skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about you, but that's pretty much how/why my ancestors got here.
How to Think About Relativity’s Concept of Space-Time
Nobody does, that's why you can claim you didn't know. The law has to respect what most of society would do. Famously, hockey teams were held liable for people getting injured by flying pucks, despite each ticket to the game having an agreement that if bought the ticket you accepted the risk. But nobody reads the back of the ticket. In the end the arena put up nets to catch the pucks.
I’m slightly disappointed that the vision of leaving NodeJS and npm behind ended up failing.
The last year ended up being a bunch of concessions to make Deno more appealing to the masses, like disabling type checking on run by default.

But hey, that’s pragmatism for you, sometimes you just have to let go of ideals even if it hurts a bit.

I’m certainly looking forward to what happens next, even if more from the sidelines.
What a lovely democratic process it is, candidates weighing up which industry interest has done the best job at wooing them. SBF is another reminder of how far down the list of priorities integrity actually sits (not that he succeeded here, but that he's in good company in the approach).
> Bitcoin's intrinsic value is exchange fraud.

That's a really funny and clever take.
These are all the frameworks you need to run and scale a company. This is the tactical stuff that never gets shared, yet actually forms a company’s habits and operations
Where is 50 coming from? All docs I've read say 5MB. Also IndexDB crashes in Firefox IndexedDB.
Recursion: SICP and later The Little Schemer.
Abstraction barriers: SICP
Continuations: The Little Schemer
Decision Trees: Uni. of. Washington MOOC about classification and retrieval and later implementing them myself in Racket and later GNU Guile.
The people who were pushing the fact that you'd have sole control over your wallet were those who wanted to be immune from the government seizing their money: scammers, criminals, tax dodgers, and exchange runners (a combination of the first three).

Those people put a bunch of money into bitcoin to inflate the price, but they need a bunch of rubes trading the currency to keep the value of the coin (relatively) stable so they can withdraw their holdings, but they don't care much if those rubes have full control, and that's where exchanges come in.

Exchanges are there as a way for the first movers and the ultra-wealthy to extract wealth from uninformed, naive new investors into crypto.
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
this is bullish only because coins that are not on exchanges cannot be sold
Interesting, I can definitely see this being particularly useful for typescript fixes.

Where should one put the text files in the code base? Do you create some root level "patch" directory?
I had been a web developer in the very days of the web...But then after decades away from coding, i wanted to learn python. So, i bought a book. I forget the title, but its something along the lines of python 30 minutes a day (or something aloing those lines), and the author's name was like Mark something...In any case, while the book itself was fine...The real "feature" that made things click for me (for python) was going through the online exercises associated with the book. I know, I know, my approach spounds like typical homework...But, you know what, that did the trick amazingly well! So clearly for me, i guess i learn by reading first, then actively applying what i've learned....yeah, yeah, not so revolutionary. But for me at least, such a simple - and well established by others - tactic helped me gain a new skill.

EDIT: I remember the name of the book now: "A Smarter Way to Learn Python: Learn it faster. Remember it longer." By Mark Myers.
Inflation just means not enough people are producing enough. Factor it in to your runway calculations and deal with it.
Sure, I didn't say their model was correct.
There's also a more blasphemy-ish approach of interop between C++ and Rust if the C++ code already have good Python bindings: C++ <=> Python <=> Rust. It's not bad as you may think. My company uses it to adapt C++ to Rust without rewriting the 40K LOC Pybind11 boilerplate. Going through the Python interpreter is definitely slower than a native call but perhaps <3x since we only rely on Python being a hosted + GC environment, plus it's much easier to express lifetime in Rust given that everything is managed on Python heap.
I remember reading 'The C programming language' (in the train, I even remember that) and when pointers really 'clicked' in my mind - it was when I realized that (*struct).member is the same as struct->member (I don't remember the exact page but it was one of the paragraphs on pointer syntax quite early on). Weird detail now that I think back about it after programming C++ for over 20 years, but that was just one of those moments for me.
Raoul Villain was acquitted from the murder of Jean Jaurès, and there are some similar cases across history.
> Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS.

The Story of a Soul by Thérèse of Lisieux - "unless you become like little children" never really clicked with me until I read it and became her friend.
The exchanges work very hard to not distinguish between those legally, because if they admit it, they're admitting bank-like aspects and regulations kick in, which they're often trying to avoid.
cuz if i have 100b and give away 10b, but the remaining 90b grows 2x i have more than what i started with
Nope you’re not the only lunatic. Add to that the fact that most billionaires don’t “have” wealth the way we think of wealth.

In that, most of it isn’t in some bank account sitting there waiting to be used. What they’re more likely to have truly liquid is probably on the order of many (MANY) millions.

It’s the value of stuff they have like stocks. Yes they can borrow money against those assets but it is never just “why can’t Bezos just do an ACH transfer to ____ nonprofit?”

It’s “just” the size of his stock portfolio in the way your stock portfolio looks if you had put all your money into one stock.
Have You Seen the Lyte?
> Now, increasingly, cellphones are *day-to-day life*. Far from the literal “pocket telephones” envisioned a century ago, they’ve worked their way into nearly every aspect of human existence, including those Haselden could never have considered.

It is now essential to be considered part of the society, to the point that someone who does not want to or cannot carry a cell phone is sneered at. Anecdotally, I was in the USA and during a few day lay-over, I wanted to get a hair cut. I was refused service at a hair cutting chain because I did not have a cell phone with me (it was in the hotel, did not want spam, would not get there and back on time, etc.). I offered credit card or cash, but was rejected, and explicitly told I have to have cell phone.

I am not angry, just sad.

As @nonrandomstring noted, "absurdity of reality is escaping parody".
I'm the last who thinks he cares about people well-being, but..

What the F is going on. Apparently this is in response to a lot of criticism towards Jeff on how he should spend his money? I mean, excuse me? He can spend his money any way he freaking wants IMHO.
You invest $100, now you have $110. You give away $10, you have $100 again.
Ob wir Deutschen wohl Weltmeister im Einfach-sein werden könnten?
> That seems not great for reliability and redundancy.

A single server, esp. when virtualized, offers great reliability. Add regular backups in terms of disk snapshots, and you'll have a "thing" which can restart in 10 seconds and rollback in half a minute.

Yes, you can do failover pretty simply, but a single server really goes a long way.

We redundantly install critical servers, but the backup doesn't kick-in unless the other one halts and catches fire (sometimes literally).
Excellent product idea!

Why?

Because it is simple, simple, simple!

As a result -- it is also elegant.

Well done!

That, and I wish your company a lot of luck!
> Although this individual story is awful, at the scale of 12,000 layoffs unfortunately there will inevitably be instances where the circumstances are poor.

Basically 1 layoff is a tragedy, 12K is a statistic.
So he is basically going to be creating a tax free way to pass all of his wealth to his kids? I am against taxing inheritance, but people praising billionaires for pledging to get around it legally is annoying.
don't look there -- that 'lossless' comparison is not actually lossless

here, a better comparison: https://siipo.la/blog/whats-the-best-lossless-image-format-c...

this one is also good: https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/fjddcj/lossless_image_...

basically: JPEG XL does things right, WebP lossless is also not bad (14.8 % worse than JPEG XL), PNG is ok for its age (46.3 % worse), AVIF didn't focus on lossless (63.0 % worse)
It's the background. The faces look half decent but all the AI backgrounds are fucked in some way. After a few misses getting my bearings I started getting nearly 100% success rate, and within a second and a half in most cases.
for me the eyes looked really off in all the fakes, the pupils seems like the wrong size for the level of light and looked like the shape of the eye didn't fit into the bone structure of the face.
If you let somebody borrow your car and they steal it, that's still a crime. You don't need to be a regulated and registered automotive lender to make it anymore or less of a crime. The law has surprisingly strong enforcement of even informal agreements (such as e.g. an email), and these agreements were anything but informal.

Incidentally, protection of property rights is one of the primary roles of the government in a libertarian ideology. It's not anarchy.
That’s always the slow walk with these. Expect more bad news in subsequent updates
FTX is just one input. Seeing that Crypto.com has 20% of their reserves stored in a pointless sh-tcoin (SHIB) is just further proof that people running cryptocurrency exchanges are idiots or greedy fools.

One or another variation of this story has played out many times already. Then the whole sand castle crumbles, and a lot of fake money gets wiped away.

The entire cryptocurrency space is just an unregulated gambling arena. There may be some solid, well-intentioned efforts within it, but they are completely overshadowed (and overcapitalized) by the purely insane gambling ones.
Sorry, I looked through a lot of articles and I don't recall which one it was; they're reported to be both in the Bahamas and Hong Kong, the Bahamas authorities also having said a claim that SBF made about them directing him to do certain actions weren't true.

Certainly there will be a lot of noise to shuffle through over the next few days, weeks.
Because your posts seem to be very literally focused without a nuanced understanding of the social aspects outside of the literal and technical.
Or it's just child-like imagination.

Not everything needs to be over-analyzed until it's squealing like a stuck pig on christmas eve.
Related:

"One man with a briefcase can steal more money than a hundred men with guns."

—Don Corleone, "The Godfather"
Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”
The cynicism is warranted in my opinion. Because we've seen rich people give money only the further their wealth and power by influencing politics around the world, even when it appears that they're helping poor people.
Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective by Randall Bryant and others provides a perspective of the same from point of view of building software, and is especially enlightening.
Everybody who quotes it thinks it does.
An alternative is that every single phone looks the same. Black or grey square case with a touch screen. There's literally nothing to design or make interesting, just every second model change rounded corners to sharp corners and call it "new design".
I think maybe you didn’t see why it’s a big deal because you’ve never done it somewhere where it’s a lot faster/smoother? I run a UG here, it took about 3 months to set up because as a first time founder I messed up some of the weird arbitrary steps. If I’d have gotten it right it would have probably only taken 1-2 months (if I ever do it again it will probably take this long). It also cost a couple thousand € overall & still costs a few 100s every quarter for the Steuerberater et al.

It’s not enough friction for me to not incorporate in Germany, but I’d prefer if they’d reduce it nevertheless. Because so many countries (like the UK, Netherlands or Singapore) don’t take this much time/friction, I suspect it’s possible to optimize.
> Reducing the quantity demanded is reducing the demand.

> I don't understand how you reduce "quantity demanded" but not "demand." MAybe you can clarify.

As much as I dislike appeals to econ 101, this is a basic concept of econ 101.

Demand is the general willingness of people to buy something. If the price goes up they will be less. If the price goes down they will by more. Demand is how much they want to by as a function of the price.

Quantity demanded is how much they're going to purchase given a specific price.

A change in demand implies people are no longer going to buy the same amount for the same distribution of prices. e.g. perhaps a new iphone comes out and people aren't willing to buy the older version for the original price.

If the price goes up due to supply shortages or down because of supply increases, the quantity demanded will change but demand will not. The price will also change.

https://keydifferences.com/difference-between-demand-and-qua...

You are describing supply side effects. We're arriving at the same place, but your explanation of the economic story is not correct.
I didn't know what an M Disc was and had to look it up. It's archival-grade DVD/Blu-ray tech that's claimed to last 1000 years if properly stored.

(Thought I'd save some of you a google search.)
What if you're asleep when it falls?
A function used by ten of thousands of projects, battle tested and unit tested, maintained by the community, and with many weird cases taken into account. It doesn’t sound bad to me. The overhead is a one folder and one JSON.
Yeah, he's learned everything from Amber Heard.
Another communication strategy.
I grew up farming, I’ve hunted, and for the last 6 years or so I was spear fishing quite often. I’ve stopped for the last year or two.

I don’t object to any and all killing of animals for meat. It seems that many people genuinely do it out of necessity, and that is arguably going to have to be okay in perpetuity. I suppose that’s why a common tenet of veganism is to practice it only insofar as it is practicable. I draw the line at my sickness or death, because fundamentally I’m an animal just like those I’d otherwise seek to protect.

I suppose I believe life is sacred, period, and that humans aren’t innately special fauna on earth. I don’t see a need for a cow to die for my enjoyment, just as I wouldn’t kill someone’s pet or another human.

You’re right though, I opened with murder because indeed I see it as unnecessary, cruel, and beyond reason. Not all cases are like this though, and I don’t think all meat eating needs to end.

I should add too that I don’t believe many (if any, it would be a vanishingly small proportion) are in farming to be cruel. I’m confident most farmers think they’re doing a good thing and taking good care of their livestock. I simply believe they are wrong, though. Using an animal’s body for profit strikes me as a fundamentally unkind thing to do to a sentient being.
You can use PM2 with Deno
It’s almost like they got greedy and didn’t keep adequate reserves
actively it cannot, passively like dogshite
Yes, punishment, which, in part serves as an example to others that this is absolutely unacceptable practice, and our society cannot allow it to happen.
“CEO Sam Bankman-Fried used customer funds from the exchange to plug losses in his failing crypto empire.” it is very well known this is illegal and unethical behavior. No mistakes were made here, it’s outright, decisive fraud.

If an executive of a business willfully, miss manages customers money, for example in a Ponzi scheme, that has repercussions that can damage a chain of people, some of which did not directly invest.

What would you suggest happens to people like this guy and Bernie Madoff instead? A strong, talking to?
Don't pretend I agree with you. I merely understand what is your view.
My take at the moment is that each humans are like cells of a human where the human is a civilisation.

We have autonomy but must generally work for the welfare of the whole organism. If some people are not aligned to the general good we try to dissuade them or punish them because if it become too big the whole system collapse in the same way that our organism would if there is too many cancer cells.

Our consciousness operate on the scale of a human life but there is a similar "consciousness" of the civilisation that operate on a much larger timescale, thousand of years, we call those religions.

While we can seek personal gain, it’s much the same as a cell trying to outcompete it’s neighborhoods, it’s misaligned to the more important goal of global welfare. There is something inside us in our soul that know this and won’t make you satisfied of yourself if you are not a net positive for the whole.

Now we have looked everywhere to try to find the God of our stories but didn’t (it's a pattern operating on a different timescale). So we are like cells that rebelled against the organism, discarting all the rules that we had because we don’t understand them. The result will be a sickness of the organism up to a point where we see we have to go back to our ancients rules or the death of the organism (civilisation collapse)

Those rules are:
each must try to align himself with truth and love toward others, must try it’s best, it’s ok to fail, but recognised it and improve.

Those rules are the preconditions for the survival and slow improvement of our civilisation.

Other religions have other rules and other outcomes.
> Make sure to include the effects of heavy metal poisoning, not just radiation.

I'm a bit lazy. Maybe you have some numbers available for this? My guess is that deaths caused by this (associated with nuclear power), if at all measurable, would be orders of magnitude lower than deaths from the extraction and pollution associated with fossil fuels (Per GWh).

> Here's a riddle. What fraction of world energy can 40,000t of fissile material provide and for how long? Where do you propose to get more?

There is around 40 trillion tons of uranium in Earth's crust. How much of that we can utilize, depends on how much we're willing to pay for the extraction. The current fuel price (after processing) is about $5/MWh, and reserve estimates are based on that price. Should fuel prices go up a bit, more mines and excavations will be profitable.
If he's arrested I wouldn't be surprised if the guards that are supposed to enforce the suicide watch take a long break and come back to find him dead.
Narratives
Or over at bitfinex
I wish phone makers weren't all designing down to the lowest common denominator. You can spend a thousand dollars on a "gaming phone" but you haven't been able to buy a phone with actual buttons for playing games in eleven damn years because god forbid anybody diverge from the "glass monolith" design.
Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence.

Prolog is almost like magic the first time one is exposed to it.
>And the Nazis do the same, they'll just, like you, say "I don't consider that a human", and then act like you.

Yeah, it's kind of like how Nazis killed people, and anti-Nazis killed people too.

So from that aspect they'd be the same. Besides, both sides also breathed, drank beer, and tied their shoes.

But the anti-nazis killed Nazis, not just anybody that they fancied for power, and they did it for freedom, and they didn't base it on innate characteristics (like being a Jew, or gypsie, or gay) but on bad behavior (like having occupied half of Europe, and burned people) and on stopping aggression.

So, yeah, there's that.
gates, steve, musk, etc all have

you may not like them, but a lack of imagination is no reason to condemn others
ah the flip phones of 2005..
Musk's twitter suggest otherwise. He doesn't need to care if people like him. Bezos doesn't need to either.
https://archive.ph/tSMYs
Does anyone? I find it a source of hope that unaccountable oligarchs still care about doing the right thing when observed.
In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience in a simulated gameworld
Actually, I love this. I remember having a teeny tiny phone back then (not quite a Zoolander size), and it was a lot of fun. Now everything is a boring rectangle of glass. Bring back the fun!
I really care more about compile times more than speed in prod.
I'm sure the article means attempted outflows from Exchanges. They have a funny knack of pausing outflows in times like these because of system issues, aside the outflows through the also coincidental hacks.
> There isn't even a english speaking country in the EU anymore, and you say english is the defacto langauge of Europe?

Hrmmm. What language do you think people who work in the EU government use when communicating with each other? Here's a hint, it's not Portuguese, Finnish, Dutch, French or Italian.

It's definitely not German (a few historical reasons for that...).

The term lingua franca means "bridge language." That's what English is in the EU.

> ...The future is sign language I suppose.

Or, Europeans can continue doing what they already do when conducting business or dealing with tourists, which is...speak English when dealing with people from other countries.
An even more interesting question is how HN justifies the reaction you're getting for this comment in this thread with the reaction you'd get for the same comment in one of our typical "complain about the court/prison system" threads.

Only so much flagrant cognitive dissonance can sail under the flag of "the community is not homogenous and people pick and choose where to comment".

We can pick the "law, order and punishment" route or we can pick the rehabilitation route but lets at least be consistent once we've chosen a path. Picking and choosing on a case by case basis enables all sorts of terrible miscarriages of justice.
Inlock suspends certain services for customer asset protection
Glad to see you here! You helped me a lot 10 (more? Lost track) years ago on IRC, when getting started with Rails, as well as by reading "multitenancy with Rails".

Indeed, Rails pays the bills.

And pulling out companies from the trouble they are in due to common Rails misuse is still very rewarding.

Haven't yet figured out how to help companies deep into callback hell though. Might be non-solvable.
> There's an entire cottage industry built around people etching their seed phrases on steel plates for people to (I'm not kidding) bury them like they're gold in the 1800s.

"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted." - The Well of Ascension, by Brandon Sanderson
"Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems" by Datta made me finally understand many of the ways that physicists model solids (particularly electrical transport, but also heat transport, the whole band gap thingy).
Was mildly disappointed when I found out it had nothing to do with MS Bob, not going to lie.

What a strange and weirdly beautiful piece of misguided computing history.
Dominos would be my counterpoint: their pizza was just bad and they could do better. And they did.

I think it’s entirely possible that an industry with low competition and high nepotism could just be doing their jobs poorly.

Isn’t that why Joe Rogan is more popular than CNN?
Now I'm psyched to try this out.
> you let somebody borrow your car and they steal it, that's still a crime

Agreed. But there is no public requirement to direct prosecutorial resources towards your recovery. If the criminal is prosecuted, recovery is a secondary concern, an enforcement cost often borne by the victims through civil action.
Crypto exchanges act like brokers and exchanges. They match orders and they also hold client money.