skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's most probably due to the startup and JIT penalty, but it was on par with Racket which is quite fast. I'm sure it can be optimized, but the implementation is quite similar to the other languages in order to have a level playing field. It's basically two nested for loops (in julia and racket is a single one with two indexes) adding valus to a set and another one doing set lookup and pushing into an array.
I don't like to be too negative, but this article feels like a senior partner or committee brainstormed article topics and assigned it to someone else. It's almost like someone started with an outline of the headers of each article section and the contents were filled in with the most obvious possible content. It feels like the kind of topic/article that GPT-4 or later will pump out en masse in the not too distant future. It's as if someone at a16z said "we need more blog content and we want an article on open source finance" and this was the result.

On the other side, I appreciate that VCs like a16z are pushing forward these ideas. I don't necessarily think this article is a reflection of the current reality but it does suggest a future. It signals that a16z is looking for startups to invest in to move this space forward.
This hack works on Android, too. At least I was able to do that with Audible.
Even worse, they just took the opportunity to pay off the govt to avoid disclosing exactly to what extent they lied.

At this point, what basis is there to presume that their reserve is non-zero?
> Why the whole even loop thing is even visible at all.

It isn't anymore.

In [3]: from asyncio import run

In [4]: async def async_func(): print('Ran async_func()')

In [5]: run(async_func())
Ran async_func()

Top-level async/await is also available in the Python REPL and IPython, and there are discussions on the Python mailing list about making top-level async/await the default for Python[1].

In [1]: async def async_func(): print('Ran async_func()')

In [2]: await async_func()
Ran async_func()

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/python-ideas/c/PN1_j7Md4j0/m/0xy...
How would the storage be laid out?

With the proposed scheme, there are two counters (and, i assume, the ID of the owning thread), so a small fixed-size structure, which can sit directly in the object header. With your scheme, you need a variable and unbounded number of counters. Where would they go?
Can you convert those assets to Gemini's stablecoin, GUSD? Gemini is regulated as a trust company in New York State and has pass-through FDIC insurance. You should be able to sell GUSD on Gemini and wire transfer the proceeds out. Gemini claims no limits on the size of wire transfers. This is useful, because most other exchanges make large withdrawals difficult.

It's hard to convert USDT to GUSD. Coinbase does't list GUSD. Changely says they will do it for a 2% fee. Bequant has a market, but US$20,000 would wipe out their order book. Hotbit claims a deeper market but has a US$10,000/day withdrawal limit. Bitfinex has de-listed GUSD. Probably because it was too convenient a way to convert Tether to real US dollars. Gemini does not list USDT.

It's striking how difficult it is to convert large amounts of USDT to a hard currency.
>Have self-awareness about what is taking you time.

It's simple, but so true!
>> This trope of "if you were just skilled enough" needs to die. Things cost money. They cost money to maintain and evolve.

I don't disagree terribly with the trope aspect, but people are hurting from the cost to evolve and maintain projects using approaches that sit at the extremes. There needs to be some understanding, and possible embrace, of elements of the middle ground in order to be truly maintainable in a lot of cases.

My call to action would be more for the innovators and framework developers to think more about this. Companies can try to solve it for themselves, but forces like staff turnover prevent meaningful progress for most.
I think this would be a more pertinent point if the adverse event rate was higher

The point is that they are intentionally doing something to water down the stats. In the minds of the vaccine hesitant, it destroys their credibility on everything else they say, even when those other things are entirely factual. Just seems like a terrible strategy to me. They are giving their critics both the gun and the ammunition with which to shoot them.
>Reddit is global conversations, the topics and comments can be toxic but it's not an echochamber by design.

Reddit is a de facto echo chamber. The two biggest news subreddits are heavily censored.
Because you have different team members managing different aspects of your software's deployment (if you have complex systems that you have moved into kubernetes). You can have a team for: authnz/rbac, networking, containerization/virtualization, service load balancing, app development, and secrets all while no one is stepping on each others toes deploying changes while using common language to talk about resources and automation.
P2P is not the same as "crypto and NFTs".

The reason they are doing this is so they do not become a money laundering platform.
> When you buy one of these devices you're not buying a Linux phone, you're choosing to participate in the process by which a Linux phone becomes a reality.

That is very true, and I would add that some of this reality is already in front of us. How many Android or Apple devices can run full featured office suites, graphics and audio manipulation software, development systems etc. complete browsers, electronics simulation software, etc, and I mean the real ones, not cut down mobile versions, all for free? Probably none.
The problem with the PinePhone is that it still lacks functionality in those two fields where 99.9% of normal non tech users would want it to excel, that is, calls and messaging. Non tech users want it for calls, SMS, MMS and Whatsapp, period, and they very much prefer a costly Android or Apple phone that addresses those needs although it would be way inferior in everything else, including privacy and security.
I think the PinePhone developers are already addressing some of these requirements, so hopefully it's a matter of time, but for most people, being able to run the WhatsApp client at decent speed would be the killer feature. No matter if run sandboxed with Android libraries, under a VM or reverse engineered; WhatsApp compatibility is the #1 feature that could bring the most users on the PinePhone bandwagon.
(The post, for anyone curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28879240)

Yeah, it's very similar in a lot of ways.
This an obvious scam.

"A glyph can be created by anyone who is willing to donate the creation fee of 0.20Ξ ($769) to our chosen charity, 350.org."

No, the glyph can be created by anyone who runs the code. And the code is publicly available. The "donation" is completely unrelated to the glyph, yet they try to trick you into thinking that both are connected.
It was called "The Office of Technology Assessment." It was one of the shining starts of the US government, and governments around the world used it as a model.

Destroying the OTA was one of the center pieces of the Republican's "Contract with America," was they perceived its advice to be an obstacle to their legislative goals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen...
I think there is a only a few band of middlebrow jobs in the US where employers are cost sensitive. I think most shit jobs won't give you good benefits either way (by various legal mechanism), and most good jobs will buy at at any most price or there will be elite rebellion.

Thus, I conclude demand is is mostly (piecewise) inelastic enough that the increased profitability you speak of is thrown into serious doubt.
https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/configuration/storage/raft

It's new but I think is quickly becoming preferred. I found trying to setup nomad/consul/vault as described on the hashi docs creates some circular dependencies tbh (e.g. the steps to setup nomad reference a consul setup, the steps for vault mention nomad integration, but there's no clear path outside the dev server examples of getting there without reading ALL the docs/references). There's little good docs in the way of bootstrapping everything 1 shot from scratch in the way most Kubernetes bootstrapping tools do.

Setting up an HA Vault/Consul/Nomad setup from scratch isn't crazy, but I'd say it's comparable level to bootstrapping k8s in many ways.
This is really cool, I’ve been meaning to give Mezzano a shot sometime.
What do you see as the "huge tech cost and barrier of entry of mastodon"?
They were intentionally viewing plan information. The personal information wasn't the goal and wasn't retained.

"private" information is too vague of a term.
So, not really the wrong answer for the past 12 years or so, then.
I agree. This is awesome work and is a great starting point. The regular gridding to me indicates that the rats learned the routes and found them easy and maybe even boring so after a point, they were not challenged intellectually in the navigation. Once their environment was modified, the rats began to engage more of their brain to learn and manage the choices that each situation required.

I just thought it was funny that the researchers were surprised to see such a large difference in how rats handle complexity when we know going in that rats are pretty intelligent. Those rats probably know each researcher, have favorites, remember routes, and get bored with those tasks like we would be. It becomes muscle memory for them so they go through the motions to get the treat they know is waiting.
Also, unless you dismiss it, there's a clear button to read to read their privacy policy and set telemetry (unless you're using the nightly-weekly builds, in this case they state in no ambiguous terms that you cannot disable it).
Love it! Thanks for sharing. My only suggestion was that the github/file/text "switcher" tabs are a bit too subtle, it took me a moment to realize why it was asking me for a github username (i.e. Because github was "selected")
If LLVM vanquishes GCC, you mean?
Windows 11 Benchmarks Paint Ugly Picture of Ryzen Cache Latency Bug
There is an entire branch of the Department of Treasury designed to enforce stiff sanctions and financial penalties against people, companies, and even countries that defy US regulations.

If the federal government decides Tether needs shut down, it won't be a struggle.
Could you expand a little on your problems with Consul? (I have no experience with it myself).
This is fantastic! This is my ultimate dream!
I work at MSFT, and all I can say is you're quite wrong
Interestingly the more patriarchal a country is, the more women go into STEM [1]. The societies with the most egalitarian gender roles have the lowest rates of women in STEM, while highly unequal countries have the highest.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
This is a terrible idea

> A smart game producer that sees a NFT-based game go down could say "hey, you know all those items you had on <game X>? Come over to my game and you'll get <benefit> based on that stuff!" Since ownership of the token is publicly visible and not locked into Game X's database.

So... Game X has enabled competitors to steal their customers by not using their own database. What exactly is the benefit here? If it's the same company they can just use their own database.

What if Game X and Game Y decide they don't get along and start to flood the network with items that are worthless in Game X and EXTREMELY VALUABLE in Game Y? There are so many reasons you don't want to cede control of your game world to a competitor company!

> Lots of ideas where cross-game promotion could be done using NFTs to validate ownership of something in Game A within Game B without requiring the game developers to set up a specific intergame data link.

Oh good, all we need is for all games to define their item data on a universal scheme that fits the needs of every single game.
Let's start with getting the same subtitles in all regions. Netflix doesn't do this, really annoying
Define digital ownership.
I think also something that should be considered how the vaccine works if the immune system is already battling something. Anecdotally I know a person who's tumor had doubled in size after she took the vaccine. It could be coincidence. But at the same time, do we know how much an immune system directs it resources, and does it prioritize and immediate infection vs one that is latent.
Do you mind posting some reference on the unpredictability of pause times in rust? I'm interested in real-time systems and I'd love to know more.
> "their many benefits"

I'm trying to think what "many benefits" those might be... can you clarify?
NASA’s Lucy mission will soon be in the sky, with a launch set for Saturday
He actually wrote "bisseq" but upside-down.
I'm glad PDF.js' development continues. I completely missed that they have abandoned the plan to move to PDFium (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project).
>> "We should work on making user privacy more private, not more portable."

> I don't understand this; can you explain?

handrous expressed my point better than me an hour ago [1] but I'll try to give an answer: I think we should focus on limiting data production / collection altogether rather than try to address data portability (re-using the term used in the first sentence of my parent comment).

I agree that we could do both (limiting data production and move data elsewhere / regulate its usage). But I'm not quite sure the problem (privacy) is solved by just moving the data out from its direct users, even as a first step. The data is still "out there" and it's a liability. Your "Amazon Data" can be compromised, receive government requests and pieces of data requested by a FAANG company might as well be forever at this FAANG company as far as your guarantees of privacy are concerned. I see pieces of data as "tainting" those who access them [3]: as soon as someone accesses them, you can't rely on them forgetting these pieces of data. These pieces of data are no longer things you can rely on them not having.

I can see that splitting Amazon in two parts "Amazon Data User" and "Amazon Data Provider" and forcing the former to pay the latter may disincentivize "Amazon Data User" to use your data too much, but it incentivizes "Amazon Data Provider" to sell it so I'm not quite sure where it leads. I also can't see "Amazon Data Provider" as working as an autonomous entity, so I'm not sure splitting quite makes sense.

To be honest, I fail to understand this solution, to be convinced that it may work. (I'm not dismissing your idea, I'm curious and want to understand more!)

edit: I'm all for some kind of HIPPA-like regulation as discussed in [2] however. Do you have an idea on how it would compare to the GDPR?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28881937

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882352

[3] not unlike people who have read the source code of Windows cannot contribute to Wine because they are "tainted" forever.
How is this a more effective way to bootstrap a player base than, say, handing out drops on twitch or having seasonal item packs up for free for a limited time on the store (i.e. "Until Nov 1 you can get the Halloween cosmetic pack for free on steam if you own our game"). In all the cases I can think of tying your promotion to an NFT that needed to be earned in a different game is purely going to lower the number of people that this promotion will apply to while not at all lowering the cost in terms of dev time & art (because while an NFT might indicate a Santa Hat you actually need to build that item as an art asset in your game and make sure it's compatible with models and clipping and all that junk).

I feel like most of the NFT arguments I've read in this thread are assuming that somehow using an NFT gets you out of the cost of actually spending the art & dev time on producing the cosmetic - just because it exists in another game doesn't make it appreciably any cheaper to add to your game.

I will admit there are ways to make art more "valuable" by actually limiting the number of available copies - but that trendiness is hard to effectively harness. Beanie Babies took off in the 90s and everyone's brother started buying up newly released ones... almost all of which were worthless because they scaled up their production to meet demand - and if they hadn't they wouldn't have been easy to get a hold of.
> Still hoping for those automatically refreshed materialized views in PostgreSQL, ala what VoltDB has.

Not exactly what you're hoping for and you probably already follow this pattern. pg_cron can help (and is now available in AWS RDS).

```sql
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_cron;

CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW IF NOT EXISTS activeschema.some_thing_cached AS ...;

SELECT cron.schedule('some_thing_cached', '/5 * * *',
$CRON$ REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW some_thing_cached; $CRON$
);
```
Everyday Sexism Could Stop You from Getting That Promotion
British MP David Amess Killed in Stabbing
One of the issues that I have with your analogy is that the monopolies you mentioned (roads, internet, rail) all have substantial physical assets that are tied to their monopoly power. For example, even without factoring in the cost of land, it can cost up to $700k per mile of rail track. These kinds of upfront costs are one of the major moats they have to keeping outside competitors from emerging. I'm not sure the digital-era monopolies discussed have this same type of barrier to entry.

The internet example is a more interesting analogy to me because it seems to align more with a utility, which we're okay with having monopolies existing, albeit regulated, because of the greater efficiencies.

So are social networks, online shopping, or search public goods? If so, should they be regulated because we think there is an advantage to having a monopoly in this space? If not, what are their barriers of entry that stifle competition?

I don't necessarily don't think they shouldn't be broken up, but I'm trying to understand whether/how they fit into previous paradigms or if the monopoly paradigm is fundamentally different in this digital era.
Ah, maybe I need to spend some time digging into IPFS.

Is it correct to say that an IPFS address can only point to a specific piece of data, and re-uploading that data will generate the same address?
Sounds anti-competitive and monopolistic to deem all games must be centralized and hosted on cloud providers. Regardless of simplicity of hosting it implies a cost and maintenance to those systems. Meanwhile decentralization democratizes that cost to the people using said system.

What you seem to disagree with is peer to peer applications? You can trust the creation of a game but don't have to rely on centralization to play. Conflating the two is a dishonest take.

There are different concerns that would drive someone to make a decentralized game over a blockchain one. That different concern is what I see you failing to really grasp.
Damping is a physics or maths term. To damp means to (steadily?) decrease the amplitude of a wave or oscillation.
Apple removed a popular Quran app in China
The Telegraph, along with the bbc now, are saying the arrested man is British of Somalian heritage. So unlikely to be a neo-Nazi.
You know you can just host game installers on your website today right? A big part of Steam's value is that you don't have to build your own distribution infrastructure, which you will still need even if your game is just a big ass WASM file.
Why Does Every Degree Take 4 Years and Every Job Require 8 Hours/Day?
I'm also known to say "if you can't afford to pay
your workers a living wage you can't afford to
do business" of many retail/service environments.

Also, how the heck do you reconcile this with your stance that people shouldn't try and make money from their apps?

I would say, "if you can't afford to pay your developers and other employees a living wage, then you can't afford to make an app or launch a product"

I don't think you've thought any of this through, man. You have some excellent ideals and I agree with them but you need to think through the practical ramifications.
> banking applications

I'd rather use the web app, it gives them less information about me
Both bloggers know each other (this is pretty obvious if you read some of their online stuff), so Dan Luu probably reviewed the other post early and thought it interesting enough to add his own take.
A new approach to usermode networking with passt
Trifucates, since now there’s stdlib asyncio, and a popular trio async flavor too.
Another fun fact of Illinois protecting its citizens with that law is that schools like DePaul and Northwestern are currently being sued for violating Illinois' biometric laws with the use of facial recognizing proctoring software.

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/02/18/campus/nu-faces-law...

https://depauliaonline.com/52893/news/depaul-sued-over-facia...
> none of the three things you mentioned are anywhere close to monopolies.

Yes they are. Imagine that I imported alligators to Washington[0] and set up a gumbo resturant in Seattle. I would have a (local) monopoly on alligator meat. The fact that you can easily buy beef or chicken from any number of other places doesn't change this, it just means that my monopoly isn't particularly relevant.

Similarly, Facebook has a monopoly on communication with people and groups that communicate exclusively via Facebook. You could go communicate with someone else, just like you could go buy some other kind of meat in the above example, but there is no competitor for communicating with the people you actually (for some reason) want to communicate with.

The relevant question is whether Facebook's monopoly is broad enough to be relevant. Reasonable people might disagree about that. But there is no question that they have a monopoly.

> their monopoly was so powerful because there was often no other way to get from point A to point B

In such a case, the fact that you could instead choose to go to point C by way of some other railroad, does not mean they don't have a monopoly on travel to point B. (Nor does your theoretical ability to walk to point B, or track down a Facebook user in real life and visit their house.)

0: I'm going to assume noone has already done this.
It's a little more complex than that. Retail chains often charge consumer packaged goods companies for shelf space. Essentially the retailers are selling access to their "platform".

https://traxretail.com/blog/quick-guide-shelf-space-costs/
I'd be nervous about the testability/verifiability of it. I like treating the DB as infrastructure, and I get nervous when the infrastructure gets too smart.

Maybe I'm just stuck in the olden days and haven't yet embraced the brave new world where no one can run a full local instance because it depends on queues and storage backends and whatever else supplied by a cloud vendor. But even in my little world, I feel like I experience this with overly-smart Jenkins pipelines that can't really be executed except in production or an expensive-to-maintain clone of production.
> I rarely ever heard about homeless women and constantly hear about homeless men.

Are you just making that up? Have you seen any homeless shelters exclusively serving men? There are plenty for women. Or do you just assume that when people say "homeless" they mean a man since most homeless women have already gotten help and therefore isn't homeless? I haven't seen a single article arguing that we should prioritize male homelessness, but plenty that we should prioritize female homelessness.

https://www.womenshelters.org/cit/ca-san_francisco