skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm saying the legal system takes authority. A smart contract doesn't avoid or override that authority.

https://digitalchamber.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Smart-...

> Is A Smart Contract Always A Legal Contract?

> No. Because a smart contract is computer code, a smart contract may represent all, part, or none of a valid
legal contract under U.S. law. Smart contracts function – in whole or in part – to give effect to legal
contracts. Thus, smart contracts are the programmatic means by which some or all of the terms of the legal
contract are performed. It is the underlying contractual terms that are given legal effect.

That legal contract and the contractual terms is what is evaluated and governed by the legal system. Smart contracts are fancy business logic snake oil salespeople are attempting to sell as the law of the land.
Bike-shedding isn't binary, it's a continuum. Shallow discussions are a result of audience size and loss of focus.
Hewitt argues that erlang/elixir/beam isn't the actor model because of how Erlang processes receive/process messages

more here: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/lets-talkconcurrency-p...
and here: https://codesync.global/media/almost-actors-comparing-pony-l...
Not wanting children is fine. It’s a very personal and individualized choice.

The best advice I can give on the topic is that it’s critically important to make a fully informed decision on the matter. Getting information from heavily biased sources toward having children (e.g. your grandparents who desperately want great-grandchildren) or being childfree (e.g. /r/childfree, the subreddit so miserable that even most childless parents can’t stand it) is not a recipe for making informed decisions. Likewise, evaluating child raising by only observing vocally unhappy parents in your social circle while ignoring the quietly happy parents is an easy mistake. If your only impression of child raising is changing diapers and listening to crying babies, you’re not getting the full picture.

Nearly half of my parent friends thought they would never want children when they were younger. They’re all happy (and deliberate) parents now after revisiting their decisions as they grew older. And that’s fine.

I also have some friends who have decided to never have children and stayed that way. And that’s fine too.

Generally, ignore anyone who is militant that there is only one correct decision (having kids or being childfree). Ignore anyone who harbors hatred or loathing for children in general (kids are people too). And try to ignore the parents who try to make themselves out to be martyrs by talking endlessly about how challenging their kids are. You might have to seek out the happy parents in your social circles to ask what child raising is really like, because in my experience many of the happiest and most successful parents aren’t constantly talking about how happy they are with their decision in the same way that the /r/childfree zealots are actively spreading their message. You have to look a bit deeper to find the reality.
It's probably in relation to the push to ban municipal ISPs in Ohio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27538804
Pharo is mentioned in the paper
>I got paid for years doing webdev before I achieved anything that I would think of now as "serious development". I'm sure I'll look back in another 5 years and think the same about my current self.

Maybe your definition of "serious development" is whatever is around your current level instead of something objective?
I didn't say, and wouldn't say, that the US wasn't involved in MENA. I can understand how my previous comment may have implied that, for which I apologize, so it's worth clarifying. There's simply a difference in scale of involvement, as far as I can tell. Since you mentioned Iran, it looks even worse for the British than it does for the US by my reading. The coup in 1953, for instance, was spearheaded by the British who solicited US assistance, and was only the end of a long line of British exploitation of Iranian leadership (and oil) and the start of a slightly-shorter line of American exploitation of Iranian leaders.

Most of North Africa would probably be shared by the British and the French, Afghanistan seems to be shared by most of the "Global North" at this point, and so on. I definitely wouldn't say that the US doesn't have any responsibility here.
If somebody has the opportunity to work in a role that has 'network engineer' in the title for somebody else's mid sized ISP first, I would encourage them to think of that like free paid training for a couple of years before trying it on their own.

Of course totally dependent on their level of pre-existing knowledge, level of risk with the capital they intend to spend on a startup wisp, financial partners, and what scale/scope of service area they want to do it in. Varies widely with location. And what competition (if any, other than hughesnet/viasat) exists.

I've seen people do some pretty cool non-profit community based WISP things for under 50 houses, if built right it can be quite trouble free.

The tools and equipment to do really basic 100% fiber based GPON network (or active ethernet) are also a lot less costly than they used to be... The things some guys are doing on really shoestring budgets with FTTH aerial drop cables across roofs and low cost GPON things in cities like Dhaka, Bangladesh show that it doesn't have to be super expensive. In a USA/Canada context, right of way and poles and routes are an issue (even after you're got your ROW, go price how much bucket truck/aerial fiber contractors cost, if you don't do it all in house)...

I read somewhere that 40% of restaurants started by people with no previous industry experience go belly up within 5 years? Something like that. I imagine one could easily spend $400,000 setting up a restaurant and working 14 hour days and ultimately not be successful, so doing something like a startup WISP on one's own similar amount of funds (and loans, private party investors) I would think of something similar to that. If one has the funds and the appetite for the risk and is really determined to do it, then go for it!
Does SYOISP overlap (tech-wise) with the efforts of those at https://www.meshcenter.org/ who are really trailblazing it in NYC and Baltimore?

Also, is SYOISP closer to what https://starry.com/ has deployed?

Thanks.
Supporting Miguel Ojeda’s Work on Rust in the Linux Kernel
The Rise of Digital Fashion
I use JetBrains PyCharm with type annotations in my code. I run the type-checker/linter ("Inspect Code") every 10 minutes or so, it's muscle-memory at this point. It covers most cases, problem resolved.
Not wrong, the mobile market is massive.

But lots of users still use a desktop browsers for working jobs, especially now a days.
>This system makes the person arguably _least qualified_ to understand the situation the single arbitrator as to which answer is accepted.

Devil's advocate: If it fixed their problem adequately, it's acceptable.

Maybe separate "acceptable" and "ideal" answers would be a nice feature?
You fundamentally cannot build a statically typed variant of Python without cutting portions of the stdlib, most notably `mock.patch`. You could do a good majority of it, probably enough to be completely usable, but at what point does it stop being Python? Go use Nim if you want statically typed Python-ish syntax.
Here's our new feature. Please, never use it.
Solving the Makefile Problem (2014)
Not to mention that happiness is a flow, not a stock.

My parents were delighted with me ages 0-10. If you polled them again 10 years later, they'd have a very different response.
I bet I can find several users of Slack or Visual Studio Code who haven't even heard of HN.
I'm curious how this handles the case where the calling program dies or wants to cancel the request before it's actually happened.
Which is why you can still install software you want from any source on laptops (for the time being), but have to go through Apple to get software on your phone.

The end goal is to no longer have any thick device. Engineers will store and manage all of their code in the cloud, then pay a subscription fee to access it.

Rent everything, own nothing.

I bet TBL hates this just as much as the thing the web of documents and open sharing mutated into.
Oh god, I used to work with the guy like this. Incredibly clever graduate, blew some of my knowledge out of the water.

But every day was a game of code golf to him. His code was absolutely illegible
It's not air pressure, it's a shock wave in liquid metal.

The BBC article is simplified a bit too far for anyone with a technical background but I doubt if a more accurate version would be much more meaningful to most people.

There is a patent on it: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9424955B2/en

----Quote:

2. Description of the Related Art Various systems for heating and compressing plasmas to high temperatures and densities have been described. One approach for accomplishing plasma heating and compression by spherical focusing of a large amplitude acoustic pressure wave in a liquid medium is described in U.S. Patent Publica tion No. 2006/0198486, published Sep. 7, 2006, entitled “Pressure Wave Generator and Controller for Generating a Pressure Wave in a Fusion Reactor”, which is hereby incor porated by reference herein in its entirety. In certain embodi ments of this approach, a plurality of pistons is arranged around a substantially spherical vessel containing a liquid medium. A vortex or cavity is created in the liquid medium. The pistons are accelerated and strike the outer wall of the vessel generating an acoustic wave. The acoustic wave generated in the liquid medium converges and envelopes a plasma that is introduced into the Vortex, thereby heating and compressing the plasma.

----end quote
Yep, and btw, how can the price of anything be exactly 0? This doesn't sound right either.
Why is everything evolving into crabs
I'm not going to enter my PIN into someones mobile unless I have a way of verifying the app they are using is really the app it says it is. I can't see how that could possibly work.
I'm very curious why Wasmer 2.0 can't deserialize modules that are serialized by Wasmer 1.0. Are they serializing to a non-spec complaint format? Are there extra custom sections that Wasmer 2.0 expects? This seems like a relatively small problem but I'm curious why it's there.
The Vexing Tech Challenge of Fighting Ransomware: A Battle of Milliseconds
Exactly. Policy without enforcement/oversight is just wish casting :p
io_uring is Linux specific. BSD offers kqueue instead, introduced in 2000.

I believe both are limited to specific operations, mostly IO, and aren't fully general asynchronous syscall interfaces.
I still find notion too slow for some reason although it has improved over the last year for me. Kudos to the guys though. Great story. Notion definitely has growing feature list. Now it has API, backlinking etc.
This looks really cool, and TIL (from their compiled JavaScript) about JS' reflect: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I guess that's the magic behind most JS data binding libraries?

I do find the syntax on the Gleam side a little bit odd:

external fn query_selector(String) -> Element =
"" "document.querySelector"

Becomes:

function query_selector(arg0) {
return document.querySelector(arg0)
}

I'm not sure what the empty string first argument is doing in this case.
To me, the most interesting (and also sad) part of this article is the story of how Pieter and his team made heavy use of code generation, then abandoned it because they concluded the world would never catch up with them. Luckily they started using it again.
It is also released in Firefox (x86 only, ARM is in the next release iirc)
Yeah, seems a bit pointless to split builds for no reason.

You always want to test on the browser users will ultimately use anyways, even if you have guarantees the code works exactly the same for dev and user editions.
To me it seems like an unfortunate but common tactic in marketing-land to seek out any sort of affiliation with a well known brand and to publish it as much as possible.
> People who aren’t child-free felt substantially less warm toward child-free individuals.

From reading some of the comments here, this line seems particularly true.
How can I check the amount if there is no screen on the device?
I mean, I think the whole idea of only showing websites with unminified source available is silly, but I'm willing to think about the idea ;)

I think a source map is a better approach than a GitHub link, is was all I was saying!

It also probably wouldn't be too hard to make some heuristics to figure out whether scripts are unminified and not require a source map. It wouldn't be 100% accurate, and it wouldn't avoid some form of intentional obfuscation that still uses long names for things, but it would probably work pretty well.
>That’s sad, as when you find yourself iterating over rows in pandas you’re almost invariably doing some wrong or very very sub optimally.

Humans writing code is suboptimal. I can't wait for the day when robots/AI do it for us. I just hope it leads to a utopia and not a dystopia.
sorry, i don't mean it as criticism and I am not asking you to give it away for free.

I was suggesting that, for you to make more $$$ from it, its better to provide a free trial period for the said version.
Insurers don't really care why some variable is correlated with increased claims as long as it is. They just want the maximum data at their disposal so they don't get outpriced by their competitors.
I am willing to believe most parents love their children more than anything. However, I know a few parents who wish they'd never had children, and believe it ruined their lives.

Of course, they would never say anything publicly, as it would crush their children. Most parents would never say "I wish I didn't have you" to their children, even if they believe it.
Fission is a chain reaction, Fusion is not. A fusion reaction is so unstable that if the reactor failed the conditions for sustaining fusion would immediately stop.

It's basically the hottest plasma we can make suspended in a magnetic donut surrounding by near absolute zero temperatures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
Not quite sure what you're saying, that you expect the DOJ to somehow overturn the judgements of smart contracts, with possibly anonymous participants or participants outside of the DOJ's jurisdiction?
The E Myth is another good example of a business book with a relatively simple message wrapped in an enjoyable narrative.
Meh. With credit cards it's the banks problem if something goes wrong (and their fault for push a horrible authentication method.)
I have one more to add

"Don't worry about failure conditions" - Just code everything to the happy path
Covid Vaccine Risks
Considering that attempts at propfan commercialization has more or less always ended up as a boondoggle for the past ~50 years[1], I'm not especially optimistic about seeing these engines make it beyond R&D.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propfan
They mention steam in their demo video drives the primary pistons, which in turn drives a 2nd set of pistons that contour a liquid metal chamber, which in turn compresses the fuel mixture.
They still have your real IP address, which is what you were trying to hide in the first place
Uhm. Without Internet they can't take tests from home unless you mail it to them - at that point cheating becomes much easier by just meeting up with your buddies and doing the test together.
Interesting. I've always looked at it as, the "conventional wisdom" is that people are sort of expected to have children. But I never saw that as necessarily suggesting that people who have children are happier than people who choose not to do so. But now that you put it that way, I guess I can see how those two things get linked together.
Starlink only has permission for 5 million user terminals at the moment.
Should one learn Rust, lets say after 3-4 years, i.e by mid 2020s, once it becomes more mainstream? The syntax of Rust is a mix of OCaml/C++ and I feel some of the concepts are very esoteric for a normal enterprise Java/C#/JS/Python developer, so it takes a lot of cognitive overload to master it. So is it worth learning now or later?
I would think writing modular (decoupled) code would make it easier to remove and re-write, no? I don't see any conflict between those two bits of advice.

Readability has a long tradition in programming too, including but not limited to literate programming (1984). IMO nothing wrong with verbosity as long as it serves a purpose (readability is a worthy purpose). I think the perceived trend "developers care more about readability now than they did x years ago" is likely due to the proliferation of click-bait blog posts on the subject.

Lastly, if you're asking yourself the question "am I that bad developer", then IMO you by definition aren't that bad developer. Bad developers don't ask this question, or they don't care about the answers. You are self aware!
There's a little bit of that in there. Surprisingly, in the U.S. at least, there's not much of a gap between being a legal business entity (LLC, corp) and being able to be an ISP. You don't have to log much of anything (unless you're doing voice services as well). You do have to be able to intercept customer traffic without going on site physically in order to comply with law enforcement requests.

But as someone who is not a lawyer and has no business giving legal advice the best I can do is suggest that you talk to a real lawyer.
Having done this informally many years ago for a dozen neighbors in a village before we got decent broadband I can relate. People get real weird and twitching when there internet is out and there is nothing like being woken up at 6am on a Sunday with a "customer" in you bedroom ranting that the INTERNET IS DOWN. Or having to bust the kid who hid a wifi repeater in the village library to torrent gigabytes of "ISOs" over our tiny 1.5Mbit connection
What's the advantage of this over docker?

Presumably this just bundles a python runtime and a copy of the dependencies and hides it all inside some sort of huge file?
Do you ever hear your mom’s voice or your dad’s voice? If not their voice, their words telling you to do something or not do something?

Your older brother or sister? Spouse? Ex-spouse? A movie actor? The kids in school who teased or praised you? Your coach?

If you never or rarely hear any of these people, does it follow that your behaviour just springs forth of its own accord, an original choreography generated in the moment by your original machinery?
Which is why Python doesn't really support parallelism.

Other language (like GoLang) do support parallelism but they have a more advanced runtime and don't use a GIL.
No it’s not. And it won’t
They said "typically", so they aren't saying it's true in all cases, but generally when a person is trying to evade some legal authority, it's probably not for reasons good for society.
Nevertheless, there are probably more Smalltalk programmers today - and indeed Common Lisp programmers - than there ever have been before.

Saying that nobody uses Smalltalk seems a bit like saying that nobody lives in Norway.
I had assumed both were chain reactions due to stars. That’s interesting
According to the graph in the post (https://miro.medium.com/max/6088/1*tzpAFvuxVeumWO8ENz_SZg.pn...), it's somewhere around 0.0961 as of that time, and I suppose the price oracle they're using rounds that down to zero, perhaps? Or maybe the contract is rounding it down? Either way, I agree it's odd that exactly zero would be reported even if it's very close to zero.

edit: Nevermind, I misread. It's -0.0961, apparently.
Most teachers only have a bachelor's degree according to BLS, the same level of education required to be a detective. Most of my high school teachers used the same curriculum year after year, even including the USSR on maps they would hand out with instructions to ignore it handwritten on the top of the page. None did any grading over the summer as school was out and no work is being produced by students.
Rules for Eating Frogs
Sort of, but it's a vast oversimplification. Fission is very safe relative to something like coal because all of the pollution is concentrated in barrels instead of pushed into the atmosphere, but has the risk of meltdown. To be fair lots of other non-nuclear plants have had disasters that released toxic gasses around the globe too.

Fusion in theory has no pollution at all, but that's theoretical until large scale fusion plants are built.
This is exactly the scientific process! Observe results, reproduce conditions, and then figure out how it works later.
Barely any commercial sites have public repos though.

I'd even say barely any sites in general outside of dev blogs + projects.

And even then they always link to the repo.
I think the point is more that if you owe $200M to someone, a court is unlikely to accept "it's irreversibly stuck in a smart contract" as an out.
>> To give an example, what if the algorithm is to generate the correct algorithm?

That's not a description of an algorithm. You've stated a "problem". An algorithm, by definition, is an actual deterministic procedure.
It seems it's pretty easy for an unbiased observer to spot that. In cases where a moderator is too biased, that's why there are multiple moderators that would all collectively make decisions about the code of conduct.
Doesn't basically every Hollywood movie since DVD pay a licensing fee to Dolby (or DTS) for 5.1 or Atmos (or DTS:X) support? Theaters too even?

And wasn't Dolby B NR insanely widespread on pre-recorded cassettes? Like so common that most albums on cassette from the 80s have the Dolby logo on them?

I don't think its that weird. It's clearly been done in the past. Apple's limitations on what devices works sucks and it'd be nice if we could buy these tracks DRM free to play on an Atmos speaker setup but they aren't the only ones to have this. Tidal has Spatial Audio, Amazon does too. Each does it a little differently as to what is supported annoyingly but hopefully as time goes on those limitations will go away.
That's true, there's no denying that. There's no universal should/shouldn't advice when it comes to having children.
> What I’m talking about more is when people make very complicated aggregation functions in order to keep state around

Are we talking about languages without handy combinators? I can imagine that in these, turning stateless functions into stateful aggregators is going to be more obscure rather than easy.

As for speed, that seems like an implementation issue. In principle a functional solution could still preserve more information for efficient code generation than a loop for which such information needs to be extracted from by complicated auto-vectorizers. In practice the environments aren't "quite there" (lack of such features as Common Lisp's compiler macros), and any potential or even realized benefits may be cancelled out by other performance issues of such environments.
As someone who used to spend a decent amount of time driving overloaded trucks the speeding thing always pisses me off because it's lacking in nuance.

There is nothing safe about following the speed limit when the speed limit is substantially lower than what the rest of the traffic wants to do.
Thanks for the "how" - I guess if you fully control the client and server, there's some extra checks you could implement client-side based on the cryptographic root of trust.

FWIW, I wasn't really trying to make a prescriptive statement about how the world ought to be, I was more trying to describe what (I think) the perspective of these corporations has been on the matter.

In the past, I've been an encryption advocate with the knowledge that we (tech) must sacrifice some ability to appease politicians in implementing it. What you're describing sounds like an innovative way to preserve privacy and provide security for at-risk people, which is a perspective I haven't heard before.