skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a highly fixed supply (synthesizing it is prohibitively expensive)

This is what gives Bitcoin much of its value as well.

> Gold is conceptually very similar to bitcoin, except gold can't be forked or copied

This touches on another thing that makes Bitcoin valuable - consensus. Enough people agree to use it that it becomes the defacto standard.

Bitcoin (and Ether to a lesser extent) are the “rough consensus and running code” of decentralized algorithmic money

The two points are related. It was much easier to synthesize Bitcoin when fewer people were using it, and it’s market value was less.

This auto-scaling of difficulty with interest/value was added as a security mechanism but actually plays a key monetary role as well.
The thing is, a high growth company like MongoDB doesn't need to fire a single engineer to turn highly profitable. They grew revenue 57% YoY last quarter and spent 52.6% of revenue on sales & marketing.
That isn't what that commenter is saying. What he's saying is that engine licensing isn't the bulk of their revenue, other non-game-revenue-dependent services are. Those services are _game_ services that happen to not be tied, like the license of the engine itself, to the published game revenue.
America’s Crisis-Industrial Complex
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is horseshit.

If the action is inhuman, I will hate you for it. Maybe those excuses help you sleep at night but if we want to pretend we aren't just especially smart monkeys then we should act like it
A rich "friend". A sweet older man. A ... sugar daddy.
vue + springboot
Those change the type annotations for a memory location. Also if you tell me there are no concurrency gotchas for this then I’ll tell you that you have a single threaded interpreter or you’re lying.

We are talking about retaining the type and swapping the pointers from an independent object to a set of offsets into a struct of arrays.
Binary trees as a fundamental data structure is not a bad idea, and it's also entirely clarifying for programming purposes. Don't you agree OOP has huge drawbacks?
That's a valid observation of one of the reasons I won't use git-send-email.

I have limited mental resources, and given the choice between a tool where I have to spend half an hour before I can begin using it, and a tool which will guide me, I'll always choose the latter. After I'm done, I can even forget I ever used the latter tool! It's a boon for one-offs.

Keep reading, there's more criticism on other aspects of the tool.
Yeah, but in this context they should be linked to crypto transactions somehow.
Have you been documenting your findings?

A sceptical followers perspective on Urbit would be interesting to read and probably something worth archiving.
Probably under $0.05 difference - but when trying to hit $4 retail every cent matters.
> When it comes to the emails and stuff he probably isn't more efficient that way at all

I guess it depends on how he replies. But, I can't count the number of times I sit down at my computer to do one specific task and I end up doing countless other things first. The paper method at least removes the distractions.
At least the one from 1964 in the linked YouTube video doesn't.
>Even gold, at least I can wear it and display my wealth. You can’t even display your crypto wealth like that

I'd feel much safer displaying large sums of wealth online by posting a wallet than by wearing luxury goods in public.
Congress has plenty of time and money. They are too busy jockeying for votes to do anything. The problem with congress is that they are too focused on winning elections instead of doing the GD job. I view this as yet another reason why we need strict term limits for members of congress. There are too many leeches.
I don't think anyone would claim that literally every single time that is true but only that it is a non-negligible effect. (It still might be false, but you need to try harder.)
Nearly 2% of unvaccinated people died of covid complications.

If left unchecked, not counting for the fact that getting covid once does not preclude you from getting it again, that would mean roughly 140,000,000 of the people alive as of 2019 would die from covid related complications during their lifetimes.

If it were 100x worse, it would eradicate the human race.

Right now, the death toll is approximately 6.3 million. I think a few million early choking and gagging deaths by suffocation is worth the small risk of having a complication from the vaccine, of which, nearly 2 years in so far the worst complication is an inflamed heart.
seems reasonable. If you need plan B more than three times per week, you should probably take steps to switch up whatever you're doing to make it safer.
Ask HN: GitHub Alternatives?
The US Congress better get to work.

They've spent way too much time asleep at the wheel, giving the executive branch carte blanche to do whatever their whims are, rather than passing actual law.
I think a big part is the looks. The SM58 is not visually distinct from a $10 mic for a karaoke machine. The integrated pop filter means you don't even get to have the "super professional" look of a pop filter a few inches in front of your LDC.

I considered making a box that accepts inputs from dynamic mics, adds some warmth, and has a USB output, to make it easier to get the LDC sound from something like an SM58, but I think nobody would buy it.
Where does this end? You write a license that your GPL code can only be re-hosted on non-GitHub hosts? git still exists, if I'm unhappy with GitHub I can just add a new origin (sourcehut, gitea, gitlab, self-hosting, etc) and push there.

But I'm perfectly happy with GitHub and I'm fine if their ML thingy makes money off my code, I get free actions runners, a nice UI, pull-requests, etc, into the bargain, not bad.

Like knock yourself out working out if the "monkey selfie" Supreme Court case law applies to copilot or not, what jurisdictions it covers, etc. But I don't care, sorry, I'm not interested.
> Ultimately this court's decision is a win for democracy

We've now learned that the supreme court will take up a case concerning the "Independent legislature theory" which, if affirmed, would allow state legislatures to unilaterally overrule their constituent's votes in both state and federal elections.

I can't wait to see the majority maintain its staunch pro-democracy stance that it takes in this case in the terms to come.
Being forced to carry to term is a different circumstance. As you say yourself, the text limits the ruling to abortion which even today's court has ruled as a unique circumstance. Women should have this right and not the states. I truly believe that, but my opinions are also a distraction...

The justices lied to congress and were always going to overturn Roe. There's no higher judicial ground here.
For WFH, if you have your own space for working, then get a desktop conference speaker/mic, like the Plantronics Calisto 7200:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DCDKB2C

(Jabra makes something similar).

It has HW buttons for volume, answer, hangup, and mute - no hunting for the correct window to click a button.

It has noise filtering, good mic, and decent speaker quality. I've had many compliments on the audio quality. My keyboard sits 6" from the unit and nobody can hear me typing during calls (I'm a heavy-handed typist!).

Being free of a headset is wonderful. It can be BT or USB, I used USB so there's never any connection issues.
For what it's worth, I have a very, very hard time believing that the _revenue_ in the AR/VR space outside of games is even 5% of the total. If it was a big market, you wouldn't see companies like Microsoft and to a lesser extent WEbex etc. floundering so hard with their non-game-focused products. Even 5% seems unbelievable generous given that, for example, Webex Hologram has $0 revenue and Microsoft's DoD Hololens project is all but dead on launch.
> No, Dobbs returns the power to legislate abortion to the congress.

It does? I thought it left it to the states.
The article lists several substances other than water where the effect is apparently easier to demonstrate.
What differentiates this from a more general solution like fly.io? It seems like what’s being provided is an auto-scaling docker deployment with fast cross region network links, and storage? Fly provides all of that, and isn’t focused on gaming. Why would I choose Hathora?
> We know Congress is too deadlocked to be effective.

This just isn't true. Congress continues to pass thousands of laws a year, in line with their historical trends.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics

Congress is only too deadlocked to be effective on issues that the American people are divided on. And that's basically the point of democracy.

I'm sorry to say that if you want a different set of laws, then you'll need to do the hard work of talking to other voters and convincing them you're right.
I agree with the other commenter and feel the connotations of your post, the hints at your enjoyment at the prospect of this potential future - are disturbing.
R is great if all you do involves working in RStudio and that is where it stops. The R runtime is painful to scale. You’re not going to do anything like FastAPI + scikit learn model serving. All the tooling is years behind what’s available in the Python ecosystem. I can’t speak for RStudio and their commercial offering since I’ve never used it, nor want to be locked into some vendor like that.

I’m going to be honest, even RStudio sucks compared to PyCharm. Like really sucks. I almost believe people who love RStudio have never used a better IDE or don’t have serious software development backgrounds to know that it sucks.
This is completely unrelated, it allows you to use copilot.
This should tell you about the current status (which I interpret as "it's dead"): https://github.com/eclipse/ceylon/issues/7454
Every commit contains an ordered list of it's parent commits. You could think of the 'main' history as being the chain of commits that are always the first ancestor to each other and this can be a use thing to display when generating a commit history.

However, the history of a commit is always the entire tree of ancestors. This entire tree is the precise definition of what constitutes all the commits of a branch.

Thus while I agree that it is not wrong to view a branch as a bookmark, I also think that attempts to nitpick the man page's use of the term fall flat here. "Commit contained in a branch" just means: "commit contained in the history of the commit the branch currently points to." and isn't ambiguous.
Please don't cross into flamewar like this. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

Even in a divisive thread like this one, your comment here stands out as breaking the site guidelines. Would you mind reviewing them and sticking to the rules when posting here? We'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions analyzed in study
We'll never be able to define consciousness, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The sooner we realize that consciousness is a slippery socially concept and not a rationally definable property, the sooner we'll be able to move on from endless debates on the minutia of consciousness that act as a bottomless sink of intellectual energy. Devices like LaMDA, and DALLE-2 act as a Rorschach of Consciousness. That is to say they tell us more about the people people interacting with them than the devices themselves.

We already have such social machinery operating in the form of sex, gender, race, class, ability, &c. They each can take the form of acting as a frame[1] in which a strip of events can be interpreted with respect to. Even so, each has a different means in who acts an authority in the conferred frame/applied status and there is disagreement in descriptive and normative aspects of each. But I'd ask this, this that genuinely a problem?

I'm not being rhetorical when I ask, functionally what's the issue? Besides invoking a visceral intellectual response, what are the second-order effects of having a plurality of consciousness framing processes? And are they necessarily bad?

1. In the Goffmanian sense.
Then drop it. I’m serious. If the company wants to do that whole “we are a family” thing, let them.

While you don’t have to be an aggrandizing ass in going about it, you don’t have to reciprocate the “family ties” either.

Be the distant uncle, if you have to (this probably works less the higher up the chain you go, however)
Since the EPA had tried to moot the case by holding back, there must be no emergency.
The very constitution that all but guarantees a 50.1/49.9 split in just about every election.
The Scoop #16: Why doesn’t AWS add spending limits?
Thank you, this definitely goes on my reading list!
I've had a lot of success with this!

Run highly targeted advertisements, and specifically include in the advertisement that you are looking for beta test users to talk to - and what kind of users you are looking for.

The most success we had was with LinkedIn Lead Gen forms. We got meetings with about 50 people at $25-$50 a pop. Be very personal and transparent - there are lots of somewhat bored professionals out there who would love nothing more than try out your app and give you feedback.

Another option is to sponsor a professional mixer event in your area. Depending on the event, you might be able to get a 5 minute speaking spot for less than a few hundred bucks.
It's not cynical, it's business. The dishonesty always flows from corporation to employee.
There is a difference between a system working as intended, and a system working well. Given that the US constitution is now 230+ years old, we are seeing a huge divergence between the two.

The deadlock may be intentional, but it cannot be said that this is a desirable mode of operation when comparing to other countries that have much more effective governance and healthier societies.
If Slack isn't the sole-source provider, then neither was the phone company, since you could also communicate by sending letters.
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> At least with crypto you only lose as much as you put in.

Coinbase has previously offered leveraged accounts, where you could lose up to 3x what you invested.
Is this purely for analytics and listening for events? I would like the opposite, walking through an event list to mechanize UI on the frontend without an extension or from node (just via a front-end script tag). I bookmarked something like this once.
> The exchange rate for gold (i.e. the interface of an economy with the material) can crash, not gold itself, thus the inherent value.

What do you think this means? Because gold is only worth what you can trade it for - the exchange rate.

It has no "inherent value" - you don't eat gold.
And there he is, right there in your reference (great reference for an unbiased point of view by the way) as an inventor of the AC system.

All inventions are somehow based on the ideas of others, but you still contend that his studying two engineering disciplines, developing several technologies and fighting the current wars were all part of the long grift of a conman? Seems like the long, risky route to the $$$ no?

(Yes, before I said THE inventor - you got me.)
My team is geographically spread and nearly all the formally organized team building since covid started has been cringe-inducing. Really cheesy quizzes and games that haven't been really thought through for a virtual setting. I mostly tune out.

What has been highly successful is informal, free-form time. We have a recurring weekly 1/2 hr virtual coffee break that is optional to join and there are only 2 rules: no work-related discussion and keep the content reasonably safe for work. It's a great chance to stay in touch with everyone (and get to know new members).

Having the coffee break as specifically scheduled time and optional as opposed to tack on time after completing the team meeting agenda makes a huge difference. Appending 'fun' to existing meetings feels like a chore, whereas choosing to join a call to hang out keeps it light and refreshing.
> This is a win for industry.

I would frame it more as a loss for the planet, at a time when we're facing the greatest existential threat in all of history.
This tendency of people to attribute the worst possible motives to their political opponents is tiring.

I live in a deeply conservative state, but I spend most of my online time on HN. This puts me in the middle of two vastly different cultures with vastly different sets of values. I have listened to both sides explain their sincerely held views. I have listened to both sides talk about the other side.

Each group will tell me "but those other guys are evil and only want to ____!" Each group then explains their own views, and you know what? Each group's views are rational. Each group's views are compassionate. Both groups really believe that they want what's best for the world, and neither group has thought through their ideas better than the other. Both have severe flaws in their reasoning, but both also really care.

In a word: both groups are human.

I think it would do us all good to assume that most people are acting out of sincerely held beliefs, and that most people really do want to do good. I know there are exceptions, but the world would be a better place if we didn't treat those exceptions as though they were the rule.
To think there are people to who stayed home in Nov' 16 because they were salty that Bernie didn't get the nomination.
I’m assuming that the implication of the title is that Coinbase is using the location data of its active users; data that it obtained through geo-locating user IPs; IPs collected from the necessary exchange of information over TCP/IP. That’s how I read it first. The story is a little different. You could imagine a title saying that “Coinbase is collecting third-party location data and selling it to ICE” closer to the report.
Stopping hackers should be everyone's mandate. When your network is under attack and the FBI have stingrays, do you get into an argument with them because they don't have warrants?
https://iasus-concepts.com/wireless-headsets/stealth/
A shibboleth (a secret language or way of speaking used for identification) isn't unique to cults.

Typically the test for a cult is:

1. Secret knowledge

2. Enforced isolation

3. Some kind of leader/living authority

Eg, Scientology has their secret books, they will attack you and sue you if you share that secret and they have church elders.
> Yes, this is a win for republican democracy […]

It is a win for the anti-government minority:

* https://www.vox.com/2018/9/12/17850980/democracy-tyranny-min...

* https://harpers.org/archive/2017/03/tyranny-of-the-minority/

* https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-...

* https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/the-tyranny-of-the-mi...
In my experience, bootcamps and uni produce polar opposites. You either end up with devs who can do several practical things, but have no clue about fundamentals, or devs who know all the academic terms but have no idea how to apply them practically.
There is already well established precedent so you don't have to know, the judge will figure it out for you.
>> let’s amend it!

> Lol good luck with that. Zero chance 3/4 of the states agree on literally anything. The culture wars are in full swing, owning the other side is more important than being effective.

The problem is that a lot of people want to use amendments to force non-consensus policy preferences on the whole country. For many decades, it seems like Supreme Court decisions have frequently been serving as the constitutional amendments those people want in all but name.
In light of Bruen and this one, maybe.

But based on Egbert and Vega, there's now precedent for federal agents to perform warrantless raids, seizures, and arrests, without reading Miranda warnings, with no legal consequences.
America needs supply-side reform
I wouldn't go so far as to deny consciousness, but I will go as far as saying that I don't know whether my consciousness extends in time (to the past or to the future) or is just a moment. I believe it does, but I wouldn't be able to tell that apart from if I'm just a simulation of a single moment, so I recognise it is just a belief.

In terms of further deconstructing consciousness and the ego, a big challenge is to figure out what that actually entails. E.g. an intriguing outcome of split brain experiments is that the brain appears willing to act as if it knows things it possibly can, just retroactively spinning explanations of decisions that were unknown to it, which to me raises the question of how thin a veneer consciousness is on top of underlying autonomous or semi-autonomous processes, and how unitary the mind is (or rather isn't).

There appears to potentially be a whole lot of emperor and very little cloth.
Ceylon was designed to run as well on the JVM as on JavaScript... there was even a community member who for some reason got really far into making it run on the Dart VM.

It was a great language, with awesome features we still don't see in a lot of languages (the way tuples were deeply integrated into the language such that function arguments were treated as tuples, nullable types were just unions Null|T, the advanced module system, type-safe reflection which enabled stuff like type-safe keypaths which someone posted for Rust the other day, were all brilliant included in Ceylon).

However, the execution was not great. There were bugs, there was no killer app/framework for it, the focus was too much on the ideas.

I am quite upset it basically lost completely to Kotlin (and maybe Scala)... I invested a good deal of time learning it and that turned out to be mostly wasted time, except for a few design approaches and ideas that stick with me and can be transferred nicely to less powerful languages.
the only significant difference I've seen in brand-new devs from bootcamps vs CS programs is the devs from bootcamps are somewhat aware that they have a lot of learning to do
A single-stage object detection framework dedicated to industrial applications
Second is impossible for a virtual assistant no?
I know it's a total pipe dream, but this is what makes me most sad about lisp never being taken seriously.

It could have been common practice to create and pull in new language constructs like what this is doing.
This is just more evidence that crypto is just re-realizing 200 years of the development of modern finance.
If the goal was actually releasing a game, why would anyone choose Godot over Unity or Unreal? Feels like it's a hobby or a statement of "I'm 100% non-commercial FOSS!"
> but when a board throws tens or hundreds of millions at someone, they usually take the deal, and act accordingly.

Board also has to act in favor of what's better financially for the company. If that CEO did not have agree for merger, they'd have fired him. At least, he'd have dignity if he choose that and your respect as well, but that does not have paid his bills. I'm not sidelining with anyone.
>How'd that work out in 2020?

In 2020, obviously senile and charisma-void, candidate Joe Biden surprisingly manifested ~81 (Edit: actually 8) million more votes than the 'second-coming of Christ' Barack Obama before him, while speaking to low double-digit audiences at his rally stops. Really makes you think.

Edit: in 2020 Biden received 81,284,000 votes , Trump 74,221,000 votes, while in 2008 Obama got 69,498,516 votes

Thanks to the user remarking on the error. It's the kind of mistake that happens when you rewrite a comment ten times.