skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They had a reasonable expectation that even if the value was totally lost, they wouldn't have their collateral locked forever. Their investment, yes, but not their collateral.

They literally handed their money to a computer program that works outside of human control and cannot be interfered with... which means if something goes wrong no one can intervene and sort it out. This is a risk they took willingly. It's not the first time a computer program malfunctions, and won't be the last.
The selinux coloring book is another great example:
https://people.redhat.com/duffy/selinux/selinux-coloring-boo...
Triplebyte was a dud for me. Way too many garbage startups recruiting.

I have started to re-write my resume for each application and that has yielded much better results in terms of quality of the company and number of interviews.

If you are submitting the same resume to multiple companies, you are doing it wrong.
Upwards of 40% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs
> Going forward, our assessments are a purely optional means by which engineers can show their skills to employers (who overwhelmingly tell us that they trust our scoring)

So it sounds like the hiring manager can choose to skip a fizzbuzz call when they know you already passed.
Yes, of course the reality and usefulness of this particular mechanism has now been legally acknowledged and incorporated into the law in some (but not all) places. But mechanisms like this arise organically and are put to use long before they are officially recognized. I expect similar things to happen with smart contracts.

In other words: things you might call "evading the law" in fact can be useful and then shape the law. If we were to adopt a principle like "anything that looks like it's trying to evade the law must be dismantled", we'd be worse off.
Bird strike with that engine seems to be pretty darn scary.

I also wonder just how much efficiency these can provide over high bypass turbines.
Submitted title was "Amazon will reduce dev. revenue cut from 30% to 20% and give 10% in AWS Credit". We've replaced it with a prefix of the article title. (The specific numbers don't need to be in the title, and we try to avoid abbrevs.)
>Why aren't the Feds arresting drug dealers on every corner in a large scale operation first and foremost?

Because they did, and it was a large reason our prison population boomed. And...it didn't work. Read the article.

>Drugs enable misery, poverty, overdoses and homicides

No, drugs use is a respite for people in misery and poverty. It is a symptom not the underlying wound. I highly suggest taking a read of "Dignity" by Chris Arnande for a personal and expansive look at this. Though if you prefer academic articles the NIH has more papers on it then you can read in a lifetime and happy to link you to them.

>I guess we all agree that drugs are obviously bad for society as a whole

Hard disagree, and in fact you are actually in a small minority now in this position: https://news.gallup.com/poll/323582/support-legal-marijuana-...
Wasm as a compilation target is certainly of interest for the future. This Javascript target will hopefully provide a pragmatic way to write Gleam for a similar set of environments in the meantime, in addition to providing whatever unique opportunities the JS target itself offers.
IIRC I wrote about 30 custom cover letters to Triplebyte companies... about 2-3 responded. My response rate to cold emailing/applying to ~10 F# companies is literally 100%. To be fair though, the TB applications occurred right at the start of Covid, and my F# job applications well into Covid.

Anyway, a ghost rate would be greatly appreciated.
> Such an occurrence would send a very unexpected signal to markets and could result in panic as investors see the value of money market funds shrink for the first time ever.

Panic how? what will they do, withdraw the cash that banks don't want anyway?

I dont undertand the weird mythologizing of 0% interest rate, pretending transaction costa dont exist.
> (and that score is us saying "this person deserves a job")

If you're not willing to refer people to companies based on their score, how can you interpret the score as you saying "this person deserves a job"?
This is the logical thing, IMO. The fact that people don't even reconsider their consumption is a sign to me that the real issue isn't the ads, it's people not having anything better to do than play VR. I've been playing video games as long as I've been able to read and I'm happy to just go read a book or ride my bike instead if I don't want ads.
Interesting... a git commit is almost always represented as a diff... example: https://github.com/github/gitignore/commit/991e760c1c6d50fdd...

Whether it's represeented as a diff internally seems completely irrelevant to me, even to understand the examples in the article. I would like to be able to "de-serialize" a real commit's data to see exactly what's stored, but this article doesn't seem to show how to do that... do you have a suggestion on how to do that?
I was under the impression that they are pharmacologically identical and main distinction is that crack can be smoked/vaporized and while cocaine is predominantly snorted.

I would be surprised if the harms of smoked crack were worse than the harms of IV cocaine.
You can buy devices that display infrared everywhere. Only cool thing here is that is passive.
If I had to guess - it's a mixture of the underlying mechanism still being very poorly understood which makes it very hard to treat.
Likely a lot of people experiencing what we classify as depression are actually experiencing similar symptoms of highly variable underlying causes.

Also, for a long time mental health was handled atrociously by society so people are (reasonably) sensitive to that and there's maybe a little bit of an overcorrection on this culturally where people are now afraid to suggest that there's any agency here at all.

Hopefully as we get some real empirical understanding of how our minds work we'll be able to relieve a lot of suffering. As it stands, psychology feels like medicine prior to germ theory (at least to me) - we have some treatments that seem to help, but barely know why.
Past related threads:

Start Your Own ISP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726906 - Aug 2019 (95 comments)

Start Your Own ISP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160394 - Jan 2018 (193 comments)

There have been other threads on this general theme but I don't remember what they were; anyone?
It's worth noting that quote was actually first published 5 years ago, and its veracity is in dispute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote

I do believe the War on Drugs has been a terrible policy, doing disproportionate harm to Blacks and other marginalized people. I'm not convinced that was the intent by most of those who supported its creation and sustained it.
"Our future roadmap is going to blow you away"

Yeah, none of this thread matches my tastes.
This isn't clearly a R vs D issue, perhaps localized. TN has a surprising amount of gigabit muni broadband in very, very red areas. Though another R has done her damnedest to stop that.
Quick question about Wasmer and C programming: can I use Wasmer to compile a simple Hello World C program only once and then run this program on all supported architectures like I can use Cordova with Javascript to do the same?

Quickly exploring the wasmer-c-api examples just now[1], this does not appear to be the case: I get the impression one must write a bunch of high-friction boilerplate code to load/unload/configure/run wasm in order to do a simple hello world program. I have recently converted from being a C programmer to a Javascript programmer because I just can't deal with complicated C build systems and cross-compiling anymore: CMake, Gradle, etc. I spend more time trying to get a dependency to compile and learning the CMake language than I do actually solving my problem. People say "Electron is cancer" but at least I can get Cordova quickly working to ship an app for Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS. I'd love to go back to lightweight, fast C programs though if I had the option. I tried using SDL2 but many of the examples will run fine on one platform but then fail to run on a different platform (say iOS or Android) and as a lone indie dev I don't have the time to investigate such issues. (I tried and managed to fix a few broken builds, but grew frustrated and gave up.) Cordova with Javascript so far is the only thing I've tried that just works for universal cross-platform dev.

[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-c-api
OK, I see your point. Then again, we can't do A/B testing on history. It's very hard to say "what if" (the USSR didn't fall apart). Knowing the history of Russia, it's not hard to imagine someone much worse than Putin could appear. Also, almost all republics had surprisingly high turnout in the referendum - Nakhchivan and Checheno-Ingushetia aside, all the rest had the turnout of at leas 2/3:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum
Your preferred language was nodejs after all
Hey, this is great - what tools did you use to make this?
Fwiw the bug was fixed by submitting a transaction to change the oracle to a new contract that just had a fixed nonzero price for titan. Everyone was able to redeem at roughly 74.6 cents.
Just wanted to drop in and appreciate your work.

It's documented very well, extremely easy to use and the pro version is priced very well.
I generally agree with the phrase "if you're not paying for a product, you're the product". But the market for engineers is just so lopsided that I think it's less true here. There are a lot of recruiting companies. The only real thing that sets one apart from others is whether they have candidates. So one way to look at it is that yes, we are incentivized to build what companies want, but the main thing they want is for us to have engineers. And the only way we get engineers is by building what engineers want.

That does not fully express my motivations. I am an engineer and find the idea of making the process better for engineers more exciting than making it better for companies. But it explains how I think the incentives work.
Yeah, for context in the past 20 years, 40,000 soldiers have deserted, so at this rate it's about 10 people going missing for every weapon.
Your understanding of Net Neutrality is largely wrong, and your understanding of what happened vis-a-vis AT&T/California is also wrong.

AT&T are absolutely allowed to bundle HBO Max within plans in California (and do in fact). What they're NOT allowed to do, as an ISP, is treat one downstream provider differently in terms of internet throughput/caps/access/etc. AT&T imposes data caps on all traffic, but then tried to make HBO Max not count towards the data caps like competing streaming services are. This was AT&T using their ISP position via data caps to give their other service an unfair competitive advantage which is unlawful in terms of net neutrality. California rightly squished this.

The Amazon question is predicated on something that never happened (i.e. that AT&T were told to stop bundling HBO Max with phone service), rather than what actually happened (i.e. AT&T were told to treat HBO Max and competitors equally for data cap calculations). Since it never happened, the Amazon Prime question in turn doesn't make sense and NN has nothing to do with bundling.
It's the most trite platitude in the world, but from someone who was also there: the more you do it, the better it gets. Good luck, and keep at it.
If the Scrum Alliance Cared
Show me somewhere that it has worked and I'll believe you, I've never seen it though.
To start with, the fact that those other nation's drug laws in many cases were directly influenced into being by the United States. More importantly, the money for resources for enforcing those laws often comes from specifically earmarked U.S. funds.

To put it another way, how many other countries in the world have active agents in the field in multiple other countries to interdict and disrupt drug supply chains?
That’s possible. In reality, if I ever came across that piece of code and had a bug to fix in it, the first thing I’d do is rename a and b in one scope or the other because it’s just asking for trouble otherwise and it’s not easy to understand what happens to a and b. That’s why I think using this question as a trivia question is bad. But the discussion we’re having about it clearly shows we both know what to look out for, that we’re competent, and is way more interesting than running JS code in our heads. Even if either of us gets the answer wrong, it doesn’t really matter as much as how we got there in my opinion.
I don't know the solution to this, but I'm open to trying anything other than the failed police policies we've been repeating for what seems like forever.

One of my nieces died from heart failure last year. She had been living on the street and been a hard core drug user. I can't say that it was heroin that killed her, because like most street users, she took anything she could get her hands on. But her heroin addiction was what kept her on the street. She had been through treatment more times than I can count. None helped for very long. In the end, she's dead at 29, a life completely wasted.

Would legalized heroin with clean needles have saved her? Don't know. But our current system sure didn't.
That's both a downside and an upside though - they do exactly what they say they will do. The issues occur when people don't realize exactly that they say they will do. To me it's just a different set of trade offs.

Also, it's worth noting that this contract wasn't audited, a baseline practice in the industry. Most larger contracts go through multiple waves of audits, while this was apparently released with exactly 0 (so hard for me to be shocked when there are issues).

> A code audit likely would have caught this (this type of bug is so common in software development, I’ve probably made it hundreds of times myself), but of course this smart contract was not audited. Only its sister-contract on the Binance Smart Chain, written in a different language, was.
Could you elaborate? As someone who has been interested in hacking SDRs for a while (but with zero prior knowledge outside of programming), I'm often worried that I have a poor barometer for what is legally dangerous. This stuff seems innocuous enough, but isn't always.

I don't know what I don't know, so any additional context is welcome.
Why can't they just make laws that allow the free market to solve the problem?

In the age of wireless and satellite 5G - trying to ramrod muni internet system is a solution looking for a problem.

Super suspect.
I would love to create another dialect of SQL where you could do:

1. FROM, 2. WHERE, 3. SELECT

Instead of

1. SELECT, 2. FROM, 3. WHERE
This is actually a big deal for me and probably one of the main reasons why I asked the question. Facebook did this exact same thing in the past (not sure if its changed) where even if you don't give them permission to scan your contacts, they will be suggested as "people you might know". I deleted Facebook recently and I was hoping Signal would at least try to be better than the underhandedness of Facebook, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
> When people think of it as "gun control" it presupposes the notion that guns are out of control when that isn't the issue.

To clarify: Are you saying guns are not out of control, or guns being out of control is not an issue?

Also, if you were to substitute "nukes" or "ebola vials" for "guns" in your argument, would it still stand? If not, where do you see the difference?

(To be clear, I'm not convinced that your argument applies equally to drugs and guns, this is why I'm extrapolating it here.)
I like the novelty of it. I have a copy of The Manga Guide to Databases at my desk that I occasionally 'lend out' to people that mess up my databases. It won't turn anyone into a db hero but it's a decent primer at least.
My experience is similar but at a differet level of seniorty. I've applied to ~15 jobs for engineering manager and got 1 answer.

On the other end a recruiter reached out to me and I'll be doing the final interview with their VP next week.

I don't think we can draw conclusion at that stage (we are a dataset of 2..). But I'd love to have access to the LinkedIn dataset to figure out if applying for jobs is broken at scale.
This is precisely why Cardano is using Haskell for their language.
NB: there's no passing strings to/from the wasm vm.
It's similar to how before modern medicine, everything was a fever.
There are many ways to make it illegal. A popular one is to make it so difficult for a competitor, that they just give up. I recall a story a while back of one giving up because the existing ISP successfully prevented them from running wires.

Sorry, don't have a reference for that, as I don't recall specific details.

But the point remains. Their lack of any opposition at all at the county and city level means they can, and do, whatever they want. They can also count on a judiciary that approves the illegal laws they pass (such as a city income tax. The judge's dubious rationale was the employer was paying it, not the employee, although both are at the expense of the employee).

A state income tax is unconstitutional in Washington, so the city just required the employer to pay it.

Sadly, the Democrats simultaneously argue that capital gains should be taxed as ordinary income, and yet passed a state capital gains tax arguing the capital gains are not income.

So, yeah, blaming the GOP in Washington State isn't going to work.
What is the churn in other retail or warehouse jobs?
This is an FAQ, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27265275
> if you don't require some degree of significant impairment of functioning, a whole lot of criteria for mental illness would apply to huge swaths of the population. E.g. this is why the diagnostic criteria for ADHD include: "There is clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with or reduce the quality of social, academic, or occupational functioning."

Wouldn't this just tell us that these categories are completely meaningless?
You see this a lot nowadays. A lot of social media sites are biased towards positivity and reaffirmation, but what happens is that people get lots of positive feedback for identities and mentalities that are counter productive to a good life.
Whether government corruption is inevitable is frankly irrelevant to the broader question of political representation. I understand very well the (R) v (D) distinction is predominantly Rural v Urban. I believe in democracy and, as such, believe that people, not land should vote. Any system that is as so incredibly unrepresentative is unjust.

If 1% of CA moved to Wyoming; Wyoming would be majority Californian. Them having equal representation in a co-equal political body is insanity. Wyoming has a population half the size of the city of San Jose.

As an aside; I find the coding of land to be deeply misleading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/hpB3wkTVkPJsrJ6-qjtbU...
I think you are way overthinking my comment. I just added a note that for regular, user-space applications there really is no longer a reason to use low-level languages even if latency is important.

Of course embedded will always exist, as well as specialized programs requiring utmost control over the machine.
> I think giving computers to children is good only if the quality of education they receive is good.

This is 100% false.

A computer allows them to watch YouTube and see tutorials on everything they may want to learn. It _forces_ them to learn to how read and read quickly to digest all the information they get on social networks. It allows them to know that there are such things as spreadsheets and document editors.

This is so much more important than many classes that it can't be understated how critical this is. If these children instead had to go to private computer literacy classes when they turn 21 because they need to write a CV or access a government website, they will have wasted away a ton of potential.

All the children mentioned in the article did not have a good education, but they had a tool that enabled them to make do without it.
A revolution.

Our government hasn't listened to us for decades: https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem

They're been no sign of that changing since I've been alive.
Yeah, but it's free and open source.
US created disco (NYC), funk (NOLA), house (Chicago) and, simultaneously with Germany, techno (Detroit). US is also where many very crucial synthesizers were built, especially Moog (the rest of them came mostly from Japan). I don't think it's far fetched to say that US has been a birthplace of what we now know as electronic music.

PS. Saying this as an European, into electronic music of all genres since 20 years.
For what I was doing, and how I was doing it, working with graph structures directly with Cypher would have been easier. Perhaps "logical" is the wrong word; my intent was to relay my specific experience, not express a general "principle".
Another +1 for Sublime Merge. I use it every day and it's incredibly well-designed and built.
> Why isn't "the operator of the scheme" synonymous with "the central actor?"

There can be multiple operators.

I see zero good reasons why decentralized schemes can't be ponzi schemes.

Your argument is akin to claiming that a three legged dog is not a dog because dogs have four legs.

I wouldn't be so uncharitable as to presume to know why you have chosen to make this argument.

I think your argument would be clearer if you took a step back and explained why you think that "central actor" is such a critical part of the meaning of "ponzi scheme" rather than a incidental feature common to ponzi schemes.
Criminals in Brazil are stealing people’s iPhones to access bank accounts
> The halting problem is decidable for any deterministic system with finite memory. Either you halt, or you repeat a state. This covers most real-world computer programs.

Problem being that you cannot decide whether a system with such finite memory halts without using another different system that has even more memory. And if that larger system doesn't "real-world" exist, can you truly say that the halting problem is decidable?
Insect population collapse: new evidence links it to dams
Well, the claim is that people "generally lose confidence," which I'd interpret as a decrease in confidence, not a total destruction of confidence. Microsoft and the US treasury have some dead links, sure, but they run big sites. Most the vast majority of links that you'd encounter through normal browsing lead to reasonable places.
If two propositions have the same characters, then they have the same Gödel numbers.
yes, taxes for example. The Fed has power to print and destroy
Do you remember the name of the psychologist or any info I might use to look him up?
>Even as I wanted to avoid it biting me, I wanted to feel its teeth. I wanted to be rejected by the wild. [. . .] For the blood it would draw from my hand to be evidence of the permanent barrier of strangeness, of human and animal, the line between fiction and reality, that existed between the two of us. I wanted to know a fox, and at the same time, to know that I could never know him. [. . .] The pain of being bitten and the joy of possibly knowing what it feels like to be bitten by a fox. Not only to see one, but to be marked by one.

Uh, yeah...

I’m pretty sure the fox took one look at the author and thought, “There’s no way in hell I’d bite that tripping hippie. Yuck.”
It worked, but at what cost? How many brilliant people quit because they were bullied? It's shortsighted, and morally wrong.