skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they can't start orphaning blocks yet, but they can once it is more popular. It wouldnt take much government pressure, obviously governments will want to stop people from processing illegal transactions, and miners won't care
Exactly. He was not brave enough to stop by himself and made everything worse as a result. Sometimes everyone is a victim.
I don't think it was common sense 30 years ago that this technology would eventually pay off.

I imagine things looked pretty grim for the first 24 years the university employed her to work on it with little commercial traction, and the technology was only finally demonstrated due to a freak global pandemic 7 years after that.
Considering the whole thing was ... what? 2016? It really is.-

(Maybe their are tryin' to get "some" shares ... :)
Kids in the 80's learnt Basic in English just fine. Even basic terminology such as input, output, load, save and so on.
Also we began to learn English by age 8-10 or so, so is not an issue.
As they stated, the biggest issue is that the documentation itself is, by a huge margin, in technical English.
I always assumed SE got voting right because why else are they the top dog? I never felt any need for them to exist because programming forums (or usenet groups earlier) exised since forever and once Google give us usable search(sorry, Altavista) I could find an answer for basically any question.
I think you're assuming that if it's in the data, it's "factually true" as the OP puts it. It doesn't work that way. There is such a thing as sampling error, for example.
I think this could backfire. Toxic/trolling comments do not need to be dignified with a response, and requiring one may increase the incentive to write inflammatory posts (assuming that at least some people do this—consciously or not—to instigate reactions).

For well-intentioned posts that are factually incorrect, it seems that there are usually replies that explain the reason for the downvote. When a comment is wrongfully banished to the grey nothingness, oftentimes others step up and defend it. The community immune system functions well as is.

Also, I adore the fade-to-grey side effect of the downvotes. It’s like spritzing a cat with water for scrounging on the counters—an ultimately harmless but super effective reprimand.
> These days, that doesn’t happen. The discussions are lower value, less open minded, and more strident. It’s a pile of shit.

The decline of open-mindedness is what I've noticed the most. The assumption of good intention on the part of someone with an opposing view. 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.

There are definitely points of view here, no matter how well articulated, that will be buried in low-contrast purgatory very quickly. And I'm not just talking about "white supremacy" type stuff.
The Frisian languages are the closest living relatives to old English, so perhaps there's a connection there?
This is great! I see there's Winampify but I can't figure out how I would connect my Spotify account to it. Any ideas?
So the only power such bodies have is being able to influence the entirety of the next generation of the speakers of the language? That's surely some amount of power that nobody holds whatsoever on the English language. Israel was able to use the educational system to revive a millenia-dead old language, that's quite a lot of power.
This is a good recent analysis of the industry https://www.economist.com/business/2021/01/23/chipmaking-is-...
The 16" MacBook Pro will happily drive two external monitors (up to three IIRC). And with all those extra monitors you'll likely want to get yourself a new webcam anyway, so grab yourself the Logi Brio 4K. It's plug and play.
When a car runs over a pedestrian the car is not jailed, the driver is.

When a corporation runs over a town, why is the person or people "steering" the corporation not jailed?
The quality is also miles better than the last open source TTS I've heard that wasn't just an Amazon SDK. I'll take newscaster-voice over robot-from-the-early-00's.
> Daniel Gackle will ban your ass if you point out, for example, that he tolerates and even welcomes extremely bigoted shit.

Citation needed - this claim is very far from my own experience. If you think you'll be banned, then email me with your evidence and I'll look at it.
> Useful for running unknown scripts

Or just, you know, read them before you run them.
> The fact that we powered through the last financial crisis without inflation...

If you trust those metrics, yes everything is perfect. Prices at grocery might not have inflated, but assets certainly have, real estate is crazy expensive, stock market P/E ratios have also exploded. For the working class whose income has relatively stayed stable, it means life is a lot harder.

The money is very much flowing in the crypto world, just look at DeFi, it has more or less the equivalent services available elsewhere, but everyone has access, you don't need trust, it has large volumes and billions of dollars in capital in these protocols.

It's great if you want a predictable global monetary system not controlled by any single entity. If you don't see any value in that (as in you really trust your gov and the politicians/bankers), I don't think there's anything I could tell you to convince you otherwise.
This is why gccrs development is now backed by a company:

> https://rust-gcc.github.io/

With gccrs, the portability issues of rustc will go away and no extra toolchain will be needed for the Rust code in the kernel either.
>The cause is usually large growth from people with very different mindsets that downvote for essentially political reasons instead of encouraging good discourse.

You've quite well described my latest experienced with StackExchange sites that are very popular (like Stack Overflow). The downvotes rain for any question without feedback. A comment provides an answer, but not an "Answer" that can be pinned. Vague "Opinion based" flags are sometimes levied, but similar questions for different regimes are upvoted and given quality answers.
> Then we can type up to 2^5 = 33 characters

Typo. 2^5 = 32, but should probably say 2^5 - 1 = 31, since not pressing anything is a no-op.
Check out https://bugcrowd.com and https://hackerone.com

For a work in infosec my recommendation would be a little bit of formal education. Assume that in an interview there'll be some jargon -- you need to understand the questions and answer appropriately. Most of the work in infosec is about protecting against attacks, not necessarily pentesting. This said, passion is everything, if you have that, there's no limit on where you can go. Good luck (and reach out if I can help).
You said:

> Sweden had to go back on it

They did not. If your standard for "going back on it" is "adding some restrictions", then you are erecting a straw man argument. By this standard, every country in Europe "had to go back on it", as all of them changed their tactics over time.

Also, not incidentally: I'm aware of no legitimate source for the claim that Sweden's hospitals were "full" (which is a non-specific claim). Most sources I've read emphasized that hospitals were under stress -- like in most parts of the Europe -- with some hospitals closer than others to capacity, and resources being shifted around the nation to manage:

https://www.thelocal.se/20201211/is-the-second-wave-overload...

Again, you could take this article and put it in Paris, Berlin, London, Brussels or other major cities in Europe in December of 2020. Details matter, and vague claims that "hospitals are full" are meaningless.
New Stanford “Zoom Fatigue” study finds women affected more than men
It was my second language, do I started out assuming that this was a problem with any language you'd learn.

I do, however, wish natives English speakers were more aware of this for their own sake. Most seem to default pronouncing vowels in foreign words as if it was English, whereas they'd be much closer to the correct pronunciation of they defaulted to pronouncing it like words for any language other than English they might know even a little of. To me this should be one of the first things you learn when learning your second language as a natives English speaker. It even holds true for romanizations of Asian languages like pinyin for Chinese or Hepburn for Japanese
If a government wanted to encourage spending, they could turn the lottery inside out by offering payouts on cash being spent by everyone. You take a picture of your money and if the serial number is today's lucky winner you get $1MM. Though maybe that would encourage hoarding instead? Cobra effect perhaps?
> how you'd measure correlation between spoken and written

There are a number of ways currently used, but I have a new one to propose: compare the size of two G2P models (1 for each language), which have similar RMS errors. Assuming they are generated using similar techniques, the one which requires the bigger model probably has a less clean phoneme-to-grapheme correspondence.
>for example limiting "crime prediction"

I saw that too, and ended up wondering if it'll be ignored if it's seen that crime prediction falls under the "public safety" exception, from time to time (or eventually, altogether). That's the problem with vague things like "public safety" being tied to regulation, imo.
From something I wrote above, this was my ah-ha moment:

Not all cryptos are like this, but for bitcoin and other ones that have the incentives right: bitcoin's massive breakthrough is a protocol that can send verifiably discrete entities across a network, without a central party needing to verify the discrete-ness. This is a huge breakthrough in a lot of ways, but basically consider if you network could send payments as exactly as easily as it does HTTP packets, and w/o a client-server model, just p2p. HTTP changed the world, and that's the idea behind bitcoin's value. If you could somehow buy a slice of HTTP in 1997, or TCP/UDP, now knowing how important and valuable those became (valued by the size of the internet economy), would you?
Pure Rust Implementation of Apple Code Signing
In addition to what the others have said, Rust's `String` is three pointer sized words: `(ptr, len, capacity)`. So, a `String` has 50% of the overhead of a `&str`.
I once lost a bet because I couldn't believe "finite" and "infinite" sounded so different.

But the best examples are in the poem _The Chaos_ (http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html).

Through, though, throw, tough... I know a trough exists but I have no idea how it's pronounced.
Tumbling on bitcoin doesn't work like it used to a few years ago. There are now multiple companies dedicated to blockchain tracking and analysis. All coins coming from tumblers are flagged. It's possible because the bitcoin blockchain is public and every balance and transaction is visible to the whole world.

Many exchanges refuse to accept coins that have passed through a tumbler. If you attempt to deposit these coins, the exchange will refuse to credit you unless you provide copious amounts of documentation. Currently they do not seize your coins but will force you to withdraw them.

Some exchanges are even going through users' deposit histories and are retroactively flagging deposits from coin mixing services: https://twitter.com/kristapsk/status/1374336620158140419

This is why many criminals are moving away from Bitcoin into Monero, which has anonymized transactions and doesn't suffer from the chain analysis problem.
Chromium Edge reports this download as unsafe with the message:

This app might harm your device
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen reported that this app is not commonly downloaded; you should only open files you trust.

Name: webamp-desktop-web-setup-0.3.0.exe
Publisher: Unknown
> controversy that has little value or importance to this site

What do you mean by "this site"? The participants in this forum are the site. I've had discussions flagged that I thought to be valuable. Why would you want to get rid of controversy anyway? Do you want to discuss only popular old hat things? Stability under diversity is a sign of health in an ecosystem.
The only posts I delete are when the site goes weird and it double or triple posts.

I never delete posts simply because they are unpopular. In my personal view, that's a coward's move. It tells me that the user doesn't really have any actual conviction, doesn't really believe in what they're saying. If being popular is more important to that person than being correct, then I find their opinion worthless. Because apparently it can be dictated by popular opinion. And I mean actually correct, not just "winning the argument".

I also dislike people who double reply or who use the edit feature to essentially pull an "and another thing". Living out the l'esprit d'escalier fantasy essentially.

Also people who proclaim they won't be responding or tell others not to respond. It's a poor rhetorical tactic to silence opposition because you don't have a good response.
We started with very subtle things like circuit diagrams in lab reports, and escalated from there. Bear in mind that this was the late 90's so the expectations for computer-produced anything were much lower.
We used C++ throughout most of my CS program, and I hated it at the time and never wanted to write it ever again (and haven't!), but good lord did it help me understand how computers work. I've benefitted from that perspective ever since.

I'm not sure you have to do a whole degree to get that perspective, though. Just learning C or C++ should get you a good chunk of it.
Luckily, the gccrs developemt work is now backed by a company who is paying the main developer:

> https://rust-gcc.github.io/

Having Rust support directly built into GCC means Rust code in kernel will not limit portability and no additional toolchain will be needed.
Kind of ironic because HN still remains one of the most interesting and engaging communities whereas StackOverflow has become pretty insignificant, outdated, stale and very hostile and unfriendly to new posters.
And also that people are starting to seriously worry for the energy consumption of something that provides no useful value.
Makes no sense. Satellite retrieval is something that you definitely want to run a separate mission for - you don't want to bolt a visit to a completely separate orbit (and then transfer back to reentry) on top of a regular mission. The amount of fuel you need to launch something grows exponentially with the amount of fuel you need at the final stage.

Not to mention, if you're thinking of making LEO launches do this, then they'd either have to capture other LEO junk (makes little sense, most of it will deorbit itself), or you'd have to bolt on additional stage, which may very well introduce more junk itself (are people still using explosive bolts for upper stage separation?).
That's why I said they were not "progressive" in the modern Western sense. Islam is able to perfectly accommodate different cultures, and lead the host society to prosperity.
The Pioneers of Modern AI in 'Genius Makers'
Donating is cool. Does he want a medal, too?
Machine Learning Up-to-Date #44
> A language either cares about low level details or not. You can’t have it both ways. And c++ is absolutely a low level language.

Please tell me why you can't. C++ is both not one. It's a multi paradigm language.

In Modern C++, the low level details invisible.

> Every memory allocation/deallocation have to be thought out again and tested

True If you're writing C with Classes or Java Style C++.

>> C with Classes
>>> malloc()

>> Java Style C++
>>> new and delete everywhere

> There are plenty of cases where you can’t really pinpoint a scope-exit where this given object should be reclaimed.

Show me. I'd bet your case can be solved with xvalues.

> A GC is a necessity in many concurrent algorithms that simply could not be written without.

Show me a concurrent algorithm that needs GC.

> but what if the requirement has changed now touching on a core of your program.

C++ is a OOP language just like Java. You do it same way as you do in Java. Use inheritance.

> major refactor as it is another low level lang

No. It's not a low level language if you write Modern C++.

The case for Java very clear prior 2011 but now C++ has caught up.
I don't know if you meant to make this funny, but I laughed really hard.
someone (podiki) submitted butternchurn to hn[1].

this is 50% of the winamp2 experience. glad to see it again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813265
I hate you, and I wish this was Reddit so I could give you gold.
Well in your thought experiment, Google choosing to shift priorities away from growth towards stability could ultimately lead to being dethroned as other companies seek to undercut them through competition.
It depends on the scale of shit hitting the fan.

If the global internet goes down and stays down, then I think it's safe to say that global civilization is permanently collapsing, in which case billions of people are going to die in the resulting famine and the survivors probably won't be able to maintain enough technology to survive long term as climate change continues to snowball.

In this scenario, yeah bitcoin is worthless. But so is gold. The only thing worth stockpiling for this scenario is brass and lead (and a strong local community of other preppers who can organize into a new micro state after the collapse). And even then, you have to ask if the reward of surviving is even worth the cost of prepping.
I’d be interested in OP’s answer here as well.

I know dapr injects a sidecar so you can code in any language and then use their SDK to call other microservices. Encore looks to be Go centric and uses code generation to create actual Go functions, which provides much better IDE support.

I did not see this in the docs but I’m not sure if Encore supports retries with or without exponential backoffs; dapr supports both.
> where people make representations about bitcoin’s eventual value through network value, but it turns out there is nothing to it.

That's not a Ponzi scheme, that's a market bubble.

There's nothing gained by misappropriating existing jargon just to try and lend more credence to an assertion that a thing is bad.

Imagine if someone were trying to argue that a MacBook's motherboard is just one big integrated circuit because it's a circuit (natch), and solder has been used to integrate it all together. On the one hand, sure I can why someone who isn't a computer techie might see it that way. On the other hand, that's simply not what that term means.
And I think there are good reasons for that:

1) The energy consumption of bitcoin mining alone is estimated to have reached the levels of entire countries (Argentina was the latest country I've heard it being compared to), while actual usage of bitcoin (except for speculation) is still a fringe niche thing

2) When shown that the coins do not scale, instead of moving on to an improved version, those coins continue to grow. Instead of 'okay, proof of concept done, it does not scale, let's move on to an improved version', the bonanza just continues.

There are probably more reasons like these, but I think it would be straight-up weird if the technically versed audience of HN would disregard the reasons above as much as the current crypto-markets do.
Pick apart the video, sure, but the guy has a PhD in economics and lives and breathes the topic of discussion.

I thought it was made pretty clear it’s an oversimplified thought experiment, especially when it’s actually explained that there might or might not be hyperinflation.
Try opening one of the folders.
Okay, but we still have systems in place that routinely make decisions based on determinations about factual statements. There are obvious ones, like determining whether someone murdered someone else, or determining how much money someone made for the purposes of taxation. We don’t just throw up our hands and say “sure, maybe there is objective reality out there, but even if there is, who could possibly decide what is real?”
Thank you for your reply. Unless he's up super-late, we let him read as late as he wants.

Despite the cost, doing the full neuro-psych evaluation was the best thing we've ever done. It helped us (the parents) really get insight into how his brain was working, which completely reset our own ideas of how to best help him.
What Is the Purpose of Hacking?
Besides hackers being portraited as the digital representation of cat-and-mouse-game or genius-nerdy puzzle solvers by Hollywood, what are the purposes of hacking or learning to hack? I'm like the cybersecurity, IT-related subjects, and love technology, but hacking is something that has always been kind of a greyline for me...can I ask why everyone enjoy/performs hacking?
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That page you linked at the bottom mentions an interesting point, and quite thought-provoking:

"We in Libreboot recommend that you do not have a code of conduct, because it alienates new contributors and creates a self-censored environment where people feel unable to express their views about issues"

Oddly, opposite to this (and the trend in the industry?) it seems that some demand that others are "tolerant" and hunt down those that have different views, which seems to be the very opposite of being tolerant. "I demand that you be tolerant! You must accept my views! If you don't have the same views, you're INTOLERANT! I demand you be the same as me!"

The irony. Just an observation of mine, which I found amusing. I am not saying what is right or wrong or commenting on the RMS situation, but I thought it an interesting trend.
Yeah but how does Crypto make stuff happen in the real world? Like a bank can repossess people's houses and stuff and have the law applied. Crypto only has power over what's on that specific blockchains contracts.
In the Freenet Project we’re solving content moderation with propagating trust — and visibility slowly increasing with social interaction, which is free for honest users (who just want to communicate) but has a cost for spammers and disrupters.

The main tool is to drop the idea of a global definition of trustworthiness: You have seed IDs to find people who supply CAPTCHAs, but otherwise all trust is computed locally.

If you want to try this, there are two steps:

- First the current state in Freenet: https://github.com/xor-freenet/plugin-WebOfTrust/blob/master...

- Then the optimizations needed so this scales to arbitrary size: https://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/deterministic-load-de...

Here’s some data if you want to test algorithms: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Freenet_social_tru...

And some starting code of a more generic prototype for faster testing: https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/wispwot/

(if you prefer a slightly larger writeup that might expand as time moves: https://www.draketo.de/software/decentralized-moderation.htm... )
Oh nice! haha I kept trying different buttons on the player and settings, never thought to just click a folder. Thanks for this!
Oh how I envy you. Here in Korea we are stuck with the tax-funded imbeciles of National Institute of Korean Language, whose hobby is saying "ALL you Koreans are using the Korean language wrong!" with a straight face at every occasion.
Or, China brings the matches, US brings the gasoline, EU brings the good sense to keep them apart.
In 0.14 that is no longer available.
I have seen many people like yourself, with similar needs, succeed.
My mother teaches speech and drama under the Trinity College system. Many of her pupils have similar needs to yourself.
My mother works in South Island, New Zealand, but there are many such teachers, world wide.
I recommend Trinity College Speech and Drama for people with your needs.
Biology does not say anything about how we create categories for athletes either... Separating men from women is arbitrary, and we could very well use other criteria (weight, height, or whatever). Choosing to separate genders instead of sexes is a political decision; you are conflating social and scientific issues. Also, citation needed.