skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How so? I've switched back and forth between Erlang and Rails at various companies. I still find Ruby a great way to get things done quickly and cleanly. I haven't used Elixir quite as much. It's a nice language, and I think genuinely improves on Erlang in some ways, but it's more the BEAM system that I like about it rather than it being a lot more productive than Ruby.
> You can't escape "inflicting" a moral stance on the world.

Only if you start from the assumption that such things as bitcoin mining ought to be regulated in the first place. You're right - we are a 'socially cooperative species', and we're good at it. Leave us alone to cooperate and don't invoke some government authority.

I'm arguing that involving a governmental authority to arbitrate morality is a can of worms that really doesn't need to be opened here.

> Nothing more behind that statement

Fair enough, I thought you meant to take that statement farther than you did.
This is a good point. If we ignore obvious key-value examples, I’m curious about how much data really isn’t relational.
It’s trying to imply that the dollar is collapsing and everyone is rushing for the exits, which isn’t true by any other measure.

These arguments are dishonest because they treat Bitcoin as a dual currency/asset but then only compare to the M2 money supply (currency) while ignoring the total wealth of the United States (including assets).

These arguments also confuse quantitative easing with traditional government debt spending, and they ignore that the stimulus money is designed to fill gaps in the economy left by COVID, in which case inflation would be negligible (although I think the US is overshooting that target)

They also ignore the fact that crypto isn’t the only exit for holders of USD looking to avoid inflation. They can invest in stocks or assets (crypto is a narrow subset of this), or they could exchange into the currency of another nation.
Do solar and wind cost estimates account for the sheer volume of land? How much land would be required to convert us fully to green energy (where “fully” means not only replacing existing electrical applications but also transforming other fossil-fuel operations such as transport and various heavy industry applications and residential/commercial heating and etc)? Also, don’t we need more storage than 4 hours? What about those times when weather patterns mean little sun or wind for days or weeks on the scale of the whole country? I’m not trying to be a wind/solar pessimist; these seem like important questions and I don’t hear them discussed often.
Perfect example was the youtube-dl. Making an app to download videos from YouTube is relatively trivial for most semi-experienced developers but that doesn't mean I want to invest the time doing it, plus the effort of keeping it up to date every time YouTube changes something. So youtube-dl is enabling me and less technical people to download content from YouTube, and it's "going away" for a short time caused an outcry.

So there's a difference between "this is possible" and "this is a tool that makes it really easy"
The issue for me is not quantity but time. 1000-10,000 (or even much longer) years for decay is an incredible amount of time for the human race. Written language only appeared ~5500 years ago.

Let’s say ancient Rome 2,000 years ago made and stored a substance that kills everyone exposed to it, would we expect that substance to still be intact and unblemished right now?
Most re-read books and Clojure’s REPL
If you've got so much to hide, that you'll use ungainly security systems that others find too much trouble... perhaps you are shady?

The given example of encrypted email to order lunch is a step further; this is someone who is using inconvenient technology for the joy of the playing with it, instead of any purpose that might be shared by the nongeek.
In general, my remark was less about absurdity and more about how the same set of incentives can produce both consumer-friendly and consumer-hostile behaviors, sometimes from the same company.

Cyberpunk stories tend to focus on the "consumer-hostile" part, whereas I think the superposition of the two and the permanent conflict between them is way more interesting.

(For instance, you almost never see review systems or consumer watchdogs in cyberpunk stories)
Making efficient use if mongodb is very difficult but if you build your app and expectations correctly you can get something very performant. For example pre-4.x listing huge collections was unexpectedly extremely slow.
What if, just hear me out, we collectively decide we don’t really like the fb style social media and there actually isn’t a replacement. What if we just moved on?
For everyone who hoped to read about the programming language instead of penguins:

https://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/logo.shtml

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo.html
What is brittle about 0s and 1s? Do you think bit rot is a real thing?
Girls can and are part of the toxic masculinity problem.
Are you sure about that?

I was under the impression that any program with a hash that had not been seen yet must be first approved remotely by a central server before it is allowed to run:

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
> deciding for people what might improve their lives

I don't believe I did this. What I do, though, is measure the actual positive impact this tech has now.

> The world needs room to experiment with interesting ideas.

Bitcoin is way past the experimental phase.

> rather than letting them decide for themselves individually.

We're talking about something that has systemic impacts. Once individual actions reach such a scale that others get impacted, it's normal for society to get involved and set rules.
Check out my e-grocery MVP app, built on HTTPS://bubble.io
It’s because job hopping programmers are compensated for how rare their skill is in the market and not how much value they add to the business. It’s another flaw in capitalism.

Reward employees a direct and substantial cut of the profits and incentivize to them to stay 5-10 years and these behaviors should disappear.

The loss of job security, frequent job hopping has created more incentives to optimize for the next job switch and not value add.

The explosion of startups also contributes to this. They often have to attract employees by offering the promise of autonomy. Most startup employees know they aren’t getting rich. So they milk the startup for maximum resume points and move on.

The VCs unload these bloated companies into inflated stock markets and the cycle continues.

DHH runs really small companies and pays his employees really well and doesn’t work them too hard. Employees have no real reason to leave. They see a direct link between the low overhead and their job security and work life balance. Aligning incentives fixes this.
The US is inprisoning drug users en masse and forces them to provide labour. That does not directly kill people but prevents them from living it the way they want which is somewhat similar in effect, not to mention all the suicides or related gang violence. Not much different to be honest. Army let politicians get boatloads of cash from prison and pharma industry to keep up the war on citizens. Wake up.
Deserts are not ecosystems devoid of all life. Here’s a life long anti-nuclear activist talking about how his direct experience in this space evolved as he started looking into the data more:

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_why_i_change...
Thank you for clarifying, this makes more sense.
> The truth is, however, that there is nothing “pro” about Apple products anymore.

Anymore? I feel like a lot of people romanticize old Apple. For example, the first few versions of OS X were pretty bad. They did finally settle down, but then entered a yin/yang good/bad release schedule. There was time when installing a beta or even .0 version was almost guaranteed to lose data. Now, I tend to run betas pretty early on. There are some bugs, but they mostly work.

I don't see Apple products as any more or less 'pro' than they have always been. Once the software catches up, my m1 MBA doesn't seem anymore or less capable than my G4 Powerbook. TBH, the M1 MBA is already more capable because at the time software had already moved on to Intel while I still had my G4.

IMO, the biggest missteps that I would consider less pro on the portable side would be the 1 port MB, and the keyboard. Both of which Apple has moved on from, though the keyboard took way too long to address. I know people complain about ports, but I find usbc (unless there's only 1), the most pro thing about apple laptops because they can morph into anything a pro may need.
You can overbuild solar and wind to cover all needs, with grid and storage construction (batteries, water or other reservoirs).

I'm not advocating shutting down working reactors until their planned end of life, so we already have a built-in phasing out schedule, measured in decades.
Do you have evidence or is this all conjecture?
I want one like this, but one that goes out and deletes my account from the sites I specify.
> That's something people who have no real world experience say.

I was speaking to my real-world experience!
this is the kind of tool that I assumen every intelligence agency in the world already has implemented as a service for their 'agents'
i dont want to be contrarian, but this is wrong. you get 150-100 w per square meter. what am i missing?
The CBP immigration officer made an exception under the premise that we would expediently apply for the US passport at a local agency during our visit. We were grateful, because of course he could also have sent us back home...
What's positive sum for the school might be negative sum for the whole school system, or for the whole of society, depending on where the troublemakers end up. Are they sent to a special school with lower class sizes and more oversight, do they just end up at another school down the road, or are they thrown out into a society they're not prepared to deal with?
"Boring" in the sense used here really means something like "reliable" or "low-maintenance". Think of the old Maytag Repairman ads: he's just sitting there waiting for a call that never comes because Maytag washing machines are so reliable, get it?

Interestingly, this kind of boring can be measured. On the other hand, the kinds of things that one finds fun is idiosyncratic and subjective. I think it's an important distinction: we can argue about "boringness" with data, but a discussion of "exciting" software is much more like a discussion of personal tastes.

Take Elm for example, it's a highly reliable system for building front-end web apps, so in that sense it's very boring (in a good way!) but whether or not you find it exotic or exciting has a lot to do with your personal experience with Functional languages and such. To some people Elm seems like a toy, while to others it's a strange new world.
That's a sweet childlike view of the world, like the picture postcard of a White Christmas (tm). The real world is like Texas... bad design can produce a black swan failure decades in the making, at any time.

We're like the management at NASA, with their improvised spreadsheet models of O-ring erosion and a theoretic model of how x% of erosion equates to y% of danger, when in reality the original architects wrote down that ANY erosion meant the system wasn't safe, and needed redesign.

As far as I know, none of the code holding everything together is actually suitable for purpose. This is terrifying to me.

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MS-DOS was fit for purpose, when it ran on floppy disks you could write protect and make copies of. You could run any program you wanted, downloaded from any BBS or copied from any shareware disk, and know full well the biggest loss you could incur would be having to make a new copy of your data, or OS on a fresh floppy disk.

Programming was fun back then, because you didn't have to worry.

That ended when we got hard drives, and when people figured out how to infect firmware, there was no going back.

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Unless... you start with new hardware and firmware, and don't ever trust applications to talk to the hardware directly, ever. You then minimize the kernel of code as far as practical, and set it up with policies that protect itself, and the hardware by default.

Only then is it possible to get the fun back again. You give the user the tools to decide exactly what to trust a program with, and enforce their decisions. They can be trusted to act wisely, if the tools are sufficiently transparent and easy to use.
Unless you're trying to make a really rich SPA, it could be something of: unpoly, htmx.org, barbajs, knockoutjs, turbolinks/stimulusjs... Anything that lets you enjoy server side rendering, whatever your framework autogenerates for you (ie. forms) is better to "just have" than "have to implement", instead of having 2 projects (one API, one frontend), or even no frontend framework at all (ie. mvp.css and plain HTML), you can do a whole lot of relevant projects with that already.

Webcomponents in plain JS are also great to not have to deal with JS class/HTML Element binding and lifecycle yourself.

Why not add a bit of Flutter or React for a few features, but for most pages it's going to be an expensive overkill.
I do not know if this is pro or anti-, but I thank you for your statistic.

The land required for this is absolutely insane. Insane.

I challenge anyone with a straight face to argue that utilizing 6 huge to medium size states out of the 50 is an efficient use of land or physical resources. We can't recycle ordinary trash correctly without throwing it to developing countries, who are rejecting it. We don't recycle wind turbines at all. But we're supposed to be able to routinely recycle six whole states worth of panels and turbines?

It's madness.
Barack Obama had multiple copies of the same suit hanging in his closet. It was like Smurfette's closet. When the time came to make an appearance or do something presidential, he'd pick out a fresh suit and know exactly how he'd look in it.
Any argument of standardization efficiency applies overwhelmingly moreso for a low Earth orbit transfer station. The only reason even to talk about a lunar station is politics: a lunar station seems more exotic, and lunar orbit is easier to get to than the surface.
Nand 2 Infinity: a wip series on how computers work starting from nand gates
You can make electricity usage predictions, depending on the time of the day, and the time of the year. Reversible dams pump water at night (in France at least), or when our northern neighbors have a bit to much wind power and need help dispatching this power without disconnecting their wind plants. This is what i mean (i honestly thought the word existed in english, it doesnt, sorry :/)
How so?

My experience is that you get small gains (eg, 10-100M) but you see an uptick in similarly sized faults (eg, tax audits or plane defects) and then go negative on the occasional preventable disaster (eg, 737 MAX). Edit: this is different than being beneficial for some employee at the employer — ie, it probably improves some VPs bonus even though it’s negative for the company, overall.

Then you have the various examples that succeeded by treating workers well — Ford, Avis, Boeing, etc.

I’m curious how you’re comparing companies to reach that conclusion.
I think there is a lot of fundamental attribution error going around when trying to explain relative success at controlling COVID. There are states with little of the infrastructure for public health management you've touted in Australia that have also controlled the disease. There are states with the same infrastructure (e.g. UK) which haven't. Australia is also incomparable to the United States with 1/10th the population, comparably little cross border travel, etc.

My guess is it will be years before we correctly understand exactly what worked or didn't and why.
I’ve found kotlin to be wonderfully boring. There are definitely some sharp knives that get abused though. I’ve met a few people who want to throw OO in the bin and treat kotlin as pure FP to their detriment.
You absolutely can. React is the gold standard right now. It's already been king for 6 years and it's not going anywhere. The hype for angular died down. The hype for vue has started to die down. This little bit of hype svelte has at the moment will die down.

React does have a ton of problems but they all come from the next level of dependencies down. Shit like Gatsby and Nextjs won't pass the test of time. Neither will redux (it's already pointless) and all the convoluted bullshit like redux-saga. If you learn to build stuff using just react and other basic dependencies (like express on the back end), you'll be in a good position going forward. None of that stuff is going anywhere.
Could you expand on this? Mutexes are not the only way to protect shared state in Go.

What language constructs/patterns do you feel are better suited to solving parallelism problems, and what languages exemplify these techniques?
Exactly. Judging nuclear safety based on Chernobyl is the same as judging fire safety based on a camp fire in a cave during in 15_000 BCE.

I understand that is was bad and it could have been much worse, but we are not stopping flying with airplanes because the mishaps of Boeing 737 MAX 8.
...and be on an FBI watch list.
there are many huge packs. tesla has built some of the biggest ones.
That's a good point. I never thought of that. It was actually an old bridge. I remember when they tried to make Java a "full citizen" language. Boy, that flopped...

SwiftUI shows promise, but it is still quite nascent.

Pretty much every bit of code I write is "pure" Swift linkage. I like things like Swift's enums too much to give them up. They make APIs really fun.
If they just put these chips into regular cards then they could eventually be resold, to gamers, at a great price.

Instead, during a global silicon shortage, nvidia is producing silicon that has one use and then into the trash.
Who is holding all this tether? I fully get the usecase of buying tether for usd, then going to an exchange to buy Bitcoin, there the exchange might briefly hold the tether, but would they not go back and convert the tether to dollars rather than hang on to it?

Or are we really in a scenario where the majority of the usd pumped into crypto are held by tether and only “IOU’s” at the exchangs? And a crash in tether would simultaneously pull a my gox on almost all exchanges?
Bitcoin = snake oil - it cures what ails ya.
Miners may be making money now, but let's face it, it's an intangible asset made of 1s and 0s and wholly dependent on the presence of electricity. What could possibly go wrong...
Greg! I am just some dude that chatted with you at a SchemeConf, but I wanted to say how much I admire what you do and that you keep doing it. Congrats!
You know deserts are BIG, right?
Ask HN: How often do You write a comment/reply to this forum but not submit it?
I'm not sure if I'm just in a mood today but found myself writing snarky, argumentative replys to peoples' what are, IMO stupid comments. Today though after reading over my replies for typos, I found myself asking "What value am I adding to the conversation?". I ended up comming to the conclusion very little value, and deciding to not submit it.

I'm wondering how common this is, sometimes I feel like just going through the process of writing but not posting, gives me enough satisfaction.

If this seems like a dumb question I'm sorry but am going to click "submit" this time anyways.
I saw a video on tiktok a girl uploaded of her dad who was somehow involved in the project. His reaction to the successful landing was so emotional I found myself a little envious. Like the dude had just won the Super Bowl of tech. And didn’t he? What a feeling, congrats to everyone involved!
I worked in nuclear. There's definitely no way now to insure a new plant and make money. Try as they may, even Duke couldn't break ground on any new US project because there hasn't been money in it for about 40 years. The economics kill it and there aren't going to be anymore PWR/BWRs, with the possible exceptions of BCH, 2 PWRs at Turkey Point, and 1 ESBWR at North Anna. Renewables will likely undercut them all to cancellation.
Transcoding on the receiving end doesn’t make sense to me. If you’re trying to save bandwidth, transcoding on the receiving end is obviously pointless. If you’re transcoding just to play an unplayable codec, well, why not just get a better player that supports the codec? What am I missing?
Depends on what you mean by missile. One worth dozens of millions of USD and produced largely to prop-up a state economy tends to have different ethical considerations versus an adhoc assemblage of propane tanks and plumbing pipes produced to fight over the neighbourhood in which it was made.
That's silly. Cops are allowed to use their eyes. These platforms are the billboards they look at.
>75% of USDC, which is audited, has been printed in the last 6 months, so not surprising, or indicative of anything sketchy that USDT would be growing at a similar rate.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/usd-coin/
>> a repeatable flaw that these aircraft may encounter due to their age.

There are hundreds of flaws. Aircraft are not perfect. Any large airframe sees lots of little things break every year. That's what inspections and maintenance are for. But the system is designed so that such things never add up into something really bad. Be worried about the aircraft without flaws. To me, that means it either never gets used or isn't being inspected properly.
I believe solar and wind can provide for ALL power. Same as nuclear. That is the basis for my comparison.
No one mines bitcoin on GPU's anymore, since 8? years.
> is this done to increase sales volume or just nvidia’s profit?

What if it’s neither? Nvidia tried increasing production of 1070s and 1080s three years ago to meet bitcoin demand, and it bit them hard when the bitcoin bubble suddenly popped. They got stuck with an oversupply of cards right when Turing was launching, it ate into sales and the stock dropped in half overnight. Meanwhile their customer base of gamers were pissed because they couldn’t get gaming cards. What if they’re just hedging against another bubble popping, and trying to avoid getting killed by it, again?
This was a well-written, informative article.

But the trend of fetishizing the “bootcamp fairytale” you're seeing is the bootcamps marketing themselves submarine style.

(I am not accusing this author/article of submarine marketing. But swapping the head/subhead would have been more informative and less clickbaity)
What would you rather have magically transferred to you and why?

All the gold in the world or all the bitcoins in the world?
A world that could have been, that would have changed everything for security