skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your take. My take, is that Orwell is actually a closet totalitarian, and was singing the praises of such, albeit covertly and in the guise which he knew the public could fawn about and accept. I imagine Orwell smoking his pipe and chuckling to himself, "...and they thought it was against totalitarianism, that's why they swallowed it whole!" After all, the Party is really the victor and hero of the novel. The hopeful appendix could itself be a historical revision of a future "more perfect" incarnation of the Party. I think the 2-minutes hate against Goldstein, is the same 2-minutes hate against "Totalitarian States" that Orwell cynically evokes from a public he knew was ready to go rabid on this thing, against which, I think he believed, resistance was futile. I think he saw himself as greasing the wheels of that. So he's mocking his audience's gullibility while proving his point that totalitarianism is the only thing that can rule them, and selling them such via the backchannel of this novel everyone believes to be against that. I think, in this lens, Orwell is as the biggest political-social thinker of last 200 years, and he carried it off without being recognized as what he was doing, the ultimate power play, which makes it all the more impressive. I really shouldn't write this here, people will probably go crazy. But it's nice to see a fellow differentthinker, so I braved it. A final thought is that there's this concept call dramatic catharsis, in comedy, where the mockery of something is commonly seen as a way to remove its power, but in actuality simply provides a useless outlet for people's frustrations and further acclimates them to it. So, Italian plays mocking the state were how the people coped with it, but the state rolled on, better them cope than revolt. In that lens, 1984 is sort of a pre-catharsis that greases the wheels for the entrance of totalitarianism, by convincing everyone, as another commenter adroitly noted, "of the inevitable demise of English socialism". So Orwell was faking the death of totalitarianism in the mass consciousness, to provide cover for the introduction of totalitarianism. Sort of like that scene in the Dark Knight, where somebody brings the "body of the Joker" to Gambol's hideout, where the Joker promptly comes back to life and takes over.
Didn’t make them obsolete though… if you look at almost any construction site or gardener, “hand drawn carts” (aka wheelbarrows) are still used a lot.
Good for you. I'm also somebody of the left who's spent a lot of time in the last few years in places that would lose me my right-on badges.

It's been eye-opening at times, disturbing at others; but often educational and useful for my intellectual health and development.
Congratuallations on achieving a successfull business and helping turn Python into what looks to be the next BASIC.
My favorite calculator app is Free42 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/free42/id337692629) which is a (AFAICT) faithful HP-42S reimplementation. Besides the obvious functionality, I really love the haptic feedback (configurable) and the graphics. Recommended (it's also free).
It depends if you consider the implied set to be the people (of which there are readers and writers) or the capabilities (reading and writing).
Is this a 'viable' alternative to a US-based bachelor degree?

One of the reasons why I haven't bothered to get my degree is due to the cost. I'm not interested in one for obtaining jobs, but mainly situations that have a hard requirement for a degree (ex: obtaining a work visa).

I'm not familiar with the differences in degrees between countries, but assuming a person is already competent in German, I don't see the downsides (barring that "obtaining a first job" mention earlier, I'm sure employers wouldn't like it) to this path versus a degree from the USA.
There's plenty of room for dissenting opinion here. But if you're going to offer up an argument for capitalist-libertarianism that isn't any more than a largely evidence-free rehash of the same positions that filled talk.politics.theory on usenet in the 1990s, then yeah, you're probably not going to see a lot of support. Offer up a cogent, evidence-filled position that genuinely causes people to say "huh! gonna have to think/read about this ..." and I'm fairly sure you'd see a different response.
Folio – Future of Libraries Is Open
Maslow on Silicon Valley (1965): Some people are frightened by freedom
That’s very perceptive. Have you been surprised at all, after reading both arguments, which side of the fence you wind up on?
Bad reporting, just go read the paper directly. They busted the coin example.

I was super confused by it because it suffers from classic AM-GM inequality mistake. I doubted that Peters would make such a trivial mistake (he didn't). He talks about the utility of a single outcome of the game, not the expected value of 10 plays of 10 different games.

In the article: Using an arithmetic mean on percent-return doesn't make any sense. If you calculate the expected value and mistakenly use arithmetic mean you'll get +5%, but it's actually roughly -5% when calculated correctly with a geometric mean.

Which is why all their silly simulations come out negative.. none of which has anything to do with Peter's actual work.
Cool. If you want help hacking in it there is a community slack at vectorized.io/slack or github discussions work too
Radiologist/Nuclear Medicine here:

This is interesting because it’s another application of Cu64 for PET imaging as opposed to more widely available tracers such as F18 or Ga68. Cu64 has some advantages because it has a comparable positron energy to F18 which leads to good image resolution but a substantially longer half life at 12 hours, which makes logistics of dose delivery and radiopharmaceutical preparation much easier than the 110 minute half life of F18.

Cu64 has recently been approved as the radionuclide pair for neuroendocrine tumor imaging in Cu64-Dotatate so hopefully we see more agents coming online.
In this regard, software is quite similar to law - more so than to other STEM disciplines like mechanical or civil engineering or math.

A body of law is adapted and extended through many years, by various groups having different priorities, and rarely does someone dive in and refactor it to be simpler (while achieving the same "business goals").

In software, at least we have an option of creating automated tests to verify correctness or internal consistency, and using stricter languages to avoid ambiguities.

In light of this, we (as an industry) are actually doing quite good!
That is all correct. Another consideration: occasionally an incompetent publisher puts the same ISBN on two unrelated editions. A bibliographer might just carefully record what's printed on the book, but many users of ISBNs won't be at all happy with that "solution".
Well, most HN commenters have found success one way: by being a wage slave in one of the tech giants. You should not take any advice from them. If you are safely doing that while pondering how to start a side thing without taking any risk or spending any time on it, you represent the HN crowd.

Also, Bitcoin draws libertarians... and HN is full of modern liberals. So, it doesn't sit well with them.

Having said that, it is understandable that most people won't invest in something completely new or risky. One would not be able to build wealth like that. They'd be taking too many risks and that could most likely work against them.

So, a good balance needs to be maintained. If you most of your money in safe assets and try out small risky things once in a while, you are relatively safe while opening up to being lucky.
Never said it was evidence of anything shady, it just doesn’t feel right to me, it might feel super good and normal for you, that’s fine

Is just that while NA markets sleeps you see some candle of +600 USD at plain 4am with a volume of barely 80 coins on most used exchanges, its clear orderbook spoofing so when everyone wakes up, it's happy about the price again

Also, I really wonder, how its such big news that MicroStrategy buys 150millions of bitcoin, cause it's a "big amount", yet, tether it's printing the same 150million 3 or 4 times per week, woah, is there so much money coming into bitcoin, people putting 600millions weekly specially into tether so they can buy bitcoin? who are those people, if MicroStrategy hits the news for 150m purchases, why aren't those buying 600m hitting the news?

My last comment about hands shaking it's because the uncertainty it gives me, I can trade everything, I have no problems with it, problems come when I am able to see by myself all that there’s wrong with those exchanges, yet, I'm still part of it and I acknowledge those problems and I am aware of the risks however there’s people making justifications over it.
One way to make the or inclusive is to use the construct and/or.
What terminology are you talking about? Neither "compiler science" nor "parsing science" are terms I used, or that the industry or academia use.

Parsing - formal theory like taxonomies of grammars, and practical concerns like speed and error recovery - remain a core part of compiler design both inside and outside of academia.
And if the communists of the 50s ever got in positions of power they would have opened gulags and murdered millions.

The point is that we aught to trust our institutions to keep that from happening without acting like the people who we are supposedly saving society from.
I don't see what the problem is, this is the kind of problems that you always bump into when not able to used the very latest and greatest of a programming language.

Specially one like Python that introduces breaking changes even across minor versions.
Tragically accurate comment.
We had THE ONE software engineer that is better than everybody that ever does a single mistake. But we also have THE ONE driver that is better than every other driver. It has been studied drivers are overconfident in their abilities...
At some point we will discover tether money may not be in the bank completely
Great comment. There's a pervasive lack of self-awareness among the right, manifesting as a pathological inability to empathize with individuals in other groups. Introspection can be painful at times, but it's necessary to be a morally full and content person.
Which one of the bubbles?
Or the farmers. It’s not well enough known that dairy farming is a tough job and the mortality rate from suicide is far too high. Unfortunately I know more than one farmer who has succumbed.
Or, downvoters could be like me, who simply believe that your assertion that Tether isn't (still) widely discussed whenever the topic of Bitcoin valuation comes up is false.
This was presented by the author at !!Con West 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A94JsWTXXw
> Even this thread has comments that assume there’s only one way to make money with BTC — typically buy low, sell high.

What other ways exist?
I do not remember Which language I was first introduced to as a kid, but I do remember being very on excited because it did not seem related to anything I was interested in. I agree that something like JavaScript/XML is a good place to start when learning new languages because it is so accessible and immediate. I once showed a young, budding nerd how to animate SVG files with jQuery, and I could see his mind being blown in real time. While it is not as deep and has constraints, JavaScript does still have most of the basic concepts required for any of the more advanced languages.
Rich Hickey had a great talk on this that introduced me to the word "complecting" (https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...)

Relatedly, I have a simple new maths for counting complexity, so that you can compare two "complex" solutions and pick the less "complicated" one: https://github.com/treenotation/research/blob/master/papers/...

SVG form: https://treenotation.org/demos/complexityCanBeCounted.svg
In Maryland I-270 is capped at 55 mph. However the general flow of traffic is closer to 75 mph. This gives police the ability to turn on the money faucet (speeding tickets) at their whim and leisure which I think is bogus. If 90%+ of cars are going more than 10mph over the limit, it means the limit is way too low.
I don't understand what 'OLD' does.

EDIT: Apparently it refers to the variable with the value at the entry point.
People do get promoted and paid for simplifying and refactoring code. Heck, I got promoted and am currently being paid to do just that. It often involves adding value in other ways simultaneously, but what you said is just false.
Yes. When they decided to give you the printer but sell the ink for $1000 per gallon.

This is what happens when you let accountants make business decisions. I'm sure it looked like a real golden opportunity at the time. But what it actually did was kill the home printer business --- or at least most of it. Now, most home printers aren't worth having.
Will the value of US Dollar drop further? In comparison vs euro it has been dropping steadily for the past six months or a bit more. I am unsure if I should convert now, or wait for the bounce back.
TLDR. Because the ecosystem has less money, and therefore developers to polish it.

P.S. Linux, by it's open nature, encourages users to tweak many things on the OS. This also helps to surface edge case bugs that were not encountered earlier. I doubt most users would encounter even 20% of the bugs they hit if they bought a linux machine from a vendor that sells them with pre-installed linux, hence guaranteeing hardware compatibility, and then didn't change key settings, meaning their user work-flows would be on paths tested by the developers. But where's the fun in that? :p
Zamyatin’s novel is being made into a movie for next year: https://www.youtube.com/embed/BVLvQcO7JGk
How Expensive Is NSDateFormatter
https://archive.is/GiWV3
If I were a betting man, I would bet that the main reason why you're allowed to do that is because you lowered runtime costs by some of those optimizations, not because of the cleaner code you can move faster.
Welcome to a low interest rate world. Things are even worse at Japanese banks.
Sorry to be ignorant but what is the difference between a Libertarian and a modern Liberal. I thought they were the same thing?
Another perspective on the question "what is ROS?", having worked with countless ROS nodes:

In a nutshell, ROS is a library that allows you to send and receive messages.

The two most used methods in the API are Subscriber.subscribe(message_topic, callback)
and Publisher.publish(message)

For example, a sensor driver will publish a message containing a camera image, then a node will receive a message, detect the people in it, and send another message with their positions. Another node will receive the positions message and calculate a desired action, and send that as a message. You can write your own node which captures any kind of message and publishes any other kind, making things very modular.

So ROS also contains a million tools to help you process the messages, for example the Time tools allow you to set timers and convert time stamps, the rosbag tools allow you to store the messages and replay them later, the tf tools allow you to transform geometrical objects between message reference frames, and so on...

Many of the tools do their job well, the main issue is documentation. In some cases, the best way to figure out what can/should be done is to look at existing code.
Just because it went up doesn't make it a good investment. Especially as Bitcoin is still more gambling than investment.

Also that you are blindingly listening to others would make you a bad investor. A good investor needs conviction and staying power.

Would you have sold after Bitcoin has crashed from $30 to $2?
There are complex things and there are complicated things. You want to make complex things easier to understand by refining abstractions and eliminate complicated things alltogether. Constant refactoring and tabu word - intelligence - is the key here. It doesn't mean you have to reshuffle everything every week. It means spending maybe 5% - 20% of time on small things to improve code based on current knowledge. This has to be pushed by developers because semi-agile methodologies most companies use have built-in forces to move those tasks out of sprints.
And yet Bitcoin plummeted in value at the same time as everything else at the start of the pandemic, so it's hardly uncorrelated.

Buying lottery tickets would be uncorrelated. And you've less chance of being scammed or hacked when you do that...
Not having an API is short-sighted.

Those who will use your info legitimately will probably use an API, but those who only want your data can hide their IP across a number of cloud agents to extract all of the data from your site regardless of whether you offer an API or not unless you use CAPTCHA.
Can you explain or link further about the “chainsaw?” Google comes back with this post.
Bretton Woods 2.0
Because the inflation definition is changing all the time (look at shadowstats). The CEO likes yachts and houses on the beach, and how he describes it: inflation baskets contain what you don't care about, and miss the scarce assets that you really want.
Governments have their own self interest at heart, second comes everything else. My license plate is indeed public information, should someone follow me around and document evertything I'm doing. I'm fine with that as the amount of resources required to perform this far outweighs any potential gains. When It's automated by computers It's very cheap. I'm no expert in image classification technology, but i imagine a top of the line Xeon could extract license plate information and the parts of the images containing humans (for later cross reference with some other dataset) a couple thousand times a second. Meaning it'll cost close to nothing.

Yes, we should be vary of the data everyone is collecting. I remember a friend of mine saying his grandmother was so suprised she always got offers in the mail from ICA (Big grocery store company in Sweden) on the products she purchases. Completely unaware that they're tracking every purchase she makes because of her membership card.
Was there anyone that really saw Cyberpunk's world as aspirational?

RoboCop, Blade Runner, Total Recall and The Matrix weren't aspirational. They depicted dark futures based on amplifying the tendencies their authors saw in the world at the time.

What draw people into games like Cyberpunk is the aesthetic and the controlled freedom you can have. Contrasted with our mostly boring daily lives, it's easy to see why people find it appealing.
LOL !
The US does do better, empirically. I am certainly not endorsing GP’s position, but your false equivalence is a distraction.
Every kid at my children's school have a Chromebook. The exact same model. Calculators are really relics of a bygone era and it is time education realizes there is greater value in embracing better tech than trying to stop a bogeyman.
I thought one needed Ctrl+L to refresh the screen when it gets corrupted by program output in "gdb -tui".
Russia Is Using Augmented Reality to Produce Its Su-57 Fighter
This is one vector for complexity, to be sure. Saying "no" to a feature that is unnecessary, foists a lot of complexity on a system, or has a low power to weight ratio is one of the best skills a senior developer can develop.

One of my favorite real world examples is method overloading in Java. It's not a particularly useful feature (especially given alternative, less complicated features like default parameter values), interacts poorly with other language features (e.g. varargs) and ends up making all sorts of things far more complex than necessary: bytecode method invocation now needs to encode the entire type signature of a method, method resolution during compilation requires complex scoring, etc. The JVM language I worked on probably had about 10% of its total complexity dedicated to dealing with this "feature" of dubious value to end users.

Another vector, more dangerous for senior developers, is thinking that abstraction will necessarily work when dealing with complexity. I have seen OSGi projects achieve negative complexity savings, while chewing up decades of senior man-years, for example.
Paywall bypass https://archive.is/0q1wL
Google Pay and Apple Pay can surely substitute Pay Pal quickly. Alipay and WeChat Pay in Asian regions. Other, less famous alternatives as well. All of them are more consumer-friendly than PayPal itself. So far, only adoption from the merchants is lacking.
I read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ for the first time this year. Highly recommend.
I've recently taken an interest in these types of articles. Time read this one and the one in which someone reimplements the protocol used by their exercise bike. What are some good resources a beginner can h3ck out to learn what is attempted here?
I think it's actually less significant for the dollar to be a the defacto reserve currency than it is to be the defacto exchange currency. Trillions of dollars change hands every day on currency exchange markets alone...several times more than the second largest currency. This is due to the status as the exchange currency, or the most common quote currency for trading pairs. This effectively means that if a Libyan importer in Tripoli wants to buy Honduran frog legs, there is going to be one exchange from Dinar to USD, and one exchange from USD to Lempira. For this reason, global trade both depends on and is fueled by the liquidity provided by the dollar.

This relationship of liquidity with the dollar is what creates the petrodollar. People and governments hoard dollars not because of its use as a means to buy oil, but because of its use to buy literally anything that is not sold in their home currency.

Financial assets for hoarding can easily be replaced by other hoardable financial assets. Liquidity, on the other hand, can not.
(sorry for slow reply)

Yes, I did find it rewarding, and latterly, more rewarding than many of my interactions with customers or managers. Especially when I learned things from the younger people.
Depends. If you can re-evaluate the requirements when you start your rewrite, you can likely consolidate a lot of the features.

If the requirements stay exactly the same, then yeah, there’s no point.
Im not sure why you didn't, I remember coming across it on HN , reading the comments and thinking it looked like a great invesment. I guess its about trying to sort the wheat from the chaff, which is probably luck based.
there seems to be no such thing as a reliable 3rd party.
It doesn't create inflation as measured by CPI. It did create inflation in asset prices.

How can anyone be so oblivious to it?
Is that really a problem? A dollar is a dollar.
I don't think most software development should end up complex since most software development in the world is redundant.

The problem is that we don't have the right high level abstractions, low level robustness, and groups focusing on this problem to build software faster. It is a matter of time, there will be a silver bullet for most software needs.

There is also some conflict of interest: imagine if Microsoft gives you frameworks to build/integrate large software projects with a few "parameters"? There will be fewer developers and customers for them.