skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Belgium we were one of the earlies to approve it and I think it depends on ones condition (If you're guaranteed dead due to the likes of cancer it changes i think) but I think generally it needs to be judged by a panel of doctors and the person needs to have some consults with a psychiatrist and all in all there needs to be no alternatives for a good life.
You won't get approved if you're just depressed.
Three things.

1. The contract in questions is doing a lot more on chain logic than it should be doing.

2. The network is currently incredibly active, pushing up the average gas cost per transaction.

3. The price of Ethereum itself, in which gas price is denominated, has risen about 10x in the past few months.

Usually the prices die down in a couple weeks, but if there is concern that people are being priced out of the network for an extended period of time, miners will raise the global gas limit, and things will rapidly go back to "normal".

The thing is though, people are paying the high fees. This chart has a really great breakdown of where all the fees have been going to in the past 30 days: https://ethgasstation.info/
Yes you can, access to free information and finance should be a human right. Just like cash can be used by anyone, so electronic cash should be.
Not all research software is a tangled mass. I have extensively worked as a "quant" (before the term was popular) for math, medical, network, media, and physics researchers as my side gig for decades. I'd say about 1/3 of the home brewed research software is constructed with fairly reasonable assumptions, the authors are scientists after all, and I am able to grow their basic setup into a framework they intimately understand and prefer to use. More than once I've found brilliantly engineered software not unlike what I'd find at a pro software development firm.
So what does the app do?
RationalPlan 5.6 – Common Theme Across All Browsers and Improved Web Interface
They moved to LLVM 12 and OrcV2
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/6c57f2ed16e12810...
Face it - there are no users for Dapps.
Top apps get ~50k users. That's nothing.
Whenever I think about creating something in Ether, I apply the "do I really need blockchain" question to it, and combined with low user count I realize I'll have a much larger audience without Ether.
they are, as far as I know, stackless. I.e. you can only yield from the generator top level frame.
Isn't this more about whom I trust less, the politicians or a third party (that might as well be the politicians)?

If so, why is it in the state's power to decree that we have to trust the politicians but not the 3rd parties?
Arthur's pass is where I had my best Kea encounter! I made it to the top of Avalanche Peak. The hike just about killed me. As I was sitting there admiring the view and trying to recover, a kea flew in out of nowhere and just hung out with me for about five minutes. It really felt like he was making sure I was ok. But he could have been waiting for me to pass out so he could chew up my daypack.

I knew enough not to feed him. Kea are trolls. You don't feed the trolls.
Nobody dragged the US into the middle East. Why is there anything to do beyond acting as honest broker diplomatically?
Automated or crowdsourced moderation don't counter that; they reinforce it.

Look at Twitter and reddit, two sites where it's impossible to have a serious discussion because those who hold platform-approved opinions "like to play with discourse" and "seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."

"They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly" for fear of the moderators.

Skilled, professional, human moderation might counter that, but doesn't scale.
Yes, not pointing out the difference between coding some novel technique and a well defined software project, completely misses the reason the code is often not well organized. Suggesting that researchers are bad programmers is just a lazy excuse, somewhat damaging, and by no means the rule. I wrote a large complex framework for my research and the very nature of it causes me to add modules and techniques for parts I didn't know would work. And at times hard forks for when I wanted to try something new, which merging back would be impossible to do cleanly. At times you have a hunch and like a fever dream, change who knows what, but you just have to see something through. There is no waterfall method, kanban and agile makes no sense here and even unit tests are I'll defined.
We can if the network is not full of professional miners. If every user has a practical chance to pack their transaction into a block.
Which stock price? The 2 airlines? Boeing? The engine manufacturer (P&W)?
> How is that different from any other asset, stocks, land, property.

You're putting completely different things in the same bag. I would say you're right that crypto currencies and stocks are kind of similar, but stocks at least have a small (very tenuous, I admit) connection to reality. Stocks are related to real-world companies that deal things people are willing to pay for with real money. Stocks go up and down based on how much money the companies are making, not only based on how much speculation their stocks are being subjected to.

Crypto is purely and solely speculation. There's no one actually trading anything else other than the crypto coins themselves! That's quite different in my opinion.

Now, even though, sometimes, land and property are used as instruments of speculation, they're still connected strongly to the real world, real people. If the world forbid speculation overnight, people would still need to own property and land to survive, and they would still be willing to buy it in exchange for their work or other assets.

If crypto were forbidden overnight, the real world would be unaffected. Some people would lose savings they bet on a fictional economy, but beyond that, nothing would change. These things are fundamentally different.
Suppressing intolerant individuals makes one intolerant. The concept is symmetric whenever cancelation occurs.
There is utility in being able to evolve the protocols without giving up the integrity of the previous version.

Eth2 isn't a different currency, it's a replacement system that links with Eth1 to provide continuity. The ETH coins are not being replaced; both systems transact in ETH and are linked. That's why they are being careful with how it's evolved and how the economic links and incentives, and smart contracts and data sources, are set up in the transition.

There are many changes being implemented through this evolution. From PoW to PoS, single chain to cross-linked sharding (while managing the incentives to maintain the integrity of the network), various improvements to faster synchronisation, lower storage requirements, distributed storage of the state.

Being able to release v2, v3, v4 of software while staying compatible with all the work you did using v1 is a good thing. Same idea with evolving Ethereum.

Contrast it with the numerous new coin networks that use newer cryptographic ideas but each start their own separate networks. That's also evolution, but they don't provide continuity in the same way; instead they are a series of competing products.
This looks like some C++ or Java developer trying to shoehorn OOP concepts into a language that is not OOP-first. Just to pick out one particularly egregious example:

> Registry: Keep track of all subclasses of a given class

Go does not have classes.
I don't think it's a standard plot. It's a cartoon representation of the actual jars containing coloured rectangles that were shown to the birds.
Well, in the SFBA area, I guess.

Outside (even more outside USA), and also in terms of workplace environment "feeling" and choice of projects, things get a bit different.

Is there still clout? Yes, definitely. But it stopped being automatic badge of merit, at least according to friends who either work(ed) in FAANG companies, or were on the other side of recruitment involved.
Huh? The lowest setting (the one closest to off or auto) is the one for the least rain, and it goes up to handle more rain, i.e. the further you are from off/auto the faster the windshield wipers wipe.
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> Having some level of transaction fees could be important for preventing DOS attacks.

Agreed. Their mitigation approach is somewhat interesting as well though (dynamic PoW [1]). Thanks to the independent nature of the blocks, signing difficulty of the transactions can be raised and lowered dynamically making spam incrementally more expensive for the spammers.

[1] https://medium.com/nanocurrency/dynamic-proof-of-work-priori...
Ah yes, now we have studies showing people who don’t agree with the liberal left are stupid and slow. The ultimate ad hominem.
Let's go with "Go is easy if you use an appropriate IDE"

Emacs is great for many things, but Go was clearly designed with GUI IDE tooling in mind. So if you decide to forfeit that huge benefit, of course it'll be a sub-optimal experience.
Why Does Louisiana Consistently Lead the USA in Murders?
I was imagining paying subway for my lunch using money.
If you think of Cython as a "new but related" language rather than just a Py compiler then you can sprinkle enough C-like `cdef` code into your Cython so that, when compiled, your code can run much faster than Go..as fast as any C, really. (EDIT: Pypy is usually a better way to make unadorned Python run faster.)

That said Nim [1] provides nicer metaprogramming features than Cython and very nice overall ergonomics..I think more ergonomic than Python with, e.g. UFCS. Nim has almost all the safety/speed of Rust with better ergonomics than Python. What is not to love?

[1] https://nim-lang.org/
> They found 82% of the comments flagged in a sample set didn't include any obvious racist language or hate speech,

So 18% did include obvious racist language or hate speech?
Yeah, I'm calling it now - no chance of 128GB in a Macbook Pro. 64GB even is doubtful.
Are you against all inheritance? Or inheritance only above a certain level? Because I honestly, hand on heart, cannot see anything wrong with the idea that if I worked hard and have a house + some savings, I should be able to give it to my children just so they don't have to spend 30 years of their lives paying off a mortgage. It's my gift to them. How is that different than gifting them a laptop or a car, except for the scale of the gift?

I can see the argument for extreme taxation above certain levels, so you don't end up with effectively dynasties snowballing all wealth, but the level above which I'd restrict it is so high it would be maybe in thousands of people. Other than those extreme high levels of wealth, I think you should be able to leave to your kids whatever you want to leave(again, not against taxation on it etc).
Very nice readable source code.

One feature request I'd have is allowing users to skip flags. I usually play minesweeper fast and don't set any flags. The game should end when I opened all fields without hitting a bomb, at least that's how others minesweeper implementations work (e.g. https://www.google.com/fbx?fbx=minesweeper). Maybe

if (num_revealed = x*y-num_bombs) Mine.over = true

The google one also seems to guarantee that the first click opens a whole field, never just one number or bomb. Not sure how they do that but it make the game more enjoyable.
>This is what having a huge toolbox causes. Some people are going to write code using channels, me others will use async.

I don't know if this is a problem. Redundancy is good. If simple languages ruled, we would all be speaking Esperanto.

>Some people will use features that others don't care about.
I end up having this argument with product managers who insist that because most people only use 60% of the functionality of a product, we don't need to implement the remaining 40%. You need more than one way of doing the same thing.
Maybe since OP's account has exactly done 1 thing: post this link and defends / explains what the "developer of the tool" does, thinks and means, but in the third person.
> I don't expect more details from the government.

And yet you trust them to do the right thing. I think that's where most of the disagreement comes from. A politician in the Western world who would try to avoid transparency would be suspect, we would think they did something wrong. I think westerners tend to judge the CCP on the same basis, but apparently you trust them.

What have they done to earn your trust?

How do you make sure that they don't abuse this trust (especially without transparency)?

Surely it would be possible for them to lose your trust, if they abused it. What kind of situation would that be?
Composability in functional and flow-based programming
I did some research projects, but the problem is that they are a mix of regular projects and experiments.

Things like Nix worked out great, but other stuff I saw is a tangled mess of Java grown over the last 10 years, written by 30 different students that didn't talk or let alone knew each other.
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> How is that different from any other asset, stocks, land, property. It's all speculation nowadays. Just look at the housing market in London and other places.

This is a common talking point but it's not actually true. 99% of London housing is used for living in.
Hence WebComponents, we should not need to port libraries between SPA frameworks.
Isn't that already a risk though? I vote remotely by mail, you could coerce me to vote for something specific and even send the mail yourself if you want to be sure.
> The main reason why research code becomes a tangled mess is due to the intrinsic nature of research. It is highly iterative work where assumptions keep being broken and reformed depending on what you are testing and working on at any given time. Moreover, you have no idea on advance where your experiments are going to take you, thus giving no opportunity to structure the code in advance so it is easy to change.

I'd say you're confirming the author's theory that writing code is a low-status activity. Papers and citations are high-status, so papers are well refined after the research is "done". Code, however, is not. If the code was considered on the same level as the paper, I think people would refine their code more after they finish the iteration process.
Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising is all about a similar war (which doesn't go nuclear).
> An ACH transfer through my bank takes multiple days

But that's just a regulation and/or implementation issue.

You can transfer in minutes between countries in different currencies without blockchain.

The fact that your country is stuck in the stone age in this regard isn't really a good argument that cryptocurrencies fundamentally provide value over a solution without blockchains.

I guess the main value blockchain could provide here is to give banks and politicians a kick in the butt, and force them to invest in solutions and regulations that speed up money transfers.
You are straight out writing your bias but unable to see it. The point is exactly that lots of bands never even got the chance to play those gigs at all.
Maiar has hundreds of thousands.
The reason that we see this much articles being posted on hacker news is that we are still using fossil fuels and there is no active plans to stop it. Everyone* agree that climate change is happening. Everyone agree that burning fossil fuel for power is bad. And then there is a void for what to do next.

Can we all agree that we should stop subsidize existing fossil fuel infrastructure? No more paying oil power plants just so they can exist and be used when demands goes up?

Can we also all agree to stop expanding capacity for more fossil fuels? What we are burning today is bad enough, we should not expand capacity for more.

Can we then also agree to stop repairing and extending the lifetime of existing power plants that uses fossil fuels?

We are done when the answer is yes on all of those, and then the market will find out what technology works and what doesn't. If any of the answer is no, then the discussion about fossil fuels are not done and so we need to continue discussing about it.
How do you keep a codebase simple when you need have things in it like implementations of state of the art algorithms to compare against and the previous iterations of your own method so that you can test whether you're actually improving? Then, depending on what you're doing, there's also all the extra nontrivial code for tests and sanity checks of all these implementations.

Simplicity is a nice dream. The realities of research are very often stacked against it.
There is no real incentive to organize and clean up the code, even if the scientists involved have the skills to write well-organized software. And organizing this kind of code that often starts in a more exploratory way is a pretty large amount of additional effort. This kind of effort is simply not appreciated, and if spending time on it means you publish fewer papers it's a net negative for your career.

I'd settle for just publishing the code at all, even if it is a tangled mess. This is still not all that common in the natural sciences, though I have a bit of hope this will change.
I got a similar one for just replying in a joking manner about cutting off a limb (in context this was very clearly a joke). I appealed it, but nope, denied.
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I would not attribute this to Apple's hiring process. It is very easy to have excitingly talented people being dragged down into oblivion by enterprise management decisions.
I think Unabomber was quite capable of complex mental tasks. (Yes, yes, anecdote is not data).
> Huh?

Yes, you are right to be confused. You dont know the UX of car. Why did you think this was worth commenting?

> (the one closest to off or auto)

the on/off toggle is separate from the speed dial. there is no obvious (to me) directionality.
How come there isn't better re-usability in state machines?

It seems it would be powerful if they were treated as re-usable lego bricks of state and logic.

Apps could then pull these in, connect the wires to any potential backend, and style the interactive components.
That in itself is evidence of their progressive bias.

If academia was dominated by those of the opposite persuasion, this study might conclude with suggestions that individuals who are more suggestible and impulsive are prone to having their malleable minds contorted towards progressive radicalisation.
I actually had a T-shirt in the 80's that said "I got the Babel Fish". Bought it out of the back of some computer magazine(maybe Compute!)?

The original game came with some very cool props that I wish I still had. Peril Sensitive Sunglasses (Do not wear while driving.), A microscopic space fleet in a plastic bag, some lint, and a "Don't Panic" button.
Supply and demand affecting gas prices is considered a feature, so it seems quite possible gas prices will only go higher if ETH becomes even more popular.
China has all the data already, this just makes it a little more normalized for them.
Yes, that's a very good point and another reason I personally advocate for paper ballots. But you can also see it the other way: anyone can learn how to check their entry in the ledger, that takes time but it's not some rocket science. That can be democratized in a way paper ballot cannot be as it requires a huge amount of people and has an important cost for the community.
For first-world countries yes, but we see second and third world countries do it all the time.
> IBM Canada has won $1.5M contract to develop new platform for IRCC

This will buy what? A team of 4 interns and new grads for 6 months. At the end they'll have a slide deck with too much wordart in ith containing some half-baked ideas, and a few lines of code that don't do anything useful at all and are further from production readiness than starting from scratch.
Came here to say this. Despite everyone being like "oh my god it is so much skill needed for a junior position", we should be asking ourselves if that was maybe because the application had an exceptional CV? From the twitter post it seems like most of what they asked during the 4hours was something the application had proficient experience in. Seems like a rather comfortable experience?
If you want to write good research software, a good way is to have professional developers implement it.

I worked closely with an NLP researcher for a while on a project that had received a hefty state grant. She knew more or less what her team needed, but she needed someone to implement it cleanly and in a way that would not make users step on each others toes.

The chances of that project being a buggy mess would have been pretty high if it had been written by people who don't write software for a living. And maybe that's OK.
Lots of uses other than pure fin transactions. Most people are blind to this.

E.g. https://golem.network/
Even at double the GPU cores it’ll still get beat by an RDNA2 based Ryzen GPU. The current M1 is about equal to a GTX 1060 performance wise according to benches. Although the Zen3 based RDNA2 APU “Rembrandt” likely won’t be out until 2022 and we’ll have to settle for the Zen2 based Van Gogh in 2021.
> there would be proof. There would be documents.

Would there? Or would such blocks simply be the result of strong, shared political leanings at Twitter [1], without any need for central organization?

In age when so much is being attributed to unconscious bias and systemic effects, this seems like a strange spot to draw the line that now we need evidence of deliberate organization.

[1] Twitter is so liberal that its conservative employees ‘don’t feel safe to express their opinions,’ says CEO Jack Dorsey - https://www.vox.com/2018/9/14/17857622/twitter-liberal-emplo...
When removing an item by value (being the use case in this thread), you do need to visit the elements to check the value.
This was for an entry level job at apple
Once again twitter doing the needful and exposing their negative bias and cancer they bring on the world.
Nice examples. On one hand, once etymology of a word is old enough, it becomes forgotten and not many people are offended; on the other hand, once that etymology is brought to light, continuing to use that word may become an ethically questionable choice. That said, the pushback against “master” and “blacklist” seems related not to etymology (origins of those words don’t involve race or slavery) but to connotations acquired afterwards.

> We should listen to each other more and if these terms are a barrier then there really is no harm to using other terms.

Agreed.

I’m personally torn on this issue. On one hand, the fact that these words rub people wrong is an indicator of a deeper problem—in an ideal world, no one would take a term personally because they’d know it denotes a technical concept and isn’t intended to put anyone down; on the other hand, it’s not really that difficult to stop using some terms in new codebases.

On one hand, we should get input from those directly affected by this; on the other hand, those affected may choose to stay silent despite possible discomfort and treat it as a problem with their insecurities rather than the industry.
A love letter to ISC bind
I'd add that they also appear to lack EEC support.
A lot of SV companies seem to give "senior" out like candy
It would make sense though. Extremist views tend to be very simplistic black&white, this = good; not this = evil. Someone less capable of complex thought would find the simpler messages more appealing, and thus be more susceptible to them. Fur = murder. Immigrant = criminal.
I think the Vikings tap into similar wish fulfillment ideas as zombie fiction. Chopping wood, hunting deer, being in charge, protecting your family. It is everything that bored middle aged suburbanites dream of! The empire is just more complex.
Why should they care more or less than the rest of us?