skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TL;DR: The top #1 Google result for “blockchain production users” (and related queries) lists 34 individual “real world blockchain” projects. One would expect some actual functioning projects that have an impact on every-day consumers — outside of cryptocurrency & NFTs. Looking into all 34, I found that 13 are already dead (including one that has been killed by the SEC), 6 are only useful within the crypto & NFT ecosystems and not in the “real world” and 14 use Blockchain in a way where removing the blockchain would not impact functionality at all, or make the product better. The remaining project is Chainalysis, which has real-world impact by helping law enforcement de-anonymizing blockchain users.

So basically the author found nothing good (and I haven't either, though I commend their depth of investigation). I'd be open of objective approaches any objectors would recommend doing differently to find a top 34
Diagrams are the ultimate engineering tool
Good! hopefully the cost comes down too

Its pretty baffling to me why we don't do ultrasounds a lot more than we currently do them. Recently went down the rabbit hole of childhood cancers and there are so many that can be detected and treated earlier if ultrasounds were a standard practice at every check up.

The rationale for not doing it seems to be just cost , and its likely you dont have cancer. But if you do , I would sure like to know early!
> PII attached

No. its' a second hand buy. maybe if purchased directly

> Could the police subpoena it?

it's also an import. probably any info is saved in a server somewhere in germany. Possibly yes, but which police ? in which country ?
This article kinda sucks…

It makes a hypothesis and abusing some statistics that doesn’t offer any proof.
Yawn. Now do the same for Berlin, or Hamburg, since it's your home turf.
Punishment isn't any sort of compensation. Victims receive compensation. Compensation replaces a portion of the loss represented by crime. Perpetrators receive punishment, and it doesn't replace anything. It actually represents even more loss (in the US to the tune of something like $40K a year per prisoner.)

edit: Punishment for the victim is like a gift-wrapped empty box. It doesn't fix anything that the crime did, and the system pretends like they're doing it for the victim. The system punishes perpetrators in order to stop the victims from doing it themselves. It's not a favor.
Theoretically if you just used a runtime that didn't depend on code being transpiled and transformed a million times over (e.g deno) you could just run your damn code. It would even work in the browser, if you used `import/export` syntax instead of `require/module.exports`.

I don't buy the argument that the existence of separate binaries for the typescript compiler, test runner, packaging system, etc. is somehow unbearably confusing, I would almost prefer that over certain other languages where one magic command does it all. Although if you like that, you could try `bun`.
It appears not. Safari appears to remove the GPS data when you upload. I tested it myself by uploading a photo to https://exif.tools/ and no GPS location was reported. The same image copied to my laptop and then checked locally with exiftool did have the GPS location.

Also see this thread https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/326789/gps-exif-fr...
Tl;dr some security is better than none

If it does anything to add privacy it’s a good thing, even if it can be sidestepped, it’s a good thing.

Just because a lock is easily broken that doesn’t make it useless, it can still act as a deterrent for opportunistic crimes.

One time I took a bike to festival. The first few days I was locking it up safely with a bike lock and chain, as I’m used to doing in the city. Eventually I decided to just use some rope to tie it to the rack with a basic square knot.
I would always half expect to come back and it would be gone, but I rode that bike home from the festival.

Even if the software is open source and provably secure (hahaha) you should probably assume that there is a way for a MOTIVATED actor to extract data from your internet connected device that THEY have possession of! Moral of the story is be smart and/or don’t put stuff on your phone you don’t want other people to see.
How do you think AI-generated Art could be regulated?
I've thought up a couple of scenarios in my head but would like to hear other perspectives on the matter. How harsh would these regulations be? Will there be any at all? How might they differ between countries? etc.

Also, whattup I'm a newbie to this site and programming in general.
Yup.

Natural smells are very often poisons targeting insects, infections or grazers. The target isn’t often humans or mammals in general which is why things are relatively safe, but many are still active to some degree.
I wasn't trying to suggest that there wasn't end-to-end training. Just that it was based on those models that were subsets of the problem first.

As far as "the drill bit must go near the screw", my idea is maybe there is a representation of 3d geometry, an attached representation of physics interactions, another understanding of types of shapes, another level of drills versus screws.

You don't program it, you train it end to end to reproduce the scenarios, but based on those modules.

I'm not saying it's easy or practical for most projects to do all of that from scratch. But to ke it seems like a sensible program.

As far as voxels versus mesh, I actually think somehow you want it to understand surfaces and high level shapes. Again a pretty big ask.

But the basic concept is that we know these are all important semantic categories and if we can create some modules that encapsulate the understanding then we can get more accurate and more efficient reconstruction.
I work for money.

Money.

Money.

Not to make friends, not to build culture.

Considering how offended everyone is now, work isn't the place to socialize.
There are a lot of workers out there in the world that need a lightweight way to enter data into forms while they are in the field. They may be interacting with clients / customers in a living room, front porch, etc. Likewise, the lidar features are handy for people like real estate agents who need a cheap / easy way to map spaces in houses / buildings (and I'm sure there are tradespeople, etc who need similar).

There are lots of types of workers who basically look up stuff on the web, respond to email, and maybe answer some kind of chat program. A full on laptop is really more than they need and probably has worse battery life.
That kinda „explains” why they want the US gov to give them money for new fabs?
I mean there's not even a toolchain yet, it's just an interpreter to play with, and you can use it on godbolt.org

I'd only worry about compiling it yourself if you intend to participate in Carbon's development in the near future.
I basically like this idea too, although rather than the worst-kept 20%, I'd define a standard at the beginning of the year and then do any that don't meet that standard at inspection time, no matter what percentage it ends up being.
> Java has Play

Is Play still (or ever was?) the go-to web framework for Java?
For some magical realism heavily featuring perfumes, read Jitterbug Perfume
My experience in tech has been that we’ve had a lot more positive social interaction online than in-person. In-person, everyone feels like they have to be productive for the full eight hours in the workplace, while working remotely people feel more free to spend some time being social.
VMware Fusion Beta Joins Parallels in Supporting Windows VMs on Apple Silicon
> It has the usual cool features you expect from a modern language: useful generics

Are they trolling Go here?
Make them all masters.
If Americans considered Intel an ally when passing the CHIPS Act.. with allies like these, who needs enemies?
Because shipping tons of frameworks has become boring, now the cool thing to do is to build JS runtimes.
> All these values are no indication for the upcoming Pro models of the M2 that we expect in the updated MacBook Pro 14 and 16 models later this year since these chips are supposed to be manufactured in a new 3 nm process.

Wasn't that the same story we heard about the M2, too? I'm starting to think these rumors are some Mark Gurman originals...
France is right now buying coal-fired power from across borders.

Domestic coal consumption figures are meaningless.
Gamedev, presumably. It's not unusual to have a LOT of triangles and coordinates flying around and GameDev is basically locked to C++ (for many good reasons even if I find C++ distasteful).

Admittedly, those probably aren't running on 32-bit systems, nowadays ...
Some punishment might be ok but the prison system in many states is more like torture. One example is that some of them design the cells to have maximum echo... When you speak it drives you crazy.
One benefit of many small reactors is that, should an area become a conflict zone in the future, relocation is more feasible.
The capital costs of nuclear are so high the current model of marketing electricity doesn’t work.

The same will be true of fusion. Set a target level of service and make electric generation a government service. The government is better at capital projects anyway and if energy were a taxpayer funded service it would transform society in many ways.
Nuclear needs subsidies due to a long history of large cost overruns and other issues.

https://energypost.eu/how-profitable-is-an-investment-in-nuc...

And France, with many Nuclear plants, has recently had issues keeping the plants up. Many of the most problematic plants are newer ones.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-3939/frances-energy-woes-wo...

The reality is economies of scale have kicked in for solar and wind energy in a way they never can for nuclear. We are at the point where it makes sense, at times, to overprovision renewals to ensure enough supply.

The issue with renewables is storage, of course. But that problem looks to be more solvable than cost effective nuclear, a problem which we have not solved in over 50 years. One can say if we were only smarter we could make nuclear more cost effective, which is probably true. But we built a nuclear power plant where a tsunami occurred in the past, only to find it occurred again, so we aren't that smart. The issue with nuclear is everything has to be right for it to be cost effective and safe, and nuclear is too complex for humans to consistently do this.

Safe nuclear power that is also cost effective is not a problem we have solved.
I agree, but it's not like nation states do a better job than private entities... I mean, you gave an example yourself.
I believe the SQLite operators were directly inspired by PostgreSQL and MySQL. There's a detailed comparison here: https://sqlite.org/src/doc/json-enhancements/doc/json-enhanc...
> students would just remotely connect to their laptops at home

The point of requiring university-owned lab computers is that it'd be feasible to lock them down to prevent this sort of thing.
This is the correct answer. Found this out when I was doing a ham radio antenna install on my car. The shark fin for the XM radio antenna (that I never use) sits on top of a hole in the roof, and a nice hole in the roof is a the perfect spot for a ham radio antenna, so I removed the shark fin. After disconnecting it I noticed it also disconnected OnStar, GPS, etc. It's all integrated into that fin.

Once disconnected, the car isn't going to be able to send anything even if it tried. Only question is if your car is gonna bitch at you because it's disconnected (mine doesn't).
> It’s just a choice of what metric of scarcity to use.

That is an analysis by choice. There are other ways of looking at the world, and at economics, than "measure everything".

The "metrics" methods of analysis are useful, but insufficient. Human dignity/happiness cannot be measured, and from the evidence of this New Yorker piece, it is both that the writer is getting from the allotment.
The waitlists for community gardens are arguments against density enthusiasts who want to force changes on unwilling residents.
Yes they are if they if the competitors are able to produce goods much more cheaply due to not having to sustain the cost of environmental/labour regulations. And for the most part, its winner takes all.
That is, of course, if your Chevy Bolt does end up in flames. According to letters from GM, never park your Bolt under the same roof you live and to be safe, park it away from any structure.
It's certainly not a universal rule. I used to chair our town council, we had two sets of allotments, and we were very happy for people to sell their produce if they wanted to.
Swindle?
Nuclear never achieved economies of scale because of the anti nuclear crowd. The cumulative number of nuclear power plants built is a drop in the bucket compared to coal and gas plants.
Civil nukes have never had any strong safety culture. The emphasis has always been on cost-cutting, because nukes have always been too expensive to compete fairly in an open market.

Every nuke, ever, has been massively subsidized.

NuScale has been and is still being massively subsidized by the USDoE. It would be wholly uncompetitive with renewables if not so propped up.
I kinda question the scientific methodology of "take the first N Google results". Not only for obvious reasons, but also for the reason that a lot of infrastructural projects that have a lot of real world effects are not routinely discussed in the press (because they are extremely boring to everybody but specialists, also because nobody but the specialists knows they exist, or understands how they work) and thus would not show up at the top results. What would show up is more marketing than technology. And, of course, since we are living through the initial hype cycle, there would be a lot of marketing to sort through. Limiting oneself to look only at the most hyped projects virtually guarantees you never see the deeper infrastructural ones. I am not passing judgement on how good are those or how many of them use blockchains properly - I am just saying the methodology used here is doomed to miss them. It's a good entertaining reading, but it's more gossip column than industry research quality.

That said, it is true that companies like Chainalysis (it is in no way alone in this field, of course), which bring visibility, analytics, risk assessment and so on into the blockchain world, have a real world impact. I think the accusation of "censoring transactions" is misplaced - first of all, on a decentralized blockchain you can not really censor a transaction (you can do it if you're a centralized exchange gatekeeping an access route to the chain, but that's a different thing) - but the impact is there and is going to grow nevertheless.
Why do Web3/Metaverse skills keep getting listed as "must-haves"? Am I missing something, or are the economics of a Web3 job somehow more attractive than working at Google or Netflix? Sounds to me like these articles are getting written by special interests, since the average programmer will likely never explore cryptography, finance or deep-learning. They're domain-specific topics, often dominated by domain-specific professionals who "every programmer" cannot compete with.
Glitch union was (quietly) dissolved
Seems to be the case, with passive cooling on macbook air m2 you will hardly notice a difference compared to m1
Amazon Black Hat Seller Scenario
Nuclear power has the lowest deaths per unit of power of all commercial power generation methods [1]. The externalities of nuclear power are highly visible and concentrated in a small physical and temporal range. This makes them obvious and scary. The externalities of other power generation methods are diffused through time and space, to the point that they appear mundane if they are noticed at all.

Coal power kills 1000x as many people per unit as nuclear. Natural gas kills 40x as many. Solar kills 4x as many. Humans have shown themselves to consistently be incredibly bad at comparing chronic and acute risks at scale.
1: https://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArt...
Elixir is a functional language as well, and borrows inspiration from Clojure in particular.

I haven't dug into Clojure enough, but I'm curious why you think a conventional MVC-style framework wouldn't be a good fit (not that the article is making this argument).
You won't find any new vehicles without extensive remote data collection infrastructure, whether or not it is obvious the data is being collected. This has become a necessity for automotive OEMs due both to regulation and economics.

Modern automotive hardware is almost completely undifferentiated, and this commoditization means the hardware is essentially being sold at cost. The only opportunities for differentiation, and therefore profit, in the automotive market involve leveraging the vast quantities of sensor data thrown off by vehicles. In many cases the data of interest is not even about the driver per se but the external environment. There are many use cases for this data, both by the automotive OEM and third parties. In most developed countries, both the automotive OEM and the government have a right to this data. The regulatory frameworks for this were put in place decades ago.

Organizations that work with this data have great difficulty because off-the-shelf data infrastructure can't handle it in a meaningful way. Currently, exploitation has been more theoretical than practical.
A lot depends on the school I'm sure. I failed a student for plagiarism once and there was no hassle, but it was a pretty big research university and 15 years ago.

Dealing with football and basketball coaches whose players were failing, on the other hand, was absurd.
I mostly agree. I used the phrase "good faith" for that reason. You shouldn't assume anything is 100% secure. I'm just sympathetic to a good faith attempt without too many strings attached.

That said, I agree something is better than nothing, but if they want praise from a more technical audience (hacker news for this example) they're gonna need to do more than tie the proverbial square knot.
What you seem to be missing is that it's only a tax on voluntary participation. Like smoking, gambling, purchasing anybotger form of entertainment. It's not a regressive tax in the way you're portraying it but rather a consumption tax.

Sure, the poor are more likely to play but I think your argument is on more solid ground if you flip it and suggest the lotteries shouldn't be taxed. At least not like they are. The problem after all is not that people play lotteries but that so much of it is taken in taxes.
> It's awesome, but can we please just get together at the next Conj conference decide what our "Rails" is going to be? That way we can get down to business

I like the rallying call here. I do think it be nice for the community to do whatever to help Clojure's viability and popularity.

That said, my issue is that I disagree with the approach. I've already moved on to business and I use Clojure.

I think this is the clash the community faces. On one side you've got the people who seem discontent with the libraries approach, and refuse to embrace the hosted nature, they want a native Clojure, no reliance on interop. They might not know Java or JavaScript and might be unfamiliar with their runtimes, or simply discontent with them and don't want to touch them ever.

Then you've got the other side of the community, I think where I fall in, I want to do things my way, don't want to learn any framework, instead I'll just do it like I feel and it'll work better for me, as I'll know it ins/out. I dislike framework, I'd rather just straight up use things directly, I want as little indirection, and I have no issue using interop and having a few wrapper shims when needed.

That side of the community is just delivering business as usual with what's already there, and it doesn't seem much more is needed.

Unfortunately, I also think there's another dimension between this dichotomy, the latter group, where I fall for example, I think is leaning more experienced, senior, team lead, Clojure is their third to fourth professional language, they've settled in it. The Stackoverflow survey did show Clojure had the most senior leaning user base, and probably because of that is also highest paid.

I think this is an issue, because take me, in Java, C# or some other language I've worked in professionally, I'm all up on advocating for use of the frameworks, the DI, the design patterns, and I'll contribute. These languages are too heavy, you can never get anything done quickly or without the man-power, and you don't want too, it's not fun. So you need to rally yourself behind one thing, even if it's not perfect, there's no room for experiments.

The reason I'm using Clojure is to get away from that though, it's for the freedom to experiment, the ability to within the business budget, be able to deliver the same amount yet custom built half of it exactly as I want.

I couldn't get away with that in Java, I'd miss deadlines.

So if I assume half the community is like me, I think that's a lot of people who don't want to focus on one framework, or one way to do things.
> Not that I don't believe you, but why don't surgeons get bacterial illnesses from mask use? Did you regularly wash your mask?

yeah it's almost like the whole cloth mask phenomenon was total bullshit!

cases "surged", deaths didn't. the Civic Center was never used.
PATH_MAX simply isn't (2007)
You're not missing anything. It's a ponzi scheme. It can't exist without the hype.
At some point in the 20th century, America invented big-scale office life. We were the envy of the world for it.

And so it would have continued, had not certain ideas about the shape of the world turned out to be disastrously wrong.
I initially considered that... But then you can just pay someone to meet the standard, and keep the allotment forever.

It effectively becomes land you own permanently. And the price would probably go from 'a few hundred bucks for something that will entertain me for a year' to 'an investment that will rise in value and I can give my children, so $400k'.

Knowing that a fixed percentage of owners will be stripped of their holding each year makes it a very unattractive investment, while not preventing most of the other uses of an allotment.
> 3 Buzzwords Every Low-Effort Blogspam Should Consider Including

FTFY
I tried switching from Surface to iPad Pro, and was woefully underwhelmed. Just felt like I couldn't get anything done. A big one was the lack of browser extensions (at the time) which I needed to organize my tabs and sessions, and while they are slowly closing the gap, it's still far from a daily driver in my eyes
The so-called "free" market doesn't care about consumer rights, though.
> because they don't like what they say, and because they show a different side to western propaganda...

News stories are often engineered to achieve a specific desired outcome.

What do you call something that is engineered to cause destruction or chaos? I would call it a weapon. Just because it isn't incendiary, doesn't mean it is any less able to cause destruction. You wouldn't let someone who has engineered an explosive bring it through your borders. I don't understand why you would let someone who engineered a story for the purpose of creating chaos transmit on your equipment.

The west has sanctity for all communication due to the potential of misidentifying good faith communication as bad faith. Good faith communication should enjoy a level of sanctity, but to say bad faith communication should be treated with the same sanctity as good faith communication in all situations seems deeply optimistic at best. At some point the pragmatic call has to be made that the risk of labeling a good faith communication as bad faith is low enough that action must be taken.

This game is worth playing: https://ncase.me/trust/

It beautifully demonstrates what happens when you give unfettered trust to those who abuse it.