skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll have persistently low rates until the US Dollar either crashes or is no longer the World's reserve currency.

The US can't afford an increase in interest rates.

With a debt level of 30 trillion, a mere 1% increase in the interest rate would mean an extra 300 BILLION DOLLARS would be required PER YEAR* just to pay that increase in interest. To put that in perspective, 300 billion dollars per year is roughly half of the huge defence budget.

A 2% increase in the interest rate would cause the the US to default, leading to a collapse of the US financial system.

* 30 Trillion Dollars = 30,000 billion dollars. 1% = 1/100. One hundredth of 30,000 billion dollars = 300 billion dollars.
I also wonder why life with a different chirality (if it ever existed) was outcompeted by known life, and could not co-exist with it.
All of a sudden? I've had those accounts for a very long time - I created them when I got an invitation to test the service (Gmail was in beta and not open to the general public.) The year was 2003, I think.
My point is exactly that though - the choice of cost function is subjective. There is no best cost function, just a mapping from costs functions to optimal strategies.
I have a feeling the idea is that the puzzle is an example of the game they are trying to have people sign up for. Seems like maybe advent of code but fantasy themed.
“We are “time binding” animals, as the American economist and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin put it in his 1987 book, “Time Wars.””

The concept of time-binding predates Rifkin by a few decades.

For a start, S I Hayakawa writes about Time-Binding Theory in this 1950 article “THE AIMS AND TASKS OF GENERAL SEMANTICS: Implications of the Time-Binding Theory (Part I)”

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42578071

For those old enough, yes, that S I Hayakawa who was a former US Senator representing the great State of California. Some California politicians go/are Hollywood, some write best-selling books about the nature of words, rhetoric and the psychology of humans. It’s quite a big state.

And Hayakawa is just expounding on the idea developed by Korzybski in the 1920s/1930s and discussed in the foundational text for General Semantics, Science and Sanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski

[General Semantics, which is still around, is perhaps the most mild-mannered populist intellectual movement produced by the 20th Century. If you’ve heard the phrase “the map is not the territory”, that’s General Semantics. If you wish to dig further, there is basically no emotional/financial/intellectual/psychological/social downside risk to pursuing General Semantics. There is no “ism” associated with it. It’s pretty close to an Absolute Good. Read Hayakawa’s books first.]
> all industrial equipment (including tractors) are classified as "unreasonably dangerous" and it is the responsibility of the manufacturer to prevent 3rd party modifications that may result in damages that could have been foreseen with the existing setup.

This is not necessary. We can choose to not do this. Also "could have been foreseen" carries a lot of water here. These products shouldn't be unsafe to make minor repairs on any more than they should be unsafe to operate.
If we reason from good faith and consider that this is intentional and not a bug, have you considered that Google did not implement "blocking suspicious 2FA" just to mess with you?

That perhaps this deals with a very real threat? Google has no incentive to make it difficult for you to log in, it's the exact opposite.
Red Cross appeals to hackers who stole refugee data
Same here. An important aspect of attraction for me is character, and I would harshly judge the character of anyone who, knowing that I was in a relationship, tried to lure me out of it; it would demolish any attraction that I felt for that person. In addition, I feel no dissatisfaction in my relationship that would tempt me to leave it, and in any case if it made sense to leave it then I would do so regardless of outside temptation.

Maybe some people need to impose this sort of restriction on themselves, in the same way that a recovering drug addict shouldn't keep drugs in the house if they have any hope of not relapsing. People should do what's healthy for them. And for such a person, perhaps it's alien to consider that others don't suffer such a temptation.
How the Princess Bride Can Help You Network Like a Pro
Ethereum is looking at the idea that nodes don’t need to store all the state and can prune historic data after a certain amount of time. They won’t even need to store the entire current state of the chain.

If someone wants to access resources that were pruned (ex: call an old contract), they will submit the state to the network along with a proof that the data is correct. In this model, you’d have to store the illegal content yourself in order to ‘rehydrate’ it into the current state of Ethereum.
Find a few videos on youtube, and download them to your phone/laptop with youtube-dl.
That aspect is significantly worsened if your country has had proper electronic IDs for nearly two decades. I laugh my ass off but also shed a tear each and every time some foreign provider asks for "identification". Security questions, electrical bills and selfies, medieval garbage. But I guess I should be happy fax usage has dwindled somewhat.
Do you have the link? I would be fascinated to read. The way you describe it sounds like it's part of the "drive-by complicated patch" category though.

I think we've seen recent languages that Strings are basically one of the hardest things to "get right". Just look at Swift and Rusts multiple attempts to implement strings even though the authors all had many years of experience of working with string implementations in other mature languages.

Python doesn't have the luxury of messing up strings, it was the number 1 reason that migrating from Python 2 to 3 took a decade. Unlike lower level compiled languages it can't stick in multiple string attempts and tell the users to pick one. So Core Devs are on the hook for maintaining any implementation for the life time of Python.

But maybe this example really was a concerted effort by someone willing to maintain Python strings for as long as needed.
Wow, that's awful. I wonder who's idea it was? Is it doing anything more than checking user agent (trivial to spoof), because if not that seems entirely hostile.
This 100%. It's the only way you can move your email between providers.

Of course, it just shifts your risk to the domain registrar, so don't use someone too cheap. It's worth paying a decent fee for decent service here.
Yea honestly this is that level of absurdity I find 100% believable on the internet
This particular non-peer-reviewed study cited is NOT controlled:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252086v...

We have no idea if it was COVID that was responsible for these symptoms (the most common of which is anxiety) or a response to COVID, like stress, or two weeks isolation after diagnosis, or the pandemic-related restrictions on social interaction.

This study attempts to isolate for the effects of COVID infection by comparing people with previous COVID infection, who were unaware that they had COVID, from those who were aware, and also people who believed they had a previous COVID infection, but that were confirmed to not have had it, and concludes most cases of long-COVID are misattribution:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Also, from TFA:

> Cognitive load is a concept from cognitive psychology, originally developed by John Sweller, that is generally discussed in relation to learning.

Not to mention the bulk of the article deals with cognitive load, as taken from psychology. Not "programmer" invented at all.
I'm a fan of dark mode but didn't believe it would happen anytime, tbh. I made my own setup with a mix of dark reader and stylus extensions. That's how it looks like on my side, if you wanna take some inspiration:

https://i.imgur.com/Xrth0xx.png

Honestly, your approach as seen on github, is too dark and contrastful for my taste. /2c
The flipside: I've recently been working with a company that was audited and called out for allowing too many security policy exceptions.

As a result, unless you can satisfy every one of their requirements, regardless of mitigating controls, you cannot get installed. Even if you're a security product whose ultimate use case is discovering in-progress exploits.

I'm not sure if that's an example of the system working or being broken. But overall, Information Security is a complicated problem.
A number of recent studies have investigated whether "long COVID" symptoms are more strongly correlated to a belief that you had COVID or to you actually having COVID. The basic answer seems to be that "Long COVID" is entirely an aftereffect of thinking you had COVID, and it (mostly) doesn't matter whether the patient was actually infected.
Yes. At the end of the following Usenet post, the developer of a Python implementation compares the language features of Common Lisp to those of Python in order to explain why Lisp code can be compiled to run much much faster than Python. The same kind of comparison can be done for JavaScript. The problem is a collection of Python features, each of which saps performance.

https://markmail.org/message/dp56i26zhpf4fehb#query:+page:1+...
> If you want real identity security, reg your own domain, and move it with you.

I'm pretty confident that Gmail is more secure than the domain registrar if you're really attacked. At least do your research carefully on this one. Domains do get stolen.

As always, consider your own threat model. But if you're a civilian? Wow, just hope you can walk away from the lockout.
One of the main reasons why I don't want to activate 2FA in my Google account is precisely because while I don't have highly sensitive data in that account, I do have lots of convenient things that I need in a day-to-day basis, so I wouldn't want to be locked out of my account. And 2FA provides more ways in which this can happen (for example, the smartphone with the authenticator program breaks). So now the option is either having the risk of being locked out because of 2FA, or having the risk of being locked out because of the AI being "angry" at us for not activating 2FA?
> … slower than the java solution.

!!

4.10s Java #2

4.11s C# .NET #5

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> … overall results, c# is about 25% faster on mandlebrot…

You say "overall results" but the webpage says —

"Always look at the source code.

These are only the fastest programs."
That's Internet Explorer levels of shortsightedness, my friend.
>Well since there is now all this extra living space in other places that is freed up, because all the high earners don't live in other places

That's the other weird assumption. My tiny-ass hometown has rents on par with San Francisco right now, because there are apparently enough high-earners who can now work remotely and want to live in a little mountain town.
There are plenty of ways to distribute and obtain revenge porn. Nothing unique and especially nothing efficient about blockchain. Blockchain isn't some special higher power, from a data perspective it's not substantively different than a server with media on it.

It's not the job of the software protocol to address social/legal problems. That's the job of governments and law. If the law in particular jurisdiction prohibits certain illegal content, then the node operating in that jurisdiction will be compelled to follow it, blockchain or not.

It is objectively better because one has an option and the other doesn't.

What option do you have if twitter _does not_ filter out media that you deem bad?

Conversely, what option do you have if twitter _does_ filter out content that is not objectionable to you?
Is there some way of co-opting the bitcoin network into calculating specific hash collisions?
> Where do you think this obsession comes from?

The US is a society founded by colonists who needed guns to protect themselves against the people they were enslaving and the people whose land they were stealing.
Putin is likely to invade Ukraine this winter
This is true in the US, too. GPs have become "procedure mills". It's almost as if management figured out they just have to put the right code on the bill enough times a day. Since no one is accountable for outcomes, money happens.
This is precisely the kind of comment that I come to hacker news for. Love it!
Relatedly, pica (the eating of non-nutritious stuff characterized as a disorder) is most prevalent in pregnant women.
Perhaps remote work doesn't lend itself to a well coordinated company?
But why are they working Sunday? ;-)
> She had a boyfriend, so that was out of the question.

I’ve always found this “blocker” interesting. I’m that way too but many, many men and women do not treat a significant other (on either side) as some kind of natural and impenetrable barrier to pursuing the object of their lust. Sometimes it goes nowhere, sometimes it blows up, sometimes it gets them what they (both) want.

I’m sure there’s a lot of cultural variation, but for myself, I think when I was younger this was way more about a lack of confidence than it was about morality. And now that I’m older I’m pretty sure it’s 99% “don’t want the hassle.”
what do you mean by guarantee for the future, why do you think that our universe have "guarantee for our future"?
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"Three wolves howling at the moon," might do it. :-D
The best (only?) way I’ve found to make same-sex (male) friends in middle age is to have a common interest to do together. Board gaming is what has worked for me. I have a group of guys that we get together to play board games on a regular basis.
There's some "edible clay" on Amazon ...
It's a common word? What's your source for that claim?
This isn’t really true. git is relying on the second-preimage resistance of sha1 rather than the collision resistance. There are few attacks that theoretically are enabled by finding Sha collisions, by they aren’t really practical.
You can buy Georgia kaolin and other soil and minerals intended for eating on Amazon.[1] Plenty of satisfied reviewers!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Grandmas-White-Dirt-Georgia-Kaolin/dp...
On iOS and macOS I just use the standard Mail.app. Works well and even push notifications work.
It's not that bad. It's very simple actually - your title means something in the context of your company but that same title can mean something very different in another company. I don't think it's problematic.
Good point - perhaps this belongs much more in the terminal emulator layer. I will have to investigate the options there!
I came here for the genetics.
The wordlist is more than well-known, the word for each day is predetermined. The entire game runs in the browser and the selected word is based on the date. Here’s a quick script based on any date you select: https://codepen.io/kevlened/full/NWaOmPw
Okay, I'll write back with three comments in case people want to sink their teeth into these responses distinctly :D

Your first argument: NFTs are primarily successful because crypto-holding individuals see them as a place to invest without cashing out.

On trend with all my answers, I think this is true to an extent too. But what it misses is a vibrant ecosystem of experimentation that is happening with NFTs below the easily visible surface. The ecosystem is driven by creative people and consumed by people that truly believe these are worthwhile experiments to undertake.

Just a few diverse examples:

- Loot provided NFTs that is simply your inventory in a yet-to-be-made game. The creator essentially said, here, this is an open, ownable, and composable building block. Now, the owners are stakeholders in the development and success of those games. Of course the people that bought these were already holding ETH, but many of those people think something cool is happening here. Otherwise, nothing will get built. https://hackmd.io/@XR/lootwars

- Sam Harris's plans to use the membership/association behind the rise of Pfps to create a community that gives away its wealth and then virtue signals that in ways to encourage others to do the same https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u_YeUyztgJhWgLZ9YJh6eVKZ...

- CryptoVoxels sell parcels of land as NFTs. Taken together, they generate a metaverse of spaces that the owners fill out with their imagination. https://www.cryptovoxels.com/ These people are passionate about something new and different, they are building.

I personally even find the memberships and DAOs driving many of the popular Pfps (e.g. Doodles, Creature World, Coolman's Universe) to be a bit contrary to your main argument. Many of them have highly active communities that you only get to be part of by owning the NFT. So for many, it's not really a place to park or spend their ETH. The economy of those closed communities is pretty fascinating. Recall, the NFT creators (core team) get a cut every time an NFT is sold. But it's not like the 5% is going to some artist's pocket, they are building teams of devs etc to world build. It's worth taking to pen and paper and figuring out the economic game being played between the core teams that build the community and the collectors/traders that want to be part of it. They are revenue generating creative organizations... let's see where they go.
Check out https://www.proofofhumanity.id/ For Sybil resistance on Ethereum
>All these things bring a lot of complexity without any real meaningful gain..

This assertion doesn't contradict the author's claim that no language is overall more complex than another. The usefulness of the complexity isn't part of the argument.

>At the opposite a language like Esperanto is really easy to learn..

Esperanto is a constructed/invented language, deliberately created to reduce complexity. It's implied that the author was comparing the complexity of different languages that evolved naturally.
Oh neat - I was doing some file matching on the weekend (check if files are the same by comparing size and SHA-256) and the file hashing certainly didn't help it's speed.
This should give me a nice speed boost.
It keeps locking out my printer for using LDAP. It's extremely annoying to go and re-check the "yes, allow 'insecure' access" every N months. I complain a lot in the box, but obviously nobody is reading them.
Those stalking devices might be harder to detect, but are they as effective as AirTag? IIRC the innovation behind AirTag is that they don't require network connectivity. The devices you mentioned might require cellular network or WiFi, and the former is linked to the criminal's identity and the latter is not available everywhere.
> I do wish it was easier to select text from the terminal screen without using the mouse.

I've recently gotten into the habit of running my xterm inside Vim. At any given point I can do a `ctrl-\ ctrl-n` and edit the entire terminal history in Vim.

Very useful.
Maybe it is possible to misunderstand my comment. I am saying the term seems unused in academic/technical papers around blockchain, which would support my assertion that it is non-sensical to claim that blockchains are supposed to protect against man in the middle attacks.
I am my own domain registrar.
If you look at the 3y chart, this kind of behavior is almost cyclical at this point. Dip in the first quarter and rise again by June. Btc is a long term asset.
"naturally Scott Meyers can't write books forever"

He surely can't.

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2015/12/good-to-go.html
If you want to go deeper, there is also bare-metal Go runtime for rpi (among others): https://github.com/f-secure-foundry/tamago
On your second argument, the rich get richer.

Again, it's definitely true... across the entire economy. In most of the economy, there are pretty much two parties that own the organizations. Those who create the organizations (e.g., founders and some employees) and those who invest in the organizations (wealthy entities). What's different in web3 is that many great projects are working to introduce a 3rd (or more) slice of the pie: the community. Some places to look for this are DAOs working on grants to underrepresented people, Gitcoin Grants & quadratic funding for funding public goods etc, any good token distributions for new tokens, or community-driven networks like Audius or Helium.

It's pretty early days, but I think lots of people _inside_ of web3 are working really hard on this problem.

Two really great Sunday evening links: This one is a fascinating argument to more precisely frame how speculation leads to innovation, so why the belief of investors is a good thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GNLPniic4. And this one, connecting crypto to a long thread of history (and economic access) https://overcast.fm/+kmaHgw-3s
If I remember correctly, John Ralston Saul made the point [0] that there is little observed difference in terms of the efficiency of decision making between large government and large corporations.

My personal experience is that large organisations and government are barely distinguishable. This is often excused in the name of "risk mitigation" - but in my experience it's really just that there are more snouts in the money trough, and that politics is more important than success. The close ties between government and the largest organisations also invite a similar culture.

The end result for both government and large enterprise is "hard, slow and very custom". (Of course, there are exceptions in both government and enterprise).

[0] http://www.johnralstonsaul.com/non-fiction-books/the-unconsc...
Are they a major that we're likely to stumble across in day-to-day use?
So what’s the line in a typical software org? I’m a senior engineer currently, and am looking to move up to Software Architect as a career path. Is it instead more reasonable to see it as Senior -> Staff -> Principal -> Architect? Do I have this wrong mentally?
Not everything is mental illness, but dyslexia, ADHD, and other disabilities cause learning problems.

Many flat earthers are illiterate. I can't imagine they put a lot of trust into a system that would not think very highly of them, as a result.
oh no - I agree with you, yet this is very important. You see, in many USA companies, for decades now, people are asked to do work that is outside their job description, answer emails at all times of day, night and holidays, while health care benefits, stock options and other direct compensation are carefully withheld. It is the title that gets the compensation, not the person. This discussion appears "Kafka-esque" because it is inconsistent. To say that it is meaningless misses important parts of the context.
Lesbian here. My closest friends have been straight men for years. I'm also a software developer so that's who I'm mostly surrounded by. The women I am friends with are usually 1) straight and 2) do not typically share my hobbies and so our conversations tend to be more shallow. However when I was in high school my closest friends were female. I have no idea if my experience is common or not.

Also not to nitpick but non-binary has absolutely nothing to do with being gay or lesbian. It's not the "third" option. You can be gay and non-binary.
They want us to be compliant, not secure:

https://www.go350.com/posts/they-want-us-to-be-compliant-not...