skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't agree. Lisp is "easy" to parse, but difficult to add structure to.

I have no idea what you mean by this, or how you think it relates to your original claim that having languages with a less terrible grammar than C++ or even C is some recent development.

> Perl is a nightmare

And it's pretty clearly C-inspired, even if it added lots of new syntactic horrors of its own invention. Also, it's late 80ies not early 70ies, so hardly a poster-case for languages becoming grammatically saner.

> About the only language that wasn't hot garbage to parse was Pascal.

In addition to Pascal and Lisp which you already mentioned Algol, Prolog, APL, Smalltalk are all famous languages from around the same time as C or significantly older and none of them are "hot garbage to parse". Neither are important 80ies languages like Postscript or SML. In fact the only significant extant 70s language I can think of from the top of my head that is syntactically noticeably more deranged than C and maybe even C++ is TeX.

> And I seem to recall that was intentional.

Well yes, why would anyone create a language that's really hard to parse for no discernible benefit? This is not the counterintuitive recent insight you make it out to be. If anything, the trend for popular languages would seem to become harder to parse -- none of the significant languages from the 2000s (like Swift, Julia or Rust) are anywhere as easy to parse as the languages I listed above.
Doesn't work for me :(
> long standing tradition that engineers put in some time on the customer support phones

Before this, the tradition at engineering companies was that the "kids fresh out of school" would start in Manufacturing or Service so they'd have some experience with the difference between design engineering and actually being able to build or repair the thing you designed.

It seems that this doesn't happen much anymore.
The difference is that often the institutions (i.e. banks and brokerage firms) are often repay lost funds or can reverse the transactions where as here it is a lot harder.
That is not at all what sudoedit does.
It's stupidly confusing because the regional transfer of 1GB free per month isn't technically part of the "Free Tier" as advertised on this page [0], it's just part of the normal egress pricing model of the individual services [1] [2]. So I guess really this announcement post is misleading/confusing because the regional transfer increase is just a change in the normal pricing model, not the "Free Tier"... but really that's just semantics. AWS really needs to fix the "Free Tier" to make it less confusing.

0: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

1: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

2: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Are you implying that no rational person should ever buy Bitcoin? That seems a bit far-fetched, no?

At this point, considering that it's stronger than ever and it's pretty clear it's not going away, I would expect a rational person to allocate even a small percentage to it for diversification, in case they happen to be wrong on their conclusions or understanding of Bitcoin.
> The problem we have is the destruction of the americans values by CRT and post modernist ideas.

The supporters of CRT are not the people doing the banning discussed in this article—it is the critics of CRT that are doing the banning.
There will be no advantage of doing this locally.

There lifetime is too long to have enough locally and if we have 100% renewable, transport will be no ecological issue anymore.
I think I misremembered this case https://youtu.be/AibQvvuEsZo
It will also run your entire editor as root, which may not be something you want.
Indeed. Cats and dogs are part of endless marketing materials for a reason. They're as generic appeal as it goes (something something everyone loves babies)
It has an incredibly useful case.

Uncensorable, unstoppable, unseizable, frictionless money.

Have you ever tried withdrawing all of your money from your bank? They will fight tooth and nail to stop you.

Have you ever tried sending money with a wire? Your bank may say "No" you aren't allowed to send your money to who you want. This happened to Wikileaks in 2008.

Have you ever fought with PayPal to get access to your money on their platform? They've shut down millions of legitimate accounts barring people from accessing their own money.

With cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, you are always in control of your own money because you have not deposited it into someone else's system.
It's yours.

If you still call that "zero use case" I can't force you to drink the water I brought you to.
The authors example use cases about a database doing everything except crime summarizes it well. One persons crime is another persons freedom. If you rephrased it as saying, the only thing blockchains provide that a database doesn't is freedom, I think the resounding response would be: Yes.

What I think anti-crypto people object to is the freedom of others, because it represents a limit and undermines the necessary absolute and total Hobbesian sovereignty and dominion of the systems that provide them with their own status, which is based on something other than consent and desire, and when I read these objections, most of what I interpret is that implicit humiliation.

Gambling provides opportunity for people to live independent of being subordinate to an employer, as if your employees suddenly don't have to work for you, it's hard to build and scale social stability and wealth. I sympathize with the morality of reducing gambling as being appropriate for over a thousand years ago, but today? You also can't use shame to control people who can afford to walk away.

The current financial system is designed by-and-for creditors as a means of leverage over debtors, and crypto is explicitly not. The only problems of gambling are really problems with debts, and better laws limiting the power of creditors would solve that. The interests behind the criticisms are clear, but to me dressing them up and carting them around as moral is a bit much.
> Cities grow around something.

Today that resource could just be "cheap land". We don't need coal or iron today, we need housing.

> very strong government incentives

Could "cheap housing" be such an incentive?
Got it. Thanks, that's helpful.

I definitely agree that evading governmental controls on currency exchange can be beneficial, especially if one's income isn't local. And reasonable when the controls are used to cover up other problems. I also agree that in the short term using centralized digital services can help there, especially ones that don't worry much about fraud prevention or remediation, as they can be very quick. Doubly so if they're tuned for financial crime.

But by the same token, the centrality and convenience are major points of weakness if they are going to last. Binance is under regulatory threat the world over, and keeps withdrawing from markets one step ahead of regulators. I'd be very surprised if they are able to do that for you a decade from now. Especially as digital forensics and AML tooling will be a decade better.

Instead, I'd guess people in your situation will be doing what they've always done: building informal networks of collaborators so that the regulatory evasion happens offline in ways that are hard to track or limit. Perhaps it will be more like what I saw in Ecuador: friends of friends swapping envelopes of cash when it suits them both.

So to me this story isn't about the power of crypto, which is incidental here, or the magic of decentralization, which isn't much in play either. Instead it's about another temporary window where technology has gotten ahead of regulation.
Those are P99 latencies. Not sure how they measure, but my assumption is that, if you probe the JVM at a random point in time, ZGC (P99 = 0.1) will be unresponsive for 100us 1% of the time.

That’s… not incompatible with being useable in a low latency service, but 100us is 2.5 x longer than a sync disk write these days, and they don’t report max latency.

My take on the article is that GC has gotten quantifiably better since Java 8, but not qualitatively better:

The types of projects that had to abandon Java due to GC (and JIT) latency 10 (or 20) years ago still shouldn’t consider using Java.
I think it's a generational thing. Old generation wants to sell its wealth at the highest possible prices. Newer generations are not biting completely (and have no problem living in small spaces), hence crypto.
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Indeed, however remember the mandatory "What colour are your bits ?" :

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
It's none of my business, but how has he been? Your mileage may vary, but I'm optimistic about the overall transferability of Flash skills to the Unity and web stacks at the very least.
MIT's 6.006 teaches algorithms and some python internals https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
VME?
> What is wrong with `sudo vim /etc/foo`?

Aside from forcing vim onto innocent users?

> I feel that it's better than `sudo -e`, but would love to see an example where `sudo -e` is better.

It is way worse than `sudo -e`, because it runs the entire editor as root, whereas `sudo -e` runs a few file copies / move as root. So `sudo -e` has a significantly lower amount of stuff in the "secure zone", and thus, much in the same way `doas` is more secure than `sudo`, `sudo -e` is a lot more secure than running the entire editor.

It also works with anything you can set as $EDITOR.

Some editors (like vscode) will outright refuse to run as root by default.
Yeah, but this new system will still have a middleman, the bank...
It could really only be scaled with deep water aquaculture, there's just not enough areable land.
I always find it curious that these systems are very much event driven and not state driven. If you set the lights to have an On state between those hours, the system could periodically check them and assert the right state if it's wrong.

(although that drives you right into the scenario where you want to change the state, but some supervising entity keeps overriding you)
It has been a while since I messed with the AWS panel, but IIRC you can set budget alerts so you’re notified once a threshold is crossed. It’s not a perfect solution, but if you expect to spend $0 then an alert on $0.01 is pretty trivial to set up and goes a long way to prevent end of the month surprises.
Nazis infighting is always a good thing.
Source repo

https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet
What does an IDE give you that (Neo)vim + LSP + Vimspector does?
The issue is not whether a person can make money in a Ponzi scheme. We know it is possible. The issue is, is it a good idea?
> Available evidence emerging from Israel and the UK shows a significant increase in protection against infection and severe disease following a booster dose in all age groups in the short term

So, I’ll admit I don’t understand the physiological mechanisms at play (is it just waning antibody concentration?) but what is the long term strategy here? Is there going to be annual boosters with vaccine passports? The governments are not exactly being transparent and I think it is time now that things are under relative control to start having adult discussions and public policy debates once more.
Bitcoin is smart engineered gold. It's perfectly rational compared to the endless printing in fiat. Most engineers just accept keynesian economics because that's what they were taught.

They have a narrow world view beyond their tech expertise. I saw somebody criticize BTC because they couldn't imagine using so much energy "just to secure money". I was like what you just took for granted is perhaps society's most important need and unsolved problem.
That is entirely consistent with a few possible (and I would say likely) explanations that include cryptocurrency being beneficial for crime. I'll cover one below.

If crime accounts for some small percentage of financial transactions (we'll say 1% to make it easy, even if that's very unlikely), and those transactions migrate to cryptocurrency first, then what you'll see is a very high percentage of crime in cryptocurrencies, that then drops as the much larger normal transaction flow shifts, even the total amount of crime transactions might be stable or even increasing (as we're talking about percentages of a whole, normal transaction traffic and would have to be shifting very slowly and crime increasing extremely fast for us to see anything else).
No, you shouldn't delay those who can (and want) to handle it earlier. That doesn't help anyone.

But maybe what should be changed is the expectation. If the vast bulk of 8th graders aren't ready to handle algebra, don't create an expectation that "the smart kids" are taking algebra in 8th grade, because parents are going to be pushing their kids to be one of the smart kids (as measured by when they take algebra), and you're going to get a bunch of kids who aren't ready.

But this brings up a problem. Who decides if a kid is ready? The parents? The teachers? The school bureaucracy? On what basis do they decide?

Teachers seems like the best bet (they observe kids in the classroom all day), but they also have biases, blind spots, laziness, and so on. I don't know that it's possible to build a system where it happens "as it should" all the time.
I'm on the fence on this one. I don't like how the feature is pushed "in your face" like that. And at the same time, I trust Microsoft more than the average nowadays company to be respectful of privacy and my data - albeit the average is low and this is a low standard to achieve.

If you don't make money out of selling your customer's data, then you need to find ways to actually collect money from them. The how it's been done is disgusting, but I think I'm aligned with the why.
The anti-crypto case is not that it's "worse" than some other speculative investment asset (gold, comic books, etc), it's that crypto is a speculative asset, as opposed to the things it's sometimes claimed to be (e.g. currency, a new way to do finance, etc).
Mainly it gives me a "standard" config that's highly usable, easy to install, and that I no longer have to maintain myself :)
Open source alternatives to Microsoft Exchange
Bit weird that they're all based in Germany... But then, the author's name sounds rather Germanic, so maybe they're just writing about what they know... Or trying to give the domestic industry a bit of a boost. Or maybe it's like with cars -- the Germans just make the best? :-)
This guy always writes such negative posts about crypto while working on his own centralized digital treasury settlement system https://github.com/adjoint-io - the exact thing crypto threatens.
Not all space is the same, nobody wants to live in Gerlach, Nevada because there's nobody there and also because it's the middle of the desert, which in turn is why there's nobody there:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210809032137/https://landequit...

Land in Gerlach goes for $0.0054/sqft

Land in the heart of San Fran can go for $865.21/sqft

That's 159,000 times more expensive.

The increase comes from the fact that some land is more naturally productive than others, and also because of agglomeration effects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration#:~:....
I think you're right, I only posted the links because I happened to find that art/artist/story particularly interesting/good.

From another post on the same blog:

"Publishing an image. Not only is it legal to photograph anyone from a public space, it is also legal to display, publish and sell the images in any context except commercial (meaning advertising). This could get a bit confusing to a non-photographer, as it did for Erno Nussenzweig, an unwitting subject of a Philip-Lorca diCorcia Heads project. Discovering that a photo of himself sold for thousands of dollars in a fine art gallery, Nussenzweig sued diCorcia in 1999, claiming that this published photograph violated his religion. He famously lost. Had the photographer sold the image to Coca-Cola to use in an ad, however, the verdict would have been entirely different.

A slight, and fair, caveat to the rule is that you can't wildly and willfully misrepresent the subjects. If you photograph a bunch of teenagers hanging out in Washington Square and publish the image with an unfounded and damaging caption like "teenage junkies," you could be held accountable for defamation."
Not just slower, also energy hugry. My m1 max running pycharm loses about 10pct of charge an hour on their crappy bundled jvm, and around 4% on the latest java17-based ones, but does act weird at times when using them. Its probably down to metal vs opengl. Disappointing.
Boot without a GPU - Pi can’t do that :)
Yeah I’m personally a fan of Georgism but realistically something like a LVT is too radical to implement. I think that a carefully thought out property tax code (eg higher taxes for lower density buildings) can get you 80% of the way to the effects of a LVT while being pragmatic enough to implement today.
Do these cat-cores need cryogenic cooling?
Sorry, but please speak for yourself.

Plenty of people here see the potential that cryptocurrencies and blockchains can offer.

Let's find out where it takes us, but at this point, we're winning :D.
I have no experience building PCs, but during the last decade or so I've been running RPis with 6-8 disks attached. It's great software and noise wise, but the cases were made by me with MDF (and I have no idea what I'm doing), so it's not as solid as I'd like them to be.

Every time I search for rackmount or 3D printed cases I'm floored by the prices, which seem completely out of proportion.

Any tips on cheep/custom computer cases are highly appreciated.
Thanks
> If you're in the majority of people who don't have those things ...

Home ownership in the US is around 65% [0], so the majority do have an asset and mortgage. There are also some people who choose not to own a house but have other types of assets. Things really aren't as dire as you seem to think.

And for those people who actually are harmed by inflation, I think the consensus is that they would be harmed by the other option--deflation--even more, mostly because the disincentive to invest leads to fewer employment opportunities. The Great Depression, a deflationary environment, was not good times.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
There are rational reasons for buying Bitcoin - most of them revolve around money laundering, drug trades, and ransomware.

This is the reason we should enforce "know your customer" laws on Bitcoin such that we have government ID for everyone for every transaction that hits the chain.
I'm very bullish on federated, permissioned, blockchains in the world of traditional finance, and here's why:

- Having ledger that is append only by a set of trusted parties gives you all of the benefits of a distributed ledger, as well as the ability to do things like clawbacks, comply with regulation, etc.

- The future I see is multiple blockchains operated by networks of payment processors. For instance, Visa, MasterCard, etc. can all work together to maintain one blockchain. Other countries / regions can have their own. Interop can be done with bridges (like in defi now).

- Throughput can be drastically increased between banks. Transactions become confirmed instantly. No more waiting several days for ACH. You can confirm a good balance from the sender, and credit the receiver instantly.

- "Just use a database" the hackernews commenter shouted out. Using a database instead of a blockchain limits what you can do in terms of 3rd party interop, and hamstrings you for upgradability in the future. Facebook's MySQL upgrade is taking YEARS, and they're a SINGLE TECH COMPANY. If you want to move faster, and maintain interop blockchain is the way to go.

- This opens the door to multi-asset blockchains between financial institutions. Instruments like loans, equities, etc. can be tokenized, FRACTIONALIZED and traded b/t institutions much more quickly than they can today, because they'll be a part of a permissioned verifiable system. Write a loan today, fractionalize and sell it instantly.

There's so much more that's possible here too. Technologies like HyperLedger are really moving the ball forward. I think a lot of the criticisms of this sort of thing are due to shortsightedness of what is possible.
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You're right that it's not a proper explanation. This feels just like a case of "details are left as an exercise". This is most frustrating when you're learning a subject, and you want to be able to check the details, or you are skeptical of a claim. Inevitably though people elide things that they think the reader (who they model as similar to themselves) will immediately be able to guess based on their experience. I'm sure you can think of an equivalent situation in your field of expertise.
And what are the two biggest things about those languages?

Python recently added gradual typing due to overwhelming pressure. And everybody is using Typescript instead of Javascript.
Last I checked, those resources are water and roads (or promises of roads). But people can't live without water and don't keep building where they can't get it.
Argentina and Japan continue to confound macroeconomists
> I think I've heard of churches charging nominal fees for church membership, but not requiring tithing

Requiring tithing is not particularly common, but I'm also not surprised when I hear of churches where it happens. A lot of this probably depends on your tradition and geography. Requiring tithing is entirely unheard of in the mainline and very uncommon in the northeast generally, for example, but seems to be slightly more common among the particularly "charismatic"/"corporate"-style evangelical churches in the suburban and exurban midwest.

In any case, I think social pressure on members to tithe is MUCH more common than formal requirements. This might be the source of virulent disagreement. Just because there isn't a formal requirement doesn't mean that there isn't intense social pressure that creates a de facto requirement.

IMO both sides of this argument are correct -- formal tithing requirements are rare, but de facto requirements for members to tithe, enforced via social pressure, is probably quite a bit more common than folks who depend on that tithing for their salaries are willing to admit/realize.

> the only church...

The following rant is specific to the USA.

This irritates me beyond words. Christian churches avoid BILLIONS in taxes via laws such as the Parsonage Exemption, whose original de jure justification was "to spread the gospel" -- about as clear a violation of 1A as you can get (to say nothing of the role that "spreading the gospel" played in the cultural and sometimes actual genocide of native populations).

Judges uphold these incredibly generous tax laws because, they reason, words like "church" and even "gospel" aren't specific to one religion and ought to be interpreted broadly. Excessively broadly, in the case of "gospel". This review does a good job at explaining the case history and legal reasoning: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/51/3/Articles/51-3_...

Without that reasoning, laws like the one that establishes the parsonage exemption would be prime facie and blatantly unconstitutional. Most churches would lose substantial special tax treatment for many parts of their physical plant and fall into financial hardship.

That's all fine. Really. But don't try to have it both ways. In the USA, either (a) don't insist on using "church" in a religion/tradition-specific specific way, or (b) start paying a lot more taxes.

Anyways, that's all a bit off-topic. The actual point was that I think these folks should accept donations with large nominal "recommended donation" amounts, since I think what they're doing offers way more value than the typical church pastor.