skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been attempted many times in the last century but never happened, I think it's quite safe to say that this also won't happen in the next century.
Quite an awkward link that. Deep down the author feels bad from the cognitive dissonance experienced by offering an inferior solution and they are writing as a means of catharsis, more to convince themselves than others.

It's doubtful that most apps need to be cross-platform to such an extent. Any of those markets has such a large number of buyers that there should be no problem to build a company like the one mentioned in your link. At the same time all of those markets suffer from various pathologies which makes it difficult to build such a business. Market dynamics make it very hard to make a profit and deliver quality software that doesn't stab the user in the back through ads, subscriptions, tracking, etc.

Using Electron is a compromise done by the business for the business, not for the customers. They need money from more people, but don't have the resources or skills to deliver, so they resort to the only solution which helps them achieve their goals, however full of compromises it may be. Let's not pretend that they're going cross-platform only so that the poor macOS users have access to hair salon software.
This is a failure of management, not the "team". They don't need "coaching", this bullshit molly-coddling of people is pathetic.

Good management will ensure that if a problem like this occurs, they don't "coach" but they "counsel" the appropriate dev to do their job and not waste everyone else's time.
Do your own therapy macrodosing MDMA you can buy from under bridges!
Thanks for your reply, it doesn't really cover all the arguments you mentioned, particularly about economic degrowth which I don't believe is so popular outside turbo leftists.

France recently removed wealth tax, because it's too easy to fraud and just made it harder for wealthy people to spend their money in France. I suppose the experience will be the same in the US.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui

.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that can run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared code-base.
Wouldn’t that be incredibly easy to circumvent? Just create a new address for each transaction?
I find that I am primarily frustrated by the uncertainty. It is clear that people independently seek out these substances and we have promising evidence that suggests that this class of drugs has a host of potential beneficial effects to many people.

It then becomes infuriating that a an ideology towards drug control that seems to be universally regarded by informed people to be misguided and causing more harm than simply doing nothing, is still interfering with our collective ability to evaluate these substances in an objective way.
That is why developing proof-of-location is important.
Elementary cellular automata are wonderfully intuitive, great aids for my sluggish brain when contemplating about complexity and more philosphical stuff like digital ontology. In the Wolfram physics project live streams they've been exploring concepts similar to this, I believe.
Did you know that there is very poor evidence for the benefits of cannabis and creativity? As a self-proclaimed "high-functioning cannabis user" cannabis is an incredibly reliably part of my creative process. It almost always results in some kind of powerful idea or insight.

While I'm fully aware that it is possible that I'm a deluded drug user, I suspect it's the lack of research — and potentially a failure of methods. That is, I'm not sure cannabis would help me think of more uses for a brick (a test of divergent thinking) nor help me gain insight into how to tack a candle to a wall (a classic test of convergent thinking and insight). But there is a definite change in the clarity and volume of my inner voice and mental imagery — and this can be extremely useful for conceiving new product concepts.
My best bet is that they hope to attract BTC whales that need to liquidate some of their otherwise unspendable fortunes (I'm talking of wallets that on paper are worth billions of USD, but in practice are difficult to liquidate).

For example you could go there, buy a watch worth 100000 USD with Bitcoin, come back and resell it.
Aha, they have no verification or captcha even for creating accounts. I’m sure its already being done.
Have not used, but I believe it would be sqlx (https://lib.rs/crates/sqlx). Note that this uses async.
Senior Architect - Global (US HQ) software consultancy.

Main skillset is Java/Python/AWS and associated tech, mainly in a financial services setting, so thats where they post me.

2021 comp
£140k base
£9k sign on bonus
£17.5k annual bonus
$40k RSU's - 25% vest each year

All the usual benefits, private medical for full family (wife, kids), pension match upto 10% etc, 26 days leave + public holidays..

All this, and i'm still interviewing for a new role!
When my music teacher had melanoma, they tried so many things. Some of them were so new that when she was first diagnosed they didn't exist outside a research lab. The progression of cancer treatment has been amazing, but with its ultimate spectre of being a disease that could start with any cell division, any time, anywhere in your body it's so good to see more research paying off. I think most people are scared of it, since we know it's going to get us all eventually (if we don't die of something else first).

Sadly my teacher ultimately didn't survive - but without new developments she would probably have died a good five or six years earlier, and her quality of life was really only bad for the last three months or so. She lived to see her children become adults, and she was so grateful for that. But we can dream of a world where nobody in their fifties succumbs to something like this.
Quite so. Lots of people worry about the time they'll "spend" not being alive after they die, but nobody ever seems to worry about they time they spent not being alive before they were born. In the context of the wider universe, "not being" is what you are doing the vast amount of time. The century or so that you are alive is the exception.
The tithe was abolished hereabouts a few years before the NHS was formed.

I think we got a good deal in the end.
> Could you elaborate on this? I have a fairly complex pipeline which has rules and needs, and it works without any yaml errors.

Sorry, it was with `only:changes` and `needs`. Take a look at this issue[0] and this pipeline[1]. I've failed to find the failure mode in the documentation, so I suppose it may have been fixed since then - but we've developed an in-house workaround in the meantime that I'd trust a lot more than anything coming from Gitlab.

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> A monorepo isn't "all but the most simple use-cases", it's usually a fairly complex usecase, and Gitlab have a myriad of ways to make monorepo CI easier - dynamic pipelines, remote triggers, includes, etc.

And every single feature you've mentioned here has a bug when combined with something else. That's the problem with Gitlab CI: everything works in isolation, but nothing composes properly.

Take includes: they don't work with anchors, so you couldn't have a generic template rules in the "main" file getting reused in the included files. This makes sense though! Anchors are a yaml feature. So gitlab added their own pseudo-anchors, called `extends`. You'd assume a smart, context-aware merge to happen, but no! Gitlab decided to go with a dumb object merge. Because the `script` step is a list of string, if both the parent and the child specify a `script`, only the child's will be used! Gitlab has a `before_script` step which can be used to workaround the issue for single levels of inheritance, but anything more complex ends up in a dead end. This feels like a feature that's been bolted on without any sort of design work.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/31310

[1]: https://gitlab.com/ensc/test-ci-needs/-/pipelines/78713602
They do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion#/media/File:US_aborti...
why, they should just run their own PoS so they can have all the benefits of crypto and all the benefits of having sovreign monetary policies
If we keep publishing studies about it, we can tell the next generation (and ourselves) “we weren’t sitting idly by, we were researching the situation to make sure we understood it.”
Why would anyone look beyond Bitcoin defeats me
> BTC whales

Enabling ransomware criminals, you mean.

But I still find it hard to believe that would bring the Panamanian or Salvadorian jeweler any benefit, let alone the rest of the population. The problem of converting the BTC rests with them after the purchase.
with what money? the blockchain is the all seeing eye, if you move a penny from one wallet to another, that wallet gets blacklisted too. (not to mention you eat the transaction fee every time you try it!)
Facebook Hacked? 7 Things You Need To Do Right Now!: https://www.hackerslist.co/facebook-hacked-7-things-you-need...
I heard a podcast about this some time ago. They used a wheel on one of the sleds to measure distance travelled and navigated using a compass. They did rough calculations using the suns height over the horizon and time of culmination and more precise calculations using a sextant from time to time.
I've always been a bit vary of running stuff automatically on PRs from untrusted persons. How easy is it to exploit? If my repo always runs all tests on a PR, could someone just add a PR with a new test that is then run? Thus running their arbitrary code.
The other important piece of information in that footnote is that filtration efficiency of cloth masks depend highly on their material and design. I wish it was possible to actually test the filtration efficiency of cloth and surgical masks available in the market.
I'm not sure server-side request forgery needs to be its own category where request forgery covers things from all sides.

Server-side attacks are more common as systems get more complex and have many moving parts that need be able to trust each other (in microservice architectures for instance), but failing to account for forgery at all levels is more a security-in-depth failure (fitting in the new very vague “insecure design” category?).

Unless I'm misunderstanding what is being meant here, which is far from impossible!
Doesn't that undermine the argument the Bitcoin is a good store of value, if that's the trouble you have to go to with an "unspendable fortune"?
This is super interesting; we had a fairly long discussion about whether or not to add this action to cert-manager[1], and ended up rejecting it in part because it increased the risk of supply-chain attacks and that risk wasn't, in our opinion, outweighed by the potential benefit of catching more spelling mistakes.[2]

For me, I think there's a wider point here that GitHub Actions are pretty scary in terms of these kinds of attacks. Pre-packaged actions are easy to add to a project but come with risks, as this security advisory shows! There are a few aspects to Actions which made me a little uneasy in terms of my threat models when building software, and personally I've tended to avoid them.

[1] https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager (Full disclosure, I'm part of the team paid by Jetstack to work on the cert-manager project)

[2] https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/pull/3863#issuecomm...
I haven’t looked at lightning since it was vaporware so I’ll have to check that out… I don’t know much about channels, is there really no public ledger in that case?
No linux. Where 25% of .net developers are. Its not going to fly.
> I don't think exactly that her doctors were wrong in believing that her death was imminent

This is the crux of it. It's hard to predict exactly when people will die. Spend enough time with palliative care physicians and the phrase "if I had a crystal ball" is burned into your memory
Especially for portability/cross compiling.
PicoLisp for Web Development
"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life." ― Baruch Spinoza
Are there prolonged periods of non-use when you notice the lack of creativity?

Genuinely curious, being stoner myself.

I will add that alcohol helps for my creativity from time to time too, it seems to break barriers.
Melanoma treatments have come a long way in the last decade.

Immunotherapy is a game changer for so many people, and I’m excited to see these mRNA trials.
>a fertilized, un-implanted egg is not a human -- it's a potential human.

Is there a scientific reason for that idea? I don't see how implantation can really be considered a transition from potential human to human. I think with enough scientific advances a human could be raised entirely outside the womb, and in that case there would be no implantation.
Monero is far superior with regards to anonimity, if that’s what you’re looking for.
My money is on Ethereum getting there first while pointing out it's unfair to call something creating value pure waste. Siding with gold miners and bloated corrupt banking systems as the future on a tech site seems weird.
> I think this is unlikely, largely because there isn't a military need for them. Black projects have historically been for useful things. We're already at the point whereby the US or Russia alone could literally annihilate most humans on earth, with their existing, 1980s designs and materials.

That never been the case, even at the peak arsenal levels. USSR, and USA bombing each other into the iron age? Yes, but not much more.

The Norko h-bomb is a "black project." Israel's bomb is too. It's much harder to hide the fact of making plutonium, than what you are making with it.

USA, and Russia both have enough plutonium to do quite a bit with it, but most likely smelting it into smaller, higher yield weapons.

Tactical weapons were taken out from duty not because of them being "ineffective," or any humanism minded reasons, but because they were inefficient when it comes to plutonium use. Too much of it for "little" bang.

I heard of one 152mm nuclear munition having enough plutonium for making 2-3 proper h-bombs.

With START 2 being provisionally extended, but not followed by START 3, I see both Russia, and USA already preparing plans to upgrade their arsenals in 2026, the moment START 2 lapses.
This may be silly question, but what does official status actually mean?

Bitcoin wasn't illegal in Pananama. It's not like they can print more nor guarantee value of the coin with other goods, is it?
If that's really how it works, then you can get everyone's addresses blacklisted by just sending tiny amounts of money to them.
I think you mixed up fission and fusion there. Regardless, a fusion reactor will need similar amount of cooling infrastructure if you want to output a similar amount of electricity.
A man snatching Africa's 'stolen' treasures from the museums of Europe
There are already some countries that made a business of looking the other way when somebody wants to launder some money, that's been going on forever and isn't related to Bitcoin. The benefit to the population is that because the government gets to tax some part of the activity, the people's taxes are lower and the government can provide better services than it would otherwise. If this makes a country a kind of a tax haven, but for Bitcoin, then that's probably just business as usual, in a way (still wrong, though).
I also suggest the "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor" as an introduction to the subject - it's a good read.
Thank you.

> The key difference is that we don’t actually invoke the code with concrete values, but rather treat it like a set of constraints that should always be satisfied

How does that work with a dynamic language such as Python?
Ah right, makes sense, thanks. Most of the time on the playground is spent booting a build server (we're using GitHub actions behind the scenes just for this part of the playground) and then building the code. I just ran this example myself and the build part took around 50 seconds before it actually sent the bitcode off to be analysed.

We need to add some more detailed diagnostic outputs to the actual execution part so that we can see the timings more clearly, but as a rough approximation from looking at the logs the execution API took about 10 seconds to run and some of that time would be in waiting for the message to be dequeued and for the function to wake up and process the job. So it's taking maybe around 5 seconds right now to analyse this one.

I know that's still quite slow, but we've not yet spent any real time on optimisations to the execution part so we're quite confident we can make this bit faster. As for the constant build overhead, this is something that's only really applicable to our playground, as users would likely build their code locally or have already built it as part of a CI run. Given all the feedback on this slowness though we are planning to make some improvements to this build part of the playground too to help reduce this constant overhead, or at least make it more obvious that this is what is causing the initial part of the waiting time.
Government payments and certain civilian contracts have to be settled on legal tender. Utilities, hospitals, have to accept it as payment. Taxation purposes.
No, I don’t want to grow my business
Both of them are small US Dollar economies, so their central bank doesn't lose influence it never had and hopefully Bitcoinisation brings with it a few wealthy tax exiles and offshore businessss.

But maybe looking at what's in it for the government from the POV of the country's financial stability is the wrong question anyway... one might also want to look at the personal financial stakes of some of the individuals involved...
Similarly, i sometimes start writing the command line with 'ls' or 'find', and then run it, and once i'm satisfied it describes the right things, i change the find to an rm.
It should be. It’s that and/or recapturing the carbon, purely from a logical perspective.

But that doesn’t seem to be obvious to every climate activist I ever discussed with, at least a dozen at this point, who would suggest a zillion interventions and regulations, none of which would keep even a tiny bit of fossil fuel unburnt. The climate doesn’t care whether the carbon is released in America or Africa, or whether it’s done for moral or immoral purposes.

Is there a rational climate movement somewhere that one can join? Asking for a friend.
"If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor"

This right here is the reason there are many browser-based apps - it's really convenient for the company, damn the users. The company can do whatever they want, whenever they want and have full access to both telemetry and user data.
If it’s a push button ignition you have to, so almost all new vehicles. On keyed automatics, no. There are VERY few cars on the road that would start in drive or reverse or low. This is an old warning.

Manuals on the other hand, again, almost all have a clutch interlock to start, but a lot of trucks and jeeps can have clutch defeats and will move when the starter is hit while parked in gear. It’s pretty dumb, but there are tiny scenarios off road you might want that. Most people just don’t want to press the clutch to start for some reason. In many of these vehicles it’s as simple as pulling a fuse.
If a currency is legal tender in a country it means that everyone in the country are required to accept it as means of settling a debt.
Big pharma cant make money off cannabis so I doubt that will happen. Bug pharma hates what God created and would like to keep people sick so they sell them more pills. Rick Simpson oil is a good example of this.
I think it was more induced by ideological teachers that have more of a problem with others than they care about equality.

But yes, it basically bombed movements like Occupy Wallstreet. The goals might have been questionable from the start, but you cannot succeed in anything if some self important people suddenly make it about racisms with the help of racism.

They might help the elite, but I believe they do it for free.
Even the positive article already says: "may be linked to the psychedelic’s ability to reopen a “critical period” in the brain for social reward learning." That's a lot more weasel words than the headline. That's without adding "You have to have used MDMA in a therapeutic setting," which is to say it hasn't been found to work in a natural setting, only in the experiment. No link to any article, so grains of salt included.
Anecdotal evidence is all you need in my opinion if they "scientific community" wont recognise it.
We're in agreement - the whole point of this thread was how early-stage Cuba and Ireland were vastly different situations and that Ireland's majority Catholic population wasn't the cause behind them not developing closer ties with the USSR.
This bullshit again... He was illegally detained without due process, tortured and confessed to killing an enemy soldier (murder implies civilian circumstances, it was a fight with US soldiers where he was injured and fought back). He recants his confession, and even if it's true, not getting tortured is a human right. (Not getting your country invaded also, but that's a whole different matter). And he was 15 at the time. A kid getting tortured for fighting in a war that was brought to him ( he was taken to Afghanistan by his father, and the US army came to fight them)? What the fuck are you on to consider that appropriate?

I'm glad he sued and won compensation.
Malware's backwards compatible with Windows 7. In fact it gets better and better the more time passes.
This is a story which was likely written at the behest of the publisher as a pre-release book review. Harden's participation -- and her own book by the sound of it -- is explicitly political. To read between the lines a bit more one can infer that Harden is trying to build a brand beyond academia. My point being that the principal scientist in the piece is no longer just a scientist, so it's appropriate to widen the scope.

I agree with you though that the headline, much of the article, and arguably some of Harden's presentation of her work is irresponsible.
It's probably higher up most people's list than 'programming language I will be using' though?
what’s the state of the art? I always imagined you could just have some random number generator sunk into concrete somewhere and do kind of like the authenticator apps do: turn the crank on the RNG to produce the next key. except instead of having 30 seconds to type it in, your phone would have like .3 milliseconds to communicate that to the geo-beacon to prove that you’re nearby, then the geobeacon can sign your attestation and you can use that proof however you want
Why do they all choose BitCoin? Its arguably the worst cryptocurrency by all means but the price. It has ridiculously high transaction costs in money, time and energy, easily becoming nearly unusable this way. Doesn't it?
Automotive EE here… I don’t think this is correct. If you are talking pre-electronic shift, your transmission still has position sensors and the engine or trans control module will not allow start while engaged. All vehicles have interlocks for this. Post electronic shift, it’s no question at all. You would need at least two errors in two completely separate circuits to get the vehicle to start in gear. Believe it or not, we think about these things.

For very very old transmissions, it’s probably possible to get this error, but nothing after 1995-1997.
This is a great example of poor market/customer fit. He was giving what he thought was needed, not what was actually needed.

Small-scale iterations and testing could have discovered these issues. Instead he wanted to make a big splash and have his little research station on wheels all upfront.
I'd also recommend "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" by Daniel Ellsberg.