skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or get on early on some of this junk. But I back then didn't believe it would go up and still don't believe it to stay up or go up more...

Some many opportunities from pre-mined shit coins to ICOs and so on.
I was feeling sorry for those folks who lost their jobs, but then I thought - Elon's ok.
The VFX-1 was based on camcorder viewfinders micro-displays, those in turn where limited by PAL/NTSC resolution. This was not a problem when the VFX-1 was released, as most games where running in 320x200 anyway.

As time went on, monitors and games got a lot better and VR headset didn't, due to not having any better displays available on the market. The consumer VR market itself was never anywhere near big enough to incentivise the creation of custom VR displays.

There were still headset in the following years, such as the Eye-Trek FMD, but they went away from VR and towards just being a wearable screen. They didn't have any tracking or controller.

Even the modern VR revival only happened because smartphones got good enough and provided and alternative for the old micro-displays. Which in turn also allowed a much bigger field-of-view, which helps a lot with the immersion. A big field-of-view was also something that was impossible with the old micro-displays, as you need a physically big screen to get a big field-of-view, those micro-displays however were tiny and limited to 30-60°, modern VR has around 100°.

On top of that comes just the surrounding technology, when VFX-1 came out, most games where not even rendered in real 3D, just pseudo-3D. That means you couldn't even make full use of what the VR hardware was capable of. Without having position-tracked controller, VR was also fundamentally limited to being little more than 3D screen with a bit of headtracking. It didn't look bad, but it just wasn't comfortable to replace a monitor.

Also worth pointing out that nothing of his has fundamentally changed. Modern VR has been around for 10 years at this point, and is still struggling to find any mass market acceptance. VR support in normal games is just as bad, if not worse, than it was back in VFX-1 days. Meanwhile most native VR games are just small scale indie stuff. The tracking and controls got a lot better, but the screens are still far away from competing or replacing an actual monitor.

At this point I am reasonably convinced that VR won't take off until it can fully replace a monitor, meaning resolution has to be at least double of what it is now. The motion-gaming that VR can do, certainly has an audience, but that doesn't look to be enough to get any wide adoption. There is also nobody left to really do high-budget VR content, Sony might still have a shot, but Meta seems to have given up and everybody else left the VR space for good.
Thanks for sharing! The slides are here: http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/prez/linux-plumbers-2022/
‘Overweight’ neutron star defies a black hole theory, say astronomers
I mean being Real, most CEOs seem to not know how to do that either… All the “top companies” are cash fires with VC backing.
I spent the last year working closely with someone who spent their entire career entrenched in one of the big boy CAD software companies in one of those very technical roles you do when you avoid management your entire life. He had a lot of great stories. Anyway, while I don’t really have an opinion on the matter, I feel like sharing his opinion here despite not totally understanding the reasoning behind it. It seemed his opinion was that Onshape had great potential to disrupt the industry, but he explained in much funnier terms a tidal wave of celebration and relief washed over his company and the rest of the industry when PTC bought Onshape out. He seemed to think nobody could take a great product and run it into the ground like PTC could, as if they were up there with legendary failures like Microsoft buying Nokia, Yahoo/Tumblr, AOL Time Warner, etc.
Various places have a heating season (for example Heizperiode in Germany) which is a period where you're expected to have your heating turned on to maintain a certain indoor temperature. It could be regulated by the law or specified in a contract if you're renting. Different places have different definitions of it. Sometimes it's fixed, like from October 1 to April 30. Sometimes it uses an average indoor temperature over a few days.

If there's a cold snap in mid May (Eisheilige), you still want your heating turned on, but generally it will fall outside of the heating season.
My opinion is that engineering problems are easier to solve than social problems. Even easier when you have billons to throw at them.

Much of what Musk has gotten himself into with Twitter are in the realm of social problems.

For all his positive qualities, he strikes me as having low emotional intelligence. We’ll see what happens.
Distribution. GitHub Codespaces will pop up everywhere on GitHub. The experience will be seamless. It’s like Slack vs MS Teams. Yeah Slack is doing fine. But MS Teams is winning in terms of users.
I do an electronic transfer from bank A to bank B. I have a balance in bank B. Bank B then gets hacked.
Thank you for the claim calculator! I spent like an hour trying to understand the calculations manually, but the ~7 pages of dense legalese was hard to decipher.

(I’ll believe it when the coin is in my wallet though. Till then, I mentally moved on a long time ago. It felt like the end of the world at the time, since it was my father’s savings that he’d worked for a decade to save up for his kid one day. Wiping it out over night wasn’t a good feeling, to say the least. But, life goes on, and I was fortunate it was only $11k. An expensive lesson, but one I needed to learn.)
They don't have the power to pause non-FTT blockchain systems. What you're suggesting isn't really possible. Someone has to hold the keys -- and I doubt they used sufficient multi-sig -- and anyone who has the keys can always move the funds.
I think, being generous to the GP doesn’t matter how “productive” a single person or team works, if the whole thing isn’t working well (usually measured in margin) then it doesn’t matter if the engineers “feel” more productive.
I'm not trying to 'get past this', I'm trying to express my disbelief at the fact that:

A - Things have gotten to the point where we can't talk about a damn season without personal interpretations of it;

B - This has seeped into Hacker News, a forum I thought was for more diligent folks.
thanks for sparing me.

Elon is right because people would pay to talk here.
I don't think it was insider job. If insiders wanted to steal people's assets why do it in such a public manner? If they have the keys they can just move funds discretely from the larger pooled assets without draining individual accounts. A malicious app update draws way too much undue attention.
I picked up CSS by customizing my Neopets page in 2001. Sounds better than what you’re finding online these days.
That caught me off-guard as well. I only ever written one thing in Haxe, but the experienced was mixed. It worked, but it also kind of painful to work with.

For context: Haxe is a programming language with the main purpose to have several compile targets for many programming languages.

Glad it is working for them.
Yeah, if it is mandated "all teams cut 10%" it can be disaster.

Team that managed to hire good people and fire bad performers already ? You're basically taking productivity out.

Ops team that every other software team is dependent on and already overloaded ? Now every other team will feel delay in dealing with their stuff.
Somehow we managed to dive into Z80 and 6502 Assembly after getting our bases covered with BASIC, at the age of 10 years old.

I bet kids these days will do alright with MicroPython and they can even dive into inline Assembly with it.
What you're saying seems to agree with my point. If something is "the normal way of doing things", why would it be "set off from the normal text". You're saying idomatic means normal, whereas MDN says it means "set off from the normal", aka abnormal.
Right.

In practice, you manually bootstrap your CI/CD, and if you really want to be secret squirrel secure, you can audit that.

Everything going forward gets to be commited via code, peer review, least privledged access, and is automatically deployed by the robot.

At that point, you might hand out some break glass credentials for a few items, or when your CI/CD goes down, but usage of that should alert and be manually reviewed.

You now have a pretty decent setup, as everything is checked.
Yes, until we had cryptocurrency.
I hope my comment didn't come off as an attack and certainly admire what you've accomplished!

So long as the medium of techno allows you to embed your own creative characteristics, then I think that's a great form of expression (as opposed to churning out formulaic techno... though there's really nothing wrong with that, either).

In fact, setting constraints on yourself is a great way to inspire creativity and nuance (e.g. there's a lot you can do with a single note - rhythmically, harmonically, effects, dynamics, etc).

I also agree that after a certain point, genres become too simplistic of a model to describe music. I'm happy that you've put so much thought into this.
Wait is the government a religion?
I doubt that Bankman would have sanctioned that though, since he’s already admitted to malfeasance. An insider could leak the keys and arrange for a cut of the proceeds, was my line of thinking.
if I understand correctly, the author is an infosec auditor who reviews security of those aws/gcp setups for their job? Then their job is the opposite of an engineer: the engineer is desperately trying to get shit done without managing IAM madness fulltime (hence admin admin everything), an auditor cannot give two craps about usability on the other hand, and will try to impose an idealistic model of perfectly tuned, strictly as-needed-basis permissions with no regard to how much time it would take to work them out in practice, and to maintain, because that's not their job.
> > This is a Wall Street corruption story.

>No, stop trying to spin this. It's a stereotypical crypto story.

It’s worth considering that these things are not mutually exclusive. Why can’t it be both?
Dude, in a world of Lloyd Blankfeins, Kevin O'Leary is a small fish.
Thank you, also to morsch and Michael, this is very interesting. Brings me memories of the Seaview TV series.
Yes, but also because it would be such a big economic recession, it would cause so many riots and civil unrest.

It's not only politics, it's also because there are too many americans who think they are entitled to a car, a house and hamburgers.

It wouldn't be a problem if citizens could accept change, but it's not just a political problem, it goes much much deeper than that.
> I can still log in and see it.

Who operates the site?
Trust is oil that makes economic engines fast and abundant, while distrust is sand - even a few specks cause damage. Trust between actors is key here, not just trust that the system won’t malfunction. The next iteration has to make every participant as safe as can be (without raising the threshold for entry).

I would approach the next iteration as software with a very robust test suite - there is a rich portfolio of financial scams out there and your system needs to help deter, detect, prevent, etc, as much of that as possible automatically. All human systems devolve down to policing rule compliance with time.

Draw them in with ease of use that beats current financial tools (transaction fees for commercial transactions for example) and keep them in with trust (any bad actor has only one identity and loses it or is prohibited from using it for a time, - forcing them to use non-digital payment processing with much higher transaction costs.
The DSRV from the book and movie is real: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic-class_deep-submergenc...
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There is no network-wide ban; each server manages its own list of banned remote servers.

There are lists of servers with bad reputations that get passed around and form the beginnings of many servers’ blocklists, but there’s no central entity maintaining a single list that says which servers are or aren’t part of the fediverse.
> This isn't a crypto failure. Crypto works. This is a human failure.

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
This is so cool. I reminds me of the m68k llvm backend that allowed Rust to run on the Megadrive (Genesis).
>I'm waiting for the Law&Order ripped from the headlines episode. Who will be the murder victim in the opening scene though? DUN DUN!!!

I suppose the writers could mine[0] this for inspiration.

[0] Pun intended.
This reminds me of acoup.blog and his take on subsistence farming as a risk reduction decision. Yes under Roman rule there was more "efficient" farming as some (slave worked) farms began focusing on primary crops for sale.

This meant efficiency of scale plus Ricardos law kicked in and Roman food production increased even without Haber or John Deere.

But most small farmers throughout the ages did not do this - they could have invented the co-op mass farm but the risks were too great - there was not a trade system globally that could guarantee delivery of food stuff X and so it was sensible to not focus your own production on food stuff Y but to grow a little of everything.

I think what we are seeing here is Mastodon etc as the response to the risks of centralised but efficient servers - privacy, ads, government monitoring etc.
I'm not surprised at the fact that different places in the world have different weather patterns and different approaches to heating, lol. I'm surprised at the fact that winter is such a debatable topic and people base it on how they dress, or whether their municipality is feeding them heating agent, or if they turn on their own heating agent.

We can take every little coordinate point on the earth, its political structure, its energy-reliance structure, the will of its people, and plot what winter means to each and every one of us, but ultimately winter is winter; October is not winter, November is not winter, and a meter is not an inch.
OED confirms, TIL! Thanks!
1) To recover, a crypto will probably need to include specs about how the exchange should run.

Exchanges have failed 3-4 times, and it seems they’re part of a currency since people keep coming back to them. So there needs to be a system where I keep having control over my coins while they’re in an exchange: ability to withdraw from the exchange, ability to approve a transaction.
> Why does a network-ban even need to exist? There is no algorithm that presents your feed with posts from other servers. You only see who you follow.

Mastodon servers do often have a "federated timeline" that shows you all the posts from servers your instance knows about. People can also send you unsolicited messages by replying to you or @-mentioning you.

> Who is the person who has the final say which server may be part of the fediverse?

I don't think there's really a single person with the authority to ban someone from the whole fediverse; your instance admins always have the final say about whether their instance talks to another instance. But things like shared blocklists mean that, in the vast majority of unambiguous spam or illegal content cases, only one person actually has to respond to them directly.
Fair point, however I think the argument ultimately still holds. If customers or regulators learn that the application is crypto-powered under the hood, they'll be turned off. And it might be that the crypto part can't be stuffed under the hood.

It's a frustrating situation for someone like me who enjoys geeking out about designs for alternative institutions. I see many ways our institutions could be better-designed -- better aligned incentives making higher ed way cheaper & more effective, stuff like that -- and simultaneously there was so much momentum around crypto, including e.g. El Salvador adopting bitcoin. But somehow they never met in the middle. It sucks that people put their faith in tech geeks like me, and they got let down. Somehow crypto's "solution in search of a problem" never collided with the many institutional problems that desperately need solving.
FDIC covers only up to 200k USD. Many people have lost life savings when banks collapse. Also, not everybody lives in the US or in countries with a semi decent banking system.
Probably given the somehow snarnky remark about the state of real time Java specification, as if that is what matters, maybe.
the entire sexual orientation of the internet just went from communism to enterprise. and you heard it hear first because i like to run fast because i have competitors.

Things have to change (or grow) otherwise they die. Ask marky mark about how the metaverse is working out for him. People aren't going in that direction. People are trending towards living their life effectively.

We need to be worried that people might quit the internet altogether. sell short and sell. wreck the world so we can finally rebuild
Bought 7 houses in the US. Never took more than 5 years. Bought 5 houses in Asia. Paid cash for all of them. See comment by foobarbaz33 for my reasoning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33561001
Most studies on "Protein Leverage Hypothesis" are done by the same team.

You can find studies that have a different point of view:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30017356/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30311593/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33667386/
So ironic. the latest comments on the official FTX one are funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo
This is a super fun project to play around with. I'm currently trying to build a C64 sprite multiplexer in mostly straight C++ using LLVM-MOS and while it's definitely not going to be the most optimized multiplexer out there, I'm finding it mostly adequate performance-wise.

Whereas it's probably a long way away from being able to use this for democoding due to the mostly cycle-accurate nature of the effects, for creating homebrew games and utilities this is really quite suitable: write high-level logic in C or C++ (or any language supported by LLVM really) and sprinkle in some inline assembly here and there for the really performance critical parts.

The code that is being generated is already quite good and (on first glance) looks better than what's coming out of cc65, for instance.

There's also rust-mos which uses LLVM-MOS to compile Rust code. It unfortunately still has some issues (e.g. [1]) but that is looking really promising as well.

Kudos to all involved :)

[1] https://github.com/mrk-its/rust-mos/issues/16
I've seen more and more advertisements for Mastadon on HN, probably because of the whole Twitter debacle. Does anyone use the service? I mean, enough people so that the average person would know what it is? From my experience with Mastadon it took me a while to even learn how the service was used, and all I remember was thinking "wow that's too complicated to use or get Joe Average User to sign up for". Without ease of use a critical mass of users won't be possible so it won't ever be anything other than a niche product.
Using less characters got you banned? I don't understand why that would happen. I would think using more characters would be more likely to get you banned since it's less like what normal users do.
Even in the first, "most optimised" case, the compiler is still generating more instructions than necessary. It should only need to generate one mov and one ret.
i swear to god I hate filters. they ruin your life when you are trying to paint beautiful offensive pictures with words.
I think the new laws and regulations are coming out as we speak. Since it's such a new area they have been slow. The SEC just hired a bunch of new people. They have been busy prosecuting people too.

I also think FTX has been violating plenty of them already from the sounds of it. They probably thought they were being clever, but wouldn't pass the "duck test".
> The promise of cryptographic currency was that we have the power.

As usual, we don’t. The question is, do you want the power to be in a condo in the Bahamas or in a building with the company’s logo on it, within walking distance of the SEC and SDNY?
Deleted - Recent developments proved me wrong.
If it's an instance level ban, then you can vote with your feet by migrating to a new instance. You are not electing who goes on the list, but you are electing to follow certain lists implicitly by which instance you join.

With mastodon/fediverse, you have a choice of numerous different 'twitters', rather than being stuck with the global twitter decision.
Yes, it does, but some of us actually consider this to be a feature.

The issue with reversibility is that it’s not just reversibility - it’s also the power for the authorities to take your assets from you.

The question isn’t “do you want to be able to get your money back after it was stolen”, it’s really, “do you want the powers that be to be able to decide whose money it is.” We’ve been lucky to live in a world where “yes” is a reasonable answer. But there’s no guarantee that it’ll stay that way. And crypto is insurance against that possible change.
At the very least they would know someone there who is a citizen and could withdraw their funds for them. A loophole was utilized where a Bahamanian FTX user would create an NFT on FTX's NFT marketplace, and the locked user would buy it with the price equal to all of their funds. Then the Bahamanian would withdraw to fiat and take their cut. People probably made dozens of millions in a day taking 50% cuts while laundering people's money out.
you keep censoring my mind im going to punch you fucks in the face. That is the attitude of the world you fucking robots.
20 and I only discovered :vsplit/:hsplit this year.
> Let us now assume that we hide the function definitions:

extern void construct(),
destruct();

> The generated code in that case becomes noticeably longer

This was hard for me to follow, but I think that when the function definitions are removed, the compiler no longer knows that the constructor can't throw an exception, so now it has to add exception handling code?
I am not a fan of "destroying the planet" arguments mainly because anything goes, super ambiguious and not very precise. Buy our razors because cartridge razors are destroying the planet! https://bandisposablerazors.org/

Destroying the planet = Can't question it, can't argue about it, it is the end all of all arguments. How could you ever oppose something that destroys the planet?

They all sound the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing
Selfhosted services are typically entirely self-contained. You access them with clients controlled by you, with devices on your network, and apart from updates from trusted sources of your choice, not exchange with untrusted parties at all. I'm all for decentralised financials but the topic is orders of magnitude harder.
What did they use Obj-C for?
Or just the usual story of near senile legislators being decades behind actual developments and just not getting it, and therefore not moving quickly enough.
Be glad your mind doesn't tempt you with this crap. You'll pay for it one way or another, and in the end, money doesn't matter beyond a very low point.
Exceptions only make sense if there are failures to handle. If you don't use exceptions for failure, something else like an 'if not ok goto handle' needs to be in there. This is what C does explicitly, and rust implicitly if you look trough Result.

So a better comparison would be: let construct() return a bool, an do manual error handling if it returns false. I'm pretty sure, the compiler will generate much worse code in this case.
So why doesn't everyone hold their crypto in their own wallets?

If this keeps happening it speaks to the fact that the current system isn't well designed.
I made a small tribute[0] to Winterbells last year when beginning to learn Godot. Spent much time with that music on loop way back when playing that cozy game!

[0] https://poacher2k.itch.io/summercoins
here is another handout. when i say "super tweet" what do you think that means? because i got the answer