skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it consent based? Just ask visitors of your website/services, whether they are OK with the IP address being possibly leaked to US entities. And don't engage in dark patterns while asking for consent of course, but that is obvious ...
> We don't even have the metal supplies to fully electrify car production,

Okay, I need to say that you are not even wrong. Yep, I am slightly irritated on this blatantly false claim that has started popping up. If you think your claim has any merit, could you please provid the metal that you think we are lacking, estimat the amount needed and compare that amoun to the amount in earth's crust. If you get anything but infinitesmally small needs compared to what here is, please explain why that metal can't be replaced.
> A “universal” api for moving money between financial institutions that don’t have existing relationships

KYC is a feature, not a bug, so there has to be at least some sort of relationship even if it's via mutual registration with a third party.

Also, modernization of banking systems, including inter-bank transfer, has been slowing happening in the background for the last decade. AFAIK no one is using pow, pos, or blockchains (except, maybe, just in the sense that traditional databases have many of the same desirable attributes as a blockchain).

> could unlock innovation in everything from payments to mortgages.

Innovation in mortgages didn't work out so well last time, and honestly the actual origination of a mortgage is one of the least painful and inefficient parts of real estate.

When bitcoin launched we really did need innovation in payments. Apple Pay and Google Pay solved a lot of the problem, and the recent rise of "bank/lender as an api" startups popping up now solve a significant part of the rest of the problem.
Demanding that our leaders follow the same lifestyle they are forcing on us is I think a very straightforward thing.
> Vonnegut is highly over rated

This is great because it conjurs up for me an image of you as a world-weary 17 year old smoking his first cigarette after getting a high grade on his French literature test while thinking about whether he should go to Brown or Harvard or maybe just drop out altogether
Hmm, I’m not sure about your conclusion.

I would rather see people be more scrutinizing when giving their money to others. It doesn’t matter if there are rules and regulations, people are always going to be duped. When I read about FTX I just think that people need to be better educated.

Maybe one could argue that the rules and regulations are specific to providing consumers with tools to make educated decisions about financial investments.
Sam "Bank Run" Fried
Nim is a Wirthian language not a Python language, but Python always had some Wirthian touches so...
> Do not confuse the <b> element with the <strong>, <em>, or <mark> elements. The <strong> element represents text of certain importance, <em> puts some emphasis on the text and the <mark> element represents text of certain relevance. The <b> element doesn't convey such special semantic information; use it only when no others fit.

This is really hard to take seriously, even as someone who advocates for semantic HTML.

Surely all these nuances mean something tangible, but I don't see it.

Compared to <b> vs <strong> vs <em>, <mark> and <i> seem comparatively sensible.
>I have never -- never -- encountered a value-producing use case for cryptocurrency that can't be solved by either signed git commits or a SQL database.

I've heard a lot of people used it to buy drugs on the internet.
hmm, last time I used Scotty, I thought it was the exact opposite of Rails and more like Sinatra. It's less batteries included and more flexible and lightweight. Yesod is more like RoR, no? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by swiss army knife?
Can anyone tell me the purpose of bookmarks in 2022? I have only one hypothesis that it is for users who hate keyboard. Any frequently visited site pops up after Alt-D and first 2-3 letters of it's title or URL. Any infrequently visited site is easier to find with search engine after your bookmarks number is above 100.
It prevents data races, use-after-free, double-free, buffer overflow, invalid type punning, etc. You can still do all those things in unsafe code though, and you could in safe code if the unsafe code you depend on (including the kernel) behave/are programmed incorrectly. You can also have hardware issues and stochastic bit flips that Rust and SPARK can't deal with.
They were the counterparty with themself?

They accept FTT as collateral, give out a leveraged loan to the other company. The company spends that money on things like stadium rights and bailing out other failed crypto companies. Collateral falls to a value of 0, and the money is spent.
did you use Wails?
The most likely outcome here is that Twitter stabilises somehow, Mastodon increases its name recognition and even usage, but that its incoming migrants eventually skulk back to Twitter for its reach.
Generative AI Models Will Change the Future of Gaming
Solar is so damn cheap it almost makes sense to set up supplemental systems even if you only get like 10% of the power rated on the panel.

Panels are like $1 per nominal watt
I've heard a large number of non-native English speakers and British-English speakers pronounce "route" as "root". I can easily see an American-English speech-to-text or just American-English speakers choose "root" hearing one of these people pronouncing "route".

When I first heard "root" I got very confused because we were talking to Unix-adjacent stuff so I thought they were talking about the root user. Don't jump to conclusions.
Worse, they've got leverage over him
19th century, or 2008. It’d be same.
You don't have to follow "most of Twitter". There are countless awesome communities for almost any given subject.

There is room for both to be true: most of Twitter (content) is a cesspool, and yet it still is great place id you take care to curate the accounts you follow.
The compile times and the fact it takes 10x the memory for a lot of services is certainly something I would like to see addressed. Not to mention that Java for things like serverless has painfully slow startup times.

Java runs nice and quick when it's ready, but it's slow to get there and quite a memory hog.
I posted it because there has been a lot of activity, interested parties, etc.. on https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805..., waiting for some kind of reply from the Chrome team. Despite interest, it looks like they haven't changed their mind, given the link I posted, and I thought it merited discussion.
> We strongly advise against depositing

Wait, withdrawls are completely frozen and the company is done for, but they are still accepting deposits?!
Sure but that's a workaround for a fundamentally outdated system.
Technically technically, you're feeding data into a system whose purpose is the care and feeding of a mainframe. That veneer is pretty thin in places and so it tends to feel like you're talking to a mainframe even when you're talking to an arbitrator for the mainframe.
Twitter rolls back paid verification, reinstates "Official" labels
SBF’s investment strategy will either build him an empire–or end in disaster
> I don’t personally see a reason to treat cadavers any differently than any other object in a lab

Even from a purely consequentialist point of view: if behavior around the cadavers gets out to the public, and the public deems it disrespectful, the public stops donating cadavers, which negatively impacts medical education. Even if you don't personally believe in treating human remains with respect, a huge part of society does, and you have to at least respect that.
The problem with using WASM is it doesn't create an ecosystem where you can save the JXL, open it in a editor, upload it yourself, etc. like a normal image file.
You basically are.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/ach/ and https://www.swift.com handle much of the US, and it's a system developed in the 70s (or earlier) and it works.

It could be modernized and things like https://explore.fednow.org are trying to do that.

But the problems involved are not things a blockchain would secure because there's a trusted intermediary which can just run a database.
Bitcoin was always this fun nerdy hobby money, right up until the speculators came in and exploited it.

Now it's "investing" in the confidence of the future of a computing network that can only handle 7 transactions a second, but that still hasn't stopped it becoming the essential oils for tech bros either.
The inadequacies of the traditional finance industry are not the "blockchain space"'s fault.
People get power because they scrap for it not because they somehow deserve it
People pitching the state vs money argument are the same crypto nerds as per xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/538/
If you want the high-end take on this, check out the Spanish Michelin star chef, Angel León. He is known as “chef del mar”, making novel dishes with the plants from the ocean.

Here is a short portrait in English:

https://thebestchefawards.com/2021/06/06/angel-leon/

His restaurant, Aponiente:

https://www.aponiente.com/en/
> Is the job market worse than Jan 2022? Sure. Is it bad? I don't think so.

That's subjective.

What if you want to work for a large unicorn or FAANG? Yea, the job market is pretty bad right now then.
Twitter users impersonate video game companies, causing mayhem
> Elon proposing a $20/month price for Twitter Blue, and then immediately dropping to $8 at the first celebrity pushback, something any pricing expert would know is a terrible idea

Wasn't that a good idea though? Everyone heard the price was going to be $20, so now $8 doesn't seem so bad. Wouldn't a pricing expert refer to that as anchoring?
Not sure if it’s an exact parallel, but you can also embed files into rust binaries with “include_bytes!” and “include_str!”.
https://archive.ph/ZZ6Vr
Which is totally fine on their own machine, but using a webfont to force ligatures on anyone viewing their website is just confusing as a reader.
I see: it is true, from the bank's perspective, in the specific case of mortgages, because they're no-recourse
Exactly this, I'm in Canada and can transfer money to anyone in Canada (and maybe worldwide, never tried it though) for free, instantly. That's how most people pay rent up here.

Most of the problems people perceive with the banking system are completely societal, 0% technical. If your bank doesn't let you send money instantly to your friend for free, that isn't because your bank needs a blockchain.
We're cunning linguists and proud of it.
In the proposed article, it sounds like if you accidentally typed anything you would have to hit "undo" twice instead of "redo" N times to get back. Still seems confusing.
I'll post a single simple anecdote, but this is much much worse.

https://github.com/GEOS-ESM/GEOSgcm_GridComp/blob/develop/GE...

Line 87, you can see they copy physical constants from an old physics book and then later they commented out and used different constants. You can see that the difference is quite significant.

The cloud physics code there I saw in different models, with different "constants", with other comments also taken from physics books as old as the 1980s. Can look in general at the accuracy of physical constants used, some of them aren't constants at all (and depends on composition of air INCLUDING CO2, such as gas constants). There are also much more complex problems there that I can't explain over a single post.

This is extremely complex to evaluate the impact of everything going on there, and I can't make claims that it should go one way or the other, but the code quality and the testing done there are definitely not enough to reach the conclusions made and the trillions of dollars worth of decisions that followed.
> FTX did what banks do, which is to take a cut of transactions, and especially use customer funds to make bets

Their terms of service didn't give them the right to do this, as I understand it.

> None of the Digital Assets in your Account are the property of, or shall or may be loaned to, FTX Trading;
Why does this need to be regulated? We already have banks for that. And it's not like regulation saved them from being able to become insolvent.
There was the time where SBF openly described a Ponzi scheme to Matt Levine and the Odd Lots podcast hosts and suggested that that's what FTX is powered by. He wasn't really saying FTX is a Ponzi, but it was an open admission that they're providing the infrastructure for Ponzis and taking fees. If you're someone who believes in the concept of personal principles, this was pretty decent signal SBF was sorely lacking on at least the dimension of financial responsibility.

Levine paraphrased as, "we're in the Ponzi business, and business is pretty good."
Machines not functioning? Same scrambled voter rolls? "Sorry it says you already votes absentee"? Where oversight of elections was too thorough it got changed to election month - Florida can count millions of ballots on election day but other states need more time?

Truly one has to bury their head in the sand if they are to stand by election integrity in 2022
No, I was trying to be polite in stating that the type of neurodivergence that makes people good hackers also generally leads them to have very strict and literal interpretations of language, whereas most other people are very comfortable with taking poetic license.

So things like this seems a lot more important to us than to gen pop.

And I was just trying to give a warning of that, since it is one of the key reasons why people like us are considered 'hard to talk to' (unless we take these warnings in stride and work to build coping mechanisms to lessen the impact).
But it's not collapsing at scale... not yet anyway. It's just one exchange, a big one but just one going under. It's scams and rug pulls predictably going under, same story as the last cycle. The only difference is that the news is covering it, it makes it seem like a bigger deal than it is.

And you want them to go under. When the scams stop going under is when you have a real problem, because that means the entire industry is in fact a scam.
As a Googler, I really enjoy all the Chat-app mockery.
Yeah, well FAANG is just part of the industry and contains multitudes. There's people making $60-80k working for FAANG in SV. You might be surprised.

For a good portion of the US that's decent money. Now some areas of software you're going to see a little better, often, but not much.

In probably 80%+ of the country (at least geographically), it's 80-140k for experienced technical people. IT tends to do worse, unless you're the kind of IT that's very technical.

Now at the top end of that ~$120-140k, it may seem nice (btw this is "FAANG money" for a good portion of the country... no really, as in, this is literally what FAANG pays top engineers in many regions outside silicon valley). I wouldn't call that typical, though.

In the US we also expect engineers to move into technical management in order to advance their salaries beyond low six figures, or less. You do sometimes see "super-technical" roles, but if they do it right you have to be REALLY good, experienced, and essential to the organization (one of their top 3-5 MVPs across the entire organization, not just the technical side). I wouldn't be shocked if such roles happened from time to time in Europe, too.

Maybe, we aren't so different, but I do notice my co-workers staring longingly at the compensation we get here... which is again, limited to a small subset of jobs; if they were in the US working for the same company it wouldn't be much better, but they could move to SV.
I'm currently in an engineering leadership position hiring for a startup not impacted by this downturn. I see the numbers and do interviews, but not a Recruiter per se.

> Have you noticed that more people are applying for the same roles?

Seeing a slight increase in qualified candidates, not much of a change in unqualified candidates. By unqualified, I mean, as an example, a fresh bootcamp grad applying to a Staff level position.

> Do you have less roles to recruit for than before?

Have the same amount. Had a hiring plan, still have it, still working on finishing it up for the year.

> How intense is the competition presently for roles?

Not very. We're on a glide path to meet our hiring plan for the year without the pipeline being dry or being over-full. We're able to consider candidates individually without needing to hire anyone just to make the numbers, or reject people simply because we have too many applicants. If you're a good fit we make an offer.
If HN adhered to this policy, it would be the most boring site on the web. Tangential, complementary and/or controversial conversation in posts is where some of the best content is.

Comment police/gatekeeping discussion (outside of dang actually enforcing the rules) is probably the most annoying behavior on this site.
I don't see how you mix memory safety with DSP programming. You gonna handle interrupts, DMA, cache etc automagically?
Hellsongs' cover of "Run to the Hills" (originally by Iron Maiden) is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguuHDW42OQ

(Since Iron Maiden got another mention for Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I'd bet they have more to offer, but I'm not that knowledgeable about their work.)
See also Uber vs countries that can and did simply regulate taxis well for decades, without burning billions of VC dollars.
I think it's really amazing that she started a PAC and 13 days later her son became one of the largest political donors to the Democrats. What great timing for her.
As an example, it was NIST that recommended password rotation every X days (note: they no longer do), and from there every one else decided to implement that password requirement in so many corporate workplaces. It wasn't a requirement that came up out of thin air.
These are the same people that want free software to workaround abusive corporate policy instead of first regulating corporations. We might actually even be served by a free software movement if employees and people were actually free and unconstrained by corporations that that keep them from ever participating. People like Stallman think a license.txt is going to solve this?
Perhaps you can share some of the many advantages?
That’s pretty frustrating, I have a Pixel 4 that I quite like.

This is one of the reasons I recommend the most recent lowest-priced iOS device you can afford to family and friends who don’t upgrade often.

My grandfathers iPhone 6s is just now going EOL after 7 years. Apple is a little inconsistent with updates for prior iOS versions but it still received the iOS 15 security update.

It wonder if iPhones end up being cheaper because of the extended support?
I don't think it's that strict, otherwise the court is mandating something that is literally impossible with current internet (routing) architecture.
And in that 16 years, where was the Vim-sponsored nascar with ":earlier 39" printed on the hood in Courier New?

Shameful.

(I'm actually afraid to continue making jokes on the non-zero probability that someone here reads this and tries to start a Vimcoin...)
I'm not saying that it will work or that this is a good plan or anything. I really have no idea. I'm saying that it might be part of a plan and one way to know is to wait and see if it works out.

If someone is playing a video game you've never played, and you see them mashing the controls in a random way, it's possible they have no idea what they're doing. If you wait a bit and watch you can see if they lose, which would validate the theory they didn't know what they were doing, or if they win - which would suggest they did know what they were doing.
> But, for the love of God, can we STOP the blind short-term speculation on the promise of extreme wealth.

Not without changing human nature. If there is a get-rich-quick scheme available, there will always be takers.
Well, I've been a huge Go fanboy telling everyone who'd listen (or not!) why it's the best thing since sliced bread. I use Go for building servers at work and have been quite happy in general except for the verbosity. I had zero plans on using Rust and was actually getting annoyed with the non-stop Rust talk everywhere, especially on HN. Then we had to urgently add Web Assembly to our frontend, and to my shock Go was generating gigantic WASM files, so I ended up trying Rust, being forced really. But once I experienced Rust, I've become a convert singing a completely different tune. So those of you also annoyed by all these "fanatical" Rustaceans telling you how wonderful it is, please try Rust (for a real project) before passing judgment.
This seems like a good case study in effectively disappearing from your previous position of notoriety and leaving little else but conjecture and rumor behind. And a big question: Why? What does he know that we don't?

This is an area of interest to me because we can define the annoyances in his life (ethics breaches, loss of ideals to some extent, issues with notoriety, etc) as growth or learning opportunities that he declined to engage with directly at length, returning to and building on known strengths instead.

But at the same time, leaving those opportunities behind typically leaves a person reeling, in the sense that at some level they now perceive that their powers to help or even save the world are more limited than they could previously imagine.

This would be a very simple setup for finding oneself in a state of vague and frustrating exhaustion, and seeking to close off from the world a bit. I hope we get to hear about more of his mathematical works & discoveries in the future.
> In every other rich country

Let's not ignore the non-"rich" countries
You disagree with a genralization because you have observed a single data point?
I'm not very familiar with Nix, but one rather unique feature of Spack is the concept of combinatorial builds.

Suppose we have a big HPC cluster, and suppose also that this is a fairly heterogeneous cluster in terms of CPU architectures. We might have, for example, 3 different generations of Intel chips. We would also have several different compilers, and several versions of MPI (e.g., OpenMPI, MVAPICH, etc.).

Using Spack, it is trivially simple to build a piece of software with all possible combinations of compiler-architecture-MPI.

Spack also integrates very nicely with LMOD, so managing Spack installs using the LMOD module system is extremely convenient.

I would also argue that the user experience with Spack is phenomenal, but that's just a personal preference.
I gave it some credence because in the US he has the SEC to think about.
I pretty much only use brave. It seems to give me more relevant results.
I don't even disagree with these points! But if you go down to language lawyering and semantics, I think one could technically make a case for Rust being safer (in the memory safety sense) than Java/Go/(insert any GC'd memory safe language that features synchronization primitives as an opt-in feature, think volatile in Java), if only on the merit of protecting you from data races.

Elixir is great, use elixir. I certainly am not stopping you, it's completely safe and fault tolerant. Or maybe I'm saying this because I don't know as much about Elixir/BEAM internals compared to the aforementioned languages, who knows.
M$ was what Democrats would call Microsoft to demonize them. Just as Biden is demonizing the oil industry. Biden mocked the entire oil industry for making $100 billion dollars. Yet, Apple made $155 billion in 2021.

No democrat has asked Apple to turn those profits over, or wanted a wind fall tax. Why? Apple donates heavily to Democrats, and this is why you will never see an anti-trust suite.

You can be upset with this, but that is reality.
> in the specific case of mortgages, because they're no-recourse

This varies jurisdiction to jurisdiction. And it isn't really germane to the question of quantifying one's leverage, which is a going-concern analysis.