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That's nothing!

I too did not invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos. But I also did not invent Sabrositas! In fact, I can supply you with a very long list of unhealthy, unhygienic, and even actively toxic junk foods I did not invent. We need not delve into the worlds of trans fatty acids, glucose-to-fructose conversion enzymes, or other current public-health disasters which I have had no hand in -- many of which I don't even know about.
I automate a lot of AutoCAD with Lisp, C++ and Python.

The two biggest things Ive built for with this tech is a multithreaded scripting engine using Qt, Lisp and acoreconsole, and a search engine for Autocad files that searches our entire CAD library for strings, etc.

Between these two applications, Ive saved my last company thousands and thousands of man hours.

I left because they didn't care.
I don't know if we can conclusively say what specific action needs to be taken other than halt contact. We were on an extremely bad path, and I don't know what else could have been done since we had little vaccine supply at that time.
I made an app called Elsewhere to help me gather my notes about putting a trip together. https://elsewhere.thomasstep.com/

I recently started building Green Things because I wanted to get into gardening more. My plan is to be able to suggest plants to grow based on location and companion planting. https://green-things.thomasstep.com/
You try another connection (after some timeout)?
Or you start N requests in parallel and then pick the first response?
Judges have tremendous amounts of discretionary power when carrying out the law, and a good judge certainly isn't going to just give up because the identity of one party isn't immediately known. The example already given of ordering that the transaction be reversed on the network (even if that involves compelling uninvolved people to cooperate with the process) is entirely plausible.
Was that true in his time, or has it changed as result of the frequent reforms that have occurred over the past century?
Microsoft board members opened investigation into Bill Gates
I think you can summarize the go flavour of "readability" as:

Fewer constructs for the price of higher Signal-to-Noise ratio.

Go eschews almost any kind of syntactic sugar that might be unfamiliar to you.

The endemic "if err != return err" issue is also highly indicative of this choice.

I really find that quite hard to stomach. For small apps, this can be acceptable, but for any Go app that gets large enough, this trade-off becomes untenable. You have to scan through too much visual noise to get a clear understanding what the code is doing.
I thought this recent Hackaday article did a good job putting the current Chernobyl situation in perspective: https://hackaday.com/2021/05/14/increased-neutron-levels-at-...

edit: submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27179475
> UBI creates no money. It just redistributes it a little. It doesn't devalue the currency, and isn't inflationary.

"Creating" money is not a well-defined thing and is not what causes inflation. In fact, inflation is complex and not well understood but what we know is that it is driven by people's incomes (a flow) not the size of monetary aggregates (which are a stock). In fact you can run the whole economy with only a single dollar or with trillions of dollars, and as long as incomes are unchanged there isn't going to be any inflation as you switch between these two regimes of many slow dollars or a single fast dollar. That said, there are some channels by which UBI can lead to inflation:

* If you take money from someone with a lower propensity to spend and give it to someone with a higher propensity to spend, then this creates inflationary pressures.

* If you give someone enough money so they drop out of the labor market or reduce their hours, then this can cause inflation

* The heavy taxes may discourage employment as well -- why work if half your income is taken away if you can do nothing and have the necessities of life provided.

Whether or not these factors actually cause inflation and how much is an unknown. It's certainly not obvious that it wont, and there is reason to believe that it will. Merely the statement that "no new dollars are created" has no bearing on whether it is inflationary or deflationary.

Unfortunately small experiments in a city or two is not going to answer this question. An entire nationwide experiment for a few decades will answer it, but by then we could have a society in which a large chunk of the population simply refuses to work and as a result is unfit for any kind of productive employment. That's the risk with a real UBI - what happens two or three generations on down the road if the culture shifts so that people expect the necessities of life to be given to them without producing anything in return. The risk is to the productive capacity of society as a whole, and to large swaths of it that need to learn important life lessons in order to become productive members of society.
Holders of Bitcoin want to see the price go up, which makes the problem worse. So the primary incentive is very bad and that's how we got here.

More enlightened self-interest would be to want to see the price go up without using more electricity, but this is secondary to the primary incentive.

To get action from enlightened self-interest, there needs to be leadership for making changes. (Ethereum seems to have this?)
California has container deposits but as a consumer they’re impossible to get refunded. So while in Germany and Norway you’d take your bottles and cans back to the supermarket to return for credit, in CA we put them in the recycling bin and homeless folks come along and empty your recycling bins on bin night to collect any bottles and cans which they then sell to a middleman with a truck who sells them back to the one deposit return location in the city that will accept them.
Japan to develop passenger spaceships linking world's major cities in 2 hours
Increased Neutron Levels at Chernobyl-4: How Dangerous Is Corium?
>How confidently can you associate cause and effect here?

You cannot. It depends if you’re buying commodified labor and selling commodity products. Walmart and McDonalds franchisees are not going to see much difference other than higher labor expenses and reduced sales due to higher prices at competitors.
Leave and go where else in software testing in Japan? Based on the article they are paying a lot more than other software testing companies. Also, if they are paying people well and treating them well, a sizable chunk would like to continue even if the salary increases dwindle as long as they are not underpaid compared to the market. I also think that Japanese culture would inspire more loyalty to well paying, well treating companies compared to SV.
I find it ironic that you call me a "science denialist" when 1) There is plenty of research to support my argument (and I cited it), and 2) To be fair I gave both positive and negative examples (to show that there is some support of correlation but that it is overall weak).

In contrast, you 1) Declare anything that disagrees with you as "simply false" despite the evidence, 2) Lash out and declare me a "science denialist", and 3) To prove your point you link to the College Board, which is the company that MAKES MONEY off of the SAT test. That's like telling someone that Crest toothpaste is the best, because the Crest website said they did a study showing their toothpaste is the best, and that is science.
SQLite's FTS5 also has experimental support for trigram indexing[0], which is quite nice for having substring matches instead of just whole-token matches with LIKE and GLOB syntax.

No support yet for regexp searches over trigram indexes, though, unfortunately (Postgres has this.) I personally think that much more expressive indexed search syntax (more so than just regexp, even) is going to be the future and am actively working on a search engine in Zig for this purpose.

[0] https://sqlite.org/fts5.html#the_experimental_trigram_tokeni...
I've written a bit of code in Go, and the problem I have with it is primarily it feels really outdated for a "modern" language - every time I use it I feel like I'm dealing with something written by someone who really hated Java in 2005. There are features that could be added to the language that would make it more readable and less error-prone without compromising the simplicity of the core language. Generics are the famous example, but the one that really gets me is the the lack of nullable type signatures. This is a great way to avoid an entire class of bugs that nearly every modern language I've used has evolved a solution for except Go.

Another issue I have is the reliance on reflection. In general, I think if you have to rely on reflection to do something, that usually means you're working around some inherent limitation in the normal language - and the resulting code is often far less readable than the code would be in a more expressive language. Lots of Go libraries and frameworks are forced to use it in a lot of cases because there's just no other way to express some really basic things without it.

I really want to like Go. There's a lot I like - the "only one way to do something" approach means that code always feels consistent. Errors as values is a far superior approach to exceptions. I had to write some for a job interview project a while back and it felt really refreshing, but every time I try to use it for a personal project, I don't feel like I'm getting anything out of it that I couldn't get out of say, Rust, or modern, typed Python.
>If I set up a shop in the USA, can I not dictate what I sell there and under what terms?

You can if I can easily set up a store next to you. Selling more of less the same stuff.

By your analogy USA currently only has two store, App Store and Google Play. And there are no third store allowed. Setting up a third platform is literally creating another State to join the US federation.
Oh no! A person had access to the package box where USPS leaves packages for people to pick up themselves, with a key they are supposed to have for this purpose! Sound the alarm!
You can assume electronic voting machines were compromised.
Netflix doesn't even allow In-App Sign up on iOS.
From what I've seen, this article may be truthful but still misleading. On clustered mailboxes, the doors labeled 1p,2p,...,np are used for storing incoming packages, there's no access to outgoing mail.
I built https://www.dreamlist.com for my family. I had to make it simple, so my grandparents can use it; and private + completely ads-free, so it’s safe for our kids. It started as a collaborative shopping cart and wish list, but I’m growing it into a shared searchable brain bridge across generations. Grandparents can share and collect stories and memories, kids can share and collect things they want to do next, parents can turn wishes into more memories, etc. I love building it (Golang, JS) and every day I get some new delightful piece of feedback from a user that has done something fun with their DreamList (often use cases I didn’t know existed). It feels like a growing a child that makes you proud.
> point is we don't necessarily have great data on which precautions work better than others

We actually do, though, and it's preventing close contact of non-household members and preventing sharing enclosed spaces with non-household members for long periods of time.

People spread the virus before they even know they're sick, and a subset of sick people either need to go to work despite being sick, or they just don't care.
Ethereum's original logic bomb was set to trigger in 2017. Then later it was updated to trigger in 2017. And then later it was updated to trigger in 2018, and then 2020, and currently I believe it's set to trigger in 2022.

But there's no political reason to believe that they won't just push it out again. It's just a ceremony at this point.
My index fingers are longer on palm side but ring fingers are longer on back side.

I do have a lot of anxiety, I am not muscular but rather skinny fat. I am also attracted to yoga, running, swimming, etc instead of more manly sports like football or even soccer. I do lift weights though. Another funny thing, I tend to really enjoy games in which you play as female character like Tomb Raider and if a game let you pick your gender, I tend to pick female. Outside of video games, I have no desire to dress as a female.

Based on these traits it does seems I have "wrong" ratio.
I started writing blog-like text entries in my .plan file in the mid 80s, so others could use finger in UNIX and read what I was thinking.

I later learnt HTML just so I could keep writing my thoughts. I lost content, I got spam, I had to learn to defend myself when the Internet became aggressive. It wasn't like that early on. We believed it was for the betterment of humankind. I know, how naive.

I went through the "Wordpress phase", the static phase (Pelican, then Hugo) but I ultimately decided to define what I wanted to share, and I realized few people really cared about long writings, but rather, the nitty gritty. So I chose to use the Zettlekasten model where I focus on specifics, narrow, single-topic. I chose TiddlyWiki (the Drift distribution specifically), and I have two files, one public, one private. As simple as that. My default is public. If I have a thought, learning, recipe, experience, anything that could be useful to anyone else, I put it on the public file. Otherwise, it goes in the private. As simple as that.

And thanks to CloudFlare's JS compression, the whole thing works great for me. https://ramirosalas.com
It's a tool that can be very helpful for describing the logistics of travel.

Depending on where you are and the context of the conversation, knowing that something is fifteen miles away might tell you shockingly little about the experience of getting there. There are places where that distance in one direction might take hours, but in another direction minutes. As you might imagine, this can be important to know.
Why not take up some trade? Electrician, carpenter, mechanic, etc?

These days, the tradesmen are the invisible millionaires. In the time it takes to get another degree you would be fully qualified and on the way to being an independent contractor.
If the coin's point is to become valuable to the point that people want it to trade it, then a PoW coin does have to require more overall compute power to crunch the numbers on the ever-increasing amount of transactions that might be attempting to double-spend on the chain. This is all because of PoW's lack of focus on efficiency when there is that much demand and that many transactions happening at once. Electricity, hardware, and profitability are all externalities that are the result by the amount of usage of a PoW coin, not the cause of it.

> When a coin spikes in value, the profitability goes up so more miners join in. A single PC would have enough processing power to run the bitcoin network.

well, yes, but then a single miner could and would control the entire network since 'why would any give up their compute power for free to ensure the network is not being hit by double-spend attacks, when someone else is already doing it'. The whole point of a PoW coin having huge fees and thus returns for the miners is to incentivize a decentralized ledger. I don't think Satoshi intended for it to eventually consolidate into just a few huge mining companies which theoretically could perform a double-spend attack, but it's not something that could have been protected against with a few more if statements (although, if this happened, the coin would tank in value, which is probably the inherit safeguard).
Then you have downtime. If the downtime is small enough, then the trade-off can be worthwhile.
I didn't mean it in a derogatory way.

I was just trying to say it in even more plain terms - because this whole thread was full of people who seemingly have no idea about how AVs are being approached today and are, as is usual for HN, suggesting they are smarter than the actual people working on the technology.
How can efficiency increase in a way that decreases energy use?

Let's say a new ASIC comes out that mines twice as efficiently, i.e. 2x less energy per calculation. Because miners can now afford to run twice the amount of ASICs on the same energy budget, this means that eventually miners are mining twice as fast.

The network however needs to keep the block rate constant (6 blocks per hour in Bitcoin), so it counteracts by adjusting the difficulty. In this case, mining a block becomes twice as difficult. In summary, everyone has now twice the amount of ASICs consuming the same amount of energy, still mining at 6 blocks per hour.

The misconception is that the "work" in "proof-of-work" is meaningful by itself. It is actually not, it is a lottery whose probability to win is adjusted exactly so that statistically, all miners in the world together will mine 6 blocks per hour on average.

As for "mining at a loss": I am not convinced there is a general principle that only allows for absolutely clean energy to make mining profitable, across the whole world and in any situation. We have already seen a coal plant being ramped up for the purpose of mining in New York, and hash rate going down when coal plants in China got flooded.
Reminded me of the line from one of the MI movies. "CIA is like Halloween, a bunch of grown men in rubber masks playing trick or treat".
> But, blessedly, English does have the simplest grammar of probably any European language.

The deceptive thing, though, is compound tenses and phrasal verbs; in both cases you express a meaning with multiple words that couldn't have been predicted from the meanings of the constituent words alone. These are both pervasive in English and both very tricky for learners, but they often don't feel like "grammar" because they're not inflectional. (Well, phrasal verbs are more like lexicon.)
If you liked this, WIRED has done several videos with Jonna Mendez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqeBMP8nEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD841NmJbjM
aren't retry policies inherently compromising on "A"? they fail and cause things to be slow when they take effect
Really? I've seen developers add old versions as "beta"s as a workaround to continue saves after a big patch so I assumed downloading old versions wasn't normally possible.
The power of the court to 'right' the 'wrong' (e.g. by reversing transactions) is limited on a decentralized public blockchain governed by pure code that crosses national borders. This strengthens the position "the code is the law".

On the other hand, this feature is a motivation for centralists to take issues with public decentralized blockchains.
My example is RSS feeds sync. No need for Feedly, Reeder 5 has just landed iCloud support so now it sync through iCloud whatever backend mechanism API it provides and boy was I glad to pay 7.99 AUD for that.
“This context” is also not known except one specific way in which the data is accessed, so blithely saying “I’d use a map instead” and being sure that’s the right answer in all cases is pretty uninformed.

It helps to assume the person who chose a slice did it for some actual reason and not because they are an idiot.
You can make partition tolerance arbitrarily low in practice with enough work and resources. But you can never eliminate it. Note it is not just network failures here, because a dead machine and an inaccessible machine are both unavailable.

So in theory you have to choose in the event of P do you sacrifice A or C. That's CAP in a nutshell. You have to plan for P so choose your failure mode in that case.

And this is where people went wrong. They figured you can't sacrifice availability, so then you can't have consistency. If you can't have consistency in failure modes, you may as well not have it at all.

That's really dumb, because in reality you're always going to have some downtime. Most use cases can afford a little downtime, rather just work to keep it to acceptable levels. By sacrificing consistency you enter a realm where logic and cause and effect no longer apply - it's hell to program with that model - and the resulting bugs will cost you availability anyway.

CP should be the default choice.
The details of how BLS assembles the CPI basket covers a lot of your questions: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_2

Most people don’t realize that the basket content comes from what real people actually buy, and that’s tracked over 4 years. It is adjusted for item quantity and in a pretty sophisticated way.

That said, it’s not a cost-of-living index, in that it’s not trying to measure the amount of money required to meet a given living standard (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_9), so if the same item degrades in quality (but the quantity doesn’t change), that generally won’t be captured.

I think the answer to your headline question is no, but realize that it’s measuring consumer price inflation — things a typical consumer buys in a 2 week period.

(The next logical question is “What about housing?” - yes, but in the form of shelter, which isn’t the same as housing prices: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...)
A smart contract can't actually be the contract (and may end up not even vaguely correspond to the resulting situation in the real world) because the legal system alters or voids contracts all the time. A judge who decides that your smart contract has an unconscionable clause isn't going to care about what you say about immutable code - he's going to tell you to fix it in the real world or else.
Are judges going to manage to identify and compel enough miners (or devs, i guess, assuming the miners adopt the compelled transaction revert version) to have enough hash power to win a fork?
This is a massive over-simplification of the problem. A strong proof of stake construction has to consider all forms of Sybil attacks, all forms of wealth concentration (a significant problem in most cryptocurrencies - the top 3 exchanges often hold more than 30% of the supply of the token), low participation rates, outsourced participation (most large crypto holders hire the same small set of groups to do the staking process on their behalf), among other significant issues.

It's a hard thing to get right.
"Want to check this out back at your computer?"

This is clever.
This was my first question. I am an avid user of older technology, and I regularly do lots of writing for the web in HTML format. I cannot use any of the new Electron-based programs on my laptop due to their exorbitant resource usage. This program in its current form is perfect. However I would not continue to use it if it were upgraded to a modern JS based framework.
I speak both English and Dominican Spanish natively. Here is my translation:

“Tendrían que haber estado mirándola.”

“Vigilado” is a much stronger word and to me it would be much more like “guarded”

Ive studied Chinese before and a translation eludes me.

If anybody can help, my guess the trick is in : “ 本来就” of 她本来就必须被监视
100% on the team making the most difference. (An aside: a software project I've been admiring recently is the Apollo Guidance Computer's. To the moon and back on a 15-bit 1s complement machine and a few kb of memory. It's a case where the team was certainly better than the available tools.)

On the perf side: I'm curious to know where Go sits now relative to C assuming you elide away all heap allocations in your inner loops. In the early days Go's codegen was based on plan9's simple and simplistic C compiler's back end. Things have gotten much better since then and to my knowledge it's within striking distance of C. But I could be wrong.
I'd say the achilles heel is most likely in the genomic structure, which unlike influenza, is less likely to recombine.