skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK already had exceptional status on various rules - they were more a half-member than a full member. So clearly, the EU already cared enough to make exceptions. The Brexit vote was different: the UK government chose[1] to interpret its results as a requirement to leave the EU. That's not something an outsider can upend without interfering in the day-to-day governance of the state. And no member state wants the EU to interfere with its sovereignty on that level. So the only possible outcome was acceptance.

On the other hand, had Cameron gone to the EU with a 90% "less EU" mandate in hand, the EU would either have to accede or kick the UK out. Kicking out a member state... pfffft. I would guess it can be vetoed by any member state - or at least any other (not being kicked out) member state. And some would - their EU track record is such that they could be next.

Basically, the EU had no choice whilst respecting sovereignty of Member States. A less/more vote would have put the onus of kicking out a member on the EU, something I don't see the member states reaching a unanimous decision on. Which would leave negotiation.
> while airing confidential dirty laundry

I mean, being silent about company dirty laundry is not exactly virtue.
I have pods that haven’t been updated to work with arm yet.
Hardware-level stuff/embedded is outside of my area of expertise, but as I understand it you are pretty much correct.

You see this a lot with Android devices and custom images. There will be drivers that are only provided in the vendor blessed image, patches that are difficult or impossible to port to new versions of the kernel, etc.

Again, this is me looking in from outside. Most of my information has come from reading about other peoples experience with hardware, especially android devices but also other embedded chips.
This "logic" of denying that something is real by saying people wouldn't stand for it if it was, bugs me.

People will stand for it if they accept this sort of denial that it's happening!
> The defining property of the blockchain is the decentralization of authority

No it’s not. A blockchain can be used in a way that only specific central authorities can add to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain#Private_blockchains
> The SEC’s “accredited investor” laws are often criticized as discriminatory, since they legally restrict some of the best investment opportunities to only the 1%.

Note: the “accredited investor” restrictions are for US persons. I think foreigners don’t have the same restrictions (although the max 500 investors rule is likely to kick in instead if too many small foreign investors). For example[1] “The Investor is: (i) an ‘accredited Investor’ as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act; or (ii) not a U.S. person within the meaning of Rule 902 of Regulation S under the Securities Act.”

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1693656/000110465919...
I discovered i3 when looking for tiling solution and found it remarkably productive.
Everything you say is very reasonable until:

> No one is being forced to adopt a system just because it is now
possible to do it on a blockchain, and we do not need to destroy the
current systems if they work well - or at least if they work better
than any alternative. There will be even plenty of cases where the
status quo is totally fine.

which is probably true in reality, but still something I'd like to
challenge.

Every technology that ends up being totalitarian/expansive starts out
with "Nobody is being forced to....". I am sure when automobiles first
appeared it seemed obvious that "nobody is being forced to drive
them", and yet the other day a poster here was absolutely indignant
with me for suggesting it might be possible not to have one.

I read hundreds if student essays that literally begin with the line:

"Today, life without the internet would be impossible."

You're right, many (maybe most) technologies do reach a healthy
balance with alternatives and legacy systems. But certain
"infrastructural" technologies tend to expand aggressively. I think
money systems are among them, at least if the number of times I have
heard someone say "cashless society seems inevitable" is any guide.

(Though often, when one hears these little maxims repeated verbatim,
over and over and over, I come to suspect they are not the authentic
views of the speakers, but propaganda injected into public discourse.)
my own blog. for like 20 odd years now. https://www.splitbrain.org
BitMEX, a crypto derivatives exchange, was incorporated in Seychelles.

Yet, the US government successfully indicted and got the four founders to surrender [1] (two of whom were non-US citizens).

They can definitely claim jurisdiction if American users were affected in the scheme.

1 - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/03/15/bitmex-founder-b...
The materials-part could probably be useful, but still, the utility of cars in a world where neither their infrastructure could be maintained nor their fuel produced is highly questionable. Bicycles are far less vulnerable, in my opinion.
Is that a keystroke counter in the middle of a top menu bar?
Moreover, if someone is talented and driven and charismatic and a sociopath, then they are probably at an advantage compared to someone who is missing one or more of those characteristics.

By default, one should assume the most successful people have every superlative quality, from those that are most admirable to least.
I’m an autistic engineer and even I know how to phrase things better, so it’s not the lack of marketing, it’s a lack of maturity and leadership.
Depends on the country. Some countries do not extradite their citizens and some others only if what they are accused of is also illegal in their own jurisdiction...
What did they screw up with Kim?
Reminds me of the Simpsons episodes when Bill Gates "buys out" Homer's internet business.

"Well I didn't get rich by writing a lot of cheques!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
Speaking personally, they might be concise and precise but the arguments are nothing new and too often have simple counter arguments. That's the reason they're not addressed, there really is no reason to except to directly address the Molly white audience.
Why do you need IPv6 for Vercel?
I am not sure what you are trying to say. That Go does not have a place because Python and Java exist? My personal experience: I cannot get anything related to cryptography done in Java, thanks to its standard library. I would choose Go over both Python and Java. The choice depends on a lot of things. Regardless, all I get from your message is that you mind the existence of Go, which I believe is silly.
I was kind of expecting you to link to an article about Git repository permissions.
Looks great in a text-only browser. Easy to read. No popups. Ever.
Given that people already travel for IVF to cheaper locations abroad (Ukraine was one of them until the war), it is going to be more like $100K+ in the future.

Medicine is practised outside the US as well, including high tech medicine. And for a much more reasonable price tag.
> it's hard to think of how you would improve on the actual underlying design.

I'm biased as a Rust fan in general, but I think Rust pretty much nails this. Rust distinguishes between a borrowing view of variable length (a slice, spelled &[T]) and an owned allocation of variable length (usually a Vec<T>). Go uses the same type for both, which makes the language smaller, but it leads to confusion about who's pointing to what when a slice is resized.
Most Canadians don't even realize that longer term mortgages are a thing. In Canada they were effectively banned in 1880; section 10 of the Canada Interest Act says that if you get a loan for more than 5 years you can repay it early -- effectively meaning that a "10 year mortgage" comes with a mandatory (and very large!) interest rate derivative. Since borrowers don't want to pay extra for that derivative -- and frankly are unlikely to be able to afford it even if they wanted it -- we end up with effectively no market in >5 year mortgages.

And yes, this is absolutely terrible public policy; forcing Canadians to take a series of short-term mortgages not only makes the economy far more vulnerable to interest rate shocks, but also creates a significant dead weight loss as homeowners and banks repeatedly churn through mortgage application and initiation paperwork.
Google doesn't ask whether you agree to account suspension either.
Endgame will be most interesting. Historically speaking.

-- If Russia "wins" and takes all of Ukraine, they have to dispose 30 million people. Germans tried this industrial scale, and they managed only 6 million.

In Baltic states there was terrorist groups aka "Forest Brothers", which managed survive 50 years until Russia finally lost. Ukrainian Forest Brothers will be much more. They will be aided by Elon Musk satellites and ever improving armament. Russia cannot compete will 25 Mhz processors and diminishing population for 50 years.

- If Russia "loses" and gives up all territories in Ukraine, somebody has to rebuild Ukraine. It will cost TeraEuros. Russia does not have these kind of monies, even it is split in pieces and wrung dry.
As a web3 critic, my criticism is not that there can be only one, it is that all the proposed web3 stuff that I read about is just an existing thing with extra steps.

If I were to build a blog system I would not store the blog posts in a local merkle tree. Why not? Because a regular database has more benefits. Now why would I want to store the data on a decentralized public merkle tree (blockchain)? I don't want my blogs data to be public, I want *an adjustable view" into non-public, editable and deletable data, which is what we have now. This is one case where the status quo is not only totally fine as you phrased it, but it is superior (to me at least).

The issue I have with web3 is not that it is a new idea, it is that to me it sounds like yet another solution in search of a problem. People who have/are invested in crypto-tokens have a huge incentives to fool themselves into believing you actually can/should solve every problem using the technology of the blockchain.

If it is an problem that people can delete things use an append-only-log/merkle tree. If it is an problem that you want to have a centrally agreed upon public state, open a public API to that append-only-log. If it is a problem that people can neither trust you, nor each other to be a faithful keeper of logs, decentralize it wit consesus algorithms and end up with something like a block chain.

Now this chain of problems is something that fails at the first step for many things. There is not a lot of things that you want to be append-only, typically for very good reasons.

But let's say I want my blog append-only for some reason. One solution would be to just do it instead of forcing myself technically. But lets say I want to force others, then it would make sense.

Now it does not make a lot of sense to make that literal log public, but let's say I also offer an API to it and ignore all the real world problems it would bring (illegal content that needs to be deleted which I could do by rolling the merkle tree back to the latest non-illegal version.

Now I run that sote, why would I like to decentralize that data? So I can claim I don't need to delete anything?
C# and Java are almost always faster than Go.

Go isn't fast, it's decent but nothing special for AOT native code. (atleast the standard gc compiler, llgo, gccgo etc could end up being a different story). It can show good overall performance in I/O bound workloads because of native M:N green threading though.
I imagine even that is no longer a point in Go's favor when Java's Virtual Threads land and become widespread however.

Go's only real interesting runtime feature was their emphasis on having a very low latency GC. This was somewhat special for a few years but between improvements made to .NET and Java's new GCs (Shanandoah and ZGC) that gap has been eliminated while these runtimes still provide better throughput on top of their now low latency.

There really isn't a good performance or resource usage reason to pick Go over C#/Java anymore, all of its advantages have been eroded.
>> The defining property of the blockchain is the decentralization of authority.

So "unaware assumptions" it is then.

I'm sorry if you perceive that as snarky (and not everyone that disagrees is a troll btw), but to me, decentralized authority is what some people perceive an important (if not zealous) use case. It is not the defining property of blockchain. There are many companies that are building distributed ledger with centralized authority. You may disagree with that use case. I feel it's lack of self awareness to think a valid and clearly implemented use case is somehow antithetical to a simple neutral well defined technology.
I use polythene for the same purpose. Might not be as fancy, but achieves the same thing.

That said, I do miss the style of house in the town
I grew up in, where front doors often had stained glass, and verandahs some extra wrought iron flourishes.

I wish I could name the style, but here's a (poor) photo demonstrating the wrought iron flourishes at least.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/lyttelton-nz-feb-25...
I thought that "if err != nil" is much less common now because of the changes in error handling. I personally do like "if err != nil" better. I can easily ignore that when I want, and I can easily check if I am handling the error properly without any cognitive overhead.
OT: sqlx tip: you can compile without a DB connection by either using the non-macro version of the queries (at the cost of losing compile time query checking) or you "bake" the query checks using sqlx-cli which produces files that you can check into your repo and allow the macros to compile offline. In that case you only need to re-connect to the DB when the SQL queries change.
> This is really dumb on multiple levels

This guy is dumb, really dumb, on multiple levels.
None of your bank balances are 100% backed.
In Vitro Gametogenesis has been improving lately. 20 years from now, making an egg from a stem cell harvested from a male might be possible.
> […] I really think people should ignore bench scores and run the processes they need themselves. See what it feels like, and how comfortable you are with that.

And how do people without disposable income judge?
They did. Except for DAO and NFT which you're expected to be familiar with since you're reading an article on cryptocurrencies.
You can host your own web-based resource and use that.
The ironic thing is, those sites you block have most likely cloned your github page and published blocklists for themselves on their own site.
In Iceland we already have digital identity from a centralised authority. I log into my bank, health service, sign papers (including loans) and so on with a government managed digital ID. So this isn’t even something that needs invention let alone by web3.
One of my fav books about Computer Science, I always recommand it for begginers!
I'm very interested that you can open Intellij code. Do you have example code from your GIF you could link?

Is Intellij opened with the type url or a script?

Can't wait to use this! Thanks
Shouldn't it be MAANG now?
I think the link you shared is about a potentially separate issue.

First, it's advertising in the form of paid sponsorship. Second, people have reasons to trust what a social influencer says.

I'm doing neither if I have a business or work in a business and I share here an article that I wrote that happens to promote this business.

I'm not paying a stranger to talk about the business, and you don't have any reason to trust what I say without the usual judgement you'd employ towards a stranger.
Correct, different countries have different laws in this area, but many/most have some sort of provision about what can and can't be marketed to the public as an investment, and how that marketing looks.
Knowledge goes a long way though: i.e. knowing the 3-plate method for producing perfectly flat surfaces (most easily done with cast iron) gets you bootstrapped on making accurate tools, as does knowledge of how to build a lathe and what processes it is capable of.

All of which benefits from any type of work producing engine, since the core leap you need to make is to get away from being solely dependent on human labour as a power source.
It's 100% regulatory framework. It's effectively illegal in Canada to offer fixed-rate mortgages with terms of over 5 years.
Everything. They couldn't for the life of them work out how to follow procedure so they got crucified by the NZ courts.

If they had just done shit by the book they would have had him on US soil with no problems at all.

FWIW I don't agree that he -should- be able to be extradited. Just stating the fact that if the US had just not screwed the pooch they would have been successful in doing so.
Your liberty to extend your mind ends where my dignity begins.
To sum up, in its 2020/2021 financial year (running from July 2020 to June 2021, Wikimedia took about US$ 90 million more than it spent.

Its net assets increased by $51 million: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

Its Endowment increased by about $40 million.

June 2020 status of the Endowment was $62.9 million:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endow...

June 2021 status of the Endowment was over $100 million ("The Endowment reached our initial $100 million goal in June 2021"):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endow...

There has been no update on the status of the Endowment since then.

The Meta-Wiki fundraising talk page shown in the video is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/Archive_6
I would argue Bavarians are as much outliers as Berliners and the real typical German must be from some town in North Rhine Westphalia given it contains a third of the population
It’s not making fun of it, it’s using it exactly as it exists.

“Bernie Madoff with my money”.
In practise, people aren't going to try and withdraw 100% of the coins to USD. As another commenter pointed out, we would have the same problem in banks if everyone came to withdraw all of their money at the same time. It's probably not as risky as Terra. I agree that we should wait for auditing though.
> Wouldn’t this qualify under the dormant clause if it protected firms in Washington state by making it uneconomical for recruiting firms from elsewhere in the country to enter the Washington labour market?

The upthread claim is that it globally binds Washington entities, not that it globally binds foreign entities doing business in Washington. If it did the latter, and the practical impact was as described, it might be considered an undue burden. It might not. Its a lot easier to find cases finding substantial but non-discriminatory burdens on interstate commerce not to be violations of than to find ones holding them in violation of the dormant commerce clause, and this clearly isn't a discriminatory burden in the sense that it would place restrictions on out-of-state actors that are not placed on Washington-based actors.

> This would kind of be like the Exxon case, but if Maryland had tried to prevent Exxon from having gas stations ANYWHERE in the US if they started doing business in Maryland.

I think that’s a wildly invalid analogy, and, in any case, what you want in an analogy to make your case is an analogy to a case where the courts found a dormant commerce clause violation, not a analogy to a hypothetical variant of one where they did not where you conjecture that they might have ruled differently.
Security agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars per year in its efforts to undermine internet encryption standards and implementations. One well-known case is Dual_EC_DRBG, in which the NSA backdoored a NIST encryption standard and bribed companies to implement it in widely used products.

All of this is well documented by numerous major news outlets, especially since 2013. I wonder if people screaming "conspiracies!" are doing so in good faith.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encry...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-interne...

[3]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/juniper-breach-mystery-starts...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
I don't think it's racist at all, that word gets overused so much that I can understand the reaction to the question.

That out of the way, I generally agree that it's poor taste. I was taught not to poke fun at things people didn't choose and can't change - their smile, laugh, handicaps, color, name, etc. Low hanging fruit, and potentially really devastating to people.
If you can find a long-term, fixed-price lease, sure.

There are reasons to buy besides price appreciation.
The assholery part here is not about who keeps the change. It’s about telling a gas station boy “that’s how you got rich”. What makes you rich is first of all being born rich, which most rich people tend to ignore. On the few cases were we are really talking about people with humble beginnings, it’s all about making your time count. If the guy was really rich, the time it would take the boy to get inside, take 2 dollars from the cash register and give them to him was just not worth it. It was all self aggrandising bravado.
I watched a documentary about them ages ago where the demonstrated how rogue waves can form by natural processes as different directional (terminology most likely wrong) waves cross each other. Wish I could remember enough about it to post a link.
Variable Rate Gas Taxes
The macro/microscope ability is present on the M1 iPad Pro's rear camera + manual focus from Halide.
There's a view state actions are amoral: neither moral nor immoral, they simply are what they are. I think it's invidious and I also think the current UK government is happy to disregard any long term consequences to operating in bad faith, quite transparently. They simply do not care. Red is blue, good is bad, up is down. No matter what was said yesterday, now is different. It's naked self interest in the short term.

No other state actor will believe a single word of any binding treaty with the UK unless there are penalty clauses, or a huge relative advantage to the other party.

To me, the exemplar is Jacob Rees-Mogg. Simultaneously demanding brexit, stating it advantaged the UK and advising his investment fund partners to hedge upsides predicated on failure. And, demanding a prime minister resign for lack of support (Theresa May) yet insisting Boris Johnson remain, having less.

He simply doesn't care.
> if you get caught you will be fired

I dare him to do it, no I double dare him to do it.

But I bet all the tea in china he wont do it.
To avoid the jurisdiction of the SEC.
So useless against an autonomous drone?
There's a specified Java memory model (JMM) and in the case the programmer shooting themself in the foot with concurrency by eg buggy synchronization, it provides just enough guarantees to protect the integrity of the state of the runtime itself.

(I didn't find this integirty of runtime specified in the JMM spec, hopefully it's in the other specs).

In the JMM terminology, the "you're in the clear" term is "well-formed execution". If you break the rules, you're not in "well-formed execution" land any more, and things may fly out of your orifices, but a specific type of C/C++ style dragon won't maybe fly out of your nose.

So there's a weak kind of memory safety, your app data in may still be garbled, possibly in an attacker-controlled way, but the attacker probably won't get remote code execution.
But that's the unspoken assumption I'm talking about - that blockchain and decentralized banking are one and the same / that this is the only design use case for the technology. There are many people actively working in block chain space who do not believe these are identical concepts. They may yet win out long term.
You’re really getting hung up on the “car” part of it and not the “constituent parts”. This book would have everything required to build a bicycle.