skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately homophonic with Ireland's former PM who (during corruption investigations) claimed that he did not have a bank account. (To be fair, he was merely the minister for finance at the time)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern
It largely depended on what computers you had access to in the 90's, DOS and Windows PCs indeed felt medieval in the early and mid-90's compared to the Amigas, Ataris, Acorns, Apples, SGIs, Suns and NeXTs.
Perhaps that hints at the problem of intentionally developing a meme stereotype, and then using it as a stick to beat people with. The bar for having that stereotype becomes ever lower, and thus the set ever bigger. People then self-censor perfectly acceptable behaviour to avoid being part of the set.
Other creditors may or may not have preferential claims over depositors. The point is that you can't prove that the exchange is solvent (which was the entire point of this exercise) unless all assets and liabilities are considered.
This somewhat assumes blockchain can also deliver on privacy. Perhaps full encryption of the data is enough. But who is paying for all the nodes?

Another way to do this without the blockchain is open standards (think… HTML for example!) and software that lets you export. Where possible run this software open source on the desktop or as an open source web app. Think Photopea as the pinnacle here.

The blockchain or no blockchain approachable both suffer when you have a data format per app locking you into that app anyway.
Of course. But it lets every individual check this, which means if any individual's balance is not included, they can publish that. It is a vast improvement over the current state.
This is my take also, that society itself is a cult. They promise a theoretical "afterlife" of retirement after the age of 70, but until then we must suffer and work hard, usually to benefit someone else higher up the chain. They make you depend solely on others for your every need (food, housing, healthcare, etc.), making it extremely difficult to leave. But leave to where? There is no outside of this cult, other than the hell of homelessness.

The only real way out, it seems, is to create another cult with more humane values. Or go it alone, or with a small group of friends.
Don't forget that 5 year olds generally haven't learned addition or subtraction yet, let alone division (which is generally taught at 7 years AFAIK). Explaining what "prime" is will be difficult.
I like your interpretation. One point of difference though, although the text doesn't mention forcing adherents to follow any beliefs, it also doesn't state that there are no conditions for the services.
How many seconds in an hour? Most of the time, 3600, occasionally 3601, and very rarely 3599. Hours in a day? Mostly 24, but 23 once a year ad 25 once a year.

These all seem like good reasons to make then functions (taking a timestamp as a n argument) rather than mostly-correct constants.

I swear, the more I learn about calendars and timekeeping, the more I realise I never ever want to deal with it.
This looks really interesting. If cryptography holds up, this could be a great alternative to Signal, especially considering the unwarranted and opinionated design choices they have started forcing upon their users lately (dropping SMS, cryptocurrency integration, stories, and cloud backups). The removal of deanonymizing verification process is also to be applauded. Using a decentralized transport is a good idea in theory, however, remembering the P2P-induced asynchronicity of Tox, I will definitely remain a sceptic until I see it working at a comparable rate to Signal.
Users could falsely claim that their balance is wrong.
It's also funny considering that blockchain absolutely uses central servers. The bulk of mining is still done on big datacenter farms and you can't really be part of the game without joining a pool.
I found Audible books are great for me. Put in earbuds and do chores, or program, etc.
I think that would be transferring one particular network in a fuzzy way to a set of children, but it would not be transferring any of the training tools and feedback models that can improve the network.

The biggest failing would be, of course, the children would not know how to play against moves that are not optimal.

This is the most important part of chess knowledge: given some suboptimal play, prove it is suboptimal by defeating the player who made the suboptimal move.

Otherwise, as some chess schools do, they would be repeating famous openings by rote, without understanding the meaning behind each move in the opening.

This ability would matter little when playing against Alpha Zero, but it would make all the difference when playing against humans.
Can you blame people for being cynical about that, though?
Yeah don't get me wrong, I think there's loads of stuff that can change and be improved about the current system, including getting rid of various entrenched interests.

But yes, finance is a walled garden, especially where retail is involved, and I think it should continue to be one. It's not just that money is too important, it's that we know it attracts people who will do anything to part joe public from his dollar, and we know that without sufficient regulation, said people can and do concoct all sorts of shonky, magical schemes to do it. We can see it happening in the cryptocurrency space at the moment. These schemes not only rip off their own marks but can, without oversight, create systemic risks on entire economies.

So there should be oversight, licensing, monitoring and democratically accountable authorities that can correct and direct actions. As such I don't think any improvement here resembles a blockchain at all, because blockchain systems are designed specifically for (and really only provide benefit in) situations where these are not present.

And the alternative is a world in which people are having to constantly be on guard over every little thing. I don't want to have to do due diligence on how I store my money, or whether somewhere I choose to deposit it might evaporate next week despite being assured by 'the community' that it's legit and 100% SAFU. Just like I don't want to have to be my own food standards inspector at a restaurant...
Interesting - have you ever music without vocals such as lofi?

Here's a couple of live streams I regularly listen to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sJkuOPUP8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk

And here's a channel that as well as sometimes having a livestream regularly uploads ~1 mixes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKbkDggYQ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GWyf-35QHI&t=2s
> No, you can't increase your overall productivity after cutting 80% of your workforce. You might increase individual engineer productivity slightly

Labour productivity is already a per worker measure. I've never heard it used to refer to anything else.

That seems to be what they're referring to when they say they can increase productivity by cutting workers and working the rest much harder.

I'm pretty sure that's bullshit and the sheer amount just daily maintenance and fire fighting will annihilate any possible productivity gains, so I agree with you.
When I was a new manager, I had a problem employee. He was very bright, but very lazy. He wasn't self-motivated and was always doing everything in a mediocre way.

I ignored the problem for a long time, which caused friction within my team.

I eventually had to fire him when the situation got very severe.

The mistake I made was not addressing it right away.

I think that now, how to fire (or better stated, "manage up or out") your first employee as a new manager is one of the most important things you have to figure out how to do right.

The next time I had a problem employee, I got on it right as soon as the problem was clear. Saved me and everyone around me lots of grief.
Bob Iger Steps Back in as Disney CEO, Replacing Bob Chapek
There are so many contradicting factors to determine if you have ADHD. I heard about people that one time came out positive and the next negative.
I'm not sure who is the correct authority on the subject
> he is not in a position where he can steal or move user funds locked into a DeFi contract

He already did that once, and could do it again.
You can. It is called outsourcing. Seen it. Done it. Everytime, productivity increased! It os only when employees retaliate and government intervention then there is some cost involved to mitigate that. But still productivity is high (as in using the same amount of money to get more widgets and revenue in the same amount of time). You might be young say under 30s. Look back since the Nafta treaty signed in the 90s. There is enough evidence to back me on this productivity/revenue increase for the companies. For American, of course painful layoff.
Just to be clear, I'm not against medication or distraction when appropriate. And I agree with you :-)
Solar would be a great investment for us given how much sun we get. Unfortunately it was not politically expedient at the time to invest in solar (or any serious generation capacity) a decade ago, so here we are... Sigh.
> the problem of fraudulent business practices isn't specific to crypto at all.

The problem with crypto is that the bulk of the value is created through seigniorage of the tokens required to make it work, not actual utility derived from its technical features, for example better privacy or enabling new transactions.

So in reality the pump & dump, rugpull and speculative bubble dynamics are characteristic to crypto because there is very limited actual wealth created and a massive conflict of interest from the players to cash in on the juice flowing though their systems, which are nothing else than unregulated and inferior copycats of existing financial institutions, state issued currencies, banks etc.
Utah horse returns home to owner after 8 years of running with wild mustangs
They're not wrong. When a prospective client asks us if we do AI, we have to say yes, otherwise we will lose them on the spot. At least in this case it's not really wrong (we do machine learning).
JavaScript framework is the best solution to achieve goals and additional readily available tools to help an app perform better and rank higher. Now that there are resources and tools for developing JavaScript apps, your project may benefit from its simplicity, variety, and flexibility for creating mobile apps. It is quick and helps you save development time and money and reuse code and built-in libraries.

If you need help with the tools and technologies, you can either hire a development team or dedicated developers or outsource development to a provider who knows the best ways to use JavaScript for mobile apps.
Maybe not NPM per se. But the cult of JAVASCRIPT ALL TEH THINGS!!! most certainly is. imho
Ok Google, Google "Google"
> Iger has been noted for his kindness by David Geffen, who said: "I have never heard one person say a bad thing about him and I have never seen him be mean".

I obviously cannot verify this, but I hope it's true because I like the idea that it's not unthinkable how someone can get to the top of the corporate world while also being a nice person.
"Extinction Rebellion" are a specific subgroup of environmentalists who intentionally get themselves arrested. I can see why they would lean towards paler skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Arrest_as...
Sure. A person regularly going off-grid and that doesn't have an effective charging network in their country or continent are probably not thinking of EVs.
I don’t think so. The tech stack is (was) quite impressive, if we don’t forget that Twitter is basically a real-time read-write database which is famously hard to scale/distribute.
One characteristic of cults is how they get defined and define themselves. They define themselves in conjunction with everyone "outside" but it goes further as "outside" itself gets defined partly by them and partly by others. For example, if a bunch of newspapers says "X organisation is a cult" then it provokes a kind of self-reinforcing reaction in the organisation to separate themselves more from those not in the group. The group becomes more strong by defining itself in comparison to those outside the group. A member of a group finds their membership and sense of belonging stronger when people outside the group separate them. Polarisation isolates the poles but it also strengthens them.

It's therefore kind of one sided to say that a cult isolates a member from the outside world, although they do actually do that. It also gives a potential path away from dangerous cults to be formed - it's about allowing groups to exist within ones life and allowing people to move around - a kind of tolerance for the other or the margins.

Outside of cults, 2 examples: A good example of the group solidification mechanism is in the parallel with US politics where people in either sides think it's the other side that polarises politics. "I'm not an extremist you are". There's also an example of Reddit about subreddits and communities. Reddit organisation labelled subreddits "communities" where before the labelling the people who visited subreddits didn't think of themselves as a community. "communities" were created to isolate certain problematic subreddits who indeed had a unique group identity. Quarantine was introduced at the same time to perform the isolation. Subreddits turned into communities by becoming identified as such from within and outside but also the communities own self-culture, moderation rules became stronger because they were labelled as such.

I can recommend Spying in Guru Land for a book about cults. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2487851.Spying_in_Guru_L...
Since those sensors are say 20 years old design and 16+ years components, its safe to say that their precision leaves a lot to desire. No gps for example to help triangulation or indicate position.

It all may be great for you but depending on your activities one may appreciate higher precision / more capable instruments.

That being said, I used to wear some old Suunto that are probably even worse and I had to switch battery every few years. I didnt mind being 100-150m off in altitude for example in some himalayan treks or skitours in alps since terrain navigation was easy. Stopped with them altogether, for weekends phone is vastly superior and battery is no problem. And since kids I dont do much more situations that actually use such watches.
"you going to set up an on-premises laboratory to test the quality of the concrete and steel?"

This isn't a good example because there are whole infrastructures to verify that buildings are being made "to code" and quality of materials is a part of that. E.g. this lab that tests steel: https://www.leica-microsystems.com/science-lab/steel-the-all...

Now what you're getting at is, OK, now you have to trust the lab. But that's OK because the incentives are better aligned. Trust is a thing with complex shapes. Maybe you develop trust in a single lab because being trusted is their whole business, and now you can easily switch between steel suppliers depending on who can sell the cheapest with peace of mind, so you've moved the trust problem around and reshaped it.

A lot of trust problems in the business world are like this. You can't eliminate it entirely everywhere, but reducing the amount you need and reshaping it/moving it around is still useful.
I have a couple of Mi Bands, and they're nice devices. However, they're not watches. They're body monitors with watch functionality patched in, and that's OK.

While the functionality they add-in is intriguing, their low processing power is taxing the mobile phone a lot. I'm in apple ecosystem, and constant communication and process offloading reduces battery life of the phone considerably. Esp, when on the move.

I want a watch primarily. A time keeping device which I can depend and can use for a long time (i.e. years). So returning to a vanilla, bona-fide watch was refreshing and liberating. Having a self-winding, completely mechanical heart inside is also nice.
You basically just explained good software engineering. Code that does one, well-defined, necessary thing and does it well.

If you want to "do a thing", a DoThing() function is the optimal way to represent it. You can't get any more abstract than that, and you don't need to.

Somehow a lot of (badly explained) ideas of "design patterns" and "abstraction" have rotted people's brains into thinking you're supposed to add a whole bunch of extra layers everywhere.
Well yes by definition if your car costs are already minimal and you live in a country where petrol prices are not high then an EV makes less sense. In Northern Europe the petrol prices are, to use American measurements, around $7-9 per gallon.
What doesnt it have?
Wow, it's like a Keith Jarrett improv generator!
You're going to want to start a service business (think consulting) or sell an info product.

Selling a recurring subscription is 500x harder than selling a one-off purchase.
I believe that average investors (without domain-specific knowledge) should not be investing in crypto at this point in time because the tech is too immature and there are too many pitfalls, so everything you said is consistent with my beliefs.

Another ten years from now we'll have social recovery wallets, better regulatory frameworks and bulletproof ETFs - and that's the point where average investors might consider some sort of nontrivial allocation in their retirement accounts. Then again, people still get screwed left and right nowadays through traditional investment means such as shady financial advisors peddling high expense ratio active funds, so perhaps the answer is that safe investing will always require some minimum amount of domain-specific knowledge.

But in the mean time, companies will consider building on its APIs and data structure ideas regardless of whether the general public sees it as "tarnished" as an investment option.
There should be an intensive to fix hacks. If you approve a PR with a hack there is no intensive to fix it later. Why? The code is already in. But if you don't approve it, block it, until the hack gets fixed, then there is no choice for the author of the hack. Either he fixes it, or his code doesn't get in.
Re costs: it’s decreasing rapidly. Solana is within 100x of DynamoDB prices so costs are soon becoming negligible. At that point costs can be taken over by the app developer or paid by users on a subscription basis. There are also decentralized consensus mechanisms that don’t rely on paying fees (FBA, delay functions). Idk which will succeed.

Re open standards and “software that lets you export”: we’ve had this for the past 30 years and see how it turned out.

Re lock in: no, in a decentralized database, the data schema is public which means it’s trivial to write an app that works with another app’s data.
South african here, literally just bought an inverter with 2 100AH lifepo's and solar ports.

Sorry to hear the situation in lebanon is not great, I hope your situation improves.
> Saying “we’ll make it easier to host your own coins” is a bit like saying “we’ll solve the #1 problem with mass crypto adoption”.

Sure, I mean, we're still in the "dial-up era" of crypto and a big part of that is wallet UX. But if you're following the space closely, you can see there's been some solid efforts on that front.

Rainbow Wallet (https://rainbow.me/) is an iOS & Android wallet that backs up your private keys to iCloud/Google cloud. I think for smaller sums of money and valuables, this is a pretty good solution.

Argent (https://www.argent.xyz/) is a smart contract wallet that has a "social recovery" feature that allows you to delegate account recovery to a circle of trusted parties.

Gnosis Safe (https://gnosis-safe.io/) is another smart contract wallet that many DAOs use for treasury management, which allows for arbitrary multisig settings to be configured (like requiring 3 out of 5 signers or what have you).

Some of these still need work on UX, but the core tech is there. Another factor is blockchain fees. Layer 2s like Arbitrum (https://arbitrum.io/) and Starkware (https://starkware.co/) have already dramatically reduced fees (by as much as 10-20x and will likely get to 1000x reduction by the end of the decade).

Once the layer 2s and layer 3s are more mature, it's conceivable that a Coinbase or Kraken could run their own auditable rollup, even if the order book was run on a centralized server, at least the net balances would be held on-chain (Dydx https://dydx.exchange/ works like this currently).
Yes you talked about economic definition. You are 100% right....as right as Paul Volcker with his economic theory. But at corporate c level we discuse productivity with another unit attached....money.
Someone needs to make a distributed one that can't be regulated.

If they're going to use cryptocurrency to fund drugs and crime we might as well use it for the good stuff too.
Even if JetBrains does support your language more "natively", what makes it better than using a language server?

As a student I can use JetBrains tools for free but personally, I'd much rather use something like VSCode combined with clangd than e.g. CLion, as I don't see anything that would make CLion better, while the JetBrains UI is downright cluttered.

As for keyboard use, the command pallete (Ctrl+Shift+P) is right there and should be able to do anything. And thanks to the magic of language servers you can use any editor you like, including (Neo)Vim or Emacs, while keeping most of the capability for language specific stuff.
Disney has experimented with VR since the inception, and there’s reasons they haven’t made a play. There’s no home market, and the costs and throughput of doing it in the park don’t have the economics.
Bitcoin sure does and I haven't used it in half a decade. It's not a great benchmark for crypto as a whole.
needs to be recharged weekly and software can brake with each update but BangleJS2 should cover most requirements: https://banglejs.com/
Thanks for posting this, I was brought up the same way. It's very uncomfortable for me to have eye contact in a conversation, I usually just do it when greeting people.
Is there no libertarian community? In the sense of a group who think similarly and are suspicious and somewhat hostile to those who think differently?
need the SE version though.
Probably best to watch alien too. great example of a limited budget helping a film
Question to folks who respond and experienced managers: how do you deal with peer managers who're not as supportive and out to get you?

Context: I joined a startup and I'm leading a new function for this org.
While I have decent relationship with all others, one of my peers is far less supportive, demonstrates his value/("we made this call before you joined") at every opportunity, and even wanted to push through some of the tasks/projects on me/my team where we need not be owner but partners.

Management is supportive of me as well but said peer has a stronger rapport and I don't want to be finicky about this to the management.

How do you rightfully pushback in this scenario then?
I should have been clearer as people who know EVs intuitively know I meant fast charging. Home charging speeds vary quite a lot since the vehicle comes with a normal household plug charger as well as a dedicated EV charger cable for <22kW.
Decentralised exchanges only deal with virtual tokens. Centralised exchanges are needed because people need to be able to trade these tokens for real assets.
Interestingly, the author updated the post, which now says "this was not 100% reliable".

There isn't anything inherently unreliable with TSRs; DOS even provided interrupts for this specific operation (although some malware would not use them).

I think (although not entirely sure) that some mouse drivers were, for example, TSRs.

The problem is that there was a wide range of purposes and implementations, including malware, so the argument is similar to "BTC is mostly used for dirty money, so BTC is inherently criminal".