skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No...

So you have no evidence or sources to your previous claims? As expected.

> Projects with some form of blockchain, which Stellar and Ripple don't have.

Projects such as what? Yet again no examples or sources given and more unfounded claims.

> I only replied with the projects named by posters before me. Nano has no blockchain, only a DAG (a proven, decades-old data structure used e.g. in spreadsheets).

And your point is all of the other projects (including Nano) are not 'blockchains' nor are they 'cryptocurrencies', because it is not mineable and they have 'invented their own consensus protocol'. First of all evidence that it isn't a 'blockchain'? Secondly, so I can modify the very first transaction in each of these 'conventional databases' right now?

Before you avoid giving sources again, what examples satisfies your definition of a 'proper' cryptocurrency and the claims that the aforementioned projects are not 'blockchains' or 'cryptocurrencies' or even that they are 'centralized'?
Thought it was abandoned but it explains the poor quality of VS and all the constantly resurrecting bugs.
Check the posters history. A heavy CCP sympathizer.
Roblox sues YouTuber for temporarily shutting down conference
Compare to the Soviet-Afghan war where the Soviets were not so nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

> Civilians: 562,000–2,000,000 killed

Most civilian deaths during the US war in Afghanistan appear to be from the Taliban themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

> According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 76% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010, and 80% in 2011 and 2012.
Yeah cause Harry Potter should be banned because the Trans-bully-train.... LMFAO
They changed the default garbage collector to G1 last year.[1]

[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/commit/edf1c...
Now if only Apple wouldn't search for CSAM on device, allowed repair shops to get the parts they need from the manufacturer, and provided schematics for repair shops. If they did those things, I might actually buy an iPhone.
Ireland is 94% vaccinated (among adults); we still have such high case numbers that lockdown over Christmas seems imminent.

Gibraltar is 100% vaccinated, and under lockdown.

Yes, being in a car wreck matters. More broadly, the fact that efforts haven't been made to distinguish between dying from a 90mph impact and dying from Corona has been used to scare the wits out of people.

Natural immunity has been shown to be 6-14x as effective as full vaccination.

The fact that fully vaccinated people have the same viral load with Delta invalidates a huge amount of your (and the Irish government's) reasoning behind demonizing the unvaccinated.

It's been pretty shocking seeing people accept the use of unvaccinated people as a scapegoat for lack of investment in ICU beds, nurses, air quality standards, and antigen testing etc. It helps you feel smug and superior, but doesn't actually help convince anyone.

... I suggest you look into all of this a bit more before trying to speak with authority on these issues.
> I’m of the impression that most of the world doesn’t hasn’t had even a single dose.

It's very unevenly distributed, but it looks like we're at ~55% with a single dose and ~43% fully vaccinated: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...
I read the O'Reilly book. I (superficially) grasp the crypto and the distributed database concepts.

What doesn't make sense is how the rest of the system turns into real transactions.

PREDICTION: in another decade, this shall have arrived or been proven a fad.
They do cite sources, in the "Proposed causes" section.

> We can start with 100 million indigenous souls in the Americas and count from there!

This example fits under colonialism, not capitalism, and there's already a page that covers that category:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples
Apple is like the last company in that space to do this. Google has had these warnings since 2012. Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter since 2015.

(I agree that it's great that Apple is finally doing this. But it seems entirely par for the course for them to be a decade late and still get the credit.)
Undergrad in electrical engineering at a school that teaches coursework in VLSI and computer architectures. There are a few that have professors and course studies at the undergrad and graduate level in semiconductors, integration with partnerships with industry. Off the top of my head, UIUC, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, NC State, UF, UT Austin, Cal Tech. I'm sure there are many more.

Graduate degrees in physics and EE focused on semiconductor physics and manufacturing are also useful. I've known a few post grad/doctoral folks from nuclear engineering and optics that have careers in the field.
TypeScript is awful. Like, I shit on Java all the time, and I WAY rather work in Java than TypeScript.

TypeScript's type system is so utterly broken that I honestly don't know if my code is ANY more robust than if I had written it in JavaScript.

Record<> is broken/unsound: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/45335

Generics are wonky and sometimes wrong: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/31006

The `readonly` keyword does absolutely nothing: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/13347

Arrays are covariant in their type param, so I can pass a `Dog[]` into a function that accepts `Animal[]`. If that function adds a `Cat` to the passed array, the compiler is perfectly happy, but we'll see a runtime error.

TypeScript is actually so bad that it might have honestly made JavaScript worse, if that's even possible.
It's almost like we could create organizations that last longer than companies, and have the citizens' best interests at heart, to administer a deposit program like that. Perhaps these organizations could also govern other aspects of society instead of leaving those to corporations as well. Could we call them govern-ments?
I strongly disagree with the statement, United States, although behind a lot of countries in social mobility index, still ranks pretty high in the world. It also leads with 8.8% of the adult population being millionaires, only behind Switzerland and Australia. That speaks volumes on how many opportunities exist in this country to make yourself better.
You can't create lock-free data structures in Javascript (as of this comment), but you can do so in Java.
How do I put bitcoins in my hand? Sounds painful.
“alienating the high-performers”

And that’s a bad thing because? You where receiving exactly the kind of minimum education that was seemingly enough even if your grades where poor.

Remember life doesn’t hold your hand, self motivation is just as important for long term success as innate intelligence. Hand holding the academically gifted to cram as much as possible into young minds has been traded before it doesn’t actually seem to accomplish anything of note beyond excelling in artificial milestones like the Putnam.
No, anybody who wants weed knows how to get some, of questionable quality, elevated price and can't avoid mingling with people who more often than not deal with hard drugs, illegal weapons etc.

I would expect the opposite in fact - legal stuff loses quite a bit of its cool factor for youth, its not much rebelling if you can buy it in shop just around the corner, with better quality and effect you exactly prefer. Added tax revenue is just a bonus.

Even strong cannabis usage is very easy to wean off compared to hard stuff like alcohol or tobacco... which is completely legal.
Show HN: Airgram, bridging transcription to note-taking for Google Meet and Zoom
The virus can still circulate among people who are fully vaccinated. The vaccines are pretty good at preventing deaths, however they only slightly reduce the risk of infection and transmission.
> Majority of people don't participate in athletic competitions.

The ones that don't aren't very good at it.

> sits on sofa and watches them on youtube.

Exactly.

> education should not have majority of students ignoring whole thing exists or merely watching others compete without every learning themselves

Right. Testing&grades provide 1) motivation and 2) assessment of progress.
Many of these ideas -- guaranteed employment for citizens, the creation of a strong middle class -- were the specific focus of policy initiatives like the New Deal. Conservatives hated the New Deal and spent decades trying to eliminate it, finally succeeding in the 1980s. The result was a much more efficient (largely offshored) economy, and many of the social ills you mention above.

ETA: It's easy for Tucker Carlson to rail against self-driving trucks when they don't (really) exist and businesses aren't clamoring for them. I'm much more skeptical that he'll remain opposed when they're real and powerful industries are lobbying for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvORn_2B7I
Using JavaScript-style async promises in Python
Mine is not a generic idelogical flamewar. It's an objective observation based on the History and the politics of authoritarian governments.
It's sad how in 2021, in a respected website like this, facts are considered to have the same value as opinions. And if someone dont like the facts call them "ideological flames".
Build Deep Learning Punctuation Corrector in Python
You can evaluate Bitcoin by how many users it has, how many transactions it facilitates, what kind of new concepts it enables, the usefulness of un-censorability, how many countries are adopting it (or likely to adopt it), etc.

If you're going to use athletes past performance for betting, you can always use Bitcoin's past performance of 300% YoY appreciation for forecasting it's price too, but we both know that's useless.
Jab? Did someone get punched? What does this slang mean and why is it being used?
It is not obvious though if they mean Germany, where it is still illegal right now, and they are looking forward to the change, or if it is another country where it is illegal right now and the would like to see the same change happening.
I've never operated at Amazons scale so I don't know the wholesale costs involved but at least one estimate puts AWS margins at bandwidth at 99% [1]. And I'm guessing ingress is a fixed cost where they are running nowhere near capacity and that is why it is free. That and they want your data on AWS so they can charge you for storage and when you download it.

I realize business need to make a profit but I don't think AWS is cross-subsidizing. It seems more like there are no loss leaders, they make at least 60% margin on all products (for users not big enough to negotiate rates). They could lower their outbound prices significantly, they just choose not to until the market forces them.

Which is smart business. But I think given Cloud Flare's pressure here, the market is calling for a more aggressive adjustment than just upping the free tier.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/05/how-amazon-web-services-make...
Huh, will be inetersting to see if the other coalition parties will be brought to resign or will attempt to continue. Either way they will have a hard time ahead of them.
"It has been suggested" sounds like some weasel words from someone who doesn't want to back their claims. Even if this is true, who actually cares if people from the 30's thought foreign sounding words were scary? Shouldn't we strive to stick it to those fuddy duddies by continuing to use the actual Spanish word without fear?
I was (if 'here' is the US), and I didn't lose money in my bank accounts?
To add to adgjlsfhk1’s answer, if you are writing Android games you are probably using a cross-platform game engine that doesn’t use Java (like Unity) which solves the issue but more importantly also allows you to sell your game on iOS without a re-write.
The experiments were done with African grey parrots, reminding me of another member of that species, Alex the Parrot [1]. Alex was taught patiently over many years with very intriguing results showing that Alex could communicate with his human handlers.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
This is likely an opinion that will get downvoted and flagged, but I fail to see a negative in having a parent stay home to directly raise their children. I am an immigrant to the US, been married for 11 years, have two kids, and in that entire time have only ever had one working adult in the family, and I am the one that is lesser educated of the two yet I still earn enough to provide for my family. My spouse chose to stay home with the children because doing so gives them a far higher chance of success since there is a much higher percentage of direct involvement in their learning. That is not to mention that we have homeschooled our children for the last 5 years so the school closure wasn't even that big a deal for us. All of it on a sub 100k income.

So, I question why having a parent stay at home is seen as such a bad thing. Does going from a two-income household to a single-income household require change? Certainly. But I don't look down on those who live in two-income households, and I get a little frustrated at all the negativity against living in a single-income household.
> Interestingly enough Austin, TX appears to be rapidly approaching SF status as a tech hub and may soon surpass them.

Uh, maybe it's time to take a drive through Austin, but that was a pretty sleepy little college town 10 years ago. Most of my family lives in the central Texas region (San Antonio, San Carlos, College Station), and I presently live in Mountain View. I have a hard time believing SF-scale infrastructure was built that fast.

As an example, here's the UT wind tunnel: http://research.ae.utexas.edu/floimlab/Mach5.php

Here's the Moffett wind tunnel complex:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2005/nfa...
this one topped 139km/h ... my prius is capped 180 :')
This is a single file library. To include it in a project, in the header you put:

#include "Microsoft_craziness.h"`

Then in a c/cpp file:

#define MICROSOFT_CRAZINESS_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "Microsoft_craziness.h"

The define causes the actual functions to be put in, while without it only the declarations are included.
IMO the frontend is easier to understand and develop but really really hard to deliver, as compared to backend. Reason being multiple form factors, viewports and platforms to consider and the ever changing frameworks. People end up working on the same problem again and again from a different perspective which gets frustrating really fast.
The US has substantially larger household sizes than any, except Korea, of the rest of the top 5 by household income, so comparing median household figures is misleading:

https://www.oecd.org/els/family/SF_1_1_Family_size_and_compo...
I am using it as desktop, it does not do things i did not ask for, which i really appreciate. I get away with it easily because i only use xterm and Firefox for the graphical part.
I agree with your comment in theory but I'd say that only applies over a long-enough horizon. At any given point in time when someone enters the market, there's a fixed supply. Sure, someone could commission the construction of their own home, but good luck with that in an urban area.
I never really liked the 3-2-1 rule because it feels too specific: while it works, simpler solutions also provide the same level of reliability.

I think about backups in terms of blast radius. 1) The local machine has the working copy of data and a local backup as permitted by free space. The smallest blast radius where I lose data is "my laptop hard drive fails". 2) My external drive has another backup. The new blast radius is "my house burns down". 3) I maintain a cloud backup. The new blast radius is "a catastrophe on a global scale".

Any two of these backups can fail and the data is still salvageable.
While smoking cigarettes isn't illegal, it is certainly not a good look any more - thanks to controls on how it can be advertised and where it is allowed and the concentrated advertising campaign linking smoking to cancer.

I can see marijuana taking a similar trajectory.
Not sure what you mean, SIMD instructions maps perfectly well to C. You just call them like you call any other thing. What C doesn't do well are the exact CPU memory load order, how it caches things in the CPU etc. But no language can do that as you can't even control that in the machine code sent to the CPU. But most things you can do in machine code can also be done in C, and then things you can't can be done in inline assembly.
I know a few people who went to university near a large Intel campus that was always hiring.

These people told me that if you got hired into Intel, it was almost always as a design verification & validation engineer, and that getting an actual design (architecture) job was near impossible (especially as a recent graduate, even with an MS).

Is it the same for Samsung?
Some people want to rent and some other people supply it, there is nothing parasitic about it, it is like any other trade.
Take the thing in your hands, install Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) and let Open Source rule your world.

It works flawlessly, there is just a Himalaya steep learning curve and knowing Python helps when doing fancy automations with pyscript (there are integrated automations whihc are a pain in the bottom, and solutions such as Node Red).

In all honesty, Home Assistant opens a huge amount of possibilities but you have to commit to it.

My wife constantly wonders what she will do when I die and the whole thing goes south the day after.
Same! We had a basic computer class where they taught a bit of programming to everyone through Processing. I made a snake game, and the rest is history!
there are already multiple commands for turning the computer off without systemd anyway
>>You are making a lot of extraordinary claims, with no sources to back them up.

You didn't use any sources yourself in your comment, but expect from GP to style his comments like a scientific article ready to be published in a scientific journal.

>>anti-capitalist operating systems like Linux

It probably has more corporate sponsors [1] than any other software in the world.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation
One significant bottleneck in a common desktop Rpi would be the SD card. You can improve a lot by putting the root filesystem on SATA-over-USB or use the CM with an appropriate board.

If you'd have been in the market for a new board, I would have recommended something that exposes PCIe, or at least SATA.

The best non-SoM option < USD 100 for that is probably RockPi 4 (but please fill in). You can fit it with an M2 NVMe (with limited lanes) or multiple SATA drives. RK3399 or RK3399pro have been holding that segment for some time now. Sadly RK3399 has max 4GB RAM. Armbian works great.

There is also Quartz64 and Rock 3A (max 8GB RAM, PCIe3). But it's going to take a while until community and mainline kernel support make the RK3566/RK3568 ready for a casual user.

You're going to have to be conscious about multitasking. Having 100 browser tabs open is not going to fly. And while 4k may be theoretically possible, you don't want to do that. Other than that I think it's all right.

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I have a similar profile to yourself. Currently drafting a small cyberdeck - maybe more as a replacement for smartphone than PC use.
Over the last years I've been working with an audio library that makes several simplifying assumptions, like

- Audio interfaces are never added or removed over the app's lifetime

- Audio is never rerouted between interfaces, or at least the app doesn't need to know about it

- The details of an audio interface, like number of channels or supported sample rates, do not change while the interface is running

- Audio latency never changes and callback timing is always precise, so timestamps are not really needed and a single number is enough

Of course, none of these are really true and adding support for some of them would require rewriting a few APIs and many, many implementations. On the overengineering side, of course it has its own smart pointers, string class, thread implementation etc just in case someone needs to build for a target that doesn't support C++11.
Here are some projects working towards addressing the issues of blockchain scalability:

- Lightning network on bitcoin. Super cheap and fast transactions, makes micropayments a reality (this is what Twitter is using)

- Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum. There are two optimistic rollups currently on main net (Arbitrum and Optimism). Reddit has recently committed to building on Arbitrum. There are also ZK rollups (starkware, zksync) coming in the next year or so.

- Less decentralized layer 1 chains like Solana, Avalanche, BSC, Fantom

It's unfortunate that people looking to enter the space have a hard time finding real and relevant info. Not sure what the solution is for fixing the information problem, but there are lots of people building real tech in the space
"have the citizens' best interests at heart" - citation needed
"Multirole" is just Pentagon speak for "smaller, cheaper, and limited, but still stealthy".
Ory developers emailed me and offered support after I had just expressed interest into the project with someone they know personally - that's a great experience and I have loved watching and using the project since then!
Housing doesn't need to be this way, but in much of the developed world we've artificially turned it into a zero-sum game with development restrictions, zoning rules, height limits, historic districts, green belts, and tons of other rules. None of those things is inherently bad on its own, and some are even a net good for society like a well managed green belt. Zoning in north america has an awful racist history and needs to be first on the chopping block. In combination all these restrictions have made adding density and housing units in areas with economic opportunity nearly impossible.

Those who already own property (myself included) are participating in a system that is increasingly pulling up the ladder on those who wish to join. The housing market is one of the least free. Rules requiring bedrooms have 2 points of egress and that building have minimum fire resistance are fantastic and need to stay. Rules that do things like prevent 2, 3 and 4-plexes, mandate a whole city can't go above 4 stories, and require 1:1 parking for every adult need to get tossed out right away.
Why E, the Transcendental Math Constant, Is Just the Best
It's worth noting glibc isn't zero-overhead, either.
> I’m not alone in believing in the fundamental technical uselessness of blockchains.

Hmmm.

Codd delivered "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" in 1970, and it took something like a decade (waves hands) for RDBMS systems to appear. Packet-switched networks, anyone?

So it seems perhaps hasty to write off the blockchain entirely, though currently the idea seems to need a saner catalyst than these various coins to bring it to fruition.
Something I don't understand from here in the UK: if they did a new round wouldn't you have pre-emption rights? So, if they set the valuation to $0 you'd be able to afford to take them up and avoid dilution? What am I missing?
ctrl+D/exit doesn't close the window in all cases. eg if you're sshed to a remote it returns you to local.
Every business process secretly wants to fail
I use Alpine as my server OS, with Alpine, Ubuntu and CentOS containers running on it. It works great this way too.
They just IPOed at Nasdaq and raked in €172.5 Million. This should hopefully help them to get a bit further towards production.
I switched to using RipGrep at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

It's native, really really fast, supports regex, and has nice defaults. The only catch is you need to understand its default ignores if you're working in a git repo.
Yes, they made it up

According to wikipedia/some google-fu SV has just above double the high tech jobs as Austin