skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But do you really access them in a decentralised fashion?

Imagine a pariah state where you want to evade heavy inflation by acquiring some trusted and agreed upon “store of value”, let’s say btc.

Assuming you don’t want to run massive covert mining rigs converting your local energy to btc you need an exchange, which can be regulated in the same way the dollar exchanges are regulated.

You could argue that you can onboard people to btc by illegal barter, but for that you need major gatekeepers aquiring the btc or running said mining rigs in the first place. Maybe ransomware extortion might be an alternative. They then have to be willing to distribute those deflationary btc to the people by exchange against goods or inflationary cash without adding a big premium on top.

Of course I am oversimplifying,
but it’s not as easy as one would think.

And we haven’t even touched on what a dystopian place this country will be when a completely public and auditable database of cash flows will be the ledger of choice in an autocratic (or any) country.

Also, a question always worth asking when talking about blockchain:
Where would you store your unrecoverable password to your life savings-account? Does your hair-dresser might know the amount of your life savings because you paid your last haircut with btc?
Your smart contract is only smart inside your Blockchain.

As soon as you use it for anything outside of it, you have the same issue.

How do I proof to someone else that I did what I should have done to get paid? By trust. Your smart contract can't verify that I did my part of the contract if it is outside of the Blockchain.

So what did you win?

Nothing.

Now you can work up a network of trust but you know this concept is much older than crypto and doesn't need a Blockchain.

And certain blockchains are looking for trust worthy entities to decentralize their own blockchains.

Now you even splitting up your trust in independent trust areas.

Do you know what trust system already exist? Which unites a lot of people? And is based on PoS?

Our current fiat and geopolitical system. Is it perfect? No. But we develop this system for a long time now
I think this is going to expose the core problem in Europe, that the political classes of the "liberal" member states are just giving lip service to the "fraternity equality liberty" crap and care no more for free speech or free association than their "authoritarian" neighbours.
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Everytime I read the chapter in K&R, I first get a headache, then I think I understand it, then I think I dont understand it, but it is something very easy (just follow the circle rule). Then next year the cycle repeats.
My parents aren’t “rich” - my mom is a retired school teacher and dad a retired factory worker. They retired at 55 and 57 respectively. They now in their late 70s. But they have helped me get over a lot of fuckups.

- a wrecked sports car because of carelessness when I was young with more dollars than sense.

- they never complained about me being a graduate school dropout.

- a dumb first marriage and a financially draining divorce

- a side real estate business that ended around 2010 (do I need to explain?)

This was all before I turned 35. I got better. I would have been in far worse shape if it weren’t for them.
Stupid issue, but : if you are in a really bad shape and obese, making a push-up (or even something slightly resembling it) is really hard, when simple weightlifting exercises are almost always possible.
Braess Paradox
Ask HN: Chrome Extension to get a screen recording of last 10 minutes from now.
Let's say you are testing an app in chrome and you found a bug.
Next step will be to replay those steps and record a video. The extension can help you get the last 5-10 minutes along with logs and network calls, saving you from reproducing the bug.
Anyone interested to use it?
I you feel that the actor is an important part of the sentence, you can include it in passive voice as well: “However, it was attacked at Pearl Harbor by Japan, and then chose to enter the war.”
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No, BTC is not functionally a currency and hasn't been since the silk road era. Effectively no one is buying goods and services with BTC, it is a speculative asset. Even Musk stopped taking BTC payments for Tesla because of the astronomical fees and incredible long settle times.

"You could build an online currency with a database much more easily than blockchain but people won't use it because it relies on a central authority to maintain the database and not enough people will trust that central authority not to misuse their power."
Credit cards run 100% of online transactions and do a fantastic, quick, and cheap job of it. Crypto isn't creating something wholly new, it is attempting to compete with a network that charges 1-2% fees, works in seconds, and handles 1 BILLION transactions a day. With BTC you can't predict the fees or the transaction time and the network handles ~40k transactions a day, at extreme cost. Crypto currencies get more inefficient as more nodes come online (hence the proliferation of "side-chains" for games that need to actually, you know, make a non trivial number of transactions per second) and so they fundamentally break at scale. And don't try to spout some line about Proof of Stake, Ethereum will continue to push back the migration until the heat death of the universe.

Now you will probably respond that credit cards use existing currencies and the fundamental shift here is that this is an "online currency" vs "online payments". To the average person this is a distinction without a difference. Really this is fundamentally political, an (openly stated!) war on the Dollar, the Euro, the Yen, etc and the associated governments by anarcho capitalist Libertarians who want to trade bureaucratic government services with profit-driven corporate services
My personal development should not be driven by my work.

Personal development means more than sitting in front of a tv.

I want to need to work less so I can be productive for myself.
BitKeeper used a seekable compressed file format for revision control data. It allowed a data-structure to be dynamically loaded on demand without needed to uncompress the whole file. A large empty memory buffer was allocated and then read permission was removed with mprotect(). Then a signal handler populate regions of that buffer with data from the compressed file on demand using the ability to seek to certain boundaries.

This change achieved a 10X speedup on normal operations compared to the old code that used SCCS files.

The compressed format stored data blocks in arbitrary order and then the index at the end of the file gave the data layout. Then allows write to the file without rewriting. BitKeeper itself only needed to append to the end of the file, but the format could support inserting data in the middle by only appending to the physical file.

It also had a data redundancy CRC layer that could detect data corruption and recover data from some types of corruption.

https://www.bitkeeper.org/
https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/src/l...
https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/994fb651a404...
"democracy of corporations"? Misnomer much?

Demos - means people. Corporations are dead entities - corpses. They have a sort of life, even though they are not alive.

Still, perhaps this is closer to the truth. The people who run corporations, get to decide what those corporations do. The corporations are just a buffer to actual individuals.

Also, its worth noting that we do not have (and never have had) democracy.

Democracy is where people make the decisions. All the decisions.

What we have is a system where we vote in people who represent us - or so it is claimed. They politicians we vote in, re-present us (read 'serve us up') and make decisions on your behalf.

PS Wikipedia is hardly a bastion of truth. But you can see a section called 'Corporatist economic system' which indicates (lightly) that corporations were a part of the control system. I would say that these apparent distinctions are a show - especially nowadays. The corporations, governance system and the media (that is apparently holding someone to account, but are really about mis-directing the conversation) are all part of the overall governance structure.

PPS In the City of London, things work as you say - corporations are able to vote.
At some point, it will have to evolve beyond learning from human labeled (or even just collected) examples to learn by its own open ended dynamics and self-directed experience. This is analogous to the original AlphaGo bootstrapping from records of millions of human played games, to AlphaZero learning to play Go purely from self-play.
Future historians will laugh and cry knowing we invested trillions and boiled the oceans for the sake of a useless append-only log.
The commission members are appointed by the elected governments of the member states(one each) and need to be approved by the European Parliament. Let's not portray it as if they are clerks of an external organisation.

Anyway, if the MP's were simply rubber stamping whatever the commissioners propose, what they were discussing for 16 hours? Obviously, the portrayal of unelected bureaucrats shovelling whatever they want down the throat of the people is false.
Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris (happens to be nephew of Melina Mercouri) have a detailed discussion on this, I recommend starting at 3′22″:

> We said it right back in February, that it was economic “shock and awe” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe], financial “shock and awe”, you sieze the assets of the Central Bank (at least half of them), you sanction the Central Bank so that they can’t operate with contacts with other Central Banks.

> The expectation was, and this is indisputable, because the briefing notes are all there, they’re still up there on the White House website, that that would mean that the Central Bank would not be able to support the Ruble, the Ruble would then go into freefall, that was what was said, Biden subsequently talked about it, you know, the Ruble becoming rubble, 200 Rubles to the Dollar, all that sort of thing, and of course it did not turn out that way at all.

> And the reason it did not turn out that way at all, is because Nabiullina [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira_Nabiullina] did her job as governor of the Central Bank, and prevented it from happening.

> She raised interest rates, I know this is controversial with some people, but I think as an emergency reaction that was absolutely the correct thing to do, she provided the necessary liquidity to the financial system, she made sure that the financial system was operating properly, and she held it all together. And she proved herself to be, this year, an extremely effective financial crisis manager.

> So we have a very stable situation with the Ruble. In fact, the problem with the Ruble at the moment is that the Ruble shows signs of appreciating too quickly. There is a massive amount of cash, of foreign currency swishing around the Russian economy, as Euros and Dollars pour into Russia from Russian energy sales.

> The Russians are prevented now from importing many goods, and of course they are afraid to take this money out and put it in foreign accounts because if they do, it could easily be stolen. So all of this money is piling up in Russia, and there are comments, some members of the government are saying, you know, we should convert it all into Rubles, others are saying, if we convert it all into Rubles that would make the Ruble too strong, it could go to 50, 60 Rubles to the Dollar, and that would not be good for the underlaying competitiveness of our economy.

> [...] and of course the other problem she has is that because of the massive, orchestrated pull-out of Western companies from Russia there are now gaps appearing in the Russian consumer market, there are problems in supply chains for Russian companies, and that is causing a fall in production. And that in turn, is leading into higher inflation within Russia itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgTcha5-Pj0&t=202s

Alternative: https://rumble.com/v11paoj-nabiullina-and-putin-discuss-the-...
The most valuable commodity in the world is trust. You can't buy it, it can't be manufactured, and it can vanish in an instant. Crypto currencies are used to take advantage of trust. Shamans have existed since the beginning of recorded history to take advantage of gullible people. Blockchain technology enables that on a global scale. P. T. Barnum was right.
TIL about Fastmail's "masked email" feature which integrates directly with 1Password to make it really easy to use unique email addresses when signing up for services.
>> Other proposed applications are mostly dumb / misguided,

That is the key. Crypto currency is a thing. I don't think that has a future either but whatever. All other uses are just hype and those applications make no sense except to fool investors.
>All that is needed is for the legal system to recognise blockchains as the canonical record of ownership of real assets.

Then theft via smart contract can't be theft because it acted on the canonical record of ownership. This also causes tons of other problems. What happens if someone loses access to their wallet? Now there's a house that simply can't ever be sold?
At most we might be obliged to kill the worst (and a lot of other non-crypto things) but killing all makes no sense when there's many with fairly neglible impact.
Deploy or Die
Your switch alone idles at almost 50W.
What would be the body of knowledge of a competently trained mechanic? The basic principles are simple enough that anyone with mechanical aptitude can pick up auto work without formal studying and the rest is complicated details of things that vary by manufacturer and vehicle.
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There seem to be three other guys who share my name who all think they share my email.

- One guy in London. I get monthly invoices from his daughters childcare centre and the odd email from his solicitor about his investment property. His wife replies to all of these CCing me in too.

- A Native American artist who gets a few emails to purchase his work. I don’t mind this one so much, I found his real email and forward everything on to him.

- Then there’s this other complete douche in the States. Emails about his car servicing reminders, all sorts of totally boring crap. One time I even got a flight booking for him. I though someone had stolen my credit card info and booked a flight in my name at first. I could click into it and change anything. I could have canceled it. I should have picked terrible seats or preordered the worst thing on the menu for him.
One fundamental principle in tcl is that everything is a string (EIAS) [1]. Therefore, an empty string "" is the same thing as a "null value" or 0-length list, but generally doesn't require any special treatment (your function that takes a list as input generally should know how to handle empty lists).

[1] In practice things are typed in the interpreter internals for performance reasons, but the language behaves as if EIAS.
Bitcoin disrupts fiat money. Having a hard money aligns the incentives for a lower time preference and thus more healthy and sustainable societies.
Sounds good to me. If they are proven to fail to deliver on "fraternity equality liberty", a political movement that demands it can catch fire.
You can also use it to buy goods from oversea retailers without paying exorbitant fees, bad conversion rate. If you live outside of America and Europe, banks charge a hefty amount of fees for international transactions.

The world is volatile. Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, and in the future who know if China and Taiwan won't become a crappy place to be. The needs to store your wealth and get out of the country quickly is very real. You can't just queue for ATM and holding dollars and gold bars come with significant risk of confiscation or being robbed.
> Let's just assume satellites can provide that data in a trustless way to the blockchain via some clever oracle mechanism).

> Instead of having a handwritten weak contract like the Paris climate act, you'd have actual enforceable code that can not be gamed.

I'm having trouble reconciling these two ideas.
> (but they're also being squeezed by European monteary policy so I can't blame them too much)

Southern European countries are actually being subsidised by the ECB’s monetary policy.
A hobbie with dates isn't a hobbie.

I also successfuly monetized my hobbies.
A day after he bought electric scooter, man killed in battery explosion
Here you go:

Mormot 1.18 (stable): https://github.com/synopse/mORMot/blob/master/SynCrtSock.pas

Mormot 2: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/blob/master/src/net/mormo...

https://synopse.info/files/html/api-1.18/SynCrtSock.html#THT...

https://synopse.info/files/html/Synopse%20mORMot%20Framework...

They have multiple client implementations. You can pick the one you like (THTTPClientSocket, TWinHTTP, TWinINET, TCurlHTTP, TWinHttpWebSocketClient).
A license that says that couldn't be classed as Open Source or Free Software, but maybe as Ethical Source.

https://ethicalsource.dev/principles/
I think it depends on your goals, but finding a hobby that you like that works you out as a side effect is probably better for you than straight weight lifting. Like, say, rock climbing.

Then eventually you can start doing other exercises (like presses, in this example) not for their own sake but to support your climbing hobby (with antagonistic training.)

There are a million examples. Don’t worry about being the most fit, start with something you enjoy that works you out a little bit and that you look forward to doing, and go from there. My humble advice.
No, it's the human condition, not limited to some special group called 'politicians'. Politics starts shortly after three toddlers get together. It's part of the continuum of social interaction.

The question is, how will we treat each other?
3x/week is fine and also much easier to attain than 6x. Rest days are important for muscle growth!

if you have the funds, spend them on a trainer who will both cause you to have an appointment to meet and also teach you what’s good and safe for you.

Go monday wednesday friday, take the weekends off. Do it for 3 months and you’ll never stop, or you’ll be able to reestablish the habit again if you do.
> How does content consumption work then?

simplified, there are two main branches:

- those who consume everything, kinda like maximizing the investment or "it makes me company"

- those who consume things that need to pass some kind filter

generated content would (maybe) reward the first group, but without some very good hit they will probably go back to downloading stuff, but not the second.

At least not yet and not in the foreseeable future.

There's a difference between computer aided content and computer generated.

Jurassic park wouldn't exist as it is without technology advancements, but the novel was already good.

Another example by Crichton is WestWorld. The original was written and directed by Crichton himself in 1973, the original movie is great, the second chapter is good, the tv-show is visually astonishing, but after 2 seasons, I stopped watching it. The material taken from the first two movies had ended and nothing really interesting have come out after from the writers (IMO).

Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a great book from 1864 and I honestly prefer the movie from 1959 than the its latest 3D incarnation from 2008.

Not because older is better, but because the 1959 version is more centered around the story and it aged better.

Probably because Indiana Jones hadn't come out yet and the director didn't try to imitate it.
The word "risk" is overloaded: https://www.optimizedportfolio.com/risk/

There's risk as measured by volatility. This is exemplified by the stock market - it's highly volatile, but has a higher expected return than the bond market. People who can't afford the risk of the stock market (because it's too volatile) put their money into the bond market, which has less expected returns.

There's risk of not meeting your retirement goals. There's risk of unemployment. There's risk of permanent loss of investment. There's risk that you can hedge with insurance.

> rich people there is very minimal risk since they usually have a safety net to fall back on.

Rich people have minimal _overall_ risk because they can afford to take large risky bets with positive expected return. This is because they have so much capital they can afford to take these bets over and over until the reward arrives (Kelly criterion). Poor people can't afford the risk, and therefore have to do things like pay for more insurance coverage, pay for extra warranty, or have a (relatively) large emergency fund.
Farewell to LabView
Well, actually -- and I think you'd agree -- he truly died whether or not he resurrected. So my point stands, death rate is 100%. ;)
Oh it's far worse than that. The next fundamentalist quasi-dictatorship in Romania, Poland or Hungary gets to decide what's illegal and immoral and therefore censored in Belgium and Sweden.
Lol, i'm not talking about scale changes, not subsidies! loloolol
Anyone else recently heard about this on the Uhh Yeah Dude podcast?
So, at no point did you consider that you were wrong in your base assumption and government does in fact work? Because it looks like you examined anarchistic alternatives to government, found them all worse than government, and then didn't do the (to me) obvious thing if updating your "government can be good" possibility.
None of these are experiments with the concept of money. You still transact in the exact same fundamental way as with traditional online payments, just 1000x worse.

99.9% of this "experimentation" is simply companies tying ownership of a token to a permission to access a web service. And the remainder of it are clueless tech brained morons finding ways to re-invent financial instruments (like residuals, profit splitting, and derivation) that have been around for hundreds of years. You don't have any new insights into financial systems, you just want to be at the top of the financial system and collect rents
Nuc sized both increases the spouse approval factor as well as generally putting out less heat and noise.
Imagine when they can limit the trade of crypto to people who have certain ideas. Or limit the percentage of your wealth you can spend on certain items (games, movies, ... food).

Many experts, including in this article, are describing that future. It’s why crypto and what not are a highly risky long-terms solution. If it can be abused, it will by a political actor at some point.
Musk mentioned this on twitter a number of years before, but it turned to not to be that practical with those radars.

That they were planning to remove radar was clear a while before but the electronic component shortage made it a higher priority problem.
There's a fantastic anime version with a very unique art style