skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One area I have wanted to play in, and started looking at before I ended up in my current job, was to seek out businesses where the owner wanted to sell because they struggled with the costs of scaling.

When I was running my consulting business, I can across several where the path to fixing this was obvious for me, and I offered people to fix their scaling challenge for a percentage of savings or a percentage of the business, but I was starting to look for businesses like this to outright purchase, as there were a number of owners who when faced with this just saw it as too complicated for them to want to deal with.

If I find myself back doing consulting again at some point, I'll likely revisit that, as so many people don't understand how to cut their hosting costs.
The last Windows 7 I saw in production was on Wednesday. An attorney with a lot of secrets to protect had them on his notebook.

He isn't entirely oblivious about security, has his hard drive encrypted and encrypts some of his calls, but the non-updated system is a disaster waiting to happen.
That's right, Blizzard does cross-game unlocks already, through their own platform. I don't expect that companies like Activision/EA/Valve would be the ones to use NFTs for this kind of thing, since it's better for them to build and operate their own marketplaces, which gives them total control.

I completely agree with you on the boiling of the oceans. It's a problem that cryptos will have to solve in the long-term to be viable as any part of a green economy. There are a few projects that are energy efficient, but Ethereum and others have work to do. In any case, NFTs aren't specific to any one blockchain.

I think content creation and limitation is a separate issue, and not implicitly part of NFTs. You can issue a token representing a particular game object, with no ability for the player to customize or modify it. You bring up an interesting point though - there could be a limited, controllable level of customization available to players. Consider a smart contract that mints NFTs and allows certain attributes to be modified, which could affect the cosmetic or functional details of the in-game item they represent. You could sell a class of NFTs representing a certain sword, and players could pay extra for a golden version, or a version with infinite durability.

For Steam Workshop, I think you've identified exactly the issue. They control the marketplace, and set the rates. If it's more profitable for a developer to set their own rates/royalties, and it's easy enough to implement, and there are enough players willing to use NFTs (or a platform that manages NFTs for them) then we'll start to see developers use them. Marketplaces aren't mutually exclusive, so you could have some items on Steam, and others on blockchain. You could make certain desirable items exclusive to the platform that nets you the most profit.

I agree regarding difficulty of implementation - this is something that most developers won't bother with at the moment since it doesn't make economic sense, but as the ecosystem develops we'll likely see companies that provide a simpler abstraction layer for NFTs (perhaps even specializing in games). As the implementation costs drop, we'll start seeing adoption. This might take several years.

Regarding blocking I/O, I don't think it would work like that, just like it wouldn't work as p2p. A game server could poll the history of its smart contracts (or the abstraction layer provided by a service platform) every few seconds or minutes, and update its centralized database of items to match whatever transactions have occurred. All reads within the game would still be to its own database, and not directly from a blockchain.
In Response to “Euler's FizzBuzz”
What economic incentive to game developers have to respect NFT ownership? Or anyone, for that matter?

In VRChat, you can be any model.

If I had a game, I wouldn't care who owned the NFT. It's not a value add. As far as I'm concerned, anybody could use it.
The Narrative Fallacy
World greatest inventions and technology is a serious business.
The CCP will not allow the crucial industries to move abroad.
That looks like memory safety to me - deliberate panic instead of returning what is next to `vec[2]` in memory.
Interesting write-up! I've barely used Rust but had/have a similar feeling. It's really more akin to C++ and really powerful but also pretty complex. For smaller MCU projects it just feels like overkill.

> Microcontrollers have a lot of functionality packed into the pins (see the STM32 "Alternate Function" datasheet tables). Trying to model all of that using ownership of zero-sized generic types would strike me as a "when all you have is a hammer"-type situation.

The whole idea of utilizing TLA+ for a system level check really does seem like something that would be awesome, even if it's unclear how much effort it'd require to instrument an entire project with TLA+.

> the problem is simply that Rust makes it difficult to conceptually iterate over distinct types (regardless if such iteration occurs at runtime via a loop or at compile-time via an unrolled loop, as per Zig's `inline for`).

Rust just brings a lot of incidental complexity along and still makes some things really difficult. Perhaps it's better in the long run but it's just harder to work with.

Similarly, I wanted a simpler language than Rust and started using Nim last summer for embedded projects. Primarily since it compiles to C which let's me target ESP32's and existing RTOS'es without rewriting everything or trying to get LLVM based tools to work with GCC ones. However, it also embraces `lazy` compilation approach to code and it's standard library.

I wanted to try your example in Nim. Here's roughly how your example would look in Nim (it appears to duck type fine as well):

var
# normally just import these from the C headers as-is
# but this lets us run it
p0* : RefPort0 = addr port0
p1* : RefPort1 = addr port1

var rows = (
( port: p1, pin: 0 ),
( port: p1, pin: 1 ),
( port: p1, pin: 2 ),
( port: p1, pin: 4 ),
)

var cols = (
(port: p0, pin: 13 ),
(port: p1, pin: 15 ),
...
(port: p0, pin: 2 )
)

proc initKeyboardGPIO() =
rows[0].port.pin[rows[0].pin].dir = output

for item in rows.fields:
item.port.pin[item.pin].dir = output

Full example: https://gist.github.com/elcritch/1c8279418fc62f5e941b41a5df4...

I've toyed with the thought of adding TLA+ hooks into Nim similar to Dr Nim (https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/drnim.html) using the effect system. Not sure if Zig has an effect system for a similar setup.
Your comment reminds me of a scifi story (Greg Egan maybe?) where AI has taken the lead on science, and humanity's scientists' job is now just to understand the AI's discoveries.
Health Products
Here I thought it was because of Squarespace...
The web was supposed to be distributed.

But we wound up with Facebook and Google.

AR and the metaverse will be the same.
No that's different.

The more accurate analogy is if you can charge rent to tenants in the property in a way that covers all expenses. Then other then the down payment the tenants are basically letting you leverage an appreciating asset at no cost to you.

I do this now in California and with the essentially 0% interest rate I refinanced the loan and now I generate a profit every month from leveraging an asset on top of the appreciating value.

Rent is the black hole people can use to leach resources away from productivity. Simply by taking a loan and redirecting the economic output of people who live on my property towards the loan I benefit without producing any utility for the economy at all. That is in a sense "Free." If the loan is paid off, that money gets redirected towards me again with minimal effort on my part.
Its so easy to cheat on these tests and there is no way to prevent it short of something hyper invasive out of 1984 that straddles the border of uncomfortable and cruel.

Just stick your notes/phone out of the frame of the webcam and there is zero chance to be caught in practice. Another commenter stated they had to stare at their page the entire time, but thats unenforcible. There are only so many proctors and too many students to monitor at once, and plenty of people look up or stare into the distance to think. Plus you are allowed to do things like drink water during university tests, so you can look away for that, too.
I wonder if the spectral response of modern cameras is such that a suitable linear combination of R, G, and B would reproduce the effect.
Decentralized Cities
The Mac Pro – A Year in the Studio
Out of the 1.9M immigrants/permanent residents in Switzerland, 1.6M (84%) are from Europe:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland

For Canada, the top ten breakdown of immigrants are: 8.9% from India, 8.6% from China, 7.8% from Philippines, 6.6% from UK, 3.3% from US, 3% from Italy, 2.8% from Hong Kong, 2.7% from Pakistan, 2.2% from Vietnam, 2.1% from Iran. Add those up, and you're only up to about 50%; there's a long tail out from there.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada#Sources_...

A lot more of a mosaic/melting pot in Canada than Switzerland.
This is based on the narrative that IPOs are systematically underpriced and those able to participate walk away with gains as a rule. If IPOs are actually accurately priced or overpriced, then this doesn’t benefit customers in any way.

With that in mind it seems much more likely to me this is just a way to push the stock.

Retail trading is booming [1]. I hope this leads to financial literacy and more people benefiting from democratic ownership of capital (more profits going to worker class).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/retail-investor-stock-market-...
You could probably check out RV and van life forums. One question would be the degree to which you can get away with giving the state (for drivers license/ID/tax purposes), company, etc. a "fake" address that is not a residential address.

A lot depends on what you think you're guarding against and how many compromises you're willing to make. For example, you can't actually buy a house and remain anonymous unless you set up some shell company which I assume is expensive and probably has tax consequences.

I agree that buying a foreclosed property sounds like a massive headache and doesn't even really solve the problem of having to give your address to someone if you want anything delivered.
Amazon was on Windows 10 in 2020 (and probably earlier; I don't remember when I upgraded while I was there).
Yes but once you get to the multi-billion-$, major consumer name companies, they have whole departments dedicated to figuring out what visa is most likely to get the applicant into the U.S. and what they need to present to the government to make it happen. I hired an intern from Canada once and my understanding was that behind the scenes the process was complex, but all they needed from me was a description of the work and a few signatures. It definitely is more of a hassle for the employer, it introduces additional risk and uncertainty for the employee, but they have a lot of levers they can pull to get the right employee into the right role. As an employee your best bet is to ace the interview so you can convince them that you're the best employee, then let them worry about how to get you into the country.

OP also has an advantage being from the UK - I've heard that the odds are much more favorable for European tech workers, because quotas are higher and immigrant populations are lower for European countries than say India.
That's a funny coincidence. Excited to see what you build! Let me know if I can help.
The only difference is that your identity could be disambiguated with one data point instead of three or four. I don’t see how that has any bearing on the functional aspect of any such hypothetical dystopia.
> This is not a "Swiss", it's the same everywhere in the world.

If you think everyone's a xenophobe and it's just that the Swiss are the best at not acting on it... then yeah they're the best aren't they? Beats acting on it with violence like every other country surely?

Everyone always thinks the worst of their own country and holds their own to higher standards.
If you do have to kill something then at least do it humanely. Burning them to death is pretty horrible, so is zapping them with a high voltage shock.
For your perusal, MIL-C-43205:

MIL-C-43205G
4 August 1986
SUPERSEDING
MIL-C-43205F
30 December 1980

MILITARY SPECIFICATION

COOKIE MIX, DRY

This specification is approved for use by all
Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense.

1. SCOPE

1.1 Scope. This document covers cookie mixes for use by
the Department of Defense as an item of general issue.

1.2 Classification. The cookie mixes shall be of the
following types, as specified (see 6.1):

Type I - Chocolate
Type II - Sugar
Type III - Oatmeal

2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

<snip>...

https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/TroopSupport/Subsi...
It’s very common for the board members of a nonprofit to be its largest donors.
You don't own its domain, however. It can be revoked at any time.
> An ordinary UV lamp with bug zapper will probably be more effective.

Alas, as I discovered recently when looking at those nifty, cheap, USB-powered UV + fan mosquito killers -- mosquitoes aren't attracted to UV.

Evidently they are attracted to CO2 and warmth, which are a bit harder to generate at 5V, sadly.
it wasn’t that long ago that it would be unusual for somebody to publish all of their videos on YouTube rather than their own site, And when he did it was to save money/performance, not for the network effects of the platform.
>while executives get far more than a living salary.

This is the trope that non-profits should essentially be run by volunteers. Which is fine to a degree, but does not scale well (that I've seen, anyway).
Totally agree - this will only happen if it makes economic sense for the developer. Big companies like Blizzard won't bother since they can build and manage their own marketplace, but smaller developers who can't afford to do that will still be able to unlock value by participating in an open market.

Players re-buying the same item is definitely profitable, but it may turn out to be more profitable in the long-term to allow players to freely trade items while taking a cut of each transaction as royalties. Also, as mentioned before, NFTs allow for single-use items. A game could provide all sorts of different items with different rules.
is that true? why can't an optical illusion be either. both taking advantage of how our brain processes light and actual physical effects.
“Order of magnitude” is context-dependent, like a great many things in natural language. In the absence of any contrary context, it’ll mean a decimal order of magnitude in English. It will do you no good to rail against the inclusion of cultural context in resolving the meaning of language (and even its structural parsing!), because it’s so very widespread in English and I presume in every other natural language (though logical languages could potentially theoretically evade it).

I’ve never encountered non-integral bases in real life, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-integer_base_of_numeration tells me they are sometimes used. Fun stuff!
You got a graphic – now what?
I mean, when funds are unrestricted, they "should" become fungible; so, when I give unrestricted donations I also make it clear that I don't want them to try to tell me "we used your money to do X"... that way, I can look at anything I want on campus that was improved and think "I did that :)". If the university is spending money on bullshit, then probably they just don't deserve donations at all :/.
Similar question a couple of days ago "Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366538
Many of those who use it a month or two a year in one region (then go back to another) would disagree.
Yes, it should. The submitted title ('America Is Not Made for Anatomically Correct People') broke the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps the submitter thought the title was linkbait, but I don't see it that way and have reverted it now. Generally we try to avoid euphemisms and Bowdlerisms here. It's better to assume that readers are smart enough to handle things for themselves.
I fully agree with you but companies will just declare bankruptcy and the government will still be left holding the bag.
Corporations will always find a way to worm themselves out of taking responsibility.
> An example of EE with this open space filled is Kelly's criterion, which of course looks nothing like EUT.

I’m not sure if I’m reading this correctly:

Kelly’s criterion looks nothing like EUT?

Maybe I completely misunderstood what you were trying to say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

“The Kelly bet size is found by maximizing the expected value of the logarithm of wealth, which is equivalent to maximizing the expected geometric growth rate.”
One of the maintainers of KMyMoney, an open-source personal finance software. We looked into (https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/issues/21) leveraging one of the 3rd party aggregators like yours to allow users access their data. The conclusion was that being an open-source software was a no-no for all of them, unless we were willing to sign our binaries with certificates (that the aggregators require) and distribute the software as such. All of that obviously aside from the cost of the service itself.

Do you see if this could be made possible with Nordigen?
The Boeing 707 famously did a barrel roll on its first public flight.
"Any other utility function you use will give you a mathematically incorrect result."

Tell that to the drunk gambler who just empirically falsified your fantasy theory.
I strong suspect that only a certain percentage of people can easily follow the "just suffer and you will adapt" advice. I mean believe some can do but I wouldn't take this as universal advise. Edit: Extreme reactions to cold even have a name, Raynard's syndrome[1]. But as someone who suffers occasionally from this, I think it's more useful to say people's cold reactions vary.

...just like that first sunburn of summer let you enjoy the rest of the summer sun without burning.

Advise that even more clearly applies to only some people and some locations.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud_syndrome
>do we just have ever-increasing gasoline clouds?

Well, not quite.

It does remain in the atmosphere as it dissipates and is diluted, but the whole time even at the source its concentration is usually too low to condense.

It just becomes air pollution, categorized as Air Toxics although some of the same natural hydrocarbons are referred to as "Unburned Hydrocarbons" when they are emitted after incomplete automotive combustion.
In all programming languages you must understand how the parser will understand and translate what you write, it sounds like Zig will always know your intentions and maximize your code, it sounds too good to be true
Not so much? Hard to do worse than we already are :)
It would be equivalent of Sotheby's starting a second brand competing with themselves, but yes.
Since it's closed-source, privately owned and not based on any open standards, it doesn't work on Linux or any mobile device that isn't using Google Play Services or iOS.

It's convenient, but it's an absolute travesty that we've left such an essential part of digital infrastructure to big banks.
But the NFT is the receipt, if I understand correctly. You own a receipt (the NFT), and you can trade it, but why are people buying and selling receipts? You make a payment, you get a receipt, and nothing else, which makes absolutely no sense. Usually, when you buy something you get a receipt for free and then the actual thing that you have bought.
It's not the part whether one knows or doesn't know the url fascinates me: it's a professional setting, where people are quite used to solve problems much more complex than figuring out what's the url. For me it's the thought process: What's the url? I don't know.. error... error.. error. The equivalent of this is if I'd say to someone I've read a great article on Financial Times website,and they'd reply with: sorry, I can't read it,I don't know the url..
"Any government that can't handle that internally doesn't deserve to exist."

So, like the US?
I prefer to say “several times larger/greater” and it is even fewer syllables! “Order of magnitude” works better for convincing people to do something your way, though.
1 litre is 1kg of water = 1_000_000 milligrams. So 40mg is approximately 40 parts per million. Indeed, very impressive.

The protein is likely a bit denser than water (e.g. a steak sinks in water).
According to this article:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/why-were-the-russians-so...

Since their inception in the mid-aughts, both of these forums (Mazafaka and DirectConnection) have been among the most difficult to join — admitting only native Russian speakers and requiring each applicant to furnish a non-refundable cash deposit and “vouches” or guarantees from at least three existing members.

In addition, their administration is exclusively Russian nationals, and all forum posts and communications are done in Russian.
So, no, they don't have anything like an arbitrary block copy that adjusts for alignment. Not surprising; nobody does. So we struggle in software, and have libraries with 11 bugs etc.
That's correct. Which makes it all even more absurd. Although the smart contracts are there forever, so at least it can't "go bust" (although the web front-end certainly could).
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Comments like this take the thread noticeably hellward, and we're trying to go the opposite way here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes. But if you consider it in terms of "potential to be messed with" - the surface area is much less.
Still no citations.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution#Chine...
Not if you have a trademark.
I thought this was going to be an NFT site at first.
Appreciate the concession.
Because they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks. Much better to get your own domain which is actually property registered to your name and can't be taken away from you because you offended some advertiser.
I think there are different parts to this though. Paying large salaries to personnel that do fund raising can be frustrating as a donor because to an extent this is a zero sum game: funds for one NGO mean less funds for another, in many cases. So it doesn’t feel like you’re paying for social good. Another is that while, sure, it makes sense to pay good people well, another part of the discussion is that others among the employees are underpaid. Not-for-profits are to an extent expected to stay outside of harmful side effects of capitalism/economics (I’d say it’s even in the name) and cutting costs on part of your labor seems somewhat in conflict with that.

Of course all of this is the result of pragmatism and a focus on whatever it is that’s being optimized for (some aggregate impact measure which is unlikely to include employee welfare to a large extent).
Am I wrong in remembering that the reason the MCAS is on the MAX in the first place is because they moved the engines to a position which creates dangerous situations, which was compensated by software (MCAS), so that Boeing could avoid having to re-certify the airframe?
There's a proverbial slip between the cup and the lip.

vNM does not (technically) assume a probability distribution, but EUT as commonly applied add one extra piece on top of vNM -- implicitly ignoring dynamics and assuming a distribution which leads to "ensemble averaging".