skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of this has to do with funding differences. Public defenders are famously underfunded but prosecutors have essentially unlimited resources. As a result they are on a fast-track to political fortune, especially if they "do their job well" and "win" (get a lot of convictions).

How can the truth-finding benefits of the adversarial system be preserved while leveling the playing field by equalizing resources?

My naive thought is that both parties pay into a common fund that is split equally between the prosecution and defense. But that seems like it has it's own set of pitfalls. Are there other models we can look to for ideas?
If you believe that (and it's a legitimate point of view), investing in Proof of Work secured cryptocurrencies is a terrible way of putting that belief into action, as PoW burns enormous amounts of resources merely maintaining the ledger of people HODLing their hoards.
I agree with this sentiment. I like the idea that, people who invest in crypto will think longer term about using that crypto to buy things. Just because it is deflationary doesn't mean people will spend less, they'll have to think more about the opportunity cost of what they are buying. And i think that's good for consumers and it's good for the planet.
English is my first language. I'm American on top of it. This is a clickbait title. It conveys an incorrect meaning. People can talk about formal definitions all they want - it doesn't matter. Language isn't always about formal definitions - it's more often about how people use it. In this case - the headline is being used to grab eyes, is clickbait, and is wrong about the contents of the article.

Your new headline would be better but it wouldn't have attracted any views.
Python is doing the actual lifting with C or Fortran, so I'd say brute force still applies quite a bit.
I hope we'll someday see a fully decentralized drm-free cheat resistant MMORPG where all your items and experience are guaranteed through blockchain.
To be honest, having someone affiliated with the justice department would not be seen as something that increases trust.

There are historical and current issues that cause this distrust, having an adversarial or multiple third parties is probably the best option for the US.
Logs of calibration procedures along with calibration results should be stored on the device and auditable along with test results.
Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
Would you consider Porsche an automaker? I assume so; then, it might surprise you that most of their revenues and profits don't come from producing and selling cars, but rather from financial products.
Esbuild-loader: Speed up your Webpack build with esbuild
Well it'll be amusing to see the playful knockoff names that Debian will come up with when rebranding Rust.

Will they go with the metal chemistry theme, go back to the original plant pathology one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...
Having personally worked on micropayment infrastructure (when dinosaurs were still roaming the earth) and thought about pricing and value and incentives, I suspect micropayments may actually disincentivize product use.

Let's say your digital asset manager used per-view micropayments. Browsing through your photos would be soured, however slightly, by the cheapskate voice in your head, wouldn't it?

What product would want their user experience to be saddled with that cloud?

(Or am I just an extreme cheapskate?)
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How is my statement biased? Men can suffer from unfair treatment as well. I never said anything to discount feminism, I simply stated one case where men are treated less well then women and I caveated that statement saying that this was based off of my own anecdotal experiences implying that your experience could be different.

Do you think it's possible to live in a world where women are the only gender that is mistreated? Or do you think it's more realistic to live in a world where infractions are committed against both genders?

This is off topic, but if my statement about this one case pissed you off because you're an ardent supporter of womens' rights I think you need to watch the video below and keep in mind... I literally never said anything AGAINST women's rights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY
We really need regulation for the large tech monopolies like Google.

There’s no recourse if you’re suddenly locked out of your account short of making the news or attracting attention on social media.
This part:

> A possible next evolutionary step for computers is persistent memory: large capacity non-volatile main memory. With a few terabytes of nonvolatile RAM, who needs an SSD any more? I will sketch out a proposal for how to build an versatile, general-purpose OS for a computer that doesn't need or use filesystems or files, and how such a thing could be built from existing FOSS code and techniques, using lessons from systems that existed decades ago and which inspired the computers we use today.

reminds me a bit of something I've long wanted to experiment with (or see someone else experiment with). Here's how I described it in a comment here on HN a while back [1]:

> I've toyed with the idea of replacing files with processes. If you have some data that you want to keep, you have a process that holds it in its process memory, and can give it other process via an IPC mechanism (if the other process is local) or over the network (if remote, although you could of course also use the network locally).

> I never got around to trying it out. I think I may have tried to start some discussion on usenet along these lines maybe 10-15 years ago, but no one seemed interested.

> A "directory" would simply by a process that provides some kind of lookup service to let other processes find the data storage processes that contain the data they are looking for.

> You'd still have disks on your computer, but they would be mostly used as swap space.

> The system would include some standard simple data holding and directory processes that implement a Unix-like namespace and permission system, but it would be easy to override this for data that needs special treatment. Just write a new data holding program that implements the special treatment you want and knows how to register with the standard directory processes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8311532
As someone who wants to use Rust for real world applications, what are some good use cases for Rust?
Web development is not its strong suite, apparently.

Or, better still, what have you personally built using Rust?
That's true of physical goods as well.
I think IOTA is out of business.
For the folks that loss the access, it is 100%.
The difference between those 2 firms is almost certainly due to chance. Again, VCs will tell you otherwise until they are blue in the face.
Yeah, exactly. I pointed out to them that I might be an attacker and my purchase of the domain didn't prove that I was who I said I was. They accepted that I was the person paying the bills, but said they couldn't do anything unless I was also the owner of the domain.

I figure that they either never thought through this process, or it was deliberately designed to make the cancelling process as awkward as possible. They're smart people, I think the latter.

So if they're going out of their way to be inconvenient to me, I'm going to go out of my way to never use their stuff.
If the existence of fiat currencies is to levy taxes, what better use-case for bitcoin can you imagine than to protect its user from taxes?
I agree, we need better laws around customer service and data handling, absolutely. For (as far as I could ever tell) no reason, Facebook marked my account as a bot in roughly 2015 and refused to let me access any of my account data until I proof of identity. They wanted a picture of my driver's license and a picture of me to confirm.

I never sent it in, instead emailing and asking if there was any other way to get verified, but never got a reply, and a short while later they deleted my account and all of the pictures and data with it. I'm pretty bummed out because in losing all that, I lost most of my pictures from high school. I have almost no pictures of myself or my friends for roughly a 7 year span of time.

It's my fault 100% for not backing it up, but that's not the point. I was more frustrated with the fact that, for no apparent reason, my entire account was locked and they demanded pretty intense verification to even just get it back. I haven't used Facebook or any of its platforms since, but I have to say it felt pretty gross to be handled like that.

It's pretty sus that these companies use our data for everything but have no actual express responsibility to it.
The development of Thread-ripper and Xeon product lines are amortized over a huge amount of servers/workstations from many vendors. It makes no sense for Apple to spend that much to develop a competing CPU for the tiny fraction of workstations that Apple makes. For Intel and high-end (and gaming)is where they make their money and margin so thats a big focus. Apples high-end workstations are a rounding error for Apple in terms of revenue.
Do you mean this joke? [1]
Don't disrespect the violists!

[1] (https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ab5oht/a_violists_3_...)
Save more money.
Closer: A few aliens arrive, look around, decide it is too hard to live here, then go home. But, they leave behind viruses that reduce the population by 90%. 100 years later, aliens come back in much larger numbers, this time to stay. At that point they offer the alloy.
Counter-counterpoint

They provide products like gmail for free because it allows them insight into people's communication which they can then leverage with search and ad networking to make way more than they could simply selling email services.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350968

That was more than 12 years ago, and there has been a steady stream of incidents like that one. If you're still using a Google account for critical stuff, you know what you're getting yourself into.
I understand that. That doesn't make it interesting.
To replace the waste of energy that is building giant sky-penises and glass palaces everywhere which pretend to signal economical strength (banks).

Until someone crunches the math on how much energy the construction and maintenance of every bank on the whole planet costs, including digging shiny rocks out of the earth, I am not sold on "PoW is a waste of energy".

It merely compresses the concept behind the existing banking system into its very essence to do that efficiently without bells and whistles.
actix-web seems really interesting, just from some cursory reading.

Also, from a performance standpoint, it seems to be _really_ good: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

This example in particular piqued my interest: https://github.com/actix/examples/blob/master/async_pg/src/m...

I have no experience in Rust whatsoever, but I feel inspired to try it out.
I think this is an interesting point however, banks today aren't just their IT infrastructure. For banks to function there are so many things that have to work, right down to the local branches and ATMs (and physically moving money around). I think this burning enormous amounts of resources argument isn't fully fleshed out yet. You almost have to think about the entire banking system and compare that to the entire crypto system. Has that been done? It would be interesting to see how this compares.
It happened to me several times in the past. Bitter taste, but that's life.
As noted in another comment, get microspikes or something like that and use a pole and you're plenty safe. I mean, you could fall down a flight of steps at home too. It definitely takes a bit more effort to head out if there's a bunch of snow and/or ice on the ground--which has led to me being a bit lazy since the last snowfall--but it's really not dangerous if you're properly dressed (though I would probably draw the line at current northern Midwest temperatures for a few days--though I have the gear for it).
That's interesting. I'm facing the choice of going to management for a pay cut in the short term but with longer term potential upside.
True, nice catch.
As a newbie to this, I got one of the olimex units with ready-to-go SD Card. I've had it for a couple of years, I think. I've tried various of the apps and have settled on using it as an always-on syncthing node and to run Privoxy on my home network.

To access away from home, it is running a Tor hidden service. Wireguard is also provided, so I'm thinking of trying that out as well. It snapshots, so if I get into trouble with a new app... I roll back. I keep all my syncthing data on an attached usb drive. I realize the SD card won't last indefinitely.

What makes it feasible for me is that installation, configuration, and backup is handled by its web interface. I haven't needed to edit config files.
Making tools for "idiots" didn't really work out so far, that's how we got Cobol and Java.

From my experience, empathy works better as a design strategy.
tl;dr, but I think we had something like that in CS class back in the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_Turing_machine
Right, memory controllers wouldn't be able to fully leverage SRAM DIMMs right out of the gate, but they would be able to partially leverage them right out of the gate and fully leverage them within a JEDEC cycle. It has been multiple JEDEC cycles since over-provisioning became common, so I suspect there must be something else preventing this.

SRAM costs way more, but afaik that's an artifact of market size, not fundamental. Hence the 1T1C vs 6T comparison to tease out the fundamental cost difference, which looks to be not worse than 3x-6x more expensive, which would put SRAM DIMMs will within reach. I lean on heinously expensive SRAM in my own embedded designs and would really like to see some market scale drive down those costs!
> - One big benefit of crypto is that it crosses borders and is relatively anonymous

I could be wrong but this feels temporarily true, but illegal in the long term. Is the US government working on adding regulations to cryptocurrency to make it "just another form of currency"? aka, have it regulated to the point where cross-border and anonymous would become synonymous with the likes of "tax evasion"?
Same tired old talking points, nothing new here. It would be nice to get an explanation of why people care so much, if it's so stupid. You don't see that many articles titled "my opinion on Tupperware", or "why I'm not a scientologist", or "why I won't buy Kanye West's new sneakers". At this point I find it hard to believe it's just hype-backlash that's triggering so many people.
Even non fake reviews suck.

The sheer scale of situations where the top review is negative describes something that ... is not a bug, is actually supposed to be that way, is how the dang app works by design for good reason ... is bonkers.

It seems like reviews are driven by people who don't know, and respond reviews by to people who don't know who describe what sounds like fundamentally broken things... so they give it a thumbs up and they're both completely ignorant.

The volume of people who do know the app and would see / write a review seems like it is MUCH smaller.

I had a game app update recently. I went to update it (one of the few times I go directly to the play store app). There at the top is a review that described how they saw opposing players "just disappear" during the game and raged about that 'bug'. But it's not a bug the game has some fog of war and view distance type mechanic. It's entirely expected / appropriate.... but there it is the top review.
How? Population increases and shared values decrease. And the number of topics and existing laws has increased, also contributing to the lack of shared values and positions.
I think the bet with your friend was sensible - but it does show the problem with bubbles, which is you can never predict when they go pop :)

I've got no idea if it will pop in 1 day or in 50 years, but I think I've just got to stick to my guns that the fundamentals aren't there. And maybe I'll loose a lot of money compared to investing, but again, you never know where you are in the bubble cycle!
Each Bitcoin transaction costs the electricity to power a home for three weeks, and that's just the mining. If it were ever subjected to rigorous AML, exchange control checks, etc., it would also accrue the overheads which apply to fiat.
I am enjoying reading articles like this since Bitcoin was $300. There will still be skeptics when Bitcoin will be $100,000 or more, I am certain of that.
If you ever maintain an Ethereum node, you know how hard it is.
That's a pretty unique take! I like it
Great story! Could relate to some of the emotions as I went from a founder ceo in biotech to sales engineer in tech, to software engg, then manager, then back to software engg with some unintentional devops detour in the middle!

That 'demotion' from founder ceo to sales engg was rough... but since it was in different geographies, I actually made more money and life quality was better!
Two major wallets have implemented it. Look towards the end under the subhead "Existing social recovery wallets."
Don't worry about anything, don't count anything and do what you like to do.
Migrating database storage objects from Oracle to Postgres
Periodic table entries here. Lots of ways to divide that space, but generally for me laptops were lighter elements, desktops heavier, and servers the heaviest. Virtual machines were all heavily radioactive elements (e.g. Uranium and Plutonim). Can't remember what I used the noble elements for.

Now I don't bother and just select the default. Or name it after where it's going to be, or what it's going to do, or when I got it. If I'm going to repurpose or move it I'll probably just reimage it anyway.

The wifi is still named "Periodic" though and it still uses a chemical makeup as the password (e.g. c3h5n3o9).
>Why can't we focus on the rights of both genders?

Ask yourself that question. In response to somebody writing about their experience changing careers you brought up how men aren't treated fairly.
Are any of those figures public?

I did a cursory search but couldn't find them so I went with slightly silly clickbait on the rationale that it was an order of magnitude less silly than the other comparisons being made in the thread. I stand by that: as "benchmarks," a bit adder is much closer to a PLL divider than a 64 bit full adder in a CPU cycle.

I fully agree that there's another order of magnitude before the comparison starts to become apples-to-apples, or bit-adders to bit-adders, but you're going to have to help with the search if you want to see it happen.
1491 is generally a good book, but this was not the mainstream consensus when it was written and the information available has changed somewhat in the intervening decades. There are a lot of reasons to think that virgin soil thesis specifically is an insufficient explanation. I keep a link to Livi-Bacci's [1] essay to recommend on this topic. It remains approachable without having become severely outdated. Another good (though increasingly dated) critique is Jones' Virgin Soils Revisited [2], which unfortunately goes into quite a bit of detail about the biomedical issues with VST.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2006.00116.x

[2] https://doi.org/10.2307/3491697
See my other reply for why PoW isn't the issue here.

But anyway, not every cryptocurrency uses PoW :)
Publication here:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabd7342

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd7342
I cannot give you details, like dates or version numbers, but I can give you a anecdote about when I lost the trust.

When they introduced Unity (? Their version of Gnome Shell, I think that is what it was called). I found unity after I did a `full-upgrade`. Suddenly my user interface was something that I could not understand, had no idea of how to use, and did not work very well. There was no path back to the user interface I knew well. I had to stop everything I was doing with the computer, way beyond what I had allocated for the upgrade.

I grizzled on our local Linux users email group (I vented I think) which was interesting because two people who worked for Canonical (Ubuntu's maker) and took it personally that I would call their employer a whole lot of bad things, for giving me "free software". I was furious.

Turns out I found later that Unity was not even ready for release and had been rushed out (I think I remember the reasons, but not sure enough to relate them).

All they needed to do was do a parallel release then I could have learnt it, evaluated it, they could have debugged it.

I went back to Ubuntu when they adopted the Gnome Shell - it is a good interface, I am convinced now.

But wind on several years and software I needed to have, but not use often, had to be installed in snaps was the final straw. Not just the waste (I want my laptop to be a integrated system, not a mess of different walled off packages) but the fact that I would no longer be in control of the updates. After the debacle of having a very buggy user interface foisted on me I am not ready to give them such control.

I understand what snaps are good for, but I am headed in a different direction.
But people are getting their information from those sources, so how would it come to light for them?
No, cause chat is down too. Solvlem Probbed!
Cool, thanks a lot! :)
It's supposedly about respecting the opportunity Googlers have to work at a big company with resources to change the industry. Like, I get it, but tone deaf...
> to an unbanked person

Who in this modern era is unbanked and how did that unbanked person turn around and spend the $1,000 in BTC you sent them?
> That's not what the laws on the books say. It's a colloquial term, and nobody like a pedant.

It was merely a play on words, but the point was that antitrust only kicks in when significant market power is involved, some kind of restraint on competition, whereas other laws protect consumers from abuses by companies of all sizes, even the smallest "mom and pop shop" companies.

> Ralph Nader said the same thing in the 60s and 70s. Consumer protection laws have been used to encourage economic concentration and the abuses of labor and society that always come with it. The American government has never succeeded at compliance regulation — it gets weakened and corrupted, and we always wind up getting the worst version of laissez-faire economics as a result.

Again, I find it strange how you think one set of laws can't possibly be intelligently and usefully applied by the government, while at the same time thinking another set of laws can, i.e., antitrust.

> Further, how would you make it "permanent"?

What do you mean? Laws are permanent by default, unless the legislators write an expiration date into the law.

> You know what is permanent? Court-ordered break-ups under the Clayton Act.

Tell that to AT&T. ;-)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...
Nothing wrong with being a feminist. Both genders deserve equal treatment. I consider myself to be a feminist.
It is like Government seized my bank asset and the voters help me get back...
The ZXing Barcode Scanner (which is the "official barcode/QR code scanner for Android, as far as _I_ am concerned) is also available on f-droid.org. There's no absolute guarantee that F-Droid apps are malware-free but they have at least been looked at by a competent team of humans, something that is not true of the Play Store.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.google.zxing.client.andr...