skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the EU would have loved that.

"The EU" entirely depended on Google not doing that. And by that I mean the bureaucracy and other apparatjik - not the people.

Had Google literally banned Europe the backlash would be large, large, large against 'the EU' from people who live there and were trying to live and do their day to day online activities.

Yeah, it'd be Evil, but sometimes companies should really swing back at heavy handed regulations.
“Compelling”
YAGNI is a double-edged sword. It's almost no additional overhead to write a class now if you think you might need to add methods and internal state later. But it's quite a bit of refactoring work if you decide not to write a class and then realize you need one after the fact.

Maybe this is an indictment of Python as a language, but I think it's a case of not taking anything too literally. YAGNI fetishism is like DRY fetishism all over again.
cryptocurrency proponents often discuss how manipulated and encumbered with politics normal fiat currencies are, but they don't seem to mind the obvious nation-state-level manipulation of BTC's price shrug
That is why Uniswap and other AMM DEX's are on the rise https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/what-explains-the-rise...
So Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein shouldn't face consequences for molesting women because it's weird and orwellian to face consequences for one's actions?
Sports is content. Sports provide relatively low-cost, widely available and reliably engaging content. Fill the timeslots, sell more ads.
Why isn't it artificial? If they already had sync between devices, making it unavailable is purely artificial.
Let's say you get FPGA and then what? Where are you going to use that signal? On a server that has "uncontrollable and unobservable SMM interrupts"?
Instead it's being manipulated by a few large whales.
Sportsing a ball across a patch of grass into a special area isn't really much of a victory.

All but the most historic games are forgotten almost instantly, and even the most historic games have a very limited cultural life.

How many people care what happened in baseball in 1971 - never mind 1921?

Meanwhile those people are still reliant on applications of quantum theory, which was first described in 1900, even if they're not aware why it matters to them.

The bigger problem with sports is they encourage superficial tribalism and even racism.

This was very obvious in the UK during and after the Brexit debate. Vocal Brexiters seemed to think "winning" and "losing" were a team event, and most - especially those with football team flags on their Facebook profiles - literally didn't seem able to understand that there would be hard consequences for the country as a whole which went far beyond the immediate result.
did you read the article? He calculates the risk using basic math and publicly available numbers from Bitcoin futures.
The dangerous separation of the American upper middle class (2015)
> research has found that Californian car commuters can be exposed to above-acceptable levels of unhealthy chemicals during their daily work trips

Whew! Good thing I'm not a Californian.
> p = S/(1-R)
Good luck with using old instruments in brave new world. At least ppl have learnt not to use stop-loss while trading crypto.
It is not a currency. It is an asset like gold for sure. I think because it is deflationary in nature, it will stay an asset. Currencies need inflation to encourage spending.
https://staffeng.com/guides/overview-overview

It's basically the track with the same job-level as management but different responsibilities.
Retail, rent and things that don't scale
BTC is similar to art paintings or Pokémon cards in many regards. The intrinsic value is based on scarcity and perception of people in BTC network.

The main driver of BTC is belief and hype, as more people believe in BTC there’s more hype and increase in demand and price.
Stackoverflow, Wikipedia, I'm sure there are others... sites where you can waste hours of your own (unpaid) time, creating content for the express purpose of helping others, only to have some asshole come along and delete it. I can't speak for anybody else, but the whole thing really diminishes my enthusiasm for contributing to these sites. Hell, I can't remember the last time I created a new Wikipedia article from scratch, after getting tired of the deletionist crap.

So yeah, I can totally understand Gregg's frustration. Who wants to volunteer hours trying to help others, just to receive a big "F you" for your efforts?
Get the Sticky Ducky add-on[0] for hiding fixed overlays, and add Fanboy's Cookiemonster list[1] to your adblocker of choice.

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I read the blog you mentioned and saw no mention of fabricated quotes. In fact Aaronson has blogged twice. The first time he said he words to the effect of: I talked to Metz extensively and told everyone else to, I didn't like the article but I'll keep talking to journalists as much as they want because the NYT is the "blockchain of civilisation". In the second he says he read the comments on his first blog post and changed his mind.
coreboot was created at a government lab.

https://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Who_is_working_on_coreboot.3F
I prefer a different dedicated database for each device. none of my accounts are used across devices. E.g. hw based compartmentalization is for me much better to reduce the cognitive overhead and avoid making mistakes.
Dollars have some amount of intrinsic value: they are the only currency accepted by the US government to pay any taxes due to them. Also, by force of law, anyone living in the US must accept dollars as a way to settle a debt that is due to them, which also gives them some intrinsic value.
I think this is true. As Internet speeds get faster we will simply stream all of our heavyweight apps and games in H.265.

* No piracy.
* Easier access.

If you are a software company selling desktop software this should have you salivating.
I have a Ryzen 2500U.

Random freezes when I am actually using the laptop are the most common. Infuriating.

Scrolling a webpage in Firefox using touchpad gestures is a risky business, more than half of the freezes happen when scrolling.

The fact that hibernation and sleep also don't work is just the icing on the cake.
A little superfluous. Couldn't we just assume that any blog post about any topic "might be intended to trigger or influence a wanted market behavior"? A news article critical of Amazon warehouse management could also be seen the exact same way.
> Murray is a eugenicist. Siskind openly endorses Murray's UBI proposal. A man is known by the company he keeps.

This is a really unhealthy stance. If you agree with one thing someone thinks, you agree with all of it? Are we supposed to find the tiniest bubbles of people who agree with us on everything and if they stray we cast them out?
My life is also in Emacs. I'm using it all the time on the new Macbooks and it's working great for me (gui mode, not terminal mode).

There are two major versions of Emacs on Mac. There's the "NextStep" version, which is part of the official emacs repository, and the "Mac" version, which is separately maintained.

* emacsformacosx.com runs in x86 emulation mode, but flickers when using lsp mode --> this is the version the author used, and I didn't find it to work well. It's the NextStep version.

* Mitsuharu Yamamoto's maintains the Mac port and has M1 patches in the "work" branch but not in the master branch. I use the work branch and am very happy with it. Compilation instructions: https://amitp.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-emacs-27-on-appl...

* in homebrew the emacs and emacs-plus packages both work on arm m1, but I haven't tried these as I prefer the Mac port over the NextStep version.

* homebrew "railwaycat" emacs is based on the Mac port, and it looks like it has m1 patches, but I haven't tried it either.

* The gccemacs branch was tricky to get working even on my x86 mac, and I haven't tried it on the M1 macbook. It requires libgccjit which is in x86 homebrew but not in arm homebrew (gcc is not yet available). The M1 feels so fast that I've not felt the need to use gccemacs.

TL;DR: Emacs is not a blocker, but the widely used version from emacsformacosx.com doesn't work as well as the Mac Port [https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/work/README-mac]
That logic makes sense. I am all for writing as simply as possible, and making code readable. But I understand that some may not be interested in that. I do know that some code bases tend to be more difficult to step into than others. I don't know if we can blame a language for this, or if we should be blaming the programmers. The language is a tool we can use to execute a task, but also to communicate how we are executing that task. If a developer has not written code in a way to make that obvious (or supplemented with comments), is it the fault of the language or the fault of the developer?

Of course, by extension, some languages have more complicated syntax (perhaps "less intuitive" based on languages you may be used to).

All said, I agree with you that some developers will indeed use higher level concepts which may not be understood immediately by lower level developers. I think this would occur even without those concepts embedded in the language itself, as the higher level developer would need create a solution to solve the problem anyway.
More tether FUD that has little to do with Bitcoin.
IPCDump: Open-source Linux debugging tool focuses on IPC
The OP can be a victim of the original article's author as well. I agree with your intention though.
You're not taking inflation into account.
> Ulbrich got [...] convicted on very very dubious hired gun charges.

No, he didn't. He got convicted of money laundering, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. Evidence related to the alleged murder for hire scheme was presented at trial and was weighed in the sentencing phase in terms of what sentence he got within the range authorized for the crimes he was convicted of, but he was not tried, convicted, or sentenced for “hired gun charges”.
For a decade?

There really is no alternative for where to park your money in 2021 unless you want to buy real-estate or stocks both of which come with their own massive set of problems.
Bitcoin is an awful currency for illegal transactions. A permanent public ledger waiting for eventual de-anonymization sounds like a prosecutors dream.

I never understood why people described Bitcoin as an anonymous currency, it really isn’t. Arguably physical currency is much, much more anonymous than Bitcoin.
> I am forced to ask if this legislation has made my web experience better in any way

Yeah, and women's suffrage caused longer lines at the polls because more people vote so you would have to wait longer. It's not about the experience, it's about your rights.
> Working on Bel was hard but satisfying. I worked on it so intensively that at any given time I had a decent chunk of the code in my head and could write more there.

I'll have to say reading this makes me feel a bit sad for pg. It seems that he worked on Bel extensively for four years, and the end result was something which appeared on the front page of Hacker News for one day and then disappeared. I haven't seen it mentioned in any community which are actively working on programming language design (e.g. Rust, Zig, TypeScript). Maybe he's happy with the result regardless of how useful people have found it, but surely it must be somewhat disappointing to see it go unnoticed by?
Ah, well if he uses basic math, his conclusions must be correct.
What probability to meet a dinosaur walking next to your house? It is 50%, either you will meet it or not.
Trolly McTrollface’s Blog.

Username checks out.
It was never meant to be a value store. First sentence of the whitepaper: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution".
The Ready100 looks enormous, and like it was designed by Mattel during the early 1980's when toy companies were dabbling in computers.

I'm not so sure about this VT-69, either. You could just get a TRS-80 Model 100 off of eBay for $80 and be done with it. The only downside of the 100 is the small screen, but if you're only using it as a dumb terminal anyway, that's not horrible. There's even abandonware to make the TRS-80 display 60 or 70 columns.
Tip: you must grant your terminal application "Full Disk Access" in Security & Privacy settings in order to poke around this directory.
Bluetooth Overlay Skimmer That Blocks Chip
It is optional, but still part of the base system. It's a bit like how you could use Add/Remove Features to remove "standard" parts of Windows.
I am personally long on Bitcoin. Such a crash is just a buying opportunity. I don’t even consider any part of speculating Bitcoin value on a time horizon less than 10 years.
Well, Free Pascal was never as fast as Delphi and i doubt its feature set would allow it to be as fast anyway. Delphi only supported a single platform for a single CPU for the largest majority of its lifetime whereas Free Pascal supported a ton of different CPUs and platforms while also adding support for a variety of different Pascal dialects at the same time and often extending the language beyond what you'd see in Delphi - all that adds up quickly.

Still, as i wrote, in practice FPC is quite fast. Lazarus itself is almost two million lines of code and yet it compiles and links in seconds.
There's only one gold... of the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin has become the store of value, by consensus, but that consensus is far more easily popped than the consensus of Gold's worth
The entire financial system is built on fraud. Corporations are crypto are the prime beneficiaries. For Bitcoin to collapse, all of society would have to collapse.
So I own some crypto too, but the dollar has a much larger social network effect of people who agree it's the store of value for the future, no? So does the Euro. It's a bit weird that you would claim that bitcoin's intrinsic value is that it's a store of value, but then deny the same reality for other traditional currencies.
Finally updates on NASA's VIPER mission to lunar south pole
If you haven't seen it before, you might enjoy this: https://youtu.be/2XLZ4Z8LpEE (Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal).
Paper money is legitimized by the government requiring you to pay it in that denomination. This then gets further legitimized via bonds, bank lending, etc.

Competing tenders in most countries are outlawed. It is an enforced shared belief.
We use bullit, and scoutAPM. So we are well aware of N+1 queries. Edit: but thanks for the suggestion. Will have a look if it works better than bullit.

There's a difference, however, between being aware of them and fixing them. Especially when they were caused by an unrelated change; when you cannot just roll back that change.
I'm guessing you didn't buy any stocks around april last year? :(
The guy is a notorious tether truther, but it's not surprising to see most of HN drinking that koolaid.
> I'd love for Google to give the EU a solid reason to encourage homegrown (and tax-paying) alternatives to big US tech

Big tech pays it's taxes in Europe, via Luxemburg and Ireland in a 100% legal way. If Europeans countries are serious about collecting tax revenues they claim should be theirs, all they have to do is simply write it in the tax code.

If Europe wants to compete, the first thing it has to do is fix it's talent retention problem. Build more and pay more.

Easy to whine about these "evil foreign tech giants", harder to tackle the real issues! Will paying coders more get bureaucrats re-elected? Will going after large corporations using the same laws as the tech giants help them getting re-elected?
This seems like such a weird pricing model. My single highest-priority requirement for a password manager is access from both computers and my phone.
I've tried really, _really_ hard to like Bitwarden. But I ran into 2 huge issues, that ended up being blockers for me:

1. Sharing is super-confusing. I was trying to organize things for my mom, as well for my wife and I. And you have to create these "organizations". And they makes things really confusing for a variety of reasons. They are a different pricing/SKU. And the UX around them is not good. It's not clear where things are being created a lot of the time, and who may or may not have access. It just was a really bad experience.

2. It was outrageously slow for me. I use Enpass otherwise, and it comes up right away, and searching is relatively fast. But Bitwarden always had this delay. And it was a huge pain point because it wasn't clear immediately if there were just no results, or if I just had to wait a few seconds. And sometimes things would pop up unexpectedly.

So I've continued using Enpass. It has _by far_ been my favorite password manager. It's no open source, but it uses Sqlite and SqlCipher under-the-hood, and I have full control over where it syncs my data to. Sharing is still a problem (mainly because of the architecture decisions - there is no "central server"), but everything else is so great that I'm fine making that tradeoff.
Any article posted here could cause market movements. We discuss public companies all the time.
Maybe when someone invents a “free” consensus scheme that actually competes with PoW’s security properties. There are plenty of reasons to suspect this isn’t possible.
I've heard that certain mineral deficiencies in an extended family member of mine caused them to love the smell of gasoline, and to crave and eat dirt.
Ok.

More importantly, I am guessing you don’t have any model that predictively associates whether you like person’s writing at a particular instance in time with their efficacy as a therapist.
Just a note on the first paragraph and Columbus, I always liked to think in terms of 'Columbus wasn't the first person to discover America, but rather he was the last person to do so.'
Nutrition from a biochemical standpoint: raypeat.com
okay now i wish we would use segment. what's the main point to use segment? (given that you're building your v1 on top of that)
What about "Old Car Smell'?
> That’s where pattern matching is most useful, as in the article‘s second example (`match point`), plus it would make it more obvious that the behaviour of `match` is different from C’s `switch`.

Meanwhile, the top post on /r/python for the last few days has been "Ladies and gentlemen - switch cases are coming!" This feature and its footgun syntax are going to be a disaster for the casual Python audience.
it's not the "only" sourcing of the main claim, merely an example. (did you read the article?)

> Alarmed by the devices’ sophistication, officials opted to warn a small number of potential targets in briefings that identified Supermicro by name. Executives from 10 companies and one large municipal utility told Bloomberg News that they’d received such warnings. While most executives asked not to be named to discuss sensitive cybersecurity matters, some agreed to go on the record.

> “This was espionage on the board itself,” said Mukul Kumar, who said he received one such warning during an unclassified briefing in 2015 when he was the chief security officer for Altera Corp., a chip designer in San Jose. “There was a chip on the board that was not supposed to be there that was calling home—not to Supermicro but to China.”
I believe the opposite to be accurate, as we have seen in the past.
I see this mindset a lot but I don't really get it. You'd rather blame the legislation for forcing the websites to disclose all the tracking that they do instead of blaming the websites for tracking you in the first place?

I'm very happy that I can at least click "say no to all" when I get to a new website. Hopefully if enough people do that, they'll realize that the current approach is counterproductive and switch to a different model eventually.

I don't know if you've ever bothered to go through the list of "third parties" you can now opt-in to track you, but I'm frankly amazed by the sheer number of them. Literally hundreds. Before the GDPR I knew that I was tracked online, but honestly I underestimated the scale of it all. Apparently hundreds of companies around the world used to track my every step online. Good riddance.
And bitcoin was supposed to hit $1,000,000 last year (or was it the year prior?).
What are the odds of a 50/50 yoy event not happening for 11 years straight?
Not really. Sports are a fundamental part of every day life for arguably the majority of the population. I do think there is a hang over from the past though as arguably gaming or social media could be considered as such too.

What does grind my gears, however, is how the British media (including BBC News) think that the results of TV shows or the things that happen on soap operas are news. The fact that a person dressed up as a sausage won a TV talent contest or that a character died on Eastenders is not national news, IMHO.
I happily pay for Bitwarden, once tried Lastpass and it was horrible.
You don’t need to solve the halting program, you just need a way to construct programs that halt (or close the connection), which is way easier.

Many languages have some sort of `finally` or `with` construct tailored for this use case.

Remember, we’re code writers, not arbitrary discriminators.
Defense projects made West Coast the promised land for physicists after WWII
Given that the current world exchange currency requires 43 aircraft carriers and 6,185 nuclear warheads (+ all the support they need, thousands of very worhtwhile human lives a year, etc), any electricity consumption seems a small problem. Not to mention that the oil-to-electricity transition would require ridiculous investments anyway.
He probably made it for himself, not to change the world. Or at least you get that sense when studying it intensively.

I’m not sure anyone else has studied it intensively, but perhaps there are one or two.

It changed the way I code, at least. I also snagged a few of the library functions for my own lisp.
Sequoia consists of a number of components. There is the low-level crate. We released version 1.0 of that in Dec. 2020. There is sq, the CLI tool. We released that a few weeks ago. We've barely started work on the high-level interface.

Just because we plan to write a high-level tool, doesn't mean the low-level crate is hard to use. On the contrary, our experience is that it is pretty easy to use and actually does a good job hiding a lot of the low level details that don't need to be tweaked. For instance, I ported the pep engine from gpgme (GnuPG's high-level interface) to Sequoia's low-level interface. The initial port required about half as many lines of code.
The stock market continues to go up even though its adoption is already widespread. The reason is that governments continue to print USD, and other currencies, which they get invested, re-loaded out, etc. I expect that this can continue in Bitcoin as well for quite some time if there continues to be a shared belief in its intrinsic value.
It's so simple: You need to be credible to make valid claims. If you get caught for faking photo evidence on a story accusing China bugging the motherboard, your story is done. And even if they did, they are getting away with it because you lost credibility in the first place.
I don't think that's true at all. Inflation of fiat is widely accepted as people know more gets printed all the time. You know your dollar will be worth less next year due to inflation. This is why people invest in interest baring accounts and stocks. Dollars by themselves lose money over time.