skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they send the Bitcoins to the wallets of the users (i.e. the users have the password, and only the user has the password) or it was just a number in the internal database?
I'm sure eventually we'll see articles about the amount of garbage produced by Chia. I'm imagining pallets of dead SSDs.
If you want pragmatism, check whether something is legal before you do it.
WOW this is cool! Going to take these files and put them into my lasercutter to see what I get. Really really cool thing!
If drugs have been criminalized for decades, and that has led to overdoses being at an all time high, isn’t that just a pretty strong point of evidence that criminalizing drugs isn’t an effective means to prevent overdoses?

We tried that strategy for many decades. It has failed as a strategy for decades. I don’t think that’s necessarily evidence that decriminalization will work, but it seems like...maybe we should at least try something else?
Hey, never said it couldn't happen, but this is why its not the first choice of developers... its totally possible. The parent just asked why its not readily done.

> but weather or not it's more expensive than building more housing in the area

that's for the market to decide. This area has very expensive office space, and you'd have to factor in the loss in revenue in office rent. of course, in a world where the offices stayed vacant, that's 0 anyways.

> look more like the east coast
I lived on the east coast, the parts that people want to live often aren't cheap either (NYC, Bos, etc). They're also not increasing housing by much.

> Ye Olde "luxury apartments are expensive" argument

This wasn't an argument against, its more a "where does this money come from" point. Expensive things are expensive to produce. Thankfully they're expensive so they can cover construction expenses. SF needs more new luxury housing so people with lots of money stop living in existing housing, leaving room for poorer people. No one would build market rate housing when there are millionaires living in rundown walkups.
This is indeed a big oversight and if the article had been proofread it might have held some merits, but reading and them skimming this is more an awkward collection of observations, loosely jointed by some similarities.
from ISO/IEC 9899:2011 "Programming Languages -- C"

3.4.3

1 undefined behavior behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data, for which this International Standard imposes no requirements

2 NOTE Possible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the environment (with or without the issuance of a diagnostic message), to terminating a translation or execution (with the issuance of a diagnostic message).

It doesn't look like a leap to go from this definition to that of ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results.
I really think that "should have" is going to be replaced by "should of". It already is in most actual usage, and it's only "language snobs" (like me) who care that it shouldn't be used like that.

I have the same feeling about "lose", which is increasingly spelled "loose". It annoys the living crap out of me, but in fairness English is whatever people say it is, and if people want to say it's "loose" then so be it.

I've already seen "moorish" succumb - from meaning (more or less) "spicy" to meaning "something I'd like to have more of". Which to be fair we don't have a word for, while we have plenty for "spicy" so it seems like a fair trade.
If you really think that, then go live on an island somewhere and stop using our roads and other amenities, please.
Servo?
This is why we can't have a rational conversation; your very first point was to link two statistics in a misleading way. You immediately imply that enforcement of drug laws is connected to the number of overdoses. However anyone can see that both overdose and enforcement have increased over time.
I wish I'd been more aggressive about this when my mother in law died. She left behind a house, but also a half a million dollars worth of medical debt from a decade of chronic illness that eventually took her life. We thought "fine, we'll let the creditors fight over the house and be done with it", but they refused. They told us it was our responsibility to sell the house at at least market rate--which was hard because it had several decades of deferred maintenance. They would only take cash and refused to do any work for it beyond making threatening phone calls about garnishing our wages if we didn't get it done in time.

Since it was the state Medicaid office harassing us I really didn't want to get in a legal fight so we did all of the work of selling the house. Our lawyer did at least manage to get our costs taken out of the closing fees so we weren't out of pocket except for the time and effort and miles since we live in a different state. All in all I can't recommend having a loved one die.

The worst part is back when my mother in law got sick my wife convinced her to write us out of her will because we were told that the state would get the home anyway after her medical bills piled up. What she didn't tell us is that she just changed her will to name her church as the beneficiary. Once we read the will it became yet another mess to clean up. It should have been easy enough, we talked with the pastor and convinced him to refuse the estate easily enough. Unfortunately the church board overrode him (I think they believed we were trying to pull a fast one), and then found themselves in a fight with the state over a house they also had no intention of putting the effort into selling and also a huge medical debt. It was very tempting to just drop the thing and walk away at that point, but it was clear the problem would never be resolved and it would almost certainly come back to haunt us in the end. We had to do the work because nobody else was going to. I never did get a clear answer from the Medicaid debt collectors why they couldn't just put the estate up on a government auction. I think it would have required them to do some work and they really just didn't want to.
What does the kombucha do for you?
I wonder if the OP accounted for the effects of carbs in general? Could alcohol be just another carb?
This is being done right now in the Amazon without blockchain. First you start logging a lot more trees. Then the world is outraged at how many trees you cut, and you begrundgingly go to the negotiation table to figure out the carbon subsidies you're going to get in exchange for not cutting those trees. But wouldn't you know, estimates of how many trees you're able to not cut per year are based on how many trees you just cut so you get way more than you would've in the first place.

Exchanging money for not doing things is fun.
a 25 lb kettle bell will do wonders - but like anything powerful caution is advised:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKx8xE8jJZs
> Wow. That's some explanation. Thanks.

Happy to help.

> Do you use "rainbow brackets"?

No. I flash brackets, but I tend to turn off other forms of syntax highlighting. I find it extremely distracting when the syntax highlighter "decides" wrong, and I've become convinced comments at the end of lines like //} to "fix" the highlighter deal with complicated stuff is hurting more than it's helping.
The idea that treating drug problems with criminal punishment rather than medical care is effective for solving the drug overdose problem without data to back that viewpoint sounds more emotionally driven than the converse view. I'd anticipate that we would both agree that the former has provably not worked, it's time to give the latter a chance.
meh - I had basically 2 data structure courses, which is not a "year of classes" since the class met for 1 hour, twice a week for about 20 weeks, and times 2 for that second semester. So I have 20 * 2 * 2 or 80 hours of O notation and heap sorting.

The rest of my CS degree consisted of a lot of stuff I used in class (assembly programming) and maybe I got something out of that. I also took a functional languages course which was taught with Scheme (a lisp dialect) which is a little iffy on practical skills. A formal database class (which was an elective)

So I know boyce codd normal form and o-notation, is that really much of an edge over the bootcampers after a few years?

And to be honest because everyone brings up O notation every time we have this talk I'm pretty sure most bootcampers learn that by looking it up and probably binary trees. Yeah. so I'm really not very convinced from a practical level how much more they're pulling.

It seems to me I was in the wrong classes altogether - the real money at this point is in ML and there's not much a CS degree helps with in that area really - so yea, the fundamentals did kinda change, right?
thats interesting but nonetheless has no bearing on these specific claims. if anything it counters the claims as it says a female voice is more authoritative whereas the original poster said it makes them seem like an assistant or submissive and somehow affects their wages.

also your example is one where they shaped the assistant based on the humans perception. whereas the poster is claiming the assistant shapes the humans perception.
Horrors of SPIR-V
There is more than just 'exit'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
> To be replaced with trained medical help, detox programs, and a conversation about morality not tethered to superstition, or black and white judgments

Why can’t these programs exist while also having drugs be illegal?

Also it doesn’t help your position by using childish words like “fundies”, FYI. Keep that on Reddit please.
Yeah, that may not have been the best move. But then again, the F-150 is like a really solid brand. And it's a really great product. They will power through.
I remember laughing out loud at some description of how one may refer to a smelly cheese in polite society, but I can't find anything about cheese at all in the English translation. Maybe the Norwegian translator made up a joke more palatable to Norwegians =D
Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable,
decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy
against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central
banks and governments globally.

-- @Travis_Kling

Bitcoin hasn't failed at becoming the future of money; the future isn't here yet.

Bitcoin went from $0 to over a $1 trillion market cap in about 10 years with no VC funding, no ad buys and with Silicon Valley and Wall Street aligned against it every step of the way.
Go and Rust, mostly.
> Nvidia is trying to get miners to buy mining-only cards, because those can't be sold to gamers down the line.

Afaik Nvidia already tried that [0] but miners didn't really bite because the lack of resale value for those cards cut too much into their profits.

[0] https://youtu.be/TY4s35uULg4
I wasn't criticizing Android, I was criticizing Android phones. I'm sure iPhone doesn't implement the protocol perfectly either, but we certainly observed fewer issues. Whether that's because our BT stack vendors did more testing with Apple devices or because Apple has fewer bugs or both, I'm not sure.
GFY.

I DO NOT consent to my hard earned money being spent on wars and experimental drugs.
CNN is writing up an observational study that hasn't even been peer reviewed yet? One of the under-recognized negative effects of the pandemic is that it taught health journalists what medarchive is.
Your post implies that they have ever went away. They haven't, there's just a large middle-class America that's largely insulated from the barbarism of its legal system.
“Try something else”, as in the complete polar opposite of what we were trying before? I cannot rationalize such a decision.
For most folks in Portland, pandemic aside, it’s been life as usual.

I have yet to encounter lefties in my SE hood terrorizing anyone.

Plenty of Trump caravans last year, waking us up, shooting guns.

All from outside the city.

Sure violence is up but it’s up all over. A side effect of a nation coddling old wealth, leaving the masses to rot.
I over-focus on those sectors because the proportion of my budget that is spent on clothes, travel, computers, iPhones, etc. is a small fraction of that spent on housing, college education, and healthcare. I'm not interested in hearing the CPI tell me how many fewer televisions I can buy this year due to inflation when those other sectors dominate my spending.
That's just adolescents, so I would presume not applicable to OP.
> A native English speaker would never have said that... unless they had received a really expensive education.

Education doesn't affect word choice much. The people who will say things like this were largely already saying them before they received an education.
You should see how Australians fly. SYD-LAX is 13h, SYD-DBX is 14h and another 10h to Europe. There's no pretention about dressing to impress, it is calibrated for maximum comfort and practicality.
Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?
In addition to what the others said: if you try to cheat in a proof-of-stake system, your stake is forfeited. Which is kinda the whole point: if someone wants to make a double spent / revert a transaction and gets caught, his stake is destroyed and all the people helping him to try to do his double-spent have their stake destroyed to.

The one issue is "long range attacks": where someone creates a fake chain and then tries to substitute it for the real-chain. In a PoW model you need more PoW than the real chain to mount your attack: that's how PoW chains are protected. In a PoS model not so much.

But Vitalik Buterin (the Ethereum creator) and a few others are pretty sure they've got a working proof-of-stake system.

Time will tell: expensive experiment ongoing!
One take I remember from The Adventure of English[0]: When it's in the kitchen it's germanic/anglo-saxon, when it's in the lord's dining room it's a French (vulgar Latin). Romanized languages are an important part of English, though not that much in those most common words[1].
English is the product of quite a few invaders introducing new elements to a language that was itself invasive.

In regards to "amazing English", how about picking one obscure dialect like Scotish and perfecting that so that the other 95% of English speaker take you as a Scots/Welsh/Californian and don't ask any more questions?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1XQx9pGGd0&list=PLbBvyau8q9...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_language_influences_in...
No one needs to worry, until money gets tight. Then it's every man for himself, and the government will go after you. Or they will stiff the nursing home, and then let the nursing home go after you, like the what happened to the guy in Pennsylvania.

With the government budget situation in many places, and large amounts of people about to become elderly and rack up bills, I would consider it more than a remote possibility in the future.
Sounds like someone's been watching a bit too much Fox Propaganda.

Farms are already subsidized by the government. Imports are already subject to tariffs precisely to protect farmers. Who do you think pays for those subsidies, and who pays for the tariffs? Yeah, the "coastal elites" that you've been trained to hate.

In farmers stopped benefiting from the largess of the coast, _they_ would starve to death, and everyone else would have cheaper food.
Agreed until you said the OP was too 'weak'
Their biggest customer may end up being the US government (eg. for work fleets). So maybe it was a strategic move? Time will tell.
Because thats the divide? Silicon Valley vs family farms. Give me a break...
Viruses are a little different, though. Retroviruses aside, viruses spread as much and as fast as possible; any mutation that makes them spread more slowly is crowded out, evolution style.

So long as it can spread between hosts well enough, a deadly virus is a very successful virus – up until it's driven its host species to local extinction.
You say 'have vaccine plz'
Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics (2015)
What a patronizing take. No wonder they want to leave, if they’re governed by people with your attitude.
Did he just went throught a 35 sign doing 40 and speeding up to almost 50?

Timestamp 00:50
> I would be interested in seeing anything that was shorter

One way to do that would be to pose that as a problem on the Code Golf Stackexchange.

My rewrite-case solution condenses (by removal of all non-essential spaces) to 69 bytes if the symbols are in a hash table K, and the input list is in a variable y, rather than a big literal:

(rewrite-case x y((@[K @sym]* . @rest)^(,sym _ . ,rest))(@else else))

A one-letter name could be chosen for the macro. Furthermore, one-letter names could be chosen for sym, rest and else:

20> (r x y((@[K @s] * . @r)^(,s _ . ,r))(@e e))
(foo bar * select _ fox where _ bravo)

Still working! Now down to 43 bytes.

(It's not because I cannot that I do not do this with all my code.)

Doh, why use . ,r in the backquote if we are golfing? That should be ,*r: using the splice operator, like Common Lisp's or Scheme's ,@, getting us to 42 bytes:

20> (r x y((@[K @s] * . @r)^(,s _ ,*r))(@e e))
(foo bar * select _ fox where _ bravo)

I suspect Code Golf Stackechange regulars could get it down to way in one of the dedicated golfing languages like Retina or what have you.*

What else can we do? The @[K @s] predicate syntax could be replaced by a custom operator defined by defmatch, looking like @(K s).

21> (defmatch k (sym) ^@[K (sys:var ,sym)])
k
22> (r x y((@(k s) * . @r)^(,s _ ,*r))(@e e)) ;; 41
(foo bar * select _ fox where _ bravo)

Just noticed the ) * is not fully golfed:

23> (r x y((@(k s)* . @r)^(,s _ ,*r))(@e e)) ;; 40
(foo bar * select _ fox where _ bravo)

The k pattern operator macro could be non-hygienic: it could implicitly bind a variable called s:

24> (defmatch k () ^@[K @s])
k
25> (r x y((@(k)* . @r)^(,s _ ,*r))(@e e)) ;; 38
(foo bar * select _ fox where _ bravo)

These last few feel like cheating because they are too special purpose. Defining anything you can only possibly use just once isn't making the overall program smaller.
This is a really bad idea.

Building on the really good work of the WASM folks, running Node.js, with all its design problems, over the top of it.

I am forever astounded anew by the hubris and naivety of the Node.js crew. It is a example of "It is easier to write than read, easier to talk than listen, easier to build than design"
Can I just say, for me the use of the term "illegals" under the section of Law and Order comes across as a dehumanizing slur.

how unfortunate.
Our management kept asking us to fix these issues with software. We tried things like transparently rebooting our BT module and prompting the user to do common fixes (e.g., "turn your phone off and on again") but most of the time these wouldn't work, unsurprisingly.
This is actually desired though, at least by some programs. For example, say you have a function with a very expensive loop that repeatedly performs a null check and then executes some extra code if it's null, but never sets the value. This is called from another function which uses the checked value without a null check (proving it's not null) before and after the loop ends. The first function is inlined. You want to tell the compiler not to optimize out the null check and extra code in the loop? Or that it can't optimize stuff out to reuse the value from the first use of the value? If so, what is the compiler allowed to optimize out or reorder?

Now, to see why this might actually produce a bug in working code--say some other thread has access to the not-null value and sets it racily (non-atomically) to null. Or (since most compilers are super conservative about checks of values that escape a function because they can't do proper alias analysis), some code accidentally buffer overflows and updates the pointer to null while intending to do something else. Suddenly, this obvious optimization becomes invalid!

Arguments to the effect of "the compiler shouldn't optimize out that loop due to assuming absence of undefined behavior" are basically arguments for compilers to leave tons of performance on the table, due to the fact that sometimes C programs don't follow the standard (e.g. forgetting to use atomics, or indexing out of bounds). While it's a legitimate argument, I don't think people would be too happy to find their C programs losing to Java in benchmarks on -O3, either.
Rare 4000-year comets can cause meteor showers on Earth
SUSE IPO Disappoints
I feel like whatever your position on any drug is, you will always find a study to back up your belief.
Hah, I literally spent a day trying to use parcel to optimize a good old fashioned HTML+CSS+JS static site that's not an SPA. Webpack would be a pain to set up and all other bundlers were lacking for such an use case. Parcel 1 worked great on my machine, and then on the server decided to flatten all files to a single folder - effectively breaking the site. I had no clue as to why, probably something related to having low memory, and the reigning response on the issue tracker was 'forget about v1, use Parcel v2'. So I tried installing and running it on my machine but it would get stuck building unless I gave it a '--no-cache' option (took a while to figure that out), and then on the server the thing wouldn't even (npm) install. Each time I tried it failed kind of differently, mostly because of node-gyp, other times because of weird GLIBC. After all that I just gave up, maybe in a month I'll be in the mood to set up the Webpack madness - but it's more likely I'll end up rewriting the whole site as an SPA because the bundler gods demand it be so.
What’s great is all these exceptional, gritty people will put the work and expectations on everyone instead of simply moving to Idaho themselves.
To be fair, if you want to make sure that loop is unrolled even in the presence of -fwrapv, writing it as for (int i=0; i < 16; i++) {/* use i+param */} is a very simple change for you to make even today. You'll have to make much uglier changes to code if you're at the level of optimization where loop unrolling really matters for your code on a modern processor.
My point exactly: if that was a serious concern, Facebook would have no users.
> Personal experience is it's one of the few recreational drugs I can't handle as I experience extreme paranoia

I get those too. After considering it for decades, I'm fairly convinced it's due to my psychological makeup - specifically fearing an unmasked loss of control.
This quote is the topic of the original article and the article goes into detail about how it believes the quote should be interpreted.
No. The fable long predates the current anticapitalism trend.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice
Everything needed is at the bottom of the browser.lisp source file, one would need to implement all `ffi-*` named functions.
Well yes and no: those staking coins do indeed get more coins but there's still lots of speculation going on. I mean: it's not a given that if, today, with x coins you can buy, say, a laptop tomorrow with x * 2 coins you'll still be able to buy that same laptop.

Stakers do definitely take the volatility risk. They're rewarded by getting more coins.
> What sort of logic supports that American values are those held by a minority of Americans. What possible values suggest they are the normal ones?

The majority of the world has never shared American values. American values have always been divorced from popularity. American values does not mean something that corresponds to the values held by people that live in America, necessarily, either.
And perhaps quite simply, the political majority in Portland does not, in any capacity, share a moral system with the people of rural Oregon. Furthermore, Portlander's would not identify their value system as American, nor would they associate something called "American" with something good. The people of rural Oregon would.