skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envisage the examination process being very thorough, with a combination of practical tests, in person cross-examination by a team of interviewers, essays, etc.

MIT could absolutely ask you any sort of question they would expect you to know, or ask you to do anything you’re expected to know how to do.

I envisage it being a multi-week process. I think for undergrad CS, maybe two weeks is enough? But it’s be up to the degree-granting institution how long they take and how it works. I can easily see it taking a variable amount of time too, depending on the applicant. A one-day multiple-choice vs a two-week hands-on assessment would mean the degrees would have quite different value.
Allegiance to shareholders is also not created equally. Harming all shareholders is bad. Employees own shares in many cases, RSUs or otherwise.

But companies aren’t thinking about context. Money for shareholder means satisfied shareholder. The end.

Companies have to make sure most shareholders are happy. Or more accurately, that those holding the most shares are happy.

That won’t be employees. It won’t be individuals. It will be other companies.

Companies are allied with the companies that hold most of their shares.

But companies are basically people so companies basically care about people. Really companies just care about companies.

Save for the super elite, individuals aren’t on the radar. They get dividends incidentally.

This all becomes an even bigger mess because companies can’t keep other companies (and politicians) happy if people aren’t supporting the companies, through purchases.

But if the politicians can just provide a little support, by way of taxpayers…
Who doesn't love their FICO® Score and all the critical economic opportunities that it gates... I mean provides?
Full context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmpz4uOGjGU
I used to think that Bitcoin has no assets underneath it like all experts says. However, I have changed my views. There are ultra-libertarian type folks who will rather risk tremendous losses than give in to their principles. These are probably 5-10% of the folks in US. Then there are people hit by a corrupt governments and high inflation (> 20% yoy). These are probably a 5-10% of folks. This IS the “assets” underneath bitcoin. In all, I think the value of Bitcoin eventually stabilize at around 1% of world GDP eventually given these reasons (regardless of it’s actual utility to make transactions). This comes down to about $40k per Bitcoin in 2020 money. It would obviously not wise to not sell if it ever reaches 5X of this or $200k in 2020 money.
You forgot to explain how
Usually in stone (buildings/sheds), farmland, or readily usable goods that keep well/provide value (rice, dry beans, generator, fridge).

Sucks if you need to run though. But usually if you're wealthy in an unwealthy/poorly banked country and can't leave for some reason, you keep your assets in the place you'd run to if you really had to.
What? If you think a government can’t enforce crypto bans, then you haven’t thought about it very much. MITM certs to snoop all internet traffic, tying all devices to real identities as a prerequisite for internet access, making it a crime for merchants to accept any payment but the national currency, etc, etc.
> Therefore, the modifications from a transaction will be applied in place in these pages.

With mvsqlite it is applied to the transaction's own snapshot of the database. Changes are not visible globally until transaction commit. That's what we get from page-level MVCC.

> More over, without WAL, SQLite to the best of my knowledge would require read-lock on every read as well

Reads are also MVCC. Data is fetched from a consistent and clean snapshot of the database, without uncommitted data.
The post tries to take a Luddite approach of avoiding a debugger and chuck it up to experience.

I used print debugging in platforms where debuggers suck (mobile, embedded). I also understand other developers of kernels, language runtime, etc. that take that approach. In the cases I used that it was due to lack of options. Tracepoints are almost always superior to print debugging:

* You can't forget them in the code before commit
* You can chain them with breakpoints and each other
* You can use conditional tracepoints
* You don't need to recompile/restart

Logging is great but it's not print debugging... It's a long term strategy and is committed to version control.
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Pearl Harbor converted the US in the Pacific from a 17 knot navy to a 25 knot navy.

We did get five of the eight battleships back (although some were basically cored out like a rotten tooth and rebuilt almost from scratch.) Two ships were left there (Utah and Arizona). Oklahoma was raised mostly to free up its slot in the harbor, but sank in 1947 while being towed to San Francisco Bay to be scrapped.

The BB's role in the Pacific War was as AA platforms and for shore bombardment.
> You'd be trading one climate catastrophe for another.

No you actually don't. Even under the most absurdly bombastic delusional fantasy of nuclear-haters the amount of damage nuclear waste deep in a cave in a desert can do is about a billion times less then climate change.

And even based on the pessimistic assumptions, it would be save for 1000s of years.

Are you seriously gone tell me that we should worry about 1000+ years into the future. If we do not have massive technological decay, the people in the next 1000+ years will have the technology to reprocess the fuel if they feel like it.

And if you do assume massive technological decay then the nuclear fuel is in a cave in a desert that will be essentially uninhabited and will most likely never seriously impact humans.

Even further this whole debate is incredibly dumb since putting into a deep cave is terrible idea anyway. As a human society we can just store it above ground in a save location and in case some danger is identified, we just move it to another location. Moving a few tons of nuclear fuel around ever couple 100 years is really no big deal. And again, if society collapses to a point where this isn't possible, that nuclear fuel is the least thing to worry about.

And even all of that is totally irrelevant, because the real actual solution is to simply ut it into advanced reactors, burn it up to a point where it is only 300 years away from matching natural uranium and you simple put it back into the mine where it came from.

If you do it correctly, we can get every person in the world using US like energy and we can store the complete output of world nuclear waste on a single abandoned Walmark parking lot in Gary Indiana.

If we used basic rationality this would be a non issue. This is a cultural political issue, not really a technical one.

> What does waste transport look like then?

Mhhh well it would be an occasional train going along the train network that would never hurt anybody.

And nuclear isn't that far away from coal level of production.

> Maybe this waste belongs precisely in the back yards of those of us who create it. Then we'd be truly careful.

I'm totally fine with storing all nuclear waste around the Whitehouse if that gets people to stop bringing it up as a problem.
So this is how the skeksis created the garthim
IMO I think we need to create new ways to meet people.

I definitely understand and feel firsthand the lack of social interaction from our post-pandemic society. A lot of stuff are online now, like grocery shopping, college classes, and of course work. This is a lot more convenient but it leaves out social interaction.

That being said, the social interaction you get from shopping college and work, mandatory interaction with random people, is less than ideal. If we replace it with something like meetups and clubs, where you a) meet with people who actually share common interests and b) are able to not interact with people you don't like, that would be much better.
Your provided link does not take me to any kind of survey results.

Regardless, I think it's safe to assume the Stellar Foundation polled their own users, and not a representative sample of the general population. "Cryptocurrency enthusiasts use cryptocurrency" is not exactly an interesting or surprising survey result.
I’d be pretty tempted to legislate that the two types of institutions be prohibited from having any commercial relationship as well. There cannot be any incentive to grant degrees that aren’t earned.
Ha, what a joke! Forget About Backdoors, This Is The Data WhatsApp Actually Hands To Cops - https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/22/whats... ... And note that the law enforcement can also access the actual messages from your own devices or backups on your device or the cloud. Even Apple has allowed FBI access to iMessages from its iCloud (which are apparently stored unencrypted).
Okay, now think about this a bit further. Bitcoin is banned in your country and it's extremely risky to make a network connection to either the Bitcoin network, the client applications (better hope you disabled automatic updates and telemetry…), or industry sites.

How are you paying for that sat-phone? That's expensive, so you need real money and amounts of it which are beyond, say, the average North Korean. If you have a way to launder that money and conceal it, why do you need Bitcoin?

What are you doing to get Bitcoin? Again, you need hard currency which the average North Korean doesn't have access to.

Who are you using those Bitcoin to transact with? Nobody in country can use it legitimately so you're restricted to the black market and very riskily exposed since your full history is available to the government if they ever identify you or someone you're doing business with. It's much safer to use a suitcase of foreign currency since in that case you're at least only at risk for the amount of cash the police find on you at the time you're busted.
As a junior, most jobs on the market will be rather crappy. Take what you can at first. You can be picky at a "senior" level.
It's not quite that simple because the user can search for more than one word. Generating all searches for one or two words is probably feasible but not much more than that. After that you probably do want to just generate one index per word and merge them together at search time to dynamically generate the search result page.
Cooking food in your home and selling it is legal in Cali. with a license
I think most people are rightfully skeptical of survey results where survey methodology is not disclosed.
And the French use a very expensive wasteful method. There are much better ways to reprocess fuel if you can target modern advanced reactor designs.
This (mostly) checks out

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Rogers%27_Neighborhoo...
Elixir is close to a different syntax for Erlang/OTP. It has high quality built-in alternatives since it came into existence.
>> "we are forced to own nothing and be happy. Bitcoin, Blockchain and crypto solves this."

Serious question, what/where does this apply to? I get NFTs for digital authenticity, but PKI solves this too. How does one "own nothing without blockchain" when we have property deeds, automobile titles, jewelry and fine art certificates of authenticity all without blockchain? Your comment comes off as a solution looking for a problem.
In my limited experience (using a Chevy dealer to lease a Bolt), they are not particularly bad. Still, I wish it were an online process.
> I really think people haven't come to terms with how unusual our era is.

My thoughts exactly. After seeing this infographic, I couldn't help but realize we are living in such a unique time.
I doubt anyone is interested but I'm building some tooling for node and npm in jenkins.

Just standard stuff, nvm, nodenv, npm and npx wrapper.
What’s the down side of making the lottery easier to win and capping the prize at 100k?
> Solar kills 4x as many.

I dispute this number. Are you considering roof mounted residential solar? Most solar in a solar-powered world will be on the ground.
I’ve seen enough of these config wranglers come and go (and built/maintain a few myself) to know that the mismatch between user needs and project templates cannot be bridged.

To be happy with a tool like this, you need to use the vanilla output. If you need anything more you’ll be in a world of hurt. But unfortunately often real world apps begin to need something more.

Perhaps this time will be different? I hope so but I’m not optimistic.
TV Tropes. Design patterns for entertainment. It triggers the part of my brain that enjoys learning something new, as well as the part of my brain that loves junk.
> How does it get to this point?

Russian society has always been at this point, at least, according to the trend of 19th century literature and foreign accounts I've read going back to the (I think) 17th century.

If you are willing to spend a little time to better understand Russian society, search out the online videos with Mark Galeotti. He is a political scientist specializing in the politics, military, and organized crime of Russia and Ukraine. His discussion of the history of the parallel criminal social structure of Russia/Ukraine is quite interesting.
Very few people here in Argentina actually hedged against inflation with cryptocurrency, it's always USD, EUR, precious metals or high-ticket items (like guns). Regarding the subset of people that actually engages with cryptocurrency, most of them are in it to make a buck, not prevent their money from losing value. Similar story for some Venezuelan folks i know.

To be fair, cryptocurrency as a way for transferring money is excellent; people here move money with Bitcoin, which can be immediately converted into foreign fiat, avoiding the absurd exchange rates and taxes the government imposes. In my opinion that is something that could be done with any black/grey market tool for transferring value, and as I see it, currently cryptocurrency is filling that niche because of network effects, not because of its inherent properties.
In early 1987 the number of hosts passes 10,000 [1]
Space Quest - The Sarien Encounter was released in October 1986 [2]
Only in 1989 Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom join the Internet.

[1] https://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/1980s/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest_I
Well, if you need more proof that you don't always need a blockchain, Webcash ( https://webcash.org ) might be it because Webcash just uses a central database for double spending detection. A few of the early users were commenting that the project has put lots of altcoins to shame from an architectural standpoint.
> We live in an age where we are forced to own nothing and be happy. Bitcoin, Blockchain and crypto solves this.

The first part is simply not true (ownership isn't exactly uncommon). Can you specify the problem more precisely and explain how blockchains solve this? I've been following the space since the day Satoshi's manifesto hit HN so please include as many details as possible.
Sure, I get the idea of currency speculation. You can speculate on anything including currency. The problem is when you try to make currency out of a speculative asset. In this case of bitcoin the value is highly volatile, so you would not want to use it as a national currency. I do know that bitcoin was originally envisioned as a currency, but most people are using it as an investment. You also have not addressed the issues I presented.
Violence by an adult to a child is just the domination of the weak by the strong - on an individual basis.

You're bigger, so you can physically overpower them. The rules bind the child but not the adult - after all if child uses violence to try and get what they want, you'll just respond with more.

The violence used by society at large doesn't work that way: no one person can successfully fight off 5 people detaining them. One person with a weapon destroys any physical advantage. No one person can physically overpower civilization, and so hey, this is all about rules, negotiation, and enlightened self interest after all.
Nuclear needs subsidies

So do oil and coal [0]:

> Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9 trillion in 2020 or about 6.8 percent of GDP, and are expected to rise to 7.4 percent of GDP in 2025

[0]: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
So does the ads, google, government machinery etc. They take advantage of people's common "mental disorder" (I say "mental disorder" because it is still a weakness even if it is present in a lot of people, which I take as the assumption made in your comment as well) such as very limted attention span, lack of long term memory and vulnerability to distraction..
Sure. But it's interesting how little information about the tech is accurate
Telegram is already shady, it has no clear funding source while having the highest operating cost of any of the main stream chat apps due to it storing everything you send with no limits.

There is no e2e encryption, it has access to everything you do, its often said to be an alternative to WhatsApp, but its mostly worse in privacy, WhatsApp has proven encryption at least, and encrypted backups on android, while on apple its basically a back door.

And the explanation up to now is that durov is paying for everything for the faint of heart, which I really don't believe.

Matrix on paper is a good alternative, but its clients are not even close, and I speak as a daily matrix user.
It is something we've been building toward for awhile. We've been focused on core systems like the renderer and ecs for awhile now, but we're finally at the point where we can start moving up the stack.

We will be focusing on scenes, asset workflows, ui, and the editor from here on out (with scenes, asset workflows, and UI being the focus for the next release).

I'd like to have some sort of editor MVP by the end of the year.

Until then, there are community efforts like: https://github.com/jakobhellermann/bevy_editor_pls
So, for example, email verification. There could be a watch that triggers when a new user is inserted into the database, and this triggers a side-effectful function that sends an email.
Just to clarify: it is not a framework. It is a whole program optimisation pass done by the compiler before lowering the intermediate code to LLVM and then generating machine code.
For comparison to 300k queries, I use pihole and ublock, we basically have 4 users, we're in UK and have one desktop computer, 4 mobile phones, a laptop, a game console, a TV with Netflix (no other pay TV). Most daytimes there's only one person home.

We do an average of ~7k DNS requests per day, somehow. Our max day was 26000 requests ... I assume everyone is abusing DNS for tracking (heartbeat of some sort?).

Microsoft seem to hit the pihole rate limits often, presumably if you block their tracking domains they think making hundreds of requests a minute is the way forward ... it's almost like they're trying to DoS me with my own computer.
It's a process. Darwin talked about it.
Does TaskRabbit get hacked every 2 years?
TaskRabbit sent me an email they reset my password "out of an abundance of caution to protect your account". I assume this means they got hacked, and this is the weaselly corporate way of dealing with it without admitting anything. So I checked Google for any recent news about the hack. Didn't see anything (yet) but found articles from Dec 2020[1] and Apr 2018[2].

They have my payment info on file and there is no way to delete it. You can only change it to a different credit card.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/22/taskrabbit-resets-passwords-suspicious-activity-network/

[2]https://lifehacker.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-taskrabbit-hack-1825319011
To be honest, I think this is mostly a bad idea. Like to be 1 billion $, for that price you could have developed a brand new advanced reactor and the required reprocessing facilities to create a circular fuel stream that could have changed the world.

Yet instead of advanced technology to the next stage, we spent that money to dig a bit hole.

And even worse, every country spends billions digging holes.

Even a fraction of that money could have been used advanced humanity into the next nuclear age, rather then dumping the output of the last one into a hole.
Agreed. 324GB and this level of growth is manageable and can be done with a raspberry pi and an ssd
I am not into crypto... it seems a bit too 'gambly' to me... but I'm kinda wondering why they didn't list BAT. Built into a browser (Brave), perhaps not as decentralized as the rest, but I think it seems to be doing what it is supposed to...
Actually, I don't think that's true. The military was using planes within a decade of 1900, and certainly a decade after the Kitty Hawk flight, they were installing machine guns on planes. They were proposing international legislation to limit the uses of aircraft in war because everyone saw how impactful it was going to be.
Well then you need to use vanilla JS, which seems to be widely regarded as not great “at scale”. I certainly will never go back to JS from TS. Fearless refactoring is worth slogging through all the JSON config soup.
> No physical object can have an imaginary color.

It's weird that this extremely logical conclusion is built up by borrowing two very crucial cultural words, fictitious and imaginary, as labels for a definition. I wish they would pick other labels than those.

Why? Because if someone who doesn't know the difference says "are there imaginary colors?" You end up having to answer "yes" and be wrong, or "no" and be wrong.

Yes: There are imaginary colors, and there's an example of how that can be framed, at the bottom of the wikipedia article. But actually that's wrong, because we borrowed the word "imaginary" as a label for a particular string of subjective (self-contained) logic.

No: There are no imaginary colors, because what _imaginary color_ is taken to mean by important people is X, and so no there are none of those things, by that definition. But actually that's wrong, because you can also use imaginary in the general sense all you want, and stake huge claims around it, and you'd be right to do so because maybe you haven't read this wikipedia article, or you have and don't care because you're building on centuries of culture and you're being creative.

And it can easy extend to essentially playing with "developmental fire", i.e. the pressure to decide between logic, definition, and science on the one hand, or fiction, creativity, and imagining new concepts on the other. If one of those sides "wins", we all lose. It's a false dichotomy.

If there's any pressure to swing to either side of that dichotomy _as if_ the other side must be discarded, then either science and logic lose, or creativity and imagination lose.

So this cognitive downside risk due to the need to frame things as if this solves some actual debate affecting the imagination or fictional things (maybe to make a splash, try to tear a hole in reality, or start some new debate out of boredom) is silly and unnecessary, and I'm here to demand that new words be used. :-)

(Also I enjoyed staring at the chart and doing the imaginary color exercise but why are the edges of the newly-perceived colors fuzzy when the shapes are otherwise sharp?)
Also even if they do use crypto, we don’t know what percentage of total remittances (in value) that is.
All I can see is the amount of the application for a product like this and I wonder if there would be a permeant way to watch internal organs allowing the study of organs their entire life cycle. Additionally, I wonder the application to this in the medical testing community.
Here are over 200 listings in Warren MI (a middle class suburb of Detroit) with houses for sale under $200k - https://www.zillow.com/homes/Warren,-MI_rb/. That's just one suburb, there are many others in this Metro Detroit are of 4.5 million people.

Check the same thing in Metro areas surrounding Cleveland, Cincy, Indy, St Louis, Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, Dallas etc etc..

People in the handful of highest priced cities are so divorced from reality it's concerning. This is a huge country with a ton of multi-million population metro areas.