skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it sure seems like you want to set a different topic and put words in everyone else's mouth, so it's easier to argue with them.
So what happens with that leasing contract when you sell your car?
Yeah he forgot all the good things bitcoin brings us, like having the carbon footprint of a small country.
Fluctuating prices suck for paying taxes.

Buy bitcoin at $1 on Jan 1, sell at $10 on dec 31. I now owe taxes on $9 in gains, so I’ll need USD$3 on April 15. If on Jan 2, I buy more Bitcoin at $10 and it drops to $6 on April 15 that will suck because then I’ll need to sell half my Bitcoin to pay taxes.
Criminals also benefit from plain old encryption of messages too. Intelligence agencies will say criminals use encryption to organize terrorism, exchange abusive materials, etc. They will say that regular law-abiding citizens don't need strong encryption which isn't backdoored by the government. The use case of private messaging is already addressed (just do it in state controlled channels).

So why shouldn't we ban it too?

> decentralization only means theft can't be stopped at all and regulated, I'd say this mythical "value" of coins will never happen.

You just explained the exact value proposition. Just because right now most westerners are able to have a reasonable degree of trust in their financial institutions doesn't mean that privacy "backstops" like strong encryption and cryptocurrency aren't beneficial.
must be terrifying for build and release engineers
If those have to be given up, then let it be so.

I don't see that either of those qualities is essential to the benefits you proposed above.
I’ve used crypto to donate to a few places, as well as buying a few other mundane things. I’m a tech worker in the U.S.
I really like "minimalist" languages, and wrote about a few examples (and why Brainfuck is overly complicated) at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2014-12-22-minimal_languages.html

My favourite language is SK (combinatory logic), which is both tiny (two symbols + parentheses; one rewrite rule each) and reasonably sane (unlike, say, Iota). It's also useful, since it's basically just function definition and application, which is applicable to pretty much every "proper" programming language. Hence the 'puzzle solving' we do in SK can give real insights into day-to-day understanding of programming. For example, to make an if/then/else branch in SK we end up using Church encoding, which was quite enlightening to me.

In particular, I always thought of booleans as bits: a fundamental component of our computers; and of languages "sitting above" those bits, controlling them (and, in turn, being controlled by them; since programs are stored as bits, and we can write self-modifying code). From that perspective, the idea of representing booleans as functions seems backwards.

However, I found it intriguing to go down this "backwards" rabbit-hole: if Church-booleans are functions/programs that make a choice, then a bit is also a program that makes a choice. Passing around bits, in a language like C, is just like passing around higher-order functions in a language like SK (or lambda calculus, or whatever). The main difference is that booleans/bits aren't "native": we can't call them directly. They must be interpreted, and the interpreter is called 'if/then/else'.

On the topic of Church-booleans, it can be similarly enlightening to see how Smalltalk implements branching using polymorphism, with a 'True' class and a 'False' class which override the 'ifTrue:ifFalse:' method of the 'Boolean' class in different ways. After a little pondering, we realise that those method definitions are the Church-booleans; and hence polymorphism/dynamic-dispatch is a higher-order function call. Then we find that objects are a poor man's closures, and that closures are a poor man's object. The deeper we go, the more blurred our once-crisp distinctions become, the more of our unconscious assumptions fall away, until everything can be twisted into anything else, and it all becomes a matter of perspective.

None of these perspectives are "more correct" than any other, although some are certainly more consistent and practical than others. Hence playing with esoteric/minimalist languages can force us to learn unfamiliar mechanisms, and learn new uses for familiar mechanisms. This can give us more flexibility and insight when approaching real-world challenges, where a shift in perspective might turn an unsolvable/incompatible mess into a straightforward solution.
I would buy any new car (with high safety ratings) that has "completely power off all modems" option.
First steps with the Vale prose linter
Old oil is processed and re-used (as cheaper oil, or for heating). Lead-acid batteries have practically all of the lead re-used. I'm not sure where the acid itself, nor coolant, goes, but they're not the most damaging of pollutants.

>one of the hundreds of parts that needs replacing every X amount of time in an ICE

Yep, it's usually one of the electronic parts, which is why I have no faith that EVs will be significantly more reliable.
> 1. Outlaw cryptocurrency. Now it's much harder to pay digital ransoms.

I buy bitcoin from a guy down the street how are you going to stop that? I don't think outlawing cryptocurrency will stop people from using it, same way outlawing alcohol and weed doesn't stop anyone just makes them "criminal"

> 2. Stop confusing "identification", "authentication" and "authorization". Me having Bob's SSN doesn't mean I'm Bob. Me having Bob's credit card number doesn't mean I'm Bob either. This is childish crap that we should have resolved decades ago.

This is based af identity theft shouldn't be as easy and rampant as it is.
Number 6 here
What's the definition of useful work? I would say work needs to be useful "enough" in order to be worth doing. It's still early in the POUW but I think in the future better solutions will be developed.

Proof of work leads to stealing of general purpose computation power only in the short term because as difficulty rapidly raises "honest" miners are pressured to specialize fast in order to profit meaning moving their mining operations to specialized server farms. Once that happens it is no longer profitable for cybercriminals to use their botnets for mining since difficulty is so high they earn very little and because of that they are more likely to switch their botnets to other "traditional" cybercrimes such as SPAM and DDoS.
There's an upside though: millions of combustion engine powered cars are also going, and enclosing depleted batteries remains in leak proof tanks after recycling materials seems a lot easier than doing the same with combustion engines byproducts.
I don't want to sound too optimistic, as there always will be shady figures trying to profit from illegal dumps, but with proper regulation and enforcement it doesn't look like a bad deal to me.
This line of thought got us global warming, micro plastic contamination of all of earth's water, pfas, a hole in the ozone, etc.
Enjoy using money that is inflated beyond belief at the whim of the government.
That's not the point, at all. The point is that the WHO and others like it should be apolitical and not be subservient to any government.
It seems the point of theology is to make answering anything trivial. Whether those answers are useful or not is another matter.
MUMPS springs to mind: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
How far the criminals have fallen. Nowadays, they just encrypt my disk and demand some bitcoins. Sigh.
Seems like this supports the idea we should be taking a hard look at WHO, because your take would imply extreme incompetence, not just being complicit in a cover up
Still I think a lot of Thinkpads need some parts (often the motherboard!) replaced before they run out of extended on-site repair warranty. The small sample from my co-workers seems to indicate that the rate for that is over 50%. Maybe I just happen to know all the people who use their laptops as shovels.

That said, my 2015 HP Zbook (previously in contracting work, now personal use) still works perfectly, only now with third keyboard, third battery, and a bit of superglue.
> Great, let us know when that actually happens and when Bitcoin gets taken offline.

There is no us.
> so they probably didn't have enough time to think about this

How can they not have time to do their job? What are they busy with, getting away with bribes?
No, most people are turned away. But they're not measured. What is measured by some marketing expert is that he gets a nonzero number of sign-ups tracked by this box the more often he shows it. That readership and revenue is directly attributed to him, conversely, readership for interesting articles and unobtrusive presentation is hard to quantify.
Can you share source?
>Pretty sure that white sign says "Truck, Speed Limit 35, Radar Enforced".

If I squint really hard I can make something out like that from the potato video quality. Very well, thank you for your correction.
I watched the WHO press conferences in the first 1-2 months.

Then I watched our government ( The Netherlands ) and our neighbors ( and the US ) ignore their recommendations.

I recall the Brit saying they were in talks with the EU to halt Schengen. Never heard anything about it since.

It is not the WHO which is political, it is our politicians who are political.
That doesn't even make sense. What do you plan, to buy yourself a bagel in Mozambique with Bitcoin?
the older film Prince of Darkness deals with sending messages back in time, too...
It's not facially absurd,maybe the math won't pan out but humanity needs to get off fossil fuels or face an uninhabitable earth.
So I could drop it into my Books folder, of course!
Why not cap animated gifs at a maximum duration or file size? GIFs original use cases are already served by formats better suited to the modern era.

Their continued popularity seems due mostly to their historical auto play behavior. One that apps are so reluctant to disrupt we're filling landfills with electronic waste to keep up with ever larger and longer meme animations.
Jan 1, 2018 BTC price was $13k. Price today is $41k.

Not 20x, that’s a little more than 3x.
This is a really interesting point.

Malcolm Gladwell:
"The people who got Hitler right were those who never met him, and the people who got him wrong were those who did spend time with him."

Here's a clip from an interview with Gladwell on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvOilwY0yOQ&t=178s
Thank you, I just dodged drinking a glass of lithium.
It is okay you didn't waste time. I know what it feels like.

But I need to know more YOU. I mean where are you from?
Are you boy or a girl? Do you have any chronic disease? Who else is in your family? What is your relationship with them?
Do you have gf/bf?

You see your life is not separate partition: work, family, friends. Everything is connected and everything affects each other. I can throw some "pop-advice" at you but it will be useless. Also one thing is sure you need to visit Therapist, good one ASAP. Consider it as investment - kind of like going to Dentist, only for your mind. Good luck mate. May the force be with you :)

P.S: Please look into Stoicism too :)
This sort of thing is a known historical attack surface. At one point not too long ago, people were attacking Discord's browser and desktop clients by embedding massive carefully-authored GIF files to exploit the fact that Chromium (thus, Chrome and Electron) decodes GIFs partially or wholly in advance, so the GIF would quickly consume all memory available to the tab/app and either crash it or bog down the system.

I think Discord implemented some measures to guard against those files and Chromium was patched to mitigate this (which is why Edge and Vivaldi are fine), so it's not surprising that something like Safari might struggle with Evil GIFs under certain circumstances as well.
Random Name Picker
In J language single sided brackets are functions/verbs
Look I'll restate my position in simpler words again:

Encryption has good uses, and some bad uses.

Cryptocurrencies have only bad uses.

See the difference?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27226625
I really like this format: simple, concise, actionable combined with very clear examples.
Any chance of a Windows ARM64 version since macOS/Linux have one?
The existing system with lead-acid batteries is based on the fact that they are easy to recycle, and the lead has significant value.
Don't think this works unless you use an anonymous crypto like zcash even then can be tracked but much harder.

I dunno how much any of it matters tbh when you use your KYC exchange to finally cash out they will just ask you to prove where you got the money or no cash for you.
So, what amount of consumption for new technologies is justified then? Where is the point where a new technology becomes irresponsible?
This author seems to have decided that ransomware is very much a net bad or evil thing. I'm not so sure about that.

Yes, it has caused real and very visible damage, but it has also done some good. It seems like a market solution to the problems of lack of security and for grabbing all data and storing it without a second thought. Organizations are now realizing the importance of security. I think there is now more thought being put into how data is stored, and even thought on what data is stored. I think it's great that these ransomware groups are maybe making companies at least consider what data they store about me and how securely they store it.
Does the logic go both ways? Should the fossil fuel industry be rewarded for the benefits it creates for the healthcare system?
>If there existed a car with no entertainment system at all, and I just stuck a specially adjusted tablet in there, with industry standard connectors, everyone would be happy, and if anyone hacked my entertainment system they would not be close to the important stuff

The "extra super base" trim models that they make half a dozen of so they can advertise a low "starting at" MSRP are often devoid of radio/infotainment.
Which is also why a good carbon steel wok is a nive tool to own. My son bought me one a couple years ago, it gets used for more than just stir fry.
Ironically enough, had swapping not been so fast then runaway RAM usage bugs probably would've been found a lot sooner as they crippled the machine.
Mining lithium is cheaper than recycling
Saying it's a trope is wild. In almost any comparative metric you could think of, they are slow.
The prices of weight plates in the UK have gone nuts. Now over £3/kg for second hand plates.
Does it have a preferences UI yet?
I'll restate my argument in simpler words too: What are the good uses of strong encryption that aren't solved by government controlled encryption?
If your problem is "speeding up X", one of, if not the first question you should ask is: "how fast can X be"?

If you don't know, find out, because maybe X is already as fast as it can be, and there is nothing to speed up.

Sure, the OP just looks around and sees that others are faster, and they want to be as fast as they are.

That's one way to go. But if all others are only 1% as fast as _they should be_, then...

- either you have fundamentally misunderstood the problem and the answer to "how fast can X be?" (maybe its not as fast as you thought for reasons worth learning)

- what everyone else is doing is not the right way to make X as fast as X can be

The value in having a model of your problem is not the model, but rather what you can learn from it.

You can optimize "what an application does", but if what it does is the wrong thing to do, that's not going to get you close to what the performance of that application should be.
This isn't a case of planned obsolescence. If anything it's exactly the opposite of that, trying to prolong the useful life of a phone as its battery degrades. This did of course lead to them offering a $29 battery replacement for affected phones (after they were caught doing this).

The lack of communication was a problem but "planned obsolescence" in this case is just tin-foil hat nonsense.
It is absurd on its face to have developing countries burn oil and (usually low-grade) coal to manufacture huge battery packs (and all the other electronic items that our Western lives dictate), all so we can claim we live CO2-neutral lives.

You might be right, but EVs are not the solution. The solution is realising that we just can't use so much energy.
Also what happens to the millions of petrol cars? They won't just disappear, and won't be usable for many spare parts.
Yes thats still not the same as a A realist, A pessimist or AN optimist.
the mafia doesn't make batteries.
Ah, I see the Aus gov plays similar numbers games to the UK gov.
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>>we won't dispose of all the things your old car produces either.

Which is exactly the point - we are already not properly disposing of things in the proper way (the 10 year old with a rock example), so what makes anyone think that it will be any different going forward? Why would anyone assume that corporations or government will do any better disposing of these 'new' things, when we have had 50-75 years to figure out how to safely dispose of the 'old' things and have so far failed; they end up being shipped overseas, so we pollute someone else's backyard, not our own.
Sinodrones always resort to "But the USA is the same or worse!". Unacceptable on hacker news.
Vermont governor signs first-in-nation restrictions on PFAS 'forever chemicals'
"X, but with blockchain" seems to be be the new "X, but on the internet" for getting VC funding.
> Increasing the energy usage of our species is not "irresponsible" or "malicious".
Right now, yes it is. we do not have unlimited clean energy.

I think you would drop this opinion very quick if the energy we where talking about was being used for your life support. We live in a capitalist world our financial systems are everyones life support.
I think that’s more a function of Puerto Rico not having federal taxes than anything about crypto (ie, no capital gains or income tax on anything, including crypto).
Namecalling sure is. I will refer you to this thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030283 and its top comment ( which is mine ), to show my consistency.
In Norway the producer or importer must pay an environmental fee (miljøgebyr) that finances the infrastructure for recycling of things like batteries, tyres, etc.
There is no risk-free value generation. And in order to provide future "social security" - you need future value generation.

Furthermore it's a little bit of an oversimplification to say that the market is just gambling. It allows the innovators to realize a gain from the value they generate, which gives them the capital to innovate again, while non-innovative investors take over during the capitalization phase (when the business actually generates profit). The entrepreneurs have no interest in that phase since it offers the least amount of growth and their expertise is in the innovation phase.

So yes, in aggregate... it has been good for society. It provides a quicker turnaround for innovators to innovate. And since innovation leads to growth, it's also a good way to secure people's retirement future.
Interesting, but not quite what I had in mind.

My idea was loosely based on a code search engine Google had for a while before they killed it off.

I'm not sure exactly how they did it, but I very strongly suspected that they implemented regular expressions over database indexes.

A simple b-tree index is just a set of sorted strings. If you have a lot of sorted strings and you squint at it, you can see how it picks out common prefixes, like a tree. (You can literally store it with the prefixes factored out, and then you have a trie.)

For a fairly wide range of regular expressions, and a tree of sorted strings, you can implement a search over the b-tree. E.g.: the search "[bx](a+)foo" can be implemented via finding the range starting with "b", then the range starting with "x". For each range, find the sub-range starting with "ba", "xa", etc...

Each step takes logarithmic time, and can be done in parallel. In theory, it takes only about a hundred times longer to find a ten matches in a million strings than it would take to match a single string.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could take an algorithm such as "match regex" that normally takes a 'scalar' string and have the compiler automatically create a version that can take an array of sorted values, like the database index?

The idea is that much like how array programming languages eschew scalars and pass arrays all over the place to gain efficiency, my language would pass sets all over the place, and gain a different type of efficiency.
How long does it take to learn to code
Automatic Fully desk (with sitting and standing options).
It trains yours muscles - seriously.

Pranamat for hardcore back relaxation. It has tiny needles that stimulate blood flow in your deep skin tissue. Perfect to force your muscles to just relax
Dagster / Airflow Comparison
Some big tech firms really should use some of their stacks of cash to fund the sel4foundation.
I'm not saying the switch is going to be pretty, I'm just saying that the math is in favor of the 401k.
> emitting correct programs; or are they for literal transpiling?

I guess the former. I am sure you are familiar with the "garbage-in, garbage-out" concept. The rules are set in the standard. If you feed the compiler with code outside the rules of the standard (even if syntactically correct), you cannot expect correct programs 100% of the time. The standard (somehow) guarantees that code that follows the rules should translate into correct programs. Some of the rules dictate the compiler to "do this", other dictate "do something but specify what you are doing" and "do whatever you want, including exploding, I don't care". Many of these rules are this way for the sake of generating optimized code.

These are the rules.

Are these rules too many to remember? Unfortunately yes, they are.

> I just have to imagine there is something a little better than the present attitude.

My crazy hope is that someday runtime checks will be done at silicon level. That is, compiler emits instructions declaring "this is an array of this dimension", and every time this array is accessed with the proper instructions (and the CPU is somehow aware of this), it triggers an interrupt when accessed out of bounds, for example.

> Could there not be a --hault-on-all-undef with a serious attempt to realise that in as many respects as possible?

It might not be possible for every piece of code. It will have to stop the compilation (or execution with runtime checks) at every int increment/operation. So I think that if rules cannot be generally applicable then they shouldn't be applicable at all.
presumably the benefits are priced in.
My brain works the opposite. Equations give me something I can work with but feels like voodoo, and I only get operational knowledge once I can visualize it in some way.