skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the roots of the technology came from PA Semi, which was founded with big names who had a long tradition and experience in the industry. They specialized in high performance power efficient processors for embedded, which happens to fit very well with what smartphones need. But their very first design (a PowerPC front end, before Apple bought them) was already quite impressive.

Strap a lot of cash and volume behind that after they get bought, and the results speak for themselves. There is no shame in it. Intel has been stumbling at the moment, but others were stumbling in the decade from Core 2 to Skylake.
Sorry, but you can't speak for the scientific community. The scientific community is varied, and has a plurality of voices.

Without wanting to be rude, this kind of rhetoric feels closer in spirit to the kind of lobbying that might be associated with an industry body.
They have an enforcement division. I’ve always heard if you start a pirate radio station with a bit too much signal, it’s only a matter of time before two agents come tell you to knock it off.

https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement
> Now phones/tablets let people say 'that video is cool, let's make one.'

The problem is that outside of certain subjects, video is a time-inefficient and low-information-density medium. So many things could be conveyed in fuller form, and in a way more respectful of people’s time, by using text. Unfortunately, the use of phones as default devices by many people today young and old discourages longform text, due to the limitations of tiny touch keyboards and screens. That is my own feeling of unease with the way tech is today.

In some niche travel scenes, I have seen a big decline in meaty, useful information since the early millennium, when a blogger generally had a laptop to type on. Sure, now we get glamorous video content, but that can’t be all there is.
There are two main things incentivising me against using it as a form of payment.

1) Purchases with Bitcoin are a capital gains tax event. Or they might be? I can't be arsed figuring that out. It's hard to blame Bitcoin for this one.

2) There are not enough things that I am conveniently able to purchase with bitcoin for me to go full bitcoin (e.g. accepting salary payments in bitcoin)... This is a network effect thing. Every alternate payment system has to solve this problem.

1 is a massive barrier to solving 2. Regulatory environment needs to be fixed first.
Thanks for letting us know, we'll take a look at it!!
I doubt it’s not happening.

To what extent, and if leadership knows and directs it are real questions.
Great great job!
This project reminds me why I could never become an independent developer. Luckily I give up on becoming one 2 months ago.
I can be running around my block waving at people. Someone may be paying me $16bn per year to do this.

The fact that this is a "$16bn effort" doesn't make it useful.

Also consider that if this is a "$16bn effort" the loss is multiple of that. Think of the advertisers (and their clients money), the effort to discard/recycle this garbage etc.

The loss for humanity is greater than $16bn.

Is this 'type of business' is to be eliminated, then USPS will drop the respective fraction of their use-less resources (staff, trucks, sorting machines, etc.).
Respectfully, your company is a real estate scam.
That 3% you're referring to is 5.5 billion dollars, which easily justifies canvas usage. I don't personally see the connection between google docs and ads, but I think this analysis is misleading.
There aren't many pairs of mainstream languages that really interoperate well together. C and C++ do, which can blur the lines a bit. Not sure if this is what the author meant.

With rust growing in popularity and good interoperability, I suspect we'll see the rise of projects written in C/Rust and C++/Rust, and maybe even C/C++/Rust. The line will obviously be more clear because of dramatically different syntax, packaging, build system, etc.
Are you implying that men in tech in the Bay Area don’t find their jobs exhausting? There are posts by men from the Bay Area talking about burn out on HN every day.

Now imagine you are a woman in an industry dominated by men, a significant portion of whom make sly, lightly veiled sexist comments (like yours seems to be) all the time. Wouldn’t that make it even more exhausting than it is for the men?
Yeah, but the ultimate WFH experience I've ever had was consulting for someone who needed a UI to control a large motion system. I lived about 300 miles away, so we set up a remote PC connected to the system, along with a camera and Teamviewer.

That way I could code from the comfort of my home and watch the axes (this was for a CAT scanner big enough for a horse) move and make sure I didn't ram anything against the physical stops. Plus it was helpful to make sure no one had their hands in the mechanism before I started telling large servomotors to move around.

It worked really well as long as they remembered to leave the lights on before they went home for the day.

The fun I had almost made up for my ridiculously low bid!
I really despise the term "inclusivity". This guy seems like a prick but I wish companies would be honest about what they are doing. "Inclusivity" means getting everyone to subscribe to a narrow corporate worldview. "Diversity" is similar, it's not about diversity of thought or experience, but rather of immutable characteristics which have no inherent value.

I was recently asked to participate in a "community diversity and inclusivity survey". Not one question was concerned with freedom of expression or diversity of thought. It seems immutable characteristics are of paramount importance, or rather cynically, perhaps just the optics of their proportions are a valuable commodity. In a corporate setting neither inclusivity or diversity are at all what they purport to be.
> Now healthy people with a fraction of a percent risk of hospitalization, much less death, act like agoraphobes - apparently willing to do so indefinitely.

If someone wants to be an agoraphobe, they can do so. But what bugs me is that these newly-minted agoraphobes seem to treat their agoraphobia with the same fervor and source of moral purity as a religion. To speak the heresy that one might have some control over what existential dangers await beyond one's front door is met with the same screeching panic that would follow suggesting all pre-pubescent children should be required to participate in satanic sex orgies. By refusing to be (as much as) a victim, you are an active threat to all that is good and true in the world.

I like to joke that I don't go outside because the day star is trying to kill me with radiation burns. And then I laugh at my silliness, put on sunscreen, and go outside anyway. But imagine being scolded by someone that, your not-easily-burning darker skin be damned, because you don't think you need sunscreen, you are the reason their dearest grandmother died of skin cancer. All the while recording you with their phone so the whole Internet will know that you, a science-denying anti-sunscreener, are also a killer-of-grandmas.

It's kinda like that.
This guy really had John Q. Public thinking he is one of them
You mean changing your mind? The similarity to politicians is because he attracts the same attention politicians do. It's not the politician that's the same, it's the polity.
Payment channels, in traditional sense, are fully collateralized credit. I suggested to leave collateralization ratio up to users themselves. Some could have 100% collateral, some 0%, some 50% etc.

Rejection reason: unclear, doesn't fit the narrative.
<raises hand>
Two EVs, electric oven, refrigerator, air conditioning here...
We installed solar when we moved in but would need massive storage to handle peak loads "locally" at our house.
I think many are too quick to crucify the guy after reading a few quotes. I mean, I can see how some of those comments may be construed as misogynistic, but I would need to read the whole book to understand the context, and I'll definitely not pass judgement before doing that.
Yep, not long before that it when plants were shutting down temporary or reducing output. Then summer always pushes the prices up a bit too.
> the constant CC'ing

Isn't this exactly like adding/mentioning someone in a chat room? Problem is that in a chat room all communication is public and you're seeing/getting notified of every single small message. This is hugely inefficient. For e-mails, one can define filters to park e-mails where you're on CC to read later. You don't have this flexibility with Chat/Slack - the tool defines much more how you should be reading the incoming stream of messages.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27136279

:-)
Another suggestion:

The main problem I see is that it doesn't show any of the post when you are not logged in. Reddit an HN show the post to attract lurkers. Hopefully lurkers become users.

It will be very hard to convince people to sing up if they can't see the posts.
C++ also happen to use the term zero-cost abstractions along with RAII since 2011 but

Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-cost Abstractions”

You can watch and see what they really are. I bet this is true for Rust as-well.
Use the engine of iTerm instead? It's GPL2. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
Similarly, my understanding is that the TreeStyleTab extension was forced to migrate in the same manner and it can get very sluggish as well when you have a lot of tabs open.
What is the runtime performance cost of a Docker container?
0 that scale better? XRP performs better at scale and I don’t believe for a second Bitcoin is anymore decentralized.

That being said, I don’t know enough about the security aspect - so your claim may end up being correct!
I'm not disagreeing with this, especially the social aspects, although I would point out:

> Your colleagues... even send you work messages when on the go.

> Your landlord will communicate via Whatsapp, including sending you utility bills to pay.

> The person you want to buy second-hand stuff from communicates via Whatsapp. The real estate agent trying to find you a place to live will send proposals by Whatsapp.

In each of these examples, the other party has something to gain (a client; a bill payment; offloading some work; etc.), which I'd wager is enough to tolerate the minor inconvenience of sending an SMS/email.
There is at least monero, bitcoin cash and ethereum. Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum both have more transactions than bitcoin already. Ethereum has four times the transaction throughput. Bitcoin Cash has 32x the max block size. There is no technical reason bitcoin could not increase their max block size, but then there would be no reason for their hacky second layer to exist.

The only way what you are saying makes sense is if you decide to for some reason define security as "bitcoin's hashing and has rate".

No one is doing any sort of mining attacks on bitcoin cash, monero or ethereum.

Like the "lightning network" the only way to pretend it is necessary is to pretend it solves a made up problem.
Ah I was a little unclear. Edited. I meant that free-for-all relaying is a thing of the past.
The argument is a relative one. It isn't that these mid-level person and high-level intelligence people aren't quite different in many ways ... it is that relative to non-human standards of intelligence, they are likely relatively close (say within an order of magnitude of capability).

Here is a much better summary of the argument:

https://aiimpacts.org/is-the-range-of-human-intelligence-sma...
> Makes no sense. Numerous articles document Bitcoin's energy sources, which are often hydroelectric due to its low cost.

It's so easy to assert and so comforting to believe, but is it true?

Just in this thread alone there are two articles already, one from the Financial Times, one from ARS Technica, which say the opposite. And personally, it's hard for me to believe that people who are keen on maximizing profits in pretty much its purest form--cryptocurrencies are literally burning resources for money, directly--would not take the opportunity to take whatever energy source is available in order to convert the generated energy into money in their bank account or crypto wallet.

At astronomically low efficiency, too. Because in proof of work, all calculations per block are entirely wasted... until the very last one where you managed to hit the right hash.
The soil isn’t good. It’s all bio mass so they burn, grow or graze and move on. It’s slash and burn.
Funny just yesterday I was going to put a letter in the mailbox on the street that I had marked this way when I saw the postman. I asked him if I should give it to him or put it in the box, he said, "It doesn't matter we just throw it away."
> Can't do that anymore, and it's only partially because the components don't exist, but because everything is so much more complicated you have to specialize in it to get much done.

As a tuner, this reads strangely. I've rebuilt my ABS disc brakes and ECU tuning has been a thing for decades. People are building 300hp Saabs in their garages with open source software.
It's better explained in solidity:

https://github.com/homakov/xlncontracts/blob/main/contracts/...

it is withdrawn from a special intermediary "reserve" balance OR a Debt is created on this identity.
If Euro/USD goes down by few basis points would one stop selling cars priced in euro?

Btc swings can be +/-20% a day, so not exactly a great comparison.

Also currency hedging is a thing that many companies employ to normalize profits. I’m sure there’s a BTC equivalent for this but the volatility would make it unreliable most likely
More important is that you have to do it before a response can be deployed.
I would say that if you care about good LFS support, that is a sufficient reason to use Mercurial. Harder to find Mercurial hosting these days, though, but I'm not worried that the Mercurial project will die off (since both Facebook and Google use it, in some manner).
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, that seems completely unrelated. Definitely an interesting talk though.
Except they also had 2? Billion in Bitcoin holdings. So the float up and down had an impact?
Going by this..

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/13920301082741596...

.. one could be forgiven for thinking that Tesla might have bought a lot of Dogecoin in the last quarter.

I guess it’s not manipulation if the market isn’t regulated?

but thats none of my business
I used to run american fuzzy lop on consumer dual-channel motherboards, and got about a 6x speedup from a 16-core Ryzen setup.

Are these cloud instances running on 40-channel ram motherboards ? Otherwise isn't it wasteful to have 80 cpu's on a single socket ?
It Tesla believes that Bitcoin is environmentally unfriendly, the logical thing to do is to sell all of its coins, as a lower price will lead to a lower level of mining intensity.
My issue was "/" and I'd be fine if he had used "C, C++" or "C & C++"
This is true, but that's not the only post I had on the subject, just the earliest one. Anyway, I gave up on btc and now implementing xln on eth https://github.com/homakov/xlncontracts/blob/main/contracts/...
> Fukushima is going to release the waste water into the sea

So a bunch of nuclear scientists did a calculation and the results sound scary. And Korea is using it as a political tool. Japan and Korea are at each other all the time, though this may not be common knowledge to Westerners. But if you need a sniff test for this to pass, remember that you can go swimming in a nuclear reactor and people actually do, as many may have learned from the XKCD What If[0]. So just take that story and add a ton more water and add convection so the distribution becomes far less homogeneous. It should pass your sniff test now.

[0] https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
Well, if you want to go down the rabbit hole of causation, there is very little you can say definitely, as proving causation is practically impossible. So you can never say what caused any disease. Having said that, most diseases are multifactorial in origin, with cells mostly having multiple insults to lead to cancer- both on an individual cell and cell population basis. For types of cancer associated with smoking (like non adenocarcinomas of the lung), its likely that smoking contributed to at least one of the insults causing a cell to undergo metaplasia/dysplasia or become cancerous, or statistically would be likely to lead to that cancer on a cell population basis.
I think what probably happened is these people (real or bots) posted on every major influencer and liked each other's posts to get them to the top of the posts.

Which is very similar to what a spam bot ring would do.
Why is the only world where OP created this project one of great sacrifice? You mention the code quality; is it not possible OP is simply highly talented from years on the job and this product actually didn't require polish and refinement constantly, OP simply is a better programmer than most?

Your post has a sad undertone, one that it feels like you are trying to apply to OP in order to justify not achieving the heights others have. Some people are insanely good at things. Most people are barely good at anything. Don't think of OP as a bastion of despair, reframe the project as an achievement and I believe you will feel better.
Individuals are subjected to "alternative minimum tax". Why not corporations?
Why the change happens now? My speculation is internal pressure from employees who don't want to accept the externalities.
> When Bitcoin does work, it's in situations in which those making the payment have few other options. They're blocked from taking credit card payments or interacting with the banking system. It's easy to dismiss those use cases, but they're real.

Bitcoin works remarkably well for shady activities. Ransomware payments, human trafficking, blackmarket dealing, drug smuggling, money laundering, and other illegal activities are worth mentioning.
I mean you can pull up the numbers for yourself if you don't believe me, people have also done the math themselves [1][2].

1: https://preview.redd.it/c21qium7jyr61.png?width=1113&format=...

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/mmstrt/i_bo...
I use compilers other than GCC more often than I use architectures other than x86_64 or aarch64. Using a GCC built-in is less of a good fit for me than using a small .s file in my project. YMMV.
Flip flopping is changing your mind, or your decision once its on record. The fact that we're calling it flip flopping just means that we're thinking of Musk in the same terms we think of a politician.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135776
They may have lowered prices back down due to lack of customers with COVID precautions still in place.

However beef prices can be somewhat regional. Where I am anything other than ground beef is mostly still at least $2/lb more than usual. Ground beef is it a little more than usual.
The paper published says they used RNNs to decode handwriting. Similar research from what seems to be the same team used ReFIT Kalman filter around 2011, but this approach looks to produce better results.
So Musk didn't know about the environmental impacts before? There's no way to trust someone who can't even research for 5 minutes before making this kind of decision...
Great, let's bring Bitcoin down to ~$200 or whatever it's actual value is.
The author of the article is a Mercurial maintainer, and Mercurial has the "real thing" implemented already (and it has been part of Mercurial since at least 2012, at least in some form). So it's already done, just not for Git.
Tetris for Game Boy Gets Online Multiplayer
I use stow as well, highly recommended!
Being part of that scientific community, having gone to many lectures on the subject, having personally sat down and having beers with these friends, I think I can make that claim.

Also, if you don't believe me you can just fact check me. Search the internet. Attend a public talk, there's tons! I appreciate the skepticism, but your basis of doubt is that you don't like what I have to say rather than having some other reason to not believe me.

So yes, I would say you are being rude. Especially considering you are calling me a lobbyist. I used to work in radiation shielding and no longer do. I even used to work with the DOE. But I'm not even tied to those things anymore. Seriously, just go talk to some actual scientists. We love to talk about our research.
I find it shocking that only few people appear to understand why it makes no sense to talk about mining “transitioning to more sustainable energy”. Even here on hn.
> I have a belief that human ingenuity will be able to generate truly clean power.

There's no such thing as truly clean power. Even renewables have huge environmental consequences. Hydro floods huge areas of land[1]. Renewables and batteries require huge sums of metals to be mined[2]. Solar and wind also take up huge sums of land that could otherwise be left alone. Everything has trades offs, there's no reason nuclear cant be one more tool in the tool shed.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/09/canada-site-c-...

[2]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/electric-vehicles-drive-up-...
Point taken, but to be clear: bias doesn't imply racism, no matter how hard you might want it to.
Also,

"Lack of Object-Orientation was a concern"

Whenever you port a big program to another language it is important to be conservative, in my view. You don't want to make so many structural changes in the way things work in the original codebase while porting things over. You risk things becoming very confusing and the port could fail. In future iterations you could definitely make things more idiomatic in the target language.

As far as Rust is concerned, it does not have traditional OO features. But by using the Deref/DerefMut trait specifically and traits in general I was able to recover and mimic a lot of OO behaviors present in rr in rd.

The rd code may not always be beautiful.

FYI,

Rust had a GC also Classes in it's initial versions but they were removed for some reason!!!
A funny thing for Elon Musk to do would be:

Tesla Inc. buys some Bitcoin.

Tesla announces that Bitcoin is good now and that it bought some.

The price of Bitcoin goes up, because institutional adoption of Bitcoin is good for its price, but also because, by the Elon Markets Hypothesis, anything that Musk buys goes up.

Tesla sells some Bitcoin, making a profit.

Musk tweets that the price of Bitcoin is too high.
Bitcoin prices go down due to the Elon Markets Hypothesis.

Go to Step 1.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-22/electr...
Tesla stops taking Bitcoin payments for vehicles over climate concerns
> Hamas is the political party that current controls the Gaza Strip and is widely recognized to be a terrorist organization. Among other things, the first actions Hamas took after seizing power in the Gaza Strip included killing leaders from other Palestinian political parties.

Yitzhak Segev, once the Israeli military governor of Gaza, funded Ahmed Yassin and encouraged antagonism in him against secular Palestinian political forces.

It's funny for Israel to fund the founding of Hamas, encourage Muslim religious antagonism against more internationally appealing secular Palestinian figures, and then turn around and whinge about the people that they bankrolled. Hamas was bankrolled by Israel and its no secret.

Working people around the world know this and stand in support of Ahmad Sa'adat and other Palestinians to live free of the barbarism and tyranny Zionism is inflicting on them right now.
If TSLA has already dumped their Bitcoin, Elon just pulled off a highly lucrative pump and dump scheme.

1. Buy $1.5 billion in BTC

2. Announce TSLA will accept BTC, with the knowledge that very few people will actually do that, and public support from a major company will drive up the price of BTC.

3. Sell off your BTC at the higher price. A portion was sold in Q1 for a hefty profit already.

4. Rinse and repeat with DOGE?

The environmental impact was well known before they bought it, so it's a little odd that they'd reverse course because of that.