skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If bitcoin mimicked gold, it would not emit 50% of all supply in the first 4 years and only a fraction of a percent after 30 years.
Gold mining is much better mimicked by a pure linear emission.

That would take about 70 years to get yearly supply inflation lower than gold, something that Satoshi apparently wanted to see happen in just 12 years. Along with capped supply for better FearOfMissingOut...
Lux Capital – letter to LPs Q1 2022
When I was visiting Las Vegas way too frequently about 5 years or so ago, I decided to memorize at least a simple version of what you should do with various hands. I think I played a bit one trip--lost a small amount of money. But decided I didn't really like it.

I find it can be fun as a social thing but playing "right" is pretty much about memorizing a table.
It does consider it actually. WBTC is offchain but the btc it corresponds to is still on chain though it may be miscounted as the custodian wallet.

From the perspective of btc, not your keys not your coins still applies and those coins belong to the custodian wallet, not to WBTC holders.
There is a third interpretation I'd like to posit starting from the oft-quoted phrase "Know thyself." One, it implies that knowing thyself isn't a guaranteed ability - it takes effort for example. Furthermore, we can without difficulty agree that knowing thyself has degrees, dimension, and quality.

So what then, if someone does not know thyself in some way? They leave open the possibility to have others define them, take advantage of them, and influence one's agency. This doesn't exclude the possibly of someone knowing something about you better than you know, only to say that maligned agents can capitalize on one's lack of self-knowing.

We can then extend the original quote in this specific content to "Know yourself so that you alone can define your agency." This extension allows for nuance in epistemological introspection and accounts for inter-subjective manipulation.
Ecto's uniqueness constraint vs. Rails' uniqueness validation
> The single most frustrating part of this process, after using Apple’s genuine parts and Apple’s genuine tools, was that my iPhone didn’t recognize the genuine battery as genuine. “Unknown Part,” flashed a warning. Apparently, that’s the case for almost all of these parts: you’re expected to dial up Apple’s third-party logistics company after the repair so they can validate the part for you. That’s a process that involves having an entirely separate computer and a Wi-Fi connection since you have to reboot your iPhone into diagnostics mode and give the company remote control. Which, of course, defeats a bunch of the reasons you’d repair your own device at home!

Yikes
Simple exercise: go to your bank today and try to withdraw $100k.

Alternatively: go apply for a mortgage if you have 80% for a down payment, a way to prove the legitimacy of the funds, but little-to-no credit history.
Yes consolidating outputs significantly reduces transaction fees
something still annoying between navigatng pages normally Vs SPA history API is in first case you lose devtools network/console data from previous page (while developing at least)
Or a target for kidnapping. There was quite a few of them in Middle Eastern war zones.
> it seems possible to get in on the con and themselves

Most confidence tricks involve this. I actually find the rare tricks which rely on the mark's honesty to be more interesting because you need a strategy more complicated than just "Don't be dishonest" to avoid losing.
also the author main criticism about magic the gathering is around variance. Well… variance is good! It makes the game more interesting and welcoming to new players. Better players don't need to win 100%. Yes, even Finkel can lose a game of magic and that's good I think.
I don't think there is any particular "reason". Majority of the languages and tools are really good enough to achieve 90% of business use cases out there.

Unless you have some specific requirements for you app like high concurrency or memory safety and so on, then you can pick whatever you (or your team) are most comfortable with: Django, Rails, Symphony, .. are all excellent.

It's more about solving business problems and building great systems than anything else. All tools have pros and cons of course, it's simply up to us to review the requirements and pick the right one for the job.
Anyone else feel like the golden age of internet services is behind us, and this shitty version is the only path ahead of us?

I have this theory, for a long time, that a lot of what sucks in computing is simply because at some moment it was the only thing that worked at certain scale.

Computing is said to be the second industrial revolution and therefore there is an overwhelming force to adopt whatever already works, no matter how much it sucks.

Later, inertia keeps the sucking solution for longer that it would stand on its own, until someone manages to put something obviously better in the market.

Some day recomendation systems will stop sucking. Meanwhile, take them for what they are.
No? I'm looking at the request in webinspector right now. GitHub is kicking back the full partial for the issues tab, and turbolinks JS is then swapping out the relevant DIVs -- it's a bog-standard Rails MPA server side routed setup, I think you're just letting the turbolinks animation convince you there's more happening on the frontend than really is.
closest venue to where zuckerberg lives
I would take a more measured stance. I don’t think Cloudflare is explicitly targeting Firefox. I don’t even think they are aware of what this does in Firefox. (You can definitely design systems that don’t hardcode something but still clearly only affect it.) The likely explanation to me is that Firefox blocks cookies or something and Cloudflare marked this as suspicious. It shouldn’t, but it does.
> Basically we don't know how long a fusion generator will last before radioactivity forces its decommissioning

That was one of the main questions the ITER was supposed to answer, wasn't it? AFAIK earlier designs were quite short-lived, but some small changes fixed it. We will know how long they last as soon as we don't have an ITER anymore.
Mac OS? or OS X? "macOS" didn't exist at the time. ;)
A bank should be a website (if only my bank would agree...). If you're making a Photoshop clone in the browser, that's web app territory.
Ah, but have you lived in a government housing project before?

I have friends who have, and it replaces a tense landlord relationship with a overbearing, bureaucratic dystopia where attempts to escape (say by saving money for a reserve fund or to afford to move to a better place) are actively criminalized. In any larger scale system, it inevitably results in severe restrictions on things normal people do regularly on pain of eviction (such as smoking weed, or having a boyfriend!), after already requiring they have minimal savings and income below some threshold (see above), which inevitably leads to abuse by whichever civil servant or subcontractor is actually running it.

It’s basically replacing a landlord who you could at least plausibly ‘fire’ at
the end of the lease with an appointed bureaucrat or lowest-bidder who you can’t.

Lack of political will is just a way of saying ‘when the rubber hits the road, no one is willing to pay for it or interested enough to make it happen’.

Which hey, maybe. But in my experience these are for reasons that require time and expertise to understand, and often boil down to ‘the people/society involved couldn’t make it work’.

If you can lead a successful effort to make something better work, be my guest!

But like kids caught in the middle of a nasty divorce, wishing they liked each other isn’t going to change it, and the folks most impacted by it are usually helpless to do anything but get the brunt of the terrible outcomes.

Those markets in Vienna yiu mention - by any chance are the current landlords the ones who were also there when they passed these rules, so were stuck? Or got into it via inheritance?

Or perhaps they have long standing ties to the community and are doing it because it may not make them
money, but helps them in other ways?

Does Vienna have a decent safety net and a coherent social identity so that folks (both giving and receiving) feel they’re helping out ‘one of theirs’, and people aren’t likely to abuse the system?
I find it strange that Facebook communicates across the company... using Facebook. It doesn't seem like a medium well suited for that.
Gotcha. I assume Poettering probably working mostly on systemd no? That's what I associate him with anyway.
Yeah I mean the post is clickbait, but crypto (which can be bought with USD) unsurprisingly has similar inequality issues to USD. But the selling point of crypto was never curing inequality. It could have never done that. So the entire post is a bit of a straw man.
"the inventor of bitcoin" hah. Don't believe everything you read, just like this post from OP.
I'm a huge fan of Hanabi. It's a cooperative game with imperfect information, both because you only know other players' hands (not your own) and because you don't know what order the rest of the cards will come in. But with good strategy and good communication (within the bounds of the game's restricted communication) it's possible to win just about every game.
Are they dead common for consumers? I wouldn’t be surprised that business owner tooling they needed to run, that’s outside the budget for most consumers
Bridge can be played online. I practise my skills there against the robots. It takes constant practise to interpret the bidding and play, aiming to work out the cards that the other players hold.

The most unusual aspect of bridge is that after the bidding finishes, one player (the dummy) puts their cards face up on the table. I don't know of any other card games where this happens.

Chess works really well online. Your rating is quickly adjusted so that you are playing players of similar ability. Bridge has a longer learning curve. You need to go to lessons to learn a bidding system. Though, I do remember one night at a club where a young guy brought his classmate along to play. Their whole system was, "If I bid a suit, support my suit".

Some (younger) bridge players stream their online games on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Bridge/videos/all
Well, I concur; back in the days, I have created quite a few websites with business logic in RXML.

I'd think that both RXML and its Javascript based successor Remixml are both Turing complete and can be used as generic programming languages (within reason). Which is not to say that creating complicated applications in those languages is a good idea.
Wiping It Wrong. Yes, this article is about what you think it is about
This was invented by university students, who are known to fill burritos past theoretical limits
> No one has ever documented a Tether redemption

Are you just making stuff up? There were $10B worth of redemptions only last week.
Lots of credit for yourself with htmx, its great. I think I prefer unpoly myself but htmx is winning the popularity because of how vocal you are!

I wish the unpoly creator also did similar! Both great frameworks. Hotwire also!

I wish there was deeper comparisons on the big three
Can haz moar weitspaze

https://pastebin.com/raw/TJypYNGQ
Fair counterpoint.
If one isn’t afraid to tinker a little more while building keyboards one could work in a nice!nano or similar replacement for pro micros/elite-Cs, I had a fine time building a kyria (a 40% split) with it too:

https://nicekeyboards.com/nice-nano/

If you’re into low profile switches (that’s a big if!) there are projects the corneish zen https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen
Denial is one of hundreds of different coping strategies. They're just tools people use to deal with unwanted emotions or behaviors.
I found it here, and am happy to bring a smile to your face by bringing it back up for anyone who missed it :-)
“Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Figuring out the 'why' is step one of doing anything. For me:

- Because figuring stuff out can be really fun

- "we must know; we will know" - hilbert
do you ever worry about being robbed by the police in the USA?

in mexico we do, the police are as likely to rob you as any criminal. though it's not technically a robbery, it's actually extortion; they look to create a scenario in which they can extort a bribe out of you; i.e. they try to get you to bribe them (to the point that if you are willing to waste the rest of your day and go the the 'police station' they often just drop it and let you off with "a warning"). it's essentially same as a robbery but they're wearing uniforms.
Wait, so Bitcoin isn't being handed out equally to every person on earth?

I thought the rule is we each will be given same amount?

/s.
Couldn't agree more, been saying this for years. There are moments when an "app-like" experience is what's required - and that's mostly (not always but mostly) when these SPAish approaches are relevant.

On big, sprawling, multipage content-rich websites, not so much if at all.

It depends. Web people should have this tattooed on their foreheads.
If you've ever heard someone talk about frying fish, and how they have bigger ones that need frying, they're probably speaking metaphorically.
>Other than Granny Smith, you can't even find those apples in stores anymore.

Absolutely not true in New England--although I agree with your assessment on red delicious and golden delicious in particular. McIntoshes aren't great for cooking but they're pretty good eating apples--although I don't usually buy them my neighbor as quite a few trees of them in her orchard. Granny Smiths tend to be my go to for cooking.
What are the long-term plans for dear CogDB?

Is the goal to eventually compete with other graph database offerings ? (OSS and/or proprietary)

Or is it only intended for "micro" workloads.

As an aside, I wonder if anyone has put effort into a graph frontend atop SQLite. Could be interesting.
I really doubt young people don't resonante with this message.
Thank you. That was excellent!
The problem really comes from the capacity for a coop to raise funds. A coop is a non-capitalistic company so very few investors are interested.

There is no valuation other than amount of shares x value of share. Voting power is not dependent on share (1 person = 1 vote).

Making an exit is thus not a possibility. Investors have little interest to finance a traditional company that would only yield dividends (if it does, which is not mandatory).

The problem of speed is also often cited: democracy takes more time. While I think that's true, I haven't felt that was a limiting factor. Financing is a much bigger one.
> Again: cue the "Apple provided me with second-class tools that are NOT the ones they used in store and I broke my iPhone" story.

Oh, I’m not complaining about the tools. If they didn’t have an ass-backwards policy that could be construed as preventing you from using the tools on anything other than an approved Apple product, I’d have a rental kit shipped to me and just pay the security deposit. Sure, I could buy the tools outright, but then I wouldn’t get the cool cases, and the policy still seems to imply the tools are only to be used for Apple products.

Again, this is great for repair shops. These are great tools at reasonable prices that are meant to last. But y’know what would be even better? Making a battery that you can replace with a fingernail.
What people ideally want to do and what they actually do are different, yes, but that doesn't mean it's moral or good to disregard what they ideally want.

If a heroin user wants to get clean, and you are the dealer, it is not okay to say "sure, you say that, but you keep coming back to me". It is morally monstrous.
The nearest Apple Store is hours away, this is definitely not convenient and how I want things to work.
They might be net positive for the workers within the co-op (at the median anyway) versus taking on outside investors and giving them a slice in search of larger scale.

For diversified investors, it's more valuable to have some of your companies return higher gains even if others don't work out. For an employee though, their income is totally concentrated in their one job.

The employees can be rational in not wanting investors, and the investors are rational in not wanting to invest in those firms (at terms the co-op would accept).
The steamers they use at burrito shops make the flour tortillas soft and flexible so they can wrap, fold, & stretch without breaking, and the steam moistened flour sticks to itself better when wrapped.
That requires me to learn a skill though (burrito wrapping).
>2. The things people say they don’t want to do and what they actually don’t do are often surprisingly different.

Personally I find recommendation engines abhorrent. And still, when a recommendation engine works well for me, I am pleasantly surprised and happy with the product.
Honestly the disdain for them is a _little_ silly when they're not that different from a tostada (in fact, Taco Bell, in their failed foray into Mexico, called their tacos "Tacostadas" to give Mexican customers the idea).
I'm not sure I'd describe developing a gambling addiction as becoming a "high level games player," to be honest.
What did the "development" process look like and entail for the chipotle nutrition demo?

Would be cool to watch a YT video demo of the process!
> When I was first excited for bitcoin, it was because of its revolutionary capacity for people to transact without governments and banks, and to own and control that means themselves. Well that really hasn't panned out at all.

This has panned out. This is the exact reality of crypto right now. It has nothing to do with inequality whatsoever. Solving inequality has not panned out, but it was never expected to, nor possible.
I'm addicted to Orthos, have 3 Plancks, a Preonic, and an XD75. Need to build another for my Steam Deck.
This is the main thing that has always seemed odd to my about much of enthusiasm for crypto.

People seem to conflate "it works like physical cash but it's electronic" with "no banks no laws no regulation" when its very obvious that banks and governance are still necessary.
Up or out is right. But the most common “out” path is to a corp legal department. Better hours, and now the partner that used to work your ass off buys you lunch to court your business.
I'm not sure.

The PCjr had the promise of "runs some PC software", so if Dad needs to finish his spreadsheet from the office in an emergency, he can barge the kids off the PCjr for the night.

If it had been something different to the point of total incompatibility, why not buy the kids a cheaper Atari 800XL or C64 for games and "educational software" instead?

You can also argue that the PCjr's unique features did survive a bit longer, in the form of the Tandy 1000 series.
> do you ever worry about being robbed by the police in the USA?

BS civil forfeiture cases are pretty common.
>Mark getting excited about using a message to book a restaurant seems like a prime example of this.

He was basically explaining chat bot/s without knowing it.
Nullable has the nice feature of the hardware detecting when a program tries to dereference it. It's a cost free `assert()`.

My unpopular opinion is that null pointers are unfairly maligned.
There's a difference between 'entitlement' and recognizing that a system is flawed such that it doesn't necessarily select for the best candidates, only those who are willing to play the game hardest, which doesn't necessarily correlate with the best on the job performance.

The zero sum burnout games many Chinese and Indian students play are also a good example of such a system, and I think it's a positive feature of American culture that it's objected to.
Something similar has already been productised: https://www.optasense.com/
Is there a word for doing things IRL designed to overlay historical search results?

A "red bus cheese party"?
Because shills say that it will democratize finance better than banks/USD/WTO/ and make a more equitable future. Which of course is bogus, and data like this is needed to contradict the lies
One can dream. :`)

Matrix IMs like Element look cool, but feature parity and usability seem far away...

Fat-client P2P IMs like WLM died because there was no business model, but there's not even much of one in thin-client ones like Discord (which I praise for refusing to be bought by Microsoft).

It seems like a market failure thing perfect for an open source solution, but alas.
That place is definitely one of those "How the hell does this exist?" kinds of places...but it makes you glad that it does.
>"There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago.

Hip new frameworks like"

I have my own company developing products. Some for our own, some for clients. I count my money. Why would I give a flying fuck about what is "hip"?

The only thing that matters is how much it costs me to develop solution assuming it satisfies all the constrains imposed by client's specs. The difference makes a profit and this is what I am after.

I use SPA when I need real business application and it needs to be delivered in a browser. If SPA becomes too big I make it dynamically load a pieces of needed functionality upon request. By nature is is still SPA and dynamically loaded parts tend to stay in browser's cache anyways. When I need a website I make plain website. I do not turn one into the other.
So can we really claim these as MPAs? This is all using the same architecture of SPAs but it moves it to the backend. Technically that's still an SPA that moved the rendering to the server and instead of shipping JSON and telling the browser to update with the new JSON it's the server sending HTML that the browser is told to replace a part of the screen. It's really just the same thing but with a twist. This is not "MPA" tech, it's SPA tech with new bells and whistles. MPA tech (PHP, CGIBIN, etc..) is dead and not coming back.

If the author states this, I would be on board - we're shifting to shipping HTML chunks.
Is there an alternative?

It’s true that in a thousand years, the systems that exist today are likely not going to be those of the next millennia.

But it’s also true that the incentives of society change very, very slowly. And right now the most impactful work seems to be done by politicians and corporations.

Which means the ambitious will always be attracted to those, like flies to sunlight.

I just don’t see the point in even recognizing these truths, let alone trying to change them. There’s nothing —- nothing —- that you or I can do about it. Not even YC could. They sailed with the wind, not against it.

The most we can do seems to be to maximize our own individual happiness.

Speaking of happiness, dear readers, remember that 35 is middle age. Working until you’re 60 is the biggest corporate triumph of them all. Do the things you want before you retire.
take the part of the plants that isn't used for anything else and ferment it with yeast. Free CO2. I'm not sure how old this trick is, as i used it a decade and a half ago with 2-3 liter bottles with holes drilled in the caps and a bubbler to remove solids to provide CO2 for a heavily planted aquarium bootstrap.

My theory here is that running all the stems, stalks, and roots that you don't use from stuff like annual food crops through a wood chipper or something should macerate the cell walls enough to allow the yeast to feast, at least.