skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considered that he imprisoned one of his daughters and threatened her with death, it’s fair to think about literal hacking
There was a puzzle in the MIT Mystery Hunt a few years ago where teams were given a physical Zip disk (amongst other outdated tech) and had to figure out how to read its contents :)
I invite you to search the ARM reference manual (the so called "ARM ARM") for the terms UNKNOWN and UNPREDICTABLE. There is also actually UNDEFINED, but in the context of ARM it means that a specific exception happens, so it's pretty much the most PREDICTABLE of the bunch.
Yea the nodejs dependency is an abomination. The cdk also requires a nodejs version newer than what comes on many linux distributions so you end up installing a custom nodejs version just to run cdk.

I don’t know why they picked nodejs over a more sensible language such as python3 which comes installed almost anywhere or golang which is easy to distribute in binary form and relatively reverse compatible.

The aws cli really got it right: just let me install a standalone binary and call it a day.
Some people will never change their minds. They've made their choice and changing their mind would be more painful than not.

Bitcoin could be the world reserve currency and the same people would still say it's a scam.

Ultimately, who cares? The world is changing with or without them.
I lived in both Singapore and Sydney, and Singapore is cheaper
- food is cheaper in SG
- apartments were cheaper in Singapore. Sydney has become expensive
- taxes are lower in Singapore
- public transport is cheaper in Singapore
- alcohol is expensive in both places
- My company in Singapore paid medical, but in Australia I had to pay my own medical insurance
- In Singapore I got paid all cash but in Australia it's required to contribute to Super which is a horrible system compared to what America got
- Expat salaries are higher than in Australia

Singapore has also public housing(HDBs) for locals which are more affordable. Sydney has no affordable housing at all.

I'd say I saved 30-40k more in SG every year.
I was writing code in the 90's, and my first IDE was Turbo Basic in 1990 precisely, followed by Turbo Pascal alongside Turbo Vision and Object Windows Library.

Eventually I also got into Turbo C, Turbo C++, and then upgraded myself into Borland C++, used Visual Basic 3.0 in 1994, and a couple of years later Visual C++ 5.0 was my first MS C++ IDE.

Mac OS MPW was an IDE and stuff like AMOS and DevPac were IDEs as well.

Java IDEs started to show up around 1998, like Visual Cafe and the first Eclipse, after being ported from IBM's Visual Age.

Visual Age, which were the IDEs for Smalltalk and C++ from IBM for OS/2 and Aix.

The only group that wasn't using IDEs were the UNIX folks, thankfully XEmacs was around to bring some back sanity when I had to code in UNIX.
Why Internet Access Is Slow and Costly in the U.S.
Facebook can have some positive values, while still when taken as a whole be an overwhelming societal net negative.
If you want POSIX you know where to find it.
We shouldn’t shut Facebook down. That’d be an insane regulatory gesture.

However, imagine Facebook offered an interoperable social graph API—and you’d have a cross-platform client app that lets you get in touch with anyone (including those who deleted their Facebook profiles), meet your significant other, meet friends while traveling, etc. all without being locked into exploitation by a behemoth for advertisement money.
If you liken depression to a headache, it demonstrates we're not talking about the same thing. Depression is not the same as sadness.

Analogies only take us so far, but a far better one would be physical pain so severe that, like severely depressed patients, the victims want to kill themselves to end it. Think torture, which is often how depressed patients describe their own intrusive thoughts.
Here’s one showing prior infections or at least prior positive test results failing to result in long term immunity.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article
Not really. You also need a computer running XCode (i.e. a mac), you'll need to follow the instructions out of 9 rather not obvious pounts and you'll also need to build be app you want to install.

Oh, and of course you won't be able to use push notifications, because Apple.
> palladium, rhodium

Sidenote: Both of them have surpassed gold in terms of pricing for a while recently. Not every cryptocurrency is valuable, but some can be if they can fill a gap like palladium and rhodium, that were mostly useless metals 100 years ago.
I'm curious for those that still truly believe Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme or a bubble - at what price point and time would you start to consider that you may be tragically wrong?

What price would tulips have had to have attained for them to be proved "not a mania"? [1] "At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled artisan."

Which is to say a high price by itself is not a proof of bitcoin not being bubble. I do have a criteria - bitcoin will not be a ponzi scheme if it genuinely winds up being used as currency. Of course, this wouldn't solve its other noxious problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
It's not a stretch, it's a stated inspiration: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html
I honed my skills on a TI 58. What a machine. I wrote a simple 8 queens solver, which took nearly 30 minutes to reach the first solution. Great times.
Yeah, I think you have a point regarding gold. I think the same way the author treats Bitcoin in regards to the way 'most people are using it' when defending its categorization should apply to gold as well.

Once we accept that the price is defined by speculators, the industrial and decorative applications of gold set a floor price rather than necessarily redefining the category.

There are a few key differences.

(1) Gold is zero-sum. Once out of the earth, it simply continues to exist. It produces nothing, consumes nothing, reacts with nothing, and doesn't really get lost or destroyed.

(2) On the other hand, if Bitcoin miners are turned off, 100% of the value evaporates instantly.

(3) Bitcoin therefore is negative-sum because miners require a steady influx of new capital in order to purchase coal to burn to 'secure' the network. This new capital is raised in the form of block rewards which are sold, exerting negative price pressure in the amount of ~$60M USD per day. If new capital stops coming in, Bitcoin bleeds value slowly, and then drops to zero all of a sudden.

The difference between a zero-sum vehicle and a negative-sum vehicle is enormous at the limit.

> People like to own gold jewelry for the same reason people like to own bitcoin.

I do disagree with this however, most people buy gold because it's shiny and a status symbol. They want others to see it. People buy bitcoin because number go up.
I may be in the minority, but I actually rarely visit HN’s homepage, but rather follow @newsyc150 on Twitter, and just get a feed of articles that hit 150 votes (there are other increments, too).

It’s not overwhelming — I generally feel it hits the sweet spot of signal-to-noise. I only pull up Twitter a few times a day, and scan to find interesting things there. My Twitter feed is generally light — I don’t follow any individuals, only sites I want to see updates on without having to poll them.
As Computer Engineer: oh well, do I have bad news for you ;-)

Quite a few processors have some undefined behavior, some instructions flags are just not specified, and no not just "this is reserved and must be zero", that would be Ok.

The result of the `bsf` or `bsr` instructions on the 0 value

And please, don't look too much at the FPU either or it may do some random stuff and jump at you.
Yes, I understand that. But if you run your high-power workload with fusion, you won't be releasing any CO2.

Your explanation reminds of the common example that increased car safety leads to more speeding. And somehow arguing that increased safety is futile.

But people like having more steel and like being able to go faster at the same level of safety.
This gets to the heart of the issue with these discussions - people like yourself asserting non-factual statements based on the equally (if not more so) incorrect assertions they hear from others. Where are your sources? Why do you feel like you need to state things as fact when you just don't like something?

You are exactly incorrect.

Cash represents the overwhelming supermajority of laundered funds and ongoing credit extended across criminal elements.

https://www.swift.com/sites/default/files/files/swift_bae_re...

Cash is the heart of the criminal economy, crypto is creating a transparency that doesn't exist in traditional peer to peer physical transaction systems like cash or IOUs.

I'm done with this, nothing productive is coming out of this conversation.
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Misleading title. Correct one - Busting the claim that C++ is faster and safer than Rust.
You jest, but I always found it puzzling that there was a time (supposedly?) that compilers were dumb enough to assemble ++c and c++ differently in cases where they simply occur as stand-alone expressions, despite their obvious semantic equivalence.

Even stranger: people that insist on writing their (loops; like; ++this) in 2021 as if doing so is in any way superior or something.
He’s just complaining about the title as misleading when the very first sentence provides full clarification.

However even the other interpretation is supported by evidence like this. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article Though critically surviving COVID says good things about the immune system even if you didn’t develop an immunity you may still be better off than the average vaccination recipient who tends to be older and in worse health. Which further confuses the issue at the population level.
I'm sorry if I appear a bit dense, but this is the part of bitcoin I least understand. On an individual level, when transferring person to person, are the transactions ever more complex than just remove funds from here and add it to another wallet?
I reject that thesis given the Chinese sure managed, in like a week. No Bitcoin in North Korea either. The longer we wait, the more painful it'll be.
The purpose of the article is mental masturbation.

The intro motivates the topic by noting that silicon solar cells present a toxic environmental hazard. The author then, apparently with a straight face, posits that cells made from antimony or selenium, of all things, would be a good alternative. For more laughs, the author goes on to suggest that one of advantages of such antimony and selenium cells is that you could build them without a protective covering—-that the semiconductor would be fully exposed to any passerby.

It’s like those renfair cosplayers who reject electric motors for their zombie apocalypse scenarios, and plan to repopulate the earth using hydraulic machinery with “easy to procure from any junkyard” flexible hydraulic hoses.
Its a ponzi because of how exchanges work. The exchange takes your money, gives it to some of the early dropouts. When you sell for a loss, you've been lied to about the utility of bitcoin.

You likely never used bitcoin for any of the many advertised functions. You held it, and sold for a loss. Some will win, more will lose. Its a concentration of wealth with a little more class chaos than normal because it's accessible to a more diverse crowd. It still ultimately fails to incentivize useful work to society and it's still going to cause wealth to concentrate in the wrong direction.
Only if you define "undefined behavior" as in a very constraint sense (as in "the language specification doesn't specify the behavior").

But CPU architectures also have undefined behavior. ARM for example calls these "UNPREDICTABLE" and "CONSTRAINED UNPREDICTABLE". Have a at the Armv8 architecture reference and grep for those. Lot's of ways to write programs in pure assembly with undefined behavior too!

x86, 6502 and Z80 etc all have undefined / unpredictable behavior too.
Bitcoin is not private. It's probably even easier to trace than traditional bank accounts. There are better projects focused on privacy. Monero, for example.
Discussion from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545878
It’s not just one small study for example here’s: Not all persons recovering from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection develop SARS-CoV-2–specific antibodies. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article

I granted severe infections do result in a strong immune response, but simply having a positive test result isn’t the sign of long term immunity people assume. That said, surviving COVID also implies a healthy immune system which is a rather morbid example of survivorship bias.
Where people choose to throw their own money should be left to them.

However, I wish governments would ban regulated institutions from throwing peoples real money into non-governmental/undemocratic cryptocurrency.

If banks/govts want to get in on the action, they should perhaps start their own cryptocurrency/blockchain.
It doesn't matter if it's a Ponzi or not. Cryptocurrencies will live as long as people put trust in them. The same as the currency of country X, stocks of company Y and works of artist Z.

The question is: how long is the public going to place trust in cryptocurrencies?
Excuse me? The post is a non-apology. It starts with a minor PR while in fact it turns out to be about the whole organizational structure which was a surprise to people that joined it?! This is a fundamental problem, not a minor PR and how the process for merging that is.

As for emotions and business you are also quite wrong. Emotions will give you some pretty good hints about reality. Ignoring those and trying to be 'productive' is a sure way of being tricked all the way to the bank. There's a reason emotions exist and to lobotomise yourself won't make you a better business person.
>the majority of demand for gold comes from non-investors (which appears to be the case in I think most quarters but perhaps not most recently)

There's actually been far more industrial usage proportionally recently than any prior year. Prior to 2020, the highest industrial usage year was 2016, at ~7%. The article is wrong; the VAST majority of the demand for gold does indeed come from investors. This is ignoring gold's historical status, of course. Before the advent of modern computing, there was extraordinarily little "practical" use for gold beyond use as tooth fillings. And yet, it is during this time that gold was most coveted. Why is this? Economists have been debating that for a century! :o)

>Jewelry is its own category but it does have “utility” if viewed through the lens of human behavior across civilizations over time.

Jewelry does have utility yes, but gold jewelry has no marginal utility over, say, brass jewelry, other than the material composition. And yet, gold jewelry commands a far higher price, and despite even this, it is still in higher demand. This is because buyers place a premium on the metal itself, hence why I referred to it as a para-investment.
People in the crypto debate have very short memories. BTC is up like 1000% in the past 18 months and everyone is so quick to point at the current price declaring that "crypto is here to stay!" I mean christ in what world is 18 months long enough to declare that crypto is eating the world?

It's clear as day from my perspective that everyone is jumping on the speculative mania bandwagon. It used to have some utility in facilitating cheap illicit transactions, but those days are long gone.

For the record I believe that enabling criminal activity is REAL utility, whether one agrees with the moral implications or not.

Almost nobody is using bitcoin as a currency. It's all speculative investment. This is coming from someone who has made quite a bit of money off crypto and has actually used it countless times as a currency to buy physical goods.

To those of you pointing out that other markets like equities are also detached from reality, I agree with you and don't think it means bitcoin is any less bullshit. At least ETH has some utility as gas for distributed applications.
I just published this plugin to showcase the new features implemented in xplr v0.15, which enables configuring xplr or creating plugins with a whole new level of interactivity in the terminal.
Could Postgres convert the function into a DFA using the JIT optimizer (based on LLVM)? That might delve into sufficiently smart compiler territory but recognizing a bunch of OR'ed string matches seems on the easier end of optimization passes.
Singapore is the same as Dubai, just Singapore is better at PR
Optimizing integer increment might be easy. Hard thing is optimizing overloaded increment operator. ++c is naturally faster, because it does not have to make a copy of its previous value. Especially if that operator implementation is inside another library. So it makes sense to use fast-by-default approach.
Yeah I can't keep track about the weekly times the whole internet went down. Probably a couple of times a week
It seems like you have an agenda here, did you end up with a material amount of Facebook stock?
From his podcast interview it sounds like this is a “party” like the DSA is a “party”: it throws its support behind more mainstream candidates who advance their platform (mainly ranked choice voting for now). But being independent allows them to throw support behind both Ds and Rs.
There is nothing we need but food and shelter, which is not the main payload for those trucks.

While some people might enjoy some of the useless consumerism crap that's moved from China to your closest shopping center via trucks, I enjoy driving my old petrol car through the landscape and to the track.

Now let's all step back, calm down and compromise. :)
When people stop buying the latest and greatest machines for Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin's price will crash to zero. It will trigger double-spending attacks, which will undermine trust in the network. Gold doesn't have this problem; so gold is better.

Gold has been used to store value for thousands of years, while Bitcoin is a new and experimental technology. It's absurd to say that you would use an experimental technology to store long-term wealth. Maybe once it's tried and proven, fine. But right now it's inefficient, volatile, has high fees, and has got the problem with mining I talked about above.

For clarity: My comments above are directly relevant to the comment above about inflation. Guarding against inflation is about holding onto your wealth for the long term. I was comparing Bitcoin to gold for that purpose -- which is entirely valid.
Do you sense no irony whatsoever in your statement?
I mean, maybe you're right. But also, parent probably knows his Dad a bit better than you, so maybe you shouldn't assume that some kind of generic statement about society for sure applies to other people?

This is the "lacking in nuance" thing that parent was talking about.
Indeed, best to avoid any eye contact with the FPU at all.
Probably true. On another note, I see Impervious.ai in your post history. I've never been able to wrap my head around what they're building. If you're willing, I'd love if you could point me to any good learning resources.
> Few types of quotations could better convince me that their author is not worth listening to on anything related to China. Hilarious.

I love how you tell everyone this is hilarious, but you don't go into any depth why you find this quite so funny.
Yeah, the language that:

- has been around stable for over 6 years and was already somewhat popular years before that

- is the first real contender to C in the Linux kernel, with support from its BDFL and a lot of work going on, and well those devs know a bit more of pain points in complex systems that need to go fast.

- is used in of the major Browsers while the most popular one is contemplating starting to use it

- allows refactoring and cleaning up code so nicely, it's just marvellous if one actually worked on big code bases previously to rust, as either one had ten static checkers and three times the amount of CI pipelines as required bolted on, or just risk quite a bit every time something was touched.

- deep and mature integration of tests and docs and doc-test (those are damn nice)

- want me to continue? I got a few more points

surely is a fad ;-)

Look, you do not need to use Rust if you do not want too, but living in denial about that Rust has seen a good rate of adoption and that it also has its uses as valid Language to do stuff nowadays, is just not a good thing to do mentally nor socially.
> The immutability makes it impossible to redact or remove information, even if that information is encrypted.

If that's the case, does it not run foul of GDPR?
This might happen after a few months along with much hilarity among all concerned:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/cbr.2019.3535.retract

"Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals officially retracts the paper entitled, “LncRNA SNHG16 Promotes Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion of Glioma Cells Through Regulating the miR-490/PCBP2 Axis,” by Fangen Kong, Yang Yan, Jinfeng Deng, Yaoli Zhu, Yingqin Li, Huiqing Li, and Yiping Wang (Cancer Biother Radiopharm. E-pub ahead of print 23 Jul 2020; doi: 10.1089/cbr.2019.3535) at the authors' request:

“We apologized that we have found a serious problem in our paper. In fact, the Western blot experiment in our study was commissioned a third-party company for testing. In present, some peers have found that the company has forged experimental reports. After contacting the company, they were unable to provide the original images. We have checked and confirmed that the authenticity of the data provided by the company is problematic. In view of the problems in this paper, all the authors have discussed and agreed to withdraw the paper.”

The journal publisher requested the name of the “third-party company,” to which the authors replied:

“We apologize for our mistakes. Our so-called "the third party company", after further investigation, is actually not a company but an individual person. Due to the personal reasons, the previous experimental data were lost and the original raw data could not be provided. So we can not guarantee the authenticity of those data provided by that person. Some members are considering to repeat the experiment again, but we have no way to raise enough fund to repeat it. Hence after serious discussion, we decided to withdraw the manuscript.

Again we apologize sincerely for your inconvenience."
Outside their budgets, too. OS/2 was relatively cheap
Such politics and drama... over what? was the merged code bad? did it not improve the project?
What was even the thing being merged? was it even code?

[edit: I found the commit, the apology should probably include that the file was not beautified before the PR was made..]
That's interesting. Can mobs sue each other for anticompetitive practices?
I also don't see it. Possibly it only shows for people logged in with an account that is associated in some way?
Bitcoin is backed by nothing but math.
How would a liar be able to take legal recourse for something that didn't happen?
The article does not provide any valid argument against "Myth 1. Rust's arithmetic is no safer than C++'s".

The information provided in the article shows beyond any reasonable doubt that both C++ and Rust are exactly equally safe regarding integer overflow.

Rust checks for overflow in debug builds, but it does not check for overflow in release builds.

The same happens in C++. All decent C++ compilers have options for overflow checking, but most developers do not use these options in release builds, for fear that it would affect the performance.

Rust is a little better because it enforces the overflow checking option on debug builds, but C++ is better because the developer may choose to keep the option also in release builds.

So this myth is not busted, it is confirmed.