skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government always plays catchup on these things, and now is a less than pristine time for financial supervision.

This seems to be the way this has always operated right the way back to Bitcoin - distribute tokens, and fund a market to provide initial "liquidity" until enough people are using it to maintain some semblance of value.

Fundamentally, the definition of money is a token of exchange that people are willing to use. What preferences one form of money over others is the government allowing/requiring tax payments in it. (Which presumably is now the case for bitcoin in El Salvador at least.) The easiest way to succeed at this is to provide funds to create a market - with the proviso that as more and more currencies get created, the "supply" part of the equation gets a bit out of hand. Something very similar happened with the 1840´s libertarian banking experiments in the US.
No, I can easily drop YouTube TV. Roku is built into each of my 3 TVs. I'm glad this was about Youtube TV, if it ws the Youtube app I'd have a problem.
It's absolutely amazing that we were sold something, being told it would solve all our problems, get us back to "normal", but here we are now. Looks like the vaccine isn't as effective as scientists previously thought (hang on, they didn't know!)
Yeah, I think these sites pop up from time to time but seemingly always get pulled and drift towards hookup sites and "dating" sites. I think AFF was one and then became what it is now. Maybe the word "adult" was psychosocially loaded with other meaning in this context and took over the original mission.
The problem in northern latitudes with permanent DST is that morning darkness is generally more harmful than evening darkness.

First, the weather tends to be worse in the morning. It tends to be colder. Fog is more likely. Ice on the sidewalks and roads is more likely.

Second, people's schedules are generally more synced in the mornings. People tend to go to work or school over a narrower morning time span than the evening time span in which people come home.

Morning darkness then means you are putting the time when you have the most people traveling at the time you have the worst travel conditions of the day.

In the northern parts of the US, permanent DST wouldn't even give most people much usable after-work sunlight. Here in the vicinity of Seattle, for example, on the last day of DST this year sunset is 5:43 PM. If you are a 9 to 5 worker your commute likely uses up most or all of your evening sunlight.
I'm generally open, but if the conversation is likely to go towards handouts I'll keep quiet.

Outside the workplace I lose my main motivator: ensuring we're all getting what we deserve.

People like friends/family aren't in the same bucket - so there's less to gain (either for me or them) by sharing this and likely exposing imbalance.
Yes I have, I helped teach some CS courses in college, plus I myself learned them in my very earliest days of programming. It's pretty common for those to be among the first concepts taught.

I'd say that your list is full of things that have practical examples when you consider how real, physical computers work. Boolean logic can be shown by example by showing physical transistor circuits, and I'd argue that people can understand them quite easily. Pointers/variables can be shown by explaining how memory addressing works on real machines, and what CPU instructions correspond with the actual code you're writing.

Monads however, seem to be this purely abstract mathematical concept that comes from CS-as-a-math-discipline, which although useful, requires you understand ton more theoretical background before you can approach it. At least that's my experience -- I still don't understand them and every tutorial I've read either makes them look like magic (ie. doesn't actually explain them) or tries to take a mathematically rigorous approach and I get lost in the weeds.

I know intuitiveness is very subjective, but I'd wager that by numbers, many more people are able to understand pointers/mutable variables/macros/boolean logic/etc more easily than they can Monads.
Lots of unicorn sightings here.
Really really few bits of content deserve a blog post. Most written content is ephemeral and uninteresting two weeks from now. It's perfect to be buried in Twitter never to be seen again. There is certainly content that deserves better layout, better archiving and so on. But most written content on twitter isn't like that (at least in my feed). Also, having to leave Twitter and click a browser link is usually to disruptive for me when scrolling twitter. Information that doesn't come on the spoon loses my attention to the information in the next tweet.
"If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes"
> We get a more elegant situation if we suppose that consciousness is a necessary side effect of creatures like us.

Agreed. I never understood the zombie distinction. It seems ridiculous that some thinking machines are “zombies” and some are not.
I think the relevant property is not anonymity, it's accountability. The argument against anonymity is that it will make people more accountable, but that's not always true. Rather, it's the way an online community structures itself.

For instance, here on HN we have the ability to be anonymous (on a sliding scale -- people can say who they are in their profiles, or be completely anonymous, or somewhere in between, posting contact info so that with effort they can be tied to their offline identity). But compared to many online communities, there's very little abuse here, and I'd argue that's because there's accountability -- there are clear standards, and those are enforced both by the moderators and by the community itself. Whether you post as yourself, fully anonymously, or somewhere in between, there's a community standard that hold you accountable for your posts.

I, personally, highly value the ability to have online identities somewhat separate from my offline one. I'm not trying to hide anything, I simply find it freeing to be able to enter a community without dragging around the weight of previous personal history, and to be able to establish an identity specific to that community I'm participating in. I always found this one of the amazing things about the internet, and I've been saddened to see that undermined. At the same time, I absolutely try to be accountable for what I say online, I expect others to hold me to that, and I hold others to that standard. None of this requires I know someone's "real" name, or that they know mine.
I'm familiar with linux virtualization, gpu passthrough, etc. I've never heard of arcd and they've made no attempt in this doc or on their git to explain what it is or why it exists as, I assume, a replacement (or wrapper?) for qemu.

My past experience with looking-glass is that it falls on its face at anything > 1440p@60Hz. I'm interested in vGPU for my linux VMs (spice is slow and sdl/gtk display is flakey) but for gaming, I don't want looking-glass and prefer to just do the passthrough thing with a KVM switch.
Such behavior can be a good thing, but you could fall in your own bias thinking you know the problem better than them, to finally realize the problem outpace your scope and you are just impacted as anyone in the room.

It happen for me once, and this was an humility lesson.

Now I keep in mind I can feel I understand the problem then realize later I was all wrong too.
Bit of a hypocrite aren't you? You thought I was 'erasing women' by using 'they'.
Just let people mint it from thin air but make sure all minting is traceable on the block chain.

This will obviously create immense inflation, but since everyone is capable of just inflating their own holdings to match it's perfectly fair and the relative value of individual holdings should stay fairly constant.

How you actually price goods using this currency is left as an exercise for the reader.
To share code for review, just create a few Github gists that you can share. https://gist.github.com/ That allows potential buyers to ensure it's not spaghetti.

I've sold on Flippa and MicroAcquire before. I'd suggest MicroAcquire. Happy to expand on my reasoning if you'd like.
I think the overarching idea here makes sense, but the devil is in the details.

1) It's going to be difficult to ensure that the 'Orb' device can't be hacked and allow bad actors to send a bunch of random codes to signup for a Worldcoin.

2) If there are bogus signups how do you deal with reconciliation when there are ID collisions?

3) It's going to take many years for this to get a critical traction and to deploy coins to individuals.

4) The value of this coin will be extremely small when it's divided amongst the world's population. Assuming it's spent shortly after it is received, this money will just flow back to the owner's of capital anyways.
I was just doing some development on my GitHub Actions ... can only assume it was my fault.
Sounds like it would be very profitable to be an Orb operator and have basic reverse engineering skills.
Browsers are god-awful slow on the hardware that ships with smart TVs. I tried it on a LG TV that ships with a browser. Horrid.

I'm still wondering why the keyboard doesn't work for all the different channels/apps on my smartphone remote for the Roku. Streaming via smart TV is a major regression as far as UX.
Qualia is the term for the sensations of color, sound, etc. And not just perception, but dreams, hallucinations, etc. That's what makes up consciousness/subjectivity.

Not everyone agrees with using the term qualia for sensation. There's various debates over the nature of perception. Some see sensation as just being directly aware of properties in the world, such as color. Doesn't work for all sensation (pain for example), and color realism has its own problems.
I am a bit sympathetic to them because that's what the market asks for.

I am looking at the prices of rokus, and my guess is they are losing money on the hardware.

And yes, we should have a completely free (as in speech) device. But if you actually offered it and priced it accordingly, most people would not buy it.

It's dumb but it's what we consumers have voiced with our money.
This home page have a score of 29 bullshit[0], nice one!

[0]: Bullshit.js − https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
Remember when Apple claimed similar about their CSAM photo-scanning but then it turned out it was pretty easy to generate a hash collision?

AFAIK Apple has not opened their TouchID hash scheme so you must take them at their word that it cannot be reverse engineered.
For Turing, the criteria for intelligence was a matter of observers (if it walks like a duck . . .); what is "actually happening" inside is irrelevant. Searle's objection was that what is happening "inside" is surely not irrelevant. So while some answered that in the Chinese Room argument the "whole system is conscious," others argued that Turing's point still stands. Someone observing the system would have to conclude that the system was intelligent, regardless of what was happening inside.

The two answers are roughly on the same side of the argument, but subtly different in important ways.
You mean you don't like a bunch of rich people throwing money away so you get a 10% improvement on some service?

I only have a problem with them trying to make it out on the IPO instead of making a profitable business. But this one can not go forever, or the public will wake-up, or the law enforcement will.
I would absolutely prefer school and business hours to change every month rather than have this 1-hour clock shift twice per year.
Would love to read this if it wasn’t published behind a paywall.

EDIT: https://archive.md/m8T5i

“we are creating extra barriers to communication”…
NTSB: Driver Was Behind Wheel at Time of Texas Tesla Crash
This resonates pretty well with me, re: asking questions

I noticed in classes that people were afraid to ask questions, and when they did, everyone else was happy they did so since we all had the same question in mind, usually. So at some point I decided I'm just going to ask any question that pops into my head and stop caring what others think.

It worked out great, but now that I'm married, it annoys my wife to no end, especially with an engineer mindset. Like the old joke "go to the store and get milk, if there are eggs, get a dozen", and the husband brings home a dozen milks. I ask these seemingly subtle, stupid, clarifying questions all the time (ie: "a dozen eggs, right?"), and it makes my wife angry -- still after 10 years of marriage.
I misread the title
I can't think of an example now, but it has come up before when working on collections and other things.
One thing that's come up a couple times are... well, what transmute is, that is, two types that have the same representation, and you want to cast between them. For example, the "try Rust out in the Linux kernel" code has a function that turns a byte slice into a &Cstr via a transmute. Those kinds of conversions can be useful inside of const fns.
In the middle of onboarding with a new company. We're at a critical point of training that requires GitHub.

Oh boy, this is going to be a fun day.
Educators never even pretend to present critical thinking to kids as a concept until they are in high school, mostly because they don't want to deal with the backlash of 20 little minds all working out the logic for themselves.

I clearly remember the first time a teacher attempted to grill us about our critical thinking. It was a 10th grade World History teacher who didn't just want us to have the correct answer to a question, but he also demanded that we explain how we arrived at the answer. It's the first time that any teacher outside of a math class asked us to "show our work," and it changed a lot of kids' lives for the better.
It looks like there is a long history of "slow work" racketeering at California/West Coast ports. From 2002, "The Fine Art of the Slowdown" (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-sep-21-fi-slow2...). From 2015, "How 14,000 Workers Managed to Slow Down the Entire Economy" (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/how-onl...).
> Computation is operations performed on information.

How would you define an operation that doesn't just makes every process in the entire world a computation?
That would just take a long time.
wiring and signals that flow through the wires, i.e. the software

while the cells are just switches with memory, i.e. the hardware
When you work with the general public long enough, you kind of learn to spot when people are fucking with you and to just leave them be. This is especially true when working with technical stuff like computers.

Good customer service is all about figuring out what people mean when they say ask for things. Sometimes they need genuine assistance, sometimes they just want to prove they are smart than you.

If one was truly not afraid to ask stupid questions, they would have humored the sales person. Just recently I got a discount on some laptop parts, entirely because I asked the sales guy questions about upgrading ram in a laptop I was buying, even though I already knew the answers, I just wanted someone to double check my assumption. So I asked if he could help me pick it out.

Turns out, he remembered that someone ordered, then cancelled the exact ram I was looking for, so he went to the upgrade center and got me a brand new stick of memory for the price of an "open box return."

Be nice to sales people, even if you build the things they are selling.
Have they? What is the percentage of people who own any sort of cryptocurrency?
Isn't the IRS just executing the policies that elected politicians decide? It seems the IRS wanted to do the right thing 20 years ago, but they were stopped by politicians who were corrupted by lobbyists.

Maybe US people should elect politicians that represent them instead of business. And stop buying the incredible amounts of double-speak that is always present in discussions like these.
Yep. And disabling JS loads just the first paragraph. Oh well.
GitHub Universe is only a week away, could be related to a bad deploy for some feature updates to-be-revealed then.
I just like the irony that Google is unhappy with the rules of a captive app store, how they are allowed to update, how their app works with the higher level search they don't control, etc.
> "Human Trafficking" and assumed it was murder/wake up in a bathtub of ice

I'm sure this is closer to the truth than you think.

If the organs are shipped out, there's no need to butter up victims. They'll just butcher and ship out their organs.

A little bit of googling on kidnapping, ritual killings, baby factories, human parts trading in West Africa will add some credence this theory.
I really think people who leave software engineering altogether mostly failed to find a company that respects engineers/pays well. If you are good at the algorithms interviews, you can make ~400k with 5 to 8 years of experience. Do that for a decade, and with some saving and basic investing, you are basically done working.

On the other hand, fail to pass the algorithms interview, you are essentially stuck at 140-170k, not growing, not seeing a path forward. Every job feels the same, pays the same, and really doesnt need you, you are a cog.

It all comes down to a test.
Long-time anon here.

You will need a team of data scientists to express the formula capable of counting how many websites, social media, forums, and entire internets I've been banned from.

And yet, here I still stand.

You think banning deprived me of influence or participating in the conversation.

And yet, here I still stand.

You think that we can't get you addicted to banning people. That we can't make you fixate on trees and ignore the forest you leave aflame in your wake. All in the name to hunt us.

And yet, here I still stand.

You think we can't steer the conversation by making your new addiction to censorship the center piece of our influence operations.

And yet, here I still stand.

We taken the eternal flame war between overeducated face-saving keyboard activists and trolls from BBSs and over the course of decades, scaled it to consume the entirety of actual meat space. And you, dedicated banners, have always opted in, telling yourself that with greater scale, you can finally defeat us.

And yet, here I still stand.

You will never overcome your addiction to censorship. We control you. We own you. You slash and burn everything you touch and we steer you into our political enemies at will.

And when you have finally made so many enemies that they retaliate against you, here I still stand in the aftermath.

You will never defeat the long-time anons. You are our servants.
No. I'm in the northern. I'm giving time ranges as examples of when it will get dark without DST. Yes, it only benefits me March -> Nov.
As a dumb phone user I have noticed this paradox. Smartphones allow you to do things on your own. That completely rules out random encounters or discussions. If you have a question instead of asking someone and start a conversation you can just Google it. No need to ask your way to locals, you have Google map.
Wait, so the app will still exist... this is about Roku offering cross-provider search and deep links into Youtube videos from Roku shell-level dashboards, right?

So Roku isn't losing Youtube support altogether.
More often X is something the existing authoritarians want so the solution to basically anything immediately jumps to the already proposed and planned X. The event is just the excuse and the details irrelevant.
"Nothing like this has ever been done before" See bitcoin
Where? In some parts of the world, ahem, it sounds like that would infringe on our "freedoms".
> invoke their sex or gender would mean I was making a point based on those features

No, it wouldn’t. It would mean you were writing comprehensible English. You’re not “invoking” anything by using “she” to refer to a woman in the third person. That’s what the pronoun is for. Your use of “they” is weird and jarring.
my greatest OpenSCAD tip is to start your files with this prelude:

$fa = .01;
$fs = $preview ? 5 : 1;

This will make your maximum facet size 5mm in preview and 1mm in render.
I have apple tv and roku. Both work great, now that roku can get apple tv+ it is even better. My kids find the roku remote easier than the apple one. So much so that I bought a roku express 4k stick instead of another apple tv. Seems good enough.
I CUDA does work on the host in our testing. :)
We also run Vulkan/DirectX/OpenGL at full performance in the guest! It's WAY faster than Virgl.
How is anarchy one step away? Vs hundreds of steps away? Nearly every one breaks the law in small or bigger ways some of the time. There’s some studies that have shown more well off people cheat/break the law and justify it more often.
Disagree on at least two of these claims. They definitely save time and money. The only way someone can claim they don't is if they've never actually had to travel and use taxis. Taxis are horrible, pretty much universally. The drivers will do everything possible to cheat you, the experience is shit, and availability is basically only good at the airport, downtown in that city, and nowhere else.

An Uber (I don't really use Lyft since it's basically non-existent outside the US and pre-pandemic I traveled internationally a lot) will meet me wherever I happen to be regardless of where it is in the city, at whatever time I need a ride regardless of hour, pick me up, and take me to my destination via the quickest route determined by a GPS app, for a predetermined non-negotiable price, automatically charged to my credit card or business account without needing to reveal anything or expose any money to a stranger, and without me needing to deal with foreign exchange rates.

A taxi does literally none of these things. The only similarity between a taxi and an Uber is that they both are a stranger driving me somewhere in a car. After that, an Uber is a better experience that saves me both time and money every step of the way, while being massively more consistent and reliable. Taxis suck, and there is effectively no way to make them better without essentially cloning what Uber does, which gets us right back where we're at.

I'm seeing this more and more these days, and I'm not sure the cause, but a lot of articles in "reputable" newspapers making bold claims that nobody who has had even an inkling of experience with the subject matter would make with a straight face. Uber has many issues, I will grant, but to claim it isn't a better experience in every facet than a taxi isn't just stupid, it's dishonest.
I have a very big problem with putting essentially unlimited amounts of trust and faith in a pharmaceutical company who has the single goal of increasing profits year over year.

All these morally/lawfully abhorrent things Pfizer has done and been successfully sued/fined/whatever for and we're still allowing them complete indemnity to any side-effects or issues for a vaccine that was rushed out and trials aren't even complete for.

It's abhorrent to me to see our governments sign liability away while at the same time handing out blank checks to Pfizer.
So... are you trying to claim that Uber isn't a crapshoot whether the driver will actually show up?
This is so important and I think a lot of people miss it. The "left" that has power in the US (establishment dems) barely qualify as being left at all. They are very much invested in protecting power and wealth.

The only "left" that would push against the rentiers are people who will almost never see power. However, I wouldnt say AOC winning is a "fluke". Its definitely the exception, but progressives have been able to repeat it a few more times in democrat strongholds that have historically kept establishment candidates.

Right now the only "power" the real left has is withholding their votes from corporate dem bills like we're seeing with the BBB Act. This only even works because the rest of the party is interested in protecting power/wealth and is pretty inept at actually winning races.