skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am someone from a developing country who regularly used crypto either to get paid, or to pay for things online.

Does crypto have issues? yes. Is it good enough that in occasion it was my preferred payment method? yes.

Crypto community and companies are maybe bad, but if you zoom out into IT overall there is a fair share of greed and misuse. The internet is full of scams, gurus selling courses with false claims, spam emails that drain your grandpa's account, affiliate programs with 70% margin to sell fake products from questionable weight loss ebooks with health-harming diets to fragrances claiming to be perfumes that attract females supported by endless fake video testimonies, online communities encouraging hate, demoralization, and lack of belief in society.

Seem to me that those articles are nothing but status quo bias, does crypto has bad aspects? yes, is it worse than say internet? I don't know.
Both Samsung and TSMC are getting tons of subsidies from Taiwan, Japan, the US, etc., in order to keep or build factories in the respective countries.

More like "free market competition with state intervention".

Speaking of which, Europe needs to get moving. Europe badly needs local factories and ideally local companies building advanced chips.
> That will save us years of lobbyists claiming it’s unworkable, to expensive, technically impossible, etc.

Lobbyists will do this regardless if the tech exists or not. They currently doing it for messaging app interoperability, even though open protocols and APIs have been around since the internet started.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying let's not work on this tech. Just saying that this is not some hard tech problem that needs to be solved. If a law would be passed today that forbid companies from saving customer data, a dozen startups would launch tomorrow with this tech.
"Ponzi scheme" has become completely divorced from its original meaning. It's supposed to refer to a specific type of scam where you pay "investors" using the money you received from previous investors, but nowadays it's basically just used now to mean "anything crypto-related in which people might lose or have lost their money."
No mention of Azure services?
But Go is not that readable. In fact across all languages I know I would factor go towards the bottom end of readability. Mostly because of it's insane error handling overhead. A lot of function bodies are like reading a book where every sentence is followed with 3 that have no meaning.
Interesting interview on the radio here in the UK a few weeks ago with a famous climber who went to Saudi Arabia I think to compete after much moral deliberation. He did say that every native he spoke to was very grateful for his attendance, people travelling and participating in these sorts of events is an effective way to bring change and open peoples eyes, mainly through his insistence there were female climbers competing also which wasn't in the original plan.

I'm in two minds about his story, it was a much smaller scale event and sounded well run. This World Cup though sounds flat out awful, mainly due to the throwaway slave labour in building the infrastructure and the rampant corruption from both sides. If the infrastructure wasn't built with slave labour, and if the country won the right to host fairly maybe I'd be OK with it.
Appreciate the reply, thank you.
>because the era of "good jobs" seems to be ending

Are you serious?
It's a risky investment in the exact same way a lottery ticket is a risky investment: unless a particular lightning bolt of luck strikes you, it stands to reason that no underlying value is being created to return to your investment, _particularly_ for the shitcoins. They're just "toss a few thousand dollars at the dartboard and see what pumps" pure luck. As evidenced by the falling knives people are trying to catch right now.
We don't have to speculate, we've been through this already during the IE4 to IE6 era.

Microsoft just did whatever they wanted with the web "platform", and so will Google.

In Microsoft's case what they wanted was nothing. They weren't a web business, saw it as a threat to their platform leverage, and so just left it abandoned and stagnant for years.

Google is simultaneously better and worse: they won't leave it stagnant because the web is their platform, but on the other hand they have a lot more to gain by abusing control of it.
I don't know anyone who trusts Airbnb anymore, whether host or visitor. Several years ago I booked a week in SF at what looked like a very nice place. Naturally, the reality didn't remotely match the photos -- everything was broken, in tatters, filthy and it reeked of mold. Airbnb's resolution process was to have me wait several hours for someone to come and re-wash all of the bedding, but everything still smelled like mold afterward. This cleaning person actually told me the owner is aware that everything in the place is filthy, but refuses to change anything.

Unfortunately, Airbnb wasn't satisfied with my story because I couldn't prove that it smelled like mold -- yes, they actually wanted me to prove the presence of mold over email. They also weren't satisfied with the cleaning person's story, or the dozen photos I sent of the place being in shambles. They not only refused to help me find another place, but refused to refund me, as well. They didn't just steal $4,500, they forced me to spend my entire first day finding other lodging at premium last-minute prices during Salesforce Week.

My choices were to cancel the whole trip and head home, or spend another $6,500 at the damn W, of all places. I decided to stay thinking it would end up only being an extra $2,000 after the Airbnb refund, which was a mistake, because they never refunded me and brazenly told me to bring them to small claims court. But after travel expenses and attorney fees, I would have only ended up getting a few hundred dollars back.

So, Airbnb effectively screwed me out of $11,000 and their representatives seemed genuinely happy about doing it. I honestly don't recall a single apology from anyone at any point.
> 'It should be said that much of current inflation is due to the disruption of the British supply chains that was caused by Brexit.'

I work with a UK retailer and, from what I see, supply chain disruption is 99% China. And, the Northern Ireland issue is currently a convenient excuse to refuse to supply since it was always economically unviable for large items anyways.
It is a similar myth with Roman cement and, to some extent, Greek Fire.
We know how it was made (with some assumptions when it come to greek fire), what was the main ingredient and composition and we know how to make it much much better than they did.
But the legend continues even after many debunking because we love a good story of ancient arcane art that was lost in time.
I've been dinking around with generating Go from Lisp macros. For me the motivation is that infra teams in my company have been supporting Go but dropping the ball on Java/Scala, so I want to generate review-ready code for them while letting my experienced team work in some more complete language (maybe Java though that seems like a lot of work for a prototype).
It's audacious to try claim that historically low interest rates have been bad for people with mortgages (which is most of the UK's middle class).
A distinction though is that circut-switched loses connectivity when a circuit is broken. Packet-switched does not. You see some packet loss, there may be increased latency or reduced bandwidth, but the packets can still be routed without session loss so long as some valid routing exists. (For TCP --- I'd tell you the UDP joke but you might not get it ...).

To that extent, the packet-switched network is more resilient, and this was a conscious design consideration, as can be seen in Paul Baran's original packet-switched networking documents:

Simulation results are shown to indicate that highly efficient routing can be performed by local control without the necessity for any central—and therefore vulnerable—control point.

The ten-part series starts here:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3420.html

The series as a whole is desribed and linked here:

https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html
> What an amazing tool that can completely change function names when it converts from C to Go.

How can one read the code of the benchmark, then switch into virulent sarcasm mode without trying to understand the code? And seeing "+1" comments without any effort to understand is also disheartening.

The blog post had a link about the Go helper functions the author used. It lands on https://github.com/akhenakh/goh3/blob/main/h3.go This shows that the `FromGeo()` function used by the Go benchmark is a helper that calls transpiled functions. The benchmark code itself was of course not transpiled, so the sarcasm was unneeded and wrong.

If anyone wants to dig in deeper, the C function `latLngToCell()` calls 2 functions, see https://github.com/uber/h3/blob/master/src/h3lib/lib/h3Index...
The Go function `XgeoToH3()` allocates a TLS then calls the same functions, see https://github.com/akhenakh/goh3/blob/main/ch3/a_linux_amd64...

The C and Go code may not be strictly identical, but they seem pretty close. Enough to suppose the blog post was sincere.

I believe the right thing to do is to ask the author why they used a custom rewrite of `latLngToCell()` in Go instead of calling the transpiled function.
> It's dumb though because it will usually play on DisplayPort which has nothing like HDCP.

DisplayPort absolutely supports HDCP.
Because it piggybacks on the political might of fossil fuel producers who are subsidized by taxpayers and don't have to pay for their externalities.

It's not "cheaper" for a mob connected waste disposal firm to dump waste into a river. If they were prosecuted for the damage they did to other people's property and had to pay for the damage they did then they'd need to raise their prices to the point that just dealing with it properly would be cheaper.

In physics terms:

Dig up hydrogen connected to carbon. Separate the hydrogen from the carbon. Release the fossil carbon into the atmosphere as CO2. Capture the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere. Seperate it from oxygen, store the carbon. Use hydrogen to make Ammonia.

Versus

Use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Use hydrogen to make Ammonia.
> Huh? It queries whenever you stop typing.

That's relatively infrequently - TabNine offered me accurate completion while still writing my code, whereas with Copilot I not only have to wait for it to return the answer, I also have to hope it knows an answer. If it doesn't, too bad, lost time for nothing.
Yes, absolutely. Full stop. Just because it's a cultural norm doesn't make it compatible with modern society.
A concept polling app that feeds the poor
I am working on an idea of building a polling/survey app where people provide opinions and get rewarded in the form of donations (food) to the poor. I would like feedback from the community - ideas, criticisms, features, etc.
I wonder how they would verify that with foreigners, especially those with a history of poor record-keeping. I surmise that there must be at least a couple of countries where a marriage certificate is nothing more than a plain sheet of copy paper with something along the lines of "I hereby declare that X and Y are married" in their local legalese.

Although I can't help but snicker at the image of a bunch of poor cops desperately trying to memorize marriage certificates from around the world.
There are applications where silicon photonics outperforms semiconductor electronics. Imagine the performance you could get out of similarly sized optical gates.
A variant of what is becoming string_view in the standard has existed within Google's codebase(s) for years. I don't recall using it much in Chromium when I worked in there, but it's all over Google3 and is now in absl (Google's open sourcing of some of its base c++ components).

Chromium has "string_piece": https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/refs/h... which is at least 9 years old (was moved from elsewhere in the repo into base/ then)
Adultery is also illegal in Dubai, yet it doesn't stop all the Emirati (plenty from Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well) to go have sex with white prostitutes in the so called biggest "yatching" hub in the world... the hypocrisy of these countries...
Reminds me of:

ReQ-ReC: High Recall Retrieval with Query Pooling and Interactive Classification

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~qmei/pub/sigir2014-li.pdf
chat
chăt
intransitive verb

1) To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually.

2) To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network.

No, reactions are not essential part of chat apps.
Odd how the tables have turned. Copy-paste is ubiquitous on iOS nowadays, but pretty absent on Android. On Android, I haven't come across a single application that supports copying an image. It's infuriating.

Flutter doesn't even support pasting images at all (so things like messaging apps can't support pasting images). I get an impression that Google/Android want copy-paste to disappear. My favourite conspiracy theory on this is that it's so people will have to use the "share" sheet, which shares links with tracking/analytics (rather than pasting a raw image which cannot be tracked).
Why is the main source for this article a UK police officer's comments in a tabloid?
The whole point of crypto is that it's not regulated. As soon as the regulators take real action on crypto, the entire promise of crypto will vanish in a puff of smoke.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I struggle to envision what a tightly-regulated crypto market would look like that wouldn't defy the entire point of crypto.
Nowhere near seriously enough, considering Facebook is bitching about Apple forcing them to do what the GDPR already required them to do anyway (so they're basically admitting they would like to breach it if it wasn't for Apple getting in the way).
Please refresh my memory - why is the World Cup being held in Qatar???
> It's their culture, their country, do we have a moral right to say country barbaric for their cultural norms they accepted for hundreds of years?

Yes, who am I to say that throwing a virgin into a volcano to please the fire god is barbaric? They've done it for hundreds of years!

You know what's barbaric? Abolitionism! Slavery has been part of our society for hundreds of years, and that fellow Wilberforce thinks he can just overturn our norms by an act of parliament?
> Especially if you get into procedures like crowns you are probably talking multiple visits.

Crowns and such can be done same day now, I have recently discovered.
> Then I can.. sell it for $100? What’s the point?

You can trade your stablecoins against other cryptocurrencies that they are paired against on exchanges or you can loan your stablecoins to a platform for a profit so they can lend it out to others for a profit. Banks do the same thing. When you deposit money into a bank account you are essentially lending the bank money. We call it a deposit but it's not like the bank is actually holding 100% of everyone's deposits.

> If they promise returns where are they supposed to come from? If my coins are pegged to USD how do they appreciate? Or is the idea they just give me more for holding?

A low risk way of generating a return would be the platform lends out the coins you have locked as a secured loan for a profit.

The high risk way of generating a return would be the platform you have your stable coins locked up on finds another lending platform generating a higher return than they are promising and they invest your locked up funds there.

> But if the coins are pegged where do they get the money for the new coins they’re giving me?

They are created out of thin air. Basically they have to incentivise people to use their coins while keeping enough funds on hand to mop up any excess liquidity on exchanges when the price of their stable coin breaks peg. Governments do the same thing with national currencies. They incentivise you to use national currency by naming it legal tender and enacting capital controls as we have seen recently in Russia, Turkey and Lebanon.

If they don’t promise returns why would anyone invest in a stablecoin?

In some countries trading from crypto to crypto is not a taxable event unlike trading crypto to dollars. Stablecoins were embraced by exchanges too so it really is a lot easier to trade crypto for crypto than it is to trade currency for crypto or vice versa. Essentially people don't invest in stable coins for the most part. They use them because they have a greater utility than actual dollars.

That said buyer beware! Cryptocurrency is a largely unregulated space and regulations exist for a reason!
The japanese blades consist of four different kinds of steel. A soft core, the sides, the back and the cutting edge. The characteristic curve of the blade only comes into being in the hardening process, because the cutting edge expands more then the rest.

Source: Watched when japanese smiths, who have the status of a priest in japan, showed their craft for the first time outside of japan.
You mean freedoms?
At some point over the past year or so, they even removed the ability to filter by whether the stay has a crib.

The information is there, but there's no way to limit your searches to only those properties, so you're forced to open up all that seem interesting and scroll through the listing just to see.
> But consenting sex between two middle class non-Muslims behind closed doors is a complete non issue.

> unless someone involved brings it directly to law enforcements attention and asks for their intervention.

Sure sounds like it.

This looks like a sort of dystopian version of the quote: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him".

Meaning everything is non issue until you have problems with someone, at which point they can just put you in jail because you've been willingly breaking the law even though it was a "non issue". Why anyone would choose to live under these conditions is beyond me.
You are not barbaric if you drone-bomb children in other countries, or have relaxed gun-laws that cause enormous number of civilian deaths in your country.
Even after I enabled cloud model just today, the local binaries are still taking a lot of CPU resources in bursts of say once every four seconds, I have the latest versions of both the tabnine extension and vscode.
Yes.

Simone De Beauvoir said "One is not born a woman, but becomes one".

The idea is that "man" and "woman" are social roles you gradually grow into as you increase your responsibility for yourself and others. Things that may contribute towards becoming a man or woman are: Becoming a parent, becoming financially independent, becoming emotionally mature, participating in society on the level of your fellow grown-up peers, becoming fully grown.

We will also use the term "young man".

https://www.regain.us/advice/general/at-what-age-does-a-man-...

> Some mental health professionals do not uphold the notion of age-based maturity. They assert that maturity has more to do with your background, values, and even biology than years alone. How you mature and the things you consider mature will vary based on your raise, neurological development, and cultural framework. Some cultures value autonomy more than emotional depth, and maturity will be marked by the ability to take care of oneself. Other cultures value emotional depth, and dependence is not seen as a pitfall but a lack of emotional intelligence.
Probably the fact that it's not at war with one of our "allies". And because it's not threatening to use nuclear weapons, bombing civilians, taking children hostage, disrupting food supply chains...
So then you pull in LuaFileSystem or LuaSocket or whatever you need. I never understood this as a huge limitation. There are plenty of very mature cross platform libraries for anything I'd grab out of node's standard libs. There's even libUV bindings (luv) which would pretty much feature match nodejs completely. Add to that LuaJITs FFI you get all of C's ecosystem as well. Batteries are helpful, but it's not like Lua is completely devoid of helpful libraries.
That might be your problem, not theirs. They could jail anyone they aren't sure about
This would be frightening but not because I think the REPL itself is a bad idea. However, with a REPL comes -- whether you want it or not -- scripting. Do I want to fly a plane scripted by the pilot? Probably not. Even if they end up creating great scripts, it means they aren't exercising that checklist manually anymore and might be unable to once it's needed!
See a lot of criticism for how Wikipedia is run, but never any well reasoned solutions that offer an actionable path forward; as in click to donate to do ABC so that XYZ will happen.

As is, to me, what this is missing is an explicit explanation of why this requires being paid for and metered API with public pricing that does not require “enterprise” effort to use. I could easily see numerous people and organizations wanting real-time notifications to pages of interest to them, but few wanting this for the whole of Wikipedia.
Why the fear and loathing in the title? The article is pretty positive.

I use FreeBSD too as a daily driver and my experience was even better.
One night stands are not illegal in Arabic law, there are even prostitutes. In theory you get married just before and divorce just after the act. In practise anything sexual is forbidden in public. And some hotels may deny accommodation to unmarried couples.

But going out in typical "pride" outfit is insensitive and propably bad idea. Like wearing SS uniform in Germany.
> Having some cheap long-term energy storage option is one way to solve that problem, but another is better power grid interconnection.

Nope, we tried this in Europe and you end up with a free rider problem where nobody but us invested sufficiently in renewables and decided to buy most of their gas from Russia instead, which led to them driving our electricity prices through the roof when the rug got pulled from under them by the war even though we did all the right things. It was clearly a mistake that we deregulated and connected to the European market and now everyone knows this with certainty.
FIFA is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world so it is hardly a surprise. Anything is for sale. It is widely documented.

Here is an OK starting point, if you want to dig deeper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case
If I have it right, this service would allow me to have another company between me and what I am trying to do when I use internet technology.

Why on earth would anyone in their right mind do this? I use things like noScript to specifically avoid this kind of thing.

Do I need a service between me and Schluss, to ensure that they are following my laws?
Jail time is less bad than being killed by a drone while your country is invaded by the USA, or being killed by a school shooter in the USA because you have iduotic gun laws, or being killed by a policeman because you are not white.
The amount of things that have to happen for a modification to the build environment for a target is more than just that the tooling exists and is supported on those platforms.

Picking just one piece: Consider that Chromium builds happen in a distributed build farm. There's multiple variants of this (goma, rbe). I'd imagine those systems would have to be modified to support the Rust toolchain for that target.

And it looks like this work is built around making GN/ninja support Rust, just using cargo directly. So that's what they likely mean by "not as rich as other languages yet."