skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are various plants for bonsai and some of them are super simple. I have had a ficus bonsai for over a year and it has survived all kinds of conditions. Currently it’s sitting on my apartment balcony with no direct sun and strong winds and it seems to be growing strong and healthy. I have done basically nothing but water it. I think I’ll have to re pot it soon but that’s about it.
Or Cobol?
You could apply very similar analysis to DeFi, smart contracts, etc. In practice they appear to be second-order gambling systems for people who find L1 gambling not exciting enough.
> Forums live and forums die.

exept HN. HN only lives
But not a gold standard. The powers that be have manipulated the price of gold such that its an open secret that it will never be worth anything.
Who's the user for this? It looks too "dumb" for a "real" programmer, and way too "smart" for everyone else. There's no way a real user will be able to navigate that "formula bar".

Source: have observed dozens of regular users through one-way mirror _while at MS_ ~18 years ago. The product later became Dynamics. Users would struggle to find the extremely prominent "OK" button sometimes, or press whichever button was highlighted by default even when they didn't mean to. Anything more complicated than that, it' completely hopeless.

Their own user testing probably shows the same thing, and that's probably why it's open source.
I never claimed that, and have no idea whether it’s true.
You’re writing style is unique and grabbed my attention. Any tips to write like that?

You didn’t use “I” at all, but it seems likely there are some other rules going on here.
If only there is a competitor that allows real time comments like Niconico
People that dislike XML and like JSON are... weird.
JSON is a verbose mess.
> It's always easy to take things for granted, but the real power of Bitcoin shows when things go sidewards.

Yes because the one thing that works best when things go sideways is a giant network of electricity wasting computers you access over the internet. Definitely nothing taken for granted here.

> Maybe without these counterweights, we would already be in a much worse situation right now.

That is certainly a take.
> I can't even keep mint alive in my backyard.

I'm jealous- some mint got from my planter into the lawn. The good news it smells nice whenever I mow.
Given how fiddly Excel is, which leads to extremely frustrated formula-writers and depressed advanced users, I wouldn't call Excel low-code. A rite of passage of learning programming pre-Internet, Google, and Stack Overflow (and Clang/llvm) is spending hours pouring over code, just to find out it was a missing semicolon or errant " symbol. Excel programmers go through similar shit with some regularity still (owing to the fact that it's not considered "real" programming and proper tools are elusive). (You don't have to go through that be a programmer, but there's comradery from having gone through similar rites of passage.)
PHP has a lot of quirks that have to be learned so that they can be avoided. It's a bit of a time sink in that way, and the sort of time sink that doesn't accumulate new skills that could be applied elsewhere.
> Easy: it's censorship-resistant. You send a transaction and no middleman, no financial organization, no one can prevent you from sending it. You can transact with anyone, anywhere, 24/7/365, however much you want, $100 or $100 million.

This is not completely true. There are middleman and in bitcoin world they are called miners. They are the ones that need to add your transaction to a block and who you need to pay so that they do that. Control the miners and you can censor all you want.
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Gold is heavy, needs to be physically sent, and where do you store loads of it?

Crypto seems more practical to own and trade.

Or do you mean owning a document that is backed by gold? Not the same is it?
Yes -- if you want a good open data system, you're in a bad place.

As long as people continue to use the Internet for their own benefit, that's fine. The internet that will be the ultimate "open standard" for the masses of people.
"We want to keep old games unavailable so we can make money off the new ones"
But if chrome doesn't shove it in my face when I open a new tab, How will I be informed of the latest breaking news from the guardian about what John Oliver said on the last episode of This Week Tonight, or the bodypaint cosplay that has to be seen to believed! I need my attention constantly interrupted or I might focus too deeply on things..
There's a news cycle to the blockchain that everyone wants to be a part of to appear smart whether they know anything about a topic or not. Notice how the majority of critics never talk about any deep use-cases for the technology and instead choose to make up that it's only ever used by criminals. This is because they don't actually know anything about the technology. It's just more status signalling for clicks mixed together with a bunch of regurgitated arguments made a million times before. Enjoy the traffic bump op before fading back into obscurity. Meanwhile, the countless people in the know who actually matter are going to keep building on this "failing" technology.
Are you running a bitcoin node that successfully mines blocks?

If you were adding a hypothetical transaction that would heavily injure a majority of miners (think shifting a huge number of the Satoshi owned coins to the US Gov) do you think they would still happily process it?
Actually not sure if anyone noticed this https://github.com/amzn/amazon-ray, that means a good amount of benchmark has been done and Ray won. Have a commitment from Amazon (and even setup that repo) is no small feat
You could contact a lawyer who can use legal methods to request the information from Uber. You should probably file the criminal complaint, even if you don't have sufficient information for the police to move forward right now.
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I kind of agree but I think you make another point there, as a parent there is a big difference between getting drunk in-front of your kids and having a beer with food.

And it's the same thing with screen time and internet usage I don't think it's practically possible to have the same rules for adults and children in a home, bed time is an excellent example.

However you can still have clear and communicated rules for both the adults and the children that way holding yourself to the same standards.

In the bedtime example our 5yo goes to bed by ~1800 and the entire family gets up at ~0500 with the adults having a set bedtime at ~2100-2200. Of course these times can be altered by external circumstances but then we try to make the reasoning clear.

For screens and devices we use the same logic, yeah I work on the computer thus I will be using the screen more than a 5yo but outside of work I limit my own screen time as well as my kids, not the same level but a distinct limit to both of us.
If you have to learn a new language for some reason and you don't know what to pick, go for something that has things you've never done before. Perhaps consult TIOBE for extra data points if you value current popularity.

Some popular choices in this bubble seem to be:

- clojure

- common lisp for some reason

- php is mentioned often here, also not sure why

- rust

- swift if you're into ios/apple, kotlin if you're into android

- typescript
It depends on what you want to do. The problem is that PHP is hyper-optimised for serving up HTTP. That was great in the 2000s when the web was eating the world and the other options were Java, Python, and Perl, but is less useful in the current climate where there's so many more platforms and web development requires javascript.

By learning PHP, you are effectively locking yourself into the narrow niche of backend web development (ask me how I know!), whereas other languages have much broader target platform appeal.

As an example, the obvious competitor to PHP of Javascript already beats PHP by also providing backend web services, but also has support from AWS lambda, GCP Cloud functions, and even the somewhat esoteric embedded javascript for micro-controllers options.

> Do you shoot for what has had longevity, or what's rising?

Coming back to your original question - I think it's both. Depending on what you wanted to do, I'd pick Javascript (see above), then depending on what else you wanted to do, one of Golang, Python, C#, or Kotlin.
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na,

people are just hopes that things will be good... do you really know who built the bitcoin? is there any person you can point ? no? then do you really think that people are smart, decisive enough to keep this kind of systems up in spite of their loss of monry or etc.

do you really think that there ls no trust issue with the bitcoin? let say "some" guy "one" day finds a way to steal your wallet ... can you find a way to make it safe as it is with the current banking system? think about even if your credit card used by scammers you still have some kind of safety... banking systems are not there to be perfect but here to secure people's ( who are not thst smart ) money safe...

lastly censorship rsistant is my ear! it is clear that you have never lived in an opressed country..
I'd assume that the end result of the drop is running in a container.
> but it's the wrong conclusion to make that if doctors were wrong about smoking they are also wrong about everything else. Usually they are not.

Indeed. And usually, there is no significant objection to the medical consensus, so it is irrelevant the "all medical advice" space.

The interesting (from my perspective, but also from an information theoretic one) things are those about which there is disagreement. And the "usually right" on those subjects goes down significantly - perhaps it's still "usually", but maybe it's just 60% rather than the 99% of the "right" things which inspire people to blindly believe doctors about everything. And perhaps it's just 20%; We'll likely know about today's status only in 30 years.

For example, there is still consensus about statin use to reduce cardiac problems through cholesterol lowering. I looked a little into that; the evidence is severely lacking, especially if you consider all cause mortality rather than just "lowering myocardial infraction risk" (which you can achieve 100% with Cyanide!). I have informally surveyed about 20 doctors, of which one was a cardiologist. Everyone other than the cardiologist was convinced statins are the best thing since sliced bread, have no risks, and excellent efficiency. Not one of them actually knew much about, e.g. statin effect on all cause mortality, or much of anything else related to statins except the official line and up-to-date (the service) summaries. The cardiologist still thought statins were a good thing, but was much more reserved about recommending them to anyone with high blood lipids, because he actually read the research and had actual experience (and discussions with informed colleagues).
Darn it, every time MS does something like it I feel an urge to get myself a Windows laptop. Gotta control myself.
> For example: I can edit text on a computer more easily than with pencil and paper.

So it was not a real problem to begin with. A computer didn't solve anything, it just made a small improvement on your usecase.
this is a game-changer. such a PITA to manage cascading and compounding feature branches. can't wait to give this a try!
Electronic Voting has been proven to be untrustworthy.

Increasingly complex systems featuring a mix of tokens and crypto have costs that exceed simple, human readable ballots and do not add any value.

I can only conclude the driving force is to undermine democracy with what is basically a man in the middle attack.

There is literally trillions of dollars in value there. Not exactly great for the disenfranchised.

Vote by mail works and we should be using it.
I'm not really seeing the parallels. People having strongly held beliefs that they advocate for does not make something a 'religion'. This seems more like an ad-hominem non-argument.
Diamond brand kosher salt has no additives or anti-caking agents.
Are function names going to be translated as you did with Excel, so that there are a billion macros written in completely different languages?
Ten years and sometimes other things come up. But looking through the links, Reddit is the common one, which I mentioned. Sometimes it is useful to ask again.

But your account of 39 days in helpful to remind me of reddit.
Define failure.
If SF city was a person, $1.5M would barely cover breakfast and parking for a day.
If this is the case the Mongols and the Black Death should have similar effects in their day with the level of destruction they caused.
It doesn't have to be an equivalent to be an option. Just like having no encryption is an option or auto-unlocking is an option.

It's not like TPM detects that there are hardware changes, Windows itself does and it can lock it down. Or if there is some mechanism it doesn't seem to help in this case, so who is it stopping?
> For instance, suppose we push 200 operands onto the stack (o1 o2 o3, ...),

Nobody does that. That's a meaningless example. Most systems don't have stacks that deep anyway.

This is not Forth. It's pointless to reason on things you definitely don't do in Forth because everyone knows it will fail.

It's like arguing against C because you can forcefully cast an integer into a pointer and make a function that expects a pointer to crash the system. Well, duh.

Don't do that, as we often say in the Forth community. Probably the first thing Forth newcomers have to learn is stop doing things that maybe are the right way in some other language they come from, but are definitely wrong in Forth. Don't do that, and you will have one less problem. The best way to solve problems is to avoid them entirely. That's a precious lesson Forth teaches you, sometimes the hard way.

> In a language with syntax

The whole idea of Forth is to stop relying on these things. This is probably the main part of Forth training: stop doing things in such ways that the only viable option is to rely on syntax, type checking and other crutches. Forth programmers have been doing things without them for 40 years.

This is where Forth is a paradigm shift, and it seems that many people don't realize it. They usually claim it is a defect that needs to be fixed, but it is actually a feature.
With all of these apps, there's always the risk it eventually falls into the wrong hands.

I bought the pro version of a great scanning application years ago, only to have it eventually become malware as it exchanged hands over and over.
Yes, Miele too. All the German brands available in the USA are like that. Salt for them is readily available online and at higher-end appliance stores.
> he can either lie, or he can cause a mass panic or a run on critical resources

Agree that Fauci was/is in a tough spot, but I think it's a mistake to conceptualize these decisions as a stage game as opposed to a repeated game. "Lying" or selectively emphasizing truths to achieve a specific outcome is borrowing against future trust in an effort to solve the present problem, and is suboptimal long term.
Another practical point concerning grandmothering is journal editors. Journal editors are often not experts in the specific subfield of the paper and almost certainly won't read much further than the first 1-2 paragraphs. Thus, the first 1-2 paragraphs must, in addition to stating what the paper does, give sufficient context to convince a lazy editor that the topic is important enough to be the focus of a paper in their journal. In my experience, grandmothering is often trying to achieve this purpose.
Maybe this is too obvious to mention, but people send money to their impoverished family because the family needs that money now, not in a decade. Of course your family didn't "hodl" and become rich.
It’s interesting reading the comments here as I assume everyone here has more coding experience than myself. We have all the Power Apps at my agency and I have yet to find a use case for them. They seem really interesting but until there are good use cases I don’t see this catching on for most users. I’m trying to find some way for this to fit into my work and my employees but even the Microsoft training that I’ve attended doesn’t give much info. I’m sorry but automating notifications isn’t interesting and feels like new ways to micromanage. I feel like for this to thrive is to have good use cases put forth for regular users, then you will get buy in.
So true. The time to market is unbeatable in PHP.

Not a fan, but that is definitely a very good argument.
Baffling. You replied to my statement that you can easily change those with a rebuttal that you don't like the defaults
PHP was my gateway to understanding C. It wasn't my first, but it definitely helped me learn more computer fundamentals than other languages.
PL question: Power FX follows the spreadsheet model where a change in one variable propagates and updates all variables that depend on it. I am curious why this model isn't more popular. Is it more computationally intensive?
I'm down with penjing!
If only demanding evidence of crimes would magically materialize said evidence. It is hidden by design, that's why it's used for illegal stuff on the first place, and why it wasn't banned yet (who needs to hide money more than politicians?).

It's pretty obvious by the lack of legitimate activity. Nobody's buying pizzas for bitcoins. It's all about speculation and hiding your money from taxes.
Programming doesn't need "democratization," it needs competence and a relentless focus on quality
In 1986 he was playing in London: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/17/john-cl...

In 1953 he looked and sounded like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcRXIOvMxdc
Oh the irony.

First gives a short answer. Other poster is not satisied with that. Then apologizes and gives a longer more informative answer.

Then gets downvoted to hell.

I wonder if next time, you will still give a longer answer, or just not bother anymore.

Welcome to the club.
The difference is that the local monopoly on violence forces demand for their fiat on the people and organizations within their sphere of influence, explicitly and implicitly.

It remains to be seen if an entirely voluntary money can be a major player in the modern world.

Then again, raw fiat is a very new experiment as well. It's only been about 50 years since the US broke the pretense of the dollar being constrained by gold reserves. So from that context, bitcoin's 13 years doesn't actually seem that radically young, especially if compared to gold's 5000 years.
You can always sail the high seas. Its morally correct.
SMHasher results are here: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/
below the FNV's.

In short: it shows why a simple word mixer alone is not enough for a proper hash. It is insecure, fails all tests, and is not as fast as expected. I would not even use it for PRNG's, but I haven't tested that usage yet.
You mean Con Kolivas? I'd trust Con Kolivas over most "software guys".
Exactly, but I've given up on hardware companies ever making a good software product. I think that hardware companies are full of hardware engineers who made a little Javascript app once, and who assume that making software is easy. And they promote from within, so suddenly your software team is run and operated by people who made a Javascript app once.
There's an interesting contrast: the technical security of crypto relies on not trusting and not believing anyone or anything but the value relies on social belief.
Can you pinpoint anything in PHP that allowed you to gain such knowledge better than whatever your first language was?
At my company, we do exactly that using Github+Slack integration. Github Codeowners + Github Teams let's you to autoassign teams as reviewers. When the team is assigned then a random person from the team is pinged using round robin. Furthermore, with Github Scheduled Reminders you can get notifications in Slack according to some schedule and/or when some event happens, e.g. your PR was approved, got a comment or a mention, etc.
Hn hates crypto so much the top comment just has to compare Tom Brady to Tom cruise and u get all the upvotes. So much salt from a sad community. Can we just ban crypto discussions from hn so the circus can finally close?
Weird JSON with schemas. To me, that sounds like a pretty good trade. I know there's a bunch of json-schema things, but none of them have the weight of a primary-source officially blessed schema system.
Discussions about problems with the DOI system and suggestions for potential replacements for it come up every few months. So a few years ago, I wrote something that helps outline some of the issues one would need to address:

https://www.crossref.org/blog/rehashing-pids-without-stabbin...
The core of their audience for this could very well be people who learned COBOL and BASIC for work 40 years ago and want to go back to programming, minus the "pick python will you? Or go, or js, or PHP, or anything reliable and useful and open" part.
I've been pairing the Wii Remotes to my laptop, and playing the old games that way via Dolphin!
This guy is heated.
I read quite a bit about what the author wrote at google and worked with people that had worked with him. I only heard good things and he seems very smart.

He wrote some articles that I remember was obviously wrong, and maybe this is one of them. That was usually when it was outside of his domain knowledge. Of course I could only recognize it when it was an area where I had a lot more local knowledge. I think very smart people sometimes overestimate how well they understand things they have not thought much about and underestimate domain knowledge.

I think the same as him about crypto, but I also think I don’t know the domain very well and could very easily be wrong.
Gold doesn't give you near instant finality and requires either transporting heavy gold for large txns or transact in IOUs which is like transacting in cash, since a centralized party handling your gold is to be trusted with the issued currency.
Best since everyone is thinking along the same lines Javascript/Python/Go developers are quickly becoming a commodity; e.g there are millions or tens of millions of developers who learn them as their 1st language (many of them are now hirable remotely).
Just worth noting I think...
Except Facebook literally did that :)

But I agree with you.
Perhaps GP supports informative journalism, just not one with an “Americans are bad and should be ashamed for being richer than other countries” narrative?
there's questions about common mode interference and other RFI things, cabling, antennas, and things like that. strict "rules only" is technician - what bands, how much power (which gets interesting in quite a few bands), and so on. Technician is like "set up a modem to get on a BBS."
The third option of hurts the customer and company is also extremely frequent. This can be as low level as developers choosing tools to pad their resume, systematic based on internal metrics, or even very high level internal politics based on which policy ends up making someone or some group look good.
> "we've done stuff like this before".

Yes, if the science says so. Yes, but the question is: Do we want to do stuff like that again?

Human impact of American colonialization: 56 million deaths.
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