skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking about this a lot. I used to think that most HN users are very smart, but the crypto discussions here are extremely dumb full of misconceptions and hatred. For example yesterday there was an article upvoted and vehemently discussed here, but anyone having a basic understanding of crypto would know that the article was total garbage (and full of hatred). It was like someone with primary-school mathematics knowledge hating on mathematicians and wanting to reform modern mathematics with his 'idea'.

I think it has to do with a misconception about how much effort you have to put in to have a good understanding on crypto. If we are speaking about topics like high mathematics, most people realise that their knowledge is not enough to have a meaningful opinion on the cutting-edge. For some reason people on HN treat crypto like politics: almost everyone has a strong opinion without much knowledge. Crypto is a much deeper subject than how it is treated on HN. You need to have not just technical knowledge (like understanding why a proof-of-stake algorithm has no vulnerability is VERY hard), but also very deep knowledge of the philosophy of value/money/trust. For example any substantial interview with Vitalik Buterin discusses the topics in a much deeper way than it is treated on HN.

TL;DR: People are reasonably smart here but extremely uneducated on crypto, and for some reason they think that they are informed enough to have a strong opinion.
Apple also dropped the idea of E2EE iCloud backups at the FBI's behest. They've also handed over iCloud in China to GCBD creating an incredible apparatus for the surveillance state.

And now we are supposed to believe they can resist adding a hash to a list if the government asks? Are they serious?
To be honest if I wrote down aspects of my life it might seem awesome but it depends on how you look at it. Do I have any impact on the world? No. Do I have a large and thriving social circle? No. Do I help or improve the lives of the friends I do have? No. Will anyone remember me after I pass away? No.

But that is normal. At a rough guess I imagine >99% of people to ever have lived are completely forgotten and their lives have no impact other than having kids.

At the end of the day we're all just animals on a floating rock in space. If you can optimize for your own happiness then you're doing great.
Flutter App Marketplace
I would say that it is more about avoiding to promise anything about API stability between versions.
Intelligence might not be scalar between intelligences based on different computational substraits. Computers beat humans at symbolic integration and differentiation since forever but don't beat humans in other areas. A near human-level intelligence will be vasly supperior in many other areas.
There are also:

https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_event_unhandledr...

And for the browser:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/unha...

Not entirely sure of their utility though. But can be elegant or robust if applied correctly.
Well, I like your implementation :).

This is the so-called "quick search" by the way, which works as a filter and displays results in the inbox. There is also another search feature in Thunderbird which renders results differently. I never got used to that, and never used it, as I found its semantics unpredictable.
Not in three years, but in 10 I am almost sure it will. After making it completely impossible for a citizen to survive without a device.

They are winning the battle in incremental steps, they have no need to rush.
Thanks, I missed that paragraph.
Helmfile might be a good addition to the list: https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/releases/
Steven Pruitt
An auditor has the same incentive to become a bad actor for profit
> That's very much untrue

How so? It’s basic math. The middle and upper middle class is still responsible for the vast majority of income.

> you arent really taxing the ultrawealthy. You could raise tremendous revenue

See, you’re getting confused because it’s not “tremendous” in the scheme of tax revenue. The only thing that would accomplish is helping with income inequality (i.e. it’s punitive towards the rich). This is fine if that’s your goal but it’s not going to pay for anything like basic income, universal healthcare, or major infrastructure. It won’t even balance the existing budget.

> The reason that isn't done isn't that you can't raise enough revenue that way,

Yes it is, full stop. A 100% tax rate on the top .1% would bring in about 500 billion annually (~$3 mil * 150 mil filers * 0.001) . That’s not even enough to cover the “cheap” infrastructure bill being proposed.

> they earn vastly disproportionately ought to be untouchable.

Careful with that. You’re also talking about how much of the middle classes retirement is structured there. Long term capital gains are used by everyone.
Absolute dystopia
OpenAI’s system for translating plain English into code looks impressive
Yes, but you wouldn't know that if the best knowledge you had about the inner workings of microchips is essentially looking which parts get hot while they perform different tasks.
I was thinking about finding something like this. Perfect timing!

FYI: The hamburger menu is broken on my mobile. Google Chrome, Android 11, Huawei P30 lite
curious what you mean. UX seems quite unique and cool to me. I'm not a power user though
Based on what? Why not just say 100% at that point?
we tried semantic versioning for some time, but gave up. It is still people writing the code - and people do mistakes. So even when something is released as a patch how do we know that it was a mistake and it should have been a minor or a major version. Or they introduced a bug that would break our system?

So in the end we would still end up not trusting it and rely on testing (hopefully as automatic as possible) before we could merge the upgrade.

In the end we just switched to using timestamp-based version numbers and just try to upgrade often enough so each incremental change is small. And try to have good automatic tests that can do most of the regression testing for us.
Words have meaning and power. How they are used literally changes the discourse. Your participation in this discussion is proof that the example under consideration has impact well beyond "playing with words."
Ah yes, The trades are underpaid and undervalued and as such everyone else that gets paid more is entitled and not deserving of a living wage and should just "suck it up". This sort of thinking just drags everyone down, and improves nothing for anyone. It's how we got to where we are, instead of "the good ol' days" where a single income near a minimum wage exceeded the skilled trades wages relative purchasing power of today.

How about instead of complaining about the color of the grass in others yards, we advocate for a living for all, and dare I suggest it, a thriving wage for the skilled, risky, or difficult jobs; irregarddles of whether they're performed at a desk or with a sweat. Alternatively/additionally, we should address the corruption and cost overruns present in many industries today (looking at you health insurance racket) that also reduce the relative purchasing power of any given wage.
by its nature the mob action being right or wrong is akin to a dice roll.

My point here is that it happens time and time again - people do revolution, be it real bloody one like French or Russian or just a tech one like crypto, and from the very beginning dispense with the old mature system and replace it with what they see as a very efficient new one - like the "emergency committee" system of Russian revolution which was able to quickly execute millions of "counter-revolutionaries" - yet with time the system again matures into what is perceived as a very inefficient one.
> Who thought an amazing new P2P invention would improve the image of normal money and traditional banks?

Shady stuff that happens in the banking system usually happens behind the closed doors and we don't hear about it for years, if ever. Crypto/DeFi is new and exciting - it gets a lot of attention from press. It is still way easier for me to trust code than to trust people. Call it a character trait / flaw if you want.
He’s being “innovative”
Besides C++ Builder already referred in a sibiling comment, that is how you get stabilitiy on bitcode for watchOS apps.
Born and bred Hong Kong. I am supportive of this bill as usual western media making a mole out of a hill. As usual some western shrills and expats, masquerading as an expert in China policy, continue to cry foul when they are not on the ground. More than anything else, there are Hong Kongers who want peace and security which the western world will never comprehend. Period Hong Kong is part of China.
A human could catch on. A algorithm has to be double-checked by a human in order for someone to catch on, and in generally people just trust machines to be right. Even if they initially double-check them, they do that less and less over time.

And if the person doesn't understand the algorithm, it's even worse.
A rogue admin is acting alone, but rouge admins are part of the shadowy cabal and thus have access to many times more resources.
"Yes there are costs for the employer, but that’s the case in other places too."

Yes payroll taxes are everywhere, but they are considerably higher in Sweden at ~30% in some brackets.

For average earners, France/Belgium are the highest, but for upper income earners, Sweden is the highest [1]

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/taxing-high-income-2019/
This whole time what many people wanted was direct control over cropping, and it's always seemed absurd to me that Twitter invested huge amounts of time into AI cropping when letting users crop their own content probably would have produced good results (or better)
I had never heard of this bridge before the attack. The fact that a project manages to attract half a billion in capital unfortunately doesn't say all that much, since so much capital is flowing in so fast to every project with a pulse.

And the bug wasn't really obvious, although the lack of input sanitation is something an auditor (given enough time) would probably point out.
The best versioning is the one you already have and use every day.

It is right under your nose. You probably typed or pasted one or these special version strings in today or you will later. Or you sent one to a colleague in a slack message this week most certainly.

It is of course the git commit hash!

Suck all meaning out of your version by using the commit hash. Never worry about which digit to increment (semver, 0ver) or what date it is (calver) because who remembers the date.

Also has the advantage that it’s easy to check out the source code for a version!

Use git log and pipe that to a file in /var/www and you have release notes with the version numbers!
Right, of course, IIRC it does the equivalent of -ffast-math by default.
For end user applications? Sure. But for libraries where API compatibility matters I think semver is superior.
Rg3d game engine v0.22 has been released
I think this hits the nail on the head. Ageism often goes hand-in-hand with other negatives and is a warning sign about a workplace. Perhaps, ageism does us older devs a favour because we'll get screened out quicker and not have the misfortune to interview at horrible companies ; That said, sometimes older devs don't help themselves. At a place I previously worked at, colleagues my age or older would make sexist/racist/disabled-mocking jokes, utterly inappropriate in the office but they'd got away with for years. The younger folks generally knew not to do this, and were offended, but then often 20-somethings while careful not to be racist or homophobic would simultaneously be blatantly ageist against their older colleagues. I got treated badly by some younger colleagues there actually, suffice to say it was symptomatic of issues in that company and I found a better job.
In spain, the actual price of electricity is about 20-30% of the final bill. The rest is regulated costs and taxes.

It's true that the spanish grid very very rarely has problems, but still seems a lot compared to other countries.
There are many here who have seen crypto to overpromise and underdeliver for over 10 years.

PS Mined some BTC in 2011 and some LTC in 2012-2013.

The original promise (per Satoshi) was that it could be used as electronic money. That goalpost was moved onto other currencies and sidechains and regular public acceptance has been low.

Most of crypto activity is related to other crypto(see Ethereum, see DeFi). All of the "cool" stuff happening in crypto seems to be dealing with other crypto...

It is useless to non-crypto people.

The only somewhat useful moral use case are remittances to unstable countries.

The rest of crypto is just bad bad stuff: scams, ransomware, large scale capital transfers by bad actors(tax evaders being the least evil).

I am in a business(high rate of CC fraud) where I would really benefit from an easy onramp for non crypto users.

PSS Last not least, POW and the horrible incentives going along with it is a serious issue as well. POS remains unproven in the field.
>> Pushing Spyware Engine is literally abuse to all people including children and it's much worse then any problem they would claim to fight. Even if you believe them.

>> It is an attempt to legalize such Spyware Engine installation. Nothing more. The story is just to sell this move using emotional response from naive people.

>> Those people should be educated what the real abuse is and they should teach their children to recognize it because abuse by Apple is already there and it is much worse then the problem they claim are trying to solve.

> Not a single person arguing against this idea is being obtuse or insensitive to the very real problem of CSAM.

Not a single one, huh? Are you certain? I made sure to emphasize the six times lovelyviking dismissed or minimized child sexual abuse as a concern for you in case you somehow missed all six of them the first time through. Which is weird, too, because they repeated the same point a couple times to make sure we heard them loud and clear.
This is why great wealth is a generational phenomenon.

You can certainly get very rich in your lifetime, and groom your kids to continue the trend, set things up nicely for them

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/abigail-di...
Yeah, but if you give all the golden eggs away, others can offer support contracts as well.
Right, this puts them in the category of lawyers, doctors, small business owners, etc.

It’s no longer a tax on the rich, it’s just a tax on successful upper middle class.
They have really steady cashflow, some measure of lock-in, a strong brand, and access to a gigantic amount of small business customers that would be difficult to replicate. The right acquirer could cross-sell some related market products and make a healthy return in a few years.
Molecular mechanisms behind cell signaling
All humans are weird. If you're not used to reading version numbers, you'd be surprised that 1.10 comes after 1.9 and vice versa.
I'm curious about the practicalities of the employer being based in one country and the employee, another. Furthermore, let's say they're not both in the EU as that would simplify things.

What are the practicalities in terms of employment law, taxation etc.

I understand that every situation is unique and am looking for personal experiences/anecdotes rather than generalisations.
Also see this interview with Mark Sabbatini, the editor of the Arctic newspaper Icepeople who was recently expelled from Svalbard, previously discussed on HN a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20626734
Ask HN: Ideas for small React apps for portfolio?
Does anyone have any ideas for small, quick-to-build web apps? The idea would be to list them in my portfolio.

The reason I am asking is that I nearly always introduce feature creep into ideas I come up with and as a result, I never complete the apps. I am just looking to see if anyone suggests something I might not have thought of.
I assert the same want ad for sex partners. Sexism gets a bad rap.
Two people earning $50K is better than one earning $100K by a wide margin
It seems to me this guy should be fired. But good for him if he can disguise his inabilities to manage the transition to full remote. As a employee I would flee such a company.
Why do the content owners restrict to particular country? It makes no sense to me. Do they lose money by doing this?
That was ions ago, and if not for anything else, Linux kernel will keep GCC around.

Azure Sphere OS is also GCC only, despite Microsoft's new foundled love for clang.
i use syncthing to take care of the replication. no issue.
You can't seriously be recommending a Librem 5 for mom and grandpa? That's absurd. The thing barely functions.

As the parent commenter noted, Apple was really one of the only reasonable recommendations from privacy-oriented nerdy guys to their friends and family, if they didn't want to go the out-of-touch-with-reality route by recommending the phones you listed.
The Case of the Vanishing Jungle
I am also eagerly waiting for Photoprism to hit stability and add people recognition to mostly move away from iCloud. They have an issue that is being worked on since 2018 to add support for people recognition :-)

Hopefully soon!!
Really handy to communicate verbaly or promote.
It depends how specific you want to be with terminology. If tyranny/authoritarian/dictatorship/totalitarian/fascism is all mushy words used interchangeably, then why not.

China is authoritarian. It has been one-party authoritarian country for a long time, now it's going towards strong man rule again.

Totalitarianism describes the most extreme form of authoritarian rule that leaves no place for individual or other actors. China becoming more authoritarian rule but it's not close to the level the level totalitarian control over individuals it was during the Mao-era, or height of Stalinism, or Nazi Germany. Nor it is not at the same level as North Korea is totalitarian.
And then someone hacks the exchange and they lose their money and they ask "how could this happen?" But they mean that literally because they didn't know it was even a possibility.
> Imagine an AI that could manually transcode your high level code into absolutely optimal assembly

The Halting Problem prevents such an AI from existing, but your point still stands of course.
Unique isn't always good.
You're looking at the pool prices. That accounts only for 20-30% of the final bill people has to pay. The rest is taxes (and even taxes over taxes) and regulated costs, which by the way are quite opaque, despite they make some cosmetic effort of transparency.

The rationale, they say, is that the spanish grid is "solid" and we rarely have problems, which is true but I don't know to what extent this explains the prices, or if cheaper countries do really have much more problems than us, which I highly doubt.
Are the amounts in your post in Euros or some other currency?
You have noticed everything very correctly, and you should not apologize for defending your rights. Data distortion is a very big problem.
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I find it funny that CalVer highlights Ubuntu as a good example.

I like Ubuntu when it uses its CalVer versions, but if I have to look for a specific package, I still have to check which one Xenial is after looking at the apt sources.
Only in the US, the rest of the world also uses this format for dates: 1.10 is 1st october and 1.9 is first september.
It could be, though as I mentioned in another comment these results don't reflect my own experience in my social circles, where if anything having (or working-towards) a PhD correlates with being more trusting of the vaccine (with the caveat of my sample being skewed towards experimental sciences and biology in particular).

In any case, after reading other comments mentioning that the data is self-reported, I find it much more believable that many vaccine-hesitants have falsely claimed to have a PhD. That would explain why only the purported "PhD" group is disproportionately hesitant. If it was a real effect you would expect at least some increase in hesitancy in people with Master's, who may well be on their way towards a PhD.
Is that really all you got from the massive list of changes?
Disappointing.
“Wealth” is not income. Thinking like yours changes the calculus on if specialization is worth it.

Train for 10 years to be a doctor to make $400k a year for 10 years at 50% taxes or just work for 20 years at 150k at 30%?
... hubris? I think that's a bit much.

We went v1 once we decided our software was ready for other people to use. It meant we'd ensure compatibility via upgrade scripts, and it meant we wouldn't do irresponsible things like tell users "this release requires you to drop your database and start over"
And have no idea how recent the version is unless you have immediate access to git. It’s a very engineer-centric idea.
Only because they found a common enemy in the likes of FB, etc al. If privacy didn't benefit them in some way, they wouldn't care.
The paper is measuring I/O behaviour, rather than the complexity of the mechanisms generating that behaviour. Transistors might have quite complex physics, but are designed to have relatively simple I/O behaviour.
Bijective base 10 versioning!