skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right wing minded folks somewhere made up some crazy story that Hilary Clinton was harboring children in the basement of a pizza parlor in DC for pedophiles. Do not quote me regarding the exact details of that story but something to that extent.

So as I've said here on Hacker News for years all media ... liberal to conservative for profit media is manipulated trash either externally or internally. Any intelligent person would be ignoring all of it and enjoying life far from it!
You don’t have to put them on rails. We could have highway lanes that power vehicles for long distance travel, and then they rely on battery for local use. https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg

This could have some big advantages to cramming larger batteries into vehicles and trying to charge them at higher rates. Cheaper, lighter and safer vehicles, and batteries that last longer.
heck, I was about to donate :P
> In the long run it sounds like something better that could pressure YouTube to improve their own meagre and useless comment system.

Surely Google is gonna feel pressured because of extension that will have few thousands active users at most.
It's interesting how in education and academics this is well known and understood, however the second you transition out of education/academia to the real world in industry, it's as if all this is lost/unknown or the burden is simply ignored to create a pressure on everyone doing the work. Businesses and business leaders often think novel work should be simple because that's what you trained for. You studied computer science, maybe even have your Ph.D. and therefor should be able to anything and everything possible using computers quickly and efficiently.

There's a large trench between what people expect and what reality is here.
I tend to defer to Marcy Wheeler when it comes to evaluating this stuff; she spends a lot of time actually looking at primary source material (court filings, etc.), AND she called out the dossier as likely Russian disinformation back in 2017.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/01/11/the-democrats-newfound... (2017)

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1460514005672419328

https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/11/12/source-6a-john-durhams...
One of the best analysis on Miners, Hashes and Blocks I ever came across to
I'm skeptical that YouTube would be using this for anything remotely significant given Google's strong propensity to only use internal technologies that they fully control.
I'd say it was "hard" all along. The question of computability is challenging in that it requires a good deal of formalism and theory to get anywhere near problems we deal with every day.

Take NP-Complete for instance. We know a problem is NP-Complete if we can do a Karp Reduction from another NP-Complete problem and also prove the problem is in NP. Sure, that's fine. But how was the first NP-Complete bootstrapped? Well, using automata and generalized turning machine languages! You can use NP-Complete as a concept at work, and never touch the original proof using a non-determistic turning machine language.

That's at least one course worth of material to teach in order to get students to understand automata. To me: that's a complex approach to a simple question: what can we compute? We have to invent a series of automata with increasing complexity and corresponding theories/proofs. I don't think it's bad, it's just the nature of the problem!
> Gold is considered hard money, yet it is only a shiny rock

Despite its traditional value, gold is not only a shiny rock, it is an useful material in itself (it is not only used for jewelry).
Google's military cloud deal is still ruffling feathers internally – TechRadar
There's a big difference between fixing a problem that's been in production for two months, and rewriting code your coworker pushed two hours ago. For one thing, your coworker might be still working on the next iteration of the code, and adding an unnecessary diff could easily cause hours of wasted time.
Ah thanks for clarifying. That does make sense.
This is a guest essay. Your quote should be attributed to he writer, Bill Grueskin, not to the NYT.

https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014809107-How-...
It’s hard to prove a negative. But after years of investigations, no support for any of its notable claims has been found. And now we’re learning that it was indeed based on lies.
This is why I support crypto. I view it as a laboratory where we can experiment with ideas around finance and governance.

Many of the currently accepted ideas around these topics came from a pre-internet world. However, myself and others think that certain technologies have changed the game.

Maybe we need government or maybe we don't. Maybe we need a centralized currency, maybe we don't. The thing is we won't really know what we need until we run the experiments.

Personally I think these experiments are too important to silence them.
By being outside the US jurisdiction - in this case in China.
eASILY gAMIFIED

fUCK IT i AM NOT HITTING THAT BUTTON NOW. dOUBLING DOWN!
I mostly agree with you but I've found that in certain (smaller) teams with a high level of trust and experience it can be fine to do this without a heads up.
> The OP mixes together different tools used for different causes.

The fact that it is possible to get all of these confused is in itself a problem I'd say :(
Introduction to Cloud Firestore for SQL Developers
I don't think critics don't "get it", it's just that money exists in meatspace and if you're goal is to stop people with guns then you're gonna have a rough time unless you also have guns.

All that would be needed to completely destroy Bitcoin's censorship resistance is, say the US for example, creating and mandating the use of a blacklist of addresses (that updates on xfers). So if you found yourself on it no above-board business would legally be able to transact with you and no individual would dare touch you because their wallet would get poisoned, and your coins would be stuck in limbo. You couldn't send your coins to another wallet because that would be immediately blacklisted as well.

Money you can't spend anywhere except black markets is basically the same as having your assets frozen for basically everyone.

Edit: You could destroy it even more with KYC requirements.
Text Segmentation – Approaches, Datasets, and Evaluation Metrics
Maybe if you don't know who Brandom is shrugs

If someone responds to a comment about CLRS by asking you where you learned something about algorithms, and you say "in the place I already named," and they say "you didn't name any algorithm papers," they may feel like they've won a comment argument, but they've lost the opportunity to learn

Sometimes your opportunities are bounded by your willingness to look up what you've already been told without demanding to be hand held
better yet, what software package that your competitor uses can you afford to torpedo this way?
Maybe maybe not. If you want to take advantage of things like io_uring you're going to be doing that with a JNI lib. Such as this Netty incubator support for it https://github.com/netty/netty-incubator-transport-io_uring

Also all of the existing JVM IO is done with JNI. How do you think java.io is implemented itself? Of course Loom can change those implementations, but strictly speaking JNI is currently extremely common for Java IO. How big of a task supporting virtual threads for the Java libraries remains to be seen, especially for the unofficial extensions like the sun.nio.* package
I'm not sure they like Kier Starmer that much either, I don't think Corbyn is really relevant now anyway, unless you are strongly for or against momentum. I'm thinking more of holding the government to account at the forefront of the BBC news page (it may happen on radio 4, but not many people see that relatively). During/since covid BBC has acted as a communication funnel directly and without criticism which would not have happened in the 80s/90s.

Bring back the original Spitting Image, Yes, Minister, Boys From the Blackstuff!
The exposition on quantum woo was lovely, but the analogy to decentralization falls flat. The difference is that when lay people talk about decentralization, they seem to have a pretty decent - though often imperfect - idea what they're talking about.

I think most folks who throw around the word "decentralized" use the term as a stand-in for some degree of "censorship resistance". Which is reasonably true! They might not understand the social consequences of this, or they might not care; maybe having free (as in speech) transactions between disparate people is worth the social cost of somewhat increased ransomware.

There are fair criticisms of people who talk about decentralization - I notice there are a lot of (facebook-hating, mostly) people who seem to think decentralization will bring privacy or control of your data - but overall I think most people use the word decentralization correctly.
> Because they aren't getting cheaper

They aren't, until they are. Then people have problems.
Whatever their implementation is it's bad and they should change it.
There's some interesting details from Rome too. Take this on Cato:

>As his income grew, Cato also became a regular investor in commercial lending. Although a law from 218 BC banned senators from engaging directly in commercial shipping, Cato formed partnerships of fifty investors that backed the commercial operations of fifty ships. He fronted all of the initial capital and then lent money to investors that they could each use to buy a share in the enterprise. Cato himself entrusted one share to a freed slave who acted as his agent. He then profited from the trading activities as well as the interest on these loans, while following the letter of the law and limiting his direct exposure in case the cargo was lost.
Google Brain and Radboud U Show Gradients Are Not All You Need
You really prefer autotools or CMake to esbuild just because they are older and don't change as much? I will take esbuild over CMake every day of the week and twice on Sunday. C++ build tools are an abject disaster. (And CMake does change anyway)
In Europe, we can transfer money between any two bank accounts on any European country, and the transfer must complete in less than 90 seconds (from an account in bank A, in Spain to another account in bank B, in Italy, for example). And frequently those transfers are also free.

It's not a banking industry problem. It's an obsolete American banking industry problem.
If they keep rates low, inflation will explode, and buying a house now will be an excellent investment.

If they spike rates to fight inflation, like in the late 70s, buying a house now will be a terrible investment.

That's why it's a lever of power: it can go both ways.
I've also been experimenting with my Ploopy mouse, which uses QMK firmware. One layer has my side buttons mapped to volume up and down. It works really well!

Next step is to add a "paste plain" macro for Mac OS. (Option + Command + Shift + v)
Something I can play Solitaire on is a must. Unless I have an actual card deck.
This guy was working at Facebook at the time too.
This was opensourced by google founders were @ google and wrote the thing
Right now that is obviously true. If I want to pay for something, I need Euros here in Germany. But if I can pay with crypto that could change.

DAI and MIM are some examples of decentralized stable coins that could be used for payment.
> My boss invited me for a one-on-one chat where they politely asked me to revert my change. I was aghast. The old code was a mess, and mine was clean!

Not a single word about what the boss objected to. Reading between the lines, I suspect the author still may not know. That's the problem, not Clean Code.
Note that successful disinformation often mixes lies with truth.
This story is much larger than the Steele dossier, and it's a story that augurs a lot of trouble for the US.

For starters, Trumpers have not forgotten and will not forget this. That's 30% of the US populations with an intense anger towards the whole Steele story. The Steele dossier was debunked years ago by anyone who followed the story with a modicum of balance - like the late Stephen F Cohen pointed out, how likely is it that Trump, a hotelier, wouldn't be fully aware that top suites at the top hotels in world capitals aren't bugged to high heaven? Why would a pee pee tape embarrass Trump, the personification of the old dictum: "No publicity is bad publicity"?

Then, there is the issue of media credibility. Media credibility is already at all time low. We've known for years that the Steele dossier had been rejected because major media outlets realized it was probably bunk. This will further this decline in trust and cement American's media polarization.

Also, Trump followers know there is a long list of other immoral/illegal/dishonest assaults on his presidency (no, not including the "Big Lie"). They are seething mad, and they are growing in numbers, recruiting even among ethnic minorities.

On the other side, there is a 30% hardcore never-Trump group that has many reasons to be grieved by Trump. Trump's mistreatment of muslim countries was shocking (although, every muslim I know voted for Trump). The environment and pandering to Big Oil.

I've tried to write this as balanced as possible because, I see a great danger from my vantage point that of a Latin American immigrant from a country that went through a savage four (or was it forty?) year civil war. It doesn't end well, and our current media should be sacrificed for peace and to air out the laundry.

America, you've conjured a very nasty demon you have no experience with.
They did not remove API yet. I believe they intend to remove it sometime in December, after they complete rollout of removing dislike counter globally
The metaverse is the next venue for body dysmorphia online
I don't know about you but proving various derivative rules using the limit (ie, infinitesimals) has been a recurring exam question for me, and so were differentials.
Any particular recommendations in the books you've read?
Harnessing Orkneys wave energy to power Scottish homes and whisky distilleries
Very likely such a thing will be pinned to a few OS threads and then interact with a virtual thread pool to farm out work.

In general most Java I/O is native because it's "sufficiently fast" for such things. Netty is the exception rather than the rule in this regard.
I like to view of it more as a leap in knowledge. Someone jumped not just a foot into the frontier but half a mile and setup camp.

Now, there's half a mile of land for people to safely and easily scout through knowing they can always setup camp at the new established camp and work back towards previous understanding or work from previous understanding to the new camp. There's often a lot of low hanging fruit to be had here once a leap, not small incremental step into the frontier, has been made.
Why not? Its cheap resource wise whereas dependency hell is potentially debilitating. For some reason many proponents of the package management status quo are blind to this. Having multiple versions of a dependency is only bad in so far as its "messy". It isn't objectively bad. But having a system that breaks applications because two or more cant agree on a package version is objectively bad. Its arguing aesthetics versus getting the job done. A poor position.

Windows, for all its faults, doesn't have this problem. It will happily accommodate multiple versions of say, .Net as needed.
I disagree. Most of the time I'm intrigued by the changes someone makes to my code. It's like a musician getting their song covered. There's a creative interpretation, often something I didn't see.

This one was a bad example. But past 5 or so years of experience, when someone has experience with other languages and coding styles, it's more interesting and I often learn a lot from them.
> But in the context of blockchains, owning data only means that you own writes to the data.

I disagree in parts. In e.g. an app on Ethereum you own your and the app's data more than e.g. you do on Facebook. It's because there are no gatekeepers that'd stop you from creating an interoperable app using the original data or straight up downloading the data. There's sufficient historical precedence of FAANG platform risk.

But then also "just owning the right to writes" may sell the concept cheap considering that in the realm of "owning data," there isn't many concepts besides "reading", "writing" and "accessing". "Owning the write" may be as good as it gets?

We tend to look at data from a materialistic view and represent it in our heads as .zip files or csvs. But data really isn't that. Data is continuous and owning "the right to write" is pretty cool IMO.
Microsoft Axed Cortana-Alexa Integration, and No One Noticed
Hello! I'm on the team that implemented this. I'll be writing a longer post on the design considerations and implementation details, but roughly - rust wasn't a good case for something that was mostly held back by i/o to the edge; further, the actual cpu/mem intensive part was handed off to webpack which was written in javascript. So wrangler v2 flips that design around, using typescript for the outer shell, which makes it easier for our users and community to contribute to the tool, and esbuild for the core part of parsing/bundling code (we may switch esbuild to a rust based bundler like swc in the future).
The problem isnt the cable.

The latest superchargers are ~250kw dc. Lets even say your battery is 120kwh and you're charging 20-100% to maximize kw. Afterall if you're low or high in batteries it wont charge at 250kw. Thusly lets say we're charging 100kwh. It's simple math to see you'd charge it in roughly 25 minutes. Which is typically what people are seeing with their teslas.

If you want to charge faster say 5 minutes. At 500kw it'd be down to probably 15 minutes or so. At 1,000kw or 1MW you'd charge in around 5 minutes. We havent talked about battery chemistry and what have you. That's what we need.
I mean, you probably forgot how to, but taking a derivative without using any derivation rules has always been an exam question for me whenever I take a calculus class.
In my experience, on Windows, DirectCompute shaders work OK on AMD too. For optimal performance they require optimizations for specific GPUs, though.
OBS has a feature for that.
I agree, you wouldn't want a world where either of those two scenarios you mention are possible. But are those examples inescapable risks inherent to having smart contracts? Or does the design of current smart contracts lack maturity in such a way that allows for problems similar to the ones you mention? Maybe better smart contract design could arise that prevents these issues.
It’s a banking industry problem. The government shouldn’t have to step in: the "free market" should be able to innovate, just like DeFi is doing now out of necessity.
Yes. I have schizoaffective bipolar disorder, surviving with it for 45 years. 20 plus years of therapy as well.

To say I have no credentials is an immature way to evaluate the knowledge of others and us a logical fallacy.

For the last 10 years I have been working with UNC Medicine decoding both my own and my family’s genomics. And I have taught my self, by auditing UNC classes, in genetics, psychology, and nuerochemistry as well as nutrigenomics.

I survived three suicide attempts and was hospitalized five times. The last five years I have been able to go off all my medications but one I use occasionally.

I would guess it gives me some credentials but these days if it’s not a diploma on your wall you’re not worth a thing.
This is narrative writing. It wasn’t in the ‘heat of competition’ it was in essence collusion of traditional and modern media with the opposition party in order to discredit and undermine a presidency they disliked.

For counter example look at how they avoided looking into emails on hunter Biden's laptop. Oh, we can’t prove the emails are genuine… but they had no problem taking evidence against their disfavored candidates at face value.
I remember seeing a tweet by the Safari team that they have more openings than ever; great news, they have a lot of catch up to do! I really hope they can gain an equal footing and start having a better (bigger?) impact on the web.
>Can you not just imagine?

Of course I can, but I want to hear the horse's reason from the horse's mouth.
I dont watch enough content on YT that would require I care about the up/down - heck - I have been on reddit for 15 years and I also dont care about voting there as well...

But removing this ability to see sentiment toward a vid (irrespective of gamification of such) is a stupid idea.
I'll jump to whatever project has an API with features like custom link unfurling and off-site embedding.

Notion doesn't let you embed its pages in other sites, and doesn't provide a programmatic way to display proprietary content. This means it's black boxed and limited insofar as integration with enterprise tooling is concerned.
That depends on having 20% down, or $200,000 in cash. That would take most people quite a while to save up unless they've been working long enough (say decades), and without it you'd have to take on private mortgage insurance which would shoot the price up even more, at least for a few years.

But even assuming one had 20% down, with a rough tax calculation of 30%, that $140k salary comes out to $98,000 annually post-tax and $8,166 monthly. Which means a person would be paying almost 50% of their income on the mortgage.

That's not a situation I would be comfortable with. If it takes a whole 50% of my post-tax income to fund my home, I'd be terrified of any kind of interruption to my employment (like a personal accident, recession, or pandemic; these things aren't as unlikely as we like to believe). If you mean $140k post-tax I'd be more inclined to see a $1M house as doable
Why not build a scanner for common structures like "isArray" and automatically submit a PR to replace the usage with built-in tools or something like lodash.

(I know program comparison is akin to the halting-problem, but for simple templates it should work).
Socialism with American characteristics
What did they do to prop up the market in 08? What would that policy intervention look like today?
If the range is 600+ miles

The other problem is that range estimates do not take into account cold weather and no garage. I bought a hybrid and I probably should have bought an ICE that got in the 40mpg instead of the 55mpg hybrid since winter is very bad on batteries.
Removing China’s “Startup Debt”
I think the title of this post should be the actual title from the linked page, "LTTng: an open source tracing framework for Linux". The current title ("LTTng: An open-source alternative to eBPF") seems to imply that eBPF is not open source, which is not correct.
I think infinitesimals are more like the partitions in a Riemann Sum. The limit is where you are heading, whereas infinitesimals are how you get there.
Why you can't afford to use savings accounts to save
For my team, we use a rule of two naive implementations then the third is a refactor.

Cleaning code is often wasted effort when you don’t have the full picture or understand future variations. Like you mentioned with ripping out your refactor later.

This improves the speed of implementation one and two because we don’t have to think as much. Then third iteration is faster as well because it’s obvious how to abstract.
I'm sure this was brought up in the previous thread, but who is relying on the YouTube demographic to inform their opinion of a video's quality? I've been using YouTube for years and never gave a second thought to likes/dislikes. If the content is good, I'll keep watching. If not, I move on. Why not just watch for ten seconds and decide for yourself?

If likes actually meant anything, then the YouTube front page wouldn't be a microcosm of cultural decline.