skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lottery would be more like buying an NFT. Will it have value? Will it be worthless? Stay tuned to find out...
From what I’ve read some of the safety systems did not give real-time feedback and the critical error occurred because the operators didn’t know they were in trouble due to lack of real-time feedback. I’m not an engineer and know nothing of these things but the test was not unauthorized and it wasn’t an experiment. As far as I read about the accident.
Why do you keep spamming HN with this?
If you want to find interesting blockchain projects (not necessarily impactful, but interesting), I would spend some time clicking around https://gitcoin.co/
None of us are the individual who won, and none of us are likely to be one in the future, so the impact of this "news" is phrased backwards. A more accurate phrasing would be the following headline:

> Government realizes 1.6B accrual from gamblers ignorant of odds.
I remember trying to Lycos/Altavista/Yahoo info on C or C++ back in the 90s. Perl also ended up being a challenge because a lot of results would be things like http://example.com/cgi-bin/perl/irrelevant-result.
"The Melbourne Cricket Club acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the Traditional Owners on whose Country our office is based. We recognise and respect the cultural heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. We extend that respect to the Traditional Owners throughout Victoria where we work and play.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away."

#itscomplicated
Lecturing being a punishment is too flimsy a proposition to build a credible argument on top of. Hardly anyone could see it that way for more than a few seconds without pulling a muscle. At worst it's simply asserting your status as the parent.
We’re out hiring right now and it’s shocking how many people have a career filled totally with dodgy cryptocurrency nonsense. Loads of designers and developers have most of their experience in platforms that seem to have no utility beyond scams, gambling, and MLMs.

There certainly is a massive amount of wasted talent here.
This is the first time I had heard of tontines. Thanks.
It's very "Are we the baddies" research.
I think this idea has some serious merit, but I do wonder what the roll-out would look like - how could it be implemented practically, considering the reputation-base value of degrees.

For example, the value of a degree from MIT is not just the degree itself, but also quality and depth of the course work. We assume that if a student passed with A+ grades, they have a solid understanding. But we also know that, i.e., MIT teaches CS in a way that's very applicable to the CS industry, including many bits of non-standard knowledge that are not tested in the exam.

Imagine that MIT decides to become a degree-granting institution, and I obtain an "MIT CS Degree". How would an employer know whether I learned at a top-quality education provider and gained deep knowledge that covers more than the exam ever could -- or if I self-taught and scraped through the exam with the bare minimum knowledge.

I guess MIT could structure their exams so that they cover the subject deeply, but to cover 2 years worth of intense learning, surely they would need a very long (maybe impractically long) exam period?

Maybe I'm over-thinking this - I guess an MIT student would list on their CV "2 years studying at MIT".

Anyway, I think this is a fantastic idea and I'm very interested to see what other HN users think!
Really it's not. The interop is a conscious decision core to the language rationale.

https://clojure.org/about/rationale
> Customers and stakeholders have substantial investments in, and are comfortable with the performance, security and stability of, industry-standard platforms like the JVM. While Java developers may envy the succinctness, flexibility and productivity of dynamic languages, they have concerns about running on customer-approved infrastructure, access to their existing code base and libraries, and performance

> symbiotic with an established Platform

> VMs, not OSes, are the platforms of the future, providing: [...]

* Libraries
* Abstract away OSes
* Huge set of facilities
* Built-in and 3rd-party

https://clojure.org/about/jvm_hosted
> Clojure is designed to be a hosted language, sharing the JVM type system, GC, threads etc.

> Clojure is a great Java library consumer

Where Clojure had nothing to bring, nothing was implemented, because interop is considered just as good, that's why there's not a lot of IO functions in core, and why math was missing for a long time.
> Algorand, Gemini & Circle: Crypto only

> Not real-world projects. As discussed in the introduction, I am only discussing projects that have real-world effects outside of cryptocurrency balances. Gemini, Circle as exchanges, and Algorand as a Blockchain implementation, don’t qualify here – they don’t actually add real-world utility other than moving tokens around.

Interesting take. These are very different "projects", but I don't see why they don't qualify as "having real-world effects".

Gemini and Circle are corporations that provide stablecoins backed by USD reserves (gUSD and USDC). The tokens these companies have created can be moved around on various blockchains without an intermediary and used to pay for goods and services.

Algorand is a blockchain protocol that can be used to build decentralized applications (similar to Ethereum). There are many "real-world" projects built on Algorand, for example lofty.ai (tokenized real-estate investing).

I don't see how the author defines "real-world utility" and why Algorand, Gemini and Circle wouldn't qualify. It seems like the author is trying to cherry-pick a few failed blockchain projects in an attempt to smear the whole industry.
>>Yeah, there are layers of abuse here.

100% agree, civil forfeiture is but one of the MANY MANY ways they have done clever end runs around the US Constitution.

>How prevalent is this? Well, let's put it this way.

Dont travel with cash more than 100 dollars or so.... if a cop finds it, it is gone.

A famous quote from Lysander Spooner talking about government abuse includes the lines ".The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head," sadly today that is exactly what the government does... ohh what what 150 years of "progress" brings
Or, you make the process cumbersome enough that the individuals who complete it have already demonstrated commitment.
This anecdote relies on the knowledge that many Australian universities, particularly for technical subjects, rely on a lot of group work for assignments, which the conspiracist in me thinks is to help mask the prevalence of plagiarism. Now, the anecdote:

When I was in university one of our projects was to submit a functional web application handling sales and loans. It was a group assignment with 3 other students, and I asked everyone to contribute on git, not for any technical reasons but because I wanted an audit trail.

One of the group members, a ‘full fee’ student, submitted something so obviously copied, including a bunch of comments in another language, and that looked nothing like our UI, that I googled a snippet and got back almost the entire thing.

I immediately sent the commit link and link to where it came from to both the class tutor and the lecturer because I’m not risking this having my name on it, and the response was nonexistent. The student still passed the class.

That’s the state of Australian universities as far as I’m concerned, having lived it for 6 years and never seen any other action taken against any instance of it.
Carbon doesn't do the next logical optimization, and only converts a const& parameter to a value. If a function has parameter "const struct_with_two_floats&", and reads it, calls puts(), then reads it again, Carbon will not be willing to optimize out the "redundant" read.

It seems odd to break with C++ semantics for small parameters only; I'd expect it to either break for all parameters or no parameters.

EDIT: looks like Carbon is not doing this optimization for small values either. Its docs on parameters say, "This binding will be implemented using a pointer, unless it is legal to copy and copying is cheaper". And the OP link says, "the compiler is allowed to convert that to a T [copy] under the as-if rule." That seems like no extra optimization is enabled other than changing the function calling convention. And the "as-if" rule would require looking at the function body to check if the value could be changed (by things like puts()). I hope my understanding is wrong because this does not make sense. The word "legal" is ambiguous, so hopefully they mean something else!
Can you name any capital projects in the last 30 years where the US government did a great job of a) controlling costs, b) meeting the stated design goal, c) on time?
Biomimetic ideas in engineering go way back. In Greek mythology, the Daedalus story starts with him getting trouble for killing his nephew Perdix out of jealousy - the younger man had invented the saw by mimicking the ridged pattern of a fish skeleton (or serpent's jaw) in the edge of an iron sheet.
>> and the worst-kept 20% will immediately lose the plot

Which is stack-ranking - fire the lowest x% of performers every year. Yeah nahhh, no problems with that idea, nope.
I have an extremely low opinion of blockchain/crypto, but in the interest of fairness, I did read an FT piece a few months ago about how banks are apparently actually using the blockchain for currency trading:

"HSBC and Wells Fargo are cutting out a key part of the currency market’s infrastructure from some trades after the two banks agreed to settle transactions directly on blockchain technology.

From Monday, they will use blockchain technology to reconcile and pay out on deals in dollars, sterling, euro and Canadian dollars between the two banks, using HSBC’s FX Everywhere platform. The agreement means they will bypass CLS, the nearly two-decades-old utility that central banks urge market participants to use to neutralise the risk of certain trade failures"

https://www.ft.com/content/1a4dcaf5-2b4b-4f0b-8c58-a8fa173f2...
https://archive.ph/qs8Cg non-paywalled link
I'd prefer if more programmers learned about the hardware so that they could start to move away from bloatware.
AMMs work pretty ok on chains. The list is subjective.
I got one after 3 years in Lewisham, in 2021.

I'm pretty sure I've spent more in equipment, consumables, seeds, etc. than I've got out of it so far but it's very enjoyable.
https://archive.ph/kYN0k
One of the hurdles to having a true Clojure on Rails is finding a suitably synonym for “Rails” except starting with a C.

Perhaps Clojure on Causeways or something?
Wow, this brings back the joy that Stumble Upon provided me years ago :)
I'm sure the name has been discussed endlessly already, but I was quite surprised to see a discussion of the exciting feature of a deprecated API! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)
Who wants to know the BOM of their microwave? The vast majority of people just want their products to "just work".

Nobody ever reads the manual. Nobody wants to know whats inside their gadgets. Nobody has bandwidth to consider the tradeoffs of data collection.

Life is short.
Steps Towards Achieving Financial Independence
Ah, so this wasn't gitkraken that was meant, then?
SMRs are an opportunity for economies of scale to kick in for nuclear. If you can start building reactors in factories, and interate on designs, then you can see economies of scale kick in.*

That said, I am not super bullish on nuclear, and agree with your position. Solar and wind are just getting too cheap for nuclear to get the investment needed to catch-up. If we see someone crack the code on cheap storage of electiciy, solar and wind will runaway with the prize. Not coincidentally, storage is has vastly more investment of money and brains on looking for ways to scale vs nuclear.

*Safety concerns with nuclear will make iterative design difficult to pull off!
Fully half the development cost, and all of the construction and deployment cost of the first few placements, was picked up my US taxpayers. But Bill Gates and cronies retain 100% ownership.
It should be noted that there is no shortage of anti-war content on VK, either - it's taken down when reported, but whether it's reported is another question. It all depends on one's circles.
Would you be so kind as to cherry-pick a few successful "real world" Blockchain projects then?
Nope lol it's most closely relatable to a product recall/repair.
About Cloudflare's Durable Objects
Have you considered that not everyone finds their coworkers insufferable, actually finds the camaraderie enjoyable, and do make friends at the office?
I know, but that limitation should have sunk the whole idea instead of them relying on iframes. They could make a popup like PayPal (doesn't solve the picture-in-picture attack you linked to, but still better than iframe). The best way to avoid phishers would be to not collect login credentials at all. I expect some kind of token signed by your bank (and generated on your bank's site) could have created a secure way to verify your account without asking for your password. Users have been trained for years with "we will never ask for your password", and for good reason.
On some car models you'd have to disassemble half of the car to get there.
You can upgrade a MacBook Pro 13 M1 with an M2 pro board, but Apple cripples it
My little city has about a dozen of them. Usually they are legally parks, which makes it harder under NY law to get rid of them.
This can also be seen financially with monetary inflation and a ripple effect.

So now there's more than one kind of astronomical inflation :/
Never heard of that site. Any more info on it? Hard to find an English source and my French is not great.

The DDG result for the page has swastikas which gives me an idea at least.
I don't know how they could obtain warrants with no evidence of a crime.
Clearly a business dispute.

So not just the Sheriff but a Judge or Magistrate is dirty too.
What does that say for that jurisdiction?

"The sheriff was detained by the FBI at an illegal brothel with under age sex trafficked girls in Vegas"

https://padailypost.com/2018/05/03/sheriff-talks-about-vegas...
Even more so because Japan does not encourage immigration. But I think in the long run this will be better for Japan. It will probably be the first modern economy that will learn to deal with a shrinking workforce.
I can understand why it's desirable to avoid access to production, but having access to production with the right tools available (debugger, tcpdump, etc), can drastically shorten the cycle between problem discovery and fixes. Yeah, you can do it with both hands tied behind your back, but are you getting enough value out of it?
> The capital costs of nuclear are so high the current model of marketing electricity doesn’t work.

It doesn't work because nuclear is the only power where all the externalities are accounted for. The average coal plant kills more people with radiation released from burning coal every year than all nuclear accidents combined.

But because it's nicely diffuse no one cares.
It lacks the social component.

That being said, and to your point, taking oneself out to a restaurant, especially a new one, is worth trying for anyone that hasn’t.

And I’m showing my age. Not like dining alone means things like SMS stop working. Or whatever people use these days. It can be social.
> Money transfer use-cases would fall directly in the category of “crypto-only”. For as long as Bitcoin has existed, this has been touted as a great use-case — but it never really materialised.

So Stellar and MoneyGram are not 'Money Transfer Use Cases'? [0] If not, why did they partner on this in the first place if they didn't think this was a possible or a feasible use case?

On NFTs, Blockchain domains like ENS (Ethereum Name Service [1], Handshake [2], etc) are the only valid NFTs that have a use case. Seem to work fine for Namecheap [3], Encirca [4], etc, with millions of these domains registered so far. Once again, 90% of all NFTs, including the JPEG ones will die with the remaining 10% still surviving including blockchain domains.

But yes as always, the extreme anti-crypto boosters like ghuntley will do anything to boost the most ridiculous of posts. Including this one.

Oh dear.

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/moneygram-launches-...

[1] https://ens.domains

[2] https://handshake.org

[3] https://www.namecheap.com/domains/handshake-domains/

[4] https://www.encirca.com/
It turns out that friends and even relatives often stop listening if you repeatedly tell them something they don't like to hear, as many Ukrainians have found out.
Even 3D TV got further. You could actually buy 3D TVs for a while. There were, briefly, a few shows you could actually watch.
Juris Hartmanis (1928-2022)
This is wrong. Blockchains validate data. Their purpose isn't to store it. Mostly the answer to do you need a blockchain is no
I’m surprised there’s no mention of R3/Corda. There’s a lot of good real-world application of blockchain in their portfolio, which us effectively a consortium of banks working together. Documentary trade finance is where blockchain finds decent uses.
> All evidence I have seen is that the youth are more prepared than ever to navigate these matters with or without lots of close proximity.

Can’t say I agree with this. I’ve seen too many cases that lead me to believe we are closer to a society-scale neurosis given the scared shitless attitudes displayed by the younger generation over the past 2 years.

Less and less people can navigate their way out of bed with a clear mind, Nevermind ascend and accomplish the aforementioned matters.
I don't know about Handshake, but GNS isn't block-chain. As far as I understand, it's a distributed hash-table:

https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
Look at the source code of web.dev site :-) It's Eleventy with gulp for asset management.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web.dev
Is the Brain a Computer?
Made even better by the last word starting off with a different letter!
This is an article about nuclear plants starting to be produced at scale.
> The parts are clearly cross-compatible and we’re again faced with what seems like an attempt to block repairs and replacements through software barriers.
What are even the yardsticks by which nuclear storage success is even measured? /gen
If you call a function with `f(large_struct, &large_struct)` and f() mutates through the second/pointer argument before reading the first/value argument, will its value change even though the function signature looks like a pass-by-value?
This is such a micro example but is having a 5 year old cry more desired than throwing the toy back? Needing some higher power when through age/ability the child could handle the situation themselves? Does this create a person at 25 who needs some external party to settle disputes and does this become a situation where this child learns to twist people into tools by playing on emotional responses?
The rest of academia is like that too. Depending on the day, I’m some combination of an embedded developer, zoo keeper, surgeon, (data) scientist, manager, writer/illustrator, accountant, and carnival barker.

For articles, LaTeX is not even that bad: most journals want you to stick close to their own article class. Posters and talks are the real timesuck.
Ask HN: Career advice for junior, do I wait for perfect job to job hop?
Hello all,

Currently debating my first job hop as a software engineer. Through some different pacing of job interviews (and the hiring freezes), I am in a situation and I am not sure whats the best path forward.

I have an offer that I really like. Great pay increase, hiring manager seems great, in a city I really want to move to. The only downside is its a generic Java Backend role (which is what my first job it). Its not bad, because I do enjoy backend work, but I have been really interested in moving into low level programming. I've wanted to try getting a job working in C/C++/Rust and on OS stuff or low level cloud stuff.

I currently have a chill job and I could turn this offer down and keep applying to jobs in hopes of getting everything I want + also the low level aspect, but I don't know if I am gonna regret turning down an offer that basically has everything just because I want to keep searching.

It is not like I am unemployed so I have no real reason to jump ship, but I am not payed well now and live in the middle of no where. I can tolerate it in the short term, but I don't want to spend another 6+ months here. I want a new job relatively soon.

EDIT: I guess my question is, is it a good idea to try and wait? I am a bit inexperienced (1.5 YOE) and I work at a bank not an actual tech company, while the offer is a tech company. So should I go there first as a stepping stone? Then go for the ideal job once I have more experience?
This certifies NuScale's 50 MWe reactor. But the CFPP project has moved to the 77 MWe version, and as I understand it that has not been certified. UAMPS also has only 103 MWe of subscriptions out of 476 MWe (6 x 77 MWe).
German success? You mean the country headed into a winter where they will be shutting down their industry have people freeze to death at the whim of Putin?

I shudder to think what failure looks like to you.
Emerging markets hit by record streak of withdrawals by foreign investors
Back in the early '00s I read Stoker's Dracula and then just by chance ended up going to England for a work assignment. I visited Whitby and saw the steps at the church that Stoker described. Utterly amazing to be in a place described in a book written 100+ years prior.
> The military have fielded many reactors for a considerable amount of time. > We've got a bit over fifty years of fielding nuclear reactors in submarines. Where are all the inevitable disasters, if that is the case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari...

Three from the USA navy. It is a lie that the nuclear reactors on submarines have been safe. Two have been lost at sea (one was sunk in harbour)

Nuclear reactors on ships generally, submarines in particular, are a terrible idea. As evidenced by the fact that the US Navy has sunk three, two catestrophically. If the US Navy cannot do it, who can?
The problems start with frameworks that require custom compilers and non-standard module systems.

If you use vanilla JS in standard modules most of this goes away.
The one thing I do note is that modern perfumes/colognes seem to dissipate far too quickly. This gives them an overpowering presence initially and then they dissipate to nothing.

I distinctly remember a bottle of cologne I was given by a girlfriend back when dinosaurs walked the earth and secretaries still existed in companies. If I wore the cologne on Saturday night and any of the secretaries got a good sniff on Monday, I would get ribbed about having had a really good weekend. It was actively difficult to get rid of all the fragrance. That simply doesn't happen with modern scents.

I presume that some extremely key ingredient has been found to be horribly toxic or terribly inhumane to collect.
He didn't "take the first N Google results". Read the top of the article again. He took the projects listed in this article https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-applications on this basis:

> Apart from being the top #1 result, and a reasonably recent article, Builtin.com has 300+ employees (per linkedin), and is a company built around the tech startup community. Part of their business seems to be maintaining a database of startup companies, including the ones mentioned in the Blockchain article — so they have some business incentive for the data to be accurate.