skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it's getting funny. I find it's getting interesting. If the best mechanisms the developers could find to solve a certain problem could be implemented in a language + compiler, does this mean the project should be implemented in this language is? What does this even mean? Maybe it already is implemented in this language? Or is it not, because of the missing syntactic abstraction?

The thought I have related to this is that languages are much like GUIs in this regard. They enable a certain process using some built-in features, but it's next to impossible to abstract over those feature to optimize further.

And I think that is why I stay with a simple language that gives arrays, structs, and function calls - basically tools to manipulate data / memory, I'm not sure that more features are all that useful to write "well-compressed" programs (but I can imagine that it's often hard to see why certain useful seeming features will be detrimental down the road).
> White Americans don’t really have a cultural heritage, or at least no common conception of it

They absolutely do, they just want to avoid thinking about it.
IMO that first paragraph is great, especially for readers who may not have your level of industry knowledge and technical acumen. It efficiently contextualizes the article and addresses a common complaint that I often see even on HN — the failure to clearly answer "What is this and why does this matter?"
> How does someone have the right to take public property as their own?

They don't.
In times of banking apps, why does this not happen to old fashioned bank accounts?

What keeps hackers from taking over someones phone and sending their dollar/euro holdings somewhere?
I hope you never are homeless, drug addicted, or mentally ill. I have been all of these things. I can tell you first-hand forcing people to comply makes things worse.

That you don't care about someone's wishes is deeply indicative of your own moral character -- or lack thereof. That we can't even agree to disagree turns my stomach a bit. I'm deeply disappointed, and you've made it very clear to me that I need to walk away from this "community".

So, my final thought will simply be this:

Silicon Valley and their enablers, through their arrogance, short sightedness, and dare I say.. general lack of humanity are creating a dystopian nightmare. In many places, that nightmare already exists in full force. That you don't or can't see it doesn't matter. It's well underway and it won't leave any of us untouched.
So far every option has a usability problem that's been solved by companies with the same KYC requirements as credit card processors. This will remain the case as long as people also want to transact in fiat currency, and that will be true as long as it's how people pay the bills and buy food.

Any crypto-only platform that solves the problem of everyone needing a copy of the ledger and gains meaningful adoption will face the same legal, PR, and regulatory pressures as anything else in the same place.
An extremely deep question...
Some YouTube content people are turning over big bucks. Supercar channels like Shmee150 might fall in this category. His personal collection is full of top end machines
so, in Belgium there is no creepy credit score, but a public registry.

That's a more intelligent solution to the problem, like in the rest of Europe.
Except the soviets ended up building a very different craft. Buran was visually similar but radically different in basic layout (no main engines on orbiter etc). The Soviets didnt fall for all the bad intelligence they were fed.

And there is a flip side. Bomber gaps, missile gaps, the MiG-25 fiasco, that time the CIA double-counted bombers because the russians painted different tail numbers on either side ... America gobbled up its share of false intelligence too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqKE5xCogH0
I'm discussing the return of one-drop laws, something that happened in a liberal democracy.
Ah yes, C. S. Lewis, renowned economist/historian/sociologist.

What is a reader supposed to gain from your triple-logical-leap from "tax the unsustainable pollution and water-guzzling that factory farms hide from the public eye" to "tyranny" to...what I can only assume is your point, that pollution and cheap meat is the work of "robber barons", and less pollution and/or more expensive meat is the work of "omnipotent moral busybodies", therefore poisoned lakes and Happy Meals are Better.

If you're going to draw that analogy, please point out where the "sleep" and "satiation" is occurring in the behavior of factory farming and downstream cheap-meat industries. And point out what, specifically, is the "endless torment" that will be wrought by those forcing these "robber barons" to change that course, to either raise prices, cut profits, actually looking for other sources of cheap meat, work harder at cheating the "moral busybodies" like they already do, or, in all likelihood, a little bit of everything.
deutsche bank literally launders money for drug dealers, terrorists, and generally a lot of other criminals. what are you talking about?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/01/germany-orders-deutsche-bank... is just the first result from a google search
Hollywood Nazis are crazy into the occult.

You can read a more sober look into the matter here: https://aeon.co/ideas/the-nazis-as-occult-masters-its-a-good...
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A vast system of fraud detection and limits on what can be done to accounts, especially on a mobile app.

If you try and move large amounts of money via your mobile banking app you won’t get very far before you have to show up in person at a branch.
I think I'm this case, the main advantage is controlling their own destiny when it comes to building the types of models they need.

I think in 25% of cases it will not get them significantly more performance vs Nvidia.

There is a 50% chance that they can outperform off the shelf chips by a significant amount to make it maybe worth it. (This is pretty likely because dedicated hardware tends to outperform general hardware).

However, there is maybe a 25% risk buying Nvidia doesn't get them there soon.

So building their own chips de-risks the worst case, and it's probably not that much more expensive (at Tesla scale). So seems like a pretty good bet to me.
SF is great once you convince yourself that crime, lawlessness and misery are "values" rather than the result of poor governance. When I lived in SF, it was fun watching who could admit the government wasn't great, and who did extreme mental gymnastics to avoid unpleasant reality.
Farming wasn't forcibly collectivized in Poland unlike in USSR, the split was almost 20% state-owned farming land and 80% small private farms. Both private and state farms grew hops for beer and potatoes/grain for vodka. If wineyards were possible we would have had them.
Could this be set up as the level from Goldeneye, maybe turn the place into a theme park?
The "city" seal has a shopping cart on it!

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/577912501276278784/f8oM...
This kind of shift in perspective will never happen, people can no longer look into the eye of this massive crisis.

We live in frozen calm of the normalcy bias and it will be our collective downfall.
I said it.

AMZN has a flywheel. That flywheel is going to keep turning despite what anyone does.

Brick and motor stores have a tendency to fixate on a profile of an imaginary consumer that is bizzare to say the least.

The Staples shopper loves junk hardware from VTech (especially if it only lasts three weeks) and wouldn't even think of buying quality Plantronics hardware. Staples shoppers want a choice of 20 different kinds of glossy inkjet paper and would never buy a coated photo/presentation matte (hint: they are the same thing, art reproductions look great on photo matte)

What about the imaginary Target shopper who an insatiable appetite for chi-chi frozen foods, graphic T-shirt, and shoes and bras that don't fit?

Amazon avoided those fates and also the fate of being an advertising-dependent business that started to believe the stories it tells. (Dan Boorstein, in 1962, said that public relations experts didn't fall for the images they make, but we've had a long time for the culture to degrade. I'm certain that "ad prices are too damn high" because they are bid up by people who get the jollies from hearing their name on the radio.)
You're white-passing. There's no need to "declare" yourself white, everyone who sees you does it for you.

Also there's no contradiction between being Hispanic and white, so I'm assuming that you're saying that you have some ancestors who were here more than 600 years ago.
So you tell me the readers of a hardware site who click on a title "Tesla Packs 50 Billion Transistors Onto D1 Dojo Chip" hear for the first time about the term Artificial Intelligence?
Im sure there is the difference is that they probably sell the missiles too…
This Italian startups does exactly this kind of Orwellian credit scoring - like checking what browser, email provider and how old your computer is: https://www.fido.id/
The people have been always there, it is just that now they have the tools. I personally have no problem, bitcoin should be for adults who can manage their own risks. You can always opt out and not use it. This whole thing has been repeated since the early Bitcoin times ad infinitum and shouldn't be a surprise.

This issue has been fixed in Electrum a long time ago already. However the problem is that no one can prevent people from running older versions.

This kind of problems are to be expected in crypto in the future as well, so always stay cautious.
This is correct, and why the average end consumer will never actually use Bitcoin for anything.

It may have some utility as an asset class but the crypto fan boys seem to ignore that it is largely incompatible with our current financial and legal system.

I’ll happily agree with anyone that Bitcoin is an interesting and novel invention but I fail to see how it does anything useful for me other than as a speculative investment.

Now that crypto markets are a parody of wildcat banks in the 1800s I won’t even touch it with a 10 foot pole.
This is how some other professions operate. In a strict sense of what a profession is supposed to be and not counting the economic factor, doctors care more about loss of life than loss of a limb. If they have to save your life by cutting off your limb, they will.

If you read the building code (I have), sudden collapses are something that need to be avoided at all cost, think the recent sky scraper in Florida.

Restoring a structure instead of rebuilding after damage puts a lot of responsibility on the Civil Engineers because ultimately they are the ones who sign off on the plans that basically say this structure will not collapse at the blink of an eye. Older buildings get retrofitted all the time but those are also very expensive. Retrofitting is done to bring the building up to code and not fix a damaged building.
Decoding the Queen's Colorful Style
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Because banking transactions are far more traceable and can often be reversed if found to be fraudulent.
Absolutely. However, I don't see a path from that to "XX is a (bad|not good) language".
Good to see it MIT licensed...

A few other options in this space including EasyHook (which is also MIT licensed)...
I've heard that as an explanation for why we have so many fuckwad politicians. Only the most shameless will tend to volunteer themselves for such a hostile career path. Normal people don't want it.
>> But do you think some hidden power would organize banks together behind the curtains and ban… porn?

I think a secret meeting to form a secret cabal is unlikely. More like an approximate consensus, that has always existed in an industry that has always been highly centralized, in a world where sex work has always been marginalised.

My point was that there's nothing new about relatively arbitrary power at banks to decide who can do business.

It's pretty uncontroversial, if you think about past decades. Was there no profit to be made providing financial services to women, before it became normative in the 50s-70s? Theoretically, there probably was. In practice, banking norms were not to.
On iPhone Safari, after clicking the article link, I cannot navigate back to HN using the back button.
..that would rhyme, too
This is the problem with blog articles showing minimum code examples. Minimum code examples are important because the more code you show the more your audience spaces out and moves on. The comments here are saying "but you just moved it to somewhere you didn't show", but it's the nuance in this comment that really gets to why this can be valuable.

> We likely don't care about all 8 states - rather 4 or 5, but complexity increases.

When you have only 2 valid use-cases, you need the code for both. It has to exist. When you have 5 valid use-cases and 3 invalid use-cases, making those 3 invalid use-cases impossible leads to better maintainability. So the minimum code example isn't actually the minimum code example to show why it is effective.

And yeah, product types and the ability to ensure that if you don't handle a case that is possible you get a compiler error is clearly the ultimate result the blog author is searching for.
I totally agree with the problem statement and couldn't disagree more with the analysis of the cause (debt financing)

The root cause of these failures is the creation of unfunded liabilities by municipal politicians abetted by ridiculous accounting.

Municipalities build something (a school) for say $20m, say it’s going to cost us $200k over the next 15 years to maintain that asset, and then 15 years later are shocked to learn that that asset needs significant capital investment to keep it in service for the next 15 years…but never say wait, actually this asset is going to be in service for 100 years, and we are actually going to effectively rebuild the school 4x over that time period… it’s the same thinking around municipal employee pensions…because if anyone were honest about what this is actually going to cost, they’d never agree to it.
"Surprise wealth redistribution"
Is that true? What would be maximum amount someone can transfer from their bank account in a given day via the banking app / website?
It is a shame that after all the damage they did, they will still get millions from this.
This does happen. Then they're tracked down and prosecuted and the money returned - sometimes. But the regular banks also put a bit more effort into authentication. And amounts over certain figures attract more scrutiny.

Two specific design decisions of crypto - irreversibility and pseudonymity - make this much harder for crypto.
I don't think an engineer would confuse inches with feet, and it's a stretch to assume that a newspaper reporter wouldn't confuse m with km.

And what about mm and cm? They are only a factor of 10 apart while inches and feet are 12X apart.
There's some truth to that, but I don't think better communication would really change anything, beyond a few minor victories here and there.

So much of the fetishization of everything "new" comes from a combination of wishful thinking and mental laziness. Especially in larger organizations where decisions are made far from where the work is actually done, there is a tendency to think we can solve problems simply by embracing the newest management fad, enterprise software, etc. It's kind of like the way people think they can get organized "if only they had the right trendy organizer or todo app".

I get the impulse, we desperately want to believe that our hard problems can easily be solved by just changing one thing or buying something. This is the crux of most modern marketing, in fact. Unhappy happy with something hard, just by product or service X.

Older workers tend to know better than others that hard things are hard and that layering some shiny new tool or framework on top of crappy process or a broken business model will not change anything. But saying that out loud, even tactfully, is a very inconvenient truth that will make most managers resent you, and probably label you "resistant to change".
If I can't drop everything, fly abroad, and disappear into the wild because my boss needs me to do something, then I'm at work. Everything else is just an excuse to pay me less whilst still taking a tole on me mentally.
More proof that these platforms have zero content moderation and actually do not give a shit until somebody notices. I don’t see how such examples make their content policies and enforcement thereof highly questionable within the legal system.
Does this apply to non-AppleTV+ movies as well?
How well did experts and laypeople forecast the size of the Covid-19 pandemic?
You hit a nerve there - our company has gone through 4 "choice" http client libraries in the past 4 years. (We're a JS/TS environment). axios, request, superagent, fetch.
Banks usually have transfer limits to prevent you from losing 10 million dollars at once.
"Often" indicates that there are ways to send funds in a way that is not reversible. Wouldn't a thief make use of such a way?
You got me wondering and I could not find anything with a quick Google search.

Apparently personal bunkers weren't popular even during the Cold War.

https://vc.ru/story/139377-mesto-gde-mozhno-spryatatsya-skol...

It may be that people just didn't have the money for this kind of stuff and oligarchs would rather build castles that no one knows about than buy old bunkers (which would be in way worse shape in ex USSR I imagine).
It's funny seeing this on WaPo front page.
Not long ago mentioning possible artificial source of COVID as a byproduct of gain-of-function research was a "baseless conspiracy theory", and you'd likely be banned for "misinformation" on social media.
Have you had to provide the results from a DNA test to any of those groups? I've never been asked to "prove" what I've self-reported, even though I do not look anything like what I am checking off as my ethnicity.
Abstract

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social and traditional media have disseminated predictions from experts and nonexperts about its expected magnitude. How accurate were the predictions of ‘experts’—individuals holding occupations or roles in subject-relevant fields, such as epidemiologists and statisticians—compared with those of the public? We conducted a survey in April 2020 of 140 UK experts and 2,086 UK laypersons; all were asked to make four quantitative predictions about the impact of COVID-19 by 31 Dec 2020. In addition to soliciting point estimates, we asked participants for lower and higher bounds of a range that they felt had a 75% chance of containing the true answer. Experts exhibited greater accuracy and calibration than laypersons, even when restricting the comparison to a subset of laypersons who scored in the top quartile on a numeracy test. Even so, experts substantially underestimated the ultimate extent of the pandemic, and the mean number of predictions for which the expert intervals contained the actual outcome was only 1.8 (out of 4), suggesting that experts should consider broadening the range of scenarios they consider plausible. Predictions of the public were even more inaccurate and poorly calibrated, suggesting that an important role remains for expert predictions as long as experts acknowledge their uncertainty.
John Carreyrou, the WSJ reporter who first broke much of the Theranos story, just came out with a podcast called Bad Blood the Final Chapter that’ll follow the court case and other recent developments
On iOS each password item in Settings.app has a "Share" button that lets you AirDrop to another device. I don't see another way to export from iOS.

Safari on macOS (at least in Monterey) offers a bulk export option, which can export all your passwords to an unencrypted CSV file. The information includes URL, username/email, password, and an "OTPAuth" column. For GitHub (the only account I've enabled native TOTP for while the feature is still in beta) the entry in that column looks like this:

> otpauth://totp/github.com:<username>?secret=<secret>&issuer=github.com&algorithm=SHA1&digits=6&period=30

So I'm not sure if that would be directly importable to another service, but at the very least you get the secret and so could transfer the data account-by-account if you had to.
My bank says the faster payment limit is £25k. They do require phone code confirmation, but that can be hacked.
Payment processor for porn, not a credit card. That is, the part you put your credit card into. Some already exist, but they charge a high premium due to increased risk, but they still only exist because the banks continue to allow them to.
I'd say that (2) isn't a side point...

> 99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library functions. All popular languages are equally good at this.

In my experience, there are tons of programmers who balk at anything more complicated than a for loop, to the point where they won't even read the surrounding documentation of a short block of code to try and understand what it does. That's the 99.5% of programming that pg is talking about. I'd guess that some 80% of programmers spend their entire lives in this regime. When algorithm/language researchers talk to software engineers about what programming is, sparks fly. Like the parable of the blind people examining an elephant, we're talking about the same thing, but our experiences with it are too different to reconcile.
With the recent buzz about AI semiconductor design and drive for domestic semiconductor manufacture they are likely positioning themselves to be capable of investing in the next generation of fabrication. Leverage with the government and potential funding.
Another issue is I just never think about Waymo. I was without a car for maybe a couple of months? Didn't think about using Waymo once. Just grabbed an Uber.
There are lots of custodians with different storage models. If you have account at some reputable service, good password and 2FA set up (non-mobile) then I think accidents are always super ultra-rare or basically nonexistant. Of course you also have to just HODL and for example not send your crypto to some scammer (that ofc isn't a problem that a custodian will solve anyway).

Have to note that when there are millions or maybe hundred of millions of people with crypto wallets, there will be also some amount of "false positives" reporting lost BTC, for example people who have sent their BTC to wrong address drunk or high, and then afterwards think that its the platforms fault.
It looks Google is ready to pay $15/year [1] for an Apple user and $2.5/year [2] for a Firefox user.

[1] $15bn/1bn apple devices

[2] $500m/200m firefox installs
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SCO only sold the IP for Unixware and OpenServer to Xinuos, retaining whatever rights were needed to continue the lawsuits with IBM and others. I believe at that point, the leftovers of SCO were called TSG (short for “The SCO Group”). In their early days, Xinuos would make a point of stating that the old SCO lawsuits were nothing to do with them.