skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A key premise of this comment ... seems to be false.

Seems false? I don't think you are even sure yourself.

> Almost everything the open letter says about blockchains is neutral on public versus private.

And is that why they didn't 'mention' stopping all 'blockchains' and they knowingly hid their ties to Adjoint Inc.? At least the Bitcoin maximalists are a bit honest at disclosing their associations and holdings when discussing such topics despite their delusional view of a cryptocurrency replacing the whole financial system.

> They say that public blockchains specifically are a privacy disaster, which seems fair enough since this genuinely is a difference between public and private blockchains.

Ah yes, A 'privacy disaster' especially when no-one knows who the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin really is (unless you do somehow?) or how one can't easily figure out which address belongs to another random address or even when users can generate and have multiple addresses tied to them which makes it harder to trace. No different to tracing someone's IP addresses.

As with having 'privacy', it is also a double-edged sword as it is no different to why E2EE messengers like Signal is also a favourite and safe-haven for terrorists, extremists and scammers to hide and encrypt their communications. Does that mean we need to ban E2EE messengers?

> You keep talking about "the folks at Adjoint" etc...

So they are not at Adjoint? Is that what Crunchbase [0] and Companies House [1] says? Why is Stephen Diehl still CTO of Adjoint? [0] Their services of their private blockchain offering has shutdown but the company has not.

> Do you have evidence for whatever more sinister "long utopian conquest" scheme you're suggesting they're engaged in?

Evidence of what? Trying to ban all cryptocurrencies and projects just like those wanting to get rid of all non-free software completely? Have they all 100% fully gone yet? It's been like 37 years for the free-software movement to remove all non-free software and 13 years for cryptocurrencies to be totally stopped.

A very long utopian conquest indeed attempting to stop all of them.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adjoint-inc

[1] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
E4X couldn't really be used - it was never available enough (just one major browser) and there was no polyfill or to-JS compiler (those things weren't common at that time).

Had E4X been more widely released, I might have used it, as might many others. In retrospect, though, it's probably good that it didn't catch on, as it introduced a lot of extra syntax and operators, like a.@b, a.@*, a.*, a.b::c, a..b, a.(@b==x) and had semantics that affected large parts of the JS Runtime (how the delete operator works, how calling works, what += means, and so on).
No reason to toss everything until your current phone is no longer used. And Apple isn't exactly shy about changing their connectors, so such might already be the case for upcoming phones. In any case, I'm pretty sure Apple will go to to full wireless before long.
The Internet really is a series of tubes after all.
The title of the post is that this is in `Cash Form`, not `Check Form`. Checks are a form of credit, which is why checks aren't called cash.
That sounds like a very family-friendly policy, but as a single individual it would be vastly less useful than regular 3 and 4 day weekends that could be used for travel.
Web Push in Apple’s WebKit port
I've used about 10 different Lisps - by which I mean, completely different Lisps, mostly in the pre-CL days, of course. I can't even remember most of them, although MacLisp was one for sure. I mostly remember the computers they ran on, which was many, ranging from IBM 360s to Apple ][s. I even wrote two of my own (which were used by literally no one, including me :-) and tried to make a micro-programmable PDP-something-or-other into a Lisp machine (which never really worked, although it did CAR and CDR really really fast!) Once CL came out ten thousand Lisp hackers like me breathed a major sigh of relief!
M1 and now M2 allows macbooks to run iOS apps/games natively
so that makes macbooks able to consume natively the biggest market for Games, moving forward that's huge, as more games are being ported to phones Apex, Call of Duty, GTA, FIFA, Heartstone, League of Legends, Fortnite, Valorant (including indie titles like Dead Cells, Minecraft, Terraria)

and with Cloud gaming coming, as the infrastructure improves, and fiber becoming more and more popular, that'll allow every kind of devices able to consume intensive games

Microsoft added Android VM support in windows 11 because they know what's going on, they have access to the numbers
I need a Gary Busey voice.
I was reading an email exchange from Atari employees in 1984. There was one comment.. computers are not useful for anything but playing games. It's all marketing fluff.

Here we are 40 years later communicating with computers. I wonder if in 40 years someone will read your comment and wonder how clueless some were in this era.
No experience of my own, as I am German, but there are idiots everywhere, including Germany. Before I start, I let me emphasize that I do not condone what I am going to describe, I am just describing it from my perspective.

I think it's more important how you dress than the color of your skin. If you dress in your home country's traditional clothes, you will probably experience more hostility than when you are wearing western clothes. The color of your skin will also be a factor, certainly more so than in the US, but usually hostility is based on your assumed (based on your looks) religion and values than the actual skin color. In the end, people are tribal, in rural Germany more so than in cities, and whether they accept you and how they treat you depends on whether they can relate to you.

I think language is the main factor why immigrants often will be strangers forever. Your social circle will be very limited if you don't speak German near-perfectly. But I would assume the same in the US if you don't speak English very well, and even then it's very difficult. At least that's what I have heard from Germans who moved to the US.

In bigger cities there are usually local expat communities where English is spoken, but you won't find many in rural Germany (unless you are close to a US military base or similar things). I think the best way to find them is on Facebook.
Which raw material specifically?

Norway is the fifth largest exporter of Quartz. Turkey is third. I think there's enough Quartz in Europe for silicon.

For silicon wafer manufacturing there's Okmetic Oy in Finland and Siltronic AG in Germany.
> FWIW there are people who weigh well beyond 150kg so I'd argue it would be plausible.

Those people have been training for months/years to carry that weight.
In SF, theft under $950 is a misdemeanor.

In Texas, theft under $2500 is a misdemeanor.
Does anyone know anything like a percentage of scientific advancements that ended up being hugely beneficial to society, but were originally derided as being pointless wastes of resources? Might be hard to find out, for example, how many Victorians scoffed at Maxwell wasting his time wondering about imaginary waves flying through the air.

At least, in 50-100 years, we'll probably still have records of comments and articles like these, which will make it easier to say just how wrong people were about the importance of pure research. (If anyone is reading this in 2100, and it turns out the ROI on these research projects wasn't worth it, feel free to whisper "I told you so" to my ghost.)
I think the issue started a bit earlier. If you'd tracerouted from Asia to Europe at roughly 13UTC today, you could see that multiple ISPs started carrying traffic the wrong way around the world, eastward through North America, instead of the usual direct undersea cable.

The AMS-IX[0] traffic graph shows a non-insignificant drop too.

[0]: https://www.ams-ix.net/ams
The point was that China’s leaders are emotional about it too. They grew up with the same propaganda.
I grew up in the Lehigh Valley. I noticed this when I visited in 2016 for the first time in many years: https://twitter.com/clumma/status/1020403913592193024
One thing I learned early in my career, and numerous times during it: For every ethical stand you take against writing a bit of software you consider questionable, there's a line of other software engineers out the door willing to do it. I remember when as a junior engineer, I worked up the courage to tell my boss I had a moral problem with writing some code that would help the product cheat at a benchmark. He totally understood, and I didn't get fired or anything--just moved on to a different project. Bob, two cubicles down, was more than happy to write the benchmark-cheating code.

Software engineers and other technology creators don't take a "Do No Harm" oath like doctors. Many of them have never even taken a single Ethics In Technology course at university (it was an optional class when I was in undergrad decades ago). And, even in the alternate universe where ethics was baked into engineering training, all it takes is a single rogue willing to ignore them, and now the world has to deal with it.
Better go vote.

In the 1960s a number of people, at least one of whom had been elected to high office, who were improving this nation were assassinated, because several parties didn't like those improvements. Although some progress has been made since then, on many measures we've gone downhill. This process seems impervious to the popular vote. Perhaps it's time for another round of assassinations?
Aren't like 90% of all bitcoin held by a few whales? Why would I want any part of that system it has worse distribution than fiat.
Each note can be scanned with one's smartphone to check value and authenticity.

We're positing the level of scrutiny matches our experience with fiat cash.

I.e. I'm very cavalier with checking the authenticity of low denomination notes when getting change at the pool for an ice cream cone and fairly rigorous when selling my hi-fi system to a stranger on classifieds - perhaps even taking time to do the "highlighter test". Counter-party matters too - It may take some time before we can spend these at Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador but they have currency (in the literal sense) with family and friends.

These notes have the same security features as traditional currency (UV watermarks, microtext, etc) but also have the embedded chip which is the real thing that matters. I don't think it's perfect but I do prefer it to regular cash which doesn't let me electronically validate it.
Well that's sort of my point. In the media there was a lot of excitement about detecting supersymmetry with a whole array of new particles. When talking to the general public, it's easy to drum up the excitement by saying we're going to find lots of stuff. On the other hand, wheeling out a Physicist in front of the public and say "Finding nothing would be the most exciting outcome!" is a much harder sell, even though it is arguably true.

Which is the most exciting outcome between SUSY and absolutely nothing is very much debatable. However, I really can't stress how big an outcome it would have been if we didn't detect the Higgs. Generating a mass term for the W and Z bosons which is gauge invariant is hard. Without the Higgs mechanism, all the gauge bosons should be massless and yet the W and Z are very heavy. It wouldn't just be the case of the model doesn't work in some cases (massive neutrinos, dark matter candidate etc), you might as well throw the whole thing in the bin.

Edit: Typo
We can never complain about Microsoft and Windows, it is always seen as "trolling", FUD, or arguments with no substance, despite everything being already documented and archived for over a decade, I'm not going to turn a comment into a 10 pages essay when you can just with the help of a google search find the documented claims i am making

When you hide the problems, they resurface years later, and here we are!

Apple moving to ARM allows their entire lineup to have a seamless ecosystem, apps runs natively everywhere, iOS/iPadOS/macOS

Microsoft indeed is stuck and had to come up with a full VM to support an OS with a different architecture, and android apps for a different kind of chip! is that FUD? am i a troll? come on, let's be serious!
Training efficient neural network models for Firefox Translations
I don't think it's irrational to disagree with your personal beliefs about monetary systems. There's evidence both for modern practices being beneficial as well as detrimental so I'd reserve judgement until it plays out.

Besides that, what's wrong with a private entity issuing its own scrip? It's how our current system of currency got its start with private banks issuing promissory notes which were eventually adopted by the state. You probably personally hold quite a lot of it in the form of debt or reward programs. This goes a little further in that it is redeemable for an alternate form of currency not backed by a state but that's not really an argument against it, historically people have used all kinds of alternate currencies. It really just comes down to what two individuals agree is an appropriate medium of exchange whether it's bitcoin, dollars or cigarettes.
iPhone fast charging over lightning runs at 9 volts.
Even though it’s not for every drug it’s still a helpful tool/product and not mutually exclusive of GoodRx
Do you think knife manufacturers are responsible for stabbings and knife attacks?
I love the idea behind this! Having said that, it will take a lot to convince experienced users to trust these over on-chain transactions. The info on your website is pretty sparse - there's not nearly enough info there to work out the security properties of these notes. I'm piecing together how it works from your various comments here, but you really want to have all that info in one place. I'm sure you know this already and I'm sure you're working on the website behind the scenes, and I look forward to reading when it's done!

What's your business model? Do you plan to recoup costs by selling the physical notes, or is there some other plan?
It's not fundamentally expensive because you can't import it from Canada, though. That might lower the cost, but it's expensive for some other reason.
Speek: A Privacy-Focused Chat App Built on the Tor Network
All politics is ideological but to blame a single progressive DA for the entirety of the current crime problem in SF without realizing that much of what is happening today is more likely the result of past decisions than one guy actually doing what he said he would do to me is just ridiculous but if you feel that way then convince me in the next election with whatever platform you run on, not telling me I should recall someone so you can just put in your preferred puppet without having to say what you’ll actually do and how it would be better.
> if you are facing Google which has no support, you are screwed

I agree Google has enough horror stories that make me dread the day disaster decides to strike.

I do have the suspicion their support is not entirely automated though. There are online groups of "volunteers" where, if you post asking for help and provide some evidence, your request will be magically expedited. This makes me think Google's official stance is "no human support", but really there is some unofficial support. Still terrible, but something to consider.

> I don't use Facebook

That's why I said what's unrealistic is asking people to stop using Facebook. For people who already use it.

As an aside, having people call me on the phone every two weeks just to see how I'm doing sounds like an annoyance to me.
We can't prove a negative, but we can prove that we can't spend the Bitcoin based on the construction of the multisig which the user sends funds to.

I primarily state that from the regulatory perspective; we explicitly don't want to be a custodian.
Ok, so you need a smartphone to be able to exchange the notes. That already makes it a non-starter for lots of people because not only do they now need something resembling cash, they also need a phone.

Anyway, interesting project, curious to see where it leads.
It looks like you wrote more about the database advantages here than on the main website https://didgets.com/ A feature matrix or direct comparison would be great. For any advantage in one area (e.g. query speed) I suspect there will be downside in another area (e.g. slower inserting of new data).

When comparing database I'm used to look at feature lists, e.g. read vs write performance, ability to compress data, scale among multiple servers or such. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickHouse#Features or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra#Main_features Then later I look at the ecosystem, e.g. how to do backups, client libraries (linking to a shared library vs direct vs HTTP API) and ease of use.

I don't mind creating indexes. I maintain database that have almost as many indexes (measured by data size) than data records.
PingPlotter Helps Ruby Receptionists Answer the Call of Remote Work
A packet loss incident due to cut fiber that lasted just over three hours according to the status page is not really that big of a deal. Fiber cuts happen, and are the only reliable method to determine if your redundant fibers are in the same bundle. As a non-customer, their status updates seem ok, one hour to open the incident isn't great, and transparency is near zero, but at least they provided regular updates once it was open.
The main predator is likely cars in this case. Those numbers won't be decreasing, and bug numbers likely won't be bouncing back
> but you seem to think that your willful ignorance by reductive 'reasoning' is more relevant

Thanks for the personal attack. Instead of just bringing something more useful than windshield studies into the discussion. My complaint was that we keep hearing about windshields, when real data ought to exist. I'll take a look at your link, even if I'm inclined to suspect the bias of the source.
Orange Pi 800 is a computer-in-a-keyboard with an RK3399 processor
Athletes already use compression boots which apply pulsed pressure to the lower legs as a sports recovery modality. But those are only used for maybe an hour at a time. I doubt whether they would compensate for the physiological stress of sustained high acceleration.
Why would an ion thruster engine not be feasible?
I'm guessing it means you need to destroy the note in order to redeem it which makes sense as a way of remotely "redeeming" the note with the issuer. I'm interested in how secure this process is since the entire system would hinge on it.
How NIH's study sections and science grant funding works
An article on Russian hockey goalies suggested that the lack of early specialization helped them, and mentioned dance as something they were encouraged to try. (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/sports/hockey/vasilevskiy... -- sorry about the paywall)
APL should suit you down to the ground.
If Telegram was E2EE by default then they have a stream of new subscribers. I am happt pay for it service anyways. Has the best UX/UI. Whats just ended up copying some features...
Solid Power begins pilot production of solid-state EV battery
I wouldn't consider an index of my email, or an ongoing IRC conversation, or a calculator to be a file or a document. Buffer is certainly a better name. There might be an even better name, but I don't know what a better name for "visual output from anything" is. Monitor?, but that would be kind of weird because people would think of the hardware.
That’s 100% true, but the tradeoff will likely be police not just using the taser in those instances, but a ton more that would have previously involved zero force involved or may not have even happened before the taser device made it so easy.
Presuming you can read the user private key off the NFC chip at least once then you hold Bitcoin after the expiration of the note. No fairy tale, just math.
I think both are pretty good, but to my ears the UnrealSpeech ones all have very sharp, grating "s" sounds. The AWS voice is much smoother in this regard. Is this something that can be configured to a degree or would you have to post-process it with an de-esser? Because I can't imagine listing to those voices for anything longer than the example text.
JSX has some questionable design limitations in it, though. Like, these work as expected:

\<h1>Hello, world!\</h1>
\<img alt="Hello, world!"/>
\<h1>Hello, {place}!\</h1>
\<img alt={message}/>

But this doesn't:

\<img alt="Hello, {place}!"/>

And as other commenters note, it's designed around React internals, meaning you get rules around capitalisation that wouldn't otherwise exist. And so on.
> - cut environmental laws (for capex make-right)

I'm with you on all but this. Cleaning up the environment is a very expensive, time consuming process. There's still about 20 superfund sites in Santa Clara County due to its heyday of tech manufacturing.

Our local community has been fighting for the cleanup of a 60 year old disaster. That they agreed to clean up 20 years ago. But they've barely started.
If you’re talking about global supply chain disruption, isn’t that more about lack of robustness than it is about interconnectedness? I don’t see how preemptively reducing global trade in the years leading up to this pandemic would have helped, unless you just mean that we would have gotten used to doing without certain things earlier.
Right. I used to fix bid contracts and assumed the risk, so I would charge more than contracting by the hour. I imagine employees would give longer estimates to reduce their risk of working overtime.
I too initially saw that character as the katakana シ, but now I think it is just a smiley. :-)
Hey again @jqpabc123. We've heard some banks and fintech firms do that and we can add this feature. For now, popular platforms require only text verification but it'll definitely be in our reminder list.
The reason we wanted to test this out is to decide: Whether we should provide a web platform that can help people who need brand-new SIM cards and its capabilities (depending on the needs).
And we find it a bit painful to purchase new SIM cards in majority of countries because of the ID and/or in-store purchase requirement. And even if we want to ship a SIM card from no-regulation countries, the cost rises to 10-20X including shipping and taxes. It may even be impossible to ship more than 10 SIM cards due to some country's laws. So, we plan to handle all those things and provide some (or all) features of a SIM + mobile device on our website. Thus, the user can have access to as many brand-new SIM cards/phone numbers as they want.
It's also important to note that these AREN'T VOIP phone numbers and also AREN'T provided by Google or Google Voice. That's why, they may have additional functional in terms of testing.