skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'll bite because you seem earnest.

One killer feature that doesn't get nearly enough hype is uptime. Check out these stats: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-uptime/ The last incident to cause downtime for bitcoin was in 2013. Ethereum has never had downtime.

Another is speed. People like to talk about how slow web3 is, but even Ethereum is super fast compared to a traditional banking transfer. Traditional accounting isn't expected to be instant, so it has a lot of waiting periods and days-long SLAs.

Also trust. Not everyone can trust their local bank or local government. And even if they can, why should the default preference be to have a company with a spreadsheet tell me how many assets they have marked to my name? I'd rather have a decentralized ledger that doesn't require me to place my trust in an individual company or government.

You can't really build these features without some sort of "blockchain". You could try to put together a consortium of companies or individuals to run a shared database with consensus and vote about administration, having it backed by contracts that would be enforceable by world governments. That'd get you 95% of the way there, but it'd still be less good than a public blockchain run by volunteers that provides the same trustless features.
Making this a very easy decision for the airline, especially when you look at the total cost of flights.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Don't bother with the helmet, the kid might die from Corona? Don't bother with Corona, the kid might get hit by a car (more likely than dying from Corona, actually).

There's simply a tiny improvement of safety, too small to care. Of course, this changes if the child belongs to a risk group that has a much higher chance of getting seriously ill and dying. Much like it totally makes sense to make your kid wear a helmet while biking, because the risk is much, much higher at that time.
Rather than bet, you could try traveling to some of these places. I’ve been to Vietnam and Cuba. In neither country could you find anything close to child prostitution (I don’t think it’s possible to observe organ sales in the same way). In part I believe this is due to the relatively flat distribution of income and wealth. Neither nation is as rich as their former colonizer, but they also lack the widespread desperate poverty which would incentivize these transactions. Both states also invested heavily in controlling inflows of capital and currency from tourists and their immigrant diaspora which would permit concentrations of wealth in the hands of someone who would purchase such things.

I did observe rampant child or underage prostitution in Cambodia, Thailand, Haiti, the Dominican Republic of course, if the American judiciary is to be believed, among certain American billionaires, politicians, and members of the British royal family.

Returning to the fundamentals of the debate I’d enjoy seeing some justification For your assertion that market mechanisms are unique to capitalist economies considering they predate them considerably.

Capital concentration and investment is a fundamental economic activity. No moderately complicated society can function without it. Capitalism is just one way to organize this activity. There’s a case to be made for it that relies on empiricism rather than mere distortion and ignorance.
Top Covid-19 test scientist says there's no reason to stop using rapid tests
I'm aware that there are people here who object to fedoras! TBH I guess I was trolling them.

I don't know what it is; maybe they think it's vanity and fashion. If you asked anyone I know whether that matched me, they'd all burst out laughing - I'm a notorious slob.

I wear a hat because my natural scalp insulation is wearing out, and when I buy things I like to buy good things. A good felt hat with a brim is resistant to heavy rain, for example, and makes a brolly unnecessary.

I like to cook; but I don't know how to cook rabbit-fur felt so that it can be chewed. And my digestion isn't that great. Maybe I went too far, saying I'd do that.
By "primary" you mean they used 27% over a 6 month period, compared with 21% the 6 months a year earlier. Switching back into first after a good spell for wind had it briefly in the lead.

Why does that mean they can't switch it off?

The UK had 30% Coal in 2014 when they announced they would phase it out and did so slightly ahead of schedule.
Germans don't import 64% of electricity (in fact they're a net exporter almost every year). This article is about electricity generation in Germany and I'm commenting on electricity generation in Germany. The comment I was responding to was also about electricity generation in Germany. Not quite sure where you're trying to steer the discussion. To the fact that Germany, like many other countries, has yet to fully electrify transportation and heating, where most of these energy imports (gas and oil) are going? Sure, but almost everyone has to. Many, if not most, other developed countries don't fare much better so far.
Only if the claim is an outrageous one, which it really isn't in this case.
> suspicion is the only valid response when an entity rolls their own cryptography for production

Strong disagree. I would rather have multiple solutions in production, and Telegram's is also well-studied.
> C and C++ development on Windows is great. No sanity is needed.

So, you might as well be insane? :D
> It also feels deliberately disingenuous to bring up possible vaccine side effects without explaining that those same side effects occur with higher frequency and severity from the infection itself.

Welcome to the COVID-19/anti-vax "debate." Sometimes it seems like it's more of a testing ground for developing the most effective misleading arguments to discourage people from taking sensible public health measures and create politically-exploitable controversy.
See artfullywalls.com for more options for your family member.
Of course the FBI would be collaborating on surveillance with the far-right, including weev & friends.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/clearview-ai-facial-reco...

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-far-right-white...
What does the left gain from propagating identity politics? All it does is lead to more division. Trying to blame descendants of european settlers for crimes against the ancestors of indegenous/african citizens is a massive distraction. Go back far enough and the land you think is yours was stolen from someone else.

I'm reminded of Occupy Wall Street, a bunch of angsty college kids with a bone to pick but no idea who to blame. Washington knew what the risks of a movement like that gaining traction was. The media painted them as a bunch of entitled kids and it got shut down real quick. The common enemy of the people is the only one who gains anything from this division.
> Lisp a pretty antiquated language which still hasn't caught up to modern trends (static types, asynchronism, etc...) and with a very poor tooling (lack of IDE's) and library ecosystem (building websites, parallelism, GUI, etc...)

That's pretty much the whole point of Clojure, a modern Lisp, built for concurrent and asynchronous programming, targeting modern platforms like the JVM, CLR, NodeJS, browser JS runtimes, with great IDE and tooling, and access to the largest swath of existing libraries from various ecosystems.

It also has an optional static type checker, though it isn't very popular and so you'll lose type checks at the boundary between your app and all libraries you use (even most of the standard lib). But I wouldn't really call static types a "modern trend" in any way, considering we just had untyped languages overthrow static ones in popularity with the unprecedented rise of Python, Ruby and JavaScript. And the most popular typed languages are still playing catch up to the ML languages of yore in their static type checking capabilities.
Sorry for the naive question: but why would Buddha not play these games? I can't seem to find anything insightful for the rationale.
Is it standard for there to be a follow-up bolt inspection some time after the initial assembly? This was a one-time gig for us, as we were welders by trade and boss-man got the contract from a family friend, so I'm not familiar with inspection standards.

For what it's worth, we tightened all the bolts down according to the procedure, despite pressure from boss-man to do otherwise for a few of them.
I guess base64 is cryptographically a substitution cipher with a public pad. Which... you'd think using a ~2000+ year old method in a known-harmful way would stretch the term.
Seems likely, although as the paper points out, there are a few other possible causes too, like use of pretty powerful insecticides on many routes.
I think the intuition on processes vs threads was right:

1. The Arc use is a case (I believe! Am not a Rust'er!) of true sharing of references. The cacheline will be contention across cores. Doing processes would have eliminated true sharing. Tracking logical core affinity for references via a modal type system could have flagged this at compile time, but I suspect that's not a thing in Rust land.

2. Even if it was false sharing at the cacheline level, process abstractions in shared memory systems are generally aligned to avoid false sharing at cacheline granularity (and misaligned ops at smaller granularities). Of course, in the extreme, a 10X hero programmer may have tried to do amazing levels of bit packing and syscall hackery and thus break all those niceties, but that's the cleanup that everyone else in a team has to make the hero a 10Xer.
Frankly that was probably 200% unraid ...
The thing is software is made to compete for new monopolies rather than to perform functions reliably. There's so much funding for monopoly-rent-seeking that this dominates and characterizes the field. Correctness just isn't that important for that.

Over time, perhaps the available monopolies will dry up, a few megafirms will buy up everything that can collect rents, and the only software left to write will be practical.
Also Buddha: "That is why you should not get caught in the idea that this is the Dharma or that is not the Dharma. This is the hidden meaning when the Tathagata says, ‘Bhikshus, you should know that the Dharma that I teach is like a raft.’ You should let go of the Dharma, let alone what is not the Dharma.”" [1]

Depending on where you are on the path and what your practice is, it probably makes sense to avoid game playing. For others, maybe not. Buddhist teaching invites you to sit and investigate on your own.

[1] https://plumvillage.org/library/sutras/the-diamond-that-cuts...
Will Anyone Show Up at CES on Wednesday?
That's a great quote that has next to nothing to do with the rest of that opinion piece.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I’m not challenging the idea that people don’t want turbines built on or near their property. That might well be the case.

I specifically want a source to substantiate the claim you made with your first eight words.
You may know it already but "branle" means jerking off in French.
A lot of flight attendants are unionized. I'm sure flight attendants bake it into their effective wage and not worry about it.

I do wonder if this odd arrangement would work for non-union jobs since you're clearly working as soon as they want you at the airport.
Do any FAANGs have a reputation from being able to actually work 35 hours a week? Google is the only one that comes to mind.

That certainly isn't widely true for Amazon or Facebook.
I would suspect in such cases they would have a 'case file' on such an individual. Perhaps it ought to be to the extent it would pass any reasonable jury in a court of law - I would be very surprised if this system isn't merely an addition to their existing toolset to help them validate/process data (perhaps as a verification system? finding individuals they are looking for?)
can we just say no to capital letters? (or lowercase?)

do capital letters have a good enough usage case to justify their continued existence?
Could be interesting to apply this to crew boats which A) people are used to paying a lot for the equipment and B) people often have to assemble and disassemble with bolts, and loose bolts are certainly a point of failure during a race.
On-device translations is quiet feasible, and there are ways to legally do this, such as this app [1] which translates other apps using Google's On-device (and officially free!) APIs. Surprising Telegram chose such a route instead.

Edit - I tried it out, and the quality of on-device translations is pretty garbage. Really garbage.

[1] https://github.com/akhilkedia/AllTrans
I've heard of people doing similar things before. Maybe people working in high security environments downloading libraries from random websites is common enough that some attackers are actually targeting those people by backdooring common Python packages, C++ libraries, etc. and trying to get their server to bypass enterprise blocking somehow.
If possible please make an appointment with therapist.
I’d love to see his art! My email is in my bio if you have any pictures to share.
I wasn't implying it was AMDs fault, but the idea that the games were optimized for Intel doesn't hold true IMHO because they were also built for consoles that were AMD.

The majority of the performance was down to not accounting for CCX scheduling
It seems to me that one solution would be to be able to shard an Arc into separate counts for each thread, so that the synchronisation wouldn’t be required (?) but I don’t know how it would be done without making most Arcs unnecessarily expensive.

Perhaps another problem is that libraries can’t be (or just aren’t) generic about the kind of smart-pointers that are used but the kind of smart-pointers used can matter a lot (e.g. libraries often have to use Arc for some of their clients even though Rc would often suffice).

But maybe I’m just totally wrong about this?
> Almost 60 percent of the EU’s energy needs (excluding the UK) were met by net imports in 2018. Germany’s energy import dependency was still higher at 63.6 percent – a slight decrease compared to the previous year’s 64 percent.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-dependen...
The Bail Project - https://bailproject.org/

Anti-Terror Police Project - https://antipoliceterrorproject.org/

Lots of journalism: Hechinger Report, Grist, ProPublica, NPR, etc. They're not perfect, but they're necessary.

(I also pay for subscriptions to individual journalists such as Matt Stoller, Emily Atkin, etc., but those aren't tax-deductible.)
The FBI, CIA, NSA and every other alphabet agency down to the state, municiple level already have access to your face, address, d.o.b, phone info, income, bills, investments, physical and online activity.

Having the clearview info will help them build a better picture of who you hang with (all those photo's on FB, Snapchat, Insta, tiktok, etc) and the circles you keep. When they crunch all that data they'll be able to build a complete picture and remove any minutia of privacy you still might have had.

Here's an idea for you folks who are chasing the next big thing, develop something that will erase a person from the matrix.
Their promotional video on the Junker test is pretty cool: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IKwWu2w1gGk
Unfortunately I think this comment does is muddy the waters even more. All "lock free" means is that one process(+) may not cause any other process to block during execution.

"Contention" is not very meaningful to a lock-free algorithm, since lock-free algorithms typically do not permit shared data access semantics. Rather they describe how data is sent between processes, which is why a lock-free solution looks very different than something behind mutexes.

But to the heart of your point, I do wish people spent more time understanding that lock-free vs lock-ful is a distinction in semantics and doesn't imply anything about performance. There are subtle trade offs.

(+) I'm using "process" with a lot of hand waving, assume it means whatever your atom of parallelism is
Are you asking why people volunteer?

If you’re asking why people choose an open source license when they expect to get paid instead, the answer is simple: they don’t understand open source.

This is no different than someone putting some literary work in the public domain and then getting mad when their work gets popular, criticized, all without pay.
They pivoted from having a bunch of people managing mailing DVD's to people to having a bunch of people managing computer servers. It is really different and there is no reason to assume they would succeed at that, if they built a subpar service they would have lost.
Indeed. Somehow people managed to eat lunch before the internet.
So, nothing quantifiable?

I guess the if we ask the people who built those walls they'll give us whatever answers they think are convenient for their propaganda purposes in the moment.
I’m waiting for the first robot AI chessboxing championship.
Laser-generated surface structures create water-repellent metals (2015)
Underrated and useful reply. Thank you!
> No idea if they're a Google Cloud customer though.

Even if they are, I have doubts that’s enforceable either. One doesn’t need to reverse engineer an API to consume that API, and it’s hard to find out who did the reverse engineering. The reverse engineering might be accomplished by someone else who’s not a Google’s Cloud customer, like an unrelated person answering a question on stackoverflow.com.
Does it matter? The 128 assumption for these kind of things is there just to allocate a fixed array of 128 thread ids, and going outside that array is a out of bounds magic with pointers.

It's totally reasonable to have a limit. It's totally reasonable to make that limit way higher than you'd think you'd ever need. It's only a bug if you don't enforce thay limit and fail to check for it. And, it's really easy to forget to do that when the easiest way to verify thesr bugs is "wait 15 years until hardware improves".
I think he was referring to the eventual expansion of our star such that our orbit is smaller than its diameter. Of course that's no excuse to be a jerk in the meantime.
I wonder if I other proglangs are really on par Lisp like (open to extension at the meta level) langs. It's true a good perlist or ada coder can flow. But when you reach the limit of a language, you're stuck. These other languages become their own tool, and compound on.
Hey, been in this situation and went out of it at some point. Some medicine, some mental work to make things better. You can make it work for you if you try.

If you need someone to talk to, just send me a message, or reach me on my e-mail: me at my username dot com
Most established approaches were well studied before they were put in production, while Telegram has had the luxury of beta testing their protocol in real time on their 500 million users, and the work isn't yet done with issues discovered as recently as this year:

> But ultimately they prove that the four key issues “could be done better, more securely and in a more trustworthy manner with a standard approach to cryptography,” said ETH Zurich Professor Kenny Paterson, who was part of the team that uncovered the flaw.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/telegram-app-security-encryption/
It doesn’t matter how slow. A sailboat only has the right away when using its sails. Navigating around docks by motor, regardless of sped, makes it a power boat.
You are free to stop using capital letters, but good luck getting everyone to go along. Capitals have been around for centuries (they’re older than the printing press) and aren’t going anywhere.
This technology is so widespread, Apple could do it, Microsoft could do it, Google could do it, Facebook could do it, but for some reason we are focusing on Clearview. I think it's because only Clearview is selling it to law enforcement, thereby turning a previously expensive human task of identification and tracking, into a cheaper automated one. I'm reminded of the line 'With great power comes great responsibility'. The more people who have the power, the greater the odds that the responsibility will be abused in the pursuit of profit or even darker motives. History is littered with shithole autocracies that ran their corners of the world into the ground by eliminating economic participation and mobility using new advancements that delivered new concentrations of power. Here this technology gives smaller and smaller jurisdictions the power to turn themselves into absolute authorities, and it needs to be balanced with better oversight, better protections for people to move around without harassment. I hope this country is able to create and uphold new Federal legislation to that effect. Otherwise it's going to back an awful lot of people into a corner. I guess this is the big political question being fought out between the two main parties right now...
Not to mention you gave them even more (highly sensitive) personal data about yourself.
~30,000 people died as a result of Chernobyl.

Can you find 20 people who have died installing solar panels? I found about 7 examples on google globally (3 in the US).

The rest of the pages were the dubious statistics calculating "deaths per TWh" that both downplay cancer deaths from nuclear power and extrapolate tens of thousands of falling-off-rooftop-deaths if we generated as much electricity from our residential rooftops as we would from nuclear (which we wouldnt, rooftop solar will always be comparatively minor).

This says very little about solar it just says that clambering about on roofs kills people.
One could argue that using a GC for reclamation isn't lock-free if it's not a concurrent GC.
Clearview AI is disturbing. I have had a public conversation with one of the founders (who had left the company), where he said, "you civil libertarian types are all going to lose. We are going to steamroll you." And dismissed any and all concerns related to the technology.

They've taken the data without consent and sold it to police departments across the world with provable records of human rights violation, whilst claiming a 100% facial match accuracy. I am not exaggerating. They claim — to the police departments they sell to — that their technology is 100% accurate and doesn't have false positives. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/clearv...

They are a combustible mix of greed and ambition with lies sprinkled into the mix. It astounded me that he had the gall to say and imply in a public setting that they are "civil libertarian types" (like me) were going to go the way of the dodo and that the totalitarian surveillance state was the way of the future.

I hope he is proven wrong. And I hope that they get sued and sanctioned out of existence like the NSO Group.
there are various tools that will tell you if you have old libraries in use by walking /proc

and the Chrome thing sounds rather strange as I thought Chrome forked processes from a "zygote" (a prototype process) rather than re-exec'ing() the binary (which should retain the handle to the deleted library inodes)

not to mention the shared library naming scheme should prevent this sort of incompatible change from occurring
There are a couple arguments against case-insensitive filesystems I think are strong. The first is simply compatibility with existing case-sensitive systems. The second is that case is locale-dependent, so a pair of names could be equivalent or not depending on the device's locale.

I don't think I've seen any good argument against normalization, though.