skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is though you’re focusing on one aspect rather than the picture. The picture is there are high school students younger than Bitcoin. No killer feature, no killer use case, massive inefficiencies and the intangible benefits really just mean that scammers can enact transactions illegal for a good reason. That’s not progress.

It’s wasteful. It’s slow. And all it really manages to do is hurt people in both old but updated ways; and new and exciting ones!

We ban things which serve only to cause harm like dumping chemicals in the lake. I’d say with that in mind why even allow it in the first place? Regulators were sleep at the wheel because it sounds complex.

[edit] the tangible difference between Gme and crypto is that everyone is trading on the exact same information. True, correct and regularly reported. The last tether transparency report was a damning settlement with the NYAG.
I saw a bit of that when someone on P5P mentioned that perltoot (Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl) didn't exist anymore.

His argument for keeping it was simple. https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/05/m...

Wanna bet? :)

It came across to me as being abrasive, and a bit dismissive.

It didn't help that his photo showed up next to it in my email.
I must say, this article does a terrible job at presenting crypto currencies in a bad way.
Sorry, I should not have left a half-baked half-joke idea hanging on a sensitive topic like that.

In the 1990s, back when we had physical bookstores, and when such things were even segregated sometimes, this was pretty in your face. If you went into a lesbian bookstore you would find a great preponderance of poetry. A gay men's bookstore would, by contrast, be relatively overloaded with how-to manuals and erotic novels of the more descriptively explicit kind. To this day, there are simply far more lesbian literature periodicals, especially poetry ones. This shouldn't be too surprising; straight women also read a lot more poetry than straight men in the USA today.

When I look at typical lists of prominent gay men and lesbians in the American arts, I see a pattern. The men tend towards film, photography, dance and musical theatre. The women towards poetry, modernist theatre, and perhaps in conflict with my hypothesis, comic novels.

There is no gay male equivalent of similar status to Audre Lorde. It's hard to imagine, really, what that might even be like. And there is no lesbian equivalent of John Waters. Even within their genres, I find the likes of Bechdal and Baldwin have different... natures? I admit it's a little hard to articulate without sounding like some sex-essentialist mouthbreather.

I figure one perspective is a bit more emotionally introspective than the other, and one perspective is a bit more embodied than the other. And it tends to be reflected in the kind of arts and the nature of the arts produced. If this is more than just an observation bias on my part it is of course only a slight tendency and it should not be taken too seriously; Alan Ginsberg was not a lesbian.
Very little - the Organization of Mining by Extraterrestial Companies will hold regular meetings to set their rare-earth and noble metal production targets to ensure price stability (profitability).
The other thousand of things aren't as small though right?
At which point why bother with the blockchain?
Having the best performance isn't necessary for a lot of use cases. Sometimes you just want to store and search a bunch of json objects and for that the mongo api is way more convenient then the postgres/sqlite json options
I like to have a touchscreen.
Servo isn't even close to being production ready. Every one seems to make Servo out to be something it wasn't. Anyways the Linux Foundation picked up the project, so your dream may come true some day.

Servo was primarily a test bed for Firefox and all the components that they wanted to get into Firefox eventually made it.
>I bet you are working for some ad company

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> most users are clueless, why should they be included?

Privacy groups, average users and ad-tech companies aren't the only 3 groups of relevant parties. What about the millions of websites that run on advertisement.

While the majority of HN would love to see ad-tech entirely disappear, the reality is that it pays for the majority of the web currently. I'm sure most websites wouldn't be happy seeing their ad-revenue slashed.
What's the alternative? only people deemed "essential" are allocated a GPU? how are you going to enforce that? by invading China and seizing the means of production?
"Eternal Middle School" is obviously TikTok
Time is a huge deal. There's a conflict right now between sepsis guidelines and antibiotic stewardship guidelines on when you should start treating, and having to wait for both the diagnostic and the phage prep is sort of a problem.
It won't get 1000x cheaper in terms of energy inputs, no. There are many different things you could do to make it economically 1000x cheaper, though. Redefine the US dollar in units of sequestered carbon, for instance. Self-replicating carbon sequestration units, if you like science fiction. Etc etc
Serverless Doom.

Cloud, clouds everywhere.
Yeah, this has been known for at least a few years, and, since then, bots, instafluencers, snapchat scammers, and now onlyfans funneling plague the apps.

Approaching them in public is the only viable option now, so hit the gym, brush up on your verbal game and banter, get some fresh style, be hygienic, and work on relaxing and deepening your voice.
From the proposed spec [0], it's literally just:

cohort = await document.interestCohort();

Seems pretty easy to override with a simple extension.

[0] https://github.com/WICG/floc
If you have package.json file you can still use .js file with 'type: module' in package.json.

https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#esm_enabling
Interestingly, in several phage-treated patients, the bacteria then had increased susceptibility to antibiotics. Combination therapy is a remarkable thing.
Words Matter
>And if that protein turns out to be harmful long term, guess what, the virus has it too.

It's not peer reviewed yet but here is this:https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.21252960v...
Evidence of the spike protein by itself causing clotting issues.
See: C. difficle infections
I believe Illumos bootloader still includes a Forth interpreter.
Ok, great thx, I can begin to get a handle on it. I don't see it addressing biology, but I can start here.
I think you should take a little broader look, US is not the whole world. YouTube is the only channel where anti-government information is allowed in many countries, where government controls the mass media and censors the internet, but comes short of blocking Youtube, due to its popularity. Probably this is the reason why that prize has been awarded.
Nope! Just needs to be something with a stable, targetable antigen.
Teams for Xbox incoming.
thank you for your work in this. we've been using rust-tls/ ring for some time now in our product.
Oh thanks for the insight, that makes a lot of sense -- pretty sure mongita is one of the first projects I've seen even attempt this, and it makes sense to target the platform that fits your use case (and obviously everyone who uses PyMongo) the tightest.

Your project looks very high quality -- benchmarks, tests, and comparisons are basically an indicator in my mind. Looking through the code you've also already left me (or someone else) space to try doing the SQLite as long as we implement it as an Engine[0] -- am I understanding that right? If I trace the code from database.py to engines/.py it looks like that. I really like the balance you've picked between pragmatism and space for expansion/modification.

A couple questions:

- How do you feel about type annotations in* the code (as opposed to just the comments, as far as I can see)

- PyPy? I wonder if you'd get a ~free speedup

[0]: https://github.com/scottrogowski/mongita/blob/master/mongita...
I don't think many people are good at remembering, and navigating by, street names. It's an unnatural way to navigate. For millennia, we navigated using landmarks and other relative phenomena.
Nowdays, if somebody wins an award, they are the exact opposite. We live is opposite world now.
you must mean “The IC” or DOJ not the US military? The DoD doesn’t have jurisdiction
FLoC itself does not prevent fingerprinting, but it's part of the Privacy Sandbox [0] where they are doing a bunch of things to mitigate those kinds of tracking, such as Privacy Budget [1]. Note that other browser suffer from the same issues.

[0] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

[1] https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
You can buy it (carbon removal via Charm) as part of a portfolio of carbon removal (including Climeworks - another Stripe partner - and Greensand, an already active equivalent of Project Vesta) at https://carbonremoved.com

Edit: More info on the portfolio of removal partners
ha, no somebody else. maybe this um, personality quirk is not uncommon.
Before you press spacebar, click on the most lefthand suggestion on the suggested words, and it will stop the autocorrect.
Also because it’s supported by QEMU.
Cool. Thanks for the Nanos pointer!

Sadly, two generations of programmers probably need to die first, before we adopt the RnD that's been done in the last decade or three, or for what's been done the systems that languish in the shade of UNIX to be done again in the mainstream.
Thanks for sharing -- yeah honestly I think the shim is the huge chunk of work here -- you would basically become a mongo expert/core comitter at the end of it. The same can be said of SQL but it feels like SQL is a bit less ad hoc (because it is, if only for the amount of committees involved), and there are some libraries that already do the parsing and stuff.
Sorry, it was a half-baked idea that mostly just communicates my questionable sense of humour. I expanded on a bit on what I was thinking in another reply in this thread.
> It's standard in all IT contracts. You will not get a job otherwise.

US is not the whole world. In some of the other parts of the world this wouldn't even be legal.
Ok, if we forget the comparison with sqlite, it's a nice and useful library for python devs Thanks for making it available.
Hmm, this sounds like the opposite. FLoC actually gives any ad-tech company access to the same cohort information. If FLoC does not happen and cookies are banned, that would be the death of smaller ad-tech companies. I assume that's what the parent comment menat?
> I guess you are also training your hunting and fighting skills

I haven't been in a fight in close to a decade, but it's not uncommon that I have to get somewhere and don't have access to GPS or Google Maps.

It's more than just a redundant skill. There's evidence to suggest that our reliance on GPS has a negative effect on our hippocampus, in particular our spatial memory. I have a gut feeling the effect is more wide ranging than we'd think; spatial navigation is a problem solving exercise, involving a whole bunch of different mental processes.
I still use mumble
When I was using Vent and Teamspeak you had to actually host the server, as I recall... so someone had to set it up and manage it, or you could pay a third party to do it, but that was always too expensive for my friends and I.... discord is a lot easier to set up your own server and find and discover other servers
Yes, I hate awards. In my own experience, awards have only inflated my ego, and has not led me to become more productive or passionate about the things I excel at.

It made me complacent and less likely to go above and beyond at work, possibly because I have the feeling that I've already "reached it", whatever that means.
Why not make it opt in?
A correction!

I said, "The other day," but in fact it was February 26th, which is actually two months ago.
any feedback is appreciated!
I don't think parent was saying Robinhood was good at executing trades, just that its UI was more functional than other brokers'.
Who controls the cohorts? Can membership in the wrong one mean a death sentence in some countries?
A thread going down a single layer makes total sense to me. Not the engineer in me, maybe, but the human. The human who is well trained to, in a large gathering like a party or an office, pull one or two people aside to have a semi-private conversation. Others will drift in or out as they like, but would you usually join one of those mini-conversations then pull one of the participants aside for an even mini-er conversation within that small group? No and I don't ever feel the need in slack either... If you and someone realize that you want to talk about something just move to PMs or make another thread at the top level and ping the person.
Same. Infectious disease epidemiologist, and I am hyped about how cool this is.

I got the Pfizer vaccine.

This is such a huge step from some of our older vaccines, which had much higher side effect rates, relatively speaking. These vaccines were tested in large clinical trials, and we're seeing very few poor outcomes. And yeah, what's in this vaccine is so much more ephemeral than "This virus is...mostly harmless?"
> I never understood why microsoft was suddenly so hell-bent on rebuilding edge.

They want a piece of the analytics pie.
I didn't blame anyone, I was just saying it couldn't have happened without Apple doing things first.

And not even all the things I listed really annoy me, I have listed examples for things where Apple had to be the first from the established manufacturers. For example the audio jack, I basically never used wired headphones in the last 6 (?) years (since the first time I bought Beats with Bluetooth), so I don't even care.
Yeah, Genode looks awesome, I've been rooting for it for a while.

I love their approach to hierarchical distribution of resources.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't actually booted and played with it yet.
The "grey carbon" (or emissions produced for the removal) are taken into account yes. Climeworks works with a geothermal power plant in Iceland for sustainable power to limit the CO₂ produced and only sells the "net negative emisssions" (so calculated after subtracting the emissions produced in the process)
Per Vognsen’s Bitwise (*) was one of my favorites until it was discontinued. It’s not a complete set, but still a great watch.
I also enjoyed George Hotz’s occasional programming streams. He reminds me of some of my favorite colleagues from over the years.

I haven’t watched chess in a while, but your comment certainly sparked something. I may give it another go.

For a less nerd-y class of content, I have also enjoyed boxing videos - especially those focused on coaches illustrating technique.

[*] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCguWV1bZg1QiWbY32vGnOLw
How funny it would be if Youtube starts shadow banning/censoring this video so people don't see this? What if they test their like/dislike removal on this?
Seeing as Unity has a competing product with enormous resources devoted to it for some pretty major titles... I could see why Unity wouldn't be the biggest champion of it anyways
Welcome to Steppelandia
Medical science is slow - and vaccine science moreso, because it is careful. mRNA vaccines were struggling to find a use case.

A major pandemic like this is a huge, urgent shot in the arm, both in terms of money and motivation, that accelerates things.
On the FAQ page there's an item about this:

https://www.climeworks.com/faq-about-direct-air-capture

> According to them, the grey emissions for the construction, operation and deconstruction of a Climeworks machine are less than 10% of the captured carbon dioxide with the use of waste heat and renewable electricity. Our goal is to reduce this to 4%.

(Apparently this is most practical in Iceland because of the abundant geothermal energy there.)
Got interested in the static site generator so I followed the “bitbooks” link in the footer, it looks like the domain has been hijacked
Well hey, I personally took a C programming course at the local community college, way back when, and have never met someone who learned VB outside of business/industry. Same way that Excel+VBScript are very useful but not taught as CS, but perhaps are covered in business classes. It occurred to me that your use of "college" might be the non-US meaning.
The politicization of Derek Chauvin trial
I think Chainlink could work for that :

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/chainlink/
No, not really. If anything the opposite view (uncharitably, that men are all doomed by their biology) is not uncommon either.

And of course most feminists (FWIW I consider myself one) are not tabula rasa types. Very few people worth taking seriously believe that literally, these days. The evidence is overwhelmingly against the idea.

More often you'll hear something like that the slight male tendency towards asserting dominance and impulsive behaviour compared to women is just that, slight. And that it is greatly amplified by culture and socialization. (And well, this is probably true to some degree?)

One can, of course, believe the sexes are somewhat different on average, while believing in their equal value, ability and merit in all the things that are actually important.
No, it is the network interaction that is specifically a software release trigger. "Interact" is a term encompassing a broad scope of behaviour -- any network message that causes an API to be called.

1+2 are plain old GPL. 3 is just a basic consequence of owning all the IP, but it isn't possible to release a patch to an AGPL under MIT.

AGPL has massively enhanced virality, which is the entire point.
Moderna and Pfizer mRNA half life is actually 10 and 14 days. The human one is indeed hours. Which is fine but it’s indeed not clear in their communication.
"Literally everything"

Love the brutal honesty.
The only time I've used Find my Phone was when my house was burgled and it was stolen.

Unfortunately, despite being given the exact location, the police weren't interested in picking it up. Luckily it was only a $100 phone, so I wasn't too concerned about getting it back, because nothing good would've come from attempting to recover it myself.
And the HPV vaccine before that was a virus-like particle vaccine, which was new tech as well. We've effectively run out of low hanging fruit where inactivated or live-attenuated vaccines are really amenable for use.
Alternative Tgnu
It's always funny when economic policy is called "national security". Really makes you think.
Not surprising considering YouTube Rewind (2018) currently has a like / dislike of 3 million / 19 million.

What's surprising is they haven't disabled comments for that video. Kudos to them I guess.
At my previous job, I used to sit in meetings thinking all the problems were political/communication, and those are the only interesting ones.

Over the years, I didn't come to the conclusion "I want to be insulated from non-technical problems" (which is an easy thing to achieve) but rather "I want to be involved in solutions that are technically trivial, but solve organizational issues". Because those are the ones where the most leverage and meaning exists.
Register a virtual number and shove it to them. Use U2F if you can. Don't give in.
Logica is a logic programming language that compiles to StandardSQL
Some red azo food dyes have been shown to be carcinogenic.
Yeah, sounds like a good approach.

I liked the direction Joyent was taking with Iluminos and Triton.

Problem is the fact that the tech is tied to a market, which has different rules and rates of evolution.

Best bet for a refactor is with a new market/platform.
> (most people only update chrome every month, so it only hits 1/30 users).

What do you base that on? My understanding is that a system with Chrome installed will check for updates every 5 hours[0], and I assume most people accept the update on the day that they see it is available.

> The problem on google chrome would be easier to detect, because it wouldn't be able to pinpoint a specific user.

I'm also not clear what you mean here. An attacker could decide to target a victim by their IP address, or any detail about their computer which is available to Chrome.

I agree with you though about native applications being able to do more damage, and possibly persisting on a machine for longer.

> Apps on phones are more secure because a malicious binary can't stop itself being removed via Apple / Google's app stores.

On the other hand, the user isn't secure against threats from the app stores themselves, not least the threat to Availability when an app store uses a kill switch to delete an app without warning.[1]

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6350036?hl=en

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/191897/iphone_killswitch.ht...
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense for certain platforms. I've spent a lot of my career working with enterprise customers, some of whom are comfortably running 20 year old software written with something like WPF. And in general, that would be true of Flutter too -- on a platform like Windows, it will work at least as long as the underlying Win32 APIs are available.

(Of course, that's not a viable test for most mobile frameworks. I suspect that an iOS Xcode project from 2011 would not run without rework, nor an app written for Android Honeycomb.)

Flutter is open source, which provides some automatic measure of protection against obsolescence. And companies like Toyota who are building it into embedded systems like cars that will still be around in 20+ years.
I think the point of blockchain is that it's more traceable and secure than other open options. I would think of it less as a crypto-currency and more of a merkle tree like git. Voting blockchain solutions won't be decentralized. It's just a useful protocol with some benefits.
That's more the fault of the Nobel committee. You can't hamstring a leader by giving them an award for no reason and hoping that affects their decision making in the future.
oh, so like emacs then?
Has anyone played Doom on Ethereum?
The rule of thumb used to be that if it fits in a 35mm film canister, it's too small to have around children younger than 3. Nowadays I suppose a lot of people don't know what a film 35 mm canister is...
Curious :

What are current best practices for large B2C apps like FB, regarding storage of prior values that are replaced by the user? Specifically in relation to key account information (email / phone / 2FA ).
Are prior entries effectively wiped... or stored ?

And was such practice always in place, or when did it change?
I like to define an OS as something that can execute arbitrary binaries. So if your hypothetical Smalltalk OS has a defined executable format that non-Smalltalk programs can compile to, I’d call it an OS.

Note that this also makes for example the uppermost part of the JVM an OS by my definition. I’d argue it’s not a completely incorrect characterization.
There are already some crazy light sources with line width of less than a single Hz (not a typo) https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019332/quiet-light

Still other work to be done, and worrying about what happens in the fibre optics, but it is becoming possible, especially if the coherence does not need to be long lived.
Oh, that makes sense. Thanks!
Replying to watch later!
yeah, I doubt any of my visitors have a mastodon account
I bookmarked the public TOC url 6 years ago
OpenAI-Powered Linux Shell
I created a paid version here at https://blogstreak.com but I don't think it's taking off. I am planning to add marketing blogs but let's see in a month.
The pain inflicted when someone had to leave the LAN and the BNC chain had to be broken and reconfigured....

Or... Someone getting totally owned in Doom cracking it and disconnecting a terminator.

Great times.