skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does it get to this point? I live in a country with a fairly corrupt government with a free media(South Africa) and most people rank corruption as the biggest problem facing SA after crime.

(I'm speaking from an Arabic background)

The cost of speaking up is too High, you know what happens when someone speaks up, and its not worth it.
Nothing will change, and your life will be ruined, and your family will be affected too.

In my experience(not Russian), people talk about the goverments action privately and with trusted relatives, just don't expect any action because no body is going to risk it.

> But for the general population to really not care about censorship,war&corrupt government, surely these are basic values we take for granted as humans? &So long as we have encryption, tor & VPNs at our disposal, citizens of all nations can transcend the self serving narrative pushed by governments.

A lot of people can see what happens when you speak against the government, and what happened in other nations when the people rose up, it ends up in a civil war or a never ending cycle of corruption.

They see they have food, they have a good or acceptable life, they have electricity.
That's enough, and its not worth it to risk dying in prison for speaking against the government.

Its mostly happens when people have nothing to lose.

And dont dismiss that a lot of people support the government, they see the positives, see change, and just simply ignore the bad things, for them rising against the government is how you end up in a destroyed country.
> You can't give prisoners free, high-quality education, no matter how helpful it would be to prevent crime after they're released, if you're not giving it to the general public, or else the general public would commit crimes to be educated.

Doesn't the US do exactly that with health care? I have heard of a few people committing crimes to get free treatment, but it doesn't appear to be a widespread issue.
Two brothers selling shares in themselves
Erlang is not commonly used for web applications though, with Clojure, you had existing Java shops with Java web app who transitioned to using Clojure, simply keeping their Java web framework and writing their business logic in Clojure instead.

If you adopted Elixir, you most likely were starting from scratch, a green field project. Since Erlang is already great at concurrent distributed systems, Elixir's niche became web application development, and it didn't have much existing libraries or frameworks to leverage, so I think it makes more sense for an initial popular framework to come to existence and rally others around.

It still built on Erlang fundamentals, its web server is Cowboy for example, but there wasn't much on top to help with other parts of a web app.
This is absolutely true - binance plus stablecoins is how the economy works there.
This has been my experience as well. I was nervous to start depending on NixOs for my work, but when I started at a new company ~2 years ago, I decided that was a good time to dive in. I have absolutely not regretted it. My setup is far less troublesome than any of my coworkers managing a bunch of different python versions for various python applications on macos.
Along with setting expectations, you can set consequences.

"If you do X, I will do Y."

With that understanding, you've left your child a choice, and you are not being an authoritarian parent, provided your consequences are within reason. Many parents will simply do Y without letting their child know the consequences ahead of time. That can lead to disdain of the parent, rightfully so!

If your boss asks you to setup a meeting, and you invite a salesperson he didn't want there, and he demotes you from being "meeting organizer" for that, is it justified? Was he clear it was an engineering meeting, or tell you not to include salespeople? It depends on the context. Maybe you needed to learn something, maybe he did, or maybe you both did.

Many parenting books do not regard this as "Punishment", yet it is still discipline. See "Positive Discipline" for more on this topic.
People on submarines tend to know the systems they are responsible for very well since their life may depend on it. In this case they knew which valves to turn to stop the flow.
We wrap ourselves in the skins of slaughtered animals, line our cars with them, cook and eat their flesh, suck their milk out and bottle it to drink, perform experiments on live mice and monkeys injecting them with chemicals and experimental medications at increasing dosages to find side effects and death, spray toxic chemicals that cause a holocaust of invertebrate life over millions of acres of farmland, harvest millions of tons of fish and "bycatch" out of the oceans by dragging nets through them.

Playing with a few dead spiders is pretty mild in the scheme of things I would say.
I mean... it's a ledger with an incremental attestation mechanism. It's a subset of a Merkle Tree. That's about it. There are some deeply technocratic applications for such a thing, such as: slightly better chain-of-custody tracking, identifying regions of large datasets that have been modified, etc.

The idea was patented in 1979.

That's how old it actually is, and it's found its way into numerous useful things. However, exactly zero of them have been as revolutionary or transformative as say the automobile or the internet and are about a million more orders of magnitude short of all the promises made by people using it as a means to burn electricity to sustain a marketplace addicted to financialization instead of actual productivity.

Disclaimer: has dealt with Merkle Trees and cryptographic assurance in distributed database, global payments (root of trust & settlement), and safety-critical systems use cases.
VDOMs aren't inherently slow... Inferno uses a VDOM and scores within a few % of SolidJS on js-framework-benchmark. (Never used it myself)

https://www.infernojs.org/
Pausable subscriptions sounds hard to market. If netflix said that you need to pay $0.10 / hr people would be less comfortable with spending time on the platform. Every time they watch something they need to make a mental decision of if this episode is going to be worth paying $0.10 or if I should just browse TikTok for free.
In case anyone was curious, this paragraph

> After the bombing ended, US Special Forces and Dostum’s troops herded 3,000 surviving prisoners into sealed metal containers and drove them for 20 hours to Sheberghan prison. Most of the prisoners suffocated along the way. When the convoy arrived at its destination, the containers were emptied and the prisoners who had survived the journey were shot. Their remains were buried in a mass grave.

presumably refers to the following event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasht-i-Leili_massacre
Someone linked the youtube clip of the testifying before congress down below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5PMPIdG_Y
There could also be subzones. But great writeup
> the 1940s was a long fucking time ago

And yet we're still cleaning it up :)

> In 2007, the Hanford site represented 60% of high-level radioactive waste by volume managed by the US Department of Energy and 7–9% of all nuclear waste in the United States (the DOE manages 15% of nuclear waste in the US, with the remaining 85% being commercial spent nuclear fuel). Hanford is currently the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation's largest environmental cleanup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
I agree with the problem, not sure about the solution. We don't have a good small/middle ground crime punishment. I actually don't hate the idea around the Chinese social credit score system (China's use of it is abusive, horrid, and dystopian). giving people points and taking some away for minor crimes that then spill over to privileges or benefits of society seems like a decent idea, one better than hitting them with sticks.
Seems a rather large claim to make with no further elaboration.
Oh yeah Helium...that blockchain with a whopping $78k in annual revenue and a $2.1-billion valuation. [1] They're just paying venture money to hotspot owners at this point. There is no functioning business model.

[1] - https://twitter.com/liron/status/1551738599254773765
While pursuing my Ph.D. in chemistry, I was asked to peer review an inorganic chemistry publication in which the author attempted to fake crystallography data. In this case the telltale sign was that they left the hydrogen atoms in the structure - X-ray diffraction is unable to resolve the hydrogens, you need a more sophisticated technique like neutron diffraction for that.

What it turned out they had done is optimize a predicted structure of their molecule using density functional theory (DFT), then draw it like a crystal structure would be displayed (a 3D plot with error ellipsoids at each atom, with probable bonds shown) and tried to pass it off as a true crystal structure. My advisor missed this when he reviewed it first - if you're reading quickly, you just see a crystal structure and accept it for what it is. So I wonder how many like this slip through the cracks every year. Apparently a lot, if the CCDC identified ca. 1000 of them.
Although I strongly believe in preservation I also understand that some things will be lost forever. Although we try to preserve as much as possible we cannot preserve it all. As long as we preserve the majority of software/hardware does it really matter if some things get lost?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05267
How would you compare that to what Jack Dorsey is doing with his Web5 project: https://developer.tbd.website/projects/web5/
A blockchain is an append-only log. Upgrading ancient technology is a huge use-case for blockchain tech. The advantage of this platform is that settlement is probably much faster and it will presumably be relatively easy to add more than two parties to the system, without running into gnarly trust issues.
I don't think it's reasonable to think about it in such a simplistic way.

BTC has been subject to massive swings. Just looking at CoinDesk, it was easy to find a time where it doubled in value in less than a month. Why would any reasonable person spend that sort asset?

I think the dynamics of the market are as important as the technical features that some digital currency has.
Other forms of justice must surely be better in the long term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitative_justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
Add this one to my list of command line tools that Rust has improved to the point where I consider it noteworthy: (ie not just Rust for the sake of being written in Rust; must be materially better)

- htop

- ripgrep

- fd

- tealdeer

- dog
That's one of the most surprising things in the article.

I was like, whaaat, the courts can actually top the government from doing things ? This is already much better than most dictatorships.
...yes? The C++ is absolutely ABI stable, and is described in excruciating detail, as demonstrated by all those C++ libraries, that you don't have to recompile for on every OS update.

I suspect you're confusing when you make an ABI change, without changing the API, which is indeed an easy thing to do: You have to make sure that you only add members to the end of objects, however that exact constraint also applies to C.
Declarative: Describe the result you want (without any implementation details).

Imperative: Describe step by step how a global mutable state is manipulated.

Functional: Describe how an immutable value is calculated.
Humming and thrumming down 60 percent, bubbling and burbling at all time lows. Oh dear! I think she has us confused with fish in an aquarium?
I reflected recently that, for years, I've carried a previously unverbalised and deep-seated expectation that JavaScript Will (Eventually) Be Replaced.

The language contains so many lurking horrors, accreted over the years, that it might even seem irrational to assume otherwise.

I suspect this sense of ephemerality then pervades the entire extended ecosystem, including all JS derivatives, reducing everyone's time horizon to maybe the next eighteen months at best. Thus the roulette wheel of broken tools keeps spinning.
Solar and wind currently use fossil fuels to fill in gaps, but they don't require that. It's just that while we're still burning fossil fuels without CO2 charges, using them for gap filling is the cheapest thing that will do it.
Nothing is stopping you from requesting such a warranty from your vendors, and refusing to buy from those who fail to offer such a warranty.
Oh, absolutely. I do think, however, that the very nature of trying to make a new currency (the first and still primary use case for blockchain) is almost inevitably going to have this problem.
fr its slick af and gives off mad apple commercial vibes
I'm sure Carlos Bolanos will still get full pension, even despite her gross abuse. Why isn't a clean exit a requirement to collect pension? It should be forfeited when they step way out of line.

Messed up incentives, this may be fully calculated on Carlos' end.
I suspect there are still consequences here, but GP commenter does not regard them as punishment. I can't imagine parenting without any consequences. Like, I'm going to grab your arm if you run into the road, obviously. Where you draw the line on that depends on the parent.
Yes, thank you for clarifying the joke :)
Haven't you heard of bedrock by expensify?
It's one thing when something gets lost because all copies were destroyed or lost before anyone knew it was worth preserving. It's another story entirely when someone has one, knows people want to preserve it, but refuses to allow it to be copied.
Well

1) I suggest you look up the fascinating history of the wheel (as we know it so far)! The axel was actually more likely invented for turning wheels (think pottery); and again, humans are very capable of realizing that angular momentum is conserved when they spin (in that situation they are the axel).

2) I’m a little confused by your point. I concede that no organism has evolved to be Cart-like in its movements, but to say that it had no inspiration from biology seems to create a needlessly narrow definition of invention and inspiration.

3) I think the point you’re ultimately making is that people are clever beings and should use logic instead of simple observation. I think a better example there is nuclear physics (because it very strongly supports your point!)

But maybe, as usual, everyone is right/wrong. Contrary to your point, we are constantly finding new biological inspiration for invention (from nano to macro scale!), but to your point, some of the coolest stuff we do could never come out of the biological Monte Carlo simulation we are a part of.
How do you break into a career in machine learning?
Presumably whatever 1970s tech they were using previously was creaky and needed to be replaced. It probably had long settlement times. You’re correct that if two extremely trusted parties are going to handle all settlement, you can just have one party run a centralized database. But this gets more challenging when you expand from one party to dozens, and the trust relationships get less clear. Since you’re building a new platform anyway, you might as well build a database that’s replicated and decentralized and doesn’t require trusting any single party for availability and correctness, at which point you’ll either use a blockchain or something functionally equivalent.
These aren't protein crystal structures, they are metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), so AlphaFold probably wouldn't work well on these ones.

It would be really interesting to see an equivalent model trained to predict these structures. The physical chemistry of transition metal complexes, especially when multiple metals are in close proximity to each other and connected by shared ligands, is much more complicated than proteins. The reason is because of multireference effects - essentially the quantum entanglement of multiple possible electron configurations. These are exceedingly difficult calculations to perform - common approximations are O(n^8) or worse and require highly specialized knowledge to apply correctly - so an ML model that can efficiently make predictions in this space would be a major transformative breakthrough.
They either didn't have the games I wanted to play or the latency was above the threshold that bothered me.
You're simply making a generalization in the opposite direction, and since neither of us is presenting hard statistics you have no special claim here.

Perpetrators being insufficiently punished is the subject of controversy because of the nature of the crime: it is not unreasonable to think that someone who murders a person should never be let back out into the community (because they have shown they're a clear and present danger to anyone).

The same basic problem exists with rapists: victims fear that the rapist will be released, but more importantly fear that they will either return and re-offend, or re-offend anyway - again, public safety.

In both these situations, the actual goal being expressed is "this person makes me feel unsafe, if they are somewhere they literally cannot ever get near to me, then I would feel safe - and so that period of time should be as long as possible".

A rapist in jail for 15 years is 15 years they cannot possibly commit another crime against the victim or the community (ignoring the grotesque situation prisons have in that regard as a separate but very valid issue).

Controversies over jail time exist due to deficiencies and lack of control over actual safety concerns, and where they do not they exist as absurdities: i.e. murder - permanent deprivation of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - somehow being less seriously punished then drug possession - literally no possible impact to anyone except the possessor, and maybe some handwavy indirects surrounding the drug trade.
As a victim of violent crime, that is not my experience. Whether or not the victim wants retribution seems IMO to be cultural, religious and based on education. I am in support with victims of violent crimes (including murders), and the majority of the victims do NOT want retribution, unless it involves some magical method of enlightening the perpetrator. They often feel that retribution is yet another thing (like the original crime itself) that is being projected onto them involuntarily. Let it go already. If you do not let it go, you own it as physical pain and sickness in your own body.
There's a simple "bs filter": ultimately, a block chain is just a simple data structure. So when I read about hype stories, I mentally replace

s/blockchain/linked lists/g;
s/artificial intelligence/regression/g;

If the story still makes sense, good; most of the time, it turns into a laugh.
I love problem solving but I hate programming. I was using PIL the other day to format images for a tiny LCD. The logic took me 20 minutes and was very enjoyable. Figuring out the idiosyncrasies of the library took double that and was maddening.
I don't know about elsewhere, but there's a "community garden" I walk past every day. No idea how long I'd have to wait to get a plot in there.
I'd counter its not "committees of experts" but "committees of stakeholders and powerbrokers" with equally misaligned incentives not worth replicating.
So, I guess they'd not be winning Apple's business any time soon

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/10/18/intel-ceo-hopes-t...
Have you seen pnpm[0]? Has some similarities.

> Files inside node_modules are cloned or hard linked from a single content-addressable storage

Also (IIRC, it's been a long while) it's lockfile contains enough information to translate it directly to a Nix derivation[1].

[0]: https://pnpm.io/
[1]: https://github.com/nix-community/pnpm2nix
I have built my own database engine on top of a general-purpose data management system I invented. It has an application that will let you create a DB table from a file (Json, JsonL, CSV, etc.). The application uses the Qt windowing framework that also includes a Json parser so I just used it.

It seems slower than I would like, so I wonder if your code could be used as a stand alone library for parsing the files? My current implementation is able to parse about 25K Json documents per second when each document has 20 KV pairs. I used the Chicago crime data available for download on their open data portal.

How fast will your code parse it? Here is an example of three lines:

[
{ "ID" : "10224738", "Case Number" : "HY411648", "Date" : "2015-09-05T13:30:00", "Block" : "043XX S WOOD ST", "IUCR" : "0486", "Primary Type" : "BATTERY", "Description" : "DOMESTIC BATTERY SIMPLE", "Location Description" : "RESIDENCE", "Arrest" : "false", "Domestic" : "true", "Beat" : 924, "District" : 9, "Ward" : 12, "Community Area" : 61, "FBI Code" : "08B", "X Coordinate" : "1165074", "Y Coordinate" : "1875917", "Year" : 2015, "Latitude" : 41.815117, "Longitude" : -87.670000 },
{ "ID" : "10224742", "Case Number" : "HY411435", "Date" : "2015-09-05T10:55:00", "Block" : "082XX S LOOMIS BLVD", "IUCR" : "0610", "Primary Type" : "BURGLARY", "Description" : "FORCIBLE ENTRY", "Location Description" : "RESIDENCE", "Arrest" : "false", "Domestic" : "false", "Beat" : 614, "District" : 6, "Ward" : 21, "Community Area" : 71, "FBI Code" : "05", "X Coordinate" : "1168430", "Y Coordinate" : "1850165", "Year" : 2015, "Latitude" : 41.744379, "Longitude" : -87.658431 },
{ "ID" : "10224745", "Case Number" : "HY411654", "Date" : "2015-09-05T11:30:00", "Block" : "031XX W WASHINGTON BLVD", "IUCR" : "0320", "Primary Type" : "ROBBERY", "Description" : "STRONGARM - NO WEAPON", "Location Description" : "STREET", "Arrest" : "false", "Domestic" : "true", "Beat" : 1222, "District" : 12, "Ward" : 27, "Community Area" : 27, "FBI Code" : "03", "X Coordinate" : "1155536", "Y Coordinate" : "1900515", "Year" : 2015, "Latitude" : 41.882814, "Longitude" : -87.704326 }
]
What is your point?

They obviously have metadata to hand over.

Device backups are irrelevant.
I don't know about the Japanese, but I'm certainly not willing to pay taxes to provide free food, housing, and entertainment to people who are capable of working but choose not to. Their happiness isn't my concern, and they can go get a job no matter how miserable it makes them.

The vast majority of people eventually figure out a way to "swim" when they're left with no alternative.
> but I'm not.

What if I told you that every single one of them tells themselves the exact same thing? You wouldn't believe me of course. But then, neither would they believe you.

You probably believe as much nonsense as they do, but you've only noticed what is actually a very small non-overlapping slice of the very large overlapping collection of nonsense beliefs you share with them.
Look up: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
> Technically telegram does have optional e2e but group chats weren’t supported last i checked.

And aren't supported on desktop either, no body uses them, they are severely limited on purpose.

> Source on operational costs?

Telegram saves everything you do on the platform, every message, every picture, every video, every file with no limit.
They market it as a feature, on their twitter they often say you can use it as cloud storage.

This absolutely costs more than WhatsApp or signal, which only use servers as relays.

> Dont they have “telegram premium” thing to earn money now?

Its a very recent thing, and it has a very minimal effect, and the previous years didn't just pay for themselves.
Pardon my language, but how the fuck is it possible to ruin a company like Intel with 0 consequences like this?

Something is deeply wrong with our economic/legal system.

Why do semi-making jobs pay so poorly when they literally underpin everything? But kids out of college make 150k mashing NPM packages together?

I blame free trade and the fact that the fed is allowed to engage in quantitative easing for a lot of these issues. Why care about the country when you can just play financial games instead?