skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had NixOS as my daily driver for nearly three years now and maintain a small number of packages in Nixpkgs. From my perspective, macOS support is a headache as it all of the sudden may require you to debug on a proprietary OS that you lack access to and that runs on two different hardware architectures in order to get a patch accepted. I am probably not going to make any friends for saying so, but I would much prefer if Nixpkgs for macOS was maintained separately.

My personal reasons for not going with Guix is that it is a GNU project and thus you have to buy into the entire FSF philosophy. Sadly I do need to run on “problematic” hardware from time to time and would prefer if doing so did not require me to add unofficial extensions and be wary of uttering such heresy in the company of my fellow users. That being said, I like what Guix is doing and their documentation does frankly look better compared to the grass where I am standing.

Lastly, yes, NixOS is a damn curse. Once you get the taste of having a declarative operating system it is really hard to go back. Trying out tiny tweaks to your audio, kernel, etc. all with the confidence that you know how to get back to what you had before is so very addictive. We need more diversity in this space.
Lack of knowledge and humility? People look at some of the top companies, lionized as they are for their exclusive hiring process, and don't see themselves as belonging there. All the more so as they don't know anybody there. Meanwhile Jo big-school dude knows, hey my buddy went in and I know based on four years as roommates that I'm smarter than he is, it can't be that hard.
The handbook and wiki has info on FreeBSD Highly Available Storage:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#disks-hast

https://wiki.freebsd.org/HAST
Ah, you mean bandwidth. I meant how much actual storage at rest (HDD size).
Yeah but with a Madoff/Ponzi scheme the thing collapses, Madoff goes to jail, it ends. Bitcoin seems more like other assets that don't make things, stuff like fiat money, gold, fine art and so on.
I've bought art, and hung it on the wall. It looks nice, but no matter how nice it is, it isn't long before you don't actually see it anymore.
Eh. I knew a physics professor once who had a story about a charismatic preacher who unloaded a revolver into a telescope mirror for being a violation of God's domain, and they just put a little black paint around the holes and returned the mirror to service with no meaningful degradation to its imaging capability. I'd expect a small hole in a big radio-collecting dish to behave more or less likewise.
Not OP but there are many projects along those lines, eg. https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline/
Every few months the financial press rediscovers crypto's insane volatility and pretends it's something new. A year ago, the Bitcoin price was $32K. By April it was $62K. It dropped to $31K in July. It got to $68K or so in November. Now it's $33K. Maybe this is the start of the next crypto winter but so far it's nothing unusual.

I would say that it's hard to credit the idea that Bitcoin is "the new gold" or any sort of safe haven asset. Just like the rest of crypto, it crashes when stocks crash, but harder. It's more like a high-flying tech stock.
>You want to waste money? Hire a car, with a driver, when you need it.

> Want to save money. Learn to drive.

Oh please. As if learning to drive is the end of expenses. If you finance a car, you have monthly payments. If you don't, then you have periodic recurring maintenance bills. You always have fuel charges. You always have insurance charges. You periodically have parking charges.

I know how to drive, but do not own a car. From time to time, I hire a car, but it no where gets close to costing me the amount of owning a car would.
This problem is a perfect example of better is the enemy of good enough. What's striking here is that the simple FP64 solution is for the most part more than good enough for any practical application you would find working in Tech. Anything beyond that is likely unnecessary gold plating.

If I were asked this on a job interview and they didn't accept that answer and started going on about me missing the pure math here that would be a great sign that such a place probably doesn't ship things very often. I would also bring up that no one can solve the traveling sales problem either but that approximately optimal solutions run the world of logistics on a daily basis.

Yet much like you can dedicate an entire supercomputer to calculating the energy of two hydrogen atoms to arbitrary precision, it's a really interesting problem with respect to the pure math. But come on, the guys most likely to bring this question up are relying on 16-bit floating point to train their neural networks.

Exponent.Mantissa.Boom. In practice, I know just about no one anymore who can tell me the format of 32-bit or 64-bit floating point because they're so used to abstracting that away.
Playstore listing for the client

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hermannschu...
I share your enthusiasm for SQL. I've been using it for nearly 20 years now, and it's an important technology. But I've done a lot of SQL generation for tools that manage arbitrary tables and SQL definitely makes this hard problem virtually impossible (or at least too hard for yours truly). So I try to keep an open mind for anything that purports to solve these problems.

> it just looks clunky and way too verbose.

Surely you need to compare this with the equivalent SQL before claiming that the SQL is cleaner? What would be the equivalent SQL.

> To me this has the verbosity of C whereas SQL is clean like Python (non-typed python).

Is this just a reaction to curly braces?
Will the En Banc 9th Circuit Extend the 2nd Amendment’s Losing Streak to 51?
as much respect as I have for Guile, I'd love the nix configuration language to have at least partially enforced types...
Joint account for all expenses. All fixed and most of variable expenses are budgeted. There is some leeway for spending money given that we maintain some buffer on the joint account. I have a ridiculously small amount for spending allocated for myself but then again I don't need much :)

I have a spreadsheet for yearly forecast for income and budgeted expenses. I track income and spending every month using a script I wrote in Python. It takes all our bank and card statements as input, categorizes automatically most of them and then asks me to categorize the rest of expenses. I get CSV as an output that I can import as a sheet in my spreadsheet.
9% is a blip on the radar after years of record growth.
This problem is only hard when infinite precision is needed. It's trivial if you allow any tolerance on the scale that could exist in the Universe.
Input length in binary is the standard way to calculate computational complexity. Sometimes we handwave that away, but in problems like this where the size of the number matters, we stick to the more strict definition of computational complexity.

Number in binary vs number in decimal doesn't make a big difference because it's just a constant factor.
Some of them have been implemented at small scale. I believe the "floor that turns foot traffic into power" has been implemented a couple of times. Certainly the "lift a rock to power a light" has been implemented several times. I believe someone even stuffed a soccer ball or three with things that generate power when the ball is kicked.

In fact it's a perennial design winner in various design contests that are judged by designers and not engineers or scientists. It looks awesome when you design some cool little gadget that "harvests" enough energy to power a small town from a soccer ball or something. The fact that it doesn't work is not a disqualifier in those contests. It't totally what I'd enter at this point if I were going to enter such a contest, it's an obviously winning play.

But the floor that converts foot traffic to energy doesn't generate much energy, and is very unpleasant to walk on. The soccer ball that extracts energy from the kick means that it has extracted energy from the kick, so it doesn't go flying away like a soccer ball should but is more likely playing with a ball of damp laundry. Guess what kids don't want to play with? The "lift a rock to power a light" does work, but it provides a lot less light for a lot less time than people think, and the rock ends up being pretty heavy. (But it does have at least some legitimate use cases, just not as many as you might hope.) The bike that extracts energy from the biker is so insanely unmarketable that what's winning in the market right now is the exact opposite, the electric bikes that supplement the biker's power.

(Also I will add as honorable mention the "solar powered X" that is spec'ed with one or two orders of magnitude too few solar panels. Putting panels on the top of your electric car may even be theoretically worthwhile in the long run, but only as a small supplement to the car. The idea that you'll be toodling down the highway at 75mph on 10ish square feet of solar panels is risible. Multiply that by some large two-digit numbers.)
But then I am confused. You say that Russia's narrative about NATO doesn't make sense; but at the same time you seem to agree that both Ukraine, in the post-2014 world, would like to join to gain the military protection of the alliance; and that the alliance leaves the door open for Ukraine and Georgia. As long as that's the case, how can you say that Russia's story is false and just invented to sidetrack the trusting Westerners?

I also don't fully understand the point about the destabilization either. Does Russia destabilize all its neighbors, and why would it prefer an unstable neighbor to a stable one?
> like a wilting tulip

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Individual risk of not finding food is higher, but because the risk is spread across the clan, tribe, or village the overall risk is abated. The high reward when part of the group is successful is plenty for everyone when shared. They just made an argument for cooperative living on a small, local scale.
NASA to Discuss Webb’s Arrival at Final Destination, Next Steps
No, no. The costs cloud saves are in staffing and opportunity costs. Everyone knows that it is more expensive than a comparable server, but...it is easy, standard, and available. If you want to a) not have real estate capex, b) not worry about the core ops part of your applications, and c) used to outsource infrastructure to a managed service provider anyway, then Cloud is a viable value prop. Plus, the more of the services you use, the more you app stack becomes "standard" parts with glue code. This is maybe an improvement at the large enterprise scale where home-built apps don't have a reputation for being future proof.
Seriously, they even printed almost a billion dollars during Christmas Eve!
That's a rare attitude to have in the Bay Area anyway. Unfortunately. Everyone wants lots of unit tests because they run fast and give (roughly) instant feedback. Unit tests paint an incomplete picture. Too little attention given to integration tests and end-to-end tests leaves systems exposed to critically bad edge case bugs.
>Any details on how that happened?

buy food
cook the food you eat
generational wealth
don't throw out food
Calling it "this conflict" creates very vague and misleading message. Calling it what it is makes things much more clear: "we already lost quite some lives due to Russian invasion of Ukraine".
Google Coral Micro will be the size of a Pi Zero
Over long periods, on average, historically - no one is saying you will always get that in any given year.
> people are incorrectly comparing higher-level PaaS to lower-level IaaS without realizing it.

Hum, no. People are asking what kind of value that platform adds that can justify all that risk.

And nobody is giving any clear answer, so I'll stand with my previous answer of "none".
For me, closing my exercise ring on my Apple Watch has been the best motivator. Maintaining a streak or collecting badges works well for me.

I used to cycle a good bit but some injuries have held me back. I got a cheap stationary trainer for my bike but that never worked well for me (again, injuries and just the uncomfortable position). I got a cheap recumbent stationary bike and have put a lot of miles on that thing. My biggest issues with it are that it's very easy to stop when you don't have to ride back to the start and that it's easy to get distracted by shit on my phone (now I start music / podcast and set it out of reach).

Just walking outside has helped a lot. I worked up to jogging and even some interval sprints but foot pain shut that all down. Just walking and trying to work my pace upward (again, Apple Watch helps there).

If you have the money, an online personal trainer may be great motivation. Or partner with a friend and do it together via Zoom.
Applies to JavaScript as well. There's almost no legitimate reason to use `let` anywhere.
Offer-Led Growth
percentage increase makes for good scare headlines

it doesn't make for good budgeting

when 30% roughly equals a latte, it's nothing to write home about

when it affects your monthly budget, it is

if a few euros is a Big Deal™ to you, then you have bigger personal budget problems than a couple bucks a month
Yes, the low number of readily available packages is the primary reason I switched from Guix to Nix.
“ The system is consistent - kernel and userland are created and managed by the same team”

Their first reason is really saying a lot but with few words. For one, there’s no systemd. The init system is maintained alongside the entire rest of the system which adds a lot of consistency. The documentation for FreeBSD is also almost always accurate and standard. Etc etc

I think you also largely don’t need a docker or etc in it since jails have been native to the OS for decades. I’d want to do some cross comparison first though before committing to that statement.

Shouldn’t be lost that the licensing is also much friendlier to business uses. There’s afaik no equivalent to rhel, for that matter. This goes both ways though as how would you hire a FreeBSD admin based on their resume without a rhce-like FreeBSD certification program?

Edit-I’ll posit that since FreeBSD is smaller an entity wishing to add features to the OS might face either less backlash or at least enjoy more visibility from the top developers of the OS. Linus, for instance, just has a larger list of entities vying for his attention on issues and commits.
As someone who's used Guix:

They only package linux-libre, so if your device needs proprietary wifi, you're out of luck. Also they package icecat instead of firefox which is kind of cool.

I tried to package slash'em a few years ago, and found it very difficult. The documentation is gigantic and it's hard to find what you're looking for. I found folks on IRC very helpful.
Free open-source Feature Flags (alternative to LaunchDarkly and Split))
No. That said, most are at least that bad.
In all the animations I’ve seen of the orbit around L2, it appears to be elliptical rather than circular. Is that an optical illusion, or is there a benefit to such a path?

See: https://youtu.be/524fcGyki5c
It literally is just fiat currency. Bitcoin is a way to make fiat currency independent of government.
It’s either the disk is the bottleneck or the GUI process taking a back seat to the OS prioritizing the “real work” requested.

Computers get faster, we throw more at them.

Physics is still the law of the land.

Truh truh truh trade offfss; in computer eng; truh truh truh trade offs sorry Bowie
Monero (XMR) is indeed one of the few useful blockchains. Many darknet markets accept it, sometimes exclusively.
That's not "value". Those are "attributes". A person may value those attributes or not, but they do not have inherent monetary value.

The currency of a nation has inherent monetary value because it is backed by the state; the details of what that means will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but except in states undergoing massive crises, you can still be sure that if you hold their currency, you have something of value and can transact business.

Bitcoin is backed by nothing but other people holding Bitcoin.

As for the attributes you list:

1. Immutability is a double-edged sword. There are legitimate situations where you want mutability.

2. Artificial scarcity of a digital thing is only beneficial if you are among those holding large amounts of it.

3 & 4 (basically the same). This is both a huge negative for many people, and only true until those institutions' policies, laws, regulations, etc catch up with Bitcoin and either fit it within their existing structures or ban it entirely.

5. It's really not that accessible unless you're already fairly wealthy and digitally savvy.
> A continuous stream of greater fools is necessary for its price to even remain at the current level.

I think HN is going to need a good explanation for this. The value is intrinsic, and can go up without any activity happening... I think there are other fools scouring about here in the comments.
Is optimization for minimum amount of deathbed regrets a wise way to live your life?

You can decide to go to Italy, be back tired and disappointed in 3 days, and then blame yourself for not getting the gas stove instead. Your point of view can change when you are much older, sure, but there is still a gap in the argument for why traveling is more worthwhile compared to buying stuff.
I'm trying to build a tool just for that. On-demand code visualization: https://sourcespy.com
take control how? installing adblock and not downloading from shady websites isn't going to save you from stuff like BlueKeep.
Then why does he even bother saying that if his thesis is that vaccine mandates are bad? He supports that thesis by arguing against strawmen before finally getting to the actual argument, which I quoted, and totally ignoring it.
...a honeypot to discover technically minded students?
Wow, Harold Lee destroys that strawman!

A few years back, maybe after reading Marie Kondo, I started the trivial addition of 'do I need this, or do I just want this' whenever I was thinking about buying something. Sounds stupid, but there were surprisingly many things (wow, that jacket?) that I really did not need. I did pass on a signed Elon Musk biography, though, which I regret to this day ;-)

That Lambo the author riffs about in the article? Absolutely an experience to be bought, if the money was there.
Final L2 insertion burn to start at 2pm EST, live broadcast to start at 3pm, then a media conference at 4pm to discuss the results and the mission.
That's COOL! Thank you very much. Hopefully it'll be around if and or when my little progeny wants/needs it.
First of all I should be convinced that cryptocurrencies are currencies and secondly I don’t see how this asset can be used by treasury to hold any cash for operational purposes. Besides I am not sure that is investing per se.
Thanks for your clarification nullc. I don’t quite follow:

* How will the light clients notice if they are on the malicious chain if it has the most work (for simplicity they see 1 malicious node and 1 non-malicious)? The light wallet surely goes with the malicious validator with the longest chain, when it sees it.

It’s obvious (to me) that the non-malicious validators won’t accept invalid blocks, but not so obvious to me why light wallets would follow the smaller chain.

This is at the crux of what appears to be my misunderstanding of light clients.

If you have a link, I would like to read more and it would probably save you time from repeating something you’ve likely said before.

As a context reminder: GP claimed that it wasn’t possible to spend someone else’s money, even with 100% of the mining rate.
It's not a Ponzi scheme. It's a multi-level marketing or pyramid scheme. A percentage of every sale (transaction fees) of crypto goes to the other coin owners of the crypto. For every crypto coin it works slightly different.
For Bitcoin, the original design was that everybody could be a miner and (potentially) receive transaction fees. Now it's in the hands of a few with the computing power.
I have no idea what version 21 vs version 20 of some hypothetical piece of software is in every case

though, the odds are quite good that version updates are improvements (security, platform support, features, etc)
In absolute terms I guess everyone could get used to a bad flavour with enough exposure (something I theorise happens with beer, as it's actually disgusting. You just learn to drink it), but why would you? It doesn't make sense with beer and it doesn't make sense with sweeteners.
It's big, but relatively insensitive to the debris hitting the majority of the satellite. It's mostly reflector, so punching small holes mostly just reduces the signal amount it gets, unless it hits a supporting rib.
> 10 full blood panel samples a year

Also, because we haven’t done this at scale, we don’t know the true baseline for most people who may have something on the blood panel samples but never get tested because they are asymptomatic. So then we have this whole group of people with recommended treatment because of the results, even though they are asymptomatic. And they are treated, which then leads to increased costs and side effects…

And now we’ve effectively increased medical costs and decreased quality of life for asymptomatic patients. BUT - if we do it with just a drop of blood, we might be able to start a startup and raise some funding… We could call it Thermos or something…
The issues we're having in 2022 have nearly nothing to do with the value of the USD.
The US and the UK asked Ukraine to surrender its nuclear arsenal to Russia, pledging they would protect Ukraine.

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

Now, when it's time to honor that pledge, the US and the UK should do so. And I think they are and that they will, to some extent.

I strongly doubt the US really wants Germany, France and other NATO members to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense (in which case they would have combined military spending close to rivalling the US' 3.3 percent of GDP because their combined GDP is higher and because Canadian/Turkish/European public spending traditionally goes further). The US has a clear interest in having a military far superior to the next many powers combined. The US might like Europeans to spend a little more, but not anywhere close to 2 percent.
You couldn’t entice me to commute 1 hour let alone 4 hours for a 50% pay increase.
I could be wrong about this, but I don't know if the energy requirements have anything to do with the price (I.e. demand) for the coin, does it? I was under the impression that the problems that you have to solve get predictably more difficult, and they're more of a function of time than price.

But yes, with your point overall I agree, like in 10 years or something it doesn't seem workable without major changes. Wasn't that what lightening or side chains were supposed to do?

Any way, also, I don't own any crypto and I'm definitely not defending it. Feel free to correct me too if I'm mistaken, anyone.
What do you mean a "theoretical path to value"?

If I understand you correctly, I think you're implying that everything has to be speculative, like currencies too?
Oh yeah no doubt MacOS is a huge pain. We use nix for installing system deps at work, and it seems like once every six months or so something will inexplicably stop working on Mac. Luckily I have an old Mac at home, but the new architecture means that one is becoming pretty much useless now for debugging some of the stuff that comes up.

Still, being able to guarantee everyone working on the project has the same versions of everything is pretty nice. No need to worry about ancient Mac versions of bash or awk or sed or whatever, so we can script confidently.
For (2) the obvious solutin is to never add the const to the prototypes since it is meaningless there anyway.