skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kids' privacy seem like a very valid use-case for that. Because kids and adults are not necessarily easy to distinguish, bingo bango bongo, privacy for everyone by default.
Hi, author of the article here! Great to see this posted today on the Speccy's 40th birthday :) Happy to answer any questions or reminisce about the Good Old Days!
> This seems like a fully general (and somewhat unconvincing) argument against doing theoretical physics.

Not exactly, since this quote definitely doesn't apply to all theoretical physics:

> experiments are not possible, not now and probably not in the next 10000 years.
> Tolerate the right of people to sell their labor for wages? Tolerate the right of people to offer wages for other people's labor?

No, tolerate a system that works as hard as possible to ensure that selling one's labor for wages is the only option, rather than a right. Tolerate a system in which increases in productivity accrue benefits mostly to capital rather than society as a whole. Tolerate a system in which profit is preferentially distributed to the capital that partially enabled it rather than the labor that also enabled it.

It's all very well to point to some historical societies in which a person was not even free to sell their own labor. But to insist that this is the yardstick by which we measure our own society is devastatingly narrow-minded.
Those sound like awesome potential features. Allow users to assign 0-100% weights for each of those scoring adjustments during search,and show them the calcs (if you can).
Do you think this could be somehow integrated with Cargo to be run with `cargo build`?

The reason I'm asking is that I use the IntelliJ plugin for Rust dev which is kind of clunky and only understands a few commands as being "build", so it doesn't show the build window.
what is it about?
It's at least on the west coast of the Persian Gulf.
Just like the Brits...there can always be a Belgone and a Swedone.

Oh....here we go, then:
Germano
Italeave
sPain
Portugallivant
The Neverlands

Cont. on p94.
The page on the linked official web site has already link rotted within a few months!
If you read the full answer, you would see that his position is that doing that is better than not doing it. If you are correct that it is even more difficult to do so, then his position is that bitcoin is even worse than gold in this regard.

> When ‘Bitcoin maximalists’, as you call them, wax lyrical about the inability to print money (and celebrate this inability as Bitcoin’s feature, rather than its bug), they are being terribly unoriginal – banal, I dare say. Capitalism nearly died in 1929, and tens of millions did die in the war that ensued, because of this toxic fallacy that underpinned the Gold Standard then and Bitcoin now. Which fallacy? The fallacy of composition, as John Maynard Keynes called it.

Regarding your specific points on the differences between gold and Bitcoin:

* easy to counterfeit - Point to Bitcoin

* hard to store securely - I'd class this as a point for Gold.

* expensive to transact with at a distance - As opposed to Bitcoin, which is just expensive to transact; and gets more expensive the more people use it, as there is a finite amount of transactions per unit time.

In practice, most people dealing with Bitcoin are dealing with it through ~banks~ exchanges which gave them a Bitcoin denominated IOU; and which may or may not be engaging in fractional reserve banking.
I suppose you could have an RSS feed of OSS software and libraries and rebroadcast press releases of new versions of software. There are some tech things without politics, but once you get into higher levels such as discussing Uber's business model, politics comes up. Holmes's Theranos trial was as much politics as tech, but still falls in the "tech" space because it impacts future startups.
I think maybe "valuable" meant "scalable" or something? I can't speak for the OP though.

I think there's something to the idea of some proof of an efficiency-security tradeoff or lack thereof though. Seems like something that should be out there in the literature.
The same reason people accept IOUs for literally anything else: credit. It is actually extremely useful to be able to borrow productivity from the future and use it today.
Ah yes, the shadowy, nebulous "they" that are suppressing the "real truth". Not surprising the linked post reads with a serious undercurrent of conspiracy theory.
And more complicated to install labor is more expensive than materials
Some people in the community claim to have photorealistic hallucinations, but I am skeptical of anything I haven't experienced myself.

For me it waxes and wanes, but on a good day it can feel very detailed. Like, if I dropped everything I was doing and focused all my energy on seeing that spinning cube in as much detail as possible? That's what it is like to see my tulpa walk and talk but I can see him as I am casually doing something else myself, without any real concentration on my end.

It is always clear to me that his form isn't physical though.
It's easy to alias expr to =, which enhances write- and readability :

% interp alias {} = {} expr
=
% set x [= 2 + 3]
5

Also aliasing lindex to @ is nice

% interp alias {} @ {} lindex
% set a {1 2 3}
1 2 3
% @ $a 1
2
I agree. Copyright already provides (more than) reasonable protections for software authors. There is usually no need for a license/contract at all.
Good for you.

Also, taking your money elsewhere is imo a valid way to hinder the Putin regime.
Years back, for a lot of us, tcl and tk was the bees knees. It was what we use Qt for now, but much easier in some regards. I think sometimes that as we reach peak saturation in other languages people branch back out into areas we enjoyed in the past
I’ve always found these quotes a tad ridiculous. The two ways we’ve discovered to allocate jobs are labour markets and central planning. People arguing that capitalism is antithetical to freedom have to make the case that a government deciding for you what your job should be is more free than the status quo. They fail to even attempt to do so, possibly because most people would find such arguments ridiculous when it’s explicitly spelled out.

Capitalism has plenty of flaws but alternative mechanisms for allocating labour seem far more against freedom.
Pascal was the first programming language I had contact with, in high school. I have fond memories of it. Recently I looked into the status of current software written in Pascal. One thing I noted is few of them are packaged in Linux repositories. Wonder what causes that. Is it harder to package Pascal software for Linux, when compared to the average C package?
This seems exactly the same kind of error as the Florida Tesla that underran a crossing semi trailer and killed the driver. Teslas seem bad at detecting obstacles that are at about windshield height but don't touch the ground. Possibly because they don't train the system with such obstacles. Or not enough, anyway.
Good point. I wonder how much of the beauty is due to the interesting SW approach vs. the speed. Here is an interesting discussion with the creator:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120217161857/http://www.micros...
> Einstein discovered general relativity [...] but we had no direct test for about 100 years.

General relativity was tested by the Eddington experiment in 1919: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment

(I mostly agree with your overall point, this is just a minor quibble.)
>I kill 10 sites for every one that makes it, and the ones that make it are great.

That's interesting, a sort of Darwinian selection pressure towards actual discussion. Though as I type that out it occurs to me that that could be a decent working definition of "good moderation"
The 80486 was only minimally pipelined, and in fact if you squint it fits what would later become the standard model: where an "expansion" engine at the decode level emits code for the later stages (which look more like a RISC pipeline with separated cache/execute/commit stages). That engine is still microcoded (because VLIW might have been rolling but no way can you do a uOp cache in 2M transistors), and still limited to multicycle instruction execution for all but the simplest forms.

Basically, if you were handed the transistor budget of an 80486 and told to design an ISA, you'd never have picked a microcoded architecture with a bunch of addressing modes. People who did RISC in those chip sizes (MIPS R4000, say) were beating Intel by 2-3x on routine benchmarks.

Again: it was the budget that informed the choice. Chips were bigger and people had to figure out how to make 2M transistors work in tandem. And obviously when chips got MUCH bigger it stopped being a problem because dynamic ISA conversion becomes an obvious choice when you have 200M transistors.
My who? I don't have a land line.
Arrow: A modern reversible programming language [pdf]
There has been certification for energy dense batteries for decades. Clearly nobody looks at these certifications and just buys whatever is cheap.
It is, in the most literal sense.
Hi Keenan. What do you use to generate your figures of surfaces with lines and other things drawn on them, e.g. figures 2-6 of the geodesic survey paper (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/GeodesicSurvey/Geode...)? Lots of great pictures like that in the SIGGRAPH 2013 Course Notes too (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/paper.pdf). I have made some similar figures with TikZ, but it's a lot of work and the results aren't as nice as I'd like.
Governments could issue currencies on a layer 2 that settles on the Bitcoin chain.
Why would you use a chat app for conversations spreading over days?
you can enforce this in slack with a toggle
> safety markings are not just rent-seeking behavior

This makes me wonder if society should subsidize safety and compliance testing to reduce the incentive to skip it.
This piece and the Cage piece both began in 2000, and both descriptions imply the turn of the millennium are an important marker. So probably not many > 100 year pieces have started since then, but maybe we’ll get a new set in the year 3000. Makes me curious if there are a bunch of unknown 100 year performances conceived around the turns of centuries.

Anyway, I like the Long Player’s description of survival at the end; even if the music seems silly, these are interesting questions - “How does one keep a piece of music playing across generations? How does one prepare for its technological adaptability, knowing how few technologies have remained viable over the last millenium? How does one legislate for its upkeep? And how can one communicate that responsibility to those who might be looking after it some 950 years after its original custodians have perished?”
It's well known how to make safe batteries. But there is a corner cutting corporation born every minute.

Car models have unsafe design flaws too.
An alternative might be for personalisation to be opt-in rather than opt-out even when signed in with an account (which shouldn't even be necessary for many services anyway)
IMHO, intellectual debates and making people go vote for you are different things.

You don’t need a position of power to discuss stuff and come to conclusions.
The whole thing about fecal transplants is that the resulting changes in your microbiome make it so your pull to sugar is weakened. Your diet changes because your cravings change. Imagine how easy it would be if you craved food that was "good for you", or that your cravings for bad food were severely weakened. That's kinda what having a healthy microbiome is like
But, my main question: Do they all have the same temp, given all other main parameters?
EU to slap new regulations on Big Tech, beating US to the punch
If any of them have batteries, you should remove those whenever they go into storage. Batteries have the most chemicals, so they do the most damage when they leak. Big electrolytic capacitors are second.
No because you can (almost) always use cash. This is one of the reasons people push back on the cashless trend, and bitcoin obviously goes way further than that.
Don’t they do light shows with thousands of drones nowadays?
Bad look to be silencing negative opinions about YC backed companies. Seeing this more and more lately, and am assuming my comment noting this will be gone soon too.
Are you suggesting that the level of severe hunger was generally lower before capitalism? I don't believe that to be true.
> For a production repository (infinyon/fluvio) which we tested, we were able to cut down our incremental build times from 29 seconds down to 9 seconds, boosted by Fleet. We saw even better results on dimensionhq/volt, with our build times cut down from 3 minutes to just 1 minute - a 3x speed improvement!

Not sure your maths are correct here.
Also racing cars. Boats have a lot of similar aphorisms, too.
I find slack terrible for long technical conversations. The ui is too slow, the windows are too small, they’re hard to search.
Probably the likes of Autodesk and other expensive, lock-in strong CAD software houses.
When you arrive at the sort of gibberish that you need a tool to make sense of it, it's time to split the declaration into several much simpler typedef building blocks (especially recommended for function types).

Also for what it's worth, this isn't 'human readable' either, or is it?:

"declare foo as pointer to function (pointer to const void) returning pointer to array 3 of int"
I believe we're agreeing, except in our value judgments. You say:

> Exploring the boundaries of what constitutes music or art is interesting to me.

Interesting, yes, as a concept, and perhaps even as a cultural event, but we certainly agree that it's a different kind of experience than a musical performance.

> Wouldn't it be interesting to visit a place where you know that people hundreds of years ago have listened not only to the same piece of music but to the same performance as you are experiencing right now. That listenership spans centuries?

I honestly have no interest in visiting such a place to hear a note, or even the change from one note to another. And recognize that what interests you in such a visit is not musical interest, but conceptual interest.
No yeah, "But, whatever, Neocons never met an ugly stick that they didn’t want to use to beat someone over the head with. Too bad all they’re doing is hitting a rubber tire." sounds like the least biased sentence ever.
That's fine. One can also do essentially the same work in a mathematics department without the miasma of subjective or historical notions of what progress means. I mean, mathematicians are perfectly fine with producing theorems, proofs and even conjectures. Physicists secretly wish for the community's (not just the committee's) validation also.

Well yes, Einstein found physicists insufferable as well and preferred to hang out with Godel. That doesnt mean you should go straight and transfer to Logic
If AICo is constantly scanning content for usable stylistic innovations to incorporate, that's probably a class action suit waiting to happen, and there would be firms willing to take the case for a chunk of the eventual damages awarded or settlement.
There’s a difference between something being paywalled snd something being hidden for being politically or socially uncomfortable. Tell people to look for the latter and understand why it’s banned.
FL Studio : A digital audio workstation written in pascal https://learndelphi.org/fl-studio-is-a-massively-popular-dig...
Then pivot. So many of these decisions are "If you do X, you'll end up with Y" as if that's the end. There's nothing wrong with 'trying something on and changing your mind once you see how it looks.'
Einstein had no positive evidence to suggest direct tests of gravitational waves would ever be possible. His arguments were entirely about consistency and theoretical parsimony, as are the arguments about the black hole information paradox. If we take the view that we shouldn't work on physics we can't test, or can't test for a very long time, then we are led to the conclusion that Einstein shouldn't have worked on gravitation waves. I find that conclusion untenable.
That seems a bit of an unwarranted leap and very hand-wavy.

Why would blockchain be better than a decentralized, non-blockchain tech, hosted in multiple jurisdictions for transaction integrity, censorship resistance, availability and so on?

And why is a blockchain a better alternative? If the blockchain assumptions fall (51% control) then it's game over. Even the founding fathers were a step ahead of that and trying to prevent tyranny of the majority (probably code for "the rich staying rich", but that makes it an even better analogy) It all feels a bit like wishful thinking to me.
I think it's more due to force than trust.

I don't particularly love the USD, but if I don't pay my taxes in USD, I'll go to jail.
Also, since the density of tungsten and gold are so close I guess tungsten gets ordered a lot by people intending to forge the counterfeit gold bars...
> The biggest problem with C's pointer syntax is that it's prefix.

The biggest problem with C's pointer syntax is that it's prefix to the value.

int p*

is just as horrible as

int *p

because in both cases, it obscures that the type of p is "pointer to integer".

C's array and function syntax have exactly the same issue, the entire thing is back-asswards.

Let me demonstrate by converting your examples to a more regular (and logical) language[0]:

let i: i32 // integer
let i: Box<i32> // pointer to integer
let i: fn() -> i32 // function returning an integer
let i: Box<fn() -> i32> // pointer to a function returning an integer
let i: fn() -> Box<i32> // function which returns a pointer to an
let a: [i32;10] // array of 10 integers
let a: [Box<i32>;10] // array of ten pointers
let a: Box<[i32;10]> // pointer to an array
let a: [fn() -> Box<i32>;10] // array of ten functions that return a pointer

Even if you want to shorthand pointers (because you have only one and want it to be built-in), it remains significantly more readable than both C actual and your version.

[0] which doesn't mean perfect e.g. one could argue against the special syntax for arrays
Also not loading for me.
Not really. Plus, being a millionaire (e.g. net worth of 1,1m) in San Francisco might not mean exactly what you think it means.
I monetized my German science fiction novels by publishing them on Amazon, but so far have regretted it. They generally get great reviews and sure have their readers, but mostly just one of them (by far not the best) sells well continuously. The rest would require marketing that is a completely different activity than writing books, and really not fun to me at all. Moreover, you invariably get the occasional bad or intentionally misleading, if not downright evil review, and if you happen to get one of those in the beginning by accident, then your book will never sell - nobody is going to buy a self-published book with a score below 4 stars and future reviews will be lower than deserved due to the anchoring effect. I'm no longer sure the benefits of getting a few hundred readers and the corresponding royalties outweigh the substantial efforts of getting a book ready for publication, which have nothing to do with the joy of writing.

Seeking for channels to give away your work for free like open source or creative commons can make more sense. Software is another issue, by the way. I used to sell shareware for Macs for 20 years, and the problem is it can cause a lot of work if you want to support your customers after initial sales have cooled down. It can easily turn into a chore.
That depends on if they have hair or not, but nobody knows whether they do and it would be extremely impractical to experimentally verify such a thing. That's what the article is all about.

If they don't have hair then yes, you should be able to estimate mass by measuring their temperature. You would also need to know how far it is though, so that you could compensate for redshift.
I never got why we call those things "smart". It just seems like a dumber, more pedantic kind of contract.

The kind that can take into account intent via the courthouse mechanism is smarter.
If someone could challenge my layman understanding:

Isn't the information still there, inside the black hole, but just not retrievable from the outside?
Pretty misleading citation source there, you must be implying the Kentucky study which is infected+vaccinated compared to infected only (not infected to vaccinated as most would read your sentence). You apparently ignore the New York/California study in the same link. All this completely ignores the age factor as well which reduces the absolute risk for youths to essentially negligible.
Sorry, I meant direct tests of gravitational waves. I think that claim is accurate.
The basic text of the book was written before Lex died (must have been +- 2006), my work in which I cracked that problem saw the light of day after that time. So "we do not yet know ..." was technically correct at the time they wrote it, it no longer would be now.

That other snippet "Standard SQL is relationally complete ... CHECK clause ..." is technically correct, but the standard allows subqueries referencing other tables than the one the CHECK clause is on, but as far as I'm aware no product supports that (and the ones that do leave the user exposed to risk of faulty behaviour). Sadly, such a feature is necessary if we'd want to write, say, an FK constraint in the form of CHECK clause on the referencing table : CHECK (EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM PARENT WHERE <FK equality tests here> ) ).
Look for a solution that doesn't solve everything Algolia does. Hard to say what that is exactly for your company as you don't explain what "basic search" is.
Should You Skip Code Reviews?
Its not straightforward and only a few million in the northern states may die at max so its not a genocide. :thumbs_up:
“We can’t provide all of the specifics at this time,” Higdon said, “but it appears the criminals succeeded in impersonating one of our vendors online and directed payments from the college into a fraudulent account.”

- so they sent a fake invoice and the college paid it?
HN does not have a nuanced view of this space. There's a lingering assumption that everyone involved in crypto naively wants the "old way" gone in favor of bitcoin, which is completely absurd, or that the rest are scammers.
Sounds like they're a trisolarian agent
We might be able to create our own BH to test theories:

> The LHC will not generate black holes in the cosmological sense. However, some theories suggest that the formation of tiny 'quantum' black holes may be possible.
(Geoblocked in EU)

https://archive.ph/YtPLb
Doesn’t the black hole just delay the information, not destroy it? Things that “fall in” from our perspective just fade down into a static low frequency frozen image on the horizon, and the remaining trip to the horizon as seen from the outside takes infinite time.

The falling perspective likewise loses timely access to information about the entire universe as the singularity fills their view.

I don’t see a paradox. Just the strange behavior of time at the limit.
Cars as well
You can see from Aleksandr Dugin's Russia strategies [1][2] and the way the Russian state (Putin & Co.) have followed those ideas to attack and try to destabilize the West and with generally positive results (particularly given Russia's modest capabilities), that China could run a similar program at several times the potential outcome. Given China's openly stated ambitions (safely assume their non-stated ambitions are that much greater), of course they're doing that. If China wants to become the preeminent superpower of this century, they have to build a new order that is an extension of what they have in mind. The liberal order that has largely been dominant post WW2 is fundamentally incompatible with the CCP's vision for the future and their place in it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

[2] https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/5/28/putins-pl...
That's not available on all plans.