skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the conventional financial system, the public sees a slice of that reward through taxation. The same is not true of cryptocurrency, so why use everyone else's tax dollars to regulate it?

You should maybe run that past a tax attorney just to make sure. I'm in the US, where capital gains from cryptocurrency are taxed just like capital gains from stocks, but of course this may not be true in your jurisdiction.

> The only reason authorities like the SEC exist is to reduce risk, thus increasing the amount that ordinary people can safely invest. It's not a matter of ethics, it's a matter of economics.

I don't think that's correct, but if it is, yeesh! What a bleak hellscape we live in, where the only reason to add safety to anything is to prevent the plebs from getting too scared to spend money.

I take it from your responses that you're one of the "hardcore believers in the 'code is law' dark forest" mentioned in an earlier comment, so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Newly documented population of polar bears in Southeast Greenland
> more efficient -- no need to bill for every item

And probably not just with time efficiency. The dining hall has economies of scale compared to putting a kitchenette in every dorm room/suite.

It's almost definitely more space efficient. It's probably also more energy efficient.
What's also alarming is that a bunch of plastic is now clearly labeled 'BPA Free', and people think "problem solved", while quite a few studies show that these BPA free plastics have other, just as toxic, endocrine disruptors.

Some time ago I got curious about Nalgene's new BPA free plastic called Tritan. Some of the stuff I read wasn't too reassuring:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/tritan-certi...
One can be lecherous from the age of 15 onward and never actually get to know any women, so the two aren't mutually exclusive (actually, the first might contribute to the problem of the second.)

Oh, I know all too well of his numerous sexual assaults. When it gets to the stage that Harlan Ellison makes it a point to get between him and women as they're going up a set of stairs...yeah not great, not great at all. I don't want to downplay it in the least.
FastAPI is great building block but can't expect it to work for model serving out of box.
they might assume that the account holder are a likely perpetrator, which might be true but also enables their intermediation of the context and control of the sequence of communication.
>You're taking one person's experience, who has mild medical

"You" being the parent OPs who I responded to who introduced the nation of $1000, which happens to be above the median for my state and most states shown in the article? Remember I'm RESPONDING to the $1000 comment, not introducing the figure. But maybe they said something about the $1000 you agreed about, so you went with the disingenuous approach of only impugning someone commenting on it and in bad faith accusing THAT person of introducing the figure.

The MAJORITY in my state and most states have less than $1000 in medical debt. Millions. This isn't some edge case. $1000 "exemplifies" the median medical debt in most states, according to the article.

>sounds like you could stand to be humbled by some

Yeah a subtle suggestion I ought to experience medical problems. Keep it classy. "Frankly, that's disgusting."

>Think of bigger medical expenses over the same period -- 10k. That's 20/day. 100k -- 200/day. Now add ACA monthly costs (300-400/mo). Then rent, then food. Etc etc.

Yes I thought about it, and then decided my $2/day figure still holds as a possible approach for paying off median medical debt. Thanks for the thought exercise!
Big announcements soon.

We're delayed by the chip shortage and are expecting 34 huge servers to land around ~mid-July but they've been delayed since April. Right now we've only got 1/3 of our capacity available which isn't a whole lot.
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Glad it's not just me! This has been bugging me for quite a while
I am. That's why these messages are posted :)

It's important to not stay silent thinking conflict is pointless because it means that tolerance to things you consider harmful only invites more of that in the future.

Naturally, pick your battles and all, but voicing your opinion encourages other people agreeing with you to do the same. And, in the end, you are no longer alone in your protest.
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I've been lightly banging the drum the last few years that a lot of programmers don't seem to understand how fast computers are, and often ship code that is just miserably slower than it needs to be, like the code in this article, because they simply don't realize that their code ought to be much, much faster. There's still a lot of very early-2000s ideas of how fast computers are floating around. I've wondered how much of it is the still-extensive use of dynamic scripting languages and programmers not understanding just how much performance you can throw away how quickly with those things. It isn't even just the slowdown you get just from using one at all; it's really easy to pile on several layers of indirection without really noticing it. And in the end, the code seems to run "fast enough" and nobody involved really notices that what is running in 750ms really ought to run in something more like 200us.

I have a hard time using (pure) Python anymore for any task that speed is even remotely a consideration for anymore. Not only is it slow even at the best of times, but so many of its features beg you to slow down even more without thinking about it.
Yea, only time will tell, but one thing that I love about Elixir is it community, that try to support and improve the "big projects" instead of remaking, eg:

- Phoenix for web dev

- Nerves for IoT / Embedded systems

- Membrane for multimedia / streaming

Hopefully Nx and Axon will be in this list soon :)
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Every person is just a mouse in a maze these days - we're all subject to a constant barrage of subliminal A/B testing to "nudge" us in whatever direction some technocrat has decided this week. I suppose being left to our own devices is out of the question?
Ask HN: Are Microprocessors Copied from Nature?
As we are advancing to a much more smaller and powerful microchips, this got me wondering, did we biomimic microchips?
The manga version is very helpful for those who just want to quickly grab the story.
Fascinating. Have you written about your experience there?
Ask HN: How to make a photogenic server room
We are opening a new office and will have our network / server gear in a room with a large window facing a customer reception area. We’re told it’d be nice if the racks looked nice through the glass. Does anyone sell…decorative server equipment? Something useless with a bunch of blinky lights? This is one of the stranger requests we’ve dealt with.
I can't believe Facebook's "Marketplace" search beat out literally anything. It is easily the worst search experience I've ever had.
Hmm, interesting that single threaded C++ is 25% of Python exec time. It feels like C++ implementation might have area for improvement.

My usual 1-to-1 translations result in C++ being 1-5% of Python exec time, even on combinatorial stuff.
Do you have any data on that? We know that they pay more for school, but that doesn't mean they make more
Advert disguised as experience report.
I would assume the lawyers have to get involved first to write up some document proving that github is not liable for what users do with their app tokens. CYA, then tell the public
This existed, it was called XUL, and it was glorious

If there is one tech that we need to bring back from the dead, it is XUL

(XUL is the GUI toolkit powering Firefox, or at least was until they ripped almost all of it out and replaced it with "modern" (gag) HTML+CSS UI)
> In the USA, he or his family would likely have demanded aggressive surgery and/or chemo or radiation

In the US, if you can't afford it, medical care basically isn't even an option. If you have a lot of money, then you're set. In Europe if you don't have much money, you at least have some options, and if you have a lot of money, you can still go to the US. Or if you're open to $100k's of debt, you could've easily gone to the US for treatment, too. Your scenario just proves my point that the situation is way better in europe
"It's fast so long as you don't use any of the many parts that aren't fast!"

This isn't great.
That is a great term, has a nice ring to it. Also, highly ponziable to make it into a cryptocurrency token.
>> The big question is whether or not redbean should be multitenant with languages, or if we should ship separate binaries where you choose the redbean "flavor" that has your preferred one. I'm leaning towards the latter, since there can only be one REPL language. What do you think?

Different flavors of redbean would be awesome!

Thank you for building redbean.
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I literally linked those two polls just yesterday, hah [0]. Did you see my comment, or did you just happen to do a similar search and get those results?

As I mention in my other comment, I speculate the possibility that people think "Single payer" and "Medicare For All" are different things [1] and so report a different opinion on each, similar to how the ACA was viewed MUCH more favorably than ObamaCare despite one being the nickname for the other.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755822

[1] ACKSHUALLY, single-payer doesn't HAVE to be simply expanding Medicare to everyone. It could be done in some other way, but the core idea of the government paying for everyone's healthcare is still the same.
> isn't going away any time soon.

Funny you think that. That's one of the major complaints about .NET 5+ is that WCF was dropped as an officially supported library and .NET is pushing people to REST and/or gRPC. (I think gRPC will suffer many of the same SOAP problems eventually, but it's the current hotness, thanks Google.) Every .NET HN article is full of complaints that WCF is dead and they have SOAP services to maintain and .NET is telling them to go away and do something new. There's a community project named CoreWCF trying to make the transition easier and even they are not trying to implement all of WS-* and SOAP madness and trying to make the transitions easier to REST or gRPC if you like that Google-branded SOAP smell better.

In .NET 5+ SOAP is already dead and good riddance. It's probably going to live forever on .NET Framework 4.x servers for legacy apps, but the message seems to be loud enough: "those are legacy apps now".
Yes. Apparently they have used Python lists to beat highly optimized library which builds upon numpy, in C. Yeah right.

Note that I'm not saying that their second version of the code wasn't faster, just that this has nothing to do with python vs. pandas.
It's a running annoyance of Windows that they are always making small changes to the UI that don't really come across as an improvement or a deterioration but that force you to relearn things.

It really drove me crazy when I went from being a linux partisan for being responsible for quite a few different Windows machines and on a given day I could be working with anything from Win 98 to Win ME to Win NT to various editions of Win 2000 and XP and if you had to find something in the UI it would be slightly different in all of those which was a cognitive load. Contrast to to Linux where I did it all on the command line and it stayed the same in that time frame.
Python allows one to save development time in exchange for execution time
It is still outrageous because those two big ones make a huge economy of scale. They did not develop a payment method for a single app but for millions.
All benchmarks are always useless, in 90% of the cases. They could maybe give some baseline understanding, but it's important to always do your own benchmarks as your performance can be very different than what the benchmark showed, simply because the data/data structures are slightly different.

Do your own benchmarks people!
Yup. We have gotten into the habit of leaving a lot of potential performance on the floor in the interest of productivity/accessibility. What always amazes me is when I have to work with a person who only speaks Python or only speaks JS and is completely unaware of the actual performance potential of a system. I think a lot of people just accept the performance they get as normal even if they are doing things that take 1000x (or worse) the time and/or space than it could (even without heroic work).
It seems like semantics, but it's public corporate entities that are amoral and not all companies. There is a designation of a "Public Benefit Corporation" which has more restrictions and audits as well as a different mission statement.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/public_benefit_corporation
Strcat has a long history of these disputes. Most recently he requested the AOSP Alliance also stop using "his" code.

https://github.com/AOSPAlliance/android-prepare-vendor/issue...
If you had the action replay cart, you could just leave it in and it would bypass the check altogether. I played burnt discs aplenty on my Saturn.
It prevented me from launching, switching or killing any apps or rebooting the phone. The phone was entirely unusable until I figured out how to reboot. That's more than visual. My impression is that is was memory only, but it was extremely suspicious. It’s quite possible that data was exfiltrated.
I sincerely hope ”almost anyone” doesn’t include the vast number of people with a mental disability that severely affects executive function.

About 2.8% of the US population has a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. (In a wider study including other countries, the average is 2.4%) I have no reason to doubt this because I have far too many people I knew before my diagnosis who have since told me they have an extended family member who are bipolar. And not the “oh they have a diagnosis” kind, but people who destroy their own lives and those of the people around them. I was shocked how common it is.

And this is just bipolar. There are many other mental and physical problems that affect the ability to have discipline if they just worked on it.

Edit: I should state I definitely believe focus and attention is a skill, but you can’t effectively use a skill when your tools are broken. Good luck racing a car that’s disassembled in the garage.
Legalize building apartments above them, and I'll warm to the strip mall.
indyhackers.org has a calendar with most of the tech meetups in Indy. The tech meetup scene hasn't yet fully recovered to it's pre-pandemic levels, but it's improving. I've been thinking about starting a general Indy Tech meetup for people in the tech community to socialize and meet. Today, most of the meetups I go to are non-technical, like those organized by the Indy Social discord:

https://www.indianapolissocial.com

Are you based in the midwest, too?
> "...the truth is the other person left because you and the discussion in general wasn't worth their time. And they don't need your validation. They find fulfillment in the stuff they do outside of the internet."

yup. i almost never go back and forth more than a couple times with anyone here, because it's most common that the other person is bullshitting, and i don't really need or want that. if i argue a point, i want the other person to bring something new to the table that i didn't know before, not rehash tired old platitudes.

relatedly, experts don't need to claim for themselves the term "expert", and folks who start conversations with their credentials have already "lost" the discussion, so to speak. if your arguments can't stand on their own merits, proffering a credential won't help.
Take that concept a bit further and you’ve basically gone down the same path as Flutter.
Python hasn't saved me development time since distutils was the right and only way to build things.
A house is an asset, building more houses drops the value of existing houses but it doesn't destroy your house. The money supply also stays the same. It only goes up when you borrow money to buy or build a house and goes down as you pay off the mortgage.
Oooo! Would love to read that. Do you have a link?

BELAY THAT: I can google. Found it. Thanks!
Yeah. Basically, imagine a world in which every single player of Final Fantasy X had a full DM behind them. Even if we stipulate the entire world prepped as a playground beforehand, who knows what you'd get up to in such a scenario? Who knows how radically divergent all our experiences would have been?

Such a thing is simply impossible today, and for the forseeable future. The closest you can get is AI dungeon, and IMHO and with all due respect to the creators, that's little more than a glimpse at the possible future, it is as far away from this reality as Pong is from FFX.
Point out a major language that doesn't have a graveyard of PR's with similar stories.
bad title, not like ngrok, this is just for webhooks... so http

ngrok does http and tcp
The World Is Constantly Running Out of Helium. Here's Why It Matters
If you're pretty ignorant of the topic, then why do you know about the fact that "All Lives Matter" phrase only rose to prominence after "Black Lives Matter" movement in the US?

This is a pointed question led with dishonesty. It's important to ask oneself what was the motivation behind trying to manipulate other readers' perception instead of just dropping the "I'm pretty ignorant of this, but..." part in the first place.
Deutsche Telekom’s OTC.
It's hard to evaluate this article without seeing the detail of the "algorithm_wizardry", there's no detail here just where it would be interesting.
I like it! I've definitely found myself doing this while manually breaking lines in code comments
Other alternatives to consider:

- copy.ai
- magicsalesbot.com
- snazzy.ai
- writesonic.com

All in the "AI assisted marketing prose" field.
I wonder how much power (and resulting CO2 emissions) could be saved if all code had to go through such optimization.

And on a slightly ranty note, Apple's A12z and A14 are still apparently "too weak" to run multiple windows simultaneously :)
Disclaimer: I'm the author.

We've been using Flask for years as the foundation for our 0.13 version. Our choice to move away from Flask and FastAPI as a core part of our library is based on our experience with hundreds of users and use cases
My intuition is that there are an infinite number of ways to fail, and the number of ways to succeed are much more scarce. So it’s good to study both, but studying success is often more informative. You definitely want to be intimately aware of the common failure modes.

I’d be very surprised if lots of failing companies are doing the _exact_ same as the most successful ones. Maybe cargo-culting all of the things, or actually doing _most_ of the same things but missing one necessary thing. There is an element of luck to it for sure, but the intangibles like business strategy, product market fit iterative discovery, hiring, managing, developing people, are all quite hard to pin down in pithy summaries. The best startups get these right either by meta-level luck of happening to have the right skill set for the problems they ended up facing (vs. rolling a natural 20 on a skill check with the same stats as other founders) or by actually working harder on acquiring the skills that they most need to develop. But doing these (hard, time-consuming) things well is uncommon.
nice relaunch, i've been following recut for a while. I was once working on a web version of this all before I discovered recut

https://beta.jumpcutter.pro/
> this is the first to actually illustrate how they work on a small field

That means a lot, thanks! That was my design goal with the page: figuring out the best way to get the idea across _without_ the user having to read a lot of text and stare at the wall until they got it.

I've been casting around for the next idea to do a visualization of, adding yours to the list.

(as for a partial answer your second question: the answer is going to be that Montgomery curves like Curve25519 have a method [Montgomery ladder] to quickly and timing-safely calculate only the x values of point multiplication. Faster _and_ more likely to be implemented securely than NIST curves, by design. Unfortunately I don't know the details of BrainPool, yet?)

Yes, Curve25519 is the curve itself (and associate params), Ed25519 is the signature system implemented on top of C25519, and X25519 is the ECDHE mechanism implemented on top of C25519. This page talks mostly about the C and a little of the X, and doesn't go into Ed.
Don't remember where I saw this, but someone said the 6502 was really an RTCC (Reduced Transistor Count Computer).
So I think the company is solid, leadership great, product great etc. its just the stock is in the toilet, she is not selling right now, its just a bummer dealing with all the work she put in, the forced relocation, and personal money put into this company.