skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is theoretically the case, that a virtual DOM implementation has to do more work than a perfectly efficient manual (or automatically generated) DOM mutation.

However, in practice the difference hardly matters and it is really hard to do efficient DOM mutation correctly. Which is why virtual DOM approaches are at the heart of most of the modern frameworks...
Sorry if I expressed that badly. I meant to say that the US's continued persecution of Assange seems vindictive.

I do disagree that this is an important witness, though, for the reasons I have already outlined.
> "Irreversible transactions are a feature." They're definitely a bug. If I buy a TV with a credit card, and receive a box of rocks, I can do a chargeback. If I make that same transaction with cryptocurrencies, I'm SOL unless a fraudster suddenly decides that they really want to make good on it.

Agree with all you said apart from this - I'm not sure how reversible transactions would help you get money back from a fraudster. With 'legacy' money its eBay/Amazon or your credit card company (or the laws that they operate under), the level above the currency/transaction that gets you your money back. I imagine if Amazon accepted bitcoin they would also provide refunds.

The legal protection provided by using a credit card (in the UK/EU anyway) is by far the biggest reason not to use anything else for transactions on the internet.
So that part where I think it's really bad, and the fact that they use Full Self-Driving and FSD as basically a brand name is borderline irresponsible. But to me they are pretty consistent in their language, and any talk of autonomous driving I've seen comes from Musk, and is a projection that probably has a significant safe harbor.

They continually seem to draw a very prominent line between "Full Self-Driving" and "Autonomous", where what Tesla defines as autonomous is the much higher standard (i.e summon your car from one coast to the other).

I would in that light, argue that Tesla's hurdle for saying a given car is FSD capable is really low, because imo, it seems like they are comfortable saying Level 2 is like, Full Self-Driving (Beta).
coca cola and similar should be 18+ just like alcohol anyway
I have been using Common Lisp since about 1982 and it is probably my favorite language both because I am used to it and because old code usually runs forever without modification. That said, I now also often use Racket and Swift that both seem fresher, but don't have the extreme stability of CL. I often use Common Lisp libraries that haven't been touched by the creators for 5 or 10 years (or more).

I once wrote up a little rant about future software being ancient, with no changes for centuries. What might the far future be like? I was imagining a world where security and robustness were considered much more valuable than a never ending flow of new features. Could popular programs developed over many centuries evolve to a point where it made no sense to modify them?
Author of the post here. I agree. It's not a big deal. I just wanted to compare the two and document my findings. As I said in the post, Simplex isn't a drop in replacement for Perlin, but it's easy enough to tweak the values to match if that's what you need to do. Most applications of Perlin noise (from what I can see) are more on the creative side of things, and in most cases, someone is just fiddling with some values until something "looks right" anyway.
But shouldn’t something have been done to ensure a better initial distribution of those assets? To be a Bitcoin maximalist basically means you want a future in which the Winkelvoss twins, Pompliano et al are the richest people of all time. How is that a future worth fighting for?
For me, a globally distributed database running on open source software is interesting and novel in itself, just because no one can find anything useful to do with it yet doesn't invalidate the novelty, wasn't electrical effects similar, it was discovered prior to people having a use for it.
If you care that much, speak up and fight. If you don't, don't.
I think they’re problematic because they’ve reached ungodly amounts of storage and I don’t think most non-technical people fully understand how much of a loaded gun a non-regularly-backed-up 2TB external HDD is.

As a real world example, I’ve had to help recover my aunt’s 5-year-old 2TB HDD that she dropped several times and had no backup of, and by helping I mean confirming she probably lost a terabyte plus of data unless she wants to pay five digits USD to pay to a recovery company for a way less than 100% recovery. She is a highly educated professional (a MD) and yet, it did not even occur to her that the drive will not only might fail, but rather, will fail.

To quite a lot of non-technical people an external drive appears to be the safest form of storage, considering its being physically visible and movable. The closest analogy is storing money under the pillow versus a in bank, in all the good and bad ways.
Businesses (at least in the US) try to write the shortest possible data retention policies possible so that evidence is hopefully deleted before any litigation begins. If you had a written policy and you hadn't received a court order before deleting, you've won.
This is precisely why the "fear" or rather stigma around facial-recognition needs to go away. If it weren't there, it'd have been expected and granted that the government's job is to have valid, verified and correct biometric information on the citizen (because they're generally the ultimate/final custodian of people's identity), and the facial-recognition would have to match against that verified data, instead of some random video or fake ID.

So instead we have scattered silos of partial and probably incorrect data in various places. FBI has a bit, Police department in state X has one, State Y's DMV has something wrong because X years ago this person was a victim of identity fraud, etc etc. It's a giant mess and no wonder the police and various entities in this example failed utterly. They're ultimately all victims of a system that has no single source of truth, yet we're tasking them with using "tech" to solve crime. So instead of fixing the source of truth, we blame the tech.
> The difference between magic internet money and USD is the word internet.

Nope, it's the US military.
Eventual recognition of misdeeds is nice, but irrelevant when the original claim is that there is (or has been) one side that’s anti-censorship. Being pro-censorship and then apologizing later isn’t enough.
It is not whataboutism. It is about 3 decades of seemingly intentional inability to deliver secure product on the mildly evil calculation that the subscriber will need 'security updates' and 'support'.

There is a good argument to be made that Windows is a big target, but they should at least try not making it so easy.
> Are you seriously claiming that your "right" to use my stolen phone outweighs my right to own a device that is less attractive for thieves?

If you wanna go all pedant on it, let's do... Are you seriously claiming that your "right" to own a device that cannot be used by anyone else without your explicit approval even after your death outweighs my presumption of innocence?

Going around and claiming everyone who hasn't got a specific passphrase is a thief isn't helping make your case credible. You're just ridiculing yourself to people who can't afford first-hand devices.
I'd say 'very good' is almost an understatement for this Morricone soundtrack. I never get tired of it.
In other words, blackmail.

The whole thing is based on extremely dubious and misleading interpretations of the various laws involved, and designed to instill fear in the developer in question.
Your link uses -ffast-math with gcc.
They have tortured Manning for decades and she hasn't corroborated that theory. She already had full access. She wouldn't have contacted Wikileaks in the first place if she hadn't seen the horrible "secret" material.
Lol. That was fun to watch. It's kinda just sad to me to see so much lost knowledge. No joke, I know a girl who can't read an analog clock. As someone said, if we have all this technology and don't know where it came from or how to build it ourselves, we're a doomed society. We're a cargo cult. When I really need to fall asleep, I lay awake thinking about how I would explain smartphones if I were suddenly deposited in ancient Greece. The problem is even if you had thousands of people at your disposal in the bronze age, how would you start building one from raw materials? I know, this all sounds like an old guy rant. The thing is, society has so quickly started taking these things for granted in my own lifetime - as Louis CK points out - it's unsafe. It's terrifying what would happen if they even had to reinvent one generation of knowledge.
A bit of personal experience: I've needed to create a Windows 10 installer from a MacOS computer a few weeks ago. Without the MS helper program I've figured I should perform the following steps:

1- download iso

2- format usb with fat32

3- copy the data

Apparently you can't just dd the ISO file into the USB block device like every other Linux or BSD ISO. It need to be FAT32 to be able to boot through UEFI.

The issue however is that the .wim file containing the OS installation source is bigger than 4GB. I think its sources.wim but I'm not sure. I had to install some command line utility from brew that did the job of "optimizing" the WIM file and managed to reduce it to a file bellow 4GB.

What does optimizing means? Better compression? Cleaning up crap inside the image? If their ISO tool probably does this without user interaction then why include a file bigger than what the FS can handle in the first place?

I don't know if this counts as some kind of dark pattern or MS being really antiquated in terms of bootable flash drivers.
You can't exchange physical goods online in order to pay drug dealers.
GDP also depends on the velocity of currency, not just on the supply. If people spend a lot of the supply each year, the GDP is high, otherwise it is low.

And if you "grow" an economy by increasing the number of monetary units, you can't create wealth, because wealth is not money. It just splits the same goods and services into more units.

Printing money benefits whoever gets to spend them first, before the consequent inflation hits (all other things being equal). It re-slices the pie by making all pieces smaller (including the ones people have saved up for, say, retirement).

Paradoxically, a good economy should drive prices *down* ( Moore's law should apply everywhere). As technology and processes improve, it should become easier to offer the old products and services, allowing for more sophisticated ones to appear.
You are allowed to do practically anything. I'm just stating that I don't think it's an improvement to replace battle-hardened well understood abstractions for half-baked new ones you have to learn on every new project.

People running away from "bloated frameworks" very often end up reimplementing a significant portion of the bloat. But usually with fewer ressources and fewer testing, so you can guess what happens most of the time...
Probably but many people forget to. Or sell the device once they haven't used it for years, and forgot the passphrase. Or give it away without leaving contact information and without thinking about the passphrase at all.

I don't have statistics at hand, and overall the M1 is pretty new so it's not a problem for this device YET, but it's a serious problem i notice several times a year in my close circle.
You digress, but you're onto something here. I suspect I'm not the only one who cringes at bloated packages and sometimes rolls my own alternative.
It's not a bug, it is quite literally the feature, and something that also happens on Android and iOS, and I believe even on recent releases of Gnome.
Ever heard of the term "veiled threat"?
Way back there was a contributor Con Kolivas, that made scheduler improvements to make desktop computing nicer. But he quit because they never gave priority to desktop stuff. I remember back then it was not uncommon for your mouse cursor to just freeze and then come back to life.

The kernel group has different priorities to end users
Bulldozing makes it harder to recycle. This also decreases supply of miners (though perhaps not materially) making it more expensive to mine, raising the price of Bitcoin, creating more incentive for electricity theft.
Is destroying seized property the default thing to do there? If they siezed a perfectly working car, does that get crushed as well?
I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 745, 2007
GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 289
28 Pages
Posted: 12 Jul 2007
Last revised: 27 Feb 2014

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2203713
This is Microsoft's version of the WiFi captive portal. For the attack to work, the attacker needs to control the network, and also exploit a hole in the host browsers.

I remember Apple having to fix Safari a few years back, related to that type of attack.
No, it will come differently. While a few selected millenials will inherit wealth, policies will be tuned in a way that a few selected others will get something from the cake too. This framing of the issue is part of that and criminal organization like the Deutsche Bank will try to take advantage of this.

So not much will change in the grand scheme of things.
If you have an Apple store nearby. If you have some "proof of purchase" they deem legit. I guess buying/acquiring from a second-hand shop isn't gonna cut it.

That's a lot of ifs to simply use a device. Most devices, including pencils, bikes and cars, do not come with such troubles. Hell, even most phones and computers do not come with that.
I think there should be a carve out for evidence provided to the state or the defense. If you provide a sworn statement that evidence exists and then destroy it before the court is done with it, you should face contempt of court charges.
How cops get away with murder: qualified immunity [video]
>As a Venezuelan, it's not being used.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232730
They're ASICs, they're worthless for anything except mining certain kinds of crypto, given current prices not only would reselling them be questionable from a pragmatic perspective but it would be essentially encouraging the kind of illegal activity (i.e. electricity theft) which caused them to be confiscated in the first place.
That was just one example, one that affected me and millions of others. There are also plenty of other chip level failures in newer apple hardware as quite well documented by Louis Rossmann. Not all GPU/CPU issues either, there are many other chips that go wrong due to cheap component choices.

The GPU issues were both nVidia's _and_ Apple's fault due to assembly with low quality unleaded solder. In either case their attitude to customers was unforgivable, they replaced old broken boards with new broken boards until people just gave up or were pushed out of warrantee... and for the masses that couldn't be bothered to go through the pain of browbeating an Apple store employee into submission - they got firmware patches to push it out of warrantee.

Component failure, solid state or otherwise is not unique to Apple and is an inevitability, it will happen again - complete disrespect for their users by continually lying to their face on the other hand... That is something Apple is uniquely skilled at.
Warp-V: A RISC-V CPU Core Generator Supporting MIPS ISA
Again, that speech was made early in the campaign. Obviously not talking about 60mil people. But, definitely didn't help, especially once pundits pounced on it.
The GP's example may be bad, but there are plenty of other computer crimes. Hacking, violent threats, child porn, selling LSD...
A car can be used for all kinds of legal activity, unlike an ASIC which relies on stolen electricity to be profitable.
Always cook mushrooms, you can taste a little when out foraging to help identify but all mushrooms should be cooked (even lightly) before being consumed as food.

Magic mushrooms are consumed raw.
Sending email to Google with bit.ly links will tank your deliverability
Well, maybe. But to me there can be several key witnesses and losing one will damage your case, but as your definition states, if you remove a keystone witness the case falls apart.

Tangentially, reading the indictment this witness seems to be neither. More to the point, OP felt the need to change the wording. That was a conscious act, not an accident.
And then the leopards at their faces, as it were.
Personally I've seen more ExFAT volumes on external storage in the wild than NTFS nowadays.
I'm not in the business of building 20kb pages.

Working with any significant backend API, loading any images, or even your own javascript functionality takes you over that limit easily.

And then there is caching and CDNs...
What if "lazy devs that create buggy software" literally destroy peoples lives?

Blameless postmortem are fine only if steps are taken to uncover and fix the problem at the root cause. There's no excuse for systematically jailing innocent or pushing buggy software.

In this case, what steps were taken? Video was deleted!
If one of them becomes corrupt in a non-obvious way, how do you know which it is? You need three copies to be sure.
"raising the price of Bitcoin"

Get back to me when that happens
Quantitative easing by the Fed does not involve any printing of money (figuratively, we’re obviously not discussing actual printing presses), though they may like you to think like that. It doesn’t even create money, it just swaps assets for reserves.
>They didn't do anything useful before being crushed.

That's your assessment, which doesn't really matter as long as there's still demand for mining ASICs. If that's the case it really is a waste because destroying them will just cause the demand to be satisfied via newly produced ASICs instead
What Are the Standard Venture Capital Terms
OK, but the physical address would still be my home, where I don't want the swat team.
For compelling use cases of DLTs take a look at Hedera Hashgraph at https://hedera.com

Admittedly Hedera Hashgraph is not strictly a blockchain but is more energy efficient (millions of times less energy use than Bitcoin for example due to not needing to do proof of work and by virtual voting), orders of magnitude faster than traditional blockchains (BTC, ETH etc), and highly secure (true finality within seconds).

Example use cases (EDIT: with links)

* Tokens for carbon credits - https://hedera.com/users/dovu

* The Coupon Bureau - US Coupon Bureau using tokenised coupons to prevent $billions in coupon fraud - https://hedera.com/users/coupon-bureau

* Australian EFTPos POS payments - https://hedera.com/blog/eftpos-pioneers-new-ecommerce-microp...

* NHS vaccine temperature tracking - https://hedera.com/blog/everyware-and-hedera-hashgraph-enabl...

* Ad-tracking fraud prevention - https://hedera.com/users/adsdax

The list goes on…

Interestingly no one talks about these use cases and massive potential of DLTs on Hacker news when ever crypto discussions come up. But modern DLTs are there slowly doing their thing.

I think there’s a definite disconnect with poor perceptions of cryptocurrencies and DLTs in general. Mostly based on how things were several years ago compared to where things actually stand now. Plenty of unfounded FUD focusing on shitcoins and not a lot of focus on what’s going on with more professional approaches.

For example there are various criticisms of Hedera Hasgraph online stating that it is closed-source, not decentralised, slow for smart contracts and not open source. All incorrect.

The code is either open source or open review.

More decentralised than most cryptos (transparent governance from multiple organisations on different continents and in different industries). Heading towards full permissionless nodes once the network is stable.

Slow smart contracts do exist for backwards compatibility but far faster smart contracts (scheduled etc) can be created at the native layer.
The operators made it worse of course, whether enabled by AI or not. We've been dealing with this exact same issue, without AI, for decades when it comes to identity theft.

These "operators" that you say are part of the production execution of "AI" are also part of every single institution that led up to this person being here and existing. Everything from registering their birth, capturing their DMV details, capturing their details when enrolling at a school and opening a bank account, taking their photo for the driver's license, etc. All gooey, imperfect, corruptible and fallible people that taint the "chain of custody" about the person's identity.
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew was made by an Italian communist. They’re pretty ecumenical in their choices.
Reminds me of what Terry Pratchett said "All mushrooms are edible, but some are only edible once."
I'm not willing to comment publicly that this or that project is legit, rife with fraud is quite the understatement and I don't have the resources to vet anything, nonetheless, if you use google and follow people rather than projects, there are some really exciting developments on the edges.
not really, though its sad to see the power imbalance grow in crypto, they still have way less power than a central bank that can just make the money printer go brrr.
Yes, some systems are stable, but many others are not;
And most of the criticism applies to POW crypto. Which will hopefully be outpaced by POS soon.
Phoenix 1.6 will switch to esbuild by default, dropping node and NPM
>This also decreases supply of miners (though perhaps not materially) making it more expensive to mine

Only in the short term. Difficulty adjustment makes the total mining power irrelevant over the long run.
I have used pragmas from the article.

Since it is only 100M rows, it takes 1.8 GB on the disk, so I've used tmpfs for this which essentially is a ramdisk. But I have a gen4 pcie nvme SSD - it can reliably write at 4GB/s sequentially, so writing takes a ~500ms for 100M rows, it is not a bottleneck here. random() takes ~half of the insert time. Generating those values with Rust, for example, is faster, but sharing this data with sqlite takes more time than generating it with random().

Maybe implementing custom virtual table in C or Rust like build-in generate_series, but the one that will produce user table fields will be faster, but that is significantly more effort than my query.

This query with random() and generate_series executed in sqlite CLI takes whooping 8MB of the RAM, so you don't even have to close all Electron-based applications to run it on a computer with 8GB of RAM.
I looked into that too ahah. There are "forwarding" services that do that for you, if you don't have a friend there.

But I don't like thinkpads to the point of doing that rodeo. For now, Apple won my money.
Their owners did.

The seized property is destroyed to show they're serious about punishing this kind of crimes (stealing $2M worth of electricity via bitcoin mining).
If you want to mine bitcoins, pay the bills or build your own power plant.
https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag

It looks like libratbag is a CLI only back end that does all of the heavy lifting and then abstracts everything into an API (which Piper uses).

This is actually pretty nice, as it allows any other desktop environment to use libratbag and then put their own GUI overtop of it (I do the same thing with a couple of apps).