skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatively few people are against the blockchain as an interesting technology for creating distributed truth in areas that can actually benefit from that.

I think if we're extending your age of sail metaphor, I think people are against it being used for the modern version of tulip mania.

Personally, I'm now more excited now about blockchain than I have been in the past. I think the the rush to extract money from people via btc, nfts, etc. is what has overshadowed it's ability for interesting/novel use cases.
I really loved the design of the Touch Bar/Butterfly keyboard visually.

It would have been great if:

- They kept the butterfly but completely solved the failure problem.

- Supported Touch Bar with actual haptic feedback that could really be used "professionally" as in a Pro device. It could at best become a gimmick, but if played right, had great potential.

- Had a simplified thin chassis with less ports. I really don't wanna pay for an HDMI port, SD reader, and a headphone jack that I'll never use in my entire life. I still believe after all the years, unification of everything to a single port (USB-C) was right. The industry should have forward to, say, support HDMI over USB-C on ubiqutiously, and really should have adopted a single card type: now we practically have 3: SD, microSD, and CF. My camera has a CF card, my drone has a microSD, and ironically regular SD is the only one that don't use so I still carry a dongle anyway (microSD adapter in this sense can be considered a passive dongle). Instead of the headphone jack it could stream raw audio over USB-C and offload DAC to the connected device. I also get that without a single standard, Apple also couldn't make everyone happy at the same time, but if there was a single standard port, or even a wireless standard that provided Gigabit speeds in around less than a meter, that would have been a great device with much less ports.

Of course, this is not reality, and I of course also get why Apple added all those back, and I love my M1 MacBook Pro regardless. I just wanted to share a vision.
This is the first time since inception it has traded below its previous bull market high.

This time is different.
What is your definition of “very well”?
Because a lot of those people acted like they were smarter than everyone else and shoved their gains in our faces for years. I'm happy to see crypto bros losing their shirts.
I recall some company or project in the late 70s or 80s putting together a massive database of concepts and how they relate to each other, i.e. a semantic word database. Wish I could remember the name, I know it's on wikipedia somewhere.

I always thought the effort must have been related to code like this. This simple language interpreter can do lots of things, but only in its small world of boxes and pyramids. It follows that if you teach it a bunch of things and how they relate to each other, you'd create an intelligent computer.

Instead that whole field was dropped, presumably because it didn't work, and eventually neural networks started to be thought of as the next generation of soon-to-be-AI systems. But it's pretty apparent by now that things like GPT-3 are hollow shells, good at emulating some very specific things humans can do, but there's nothing remotely like intelligence behind it.

I wonder if in 20 years we'll look back at this as another dead end on the road to AI.
No, a recession means low economic output/growth so you cannot get a job (unemployment) and don't have money to spend or save

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession

Inflation means the value of your savings is degrading over time.

These are both bad. For the most part inflation and unemployment are opposed to each other, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve

that Phillips curve is not an absolute relation, but its a guideline for the choices the government have. Lowering interest rates or running a budget defict to promote employment but cause inflation and raising interest rates and running a budget surplus are bad for employment for good for inflation.

The Fed in US is raising interest rates to fight inflation but some fear it will call a recession.

It is not an absolute thing and it shifts over time. We have had low interest rates and high budget deficits for a long time and had low inflation until recently. In the 1970s the US had 'stagflation' where unemployment and inflation were both high. Some lesser developed countries have bad inflation and unemployment chronically. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)
Digital fiat currency also does not require traditional armies or physical vaults.

Digital fiat and crypto both require armies of cybersecurity geeks and "vaults" of servers participating in the network.

I don't see your point.
I think it also ignores the fact that one of the big energy suppliers entered a war of territorial expansion and it may take a while until it's business as usual - I'd expect this to also affect energy prices.
> The general idea is "lower air pressure and move gas to cold side so the gas heats up" followed by "raise air pressure and move gas to warm side so the gas cools down".

This sounds like Maxwell's Demon, where the work required to prevent the system from reaching thermodynamic equilibrium is equal to or greater than the extra energy. How does this differ from that?
One way to think of the elite is they are the people who can easily get those in power to actually listen to them. The typical person in the US, for example, has great difficulty getting their elected leaders to actually talk to them.

Large CEOs, the very wealthy, etc do not have such issues.
What's the mental model for the use of a git submodule?

I've always thought of them as a way to "vendor" a git repository, i.e. declare a dependency on a specific version of another project. I thought they made sense to use only when you're not actively developing the other project (at least within the same mental context). If you did want to develop the other project independently, I thought it best to clone it as a non-submodule somewhere else, push any commits, then pull them down into the submodule.
Are you in the arts or a field adjacent to it, by chance?
Double entendre of dupe here? :)
Sorry what? They are literally the safest cars on the road in terms of BOTH

A) accidents per driven mile and
B) probability of injury in an accident
>How can I be sure that the device actually shuts down and isn’t listening to collect information for my employer?

Just... turn it off? Others have mentioned that theoretically the mac is still "on", but do you have any reason to believe that your employer will go through the effort flashing your macbook with modified firmware (which probably involves bypassing a bunch of protections apple puts in) to spy on you? If you actually think the device is bugged then you probably want to put it in a faraday cage that's also soundproof (so it can't eavesdrop on you).

>Furthermore, how can I be sure that apps such as PagerDuty or other “on-call” apps aren’t relaying my location and other metadata to my employer?

Why are you granting location permissions to the app in the first place?
If I understand correctly, the actual cryptography in cryptocurrencies isn't terribly interesting.

Blockchains are, however, trying (or claim to be trying) to solve the Byzantine Fault Tolerance problem, which has no known efficient solution.

Is that correct? Are blockchains an actual area of research for folks studying distributed systems in CS Departments?
Since the alternative was continuing to do nothing, yes yes it was.
If you are investing here please dollar cost average over the next ~6 months (likely recession/bear market duration) as opposed to buying in one go.

Sell ~4 years from now as Bitcoin tends to be cyclical and peaks 2 years after a halving event.
> The expectation that godot will cover two major disciplines is possible... but unlikely.

I disagree. I think it's just a matter of time. I think Godot isn't ready yet, but will be soon. Just got to wait a little longer.
So far the only real use of blockchain technology is Git. Cryptocurrencies are misuse of it :-D
Sell it, use it as a server, repurpose for a NAS, use it to game remotely with Parsec.
I can say my left toe is hurting from long covid and no one can deny that. But if you say my left toe is hurting from depression that won't be taken seriously.
Then how about an AI misclassifying a firetruck for a road?
I remember when that memo leaked. I was an EM at Amazon, and that wasn't my experience. I didn't feel any more pressure to PIP there than anywhere else. Maybe I wasn't there long enough to feel it.
This illustrates how immortality alone does not rid humanity of our problems(internal or external). As we see frequently in stories, immortality granted via a Faustian bargain without reading the fine print could end in literal hell. A similar fate could befall a human who has acquired immortality in the future. I for one, would not like to have immortality only to be kidnapped by a sadist, locked up and tortured for eternity. I suppose that is a risk I would take if given the opportunity to live forever.

Imagine a detective getting assigned a case that is never resolved. The obsession to solve the case never subsides. The detective never gives up, endlessly pouring over the records for eons, in a similar manner to that of detectives that spend decades trying to solve cold cases to this day.

The hope for immortality should always include other parameters.
If you have an opinion on an issue but don't care strongly about it, you might be willing to answer when polled, but unwilling to actively participate in a referendum.
Lego Galaxy Explorer 10497
A lot of stuff can kill you wimpy 1000 km away. How would you even get so close to a magnetar?

Supernova may perhaps fry your planet a couple dozens light years away!
This looks good. Why do the vectors have to be dense? Just because of overhead/speed gain being the lowest? Just asking if you could use it universally for all operations if I don't know the density.
>The whole crazy WEF conspiracy movement

Isnt the World Economic Forum a real organization?

Why do you call the WEF a crazy conspiracy movement?
Agreed with your comment up to this:

>but they earn a decent living wage in most areas.

Debatable and only part of the problem. Education is a terrible example for you to bring up, as evidenced by the absurdly low salaries they receive combined with the broad expectations of their job (therapy, education, tutoring, crisis intervention, nutrition, baby sitting, special needs identification, the list goes on).

Have you seen the turnover rates in education? It’s in an appalling state. No resources, garbage pay, and now they’re being asked to shoot back at school shooters as their schools are redesigned to look like prisons, all while politicians play tug of war with their curriculum as a proxy battle for social policies.

The sad fact is we don’t value educators in the US. Hell we don’t value caregivers much either.
On the other hand, Bitcoin obviously has a lot of drawbacks and so do most other cryptos. And, although crypto might has it's uses, it's currently used pretty exclusively as very speculative investment medium and for scamming people.
> Bitcoin has a neat feature of not requiring armies or vaults to protect itself.

That premise is false.

If Bitcoin wins out and becomes dominant, nations with very large economies (in particular) and a lot to lose accordingly, will absolutely have to use their militaries to defend the networks that power Bitcoin.

There is no scenario where Bitcoin becomes a lot bigger and doesn't require military protection globally. It'll require military protection as much as any other super asset, if it reaches the scale of the others that comprise a large chunk of national wealth in a given country.
This is how Patreon works when you're lucky.

They keep degrading the pooling and/or threatening to remove it entirely.
Agreed with all of this!

In git parlance, the submodule porcelain is hard to use (but the plumbing is good)
"The last time bitcoin was at that level was in November 2020, when it was on its way up to its all-time high of nearly $69,000" ... "Bitcoin has now lost more than 70% of its value since reaching that peak."

That's stunning. To be honest, I've still have never understood the real value of "crypto currencies" outside of hiding cash transfers from taxes or purchases that are criminal in some way.

I've yet to find an article that clearly and simply explains the need or reasoning for using it. I've seen a few that speaks to it being "secure" but that's obviously not the case because I've seen far more that describe how people have been ripped off and far more than those I've seen about those who've had money just disappear from a Bank or S&L.
The quote you reply to doesn't say: "When stocks tank, one can buy in."

It says: "When stocks tank, one can decide if a company is undervalued and decide whether to buy in."
Majority? Vertical videos suck from a videography perspective. Even if we were all using phones most videos are better off widescreen because they capture surrounding context and not just a shitload of the sky and the ground.
In the USA we have plenty of (IMO) unjust laws meant to put people into the system.

If Democrats really supported bodily autonomy, they would push to make all drugs legal.
Thanks for your work :).
Larry Ellison was prescient when he said that Jony Ive would run amok without an editor in Steve Jobs, in an interview after Jobs' death (Ellison was good friends with Jobs). Perhaps the utter lack of design innovation and frankly, new consumer products led Jony Ive to obsess over the ring campus, going to ridiculous lengths to make things just so. All that money and creative energy could have been put into groundbreaking product, but with Steve Jobs gone, I doubt there was anyone else who could do what he did.
Smart move for Google I guess. Makes it much more likely that you impulse buy a premium YouTube subscription, since you are then only a click away from a nag popup and don't have to type in your CC details.
If you are that paranoid isolate it from your network.
lol thought this said antirust reform
I think there is more to it than that.

The fact we have currency that fluctuates on a day to day basis despite not being tied to anything beyond our trust in the system is not much better of an argument.

There was a point that the U.S. based it on the gold standard which locked in how much could be produced. This would be similar to how certain crypto lending exchanges claim they are backed 1:1 with dollars to create this concept of stablecoins.

The crypto is easy to determine, the dollars not so. Some are having audits to provide trust and transparency.

The clearing houses and financial levers are more complex than many understand. Our financial systems operate on trust, credit, and risk more than they do on having everything working in proper order.

I'm not saying crypto is THE solution and maybe in it's current state it isn't. I have learned a lot more about what exists today because I have something to contrast it too and I understand different pros/cons that I didn't see before.
Interesting. When you say that's the problem they're intended to solve, do you have a link to that as their intended use case.

IE is that "a" usecase or "the" usecase? I've never seen submodules used for that, only for internal dep management, so if there's content about "what they're really for," I'd love to read more.
Ask HN: How should we design anti-shrinkflation laws?
Let's say there's an initiative against "shrinkflation", to avoid situations where the busy crowd is tricked by corporate tricks.

The system should allow price changes, but only honest ones.

Should we have sets of fixed package weights and volumes for food and beverages? VAT penalties for odd form factors? Or something else?
The US has a long way to go before adopting a universal charger policy
> We seem obviously to be the smartest living things in the universe we know of.

Humblest too.
You are confused by this? It’s a straightforward statement.
More of a single entendre

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dupe#Serbo-Croatian
I call the "WEF is a conspiracy, they are secretly out to get us all" movement, a bunch of crazies.
Do you think the measure of worth in society is how much people are willing to pay for it? Is that the metric by which we should judge all contributions to society?

Also, do you think documentaries are valuable? Because the vast majority do not have investors and do not make much money. Frankly without grants we’d barely have any.
You know, this is actually raises a good point. If the marginal cost of producing Bitcoin exceeds the sale price, Bitcoin is toast and one of the proof of stake coins will win out.
I would agree with the author that there are other, more useful examples of recursion. He gave a family tree example but for me ‘list all files on your hard disk’ would be a better example.

Tail call recursion is interesting, but that belongs in an FP course, which is usually taught long after the basics of programming.
Apple's post-Jobs success has been the snowball effect of iPhone capturing more of the market.

Mac suffered a lot under Jobsless Ive (Cook doesn't care about product one way or the other), surviving the butterfly / touchbar winter because customers were able to keep their old Retina laptops, customers groaned and beared with lemon laptops for a few years, and desktop declined in overall relevance (except gaming where Apple never had a presence anyway), and started to recover in the post-butterfly/post-touchbar/M1 era.
Depends on your views around having consistent meanings for words to help with communication.

Recession has a definition, and it is not synonymous with a certain inflation rate. A lot of financially/economically aware people know this definition.

However, in informal usage, and probably for many laypeople, recession has come to mean "The economy is not in good shape". In this informal regard, a high inflation rate could be argued as a not a good sign for the economy.

I prefer for words to have clear definitions, so that all parties involved understand what's being talked about. But sometimes when the definitions aren't understood by the parties, it creates ambiguity and informal understandings get created.
That is extremely poor engineering, an inherent problem with good engineering is that any change tends to provoke a need to reevaluate much of the design. this is expensive and slow. So the design change gets pushed without the rest of the engineering processes that should have accompanied it and now you have critical sections that are poorly engineered. In the software world we call this "technical dept"
I'd imagine that majority of the people impacted by this crash are not crypto bros. They're people who saw a super bowl commercial, or heard about it from a friend. Hell, my mid-70s parents hold crypto, and crypto bros they are not.

As I said in the parent comment, I get the sentiment towards the shills/scammers/pumpers/etc, but the reality is that this is not really about them.
Would you have qualms with the gamification of plucking weeds?
Heat pumps for geothermal applications don't need to be optimized for less than 0C.
For real, splitting personalities in 2 types is such a reductionist approach that the only ones who take it seriously are the self-help coaches

MBTI is debatable, but it tries to be a better measure than just A/B
He's a great physical aesthetic designer. He's terrible at human interfaces, hardware or software.
What I'm most curious about is what the knock-on effect this will be to crypto businesses. From what I hear, a few pension funds invested into Bitcoin. Wondering how that'll turn out...
I dunno, the article you're citing says that Visitation, Tenderloin and Bayview all voted against him:

>"The PVI index shows that neighborhoods in the city’s core — the Haight, the Mission and Bernal Heights — tend to vote more progressively than those on its outer rim, like Lake Merced, Visitacion Valley and the Marina.

>These outer-core neighborhoods, which voted against Boudin in 2019, also voted against him on Tuesday. But this time, they were joined by several neighborhoods that voted for Boudin in 2019, including the Bayview, the Tenderloin and the Richmond."
What do you mean by that? Multiple monitors without an adapter? I have 2017 and 2019 Macbook Pro's and I use 2 27" monitors with a thunderbolt -> 2 HDMI out adapter. I don't think I'd use it without an adapter even if I could, no need to take up extra ports.
ValueTasks help but they can only be awaited once. The Unity runtime knows how to handles the same IEnumerator yielded by multiple parent routines.

Cancellation is another gotcha with Tasks. The main way to cancel tasks is to use exceptions as control flow. This causes cancellation to be very expensive. You can still use cancellation tokens and check for IsCancelled and finish your task cooperatively but then you're kind of doing thinks in an non-canononical way.

Unity also hasn't done the work to make cheap unity lifecycle delay calls such as Task wait for end of frame, (although they could). The work arounds are expensive.
I can't tell for iOS, but for macOS the UI has only gone downhill since Ive's departure. Broken navigation gestures and shortcuts, UI inconsistencies, indistinguishable toolbar icons, wasted space everywhere... Since Big Sur I feel like I'm using a bad Linux clone of macOS.
> Think also about gun control, which we know is much more popular with the public than elites often think it is. One of the things that we’re seeing recently in American politics is an effort by activist groups to correct misperceptions about what the public does think to change the nature of the conversation in Washington.

This bit right here made me trust the article a LOT less. Poll responses on Gun Control are very highly dependent on wording and how much information is provided.

For instance, people might support "universal background checks", but oppose "you cannot legally loan a rifle to your brother for a hunting trip". Or they'll support "red flag laws", but balk at "laws that let police take anyone's guns on the basis of an anonymous complaint". Same policy, different presentation.

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.
Tulip mania is the best stress test we could ask for. You are right though, the greedy will use it to exploit the uninformed. Not the best PR for Bitcoin in general.
That would be fantastic. I’ll never use HDMI, but I would love to have an Ethernet port!
https://news.bitcoin.com/study-7-6-million-south-africans-ar...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
Crypto still has value, but bitcoin itself has shown little value in any of the things it's supposed to be a solution for. It's not really that decentralised (in as far as most people trade through exchanges, and the miners have pooled their power to elicit control), the transaction fees are too high to be good for commerce, it's too volatile to be a store of money, and it's not anonymous enough to be used on illicit markets (the majority of them have moved to Monero). In my opinion, for crypto to flourish bitcoin needs to die.

That said, I also don't believe it will go to zero because there's one thing it's great at.. speculation. It's an ingenious bit of technology that the general public doesn't really understand and so the greater fool theory will continue to prove true.
There is unfortunately a fair amount of intrinsic exchange value in its use for illegal trades (drugs, CP, etc.) and tax evasion. So it won't ever drop to 0.

Unless governments actually start to do their job and stop all transactions to the fiat-crypto exchanges. They are literally being used to bypass international sanctions and fund all sorts of trafficking and cartels.