skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that matters is what makes a person required to be in prison (i.e. government law / judicial system) and not who runs the prison.
> Perhaps latinx for maximal confusion

Latin@ is a little bit less of an USAism, but I'm not sure if that's a pro or con in the maximal confusion department.
I agree with you, but feel compelled to point out the (slightly) insightful part is "Customers are tech-savvy enough to articulate basic product requirements."

There are consulting projects where the customer knows what they need and can spec it. They are similar to "we need a brick wall built here; use a core of breeze blocks and clad it with brick up to four foot high". You can write the needed tasks easily and get to work.

As you point out, user stories (which far precede 20 years ago and come from the advertising world) are a step above (or before) that, to cover "Oh, people need to be able to look in through this fence; if it's solid then it can't be higher than five feet, maybe less".

This essay would have been better as a short, "don't cargo cult things like user stories when you're already past the point"...but instead they cargo-cult it by inverting the sense and advocating throwing them away.
The TLDR seems to boil down to that the EFF will not be able to tell you what information or interests your FLoC provides, but large advertisers and ad companies will be able to - because they run the same code and can read FLoC identifiers off a ton of people.

To EFF your floc code is just noise.

To large ad networks, they see that people with floc code xxx typically show up on sites a,b,c,d,e,f,g because they have the ability to read floc identifiers originating from those sites.
One other thing worth observing: Bernie Madoff had nothing whatsoever to do with causing the Global Financial Crisis. Yes he committed a financial crime and defrauded a few investors with a ponzi, but he wasn’t behind the systemic financial mass destruction of the GFC.

Yet the media implicitly made him into a scapegoat for the GFC with heavy coverage of his trial filling the airwaves just as the public was authorities hold the perpetrators responsible. The media never explicitly claimed Madoff was part of the cause of the GFC, but rather used constant coverage of him to deflect attention from the real perpetrators of the crisis, who got away clean.

What the media doesn’t report is often more telling about its integrity and agenda than what they do report.
The Good Karma Kit: Donate your spare CPU power to good causes: Tor, BOINC, etc.
You can check out this tech crunch article where I got the draft from. It is a bit more detailed than the bbc article.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/eu-plan-for-risk-based-ai-...
> especially its very large vocabulary

Vocabulary isn't a problem IMHO.

The fact that I have to learn each word twice (how to write it and how to say it) - is.

I was learning German for 3 years at school. After the first month I had no problems with pronunciation. Now after almost 2 decades of not using it I can still pronounce any German word I see.

I've been learning English since I was 10 or so. I'm 36 now. I still have many English words I know (and use correctly in writing) that I'm not sure how to pronounce.
There are a few changes that I believe are universal. I'm thinking hard/soft "c" becoming "k"/"s" and soft "g" becoming "j". I don't think I've heard any dialects where there's a difference between whether you pronounce the "c" in a word as hard or soft.

But then again, those rules are pretty standard (c/g before e/i [the "skinny vowels"]) are almost always soft and they are hard otherwise. If you need a soft "c" sound before an "a" then you just use the letter "s". So maybe it's not even worth the effort.
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Thanks for the link, it was fascinating!
Which then negates the espoused benefits of Bitcoin, no?
To wit: I made it through a master's in CS without a database class.

This reminds me of the famous Rob Pike quote:

"Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming."

I've often found that if I'm coding something and the code starts looking increasingly gnarly, that rethinking the data structures / data model will clean up the code.
Plugging in Andy Pavlo's Database lectures @ CMU which are completely free on Youtube. Great guy and great lectures.
> found a path to a truly fundamental theory of physics, and it was beautiful [1]

"A new kind of physics?" Not again, please no.

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
the problem will fix itself after the bubble bursts. Bitcoin doesn't provide anything of much value. It is just a speculative instrument.
I think the sci-fi end state is an interstellar civilization that exists largely to grow an ever-expanding system of Dyson Spheres, harnessing entire stars solely to fuel proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.
I am 99% sure they did. I can't say affirmatively that anyone is running anything exactly, but they now claim they did.
Adding to my post, with regards to "y": In school we are teached there are 5 vowels "aeiou" yet the "y" sound when used alone is a vowel!
Exactly. The last sale before it hit the market was... can't find the number but I think $340. So $250 was clearly a number invented just to create hype.
> To protect yourself. The revised and current advice is to wear masks to protect the others and avoid propagating the virus. Why does everyone complaining about the masks thing miss that?

This might just be availability bias, but most of the people I see complaining about mask use also respond badly to other calls to lessen their negative impact on their family/neighbors/tribe/comrades/countrymen/fellow humans.
our kids are not allowed to watch youtube on their own because youtubes algorithms surface the worst of the worst

Youtube is not something kids can use without supervision.
Everything seems so overinflated right now. As a value investor, what looks good currently?
US deregulation would. Coinbase has a captive market. US customers would love to use one of the many much cheaper foreign exchanges but are prohibited from doing so.
Feynman once talked about this eloquently [1] and agreed with you about not making assumption that things are elegant.

That said, it's interesting to me that the universe is actually much simpler than it appears, just based on the idea that the information contained in a region of space is proportional to the surface area, _not_ the volume [2]. The larger the area of space we look at, the more the discrepancy grows between how much information we think there is (using our human 3 dimensional intuition with x,y,z for each particle) vs how much there actually is (based on Bekenstein Bound) [3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjOV3xgydXE
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio#/...
Why would anyone invest anything in this scenario? Most companies in the world operate without any investment whatsoever.
I think at worst it is a wash. Having used various device on both, CAN is more regular. The complexity you attribute to CAN is there with I2C just poorly documented, devices resetting for no reason, etc. I think CAN is preferable, and you can even use it on short runs without the physical interfaces.
I use Kitty and it offers that feature, while at the same time feels extremely fast.
Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of cryptocurrency
It's such a lame hustle to market your free widget, then complain that nobody paid for it.

It's literally a con to pull on tourists

Not saying you are personally doing this, since you specifically said you're not complaining, just my feelings on the matter.
Calculate daily income, minus some protected cut and then multiplied by number of days. For drunk driving for example 50 "day fines". So at net monthly wage of 1800€ would be 1288. At 10k€ monthly netwage 8128€...

Also Finland does have option to turn some of these day fines to prison time at rate of 4 to 1..
Keep in mind that 'information propagation' is pretty fundamental: we can use it to define light cones (if A can propagate information to B, then A/B are in each others past/future light cones). We can use light cones to define time (past/future) and space (neither). That's a pretty standard approach to relativity (I can't remember whether I covered it as an undergraduate, but I certainly encoutered it around that time).

(Shannon) information theory is also closely related to probability, and quantum theory is a form of probability theory (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012 ).

Hence it's not entirely out-there to think that an informational/computational approach like Wolfram's might bear fruit. In fact, I was hoping that someone smart(er than me) would investigate such connections a bit deeper; if only to rule them out! Note that "causal set theory" seems to be going that direction too (although I'm not overly familiar with it) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_sets

I also find it promising that ideas from quantum computing (qbits, circuits, teleportation, protocols, etc.) have gone from a quirky engineering footnote (in the 90s), to become a core part of how many physicists now think about the world.
The fuzzy thing with counting French irregular verbs is that there are so many that follow similar patterns that they really can't be treated as fully irregular. More, like...oddly specific variants of the -re/-ir/-er verb classes. (You can get into this with English, too, in things like "to come", "came"/"to become", "became", or "to hold", "held"/"to behold", "beheld", but we actually IIRC have fewer groupings like this.) So the raw French number is higher in a strict sense, but potentially between English and German overall.
As the maintainer of ArchiveBox, I often see overlap with our homelab-type users and people who generally want to help support good causes with their (often overpowered & underused) servers.

I figured it might be helpful to collect some of the best containers you can run to help support good causes! So here's my first attempt at a "Good Karma Kit", an all-in-one bundle that you can tweak to your liking, depending on what resources you have available and what causes you want to support.

I've also added the 501(c)/non-profit status of each cause in the README, so you can filter out for-profit ones if you don't want to participate in those (e.g. Storj/IPFS/etc.).

Let me know here or via Github Issues if you have any questions/comments/suggestions!
> Is the value of progress more than the value of self-worth?

Why is self worth put in antithesis with progress? Was past progress a cause of loss of self worth?
"Let's ignore the memory leak for now. We will address it later."

I am very excited to find a programmer who approaches life the same as I.
Even showing a smiley face in Singapore is illegal now. Look it up, I’m not making this up
No, AZ is two-dose, J&J is one-and-done.
So we have a company that is making money on a virtual money that is basically mostly based on no real value at all.

I'm wondering where this will go.
This is very true, but also a hugely unfortunate reality. It amazes me that we have reached this far with “object” graph oriented data models backed with relational DBs. They are very seldom conducive to one another.
Let me make sure I've got this right. I can be 100% genetically male, and present as male, but I can self-identify as female. But I can be 50/50 racially, and I can't choose to self-identify as one of those races, because I don't present as that?

But we're not following the one-drop rule, so I guess that's some kind of progress...
These are actually "Programming languages with names that contain a single alphabetic character".

C*, for programming the Connection Machine, is therefore a notable omission.
I think we've given this proof-of-work experiment plenty of room to run, and it's time to end it as a failure through governments making it illegal.

The algorithm sort of worked, but the costs are too high. In the end those high costs led to efficiencies of scale leading to a few large miners controlling the whole blockchain. So it never lived up to the decentralized dream anyway.

Now it mostly serves to fuel rampant speculation and crime. It enabled a whole new category of crime through cyberlocker attacks (well not new, but made it so, so much more successful.)

The harm well outweighs the good. If it continues unabated proof-of-work crypto could double the energy requirements of the planet in just a few decades. It's not worth that. Kill it now before the consequences get worse.
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Coinbase was a great idea, considering what a mess mt gox was! Congratulations to the team!
> those designed or used in a manner that manipulates human behaviour, opinions or decisions ...causing a person to behave, form an opinion or take a decision to their detriment

This appears to obviously apply to the Facebook wall. You can find a high-profile example of this in [0], but [1] explains how this manipulation, which optimizes "engagement", is built deep into Facebook's design. I think the case that it causes users to form opinions and take decisions to their detriment is obvious, so these new laws should apply. Am I wrong?

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...

[1]: https://qz.com/1039910/how-facebooks-news-feed-algorithm-sel...
I whipped up one here with a random comment dump from HN. It appears I'm no longer correct.

https://gist.github.com/adamvy/afcace8cbdbe56995626f59f6ea2b...

Load this as a script tag in an html file to run.

Last time I benchmarked this it was true, but that was a number of years ago.
Of course, but the person who assigns you to that prison is still acting on behalf of the state. It would be correct to say that a business can keep you in a prison though!
It's far easier to break a PoS chain -- you simply knock the coin-holding nodes offline. Knock enough offline, and you can no longer reach quorum. If offline nodes' coins get slashed in order to reach quorum and restart block production, and the system permits forking, then why would offline nodes rejoin the original fork? They're incentivized to only consider forks where they're not slashed. If the system does not permit forking, then the system breaks once the attackers (1) stake a nominal amount of coins, and (2) knock enough other nodes offline such that they are the majority staker.
As much as I like Cardano and as much as I have faith that it will succeed, I think you might be overstating what has been accomplished so far.

- The network is decentralised and running Proof of State.

- The network is not currently running automated peering. Block producing peers are manually selected by stake pool operators at the moment. This doesn't necessarily make the network more centralised but it exposes certain risks. A node update (and I believe a protocol update as well) will be coming out in the next 2-3 months that will transition SPOs to running automated peering.

- The network currently sits around 250-300tx/s max.

- A near term (next 6 or so months) protocol revision will be raising that limit to around 1k tx/s.

- Hydra (isomorphic state channels) allows 1k tx/s to be processed per state channel (which then periodically checkpoints against the network) and was demonstrated to maintain these performance metrics up to 1k state channels.

So the network is decentralised and it is doing very well however it is not currently capable or currently theoretically capable of handling 1MM tx/s. It can however handle an impressive amount of transactions compared to many other decentralised networks at the moment. The protocol revisions that will allow close to the stated 1MM tx/s are completed with corresponding papers (containing formal proofs and simulations to support tx rate and security claims) already accepted to or well received at cryptography conferences.

Cardano is doing very well and moving at a solid pace however overstating where the project is and what it is capable of will only serve to undermine outside perception of the project.
Yeah, McAfee isn't credible. If he makes a bold claim, there's a money angle and he's probably lying, too.
It's a sticky wicket. A compromised machine is just that, compromised.

Someone recently posted a story about an exploit wherein the compiler itself was compromised to compromise a particular set of programs when compiling those programs. Including the compiler itself.

So closing this particular door does not mean that they didn't use their access to establish other doors. Or self-opening doors. Or any number of things. And you have no clue as to how far down it goes. This exploit could have compromised the boot loader or something. The only way to be completely sure is to essentially strip the machine to bare metal and audit every piece of software on it.

The safest thing to do, if you want to be completely sure, is to buy a new machine. And even then, you're trusting that the machine you bought hasn't been compromised by the manufacturer or something like that. But it's a known-ish quantity.

But that's a "nuke it from orbit" kind of option. Often, being completely sure isn't necessary. We can live with reasonably sure.
> Uneven enforcement is a problem in and of itself. Doing nothing to a thousand people and then slamming a fine like this on one guy is not conducive to rule of law.

The defendant, Roy Ngerng [1], is often portrayed in Singapore media as a troublemaker, and has been the subject of multiple defamation suits.

Politicians in Singapore's incumbent party seem to mainly use defamation against politicians, activists, and the media, and very rarely against a random person on the street.

It seems to boil down to the government needing to protect their integrity, as former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in a 1999 interview [2]:

> There are many critics of the PAP in Singapore. They are not all hauled up before the judiciary. Political opponents, so long as they keep within the law, don't need safeguards. They do not have to appear before the judiciary. But if they've defamed us, we have to sue them -- because if we don't, our own integrity will be suspect. We have an understanding that if a minister is defamed and he does not sue, he must leave cabinet. By defamation, I mean if somebody says the minister is on the take or is less than honest. If he does not rebut it, if he does not dare go before the court to be interrogated by the counsel for the other side, there must be some truth in it. If there is no evidence, well, why are you not suing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ngerng

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/interview/goh.chok.t...
To begin with, the page is full of typos and grammar errors. Many parts of it read like they were translated by beginners in Spanish or machine translation (so kind of , what’s the point if they’re using Spanish carelessly?).

Then, a bunch of the keywords in the programming language itself don’t make a lot of sense - “for” maps to “desde”, not “para” - so I have to remember an arbitrary term that doesn’t do what it means or mean what it does. At that point I might as well learn “for”, right?

Remembering that “si” is “if” doesn’t seem like a huge burden. The fact that “si” in Spanish is used as both a conditional and affirmative (“yes”) can actually lead to more confusion and ambiguity.

Overall it doesn’t feel like a very well-designed language nor does it feel natural as a Spanish speaker which defeats the point.
No, that's J&J.
You are correct, I just did my own benchmark, and the DOM approach is no longer correct.

It used to be the case a number of years ago when I last benchmarked.
You're just going to wind up making changes where you don't need them that way. There's no guarantee that because the code looks the same it does the same. An IDE can't figure out what side-effects will happen.

By just letting your IDE make changes globally, you're running the risk of introducing bugs. By DRYng up your code, you know that the change you make will have the same result everywhere.
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Cool article. I wish PL names were more imaginative in general: a single letter is so uninspiring. Naming after famous people (Pascal, Haskell, Ada, Erlang) isn't a bad idea. Failing that there are so many mythological or natural terms that would make good names. (I love how Docker and Kubernetes describe low-tech analogies, though I guess with languages they are harder to find.)
That was my take!

I think stirfish was being sarcastic about factory farms and probably reached the same (scary) conclusion.
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Coinbase is very profitable and has huge cash reserves for a company of its size. I don't see any reason why they would feel the need to IPO if not to take advantage of people's FOMO.
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For the source control point, I do it this way:

My entire working folder with markdown posts, drafts, templates etc is a private git repo. The output (the static HTML, CSS, images etc) is a public repo.

I have a tiny shell script to commit, push and publish the site, and it works just the way I want it. His other points are understandable. I personally don't take my blog that seriously, it's just a pet project.
Clearly that's incorrect though. We're only seeing legalization of socially acceptable drugs. Tech has nothing to do with it.

Nobody is fighting for meth, cocaine and heroine to become legal in the US. We also have plenty of prostitution going on thanks to technology but that won't be legal anytime soon either. It will happen when people decide they're OK with it, not because technology makes it easy.
I am referring strictly to the correspondence between a written language and its pronunciation. The fact that people speak differently from how they read/write is an altogether separate matter.

When reading Finnish, one pronounces the words very closely to how the word is spelled, regardless of whether when they speak they do so in an altogether different manner.
https://github.com/Discord-Datamining/Discord-Datamining/com...
> Myself, I would like to see data query/manipulation language as a total functional language

Erm, like PromQL?