skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could one not buy/sell BTCC-B each morning depending on overnight activity of BTC?

If the price went up, the sellers also know this and will adjust their offers though, so you won't be able to buy underpriced BTCC shares in the morning. You can bid at the previous day's closing price but good luck getting your bid filled.
Definitely. The myth of the noble savage. Modern cities are much safer than ancient communities, tribal or agrarian.

An interesting book: The Better Angels of Our Nature by Pinker
I presume that the internal sd card would help the longevity of the device as well. Like someone mentioned, they upgraded their storage. You could do the same thing, if after say 5-7 years, the card starts degrading and the reader starts slowing down.
Is any of that referenced in the article in a way that needs a deep explanation which isn't there?
I'm not asking why they don't fire him, I'm asking why he sticks around to deal with it.
>They allow applying negative interest rate on everybody and they would facilitate neverending hyperinflation (no need to print new bills at great expense).

The central bank doesn't have hyperinflation as a policy goal though. If you are worried about hyperinflation ask yourself this: Will the economy will suddenly have a collapse in production capacity (nimbys cough cough)? If yes, then expect inflation higher than the policy goal.
Like getting downvoted on HN for proposing TSLA or Bitcoin as good investments over the past 10 years.
>If they get such a message, sorry but they are applying to the wrong companies. The ones I know very well (top tech in France, to take the French ones) would not say something like this.

Well, it's common in the US too, from what I've read. Tech companies (in IT at least) don't particularly care for PhDs...
> So let's just allow people to lie and promote violence or even committing crimes

There's a difference between a demagogue and an individual who threatens or assaults another. Nobody is arguing the latter is not a criminal.

But for the former, what I've often observed is that demagogues are very good at dog-whistling; they're adept at finding the razor's edge between dog-whistling and outright calls to violence. They're also great at spinning any perceived censorship into proof of their righteous "dissent" which plays right into their hand.

So to come back to the statement you made, presumably in exaggeration -- yes, we do have to allow people to lie if we want free speech. The destructive viral effect of such lies can only be addressed scalably with some kind of an immune system.

You cannot solve societal or cultural problems with legislation. Then you will have two problems. Solving the root of America's problem with demagoguery requires solving the root. That is very tricky considering America's history as the world's police force. These aren't problems that can be fixed in a generation even when there is a common desire to fix them.
I saw an eevblog teardown of an oscillator module like this, but that was newer, not this old stock.

Question for you. This component is technically not a crystal component right? I.e. you can hook the output straight into a clock input or anything that accepts a digital signal? There are other 2-terminal components where the circuit to drive the crystal is external, right?

Are those 2-terminal components literally just electrodes attached to a crystal or do they have extra circuitry in them as well?
Excellent archive of Watcom C/C++ CD-ROMs on Archive.org (2018)
I would suggest you are missing something: the article shared a round up of advances in the area of effective biologically plausible learning algorithms. That is an area often missed by the field with its excitement about the advances associated with back propagation.

The title seemed a bit click-bait-y to be too though.
And I say you are a low down rusty coder.
Maybe I’m not saying anything different - you play the music and use virtual audio cables to harvest it into an mp3 file (or whatever format) with no DAC/ADC conversion. Digital to digital. https://shop.vb-audio.com/en/win-apps/19-hifi-cable-asio-bri...
From reading the first few pages I get triggered because the whole "where Rust couldn't" feels like mentioning Rust in the title to piggy back on Rust's rising popularity. I personally don't find Swift interesting in any way while Rust revolutionized GCless (and GCless parallelized) typed programming.
I think many people don't buy their "complete 180", as that only came after their massively failed campaign. I have no doubt that if these guys were successful in their initial endeavor there would have never been a 180 as you call it. So really, there's not much to praise about a group who tried their hardest to do the wrong thing, and settled for the alternative when they failed measurably. Glad this happened to them, well deserved.
Exponent: Australian media law funnels money to Rupert Murdoch
Corey Quinn's Re:Invent 2020 Keynote Rebuttal (Re:Quinnvent)
Saying documents could mean emails doesn't assume it's email. Axios said the unnamed source said Mitchell looked through "her messages" though. And what other relevant files would there be thousands of?

Google Apps Script can do things Gmail search can't. Like regex.

Lawyers I know say don't rely on discovery if you can help it.

You think Google doesn't monitor printing?
> the subtitle, though, which seems more factual and less interpretive

Not true, if you read the linked paper: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/712972

> The reason for the typically low success rates, we believe, is that aggressive behavior accrues social rewards and does so to a degree that leads some to betray their closest friends. Even the most successful prevention programs are unable to alter the aggressive behavior of popular bullies, who use cruelty to gain and maintain status (Garandeau, Lee, and Salmivalli 2014). Most programs focus on remedying dynamics such as emotional dysregulation, poor conflict management, and empathy deficits, factors that may explain only a portion of aggressive behavior. These efforts may reduce “normative targeting” of those who violate one or more of myriad unwritten rules governing adolescent fashion, gender expression, physical appearance, sexuality, and so on—in short, the socially vulnerable. But unless they disrupt the popularity contests ubiquitous in secondary schools, they are unlikely to improve conditions for those trying to reach the next rung on the social ladder, not to mention those they step on—who are often their own friends.

What made you think that the use of "Social Ladder" is interpretive when words like "social rewards" and "popularity contents" are used throughout the paper (with references to past papers talking about the same to boot)? The paper is clearly not talking about bullying happening merely among friends and friends-of-friends, but it does so in a social hierarchical context.

The authors could not have come up with any recommendations while discounting the social status aspect (as HN did with the title rewrite here), for instance -

> One such strategy entails coopting status contests for prosocial ends by identifying high-status youths and changing their behavior in the hopes that they in turn influence their peers.
According to a post here on HN a couple of days ago, ERCOT has more stringent regulations on winterization than the Federal regulatory body requires, so basically everything you just said is bullshit

ERCOT is a government regulated group, answerable to the Legislature. It's not meaningfully different from the rest of the country.

People just assume Texas is a completely unregulated market because of the reputation given to us by Hollywood. Unsurprisingly, media created in a region that disdains us does not represent us truthfully or fairly.

I grew up in Appalachia so I'm used to this treatment by the media and by people I interact with as a professional software engineer, including on this board, about where I came from and where I chose to make my home.

We know you hate us. It's the main message we receive every time we turn on the TV or any mainstream silicon valley website, including this one, again. That's why I post with a throwaway name. I don't expect people who hate us to represent us fairly.
curl supports rustls
Chillout, Scully, I'm just saying keep an open mind.
Business-Class Flyers Now Exempt from Wearing a Mask
I think they fixed this - today I can’t make the same shape, it just drops one of the triangles.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26204691
The Freenet social trust graph extracted from the Web of Trust
You can't generate revenue if you don't provide a service:

> El Paso Electric said they always try to prepare for the future and after a winter storm in 2011, the utility company worked towards replacing and upgrading their equipment. Many generators now have antifreeze protection.

* https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing...

A little forward planning allows your business to keep on chugging in the face of (foreseeable) challenges.
The title of the first slide is Confronting Racism, sounds good to me.

Simply substitute the word _obnoxious_ in place of everywhere you see _white_ and I think it would be an ideal improvement for these slides and probably many others.
The experience from a few years ago: "Then we hit a wall with the dynamic linker. At the time you could only link Swift libraries dynamically. Unfortunately the linker executed in polynomial time so Apple’s recommend maximum number of libraries in a single binary was 6. We had 92 and counting. As a result It took 8-12 seconds after tapping the app icon before main was even called. Our shinny new app was slower than the old clunky one. Then the binary size problem hit." - https://twitter.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845
I didn't mean celebrity but more like knowledgeable people. A random system, just like random election, does not guarantee best or betterness in any form. It's not important however, because I agree it's unlikely and I do see where you're coming from (I also share your sense of cynicism about democracy).

I don't use Twitter that much but I hear that twitter is really toxic. Assuming some part of twitter tweet section is random, does that inspire confidence that such a system might work.
LOL - the ice melts!!!

Here is a video at 12800x speed :P

https://twitter.com/tiborhalter/status/1363195782917144578
Read papers, Not too much, Mostly foundational ones
unique_ptr does not have an implied fence. atomic<unique_ptr> is what you need if you need a fence. many might argue for shared_ptr but, while it does have a fence, it does _not_ have the same semantics as unique_ptr

i don't think the problem is libc++ or libstdc++. the problem is, indeed, that KDE is using the unique_ptr after and/or during its lifetime expiration. the immediate fix is indeed as patched, but a better fix would be better management of object lifetimes. good luck getting that done in anything using Qt though
(Sorry not Ken but:) Two terminal crystals are pretty much just electrodes attached to a crystal. The drive circuitry for those are usually integrated in the device
Isn’t it easy to verify? How much did a house cost 20 years ago? A 4 year college degree? How much were you paying per month for health insurance in the 90s? Salaries have not kept up. They’ve been amazingly static my entire life.
the dude at Best Buy told me

Since when do technical people believe dudes at Best Buy?
> Ideally, each fallible function would have its own error enum to precisely capture its errors and handle them, but in practice it is too verbose and leads to using the less precise Error trait or one enum per module. The language could support this better: there are several initiatives and macros exploring this.

Definitely something I can agree with! Has your team explored any initatives / macros that seem promising? We're currently using the crate 'thiserror' but it's made our compilation times painful.
The easiest way to destroy the Earth is to create a religion based on this:

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every
creature that crawls upon the earth."

Genesis 1:28

It basically tells you:

- Multiply without limits.

- You are more important than the environment and other species.

- Every species of plants and animals exist for your benefit.

These are profoundly destructive beliefs, and the root cause of how we arrived to our current mess, the Anthropocene extinction event.

There was a time when the Americas were populated by people that believed in living in harmony with the environment, but unfortunately they were all murdered and the ones that remained were forced to convert. 500 years later, a significant portion of what was carefully preserved for 10,000 years is gone.

If humanity is going to survive, you have to abandon such beliefs. You are not here to multiply without limits and, quite honestly, you are not more important than the environment. Stop with the overconsumption, the excessive travelling and all that nonsense. You are not as important as you think.
Strongly agreed on every point.

* Nano does what it says. Explanations of the technical aspects are easy to find.

* The fact that this comment is right near the bottom while obviously clueless comments are full of discussion at the top is wild.

* The early distribution was far more fair than the vast majority of other coins.

* On a meta level the conversation around this topic - especially here - really ought to be better by now.
Technically, at least in the case of the fed, all currency is a liability on the feds blanace sheet, and cbdcs would probably be included in that. That's really just a technicality though.

Sorry to nitpick.
What really impresses me is the calm he displays throughout all of this. He never seemed to have self-doubts about not being able to make enough money, not being able to find the right partner to start a family...

He seems to have been guided by a deep trust into himself and his abilities.
The different oscillator types have various tradeoffs, so maybe this more-complex design was better for this application, as you suggest. Since the circuit complexity is all on the integrated circuit, the cost difference is probably very small.

My other theory when people make strange design choices is that patents might be involved.
Reduced neutralization of B.1.1.7 variant by convalescent and vaccine sera
I've been hoping someone would fill the shoes of Ian M Banks. QNTM is probably some of my favorite fiction in the same vein. Lena https://qntm.org/mmacevedo in particular deals with some very frightening ramifications of brain simulation. Just running a simulated mind through a deterministic "Red" (ie: torture) script to prep it for the work you need it to do is frightening.

Jeph Jacques of QC fame did Alice Gove which was a good Banks like comic. https://www.questionablecontent.net/alice1.html

I also read quite a bit of Kris Schnee's work https://www.amazon.com/Kris-Schnee/e/B00IY1HDDY his earlier Thousand Tales novels I think deal with early brain scanning issues well. IE: Flatbed scanning a living brain.
Eating meat has been a large part of the human diet since the very beginning. It is what allowed us to grow our huge brains. It is what made us what we are.

I agree that the problem isn’t meat, the problem is scale. We are having too many kids, and the population is way too large for our limited resources.
Yes, unless your SaaS deals with life and death or 99.999% uptime contract, you're pretty safe running something like Django+Redis+Postgres+NGINX in a single box for years and sleeping well... once you hit some really big number of users you might want to change it a bit and hire some people.
Didn't expect that last line ("BTW") but to be honest, I think something like that is the only solution.

If you look at society 400-500 years ago, brutal punishment of this variety was the norm: theft in Restoration England was often enough met with hanging. Since then, the penalties for theft and other "petty" crimes have been reduced, to the point that now theft has been completely normalized. People complained, for example, when charges against Amy Cooper were dropped in New York, but the fact is that you can get arrested hundreds of times in New York, and your charges will always be dropped, for basically any charge, theft, assault, domestic violence, you name it, they drop it. There is a total unwillingness by people in power to inflict punishment on people who punish ordinary citizens by committing crimes against them, sending the signal committing crime is not at all, in fact, criminal, but normal, expected and acceptable behavior. Non-criminal people will flee such environments en masse or become criminals themselves. The result will be lawless cities that blowhards like Trump talk about but do nothing to fix, and only make worse.

I am not saying we should go back to hanging people for theft. But we do need to figure out how to punish people without maintaining the Prison Industrial Complex. We need to figure out what is a crime (theft) and not a crime (drug use), we need to provide social services, food, shelter to poor people. We MUST provide education and opportunities to people. But if crime goes unpunished, perhaps in an asymmetric manner like caning, the lawlessness we're seeing today will grow much, much worse and make basic life unlivable in places that were once and still maybe are the pinnacles of civilization, like New York. It will destroy us.
EDIT: Removed as getting downvoted into oblivion...
This only thing this accomplishes is making you look like a jerk, with maybe a 10% chance of getting a chuckle out of the right person.
News like this reminds me why it will take a lot to adopt crypto currencies.

For all we know, this software could just be quietly collecting wallet passwords waiting for an opportune moment to attack.

With the sophistication of red team hackers from Russia, China, NK, and Iran, why would we want to computers for such critical infrastructure as payment?
Reforming the degrees and schools that train teachers. Increasing teacher salaries in the public sector. Essentially making it more selective but giving a higher reward goes hand in hand. Making it a funnel where a portion of unmotivated and planless people go helps neither the profession nor the students IMO. The private sector usually does fine on its own since they cater to the wealthy and have the necessary resources. Some countries take teachers very seriously, such as Finland, so it's definitely something that is possible to implement if still much harder in a very large country.
I very doubt this. Even the choice of word "council" for Texas grid authority gives off smell of a bureaucratic talkshop.
Now that all that isn't so raw, I'd love to know how you felt about the other contenders that were floating about at the time. Were any of them doing things you wanted to see in BK?

I can't be the only one who'd be interested in your views on the general developments for such important tools of our trade. Have you written about it anywhere? I'll pre-order "Larry walks us from SCCS to the git monoculture".
There’s also the fantastic app BlockBlock to help with this. Notifies you of changes to those folders and allows you to accept/deny whatever an app is trying to change.
Rolling blackouts are inherently a regulatory solution. The market solution in a supply crunch is keep raising prices until demand falls below supply, which creates a market incentive to have excess capacity and capture those profits during periods like this. An unwillingness to do that creates foreseeable market incentives. Not enough suppliers spend the money to have the capacity to meet demand if regulators are going to suppress demand through regulation (rolling blackouts) rather than higher prices.
The libstdc++ and libc++ destructors are both standard-compliant (as would be a destructor that doesn’t null the pointer at all) because any program that attempts to observe the difference is wrong. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/66295139/115030, https://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/issue2224.
I was twelve :)
Murder is generally unacceptable, unless you're high status like Snoop or OJ. However theft and rape are still allowed if one is of high-enough status and doesn't get caught: Wall St., billionaires, Jimmy Saville, or Trump.
"When you're holding a Shunting Yard Algorithm, every Domain-Specific Expression Language looks like a compile-to-RPN-and-evaluate-with-a-stack-machine nail."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm
Yeah, you really figured it all out. You’re totally right.
Really nice to read a round up of advances in biologically plausible algorithms. The field, responding to incentives has, in my subjective opinion, undervalued this class of advancement. I expect once we've wrung the value of of the current techniques that this is the direction advancements will be made in.
I watched this live on twitch, and didn't have any disruption to the audio stream.
The more I learn about historical technology, the more I see that the complexity of logic built on top of old processes seems to be about equivalent to the complexity of contemporary software systems.

The only thing that seems to be really changing is the technological substrate underneath. It leads me to wonder if manufacturing ability and materials engineering are really what’s driving higher order improvements in technology, not “algorithms” so to speak. Electrical and mechanical engineers of olde otherwise seem to be no less capable of designing complex systems than software engineers.
Gofile is a free and anonymous file-sharing platform
Maybe government tariffs on foreign imports produced with cheap labor? Actually ban products that use child labor? (Looking at you cobalt)
Does the first amendment guarantee the freedom to profit from speech?
yeah that will probably work but since spotify is already sending a lossy compressed audio file, you'll still get some quality loss due to compressing it twice. Also seems really inconvenient, especially since i'd want to do this for mobile use to save on bandwidth. That quickly becomes really annoying if you want to do it for thousands of files.
Yes, they do not particularly care about PhDs. It does not mean that a PhD is a problem, though.

I worked in IT for two large US companies (from mid-90's to end-00's) and the first job my PhD was not a particular asset (but nothing wrong with that) and it helped for the second one.