skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's theorized that there is a grapefruit-sized black hole orbiting our sun in the outer reaches of our solar system with a mass of 5 to 10 earths. A black hole spontaneously appearing in your home small enough to not rip apart the entire planet immediately would probably be too small to notice without some sort of detection equipment.
If we had to choose between innovation and invention, which would be more important? Can we?

Let us conclude that both play a critical part in a company's long-term value creation.
I'd guess the title of this post makes for a pretty decent QRD. That dystopian theme _was_ the message.
Any idea why mono is used rather than .NET here?
Having learned some Rust in the last few years (coming from python) I now want sum types everywhere. Anything less is a disappointment.
Now reframed the question. Vine isn't an example.
> Yes, that's the point. The money gets lent out for people to go out and do things

No not really, the bank does not need deposits for that, the bank can just create money and making an entry in a database and then just put that in the person loan account, that person then can use it for buying house/business etc.

Using savings then giving that savings as loans is an outdated concept.
Sometimes changing what you eat will determine how much you (want to) eat. Protein, for example, can make you feel fuller. Foods with a high glycemic index will affect blood sugar levels (and hence, the body trying to control them and bringing levels too low) and so you may end up feeling very hungry quite soon even though you've had plenty of calories.

There's lots of this kind of thing so I'd suggest trying a few different foods and eating strategies to see if anything works for you.
I'm a little skeptical of the thesis because the company you're referring to survived by becoming increasingly VC friendly. It got leadership with connections to investors and pivoted to VC-legible products. There's only one person still there from the beginning, who is, admittedly, resilient and determined, but would also tick the VC boxes because he's just generally a stud
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I do, but don't login to a google account, don't have the play store, use micro-g, etc.
I have a detailed book on my shelf, published recently, where sworn US officials, took money and forged documents, then lied in court, multiple times, and it took years, many years, to get the evidence. Some attorneys involved were so mad about being lied to, with an unsupportive Federal Judge doing nothing, that parts of the case went to the US Supreme Court to challenge the authority itself. Read that book and get back to me.. 2010s era

edit the point here is - getting a "trusted party" is in fact, not easy, and certainly not "a bank" as a universal answer.. find your own copy of this book, it is repeated a hundred times, every decade.
Something vaguely like this might be quite nice if the designers thought in terms of sails rather than propellers.

Using the existing principles of tensegrity applied to self-supporting tents, this could have enough surface area to run the generator at maximum in a gentle breeze, with some possibility of trimming in actual wind.

It would be a completely different product but it's not an implausible one.

Edit: I'm thinking vertically mounted with three 'jib' sails which are constrained on (let's say) the clockwise side, these would take turns catching the wind, then relax into the leeward and snap over onto the bar when returning to windward.
Of course they would never do this. But it is possible with cryptography to have a system where you can prove that you paid for such service without proving who you are.
Wasn't this because the US government blacklisted it? Being a tool for evading laws that we don't find convenient doesn't seem like a great reason for existing.
Current revenue is not the right to focus on for an early stage acquisition.

They collectively raised $13M through the Series B in May 2010 and were acquired for $212M cash in December 2010 (technically ~$250M for the whole deal).

A ~16–19x return, especially that early, is pretty excellent.

That speaks to the product itself and its future growth potential and place in the market more than current revenue.
While it would be nice to also have some way to mark some stored value as immutable, the reason it doesn't support "consts of any type" is because consts in Go are specifically not an extant value. They're a syntactic object more like a macro.
I don't get your point? I think you are saying "early employees become future founders"?

As a former early employee, I was different from a founder in that I wanted to help build something, I didn't want to lead building something. Founder got more equity because of it. No problem from me.

The founders skills had to be way wider and more diverse than my own, and I got to stretch a bit, but still hone my core skill set.
> It doesn't.

It does. By definition, an enum is simply a set of named values, which you code example provides, and is behaviourally the same as C.

> it does not at any point hint or imply the set could be in any way closed.

While true, that is a feature of sum types, which I already indicated Go does not have. This is slightly different to enums.
I never see this. Maybe you subscribe to different channels?
I don't hold much stock in Marxism. My country of birth tried that for fourty years. Didn't work so well.

However, public choice theory has a--perhaps similarly--dim view of politics.
Or west of Cascade Mountains.
> Many already use non PoW systems

Looking from the outside, all the ones which matter seem to use PoW systems.

> and others are going to switch away from PoW (such as ethereum).

I've been hearing that for years, and it's always six months away.
$1,000 is their daily budget for M&Ms. You need to go a few orders of magnitude larger.
Speaking of some people being smarter than others...

Republican vs Democrat is a line in the sand drawn to keep you busy being mad at the other side, while the ruling class takes all the money.

And then on top of it this dude is just repeating shit he heard on TV. It's sad.
> In Europe a standard free IBAN money transfer probably does not lead to much spying either.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is just flat out wrong.

Also sorry I'm not able to provide tangible proof other than I have personally witnessed and been affected by the exact opposite of what you claim.

IBAN transactions big and small are extensively monitored and not on a one-by-one basis but rather used to paint a clear picture of economic actors and their interactions.
Cosmic rays with higher energies than that from human particle accelerators hit the Earth on a regular basis. If Black holes could have been formed by them, we wouldn't be around to ask, so actually not much to worry about particle accelerators generating Black holes.

> https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/the-astronomical-parti...
It's open source. You can verify whether or not they're doing anything nefarious with your browsing history. You can then package it yourself and run it!
> This philosophy may make sense for a low-level language like C

Even for a low level language like C it really doesn't, it makes the implementation easier but all the things you mention (and more) are useful both to ensure the foundations are solid (security, correctness) and to make it fast: the weak type system and feeble guarantees of C are why compilers lean so much on UBs to infer constraints they can then optimise based on.
For AWS, nothing involved there is automatic; you have to stop it* and then restart it. It will just stay broken until you restart it yourself. "Brief outage" suggests it might be automatic but in AWS it's not.

* Possibly multiple times. Instances on degraded hosts have a tendency to get stuck and you have to stop, and then stop again to force stop it, and then sometimes even that doesn't work and you have to just wait.

Source: have received lots of "EC2 Instance Retirement" emails
Russians are a lot of people. some wholeheartedly believe that the current war is started against the Nazis who hold Kiev and hunt the Russian population.

and Putin likely counted on at least some support from some parts of the population in Ukraine. as evidenced by their plan of quick victory, and that the Ukrainian government will collapse, and it will be easy to install a puppet government. just as Janukovic was relatively popular some years ago
For me personally it ranges from random successful highs to very depressing lows. I have a degree, but I feel I am more self taught (I barely took my degree seriously). With 9 years of experience under my belt, most times interviews are hit/miss for me. I spent time on Leetcode, but sometimes the interviews go well and I pattern match because I have seen that sort of problem. Other days I look like I have no idea what is going on.

It is exhausting, but everywhere I look people say this is the best way so far. I prefer freelancing now because I still love coding, I do it on my downtime, I do it on the weekends. It energises me. Unfortunately I am not good at solving puzzles/IQ tests under 30-60 mins.
The C# of my day job often feels like banging rocks together with its c-style enums and lack of sum types. But there is always an article about go that makes you appreciate what you do have.
1. How are we supposed to read the book if you never gave a name except "book on your shelf"?
2. How is deregulated monopoly money gonna solve what you just described? Seems like a easier path to do something unsavory.
I'm pleasantly surprised by these comments. A few years ago people were so entrenched in their object-oriented upbringing that sum types were considered "weird functional stuff" and thus unsuitable for "real" work (what a shame to have that attitude). People are finally coming around to good ideas from other paradigms.

Rust's popularity is certainly helping that, though I wish they hadn't repurposed the existing word "enum" to serve as a new synonym for a concept with an existing name ("algebraic data types").
Every other ticketing system vs JIRA.

Every game market platform vs Steam.
Well, if a black hole somehow appeared on Earth, with a low-ish velocity relative to the ground, it would immediately fall inside Earth so "standing" near it would be pretty difficult.
> what could we do with it

Putin merely has access to nuclear weapons. I suppose the “I win or the earth gets it” is the same whether we’re talking nukes or a black hole
I'm not sure what your point is here. Interesting as these things might be I honestly don't care about in the context of the argument over wether power wasting networks such as btc and eth are a good idea.
If that's what you're seeing, that sounds worthy of recording it and making a blog post. The default frontpage of Reddit is pretty political in my experience, but I don't recall violence being prevalent in any way.
Literally any post about ukraine will have redditors screaming for genocide against russia, upvoted to top. Same goes for China
You’re describing the DIY niche, I’d be very surprised if the DIY niche is greater than 25% of these companies’ business.
"A single new study shows something scary and/or surprising" is a near certain sign that the conclusion is wrong.
I’m excited for this one. I really like Anker’s charging products and the speed looks nice. Also having a camera to check on your prints is something I’ve always wished for.
Nickel is more abundant than cobalt in the earths crust and most cobalt comes as a byproduct of nickel or copper mining:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

https://www.globalenergymetals.com/cobalt/cobalt-supply/
I don't think the reasons were good
Stephen J. Crothers on Non-Existence of Black Holes
Perhaps one day we'll drill for mantle heat/power as we once drilled for water.
You are answering like it’s 2015 and all you know about is how Bitcoin works. All 3 problems that you mention are solved with 1. zero knowledge proofs 2. multisigs 3. stablecoins.
“algebraic data types” includes product types (aka structs, classes and tuples) as well as sum types (aka enums and probably other names)
Some parts of heyjackass.com immediately sprang to mind.
I think check into Illinois and New York. As far as I know it’s not possible to acquire visa gift cards (non-reloadable) for even $100 without activation which results in implicit linking to some identity.
C# has sum types
> there is always owner override in the case of the PC.

Oh, the owner can tell Pluton to fake attestation results, so that, for example, it would report to a program that it's being executed in Genuine™ Microsoft Windows® 11, even if the program is actually being ran in a sandbox on linux?

Because if not, then there is no owner override, and it's a scheme to foist hardware-backed DRM onto PCs.
People into crypto don't post here because they get shouted down every time they have an opinion that isn't "all crypto is a scam". Articles like the linked are not curious, not thoughtful or substantive: it's all there in the headline. But it gets boosted because the majority of HN has big hate for crypto.

I think there is lots of utility in the space, even if BTC isn't it. My Urbit ship that gives me control of my own data is only partly related (but very useful) in that Urbit IDs are put on Ethereum because it works as a good ledger of ownership and stops floods of spam taking over communities.

A frequent companion of anti-crypto arguments is inflation is good. As a tool for goading humans into behavior like destroying the planet with overconsumption (oddly enough the same flavor of argument anti-crypto people use against crypto), I don't believe inflation is a good. I'd love to have open, curious discussions around this but it never happens. People just say inflation is good because otherwise people would stuff their mattresses and not eat.

We should eat only when we need to and spend conscientiously. Inflation is not a positive force for these two maxims. Somehow that idea has turned into heresy.
What about Common Lisp?
> Obviously, a rational CEO would see $1m cost savings the same as a $1m gain in profits, but CEO's are not rational beings (nor is any human) and understanding that they usually prefer higher revenue to lower costs is fundamental to understanding how they value different parts of the company. It's not fair, it's just truth (at least in many companies).

A rational CEO prefers revenue growth as companies are valued based on revenue, and the CEO's purpose is to maximize per share value.
In C the enum declaration is - by idiom and also syntax - contained a single declaration. You can construct values outside those, but as a default assumption the compiler/linter has a reasonable list of values to claim "these are the enum values which need handling".

In Go the values are not in a single declaration, and not even in a single TU. The strongest hint that this is an enum and not some other kind of integral newtype is the use of `iota` on the first declaration, but `iota` is also used for other purposes.

You're technically correct that they're "behaviorally the same", but declaration structures matter a lot.
>and given demonstrations of a successful agent wouldn't be hard

Last I checked, the only team that has shown good performance on that game is Uber, and from what I recall they used a controversial hack that would be unlikely to generalize to other environments.
It was a slave pen. But that's neither here nor there.
What is puzzling me right now:

Why LUNA is now trading at $0.033 at Bitfinex - but $0.0004 at Kraken? I understand that it is probably impossible to arbitrage it now - but two orders of magnitude? Come on!

Why UST is still trading at $0.16 - even without arbitrage mechanism to stabilize it? Some people still have hopes. This might go on for some more time.

The revival plan is to emit a new token and give away some of it to UST holders (https://agora.terra.money/t/terra-ecosystem-revival-plan/870...) - even if that new token gets the $1 value (which is probably not possible any more for algorithmic stable coins) - than still the 10% of $1B would mean $100M - that is 20 times less than the current market cap - so the UST price should be about $0.008 assuming that it all works. It is impossible to short it at Bitfinex right now though.

There might still be some value of the Terra ecosystem - so many talented people working on it, even a bankrupt startup can get some price via acquihire - but the Terra ecosystem was a ponzi schema maybe its value should be negative?
https://twitter.com/zby/status/1525407557371691008
But for most of those there is some information on the family where the money came from. Like they ran some kind of business. In this case the only information to be found on the family is that someone with that family name is a drug dealer. Makes it even more suspicious where the money came from.
I have no feelings for or against this because I own a 3D printer from neither of those companies. Makerbot's printers used to be pretty terrible, and now they are just overpriced. An Ender 3 or similar Prusa knockoff can do the exact same job for a fraction of the price. Yeah, institutions go with MakerBot because of support, but from a hobbyist perspective, I don't think it really matters if these companies merge.

The only reason I even have heard of Ultimaker is because their software is actually pretty good. Hopefully Cura doesn't become a mess like Thingiverse or drop features because reasons.
Rust's "enums" also include products. Each case can have multiple arguments. That's a sum of products. "Algebraic data type" is the proper term for what Rust calls "enums", since they encompass both sums and products.

(It is also true that structs are products. But that isn't relevant.)
there's a potential video game there. planet pool. dropping things into the sun would be a "scratch"?
There are linters available that help you do the "just trust me to" part.

Edit: https://github.com/nishanths/exhaustive is available in golangci-lint
False dilemma with false alternatives.
It’s also a feature of enums in languages like Java which don’t provide full sum types.
Maybe we could make Black Hole Computers[0]?

[0] https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/111F04/lloyd-ng-sciam-04.p...
when handling substantial matters (big$, felony accusations, etc), I question the definition of "positive ID."
Ask HN: Apple or other longer battery life laptop
Hi everyone, all of my lifetime I have been a Windows and android user, tried Linux and didn't like.

A few months back I tried a Macbook of a friend and got hooked on it so I am thinking on switching to an all Apple ecosystem mainly because of the Macbooks batery, I work remote and would like to work wherever I am.

I work as a front-end dev mainly with sometimes full-stack and buying a fully speced MacBook would be an overkill.

What would you suggest me to switch to if my main concern is the battery life, lightweight and smoothnes of work?
>During the cold war, a soviet attack was a real possibility, but that threat pretty much evaporated in the 90's

It didn't really evaporate, it's happening right now, except not in Norway.
Monkeypox
The NIMBY question is a legitimate social one to solve. It’s easy to sit and say that, but if you were facing a giant pit, dust problems, and leaking toxic mine tailings in your literal backyard, as I am, you might find yourself with a different point of view on the utility of it. It’s also possible you can truly look past that and accept it, I don’t know, but in my case this is the equivalent of bulldozing a favorite city park because corporate interests in the supply chain need to build batteries. Maybe it needs to happen, I don’t know, but I’ll tell you it’s a bitter pill to swallow and one that doesn’t come with much empathy from the folks calling for bulldozing my backyard for their benefit.
Italian universities still fail students liberally and repeatedly.
Ender 3 S1 is a fucking pizza shit, don’t buy one. So many bad units out in the wild. Poor QC caused me to waste many hours on two different units with different catastrophic failures.
Show me one single post about Ukraine where a top 3 voted comment is “screaming about genocide against Russia”. I will save you the time, don’t bother, because it doesn’t exist.
> with all the extensive shorting of crypto

You mean in unregulated centralized exchanges like binance and FTX, whose entire existence depends on the existence of these Ponzis? When they can just press a button, cause a flash spike, and liquidate all of your winning whenever they feel like it?

Yeah, I'm sure that works perfectly. After all, why would they be dishonest?
Tell me you don't care about people who aren't rich without saying you don't care about people who aren't rich.
Are you aware of Neeva? https://neeva.com/

I’ve tried it on a couple of demo searches, and the results seem good.
Follow-up question: are black holes generally a question of density and not mass? If I could take a laptop and squeeze it hard enough to overcome various nuclear forces, would I get a black hole with an event horizon the size of a laptop's gravitational field?

What would it take to get an event horizon on a human scale (a feet or two across?)
Reveddit.com for all your deleted user/comment needs; just copy/paste the URL of the comment/thread/user.

Edit to add: Huh, it's not showing. Normally it would - https://www.reveddit.com/v/conspiracytheories/comments/up1cw...
the problem is that those "trusted entities", ie: banks have a high cost in terms of infrastructure, opportunity cost of all employees doing something else other than signing transactions, and the environmental costs associated with each bank employee's entire life. so while crypto energy costs are high, they arent as high as having humans existing somewhere hitting buttons for so called 'trust' and dealing with regulatory cruft.
Could you share more, please? I use the very same stack and I think with the biggest VPS available right now I will have more than enough. It is basically a simple CRUD application.

Could you share how big the VPS yo used is (cores/Ram) and what traffic you got to manage with that?

Thanks.
>I understand this privacy argument - but I'm wondering what the practical downside is of this "spying"?

Other than the fact that "why do I need privacy, I'm not a criminal" (the battle cry of people who are lucky enough to have been raised in the 5 places on earth ruled by non-abusive governments) has been debunked a million times, you need to consider the fact that - just like the oodles of information gather on you by big tech - this gathering transforms you into a product, not a citizen.

Now, if you don't mind being treated like a shearable beast of burden, then, you're correct, that's not a problem.
The Simpsons had it right again.
https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings...

QS World University rankings assigns 40% to Academic reputation, and 20% to Citations per faculty, so it's pretty dominant.
Vastly increasing the target's density would do for that; no need to go past that into full singularity. cf "Neutronium Alchemist" in Peter F Hamilton stories.

It'll never be as simple or satisfying as the old school hammer.
You're describing the same thing from different perspectives.

Bond prices are down, this means yields grow, and thus become more attractive investments than high P/E stocks.

I think the reason this sounds unintuitive is because the bond market isn't exactly a "free market" in the general sense. The Fed is manipulating the money market to set bond yields, so from a causative point of view, the yields rise first, which cause a drop in bond prices, which make buying bonds attractive for investors, who then, as a result, shift assets from stocks to bonds.

(disclaimer: just speaking from knowledge gleaned from, among all things, youtube videos :D definitely not an economist !)
And why is "child alone outside" something that needs to be reported to the police? People calling 911 with such bullshit should be fined for unnecessarily blocking the line for those with real emergencies.