skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why couldn't they issue as low as $10,000 of equity as crypto coins? How is the entire idea ever going to get tested in the real world when the company best positioned to do so lacks courage?

If they lack the balls to do this, why are they positioning themselves as being representative of ideas around decentralized tech? Doesn't that make them pansy little fraudulent boys only excited about number-go-up bullshit like NFTs that fleece the public?
Pedestrian walking signage on the streets of London is pretty good as well.

One of the challenges with "real locations" is differences in scale. In the case of Boston for example, a bunch of lines come together in a rather dense area of downtown. But then a number of lines (even excluding commuter rail) head off to terra incognito--OK, I exaggerate but into the suburbs or even small cities outside Boston.
> On top of that, he made SourceHut, an alternative to GitHub/Gitlab and some other innovative projects, like Gemini.

Drew didn't make Gemini, at least not if "make" means started the project or came up with the idea. See also, the Gemini FAQ: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

I think he has been involved in the Gemini community at some level(?); I expect he's made a server and/or client, but lots of people have done that. Indeed, making the protocol simple enough for ~anyone to implement it is one of the goals of Gemini as far as I understand it.
The Closest We Have to a Theory of Everything
Why can you swerve out of the way of a car, but you can't jump out of the way?

It's EXTREMELY uncommon for cars to Grand-Theft-Auto-style run people down walking on the sidewalk.

~80% of pedestrian deaths happen when it's dark.

There's about ~19 pedestrians that get killed by cars per day. Only ~4 during day time.

You have a higher chance being in a random mass shooting. Worrying about getting killed by a car in broad daylight is silly.
> the real estate value bubble has expanded beyond all reasonable limits.

I'm very interested to find out how this ends...
Whats wild about affordable housing in Canada is that for every newly built unit we lose 15. Yet almost nobody is talking about that part. You cant build your way out of the problem before you plug the leak. But there are obvious misaligned incentives to do that. The value system of our economy and culture seems to be obsessed with making basic needs a profit center, at all costs, regardless of the consequence.
This looks quite cool from a technical perspective, but the unusual license definitely gives me pause. Largely because I'm not familiar with BSL. Others say it's increasingly popular, but with a little googling the acronym is still somewhat ambiguous - opensource.org lists BSL as the "Boost Software License" which looks more like BSD. This kind of confusion doesn't support the idea that this is a solid trustworthy OSS license.

Still, I really appreciate that you didn't choose a copy-left license.

On the license front, what is the "change license" clause listed? It says something about changing in 5 years. Does this mean it will become Apache licensed in 2027? Why would you put that in there?
> You can easily search how far away is that storm?

Yes, I have two apps I use for that depending on what form of “how far away” I’m looking for, Dark Sky (time) and RadarScope (distance).
> and some other innovative projects, like Gemini

Drew has built some great gemini software, but he didn't make Gemini, it is a community project led by Solderpunk.
we use io_uring for everything: network and disk. Each thread maintains its own polling loop that dispatches completions for I/O events, schedules fibers etc. Everything is done via io_uring API. All socket writes are done via ring buffer etc. If you run strace on DF you won't see almolst any system calls besides io_uring_enter
I don't think so - there are huge meth and oxy problems in the middle of the country and the people who can sustain it either have money or are leveraging relationships. Those that make it out to the coasts are no different in their abuse, they just have no one else to turn to.
The deal breaker for me was stable Rust doesn't have fast thread locals[1] nor stack probes for arm64[2].

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/29594

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77071
He doesn't "troll" the Rust community at all in the post. The line about the borrow checker was directly snagged from a lobsters or HN thread around Hare's announcement.
Societal breakdown and balkanization in Canada? Seems it is already approaching that point.
Weird hill to die on. There’s like a million valid reasons for using an in-memory data store. Off the top of my head: chat apps, real-time video games, caching, (some) data pipelines, etc.
https://youtu.be/whd4JCUZKJA?list=PLqJbCeNOfEK-o63ACEKEbwE6-...
Are you a Swedish national or a high income foreigner? If #2, I strongly encourage you to stop complaining and leave soon. Sweden is a highly advanced democracy. This tax rate has been confirmed by numerous, fairly elected governments. The result of this policy is very low income equality and very strong social safety net.

I can assure you that an effective tax rate of 25% would result in much higher income inequality, and much weaker social safety net. Is this the society that you want?
Why Don’t the Dutch Wear Helmets?
I turn them off, and disable their ability to function completely. Unless I am in control and the processing is local, no ambient computing.
The operation failed for an operation-specific reason.

No idea what this .app is, so I'm not sure if this is intentional (a bit or art ?) or an actual error.
That's not even the right analogy. I think of it more as a rotary phone dial. It's old and overly complex and poorly designed. It's still in use for legacy reasons and because you have tons of these "experts" who have invested so much time and pride into it they actually can't really accept the fact that legacy is the only reason why C++ is still here.

The problem is the nature of programming makes it so that once a language embeds itself into the infrastructure it's hard to remove or upgrade. Very similar to how most of the front end world is stuck with javascript.

JavaScript as ugly as it is, is nowhere near the monstrosity that C++ has become though.
I’m more curious how it started.
Shoulder-to-shoulder computing. I too am still fascinated with this road not taken.

I met Matt at a FooCamp a long time ago. I had a mini-session on shoulder-to-shoulder computing. Thanks to the three people who showed up or stopped by.
> The biggest issue I saw was salaries stagnated for a really long time and companies took advantage of the job market to hold the salary growth down. To be clear, salaries didn't go down so much as they just leveled off and stayed there for WAY too long IMO.

Salary stagnation may be more painful this time around, due to higher inflation.
Yea, faster is always better. I just run into storage bottlenecks first in my experience at big and small companies.
In a lot of places, bikers aren't required to be all the way to the right. It's often more safe to be visible in the middle of the lane rather than be on the right with people passing you with unsafely small amounts of space and the people behind them may not see you. Also there is a lot more bully power when you have a multiple thousand pound vehicle than a bike. Bikers become pretty aware of it.
Sorry, will fix it.
When the state does more to keep medically-assisted death accessible than living, that seems a lot like eugenics to me
And no, it's not just because of io_uring it is faster. It's also because it's multi-threaded, has absolutely different hashtable design, uses a different memory allocator and many other reasons (i.e design decisions we took on the way).
>If tether goes down, so does bitcoin.

Doubt that. I’m sure almost anyone here could wow me with technical reasons why they are correlated…

In the end because this is all illusionary and not backed by anything tangible, it’s faith-based speculation.

When Tether pops, Bitcoin probably goes up. No one will have learned any lessons, just that they picked they wrong one, but this one over here is “safe”. It’s all what people can be made to believe, and I’m pretty sure the average crypto gambler can be made to believe lots of things that aren’t rational. Who hasn’t seen that themselves?
I know that Russian anti-aircraft radars like this one

https://www.radartutorial.eu/19.kartei/06.missile/karte013.e...

have a set of phase-shifting reflectors that steer the beam that goes in and out of a feedhorn. That particular radar, the "Big Bird" has a similar mission to the radar on the US Patriot missile in that it is particularly effective for ballistic missile targets that come in at a high angle.

It operates in quite a few modes, as a phased array antenna it can send the beam in different directions without the antenna moving but this loses effectiveness as the angle moves far away from normal... So most of the time it spins around with feedhorns on both sides active and scanning in both directions at once. Alternately it can stop moving and tilt back to optimize the performance in a particular direction.
I think part of the reason is the evolution of common user networking.

Initially, users had low bandwidth connections, and web pages were mostly static with links.

Then came JavaScript interactivity and AJAX.

As users bandwidth grew, we started having heavier frameworks and SPAs.

I believe there is another revolution that is happening now because of decreased latency. Recently with protocols such as HTTP2, web sockets, and edge computing, round trip latency is greatly decreased. This is resulting in UI where more of the logic lives on the server and has led to such libraries as htmx (client) and Turbo.

It will be interesting to see where this settles out.
It will end in either a correction of the price of housing, or a correction on the currency those houses are priced in to bring it back in line with the rest of the world, because from my understanding the economics when adjusted for wages in Canada is the number that is way out of whack. Place your bets!
The thing about bubbles is being small allows you to pull in fools at a rate sufficient to maintain your price. Once you're large, you can run out of fools since you're a large percent of a given market.

That said, my vague understanding of Tether is that since it's completely opaque and basically rigged, rather than collapsing entirely, the controllers of the "currency" can make it gradually harder for just select customers to remove their money and so support its apparent value without it seeming to collapse (I remember an article a while about a guy who couldn't redeem his tether for reasons unspecified by whatever the exchange, etc).
If the software were supported closer to decades rather than years, I suspect it'd be worthwhile to have a refurbishment center that carefully scraps the major bits apart, re-tests them, and re-assembles a working device out of the non-failed parts. (Ideally with a fresh battery and replaced storage chip.)
He has a bad habit to not distinguish hate speech from criticism. This time it might be an actual hate speech, but we can't be never sure without further information. (And I'm very supportive of his works! But I can't condone his communication style because that diminishes the value of his works.)
Ask HN: How did my old Gmail account get linked to my identity and new name?
I have a Gmail account from high school that has never used my legal name, and even if it had, my full legal name (first and last) has since changed. I haven't created any logins with this address in many, many years.

Every few years I check to see if there is anything important there. Just recently I noticed some recruiter messages addressed to my new legal name.

How is it possible that this address became linked in any way to my identity, let alone my new name?

I really want to reply to the messages with incredulity, and now it makes those companies seem scummy to use such recruitment practices.
"in addition to environmental effects like childhood nutrition and disease, inherited genetic variation can have an outsized impact on terminal stature, with ∼80% of the considerable degree of height variation within many modern populations explainable by heritable genetic variation"

Genes account for most differences
Mortgage rates of 1.x% probably didn't help.
I'd argue the opposite. If it's insignificant at all, it's only because of our response to it. Lots of people worked very, very hard for us to sit here typing "it wasn't that bad" unless you believe that our global covid response did very little to change the outcome. If you do believe that, though, there's probably little point in continuing this thread.
MAID is a huge bummer. MAID is one of those things that doctors can't really discuss, because you'll get attacked for it. A lot of Canadian doctors are silenced about this topic. It bears similarity to the avoidance doctors have with speaking (anything at all) about COVID - they're worried about their jobs.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-troubling-debate-ov...

The government is being quite clear about this. They'd rather you just die than waste tax dollars.

I don't even like calling it MAID. It's more accurate to call it government sanctioned suicide/homicide
This doesn’t feel that different to me from ~2010 era jQuery vs Prototype vs …Dojo(?) these things happen in waves. I’ve wondered if the next revolution will be wasm, or another round of JS magic… or something different.
This should be an indictment of our Government, but in the circus that is Canadian politics, nothing positive will come of it.
I'm also doubtful that a memory controller with the necessary pin count can even fit under that heatsink. 14 DIMM slots can't all be sharing just one or two 64-bit channels at anything approaching standard speeds and timings.
> going so far as to disable NVIDIA's non-free driver support in his wayland window manager/compositor Sway.

AFAIK this is backwards. It was NVIDIA developers that decided to invent their own thing (EGL Streams) instead of supporting Mesa GBM. This meant open source projects had to support a special backend for wayland specifically for NVIDIA harware. KDE also refused to support it until an NVIDIA dev stepped up to do the work for them.

Sway works on Nouveau (the severely limited open source NVIDIA driver) with the wonderfully named flag "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia".
Yeah, I’ve had front loaders trap a sheet in a seal and then scorch a bunch of stuff when it spun at a bajillion rpm against the 0rpm fabric.

Wash on delicate with Cold water my friends!
It's complicated, so that could be the case for some specific situations (or maybe not? I don't really know) but in general drug use is decriminalized (for possession of less than a ten day supply of drugs) in Portugal. You can even get a waiver for use if addicted and clean substitutes. They have persuasion therapy and treatment that is covered by healthcare. Although one can be summoned to a dissuasion committee periodically, they can't mandate compulsory treatment.
Yeah, if you're having trouble doing any of those things in front of computer, I'm not sure if the choice of software would help in any way. Some people are just wired to do things via non-digital ways :) Glad you found your solution.
Banking oligopoly is my guess. You see similar problems in Australia which has a similar banking setup. New Zealand I don't know how their banks work, but I do know they are up there in the clouds as well. Same deal?
recruiters have a bajillion (technical term) sources of info. might also just be a lucky guess...?
"You may be interested in" sort of theme, not necessarily the same topic.

The intention is to get you to jump domains, hoping you'll bookmark the ones you want to explore more fully later.
I don’t see either of those as particularly hateful. He’s got strong opinions, yes, and you’re certainly free to disregard his posts for whatever reasons you’d like, but they don’t strike me as obviously derogatory or repulsive. He makes good points in both - electron is great in some ways, but terrible in others, and dependency management with npm/node is, charitably, problematic.
Thanks! Happy to answer any questions about self publishing too - if you ever have any
I think it started with mostly foreigners buying up property, not to live in but as investment to keep the value of their money, like using housing as an alternate currency to dollars
Yes, VLL algorithm kinda solves the throughput problem. You will still have some issues with fault-taulerance - i.e. what you do if a machine does not answer you.

For intra-process framework it's not an issue (as long as we do not have deadlocks).
neurodiverse.
Dark green t-shirt guy (rightmost column, second from the bottom) looks like he has entirely lost his mind.
Enron had fraudulent books for over a decade. When I heard that all of Tether's accountants were from the Cayman Islands it reminded me of how Enron managed to convince Arthur Andersen to help them cook the books.
> Suffice to say, he's made some enemies that don't want him and his team to succeed.

This is the "Donald Trump is an American politician..." take.

Drew is most well-known as a high-profile FOSS troll. You should view some other entries in his blog.

My first experience with Drew was "Developers shouldn't distribute their own software." That post goes directly to the heart of the question, "Why would you call him a troll?" Because he has glib and self-serving answers for every seemingly hard question in software.
Am I living too dangerously? I keep two U2F keys enrolled, one as a backup in a safe place, the other on my keyring. And for sites that still use passwords, in-browser password manager works well for me.

What kind of key-breaking do you think can still screw me over?
Yearly 1% is very cheap, we have around 6% in Hungary :)
Well said. I think if the vaccines hadn't come out at all, it could well have been as bad as the Spanish Flu.
Even if it doesn't directly cause extinction, it could do things like destabilise nuclear powers.
And now watch as the school finds some reason to fire him.
Same on Safari mobile.
> For example, 8 degrees of warming would be much worse than 4 degrees of warming, and could mean the difference between human extinction and the mere collapse of our civilization.

I'm assuming celsius, not farenheit.

I'm curious why a mere 8 degrees increase leads to human extinction.

Is that "8 degrees evenly over the globe"? If so, that most certainly would leave the majority of land arable and comfortably livable.

Is that "8 degrees average with such a high deviation that no land is left with a year-round range of 0 degrees to 30 degrees"? If that is the case, where can I read/view/see the model that produces such an extreme outcome?
i feel this is similar to dan bernstein, who also was/is a vocal critic of some projects, and also created software that is loved by many but hated by others. i haven't heard from him lately but i remember controversial discussions a few decades ago.
The problem is people upvote headlines that support their view regardless of the content. I don't mind high quality posts from either camp, or actual news (on this site called Hacker News), but when we have daily posts like this with nothing new to add, it gets to be a bit much. I'm going to start flagging them like the sibling post mentioned, but this account might be too new for it to matter.
Rent was extremely low in Québec for a long time after the referendum.
Also a lot mentally ill people commit suicide this way, because it is legal (at least in Belgium)
And here I thought Mao killed the counter-revolutionary teachers rather than giving them tenure and having them whinge about training. My bad..? Maybe I'm the one who misremembers the actual historical events we refer to when calling things Maoism?
Given the verbatim quote from the first paragraph of the wikipedia page, I'll assume you've read it:

"The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information. A direct implication is that it is impossible to "beat the market" consistently on a risk-adjusted basis since market prices should only react to new information."

You'll note that "consistent", "risk-adjusted", and "beat the market" are all in quotes, because they are not well-defined technical terms, at least thusly contextualized. What Wikipedia's over-simplification in the first paragraph says is that all available information is incorporated into asset prices.

Now even that's more than a little nuanced than one might conclude, because not only is there considerable controversy about how quickly and by what mechanisms this incorporation into prices takes place even in you buy into this malarky, but Eugene Fama himself would sound like Greenspan in front of Congress trying to explain how a defunct Chinese wireless company goes up 47,000% in year on the back of a different company having it's IPO [1].

But I'm really going to hang this on your use of the word "misplaced", and no, I don't think a playful comment with actual information in it ([1] again) is misplaced in a thread full of playful comments about Silicon Valley the TV show. I think grab-the-first-paragraph-from-wikipedia-and-be-a-killjoy-pedant is misplaced.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/investors-appear-to-trade-wr...
I think it is important to note that the story is of 1 person that completed MAID and 2 that contemplated it. The headline perhaps implies more cases.
I had to read your comment twice to be sure we're talking about the same Kendo. I've consulted for a number of companies over the years who have used it (or tried to use it), ever since the jQuery version to up until now, and it's always been pure pain. I understand how their components work, I understand the underlying architecture because I've stepped through it too many times with a debugger, and I still always fail to understand how they have any happy customers. Perhaps there is a good experience to be had if you only use the components exactly the way the documentation examples use them, but the moment you step outside that narrow path, things fall apart. Never mind custom code, simply using two different components from their library together doesn't even always work.

The first time I had a bout with Kendo was some odd ten years ago, and then I was sure it was simply me not understanding the framework. After all, every component library has its own kinks and it takes a while to get up to speed. After seeing them again and again many times over the years, I've changed my opinion. In my eyes, Kendo is what I like to call an MBA trap. It ticks all the boxes that an MBA manager going by a feature checklist is looking for, but under the hood it's garbage software. I'm glad you've had a good experience, at the same time I don't think I will ever stop recommending everyone to stay away from Kendo.
Yup, I fully agree,
I think the "stress of the pandemic" execuse is very overused and often is not real.

For many students the pandemic was epic, no school for a while, unlimited gaming time, and nothing to stop them from doing what they wanted.

At least that's how I felt it, and they time I had definitely changes where I was heading in my life.
Which is why you could just feed it to people instead - or grow something else.

Solar panels destroy corn in terms of converting solar power to energy. Ethanol is geopolitical and special interests, definitely not efficient.