skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it seems to be a serious belief that some enthusiasts have that the USD doesn't have value except for military spending, and therefore there's no need to spend on a military if you have an alternative trust basis for currency.

More likely, I think it's the cognitive dissonance of Bitcoin's insane energy usage causing them to find anything remotely plausible to tot up in fiat's column, especially now that Bitcoin pretty clearly consumes more energy than not merely "all the computers backing VISA" but "all the computers backing all financial transactions for all currencies in the world."
The liquidity doesn't actually have to "go somewhere". One option is for it to disappear.

A number of indicators suggest that the market is overpriced. Some of that is "real" money being sucked into the market and away from other assets, but the market multiplies that money. When somebody pays $40 for a stock that was $39, every single owner now believes that they have a stock that has gone up by 2.5%. They can can use margin features to buy even more stock without bringing any of their own money, causing more inflation.

There are lots of ways that can end, but when they do, that liquidity vaporizes. The stock that was $40 is now $30. Where did the money go? Nowhere. It just vanished.

It can continue as long as people believe it will. It usually fails as a cascade effect: somebody somewhere chickens out, and then a few more get scared, and then it becomes an avalanche. Anything could be that first snowflake, though an end to the Fed treating the market as if it's in a crisis when it's at record highs seems like a good start. The punch bowl has been out for a long, long time -- because they keep imagining it's going to "trickle down" into consumers. It doesn't.
The problem is the old saying "The first 90% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% also takes 90% of the time."

That is, it's 90% done, or seems to be, but how far is it from being actually done? Just 10%? History suggests that's far too optimistic. So if it's maybe-10%-but-probably-more-by-an-unknown-amount from being done, is it better to abandon it as a sunk cost? Depends on how far away it actually is - and nobody knows the actual truth of that.
What was that about hats again?
It takes time for a bad diet to catch up to animals of relatively short lifespans.
It’s common for sprinklers in parking garages in cold climates to be “dry” where there’s a bubble of air that needs to run through first before water shoots out from a non-freezeable source.

Want to test the system? Just turn off that water valve, hook up your air compressor and pressure test to your heart’s content.
Hit a nerve I guess
Are you Bill Gates?
And/or ate them all
This is a great comment! At risk of dating myself, I remember a brief period between CDs and CD players in cars being commonplace. At the time, mixtapes were an entire art. Crap, the hours I put into mixing and curating tapes?? Those were the days...
I may have misunderstood you but your post seems to be saying "People say Boeing had a great engineering culture until the McDonnell Douglas merge but Boeing built the 737 Max and look how bad that is ?".

The McDonnell Douglas merger occurred in 1997, the 737 Max programme wasn't started until 2011. So if people say that the merger caused a decline in engineering standards that would seem to be consistent with 737 Max being badly executed ?
The article/interview also specifically alleges that the problems with Boeing aren’t restricted to one single airplane model, but are at the board level. If the above is true (and I have no reason to doubt it), it would be another example of systemic issues at the company. Which is sad to see, and if so, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed.
Let them change their start time. (They're probably doing that anyway - if you work outside and need sunlight, you're not starting at the same hour in March and June.)
Congrats to the WorkOS team - their extremely pleasant wrapper over SSO and SCIM has made my side project possible rather than a nightmare of integrations
Do you believe that distinction is on the same scale as the distinction I pointed out between comparing VISA and Bitcoin? Nothing is completely black and white, but I believe your distinction is into the pedantic territory whereas the other is fundamental. One can certainly pay for goods and services directly with Bitcoin.
The zig standard library also has a ComptimeStringMap type for this use case which is used by the self hosted tokenizer for example.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/comptime_...
Not to mention that business hours are already not all the same. I’m not sure how so many people are missing that extremely obvious fact.
I've read they're more nutritious than muscle tissue. But I remember as a kid, hating the smell of liver. Maybe I should revisit.
I’m aware of a woman who claimed her dog was vegan. Not that he eats a vegan diet. That the dog itself was vegan. That is, of course, impossible, since a dog cannot comprehend veganism even in the unlikely case an informed dog would make such a choice.
Well, I assume that since the comments typically seem to be related to the article, someone must be reading all these articles. Then again, how would I know that?
And blood sausages.
So the theoretical reason for the high values of tech companies is that margin is one of the biggest drivers of value in a dcf, due mostly to the non linear nature of division. However, many of the tech companies we’re seeing don’t have near those margins, they are in fact negative.
The simplest explanation (Occam's razor) is that the events are unrelated. Speculation on that, and then citing and further spreading the idea around that maybe there are people against OVH, seems pointless (perhaps even harmful to the company) unless there are some signs of arson or people unhappy with the announcements or anything.
When I was a kid, we'd dig a large hole in the garden, then pop some chlorine and milk in a plastic coke bottle, quick shake, then dump it in the hole and all my mates would very quickly push the soil back onto it.

Boom, and "die aarde maak rooibek oop", like that old Afrikaans poem said...

Translation: The earth opens its red mouth (due to the red coloured soil)
More popular, too, since many people like their pets more than they like other people.
The point is that (a buyer expects that) the value of the stock itself is increasing. Whether it pays dividends is not the pertinent question.
You could make the same argument for peopling having houseplants.
Isn't that exactly what Chrome does or at least did when it initially came out?

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_04.html
Don’t be a Grin Fucker (2010)
They raised 1.3M in funding from outside sources.

They have many more millions available to them internally.
Thanks! From the corrected link:

> At 20 degrees, the average driving range fell by 12 percent when the car’s cabin heater was not used. When the heater was turned on, the range dropped by 41 percent, AAA said.

So the majority of the range loss in cold weather in passenger EVs was due to heating the cabin. Do you think an electric semi would also require 30% of its battery capacity be dedicated for cabin heating in cold weather?
The only parser combinator experience I have is with FParsec in F# and Haskell parsec. I am not sure if non (purely) functional programming language is suitable for parser combinators. Yes, it works but why?
Back of the napkin, obviously not accurate, but gives you a sense of scale:

84,553,674 companion animals in the US (dogs/cats/birds/horses) [1]

12,177,476,000 animals slaughtered for food in US annually (chickens/turkeys/cows/pigs/ducks/sheep/fish - excludes shellfish) [2]

So, (0.3 * 12177476000) / 84553674 = 43.2

On average, keeping each of our pets kills around forty other animals per year. Those lucky dogs!

Gonna go feed my cat now.

1. https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/reports-statistics/us-p...

2. https://animalclock.org/
I'd hazard a guess any prime cuts that might end up in animal feed is likely product that spolied in some way, or had son kind of packaging defect, as to make it not suitable for human consumption.

And / or, there's plenty of offcuts generated in preparating prime cuts that could still he called prime.
Are you using an old raspberry pi? Going from the 3 to 4 helped loading time immensely. Although you still have to get a new board.
"I'm only 28 and already washed up."
I always assumed it was so the children could perform their unpaid farm labor before going to school, but that’s a guess based on no evidence whatsoever.
That is so sad. That was one of the things I was really looking forward to. I mean, I guess we can always play with 'safe' stuff ( ferrofluids, oobleck ), but it just won't be the same without going boom.
I don't think you know how mining bitcoin works in theory and practice. I also think you're overestimating (long term) how much users care about what US (I assume from your reference) prosecuters do or not in relation to mining groups that are reachable by US jurisdiction
So umm...when swatch tried this...it bombed pretty hard :-P
'beat time' got beat :-P
Their evaluation and decision making process is quite clear: https://esp.ethereum.foundation/en/guide/
Very inspiring! Thank you.
Yes, e.g. `const Token = struct { kind: Kind, otherStuff: ... }`, where Kind is an enum where one of the values is Kind.error. Then since switch is exhaustive, you can just pattern match on kind as you iterate over tokens to handle the error case at whatever syntactic context is most appropriate.

The nice side-effect about this approach is that rather than following the standard error flow of bailing early and unwinding stack, you can keep parsing and collecting errors as you go.
Cloudflare servicing anti-vax content
They seem to have no published position on anti-vaxx content. Domain is registered with enom.com (Tucows)
> Moving the time of day backwards or forwards just changes what number is on the clock face when the cows are ready to be milked.

Which changes whether the children are there to do the milking, or at school instead, right?
I suspect that it’s this idea that the icons should have a consistent design aesthetic for branding purposes that makes them all look the same. And there’s definitely been a trend towards ever more abstract icon design.
One thing I don't know is how prevalent that is, but I do know whether my own kids did those things. I also know quite a few of the parents, and have a sense for what their attitudes would be. But in the final analysis, the answer is, don't know.
it's only stable if you imagined it to be stable - it wasn't. And commodities futures and speculation is only gambling if you choose to call it gambling and compare it to casinos - it's not. Comparing it to a house-odds gambling game like casino is just personal bias on your part, and your lack of understanding of the machinations of commodities trade.
Relevant Bloodsport clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDdmsnCe9_U&t=32s
Ah, my mistake. Wow, even more impressive then!
Hardening and Simplifying Python's Urlopen
That doesn't make them infallible. If anything, Wayland smells like yet another instance of CADT [1]. Like, why can no one explain why a world-breaking change like Wayland is justified, when the problems Wayland solves seem like they could be addressed by repairing X11?

I'm honestly interested in building a better X11, and am willing to contribute both time and money. But first, I'd like to understand why the X11 maintainers deemed Wayland necessary -- like, what am I missing here?

[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
What a confusing article. It starts with blaming consumers for being "addicted to cheap clothing" then immediately contradicts itself by claiming that the best scoring companies are "bowing to consumer pressure" for ethical behaviour, and the worst scoring companies are the most expensive brands.
Beat you by 3 full minutes :P
Oh, very cool, I somehow missed that! Thanks!
For sure, I completely understand the resistance a lot of people have to cryptocurrencies and blockchains, I imagine they can seem invasive or unnecessary to people who imagine them being imposed in their communities. The side people generally hear about is people speculating and making/losing money. The hyper-capitalism unregulated markets can be off putting to people because in some ways it is the worst of the society that we already have, but personally i see the tech as being very useful for social-democracy and allowing us new ways of working together and handling this money stuff that might actually help us escape that capital led world.

I'm definitely in the camp of it being up to those of us who work in the space to prove our point and deliver on what we've been saying. I really believe we are getting to at least delivering the tech that might make the ideas possible to explore at scale.

There will be waves of mania, price bubbles, bad crypto ideas, and the general internet scammers, but hopefully something good comes from it all. And I expect the space to be belittled and rejected until it is able to show its value, probably rightly so, we have big promises to live up to.
Those things are valued for more than their resale price.

The only reason I would ever want to hold a Bitcoin is that I trust that somebody else will give me something of value for it in the future.

If governments make it very difficult for me to exchange bitcoins for other things, its utility as a "store of value" gets lower. I'd rather store my value in stocks, real estate, gold, or whatever else. The regulation directly interferes with the use case.

On the other hand, all the regulation in the world doesn't interfere with cocaine's use case of getting you high. If governments could make it so that cocaine doesn't get you high, its price would certainly plummet.
Which of those sources say solar noon matters more than light exposure just before or after sleep?
As a former child of the internet, I can assure you that he will still do what he wants. When I was younger, my parents spontaneously decided to install a web filter which I bypassed in 5 minutes once it stopped being convenient to comply with it. I violated my screen time restrictions pretty much whenever I wasn't home. I became a better liar.

Kids are far craftier than you give them credit for, and even if you watched over your son's shoulder all day every day, I can assure you he would find a way to break your rules.

I'm personally of the persuasion that we're approaching this "internet safety" stuff from the wrong perspective. Why not teach your kids how to be responsible, set reasonable limitations (more expectations than limits), and discuss how they're using the internet in an open and honest way?
Yep that's a great point, and really the security of TLS isn't so much algorithms and bits over the wire but all of the certs, processes, machinations etc. around generating and trusting them. There definitely would be a lot of headaches around building that chain of trust with dozens and hundreds of tab processes.
Zero trust is a good start, but claiming that it is a panacea is about as dumb as claiming that you are safe from hackers because you have strong perimeter protection. It is not just the potential for a zero-day, but the fact that direct access lets you see traffic flows and even an encrypted protocol is going to leak metadata that will tell you where to pivot and suggest potential attack vectors.
It's not really baffling. The underlying analog nature of bits becomes problematic when many bits become ambiguous. When nearly all of them are unambiguous, presenting bits as strictly on or off is perfectly serviceable.

As almost everyone using a computer needn't care about the hidden analog nature of bits, most of society needn't care that sex rarely manifests in a non-binary way. All that needs to be said to most people is "be a decent human being."
Well, dogs theoretically don't need meat, so if we can feed them impossible burgers, they'd be fine. Cats don't have a choice, but I'm feeling like they get a bad rap now. If we feed them meat we produce, we're destroying the planet. They're perfectly capable of finding their own food if we let them, but then they're decimating local bird populations and disrupting ecosystems.

For what it's worth, the trends these researchers are talking about in the US with younger people having more pets and treating them better with higher quality foods is because younger people are having fewer children, instead replacing the lost affection and need to care with pets. Surely, replacing a human child with a cat is eco-friendly. Even if the cat eats nothing but meat, it never grows large, never grows old, and never learns to drive or require its own separate house. Carbon footprint has to be lower than more babies.
Premium pet foods generally have more meat protein in relation to fillers like grains and legumes than other pet foods . They don’t include what we would call “premium cuts”.
This should be upvoted because the replies and replies to replies are among the funniest I've seen in a while.
Some of you don't want us to use 'hacker' when we mean 'criminal'
"Last week, we argued over whether or not the media, including El Reg, should stop using the word hacker as a pejorative.

This debate came about after infosec pro Alyssa Miller and a few others from the Hacking Is Not A Crime movement politely asked Register vultures on Twitter to quit using the h-word as a lazy shorthand for criminal.

We said we'd think about it. And we thought about it, and we thought about it some more. And in the end, since we're writing for you, we decided to put it to the audience: we published an article for and an article against the proposal, and let everyone vote for whichever side they agreed with."
There's a chance this tale is apocryphal, but the 90s was a pretty dark time for professional cycling and it is of course 100% drug use (EPO etc) related. I've heard this story in several cycling books/pro cycling talks usually in connection to Marco Pantani. Marco Pantani stories are often exaggerated as the man was almost like a folk hero to many fans and sad stories about his death historically sold well especially in Italy. There are a great many "legendary" stories regarding EPO use in the pro peloton in the 90s and riders were often deeply paranoid bordering on superstitious about what the training and new drugs were doing to their bodies, hence the rich vein of apocryphal tales and dubious advice.

To be clear, it's definitely not a practice that is at all required of 99% of healthy pro-cyclists! Top cyclists wear heart rate monitors to train more efficiently just like many other athletes. I could certainly believe some riders would have been _paranoid_ enough to wear one regardless of merit in bed while taking EPO though. These were often young men heavily pressured into injecting for first time etc and in 90s not like you could just google "EPO side effects" like you might today.

EPO use was rampant in cycling the 90s, largely because there was no good test to detect it widely used in sport till early 2000s, and the advantage it could confer was pretty significant in cycling - see Lance Armstrong's career.
Only if miners paid their costs in BTC which they don't (yet).
How to Quit Your Job (2010)
I'm specifically not talking about toolkits. I'm talking about a "simple" native Wayland client. Try to write one and witness utter insanity.
Thanks so much! We appreciate all the words of encouragement
"Premium" in pet food doesn't mean better cuts of meat, it means less fillers and grain.
Such a misleading article, the meat producers and processors are maximizing their use of the product to ensure there's minimal waste, that's basic economics.

If I'm looking to make chicken stock, I have to call up my local butcher before going there to make sure they haven't processed all of their chicken spines into dog food...
1993?

Friction stir welding was invented in 1991. Full flow staged combustion was tried out in the 1960s. GPS was available 1993. Not sure how much computing power it needs.

SpaceX was founded in 2002.
Geez bud, I have nothing of any value to add but you triggered a long session with the Muffs today. What a wicked, wicked band. Once again, poor Kim Shattuck...what a talent.
The "Always New Projects, Never Docs" section is something that I often point out to my manager. He uses other engineers at the company as an example of the best engineers during our performance reviews.

The "best" engineers are constantly on greenfield projects. They are quite talented, but they have it easier in a lot of ways.

- Working on projects with the most perceived value, so they have strong reasons to be motivated by their work.

- Using the newest technologies, so they don't get bogged down in technical debt. This can also be motivating for engineers.

- They have more autonomy because the product hasn't built any bureaucracy around it yet.

Most engineers hired in the past few years are maintaining the projects those engineers created 2 or 3 years ago.

The projects are never documented well. Technologies haven't been upgraded, so versions are out of date. Tooling was poorer years ago, so engineers have to fight that. Needs of the products have shifted and architecture hasn't. Refactoring is always on the back burner, so the problems persist and multiply as new features forced in.

The people who got to build the original projects years ago keep looking better as they build new projects today. Everyone hired since is mired in trying to keep the product running while adding new features. The result is a growing gap between the "good" engineers and the "bad" engineers.

The worst part of it is that if you point any of this out, you're essentially calling out the "best" engineers in the company.
Dog owners live happier, healthier lives.

https://time.com/5028171/health-benefits-owning-dog/
Thats very silly.

Source: Am vegan.
Context. If you're applying as a securities trader, you're great at chess... for a securities trader.

If you were great as chess for a human, you probably wouldn't be applying for a securities job.

Conversely, there was a period of my life where people would hear me talk through a few problems and later confess their surprise/disappointment upon finding out I'm rubbish at chess. I found more lucrative and/or entertaining puzzles to plow my ample free time into, is all.
From the point of view of wider society, people who don't produce tangible or comprehensible benefit are indistinguishable from parasites.

All the people around them are supporting them, how do you know they're really worth it? If a physicist spent 40 years producing useless stuff, would anyone notice? Does that matter? How many string theorists should we support as a society, anyway? And why say, researchers? Why not artists, interpretive dancers or historians? Critical race theorists? What does all this say about our values?

The plumber is in the physicist's apartment, knee deep in crap, fixing the toilet. Suppose the plumber has interests, things she would do if she didn't have to wade through crap all the time. Suppose she's actually a fairly talented artist. Why does the physicist get a "free ride", intellectual freedom and financial security, while the plumber deals with the crap?

Of course in our society you _do_ get a "free ride" by owning enough stuff. That's a separate, but related conversation.
Performance. I'm looking to try implementing a regexp-like engine via a runtime parser generator built using parser combinators and _hoping_ to get performance near what optimized regex engines get.

Seems like an interesting way to get nice, performant template parsing without having the performance overhead that higher level languages typically bring.

This is all speculative, though - I haven't actually done it yet, so maybe I'll find its incredibly slow and a bad idea :)
I agree, estimations are hard. I just don't see how this is the same issue as that mentioned in the video at all. To me, "sunk cost" is a buzzword used to justify the cancellation of any project that takes a long time to develop.