skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We rely on the restaurant not serving bad food because of regulation.

I don't think you can rely on that being the only reason a restaurant doesn't serve bad food. I think it's better if they are motivated to serve good food rather than being afraid of being punished for serving bad food.

> So to be clear, we rely on other people and other people doing things for us all the time, so the discussion is not about relying on other people, but in this case what are work conditions which are acceptable.

I am not clear whether this negates your previous two sentences or not. I agree with this statement in isolation though!
The shop doesn't receive anything except a confirmation that the payment went through.

Those traditional bank transfers are set up by a payment gateway (Przelewy24, DotPay, Payu), which is linked to the marketplace (eBay, Allegro), on which the seller actually operates.

The seller definitely doesn't get your payment info, not sure about the marketplace, but I don't think they do.

Besides, if you live in Poland and opt for payment via traditional, old-style bank transfer, you're probably a very unsophisticated customer. Most likely, you're completely unbanked and will hand over cash to a relative who will make the transfer for you. Most people who own a bank account and have enough tech skills to make a purchase over the internet will use a different payment method.
Well, even the NYSE uses "circuit breakers". But that's no solution ;)

https://www.nyse.com/network/article/nyse-increases-resilian...
> That gray is a hardware limitation

The gray is markedly superior to the white. It may be a hardware feature, but it's not a "limitation".
We've been telling people to use 'borg' for several years now and it appears to have become the de facto standard for just what you're describing.

It has been described as "The Holy Grail" of backups:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
I believe Russian officials are very intelligent and this is utter bullshit and fabricated.

US and its media outlets are playing with fire and a lot of lives. I am European and affected first hand if US meddling any lying will once again start a war.
It is entirely generic and should work with all standards-compliant HTML (built-in and custom) elements. No code was written special-casing specific elements.

If you right-click in the playground (https://try.webpdf.pro/) and pick the "Foreign (Markdown)" context menu item, you will find an example that uses https://zerodevx.github.io/zero-md/ for Markdown editing/formatting via web components.

The reason I force update-by-(re)load on other foreign elements is because there are lots of low-quality web component custom elements that do not deal with attribute or content changes as well as the standard HTML elements.
Recompiling per version is fairly minimal work.

Having to have divergent code paths per version is hell.

Blender has a Python API. Which is arguably one of the easiest languages to keep a stable API in, since you're not dealing with an ABI.

Yet that breaks regularly.

I'm okay if I had to recompile for every version of maya I support. I just don't want to have to have to maintain tons of ifdefs per version
AFAIK, LLVM doesn’t actually require those intrinsics for VLAs — the `alloca` instruction can take a non-immediate for the stack object size. I can’t remember off the top of my head whether I’ve seen LLVM consistently include the intrinsics as well.

As for the dominator case: it’s possible that it does need them then. But for a really trivial VLA (like at the level of the function’s frame) it shouldn’t.
It’s more legislating that only the government should be able to use steel and math. I think those are both terrible ideas. Ask the people in an Australian concentration camp or that were jailed/fined for organizing peaceful protests on Facebook how they feel about gun control and encryption backdoors.
All market caps of all assets are "fiction" in the sense that they don't measure the total amount of money that all units of the asset could fetch on the market.
Fair point, but judging from what I’ve seen out there many still don’t realize/understand this and are case studies of the old adage of “there’s a sucker born every minute.” They’re into it because it’s the thing to be into… not because they understand it and are making a rational investment decision.

When the supply of suckers starts to dry up that’s when the value that nobody can explain in real terms starts to become very interesting to watch.
I think you may have misread: it has 30k people who are, at the time of writing, online. It has 1.3million followers.
I think a better metaphor to gun control is "trying to make physics illegal".

This is because you can ban people from buying guns. But you certainly won't be able to stop people from creating their own weapons. Obviously too little people have the capability, but yes, then can.

With bitcoin is more complicated, because trying to control self-custody is basically trying to ban maths. All you need is an internet connection and some google to find software capable of self-custody. Hell, you can do that with excel if you really want to.

So, as hard as trying to ban math.
Steve Jobs on music subscription: “These services treat you like a criminal”
As long as the chain of technologies that began with Bitcoin doesn't hasten the end of human civilization (cryptocurrency mining is consuming ever more and more of the world's resources, pyramid scheme collapses have led to war in the past[0], etc.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War
That’s not buying more money. They didn’t build anything or purchase money. They purchased a commodity with no real expectation of growth beyond a pipe dream that happened to work out, and even with those winners the bitcoin millionaires were exceptional enough from the norm to get into the news.

If you think people gambling on a brand new asset class becoming valuable is equivalent to things like getting low interest loans against your stock holdings that you aren’t forced to liquidate when it comes to buying more money, than we just have incompatible world views
The difference is that without fiat currency, the government can't inflate it's currency to pay off the debts. At the very least it means that the population does not have the risk of their savings becoming worthless anymore, and it probably also disincentives the lender to give money for such purposes.
the whole point of obscene wealth is it allows you to shield yourself from many of the conditions of society that less wealthy people must suffer, at least as long as society itself allows this. The dying of old thing seems more a thing they should be concerned with.
More like half price for bulls.
I use guacamole. It is awesome and super convenient. Nice insulation from various protocol bugs too. I don’t care what exploitable bugs RDP server in windows has if I access it only over guac.
The South Sea company bubble in the 1700s (arguably a similar circumstance) was ~9 years in, if I'm correct in my math. Tulip bubble was ~40 years in.
I agree with you.

But it is dismissive to those people with nobody at all in their lives, to equate "got calls instead of in-person visits" with "nobody knows or cares about you and you will never receive a call from anyone for the rest of your life".

The GGP conflated those experiences but they are qualitatively different.

I'm fully in favour of visiting the old people in your life.

But I wish people would also spend some time brightening the lives of other old people as well.
Restrictions on digital child pornography do seem doomed to failure. It's why the FBI et al keep asking for backdoors and anti-encryption, and why Apple is adding CSAM scanning on device.
I don't mind, maybe my language was unnecessarily aggressive, and things can be funny without looking at the big picture. But overall, I have zero patience left for anything that blocks my way on the sidewalk out of sheer convenience for them. The attitude that a sidewalk can be used for whatever just because people are flexible needs to change because it's not true. Plenty examples above.
I mean I'm sure that's right in some sense; when the only trade is the momentum trade it only takes a small amount of change in sentiment to trigger these kind of large moves. I guess? I just don't understand at all what the structure of the bitcoin market is supposed to be.
Homeowner trying to smoke out snake infestation burns down own house
I am always amazed at the insanity I see in the world around me. People do some crazy things. I smh and hold back a laugh all at the same time. I feel for the homeowner, yet wonder what they were thinking when they applied fire to their home.
He's the same guy who tweeted this:

https://tennesseestar.com/2021/11/30/new-twitter-ceo-why-sho...
If you're decapping old chips, do you even need to reverse engineer them, or can you just blindly convert a high-res photo to something an fpga can run?
How is Cornell Tech's campus doing at Roosevelt Island, NYC?

Microsoft has some really cool stuff going on aside from .NET Core.
Simon Peyton Jones has been there since the late 90s working on Haskell.
Some notable ones for me: F#, F*, Z3 (SMT solver), C# and its ubiquity in products like Unity, WSL2, VS Code, etc...

What's up with Hololens 2? Any uptake? I would like to make a short video of the ultimate PC vs. Mac parody with two armies facing each other with one wearing the stylish MR glasses coming from Apple vs. the more typical-looking HMD Hololens for nostalgia's sake.

I have been in computing for a long time, and all of my jobs have been on PCs with Windows other than the weird Banyan Vines, VMS, Irix, and QNX systems I have worked with over the years. All my graphic artist friends had Apple products. I have had one job where I used Quickbooks on an old Apple Macintosh (1994), but not much else with it. I did put a deposit on a NeXT machine, but that fell through!

I have had a computer since 1977, a Commodore PET 2001 followed by a Vic-20. A Toshiba dual-floppy laptop that probably wouldn't fit under the seat in front in Economy Class seating. My first Apple was a Power Macintosh in 1995/96 (I think the 7200) on which I loaded Minix or some Minix derivative at a later date, a pen-based NCR 3125. Amazingly slim for the time, and I updated the drive in it a year or two later. My first real micro-electronics project. The Newton came out around the same time. The NCR 3125 was a 386 running PenOS that I eventually put Windows with pen support on. Various PCs I built (a RAID 0, Dual-Athlon anyone?) in the early 2000s running Blender3D. I donated $50 to support Ton's efforts to take it open source back then. And so on...Microsoft has always had the tech, but not the marketing or style of Apple. I currently use a Windows 10 gaming laptop, an old Lenovo running Kali, a 2011 iMac (1TB HD! 16 or 32 GB of RAM - I have to look). I just want tools I can use. The only computer/OS I was evangelical about was mh Amiga 1000 and 500!
Haha yes, banning physics is the perfect metaphor here!
Omg love the Noir spy vibes haha
Where did you get that or “all”? They aren’t essential and I don’t care what happens to them the same way I don’t care about bars I never went to shutting down.
For this reason, if you are considering working with powdered pigments, investigate whether you can instead use aqueous pigment dispersions. Should normally be fine for egg tempera.
bring it back :(
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Is this really a proper analogy? Child pornography is the content and the internet is the medium. For what OP is talking about, cryptography is the medium, not the content. We're moving towards banning the medium here, and what types of legitimate content enabled by it will we be throwing out?
A significant portion is sold into stablecoins which are other cryptos. If the stablecoins go above their peg, then it is more profitable to mint the stablecoin at the issuer with dollars you own on the exchange, and sell the stablecoin immediately to the panic sellers clamoring for stable value.

Many other assets are merely priced in bitcoin and their dollar value can fall without a single trade occurring. This needs to be fixed sector wide.

And finally, people have unlimited withdrawal limits to fiat or crypto from exchanges. You need to convince your exchange to raise yours or get another exchange. OTC desks have no limit which is what institutional traders use.
So long as the acronym has utility for identifying something in a more concise way than the alternatives, people are probably going to keep using it. Incumbent behemoths still need names.
> the technical limitations on transaction throughput

https://lightning.network/

> random thing that people have arbitrarily decided has value

It has value because it's a fixed-supply currency that can't be manipulated like state currencies, allows for near-instant transactions of arbitrary amounts, is open 24/7, gives banking to billions of people who otherwise wouldn't have it, makes it possible to transact with anyone all over the world without an intermediary, and prevents exactly what's happening right now with inflation.
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My personal opinion is that every economic interaction within capitalism is exploitative in one way or another. The only way for it not to be is if we all worked towards a shared goal, with pooled resources.

Most people on this site would disagree with that view though.
Might want to check out the Vortex86. Other than sound, it might support what you want.
EIP4488 on call data expansion would result in cheaper rollup transactions.

1559 means that in mad rushes, excessive fees get burned instead of given to miners.

Both of these things help combat gas prices and dampen runaway auctions. But ultimately there’s not a lot you can do to stop people who want to outbid others for faster inclusion, without introducing other ordering rules which are hard to agree on and seem to usually introduce dos vectors.
As usual, the HN commentary is far more interesting than the linked article.
Looking for a Blub programmer without looking at Blub programmers
It was the oddest experience yet in almost a decade experience of professional programming.

A coding exercise for a 'blub' programming position at a company that claims to have all their code in 'blub'. Since this particular 'blub' dialect doesn't have a lot of native 'blub' programmers the company's coding exercise is geared towards non-'blub' programmers. But in this case they are interviewing a 'blub' programmer. In fact 'blub' is this programmer's favorite language.

Upon opening the repo with the setup and the exercise instructions 2/3rd of the instructional links do not work.

The programmer advises the company of this, the company representative claims that they are looking into it and will get back with an answer as soon as they can. After some time the candidate reaches out. No response, waits a few days more, reaches out, no response.

Then two weeks later the candidate is informed they will not be moving forward.

The coding exercise was not the first step. The candidate had seemingly passed the initial phone screen and a rather rigorous iq test.

Why such a lack of consideration? Do these companies have a clue as to how bad a taste is left in the mouth to be treated in this way?
> SiFive's primary business is selling their cores as FPGA IP.

Their primary business is selling IP to be incorporated into SoCs and other chip designs. The FPGA market is very limited by comparison.
Those requests are most often used in combination with spoofed packets to DDoS others. Many of us block those requests.
aw thanks!
Ideally we'd institute government regulation requiring website operators to offer the user-friendly formats, in the same way that GDPR places certain requirements on sites today.
You could consider making only the game's code open source, keeping its assets proprietary. That way you are still able to sell the game normally.
> Without a cloud you’re always running up against limits, out of power, out out cooling, out of rack space, out of hardware.

I bet most customers of cloud services are not in a high-growth phase, so this is scenario most organizations aspire to ("What if we suddenly got popular?" is a fantasy that's hard to disabuse someone of internally, if you want to be known as a team player

> Management spends a lot of time and energy managing the datacenter budget. With cloud you get what you want without asking too much...

I fully agree, this is the core reason why most companies gravitate towards cloud: management abdicates control of costs to engineers, resulting in less friction - but its OpEx, not CapEx, so the bean counters are chilled about it. If the same low-friction approach were applied to DC equipment, you'd get similar results, but cheaper.
I found usually they'd be on the order of a few hundred milliseconds. They tend to be quicker if you have more memory allocated to your function (because the additional CPU power helps).

I've mostly found that my cold starts were slow enough to look bad in the metrics, but fast enough (and rare enough) that the impact on user experience wasn't actually that noticeable. Given the other benefits I was getting from Lambda (like the easy scaling and low maintenance), it was worth the occasional small blip in latency.

And for functions that aren't directly user facing -- like processing items from a queue -- I've not found it to be an issue at all.

Of course every use case is different though, and some apps can tolerate this more than others.
Hope he got free from the snakes.

An interesting case: this on accidentally exploded his yard trying to get rid of cockroaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXfSjQP3fso
Market cap is not real money
In the specific case of regular expressions on the server, re2 was written to handle exactly this.
I haven't used Dart, but I have 15 years of experience with Python and 10 years with Go. Go absolutely solves many of Python's problems including performance, single-native-binary compilation, dependency management, a lackluster-at-best static typing system, and many others. If you're an experienced Python developer, then you're used to announcements that promise a lot and utterly fail to deliver (consider all of the different package management "solutions", alternative runtimes, etc), but Go really does what it says on the tin.
As I understand it, the market cap of an asset is the marginal price times the quantity. But the total value is the integral of the marginal price * d(quantity).

These can differ greatly.

If I buy one Bitcoin on the market for $1, and then another Bitcoin on the market for $100, I now have two Bitcoins, with a market cap of $200, which I only paid $101 for. It's like $99 just appeared out of thin air! But that $99 might disappear again when I sell my bitcoins. After selling one of them, the market price might plummet back down to $1.

When someone on your street sells their house for $1 million, the paper value of the neighbourhood might shoot up by $10 million, just from all the nearby houses being revalued at that latest price, despite only $1 million actually changing hands. The same can happen in reverse, too.
Ah yes we have to account for births from transpeople.
In my city the locally owned burger places have been paying decent salaries for decades and the people working there seem to not hate the job. The prices are just about McDonalds level and the quality is much better.

Prices are going up at places that see labor as part of their Just In Time system, which turned out to be amazingly fragile in a number of areas.
True. Although their control of money supply would be limited, and they would lose some part of that control every time they decide to "increase" the money supply.
I'm a worker. I can buy a bigger house than I need as an investment. Or I can buy the size I need, and take the money that I would have invested in the bigger house and put it in the stock market instead. Sure, some people do buy bigger houses as investment. They sure aren't "forced" to, though - not even for investment reasons.

And, the fact that an argument makes sense to you is a really poor response to an argument telling you why your position is wrong. (Of course, calling it an astroturf isn't much of an argument against it, either...)

Lack of a gold standard means inflation can happen. Is inflation why workers are poor? It's part of the reason, and it works this way: Inflation happens, then later workers' wages go up. The price increases come first. That makes workers poorer to some degree.

But workers are still pretty poor during periods of low inflation. Why? Because they aren't paid enough. And why is that? Lack of unions, lack of individual bargaining power, greedy owners, lack of ability to produce enough value to be worth more. (I think that all of the above are true at least to some degree.) Which of those does the gold standard fix? Does it create unions? Does it give individual employees more bargaining power with their employers? Does it make owners less greedy? Does it give workers the skills to do more valuable things? No, no, no, and no.

So the gold standard won't really fix worker poverty.
Yeah... I guess. But I could write the same article about how Java doesn't need value types and extreme escape analysis because it has a generational garbage collector. 99% of garbage really does end up in the eden generation and is literally free to clean up, no different than a stack.

Once you put aside all the words and see how things stack up in the real world, Go and Java are pretty comparable, usually with the JVM having a slight edge after the JIT is nice and warm. They go about it in different ways, but there's nothing wrong with that.
Certainly you can overcomplicate things with any of the big public cloud providers. As you say, many smaller companies would be better off with a SaaS, maybe a PaaS, and some VPSs, whether from one of the big guys or someone else.

I had to laugh at someone's comment around re:Invent last week that just because Amazon has to offer 17 types of databases for its customers (or whatever the exact quote was) doesn't mean you have to collect them all as if they were Pokemon.
Make the core content of your game a mod itself. That kind of design will ensure your API is always up to date with the game.
Yes, this is missing the point that bitcoin isn't only about “Math”. Bitcoin is a peer to peer protocol even more than it is a cryptographic protocol. If you have a private key but no access to the peer to peer network, you're not gonna do much with your bag of bytes.

(Btw, the enormous majority of bitcoin usage already goes through exchanges, just because it's almost the only practical way to use it so I don't really think this law is gonna change anything in itself)
Exactly.

Governments will successfully ban Bitcoin, just like they successfully banned piracy.

Things like https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=category:401 are long gone now, successfully banned.
You're right; it's only an informal fallacy; my bad!
No, coding is just converting some data into other forms of data.
I read the jungle and I know about it. I initially agreed, the conditions were terrible. But even without regulations people make rational decisions like not eat at restaurants that make them sick and not buying Chinese baby milk products even before regulation, post regulation hasn’t stopped them from buying America baby formula either. If you think we need the government to stop people eating at cockroach infested buildings, you’re ignoring common sense.

Do we need the FDA to decide marijuana has no medical value, or that people were too stupid and only ate rank food that caused them illness with no ability to eat food that wasn’t sickening before the FDA saved everyone?
Look into an alternate story on the whole tulip bulb story sometime. It's fascinating.

Tulip Mania - the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong:

https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of...