skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "if you don't care part" was meant more as "you're being a dick but I know you'll keep being one anyway, so use this instead to not offend anyone", but the first option works better in a comment. I usually don't like provoking people like that, but I really don't understand the downvotes here.
We Asked an AI to Draw a Self-Portrait
That has nothing to do with certification for official use.
>> Java allows data races

> It does not, ... If you struggle with data races in Java

How can one struggle with data races if it does not allow it.
Please explain, using simple words, why would you expect that from a deregulated, non-transparent system?
I'm also high risk of unemployment if I ever moved to Denmark. Oh well ...
Arguably pension funds are best placed to take on (diversified) high risk investments. They have a long time horizon (20-40 years), and their members can't arbitrarily withdraw their funds.

If you've been sat in high quality government bonds for the last 15 years then you've basically made nothing, or even a loss, in real (inflation adjusted terms).

My pension fund is in 100% global equity. I've got no choice if I want to retire at a sensible age.
> I don’t think this is an inherent flaw in the idea of providing trustworthy third party reviews.

Just for the sake of argument, how would one go about creating a trustworthy third-party review business? Yelp has been accused of similar tactics for years with little pushback. I just don't think it's possible to create an ethical review platform on the internet. Way too much can go wrong.

Either the reviewers are paying you, the businesses being reviewed are paying you, or you're advertising. Advertising is a crapshoot, content creators won't pay to make sure their review gets posted, so that leaves the businesses being reviewed. And if your goal, as the owner of FooBar Business Reviews, is to maximize your profits, these kinds of techniques are going to start looking interesting really quick.
What's not a stretch is using 'they' to refer to someone whose gender you don't already know.
The "craze" is over, but NFT(s) are here to stay.
Yeah, this is spot on. I'd go further and say it's also a completely undependable mode of transportation, even near bigger cities.

I remember going to a town just north of Boston (Everett) for vacation and every day I took the bus into the main Boston area. It was about a 30 minute ride based on distance but all-in it was a little over an hour when accounting for the time you leave your residence to arriving at your destination -- this was being ~5 minutes from the bus stop too.

That's only accounting for 1 way too, there's that time penalty on the way back as well.

Plus there were times where I watched the bus completely skip stops on the way into the city near the end of the route because it was full, so you could end up waiting +30-45 minutes at the bus stop and this is fully out of your control. I was only there for 5 days and I saw it happen twice (fortunately the route started near where I was) but you could see the the look of disgust on the people's faces when the bus didn't stop for them.
Why not diversify? Or utilize options to hedge stock bets? A 0% return is better than losing 10% holding cash or 40% holding all equities. Or Simple move is Just buying CD’s will get you 3% (still negative 5% real rate but better than all cash) and rising daily.
This looks pretty amazing!

I think the gossip protocol might hold it back, as does the byte limit. Part of what made the early internet amazing was the longer content. Maybe a 10k limit would allow for a little more freedom?

A distributed hash table(Perhaps like OpenDHT, of which I'm a big fan because of the standardized HTTP gateway protocol) could store far more than 10 million of these.

Current DHTs might not be appropriate, as the churn is rather high and they are based on the idea of republishing every 15 minutes or so, but maybe a more persistent DHT can be developed, one that discourages ephemeral nodes in favor of a smaller number of higher bandwidth ones.

I think compression should also be part of the protocol, just because efficiency matters with this kind of non-commercial stuff. RAM and Disk are still rather pricy on a cloud server, for the kind of thing individuals do.

This also seems like it could be a somewhat nice use case for Microsoft Adaptive Card templates rather than HTML.

It's complicated, but if you have a very limited amount of data to work with, it might be nice to not worry about presentation at all, just JSON with a $schema key telling what format it is, allowing the client to use it's preloaded template to render it.

The early web seemed to be a lot more content-centric, leaving more of the rendering and visual distinctions to the browser.

Another nice thing is they are semantic and machine readable, in case someone wants to publish some weather station data that way.

Command line clients might also be a lot easier, using cards made of standard templates instead of freeform HTML.

But, sometimes the style is critical for the content, so Adaptive Cards could probably only be a replacement, not an alternative.

One really amazing thing from the web I remember was the web ring. Having boards be more structured, with at least some metadata, might allow for some kind of webring-like graph, where people could link to other boards in a really simple, semantic way, that would allow for crawling and discovery of lists of related sites.
I suspect the oldest one is the Microwriter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

(1978, vs. 1992.)

A form is still on sale as the CyKey:
https://sites.google.com/site/cykeybellaire/

I have one. I found it almost unusable myself, because the instructions and the alphabet are intended for right-handed use. I am left-handed so for me the mnemonics make no sense, and the instruction manual devotes just a single paragraph to sinistrals, saying (summarised) "just mirror everything".

Impressive design, nice hardware, but for me, too RH-centric. Like almost all modern cameras, for example, which are virtually impossible for southpaws to hold or to use.
Overall things are shaky this morning. VIX up, euro markets getting pummeled, NASDAQ, S&P and DOW futures plummeting and crypto across the board down by as much as 18% in past 24 hours. Setting up for a rough day.
The "" will define a null terminated char array to represent the string. But as it string contains no text it's a char array that only requires one byte (i.e. it contains nothing but the null termination character).

Now the first character of that char array is found here: ""[0]

The second character is found here: ""[1]

So the address of the second character is found here: &""[1]

But as the string was represented by one byte char array that second address is past the end of the string.

So it's actually an undefined address.
And banks segregate assets. If the bank entity goes under the customer deposits shouldn’t be at risk and vice versa. Tether, on the other hand, is a whole big mess of co-mingled corporate and customer cash.
Fair point. I'll try to do that as much as I can.
Celsius specifically; they were offering an income return for holding crypto (during a period of crypto appreciation), and the income was nice but ultimately not worth the principal risk. It was a long enough running business, with track record of allowing withdrawals, that the perceived risk wasn't as high as the real risk.
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It’s worse than that, the crypto-people are learning the lessons of the 1800’s financial crises by reenacting them.

Soon they’ll realise why central banks exist and after 10-20 years they’ll learn why the gold standard stopped being cool.
> 1) Banks don't run their own currencies.

Some do, namely the Scottish and Northern Irish note issuing banks. These have to be fully backed though.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/scottish-and-north...
Thank you, sums it up really nicely.
Git is already decentralized, and you can push your code to any of the dozens of competitors easily. I often keep important projects on both Bitbucket and GitHub.
At first I thought this was a parody like the Artisanal Firewood video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI).

It seems like a lot of this process could and should be automated to improve consistency and quality.
That article is perfect, and so are those slides.
Covid Did Away with the Sick Day
Citing other comment ->
"Tachyum is writing press releases like a machine gun (2-3 a month), but they don't participate in MLPerf and avoid comparisons altogether. They talk about big facilities, but they have 43 employees (including ex-employees) on LinkedIn.

Doesn't anything confuse you?"
You can write a custom data type in pure SQL for PostgreSQL which is just transforming a visible string to the more efficient uuid type.
That‘s basically how the uuid type can be implemented: For storage it‘s binary(16) but all operations transform the value to the visible string you see all the time. It‘s a pretty powerfull feature.
How about a public performance record of all director+ employees? I want to know if these people are actually doing something useful.
HN seems to be fine with race realists and antisemites (just look at the person's recent comment history, they're not the first one I've seen either) as long as they don't go on excessively unhinged rants and resort to slurs. HN is very much trying to be a "marketplace of ideas" with all the faults and warts that come with being a marketplace (e.g. false or misleading advertising).
Does anybody know if the goal is to become a more opiniated framework with an ORM layer and MVC structure etc.?
Where does Fresh perform better than Rails?
Also not (G/O)P but the nytimes game "Letter Boxed" is fun too
That will also depend on cities still allowing them of course.
How do you dissipate that much power?
100%

Not only state and regional conferences, but nationwide competitions among agencies.

Speaking to technology used by HNT/CNT teams, in the past, they would break a window and toss in a “throw phone” (Pelican case containing a phone with a cord running out to the negotiator) in order to talk with a barricaded subject.

Today, negotiators use the platform we created to negotiate over mobile, allowing secondary teams to monitor the calls and texts (e.g. so an analyst can research something said), along with other special capabilities.

If the topic interests you, we’re hiring a senior dev on our mobile hostage negotiation product now!
How does it run native binaries from other ISA if ILP is supposed to be handled by the compiler…
Yeah, I'm also not a whole-heart fan of everything cryptocurrencies, it has plenty of problems. But I have the same perspective as you, both bases have very intense knee-jerk reactions to anything happening.

I think it has to do with how new the field is. People reacted to the internet in the same way when it was new. No, I'm not saying cryptocurrencies are as useful as the internet is. But when the internet first appeared, people who didn't like the internet, grouped everything on the internet together. I was called porn-addicted because someone had heard there was porn on the internet and that I worked with the internet, so obviously I must be doing something related to porn.

Similarly people hear "cryptocurrency" and they immediately think of scams, although there is currencies that obviously aren't scams (Bitcoin, for one). But they've seen a scam using Bitcoin, so everything related to Bitcoin must be a scam too.

I have nothing to gain/lose by cryptocurrencies going up/down, so I don't really care. But it makes me slightly scared to see how for example many HN users react to cryptocurrencies, when this audience usually seems pretty calm and collected to me.

Makes me wonder what other subjects gets treated the same way as cryptocurrencies, but I don't realize it yet.
I think you can solely sustain a relationship with trust, lack of common interests can freeze it but does not necessarily extinguish it.
Nothing is ever worth it at the end, but it's better than being as poor as I was
Crypto is not tether.
I'll believe it when I see it.

This triggers my bullshit detector however even delivering anything in this sector is deeply impressive so hat's off to them even if they're cheating as long as they ship.
indiana has one too with jesus is real on the other side.
Indeed; see https://tether.to/en/fees.
Whatever "unsolicited homosexuality" is, this ain't it, chief.
Overflows are a major source of security vulnerabilities. NULL values are a major source of logic bugs. Data races are the most common bugs in parallel and concurrent applications.

There is no real argument why programming languages as tools should stop at the level of "well you can't put a string into an int".
they should be rewarded with "down every weeks" achievement
Named arguments are in a lot of modern languages: Python, Kotlin, Swift, Javascript*, probably others.

* APIs often do something similar by passing in an object with optional fields*
Maybe I used the wrong wording. There may be legitimate reasons for keeping it vague, because designing tamperproof public metrics for credit approval has huge risks involved, or they may be designed so conservatively that a lot actually qualifying people would now be unable to get a loan. I've personally been bitten by the latter despite making nearly six figures.

Similarily I've not really seen any sites which publish how their anti-spam filters work or what the treshold values are either for similar reasons. They're possible to figure out, but cost a lot more.

Maybe a better solution would be to somehow guarantee that they're consistent with their own rules, and regularly audited so that they're also compliant with the current law?
Soooo.... What is the use of the output of this algorithm?

If it's for the government to predict how many 'help finding employment' leaflets the government should print next month, that seems fine.

If it's to decide who is eligible for state handouts, it is unsuitable.
When it comes to valuation human psychology will beat mathematical verification every time. Anyone who has paid attention to the human history of money and finance should know this.

Is this a big deviation from the peg? No. But is it the first such deviation? No. Did it recover previously? Yes.

But the only thing that matters is how deep the reserves are to maintain the peg. That's it. Can that survive the turning tide of confidence in it when it eventually happens? We'll see. But my money is that psychology will win the day.

If your financial position depends on the stability of this or any algorithmic stablecoin (or probably any stablecoin) I would strongly advise you to correct that. Depending on a peg is, as Warren Buffett once put it, like picking up pennies in front of a bulldozer. Low reward and low reward but the downside is very, very large.
Is such a tiny drift really a "depeg"? Even pegged securities need market liquidity and have market makers seeking profit.
Also assuming this is VLIW, time to play the NOP-counting game when the internal ISA either gets reversed or documented.

Hypothetically you can do all kinds of things in software wrt to speculation and changing ISA on the fly.
Indeed, here is an explanation of the proof protocol used: https://spec.filecoin.io/algorithms/pos/post/

I wonder if that has ever been tested by bad actors. For Bitcoin, the proof of how the network is resilient against sub-50% attacks is simple enough.
Generally speaking, commercial software gives more guarantees than free software, because free software writers have no obligations. Of course, there's no absolute certainty.

Right now I'm stuck with an old version of a certain software, because the extensions are free, but some of the authors are not upgrading them anymore. If the extensions were commercial, I'd be happily paying, if that would give the extensions a longer lifetime.

Having somebody working on an extension at least a part of their time, because it represents a source of income, surely makes a difference.

Again, VSC's Ruby extension sucks big time. If there was a company behind, with a paid developer, like in IntelliJ's case, it would certainly have a different quality.
Full, generous benefits (as I assume this is a us-centric post). Unless you’re hiring junior, include parental leave for both partners. Flexible working environment, up to full in- or out- office. If in office, they’re really offices. Interesting problems to work on. A means for generating professional visibility if desired, as not everybody is a total introvert. And, of course, what’s mentioned in the article.

Money? Yeah, can’t forget the money, but it’s not the be all and end all unless you want 18-36 month hires. It has to be good enough to be a check off. I feel good people will take the position over the bucks if it’s a good position.
No, crypto is a giant experiment with making the regulatory response to all those lessons infeasible. Something like Monero is the tipping point - once there is plausible deniability over all aspects of the transaction I really don't see how a regulatory system could be implemented. Did I buy? Did I sell? Did I trade? Do I own any? These are questions that any chump can now cheaply avoid answering in ways that are extremely expensive to resolve for a government bureaucrat.

Whether you agree with the regulatory state then colours whether this is probably the dawn or end of civilisation.
Let's say I bought $1000 worth of Bitcoins before, thinking "it can go up, or it can go down, I can lose this money without an large impact on my day-to-day financials", why would I sell it now when it has gone down a bit?

It's not until you sell it, that you actually lose anything. Let it go down to $0, you shouldn't care, because you're only playing with money you know you could lose.

What do you stand to gain by others selling their cryptocurrencies by the way? Seems to be an odd position to hold.
The cheap lead-acid batteries you find in your car don't handle deep discharge very well, let it go empty a couple times and you have to replace it (at least they can be recycled easily). There are variants that can handle that better, but they cost easily twice as much. If you charge them too much they start venting hydrogen, which could build up to dangerous levels in buildings. I think that was discussed as a cause in the OVH datacenter fire.

So they do have some problems, but still almost all battery backup is done with lead acid (with lithium-iron catching up as a good replacement). I think most of these li-ion backup batteries are more about using surplus production when you scale your battery production faster than vehicle sales.
There's a difference between "very complicated to accomplish" and "crazy" in my book.

For example, balancing a bowling ball on the tip of a pencil is technically very challenging, but accomplishing that isn't exactly what people would call "crazy" - more like "OK, but why would you do that".

The problem that Google faces now is that the fun and crazy things that could be done with the wealth of personal data that it collects are increasingly seen as creepy by the people providing that data, immoral by the journalists, and illegal by legislatures.

Saying this as someone who would have absolute loved to do some of the crazier things while working there. It's for the better that it was not an option, at least at the time.

Google has a lot of power now, and with great power comes great responsibility. And responsible behavior tends to lean away from "crazy".
Would it be posible to run two instances of it and have them talk to each other?
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Isn't it a Cloudflare thing, such as [0]?

[0] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170086-U...
Many comments here are concerned about the flammability of lithium, though in a stationary form, cooling and ignition are pre-emptabe via water or a phase change encasing.
Please do refute. Personal attacks are not valid.

It is very strange that the same people that claim HN is a techno/logical place when confronted with logic and realism suffer from cognitive dissonance.

Please check [1] page 59.

[1] - https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.61234...
Not using Compose in production, but our development setup is split across multiple files - you can include them by passing -f flag to Docker Compose (I wrote a small wrapper script that does that automatically)
Called it in 2013. It was inevitable. There are reasons those mechanisms are there, from greed to impatience to convenience (to protection, if we get into regulation).

And it was super obvious that if only a few rare truly exceptional dreamy philosophers, among the horde that pushed beautiful magic internet money back then had any knowledge of this at all,

then of course the same thing would happen again.
If anyone is interested, here's Hikaru Nakamura, a super GM reacting to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IowQeiC4V8I. The video is long but I think the main takeaway is already clear from the first 13 seconds. :)
You are right the exposure and promotion is totally inadequate at the moment!
Having said that there are:
https://jwcu.coop/
https://jicr.roukyou.gr.jp/

And just personally contact me please
Looks like ordinary emulation, Qemu.
> traditional financial system of fractional reserve

Please stop thinking of what the current system is as "fractional reserve"—re-lending of savings—as it is not accurate. Tobin called it the "Old View" in 1963:

* https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-...

It and the idea of the money multiplier just confuses things:

* https://www.pragcap.com/what-is-fractional-reserve-banking/

* https://www.pragcap.com/r-i-p-the-money-multiplier/

It might useful for a "101" course in high school Econ or first-year university, but it should be moved past ASAP.
Amazon offers to share data, boost rivals to dodge EU antitrust fines
Impossible to cheat: Assuming "ongoing storage costs", on every payment cycle, rotate the blocks somewhere else (non-predictably). The hashes are probably stored on blockchain, so the receiver can verify them. So to cheat, you need to produce a collision or miss out on your payment.

Practically that's impossible, since the network would need to swap the whole datastore once every payment cycle.

Say each block is stored on three nodes, then these nodes could each generate a nonce, compute a hash of the stored block (using all nonces as IV) and then vote on whether they still have the original file or not. This is much more feasible, as only nonces and hashes are transferred (a few dozen bytes instead of e.g. 64MB blocks).
In that case they can store nothing and instead cooperate to generate spoofed hashes, so you probably want some auditor nodes.

I am not sure why any of these would strictly need blockchain to solve the problem of safely storing data in a pool of untrusted, unreliable nodes.
You mean the liability announcement page.
I've been doing all of this with PHP and a little JS for decades. But sure, next gen..

- Just-in-time rendering on the edge.

- Island based client hydration for maximum interactivity.

- Zero runtime overhead: no JS is shipped to the client by default.

- No build step.

- No configuration necessary.
Intel was constantly adding new instructions which could be more performant. Inline assembly can never take advantages of that; compilers or OS functions can
One person whom I consider wise said "Friends are people who support your limitations" if that helps
Query your (superhuman) email with SQL
Will low-level languages survive?
I'm a former C developer, i code in C since i'm 6yo, i'm specialised in ANSI C, and in GNU Assembly since i'm 10 (22 today), but today it's like those low level languages are rare as loch ness monster in the industry (i'm sysadmin "devops", previously embedded systems developer).

For you, will those "old odd" languages will survive against monsters like Python, Go or Rust for example ?
Smells vaguely like another Transmeta, will wait for shipping products