skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel so similarly to you. I got into Bitcoin in 2012 and really believed it had to potential to change the world. I thought titles and title insurance would become a thing of the past; international banking would be revolutionized. Instead we got infighting, forking, crazy high fees, and a speculative asset driven only by new money coming in. The biggest distributed Ponzi scheme ever. And now with the clarity of a decade behind us, I have yet to see any compelling use case for crypto that isn't better served by trusting a central authority or open standards. Even titles need a court system to abitrate conflict, which you can't do with irrevocable transactions. When ETH had a bug in the DAO the community forked the chain to undo the bug, so now we have ETH and ETC, just hilarious.

I saw so much potential, and it's just a shame to see what happened to the community and direction of the technology. The Ponzi Casino is a sad outcome for crypto.
Aboriginals died mostly by disease, and then over the span of 100's of years, most of it pre-Enlightenment, compare to Qing Dynasty policies and wars at your leisure.

This kind of bad moral relativism is at the heart of Chinese logic and it just doesn't hold up.

Thankfully the US holds the 5th Fleet in the Gulf and ensure trade, mostly Oil is free for everyone including China who are by far the greatest recipients of Oil. The same thing for Suez, Panama Canal, Red sea and other parts of the world. The peace between Egypt and Isreal is pinned down by the US otherwise.

Given a choice between having China take your land/sea, or, having the US patrol it so that either sovereignty is protected - or international waters are kept open - which deal do you think nations will take? Even with having to put up with an ugly US diplomatic corps now and again, everyone will take Option B, it's perennially going to be better than Option A.

There's no excuse for doing what's going on in Xinjiang, and arguably Tibet as well, not in 21st century.
Poor Estonia.
Great work! Does any know if this new frontend will improve rust compilation time?
After reading the article it parses out as “dam separates the largest paddlefish from its spawn, fish is now extinct”.
The manifestations of the addictions are certainly different. I'm really experienced in this. I've quit many addictions. Some of them many times!

In a context that I'm not going to share on HN right now (find and message me if you're curious) I set an intention to face my addictions. I named six things that had pulled on me in my life. I was going to work through them, one by one. But when the time came, I realized there was no "one by one". They were all the same. Six sides of the same die.

The root thing was an aversion to the present moment. A refusal to face whatever was going on right then. At its deepest: a separation from awareness.

That's what caused me to reach for the vape pen, the phone, the addiction die. I was literally turning away from something. What pulls me out is to face the craving. Just let it in. Just be aware. Then, maybe, something behind that will reveal itself and I'll face that, too.
It seems the problem is in the use of force. Apart from that, if there's a group of people that would make better than average parents, and whose kids would be more likely to contribute more to society than they consume, then shouldn't that group be encouraged to have and adopt as many kids as they can afford to support?
The noise a blender makes is also proportional to what is being blended. If you were to try and blend a thick liquid, it'd be far quieter than blending frozen strawberries, for instance. There isn't much one can do about this.

Speaking of blending frozen strawberries, be aware that frozen berries can destroy cheaper blenders.
It is complicated, but GCC has more target platforms.
I'm sorry you experienced racism. As an Australian and Brit, I apologise for our countries not living up to our ideals on these things. I can't speak for Germany - I'm a guest here too - but I know that most Germans are working towards eliminating racism from their culture.

That's not my experience of the Chinese, however. China is not working to eliminate racism. It doesn't have these ideals. As a white person I will never be accepted as a Chinese person by the Chinese, because in Chinese people's eyes, Chinese == Han (from my experience). This isn't unusual in Asia - Cambodians only recognise Khmer people, Japan only recognises ethnic Japanese people, and so on. I have white friends who have lived in Cambodia for decades, speak the language perfectly, have Cambodian families, but who can never become citizens and will never be accepted as "Cambodian" because of their race.

This isn't true of Australians (for example). Australia doesn't equate Australian = caucasian [0]. You can emigrate to Australia, and become a citizen, and the vast majority of Australians will accept you as an Australian because of that. Being Australian is not about race, but more about culture and commitment. Australia's sense of identity is not linked to its ethnic identity in the same way that SE Asian countries are.

[0] There are always some racist dickheads who will disagree with this. Sorry for that.
The winning player can still bid to raise the cost to the losing player without winning the bid. In other words, the winning player can bid $100 for Electric Company, forcing the losing player to bid and pay $110 for Electric Company.
Switzerland being among the most in demand countries can moderate the immigration demographic as they want. They really don't care whether you reproduce.
> A third implementation of the rust compiler.

What is the second rust compiler?
The same can and often has been said of cocaine. Not that the two are the same, but everything you said is the same, vast majority have no problems, it’s great, you’ll love it etc....
I lived right next to such construction, I wish you strength! The hardest part for me was the fact construction started between 6-7am, well before I rise and shine. A large and not particularly well oiled generator was running 24/7, making sure that also at night there was no quiet.
Show HN: Jotdown – Markdown but parsed like a programming language
Oversampling requires producing more output information than input information. It would be incredible for a NN to realize a system that could do this without requiring more memory and CPU cycles than a good oversampling algorithm, which can be derived analytically with various definitions of "optimal."

A 3rd or 4th order polynomial interpolator is pretty darn good and doesn't need a NN to find the coefficients.
I wonder if "the space race" would still be called the same today if soviets got to the moon first.
Capitalism patches such problems, by incentivizing solutions. Got problems with space junk? someone is working on making a buck by solving your problem cheaper than you can, including by making a path to finding value in what would otherwise be just tossed.
Line6 was doing this 10-15 years ago and it wasn't that cool then. Eventide has some tools for it today tool, there's also the Owl, various teensy projects, and of course Kemper.
The Use of Likely Invariants as Feedback for Fuzzers [pdf]
This is a very weird list. I'll just comment on the places I've lived and worked in:

- Why is Hong Kong even on the list?

- Sydney and Melbourne: expensive; Internet is both low bandwidth and high latency; lack of travel destinations due to distance; poor air quality due to excessive use of fossil fuels and bushfires (yes I checked, nowadays average air quality across Melbourne is worse than HK); toxic politics. Not to mention lots of unpaid overtime. Why are they so high on the list?
I've always felt Bond's success was due to Sir. Sean Connery.

I don't think it was about race at all, it was about charisma.

I even go further and say we would probally not have a Bond theatrical legacy, if it wasen't for Connery's decision to be an actor.

Oh yea, Rolex owes so much advertising dollars to the estate of Connery.

That iconic wrist shot sold millions of Oyster Subs.

I repair watches part time. There are guys who bring me their overpriced broken watch, and when we meet at the door, I would swear they were brought up watching Bond movies.

Most sub owners just want a working quality watch, but there are others that take on Connery's persona in little ways.

Kinda like the young guys who wanted to be fighter pilots after watching Top Gun, or be Bud in Urban Coyboy, or living Tony's life after watching Saturday Night Fever. Most of you are probally to young, but after Saturday Night Fever, America became disco dancers. After Urban Cowboy, Stock brokers were doing the two step, and had a slight accent overnight. It was funny. And yes--I bought a polyester shirt. And yes--I bought cowboy boots. I let it go though. I'm embarrassed even writing about it.

My point is certain charismatic actors are the reason certain films are great.

The color of America is changing, and there will be actors that out shine some of our greats.

(I am a total movie snob. I don't think Bond movies are magic. I do think Connery, and Travolta, had huge natural star power though. All my great movies were are in black, and white. I've noticed The Last Picture Show is on tv today. If you haven't seen it you must. Peter Bogdonovich captured a certain time in Texas brilliantly. All the actors did a phenomenal job. Billy is Timothy Bottons brother in real life. Have a good weekend guys.)
I installed a new Beko B-CFB6433XH hood that was surprisingly quiet than the rest. It was the cheapest model available too.

I used a uPVC vent because I couldn't find aluminium ones amidst the lockdown. It probably helped a bit too, because those flexible ones often add up the noise.
It's $800, but here is an example https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00LADQ83O

See also "Vita-Mix Quiet One Blender"
I am assuming they're talking about https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
How to Build a “Smarter” DevOps Roadmap – The Smart Maturity Assessment Method
Ethereum extends gains to rise 8%; Bitcoin firms
> The old IE days aren’t even relevant to what’s happening now though.

Why do you say that? MSFT has been engaging in the same behavior for 30 years, trying to force people to use their browser by bundling the browser and default browsing behaviors into the OS. Why does this feel any different than what was happening in 1995? It seems exactly the same to me. Google brought new competition into the middle of an ongoing browser war, and they also do pushy things to nudge people toward their browser. But I don’t see the line you’re trying to draw.
> more than one computers where in each computer my user has different ID

Decades of network filesystem users have had many solutions to that.
A common problem with code written like that is checking the same preconditions repeatedly (or worse - never) and transforming data one way and back for no reason. I remember a bug I helped fix a fresh graduate that joined our project. It crashed with NPE when a list was empty. It's weird cause empty list should cause IndexOutOfBound if anything and the poor guy was stumped.

I looked at call stack and we got list as input then it was changed to null if it was empty then it was checked for size and in yet another function it was dereferenced and indexed.

Guy was trying to fix it by adding yet another if then else 5 levels in callstack below the first time it was checked for size. No doubt then another intern would have added even more checks ;)

If you don't know what happens to your data in your program you're doing voodoo programming.
This seems pretty subjective to me. Kuala Lumpur is listed as 50 on "Happiness, Culture & Leisure" vs "Helsinki" at 100. I know for me if I had to choose between the two I'd pick Kuala Lumpur of Helsinki any day for "Happiness, Culture & Leisure".

As for city safety, while Singapore being #1 is probably correct I'd find it hard to believe Tokyo is not #2 over Helsinky, Oslo, Zurich, Stockholm. For example checking Stockholm vs Tokyo on Crime via Numbeo

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Jap...

Shows Tokyo's crime is half of Stockholm's

I'm sure there are lots of other discrepancies
Fisted by Foucault: Marc Andreessen
mrustc[0] I think.

[0](https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/)
You're arguing a different point than everyone else, so it makes sense that things don't make sense to you.
If you're on Linux, sure.
I neither use Safari on the Mac nor any of their cloud offerings. No nagging. No ads. No promotions. The only thing I had to say no to is telemetry and Siri on the last major version upgrade (the dialog was already set to my previous choices).
Lol. Mass spying is far from recent. Mail has been spied upon for centuries in the US. Sending agents to spy on political groups too. I'm never sure exactly when this ideal time was, that time before government got evil, but I suspect it never really existed.
The Evolution of Chaos Engineering
What exactly is your point? That banks aren’t advanced enough?

Last time I checked there are already tons of apps for banking use cases. I use a third party budgeting app across multiple accounts. For my European bank account I use a third party tool to wire money. During my time as a freelancer I used tools that fetched my transactions, automatically categorized it and gave my accountant access to it to prepare my taxes.

What use case do you want to build that can’t be build on top of an API?
> IMO it's really rare that your dev box's user wouldn't be 1000:1000 on native Linux or WSL 2.

Any company-wide (GNU/)Linux deployment that uses LDAP or some other centralized user directory will not have devs with UID/GID 1000:1000. Hope is not a strategy.
Kudos to the name! The meaning ("ente" = "mine" in Malayalam) meshes deeply with what the service is, and it is short and easy for everyone to pronounce.
In post-pandemic Europe, migrants will face digital fortress
Capitalismum delenda est.
> At best this boils down to the idea that people don’t always know what’s best for them and a disaster is necessary to move things forward.

That doesn’t sound right — this is more like the collective benefits at the cost of the individual. It’s very likely that those who lived in the now-destroyed areas are worse off than they had been — though their children may now have better prospects.

The same with the window: having energy efficient windows doesn’t cover the damage of the lost window — but it improves the quality of life for people going forward.

I think they key is that the improvements are inefficient to implement, but if it’s inevitable (the broken window is already broken; the fire can’t be stopped; they’re a sunk cost) the improvements suddenly become viable.

That is, the improved option has to significantly superior to the current situation, because it has to be better than the object in question and the cost to replace. Once the window is broken, it simply needs to be better.
Holy ... This thing was a cultural smash at the time.
Isn't any reasonably good DSP able to do same? Or is it learning automatically to mimic the effect?
Forced ASLR isn't the important feature (the browsers already opted themselves in). The increased entropy, which doesn't exist on Win7, is important however.
I’ve been to ~10 Buc-ees (although I prefer mom and pop places like Hruska’s/Czech Stop) and I don’t think I’ve ever noticed seating.
China to send 3 male astronauts to its space station in June
Doesn't that mean ads have shaped your behaviour in a much deeper way than just nudging you to buy a thing or two?
More institutional failure by universities to deal with research misconduct
...that movie is not that awful! It definitely had entertainment value for me.
Yes, latency is really important, though it is important to note that digital signal processing doesn't need that huge stack. In fact, audio DSP chips have at least 25 years of history and the result is that today you can get things like the Vox AC30 which is a digital headphone amp--all digital--that has no perceptible latency. That one in particular, sounds pretty darn good, for just being a single battery-powered chip!

> In order to be competitive with a 1980s guitar pedal, you have to do all of that in under ~10ms latency, and that's just really hard still.

Well, don't use a whole PC with software stack. A custom embedded solution with DSP can easily manage.

> Even though we carry around these super computers in our pockets these days, there are still some things left where analog still beats the pants.

Again, it's not digital vs analog, it's massive software stack versus embedded hardware/software solution.
No, you were just trolling. The answer is you don't do that.
@OP:

Yes. Here's another account of a person - me - eating life's lemons by grinding throughout life:

- I, too, have a dysfunctional family (heavy physical and psychological abuse). (My father beat up my mother and us now estranged siblings until we were blue and crying. Additionally, our mother beat us up too and abused us psychologically. I am not only estranged to my siblings, I am also estranged to my other relatives. So, I have close to no social support like you.)

- Yes, compared to my peers, I am fairly behind things. I am late to the "party" called life.
I am studying CS and by the time I complete my degree, I will near my mid 30s. Prior to that, I worked in dead end jobs like you as well (not in tech, not with computers).

No idea how my remaining life will fold out after I manage to graduate from school with a CS degree. I have to compete with the 22-year-old fresh graduates and my peers my age who are very likely well beyond my skill-level (due to more experience).

Anyhow, the "domino comment" from muzani is helpful. Reminds me of a chapter from the book "Algorithms to Live By".

@giantg2:

Yeah, I feel the same. Most of the stuff coming up in tech are short-lived things. I noticed that especially in web development.
That's why I focus on fundamental subjects: math, algorithms (including various rendering, deep learning algorithms). So I don't learn APIs that go obsolete (like in the case of OpenGL. C, C++, SDL, Python, JavaScript, Bash are enough for most of my purposes. I call this "essentialism" as I try to learn long-lasting things. E.g. a rendering algorithm I learned the other day will work no matter how many years will pass. Unlike frameworks/APIs that depreciate fast. I just need to encode that algorithm in a programming language that's it.)

@ALL:
PS:

HN hates postings like mine, b/c it is not adding value to the community according to some HNers.
I would like to therefore apologize to those HNers who feel that HN content should be only tech-focused and no "touchy-feely" subjects. HN has apparently a low tolerance for "touchy-feely" subjects. Or maybe I am missing something here. Not sure...
My purpose with this comment was to tell OP that he/she is not alone with this.
What do you mean exactly? Do you mean when offering a service built on open source software, which is developed by some 3rd party groups/communities/organizations?
My picks:

1) Fintech. It'll be messy with the aftermath of COVID, moratoriums, etc. Combine it with new and old banking regulations, islamic banking, ways to finance the poor, bubbles popping, crowdfunding. Then you have crypto and retail investors. It's going to be a bloodbath. And there's plenty of space for the young and hungry.

2) Remote work. Not just non-offices, but working internationally. If you're going to hire someone who doesn't come into office, why not just hire someone whose living costs are 10x lower? Inversely, there are a lot of problems with it; who's solving them?

3) AI creativity. It's more creative than humans now. Where will it be 4 years from now? We're seeing the side effects of too much creativity - it turns your brain into mush. It'll be a new revolution, like assembly lines, but in the opposite direction. We're experimenting how much we can totally delegate to AI and how much support infrastructure we need to build around it.
Not OP but I worked in Sweden for about 9 months before moving on, here's my take:

Maybe related to the local culture, AFAICT Swedes in general avoid conflict and whenever I questioned something at a meeting I was acknowledged and then the issue was quietly dismissed, no one wants to change anything, review processes or engage in a discussion to make things better, people will hear you, not argue back, and quietly move on, I much preferred environments where people were respectful but ultimately entered open discussions where it feels like you can learn more from each other.

Similarly, everyone in Sweden is very nice, up to a point where it's way too impolite not to be nice, everyone was very nice to me and I felt very welcomed and integrated and then I saw everyone was playing corporate chess in the background and complaining about me to my managers for reasons I'm yet to comprehend.

Ultimately I left Sweden because I didn't find it the right fit for me for several reasons combined, climate is of course not the best, salaries are not high compared to the cost of living you get in other European cities. The fact that I didn't enjoy my working environment there was just extra.

I only had one short lived working experience in the city so it might have been an odd case.
Everyone has probably heard that term dozens of times
Working from home last fall, by far the biggest source of noise was leaf blowers. So loud and so constant. It was impossible to work without noise cancelling headphones during the day. The name "The Devil's Hair Dryer" is very appropriate.
I use the reading mode of my Browser (Firefox). I have to be fast enough though. When the reading mode is loaded once, its not changed by javascript.
Intel’s 11th Gen processor brings 5.0GHz speeds to thin laptops
WordTsar, a WordStar Clone
Was it actually done tabulā rasā?, why?

Certainly quite a bit of rustc could be cannibalized? Surely the parsing, type, and borrow checking stage or perhaps all the way to the m.i.r. could have been shared.
There's a difference between meaningless an imprecise. Words like fascism, species, decency, beauty, and such do have meaning. They just don't have precise, F=ma like meaning.

There's also no problem defining and measuring addiction using discrete definitions such as withdrawal symptom severity, rehabilitation success rates or neurochemical signature. The problem arises when researchers (or anyone) then believes that this is the definition of addiction, when in reality it is a definition contrived for the purpose os (valid and useful) research. In a different context, it might be useful to think of these as indicators of... Usefulness is contextual.

Discrete language is fine. It just isn't the way we communicate normally, and it's impossible to use only discrete language to describe things we don't understand fully.
I worked on one of these systems in the early 90s- an Amiga-controlled movie preview channel that played cuts from laser disks. So there was a rack of laser disk players running 24/7. A problem was that the disks in the players at the top of the rack would melt and sag from the heat.
> Today Quebec has the lowest provincial birthrate in Canada.

Not remotely true. As of 2016 Quebec has a fertility rate of 1.59 children per women which is higher than the Canadian average (1.54), Ontario (the largest province by far, 1.46) as well as BC (1.40) and the Atlantic provinces (1.42-1.58).

See https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/91-209-x/2018001/article...
I find it strange that "free speech" has to be defended in the US today. This is a bedrock concept to a free country.
Popups for email. No images of said fish.
Spying on someone's mail is well regulated, and is not 'Mass' as defined by any reasonabke person.
I can’t find the video from Toho University but I found some papers that used the same methods

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002185020...