skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that many of us WeRE present and actively monitoring crypto. Heck I even tried to mine bitcoin back when you had a chance to mine one in your own gpu. I even thought maybe I’ll buy a coin or two; it’s only 20 bucks each!

But “better judgement” said that it’s a currency it shouldn’t appreciate so why bother unless you want to actually use it?

So if there’s regret it’s because many of us feel almost penalized for applying better judgement. It’s like you’re rewarded for stupidity. Not a single person I know and actually respect invested in crypto, and half brained idiots I know have become millionaires. So yeah this is not like horse betting.
With BTC especially, my argument (to myself) is that if I weren't lazy and got BTC at $20 I would have definitely sold at $100.
There's a few things.

a) in marketplaces without a lot of margin, increases in costs are quick to make it into the consumer experience, but decreases in costs are not so quick. Mortgage rates rise faster than they fall, and savings interest rates fall faster than they rise.

b) mortgage rates have a fast feedback loop, most US mortgages are destined to be sold in the bond market, so lenders don't want to make loans at rates that are under the market rate; this brings rates up quickly. Furthermore, borrowers have bigger incentives to shop around on mortgage rates, so lenders can't keep rates higher than the market rate for too long or they'll lose loans to competitors. Some depositors do chase higher savings rates, but changing checking accounts is a lot of work, so there's stickiness there. A lot of depositors put more value on other things than savings rate because somehow major national banks that require big relationships to give you 0.02% interest attract deposits.

c) as troydavis mentions, you might not have considered term length. My savings account seems to be tracking ok with money market funds (0.70% vs 0.75%), although I see some online focused banks with higher rates (1.0%). IIRC, savings rates of even 0.5% were hard to find a year ago, so you could say savings rates have doubled just as mortgage rates have doubled, but it's kind of meaningless... they're both increasing in their own ways.
Naming a file is an obscure thing?
Definition question. It fits if you use "languages that appeared after or incorporated features from younger languages in newer versions".

Also 4 years older, not a decade.
Balanced budgets require negative interest rates as the private sector is accumulating savings that actually must be spent off.

A net increase in savings in the private sector is incompatible with a balanced budget of the public sector. Remember, balanced budget means you spend everything you earn for both the government and the private sector.
Amazon has made my life better since I started using them in 2005. That's delivering value for over 17 years. Saved countless trips to stores.

You don't become a billionaire without providing value to millions of people and improving their lives. I admire Bezos and his achievements, candor, leadership, and judgement. His yearly memos are profoundly thoughtful and he has changed the world forever, for the better. Obviously he is not perfect. Amazon employees have become millionaires and they are paid fair wages.

I really don't understand billionaire hate.
Camp Vista – Growing Up Next to Microsoft
The NHS of course. GPs already have to interface with other NHS systems.
In fairness, this sort of transformation has taken place in every station of American life. My dweeb chemist parents regularly hosted and attended parties with their dweeb chemist colleauges. My wife and I have hosted 3 parties in the last 17 years.

We had to fight for the modicum of freedom our kids had growing up. Our oldest now has a car but his licence forbids him taking friends along.[1]

Our youngest built his first model rocket this week, to find it's only feasible to launch with a club. The nearest club, which used to host monthly launches at Moffett field, is closed until Fall. So it'll take as long to drive to and from the launch site as to buid a rocket, and the maximum launch cadence is monthly. Not a viable hobby for a 13-year-old, unless it's your only hobby and your parents help with everything.

Churches have disintegrated, workplaces are toast. The loss of "third places" was measured by Putnam.[2] Somebody on twitter suggested companies should have sports teams, aparrently unaware it was quite common until recently.

On my first day of work in California in 2001, my boss asked me if I'd tried ecstasy yet.[3] Nowadays you must be mentally ill to take it, under a doctor's supervision. Hope you get better like us!

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-education-and-safety/ed...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

[3] https://twitter.com/clumma/status/1519377410810023936
> if they let inflation run its course

What other posters are telling you is that there's no such thing as letting inflation "run its course." What actually happens is that high inflation becomes baked into the normal operation of the economy, at which point it is extremely difficult to get rid of (i.e. not just raising interest rates above the inflation rate).
I’d like to get into go but in the past I’ve always been burned by not being able to quickly refactor my code.

If I want to change the contract of get_kittens so that it returns a set instead of a list, I found it quite tiresome to then go to all the call sites of get_kittens and change their types to match.

What was I doing wrong?* Perhaps there’s a cleverer tool out there that can infer and implement these type changes for me, automatically?

* using vim? [joke]
The Evolving Political-Military Aims in the War in Ukraine After 100 Days
Afaik ROCM only provides fine tuned libs/drivers running on linux. At least it was provided that way years ago when I used and shipped with kinda soft vendor lock only main distros supported but if they provide now with the some tuned hpc OS that would be pretty good idea.
True. In Kotlin you can go

val foo = if (bar) "this" else "that"

and you don't need two separate assignments.
I really like these kinds of names with a coherent theme. I think the most widely known ones are the Mac OS X large cat / geographic place names and the Intel lakes / coves. Are there any more from popular tech companies?
Another big area that is lacking is Go makes it so hard if you want to use something other than a primitive as a hash key (Rust is guilty of this as well, mind you). This is something that should come out of the box in any modern language in my opinion.
You are of course correct in a broad sense.

However, when the discussion already mentions "ABI contracts", they're probably referring specifically to the "fragile binary interface problem" (especially regarding member field access), which does not affect all languages that offer inheritance.

As the Wikipedia article mentions, this more specific problem is (confusingly) often referred to just as the "fragile base class problem".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_binary_interface_probl...
Odd, I find the standard library very full-fledged and useful, including the strings package. I've almost never needed to reverse a string, except in interviews. :-) The stdlib has a full (and good) HTTP server with HTTP/2 and TLS support, HTML templating, excellent I/O support, compression, even image encoding/decoding and drawing. That said, the container types are pretty sparse, but that may change a bit now that generics are here.

What, apart from string reverse, do you miss for real projects?
OK. A dumb question. So I've been using dim screen brightness to my computer monitor every since I started using glasses. Should I be increasing screen brightness?

Cos I am very serious about having proper lighting on the room I work in. But always thought the screen should be dimmer than the room for some reason.
> Texas allows information to be suppressed when the suspect is deceased

Which is backwards. Dead people don't have any privacy rights.
To use this without overloading the grid one could pair this with a station with properties: high capacity, high discharge, slow charge, low density. Is there such tech? Capacitors would work I guess, but are probably too expensive at the needed scale.
It's not really new. William Randolph Hearst is probably the best example. He built a nice castle on the California Coast, I'll give him that.
All of them have also developed “dialectical skills” that surpass their mothers’ own. “They teach them what to say at every step,” says Encarna, 58, whose 20-year-old son has joined IM Academy. He has gone from being “a normal guy who got good grades” to dropping out of school. “He says that’s an outdated paradigm,” she explains. And he is dedicated to “opening people’s eyes” and to “digital empowerment.” “They are young, smiling and they give you lessons on how to live life,” says Encarna. “They don’t teach them trading, they teach them abduction,” she says, adding she is fed up with her son’s glibness and how he is “always on everyone’s case” to try to recruit them. She is reaching her limit. But she is afraid that if she challenges him, she will lose.

How is a parent supposed to handle something like this? I feel really bad for the families in this situation.
This isn't part of a talk. That said, a lot of this stuff ends up on Twitter, e.g. https://twitter.com/never_released/status/153397682922836787...
It is impossible. Austerity results in a reduction of the interest rate, even if the interest rate is already at or below zero. If you want to increase the capacity of your economy to absorb austerity, you also need to increase the capacity of reducing interest rates below zero.
> structs / types not explicitly declaring which interfaces they implement is a real and unaddressed problem

Isn't it a feature? You can have a "writer" as long as it can "write", and then use that writer anywhere where a function expects a writer?
First, ultra fast charging is really relevant only for intermediate stops on long-distance travel. There you have dedicated charging stations which are directly connected to high voltage lines which can deliver 10-100 MW. Modern charging stations already deliver up to 350kw, doubling that power wouldn't be sci-fi.

But the peak charging rate is only one parameter and it isn't necessary to reach that in day to day usage. The biggest problem with current batteries is, that the maximum charge rate is good already, but only available while the battery is below 50% charge. So it isn't necessary to raise the maximum charge speed much, if this speed can be maintained for longer time. A battery which can take like 200-300kW till over 80% charge would be a winner and mostly "solve" recharging during trips.
These sort of incidents are possible in any student org or group of young people in college. Going after fraternities is just a knee jerk reaction because it seems right to go after fraternities given the notoriety we've given them in the culture, but I can tell you that some of the worst examples of hazing I've learned of when I was on college took place in orgs like the club rugby team. Those sorts of student orgs also have like zero oversight over any social activity from the university. There is no IFC checking these parties, the parties aren't registered with anyone. The university doesn't even know of the off campus houses where these groups live and party in.

Its easy to react emotionally, but rationally, there is no reason for fraternities to be inherently worse than any other student org or even just a random group of people living off campus and hosting parties. The problems you cite are really broad college problems, and if we continue to just assume that they are solely fraternity problems I don't think we will ever make meaningful progress on any of them.
I would really like to see a benchmark on compilation speed. Sure, Go’s compiler is really fast by not doing any fancy optimizations - but.. have you seen javac’s byte code output? It barely does constant propagation, because it can get away with it due to JIT. So if anything, javac just starts up a bit slower, or the build tool does something at first start but otherwise java programs literally compile in a blink of an eye.
The fact that it's a bunch of top level functions also makes me think of PHP from the early 00s, only I was able to do more with things then tbh. Just feels super archaic.
Your dad has a point about butter, but would the transport equivalent of not having to churn your own butter not be to have others chauffeur you around, rather than driving yourself? Or, if we think of it as highlighting mass manufacture efficiency, taking public transport?

In Denmark at least, most people bike to work, so the latter part is at least objectively false.
We already have 350kW fast chargers, so this is just another factor of 2.
My favorite part of this is that because their reserves are illiquid, Celsius is forced to take out loans from other exchanges in order to pay out withdrawals. Each of these transactions/bailouts was visible on the blockchain and immediately called out on Twitter, accelerating withdrawals. A run on the exchange.

If one major exchange goes bust and people learn that they have no recourse to recover funds, expect to see people pulling money out of other exchanges.
A Complete Guide on Hough Transform
Why do I need glasses for reading if I'm nearsighted? Unless you mean "ignores" nearsightedness and corrects astigmatism only? (Those are what I use for computer use, when I bother to wear them.)
> It is a common observation that internet life and real life don’t really match. Spend a few hours on twitter and you will think America is a 21st century Weimar Republic. But spend time talking with neighbors and friends in the flesh and you find that this feeling ebbs away.

Oh that’s fantastic for your neighbors.
On point #2:

I don't know anything about Go, but I've spent a lot of time working in a lot of languages. Structural typing is a bad idea. There are a few, limited cases where it's necessary, e.g. we have it in TypeScript because TS ultimately has to work within the limitations of JS. But if you don't have those sorts of limitations, intentionally implementing structural typing in your language is borderline negligent.

Interfaces don't just define a bag of method signatures. Interfaces are semantic, too. An Employee, a Gun, and a ClayPot might all have a method named `fire()`, but they all mean different things. But with structural typing, we can load our Employees into a Kiln and give HR a Gun to downsize the company, and nothing will stop us.
> System Preferences has gone decades without a redesign, appearing noticeably unchanged as macOS has evolved around it.

The old one allowed you to have a favorites bar and actually ordered the contents alphabetically. I can't find anything on the new one without searching.
The main thing that irked me though is I had to spend a whole day doing a simple "take this complex object and use it as a hash key" in an idiomatic way other than just cheating and using the stringified version of the object as the key.
How would one go about hacking a working prototype for this? Does Apple expose system calls ?
In my country (Nigeria), there’s a publicly-traded conglomerate (BUA Group) where the founder and his son jointly own a 98% stake [1].

1- https://nairametrics.com/2022/01/14/366674/
It has been shown again and again that the eyes require exposition to the sun to produce locally vitamin D to form themselves correctly [0], [1].

Go out and play (no citations needed)!

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30018147/

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6951132/
Most gnome settings are beyond regedit-like cli, so you can script stuff.
I agree. But since unsolicited advice is low effort, it's hard to stop that sort of thing becoming the dominant form of narrative
The comments are from Matt Litrell, the union organizer who had the cops called on him - not an "Amazon spokersperson."
I agree. Justice is often unjust. I find this problem terrifying.
I literally don’t understand why so many people believe Go is a C replacement. Like it is by all means in the first camp of managed languages with a huge runtime.
We are caught in an ideological trap and blame everything on Russia. The sanctions have no short-term effect and it is doubtful whether they will have any medium-term effect at all.

At the same time, we became ideologically blind and realpolitik no longer seemed to stand a chance. I wonder how long it will be before ordinary people start fighting back against the current ideologically charged "value politics" or just lose trust in the system.

We in Germany try everything to prevent that. e.g. huge energy cost subsidies - which unfortunately have no effect and only make people angrier as they see the failure of the state. The oil companies raised prices, the normal citizen does pay the bill. It is understandable that people get angry. Well, now we're having funny talks about expropriations in Parliament, just to calm people down, I think. History has proven that this type of market manipulation does not work – the debates of the established parties are now so close to populism.

And finally, the ideological war has forgotten that during Covid we had unlimited money supply and the ECB is caught in a debt trap with too little room to maneuver. The war itself does not bring all of the problems we are experiencing, such as the dire food shortages approaching in the fall of 22 or the slowdown in economic output in Western Europe.

It is the sanctions that have led to all this, not the war per se. At the same time people are being told that the whole war is to blame for all of this and not the decision to put sanctions ahead of economic interests, global stability and eventually Covid – remember the inflation rate was 7% before the invasion.

I think nobody cares anymore and it's easy to just yell at Putin - instead of criticizing the West's terrible political response and acknowledging the post-Covid effect (and obviously disagreeing with the war on a moral level, but not in this blind, activist, aggressive type).

I have lost confidence in our Western (German) politics, no longer feel represented by any of the major parties and have stopped voting - and so have many of my friends. Only my opinionated, ideologically motivated friends are very active.
> - I've got lots of video ads where pharmaceutical companies are promoting to "talk to your doctor about the vaccine for XY" - wtf, is this even legal?

It is here in the US. This style where you're prompted to ask about a treatment for a condition (or a vaccine for a disease) without naming the drug or the manufacturer was the beginning of drug ads here. Only much later did they start being able to tell us the name, but then only if they also told us in a very fast voice about all the terrible side effect symptoms reported in trials (or after general availability). I wouldn't know if this is legal in Germany, but it's worth talking to your doctor about ;)
Chinese-sponsored gang Gallium upgrades to sneaky PingPull RAT
If you have a battery on hand ready to suck down that power in EVs, all you have to do is contact whoever managed such a feat to provide your charging facility with the battery cache.

And you don't have to recharge your cache off the grid/solar/wind/whatever at the same rate you charge the cars of waiting customers. You just need space for a big enough pile of batteries.

Last I checked gas stations were rather bursty around rush-hours. Worst case the charge rate degrades after exhausting the cache. There will always be lulls between the thundering herds to allow filling it all back up.

Is it really all that impossible to imagine? Maybe the gas stations of the future are battery towers.
Hazing happens anywhere in college. Your own roommates could haze you in your dorm, you don't need a student org or an off campus house. I'm not sure there is much of an easy solution. You ban all the student orgs you want and force people to live in a dorm for 4 years, and people will still party and get drunk and do stupid things and be terrible people at times.
Even if it's 99% efficient(which would be incredible), if you're recharging 100kWh of capacity in a minute, that's using 6MW. So your 1% of inefficiency is still 60kW of heat that you need to do something with. And 60kW of heat is a crazy amount.
I don't know, it's pretty on topic, isn't it? This is the problem other big companies, e.g. banks and oil companies etc who get caught with the hand in the cookie jar. There's clearly a line where the company _shouldn't_ get to perform its own investigation.
Maybe not for flipping some customers the bird, but I'm not sure whether or not it's legal cuts it either as a line. There are a lot of things you can do which are not illegal but which might warrant a mob.
Obviously, again, not for some intern prank.

I feel the police is the perfect example for when you don't want the "team" to decide if they did something wrong.
This argument is not convincing to me, especially considering JetBrains publishes their IDE base as open source.

Everytime I have to use VSC to develop typescript and angular, I am having problems with finding definitions (works 30% of the time), code search (it takes longer due to the constricted interface), git operations (want to do more than a simple pull and push? good luck), and much more. WebStorm on the other hand has a lot less bugs, a more flexible interface, and more features. I am glad that people make an effort to make an IDE instead of an editor with IDE-style features and I'll gladly pay a very small amount of my salary to them.

Every workshop has higher costs than a software developer. Imagine a car mechanic propping up a car with 2 by 4 because they use what's available for free. No, they buy their $30,000 lift because they need it to get their work done quicker.
I don't see the charge rate as a problem. [The new MCS standard for trucks will charge at around 3 MW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatt_Charging_System), so clearly it is entirely possible to deal with even larger cooling needs than a 720kW system would entail.

There are already superchargers with multiple chargers that can in total handle way more than 720 kW.

The biggest issue when there are many super fast chargers operating at 1000v will be handling voltage spikes in the power grid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain ...err, Hy-prr-loup, Hy-prr-loup, Hy-prr-hrr-hpft...
It's not great, but I use this pattern to check / enforce interface membership.

type Bar interface {
BarMethod(int, int) int
}

type Foo struct {}

// Error: Foo does not implement Bar (missing method BarMethod)
var _fooImplementsBar Bar = Foo{}
You math it a little confusing when it come to the cooling required. You scale up the power draw to an hour, but then take your cooling based on that. But each individual battery still only needs to dissipate the heat produced during its charge - so in your example, with 60kWh and 99% efficiency, the energy to dissipate is 0.6kWh per charge, over the duration of 5 minutes. Which sounds much more manageable than the 7.2kWh you end up with (which would be for 12 charges over the course of an hour).
Most batteries also degrade faster when charged at high rates. So at home, when you have the luxury of charging overnight, it’s better to charge slower.
It’s fun that one freak suggests regularly looking at sun (with closed eyes, of course), as one of his therapies for myopia. May be there’s something to it.
Its a trend spanning all of academia, I’m sure. Princeton essentially eliminated frats years ago and keeps the eating clubs on a very short leash; the clubs doubtlessly would have been killed too if it wouldn’t have cratered alumni donations.