skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right-wing abomination known as "critical race theory", as described in that Newsweek article, is that it has absolutely no connection to what real anti-racism is. The anti-CRT people—let’s call them what they really are, pro-racists—have created something from whole cloth that allows them to raise lots of money and outrage.

The two privileged white authors of the opinion piece are disingenuous, at best, as what they present as "anti-CRT" does not match the videos and witch hunts that I have observed over the last couple of years led by the same sorts of screaming white crowds as throw rocks at Ruby Bridges.

Similarly, what they are presenting as "CRT" is 100% identical to the pro-racist straw construction. It does not even remotely resemble any program that any of the many anti-racist activists I know would support.

The same people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges in 1960 are now terrified that their grandchildren are going to learn that they were people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges.
I agree except "an staggering amount of crime". This has been studied a lot and there is no clear evidence of more crime than normal occurring just because of bitcoin
Not quite what you're asking but once I've narrowed down a code base to the particular area of interest, I use an old school method for grokking:

Print the relevant sections off to read and use pen to mark and note against them; I find it extremely useful (and less tiring on the eyes) for linking functions and clarifying code.
Name a main stream one that is easy? I run archive nodes for SOL, ETH, Polygon, others.
Making sensor sizes less misleading
I doubt it'll make much headway, though I'll admit this is the direction they should've started Rust on. Imagine if all this post-C++ effort was put into just making a functional package manager that'd be an actual game changer imo.
Hey, we came up with that same system to force folks to use our .onion address on an IRC network, years ago.
Gilder co-founded Discovery so you'd have to assume this essay is somewhat representative of the kind of thinking that inspired its creation. I've read plenty of Gilder and I honestly don't know what his exact views on the origin of life are. I'm sure he has his problems, but doubt they have much to do with whatever the original opposition to Darwin was. The point is very much that it doesn't matter. A purely deterministic and materialistic theory of evolution could be perfectly true, yet one has to concede it cannot possibly give us much of an edge in solving today's problems. The meat article made me think of Gilder's essay because it's a perfect example of trying to employ Darwinian thinking when it cannot possibly help.
This would have been much more useful if the author had described what each project was intended to do, rather than just dump on it.

IMHO the use cases that make some sense for blockchain are identity, ownership certificates and providence, and trustless exchange/settlement between institutions. ie where you want ot be sure you got your money, even if your counterparty goes bust overnight, eg for forex settlement, or anywhere some kind of escrow is currently used.
Typescript + Node + ESM is definitely a problem that's not _completely_ unrelated. I do agree that Node setups are usually a lot easier to work with than frontend, though.
It's worst for banks, since they hold a lot of the financial strings to the property. The pressure rolls downhill from them onto debtors. If their property investment business fails because people are using developed land more productively than they anticipated, they are in huge trouble. That's a whole business model and class of assets effectively stranded.

There's a reckoning coming forth in these back-to-the-office articles. Short of blowing up the internet, the market is going to do whatever it wants with or without the banks, and it doesn't matter how much avocado toast snark is put forth.
All that tells me is that the Swift implementation is different from the one I implemented.
Three reasons:

* Cost of procurement.

* Role of the ship: why have an expensive ship that turns into a radioactive reef in a role when one of its missions is to "take a bullet" for a carrier?

* No competition. The Soviets were gone.
Sadly many countries have currency controls that prevent that.
I do that all the time. The point is to socialize with coworkers.
What, JVM language with no ffi?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358578918_Epicenter...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357008566_Time_shif...

p.s.

Just skimmed the papers. Based on the first, I think you need the location of the target (which could be moving) for this mechanism to work. (The target is the 'epicenter').

Wondering if having a voice signature of the target would allow for fishing for the target's voice if location is not precisely known.

p.s.s. the papers are authored by scientist named in the OP.
Just a nit-pick: clojure.java-time wraps Java's own _immutable_ java.time.* classes and it really doesn't provide much value add. I initially thought it did and introduced it at work but we're taking it out of a lot of our code now and using plain interop -- it's only slightly more verbose, it's already mostly "functional" in style, and it gives us more precise control over conversions between different types of date/time values.

Your main point about interop as a barrier to non-Java people is reasonable -- although if you learn a hosted language, you're going to have to learn stuff about the ecosystem on which it is hosted (so, not Java itself, but some of the JVM stuff and the docs for any libraries you interop with). And this is true of the JS ecosystem supporting ClojureScript (and the .NET ecosystem supporting ClojureCLR).
In 1987, Usenet and email were already pretty great. (And that was all before the web!)
Genuine question: is this a nuclear power failing, or a business failing?

According to the wiki article, several issues from the inception of the plant through the failure were ignored, all of which either made the failure worse or would have arguably prevented it. My understanding is that the plant itself was already supposed to have been shut down, but duty was extended; I'm not sure if this was to move towards break-even on cost, or just to prevent a power generation gap, or make more money. Note that the plant in question is one that had been shut down previously because TEPCO had been caught falsifying inspection and repair records.

IMO (as a total non-expert) nuclear is probably safe, it's the people running it that screw it up for everyone. Maybe that's not a meaningful distinction? I'd sure like to have a discussion about nuclear that doesn't conflate failures of leadership with failures of technology, though.
If they were comparable that might be true, but they are not interchangeable.
Diablo Immortal brought $100M to developers in less than two months
There's a possibility you're experiencing the difference between eau de toilette vs parfum. One is more concentrated than the other.

Also definitely possible things like shrinkflation are at play.

https://www.scotchnaturals.com/beauty-makeup/the-difference-...
You'd think control over the materials in these small plants would be much better than for the radioactive materials already widespread and easy to obtain, like cesium 137 calibration sources used in healthcare [1]. Apparently one of these would allow a dirty bomb to contaminate 40 city blocks [2]. So I reckon there are easier existing sources for radioactive materials if one wanted to cause mass panic, I don't think spent fuel rods are going to end up in the municipal waste.

1 https://www.perkinelmer.com/au/product/cesium-137-calibratio...

2 https://www.wired.com/2011/10/ff-radioactivecargo/
I didn’t say there wasn’t a lot of wasted talent elsewhere.

It’s really sad in general how much money there is in bullshit and how little there is in things like medical research and exploration.

The luxury of useful work is quite rare it seems.
A few that come to mind:

- Alaskan Way Viaduct

- Tappan Zee bridge replacement

- Billions in highway projects.
One thing I like is that:

foo(a=1, b=2, c=3)

is shorter (and, I would argue, clearer) than

foo().a(1).b(2).c(3)

and requires only one method declaration and one method call.

Also for constructors you don't have to worry about partial or out-of-order initialization. Is the above the same as

foo().c(3).b(2).a(1) ??

What if one call involves opening a file or allocating some resource that is used by another call?

One nice thing that method chaining does give you is being able to differentiate external and internal parameter names. Swift (for example) supports this with argument labels for doing things like

insert(something, into: list, at: position)

rather than having to use the variable name:

insert(something, list:list, pos:position)

Of course I wish that Swift supported ObjC/Smalltalk-like syntax so you could just do

insert a into: list at: position

Note SwiftUI actually uses method chaining for some reason. It's OK but I would have been fine with named parameters.

But I do like Smalltalk's method chaining/cascade syntax:

robot walkForward; wave; sitDown.
The second part isn't...
I generally stayed away from the crypto folks at my old firm, but I did get tangentially involved in one project that remains the only reasonable blockchain use-case I’ve seen — a Corda dapp for untrusting and untrusted financial parties to independently negotiate multilateral financial instruments in a permissioned chain. Looks like the consortium involved is still operating it.
Will it dial 0118 999 881 999 119 7253?
Well, at least, if it comes to a revolution, then for worse or for better, the "rest of the country" won't matter much either.
WhatsApp: We won't lower security for any government
I'm as skeptical of Bitcoin as anyone, but this is not a very good argument. You'd come to the same conclusion if you evaluated the state of aviation in 1900 or photography in 1820. Even the Internet was useless to the average person in 1982 (13 years in).
And your reply game me a chuckle :) The code is unfortunately not open source so I can’t provide the evidence. You believe what you want to believe of course. However I am happy to answer any questions on how it is implemented down to the lowest-level nitty gritty details.
Al Gore was first elected to congress in 1977.
I guess this was posted on HN due to the recent announcement of NuScale's SMR approval by the NRC.

While I'm rooting for them and for nuclear energy in general, Rolls-Royce's SMR stretches a bit the concept of SMR. Their SMR is supposed to deliver 470 MW of electicity, which is close to what a full nuclear power reactor produces. For example there are lots of CANDU reactors around the world that produce 600 MW.

NuScale's design is much smaller, about a tenth as large as RR's proposed design. The whole idea of SMR is that being small they can be build at a much lower cost, so 10 small SMR will cost much less than a reactor that is 10 times as large.
> only thing it has enabled so far is risky, unregulated investment strategies

Did you miss 2008, shitty CDOs?

> and an staggering amount of crime

How has BTC enabled crime more than cash?
Well, yes, technically you are right - if the majority of the miners agreed to "censor" a specific transaction, then it would be censored. But that's not what the article claimed - Chainalysis, or any company like that, certainly wouldn't have power to command the majority of miners to do that. If there's a reasonable valid reason - such as a bug in the software - then you'd expect the majority of miners to accept that. If somebody like Coinbase would be able to control the majority of miners, then yes, they'd also would gain the ability to censor transactions. But I don't see any sign of that actually happening.
Most of the Clojure web frameworks I've seen have been designed and built by fairly experienced Clojurians -- but I'd have to go read each of those frameworks' rationale docs to see _why_ they actually built them.
The fist electric batteries via electric eel's electric organ's cell stack.
It doesn't provide any value for society. Maybe a bit of entertainment, along with destroying some people's lives (problem gamblers). It basically just syphons away money from individuals to corporations while not providing much in return.
Sites like PhotoPea and Google Docs capture right-click to offer right-click menus more in line with what you'd expect from a desktop application. You could argue that other UX schemes can work without that, but since that's what a lot of people are used to, I'd say they count as valid use cases.
I am sure it is no longer a big deal but alot of high security perimeter sensors used this technology.
Dividends are just a mechanism to realize profit without having to sell a security. Amazon and Google pay no dividends, for example, but the gains from their growth are very real. You just have to sell to realize the gain versus a dividend where you receive a payout instead of the price of your holdings increasing.
Nope. The compiler does a full program optimisation, reducing the reference counting to an absolute minimum. There is close to zero overhead passing data around. It does not work like C++ shared_pre. shared_ptr is slow.
my wife's work does mediocre games with "nft gear" that can be re-sold on some kind of marketplace
I guess the hard part is making the real substance and then making nice crystals to put in the device. I think they are just lying about everything.

Also, it looks like they are changing the topic each year to follow the current fashion, and they are publishing like 200 papers per year, so $50K is like $250 per paper. My (totally unsupported) guess is that they are charging a few hundred bucks per paper, so using a real diffractometer to make a new unique fake image for each paper would duplicate the price of each paper.
The primary purpose of blockchains is to prevent a central authority of regulating a currency, anything beyond it is hype. You're discarding the technology as whole without taking into regard its original intent.
I think OP was referring to how Mr. Rogers introduced the show to a Canadian viewership, not him starting the show there
Not just organisations. If you’ve never interacted with your local communities, you should. They’re the nicest most welcoming people I’ve ever met and they deserve the utmost respect.

They know more about this land than you’ll ever find in a book as a result of being a mostly spoken word culture.

It is their land and you should pay respects, a small ceremony isn’t too much of an inconvenience.
Bitcoin has made it drastically easier to monetize a system once it’s been compromised
You can just use a usb to hdmi cable or adapter
It’s interesting giving attribution of crime to Bitcoin and not the internet or hackers. The internet has facilitated a staggering amount of crime as well as the fiat currencies of the globe.

Let’s suppose this 14billion dollar number of Bitcoin crime is right … https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/01/06/crypto-crime-hit-an...

Global credit card fraud hit 32billion in 2021 - https://chargebacks911.com/credit-card-fraud-statistics/

And that’s just credit cards. It’s not wire fraud or other fraud.

Why do you focus on the mode of criminality and not the crime or criminals itself?

I’ll give you that Bitcoin like ALL the other value transfer mechanisms has some criminals using it but surely you aren’t suggesting Bitcoin is worthless and only provides a mechanism for crime.

As for investment risk. Check Netflix stock ytd or for that matter Enron. Or the entire bank crisis of 2008. Is Bitcoin really deserving of this much attention?
Imagine going back to the 80s and 90s and telling people "the web isn't peer to peer! We have to replace it!"

It would be extremely confusing. Didn't we invent HTTP and IP and the web to let computers shoot messages to each other directly? What happened to that?
No details. It is illegal for Canadian citizens to bribe workers of foreign governments. So, of course, I was able to do everything without ever exchanging money with a foreign official. But, if one were in a position to do so, I imagine things would have proceeded in a much more efficient way.
write as many of these opinion pieces as you want, I'm never going back to working in-person
Shouldn't be surprising given the mobile ad business is estimated to be a $400 billion market, and Apple is already billions from search ads - https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/15/apple-ad-business... ... Apple has already begun harvesting its users data and alerts its users that their data from Apple apps will be used by their advertising division (but ofcourse, there is no "opt-out" option - you can "opt-out of getting personalised ads but you can't opt-out of getting your personal data being harvested in any manner - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074 ).
I'm kinda amazed that 5 years ago is considered "ancient" these days, and stability over such a short time interval is considered remarkable.
I miss a lot about in office life. The parent talking about the newcomers i think really nails it the most/worst, not just because work is now 100% work, but because most people are totally isolated, heads down on their tickets, and dont see so much of whats going on. There's no serendipitous learning: few random exchanges, little chance to see someome beaming & hear them brag/explain, rarely chance to see someone struggling & have somone step in.

Anyhow. On food in specific, for the last decades I've dreamed of trying to get people trying & exploring new things. But wow, it felt like folks were absurdly attached to their staples.

That said, in my 20's, I was crazy dollar-conscious. I still ate out for lunch a lot, but the thought of paying $2 or $4 more than any of the abundant quality high-value local shops for something more upscale or just more elaborate was super hard to swallow. $13 buffet at Majer House Kabob was like the pinnacle of richness. So I get some of it. But also, it was still disappointing feeling unable to rally for a good exploration.
The provided link doesn't seem to load for me, and manually navigating to charitystack.com redirects to a parked domain-for-sale landing page. You might want to edit the CTA in your post to charitystack.ORG, which looks like the correct TLD.

It's also unclear what is to be done after signing up. The signup box just swaps with a pretty checkmark and.. nothing happens. If I go back to the homepage, it looks like there's no way to actually log in?
Not true.

Most major media outlets around the world confer with state agencies for information, there is some degree of responsibility to protect the lives of individuals and sensitive issues, that does not make them 'State Affiliated' nor 'Propaganda' outlets.

The NYT can and does publish whatever it wants.

More importantly, the NYT is usually fairly factual.

The CBC or BBC are 'state affiliated' though still mostly independent.

RT and Russia One are direct branches of state control - they coordinate their entire 'truth agenda' with FSB, GRU, Duma, Military and other officials to promote the state agenda. They promote mostly bombastic rubbish with little bearing on reality, and call for the invasion and nuclear eradication of Europe and America, specifically to get their own citizens in a frenzy.

Consistent with this policy is the punishment of anyone who publicly disagrees with the 'party line' or talks about the 'war' in any way that is inconsistent with Putin's wishes.

Fortunately, you or I can walk down any street in the USA/West and say almost anything we want about Biden, Bojo or Trudeau, and thankfully nobody will do anything about it.

USAGM is obviously biased, but it's also mostly truthy, and it competes with a a variety of any other voices. On the whole, it's hardly influential. Almost zero Americans for example, are affected by anything they say or do.

And of course, this notion that the DoD employs 50 000 people in 'media' roles is ridiculously false.

American media is painfully biased and narrative driven, it'd be hard to make sense of the world by 'just' watching either CNN, MSNBC or Fox, but thankfully we can watch all three and absorb information from an enormous variety of sources. All with the help 'media bias checkers'.

The information situation between Russia and the United States or any other Western country is not comparable.
That's true with iCloud Backup specifically, not iCloud. But unsecured notes and photos don't fall under the encryption umbrella, so syncing those means you lose privacy. Even syncing messages is safe, since messages are shared with your private encryption key. iCloud Backup and photo syncing are pretty much the bones thrown to US law enforcement.
Coming soon: Meta Fiber
Sounds pretty staggering,

Two Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspira...
Is this a joke?
This is like the little piggy who only built his house with straw saying he refuses to make it less safe and secure for the wolf. lol.
It is a Haskell inspired language but not Haskell. The syntax is similar but it is eagerly evaluated and has no IO and no data cycles. It is used 100% for evaluating complex optimisation and business rules within a client application. The language was carefully crafted to maximise rules writer productivity and execution performance.
Having heard this argument a nauseating number of times, it's fairly clear that people on both sides who say this use "the internet" when they mean "the web." So 1999 is a better "after 10 years'" benchmark here.
Storj for storage and Zcash/XMR for privacy made valid improvements.
Useful Bash script help manage command history
> Honestly, doing that may be easier and a better option than using Nix packages in MacOS.

Respectfully, I disagree. I’ve been using Nix on a couple of my Macs, including on an M1, and I’ve cutdown my dependence on homebrew almost to the point of its absence; I rely more on Nix packages, than on Homebrew packages.

Having said that, I still wouldn’t recommend anyone using Nix; steep learning curve, and too many rough edges.
The history of aviation is full of people taking inspiration from flying animals
Until reading this article, I thought "just desserts" etymology was the final 'treat' one deserved.
It's true that, at least at present, Cloudflare Workers is primarily meant to implement web application servers. There are obviously many other ways people use servers which Workers does not yet address.

I don't think the post was intended to mislead people into thinking Workers serves those other use cases well today (or 4 years ago, when it was written). Rather, I think Zack just wasn't thinking about batch work as he wrote. When you spend all your time focused on one problem space, it's easy to forget that others exist.

With that said, I do think the Workers architecture will be a great fit for batch work when we get to it. The reason being, infrastructure for batch work is often all about bringing the code to the data, rather than bringing the data to the code. Workers is extremely good at running code in whatever location is ideal, in extremely fine-grained units. Yes, supporting only JavaScript and WebAssembly will be a limitation, but I suspect the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages.

But again, we haven't had the chance to focus on that yet. If you're doing heavy batch work today, Workers probably isn't the best place for it. Yet.

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
> I also didn’t want to go through Chevy dealer hell again to get a new one.

Are Chevy dealers particularly bad? It’s not clear from the article.