skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming that you have the privilege of never living near a large homeless encampment. It really does become an all-encompassing matter for people in the area. You're reminded of it every time you breathe in air that smells like diesel and burnt aluminum foil. When you see tents at the very intersection in this article, while the bridge housing 2 blocks away has 50+ empty units due to lack of interest. Every time you go to the library and there's someone in a trenchcoat furiously masturbating. When you're followed on a bike ride by someone who runs a chop shop, looking to see if you're an easy mark. When you're walking down the street and someone screams racial slurs and threatens to kill you.

Rationally you can think "that's just the mental illness or addiction causing someone to behave that way". But over time, even if you rationalize the behavior it wears down on your empathy.
Ask HN: Why didn't Coinbase 'IPO' by issuing tokens via an ICO?
Why did coinbase IPO by selling shares traditionally instead of issuing tokens via an ICO? Wouldn't that have shown a real belief in what they are doing?

If there are current legitimate legal risks to issuing all their publicly-sellable equity via an ICO? Why not do only some of it as crypto coins?

What's stopping them from issuing a few coins even now? They don't need to need the money. They need to prove that ICOs can work. They are the best placed company in the world to do this: are at the intersection between tradfi and defi, and exist in a country where regulations do exist and do get enforced.
There are real, usable, near-realtime Quantum Annealers, which are different from gate model quantum computers, but have proven to be much more amenable to physical implementation. These are more geared towards optimization functions, which can have practical use for logistics, physics simulations, and more.

Gate model computers interest everyone because of the potential to factor large numbers; this could potentially render a lot of existing and past cryptography open to decryption that otherwise will be locked up for aeons, especially considering the apparently decaying effect of Moore's Law of late. However, it probably takes millions or billions of gate qubits to do that, whereas thousands of annealing qubits are enough to solve some interesting problems, and to contribute to finding better solutions when combined with classical compute in a hybrid setup.
Think of an exchange issued stablecoin as a gift card, it is issued by one store and only good as long as that store is in business. Tether is more like a dollar or euro and good across multiple stores.

I have USDT that is in my own wallet and not on an exchange that I could send directly to you if I wanted.
Perhaps it this has something to do with the backlash, not just against me and my work, but against others who use and participate in that work.

this a thousand times. i didn't care when people insulted or criticized me, but when they went against my team, then that hurt deeply and i really took that personal.

shrugging off attacks directed at me is kind of doable, but when others are attacked because of me, then i want to be able to protect them. sometimes it works to redirect the attention to me, but when it doesn't it makes me feel helpless.
> Probably, the fastest in-memory store in the universe!

Redis is fast enough. Read/write speed isn't usually the bottleneck, it's limiting your data set to RAM. I've long ago switched to a disk-backed Redis clone (called SSDB) that solved all my scaling problems.
The new driver detects clones, puts "THIS IS NOT PROLIFIC PL2303. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SUPPLIER." in Device Manager, and refuses to work. What sequence of events do you see that would have led to that string existing, let alone all of that happening, unintentionally?
But letting them access that same data on their personal computers and laptops is fine?

If banks can let you access your account information on non-bank owned machines and parents can access their kids personal info from their phones I think we can manage a fleet of untrusted endpoints.
Emphatically no. Get vaccinated. Take boosters if you have them available.

I'm more just weary of the doom and gloom about my 5 year old not being vaccinated yet.
So the isolationist wouldn't have gotten sick from the first flu bu they would be sick by the second? That's still a total of one illness, or if the second is more immune evading, the non-isolated person exposed to both could be made sick by both, no? Is the assumption the isolationist will get more sick?
Well okay, but when the scientific method produces knowledge, the voracity of that knowledge can be checked by an observer. When a mystic convinces a large number of people that their opinions are in fact, truths, that is not a process that can be checked by an observer, and the “knowledge” produced has nothing tying itself back to reality.
> The pandemic taught me a lot about apocalypse.

I don't think it has taught you much. All things considered, despite all the suffering by unlucky individuals, when you consider humanity as a whole, covid is an insignificant blip. If it's significant at all, it's only because of our response to it.

> Covid looked nothing like a pandemic film, thank god.

Covid was not 1% as bad as any pandemic featured in a film. Humanity has seen way worse, and we could still see way worse in the future.
In Norwegian you still have to address the king with a more polite pronoun, my grandmother would use this pronoun generally for richer people.

As I understand in Swedish you still need to know someone’s progression to address them politely “how would the software engineer like his coffee?”

Edit: also in Norway most women would wear head coverings when outside 100 years ago. We are not that far from having a culture most of us despise today.
This is the state of reporting (generally speaking) in 2022.

I mean the guy Coconut looks like he's holding a meth pipe - and personally I wouldn't believe a thing he says. Tells you his ex RAN away with the kids, that his daughter wants nothing to do with him along with his sisters who send him money. He also likes to play games where he lies to people and sees what they'll believe. Seems to take zero responsibility and tells grand stories of the things he's done...

Still sad about the others, but yes some actual journalism would be nice!
Implicit in that statement (taken together with the comment you're responding to) is the assumption that the kinds of plants cheaper than meats and dairy are healthier than a lacto-carnivorous diet. Locally, chicken and live anchovies are cheaper than lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, and even beans and rice when denominated in pounds, sulfur, protein, calcium, B vitamins, .... I can understand the argument for having a high level of plants in your diet, but I'm skeptical that it's cheaper to live on just plants unless you only count calories and no other nutrients.

Plus I think they were probably talking about how all of those options are vastly more expensive than living on Raman and peanut butter sandwiches, especially once you count for prep time and power costs.
What do you mean "so what"?

Read the paper. There were more cases per student when masks were required.

Look at the paper and their plot when they talk about cases overall.

We do not understand what masks do and what people do when masked with these silly measures. Putting on and off a mask cannot be good for you.

The mask proponents "think" simplistically and that it "ought" to work. "Logically it MUST work.

There is no such thing "I know it works", so no need to do it. Anything we "know" is because we ran solid tests and collected clear cut evidences many many times. None of which are true for masks.
Indeed! It looks familiar until you get to the verification (very SNARKy).
In plenty of big cities, you'll see 6 people share a 1-bedroom apartment. Price can be $500 each. These places are terrible, but they are cheap.

Example 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/nyregion/overcrowding-wor...

Example 2: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/23/nyregion/base...
Apologies if this was already asked -- I saw you guys already showed benchmarks in AWS itself, but would it make sense to have some benchmarks outside of AWS (or run benchmarks in a VM with Redis/DF/Keydb installed within)?

I ask this because I'm unsure if AWS Redis has any modifications on top of the Redis software itself, which would affect the speed, or even make it a bit slower. For example I know MS Azure's version of Redis restricted certain commands, and from a quick search AWS does something similar: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/...

(edit: added "affect the speed" for clarity)
The tone of this really is disappointing because it sounds more like a complaint about the unhoused rather than compassion for their situation.

Anyway, housing first is a proven method for resolving the cycle of homelessness[0]. Rather than placing restrictions on people (get sober, get a job, etc) to access shelter, putting people in a stable home environment right off the bat has greater success at keeping people housed long-term.

I learned about a study on housing first and one of the primary champions of the initiative in a fantastic podcast series called According to Need, by the 99% Invisible crew. It's an eye-opening look at the beuracracy that keeps people unhoused when they seek help[1]. Bonus points that it's reported on in the Bay Area, where the problem is completely out of control. Episode three deals with housing first, but I'd really recommend listening to the entire series if you have the time.

"However, for the chronically homeless population, which represents about 10 percent of the homeless population, research has shown, and our experience has been, that when these individuals have a place of their own where they can be safe, the drinking and drug use decreases. Also, with effective case management support, we have found a positive supportive community is created in the single site locations."[2]

[0] https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Housing-First-Research...
[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/need/
[2] https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/07/1...
>I think what we need is one master key that can be backed up in a offsite location (e.g. safe deposit box, lawyer, parents, trusted friends), and then have all subsequent secrets generated from it, or encrypted with it and stored somewhere publicly accessible.

This is a very good point. Essentially what you are describing here is a certificate authority.

The Yubikey, in this scenario, just acting as an 'offline CA'

It's a very good idea, but requires software being built to accept an authentication hierarchy.
OMG what a bunch of nonsense.
yeah, drew is pretty awesome as a builder. I don't get the negativity other than haters gonna hate.
I think it's a good idea if you find out on your own and we don't make this thread about it.

That said, I don' t know and couldn't tell you.
I did not mean any risk from the vaccine. I was only talking about the risks with the vaccine. If that makes sense.

I am in no way arguing against vaccinations and booster shots. Do that. If you are sick, please stay home. Don't refuse to go to the park with your toddler because they aren't vaccinated yet.
I haven't seen an estimate done for the US, but
for Germany one estimate is that to rely on solar and wind would require about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is literally 183 times their current capacity.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144985/1/cesifo1_wp5...

If making more grid storage was cheap and easy, we would have built it decades ago.
Can California or New York pass a 'no smart device without an off switch' law so the rest of us in other states can buy CA/NY appliances?
I found out about Firefly III a couple of weeks ago and wanted to try, but it seemed a bit more than what I needed. That's when I found out about Actual, which does seem to be an interesting solution. My issue with it is that they seem to have made the web version (intentionally?) not compatible with mobile, and their iPhone app requires a subscription of ~$10 a month. At first I thought I'd give it a try then felt sort of cheated. I don't mind paying for a solution but this seems like a shady way to charge money for me. Also I'm not a fan of subscription.

Anyway, I gave Firefly III a try and now I'm very happy that I did. I think those extra features that seemed too complicated at first are proving to be pretty useful.
It’s also about how much time you need to put into the apps. The UX as stated elsewhere on this thread with these alternatives just doesn’t measure up.

For one off, simple jobs, used sparingly…those FOSS alternatives are fine.

If I need to spend more than 10 minutes of time using them…I’m frustrated beyond measure at their UX issues.
Thanks for that info. Definitely this looks like a useful pdf to have on hand to look stuff up with a quick search (carrying around a 1300 pg book is out of the question). I really like the code samples on the sample.
My vanity phone number has the year I was born and 6502, the CPU in my first computer.
That maths equates meeting someone who is dangerous with putting yourself in danger.

You probably walk past rapists, pedophiles and murderers all the time without putting yourself at any serious risk.
Not the person you replied to of course, but when I saw this the concept of mystery religions comes to mind for me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries
They were even widespread in the same region at the same time.
I want to verify for myself that I _know_ the material. A series of challenging exams will do that more thoroughly than completing exercises from a textbook or online course (where, let’s be honest, we’re more forgiving of ourselves than we should be).

Check out Barbara Oakley’s Coursera course called Learning How To Learn. It turns out exams are actually an excellent tool for learning, more so than learning without assessment.

A side effect has been that having a deadline and a measurable outcome has been incredibly motivating. I’d have probably been distracted by side projects if I hadn’t committed to the exams.

And yes, it’s accepted for uni entrance here. STEM courses at top unis will expect A-level grades in maths/science subjects, even for mature students with industry experience.
Our response was actually what made it a much more insignificant blip (thanks public health + vaccines), and technically we aren't through it yet.
Insurance can be voluntary or not. In any case, it is voluntary here. We're a democracy and chose this because it's good for us. We can also shop around. In contrast to the US though, ours is affordable for every resident.
You are correct that the N word was there in the title. I am not a fan of Agatha Christie's books but banning any book seems all wrong to me. How will anyone understand how people thought in that era.
"Drugs" is simple enough. Actually training naked virgins to go bananas without some chemical help seems a little more complicated.

Something the article doesn't seem to consider is the possibilty that there was some kind of (natural or built) chamber where the gas could get trapped and thus concentration be higher.
> walking around maskless and unvaccinated in a pandemic is freedom

I mean, I am double-vaxxed with a booster, and I never threw a hissy fit when establishments required masks, I wore them. So yeah, you are making a rather strong assumption about me there.

> never mind how many well-off pet owners leave their dog's poop on sidewalks

I would be extremely delighted if there was more enforcement regarding this one as well, so I don't know why you are saying this as if it was some "gotcha" moment.

Rather curious why you ended up hyperfocusing on the "biohazard" aspect of my comment, as opposed to the rest of the "aesthetic inconveniences" (which, to a lot of people, would be a bit more problematic than the "biohazard" one).
Some people need to learn that their fetish is not the definition of fun.
Yes, and this is by design. Divide and conquer.
what about that workflow doesn't work? (i don't actually know, i didn't try using sourcehut yet) is the problem that it isn't like github?
The $60-$100 counted the pot and cutting board. Totally agree that fibrox or something is plenty fine enough.

What's the argument for the pull-through sharpener? A decent enough set of stones is tiny, costs $15 after shipping, and isn't that hard to use. Are we just making sharpening as easy as possible so they don't give up?
Not when it is COM-oriented C++ code, which is based on interface (aka traits) inheritance, or the IPC mechanisms used on Android/Fuchsia.
In Battle for Workers, Companies Build Houses
Well you can eat beef carpaccio or steak tartare, they are raw
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Fast enough, for the universe of applications you are aware of.
Many tens of billions of dollars are stolen via those untrusted endpoints every year, mostly targeting at risk groups like senior citizens.
While more R&D is good, if their intent is to stabilize the production markets other changes are likely required.

It must be at least moderately profitable to build and run _new_ fabs that produce the simple 'jelly bean' components that have been in dire shortage.

Inventories, both of sellable common 'ingredients' and also of shelf stable commonly desirable outputs should probably be reflected differently on asset books. Cutting buffers to the bone should not be good accounting practice as that encourages vulnerability. Laws need to change how that accounting is performed.
Certainly. That's what every taxpayer wants, but it's not clear why the government doesn't do anything towards that goal.
Nuclear has a well deserved reputation for being very expensive. France is no exception. Most of their nuclear plants are old and getting more costly to keep running. That is for sure not being funded out of regular energy revenue. Also France is a majority share holder in EDF that runs the nuclear plants in France. So they get to do lots of creative bookkeeping.

Wikipedia has some nice factoids on the French nuclear industry; including this one:

"The actual cost of generating electricity by nuclear power is not published by EDF or the French government but is estimated to be between €59/MWh and €83/MWh". That would be much higher than what they charge. Here's another gem:

"EDF remains heavily in debt. Its profitability suffered during the recession which began in 2008. It made €3.9 billion in 2009, which fell to €1.02 billion in 2010, with provisions set aside amounting to €2.9 billion.[citation needed] The Nuclear industry has been accused of significant cost overruns and failing to cover the total costs of operation, including waste management and decommissioning."

They are having significant cost related to their ancient plants needing lots of downtime for maintenance and upgrades to keep them going beyond their retirement age. And then the new plants are not projected to be any better.

I wonder who is paying for this.
>"- This post, as dire as its predictions are, may underestimate the difficulty of computing in 2050, given current trends. If you are/were living in Ukraine recently, programming is not most people's top priority, they have other problems. Famines, extreme weather events, and resource wars will affect programmers who live in comfortable locations today."

It's true that programming was not a top priority outside of survival, though to many programmers in Ukraine, it was still a major one.

This report (source: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/ukrainians-are-built-differe...) from CNBC in March documents this: "Those developers, along with other Ukrainian civilians in the country, are now being forced to defend their homes and cities while sheltering from Russian bombs. But many are still continuing to remotely work for their employers, supporting the local defense effort by day while sending in their deliverables by night.

“Yes our teams are sending deliverables from a f—ing parking garage in Kharkiv under heavy shelling and gunfire in the area. Amazing humans,” Logan Bender, chief financial officer at a San Francisco-based software licensing company, said in a story posted to Instagram on Tuesday by venture capital meme account PrayingforExits. "

I would personally prioritize survival over work at that point, and avoid praising sending deliverables in a warzone as a moral good (over ensuring the safety of your family), but it's evidence that even in extreme conditions, people still want to program as part of their work. As for why there would be a want to program in extreme conditions, some discussions on Reddit and Slashdot in response to the article suggested that programming was a way for these workers to get their minds off their current situation.
Yes, a scientific and medical perspective, that is [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction#Risk_factors
Same. I bought a power rack, it’s right next to my home office. It took a while, but I use it every day now for 90 minutes.
The system diagram drops important information such as how far a rider is traveling and how long it will take. This contributes to the interminable feeling of riding forever under the streets of [city name]. It also makes it harder to integrate with intermodal options, or walking, because riders are never quite sure where they are. The system diagram is ubiquitous, and there's a point to it, but it ought to be just one tool in the box.
I can 100% confirm public access works :)
Your minimum wage number goes over the $13k income.

>Check Zillow

There's literally zero matches for rents under $500 in LA County.
Shitty, illegal apartments, likely with 5+ roommates.

In New York City:
Example 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/nyregion/overcrowding-wor...
Example 2: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/23/nyregion/base...
Cromebooks have filled this niche for better or worse.
How do you define success? That definition seems pretty central to each of your questions.
Bill Ackman learned this lesson well when he shorted Herbalife, a scammy company, but still ended up losing.
Agree, I find their argumentation quite convincing and it's easy to check, too.

Yes, the IonQ prospectus does have a lot of hockey-stick graphs and lots of roadmaps that look ambitions. And yes, they do distance themselves from all of those graphs in the footnotes. I do find that suspicious and somewhat misleading, too.

And an employee saying "I guess [the old fired CEO] wasn’t hype enough. And then this [new CEO] came in and just set up a SPAC, just to go public." seems pretty damning, too.
What about it makes it a "modern" replacement rather than just a replacement? Is there something about Redis and Memcached that is "outdated" in the (relatively) short time span they've existed (compared to something like C)?
Yes, but the fiercest grip on the bayonet came from Corbyn himself - his handling of it was disastrous, and likely went against everything every one of his advisers recommended - you don’t engage is the prime rule - you make a small statement, and move on with a dead cat or a snazzy splash. Big statements, big movements, more to look at, more to push against, bad optics. See how Johnson handles his erstwhile crises - this is how he gets away with it.

In my view he was a good and integral man, somewhat guileless, and therefore utterly, utterly unsuited for politics - and he got eaten alive resultantly.