skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main argument is a bit different. If two characters played by Julia Roberts and Matt Damon are talking and someone walks over and says "wow you must be Julia Roberts!", why do they not also say "and man you look like Matt Damon, insane coincidence ".

Why does only one of them look like their real life counterpart? I think also, this would ruin the plot of the previous Oceans's movie since why did no one recognize her in that one if she was the lookalike of a famous actress. It is clear that both movies live in the same universe since 12 is payback for 11.
Covid jabs are the next frontier in fabrication.
But we have stablecoins, like USDC, to act as on-chain dollars. The point is in a world of very robust decentralized exchanges, it's easy to buy tokens with dollars (or vice versa), by sending dollars from your bank account to Circle, who will send USDC to your wallet, which will then buy the token of your choice from a decentralized exchange.

In this context Circle is still a centralized party that's necessary to interact with the off-chain banking world. But Circle has much less room for chicanery than a traditional centralized exchange. There's no opportunity to front-run, insider trade, liquidate your customers or anything else that OP brought up in the context of centralized exchanges, because all Circle is doing is filling the very simple task of converting 1.00 USD to 1.00 USDC and nothing else.
A few big benefits off the top of my head:

* A concurrency mechanism that's very easy to use, because it doesn't have the function coloring problem of async/await.

* Extra assistance with memory safety, via its "release-safe" mode. Not a silver bullet, but it does help!

* Good tooling; zig cc can cross-compile from any major OS to any major OS.

* Comptime, a pretty brilliant system that does what generics does for other languages, with a fraction of the complexity.
For context, I live in San Saba and Lampasas, TX. San Saba is located two hours northwest of Austin where the population density is three people per square mile.

While there is truth to the story about inflation hitting rural, poorer areas the hardest, this gentleman's quotes are a but of a stretch.

> Brisket went from one sixty-nine a pound to seven

Brisket has not been $1.69 for years, unless this gentleman has some sort of sweetheart deal. Also, I show that HEB's market price for brisket today is between $3.05/lb and $5.14/lb. [0]

> “In Texas, in all two hundred and fifty-four counties, you can go get barbecue—that’s what we could lose,” she said.

It seems that this person is saying we could lose BBQ in all 254 counties in Texas? That's unmitigated hyperbole and balderdash.

> “We’ve had a handful of customers that have been here from Day One, every morning. Drinking coffee, a lot of times ordering the same taco.” When the restaurant opened back up at 7 A.M. on Thursday, only two of the seven morning regulars showed up. “It brought a tear to my eyes,” Rodriguez said. “Like, man, am I losing it? I’ve put too much work in here. I’ve worked so hard to want people to come in here. And now I have it, and I’m having to shut the doors.”

This is a great example of a writer trying to prove a point without stopping for a moment to make sure that they were being truthful in their accounting so as to avoid being disingenuous. This is a very teachable moment for this writer, and others.

Absolutely, inflation hurts. For example, I know that small town governments who provide the critical infrastructure for their communities drive the equivalent of an F150 and the increase in gas prices strains city budgets, which may only be $1M per annum. Will they get by? Absolutely, because self-reliance is baked into their existence, the community rallies and supports its own, or they couldn't continue to live and survive in such remote environs.

To address the author's original question, will the local county BBQ joins in Texas survive inflation? It will hurt, but of course they will survive. Texas BBQ will never go away.

[0] https://www.heb.com/category/brisket/338579
After over 20 years of Vim, I thought I would finally start learning Emacs given I want to start playing with Lisp. Having done the in-built tutorial and read "Mastering Emacs", I'm now going through the manual.
I got stung by this for a test engineering role. Apparently implementing them from scratch is a pre-req to building out test infrastructure!
> I was also placed in sleepovers with children infected with less dangerous diseases like mumps for which no vaccine was available, to cultivate natural immunity.

It wouldn't kill you; it would just sterilize you.
(The article quickly clarifies - 's/build trains/build new passenger rail infrastructure/'. American freight railroads are a different world. And manufacturing locomotives, various sorts of train cars, etc. is not really an issue.)

That is really the wrong question to ask. The right question:

- Why can't America build ~any sort of not-desperately-needed large-scale infrastructure, when such construction was so common and easy in America a ~century ago, and still is today in many other countries?
Don’t the vaccines do this? And aren’t the immunocompromised already taking extra steps (like not hanging out in high transmission environments)?

I’m not really convinced “long Covid” is something to worry about for people that aren’t already at risk for having bad outcomes from the disease in the first place. I’m open to reading something to convince me that it’s different from being tired for a week or two after getting other respiratory viruses. This [1] is from May. I’m not entirely convinced it’s even real.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/search-long-covid
Watch some videos from this channel and you'll be able to see how the US definitely does not do enough in terms of creating safe road infrastructure for all:

https://youtu.be/ORzNZUeUHAM

https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54

https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw
> for a single successful research grant, hundreds of days might have been spent, purely on the acquisition of funding.

I'm a former professor who has written many proposals and won some of them. I've reviewed many more.

I did a lot of thinking and research when writing proposals. In a proposal, I tried to clearly explain the state of the art and how it could be extended, what resources I would need to do that, and how that work could be structured to make success more likely. I might even do a pilot study to show that the key idea is promising. Note that 'how to extend the state of the art' can be a seriously creative inventive step, or it could be the obvious next thing. But creativity does happen at proposal stage, and it certainly factors in my reviews of other's proposals.

My point is that writing proposals is not entirely a waste of time. It's a bit like writing a movie script. It's not a movie, many scripts never become movies, but for some movies some of the best ideas were in the script. Same for proposals.
Clearly they have the budget for a 32M failure. I’m inclined to think they’d be saving money.

Now whether they will or want to (the executives anyway) is a different question.

It’s much easier to tell your boss that the project failed despite the hundreds of developers working on it. Clearly nobody would have been able to do a good job of it.
Antivaxxers should be forcibly vaccinated by tranquilizer rifle. If women carrying unwanted pregnancies don't get bodily autonomy, then neither should antivaxxers. Fuck 'em.
Google Cloud Storage Outage
The problem with memory safety bugs is that they are uniquely exploitable. Even if memory bugs only take 5% of your time as a dev, there have been numerous studies showing that for large projects, memory bugs form roughly 2/3ds of CVE causing bugs.
"Google Cloud Networking experienced reduced availability globally for a period of 19 hours and 32 minutes."
I was agreeing with you. I was citing an example of a financial institution providing that particular utility, to support the idea you presented, that it's plausible that one day financial institutions could be relegated to only providing that utility.

Your point was well supported, so I don't see the reason why it got downvoted.

>>which requires that the asset classes be kept distinct

Yes it's not exactly what you described, but functionally speaking, it is quite similar as it enables on-chain and off-chain fiat to be converted one for one.
Agreed. Also I read a lot of long text pages, so it's nice to see the scroll bar as a position marker.
If people are still typing words with fingers to make computers do things, in 100 years, technology has failed!
> Also, it poops your private data all over the filesystem while creating thumbnails and previews. So the answer is no, absolutely not even a single iota of effort has been expended making sure deleted data is really deleted, and inside administrators will have complete and total, unaudited access to it.

That all seems solveable to me with enough money and time. What if a billion Euro gets invested into infrastructure and hardening of these tools? I think everything that you describe is a result of underinvestment. Extorting our kids data to Google cannot be better.

We aren't also outsourcing the military to Blackwater and the secret service to Facebook, just because they can run it more efficiently.
Not that I write Go anymore, but this was definitely one of those things that regularly made my blood boil. Any kind of experimentation/swapping around data structures always invoked the wrath of the compiler when I am just trying to quickly iterate on an idea. Always felt like it disincentivized improvements.

Should have been a warning. Baked in from day-one, easily makes that a CI check without hampering development.
It's tried and tested for sure, I first encountered them in 94 but I assume they're much older.

A little sleuthing shows that (TIL) they are an application of Z-order curves, which date back to 1906
I’m on a similar page, using 3d printing and arduino/pi/motors for basic toy automation.

My first project was not robotic, but an automated hydroponic system. The automation is dead simple but I’ve been really pleased with it. It’s one tent divided into a nutrient film technique section and a flood and drain section. Just timers, fans, and pumps, and a lot of 3d printed parts to pull it together.

Now I’m really interested in automation of my nutrient reservoir. I suspect it’s a terrible idea, but I’m happy to learn from failures. The gist of it is a system that occasionally reads the total dissolved solids and pH of the reservoir, then automatically adds the correct amount of nutrient, pH balancing solution, and water to balance the system again.

No where near as interesting or challenging as a robotic arm that moves chess pieces, but, baby steps!
"I bought this user repairable laptop and they don't offer an on-site repair service. Also one of the USB ports burned out and it cost me $9 for a replacement. Absolutely terrible"
Constructing the ecstasy of MDMA from its component mental organs [2016]
The fact that you called it "content" and not writing betrays your lack of faith in your own work. If you don't believe in yourself you aren't worth my time.
Coinbase shady stuff around listings has been an open secret in crypto, everyone knows about it. Dates all the way back to LTC listing and probably earlier.
... such as free housing.
This is like an oil company spending a lot on oil spill cleanup. Or saying we have a very well appointed water bucket brigade to clear water from a ship with a giant hole in the side.

When you believe car centric development is harmful to its core, it's poor consolation that we're spending even more ineffectual resources on top of that to try to curtail the harms.
Exactly, where there is a will, there is a way.
Archive.org (the Internet Archive) is doing important, critical work to build and maintain an archival copy of everything.

If you have not used the system, spend some time and discover the gems that are included in its collection. https://archive.org Offer suggestions and get involved.

On July 15th I attended the Archive Open House and spoke with Brewster about the ambitious plans through the coming year and the next few decades. There is a lot that needs to be done.

The Archive needs your moral, political, and monetary support. To donate: https://archive.org/donate .
> Yup. Two times our car got hit the driver ran and left no note. Its fucked because then we pay the $750 deductible. Cops dont even try to find who did it. Really frustrating.

If you're complaining about the driver not leaving a note, that implies no one you know was there with your car to witness your crash. How do you expect the cops to even try to find out who did it? Go full CSI?
Slightly off topic, but I would prefer to never see smart pointers in Zig. Smart pointers are an inefficient and semantically-unenforceable ‘solution’ for the wrong problem. Smart pointers are supposed to be a way to handle references to mutable data in concurrent/multi-threaded/distributed computation, however I don’t think they form a satisfactory basis to solve the problem they think they solve. Now, I’m not a fan of Rust’s approach in general or it’s approach to this problem, but at least it is a semantically motivated solution.

If a Zig user wants to restrict usage of pointers in certain ways let them make their own data structures, but unless Zig is willing to alter its semantics including a ‘standard’ smart pointer is putting icing on a cardboard box.

/edited to fix a typo/
https://www.hoover.org/research/only-san-francisco-61000-ten...

Spending for homeless is 61,000 per person
I mean, if you were to change meat for sugary and processed food then sure, it wouldn't be a good idea. But between meat and beans? Meat and vegetables? There must be a reason vegetarians are leaner than meat eaters and vegans are leaner than vegetarians. Also, virtually all obese people have a meat heavy diet. So, lots of different evidence.
I recently took on the maintenance of my team's mobile app, so I'm learning Ionic Vue, Firebase Analytics and Cloud Messaging.
Modernizing Einhorn
I've never had a problem with concurrency in C, really. async/await in other language is fine and all, and I've had my fair share of them there, but I wonder if the difficulty in reasoning about them is worthwhile wherever I use C. I'm more likely to want something declarative and explicit than async/await.

Again, memory safety has never really been a problem for me where I use C; and if I want it, I'd want something as strong as Rust's borrow checker or at least the smart pointers of C++.

zig cc can't cross-compile on all platforms, particularly not esoteric and proprietary embedded targets or game hardware, and so that's a nothingburger for me.
> For auto crashes, we’re talking about block level interventions, the kind of fine-grained design details that transportation departments are not able to perform.

An assumption that's nowhere even stated, let alone supported: that auto crashes are amenable to highway engineering changes. Why is "reckless driving" dismissed as obviously wrong?

> They need to recognize that the growing crash fatality rates are a direct challenge—even a rebuke—to their theory of traffic safety,

excuse me: growing crash fatality rates?? Shouldn't he at least demonstrate that they ARE growing?

As maerF0x0 demonstrates below, they are NOT growing, and roads and cars are certainly WAY safer than they were 50 years ago.
This is not how decriminalization of hard drugs has succeeded in any other country. Heroin abuse is illegal in Portugal, as is the unauthorized posession of fentanyl, MDMA, cocaine, crack, etc. They won't put you in prison, but they'll take you to jail. Addicts are compelled to enter treatment:

https://beportugal.com/portugal-drug-laws/

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ldjif4/the_portugal...

San Francisco is doing all they can to pursue the sort of plan you propose. It isn't working. Drug abuse and related crimes have only gotten worse. "I heard about Portugal on a podcast" drug policy has been a disaster.
Financial Engineering might be a good reason. Most of the buy side analysts and fund managers rely on financial metrics and Elon is very good at cooking books. Also, stock price has nothing to do with performance of company as we have seen in GameStop and other companies. My bet is that TSLA stock is moving up by forcing short sellers and call writers to force close their positions by some private market force most probably fueled by Elon tweet farm. In turn creating momentum upwards.
It is very contradictory, but I feel TSLA stock will fall if the short sellers stop shorting and call writers stop writing this stock. And stop being bag holders of this stock.
> If data validation doesn't belong in the database, then what does? At that point you're treating your RDBMS as a fancy filesystem and drastically underutilizing the tool.

Data storage and querying. Validation should be done in the application layer for security and scalability.

"Premature optimization" is the rallying cry of people standing in the corner of a room with a painted floor holding a paint brush.
I agree that this is absolutely your manager's problem to fix, but going to them is risky. If you've got a bad manager on your hands, they may just take it to mean you should be fired, and that will solve the problem.
Both are definitely a factor, but don't forget that a lot of the irritate driving behavior is because in America people are forced to drive. Even if they don't want to or really shouldn't be driving, they still have to drive to get around town. Here is a video that explains it further:

https://youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k
>According to this 73.6% of adults over 20 in the US are classified as overweight or obese

My God.

I did not think it was that high.

I had thought “ehh 50%” based simply on who I see walking around at Costco, and you’re right shame on me for not looking up the relevant statistics to fact check CNBC. That’s a legit public health catastrophe. We’re slow walking into a health case disaster if this doesn’t change.
Hey printscreen, how come this post got 0 comments & 0 upvotes, and the same post 6 days later went viral?
The library for University of Toronto is a pretty awesome example of brutalism done right. It looks different from every side, and it is massive.

But like you've alluded to, for every good example of brutalism, there are terrible ones.
You should read the other Hertz story. You'll feel much better. :)
One would hope that such crosses instead prompt folks to change such intersections so that they will prompt fewer deaths. Maybe then we can have a rule: if we rebuild the road and we see a drop in deaths, then maybe we can remove the sign with crosses. Better yet, replace the intersection with a bus-only, bicycle-only, or rail as public transit, and then that set of crosses is permanently retired.
(EDIT: using "mail" because I was using "letter" too much in my description)

The way I think of a bloom filter is like at an office mailroom or at post office mailbox where mail is grouped by the letters of people's name.

Given someone's name, you can glance and see "Uptrenda? No letters for 'U'" very quickly. This is when a bloom filter returns FALSE. But if they glance and see mail in the "U" box, then they return MAYBE. After a MAYBE, to see if you actually have any mail, they need to actually go through the box (i.e. a bloom filter miss).

Mine are a couple that are present in the Java Collections but I'm always disappointed that other language's don't include them:

- TreeMap/Set: A RedBlack tree. It keeps keys ordered, either naturally or by using the provided Comparator, but has log(n) time on basic ops.

- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/TreeMap.html

- LinkedHashMap/Set: keeps keys ordered by insert order via a linkedlist but can be configured to use access-order making it easy to use as a LRU cache. It keeps O(1) time but is less efficient than HashMap:

- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHashMap.html
Misappropriating fiduciary information is literally the legal basis for insider trading. There's a common fallacy that insider trading is illegal because the government wants to enforce a "level playing field". Nothing could be further from the truth. Insider trading is illegal because as an employee of the company, you're profiting off your job in a way that doesn't share any of the profits with your employer. In other words the "victim" of insider trading is actually the company itself, not the poor schmuck who you dumped a losing trade on.

Many things that are colloquially thought of as insider trading, are not against the law. For example it's perfectly legal for a hedge fund to hire a helicopter to circle an oil refinery day and night with an infrared camera, so they can get a precise estimate of how much revenue an energy company will announce in its quarterly earnings. This is perfectly legal because at no point was any of this information "misappropriated" in violation of a fiduciary duty. Very clearly the little guy in this case has no chance of competing, and this isn't a level playing field in any sense. But the law simply does not care.
1. Merkle-trees. Helps with content-based-retrieval, efficient add/modify/delete/move node operations. Useful in scenarios where you are building a data-serialization format that needs to support efficient updates.

2. Not necessarily a data structure, but SMT solvers (like Z3) provide a very useful abstraction for certain kinds of problems. They also use some cool data structures like disjoint-sets among other things.

3. Lock-free datastructures
> have to keep the devs from going "this codebase has a lot of technical debt, let's rebuild the whole thing using Rust and Kubernetes and Deno and move the hosting to Azure and switch databases and use microservices and..."?

Also known as the "oh look, a shiny thing" development paradigm.
I've seen this done with kinesis streams.

Basically just update a cache, and forward the results every so often.

If you put things in a stack, you can keep using the most recent for the update. Compare times and you won't add a bad value
Is this only in certain areas? I got a uniformed driver when I had some Dominos delivered to my hotel earlier this year.
The output of lab isn't going to be just videos, and they don't appear to be having any issues hiring.
I’m aware of pcwalton’s involvement in Rust. So it wasn’t accidental in any way. It was however slightly tongue-in-cheek, but I probably could have used a /s to indicate it wasn’t an attempt to score ‘I’m smart points’. I was also very aware that, despite anything else, they were almost certain to be aware of which came first.

I may take serious issue with pcwalton’s assessment of the performance characteristics of OS threads vs other concurrency implementations, but fun HN arguments aside; I have never seen or heard of any lack of acknowledgement of preceding language/implementation work leading to Rust’s development. So I certainly wasnt attempting to imply any stealing or denial of credit/attribution.
That depends on the person, and vaccination/previous natural infection status. My 89 year old grandpa has tested positive twice, no symptoms. My J&J vaccine was significantly worse than the two later infections (one 6 months after vaccine, before boosters were available, one a few weeks ago, no boosters). Both were like a mild, longer, cold, with some extra muscle aches and fatigue.
"My point isn't that inflation doesn't exist."

My wife tells me different, so I'm going with her real world experience in the matter.
Unlimited PTO is often abused as way to prevent workers from feeling like they have the ability to take vacations when they need them.