skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must read on the Sri Lankan Economic crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%93present_Sri_Lanka...

It was a series of events, all mistakes done and compounded by the Rajapaksa clan over decades in power. All their assets need to be seized/frozen, Everyone of them need to be brought back to the country, made to stand trial and put in jail for ruining the country.
You might be able to create enough havoc in the staking system to cause a fork, and you might be able to preposition buy and sell orders (selling very early on the fork you don't favor, not selling on the one you do favor, and using the money you made by selling to buy more in the fork you favor as soon as possible, possibly from an automatic market that springs up within minutes. You would then use your position to make money as the price of the fork rises, closing out all positions before the whole thing goes down again.)
The point of email marketing is to hit the right targets. If they overspray and hit 100000 wrong targets.., oh well, they lost 3 cents. So this overspray isn’t a sign that they are dumb, but they are effective.
I don't think it's as easy as that.

You not only have to to stuff, and publish stuff, you have to tell everyone about it.

From my own experience, I've been streaming myself coding a lot recently, but the only time I get even low single digits tuning in is when I post a link somewhere.

So I guess just be prepared that you can write blogs, stream, post videos, publish software... and people don't take notice. There's a whole self-promotion aspect to it as well.
Not producing enough food is pretty normal. In my native Norway we have not been self sufficient in hundreds of years. Only 2.5% of the land is arable. Any time there was a serious war and shipping lanes got blocked like in Napoleonic wars we got into deep trouble. Plenty of people died. Same deal in the Netherlands. They were not self sufficient in their Golden age. The Soviet Union was not self-sufficient. It was a big reason why it collapsed. It got import problems just like Sri-Lanka causing political turmoil and eventual collapse.

Funny what being unable to import can do to a country. The US cannot have this problem since it controls the world reserve-currency. It can in principle print itself out of any problem.
I know for a fact GCP is a shit show, so I'm sure they've been manscaling it.
If you are short on land, organic is not a good approach. It takes 40% more land compared to traditional farming.
I think what you're missing is that they didn't give you an argument, they told you how they felt about Kubernetes. And that's a totally reasonable thing for them to do. You aren't owed an argument. But if you had asked politely you probably would've gotten one.

When it comes to political discussions, I think it is reasonable to demand that everyone who chooses to participate substantiate their claims and make arguments rather than stating opinions. Misinformation about politics is serious, it can be a matter of life and death.

That standard does not apply to talking smack about Kubernetes on the internet. I can tell you that programming in Python feels like a game of operation and that programming in Rust feels like a breath of fresh air. I don't have to tell you why. You shouldn't try to argue against this, either - it isn't something I can possibly be wrong about, or that you could possibly understand better than I. You can tell me about how you feel like Rust is overhyped garbage (I have no idea how you feel about Rust, it's only an example). But why would you try to tell me how I feel?

What is the consequence if my statement goes unchallenged? Someone tries to learn Rust and is disappointed that it doesn't match the hype? Some engineer starts a new project in Go instead of Python because they don't want to play operation? Life goes on.

If you look at it through that lens, you can make sense of it. They're not saying there's a relevant similarity between Kubernetes and vehicles. They're saying that with more complex tools you make more complex mistakes, that Kubernetes may have solved problems but it also gave us more rope to hang ourselves. And I bet you'd have something interesting and productive to say in response to that idea - you obviously have passionate opinions on this subject.

I'd also note, no one ever said not to use Kubernetes. The general vibe was that Kubernetes is stressful to work with. Again, no one is making an argument - they're venting to other engineers.
Well written compilers for functional programming language do not copy immutable data. I recommend searching for “Immutable Data Structures” to see how you can implement very high performance immutable data structures. Haskell and Closure (for example) does this and Haskell is faster than most imperative languages out there. I recommend learning more about this subject.
It isn't to mean that SRE is any easier...
In Praise of Giving Up
I'm seeing the same and I assumed that Hubble hadn't shot the full version.
Works fine here on my laptop with an nvidia gpu. I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

Though I had to stick to a slightly older version of grub to get it to load up properly with the given guide.
There have been rumors that some of the variants that I cover in the blog post are actually somewhat playable, albeit I was not able to reproduce the results. From one side, I can understand this - testing and shipping something like Forge that is bug-free takes time. On the other side - it's been a while since a groundbreaking game mode was release.
Mens rea is the standard for something to be a crime, the assumption being that I cannot call it a crime without there being intent. Without intent it is not a crime.

Did he know that he was benefiting from using a false name? Was he of an age that the courts have deemed there to be a presumed ability to tell right from wrong? This test would be applied at every level of the justice system (at least every level above bare detection). It is a presumption of the system of criminal law in a common law jurisdiction, hence, it should be taken as said. Or I thought it would be.

The principle of charity is always a good place to start a discussion[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
On the other hand, that tweet's alt text doesn't mention that it's a picture of a tweet at all.
It's not unusual
>You don't get anything "for free", and cutting supports like this will inevitably doom a sputtering economy, when the actual solution was almost certainly more government spending, not less.

Government spending isn't free magic money either. You increase the amount of money in circulation, hoping that people will produce more goods. Instead, you increase the size of the bullshit economy - low-effort activities that only exist under the abundance of money. So more and more stuff gets imported from China because nobody in the right mind will take a $1/hour factory job if you can be a wellness youtuber for a multiple of that. The amount of useless bureaucracy grows, the number of people willing to take responsibility dwindles, but everyone is happy because, well, Mother Government takes care of us all.

Occasionally you notice that the wages don't grow and the housing is unaffordable because the workers don't really have any leverage anymore, but you brush off those thoughts because there are far too many distractions anyway.

Then BOOM, that fragile supply line involving slave labor in China and natural resources from Putin's friends gets broken, and suddenly, we have a shortage of everything, can't manufacture our own stuff, and that freshly minted dollar can buy you many shitcoins, but won't get you any baby formula.

I think, we are about to find out that excessive spending was nothing more than borrowing from our future prosperity, and the time for that debt to mature is coming fast.
Well to be fair to Mao, sparrows are renowned for their bourgeois capitalists tendencies.
Idk after a few near death experiences with people racing by me in SF, I'm cool with kids finding fun in other places. I did a lot of dangerous stupid shit with my car as a teenager. Some of my friends were seriously injured doing similar things. Fortunately we never killed anybody, but not worth it.
This might be a silly question, but why is that a nightmare scenario? The exact same argument could be made for any compile-time optimization. If one compiler inlines a function where another doesn't, or unrolls a loop, or performs better constant propagation, any of those could impact the resource usage between the two compilers, leading to exactly that same scenario. But I wouldn't want to forbid improvements altogether out of a desire for consistency.

To me, I'd see a distinction between code that requires a specific optimization and code that could benefit from that optimization. If the standard forbids an optimization to avoid the former, it also removes the latter.
Why have immutable data structures not taken over in the general case if it's a strict improvement? Sometimes they're good and sometimes there not. The issue is functional programming needs them to be used in every case.

Personally I'm of the opinion that purity is impossible so if a paradigm needs purity it's going to be an uphill battle.
and so who controls that crypto? The biggest country of the group? Or the wealthiest?

What happens if one of the countries needs to print some money to get out of a bind?

What happens if external countries don't want to receive the crypto in exchange for imports/exports?

I dont think crypto makes any of the above any better than an existing currency owned by the fiat banking system.
Disappointed seeing a negative comment at the top.

This is a COOL project: BADASS even. You’re not technically wrong, but the world advances much more via optimism than pessimism.

To the creator: Rock On Dude. So so so cool.
The latest pain point i ran into:

My headphones can be paired with only one of Windows or Linux in a dual boot configuration when both OSes use the same bluetooth card. I fixed it once by pairing in the right order, poking around and copying the pairing keys and whatever one OS uses into the other. My headphones crashed and abruptly turned off several times when i was doing this. But this broke recently and i can't be bothered to fix it again. This is on the otherwise great WH1000XM4s that support 2 simultaneous bluetooth connections.

It's frustrating because even on devices that otherwise work close to perfect, there are these weird edge cases that no one has thought about or fixed.
> why does every little country need its own currency? Are they all just addicted to printing money?

Controlling your money supply can be needed to improve your country's position with regard to foreign trade. Greece would probably have been better able to manage its recent debt crisis had it controlled its own currency rather than being tied to the Euro, for example.

> Ignoring the volatility and environmental concerns, why shouldn’t all these small to medium-sized countries standardize on a cryptocurrency?

Because people still need to be able to transact with something, which is not a function well-served by cryptocurrencies, most of which have the bulk of trade in them carried on off-chain or via stablecoins that track a fiat currency.
It's mentioned later in the article, and while it's certainly a factor, there are a lot of other countries with an even larger dependence on tourism (Maldives, Fiji, Thailand, etc) that did not suffer a full blown economic crisis as a result.
Someday we will learn that allowing adversaries to run code on our computers will always create leaks. In the old days whenever a new exploit was discovered, advisories would go out telling people to disable Javascript in their browsers. Now JS can no longer be disabled, and way too many sites rely on it unnecessarily, so we are stuck. Oops.
The whole purpose of fiat currency is so the central bank can literally dictate interest rates and "print money" in times of crisis. Pegging currencies to the USD has been tried and usually fails.
Can confirm this. I was given this information the first time I signed up and have been getting the difference every year when I go to renew
The hero we need.

Thanks!
> and life

The only sign I see of anybody getting injured (much less killed) here is a skateboarder, which seems to me to be a self-imposed risk. Did I miss some innocent people getting hurt somewhere?
I would love to go deeper into the rabbit hole here.

What is MIA in the Sri Lanka discussion is the underlying reasons for the situation.

It seems one of them was misguided govt policy, in that they banned common fertilizers in favor of ESG-friendly fertilizer. It seems said fertilizer collapsed output, which meant less exports, less hard currency to import (late on the game) regular fertilizer.

I still sont know why ESG was favored. I also dont know what was the upside for sri Lanka to do this.
If you have no way to reach the console, how do you know it's running Linux? Or doing anything at all really? The card has no way to display anything by itself.
I like calibre. You can convert your amazon books to .epub or .pdf

I dislike calibre. It likes to put your books in a library in the way it likes, not the way you like - always Author Name/Book Title (id)/foo.*

really nice, but also really annoying.
That's right, I was forgetting serialized novels. They were big, too.

That method of Dumas was how Dostoevsky worked, at least some of the time--not knowing exactly what he was doing in a novel until after its first chapters had already appeared in a magazine. Presumably his gambling debts had something to do with this habit of working, although he supposedly had a case of what they call "hypergraphia," and could produce an incredibly amount of writing in a short amount of time.
A/B testing is always going to be distracting to your users though.

Sometimes they'll be in A, and sometimes in B.

The button moves or disappears or appears.

Your user does not get an experience they can rely on
I agree it's cool; that's why I prefaced everything with "Cool project".

> the world advances much more via optimism than pessimism

I don't think that's a slogan infosec folks frequently adopt.
Most countries are better off with a money supply that can adapt to local economic conditions (local unemployment and inflation). Having a fixed currency prevents that. During economic crises, it is critical to be able to increase the money supply.

Also, most countries end up managing their currency reasonably well (better than having a fixed money supply). Sri Lanka is in the news for failing, but most nations are quietly doing reasonably well.
Same deal in Norway where I live. We maintain an agricultural sector in a rocky subarctic climate at exorbitant prices which probably makes Japanese agriculture look like a bargain.

We have had enough bad experiences in the past however to give up having some level of self-sufficiency.

If you ever wondered why nearly every European country is in the EU, except Norway well there you got part of it he reason.
I had deja vu and was about to check the date to suggest adding it to the title but whoa, it's a different one with the exact same title.
I use that all the time as a shortcut to push new git branches without having to type the whole name.
That's not what they mean there. You're confusing the evaluation of an expression to its value, with the execution of that value when the value is an IO a. In x >> y, you can evaluate x and y in whatever order, but the program x >> y denotes always runs the program x denotes before the program y denotes. Similar to how in [x,y], x always comes before y in the list order, even if you evaluate y first.
I dunno, a late xbps-install -Su may give it a run for it's money
Part of me fears that you might run into an even worse class of problems as it relates to your points including:

> 1. Infrastructure complexity - Sure, but there would be a LOT of complexity in kernel dev

> 2. Debugging - :) MS kernel is ancient and must be full of cruft. Systems dev is notorious for all sorts of weird timing, coordination bugs.

> 3. Designing systems - You'd have transactions, concurrency, race condition kind of problems which imo tickle the same part of the brain as distributed txns, eventual consistency etc

That said, if you like it, you like it. Can't know without trying. If I were you, and if I had the opportunity - I'd go for a newer variant of this which could look like Apple's M1 team, Tesla's systems teams etc. simply to have a fresh slate to build on.
The sparrows in my yard have been exploiting and oppressing the wrens for years.
Even then, not a good idea for them, hence very few rich countries do it (unless they are very small).

Controlling interest rates is incredibly important, especially in times of crisis. If you were pegged to the USD right now (which is skyrocketing relative to most other currencies), you would be in trouble.
Who to vaccinate first? A peek at decision-making in a pandemic
FTC committed to enforcing law against illegal use, sharing of sensitive data
I don’t see anything unfair in pricing the license as a percentage of revenue or profits. This allows you to capture the actual high value of your invention while also allowing low-value products to benefit from it. After all, that’s what you do if you are both owner of the patent and the products that use it. And a major purpose of the patent system is to allow inventors to benefit from their work without having to themselves enter every industry it might be relevant.
I see a lot of parallels with Sri Lanka and Turkey. Dwindling foreign exchange reserves, crashing value of the Turkish Lira, trade deficit, arbitrary decision making, etc. Makes me scared for Turkey's future...
Nothing! I mean I personally just use defstruct unless I want inheritance, but that's certainly not because CLOS lacks anything. I meant "you" as in the person I responded to, who wants immutable data structures with tightly coupled functions. It's because CLOS is among the most object oriented systems I know of that I used it as an example; there seem to be some basically orthogonal traits which nonetheless wind up highly correlated, and CLOS is the purest OO you can get this side of Smalltalk while looking different from what you see in Java or whatever.
To be loved by anyone
Okay, I remember typing that one in under fantasy, but it's clearly not there. I'm getting old...
Right that's one object. Often you need to change the state of a bunch of related objects in a transactional way. The way redux works for example. It's somewhat analogous to database transactions.
The immediate problem is that the entire legal order of succession (PM, president, Speaker etc) are Rajapaksa cronies who are busily getting the hell out of Dodge^W Colombo, so it's not at all sure who is going to form or lead the next government.

There are also a lot of unresolved tensions left over from the vicious civil war that devastated the island for decades, so it's sadly possible that things take a turn for the worse.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong"

Popular rephrasing of the H.L. Menckin original.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/17/solution/
> It can in principle print itself out of any problem.

Except inflation, as we are learning.
Checked it out for the first time on Sunday. Granted it was a rare perfect San Francisco summer day but it was very pleasant! The cost was just right (free). Also my grandpa told me he has fond memories of playing at Big Rec so it's pretty trippy to watch games there with that family history in the back of my mind.
That’s when it goes bad, but borrowing against the future to kickstart today is also the principal behind innumerable success stories.
I had it extremely young, like age 5. Really disturbed my parents, talking about how I wish I'd never been born. LOL. They never thought to get me help, so that's what you get.

But actually I'm thankful I didn't go through the diagnosis-mill back then, because later in life I sought answers from a GP and was simply diagnosed with depression, had SSRI's thrown at me and developed a mild psychotic episode (full blown manic episode in which I thought I could make a free energy device knowing nothing about electronics), which of course I didn't see a doctor about, because you can't actually tell when you're having a psychotic episode, especially if you go all the way to black-out word salad mode.

Many years later finally properly diagnosed with Bipolar 2 (explains full mania on SSRIs as opposed to hypo mania/mixed episode I normally get). Glad I didn't have to go through that shit when I was younger. GPs are so arrogant you have to literally stop them in their tracks and say NO, I WANT TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST PLEASE (and silently to yourself 'AND I SURE AS HELL DON'T WANT any more of your free anti-depressant sample packs you bleepety bleep').

If I had so many problems figuring out what was relevant to tell someone to help them diagnose me, what is normal and what is not, when I was in my 20s, I really doubt a child would do any better without really extreme and obvious psychotic episodes, etc, that aren't simply delusional.
Infosec folks should live a little. You can have more than one computer and not everyone is a head of state.
More or less, yes. A backdoor has to be able to pattern match to find what it's backdooring; the more custom your implementation is the harder that should be. AIUI, it would be easy to make, say, a CPU that recognizes gcc doing a compile natively. It would be, I think, extremely difficult to create a CPU that recognizes the instructions to emulate a MIPS processor running gcc, especially when the emulator didn't even exist when the chip was taped out.
Such is the tragedy of USB I suspect: all we need is serial ports, and it's extremely hard to prove that's all we'll be doing.
Having your own currency is what lets you adjust the exchange between your country and another one. You should never use a currency you don’t control or cannot influence in any way. That sets you up for disaster.
Ask HN: How to have GraphQL in an offline only React Native application
I am driving myself crazy trying to find a combination that will allow me to setup an offline react native app with a graph database.

Tick off the common suggestions:

1- No this is not for state management (Redux, Redux-persist)

2- I don't want to use sqlite or any other relational setup

3- I don't want to use serialize then async store

Now that we have those out of the way realm DB is promising but it requires the app to use the db in single thread mode, doesn't support dynamic schema changes and outside of realm-orm I don't see anywhere where I can type it to TS

Apollo client with persistence seems promising but I am concerned that this is a caching solution not a first class offline support.

Actualbudget (a local first app) is doing sqlite3 (table storage) and CDRTs message queue for eventual consistency. I am curious how anytype.io is storing their graph at the edge.

The short pitch is: imagine if you had a structured graph of your personal data (private & synchronized offline), we would be able to build tons of cross silo solutions. My first use case is to identify low frequency NERs so that i can have a personalized RSS reader.
This article starts with the sentence "The euro hit $1 on Tuesday", and somehow, that's a link to a different article. An article posted on CNN, yesterday, by the same author, with the same content. Many of the paragraphs are the same word-to-word, but some are different.

Are those articles auto-generated in some way? What am I looking at? And who put that link there?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/investing/euro-dollar-parity/...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/investing/euro-dollar-parity/...
I second the first users sentiment. Things are going to change permanently into all eternity, better and better solutions come around, existing solutions get better and better - I would love reading a blog post on your current state of research already