skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> governments monitoring transfers of money.

Since there has been tax introduced for crypto, why couldn't the government do it for crypto as well?

Most crypto I am aware of is as public as can be, if you were forced to verify your identity then they could directly track your transactions as well. And any somewhat anonymous crypto could just be made illegal, you could theoretically still use it, but you'd still have a log that says you got money from nowhere, which I think could warrant an audit if done a lot.
Most of the now & then examples are both true now. The classic sets still exist and how children play with Lego depends on their personality and what they have available (and how it is stored). Children are individuals and Lego allows a larger variety of play than most other toys on the market.

My kids have a mix of classic & branded sets and the play area is a mix of designed builds and improvised creations. The favourite and larger sets stay in their own bags when deconstructed but most others are added to the common boxes, which are sorted by rough shape based on what we’ve seen stimulates free building. There are a lot of complex shapes but many of those are useful in free building. I’ve purposely bought some sets with multiple complex flats & bricks as they allow more creativity than just the basic bricks.

But I know other children who just like to follow build instructions or just like to play with the characters and that’s OK. That’s the flexibility of modern Lego.
I got that but you’re being disingenuous to my point by distilling it down to the gender of the author. I’d never suggest one should read or not read a book because of the gender of the author.

My point was that the sincerity and authenticity of the Nee Testament is comprised because they withheld accounts. Thus if you were to choose not to read it, it wouldn’t be because the authors were male, it would be because it lacks authenticity. I also gave other examples of how it lacked authenticity too so even that point about authenticity wasn’t just about gender.

So while you’re free to disagree with me, please at least disagree with the actual argument I’ve made rather than creating these straw man arguments that even I wouldn’t agree with.
I do not agree with the premise and the supposed relationships among these categories: "...there are three major actors in any sovereign community— the market, the State, and the society." And the end summary is basically a form of a case against state intervention into "markets" (in this case besides trade also society/culture).

A model not explicitly based on material and energy inputs into a territory (sovereign community) as the basis for a cultural and market forces emergence is in my view not going to be much representative of reality.
Oh please do. We can collectively have our mental health back from this contagion. Thanks!
I feel this is true.

Often conversations evolve from describing a first person experience "I went to the shops" to "you know, when you get there and XYZ.. and how you have to..." I feel a lot less receptive when this shift happens.

Another example "you should try fasting" instead of "fasting felt helpful for me".
I have two 24@4K and it's great. Unfortunately, Dell stopped making this model (P2415Q), in fact the second one I bought used because Dell had no more stock.
> All thanks to and started by Ethereum.

I think the scam goes all the way back to electricity and Edison!

Its a little bit disingenuous to blame etherium for NFT, its like blaming email for nigerian prince spam.
It might be worth looking into the 51nb motherboard replacements if you're up for some enthusiast tinkering.

I picked up an X2100 from Xue Yao last year and it's great to have modern components with the classic keyboard and chassis
I for one am glad that LEGO provides the girls series to get my daughter interested in building things with it.

The photograph of the girl building things with the universal bricks is just marketing, not a report from the 60ies. It does not imply that girls actually did that en masse.

Personally I remember building houses with Lego (so walls and a roof), but not much more. These days the Lego toys may actually be more fun.
Thanks for your detailed input!

I've been around people who were fired in Germany as well, both as what you described in 1) and 2).

2) takes a lot of effort, a lot of people and the negative effect of that person's performance on the rest of the team can be severely damaging too, that I wish we had at-will employment in Germany too sometimes, but it's there for good measures and I'm generally happy with it.
This is one of my favourite as well. I like the symbolism and how reading it at different stages in my life has given me different meanings.
Something sad of Japan IMHO, is that the national IC system works that well that credit card acceptance has been delayed greatly (and the whole banking system is a joke but that's a topic for another day). For the last 5 years every time I go back to my home country I see wonderful innovations and steps forward, while today you still find many places that don't accept credit card at all in central Tokyo, let alone tap-to-pay.

A good example on-topic is that I've heard that in London you can pay with your credit card straight away on the underground tickets, tap it and enter and then tap it to exit (and you get charged), no need to even buy tickets.

Note: I'm comparing this to Europe, I've heard that Japan is amazing compared to the US so I guess CC and payment systems in EU should be even more amazing for the US readers over here?
Some of the items here read less like lego changing, and instead as the person growing from a child to a parent, and their point-of-view changing (#2 and #3). Also the "now" in #5 does not even mention the modern advertising in it.

All in all, this article from 2014 seems have not other reason to exist but to attract hate-clicks.
They have much much better quality, but the resin is usually brittle compared with ABS.

Also it releases fumes that are extremely bad for children. There are quality resins but costing $100 per litter or so.

Today with 3d printers you just can print connectors and connect aluminum beams and wood boards to do whatever you want.

I teach children to cut wood boards with a fret saw and to mark holes that we drill super fast with a column drill machine.

They also know how to create basic shapes with the FDM machine, and print standard connector sets.

They have today way more advanced options that Legos.
> All the modern Intel CUPs have a RISC core inside..

This reminds of (yet another) mind-blowing Chris Domas video:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g
> In the next major version, they turned the warning into an error. Pretty understandable way to improve the language I would say.

Breaking changes (at runtime no less) are the worst way to improve any language. They should have created a new count method if they wanted to change behavior in a breaking way. Forcing millions of developers to comb through their code just because some designer doesn't like the way someone else does something is just narcissistic.

p.s. Semver isn't worth the shit paper its printed on, it can't even version itself and all it does is give shit developers shit excuses to impose their own naval gazing induced shitstorms on other developers.
This is definitely a backlash. I see a lot of specious arguments and strong statements that are usually generationizations focused on the negative. Like everything about crypto is a scam or money laundering, or that NFTs can never work in any way, definitely not interoperable metaverse assets, and all are destorying the environment.

People don't think clearly about this any more.

It feels how many committed Democrats talk about Republicans and vice-versa -- all nuance is lost and the other side is evil and there is no middle ground or understanding at all.

If you slam crypto or NFTs on Twitter, you will get tons of likes.

If you mention that there is a lot of work towards more environmentally friendly NFTs via L2 and other environmentally friendly blockchains that by definition means that it also has low fees and this addresses one of the core criticisms, I find that people just shift towards a different anti-NFT argument, or call me a name.

I think that a lot of people are anti-NFT because they hate them and all these explanations for the exact reason why they suck shift once you start talking to these NFT haters and engaging them.

It is okay, you are allowed to hate NFTs, but the core technology is actually really powerful and I expect it to completely explode within the gaming community when these low and no-fee blockchains take over from the very inefficient Ethereum L1 NFTs. Although in the later versions of NFTs and cryptos they will more and more resemble the traditional banking institutions (often real-names, hosted key accounts, fully audited, and probably at least somewhat reversible transactions and various limits to prevent fraud), rather than the Wild West they currently are.
>He is claiming to be what he is not

Yes, you are indeed. Here online talking about subjects you probably don't know so much about as an MD or medical PHD of any kind or quality.

Even you talking about the subject is totally fine to me. But here you are telling OTHER qualified people not to do the same?

The level of hypocrisy is mind boggling.
..and your country has not public care.
"The Pyramids were built by people with diminishing expectations" -- Gallagher
> Except the Credit Card Firm, my bank, and artists bank. All of which are required, by law, to keep records.

But they're not required to tell anyone whether a transaction happened.

> So if the artists try to go back on the agreement, he can be sued.

Sued about what? The supporters want the artist to keep the money, there are no legal conflicts here other than that the artist may lie that he/she is supported by particular people. Unlike in bank case, you and me and anyone else may see for ourselves who is supported by whom.
The article is bad too. I can't decipher this sentence.

> X11 is showing to be in use above 90% over the span of this multi-month data and on average seems to be about 93% currently to Wayland at roughly 7%.

If the chart was really supplied by the Mozilla Telemetry team then it's quite an embarrassment. When analytics is your profession you should know better than to do things like use red and blue alongside each other. Even if you're not colorblind, #afa7f4 (desaturated blue) and #98b4fe (desaturated purple) are hard to distinguish because Chrome says the contrast ratio is 1.06. See https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/ to learn more.
Holi shit! You weren't kidding.

Couldn't watch it beyond 5 minutes. But comments there was fun to read.
For some time after the talk, TED would send updated speaker agreements to sign, as they expanded the distribution channels for the talks – I remember signing an updated agreement for distribution via ‚on-demand DVDs‘ that people with insufficient internet connectivity could order for free, and also for in-flight entertainment on planes.
You mean, you didn't feel embarrassed in 2020 when people were all trying to find the next "food coin" advertising 10,000% APY to ape into?

Because no matter how many times misinformed critics call NFTs a "scam": there is something inherently honest about them: pay money, get a collectible. There are no financial instruments here that can be misunderstood.
Simple translation workflow for full-stack F# via IL inspection
I guess laravel + recent ecosystem might be different.
> This is one of the 'very few, very specific' use cases that blockchains are good at.

Blockchains are providing no value here, as the parent keeps saying.
> it could also be the fundamental attribution error I mentioned earlier.

It absolutely could be, you're right. On the balance of probabilities if it's _consistently_ happening to you, maybe it's not as simple as "I'm smarter than everyone else in the room".

> "This is overcomplicated. Why not just use a fixed rope?"

The answer to that is clearly demonstrable, and the analogy holds true. If you are an engineer designing a solution to a problem, you should be able to articulate _why_ this solution is necessary, and what problems it solves. If you're consistently being told that it's over engineered, and aren't able to refute that (as you're implying that this is humiliating for you), then maybe the solution is unwarranted.
Yes! The difference between how German employees who got laid off deal with the situation compared to bluecard visa holders, is stark, but not surprising.
The old having one's cake and eating it too.

I get the optimism there, but I just can't see how the incentives possibly give way to each other there. Just have to ask kindly that those manipulating the platforms for profit stop?
I say it can be very well all three. Just the groups involved are different.

It clearly is bubble with insane valuations for nothing on expectation of growth.

It is scam, due to wash trading and all other fun stuff. And fundamental way of trying to sell something worthless with implication that it will go up in value with rest of the bubble.

And yeah, point three is back to wash trading and laudering.
I associate TED talks with inserting a certain fantasy into the minds of people aspiring to be rich and famous, especially in the tech world.

The fantasy is: being on stage, a thought leader. Dressed ever-so-slightly-casual. Holding the clicker. A nearly invisible headset and mic, the little foam ball hovering. Hands raised, arms parallel to the ground. And... saying profound things.

At some point, conference keynotes started to look like TED talks. It became a burning, hidden desire of many: to be up on that stage, saying those profound things. Witness the number of LinkedIn profile pics that look like they were taken from TED talks. Thought leader! Public intellectual! So smart!

/s
Is it "revisionism" if we find that previous conclusions were just plain wrong?
Ubuntu's version of GNOME X11 handles it pretty well. You can workaround it similarly in other DEs/WMs by mucking around with xrandr (I forget exactly). I have an Nvidia card and last time I tried Wayland was just not usable. I also hate how at this point we have 3 choices for Wayland WMs compared to what is probably hundreds for X11. I did get frustrated with mixed DPI on Linux and just ended up replacing my 4K monitor with a 1440p one.

What's also kinda sad and funny is that X11 has had from day 1 support for different DPIs on different displays. But most programs just ignore X11s DPI setting and assume it's 96ppi. It also conflicts with modern multi-monitor on Linux which essentially fakes one giant display so you can drag windows across. There is some drawbacks but if you config each monitor to be a separate X11 display with the proper DPI and use compatible programs like Alacritty it kinda just sorta works.
Simple answer: Use tree if you need range access or to get elements ordered by key, and use hash otherwise.

More nuance:
- hashmap may be resized if it's over capacity, the resize may cause a latency spike.

- hashmap is essentially a single random memory access, tree is a couple of accesses but they are not random

- tree is a bit like a sorted array with fast inserts/deletes. Some trees, like leveldb, are in fact sorted arrays (plus some tricks, of course)

- if you use b-tree, you are more memory-efficient (but less cpu efficient), and access to nearby elements is almost free. That's why b-trees are used to store data in a permanent memory

- there are many other tree variants, each of them with different trade-off
Community discussion about DNS4EU, a European public DNS resolver
Empiricism has context. It was weaponised by a crackpot senator in Queensland who doesn't understand science and used as a cudgel to fuel his rants. His point appears to be that nothing he can't understand can be true, and since elected (upper house elected, party ticket elected, not actually individually elected) he is the arbiter of truth.
> Someone has probably invented fractional reserve banking for crypto, but most crypto users don't want to deposit their crypto into such a system.

Actually, by many accounts, Tether (USDT) has been based on some kind of fractional reserve (nobody can prove that or disprove that), and USDT happens to be the top (?) stablecoin in use.
We've tried keeping our hundreds of docs organised to no avail but what has worked for us for some time now is to describe that document as well as possible in the title :

Eg: Ju brazilian Birth cert translation + original 2019.pdf

Then we just have Everything running in the back ground and search for whatever we need using that as it indexes all your files in real time and is very lightweight.

Everything is lighting quick when it comes to filtering a list of file names so we usually find what we need in a couple of seconds... Super easy to pull up too as they offer a global short cut key. Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E in our case...

https://www.voidtools.com/en-au/support/everything/
> MCAS is a longitudinal stability enhancement. It is not for stall prevention (although indirectly it helps) or to make the MAX handle like the NG (although it does); it was introduced to counteract the non-linear lift generated by the LEAP-1B engine nacelles at high AoA and give a steady increase in stick force as the stall is approached as required by regulation.

> The LEAP engine nacelles are larger and had to be mounted slightly higher and further forward from the previous NG CFM56-7 engines to give the necessary ground clearance. This new location and larger size of nacelle cause the vortex flow off the nacelle body to produce lift at high AoA. As the nacelle is ahead of the C of G, this lift causes a slight pitch-up effect (ie a reducing stick force) which could lead the pilot to inadvertently pull the yoke further aft than intended bringing the aircraft closer towards the stall. This abnormal nose-up pitching is not allowable under 14CFR §25.203(a) "Stall characteristics". Several aerodynamic solutions were introduced such as revising the leading edge stall strip and modifying the leading edge vortilons but they were insufficient to pass regulation. MCAS was therefore introduced to give an automatic nose down stabilizer input during elevated AoA when flaps are up.

http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm#background

The following debacle of only relying on one input, trying (and still trying) to blame the pilots, a 1960's designed system, not declaring it as a safety critical piece to reduce review and so on is well documented.
This reads exactly like the comments on conspiracy theory subreddits like Superstonk.
Diversity and Inclusion is only for those who never disagree with the Consensus
I decide who I want to welcome in my home. I believe Thailand, Russia, Brazil, Germany are completely free to do the same and fix their own rules.

But you don't. Take the US, for example. Everyone born there is a citizen. Everyone born to an American parent is a citizen (or can be). None of the folks get a choice in where they were born, or what nationality they get. And you have all sorts of folks - people that will rape you and your family, and others that will give you food without going through a means check. You don't get to choose what the child next door will become any more than you chose your next-door neighbors.

Yet somehow, keeping out "the others" is giving you a choice? You don't even get real say who they keep out and who they let in. It isn't choice at all, I think.
If the movement of people was equally balanced and not one way between countries I don't see how that would be a big deal.

It is easy to say it ought to be equal but then the resulting flows need to be equal too.

Likewise it does seem like maybe the country with the worse off passport etc maybe be worse off but its likely there are rules preventing open and complete investment in, e.g owning land without 99 year leases, 51% ownership rules, outright restrictions on foreigners etc to match more open countries too (typically the ones with stronger passports).
Not OP, but for a desktop, the AUR makes every single other Linux distro objectively hard to use. Also dpkg is slow and breaks more than I would like.

I should also mention I do in fact use Arch btw.
Or, and here is a crazy idea, maybe they use a dedicated security chip to improve isolation and achieve better security?

Don't know about apple, but the AMD security firmware has been reverse engineered and no backdoors have so far been found.

https://github.com/PSPReverse/PSPTool
Trying to buy lego for kids these days is a nightmare.

I went looking for a spaceship lego set. Just a simple rocket or something.

Instead it's heaps of adult themed/Star Wars/NASA licensed stuff. The alternative seems to be a bucket of standard bricks.

The adult orientation of LEGO these days makes me hesitant to buy it.

I don't mind Adults having LEGO sets, I do mind if that becomes so lucrative it stops kids being able to enjoy it.
I'll never understand why everyone went this way instead of extending the X11 draw pimitives to something that can actually be used by modern UI toolkit, like svg. People always claim that pixel buffers are more efficient, even bandwidth-wise, but I've yet to see a proof that "here's a bunch of pixels" is more efficient that "draw a gray rectangle (x0,y0,x1,y1)".
This is really cool, but maybe I'm too dumb to know what I'm actually doing with it. It would be nice if you could add some texture or some color gradient or some other pattern to make it more obvious what's going on.
I'm absolutely aware that there are other possible solutions, although I doubt any of them are as practical as a smart contract blockchain solution.

Given that you seem to think that it's not that hard, I wonder if we have a different understanding of the requirements here.

We're trying to make the payment process more transparent and verifiable as a way of increasing trust. You say that we can do that with a database that allows some open access. I don't really see how.

For example - who runs that database? If it's the company that offers the insurance, it's a nonstarter - it doesn't help with trust. If it's some third party, then it's precisely as useful as the trust the customer has in that third-party. Such an approach could work, but in my opinion brings with it more difficulties than a blockchain solution in most cases.

Even if we do find someone trusted to run the 'database with some open access', there's still the question of being confident that payments are made according to the data in the database, and that the data in the database is updated according to the appropriate rules.
Web applications come in all shapes and sizes. If you have an application that just mediates data from database and exposes API to frontend then for couple of endpoints you don't even need router or any other packages, PHP has lots of stuff baked in. You just check if the request is GET/POST/PUT/DELETE/PATCH, work with data, output a header 'Content-Type: application/json', send the data and be done with it. Or output a html template with data or whatever. Or you can not use templates and mash it all together in PHP which already is a templating language. You can do it as simple or complicated as you need.

And then if you start needing additional functionality you can start adding packages with composer one by one. Of course it'd be stupid to build your own version of Symfony with it, but the beauty is that you can stop at any point you want if it covers your needs. This sort of thing would be much more hassle with say Java, without using any frameworks.
The Framework laptop has the best idea, IMHO. It just gives you a bunch of USB-C ports, and enhanced "dongles" that are designed to be physically secured to the case rather than dangling from it - hence avoiding wear on the ports themselves.
> The supporter could ask bank to mail him a receipt from the transfer. And then show this transfer or have it notarized in most extreme case. Thus proofing he made it. We already have solutions for this.

No one will believe the supporter. The receipt may be a fake text he/she made.