skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the ways businesses need to trust each other can’t be captured by rules on the blockchain. It’s things like - I trust my supplier won’t go bankrupt. I trust my supplier will deliver work of a consistent quality. I trust that if I have some problem, I can call someone on the phone and they’ll take my call, listen to my problem and take responsibility for fixing the issue.

How would you express any of this stuff on a blockchain in a useful way? We could have “blockchain yelp” but it’s hard to protect that against fake reviews. And seeing a mix of reviews isn’t enough to know if you should go into business with someone.
I highly doubt that people are thinking of 50 year olds when they're talking about grandmas.

But in answer to your question, I suspect the cliche will slowly die out when most of the 60/70/80 year olds we meet are tech savvy.
> it would have crashed years ago

Markets are capable of staying irrational a very long time
> it contains the implicit assumption that your knowledge of the business/tech crossover is superior to your manager's.

This might be the core of article.

Some things are knowable and don't need to be assumptions. In these cases, the author expects to have conversations that probe into what is true and what is false.

But some managers are offended by questions that challenge their assumptions. They feel their position gives them authority to overrule the deductive reasoning of their reports.

"Allistic" people sense this, and "up-manage" the egos and sensibilities of managers, without being aware they do it.
Is this just trying to frustrate people pirating e-books and e-mailing themselves them via AWS servers?
Completely agree. My views stated above however don't rest purely on these observations because the data (my observations) are inherently noisy. A certain amount of inference needs to be made based on direct behavioural observation of others and with any inference comes a margin of uncertainty. I outlined these observations in response to someone who seemed to object or disagree with my original comment but gave very little in terms of supporting argument. But my views on these matters do not solely rest on observations of others but also by my own experience as a conscious and self aware (I think :) being and reading about the ideas of what others think about this issue of "happiness".

Disclaimer: I don't think my original comment is correct in any absolute sense, but I do believe that it is a more promising and fruitful direction than merely perusing pleasure for its own sake, based on my own experience and the observed behavioral and emotional patterns of some of my most intimate relationships
Suppose we have a 'difference function' D on the space of colours, a simple metric d on the target space, and some nonlinear function f from the space of colours to the target space such that D(x,y) = d(f(x),f(y)) for all x and y.

Then the triangle inequality for D would be D(x,y) + D(y,z) ≥ D(x,z). By the equation above this is equivalent to d(f(x),f(y)) + d(f(y),f(z)) ≥ d(f(x),f(z)), which is true by the triangle inequality in the target space at the points f(x), f(y) and f(z). If the target space uses a simple metric like the Euclidean or Manhattan distance then the triangle inequality is always going to hold in the target space and hence in colour space.

Note that the above argument does not need linearity of f.

The sphere example doesn't hold up because if two points are further apart than half way around a great circle then the distance between them is actually the length of the path going the other way.
I think you actually outlined the main problem outside of crypto there are very few use cases where you need actually need the "consensus" bit.
If you’re on regular docker and would like to go podman for rootless, you can take the middle step of migrating to rootless docker. Essential step, honestly - it’s significant work to get rootless working (but definitely worth it)

Haven’t done so myself yet, but rootless docker to podman ought to be more or less a direct switch
It's not hard to accept existence of dark matter, but it is an extremely flexible, hard to prove answer. If you see a galaxy that rotates differently, you say it has more or less dark matter. It sounds like an easy answer.
I never investigated this deeper but I have similar issue on my Nook Glowlight. Despite it supporting ePUB files some of them just throw an error on the devices. Converting them ePUB to ePUB solves the problem.
To what do you attribute the fact that this isn’t widely used? Simply inertia?
You give your heart to Jesus. You give your data to Apple.
Zero-Knowledge Age Restriction for GNU Taler
What if bitcoins got disallowed as a currency in most places where you can use it to buy things. Would ransomware go away in that case? I imagine that if the possibility to have anonymous payments disappear, it would be much harder to target regular people with ransomware as well.
What use do you currently have for private irreversible transactions in an adversarial environment, or is this simply short-hand for illegal money transfers?
> the sort of activity customs is going to want to know

not customs, border patrol. I mean, I'm sure what he's carrying would be scrutinized, but that's not the source of this list
Ok. Now let's say we abandon policing money the way we currently do (and arguably the current AML framework isn't very effective, looking at some studies). What do we do then? That would be the kind of policy debate worth having - not just anger about banned tools.
Yeah, I somehow missed looking at the username.
I tend to use the human potential framework. As a human being, I have a potential capacity to do sophisticated things or to merely operate at the level of an animal. Developing capabilities & skills is what differentiates me from an animal. This always fires me up.

Second thing that helps is, defining "huge" within the right context. Your project looks large from a self-centered point of view. Think about human flight - took 2000 years, multiple generations to figure out. Go into the history of various inventions, they all took lots and lots effort. Once this context is understood, you'll find that whatever you're doing is not necessarily such a "huge" task. Such perspective helps too.

Third, the characteristic of good goals is this:

Good goal = Difficult + Specific

The whole point of good goal is it helps you extract more effort from yourself. In a way, you set goals so that you can do more. If your goal demands more of you, it means the goal is doing its magic! So why'd you become discouraged when a goal demands more of yourself? By stretching yourself, you'll become more capable.
95% of all people don't. the more you present to them facts the more bullheaded and stubborn they become.
Working professionally with VMI / 3rd party inventories, I don't see how Blockchain would solve anything that isn't solved already. Maybe a well implemented blockchain solution is solving it easier, that's it so.

The main problem with third party inventories is always the question is the reported inventory levels and movements are actually correct. The real world answer to that is counting, together with the third party if so desired. Blockchain doesn't help with that since in itself it cannot guarantee that the physical movements and the dogital information flow are always in sync.
Italy is one of the worst countries for business, consistently so in every study and list made about it.

Starbucks ( ! ) just opened its first ( ! ) and only ( ! ) store in Rome a few months ago.

It goes the same for most popular world chains. You'll find UNIQLO in France or Spain, forget about Italy.

If you want to be in a place forever frozen in the seventies, go to Italy.
Can’t agree more! It was until I started my first full time job when I realized how ugly and disorganized my code was… I stopped maintaining one app of mine which I really like and still take pride in only because the codebase was a disaster…
TrafficToll: Bandwidth Limiting and QoS for Linux
After the fertilizer ban was implemented, then "Production of tea — Sri Lanka’s main cash crop — fell by 18% in a year. Production of rice — the main food crop — fell by even more" [1]

So you're saying this did not contribute to the food shortage (a drop in domestic production of rice)?

Or you're saying this drop in production would've happened irrespective of the fertilizer ban?

1 https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-sri-lanka-is-having-an...
They had to add more matter in some places and less in others. Estimation would have wrong numbers all around.
Well you could change that
Is this comment section to devolve into a discussion about software engineering practices? We could now write thousands of pages on that topic or we can cut down to the chase. If the manager can't tell whether his project is on track or not, remember nobody gives a damn whether it takes 50000 lines of code or 500 or that you closed X tickets, then the project has either already failed or the project manager is taking a huge risk with a greenfield project where he is just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.
if there's something I learnt in my life, if there's a space, something will eventually fill it.
> which at the moment, are substantially easier to do international remittance with than bank deposits

Is this an uniquely American angle? For all my needs, Wise is very fast, cheaper than blockchain, and I’m less likely to lose money by fat-fingering a transaction.
I treat them as true because they are true. I guess there is more than one definition of truth.

But I think what you mean that you treat some theories as axioms (temporarily, I hope). It's a great aid in thinking but a great source of confusion for newbies as well.
Spreadsheets are typically 2D tables in the first place, relations are secondary. This looks more like a node graph, which is a widespread UX paradigm in DSP and content creation. Almost every VFX/3D/image processing/sound engineering software suite has a graph editor or several somewhere underneath, or even entirely built around a node-based editor.
This already happens when apps open links in safari. There’s a little back button in the top left of the screen to go back to the app which opened that webpage.
They're saying it's not just non-Euclidean but also non-Riemannian. The distance between two points is shorter than the length of the shortest path between them.

For a simple example of such a space, imagine a circle where we define the distance between two points to be measured 'as the crow flies', but we demand that all paths remain on the circle rather than passing through its interior.
Why can't they renege on it? What if a judge orders them renege?
Yes, there should be public social networks. Even if it is slow and you have to clean your spam every day, it is now as essential as roads and electricity. Governments around the world guarantee the right to free speech and association but in practice this isn't happening. I wonder which country will be the first one to launch a public utility messaging/social feed app.
> This is not appeasing bullies [...]

It is though. It's a way of saying "maybe I'm wrong, and we're going to act this out by pretending that I am". This means that whoever put pressure on you gets their way, which motivates them to do it again. That is toxic.
I as a business would not want to work with people who do not trust me to fulfill my (e.g. contractual or financial) obligations.

If they have to trust me to pay them, do my job, fulfill my contract anyways, what value is there in some sort of digital system that technically decentralizes trust, but where the other side still has to trust me I did nothing malicious with it?

If anything all that the developments in cryptocurrencies show is that a technically trustworthy infrastructure can (and will) be used for nefarious means. That means even if you were to use such an infrastructure you'd still have some interface to the real world, where people cannot pay, not do their job, do their job in a way you did not agree, etc. So you still would have to protect your interest in the traditional way and you'd still have to trust the other side.

So using a blockchain is just like using a database and giving up a certain amount of control over it.
I used to play for several weeks on the same game with people across different countries. Although the game is (was?) missing a way to send a message to notify players it’s time to play their turn, it’s not difficult to write a small python script to parse the log and send an email.

https://github.com/dareg/jouer_a_freeciv/blob/master/atoidej...
All transaction should be, at least legally and after a court decision, reversible. All those blockchain transactions are also covered by local law, including taxes. Bein "annonymous" means that those laws can be circumvented. Seems to be a feature, even if I see it as a bug.
Probably not. Most ebooks "floating out there" are already in epub format. If anything, this makes it easier because they don't have to be converted to mobi.
Sorry this is a bit tangential, but:

I had the same problem of slow builds like you, but instead of throwing hardware at it, I moved from Typescript to modern Python 3.10 with all new features and type hints.

I enjoy a really fast development feedback loop (build times passed from minutes to milliseconds. I organised Jinja2 templates in "components", etc.

The only drawback so far is that the output is not a proper SPA (I'm using Flask), which is fine for what I'm doing, and where needed I bridge the usability gap, 2022 vanilla JS was surprisingly practical. If one feels extra fancy, they would drop in Vue.js I guess.

I'm really fast with this stack, I coded a whole self service subscription management system, product activation codes, support tickets management, etc, for my SaaS alone in 6 weeks.

Excited to try the newest cool features and higher speeds of Python 3.11.
Video games would be no where as large today if they weren't allowed to introduce artificial scarcity. This is the entire point of copyright law too. Artificial scarcity allows people to monetize their creations.
They both came from gaming (Flash => haXe and Blitz+Flash => Monkey) so that's why they focus on it. haXe is really quite good these days, however the tooling is not what you expect from a modern language; more to the point (I am not sure if that is still the case but I believe it is); what you want is some kind of interpreter/debuggable language to create things in and then later compile to something to have the full experience of a modern programming language. Now debugging in haXe is just a pain, especially if you need to work in one of the slower compiling backend languages; it is a pain to work with. But I wrote fairly large codebases with both of them and I do like them. It is a bit of a shame they just don't join forces; the projects need libraries, faster compilation, an interpreter (in my opinion) and better tooling. Joining forces for projects that are more or less 'the same' would make a lot of sense.
I am using PocketBook Touch HD 3. Design is fantastic, however...
It has really annoying bugs. For a long time - it had a problem with event handling - pages not flipping (than flipping several at once). Finally fixed - after years. And then they introduced a new bug - it randomly turns one page back instead of forward - yes occasionally...
> the older behavior in iOS 9/10 where it used the same environment as the browser proper was being rampantly abused for advertising/tracking purposes

How did this work, exactly? Was the app able to observe/interact with the SFSafariViewController in any way? In my mind, the SFSafariViewController should literally "be" a Safari tab, in the sense that once it's open, the spawning app has no more connection to it than it would have to a tab in Safari itself which it caused to open; other than the fact that this tab would be 1. modal on top of the app, like a sheet; and 2. the app would be told when you closed this sheet, so that it could pause anything actively going on "underneath" the sheet until it was closed.

(And, to be clear, the Safari tab would be running _in_ Safari, and just composited onto the sheet, rather than running inside the app process in any way. This is how OS file-pickers et al work, which is what I was trying to get across with that comparison.)

The closest analogy would actually be within the browser itself: one browser tab using JS window.open(target=_blank, opener=false) to open another browser tab within the same browsing profile, where the new tab loads a page from a different origin; where when that new tab gets focused, the original tab gets obscured, and so the page it has loaded is given a visibilityStateChanged event; followed by another one when you close the new tab and the original tab comes back to focus.
Probably people people who don't fit a certain profile, in the extreme people like kids, old people, billionaires, most politicians, priests, disabled people. Sure kids could grow to become terrorists but I doubt there are any 2 year olds in those lists. I don't know how many women fit the profile of a terrorist though.
AI for these types of games is really hard to balance. A lot of players have complained about the weakness of AI in all of the Civ games as far back as I can remember. The problem is that people don’t really want an AI that plays to win. For one thing, it means the AI leaders will be extremely tight and shrewd traders that you can never take advantage of in negotiations. It also means AIs will sign deals with you to size up your military situation and then just wipe you out in a surprise attack as soon as possible.

It means the computer players will no longer role play as historical leaders but instead behave like a bunch of ruthless, psychopathic, cyborg Hitler clones. Most of the historically-informed trade and diplomacy options will be useless because the AIs will just betray you at the worst moment. In essence, they’ll play like human players and honestly, Civ games are just not designed for that. There are much better games out there (mainly board games but also RTSes) for playing against humans who play to win.
At our startup we use a hybrid mechanism. Whenever a user makes a transaction on our app, it gets processed on our standard AWS-hosted postgres database, but then one of our engineers gets into his old truck and drives around the block for an hour or two. This gives us the fast, cheap, and reliable performance of a regular database, with comparable energy usage to a blockchain.
>I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is

One reason I'm stuck with Kindles is because Amazon makes it sane to look up words when reading Japanese books and articles.

When you use Amazon's "Send to my Kindle" service (eg, you email a book to yourself, and then it appears on your device), Amazon seems to do some kind of de-conjugation which magically knows how to break-apart terms and grammar so that you can easily look anything up. Normally, if uploading straight to your device, or if using a Kobo, a term you want to look up has to match your on-device dictionary exactly, which is clunky and awful, especially since Japanese doesn't use spaces and has lots of inflections.

If Kobo had something similar, I'd ditch using Kindles entirely.
>"What do I care about? Making money. It's the focus of my life.

You should've listened then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18183102#18184642
This was amazing to read as a colorblind person. The graph showing simple names was a feast as I was trying to find out where my colour-blindness fls in the green/yellow region.

xkcd really rules.
You are working with him to create a solution and should ask questions from a shared point of view. Your questions instead sound like you are doubting him.

"How can this make our checkout page better?"
"What benefits do other companies get from using React?"
"Is it feasible to change technology at this time?"
"There might be implications if we switch, like..."

You are not understanding why they should consider it; you are subtly asking them to justify why they are bothering you.
> It's the best time to be alive in general. You can do anything. So go do it and be happy.

Here's a couple of things that actually became harder/worse

1) Buying a house in a main city or even a house anywhere.

2) Pursuing a career without fear of ageism or being fired (people used to hold jobs for very lengthy periods, not anymore..and not always by choice).

3) Pursuing a career without fear of being automated or lose my job due to offshoring.

4) Costs of rearing children are higher.

5) Sticking together as a family is harder due to cultural changes.

6) Having a strong connection to the community where you live is harder now.

7) Sense of meaning in life is probably weaker - people are less religious and more lonely but consumerism and careerism don't seem like a very good substitute.

I'm not saying things used to be peachy 50 years ago, but it sounds like a reach to me to say things have never been better. In some ways they became better and in other ways they became worse. Overall I really doubt the average person is significantly happier now compared to 50 years ago.

I am talking about the rich world, mostly the West. It's probably better all around to be Indian or African now than 50 years ago.
Could you post a link to the video? Is there a good summary of what this "metaverse" is and why it's worth a lot of money?
It was the same for me. Every single day, morning to night endlessly looping in the back of my head.

But one day it simply stopped. I’d boarded a plane and moved to another country, and the moment I touched down, I realized this is where I was meant to be. Some people really are just born into an environment or culture that isn’t meant for them, and sometimes you really can just run away from a problem.

Sometimes these thoughts do come back, but they’re brought about by extreme stress and last just hours. Maybe at most once or twice a year. Far, far better than it being the first and last thing I thought every single day for most of my life. Almost a decade since that day and it’s been almost nothing but peace inside my mind.
No. It's being banned because it threatens governments.

Governments don't really care much about laundering money.
>Pleasure is the end goal and the more that is experienced the better!

Yes.

>as your yearnings and desires increase for more and more pleasure

Why is this an inevitability? I've lived in my current condo for 2 years and I still enjoy the simple pleasure of standing on the balcony that I own.
Yeah that’s end to end encryption. Like any security protocol it is based on assumptions and trust comes from somewhere. In this case trust comes from verifying each other security keys, or more meta: knowing that the incentive for the server to cheat are low as they might get caught by anyone checking and it could kill the entire product.
Hello, I'm Audrey, founder of Kublet (https://thekublet.com). Yes, you can do so either by sending data over HTTP or micro-USB. You would need to write a script that runs on your PC, or, we can release a sample script/app that you can download and run.
There's a lot of good material on the internet about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy ("Wise Mind") and Cognitive Processing Therapy for trauma. These are all inspired by Eastern meditation and non-attachment to thoughts and feelings.

I would start by asking yourself if you learn well on your own? Or it might be better to learn with a therapist to explain the subtleties and indicate where you are getting stuck.
the killer app for VCs is flipping tokens for 100x profits onto retail investors.

for everyone else, the killer app is bitcoin.