skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
crypto is supposed to be money that is outside the control of central banks or governments.

As a result it is good for:

Getting your money out of a country that is trying to stop you from doing that

Transferring your money across borders when the government wants to impose high tariffs

Protecting your money from central banks when governments have decided to freeze your bank accounts

Protecting your money from a government that reckless with the native currency where you have no way to have accounts to store large amounts of foreign currency

You might say that this only applies to criminals, but the definition of criminal might just be whoever happens to be a target of a government. Many governments around the world are dictatorships and can decide to confiscate assets on a whim (e.g. china).

When the jews fled germany or the chinese fled communist china, they took what they could (often times gold or gems). Crypto is potentially a way to flee a bad situation while avoiding being robbed by carrying your wealth as gold.

Finally it would be interesting if BRICS started transacting oil in crypto. It would be a way to possibly break the US dollar as the world reserve currency.
Twitter: Five projects of special projects team
Reminded me of old Macromedia Flash webpages
It's not really unsolicited if the friend just told you they can't pay their rent. If they were the stoic you write about, they wouldn't have mentioned it at all.
No, the Enron scandal was much, much bigger. In 2000 Enron had a market cap of over $60 billion and was "reporting" $100 billion in revenue. It ended up losing it's sharholders $74 billion and all 20,000 employees their jobs. At the time it's bankrupcy was the largest in history.

The scandal also drove Enron's accounting firm, Aurthur Anderson, out of business costing all 85,000 their employess their jobs.
We are far away from that stage. My view is that there is more profitable and wanted by customers directions that we will ever be able to follow. This is one of the reasons we are looking for a business model that helps us focus on programming and shipping new things.
I recognize that name from the Monero project, but I learned about it after it was forked away from him. Is that who you're talking about?
I've only once had a good McIntosh. I must have nailed the exact day you want to have one, it was crisp and beautiful. Every other one I have ever had was a mealy let down, even when cold.
This is provably wrong and it would take you 2 minutes to find out why.

Yes, there are failures.

But we have minimum wages, no child labor, protection against harassment, seat belts, fraud laws, etc, etc, all thanks to regulation.

Regulation created by politicians.
Just seeing this, I'm new to HN so pardon me for missing your response.

>Do you have insights on how you discovered joy/contentment in the process of learning new things?

It took time. In fact "enjoying the ride" is something I still have to remind myself of. Really it was reflecting back on times where I was most happy, whether in college or in my early career. There were also times where I wasn't happy with my job or my given state in life, but I spent a lot of my time trying to learn skills so I could earn more money or get a promotion/better job. This was a grind.

The pandemic made me do a lot of self reflection, I saw a counselor, read a lot of existentialist philosophy (I would not suggest doing this if you're depressed), and pursued hobbies that I couldn't necessarily monetize. Piano lessons, playing chess, and writing short stories without the intention of publishing are a few examples. Playing instruments and games were activities that I did more often in college/high school, and I got so swept up in my career and investments that I seemingly lost a lot of joy in my life. Revisiting these passions from my past, I have no end goal with these other than to get better at them, because the better I get at them the more enjoyable it becomes.

Keep in mind this is my experience and what worked for me. Now knowing that I enjoy learning and improving even more than the outcome itself, it makes for learning professional skills more enjoyable as well. I will still occasionally crack open a self-help book, but I try to read them through the perspective that the insight the author provides is specific to their perception of reality and experiences, but sometimes it's nice to find anecdotes that we can apply to our own life.

To summarize, I stopped trying to discover how to be happy and just focused on making time to do things that I enjoyed, regardless of my expectations of myself or that time spent will have on my productivity or success.
Hmm, feel q looses APL and K's conciseness with the ability to express yourself within a few characters rather than whole words
For Dell Latitude laptops you can get 120Wh batteries (3rd party), and they also run Linux just fine. Also they're well-built and have good keyboards.
If you can't say it in plain text, it isn't worth saying.
I wasn't aware of the "IT crowd" comedy tv show. It definitely lifted my spirit up, perhaps in a similar way that layoff episode of "office space" would.
It is black humor, but humor nonetheless, and some people do appreciate such form.
Censoring comedy doesn't seem right.

This is the episode to which the parent post refers:
https://youtu.be/TKOrr4XRbg8
Yeah this makes a lot more sense to me than "stealing our information" that I saw elsewhere.

Definitely bears thinking about as a hypothetical, but a ban would seem rather preemptive.
This is not guaranteed behavior and should not be relied on!
On the flip side; no one is productive 100% of the time.

If people worked 20 hours per week, the actual productive time would likely be between 5 and 10 hours per week.
I am actually now interested in trying one of these "Arkansas Black", "Cortland", or "Newtown Pippin" apples just to see if an apple can really be worse than a Red Delicious.

I hadn't thought such a thing was possible till now.
This is a good example of Acceptance!
one thing is a selfsustained reaction in ITER, another is to commercially scale it. Literally a multidecade iteration of various designs. I cant immagine political and public support to build the firsts inneficient fusion powers at a price tag several times the ones for fission power stations (~15B$)
Doesn't matter if they forget. Life's too short not to help others if you have the means to help.
I've refused simply treatment from a hospital that I can just do at home. They billed me for them anyway - so I refused to pay the entire bill. The refused to budge and remove the charges, so I never paid them.

Nothing happened after that.

I've rarely gotten an accurate medical bill (vastly inflating the time I was seen by the doctor is the most common mistake), and if it's inaccurate I just don't pay.
Related ongoing thread:

HTML is all you need to make a website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33642490 - Nov 2022 (91 comments)
... the Soviet Union spent a tremendous amount on S-300 antiaircraft missiles, probably enough to shoot down all the planes on Earth because they were afraid of getting bombed. This is why they won't run out in the Ukraine war and even use them against ground targets.
Absolute garbage idea. Don’t fuck with my scrollbar. My browser is set to do what I want it to do. It knows better than you do.

In fact, your site probably doesn’t need JavaScript at all. Everything since the late 90s has been a step in the wrong direction.
Because ruzzia killed 298 people from 17 countries?
This one has pretty bad mobile UX. The horizontal padding is humongous.
> I ended up taking a deep look into e-Tugra, a Turkey-based certificate authority trusted by Apple, Google, Mozilla, and other clients

He shall look at American CAs.
Trusting CAs based on pedigree is ... funny.
Bitcoin has been obsolete since 2014 -- Monero is superior in every single way.
I've owned 2. One for 4+ years the other is 3 months old. They've been fine for me and I move them around a lot. the only issue is junk getting stuck in the fan and replacement was fairly easy. The hinged chipped when it hit the floor once (the plastic surrounding the hinge part.) Spare parts are readily available. I like Mat screens and they tend to have them.

The AMD cpu model I'm using for work is really quite good on power and fast (Ryzen 7 5700u).
I'll eagerly await the ASCII-only "You Don't Need Unicode"
Damn it unicode: https://imgur.com/a/W1jQSZM
Best not forget to groom that ticket as well
It's important to state that with all these negotiations, the entire process is an abject failure. The emission of green house gases continues to increase and extreme weather is noticeably increasing with the increased temperatures (Deadly heat waves in the Pacific North West US and Europe, the flooding of huge areas of Pakistan, etc, etc). Claims of "reasons for optimism" involve "less CO2 increase per increase in economic activity", a "gain" that could keep "improving" forever as C02 pollution continues at the present disastrous rate.
I disagree with the flowchart. Surely, since UTF-8 is backwards-compatible with ASCII, your writing should be encoded in ASCII if it was written by an American.
The service that hit it was Sagemaker Notebooks, or specifically underlying EC2 instance (which you normally don't see as customer, afaik) - it failed trying to attach a network interface to the instance, because of IAM failure mentioning something rhyming with blown stack (been over a year since, so I don't recall details)
The quake occurred in an area of seismic activity associated with petroleum extraction. That looks like the most likely explanation. The lower part of the Rio Grande Rift broadens considerably.
There are multiple liquid ETH staking pools where you deposit your ETH and get their token in return. You don't even need the full 32.

https://ethereum.org/en/staking/pools/

These tokens have also been trading at discounts to ETH if you want to just buy and hold the token, which should eventually reach parity to ETH. That can also be an additional gain, but incurs additional risk.
>As I understand it, correlation is not sufficient to prove causation. "Null hypothesis" is one statistical tool, an abstraction over our understanding of the real world.

Absolutely. The only reason we use it is because most of the other alternatives turned out to be not that great in practice, but it has plenty of limitations to keep in mind (like correlation != causation, but also the common p-hacking that happens, etc etc).

>Clearly, the correlation between being infected and dying is very low although with a deeper understanding we know that D in fact causes death.

That's true, although working back from just the people who die and focusing on those, the method is eventually able to unearth the correlation too. With the people who die, we would naturally start to ask why them? Did they do anything differently than the rest of the population? We'd see pretty quickly that there was one huge factor in common, which is that none of them were using T.

I'll admit that's not enough to say just looking at correlations and trying to disprove nulls is going to be enough in every case. I would just say it's a pretty good starting point when people disagree on a fundamental level about what should be obvious, or who should be proving what. It's really kind of dumb, but in practice in the case of people missing something (most deficiencies, like not having enough vitamin B12, or not having enough thyroid hormone) stats do a pretty good job of noticing that all the people dying mysteriously happen to be missing the same thing. (But of course it misses plenty of things too. And where it gets a lot harder is understanding why any of this happens)
At once I leapt upon the poem

English only (to my sorrow)

For I know no word of Finnish

(Least no word that's fit for HN);

But the meter kept me nodding

Kept my head from being stable

As it cantered ever onwards

"It's the Song of Hiawatha!"

"Bastard nicked the walking rhythm

From Longfellow's long-ass poem!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha
The contents of your site are your property, in America at least (and I assume most of the world), you have copyright ownership of any assets you create. File a DMCA and if the registrar refuses to take the site down, use the DMCA for its intended purpose.
There is law in Turkey which is passed in the state of emergency (2016) and these laws later become permanent. If the government demanding anything from a Turkish company and this demand will not be complied quickly, then the government takes the control of the company (replacing boss, changing banking passwords) temporarily in order to comply. This process does not involve judicial authority but an administrative one. It wouldn't matter if it involved judicial authorities because justice system is worst kind of joke.

I know it because they took control of our company in 2016. The reason in the decision: "inspector found no evidence of tax evasion, which is suspicious for a Turkish company, therefore we take control of the company." (not joking)
Not necessarily. Some people buy 30 year treasuries specifically because they are more volatile than shorter duration bonds.
While the "I'm sitting down and writing things that are going to be productive" is likely in the 10-20h/week range, there is still a lot of

* Meetings
* Mentoring
* Answering random questions
* Continuing education (Hey, Spring 6.0 was just released, what's in that?)
* Support (and being available for support)

Those can easily fill in a lot of the 'void'.

I can point to 5h/week that are standing 'meetings' where it is often 'me helping out someone with a git or jira or GitHub issue' and it is that time that is designated each day (to try to avoid having the 'answering random questions' become too disruptive).

I am certainly not '40h/w, butt in seat, head down coding' and even though I may be only "productive" 10-20h/week, I'm certainly busy with work stuff to fill up the rest of my day. It's never "do an hour or two of work in the morning and day dream for the remaining six hours."
I am a fan of the Pink Lady. It is a real treat if you cut them into slices add a smear of Peanut Butter and a squeeze of Sriracha.
Oh, that’s… not confusing at all.
I've seen tons of people doing it for extended periods of time. I can think of
- ambitious people working in competitive environments (research, corporations, students)
- doctors/dentists/nurses, lot of them work long hours and their job require focus
- small business owners
I'm headed to Korea in a week, and my main takeaway from this is that I am considering going and checking out this boondoggle instead of Lotte World
> The regulation stacks upon regulation, but I think this is good.

The correct way to think about it is scammers versus law makers.

Scammers are both trying to scam and also to blend in.

So it's hard at first to draw lines.

Them the lines burst onto the scene, when scammers become obvious.

So law makers write that up, and scammers have to find something new.
> which should eventually reach parity to ETH

You're ignoring the issue here.

When I'm talking Fed Rate, its _OVERNIGHT LENDING_. Its not "eventually reach parity with dollar", its "this will turn into a real dollar tomorrow". Its a loan that is as safe as you can possibly get.

You're trying to compare Ethereum staking with the Fed's overnight lending. The risk/reward structures at play here are completely different.

The Fed Rate is the shortest, and safest, loan in the entire marketplace. Ethereum staking is kinda similar in some respects (as a yield granted by the "Ethereum system" itself, its kinda sorta like a central bank rate), but it... really isn't. Because it has an ill-specified withdrawal time.
> When you help someone down, they never forget.

You assume that they will never forget and will be grateful to you for your help, but the opposite might happen: people will hate you instead of feeling grateful. Some people will resent being in a situation when they needed help. They'll feel inferior and will hate you for that.
Yeah agreed -- though that's what I meant about the zero flag: NOR instead of XOR combinatorial complexity, but same prop. delay critical path, only simpler circuits per bit if purely NMOS or PMOS! :)
I think the 1970s Intel were doing MOSFETs then?

Technically parity could become a stable value before the zero flag could! ;)

Oh but I did forget that a single multiple input NOR could be large but without exponential amounts of gates
I have more of a problem with companies trying to compress 80hours of work in 40hours.
> Does there exist a compression that could better handle this sort of expanding documents?

Yes: storing deltas. Git might work well. A backup system that does subfile deduplication may work too (e.g. Restic, Borg).
Agree, ambrosia is my #1.
The fact that it is 55 and the mealier, less tart, less sweet Gala apples are 70 tells me we have very different tastes.
It is closer to a Honeycrisp, which they have as 91 and I grab when Ambrosias are unavailable.
There are a whole plethora of practical reasons why DANE turned out to be unworkable, but this really is the core of it. It's worth keeping in mind that you can revoke an entire CA --- immensely popular and important CAs have been entirely removed from trust stores, quite recently --- but you can't do that with the DNS hierarchy. You can't do long term secrets without some form of revocation, and that's fundamentally what DANE represents.
"Finally, when the 40-hour workweek was established, two-income households were rare. Only 15.2% of married women were employed in 1940. But as of 2012, 60% of households had dual incomes.
When both members of a couple work, it leaves less time for children, chores, errands, food preparation, and everything else that must occur outside of working hours."

40 hour workweek is fine for most people, but I think HR ought to be more flexible in working hours and salary employees choose, based on their season of life. Because we are dual-income with 3 young children, I work 32 hrs instead of 40; but it's an odd arrangement I had to ask for. I see families in a simliar situation struggling, and I think it ought to be more of the norm to offer this without a company raising questions about productivity/loyalty/laziness/benefits etc.
How can they claim 16h of work - I own an Asus m16 with the same CPU and a 90Wh battery and after some tweaking my Ubuntu drains 9.xWh without touching anything ... With Firefox open it already consumes 12wH - so I guess I can be happy if I can get 6h of work done with one load and this laptop here can't do much better...
For something I'm passionate about? No.

For what I'm actually doing? Yes.
This is very dependent on the industry. My friend does tech support for field technicians at a major alarm company. When he is working he is really working. The calls/paperwork are constant.

Conversely, many gigs I've had there was multiple hours per day of mindless web surfing because there just wasn't work to do.
It is also very difficult to define "work" and the various definitions contradict each other. I've met programmers who start coding as soon as they hear about a requirement and then spend weeks untangling the web of spaghetti code they have previously written down.

I tend to sit down and think before I write even a single line of code. In the office, I used to stare at my screen with headphones on to "look like I was working". Now that I work from home, I usually spend that time walking around the house, doing mindless chores, and sometimes lying down on my bed in the dark.

I would say that the time spent lying in my bed is my most productive time. Someone else might say I steal billable hours.
It is very easy for Turkish government to issue fake certificates via a Turkish company. They did it with Turktrust once (CA certificate issued to EGM and EGM issued a cert for *.google.com, EGM stands for Turkish Police), they can do it again.
In that sense coding is like writing a book. Are you only productive when you actually type the words?
Do you not charge for meetings? And what about emails where you're hashing out something clearly in the domain of what you're working on?
This has nothing to do with cost of labor but rather poor management, particularly from Sunak's time as chancellor.
The i5-12400 is actually a really fast CPU. Basically any desktop CPU released since AMD scared Intel into actually trying again is pretty fast, even the supposed low-mid range ones.
I'm in EU and from the top 10 I've only seen Pink Lady in regular shops (meaning I didn't go out of my way to search for apples).
The whole thing is wonky as hell on mobile. The title looks somehow italicized, but in slightly different ways depending on the browser choice.
And who is auditing them ? CIA ? Goldman Sachs ? KGB ? EFF ?
Snowy 2's actual storage capacity is estimated to be ~40 GWh https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/snowy-2-vs-battery-stora...
Methane production and the supply chain and storage emissions are real though.
> Please write maintainable code

Most people don't know how to do this, because it's actually hard, and I don't think it's being taught much in programmer education.

I certainly had to learn "on the job", and probably spent 10 years before I got good at it.

I learned the most by fixing bugs. After a while, I started seeing the patterns of why this bug had occurred, and started writing code do avoid the traps.
Another theory that is much more likely is that life sprung up from hydrothermal vents which had the conditions to react non organic molecules to form organic ones. Check out Nick Lane.
`content-type: text/html` but first line is just `<!doctype UNICODE><meta charset="UTF-8"><plaintext>` then no more tags, even to close.
Normal people would notice and agitate for the internet to be restored. Most people’s daily lives would be significantly impacted.

In contrast, only speculators would notice bitcoin going offline. They might laugh at the guys who told them they weren’t going to make it but that’d be it. Nothing would break, nobody would be in line ahead of them failing to buy something, etc.

That matters because bitcoin’s floor value is zero: as a very weak fiat currency, the only reason to use it is when you think it’ll be profitable and if that confidence drops miners will stop putting more hard money into the system.
Sure. It still stands that he did not “process them into a news-worthy form”. He expected others to do it.
I don't really care, it's a trivial algorithm that I would have written virtually identically.
We already know why it happened. No amount of compute can answer the obvious.

Its easy to adapt using basic science :)

No word yet on the offset the nord stream blowout caused, in addition to the tundra melts that occured <air quotes> naturally </air quotes>.
That's what we thought in the early 2000s until Google Maps blew it's competition out of the water, making use of XmlHttpRequest when no one took js seriously back then.

Blogging? sure.

Making interactive content? a turing complete language helps.

Use cases, use cases.
How much of what you save by using Copilot will then be spent on BlackDuck licenses?
Thanks!
I just fixed the error on the legal notice. If you want to check the privacy policy, you can view it on the register page https://plocs.com/register
When investigating such things for a solo software business I read that you can even just claim additional income on your taxes and call it a hobby until you get sufficiently big enough and then pay an attorney and accountant to figure out the best path forward. There is some risk about liability but for small revenue software its unlikely someone wants something beyond a 100% refund.
Boeing smart beams counter military com attacks in real-time
Similarly, I've heard opinions attributed to Gorbachev that the thing that really broke the system was costs of Chornobyl cleanup.

Another thing usually missed in the "West" is that Soviet Union pretty much never stopped being in crash industrialization mode due to how poor its starting position was.