skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Adherents would have you believe that the current price, whatever it is at a given point, must mean some variant of “can all these people really be wrong? That’s ridiculous”. It’s not a reasonable starting point for a discussion, and then it immediately breaks down again.

But it is reasonable to dismiss the whole field because you think it's a scam? Please read what you write before you post, as this is meaningless and illogical.
It panics _in debug builds_ but wraps in release builds because including the checks in every arithmetic operation is not zero cost.
Goods that weren't scarce before still can't be scarce. Only a new type of good can be scarce. Do you have a problem with that?
From the description of the problem (a freeze every 3 seconds) I knew exactly what it was. You can fix it by simply upgrading SDL as they fixed this bug 2 years ago.

https://github.com/spurious/SDL-mirror/commit/59728f9802c786...
When the pandemic restrictions were lifted in my country, I took an on site gig as a consultant for a large corporation.

My boss interrupted people all the time to spout nonsense that usually was not related to work. I quickly found out there was an extreme productivity differential when compared to my previous job.

The way I cope with being interrupted is by making it clear I don't want to be interrupted for no reason. If the issue persists, I tell my boss about my small network of recruiters. If the interruptions persist, I reach out to some of those recruiters, and get a contract somewhere else.

Over the years I have found that some corporate types are so far removed from reality, that they don't understand how many engineers actually want to get things done. Working remotely has been a blessing for my career.
Remote Work from Jesolo Italy
Displaying is also questionable. If you want japanese/chinese/etc. rendered correctly in your browser you have to mark corresponding sections with a language tag, they have different rules on how several abstract graphemes shared between them should be rendered (amount and shape of strokes).
> Are you honestly arguing that the CO2 emissions in the production and operation of a solar plant are even remotely comparable to the emissions of a gas plant?

No, just that pretending one or the other is universally accepted as “green” while the other is not is absurd.

Gas isn’t emission free. But “green” has no requirement to be zero emissions. It is in the process of being defined; this is that process and discussion. (Hybrids were once green.) “Green” should move us towards a zero-emissions future. If that happens with gas, that’s better than sitting around getting hysterical about definitions while baseload runs on dirty power.
I am not sure about taxes.
Unfortunately if I were to try to use unsigned ints extensively, I'd be casting them back and forth constantly, because nearly every standard library function that I'd want to use expects int inputs or outputs ints.

A small improvement in correctness is washed out by a huge decrease in ergonomics.
The speculative fiction novel I want to read this year
Very curious. I'll go point by point.

> while anyone can join the Ethereum or Bitcoin network, you can only join if you agree to follow the same protocol that all the other nodes use.

Just reiterated definition of the protocol. Absolutely irrelevant to decentralization topic.

> The way this protocol is decided on is not exactly centralized, but it's not exactly decentralized either.

Decentralization is not "I do whatever I want". It's "other people can't force their arbitrary will on me".

> The entire blockchain world is focused on building systems for global consensus, but global consensus is a goal that is fundamentally at odds with the goal of decentralization.

Once again complete confusion of terms. Global consensus is on question of property. Property is by definition a right to thing that excludes everyone else's rights to the thing. This you can't have two different opinions about ownership and be able to cooperate effectively. Thus - global consensus.

This critique reminds me "blockchain + X" dynamic. You don't need blockchain if you are not talking about global consensus. You don't need blockchain for the use-case where HTTP is enough.

> Ethereum is only decentralized in the way that doesn't matter — you're free to join the decentralized system, under the condition that you act in the exact same way as every other actor in that system.

No! This way of decentralization matters a lot, since it deals with money. Go and read about people who got cut off the banking system as a result of political censorship.

> I care about decentralization is primarily to avoid global failures

Ethereum competes with banking system (global and local) and with great amount of other chains. Author problem is with notion of owneship / property, not with Ethereum.

> If you're trying to run a DAO, why build it on Ethereum... ?

Ethereum is a part of web3, not whole of web3. If you build your DAO on other chain, you will not have this problem.

> It's much more damning to me that the fundamental technology these people choose — Ethereum and similar blockchains — is more centralized than the web.

Author provides this claim while providing no evidence. And they even agree that blockchains are censorship resistant elsewhere in the text.

I see no point in continuing. This article is a critique by a person who got a wind of some buzzwords and now think that they can contribute an insightful opinion.
> for (size_t i = size - 1; i < size; i--) {

Am I alone here feeling that this while working is anything but intuitive and is asking for trouble down the road? Just imagine having to change the countdown for whatever reason in maintenance to 1 instead of zero and you suddenly fiddle with the operator.
Google is forcing all Android applications to have both a version name, which is an arbitrary string that's only used for displaying to the user, and a version code, which is a plain integer and is what is used to decide which is the latest version that will be installed.

That should fix a lot of version number problems (prolly not all) and i've been stealing the idea for my own versioning lately.
Germany's carbon dioxide emissions have been going down steadily since they started switching off their aging nuclear plants. It's amazing to me how people can think they have a rational argument that's based entirely on fiction.

Data: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...
Same, in March I am gonna try to change job and stack indeed, looking for a position as go BE dev.
[...] would be far left in the US.
OK Google is awful for me, it repeats back exactly what I said but rarely interprets it, at all. "Don't know how to help with 'navigate home'", "'send a message'", "'find a supermarket'". Bleurgh. This is via Android Auto. Next minute it's reading me a text and asking if I want to reply by "SMS or WhatsApp".

None of these systems show you enough 'under the hood' to know why it's failing and so react. Clearly, here the voice recognition, tts are working well; some optional visual feedback would be great - like show on screen a list of responses:

- Keyword heard

- OK Google responding

- Voice1 recognised

- Input "navigate home"

- Input sent to maps

- Maps didn't understand

- Reporting failure

I guess Google know all this, at the time of the query, but as they don't know what I'm trying to do (though 'navigate home' is pretty clear, perhaps I was actually saying 'buy a gnome') ... doesn't seem like there's a proper feedback loop to help direct/correct the system?
> why not just a central database?

I would have thought this to be obvious, but these chains, while anonymous still have the following attributes:

- decentralized
- permissionless
- does not rely on third-party trust

A central database has none of these attributes.
Is there a reason for these checklists not to be automated? I would expect the pilot to set the plane in takeoff mode with destination and weight (if the plane cannot measure the weight itself) and the plane to run the checklist itself, calculate v1 and v2, check there is enough fuel to the destination, check all the control surface positions, etc.
> However, with respect to catastrophic destruction, this recent example at a coal plant [0], pales in comparison to something like a Chernobyl or Fukushima.

That's not a catastrophic destruction, merely a generator explosion.

Wikipedia has articles on mining and energy accidents, and you can see there are far more catastrophic one with coal:

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
I’m merely trying to respond to a comment that claims that chrome should have few memory management bugs. I don’t really have an opinion about whether it is modern. I don’t care enough about the distinction between C++ styles to know where to find evidence of the rate of memory management problems in modern C++ codebases. Perhaps I would just find that the definition of modern C++ is ‘the style of C++ where you don’t write code with memory management bugs’ (I.e. if I were to try to find an example it would not be a true Scotsman)
Fun write up. Here’s another example of a binary patch to fix a Linux game issue:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/333300/discussions/0/26463606...
At least Finland has a responsible attitude to the nuclear waste problem.
Hah I want to believe, but yeah valid question. Multiple things like the footage the pentagon released. Interviews multiple military and political folks have done. Also just a general feeling.
This is a 686-word article with 45 sentences, thus an average of 15 words / sentence. That's short by any standard [0].

[0] https://techcomm.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=106
What’s crazy to me is people are letting a car drive itself around with nothing more than a collection of consumer quality single board cameras. There are literally webcams with better specs (resolution, frame rate, dynamic range) on the market right now than what you get on a Tesla.
I wasn't talking about it as in copyright / legal sense, and more in the I can allow others to access a snapshot of it at a given time and/or remove access to it for future content if I wish to do so.

Now the relationship is the reverse, I give content to some org and they can do as they wish with it; I'm surrending it for them to use in exchange of them allowing me to use their platform for free.

e.g. from Twitter's terms of use:

> By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating).

If the content was hosted somewhere else and then displayed on twitter instead, this would not be the case or I could revoke it in the future but still be able to distribute such content via other means

Now, if I want to use another site then I need to duplicate the content myself.

Since all that they really offer is the userbase/community, its very hard for competitors to come into play and offer better terms or capabilities.
In fact, they can change these terms at anypoint and I can do very little about it aside of deleting my account (if they even allow you to do that!)
Sentence length: why 25 words is our limit
So they designed the new Microsoft GUI. That explaines why the interface is nondeterministic and is dependent of disturbances in time-space contunuuum.
TBH, maybe they will have the same fate like Leslie Lamport: "renounce at what your doing now and we will make you rich".
I work from home and the Gnome desktop has a simple toggle to turn off all notifications.

I check slack when I feel like it and if there are messages, I answer them.

I feel very little stress compared to when I was in the office and people were talking, walking and laughing around me constantly. It was impossible to focus for 5 minutes.
> it simply happened organically based on its own merit

I think I agree with you. I'm not sure I agree with "organically", though - it happened almost instantly[0] when IE delivered XMLHttpRequest. It was irresistible because it was so useful.

[0] By "almost instantly", I mean over about 6 months. By the time Firefox delivered XMLHttpRequest, AJAX was already everywhere.
Heh, my last time one basically told me to “think about it, maybe it’s something there” for an hour in a variety of ways, mixed with cool stories of his own. I had a feeling that I’m a better therapist than him because he didn’t even pick on my own work and suggestions towards “the method”, which I’ve got relatively fluent in.

(I had to switch recently because my best doc took a long break for an educational mission. And I can’t blame him, it is a pure necessity.)
How does that compare to (projected) decreases if they didn't switch off their nuclear plants? It seems to me that is what the debate is really about.
Calling Go from Swift
The live webcam at Kaihinmakuhari is tearing up the decks with rightous electrojungle at the moment.
I understand where you're coming from, but the essence of the entire "cloud" thing, to me, was that the underlying infrastructure disappeared. We went from managing root servers, or VPS maybe, to transparently scaling resources. Using "the cloud" means switching to application-based hosting, where the hardware below doesn't matter anymore, and that's a pretty significant change to me. I don't have to manage the SSH daemon config anymore, instead I push Docker images into a registry.
Of course below all that it's still the same technology we had before, but it's evolved quite a bit, and I actually appreciate that change.
OK, good starting number. Few thoughts:

When we phase out coal, say in 20 years, the next acceptable number will be much lower. We need about 20 years to build nuclear stations, so we should orient at this new number, isn't?

When a next nuclear disaster happen, public will reverse it opinion again, so nuclear projects will be frozen and nuclear stations will be decommissioned, like it happened before. Do you have a Plan B for this case?

If a next nuclear disaster will cover a much larger area (due to evil intent), say half of a continent, how much cancer percentage will rise when people will not be able to escape to clean land, clean food, clean water?
I tried this, but my work uses MS Teams, which doesn't honour do-not-disturb. When you set DnD on, the app STILL flashes it's taskbar icon, creating a distraction. The only way around it is to mute all the noisy teams channels, and to remember to unmute them later. Also, being @-ed in a chat totally overrides DnD as well, and the sales guys have worked this out, and @ people constantly all day long.

I even tried not having Teams running when I was 'in the zone' only to end up being called on the phone to check 'whether I was working today'... :(
Your comment made sense with the original strains, but already with Delta there were many breakthrough infections and with Omicron two shots don't offer any significant protection against infection and transmission.

So that leaves the personal risk, where I think people should be able to decide by themselves if they want a vaccine or not. It's also fair that they don't get an ICU spot, but instead get whatever other treatment is available. However, most governments seem to shy away from this decision and instead bet everything on vaccination with predictable results.
I've been meaning to learn common lisp for about 20 years now. Maybe this is the year!
No one can draw a line between economics/politics/science. The line drawn is that politicians like to leave researchers alone while researching. Once the result leaves the researcher it’s not separable from politics and economics.
I disagree. I think the cynicism is there because the audience on HN is more aware of the technical aspects of crypto and thus has a better understanding of its flaws. The criticisms of web3 are legitimate, especially when it comes to the question of decentralization.
Your Name Is Your Brand
And apparently they were also fired. You don’t fire someone who isn’t even in the cockpit.
> Helium is very much centralised because it has to (by the nature of their offering) lock down the end-user devices heavily. They have a single approved manufacturer last I checked.

As far as I can see there are currently 19 approved device manufacturers [0].

> It essentially operates as a unregistered and unregulated ISP and that isn’t something to be taken lightly. It does that by pushing all legal and regulatory liability to operators. There’s also a lot of scams with operators faking their signal etc.

Scams faking their signal will only help improve the robustness of the network on the long run as these are fixable issues.

Regulation seems to be spurring on every web3 conversation. I believe regulation is lagging behind user adoption and is a pending conversation. As for the exact scenario (LORA network) what kind of regulation do we __want__ the network to have? I don't think blocking user traffic is something we want to have, as an example you mentioned with current ISPs.

[0]: https://www.helium.com/mine
Well, you have to see all transactions, in order to know the current balances on every wallet, in order to prevent double spending. This is, in fact, the whole principle on which blockchains operate.
Cool. I wonder what else they are retrofiting later. But Tesla has only happy customers so i may be missing something.
I would say this is much less true today than it used to be (I remember this being a huge issue in the early 00s). Today's table top RPG creators are generally well aware that DnD's system is not a good for for many genres. A lot of games today are based on generic systems, each with its own flavour, like FATE, PbtA or Genesys. And some big "indie" companies like Chaosium (of Call of Cthulhu fame) and the Free League use their own systems which they adapt slightly to new games.

Edit: As for Star Wars games I have heard good things about FFG's games but I have never played them myself. Those games are the origin of the generic Genesys system.
/me laughs in Canadian

Seriously though, stop trying to patch a broken system... There's a better way...
All that suggests that turning the compost once per moon cycle makes sense. I've no problem with that. But turning the compost at specific points in the cycle… and yet, these are the farmers with the best produce.
Both of them are crypto in original meaning of the word. The difference - UX of wallet-based solutions is infinitely better that UX of browser-handled user certs.
100% drop your therapist. That’s why you pay them: to make clear this is a professional relationship, and it’s your prerogative to change it.
The other tools being talked about are static analysis tools or runtime instrumentation both designed specifically to try to find bad memory use patterns.

I don’t mean this in a rude way, but I don’t care what you believe, because the thing I care about is evidence. If you have some actual evidence for your claim, I would be interested. (I also believe there can be improvements from better code structure in a rewrite and this can make up for a significant portion of the improvements from a ‘let’s rewrite it all in rust’ project).
It could also take years for it to change in practice. If someone bills you improperly you might be dealing with it for years and have no recourse outside of the courts.

Extremely different mechanisms protect a hospital from a patient lifting a box of bandaids and some OTC pain reliever vs a hospital unlawfully billing them zillions of dollars.
It is exactly the same situation as the Dot Com bubble. Enormous amounts of money and hype are being poured into a new promising technology. So you end up with people convincing themselves that WebVan and Pets.com will be the future of grocery delivery or buying pet products.

And today it is "BTC is the ONLY internet Money", "Ethereum will be the ONLY way people can execute smart contracts in the future". Invest Now!
The argument is really strange. It says that unsigned ints can't become negative and it's a good thing. But they do that by instead having crazy high values. How is that a win?

You could argue that it doesn't matter because an incorrect program is incorrect regardless. True. At least with signed integers you can represent differences between positive values. How do you do that with unsigned?
Data Science Without Code
From the article, link to the original paper on arXiv:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03902

I was wondering whether there was a short statement that summarized how autodidactic systems differ from the Wolfram Physics project approach to the "universe as a computer" and I found one in the paper:

>In this section we discuss several protocols for autodidactic systems, as well as some preliminary computational experiments. A protocol defines a dynamic architecture with rules for change that lend themselves to interpretations as learning strategies or reward functions. Generally speaking, the autodidactic paradigm suggests none of these may be fixed a priori, since one history guided by a set of rules might transform itself to be guided by altered rules, though in practice it is often helpful to limit the number of ways in which the system may evolve. Autodidactic systems are distinct, however, from emergent cosmological models that apply a priori growth rules consistently, as in [41].

>[41] Stephen Wolfram. A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics. Wolfram
Media, 2020.

Completely uninformed, but phenomena like General Relativity emerging from a priori growth rules (IIRC claimed by the Wolfram Physics project) seems more parsimonious than rules that change over time.
In theory saturating room moisture should make droplets fall out quicker. However it seems way easier to just install fans than to have fog machines. Imagine the mould problems.
This is simply saying “can all these people be wrong?” in other words.

What I wrote is absolutely logical as best I can tell. I didn’t say it’s a scam (although that community is riddled with those too). I said it’s a collection of ponzi schemes (for which there is far more evidence to support than it being a financial revolution).

Charles Ponzi genuinely believed he had revolutionised finance, too.

All you’ve essentially said here is “Lots of people hyping on social media, therefore no scam, shut up fool”.
Yours is a super weird as hominem attack.

The article you link is a very well written boon review which summarizes the arguments of the book. Ridley's review concludes that the theory that aids was transferred to humans through large-scale experimental vaccinations with vaccines made out of chimp liver is a theory worth further investigation.

This is GOOD SCIENCE. You analyze data and put forward theory. I can't speak to the merits of the theory or the book being reviewed, but why would it discredit Ridley if he reads and reviews critical books and is open to exploring alternative theories?
Huh, sounds like how they price tuition for my daughter's college education (private college w/ a good name).

They also talk about how they are making it more affordable for everyone.
I would say today, it's dangerous to speak uncomfortable truths. Assange is still in prison for speaking out about the NSA and looks like he will die there.

Does humanity deserve people like that to walk amongst us, or do we deserve to just get a society where we have no freedom even over our bodies?

After covid i think humanity sucks. We have easily been put into two camps, arguing with eachother. The divide and conquer strategy always works it seems. Like idiots we are not seeing the bigger picture of who profits and benefits from the change society now is transforming into.