skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not bad, just anachronic. That was in the 12th century. Now there are >7bn of people on this planet, and greater challenges, economic or otherwise. Let's just say you'd either want to be banking other more powerful countries' money or gold reserves, like Switzerland, or have some kind of nuclear capability for protection against bullies, like Israel or North Korea do, maybe put on a show once in a while.
Of note, Tether values their reserves at redemption value.

So if they have a loan to an insolvent company that trades at 25 cents to the dollar, Tether’s attestation values it at 100%.

See emphasis of matter, page 2 of their attestation

https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tether_assuranc...
Transhumanist philosopher David Pearce has a fascinating piece arguing along these lines. The dystopic Brave New World "has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness", and Island offers a counterpoint, however hardly anybody has read it compared to Brave New World: https://www.huxley.net/
Exciting stuff! Keep up the good work!
Its an endowment, they should be only spending a portion of the earnings not the principle. That way it will last in perpetuity instead of 10 years.
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There are some tools that use types for optimization, but I'd say it's still pretty early.

For example, mypyc is a python to C compiler that is part of mypy. It uses types for both correctness and optimization:

https://mypyc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using_type_annotation...
I didn't realize org could auto-plan your day for you. Any references?
s/same as/opposite of/
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If that was true then they could simply cap the amount that was exempt from taxation.
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> Now scotland has independent tax raising powers, the border with england for sea resources was carefully restruck to favour england

The maritime border used to be a straight east-west line despite the east coast of England being curved. In 1999 it was changed so that it followed established international maritime border conventions regarding distances from the mainland[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Adjacent_Waters_Bound...
Not OP. My impression is that a lot of the focus is around safety and specifically privacy. Both play right into social media giants' hands.

Instead we need to target Ads. Almost all problems can be eventually traced back to ads. At the very least traced back to the money incentive that ads create, on any platform.
Snarky, but I don't think you're wrong.

People are generally paid based on how hard they are to replace, not by how much profit they generate. But in some markets, this results in people making terrible wages while the company makes tons of money, ie, Wal-mart and basically all the major fast food chains.
The alternative perspective on that is that "Main Street" got to collect its interest payments from the local Savings & Loan or from US Government Savings Bonds while Wall Street did whatever fancy stuff it did with exotic investments like equities--which were mostly gated by expensive full-service brokers and other financial people.
Print ads are still classier than online ads. In the Economist, your next-door neighbor isn't "Still eating these six foods that will kill you? Here's one weird trick that Virginia retirees are using to save money."
California imported about 30% of its energy in 2020 and only 19% of it was from coal and gas. California imports more wind than coal and gas together. Hydro is the other major import which makes sense because of Oregon.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...
Thanks for this comment, sums up exactly my experience with python. Do you have a pointer to a larger write up of these issues? I really enjoy python, but agree with you that it isn't well suited for performance or scale necessarily. I find that people really get attached to it though and I'd like to have a good reference for them to help explain why issues like interpreter performance, GIL and typing make a difference on large projects even if not their pet ones.
The CEO is not performing either but their salary is through the roof as market share tanks and devs are laid off
> I think what the link is saying is that, people are inherently biased, and to try to pretend otherwise is "potentially harmful," because you still inject your own views in biases into a topic, while pretending that you don't.

This is a common talking point of the advocacy crowd. The problem is that, as used, it's a non-sequitur.

Sure, human beings have inherent bias. The answer to that is, and always has been, to strive for objectivity as best we can even though we are flawed. The advocacy crowd instead takes it as an excuse to throw objectivity out entirely and double down on their own bias.
At a first glance, a lot of the words for "ice" here are referring to specific kinds of landforms.

English landform words for a particular kind include: mountain, mount, peak, hill, ridge, crest, rock, mesa, knob, butte, table, dome, mound. Another kind of landform is a river, brook, creek, flume, gully, gorge, stream, channel. Or maybe you're taking about a swamp, marsh, fen, moorland, bog, slough? And I'm not even getting to the technical terms here.
If you get rid of the GIL you have to replace one big lock with a bunch of very small locks, which actually hurts performance for programs which only need 1 core, which is most programs.
Yeah, the dictionary https://archive.org/details/kinikmisigumqan00weya lists many terms that are obviously related:

Sigu: Ocean pack ice, also a generic term that refers to all sea ice, including shore-fast ice

Siguliaq: Young ice, gray or gray-white in color

Siguliaksraq: “That which will become young ice”, grease ice

Also, they're not all terms for ice, they might just be related to life on the ice:

Arjuun: Paddle or oar; can be used to listen for sea mammal vocalizations underwater
Things like Cython are great until they aren't, so yes, I think of them as a stop gap (albeit a practical and useful one). Any time you change interpreters or the execution model, you risk compatibility challenges with third party libraries and native modules. You also risk getting painted into a corner by their limitations. They definitely can help with hot code paths when their trade-offs don't prevent it but it still ends up being a kluge working around fundamental language issues.

But when Cython fits, it's great, and a good tool to have in your toolbox if you're working with Python.
I'm reading this as the royal you and not directed to me directly.

It's not your place to tell anybody how they sould feel. If someone has specific concerns, then that is for them to decide how they feel about them. For me personally, I am way more concerned because of who owns the facility much more than disaster porn scenarios. Due to the overall ineptness of the owner does make the disaster porn scenario much more likely though.

At the same time, it is a privately owned facility. If they want to close it that is up to them.
This just isn't true. The bill also prevents you from investing in any private company of which you are a member, AKA a startup you work at. It also prevents you from any deals requiring you to be an accredited investor which means any Reg D which is how almost all early stage tech companies raise money.
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I'm surprised Twitter sucks less than HN, but I guess Twitter at least allows disabling comments.

This is the second Twitter user I've seen that openly hates people posting his tweets here. Both are non-traditional genders, maybe that's a relevant factor.

Edit: for a second I thought the tweet referred to Ubuntu.com :P
The paradoxical decomposition of the free group doesn’t rely on choice though, and that’s arguably the “heart” of BT.
There has to be a "Figma" joke there....
If you click on the "Three." that will take you to my source. These are school shootings, not mass shootings. "School shootings", by my definition, are shootings that happened at a school. Would you like to propose an alternative definition?
It's called a FPGA; a software defined microprocessor (most higher tier processors can be reprogram to a certain extent through microcode, but a FPGA is a specialised chip designed specifically for this). You can get ridiculously high performance for your specific application, but it will never excel at general purpose computing. Good enough for Forth, great for ML, DSP, and number crunching, bad for running random apps from GitHub.
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If there is a need for fact checking websites and or resources the media on all sides is a joke!
The multiprocessing module is a hack. It has so much overhead that it is not worth the effort in all but the most embarrassingly parallel situations.
Maybe honesty shouldn't be bizzare. Only if you wholesale buy into the 2 party divide will you think that facts are a foreign concept. There can be news people that are pro-truth, pro-citizen and not pro any party. That would look like the views of a normal person off the street who is not super into politics - the fourth pillar of democracy.

Do you hate mixing religion with politics? Well, law with politics, news with politics and law enforcement / millitary with politics is the same toxic mixture that ends up stealing power from the citizen, who is supposed to be the most powerful entity in a functioning democracy..
Fair, maybe it's always a matter of picking the trap you want :) If you are optimizing for 0->1, Python is great. But if you want code to live and evolve over time with multiple authors, or ever will care about runtime performance, it's a dead end almost from the first line.

But sometimes the productivity benefit is all that matters and you accept you may have to throw it all out later (or invest insanely in making it work)... it's all about making an informed decision.
"Wealthy" in the context of most of the discussion surrounding this change are those with millions or billions in Roth IRAs. Those people's accountants will figure out a new strategy where they might have to pay a negligible amount in tax (if any at all). This change will be a few weeks of headache before it's largely forgotten. The only thing this will do for a struggling restaurant or bar owner in 2021 is ensure that they can't use money from their IRA to support their business.

I don't entirely understand what you're construing as class baiting. You don't have to have any contempt for the incredibly wealthy to acknowledge that they're going to walk away from this with extremely minimal losses, while your average person with a Roth IRA account won't be able to use it for starting or supporting their own business.
One thing that is often overlooked regarding Python multiprocessing is that depending on the version of Python and the OS, the processes are not launched the same way.

For example MacOS cannot use fork while it was (is?) the default on Linux.
Ron missed an important category. Creating value by entertaining people.
You are wrong in a very classical, meaning half of earthlings believe this misconception.

Trade can make both sides richer. Some would say any voluntary trade makes both sides richer, but that depends on your definition of voluntarism and exploitation of someone's weakness.

Anyway, for trade that makes both sides really richer in any sense of that word see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Ricardo'...
Congress is preventing all people from investing in private companies within retirement accounts, not just rich people. Adding the cap is fine but preventing private company investment is asinine.
If only we could somehow do that with Reddit now.
On the contrary, I think we're being taxed too much.
Multiprocessing is pretty heavyweight, everything needs to be serialized, you can't share Python objects directly or with good performance across processes, there is (fairly new) shared memory support, but it's just a bag of bytes. It's not particularly good on the cross-platform angle, while it does work on Windows, the startup time for each process is like starting a fresh interpreter, because that's exactly what it is doing.

Multiprocessing can work if you have all your logic in Python already, and there is no notable shared state between the processes, and you don't need to coordinate much at all. So pretty much just the very simplest problems in concurrency. Everything else might technically be possible, but will likely be very slow and annoying.
This is just flat wrong. The income contributed to a Roth IRA is post-tax. It is a retirement account that is economically equivalent to a 401k. The only differences are 1) timing on when the gains are taxed and 2) whether you can self-direct it or not. Saying “not intended to allow” is simply nonsense that covers for the abusive 401k system that fleeces individuals at the benefit of the finance industry.
This is a great catalogue of wealth creation mechanisms at a societal or global level, but it misses the question of wealth acquisition: How does an individual gain personal wealth? There are, in my opinion, three fundamental categories:

1. Create value (this encompasses most of the catalog)

2. Deplete valuable resources

3. Extract value from a transaction stream

The idealized engineer creates utility out of chaos. This value creation, however, is limited in its ability to cause them to gain wealth: They typically sell their time during which they perform this activity for a salary. A company that employs an engineer and pays him $100,000/year might make many times that amount with the products that he designs.

An oil company, coal mine, or non-sustainable farmer owns some land rights and takes out resources. The things they remove are valuable, but the profit does not come from the creation of the resource - they already existed. This category also applies to other activities which might not actually take a resource away but which harm the commons.

There are some activities which are useful, but where practitioners make far more money than the actual value they create. Someone who organizes and who employs many workers and sells the sum of their output is in a position to profit from the difference in that transaction. Jeff Bezos might hypothetically be smarter, luckier, stronger, and overall able to pack more boxes than any of his warehouse workers, but he's still human - he's not gaining wealth to the tune of more than $13,000,000 dollars per hour while his employees are making $18 an hour because he's creating about a million times more value. Instead, of the three categories, he (and anyone else who makes more than approximately a standard deviation above the median GDP) is primarily extracting more value.

My personal problem is that I take particular satisfaction in creating something valuable. I find resource extraction to be unsatisfying to the point of being demoralizing, and I find leveraging power to extract more value than I think I'm due to be shameful.
Cool but why didn't you just use the Tabletop Simulator version https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=36895...
Newspapers were always funded mostly by ads. You could argue that internet ads are worse than print ads because tracking, but I don't see that argument here. Newspaper headlines, particularly on the front page, have always been designed to catch the eye. Cable news has many of the same features.
Pretty much everything you're saying matches my experience, so, playing the devil's advocate:

- The typing argument is impossible to argue against, but isn't it the same problem you'd have with any other dynamic language? How is, say, Javascript any better? I don't see this as something that's specifically Python's fault, rather, yet another argument as to why starting a large project in 2021 without seriously considering static types is bordering professional malpractice.

- As for the GIL thing, I'm with you that it's never going to be lifted in any meaningful way, but wouldn't the subinterpreters idea along the lines of Ruby's ractors fix most of the pain in most cases?

Also, why are you skeptical about "the 5x plan"? I don't really have an opinion about it, but I'm interested in hearing any input.
Please note that the chart is a bit out of date. ripgrep has some features that aren't shown on the chart yet. Patches welcome if anyone wants to help.

https://github.com/beyondgrep/website
Would you put that threshold at 40% because I doubt Apple holds that much of the market of all app stores.
I think calling unlimited vacation days a scam is a bit extreme. It's more like a bad deal and it's worth negotiating against, which is easier said than done by an employee with no bargaining power.
This mirrors my experience as well. At one (at the time major) cloud provider we had to internally re-implement 100% API / behavior compatible Java applications for the publicly available Python applications for our OpenStack deployment, due to performance and scaling requirements. OpenStack Foundation required all projects to be only written in Python, which I think was a major factor in why OpenStack adoption was never significant. Scaling and deploying it was an absolute nightmare using public code.

Anything done at significant enough scale /must/ be multi-threaded to take full advantage of modern hardware which makes languages which don't provide a reasonable threading model effectively non-starters or at best a toy language for internal prototyping. I shifted from Python to Ruby, simply because Ruby provided a realistic way to interface with real threads, and then to Go, and haven't looked back. Simple applications are massively more performant in Go than in Python, and it's not just due to typing and compilation.

I love how simple Python is to learn and how it brings more people into the fold in approaching solving complex problems, but at the end of the day you should treat it like runnable pseudocode to get shared understanding so you can implement in a real language.
What a travesty. Sounds from the article that the consumer purchase agreements are largely to blame?
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> I wish IANA and friends would let home users and other smaller entities request global /56 address blocks and force ISPs to peer/announce

You want portable /56s?

You realise that's incredibly expensive for everybody else right? Today's portable /24s are a considerable burden, and you'd like to have far smaller routes assigned for basically your personal convenience. I don't know for sure what it would cost, but certainly thousands of dollars per year each seems like a very modest estimate.
No, on the 68000 you can do memory addressing using none, one address register, two address registers, or one of each.

On the 68020 you get even more flexibility.
Again, is there any reason to believe this is making nuclear nonviable? Everything you're saying is true, I just don't understand why you think it's connected to the nuclear shutdown. Have you found any articles about nuclear curtailment? Do you think "there is no solar for half the day" is a reasonable point in this discussion? Why wouldn't PG&E brag about the fact that surplus renewables are making nuclear unnecessary if that were true?
Absolutely. You can own almost all kinds of assets in your IRA today excluding collectibles.
Is that surprising? The movement has largely failed and gets to watch all their predictions come true
There's inherent complexity in the x86 instruction decoder, but after decoding, modern x86 CPUs don't particularly resemble legacy x86 CPUs internally. The native machine code is all proprietary "micro ops".

A lot of the performance gains over the last couple decades haven't come from machine code changes, but rather from various forms of pipelining and superscaling. Rather than run one instruction at a time, CPUs run hundreds of instructions at a time. The complexity of doing that is that many instructions often depend on the result of instructions immediately before them, and so the CPU needs a lot of shortcut paths internally to keep from stalling out.

You could get to Ghz speeds with a custom ASIC, and you could use base RISC-V as a modern, not crufty ISA. It still won't be anywhere near as fast as a high end x86 or ARM CPU, though, unless it's similarly pipelined and superscaled.
The coffee would become cold and undesirable of it were brewed and not purchased. The grounds of the beans would lose their flavor if not purchased and brewed.

The land the beans are grown on, though, might be used for other purposes, including to restore natural habitats and thus derisk the whole economy.
I have for years held the opinion that the moment Facebook and Twitter shifted to “algorithmic timelines” they “changed the deal” and not only did they change the deal they had with respect to public trust, they also became on average significantly less useful to me, I have to fastidiously check a list of people I want to keep up with now instead of just following them in the knowledge that my timeline will simply contain them. It’s like a social media slot machine, then in Facebook’s case they went and rigged the game in favour of advertising by allowing people to pay to be pushed to more of the people that already followed them talk about rubbing salt into a wound. It’s not appropriate and dramatic changes to section 230 are long overdue in light of the way these platforms now operate.
Does it restrict you from doing those things, or only restrict you from doing it in a tax-free/tax-advantaged way?
Ok, let's admit it, writing bad Python code is very easy, as it is in every dinamically typed language, like Javascript...

... but I think you're forgetting the real motivations that drive people to use Python: it's easy to learn, it's very readable, there's a large (and not so much toxic) community behind, it's versatile.
No one is saying that it will replace every other language, but it still can find its space even among large projects.
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Like I wrote, the Nios II is old. There’s barely any development going on. The compiler has a few bug fixes here and there.

The libraries are all in C, CPU agnostic, and primarily there to support various Intel Platform Designer modules (you can easily verify that by looking at the BSP). None of that goes away when switching to RISC-V.

I have no idea what you mean with “newer hardware interfaces”, especially in the context of reducing cost: when using RISC-V, you’ll have these newer hardware interfaces (whatever you mean by it) just the same.

It’s not about how much money it costs to maintain the Nios infrastructure, its about how much they’ll save by adding(!) an extra CPU to support.

Somewhat aside: most FPGA IP development of Intel happens in Malesia, so don’t assume US salaries… But if you estimate it at $10M-$50M, shall we agree that writing “billions” was more than a bit over the top?

Intel will save a tiny bit on not having to maintain a custom GNU toolchain. That’s about it.
It's a bad quote even in context! If you were in a trial, and the judge said "you all should know that I'm biased and it's harmful to pretend otherwise", would you expect to get a fair hearing?
Just took a look at their website. "(c) 2003". The functionality looks pretty great, at least from what they describe. So sad to see really great apps stuck on windows. Reminds me a lot of Supermemo.
The income contributed to a Roth is post-tax. This is economically equivalent to a 401k. Equivalent.
I am aware that Facebook has done a bunch of bad stuff, and that they own Instagram and WhatsApp. I still don't give a shit. For all it's faults Facebook is still the most convenient way to keep up with friends and family spread around the world, and share my underwater photography. If you engage with Facebook on your own terms and "hide all from" the news / politics / meme pages then it works great. And it's free!

And no, I'm not interested in doing extra work to set up Mastodon.