skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> KYC rules usually dont apply for such stuff. Fiat on-ramps have to deal with that.

I think it would be a very risky bet to assume this will remain the state long term. It's not even the state now, overall.

Similarly:

> The DEX as as its name says is decentral, they can not control it.

It is possible to construct situations where a business is not technically capable of meeting its legal obligations. The usual solution to this is that the business changes, not the obligation.
The mildly alcoholic, hoppy kind
I immediately wanted to rewrite it as an array, yep, since the countries are already indexed.

And to minimize the risk of errors such as the "Anguila" error above.
Intel employee claims first discrete gaming GPU is ‘right around the corner’
The blog post from google: https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/a-simpler...
Conditionality is applied in the concept: Privilege is essentially the difference in outcomes ascribed to two otherwise identical people due to a particular disadvantage that members of one group suffer but members of the other group don't.
As a huge Python fan, I think now is the time for the leadership to start thinking about Python 4 (especially since the 2->3 migration headache seems to have mostly gone away).

I say this because v4 would be a good time to look at putting some of these speed improvements into the mainline code - something that would be largely backward compatible, but make those breaking changes that give big speedups (such as putting limits on the C interfaces and other big building blocks).

My gut (and really, it's just a half-assed guess) tells me that Python could easily see a 2x speedup in exchange for some of those incompatibilities, and an even bigger gain depending on how deep the changes went. [0]

If that's anywhere near correct, then doing a v3/v4 in parallel (like v2/v3 was) would probably be the only way to go, so that people would know there is a migration path. [1] [2]

[0] - There are really only two ways to do this - keep breaking things and introducing incompatibilities along the way, or make a bigger break for the sake of performance. Of course, doing nothing is also an answer, but probably one that we wouldn't really be happy with. There is also a variant of versioning where we do 4/5/6/... in relatively rapid succession, such as 2-3 year intervals, and make a fewer big breaks for each release, and that might even work better.

[1] - I suffered through the v2/v3 issues also, (as an end user more than a dev though), and it wasn't fun. But I'd do it all again if it meant a big jump in speed.

[2] - I know the perl team mucked this up (hindsight being 20/20), so having a working V4 on first release (not counting alphas & betas) would be key. Scoping that out well beforehand would probably be needed, but I think the team is broad and deep enough to do that.
I don't mind ads, I mind data mining.

Ads on podcasts don't bug me as much as the ads Google/Facebook does. Nor do the ads that are sponsored inside videos (see LTT). I don't mind the ads that DDG does (which just uses key words in your search).

I don't like this dichotomy of ads vs no ads, I'm not sure that's really the right framework. I turn off ads everywhere I go because I can't trust ads. But I don't bother skipping through ads on my podcasts or in videos. So it isn't the ad part that's the problem.
If the water is saturated with a salt, it could actually dehumidify the air, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_g4nT4a28U
You're right, but misread what I meant (and/or I was unclear!). I meant that when founders win it is often, at least partially, because they were naive when they started.

I did not mean to imply all naive founders win; that would be absurd. :)
Ah that's simple: just make sure that you have an incompetent government that will utterly destroy the contracting market, like they did in the UK. :/
Lower household transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 from children versus adults
I have also noticed this in other HN discussions. Everyone seems to assume everyone else agrees with their view on the topic and there is never any open discussion about it. Usually people just talk past each other and it's never pointed out.
It looks like RVV will be going up for ratification this summer, so (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.ado...) is pretty close to the final version.
> Edit: I thought this was legitimate reasoning behind having your own token. I don't mean it in an inflammatory way. Please explain why you disagree.

Because you don't need to create a token at all to tip creators, inflationary or otherwise.

If you want to use crypto, just use an existing blockchain. Or don't use crypto and just create a centralized market that pays out at certain thresholds. Blockchain solutions aren't actually cheaper than centralized solutions, they just hide all of the costs elsewhere in transaction fees and mining payouts.

The only reason to create an all-new token is to have something to sell to people under the guise of enabling value. It was a bad trick when car washes sold car wash tokens instead of letting you pay for car washes directly, and it's a bad trick when crypto companies make you buy their tokens instead of just buying the service directly.
Honestly you don’t know what you’re talking about. What do you mean better results? What’s your metric? In terms of security it does achieve better result.
New York’s Newest Public Clock Is a Triumph
This is why I like authy because you can use it everywhere on most systems
> How do you draw the difference between an ad and not an ad?

If it's paid promotion, it's an ad. If the doctor's doing this only because they think it's in my best interest, it's not. The FTC already has some pretty clear guidelines on this because ads are required to be clearly marked as such in many cases.
In most applications you will not be able to get to the level of performance when any of this is going to matter.

For example, if you program Python then there is so much more conditionals in Python runtime itself than you will not see any difference from couple of your conditionals being predicted better or worse. You will also be doing a lot of other stuff (like spending time in framework code, calling libraries, performing I/O) that will be making any gains from this pretty insignificant.

Where this comes into picture is if you are really bent on improving performance of your code on a grand scale (when you develop algorithmic trading or maybe operating system), when you have a very dense, busy inner loop (for example video encoding) or when you develop compilers.
Arizona’s Election Audit Is Looking for Bamboo-Laced “China Ballots”
The AMA is actively lobbying for more residency slots.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...
I get that IPAs and neIPAs will dominate the taps at my local breweries, but kinda disappointed I haven't seen any Maibocks on tap this spring.
I’ll spell it out for the unaware, especially those in non-US countries that lack context. There’s a lot of assumptions built into this summary, and it is not clear whether it’s fully accurate or not, but it does help convey the viewpoint you’re referring to in a more comprehensive fashion.

America was and continues to be built in large part by wage theft and labor exploitation. We don’t provide the social support services that are taken for granted in first-world countries like Canada, because doing so conflicts with the strongly-held belief — the ideology — that the best way to support the poor is to ensure that they’re employed in a job, no matter how terrible the working conditions or pay. Workers are told that this is a “ladder of success”, but upward mobility has stalled due to the wealth being drained out of the system into the ultra-wealthy and their families. Workers are encouraged to work for local businesses, who are themselves going bankrupt and collapsing at the swordpoints of Walmart, Amazon, and Covid. Health care costs have skyrocketed, health insurance is only offered to a subset of the workforce, and minimum wage doesn’t cover rent, food, and health care (pick one only).

So, Montana is canceling unemployment as a way to force people to work at jobs they otherwise wouldn’t work at. This forces people back into the modern enslavement system, and takes for granted that enough employers are left in Montana to hire those workers. Rather than assessing whether enough jobs exist for their citizens and then requiring businesses to pay a reasonable wage that covers living costs, or offering benefits to attract workers, the state of Montana will simply block unemployment benefits. Employers that offer miserable wages, no health insurance, and poor working conditions are expected to see an increase in workers applying for those roles, further weakening the negotiating position of workers versus employers.

The best analogy, then, for the perceived cruelty of these motivations is, in these modified words of the consultant from “Office Space”:

“We fixed the glitch. So they won’t be receiving an unemployment check anymore. So it’ll just work itself out naturally.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUE0PPQI3is
Rust has custom allocators on the way. They're in nightly currently.

You can already set a custom global allocator, but soon you'll be able to specify allocators per collection.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Note the date of course - this is well before Dropbox was a household name.
If Google had a paid, ad-free option for more then just YouTube and some drive space I would be happy to pay it. I don't know if I would shell out for paid Google searches but I would at-least like to see an alternative option.
It's funny but i actually like the ads on the trains in Japan and when I was visiting other countries who's transit systems had no ads I thought it was boring.

Some of the ads are hilarious. Some are for the services that are not common in the USA. Nintendo has some where they add in a trivia Q&A, the format being, Question->Ad->Answer and I usually find them interesting and I'm often happy to learn about whatever new Nintendo game they are showing off. Often there are ads for theater plays, concerts, museum events that I only find out about because I saw them on the train.

I also like some of the campaigns where they decorate an entire station or the entire train, the entire car.
The goalposts are constantly changing, but there are refactorings that achieve both.

As a student, real world performance analysis was one of the ways I kept myself engaged in otherwise sometimes tedious curricula. After college I landed a job far away from home only to discover their software was so slow I was embarrassed to be associated with it, so I got a quick self-directed study in practical optimization.

On any given day, you're much more likely to be amused by your own cleverness than anyone else is, so you either do it for your own reasons, stop doing it entirely, or find palatable forms of expression.

My most concrete example is probably the bizarre love triangle between locality of reference, lazy evaluation, and common subexpression elimination. There are several islands of sanity where reading comprehension is improved by refactoring in ways that happen to reduce or avoid calculations.

You clean up the code and it gets 5% faster. You use the same pattern in three places and you're comfortably into double digits.

As more evidence piled up for me about the dangers of confusing code, I spent more time thinking about the legibility and very little time thinking about the performance, but the fact is that I still do it intuitively. 25yo me would still be pretty happy with the performance of my code, even though <mumble>yo me gets a little concerned about that level of enthusiasm.
very valuable is it possible to get beta access @suhail
It sure sounds like you're the one being overly sensitive given that you're describing two equivalent states of affair and finding one of them offensive because you don't the words attached to it.
I wouldn't need to wash my hands if you chopped them off.
I just came here to ask how does it know it's giving you the worst possible piece. And I find this.

:shakes head:
http://cosmology.com/

lmao @ website & valuation up top

funny thing to want to get rid of, you'd think the truth would be more valuable than that!
IMO these things are basically driven by speculation as well. From what I can tell, they mainly provide liquidity for financial institutions. Financial institutions are interested in crypto so that they can make money trading it. IMO there is very little actual utility here.
There are old towns in the U.S. that are ancient ruins today, too. People go where they can make a livelihood and sometimes that means leaving town when the mine closes.
That animation at the top of the article of the possible locations of the photon is very cool. Quantum behavior seems so counterintuitive to us because we're just apes who evolved minds to survive in the macroscopic world of the African savanna. But I wonder if we perhaps taught quantum behavior to kids from an early age, whether they could get an intuitive understanding for it, in the the same way that I can, like, know what "feels" like the best move in Chess or something, without really being able to articulate why. That kind of intuitive feel for how something works usually leads to concrete logical understanding later on.
It's astounding to me that anyone is upset about vaccine manufacturers making a profit. They're saving millions of lives, reducing economic damage by trillions of dollars, and letting people get back to their lives months or years earlier. If we need to have their work made free to the world, we should be writing them checks with at least 10 zeros.
You cannot live with it in any system where agency can be taken because of how exploitable it is. If you set up a genetic algorithm in a life simulation and foolishly set it to use floating points "nature" will select for utilizing free energy as a matter of course.

HFT + floating point = economy crashed by duping inflation without real item duping
Floats are used in finance for many applications. Most of the front office applications I've worked on use floats for money, because it's like science: the model is already off by more than floating point error.

The whole "NEVER use floats for money" thing is cargo culting. In this situation though I don't see why floats would be any better a solution than just using 64-bit integers.
Let's not mince definitions. It was a flamewar comment about a nation, hence nationalistic flamebait. Please don't do that here–it's not what this site is for.

You did even more of it in your reply to my moderation comment. That's usually a really bad sign.
Upcoming Event: Finding the Right Mentor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJb1BD63ME

Quick rundown of tetris history.
A heat pump could be used to cool the water to below-ambient and inject that heat directly into the outgoing compressed air. I wonder if a system like that would be more efficient than installing a separate refrigeration-based system downstream?
Companies already have loyalty points and gift cards and rewards programs long before blockchain.

No consumers want to have to deal with tokens and blockchain to interact with a company.

Consumers will always do what's easiest and cheapest. Blockchain solutions are inherently more difficult, more expensive, and more risky (for the consumer) than just breaking out your credit card and getting paid 2% cashback to spend your money.
I guess I should clarify in the context of this discussion, we're defining ads as

>psychological warfare against a populace using their very nature against them. All in an effort to get them to change their behavior in a way that's going to be detrimental to them. Either they stop looking for alternatives, or they make purchases they don't need to

In this context, a doctor making a recommendation to use a particular brand (paid or unpaid) is an ad. Even a doctor generally recommending you change your behavior to consume more toothpaste is an ad.

So in this framing, how do you determine the difference between an ad and not?
Please stop spreading FUD. We were absolutely nowhere near a successful coup. None of the institutions of power supported any coup so no coup was going succeed. You need a bare minimum of control of the courts, the legistlature, or the military. None of these institutions came close to supporting any coup.

What we had was a scary riot and lots of fear mongering.

Edit: for whatever reasons there are large groups on both sides of the political spectrum that want to pretend that we were much closer to successful coup than reality supports.
I'm not sure what you are down voted. It's a very legitimate question.
You are contributing 100% of the value to the person, but it is really the person and the situation.

If I increase online sales by 0.1% through optimizing something, I am worth millions of dollars to Amazon and nearly nothing to Joe Schmoe with a small Shopify site.
I agree, constraints often bring benefits. The question for a language is which ones to bring in and which ones to leave open. From that perspective I value clojure's choices (and don't value js every-io-is-a-callback design).

Any project of the size you mention needs technical leadership and constrained choices (for IO we use this, we do http this way..). This will be true regardless of what language you're using.
The Tsar was bad too. Cold comfort to the millions who were massacred after the revolution.
Let's take it a step further. We can reduce STI transmission to zero if we remove all of everyone's genitals.
that is fair conjecture,
Myself, I would expect the life stack to unwind to back to primitive on the way to the off switch.
That and if ever accidentally you get water in your lines and you run piston based tools on them you'll end up with hydraulic lock and/or bits of your tools all over the place.
Technically they can also use variable length integers or even "BigIntegers" but they process slower.
> I'm wondering how you guys would optimize that code ?

Run it on infinite multiverse, construct a mechanism to destroy the Universe every time branch predictor did not predict every single conditional correctly.
Reminds me of deep sea ecosystems around lava vents. Still nothing unique, just regular creatures that adapted. Always wondered how deep life goes underground. I read before of vast caves deep underground never explored. But how deep? Seems like it would be more analogous conditions on Mars below the surface than above.
You seem as intolerant as the people you deride for their intolerance.
MS is an american company working with the CIA. The only thing this will bring for europeans will be a false sense of security.
dumb question: to stop the sea raising due to ice melting could we store ca 30 million cubic kilometers of ice somewhere or move it in space with some kind of space elevator? Expensive but how many trillions $ losses would cost a few meter increase of sea level?
This is a really underrated comment. People here tend to oversubscribe to their own capacity for rational behavior. Just because you can be hyper-rational it in one context doesn’t mean you aren’t human. It does mean that as people with better understanding you have a greater responsibility to protect others still capable of believing the internet has one old weird trick.
The element of controversy isn't whether efficient quantum simulation is possible, but the idea that by running such a simulation one would be able to break cryptography, as if they were using an actual quantum computer. This is a talk where he makes this claim
https://youtu.be/DkUpZkeqhF4?t=3372
If this isn't crackpottery of the highest degree I don't what is.
Given how troublesome the 2->3 migration has been for large companies I wonder if a breaking 3->4 wouldn’t kill the language. I know of more than one big shop that still has a lot of Python 2 in house but has disallowed the creation of new Python code bases in favor of other languages.
| If you look at the amount of vaccines produced, the US and EU are fairly close to each other.

EU has 2x the number of people.
Like the OP Twitter thread said: It's universal across every crypto project that issues their own tokens.

There's no reason to force customers to buy a brand new token invented out of thin air just to pay for a service that could be otherwise purchased with real money or Ethereum.
And because of Google's autocratic nature with zero support for personal users..this will result in a lot of nightmares.
Downvote isn't a "I don't agree with your logic" button.
Apparently we were up at Oxford at the same time! I wasn't working on my DPhil, though... PPE as a visiting undergrad student. I greatly enjoy your deep dives on Anandtech!
HFT programs absolutely use floating point, you don't have time to waste using rationals/fixed point/whatever. I've no idea where this misapprehension has come from, in my experience the more complicated the work you do in finance, the more you balk at the idea of not using floating point.
Safari represents how Apple would ideally like the world to work, and I don't think Apple wants San Francisco to be used for anything other than UI elements. In addition to not being Safari's system font, it also doesn't appear in Font Book or other system font selection menus.
- Wizzards of the coast will take all your lunch money.

No, wait.

But actually true.
That's just the realization that opinions of technical people don't really matter that much. They don't add up to a critical mass that puts enough buck in the game to make it bang.
The README on the repo itself links to gitlab, including the "create an issue" link: https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/#contribute
you realize under Trump, it was a blanket ban on all entry? that definitely wasn't the case under Obama.
> "We'll call you if there's any problems, if you don't get a phone call, nothing is wrong. See you at your next appointment!"

This is definitely the wrong way to do it. If nothing's wrong, I want to hear about it.
This seems exactly like the kind of pain-free win that the Biden admin has been pulling lately for the base. I suspect coordination, but at this point it's just wishful thinking.

Especially at this particular time: good luck trying to incite an anti-NN right-wing response right now when the primary rhetoric among the right currently is about internet censorship.
When Chia mining really ramps up, it will kill off SSDs faster than a T-rex in a petting zoo.

I think the horror stories are going to just explode.

If Apple has any weakness here (and this might be the butterfly keyboard all over again), then their products are going to get absolutely trashed in the media.[0]

[0] - I use apple products pretty much everywhere, so I'm not looking forward to this, just presuming it will highlight any SSD weakness they might actually have.
There is a vast world of difference between putting out to the public "I sell X" and following you around the internet to auctioning a consumer's eyeballs to the highest ad bidder. Or intentionally changing your behavior with their ads (the toothpaste one being the simplest to understand).

Trying to conflate the two as equivalent when someone says "ads are toxic" in the context of the online ad industry is doing the argument no good.

> How would you find a USB charger brand if you were unaware of any to begin with?

Why search for a brand, and not a high quality, well reviewed USB charger? To use the original example, googling for "good USB charger" and then buying one via an ad will not give you any guarantees that the USB charger is good. All it guarantees is that they paid the most to get your eyeballs on that particular search.
And why would a company need to have a decentralized token?