skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like you are both arguing the same point, but from a different perspective.

Ultimately people go to prison for different reasons, and so generalising as "ex felon" can cloud the issue.

If you see prisons as being full of child molesters, murderers and rapists, then that naturally leads to some conclusions.

If you see prisons as overflowing with the results of the "war on drugs" then there are possibly different conclusions. Are these people criminals" or POWs?

Ultimately every case is different and has its own merits. A teenager can be convicted of no more than possesing some weed. Or shooting up a school. Clearly there could be easier moral paths to reintegration for one than the other.

Even "sex crimes" happen on a scale. 2 consenting 17 year olds, having sex in an inappropriate place, or sexting each other nudes, leads to the same "status" as afore-mentioned rapists. (obviously sentence is different but they'll forever be on a sex offence registry.)

So talking in sweeping terms about inmate populations and reforms, can be counter productive. It may be more helpful to discuss narrower groups, and the nature of the crimes that got them there.
When there are fewer goods circulating because of a negative supply shock, prices rise and you get inflation. The natural response for a central bank might be to reduce spending levels, so less money circulates and then inflation subsides. But that's usually bad (or at least very unpopular), because it compounds scarcity with scarcity and makes everybody worse off.

Generally, non-monetary inflation/deflation is outside of a central bank's control and other policy levers should get pulled (e.g. Congress releasing stockpiles of material, for example).
This is the part that interests me the most. In a way, its a thousand times worse now. In a practical sense, if the story was told today the story would suggest that any agent would get this information just by asking ISP, banks and maybe Amazon for your history with them. We don't just know that you drink tea. We can predict your daughter is pregnant and know wife is cheating on you. Full blown surveillance requires little to no effort. The amount of mind games you can play with that treasure trove is why you hear concerns IC about people 'going dark'.

I suppose to me how the information is obtained is secondary. The fact that it is obtained at all is an issue. We are only recently becoming better at analytics and seeing patterns that would be considered a little creepy only few decades ago. It is normalized now.

To your point that in the story, the trivia is truly irrelevant. By itself it means nothing. State knows I drink tea. Big whoop. Tons of people these days voluntarily show off eating pastas of all kinds. It is just serves as a way overwhelm the target with a feeling of helplessness ("They know everything"), abandonment("Someone close gave them information"),hopelessness("What is the point?").

So the trivia is not threatening by itself. It is the implication that the agent knows you very well indeed and that knowledge includes trivia.

Now imagine a person visiting you with a short listing of your detailed interests, search history, suspected health issues and inferred psychological profile.

It is a lot less subtle, but it conveys same message ( I know you better than your family, doctor, bookie.. ).

Sorry for the long response, but I just wanted to make sure it is clear that trivia is just a small part of it. As Dennis Reynolds would have said: It is the implication.
Launching a network of tiny spacecraft at radio distance could create direct communication with Earth.
it's very similar. they built this directly into the Merlin app. other diff is birdnet coudlnt detect birds in realtime where as Merlin can.
I’m saying we focus on populations because of a common theme but some problems transcend those categorical boundaries.
Don’t see it in legal field or software engineering.
If you wait by the eBay river long enough, it too will come floating by.
From the video description:

> The 110GHz 4-channel variant of the UXR-Series oscilloscope has an MSRP of $1.3 Million US dollars.
I mean, yes. Keysight's test equipment skews towards the high end in general, and this is their absolute top-of-the-line oscilloscope -- it is quite likely the highest performance oscilloscope available on the market. It costs around $1.3M before you start configuring options.

This isn't a general-purpose instrument. It's intended for engineers debugging systems which use extremely high-speed signalling. Even in a commercial environment, hardware like this would be unusual, and very few people would have access to it.
> Python and SQL and feel like I can use it to solve mostly all problems

This is a weak position in terms of your market value. Obviously python is far from being the best option for many domains outside ML or simple web monoliths. Just like any tech has its applicability areas.

I personally would not consider any developer really “senior” until he got commercial experience with both statically typed and dynamic languages.

It’s not about the typing discipline per se, but rather about whether a developer was exposed to different kinds/levels of challenges (like system programming in java vs building microservices with nodejs).
On a sunny day, why are the contents of my trunk cooler than the interior of my car?
Aw, shucks. Y’all are very kind.

This was also a pivotal moment in my career, so much good stuff traces back to this five minute demo.
And, steam turbines cost more to keep working than CC turbines. But both are very mature, meaning costs won't change.
It’s not a meaningless question though. A binary tree is a simple and very common data structure.

Data structures are important for advanced front development, you need to know which one to use for a given problem.

Of course it’s possible to learn them and not knowing about them at a given time is not a red flag to me, but I guess a large company has so many candidates that they don’t have to risk hiring someone that somehow doesn’t know about them.
Many people reading self help books would prefer a good mentor. Books are easier to find.
I'm still waiting for the day some weird niche, Rohde & Schwarz equipment I saw once and thought "that'd be cool to have" pops up on ebay.

Unfortunately their stuff in ebay is still pretty expensive secondhand, unless it's something hardly anyone except hardcore hobbyists would want, like television demodulators.

I do have some old Keysight stuff (well, most of it is HP and Agilent which ofc birthed Keysight) most of it was still several hundred dollars a price, mostly mid-80s-90s telecom equipment.
> if, as a side effect, it materially increases the number of people who are really able to choose what they do with their lives, and gives them more time to do it, it will be progress.

At the expense of what?

Somebody has to produce all of the things people need and want. Universal basic income holds out the illusory promise of being able to have things you need and want without paying any cost to have them produced--because you aren't paying any cost (in time and effort) to get the income. That's not progress.

Real progress would be improving technology to make the things people need and want cheaper. Imagine if food were as cheap and plentiful as air. Imagine if modern construction methods made it 10 times as easy to build a house as it is now. Imagine if cars could be cranked out on 3D printers. And so on.

But that kind of progress never happens from the top down. It always happens from the bottom up. No top-down program, whether it's UBI or anything else, will help with that kind of progress. It takes actual people doing actual work.
You don't need to be into electronics to appreciate the beauty of such high-end devices.
Overall the teardown videos of this Youtube channel are amazing.
It’s the opposite of “Congress”
> Whereas the method I outline involves no restrictions, no overheads, and will handle 8-way scrolling — with full colour map. And it works 100%, and has been used in multiple published projects. It's not theoretical.

yes, it was wonderful enough to give the reader a clue how one would go about squeezing more and more performance out of that good old box. Nothing comes for free of course but there are pretty much infinite interesting trade offs to be had that usually exponentially blow up the complexity.

I mean you started out with a pretty easy to understand bit of memory transfer.

If the goal is to update "every visible char onscreen in scrolling area" it seems pretty much the final solution, nothing better is to be had.

Rephrasing the goal into "every changed char" is simply a different perspective. Most likely less productive but one could explore it as it would be faster if we restrict the freedom of graphics a bit.

Say you have a space ship <ooo> moving left to right by at most a single char. You have to set the chars that make up the ship and you have to insert a space next to it or it would turn into <<<<ooo> or <ooo>>>> There is no need to fill the entire line with spaces.

> perhaps you're speaking about some trick used in demos/intros, in which fancy techniques often wouldn't generalize out into a full game.

I never wrote games, I just tinker and rewrite bits of my demos producing inferior results 99 our of 100 times.

How many chars are we updating really if we change

_ _<ooo>_ _
1234567890A

into

_ <ooo> _ _
1234567890A

I think 3,4,7,8 but not 1,2,5,6,8,9,0,A ?

That was the train of thought in those days at least for me :)
What’s the argument for this? Do you think rates would drop again within 3-5 years?
Did Apple have that kind of data when they launched the iPhone?

Your design sensibilities are somehow inverted.
> realistic

A term people use to justify pessimism, as if that represents reality better than other options such as optimism.
Confused, why are generational references being compared with reference counting? One is intended for shared ownership, the other is intended for memory safety. They seem completely orthogonal/unrelated to each other; they look like complements rather than competitors.

I'd also be interested in knowing whether they compared against a single-threaded reference counter or a multi-threaded reference counter. The atomics in a thread-safe RC severely impact performance; I hope they didn't compare that against GR.
> ‘They’ is universally recognised as a third-person plural pronoun…

The "singular they" has been in use since the 1300s.

https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
Just found a new google killer please and tell this story in the interviews.

(it’s sarcasm people, why downvoting?)
If you get the opportunity, there is a Bartholdi museum in a small town on the French German border called Colmar that was originally his home. It’s interesting the evolution of the artist over the decades leading up to the Statue of Liberty
Studies say 20-70% for different measures.
Sucks we never got to see the copper version. I assume they knew it was eventually going to turn green?
I'd have expected the death rate to increase as the height increased. Any idea what's behind the seemingly random distribution?
> … "then simply fire everyone from the top down."

I feel that this is how politicians who have abdicated their duties / responsibilities (nearly every single one of them, sadly) should be handled as well.
No coverage of Mainland China is a HUGE bummer for me.
Interestingly the article misses the comparison with Go, which quite similar to it, and in fact I'd argue - easy, fast, safe.
How does lending and borrowing between these Crypto funds happen? Do they borrow in real (fiat) money or do they lend and borrow the Internet magic money
under various names? So Celsius which works pretty much like a bank, collects BTC from retail investors who deposit their coins for 10% returns. Then Celsius lends say 10000 BTC to 3AC. Is that how it works? And why is it an issue if the value of that coin drops in USD terms? After all 1 BTC = 1 BTC right?
My understanding on the crypto market drivers here is:

1. It’s 100% a “gamble” totally driven by momentum in almost all these coin cases (the value is convincing someone else there is value). All self-aware crypto investors know this.

2. When the monetary value is convincing others there is monetary value, no one holding bags will call it a gamble. They’ll call it an investment, a hedge, the arguments change, “diamond hands, everyone hold together” is the rallying cry because the only monetary value is convincing others to believe the value. GME is a similar scenario ie overvalued based on its fundamentals and the spread with its book value and price is purely “convincing others to hold and push it up”.

It’s iterations of Ponzi schemes all the way down.

I still own crypto (I’m betting the Ponzi scheme keeps rolling and I want the upside of that too)
Mass Loaded Vinyl Soundproofing
I set it to 0 for the entire run and got the same as you.
I follow your argument but I would argue that incentives to hoard money aren't necessarily bad. I agree with you that hoarding money leads to a reduced money supply, but I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

For example: the GFC. Central banks bail out bad actors which perpetuates the incentives that caused these actors to make bad decisions in the first place ("bad" meaning not optimal globally, e.g. selling bonds you know are worthless). If a gold standard was in use, this would simply be impossible. The government would need to increase taxes to bail out the banks, which would be rejected by citizens who are busy hoarding gold and cursing the banks, which means the banks that replaced the bad actors would be incentivized to avoid the mistakes their predecessors made. Alternatively, the GFC may simply not have occurred, because under a gold-standard the banks cannot assume they would be bailed out and this knowledge would cause them to be more risk-averse. "Every Battle Is Won Before It Is Ever Fought"

The use of fiat currency provides control over the economy, but we shouldn't assume that that control is always used in the best interests of the many. The reason a gold standard is so popular among libertarians is that no institution can have arbitrary monetary control over individuals via printing money.
Android is Linux to about the same degree that Chrome is Windows.
Denial works too, I guess.
". This is called mass domestic warrantless surveillance and it is illegal under any reasonable interpretation of the US constitution, and certainly shouldn't be allowed by private parties either."

I don't think this is correct. Google etc are private actors so no state action, no constitutional violation plus they get your legal consent whether you like the way they do it or not. Government agencies if they get the info must get a warrant or have exception or info's use is barred from court and can't be used against you. So why the claim it is illegal mass domestic surveillance? Hyperbole. Mass surveillance that IS used against citizens all the time is China in WeChat, mass camera use, etc. where there are no constitutional or other protections.
> The PIA requires governmental bodies to treat all requests equally. The Act grants the following rights to requesters:

> Prompt access to non-confidential or otherwise protected information

Yes... Prompt I'm sure.
Why are illegal drugs illegal when they would be much safer if legal?

Because someone makes a lot of money when they are illegal.

Same goes for the legal drugs. Someone makes a lot of money when they are legal.

This balance is key to solving many of our societal problems, but we tend to completely black-and-white ignore it.
Specialty mice aren’t quite as image-focused as social media, but it does give Mastodon’s “toot” a run for its money. There’s also a fine line between not being marketing-focused and deliberately sneering at the sensibilities of folks who culturally associate less with FOSS culture. Some day he might admit to himself that clinging to his juvenile sense of humor kept his product out of people’s hands and cash out of his pocket. The number of upvotes this product gets on HN indicates he should be selling a ton of them but I’ve only seen one or two comments from owners.
> Personally, I think the more insidious problem is translation between languages.

Anyone who has multiple common languages with a friend knows this well. It’s quite common to drop a word from a different language into the middle of a sentence even when the sentence’s language has a word for it, just because there can be meaningful nuance or partition that the speaker wants to convey.

Strangely, doctrine in the US seems to be that one shouldn’t mix languages in a sentence when speaking to children. Somehow it will confuse them. Yet I’ve never seen anyone manage that in a polyglot household with kids.
Does it have a Taylor Rule? And a Reverse Taylor Rule?
I really tried to develop several cross platform GUI apps in Go, using various frameworks. The result was far from satisfactory. My advice: don’t bother, just use Qt. Or Electron if you can stand the resource usage. Or maybe Flutter, I have no experience with that; maybe I should give it a try.
That's pretty funny, and is literally what I did with a CLI tool I made once. It was supposed to loop through something that was over 10,000 entries long. It finished in under a second.

I decided to add a small fraction of a second every X iterations and output some garbled data to the terminal. I got paid a nice little sum because of that. Sometimes, knowing how to make something look complicated is as important as doing something complicated.
The original comment was asking if the current legal status is that nobody is allowed to use ante without acquiring a licence separately (which is true) not whether the author's intention is that nobody use ante (which we don't know, but it seems unlikely.)
> Seeking treatment for depression or generalized anxiety is more similar to seeing a doctor for some poorly understood malady like ME/CFS or IBS. No one really understands what's going on or why

You're not wrong, but we gotta start somewhere.
Yeah goroutines is what i meant by better async. I've used the clojure async stuff a fair bit which was heavily inspired by goroutines and it is quite nice.
Nothing. Some amount of money can go back and forth many times to facilitate trade volume much, much larger than the underlying stock. To make Bitcoin-based financial system liquid, they need some BTC stock to facilitate payments. If it goes up, down, or sideways it doesn't change all that much.

El Salvador has a tiny amount of Bitcoin in the grand scheme of things, while it still brings savings and other benefits for its people (remittances, payments, tourism, banking for unbanked, etc.)

Sure, BTC/USD rate went down, but what didn't? Even major currencies lost double digits % in relation to USD. Same did you purchasing power of your USD in the US itself, due to internal vs external USD dynamics.

I bet you won't see articles about this subject when FED inevitably has to reverse due to deflationary spiral killing the economy which will cause BTC to go up like a rocket, without all that shitcoin ponzi baggage that is going in flames.

Nayib Bukele has almost 90% approval rate (40%). Compare with current POTUS. These articles trying to portrait what he is doing as a failure are really laughable hit pieces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_Nayib_B...
I see RC and GR as two methods of ensuring memory safety: one that extends the life of an object, and one that asserts the object is still alive. They both protect us from vulnerabilities and UB, but with different approaches.

Yep, it was compared to single-threaded RC for fairness.
This article is proof that non-leftists are firing people. If the goal is to stop people being fired for speech, then we shouldn't be focusing purely on leftists, but on all sides.
Yep. People have been making copper statues for 5000+ years so that particular thing's been figured out for a while.
Off-topic: Playing a simulation game like RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 as a kid, I feel in hindsight may have had given me a world-view improvement which story books and other passive learning may have not filled in.

Nowadays, there seem to be quite a few kid EdTech startups/solutions which use gaming. This seems relevant, as the interactivity (from the simulations' simulated actions) helps it seems.
> And yes, my Amazon account is indeed pseudonymous and has no connection to my name or physical address. That has always been the case.

How did you manage that? Credit cards, shipping addresses?
Do you know of any examples of countries that had a well functioning job guarantee policy?
Benoit, thank you for this!

"What has government done to our money" is a nice read to understand money, inflation, central banks, exchange rates between currencies, etc.

https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money

It opens with describing what money is from the first principles.
pretty big stretch to give that much credit to Mike G given what's known about history of spacex
Nitpick: I think the trick(s) also depend on XOR being associative.

Are there any more complex applications of this, especially if you generalize it to any operator that obeys the necessary properties? I'm curious if there's any sort of interesting data structures you can build, probably building on commutative monoids where x `mappend` x == mempty for all x (the generalization of x^x == 0).
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Wouldn't be the first time...
Memory write errors (some times induced by UB) in one place of the program can easily propagate and later fail in a very different location of the program, with absolutely zero diagnostics of why your variable suddenly had a value out of possible range.

This is why valgrind, asan and friends exist. They move the error diagnostic to the place where error actually happened.
A null value in Java has no methods / is not an object. I didn’t precompute anything.
Entirely joking about being offended, that work was a long time ago. I think it was an interesting exploration but we were not able to get compelling results, I think mostly because we did not at that time have affine types (move semantics). Thus if you put something into a container in one place and took it out in another, it would have to infer the region that spans both, which might as well be the whole program in most cases.

These days I program in Rust and find Rust's approach to explicit regions to be a workable compromise, though reference-heavy types can get pretty ugly and hard to work with (and I'm pretty sure that variance of lifetimes is confusing to everybody who isn't a PLT theorist and some who are).

The approach I personally find most interesting is the Lobster language. There (and I'm probably oversimplifying) the semantics are reference counting, but you so analysis to remove a huge fraction of RC operations. I believe the Perceus work is similar.

I'm happy to chat anytime. Recent work has been using somewhat exotic types provided by Rust (associated types, existentials, lots of inference through product types) to represent UI. So far I've basically been using what Rust gives me, but it's interesting to imagine what changes to the language/type system might buy you. For example, there are a few places in the code where there are downcasts, but I suspect that with a sufficiently strong type system you could prove those downcasts are infallible.
> Freedom of speech does not mean being free of consequences

I understand the point, but I hate this saying. After all, what more is the government throwing you in jail for speech than a “consequence”?

The spirit of “free speech” does not give you a free pass to impose draconian “consequences” in response to speech you don’t like.
When you watch an expert vim user, first it seems like nothing happens, then _everything_ happens.