skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was going to say something very similar. His content is usually great, but the writing style doesn't appeal to me because of the verbosity. It generally doesn't keep me from reading them if the topic is interesting to me though.

Anyways, this is all very subjective and based on personal preference so it's probably not useful so I'll shut up now.
What exactly is fantastic about it, objectively? I really can’t come up with anything besides goroutines. It’s quite inexpressive and is pretty much like the litany of other managed languages (I am honestly baffled how it gets compared to Rust — wouldn’t you be surprised if someone was going on about C vs JS? That’s the same thing)
from the expect FAQ, of which unbuffer is a part:

#43. Why doesn't Expect kill telnet (or other programs) sometimes?

From: libes (Don Libes)
To: Karl.Sierka@Labyrinth.COM
Subject: Re: need help running telnet Expect script from cron on sunos 4.1.3

karl.sierka@labyrinth.com writes:
> The only problem I am still having with the script I wrote is that
> the telnet does not seem to die on it's own, unless I turn on debugging.

Actually, Expect doesn't explicitly kill processes at all. Generally,
processes kill themselves after reading EOF on input. So it just seems
like Expect kills all of its children.

> I was forced to save the pid of the spawned telnet, and kill it with an
> 'exec kill $pid' in a proc that is hopefully called before the script
> exits. This seems to work fine, but it makes me nervous since omnet
> charges for connect time, and leaving a hung telnet lying around could
> get expensive. I warned the rest of the staff so that they will also be
> on the lookout for any possible hung telnets to omnet.

The problem is that telnet is not recognizing EOF. (This is quite
understandable since real users can't actually generate one from the
telnet user interface.) The solution is to either 1) explicitly drive
telnet to kill itself (i.e., a graceful logout) followed by "expect
eof" or 2) "exec kill" as you are doing.

This is described further in Exploring Expect beginning on page 103.

Don
> You're not guaranteed to perform a chargeback successfully.

Even in the worst case, because a credit card is an abstraction over my bank account, I have the option to refuse to pay and won't lose my shirt or otherwise become despondent. In the meantime, chargebacks are a feature of the system, not a bug. To wit, cryptocurrency advocates are the last people who should go around lecturing others about fraud. :P
That is true, tho I don't think it will happen in practice.

But regardless: one has to admit that it is not different from how the current embargos affect Russian people. Punish the citizens so they (try to) put pressure on the government to act better.
> Being able to self-custody

Also possible with cash, but extremely risky for most people. Not an advantage of crypto, not an advantage in general.

> send money anonymously

Only relevant for crime. Disadvantage or irrelevant for most legitimate businesses (you anyway need to provide address for shipment).

> send money [] internationally in seconds without an intermediary

Also possible with many banks, VISA, Western Union. The fact that you're using an intermediary is irrelevant - since either way you're paying transaction fees, and trying to avoid sanctions is too dangerous for most people.

> Decentralization

In practice, it's far more centralized (far fewer exchanges in the world than banks, and the majority of people using crypto hold it with an exchange)

> composibility, programmable money

Doesn't really mean anything. Money is money, it can only change hands with a legal contract, and "smart contracts" are not legal contracts.
They were caught off guard by the risk asset sell off. They thought the bull run would go for longer
>They might be trying to get ahead of a possible push to mandate CCS, and they don't want to get pushed around like Apple did.

Waaaaaay too late for that. It'd be like Apple telling that they'll open the Lightning connector and that other phone manufacturers should switch to it, if Apple had done that in like 2019.

Sure, nice try, but maybe you should've taken this position about a decade earlier.
Regulation saved the economy from the worst of it. But this is the kind of uninformed ignorance that is common in these parts. It has been consistently proven that regulation and central banking have prevented the worst of excesses. But live in your own world without reading anything. No one is stopping you.
Yt-dlp fork can read cookies right out of your browser if you ask it to.
Brutaldon: A brutalist web interface for Mastodon
The ":" and "=>" are almost definitely superfluous, parsing "a: i32, b: 32" and "a, b: i32, c: i64" is no more difficult as parsing "a i32, b i32" and "a, b i32, c i64".

The same is true for colons in Python: they're not really necessary but provide slighlty better readability plus syntax highlighters can get away with using regexes, I guess.
I like to put it this way: C++ was supposed to be a "better C," and Rust is a better "better C" than C++.
I don’t think it’s that I can’t believe it, I just don’t want to… smdh
I Googled it, and learned a new concept. Thanks!
I'm not familiar with any of the listed currencies, but in a properly-designed cryptocurrency a deposit to a given public key is just any transaction[0] that includes a output to that public key. There's no such thing as accepting or not accepting deposits, at most they could actively refund them, which bankruptcy presumably prevents them from doing.

IOW, they're saying: "If you give us money, we will (/may) be forced to give it to our creditors rather than back to you, so don't do that.".

0: IE, a message published by Alice to the effect of "[Alice's public key] gives [Bob's public key] X [coin]s. [Alice's signature for this message]", published on the distributed ledger. Note that Alice can create and publish such a message without any input from Bob.
Tesla is still >70% of EVs in the U.S. and Aptera has already adopted their plug (hopefully shipping soon).

We are still within bounds of choosing the superior connector. It isn't too late like in Europe, especially since US bound vehicles are already using a different plug than their European counterparts
> I was just thinking fondly back to XAMPP...

Actually used XAMPP just a few years ago, for some quick and dirty PHP development, before eventually moving over to containerizing everything I needed for that project. It's still around and usable: https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html

Either way, nowadays I basically run all of my "business" applications in containers, because that's the lowest common denominator for isolated, scalable and relatively easily manageable environments that's not going anywhere (OCI seems too widespread now, even if something like Podman might displace Docker in particular somewhat).

That said, there's also something nice to be said about things running with fewer abstractions along the way locally (debugging can be easier in some tech stacks that way, instead of figuring out how to do remote debugging, same for other instrumentation like seeing all of the application threads/memory/SQL queries etc.), or a set of highly focused tools for a particular tech stack.
Yep. Google is the Ministry of Truth that Orwell warned us about.
Yeah, I think I stumbled across using the libvirt provider, however libvirt is just another abstraction (a very useful one) over multiple virtualization technologies. I much prefer working directly with QEMU for local dev environments since I only need a one and done machine.
A lot of these studies gave their test subjects CBD in dosages of several hundred miligrams at once. In oil form that's often entire bottles ($30-50 per legal product in my jurisdiction). So it's basically financially infeasible for anyone to self-medicate with CBD unless they get it from prescriptions for an actual medically diagnosed condition.
In the US it seems like most problems with big projects are due to responsibility being diffuse across many political groups, and just about anyone with a lawyer has near veto power over almost any project. How is that absolute power?

Blind pithy cynicism is unhelpful.
I still use Sublime as a replacement for Notepad.

It opens blazing fast, I create a new tab, jot down whatever and close it without being prompted to save.

That is reason enough to keep it installed.
This is also SOP for the value-added reseller (VAR) scam.

One notable exception are car dealers. They somehow secured themselves durable lucrative carve-outs before the VAR thing matured.
It’s still early days and certainly not too late to change it.
> their business model makes perfect sense

Well they can't make money because all the other exchanges offer better fees/lower spreads since they're loaning customer money out. They'll never be big enough to actually makea. profit while there are shady exchanges offering a better product(until it collapses).
Sounds like he forgot about the principle of diminishing returns.

If you have $1B to your name, it's stupid to put it all on red, even if your expected return is positive.
You're right in that if all we wanted was a domestic payment network, blockchain consensus mechanisms would be overkill and introduce unneeded overhead. Personally, I'm excited about the FedNow payment service coming online in the USA next year. Perhaps I'll finally be able to easily send money from bank to bank without involving third party fintechs like PayPal and Venmo, and without waiting a day or two for ACH.

However, crypto is useful because it standardizes behavior across regulatory boundaries, and because it creates a stateless unit of account.

Standardizing behavior across regulatory boundaries means that crypto "just works" to send value from one country to another, without needing cross-border intermediary companies that support your specific country pair to convert things between currencies/systems.

The stateless unit of account part is perhaps more interesting to me, though. Before crypto, there were no digital representations of value independent from state. No country has the power to hyperinflate crypto, and there doesn't seem to be a clear path to be able to accomplish a unit of account like that through traditional political means. The closest thing we have to that is the Euro, but it doesn't tick all the boxes.

Is a stateless unit of account good, or better than traditional government currencies? I'm honestly not sure. It does have some drawbacks in terms of the ability to use monetary policy to loosen and tighten markets. But it's an interesting enough concept that I would say it's worth it to "bother" with blockchain consensus technology.
They expected the gambles to pay off, and faster than customers started withdrawing en masse. Reminds me a lot of AIG's sketchy Securities Lending back before 2008.
I never knew Aaron Swartz. But I will always celebrate his day, as is his due. Please show your appreciation to the Internet Archive and others for sponsoring and hosting this justly appropriate memorial.

Swartz was a bright advocate of intellectual freedom, but also vulnerable young man wrongly harassed by authoritarian nincompoops at MIT and the US Federal Government in an unlawful escalation. To this day, I remain angry at the unethical treatment of Swartz at the hands of the US Attorney Stephen Heymann, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz (appointed by Barack Obama, Ortiz notably resigned rather than be fired by Donald Trump), and Attorney General Eric Holder, who defended the government’s actions as “reasonable".
The network was designed not to be regulatable. Businesses however are regulatable.

The US has shown they can effectively enforce AML/KYC requirements across the vast majority of exchanges and businesses. Any exchange the average person tries to use to buy crypto will request your ID to do any meaningful transaction.

Granted, there are exchanges you can use a VPN and access without KYC, and while it is difficult to manage billions of dollars in the dark, it's certainly possible. But they can regulate the vast majority that any regular user will find, and have shown they're willing to OFAC others.

It is not going to be long before regulations are increased, and some exchanges/services will be known to be subject to them - and will likely lean on that as a selling point. The others will only be accessible to those going out of their way to use them.
Your comment is already pretty great :-) I used to ask donations, thinking every donation no matter the size would warm my heart, but it doesn't really work (unless it's big enough for me to buy new smartphones for debugging). I do take donations at https://github.com/sponsors/phhusson

What makes me happier is seeing people using my work, either users' feedback telling me why my work is useful for them, or developers creating new things based on my work (the weirder the usage the better)
Closer to Parallel port vs. USB-C
That's most T.C. videos I've seen. Often niche topics but I sat* through (and enjoyed) 20 minutes of why an obscure can opener is superior than the mainstream ones.
Hate to be pedantic, but as a Frenchman I can't help but point out it's actually from Rabelais: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargantua_and_Pantagruel
> I had a Python ....

IMHO, the biggest win of Go over anything Python is the single distributable.

You write once. Compile (or cross-compile) once. Distribute the binary. Job done.

Python you've got the hell of dependencies. Write your script once, but then users have to endure pip hell for the hundreds of libraries you've depended on. And then the potential different dependencies between different Python stuff.

Go is awesome for that and the Go stdlib has 80+% of what most people need.
They usually lie in writing as well.

Since suing your employer is a career-ending move, contracts don't make much of a difference either.
Twitter gives big advertisers the excuse they need
Well, I mean...that's the thing. There really isn't much point to crypto once it's regulated the same way as traditional finance...and there's no world where that wasn't eventually going to be the case.
What do you like about it better than VS Code?
You're extrapolating a lot from just a title. Apple has had various search engines and crawlers for almost a decade now. Their first major investment was the Topsy's acquisition, in 2013. They've continued to invest through acquisitions and organic growth to reduce their reliance on Google Search. There is no indication that Apple will stop.
I find that VSCode's performance is not really poor, most of the time. VSCode is actually faster to open large files. Yes, it's true, compare it yourself! I have definitely experienced performance issues in Sublime with long lines as well.

My performance problems with VSCode are mostly short hangs and trouble keeping up with typing. Sublime is definitely better, but I only experience those problems in VSCode sometimes. And I could probably fix it by removing some of the extensions I have installed.
Also in the category of fictional references to Laika, a wonderful episode of Space Dandy (“The Lonely Pooch Planet, Baby”)
Open pit mines are huge and the biggest ones are for boring things like iron and copper: https://www.mpirecruitment.au/news/the-worlds-deepest-bigges...
Kamloopsian here - TIL.

Story of Alice Bettridge[0] is chilling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops
Probably true. I find all of them annoying almost to the point of uselessness though. I generally use them for some specific incantations like setting an alarm but mostly don’t even try to think of them as any sort of true voice assistants.
> something like a 3D space that people move around in with avatars

Once again, we have those metaverses: MMOs. Anyone suggesting that every MMO of the future must be first-person, merely to reap the benefits of being in VR, will first need to explain why fewer than 100% of the video games of the past 20 years have been first-person. VR just isn't a fit for enormous categories of experiences.
I can’t recommend Affinity enough. It’s well worth the spend. It really shines as a complete set of integrated tools, even on an old iPad! That’s what Adobe is up against, IMO. The brushes could use some work, but if you’re looking for missing features, I suggest taking a look at Vectornator[^1], which has Auto-trace and brushes at a reasonable price. (no affiliation)

[^1]: https://www.vectornator.io/
HN is dead. This comment section proves it.
From some non-exhaustive research, there are many: social.coop, chaos.social, social.tchncs.de, nerdica.de (friendica) -- seem to have governance. I believe, mastodon.xyz, fosstodon.org among others have transparent donations. (I believe mastodon.xyz uses the default source)

I agree that you should seek more open governance, at least transparent finances and active open source, (technically that's covered by AGPL), because otherwise the server could go at any time, and it violates the spirit of federation in the first place.

Here's a nice transparency report: https://hub.fosstodon.org/about/
Oh, his squeamishness was legendary. Despised horror films or too-graphic war movies. I saw him stop in his tracks, stagger back, and turn white upon seeing a fake dead rat from a Tom Sawyer costume. (And guess who had to bury the family pets?)
The heads of the peloton
Raycast and Paletro provide a better UI for this. Especially Paletro remembers your last choice so you don't have to search for commands over and over. Really helpful when working with mouse-heavy apps.
A Block header includes a root hash of a Merkle tree of transactions. So yes, it is a tree, if you also consider the useful payload, not just block headers.

Then e.g. in Ethereum there's also a Merkle tree of the entire state as well.

> there's no distributed consensus

Distributed consensus is necessary if you want high availability and replication for your Merkle tree.

If data in your tree is important, you want to replicate it, right? You want to be sure it's stored on multiple nodes.

So this distributed consensus thing, Byzantine Fault Tolerance, it basically gives you a receipt that at least N nodes have this data stored.

You didn't implement it because it takes considerable effort. But if you implemented Merkle tree with high availability, you'd get something very similar to blockchain.
Binance Reserves Show Almost Half of Holdings Are in Its Own Tokens
We issue more bonds. And because we do issue the bonds and don't simply print the money, it is non-inflationary. This is because there is an asset backing the dollars instead of simply paying out the money, ie: the accounting book is balanced, there is an asset and a liability. It's only when you print money and give it away is the money inflationary. This is why we can continue to increase M1 and not see massive inflation. As the overall economy grows, there are more assets available to back the currency.
I have a simple rule about reading a book. If one person recommends it to me, it makes the list to read. If two people recommend it to me, I read it next.

There's really no significance of these book recommendations outside of the general idea that you're more likely to be successful if you read regularly. It's a shame nobody reads as much anymore given it's such a cost-effective way to change your life. Successful founders read. Big tech leaders read. It can change your life if you commit to doing it 30 minutes a day.
Tell me what systemic issues were solved by individual action. I'd really like to hear examples, I've never found them.
On thing to consider is that this is essential a list price. These prices do not necessarily reflect the actual price paid. From an NIH article:

"Private payers, especially large-volume purchasers, are able to negotiate deep discounts with drug manufacturers. Many private payers, including employers and managed care organizations, often contract with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to manage prescription drug benefits for their enrollees."

The same is true for government health care programs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK561162/

Without more data, it's hard to know how much above the origianl $30 Pfizer will actual make per dose.
So if there were a derivative (child) language, would it be called Ben Wa?
>Building a generalized search engine better than Google is hard.

True, however, through a combination of advances of general tech/stack accessibility over the long term, and regressions in Google's feature set in search in respecting a user's specific query, and falling victim to its own SEO-anti-SEO cat-and-mouse, the thirst for a search input box that can respect the anything more than the very most basic "advanced options" grows. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the growing gap between "show me 10 links that have something vaguely to do with <str> that have been hyper-gamified with next-gen DL personalization" and "SQL for the whole internet". This feels like a ripe field for apple. Probably the hardest part would be branding. Apple search could imply just local or user-uploaded files. Apple web search sounds like it's for geezers. iSearch is too on the nose. Binoculars would tie it too much to Safari.
Prius's don't burn as hot as full BEVs but if their batteries are compromised in a wreck it gets pretty fiery
https://abc7.com/pacific-coast-highway-car-fire-pch/1051638/
If you have model legislation handy, particularly the specific legal definition of scams like MLM, I'd be very grateful. Otherwise I'll poke around a bit, to see how UK phrased it.
Tesla opens its EV charge connector in hope of making it new standard
>some of the design, planning and early engineering is within the realm of what a professional civil servant could do.

There's nuance to consulting costs. The government GS pay scale poorly accounts for specialized labor. It the government cannot pay to attract talent in a competitive fields, it must instead pay consultants.
Teslas (and their Superchargers) shipped there before ~2019 had the same plug, before they switched to CCS.

I'm not sure how 3-phase fits in, but it didn't prevent being at least as useful as in the U.S.
The super stupidity of using math to dazzle people around you is my greatest lesson from this. In my highly technical field, I can use math without treating it like some precious scripture. But it’s good to know it is so unfamiliar to a normal person in the VC world, I can use it to justify even a startup doing genocide as a platform or something.
I mean I doubt he's ever stepping foot in the US again. Dudes going into hiding and won't be seen.
SAE is using terms differently, abusing, re-defining terms that have been in use for a century. This mixed use of the same word for different things can be extremely dangerous.
As others have pointed out, there's the strict mode now which is still quite restricted (pun intended), but what you most often don't hear is that you can also use check constraints, as in

sqlite> create table t ( id integer primary key, n integer check ( typeof( n ) = 'integer' ) );
sqlite> insert into t ( n ) values ( 1 );
sqlite> insert into t ( n ) values ( '1' );
sqlite> insert into t ( n ) values ( true );
sqlite> insert into t ( n ) values ( 'x' );
Runtime error: CHECK constraint failed: typeof( n ) = 'integer' (19)
sqlite> select * from t;
┌────┬───┐
│ id │ n │
├────┼───┤
│ 1 │ 1 │
│ 2 │ 1 │
│ 3 │ 1 │
└────┴───┘
sqlite> select ( select n from t where id = 1 ) = ( select n from t where id = 2 );
1 // i.e. true

Check constraints do have the advantage over more classical types that additional constraints can be declared such as valid ranges for numerical types etc.