skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting; makes you wonder about the potential for code sharing between that and Android or even linux as well. The Linux kernel developers are open to allowing some Rust usage for things like drivers at this point. So the time seems right for this kind of thing. I guess there is also some decent code from e.g. redox os that might be adapted. Licensing (MIT) should not be an obstacle for this as far as I understand it. Likewise Fuchsia also uses GPL2 compatible licenses (MIT, Apache2, BSD). So, there's some potential to avoid reinventing a few wheels across these platforms.

At face value, protocol stacks such as TCP/IP or bluetooth, are great use cases for a language like rust in a resource constrained environment (battery, CPU) where you are looking to get high throughput, low latency, etc combined with decent zero cost abstractions so you can make some strong guarantees about e.g. correctness. A good high level implementation, might be usable across different OS kernels. Of course these kernels have very different designs so it might make less sense at the code level than I imagine.

I do wonder about where Google is headed with Fuchsia. Do they have a plan at this point for getting OEMs to want to switch to that? I imagine e.g. Samsung might have some hesitations about being even more dependent on Google as a supplier.
You can't really frame a ban as a way of protecting the little guy if your ban causes everyone who "invested" so far to immediately lose everything. You'd almost certainly be sued and end up paying compensation. Even a partial ban restricting who can invest would be open to accusations of elitism and politically difficult.

I suspect that a politician who thinks the crypto market is going to crash will wait for that to happen before implementing a ban. At that point you will not need to pay compensation and there will be political support for it.

In the meantime the government's best option is probably tight regulation and prosecution of any outright fraudulent operations.
Sure, fully agree that if they really did represent some form of meaningful ownership, like the copyright to the work, then yeah, they would not be total bullshit.
I think cryptocurrencies are idiotic, but this essay just does not make a case for a blanket ban at all, nor do I think one is necessary.

The environmental impact should be regulated, but other than that, governments should just stay out of it and let the cryptocurrency landscape be the wild frontier its proponents want it to be. May the best obfuscated smart contract code win, until no one wants to play anymore.
The problem is high dimensions knowing the distribution or even characterizing it fully with data is incredibly difficult (curse of dimensionality). I think the real assumption in ML is just that there is some low dimensional space that characterizes the data well and ML algorithms find these directions where the data is constant.
An absolutely fantastic article that captures my concerns as a user, purveyor, and automater of systems that help with numbers. I'm always very cautious regarding the jump from numbers informing to numbers deciding.
Any analysis would be less than insightful unless it comes from someone who sat in the meetings and helped write the standard.

FWIW Bluetooth isn't "terrible." It's pretty remarkable we can get all sorts of devices to communicate with eachother wirelessly and at low powers with pretty decent bandwidth. And now you can buy a Bluetooth stack on a chip from a variety of vendors.

The bigger issue with Bluetooth is that failure conditions are mostly an afterthought by device manufacturers, and Bluetooth is becoming a sought after feature in environments less than tolerable to failure like automotive and medical devices.
> I see little benefit in a technology

I disagree that this should ever be a cause for banning something. It's not the government's job to pick and choose which technologies or products will be successful or useful.
I like that they chose the name "Effective Programming for America".
The decision was made with “the full support” of its author, Dav Pilkey, the company said,
I hear what you're saying but ... have you tried it? Seems like a simple enough exercise. Heck, maybe I'll try it.
the 16 inch mbp is full of bugs, so it's probably a problem with the device (typing with one and still crying because of https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...)
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I don’t really know the background here but it really bugs me when I see people arguing nefarious intent simply because someone changed their mind later. Is there a logical fallacy that addresses “allegations of flip flopping”?

Sometimes people learn something new that changes things. Sometimes situations change and so the strategy needs to change. Sometimes people realize, for whatever reason, they were wrong and so they take steps to correct it. Do some people sometimes flip flop for the purpose of misleading people or pandering? Of course. But I really don’t think that’s typically the motive. We should be supportive of people changing their minds, not suspicious.
> Forced cultural assimilation is still considered genocide.

Interesting point of view there. You sure you want to die on this hill?

Ok, let’s take that a step further.

In the Western countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe, they all force their immigrants to culturally assimilate. They do this by socially shaming the immigrants to adopt local names, and to not speak their own native language.

This is very prevalent in the white countries, where white people scream out: “Why don’t you speak English, and learn our culture!”

And in grade schools, the immigrants are mocked for being foreign.

And what does the government do about this? Nothing. They turn a blind eye. They let society handle the cultural genocide for them. I’m sorry, to use your phrase: the forced cultural assimilation.

This is their technique. And it allows them to have a plausible deniability to the situation.

Hell, even in the western countries, women are banned from wearing their burqas and facial veils.

And then, speaking of concentration camps, then don’t you agree that the United States had their own concentration camps when they arrested all the Japanese and threw them into the American Concentration Camps? This was only 70 years ago, so it’s not very far back in American history.

And furthermore, the United States and the other western countries, have their own techniques of genociding foreign culture. They do this through Hollywood, by casting Asian males as weirdly foreign, incompetent, and ignorant to the western ways. If this is not cultural genocide, per your own definition, then I don’t know what is.
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Isn't that exactly what makes it successful partial migration?
It's pretty annoying when you are an American too.
Bitcoins energy usage might be it‘s most important property as an asset. Blatanly discrediting it because of „energy usage“ is the simple route. I prefer to dig deeper for the truth. Maybe PoS is part of the solution, but I‘m not convinced of a purely virtual system without a physical anchor.

An overview of counter-argumebtd to the main bitcoin criticisms: https://www.lynalden.com/misconceptions-about-bitcoin/

Regarding energy usage some arguments are: using stranded energy (exists very much), stabilizing energy nets (especially with renewables), incentivizing renewable research.
These are called keiretsu, formerly known as zaibatsu, popularized in the West via Neuromancer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
Historical lynchings do not justify current day lynchings.
If “shitty singers fucking rich” it sounds like maybe songwriters do deserve a lot of the credit for hits!
Inglorious Pasta?
That's why you should write `log.info("message")` ;)

Besides, just use a proper debugger instead.
Isn't EPAM a consulting company? I didn't think they designed their own products to outsource.
This is a strange sort of argument and seeing it so often from
cryptocurrency proponents makes me feel that the pro-cryptocurrency are
weaker not stronger.

On the one hand, yes, I'm sad that I didn't buy $100 of bitcoin ten years ago and hold
until now. Who wouldn't be? But on the other hand, how does this even bear
resemblance to an argument?

> "The political case for a ban on fossil fuels"

So sad that you didn't buy some Exxon huh?

> "The political case for a ban on tobacco"

So sad that you didn't buy some Philip Morris huh?

> "The political case for a ban on energy trading"

So sad that you didn't buy some Enron huh?

"So sad that you didn't buy some bitcoin huh?" is like the opposite of the
sour grapes fable: "I was able to reach the grapes so they must be sweet".
Even if you don't "need" roaming having more coverage lets you dial down the power on all of your APs, so you can get much closer to the theoretical maximum throughput.
Reading one of their books now, great stuff, compilers are fascinating, I wish I had discovered that earlier
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> Some daycare educators had been suspicious of these grey and blue masks for a while because they felt like they were swallowing cat hair while wearing them, Radio-Canada has learned.

Cat hair!
I think the "how" part is the most interesting question here, both in terms of political justification (people who bought $100 of BTC on their coinbase app won't be very pleased) and practical enforcement. Of authors suggested measures, I think only the first would be necessary to result in a de-facto ban.

"Halt all wire transfers of dollars in and out of cryptocurrency exchanges.

Halt foreign entities trading in dollar cash-equivalent crypto assets.

Add Chinese and other foreign cryptocurrency exchanges hiding in tax-havens to sanctioned entities lists.

Regulate the sale of any existing cryptocurrency assets to US persons by classifying them as securities investment contracts moving forward."
Came to post this. Pun intended. But honestly it's good for both uses can confirm. Though the new Theragun style tools are a step up for sports therapy.
YMMV comes with so many caveats that the general advice for going to 1200 is "ask your doctor."
What is it that you are trying to imply? Please be straightforward.

Her 50-page CV lists 4 speaking engagements in Fullerton in the last 50 years. No teaching or faculty positions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26623182
I can second this. Exact same policy for our data science program's recruitment pipeline; a PhD is a hard requirement and Insight was the only program we noted when reviewing applications. Still, it would be a toss-up between the PhD/Insight candidate versus someone 6 years their junior with 2-3 years of "real world" data science under their belt in the private sector.
From the article: "The United States is a deeply economically unequal society and the proliferation of get-rich-quick schemes taps into a deep weakness in the American mindset."

When has the United States not been this way? The first explorers came over here hoping to find a trove of far East spices or gold, and make a killing. The Spanish did make a killing on gold for quite some years, even as they destroyed entire civilizations. Some American pioneers just wanted a piece of land on which to raise a family and support themselves away from tyranny. But many others were looking for gold or other quick riches. The history of our stock exchanges has been one pump-and-dump after another.

Diehl's other criticism, that crypto mining is environmentally destructive, has some merit, but is that a reason to ban an entire industry? What about people fortunate enough to be near hydroelectric plants, or people with solar electric or nuclear? Building extra coal-fired plants in China to power crypto operations does sound bad, but even China is moving away from polluting sources; they have a desperate need to clean up their environment and they are working hard on nuclear and solar alternatives, not to mention that they are developing cheap, affordable electric vehicles.

Every currency system is built on trust. The U.S. dollar, which is the world's reference currency, is increasingly shaky; last year the Treasury created more dollars in a single year than in all years previously. A lot of people are very worried that a currency collapse from excessive debt and a weak economy is coming in the not-too-distant future.

Crypto currency is an interesting and powerful new technology that may actually save us from monetary collapse; I wouldn't dismiss it as a dangerous boondoggle just yet.

At any rate, I don't see how Mr. Diehl's prescription for banning crypto could possibly be implemented; private companies have the right to create products for sale or trade as long as they are not dangerous. Even tobacco and guns, both known to potentially kill people, are still huge profitable industries albeit highly regulated.
Thanks for laying all of this out. I'll say up front that I believe in God (member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) so you know where I'm coming from. You obviously understand this stuff at a high level, and I won't claim to. I had a question about experimenting with proving (personally, at least) God's existence based on what you've explained.

>(b) god has influence in the present (he can communicate with people, either directly into their mind or by influencing the world around us; enabling certain outcomes to occur, like getting a specific job or having a good surgery outcome)

Your example experiments after this point talk about proving God exists through outcomes. I agree that experiments in this realm based on outcomes are bad. As you said, outcomes can have many different, non-divine causes; and it is impossible to observe the actual source. But what about the first point "he can communicate with people, either directly into their mind..."? What if you designed an experiment that tested whether God exists by testing if He can communicate with you? What about something like Clayton Christensen's experiment[1]? His experiment is more about a religious text than God Himself, but could something like that provide a framework for disproving the null at least?

[1] https://claytonchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Wh... page 3 starting at paragraph 2
And then what does that say about the written article? It's just metrics driven for what is the "best". It's truly a terrible system that's taken place over the last 20 years or so.
Notice: When Wall street decides to horrible things with money in its various ways, nobody bats an eye. When fraud happens, nobody goes to jail. It's business as usual.

When the People decides to do horrible things with money in its various ways, we see hardware manufacturers attempt to lock down hardware to prevent it (nVidia), we see the SEC collectively lose their shit, we see completely inconsistent rules from the IRS how to even handle it, and we see calls for its ban.

Rules for thee, but not for me.
You guys are all dissecting his points like academics. I think the real thing is that the environmental piece is a strong enough weakness to make an emotional argument to build support within the non-hardcore communities with the cloaked motivation (as always) being one of control or financial power. The no-cryptos are betting on a growing swell of anti-anti-environmental ideas in general with this one.

Currency/whatever crypto is, is just a system of trust. Logic is likely to have little to do with the downfall if it comes. Scrolling through the comments the Crypto-religious right is out in full effect and tbh, I understand it. For many people they have moved up many brackets of the wealth ladder and they probably should reject anyone coming for their system with vigor.

I think the downside of the crypto religious complex is going to be, that if any of these emotional arguments (coming to kill crypto) become mainstream and compelling, the tenor of arguments is going to push the crypto and no-crypto sides apart cartoonishly (think modern dems and republicans) and the choices of resolution will have to be loud and final.

Make no mistake, crypto is much closer to a political religious sect than it is a science.
I think whataboutism is actually the real shitty thing here.

Yes, I think there is a lot wrong within ‘Wall Street’. But those wrongs don’t justify the existence of cryptocurrencies in any way.

And most of all: it doesn’t absolve cryptocurrencies in any way of their terrible impact on our world.

Just the facilating of cryprolocker attacks alone are enough to justify a ban in my view.
Also one of the best conductors found in the natural world.
Common Lisp had itself and its community to blame. Their dependency managers were decades behind other scripting languages. Poor defaults for build tooling. Even now building a statically-linked binary is an exercise in frustration.

Despite being an ANSI specified language, the most popular libraries focuses only on SBCL. CL is like Lua where most interpreters never achieve 100% compatibility with each other. The lack of Emacs/Vim alternatives demands beginners to adhere to their dogma. Adhering to their cargo cult might be reasonable if they are the dominant language and culture. But they are not. Software engineering classes in university teaches how to make Java AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans first and caml/lisp much later. Common lisp had it coming when they had their lunch eaten by Clojure. They were an old irrelevant relic that sat on their ivory tower and refused to improve or confront the status quo beyond empty words.

And it is not like the Common Lisp community lacks resources. They claim their language is used at Google via ITA software and in GOFAI through Grammarly. Even the bleeding edge of computing through Regetti. Then where are all the maintained, up to date tooling and libraries? Do a quick search and almost everything is unmaintained or half dead, with the usual generic excuse being "we are ANSI specified, libraries twenty years ago will work perfectly fine".

HN is an echo chamber for the greatness of Lisp where every commenter would worship at its church before going back to coding JS/Python/Java on Monday.
No, freedom of speech really does imply some protections, such as not getting instantly fired or jailed for your opinions.

As another commenter pointed out, the fact we are having a debate on the subject is the correct way to resolve this situation and decide if RMS should continue to represent the FSF. The larger issue is a tiny minority have decided it is unacceptable to have this conversation and he must go ASAP.
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To say that "Etherium has not proven proof of stake can work at scale" is true but means not a whole lot. Since it implies other's haven't. Cardano, as an example, will be 100% decentralized Proof of Stake within the next few hours. I see no reason at this point for bitcoins existence but the technology that's being built on top of blockchains is fascinating and shouldn't be condemned for something that bitcoin can't do.
>>Governments only care about the environment insofar as to stay in power

If the people care about the environment and will vote people out of office who don't take care of the environment, that seems like a system that works. If a small number people are allowed to destroy the environment, that takes away the people's right to a livable planet.

>>Look at the numerous examples politicians using “green” initiatives to line their own pockets.

One can make money and help the environment it doesn't have to be one or the other
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The article neglects the best argument for crypto. It will force us to do more energy research and put more money into hydroelectric, solar, and nuclear. We shouldn't let concerns about the environmental problems of current energy sources lead us to destroy an incentive structure that can lead us away from them. Harness the tiger, don't put it down.
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A shift in perspective for BTC is underway, from transaction platform (Yellen on the Con side) to a trans-national asset class (Saylor & Musk on the Pro side). So, now the discussion is on the energy spent on mining: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencewintermeyer/2021/03/10/...

IMO, currency is a belief system backed by Joules.
I am 58 yo computer dinosaur soon to be extinct and I feel confident to give some advice before it happens.

The rules of structured and systematic programming are not difficult to learn and acquire. So the question for me is do you like what you are doing? If so, you could arrange with your employer to have some time out for qualification measures. Or you could do the same between jobs. It could be an online course specialized to your field or one more general. Also you could just study for yourself.
For continued success in the computer field there is no other approach than 'life long learning' nobody can know everything. I am self-employed and I regularly take qualification time off where I extend and refresh my knowledge in the field. It is never a mistake to acknowledge our limitations, it is a mistake to give up something we like just because we feel we could be better. Nobody stops you to become as good and as competitive as you want.

All the best!
Yeah the guy regularly posts his agenda on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=stephendiehl.com
So how should we punish him? How long did this evil act take place? Do these actions have statute of limitations? In Massachusetts rape has 15 years SoL, but clearly this is a much more severe offense.
Well it seems like you've shifted the goal posts now to me. The original conversation was about whether a certain government mandate (read: official guidance) is supportable by a "greater good" argument and now you've changed it to a question of whether or not it's supportable by (what you deem) a "material, factual" basis. In fact, you've tried to remove the government mandate part from the entire conversation!

I'm sure the Muslim countries think that their basis is just as material and factual as the COVID science. I don't know why you're arguing here: head coverings are de facto masks as long as they cover the face, you should be in favor of mandatory use. It aligns with your material, factual basis. You've yet to articulate a reason why a head covering mandate is a bridge too far. Keep in mind that men are more susceptible to COVID than women and so there may be an argument to be made that constraining women will help to protect the most vulnerable sex (men).

I say all this to emphasize that public policy debates are not so easy when both sides come to the table in bad faith and with an agenda.
Are you looking for something like this ?
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I don't like the way bitcoin mining wastes energy, but mining gold certainly has an environmental impact. Most of the machinery is currently powered by fossil fuels, and most of the gold isn't used for useful applications AFAIK.

I'm glad some cryptos are moving to proof of stake, and I wonder if bitcoin will be able to make that transition too, or if the miners have too much to lose to let that happen?
Disclaimer: I work at AWS, primarily in the compute space, but I'm not speaking in an official capacity.

I would say they fulfill different purposes. The SSM agent has quite a bit of additional functionality, even within the Session Manager portion. It's more of your solution for online, general day to day access.

Serial console will let you fix issues when you have lost the ability to boot an instance, or network connectivity has failed. When SSH or Session Manager are available, I personally would opt to utilize them over the serial console. But if I have an instance that I can't reach via those, am unable to replace it for whatever reason, and need to bring it back online, serial console would be what I would reach for.
A carbon tax/price might work assuming you could get that through. Then tax a percentage on Bitcoin purchases via exchanges to aloe for the carbon emissions.
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