skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re being pleasant, it’s “the fine article”.

If you’re feeling cheeky, you can pick your own 7 letter word that starts with an “F”.
My partner and I made a Sudoku explainer [1] for my nephews using this. It was a really good toolkit once we wrapped our head around React.

[1]: https://sudoku.nikhilism.com/
> The catch is that the designers of your language system had to think that facility through in the planning stages. You don’t get a decent implementation of it by bolting it on after the fact. Breakloops need full access to the entire development system, interactively, with a computation and its call stack suspended in the breakloop’s environment.

Interestingly, while Ruby’s default REPL (irb) doesn’t have this, and Ruby’s (and irb’s) designers obviously didn’t think this facility through in the planning stages, Ruby does have an alternate REPL (pry) which has a lot of the advanced REPL functionality irb is missing but also doesn’t have this function built-in, but which does have a separate add-on (pry-rescue) which provides it.
Classic paper, but should have [2006] in the HN title
The Great Covid Class War – The Bellows
this is an amazing story, thank you!
People like Amy Castor, Peter Schiff, Nouriel Roubini, etc don't seem to fundamentally understand that intrinsic value is completely subjective and that bitcoin being a borderless, trustless, and scarce resource is what makes it valuable to many. Focusing on the negative aspects and neglecting the upsides of what cryptocurrencies have unlocked for millions of people worldwide is short-sighted.
Really? I used a HT FPGA back then, but it came on an HTX card that fit into the HTX slot on the motherboard.

Never heard of putting it into the socket, would be a real pain to attach JTAG to program/debug your design...
It's interesting to read what other field's version of agile is and what we can learn from it and improve our own processes. Another over I enjoy is John Boyd who in essence created agile for killing people.
ByteDance work schedule: work every other Sunday
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/48857/former-head-of-cir... I worked with Dan. Circle Trade was the second biggest desk back then after Cumberland.

You don’t do all billions at once, that was in total.
Absolutely. You can give a campaign its own website or URL if you want to test something like the effect of a specific billboard or radio ad.

Or you can do the equivalent of an excess mortality study but for client acquisition or product sales. You take something like the month of January and you say "this is what we expect for web traffic given our standard traffic for that month, and extrapolate it with your average web activity growth". And so long as you have "clean" months to compare it to (with no ads running), you can get a pretty decent back of envelope about what your ad campaign did.

Like, there's so many different ways you can cut the apple, it's patently ridiculous they made those claims.

To give them a bit of credit, there's something to be said for there being a lot of bad ad spending out there. But like the stock market, there's a tacit understanding that it's more or less efficient.
Against Esoterophobia
Yep. Like the old adage goes, You cant make a man understand something, if his job depends on him not understanding it.
Anyone have any idea why there haven't been any open-source QNX clones, at least not any widely known ones? Even before their Photon MicroGUI patents expired, the clones could have used X11.

I used to occasionally boot into QNX on my desktop in college. It was a very responsive and stable system.

Hypervisors are, to a first approximation, microkernels with a hardware-like interface. All of this kernel bypass work being done by RDBMSes, ScyllaDB, HFTs, etc. is, to a first approximation, making a monolithic kernel act a bit like a microkernel.
Not the original commentor, but much of the US' financial system is run with the express goal of trying to grow at about 5% per year. The target inflation of 2% is intended to encourage us to spend money reinvesting in new business rather than sitting on it. Returns have to be better than 2% to just break even.
I’m surprised he didn’t leave the country after the CCP put the brakes on the IPO.
How to Bury Carbon? Let Plants Do the Dirty Work
> For example, some property of a function or object may not be documented at all, but through the REPL the writer has ascertained it is true. How can the reader know this?

Well, the writer could document their code.

Or, the reader could discover behavior of undocumented code the same way the writer did; presumably the “reader” will also have a REPL available.
Right, that’s my point. Don’t be overzealous obviously. But some concurrency should be expected (and in my opinion designed for and encouraged). There’s a huge gulf between grabbing 100 pages and grabbing the number of resources a browser grabs by default.
I think the key things for Bitcoin are that it’s not forgeable and it’s transferable. Anything that satisfies those two conditions will eventually be used as a reliable store of value.
On scenes where they've pulled in tighter on the 16:9 version, that's going to crop things out. There's two 16:9 versions in the article and it seems like the second one, where they chose to pull in tighter, would crop, or nearly so, the actors out of the frame:

https://youtu.be/gis0V4f6UCs?t=56

Edit: I did this by hand on my iPad, but it should be pretty close. The original 4:3 vs the 16:9 cropped to 4:3:

https://ibb.co/CKnZ63Q

https://ibb.co/C94WmRg

The actors aren't cropped out, but it's close.
I think it means "The Featured Article".
Under pressure, UK government releases NHS Covid data deals with big tech
But then you confuse legitimate users that don't remember what email they signed up with.
Are they connected by the pcie bus though?

https://www.xes-inc.com/
To the Journal. They want money too, but for open access it comes from the researchers. For closed access, it comes from the subscriptions.

Forcing open access is still the same as just paying for the subscription, as far as it goes, since if public funds are used for this, it's all the same thing.
I can more than imagine it, I design for it. Concurrent all the things. The vast majority of GET workloads are either embarrassingly parallel or so badly designed that they fall over with even the gentlest touch (which I’m sad to say I’ve encountered; services falling over from sequential requests!).

Edit to add: this isn’t some wild idea, recent network and web standards have made increasing concurrency both automatic (HTTP/2 and beyond) and tunable (various prefetch APIs).
> ” Between July and September, I worked on different things: the build system, Docker/docker-compose, continuous integration, authentication, internationalization, etc.”

Authentication seems to be the only thing the author should be working on at all for a MVP. And even so, I would personally choose AWS Cognito or something like that.

From reading this, it seems to me that the issue is a mix of harmful obsession code quality and bad priorization of what to work on.

Probably some feature creep too, even with the author claiming they cut all to the basics.
Only if inlining qsort is best. Sometimes it is sometimes it isn't, based on complex rules that I trust the compiler to know.
> for C#, at least last time I used it, which was 2011

Since then, C# added nullable reference types:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

In projects with complete NRT coverage, it's extremely rare I ever get a null ref, as the compiler will warn/error me if I'm using a possibly null value in an unsafe way.
Can’t argue with this, I find it immensely frustrating. I’m on my fifth or sixth library for interacting with a database, my third component library, fourth or fifth config library, and the data science story especially has always been terrible because of the aversion to frameworks. This isn’t necessarily a great hardship, and for the most part old code just works, but so many libraries fall by the wayside or just never reach their potential cos they were the singular vision of one smart person, while all the other smart people were off working on other stuff.
I am a long time Clojure user (since 2012). I am still using it in my personal web projects with a lot enjoyment.

However, I wouldn't use it on any projects with more than maybe 3 team members for mainly three reasons:

- Very steep learning curve despite the seemly simple syntax.

- The community is shrinking with many high profile OSS projects being effectively abandoned, while most other languages' communities are growing.

- Clojure is just bringing too much freedom for most average developers.

If it's just me, I will have no hesitation and always pick Clojure as my main language.
Is this mainly an Asian-language focused project? I don't mean just target languages, but also people involved and documentation.

The Installation page is basically just some Pip commands. I wanted to learn more specifics about dependancies and code modules.

It says "For more software version requirements, please refer to the instructions in Installation Document for operation" which links to here:

https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/install/quick?docurl=/docume...

That's where I got lost as I'm English speaking and couldn't make heads or tails of the content.
U.S. may cut some Moderna vaccine doses in half to speed rollout, official says
DTrace for the Application Developer – Counting Function Calls
Qt doesn't use native controls, they're lookalike.

The point of the comment asking about Qt is most likely that Qt is not heavyweight (it does a great job even on embedded.), therefore pointing out that there is a difference between Qt and the other you mentioned.

I'm not a fan of OOP and I think there are more interesting framework model - but Qt is definitely the best and most efficient GUI framework I've had the pleasure to work with.
> Don't remember where I read it, but he said he lights his stuff primarily with flat overhead lighting these days because he doesn't want the DP/lighting to "waste time" getting lights just right for a shot.

It seems like a valid approach for a highly budget-constrained indie director, but for someone in his position that is completely nuts. I wonder if he was being hyperbolic.
It's prevented by good sense. The functions are likely multiple KB in size. Inlining them would seriously bloat the binary and would be unlikely to help due to how much work most regex engines do on each search.

The remaining work _on this particular benchmark_ is the regex algorithm itself. I'm on mobile so I can't do a deep dive, but I haven't yet figured out how to easily improve on this particular case. It has to do with the fact that the benchmark has a high match count and the finite automata approach in the regex crate has a bit higher overhead than the typical backtracking solution used in PCRE2 (which is also JIT'd in this case).

It's not the language, compiler, inlining or any other such thing. It's algorithms.

But this is one single benchmark. Before regex-redux there was regex-dna, and Rust's regex crate was #1 there. Why? Same reason. Algorithms.

You can't judge regex performance by a single benchmark. Two won't do it. Not even ten. It's one of the many problems with the Benchmark Game. This would be fine if everyone was circumspect and careful with their interpretation of the data provided, but they aren't. And the Benchmark Game doesn't really do much to alleviate this other than some perfunctory blurbs in some corners of the web site.

With that said, running a benchmark is hard work. It's easy to criticize.
Understanding the Bolt EV
Whoa. I had a brain wave.

What if there were a Silicon Valley company whose entire business model was selling a computing environment that didn't need to be customized? Like, at all? What if they did a whole bunch of psychological research, and found that most humans work pretty much the same way, and designed this environment in such a manner that they could get 98% or so of the way toward optimum productivity, right out of the box?

Knowing the Valley, they would give themselves a silly name, one having nothing to do with computers or data or anything. Like a fruit or something. But multiply the base price by billions of potential users... the idea could be worth trillions!
> Loeb explains that the sun's gravitational force would cause a natural object to move faster as it approaches, and eventually push the object back, causing it to move slower as it moves away. Loeb points out that this didn't occur with Oumuamua, which accelerated "slightly, but to a highly statistically significant extent" as it moved further and further away.

This seems like a straightforward falsifiable claim. So, why is there controversy? Is this correct or not?
Well, that is impressive, this year I decided to track some daily data, but much more simple than this.
It's pretty much a Yes/No activity X in that day, besides my weight, which is the exact number.

I'm also using Google Sheet and I'm quite curious if I will be able to keep doing it until the end of the year.
When I chose my PC parts when Ryzen first came out I tried to get ECC parts. The RAM was obtainable, the problem was that no motherboards had ECC support at the time. I hope the situation has improved by the time I get my next motherboard/cpu upgrade.
As a non-royal yet non-poor person, I have to disagree, in that I find teaching my kids how to live a life an important part of both parenting and living these days.

By that, I mean that the actions of learning how to clean up after oneself, cook, do laundry are things that I do with the kid, and kid takes a certain measure of delight at learning how to do "real" stuff. Sure, we read books and do puzzles and that sort of thing, but there is an appeal to the child at being able to help, being included, and being able to effect change in the world.

I find people who outsource all their menial labor to too often become insufferable and divorced from reality. Organizations suffer, too, from the immaturity of being run by people who can start things but don't have to maintain or finish them; who can just say "get this done" and not have to think about the ramifications. Creativity is actually at its best slightly constrained -- and children do best when they learn to do useful things with their parents, rather than being simple pets for entertainment.

Obviously there are many different cultural approaches to raising children and one of my biases is that I come from a culture that wants kids to both have plenty of outdoor playtime and also contribute materially to the wellbeing of the family (clean up after themselves to some extent, help with home upkeep, etc).
Yes, its interesting from that list of things he did for 2 months one cannot discern what his project was!
That's a pretty cool article. Would be limited to potentially fertilizing gardens with their leavings. Couldn't eat the worms since there would be plastic particles still in their guts.
> American management always reminds me of the historical British army, where the gentry directly was recruited into the higher ranks American management and workers seem equally stratified.

As a veteran, American management seemed to take straight from the American military management. I always assumed it was an artifact of WW-II management theories and the subsequent post-war academic funding boom.
Daniel Dennett: Julian Jaynes’s Software Archeology [pdf]
This one is my favorite summary of the Tether story: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
It became a major headache for me when I saw multiple teams of developers trip over the same blind spots. Gluing together libraries works best when you're enough of a domain expert to understand every aspect.

When you're writing public-facing web services and forget about security while pulling together your stack, this ignorance can become very dangerous!
> On the sensors, you can get many with $1k, but you won't be able to spread them and much less make them communicate with a central or each other.

LORA modules, coupled with a sensor, can be spread far out for less than $4 each, I've spread them out myself while living out on acreage.

> But I think if there's any way to help on that budget, it will be by creating some sort of community.

which is yet another good use of $1000 - I don't think that the person who is offering this is hoping that the people that apply make a profit, likely they are hoping that people who apply can help amplify the money by putting their own expertise to work.

as in, I know I could build a data gathering and reporting framework that could run on aws/rds, but sure wouldn't mind if someone else paid for the hosting. that's kind of what's great about this.
Yes, the address of any element of an std::map is valid until that element is erased.
I think the whatsapp profile doesnt work until the other party messages you or gives you a reply.
DIY Containers Using Less Than 100 Lines of Go
Watching this reminds me of trying to use the 'golden ratio' and other mathy formulas in CSS typography and column grids to get "perfect" alignments from scratch. For ex from film: arranging the body to the min(d1, d2) alignment to the head sphere.

But obviously this is on a whole other level of knowledge and complexity.
Have I stepped into an alternate dimension where any Bitcoin thread on hacker news is not dominated by discussion of whether or not bitcoin is a fraud or even needed?
Isn’t the % cost of journal access as a total of govt. R&D sub 1%?
Three Equations for a Happy Life
Its already Here and its not necessarily industrial scale either its called EPSCrete [1] Yep no need to transport your styrofoam to a recycler and buy back some insulation product when you can make it yourself [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_polystyrene_concrete

[2] http://www.norishouse.com/archives/582
No need to restate the obvious at this point.
>The mealworms are able to do this due to their gut bacteria (Exiguobacterium sp. strain YT2) that actually breaks down the polystyrene.

> The fact that these worms are converting about half of the styrofoam they eat into carbon dioxide and the rest into mineralized organic material suggest that it has come full circle.

The bacteria breaks the molecules and shouldn't harm the animals that eat them.
Yeah, first thing I thought as well when I read this.

Dude has $150MM annual ad budget and has never audited his vendors?

Either total incompetence, or something shady was going on.
> The unwillingness of anyone to run such an experiment is already an answer. Why wouldn't someone jump at an opportunity to prove the thing/service they provide actually works, unless they were unsure about it themselves?

Or they have run the experiment and the results haven't lines up with their own personal biases so they were discarded.
Often times immediate / retained can be mixed up together (eg. https://docs.rs/conrod_core/0.71.0/conrod_core/guide/chapter...)
Linus was already doing a master’s thesis (like the OP.) He knew Linux wasn’t a weekend project, and he knew the orders of magnitude invoked in creating a commercial OS.

No one can predict the longevity of a project, but that’s not the point.
Is this satire? The very first comment: "He believes the bitcoin ecosystem is running low on cash", is provably false since it is not just Tether that is increasing in MarketCap. USDC + PAX dollars have also increased in MarketCap to ~5 billion total now.

USDC and PAX are both regulated by US financial regulators, including NY.

There are plenty of ways to be skeptical of Bitcoin or Ethereum or rest of the Crypto, but this article is not it.
It'd be interesting to analyze more languages. C# .NET Core for example still couldn't handle large switch statements well as of a year ago.
Ramon y Cajal's "advice to a young investigator" is still quite good as well: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/advice-young-investigator
My impression was that its facilities for type- and memory-safe pointer usage were fairly sophisticated and unlike anything in more popular languages, which is what I was going off of. I must admit I haven't written any ATS, just done a cursory skim of the documentation and watched a Strange Loop talk a few years back.
And that one is a (weird) success, not a folly...
Now you’re comparing apples and Ozonetels. Ozonetel is not a common noun.
I haven't noticed that, but I'd propose an alternate explanation: the amount of time it takes for you to notice a CPU spike, get annoyed by it, and launch task manager ends up being just slightly shorter than the running time of some common CPU spiking tasks.
That sounds like something Douglas Adams would suggest
>but their valuations are independent.

The key complaint is that they are, in fact, NOT independent. You can use one to manipulate the other under the guise of being backed by USD when in reality its backed by loans backed by BTC (or some other permutation).
You can find lots of articles online that dismiss the impacts of regularly drinking small amounts, but I think it's worth considering that the science on this is incomplete and more recent studies seem to be less optimistic about this.

See, for example: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323252#Even-light-...

Or: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/24/17242720/alcohol-health-risks-...
I think you are over complicating things. You just need a default virtual host that displays a "domain not configured" page. This is what we did when I ran a hosting company.
To the contrary, the managerial class of hired administrators who did not themselves own the business was a product of the industrial revolution. MBA programs sprung up because the huge new corporations (steel, oil, etc) needed a steady supply of people to fill this role.

At least that's what I remember from Rakesh Khurana's book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=47120328903164805...

On-die ECC DRAM is already here with us.
15 minutes. I dont know about this particular technique, but others are in the 10-50ms range. Roughly 20k times faster.
From what I know about the space, the algorithm is pretty much still best in class
The book Windfall details all sorts of ways that people are trying to make a buck off of climate change. Good book if you want to see a different side of the issue.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079772-windfall
Yep, you got it right. It used to come from "RTFA" (read the fucking article) years ago when people would ask questions in the comments that were clearly answered in the article, then eventually morphed to include FTFA (from the article) and just TFA.

Edit: just googled this to see if I was giving you wrong info also, and it looks like it came out of RTFM (read the fucking manual) for people in early Unix communities too.
That's pretty much the point: lots of dead gladiators dying earlier than they would have otherwise, contrary to the comment that they lived to about the same age as other Romans.

In short, if other Romans had to pass one high-mortality period in their childhood, gladiators survive high childhood mortality only to be thrust into another period of high mortality. Twice the hurdle to overcome in order to have a shot at a reasonable lifespan.
Yes, I recognized the language from that article/interview. It did not explain how Tether was redeemed by Circle. That interview did not cover in any detail how much Tether was redeemed or how Tether was wiring millions or billions of USD to Circle. I want to be very clear here that selling USDT is not the same as redeeming it directly with Tether themselves.
Massachusetts to Ban Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035, Governor Says
> I think the original Colosseum fights were mostly not fair either

I would expect the opposite. Nobody wants to see a pro baseball team crush a high school team, they want to see an evenly matched slugfest. The notion of a "fair fight" is deeply ingrained in people.