skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Elixir has transparent parallelism and trivially scales to 2000 reqs/second on a $5 VPS even though it's a dynamic language, oh and because it has LiveView which eliminates the need for most of the JS in a project (if latency isn't critical), so now a backender can take care of 100% of a web project.

I worked with PHP 9-10 years ago. Still not impressed to this day. Why should I use it? Terrible type coercion that can and will catch you with your pants down is my chief complaint -- that alone is enough for me to never touch it again. I want predictable tools, not something I actively have to fight against so I can get my job done. How is this even considered productive?

So tell me again, why should I use PHP? How will it truly help me? What does it do better than everyone else?
put " reddit" behind queries lol. " hacker news" works too.

Yeah, but in all seriousness, that's what I do and the results quality has gone surprisingly up.
Fine then, there are inflationary cryptocurrencies for you to choose from as well.
The ideal is that an author is unbiased before seeing the evidence, then forms an opinion based on the strength of the evidence. An article that chronicles such a journey, presenting an opinion but also the strongest counter-arguments to that opinion, is about the best one can hope for in scientific writing.
Right, MATLAB Coder is a very related tool.
-religion

/rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/

noun

the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

Scratch the last bit, since it's a tautology. How many people in the crypto space proclaim that "decentralisation" or "smart contracts" or "hard" (i.e. deflationary) currency will fix everything and make bitcoin the new world currency and grant its loyal hodlers everlasting wealth? What percentage of them actually had a concrete idea on how that will happen?

We've had schisms (BTC), there's a mythological originator (Satoshi) and a possible historical counterpart (Hal Finney if I remember the name correctly?) as well as anointed saints and "first disciples". There's even new prophets (ethereum founder) proclaiming the last interpretation wasn't wrong but incomplete.

I've got to say, I see it rhyme. While I wouldn't say that everyone in the space treats crypto like a religion (probably), I'd wager for decent amount of people that description is a useful model
Is this really so different from the rest of capitalism?
Payments may very well be held back by regulation. But because crypto currencies are essentially permissionless protocols, they can kind of just…ignore all of that, which makes them useful but also of dubious legality. And it definitely results in adverse selection because then of course people who want to avoid the regular banking/payment system will use the next best thing available.

Still, it’s utility, even if it’s grey market (of course it can be used for black market stuff, but it’s a protocol agnostic of that). For me I have purchased legal stuff with crypto that regular payment processors had essentially banned, so crypto was actually a better option than alternatives like e-check.
My little contribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7spj04HBU

A french movie soundtrack by Philippe Sarde played by Chet Baker with Cobham on the drums.
Depends on how you use it. It's always been dependent on the programmer.
Can I easily disable the post-update splash page telling me how great the latest Firefox is (or something like that)? I use developer edition to test Firefox compatibility of my webapps, I seem to get that a lot, and I really don’t care about that marketing.
Not meta-X info?
UCDavis added caste to its anti-discrimination policy. Will others do the same?
Ah ok. I'm indeed on matrix.org, I did check if there's presence before posting that comment, and didn't see any.

I do keep wondering though what's the deal with the performance of the Matrix protocol. From reading the overview in the spec, it doesn't feel like there's anything that could have a significant performance cost. It's essentially a standardized but extensible REST API that passes JSON objects over HTTP. Is it that the existing server implementations aren't optimized very well?
yes, YAML is exactly what's missing in this thread /s
I use plausible.io for my sites.
Government flooding the market with cheap money has so far gone mostly to inflating asset prices. Who owns the assets? The rich. Who does not? The poor.
That doesn't make it no-code or low-code. It's just a high level programming language that's more efficient at solving one problem than another.
I'm not in the US and malpractice suits against doctors are extremely rare here.
For J. Kaur, a UC Davis senior of Indian descent, it started with insulting memes casually dropped into her group chats. For one of her schoolmates, it was overhearing South Asian students ask each other what caste they belonged to before picking roommates.

The experiences inspired Kaur and her schoolmate to spend months working behind the scenes with other students to get their university to officially recognize caste — a millennia-old concept that assigns people their social statuses at birth — as a source of discrimination on the Northern California campus.

That effort culminated in September, when UC Davis became potentially the first public institution in the U.S. to add caste to its anti-discrimination policy. The move places the university on the ground floor of a rising movement to confront caste discrimination, a lesser-known form of oppression present in American society, and one that is largely imported from South Asia.
That’s been the case for years. One self-hostable payment
solution is btcpayserver (also supports lightning).

(PayPal recently rolled out allowing users to use crypto assets including btc for any PayPal payments but arguably that is not “real adoption” in context of payments, as merchants still get paid in fiat with PayPal’s partner Paxos acting as intermediaries)
Crypto is destroying the environment? Bollocks. The electricity of the worlds ATM,s bank branches, trading floors, etc dwarfs the electricity cost of bitcoin. And for a system that rewards those close to the money printers and fucks over the little man.

Everything has a cost. But is the cost worth paying is the question.
And the medicine dart board assumes your psychiatrist doesn't make mistakes. Ie you will have to look up the information on the medicine roulette and the combinations yourself.
Failure in the context of a crypto-currency is when it fails to act as a trustless form of p2p money for those who use it + does not increase in adoption by users. Neither of those things are true.
There is a separate microsd slot on the pinephone, why one would want to use an adapter from the semi-proprietary emmc connector to microsd is beyond me.
What problem does blockchain solve there? Land is expensive and not exchanged often, it wouldn't be a problem to require every operation to be submitted to a government agency, right?
Personally I've been looking for an API that includes the option greeks and doesn't cost hundreds of dollars per month. A good starting point I'd recommend is the $30/mo plan from https://twelvedata.com/pricing where you can pull down indicators that are pregenerated for a specified timeframe, and can move order execution to a faster language/platform. My background is in python which is good for EDA but there's likely to be tools made for more mature languages to interact with brokerages, and perform said signal analysis/TA with a higher throughput as well. Been busy with leetcode & interview prep so I haven't put in as much time into side projects as I could be, feel free to send an email.
In May, federal law enforcement agents raided a Hindu temple in New Jersey after lawyers for hundreds of oppressed caste workers filed a lawsuit against the Hindu sect known as BAPS. The temple was accused of confining the men who were working on a construction project to its grounds and paying them as little as $1 per hour for arduous labor. The lawsuit was amended this month to include other BAPS locations near Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Robbinsville, N.J.

How did so many labourers enter the country without ringing alarm bells?
Startup Just Launched a Rocket by Spinning It Fast with No Fuel, and It Worked
The quote 'science improves one death at the time' comes to mind.
Eagle Mode 0.95.1
If you are interested in learning more, "Let's Get Lost" is a great film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Get_Lost_(1988_film)

Also, for a less obvious choice of record to check out, "Silence" with Charlie Haden is a really lovely album from towards the end of his life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_(Charlie_Haden_album)
But per the linked SO thread this is a very easy mistake to make. If the paper is not perfectly clear and does not call attention to this subtetly, I would say that is still an issue with the paper.

Then again I don’t subscribe to the idea that doxumented misbehaviour is fine do ymmv.
Bitcoin is not for these times directly, but for after.
With gold, historically governments have tried to get a hold of it with draconic punishments if they found someone tried to hide it.

With gold you are more in danger and you can't easily move it. Bitcoin is better, but certainly not optimal. Still, if you were to flee from your country, you might not be able to take gold or money with you, but for bitcoin it's much easier. So someone in government will think twice before putting heavy restrictions if they can easily be circumvented.
You don't own the Bitcoin. You own a private key. If somebody else got the private key, they could drain the funds. That far from owning something. There is a saying in the CC world: not your keys, not your coins.

What you are talking about in regards to documents are scams. There have also been a plethora of scams in the crypto currency world. Making the distinction there is quite strange.
Ask HN: How do you HTML prototype?
I am looking for a solution that allows me to easily prototype new design on top of a existing site. Currently, I use a bookmarklet that injects jQuery to the site and then I use the Firefox console to write JS that outputs HTML. The result is that I can locally write code and 100% app native look and feel but the approach is fragile and slow.

How do you prototype in HTML but much faster?
Read up on e.g. Wikipedia. The quoted version of introversion/extroversion is correct roughly speaking.
Another company which did not read Facebook's terms of service.
Very clear example, thank you.

I would like to see an option to whitelist syntax/types/keywords in Typescript. Allowing only const, dicts, arrays, assignments (but not while). It could just abort if something other than the whitelisted appears.

It could get rid of most of this problems, and not allow network or infinite looping (or file access, and others). Of course it would not be perfect, but could be good enough.
The rich does not hoard fiat, they own assets which go up in price as the money supply increases.

Meanwhile the poor has its savings eroded, their paychecks have less and less buying power and they are forced to negotiate to get a raise to simply stop becoming poorer.
What kind of applications are these very low cost, low gate, FPGAs used for?
You can manually fetch emails from external accounts via the Gmail settings - Accounts. I'm not sure if this is available in the app but it's available on the (desktop) page. It's a hassle but there is a way in tight situations.
I tried to run an open source community on XMPP at around the same time and found it equally crap.

The XML schema felt bloated (baring in mind a lot of people were still on dial up, and later the data caps of early feature/smart phones), chat client support was rubbish, linking to other servers was non-trivial (they'd often be running extensions you weren't. In fact the whole extension system was broken). And IIRC the leading XMPP server was written in Haskell and the only way to configure it was to edit the source. It was just a horrible experience all round.

I had Skype, MSN, AOL IM, IRC, and another (possibly IRQ?) all linked together -- most of which are proprietary -- under one server and the only protocol I couldn't get working properly was XMPP. Which really says a lot about the state of XMPP at that time.

Maybe things have improved. But now that Google Talk, Facebook Messenger and others don't use XMPP any more, there is even less reason to bother trying.
You aren't missing anything. Crypto doesn't solve an existing problem. It was created by arrogant software engineers who thought they know monetary policy better than people who devote their entire lives to the study.

It's survived because it happened to make a great natural ponzi scheme, which then made some people rich, and made some people financially invested in pumping the price higher, who now spend all their time telling you how useful it is in an attempt to get you to buy into the "Crypto" universe but really just want your fiat.

It's a libertarian currency. Don't be surprised that it's a greater-fool nightmare - that's exactly the point. There's a reason that the True Believers get the majority of the coins for no mining costs and the rest beg for fractions of a coin. It's pure FOMO and reflected in their unofficial motto: "Have fun staying poor".

All of the people replying to you trying to convince you that crypto makes sense have a personal financial interest in getting you onboard. They have a larger interest in shooting down dissent and mocking non-believers, because if people stop believing the whole house of cards comes down.

I stand to gain nothing if you believe me or don't believe me, so take it however you wish.
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Blah blah blah no one cares about profiteering. Not against crypto-currencies, but present coherent arguments or take your sour attitude elsewhere.
How is nano (a zero fee blockchain that has no impact on the environment that's based on ethereum) centralised?
I don't see any reason to doubt. ForgeFPGA is said to be successor of GreenPAK, and GreenPAK tools are capital F free. Get it from https://github.com/azonenberg/openfpga.
The EU has neither the authority nor the competency to lay out such identity frameworks and I would say they would decrease security in any case. This is again about surveillance and attempts to get control on information.

HTTPS basic auth is secure and should always be an option. There, perfect interop.

There is not enough trust and political currency to accept such measures in my opinion. Formalized ID systems seem to net more attack vectors than what we currently have.
The funny thing is that for all of their supposed smarts the bulk of the commenters in favor of the 'new' worm theory are jumping on it, just like they jumped on Ivermectin in the first place. It is in a way an interesting experience to see this happen in real-time.
You say, "the technical security of crypto relies on not trusting and not believing anyone or anything," but I don't think that's quite right. I think it's more accurate to say that the purpose of the technical security of crypto is to permit you to not trust anyone (or, in some sense, "anything").

However, by "anyone", we mean "any single person", in the same way that science or money permits you to not trust anyone. For example, fake ivermectin covid studies are eventually found to be fake, so in that sense we "don't trust anyone" to not fake their studies. But if everybody publishing ivermectin studies is actually in a grand conspiracy to promote ivermectin, this fails; at least some honest people have to run studies with ivermectin to find out that it doesn't cure covid. In fact, probably even a majority. This is still a great improvement over the medieval system where the Pope decided whose opinions could be published on whether the Earth moved or not.

Similarly, the great thing about money is that it gives you autonomy; if you have money, it doesn't matter that much that the Soup Nazi banned you from his restaurant, because you can just go buy soup elsewhere. You won't starve, the way a child abandoned by their parents often will.
No, that's not the timescale of interest, I would say. However, if the big chunk of computations is delegated to HPC libraries I would say that NumPy could be rather competitive there (although still not easy to embed). If instead you need to run many times the same piece of code where a large fraction is pure Python, of course, it would not change the picture with respect to the "small" computations scenario.
Another excellent example of this is removing carbon monoxide from ovens, which instantly reduced suicide numbers. Suicidal impulses are rarely a considered decision, so removing the opportunity immediate opportunity is very impactive
There used to be bad defaults, such as "magic quotes" and "register globals".

Register globals was turned off in later versions of PHP 4. Magic quotes was turned off in PHP 7, released in 2015.

PHP today is no more "unsecure by default" than any other language.
> This is required at some of the local schools where I live.

Like heck I'm gonna sit there writing short narratives for some school. Homework stops at the kids.
I'm sure the fish will be happy to play with this toxic wreck.
Don’t know why you are downvoted, this site has always popped up as one of the big stakeholders in the weird DOI schemes.
But they didn't send more than that. They sent the exact amount of BTC that equates to $10,000.
This is very seductive, but what happens when I need to refactor the database? Do all my API consumers just have to deal with a new interface?
Usenet wants a word.
This is literally how fiat currency works. Sure a government can pass a law saying so and so is the official currency but as you see in many minor countries they still use USD or Euros. Without buy in from the population fiat currency can also be left ignored.

The value of USD is also a pyramid scheme and entirely depends on demand from everyone to keep it's value. The federal reserve is only one small actor creating demand.
You can see a note under the text noting that it's a book excerpt: https://bookshop.org/books/sea-state-a-memoir/9780063030831
> only TPM can be used for that which seems arbitrary.

Smartcard readers can use any number of protocols (e.g. random USB readers implementing custom handshakes) until you finally get to the smartcard while TPMs have a select few number of protocols until you're talking to the TPM.

Arbitrary smartcard terminal drivers in your (secure) preboot software? maybe not.
> What problem does Bitcoin solve?

"Other people are rich and I'm not."

It's a Ponzi scheme, but it's a Ponzi scheme that is legal for now, worldwide, can be participated in from the comfort of your own home or mobile phone, and should be good for the next 120 years or so. It's had a lot of help from inflation, state failure, low interest rates and resulting high asset prices, and shortages of fundamental goods like housing and health care that lead people to believe that they'll never have them without getting rich. But fundamentally people invest in Bitcoin because they want to redirect other people's wealth into their wallets, and believe that they'll be the ones receiving wealth rather than losing it.

It's a cynical take, but fundamentally "other people are rich and I'm not" has been a prime driver of human behavior for millennia.
I also live in the EU, and 4,5k is not a massively good salary for a programmer in my country (Denmark). This is usually what a junior is paid.
The software that studies your Facebook friends to predict who may commit crime
YouTube and other platforms are so aggressive in their moderation/censorship that what we really need to succeed them is something decentralized, rather than a transition to a different centralized master.

Some alternatives: https://blockonomi.com/youtube-alternative/

Peertube in particular has a friendly explanation on what it is:
https://joinpeertube.org/#what-is-peertube
A carbon tax in the US just moves the miners somewhere else without a carbon tax. That carbon still ends up warming the same planet, thus not solving the problem in any meaningful way.
YES! I have been wanting a solution to automate some of my simpler web-scraping needs, that also need an element of human control. Thank you for making it so i didnt have to :) Cant wait to try it out
The earth may be flat after all. But making that statement absent actual proof is misinformation.
Have you tried posting on the Who Wants To Be Hired posts on HN (first Monday each month)?

You should get a few interviews out of them each month. It's much better than sending out applications, as usually someone who is making the hiring decision is contacting you.

You can also try asking for referrals. Many people would gladly do so since they get a bonus if you're hired. A referral makes the company recruiters look at you.

Until you have a first job it's hard for your resume to show that you are a high probability candidate (remember in a job application system your resume gets screened either by algorithm or non-technical recruiters). So you have to think about ways to be noticed.
If you artificially constrain yourself to an overton window that excludes e.g Bernie Sanders, sure. That's a false equivalence that's being pushed by one ideological cluster though, similar to the horse shoe theory or the idea that the center is reasonable. There are a lot of people who have problems with the idea of nations themselves. And there are people for whom politics is not part of their identity, but simply a part of negotiationing existence with the world. Again, specific clusters of the political landscape use and fulfill the patterns of religions much more than others (demonizing the other, dehumanising the other, creating a mythology of the ingroup that doesn't tie to material reality) and it's in their interest to push the idea that everyone does that, that the other side is equally religious in their politics and therefore it's not a case of one group wanting special treatment in a system that's meant to be equitable, it's everyone gunning for special treatment with some winners, some losers, politics as war between equally valid but inherently unchangeable ideologies that justifies the actions one takes.

I personally disagree with that politics as war perspective, as well as with the false equivalence
How can the Metaverse invent the future of marketing?
Yeah. And anyone unlucky enough to live in a place where the govt fucked the local fiat currency with hyperinflation. Zimbabwe, Turkey, Lebanon, Argentina, Venezuela, etc.
The one application I would see is that government would be in control of biometric information. Today a lot of people share such markers with companies. But many also do not do that and they should also not be forced to do the same with government. That the EU enforced biometric passports without any benefit is bad enough.
Pretty cool! I should check how it works in more detail.
Interesting.. are you learning/using programming as part of your work or for your own interests? If not, I'm curious what value you feel you get from Hacker News; I know a lot of non-programming topics get discussed here, I just typically assume the audience here skews more towards people working in technology/software-related fields.
But of course there have been. Because there hasn't been a drive for a vaccine as strong as this one in decades.
Well, early 2000s it was definitely cool.

Using ASP and want to calculate an MD5? Oh, you need to pay an add-on for that. Want to send an email? Ditto.

Then there was PHP, with all included (and cheaper hosting, because Linux). I started working on a web shop and after a month ASP was legacy and PHP the new cool thing, together with MySQL instead of using... Access as "database" in ASP.