skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments have imperfect control over money. Outlawing private gold ownership and banning cash are two examples that are noteworthy because they were so extreme. Each created a huge amount of controversy and havoc, and also required leaders to obtain buy-in from legislators and other political figures.

The point of many CBDC electronic currencies is to reduce the barriers to this control, so restrictions on currency (such as expiring currency) can be implemented with a few keystrokes on a computer rather than, say, requiring everyone to turn in their cash and jewelry.
The game engine is different from the game logic. This may mean Java is more viable for game logic, but still not viable for the engine itself

That said, C# has value types and has for years now. Which is hugely important for arrays, and a major, major missing piece to the Java performance puzzle. C#'s FFI is also way better than the disaster that is JNI, which also plays a role here.
That's exactly the point. Where do you think water comes from? You can't just build a city in the middle of the desert. In order for it to be sustainable you need it located next to a lake or river or other large source of freshwater that's easily exploited. Water is a natural resource just like any other.
We want the kids to use their freedom and free will, and to think for themselves - even or especially when it challenges the adults - and to learn how to do that. It's an essential skill to a democracy (and a free market), and to teach them freedom for all by giving them freedom, instead of teaching them that people should be sheparded. There are limits to what we want middle schoolers exposed to, but I think my approach is different than what you describe.
I don’t like those MBAs anymore than you but blaming this group is disingenuous and an oversimplification. Business schools train people to profit, and if that comes at the cost of secure supply chains and national security, who cares, it’s not their problem. Someone else mentioned that this is a coordination problem, and I think that’s more accurate. You need governments to help fund these capital intensive ventures and incentives like tax-breaks and the fear of supply chain destroying pandemics to urge them on.
I think "plugs into SATA or USB" is a reasonable standard for a backup storage medium.
Yes, SMIC looks like one aspect of a global reorganization of semiconductor manufacturing.

I’m not sure I buy your reasoning though. I don’t understand how effective blocking the use of US technology by SMIC will be given the propensity for IP theft, so I don’t see how it furthers the goal of preventing China from becoming self-sufficient. Nor would I really agree with the assumption that they are not already self-sufficient.
Try Google Takeout.
Saying marijuana is fine. It is offensive toward literally no group of people. Seems to me that some people are always looking for something to get offended about nowadays in order to control everybody else's speech.
I might care if Apple had a history of protecting US citizens from their own government, or shielding Chinese users from their own tyrannical surveillance systems.
(missed the edit window of the above comment) I wrote up how to do this here https://iam.georgecox.com/2021/11/24/making-jetbrains-ides-r...
Yeah like, this happened years after the mtgox debacle...
because most people are morons. The same who advocate that males and females are completely 'equal'. They are not. And you can rage all you want, there are and there will always be evolutionary differences. Deal with it, idiots.
Discriminating != pretending differences don't exist.
Yeah, this function has a few surprising bits of sloppyness ... but:

> NOTE(Kalinovcic): I have translated the original implementation to C

Another point, this is a build-time tool: some assumptions of good-faith input are reasonable and necessary. If an attacker can modify paths to visual studio components in your registry, you have bigger problems (just running the attacker's code directly regardless of safe string handling).
All Our Patent Are Belong to You (2014)
Do you have a strong enough characterization to put numbers on it?

How much do you think vaccination reduces chances of infection?

(My impression is that it is about 100x, for at least some period. Looks like 3rd shots will last longer than 2nd too)
I see a lot of results on google for "data storage lifespan"

Trying to find an authorative source (loc.gov, archive.org, etc.), I found this, which is not a full answer, but gets into interesting details: "Table 2 - the relative stability of optical disc formats" [0] -- from >100 years down to ... 5-10!

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...
Tbf, lots of people conflate transmission wires with "the grid". Even on a fairly tech-savvy forum like HN, I've read where people insinuate things like if all ICE vehicles were suddenly replaced with EV, all "the grid" would need is more wires running to charging stations.

Maybe people consider the grid distinct from all the supporting infrastructure.
The modern Windows equivalent (for over a decade now) to grep is the Select-String command in PowerShell. It supports RegEx fully. In PS, grep is actually aliased to it.

https://adamtheautomator.com/powershell-grep/
We’ve had hardware interlocks forever to prevent this sort of problem.
Well, I worked for “megabank” back in the 00s and they tried to outsource to India. It failed miserably, and cost more than it saved. Time zones didn’t work. Language problems. Lack of communication.

There’s a reason London and New York work well together. Time zones and language. And a relatively short plane hop.
My office is adjacent to a fire station. The policy has changed over the years. They used to use the sirens all the time. Now they almost never use the sirens when they leave. In a way that makes it more disturbing when they do, you know there's a reason.

Other things which are bothersome about a firehouse…

• They put the communications radio on some sort of loud speaker sometimes, so you get to listen to all the calls in the city.

• They have some sort of turbine that runs a lot. Maybe a hose dryer? I haven't gone to ask, but when I used to do audio recordings there were days we couldn't record because of it.

• Their backup generator optimizes efficiency by minimizing the muffler. The tests are pretty loud.

• The building department made me block up the windows on their side because I was too close to the property line and a fire might spread to the fire station. I say if the fire department can't keep fire from coming out my window and setting fire to their building 60 feet away, that's at least partly their fault. :-)

• They are a multi-tier bureaucracy. When their tree slowly fell over on to my building it took many months to get them to admit it was their tree and maybe they should cut it down. Lots of finger pointing between the fire department and various city levels and a few "dead parrot" conversations with different functionaries.
While I have some passwords that I don’t think I’d ever forget not sure I’d want to bet on it given that I’m remembering more than one password.
Whereas I think that isn't a backup at all, because it is plugged into the same machine (i.e. online backup) and therefore going to get crypto-lockered.
I kind of do, that sounds like a fascinating read. Also a good way to learn that something being printed in a book doesn’t make it authoritative.
It's also empirically wrong in my experience. I take a lot of photos of my dog, particularly at the dog park or around my neighborhood when we're out walking. I put the best ones up on Instagram. Some of those photos have people in them. I never post a photo with an identifiable person in it without showing them the photos and asking the person first. Not once have I been turned down.

I did once take a photo of my dog with two cute little twin 8 year old girls who live in my neighborhood. I told them to tell their parents, and that I wasn't going to put that one up online, and I didn't. Later, I met their father when my dog and I were out on a walk, after I introduced myself, I made sure to tell him explicitly that I had taken the photo. I just don't think it's fair to put kids' photos online like that.
Inflationary vs deflationary instruments. Sovereign currencies are typically inflationary because central banks print them to a greater or lesser degree, National Assets like gold or land reserves are typically deflationary. Bitcoin is more the latter.
I think there must be a language difference between us, since I usually interpret "for the lulz" as meaning "without a [good] reason." Kudos to you for doing well on it.

The oddest reason I've ever heard for taking a standardized test was from a fellow who was an SAT tutor. He would take the test in order to covertly write down good math questions onto his calculator while the instructors weren't looking. He made a point of telling me that when you do this, you have to make sure you answer most questions incorrectly. He knew other tutors who took the tests, got perfect scores, and then were told they couldn't take it again. There was almost pride in his voice when he said to me (paraphrased), "If CollegeBoard sees a 30-year-old man acing the SAT, they're going to look at him funny if he tries to take it again. If they see a 30-year-old man bombing the SAT repeatedly, they're just going to think he's stupid."

Doing this is of course morally dubious, to put it nicely. But I still am amused by the whole thing. There's a degree of "sticking it to the man" both in pilfering question examples from CollegeBoard and lowering the curve by an infinitesimally small amount when he takes the exams.
> In 2020, the illicit share of all cryptocurrency activity fell to just 0.34%,

Is the takeaway that the crypto bubble stands for 99.76% of the activity?
How is the topic of "well people are okay with this totally separate usage" such an issue? Obviously how an image is used matters. If you take a photo with a camera that automatically deletes it immediately, nobody cares. It's not the act of taking a photo that people care about, it's what you do with the picture afterwards.

That's why consent is great. One person might think the photo of them in a bathing suit that you want to put on your instagram is creepy and another might be fine. Letting the subject decide is a great way to avoid the issue.
I can't find the article anymore, but a few weeks ago here on HN there was a piece where somebody did a few calculations on how AWS US-East-1 (the most used AWS region in the world) works, and got to the conclusion that all the things that can make that region go BOOM are likely to have major consequences to our civilization.

In short: AWS will go down only when you won't care about it anyway
> 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.

In places like California, simply strictly applying the existing rules would be a huge step forward. Instead, even projects that are 100% compliant with all building and zoning rules and already granted building department approval are subject to an endless and often patently illegal "community review" process. See, e.g., https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/State-gives-S-F-30-da... and https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Supervisor-Mar-pushes...

Under Supreme Court precedent such ex post facto community "vetoes" are unconstitutional. The community votes by passing laws a priori, not through ad hoc, targeted manipulation of the regulatory review process. But for complex procedural and policy reasons the Supreme Court has unfortunately been too reticent to police violations of this principle. My disposition is toward federalism and local control, but in many cases the system is violating fundamental principles in our society about the creation and application of law. Principles even more basic and fundamental than property, free speech, or personal liberty rights.
Wow, those sounds bring back memories of traveling Europe by train in the 80s. Is it just me or do I smell some stale urine and some pretzels?
Your car's broken: oil pan needs to be replaced and it's in the shop. $2,000 repair.

While it's in the shop, it falls off the lift: $10,000 damage. Now your formerly "broken" car is even more broken? Is the situation still the same?
I doubt it.

Keep in mind this will only work for non-court-gag-ordered instances. If the US subpoenas Apple about an individual they won't be allowed to notify them.

I have no idea how this applies to other countries.

I think this is more like: "We noticed unusual API usage and we don't have a gag order so whatever it is, it's not likely to be good"
This might be a direct consequence of language; in Spanish, when you ask questions like this you are normally specifying whether you expect a single or multiple answers by default (akin to "what thing(s) make life meaningful", noting that you can ask with or without the "s" but that is a choice). In Japanese, singular and plural are not distinct except in very particular situations, and IIRC the singular is normally the default unless context makes you think it's plural, so I expect this to contribute greatly (akin to "which makes life meaningful?"). I don't know Korean to comment on that though.
I hope it is joke. Endless Java GC problems with any large system (cassandra, hadoop, websphere and so on and on) despite decades of work from top major vendors like Oracle, SAP, IBM etc tells a different story. I have seen enough "Enterprise Scale" java systems which would die of Out of memory error before even "hello world" is served. Though "Java runs huge systems" type thing work for those who wouldn't know most of these huge enterprise systems do not run as single JVM process.

As a user of system that shits everyday except weekends on a 128GB of heap, I am not gonna buy that "oh these microservice kids do not know enterprise scale systems." I have seen both and not an uncritical fan of either.
> There are people 2x as smart and who will work 2x as hard for 1/2 the salary among remaining 7 Billion people on this planet and if the bank can hire them instead of you, eventually they will.

I think the bank can and does hire them already. In big tech companies, a lot of employees come from developing countries and they're paid the same market rate as anyone else (and companies pay for their relocation).
Seems they need a new category, "theft under $5" haha
Who knows? This happened a decade ago. Maybe it was an electric issue... But that would fry the drive's motherboard instead of making the hard drives click?
Awareness of the photo being taken ruins it, what I like about street photography is that it's alive.

I have plenty more issues with security cameras...
In Slovenia doctors warned today that the system is so stretched any mass casualty event (highway pileup etc.) would be a problem to handle.

But in reality the scariest part is the daily "we found the extra 20 intensive beds [aka staff, which is the main constraint] we needed but now we're at capacity.
But then the same story repeats the next day.

Lots of people have started taking this a proof that there is no problem.
But the doctors have said publicly what is happening: they keep lowering standards.

I suspect that an acute collapse is unlikely due to this. But my heart bleeds for those who are hospitalised under such conditions.

But what worries me most is that society will learn nothing from this. An acute collapse would be a lesson that would prevent such suffering. But as its going now its just proving to society in general that unrestricted individualism works.
The solution is go after its staff.

For governments, standard CT/AML financial intelligence: identify employees, shareholders/UBOs and add them and subsequent companies they start to the various watchlists/blacklists. For the public: open source intelligence, post info on forums, name and shame etc.
My worry about it is how street photographers are able to convey meaning through context, captions, etc. I don't mind someone taking a photo of me if they get permission afterwards to post it and I'm able to ask them to take it down. However, I don't like losing control over my image.
Look up "data oriented design" GDC talks or "AoS and SoA" for more in depth information to your question. The very brief tldr is that if you want to go fast, you have to design for cache locality and memory access patterns.

In particular for Java there's regularly dependent pointer loads, which are dreadfully slow on modern CPUs and also waste a significant amount of L1/L2 cache.
Cannabis “addicts”
Which has dubious harm potential, considering that not a single human being has ever fatally overdosed on cannabis in the history of the world.

I’m not justifying my choice of vice, merely pointing out that it’s safer than coffee
I have been trying to make my home automation work using only HomeKit supported devices. I did all the “programming“ in the official Home app or the Eve app.

It has not been a good experience. Apple has just not developed home automation beyond surface level.

In trying to deleverage from expensive homekit licensed accessories, I first tried the conbee II / Devon’s first, and just couldn’t get it working.

I’m trying again with home assistant via zigbee2mqtt using a Zigbee USB CC2652P.

I welcome programming the devices in Python instead of the Apple Home interface.

But the moment you step off the homekit reservation, it’s an integration project. Not consumer ready at all. I think Apple Shortcuts may figure out a way to let normal people enjoy multizone, moderately complex, condition-based scenes but it may be a few years.

Apple's head of Home Services, left the company last week. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/15/apple-home-services-hea...
In that case, we can easily add these constraints to look for another solution, like this --- but that is a poor way:

(compile-only
(amb-scope
(let* ((A (0-9)) (B (0-9)) (C (0-9))
(D (0-9)) (E (0-9)) (F (0-9))
(G (0-9)) (H (0-9)) (I (0-9))
(J (0-9)))
(amb (and (eql (+ (val A B C)
(val D E F)
(val G H I))
(+ 1230 J))
(nzerop A) (nzerop D) (nzerop G) ;; don't do this
(eql 1023 (mask A B C D E F G H I J))))
(prinl (list A B C D E F G H I J)))))

Better just exclude the value 0 from the amb expression for those digits, to reduce the search space:

(defmacro 0-9 () ^(amb ,*(range 0 9)))

(defmacro 1-9 () ^(amb ,*(range 1 9)))

(defmacro val (p q r) ^(+ (* 100 ,p) (* 10 ,q) ,r))

(compile-only
(amb-scope
(let* ((A (1-9)) (B (0-9)) (C (0-9))
(D (1-9)) (E (0-9)) (F (0-9))
(G (1-9)) (H (0-9)) (I (0-9))
(J (0-9)))
(amb (and (eql (+ (val A B C)
(val D E F)
(val G H I))
(+ 1230 J))
(eql 1023 (mask A B C D E F G H I J))))
(prinl (list A B C D E F G H I J)))))

1> (compile-file "abcprob.tl")
t
2> (load "abcprob")
(1 0 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 6)

So:

102
345
+ 789
-----
=1236

:)
It isn't automated. And in the case of the thing I am building I can't help other people because you can't delegate the creation of a takeout either.
People got to consider at least two following points:

- Chosun Ilbo is news media that is right-wing and always produce news articles (even fake news) that against left-wing parties inc. current government. Many Koreans do not trust Chosun Ilbo. I have no idea why Chosun Ilbo was even interviewed.
- South Korea has even poorer than any other countries only 50-60 years ago. There was pretty much nothing to feed on back then after the Korean War which was happened after Japanese horrible invasion was just over. This is different situation than any European countries.
Also, please stop posting these long-winded promotional essays every couple days. It would be one thing if this was a Show HN, but the slimyness and dishonesty here is yet another brick in the wall of non-fungible sketchiness.
The weirdest thing was the sound cards were basically "everything you need for multimedia" at the time. eg. Joystick, Midi and CD-ROM connectivity, etc were all on the sound card.

So before ATAPI we still didn't buy a specific CD-ROM interface card to connect CD-ROM drives. We just bought a sound card that had the CD-ROM interface we needed. You just had to make sure you bought the right CD-ROM connectivity for your sound card.
I think OP is being specific. The civil complaint is not particularly interesting, I agree, but the overall saga is.
Not more not less of other IDEs.
> it really just killed off having to buy an extra host bus adapter card to send the same command set.

Sometimes that stuff could get pretty baroque. Back in the day I had a 20 MB HD for my Atari 8 bit computer, which involved an adapter from the Atari proprietary bus to SCSI/SASI, then a second adapter from SCSI to the MFM HD interface. You needed one of the custom DOSes to make use of it, as the standard Atari DOS had never envisioned things like hard drives.
Once the chip shortage happened, partially due to geopolitical reasons, that changed everything. The West/US will never fully rely on a single point of failure again no matter how hard the HBS MBAs and Chicago thinking push it to trim and be "efficient". Some industries are too important for other industries and leverage on that over those areas is too risky and costly now.

I'd pay double right now for GPUs directly from the source, not from some sketchy third party.

Right now our EV/auto, space and even AR/XR industries as well as gaming and everything that requires chips, we are at the mercy of an external market that has a slant against the West. It will take some years to get out but we'll never not expect that in the future again. If costs go up costs go up, but availability should never be allowed to be used as leverage again, that is too risky and too costly long term.

Availability that is reliable is always more important than efficiency or cost, because right now lack of availability is costing lots of extra time that has the potential to lose entire industries, that is not acceptable in any way.

Very little margin and too much optimization/efficiency is bad for resilience. Couple that with private equity backed near entire market leverage monopolies/duopolies/oligopolies that control necessary supply and you have trouble.

HBS is even realizing too much optimization/efficiency is a bad thing. The slack/margin is squeezed out and with that, an ability to change vectors quickly. It is the large company/startup agility difference with the added weight of physical/expensive manufacturing.

The High Price of Efficiency, Our Obsession with Efficiency Is Destroying Our Resilience [1]

> Superefficient businesses create the potential for social disorder.

> A superefficient dominant model elevates the risk of catastrophic failure.

> *If a system is highly efficient, odds are that efficient players will game it.*

Hopefully that same mistake is not made in the future. It will take time to build up diversification of market leverage in terms of chips for availability. Hopefully we have learned our lesson about too much concentration, with that comes leverage and sometimes a "gaming" of the market.

This chip shortage, and all the supply chain problems during the pandemic as well, will hopefully introduce more wisdom and knowledge into business institutions that just because things are ok while being overly super efficient, that is almost a bigger risk than higher prices/costs. Competition is a leverage reducer. Margin is a softer ride even if the profit margins aren't as big.

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency
> so throwing a Hail Mary and simply resizing the partitions back to their exact original sizes

I've made similar mistakes (well, the same effect, but for different reasons. I thought I was over a remote session when I was local and made an entire new partition layout).

`testdisk` was able to introspect what partition boundaries _were_ and rebuild the partition table.

If you're ever in a similar situation and either don't remember the exact boundaries or don't trust yourself to recreate them, check it out!
The wapo did it till last January
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