skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For sure there are Lamborghinis out there bought with people's retirement money.

Oh yes, but sociopaths and foolish greed are not bitcoin-specific.

Bitcoin seems to annoy people at some fundamental level that I do not understand. Perhaps because it exposes that all money is an abstraction, that it really rests on nothing except some social narrative that we all share?

2009: Bitcoin is a nerdy pipe-dream. It will never be worth anything!

2011: Ok, bitcoin is worth something, but it is only used by drug dealers on the dark web.

2017: OMG I'm going to buy bitcoin and get rich!

2019: Bitcoin is worth nothing, exactly like the tulips, told you so!

2022: ...

etc etc

Thinking about cryptocurrencies by following the latest wave of hype is the way to neurosis. As with anything involving money & investments, I suspect.

At the moment I am writing this 1BTC ~= 5K Euros. This is only considered bad because there was am unsustainable spike when greed went viral. I suspect more events like this will come. Who cares what the trend-followers think?
If you have the time, I'd appreciate that a lot! I'm an EE with a focus in electromagnetics, so I'd be most interested in animating time-varying vector fields, and also wave phenomena.

I saw in one of your other comments that you plan to put some of your other work on GitHub at some point. I'll make sure to check that out too.
Safari deprecates WebMetal experiment in favor of WebGPU
Vendor lock-in is something the business starts to care about very deeply once the vendor is in a position to exploit it with pricing.

Think of it like a backup, only instead of a hard disk failure you are insuring against a vendor’s market power.
The article discusses why this is insufficient.
The restrictions aren’t built into the text of the First Amendment. I think that makes a difference in how the courts rule on 1A cases.
I turn Spectre/Meltdown protection off (download InSpectre if you run Windows). My Haswell machine gets a noticeable boost (e.g. about 5% increase in Intel XTU benchmark), but newer architectures are less negatively affected by the patches so you may not find the effort/risk to be worth it.
I think it's the other $1975 that is breaking their startup.

Depending on your perspective, that might also be a small amount, but let's not misrepresent the situation.
The main development goal of clojure is to write the database. The development idea is actually from the database, not the FP.

This seems a tenuous theory. Clojure has been described as a language for data processing, but this isn't the same as basing the design on relational databases. Clojure isn't even relational; its data is generally kept in standard collection types, rather than relations.

I'd describe Clojure as a dynamically typed, functional Lisp that emphisizes open data models and explicit time.
Somebody should tell all the people made homeless by the banking crash of 2008 how uncrashable the banking system is.
Not just price, but what are its other physical characteristics? how easily does it melt (will it melt if I leave it in my car during the day), is it rigid or flexible, etc.

There are thousands, maybe millions of different plastics in existance because they all fill a different niche, and price is just one variable in those equations.

Although I guess the point is to replace single use plastics, but that still represents a large variety of things.
We super need these kind of content, in Portuguese
Same here, after working with s-expressions I realized that you don't need to drown in syntax to have a flexible and expressive language.

Complex syntax introduces a ton of mental overhead, and it's a constant source of weird and hard to debug errors because code often does something subtly different from what you think it's doing. S-expressions enforcing a consistent and explicit syntax frees up a ton of mental space for me.
Yes.. I was. the initial documents were never amended as RSS evolved.

Here's one of the modules I created:

http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/

I think the archive is down but the rss-dev group has thousands of posts of me responding and supporting the dev or RSS.

https://www.egroups.com/group/rss-dev

Additionally, I don't really care about being famous for creating something and it's always seemed obnoxious to constantly insist that you were the creator of something.

I was involved in a massive public dispute where Dave Winer had a freakout when I tried to collaborate with him on RSS (he attacked the whole RSS 1.0 movement) and I got sick of constantly getting in flame wars when I'm just trying to improve the Internet.

I also created Apache Feedparser.
If one sleeps well, one might work better in his regular job, might live longer, be better able to engage in more activity as well as more strenuous activity, all potentially allowing one to make more money, be a better companion, parent and member of society.
I think my argument is basically that arrays are effectively object oriented abstractions in most languages.

You aren't responsible for maintaining any of the internal details, it just works like you want it to. My example was with the getter for the item at index 21 (since you had specifically called out useless getters), but equally well applies to inserting, deleting, capacity changes, etc.
It has always been a compiler. The REPL works by compiling expressions when you type them.
Any chance to see this work to be included into OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net/)?
Agreed! This is exactly what I thought when watching it. He mentions "changing the internet" and that was it. Then started asking for money and outlining his plans to launch and indiegogo and I still had no clue what Polar even was.
Could you please limit your low-effort "humor" and begging about downvotes to reddit?
dozens?

How about 2 thus far and Tesla was not at fault.
Fetching/Filtering/Sorting JSON APIs in Google Sheets: The Missing Functions
It's more like Erlang with syntactic sugar and macros. Phoenix and Rails have more in common than Elixir and Ruby do
This doesn't aim to improve efficiency. Most refrigerators use phase change of volatile liquids to gases and back again. Most suitable liquids were toxic and/or flammable, so chemists invented the much safer replacement of fully halogenated hydrocarbons (CFCs). The first to gain widespread use was R-12: dichlorodifluoromethane (a.k.a. Freon). CFCs turned out to break down in the upper atmosphere, releasing chlorine that catalyzed destruction of ozone. The worst ones were banned under the Montreal Protocol treaty, and less damaging partially halogenated hydrocarbons (HCFCs and HFCs) were developed as a replacement, e.g. R-22. Modern HFCs like R-134a have even lower ozone depleting potential.

However, ozone depletion isn't the only problem. CFCs/HCFCs/HFCs are also very effective greenhouse gases, often trapping thousands of times more heat than CO2. In an attempt to solve this problem, another class of refrigerants was invented: the hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs). These have low ozone depletion potential, and low global warming potential, but they are somewhat controversial because they compromise the excellent safety of the earlier halogenated refrigerants.

Solid state refrigeration avoids the whole problem, so if it's possible without harming efficiency, as the article suggests, then it's an obviously good idea.
In the real world, when someone offers something, they've already in their mind given you that.

If you turn it down, it causes an internal conflict.
I would suggest you research Healthy KETO and IF (Intermittent Fasting). This lifestyle has grown very popular because it works very well. If your serious, you can lose a lot of weight, fix metabolic disorders, and get very healthy quickly regardless of age. Search the following on Youtube, Dr Berg and SnakeDiet. The guy who runs the Snakediet channel is quite the character but his intentions are to motivate and get you healthy.

Lost approx. 100lbs over the last year or so without a lot of effort or exercise.

Good Luck.
I'm not sure I understand how what looks like a poor Evernote clone is supposed to "reboot the Internet". We're far from Xanadu.

I'm all for open source, collaboration, personal knowledge management, spaced repetition learning, etc. but this document centric approach seems outdated to me. I thought we were supposed to move toward a more semantic web, something closer to a database than to a bunch of human-written documents. How does the rest of my data, such as quantified self style measurements, fit in this model?
> They also make great confined space welders.

Thank you for the chuckle! As a kid who grew up "helping" (often just learning, but occasionally actually contributing), I find your list pretty reasonable! I didn't, unfortunately, learn to weld until my early 30s.
But, it could lead to easier to repair/maintain refrigerators. Right now, if you puncture the cooling tubes and the coolant escapes its usually more cost effective for someone to buy a new fridge. A solid refrigerant can't leak out and would be much easier to replace.
He was forced to pay punitive damages. $27352 in restitution, in addition to a $2500 fine and the 26 month prison sentence.
This article seems to confuse the concept of precision somewhat. Per Michael Hicks’ post on the same topic [1], precision is generally approaching soundness whereas recall or sensitivity is approaching completeness. Admittedly, I’ve also seen the term precision used far more loosely, including to describe approximate completeness (e.g. sound and precise).

[1] (also cited in linked article) http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2017/10/23/what-is-soundness-in...
How a reboot of the internet involve using an electron app ?
>He will forever be someone who was arrested and it will show up if someone does a background check

That's kind of an oddity in the US legal system then. Being arrested shouldn't matter if you're completely innocent (as in this case).
I sympathise, so much of today’s world caters solely to consumers and there seems a definite lack of things that cater to those who want to produce (in the economic or monetary value sense).

I don’t know what the solution is - but for me personally I try to focus on creating things that people will either enjoy using or need.

Peak capitalism might be about running out of ways to produce value (in the economic sense)
I very much agree. It's nearly impossible to know in the moment which it is.
You know that churches help people, right? In fact, they’re pretty good at it.
I haven't, and it's not the 1st time someone names that book to me, so I have to read it one day.
The big problem though will be getting back to narrative; there has been a moment in my life when I got immersed into technical manuals, whether for work or personal projects, and from that moment I stopped completely to read novels: I still have that half read book by Gregory Benford with the bookmark set where I stopped; after that I didn't read a single novel in almost two decades although I was an avid (mostly sci-fi) reader. I don't have an answer for this, it just happened. I hope time will change this.
It makes me happy to see the GNU OS still being assembled, bit by bit. I've written previously about how much I appreciate the Guile info manual. For a document in a relatively obscure help system (other than Emacs users, who even knows about Texinfo?), it's carefully written with an eye to empowering its users. It's perhaps a bit quixotic, but you get the feeling that the GNU project really wants to deliver an OS written in Scheme all the way down, totally under the control of an enlightened end user. The Shepherd project certainly fits with that vision.
Pijul 0.12
link to the repo https://github.com/juxt/crux
Also, no other people who I would consider paramount in creating RSS are on that page including Sam Ruby and the dozens of other people who made massive contributions.
I recall discussing this with some one who had switched to web dev from music - he had a Phd and was a London Session musician who had played on top 10 hits.

At some point it stops being fun - 8 hour days practicing for example he mentioned.
Wonderful article, RSS needs to make a comeback. Especially among friends and family who love to make large posts about important topics. I try to tell them to build a blog and then just link to articles that they write. Your article and others inspired me to finally just put together a system to make it easier to start blogging. And gave me the idea to just mimic a social media platform. They do all of the design for you so why not have a blog generation system that a user doesn’t have to mess with, just make content.

Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/

I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
All this means is that there's a demand for more housing, in one form or another.
Where did Clojure fail? People don't use Clojure's STM because it turned out not to be necessary most of the time, not because of any inherent issue with the implementation.
When Spectre first came out, my prediction was basically that the only effective mitigation would be to move the untrusted code into another address space. This post reinforces that they have exhausted all other options:

> Our research reached the conclusion that, in principle, untrusted code can read a process’s entire address space using Spectre and side channels. Software mitigations reduce the effectiveness of many potential gadgets, but are not efficient or comprehensive. The only effective mitigation is to move sensitive data out of the process’s address space.

Probably the most effective hardware mitigation would be to shift the isolation to a page-level granularity, so that you could say that speculation is disabled for memory in specific pages.
The Sea Beneath Us
> allows me to own stock in Apple without having to fear that I will get personally sued if they do something wrong

This is part of what I mean when I say that corporate personhood takes away rights from those who interact with corporations. A corporation can feel financial pain, but it cannot experience the emotional pain of loss, the fear of which being a deterrent against tortious (or criminal) behavior.

I realize, the notion of personally punishing e.g., XYZ Phone Co shareholders, because one their phone's battery bursts into flames and kills a child, sounds a little weird. Should the mother of this child simply accept cash for her son's life and be happy with it? If that's not fair, who should personally pay, the CEO? He's just an employee of the corporation, who is beholden to the shareholders.
I studied under Brian Conrad. He could write on the blackboard faster than I could take notes, and his lectures were elegant and well-thought-out, if abnormally fast.

Glad to hear that he's cornered the market on quality chalk!
There are architecture-level alternatives to Speculative execution for high-performance compute - namely VLIW and the "tweaks" on it that efforts like The Mill are working on right now. The main problem with them is that they make the processor ISA inherently dependent on the actual details of its hardware configuration (you don't have a single ISA like with RISC, which can seamlessly scale from tiny micro-controller hardware to supercomputer- or datacenter-scale). But once you're willing to bite that bullet, and perhaps the vast majority of the software you use gets distributed in either source-code or arch-independent "VM" format, it can become a very attractive choice. Yes we used to think that compilers would never be good enough to make use of the implied parallelism in VLIW, but it might be time to revisit that now that both languages and compilation platforms have improved.
Blood and Waste both carry similar risk and hopefully anyone using a composting toilet are aware of the needs to properly bake off organisms.
I would very much like to see some evidence to your claim, other than anecdotal.
sadly not true for me.
I like that design idea for the rotating disc. It makes me wonder the best way to stress the material while on the "compressed side."

1. Make the edge of the disc rub against a low friction, spring-loaded compressing element (similar to commutator brushes, but designed to really transfer a large load). This is probably infeasible because friction would eat more energy than your cycle would move.

2. Have electric actuators that are mounted on the disk itself. These would have to be powered by slip rings via the shaft. These would be active for half of the cycle and inactive for the other half. Not sure whether they should be radial, azimuthal, or axial mounted. Seems kludgey.

3. Have the disk pass through a magnetic field, exploiting the magnetic effects the article mentions. I have no idea of any of the implementation details of this, but it sounds like a better idea than 1 or 2...
Penny stocks have market volume too. The only difference is that penny stocks don’t pretend their trading volume is an indicator of some inherent utility because of a whitepaper ten years ago.
>So, what are the experienced engineers with families and an expensive life style doing then?

>or work outside the industry (and Silicon Valley)

There are plenty working in the industry outside of silicon valley there are more bootstrapped SaaS than before.

The young developers fed up of silicon valley looking for a family are a great snatch for these kinds of companies.

>All this talk about low wages seems to assume recruiters and employers are stupid

I think it's more about the combination of low wages and complaint about talent shortage, either is fine but both is pretty stupid.

>If they think they could make a higher profit by doubling the wage offer and thus hiring an additional engineer, they would do it.

Yup,which tells us that they are not really that concerned about the hiring of another engineer.
The linked article clearly says:

> Ousmane Bah, 18, said he was arrested at his home in New York in November and charged with stealing from an Apple store

Don't know how you missed that, unless something got edited.
In order to gain more benefits, the use of unsafe technologies is a risk cost. There is a presence in both the financial and IT sectors.
Get over yourself. I was referring to OP of this particular sub-thread, meaning you.

And you are continuing to misunderstand how this works. If you can view it, you can copy it. Nothing prevents someone from viewing a public repo. So nothing prevents someone from copying it. Therefore any attempt to make it difficult is just a PITA.

That's why Github has a default license for all non-licensed public repos. Because it's a public repo. If it wasn't supposed to be available to copy, the source code shouldn't have been made a public repository.

So again. If what you're looking for is a private repo solution, Gitlab offers this enterprise-level solution for free. You are barking up the wrong tree.
All political prisoners are accused of some crime.
In 99% of programming languages, infix operations are only used for arithmetic -- and more than 99% of the programming I do doesn't involve that. Even the numerics software I've written is >90% non-numeric parts.

Arithmetic doesn't even look right in programming languages with infix operators. Go to the "Chalk is still one of the primary tools of mathematicians" article here, and try typing the inequality in Java. Mathematicians aren't writing "Math.floor()" and "% 2" on their blackboards.

I think you're optimizing for the wrong thing. Arguing that we need infix operations for 1% of our programs, so that arithmetic looks like how we entered it on a TI-81 or Apple II, is a false economy. It was a good tradeoff 25 or 50 years ago, but the majority of programming has moved past writing programs in terms of arithmetic on registers.

That said, there is a nifty macro [1] which adds infix support to Clojure, if you really want that. It even supports symbols like "√", unlike any other language I can think of!

[1]: https://github.com/rm-hull/infix
Perhaps not at the hardware level, I'm not sure. I downloaded InSpectre (a windows application) which informs me that I had been protected against Spectre and Meltdown attacks through Windows updates. I also used the option to disable the protection, which is how I figured out how much of a performance hit I was taking.
I'm not sure it makes that much of a difference. The First Amendment is very vague, and there's a long precedent for many of the same exceptions applying to it. For example, the First Amendment also has national security exemptions (https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1134/national-s...).

There are stronger legal protections for freedom of speech in the US than in the UK, particularly in relation to libel, but the difference can sometimes be exaggerated.
If you're worth $20k and you find $20 on the street, it's 0.1% of your net worth.

If you're Jeff Bezos and you find 0.1% of your net worth on the street, it's $150,000,000.
It's certainly true that some children (and indeed, many adults) do not seem to have the ability to learn from computers, and the computer won't do anything about that (where a human teacher would identify the children who cannot learn from them and can do something about it).

Learning from computers is a skill like any other; is that skill taught first? I wonder if there's an unrealised assumption that everyone can simply sit down in front of a computer and be efficiently educated by it.
There are going to be use cases that would break, for example with the Web Audio APIs, because it would make it impossible to precisely time or trigger events.
Could you give more details about the steps and cost?
non-responsive is fixed.. bug with the CSS I didn't catch. mea culpa.
Visualization Techniques for Every Dataset
No, move constructors are never allowed to call the moved-from argument's destructor. Ever.

Sometimes the compiler calls that destructor after it has finished the move, if the thing is no longer in scope. That should not be confused with a thing happening in the constructor.
The more the merrier. If this brings down prices for apartment rentals then I am all for it. So many people are willing to leave their Airbnb apartments empty for months at a time only to cash in on an absurd "premium".
Scanning the original paper linked by _Microft and rmbryan, it looks like the pressures the researchers used were very high, 0.25-0.5GPa. Maybe someone with more domain-specific knowledge can answer this: are such high pressures actually practical? My understanding is that one of the reasons R-744 (CO2) is not more common is that it requires high pressures, which means specialized equipment. But the pressures involved here seem to be an order of magnitude higher even than required with R-744.
No you're right, we should go back to not having cheap, affordable packaging the world over. That way people in developed nations can go back to paying through the nose for shipping products, thus making products cost more, thus lowering the affordability of those products for the middle and working class.

And as for the developing nations who have been increasing their middle class with affordable packaging and plastic products? Eh, screw 'em, right?

/sarcasm

I'm only using this to illustrate how you went right into the "industry bad, four legs good" mantra of the pro-green movement without regard to an alternative that would keep or raise the quality of living for people the world over.

Fact of the matter is if it weren't for plastics, the everyday products that we all consume would either cost way more, or be so expensive that quite a few of us would never get to use them.

Stew on that before you jump to "ban all plastics".