skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the majority of tech people have a hard time coping with the fact that there is something they can't grasp while some others do.

What's hard to grasp? The "blockchain" is just a Merkle tree, like git, which much of the industry uses every day. You build a tree of hash codes by using the hash of the old tree as an input to a new tree. It's a clever data structure and you can do cool things with it.

All the blockchain adds to this is a distributed consensus system. This allows deciding what the HEAD of the tree is without needing a central, authoritative server. But honestly, in 99.9% of applications, an authoritative server maintaining HEAD is fine. Pay some law firm or specialized clearing house to do it.

The only other aspects of crypto is that it creates a deflationary currency with ruinously-high transaction costs, plus a permanent public record of every transaction. Oh, and starting with MtGox, most of the immitation "banks" have periodically disappeared with everyone's money. This is usually followed by Bitcoin users angrily demanding government fraud investigations.

In the meantime, all those proof of work contributions contribute to global warming.

Back when Bitcoin was new, it was an adorable technological dystopia that amused libertarians in tech. As long as it was basically real-life science fiction roleplay, it did little enough harm.

But then "crypto" promotors started treating it like some kind of timeshare condo scam, and started advertising heavily to elderly non-technical users. And all I have to say to that is, if you don't want to get treated like a timeshare scammer, don't act like one.
The bank still needs to KYC and have loads of ID. I actually don't want my bank using my phone or my address as a recovery mechanism, neither of these is particularly secure.
Maybe we can do a similar one for programmers working at home?
Or a horror sci-fi novel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel)
For anyone interested iOS also has some of these sound recognition features built in.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphf2dc33312/io...
> If you aren’t receiving support from Shelter or one of our other partners, you won’t be able to access the No Fixed Address programme.

I mean basically this should be called "We Let You Use Our Partners' Address Bank Account".
> I genuinely believe many people who prefer working in an office versus at home have unfulfilling social lives or bad home lives.

Feels like you are mixing a lot of stuff together. My desire to interact with my collegues about our field of work has nothing to do with my social live outside of work.

It's not like I'm going to talk about new C# 11 features during our Sunday barbecue or at soccer practise. Of course I can go to a meetup or invite friends from tech to a pub, but that's not gonna replace 40 hours a week of "random interaction" with my colleagues. Maybe I'm just lucky and have great colleagues that are fun to interact with? Hard to say ...
> i don't really agree with this - the money used to purchase financial products don't disappear, because for every product bought, there was a seller. This seller now has cash, which would be invested elsewhere.

And buying stocks is financing real projects, and you only get those returns if they manage to do something actually useful, this is helping to finance and promote economic activity, how is that taking money away from the "real" economy?
My argument, around knowing the future, which is 100% correct, as none can. What is your argument? Crypto doesn't work because you said so?

My point is that people presumably smarter than you, have in the past said things which turned out to be wrong. So then what evidence do you have other than your words?

At least I brought a quote to illustrate my point. You brought a subsequent explanation by the author why they were wrong. I'm expecting the same from you, in 8 years, saying how you were wrong. Thanks ahead of time.
Have a read of any of the Amateur Radio books and magazines over the past hundred years or so.

There are no shortage of simple Analog transmitters which meet FCC specs.
As someone who studied Latin at high school and a semester of Ancient Greek at uni, I appreciated this exchange enormously. It's what brings me back to HN several times a day.
AFV encompasses everything from armored combat engineering vehicles to tanks.
I think we’re mostly in agreement here, I just found it important to distinguish the original idea from the numerous questionable applications that have been developed in its wake.
Much is still being said in person or calls, because talking is much more efficient than writing, so ... no, we don't "have proper record of everything said and done."
Your comment arrogant so I expect you will get badly down voted. It is also fundamentally wrong, so I will comment nevertheless. Maybe I can save some poor soul from this naive ideology.

The question is not really about what are the downsides of FIAT money. All solutions have problems. Even if cryptos could solve all problems that FIAT has, that does not mean it is a better solution to the problem that FIAT solves.

The question is really about what problem money solves in the first place. The foremost purpose of is to distribute resources. Money is a completely social construct that does not have any value itself, all value is derived from the promises of those who have resources make. Real world resources, like oil, are what ultimately matters. As a side note, this is also why the Russian sanctions don't really work as well as some people hope for, and they are ultimately a bad idea.

Anyways, I think it's fair to say say that the current financial system has been extremely successful compared to any earlier financial system, such as the gold standard. Everyone who understands finance even a tiny bit knows that a system with finite money supply like gold does not solve the actual problem the current financial system is solving. It may solve some issues that money has, such as efficiency, transparency, and transfer costs, but as a tool for distributing resources it's useless.

So the comparison you are making is meaningless. Even if those problems would be solved, it won't solve the problem money is actually solving.

On top of that, the problems you mention are not problems of money. They are problems of people, of human nature. New money will not fix them.
Personally it's valuable to me because it makes it quick and easy for me to loan my money out.
> Lesson learnt: Google is evil, stay away from it.

I think it would be better to come up with and popularize a phrase similar to "not your keys, not your coins". Maybe something along: "not your server, not your data" or "not your hard-drive, not your data".
In "The Truman Show", it was so easy to despise Ed Harris' character; little did we know that we will be practically vying to become the same show monkeys - no deceptive confinement by villainous scheming director required.
Yes. So you agree with me that capitalism is a symbiosis with the public systems it depends on and not solely responsible as your comment seemed to indicate. Moderna wouldn't have produced so much so quickly without a government ready to buy up their supply. Many more people would have died, and possibly from more variants, had it not been freely available.

The US would be a breeding ground for variants if most of the population weren't vaccinated, and it wouldn't be if they weren't free in this one exceptional case. Almost 80% of the US has at least one dose compared to the usual ~50% with the flu vaccine. The second dose is ticking up toward 70%.
You will also likely reap not only the benefits of such actions, but also the consequences, because fully remote companies have little reason to choose employees living in a high cost places like Silicon Valley over remote developers from far cheaper places who will agree to work for 1/4 of the compensation paid to office workers.
Clever way to motivate himself to study, though I wonder if it worked more by physically separating himself from his phone more than it psychologically encouraged him to do what he said the stream was for.

For others, I’m kind of mystified. Maybe it also works to separate one’s eyes from the feed. But some of the quotes mention people checking in because they wanted to study with another person. How lonely we must be as a society if that’s true in aggregate? In uni, we all would show up in conference rooms even if we weren’t actively talking through concepts or problems. That gave us a sense of collective struggle through finals week. This seems to me like another example of social media induced detachment.
None of these explain how unsecured lending works. Goldfinch says that "borrowers are required to pledge real-world assets as collateral" and in the event of default the pledged collateral is liquidated. [1] So that's not unsecured lending. Truefi says that they only lend to institutional borrowers who sign an enforceable lending agreement. [2] So that's a traditional lending agreement that is enforced by courts of justice. Maple also says they only lend to institutional and corporate borrowers [3]. In conclusion, none of these are real world examples of "borrowing and lending to other parties without the parties having to trust each other or having to wait for a slow and expensive legal system to work it out".

> These all offer rates competitive or superior to traditional methods

Also what do you mean by competitive rates? Note that if the borrower is getting paid interest at a rate above the market rate, the borrower is getting paid a competitive rate, but the lender is paying an uncompetitive rate.

[1] https://docs.goldfinch.finance/goldfinch/general-faq
[2] https://blog.trusttoken.com/introducing-truefi-the-defi-prot...
[3] https://maplefinance.gitbook.io/maple/protocol/borrowers
Will JavaScript containers overtake Linux containers?
Another signal to remove google your life.

It was amazing back in the 00's, but now it just seems toxic. Every service and such.

Apologies I can't provide any assistance to OP, but in the future you can setup one time codes to get back into your google account. They give you a print out of 10 codes which, optimally should last the lifetime of your account unless reset.
It seems froma banking perspective an address is more secure than most forms of identity. This makes sense as it is very hard (though not impossible) to pretend you live at an address that is not directly sympathetic to you for a long period of time.

So here HSBC seem to be saying - if you are working with a charity (ie. have a case worker), and that charity vouches for you, then we've done the dance that makes it less of an issue for the charity to help you with an address. but you still have an address; its just the charities' address.

This is a good solution for homelessness. Its hacky, it will miss people, but it is quick.

I expect the path to getting digital nomads a verifiable address via some kind of service will be a long one; and being able to bank without an address even longer.
You really don't understand the incentive people have here?

It is the same as politics. The more polarized you can make things and the more you point out the flaws of the opposing perspective, the easier it is to influence public opinion.

In situations where policy needs to be determined, the decision made will benefit one side and harm the other side. In an ideal world, companies will allow employees to do whatever they want and pay them the same as long as they are productive.

However, companies want to actively reduce chaos and this means making consistent rules for everyone and measuring how this affects productivity in aggregate. So the rules become "fully remote" or "hybrid work" instead of allowing people to do what makes them optimally productive.

> Find a company where the social and work culture fit with what you prefer.

You say this presuming that people don't care about what they are working on or the prestige of the company they are working at. A lot of people have a fairly good setup and would rather influence their own company (or by proxy the industry at large) than simply move to a different potentially suboptimal company that allows remote work.
I'm really not sure what your point is.

>Someone chose to go the PS way rather than the bash way.

Are you asking about users or the Microsoft employees who work on Windows? Users don't want to install either bash or PS, which is why before PS existed all scripts were written for cmd.exe which was guaranteed to be available. Microsoft employees would have no benefit from adding bash to Windows given its license, and PS integrates better with the OS anyway. The author of PS is already on record that one of the original reasons was to integrate better with WMI etc [1]; given how hard / impossible it is to munge the output of ls etc in bash it should be no surprise than an object-based shell with saner expansion rules works better.

>> Nobody except Linux-first FOSS authors

>Bourne shell and its predecessors and successors are [...]

You don't have to give me a history lesson. What you said has nothing to do with the fact that the only people who expected Windows users to have bash were Linux software authors, because their software only supported being built by bash scripts (and required make, configure, perl, what have you). Windows software itself, whether open or closed source, was built using cmd.exe scripts or VS project files.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/573861/545475
Naming it does make it much easier to find community, resources, etc. A lack of nouns makes me poor google-fu.

There does seem to be a blurry and moving line between "homelab" and "selfhosting" though, which doesn't help clarify things.
> So, spending hours in a car instead of with my own kids is "mature".

I spend 15 minutes walking in a park.

Yes, spending hours in a car is not the best choice.

One should ask themselves why they chose to sign a contract with a company hours away by car in the first place.

If that isn't ok, why did you accept?

> instead of producing great value

I think you're giving yourself too much importance and too little to your co-workers who took a break.

That's immature, yes.

And not spending time in the same place will only reinforce the idea that someone is working to " create great value" while others are slacking at coffee machines stealing a salary and being unproductive, only that in the case of WFH it has become "they are home all day doing nothing. it's basically like being on holiday for them."

Which shouldn't be any employer concern, since they're not the ones paying their salaries (and it's probably very false)

In other words: why should WFH be considered more important than chit-chatting at work?

Aren't they two ways for people to enjoy their job more and maybe be more productive or more satisfied?

Why one should be better than the other?

Only because you personally benefit from it?
> So mass inflation is only an extremely problem to me? This is probably the most false claim possible.

Of course inflation is a problem, but saying crypto could solve it is not true. But even if it could, why would anybody who cares about inflation use crypto, when the value fluctuates so much?

> Except they constantly freeze user accounts for no reason.

And crypto exchanges disappear with all your money. I am not saying there are no problems, just that this problem (simple currency exchange) is solved.

> Of course there is, all the exchanges have to comply by with law enforcement and that’s what they are doing. This way, since the transactions are all public and can be traced endlessly it’s very difficult to evade law enforcement through scams.

So instead of a bank I have a "exchange". All my transactions are public (which is not a positive) and if someone exchanges cryptos from bitcoin to monero then you are still fu*ed.

But ignoring all things we said. All crypto enthusiasts have one important saying: "Not your keys not your crypto". Go ahead and try to explain to someone, how to safely secure their keys and that all their money is bound to them. That if lost/stolen, they have nothing. Crypto makes things (for the avg. user) less secure, more complicated without any benefit. If you fear the government or have specific reasons, go ahed use it, nobody is saying there are no use-cases, just that it's not a useful system for the masses.
OCR at 1MHz doesn’t seem easy to me… is that even feasible on commodity hardware?

Looking into achievable frame rates though, I guess we can image things way faster than I would have guessed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femto-photography

Edit: nevermind, I misunderstood and I guess like they don’t need the spectrometer data itself at that rate. I agree with the webcam thing; leaving my comment in place because the Femto-photography thing is cool
I should’ve added on the ground, but MBTs today can also successfully target and shoot down helicopters too.

The Hellcat wasn’t a tank it was another class of AFVs called a tank destroyer which again also pretty much disappeared from the battlefield today.

Tho some European armies that their doctrine relies heavily on a dug in defensive war do still employ what you could class as a tank destroyer.
Cygwin has been a reliable features-complete alternative IMHO
I also struggled with this, the best thing I found is to look at other people’s macros. I would look at a macro that I know what it does, look at the source then try to understand the concepts used by referring to other material.

I wrote a blog post about it a while ago but not sure if it’s a useful resource or not: https://www.ralphminderhoud.com/blog/simple-struct-macro/
Recession needs just two quarters of negative gdp.
Q1 had negative growth. So will q2. We are already in a recession
I kind of fall into this category, but it's a little more nuanced. I have a very fulfilling social life / hobbies outside of work, and have taken sabbaticals before to great success. WFH was great because I could exercise a lot more, hangout with friends, etc.

But I am excited to be back in office on some hybrid schedule, because there was a social component to work that I very much missed. I enjoyed the work part of the work the same, but missed the occasional coffee with a coworker, full-fledged in person brainstorming session, off hand conversations about zany ideas, lunch at the cafe, etc.

It's not that my social fulfillment declined at all overall with WFH -- other social activities filled the time -- but the specific social activity of bonding in person with folks I worked with definitely decreased, and it's nice to have that come back. That's not a reason to force folks back in the office (this is at no-one's expense, as I've seen it suggested), but it's a nice benefit.
At my university we didn't have study rooms, only regular lecture halls and rooms that were either locked or in use. We had to study at the cafeteria which worked as well as you'd expect. So we studied in a small group of 3-4 people at someone's place if possible or via discord.
Bash as a shell is not so outstanding. It is the gnu tools and the other command line first Landscape. So bash on windows can never fly because these tools are not natively present (cygwin and friends are just awkward).

So Powershell (and the new terminal) gives us this whole package with its build-in, service and windows provided commandlets.

Consequently: bash will never beat PS on Windows except when someone provided a gnu tools and hundreds of other command line tools for windows.
> There's going to be a result, and it's going to the console.

If you're lucky. The kind of things that make a UI freeze often make a CLI freeze too. If you're unlucky, you end up with an unkillable process. Or, more confusingly, a process that garbles up your shell until you reset it.
I think your post paints a false dichotomy. It's not always a choice between working from home and commuting huge distances to an office in a city you hate.

I live 10 minutes from the office and live in a town I love. This isn't luck - it's a choice I have made.

Also, please don't take this the wrong way, but some of your comments make it sound like you might be in the category of people who don't find it as easy as others to form relationships with colleagues in real life (Comments such as finding socialising events at work stressful, and about experiencing sexual tension if there is a worker of the opposite sex).
When half a million people follow something you are doing I think it should be time to ask yourself what the effects of your actions are. Do most people just waste their time watching you? Does what you do actually help people study or concentrate? Does your livestream just give young people a parasocial experience to feel coddled while being lonely?

I don't think I could keep doing such things with a clear conscience if I had even the slightest concern about my livestreams being a time waster for so many people: and knowing social media mechanics it's not just a slight concern but a certainty.
If only we could live in a paternalistic, centrally planned society. Perhaps if social and economic issues functioned as a purely contained system where men could have absolute information. Yes, if society were a computer and we could feed it the program to execute...

Maybe under these circumstances we could dismiss the negative outcomes of regulation and central planning. Until then, we live in the real world, where utopian dreams are not within our reach.

Ironically enough, it is the regulation which you opine for which creates the value for cryptocurrency. Want to pay a user 0.00001 cents? Not with Paypal. The regulatory overhead is too high. Want to transact online with no ID? Not possible with banks or traditional instruments. Have a problem with government issued currency? Sorry, you cannot transact at all!

The comments here citing the technical problems of cryptocurrency miss these points. The generalizations about energy usage dismiss altcoins which have innovated beyond these issues.

The last resort of these arguments always backpedals to, "But that's not the popular usage of cryptocurrency"

The point stands, the generalization is inaccurate, presumptive and arrogant.
dude what the fuck, literally lmao
The irony of having someone from SAP talking about creating a innovative culture
If you have to pledge enough collateral to cover the entirety of the principal, your net investment position is either zero or positive. In other words, you're not borrowing anything.
At the end of the day, they won't trust that the phone number you provided actually is you anyway.
Also because there's a meaningful difference between 100 net layoffs when it means "1 hired and 101 laid off" or "9900 hired and 10000 laid off."
I'm not sure if you typoed "modem", but whether deliberate or accidental, perfect!
Or, you know, Julia.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1523010444570419200.html
This particular "thread" is simply two tweets.

There's no explanation of why the demotion occurred, by whom, for what reason, when rescinded, etc., etc.
On the topic of Powershell on Linux I think the story there could be different, however Powershell violates the core philosophy of Linux so hard (mit vs. GPL, pipe-and-filter vs loaded DLLs, ...) that Powershell will never be something integral and natural fitting there.
It boggles my mind how people can have their digital life under third party computers ONLY. I was a GMail user, since when it was beta/invite only, but I always have had local copy of anything in usable formats...

It might sound rude, but people have to learn a thing: only things you really own are yours, the rest might be there or not, might be good or bad, but it remain something ephemeral, not to be trusted for anything. And that's why we MUST stop connected-devices to fill our life from cars to home doors: we do not really own them and we should.
> Intel power pcs

Had to do a double take there…
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