skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the choice taken, because it's both easier and worse, is to put a marketplace of apps as an interface to the very large amount of things that a computer can do.

I'm saying that in the future (given this trend), in order to get "the computer" to do anything at all, the interface won't be a CLI or a programming language, but a giant searchable marketplace where you can buy (pay for) each specific action that you want your computer to do.

this sounds a bit ridiculous now, but it's not. it's a super appstore. it's the API economy taken to an extreme level. its all the functionality of your computer as a service with a small transactional fee for every meaningful action.

instead of teaching more people to program (and making an effort to keep computing simple), we have been collectively making computers easier to use and harder to understand.

It's only a matter of time before opening browser developer tools requires a cyrptographically signed government issued authorization (to give a crude example of my worry); of course this could be promised to keep children safe (or whatever convenient political excuse).

More realistically, I don't think it would work to straight up enforce this; instead I suppose making it unfeasible or otherwise really annoying to open browser dev tools is the way to do it. I have reasonable suspicions that this is the main driving impulse behind WASM.
The money they are laundering doesn't come from nowhere. It's the proceeds of other crimes, with real victims.

A person laundering is an accessory to other crimes.
I only have two kids, not four like the author, but I can say it’s impossible to have a real conversation sometimes.
> Some people would say that when a judge has to "stretch and squeeze" a law it's a failing of the lawmaking process.

Or they first arrive conclusion/decision they want for a particular case or topic, and then rationalize their decision (perhaps ignoring precedent) when they write their brief.
We develop Sidekick to give developers new abilities for collecting data from their running applications. On our road to making live debugging & observability easier for developers, our performance impact is among the most questioned topics. To answer this question, we decided to make research to observe how much overhead Sidekick and its competitors Lightrun and Rookout bring to the applications.
There are many existing decentralized social media but none have made it to the popularity of FB, IG, or Twitter. Cryptocurrency actors are the drivers for gaining the worlds attention.
Ask HN: Did StartPage search go down when Google went down earlier today?
batmud looks great! and they have their own client on Steam which just saves me a lot of startup friction
https://youtube.com/c/dallasmed65 dallasmed65is probably one of the most creative and oldest minecraft player you can find on youtube he is severely underated but i love his channel and his 10 year old world.
True. Given how Google’s Android platform provides numerous ways to accomplish the same task and deprecates APIs on a bi-yearly basis, the documentation provides little guidance on whether what you are currently reading is deprecated and what methods to accomplish the task should be used. Good luck finding any explanation as to why the deprecations were made in the first place.
Maybe some courtship display? If that's the case we should see them elsewhere too.
https://dataddo.com/

They've been very good to us, definitely recommend. Reach out to gabriel.giely@ - he's very helpful.
Dehydration is a fact hard to argue with.
No wonder the Catholic church is losing members at an unprecedented rate
Git is decentralized per default.
When one half of a relationship of two people does work you don't respect, that doesn't make them a servant. These are two human beings that have divided the work they have to do to live their life in this way. There's nothing wrong with that.
> No healthy relationship is going to include 400 daily poems.

A bold and absolutist claim. The GPs relationship was clearly not healthy, but the idea that no healthy relationship could exist where there is a daily poem is kinda ridiculous?
I’m reminded of the scene in the movie Blow when he is arguing with the judge that its not a real crime.

Judge: Unfortunately for you, the line you crossed was real and the plants you brought with you were illegal, so your bail is twenty thousand dollars.
Michigan Officials Detail a Brazen Voting Machine Scheme by Trump Supporters
IANAL; even in the USA not all speech is protected under the law. See libel laws.

Here it is less about the code as speech, but code as an illegal business and product. It's not an either//or situation. Code is more than just one thing.
>probably

based on what?
> To its credit, Intel has openly acknowledged the problem that Arc has with pre-DirectX12 games, not just in slickly produced PR videos but by allowing its marketing team to conduct a charm offensive on popular tech YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips and Gamers Nexus.

then elaborates on LTT's style of giving published info as if it was a secret, which yea. but i'm confused as to what they mean with GN considering GN would have ripped them a new one regardless of if they said they had issues or not - the drivers suck.
Chaos, ransom etc.
Good ole trolling
If you have ever had children, you know they become 100% of your life and 110% of your time for the first year or so, and with multiple children that could stretch to several years.

I guess if that interferes with your immediate hedonistic needs you would just get rid of the children? Maybe just dump them on someone else whose time is less self-importantly valuable?

It's the same with running a startup. You make the choice to commit, you follow through, and in the long run you reap the rewards and live a fuller, better life.
To prove a point I assume? Nothing else comes to mind.
I use Interactive Reality Entertainment. It’s co2 free
Not all speech is legal. If I write a virus and unleash it on the internet it's not unconstitutional to arrest me.
In terms of star growth, devdash looks like a project that becomes popular every once in a while. But the project iterated slowly, maybe the Maintainer doesn't care too much about it? https://ossinsight.io/analyze/Phantas0s/devdash
ClickHouse and the open source modern data stack
The first two lines in the list were not ETH addresses:

> TORNADO CASH (a.k.a. TORNADO CASH CLASSIC; a.k.a. TORNADO CASH NOVA);

> Website tornado.cash;
> No experienced developers

Whenever a CVE is discussed, even if the code was from Google, Microsoft, or Apple, commenters immediately point out that these companies must have hired some "bad programmers", because a "good programmer" wouldn't have made such mistake. Given that even top software companies continue producing CVEs on a regular basis, there is a shortage of people capable of writing C.

A lot of programming skills are transferable (algorithms, architecture, system APIs, debugging), so you don't really need to hire "language X programmer".
Where I'm from there are no jury duties, so this is my opinion on juries from the outside perspective.

But also, even if I did it the way you say - does that....make the reasoning any less powerful in your mind?

For instance, I decided I don't want to smoke long before I was mature enough to formulate an argument why smoking is bad for an individual and for the society and before I could see how the tabbaco industry is spending heavily on getting people to smoke.

Is the fact that I decided I don't want to smoke at the age of 15 making the argument I can finely flesh out decades later less powerful in your opinion? Or are you just using it as a logical instrument to undermine what I'm saying based not on a logical point but rather an emotional one?
It still doesn't work for the reason OP said. Your time between reviews reaches infinity regardless.
Bangladeshi fertility rate is currently below replacement and has been dropping for decades.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/BGD/bangladesh/fertili...

And ironically, a key driver of birth rates falling is when children stop dying so much.

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
I have never been so happy to be on a Southwest-clone-looking, Boeing 737, as when I flew out of Moscow

The 737 has had a very checkered history. For a while there, they had several planes falling out of the sky due to a software overflow problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues#:~:te....

And then of course there was the 737 MAX8 scandal about 3 years ago with two more crashes.

Every time I find I am flying in a 737 I cross my fingers that I won't be in one of the unlucky ones.
Those pesky bread-cooking bipeds and their internal skeletons...
I wholeheartedly agree, the speed of processing includes annoys me most about C.

The sad part is that the mainstream alternatives that I have on the radar are _even slower_ to build.

And usage of the preprocessor in APIs is allowing for good things, at least for a compiled systems language like C: Macros allow to get rid of boilerplate on the syntax level and if-defs allow for compatibility. Both points' significance is reduced a long way in other languages, because they have stronger facilities for abstraction, BUT this abstraction comes at a non-significant price and cannot replace all significant uses of the preprocessor.

So I'm still stuck with C. The solution is designing header files carefully, resulting in build times that are lightning fast, at least in relation to most other mainstream languages. And there is always the option to go for "unity" builds.
> Even very popular and reputedly performant data structure implementations like absl::flat_hash_map are pretty easy to beat for specific use cases. In this specific case, it's easy to beat because it incurs a cost of at least 2 cache misses per lookup, rather than 1.

Can you elaborate on this one?
But society wants selective enforcement.

Speeding laws are good when the stop that guy from endangering my kids. Or when they generate revenue from tourists.

Those same laws are awful when they inconvenience me.
I came to the same conclusion last year: C (client) and Java (server) are the final languages.

To fragment the industry with more languages is a hidden cost that wont end well for anyone.

KWh is approaching $1, prepare by choosing the proper languages.
There's research that suggests games where the player doesn't play for the sake of playing are bad for mental health e.g. playing due to FOMO, external rewards, etc. [1]

> It wasn’t the quantity of gaming, but the quality that counted... if they felt they had to play, they felt worse.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-07-27-gaming-does-not-appear-...
Wow you weren’t kidding. Finally a startup in a field I know about.

This is a bubble.
I think pan-psycism was onto something. Not that atoms have consciousness but I think almost anything that is made up of complex cells or even a single cell has some form of consciousness and we are simply a very scaled version of that. Michael Levin has called attention to the remarkably complex and recognizable behaviour of single celled organisms, I think he’s right that there is a lot more processing going on inside a cell using all of that molecular machinery, much more than we ever dreamed possible.
China’s Confidence Could Turn Out to Be a Weakness
Yesss I feel like we're only scratching the surface of how powerful fungi are, and we'll keep uncovering new, amazing properties that will help us survive.
I am by no means a fan of Tornado and what it represents in the crypto community - I think crypto has enough cretins already.

But this is definitely a bit of a stretch to go after the creator(s) in this way. Reminds me of the US Gov trying to ban/limit all encryption. Didn't seem okay then and this doesn't seem okay now.
Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers?
It is nice, I guess you are fortunate to have a relationship that basically maintains itself. For most people, proper communication and keeping a commitment to open up emotionally when you need to is work.
Other non-US countries wouldn't hesitate to do this if they had a list of people working in US chemical weapons factories.
Not a particularly big big thing, but here in the EU people are massively buying electric bicycles as the main transportation mean. I guess it comes along with the dropping batteries cost.
That is kinda hilarious
How to Start a Bike Kitchen
I honestly though this had been understood decades ago.

Somehow, I doubt that my limited understanding of the human mind was a decade in advance of state of the art science.
Gift article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/business/china-xi-jinping...
Undiscovered 2 player mode discovered in Super-Punch Out after 28 years
> You either need huge tanks and high pressure or cryogenic tanks

According to Airbus all 3 demonstrator planes will have liquid hydrogen [1].

As for the fuel cells, they will basically not be used.

The engines will be regular engines that burn hydrogen instead of jet fuel. Fuel cells will only be used for the electricity needs of the airplane, but not for moving the airplane through the air. They are probably going to use less than 1% of the liquid hydrogen.

[1] https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/...
IANAL, not a US citizen and I have no intention to dig into how the US defines money laundering.

That said, when I hear "money laundering", I exclusively interpret this as the act of whitewashing money aquired by illegal means (e.g. drug sales, extortion, fencing stolen goods etc.) in order to make it appear legitimate. In that regard, there is nothing that is not bad about money laundering (IMHO).

Of course you could argue that it should be possible to hide the source of your money or even the money itself from the government, but as a consequence, you would have to accept that at the very least, your country would have no longer any means to fight crime.
Personally I find active voice to be more repetitive as it tends toward a similar sentence structure of subject-verb and can also imply certainty in situations that are more nuanced. However, active voice and simple sentence structure should be used when possible to avoid redundant, flowery language.
Mods please change "tornado" to "tornado cash". People explaining in the thread that some tornado was sanctioned got me confused even more.
Thiel's lucky was PayPal. It projected him from very wealthy to super wealthy.

Subsequently, he's used the resources that that lucky has afforded him.
Making a Video of a Single Window
Necessary but not sufficient.

Weed is a category B drug in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_the_United_Kingdom

This means "with penalties for unlicenced dealing, unlicenced production and unlicenced trafficking of up to 14 years in prison, an unlimited fine, or both. The maximum penalty for possession of cannabis is five years in prison and an unlimited fine."

The police absolutely try to enforce this: "In the survey-year ending March 2014, possession of cannabis offences accounted for 67% of all police recorded drug offences in the UK."

Despite this, "In 2017, 7.2% of 16 to 59-year-olds reported using cannabis in the last year, making it the most commonly used illegal drug in the United Kingdom."

If this law, all by itself, was perfectly enforced, the UK would bankrupt itself just on the extra spending in the prison system.
Honest question: was GitHub legally obligated to delete the accounts of anyone who had contributed to the repos?

I get that contributing to the repos would be a violation of the sanctions, but it's not clear to me when the project was sanctioned and whether all the contributors were aware that they were contributing to a sanctioned project. Would it have been enough for GitHub just to remove the projects?

I ask as someone who has a lot of developer friends from Cuba who run into problems with accounts on platforms being deleted all the time. IIRC there was an episode awhile ago when accounts were being deleted simply for logging in from Cuba.

It seems like the legal obligation would be to block logins from Cuba (and/or Cuban people), but deletion of accounts seems more like a CYA move than a strict obligation.
> echo chambers are minimal, and the most avid readers of false news content regularly expose themselves to mainstream news sources. ... we find that being exposed to false news content causes households to increase their exposure to countervailing mainstream news
Not really, these devices all have seen intensive use and are still being used in that way. Some only have a tiny amount of flash on board (e.g. Motorola Defy only has 2GB, I have 5 of these running as media player, MPD player, trailer camera and IP cameras) yet they persevere. Some (e.g. Defy) even have been used with swap-to-eMMC for a while, I ended up disabling this because it is just too slow but it made it possible to run some apps which otherwise would not run on 512MB devices. In short, I have not had problems with flash wear - yet.
Everything is important – Singer Vehicle Design
So what Percentage of BitTorrent Traffic would need to be "illegal" for it to fall under the classification of "obvious violation of US law" or "primarily used for illegal purposes" thus justifying targeting the technology instead of the individuals using the technology?

I have a feeling in this instance your bias is in favor of allowing bittorrent to exist because you have a personal use for that technology that is not illegal, and you do not have a personal use for the Tornado Cash technology, thus you have no ability to see legal uses for that tech.

I have found it to be an exceedingly rare trait for people to be able to externalize, and understand other people's worldviews. If they personally do not need, desire, or have a use for X, then they have no problems with the government clamping down, regulating or banning it. Never coming to the wider understanding that the government may (and likely will) turn it gaze to them.
Interesting idea.

Do you manage that yourself. I.e. you time your own response, and if it feels slow you mark the card as forgotten?
Because others are answering you in much more detail, I’ll give them more generalized answer –

This is quite simply not how a sanctions regime works. The US government does not make a list of all the sanctioned persons’ assets, then start going after those in court.

Instead, it goes the other way: any company with a US nexus watches those sanction lists carefully. When someone is listed they look at their internal records for hits and denies them service. So no one told Microsoft anything; they self-enforced a sanction that applies to everyone in the US. And I mean everyone: if an individual knowingly violates these sanctions they’re breaking federal law - it’s not just companies.
What do you mean, "has to"? The point is that judges have discretion. They might, or they might not. They don't have to do very much, even when on the wrong side of both elected politicians and justice.

And sure, in an ideal world things would get fixed in the legislative branch. But can you blame anyone for going where so much of actual power is?
I think you mean is to use deep learning.

Many current autorouters already use "AI" (often genetic programming).
Can't have an APL family post without mentioning Klong!

http://t3x.org/klong/
There is a tried and true method for making sure someone sending you pictures is real. Ask them to write today's date and a random word on a piece of paper and hold it up next to their face. People have been doing this on the Internet for ages. It doesn't authenticate them but it does show they are actually producing the pictures.
Is this the first time the US has sanctioned a cryptographic protocol? The quote you pulled specifically refers to "blocked person" but in this case they are not sanctioning a person - they are sanctioning a mathematical protocol that happens to have a popular open source implementation.
+1000. But in my experience the trend started not with developers, but with the other people around them: Product Managers, Designers, Engineering Managers, Steve Jobs wannabes. There was an obvious disdain for users, and they were seen as complete dunces that should be shepherded to whatever new functionality happened to pop up their heads. There was also a complete disdain for the medium: designers used to print design choosing too rigid designs that didn't really work that well on a screen, and only adapting when the market started punishing them.

At first programmers were able to resist all that and have a voice, but lately it seems that the only prestige we retained was the salary, so we must play the same tune as the rest of the band. Agile was an attempt at being "self managed" and have a bit more independence, but that was also corrupted and lots of devs hate it with a passion too, so we're mostly back to practicing non-iterative, Steve-Jobsian-gut-feeling-centric development. Programmers have bought into that toxic mentality too.

And even in better situations, such as my current job, the tasks that cause the most issues, take more developer time and annoy the user the most are always the same: non-idiomatic features (for the web or for desktop apps), often concocted by designers totally disconnected with the audience, who at most did two or three "interviews" where the user said "yeah I could see myself using that".
Go already solves it in a quite elegant way: black pays white 5.5/6.5/7.5 (depending on ruleset) points in komi for the right to go first. The general feeling is that 7.5, the most common American standard, is a little high and gives white an advantage. 5.5 is a little too low, so 6.5 is ideal but not commonly used for a variety of complicated reasons around rulesets and how games are scored.
The general feeling of playing white v black is also very different. Since white has free points, you try to play exchanges as evenly as possible, whereas playing as black (for me) has a constant sense of trying to find enough points to win the game. A theoretically perfect even exchange is actually a slight loss for black and a slight gain for white.
This also ties into the handicap system extremely well. The higher ranked player lets the lower ranked player place free stones on the board (in predetermined locations), depending on how far apart their ranks are. Generally this leads to fairly even games if the handicap is set correctly.
I guess this is because they are making their money on the replacement brushes, not the toothbrush itself.
Firebug is what made HTML, CSS, and JS click for me. Seeing a website interactively update as you made changes, as well as inspecting existing websites to see how they worked made all those concepts so much easier to grasp.
This is not my experience. Most developers are just not very good at what they do, and the go-to smart pointers for not-very-good C++ developers is std:shared_ptr<T>.
Old school valuations are based on profit not revenue. Which inherently avoided selling dollars for pennies.

Valuations based on revenue are essentially arbitrary because they are always based on models of potential rater than actual performance.
I imagine having a prime number size might reduce the chance of collision, probably as a result of some property of modular arithmetic.

But if you’re using a decent (i.e. actually pseudorandom) hash function I would think this is moot?
>Of course you could argue that it should be possible to hide the source of your money or even the money itself from the government, but as a consequence, you would have to accept that at the very least, your country would have no longer any means to fight crime.

Conflating having one less specific statute to prosecute people for violating with "no longer having any means to fight crime" brings to mind a famous Churchill quote about the electorate.
Good trick. I thought about the approach of storing or computing the magic numbers for division by the primes you've chosen for the hash table lengths, but this is better.