skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if competition punishes a price raiser then the price raise was not due to inflation. If the price raise is due to inflation it shouldn't be possible to undercut (long term) because the value of the money itself has decreased.
But this is such a non-answer to what's good or bad about them.
F**k that, I'll take cash!
I think it depends on how far gone the particular email account is. I ran this against my entire mail history roughly a week ago, unsubscribed from everything I didn't want, and my email inbox has been very quiet since.

In my case, I was not receiving much malicious spam, but there were a lot of mailing list emails from legitimate companies and accounts that I did not wish to receive anymore.

Definitely a good point to keep in mind for anyone who might want to use this tool to tackle malicious spam- I would recommend using dedicated spam blocking tools for that use case instead.
I feel like you can't be a great designer if you neglect human interfaces, at that point you're just an artist. Nothing wrong with that, but good design it is not.
It used to be that meals were tax deductible (which is why Google offered meals) but that got restricted. If a company offers a meal stipend how does that work? Is it just bonus compensation but ear marked for food only?
> And it's hard to fire these customers because they come back with a different card and fake names.

Perhaps it is time to start asking for government IDs before accessing customer service.
> I have no horse in this race but it seems like a lot of people are rooting for as much pain as possible for Bitcoin as that justifies/makes people feel good for missing its bull run.

I for one am a supporter of progress in finance, no matter the medium, but the crypto fandom is so incredibly insufferable, full of snobs, tech-, environment- and money-illiterate folks that I might as well watch the bubble burst and cheer.
Artists are a petty and vindictive culture, since value is subjective and there's no profit for being pretty good but not the annointed winner.
Removing the battery should help (assuming no back up or remove those also)
Maddness is their more recent work and yields 100x speedups: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10860.pdf

The code for Maddness is in the same github repo if you search for "Mithral".

SIMD instructions can work wonders in the right context.
The bitcoin algorithm that determines when to double/halve is well tested in one direction, but the halving suffers from some problems if the hashrate drops too quickly. I would imagine that suddenly the number of transactions that can be processed will rapidly decrease as well simply because not enough blocks would be mined.

This might cause a massive increase in the interval between two subsequent blocks and that in turn may cause more people to lose faith in bitcoin because transactions would slow down significantly. Which in turn would put more downward pressure on price and eventually again on the hashrate.

And halving are just that: they are halvings, you can't skip multiple halvings in one go.

So in short: it may cause a downward feedback loop.
If the grocery stores all suddenly have 10x as many avocados people will pay less for them. The same is true for the grocery store that is buying money with avocados. Nobody considers consumers greedy for paying less when there's a surplus.
AFAUI that setup is not possible with an M1 Mac today. You can only use one external display.
Hum... I've not read so far the study, just skimmed the article and honestly I'm not convinced at all.

Modern era born essentially with the French, American and October Revolutions, witch are described in general as people revolutions, but if we read more carefully the history we have, their outcome they should probably be read as the banker's revolutions. The old élite was essentially a military and religious one, decoupled, the new one is essentially economical/merchant/financial with still a fragment of religion and military power aside. That means their power is mostly based on very deep understatement of the people behaviors, since they can't count on strong power to repress.

Actual élite might be "disconnected from the real world" but definitively know VERY DEEPLY WELL the public opinion, they master it, also thanks to surveillance capitalism. What they misread probably is the physical reality, like they imaging a future that's totally surrealistic while to their eyes sound definitively possible, but hardly they ignore or misread the public, they are the master of propaganda more than ever.
This makes me idly wonder if we could use those rays of golden sun for heating more efficiently than we are. Pitch black panels facing the sun through which you pump some heat-transfer fluid? Hooked up to a heatpump?
Search on youtube for "hydraulic press channel". That will fix it.
> …Are opinion polls actually representative of what public opinion is - and more importantly, how the public will vote?

> It seems that on a lot of hot button issues … opinion polls show considerable support for [positions] that simply do not manifest when there are actual referenda on the issue…

What an excellent question. There are a couple of issues.

One is what is measured by public opinion surveys. Let’s say I ask “should roe be overturned?” Two people who think that roe is fine but the threshold should be moved might respond differently (“no — we just need to move the threshold” “yes — and replace it with the same but a different threshold”). The survey people know this but it’s very hard.

Second, is that the voting options are never clear cut. A simple referendum can include the problem above; when voting for a candidate you may not find one with the same attitude as you on your most important question, or you may survey with the majority on three topics but find a minority position more important to you.
I’m not sure if having some badly designed products doesn’t make one a great physical product designer. It’s completely possible to be a great product designer with few bad products.

I’m not arguing that Ive is a great designer. Ok just saying that the iMac hockey puck mouse doesn’t invalidate that claim.
> as that justifies/makes people feel good for missing its bull run.

That is the same argument that 'people wants to reduce inequality because they hate the rich'. It appeals to feelings but it is a not very realistic nor useful explanation.

> The entire US and European stock market is absolute garbage too (housing showing cracks as well)

If my house losses it's value, it's still my home. If bitcoin losses their you just got a very long number.
As for some solutions: The choice of the writing instrument helps a lot. While fountain pens feel amazing to write with, one looks like a smurf after writing with one. Hard pencils are one of the better choices. Writing slower also helps a bit.

A “different” solution would be to write from right to left. I’ve tried it multiple times — both writing with mirrored symbols and writing non-mirrored symbols. The positive was that my hands were a lot cleaner. The negatives were that others couldn’t read what I wrote and that I looked as a crazy person.
In what way does your link show that "it has since been proven without a doubt that bundling IE did not present an unfair advantage in the browser wars"?
I think I would respect someone that said Damore, Eich, and these activists shouldn't have been fired. And I would respect someone that said each of them should have been.

Most on progressive twitter though were pro Damore being shot into the moon, but are defending these SpaceX activists (by CORRECTLY pointing out that Musk is a hypocrite with his interpretation of 'free speech')

And most on HackerNews were defending Damore, yet today think it's absolutely correct to expect to be fired from a private company for the smallest sign of dissent.

I don't have proof it's the same people, but the upvotes tell a narrative.

Me, personally, I'm in the first group. If you work for Musk you have to understand he's a petulant child who will take every slight way too seriously than what would be expected from The Richest Man In The World.
And I'm not even mad that he's a hypocrite. I know he is. Everyone with a braincell knows he is.

But it is wild to see how deep Musk's cult goes that he can inverse Eurasia and Eastasia and people just fall in line.
XFCE is a integrated desktop. You are choosing the desktop and what comes with it, including how the developers decide to change it. If you want control start with a window manager or a window manager like compositor for wayland and build your desktop from there. There are non-desktop versions of pretty much everything you need (notification daemons, keybinding, etc.).
If you know what signs to look for the swing has already begun.
> > Are opinion polls actually representative of what public opinion is

>Yes.

No.

According to "Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2018", 69% of people polled in washington state supported taxing fossil fuel companies. In the same year, a ballot initiative to enact carbon taxes failed 43% to 57%. Granted, they're not asking the same question, but it seems doubtful that 26% of people were for "taxing fossil fuel companies" but were against "pollution fees on sources of greenhouse gas pollutants ".

[1] https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Washington_Initiative_163...
How was he a bad president?
I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to link to a specific part of an article, though. And in that context I wouldn't really call it editorializing.

URLs make this harder than it should be.
Just because crypto doesn't offer chargebacks doesn't mean that the customer is not legally entitled to a refund. Depending on the jurisdiction of the merchant and the customer there are a number of scenarios where the merchant is legally obliged to providing a refund. For example, in Germany when a minor makes the purchase, the transaction may be invalid and the merchant has to refund the money.
The nationalism that's become out of vogue in the West is finally expressable through Ukraine. "Slava Ukraini!"
A thoroughly panic inducing example is the basis for Anna Meredith’s Sawbones - https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TsgNYUfdv9A&feature=share
> Another example in a different field is "how much should the rich pay in income taxes?", where people will answer "more than they are now" (instead of "less" or "the same") but if asked to pick a percentage they'll choose one lower than current rates.

And if you ask them what counts as rich, they’ll say “someone who makes more money than me” even folks who make $200k+.
Hypothesis: if, as some have asserted, the BTC market is driven by the Tether market, then BTC dropping might be related to the recent wobbling of Tether USDT, which never quite regained $1 peg.

If Tether is about to go the way of Luna and Celsius, then it may be that one of the major remaining purchasers of (heavily discounted) Chinese property bonds is about to go away. We have already seen a couple small runs on the bank in China in recent weeks. Perhaps we are about to see more?

Whether the above hypothesis is true or not (and I am not attached to it, as I own no BTC nor USDT), I suspect that one way or another, the crash of BTC is going to have knock-on effects on the rest of the global economy. Remember, at the beginning of the GFC not many people in Greece or Iceland or Spain probably thought that American housing bonds had anything to do with them...
> Also, you seem to be thinking like currencies (whether fiat securities, or decentralized autonomous securities) are the central point — or only point — of blockchains. [...]

> But in decentralized-computation platforms like Ethereum, there are lots of other things going on

What are they? Please name one successful, trustless Ethereum use case beyond DeFi.

The blockchain isn't connected to anything; most importantly, it's not connected to a legal system capable of interpreting and adjudicating contracts and reliably passing judgement on real-world properties that are the subject of those contracts.

Yes, it would be absolutely great to have an "API for the legal system" (and by extension the financial one), but I doubt that blockchain brings anything of significance to the table here. (Distributed consensus might well be a component of such a system, but arguably not the most important one by a long shot.)
"Bitcoin has a neat feature of not requiring armies or vaults to protect itself."
I hear what you are saying but this premise is actually wrong. To steal someones money from the bank criminals probably need a group of armed men and must attempt to breach the banks vault. Which is very unrealistic. At any moment an army of police could arrive and kill them plus they have bank employees and customers to deal with and likely a security guard. To try and take fiat digitally is even harder as you have to actually hack your way into a banks systems and transfter the money and still withdraw or launder it somehow later. To take someones btc they just need to get into someones house with a gun or some pliers and a hammer and their target will just send it to their wallet from their laptop. Its far easier to steal large amounts of crypto currency than it is to steal large amounts of fiat.
Don’t really see how it could have been interpreted any other way.
Recession has a very clear definition in the science of Economics already.
For the non-native speakers here, dupe as in duplicate post, but also dupe as in scam as in Bitcoin is a scam.
Why? The technology is fairly interesting I think. It doesn't mean that they are evil.
Macbook batteries are not easy to remove.
This was pretty much covered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31792575, posted ~20 minutes before this one.
If we had a paddle that let you cleanse the air of coronavirus, would you be against people using it?

Mosquito-borne illnesses are a thousand times more deadly.
> I suspect that one way or another, the crash of BTC is going to have knock-on effects on the rest of the global economy.

I highly doubt that because there just isn't enough volume in BTC compared to what the rest of the world transacts in other currencies. It may affect the price of drugs for a while.
The capital comes at the cost of sovereignity.

They have decided it's better to avoid their local businesses being beholden to foreign investors, which is a case that can be argued.

If you're being directed mostly by overseas investors who will never see your actual operation in person, that increases the pressure to cook the books, either on a direct accounting-level basis, or by cutting corners in operations, environmental or labour standards, or product quality.

Notice how some countries insist on joint ventures with a 51% local partner, which similarly ensures there's some local skin in the game.
I think I’m asking a different question: if we could actually work much less? Can we really feed people if everyone who isn’t currently a farmer or making farm equipment/consumables stopped working, or are greater economies of scale needed to keep the cost of that farm equipment and those consumables low?
Ukraine Engineers Create New Electric Bike Model During War
and we the ppl have a right to it.

i.e. i don't want to be an electrical engineer to be able to operate a light switch. i don't care about the certifications of the cabling or the switch or in which way the electrons were produced - i want the lights on.
One party doesn’t consistently benefit from low turnout, not anymore. Trump won almost exactly half of new voters in 2020. Also, “voter suppression” is a myth, just like “voter fraud.” Isolated instances but studies consistently fail to show any material effect. (E.g. no effect from voter ID: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18230009/v...)
I don’t see why they (Apple, Samsung) would bother having two plug designs. I expect the USB format to be adopted globally. It would be nice if it were better designed, but thems the breaks.
I believe I have testimony PDF from two or three of the major witness' .. "knife the baby" included.. many of those documents said things in public that had never been confirmed, regarding cozy business aka monopoly practice with Dell, Intuit and others.. maybe they are on the web but might be hard to find at first...
> Every computer that powers the Bitcoin network resides in Ukraine.

care to explain? I have never heard this before.
I think the environmental argument is the easiest one to make against crypto, and the easiest one for crypto fans to discount (“proof of stake is coming in X months!!”).

More importantly, though, it’s mostly a way for already-rich people to extract money from poorer people.

The people who “invested” in 2021 are almost all under water today, and they’re largely people who couldn’t afford to lose their investment.
You are completely correct and I really wish you weren't.
Yup, I think that's it.
Metropa, an European metro railway project
>> In general, what changed after threat of break up

Howard Hughes' approach to tax evasion resurfaced.
Sorry that your grandparents decided to invest in shitcoin. However, they are an outlier. I’ve seen that not even 3 percent of 50+ individuals own bitcoin. If I recollect correctly, less than 20 percent of Americans own or have traded in bitcoin. Most fit the bitcoin bro mold. 18-39. Male.

Can’t wait till this “currency” dies.
How is this a "BS excuse of an argument"? Is proof of work being used?? Hmmm, yes it is. Thus, the argument stands.
>broadcasts extreme negativity to the people who remain

...which was immediately proven right by execs who fired him.
My understanding is that heat pumps can be over 100% efficient because they're actually moving heat from A to B where one side is the outside environment. It doesn't violate thermodynamics if you view the Earth as a closed system. The heat pump itself is not a closed system.
Patents, intellectual property, etc. It's why every appliance is trash nowadays. Big corps are IP holders, and there's only so many ways to engineer certain actions. Regardless even if you try to startup a company you'll be pushed out by the control big corps have over manufacturing.

We need to start nullifying IP if we ever hope to see innovation.
How can a customer use a stolen credit card to make payments with crypto? And how does a customer initiate a bogus chargeback on the blockchain?
It's not about the money, it's about a scam finally unravelling and preventing a scam from doing future harm.

Even if someone missed the Bitcoin bull-run, they could have easily joined the stock market bull-run.
I liked it too, when I used it. It's been decades, though. I think you're right about the use model and its benefits.

uw-beaver!tikal!jes :-)
It's incredible that there's actually this much room to improve. How does this compare to GPU implementations?

Also it looks like the optimization is related to running operations on a compressed representation, for the 10x vs 100x speedup, is there a tradeoff between speed and accuracy, or is that extra degree of magnitude just from bringing SIMD into the picture?
On the other hand, if as a result Facebook never existed (in its long-Zuckerberg form) the world could have been a better place.
The mods deleted the other thread, but basically what this guy was doing was Sealioning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Certainly sometimes it's good to debate a word but this crossed the line into incessant requests for people to do work to come up with ever more definitions and citations.
Systemd is actually a great tool for building your own desktop. It's user services/units are perfect for long running user process. I use it extensively for my Openbox setup. Running compton, conky, redshift, xbindkeys, urxvtd daemon, setting the wallpaper, running the screenlock program, and my calendar reminder all as systemd services.

The only thing really changing right now is Wayland and the switch from window manager to compositors and the related support software. There are getting to be a decent amount of options in that regard with a good crop of lightweight compositors and tools starting to mature.
But when they do catch up and surpass them, they won't unseat the first ones at being first.
well ... yes and no imo. the text sounds like what somebody realized during an acid trip. of course maintenance is required. but to equate incessant, disruptive maintenance with "life" is a bit over the top. properly constructed building won't need serious overhauls for decades. the constant building, ripping down, ripping up, building again is as I see it just as well correlated to an unhealthy pump and dump tendency of our hyper capitalist economy.
A stock of Visa has value but little utility. A Visa credit card maybe has value on the black market.

But the card itself has no value other than said black market. It has loads of utility though.

Maybe you can use it to scrape off the ice on your car windows in a cold winter day... so that would be maybe a nickel?

Further I can call citibank to get a free replacement visa card. So the value of the credit card seems to be close to zero.
If submodules were really slick, they'd become the primary way to manage build-time dependencies.
every wa user volunteers his message meta-data and probably the contents of their address book
It’s not inexplicable, it was a manufactured consensus by the media.

I was a Carter fan before it was cool, seems like more and more people are coming around and revisiting his legacy.
It already is right? A GPU is basically a purpose-built linear algebra machine.
Depends on the company and how they're paying it out. I've seen food services where a daily credit is issued to your service account (funded by the org), I've seen it as bonus comp, etc. Whichever mechanism is used is usually some sort of crude optimization attempt for what's best for the org and the employee with whatever services and regulatory framework they're working with (wrt to taxes).
The old-chassis pros (incl. the new m2 13") can only do one monitor, if I remember correctly?
> Bitcoin has a neat feature of not requiring armies or vaults to protect itself.

Not even cannons can protect it.

- One day, due to the accidental wallet destruction during the server reboot, they lost keys to all BTC wallets, resulting in loss of 17k BTC.

- The hackers breached Bitcoin7 servers and gained full access to the main BTC depository and 2 of the 3 backup wallets.

- The 43,000 BTC Linode theft was not enough, and another 18,457 BTC was stolen from Bitcoinica’s reserves. The CEO Zhou Tong was barely able to prevent the loss of 30,000 more. The site was immediately shut down for security reasons.

- Hackers outside the country infected the internal network of the exchange with a virus that was transmitted through email, and it allowed them to steal private keys.

- ...

https://medium.com/hackernoon/a-huge-list-of-cryptocurrency-...

Bitcoin is not safer than the security of your key storage.
Git submodules aren't so bad, but they are a pretty leaky abstraction.
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/

https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/

A lot has changed. It’s a functional programming language now.
My go-to resource is the NN Group (https://www.nngroup.com/). One of the most serious publication that tries to back up insights with actual data.

Then there are the publications from people in the industry that can be interesting, but that's case by case. You'll have better results for specific problems like building and maintaining a design system.

You also have the UX collective (http://uxdesign.cc/) but their articles are hit or miss. Good ones at least provide references for you to explore deeper.
It's funny how when somebody is asking "Compared to what?" he doesn't get any answers, but gets downvoted to oblivion. Yey for being the right tribe, I guess.