skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These stories seem almost as implausible as those in the mainstream media, but I'm starting to understand where the term "Byzantine" comes from.
I don't think #3 is spot on. Bitcoin solves the double spend problem does it not?
GTK is the best option at the moment. Apparently QT is difficult due to it being heavily based in C++'s view of the world, which doesn't translate particularly well to Rust (notably Rust not supporting OOP in the same way). There is hope of a new rust-native GUI library (possibly in the vain of Flutter[1]) based on the work done for Servo[2], but that looks to be a way off.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6l5c94/can_we_crowdfu...
[1] https://flutter.io/
[2] https://github.com/servo/webrender
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sorry, dude, but even by the frankly glacial standards of progress in the HPC world, you are a decade out of date.
This thread [1] has some good recent discussion of the current state.

[1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/current-state-of-gui-developme...
I wonder if energy regulations make it hard for mechanical products since they don't have the flexibility of electronic components.
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Irrevocability is implied by how cryptographic timestamping works in general,
database is an implementation detail, and proof of work is not a benefit, but
a (high) price to pay for lack of central coordination. I think you should
tone down your admiration for blockchain.
I disagree with some of this.

First, we don't need more mining, we need much less, preferably zero. We've extracted enough resources from the earth's crust, and mining has a huge environmental toll. We should be doing a far better job recycling, and we should be getting the rest from asteroids or the Moon. (I'll make exceptions for some things which are literally as common as dirt, such as silicates/sand/etc., though even here there's some problems with overconsumption.)

More people don't necessarily need to consume more resources. We should be living more sustainably, with less consumption per person. Living the way a typical suburban American lives is totally unsustainable, and grossly wasteful. We need to have smaller habitats in large, shared buildings (i.e. we should be living in urban high-rises, but well-built ones, not like those crappy ones in the UK), and we shouldn't have personally-owned vehicles, and instead should be using SkyTran PRT to get around quickly and cheaply with very low energy usage. Note that I'm all for the option of ownership of those housing units, just that we need more condos and fewer standalone houses; renting property has its own set of problems.

As for home prices, the main problem there is that investors are allowed to buy residential property. Ban that, and especially ban ownership by foreigners, and that'll fix that problem quickly. Housing prices have been inflated because of too much "investment" by various moneyed interests, such as wealthy foreigners looking for stable places to park their money outside their own country. This isn't helpful to the people who actually live in a place, as they're now competing with a huge number of outsiders (both inside and outside their country) when bidding on a housing unit to buy. This phenomenon simply didn't exist in the US a few decades or more ago. Vancouver Canada I believe recently enacted a law penalizing house owners who didn't actually make use of the house, as so many houses were sitting empty, owned by Chinese investors.

As to wealthy people having children, that's a non-sequitur: wealthy people are such a small portion of the population that even if they all had 6 kids, it wouldn't make a detectable difference. It's the middle class that you want having kids.
Perhaps it's because research coming out of MIT & Indiana University suggests that calling a company a "meritocracy" makes it less meritocratic: https://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/65884
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I often find myself ending up making a lot of this data, requesting it from QA, or finding random tidbits from across the web.

So I am looking for (or considering creating if one can't be found) a repo of various types of test data.

I know "test data" is rather nebulous but examples would be.

collection of the most common [image|audio|video] types.
collection of various text documents of various sizes.
collection of difficult to OCR documents.
collection of files, with malformed headers.
collection of mock users.
etc..

Anyone know of anything like this, or interested in contributing to a repo like this?
I am not understanding this fully.

So I take a picture of a $100 U.S dollar, send it to your contract app, and I will get quant tokens? Which quant tokens are a cryptocurrency that I can sell on a exchange?

If this is true, you pretty much built a system were I can duplicate money because all I had to do is take a picture and send it? I didn't physically give you the money, I took a picture and you gave me money, while I kept the original money.

Is this how it really works?

I give you a picture of my money and you give me money? How is there value in Quant?
But I get to look high-minded by participating in the hand-wringing about the problem without actually moving a muscle to improve the situation.
My solution be for let's say Japan would be to peg everything from wages to mortgages to the US dollar. Now with deflation you will be making losses in yen as the value of yen to the $ will keep increasing but in dollar terms and in actual buying strength you will still be improving. Though this will be something very hard to do and everyone would want to keep the yen instead of holding any asset.
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Electrek has an article quoting it. Elon was describing the idea of designing the "Machine that builds the Machines"[0].

“We realized that the true problem, the true difficulty, and where the greatest potential is – is building the machine that makes the machine. In other words, it’s building the factory. I’m really thinking of the factory like a product.”

[0]:https://electrek.co/2016/06/01/elon-musk-machines-making-mac...
Have you used Brainfuck in an educational context before? It seems rather esoteric and unfamiliar, especially for beginners. They will likely be distracted by the inscrutable syntax and "what the fuck is Brainfuck?" (the name itself, which you feel the need to censor, seems problematic for many educational settings).

I would say that the original submission illustrates much better how simple a CPU is. And it actually exposes the user to syntax (ASM) and concepts (program counter, registers, memory usage, stack, etc) that directly transfer to basic CPU design. Your version, while technically more impressive, buries this under formulas and the particulars of parsing a language nobody uses.

FWIW, I agree with j45 that you presented this poorly. From being "disappointed" and "fixing" another user's submission, to your token parenthetical (in which you actually did not "make sure" to say it was "very impressive"). It all seems a bit condescending and arrogant for someone who would be an educator. Compare the tone and demeanor of his comments on your submission (positive, supportive) to yours on his (negative, critical).
Or rather, stuff either absorbs EUV or doesn't absorb it. I edited the parent comment to elaborate.
I like how you think.
What are the odds of that?
Vitalik (of ethereum) has a pretty good blog post talking about the different types of decentralization: architectural, political, and logical.[0] For blockchains, he says:

"Blockchains are politically decentralized (no one controls them) and architecturally decentralized (no infrastructural central point of failure) but they are logically centralized (there is one commonly agreed state and the system behaves like a single computer)"

[0] https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...
I'm surprised not to see images-of-text being called out here. This is a huge issue on Twitter, since people work around the character limit by using images with lots of text. I've even seen this done on #a11y twitter chats, amazingly.
Actually, x-ray lithography was a competing technology to EUV for a long time, but it has its own problems, not the least of which is going through the wafer itself and the fact that optics are ridiculously hard to make for it. Masks are already really hard to write and are projected to explode in price (not that they haven't already). Don't crush chip startups under mask costs ;)
Yeah, that's right. Making the car do the "hard work" is probably the way to go!
Hence the qualifier "absolutely necessary." For example, harassment is bad, period. Github did the right thing in taking steps to address it by forming a team of developers to address harassment vectors.

That said, it might not have been the best idea to frame harassment in the context of the wider social justice movement. It may or may not fall into that group (depending on what you believe) and I'm not trying to argue whether it does or doesn't; what I am saying is that regardless, it might not actually be a good idea to inject politics into this situation. Nobody would say that preventing harassment is bad, but you will piss people off by injecting larger narratives into the issue.

If I could summarize, I guess I'm saying "go easy on the intersectionality."
No SGI you've been able to buy from any of the last 3 incarnations of SGI.
Sometimes I have a hunch that inaccessibility is what costs money. A basic informative HTML web page is cheap to write and host. The deluge of swirling graphics, icons, and microscopic pull-downs, are what cost money to create.
I mean a complex thought process. Like how to come from an activated retina cell to a movement to a part of a body.

At time index 586578382342us the cell no 15547349 got activated which led to a slightly improved electric charge around the axon of neuron no 68342. The connection strength, as you remember, from time index 3870127106 is now 1% higher ..... one billion pages later ..... but the atom here is slightly misaligned to its counterpart, ...... one billion pages later .... noise coming from dentride no 496839 .... one billion pages later .... let to a decreased potential at muscle cell no 9678402 and hence a millimeter shift of the finger tip no 3. ......

Do you want to here the exciting story about my semimenbranous muscle at time index 4386702121us :)

Do we understand the brain when we have this information?
What I want to say is, that our brain cannot store so much information and handle it. Hence, we cannot "understand" the brain on this level. ("The person did this, because .... ")
I think translation problems aren't caused by OOP itself, but by messed up name mangling, and total lack of any sane standard for it in C++.
You'll most likely need a job offer from a US company (they sponsor you essentially) or you marry in...
Reminds me a bit of this earlier piece on Lawfare: https://www.lawfareblog.com/your-city-or-your-soul-moral-com...
Why ROFL? Fixing bugs is essentially repairing software, isn't it? And it seems perfectly reasonable to me that if I buy some software, I should be able to "repair" any defects in it.
Sorry, could you clarify what you mean by "those consequences"?
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This is not a bad thing considering how overpopulated Japan is.
The biggest pro of decentralization is censorship resistance. You can compute, store and transfer data and disregard authority or oppressors.

This is why torrents worked. They allowed people to share media even though it wasn't legal. Then people found a way to make a more performant centralized alternative and it is so much easier to use that most people now are willing to pay for it, even though free torrents still exist.

Email and git are also prone to centralizing forces. They are both decentralized protocols, but everyone ends up using Github and Gmail anyway, and not actually using them in a decentralized way. If you are sending "sensitive" emails or are sharing code for a dark market, email and git will be useful if you steer clear from centralized hubs.

Bitcoin is the same thing. Some people don't want you to send money to Wikileaks, so Bitcoin is the first time we can now send money online and disregard who the authorities tell us we can or cannot pay.

With Ethereum, decentralizing computation is an open question. Do we not already have censorship resistance in computation? Is anyone preventing us from running code? Is Tor not sufficient to run shady decentralized apps? I don't know.
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He's just been outsourced to a growing distributed network of satirists. We call it the blockheadchain. We think it's going to disrupt the thought industry. It's an Uber for ideas. Patents pending.
I guess the other issue is why was the review happening 4 months after the period ended, especially if they had started working on improvements in the meantime. What was the point of all that work / those improvements, if they were just going to ignore it because it wasn't in the "correct period?"

Shouldn't the review have happened closer to the end of the period, so that all of that progress could be part of improvement?
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We can't exists without labels. There are no lab-white programmers out there pure as a function. I missed that article, but older probably meant more experienced. You shouldn't be offended, but it's up to you.

I try to avoid labels too, but I can't escape it. In a room full of firmware engineers I would be the "web guy", I'm fine with that.

There are "older programmer" meetups, it's just not called that way. A friend of mine visited a smalltalk meetup in London and he sad it was a couple of guys in their 50-s. He really enjoyed it.

I think it's much better to learn to live with labels (after all you can invent your own) than being constantly pissed off about them.
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Most major movies are, if not "CONSUME", "OBEY", etc billboards (like in "They Live"), at least party-line affairs promoting the establishment.

Between promoting the prevalent mores (instead of criticizing them), military manipulation to promote "national interests" like in TFA, product placements, and plots for your inner 13 year old in movies for 40 year olds, with the rare exception it's a long way since the 60s-70s and films like "The Network", "Apocalypse Now" and the rest..
>They are generally far from the sun so solar power is significantly less useful.

No, they aren't. There's tons of asteroids in Earth-crossing orbits. And Mars-crossing orbits too. It'll be a long time before we use those up.

>You need to move a lot of bulk material which means heavy Delta V problems.

No, you don't. You process the ores near the asteroids; you don't have to ship it all to the point-of-use.

>Micro gravity means you can't have humans in the area for long without giant structures.

So what? You don't need a lot of humans there; this stuff needs to be automated (or at least remote-controlled). And artificial gravity doesn't need a giant structure; you can do it with a small structure on a tether.

>Finally, economically resources are just not that scarce.

That depends on what resources, and where you want them. If you want a lot of platinum, it's very scarce here on Earth, but mining one Earth-crossing asteroid could provide a huge amount of it relatively cheaply.

>As to mining Mars's moon's they don't really have a lot of useful material that is not on Mars in the first place.

How do you know that? Mars's moons are really just captured asteroids and likely have no geological relation to Mars at all.
bindgen has native C++ support (as of recently), so hopefully that will help.
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I am color blind too. I believe it's reds, greens, browns, oranges, yellow. It's a lot of colors, but not completely color blind.

I've been a union electrician, and telecommunications tech.

I did have trouble with the different shades of wire. It got worse when the job had different brands of the same wire on the job site.

I realized early on, I always needed to carry an array of wires with labels on them in my overalls, and a flash light, with an extra set of batteries.

I never told anyone, and never had a mixup, that I know of.

I was especially careful of the high voltage stuff. BOY--brown, orange, and yellow. The higher the voltage, the easier the colors were for myself.

My grandfather was completely color blind. Had to memorize the position of the traffic lights. He was a successful Printer for years. Whenever he was unsure of a page, he would ask the closest person next to him.

He once told me, people love to give advice on color, and aesthetics.
Actually there were several HN commenters on recent postings who had that sort of opinion.
Name mangling is by far the easiest part. It's already solved via bindgen and clang.
My personal prediction based on the fact that there are now exchanges and hedge funds involved, is based on what happened in the 2008 financial crisis. Bitcoin rose as people viewed this new medium as safer and with tax benefits. Smart money/investors are position now, diversifying across cryptocurrencies before the next Black Swan event. I predict that on every spike down in cryptocurrencies, smart money will come in and the crypto's will make higher highs from here forward and more importantly, during a flight to quality during the next downturn.
Wut? It's a really nice illustration of how a computer works. Have you clicked the link?
Just a side note,

It seems that if I manually remove them and then reinstall the app / reauthorize the app, the webhooks are not recreated.
Fair enough! You've forgotten more about managing devs than I ever plan to know. Just don't be surprised that there's a pretty big chunk of the profession that will make this assumption about PIPs.
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Oh 'doh, I got my GP comments mixed up :P

Definitely a net-positive. We should have done more outreach and attempts to bring people into our way-less-drama bubble; but if the theories that the other groups were jealous of our successes was true, it might have accelerated our demise.

Ditto for being clearer with upper management why were liking the isolation.

I think there's an catch-22 problem tho: Anything we could have done would have just been political in some way, which would have been contributing to the drama.

Possibly the appropriate middle ground is to clearly and consistently seek feedback and share successes with the top of our management chain; avoid the politics of multi-person, but keep the awareness that we're doing well and will continue to do so with those that make the decisions about whether we'd get to keep going that way.

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Original response:

It was definitely a net-positive; I got out (I was encouraged to get out by people I trust and respect) before it had a chance to properly explode, and there's a lot I'd have done differently.

Probably the most valuable skill is recognizing that you're in a tailspin; a good way to notice this is failing to achieve your own core values. In my case, people were feeling unheard; I pride myself on listening skills, so that should have been a pretty serious red flag. If you're sucking at stuff you really care about, something's pretty wrong.

I would have liked to have the presence of mind and skill to directly address the meta-problem; but that might have just backfired more, since I gathered that my directness was part of the issue.

So in that case, just bailing earlier. Make sure you don't stick around past the point where the bridges are burned; I'm a little past that, since I don't feel good when I think about going back, but I know I can.

The other option (which was one I was encouraged to take, that then turned into a full departure) was to take a sabbatical. I probably set down 70% of the baggage in the first month, which might have been enough to make a successful comeback - at least in attitude. (There's other complicating factors).
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>The author simply says that all these other things should happen if the hypothesis is incorrect, without any experimental data behind it

That's still not first principles though -- not in the math/logic sense.

It's just things he doesn't bother to justify because they are well established.

A new paper in Physics doesn't begin by trying to prove the relativity theory or to give citations that show it's true: it just takes it for granted.
> Frankly I'd be surprised if she had never been harassed in some way.

1. She grew up in Denmark
2. She works in the UK

From what I've heard, both are far more progressive and egalitarian than the US. If the people you know are based in the US, that could be the distinction.

I think the problems here are far worse.
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Important to note that "central planning" is not a black and white thing, there are degrees. The United States is light grey, China would be a darker grey for example. It's totally possible to allow certain markets to be centrally planned and others not to be.
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