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The demand for the big diesel SUVs that get about 9 miles to a gallon has gone away, and people are trying to sell them for 20% of what they'd bring a year ago.
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The problem that I see here, is that with the "code is law" approach if there's a bug in the smart contract that is supposed to protect you then you're screwed without recourse.

In a traditional system, if there is a bug in your bank's software that makes you loose money, you can ask the bank to give you the money back. If they refuse, you can take them to court. If instead the smart contract has a bug, there's no one you can appeal to to get your money back. So I think that having humans-in-the-loop is still important, at least for big transactions.

As others pointed out, this problems are much smaller for small transaction so maybe there could be some use there. But I have to think better about this use case.
Actually, I just remembered the Duracell bunny, because the Energizer Bunny was created to make fun of it. I remember its debut ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiFQsxGUQOI
Bannerbear – API for automated image and video generation
If that's true, what's wrong with it? If you said you had a Van Gogh on your wall, wouldn't I reasonably assume it's not an original?
Do operators like complement work with Unicode?
Well that's the idea that data that pertains to you, personally as individual human being, is and remind yours, to protect you from any intrusion.

Cambridge Analytica Style desinformation targeting is just one option. Personal location and contact info can easily be used for criminal or political abuse.
This is something I struggle with, and there’s some good advice in here (though nothing particularly novel). I do want to call out one thing that probably doesnt work that’s in this article:

The idea of scheduling your downtime. Or blocking off “leisure time” on your calendar

This would be akin to an alcoholic putting “sober blocks” on their calendar. It doesn’t address the problem, it in fact acknowledges and accepts the problem as normal.

For me the biggest problems have been: taking on too much too fast, and my phone.

For the first, saying No has been the cure though still difficult sometimes. The second I think does not get the attention it deserves. Delete work email, delete work slack, delete work calendars from your phones. If you are literally carrying your work around with you in your pocket every waking hour there’s no chance you’re going to avoid it.
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Kinda reminds me of what they do in some areas of the finance world with Kx System's Kdb+. That entire install is tiny tiny and you get a high performance array language for querying your SSD database with either the main language "k" or a syntactical sugar dialect sitting on top called "q" that is more like SQL.

I think of that as optimizing the entire stack for what the customer wants of rapid/high-speed analytics.
I too think this and I have no data or anything to back this up. Just a cut feeling as well.
Hypersyn: A Peer-to-Peer System for Mutual Credit
I hold an in-between opinion.

I believe cryptocurrency is one asset (of multiple ones including gold) that can not be debased by the government, and as such forces the government to be financially accountable (I include central banks under "government").

I also believe lots of them offer a wasteful amount of security - for instance, Bitcoin secures almost $1.2M per hour against double-spending: https://www.crypto51.app/

I also think Bitcoin's inflation should be curbed. Only specialized mining operations benefit from the inflationary mining subsidy. Once inflation is reduced, miners will be limited to spending from transaction fees, not from the future.
Agreed if you make them all unlisted AND:

1) set the iframe width="514" height="289" or smaller that will remove the "Watch on YouTube" link (viewers can still view in fullscreen)

2) add ?modestbranding=1 to the end of the src url, this will also remove the "YouTube" link

Then add your own comments system to your embedded page and monetize how you see fit.
I genuinely admire someone who wants to improve on the regex DSL design.

Clearly they will master regexp in the process since this new language compiles to regexp.
LinkedIn announces Business Manager centralized platform
For car industry and space industry it is a complete revolution.

From what I understand he can legally backtrack from the deal, but he would have to pay some billion dollars penalty. Not cheap by any means, but he can afford that. And having billion dollars at stake you can try to look for a lot of legal reasons to not pay that billion.

But my guess is that he genuinely thinks that 5% number is not accurate based on his twitter feed comments. His feed comments is mostly crypto scammers. Some independent people also claim that 50% of his followers are fake.

Twitter claim of 5% is very specific and probably accurate in a legal sense. But if you have tens of billions at stake and a deal that looks like a mistake it's entirely reasonable to dig deeper.
> Or cops, who seem to live above the law. I mean they literally do because they have the monopoly on violence ...

The government has a monopoly on violence. Police can only do what the government permits (legally or customarily).
what it gets you is iOS and hence access to the iOS/apple only apps.
Does it support OAUTH 2? (I don't see any mention of it.)
You're pleased with 2000 uses for a couch? Imagine paying 25 cents each time you sit on the couch.
My spending habits changed considerably when I started to include the cost of real estate required in my calculations.

I encountered this first in a forum discussion about boilers - someone pointed out that the largest cost component isn't even the unit itself, but all the space it takes.

Anyway whenever I think of buying a treadmill, I remind myself that the actual cost is an additional €4500 just for the real estate and perhaps a gym membership would have been cheaper, but since I still haven't gotten one, perhaps it's less important to me than I think.
I'm not convinced there was a goal behind all this. It smells to me most strongly of manic behavior on Musk's part.
Watching crypto bro organisations self implode is certainly entertaining and well deserved
I've been using this for years, and would recommend it to power-user types.

Pros:

- You can define custom actions to run, including running external programs

- Very keyboard-accessible (including bindings for those custom actions)

- You can define boolean filters to process messages as they come in, but also per-folder processing rules to run when you visit a folder. Again, you can run external programs as one of the actions when a filter or processing rule matches.

- You can write whatever From address you want. A lot of mail clients make it way too hard to do this, but it's important if you have multiple aliases or a catchall at your domain.

Cons:

- Seems to be single-threaded. Certain UI and network operations block the rest of the UI.

- Has a good search feature (same as filter rule language) but not great -- it doesn't build an index and doesn't search across more than one folder at a time.

- Can't send HTML email (whatever) and can't view HTML without a pretty clunky plugin (annoying). I usually use a keybinding to send HTML emails to a Firefox instance that has networking disabled. :-P

- One big keyboard binding that's missing: You can quickly get a list of all URLs that are in the email, and select and launch one, but not just copy it. (Most people won't care about this, but I prefer opening some email links in a private browsing window.)
It can, but this isn’t a hard timeout. From the description (“The MatchTimeout property defines the approximate maximum time interval for a Regex instance to execute”), it seems they have their regex engine periodically (say after handling every 10,000 instructions of the compiled regex) check whether they went over the limit.
Corporate lawyers are interested in minimizing liability (and their own workload), not in making the world a better place.
> What is it with the Musk hate?

HN users consider themselves consumers first and foremost. The investor, techno-utopian believer, fanboy of companies..they are all sides which are secondary to the consumer one . At least on HN.

Despite all the media frenzy and fanfare about mr.Musk, the American consumer received next to nothing from him in terms of quality of life. And it's not like he's a young crypto-bro still finding himself. Guy is 50, has been doing this for 30 years. When I say "doing this" I mean offloading overpriced equity onto bigger fools using lies, deception and cult of personality.

Teslas for example still account for less than 1% of total vehicles sold globally in FY21. And it has been a slow year...also mr. Musk has been at the helm of Tesla for 20 years now. Less than 1% in 20 years...it means that the consumer is getting nothing.
There’s also the postgres regex engine, I don’t know how it works under the hood but it’s very resistant to catastrophic backtracking despite features which normally translate to nfa (e.g. backrefs).
> That's twice the code for the same result.

Only if you ignore that the exception-throwing solution _needs_ comments like `# this might throw a 404` to understand the control flow. The early-return solution is what I'd call self-documenting code.
It starts like that, but experience builds and in the end you get to ‘making cool stuff out of scrap wood and discarded furniture picked up from the road side and maybe €10 in hardware’, ‘repairing a rotted window sill for €50 in hard wood’ (a fraction of the cost of getting someone to do it for you), and ‘building the perfect built-in closet that only you could do knowing the house and your wishes’.

And then there's just the efficiency of having a little workshop where you fix stuff in a jiffy and hardly notice the amount of things that get their lifespan doubled. Good for your bank account as well the environment.

Oh, and seeing your children grow up with the idea that their parents just make/fix stuff, and that repairing things is the natural way to go about life. My three year old son regularly takes his portable toy kitchen, his toy tools, and starts 'repairing' it. That's priceless.
You could say the same about falling in love with someone, it's great, you can get caught up in it, and you're really vulnerable in case the relationship fails.
> but have not been able to find it or an emulator

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
Please post a concrete example of one that you have ran into.
The cycle you’re referencing goes back way past the 80s. Consider where the phrase “burning the candle on both ends” comes from. Epictetus (an Ancient Greek philosopher) often talked about this subject. Etc.

It’s not a “cycle” to be avoided with better schooling, but rather just the persistent, ever present human condition that we must all learn to manage individually.
If you own the page where they are embedded, YOU own the content. Your YouTube goes away, you can place the video elsewhere (or even back on another YouTube channel) and update your embedding to point to the new location. You still own the page and any comments and/or monetization you might have established.
I'm curious why Zoom doesn't get more shine.

In my opinion they were tested like few other companies in history at the start of the pandemic and seem to have pulled it off. My former employer had 60,000 people with technical roles and we all went to zoom in the summer of 2020 after our existing conferencing solution completely shit the bed. I won't say there were zero issues but the number definitely rounds to zero.

Obviously there are the privacy questions, but that's orthogonal to the engineering challenge of delivering realtime voice/video to millions of people.
Resident Evil Village in the browser through Stadia
Persisting with WhatsApp use: how to persevere unknowingly. The whys of our «No»
Turkish EFES 2022 military exercise concluded just a day ago and it's scenario was landing on an enemy island. The pesident demanded that Greece demilitarize its islands in the eastern Aegean, otherwise face disaster. If that's not a clear military threat then what could it be?

Source: https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1186488/erdogan-issues-thr...
That fixed version is not yet released (that is planned for 2022-06-16, in 6 days), and database upgrades are not trivial.

Sure, it's easier to "just go to the version that has this fixed", but if that's not possible, this might just be the next best thing.
The title implies that data is silently being corrupted, which is true, but in well-known and detectable workloads (CIC/RIC).

However, contrary to what the title would make you think, once they are created the indexes do not get more corrupt over time; the corruption does not spread. Instead, they get less and less corrupt over time as the rows missing from the index are either updated in a non-HOT manner, or deleted.
There's a bigger picture: http://nonstructured.com/in-defense-of-web3/
I’m sure you already know this, but don’t ever do sales.
In no circumstances did I ever make algorithmic decisions in an informational vacuum and then cowboy code my way forward, or rather, one seeks to avoid the mistakes of one’s youth.

Search engine: read material about the heart of the problem from domain experts, try different approaches and then decide.

Leet Code exercises are a blight on our industry.

If you want a shibboleth just say so.
You don’t have to try and spend billions of dollars to become a fan of conservatives. All you have to do is publicly push back against leftist views. That’s all it takes to be conservative in our culture. In a Political
Science lens, Conservatives aren’t some homogeneous group who share the same politics. They are anyone who opposes the left. It’s a broad spectrum.

Musk is not fully trusted by either side. He says a lot of things that traditional conservatives (especially those who don’t buy into climate change) oppose.

The left ideology is the dominant force in pop culture, and those views are in vogue. He’s speaking out against some of those things and that’s getting him a lot of attention.
These patterns of automatic thoughts ("how incompetent I am relative to everyone else") are a pain to overcome, especially, if there is no alternative avenue for self-worth (e.g. I am a good partner / friend / child / parent / citizen).

It's also quite surprising to note how easy these thought patterns emerge from seemingly nothing. The bar we evaluate ourselves against is often quite removed from rational thought — we can easily place this at an arbitrarily high point just out of reach ("OK, my start-up is growing; it doesn't matter, it needs to be grow faster!").

Good on you for reflecting and picking up these thought patterns!
Pacman: Attacking ARM pointer authentication with speculative execution
FWIW, amcheck can be useful but I am not 100% sure that it can detect all the broken cases either.
Why not actual Logo, as this is exactly what it was designed for?

https://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/resources/software_...
Of course it doesn't seem to work on Firefox :(
Pre-ipo Coinbase investor here. Dumped all my stock at $340/share. Good riddance.
Mass-produced hardwood furniture (OakFurnitureLand etc.) seems to be made of absolutely tiny scraps glued together, whereas if you are making something yourself you're more likely to use larger pieces of wood and less able to make use of small offcuts. I think that accounts for a lot of the price difference.
There's quite a few sacred cows in Liberal Democracy. May I not remind you some of those because you can get banned just by mentioning them with not enough piety.

The state of political freedom in Tatarstan is pretty bad. It's "just" bad in Russia and somewhat worse in Tatarstan. Nobody is denying that.

But at the same time it is absolutely not a "dumpster fire". It is a thriving, economically developed region with somewhat high quality of life.

You seem see Russia as an concentration camp where people drag out their grey lives waiting for some miracle to happen and save them. That's not how they see it. People are just living their lives, seizing their day and trying to be happy, have some capital, etc, etc. They often have enough means for it even if the political regime leaves a lot to be desired. They would likely not want to bet all that stuff to get a breath of "Muslim democracy" such as the one Arab spring brought. They would like the real democracy if they're confident their medium-term quality of life will not suffer.
> Once you have work deeply embedded in your interests and social life, it does not take a huge mental leap to "work is what defines me as an individual".

No, you are confusing cause and effect around emotional attachment and passion/effort.

People are equally likely to attach their sense of self-worth to aspects that require zero effort: nationality, favorite sport team, family name...

Putting a lot of effort into something is not the cause for attachment, but sometimes it can be the effect.
> features which normally translate to nfa (e.g. backrefs)

You're very wrong, backreferences in general can't be translated to finite automata (NFA is short for nondeterministic finite automaton). See these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18431610

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27877743
Safari will continue supporting v2 for now.
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Situations like this are my main beef with VC funding, we reached a point where it is not the most innovative or the best idea / solution / business wins but the one that can burn through the most money.

WeWork failed at that, and even the slightest increase in intrest rates might doom thosr businesses. We will see so.

Good that you survived so, facing of against 30 million in funding isn't easy, regardless of how stupid that money is.
Yes but no. You're absolutely right on your three points, esp. the 3rd that states that proving an MAE is an extremely high bar that is basically never met.

But! There's another way out for Musk.

Merger agreements include covenants, promises that the parties make to one another about what they will do to close the deal. If one of the parties can prove that the other didn't fulfill a covenant obligation and therefore broke its promise to work towards closing in good faith, then that's a valid justification to walk away.

The merger agreement includes covenants that force Twitter to provide any and all information "reasonably" requested by Musk, in a timely manner.

So the game becomes: how to trick Twitter into not respecting its obligations? One way is to ask for information that is impossible to provide: "Give me all the tweets since the beginning of time, each tweet on a single piece of paper!"

But Twitter might object, and a judge might find, that this is done in bad faith...

The other, more subtle way is to ask for information that Twitter should be very anxious and reluctant to provide, such as, for example, personal information regarding users. Twitter may run afoul of many regulations if it does, and has reasons to believe Musk won't honor any NDA he might sign (as he has a history of disrespecting his own word). Yet on the other hand, Musk can argue that he's entitled to ask for such information.

That's the nature of the current game. I don't think there's any way this isn't settled in court.

Note: for more on this, cf. Matt Levine's newsletter from June 6th.
Check Alex Gladstein(one of the writers)'s weblog and check some of his articles. Bitcoin is inherently a-political and inclusive; it doesn't know who is doing what with bitcoin at the protocol level. Yes, this allows scammers et al to do bad things, but it also makes financial inclusion possible for most of the people currently gatekept away from financial inclusion.

El Salvador is frontrunning, and acceptance isn't at the levels the government had hoped, but it is still early and most people will need time to learn to adjust and find out how everything works.
This has an almost uncanny-valley effect, in that yes, this is an improved syntax for regular expression, but that has the effect of highlighting why PEGs are the way forward here.

It's great that you can assign variables in Rulex, but they can't reference themselves recursively, so you're still locked out of all the interesting formats. Meanwhile it weakens the "ok but everyone knows how to use regex, it's in the language, and we're just doing a bit of data munging" argument for choosing regex, and you know what? That's a good argument, and it might be the only one.
"Graceful, and sophisticated interface" based on GTK 1.
Aaah yes .... "cost per use".

Its not the favourite unit of measurement of the cloud salesmen for nothing.

"Come to my cloud" harks the salesman .... "look, X is only $0.000000001 a go, Y is only $0.00095 a go .... its so CHEAP".

I think we know how it all pans out. You / your company ends up with an eye-watering cloud burn rate.

Beware the double-edged sword as they say, "cost per use" is not the panacea ... apart from for the seller, perhaps.
Yup, I think he has done like 1 day of it, before he dropped off.

There is some long running pattern here with getting cold feet on bad decisions ^^ .
Your inner critic can be shaped to what you need it to be. First, I'd change, I'm not good enough, to I want to get better at X. Seems like semantics, but perspective is everything. When possible, frame things in the positive (hit the ball, rather than DON'T miss).

When you do this, I think it will be easier to convince your inner critic that you need rest (not just sleep but time to pause, other activities for your brain/body, etc.). Whatever balance is for you, you can train your inner critic to prioritize that over a cruel checklist.

Also, I think it's unhelpful to describe yourself as incompetent relative to everyone else or not. If you are behind some others, there are reasons (most probably related to experience), and if you understand them, I think you should be at peace with where you are. That doesn't mean stop improving. It just means, I am here; to get to Z, I must do X and Y.

Basically, zoom in and out of your situation enough to understand it, and do the best thing for you. It could be helpful to frame it as though you are setting up the parameters for a friend rather than yourself. A lot of people aren't as kind to themselves as they are to people they care about. Care about you; be kind to you.
Never going to happen..

1.5 years.. Those phones would have to be in development now..

And aren't the power adaptors adaptive to the phones they're built for? A "universal" charger would have to be adaptive, and respond to API's from the phone. And that charger would also have to be forward compatible. Able to predict battery charging tech that hasn't been invented yet.
PyPI loops on redirect while downloading dependencies