skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's a mathematical concept that can be applied to many things including programming. It's a construct in Category Theory that when *applied* to programming becomes a way to chain computations together that depend on some computational context.

In a practical sense, a Monad is an abstract interface that once implemented defines its own chaining and execution behavior. It can be implemented several ways, but the main idea is that it chains computations inside of their context. There is more to be said about why it's useful and all that, but in summary it became useful in mathematical style programming languages.

The reason Monads are confusing is because there is no distinction between the mathematical concept (which requires CT foundation to understand), and the implementation in programming which was derived from CT. That said, there is no usefulness to a Monad, without the underlying mathematical understanding, at least in my opinion, because the whole point of it is to use it with other CT concepts to create a robust program that is leveraging mathematical laws.
i think layoffs happen much faster than reporting. also, there's just a lot of people out there and tech is only a small piece of the overall labor market.
Definitely use ours on a daily basis. Pause TV, play music, set timers, broadcast to other devices, set the thermostat, call people, and doorbell notifications. Nothing earth shattering or life changing but more useful than not.
Wikipedia lists both the model X and Y as "crossover SUVs", though to my sedan-buying eyes the X looks like a standard SUV and the Y doesn't. Not sure what to say. Wikipedia says SUV, my eyes say SUV.
The use case is "stuff we can't imagine"?
Put your resume on Indeed and Dice, and keep a google voice number, you will get a lot of calls from "offshore recruiters" working for primary and secondary vendors.
When I was living in Japan I always had to "romanize" my Japanese address if I got something shipped from USA because USPS only allows ASCII. Even if this did create problems locally - post always arrive quicker (in my experience) if the address is in proper Japanese. When I got mail from my home country I got it forwarded via my company and they always just stuck on a printed label with my address, in Kanji. No problems there. Worked fine for years.

However, my home country postal system has since changed to an online system for sending post out of the country: You go to a website and enter the destination address, then you pay and it'll print a code which you just give to the actual post office when you bring the letter/package whatever. What's infuriating is that they don't allow Japanese addresses - I can enter it, but it just creates an error message. So I again have to come up with a crude romanized address and cross fingers that it'll arrive (which it usually does - but up to a few weeks delayed).

In short - things are not getting betters over the years.
Nextcloud has a good streaming player of uploaded music.
>A true exchange, where you just buy and sell, will never pause withdrawals because they won't be acting with these ponzi-like methods

While operating a ponzi scheme in addition to an exchange certainly wouldn't help, even ponzi-less exchange is still susceptible, if they offer leverage.

>You will have some customers who owe you money, and others whom you owe money. You will be like a bank. If everyone to whom you owe money demands their money back at once, you will need to get the money back from the ones who owe you money, which might be hard. (You might not have a contractual right to demand the money back right away, or it might be rude and bad for business, or you might have to liquidate them to get the money back and that would blow up the value of your collateral.) In broad strokes this is a reasonable description of what happened to Bear Stearns, a brokerage that financed its customers’ positions. If you are a crypto exchange that provides leverage, then you are probably bank-like enough for a run on the bank.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-11-08/binanc...
When I immigrated to Sweden I jokingly said to my friends "I'm relearning how to be an adult".

Taxes, bank accounts, grocery stores, buying alcohol, going to the doctor's, and so and so forth. I had to learn how to do these things again.

If one never moved to a very different society there's no way to really empathise how deep these changes go, you uproot everything that was considered your life. The only thing you have left when moving 10000km away for a job is... The job itself.
> For example a legislation to have bitcoin "pay for" the environment damage could lead to it having a negative value.

I'll bite. So basically, owner would have to pay more than they would get to sell their Bitcoin? I'm sure nobody would do that, so the price is effectively capped at zero and can't go lower.
That was the premise of Solana, but it turns out speed in a distributed system needs some form of centralized coordination.
> If American businesses wanted the money of people from other countries, they should've made their systems internationally accessible.

They haven’t and they got the money anyway.
Live system DD backup, with encryption and compression
> Nobody wants to chase open source developers.

That might be true for the lawmakers. But as it is, there will be unintended consequences:

First, what the article criticizes: Open-Source development might be discouraged because the exemption isn't clear and encompassing enough. Compliance is enough of a burden to stop any "halfway commercial" OSS developments in the EU, with a very wide interpretation of "halfway commercial".

Second, there will be the ambulance chasing kind of lawyers profiting from any kind of ambiguity by sending expensive warning letters ("Abmahnungen"). Those scumbag lawyers definitely want to chase open source developers and everybody else without a big legal team who provides them with an opportunity...

And experience shows that lawmakers have always been unable or unwilling to write laws with the necessary clarity and non-ambiguity.
You are correct. It works for me.
>Coinbase Rewards

You are referring to staking. FTX was giving a static yield on deposits. The funding for this came from their marketing budget. Very different from what Coinbase does.

>"staking" == crappy loans / bonds business.

Staking is not a loan. It is a component of proof of stake networks to maintain security. Coinbase provides stacking services, but all they do is pass the yield onto the customer while taking a cut for the resources required for staking (e.g. AWS bill).

Some token networks may market a mechanism as "staking" when it's just a way to keep people from selling. That's a different topic.
Ransomware Gangs Shift Tactics, Making Crimes Harder to Track
> decentralised applications will be the new iPhone.

What makes you think that? Genuinely curious. I can think of lots of reasons that the opposite might be true, so I’m curious as to what my blind spots may be.
> When Ethereum/ another crypto VM becomes fast enough, decentralised applications will be the new iPhone - stuff we can’t imagine will be built there.

In other words, "we have no idea, trust us".
FWIW, to prevent the bug where a = b is slow for big types, Google's C++ style guide used to mandate DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (which used to be DISALLOW_EVIL_CONSTRUCTORS I think) on all types (most types?)

Looks like that's been gone for awhile in favor of C++ 11 stuff, which I don't really like:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Copyable_M...

A lot of good software was written in that style, but it has grown bureaucratic over time, and as the C++ language evolved
I'm an American that sells software to clients in the EU that this legislation considers a Class I critical product (https://vuplex.com). If this law is passed, what would be the consequence of not hiring an auditor to comply with it? Depending on the cost of an auditor, compliance may cost more than the revenue generated from the EU. If that's the case, it may no longer be economical for me to sell to clients in the EU.
Security only makes sense in the context of the technology available to an attacker _at that time_, so I don't think he was wrong. The same way I'm not wrong to say X25519 ECDH is secure even though it's very unlikely we'd still be using it in the year 2100.
If what were true? I'm not seeing an empirical claim to evaluate here.
Historically Java has traded long pause times for fast allocations, although I'm of the impression that it has recently found a way to have its cake and eat it.
> Great, Covid looks like it won't give me myocarditis. It can still kill me,

... COVID can still kill me, or give me one of a number of other long-term health issues. If myocarditis isn't one of them, it doesn't really change the risk ratio.
Wasn't Drax Industries a bond vilan's company? What a fitting name.
I don't use a ton of cryptocurrency, but I have a few uses for it.

My primary use case right now is using Filecoin to pay for off-site backups of various kinds, encrypted with (supposedly) quantum-proof cryptography that I encrypt my data with before finally replicating it to numerous instances across the world. This is together with also writing my backups to CDs, using online services like rsync.net and one big USB stick at one. One time I lost my backups so I'm trying to make sure this never happens again...

Secondly, I've used Algorand, Ethereum and Bitcoin for transferring funds to relatives and friends to/from South America and Africa, which ended up being the cheapest way of transferring funds to them, even accounting for me buying it, the transfer fee and them cashing it out. It also was way faster than anything we tried before, so pretty good experience overall.

But to your main point, most if not 99% of all cryptocurrency is definitely over-hyped beyond anything I've ever seen. I wouldn't touch most of the ecosystem with a ten-foot pole, doing a lot of research and actually understanding the protocols that you use. Most people don't, so they tend to get burned. Countless of times I've had to help family and friends to avoid scams that they come across, and it honestly makes me kind of glad that what is happening now is happening, it'll shake off all of these scammy projects that are just trying to scam people.
not if the source is carbon neutral/negative. Trees grown on a tree farm and converted to wood pellets where the tree farm is replanted to regrow trees for harvesting is not really a net contributor to increase CO2. The CO2 is pulled from the air by the trees and reemitted during burning and then reabsorbed by another generation of trees.

Now, there are certainly other energy costs of harvesting, processing and transport that come into play and shipping from CA to UK might tilt the balance away from green more than locally grown trees would. It is still likely much less of a greenhouse peril than burning coal.
Any developer with a "mediocre but solid portfolio" would know if they bombed a tech screen. Frankly I think even somebody with zero experience knows if they've bombed an interview. So I've no reason to doubt OP there.

I'm choosing to trust OP here - after all this is HN and we assume best intentions.

If you're not passing tech screens, why are
you assuming this means lack of demand on
employer side?

Well, perhaps not so much "lack of demand" as much as "supply exceeding demand."

If you have e.g. 50 applicants who've passed the tech screen you might only seriously pursue 5-10 of them.
They never were. Oh, they think they are but insist on unicorn candidates that don’t make a single mistake over ~four hours. Almost lottery-level luck required, along with nerves of steel.

Five years ago I saw CRUD jobs unfilled a year after I started looking. They are effectively not desperate.

There’s a reason that the SAT (for example) is hundreds of questions taken as a whole and not a series of several sudden death pass/fail tests over the breadth of a four year degree. The second is simply unrealistic for squishy meat bags.

Next up, the "STEM shortage." :-D
The same was true of computers. Japanese PCs had high-resolution graphics way before American PCs because of the need to draw kanji with enough detail. This led to a parallel universe of not quite PC compatible standards like the NEC PC88 and PC98 lines.
Looking at the exchange, he did confirm that it's slow on Android/iOS. He claimed it's for other reasons and gave examples. He might be wrong (I haven't looked at Twitter's architecture, commentary on the technical content of the exchange would be interesting), but I wouldn't say he said "It's fine".
What an odd take for Apple. If they really respected user privacy they would cancel their ad business stop the collection and monetization of user data. Their insatiable quest for revenue has destroyed the primary reason you should buy an Apple product. Apple has crossed the Rubicon and their image is forever tarnished for the sake of adding additional percentage points to their quarterly revenue.

What once differentiated Apple from Google, Amazon and Facebook no longer exists. I can't imagine Steve ever going down this road.
Be sure to put as a submit :)
Cap and trade and carbon fees are broadly interchangeable as pricing mechanisms.

Each specific location has carve outs and exemptions and phase-ins etc. but basically, farmers will be able to earn roughly $40 dollars per ton of emissions avoided, and other large industries will be paying $40 per ton of emissions and that figure will change as they measure progress to meet their commitments to reduce emmisions by 95%.

It might also drop to $30 if they link up their market with California and Quebec.

For comparison, the ballot measure intended to:

> enact a carbon emissions fee of $15 per metric ton of carbon beginning on January 1, 2020;

> increase the fee by $2 annually until the state's greenhouse gas reduction goals are met;

and

> use the revenue from the fee to fund various programs and projects related to the environment.
All running.

Chapter 10 in Hal Higdon's 'How to Train'.

The entire book is filled with training plans I hadn't even considered before - this particular one has worked really well for me in a way other plans have not.
This sounds like it's not actually true? If it was, the French code page 646 that we used until Unicode finally won would have included a narrow space, but it doesn't. "Regular" computer text in French has only ever used a normal space, even if handwriting and/or "true" typesetting using typesetting solutions like TeX or PageMaker etc. allowed for a narrow space.
How legitimate are those? Do they have real jobs?

I've just been ignoring anything from an Indian sounding name as they seemed to me to be scams.
>Coinbase is also offering APY on its deposits through Coinbase Rewards, as does Binance.

>This "true exchange" sounds like the no-true-Scotsman fallacy. Literally no one does what you claim. Everyone in the cryptocoin world is doing this "staking" == crappy loans / bonds business.

If coinbase statements[1] and SEC filings[2] are to be believed, customer funds should be segregated and not used for loans.

>We will never repurpose your funds: We do not lend or take any action with your assets, unless you specifically instruct us to. Many banks and financial institutions use customer funds for commercial purposes including lending and trading, meaning that they often hold only a fraction of their customer assets at any given time. Coinbase always holds customer assets 1:1. This means that funds are available to our customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year.

Presumably the coinbase rewards product is treated separately. ie. if you put your money there and whatever difi lending platform it's being invested in blows up, you'll lose your money that's in coinbase rewards, but everything else should be fine.

[1] https://www.coinbase.com/blog/setting-the-record-straight-yo...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/0001...
A narrow non-breaking space, please.
I'm a dumb dumb. Can you define "implicit reference semantics" and "value semantics"? You use the phrases several times in your post, but I don't really understand what you mean. If it helps, I'm not a C++ programmer, but I am familiar with higher level languages like Go, Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript.
they are: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/11/295847...
This is the wrong question to be asking because this is about how you are feeling, and any rational person right now should rightfully be worried. Some of us are preparing for the worst because the people in office, and appointed are not doing their jobs and have in many respects violated their oaths of office simply by inaction.

Technology Sectors have for the most part given up on a reasonable standard division of labor and are now actively seeking to automate jobs away. Rather than augment existing labor many are simply replacing labor with AI without understanding the caveats. They will pay for that mistake, but when you have a coordinated effort to do that finding alternatives will be rough so its a perfect time to start a company (if you know how, and can overcome that barrier to entry).

Inevitably the first jobs to go are the more expensive mid-tier jobs. The second are the low end.

So there are many reasons you should be very concerned. Not owning a house will set you back on building financial wealth because those tax breaks are not open to you, and the housing market has been inflated beyond what anyone should pay. There will be a crash in the housing market, now is not a good time to buy.

A lot depends on what you mean by upskilling, certificates are not that great at upskilling.

What's worse, all the money you had is worth significantly less today than previously. In the last 2 years you've lost roughly 1/5th of your buying power in saved income, and this is expected to continue into the near future.

Hyper-inflation is one of the worst taxes the government can impose, counterparty currency and banking risk have never been higher, especially now that we no longer have fractional banking (look at the reserve requirements the fed imposes on banks since 2020, 0% now) but you also can't just put everything into a solid commodity like gold/silver because the spot price is heavily suppressed and you can't easily exchange it without taking a loss on taxes from maintaining your purchasing power/stock.

In a hyper-inflation environment, the only thing you can do is to invest in assets that will maintain their value for sale, or are goods you will use yourself. Your costs from goods will continue to rise with inflation, this includes rent, so growing food/properly canning/etc will allow you greater financial flexibility.

For mental health, its important to step away from the echo chambers during these times. Focus on what's important, practice meditation (stilling your thoughts), and other destressors. Stop giving the 150% you may be doing and limit it to %100 when you are on-the-clock.
I am not trying to create a conspiracy theory here, but how difficult would it be to 1) sabotage an EV like Tesla to behave this way, and 2) for that sabotage to not be detected via monitoring how the vehicle does, and 3) could it or would it need to be done through physical alteration and/or software?
If there's anything about Musk's leadership style I find the most... confusing? it's that he doesn't seem to like to be challenged. I would consider the people most willing to productively call me out are my most valuable assets.
>Can someone actually explain what the intrinsic use of coins is supposed to be

It's supposed to be a digital equivalent to physical cash. Specifically the ability to be transferred directly from one individual to another without either having any special permissions, access, or power. The ultimate goal is for all transactions to be completely stateless. Meaning, you should be able to "drop" a bitcoin into a digital "bucket" without needing any kind of pre-existing authorization/account/identification/association/etc with the holder of the bucket (or any third-party acting on their behalf).

You are correct in your assessment that in their current (and foreseeable future) states, cryptocurrencies are completely useless as actual currency.
I don't understand why this non-sequitur keeps going! There seems to be a lot of point-missing here.

OpenBSD is a kernel and a general purpose operating system. It runs arbitrary userland software.

Rewriting the kernel in Java will not make C user code safer, and the cost to convert OpenBSD is so nontrivial as to make it an absurd suggestion. I mean, really truly absurd. As in, "am I even talking to real people who work with software?" absurd. If you think it's a good idea to rewrite a posix-compatible OS kernel in Java, by all means, go do so and make a patch against OpenBSD. It's a monumental undertaking, and I'm sure it'll be impressive!

On the other hand, rewriting userland software in Java (from C) will definitely make it safer, but users can already do this and are choosing not to. The goal of this change is to make it easier to write safer C.
Aah, yes, the company who lost billions in "value". And yet their stock is already back up 60% of the amount it dropped in a mere 3 days.

I have to imagine they're doing this for the continued exposure. There's no such thing as bad press and all that.
And here I am thinking the exact opposite. I think that religion comes from the experience of man made reality, and it is very limited precisely because of that.

The mandate of 'controlling the creation'. The parent-child relationship with the deity. The excessive focus on sexual and parental relationships between humans. All these are human activities, and religion seems to care too much about humans and too little about the rest of the species living on the planet.

Reality is different from religion. It is indifferent to us. Any meaning is just some myth in our heads to try and explain it.
Do the people at those institutions text you as if you were someone else and then say "oh I like meeting new people, what's your name"?
Drugs. Other contraband too. Blackmail, ransomware, circumventing anti-money laundering / taxation / capital controls / etc

Not many legal use cases,k but there are massive dark industries that would suffer greatly if cryptos disappered.
Wallet recovery seed generation? 12 words are needed IIRC

Maybe needs to send a message to somebody.
Emergent abilities of large language models
There are plenty of studies and cohort analysis of Ivermectin studies that show it is highly effective with the right protocol; most of the Ivermectin studies showing it doesn't work aren't using proper doses, nor at the right time, nor for long enough period of time.
> Caches are global shared state

Not necessarily. I designed an object oriented simulation system which had a lot of calculated properties where the calculation was a substantial amount of work but the result would be queried many times before the input the function changed. Caching the results inside the object provided a substantial speed up (orders of magnitude) while keeping the cache completely local and hidden from the client code and keeping the program very modular.

Keeping the cache inside the objects allowed us to keep the parts of the program neatly separated and minimized the amount of knowledge that client code, and more importantly client coders, needed to have about the objects they were using.
The FTT is one thing. Another question is whether Binance is levered in a way that can cause insolvency when the value of its assets drops (many cryptos have been dropping in value). CZ says no, but SBF said the same.