skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump's a sobering case, isn't he?

He's a multiple bankrupt. He has a talent for destruction. It seems to me that he lacks insight; he seems to be a loudmouthed blowhard, just like many people I've met that aren't well-educated, and aren't property magnates.

I don't really get how he got people to vote for him; I suspect it's that he appealed specifically to an anti-intellectual constituency - the same constituency that rejected Al Gore for being too intellectual.

That is: being clever seems to be unhelpful, if you want to get ahead in US politics.
> doesn't eat that much meat, India being my go to example

Indian/Pakistani food may be vegetarian but it tastes good because of animal products like eggs, butter, cream, milk, and cheese.

It's vegetarian but not vegan.

Source: I grew up eating this type of food daily
I have not found this slower-than-C to be the case. You may need to use something like `iterator getDelims` in https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/cligen/osUt.ni... to manage memory with fewer copies/less alloc "more like C", though or perhaps `std/memfiles` memory mapped IO.

More pithy ways to put it are that "there are no speed limits" or "Nim responds to optimization effort about as well as other low level languages like C". You can deploy SIMD intrinsics, for example. In my experience, it's not that hard to "pay only for what you use".

As a more concrete thing, I have timed (yes, on one CPU, one test case, etc..many caveats) the tokenizer used in https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/rp.nim to be faster than that used by the Rust xsv.

Of course, you really shouldn't tokenize a lot if it's costly/data is big, but rather save a binary answer that does not need parsing (or perhaps more accurately is natively parsed by the CPU).
Crypto Broker Genesis to Get $140M Infusion After FTX Collapse
In my case I am sure that I like Coke better because of the packaging and logo design. Red & white with an old-school cursive text focuses my brain on the spicy interesting flavors. The smooth blue Pepsi logo with the circular logo makes me focus on the sugar. That, and their various "look how cool and hip we are!" Pepsi ad campaigns over the decades always seemed goofy.

They could both stop advertising forever and I would still have those associations for the rest of my life.
Twitter needs to generate roughly a billion dollars a year in additional cashflow just to service the debt Musk saddled it with. They already weren’t profitable, but let’s say that they were breakeven and that ad revenue would be sufficient to cover non-debt costs.

There’s absolutely no way that 100,000,000+ people are going to sign up for twitter blue; they would be exceptionally fortunate to get a tenth of that figure. His other ideas are chickenfeed, so how does he get to an extra billion in revenue? How does he do that when he seems to be actively antagonizing twitter’s only meaningful source of revenue?
Yeah, I was afraid of this.

Perhaps my best solution is to block any user creation from the EU, any login from the EU, and any signed-in user request from the EU.

Maybe I can allow non-signed-in users from the EU to browse?
For what it's worth, this also seems to affect alternatives such as Invidious.

In the channel overview page, "newest" and "oldest" remain visible alternatives, but the sort order doesn't actually change:

Oldest: <https://yewtu.be/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w?page=1&sor...>

Newest: <https://yewtu.be/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w?page=1&sor...>

(HN's URL truncates, but these include '&sort_by=oldest' and '&sort_by=newest' arguments, respectively.)
There is token research that creatine supplements are especially beneficial for vegans, and creatine isn't the only thing mostly found in animal-based foods. Given nutritional sciences has a history of being a rollercoaster ride, maybe it isn't the best idea to make wild claims which don't mirror how the world behaves at large.

Water and land usage is also A: grossly overstated (you can't grow anything except grass on most land) and B: cited as something against all meat when chickens, goats, ducks, geese and pigs use far less of both. At that point, substantiate or correct your statement to 'beef'.
Yeah jumping ship to a new company every 2 years is really valuable.
There is no such language as "C/C++". Using the expression reveals tendentious bias.

Those of us using modern C++ do not ship memory usage faults, and have not done for years. So, experience with C and pre-modern C++ does not generalize.
He was fired by the board because he had incredibly aggressive expansion plan for PayPal. While the board wanted to sell the company to eBay.

Given what happened to eBay afterwards seems to me PayPal working by itself would have been far better for them in the long term.

There was a shit-ton of money to be made, providing card terminals, cars, direct accounts and so so on.

PayPal could have done a lot of things later done by things like ApplePay.
Memory leaks are not memory safety.

Memory leaks in all languages are safe, they just slow performance and cause crashes.

Rust still memory leaks.
I see it as the government should get out of the way of those who know what they are doing and the risks.

The problem is, these exchanges do not make you go through the same "vetting" processes traditional securities brokers/exchanges do before you can leverage up to your eye balls and lose everything.

They also go out of their way to make it "fun" to trade crypto - gamification at it's best - which reduces/removes the traditional apprehension of getting in way above your abilities.

We can liken a lot of these exchanges to gambling more than investing.

That is to say, an 18 year old with $500 in total assets shouldn't be eligible to leverage 20x or more. That's just a life-changing problem waiting to happen.
I'll just warn you that the experience isn't for everyone. But if LISP and the feeling of living in a terminal window's your thing, I think you'll enjoy!
> What percentage of techies despise FB?

I have no idea, but I'd caution you against extrapolating from this forum and people you know. Maybe you live in a bubble. (We all do.) Facebook and WhatsApp have two billion users. Many of those are probably techies.
This one has already been heavily subsidized both on the production and R&D side.

Also these companies have gotten a huge boost by fast tracking their RNA tech. If it hadn't been for covid it would have still been experimental years away from widespread deployment. And the R&D is well written off by now.

I think they owe society a lot more than we owe them.
> I seriously cannot understand how after this interview Sam still had any kind of support from VCs and so on.

yes you do - because they're at best amoral and know their position and connections means they can make money out of shit like this by ensuring there's a series of bigger fools waiting to buy them out.
That’s my guess too but the size of the hole (8bn+) makes it hard to imagine it could all be lost in trading, either in a big bang, or gradually for years.
In 8th grade I read a book on Zinc and it projected the world's supply would run out by ~1985. The book was published in like 1970 and I was reading it in 1994. Since then I've had a big of skepticism of "it's running out" when it comes to raw industrial materials.
It is definitely time to protect the sources of quality algae.
Twitter Auditors Missed Security Lapses Whistleblower Later Called ‘Egregious’
> at a rate

All they did was start using technology and techniques already developed by the capitalist countries. Of course it's going to be quick. Buying a modern tractor is a great leap over a horse drawn plow. Even so, the USSR was never able to feed itself. In the 1980s, Kansas was known as the "Breadbasket of the Soviet Union". The Soviets also overlooked the illegal capitalist black market, because the planned economy simply couldn't meet its citizens' needs.

> I can guarantee you that nobody I've ever met was thinking about escaping anywhere

The Soviet Bloc didn't spend a significant percentage of their GDP on the Iron Curtain for no reason. There wouldn't have been anyone left in East Berlin if the wall wasn't built.

> Vast majority of people lived happy lives

The state of peoples' happiness tends to be a constant regardless of their economic status. In any case, why do you think the Soviets jammed western TV signals? Why do you think that soviet citizens would stop tourists on the street and try to buy their blue jeans? Why do you think the Soviets wouldn't allow travel abroad for anyone who didn't have family that was held hostage until the person returned?

> without many of the worries people in the west have today

People in the US don't worry about being sent to the gulag slave labor camps. When you're completely dependent on the state for your job, apartment, etc., that can all be taken away by bureaucratic whim. Off to the gulag for saying the wrong thing, or offending your local party commissar.
Being vegetarian is extremely unhealthy, drives the obesity epidemic, and is far more likely to cause individuals to become depressed. Good luck getting heme iron, carnitine, carnosine, taurine, creatine, B12, Vit D, and DHA in a meat free diet.
The problem with using WASM is that because of their cache segmentation, every site that wants to render JXL would have to redownload the WASM decoder from scratch, and every page load that wants to render it would presumably have to JITC it from scratch too.

The WASM model doesn't seem to be a good replacement for browser plugins. Amusingly, when Chrome killed off plugins one of the rationales they gave was "reducing code complexity". The enormous bloat in the code and HTML5 specs that followed did many things, but reducing Chrome's code complexity isn't one of them.
Sorry, but lentils are pretty much the closest thing to a single food that meets all of a human's nutritional needs in existence. If you pair lentils with a small amount of spinach and eggs that gets you there.

Your comments about what "people" were designed to eat also sounds pretty ignorant, since we're not genetically homogenous for starters. Most humans of European descent have evolved for seasonal carbohydrate consumption, which is why they make you fat in excess (good luck surviving a hard winter lean). The only people who really shouldn't be eating carbs are indigenous people from very cold areas with a primarily marine diet. There are pockets of indigenous Americans from desert regions who don't do fantastically with carbs either, but those people mostly have issues with a caloric surplus in general.

Seaweed is a better food (and habitat) for fish than humans. We should create artificial reefs and forests to feed fish, then sustainably harvest fish from those manmade "farms".
Thanks for a concise lay of the land, I'm curious about this stuff but not on top enough of the happenings.
One of the many aspects of meditation is "sit and be bored". Of course the mind has a tendency to fill in the boredom with thoughts, ideas, worries, etc. Learning to notice those and return the attention to sitting is surprisingly difficult, and may take years of practice.
> And perhaps you need to reverse your thinking and realize that huge success without hard work work, intelligence is very unlikely even if some luck is also involved.

I said none of these things you're reading in to my argument.
And ice cream too
They might still get control of the Senate and the House, which is like winning the Super Bowl with a last minute field goal. They’ll take it if it happens and the teams (political talking points) will all be different in 2 years anyway.
coinbase is still out there.
Separation of money and state is definitely a worthwhile goal in my opinion. Everything else is more questionable.
The assertion seems to be that federated social-networking software in the wild tends to split ideologically. Your assertion would counter that a bit. In the abstract, politics shouldn't matter in the development/use of neutral software.
My experience from integrating various automation systems (typically large-ish roller conveyor systems) is that often IEC 61131 languages are actually detrimental to productivity of the PLC programmers. It is this weird turing tarpit where anything that can be expressed as ladder logic is simple and point an click (modulo the horrible UI/UX of every single PLC IDE) but anything more complex than that is huge pain because you are constantly fighting against the dumbed-down programming model and constantly reimplementing simple algorithms that are part of standard library in essentially any other programming ecosystem. And that is just for the control of moderately complex process (eg. tracking positions of unit loads on the conveyor), any kind of communication with external world (which tends to be event based) is horrible mess in order for it to fit into the cycle based model (and the argument that it gives you predictable and consistent latency is pure hogwash, the cycle time jitter caused by branching and other threads running on the PLC's CPU tends to be huge, at least on S7-300/1200/1500).
You want to replace a system that is imperfect and flawed but mostly works with one that is (at least for this and most internet forums) plainly unworkable. That's probably not going to work.

Otherwise downvotes/lack of upvotes should be the only acceptable means of flagging.

It's unlikely the site would have users of 15 years such as yourself if it ever operated like that. Or really any users.
An alternative to high pay from corporate work is high pay from your own work.
> But he likely saw the alternative as Ukraine in NATO

This is nonsense. Specially after 2014.

> colour revolutions spreading to Russia

Revolutions are not successful unless driving by elites of that country.
We may presume the Modern C++ version would have been done even faster, then, and without memory faults.
My counter is why would you want to pursue such a life? And you should re-evaluate what you deem as greatness. I don't believe most of the people who fall into these power categories as great even if people occasionally herald them (or business publications do).

There are many ways to greatness and most of them do not have public accolades attached to them.
Would you trust your passport and/or driver's license information to Twitter right now?

No. You shouldn't. This company lost half it's workers last week and morale is in the toilet. That info is unsecure.

I don't think there is enough trust left in Twitter to even do verifications anymore.
> India does not share land border with Afghanistan

I'm guessing India would claim that it does. Pakistan would argue otherwise.
> But mark my words here, people with real higher IQ actually do know they are smarter and make better decisions than others.

How would you know this? Are you referring to yourself?

I'm with Socrates: the mark of knowledge is that you know how little you know.
I feel the opposite, as soon as I start supplementing with whey protein or adding meat I put on muscle and weight, but with mostly beans/rice/lentil diet I have consistent energy and stay light.

I think the "protein" obsession we have currently (even my milk carton brags about protein content) might be dialed back in the near future. It came from the weight lifting community, and lifting weights is one of the least healthy and functional ways to stay in shape. Hopefully we view hiking and doing physical activities as being "in shape" soon versus going to a gym to do a bunch of isolated movements with weight.
MTGOX blew up in Feb 28, 2014. I had ~100BTC there. I've yet to receive a dime. Just as a point of reference.
where are you seeing any actual audits?

it looks like the usual nonsense of "here's some bank account balances", with no explanation of what liabilities they hold, or how much related party loan crime they have on their books.
The C++ commitee is interested. Carbon is a Google attempt at at c++ with safety.
Sorry to interupt the conversation. But... have you seen my baseball?
It could be that the "things successful people do" are necessary but not sufficient. It's good to know that "Most analyses show unsuccessful business people do all of the exact same things" but it would be more interesting to know if there are successful business people who don't do those things (most) successful people do.
My mistake, I had blindly dismissed rice since it is commonly known to be a nutrient poor food. But several sources confirm the parent post and your comment are correct*. It's also too often repeated that a vegetable based diets will be lacking essential amino acids which seems like a gross falsehood now if you can get there with two wildly available plants that make up a common low-cost meal. I am baffled by the disconnect.

*I don't cite the source since I am unsure if there are caveats or if the claim is controversial.
Calling out useless "tech" for being useless doesn't make you a luddite. If you call out a "free energy" machine for not actually making free energy, that just makes you honest and reasonable.
Things I’ve Seen
I maintain Go 101 books. Here are some articles highlighted by me: https://twitter.com/go100and1/status/1589549426988969986
It has nothing to do with ownership being good or bad. It’s having people with vision and acumen for financially sustainable businesses setting up these projects for success.

Look at how much the Gates foundation has done for Malaria. What government institution has been able to compete on that level with or without sucking down involuntary tax dollars to support it?
Now consider how Office 365, Windows, Intel CPUs and Ryzen+ CPUs... have similar issues in the sense that they have more or less likely backdoors for US intelligence agencies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458318

So, what is a reasonable way to deal with this if you're running a government agency or a company that has something worth spying on / getting remote control of for the USA ?
There is no C/C++ language. There are no C/C++ devs. So, no.

There are some who develop in both C and C++, along with any other language you can think of. I do not encounter the expression "C++/Rust dev", although it is extremely common for those programmers who do Rust at all to do both.
There is a cancerous anomie metastasizing in the scientific community [lab leak]
you eat so many bugs all the time, ground up in food. this dismissive old crank attitude is ignoring simple truth. also a lot of the world happily eats bugs as a delicacy. they’re not whacky, you’re being quick to frame something you don’t know much about as dismissible.
lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) is great!
Why do we keep getting subjected to rent control, then, which never works?
> can we STOP the blind short-term speculation on the promise of extreme wealth

I first played around with blockchain in 2011 or so and I still don't know what actual utility this technology is supposed to have. 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.

Around 2015 a lot of people I thought were smart enough were exploring use cases for blockchain. AFAICT everyone in that space either left the space altogether, is still rambling about solving supply chain fraud (...), or pivoted to shovel salesmanship to support speculators (or speculate themselves).
No one knows what the future of computing looks like. Again, I'm skeptical of VR and the metaverse. But I don't know.
60s for 30 steps.
This may have been more true during the times of nobility. With modern democracies and market economies, we at least try to have some form of meritocracy. Obviously, we fall short in a lot of ways, but the goal is to bring to best to the fore.
Found the westerner everyone. I want those benefits, but I don't want to make the tax base to pay for them
At least €375 million of that R&D was funded by the German government.[1] And that is just one very direct grant for this specific vaccine; other estimates total US government spending on the vaccine from $18 billion to almost $40 billion USD (not all directly to Pfizer/BioNTech of course). And the Covid vaccine situation is not exceptional: government is almost involved to some degree in the form of R&D grants, clinical trail grants, being based on fundamental research at universities, etc.

And that's all fine; this is obviously a good way to spend government money as far as I'm concerned, and I don't really have any problems with Pfizer making a profit of it either, but ... there needs to be some balance. These people are socialist when it's convenient and then the next day they're hard-core capitalists when it's convenient.

[1]: https://biontechse.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

[2]: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20210512....
Super oversimplification:

FTX was an exchange for Cryptos. No problems there. They also offered a coin of their own. Also, no problems.

But then they borrowed a bunch of money against the value of their coin. Fundamentally not good, because it means they now owe customers more money than the customers put in.

There was also a trading house that they ran on their own exchange, a competitor who might have triggered the collapse as a prank (Binance), and an over exuberant owner who always seemed to be above this sort of mess.
As I understand it, their primary "trade" was to buy and hold FTT. Suddenly FTT's value went "poof" and the rest is is history.
Joke's on them. Getting this blocked is a huge boon to Democrat elite, who can now continue to promise this for another decade and still never have to actually spend their bargaining chip. It's brilliant, really.
If anyone wants to get their head around anatomy, beautifully prepared, find ‘Ackland’s Anatomy’. It’s the visual bible. Beautifully prepared dissections from start to finish.

It’s also much cleaner than the particularly tedious process of dissecting a entire human being, most of which consists of slowly stripping back skin and fat to get to the interesting stuff
(Source: with 2 others, slowly dismantled an entire adult human male from whole body down to each individual muscle and tendon over a period of 4 months)
Animal protein still seems to be of higher quality. Even among rich vegans in first would countries, the children comparatively less developed compared to their peers.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1...

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/113/6/1565/6178918?log...
I don’t think so, but I can’t find the answer. Either way, rust 100% does that.

Way easier in C# to avoid that issue. Just don’t use reference counters and use GC.

No way to avoid that in Rust. If you need many references, you must use ARC.
All of the people who are saying they'd never eat it and will stick with their beef/chicken/pork are the same kind that said hell no to EVs. They'll die out and the world will adapt to a changing food economy just as we did with the changing fuel economy.
Is Dart memory safe?
What? This is honestly so wrong you can't be taken in good faith.
That requirement would still apply to my hypothetical code forge, unfortunately.
The moral hazard is the difference between the insurance payout and the amount your future rates change as a result of the claim. If this amount is zero, there is no insurance. If it isn't, there is that much less incentive to avoid the harm.
His analogy of a "box" and "cool things" happening to that is almost comical.
Can you imagine the horror of being on the bridge, thinking that the bow has just submerged into a wave, and only realizing it’s not going to come back up when you feel the ship slam into the lake floor?
Did she explain why the law was that way? Is it for evidence / forensics in case the case is reopened?
2 things:

- everyone is different

- there are plenty of low-carb, high-protein vegetarian sources (see: tofu)
Sam Harris is the one who comes closest to my world view and has shaped it quite a bit. He is one of the few who is careful with his words and emotions when articulating his arguments.