any cooking related thread on HN -- I never see the crowd rile up as much as when induction hobs are ever mentioned. It's strange to me that induction hobs create so much conflict and illicit so much passion from both sides of the aisle..
> they keep showing up asking if I need anything, refilling my glass unprompted

Generally in the US these kinds of things are “mandated” by management or corporate offices, especially in retail stores and chain restaurants.

When I worked in retail I HATED bothering people who seemed like they were fine browsing without any help. But of course one time someone complained because they weren’t greeted within 3 seconds and didn’t receive white glove service, so at the door greetings and constant check ins became the standard practice even when most people don’t care.
I agree entirely, and I do think it's important to only be required to give source to those you give binaries to. I just didn't want to nitpick that particular distinction here.
I don’t know, if you look back into the history of heresy especially the origins of the usage of the word it really seems like mutually ignorant people having bike shed arguments about mostly inane differences about the meaning of one abstraction or another and abusing each other as a result.

Heresy is about elevating your opinions into moral imperatives so you can say people that disagree with you are evil, with the added note that the opinions would usually be entirely inconsequential if you were more relaxed about the whole thing. (I’m looking at you, people who killed each other over the “real meaning” of the holy trinity)

Heresy isn’t about the mainstream, but about fanatics in power obsessively gibbering over details to try to own concepts, or just to keep up their power.
Enlightenment might be what you're looking for (not the old e16 which is still maintained but the successor which was called e17). It has quite a bit of eyecandy, looks good and there is a tiling module.
>Seems unnecessary to nitpick innovation between the disciplines.

Cool technology has no value if all it is is cool technology. The important question is whether it enables something that wasn't possible before that technology. I have not seen a convincing example in which crypto does that.

>DLT-based deposit debtor accounts being offered by the government was one that I thought would be pretty great.

For example, how is this improved by using a distributed ledger here especially considering that this program would already be centralized by the government?
> Winner take all elections ( single person wins per constituency) is still fundamentally flawed, because it disenfranchises too many people. Even with ranked choice, there will be "losers" who didn't vote for the winner, and nobody represents them and their choices and wishes. Proportional representation deals with this.

Proportional representation brings a bunch of different problems and is much harder to achieve in the US because it would require federal constitutional changes, whereas you can change the voting system in a state with a simple majority of the state legislature.

And different voting systems fix this. Suppose you have single representative per constituency with STAR voting. Then there is no "you didn't vote for this person" because you vote for everyone in degrees and the candidate who best represents the district wins.

Now suppose you're a minority constituency. You're 5% of the population, dispersed all across the country. With the existing system, a candidate willing to murder you in order to lower gas prices by 1% for everyone else can win the election with 95% of the vote. This is also the result you get with PR, because the "don't murder me" party gets 5% of the representatives, a coalition government forms in which they are not a part, and you get murdered.

But with STAR, the candidates who commit to not murdering you get the highest possible score form your demographic and the ones who want to lower gas prices get the lowest possible score. Since there can be a hundred candidates running, this will plausibly be the main difference between two of them, and a 1% difference in gas prices isn't enough to significantly change the scores people outside your demographic give to the other candidates. So the "don't murder me" candidates win everywhere and constitute the entire government no matter how the coalitions shake out.
I think that taxation should be simple, unopinionated, and minimal.
They don't know. But a culture of tipping leads the average server to have faith that such things will balance out in the end.
that's why I was genuinely asking.

You weren't asking, you were saying it wasn't necessary, which you did in the sentence right before this one:

Also, you can use normal (non-file-backed) memory to do the necessary synchronization (lock-free or not).

Again, this is just a repeated claim, it isn't an explanation. How do you have two processes writing to the same place in memory without memory mapping a file?

have two processes read() and write() _directly_ to the same memory

I didn't say read() and write() I said read and write as in reading and writing with memory addresses. Again, this is all about lock free interprocess communication. You can't write outside your own memory from a process with normal permissions so how do you share memory with another process?

You memory map the same file. This isn't about the file being written to some sort of persistent storage, that happens on the OS level and doesn't interfere with two running processes communicating with each other. The file can be deleted after the last process closes it. It is just a way for the two processes to have memory mapped into their virtual memory space that overlaps with each other.

You need to deal with memory directly so you can use atomics. You need to use atomics so you can avoid locks.

I thought you might have had some other technique that I'm not aware of but it seems now you were making claims without much behind them, which is disappointing.
Citation needed.

There is a common myth of consensus flat earth in the past, created and perpetuated by people who claimed they were "enlightened."
The fact that fexprs are not easily accessible in the major lisp and scheme dialects is quite unfortunate because it makes it difficult to express certain process structures. Like with all advanced language features they would have to be used carefully, but from reading Shutt's discussion of fexprs and interpreters it seems that adding them would move a language to nearly complete expressiveness.

There are invariants that you would like to be able to express as part of a specification for a process where the exact implementation is unknown at compile time. Further, the exact choice of implementation may depend on the runtime results of a previous step, requiring nested fexprs. There are many processes that are more naturally expressed in this way.

Consider for example trying to specify a function that transforms an environment from one where a package is not installed to one where it is installed. There are a huge number of ways that this might be implemented, and an fexpr can serve as a specification for the information that must be provided so that it can be carried out automatically, e.g. rather than specifying the name of the package, the name of the package manager, the name of the source repository, a dependency list, etc. that can all be ignored and instead a single function implementing install-package can be provided. Some of the simpler examples can be implemented using only first class functions and closures, however as soon as there are expressions where the evaluation of the arguments need to be deferred then you need fexprs.
Yeah it seems to be the interpretation of the examples differ between us, not the definition itself.

For the kneeling, the norm at the time was to play the game and pledge to the country. Then kneeling came in and it was controversial among a group of people that believed it should stay about the game and viewed kneeling during the pledge as a sign of disrespect. The other side viewed it as controversial to say something against those kneeling under their reasoning of racism. You could say people weren't against kneeling before but it didn't really exist so that wasn't a norm. Similar to trying to prove a negative, it doesn't make sense.

For the lab leak, it was banned from all social media sites under and anytime it was mentioned in mainstream news it was shot down as anti-asian racism. It was taboo and banned from discussion. Recently you can talk about it now. It was few months ago that permission was received. There was a big thread here about it. I can find it later today.
There may not be a next govt in El Salvador for a while. Their populist president seems intent on staying in power by any means necessary.
The only way to make wealth inequality go away is to make everyone poor. (This has happened in every society that tried it.)
Uhm it might be hard to use but I completely reject the "exploitable for crime" part. Actually Bitcoin payments are a blessing for all those people that had to physically travel to Western Union branches to receive cash from abroad. Gangs frequently targeted such poor individuals and stole their cash. Bitcoin fixed this.
> As a British person I can't even get a glass of water from US waiters!

Really? I'm curious what the breakdown is there. In most US restaurants you'll be asked almost immediately what you'd like to drink and then they typically keep it filled.
Surely you’d need a lot more water than lead?

At least you can be using the water though.
My preferred workflow would be:

- Camera unpredictably decides a lot by itself in an opaque fashion. I get useful automation for family photos.

- I get a RAW file if I want to decide something different or if I'm printing and framing a photo

99% of the photos I shoot fit in the former category, but the 1% in the latter is about equally important (1 framed photo is worth a lot more than a random cell phone snapshot).
The Audubon Society guide books aee excellent. We have one on marine mammals that is really fun to read.
> CloudFlair

I wanted to look up whether cloudflair.com was already registered, and apparently the registrar is cloudflare themselves. That's funny
I'm working on an automated crypto trading system. The goal is to prevent serious loses by using rules that should be safer than the way most people trade. I don't want to make something that fuels an addiction, but instead is skill-based.

Any opinions on this?
The problem you describe is poverty, not wealth inequality. While they are correlated, they are not the same. Some countries have less poverty and more inequality than others.
I got half a page of text then "To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in."

Gopher is starting to look pretty good.
According to https://subredditstats.com/r/antiwork the subreddit was almost empty 2 years ago, and the subscriber count only started going in the past few months.
Put the audio in a tool that visualises it (e.g. Audacity), should make the segments easier to pick out than scrubbing.
Signal goes worldwide with MobileCoin payments feature
Linear congruential generators in some cases can do that, though more often they are used to convert n bits of input data into a uniform distribution over a range from 0-m. For instance simulating chance in a game (dice rolls, or % probability).
>Apparently the new 400 Gb ethernet standard also uses PAM4

I am hoping economy of scale will drive the cost of PAM4 related technology. ( At leats tiny part of these standards ) That is both 200Gb and 400Gb Ethernet as well as 800Gb Ethernet in the future.

I cant wait to see Netflix pushing 800Gbps per box.
> It is enough to shut your argument.

It really isn't.

> I wasn't poor

I, I, I.

So if your personal anecdote "shuts down" my argument, then my personal anecdote of never having these problems sure as hell shuts yours.

What crypto peddlers don't understand is that:

- money transfer doesn't need blockchain in any shape or form

- restrictions and regulations exist for a reason, and these reasons are being rapidly discovered by all the people who are being scammed in the web3 space

- the moment money transfer over presents even a fraction of what banks routinely do, they will introduce same money transfers at a fraction of the cost (and they already have, in many parts of the world, but not because of blockchain)
Not the github frontpage, no. But the actual homepage points you here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBQHMnVMR41zZUZGF0bJ...
I have always wondered. Can you ask a receipt for a tip you pay in cash and then collect those and send to IRS? Like proper good citizen should?
Years past sunset? At work we have customers that use IE every day. These arguments certainly still apply, especially since IE isn't even EOL yet.
Interesting setup.

And with Rails, it appears that there’s a third party ActiveStorage adapter for BackBlaze.

https://github.com/jeygeethan/activestorage-backblaze

Direct uploading from client :
https://github.com/jeygeethan/activestorage-backblaze-javasc...
Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Don’t know about Facebook/Meta though
I know every use case is different, so this may not matter for most. But in my experience, the performance of B2 was quite poor in comparison to other S3 compatible options. It seemed like the crux of the issue was slowness in their API. Generating pre-signed URLs for file upload or download was quite a bit slower, resulting in a poor user experience in my application.

If you're just using it to upload public static content for your site, this shouldn't be an issue. But if you're dealing with private content it probably isn't the optimal solution.
Bookmark

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%s&sort=byPopularity&type=story

And add whatever keyword you want.

The magic is %s gets replaced with whatever string you add after the keyword.