skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can understand, the primary (but not only) reason behind the 500ml minimum requirement is that early kettle designs included a heating element that was above the base of the kettle (something like this: https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/h1300610/800wm/H1300610...) and for safe and effective operation of the kettle, the heating element had to be covered by water.

I do think there is another reason for the minimum quantity requirement (increasing the likelihood that the generated steam will trigger the temperature sensor) but this other reason is far less important.

In other words, almost all modern kettles don't actually need a minimum of 500ml of water - maybe just 100ml or so to ensure water does turn into steam and triggers the temperature sensor.

Kettle producers have just never really updated the "minimum amount" line. Though I have occasionally started to see kettles without this line.
Dear Roy,

It is unfortunate you are dealing with this. I am so sorry and hope for the best. The Handshake founders had an airdrop pre allocated for you in the Handshake Blockchain [1] so there is about $64,000.00 in there that you can claim under marples.name as of writing.

[1] https://dns.live/top.html
Really well said! In the sale of saving myself from FOMO and investment into speculative vehicles, I keep resisting to any investment into any coin.

We are still living in age of resource sacristy and power we use is not unlimited and certainly not free, as free of environmental impact. I just refuse to be part of movement that simply uses electricity to create something virtually worthless. Yes, there is a significant monetary value to coin mining but these resources could have been spent to make society a better place.
Being positive through the bad times helps for long term achievement. Being naively positive through something that has clearly ended is just stupidity.
Anyone who made money on bitcoin certainly can’t be criticized for being lucky. You had to have a very strong conviction to hold this long and in the face of universal criticism from orthodox economists, academics, business leaders, and HN commentators.
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I don't think that's the Stage 3 announced in this blog post, but it's def a framework for it.
I often know I'm not good enough, but I figure if they didn't fire me then clearly I'm good enough.
I've seen his account. I'm not sure I've read every comment, however. Is there one in particular that you think says something not covered in the two pieces I've linked in this thread?
> It's just a vehicle for speculation and a drain on computing resources, along with a tool for illicit trade.

Speculating against an endless money printer? They literally just printed 2x Bitcoin's market cap in the last stimulus bill. Illicit trade is magnitude smaller on the public easily traceable Bitcoin blockchain compared to dollars.
> Cancer requires clinging to glimmers of hope.

Does it, though? Is there anything that suggests the mental state of the patient is a factor in the efficacy of treatment?

Pieter Hintjens has written a bit against the "fight" model.
I would say that it's like pixel's RGB at address 1x1 is 0-0-0 and pixel at address 1x2 is 0-0-2 and squeezing between them a pixel with color 0-0-1 (averaging the two values near it)(assuming doing this on a image that has 1 pixel height and e.g. 2 pixes width; so that the new image would be would be:

1x1 0-0-0 (original)

1x2 0-0-1 (made up)

1x3 0-0-2 (original)
To provide a financial system that can continue to operate without management by a central government, and without the logistical challenges of gold.
That is a great example, actually.

Because gold as a store of value, in and of itself, is a net negative on the world.

The world doesn't benefit with a bunch of gold locked up in a vault.

Goods and services are useful because people use them or transact them. Not because they are sitting there doing nothing.
When there is so much improvements needed in Ableton I don't feel easy about them procrastinating in such directions. It's a great toy, but they seem to be overly focusing on luring beginners in, while abandoning professionals. Those people will start their journey with Ableton only to become frustrated that their DAW of choice doesn't do many basic things other DAWs do.
How many years did we have to wait for comping?
The fact that the search engine changed though is information. If the search engine is the same, maybe they had 490 mediocre experiences with the old one, and then 10 better ones. Since it's the same search engine, they're going to average all of those together and say it sucks.

If you tell them that the search engine is brand new, they'll reset their expectations and only look at the new data to make a judgment.
my Word 97 still works great (and blows away today's software, both foss and not)
Browse his work[0] to see what’s been going on with it. As a NetBSD user, I’m always happy and impressed to see dhcpcd getting the attention it does.

[0] https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/log/
Typed checked exceptions are a bad thing because they require libraries to redeclare things that are its implementation details, in particular the API of other libraries they use internally.

See Swift's error handling design: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/ErrorHandlingR...

(Also, exceptions/nonlocal returns are a pain because the invisible control flow is hard to reason about and hard to implement in a compiler.)
Probably that’s what all those struggling hotel and restaurant owners right now are missing: a can-do attitude!
BTW I saw you mention class oriented vs object oriented elsewhere and I do think that captures the difference pretty well, thus why I agreed with your sentiments. The actor model basically is object oriented programming in that context, whereas what most people mean winds up being class oriented.

There's (at least) a third model IMO from CLOS & friends, such as Dylan, S4, and I'd argue Haskell Typeclasses. Not sure what I'd call it but it's the idea where you define data classes, generic functions, and then provide linkages between those data classes and the generic functions to give you methods on the state
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I think perhaps you mean "moral" rather than "ethical".

It is entirely ethical to use free software, even to generate massive profits, without paying anyone anything. That's literally the whole point of software freedom: you're free.
The Model T had 20 hp and did 45mph on level ground.
One thing I've learnt from the whole C19 treatment debacle is to never ever trust any single study.

Unlike computer science where if you test something and it works once you and then you expect it to work for everyone, in medical research if you see an effect in one treatment study you probably won't see the same effect elsewhere.

For treatments (unlike controlled vaccine studies) the cohorts are too small and there are too many other variables.
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It isn't impossible for it to form a currency sometime in the future...

Something like lightning popping up that actually worked could turn it into a currency overnight.
Is it hard to find one with a garage rather than street parking? They don’t seem to offer a search filter for that.
There are fees for every exchange, not sure where you saw the no fees part.
Wait... bitcoin is at almost 60K now?
I can only conclude that some people will buy anything at any price just because they are fools.
Brain: haha why would they need a programming language for the 19OH THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS DECADE
Lightning network will improve transactions substantially.
Redundant on Win10 now, too: WIN+SHIFT+S does the same.
There is some implication that the only alternatives are fiat currencies. Anyone in finance will tell you: "do not to hold a lot of cash as an asset or store of value". Buying real assets is the general advice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446082
Most people are like that. But when I go for a 'photowalk' I cannot imagine not using my (#1) DSLR (or my (#2) super-duper zoom point-and-shoot camera).

Phone (imho) is for quick and dirty, not for a 'it's time to do proper photography'.
Some of the best content on the internet is "ugly." And by that, I mean specifically this site: https://www.agner.org/
> People in this thread keep talking about "arena allocators" as if they are special things that you would use a few times (Grep Guy said this above, for example)

I didn't say anything about arena allocators. What I said was that amortizing allocation was routine and commonplace in ripgrep's code. I definitely wouldn't say that amortizing allocation is "special" or something I use a "few" times. As one example of amortizing allocs, it's very common to ask the caller for some memory instead of allocating memory yourself.

> I am pretty tired of the "you don't understand Rust, therefore you are beneath us" line that everyone in the Rust community seems to deploy with even the slightest provocation

Kind of like opening a comment with "This entire article is nonsense." Right? Snubbing your nose and then getting miffed by the perception of others snubbing their nose at you is a bunch of shenanigans. And then you snub your nose at pretty much everyone: "It's the blind leading the blind." I mean, c'mon dude.

The problem with your comments is that they lack specifics. Even after this comment where you've tried to explain, it's pretty hard for me to understand what you're getting at. I suspect part of the problem is your use of this term "bulk allocation." Is it jargon that refers to the specific pattern you have in mind? Because if it is, I can't find it documented anywhere after a quick search. If it's not jargon, then "bulk allocation" could mean a lot of things, but you clearly have a very specific variant of it in mind.

It's clear to me that your argument is a very subtle one that requires nuance and probably lots of code examples to get the point across. Going about this at the other end---with lots of generalities and presumptions---just seems like a fool's errand.
Too late, investors already gave him money by then.
That’s true, but before that happened it appears to have mutated into a considerably more virulent and deadly form that dominated in the second wave. COVID probably would eventually burn itself out into a less lethal form, but there’s no telling how long or rocky the road to that could be.
Hal Finney has early quotes speculating that BTC would best serve as a reserve asset like gold, predicting that transactions would be inefficient at scale.
> There are diseases (including cancer) we could easily spend millions per patient on. Pulling out all the stops you could spend 10s of millions. But we really don't have that kind of societal overabundance, not yet.

My Mum in Australia had a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer, discovered at stage four.

She had almost three years of radiation, chemo, all the associated drugs, scans, treatments and even two different trial drugs.

She never paid a cent, all of it on Australia's standard "heathcare for all".

If Australia and many other countries can manage it, then more countries can too.

Anything less is just an excuse.
Bitcoin was supposed to be a currency. That was the original vision. So far it hasn’t done very well. Maybe lightning network will fix it? It’s not dead yet, but it also never really got started.
Maybe bitcoin won't really burst and all, but I would really like to know how to find if it's underpriced or overpriced.
In times of plenty, such socialism works well. In times of struggle and famine, someone other than you gets to decide how resources are allocated. Your hard work and instinct to survive no longer belongs to you at that point. Many today have only ever known times of plenty and think the USSR was a failure because of selfish leaders, not because there were genuinely hard decisions to make during struggle and famine.

You see the narrative today being that whites don’t deserve what they have. Whites don’t deserve their hard work because it was built on empire building and slavery and privilege. To me, this is being set up to cripple capitalism, pretending that the hard work capitalism encourages is somehow false or fake.

Yes, UBI would solve your problem in the short term. However, I think proponents of UBI are deviously attempting to downplay capitalism’s benefits and entirely hiding UBI’s drawbacks when society is no longer as well off (e.g. during wars)
Yeah, we have that. It’s called sea shells. Want to trade mine for some USD?
I can't believe you are getting downvoted!

This is a real risk!

Relevant quote:

> Under normal conditions, highly virulent strains of the virus are not selected. A highly virulent strain would kill the host before the virus would have an opportunity to transmit to other potential hosts and replicate. Thus, less virulent strains are selected. These strains are virulent enough to induce symptoms but not enough to kill the host, allowing further transmission. However, the leaky vaccine changes this evolutionary pressure and permits the evolution of highly virulent strains.[12] The vaccine's inability to prevent infection and transmission allows the spread of highly virulent strains among vaccinated chickens. The fitness of the more virulent strains are increased by the vaccine.

(...)

> Highly virulent strains have been selected to the point that any chicken that is unvaccinated will die if infected. Other leaky vaccines are commonly used in agriculture. One vaccine in particular is the vaccine for avian influenza. Leaky vaccine use for avian influenza can select for virulent strains which could potentially be transmitted to humans.[13]
It means that those features have not been created. I agree with you that it has to clearer. We will add a small description what the hourglass icon means soon.
Gold actually has intrinsic value though.

https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml

> Of all the minerals mined from the Earth, none is more useful than gold. Its usefulness is derived from a diversity of special properties. Gold conducts electricity, does not tarnish, is very easy to work, can be drawn into wire, can be hammered into thin sheets, alloys with many other metals, can be melted and cast into highly detailed shapes, has a wonderful color and a brilliant luster.
Sure, I have this curiosity, too. But in the context of being an interviewer, it's not about me. My job is to fairly evaluate someone who's just trying to figure out if this is where they'll get their living from.
> Sure, but passing by value isn't always realistic. If you have a hashtable with a million entries, you can't copy it just to update a value.

What else are you going to do? If you want to insert a value but also have access to the hashtable without the change, then you need to copy it. (Or use a data structure with history tracking, like RCU or finger trees.)

If you don't need the old value, then you can optimize out the copy - this isn't too hard.
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There's a 24/7 market with billions of dollar in trade volumes and you have the ability to short it pretty easily.

If you don't think that it's current value is the correct value, I'm not sure what else you can do to know if it's underpriced or overpriced.
Depends what you're going to the gym for. If it's just to lift weights, sure, reasonable safety precautions and you're good to go at home. If you're into martial arts, gyms are a hard requirement.
I mean somebody just bought an image with "art" available elsewhere for 69 million USD

I call it the age of affluence
Comparing Tesla's "full self driving" features to adaptive cruise control or lanekeeping is a very dishonest representation of the capabilities.

edit: I'm pretty anti-Tesla (strongly dislike the focus on the central screen and other driver-hostile 'features', don't think "full self driving" should be advertised as such, etc). But I still think their capabilities are significantly above the other car manufacturers enough that they shouldn't be directly compared in that way. But I guess readers like the fact that calling them "adaptive cruise control" and "active lanekeeping" is more accurate and much less bullshitty than Tesla.
Elon Musk and He-Man = Digital Art
Bitcoin is a deflationary currency with high barriers-to-transact (rendering it nearly useless as a currency), backed by consensus trust in two assumptions:

• Enough people are burning enough electricity using enough computer processors that no one entity has control over enough computer power to become the majority burner of processing power.

• That's the only way to violate the axioms of blockchain transactions.

Assuming these two points, Bitcoin is a reasonably good “financial asset”, albeit one that's rendered GPUs almost impossible to buy and is rapidly becoming a major contributor to the anthropocentric climate change that's rendering our planet a harder place to not-die.
The medium that is changing with NFT is one of credit and incentives, not aesthetics. NFT art isn't differently made art, it's differently positioned art. It's like jumping from movies to television. And it's similar in a nominal sense with respect to current platforms, but there's a definite sense of "we have not really done everything this medium can offer yet". The phase where it's a gimmick will pass.
My grocery bill is up 40% from pre-pandemic and I shop at the cheap grocery store. I buy basically the same stuff as I have for the past 10 years. Yet the government claims inflation is minimal. Combined with the value of my property rising and my 401k, I refuse to believe inflation is what the government claims. Huge scam going on here. The government has no incentive to say CPI is rising because that would require them to raise social security payments, raise interest rates, and slow down on money printing. So my conclusion is they are lying, because I see inflation staring me in the face.
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I disagree with this way of assessing things.

Most big tech companies have been investing to diversify their income sources. Whether those investments have had a massive return to take over their original cash cow is a separate concern. Google has been investing in hardware and cloud, Apple in building online services, Amazon in pretty much everything.
You're saying a significant number of people who gathered behind the maxim "code is law" for money may have signed onto what the code was doing and not what the long-term social plan was? Quelle surprise!
This is your bias projecting onto it what you thought it should be. It is not Bitcoin's fault you were mistaken and it certainly does not equate to failure.

It is easy to see in hindsight that a blockchain is and was always going to be inefficient as a transaction mechanism, moreover a finite "money" also can never compete with "easy" fiat money in expandable supply for commerce.

Whatever people (mistakenly) thought it was going to be, it is so far succeeding wildly at (long term, with great volatility) store of value asset.
Absolutely. The study may even be valid in certain conditions, but still fail to replicate elsewhere.

People differ. Healthcare systems differ. Too many small details, too small to document, differ.
Do you mean they give me a slightly worse exchange rate than I could get somewhere else? The “fee” line when I do an exchange is $0.00
> As others mentioned you're forgetting an economy which just uses crypto as the means of exchange, which for many has always been the long term goal.

Taxes are owed in income or capital gains, whatever form that income or capital takes, but taxes can only paid in legal tender. Until the IRS et al hang out a wallet address for payments you will still need to touch the ordinary financial economy.
What does this mean? Did the founders decide Roy's work was worthy of the coin donation?
Rustc widely uses arenas, and so do many other rust programs to maintain object pools. It’s not an arcane process in Rust.
> The other thing you may experience, especially if you work at one of these places and a friend at work is now a "gazillionare" and you aren't, is that some of your friendships are broken

Very true. Wealth is isolating, both from our own actions, and from the other people actions (former friends)
One of the great things about living in a liberal economic system is that you, I, or anyone else can bet on something that's right, but unpopular.

A lot of people started off not understanding Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies, and were annoyed by those who did. As more data accumulates suggesting they might have missed something, they seem to only grow more livid, rather than more curious.

It's a funny pattern. I'm glad that I live in an economic environment in which I don't have to waste time convincing them, but can instead simply put my own skin in the game and get back to work.
My wife’s bmw has it too—but that’s too easy to disengage. Needing to pull over and get out to change the limiter would cool any road rage. I should have said: I’m willing to accept a longer commute and up to twice as costly autonomous vehicle over the alternative which is me having to pay attention and frustrated for 60 minutes twice a day—-even once a week!
Chrome is tangential to the story, but Google calling Microsoft out for trying "to break the way the open web works" is super hypocritical. Its the pot calling the kettle black.
>It's not a currency, it is an asset, like gold.

Is this why the infamous whitepaper is called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" and has zero mentions of the word "asset"?
My phrasing was off. His argument was that the accident was nothing but a freak occurrence, and that the manner in which Floyd was restrained was routine and appropriate, which, as performed, it was not.
Subsystem is too big of a boundary. GP and GGP are likely talking about function level - which is where I also experience this.

Imagine a situation as simple as:

foo = ComputeSomething()

Where ComputeSomething() is a complex operation, spread into multiple functions, with many points that can fail for various reasons. If a function four layers down the stack from ComputeSomething() reports an error, this means all three functions above it need to also pass it back as Result<T>, and if you try to avoid the if-else hell, it means the entire call graph under ComputeSomething() will need to be wired with a monadic interface that smartly doesn't execute functions when Result<T> is of Error type. All it does is make you zoom through the call graph doing nothing, just to simulate the default behavior of an exception bubbling up the call stack.
I think that type of thing can really enhance a game if done right. It engages more of your senses and gets you (literally) thinking outside the box. It makes you feel like you're learning and demonstrating a skill, but in actuality the skill is just being attentive. The original came with a booklet [1] where you could write down the spells next to explanations of what they did, seems like an excellent way to do it.

[1] https://youtu.be/WFl7Q1Io51c?t=370
Sounds like you’re trying to do a ton. For me the secret to being disciplined long term is knowing when to slack off and go easy on myself. Otherwise you’ll burn out. And free time and going easy on yourself helps you gain perspective on what’s most important to work on. You might find there’s a lot of tasks and stuff that just aren’t important or could be delayed.

In short the secret to discipline for me has been slacking off, gaining perspective and self forgiveness, then doubling down on what’s really important to you.