skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to trust the government to validate the blockchain then you don't need any proof of work anymore. You just need proof of Government: depending on the government, that might be a trillion-dollar SQL database built by Palantir, or it might be a physical stamp in red ink on a dot-matrix printout of every newly verified block.
In Zig you write libraries that should be explicit and maintainable.
I'd much prefer it if in golang, the type of nil was some "nilType" for which != and == is defined for all other types. Or, define some other operation, like isNil()

Then determining if something is nil could be done without thinking about it at all. nil would be nil would be nil. (Also, it would be illegal to put methods on nilType, of course.)

(Yes, I make my living writing go, and this would make my life easier. And no, in that case, don't allow x := nil.)
In fairness they've been moving away from a lot of those methods. For example the whole find_by_<attr_name> dynamic methods have been replaced with find_by(attr_name: value).

And while you can't find the method code itself, for example the generated code to access a has_many relationship, you can pretty easily find the meta programming that will generate it by following the class method name.
FWIW, I also have a 16" MBP and I've also had a ton of problems with Bluetooth on this thing.

I've noticed that Bluetooth connectivity is significantly worse when the laptop is closed. You might see if keeping it open helps.

Resetting the Bluetooth module also helped resolve some persistent connectivity problems I was having (shift+option+click on the Bluetooth menubar item; choose "reset" from the menu).

Eventually this thing started having kernel panics every time I plugged something into a USB-C port and I had to send it back for replacement. Not a great experience.
"A few decades ago, even the greatest talents in the world needed a recording contract to reach a large audience, and that went through a few large companies."

Ah yeah, this I do agree with. With today's tech it's relatively easy to get youtube/soundcloud-grade quality. It's not super cheap but one can get by with a decent camera, a decent usb interface like a scarlett 2i2, and a mic or two depending on the instrument.

It's never been easier to get discovered thanks to soundcloud, youtube, instagram, etc. Very different from having to play gigs at the right places (sometimes for a long time!) and hope one gets discovered by someone there. I was thinking more of professional studio albums.
I’m sure every animal only ever just says “Come fuck me!”, “Come feed me!” and “Go the fuck away!” or variations thereof.
there's a difference: automatically negating ideas due to the proponent would be a fallacy. refusing to take a proponent as a reputable source when they espouse other ridiculous and dangerous things is just common sense
In that case he's probably holding it wrong.
You’re missing the point.

A lot of these athletes come from very underprivileged backgrounds and worked their asses off to get there even then they often in the NFL let’s say have 2 year careers.

Let’s say they made 500k over two years so they take home 600k.
Now they’re out of the NFL and make 50k a year for next 8 years. So over 10 years they make 1.4 million, but take home maybe 950k.

Meanwhile the person from a privileged background went to Stanford got a job in software at 140k a year. Over 10 years they gross 1.4 million but the total they took home is more than this athlete you so deride.
If you don't mind, this is my base template for Bash scripts:

https://pastebin.com/FYMmnZ0B

At the start it provides a stacktrace function which can also be used to notify you if your script has failed (e.g. via xmpp, e-mail, etc.). It is not my own creation, as I found it somewhere a few years ago, but found it super useful over time.

In addition, there are two versions for checking for dependencies. The first lets you communicate instructions for every tool that is required while the second can be used if you simply want to communicate the list of programs that is missing.

The third part is about named parameters, which can be helpful if you don't want to use positional parameters.
I’ve had some issues with AirPods and AirPods Pro, but they are much rarer than other bluetooth devices I’ve used. I use AirPods Pro several times a day and for hours a day so even with a very low failure rate I’d expect things to break occasionally.

re:Watch, it is likely using WiFi at least some of the time. My Watch shows up on my WiFi and conveniently connects using the same network as my phone, so it apparently knows the WiFi credentials from the phone, at least on a personal network. I never explicitly set that up, and getting Watch to stay off WiFi isn’t something I persisted at - mainly because it does help create a more perfect connection experience than is possible with Bluetooth.

I discovered this initially when I was charging my Watch, while well outside of bluetooth range but just barely in range of WiFi.
Interesting section on their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalLogic#OpenStreetMap_Foun...

OpenStreetMap Foundation 2018 elections incident

"The OpenStreetMap Membership Working Group released a public report [25] alleging that this was an orchestrated, directed campaign by GlobalLogic to register in mass their Indian subsidiary employees, and suggested an attempt to manipulate the election"

The linked report has way more details: https://openstreetmap.lu/MWGGlobalLogicReport20181226.pdf
5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next?
Wait, what? Rubbing alcohol definitely has a scent.
Reading CDK's introduction page, it seems that, similar to CloudFormation, it uses pre-made components, just at a higher level. Those components are then translated into a CloudFormation template[0]. Is that correct?

Might it be more accurate to state that CDK is a higher level version of CloudFormation, that abstracts away unimportant details?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/
Friend, I think you added three zeroes.

Those four hand sanitizers are listed at the below link with those metrics at PPM (parts per million), not PPB (parts per billion).

https://www.valisure.com/wp-content/uploads/Valisure-FDA-Cit...
Yeah from the Android platform side it would be weird to build chips. For products like the Pixel phone though, that would be a great place to innovate. And realistically, Google needs to get into the custom chip game sooner rather than later... GCE needs to start competing with Amazon's Graviton ARM processors. The sooner you get the expertise and talent to churn out chips (and maybe even a fab or two?), the better. The global shortage for fab usage and chips could kind of force your hand soon.
Michael Jackson wasn't talented. He had a choreographer.
I hope I never become famous, because someone will surely trawl through my 25 year old USENET posts and probably find something to hang me with. Probably something that was benign and harmless back in the 90’s but now offensive.

I wonder what future discussion-archaeologists will find 25 years from now in our HN posts that by 2046 becomes offensive!
EU drug regulator investigating 62 reports of rare clotting worldwide: chief
I tried ligatures and different letter combos and none of them ever stuck with me. I have used M+ MN Type-1 Regular as my terminal and programming font for years, I started because it was narrow but it's been my go to ever since.

https://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/about-en.html
https://mplus-fonts.osdn.jp/design.html#mplus_mn1
"new" and "delete" considered as bad practices.

You claimed that you don't have to teach Manual Memory management in Rust so why not do the same for C++?

"Rust makes all of this go away. They don't have to manage their memory manually"

Both C++ and Rust has manual memory management but rarely needed. Both supports RAII where everything managed automatically.
I'm curious if they are going to 'ship of Theseus' it. First replace the dna, done, then the lipid membrane, then feed it C13 labelled amino acids to prove that the entirety of the cell proteom is from their synthetic genes.

Not quite creating life but definitely hijacking it.
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/blm-removes-website-language-b...
I think you're not mandated to use their box (you need one, but can use the one on your bike), but if you don't have one of course they'll sell you their branded one)
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
No one wants to sacrifice a bit of comfort for anything. Our ancestors built this spoiled world and no one wants to undo it.
This. We pray and give thanks as a family multiple times per day. Not in an empty monotonous prayer but we all chime in things and people that we're thankful for. Simple and genuine.
Proof of Stake is not inherently decentralized, you realize that, right? It'll trend toward centalization over time as coins end up getting delegated to the asset class equivalents of banks and brokers. They will pop up. Once they do, They will be regulated. Then you're back to square one.
... and a good resource for network programming is the classic "Beej's Guide to Network Programming": https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
My first job had me write a biology protocol description to robot commands compiler. It wasn't Turing complete, but it did need to allocate and assign "registers", which were the physical spaces available for the 96 well sample plates.
> I think it’s just Bluetooth itself being cursed.

Hence my desire for a headphone jack.
Not the application itself, no, but its configuration. Once I managed to screw up things by modifying the fstab: I forgot the (never used) fs_freq and fs_passno fields in a new entry for /tmp. mountall et. al. are fault tolerant and mount the fs regardless, but not so systemd -- it decided best course of action would be to not mount any local fs. You can imagine debugging that was a wee bit hairy, particularly since it was a head-less system.
https://vizbi.org/Posters/Images/2021/vB26.png

They're working towards it :)
And indeed all those structures provide the support system for crypto itself. It is not outside the existing system. The rhetoric makes it seem like an independent and autonomous system but it is part of the existing technical and financial system. It will not replace the rest of the system, evidenced by recent cooptation by Visa and PayPal, the creation of exchanges, taxation and KYC rules. The real world exists and crypto is not an escape.
I think you thought the post you commented on (mine) made that response (I did not), but the only thing that it speaks volumes of is your eagerness to personally insult the opposing side by insinuating they can't engage in constructive debate. In my analogy, I tried to reflect an example of a typical decision available to a US citizen as that's the main audience here. The argument holds for any government service that people in financial ruin benefit from. In this case, the most applicable would be: should individuals who lose all their money speculating be able to file for bankruptcy? Bankruptcy is a social benefit that gives people a chance at a restart. Should we give that privilege to people who intentionally use it as a call option? Perhaps I should have used this example, but the other is a real monthly expense for many Americans and so I thought fit the narrative better.

And yes, your last comment is a strawman because any libertarian who believes in individual choice and consequence also believes the same for businesses and rich people. You're attacking a group of people who exist but that I wouldn't call libertarians.
The Apple Arcology? Their headquarters is a prototype?
Apparently not. But wasn't he out of FSF for a long time and only recently came back?
Looks like this [1] should be it - that's a lot of panels!

1: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8713857,-120.3390994,7197m/d...
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 123
There is a Zen Mode that displays nothing else than your current file.

(View > Appearance > Zen Mode, or shortcut Cmd+K Z)
We know to a pretty good approximation how much gold is in the earth, and where it is. That's not even a minor consideration for mining geologists and engineers anymore.

The primary limitation as of now is ore quality, which directly dictates how much energy is required for smelting, and we have a good idea of the decline curve thereof. We know roughly when it will be economically profitable to extract the stuff from seawater, which isn't too far off. In the end, it's a question of energy. Very similar to proof-of-work tokens like BTC, in that regard.
Normally it doesn't, but there's edge cases where errors can stack up and cause the entire layout to break.

A related problem happens in word processors: if you just layout and render a document at 1x, but at print time, you layout and render at any higher resolution; you will get a different layout. Lines of text that are just over the width of the page when rounded to the 1x pixel grid will be just under the width of the page at the higher-density grid of a high-DPI printer. This happens even at integer scales because fonts are designed on abstract grids that have no relation to (and are far finer than) the pixel grid that the document will be displayed on printed on.

(Complicating things, Windows intentionally renders fonts using custom rounding logic to force them onto the pixel grid as much as possible, this is known as ClearType. macOS doesn't do this nearly as heavily, which is why fonts look less sharp but more faithful on non-Retina Macs.)

AFAIK word processors either have to always round metrics down (so that layout decisions are deterministic at all scales) or always work on a 1x layout and render at higher resolutions using the 1x layout metrics.
> RMS is great leader

And for some undoubtedly a role model in culinary and behavioral respects.
when i am distributing work to software engineers, i try to assign work based on strengths, preferences and business needs.

if i were you and wanted to work on something different, i would first understand the business needs and the project and then tell the person who is managing the work what i wanted to work on in a polite manner.

e.g. if the contract is for QA work on a desktop app, then asking to redesign the thing on mobile isn't going to fly.
> is that really a valid argument for or against parallelism?

Not really. That wasn't the question though. The question was "were there more race condition with the parallel system than with the serial system?". The answer was undeniably, objectively yes.
Daemon is a book about a CEO of a hugely successful gaming franchise, discovers terminal cancer and releases the AI before death.

The AI starts it's own currency, only good for spending with members. So you help the collective in some way, and the collective will respond in kind. Similarly later in the book mininum wage folks in various corporations are convinced to help the AI to the detriment of the corps.

Interesting take on the AI takes over the world theme.
GitHub Introduces secret scanning for private repositories
What would you flag as the biggest differences between the two?
Scary to see a major energy storage facility less than 20' above sea level and right next to the Pacific Ocean. I hope they have flood walls built to withstand a Tsunami.
> (2) Hardly anybody actually understands money. Money just doesn't work like that, I was told fervently and often. Gold couldn't work as money until it was already shiny or useful for electronics or something else besides money, they told me. .... Even though I had rebutted these arguments in my study of the origins of money, which I humbly suggest should be should be required reading for anybody debating the economics of Bitcoin.

Curiously, still continues to this day.
It's not just that we can't adapt either - it's the time scales we're working with. We might not have time to adapt before literally millions of people are displaced or even die.
A typical manufacturer approach is to beat the hell out of your suppliers on price to make your margin which is likely most of what Samsung does with its buying power. Apple does that but is also willing to throw money at issues and go as far as financing facilities for vendors. Where most manufacturers don't care about the device they sold the second it's out of warranty[1], Apple takes a longer term view of the relationship. So Apple is far more likely to say 'we need this fixed and are willing to provide X million dollars and a team of our own engineers to solve the problem' while Samsung probably goes more like 'make cheaper and make it better... and make it cheaper!'

So the reason Samsung typically has less influence is that when all you do is crush your suppliers margins to make your own, said suppliers don't tend to make much of an investment in making things better since they are incentivized to just make them cheaper.

[1] in fairness, they can't afford to: while Apple has an ongoing revenue stream from its devices, most other manufacturers don't. It's Google/Facebook/etc who monetize the devices post-sale while for the original device manufacturer it's merely a liability at that point. This is a factor in why Android has a rather dismal track record re: updates on older devices.
I felt I covered that with:

> People can lose a lot of information based on medium as well ...[including] different cultural context...

Perhaps I missed what you mean?
Bath County Pumped Storage Station("the largest battery in the world") can store 24,000 MWh, which puts it at 100x this battery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...
How many hardware devices are you talking about? That's very different than what I've seen personally or peripheral to enterprise support.
what are the restraints for wherever you want?

country? timezone?
RMS is a great visionary: his greatest contribution has been the formation of the FSF and the GPL, and evangelizing them.

However, does the FSF need RMS anymore? Or is it better off without him?
This is valid, but not quite the same. Inflation encourages consumption of Goods. Bitcoin encourages the consumption of goods too. To just maintain bitcoin takes a lot of energy. It is a bigger stretch to blame environmental degradation on the math of inflation than it is to look at the direct environmental costs of actually maintaining the bitcoin network.

inflation encourages investment in renewables. the deflationary nature of bitcoin appreciation means owners of bitcoin are going to defer current investment in renewables because the future value of bitcoin is greater than the present value of clean energy.
Doing it by hand is certainly painful, but with libraries such as Troposphere it isn't so bad ..
>> to save a tiny bit of startup performance

> That is absolutely not the reason for systemd to exist

If you read the original web document announcing systemd, one could come away with the impression that it was though (even if substantiated with quite questionable performance tests using virtual machines).
My macbook pro and a decent USB microphone can produce far more professional demos than the Beatles could produce in 1964. If you listen to, say, the Lost Lennon Tapes, a high-school student can do higher-quality production today, based purely on youtube how-to videos.

Sufficient for a pro album ready for radio play? Probably not. But good enough to monetize on youtube? All day long.
"RMS is hard to work with" is not news, JWZ had some deeply amusing insights about that before he got into web browsers.

RMS has said, all along, that no one needs to work with him. He shares his stuff and anyone can make a better version of it.

It's wild how often, and for how long, every criticism of him ends with "and thats why RMS should go away and leave us all the cool things he built".

The "FSF" at heart, at first, was a way to get this unemployable geek paid so he could continue working for the good of the world even when no one particularly cared who he was. If it became more, great. If the "more" needs to be something better, than someone go build the something better.
I’m not sure why I always have to be implying something. I am stating a fact. She taught at Cal State Fullerton.
Stallman isn't perfect (and I don't agree with everything; anyways, nobody is perfect, and I am also not perfect), but he said many important and good things for computer programming freedom, and should have (like anyone) the freedom of speech.

They make many good points.

I agree "per/perse" isn't transphobic. However, what unfortunately many people think, "they" should not be used singular because it is plural. Actually, "you" is also plural, and a lot of people use it singular. Singular "they" is actually very old, it is nothing new. (Both words are grammatically plural, even if the meaning is singular, though. People have been confused about this too, and wrote "they is", even though it is supposed to be "they are", because it is grammatically plural. Actually, the same is true fo "you is" in the past; people argued about that too.) It is true that sometimes "they" is unclear, but that is also sometimes the case of "you" and other words, too. (However, also sometimes you do not want to distinguish plural/singular even if you have to do.)

Some people will always accuse the people of things in order to discredit them. These accusations are not always valid; that is why they will need an investigation (and in this case, they did write the investigation, as can be seen).
It's not a great idea, I would argue that those books have not aged well, if they were even good to begin with. I recall they did not even finish them.
Also it depends very much on what exactly are you trying to learn, since mathematics is a gigantic field. If you have some topic I could point you to good resources.
Wouldn't a basked of currencies like XDR be more sensible than something as instable as bitcoin? If you don't like USD, then say a mix of CHF, EUR, GBP, USD, Yen and Yuan
This is a big reason why I think Dogecoin, of all cryptocurrencies, is one of the better candidates for a cryptocurrency that's actually potentially useful as a currency. Since there's no hard cap on the money supply, said supply has at least some chance of scaling with the global economy in the long term, and you won't see nearly as many crazy surges in value.

For being meme money, it seems to do a better job of being actual money than more serious contenders.
Most are fuel/technical/food grade denatured ethyl alcohol (ethanol) with glycerin (glycerol) as a humectant/thickener. IPA is allowable but more expensive.

A number of them have been made from the heads and tails of normal spirit distillation process (which are waste products), or are distilled with other organic waste products (like dog food process waste), which often smell awful and are super sticky.
Choosing a New Serverless Database Technology at an Agency
Windows + ; is the shortcut you want if you're on Windows.
What’s lucky? Looking to sue?
Apple picked a truly embarrassing time to wrongly reject a simple app update