skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure. Western governments could had intervened and banned or heavily regulated crypto currencies at any time over the past several years. In particular, the Silk Road and Alpha Bay take-downs would have been the perfect opportunities - but they didn't take them.

Now we have crypto currency companies floating as public companies, and others (e.g. Tesla) heavily invested, speculatively, in Bitcoin - maybe crypto currency had now reached a point where it's too big to fail?

OTOH, some western governments and their security apparatus are all-in on mass surveillance and privacy invasion, and they are going to hate any real degree of currency anonymity, so more regulation could still be on the cards, but perhaps in (secret) consultation with the likes of CoinBase. The likes of Monero and Zcash are likely targets.
Never do this - you're introducing a hidden O(n^2).

Folks, this is why you take the algorithms class in CS.
Dark patterns in web design trick you into saying yes
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Then probably the bridge doesn't work like a browser. It keeps the (probably virtual) window in focus in the background.
Ok, but even if there's more Rust code in it, i think the expectations of the parent poster are unreal, as for safety, only if V8 VM were rewritten in Rust, and giving its a JIT VM sensitive portions of code would need to be in 'unsafe{}' anyway, so how much safer would it turn out to be even than?

Anyway in security terms it will probably turn out negligible as the percentage of code in safe Rust are probably low compared to the whole thing.

Than in memory usage, if it replicates Eletron,it would turned out almost the same, giving is not the C++ core the one that is most memory hungry.. is mostly the renderer process with WebKit and V8 executing big portions of javascript code in memory.

Giving if such a branch existed, it would use typescript which in turn is the same V8/javascript pipeline that is memory hungry.

So, addressing to the parent poster, i don't think it would change much in terms of security or memory pressure if compared to Electron.

Sometimes i think Rust give some people high expectations, that it would be very hard to actually replicate in real life experiences, giving software is much more complex and as in Deno, requires other core parts that cannot be realistically rewritten in Rust, and even if they could, while we can see how software written in Rust can be safer, it still needs to prove the claim for bigger, sensitive pieces of software that requires a lot of "unsafe" techniques to work like JIT's and OS's and therefore might not feel that much of a difference giving the size and complexity of the project.
Ah, this explains why it gets more and more outdated.
Word does exactly what it says on the tin and doesnt steal your data. Facebook/google on the other hand...
I've seen purely technical discussions being removed from page 1 just because some people really wanted that stuff to go away, and had the power to make it happen.
Some people are more vulnerable than others or have reasons other than the downvotes per se for a deletion. For example, r/homeless seems to see a lot of deletions due to the extreme vulnerability of the population.

Still, kudos for standing by an unpopular but correct statement in that instance. And kudos to the person who gave you gold for it.
I think it says a lot about how simplistic those sorts of "ease of doing business" / "economic freedom" surveys are.

Singapore is great by most metrics that are simple to measure, like how many pages a tax return is, how fast the broadband is, how many channels of hi-def television there, how reliable the trains are, how long you have to wait in line to get a driver's license, etc, etc.

However, those are actually very superficial, and more subjective, and ultimately more consequential metrics aren't captured. Things like whether the broadband is censored or not, whether there's anything interesting on TV, whether the locale around any two train stations are any different, how much a car costs once you have your license and whether there's anywhere interesting to drive...

Singapore is a poster child for what happens when you just manage and optimize all the easily measured metrics.
Are you also worried Facebook and Google have become too big to ban?

I don't get this logic.
They didn't use your videos per hour/minute figure; they used hours of content per minute, so it still comes out 30'000 reviewers.
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That seems unfortunate but reasonable. I don’t begrudge anyone making that choice, and I don’t begrudge anyone thinking their prices are too high (and I don’t begrudge anyone buying their stuff anyway because they think something’s cool). I was way more concerned about the claim that they lied about it and were scamming their customers somehow, but so far there’s no evidence of that.
The new breed of users doesnt care at all about such things. Usually the price goes up as it becomes less cypherpunk and more of a regulated surveillance instrument - speculators will argue that it increases legitimacy and encourages institutional investment. It will still be a scarce asset that hedges against inflation
I'd love to create a new voting system that looks like an orange sliced in half. The top 4 options are positives, the bottom 4 negatives. Everyone gets 2 votes per post. Two of the options are 'I agree' and the other is 'I disagree with this post'
As a self taught developer who only works solo I'd agree. Tasks is exactly how I think. I've never found a use for stories. However, I can imagine how they are helpful to teams who individually do not have the holistic bigger picture or may not have the context of knowing the end goal/UX component. For me, the tasks are brush strokes of the bigger picture and spelling it out in story form just to break it down to tasks is duplicative.

That said, sometimes my tasks are bigger strokes like "Add edit profile functionality" where it's obvious I'll have to touch the backend, database, frontend, etc. I don't have to break this into tasks.
More like "targeted by."
Ask HN: How to provide and structure product/beta feedback?
I'm a non-technical person, but I'd like to understand better how I can be helpful to people developing apps, websites and tech solutions in general.

I understand this is a broad and overloaded question, but would love to get some insights on this. Thanks!
(2016)

Here's some related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652160
That being said, different languages have different natural "lowerings" from the syntax/semantics to some sort of isomorphism to mathematical logic. There is also the issue with typology of the symbology.

Consider for example:
https://wy-lang.org/
Ok, but that's pedantic. I am saying that morally, you can't do that
Does this RFC include all the requisite “safe” interfaces to enable writing a fully featured driver in Rust? If not, is it theoretically possible to create those safe interfaces within Linux’s API driver infrastructure? Or will some unsafe API usage always be necessary in Rust?

I remember there was an issue writing a rust-safe wayland compositor on top of wlroots because wlroot’s ownership model was simply not able to be cast in terms of interfaces that rust was able to prove were safe. [1] Is this not an issue in Linux?

[1] http://way-cooler.org/blog/2019/04/29/rewriting-way-cooler-i...
It's a bubble just like every other valuation. Writing is on the wall...valuations, stocks, cars, houses skyrocketing...wages stagnant. Something has to give
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What's the plan for avoiding a war at some point? Seems like there is no plan. They are just hoping to delay a little longer.. I guess waiting for China's military to get better? That doesn't seem like a good plan.

It seems like there are issues that absolutely will need to be resolved one way or another.
Why was this marked a dupe just as it hit the front page but now that it's been a few hours and had time to drop off it's suddenly not a dupe?
A lot of people were pretty upset about the redesign. They also sold to Conde Nast and started adopting a different (more intrusive) model of advertising. I can't remember details but the site started feeling more.... slimey over time.

Slashdot's commenting/moderation system was exceptional.

Grateful to HN for the excellence of theirs.
The 'not using HCL' bit is really the only positive I've found so far because everything else has been more difficult than just using TF directly. I think my goals were slightly off from the beginning, because this is really just replacing one CLI with another for me at this point.

What I want: Use Terraform programmatically, i.e. call "cdktf deploy" or similar FROM node or python and give users some scripts they can use where I can abstract away some of the difficulties of learning to use Terraform natively for simple use cases (i.e. deploy an S3-based frontend host). Ideally, I had intended to distribute some npm-installable packages which would run this stuff.
She could also be French, or a speaker of any other romance language, or really any language that doesn't have the vowel [ɪ]. For speakers of such languages, "beach" and "bitch," as well as "sheet" and "shit," can be very hard to distinguish from one another.
The beauty of the solution, made by you, in the time it takes, that solves the problem. Why does a woodworker chisel and file for days? Why does a brewer experiment with different recipes? Why does a religious philosopher question her own existence?

If you're not hacking, you're just part of the problem.
Why would youtube be trying to make a determination like that? Individuals are the arbiters of truth, not organizations. Ministries of truth are not desirable.
exactly, that's why this is exciting!
Discussion repeatedly, and almost every reaction is strongly, strongly negative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894368

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579017
Lack of borders.
I sometimes wonder if the simplicity of the upvote/downvote exposes it to the limbic decisioning, where some portion of the signal is pure lizard brain reaction vs a thoughtful act to help moderate the community.
As many other recent IPO, this valuation is just out of this world.
Also, Coinbase is not the only player in the space.
Many also use Binance.us; it offers stacking, cheaper fees and usually lists more alt coins.

I must admin that I bought my first cryptos on Coinbase but soon realized how expensive it was and looked for alternatives.

I don't understand what is so unique about Coinbase
and why this insane valuation. I am skeptical and not
going to buy, at least not at this price.

Long term I expect exchanges to having to drop fees like stock exchanges. At that point, unless they can offer juicy interests rates like Celsius, how would they make money ?
Actually, I think you completely misunderstood. I agree with you 110 percent that downvotes shouldn't be used to signal disagreement; I disagreed with you because that is, in fact, exactly how it is used most of the time. My downvote of you was ironic, illustrative of just how stupid down votes are. I was making a point. I think HN should remove down votes entirely, or make them costly, or required a tagged explanation.
Another problem is that `&str` is more than just "read-only". It also tracks lifetime to prevent use-after-free.

A universal owned-or-readonly-borrowed String would be unsafe without also adding reference counting or GC to keep the borrowed-from string alive.
It's sad to see Runnaroo get taken down.It was a great search engine you had.For now i'll switch back to https://duckduckgo.com/lite/
We are discussing his article called "Why My Blog Is Closed Source". I am not randomly criticizing his life choices, just engaging in the discussion he started.
I was thinking that when reading the exchanges. This is a really good interaction. Linus and the kernel have strong requirements for good reasons, and the rust teams are trying to address them in useful ways.

Rust in the kernel is not a simple thing, but I think both rust and the kernel will benefit.
I think we’re in agreement. The asymmetric risk I was speaking of is the status quo where individuals are not held accountable but rather the corporate “team” is via fines etc. It makes risky decisions more palatable to an executive officer because they have less downside skin in the game.
Looks like a fork of Mozilla DeepSpeech by former DeepSpeech developers. What is the relation to the original project?
Aren't most (all?) modern democracies some flavour of representative democracy?

We elect politicians who appoint bureaucrats who hire staff to run departments, who'll then take advice from committees and expect advisers.

It reads to me like you mean to imply direct democracy, which I suspect would be some magnitudes of order more terrifying than the incompetent fools and puppets presently steering the ships.
We’ve done that on a number of projects

Basically communities freak out when they think founder/team is selling any of the project’s tokens no matter how long its been or whether what the stated vesting conditions were

So we just bundle it in monthly distributions in multisend transactions to new addressses, some of the transactions are monthly vesting payments to marketers, some of the payments are to ourselves. Not possible to distinguish.

(This is also possible because communities also demand that issuers put funds and the tokens into liquidity pools, which is not always compatible with having a ton of other tokens just sitting in separate vesting treasuries. So liquidity pool shares are vesting and they can be sent anywhere and unbundled)
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I make a separate thread to address those comments in particular:

> I have this sensation that people often hope to reduce physics to a few mathematical laws and hope to find they don't even need any constants to measure for those laws - that they'll just pop out of symmetries or other purely mathematical properties, only being left with experiments to confirm that the universe does indeed conform to this mathematical model.

Why we could not create an abstract system that when we plug in the constants we derive all the rules of our reality? And even better, this system would let us learn more on other universes by plugging different constants!
If our abstract system does never contradict our reality when we plug the constants, then it is indiscernable from our reality, so we can accept it as a good model of our universe, even if it has very abstract foundations.

> While that would be beautiful, I don't see any reason to expect it to be that way - to be able to prove that the properties of the universe (e.g. The charge of the electron, the mass of the quark) are logically necessary and not mere observations.

You can draw the line where you want, some people take those as constants and develop theories from them, other people try to prove that those constants make sense in a greater theory.
The same thing happens in maths, you can start with the real numbers, or even only with the naturals, while some other people will construct the numbers from first principles.

Why? Why not! And we also have real Incentives :

The beauty is when you discover a set of rules where everything we know works without contradiction. If we do not have this kind of system, then the logic would simply collapse and mathematics would have no validity whatsoever.
To-do list shouldn't keep growing
He's diluting his names value by attaching it to failed products. Eventually his name will be synonymous with failed products, at that point his biggest revenue generator is...vapor.
Slashdot got popular and the insightful comments got drowned out by Funny+5 because it's low effort karma building that feels like being popular.

I learned my lesson and try to only inject humor into otherwise useful comments on HN.
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Where's this technical discussion? Lets see if I agree with you.

Because I've seen people totally make up stuff to make a point.
Sometimes that's the case but frequently stories start getting flagged as soon as they reach the front page before anyone has even commented on them.
Nitpick: this was not an IPO, but a DPO (Direct Public Offering). In other words no new capital was raised today. Coinbase's existing shareholders (investors and employees) were simply allowed to sell their shares on the public market.
From the link:

"The intention is to make these as safe as possible so that modules written in Rust require the smallest amount of `unsafe` code possible."

When writing a kernel, some unsafe somewhere is always required, on some level.
> We decided to go with Rust's
idiomatic style, i.e. keeping `rustfmt` defaults. For instance, this
means 4 spaces are used for indentation, rather than a tab. We are
happy to change that if needed -- we think what is important is
keeping the formatting automated.

Hahaha, preemptive offering compromise on tabs vs spaces warms my soul, good stuff.
Remember how cryptocurrencies were supposed to eliminate the need for intermediaries who added cost to transactions?
Like hyperinflation and an economic crash? I'm not convinced either will happen, but they seem squarely within the realm of possibility.
I'm not sure about the companies but pg's stuff regularly gets criticized on here (even harshly sometimes, I think). Just a few days ago, there was one such story (highly upvoted) on the front page in response to one of pg's essays.
GPS is endangered by a misguided FCC decision
It will be a trend for heavy VC funded companies that are not really profitable (not speaking about Coinbase specifically). DPO's allow VC to recoup investments at around the 10 year mark for company's that do not make financial sense on paper.
Governments love crypto because it is easier to track than cash once it is used for a fiat exchange. Not sure why they would be against it.
Not without some modifications, which I did not make because the complexity would get crazy with shell scripting
It's not subjective; French is better than English in this regard, and Spanish is better than French. English has more complex pronunciation rules and many, many more exceptions than those languages.
> The willingness to at least entertain a thought or argument, even if you ultimately don't accept it. Much easier to just hit the down-arrow and move on, satisfied in knowing that wrongthink was punished with a nice -1.

Yes, but at least unpleasant discussions usually just stop at that, unlike Reddit or even worse Twitter where you get a shitstorm of insults.
I don't mind 16:9 so much as the incredibly poor choices for resolution and panel quality I'm faced with on most Windows laptops lately. It feels like TV salespeople took over and completely ignored what actually makes sense for a laptop.

1080p and 4K are both terrible choices for 13-14" screens, yet that's all you see anymore, and even on higher end models trying to get accurate info on panel quality and color accuracy is a nightmare.
(2020) for this one, similar titles but different authors.
Take a look at GP's previous comments and their contexts.
To expand on my thoughts a bit, my goal with voting would be to get people to actually engage with each other. That's the whole point of a community site. Adding "points" is just a way to encourage more engagement.

With that in mind, I'd likely just not have downvotes period. If something is low quality enough to deserve a downvote, then it should be in violation of my community standards. Downvotes are designed to stop engagement. That's not the kind of thing I'd want unless it's something bad.

Then maybe do something a little different with upvotes. Say after you upvote with a comment a certain number of times, you get access to a quick upvote option. Or canned upvote comments.

And maybe general comments would count as an upvote unless you uncheck the box. That way we could keep generic upvote comments like "well thought out argument" or "he used good references" in their own little section without stifling good interactions.
Yes, look forward to my $20 check that lasts one month.
Specifically:

> GPS is vulnerable to interference from ground-based transmissions, yet last April the FCC unanimously[0] granted an application by Ligado Networks, based in Reston, Va., to offer a ground-based 5G service in spectrum, much of which is next to spectrum allocated for GPS.

[0] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-48A1.pdf
Would this make Linux the first *NIX-based OS that is written in a language other than C? At least, with high usage...
So, the advantage of UTF-16 is that CJK text will use 33% less space.

Does this mean that “UTF-8 is not a good representation for non-European alphabets?” It may be less efficient but the difference does not seem shocking to me, considering that for most applications, the storage required for text is not a major concern—and when it is, you can use compression.
He's using "protestant" as an adjective of zealotry, not as an adjective of the people themselves.
Super simple. For shoto.io we use

- Jekyll + TailwindCSS

- Github Actions
Backpressure (2019)
I've had similar experiences on ServerFault part of StachExchange. If I simply answer a question with the correct technical answer, my answer is basically ignored. If I take that exact same answer and add a bold title, some cute paragraph formatting, some no-format text boxes, add some flowery wording like I am giving a Ted Talk, then people love my answers. So that is what I do and why I rarely answer questions any more. They also try to encourage me to edit other peoples posts, but I already have a day job.
I am not sure adding a cost to downvotes would promote diversity so much. It is easy to game the system and post popular opinions to farm upvotes. If you do what you say, you give more power to the people already playing the reputation game.

You also let garbage fester because nobody will use points to downvote a stupid, agressive one-liner.

My experience is that:

- voting on HN works well for its intended purpose, which is surfacing the interesting conversations

- dead comments really deserve to die (I can’t remember a counter-example)

- greyed out comments tend to be right but unpopular, or right but rude, or wrong, or just stupid. Of these, the problematic cases are “right but unpopular”, which is not that frequent. And when it happens that’s fine, they are still readable.

> I also wonder, for a site like hacker news what's the point of even showing the user the # of upvotes they've obtained?

I assume it promotes engaging in the comments. It’s true that popularity contests should not be encouraged too much, but at the same time I can see how having a number that can go down would make some people think twice before knee-jerk posting or casual trolling.
Small correction: goes back to the mid-90's as a distinct thing, and you could hear that type of beat in songs even earlier than that. DJ Shadow brought it into general consciousness with his 1996 release: Endtroducing, but others were doing similar before. Back in the mid-to-late 90's, we were calling it "Trip-Hop". Though that was a broader term than lofi, which seems more specific.

Maybe the ultimate origination were in groups like De La Soul and PM Dawn. They had vocals, but their beats were often super chill.
Most people wouldnt actually know that the money is illicit
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You can make the same argument about any asset class. The path from Bitcoin/gold/real estate/crops to other goods or assets goes through dollars out of convenience (because your destination is purchasable in dollars). Don't confuse convenience with necessity.