skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could, but it's not going to while the people pushing it are in it for the money.

At least retail banking is controlled and guaranteed by national and international governments and banks. If a crypto exchange goes fucky for whatever reason, you're fucked. If the value of your cryptocurrency of choice varies, you're fucked.

I mean how much did a pizza cost 10 years ago vs today in BTC vs USD. In BTC it was a few BTC, now it's 0.00025. In USD it was $10, now it's $10.

There is nothing wrong with retail / traditional banking, investment and insurance. Cryptocurrencies / blockchain technology does not solve a problem.
Does it have hardware GC? (garbage collector)
Any date information collected from non-computer processes can have missing or incorrect dates (e.g., doctor's notes, or a historical record saying "1920s"). Despite that, you may need to do comparisons between them. This lets us keep the dates in one field, do the normal logic with complete values, and do some limited logic with incomplete ones. For example:

# This is true
Date("192X-XX-XX") >= Date("1920-01-01")
# This is false
Date("192X-XX-XX") < Date("1920-01-01")
# This is unknown
Date("192X-XX-XX") == Date("1920-01-01")

I don't like splitting dates across multiple fields and writing custom logic. It'd be nicer to have a standard and (eventually) a good library to lean on.
Middle in the left. Right most in the new.
Easy to check on Flick: https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi/ ;-)
Who said that's the reason it's cringe? You're burying the lede.
How is it being a Republican means you have to hate electric cars? Have you ever driven one?

Nothing good comes out of coddling those people. To appease people who hated compact fluorescents out of ideology they had legislation to promote advanced incadescents, some of which give very high quality light (there are some that have a halogen bulb inside an ordinary light bulb and the color rendition is magnifique.) The haters couldn’t even be bothered to try them.

Now those CFLs really did suck, but thanks to Cree we have affordable LEDs that are pretty good unless you want to make fine sensory distinctions.
Indeed, their example is terrible, because it's also the kind of 'toy' problem that just doesn't have good real world uses too.

How often do you want to reverse a string.

I think your solution is fine and isn't "bad code" at all. Certainly a real explanation warrants talking about the IEnumerable interface.

I'd also consider the simpler (and ever so slightly better performing):

var buffer = "1234simple".ToArray();
Array.Reverse(buffer);
new string(buffer);

edit: The following is dramatically (x10) even better performing:

var buffer = "1234simple".ToCharArray();
Array.Reverse(buffer);
new string(buffer);

But again with the caveat of that not respecting unicode sequences.

But to re-iterate and to add to your criticism, I can't understand the use-case of needing to do this outside of toy problems.
Barter involves agreeing on a specific exchange rate. Graeber describes (among other things, of course) systems in which that doesn't happen; systems in which debt isn't quantified, but instead a general sense of who has been more generous to whom over their lifetimes.
Something like YouTube for learning videos, only.

Spreading _solid_ knowledge about everything all over the world and people will be able to improve their societies, no matter where they are. That will probably have a huge impact.
That's Project SPHINX:
https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/project-sphinx-when-t...
HP Inc. To Acquire Poly
I think adult education needs reform. We prioritize childhood education, but kids don't choose their parents. Affluent kids have access to better education, and there's no later-in-life educational safety net for adults without those early childhood benefits. If you went to a crap high school because of where you lived, you have limited options after graduating, and even less if you dropped-out.

Your current options as an adult are to take a course online, take a course at a community college, or buy books and watch YouTube videos all on your own. The problem with these approaches is that all motivation must come from within. There's no requirement that you learn. As soon as you get bored, you can quit. A large majority of kids, even stellar students, study because they are required to do so, out of a fear of the consequences imposed by their parents, by their teachers and even by their peers.

Imagine if you had to learn a subject outside your comfort zone. How attentive would you be to an online classes? Even basic courses like algebra are very uncomfortable to adults with minimal mathematics knowledge. It's not enough to hope adults who enroll will 'do their best', you have to motivate them to stay and push them to excel.

Now...I don't know what such a system would look like or even if it's possible to implement on a large scale.
tldr: There are a number of US defense programs that are boondoggles and are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

What can be done to fix it and make it more efficient? Well, the big problem is that congress loves boondoggles like this. The politicians are also delighted to take the money to help fund their campaigns. Now they owe some favors. As a bonus, they also get to brag to their constituents about how many jobs they're helping to create.

The US system of government perpetuates this. Unfortunately, things are just going to get worse until we make some changes like establishing term limits and preventing politicians from becoming lobbyists.
American police use psychics too.
The ability to crowd fund creators sounds like it will be a positive impact.

Details at https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/139265/avalanche-launche...
This looks amazing. I always imagine my scripts and programs like this in my head, can't wait to play with this
Beware of scams involving fake correspondence from Europol
> Cosmetics are the prime example of an honest F2P, as they have zero impact on the game

To have zero impact on the game, they'd have to not be a part of the game. Or have ever existed at all, really.

But if you think they are so meaningless, why do you think people buy them? Also, don't you think convincing someone to buy nothing sounds like something a con artist would do?

> allow the developers to eat

How do microtransactions feed developers? Do you just mean because its their job to build the game? (which necessarily includes the various monetisation systems)
Some of these problems don't really have much information / specs.

"Generate random array" (python-numpy)"

Ok - but what dimension? size/length? what range? sample from what distribution? only unique values? etc.

Many of these problems have "native" one-liner numpy solutions which are trivial to find (basically just read the documentation).
Yeah, and large near-monopolies grow complacent.
Its funny you mention Google Sheets...At the non-profit where i worked we would research whatever available software/tools would help...and sometimes we looked at software/tools built specifically for non-profit use cases...but you know what? Almost half the time, for many reasons (sometimes because time is of the essence, or because non-techie non-profit people can not wrap their heads around some fancy non-profit tool/app), someone just ends up spionngin up some google sheet or share an excel file via sharepoint/oneDrive, etc. I used to get annoyed with this approach but then realized that i can't fully blame my former colleagues because sometimes they had to get stuff done and didn't have time/other luxury to research the "perfect tool"...Or, the landscape of available tools built for non-profits either sucks, is expensive for the value they supposed to bring, or non-profit folks don;t know how to take advantage of the purpose buolt tools,. etc. So, i learned to not get all annoyed when someone reaches for google sheets, office docs, whatever if it means that a human is helping out another human. ;-)
I see Rust with a lot of potential, especially if/when it moves into domains like aerospace and other control of critical physical hardware. These are places where a reduction of bugs saves lives and/or huge amounts of money.

Machine learning definitely has potential, if we have another surge of breakthroughs in the future amazing things will become possible

Something I would like to see is a movement for software user rights. Between hardware that locks you into to the manufacturers store, and software that is constantly interrupting you and pushing ads at you instead of allowing you to do your work, some kind of social movement to push back against these UI dark patterns is sorely needed. Using computers is absolutely horrible compared to what it could be because of these issues.
You would think wrong. There are no full self-driving cars today. All of them rely to some extent on human operators, either in the car or remote.

Sure it's possible to build a drone that can take off, fly to a designated point, drop some ordnance, and return. But we don't have the technology to automate complex missions like air superiority or close air support. Those require a human in the loop making real time decisions. If the human isn't right there in the airplane then the risk is that communications will be disrupted. In a major conflict with a near peer adversary, most of our communications satellites will get knocked out.
It's ok, they'll keep the trillion-dollar startup ideas to themselves:)
I guess I missed the point, as I provided an example on how to parse it, since it was deemed "unparseable".
you didn't even buy the fennec car?
I've only skimmed the article, but this is one of the time I'm reminded of Pascal's words: "Please excuse this long letter, I did not have time to write a shorter one". It feels like a few more edits could have really helped condense the material, as I don't want every theory of money to start with Rai stones.

Perhaps edits might not have changed the message, as I feel it's just one abstraction level too far from reality in order to merely argue for the inevitability of cryptocurrencies.
AI systems can search through millions of molecules to find a drug. How is that different from Thomas Edison trying 1000 filaments for a light bulb?
I think a fairer comparison would be

np.linalg.norm(x)

or even

norm(x)

if you

import numpy.linalg.norm as norm

beforehand. This comes with the advantage that you can look up the function by name to know what it does instead of having to look up chains of symbols on several websites.
I remember reading that post a while back.

I was surprised the author gave up after he didn't find doctors who would pay for access. The post says he met 10 doctors in the bay area and when none of them became a paying customer, he shut his project down.

If you really think you are making a dent in the worlds health situation, why give up so fast?
This is useful.
Thank you.
Ah, I see...there's a size_t, but it takes the value of the passed int.
China isn't your neighbor topping up his pension or your local insurance company seeking a home for its premiums. Their risk profile and reasons for buying are utterly different. Even the liquidity of treasuries is, for them, different.

Why do you think Russia dumped its treasuries in 2018 if they're such a safe investment for military opponents of US hegemony? How liquid would they be right now if they'd kept them? Which buyer of treasuries do you really think China shares most in common with? Is it State Farm or Calpers? Or is it Russia?

What you're doing right now is the economic equivalent of trying to apply Newton's second law to relativistic speeds. Yes, that's absolutely misrepresenting the book.
Very cool, will be great to teach networking to my kids. Thanks for the hard work!
I think you are misrepresenting the article. Its main argument is that the remote visual guidance system for the boom initially didn't work as intended and the fix is still in progess. Are you implying that is wrong?
To nitpick a bit, both Ethernet and Wi-Fi frames start with the destination address, so it's more like "Bob? This is Alice, can you read me, over".

That way Dave knows to ignore the message if it doesn't start with his name (or "Everyone?" for broadcasts).
I thought about it, but should take another look at it, that scripting extension looks like a good way to get in touch with it.

When I had a look at it, I was under the impression, that you can't get immediate enough to the core functions, for an extension to make sense. You are just drawing too many lines to make going through a pop-up every time feasible. You want to specify exact lengths while drawing, not afterwards.

In Vectoworks e.g. line drawing works like this: click on the starting point/node, choose the angle by moving your mouse, enter length (length field is always pre-selected), press enter. Optionally press tab to enter a more precise angle if it's not dividable by 15, but you probably have an alignment point selected already, so you don't need to put the angle or even the length. You do this 100 times in a row. And if you edit a shape, the measurement input is always immediately accessible aswell.

Adding a text and visual measurements is something you do when the drawing is complete and you manually lay them out, because you want to choose which measurements to include and you lay them out in a nice line so other people can easily comprehend what you want to communicate with you drawing. Sometimes you have the same drawing with different measurements, because you are communicating a different aspect of the drawing.
I’m in the same boat, I have the self control not to be affected by these tactics, I also don’t want to ban these types of monetisation but I do feel the industry needs a regulatory reality check.

Gambling mechanics (loot boxes) are having a similar psychological effect to regular gambling and “self regulation” means those at risk are unprotected. Is there a way to setup gambling limits on FIFA loot boxes right now? What about children who haven’t the cognitive ability to reason about these things, are they barred like a casino?

Again don’t want to block innovation and alternative monetisation opportunities, but we should do better at protecting the vulnerable.
I had suspected something like that from how basic CRUD operations on AWS can take minutes of latency compared to seconds when running whatever-it-is locally.

At least their solution architects get some moral redemption from peddling these messes..
Not sure if dropping all my essential software counts as positive, though.
Again, this comes down to how you define ”pay the debt“. To me, if you pay back your debt, you are dept-free. Re-financing (at the same interest rate) is debt-neutral, if you follow this logic.
thanks for this link, and the context
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

- "Bitcoin & Renewable Energy Transition - Bitcoin Incentivizes Green Energy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SX1eCqwd3Q

- "Can Bitcoin Mining Save the Environment? with Troy Cross" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFYKq5Qe1Bs

- "This Machine Greens" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7dMVcVWgc
Well, it's a spectrum to me. Glasses are already humans and machines merging together, and I feel that people in the 1500s would think the singularity had already happened to us, given how smartphones are available everywhere.

If I had to choose an event, though, I think it would be the first time that human intelligence is enhanced by AI in some way (imagine offloading numerical computations on your mind). When that happens, we will have lots of questions to answer, like: what happens when rich people are not only richer, but also fundamentally smarter and more efficient?
so you have no evidence.

How much influence do you think what you are mentioning has had on the numbers and what is your proof of that?
I'd love to see more choices come elections besides the lesser of two evils.
The issue I have with this article is that it sounds too good to be true. All pros, and seamingly no cons. Either the authors are embellishing it a little bit, or don’t want to think/write about cons a lot. Or both. I wish they balanced things a little bit more.
HN is really going to shit. Now it’s just a don’t give XYZ clicks. 2-3 years ago it would have been at least a 3-4 pager of paranoid induced nonsense.
The concern is the same as with any dependency: The dependency runs under your privileges with access to your data. A malice vendor could do "anything" at least within the scope of your application.

For instance if you create a web mail application the code probably has access to all mails, can delete them, can send mail under the user's identity, ...

How relevant those scenarios are you have to evaluate.

If you compile yourself, you can verify the source to increase trust. If you just get the binary, you have to trust the vendor more.
The greatest positive impact we can hope for in digital technology is
for more reflection and thought. Moving fast and breaking things isn't
working well any more, and may be our undoing.

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

It ought to be emblazoned in 10ft high letters above the doorway to
every university, company and research institution.

We could benefit from a more widespread acceptance of the fundamental
utilitarian question "How does this actually make life better for the
greatest number, and without inflicting harms as unseen side effects?"

This means careful reflection on human values, and less hubris about
what we can achieve.

To see how far from value-neutral your suggestions might be:

> energy usage

Unless stated carefully some people may assume that means "use
less". It may well be that the way forward is to use more energy, not
less. Renewable non fossil use would seem a better goal.

> preventing armed conflicts

Some with a more hawkish outlook might say of defence, it's actually
better to expediently and decisively win conflicts with minimum loss
of life.

> reducing poverty

Seems like a universal good. But poverty is relative. To raise the
remainder of humanity to the standard of living that most Americans
consider "poverty" would be devastating if done with current
technology.

> STEM training

Plenty would argue that we have a STEM excess and what is needed is
broader application of the arts and humanities to balance life and
create a nicer culture.

> improving access to sustainable environments

Most things that start with "improving access" fail to account for the
effects of demand on those resources.

> implementing AI

Many, myself included, would caution that a naive pursuit of AI is
absolutely catastrophic. Instead we should put more into IA.

And so on.

Now, I am not picking on your values here. If I were to list 10 "bare
word values" you'd be able to make similar objections and shoot mine
down.

What I am saying is that digital technology has created a "solution
trap", where we see things as monotonic linear progress with "fast"
ideas that can be made into a product and a company. We see
trajectories toward unquestionable good without pausing to consider
the cost elsewhere. I recommend reading systems theory (I start my
students with Dana Meadows "fishing ecosystem" lecture) and you'll see
something frightening.

The trick is not to recoil at the complexity but re-imagine technology
as a way to understand it, reflect on it in a less reductionist way.
What else do you expect when you have IQ tests to prevent anyone that's too smart from being a cop?
The Crazy Eddie story is most interesting to me as a window into the highly insular and particularly successful Syrian Jewish diaspora.
Are you planning on supporting Vulkan?
I'm going to guess folk with this issue are leaving off the protocol. Look at the `Location` header you get back if you've asked to shorten example.com (which displays this issue) vs https://example.com (which doesn't).
I think a more Pythonic solution would be

np.array(arrays).T

or maybe

np.copy(arrays).T

for one less character. The shortest solution is probably

np.c_[arrays].T

but likely causes a Google search on first read.
GCR is certainly very good. Note that there are quite a few good alternatives too:

Fly.io - https://fly.io/ (gives you a Postgres DB too)

Digital Ocean App Platform - https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform

Scaleway Compute Containers - https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/compute/containers/quicksta...
Investing Algebra
After 20 years, i used up my cache of MSTE's. I've found the "Elecom M-HT1UR" to be a suitable replacement, the only issue i have with it is the "wheel button" actuations are all too close together. "wheel click" is also "wheel left/right" too often.
I'm not sure, why do you ask specifically about the Fennec?

I have bought some items, but only by trading free drops for keys/credits.
The outcome of the 1991 Iraq war (Desert Storm) was that they had to leave Kuwait. Which was exactly what was intended. And as a side effect their military was degraded enough that they no longer posed a threat to other US allies including Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Probably a bit of "they don't make them like they used to."
About "Borg’s crypto has known limitations":

We've just merged new crypto code into master, based on AEAD ciphers (AES-OCB and chacha20-poly1305) and session keys - so the potential nonce management issues are soon a thing of the past.

There's current work adding argon2id as default for the KDF (was: pbkdf2), likely soon to be merged.

Also checking blake3 for the ID hash (MAC) right now (but platform / build compatibility has yet to be seen).
Same in Slovenia.
3D printed desktop portal turret
Because more people will click on it and read it. Call it "Countering CVE-0284-b" and 50 people will read it. Go with a political catalyst title and you get thousands if hits, even if they then close the tab immediately.

It means more random user-agent/referrer data for them and I'm guessing more domain authority or whatever that crap is.

It's marketing. The article concludes with how the Google Chrome safe browsing list was updated bla bla bla.

It's all just marketing. That's how Google operates. Everything is a shop window. Everything you say, do and make. Google is the market research company.

Except they've repeatedly created products that no one wanted and killed them.

But that's a form of market research when you have a lot of money.

I feel like Google collects so much information it probably doesn't get much sense out of it. Who knows
It’s very strange that the author go lengths to demonstrate how remote systems doesn’t work, just to, at the end, inadvertently providing an exemple where it works wonderfully (moral questions aside).
I run into this all the time in genealogy. The date object in Gramps, for example, has to support lots of uncertainty, as well as time spans with uncertainty on either end ("He joined the army in March 1968 (unknown day), and left sometime after 1971 but probably before 1974 when he got a job at ABC Corp.").

Throw in different calendar systems and you can have a mess. It's one of the things that people think is simple, but really isn't.
I know that Tesla's FSD is already safer than human drivers. But the society is not ready for children dying because of an erroneous data point in the training model that we can't even debug, let alone fix it.
It’s a favorite of Elon Musk. He has recommended it several times.
He's from Chile and I think he is directly translating his local idioms into English. Basically what he is saying is "science" immediately goes out the window when big money is involved, that most people will sell out their morals for money.

If you would like to know more I recommend you check this out;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackler_family
Why are you using the noun Russia in your post or communication at all?

Why not erase the name from your HN posts entirely?
sometimes I can't believe the information is that sparse, people have gaps in knowledge and still try to be someone
Put a sign on your inner front door: "Did you commit your changes?"