skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember, stuff is “cheaper” for freelancers / businesses than consumers. For me, on $2k in self employment income, I have the option of either:

1) Giving a bit less than half of it to the government and getting nothing, or
2) Giving all of it to Apple and getting a MacBook.

Works out to an effective 35+% discount on every business expense.
I just tried MLton with the "-verbose 2" flag and it seems to use "amd64Codegen" by default, on MacOS at least.
$5 billion+ is staked on ETH2 already. It's delivered, it just takes time to migrate the entire market cap.
No, the answer is not to be one of the million failures.

Which apparently means keeping your passion under pressure.
Why would you choose libedit over replxx?
Do you have a link to the German case?
Do you know how much it costs to camp inside Yosemite? If you do, your definition of "hippy" differs a little from mine.
While we’re at it, can we base weeks and months on the lunar cycle so that we have 13 months of exactly 4 weeks each?

Edit: Not sarcasm or a bit. Genuinely. I’d love to be more in sync with nature by having our time reference based on sunrise and the lunar cycles
The Redmi Note 11 Series Will Be Available on October 28th, According to Xiaomi
You want independent projects to agree on something?

You do realize this is open source, right?
He was also strangled to death by his own bed-hoist invention.
Honest q I hope doesn't sound rude: how is this different from @beat swatch time?

Looks really nice and I hope you and your process success, you're fixing a problem
ty for the reminder I added it in!
Fair enough. There is still the possibility that something got lost in translation.
HN has a surprising amount of luddites. In this case though it's just a matter of people being mad they missed out. It's embarrassing for them since the world presumes all hackers cashed in on Bitcoin. So they feel like failures for not seeing it and rationalize by dismissing cryptocurrencies altogether.
I don't really disagree with your evidence but your conclusion is flawed.

The Three Body Problem seems like a very weird book by the standards of the 21st century but it would feel right at home amongst the "golden age" 50s and 60s sci-fi novels. It is a real throwback to the Big Idea! stories of that era.

I wrote longer reviews of all three novels [0] (to save you the click, I thought the first one was great, the second was OK, and the third actively bad!)

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/3/book_review_-_the_three-body_prob...
That would make logical sense, but it’s not really what happened. Facebook really began making their brand more prominent in Instagram and WhatsApp only within the past couple years. Perhaps brand perception wasn’t quite as bad then as it has become within the past couple weeks, but it certainly wasn’t great.
*BTC Value in USD Sept 1 2020: $11,414.03

I understand what you're saying and peace of mind is a big part of investing, but you clearly lost out on massive gains.
Yes it is incredibly heavyweight, but it's very batteries-included in its approach, which helps zsh newbies get started.

For those who want to shed the heavyweight omz stuff, I recommend zplug [0]

[0] https://github.com/zplug/zplug
I'm just wondering, now that they have USD, after selling BTC, what do you think they are they going to do with the USD? It's not like they can extract easily USD from Binance or KuCoin (two of the most popular asian crypto exchanges, where USDT is also the most popular). As I alluded to in a comment above, the reason they are using USDT in the first place is because they can't deal with USD (or fiat) easily. So do they go into some other stablecoin, or keep it in BTC (or ETH), and try to move that to another exchange which is better suited as a fiat gateway? What if this other exchange is a heavily KYC'd exchange that they don't have access to in their jurisdiction, or that it would take a long time to get access to, even if it is available in their jurisdiction? There's also fiat withdrawal limits to consider, which are generally lower than crypto withdrawal limits. Also, to even be able to withdrawal fiat, instead of crypto, requires even higher levels of KYC, more processing time, no guarantee that they will be approved, etc. So, what do you think they will do then? This is also what TimeBearingDown was referring to in a sibling thread.
Accepted and used in 99% of every real-world transactions by the biggest economy in the world, used by 99% of the merchants and 99% of the citizens in this economy.

But I'd say that perhaps it's not the best comparison. Few people are looking to purchase dollars for the sake of holding them as an investment. There's of course tons of volume on Forex markets for hedging and speculation, but regular citizens aren't looking to purchase dollars for investments, i.e. in order to generate a return on dollars-held.

Typically people use dollars as a medium of exchange and the way in which prices are commonly expressed. But anyone with sufficient dollars will want to use them to hold assets, whether they're a home, stocks, or simply low-risk treasury bonds, the idea is that dollars give access to these assets, but few are looking to simply buy and hold as many dollaras as they can in order to generate some kind of a return.

Bitcoin is also a technology in a way that the dollar isn't. The dollar is an idea, backed up by lots of different technologies both analog or digital. Those technologies don't necessarily have much to do with the price of the dollar. Nor do dollars have to have a certain price for them to be used, in a way that for many years, people expected individual bitcoins to be value (and thus naturally to go up in price as demand for these tokens went up) because the tokens would be used in various technological applications... That hasn't materialised, which makes the increasing value of the tokens somewhat non-sensical.
> Most businesses are not "technology first" businesses

This is changing. For example, Banks are slowly realising that they are delivering all their services via technology. A serious outage of banking infrastructure can ruin lives, see for example the TSB debacle in the UK which even forced the then CEO out.
TFA is about public land that is not for sale, only up for potential leasing arrangments to allow for resource extraction.

Questions about property rights do not apply (certainly not to the same extent)
OTOH, I was surprised there was a LOTR game for the Atari VCS https://voxodyssey.com/atari-2600-the-lord-of-the-rings-jour...
The Lisp evangelism team on HN will burn you for that comment :)
> When asked why they universally point the finger at phones.

A smartphone is an easy scapegoat, but I think its role is greatly exaggerated. People simply like to complain about things they are not used to. It does not mean it is not the root cause, only that a “gut feeling” reasoning can easily be wrong. Not so long ago teachers were still trying to “correct” left-handedness.

That said there are certainly many issues surrounding modern use of smartphones (starting with microtransactions), but I doubt that it is the main issue there.

By the way: While I can’t find the website where I read it, there was supposedly a period before widespread TV, when reading too many books was considered a developmental issue for a child.
No net emissions if you burn the tree close to were it grew. In the Netherlands we get our biomass from Scandinavia and Canada with boats and call that green energy. Ignoring the fuel for the boats and trucks to move the biomass to the power plant.
I'm looking for the time to write exactly that RFC. The parser, for what is worth, already parses that syntax for error recovery :)

If you're interested, this is the last public conversation I had about these: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-pre-rfc-syntactic-suga...
What's New in Kubeflow 1.4
I imagine you think pascal and ada have horrible syntax too?

For me, the syntax is ideal. On the plus side VHDL seems to have actually been designed with the intention of being used for FPGA designs. Verilog on the other hand just seems like a hack in comparison.
I asked for non hypothetical situations

Everyone does illegal stuff all the time myself included anyways
I’ll be shocked if we don’t see a touch of Clubhouse.
Likely not curative after the fact
So if trafficking is illegal why not just crack down harder on trafficking? Your argument is like "online fraud is rampant" let's make purchasing items online illegal because we can't stop the fraud.
Yes..but that only works exactly once per tether they print. You seemed to think the USDT volume was much more important than the total supply.

> To get a clue, check daily trading volumes and compare them to market caps.

Why does daily trading volume matter? In order to pump BTC twice with the same Tether, they must buy it back from the market right? So the artificial pump is only the total supply, not volume traded.
I just wanted to point out that delivery times have now bumped to Nov 26 -> Dec 6 for the same one I ordered on Monday afternoon ago that was Nov 10 -> Nov 17. In less than 2 days, the shipment has been bumped by 2 weeks or more.
I don't know much about VHDL but Verilog (and SystemVerilog) are definitely fundamentally insane languages.

Any time VHDL comes up it's usually in the context of "this isn't a problem in VHDL". (But also "this would be way more verbose in VHDL")
What happens when you send an email to spam?
For myself, why should I care about other peoples use case. That's irrelevant
SystemVerilog also supports composite types using interfaces. Using Verilator as a linter will aggressively warn you about signal width mismatches.

Most complaints about Verilog from VHDL people come from outdated notions of the current state of the language and its tooling.
Reminds me of the times I've had run out of space in a Linux system. When you SSH to the system and press TAB for command completion, all you get is some message regarding "the system running out of space".
The questions asked in junior interviews are truly trivial operations which any engineer should be able to understand. A common one might be to loop over an array and build a hash map counting object occurrences. Another one I see is iterating over a log file and printing only certain types of messages.

Working with simple data structures isn’t even writing algorithms, it’s quite literally the building blocks of programming.
I switched to fish a few years back after a couple decades of using bash. It took about 10 minutes to make that permanent everywhere – because so much is built-in and the defaults are good, there was no need to spend time on more than the package install plus chsh.

For scripting, I’d already set a personal policy that anything complicated use Python. For me there’s a fairly big difference between interactive shell sessions and scripts which solidly shifts the balance to a full language with a rich standard library and robust error handling. My scripts were edited using shfmt and shellcheck interactively anyway, so switching to Python wasn’t an increase in terms of tool support and the richer language means that I’m writing less code to get more functionality and especially error handling.
If they're already rolling Nick Clegg out to defend their metaverse ambitions then they can't think they're going to be very good for humanity.
>Is the price the Uyghurs pay worth it?

How exactly is defying the Party's wishes as a minor celebrity going to help the Uyghurs in any way? I feel like the Western view of morality these days is completely divorced from cause and effect. It's no surprise that they can spend trillions of dollars on developing a government that collapses within a week.
Do you mean penis-free as in beer, or penis-free as in speech?
How did they benefit in any way? ( I read the article but didn't watch the documentary).

It sounds like they needed security guards, and the firm they hired turned out to be one that liked to play fascist dress-up.

Did they benefit more than if they had hired normal security?
Interesting how reactive graph are spreading everywhere :)
That's what I meant by "it has gotten too big for its original purpose" - keeping up with friends is what Facebook was built for, and it's great at that.

It's awesome if your network is still like that. For me, it becomes hard to filter out the widely shared & "angry" content some people share - it just propagates so easily.
FWIW, this is the view point held by many people regarded as “gun nuts”.

If everybody has them, the violence against anyone carries the threat of deadly force in response. There is no greater deterrent to violence.

There’s a reason mass shootings happen in places where a swift armed response isn’t expected.
but the question is: how easily can you detect profit taking?

here's an interesting analysis: https://insights.glassnode.com/follow-the-smart-money/
Often it might be as simple as routing right wavelength through right path, as in WDM systems. Optical amplifiers, such as EDFA [0] are interesting thing, too.

[0]: http://www.fiber-optical-networking.com/the-application-of-e...
Treating men who hire prostitutes with respect is kind, but not necessarily honest. More or less a requirement is that they not care if the person they're having sex with hates it. They're a distinct class of people and not reflective of all men.

I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it. I don't like the weird denial about that aspect of the transaction. It makes it difficult to trust the rest of her writing.
That's probably because they have been used to being wealthy since birth and have always being around other wealthy people, so it doesn't register as a special thing as much as someone who transition from non-wealthy with non-wealthy friends to wealthy.
> People adore `x ? y : z`

That’s not APL. It’s all ASCII.

One of the issues I experienced in college was being unable to verbally communicate APL code to colleagues. We called the comment symbol “finger”.
gotta explain where you taking those numbers from. how did 1.88m BTC enter the picture?

i was talking about $6b in tether. if sold on market instantly BTC price would probably not even drop below $50k judging from books i see on different exchanges. there's just no evidence to your claim that all the demand for BTC is created by tether.

also, imo if tether was found not-solvent today, everybody sitting on tethers would run for their lives trying to buy BTC, sending the price to half a million easily.
New logo? Call itself 'FCBK'? Bring back poking? How Facebook could rebrand
if by everyone you mean the author then I agree
> Here's a KPI: do you find it useful for something other than the fact that the price might go up?

I don't personally, I don't use or own it anymore. Could you explain more about your uses?

> I know I do, for a fairly large number of reasons, many of which revolve around "protecting value".

Protecting value seems (without knowing more) to imply a circular reasoning: the price going up protects the value of the token, that's why it's useful. But that's a speculative reason, no different from the price of a tulip bulb going up, has value because it protects the value of a tulip bulb.

I'm almost certainly misreading you but I'm just speculating as you haven't expanded on the large number of reasons you mentioned.
That would be more punitive to prospective employees and students than to Facebook itself.
So I read this with a great deal of interest and nodded my head say “yes, that’s true” at most of it. Despite this I just do not want to switch. Heck, first thing I do when I get a new Mac (now that ash is the default)is switch my shell to bash, install homebrew, then tmux, vim, powerline and git pull my dot files. I think maybe I am just old. Get off my lawn!

I am really working on not writing every little thing I want to script as a shell script. The other day I wanted to scan a dir of ~10k image files and move anything that was corrupt to another dir. I wrote it in bash and it worked. Then I was like, okay you should write this in python because you want to run it on 4 different OS. So I did. The code looks so much cleaner but was half as fast as the shell script. Oh well.
Reading it in paperback definitely made me feel less bad when I threw the book across the room
Latency exists, but no one cares about it until it crosses over a critical threshold!!

Throughput is the number most people care about. As long as latency remains "below the critical rate" (which is application dependent), throughput remains the more important figure.

As such: we can perform latency/throughput tradeoffs in practice. Maybe even latency/throughput/simplicity tradeoffs.

* The absolute lowest latency is a single-thread system that blocks on everything. Wait until X is ready and immediately start doing Y. This happens to be very simple and elegant code in practice, but it can only do 1-thing at a time.

* However, people want more throughput. You can use pthreads, or golang / fibers / cooperative threads, to convert the "single threaded" code into higher-throughput code. (Get the CPU to "work on something else" while waiting for X). This makes latency worse, but increases throughput dramatically. Multi-core accelerates this pattern very naturally.

* For highest levels of throughput and lowest latency, you need an event-driven loop. Yes, the GetMessageW() loop in Win32, game-loops in video games, poll() in Linux, and the like. This is a bit difficult to use in practice, so people use async to help decompose the "big loop" in practice. Generalizing to multicore is difficult however. But virtually every "high performance" system I've ever seen comes down to some glorified event loop / poll / epoll / async / GetMessageW() pattern. Literally all of the ones I've ever seen.

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I'd say, work on throughput until latency becomes an issue. pthreads / fibers are your #1 easiest tool IMO to reach for, and have adequate performance for ~100,000 events per second or so.
I use J's Jd columnar database to munge data for academic research. Much, much easier than SQL. The models, I do in R because packages.
Apple’s Aperture is another one.
>Almost none of those planes have any real reason to still exist.

I hope someone comes along and shits on your hobby, too. It has no real reason to exist, who cares that it provides you enjoyment?
PDL (http://pdl.perl.org). And it's pretty old too, having started in late 90s.
If people actually listened to what that empty vain populist said, the UK would be in big trouble. Imagine anyone lets him into any position of power! He'd just lie and change his public opinion on things daily. /s

How this man is anywhere near Downing Street is a complete mistery to me.
"I wish there was an app to help me connect to my niece" is a really fucking weird vibe. Not every problem you have can or should be solved with a piece of software.
Well, it works for my team, so I don't see a problem. Not everything needs to work for everybody in every circumstance to be helpful.
If you want to live amid beautiful quiet greenery, what else are you supposed to do?

Yes, it costs more money to live there, because it's more desirable and of limited supply. You can't really buy enough homes and lots to form a 10 acre plot and smash all but one of the homes and replant the greenery, or if you could, it's not cost or time effective vs buying a 10 acre plot that's already greenery or if that's not available, buying a small plot surrounded or at least adjacent to a conservation limited plot.
There's a famous passage in Dostoyevsky's Brother's Karamazov: "It is pain that teaches to scream" (can't find the exact quote) -- manifesting your pain is important most times. Just make sure to manifest and communicate it in a good way!
That just seems like wishful thinking. The Pinephone is barely usable as a phone - it's market penetration in Cameroon must be essentially 0. And what percentage of people have a "favourite desktop environment"?

I suspect if people have smartphones in Cameroon, they're overwhelmingly Android ones. Unfortunately it seems that MyGNUHealth doesn't support Android.
I'd argue that a compiler is just a subset of transpilers that target direct hardware instructions (CPU/GPU/some niche specific hardware). Every other argument between the two come across, to me, as more of an emotional arbitrariness of what is a "real" compiled language.

Of course, this makes Java, and others, to not actually be compiled. That makes sense to me.
yeah I guess he earned the right to have his ways :)
There's a balance here between terse and inscrutable.

The line is fine.
Maybe he just didn’t like the look of them, and wanted the day to end at Z.

You never know when a standard is based on a single person’s subjective choice. I think it’s fascinating personally.
HN has a new feature that changes submissions from the linked url to the pages canonical url, and the bugs are still being exterminated on it.
It is easy to avoid certain companies (facebook etc), but it is quite hard to avoid third party recruiters, unless you have some unique skill that is in demand and you can set your own rules/pay etc. One of the better places I worked at, used these third party firms. I tried to get them not to use those, but it was a non starter. I understand why they do it though, it is convenient for them. Same story in many, many companies.

I wish there were companies that take on third party shitty firms. It would be a much better thing to solve for the society (and there is a lot of money in it too) instead of building yet another project management or photo sharing app.
That is an extremely privileged world view.

I work on a social VR product for learning foreign language. Yes, VR language immersions are never going to replace real life, in-country immersions. But moving halfway around the world to study a language is just not a realistic prospect for the vast majority of people. For one, it's expensive and extremely disruptive to the rest of your life. Our students aren't college students who can take a semester abroad, they're professionals already in their careers, with kids and mortgages. For another, most of our students are studying languages where they wouldn't be allowed to move to the target country--either by the target country itself or the students' employers.
Well, don't forget that the timeline for most forested areas would look more like "forests managed by native peoples -> land clear-cut by European settlers -> un-managed forests," though I'm sure "un-managed" is debatable here; humans never left.

Much of New England was clear-cut, either to harvest old-growth timber or for farmland. The forests we see today date to after the westward expansion, when farmers left the rocky New England soils for easier tilling in the Midwest and Great Plains states. So really, when people want to conserve the land in that state, they're saying "let's let the new-growth forests come back and maybe become old-growth forests again."
I also have a post on Verilog Lint with Verilator: https://projectf.io/posts/verilog-lint-with-verilator/
So let's crack down harder on trafficking if the traffickers are doing illegal things. Your argument is like "online fraud is rampant" let's make purchasing items online illegal because we can't stop the fraud.
It sucks being forced to place your dreams in someone else's hands.
Sure, I’m not saying there is hyperinflation of everything, but I was wondering the result is.

Per your definition Bitcoin has hyper inflated in the past month. What’s the result of this?
I believe PKD's "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is a better metaphor for what Facebook wants to do with the Metaverse, but it'll end up more like "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Luckey".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_E...
Is it? When does the growth end? If it keeps at the pace it has been we're talking trillions in a few decades, and bitcoin isn't going to be worth the whole world's GDP, so where does it stop?