skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn't. The price is never the problem. It's like saying that when someone stabs you only the pain is the problem. The problem is that you are wounded, not that you are in pain which is just a symptom.

Get this into your head. The price is just a convenient fiction that lets us organize efficiently. If the price is too low then that means other competitors are working far more efficiently than you do. If the price is too high it means that the market isn't efficient enough. The price is just the messenger, it's a whisteblower that only speaks the truth. If you shut it up, it's like wearing a blindfold. You have gained nothing. There is also a limit to how efficient a market can be, if your price limit is so low that it's not physically possible to be efficient enough to even enter the market you can expect supply to shrink. If you put a price minimum then you allow inefficiency to creep in because you mandate that being efficient below a certain point is illegal.

How does this reflect physical reality (yes, the market isn't physical reality, it's just information that is used to organize physical reality)? Physical reality tells us that we have too much milk. The excess milk has to be consumed or production has to be reduced. You have to do either of these things.
Don't worry, conservatives will get in and fire-sale our natural resources to try and pay off the debt. It's like a horrifying good cop bad cop.
Public outcries have underlying causes. Justified or not. Separating the outcry from the reason for it isn't an accurate model.

What you call cancel culture isn't limited to 1 political group.

You haven't provided any evidence of ordinary people being terminated because of organize harassment campaigns. And you keep equating self censorship to cancellation.

Calling for someone to resign or be fired isn't harassment.
adjective: hand-written
written with a pen, pencil, or other handheld implement.

...?
How can I play the original EGA version?
I also like peek.
> more than enough time to re-structure their revenue channels and invest accordingly.

In other words, their business just goes away, but they can always start some other business?
opinion noted.
That is ridiculous. Newscasters are far less polite and far more openly partisan, combative, and opinionated than they use to be. Comments on articles and videos, and in social media, are far less polite than people replying with letters to the press in the past.
Maybe find a manufacturer of a similar type of product that has good reviews. Alibaba (Ali direct or express or something) might be a good place to find them.
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This looks useful. I'm always building ginormous sitemaps and this one is free.
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> He was not convicted

> the assassination attempt was taken into account by the judge for sentencing

There are a whole slew of problems advocating for the ability for judges to sentence people for crimes they were never convicted of.
If you are asked a stupid question it is reasonable to give a stupid answer
If you're saving using after-tax dollars, savings 10% of 170K top line is therefore not $17K.

For interest, according to https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tax-resources/canada-income-tax-c... net on $170K is $111,547, meaning closer to $11K / year
My above comment was not ironic. What I meant is that we have already discovered the algorithm that gives rise to all biological phenomena: Evolution by Natural Selection.

We also have some grand principles that further unite the field, like the cell as the basic unit of organismal life, emergent properties of higher order systems, &c.

The remaining work is mostly 'stamp collecting' - looking at the details of the output of that algorithm. Of course those details are enormously complex. Kind of like mapping out the Mandlebrot Set after you already know the algorithm.
I'm floored by how good this looks! I'd buy a license if it wasn't so restrictive (as others have mentioned).
Telemarketers have really ruined phone calls. No one under 40 is using them anymore unless they're expecting a call from a potential employer--the only reason in the past decade I've ever "waited" for a phone call--and I'm noticing more and more job postings will reach out to you via text or email first.
I just collected one million AED (~270k usd) from a localbitcoins exchanger. This cost me nothing, the guy didn’t even ask for my name.

In Europe I could sell cryptocurrency for cash at a price several % above market value, people are desperate to get rid of paper money.

It’s only a bit challenging if you want money in your bank account.
mmh doesn’t make a lot of sense. Miners do actually provide the infrastructure for the network to function properly: no miners, no coins, no blocks, no transactions, no network.

I know it’s tempting to discard miners’ concerns, but it would be a great mistake. Miners need incentives, without incentives we’ll start allocating capital and resources somewhere else.

We are not greedy, not crazy, not confrontational: we are just rational.

If someone don’t like us, then could do without us.
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The problem is that most people criticising Rust don't make the case very well. If you want to read good critique, I'd recommend this - https://matklad.github.io/2020/09/20/why-not-rust.html. This post up-to-date, succinct and objective.

And most pertinently, this critique was written by someone who genuinely loves programming in Rust. Shows you that Rust users aren't blinded to the faults of the language. You shouldn't think that Rust users are fanboys just because you see push back to low effort, low knowledge critiques.
> For longer running processes and more complex systems, exceptions are not so great. It's almost a given that you will have a hard time tracking down all the error scenarios in your system.

I disagree. I absolutely love throwing exceptions from lower levels of my web apps and letting them bubble to be handled by exception mappers that will formulate the correct http response from them.
Firebase + ChakraUI + React.js has been pretty solid for me lately.

That said, I used Rails for the first time for a small client last week and it was fairly easy process.
The only contacts that make sound on my phone for incoming calls or messages are my wife and my boss.
Page stops working in Firefox after clicking on any preset.
it doesn't appear to support wayland

https://github.com/phw/peek#why-no-native-wayland-support
Yes, my company paid for RethinkDB over a year before they shut down. They sold support to us for $100, and of course their engineers did far more than $100 of bug fixing for us. The reality was that RethinkDB was a very difficult product to create and when you pushed it hard in production it had some serious bugs. The other core issue is that pretty much the same unique problem RethinkDB solved for us (data storage and changefeeds) could be much better solved using a different architecture and better database (PostgreSQL with LISTEN/NOTIFY). https://blog.cocalc.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.htm...
ECG machine, uBITX SDR, and random small projects like a tempature sensor.
A DBMS is not a developer tool. It's a crucial building block of your application, i.e. your product or service. If a dev tool fails, only the developer suffers. If a DBMS fails, your product/service suffers. Swapping a tried and tested DBMS for another requires a very compelling business case.
It's hilarious for me to see

> Toronto was left without a good restaurant on the water

which should actually be

> The business owner was either unwilling or incapable of making his business succeed.
This could have been a good report, assuming that the data supported the facts that the reporter wanted to prove. It is a shame that this reporter has no idea about statistics. He got good data shaked it up and made some intuitive claims.

Don't misunderstand me. I opposed the irresponsible opening of that factory when we didn't have the facts to know that making that move was safe. But when you are going to look back and make a claim using data, you have to know what you're are doing. Statistics offers many ways to compare the situation inside the factory with what is happening outside. You just need to use them and justify why you are using them before reaching a conclusion and making a claim.

I would want to believe something different, but this report is garbage.
I feel the same. I watched (and enjoyed) lots of college basketball when I had roommates that were heavily invested in games' outcomes but never again since.
Elon musk argued that calling someone a pedophile was within bounds of polite banter on Twitter and people agreed with him.
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I'm not the author, but:

> Or perhaps you meant null pointers.

A major problem in languages like Java is that objects can always be null. A better solution would be to force strict null checks a la Typescript, where if you want to take or return an optionally null reference, you have to explicitly encode that property in the type of the variable.

NullPointerExceptions are frankly a really stupid thing we have to deal with. A proper type system could check for that at compile time.

> but you're talking about RTTI, or "reflection"

OP is talking about ML-style type destructuring, which is kind of the opposite of this.

> I don't understand the obsession with immutable variables.

Mutating variables leads to all kinds of invisibile problems and makes the code a lot harder to reason on. When I write Java, most of my variables are final, the author is right that we should be taking the opposite convention a la Rust, variables should be immutable by default with mutability explicitly annotated.
I thought it was more to hinder further recruitment because allowing it is much like giving it weight and making it seem normal. By minimizing it's exposure it both acts as a reminder that "that isn't normal or acceptable" and by banning it it cuts down on potential recruitment.
>>It's one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world, [...]

Toronto was ranked as the 98th most expensive city in the world; not even in the top 50, even though it's the 4th largest city in North America.

Perhaps it's more accurate to say that Toronto and Vancouver are unaffordable and expensive cities for domestic Canadians to live in.

>>Our debt to GDP is out of control. Our federal government keeps borrowing and spending on things that are completely inneffective (and bragging they spent the most than any other country). My gloom and doom prediction is our currency is going to be absolutely worthless in two years time.

Canada's debt-to-GDP is 88%[2], but the USA's debt-to-GDP is 127%[3] and climbing. You remember the ol' saying: when America sneezes, Canada catches a cold. The largest destabilizing factor to Canada's economy is likely to be problems with their largest trading partner.

[1] https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/2020-cost-of-living.html

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-nat...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
Is that a puzzle you're posing that I shouldn't spoil, or are you genuinely curious and interested in an answer here?
Sure, but you could only do so for a pre-planned attack at least several days in advance. That's not a very situationally flexible option, and if manoeuvring of the barrage to prepare the attack is detected, you're in big trouble. Their subs will pepper you with nukes long before your attack strikes home, and quite possibly well before you've completed the orbital adjustments of all your warheads.

Another factor is that sub based missiles can launch from relatively close to their target and just skim out of the atmosphere, well below the orbits of even fairly short lifetime low orbiting satellites. That makes for quick trajectories. A satellite based weapon up there for extended periods would need to be in a relatively high altitude to avoid orbital decay. It turns out you don't actually get much advantage in terms of strike time even for a target that happens to be at an optimal position relative to your orbit.

Finally, what do you do when the weapons reach the end of their service life? With terrestrial weapons they can be refurbished, upgraded or the expensive nuclear material recovered for remanufacturing. I know space weapons are sexy and cool, and I love me some Goldeneye style James Bond super-weapons, but they're not actually all that useful.

It's one of the reasons the Star Wars missile defence project wasn't really viable as well. At any given time at least nine tenths of your defence satellites are over Australia, Africa, the Pacific, the Antarctic, or somewhere else peripheral rather than the Russia - USA theatre.
The point is to improve our city and its residents' quality of life, actually.

Edit for clarity: This was a project _of the city of Toronto_. It is _only incidentally_ an Alphabet project _as well_. The City of Toronto has no fiduciary obligation to Alphabet's shareholders.
What's the requirement for being a shill? Liking something and talking about it?
Value density is the differentiator. The amount of work required to produce a single ounce of gold is many orders of magnitude greater than the ancillary costs of storing or transporting that ounce.
Mainstream artists are the masters of empty posturing. I am quite certain that the vast majority of them do not give a flying fuck about cryptoart's impact to the environment, one way or another.

There are people who stick to their guns and those who were always critical/proponents of crypto- good! But it'll all be forgotten once the fad goes through its course.
In theory. In practice i do not tend to trust all these layer not so much as i have seen to many "edge cases" fail. :( but let's hope that works :D
There are multiple factors involved with both collapses. Chestnut trees were planted in dense clusters in parks and along streets so their growth intermingled. This extreme unnatural density enabled pathogens to spread.

Carrier pigeons were delicious and easy eating. Rampant hunting had already crashed the population at that time.
Which is about 5x the price of raspberry pi. I get your point though, I actually have a pentium nuc.
I can't tell you how many times I have problems with a site in Firefox because they only designed it for chrome now, sites owned by google are the biggest offenders.
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uBlock Origin. PHP (coding for wages). Firefox (especially the devtools, you can have the console with all outgoing/incoming on one page, chrome doesn't have this and is clunky).
Even high quality milk is a commodity although a niche commodity.

Think of it this way. There is an art piece that is being produced millions of times and people even buy it multiple times. It's a commodity because it's consistent. It's always the same.

If every art work was different then it wouldn't be a commodity.

The same applies to specific brands. They are a niche commodity. Each pack of milk is identical. The amount of milk you buy is the same in each pack (within tolerances of course). You don't care which cow ended up producing the milk. If each pack of milk was labeled with the cow it came from and each pack had a different quantity of milk it wouldn't be a commodity.
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We've already been doing that for well over a century at this point.
MPEG-2 is also patent-free as of a few years ago.
merchants and exchanges do not exist in blockchain terms, miners come first since they literally make the chain run. Everything flows from here.
You must have missed the entire 90s. Microsoft hasn't changed, it's just got better PR. Google has it's faults as well, but I vastly prefer Google's contribution over Microsoft's.
It seems like a great language; I'm going to look into it this year - maybe for advent of code or some data science/ML stuff. For some annoyances there is F#+: https://fsprojects.github.io/FSharpPlus/
Are you posting this to start a flame war? Has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
I’m aware of the differences between structs and classes, boxing etc. (.net dev since ‘02),
. My point is “class” can some times be a faceless “value” with no identity, and some times have an identity. The “records” feature is a way of addressing this difference, but like everything else it’s tacked on a bit late. A value class, like a value type (struct, enum), should/could be immutable, have structural equality etc.

I’d like my language to be extremely explicit about whether an object has identity or not. It ties into things like ownership, move vs. copy, disposal etc too.
It's not even 1% of global energy consumption. There are much bigger problems out there that should be prioritized such as fossil fuels. By the time we've solved those, cryptocurrencies will hopefully have moved on to less expensive proof systems.
Just like the wonderful experiments of Fordlandia, EPCOT, and Pullman? Hell, if you want to look at the broader theme of companies running entire countries, look at the mismanagement of the British East India Company.

The history of such projects rather weighs against the Google project being any better, particularly given the proclivity of many in the tech world to have the arrogance to believe that they know more about other fields than those who work in those fields.
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Drawable is just a trait, a definition of methods that can be abstracted over. If you wanted to store data, you'd do it in the type that Drawable is actually being implemented for, i.e. MyEntity.

struct MyEntity {
cache: RenderingCache,
}
impl Drawable for MyEntity {
fn draw(&self, canvas: &mut Canvas) {
self.cache.draw_cached(canvas, |cache_canvas| {
cache_canvas.render(ASSET);
});
}
}
const ASSET: Asset = load_asset("foo.png");
This is a generational thing. If you’re over 30-35, you treat texts as asynchronous. If you’re under 30, you assume someone who hasn’t responded within minutes is dead.

At least, in my limited experience.
The amount of FOMO and The fear of 1.7T flooding the system is a big factor in the run up. Wouldn’t chase it
Is source forge still a thing? I thought it had degraded into some kind of click bait, virus infested spam bot farm about ten years ago. Is it back?
sorry but no one is hired. Mining is voluntary and based on incentives: you remove the incentives, miners stop mining.

it’s that simple.
Indeed, and this is strongly determined by the price. As long as bitcoin doesn't influence the price of electricity, the relationship between its electricity consumption and price should be roughly linear. Meaning that if the price doubles, miners can afford to spend twice as much energy on proof-of-work in their competition to find blocks.

We're already at a price level where miners could afford to spend on the order of 2% of the world's electricity consumption (assuming an electricity cost of $0.05/kWh [1]). If the price rise continues, then bitcoin will start to push electricity prices up. Electricity grids may even become strained.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%286.25+bitcoin+%2F...
This industry is so screwy, sometimes.
It's a puzzle. I know the answer.
1.7T? Can you elaborate?
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That does indeed seem[1] to do regular, naive as per OP, composition.

I was just curious what OP was using these traits for, as in my non-Rust experience seldom have the need to compose stuff without storing additional data.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/std/io/buffered/bufwriter.rs.h...
Perhaps even more on point:

A certain number of people are going to have a bad reaction to the COVID-19 vaccines and die as a result. Fortunately, this number appears to be quite low, but it's not zero. It's never zero (there are people who are born allergic to breast milk, and who can die from that).

Our society has calculated that the risks involved with getting COVID-19 are higher than those involved in getting the vaccine. Therefore we are vaccinating people, even though some are guaranteed to die from that (but once again emphasizing that is going to be a whole lot fewer deaths than if we don't vaccinate).

Classic calculated risk.
> but a single mistake or clear stack (y) would send it all tumbling down.

This seems especially prone to some kinds of nasty bugs if you're not careful with what you're doing:

Would you like to save your progress? [y/n]
>> y
Have those US stimulus checks arrived already?
USA stimulus package.
Really only Fedora has shipped Wayland by default for five years, and they do this with a lot of other tech as well (GNOME 3 and Cgroups v2 to name some more). If there is no user demand, nobody wants to do the work of supporting new technology, which is why Fedora releases things before they are ready. Anyone using Fedora should know this.
Go Tulips...hail to the Nederlands ;)
Agreed. It's not a bother when you already have the app, so for Wise i don't mind so much, but it is annoying. And since I use my password manager as my 2fa app, i have a degraded user experience when logging in to it compared to using 1Password.

(I'm aware of the implications, don't need a lecture)
I am left to wonder then, do you say the same of Brave? They are owned by an advertising company whose website once read "we know where your customers visit."? Or that Brave is funded by a Facebook board member? Or of DuckDuckGo which sends browser, country, and partial IP addresses to it's closest partner Microsoft?

The thing is, many privacy companies are owned or funded by those who do or have made money in surveillance capitalism, but you have to look at the companies history and it's actions.

Saying "how can you trust them because..." without taking a few minutes to do some basic research is really lazy and faux intellectualism.

When I was part of the PrivacyTools.io team, we heavily researched this and interviewed people involved and came to the conclusion Startpage hasn't changed their mission at all and in fact has been incredibly transparent about this partnership.

https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/
Teens/young adults surely have far more opportunities to make real life friends than working age adults. They are at least required to attend school.

I would say that this is more the lifestyle of adults after being out of education for a few years. They are the group that can ignore all real life interaction if they want, Covid has increased the likelihood of this.
Not the OP, but in Europe, Ursula von der Leyen is a great example. Even though she isn't a green eco warrior, but a colorless Merkel ally. She screws up and keeps getting higher and higher positions.
Which vaccines were banned where?
Correct. But I also switched because chrome was better. There was no abuse by Google that impacted my decision. It was Chrome's per tab process that created more stability and overall less bloat.
Having read that EVs are more reliable in the past, I was surprised at your response.

https://www.quora.com/Are-electric-cars-more-reliable/answer... seems quite comprehensive.

Overall, they should be more reliable, though it’s early days and there are teething problems. At the moment they are at least at a similar level to Petrol engines.

https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/latest-fleet-news/2019/09/0... supports this.

ICE cars contain a chunk of metal that is guaranteed to wear out from day 1 of the purchase due to friction and combustion effects. So overall not that different.
I mean, you could just look at a timeline of private search engines and verify if the statement is true.
'Silicon Valley is sleeping on equity crowdfunding'
> I was confused: how could a (very expensive) kettle not come with a filter? (When water boils, calcium precipitates. That’s why your kettle gets much more limescale than your water jug).

Do you not have vinegar? Specifically: white distilled vinegar (5% or 6%)?

That does a very good job at cleaning off limescale / calcium / other deposits. Pour onto the scale, wait 15 minutes, and rinse it out. Acids man, they work.

Everything else seems available on a $15 kettle.