skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you just give intentionally demotivating advice? It doesn't take years to learn software development and you don't need to scan hundreds of pages of documentation. If we're talking about it as a profession, sure maybe, but that wasn't implied in the OP. "Building" software can be as simple as writing Hello World or a calculator.
Lots of people will miss the joke.
That code is odd (though I assume idiomatic Go). I'd much rather have block scoping with something like this:

for _, lock := range locks {
lock.Lock()
// Do something with lock
}

And I don't really do Go, but in Rust, if I wanted to lock some arbitrary list of locks for a whole function, it would just be something like this at the top:

let _ = locks.iter().map(|l| l.lock().unwrap()).collect::<Vec<_>>();
Thanks for checking it out and the feedback. I appreciate it!
> I suspect your sympathies aren't really with the unbanked and the lower classes

I guess it wasn't clear I am from a working class background, although I mentioned my father not being able to get a loan, which got down voted in negative territory for some weird reason

By plebe I meant the insufferable working class dudes I grew up with who are anti intellectual and tend towards bullying those around them with their muscle mass. I'm not sad they now think they are crypto experts and losing their shirts.

I thank you for your long response. I will study it and get back to you. I don't want to make an off the cuff remark about it.
And for others it goes quite quickly! There is no doubt that programming can be helped with a natural aptitude and that it won't make sense to everyone no matter how smart they are, but that is true of many fields.

I'd also argue it's often a teaching problem. I'd highly recommend this essay that goes into the flaws in particular with introductory CS education:

https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developer...
A lot of those accounts are run by exchanges. So we don’t and can’t know true distribution. Unless Coinbase and binance release stats on their customers
If I am understanding correctly that is not the case. The point of the "don't care" squares in the diagram is that the pattern will continue no matter what they are so any outside interference is irrelevant. It won't be sufficient to change the pattern.
These lecture notes look GREAT, thank you! I suppose that they are not a common topic due to their limited (or non-existent?) applicability. But, they are so fun.
> Context matters. History matters.

More than that it seems outrage matters. That's what you are trying to do here.
> This concentration not only risks to threaten blockchain's own premises, but also exposes minor investors to risk of whales who lead the market and can easily speculate on prices since they can influence the price trends

The problem is that you can only associate value with a wallet, not an individual, and even that doesn't really make the market any safer; it just further exposes how terrible cryptocurrency is as an investment asset. Gold is valuable due to it's scarcity. Diamonds are popular due to their demand. Cryptographic hashes are valuable because of their transient demand and abundant supply.
I'd say the phrasing is casually racist. I hear nasty shit said about "white men" near-daily these days and I think of it in the same terms. Do these people think or mean to be racist? Maybe not, but it really doesn't matter.
While Musk deserves a huge amount of criticism, what part of "We are tracking things manually for now and will issue pay manually, if they are unable to get back online." sounds like an excuse to avoid the job of paying them?
> That's like saying the Church of England still has significant political power.

Yes, they have no political power except the 26 unelected, unaccountable bishops they have in the House of Lords, where every law must pass through.
> Rust is an ugly language that is not fun to use. There is one OS written in it (Redox) and it's progress is very slow

Yes, you are right. We need to invest lot more resources into that. And we need languages better than Rust.

> It's actually less work to audit C++ code manually to find memory unsafety

Nope, you are fundamentally wrong. And every new zeroday shows that you are wrong.
There seem to be people asserting that removing the weight of melting ice is destabilizing the crust and contributing to volcanic events and earthquakes.

Here is a link:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/get-ready-for-mor...

"A new study shows that even relatively small-scale climatic changes affect volcanic activity"
One advantage is that your game can work on any device that can support an emulator. An electron app aint got nothing compared to the portability of a NES or Gameboy game.

Secondly, simply imposing limitations on yourself is not the same as having real limitations from the hardware. With real limitations, I spend hours upon days upon weeks trying to figure out the most clever ways working around limitations to create crazy effects. It's feels like a real personal achievement for myself as a developer if I pull something off that should normally be considered impossible.

Working around your own self-imposed limitations is just...lame and arbitrary.
She uses power, we just don’t get to see it. She gets final review over any law that affects her estates before it’s submitted to parliment, which includes anything related to tax and employment law.

The whole “the queen is just this beloved and powerless figurehead” is propaganda.
What subfield would that be?
Ask HN: What’s the best way to authenticate email senders
I’m looking for a way to verify the sender of an email by the recipient that is easy use by non-technical users and is cross platform.

Using something like GPG email signing is not something I can ask our accounting or marketing team to reliably and securely do on their own (especially when everyone is working remotely).
Interesting, I was just contemplating growing some saffron crocus for my own consumption. Anyone tried this with success? Good sources for the bulbs, stuff that one should look out for?
How are you defining an account when you say that 95% of BTC is owned by 2% of accounts?
One of the best games I ever played.
At least for me, only watching something done step by step does not guarantee a full grasp - or least I am not sure beyond any doubt that I understand, until I try myself. If I watch a tutorial, I am doing the same thing alongside it. This of course varies with the complexity of the task. How to put together a 3d printer? Yeah watching a video of it done will give my a full grasp of what I need to do without practicing. How to implement a support vector machine while understanding the underlying math? It's not sufficient to see it done.

Similarly seeing something written out is not the same as writing it (in terms of the processing going on in our brain)
But can you request a computer analysis with fishnet anymore? I have a non-patron account and I can't find that option anywhere. Old forum posts seem to talk about it working by pressing Z and being limited, but when I press Z I get a message that it is disabled by default and a link to enable it. When pressing to enable, nothing happens.
I assume you're being sarcastic, equating wearing protective gear to fascist fashion like say the aftermath of 9/11.

But when a fire alarm goes off and everybody leaves a building, you're not being clever by staying. Sometimes conditions change and it really does make individual sense for everybody to move in the same general direction.

As I've gotten older, and especially as hammered home by the pandemic, I've accepted that groupthink is unfortunately going to exist regardless. As such, it may as well be nudged towards positive ends like encouraging people to protect themselves and their community, rather than destructive ends like denying that a problem exists.
I have watched many police interrogations on Youtube including many that contain "JCS inspired" in the description.

Most of the latter simply present the interrogation unedited whereas the JCSCriminalPsychology channel edits out most of the interrogation and have a lot of talk by a narrator on the strategy being employed by the police or on the suspect's body language. My point is that the presence of the "JCS Inspired" language should not be interpreted as evidence that the channel JCSCriminalPsychology was a seminal influence on later YT creators.

BTW I found what the narrator says to be worthless and consequently have told YT to stop recommending the channel JCSCriminalPsychology to me.

This comment would be more satisfying if I could explain why "JCS Inspired" occurs so often in the descriptions of videos on YT, but alas, I cannot.
(Nor can I explain why YT chose to ban most of its videos. All very mysterious.)
Come on, I get that everyone hates Cortana, but why spread such FUD? Of course it can kill Cortana as it's a regular user-space app.

The only Windows processes I see it can't kill are labeled System, System Interrupts, Secure System and Registry which I guess, are all kernel-space.
Related or coincidence?
I don't buy the $18 million number. If the city has been only doing one sixth of the required maintenance, the roads would already be degraded to a point where it was obvious.
I too wish there were more "fun" blogs out there, however I do see a good amount of dev's who keep a fun/techy blog. There have been a handful of services over the last 2 decades that made it quick and easy to spin up a blog (geocities, blogger, medium etc) but Tumblr had the cool factor (plus the social network behind it) and really nailed the posting experience I think — Tumblr was the best chance at a Twitter competitor back in the 2009'ish era IMO.

My own project Glue[1] is taking a stab at this segment so I have vested interest in this space. Trying to marry all the various content types into a single UI experience has been a fun challenge (short text, audio, quotes, code snippets, blogs).

[1] https://glue.im/noah
I read it as their inherent unconscious bias will be left leaning, and they will attempt to adjust for that in their output (certainly I've spoken to journalists based in Israel, and their views over a beer in the American Colony are very different to the considered ones they say on air)
>More significantly, ideologies satisfy the needs of groups, individual needs being secondary. Marx and Mannheim recognized this, underlining the class basis of ideology.

I can't speak to Mannheim but aren't Marx's ideas about satisfying group AND individual needs? In that (simply) proles are oppressed the bourgeois and they eventually overthrow them to create a society of only one class. I don't think Marx ever imagined proles would group up behind Marxism to do something that was bad for them on an individual level, he thought enough of them would eventually realize that what was better for them as individuals was the same as what was better for them as a group and so they would do it.

Anyways that's just a little specific nitpick but I think it gets at my broader problem with the piece, namely that Individualism is also an ideology, even if it's one that almost feels like air given how pervasive it is in society today. So to put an argument about 'ideology bad' while ignoring the one you're using to frame everything strikes me as a bit suspect.
You can make them game boy only but also compile to another target like windows or macos.

It will just look strange full screen on a 27 inch display for example.

You can also target phones were you upscale the img by 4 times or so and it becomes pretty playable.

Also you don't have to stick to hardware limitations but you can.

For some its fun.

But you can also learn a lot about hardware programming because these old consoles like the game boy are pretty simple and 8-bit. So its also great for learning.
There’s more to it than just nostalgia — I’ve spent a lot of time in the past several years writing NES emulators, experimenting with making little “games”/proof-of-concepts, and of course just playing NES games. But I wasn’t born when the NES was around; I didn’t grow up with the NES so I don’t really have any nostalgia for it.

Rather, I find it fun because of the technology and the constraints. The NES’s hardware is straightforward and easy to understand (but filled with cleverness and quirks, like all hardware from that era). The software side is primitive — games are typically hand-written in 6502 assembly, and there’s no operating system or standard library to hide the intricacies of the hardware. There’s something really refreshing about taking a break from our modern complicated tech stacks to go write 6502 assembly.

Some games suffer from the hardware limitations, but most are designed around these limitations, and the good games are very fun to play.
Dehumanising is like the below link[1] where someone compared migrants to cockroaches[1]. Calling someone's software development skills "bottom of the barrel" is not dehumanising unless you think that only Silicon Valley software developers are real valid humans and everyone else subhuman.

[I'm not defending the bottom-of-the-barrel Indian devs comment, that did sound racist to me].

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/katie-hopkins...
I totally agree. I often find myself wanting data.table as a standalone database platform or ORM-type interface for non-statistical programming too.
I know this is a stupid thing but I firmly believe that Tumblr imposing content filter ruined Reddit and to some extent Twitter. The distraught tumblr userbase had a unifying demographic characteristics that wasn't on par with the culture of (old.)Reddit. When this group left reddit was very quick to embrace them and alienated a large parts of it userbase. Reddit created an internal clash by attempting to merge these polarizing groups and trying their best to be marketable at the same time.

It is a very difficult to put into words but I think having a tribe of userbase is far better for a social media than to appeal to majority.

I think instagram and tiktok as social media still provides a good experience for their longterm userbase compared to social media that appeals to majority like twitter, facebook and reddit.
The bigger problem is that addresses are not measures of people. A lot of addresses are purposely generated as throwaway accounts, never to be used again. A single person may have or use dozens of wallets. Or a single wallet may be used by a large exchange which represents thousands of depositors.
I remember Tumbler lacking actual dates and timestamps for the longest time. It was also sometimes difficult to know the provenance of the things you were reading, especially after nested reblogs and comment chains.

These are two really odd design decisions for blogs and trying to read content written by experts.
I agree and don’t like it either. +1
> Twisting the definition is acknowledging having lost the original goal.

No it doesn’t. It just acknowledges that times change, software gets better, and idea is made more accomplishable instead of betting on a single year where some sort of great migration happens (which was silly).
Why not let them get a taste of it with Swift Playgrounds if they have an iPad? That way they can find out if they like it or not.
Scientific literature seems to disagree with this statement: "An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development" [1]

For example, amount of written text was higher among Word novices than among LaTeX experts, with overall less mistakes. The only category where LaTeX users produced more content than Word users was equation text, and even in that case, authors suggest that the difference in productivity between Word experts and LaTeX experts does not differ significantly.

Disclaimer: I like LaTeX a lot.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Where are all of the customers who asked for front facing cameras that can't be taped, batteries that can't be removed, and fingerprint readers behind the screen? I've never heard of someone looking for a device with these features but I've heard of plenty who've sought devices without them.
Apple's plan was awful. How about there be no scanning at all? If you don't want your stuff scanned then don't put it on icloud or encrypt it before you put it there. I personally don't want scan-all-the-things policing software put on any of my devices. That should require a warrant at the least.
Agree it’s the same thing! Two wrongs don’t make a right. Others behavior does not excuse my own. In this instance we are not talking about white men though so to use that as a counter argument would be plain whataboutism, but I understand you have not done that and have blasted casual racism altogether. Fair enough, and I agree.
Don’t forget about the shady dive bar next to the Super Target, homebrew. It’s got everything you actually need, from suspicious sources.
The easiness to hire contractors to take care of programming the respective apps wins over the possibility of cheaper hardware, that is why they are moving into Android and not a POSIX OS with Qt or something like that.
There will eventually be 21M BTC and Satoshi mined 1M which is around 5%. Some people have estimated that ~20% of BTC is lost. That leaves 70% controlled by whales and exchanges.
In this case you wrap the loop in an anonymous function if you need it to be cleaned up within the scope of the loop.
Or move the functionality to another function.
Following the link in your profile, I'll believe you and thank you

However I still do not agree that it helps the greater cause do dismiss identity politics aggressively. Let them right their fight, fight yours, collaborate where possible.
Original BG or the remake?
Why do Android phones use hundreds of times less power than an SBC? (2019)
Call for Compute Resources: Mining Integer Sequence Programs with LODA
The LODA project is looking for compute resources to extend their distributed mining. The goal of the project is to generate assembly programs that calculate integer sequences from the OEIS (On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences).

The miner is a command-line tool available for Ubuntu, macOS and Windows. There is a Grafana dashboard showing the current results of all miners. If you run a miner, you can enter your name to be included in mined programs.

Project website with links to Mining Dashboard, Installation and more:

https://loda-lang.org/
You can’t paint all projects with the same brush as how they are run can vary widely from one to another.
I don’t know. Doctors work 80+ hour weeks, calls and holidays making $50,000 a year in their twenties and early 30s after paying for the privilege of grueling med school. Then they come out, maybe work 60-hours but still have the call, weekends and holidays. Then people kind of smugly think salaries like$300,000 a year is a lot. Well yeah; it’s-a lot but it took aheluva time getting to that point making about minimum wage and once they’re finished with training is not like they’re working 40 hour weeks with weekends and holidays off like most of us.
There is also other translations, for example, in pytorch/pyro:
https://fehiepsi.github.io/rethinking-pyro/

I would say statistical rethinking is a great way to compare and contrast different ppl impls and languages, I've been using it with Turing, which is pretty great.
On my Windows 11 desktop, with an RTX 2060 Super, I'm able to use MSI Afterburner to adjust values and improve performance for Ehtereum mining.
Also scarcity breeds innovation. There is no simpler computer that still has software development than the knockoff Z80. It's not easy making fun toys on a computer so small that has been around for nearly 50 years. We're all standing on the shoulders of giants.
Yep, no way to make them encrypted.
Could that be due to the increasingly severe consequences of failure?
E2E encryption is a form of security. It also protects the victims of these people; and it protects the police. So the question is not black and white, but more about shifting the balance between different people. And in this case I'm not sure it'd shift it in the right direction.

Drug dealers might be able to intercept police communications and be long gone. Pedophiles might be able to more easily track down their (next) victims. And terrorist groups tend to invest more and more in hacking units, and weakened defenses for police, off duty soldiers, and civilian targets can't possibly be a good idea.

Finally the big one is state level actors using weaknesses in encryption to attack, impersonate, and undermine politicians; spearphish infrastructure and communications personnel, and just cause all-round havoc.

In short, to paraphrase Franklin: Those who give up essential security to purchase a little security, err... end up with no security at all?
Most registrars expose people to way too much complexity. The Internet is the original social network, but no one has made it easy to use. I think there is a lot of opportunity here.
That, and the fact that anyone can own an unlimited number of wallets.
Big Tech Workers, Does This Tweet Thread Mirror Your Experience at All?
And, like clockwork, just a few weeks after this article’s publication in mid-2020, a floppy diskette of SimRefinery was found and the game was provided to Ars Technica for further discussion [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/a-lost-maxis-sim-game...
Fine when MasterCard and Visa do it (poorly) though!
It's the 'sorry for any problems' part. Don't be sorry, deliver on your responsibility. However, my point is more about management in general.
Well, the best way is always the hardest. If you want to a quick way, you can go to bootcamps, 3 months, and you'll be okay to go. But for a long term investment, this is the best course ever to learn the CS.
I prefer using https://nohello.net/
Yes, somewhat tongue in cheek, but it's an interesting thought exercise. For the high traffic streets where there is high speed and also lots of heavy traffic, for sure, asphalt dominates for many good reasons.

But for the problems this article discusses for smaller cities where their population has moved to suburbs and exurbs and where the commercial centers have similarly moved out of city core, perhaps the more durable approach to cobbles (or brick) might be an interesting way to address ongoing maintenance challenges. It's mostly a thought exercise, but an interesting one.
Can you give an example of how initialization nukes performance?
> " ... and now they decide that you're their ... mentor"
I recommend reviewing this feeling. It is a success as a social creature if others go to you for help.

The fact that someone will go to you a second time is both natural and a testament to your helpfulness.

It is natural because if you have n choices and m are known to work and you are being risk averse you will choose one of m. Now of m=1 for far too long that is an organizational issue and I suggest either asking for more help or money.
The need for this clarification itself is an example for why “hi” is necessary. People assume.

The small talk helps set a tone that combats extreme terseness’s ambiguity, which all too often stochastically resolves to arrogance, aloofness, or coldness.
No

- less customizability

- worse performance (animations with many windows) or boot times

- issues with SSDs, CPUs, network cards (already mostly ironed out but not fully)

- lots of random glitches and bugs (though january update for windows 10 and server isn't much better)

- even worse interface, filled with ads and junk [0] [1]

- the top 10 requests are pretty much filled with bring X back from windows 10 [2]

[0] https://youtu.be/3D1deDXwWgQ
[1] https://youtu.be/cRwdoo9kNTw
[2] https://www.neowin.net/news/here-are-the-top-10-changes-that...
Not for their dedicated servers. For dedicated servers bandwidth is unmetered

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/

Also for their shared servers or servers with 10GBs nics they charge $1/TB when metered that is $0.001/GB you are off by a order of magnitude

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/px62