skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To run afoul of antitrust law you don't need to be a monopoly though, you only need to engage in monopolistic behavior to harm competition and/or consumers -- at least if you buy another company.
> What’s going to happen when we’re paying almost half of revenue on interest on our debt?

Why would something happen?

The important number is total debt, not government debt. It's the balance of payments that's killing us, and unloading government debt onto individuals is a no-op in relation to that.
Eh, I just pull, branch and push.

Merge after that... If that doesn't work I cherry-pick.

If that doesn't work I copy changes out of the folder, reset and copy back in.

Somehow I've gotten by for years fine.
When you say “filing” does this mean it actually electronically file the return or it just is able to print out the returns for sending in by post?
https://keyoxide.org/ ?
> also a multiplier effect in the form of debt created on top of base money
1/10 or less of that money is going to the OB. The facility collects a far bigger chunk. If you break down the hours worked by the amount doctors get actually paid, they are a tiny tiny share of health expenses and often make very low $ per hour worked. The biggest expenses go towards insurance, defensive tests, hospital management, and expensive specialized materials.
Bitcoin futures trade on the CME, a well known and well regulated US-based exchange. They are cash settled so no bitcoin custody issues. The spot index price source the futures trade in reference to is a well documented methodology sourcing from multiple bitcoin exchange sources.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/cme-cf-cry...

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/cme-cf-cry...

By comparison, with Grayscale, who knows how custody works and what exchange exposure they may have.
Isn’t it a little crazy that a not-insignificant portion of the worlds energy is being spent on something financially microscopic?
It was a big deal for Germany, they moved their troops from the eastern front after the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and they sold it as the 'last big push' to their troops. Part of the original plan was to first win in the west, in order to avoid fighting a war on two fronts at the same time.
Not just from them. I really despise the short video format and the culture that surrounds so I can't take an unbiased view on this. I'm sure there are many others like me.

Something would pop up in its place anyway.
You can buy ETFs for all sorts of commodities, currencies and securities. No matter which umbrella bitcoin falls under, there are numerous etfs that can be be compared, right? Why is bitcoin or crypto special here? Is it the SECs job to make judgements on the assets that want to be included in the exchange?
Yes, he was as amazed as we were when the right card came out and has (a) never replicated the trick and (2) always said it was dumb luck.

Of course, this could be a long-game illusion like the old Chinese magician or the twins in The Prestige.
> Jefferson and his contemporaries led a revolution against a country which abolished slavery more quickly than America did, and several of his contemporaries were literally slaveholding bigots.

IMO this is unfair description of the US's fight for freedom from the tyranny of a country that was an ocean away and still meddled in literally every country's affairs.
I think what you're asking is whether money can be destroyed and the answer is yes. For example, if the Fed allows debt instruments it holds to be paid down. What matters, of course, is the relative rate of money creation vs money destruction.
There's a big difference between pure AGPL and bait-and-switch AGPL. IMO using AGPL to steer people towards paid proprietary licenses is not good for open source.
In this case GPUs are actually the perfect argument in favor of the article. GPUs only speak in objects, never linear addresses. You allocate a type of object and that allocation just now is that type. eg, a texture is always a texture, never a vertex buffer. Which is a different object altogether. And you never work with addresses. You can point objects at other objects. You can point at an offset from an object. But you can never do arbitrary pointer manipulation, and you never have any idea if the address space is linear or not.
That description's accurate, but kind of burying the fact that it's clearly being worked on and has recent commits with people testing it.

(Scroll through the issue to the bottom)
> Ferrets famously lack a homing instinct and are not likely to find a way home after wandering off, if left outside unsupervised.

It's common enough that I have incidentally been in the homes of owners, with the glass sliding doors open, where the ferret pet is allowed (and expected) to come back in from a wire fenced yard or open yard^. I've also visited the homes where inhabitants had indoor-only ferrets as well (about 1 of 20 ferrets were allowed out).

My experiences are from the late 90s dorms and apartments ranging Cal State Irvine to Cal State Berkeley. This may be relevant somehow.

^Rabbits (even big lop-eared) that are allowed to roam are the ones who need an enclosed yard, for sure.
Oh, this brings back lots of fun memories comparing developing SDI apps and MDI apps in Windows.
Crypto is a drop in the bucket and it's down to 1/3 the value it was and it's still done nothing to the economy for the most part. It's a fantasy that crypto bros push that it's a significant force in the economy.
> There are also arguments in favor of Grayscale, mainly because the future price is based on the spot price, so a manipulation on the latter would reflect on the former

To me this is everything. If you can't trust spot, then you can't trust futures because futures price will immediately start moving towards the manipulated spot price. Therefore, in my opinion, this is just a game the SEC is playing for whatever reasons.
That could be an increase from 1% to 1.9%

However I don't doubt many considered the stimulus payments "found or free" money and basically gambled with them.
In a server system I worked on recently, 10% of its time was spent on page table walks of a multi-GB structure that it allocates flat.

That was nuts to me. It could have been 0.
> For the sake of clarity, shouldn't the title really be "One FCC commissioner requests Google, Apple remove TikTok

I think you're the only poster who actually caught this.

Brendan Carr comes out of a firm that owns a major DC lobbying hydra (Signal Group). His FCC history is all about parroting the (often anti-consumer) talking points of last administration.

He's indistinguishable from Ajit Pai. Carr is endlessly supportive of ISP monopolies. He rails against net-neutrality and Section 230. He's everything the FCC ought to protect us from.

As far as TikTok+China goes, I tend to be way more concerned about govs that can imprison me.

Past that, is TikTok a problem? We don't actually know because we never, ever, ever get meaningful specifics about what's being collected or what how that manifests as an actual risk to us.
Here is the tl;dr of why it was rejected, from a brief skimming:

The spot bitcoin price used to compute the ETF is based on unregulated exchanges in a sector that is concentrated, and rife with fraud and market manipulation (which the entity applying for the ETF does not deny!). The guard rails to make sure that the ETF is insulated from fraud and market manipulation are... not really there. Basically "we believe the exchanges we use to compute Bitcoin price information are free from fraud and market manipulation."
TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court
Exactly, futures are essentially the most vanilla and ancient derivative product in the world. Hammurabi's Code references them as does Aristotle.

The earliest uses have been primarily agricultural, allowing farmers to sell grain in advance for cash now and use that cash to fund operations in order to grow the grain.
Your assessment is only correct if the warrants are not obtainable at will.

Edward Snowden and the FISA court say hello.
We recently used Turborepo -- https://turborepo.org/ -- for a project that started as a two Electron-based builds that quickly escalated to a three Electron-based build. Once we had it set up for the two, it was quite easy to add one more. Our shared components were in a central package while custom ones existed in their respective app directories.

The nice thing with this type of separation for us is being able to target CI/CD scripts to specific apps. Previously we were using targeted dev script logic to initiate the different app builds which just wasn't maintainable. This new approach this time around made for Electron deployments to be super simple, consistent, and repeatable.

All this was done by two team members on dev side.
> Aren't these points orthogonal?

No they are not orthogonal. You seem to still not understand. What happens to the money used to buy an unproductive speculative asset? The answer is it keeps moving and, in fact, on average it probably continues to move very quickly so long as it's stuck in speculation limbo. Hence, on average, it doesn't stay trapped in speculation limbo for very long. It's a brief detour, not a destination.
I Implemented Compositional Attention
Is the future not likely to be impacted the same way if the asset if manipulated? Several of the other comments on this thread mention that the future appears to be less likely to be manipulated.

Intuitively I’d think they are wildly similar, or correlated, but I’m sure I don’t know enough here to understand why I’m wrong.
I tried Rogaine (minoxidil) and it didn’t work for me. I thought about trying oral finasteride, but I read that a small percentage of people experience sexual dysfunction as a side-effect, which didn’t seem worth the risk to me.

But I did some more research and found some early studies on PubMed that suggest that topical finasteride works just as well without the negative side effects.

The only company I could find selling topical finasteride is from ForHims. I’ve been using the spray for about 3 months and my hair is definitely thicker now, but it hasn’t helped with my hairline yet.

I’m not a doctor, so you should definitely do your own research or better yet, talk to a doctor. I don’t work for Hims, but I’ve just been impressed by their products. Definitely cheaper than hair transplant surgery.

https://www.forhims.com/hair-loss/topical-finasteride
I know of a company that was valued at ~6 billion at 40 million revenue, and is now valued at ~11 billion at just under 100 million.
"you fartwhistle"

that's excellent
Don't let the clickbait headline fool you. This article is a wonderful account of when the effect got its name after being noticed in a secondary school in Tanzania and all the fascinating science that's happened since then.
Stellantis Designer Wants to ‘Delete All Screens’ from Car Interiors
This reminds me that C/C++ are probably the most successful programming languages in history. They are ancient compared with the competition but new projects are started every day in C/C++ and most of the worlds software runs on top of C/C++. JS/TS/Python for example runs on top of runtimes written in C/C++, running on top of an OS written in C/C++, running on top of a CPU designed with tools written in C/C++ etc.
> Is it the SECs job to make judgements on the assets that want to be included in the exchange?

Yes, and that is the crux of the argument: the Exchange Act requires the SEC to evaluate ETPs for the possibility of "fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices." In other words: the SEC lacks confidence that approving a spot ETF for Bitcoin would not further advance manipulation and/or fraudulent behavior in the Bitcoin market.
its really not worth months of deliberation.

Not only does it not matter, the next time you try to order something from amazon they're going to try to trick you 3 times in the checkout process to opt back into prime. You can go back easily.

Myself I noticed without prime I'm a lot less likely to randomly decide to buy things, and often when I look on amazon a local retailer is the same or cheaper.

If I do order something its ok to not get it the next day. Its convenient but its really not the end of the world.
How do you think cork, using one of your examples, is processed into building materials and transported to the construction site?

Hint, it's not carbon neutral.
What is static code analysis?
This. I do emphathize with the OP. Its natural to feel a little scared in the beginning stages, but after awhile you just slowly accept it, and move on with the rest of your life. Life is too short to worry about things you dont control. Plus, nobody really cares about it more than you, trust me.
Thank you very much for this information! This is actually quite helpful.

The NCMA link is appreciated, as I have been curious about SBIR contracts. However, it is quite difficult to even navigate what is being called for much less understand how to properly submit a proposal.

Thanks again for the detail.
Authentic comments? Both platforms are stuffed with bots used for manufacturing consent. You can't take anything you read there at face value.
and which other spot ETFs are held to this standard? Proving a negative isn't something I'm aware of other ETFs being made to do.
I feel like this is going to get downvoted, but the problem, sincerely, is what you believe.

Money and accolades are bullshit ideas that do not objectively exist. Most of us have just bought into the idea of them.

If you strive to obtain something just because others value it (money, power, recognition), you're going to wind up feeling empty and unsatisfied.

Make your own meaning in this life and resist buying into the impoverished ideas of the world you were born into.

Sounds crazy, but no - chasing other people's idea of value is crazy.
Although you shouldn't be on a modern system, you'd instead be implementing malloc on top of mmap. So remove sbrk, and make mmap the "object allocator", and tada! You don't really need linear virtual address spaces anymore.
The only wish I can make. This would eliminate need to extract interfaces unnecessarily and frustrating "Go to implementations" while navigating the code.
AIUI Iceland has excess geothermal energy resources vs. their needs.
The issue is the "named" bit of the definition, more precisely "named sequence".

A commit is as much a branch as a head of a linked list is both a node and a list.

I think 'branch' is fine.
All these comments and no mention of World War I and II. Despite their unacceptable destruction and loss of life, one can't deny their effect of the world's geopolitics (e.g., the start of the cold war, splitting countries—such as the Ottoman empire—into smaller countries, the famine in Iran due to Russian and British forces, etc.).

Moreover, technology as we know it got a tremendous boost during the big wars. Think about V2 (which made NASA and the moon landings a possibility), Enigma, Turing's computer, lots of advances in biology (for warfare purposes at first), advances in aviary, etc.

It's as if the humanity needed a _boost_. Too sad that it was war that did the trick.
maybe, or maybe it refers to someone having defeated on their own genitals
The bit is the most fundamental unit of information. A base-e unit might be more elegant from a certain mathematical perspective, but the connections to formal logic and the ease of implementation make the base-2 bit the natural choice. At least when talking about things like information, entropy, and compression.

Bytes, on the other hand, are entirely arbitrary. At some point, the industry converged to using groups of 8 bits as the primary semantically meaningful unit smaller than a word. Probably because people at that time thought that having 256 distinct characters would be more or less the right choice. And because groups of power-of-2 bits are convenient on hardware level.

Entropy is usually expressed as bits per symbol (or bits per character), because that's what you get when you sum -P(c) log P(c) over all symbols c. People who are used to that convention often extend it to representing compression ratios. Using bits per byte is rare, because bytes are rarely semantically meaningful.
Because I don’t care either way and therefore don’t have an opinion? I just posted an opposing viewpoint in hopes that there could be a well rounded discussion. Germany and the USA is an apples to oranges comparison.
No, it's their job to protect consumers. It is not their responsibility to make moral judgements on assets.
I think you’re misunderstanding the context of where Firefox works. Have you ever sat down at someone’s choking machine and wondered how on earth they’re seeing it hitting blocking IO because something’s misbehaving in the background drowning out the disks ability to service work? They don’t run in a well controlled server farm, but even there you can expect to see drives behaving poorly leading to io blocking, screwing up the cache performance which in well behaved environments works fine but in degraded environments means you defer to the network with a 0s timeout, meaning you might get no value from the local cache at all but the dual attempt minimizes the “decision time” by instead of waiting for a timeout then requesting it instead requests and goes with what comes back first. Even on a well behaved well managed hosts stuff can wake up and start indexing thinking it’s a good quiet time for that and for short periods you might end up with some slowdown in the cache behavior. Even on that normal multiprocess machine that’s well tuned you’ll sometimes see the cache slowing below the network.

The cost is the cache isn’t masking the remote infrastructures true demand. But there’s no spec that says it must afaik. I think the most interesting angle on this is that - infrastructure users serving data are paying for this latency optimization. Is that right? My view is this is the concerning thing - if widely adopted it could materially increase the cost to service providers some of whom operate on thin or negative margins, or with no income at all.
That's just Windows 3.11 ancestry.

I want to know more about NT's secret ancestry. Micah, anyone?
Interestingly if they produced everything used in the plant local to Iceland, at least in terms of energy used it would basically be 100% geothermal sourced.
Too poor to travel by helicopter, how embarrassing.
Who cares if the scientific method was involved if it a) makes this guy feel better or b) happens to work for him? It’s not like rubbing a potato on a tumor and hoping it goes away. The worst that can happen here is he goes bald anyway.
There is no moral judgment here. "Fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices" is the language of systemic and individual risk, not a moral statement.

(You will note that the SEC is more than happy to allow ETFs that specialize in petrochemicals or defense contractors; there is no evidence whatsoever that this was a morally driven decision.)
The linear address space is the root reason why any language with FFI support will be inherently unsafe, unfortunately. Any errant pointer from C can accidentally (or intentionally) corrupt objects in the safe language. It's a difficult problem to solve.

Vale's "Fearless FFI" designs [0] says we could sandbox entire third-party libraries using a WebAssembly compilation step, which might work well. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we made an entire OS using Vale, and what kind of security improvements it might bring.

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/fearless-ffi
Medium subscribers get free access to the entire library of pragmatic programmer's publications [1]. That alone makes it worth the money in my book.

1. https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/directory-of-pragma...
They think that government will guarantee income of their customers. As is customary, for nukes.

And, you and I foot the bill for their indemnification insurance.

Anyway, Energy Vault got bid up to $2B market cap for tech that is transparently fraudulent. Pigeon investors' money doesn't really count.
I think you are right, and that makes it scarier.

Either, as you say, high profile year long researched lawsuits are directed by incompetent people, either the standard set to define a monopoly has become irrelevant (which could also be because of the companies adjusting for them to make them irrelevant to their activities).

Which could explain why these kind of regulation only seem to be coming from the EU and a bit from SEA.

Your insights reads to me like the US doesn't have a clear path forward at this point.
It's amazing what you can do if you can memorize an (apparently) random order of 52 cards. It's not that hard to do (even for an actual random ordering) and it enables a decent number of tricks.
I think what he is saying is that if they get the user to agree through TOS then they always have permission via the first subclause you omitted.
This is in fact how Linus has described it. A content-addressable user-level filesystem. Or words like that.
Grayscale Sues SEC over Bitcoin ETF Application Rejection
Spot commodity linked ETNs have well regulated custodians physically holding assets in vaults.
SEC probably has concerns about Grayscales ability to securely hold custody of bitcoin. Given "All my apes gone" and other recent debacles, this isn't too surprising.
Are touchscreens in cars the worst idea ever? Maybe not the worst, but at least in the top 10.
https://engineering.fb.com/2020/07/30/web/facebook-com-acces...
No one has yelled at you yet so let me be the first to represent for the can't type contingent.

Why would I want to type? It's entirely the wrong model for interacting with code. I think a lot of languages are held back by this idea that the best way of using them is typing out every character.

To give an example of what I mean, 'toDring()' is meaningless, it's garbage, it's not something I care about. 'toString()' however is useful. I don't remember the casing in JS but I think 'tostring()' is also useless. What's important here isn't the 10 characters in any event and I don't care to type them effectively. If my language can't tell me which is valid it's frankly like mowing a lawn with nail scissors. Fun for a certain kind of eccentric but not what you need when your day job is gardening.

If I have defined a 'toDring()' method then expose it by letting me type 't', 'down key' (to choose the non tostring version), 'enter'. If I haven't then don't let me type it. I think (heavy reliance on) text manipulation as a way of interacting with languages is a sign of either a bad/underdeveloped language, or a community which gets off on the 'hard for the sake of it' mindset.
GPU stuff has been "object oriented" for a long time. The ability to just arbitrarily address data as bytes from shaders is relatively new and modern and still constrained.

If you want to talk to a GPU via vulkan or d3d12 you're going to navigate a maze of descriptor sets, pipeline objects, buffers of various types, samplers, etc. These are all Objects with distinct types and data and the GPU hardware will interact with them in specific ways, even if it's also a general purpose computing device that will run some shader code you throw at it. When I was writing bare-metal graphics code for the PS4 there was still a lot of Object Orientation there too even if there weren't vtables or a garbage collector involved.
How to Start a Riot with Information Weapons
What if it’s a virus scan or some background indexer browning out io resources on the disk path, or given it’s a consumer browser, some malware eating up resources unbeknownst to the user of the browser. Surely you’ve experienced noisy neighbors :-)

It’s an interesting approach because it removes the assumption browser caches mask volume for infrastructure purposes rather than user latency. I think you can overwhelm costs for low or no income services. If this is widely adopted we ask the providers of our servers to pay for that latency improvement.