skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is obviously reductionist but let's cherry pick some examples from the UK, bastion of the free.

It's run by an apparently corrupt government [0]

The NHS falls over every Winter, even without the help of a pandemic [1]

Backlogs on the NHS are now getting so severe that doctors are institutionally negligent - I know of two personal cancer cases missed for no good reason and GPs I know are confess to giving poor care due to being understaffed [2]

Knife crime is so much of a problem it gets its own page for statistics [3]. (Spoilers: there were over 3000+ knife related injuries in London in the last year)

And so, only when an MP gets stabbed to death is it newsworthy [4][5]

Police can barely keep street violence from breaking out, and for the rest of the country it's just bants [6]

They can't even keep their force from kidnapping innocent women off the streets at 9pm [7] and so now you their own advice is to not trust them [8]

For all the talk about democracy and freedom, it really seems like freedom is about the freedom for the strong to harm and extort others.

No thanks.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/11/boris-johns...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jun/27/an-nhs-winte...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/27/nhs-backlog-...

[3] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58930593

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jo_Cox

[6] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9800015/Thug-smashe...

[7] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58745581

[8] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58753857
This looks and smells like an inside job.

Similar to: https://cointelegraph.com/news/signs-point-to-inside-job-in-...

or: https://dailyhodl.com/2019/04/01/inside-job-19-million-bithu...

The timing seems suspicious too. When most of crypto land was crashing. My theory is that this exchange simply didn't have enough liquidity when the price crashed and they simply siphoned off the hot wallet. Lots of people wanted to sell at once. Bitmart did not have these funds. A hack at the same time is just too convenient.

Watching the Ether address get drained in real time yesterday was surreal to see, like out of a movie: https://etherscan.io/address/0x4bb7d80282f5e0616705d7f832acf...

This whole space is full of scams and exchanges that know everything about you in terms of what limits you've set to buy/sell, the order book, liquidity, etc. And worse, they can bet against you. Alameda admitted yesterday that they ended up profiting quite a bit being short BTC Futures (long spot) because the spread collapsed (Source: https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/14672197504891412...)

Only tight regulations can save investors because these "hacks" are way too common. And don't even get me started on Tether ( who conveniently printed another billion after the liquidations were done: https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1467155858228494353 )

Edit: rofl, they just printed another $1 billion, on a weekend!

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1467504581571751940

It's funny how brazen they've become.

Not to mention Bitfinex and Tether CTO implying the dip was done after they printed: https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1467053381072138240

Everything in this space seems so shady. But the regulators don't seems to give a damn and keep kicking the can for eternity. It's the wild wild west out there.

Moral of the story: Not your keys, not your coins. Do not keep your coins on exchanges.
One of the reasons. The ability to exchange cheaply and quickly is another reason, di visibility another one
Wolfram is on from -2:15:40
But you're not trying to prove X = 3 and starting out by assuming X = 3.

There wasn't even an attempt to disprove the assumption in TFA.
pBFT research existed since the 90s, but I'm not sure if they had good leader election mechanisms or an incentive to participate as a node.
It’s not about permission in the idealistic sense. It’s about issues like people being pressured or manipulated into it so someone can have inheritance, so the healthcare system can save money, etc.

These would be even larger concerns in the US than Switzerland for cultural and economic reasons.

I am personally against assisted suicide for the same reason I am against the death penalty: the logic works but only if you ignore the ugliness and messiness of real human behavior.
But it's interesting, because it sets an upper limit for the gold price.
And this is why I use Ardour. It just keeps getting better and the devs are amazingly responsive! I'm really looking forward to Ardour 7 :-)
Could you explain why you think the fundamental concept is egregiously flawed?
Wonder if Lytle S. Adams was aware of Olga of Kiev and the story of getting pigeons as a tribute from a sieged city, then attaching a piece of sulfur to them and releasing pigeons back to burn the city

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising
So for $800 they go to prison for 3 years, and for anything over $50,000,000 they get a commuted sentence and parole? That’s generally how it works in the US legal system.
Have you ever seen the Veritasium video on where fractals actually come from in 3D? If not, and since you already thought fractals were fascinating, hold on to your hat.

https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk
www.vestmap.com (I own it!)
/r/homelab will lead you down a dark path for your wallet of buying used enterprise gear and self hosting tons of docker based services. I regret nothing.
For Blockchain, you just invent a new coin (DOGE, Shibu, whatever). Every new Blockchain is a new group of people printing a trillion / quadrillion crypto tokens and throwing into the market.

As long as cryptofans buy up new coins or NFTs, you can keep printing new tokens.
Apple Glasses
It would be better to already have arrangements pre-paid (Edit: in the US, it's called "pre-need" and can save 80-90% of the costs by buying decades before), and the coroner and the mortician notified. Having someone "find" you isn't a very classy way to go out.
> My biggest annoyance with TiddlyWiki has been the ergonomics of saving.

I wanted something that just let me open the wiki and save changes to it. Nothing else. No massive dependencies. This is what I wrote: https://github.com/bachmeil/tiddlyd You view you TW and you save changes to it, nothing else.
Because of Egyptian inscriptions. If it was only one group, why do Egyptian inscriptions list 5+ groups? Here's the relevant article section:

"The Philistines (known to the Egyptians as the Peleset) were among several groups listed as the Sea Peoples by the Egyptians. The other Sea Peoples were the Tjekker, the Shekelesh, the Ekwesh, the Shardana, the Danuna, and the Weshesh. An inscription on the tomb of Ramses III reads:

“The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms, from Khatte, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa, and Alashiya on, being cut off at [one time]. A camp [was set up] in one place in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them. Their confederation was the Peleset, Tjekker, Shekelesh, Danuna, and Weshesh, lands united. They laid their hands upon the lands as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting.”

Arzawa is in western Anatolia, Khatte is the Hittite realm in central Anatolia, Qode is Cilicia in modern southeastern Turkey, Carchemish was a city on the banks of the Euphrates River, Amurru was an Egyptian vassal in northern Lebanon and coastal Syria, and Alashiya is Cyprus. The Danuna are the Greek tribe of Danaans referenced by Homer in “The Iliad”. The ruins of the Hittite capital of Hattusa have been excavated, and the destruction of the city was between 1190 and 1180 BC. In the same decade, the city of Troy was destroyed as well, likely in what is remembered as the Trojan War.

The identity of the other groups is less certain. The Mycenaean Greeks are known to have had contact with the EEF peoples of Sardinia - the Nuragics - from pottery finds. The etymology of Sardinia’s name is unknown, but the the name predates the arrival of the Phoenicians. The Shardana referenced by the Egyptians as being among the Sea Peoples may be Sardinians, Nuragics recruited by Mycenaean Greek sailors for campaigns of plunder and conquest. The Sardinians certainly knew of the wealth of the east - their copper, valuable in the Bronze Age as one of the ingredients for bronze, originated from Cyprus.

Similarly, the name of the Shekelesh may refer to the aforementioned Sicanians in Sicily. Alternatively, it could refer to the Italic-speaking Sicels (relatives of the Romans) who invaded southern Italy and Sicily in the late 13th or early 12th century during a massive drought in their home, the Po River Basin of northern Italy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples#Primary_documentar...
Sometimes legal frameworks are inhumane, immoral, cruel, and ought to be loopholed. I can think of at least 5 examples right now.
I disagree, I do think they care about what people do with their Legos, to the point of having the whole etiquette around how to properly use Lego parts.

But to the point of caring if people are actually building their limited edition sets? After the purchase people are free to do what ever they want with it, and like I said, they are making bank on it.

If they wanted to throw panic they just had to re-release limited edition sets.

>Same how Nvidia doesn't care that their GPUs end up in the hands of miners and scalpers, instead of gamers to enjoy, create memories and have fun.

And that's the fuel of change, AMD could have been capturing gamers but they're too focused on CPUs. But Intel got a taste of what it feels like not caring about consumers.

Maximizing shareholder value is a short term strategy for B2C, usually doesn't go well. Shareholder value is a consequence from generating value to consumers, not the other way around.
Samonell made a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX0Dg9MxsOg

Slightly nsfw.
Whether code is packaged a a library or inside a base kernel is definitely open to interpretation/design. We, for instance have the concept of a 'klib' which is code we don't want packaged in the base kernel but is optional and can be included at build-time. For instance deploying to Azure requires a cloud-init call to check-in to the meta-data server to tell it the instance has booted - not something you want to put inside every image if you are only deploying to say Google Cloud. Likewise, we have another klib that provides APM functionality but checks-in to a proprietary server so clearly not everyone wants that inside their image either.

However, there is a lot more than just networking/storage drivers and some of it is very common code. Page table management for instance. Do you have 2,3,4 page table levels? How do you allocate memory to the app? IOAPIC vs PIC? Do you support calls the way GLIBC wants? RTC vs TSC vs PIT? I'm not saying any of these can't be librarized but they are most definitely not choices I would expose to the vast majority of end-users to choose at build-time for.
https://concise-encoding.org/
That's great! I very briefly went through the introductory docs, but otherwise I just dove right in. The language is really simple, the tough part is wrapping your head about immutability.

There's an awesome repo with examples in pretty much every language [1], I go there afterwards to learn how other people did it. It's amazing to see so many different ways of approaching the problem. My solutions are also public [2], but bear in my I'm still only a few days in to learning Elixir!

If you do want to try attacking AoC with Elixir, I suggest you research and understand these concepts, it's more than enough to get you going:

- Pattern matching. The "=" sign is _not_ an assignement, it's trying to fill the shape of the variables on the left with the stuff on the right.

- The pipe operator "|>", the return value of the previous function is implicitly as the first paramter of the next function, it makes it easy to build chains.

- There is no "return". Use small functions with `case` statements, or function overloading. The last value in a function is implicitly the return value, like in Rust.

- Enum.map(), filter(), reduce(), zip(), chunk(), these functions largely get you through the manipulation of data. The first three are very popular in JS.

- Immutability. There's no mutating data, hence why you need reduce() for example.

- There are no loops, instead, get used to doing recursion. hd(), tl() are useful for this.

- Anonymous functions `fn a, b -> a + b end`, there is also a shorthand form `&(&1 + &2)`, and you can also pass functions by reference `&sum/2`

- The "/1", "/2", ... after a function is the arity, it's not scary, it just means the number of paramters that it takes.

- Function overloading is amazing, it's like pattern matching. If you provide constants in the function declaration, it will only be called if those constants match:

```

def factorial(0), do: 1

def factorial(n) when n > 0, do: n * factorial(n - 1)

```

I find the above really elegant. It's correct, the special case for "0" is very explicit, and if you try a negative number, Elixir will simply be unable to match the given problem to a function definition (n < 0), which makes more sense than throwing "BadArgument" errors/exceptions.

If you really want to just solve problems, I advise sticking with Python, there's nothing wrong with it. Most languages also provide a lot of functional concepts, I'm sure Python is no exception (with some libraries). Be prepared that functional languages require you to think differently, but it is really fun to do things in a functional way!

Good luck!

[1]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/awesome-advent-of-code

[2]: https://github.com/MarcusCemes/advent-of-code-2021
I don't think the pinephone pro and pinebook pro are very similar.

"We worked closely with Rockchip’s engineering team to fine-tune the SoC’s performance so that it meets the necessary thermal and battery-consumption envelopes. The result of this cooperation is the RK3399S – a RK3399 variant made specifically for the PinePhone Pro."
Well, if you look at the history of that page, you see that a helpful Wikipedian has deleted a pertinent paragraph that followed the text you cited: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Syria_Palaestina&...

Herodotus in his travel diaries wrote about the region in the 5th century BC and he used the word Palaistine for the region and Palaistinian for the inhabitants. Aristotle in 340 BC wrote about the Dead Sea - "a fabled lake" - which he situated in Palaistine. This suggests that the Greeks thought Palaistine was a greater region than merely Philistia.

Why Hadrian choose to rename and reorganize the provinces of the southern Levant right after the end of the Bar Kokba revolt in 135 is a mystery. The record is silent. Although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, if the renaming was intended to punish the Jews, why weren't the Romans explicit about it? If the renaming was to serve as a deterrent for future rebels? Afaik, the claim that Adrian renamed Iudaea comes from the Christian 4th century scholar Eusebius and is not found in other sources (such as the Talmud). To Christians at the time, God punishing the Jews for crucifying Jesus by having the Romans destroying their temple and erasing their province would have made prefect sense. I.e. Eusebius may have been putting two and two together here.

Another problem with the "renaming as a punishment" theory is that in 135 the Philistines hadn't existed for several centuries. So if punishment was Hadrian's impetus for the renaming, he must have been well-versed in Hebrew religion, otherwise how could he have known that the Philistines was one of their worst enemies? That seems unlikely.
Coming soon to a Teams meeting in front of you ;-) Amazing!
Most of the time "parents caring for children" is considered a good thing. It only is an issue when there's societal pressure to do otherwise, which is also a good thing.
This is fucking stupid.
Many argue that the deliberate cruelty is the point. Also stigma around gas chambers.
How was the approval given for that license to be used? Did the company sign it over and then retroactively renege? Did they just notice that a core developer was their employee at an overlapping time?
Studies of psychedelic therapy for terminally ill patients have had some super interesting results, there’s a section on the topic in Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind which I found fascinating. Seems there is a lot of potential for helping people deal with the existential dread and get more enjoyment from their remaining time with friends and family. Here’s an article for reference: https://nyulangone.org/news/mental-health-benefits-one-dose-...

That said I’m a Swiss citizen and knew someone with a terminal illness who used the “Exit” program and it seemed extremely humane and a positive thing overall and I fully support having it available to everyone in that situation.
New NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping (2021) [video]
Providing SLOs for Resource-Harvesting VMs in Cloud Platforms
> libertarian speed-run to regulated banking

Ha! This is perfectly put.
That’s not what ‘immutable ledger’ means. An equally weighted credit can balance out a debit on an immutable ledger. I think ledgers are generally supposed to be immutable.
> But this is why critics will never see any use cases as valid, because they fundamentally disagree that the thing blockchains do (decentralized coordination) is valuable.

No. We don't "fundamentally disagree". We're looking at proposed "solutions" and immediately see the vast disconnect between what they claim to do/solve/improve and what they actually do/solve/improve.

Any questions and criticism of these claims and solutions is immediately dismissed because these are unquestionable magical solutions beyond any reproach.

And proponents of these things can't even show how and why they are better beyond "because crypto", "because decentralised", "because blockchain", as if this explains things and makes thing automatically better. No, they don't.
Hello world from the first world
Yoganotch.com
Started working on "microsoft.com". Time elapsed: 5 minutes.
A server-side JavaScript runtime environment, like NodeJS but before it was a thing. I found a name, made a logo, a subversion repository and a hello world using SpiderMonkey, Firefox' javascript engine. I was not experienced enough to do anything else. I learnt that giving up is fine and that the execution is more important than the idea. I would have never managed to do nodejs or deno anyway.
Interactive codable Doja Cat music video
Note: you must also build the software yourself to get ASIO support for Windows (which uses RtAudio). You'll be stuck with an order of magnitude greater latency under WASAPI (or worse under MME), assuming your device drivers are built to use it.

https://docs.zrythm.org/md_doc_dev_windows_build.html

IANAL, but it looks like maybe the devs don't want to to register the license with Steinberg and keep this free (as in beer) licensing-wise?

This looks cool, but the barrier to entry to a bit steep under Windows. I want to make noise, not spend time messing around with building software.
Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing Serverless at scale
I've only used it for a class where I had to write an Ethernet driver, and it was a life saver. Lots of good hardware guides in there that save you a lot of time from reading hundred plus page manuals.
Teardown – Electric Mosquito Racket
I haven't tried it myself but at least the piano roll seems better than Bitwig's. And Bitwig is my current choice for Linux.
Yes and I think we're stuck with what's already happening: modifications to existing classifications by genetic discoveries as they occur. There's no good way to please everyone, have a trillion special cases, or throw it all away because it's imperfect.
I modified my Logitech G305 with Kailh silent switches[0] and it has been lovely. It's also super empowering to know that I can easily repair and even improve these devices if and when the switches fail. I've probably thrown out half a dozen mice in the last ten years because of failed microswitches when the rest of the hardware was fine.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2BWK6v2-0
Indeed, sometimes you forgot you are connected to work Wifi on your phone :)

Since then I don't install any work stuff on my phone anymore
Slept with more people
There are some optimizations in the JVM that will improve cache coherence. Bump allocation helps, inlining and escape analysis help, etc.

In theory the GC can also rearrange memory to 'compact' it. I'm not aware of this optimization in practice.
https://trymito.io. We desperately need some redesign help. Thanks!
I often wonder how many decades of progress political correctness (different from ethics) has cost us when it comes to science (when it's sound, provable, and replicable).
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/
“Hi Tesla, can you help me kill my self?”

Sounds like a terrible feature
Why does it have to be Christmas and not Festivus? We can start airing our grievances here.
Bitcoin is a great lesson on why things are the way they are.

It’s not just evil banker man rules, there’s reasons.
Great video! I always did add some in the pre-rinse container. That video solved a long running family debate on the merits of that.
Really neat paper - I wrote a summary of it here: https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/11/30/faster-and-cheaper-se...
But... why? Why would they do that? Like why would they go so out of their way not to mention Rust, to the extent that they would discuss borrowing in LISP or C++?

That's insanity.
LeetCode – Populating Next Right Pointers in Each Node
Libertarians often stand by the 'small govt' ideal, where the ideal size of a govt. is a set of the minimum and necessary regulations needed for basic functioning.

Crypto started off with zero govt, and is speed running towards the same level of regulations that banks operate under. The implication is that libertarians usual complaint about overegulation in legacy systems may be misguided, and that legacy systems are adequately libertarian. Phrased another way, the seemingly crippling regulation in legacy financial systems might actually be the 'minimum' amount of regulations necessary to enable a financial system of the size we operate in today.

A more charitable reading would be that during this speed run, we reach a much earlier and smaller set of regulations that are sufficient for functionality equal to todays legacy system. Crypto can simply 'stop' adding regulation at that point, and achieve the libertarians dream of a leaner and more effective regulatory body. To some degree, it will also accomplish some of original goals of Crypto pioneers of 'low regulation' finance.
The main issue in third world countries is always corruption.
You've gotten confused somewhere.

> However if A ⋂ B is not empty, it follows from knowing f(A) is constant.

That f(A) is constant is supposedly a conclusion, not a premise. It is not a valid conclusion to draw from the stated premises.

> f(A ⋂ B) = f(A) is saying that every result of f(A ⋂ B) is equal to every result of f(A)

As I just responded above, interpreting the claim this way doesn't get it to make any more sense. When f(A ⋂ B) = f(A), there is no basis from which to conclude that f is constant. You have no information about whether f is or isn't constant.

This is not the claim made in the false proof, nor does it have anything to do with the claim made in the false proof. It is a creation of poetically's own mind, and it makes no sense.