skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've checked their website [1] and it says that the fallback includes bug fixes during the period you've paid for. Yes, 1 year can make a difference, but I see the fallback as a way of being able to have the product around just in case I need it after deciding I don't need it enough to continue paying for it.

Sure, if .NET (or whatever your platform of choice) gets updated during your last subscription period, that may seem like bad luck. But sooner or later it will happen anyway and thus it will affect you if you stop paying. (Not sure about how .NET works, but in the java world, especially on linux, you can have multiple versions installed, so you could still continue using the product.)

Another way to look at it is that when you first buy the product, you pay for that version and you get temporary access to updates during the next year. Then you buy the next version and get temp access for the updates to that one for another year. So looking at it from the first payment it makes sense. But I agree, that what you say would be more elegant and probably also easier to digest/understand.

[1] https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
You make an extremely compelling point. I was arguing in sound bites and your final paragraph is entirely reasonable.
… I mean, charlatans are a fact of life, yes, but it doesn't need to be that way.

We have laws against it. Prosecute people. The biggest problem AFAICT is other countries don't give a damn about fraud (as long as it isn't against their own), and, e.g., American phone companies continue to permit falsifying caller ID.

The idea of capitalism is that a better product (i.e., one offering more utility/$) should win out. There are some … requirements for that, though, like a good flow of information, and that's hard in a marketplace where actors lie, fraudsters, but increasingly "legitimate" companies as well. We all see the stories from the FTC et al. where the enforcement penalty is paltry. I.e., the cost of doing business.

Better consumer protections. But nobody cares about things like that, presently, as we're too busy having conniptions over far stupider things.
> Bike theft happens with bad locking practices: a bad lock (cable or small sized chains) and not properly locking your frame through the back triangle to a thick pipe/metal column

Clearly you don't live in the SF Bay Area. Thieves here have portable electric angle grinders and will cut through even the tough steel U-locks in 15 seconds. Not to mention if they can't steal your bike they'll steal your wheels, your seat, and your handles. Anything that's not bolted down is stolen. Not even exaggerating, ask anyone that lives in SF and they will tell you.

You cannot have a system where bikes are widely used when this kind of behavior happens.
In 2012, Cadillac went to a touchscreen in their vehicles. They too have come back to regular buttons too. What looks nice isn't always what is the most safe while operating a vehicle.
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Show HN: Modifying Clang for a Safer, More Explicit C++
Modified C++

Inspired by the paper "Some Were Meant for C" by Stephen Kell, I decided to show that it's possible to iterate C++ to be safer, more explicit, and less error-prone.

Here's a possible starting point: I didn't invent a new language or compiler, but took the world's best compiler, clang, and modified it to begin iterating towards a new furture of C++. Naming things is hard, so I call this 'Modified C++'. Some of the following could be implemented as tooling in a linter or checker, but the idea is to update the compiler directly. I also wanted to learn more about clang. This compiler needs a flag to enable/disable this functionality so that existing library code can be used with a 'diagnostic ignored' pragma.

You can build clang using the normal non-bootstrap process and you'll be left with a clang that compiles C++ but with the following modifications:

- All basic types (excluding pointers and references) are const by
default and may be marked 'mutable' to allow them to be changed after
declaration
- Lambda capture lists must be explicit (no [&] or [=], by themselves)
- Braces are required for conditional statements, case and default
statements within switches, and loops
- Implicit conversions to bool are prohibited (e.g., pointers must be
compared against nullptr/NULL)
- No goto support
- Explicit 'rule of six' for classes must be programmer-implemented
(default, copy, and move c'tors, copy and move assignment, d'tor)
- No C style casts

Here's an example program that's valid in Modified C++:

mutable int main(int, char**)
{
mutable int x = 0;
return x;
}

Here's another that will fail to compile:

mutable int main(int, char**)
{
int x = 1;
x = 0; // x is constant
return x;
}

I'd like your feedback. Future changes I'm thinking about are:

- feature flag for modified c++ to enable/disable with 'diagnostic ignored'
pragma, to support existing headers and libraries
- support enum classes only
- constructor declarations are explicit by default
- namespaces within classes
- normalize lambda and free function syntax
- your ideas here
IMO your algorithms can be a starting point, but your results would be a lot more useful if actual humans then did a second pass and added various pros and cons to the most popular queries to enhance their trustworthiness and level of detail.

The algorithm on its own is not working well... at all. It's no better, and often worse, than generic "best of" queries in any other search engine. More details in my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500543
>you pay no income tax on your rental income

And are losing value on the property, which is the point of depreciation.

>~30 years later, you've deprecated it down to an effective value of $0

An no one will now rent, since your building has an effective value of $0 since it has become crap.

All throughout your list you ignore all the costs involved in being a landlord. Have any friends that have tried it? (I do). Did they become silly rich? Or did they quit because it is a major problem to actually make it very profitable versus other uses of capital and time? I'm a decently saavy investor (in many things), and have watched multiple friends start up rental properties, only to stop once it became clear that tenants destroy things, costs to maintain properties are volatile and astronomical, the work required is significant, and so on.

I have done the math on real estate investing many times, and each time have decided the returns are not worth it.

>The net result is that rental properties generate a ton of income for the owners

If it were so profitable, then tons of capital currently being spent on other uses (tech, medical, finance) would instead go into buying up more housing. But the fact is that being a landlord is not very profitable, so capital doesn't flood into that market - it is still mostly elsewhere.

Historically, housing has performed quite similar to the stock market for returns - as it should be. If housing were a better investment, money would flow in until they balanced. If housing is too poor an investment by screwing with taxes, then money will flow out into other more productive places. And if money flows out, people wanting housing will then have to pay even higher prices for less stock.
I assume that whoever is commenting here has read the whole paper rather than reading the headline and screaming in the comments section. It seems like the paper is assuming that nothing is happening and the SEC is also doing nothing to enforce it. Quite the contrary is happening in reality.

The SEC seems to be still enforcing and investigating many projects this for some time [0], which tells us that crypto will most definitely be regulated rather than a total full scale and complete ban which opponents have been screaming about are have been dreaming for years.

Due to the transparency and traceability of the majority of blockchains, it makes it possible to trace up all of this activity easily. Thus, is it not a surprise to see regulators banning blockchain privacy tools / coins off of exchanges and allowing the others or a compliant few. This is why they won't be a. complete ban and I would expect stricter regulations for the exchanges to reduce these problems.

But as always, anything critical of cryptocurrencies or crypto projects in general here is quickly raced to the top of HN, despite regulators still actively investigating the mentioned projects and many others from time to time. [1]

[0] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-1...
It's wrong there also.
The only edge they touch is the REST API. Granted, it’s a bit annoying to map types in Java and JS, but it’s easy through Swagger or Typescript.
A food product is much more a sum of ingredients and procedure to process them, than just something something looking/tasting similar from given country. Especially those protected as historically significant to given place.

So no, what you buy as brie, if it went through official US import channels, is not real Brie. Now how much is the real difference in taste is another topic, but we take protecting traditional methods of making these things very seriously here in Europe. Very anti-race-to-the-bottom approach.
Yes, it's a social contract that must be destroyed. Otherwise we will experience economic ruin. Look at what happened in Japan in the 1980s, or is happening in New Zealand in Canada. The fact of the matter is that this social contract is pure rent-seeking, and never should have been allowed in the first place. It is theft from future generations by present day homeowners.

Also it certainly is not true for all homeowners btw, lots of municipalities have fairly minimal zoning laws.
No they can't. You can't have ENS running on a RaspPi in someone's bedroom because you don't want a naming system to be dependent on some random dude not unplugging their RaspPi, or modifying the database to change who owns which names for their personal benefit.
There still are a few of us who prefer other tools.

I'm actually delighted everytime I can use NetBeans, but I am still a paying Jetbrains user because I work on projects who use Kotlin (wonderful language even if I dislike that it is only supported in IntelliJ).

That said I like Jetbrains the company even if I don't like IntelliJ and I try to help them pick up the good parts from NetBeans (Just Works, Absolutely Amazing Maven integration, Sane Defaults).
Exactly. Back in the hardware days of music technology, I had an Akai S2000 Sampler. I could navigate the most commonly used functions by touch alone, using actual buttons - even with complex menus.

With simple menus (or a custom setup of your own), the common things could be on buttons, instead of taking your concentration off the road.
The only financial minded folks that are involved with crypto are the ones that are selling the buckets and pickaxes. The expense ratios on these BTC funds are immense.
We've done significant remodeling between each tenant just to stay competitive with other properties coming on the market. Plus each tenant requests specific improvements for their business, so those need to be negotiated. Then you need to keep a close eye on construction, like every day on site, because it often happens that if the tenant is on-site with the contractors they'll try to get them to do things that you said no to.

Finding tenants has taken a significant amount of work as well. There are commercial brokers that act as matchmakers, but you still have to meet with the tenants, walk them through the space, talk about what kinds of modifications they want, figure out if the timelines are compatible, and do a little bit of due diligence. She does quite a few of these where the details don't quite work out because the tenant is looking for a different style of building, easier in-out for the parking, improvements we'd never agree to, etc.

The process of transitioning the properties to commercial was also time-consuming. Commercial has entirely different requirements, and upgrading the parking, accessibility, etc. took a lot of time, money, and back-and-forth with the city.
If it's a cryptocurrency. (no, I'm not being facetious)
SA is morphing from a medieval theocratic kingdom into a modern authoritarian state with all power concentrated in hands of a single, arguably secular, dictator in front of our eyes.

I suspect we can call this progress, from the 1400s right into the 1930s.
Ah yes, can't wait to run my offline-first app on a kubernetes-on-docker-on-linux-on-qemu-on-wasm stack in the browser to have closer alignment between my server and browser implementations.
Probably we are like linux users. In total, over whole globe, we make up quite a sizeable number, but in each geographic location we are still a rare breed (not enough to get the enough momentum).
What I'm curious to know is how BMW's L2 compares to Tesla's Autopilot (L2). I'm surprised there aren't more youtube videos of showing if it can maintain lanes properly. Did the BMW autosteer into the oncoming traffic or was it driver error?
I use to be really into crypto.

I bought Ethereum in 2015.

Raised a 7-figure fund in 2017.

Closed everything down in 2019.

My take of the space is that all of the projects are on a spectrum.

Total scams <--------------> Completely superfluous
That's not true in most states, that's a California thing. Property taxes usually are set at the local level.
You're so far down the contrarian rabbit hole on this take, you're arguing the nuances of why, precisely, insider trading is illegal. It doesn't really matter why, it is, and for good reasons (agree with or don't, whatever). This ain't the hill.
100% wanted to state that.
The stickers are also not as misleading. After all, the data collected will be used for that purpose, training or tests for autonomous driving.
>>~30 years later, you've deprecated it down to an effective value of $0

>An no one will now rent, since your building has an effective value of $0 since it has become crap.

Are you really in good faith trying to argue that nobody will rent a house that is 30+ years old?
apple was using grayscale shape-acxurate smoothing, it works on any display with any arrangement of subpixels

windows clear type is using pixel-accurate subpixel smoothing, it works only in one direction with correct subpixel pattern

what people (including me) dislike about windows fonts is aggressive hinting, that is snapping font shape to pixel grid, it made sense in displays around VGA (640x480) but does not make sense on FHD screen
Yup. Our dairy industry is a mere few steps away from being nationalized it's so heavily subsidized. Don't tell the rural voters that though, it sounds like communism!
Could be. I started with Visual Studio + Resharper for .NET since ~2006. JetBrains IDEs for everything else and I am "allergic" to VSCode's UX. I can't explain it, but I just can't stomach the layout.
The graphics card I just bought said "military grade" on it. What's military grade on a 3070? Not a clue. Obviously it's just bullshit marketing, written by someone who thought "military grade" sounded good or something.

But I still trust nVidia to render my video games.

Sometimes marketing department and copy-writers get ahead of themselves. It shouldn't discredit the entire project unless there are other signals as well. Which there might be with Arweave! I have no idea. But discrediting the technical part of a project because of the marketing part of the project can be short-sighted.
Are they going to use anti-camera technology also?
Frescoes in the Desert: Alois Musil and the Rewriting of Islamic Pasts
Yes, buttons on the steering wheel are ones of the most useful ones, though even they become capacitive e.g. in new VW, BMW, Tesla Plaid.

I have a VW car with a basic HUD (2015-ish era HUD, where a glass pops up). It can show lane keeping state, adaptive cruise control, current speed, recognized signs and navigation directions. Those features are essential for normal driving, so I don't look at all on the instrument cluster (either dials or the screen). The fact that you don't need to look down and change the focus of the eyes makes a significant difference.
2-4 single use type definitions per endpoint sounds pretty atypical to me, but I agree choice of language helps here, e.g. TypeScript has pretty powerful typing facilities (Pick/Partial etc) that make type reuse far more practical.
It's bookkeeping yes, but definitely not pointless.
Yes I agree, I try to filter out as much as possible as well. Stick to the modern notion of "stoicism" -> focus on what you can change/control and avoid worrying about things you have very little control over.

But in my home country, it was becoming too much.

It's now in school, work, TV, movies, anti white rhetoric all the time.

To the point I would not be comfortable schooling my future children there.

So I decided to move on, and find a new place better aligned on my values. It does not need to be perfect, I can work with flaws and learn to embrace it. But I need a minimum of common ground, so far I found it in Asia (I lived long term in China and almost one year in Thailand). I can see myself settling down here and try to be a useful contributing member of society.
Different systems will have different shenanigans.

The demo of the EDS system (in Pennsylvania, IIRC) had a Democratic congresswoman coming up to cast a ballot, for herself naturally, and it registered for her opponent. Why she shrugged that off, I have no idea. I think a lot of people just assume "it's a computer so it must be better".

Note [https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/diebold_admits_that_its_e-...] and [http://www.votersunite.org/info/ES&Sinthenews.pdf]
Uh, you sure?

>The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it charged Bonan Huang and Nan Huang (the "Defendants") with engaging in illegal insider trading on the basis of material, non-public information about the sales of predominantly consumer retail corporations.

>In its complaint filed in the federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on January 21, 2015, the SEC alleges that the Defendants worked for a large credit card issuer as data analysts tasked with investigating fraudulent credit card activity. While employed there, Defendants searched their employer's nonpublic database that recorded the credit card activity for millions of customers at numerous, predominantly consumer retail corporations. The Defendants conducted hundreds, if not thousands, of keyword searches of this database. These searches, which were not done in furtherance of their employment duties, allowed the Defendants to view and analyze aggregated sales data for the companies they searched. The complaint further alleges that, in a breach of their duty to their employer, the Defendants made profitable securities transactions on the basis of this material, non-public information in advance of the public release of quarterly sales announcements by these companies.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2015/lr23179.htm
They're still potentially subject to pump-and-dump dynamics though. The capital cost of doing the pump is just > $0. I do agree that these are at least more honest than projects where founders/VCs already own tons of pre-mined tokens.
Everything on Stock photo sites is human generated, free and effectively infinite. In other words, commodified to the point of having its market value be $0.

I'm sure this can be monetized to generate convincing AI porn, but for non-porn uses, what will it replace? Deep fried memes?

The only photos worth money are those of real people photographed at real moments in time. Nobody ever bought a Getty subscription for photorealistic clipart.
I think it's funny that you think Customs and Border Patrol agents have to justify their work at all. There were literal TV shows making them out to be the saviors of America.

They also don't need any excuse to flex their authority, they've been given broad ability to violate rights with very few specific requirements. Remember, these are the same people who can legally deny you entry to the US if you don't show them your facebook profile if you aren't a US citizen.
Pretty bad idea to have it on a system that costs a variable amount of money and seconds to minutes of time to run every transaction as well.
IMO to bootstrap the first cryptocoin you had to solve lots of problems that aren't present for subsequent ones. What if people merely tried it out - download for a week, do some mining and then delete it? That could have made the network very unstable in its genesis, which discourage developers and users from taking Bitcoin seriously. It makes some sense to reward early adopters who invest time, energy and cycles.

On a related note - I don't think proof-of-stake would have worked for bitcoin. First of all, equitable distribution is a big deal and mining can do that but PoS by itself can't. But if you solved that problem I still think you would have a harder time convincing people that there was any value in a staker's signature, and whether it makes sense to trust transactions secured "only" by stake.
Yes. Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom (which is also a country).
Hey, I appreciate your tough criticism very much. This is the exact reason I wanted to post here on HN.

If you would, I'd like to get your contact info so I can reach back out when we've improved things.

If you're up for it, please email me: tyler at bestlist.com.

Thanks again!
As long as the owner puts significant money into the property over time to fight depreciation. Entropy applies to houses after all.
True transaction semantics are rare in OLAP world.

As for BigQuery:

> If a transaction mutates (update or deletes) rows in a table, then other transactions or DML statements that mutate rows in the same table cannot run concurrently.

Kind of a non-starter.
but then ultimately "disregarding" something has no effect on anything, so what are you worried about? you want a stranger to have regard for something because it has value for you, even though it doesn't for them?

does the posting war need to continue?

actually, what am i even doing here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshmukh

Upper caste
> Crypto has displaced a lot of good investment

Ah, because scamming doesn't happen inside the other classes of investments you're talking about
now if only we could get compute modules
This appears to be true on the human scale, but if you "punch the wall" (accelerate hydrogen and carbon into silicon and aluminum) at say 1/10th the speed of light, there will be penetration well past the surface.

More obviously if you think about how easily neutrons interact compared to protons, neutrons routinely go right through people without noticing them at all because they aren't net charged so the coulomb interactions that we are familiar with in "normal" matter don't apply.
I just don't understand

A) how Coinbase got past YC vetting process

B) continue to engage in serious violation of US security and trading laws

C) a large portion of HN seems to downvote, flag, critical comments towards Brian Armstrong and coinbase
It’s not a “contrarian rabbit hole”.

Whether or not insider trading should be illegal is a hotly contested topic among economists.

>It doesn't really matter why, it is, and for good reasons

Would you like to share the good reasons why it doesn’t matter?
Well, if the control all change in meaning depending on the interface state, you can only memorize sequences if there is a reset somewhere. And those will probably be very cumbersome sequences.
> privacy coins which deliver on the original cypherpunk goals of blockchain

They don't deliver on one aspect, which is full auditability. I think all existing privacy chains are completely broken by knowledge of the discrete log of one particular curve point.
Early voting. Let people cast their vote for the two weeks preceding the election.