skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The editor autocompletion and standard library documentation could use a lot of work. The introductory tutorials are overly focused on type theory and details and do not give a good overview of which generic data structures to use in production code. Julia's JIT is very different from other conventional mainstream languages and the process of selecting standard library generic data structures for optimal performance is very poorly documented.

There is no Effective Julia style of guide. You either have to wade through infantile tutorials for those with minimal programming experience or several reference books worth of nitpicking on syntax. The actual methods themselves are not well documented and lack examples and usage guidelines.

The language and ecosystem do not feel like a project backed by commercial funding, it feels like one of those functional languages out of academia research where the structure and design of the language are more important than actual developer experience. There are many new projects but most are not actively maintained and updated. The language itself feels massive, with syntactic sugar and weird types everywhere. Trying to understand the implementations of other people's Julia code is frustrating, similar to reading a library written in pure C++ templates. Compared to Go/Rust/Dart, Julia feels overly convoluted. Julia literature is structured in a way that seems to heavily encourage you to take regular classes and lectures to learn and pick up the language. It is hard to feel productive from the get-go.
I always love looking at “market cap” for these things. As if every coin there could actually be sold for the price listed making it worth hypothetical billions.

Even a small cash out will cut the value to pieces.
>Nintendo also capped the number of published games per third party

They also allowed said third parties to get around this via shell companies, if they were popular enough. See: Konami and Ultra Games
I tend to discount discussions below a certain threshold.

(What threshold is hard to say, though probably in the 20--40 range. Of course, interesting and salient comments can occur at any level. Perhaps more concentrated in smaller discussions.)
You and Yours is a long running consumer affairs show on BBC Radio.
And then the oil companies turn around and sponsor someone like Greg Abbott, and you realise “oh yes, they are face-eating leopards after all”
The question is the driver responsible? Should it be the owner? Should it be the company who made the failing product?

If your toaster blows up and kills someone a solid case against the maker of toasterb
WFP seeks to meet Tesla boss, Elon Musk to discuss how to feed the poor
Crypto "expert" here. We will have a catastrophic crash, it's normal and natural. But, the tech is here to stay and is 100x better than existing solutions. Crypto is changing the world, one crash at a time :)
Are you tracking what just happened in Wisconsin?
No there won’t be a big long term correction from Tether because there are dozens of other stable coins now for people to temporarily sell into. There’s also the ability to short crypto and buy puts on crypto. All of that provides ways for speculators, investors, middle class savers, and early technology adopters to stay in the game.

You’re like a doomsday predictor that will never see a doomsday happen.

No real value? The AAVE crypto platform alone already holds more value ($23B) than the entire market cap of Ecuador’s stock market ($11B). The AAVE platform is literally more valuable than a country.

AAVE is just one of many applications built on the Ethereum network. It speaks nothing of Uniswap, Maker, Yearn, Balancer, USDC, Compound, and many others.

Bitcoin alone secures over 1 Trillion dollars.
> If someone hits you using cruise control they remain at fault.

That'd be relevant if they didn't call it autopilot. If they called it lane assist or cruise control plus or something then I'd agree.

Tesla is at major fault for implying that the Teslas can drive themselves, even if the driver is also at fault.
NP.

I don't recall how I first ran across that, but the incident stuck with me. I'm glad I had the opportunity to look it up again.
Can confirm that 6% is the norm and average cut the agents take in the US. Typically 3% for seller's agent and 3% for buyer's agent. The entire commission is paid by the seller so the buyer never sees this, though technically those fees are baked into the final price they pay for the house. RedFin and others are trying to disrupt this model but made very little inroads so far.
What do you think about platforms moving to first price auctions? Do you think we'll start to see more of that?
> People work at Facebook because they offer among the highest salaries, and are insulated enough from the bad PR to not feel bad about it.

Good job defending the little Eichmanns. Or are you perhaps defending yourself?

“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is 'banal' and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.”

― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
> So then the argument is the anticipated testimony wrt voting rights would be detrimental to the public interest?

The government, or in this case the University of Florida, is not supposed to be the ultimate authority of what is is the best interest of the public, the public is supposed to be the ultimate authority. The first amendment serves as protection from the government 'self dealing', looking out for their own interests and not the public's, by preventing them from stifling or limiting speech.

> Public university serves the public, no?

Yes and because they are public university their ability to limit their employee's speech is limited compared to a private institution.
US "asks" Canada to detain prominent Corporate exec. China "convicts" Canadian spies. You're right that this is all related to global politics.

Should you really trust a modern nation? All three nations I've mentioned prove that they spy on their own and each others citizens.

Its been well established that encryption standards have been tampered with from the outset, all our modern CPU's exploitable microcode, if not backdoored.

I don't even consider this a conspiracy, from a strictly technical perspective, if it's possible, its probably either been tried or fully implemented to exploit.
> the Apple store targets kids with crappy apps filled to the brim with creepy ads.

On several occasions I've searched for apps by name, and not only are they not in the top few results, the App Store shows me borderline adult content within just a few screens of the top. I have no idea why it is so hard to find apps searching by name, but it is one of the main reasons I don't let my kids use the App Store app.
> You're implicitly assuming a normal distribution

I'm not really making that assumption. Instead, I'm pointing out that learning this particular bulb survived due to "unusually think or smooth filament compared with other bulbs" is indeed something interesting you can learn by inspecting the survivor, and that might be something you can apply for process quality improvement.

Basically, I'm advocating the point of view that if you are trying to improve lightbulb, or say, ball bearing quality (rather than just model it), then it's useful to look beyond the fact that the Weibull distribution is long-tailed. A wide distribution is a reflection of ignorance and thus a learning opportunity; the long tails are still caused by something. Yes, from a given batch of ball bearings, some might last 10x or 100x longer than others under the same loading conditions. But if you put those super-long-lasting bearings under a microscope, you might observe real, important differences compared with others from the same batch. The balls might all be rounder or more identically-sized compared with their cousins. (You can do the inspection before the lifetime test if you want to be extra fair).

But it's even more important when you don't expect a long-tailed distribution to begin with; for example, if you have a linear damage model. In this case, if you control for filament diameter, resistance, or brightness, and still see that one bulb is a mysterious outlier, you might want to inspect the joints or run the gas in the bulb through an analyzer to see if there are any other surprises.
Small claims court might be a help.
Visa uses Ethereum mainnet today (for about 6 months or more?) to settle obligations between a small subset of their merchants whose businesses are in crypto.
Discussed not that long ago:

Messaging and chat control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343 - Aug 2021 (317 comments)
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You don't need to tell them, they can figure it out themselves.
Related from a few months ago:

Messaging and chat control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343 - Aug 2021 (317 comments)

via pvg, prof-dr-ir (thanks!):

EU Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27759814 - July 2021 (11 comments)

European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727 - July 2021 (415 comments)

Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736435 - July 2021 (104 comments)

IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825653 - April 2021 (217 comments)

Others?
I'm a crypto bear myself, but I'm not sure I agree with this argument. Plenty of services are built around "just moving money around" - accounting in this way has a ton of real value or else stripe, visa, paypal etc wouldn't be the huge companies they are. The questions are, whether "investing" by buying and holding is the right way to capture the value that this produces, and whether the benefits of doing it on a distributed blockchain outweigh the costs.
You should delete this post, stop talking to people, and get a really good lawyer because you are gonna get a little bit of Elon’s billions!
Great, but...

Please let people allow Signal to automatically save their media to their photo roll (or whatever ios calls it). The number of people I have met who require this and left Signal _after starting to use it_ is astonishing.
This is a new proposal, fresh on the arXiv today, from a group of U.S. particle physicists. The introduction is very readable and lays out the mission clearly:

> We can now confidently claim that the “Standard Model” of particle physics (SM) is established. At the same time, we are more and more strongly persuaded that this SM is incomplete. [...] It is now common to describe the SM as an “effective” theory that should be derived from some more fundamental theory at higher energies. But we have almost no evidence on the properties of that theory.

> Our successes have become a liability in reaching this goal. Scientists from other fields now have the impression that particle physics is a finished subject. They question our motivations to go on to explore still higher energies. The scale of an energy frontier collider is also challenging to the young people in our field. They need to see qualitatively new capabilities realized during their active scientific careers. [...] That is where the urgency lies.

> [T]he entire C3 program could be sited in the United States. With the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider and the end of Tevatron operations the US has largely abandoned construction of domestic accelerators at the energy frontier. C3 offers the opportunity to realize an affordable energy frontier facility in the US. This may be crucial to realize a Higgs factory in the near term, and it will also position the US to lead the drive to the next, higher energy stage of exploration.

The main innovation is that they propose to use non-superconducting cavities, which allow much higher accelerating fields, cooled to increase their quality factor. The resulting shorter length dramatically decreases the cost, to an estimated $4 billion, which is 80% to 90% less than other proposals. Of course, $4 billion is no small amount of money, but for perspective that's about equal to the monthly budget of the National Institutes of Health, a third of the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope, or 2% of the total cost of the space shuttle.
> NON-autopilot drivers eating, texting (constantly!), seeming to look up directions and much more (falling asleep).

FSD is something people are _encouraged_ to use, not _discourage_.

This is an entirely disingenuous take.

And Tesla's stats have been, _repeatedly_, shown to be entirely disingenuous.

Human drivers don't have a "disengage" mode, other than pulling off the road, when conditions are "suboptimal". AP disengages. FSD disengages. And suboptimal conditions are, surprise, surprise, the conditions in which more incidents occur. So the whole "AP is safer because when it's safe to use AP it's safer" circuituous reasoning, and every stat Tesla publishes, while withholding as much information from the public as it can (while touting their "corporate transparency is a core value" spiel), should safely be thrown in the trash.
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'Squid Game' token goes offline after skyrocketing 75,000%
If you are referring to Gemini Earn, they take your GUSD (or other currency) and take a spread then lend it to Genesis, who takes a spread and then lends it to big institutions. None of this is insured.

https://support.gemini.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056367771-Ar...
The UK also has national ID system. It is almost unique in Europe in this respect.
In the US I’ve always been told it’s in the best interest of a home owner to always have some type of bank loan on the property. Mortgage, even a zero balance HELOC. Supposedly, this allows the bank to ensure there’s no title fraud because they maintain a claim to it.
It's been a while but I think I had that working too, except wifi would be totally dorked up after waking. I'd have to manually disconnect and reconnect each time (xps 9700). That was more annoying than being dead 1/3 of the time, so I left it like this. Are you experiencing similar?

That said, yeah I'll check if there are updates I'm missing.
My grandmother had black walnut trees.

She used to collect the green walnuts and put them on trays to dry out: The "trays" were wood frames with small chicken wire bottoms (sturdy plus air flow). They seemed large, but I was a child. And then, she'd wait until they dry out.

When the fruit dries out, it is much easier to remove. It gets brittle and comes off. It will, however, stain everything dark. Wear gloves (they used leather), wear old clothes, and it might help to be outside. She generally got help with this.

Underneath, there was just the regular walnut shell, and it can be opened with nutcracker tools.

Sidenote: As a child, I hated these walnuts because I thought they were yucky. It actually made me swear off walnuts completely for some years because I didn't realize they were a different variety.
Yes, they now work correctly on https://develop.element.io
There is far more than speculative memecoins on Ethereum.

There are prediction markets, m-of-n digital wallets used by globe-spanning internet communities to manage their treasuries, decentralized social networks, hyper-scalable SNARK/STARK based validation of layer 2 state transitions, and decentralized markets for: permissionless/borderless trading and borrowing/lending of digital assets, buying and selling computing power, buying and selling bandwidth, hiring freelancers, and issuing and trading digital game assets.

Beyond that, DeFi opens up new possibilities like tapping the liquidity in your digital art via a self executing loan that uses the art as the collateral.

The extreme reliability of the Ethereum protocol allows massive amounts of value belonging to a huge set of mutually distrusting parties to be committed to self-executing programmatic contracts that, barring the managable risk of software design error, are guaranteed to execute as intended. This provides enormous value by reducing the overhead added by non-reliability of and bureaucratic limitations on contracts.
You could have pre-empted it by not making such a claim in the first place, and I abhor your attempt to normalize this dangerous behavior. It is not a "delicate balance." Increase your follow distance. Driving closer to the car in front of you gains you nothing but sacrifices valuable reaction time in the event of an emergency.
Some of us change account names as a matter of internet hygiene. I think I've had 6 or 7 here over the years, and even this old one was dormant for most of its life. Anyway, the point is you never know just based on account age.
Yeah, the articles the comes from masculine, that from feminine, and this from the neuter demonstrative. That's what I was talking about. It seems I was mistaken, no wonder Interlingua makers used Romance masculine demonstrative le for their universal article due to using English as grammatical source.

Ille, illos, illa
Le, les, los, las, etc

Romance languages inventing gendered articles from gendered demonstratives is always fun.

(Especially since my language, Malay, has no grammatical gender at all, not even in the third person; and have no regularized article.)
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Demonstr...
I find the Wikipedia article on sheaves more clear TBH.
For what specific purpose?
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A ponsi scheme is fundamentally different than a market.

With a market one day you trade five USD for one BTC. The next the best offer your able to get from anyone might be two USD for one BTC. That's just the nature of any market for anything. Value for anything depends on who comes to the market and their bias.

A ponsi scheme is nefarious and more of a shell game. When the asset is gone, it's really gone and not coming back. There eventually aren't units to redeem because the originator took the aasset.

If BTC or crypto were a ponsi the analogy would be satoshi hacking your wallet and draining your funds.

In traditional crypto there aren't returns, there's just potential for it's perceived value relative to a base like the USD to change.
From https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/datatype-json.html#JSON-I...:

> We store these documents in a table named api, in a jsonb column named jdoc. If a GIN index is created on this column, queries like the following can make use of the index:

-- Find documents in which the key "company" has value "Magnafone"
SELECT jdoc->'guid', jdoc->'name' FROM api WHERE jdoc @> '{"company": "Magnafone"}';

> However, the index could not be used for queries like the following, because though the operator ? is indexable, it is not applied directly to the indexed column jdoc:

-- Find documents in which the key "tags" contains key or array element "qui"
SELECT jdoc->'guid', jdoc->'name' FROM api WHERE jdoc -> 'tags' ? 'qui';

> Still, with appropriate use of expression indexes, the above query can use an index. If querying for particular items within the "tags" key is common, defining an index like this may be worthwhile:

CREATE INDEX idxgintags ON api USING GIN ((jdoc -> 'tags'));

> Now, the WHERE clause jdoc -> 'tags' ? 'qui' will be recognized as an application of the indexable operator ? to the indexed expression jdoc -> 'tags'.

- - -

Taking a look at the most recent docs, it seems jsonb_ops should provide similar index optimization characteristics to the index operations in the extension for the native SQL/JSON Path type. Likely with similar trade offs. Good to know!
Could the title be changed to:

C³: A "Cool" Route to the Higgs Boson and Beyond
Yes, and no. With other dangerous tools, society decided manufacturers have responsibilities, too.

If you buy a chainsaw, you can trust it has certain safety features. If you buy a children’s toy, you can trust it doesn’t use lead paint, etc.

Those aren’t features you, as a consumer, have to explicitly test for before using them.

Similarly, I think society will demand that cars behave as cars, and not as projectiles. If a manufacturer claims a car has auto-pilot, but that auto-pilot has a tendency to rear end other cars, the manufacturer should carry at least some blame.

I think that should be true even if they explicitly mention that problem in the instruction manual. Certainly in the EU, whatever you buy, you can assume it is “fit for its purpose”.
Exactly: An investigation would find out what happened.
Tengen started out as a licensee. They released three games as licensees (Pac-Man, RBI Baseball, and Gauntlet). They were also simultaneously cracking 10NES. Worried about damage to consoles, they went to the Copyright Office and falsely represented themselves as potentially entering into litigation with Nintendo, and obtained the 10NES program (which is honestly probably where they screwed up). They started releasing the famous black unlicensed carts, and proceeded to get sued.
All fair points but let's not pretend that this is altruism. They are providing this for a reason and their business is creating outrage to sell ads. iMessage and others could do better but Apple's business is selling expensive phones and apps from an app store.
Also the buyer is either a scammer or a dupe. The owner is just a victim. Either way, the buyer should clearly be held responsible and cover all costs to resolve.
You could potentially post evidence against yourself if you posted online. It's a little shady but I don't think many people are ok with shooting themselves in the foot.
The results were less relevant.
For me it's a strong signal, but it shouldn't be the only signal. And I do think it's good to have a diverse team.

Some of my coworkers are not nearly as strong as me when it comes to "CS details" like data structures or programming languages, but they have other attributes which complement me and which are good for the team.

Having a bunch of me's (or any of the others) would be a disaster.
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