skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, consistency and availability are the problem here. While enforcing one of the property, you lose on the other. Not sure how would you achieve those opposing properties without introducing huge amount of complexity.

In this case, replication consists of communication between 2 instances, and when one them fails you need to pick consistency or the availability.

Paxos and Raft introduce consensus using multiple instances communicating with each other to mitigate those problems. Implementing correctly communication with 2 instances is hard enough, implementing it correctly for n instances is for sure harder.

In Memgraph, we actually tried to implement Raft and we did manage to some degree, but the effort was too much, especially when you look at the results we got (protocol that didn't work for many edge cases).
For a healthy price premium.
Why don't we care about how dynamic typing contributes to global energy consumption? Runtime overhead for preserving type info in memory (on large quantity of machines) is probably comparable to crypto mining (which is performed on very few machines in comparison).
You should delete Facebook, FB Messenger, Instagram, and all Google apps as well... but people have long since decided that privacy doesn't matter to them.
Because "large" here is still "very tiny". Large with respect to "p-values" isn't the same as "actually large". Equating the "positive results" to "winning the powerball" is not a fair comparison. If there were Powerball-level results here we wouldn't need further studies to confirm the effect exists.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a loop of approx. 3 minutes
You could make it a debit card and require people to deposit BTC. But in general the USD is a better settlement currency. That is why BTC isn't being used in transactions.

BTC is a pump and dump play.
Not OP, but one rationale would be that there are replacements for Go. Flutter seems to exist in a space where there aren't a ton of solutions, since I don't think react-native works on desktops (yet? Unless that's changed). If you kill Go, you can use Python or C++ or Java or etc. It might not have the exact paradigm you want, but it'll work.

I don't think it's a great justification, though. You could probably add Electron support to react-native for fewer engineer hours than it takes to build and maintain Flutter.
My favourite as always: the SGI Indy page- it was just everywhere back then!

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=23

Not to forget of course Jurassic Park and its Unix systems, some of you may know this:

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=11
I own zero cryptocurrency, they are not aligned with my investment strategy. But I do think they are an experiment worth pursuing.
I cut my game programming teeth on DJGPP and the Allegro game programming library. Wonderful experience to have such a powerful system available to me, for free! I owe a lot to those days of tinkering and the ability these systems offered to explore.

Thank you for those times.

Side note: the title for this submission really needs to change, which anyone reading the linked article should agree with. It is never spelled with initial caps and then lowercase letters. It literally says so at the very top of the article.
> How is one supposed to share part of a database with another system or user without ultimately resorting to the file metaphor?

With an access-controlled view, perhaps?

Your question isn't entirely academic, incidentally, the Open Data movement prompted a lot of organizations (particularly government or government-like ones) to address this sort of issue (especially with geodata) en masse starting about a decade ago, and providing snapshots in the form of downloadable files is generally seen as an important but generally inferior when-all-else-fails solution for most use-cases that don't involve forking the data and/or bulk-processing it into a new form. Live read-only access to the system of record or a DMZ'd proxy or cache is usually preferred.

And the Semantic Web / Linked Open Data movement addressed a similar set of issues two decades ago.

I suppose it's time for another turn if the wheel, perhaps with a distributed web twist.
Kiro: A tiny UTF-8 terminal text editor written in Rust
In the US you certainly can't for some items. We ordered a food product from amazon and what arrived was not what was described. Amazon said they won't take returns of food items. That finally convinced my wife to de-amazon our purchases (I'd been pushing in that direction for a while).
hehe, that is a good one

up there with "It's for a church honey. NEXT!"
More verified account spam, targeting Elon Musk again
hacked account

https://twitter.com/Amyjoi16/status/1359519961757138947

edit: Judging by the "This Tweet is unavailable." messages, it looks like twitter has arrested and ghosted the account, but there will be more.

it has made many such posts about a fraudulent giveaway

website:

elon-money . site

The scammers keep changing their tactics in response by efforts by twitter to curtail the problem. The main issue is, the scam is too profitable, so this means scammers have great incentive to persist. look the wallet addresses.
Scammers are making $100k/hour from this. Never before has it been possible to make much money in so little time without any of the usual consequences of crime. Even drug dealers cannot make this kind of $ easily, and there is the whole aspect of being killed in a drug deal. I would go so far as to call it a historic first. It is literally the perfect crime.

The US govt. should req. twitter hire people to manually delete crypto scams , whatever the algos are unable to catch, and reimburse the labor costs.

This is potentially a bigger problem than anyone can imagine and I think requires a national response, much like the war on drugs, if crypto gains mainstream adoption. If supposedly savvy internet users are falling for this by the droves even after significant media coverage of the July hack, what hope is there for everyone else.

These scams have netted about $50 million total since 2018 according to analytics firms through a combination of YouTube and twitter. This value taken keeps rising as bitcoin keeps rising. I can imagine scammers not only hacking more accounts but targeting radio and tv markets too. Also we can expect more hacks similar to the July 2020 hack, to spread this scam. Fraudulent crypto giveaways alone could become a $100 million-$1 billion dollar a year industry by 2023.
That's moving the goalposts. The concern was for the native UI to get abandoned, it isn't. It may, or may not. The existence of the cross-platform version is hardly an indicator. If anything, having only the macOS version limited their reach and future expansion.
You're probably wrong about most social issues
Markets don't account for externalities. That's the reason this is an issue — people as individuals are willing to pay for the energy they spend mining cryptocurrency, but as a society it's a huge waste of energy and a massive source of carbon that is entirely unnecessary. Like, I don't just want to say "the tragedy of the commons" over and over again, but you can't just wave your hands and go "the free market will ensure that we don't emit too much carbon"
It is a really low form of argument to simply use the word "triggering". Implying that the original poster doesn't have any real reasoning behind what they are writing, no original thoughts or responsible viewpoints that they have worked on - instead that they are "triggered", - thus are reacting in a simply emotional way. Implying that somehow all of their argument can be simply discarded.

Really? You mean that just because you have used the word "triggering" (there are no other meaningful arguments in your comment), that would somehow invalidate an argument? What grade is that logic from?
C++ has massive adoption and billion of lines of codes in active use. IMO Rust is already superior syntax-wise in almost every area but C++ is going nowhere any time soon.

I'm sure some C++ codebases will outlive everybody posting in this thread.
> my experience with Amazon is more positive than negative

I don't dispute that. But a lot of other people have issues with dropshippers, fake products, radioactive products[1], unreliable reviews, etc.

When I stopped using Amazon, I realized I was returning ~90% of all my purchases just because the product was fake, described wrong, low quality, or just not durable enough to last even a month.

Yes, it's great to be able to return things, but it's a lot nicer to feel reasonably confident that the person who sold a product to me actually believes it's a good fit for what I want as a consumer.

1. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/nuclea...
I believe that Deno (the "successor" to Node being written by Ryan Dahl) is supposed to fix this for server-side JavaScript/TypeScript. It doesn't grant any permissions to anything unless you specifically give them out (so you can say that only a specific module gets access to the filesystem, for instance, and on top of that it can only access /srv and not /etc).

https://deno.land/manual@v1.7.2/getting_started/permissions
Slightly OT:-

I really hope Apple Watch SPO2 is more accurate.

The current version is not accurate enough to use as a replacement for a pulse oximeter

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/skeptical-cardiologist/88...
Is there such a thing as a 120V-only USB charger?
I am not up to date with the latest developments. Is POW, as in blowing away heat, fundamental to all coins? Is there such a thing as "Proof of Service", or "Proof of Meaningful Work"? Tho, I assume everything can be exploited by twisting it into meaningless, but more competitive "work", coming down to just generating heat...
> Are there really places that don't observe DST and also don't change their working hours?

Yes, literally every state/province in North America that doesn't observe DST. I don't know what goes on in Europe, but nobody in Arizona for example changes the open/close time of their barbershop, restaurant, or gas station solely due to the time the sun rises...
The existence of other beliefs that were overturned, even ones with a high emotional value now does not support unrelated ideas.

Put more simply: just because gay rights campaigners were ultimately vindicated doesn’t mean you’re their modern equivalent.
Most people mining use something like NiceHash, which rents out your hashpower to people who use it to mine the currently most efficient asset (usually ethereum/monero/doge+ltc)

Mining bitcoin with a GPU would take around 5000 years in the best case scenario to pay off _with free electricity_
Generalizations wrapped with misconceptions.

I hate ads and am a privacy advocate. However, I'm not going to stretch the facts. Yes it's technically possible to hand back the searched words to ad providers. But as of writing, you have no proof that OP did that. Using adsense doesn't mean you're plugging in that data back into Google. What reason does the app developer have to do that, unless they were paid or something to do so?

"Why would a dictionary need ads" well, because someone made the app. And maintains it. And provides it for free in exchange for a tracking cookie. Since the datasets are most likely free, they not possess the ability to even sell it. Who knows, you certainly don't unless you're the author or did the research.

Privacy and security are not absolute. It's a model. It's a series of tradeoffs. To parrot "but m'privacy!" is only doing harm and isn't solving privacy related problems.
It would be solved in the same way those problems are solved today, through court. Not following court orders ultimately leads to enforcement through force. You'd end up arrested and jailed at some point.

>> If we are not a bitcoin miner, then how will we get the funds to begin with? Right now I can trade fiat for it, but in the future my children would not be able to trade fiat for it (assuming it's as good as you say it is). So, they will become indentured servants to the bitcoin miners.

I don't quite understand the point you are trying to make here? Cash just don't magically appear today either. Why wouldn't they be able to trade fiat for crypto in the future?
Yes, the only question is what amount of value it will store. N.B.: Zero is an amount.
The US also has small claims court, with the primary advantage being no lawyers and low fees.

The whole "can't get legal fees" is moot in the US since awarding of legal fees to the winner is extremely rare.
I wouldn't attribute this to only laziness. At the time people weren't yet aware that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change. It's also pretty cheap to just pump fossil fuels out of the ground. On the other hand, people back then did know that fried potatoes taste quite good. And you can turn them into vodka too.
It makes sense to only use a single UI toolkit. If some of your stuff is cross platform, it's probably easier to write the single-platform stuff on the cross-platform toolkit than it is to have your devs need to know 2 or more toolkits.
I work on developer infrastructure at Google. Opinions my own.

I think it typically comes down to a few key leaders having the political capital/will to enforce policies like this. Google's `third_party` policies[0] were created relatively early on and were, as far as I understand, supported by high level technical leaders.

The ROI of policies like these is not always immediately evident, so you need the faith of key leaders in order to make room for them. Those leaders don't necessarily need to be high in the org chart — they just need to be respected by folks high in the org chart.

As a counterfactual, establishing Google's strong testing culture seems to have been a mostly bottoms-up affair. Good article on the history of that at Mike Bland's blog[1].

0. https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/
1. https://mike-bland.com/2011/09/27/testing-grouplet.html
External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs
> I can see no way that consuming more energy can result in an improvement to the environment (unless that energy usage was directly related to improving the environment).

Literally the entire point of the comment you are responding to was to outline how bitcoin mining can help support the economic viability of renewable energy projects like wind farms.
Brain wallets are hilariously bad, if you make it up yourself; a randomly generated key is far superior and can still be memorized. Search up "brainflayer" for just one example of a brain wallet cracker.
What makes you think I don't do this?
I think that OP is saying that science has become exceedingly politicized over the last decade. In which case they're right. Politically tainted science has emerged from the entire political spectrum, and it's enough to make you not want to trust what anyone claims to be science.
Title is misleading IMO. The study has nothing specific to do with Apple Watch. They mentioned that they used "a commonly worn commercial wearable device (Apple Watch)" for testing. Any device with continuous heart rate monitoring will do.
Sure, I never argued against that.
HRV is neither pulse rate or blood oxygen. It is variations between heart rates, and the reason this is fascinating is because HRV is a significant leading indicator, long before the other indicators which are lagging.

HRV is increasingly becoming a very important metric. When your body is under stress (mental or physical) the heart because tightly sequenced. Under normal, healthy conditions it has slight lags and leads based upon breathing and other conditions.

This post will be dead given that dang is a pathetic bitch and a *horrid* moderator, but for those enlightened enough to use showdead.
> Wtf happened to HN?

> This is a fucking wrapper around an open source text editor

People like you are no longer receive attention for shouting and throwing a tantrum. You and your negative comments are drowned out.

So, what happened to HN? It has improved. Hop aboard and take a swig of positivity buddy.
The energy that goes into a Bitcoin transaction doesn't just pay for the one transaction. It also pays for the security of all the value stored in the rest of the system, and that's actually where most of the revenue for mining comes from - inflation, not fees.

But also, Bitcoin transactions aren't typically buying coffee from your local store. It's very often international, and Bitcoin transactions offer a finality and immediateness that can't be found in other financial systems.

But also, in many cases Bitcoin is your only choice to transact at all. Our business keeps getting rejected by payment processors such as Stripe and PayPal, and at this point Bitcoin is our only option to get revenue from Europe. As a result, Bitcoin is making things possible for us and our users that simply aren't possible at all without Bitcoin.

If you think the fees are absurd, make a system that gives all the same benefits to us without costing so much. So far, we don't have an alternative, and we are very grateful that Bitcoin exists as an option.
Maybe this is too idealistic, but like I said, the root issue feels like energy not being priced correctly (i.e., in a way that captures the true costs of energy consumption to the climate/planet).

Rough analogy to "safer systems over safer processes": if an intern presses a big red button that brings down google, the problem isn't that they pressed that button, it's that there's a button any intern can just press to bring down google.

The fact that the market allows trades that are net negative is a bug. Bitcoin just happens to be the intern that pressed the button.

BUT, if we're in a state where we can't get rid of the big red button, it seems reasonable to get people to stop pressing it in the interim.
> Not only are they viable, they are hugely more profitable without the human expenses

I agree with you, but what I meant by "viable" was more from a consumer perspective.

> This inhuman model - yes, I think that is exactly what it is - will displace everything else that simply can't compete in runaway capitalism.

While I think you're mostly right, Amazon is eventually going to burn enough buyers that they go back to the more trustworthy brick-and-mortar stores.

Most people I personally know have already done this. They may search for something on Amazon, but they will go and buy it somewhere else.

I'm obviously part of a very specific subset, but it's going to hurt Amazon eventually, especially if the US takes a more consumer-friendly regulatory approach than it has for the past few years (which it will).
Because I don't like having cruft. It's simple.
And why not?

What backs gold? It is more durable than tulip petals

The more people buy Bitcoin as reserves the more it IS reserves. It is a network effect, man.

That’s how languages and cultures work too.
Not a fan of this sort of argument logic.

Y is like X to a lesser degree, and no it's not as good as Z, but does that mean Y is bad? We're only talking about X and no it's not a good store of value given the other options.
You might want to look at bevy, there are some great tutorials available for it: https://bevyengine.org/
Being able to store their wealth without being affected by the endless money printing is the benefit.
Love the idea! Is there a place to signup yo get notified when you arrive in SF?
Other comments in this thread are claiming bitcoin makes it much easier to launder money. So which is it? Zero privacy or increased privacy and anonymity?
> So unless Trump comes back for re-election and wins, I don't think you need to worry.

There will always be someone similar to his thinking, but more competent in execution and networking. The world was incredibly lucky that Trump had a short attention span and was pretty much seen as disgusting by most of the political establishment of both parties - they saw him as an useful tool for their own purposes (tax cuts, immigration/environment/anti-LGBT/anti-abortion policy), but didn't let Trump accomplish much else.

To make it worse: the Republican Party is so overrun with rabid Trumpists and so dependent on his voter base (because moderates have fled to the Democrats) that they cannot even sanction someone like MT Greene, who openly spouts QAnon conspiracies. What once began with the Tea Party and had its culmination with the Trump Presidency will not be vanished easily... to gain back the moderate side of voters, the Republicans would have to commit to a cleaning so deep that it may reduce them to opposition for many years - in a time where lots of the population are going to shift left as an after-effect of the coronavirus shocks and the "old" Republican voter class gets demographically eliminated.

They are caught between a rock (demographics) and a hard place (essentially, call them what they are, Nazis and fascists), and are running out of time. It is very well possible that they double down on the right-wing train in 2022 / 2024 for one last shot at success.
I'm already working for myself for past 7 years. It worked out well for me so far in my perception. But I made lots of sacrifices.
How is it backing? What does the government guarantee in exchange for $1USD (or some other amount)?

The government issues USD, it doesn't back it.
The GQL features have nothing on GraphiQL+Explorer. Depending on how much you value the native UI, dynamic features etc it may still be worth it. It is for me, but I use it alongside GraphiQL all the time.
Yeah, this is my take as well. I plan on doing TryHackMe/CTF write-ups on GitHub/Medium/etc, but there's no way I would be using this at that price range for something like that, where it's maybe 3 images per post and one or two posts per month. Maybe I can get by with the free offering, though, but I'd like to make the screengrabs a bit more legible.
>Sorry, this password is already in use. (But matches all criteria, after 17 attempts.)

That was good fun
I'm interested in sane semantics. In this case, that calls for block-level scoping. Those who introduced pattern matching should have understood that the lack of block-level scoping _before_ this PEP does in no way support the continuing of the status quo. The language after this PEP has changed and has turned into one where block-level scoping is appropriate in this case.

I'm honestly _not_ interested in block-level scoping in this case because I would _never_ have wanted this PEP to be accepted. This feature was quite controversial on the various python mailing lists, and yet the steering committee accepted it anyway. The steering committee might consider leading with a bit more humility and _not_ accepting such controversial PEPs. This is an example of language devolution and not evolution.
>Both are probabilistic and highly unlikely.

A simple case of this happening with bitcoin is if the network fragmented. For example if a country had a firewall which temporarily blocked bitcoin. The country would continue slowly adding blocks which would likely revert when they reconnected back with the rest of the network.
Sure, let me help you: Apple, Amazon, Tesla and some third-world real-estate have made x100+ gains in the last 20-30 years. It's not the fact that you are getting old, but that speculating about future yield is a business.

There is no reason to speculate about Bitcoin, the same as there is no reason to speculate about real-estate land going up in Antarctica .
It's the difference between the "legacy" government (your traditionally elected public officials), and the "efficiency" government of bureaucracy. The legislature in the US has offloaded the power to make law to a multitude of bureaucratic agencies through the use of administrative law, as distinct from legislative law. Through the acts that establish these agencies, they are granted the power to create and enforce these administrative laws, which often leave the law-breaker with little recourse other than capitulation. The book National Security and Double Government by Michael Glennon is a fantastic resource for those interested in learning more.