skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty long TL;DR ...
Right alongside with giving computers more than 16K RAM.
This idea's selling point is that you are not tracked nor subject to marketing. If people start having any suspicions they will stop using the system (why pay and get tracked anyway ?) and the payment processor no longer has a business, thus everyone here would have an incentive of being honest otherwise they ruin the entire business model.
Immigrants are always these exemplary people unlike those pesky Americans!
> if Apple doesn't find any quick workaround for what seem to be various legal problems

Articles like this are exasperating. What legal problems!

(this is also a sub-par rewrite of a MacRumors article: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/02/rosetta-macos-11-3-stri...)
Rust gets away with this because it doesn't have move constructors. Which is a pain if you want self referencing structures, but avoids quite a bit of complexity
I honestly can't stand the guy but I can't say that he doesn't make a good point about open source projects.

React native and Flutter aside, look at the entire electron ecosystem.

In order to actually use electron you need stuff from https://github.com/electron-userland which is basically a dumpster of abandonware with PRs sitting for years, thousands of issues, lack of maintainers, and repo owners basically going "lol not my problem".
This looks promising. Newsletters are hot right now!
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I don't understand it either, but they actually pay for a certificate of ownership of a .jpg or .gif, whatever this means.
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/...

When we look backwards in time, we see lots of tributaries that dried up for various reasons. That SGI workstation is still in your head, it is really up to us to copy and extend those concepts forwards in time.

That software is still sitting on a box of junk in someones basement somewhere, it just has to be found.
To add onto your point: from what I've heard the split at HPC conferences is about 40% C to 60% Fortran.
It's subjective, like in high end audio.
That's not true. I own many Peak Products and also (used to, won't be doing it anymore) buy Amazon Basics products simply because they're usually better value for price than most.

You're not wrong that there are some segments of customers who would never buy Peak Design because of the price, and catering to them isn't a bad thing, but Amazon should have commissioned Peak Design for the design instead of just stealing it.
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> Blockchain is useful and afaik does have a working definition

Speaking of unsupported assertions...
Except if I bought the rights to a song (like Hipgnosis Songs Fund are doing, for instance), I could profit off them as the song is mine. As far as I understand, for the most part with NFTs, it's more akin to buying a baseball card - I can't reproduce or profit off it, I just 'own' it.
Why is HN so anti crypto?

Blockchain/distributed databases seem like really cool tech with some valuable real world applications outside of just coins and stonks but I feel like we never get into that here.

Or is this just a vocal minority thing?
Whichever state or jurisdiction the power station burning coal is based in.
Claims counting from zero isn’t a thing in goat farming...

Hosts content on top of an image showing fence posts...
If it's only this that is shared, "whether you communicate with a business by phone, email, or WhatsApp, it can see what you’re saying and may use that information for its own marketing purposes, which may include advertising on Facebook. To make sure you’re informed, we clearly label conversations with businesses that are choosing to use hosting services from Facebook", then it makes sense.
The actual moral of the story here is twofold.

1. Don't assume you would never make _that_ mistake, and

2. Be understanding and kind to those who do.

No one died as a result of this error. There is zero reason to be hostile to the developers.
The problem is the industrial Chinese miners. These companies soak up enormous amounts of resources while producing... nothing. It’s horrible for the environment, and it’s a net drain on the economy for what I believe to be ephemeral value largely driven by low interest rates and a lack of high-growth investment options.
Interesting point. But I think that the Taylor series is just a mathematical tool, and as such it hides the units that exist in these expressions. From a physics point of view, every term in the Taylor series needs to be augmented with a unit that follows from the definition of the Taylor series.
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I definitely agree that uninterned strings are important. All I'm really trying to say down here is that there are many cases where you have a hash table which uses strings as keys (as an implementation detail), when (conceptually) it wants to be using symbols.

(And on a less fundamental level, the particular Java String class is less string-like and more symbol-like than most string types, and this appears to have been done intentionally.)
>The thing was unusable on my lap

Just out of curiosity, why do so many people use them on their lap?

I know "lap" is in the name, but damn, that posture is just terrible for your spine, neck and shoulders.

Do you not have a table or some flat surface around the house/office to place it on?

Outside of a few crowded meetings that lacked table space for everyone, I never in my life used my laptop in my lap.
Many places have less than replacement now. Spain is very much less. Nearly every country on earth is headed asymptotically toward that. We've just taken a jump ahead by several years on that path.
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> Ethereum “has been moving” to proof of stake for almost as long as it has existed. It has been so long that “Eth 2.0 PoS Coming Soon!” is something of a running joke.

Ethereum seems to very much be in the process is switching to proof of stake but we should ignore that because of the author's gut feeling it's a "joke"?
Reminds me of a former colleague of mine who was one of the principal developers behind an Android app, where they could really go to town on making it crash free, since Android offers a phone home function when a crash occurs.

At some point, he made the observation that 1-2% of crashes occur not because of a programmer error or anything, but "chance"; bit flips and the like, in either the app's memory or the phone's services.

So while on an individual basis it's rare, and in practice nobody will really notice an issue, statistically bit flips are significant enough to need attention.
Clearly most people aren't bothered by it as it's an extremely popular game that has remained popular months after release. If it was just a quick low quality cash grab people would have moved on, but they haven't. So you have to come to terms with the fact that reality is rejecting your particular perspective on the issue.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298300 . The alternative implementation technique that already exists in some C implementations is not to use nonce FILE objects at all.
I’ve seen a lot of backlash in the generative art world over NFTs as a result of the revelations of their climate impact, with people refusing to participate. So these articles aren’t pointless.

It’s ironic that Bitcoin started as a way to subvert the state, but now that its externalities are clear it’s a failure of the state to control those externalities. Never mind that it would require a global carbon tax, since coins are fungible and mining will relocate to avoid having to pay the cost of its externalities.
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It's disappointing the Flutter team members haven't addressed this justifiable concern about their big-picture strategy. I would really like to hear what they have to say on this.
> (my test suites run 2x faster on average, despite running on two fewer cores)

I replaced a 2017 i7 mbp with a m1 MBA, and see the same results running my java test suites. I ran them a bunch of times thinking there had to be some error.
It's not about being close to consumers.

1. If you are the Communist party and you are planning electricity for a 5M inhabitants city in 2007, growing at 9% (doubling every ~7 years, electricity use is highly correlated with economic growth), you need to make the plants 10 times bigger than needed for them to last 20 years

2. Mining equipment is placed next to the source of electricity

3. Corrupt officials are co-opted (just turn on that turbine that is wasted working capacity for you, and I'll pay you in cash)

4. Profit?

FWIW, I think this doesn't happen exclusively in China but in every place where there's idle energy capture potential.
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> Flutter allows you to handcraft beautiful experiences where your brand and design comes to the forefront.

This isn't strictly related, but can we instead make good, useful experiences that are consistent with the platform instead? I'm sick of companies making their app some lowest common denominator abomination to push their "brand"…
You are surprised that a piece bashing cryptocurrency gained traction in HN? You must be new here.
There is a subtheme about crypto, in that he kind of argues it isn't really useful enough as a financial instrument to warrant the ecological cost (my words, not his).

That's an opinion - one I tend to share - so feel free to disagree.
That setup would also be a defense against potential bad actors acquiring one of the tools and somehow adding malicious code to it, so then people are quickly mobile to move to a comparable; like with the recent situation with The Great Suspender extension.
1. There are predatory practices in mobile game industries

2. The joke makes fun of those practices.

3. The joke also punches down mobile games and casual players

You say "these people" (ie. the developers of said predatory applications) paint themselves as oppressed and offended [where?], but as far as I know the joke is being mostly criticized because of point 3 (I am not related to the game business).
It would work for a few years. Then more laws pass, court cases get decided, and the tax code would get more complicated. Now even TurboTax is a pain to use, and (as it ends up) the bureaucrats in charge of improving it are just as incapable as the ones rolling out healthcare.gov and similar disasters.

And then to deal with that, a new company emerges with a service that makes even TurboTax easy to use!

The idea that bureaucrats would competently manage it this time is difficult to believe.
> Before 2005, getting personnel to the Norwegian Polar Institute’s Troll Research Station (AT27/QAT) in Antarctica involved a weeks-long boat ride followed by a 250 kilometer trek over snow, ice, and rock.

Things were so grueling at the time.
> 3. Avoid Machine Learning (on First Iterations)

For many years I worked on building data products at a start-up as the data guy (encompassing analytics, ML, data engineering). We started off pretty much all-in with ML, even implementing bleeding-edge models from scratch based on the newest research papers, and building crazy infrastructures around them (we had loads of fun tbh). In the end (after ~5 years), however, our product was a UI displaying a handful of "simple" stats, which was facilitated by a robust but relatively simple data ETL pipeline in the background.

Essentially, as we gained more experience and learned more about the domain and customers' needs, we found more value in "the basics" rather than fancy ML models.

That is not to say ML isn't a powerful tool in the right context, but I feel it is grossly over-hyped and over-used. And that seems to be a controversial stance. Even within start-up circles I've encountered push-back when suggesting going the simpler route and saving ML for much much later.

Is that generally a hype perpetuated by the ML people not wanting to lose on ML opportunities? (I guess ML sounds better, is more fun, and probably pays more than the "basic stuff")
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I am amazed - is that the same category of people who said "the Internet" isn't going anywhere?
You can get hundred year old manual lathes/mills and they still do their job. It's because the basic principle upon which they were built is still valid today. The only difference with modern machinist tools is that they are fully automated and you can just retrofit CNC parts to the old equipment.
> more how negative sales tax is unrealistic

In this proposal, sales tax is the only tax. You can't run a government without money.
This sounds like an awesome idea for the beginning of a sci-fi story: a test for a team the government wants to reverse engineer an alien spaceship or something.

I also just remembered this is the beginning of the original Stargate movie...
How smart people behave depends a lot of context and incentives.

Many people are reasonable shrewd with their own money, and about stuff that directly impacts them. But people in charge of government organisations often have very different incentives and concerns.

(Other big organisations in the private sector can also go haywire. Especially when the threat from competition is low.)

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
I haven't really authored anything in either, but looking at these I have the opposite feeling...

I much prefer that the "code" and "display text" are syntactically distinct in Dialog and older Inform. One could imagine syntax highlighting making that distinction even clearer.

Instead in Inform 7 they blend together into similar-looking natural language sentences.
I dont think the problem is untrue. There are countless issues in github about this and its true Google has been handling this very bad.

I have a belief that all of Google's projects are only for a short amount of time. They always move on to the next cool thing and leave out good products/software to die. I don't understand how this is accepted in the company. I guess they are not interesting in anything other than trendsetting?!
Well but it is potential value, what if we never get such sensitive instruments?

I expect Mars to be big enough that when we will have such instruments there still be a lot of stuff not touched to use those on.
My same model does when coding running docker, any video 720p or above, or zoom calls.
You have what many would consider the last 'good' mbp. After that one, Apple pushed to make them thinner and try to make them faster, but really went too far with the thermal envelop. It's 100% Apple's fault for the thinness, but Intel didn't do them any favors with their delays either.
Semi-related, Brian Wampler made this[1] video where he tries a bunch of different opamps and diodes in some overdrive/distortion circuits, including some germanium and various colored LEDs for good measure.

Not super-scientific but good fun.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH2uj9bWfM4
The TSMC blockade of Huawei is about 1 year and that was really the shot that kicked the chip wars into overdrive.

I would expect see the first result of the Chinese scramble to ramp up self-sufficiency in about a year from now.

Probably the most interesting is Huawei's work with equipment manufacturer SMEE.
Interesting. Mortgage payments wouldn't attract tax relief in the UK, and everything else has a nil rate band, so only those with large savings have to declare. Charity donations are dealt with through a scheme called Gift Aid - essentially, the charity claims the tax back.
"Fundamentally, cryptocurrency AND cryptoart are valuable because they burn energy."

I think a better way to put this would be to say that cryptocurrency and cryptoart cannot maintain value without maintaining scarcity, which they do by burning energy. The value doesn't come from the energy burning in itself, but in the current NFT system, that energy burn is a necessary component to preserve value.
An attempt to change this would require finding a different way to produce scarcity.
I actually strongly prefer the fingerprint to face-authentication (especially in the age of masks). Face ID is just so much more responsive to things like lighting conditions, and you pretty much have to look directly at your phone, so you can't casually unlock while the phone is sitting on the table while you're at a coffee date or something. I'm always touching my phone/laptop anyway when I want to use it, so I honestly see no advantage to not just using that touch itself to unlock.
I propose a third moral, don’t use scanf when a dfa would suffice!
I think the effect this topic has on the members of HN is just indicative of the larger problem. Even (normally) quite intelligent, research-driven folks are handling this topic differently. The normal upvote for good discussion, downvote for not contributing is all but thrown out the window for agree/disagree voting.

Normally, a scientific study would be a good reason to say "I may have been wrong" but often in these cases, the only explanation each and every time is "the study is wrong, and it only exists because the other side sponsored it."
How do you assign value to that currency? What is crypto about it?
The greatest irony here is that protection against socialist ideologues like the author of this article is one of the main motivations for using cryptocurrencies.

Maybe if they would fix their ideology, people wouldn't have to resort to decentralized solutions.

As for the actual content, I plainly don't trust the calculations of the anti-crypto crowd.

And while I also had lost faith in Proof of Stakes ever making it into Ethereum (unfortunately also selling all my Ethereum when I gave up on them), they have now activated the PoS chain and run it in parallel to PoW, with the goal to switch completely.

The stuff about "social justice" is also nonsense, at least with respect to mining in PoS: it is not that much Eth you need to participate, and if you don't want to invest as much, you can join a mining pool. Everybody can participate, if they want to. It is also not "unjust" if people who invest (or stake) more receive higher rewards. The opposite would be unjust.
Ah sorry lots of Americans here, in global English we use "state" to mean a sovereign state, not an arbitrary subdivision like Delaware
And that, in a way, would be correct. Did the piece fit inside the documentation or the topic at all? Nope. They already put up a source and mentioned themselves that the anecdote doesn't really hold. But why pointing out the obvious predatory practices is such a sin, is beyond me, let alone writing multiple tweets about it. Can we just admit there are loads of dark patterns out there taking advantage of people? Or must we instead continue burying it, trying to deny it or worse, praise their outcomes as if they were some sort of medal to carry? I don't believe so. And we should be making the gamer community healthier in that regard, too.
If your memory is fragmented enough you can have many pages that are lightly used, at which point a MMU isn't going to help.
So, this is basically a tax on consumption.

Not a bad idea per se, but regressive, as many pointed out. However, in conjunction with a UBI it might make sense, and be progressive.
I find that writing everything yourself, especially simple things like a text2inteeger parser, is very valuable because it takes very little time and it levels up your understanding of the system. I'm starting to believe that you rarely understand something until you have implemented it. Therefor implementation is the best way to learn.
I'm not a native english speaker but I understood it as; "The conference is no longer accepting the sponsorship by Google" or "The AI ethics research conference (an entity) no longer wants Google (another entity) as their sponsor and suspends them from sponsoring."

How would it be interpreted as being the other way around?

Edit: This is the headline when I read it: "AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship"

I realized that it might have been changed now.
How does it compare to FreeDOS? FreeDOS has been around since the 90's if I remember correctly
They are also hilarious. One of the funniest animals on the planet. A day spent with a goat is well spent.
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> should be treated as a reason to not make assumptions about others

That's what checking ones privilege is. I'm in a position where my financial security, mental well-being, and future prospects would make it a good time for me to start a family if that was what I wanted. Same goes for many of my friends and colleagues, who have in many cases done exactly that

I think this article shows that this security does not extend beyond my social circle and that it's a privilege to have such a level of security
It does, actually. In fact, this is the most concise one (see godbolt link):

data.push_back({1, 2.0});

That does not work with emplace_back (not that it would be useful) because the template arguments can't be deduced from the initializer list (whereas for push_back the type is known so you can initialize it with the initializer list).
"We" don't "need" to do anything, and are very much allowed to write all the blog posts "we" like. Promoters of the tech actually need to price externalities and whatever to improve it, if they want us to use it.
My wife and I had decided to start trying for a second child around the beginning of 2020, after the outbreak we put those plans hold because we didn't want to have to make repeated trips to the doctor/pediatrician/hospital where all the covid was. What was our employment/financial situation going to look like? In the spring of last year a million people were loosing their jobs a day at one point. Also, friend of ours, a PA in an emergency room, told us witnessed more than one miscarriage due to covid, so no, we are waiting for now.
Maybe they're a chuunibyou.

... Or pretending to be one? It's that too meta?
crypto is all wrapped up with other things that the powerful, vocal, hateful slice of the internet like to trash in public (while blindly supporting one another on anything that feels connected).
That reminds me of something I’ve occasionally wondered about.

Just in terms of total population and ignoring all else such as quality of life and economic impacts, is alcohol’s net effect to lower population growth (drunk driving deaths and such) or to raise population growth (drunk sex or other related poor decisions)?
Bitcoin mining is low on the list in terms of problems that need fixing in order solve climate crisis today. Bitcoin haters just love to harp on that fact.
Linked lists are great when you want a fully persistent data structure version of a stack. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure)

If you don't need persistence, you can often use a dynamic array to do basically everything a linked list can do for you, but most of it faster.

Also, if you have a relocating garbage collector, or otherwise a smart enough compiler (or interpreter), linked lists can become sufficiently efficient.
Trouble is - I don't know what sort of consequences Amazon would find 'substantial' at this point. All the FAANGs have enough cash to shrug off billions of dollars in fines if they have to.
> They have done exactly what you are proposing,

No.

They haven't done this:

> like Lavabit, they would have simply discontinued the "custodial wallet service" that they claim is subject to anti-privacy regulation