skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah :/. So, I also (well, used to... damn pandemic ;P) travel around talking to people--largely college students, as I got caught up in the whole "hackathon circuit"--about open source and, specifically, free software (I am sometimes even put in debate-style panels with people like Kyle Fogel from the Apache Foundation, so I can argue for GPL over BSD); and I have just run into too many people (and I don't mean "merely" recently, after all the recent public brouhaha about RMS: I have been doing this for a long time, and haven't even been able to do it in over a year anyway) who were turned off of the whole movement by Richard Stallman pulling stuff like this and making the entire audience unhappy and uncomfortable. I seriously would get people coming up to me afterwards saying stuff like "you know, I wasn't expecting much from your talk, because RMS came last year and [random horrible stuff happened], but you actually made this all sound so reasonable", and then I spend the weekend hanging out with everyone (which I can't imagine RMS ever getting to do) and I get converts. I just don't think RMS is winning over anywhere near as many people as he is turning away :/. And like, people can blame this on "neurological issues" all they want--and seriously: even let's assume for a moment that somehow he does have a neurological issue that makes everyone think he is misogynist even though he isn't (which I think is a strange disorder, but let's grant it for a moment)--at the end of the day it doesn't change the reality that he needs to stop being the public figurehead of this critical organization (one I fully understand he started) for the good of his own movement... and frankly, he should be realizing this himself and actually truly "stepping down" as opposed to requiring us to force him out :(.
That is an odd take on a message that stresses how he has changed in the past and how he hopes to change from this as well.
First-class values are values which you can pass as arguments, return as return values, and hold in local variables. Values of type `File` or `TcpStream` are first-class in this sense. They show up in function signatures in the same way as any other first-class values, which is what this blog post is interested in.

This is independent of whether the actual I/O is done via mutation/side-effects/execution/etc. or monads/purity/referential-transparency/etc.
My first thought was, "How is this news, Cody already tested it?" :-)
So people without social skills can't not be in leadership positions?
Diagrams.

https://tromp.github.io/cl/diagrams.html

And a picture of Graham’s number.

https://mindsarentmagic.org/2020/02/19/a-picture-of-grahams-...
> What's stopping hedge fund management firms from racing to the bottom by competing for customers?

Having money doesn't automatically make you wiser or smarter than the average Joe down the race track. Many wealthy people still believe hedge funds have "the knowledge" or some sort of edge. This is re-enforced by many funds being exclusive to those investing through a financial advisor, or with a minimum amount of capital to invest. Having wealth actually does open doors that Joe with his $50K of life savings can't access.

Paying 2 and 20 is indeed less common than it used to be though.
I think they will use SVE2 because I assume they'll need to perform vector reads/writes to NVLink connected peripherals to reach that 900GB/s GPU-to-CPU bandwidth metric they described.
Its the same reason any tweet by Elon Musk saying stupid stuff get 300k likes instantly.. Its about who say and not about what is being said.

If you don't hack your mind from a philosophical perspective you wont stop this tribal hard-coded neural trigger of this automatic authority following.

This is the only thing that can save us from being that person in the 30's Germany photos raising their hands and chanting 'Sieg Heil'.

Remember that this is hardwired, but it worked somehow because we used to be packed in small communities where everyone knew each other.

Now the same "wiring" is being used the same way, but now with a virtual global tribe, where we actually don't really know the people that is being granted authority or why we are supposed to follow them, because we simply follow them giving everybody is also doing it.

Just observe yourself more often and question even the things you take for granted before doing it. You will see a lot of these things are actually unreasonable giving their actual context.
>Do you think he is such a phenomenal genius that keeping him is worth ten good people quitting or not joining in the first place? A hundred? A thousand?

Unless the people at the FSF calling for his ousting are privately acknowledging that this is only because of the 'bottom line' (I don't think that's the case), then it becomes necessary to judge the actual reasoning of those hundred/thousands of people's decision to avoid RMS.
Put simply, when is it okay to just implement a blind appeal to popularity?
At some point you need to convert your crypto gains back to fiat to actually use it, especially in the hypothetical case where crypto trade is banned locally. The IRS/FBI/etc are not going to arbitrarily constrain themselves when trying to go after folks who do this.
I'll second a reverse osmosis filter. We filter municipal water through one to get drinking water and, honestly, we're very happy with it. It's not as good as, you know, Swiss mountain water, but it's pretty close.
Yeah, if Africa lacked something it was Twitter
Yeah, things like desktop wallpaper and to show application extensions; not to tell it I don't want ads integrated into my OS...

We generally pay for services, to avoid ads.
He’s a man of his youth; when you could start a garage band and have a modicum of success, then carry it forward with sound fiscal choices. Concepts like inflation, and buying power are lost on someone of PG’s wealth.

He’s completely detached from the modern reality: content and options are ubiquitous relative to PG’s golden years.

It’s the same with Marc Andreesen and his call to build; hey Marc why not build a progressive tax system that enabled your generation and your parents to explore as they chose instead of suggesting we all just rally behind a billionaires blog post?

These guys are visible because they “won” an ephemeral challenge most people aren’t even aware of.

It’s stunning how smart folks seem oblivious to the extent which relativity commands reality.
Agreed, +1
This pattern goes beyond JS and is very helpful for supporting tests; you've already factored out your validators. There's always going to be stragglers but you can define and push in an extra check on the spot (i.e. using lambda funcs at least in JS).
Qubes OS, the desktop OS providing strong security through isolation: https://qubes-os.org.
Here is housing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIHOSNS

House prices are simply bonds tied to rent value and interest rate and affected by certain demographic trends. The all-told carrying costs of a mortgage right now are actually lower than they were 30 years ago, considering inflation (the principal might be higher and you don't get the tailwind of dropping rates to rebalance and whatnot, but it doesn't change the fact that houses are technically more affordable, not less).

Edit: Here's a graph of housing prices when adjusted for inflation & mortgage rates: https://realestatedecoded.com/the-shocking-truth-about-house...
(although the down-payment is more unaffordable, yes, but you can generally buy things with as low as 3.5% down)
I've experienced this when the async/await is not handled natively (for example when targeting ES5/6) and chrome or the sourcemap have it difficult to map the original code to the executed js.
>your work is treated like it's magic

This isn't necessarily true. A lot of times all they see is the end result (e.g. a UI) and have zero understanding of the work it took to get there. What they may see is a unique snowflake who demands more time and space to do stuff. People can really start resenting you and feel like you are holding stuff back.
> And no, it's not normal for adults to be sexually attracted to teens.

As a father of daughters this stuff is really skeevy to me. But as for “normal,” society has a ways to improve. Remember that Britney Spears became super popular at 16 and 17 and had many fans who were not kids. The first time I saw “Hit Me Baby One More Time” I was in Best Buy and it was showing on the 100 TVs and I remember thinking “What the fuck is this, how old is that poor girl?” And the store, as typical for BestBuy, was full of like 99% adult males.
Disadvantages of Pull Requests
The message I'm getting from Google is that flutter is the future and will get more support eventually. You can also see it in their fuchsia os which is heavily focused on the ecosystem.
The title of the post says a "vi-like terminal editor," and distinguishing vi vs vim is missing the point--I'm not talking about extensive plugin support or features that are specific to vim, the base keymappings are pretty different.
Oh yes. On Android, my licence still works, even on new devices.

But I got an iPhone 6S+ about 3Y ago – and the last time I owned an iPhone was before iOS supported replacement keyboards. After a lot of fussing around, I managed to copy a friend's installation onto it, but every time I restarted the phone, he had to authenticate it with _his_ Apple Store ID and password. Not convenient at all.

Also, AFAICS, the iOS version misses 2 crucial features from the Android version:

• it doesn't seem to have the edit-keys screen, with a cursor square and dedicated keys for delete forwards, delete backwards, cut, copy and paste;

• or the dialling-keypad screen (with the numerals in a phone-style square, as distinct from the numbers-and-symbols screen).

I've not seen any other Android keyboard with these. Some other swiping keyboards now support looping over a letter to double it (very handy in English, which is full of double letters – e.g. "cuter"/"cutter", "planing"/"planning"). I don't think I've seen any others which used swiping upwards off the screen to capitalise a word. Nor can any other I've seen handle swiping down to a punctuation mark to include it and keep going: "cant"/"can't", "were"/"we're", "ill"/"I'll", for example.
> What do you think the billionaires' billions are doing? Sitting in a bank account?

Yes. Maybe not their own savings account, but in some organizations' bank accounts.

Money in the hands of the low to middle class is spent far more efficiently. [1]

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2011/12...
I see the quote "Do things that don't scale" often enough
No seriously this is not at all the case.

Absolutely First Nations were to varying degrees shrunk massively from pre-contact highs, there's no debate, but the loss of cultural memory, art, music, and language really only happened very recently, in the last 100 years, and was directly related to government and religious orders imposing residential schools and literal government bans on cultural activity and organization (eg. Potlatch).

This is not ancient history. The potlatch ban only came into effect in 1885 and was only removed in 1951. Residential schools were only closed in the 1970s.

You can see evidence of this in NW Coast art, where post contact, pre 1900s, there was actually a renaissance in art production and development, as superior iron tooling made it easier than ever to make art, and creation of carvings for the tourist market opened up all sorts of new economic opportunities for First Nations people.

Then in the late 1800s the government imposes literal bans on cultural activity and brings in residential schools. Enormous loss of cultural memory occurs.

By 1969 no one on Haida Gwaii had raised a totem pole in living memory, but Robert Davidson carved one and raised it. He couldn't speak Haida. No one even knew what to do at a totem raising. Luckily there were a handful of old timers that vaguely knew enough to kick start this cultural revitalization.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/haida-totem-...

If indigenous art and culture was already dead due "inevitable" disease, then why would the government feel any need to actively try to ban it, police it and arrest indigenous people for taking part? So you can see here that no, despite population decreases, indigenous customs were quite alive and well. The destruction required a brutal government clamp down to try to snuff it out.

Potlatch ban:
https://www.ictinc.ca/the-potlatch-ban-abolishment-of-first-...
https://www.sfu.ca/brc/online_exhibits/masks-2-0/the-potlatc...
You have been lucky. Part of our hiring test (intentionally) does something which is trivial to get correct if you know SQL but also easy to get racey with Hibernate. About 4/5 of applicants get it wrong and maybe 2/5 don't know how to fix it when we show them they problem. (Spring devs with 1-5 years experience in web APIs and reporting.)
I think you're underestimating how many people own/are into crypto. A quick look into Coinbase's S1 alone shows that tens of millions of people in US have accounts with them and they are custody-ing billions of $ of institutional coins.

And that's just Coinbase, ignoring Robinhood, Cashapp, Gemini, GBTC and lots of other exchanges and custody which have very significant volumes as well.
No dice. It does select the image. But after you click on ok nothing happens.

So to be clear, we get past the point of selecting the image. After clicking ok to set the selected image to the album, it just does nothing.
The decoder might not be running strictly all the time, but I would wager that for some applications at least it doesn't make much of a difference. For HPC or DSP or whatever where you spend a lot of time in relatively dense loops the uop cache is probably big enough to ease the strain on the decoder, but for sparser code (Compilers come to mind, lots of function calls and memory bound work) I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't make as much difference.

I have vTune installed so I guess I could investigate this if I dig out the right PMCs
If you are a two-professional household it can.
My personal preference is for Spotify to leave Rogan's content on their platform with disclaimers, so I can best decide if/how I listen to it.

However, this is not a free speech issue.
"free speech" only makes sense in the context of government regulation (vs individuals/corporations), because governments have a monopoly on violence. As soon as two non-government entities are "regulating each other", it is a matter of mutual free speech. e.g. what about the free speech of Spotify?

There is no hypocrisy here. Rogan can still be pro-"free speech" given that is in the context of government regulation. Rogan can also still be pro-"anti censorship" in terms of stifling competition (which a lot of people conflate with "free speech"). However, Rogan is running a business and so is Spotify, they made a mutually beneficial deal, no competition was stifled.
> pretty much always judge their success by comparing themselves to others

Yes but that doesn't mean this comparison has moral standing. Also this behaviour is pretty low-level, neurologically, and we can train our higher executive functions to override and disregard it. I would argue that should be the expectation.

> can essentially buy laws that benefit themselves

Again - so what? As long as everyone's lives are improving on every metric, who cares that the wealthy mess with the tax laws or enact regulatory capture.

> that's cold comfort to someone who won't be able to buy a house in their lifetime because limited land supply goes to the richest.

No, the person (and all other people) should derive their comfort from the gratitude for being able to live in a modern, extremely comfortable world.

Edit: to rephrase, isn't the problem here the expectation/belief that you should have/are entitled to a detached house?
My biggest worry at the moment would be keeping the money somehow. Dollars may be devaluated - everything may be devaluated in fact.

If you want to pass some money on to your children (and invest in their education), already the amount doesn't look that much anymore.
"Do they really though? That's really the owners getting paid that, not all the workers. And a lot of that is really valued on the potential rather than what was actually produced to that point."

I believe the OP is talking about the owners of the startups.
> It just seems like a desperate play to keep his wealth intact.

To me this dismissal reads as a little blithe. Is it true that, now more than in the past, the rich are getting rich by innovating? I don't see you engaging with that argument.

Clearly people who create successful businesses add value. Clearly Jeff Bezos has added a lot of value. That doesn't mean he shouldn't be taxed but I constantly see people talking about Bezos as if he's an evil capitalist oppressor who has stolen his wealth from virtuous laborers. To me it seems obvious that Bezos' personal wealth is a drop in the bucket compared to the value he's added to the world (hundreds of thousands of jobs, changed the way we buy things).

It's totally fine to be in favor of higher taxes but it shouldn't be because you hate rich people or you think they are greedy parasites. Unfortunately I see a lot of that going around.
Those few would, however, have proportionally much more power and are not going to use that power to threaten the structures which made them their money. I don't think it's by any measure a good idea to have a few billionaires set the course of society; deciding what gets invented and produced, what kinds of ventures get supported, what programs enabled. That is just autocracy with extra steps.
Instead of killing it by banning it, I suspect they could kill it by buying it.

If the Fed wanted to "invest" in Bitcoin, it would kill it by soaking up liquidity and creating a liquidity-squeeze. Because the amount in circulation is fixed, it wouldn't have to buy all of the Bitcoin -- just enough to kill any utility. This is a downside of an asset with a fixed quantity.

Once the community discovered the liquidity-squeeze spike, it would lead to a run-to-the-exit with a price crash. The short-squeeze spike and crash would spread across alt-coins as well due to rush-in-rush-out and leverage across alt-coins.

Once liquidity is killed, liquidity-squeezed, and a crash happens, the FED / SEC could make it illegal citing volatility and losses of citizens.

The Fed would need to do this discretely and never disclose their purchases. If it became public, the community would probably choose to fork.
Show HN: Using celular automata to simulate pixel physics
Which blacklist is this?
But except for the interest that is still money going to the landlord as they have the property itself.
It's funny how there seems to be so little correlation between acquisition prices and eventual value. The PA Semi acquisition was an enormous success at what was at the time a tiny price. NeXT was an enormous success, though $400M at the time was a bet-the-farm price for Apple.

In contrast, while I'm sure Beats has easily paid for itself, $3B was not exactly cheap, and the results were not 10x PA Semi.
Pixel physics uses celular automata to simulate physics across all the pixels on the screen. This is a three hours code session implementing some ideas, more elements and complex interactions may arrive soon.
Choose one element on the top right of the screen and click the empty canvas.
Google is killing the Google Shopping app
I don't think this will be anywhere near as good as the M1, since they are using the ARM Neoverse cores.
Fixed point doesn't do any better than floating point at holding infinite fractions. It won't solve this problem at all.

(While decimal fixed point does solve this particular problem, the part that solves it is the decimal, not the fixed point. Decimal floating point is equally capable of adding 0.1 to 0.2)
But how do we all decide for ourselves what is abhorrent?
Hopefully by some sort of reasoning right? (And hopefully not as tortured and ill-advised as what RMS wrote all those years ago.)
Crypto exchange owner was 2nd biggest donor to Biden campaign https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/sam-bankman-fried-bi...
I'm convinced that recognizing that variability will be the next big step. It feels like we're currently between ignorance and fetishizing it. I look forward to the day where it becomes more normal, not only because I find it fascinating, but because I deeply believe that a lot of conflict is based on not understand that other people are fundamentally different from ourselves and then applying our framework to their actions and judging accordingly. I have no idea how we'll arrive at that though.
> Every time I read one of PG's posts, it seems like he's working from a narrative that he's trying to conform facts to.

Indeed. Compare this gem from [1]:

You could probably work twice as many hours as a corporate employee, and if you focus you can probably get three times as much done in an hour. [1] You should get another multiple of two, at least, by eliminating the drag of the pointy-haired middle manager who would be your boss in a big company. Then there is one more multiple: how much smarter are you than your job description expects you to be? Suppose another multiple of three. Combine all these multipliers, and I'm claiming you could be 36 times more productive than you're expected to be in a random corporate job. [2] If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year.

The process is: Start with a hidden conclusion, selectively pick convenient facts (or make up bullshit numbers), ignore that they don't make sense in context, and finally present your a-priori conclusion.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
> can someone explain why his work is so popular?

He's an important person to our field, and he's contributed quite a lot to it (including, for example, this forum). That does count for something.

However, to me if anything it really just confirms yet again that even great people can become thoroughly warped by wealth and fame.

His wealth tax piece was quintessentially unconvincing and self-serving, and many of his recent tweets and posts have done much more to pat himself and his peers on the back than to contribute convincing or useful analysis.
*THIS**

If ever a collection of words thrown together has outpunched its weight, it is this! Brilliant! And I will be using it often, with reference to thrower123 on ycombinator. Just. Ducking. Brilliant.
What's wrong with Heroku? It hasn't changed much, like the article says, and that's fine.

The pricing model isn't ideal but it has a place for some projects.
what exactly this has to do with what happened to Giuffre and why should we care if it's Giuffre quoting something we have known for years?

Is Giuffre some kind of higher being whose words are to be taken as divine thruths, just because she's a victim of something completely unrelated?

Has Stallman ever did anything remotely similar to a crime?

BTW in my country sex at the age of consent would be considered statutory rape in USA (it's 14 years old here).

Does that make all of us rapers of children?

That was what Stallman was arguing about.