skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No it's not that, there's not a single blockchain based solution that achieves better results than a classical solution. Not a single one. Never has been. Not in 14 years. I'm open to one showing up! But, well, it hasn't.

Mind helping me with my assumptions??

From what I see, the classical solutions assume the central authority will always exist and provide its services at reasonable prices, that the authority will be benevolent and just, and the central authority is usually single purpose.

Regarding survival, crypto space has a similar assumption that at least some people will run nodes - but I like it's robustness to being 'killed off' because only a few people need to participate in mining or validating.

Regarding benevolence, I think there are plenty of examples of hostility towards users in the payments space specifically.

Regarding single purpose, blockchains are fairly interesting as they allow for any purpose that's signed with the participating parties. Which is a wildly open means of coordination amongst groups -- which is also why blockchains look a lot like currency at outset, because currencies have been the tool for eons to coordinate human efforts.

But looking at it closer, a lot of the world runs on IFFT logic, which seems ripe for smart contracts - the only issue is the interoperability between traditional world and blockchain world to become like Daniel Suarez's Dameon.
They used to have this. It was the Life boat connector. You would connect a magic black box to another mac and the connector to the logic boards life boat connector and you were able to migrate the customer data from the dead board. HOWEVER since they started encrypting the userdata at a hardware level they removed that port (because unless you went via the T2 chip the data you extracted from the drive would just be random data).

EDIT: Could they in theory add a port to machines going forward that as long as the T2 chip (or what ever they use today, i think they incorperated it into the M1 chip itself) was still functional (as it holds the keys). Sure, why not? But they would have create a way to unlock the T2 (or what ever chip) but apple could create a way either by having a master key or devise keys based on serial numbers, etc etc etc. The Mac they use to recover data via the life boat connector could phone home to Apple and with the right auth be granted an auth to unlock the chip and allow data retrival.

If I were to give apple the benefit of doubt, they might not want to as they don't want a way to be compelled to decrypt customers data on their hardware (Be it a 3 letter agency or a rouge employee).
Haskell or Rust is too far the spectrum ;), TS or Kotlin are a nice sweet spot.
> The real issue is when do you get to truly practice without supervision, and that's much earlier in the US.

Is it? If a doctor in the UK can graduate from medical school and practice as a GP 6 years out of secondary school, but for a US doctor it takes 8-9 years, it's not really "earlier". What you're talking about is status within the profession.
Who would you sue?
Have you actually reviewed the analysis, using the instrument data in the video to calculate that it was a typical size and was actually moving at a typical speed and altitude for a bird? If so, what is your critique of the calculations?
How absurd would be a kind of compromise where they'd be given a license on the procedure and monitoring so that they can keep their career a bit.
Rounding error in finances is a major plot point in the introduction SuperMan III. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7JBXGkBoFc

Sure, it's humorous and a little bit silly, but the issue is a real one, and this is a funny way to familiarize yourself with the tricks that can be played.
People ask for the same thing for politics, and for various subjects. So how many different "hide" filters should we create?

Then there's the classification problem. Is post X really about politics? It's not binary.

The only solution that would even approximately work would be to add a block list of domains to peoples' profiles. That way, if you don't want to see anything from paulgraham.com, and I don't want to see anything from HuffPost, we can each do that. But even that only approximately works. I've seen articles posted here that are Twitter comments on Paul Graham articles.

Or, the absolute simplest solution: Skip over the articles that don't interest you. It's really easy to just move your eyes to the next line.
Focus the address bar and click enter, so it becomes its own referrer. In case it doesn't work, it's a galactic cool man made with Paint or something similar.
But what would you need an interactive chart of IPA beer for?
It’s HN… I wouldn’t expect anything less
> ...Medicare For All is the better and cheaper way forward.

I'm puzzled why the article prefaces one of its rationales with this:

'...“With Medicare for All seemingly off the table, our paper suggests we can still tackle administrative costs through structural changes to the payment process,” said Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, ...'

Why is that Medicare for All is off the table?
Silly response.

One study found 20.6% of overall medical care was unnecessary. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5587107/

Simple example is testing. If free to consumer, they will get too many cat scans and other expensive tests, "just in case."
I assume you're being downvoted for low effort, because you're not wrong. That said, public perception is driven by media presentation, and the media dialed the hysteria knob to 11 in the aftermath of the Capitol Riot. It's honestly the most blatant propaganda that I've ever observed in American media.

How many people read those 'FIVE DEAD IN CAPITAL RIOTS' headlines, read the vague articles expressing dread at 'right wing violence', and went away thinking that the protesters had been committing murder? The truth, of course, was that only one person died a violent death during the riot, and it was at the hands of the capitol police. The other folks died of heart attacks and strokes! The fact that the (geriatric) body count was used to sew FUD about right-wing violence was and is absolutely astounding.

How many people still think that two capital police officers were killed by rioters? The media went out of their way to state (and later to merely imply) that Officer Hodges had been crushed to death by a crowd as they tried to enter the building, and that Officer Sickwick had sustained mortal injuries during the riot--neither of which was true. Hodges is alive and well, and Sickwick died of a stroke the next day. The media went on spinning the Sickwick lie as his body layed in state, and on and on for many months after the attack.

Unsurprisingly, the fact checkers did what they do as well, bending over backwards to support the 'armed' in 'armed insurrection' by counting up the pocket knives and pointing out that *one* of the rioters had a handgun[0]! In a nation containing >150 million firearms, and in an era when folks are regularly attending protests whilst armed to the teeth, it's pretty clear that these protesters went out of their way to leave their weapons at home.

The real kicker, IMO, is that if you were following the news in real time, you would have noticed that the rage surrounding the incident presented a stark contradiction to the current narrative. On social media, the lefties couldn't decide whether their rage should be directed at the protesters (who, having broken several prestigious windows, were naturally being hailed as 'TERRORISTS' in a twitter trend), or at the capital police, many of whom were captured on video while contradicting the 'coup' narrative--smiling, opening doors for protesters, and helping feeble old insurrectionists down the capital steps!

[0]https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/capitol-protesters-were-ar...
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brian-sic...
"That's more money than my boss makes in a year."
I'm no stranger to unsafe code but in my professional work, I avoid it almost any cost. In my experience the common denominator among average engineers is an aversion to the kind of processes that derisk unsafe code, where average == "I can reliably find at least two engineers at this skill level within the next few months with competitive but not FAANG-level salaries". This is why Rust is so successful in the first place: it's a low level language disguised as a high level language (or the way around, depending on your perspective) where you don't have to worry about fuzzing or vagrant. That `unsafe` is avoided like the plague is a great feature of the Rust ecosystem and IMO an achievement in its own right.

I've actually found the reverse problem to be even more detrimental: people coming from high level languages like Python are getting tripped up because they try to go too low level to make up for tradeoffs they no longer have to make. Rust makes it painfully obvious when wrapping a shared value in a Rc+RefCell/Arc+Mutex or cloning so it seems like an antipattern to newbies. Even though the majority of them are coming from languages where everything is implicitly reference counted and performance is abysmal, they worry about incrementing an atomic integer or acquiring a lock in a program that will only ever run on x64. I can't imagine what they'd come up with using `unsafe` if the community didn't literally refer to it as the dark arts.
It was never a coup attempt. Coup is a coordinated attack on all branches of government that makes it impossible for overthrown government to function. This cannot be achieved by angry mob breaching just one government building. Mob was never backed up by some organized force aimed to take over. Turkey 2016 was a coup attempt. This was just nonsense.

People who call it 'coup attempt' should isolate themselves form propaganda narratives they've been subjected to for the past years.
> but the Spanish unaspirated t and the English one are different phonemes. The tongue is in a different position.

That is not what "phoneme" means. They are different sounds, but they aren't different phonemes in either language; to be different phonemes, the same language would have to consider them different. Neither does -- in both cases, one is "/t/" and the other is "weird /t/".
C++ 20 introduces standard likely/unlikely attributes: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely
It’s not an important distinction at all, it’s a distraction.
Where did you read that it was fixed or acknowledged as a bug? It definitely was not fixed.
Dilution and loss of control are entirely different than removing a single owner from the cap table.

Down rounds and massive dilution absolutely happen, but this hits the entire cap table.
Machine Learning Conservation Laws from Trajectories – Ziming Liu, Max Tegmark
Bitcoin comes to mind. If the future of transacting money and information is on proof-of-work blockchains, then does that mean we should expect all sufficiently advanced civilizations to have Dyson spheres encircling stars across the galaxy, mining crypto.
All the disastrous things that proponents of NN said would surely happen without it haven't happened since it was repealed, and also never happened before it was implemented.

It really does beg the question why it was ever needed in the first place.
Exchanges compete on speed. If exchange A delivers data in half the packet size and requires smaller word sizes to operate on and exchange B decides it's okay to double the packet size and requires twice the word size... exchange A gets the trade and exchange B is left holding the bag.

Back in the day the major exchanges, NASDAQ and NYSE in the U.S. and the TSX in Canada used to operate as a mafia with a monopoly on the stock market. Entire exchanges came into being strictly on the basis that they had lower bandwidth requirements and operated faster, such as BATS and DirectEdge (which ended up merging), CHI-X, Omega, and a host of competition emerged to actually focus on technology. They ended up taking a large chunk of market share away from the major exchanges.

Now NASDAQ and NYSE have since caught up, and in some ways they did so by buying out these competitors. Modulo some embarrassing glitches over the past few years, the major exchanges need to continue supporting their legacy systems for major institutions who are very slow and hesitant to upgrade any aspect of their technology.

NASDAQ has a more advanced and modern data feed and that feed doesn't have this issue, BRK.A is being reported properly at its price as we speak, but that feed isn't widely adopted except by firms that generally build their own technology and have a team that can keep their tech up to date. The feed that has this issue is like 20 years old now and rarely gets updates, and many firms like to keep it that way.
This is nonsense. We can use these techniques even when "inputs" are somewhat subjective. They point is to separate the boring mechanical parts from the interesting parts.

This type of argument is the same as the people arguing types are bad because they alone don't ensure program correctness. They don't need to. They take care of the boring bits freeing up the mind to think about the interesting parts.
But 2021 Montana is significantly different to 2019 Montana. For just one change, the entrances to Yellowstone are closed. So there aren't even the same jobs available, think of all the tourist facing positions that aren't needed. Even if the employment rate was the same, you'd have to assume that the working population had changed along with the jobs available.
Am I a cyborg now? (2012)
The main reason global poverty is at a historic low is that China has lifted a record number of people out of extreme poverty. On the other hand, the Middle East has become more impoverished, especially in Yemen and Syria, where the US has been instrumental in destabilization: "These numbers confirm a downward trend in poverty rates in East Asia and the Pacific, reducing the poverty headcount ratio at the international poverty line from 2.1% in 2015 to 1.0 % in 2019, driven by decreases in poverty in China and the Philippines. In contrast, spurred by the conflicts in Yemen and Syria, the Middle East and North Africa region has seen a sharp reversal, with the poverty rate increasing from around 2.1% in 2013 to 4.3% in 2015 and 7% in 2018." Source: https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/march-2021-global-pover...
I think there were ways for the Soviet Union to have gone away that didn’t involve Russia (and to varying extents, the other states) becoming the kleptocracy it is now.
It seems like it would depend on the details. In your example, I might agree that there is net harm to the world. But in other cases, and maybe Jeff's, the harm done by working on ads may be more than offset by the lives saved.

Since Jeff is a thoughtful guy and this is important to him, I'm inclined to think that he is producing net good. If you can convince him otherwise, he'd probably change what he's doing.
"But in some other areas, law leaves little room for interpretation, and essentially aims to rigorously describe a computation, a decision procedure or, simply said, an algorithm."

I would love to know what these areas are. There I'd debate around all sorts of seemingly little things in the law, like a definition or a word being singular. On top of that you have "discretion" built in and highly utilized with the judge, cop, and especially the prosecutor.

We already have legal algorithms for sentencing, alimony, child support, etc. These are widely decried as terrible. Why would we want more?
I don't like pathologizing behavior over the internet, but I think certain traits (or symptoms) like hypergraphia[1] influence such websites, giving them an unintentional horror vacui[2] aesthetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraphia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui
It's slightly mystifying they haven't done one already (and yes I know he wants people to buy and hold). This share is very... special in causing these problems and I'm actually surprised NYSE didn't make them do it some time ago.
I think it is you who doesn't know what the word expound means.
50k person years of work represented in the code bases and up, as an approximation. Big enough that to do the work you'll have to coordinate across multiple departments with different incentives for multiple years to get the transition made.
Is it not the t̪? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_consonant
Yep. For me in Minnesota that’s $850 a week, so over $21 an hour for a 40 hour work week. I’m not sure how anyone even approaching minimum wage is supposed to compete with that.
Buy the S&P 500 and save yourself a lot of time trying to pick industries.
Maybe it did. But it was the boot drive and soldered to the motherboard. So the OS would need to write to it and there’s no way to get the data off in a third-party manner. That’s kind of the big issue.
> A sample of 167 emerging adults (ages 18-24; 71.3% female) with iPhones participated in the study.

BYU University is a Mormon university. I assume students there have a rather healthy sleep routine in general.
Do it in Tibet, and you get 5000ft (out of 35000) for free!
While I personally agree with you when it comes to YT advertising which at times could not be more irrelevant, Google search ads and Facebook/Instagram ads seem to be the place where most money is spend. And in case of Google search the whole thing is basically a prisoners dilemma. You and your competitors are probably among the first results for the relevant keywords anyway and could save a lot on advertising if none of you advertised. But once a single competitor starts buying ads the whole sector has to move until the expense on Google ads is equal to the former profit margin. This in turn leads to monopolization as only the competitor with the highest profit margin at baseline will still be making a profit. It’s hard to believe that Google pushing its apps and a single search/navigation bar on users is but an attempt to get businesses to pay for results they would already rank pretty well for, thereby diverting the profit of entire industries to Google and not offering any benefits to users.
Nice to see more people building these. Another youtuber building these is Will Prowse. You may find his version may have less soldering. [1] Just use a bigger battery to get the same Kwh. Here is a smaller version. [2]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ypDwMYO1rU 3.5KWH

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFLYIlCwE6w 640WH
I've had a novel idea from years ago. For the most part, there is no security on mega yachts. Moreover, they hire random people to wash them and maintain them. It's nothing to gain access to the all the electronics in the cave under the wheelhouse.

So, the novel idea is this, a bunch of kids from MIT or CalTech or where ever decide to bug yachts. They get unassuming jobs as deckhands and stewards to give themselves time to install devices like this DIY boat monitoring system along with microphones behind all the panelling around the yachts which are owned by CEOs of major companies. More or less, the device caches all the audio recordings and waits for the ship to enter a marina where it connects to wifi and sends the information home. They are looking for stock trading information, mostly. They are in the Caribbean maybe in St. Martin and overhear some nasty things by the Russian mafia. Someone made a mistake and they get caught. That's the beginning. The rest of the novel is a bunch of nerdy kids having to MacGyver their way out of the Caribbean while being chased by the most powerful and dangerous people on Earth.
NY: Broadband cos paid for 8.5M fake net neutrality comments
This is a great interfact and perfect for learning the IPA system (perhaps as part of a linguistics course?).

It would be nice to extend this, perhaps on a different page, to examples from specific languages. That would fill in some missing parts---long and short vowels, nasal vowels, and diphthong---and also show the vowels within a specific context. I have these for a few languages and will try to reach out to the author in case they are interested in collaborating.
The problem is, people are using solely what3words for location. Every single call recording to emergency services doesn't use any other information.

The odds are around 1 in 24 that you hit one of these squares in London.
Right. . . but, way up at the start of this, you specifically called out using associative arrays for all your data. And what I'm saying is that, while that's absolutely true, it's also technically an orthogonal question from whether you're working in a dynamic or static language.

Yes, sure, we can say that no true Scotsman would use a static language that way. But I think that's maybe missing the point. If you can dismiss this practice in static languages by just saying, "Well, maybe you shouldn't do that," why not also apply the same dismissal to dynamic languages?

That said, there's a specific subset of dynamic languages that make it more difficult to do your domain modeling any other way. Clojure and JavaScript belong in this group. I'm not sure of other examples. Basically, if the type system has been set up such that everything is either a map or a glorified map, you aren't left with a whole lot of other options. But not every dynamic language does that.

In Python, for example, I always use dataclasses for data. As long as I'm being good about this, I don't actually need to explicitly write unit tests to verify that types are being handled properly. MyPy's got my back. And, even if I'm not using it, unit tests for covering actual behavior will typically blow up with a type error in about the same amount of time that it takes a static language's compiler to detect one.
Which could possibly explain the complaints from German OpenStreetMap community that map errors reported by Amazon drivers to Amazon OSM mapping team are sometimes nonsensical (i.e. ignoring signed restrictions).
I don't know why this was downvoted. I live in a fairly developed suburb outside DC and when I get on top of my building all I see for miles outside of the tiny mall I live in are trees, parking lots, and max 2 story (usually 1) buildings. Most of the US is even less dense than this and it's largely due to ridiculous zoning.
Do you really need to stay a full month?

I thought people would fly, get the shot, then fly back home until it's time to get the second one. Otherwise it seems like it would be very expensive, might need to go back to work, etc.
If that's an intentional pun, it's terribly witty and I love you.
> However a sufficiently determined evil crate

Nothing really can stop a truly determined bad actor completely, but I don’t think that was GP’s point, rather that it’s good to easily know the potential risk you are exposing yourself to with your dependencies in a practical sense.
> The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models: / Paywalls. You pay with your money. / Ads. You pay with your attention.

There's also the alternative-which-must-not-be-named,
which is non-regressive and frictionless: socialism.
You pay with money, through taxes.
static const char countrycodes[514];
return countrycodes[i * 2];

Err... each of the strings is 3 bytes long.
I've found I constantly want to build off of an existing c or c++ library, so I need unsafe. I'm much less experienced than the people's code I'm using, and I'm generally fine with "Rust protects against me, if the lib authors screwed up then bad things happen".
17-Year Cicadas: The Periodical Hatch Explained