skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. OK. Oracle clearly saved Java, the most popular programming language in the world, which also drives much of corporate and government infrastructure. We live in different realities. This idea is so silly I'm not even sure if you're serious, given that SUN's troubles at the time are a matter of historical record. Java was never the problem. In fact, it was SUN's most highly valued asset. SUN never recovered after the dot com crash and industry transition to x86 and Linux, all of which led to the death of SPARC and Solaris. But let's leave it at that.

>as proven by the high performance JIT and GC implementation available for Ruby and Python by the community.

It's almost like interpreted dynamic languages are not quite as conducive to the same kind of optimizations as a statically typed compiled language. JavaScript, another interpreted dynamic language, did have massive amount of resources poured into its JIT and GC implementation. No question there were meaningful performance gains. Is it faster than Java? No. Is it ever going to be faster? No, not unless the language compromises on its dynamic nature.

And you're still chasing this red-herring. I never argued that FOSS can do a better job at evolving a programming language runtime, than a corporate sponsor. Why are you harping on that as if that is an argument to support the idea that java was in trouble and needed a bailout from Oracle?
By "This is what they claim, yes." I meant that they claim that they are not trying to replace the web, not that they claim that they try to replace it.
Even those of us who do use Linux as a daily driver can forget sometimes ;) I spend my days in Arch and occasionally interact with Debian-based servers but never have to consider the cross-compatibility (or otherwise) of other distros.
Baldwin could see things that ordinary commentators couldn't because he saw the world through other people's eyes, and felt the machinery of their thoughts.

In this 1965 appearance at Cambridge University, he mesmerises the audience by telling them what it's like to grow up black in America not even knowing you're black, until one day, as a young child, you catch yourself in the mirror and realise you aren't the person your culture is built for. You actually don't exist, because there is no space in your culture's stories for you.

What brings the predominantly white male audience at Cambridge Union to their feet for a standing ovation, beyond Baldwin's faultless elocution, is his mastery of white American experience. He speaks about racism from inside out, considering that what has happened to white Americans who have succumbed to the disease of racism is worse than what has happened to black Americans who suffer it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek9h3a5wQ
Which tweet seems biased?
That has nothing to do with legal fungibility, and everything to do with property rights, and the conditions at which most people expect to buy a stock (licensing notwithstanding). Fungibility is merely how easily the medium is broken into smaller parts that may be exchange for convenience, and not the regulated use of third parties, unless you're really talking about liquidity. The latter can easily be solved with waivers or contractual agreements (such as an opt in). As far as I know most brokers already do that, but the implication is that some don't or are somehow able to sidestep such regulation.
Since there is no obvious disclaimer on the page, I'll add one here for good measure: In most jurisdictions, broadcasting on long-range frequency bands is not permitted without a license. I absolutely encourage people to get involved in this topic, but don't forget to check your local regulations.
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No. Luddites were not against technology! Quoting again from my previous [1]:

> the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines" ... “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods [...] and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”

They simply wanted to be included in reaping the benefits of technology. The popular belief that misrepresents Luddites as anti-technology instead of fighting against abusive labor practices is a good example of anti-labor propaganda.
You seem to think an antitrust enforcement is a shortcut to achieving progressive goals. It isn't. If anything, antitrust enforcement is an attempt to save market capitalism from itself.
At least the pain remains.
If that’s all it takes, I’m struggling to think of a language that isn’t WORA.
We'll never achieve democracy if you keep on redefining it now will we?
Symbol/Semantic leakage. In imperative/OO, I'm organizing as I go using well-established and understood paradigms. In functional programming, you're making these paradigms as you go along, or at least you should be. If you come in with an "I'm going to kick some ass by making these classes to solve my problem" attitude, you're already headed down the OO track whether you realize it or not. Then, sure as night follows day, you or somebody else starts using a functional paradigm, say HoF.

There's nothing wrong with any of that. As a professional, you want to be good in multiple paradigms. The problem is that you're mixing them all up, whether you realize it or not (Most of the time, programmers don't realize it) And now, every piece of code can go down two entirely separate tracks as you suss out your architecture. Not only is that not going to work, it's going to make debugging and maintenance a nightmare.

This is very, very similar to how good C++ shops work. You've got to tightly limit the way you solve problems in order for all of the programmers involved to be to reason about the code.
...and? What does that mean? I can try to finish your argument for you, but then I would be letting you off the hook for intellectual laziness.
Twitter restricts several high-profile accounts in India citing ‘legal demand’
“Because our app was posted first” is actually what I thought of. Could you explain why this isn’t enough?
IMHO it's tooling. The industry has spend decades to help you to deal with the kind of mess OO tends to produce. The tooling isn't anywhere close when you have to deal with a mess of functions returning functions that return functions.
The main issue is that people that are disturbed by this and the people buying connected IOT such as this are not vastly overlapping groups.

Assuming a front door ring camera scenario, the main privacy invasion is not inflicted upon you but on your front door neighbour, which, at least in many European terraced house neighbourhoods, is literally a living room window a few meters away.
So now China's game plan is to topple democracies?

What's next, and how far will this go?
BTW, turnover for elections in Nepal is really high. Always upwards of 70%. If that isn't democracy, then I don't know what is.
I was talking about the Internet as a whole turning into these walled gardens rather than older times where blogs were common. Even in case of FB, there wasn't as much crackdown on political groups as its happening now.
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Testing a Model 3 for 2500miles/4000km at -18C°
Could you please elaborate on what you said about Elm and its author? How come?
Oh yes it does count. Scala can be a nice functional language, with a powerful module system.

Although I miss type providers, enforced lack of cycles and other nice things, like syntax:

https://contributors.scala-lang.org/t/scala-3-very-impressiv...
Why do we still try to equate China and the US? They are not the same, I don’t know if it is some kind of a self-hate issue, but the West has it better. Period. As long as I can go to jail for saying Winnie The Pooh, China sucks and we should not encourage such regimes.
It is much more complicated. First, Cardano use in-house built pull based network layer, so the attacker cannot exhaust your node even cannot do some resource attack against it, and even if some attacker is connected to your node and do some nasty stuff that causes protocol violation, it is just simply discomnected and dropped out of the 1000 cold list of other nodes in the aueue, and needs to wait a lot of time to rebuild its reputation. Anyway, it is very complex with a lot of mitigations of these kind of attacks.
Secondly, you need money lot of money and bribe almost 500 pools (assuming nash) to be successfully alter the chain, it is like bribe 500 bitcoin miner pool from a theoretical 1000 evenly distributed hashpowers bitcoin miners/pools.
But there is also a military political party in the civilian government, and they lost seats in November's elections.

3rd paragraph:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-a...
Investing your excess income as you get it isn't really Dollar Cost Averaging the way firms talk about it. It's called DCA on forums and such, but it's really just investing your excess lump sum each time as soon as you get it.

Lump Sum vs DCA comparisons are usually made in the context that you have your lump sum now. Not that you're accumulating a lump sum and trying to time the market for when to invest it. The page is titled "How to invest a lump sum of money" after all.

> Suppose you received a windfall. Someone gave you a gift or you inherited a lot of money. Maybe you hit the lottery jackpot or got a huge bonus.

> Here's the question you face: Should you invest it all right away or in smaller increments over time, a strategy known as dollar-cost averaging?
I respect the sentiment of starting from scratch to get rid of technical debt. The protocol is not very different than HTTP/0.9, with hindsight applied.

That being said, the protocol interaction model is essentially the same as HTTP.

There is another road where browsers get support for the text/gemini content-type but still talk HTTP only. It doesn't fix everything but it has the advantage of allowing normal users to participate in it.
Rather than keeping a lower-quality copy of my music on my phone, I stream my own music library by running MPD[1] in a satellite setup. All files are served by a simple webserver[2] that converts them to Opus when requested, to save bandwidth. Music I never listen to never gets converted. I wrote about my setup here[3].

This won't work on iPhone, since MPD hasn't been ported, but it works great for Android.

[1]: https://www.musicpd.org/

[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~joram/transcoding-music-server

[3]: https://www.joram.io/blog/android-streaming-mpd/
> My POV: SystemD is a software driven not really by technical, but political reasons by RedHat, to put the most important parts of a GNU/Linux system under their control.

it's really a dumb POV to have, given that systemd is FOSS (licensed LGPLv2.1+) like most of the software that red hat produces.

as a sysadmin, systemd is a godsend. really, it brings uniformity and waaay better debuggability/predictability and tooling in system startup and configuration and troubleshooting.

and, again, systemd is foss so red hat hasn't really that much control over other distros (and each distro had its own internal discussion and choose freely to adopt it).

on another side, red hat took the time and spent the money to bring that improvement to the world. other people just complain under the shield of a throwaway hn account.
I'm firmly in the "why not both?" camp: scrappy, low-barrier-to-entry UF2 et al for a simple on-ramp that gets people hooked with a single purchase (like a microbit a kid gets given, or someone's Christmas present that they might not have had any input into), then graduating to better tools as it becomes clear that the time investment is worthwhile.

That's the main cost here, it's not the purchase price that matters. It's the uncertainty of "have I bought the right thing? Will it work with tools I already know how to use, or am I going to need to learn a whole bunch more stuff? Do I need to figure out a new docs ecosystem?" and all that jazz.

There's one point I'm unsure of, though, and that's how to make it clear that when people see failures with the simple-onramp system, that those failures would be fixed by moving to different tooling, and not just replaced with new problems to occupy one's brain with.
I had a 48k Issue 2 Spectrum in Feb 1983 (my first computer) then the Amstrad CPC6128 (colour version, no less!) in mid-1986 (still got it in the attic).
> Every few years a consumer is back on the market for a new car.

Who buys a new car every few years? Jesus, you guys are so rich.
> This is mostly nonsense.

Agreed. People should be able to take the pessimistic side of a trade.

The one problem I could see with short selling is not the technical act of selling short, but the (dis)information campaign around a company that appears to follow. But, this happens both ways good and bad so it's probably a wash.

> Most of Wall Street hates short sellers, because they drive down the prices of companies and confidence in markets

There's also an emotional dislike of the person who wins when you lose. Short sellers are like the person playing 'don't pass' in craps.
If it's the same banana, that's fine.

If it's supposed to be a different banana, that's the 'net buys' scenario I described and is not fine, that would indicate naked (which is illegal other than by MMs) short banana selling.
The article is written by Michele J. Gelfand [1]:

> a cultural psychologist, best known for being an expert on tightness–looseness theory, which explains variations in the strength of social norms and punishments across human groups.

The Lancet published the associated paper The relationship between cultural tightness–looseness and COVID-19 cases and deaths: a global analysis [2].

Singapore and Taiwan are interesting cases because of their proximity and connectedness to the initial outbreak in Wuhan. Comparing the Anglo FiveEyes seems appropriate as well but many of the differences tend to be technical (e.g. geography) rather than social.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_J._Gelfand

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
Yeah, as I understand it industry used to be a heavy consumer of electricity in the UK and it just isn't in that way anymore - particularly in places like Manchester and the North where a lot of the heavy industry was based - because the UK is no longer a major industrial player. I even saw talk by the National Grid in one of their planning reports about not replacing some of the transmission infrastructure up north when it ages out because with industry gone they just don't need that much capacity anymore.
DMCA is a special case for copyright infringement. I don't think such obligations are there for most other scammy activities.
I'm more optimistic, I think it might be able to find its niche. I agree it would be hard to outright replace the web, but there's room for more than one way of delivering text. man pages are still around, for instance.
The same thing was possible with PCs too! All the way to Windows XP, there was a built-in dial program (HyperTerminal) that let you send files and chat over the phone line directly, outside the Internet, and only the person initiating the connection would be the one paying, since it was fundamentally just a phone call.

It was also awesome because it bypassed the Internet. It could work if you were censored, didn't have an ISP or if the Internet was completely shutdown (I used it for exactly that when Egypt shutdown the Internet in Jan 2011).

https://scintrexltd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Data-Tran...

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/windows-xp-in/059600900...
InPost really changed the landscape of packages deliver in Poland in last years due to parcel locker network - in some cases packages are able to arrive on next day which is something. They also provide standard courier delivery and post service tho the latter is not that much popular, I believe. The pandemic and lockout helped them much reaching these 9.5B
Well, lending new money (i.e. an increase of lending over previous lending) does expand money supply and create inflation. If we look at the macroecomic aspects of money supply, most of current money supply is created through lending.

The key difference in your estimates of supply is that you include the future repayments of current lending, but ignore future lending. The general assumption in macroecomics is that we don't treat such lending as isolated one-off events, but as a sum of ongoing activity by many people, continuing forever at a stable level unless some event affects it.

Assuming that the principles governing lending don't change, the future repayments are balanced by payouts of new loans at that point of time, and the current payouts (if they are greater than current repayments of past debt, i.e. there's a net increase) are not balanced and thus increase the supply. If at some point the fundamentals change so that the lending decreases or stops then that event would decrease supply back to where it was.

I.e. if you often lend money to your friends so that usually someone or someone else owes you $10, then this lending is not a change and does not affect supply, but if you did not loan money and now you start lending, then that $10 is an increase in money supply.
Still have to spend the $20+ to put cash on the lightning network, right?
Oh god, this reads like I wrote it myself.

The worst thing is every day I feel worse because I don't feel like I am contributing. And that keeps adding to the feeling of anxiety.

I started staying late trying to catchup on work, but that I think made things worse since it fucked with my down time.

Agh... how do I dig myself out?
Vlad Tenev (Robinhood CEO) explains last week's events to Elon Musk [video]
The transaction fees change over time depending on demand. Maybe you should stop with the unlikely edge case: network is underutilized.
There is a similar, pretty amazing project for the Commodore 64: https://ultimate64.com/Ultimate-64

I'm really happy to see those recreations of great 8-bit computers.
Ok, I've done it. I told my children that I'm going to take them to McDonald's tomorrow evening. They see this promise as 100% good, as real as if they were actually holding the burger. The only difference from their point of view, is that if they were holding a physical burger now, by tomorrow evening it would be cold and bad to eat. The ones I have promised them are real burgers which are deliverable tomorrow evening, at the time we're going to want to eat them. So I've created two additional burgers owned by my children, in addition to all the physical burgers that currently exist, which are owned by either McDonald's, if they haven't been sold yet, or by customers if they have.

Does this mean that I've found an infinite supply of free burgers and should go into competition with McDonald's? No. Because I'm going to have to buy the burgers from McDonald's to supply to my children. They own two new paper burgers, but I'm short two burgers. So the net total world supply of burgers is unchanged.
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Hi. Co-Founder of Get Laid Beds here.

Happy to shed some further insight into the world of wood. You are indeed right about engineered wood being easy to shape & produce. The main driver really is all about cost. The reason IKEA's furniture is so cheap is down to how they've designed it which is also purely automated. Their design process will start with "how cheap can we possibly make this whilst having a structural integrity that will be accepted as satisfactory". Which essentially means, it won't last forever, but long enough for a few years. Which we all know and accept, myself included. You could say they are not environmentaly friendly in this regard, however, that's certainly not fair given their excellent sustainability efforts in other areas, such as aiming to be climate positive by 2030 and having a million solar panels on their store roofs.

"Engineered" wood is both high & low quality product, depending on the use. A glue-laminated beam can be as strong as steel in buildings. Composite cladding on facades of buildings can last for a centuries (tbc as we've not had time to see it degrade yet). But then there's the cheap end of laminated, fibre board, OSB, MDF cardboard filled, etc, which is mimicking wood but is far from it. A simple knock or exposure to moisture will ruin it's aesthetic and structure. There's many different uses for different situations.

So engineered wood can be both expensive and cheap depending on how it's made. It's often made from the recycling of wood or sawdust from other timber processing.

So then we have solid natural wood. There's a good reason it lasts for a long time and that's simply because tree's themselves have evolved to stand tall and strong. There's many types of softwoods and hardwoods which I won't go into. But the additional problem with producing at IKEA scale is not only is it more expensive, there is also the natural element of knots, splits, cupping, etc which deform the wood. We might lose 20% (waste factor) of the wood we buy (as we only make beds with 100% solid wood) because it's simply unusable. Even when the wood meets the structural criteria, it can also visually be very different between the same species because of whatever natural environmental influencers happened to that tree. So the whole process of using solid wood is much more challenging, expensive and time consuming to ensure the quality of the product is consistent. The "consistency" is also key for IKEA. However, the beauty and eco-benefits of natural wood are well worth, as well it lasting almost forever. So it's worth the investment for the long term.

Hope that helps.
Jonny

(Thanks for your order btw)
it is interesting that this comment criticising the west is not downvoted, but those that are criticising china are
You can use a simple printer, cut them and stock them, as they did...
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hm that is good to know! Haven't used KDE for a while though but maybe it's time to take it for a spin again.

Ah it seems that there is this program called keynav. Something I guess I could have guessed.

For browsers I love to use these pentadactyl/vimium/... extensions. Would there be anything similar for reguar desktop applications. I get that it would be a huge effort to support all the different toolkits though.
Your car example makes for a fun scenario where you lend someone a one-of-a-kind car, and that person sells it to someone else, and you manage to buy it back from that someone else (maybe for a quite high markup). Then when the time comes for the first person to buy the car back to return it to you, you either outright refuse to sell or ask for even higher markup. What will happen then?

Why do we even allow people to sell borrowed things?
It used to be around 8 cents back home per text. When you're in love, 1000 messages for 80$ was more than the average monthly wage back then..luckily most teens were on pre-paid plans.
At ~1:20:00 in the Clubhouse session with Elon Musk, Vlad is brought in and explains the last week's craziness with GameStop, why Robinhood has to limit trading of GME, AMC, NOK, etc.
It's not just on Hacker News.
Release notes for updates pop up when you start the game. Last weekend I was starting the game twice a day. New release notes popped up every time. The "twice daily release" came from two or more updates being pushed out per day running up to the official 1.1 release.

Since the 1.0 release last year Wube has published what, 2 or 3 blog entries including the 1.1 release announcement?
> Counterfeiting shares is extremely illegal (similar level to counterfeiting money) but it's very difficult to prove and even getting the court to approve subpoenas because of the way the financial industry has stacked the deck against investigations.

What the heck?