skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an entirely naive view, debt is debt even if it's domestic and funded by government funds. Evergrande is one of several high profile defaults now occurring with major property corporations in China. Cascading failure even slow failures will impact the national economy in really bad ways. These failures happen slowly and gradually and then all at once towards the end of a nations downward spiral.

A nation that overproduces manufactured goods but has to import food from foreign nations to feed it's own people and braces with power cuts even it's most industrial areas is in trouble. Put in a toxic debt scenario, reliance on foreign states for energy, worsening foreign relations and a pandemic and you have a recipe for cascading effects. This is the same path that the Soviet Union took and at one time they had taken lead in many areas such as space exploration. The Soviets also had the advantages of energy independence and plentiful natural resources. China has no such advantages and doesn't nearly have the overwhelming global power that the Soviet's did at their height. The Soviet Union could have been described as a global empire something that China hasn't yet achieved.

What makes the impending China collapse worse is the magnitude of debt levels and the impact on the global economy due to China's deep integration with it. They won't just go down but will take all other industrialized nations with them.

There's no government functions in China that have any ability for transparency, accountability or self-criticism. China's current militant "wolf-warrior" stance in world affairs telegraphs it's own insecurity. They internally know they're failing and the risk is increasing but can never admit it or take corrective actions because that would mean admitting their top leadership have made mistakes.
> A bundle of inputs to a function just doesn't have the same weight as a struct representing a repository or a commit or something

That's true. But IMO a language primitive can carry a wide variety of semantics.
No matter what the science about the microbiology of this, the social science says that people will not comply with this.
There's also the logistics of it. There must be a better way.
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My understanding is that was their model.

If you let teenagers pirate your product, they're already familiar with it by the time they get hired. When they get hired, the cost to re-train them on something else is more expensive than the license (at least, in the short term).
Facebook is a major contributor (sometimes the primary one) to many famous open-source projects: Linux, mercurial, MySQL, React, jemalloc, PyTorch, GraphQL, and probably several others I’m not thinking of.

They’re also one of the top AI/ML research institutions in the world with a huge chunk of the papers published at top conferences.

Similar statements are also true of Google.
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We must not forget to mention Einstein, who also was in the habit of taking naps in a an armchair while holding a rock in his hand.
> and yet we both conclude it is blockable

Extremely polarizing language for something that is way more a scale to me, and I don't agree that this technology is blockable. I already elaborated some scenarios where hosting can respawn easily, with no coupling to any particular infrastructure. That to me is pretty unblockable. There's other resilliencies offered here.

The story keeps getting better, given all the resilience features at Bittorrent's core: webtorrent clients could connect to multiple trackers just fine. Since it's tracker based, there's no need for any specific host to stay online. We can all just use the existing tracker network.

Even if the entire tracker network is taken down- something that has never happened to bittorrent & which is beyond imagining to me- bittorrent still has a peer exchange network & allows for peers to manually be added. Whence peer exchange can kick in & keep resilliency going.

I'm sorry but I have no agreemenet whatsoever with you on blockability. This has multiple vast layers of resillience that are excellent, which have never seen active threat against them.

What would make you happy? Do we need a system able to resist long term nuclear winter to be unblockable? What's the goal here? You've still been extremely unclear what your technical complaints actually are, extremely specious, & aggressive. And now you are also putting words in my mouth.

> You are assuming bad faith here.

I think I've done quite well working around doing that, & worked hard to find something to discuss. In contrast, you have yet to specify a specific technical case at all, to explain what issue you actually have or what you think the problem or scenario you are imagining is. And you use aggressive position & hard words to double down on your argumentless snub, which to me reads like a bad faith follow-up, one I challenge you to do better on.

I mostly think you don't know the tech. Which is fine. Bittorrent is fairly complex & has a lot of layers to it. There aren't great primers to get filled in on it. Bittorrent is a great basis, one that countless millions have been spent trying to block & take down & combat, but the system has been extremely resillient. Magnet links "just work", fantastically well, and are super easy to share, to get started, over any medium one wants. The underpinnning distributed P2P technologies are broadly capable of taking over from there. I don't think your short, undetailed, savage doubt is contributive or accurate: you should better define your issues if you are going to throw such a hard heavy opinion down against great tech.
Once you got past the bad piano sounds, it was in way too many arcade and home video systems to keep track of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2151

One of my favorite pieces is Brian Schmidt's music for Swords of Fury, a Williams pinball machine from 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMIp5nG-C3o
Hare-brained theory of mine is that God created the universe we know inside of a black hole with the intent of rescuing information (not a known "thing" but entropic information) from it, and we are part of the experiment.

If we acquire the right "bits", we get drawn out of the black hole at the end of the experiment. If we don't, we get left in to ultimately break down into Hawking Radiation. Hell is being left behind, not eternal torment just eventual complete subsumption into entropic decay.

This would explain a lot of things. Miracles? Just tweaking the experiment. Jesus? Sent in to provide some sort of data export connection between the two levels. Original sin? We took on some value or aspect that complicated or corrupted the data export, making us both less and more valuable but requiring a "filter" (presumably death) to determine which data exports have value for the project.

Actual sins? Probably actions that decrease the value of your data, or decrease the value of others' data.

It's all hooey and stuff I imagined, my religious fanfic, so to say, but it's an interesting thought to me and I felt like sharing it, so enjoy.
> like Requests (think curl)

https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html ?
It's almost mind boggling that it went for so long undetected. It's been sitting there for 7 years.
The Delphi version we used cost $3000 per developer ~ 2003-2005.
>Also, don’t forget that languages with big standard libraries, like Python or C# or Java, always end up with oodles of stuff in there that is deprecated or incompatible. That’s as bad a sign as anything.

This does not happen that much, and in Java and .Net world if some functionality is deprecated there is a replacement, I think I only remember some possible unsafe or ineeficient functions were deprecated so you use the better ones. I don't have experience with Rust , only with node/npm and is a hell , for some reason is decided to split stuff in super small pakcagtes of various quality, today I sepnd hours debugging a npm freeze caused by some package , in the end the cause is probably a shit npm/node implementation that crashes when some specific git version is installed , but debugging this I discovered that the unit testing packages the project uses(I inherited them) instead of beeing one or few packages are a few, and for some reason one of them had a weird dependency that it should not have(a dev only despondency ) and this dependency was also just pulling directly from GitHub ...shit in a few years when GitHub is gone lots of things will stop working (I also had issues with scripts because someone changed master into main because American politics...).

I personally prefer the Java or .Net model, a big standard lbirary and then for most important things you have a small number of options since the community did not wanted to do CV driven development, and most of the time you find all you need in a single library with no or few dependencies. But Rust does not have the Java or .Net money to hire devs to work on the boring stuff of correctly implementing standards like json,XML, date&time and keep maintaining it - (not sure how Python did it) and Rust community seems to be inspired byt node community a lot and this is bad.
Sometimes I get into what feels like similar state during meditation, particularly when tired. It definitely produces "different" thoughts, but I never thought of it this way. Interesting.
Minecraft 1.18.1 was released to patch this exploit. They don't guarantee that < 1.17 isn't vulnerable still.
When I go to youtube, I'm looking for something.

But I will see the front page of crap in my peripheral vision and wonder about the millions of people who click on that garbage. Sometimes I'll even look at the names for a second and think how it's the same few names always, and how crazy that they somehow get all the attention in the world for some nonsense.

For that matter, now I see people use the word "influencer" as if it sounds perfectly respectable to them, and it shocks me every time.
Recently here on HN, user 'native_samples' said, "anything based on their mRNA tech became toxic after multiple doses. That's why they refocused on vaccines".[1]

Now we are talking about more and more frequent vaccine booster doses. Shouldn't that be a concern?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306624
>Maybe something like a soft object that when a few moments after it is released makes a squeak sound.

Could use some kind of heat or capacitive touch sensor to detect when it's no longer in contact with your hand. Or I guess the KISS version of that would just be to use some sort of physical switch to detect when the object hits the floor. I could totally see there being a market for something like this!
Sounds to me like something to help write rust code. I would be interested as well, my rust projects have been pretty small but I do feel the pain of type changes causing major refactors to be needed
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I agree that there are places like that, I worked at one briefly.. the key there being the word 'briefly'. As soon as it got annoying I started looking and had a new job pretty quick.

Lack of mobility used to be an issue as well, but with all the current remote work possibilities this is no longer the case. The bad employers will end up with the bottom of the barrel, just like in cities with lots of good options, as all their talent will be able to find work elsewhere.
> so long undetected

... that we know of.
Quaternions are the even part of the Clifford (aka Geometric) algebra associated to a three-dimensional space, so the connection is quite close. This case is also quite special because the quaternions form a division algebra over the real numbers, meaning that each nonzero quaternion has an inverse. Finite-dimensional real division algebras are quite rare: indeed the only ones up to isomorphism are the real numbers, complex numbers, and quaternions.

Geometric algebra is great if you want to extend things to higher dimensions, or spaces with different metric signatures (the 4-dimensional spacetime for example). But quaternions should not be discounted just because they fit into a generalisation - they have many quite special properties all of their own.
> Globally: Having to create accounts for everything. And thus, having passwords, public keys, private keys, password managers, etc. etc.

I have 592 passwords in my password manager :-(
Yes, if you are currently using a remote for the ceiling fan/light assembly because you do not have a 3 conductor wire from the switch to the fan, then it would be impossible.
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Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508352
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Will take a look
Surprised not to see a mention of “!!” here, I use that a decent amount
Are you talking about the CMS Price Transparency rule? That went into effect on January 1st this year. Is your hospital compliant yet? Mine isnt. I can request a quote for "shoppable services". They do not have a machine readable format listing of all their "standard charges" and they do not have a customer readable format listing of prices for "shoppable services".

Rule changes like this take time to be implemented and effective. You cant very well expect current practices to change when effectively very little has changed in price transparency yet.
Oh dear. FSD (Fools Self Driving) Beta once again causing havoc and putting the life of this driver at risk and deciding to hit another car after the driver regaining control of the vehicle very quickly and going off road, especially in the most dangerous time to drive, which is at night.

Had the driver not kept their eyes on the road or was sleeping in the car, this system would have crashed into that incoming vehicle. This video just proves that night-vision is non-existent in this 'safety-critical' system.

Outrageous.
People from the 1980s are still alive and they’re not making anything more impressive than anyone else.

These people weren’t magicians only held back by a lack of computer power, they were (again, “are”) regular people trying to maximize their output given their resources.

Let’s say you go back and hand a powerful computer to them. What would Mac Paint look like? I’m sure it would have colors (assuming you also have them a monitor), probably a lot more of those goofy and useless textured fills nobody wants, layers, probably some filters, higher resolutions, and probably simple brush strokes. But do you really think they would manage to implement any of the seriously impressive features that modern Photoshop has? Content aware fill? AI upscaling? Of course not. It would probably take them a long time to get smart selection working in a halfway decent manner.
You can use union(enum) to avoid having to write a separate enum definition for tags and std.meta.FieldEnum() exists should you also want to derive an enum from the union later on.
For what it's worth, I once struggled to implement random walks on custom hardware because its ISA lacked trig support and I couldn't generate N(0,1)s quickly enough. For that application, tens of fp32 maccs to transform from uniform data was a non-starter.
Humanity will have achieved immortality. Dying / Aging will be considered a curable disease. This will have all kinds of societal consequences. Both positive and negative.
You can. Im interested now :)
> There are multi-generational scientific experiments e.g. the pitch drop or (hopefully) LTEE.

Are they building something, especially of scale? The pitch drop experiment in particular is extremely passive as I understand. You essentially wait for the pitch to drop, with occasional maintenance (which I imagine being minor, maybe I'm wrong). LTEE though I think qualifies, because when I watched a documentary about it, I had the impression that it's quite some work.

Even still, an entire Cathedral or traveling through all of France (and organizing people to do so) seems much larger in scope. Though maybe those are just more extreme examples themselves?

> One thing that’ll be interesting if we actually manage more than one generation is the software projects

I'm not entirely sure if there is a common UNIX descendant out there that still even has one original line of code from one of its early ancestors[1], but there's certainly building and maintenance going strong around it.

TeX and Metafont I'm less sure, but there seem to be so many developers of very elaborate packages, that I would be surprised if TeX itself was left rotten.

Generally, it seems that many software projects have changed maintenance teams many times, with no involvement of the original authors anymore... but that's also more maintaining something existing (and building upon it), not something with a clear completion goal several generations down.

[1] Though I would not be surprised if you pointed to, say, some terminal code in a BSD variant and tell me it's from the original BSD.
No, AFAICT it's actually building a representation of a more detailed ray-traced 3D geometry in a way that can be rendered real time from any angle and with realistic lighting
I'd like to hear more about this UI. Is it something that tuns on top of Linux or windows as a desktop environment or window manager? How do you interact with programs (all text based)?

Assuming grandmas can use it, the paradigm will be easy to pick up fast? What's the syntax like if it's meant to be used widely? I'm always interested in learning about new computing UX paradigms, there are always ways to improve things!
>> "Pattern matching" obviously includes "pattern finding" already, in common parlance.

So, the terminology I recognise is "pattern matching" when referring to matching an object against a pattern, as in matching strings to regular expressions or in unification (where arbitrary programs can be matched); and "pattern recognition" when referring specifically to machine vision tasks, as an older term that as far as I can tell has fallen out of fashion. The latter term has a long history that I don't know very well and that goes back to the 1950's. You can also find it as "statistical pattern recognition".

To be honest, I haven't heard of "pattern finding" before. Can you say what "common parlance" is that? What I'm asking is, whom is it common to, in what circles, etc? Note that a quick google for "pattern finding" gives me only "pattern recognition" results.

To clarify, deep learning is not "pattern matching", or in any case you will not find anyone saying that it is.
I never thought in my life there would be a serious article on a scientist talking about unknown objects discharging molten metal. Never mind in the same article on research on directed EMF causing Havana Syndrome, or mentioning skinwalker ranch in the same paragraph…

Pandemics. People with Mysterious Brain Diseases. UAPs being talked about seriously. WTF has the world come to?
> Also it had sane strings. Strings with sizes

Except they were prefixes on the buffer which was bad and not sane, and greatly limited the size of the original pascal strings.

And technically they were UCSD strings, not standard pascal, and other implementations used e.g. padded strings.
Not OP, but I'm not worried about saving how many characters I type. We have autocomplete that fixes much of that problem anyways. I'm more worries about being able to read things others have written or even my own code when I come back to it. I tried Tailwind, and get the praise, but I still find it takes more time to read and understand than CSS. It just seems cluttered, and I couldn't get over that.
"Do we still have anything like this?"

In terms of buildings, the longest one might be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia

Otherwise I would say science in general.
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It can backfire. Recently Coke pushed a cringe ad to Twitch and I have seem a lot of people in a diverse set of channels complaining about "not being able to tank the Coke ad". The impression left not always is positive for the brand. Even Jesus, the best brand ever, couldn't please everyone. But I see myself still being influenced by impressions left decades ago in my mind when I used to watch TV as a kid. And smart kids nowadays probably use an ad blocker but there wasn't much they could do to avoid it in my age.
Why would you expect Apple to do anything about it? Isn't their answer to usually wipe and rebase anyhow?
A shot glass with a drunk penguin typing rm -rf into a terminal.
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> I’m yet to find the content use cases.

It's an alternative transport, not application layer. If you can imagine doing anything with the world wide web , or ftp, you can imagine what this is for. It can transport hypertext files around, or whatever other file type you want.

In the web case, it'd just be some local http files you could open in a local file origin. There'd be no server. But that's still a way to exchange whatever art or media you could ever imagine.

We are bounded only by imagination. The internet is built around the Internet Protocol (IP), a way of streaming data arbitrarily from one computer to another. It has been up to us to imagine uses, to chase new possibilities. What do you think the use cases for IP are? Can you see what that made possible? Your question is in effect that, and trying to grasp at how broad, how possible, how potentiated this great work is is dauntingly hard, for we could share any type of content we want with either.
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Ah, so in this framing, syntax is another way of saying amount of code?

Here's some Rust code

pub fn read(&self) -> u64 {
self.counts.values().fold(0, |acc, x| acc + x)
}

Here's some analogous Go code

func (w *Whatever) Read() uint64 {
var total uint64
for _, v := range w.values {
total += v
}
return total
}

The former is certainly fewer characters than the latter. But to me it represents _more_ syntactic bureaucracy, not less. There are more sigils, more language concepts I need to understand, more _types of syntax_ to express the same thing. It's 20% of the SLoC, but parsing it requires more implicit knowledge, and takes no less time, versus parsing the latter.

YMMV, of course. None of this is objective.
Reese would have failed regardless. Not sure saving him in this instance would have made a difference. In fact, letting him fail early might have been better.
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Probably not. Going from a net worth of $1 million to $2 million is probably not as life changing as going from a living standard of $1.90 a day to $3.80 a day. Wasn't for me.

So probably no.
I remember switching floppy discs rather a lot when trying to use GEOS back in the '80s.

My C64 now has a USB interface 8)
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Network is more important than experience imo. You can still grow experience-wise while freelancing, but you need the connections to get the work, ideally with little overhead. If you have those, no reason to delay unless there is a specific kind of experience you are looking to being to your clients that you don't yet have.