skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please share your criteria for "dynamic", that would let us order different programming languages as more dynamic or less dynamic.
> Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology

Absolutely, completely wrong.

Bitcoin is using HALF A PERCENT of the electricity on the ENTIRE PLANET. That affects every single person living on this planet. It will affect people living here into the future. It is an absolute catastrophe that is hurting everyone. We don't get to "not partake" in that.

Bitcoin is the one single thing that has enabled the ransomware epidemic by making it possible for ransomware to be massively profitable. Critical infrastructure and hospitals get shut down by this. This affects millions of people, putting some at deadly risk. We don't get to "not partake" in that.

And once we get to smaller, less dramatic negative effects of cryptocurrency, the list just goes on and on. We are affected by this. We don't get to opt out.

Ban cryptocurrencies NOW, before they do any more harm to us and our planet. They are worthless and damaging.
I have the same take. The probability of emergence is 1 because the universe continues forever. Yet there is no evidence of it outside this planet. Until we find evidence of another instance, it is foolish to state anything with certainty.
Complicated? https://lwn.net/Articles/701549/ If you have time, read the first two articles mentioned early on.
But wait until your master worker falls over and you have to promote your read replica. RDS handles everything for me, I just have to monitor it and be ready for any alerts from Promthesus.

I mean I’d say cloud providers measuring everything is a pro. I’ve been at companies in the past that have lost track of all their physical tin. One machine had been doing nothing for 5 years
Thank you for the book recommendation.

About TIS-100, while I had never played it, I've played some Shenzhen IO.
Not really. Putin's favourite game/sport is judo, not chess. Judo is a game of opportunity and technique: one takes advantage of their opponent's weakness or distraction to attack. The rest is continous defense and harassement to get your opponent distracted and create opportunities for attack.

He doesn't think in terms of Biden or Trump, but in terms of opportunity. You should really think of Russia as a modern feudal state where Putin shares the country's resources with the oligarchs. The only difference is that it isn't farmland, but oil and gas. He doesn't need to appease them. He can run a show trial, have them shot on a bridge, poison them, just like he did with Khodorkovsky, Litvinenko, Nemtsov, Skripal, Navalny and others.

Vladimir Sorokin once said that the basis of modern Russia was set by Ivan the Terrible.

https://www.publicbooks.org/dress-up-games-with-russian-hist...

One should read post/modern Russian literature in order to understand modern Russia. It's also very good. I love Russian literature.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...
It's not pretty cool that I can send whatever malicious content I want to a wallet and the receiver has no recourse against receiving it. Want to harass someone with dick-picks that empty their wallet when they try to "delete" them? Web3 has got you all day long.
Same here at previous co. The so called “platinum support” on certain providers could be better categorized using a different compound
one thing that's been a good development in my view is central banks taking more seriously retailer and digital concerns, even if the impetus is one of regulation. Trying to stay neutral on the inherent politics of it all...but the Fed's recently released paper [1] for comment on developing a centrally backed digital currency recognizes some very real challenges and opportunities that the current US banking system has not well solved for.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency...
Good question, and I don’t know.

As a thought experiment, what if their raw SAT score were replaced with, say, their standard deviations relative to their school or area’s scores? Then you could see that they had high scores compared to their peers, and presumably had the raw talent to succeed?
BTW they're about to impose (almost) total ban on crypto in Russia exactly b/c of FSB complaints that it's being used to fund the opposition, such as Navalny's followers
Censorship and centralized control, hopefully. People owning their own content.
You shouldn't. It's exactly that. It is complicated gambling, nothing else.
I think that's the killer feature personally (I work in the space). It has uses for censorship resistant communication and things like identity. Not sure if I see the use case in health data though.
I've revisited FreeBSD on and off since 1997, the last time being end of last year. Couldn't get my USB Schiit stack working unfortunately, which was a bummer.
It is correct to say that dynamic linking with rebuild-on-input-dependency-change (like NixOS does) is similar to static linking when it comes to rebuild behaviour.

However, also remember that changing dynamic libraries behind executables back is a concept that only makes sense in the presence of ABI compatibility. This is predominantly a C concept (or at least popular in the C world), and much less so for other linked programming languages like C++, Haskell, Go, and so on. Thus Nix being a general-purpose build system takes the general route here, and builds can also use their dependencies during the build step (e.g. a packaged program's autoconf suite might check the version or a symbol provided by a library), which requires full rebuilds for reproducibility.

(Nix is working on content-addressed instead of input-hash-haddressed builds, which might open the door for avoiding many rebuilds that do not affect build _output_.)

That said, it might still be quite easy to achieve what you want:

* If you want to iterate on a C library that's early in the dependency graph, in am ABI-compatible fashion, you coul duse LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD on it.

* If you want to override libc in an ABI-compatible way, you can use `patchelf` with its `--set-interpreter` and `--set-rpath` flags to replace the libc an executable is linked against after the fact. For example, you can make an `.override` of a nix derivation that just `cp -r`'s the existing files, and then calls `patchelf` on them.

I have used both these methods to work around glibc bugs that I patched out, avoiding even to have to recompile my own software at the top of the build dependency tree.

Some more relevant links about replacing glibc specifically:

* https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/50329

* https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/129595

If you want to replace things system-wide instead of for your own software, the `system.replaceRuntimeDependencies` mentioned by a sibling comment might be a good choice.
Then are the consent popups satire too? To me the header would've just been a way to say "no consent" without requiring you to play whack a mole with popups.

If DNT is satire and consent popups are too, are these fines also a joke? https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
Kind of. A lot of video game studios are looking to shoehorn NFTs into their games.
Marketplace exploit leads to catastrophic losses for NFT collectors
An API issue on popular NFT marketplaces OpenSea and Rarible has led to NFT collectors incurring massive losses on their prized Bored Apes and Cool Cats.
I tried to use this for a little bit, but I kept having random issues on things like Telegram and Slack where when it'd gain focus again it couldn't ever keep up with the keyboard as I was typing anymore.
neat

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri...
This is truly terrifying.
Crypto’s been around for a decade. What’s so special about the upcoming year?
> Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology.

And yet we're all being impacted by the externalities such as higher energy costs in some jurisdictions, poor GPU availability, and increased greenhouse gas emissions. There's also a growing risk that when the music stops parts of crypto will be deemed "too big to fail" and the public will be stuck bailing out large crypto speculators.
True, but I've seen people exploit undefined behavior to make a null reference. Please don't ask me to explain it, someone might think they understand it and try it.
El Salvador tried to force its residents to participate. The country's bitcoin law stipulates that "[e]very economic agent must accept bitcoin as payment": https://mobile.twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/14024468904662...

Predictably, this element of the law was not well received and is not being enforced after large scale protests
Most definitely! I miss the pre-crypto days where criminals didn't have any means of having assets and the banks were just stopping any kind of illicit financial activity.
You underestimate things quite a bit.

Decentralized ideologies are what's being practiced right now; and in fact, it's part of the USA's geopolitical strategy of pushing democracy onto countries, whether subtle or otherwise.

And in any case, any individual should be focused on empowering other individuals to the point they can at least vote with their own wallets and migrate to another country or group should the need arise.
Skepticism is like an anchor, too much and you go nowhere, too little and you're adrift.

The interesting questions are how much and where do you place your skepticism?

NFTs sound enough alarms for me that I feel the need to drop anchor on that before steering to any BS with potential financial consequences.
NadellaSoft
That's exactly right. Bachelors & Masters in biomedical engineering. The pay is not great, even with an advanced degree!
Kind of depends what counts as a view (but still, true)
>"Race Conscious Water Fountain Usage Rules"

This was exactly what I laughed at as well. How are they not self-aware enough to see they tacitly support racial discrimination. Giving it a cute name doesn't change it.
CheriBSD
Ya pretty cool that someone from Ghana living in Canada could send $5000 worth of crypto to their family without a bank intervening. Also pretty cool that they could be paid per second instead of weekly or monthly using something like Superfluid.

If these are problems that don’t exist for you, consider yourself lucky and remind yourself of the opportunities for many that you’re advocating against.
Why do you need the bounds for every combination of the N square roots? Isn't it enough to get the minimum distance between the two nearest elements in that list?

If so, why not consider the 2N degree polynomial where P(z) = \prod (z^2 - a_i) ? This polynomial is only 2N degree and gives you the bound you actually care about, the number of bits needed to sum two numbers in the list. Since you're summing 2N of them instead of just one, you might need on the order of lg(N) more bits in your representation (so 2N + lg(N) bits, say) but this is still well within "polynomial" bits.
Nice, I did not know this. Thanks!
At what cost? Thats not the enirety of systemds complexity curve.

Your systemd unit file is backed by pages and pages of docs that must be comprehended to understand and hack on. Unix developers have all they need from the script. Furthermore, its all in context of existing unix concepts and thus your unix experiance is paying dividends.
> Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology

https://twitter.com/mcm_ct/status/1485295498806403077

Unfortunately Michael Saylor is the rule rather than the exception. Crypto marketing is extremely coercive, with slogans like "have fun staying poor!", intended to maximize shame and peer pressure to encourage the vulnerable and ignorant to become "believers". This is explicitly bullying behaviour.
If you think that's sad, wait until you hear about the people who give crimes against society and the planet the "ok" because they involve cool tech.
Nowadays there's such an abundance of PaaS that in my opinion it doesn't make any sense anymore to get a VPS and manage it yourself, unless you're willing to potentially spending numerous hours in DevOps yourself in both initial setup and maintenance, but more importantly you're aware of the implications when you go past the traffic it can physically serve.

Furthermore, managing your own server potentially leaves more room open for misconfigurations (including backups) and definitely won't get you past any information security questionnaire.
To pay down rising borrowing costs?
The best argument against cryptocurrencies is their impact on the environment, which is becoming huge and is based on solid numbers.
Thousands of thousands of hardware miners in pretty much every country, and growing every damn day, each one drawing no less than 3 Kilowatts 24/7 and pumping heat into the atmosphere don't come without a cost. Which for those who don't care about the environment is also represented by the unprecedented raise of energy prices.
Energy has become the raw material used to build money; its costs follow the demand and will continue to soar as long as prices continue to be dictated by the demand for continuously growing crypto farms. There's no going back until some form of strong regulation, or a global catastrophe, will end this for good.

My personal (admittedly Don Quixotesque) stance on the matter is that I will never ever accept to be paid in crypto currency for products, services or whatever: their value over here is less than zero.
It's fraud to bill someone T&M for time that wasn't actually spent. You're better off quoting it fixed-fee. :)
even for the other DVM-eqsue networks (solana, avalanche, et al), they still have the same constraint. the incentive to secure the network (either through PoW or PoS) is inherently tied to the underlying tokenomics, the currency has to have some value for the consensus mechanism to be successful.
I don't think they are even claiming they were "unlawfully poached" (which is an extremely high legal bar for at will employees without a non-compete contract) just that they are seeking 90 more days to find replacements which makes the whole thing even more ridiculous. https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/health/2022/01/20/th...
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Oil is a terrible drug.
It's a reply to David/Daniels email to the F500 org. The dev didn't post a screenshot of their reply, but they mentioned this - "I answered the email very briefly and said I will be happy to answer with details as soon as we have a support contract signed."
This is about PHP code (i.e. written in the scripting language, PHP), not the PHP interpreter.

Since it's a scripting language, your build artifacts will be one of:

- .diff / .patch

- .zip / .tar / .tar.gz

- .phar (rarely)

Of these, only the last (PHP Archives) is mildly persnickety for build reproducibility. But it's easily fixed: https://github.com/paragonie/sodium_compat/blob/08ab867bbb6a...
It's not mean, it's just very skewed in one way without acknowledging different perspectives. Take this sentence:

> At best your typical crypto project is just a planet-destroying unregulated casino, at worst it's criminal fraud

Obviously the "at best" part is still a negative, just like the "at worst". That's no way of starting a curious conversation and frankly, it makes for boring reading no matter if you're for/against cryptocurrencies as a whole.
Don't look that far. Think about how many politicians and well-connected people have invested in crypto, to do things they want the plebs to do... but not them (like those pesky taxes)

Proof of stake was the missing piece they needed to remove having to bother about things like having a technological innovation seize a larger piece of the pie than what they have.

It won't be in their interest to do that. However, it may be in the interest of China and Russia to reverse their stance about crypto, in case they go on with their invasions/wars and financial sanctions start hurting. See Iran for example.

What's likely to happen is fragmentation, with each large country pushing for the crypto they control.

It's gonna be funny!
Well put. Not everything is bad about crypto, some ideas may turn into the "next thing". One use I find interesting and look forward to see if it grows into something truly useful is DAOs. I know is a naive thought but I do see decentralized governance as a way of fixing the broken democracy we currently have. I also believe crypto has the potential to fix banking and insurance. We'll see.
In the Linux world, Debian/Ubuntu made a fateful decision to deploy the Almquist shell as /bin/sh. They left /bin/bash as the interactive shell, but anything assuming the presence of a "bashism" in /bin/sh suddenly broke. Also inconvenient is that scripts calling /bin/bash behave differently from bash running as /bin/sh (alias expansion is disabled in the former, and likely other POSIX violations that I have not seen).

Almquist allows the local keyword, in violation of the POSIX standard. The wiki says that this is the only extension.

The original article's motivation is for Almquist running under FreeBSD. Almquist is also used in Busybox with a few bash-compatibilty adjustments. However, there are other pure POSIX shells out there, and it is worth adhering to the standard.

Almquist is also much faster than bash, so speed joins compatibility as factors for standard adherence.
The article ends with:

>>Even with the increased amplification of skepticism, the crypto and Web3 space continue to grow rapidly. Only time will tell if we will have a new decentralized blockchain-based utopia or if the skeptics were correct all along.

So basically, this is now just falling off the "Peak Of Inflated Expectations" into the "Trough of Disillusionment" on the Gartner Technology Hype Cycle graph[0][1].

Perhaps notable that it is going through the cycle so quickly. I expected a more substantive analysis, but it seems to be merely pointing to the name-calling ("a solution in search of a problem". "con job") of a few skeptics.

Actually I now recall lasers being called "a solution in search of a problem" for several decades, but now they are ubiquitous, although it does mean that the initial laser manufacturers were not necessarily the big winners.

[0] https://emtemp.gcom.cloud/ngw/globalassets/en/research/image...

[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hy...
True, but I’d contend that a 1400 from a kid in a terrible school district shows way more potential than a 1400 from a kid at a prep school. How do you compare those objectively if the raw number doesn’t tell the whole story?
Didnt they get the injunction literally a few days before they were supposed to start? After the workers gave reasonable notice and invited a counter offer? Why didnt they get the injunction immediately?

How can a worker be "unlawfully poached" again? Non competes are illegal in the vast majority of cases without consideration involved.
I am reasonably sure that this won’t happen, or said another way, a function that returns the minimum delta between any finite pairs of lists is a reasonably well behaved function wrt the length of the list and the size of the integers and doesnt just zoom off to infinitely close to zero ever.

Said yet another way, the ways in which real numbers are dense is spooky and almost totally untied to how rationals work, and i do not believe you can get there from here using square roots.
There are indeed and they are probably not even technological but conceptual. In practice blockchains/DLTs etc. might not solve many real world issues (any?) but the associated experimentation has surfaced some interesting ideas, e.g.,:

(i) ability to split governance layers more, i.e., what was once thought of as one monolith could be run along many dimensions

(ii) things like AMMs in DeFi might point the way towards making market making more investable in general

(iii) The possibility for creation of new asset classes/creation of new volatility. This might not be crypto/not only crypto, but (also) markets in entirely different things
I'm no historian either. I believe there is multiple overlapping efforts that has been cropping up over the years without necessarily being aware of each other.

It would be interesting to collect the published research and blogs and get an overview.
There is crypto ecosystems that do not use PoW (proof-of-work, ala Bitcoin) but other consensus schemes (most notably proof-of-stake, e.g. Cosmos) that do not destroy the planet.

Unregulated casino with eco-friendly tech is quite nice actually. No government should be able to forbid me to gamble imho.
Way to manage program state in Python, without OOP?
What is the best way to manage state in Python, without resorting to classes?

Do you use dataclasses, or keep everything as close to functional as you can? I don't find Python's object oriented style pythonic, and would prefer more C-like program structure.

How can I efficiently and cleanly manage state in Python? Please share your solutions.
They should show an analogy between capacitors and water hammer preventers. And maybe inductors to pressure/expansion tanks.
Any title that starts with "scientists say that" or "scientists did something" is clickbait by default.
Even if you are prevented, at least having money in BTC is better than having no money at all.

And there are always workarounds. It wouldn't be impossible to use an exchange in another country, for one.
I gather feedback about the library. Questions, suggestions, pull requests and stars are welcomed!
My guesses would be that the quadcopter doesn't need to control pitch of the rotors, nor do the rotors need to be balanced as perfectly. I believe an electric helicopter would still need a transmission, which would be a potential point of failure (and expensive). Different noise profile too (likely preferable for the quadcopter due to smaller blades that can be designed to work with with fixed pitch).

There are a few experimental human transport EV quadcopters out there.
Yeah I'd love to know how many people watched the whole thing!
I still don't understand this argument. You have to convert bitcoin into some kind of national fiat currency to actually buy things with it. At that point the government that controls that currency can impose whatever restrictions they want.

ie, in the US, I can't sell bitcoin and withdraw US dollars using coinbase without providing identification documents. The US government will have a record of the transaction that enables them to tax or seize the funds. This seems like it's the case with any government and coin wallet.

Unless Navaly can buy ads or pay staff in bitcoin, what good does the money do him? Given the current volatility of the BTC price at the moment, it seems even less valuable for doing anything practical. He'll have lost 20% of his millions raised just this week.

Can the average Venezuelan buy groceries or pay rent with bitcoin? Don't they need to convert to bolivars at some point to take part in the normal economy? Maybe I just don't understand this and someone can explain it.
From my observations, I think patent litigation is pretty high up on the legal totem pole. Patent lawyers who focus on actual litigation (through federal district courts, as opposed to the USPTO PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board) are responsible for cases that have legal fees at the $10M-level. But to support your point, a trial attorney who focuses on patent litigation is not necessarily a patent lawyer (though can be). There is a sort of arbitration at the PTAB for patent disputes, which does require a USPTO-registered attorney, but that's a process that is cheaper for all parties involved, so it's less money for the law firm. I assume those lawyers have less prestige at larger firms.

From my experience, patent lawyers who focus on patent prosecution bill at rate ~$300 - $500; patent litigators are $500 - $1000 (and I'm sure some litigators are much higher).
In the presence of types which are truthy (ie, contextually convertible to bool), its too easy to accidentally swap the unpacking:

// Oops, backwards!
auto [result, error_code] = do_something();
if(error_code) {
process(result);
}