skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Bitcoin was a really interesting idea in the pre-iPhone era, but for a variety of reasons it just didn't pan out.

It’s panning out just fine. Everyone who thinks Bitcoin is old news presupposes that you can do something like Bitcoin, but better. There’s no evidence of this in any non-Bitcoin cryptocurrency.

This also ignores that Bitcoin is improving every year. Tools like Liquid and Lightning are incredibly sophisticated, first principles based approaches to real problems in finance, banking, and fungibility. That fly by night securities called "cryptocurrencies" with shallow liquidity claim that they can do better, but always fail to deliver, hasn't undermined anything about Bitcoin.

I agree with the parent post. This is great for crypto. Maybe all the web developers who think they can do cryptography better than cryptographers can go do something else now.
If you want to advocate the position that there's some age where the correlation between work and income can or should be looser, be my guest.

For me, the bottom line is that spending 40 hours a week doing something that requires no skill should still entitle the employee to be able to live a basic life. Further, that it should require only one person in a family to do that work in order for the family do live a basic life. If the person wishes to earn more then they will need to acquire more skills one way or another.

I do not believe there can be any moral justification for somebody receiving 40 hours of someone's effort (even an unskilled effort) and not giving that person enough for a basic life. I don't care what the age of the person doing the work is, and yep, if the company cannot do that, it doesn't deserve to exist - it doesn't do anything valuable enough to pay its employees adequately, so it can disappear and nobody except the owners will care.
Sure, but there's no intrinsic reason for crypto to have a given value.

Assets that generate value (cash flow) will fluctuate in value per the moods of Mr. Market, but over their long run will hew to the present value of their future earnings power.

There's no similar number for crypto. Might as well be tulips. In that case, perhaps it is true that history will rhyme.
For winter clothing part of the issue may be laminated, glued or otherwise bonded clothing and the tapes used to help seal the seams. I have seen multiple friends with jackets where the seam seal tape fails and they suddenly allow lots of water inside.

I try to mend pants but I have evidently strange shaped legs because I wear the crotch out consistently. Some pants have fabric that doesn't stand up well to attempts to patch it. And I know from girlfriends who buy more clothing that some of the cheaper clothes just break down faster. They aren't built to be durable. Some higher end baselayers for winter are also not very durable, the priorities seem to be performance and weight, not durability or the ability to be repaired.
There was actually quite a lot of discussion on the mailing list (primary community back then) when we had to shift priorities. https://groups.google.com/g/light-table-discussion/c/XNNi2yx...

The LT blog also had a few updates as the community drove the project forward for a few more releases.

http://lighttable.com/2015/12/10/light-table-0-8-0/

http://lighttable.com/2017/01/27/light-table-roadmap-2017/

http://lighttable.com/2019/03/31/New-year-old-plans/
In such systems, the person bringing the charges must pay damages if the charges don't stick. Remember, the bar for criminal conviction is much higher than in civil court, and anyone can bring a civil case in our current legal system.

One major flaw in our current system is that only the government decides who gets convicted and as the old adage goes, if the king controls criminal punishment, the kings friends get away with murder. Think about the current national conversation on excessive police brutality.
I’m curious what the rationale is for not making regions explicit in the source code. It seems like a downside of region inference for a systems language is the unpredictability of the inferred regions.
But everything in prison is being done to you against your will. That's kind of the whole point. I don't see why being required to do a moderate amount of work under humane working conditions is so much worse than being required to sit there in a cell at other hours with no ability to leave.

(If the working conditions are not humane, then that's a different story).

They also do usually receive pay, just less than minimum wage. So put a different way - I don't see why the minimum wage within a prison should necessarily be the same as the minimum wage outside of prison.
Lol, no they didn't. All of those businesses are still viable because not everyone has an iDevice.
I thought the same thing after 2017, but so far there has been an endless supply of new people ready to get scammed.
All the scores are at the max. "Firewalling" the throttle means full power (pushing it towards the firewall).
> The government can’t even handle our current infrastructure of roads, bridges, electrical grids, and utilities.

If they stop doing this today, because they're so bad at it, what system do you think would take roads, bridges, electrical grids, and utilities over, and would they do a better job or hasten us into libertarian Mad Max hell?
>My read is that they are casting a larger net than the traditional definition

I doubt the book is about punching near centenarians who were members of a specific political party in the 1930s and 1940s. "Nazi" is now colloquially used as a general term to describe fascists and bigots.

Here is the Merriam-Webster definition for the word[1]. The traditional definition is definition 1. The definition the book is using is definition 2.

You don't need to wear a swastika to be fairly categorized as a Nazi according to that second definition. Some people espouse Nazi and Nazi-like ideals without self-identifying as Nazis. That seems to be the underlying meaning of the above passage.

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nazi
> Whatever the future of journalism/information-sharing, I hope we leave tactics like this behind, as it does not lead to improved shared understanding.

Shared understanding is not and never has been the goal of journalism, possibly excluding the business press. Stories are more interesting with heroes and villains so journalists create them if necessary.
Never heard of the brand, the phone looks pretty unique from a quick look at their website. But using parentheses in your brand name is a bit of a head-scratcher.
This sounds so close to Uber's strategy from the mid-20teens of having huge incentives / gamification for drivers (up to and including offering to finance car loans to get more drivers) but it'll all be okay because in Just A Few More Years they'll have perfected the robotaxi and they can dump all the humans.
Thought of this one as well, the original "whoops!" demo for Rails.
It's too bad the Apple news app is so user hostile. If you block a news source they don't remove it from any grids, they just hide images and text and replace it with something saying you've blocked the source. I block a lot of sources so it gets ugly fast.
> The elite intellectual democrats of the time were also the most racist.

Then as now, both parties were big tents and this isn't true, but it is true that the elite intellectual racists were more likely to be Democrats; that weakened in the overlapping pair of political realignments starting with the New Deal, especially the second one triggered by LBJ’s support of the Civil Rights Act.

The first schism between the national Democrats and the racists that went to form the “Dixiecrats” (itself triggered by integration policies supported by national Democrats) fell apart because the Dixiecrats weren't viable as a major party on their own, but the the second schism triggered by LBJ became permanent when the Republicans made attracting the disaffected racists a durable political strategy. That group of proud and open racists migrated from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party between the 1960s and the 1990s, which is why the Confederate-flag waving, openly anti-black, slavery-justifying-and-minimizing, etc., crowd is now consistently behind (or in front leading) the GOP.
Finalement we have our first large shadow currency event (to echo the shadow banking collapse in 08/09)
Openly, last commit: 13 months ago :(
I’m pretty sure slavery is outlawed in all European countries so that alone prevents a 0 minimum wage. That itself is a regulation. There are lots of “regulations” (government interventions) that prevent a zero minimum wage. Indeed the legal protections and regulations regarding unions, social programs for the unemployed, universal healthcare, etc. all contribute to an environment where the lowest wage isn’t zero. It is not a stretch at all to say that the legal infrastructure surrounding unions and requirements surrounding dealing with them count as “regulation”.

There are lots of instances where regulations fixed a broken system. Government regulations fixed the broke system of using child labor and fixed the broken system of slavery.
Definitely close to meaningless next to the implosion going on in other major assets (and the damage that is about to hit housing as well).

Just the five US big tech companies (AAPL, MSFT, META, AMZN, GOOGL) are down a combined ~$3.4 trillion so far from the highs.
Whatever your view on the Tulip bulb analogy, that has no relevance to this story. This is a story of traders with bad risk management who blew themselves up with leverage. That is a story that has played out plenty of times in the past on every other type of asset (housing, stocks, FX) as well.
> the original article title is misleading: it implies that the people doing involuntary labor aren't slaves.

If they're slaves, then tell me where you can buy one to own as property. Being literally owned is an important part of the definition of that word in this sense.
Killed the NYT and added Foreign Affairs. Focus is on non-ephemeral news. Longer pieces than the Economist but at about the same depth.
Another SAT developer here. Most prominently, SAT Solvers are used in the design and construction of CPUs. See the EDA Challenge of the SAT Competition 2021.
The WSJ has equally horrid opinion pages, as does my local paper. Editorial sections are basically trash in general, avoid them like the plague and your experience will be much better.

Editorial sections are “clickbait” even before that was a thing. They’ve always existed to fire people up and sell papers.
Pretty cool and interesting, good work :)
This project has been discontinued.

https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Discussion was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648280
The notification does not steals my focus, it may call my attention, but it will not steal my focus. Focus stealing is when the app I'm using is switched to another without any action from me.
I mean, it's a popular one for propagandists in various translations. The Soviet Communists did the same thing with “Pravda”, which means the same thing.
Damn, that’s some astounding modular origami work.
For plane engineering aware person, all ok.

- Commercial planes begin at about 50-60 seats, less are non-viable on median market (90%), but could be unavoidable or very competitive in some niches, like tractor-planes for swamps.

Normal commercial size - 100 seats.

For air-dynamics, 3 times capacity enlarge (from 6 to 18) typically possible, but more changes too much.

And 3 times capacity in avia measured non linear, but with famous square-cube rule, which mean, change size will increase mass as square, but capacity as cube, so to got 3x capacity, need 1.443 increase of size (1.442^3=3.0046853).
This is possible in most cases.
Yes, that logic would lead to that. Many people are misled to believe that limiting competition produces net benefits for society.
They send nothing as BTC is not located anywhere. They buy and sell btc with fiat currencies, that is all.
I'm not talking about interviews. I'm talking about performance evaluation at the company. The issues are with moving goal posts, discrinatory practices, and office politics.
Making Software Engineering Interviews More Creative and Interesting
I’m sure there are some Tulips out there somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
> prisoners are openly discriminated against in labor and housing, meaning your jail term is a meaningless wager by the prison system. they know there is a more than 2:1 chance you'll come right back, and for nothing more than trying to earn a living in a society thats shunned you.

You might be able to "pay your debt to society," in some abstract sense, but there are things you can do in this world that will render you unwelcome in my home, near my family, or on my payroll. Life is for keeps and the decisions you make cannot all be undone.
https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...

IT professionals in Ontario, at least, are probably exempt from most of your list of things you'd think are required.

Engineers and engineering students get an even shorter stick, in the form of more labour law exemptions.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...
Indeed, Creusot itself is not formally verified, but we have verified the metatheory in our paper RustHornBelt: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/rusthornbelt/paper....
Actually verifying the translation that Creusot produces would definitely be interesting future work, but I'm not sure it's where the best 'bang for the buck' is found right now, though I try to ensure the underlying translation would remain simple to formalize.
right... in 1872...
I'd love to see some analysis (probably impossible at this point) of VCs on Twitter who added "crypto/web3" into their bios over the course of late 2021 through early 2022, and how many of them have deleted any reference to it since then.
I am in favour of nuclear power but it is not so black and white.

You have just listed three types of project with access to vast resources. The number of nuclear powered vessels is vanishingly small. And spacecraft overwhelmingly use solar when they can. If your goal is to move a ship or launch a communication satellite then the last thing you want to do is add the considerable extra complexity of nuclear power. Nuclear engineering is hard.
> This Is Probably Not The Project You Are Looking For

> SQLite4 was an experimental rewrite of SQLite that was active from 2012 through 2014. All development work on SQLite4 has ended.

You got me really excited for a moment there.
You can set your watch by the periodicity of crypto FUD and it being labeled dead.
Why the News Is Not the Truth (1995)
Cheap GPUs here I come!
Seems like you need a flying wing design so you can have gigantic wings to put your giant tanks (and also passengers) in. Maybe this https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/futuristic-flying-v-air... ?
Lyft reaches $25M settlement of claims it hid safety problems before IPO
His dad is still alive, he hasn't "inherited" it yet.
> The "bring the mainframe to the battlefield” is just false

It's actually true, more or less. Bob Kahn's initial motivation for thinking about internetworking was in order to connect PRNET[0], a packet radio network intended for possible field use by the Army (by using mobile trucks as stations), with the computing power in ARPANET.

> As is the idea it was built to withstand nuclear attack

Yes, but I don't see that mentioned here.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRNET
An EMP is cheap to generate and could take out a whole array.
What Happened at MF Global?
-20% more work for 200% more pay seems like a pretty good ROI to me. Especially when I can check out and go back to a low stress gig after a few years.
The problem is that the people at the bottom of the pyramid have no idea how crypto works or the risks involved. Seems to me that defining crypto as an Unregulated Security would be a good first step, allowing only "Accredited Investors" to participate in crypto trading directly.
I don't follow. In what sense would they be the last man standing?
people think this every crash and then get more cynical as price goes up in the next bubble
What do you think is more likely, that the author forgot to add a LICENSE file or that he actually doesn't intend for ANYONE to use the language he created? Give me a break
Fred was a national treasure. Really enjoyed his show when I was younger.
What's genuinely crazy is that you would equate the forced internment of an ethnic or religious minority with the confinement of convicted criminals. I can hardly imagine two things less alike.
>average of just between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour across the country

For reference, even Uyghur coerced labour propaganda allegations cite salary above 40th percentile of PRC national income - typically subtantially higher that 600M living on 1000rmb a month. Equivalent of 40-70K USD, almost like solid poverty alleviation wages designed to minimize recidivism and not to perpetuate forever prison industrial complex that cost state/taxpayers more to intern people than they are worth as minimally paid labourers.
Happy to clarify. If I say "I remember when Craptastic Hedge Fund failed and used their traders credentials to distract from their incompetent trades" (LTCM might fit the bill here) that would be an observation. An observation is evidence. If I just say, "Hedge Funds use credentials to hide their incompetent trades" that's an assertion. It doesn't contain any evidence, I'm just stating something I believe to be true.

It's germane because the OP (and you) seem to think it's inappropriate to ask if you have any examples (maybe "example" would have been less "gauche" than "evidence")

It's not really important, you've clarified, and even added in some advice on manners.
> edge thinkers understand the canons of their trades and practices deeply

Yes but not from others and not from books. If you look at correspondence between some brilliant math and physics minds they are often discovering that they arrived at the same things independently.

I'm not advocating reinventing the wheel, but life is too short to learn what all other smart people had to say on given topic. You end up being expert on what was written by whom instead of learning the thing. I'm sure you've met those people. Subtleties of new discoveries are ignored because "well obviously, John wrote about that in 1928".

Plus you get stuck in local minima along with the rest, because for even smal improvement it may be necessary to use completely different framework, a way of looking at the thing. And just knowing vocabulary that others have used you are already stuck within their framework. We think in patterns, we name them.

If you were thought a name for some range of colors between red and orange, you would think of it as something clearly distinct than both red and orange, just as you are unlikely to accept that brown is just dark orange.
I dunno, it seemed fairly rosy.

They could have twisted the knife quite a bit more: there were a couple 3-second interactions where people are buying things [0][1], if they had been denominated in "hours of service" rather than USD, with the Company knowing what their hours balance was, and having the balance tick down and go negative... that would have been dark.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO9VRtrTJwc#t=1m26s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO9VRtrTJwc#t=2m5s
It doesn't threaten the mainstream economy because everyone knows it's a scam and no one is creating important financial infrastructure that relies on it. If crypto actually had the widespread adoption the enthusiasts dream of, we would be seeing a 2008 level disaster (and corresponding required bailout) all over again.
> Then as now, both parties were big tents and this isn't true, but it is true that the elite intellectual racists were more likely to be Democrats

Forget it, you're arguing against a bad faith argument.

OP said something along the lines of the "KKK was a conservative groups". GP's response was "ackchully the KKK was Democrats, as if "Democrat" was the opposite of "Conservative".
Looks like it's basically the same as sqlite3 except it fixes a couple odd things that sqlite3 has for legacy reasons (namely, in sqlite 3 foreign key support is disabled by default and needs to be explicitly enabled, and the actual primary key in sqlite3 is an automatically generated value called rowid, not the specified primary key).
Balls generate zero revenue. Solar arrays generate net revenue.
Yeah, but buying things online and having it shipped to your house was so very obviously useful and something that should exist, and you didn't have to be a PhD to realize it then. Pets.com was clearly not a bad idea. But I haven't yet heard of a crypto use-case that is obvious, at all.
Simply that "proper solutions are feasible; silver bullets not really"; that the problems are not really about "what to do", but "how to do it".

"Problem: overpopulation. Proposal: colonizing Mars". Putting the latter on the table was not the real difficulty.

The difficulty is in drawing a feasible plan for an implementation, to promote a proposal into a solution.
I think it's funny this could be said about fiat and debt just as easily as crypto. Maybe there are some similarities.
Ars Technica is only $25/yr and has a lot of deep knowledge on specific topics
Its free and open source! Seriously devs hate paying for tools.
4k Robots Roam the Oceans, Climate in Their Crosshairs
Floating is overwhelmingly better, because cold panels are more efficient than dry ones.
> This can't be true. We criticize China for prison labor. That would be like someone who beats their own children criticizing someone else for beating their own children.

My understanding is that the criticisms are not so much that prisoners are used for labor, but the so-called crimes that got them into prison (e.g. being a Uyghur who practices Islam in Xinjiang, criticizing the government) shouldn't be crimes at all.
You can also set your watch by the rugpulls, collapses, and by how often people lose their shirt in it.

Which would be fine if it produced useful products where dumb investments get burned, but the industry doesn't produce anything useful. It's just money flowing from suckers to grifters.
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> it's pretty difficult to build One ELN to Rule Them All given how flexible many kinds of biological experimental designs are - especially when you're working on the bleeding edge.

RDF is quite flexible and using a combination of domain specific ontologies like cheminf[1] and other top level ontologies like BFO[2] should allow you to capture most of the semantics.

[1]: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/cheminf
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Formal_Ontology?wprov=sf...
No, it’s not saying that he hasn’t problems… it’s putting this problem in the right perspective! Instead of seeing how bad the world is let’s focus on how much it did improve!
By this logic a minimum wage means existing no one earns more than minimum wage…?
Wage slavery minus the wage.
Ok so what happens if they say they don’t want to work like that? We keep them in prison without feeding them? Put them in isolated confinement? Some whipping perhaps?

Things can be necessary and worth having without being profitable. Children, for example, are huge money drains, and yet people have them.

A good prison system concentrates in rehabilitating and protecting. That is beneficial to society as a whole. It don’t have a problem on it costing money. I want it to produce better people, not money.
Its nothing like LTCM, its much worse because when LTCM the fed and SEC cleaned up by reducing interest rates and helping GS take over the positions. Crypto is "free" from govt interference like this.
Reader mode gets me most of the way. Otherwise I just don’t bother with the website as they don’t deserve to be read.
It's easy to polish something that doesn't have many visible parts.
Unicor is a scam. You can hire them to make anything, while the prisons pay workers something like $0.10/hr.
Deep Learning’s Little-Known Debt to the Innovator’s Dilemma