skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A recent interview RE: the tenth anniversary of Bitcoin - https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get...

Always sad to lose deep thinkers.
What is your effective hourly rate? What is it once you factor in what your land could be leased or sold for?

Natural ecosystems don’t feed humanity. Heavily modified ecosystems subjected to highly engineered agriculture practices feed humanity.
Mediocre devs simply can’t do advanced tasks. They’ll spend months with no results. I’ve seen this countless times, especially working with offshore teams. One project was hobbled by terrible database performance. The app simply couldn’t scale. I listened to weekly calls for a year while they floundered. Finally I researched their connection pool and told them setting to control “verify connection before each call” to “verify connection every n milliseconds”, and told them how to fix it. I made sure to do it on a call with their architects and leads and our senior managers. Yeah that was a bit of a dick move on my part but I didn’t care.
Not just UI, this goes all the way to the data model.
This seems to be a Rorschach Inkblot test for what people think of fin-tech/startups in general. If you want to see it as an example of a company moving too fast and being careless then you're inclined to jump on that reasoning. The same goes if you think this was a purposeful attempt to mislead the public.

Either way, what actually happened isn't public, so it's foolish to jump to conclusions.
By charging for the software we produce and using the economic resources we gather to get the outcome we want through the acceptable channels in our society, e.g. the courts and the legislature.
I think most of us who really like it read it as kids which colors it too much. I distinctly remember this proof that you can't solve the MU-puzzle as the first piece of mathematics I ever saw. In one swoop I discovered impossibility proofs, invariants, and the use of divisibility which suffused the whole book with an aura of initiation into great mysteries that it will never attain for the already-initiated.
Utilities are too damn important for the bottom line of humanity to allow things to continue playing out in the same sad, pathetic, greedy fashion.

Well said.

As time goes on, I feel more and more like my intended purpose is just to be grist for the mill of American capitalism.
The part of the system with Rome CPU's is only happening in 2 years. By that point, they'll be installing 2 year old computing hardware in a system not even in use yet.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18667750

(same article published on a different site)
The rejection of XID_Start/XID_Continue linked from the Rust issue is not, as far as I can tell, due to "weird" issues -- it's because the sets of characters with those properties can change over time as Unicode adds more characters.

Other languages tend to solve this by stating that version X of the language uses identifiers having those properties in version Y of the Unicode database. This is a problem for C and C++ because of how infrequently those languages update their standards and how glacially slowly implementations adopt new versions of the standards. It's less of a problem for languages like Rust where the language spec and standard toolchain evolve on a much faster (at least one update per year) cadence.

The tweet you link complains about U+2800. That character is not in XID_Start or XID_Continue.

http://www.unicode.org/Public/11.0.0/ucd/DerivedCoreProperti...

So a language adopting XID_Start/XID_Continue would not allow U+2800 in an identifier. And in fact if I try it in Python I get "SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier".
It's hard to find really good books on this topic. Thanks for the recommendation.
I don't understand what the NYT seeks to gain from this kind of headline. Blum's positions were not unpopular or unusual, except maybe within the DC bubble.
500M accounts potentially hacked since 2014 in long-living breach of Marriott
I had some connection to the flip side of the urban spy game. Cops trying to tail a man on a motorcycle in British Columbia (drugs). On a mountain highway. He meets another biker at a lookout where they trade bikes/helmets jackets ... or maybe they didn't. Then he gets onto a drive-on-drive-off ferry (bikes are filtered to the front) and they've lost him.

When two spies want to get together without tails, it isn't at a downtown coffee shop. It is deep in the woods on a quiet road. It is somewhere surrounded by people in helmets and driving generic vehicles. They drive the vehicles that cops don't. Motorcycles. Bicycles. A vespa scooter can out-maneuver any car attempting to follow it.

Want to get really hollywood. I've heard a legend about two russian spooks having a meeting while surfing. Alone out in the waves, nobody can see the exchange.
In 2016 nuclear generated energy accounted for 19.7% of the USA’s total electric energy generation yet comprised nearly 60% of the USA’s emission-free generation.

We need more nuclear.
You mean Dyalog APL? It already regularly outperforms normal, handwritten C code. It also has support for distributed computing, multi-threading, and the Co-dfns compiler can be used to compile your APL code to the GPU. For example, consider the following talk, which discusses sub-nanosecond lookups/search using the Dyalog APL interpreter.

https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog18/?v=paxIkKBzqBU
Not quite.

Reject any mixed-script confusable (and for certain types of inputs, like email addresses, validate sub-components separately -- someone might get to choose their local-part but not their domain).

For strings which aren't mixed-script confusable, if you need to use them as identifiers and perform comparisons with them, normalize to NFKC and case fold. Doing so will eliminate any ligatures, stylistic variants, composed versus decomposed forms, or other things that people use to call Unicode "weird".
What sort of thoughts were in your head at 12? Trauma can be rooted in the subconscious and without one realizing the trauma ever happened.
This only applies to libraries served from separate locations though, right? No issue writing a Haskell library for wasm and then having consumers compile their app leveraging your library (at which point it's bundled with the RTS)
As for my effective hourly rate, I haven't bothered. The peace of mind and food security alone is priceless, not to mention the health benefits of getting out and playing in the dirt.

I spend on average, around an hour in the garden a day. The property was badly eroded range land when I began. The soil was basically sand. Through careful management, I have built a significant amount of humus through carbon sequestration, composting, mulching and no-till techniques.
This is exactly right, wow. I am almost speechless.
Marking this so I can find it again. The video is excellent.
What do you mean? Could you expand on that?
At the same time, it certainly is not possible to conclude that whoever was in charge of this knew what the fuck they were doing.
Do you have a link? Would love to read about that
> Esperanto is many times easier for westerners to learn

It's designed to avoid that but, as a westerner, I can't vouch whether it really is.
Which further speaks to his point about the Russians excelling at HUMINT.
Overload Control for Scaling WeChat Microservices [pdf]
It's not US foreign policy alone that creates anti-American terrorists. You don't see Cubans burning US flags or chanting N things against the US despite >50 years of embargo and what not. You don't see the Vietnamese doing that either. There is another element to it.

As a Cuban, I wish the US had intervened in Cuba when it had the opportunity, back in 1959.
You may want to check out the Co-dfns compiler, which is proof positive that APL is a terrific language for doing things like tree manipulations, which is the traditional domain of Lisp and functional programming languages like Haskell.

https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797
I don't know about the legality, but last time I drove through, there were some pretty massive flares. They lit up the surroundings for tens of miles. Like hell on Earth.
Interface for the CI looks very barebones, though from the looks of it they just threw it up for public consumption.
I would say that high standard deviation intelligence largely takes the luck out of entrepeneurial success
People want to do a good job. Including the executives, who usually are pretty removed from the day-to-day operations. To some of them, squeezing every last nickel out of the business is “doing a good job.”
> Maybe the influences that I think vageuly underlie or trigger my existential depression is others would call trauma?

I think that may possibly be the case of the trauma. Subconsciously something is there and it's deeply personal per individual with how one's life played out.
Yeah Vietnamese is often a very literal language. The names of many Vietnamese dishes are just a description of what's in the dish and how it was prepared. "Bún thịt nướng", for example, just means noodles with grilled meat. You can handle past and future tenses with just a couple of modifier words. In a lot of ways it's a pretty elegant language and the only really hard thing about it is getting the tones down and learning all the slang people use in everyday conversation.
But who is doing the "passing-in" then, and where does the data come from?
This still sounds like hiding the problem...or more specifically, making it someone else's problem.
Increased push for free movement between Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand
"destabilize at least one or two of our political enemies "

I am not sure that's desirable.
Can WebAssembly be used without any JavaScript? Or JavaScript is always required in some combination with it?
The puzzle is called MU for a reason. 'Mu' is the valid solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)#The_Mu-koan
Interview with Evan You of Vue.js [audio]
Not quite. Fidelity CMA accounts are brokerage accounts and thus cannot offer FDIC insurance because Fidelity is not a bank. Fidelity accounts offer SIPC insurance.

However, Fidelity's trick is to sweep all cash into third-party FDIC-insured bank accounts behind the scenes. This yields several benefits:

1) Practically speaking, it offers the exact same FDIC insurance as a real bank account, because your money is being held in a real bank account.

2) Since cash is deposited into FDIC-insured accounts behind the scenes, Fidelity can seamlessly split money up so that each sub-account holds no more than $250k (the limit of FDIC coverage). This is how they can offer $1.25M of FDIC insurance (split between 5 accounts).

The customer never deals with this complexity, as it's completely abstracted away, behind the scenes. The result is a cash management account that offers $1.25M FDIC insurance on cash balances.
Did they try sending? Maybe the Lincolnshire poacher would reply?
Wow, Sapolsky's explanation of a various neurotransmitter mechanisms, starting with transmission across a neuron synapse, is simply beautiful.

Video link starting at 14:48 min:
https://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc?t=888
It's difficult to imagine a situation where an individual could get away with something like this.

Suppose someone gets a gig playing church hymns, and instead they stubbornly play an impromptu hour-long jazz interpretation of "Free Bird" until the police are called. What would happen if their response to the churchgoers was, "I was excited and humbled by the response I received yesterday! I'll be revamping my accompaniment style in preparation for next week's service!"

Would any church's response really be, "Well, ok, as long as you're sure you won't do a completely incompetent job next time..."
UW grad here. Running has really helped me maintain motivation and life outlook throughout the years. When I was at Waterloo during the winter I would switch to swimming, which while not quite as enjoyable for me as running, was still hugely beneficial. I dealt with a sprained ankle last year and had to switch back to swimming while it healed. I don't know how much you enjoy it, but if you're just inexperienced at it, it's definitely worth the effort to become better.

Therapists are also great. PM me if you ever want to talk.
Am I right in thinking it is impossible to solve an Agatha Christie story before the end, because crucial evidence is always withheld til then? i.e. it's not a "fair puzzle".

Also, the only two fans of her work that I have met don't actually like or engage in the puzzle aspect; they don't try to solve (nor - curiously - even have a concept of evaluating multiple hypotheses).

These two observations make me wonder if popular detective fiction isn't puzzle fiction at all...
The one we had, had lovely soft velvet liner around the eye shield. The slides were good. Much nicer to use than the viewmaster, bigger images and far more clarity. I can't remember what slides we had, a mix of portrait and exotic locations. I think it was pressed tin with a floral motif and wooden handle. Obviously made to impress.
I'm really excited and happy about the direction Rust has gone with WASM; and this is coming from someone who has never used Rust before.

I like JS, a lot, but my hope with WASM was still pretty much literally what they're talking about here -- that languages would start to do first-class replacements for Javascript. I didn't want people to create massive binary blobs that were primarily just native code that rendered everything out to Canvas as an afterthought. In contrast, Rust is building out better host bindings, web-first tools, looking into fallbacks for older browsers like IE11...

Nearly every time I read an article about Rust and WASM I feel happy and hopeful. I think the work Rust has done here has been ridiculously valuable for setting a tone and a standard for what WASM-targetting languages should be.

As a result, Rust is pretty high up on my list of languages that I'm interested in learning in the future, because I feel like any community that is getting this much right on the web has probably also gotten other things right with the core language. The fact that it's increasingly looking likely that Rust on the web will probably be one of the best supported, most thoughtful alternatives to Javascript out there makes it even more attractive.
>Oil is priced in dollars, so if you considerably increase the value of the dollar, you'll sink the price of oil, which will hammer most foreign oil producers.

But isn't that only true if those countries are mostly buying US goods? If russia mainly buys stuff from europe and/or asia, and the US dollar goes up, it's true that absent other factors, oil prices will drop. It's also true that other countries' currencies will also drop, so as long as you're not buying from the US, the two will cancel each other out.
Good thing PG&E makes every usb charger or god only knows what would happen to our phones
The problem is that the government decided that utilities were going to end up as a natural monopoly, and then guaranteed that outcome by granting legal monopolies to utilities.

Whether or not monopolies would have actually developed had the government stayed out of it is something we may never know. At the moment we have the worst of both worlds -- monopolies that gained their position because the government wanted them to, not because they emerged as natural monopolies by beating competitors. It's impossible to threaten their business because you need to get government permission to compete with them and you probably won't get it. They have no reason to care if their customers are happy.

If the government had built the power lines (or allowed private companies to build them in exchange for selling access to others), and then allowed any number of private companies to generate power and deliver it over those lines, competing for customers on price and quality of service, I think we would be better off. If the natural monopoly theory turned out to be true then action could be taken at that time.

I live in one of the few California cities that are allowed to form their own power companies and I'm definitely better off than my friends who have to use PG&E -- I get the same or better service for a lower price.
Instead of malbona, why not unbona or ungood? Or to express a greater good, can I suggest doubleplusgood? It's so strange how some of the merits of esperanto you listed reminds me of the merits of 1984's Newspeak.

I caught the esperanto bug briefly in high school too, but I quickly gave up on it as the initial novelty wore off.

Esperanto is a nice idea but impractical. Idealism only gets you so far. There are hundreds or thousands of years worth of literature, history, culture, etc tied to the major languages that already exist. Esperanto is not going to overcome this advantage of incumbent languages.

You brought up an interesting point. What if the tables were turned and we had to learn mandarin? If I was forced to learn a language, I'd rather learn mandarin than esperanto. And as frustrating as irregular aspects of languages can be, the irregularity leads to the beauty of languages. There is history to the frustrating aspects of language.

And though esperanto might be useful for the UN, it is useless everywhere else. Almost everyone on earth lives with or near people who speak the same language as them. Think about it? In your day to day experience, when do you really need esperanto? For most people, the answer is never.
> Netis are part of Ayurvedic medicine in India since long before people dreamed of personal immortality.

Yes. And in that time period, average life expectancy was somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 years. The risk of death from neti pot use was hardly significant compared to all the other health risks anyone living at the time would be exposed to.

The same goes for skin cancer. It's a meaningful risk to us today because we can live long enough for the cumulative damage from solar radiation to be a meaningful cause of mortality.
Instead of going for low hanging anti-coporate karma, I was just carrying the water for and minimizing the damages of huge faceless corporations, to balance out against the mistaken impression that "The anti-corporate attitude is a natural consequence of the pervasive culture of CEO hero-worship among a great deal of HN commenters." [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18686245

But your corporate apologetics left me in the dust (so to speak, cough cough). You should contact the Trump Administration -- they're looking for someone who can explain with a straight face why it's actually Mariee Juárez parent's fault that their daughter died in ICE custody.

I love what you've done with the double "so even if" technique, casting doubt on not one but TWO inconvenient facts, then finally providing a back-up excuse: "So even if there were asbestos in the talc and even if asbestos caused cancer in kids, ..." -- Conway and Huckabee-Sanders will respect your style.

I apologize to J&J and anyone else whose feelings I've hurt, for not doing my research before mistakenly and unfairly blaming thousands of baby deaths on J&J, where it was only a few hundred dead babies (which won't even fill my garage [2]). Fortunately the clouds of carcinogenic dust only killed thousands of the baby's parents. Thanks for pointing out my mistake!

[2] https://thoughtcatalog.com/g00/clint-conway/2016/08/50-of-th...
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Stellar is a centralized network in disguise. Most of the servers that power the services are being run by IBM.
The CEO is a recent diversity hire. It makes a difficult dilemma for the establishment.
For now, JavaScript is required to initialize the WebAssembly module.
> The NKVD and KGB caught all of our deep cover agents within days; in some cases within hours.

Uh...how do you know this?
Please provide solid support to back this claim.

IBM controls most of the validators? Do you even know the total number?
Usually the data comes from outside the system - an api integration, user interactions with a website, an ETL process involving a file, IOT devices, etc.
Pimutils: coreutils for personal information management
There are a whole class of problems that revolve around the incompatibility of operations based on the primes (in this case 2 and 3). When you attempt to solve, and fail to solve, any of them you are likely to gain an instinctive appreciation for all of them - the kind of appreciation that would lead a maths teacher to a proof to the contrary very fast.

It should be noted that if the teacher had had the foresight (often a big ask) to simply tell you they suspected there was no solution, which is often the case with such problems presented as they are, and that you should attempt a proof alone, you would likely not feel so bad about not spotting it immediately.
Things like exchange rates, catalogues, tax rates are not generally 'session oriented' anyhow. They could be cached by some other means hopefully at least somewhat transparent to the business logic anyhow, so to the OP's point, I don't think this is a limitation.

I'm in agreement that the fundamental limitations prescribed in the article are academic for the most part. 'custom GPU's ' are not really what we're after with Lambda's etc, at least not yet - and I'll bet when we get to that point it may be possible to access specialized hardware in Lambdas as well.

In addition, things like '15 minute timeouts' are kind of arbitrary product design issues: we generally don't need 'long-timed Lamdas' because that's not what they are for. Something that needs 15 mins of crunching is better suited to another piece of the infrastructure anyhow.

Serverless computing, done in a manner that can doesn't throw up a bunch of hurdles definitely has a lot of advantages.

The more obvious downside to me is the degree to which they are all fairly custom implementations, and that Lamdas aren't so easily ported between providers.
>They want the final step in the build/development process that they thought they were going to get with Docker

This isn’t my area, so I don’t know - but why didn’t people get that with Docker?
If you mean producing a wasm module without touching third-party tooling, then this can already be done with Rust today.

The standard rust compiler is capable of cross-compiling out of the box, so the only thing you need in order to produce a working wasm module are the standard libraries which can be obtained from rust-lang.org.

I wrote a somewhat detailed guide about the process here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9t95fd/howto_setting_...
This is how most interpreted languages work. The actual hardware stack (e.g. what $rsp points to) isn’t really relevant to the Python program being executed; it’s used by the native code in the interpreter itself. Pushing a Python stack frame intermingled with a hardware stack frame would be odd (and would likely be hard to do, and weird from an ABI perspective). It’s just easier to push the call stack to a dedicated section on the heap; the Python program doesn’t know the difference anyways. Plus, you can have a much larger stack by heap allocating it.
There are plenty of Linux distros that are supported for upwards of 10 years. Debian and CentOS come to mind but Ubuntu 18.04 was also recently announced to have support until 2028.
Thanks, I hadn’t realized that covered U+2800—my mistake.

I haven’t fully digested the links to the C working group, but as those Perl docs point out, you have to do some work even after restricting to XID_Start/Continue, even if you don’t have to forbid other characters.