skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there’s a bit more nuance to it. React (and other vdom implementations) try do be as efficient as possible when diffing / reconciling with the DOM. Sometimes this can result in improved performance but there are also use cases where you’ll want to provide it with hints (keys, when to be lazy, etc.). https://reactjs.org/docs/reconciliation.html

The key part is remembering that every one of those techniques can be done in normal DOM as well. This is just rediscovering Amdahl's law: there is no way for <virtual DOM> + <real DOM> to be smaller than <real DOM> in the general case. React has improved since the time I found a 5 order of magnitude performance disadvantage (yes, after using keys) but the virtual DOM will always add a substantial amount of overhead to run all of that extra code and the memory footprint is similarly non-trivial.

The better argument to make is your last one, namely that React improves your average code quality and makes it easier for you to focus on the algorithmic improvements which are probably more significant in many applications and could be harder depending on the style. For example, maybe on a large application you found that you were thrashing the DOM because different components were triggering update/measure/update/measure cycles forcing recalculation and switching to React was easier than using fastdom-style techniques to avoid that. Or simply that while it's easy to beat React's performance you found that your team saw enough additional bugs managing things like DOM references that the developer productivity was worth a modest performance impact. Those are all reasonable conclusions but it's important not to forget that there is a tradeoff being made and periodically assess whether you still agree with it.
Video Game ‘The Longing’ Makes You Wait 400 Days to View the Ending
The title should say that this was 2009.

And I think that HN has held up pretty well over the years.
I think they have also used Norway's numbers.

As to the difference, maybe they first vaccinated health professionals with AZ and UK mostly vaccinated older people with it, so different issues became apparent? It affects mostly younger women, so it would manifest pretty clearly with female nurses.
Why are you so worried about cryptocurrencies, and seemingly not worried about energy companies who actually are the ones who are creating the carbon emissions?

Using electricity and emitting CO2 are only loosely correlated, and in the case of cryptocurrencies are even less correlated because cryptocurrencies are dis-proportionally mined with energy from hydroelectric dams.

All of these articles about the ecological impact of cryptocurrencies only exist to divert public and regulatory attention away from the energy companies that are actually doing all the damage.

Oil companies did the same thing in the 70s when there was public outcry about plastic pollution, so they funded the "reduce reuse recycle" campaigns, and the crying Indian commercial etc, all to divert responsibility from the companies manufacturing the plastics to the consumers who use them.

There is a documentary called "The Story of Plastic" which covers this strategy, and how successful it has been for them in the past.
Although it says data structures, isn’t it more important to talk about the structure of the data than the choice of data structure?
I think you may be confused. The post you link is the first one, that this "one-year update" is referencing.
The staking rewards for block generation are inflationary. So you are penalized by not staking and it does not matter how long how stake your tokens your share of the blockchain does not increase. You also have to pay taxes for staking rewards in most countries so you have to sell at least that much. In the context of a bc with smart contracts you are basically owning and operating a share of a cloud for financial services. Those customers pay fees which get distributed with the staking rewards.

This does sound a lot saner to me than having some cabals operating giant computer farms and hydroelectric dams to generate new blocks. Their interests are different than those of token holders and having to pay for all those gpus and electricity is just stupid.

What mathematical properties are you losing?
It seems like your contention is that PoS coins are priced based on discounted cash flow, correct? I think that's a reasonable model, but it's hardly unique to PoS coins, and it doesn't really seem problematic.

> the system is only as resilient as the nodes run by the people who bought in initially

This point applies to any assets that generate cash flow, like stocks, yet they seem to have plenty of trading volume. And looking at some numbers on CoinMarketCap, it doesn't seem like PoS coins have lower trading volume than PoW coins. As one example, XTZ seems to have ~double BTC's turnover in the past 24h.

> these folks believed the coins are worth less than what you're buying them for, which doesn't bode well for you as the buyer

This could be said about most assets, even ones without cash flow like PoW coins. In practice there are other reasons for selling, like wanting to offset gains/losses for tax purposes, or wanting to buy food.
FT: Why Coinbase’s stellar earnings are not what they seem
> So what is the activist political position on WPA2 vulnerabilities?

Well we did just have a case with Twitter and IIRC Youtube where they redefined their "hacked material" policies to bend to the political will after the whole Hunter Biden laptop fiasco. So this may just be collateral damage due to those policy changes and the AI behind enforcing them.
Although private prisons exist (in strikingly small numbers[1]), private corporations can't just decide to throw you into a private prison on a whim; the government decides that.

[1] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...
This just feels like a play for large tech companies to be out regulated from the European market.
It's actually worse than that. They fired their auditor, presumably when that auditor uncovered the fraud and refused to produce a positive report.
A restriction on computation and processing of information seems like a restriction on speech, expression, and thought. The list named in this article is just bizarre. For example it mentions that the following would be covered by the proposed policy:

> 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

Can't all of marketing, politics, and activism be constructed to fall under this broad statement? It feels to me like this unfairly allows only certain means to achieving the same ends, which ends up favoring certain segments of society at the expense of others. As an example, what makes shaping political opinions using AI inappropriate but shaping it via disruptive protesting appropriate? A person who few responsibilities and enough time to spend protesting is allowed to influence society, and someone who wants to do the same through a different means that makes more sense for them isn't permitted to do so? Similarly, credit worthiness and crime risk assessment are plainly logical ways for individuals, corporations, and governments to contain risks, incentivize the correct behavior, and make smart decisions for themselves. Getting rid of credit scoring is equivalent to income redistribution, since less risky individuals will be forced to subsidize others.

I don't think blanket regulation like this is the answer. The answer lies in ensuring healthy markets with sufficient competition (enforcing anti-trust law), in relying on federalism so that local governments can decide which technologies they want to use or not use, and in privacy controls for users to retain control of their data. Not in restricting math.
where should it go?

coins are like collectables. no real value, but limited supply.

where should the unlimited dollar spam go? collectables, stocks and cryptos.
Decentralization of platforms away from the larger content aggregators and towards smaller, more tight-knit, niche communities.
Maybe someone took them up on the $400,000,000 reward offered... https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/494
And we know from the NYAG report that in the past they’ve:

- Not had 100% reserves

- Not been forthcoming about it

There’s no obvious reason to suspect that they’ve cleaned up their act. As the saying goes, a cheat is always a cheat.
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I had not heard of that, that is interesting to know. Well, the government certainly still does make mistakes. It is not infallible by any measure.

Are you speaking of the restriction on conscription of Malay citizens? Which would naturally preclude them from being in the Air Force in similar numbers? Or some worse actual policy of exclusion?
Also to provide liquidity to their employees.
That's certainly true for things like vowels, but there are other situations where spelling could be changed with no ambiguity problems in any dialect. For example, basically every word that contains "gh" can be simplified, as <gh> represents a /x/ sound like German "Bach" that dropped out of the language in the 1200s. Nobody is confused by "tho" and "thru".

Another easy example is just fixing "island". The 
 was never pronounced. Medieval scribes put it there because they incorrectly guessed that the word was related to Latin "insula".
> That wouldn't be speculative then (at least not completely)

Can you give an example of non crypto speculative investments which are not expected to produce revenues? That’s how 100% of business promise to eventually provide returns.

Even real estate is rents. Collectibles such as sports cards and art are the one exception category I can think of.

> Because it's not a Ponzi scheme unless you are lying about the origin of the returns which you are giving to investors.

Yes that was my point. Bitcoin could be a distributed Ponzi, where people make representations about bitcoin’s eventual value through network value, but it turns out there is nothing to it. There’s no single agent telling a lie but it has the same effect.

To make the limit argument: if bitcoin was run by a single person selling coins and claiming their value would go up because of network value, but this claim was not true, this would be a ponzi correct? Assuming the proferred proof was reported coin value appreciation to date. (I.e. the returns)
Same here. E.g. I remember I had a problem with the proper understanding of AND and OR. But it wasn't because I didn't understand the words, it was because I didn't get the concept at first.

I pissed myself off quite a bit when my logical expression of something like "IF B<50 AND B>100" didn't work. Then my mother, who was also a programmer helped that I indeed needed an OR. I learned it, but it didn't make sense, because that's not what how I would have said it in (any!) natural language.

Later on I've figured out that my misunderstanding was caused by the fact that while I've written "IF B<50 AND B>100" I meant "IF B<50 AND IF B>100", or more precisely "WHEN B<50 AND WHEN B>100".

I also remember the surprise when learning that PEEK and POKE (two keywords in BASIC) actually both mean something and not just made up pair of words.
I wasn't saying it does, i'm saying _we already have to do that_. Ie, this isn't a new problem. It's a well understood problem, because language is not concrete nor so well defined as to be always explicit.
How many people work on YouTube, Vimeo, ... the platforms themselves, as opposed to promotion, monetization algorithms, marketing, etc? PeerTube actually works really well, and as long as communities come together to help with support/promotion/... I don't see why it couldn't "challenge any of the incumbents" even with only one developer on staff.
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This could be said about any commodity. Like because of gold hoarding banks/individuals driving up the demand rest of the society has to pay high price of gold for jewelry.
Is this a plant? coinbase support is notoriously horrible, even my friend who works at the company thinks it's bad.
The problem is that above a certain level even that doesn't work. Like, answer me this - if you catch Jeff Bezos speeding, what possible fine can we impose on him to "hurt"? Compared to his wealth, we'd probably need to fine him like $1B for it to have any effect, right? And someone would still argue that it doesn't hurt him like a $500 ticket hurts a poor person.

But then literally no court anywhere in the world would agree that a $1BN fine for speeding is "punishment fitting the crime". It's just not.

Like, I like idea in general, but there will ways be people immune to it. Like others have said - the only real punishment is time. And not even necessarily prison - just make a CEO do 300 hours of community service, see how that works out.
...which is basically banning people from measuring risk for themselves and deciding how to react to that risk themselves. How is this not authoritarian?
Hmm .. while I agree there is a case for emojis :)
> ñ: this stays. it gives the language personality!

We can remove it and call the entire transition the Convergencia año-ano.
Nice, will give a try. Are you planning to support other images?
I mean, how can what's on the book be be fake if my trades are executed faster, the spread is smaller and I can take advantage of the higher liquidity??

Those things aren't just arbitrary numbers with no effect, if you are trading it's pretty noticable where the volume is higher even if you don't look at the order book.
Larynx TTS has a similar goal: https://rhasspy.github.io/larynx/

It was originally based on Mozilla TTS, but I've since moved to exporting models to Onnx for speed.
> But...it's not their fault. Asking anyone to precisely describe a complex system that is subject to change will have the same problem(s).

Yes. In the same breath someone might denigrate users for not knowing what they want and also explain about how they can't accurately timeline their personal coding project where they are the only user and developer.

Designing any complex system is hard. Asking users to take part in that design process means asking them to do something hard (or at least that's hard if done well, and hard to tell you aren't doing well unless you put in that effort you didn't know you had to). Complaining about bad user requirements as fine, but truthfully it should be done in a way that's self deprecating...
It's 99.999% implementation, though, not the core math, that gets broken.
Perhaps one of the many professionals working in distressed debt or special situations? If you're not familiar, there are desks at Goldman, etc called "Special Situations" that focus on relatively niche investment opportunities. Investors just need the price to be right. Would likely be bad for the shareholders, but again, that's part of the punishment.
Ohh OK, I see what you're saying. I more meant to say that the smallest possible set of equations from which the rest could be derived is shrinking.
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It definitely devalues your hard work, it becomes very difficult to save. Some people don't want to go into debt because they don't engage in usurious transactions.
My Go Executable Files Are Still Getting Larger (What's New in 2021 and Go 1.16)
Are they tryin' to send some sort of subtle signal, given the Coinbase listing today? :)
Yes it's broken, but then it's not.
You can literally change 'videoseries' to anything else and it will work. in fact, you can have it like this and still works:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/?list=YOUR-PLAYLIST-ID
AstraZeneca vaccine: Denmark stops rollout completely
(2009), by Jeff Atwood. I would have been very surprised to hear today's Stack Overflow staff talking about the value of downvoting.

Atwood's experience with downvoting on Hacker News is definitely a bit dated as well:

> (update: Apparently it is possible to downvote comments, which I never realized. It is buried in the faq)

> (I apologize for my misunderstanding, but there’s no visible UI for downvoting, and I can’t recall ever seeing a single negative voted comment in all the times I’ve visited Hacker News! Also, I put these comments in parens to make them extra-LISPy so Paul Graham would see my corrections.)
Pterosaurs had spoked vertebrae to support their 'ridiculously long' necks
From https://framablog.org/2021/01/07/peertube-v3-its-a-live-a-li... :

"PeerTube is not a platform, it is a software."
It isn't about challenging anything.

It's about a libre alternative.

Does the apple challenge the orange? They are both fruits!
You caught me!
every one of my data scraping projects is littered with files titled "database.db.bak1", "database.db.bak2".... for this exact reason. "Oh I scraped 1000 pages and realized I missed an entire nested data structure....better blow away the dB and try again.
We will have to face everything everybody thinks up. Legislation is whistling in the dark (pissing in the wind; closing the barn door...). Its too easy to create and deploy these things. Anybody who finds a reason to do so, will.

It will take social changes of some kind, to adapt to this new reality. Not draconian laws.
“Additionally, it’s worth celebrating that Coinbase was always a good business, i.e. it always made money.”

Why is that worth celebrating? A company made money. That is what companies are created to do. I suppose if you invested in Coinbase, you could celebrate it. Otherwise, who cares?
Spooks are turning to superforecasting in the Cosmic Bazaar
> So it’s certainly possible to map out the network and partition it into known good / known bad categories

You can't do this sort of analysis on the XMR blockchain. Can't see who's actually sending or receiving money. Can't see the transaction amounts. Can't see how much money any given wallet contains. Can't taint coins by association with criminal activities. Without exchange metadata it's impossible to correlate transactions with any certainty.

There's essentially nothing that can be done about it. Will governments become oppressive enough to jail people for the crime of using a medium of exchange they can't control? I'm not even sure that'd be enough to stop it.
I’ve had experience with both Lambda and Amazon.

Everyone working as an Associate in an Amazon distribution/fulfilment Center from 20 or more years ago would have accrued well over $5m in stock options and units today.

That’s for unskilled entry level work, at a much lower than current hourly wage, and assuming the stock wasn’t sold early(which it almost always was from my perspective).

Everyone attending Lambda has an opportunity to learn and up skill, but it is extremely rough and messy, much like Amazon’s early days.

Turnover/attrition for both Amazon and Lambda would be quite high.

So the dream is real, but the reality is considerable challenge.

Amazon’s full-time headcount growth is still extremely high(1.3m compared to 575k just 2 years ago).

Lambda has had a few students get hired by Amazon, so it’s in their best interest to link their brand to big tech brands.

People like sausages, but watching how sausages get made can be distasteful for some or many.
> Defamation is not a criminal offense. Nobody goes to jail for defamation. You can be sued for damages from defamation in civil court.

Since we're in a thread about Singapore…

Criminal defamation [1] is a thing here. :)

[1] https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/PC1871?ProvIds=P4XXI_499-
Of course! There are many synth artists out there. E.g. Andrew Huang

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHz6lsMcjDY
All of what you've said could apply to every controversial position to ever exist. These include racial equality, women's rights, homosexuality, democracy, wearing shoes inside the house, etc. It is both patronizing and factually incorrect to claim that speaking one's mind is to be equated with lack of awareness and pointless conflict. Who are you or anyone else to determine what's pointless? Conflict can arise from any reason at all even the most irrational.
It isn't anyone's obligation to be the broker or bearer of a false dogma for society's sake. There's no reason to reconsider a view until proof to the contrary is presented by the claimant.

Any social stigma based on such a premise is only a reflection of its insular beliefs - nay, delusions - held onto without examination or scrutiny. Shaming is the only the weapon left to people whose view of themselves and the world around them depends on the sanctity of an ideological house of cards. Reasonable people don't need hokum like shaming to defeat an argument. It's only necessary for the unreasonable. A society dependent on shaming is itself lacking in awareness. It can't hope to understand world beyond itself. Equating beliefs that please merely general society and with beliefs that fit into the world is a false premise. The world is a much bigger and unconventional place than most will accept.
How's the technical adoption going thought? Anyone deploying servers to resolve to HNS TLD's? What happens to the people who bought TLD's when ICANN releases the next 500?
Ha, I thought you were criticizing Coinbase for now being denominated in a long-term worthless US dollar. Funny what happens once you realize that crypto is real money and fiat is imaginary...
TradeHill was founded a year earlier and failed due to lack of demand. Gemini was founded after Coinbase and never caught up. It really looks like Coinbase got the timing right.
"Virtual money" is an oxymoron. Is a dollar in a bank account more virtual than a dollar bill or less virtual than a bitcoin?
Handshake, for example.
I've commented on this before, but I think the issue is programming languages mix presentation with representation, i.e. text is used for both. Aside from making tooling more difficult it also prevents a programming language from being multilingual.

While I agree simple keywords in a programming language aren't that big of a deal to learn as they are essentially symbols; things get a lot more complicated in a real project if a contributor is not a native speaker. Identifiers and comments - which are used for source code documentation - are in a single language and can't be translated easily.

If the presentation and representation were split such that the presentation (still text mind you) is just a rendering of the representation then it could go through a translation process in the same way web pages do. Of course there would be an added project overhead of maintaining translations so maybe it wouldn't be worth it.

This might be somewhat of a moot point as English is quickly becoming the lingua franca. Things such as issue tracking also require some common language outside of the source code itself.
I am not a believer in trying to learn two things at once
Yes. One of the authors is very clear that this is early data.

https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/1382248431272480769?...

What is message from our new paper showing no rise in suicide in pandemic?
•early figures, risks remain, #suicideprevention still a priority
•main risk is economic downturn - protecting income, jobs, housing vital
•MH care & community supports needed for those most at risk

https://twitter.com/ProfLAppleby/status/1382257477111140358?...

Some cautions re our new paper on suicide post-Covid
•England data not included, to be reported soon
•mainly rich countries, impact may be greater in poorer parts of world
•early figs, we are still in mid-pandemic
•no analysis by age, race or region
Can you share how Bitcoin has a direct pollution cost?

Last I checked BTC primarily uses excess electricity in the cheapest regions of the world. What if BTC only ran on solar power?