skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git is not a blockchain. An audit log doesn't need to be blockchain. The whole point of blockchain is that is is decentralized, trust-less and permission-less. You take it away and what is left?
Tenets! Tenants pay rent.
Agricultural yield in Africa is one of the most important problems this century
Does this non-existence of a no-value not only mean, that when there is no result value, another value (like false or empty string or empty list or whatever) will be used to express that fact, or that an exception is used? One would have to check for those in some cases as well. Those might not be always good alternatives reducing required checks. How does it work?
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If you think restaurants are bad, and they are, you should try machine shops. I used to maintain CNC milling machines; one was in a shop that milled EDM sinkers[1] out of solid blocks of graphite. Graphite dust is a fracking nightmare. I quickly lost count of how many servo amplifiers and PLCs I had to replace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_discharge_machining
I do know 3 or 4 important ones.

It is easy if you take the effort to write a card and study it during a couple of weeks frequently (and try to always dial from memory, of course).
GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 are only a glimpse of an upcoming change with greater impact on humanity than the Internet.
I remember the Alice in Wonderland text adventure they shipped in that cassette once and the sense of, uh, wonder and adventure as I progressed through the game <3
Of course there is nothing. It is just a very valuable scamming tool, just something extremely useful for siphoning money from dumber to smarter people's pockets. It has no actual, practical usages. Was never meant too. All clutter around it is just to conceal it's true nature: scam (oh ok, also money laundering, that's big too).
Well, partially with good insulation, Vaseline or plastidip coating.

And partially, you just don't. It'll freeze over and since this is for competition and not daily use, that is okay. Usually nothing gets damaged, sometimes it does. Extreme OC is expensive.
I never said that the plan was to use Ukraine as a pawn to get concessions from the West. That was someone else. Putin sees his conquest of Ukraine as a milestone in his own country's spiritual destiny.
I doubt there's a universal answer to that question, but I think most projects tend to overlook important information because the participants have been too deep in the weeds for too long. You tend to forget what newcomers won't find obvious about your tool.
> I'd still buy Russian products after Ukraine

Good to announce your cheerful complicity in mass murder on here so we know not to take you seriously.
There is value in blockchain tech, but not necessary in crypto currencies, nfts or fully Byzantine decentralized tech.

Like for example a distributed federate ledger is useful for checking/auditing/simplifying some federated tasks, like around supply-chain or to e.g. make it
a bit more viable to interlink to game servers of the same game operated by different
entities which have a real-mony related in-game economy (non of this are silver
bullets, just make abuse harder).

> At the same time, the amount of coverage and attention it is getting and for a sustained period makes me believe I am missing something.

What you are missing is people gaining money through high risk investments, pyramid schemes. As well as rich people which hope this tech allows them to further avoid state control and taxes. I also have seen a bunch of times that some problems the US has are believed by tech, especially crypto people to be fundamental problems which need tech to be solved, while they pretty clearly are 100% fault of bad politics. Like personal banking in the US is crazy bad (for anyone not wealthy) that some very poor very unstable countries do a better job. I was competently shocked when I realized that in the US it's not the norm for poor people to have a bank accounts and neither is it trivial to safely send money between two private bank accounts in a not too long amount of time. If you either don't want to accept that such problems are caused by politics or accept it but don't think it can't be changed it's not hard to see crypto currencies as a good idea.

Also crypto can be good to avoid government control, in a stable countries this is quite often related to crime but if you life idk. in a autocratic country while still being crime technical it might be ethically "good" from a western point of view. Like sending money into an embargoed country for you family to live from is still technically circumventing an (lets assume for a moment) reasonable embargo, but is ethically ok because you help your family to survive.
Most libraries in the US and Australia have access to the Kanopy streaming video platform if you can't afford Netflix any more. It has an interesting selection of content.

Many will have ComicsPlus and Bibliotheca CloudLibrary as well, giving you a huge selection of comics, ebooks and magazines.

You should strongly consider using these resources before giving the big publishers and Amazon money and patronage they don't deserve.
Thank you. Excellent and informative
This is nonsense. I have had the misfortune of having to learn TCL (it's standard in the EDA world unfortunately) and it is most assuredly a toy language. That doesn't mean you can't write big complicated programs with it. You can do that with any language. But stuff like this is an outright lie:

> There are no types, and you don't need to perform conversions, however, you aren't likely to introduce bugs because the checks on the format of the strings are very strict.

You aren't likely to introduce bugs when literally every type is a string. Even lists. Lists are strings. Lists of strings are strings. Maps are strings.

It's pretty insane, and the interpreter does some horrible magic so that if you never access a list as a string it can store it internally as a real list (to avoid insanely bad performance) but to the programmer it's still a string and nothing prevents you from treating it as such.

I actually made a semi-funcitonal WASM-to-TCL transpiler to avoid having to write TCL. Worked kind of well! Unfortunately WASM is quite large and I lost interest before completing it.
You basically understand how this works; you see everything, but there might be gaps in the trace. In our experience they're rare (< 10 per multi-millisecond trace), short lived, and magic-trace can mostly infer what happened in that period fairly easily. You'll see these show up in the final trace as a little arrow that says "Decode error: Overflow packet" when you click on it, and the trace might look a little wonky (hopefully not too wonky!) from that point on.

In fact, if you look carefully at the demo gifs in the README, that trace had 5 decode errors! Nonetheless, it was extremely usable.

Snapshot sizes are configurable--you can go back as far as you like. However, the trace viewer tends to crash when the trace files reach the hundreds of MB and you'll need to do some work to set up a trace processor outside of your browser for the UI to connect to. The UI will offer up some docs if you actually run into this.

I'm so glad you asked us about PMU events, we've been thinking a lot about those. These are available in traces of the efficiency cores of Alder Lake CPUs, but nothing else. When we get our hands on a server class part with PMU tracing we'll add support ASAP. We conjecture that it will be absurdly useful to see cache events on a timeline next to call stacks.
Look up Kingpin Roboclocker. That's the closest anyone has gotten to develop a fully automated system that could be developed into something you could run for extended periods of time in the right environment.
"I disagree, I think it’s a reflection of lack of critical thinking skills when it comes to political topics. People are so polarized now they have lost the ability to discuss nuance, see the other side, or really compromise at all."

I think this is generally true, but I also think HN is one of the more open minded places on most of the topics. I think the main problem I have seen in political debates on here are when someone automatically assumes a scientific finding should be policy. In reality, we as a society need to figure out how to apply that finding in a way that balances multiple concerns and fits with society's other rules and values.
My reply was to that comment...
> This is why many used car sales are done via cash - can't undo cash!

If there is some shenanigans going on then the buyer/seller can just take it to a court. Cash or not isn’t really relevant to the legality of a transaction it’s just a means of payment.

It’s just like the deed to a house, it’s not really relevant to the purchase of a house. It’s that the buyer and seller respects the legal framework surrounding the transfer. A blockchain storing house ownerships doesn’t add much?
> That feels like a very misleading point. The world population is almost 8 billion, it was almost 1 billion in 1800 [...] we decreased slavery as a precentage of the world by a lot

I appreciate what you're saying, but my point is actually that the US view is that "slavery has been abolished for 150 years" makes for a very US-centric view of history. Which for a 250 year old country is laughably closed minded both backwards and forwards in time.

The context of what I said is the parent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31124042), specifically related to the US-centricism of the retold statement of "slavery was started by the United States".

The story of the world is not that slavery was created for the process of building the US as a powerful nation, and then abolished and now only dealing with the fallout and reparations. But I've heard this understanding many times in the US, to the point where it seems like the mainstream understanding there.
Good example of wilful misinterpretation: previous comment says "5 years", so you quote a bunch of examples from several decades ago.
What I'd prefer is the Twist-style threads (Zulip may also have them), where every room/channel must contain only topics/threads, and those topics have a title/description, and any messages in them are 1-level (no nested threading).

It looks like this:

#office [room/channel]
* Lunch [thread/topic]
- Anyone wants to grab lunch today? [message]
- Sure, I'll join! [message]
- Me too! [message]
* Printer doesn't work [thread/topic]
- Anyone else having trouble with the printer? [message]
- I fixed it an hour ago actually, try again [message]
- Thanks, it works! [message]
- (thread closed)
#marketing [room/channel]
* Website Update 2022 [thread/topic]
- (posting images) [message]
- Here is the new draft, let me know what you think! [message]
- Looks good, but there are some spelling mistakes… [message]
- Nice work! [message]
- Adwords Campaign [thread/topic]
- Here is a new adwords campaign structure. Let me know what you think! [message]
- How about splitting by geografy and demographics? [message]
- … [message]
- … [message]
- Alright, new campaign is live, thanks everyone! [message]
- (thread closed)

We recently switched from Slack to Twist because they have this structure. Although Twist is worse in probably every dimension except for this, this structure is still so much better that we're overall happy with the move.

I wish Element/Matrix would support this. I suggested this during their RFC process, but unfortunately didn't capture enough attention. Perhaps it'll be added later.
Thats exactly right.

Who is buying and selling roubles? Yes, there are apparently some transactions, since there is a price, but it’s hardly a market controlled by supply-demand.

Russian exports have always been priced in USD or other foreign currencies; Russian companies don’t want to get roubles, it seems.

Similarly, with imports, companies probably need to pay in whatever non-rouble way possible, I can’t imagine any serious exporter would take roubles.

Companies receiving foreign currency are forced to exchange them immediately to roubles according to a central bank’s rate.

It’s a theatre, not a market, and so the price is mostly anything.
that would be `hg prune` in modern Mercurial.
>but nobody will sell to them.

The self anointed "international community" is only a very small fraction of the actual world. This is typical western hubris and arrogance thinking that everyone will blindly follow them and those who don't, will powerlessly suffer the consequences of the wrath of the west. Russia has money, the world loves money, the world will sell to Russia. Not only that, but there's no shortage of western corporations busy trying to find ways to covertly sell to Russia because that's what they've done to every other pariah state. Russia will incur higher costs to acquire the things it wants but it will still be able to get them and it will often be western companies covertly doing the selling.
Easy. Try buying and selling at this rate. It’s a hugely constrained market.

I can tell you I have an asset worth 1e12 dollars but no one can buy it or sell it. This is kind of the same.
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> The traditional finance system is no more energy efficient overall.

Using more power[1] to process vastly more transactions makes it more efficient. There are over a billion credit card transactions per day as it is, and that doesn't include debit cards, wire transfers, BACS, Swift, PayPal, WU, AliPay, WeChat and all the others. And cash while we're at it, that's part of the system too.

[1]: Lets say it does, though transaction processing is only a small part of the financial industries. I don't even know how much the whole industry uses, let alone what fraction is transaction handling.
> there is nothing here more than you can get with traditional database technology?

Here are some questions that you can test your hypothesis with:

* Can you get distributed and trust-less settlement mechanisms with a centralized database?

* Can you seamlessly send value across jurisdictions and closed borders without meddlers and middlemen with traditional database technology (regulation resistance and unconfiscatableness)?

* Can you escape coercion and control with a centralized database (regulation and coercion resistance), while at the same time attaining great protection against criminal coercion and theft (resistance against crime and corruption)?

* Can a centralized database offer the same and relative anonymity as cash?

* How would any of the above be valuable without markets and speculation? I.e. how would you know the value of what is being sent or traded with you without something else to compare it to?

If you want to answer without merely saying yes or no, then I'd love to see your answers! Perhaps you can convince me to update some of my beliefs. :)
It's 100% deregulated finance and even if regulators want to regulate it, they basically can't because unlike regulators, crypto is global.

All the activities that regulators are designed to prevent are very successful in the crypto world.

I don't think crypto will fail or go bust; but I do think retail investors are completely abandoned by regulators who have a democratic mandate to protect them.

I suppose they don't want to be seen as stifling an innovative technology and politicians don't want to get blowback for efforts that would fail anyway.

Anyway, until we have global governance there will not be global regulation of the space so it will go on for many more decades.
It's also stated here:

> I still bought US products after Iraq

Which I suspect is true for yourself as well, although I have no means to verify it.

It is true for most of the world though.

Let's look at all the other mass murders committed by the US and their allies and stop buying goods from them too, shall we?

And before the "whataboutism" flame war starts, I don't care. It's not whataboutism when you're specifically stating (implicitly or otherwise) that one is fine and the other is not.
This is unfortunately true. https://ukrainetoday.org/2022/04/23/exclusive-france-and-ger...
You never buy anything from China?
Russia used their funds to prop up the Ruble, so it's massively inflated right now.

We'll know when the funds run out, it's a expensive task to keep it inflated.
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CNN is bland news. That's one reason why it does so poorly. Fox News is entertainment and it is entertaining. Rupert Murdoch wanted to indoctrinate Americans and he knew just how he'd do it when creating Fox News in the early 90s. An unending line of leggy blondes and unbridled, brash male hosts that would make you want to watch it. And voila, you have today's Fox News, where you can barely get notice of that scandalous Kevin McCarthy audio versus their coverage of his defense against the story itself. Does truth matter when getting entertained feels so good?
This seems to be going towards the system which soviet union used. The official
rate is an illusion created by the government while actual market exchange is
basically illegal:

The Soviet Union officially valued the ruble in the planned economy at an
average of 0.74 руб per USD ... However, as the ruble was not internationally
exchangeable and as Soviet citizens could not legally own foreign currency,
rubles changed hands in the black market at an average of 4.14 руб per
dollar in the same period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble#Exchange_rates
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Dude, that study is _garbage_.

> The researchers analyzed health data from 1,104 active male firefighters collected from 2000 to 2010.

Active male firefighters? You mean people whose entire job is predicated upon physical strength? People for whom pushups are essentially an aerobic exercise? People who are in no way representative of the population at large???
In this case, censorship as in blocking/refusing transactions.

Any miner can decide that they won't include your transaction in a block, but as long as any one miner that occasionally mines a block is willing to include your transaction, your transaction will eventually make it onto the blockchain.

A majority of miners (by hashpower) could still decide to censor (orphan) the entire block, but unless a majority of the hashpower is willing to do that, your transaction will stay there.
The way she put it led me to believe that there were significant non-rubel monetary assets inside the country, which I could totally believe to be true.
Even with this internet rate they are experiencing elevated inflation. The ruble may be stable, but these conditions of high interest and capital controls are expected to severely damage the economy if they are maintained.
If you’ve ever written code, and if you’ve ever written a bug, then you will understand that code as law is terrible idea, especially when it comes to finance.
Platforms are responsible for everything shown to a user inside the EU.

I suspect that Google and Facebook will not offer country specific blocklists like they do for Nazi content in Germany. If Hungary bans LGBTQIA content, it'll disappear in France. Europe can then have an argument about how they "really really not really" believe in free speech.
> "One of the most frequent lines heard in Washington is that Russia is now globally isolated — with China being the key prevaricator. America risks being seduced by its own public relations. The world’s reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is far more complex than that. Since February 24, the west has been galvanised into showing more unity than it has in years. Yet most of the world is on the sidelines waiting to see which way it goes. Not for the first time, the west is mistaking its own unity for a global consensus" [0]

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/d7baedc7-c3b2-4fa4-b8fc-6a634bea7...
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My understanding is that it originally came out of the cyberpunk & anarchist subcultures (e.g. the use of the Japanese nom de plume Satoshi Nakamoto is in my view a call-out to the glamorization of Japan in cyberpunk and cypherpunk culture). I believe Bitcoin really was indeed meant as an anarchist or libertarian way to have something like gold but digital - something that could be used to buy & sell anything forbidden by governments. Illegal online activity has been highly glamorized since before the start of the tech boom in culturally-foundational novels like Neuromancer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer - where the main hero is a suicidal amphetamine-addicted criminal hacker and his frenemies / semi-allies are an arms dealer and an assassin.

To be honest, I think this glamorization of digital crime is rather naive. Even if someone takes the very niche position that drugs should be fully decriminalized, Bitcoin is also used for truly fucked up things like human slavery.

In this thread, you can see an example by golergka, who uses bitcoin as I believe it was originally intended:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132987 "Drug trade, tax avoidance, banking for the unbanked and sanctioned. I'm currently living from airbnb to airbnb, with all my Russian banks banned from SWIFT, and crypto is the only way I'm abe to access my money."

What is strange and I think you are rightly confused about is why did a very niche crypto-anarchist technology enter mainstream society in a big way? I think it's primarily a speculative bubble BUT there's a chance that it could be a bubble that never pops. Think of diamonds - we now have the technology to very affordably make beautiful synthetic diamonds, so from a first principles standpoint the price of diamonds should collapse any day now but it hasn't, and probably won't. Diamonds being expensive is too deeply baked into our culture, and it is possible that cryptocurrency could similarly become a bubble that never pops if it becomes a point of cultural agreement that crypto "should be" valuable, not for fundamental reasons but because of mass belief that is strong enough that it persists indefinitely, even across centuries.
There's two value for me:

- the possibility to hide some transactions out of the traditional system (monero / zcash). I mean you may disagree, it's mostly ideological for some honest people and practical to some dishonest / drug dealers / evaders.

- the fact they are decentralised currencies that are now an actual alternative to people's national currency. this may look silly to you if you live in europe / usa, but a LOT of less developed countries such as lebanon, turkey, and a lot in south america and africa have seen the value of their currency decrease steadily wrt the dollar. So ANY of this people would have been better of buying either dollars (which may be hard locally / with taxes), and even better off any crypto in the past 10 years instead and they would have better life savings.

tlrd The biggest value of bitcoin now is to be alternative store of value, which you can acess pretty much anywhere in the world in a decentralised fashion. Even if the tech were useless, its DE FACTO an alternative now which doesn't have less value that 80% of local / national currencies.
> We are on the cusp of a completely new way to generate and consume content. Copyright laws will have to be rewritten. Once this pandora box is open it can't be closed.

The question is not if but why

We don't need more content, we need more curated and higher quality content.

Random by definition has a very low probability of producing quality.

Case in point: The walking dead.

It's already an infinite variation of the same topic but the good bits ended after season 2...
If you are so obsessesed with optimizing your life (most of us on HN are) and want to monetize your hobby, pick a job so interesting and open ended that your job becomes your hobby.

You are killing two birds with one stone in that case