skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Title should have been : in the next years to come crypto will either take the place or burst.
I would be has pessimistic as the author, but if China forbid crypto selling and try to create its own, also if Benoît Cœuré want ECB to create a crypto, for me it is a good smoke for: there is something here to deal with ...

For the last point, telling that bitcoin should avoided because it can't handle more than 5 tr/s is not understanding that blockchain is all about create A TRUSTED MEDIUM TO EXCHANGE. Dev will always prefer uncorruption of data over speed when their choose a database that should scale, it is the same for money...
then why not make multiple small trips?
They also serve a much higher ratio of rice to fish than a typical sushi restaurant
I think we should compromise on 0.5.
I'm not an expert on Niagara Falls, but isn't it equally Canadian?
I think they are made to please the least common denominator between a US audience, a European audience, and a Chinese audience. But the result is pretty much what you say.
I am not sure about MS Access. From what little I know 2 people opening from network drive would mostly result in database being corrupt.
Speaking and vocabulary are related but different.

Vocabulary: read and write a lot, and not just in "business." Memorization, via lists or spaced repetition (anki or 3x5 cards) is helpful, but just like programming you need to use your skill to improve your skill. Have a dictionary and blank cards at hand while you read and write.

Speaking: speak. :-)

Read and speak to a mirror. Get into contexts where you have to listen and speak to people.
Patreon can’t solve its porn pirate problem
How, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?
Math Inspector: A visual programming environment for the scipy stack
Cooly Skunk – The Lost SNES Platformer Recovered via Satellite Download
It's just a single file. Easier to backup than any other database.

Also I don't think any cloud provider/database provides an always up to date backup other than a standby replica (which isn't also a backup exactly).
...or go watch movies on netflix at the library!
Those language runtimes exist since the 60's, 10 years before C created the urban myth of being the first systems language, and many of them did not have anything to do with garbage collection.

Developing on Windows, and deploying across several UNIX flavours, mainframes and embedded targets has been pretty much OS independent for me during the last two decades, regardless how much OS specific code those runtime libraries might have inside of them.

Even if the CI/CD pipeline had to do OS specific builds.
> requires CCS to be carbon neutral

Why would that be?
Hydrogen doesn't contain any carbon. If you produce the hydrogen from electrolysis and the electricity from renewables the process would be carbon free. (You can still argue that there are emissions in construction and such, but I don't think that's what you meant.)
This document is golden, serverless means an application reading and writing to the database in the process directly
I guess a lot of it is the difference in population density, but that does seem expensive. In the UK, you can get top-level coverage (O2's network) 80GB 4g with unlimited calls/texts for £20/month (~26USD). I currently pay £10/month for 6GB, which is a lot worse value per GB, but more than covers my needs.
Oil was a good push for the development of our civilization, and should have been for any past technological civilization too. If we have oil today (in the amount we are getting it, at least) then the previous civilizations didn't reached our oil dependent civilization stage, or existed before the actual oil reserves formed.

It doesn't imply that there wasn't any civilization before, but or it happened hundreds of millions of years ago, or never became as advanced or global as our actual one. Unless there could had been back then an abundant energy source different from oil but with similar efficiency, and it got globally depleted by that previous civilization.
Thanks. Comments like this from people with a long and broad experience in a field are why I keep coming back to HN, because it helps me know where to look next if I want to verify or learn more about a new topic. What do you think we learn should keep our eye on specifically for new developments?
> Another problem with C is that it does not allow null declarations, and does not allow duplicate declarations even if they are the same.

What do you mean here?
Could also be the changes in consumer technology.

Back in the day, watching a move at home meant renting a VHS (or Beta if you chose your VCR poorly) at Blockbuster/Hollywood video/et al., (and after a new movie was released to VHS, it was frequently rented out for a couple of weeks and you had to wait), then plopping it into your VCR and viewing it on your 19" fuzzy CRT with built in speakers.

Now, you just rent/buy the movie you want from your couch, and watch it on your 65" 4K widescreen TV connected to a home theater system.

The movie theater experience, by contrast, hasn't really changed much since I was a kid (1980s) - oh wait, ticket and concession prices have gone way up.

IMO, if I can wait to watch a new movie until it's released on Amazon (and being 40, I'm much more patient than I used to be), I'd much rather do that.
kimono was pretty good. these guys are trying to build a replacement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21417965
Linux 5.6 Is Looking Like It Will Be Spectacular with a Long List of Features
It’s a nice place to do remote work on
High-tax states are losing people, money and seats in Congress
Guess the owners would not appreciate the local Keto meetup having an event at their buffet.
> The 252-foot-long passenger plane had been due to launch this year but has been delayed by some technical difficulties.

Is that related to the recent MAX issues, or to the fact shipping such a large aircraft on two engines only was much harder than expected?
This is a major problem with search today. It's not however a problem with the size or power of Apple. It can just as well happen with some random thing that nobody is politically concerned with.

In general, when I search for something that could be ambiguous (and everything is) I want a sample of each possible cluster or meaning. But today, Google (and others follow their lead) is determined to give you the answer, and also certain that nobody reads beyond the first few hits. It's not helpful to say "give right results and not wrong ones" because a fanatical devotion to that "idea" is what got us into a dysfunctional situation.
Totally, and force client isolation on open network.
The title must be: Im new on crypto and I forecast it will die because I lost money in a remote casino.

Article is completely weong and don’t deserve to be on HN.
The other technique not mentioned here is for buffets to just stop refilling the higher cost items on the buffet if a group of big eaters comes in. then let them sit empty while the diners fill up on potatoes or what not, before finally refilling them.
In principle I agree with you, but unfortunately we already know from other research that specific neuro-transmitters have specific effects on observable thought processes. Some neurons also sometimes 'broadcast' neuro transmitters by releasing them in an area around them, not just through direct synapses.

To me it would be highly surprising if these effects were not absolutely necessary to the brain's working.
The Sneaky Simple Malware That Hits Millions of Macs
On the one hand, the term serverless is really frustrating to me.

On the other hand, there's a certain amount of amusement I get from seeing "the cloud" become a marketing buzzword in the mid-late '00's, and now seeing the same thing happen with "serverless."

When you look at the implementation of the two "technologies", they're about 95% the same. Yet somehow they're pitched as these big revolutions.

In another decade when terminals or p2p become popular again we'll be hearing about some new buzzword like "Terran" computing, or "social" architecture or something.
While very occasionally a buffet can be fun, I usually consider them not so great an experience. Yes, it is nice to be able to decide yourself the relative composition of ingredients, like adding the extra piece of meat or a lot of your favorite vegetable, but too often you end out with a strange mix of stuff on your plate. A plate, which as described in the article, usually is to small of this. So while you might get a little bit more food, it is often less quality, than if you had ordered a prepared dish. And of course, many restaurants offer dishes which are smaller or lager.
> An alternative would be the creation of a stable crypto-currency, with which the basic needs of the people can be paid. Worldwide.

First, the author has not studied the field enough to make these bold claims. Stable coins do exist, there are many of them, some of them are clearly regulated in some jurisdictions (e.g. USDC) and many central banks are working on "digital money" that is not purely a cryptocurrency. Stable coins are not either since they are somehow centralized.

Returning to the general topic, I think they worst case is not that they will all die but they will be marginal and successful for some niches. In the same way BitTorrent is a successful protocol, but not as convenient as Netflix and other players.
MS Access "allowed" it. SQLite actually works.
Not in the States, but in my neck of the woods, variations on the Duo-Tang filled more or less the same niche in the '60s and '70s. They could be had with inside cover pockets in addition to the three-ring binding fasteners and with three-ring punched "spines" to be added to a more substantial binder. So you had an expandable notebook (that could hold plain, lined and graph paper as appropriate for the page) along with holders for loose scraps - and turning in your notebooks now and again for marking was a thing.
That doesn't mean Americans watched less movies (maybe even the opposite given Netflix) or that Americans went to the library in 2019 more than they did in 2018. Going to the movies is probably a dying activity, comparing it to going to the library is useless (or even worse: misleading), in that it pushes people to think Americans are reading more by going less to the movies.
Project author here. I have been working on Math Inspector for the past year and decided to finally make the first video to get the word out about it. One of my youtube comments was featured by Mathologer as the basis for his latest episode from yesterday[1], so I decided to finally make this video and to release it in an alpha-state. Will be getting the website up in a few days hopefully, and depending on how much interest there is may do a closed-alpha and open-beta release before releasing the full product for free.

It's very important to to me that this is free, there are already other tools out there that cost a lot of money, and the math software problem won't go away until there is a free tool on the market. My hope is that Math Inspector will be that tool.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjI1NICfjOk
Java doesn't have that many x86 specific optimisations actually. It does some auto-vectorisation, it supports things like AES-NI and other specialised hw instructions, but, those are easy to port to ARM.

The vast bulk of the effort in modern JVM compiler optimisations is more at the program structural level: removing allocations, merging methods together so they can be optimised as a whole, removing abstraction, and so on. All that stuff is CPU independent.
We already have trust. We already have good ways to prevent corruption.

Blockchain only adds trust in a situation where the government has failed, and when that happens, you can find your secret keys extracted by the well-known and currently unpatchable wetware exploit known as “rubber hose”.

Given all that as a precondition, the limited transaction rate is a meaningful limitation.
Carbon footprint of food: Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
Growing up in the Midwest in the 80s, I was very aware that trends from California took 1 to 3 years to make it to Milwaukee. My wife, a native Arizonan, had several fads sweep through her school years before mine (most recently, we talked about hyper color shirts, she had one in third grade, I never saw one until 5th).

We’re on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial and I feel like my attitude and constitution tend to have more Gen X similarities while she tends to show more Millenial attributes (slightly). I’ve often wondered if that cultural delay affects the generation with which people on the borders identify.
I understand the distinction now :), thank you. Funny.
The number of tickets sold is down a bit but it's still as high as it was in 1995. (It peaked in about 2001.) [1] I rarely go myself these days, partly for the reasons you say. But I think it's still a pretty popular and relatively inexpensive activity for younger people who aren't too poor.

[1] https://www.the-numbers.com/market/
As addendum Midori was used by Bing in production.

> While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...

And although not quite the same, at least Singularity's code is available.

The WinRT .NET 8.x compiler was based on Singularity's way of compiling[1][2] and UWP .NET Native kind of had some learnings from Midori [3].

[1] - https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-an...

[2] - https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

[3] - https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Inside-NET-Native
More of the same arguments that have been going around for 10 years. Meanwhile adoption and price continues to increase over time.

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Interestingly, India1 almost exclusively speaks English, and essentially 'Anglo-Saxon' in culture. It's unsurprising that business models targeting India1 (or indeed any model, be it 'development', 'education') almost never scale for the rest of India.

It's rather sad that after 70+ years of 'independence', the country can't seem to shake off its servile colonial mindset. The 'nationalists' in power are no better in this regard - indications are that they are infact worse.
It's worth looking at the C code that's generated from a simple blink example in haskell. It's not very idiomatic, but neither is it very slow. Much of the fluff should get optimised away by the C compiler. I've been generally very impressed with how readable the output is, as generated code goes, and how performant it seems.

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>
static bool s0[(2)] = {(false), (true)};
static size_t s0_idx = (0);
bool s0_gen(void) {
return (s0)[s0_idx];
}
bool delay_guard(void) {
return true;
}
int16_t delay_arg0(void) {
return 100;
}
bool digitalWrite_guard(void) {
return true;
}
int16_t digitalWrite_arg0(void) {
return 13;
}
bool digitalWrite_arg1(void) {
return (s0)[s0_idx];
}
void step(void) {
if ((delay_guard)()) {
(delay)(((delay_arg0)()));
};
if ((digitalWrite_guard)()) {
(digitalWrite)(((digitalWrite_arg0)()), ((digitalWrite_arg1)()));
};
((s0)[s0_idx]) = ((s0_gen)());
(s0_idx) = ((++(s0_idx)) % (2));
}
void setup()
{
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
step();
}
> Diversity continues to be an issue in SaaS. Only 11% of founding teams include a non-male and 21% include a non-white founder

I find this line absolutely infuriating. And I'm disappointed it's right at the start. Must there always be an issue when the data doesn't suit a worldview? Why compromise a survey 's integrity with your own bias?

It costs virtually $0 these days to start a SaaS company, regardless of gender, ethnicity or religious creed. Look at the emerging African & Indian markets to see absolutely remarkable people hustling & making things happen with having very very little.
Good points! Thanks for the reply.
Photo access is also location history access from reading the gps tags and time stamps from my photo history, so I grant photo access to approximately zero apps. I will paste photos in if I need to.
Didn't think I would see Swedish on HN, awesome! I never heard about this when growing up in Sweden during the 90's so it's interesting to learn about it here.
I dont know why that made me laugh
In fairness to Intel they also have SGX which has encrypted RAM and also a lot of isolation logic, as well as working RA, recovery, versioned sealed data and a lot of other things that AMD's equivalent just doesn't do well or at all.
Access is actually designed to work in a multiuser situation over a LAN for concurrent read and write. SQLite isn't afaik.
As long as the LAN was cabled I never saw any issues. The only reason it was necessary to move to a server type database was because people were insisting on wifi networking.
https://ipscell.com/2017/02/mosquitoes-swat-back-via-resista...
It's a valid concern in so far as that any standalone database setup you would use at a serverless provider has backups already taken care of (for example AWS Lambda with AWS RDS has backups built into RDS). If I deploy SQLite instead I have to take care of backups myself, and that might not be trivial to get right.
So, a phase diagram of Zeus can be built.
Ancient India – About a wise demon king and his city
did you found a company once yourself? i have never felt the ability to disconnect since then.
you pay the full a'la carte price for everything you hadn't fully eaten

I've heard of a game in university: two players take their meals in the cafeteria, the one with the more expensive lunch wins, the other one pays for both. Rules: you must eat everything and you take only one portion of anything (this is not a caviar-eating contest).
> More specifically, the 737 design had so little ground clearance that the bigger, more efficient engines used in the Max had to be mounted in a different position than before.

And this issue was already stark on the NG, which had to use these weird flattened turbofan nacelles in order to get enough ground clearance despite its much larger engines:

* 737-NG https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/CFM_56_L...

* 787 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/787_-_Fl...

And even with that they also had to mount the engines way ahead of the wing, clear off of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N707SA_Southwest_Airlines...

Now this looks a lot like an A320 where the engine is also ahead of the wing[0] but notice how the engine "strut" goes downwards on the 320 but has to "wave up" on the 737NG.

It's very clear on the side-view drawings:

* A30x https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/A32XFAMI...

* 737 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/B737Fami...

where you can also see the side-structure of the original 737 and its low-bypass turbofan (0.96:1 compared to 5:1 to 6:1 for the NG's engine).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320_family#/media/File...
The etymology of a word is a silly reason to deny assigning ownership of a TLD. How the word originated is far less important than how it's used. The case Brazil et al are making is that the global common understanding of "Amazon" is more theirs than Bezos'.

In this case though it seems like the most common use for a .amazon domain would be to scam Amazon customers. Tourism could easily go under a .com. That'd be a good reason to assign it to Amazon. It'd be in the interests of people regardless of the company.
It didn't "fail." It didn't take off. There are plenty of tendrils of the original ideas remaining, and ultimately its main idea, that information should be relatively typed so it's more precise and reusable, is likely to prevail. The requirements were obviously too much for the web environment of the 2000s, and we're still suffering with startup culture where everyone wants to get rich with a piece of the pie, so guessificial intelligence is pretending to fill the gap, but hopefully all the problems with stopgap approaches will finally make the mainstream switch back to widely intentionally creating information.
> but too often you end out with a strange mix of stuff on your plate

Bingo. When presented with a buffet, people (myself included) usually have a fear of "missing out" the good stuff, so they just load a little bit of everything to their plate. At a buffet, you usually don't have the information about (1) how filling an individual ingredient is and (2) how well they go together. So each and every time, you end up with too much food which doesn't really combine. In the end, you leave too full and slightly unsatisfied. On a menu, the individual menus or plates have been tested for months against the cooks and guests, and the kitchen has adjusted plates which were always returned with leftovers to be smaller and/or removed meals that led to too much complaints

So basically, on a buffet you will get an untested meal designed by someone usually not competent enough to design it (you), every time.
Jazelle accelerated bytecode interpreting (a bit) but modern JVMs spend nearly all their time running compiled code, so it doesn't really help and was abandoned.

There are CPU HW features that Intel doesn't have which can benefit JVM workloads but they're all pretty obscure and aren't really Java specific.
If you take a look at a modern PC motherboard, you'll see there's already a considerable amount of board space allocated to local voltage regulation: modern CPUs can require multiple different voltages none of which will be supplied by an ATX power supply.

Often it will be desirable to have fine control in software over the regulated voltages to maximize system performance or stability.

RAM and other devices on the board, as well as high-powered devices like GPUs probably need their own voltages too.

From my perspective, it's just the continuation of the trend to its logical conclusion: if you're going to be generating eight different voltages on the motherboard, GPU etc. why not just add an extra two?
If I remember the "ways to corrupt SQLite databases" page discussed a few days ago, backing up SQLite isn't entirely trivial. By default there are up to three files that have to be copied simultaneously, else you risk corruption. The optimum is to run the backup command to create a copy, but that requires realizing this exists.
This article links to two (!) different Wansink studies.
Is the existence of LD_PRELOAD a strong argument in favor of static linking?

I hadn't heard of LD_PRELOAD before now, but my first reaction was "oh wow, better static link all the things!". Is that wrong?
New solar power source and storage developed
> Levi’s was the main beneficiary of the gold rush.

For all practical purposes San Francisco didn’t exist before the Gold Rush and it was one of the biggest cities in the US after. That’s quite a bit bigger than Levi’s. If you’re going to try and make a point by referencing history learn the history or leave it out.
According to Drawdown, reducing food waste is the top individual action one can take to reduce one’s impact on climate change. Buffets tend to be quite wasteful and/or encourage serving older food a lot more than a la carte orders. There could be some exceptions, such as buffets in hotels where it’s included in the room rent and is a lot easier to plan for (the quantities) based on the number of guests and the guest demographics.

As a consumer, if you want value for money in a buffet, the best bets, IMO, are fresh foods and/or the ones that aren’t processed much. All the high sugar and high fat processed foods tend to be made with low quality ingredients while also being terrible for health. Also focus on enjoying the variety with smaller quantities of everything you’d like to eat rather than trying to eat a lot more than your usual appetite.
Sonos just works too and I’ll get every cent out of it as well. You think it’s coincidence google sold a cutthroat priced knock off of stolen Sonos tech? It’s literally what Sonos complains about in their lawsuit. Enjoy your product as well