skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s because we have established living and survival conditions based on decisions we have made through life. These then form biases.

E.g.

* iPad vs Android ecosystem

* Bitcoin/crypto vs fiat

A lot of these takes are from disruptive technology.. It’s called disruptive for a reason and that reason gives it lots of arguments to why it could fail against established thinking.

So if something had a lot of haters in technology.. it could be a disruptive technology which has a good risk to reward ratio if it becomes adopted.
Funny, but super-reductive.

It's like describing every country fighting in WW2 as a 'Christian urban state' - with the exception of the officially atheist USSR. Obviously the war was between USSR and everyone else. Oh, that's the Red Alert timeline, not the real one.
And how many are that aren't really counted as medical? I know one medical suicide--she never went to the doctor about what drove her to suicide. She didn't have all that long to live anyway and she perfectly well knew a broken hip meant she would never leave bed again.
A letter-by-letter markov chain would lead to similar unconvincing results. As you said, vocal groups matter much more than single letters. If you know anything about korean, they actually group letters into characters that way. If one could build such a markov chain for English it would be very convincing I think.
The big takeaway is that there are better cryptocurrencies out there that have real-world use-cases and are suitable for fast, scaleable, efficient and cheap payments like paying for your groceries at your local supermarket.

The fact that they are unable to ignore the rise of cryptocurrencies probably means it is not going anywhere anytime soon. Some are just useful than others and the ones that are useless and don't adapt to regulations will wither away.
I tried to mention the kind of things I'd expect smart contracts to help me with, like creating a debit pool for me and my friends when we go to a bar. The parts that I'm missing are (1) a practical cryptocurrency thingy that actually does that without charging me more than the drinks, and (2) a reason why it shouldn't just be a service that connects to ACH or another settlement layer.
If you need, you don't need to bring people from the most orthogonal cultures.

(Though that's only half the problem, and when you get xenophobia even against French in Quebec you see it's complicated)
> as I interpret it

What matters is how a judge will interpret it, if it should become an issue.
No, but, considering a blockchain is literally just a distributed log, it certainly helps to have decentralized networks in order to implement blockchains.
According to the article, before the 1940s, it did. Judging by the list of species in the image with spell-check underlines, anyway. Something weird happened in the 1940s.
You have a right to life. You don't yet have a right to death. Given that, it's understandable that there are barriers in place for people who temporarily think they want to die.
AreWeLinusYet?
Making Your HTML Inputs Reactive, Because We Can
In addition to an option for writing output as JSON, consider also adding an option for streaming output to stdout. Those two features were added to GCC9 gcov and are what enabled me to write a tool that parallelizes coverage report generation.

In practice this enabled generating coverage reports orders of magnitude faster than traditional gcov wrappers like lcov
Crypto solved very nicely my problems, well the money related problems. Now I am rich and life is comfortable.
It's my professional opinion that the proactive side of security should be as boring as possible. Not that I don't get a kick out of my work, of course.
Can you expand on this for someone like me, who's not a crypto wonk?
China is becoming expansionist. What China does not have though, is many allies.
> this means that the relevant kernel thread woke up from epoll_wait() or something similar. With blocking I/O, you call read(), and the kernel wakes up your thread when the read() completes. With non-blocking I/O, you call read(), get EAGAIN, call epoll_wait(), the kernel wakes up your thread when data is ready, and then you call read() a second time.

This is true for readiness-based IO (which, admittedly, most current async IO loops are using), but completion-based IO (such as IOCP or io_uring) don't suffer from this problem: you just add your IO operation to the queue, and do a single syscall that will return once one of the operation in your queue is completed AFAIK.
The quote "I was actually able to wave to the co-pilot, a fellow on the right-hand side of the plane. He waved back, and actually smiled at me" is attributed to Larry Weaver, a crewmember on the Liberty. It was allegedly originally written in a book called "Assault on the Liberty" by James M. Ennes, but I ordered a copy to confirm
Well, let's hope this means an about face in Twitter's awful, awful, awful design direction.

It is hard to see how any design team that thought it was a good idea to take a font commissioned for logo work, try and make it the body text font thoughout the site, and didn't even realise it didn't render or kern correctly in Windows is at all functional.
> but I am arguing that a specific focus on avoiding "political correctness" means that you in fact succumb to a lot of other (present-day) political norms, which is the actual thing that is bad for scientific research.

Right, this is a really hard topic. I didn't say I had a solution, just saying it is a problem. There will always be a lot of political influence in research topic related to controversial things and people living under that influence will have a hard time identifying it. The racists 70 years ago probably didn't think they were doing anything bad etc. But today we recognize it as bad.

> but I am arguing that a specific focus on avoiding "political correctness" means that you in fact succumb to a lot of other (present-day) political norms, which is the actual thing that is bad for scientific research.

Yeah, you have counter movements and resistances. But if the context is non-stem non-economic researchers at universities then it is pretty much only in one direction. There is no allowance for the other side to do much research in those areas, meaning research in those areas is a one sided politically correct story.

If we let tobacco companies publish research, and other people publish research, then people can look at the two and make their own decisions. But if you basically only let one side research then you will get bad research.
So much better and mature than the typical Reddit comment when a conservative dies. Hopefully HN doesn't degenerate too fast, the maturity level is what keeps me here.
I don’t object to Hubris being written in Rust, that would be silly. My argument is really simply my opinion that the talk would have been more interesting if it were less focused on how Rust was used to make Hubris and more focused on how specific high level software techniques and concepts were used to make Hubris.

I don’t really need a long winded justification for why this is written in Rust. Everyone knows that ultimately comes down to a mix of personal preference and tool availability. I can fill in the details myself how the high level software techniques presented would map to Rust constructs.
There are a lot of refugees in South Africa.
Not sure if anyone actually knows how many because many are illegal.
Your 21 year old project is amazing and I'm grateful for your efforts.

The slow development of DAWs and ther interfaces is really interesting and I'd love to know your thoughts on explorable UI/UX. You have a very hard job.
The colors/background doesn't work on Firefox.
Of course, but that affected virtually all major cities in Asia. And unlike (say) Tokyo or Manila, Singapore was never subjected to prolonged fighting or bombing, leaving it fairly intact.
Asphyxiating without a replacement gas does trigger your body to try to fight it.

However, when you use enough replacement gas (helium or nitrogen will do) the body won't fight it because it's the buildup of CO2 that's the trigger, not the lack of oxygen. I do agree brain damage can happen from a failure.
Does this offer any advantages to Ada/Spark? Having worked in formal method environments there's a lot to be said of a tool that's been around for a while. Even with formal methods you can still have bugs and there's a risk in using new tools. Without getting those millions of hours of development time it's hard to know a tool really works regardless of the theory behind it.
I don't think it was as lopsided as you think - Dole got 40.7% of the popular vote compared to Clinton's 49.7%, and he flipped five states in the electoral college.

Even though the results were never really in doubt, that's not too bad of a showing against an incumbent president.
> True, but somehow still only $1.35T out of $4T total healthcare spending.

The federal share is not the whole public cost; Medicaid is a state/federal cost sharing program.
I think the implication is that you would find zero if you just tried to process in an orderly way, but this super unprofessional guy was instead making relationships to allow him to only dig in the right places.

Also, he was probably moving fast and breaking things.
Crypto doesn't fix the failed state.

There are a lot more problems there then: "bought the dip" lol
I'd guess inside politics + no one obviously better to run at the time. IMO the same reason Hillary was put up ("her turn" + who else?)
I got "minable" on my first try and found it impressive and surprised that it wasn't a word.
After 3 other reloads nothing else came up.
That’s cultural, not genetic.
Back when there were moderates who got along with each other and had a sense of humor. Glad we have a record of that.
The "thinness" is subject to interpretation (and today especially because of Ukraine situation it has become a political issue with Ukraine actively developing its own independent history and claiming Kievan Rus for itself, and also in Russia there are people who don't like the idea of the state's Viking ie. non-Slavic origination) which one can decide for theselves by looking at historic facts. Yes, the south and western dukedoms (on the territory of modern Ukraine an Belarus) of Kievan Rus were for around 2 centuries under Mongols and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and thus the link was pretty much broken there. Where is the north/east dukedoms have existed without interruption, growing and expanding and ultimately getting unified into Moscow dukedom (later tzardom) which continuing expanding became the Russian empire. The Russian aristocrats direct descendants of the one of the early Kievan Rus Viking ruler - Rurik (whose descendants ruled the Rus and later the Moscow dukedom for centuries) - are still around.
Right, that's the obvious option. I was thinking of a barebones "on the wire" approach but I'm not sure that's possible. The fastest integrated optoisolators I can find seem to all max out at 50MBd/s which simply isn't going to be enough to switch 100BASE-TX (which has a ~125MBd/s rate) without needing some sort of ethernet-aware logic (e.g. a primitive MAC controller) on either end to handle buffer overruns. 10BASE-T should be plenty possible though: it only needs a 16MHz channel and even sampling that 2x at the Nyquist rate of 32MHz is still within the capabilities of the $1 optoisolators. 10Mbps is plenty for an application like this one (and probably most industrial control purposes) but it's not exactly something anyone will publicly confess to wanting or using even if it's in order to pay two orders of magnitude less.
the ghani administration was nothing more than an american imperialist puppet government, forcing american "ideals" (see: consumerism and globalism) on a people who want nothing to do with it.

“God has promised us victory, and Bush has promised us defeat. We’ll see which promise is more truthful,”

- Mullah Omar.
I just realized Tether is now bigger than Madoff.
> fuck ton of money

> tried to solve this problem for everyone

It doesn't sound like the GP was oversimplifying the problem, quite the opposite - wanting to spend a "fuck ton of money" to try to solve something implies that it is a complex problem that may not be solved with a "fuck ton of money".
Pretty much every time this comes up, I point to Hicetnunc, as I feel despite its small size and shaky organization, it is indicative of the kind of disruptions that may occur, and also how it may prove beneficial to many creators.

https://mattdesl.substack.com/p/hicetnunc-and-the-merits-of-...

Considering NFT/Web3 only really entered public discourse in 2021, and programmable smart contracts are still nascent, I wouldn’t be so quick to write it all off.
So what happens if the owner of that billion attempts to convert one thousand into USD?
A loaf of bread would cost $100
I in fact do so!

I daily drive Linux, and do 95+% of my gaming on it - I just also recognize that it is an 'unsupported configuration'. It works well enough for me and for many/most people, but it will never be as 'out of the box' as Windows, until the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop arrives.
Gordian Software (YC W19) Is Hiring Back End Engineers
Egress pricing is free for certain content. It's not free for all content. If i'm a fast food joint and offer free meals to veterans, I can do that, even if some customers complain that i'm not running a soup kitchen where everyone eats free.

Cloudflare can offer free bandwidth to a whole host of sites and still have "a competitive CDN offering" without giving away free video hosting, arguably one of the most expensive use-cases to support.
Or... people were selling like mad due to the 20% crypto drop and the exchange didn't actually have the tokens so they just closed shop and called it a hack.

Is there any proof they continuously held those funds until the hack?
The comment above mine asked for an example. There is a reasonable interpretation of my comment that doesn’t seem like insanity. We can meet there.
Here's another similar one, but acted prose instead of a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
This almost had my monitor plastered with dirty moon chai. :)
Well, except that as the situation developed, it turned into exactly what you describe, a conflict between the USSR and everybody else. That tends to suggest that the analysis has value.
You might want to say what location you are in for a truly useful answer.

In the UK at least most providers keep the SIM active if it sees some activity in a given space of time¹ irrespective of top-up activity². So if “low” use stretches as far as one text every month or two maybe just have it send an “I'm still here” message regularly. Also acts as a double-check that not getting alerts means all is OK instead of that the alerting service is broken.

1: the GiffGaff one I used for pure data for a week-and-a-half when my landline was down in2020, shut off after three months and a few nagging texts IIRC

2: though if you don't top-up once per month you usually drop onto the basic tariff, so no more “unlimited texts”, but if you are topping up that infrequently that is probably fine
"You already own me, don't you?"
It's possible because of their scale.

You could drive all over town buying groceries piecemeal at whatever store has the biggest loss leader deal on those particular items, but for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs the savings will be offset by the expense of going to multiple stores. Yet if you are buying 10,000 gallons of milk and 10,000 loaves of bread, it becomes feasible.
I'll add on top of the article's claims, crypto is also not solving any decentralization problems that are interesting to me.

There are a few interesting ideas with the blockchain, and it was something that was worth looking into at least initially. It's something that could be iterated on, it's not useless. But at this point, it is becoming increasingly obvious to me that as a general strategy, federation is a better approach to decentralization than the blockchains' vision.

Around the parts of decentralization that actually matter to me, and in particular in regards to anti-corporate/anarchist spaces, blockchains have almost universally ended up fairing worse than simpler federated projects. The introduction of a "ledger" in the first place seems to be a magnet for the exact corporate/government attention that people say they want to avoid. I've also seen a lot of attempts at turning the blockchain into a tool for app creation and community management, but as far as I can tell none of them have turned out to be particularly noteworthy or useful -- there's not a lot there where I'm looking at it and thinking, "this shows massive potential."

So when I think about my limited time on this earth, I am much more inclined to spend it following and supporting stuff like Matrix, Mastodon, Peertube; heck, even the really "boring" stuff like just increased pressure on Apple to support web apps better on iOS is going to have a much bigger impact on decentralized, anti-corporate app creation than almost anything I can see coming out of Ethereum right now. It's not that there's zero value in the blockchain as a concept or zero potential, if people want to do engineering in that space then fine, I guess. But I look at what the blockchain spaces are putting out right now, and it's just not comparable to any of the other efforts that are going on with decentralization. It turns out that securely syncing an uncontrolled ledger is not as important of a problem or as useful as we thought it might be.

The closest thing I've seen here to an actually exciting project is Handshake, and Handshake has a ton of problems, it's not a great, permanent solution to the problem of DNS ownership. It just happens to be one of the very few, narrow areas where a shared ledger really does matter.
You really should have read the article, Joe.
I'm imagine all the downvotes here are white people uncomfortable with their own history. Deal with it. you can't understand the modern migrant crisis without understanding the last 200 years of colonialism and exploitation.

Hell, its still going on. just look at the chocolate trade or diamonds or a forced free trade that allows rich devloped countries to push commodities into africa preventing local production from being financially viable.

Its rich europeans continuing to drive poverty in africa.
What problems does it have the potential to solve?
You'll probably be less disappointed if you read this as a paper about VRP using genetic algorithms as opposed to space exploration
Oh poppycock, it was not gish gallop. It is a list of in-production applications that you should research and understand before you do some drive by criticism of a rapidly evolving and growing technological ecosystem. If you lack basic curiosity, there's not much anyone can do to convince you. Anyone can be an arm-chair critic, go find the fundamental flaws in these in-production systems and tell me why they're not sustainable. Tell me why they're not the future. Be specific.
> I think a lot of good would come from that and not much bad.

Here something that'd happen - the homeless in encampments would get hoovered up by slumlords who put them in squalor and consume their $1k checks. Poor people would have more children because each child = $1k/mo, even if they have to wait 18 years. Abduction would be easy - the ransom pays itself over time. Fraud would be rampant. The ultra poor underclass who are undocumented would still get nothing, further exacerbating the divide.
The UI certainly reminds me of Scuba. Is a comparison to Honeycomb available? The founders are both ex-FB people also offering Scuba-like observability as a service.
One of the great things about Minecraft is game play can be tailored to a player's particular tastes. In this instance: if you want to dig straight down and build a branch mine to get diamonds and iron, you can; if you want to take the more risky route of exploring caves, you can. Personally, I fall into the former category since my main interests lay in exploration and building. Dropping down to the bottom of the world is a quick way to get the resources required to craft an enchantment table and suit up in armor, leaving more time to explore the surface for things like jungles, mesas, sunken ships, and anything else that will provide the resources for my latest build.

Does 1.18 change things? I'm trying to keep an open mind, trying to convince myself that the new ore distribution adds nuance to my opening moves. When that conviction fails, I look for other things that hold promise. Something that I've toyed around with doing in the past is creating a Zork-esque underground empire, but have always held back on those plans since the old cave networks were bland and cramped. Yet the new underground biomes make such a project more appealing.
Every dishwasher I've used in Europe, works like this one in India [1]. Not particularly odd in any way. Fill to the brim and close.

This one [2] that seems to be American, does look odd to me.

[1] https://youtu.be/zqP0lMo4CEw?t=138
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_0c1amB58
Except the worldwide birth rate did not change much in 2020, even for countries severely affected by Covid like US and Brazil. The apparent sharp drop from 1.6 to 1.3 probably had no relation to the pandemic after all.
It's not new. It's just there isn't a consumer use for nitrogen so it's harder to obtain. Helium has a consumer market in inflating balloons, though. It occurs to me that argon would also work although there isn't a lot of consumer market.
Hello still_grokking, welcome & thank you ;)
> This season, a handful of other major retailers — Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, Ikea and Target — are also chartering their own vessels to bypass the busiest ports and get their goods unloaded sooner.
Neat tech, but probably not super appropriate for this person's particular application, which involved detecting network outages.
Markov's chain?
Quickly generating procedural worlds at runtime
I don't think it's a problem. On land, you can use drones, walls and fences. On the sea, don't allow boats get into your territory.

In addition, there are many "soft" measures. Cooperation with countries like Lybia and Turkey. Help to alleviate the problems they are running from. Announce that anyone who crosses illegaly will not receive an asylum. Etc.
My hope is cloned meat! Wouldn't mind paying a little extra for it. And you are absolutely right, having a meatless diet is getting progressively easier.
> Yet you can do the same for the OS technology, if this was about something that was implemented on OS Y: “It’s not interesting to me that this was developed on OS Y. The abstract techniques that they used are more interesting to me than the specific OS they used.”

I would absolutely say that. OS evangelism is as uninteresting as language evangelism, at least in comparison to a discussion about abstract software techniques / concepts and their implications.

> Complaining about evangelism without offering any kind of criticism of what is supposedly being evangelized betrays just as much bias as the supposed missionaries.

I did offer clear and actionable criticism. Evangelism is less interesting than a talk based in general first principles. That’s my opinion and I think it’s a widely held one. I never accused the presenters of bias and if they are biased, I have absolutely no problem with that because all humans have biases. For the record, I am not biased against Rust but perhaps I am not sufficiently biased in favor of Rust to the extent that Rust evangelism would be interesting to me.
Older, less-informed biologists also gave us scientific racism.

Polar bears and Asiatic black bears live in different places and have different appearances and behaviors. They called those different species.

Norwegian humans and Chinese humans live in different places and have different appearances and behaviors. They called those different races.