skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree broadly with what you're saying here, but with respect to GP, you could indeed say the same thing about gold ... it's only worth the value ascribed to it in terms of "real world" things. Except that gold does have a few pretty nifty usecases based on its intrinsic properties as well, such as for jewellery and electronics.

I wonder if the same could be said about BTC, in that mining is effectively digging up new prime numbers right? and prime numbers do have intrinsic value for many communications and computing applications no?
For example, Orion's belt in ancient China astronomy/astrology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Stars_(Chinese_constella...

It's regarded as three generals, nowhere close to something related to "hunters".
It's not visible in the center of cities, but an urban sprawl has developed on the periphery of cities. Such sprawls are similar to those existing in the US (car mandatory, few or no services, little public transportation).
That is very true, and it's something we've struggled with on our bot, but there's also a collorary - every time you add a feature, you have to add UI for it which adds complexity and can have support costs - I have heard anecdotally that when banking apps add a new feature they get a spike of support requests asking "what is this new xyz…?"
Python is a boring technology. It's a 10+ years old language, like ~20 years behind cutting edge programming language research and implementation. Also, as for the programming style it encourages, it strongly nudges you against any "cool" way of programming: even the most basic kinds of functional programming is something you end up avoiding in P and "dumbing down" your code to more procedural idioms, and OOP over-over-over-architecting is something you just don't do because of the performance penalty and the lack of serious refactoring tools for large codebases. The side effect is that all code is more readable and understandble to anyone, including self-taught devs. JS itself is a boring language at its core too, except that it evolves faster than anything else. And the ecosystem is anything but boring (and also anything but sane...).

Cooler and more advanced (in terms of language features) languages are Julia (it has real macros, advanced type inference etc.) and even R (yeah, it's a mess, but as a language it's more advanced and "cooler" than Python). On the "web backend" scene Ruby is a way more "not boring" language, but the ML and science communities avoided it almost completely (I have a few theories as to why...).

And then there's the "truly cool" and "0% boring" languages like: Scala, Rust, Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, Elm, Crystal, Pony etc.

But don't get me wrong, I like Python for being what it is: an incredibly boring scripting language, that encourages a "stone age level" style of dumbed-down programming. With slightly awkward but stable libs (on which people agree almost unanimously of which to use). Because with Python I can focus on the product instead.
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If it would be so easy as you paint it there would be lot more native applications. Unfortunately you can count them using your fingers.
The car arrives, the passenger opens the door, turns away in disgust, loads the ride hailing app and presses the "report vomit" button. The car drives itself to the cleaning service, another car turns up shortly.
You cannot even properly escape a left parenthesis, for crying out loud!

So if you invoke a tool that expects some arguments wrapped in parentheses, you need to do stuff like

LEFTPAREN:=(
RIGHTPAREN:=)
$(addprefix $(LEFTPAREN), $(addsuffix $(RIGHTPAREN), $(PARAMS)))

(RIGHTPAREN isn't strictly needed, but I introduced it to have the symmetry with LEFTPAREN, which is absolutely necessary)
That is how it works but punishment under civil law is based on damages so there is no punishment if there are no damages even if found guilty of breaching the TOS.
[unpopular opinion, criticism is welcome]

People who build cheap cars/smartphones/clothes/food/anything usually don't care about poor people at all, even if poor people benefit the most from those cheap protducts/services.

They care about profits in $$$

$$$ incentives bring the most value to poor people, so the best motivation I can think of for improving society is money-making businesses .
Orion and Taurus are "obvious" constellations: regardless of the name, the stars form a pattern.

The myth of a hunter and an animal seems to have been associated with these constellations everywhere, including India [1]. Even some Native American tribes call Orion "Hunter" [2]. I suspect this association is way older than 4,000 years.

[1] http://www.tifr.res.in/~archaeo/papers/Astronomy%20and%20San...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)#Americas
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I lost money because of this.
You say that, but the first time this exact case went to court it was ruled in oracle's favor...

The CFAA and DMCA are written so that they can be applied to an extremely wide set of situations, and getting some concrete examples of things that aren't violations can help push back and contain what are.
Celibacy means you won't have any children. Same reason why a carrier of the Huntington's disease gene may choose celibacy instead of reproducing.
"Rampant Environmentalism" is by far the better problem to have. You can tune down from that, what we now have is a road to extinction. Also, its noteworthy that rampant exploitation begats radical environmentalism, just like uncontrolled libertarian capitalism begats marxism. Get rid of the one, and the reason for the other goes away too.
Approximately every cryptocurrency buyer hopes for massive gains in the short to medium term. I don't think I've seen a single article saying "This ICO is going to generate consistent 9% returns, that's better than an index fund!"

Because of that, I don't think the possibility of the bubble popping can be built into the cost in the way you're implying. If you think there's a 20% chance your investment will dectuple and a 80% chance you'll be wiped out, you can split the difference to find your expected value. But since none of the market participants believe the current value is the long-term value, eventually it has to land one way or the other.
Hi Oliver, this is a really cool announcement. I have some questions:

1) What are some of the issues surrounding adoption in local municipalities that you've faced with the deployment of this, specifically in Florida?

2) How do you go about convincing a local municipality to change their laws or issue waivers regarding legal issues about vehicles on the roadway that are autonomous, as specifically in Florida, the legal framework does not exist yet that I'm aware.

3) Explain your pricing model for the taxi's in The Villages and also does pricing decrease once the vehicles become fully autonomous (no driver in the front seat required)

I'd personally like to see a day, in my lifetime, where the pricing model of autonomous transport rivals that of vehicle ownership (which in my math is about $0.20 - $0.50/mile)
I suspect it was more of a "this is old and crufty and isn't how we would do it today".

Guessing the 128-bit number is non-trivial, and once someone has the ability to access the group id, all is already failed.
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It's a great movie though.
It may stabilize in the future.
Maybe everything is in an economic bubble right now.

If you work in a big city and look around; there are tall office buildings everywhere; packed with millions of people. But what do these people actually do? Is that an efficient use of their time in terms of creating value for each other?

Maybe cryptocurrency is a bubble, but maybe also everything else is a bubble. Companies like Snapchat are worth billions of dollars, but they lose billions of dollars each year. At least most cryptocurrencies don't lose money (except some of them due to electricity costs).

Even companies like Facebook which are themselves profitable are deriving most of their profits by providing services to companies that are unprofitable.

Maybe the total value of all cryptocurrencies isn't actually going up, maybe it's the value of everything else around it that's hyperinflating. Maybe the current system is just begging to be dismantled.
The Make problems I know [0] are:

* Recursive Make Considered Harmful

* Changes to the Makefile do not implicitly trigger rebuilds

* Dependencies on directories is not really possible

* Lots of output by default

* Rules with multiple output files are not really possible

* can't handle spaces in pathnames

[0] https://github.com/qznc/annoying-build-systems#make-alone
"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business" - Mark Twain

the same analogy applies here, BitCoin mining is quite profitable, however hardware business is more reliable and in demand.
I still remember the horror when I learned the Sharepoint 2010 site i was pulled off React/Typescript for only supported IE8. And then learning the client was actually (slowly going down) our biggest source of revenue, and has so much stuff on SP2010 migrating away or upgrading SharePoint is out of the question.

I would'nt like to keep IE8 alive, sooner enterprises can't throw any more money at the problem, sooner we all get big paydays from the migration projects.
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William James is widely credited as the progenitor of modern American psychology, and his "Principals" [0] one of the first widely disseminated textbooks on the subject of mental health. He had his own demons, and sought to share his experiences overcoming. I've just recently picked it up and hope to read it soon, as I've been told that it's still a book that reads quite well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Psychology
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On the very safe side: Not more often than every 6 weeks. Ideally not more than 15 doses in lifetime (that's what MAPS guidelines say). Stop once you are sad beyond the 'blue Tuesday' (not everyone has a blue Tuesday, but after repeated use it usually starts to happen and gets worse).
There is quite some literature, sadly not nicely structured and concentrated in one place as far as I know.
'But what do these people actually do?'
Awesome. Thats exactly what is in my head for so long.
I myself go to one of these offices, and yes I do sh1t which produces no value, only money for my company. We get paid by another company doing sh1t.

I spend half my live learning to code. And now I code shitty forms and buttons which will get thrown away and replaced in 5 years by the next guy doing the same.
Doesn't sound like it.

Usually it's for some reason that's justifiable, e.g. don't have the means to support it, don't want a child ever/at this moment in my life, teenage pregnancy, product of rape, fetus has some inherited disease, etc.

Merely dropping a child because it'll be gay, while being ok to keep another that wouldn't is not exactly of that nature.

Even the most casual reasoning for abortion ("I don't want a child, period") doesn't imply anything more, whereas this can be seen as implying you hate gay people.
Outside our solar system does not equate to the grandparent going "IT'S ALIENS!"; that's all you.
A company with a brain hires a lawyer to look at the issue when an employee expresses concern that the company is breaking laws with their hiring practices. Firing someone who expresses those concerns makes the problem infinitely worse as we are seeing.
But if it's personal data, e.g. from LinkedIn and Facebook, then aggregating might be legally/morally unacceptable.
They're called horizonal and vertical signs in Poland and they are binding. The solid line between lanes counts as a horizontal sign as well.
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The reverse is also true: it's far simpler to remember the 10-20ish options of
the erlang.mk plugins you use than hundreds options of various rebar plugins.

There is no significant difference between the two.
Surrogacy is legal in many parts of the world, and the women are often not in a good position to resist pressure to have abortions.
The reward was given to the OpenSSL team.

OpenSSH is a different project, developed by the OpenBSD project. OpenBSD also works on LibreSSL which is a fork of OpenSSL.

OpenSSL itself has NOTHING to do with OpenBSD and OpenBSD related projects.
BrainFuck: BrainFocker

Assembly: ASMocker

C#: Cocker

Haskell: Hocker

Smalltalk: Smalltocker

Common Lisp: Common Lisp (because you just know that 'they had that already')
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This legislation isn't my preferred solution, but at least it has its priorities right. Nothing gets me more ticked off than hearing that the myriad individual human tragedies arising from the misaligned incentives of the credit rating industry are an unsolvable problem. Heck, in moments of intemperance, I've yearned for vigilante hackers to take revenge for the victims of identity theft since no one else will, and I know I'm not alone.
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CDOs are in the research phase currently:
https://ethresear.ch/t/collateralized-debt-obligations-for-i...
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Meet Bashlets, yet another Bash library project
Bashlets is a new modular extensible Bash library written in Bash! The project is still in its early days, yet it is quite usable and the core features are already there: smart loading of modules, integration with git, partial OO support, and more. But of course there is so much work to do, and I'd be delighted if somebody is willing to step in with code, enhancements, suggestions, and of course test cases and bug reports! Bashlets home is at https://github.com/bashlets/bashlets.
> The mysterious Egyptian rock contains micro-mineral compounds not found on Earth

And apparently, Egypt is not located on Earth.
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Hi Oliver. Good luck with this great project.

>> (1) Will these cars have a Voyage employee in them to supervise?

>>>> 1) Yes, at least today. We call them Operations Specialists, and they're highly trained in operating autonomous vehicles and customer service.

My understanding of the autonomy levels (for what they're worth) is that while a human is behind the wheel, autonomy is not at level 4. If a human is required to take control in certain situations, it's either level 3 or 2.
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In hindsight, yeah, but you can't predict the future. I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. Bitcoin collapses, for example due to the transaction costs and time. If the miners pull out the network dies.
> Named for Hypatia of Alexandria, the first prominent Western woman astronomer

How is a middle-eastern woman who lived circa ~400AD "western"? "The west" didn't take the lead in science until much, much later.
You can also create a point and click gui mechanism and brag about how wonderful it is, too, but it wouldn't be 'make' or be as capable, well-rounded, flexible, encompassing, etc.

'make' exists for what it's capable of doing and it must be so as it's used in every piece of software and operating sytem everywhere.
I used Make for my javascript for a while, but having to update the makefile everytime dependencies changed got annoying. Now I just `webpack --watch`; the startup time isn't great, but it's a one-time cost and the recompile happens faster than I can switch to the browser.
You could argue that Ethereum is a useful application because it allows for about fifty other major coins to work, becoming like a provider for virtual currencies.
As far as i can tell, this has zero dependencies. Wow - impressive stuff!
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Reminds me of the old OPEC strategy of not making oil too expensive, lest they push industrial nations to develop alternatives.
wrong thread ?
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The trouble with the approach in the article is that by adding a npm dependency, it may as well be the script served by 1st party, buried in their react monster.
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> But what do these people actually do? Is that an efficient use of their time in terms of creating value for each other?

There's a lot of work in everything: https://xkcd.com/1741/

I've worked in industries I had no idea even existed until I worked there. But they made sense once I found them, and I created value, as did most of my colleagues. Maybe you're in a bad job at the moment and need to look a bit wider?

> Companies like Snapchat are worth billions of dollars, but they lose billions of dollars each year. At least most cryptocurrencies don't lose money (except some of them due to electricity costs).

All cryptocurrencies are burning money on electricity costs. And what do they have to show for it? I've got plenty of fun out of Snapchat, so even if their investors don't get a return it's not like the money was completely burned, whereas cryptocurrencies spend electricity with nothing to show for it except some numbers that hash to other numbers.
There are certainly tasks that a virtual assistant can handle and not a concierge-service, but in my personal case those did not deserve the extra cost.

I use the concierge service over email, and they usually take a few hours to respond. Magic started to work on my tasks within a few minutes, often faster, which already here changes what you can use it for. It is possible to call the concierge over phone when you need it faster, but email has served my need.

Here is a few things I have used them for the last month or so:

* I traveled away two weeks recently, wanted to leave my car at a car service the day before and have them fix it and store it until I was back home. Had the concierge call around and book that for me. Booked change of winter tires this way as well.

* Wanted a get a haircut a certain time on a holiday day. Had them book that as I did not no anyone that was open.

* Called them 30 minutes ahead of a full-booked train and they managed to get my a ticket (still not sure how they did this).

* Tried to buy outsold tickets to a concerts, which they did not manage to do. Wrote back that they were sorry.

* Investigate the ability to book a meeting room within a 500 meters-area.

All this costed me around 10 USD/month, and no premium when you purchase things. I have just started, possible I find a better use for it in the future.

I live in Sweden and use https://www.supremecard.se. Most credit cards buy the same service from the same third party concierge service, so I just got the cheapest credit card as the service is the same.
Then why does your Linux/BSD/Unix operating system use it, including every piece of software installed on it?
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Suggestion: add an ability to write a hash of prediction to the Bitcoin blockchain (for a fee from the user) and the ability to see this hash alongside the prediction on day X with the link to the corresponding blockchain record. This way it won't be necessary to trust your website about the fact whether the prediction was actually made on the date you claim.
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I also use Makefile for all my node/docker/frontend needs.
It is an EXCELLENT entry point for all of the project scripts, needs etc.

Check it out: https://gist.github.com/molszanski/56de03b54f66885ef415af84e...

npm scrips are also awesome. But editing and maintaining them inside a package.json is not cool
Ah okay, I think we're talking about the same thing then.
Sometimes it is necessary though. I have had to use this pattern in 2 scenarios:

Building a static website where the targets are wildly different from the source files. I could probably make it explicit but it will be overly verbose and brittle.

Check for and remove trailing whitespace. Because the dependency is actually the target, a stamp file is necessary.
Half the internet could go static html with css animations without an js and do bacis analytics from server logs. The rest could do webassembly, compiled from another language, missing and npm-dependecy-hell.
I like to put `MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules` near the top of my makefiles. This way, all predefined rules are cancelled and I won't be caught off guard by a rule that I didn't specify explicitly being a match.

I also usually put `.SUFFIXES:`, but I guess that's redundant: "The `-r` or `--no-builtin-rules` flag causes the default list of suffixes to be empty." [1]

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Suffix-Ru...
Indeed. Quite a few exchanges are either having serious performance issues or they completely stopped new user registrations. And good luck with the verification process. If you succeed after a month, consider yourself lucky.

On the positive side the mess is a result of an enormous demand. If you had a serious exchange that's taking new users and a quick verification, you'd make a killing.
The example Makefile in this article is contrived, here's an example of a simple Makefile: https://git.suckless.org/dmenu/tree/Makefile. I can find plenty of other such examples.
Possible? It's everywhere!
Read the text 'russdill linked in another comment:

"Most (99 percent) of the meteorite inventory on Earth comes from the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A small fraction of meteorites come from Mars (about 180) and the Moon (about 275). Some meteorites have been suspected to come from comets. Famous astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “It is unlikely that a single meteorite of extrasolar origin has ever reached the surface of the Earth.” Numerical calculations suggest that the possibility of exchange of meteoritic fragments between stellar systems is highly unlikely. Indeed, extrasolar meteorites have not been identified in our meteorite collections."

So it's still highly probable that it's still from the stuff of our solar system, it's just the question how homogeneous the stuff was and did the stuff coalesce before or after the Sun was formed. But we know that stuff formed in the cold, from the University of Johannesburg press release:

https://www.uj.ac.za/newandevents/Pages/UJ%E2%80%99s-newest-...

"What we do know is that Hypatia was formed in a cold environment, probably at temperatures below that of liquid nitrogen on Earth (-196 Celsius). In our solar system it would have been way further out than the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where most meteorites come from. Comets come mainly from the Kuiper Belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune and about 40 times as far away from the sun as we are. Some come from the Oort Cloud, even further out. We know very little about the chemical compositions of space objects out there. So our next question will dig further into where Hypatia came from."
but it might have patterns which can be recognized. Dont really see the problem.
Arguably the simplest Makefile is not having any Makefile and just doing

make <executable name>

The next step up would be a Makefile that is essentially just a set of sh scripts, like your example. But I think it's supposed to be implied that the blog is specifically talking about medium-sized C projects.
10 years on there are no non-currency blockchain applications that make any sense. And even if they did exist, since the blockchain integrity guarantees only work if there is a valuable reward for "mining", a failure of blockchain-as-currency would doom non-currency blockchain applications as well.
Short it all and profit then right?
Isn’t the definition of “entity” here very similar to the original 1970s Smalltalk definition of “object”?