skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay sure, but I have yet to meet anyone in my life, developer or not, that actually uses any cryptocurrency stuff in a larger extent that to buy some on some exchange and keep it in their exchange wallet.

I see a lot of hype about it, but very little actual use. It has been the case for cryptocurrencies since they arrived basically and not much have changed for the last 10 years.

I guess that is no proof for things never happening but it's still very complicated to simply use and buy some crypto if you don't want to trust a exchange like coinbase. You still need to understand at least the basics on how cryptocurrency work and I at least have a lot of people in my life that will never do that.

I have not met a single soul IRL that have ever used a smart contract and honestly to me as a dev "smart contracts" seem very bad since you cannot update them afaik so if you make a mistake that's gonna be permanent. It's like an unmutable code base which seems like the worst idea possible to me.

But to be fair I live in a modern society that really doesn't have the need for it atm. I can see the use of stuff like that in countries where everything is corrupt, with insane inflation etc.
FWIW, your definition of "real money" doesn't comport with the generally accepted notion of "money", at least as I understand it. Gold probably couldn't be used as money in modern society because most vendors probably won't accept gold as payment. Bitcoin might not count as money because its value isn't stable enough. (As far as I know, people have generally given up on the idea of Bitcoin as a currency and instead treat it as a long-term investment.)

AS for the creation of money, it's not just the central bank that creates money. You should read up on fractional reserve banking. It turns out that retail banks do not need to back 100% of their loans with reserves. In the interplay between deposits and loans, this ends up creating money out of "thin air". This is also partly why FDIC insurance exists in the US. In the case of a bank run, the bank literally doesn't have enough reserves to immediately pay out to all the depositors. So the federal government promises to make up the difference.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/money.asp

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...
> I personally share the opinion that > 90% of it is garbage without utility.

> And yet still I think there's room to intellectually engage with the good parts.

Then please provide some examples. Over and over here on HN we ask what is Cryptocurrency good for besides speculation and breaking the law that wouldn't be better solved by using a DB instead of a block chain? Oddly enough nobody seems able to answer that question. If 10% of projects are the "good parts" it shouldn't be that hard to find a few examples.
Yes! I remember seeing this at the time and we discussed this at work as we were thinking about a similar controller with a serial cable.

We ended up using the Palm for a few years, it was priced right and easy to develop for, and didn’t take up much space as a separate controller.
If you don't believe they're doing it for votes, why do you think they're doing it?

I'm not even white, and it seems obvious to me that it's happening. In some cases, people support this because they are racist, and simply hate all things white. Going through college, I had several professors that were outright about their position on immigration and how it will fix the racism problem in America by making whites a minority. Classmates as well, that were quite open about this around me, as I wasn't totally white, I was mixed. It was insane. But in the real world, I see politicians not outright saying this is the goal, but they cheer it on, because they anticipate the demographic changes actually changing voter demographics.

Even in Mexico, I've been asked why American politicians keep encouraging people to come up to the US. Maybe they aren't actively encouraging immigration, but the people that I met and my relatives in Mexico seemed to think so. I'm not sure if this is a product of cartel or political marketing, but the Cartels are literally using democrats messaging to advertise to potential immigrants, or so I'm told.
They meant useful in general. Forks are useful in general. A stamp database is only useful to stamp collectors and similar.
> Type hints in that code are erasing the actual signature of the function

True enough. For the reader of these comments, it's possible (but non-obvious) to properly respect type hints in a decorator. See here: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/generics.html#declarin...
One other example of the "bitmask" type of platformer (although you probably wouldn't call it a "platformer", at least not a "jump'n'run" game, as far as the genre is concerned) is Lemmings. The levels of the original Lemmings games are definitely not saved as bitmaps (at 120 levels, that would have far exceeded the capacity of an Amiga floppy), and they're not tile-based either. AFAIK the levels (https://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/lemmings/screenshots/ga...) were created by repeating certain graphical elements (e.g. the columns in the screenshot are vertical repetitions of one element, the capitals of the columns are another element), and the Lemmings would simply walk on the top side of the image that resulted when composing all these elements (which could be placed freely). Slopes were tackled by looking left and right if the neighbouring pixel was > X pixels higher than the one the Lemming was standing on. If yes, the Lemming would turn around, if no it would walk on, following the slope. This way it was also relatively easy to make the environment destructable (by digging or exploding) and constructable (by building stairs).
Good suggestion, though the title of my original talk (in the linked video) was even less assuming: "How Zig is used at Uber".

Will not change it now though, as this blog post is the last piece of this talk+announcement effort.
Agreed. Every time I have seen some form of NFT advertising or the like, it is chock-full of predatory marketing, not to mention the get-rich-quick aura that surrounds it all.
You are trusting your life to this low-redundancy system working. Think about that. A failure can kill you and your passengers, or cause debilitating injury.

The GPS satellites themselves are a single point of failure. E.g. in northern Norway, GPS becomes unreliable or unusable whenever the Russians decide to jam it for an "exercise".

Then it's whatever software you're using. Does your GPS software give you coordinates if there's some internet outage that kills your maps? Do you have backup paper maps to use those coordinates for? Do you have a compass to determine which way you're going between readings?

I'll often use nothing but a GPS receiver with a map for navigating when flying or sailing. They're pretty reliable. But you bet your ass I'm not trusting my life to that single system, and will know where I am at all times and have a compass and paper map as backup in case they failed.
Politicians shouldn't be in charge of defining interoperability standards. But politicians can mandate that companies be interoperable.

Regulation is hard. This doesn't mean that rules shouldn't exist.
But haven’t we already been seeing that out of tech companies for the last, what? 15 years? So many companies are built from the ground up to be sold off once the user base crosses a certain threshold. Then it’s sold and either absorbed by a massive company or broken apart for its contents. So many founders build companies for the explicit purpose of build it -> sell it -> build next one. Staying power is barely a factor in that. It’s the buyer’s problem. You just need to convince them it can be done and it’s worth it.

Companies like Reddit are the exception to the norm in many ways. They’re almost this weird experiment in “what happens when a built-to-sell startup decides to stick around?” Hell they sold to Condé Nast and lived there for years as just a part of the portfolio. They were in the red for roughly a full decade.

That whole arc is weird now that I think about it haha
Certainly possible. My priors speak otherwise, though. Just seeing my own kids accelerate in reading at different ages makes me think early success is as indicative of kid's abilities as it is executive impact. Certainly not zero. But mostly overstated.
We don't see Amway or Herbalife job openings everywhere, yet crypto job opening are everywhere as you said.

Maybe that's because crypto isn't an MLM like those, but provide real value, perhaps.
I read about a lot of proprietary apps/services in this chat to allow easy and instantaneous transfers of money between parties. They probably work fine and most importantly filled a gap at the right time.

But with SEPA Instant Payments (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/instant_pa...) there is:

- A scheme that works based on standards: ISO PACS messages (easy for other banks to join)

- Actually transfer the funds from bank A to bank B (not sure if other schemes mentioned here basically work on a "we received an acknowledgement, we promise to send the actual money later via a real payment") in a 10 second period

- Does not depend on the commitment of a (small) group of private companies top keep existing, but instead depends on an obligation in EU law enforcing the national banks to force their member banks to implement it

The only thing that still sucks is that you send money to others based on their IBAN - which is fine but definitely not as intuitive as an e-mail address or phone number.
The term "tank," was invented in WWI (1915) as a name to disguise what it actually was. It was called a tank as in water carrier. When they were first delivered to the western front, and "tank" was written on the side of the container/tarp, soldiers thought they were getting a new supply of water ration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank#Origins
That’s what I use a phone for. You get all the different notifications from all the different apps in one notification stream.

Also, there is no reason why you couldn’t be one of those friends who “only use Signal”.
The effects will probably be small but measurable on average, with significantly worse effects on poorer kids or kids that were already struggling to begin with.

The closest example to something like this happening is probably major teacher strikes. Kids in Argentina during the teachers strikes of the 1980s lost an average of 88 days of primary education and today make about 3% less per year than you would expect given their age.[0] This effect largely comes from lower income groups being less likely than usual to achieve higher levels of education and being more likely to be unemployed.

[0]: https://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/d...
Why build a queue before you really need it when you can just use postgres?
My setup does all of those things — HTTP->HTTPS redirect and Let’s Encrypt are handled in the global static config: https://gist.github.com/shish/f346a3102f5d690be2f64f6d1eb7d7...

And then only the per-container settings need to be set in the dynamic config using container labels
This is cool. I don't know why the author wrote <<Uber signed a support agreement with Zig Software Foundation (ZSF) to prioritize bug fixes. The contract value is disclosed in the ZSF financial reports.>> ... but did not provide the amount.

Here is what I could find:

* https://ziglang.org/news/financials-update/
* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_ljFHGFXY5NhBhlfjgkO0RZHqeVv04fAmCxw3ZusYc/edit#gid=1409515513
2022-01-21 Deposit Uber UBER USA,LLC EDI PAYMNT JAN 20 1454320 REF*TN*0001454320*1\ Support Contract 52,800.00

Great work! Keep it up Zig community.

(edit for formatting only)
But in that case you don't matter as a customer, because either way you only subscribe for binging one show.

I would bet that some people would pay for always getting the newest content, if only for being able to talk to their friends about the newest episode each week.
Because the developer seems to be very interested in making money off it.

The trademarks and patents speak for themselves.
this seems like a pretty straight forward goal. Do you have any problems staying informed?
Am I missing something about Web3? When I look at Web2 it made the web programmable, it's what allowed applications to be built on the web. I don't see Web3 changing any of that - it appears to be blockchain technologies, which I can use today. What exactly is changing and how does it affect how I create and deliver web applications?
We Track Covid-19 (and Other Weird Stuff) in Sewage
English arguably has 14 distinct vowel sounds while the Latin script has six vowel. So it seems like a bad match.

Spanish has a few more letters and more accents. But the correspondence between spelling and pronounciation is amazing. And you always know which syllable to stress thanks to the acute accents on the vowels.

EDIT: Sibling comment mentioned Turkish. Turkish also has very regular spelling apparently (my impression and what someone has told me). And they apparently needed those extra letters in order to achieve that.
They sell Quest units at a loss and absolutely nobody is using VR to interact with any of Facebook's properties in a meaningful way. As of right now, it's a total distraction to their core business.
I have beef with people who boast $big_corp uses X/Y/Z.

This beef applies to both commercial vendors using corporate logos on their "customers" pages, as well as open source projects wanting to hype up their community.

Why ?

Simple. $big_corp is BIG. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find all sorts of commercial and open-source technologies being used at $big_corp.

It doesn't mean they use it for critical functions or even any production functions.

And then when we start talking about "tech-savvy" $big_corp such as Uber, then its almost guaranteed they've got some devs sitting somewhere playing around with bleeding-edge tech .... but it still doesn't mean they are using it in production, or will be using it "soon" ... that tech might well get bored of X/Y/Z move on to the "next big thing".

Or they might deploy it to production but only in Beta test to select customers, or A/B testing to larger groups.
Different people have different bases of knowledge, experience, principles and moral philosophies. It is obvious to the average Serb that Kosovo is rightfully part of Serbia while many others would disagree. The Aztecs find it obvious that industrial scale human sacrifice was morally correct.

Standpoint epistemology, do you dig it?
This really shows the genius of `zig cc`: companies adopting the toolchain will have a much easier time adopting the language too in the years to come.
That's paperwork, rather than slamming a kid's head into the floor. Paperwork isn't fun.
That reminds me of that excellent Ordinary Thing's clip ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDtLZ-l_ItE
There's a great Simpsons joke where Grandpa says, "the metric system is the tool of the devil, my car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and that's the way I like it!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-s-4KPtD8
Granted, Oculus makes fantastic products that are making VR more accessible. However, as a business, it has been investment heavy[1]. Meta continues to make 10s of billions of dollars worth of investment to build an ecosystem around it.

I don’t think Zuck foresaw the level of investment he’ll need to make before turning profit.

Oculus (and the “Metaverse”) is a 10-20 year play, betting on people changing their habits and using VR as their primary medium of engagement online. They’re trying to build an iPhone/iOS like integrated hardware and marketplace experience, but it remains to be seen if they’ll be profitable as a business.

[1] https://www.androidcentral.com/despite-quest-2-sales-success...
> When Ghost first launched in 2013, there wasn't even an off the shelf RSS lib!

Is there a blog post or retrospective about the things y'all had to invent/adapt/overcome in using NodeJS? Your interview was the topic of much conversation where I worked at the time; we were a C# shop instead of PHP/Node but we were moving into Big Data and there was agitation to adopt every trendy language for the various bits of the pipeline (Scala for Spark; Java for Storm; Python just because) and your comments about using a stack you know well and Dan KcKinley's "Choose Boring Technology" blog post[1] were the touchstones for the "let's not get too trendy with our language/tech choices" camp.

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
UK-based public art project offers any person ‘key to the city’
> when people used to look at existing websites to learn how it was done?

I actually forgot we used to do this. I miss the early web.
I wonder if would taste good fermented and distilled. There's rarely a source of sugars that humans haven't tried to make into booze.
Given that solar and wind are by far the cheapest type of carbon neutral power to deploy and they are already being deployed really quickly, how do you propose doing that?
Explained: Inflation, Interest Rates, and the Risk of Recession
Not at all, that's just what it is to non-enthusiasts. If you lose interest in HN because HN likes to dump on crypto, that's fair, but that's a you-problem, not an indicator of HN losing quality.

It's pretty simple really: crypto is a solution to a problem we apparently don't really have. If you find the problem it solves, HN won't discredit that, the opposite is the case. Many people here would like to be enthusiastic about crypto, we're just not given any reasons for it.

What HN rightfully discredits is the cryptosphere, because for every thoughtful person driving progress forward, there appear to be hundreds, if not thousands, of scam projects trying to separate idiots from their money. There is nothing respectable about such a space, so don't expect the public, and this includes the hacking scene, to be infinitely open minded about it, if you're not bringing substance to the table. That response isn't hate, or irrational. The planet is burning and crypto enthusiasts are contributing a significant share to that, I feel exactly zero incentive to applaud these efforts.
The "legacy banking system" you are referring to is probably something similar to the ECB or the FED. Only 13% of the world population live under a stable financial system or democracy. So please check your financial privilege.
> What happens if there’s a targeted attack against Bitcoin and the network goes down or gets compromised? The only answers I’ve ever heard are “that’s very unlikely to happen”, which is not an answer.

Serting aside the value of bitcoin in particular for the moment, that is a totally reasonable response in my reading. It deconstructs the question instead of answering it (which of course implicitly gives an answer...), but that's totally valid. If it is indeed extremely unlikely to happen, then you shouldn't worry about it.

Then the counter is whether or not they're right in that assessment- plus all the other risks and drawbacks of bitcoin as you brought up already.
You should probably question what "stay informed" means. Do you need to know every move and event that happens all over the world? Probably not. Most of it is useless and insignificant.

One thing I found that helps is to go cold turkey on the media. Speak to people and friends and you'll learn about what they're reading, albeit distilled down. If something catches your interest then follow up research is warranted. In this way the news is pull rather than push.
As far as I know, the rules for pronouncing words in French are much more logical and regular than in English. The exceptions to the rules tend to be words borrowed from English. Can you give an example of two French words that use contradictory pronunciation rules?

Here's an example in English: "cough" and "bough", or "wood" and "food".
I have no way to verify this, but of course speed <> comprehension. It's better to read a book once in 100 minutes and comprehend everything, than requiring two speed-reads of 60 minutes to reach that same level of comprehension.
Are you honestly arguing that Wikipedia or Google Maps can be reasonably argued to be not useful depending on the user?
> I've been using type hints heavily and it's been such a great help in avoiding bugs and also faster completion in IDEs

Agreed. I've been using type hints for the past few years now even though most of my projects are fairly small (< 10,000 LOC). I wouldn't say they've prevented a huge amount of bugs, but they've definitely prevented a few, and I think they've helped in library design and documentation.
the architecture is explained at https://github.com/Qwant/qwantmaps ("Erdapfel, kartotherian, Mimirsbrunn, Idunn") with most components open sourced. OSM edits show up 24h later if you include the POI tags it is looking for to be shown. The address detection needs some more tolerance though. It mostly fails if I do not include commas at the necessary spots or use area codes with city names. I'm personally happy with qwant in general as bing index frontend and like their open approach with maps
Smalltalk doesn't run on iPhone for one thing.

Also, there is still a nonzero amount of asset porting.

Even if the code is portable, making the buttons for MacOS involves changing the art and everything. Apple only allows rounded corners etc. Plus supporting a new keyboard etc.

Essentially nobody gave a damn and just went for websites.
Where almost nobody can store and process the whole chain so everyone uses a centralized exchanges and a single company that provides an API to see what happened on chain?

In practice, web3 is just as centralized as web2, but with less privacy.
Encouraging unskilled immigrants from Mexico is preferable to fruit rotting in the fields. This is more than a one dimensional issue :)
I was not suggesting it's only linemen. I think my point still stands about NFL being all about 'set plays'. NFL is all "set up, set up, set up, RUN, TACKLE, STOP", whereas rugby is more "run run tackle run tackle run tackle stop".

Combine that with the fact when a Rugby player makes an extended run, they aren't often tackled directly head or side-on, it's more perhaps an "anchor" tackle from the back to pull them down. In american football, the safeties and deep players have more opportunity to get head-on with a receiver while the ball is in flight, while a rugby full-back having to watch and run horizontally while the player is running means they are less likely to be directly head-on.

Further combine that with the fact that Rugby governing bodies have penalised 'high tackles', and the rate of CTE drops significalty.
I always think that in 300 years (probably even less) nothing that you did mattered and no one will remember who you were and what you did. Also, trying to do something "big" and change the world might lead to the opposite of what you tried to achieve, so trying to do something that will benefit the world in 1000 years for now doesn't really make any sense.
Off-topic: I really liked the previous homepage you had instead.

I completely realize that the copy is largely the same (which you have amazingly good copy), but I think you're confusing the potential buyer by having an Analytics Dashboard as your hero image.

You're not an analytics product. You're a publishing platform making it easy for people to make a livelihood using your platform. As such, the hero image should be about that person and/or publishing ... not about clicks and page views.
> the horses (and mules in some cases, sure, but that is neither here nor there) were not the huge steeds that we have today

Not to mention stirrups [1], which were not widespread until much later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirrup#History
The Greens' idiotic anti-nuclear stance has empowered and embolden decades of coal and oil exploration and proliferation. As a Green voter I desperately hope this pattern gets adopted and replicated here in Australia the sooner the better.