skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different people have different preferences with regards to the level of government spending. In general, the actual level of spending will be some sort of average of society's preferences. You, as an individual, will have a hard time imposing your individual preferences about government spending on the rest of society, and "crypto" is not gonna help you achieve that goal in any way shape or form. That doesn't mean to say government spending is unconstrained. Of course, it's constrained, by the government's ability to tax and to borrow, but generally not by its ability to print money. If governments were to lose their ability to tax, we would end up with a bunch failed states, which is a considerably worse situation than having "bloated" governments. And their ability to borrow depends on their creditworthiness. To me nothing suggests that crypto-currencies can have any impact in any of this, to be honest.
Raising funds for an interesting project, from free agents willing to fund the project, is never ethical?

Are you certain of this?
"Why work on a cool app or faster database, if Google or Facebook will copy your idea and sell it at scale?"

Because if you've worked at these companies, you know you can spin circles around them in execution speed alone. Not to mention way too many things are too small scale for them to even pay attention to.

And if your successful, they would rather buy you most of the time than make a competitor because it's probably cheaper for them in many cases. In startup world, it's pretty rare they go the copycat route. You can cite examples, but that is survivorship bias ignoring the many more they do not copy.

The biggest issue with bigtech is actually hiring. They suck up the labor market and make it hard to get good people affordably. The good employees rationally do what is best for them and go work at bigtech, which includes me.
(I'm not sure if your "but" is a retort, or an addendum. Assuming retort...) We can consider one more level of implementation machinery, but I fail to understand how uops aren't another form of instruction, and CPU internal gobbledygook like register files, caches, etc. aren't another form of state. It doesn't seem so fuzzy.
I am mostly indifferent to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, but strongly opposed to people shilling for them. I see no evidence thus far for bitcoin being anything other than a vehicle for speculation; just one more form of gambling with the froth on top of our financial system, distracting people and diverting resources from actual useful activity.
I find this comment distasteful.
I dont understand why theres a trend against functional programming. I started as a mechanical engineer and became a manager. I think I know a bit better than code monkeys.
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
Assuming bitcoin fixes this like the maximalists claim, the way forward is to continue educating people on bitcoin and more importantly what’s wrong with the current monetary system. Way too many people buy into the narrative of bitcoin being harmful for the environment and being an outdated technology (“Blockchain, not bitcoin!”).

Much of the world doesn’t own bitcoin but as long as you have a mobile phone and an internet connection, there’s a way to buy some. The technology’s been working for 12 years now and it can scale just fine, no need to tamper with anything. People don’t need to run full nodes, it’s already decentralized enough. I have one running off a raspberry pi and a 1TB hard drive, but it’s just because I want to and not because I think the additional node is needed for the network. Bitcoin is resilient against external actors by design, maximum decentralization and security. Remember when China finally cracked down on all bitcoin mining in May? The hashrate has recovered by now and China lost almost all of its 50% foothold on global bitcoin mining. The rest of the world’s bitcoin miners thanks China for its contribution.

It seems to me like Bitcoin is dismissed too easily by people who haven’t done enough unbiased research on it. For me, it’s not so much that Bitcoin is such an awesome invention and everyone should worship it like a cult. My question is what happens after fiat currencies collapse? Every single government backed currency has collapsed from hyperinflation in the past, and there’s still a good number of countries with hyper inflating currencies today. Historically, after chaos and war, some people’s debts are flushed away at the expense of everyone else and a new currency is issued by the affected jurisdiction. Do we just want to repeat that cycle when the USD collapses? I think that a free market currency that cannot be controlled by any organization (including governments) deserves more limelight.
Novel Blockchain Technology: SuperBNB Pays Dividends in BNB Instead of Itself
I think he knows.
Tangentially related: Boston Dynamics' BigDog, which utilizes hydraulic actuators, would constantly leak hydraulic fluid while operating, be it through normal weepage or catastrophic leaks (e.g. burst hoses). Initially, they used petroleum-based hydraulic fluid, but as they began to operate out in the woods etc, this proved to be untenable, so they eventually switched to using a vegetable-based hydraulic fluid that would biodegrade within a month.

Bonus: when catastrophic hydraulic leaks inevitably occurred and sprayed hot hydraulic fluid over the hot exhaust, you would be rewarded with the lovely smell of a deep fryer!
While I do have interest in promoting this coin, I really do believe that it is a step in the right direction - deflationary, dividend paying, locked liquidity.

Really, this is what the stablecoins of the future should be.
In going too basic. We can go to simple and elegant without going all the way back to crappy stone tools.

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Do blacks have shared cultural identity? I would think that there is a gulf in culture across Africa, let alone island nations and Americans that are black.
The value provided by the crypto assets is financial. Decentralized exchanges, flash loans, and other real innovations are in service of money games. In the same way many financial firms participate in money games for profit (algorithmic trading, complex derivatives bets, etc.) a huge ecosystem is growing of games designed around blockchains. I don’t think these ideas of “one world currency”, “new internet”, or “my house on a blockchain” are relevant anymore. People are still attacking these ideas but the ecosystem isn’t going that way.
Once NASDAQ reached $5,000 dot-com prices in 2015 it tripled to $15,000 over the following 5 years.
Reminds me I used a drop on a ThinkPad x60 noisy CPU fan. It held long enough. Not that this anecdote means much.
I agree with the article’s thought about phase where “everyone understands the magic”, and I agree with your point about making reality obsolete. Problem is, Big Tech amasses great amount of resources to survive this event and delay own demise.

Good luck competing when your innovation can be copied by tech giant in a matter of months, your price tag could be beaten overnight with dumping, and your business could be bought out to suffocate in the basements of Alphabet.

Fortunately, our society both understands the dangers of monopolies, and has tools (regulations) to balance them out. Could anti-monopoly lawsuits happen that would force break big tech? That has happened in the past, see Bell System[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System
Moronic nonsense clear to anyone who has ever seen an enterprise spaghetti code joke
Disingenuous statement from you. 25 % of children who are tested because there is some question about paternity. Your statement reads, and is made to imply, 25% of all babies.
Please ensure you follow the community guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually, both Israel and the US have a long history of fighting terrorism.

Just this past May, terrorists from adjoining Gaza shot 4,300 missiles towards Israeli cities over a 10 day period. Thankfully they were almost all shot down by the Israeli anti-missile defense system, Iron Dome (which the US is now evaluating for use in our Guam base). But still 13 died and 300 injuries occurred during that 10 day period at the hands of terrorists.

Israel has been dealing with terrorists hijacking planes for decades. In fact, 2 former Israeli Prime Ministers, Netanyahu and Barak were members of a 16 man special forces team that rescued hostages from Sabena Flight 571. Barak was the leader, Netanyahu was injured.

Of course, with 9/11 and other incidents the US has, like Israel, been the target of terrorists.

Both the US and Israel have had to deal with terrorists much more than any other developed OECD countries.
I agree, it's a bit different. I appreciate getting "digital cash" (BNB) back as a reward for hodling.
Jane is famous already with two NYT bestsellers. Why should she make up lies for attention?

Really weird to immediately shoot/ad hominem the messenger
Oh, no, it's worse than that: We did have it, but nobody cared enough to maintain it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix
Advantage to guacamole is you can have a corporate controlled middle man... You might set your server username to root/root, but that's not a problem if you can only get to it by guacamole.. I mean it's not great, but guacamole can face the world and be the castle to defend, not a dozen or hundred maybe-managed servers...
I don't need to.

The technical arguments are not sufficiently compelling to undermine the entirely obvious transition to a more big media friendly model in progress.

Further, I'm on the solid majority opinion on all this.

To get past that requires proponents show people need this to be done, they are better off, and that somehow they will be better informed, see more value.

Not gonna happen.
Let's demolish this building. How about we just rotate it 90°? Yes, that seems like a fair compromise.

In case anybody was wondering - the important part was that it was moved to an adjacent lot (to clear space for a new building) and happened to be rotated as part of that process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Building_(Indianapolis)
Yes important to understand. What is the fundamental value of Bitcoin?
This surprises me; vegetable oil gets sticky as it oxidizes. I would have expected something like mineral oil.
lol NFTs . Morons
They explicitly justify the lack of solutions for memory safety in their space - both in terms of hardware and software - and why they are building their product using specific tools. They even note that this may seem like a strange choice (as opposed to using something off the shelf) but that they were willing and able to invest in these tools, specifically that they were going to build pretty much everything from scratch.

They even call the project 'Hubris' as a joke about the ambition.

Further, they discuss how borrow checking as a model lends itself to the task architecture. It's obviously very relevant.

It seems silly to call this evangelism as opposed to a very self-aware deep dive into their choices.
Going a little in the opposite direction is the best compromise: keep the information that was available via the old url accessible via the old url in perpetuity (or for the duration of the website). Even a redirect is better than destroying URLs that have been linked to elsewhere for years.
Programming alone vs programming in a team are very, very different occupations. A lot of what applies to one doesn’t apply to the other. I’m still painfully learning this, after all these years.
Sorry, historical evidence begs to differ. These laws have only been in place in many cases in America for less than a century known as redlining and unfortunately most places have not made the said adjustments needed to remove the systemic problems that it created.
This isn't science. It's Science(TM)--in other words, propaganda masquerading as evidence.
Afaik there was nothing like Facebook. Blogs and even MySpace don't count. They weren't integrated like Facebook (you could interact with people in a lot of ways).
> While anyone can submit new ideas, whether they’re accepted or not largely depends on the quality of the code, rather than the utility of the feature. “We have a very difficult process,” Kempf admits. “People don’t understand why we do that. But the reason is we need good code, because I’m the one that’s going to maintain it. If I don’t understand it now, this is going to be a problem.”

That's the difference to OpenSSL!
Based on what? You can’t just say so because of geographic or racial reasons.
Or a set of composable primitives if you’re using an array language. What, you think if and for aren’t abstractions over jump/goto?
I would embed nats, a golang message queue that offers clustering and persistence, a great bulding block for clustered support.
That site is a piece of shit, because it uses google analytics, thus snitches to a big brother.
i’m 100% agree with what you said. When i was in university the math teacher gave us access to previous year exam so we can (study/practice) with them.

I quickly found that we are now getting 40% on those math test which result in an (A+) because they grade in the curve but 20 years ago the real average for this teacher exams where around (75%) and those exam had question of similar difficulty.

TLDR: an A+ today is not the same as an A+ 20 years ago
That’s what disappoints me in modern Java. There is practically no ifs. It makes it inaccessible to beginners on the project, and the streams are about twice as slow… just because devs think they are more clever if they pile 7 “.map()” to transform a list.

list.stream().filter(Objects::nonNull).map(User::getUsername).filter(Objects::nonNull).filter(name -> name.contains(searchString)).map(name -> “We have found your user: “ + name).orElse(“We haven’t found”);

Basically unreadable.

for (User user : list)
if (user != null && user.getName() != null && user.getName().contains(searchString))
return “Found it!”;

return “Not found”;
The problem is we have one word that has gradually assumed an almost universally negative connotation. We should just stop using it for definition number 1 at this point.

So much of this stuff is just semantics.
You know both can be true, and majority of the racial disparities are deeply tied with race in America.
Saddleback is kind of a special case, this is it’s second year operating after a long hiatus.
Right but after a reboot, all the data is encrypted until you enter your password
probably because there are a few "popular" patterns that many people use.
The Magma name appears to require disambiguation:

His Magma programming language (https://github.com/blainehansen/magma):

The goal of this project is to: create a programming language and surrounding education/tooling ecosystem capable of making formal verification and provably correct software mainstream and normal among working software engineers.

Magma computer algebra system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_(computer_algebra_system...):

Magma is a computer algebra system designed to solve problems in algebra, number theory, geometry and combinatorics. It is named after the algebraic structure magma. It runs on Unix-like operating systems, as well as Windows.
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044995, sentiment was that this analysis was garbage.
The hydraulic autopilot steering system in my boat uses a biodegradable soy-based hydraulic fluid, and it’s at least 20 years old. Similar non-marine products are readily available on amazon.

https://www.pocomarine.com/shop/garmin-tr-1-biosoy-hydraulic...
A similar feat was accomplished in Chicago.

"During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks, and buildings were physically raised on jackscrews."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
It really puts the task into the hands of the programmer. The way the it works (if I understand correctly from the docks) the programmer of a task needs to make sure it checks for notifications when it want to and controls that process.

This gives the programmers some rope to hang themselves with, but on the other hand you don't get shot by the OS when you don't want to.
Same with guitar players and fingerboard oils. Use mineral oil because it's food-safe and won't go rancid. Same reason I use it on my cutting board.
There is a confounding factor there: deadly disease necessitating people staying home
Who needs science if there is lived experience?
> but half of America is still super racist

Citation needed. Also, can you name other countries as diverse as America which are less racist?
Somewhere in the 90s a colleague asked about why those pesky types we had to use while we had void *. We fought, I won. (but somehow we still ended up with Javascript 20 years later)
What a dark view of the world. I choose not to subscribe to it.
When you say they used "vegetable oils", do you mean they used a vegetable oil bought from the grocery store, or that they used one of the blended biodegradable oils specifically made for chainsaws?

I've used both the Stihl Bioplus (https://www.stihlusa.com/products/oils--lubricants-and-fuels...) and Husqvarna XGuard (https://www.baileysonline.com/husqvarna-x-guard-bar-chain-oi...) for a couple years now, and have no complaints other than the price. I do occasionally switch to back to mineral oil when I run out, so perhaps this has helped me to avoid problems.
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> So, with modern compiler technology, are languages that check array bounds necessarily slower than those that aren’t? If so, is the difference large enough?

For performance sensitive tasks - definitely! I certainly don't want array bound checking in my (soft)realtime audio processing code.

As a side note: when I write an audio plugin, it's the responsibility of the host application to tell me the correct buffer sizes, so I basically deal with trusted input. It's still possible to mess up, of course, but personally I found writing DSP code to be pretty safe.
In the northwest ticks are less of a problem, but still something to watch for.

Some kinds of trees, say noble fir, it's possible to climb the tree and harvest the cones, and or shake them loose, often right into a truck bed. Fun times, 50 feet up in a tree, in the winter... :D
Can you fold in "Asian" while keeping your rationale consistent?

(No dog in this fight, I'll just use what everyone else uses, but the whole thing's a mess).
Away from centralization and straight into energy inefficient pyramidal schemes.
I dreaded the idea of starting a company
I mean, you cherry-picked by quite a criteria there. It’s all C and Go, and they somewhat lack higher level abstraction capabilities. On the other hand compilers are often written in C++, or are bootstrapped in the very same language though. Also, what about OpenJDK, elastic search, all the web servers running the whole cloud? Linux might be the underlying OS, but that’s not the program actually doing business logic. If anything, it’s just another layer of abstraction.

Also, let’s be honest, C does all these “virtual method” magic on a per-project basis which will not be understood by any tool ever (all those function pointers to whole new implementations passed from God knows who, with barely any typing). At least FP and OOP knowledge somewhat transfers and is queryable by tools.
Hmm. I wonder how this person got notifications even though their phone was offline to avoid being wiped. I also wonder why this person got notifications. Most services don't send you notifications just because you used a device which is already logged in.

Complete and total duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29404954 and again with absolutely no evidence even though there are apparently tons of evidence left by this person doing this with absolutely no cuation (security notifications left in trash etc).
The reason China is pushing for Africa's digital sovereignty
I don't think that's their 'raison d'être', their 'raison d'être' is making a better computer.
I never like vlc approach. It did everything but there was always 7 fingercuts in the process. Or it was slower, less ergonomic. MPC, MPV were more my daily drivers.
Her phone was protected with a passcode. Please do not spread misinformation https://twitter.com/avantgame/status/1467222753799393281
You're approximately half as likely to get infected (and therefore become infectious) if you're vaccinated. Especially when the R0 is already hovering near 2, vaccines can mean the difference between COVID dying out in your area and COVID rampaging through the area, developing mutant strains as it goes. So your claim ("Vaccines won't help _at all_ if your immune system is completely compromised by other health issues.") is false.
I was just about to post the same thing. I don't like picking on things like names, but the "old magma" is still very popular in mathematics.
And then for even more fun, phone manufacturers come up with their own stupid USB-C fast charge tech like 'Warp Charge' on my OnePlus phone, instead of using any existing standard.
Dystopia – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Copilot. FTFY.
I’m the author of the package in question, so I can try to answer that.

The first (and lazy) answer is that it was an educational exercise: I wanted to try my hand at writing in Python package in Rust, and this particular need afforded itself of me.

The second answer is that the package in question contains a (basic) parser, and it’s my opinion that Rust is particularly well suited to this domain: you should ideally only write a /proc/…/maps parser exactly once, with strong modeling of all valid and invalid states. Rust gives us that strong modeling for free (to say nothing of performance and memory safety), and it binds easily to other languages.
Yup, its great. Problem is, the syntax is slightly different from Bash. So whenever I use a shell script or use some kind of commands where the differences are incompatible, I tend to switch to Bash. And then my history doesn't add up with the one from Fish.

For fuzzy search I bound ctrl+r to fzf (you can use Rust's sk too).
> typically they are more neutral on racial stuff though probably more on conservative and other more controversial topics.

What does the end of this mean? If you're talking about conservative sites and they are also not neutral on racial stuff when it comes to conservative topics then that's the same as mainstream media. I don't know of any hard left [bigger] news outlets. There are a number of conservative outlets. They are usually mirror images in terms of caring about race as mainstream media. Check CRT or Rittenhouse + Andrew Coffee coverage as quick recent examples. The primary difference will be the conservative outlets saying they don't care about race. The actual behavior does not show that though.
Cyclists debate about oil for days. Cycle mechanics just use WD40.
I agree. I've used Python for a decade. Go and Node are a pain in the ass compared to Python, simply because I am unfamiliar with them. Use tox to create a virtualenv and then you can run irrespective of system packages and build the virtualenv in a single 'tox' command.
The article talks about "canola based oils". Has anyone used just plain canola oil to do the job?
If we take the USD as an example:

1. Created in 1792

2. Gold standard in 1900

3. Abandoned gold in 1971

Not sure at what point USD was no longer a logical fallacy. If it's the 1971 non-gold-standard dollar to now, then it's exactly 50 years as of now. Or for the full history of the dollar it's 229 years.
Gene sleuths are tracking the coronavirus outbreak as it happens
We should be clear: move 78 didn’t really work, except that the engine got confused. Other humans and later versions of Go engines can refute it.
Computer Simulation: The Coronavirus in a Tiny Aerosol Drop