skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This captures some of the reasons why crypto is very big in Nigeria.

With Naira the currency being as stable as a pendulum gets on a windy day, many middle class fellows seek to store their money in some form of stable assets.
Crypto seems to be the easiest to acquire for the common folks while the politicians prefer and have access to US Dollars.
Oh yeah that one didn't even come across my mind.

That's exactly right. Surgeons are used to a backlog of patients who show up with a history, records, paperwork etc.
Never heard of that. So I looked it up and it seems a service completely based on discord? Both for the community and support (I presume) as well as accessing the service itself? There doesn't even seem to be any HTTP API. Weird :)
i'd start with "porn and nudity". The financial system is extremely hostile to them
That's what I'm using mine for!

I'll make a post with the parts list and software install steps in a month or so if it would help anyone out. I bought https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GK2QSY1, and a few alternatives, and I'm going to benchmark their performance under heavy load (using a much studlier machine to generate traffic).

These mini PCs are getting to be _really cheap_. Cheap enough that my home infra is moving towards a tiny mini PC ($100 or less) attached to every pair of monitors, keyboards, and the network, and a central server to do actual work.
This is so true, it hurts.

From my personal (and rather limited) experience, there are two kinds of people who are into FP. First are those who will act like christian missionaries or competitive vegans and tell you all about it in the most obnoxious way possible every time they see you. And the rest are those who you wouldn't even know are into FP.

Obviously exaggerating for a comedic effect here, as there are a few people in the middle. But the median of my personal experiences is definitely very well described by just those 2 commonly present types above.

You joke, but your "to shut the obsessed ones down easier" reasoning for getting into FP was one of my primary reasons for doing the same (along with just actually liking FP paradigms and learning quite a bit of cool stuff from it).
#5 Proteins don't fold in isolation. We know some proteins need chaperone proteins to fold, for instance. Others form part of a complex. The problem can't be solved in the general case just based on the sequence of the protein you want to know the structure of. That's also a problem experimentally -- we don't know if the structure of a crystalized protein is really the biologically meaningful form.
Trivializing the work of people outside of one's profession while giving more importance to one's own is as old as the human civilization. There are plenty of people cursing software developers right now for pulling six digit salaries in exchange for typing some dumb text on a screen.
Oh my gosh does capitalism allow it. Every time I see the price of a Chinese solar panel drop I buy them (as well as lifepo4 cells). I'm 100% off grid so I need all the panels I can get and they are super cheap compared to a $600 california electric bill.
Still no Wayland session in Cinnamon.
So you can pretend to be smarter than you are solely based on the paradigm.
No, the book is very different from the movie, I'd say it's almost the opposite in that it was mostly narrated from the perspective of the banks.

Another compounding factor is people often assume the message is "banks bad" but it's more "oh this system was so complex that any one individual did not understand the impact of their decision(s), much much more than everyone/anyone was playing super fast and loose from their particular perspective "
Forced? No.

The majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck choose to live paycheck to paycheck and act like every expense is an obligation.

I, to be fair, have been one of them for significant amounts of time, but I chose it and the consequences which were of my own making.
They’re not. The vast majority of early liquidity in this and most DeFi protocols is raised from institutions, VCs, and trading firms.

This is especially the case for protocols like Nomad that don’t yet have a native token. They’ll get liquidity commitments through over-the-counter SAFT agreements that give the VCs a percent of the future tokens.
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Yes, we can see the same situation between Greece and Turkey. As you know, there are also problems between the United States and Turkey. With the recent agreements, F-35 and the bases opened in Greece, the same policy can be applied against Turkey.
I don't really agree with decentralized ETL. You can't imagine the mess people proudly wrote. And yeah I have been on the other aide of the trench too.
Actually companies absolutely should take that path. Society deserves Trump and Musk way of dealing with public instead of being professional and courteous.

Oracle should absolutely out the guys whom they suspend because they have kiddie porn or did illegal transactions on their site or break terms of services.

Seeing Musk and Trump's success, one bold company will do it and will be enormously successful in deploying an army of cults against the Karens of the world. As they say, you can't bring a knife to a gun's fight
We bought it with watery eyes, but let's just say not over-hiring helps a lot with the burn rate ;)
Yeah I think single machine has its place, and I once sped up a program by 10000x by just converting it to Cython and having it all fit in the CPU cache, but the cloud still does have a place! Even for non-bursty loads. Even for loads that theoretically could fit in a single big server.

Uptime.

Or are you going to go down as all your workers finish? Long connections? Etc.

It is way easier to gradually handover across multiple API servers as you do an upgrade than it is to figure out what to do with a single beefy machine.

I'm not saying it is always worth it, but I don't even think about the API servers when a deploy happens anymore.

Furthermore if you build your whole stack this way it will be non-distributed by default code. Easy to transition for some things, hell for others. Some access patterns or algorithms are fine when everything is in a CPU cache or memory but would fall over completely across multiple machines. Part of the nice part about starting with cloud first is that it is generally easier to scale to billions of people afterwards.

That said, I think the original article makes a nuanced case with several great points and I think your highlighting of the Twitter example is a good showcase for where single machine makes sense.
The ironic thing is that what Ford really wants is to for Ford to capture those markups, not the dealers.

They want what Tesla is already doing.
I'm not above making money off it if I can despite the
Nurse Ratched vibe: https://www.psychedelicfinance.com/
Huh, missed that. It’s for the ultra: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Android/Samsung-Galaxy-S21-Ultr...
Ask HN: What are the most useful Non CS/STEM classes you have taken in college?
Hi HN!
I am an incoming (International Indian) freshman - majoring in Computer Engineering - at one of the following universities: UIUC, UT Austin, GTech, UMichigan
(I'm listing a couple of universities to preserve my anonymity and also listing those of roughly the same caliber)

I would love to hear your experience taking an interesting Non CS/STEM course (perhaps in the humanities?) that taught you things that would be otherwise quite difficult to teach yourself. What did you enjoy about these courses?

I know that the CS community is generally very pro-self-learning, but I would like to make the most of college by also taking courses not in the Math, ECE or Physics domain as I enjoy those too. I like to think I like the humanities, but I haven't really done much but read popular books on history or politics.
Kafka would be proud of this dialog.
I’m often asked “Why buy a Chromebook when you can get a Mac or PC for the same price and do so much more?” Here’s why.
I have 3 computers and stuff my files in onedrive and github + various less important cloud services. I can just log on to onedrive on a new machine if one of them dies. I have 2 aging thinkpads that work «well enough» for most uses, including the kids’ homework (which is on google something). Since I have multiple, I can tolerate one dying.
I base this upon what I read in OP. From OP:

> You do have to click through Apple's EULA in order to use the machines at all.

> Owner control is asserted on first boot (you become machine owner by going through the macOS setup flow and creating the first admin user).

> The SEP maintains a database of machine owner users. The first such user is created when the user goes through the macOS boot flow on first startup from a factory-fresh state (or after a full DFU wipe). Subsequent machine owners can only be created by authenticating with an existing owner's credentials.

> Permissive Security allows for ~all security features to be disabled, and third-party kernels to be installed. No phoning home is required. Downgrading to Permissive Security requires booting in 1TR paired to the specific OS involved, and authenticating using machine owner credentials.

It seems to me that you can boot into the recovery partition but in order to be able to boot Linux, you need to authenticate using machine owner credentials, which you only get if you go through setup of the OS, for which you need to accept the EULA. However, on the good news front, OP also writes that no internet access is required for any of these steps.
And/or using a RTOS. I remember using a RTOS on a PIC16/18 family chip like ten years ago.

But the most usual thing was knowing the precise timings that takes instructions and the peripherals to allow do multiple things at same time.
Considering that most of the energy supply is currently going into brake pads, designing an efficient regen braking system is quite reasonable.

Once we are on renewable energy, the efficiency argument will make it undeniably efficient.

This drought is teaching us that "just grow a tree" is not always viable, and the resulting water crisis is also begging the question "with who's water?"
The whole crypto lending to me seems like having a cake and eating it too. Which surprisingly kinda works for a while. Have crypto and let it appreciate, but at the same time use it to gamble for even more appreciation...
> it won't look good in black & white

That sounds like a concern that stopped being relevant for many software companies a decade ago at least.

These days app icons and hero images are more important than whether you can fax or print the logo.
Firefox has built-in support for DNS over HTTPS using NextDNS or Cloudflare
If Google is being pragmatic and young people are smarter and deliver more value why are they also paid less?
>The problem isn't technological, it's political.

I guess that's true in the technical sense, but it doesn't mean much. Electric cars were a thing in the 19th century, yet it was only in the past decade or so that they gotten popular. Would you characterize the failure of electric cars to get traction as "The problem isn't technological, it's political"?

The first result for "cost to decarbonize"[1] says it would cost $340T, compared to global GDP of $80T. You could argue that it's a political problem that we're not allocating our budget towards that goal, but at the same time you could argue that if technology improved it would be a much easier pill to swallow.

[1] https://boereport.com/2019/02/26/the-cost-of-decarbonization...
It's new this year. A group of women had been doing it unofficially for a while, and now the organizers have made it official.
Probably a mix of both. People who have some experience with drugs might want the benefit of the trip, but people who are a little more hesitant of the idea of mind-altering substances that last 8+ hours, such as LSD, might be more comfortable with some sort of watered-down experience backed by a major pharma brand and delivered by a licensed therapist.

Of course, drug companies and lobbyists also dream of such outcomes.
I thought the hardest part about logos is the idea itself? Doesn't matter that it's blurry - the majority of the work has been done.
> DEFI, ICOs and NFTs are all very valid use cases

Those are not exactly "use cases".
This automates 50% of a modern tech company, now you just need to automate the code generation, which seems already good enough to be on par with modern tech companies. Seems like a manage type can run his entire tech company himself now.
>You cannot give race based preference without simultaneously race based discrimination

If this is true, would that by extension mean the official platform of the Democratic party openly supports and endorses racial discrimination?

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2020-Democr...
I don't think my characterization is "merely rephrasing" what you said. If you believe policies and practices people are trying to disadvantage white people in decision-making because white people "deserve" less, you're wrong.

I think you can debate the morality of helping mitigate structural disadvantages (which I hope you acknowledge exist) that many underrepresented groups face with intentional, procedural advantages for those same groups. I won't do it with you, but I think ignoring structural disadvantages created by a history of racism isn't the solution. I don't know what the solution is.
I don’t understand the desire to describe DAGs in Python… it’s a fine scripting language but pretty horrible for this declarative description stuff.
Any article about personal frugality that mentions buying Apple anything can safely be ignored.
Congratulations on the launch!

The content on public.law (great domain) is useful and looks like its headed in the right direction. A small suggestion would be to move the newsletter signup from home page (or) at-least from hero to footer? And get other USP like the legal dictionary there.

Since the site covers international law, Perhaps you might be interested in the need-gap: 'Compare law of the land in an easy way'[1] posted on my problem validation forum; Say like if someone travels from USA to India then what major laws should they know about.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/255-compare-law-of-the-land-in-...
Here you go: https://archive.ph/JIIPO
I would place "trust in government" with "lives in a hegemonic superpower". You can fully understand the use cases while also believing that they aren't that compelling unless you live in global south.

The fact is there is no reason to believe holding crypto would retain value if the united states went through an country-ending economic crisis; it more likely that your crypto would also just become equally worthless and also crash in value. Treating the United States as a "future Argentina" makes no sense, especially when it's the US-based VC investors who are indirectly backing the value of Argentinian purchased bitcoin. If you end up in a situation where the USD worthless, then there is no wealthy counter party to prop up the value of your cryptocoin.

It makes no sense to look at third world countries with relatively tiny economies and believe that crypto will retain its value if the US went through a similar situation.
Ask HN: Does anyone know anything about AMTD Digital Inc?
Their stock (HKD) has gone from $16 to $2200 in a few weeks…
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I’m pretty sure the Taiwanese factories are rigged to go, or at least those factories will be destroyed in the event of an invasion. Plus it’ll be easy to sanction China and prevent them from acquiring new fab tech to rebuild the factories.

I’m pretty sure the US is ok with the world being set backwards a bit in tech if they get to reacquire chip leadership. A more cynical person could suggest that the US is agitating for a war in order to precipitate this very outcome.
> Use One Big Database.

I emphatically disagree.

I've seen this evolve into tightly coupled microservices that could be deployed independently in theory, but required exquisite coordination to work.

If you want them to be on a single server, that's fine, but having multiple databases or schemas will help enforce separation.

And, if you need one single place for analytics, push changes to that space asynchronously.

Having said that, I've seen silly optimizations being employed that make sense when you are Twitter, and to nobody else. Slice services up to the point they still do something meaningful in terms of the solution and avoid going any further.
Very simple, an economic downturn leads to any public company looking at their cost structure and polishing up the numbers. Big companies accumulate a lot of organizational debt where teams, departments, and individuals under perform for whatever reason and often not even because of their own fault. Corporate stupidity, and mismanagement, are also things that plague big corporations. Just look at Google lately.

Regularly pruning the org tree is both something that needs some level of excuse as it would otherwise upset the rest of the org tree; and needs to happen once in a while. The people least likely to leave by themselves are usually the once targeted explicitly. So, any kind of economic down turn is usually a good moment for that. Doing it wrong means your best people leave first, which is usually counter productive. So, you have these trillion dollar companies shedding a few crocodile tears over having to say goodbye to a few not-so-valued employees and using all the usual euphemisms, cliches, and woke language for that.

So, classic targets for layoffs are HR (ironically), supporting functions like IT, middle management, people promoted to their level of incompetence (Peter principle), etc.
Hey - I get it, I used crypto precisely because I wanted to avoid government regulation when buying black market goods back when the silk road was still a thing.

But I think you're absolutely bonkers if you think that any crypto today is actually a real solution to your lack of trust.

Here's my take:

You think that by using crypto, you're avoiding trust in governmental and financial institutions - and in some (incredibly limited - aka drug/gun) markets you are, but the exchange that you are making (intentionally or not) is not trivial, and not acceptable for most people most of the time.

What you are giving up is the power of the governmental institutions to enforce any sort of agreement or contract you make using crypto. Not their currency, not their problem. It's now your problem to resolve scams and fraud, and you have to do it using your limited powers.

And to be clear - you have really, REALLY fucking limited powers here. Unless you are so wealthy that those "entities" that you so dislike are mere nuisances dealt with by the law firm you have on retainer, or you can fund your own black-ops team, you're living in lala land if you think you can personally enforce the contracts you make. You can't. You don't have the oomph. Full Fucking Stop.

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So I understand your lack of trust, but hate to break it to ya, bud - crypto is not solving your problem.

Simple example: You hire a contractor to remodel your bathroom, and you pay him in crypto (and we'll ignore for a moment just how laughably absurd the chances of this actually happening are...). You agree to pay 20K for the remodel, with 10K up front. He runs off with your 10k. Now fucking what?
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Seems very unlikely. If it was a deliberate bug, the contract wouldn’t have been slowly drained over hours. The attacker would have known how to exploit well ahead of time, and had transactions/contracts/infra ready to grab the full $190 million inside one or two blocks.
They're looking at this from a higher level for defining the API and programming model people will use to write event-based code. An implementation might run using interrupts and a timer to drive an event loop on a single core, or it might scale itself out to run on multiple cores where available like they mention.
Not to mention, backups, restores, and disaster recovery are so much easier with One Big Database™.
I wonder if it has to do with the hydrogenated vegetable oil added to it. Do they still like raw peanut butter?
The stuff politicians get away with is way worse, consider what presidents Clinton, Trump, and Biden have inappropriately done in an out of government buildings.

That's not even talking about the widespread, borderline bribery that is rife throughout DC.

I hear this type of borderline corruption is worse in the EU, but I'm not as tuned in
Don't you need (up to) `N cut depths - 1` keys per pin? E.g. if there are 4 possible cut depths for a pin, and your key has depth 3 on pin 1, you need to (potentially) test depths 1, 2, and 4 -- and if none of them work, your key shares a depth with the master key.
The author is Byrne Hobart: https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart and his substack The Diff is just generally great.
How is this relevant? If a small communist country emits the same amount of carbon as similarly sized/developed capitalist economies, that would certainly put a dent in OP's implication that refusing to fix climate change is a capitalist problem.
I wish that were true. The Celsius and Voyager fallout has shown otherwise:

https://blog.mollywhite.net/celsius-letters/
https://blog.mollywhite.net/voyager-letters/
Well I mean there's obviously something missing because these things aren't happening. And if that's just lack of political will, then political will is the missing piece.
Sure but only if you architect it that way, which most people don't if they're using one big beefy server, because the whole reason they're doing that is to iterate quickly. It's hard to build something that can bust to the cloud while moving quickly.

Also, the biggest issue is where your data is. If you want to bust to the cloud, you'll probably need a copy of your data in the cloud. Now you aren't saving all that much money anymore and adding in architectural overhead. If you're going to bust to the cloud, you might as well just build in the cloud. :)
Python has the strongest presence in ML, and I think there are some issues with >3.9 versions with CUDA.
Rohloff E-14 shifting system
The thing people miss, demand for software is infinite, so demand for software developers will increase to match any increase in supply.
FYI, Fabrica uses NFTs to digitize real estate properties (land) in the US, to allow for a very fast transaction.

We thought that it would be a great use case for crypto.

Disclaimer: former co-founder/CEO. Left in late 2018. I still have equity in the company.

[0]: https://fabrica.land/
As a normie for whom ketamine treatment was a life changer, I can attest I would never ever have taken it without specialist supervision. And by specialist, I mean someone qualified, not some dude who has done plenty and has a K dealer.

I would hazard there’s a large contingent of normies for whom the difference between supervised medical treatments that happen to be psychedelics and just the act of taking psychedelics is too large a leap.

I personally hate the experience. The hate is part of the goal of being able to stop being in control all the time, but it doesn’t mean I like it. I also hate the hangover feeling afterwards, but the neuroplasticy benefits have been profound and so I keep doing the treatment.

TL;DR benefits are there, normies should be allowed them too, non-normies I assume can still do black market work.
Oh, you could re-use the same test key if you start at the higher depth, of course.