skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What has crypto provided: If paypal/bank transfers decide to exit that space, no more donations. Not the case with crypto. Also, weapons are getting bought directly with crypto in UKR, so your last point is not not necessarily true[0].

Question of course is has such exiting happened. Have payment processors threatened or actually left a space over somewhat subjective judgements? Answer in this case in recent years is yes: Assange, OnlyFans, Canadian Truckers, etc.

Stating the above doesn't imply I support the above 3/etc., but it does show to me that based on which way the wind is blowing, payment censorship can and does happen. Assuming a payment processor/corporation will always be on your side ideologically isn't a great call. Popular German firms today were popular German firms under National Socialism. Or, are you going to tell me there isn't a single successful and well-regarded corporation today that wasn't enforcing segregation happily 60 years ago?

I'm also not implying necessarily an equivalence in present day payment censorship to segregation. But I certainly standby that hedging your bets on your ideological views always aligning to corporate/govt entities and as such you don't have to consider payment censorship is a bad call. Crypto isn't perfect, and 999/1000 times I'll use a credit card, but its an important alternative.

What happens when Climate Action groups get fed up, really start turning the screws on Exxon, and also rely on corporate infra (GSuite, Slack, Paypal) for running everything internally? Who does a payment processor side with - climate action groups perhaps doing not nice activism, or their ~largest client (ignore details here for a second) Exxon who is fed up with the activism and starts turning screws back? This has already happened with communications platforms via warehouse unionization, and QED Signal is pretty widely used. Are you saying it won't happen with payments, or there is at least a risk worth acknowledging?

[0] https://time.com/6155209/ukraine-crypto/#:~:text=Ukraine%20h....
that's just his man cave lol
> You joke, but it’s reasonable to not brush. Sugar causes cavities, not lack of fluoride. Try a year without brushing; see for yourself.

DONT DO THAT. If you do decide to follow this crazy advice, please keep flossing. And keep going to the dentist every 6 months. I wouldn't want to get a freaking root canal (or lose teeth) from a misguided experiment like this.

Fluoride is just to help strengthen the enamel. You can brush your teeth without it. In fact, there were some amazon tribes that used a kind of tree bark. Works fine, I tried it.
Server-side session storage isn't necessarily a replacement for JWTs. It can be in many cases, but it's not one to one. JWTs do have advantages.
I think you overestimate the number of smart people who are actually into crypto. One side of the debate is very vocal and the other is silent.
An Armbanduhr is a wrist watch, not just a watch. I'm sure the Germans often shorten to it 'uhr', just like the English do.

Capital is short for capital city.

Vacuum is also short for vacuum cleaner.

I'll grant you Aussehen - that's a single word in english. But longer than the German one.
> If people could default on these loans, what incentive is there for lenders to agree to the loans in the first place?

One thing I can think of is that the schools should be the lenders themselves. The interest rate should be capped off and the debt should be dischargeable in bankruptcies. This will lead them to deny loans for unemployable degrees.
Great, thank you for all the links, looking forward to dig more into it.

> Emotional intelligence is just as important as being able to reason

+100

Side-note wrt. McLuhan, I think we'll look back at the 70s as a time when we already had these most perceptive understanding of modernism and its fallout, e.g. it's amazing how relevant Wolfe, Jacobs, Lasch, McLuhan, Baudrillard, ... still are today in understanding the current condition. But then nothing really changed, if anything, we just doubled down for another 50 years. Keeping fingers crossed for grassroots change this time around.
Relevant: https://github.com/alexanderepstein/Bash-Snippets
Your example is nice, but extremely informal, as these are all constant numbers, while O/Theta/Omega (and o, omega, theta) are about functions.

I think the most important thing that needs to be clarified though is that algorithmic complexity is first and foremost a function, `WorseCaseComplexity(size of input) = max number of steps for any input of that size`. This function is often then classed into a "complexity class" using O/Theta/Omega etc, but that is only done for the sake of easier comparison of complexities between algorithms.
Thanks! I'll do some more research.
Yeah, okay. You are correct here.

"Average-case of algorithm X" can be a function function (average number of operations for all possible inputs of length n). And asymptotic bounds can be applied to arbitrary functions from R -> R.
Some, sure.
And English also features compound nouns, for example "compound noun". Usually (but not always) a space is within the word, so it's not that obvious. This language feature is a little less popular in english, but works very similar.
How many of those smart people have vested interests in the crypto market or the Web 3.0 rebranding?
How many of these "very smart" people were just early adopters of cryptocurrencies? Usually there is a financial conflict of interest which causes people to overlook the extremely negative aspects of web3/cryptocurrencies. Anecdotally I have seen a lot of people who were previously gung-ho cash out and sour on the whole space.
if you define "smart" as rich, then your comment makes sense i guess.
It's a shot part of the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_Stars doubled to Spanish with a dialog full of jokes. For me, it's off-topic here.
It's not dangerous. The middle-class suburban "zero tolerance" mentality took over and any possibility of injury became equivalent to child neglect. We (and I) also tend to blame this on individuals, but this sea change was also enforced by the state.
So to answer your question seriously I would say look at some of the newer laptops that have OLED screens and (if you need it) smaller dedicated GPU. These are going to be super future proof and you can sometimes get last years model very cheap. I do not have a ton of experience with them but personally might get something like the HP Spectre or maybe a Gigabyte or MSI laptop.

What really holds me back though is the damn keyboards on modern laptops - they all suck. The old keyboard on my Thinkpad T420 I love in comparison. There are people that are actually replacing the whole innards (you can even buy them premade and shipped from China) of I believe the Thinkpad X301 or similar with modern CPU, modern screen, etc etc. And on the plus side anyone who sees your laptop at a cafe is going to think its an old POS and not even think about stealing it!
There is a real cohort of libertarian folks who really do want digital anonymous cash replacement.
Thanks for the links. I'll read through them when I've got the time.

Having not read any of your references, I'd like to point out that the variation in domestic horses is right up there with dogs. You go from Shires to Miniature Horses, Arabians to Clydesdales. It's a huge spectrum because they were bred for specific tasks. I feel like even domestic rabbits and chickens see more variation than cats.

Maybe cats are just that stubborn or maybe we don't have many jobs for them besides pest control and snuggling.
Ukraine had a govt address(es), so it was sending money to Ukraine per the account ownership model.

No, weapons are getting purchased in crypto in Ukraine.
NASA's Perseverance rover sees solar eclipse on Mars [video]
>infamous ECDSA nonce

Why "infamous"?
> Bitcoin Lighting Network and Monero ftw.

Two things:

1. Bitcoin Lightning is not Bitcoin and is in fact a centralized by design layer 2 system which the transactions are off-chain [0][1], a direct contradiction to what Bitcoin was designed for. A peer-to-peer on-chain electronic cash system.

2. Monero and the other privacy coins are getting delisted and banned from exchanges due to increasing regulations. [2][3][4]

You can still use Monero, but the on-ramps, exchanges will have banned the privacy coins under these regulations, cutting a way to easily exchange it for fiat.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aba062

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07746.pdf

[2] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/monero-k...

[3] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...

[4] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/31/eu-parliament-vot...
Exactly. Thanks for the simpler example.
Any data yet on how that model tends to play out over the long-run in the average case? Off the cuff it does sound like incentives could be better aligned though.
Get ready for a cavalcade of desperate bored ape bagholders in the replies.
I thought Squid Game was a Netflix funded program and the OP is talking about licensing of other IP?

I think they are doing that right now with Nippon TV’s Japanese show about toddlers running errands “I’m old enough” which started in 1991.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/old-enough-on-net...
I have an unpopular opinion that forgiving loans hurts those that did not go to college because of ability or cost. This font read to me like a blanket forgiveness is object to though.

I understand the support from those who’ve already paid off their loans but this does not apply to those who did not go. Also I suspect it depresses wages as people will not need to demand higher wages and this seems to be used to funnel them into government jobs.
Kind of but not really, whilst it shares some design choices, the 8086 is neither source or binary compatible with the 8080.
You don't have to. The tooling can be built to do it. I advise the Build Systems a la Carte for a view of what already exist.

You don't maintain jekyll today...
Does anyone know a free, online version of neural enhance?
Agree. Also I feel like most ask hn are just questions and that’s it. No need to sift through the asker’s specifications on how they’d like everyone to answer. So I feel like when an asker expects that, it’s not likely to be respected by all. It’s just a quirk of hn.
I have stolen a lot of ideas from scandum and extended his ideas in new ways. He is definitely a mad genius. Glidesort (on my M1 machine at least) matches fluxsort within a couple % for random data, but glidesort is robust in that it will always take advantage of pre-sorted runs and many equal elements (at least if it has buffer memory), no matter where they are in the array.

In particular, I was inspired by three things from scandum:

1. fluxsort's out-of-place stable partitioning. From this I got reminded that not only is out-of-place stable partitioning a thing, it's highly competitive. I've always had this as an idea in the back of my mind, but never went through with it because I kept getting discouraged by C++'s distinction of moving to uninitialized memory vs. moving into a moved-from value (which is why I implemented glidesort in Rust).

2. quadsort's "ping pong merge", which reduces unnecessary memcpys by merging both on the way out and on the way in the original array. I did have this idea before, but always dismissed it because I thought keeping track of what's where would be a massive pain. Simply waiting until there's 4 things to merge eliminates this problem and is just genius.

3. quadsort's "branchless parity merge", which merges from both ends of the array if the merge is perfectly balanced. I make no claim that I thought of this, it's just genius. I had two key takeaways from this: you can make some very fast small sorting algorithms with merges, and interleaving loops to reduce data dependencies are significantly faster.

So I combined #1 & #3 into what I call bidirectional stable partitioning, where I partition from both sides of the array into an out-of-place buffer through interleaved loops.

I extended the adaptiveness and applicability of #2 heavily by replacing the 'merge' operation in powersort (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04154) with a 'virtual merge' operation that delays merges until necessary. This is also what allows me to use quicksort in a bottom-up adaptive mergesort, because I don't eagerly sort small runs! Instead I simply keep unsorted runs around, 'merging' unsorted runs simply by concatenating them - purely in bookkeeping.

I heavily extended 3 for the mergesort part by realizing we don't need perfectly balanced merges, we can just take the `min` of the two runs and start off with a merge from both sides, and then look further. I also did more interleaving by doing a binary search to compute independent parallel merges where sensible, and interleaving those loops.

As a quick preview, here is a visualization of glidesort using a buffer size of n/2, where I have artificially limited the concatenation of unsorted runs to n/8 so that it won't just look only like quicksort, and both the quicksort and mergesort aspects are shown: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/273539705595756544/96...
Btw, if you double click to open a new window, that window won't have the new message jump
He said the same thing about type systems.
No one can say for sure how the entire thing is going to turn out. As investors, there's no harm in placing multiple bets as long as a small number of those bets end up giving an outsized return.
Cryptocurrency is not that, because it is not anonymous nor is it a cash replacement. I have sympathy for those folks who were led to believe those things, it's not their fault.
You don't need to store 3 billion pages, you just need to store comments on pages that people actually comment on.
Apps can be observed by the host OS, so if you're looking for an app that is secure relative to the host OS, then you're looking for unobtanium and instead need a host OS you can trust.

OTOH, the big lesson of Clipper is that every OS, every app, every platform, can be hacked by nation state adversaries.
I asked one of my comp ling profs, who cut their teeth at Bell Labs, about this question.

She said that, as spoken, information density is fairly similar from language to language. Languages that express the same information using more phonemes tend to be spoken using more phonemes per unit of time, and it what (in some circumstances though not all) can contribute to the perception that people speaking in one language speak much faster.

I suppose that might not help much when the issue is writing though, or any circumstance where phonemic production is at a fixed rate regardless of language.
Reminds me of Derek's video about a vehicle which is powered against wind: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
Isn't that the part where you as a developer step in? Most of these things are solved problems with mature libraries to integrate. I much rather mix and match then fight some all-in-one super framework that doesn't do quite what you need.
Agreed, but the tether is just to keep the fish on track, it's still no "effort" on the part of the dead fish in this experiment (effort == energy spent by the dead fish). The article does mention a living fish will spend energy in order to find the sweet spot of the current, and then the water flow will do the rest.

Also, when the dead fish "swims forward" and hits the obstacle, the tether itself is playing no part. It's 100% the water flow and the shape/flexibility of the corpse.
Lucid Energize C++ Demo (1993)
We can have self-hosted, federated web sites with Web 1.0 technology.
You don't need a bank account to use PayPal. So in theory you can use PayPal to receive and spend money.
Sorry if this seems pedantic in the grand scheme of the topic, but is the indentation in the code samples messed up, or is there some kind of logic to it? I've never seen anything like that, and I find it pretty difficult to read.
Thank you for the good wishes! Tbh didn't feel much loneliness since I know few people here in Germany and also nearby countries. Getting adapted to a new country is a sweet experience. Enjoying it so far.
I would probably ask the assistant “Toon mijn wekkers”. Never actually used one in Dutch though and any “command” sounds odd to me in Dutch even though it’s my native language
Yeah this is an overlooked factor, people may not be driving actual tanks as sibling comment mentions but they are driving death machines almost perfectly designed to cause maximum injury to children [0].

I think a combination of increased vehicle size and number of vehicles per capita probably explains why parents would feel less comfortable having their children walk down country roads to school.

[0]: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...
You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it
> P.S. today is 4/20, blaze it!

yeah! killer mann, we got no bank account brah. lets blaze!
Proof of stake leverages the abundance of the near infinite
I bookmarked this strange bookmark of sites :).
I don't really agree with that. I grew up in a small rural town where things were quite spread out. I would run and ride my bike all over the "neighborhood", which would encompass an area of well over 4 square miles. We had small dirt roads with no shoulders or sidewalks and we would ride our bikes down them, if someone came up behind you would get out of the way. It was not at all uncommon to have a groups of 5 and 6 year olds out and about.

I think the biggest thing is parents have embraced fear over reason and are terrified something bad might happen to their child.
Thanks for the HN hug of death everyone :) As some speculated, we just blew past our rate limit. We're trying to get that raised, but in the meantime the website should better communicate that to you.
Yes, and it is pretty typical of blockchain cheerleaders to imagine ideas that have already been imagined as revolutionary
First, you're talking about a full-fledged game engine (and one that's not actually free or usable by many projects, BTW!) by a huge team that can optimize individually for each platform (and doesn't actually support some platforms at all, e.g. Mac; you may not care about supporting such platforms, but that doesn't mean everyone can afford that luxury). I am talking about a portable low-level graphics API that smaller development teams can use to build their own stuff without needing to rewrite their pipelines for each new target platform.

Second, you're also talking about a game engine that does not portably expose ray tracing GPU features; stuff like Nanite that optimistically takes advantage of the hardware where it's available to accelerate ordinary software rasterization is not even close to the same thing. This is a really weak argument. The truth is that neither you, nor I, nor (right now) anyone else knows how to expose that hardware portably, it's all incredibly custom and will probably need big rewrites for each new hardware release. You're complaining about an API not doing something that nobody actually knows how to do yet.

Finally, not every application wants to or is able to be rendered in the cloud. It's incredibly expensive to rent out GPUs if you're not being subsidized, and in fact even most AAA attempts haven't worked out economically. Plus not every application can deal with the server latency, or wants to be beholden to an always-online server, or has clients who can tolerate the bandwidth required, or a myriad of other things. So that isn't a solution to a portable low-level graphics API either.

I'm not saying WebGPU is perfect, but driveby comments like yours that imply it's missing obvious stuff or handicapped or whatever are pretty annoying. It's a very good attempt at a very difficult goal (efficient, portable, low-level graphics) that has value to a lot of people. It isn't going to be everything to everybody (and neither is UE5, incidentally). When there is a portable way to expose raytracing functionality I have no doubt it will come to WebGPU, but until then it's basically a meaningless gotcha.
Sometimes you just have to laugh.

We've been doing SSR all along, folks: server side templates.

Yeah, HTML was pretty hamstrung as a hypermedia, which made for mediocre UX, but that's been fixed by libraries like unpoly, hotwire, or, my own, htmx.
Netflix’s Plan to Introduce Commercials Spurs Shock
It's ironic because English is just as compound friendly. Take a German compound like Sprachwissenschaft ("language-science", i.e. linguistics). Now consider an English compound like "Earth science". The only difference is that it is convention in English to put a space between the words in a compound, whereas in German they are written without spaces. Things only seem different because of the impressive length some single "words" can reach in German, but English is just as capable of crazy compounds. Take this example that was discussed in a linguistics paper: "gay clergy book row priest", i.e. the priest who was involved in a controversy about a book about gay clergy. Quite convoluted, but we're not as awed by it, just because it happens to be spelled with spaces in between each part.
Agreed on Barbell Medicine over SS or TM. They are basically the only evidence-based company in the game.
I'm not sure if you're asking me personally or about the original post, but to be clear: I'm not (currently) associated with Google, nor is my work on pdqsort or glidesort. I'm also not associated with the original post, other than that my work on pdqsort was credited at the bottom of the blog post, which is what my opening sentence was referring to.

I edited my comment to reflect this, I can see how it could've been misinterpreted. It was not my intention to deceive.
This was an interesting episode. However, I thought this pattern was called actors. Did anyone else get that sense? I have never heard that called a state machine.
Web3 proponents have been repeating that all the smartest people they know are in web3. It's more of a meme that's been repeated than a real observation, and I would guess the "smartest people they know" aren't very smart at all or have a large financial interest in it.
Glad I stuck with PS3 with a large library of game on discs.
AV Linux MX Edition
That's why I wrote "in many cases". The problem is more that for a while at least JWT were pretty much sold as the new and shiny replacement for classic sessions, which they're not. They absolutely have their uses, but they also have additional attack surface.
The very smart pro-crypto people are making money from the dumber pro-crypto people.
Ah yes I'd much rather remain locked-in than divulge my precious seed phrase /s
JavaScript Garbage Collection with WebAssembly Is Possible Today
Psilocybin study enrolls clinicians with COVID-linked blues
According to the thermometer right now: 50°C

Sometimes it reaches 75%

It's not hot by computer standards per se, but since it's built out of aluminum, there are moments when you wouldn't want to have it on your lap because it would be somewhat painful. Specially with some heavy compilation going on
I currently daily-drive a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen5. 4k touchscreen, 15in, awesome Linux support.

I've tried Fedora and Ubuntu on it, but I use Arch Linux daily on it (EndeavorOS at the moment), and its great for web development.

I think it was ~ $1600 USD when new
Resources for Beginning Graphics Programming
I think Guido would enjoy this site then:

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
I'm a white Turk, 1,87cm in height, with green eyes, and I am socially accepted even in the nordic Europe peninsula. Guess what? My sister is getting married to a Kurdish guy, and I will be visiting the Kurdish-dominated part of Turkey this summer for the wedding. I will be able to tell you whether Kurds are bad or good firsthand, and also, I can't wait to load up a bunch of AK-47s and hand generates and shoot them over the sky during the wedding ceremony.

xD
That is not a number, that is a freed object
People like Ari Juels, Gavin Wood and Vitalik Buterin aren't intelligent to you?