skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tim is dead on with this observation, this is amazing.

I'm not saying Tim's wrong, but one of the problems that Ive seen a lot - to the point of being tempted to use the word "constantly" - with blockchain is this sort of gushing rhetoric that actually does a really poor job of explaining why it's amazing, and especially of explaining why it's amazing in a few short paragraphs of jargon-free plain English that anyone with technical background can understand.

Again, Tim's post may be right, but it really falls short here and that's a big problem for the perception of blockchain. Until you can get people to understand why it's valuable, without the answer being to go and spend hours reading when there's perhaps no certainty of what you learn being valuable, it's always going to face this scepticism.

It's not helped by the fact that the scammers and the non-scammers talk about it in the same kind of way, so you end up unable to distinguish the real information from the "blockchain doublespeak" - again, certainly without a lot of research. If you're busy you end up developing a heuristic where you file all of this in the mental waste basket.
Chinese OEMs still pump devices running Android 4.* by millions.

Why? Chipset support: Spreadtrum, RockChips, AW, AmLogic simply didn't release BSP updates for some of their most in demand chips.
Contact forms for US Senators and Representatives often have surprising issues like this.

Reserved words in SQL sometimes get blocked as well as things like too many singles quotes or an odd number of single quotes. I've seen the name "Walter" blocked on many forms over the years.

The worst part is that the sender just gets sent to a security or generic page with no idea why, often losing the message they created.
Oh well Kite team, may your members find well-paying jobs and exciting adventures elsewhere, you deserve it well.
If you are not even allowed to question the orthodoxy, you are inside something with cultish features.

It could be the dogmas of a society, it could be the rules of a social group... it could even be a technical group.
>Christianity says that far from suffering always being a punishment from God for bad behavior.

Besides, you know... Hell, lakes of sulfur and eternal damnation.
I have seen some very old automatic watches of people around me. Namely from Movado, Rado and Rolex. All of them are way older than a decade, and their backs have not opened yet, and they keep time very well within their specs.

I think it was pretty common in old days to damage the balance wheel assemblies and the mainsprings since the shock absorbers were not that well, or non-existent. However, modern/upscale watches have much more robust assemblies and alloys.

I may send my watch in for regulation and check in a decade, but I don't expect that its mainspring will be replaced at that interval. Even my entry level Seiko 5 is pretty much spot on after 5-6 years.

On the other hand, my first mechanical, a Swatch Diaphane automatic has died because it had no shock absorber and fell to a soft carpet from my hand, approximately from 1M above ground. It can no longer keep accurate time if it's not flat on a table.
I use old Android devices for smart home stuff (e.g. tablet as sensor overview). I guess as long as it is not exposed to a public endpoint, there is not much to fear?
I am in my late 50's and many women still call me a child (in a positive way), so I do not think that is my problem.

It is not about my phone use, but the expectation that I should always be findable since I have a cellphone. But I do admit to working at challenging my fear of living without a cellphone, but I am homeless so it is more difficult than when I had housing.

Fear is the hook I guess. It is ok to not know where your kids are or for them to miss dinner on a cruise ship.
Maybe I am a confused luddite, but it seems telling that this argument immediately launches into the solution space of a problem that is itself created by the presence of a blockchain.

Double-spend has been solved by the financial sector quite some time ago. The distributed system part - I guess this is the problem that I think the article is claiming is yet to be found.
There is one other case where a structure like a block chain can make sense. It’s an easy way to build an unalterable log. If you give me hash 200000 in the chain I know that log entries 0-200000 are all unaltered.

This is perhaps the simplest easiest use case for a hash based linked list. Of course this is not the complete picture of what cryptocurrencies are; the hash list is just part of the system.
What is the benefit of deploying something on a platform controlled by no one? Why not just run all of those things on a server you own?
This is explicitly addressed in the article: use stable coins for that. I'm very much a crypto-skeptic, but I do think this particular solution will provide some level of increased safety for coin-heads.
Somewhat related, this guy is making a lot of cool instruments that looks reasonably easy to build https://www.youtube.com/c/NicolasBras
How to categorize C programs by behavior
Why did you buy it then?
Good comment. While a lot of the complaints about blockchain are valid issues, the argument that it is useless and could be replaced with a database always makes me roll my eyes given the fundamental benefit is the open nature of the platform. Nonetheless, I think the key issue is scalability/performance.
I can’t say I love maven either. I haven’t really lived in the JVM for a few years but other ecosystems just have way better tools for building and dependency management.
We also live in a world devoid of conventional wisdom. My grandparents learned that gambling was at best entertainment, they also learned to scrimp and save. My peers don’t learn this, they depend on regulation to protect them against everything, and when there isn’t regulation, they racked up six figures of student loan debt (financing a party lifestyle) and they gamble as a financial strategy.

The point isn’t to shame my peers, nor is it that my grandparents generation was without vice, but that maybe there’s something robust about developing a culture of conventional wisdom as a fallback for an increasingly unreliable government? Maybe policy isn’t the only thing that matters?
My experience matches yours, and I wanted to call that out with more than just an up-vote. The ticketing system is where rework goes to die.

In an engineer-led environment without a project management class calling the shots, maybe I'd feel different, but whoever is ordering the backlog is always going to prioritize features and fires, because that's what drives their own career advancement.
TRIVIA CORNER:

In Irish Gaelic the island of Great Britain is Breatain Mhór [Big Britain] and Breatain Bheag [Little Britain] is the name for Wales. Obviously coming from the historical fact [much trumpeted by the Welsh] that they were the original Brits, driven into the mountainous west by the Saxon invaders. England in Irish is Sasana [obviously referring to Saxons] thus making an Englishman a Sasanach

NOTE: These terms are similar in Scottish Gallic too. Hence the widely known Scots usage of Sasanach as a derogatory term for an English person which, in reality, means calling them a 'Saxon'.
harden at the app level and put a reverse proxy in front of it
I did. I made lego cars and tractor trailers with the steering wheal on the roof and drove those around hand drawn tracks. When I finally got behind a wheel, the tricky part was learning the nuances and coordination but the theory was already there.

Most kids playing video games like GTA IV having been driving cars on streets for years before they are old enough to actually drive.
It’s not so much hate, I just don’t think the dependency management story for any of the JVM tools is very good.
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I'm pretty clutter free these days. Then again, I've taken it a step further. everything I own fits in a luggage and I change airbnbs every month. can't buy what you can't fit in the bag!
"You might be thinking of slack. Discord preserves unlimited scroll back for everyone."

Only if the server has been boosted enough to allow for it. Boosts = paying money.

"And how does a 70K user IRC channel handle this?"

It doesn't, the client is usually programmed to notify upon specified trigger words or the user name, and handles that itself.

"I don't really think you can use a propriety feature of a single (obsolete) client to defend IRC."

I'm not defending IRC - I'm simply saying IRC did it first.
That was my first thought too, but .. I honestly don't think I'd take that bet.

I still have an A1200, and I struggle to think of anything that'd be genuinely improved by having, eg 7GHz instead of 7MHz (to take the article's 1000x figure) processor. 1000x the serial speed would be useful once or twice a year. 1000x the disk access speeds would be a marginal quality of life improvement (I mean I wouldn't say no, but I wouldn't give my modern machine up for it). But making the whole system 1000x faster would realistically achieve what? A hilarious SysInfo screenshot and little else.
Is frequency inversely proportional to wavelength Squared?
I created one over the weekend :)
https://github.com/mag-/folx

Stay tuned for launch next week! :)
Where do you get your income if you drop out?
Edit: Nevermind. I had an extra space so my experiment was flawed.

So, I tried it with gcc and clang, and neither did anything strange.

Also tried -std=c99 and -std=c89. All behaved the same.

I thought maybe my distro had some default option configured to turn of trigraphs/digraphs, but --verbose didn't seem to show anything suspicious.

$ cat garbage.c
# include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
puts("What?? (really)");
return 0;
}
$ clang -std=c11 -o garbage garbage.c
$ ./garbage
What?? (really)
$ clang -std=c99 -o garbage garbage.c
$ ./garbage
What?? (really)
$ man gcc
$ clang -std=c89 -o garbage garbage.c
$ ./garbage
What?? (really)
$ gcc -std=c11 -o garbage garbage.c
$ ./garbage
What?? (really)
$ gcc -std=c99 -o garbage garbage.c
$ ./garbage
What?? (really)
$ gcc -std=c89 -o garbage garbage.c
$ ./garbage
What?? (really)
$
"What do you mean by this? I don't pay for Discord and I have never had any issues scrolling as far back as I want to."

The servers need to be boosted to keep certain things like extended history preservation and what not available to the users of that server.
I was shocked as well, and couldn't come up with an explanation either. My name is Marcello and the problem was the `cello` substring (an Italian name, but being Italian an official language in Switzerland they should have though about that). They removed it luckily!
A NanoVNA was given to me by a friend... it's the coolest gadget that I'm still learning the power of. I'm weighing the purchase of a TruSDX transceiver kit, and it would come in handy for verifying the setup of the band pass filters, and getting the antenna tuned.
termux doesn't use most of the system libraries that are likely to be remotely exploitable, e.g. openssl and webview. the remaining unupdatable weakness is the kernel, but it's pretty unlikely to have a TCP RCE or something like that. there's SACK Panic, but that's only DoS, not RCE, and if you're running something on android 5 you probably have low reliability expectations anyways.
I think only core OS vulnerabilities (kernel plus a few libraries) are not updated. 9 times of 10 these are local privilege escalation that are less important if you don't run random apps.

Depending on the Android version, most other things could be updated in other ways (security updates from OEM, system updates via play services, app updates including system apps via play store).

On top of that, you can add local and network firewalls and similar stuff to harden the system.

Basically, probably good enough for the intended usage.
They are clearly recruiting for their cult.
Look like you might be in a cult.
This example doesn’t involve digraphs. Trigraphs also preceded digraphs, so their semantics couldn’t have been motivated by digraphs. In fact digraphs were added as a better-thought-out alternative to trigraphs. Digraphs were added in C99, whereas trigraphs were added in C89.
It is very difficult in many parts of the US to get a prescription. If one is a high-functioning child of professionals, much less so. Someone who is rather dysfunctional as an adult can find it very difficult, when they are precisely the group that can benefit most.

The tendency for poor undiagnosed people to attempt to self-medicate just to feel okay is considered a factor that places them at-risk to abuse the medication in the minds of many, when medicating the ADHD would be extremely helpful to reduce self-medication in many situations.

Adult non-professionals and "losers" who have managed to get diagnosed, a huge hurdle in and of itself, often face an uphill battle to get a prescription, much of which is unnecessary and based in classism and racism.
IIRC it always worked without the pause. Just the beep was picked up by the microphone and made the recognition for that word or two much worse. It would clearly react to things said before the beep.
WhatsApp did it for a billion daily active users (Twitter has/had more or less 200 million active users/day) with 50 engineers.

Using Erlang.

Tiwtter uses Scala that should be much more scalabale, considering the staggering amount of money spent on the JVM compared to the BEAM.
Perhaps it'll turn out that trying to create a conscious mind in software is like trying to create a magnet in software?
What?

$ git log | grep TODO

Fix warning from missing 'alt' on QR code icon, TODO is done
TODOs are done
Handle TODO
Remove old YC TODO
Dynamically list NFTs per TODO
TODO is now done
> and I remembered why I loved mechanical watches so much.

Why? :)
Only real way is never connecting it to the internet. Otherwise you will always have a vulnerable server with the only hope that it's not a mainstream server and by that not that much threatened by script kiddies and mass scans
You need to get rid of the space between “??” and “(“.
> It's similar to AWS where it got exponentially more valuable as each new service was added

But... I have yet to see a service which really adds value. All I've seen so far are:

A) collection games, which are not different from collecting Pokémon for real money.

B) liquidity PvP, where users open leveraged bets to hunt other market participants' stops/liquidations, so the hunter can reduce their position for cheap, which the hunted takes a loss (this is not different from tradfi).

I am looking at Aave right now, and all I see is a speculation platform with tokens instead of currencies. So basically, you guys are re-inventing what tradfi had years ago, just with worthless(?) tokens instead of debt backed assets. I am assuming they are worthless because every project you have mentioned is optimized for USD cash inflow, as you have "buy crypto with fiat"-buttons on almost every project[1][2][3], but no way to cash out to fiat. Furthermore, the staking feature from AAVE seems to only artificially decrease supply, so prices rise. What's the value proposition here?

Anyway, I don't really think that this stuff is even remotely comparable to AWS.

[1] https://app.aave.com/ (press "more" on the nav bar)

[2] https://zerion.io/ (FAQ > "just tap the blue button in the center of your screen, select ‘Buy’, and you will be taken to the dialogue window where you can buy crypto with a credit or debit card.")

[3] https://blog.1inch.io/transak-fiat-on-ramp-provider-is-integ...
Eh, it doesn't seem like a bad time to try it, honestly. There's a clear market for things which are quite like twitter but not actually twitter, suddenly, and Tumblr is squarely in the category of things which are quite like twitter (arguably, a lot of twitter was heavily inspired by Tumblr in the first place; I believe it had a reblog/retweet mechanism, likes, and hashtags, before Twitter did).

I think this is less _visible_ because Tumblr's basic UX is so unlike Twitter's, but there's a lot of functionality crossover.
It's common for gender to be a factor in insurance. It's starting to become illegal, but it's a fairly recent thing. Most states allow it, California banned it in 2019.
I don't believe so. But please find a source that says that cryptography is at risk in France. It's easier to prove that laws are undermining than not.
> But the Internet was made for text communication

No it wasn't.

ARPANET [1] was made for transferring software and allowing remote access into the large mainframes on the network. Email came in 1971 and then 6 years later audio was being transferred. So it was always intended to support binary transmission and streaming video was being demoed by the BBC not soon after.

The reason to be nitpicking is that the original protocols were flexible and efficient enough from day one to support a myriad of use cases. Where as platforms like Ethereum are already struggling with a lack of flexibility and a lack of efficient and cheap data transfer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move
Is it over used? Probably. But how is it psycho babble? I thought here it was used in a way true to its original meaning.
That is so far from normal I can't begin to underscore how worried you should be.
ISSCC is indeed a research-oriented semiconductor conference, and considered to be the foremost one of that nature.

Title is only making the narrower claim of "research crown at global conference", not research crown in general.

Looks reasonable to me.
Also, not sure if it's incompetence or decision, but Tinder has atrocious messaging compared to dedicated messaging systems.
In general I think you are probably right. Many developer tools are small projects that can be developed by a single person, and it seems they often struggle to grow into to a bigger company. (I've experienced this struggle myself. For me, the problem was not lack of money)

On the other hand, I think Jetbrains shows that it is absolutely possible to build a huge company that sells nothing but developer tools.

There are also a bunch of mid-size companies that sell developer tools. I'm pretty sure there's more than 5 people at Navicat, Hex-Rays, or Panic, but I'm not sure how big these companies actually are.
I’m curious, if US opens its low skilled immigration gate wide open, what would the 2nd order effects would be?
> Having one neutral platform, controlled by no one, with standardized API's and immutable open programs that anyone can permissionlessly build on - is amazing

It is unquestionably amazing. But it's not the reality.

Most data is not stored on the blockchain but instead in proprietary databases due to the prohibitive cost. And even if it was free the VCs are pushing hard for a defensible moat i.e. lock your users in with proprietary data and features.

We've seen this play out with OpenSea and how its view of NFTs is different from what's on chain.
When/if proof of solvency is solved --- and most of the existing exchanges are no more --- we can start working on proof of ethics. Prove that a CEX is not "front running" transactions for example.

These are not easy issues to address with technology. And there are so many different ways for centralized insiders to cheat, I am highly skeptical it can ever really be achieved. The only reasonable approach is to "decentralize" the market making somehow --- eliminate CEXs.

Right now, market manipulation is a virtual certainity in my opinion because there is insufficient rules and enforcement in place to prevent it. If it can happen, it will happen.

There is no real transparency or logical reason to trust that CEXs are operationing a truly "free" and open market. If you choose to swim with sharks, maybe you can pickup an easy meal or maybe you will become one.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frontrunning.asp
Anecdotally I see many people traveling more enabled by remote work (and a single flight can equal a full year of car commuting). And I feel many people use telework days to run errands or go to lunch more frequently often nearly matching commute miles in a day.
Question: is 240Hz beneficial in practical terms wrt let's say 120Hz?
Optimisation of lattice simulations energy efficiency
Similar here.

What's working for me is listening to the same lofi channel, which helps me focus without being disturbed by the music because it's, hmm, generically bland. Like some brain filling. But still enjoyable. (a bit harsh definition for a genre I like)

I become too emotionally invested when I listen to any other kind of music.

So lofi for work!
Yeah, viola. Sure.
I guess in this use case removing the cellular access and only using it on LAN would be good enough?

Edit; second though NO. Clicking a bad link with some browser exploit on it will still get you infected in that case. So you couldn't use this to browse the internet safely. Still as a Termux only tool seems safe.
Good point. But that works only if the version number is the thing you want to test. And also it's possible that newer versions include the bug or some even newer version introduces a regression re-introducing the bug.

I'm a believer of user-facing testing - i.e. test things like how a user would operate them. So in the context of building a federated query engine our users won't care what version of Postgres they are connecting to - they will care however that the query they wrote doesn't work - doesn't matter what Postgres version.
And how is that?
Why is stdbool.h deemed "mostly useless now"? Is it always available via another header now?
> Do you think people with these problems are just clamoring for the first world to come in and solve this for them with blockchain technology?

Especially in this case where the pitch is “commit now to paying me and friends first world transaction fees on everything you do, and maybe we’ll figure out how to help with the actual hard problems in the future”. If the real goal is helping small farmers I’d expect the answer to involve things like paying for accurate surveying and working with big agricultural buyers so the calculation changes from “bribe local official to ignore this small farmer’s deed; profit!” to include things like major buyers not buying from any of your farms.
It touches on a general phenomena in asset booms though, whether housing, crypto, stocks or whatever. The general pattern is:

Asset goes up in a normal manner

Agents, exchanges etc make money

They then buy ads in media and journalists write "Asset is hot now" articles

Public reads them piles in, everything shoots up

And then eventually once they've run out of new buyers it all crashes

It's worth bearing in mind as an investor. After the crash you'll get "It's all over for <asset>" articles followed by no articles when everyone is fed up which is probably the time to buy.
Oh yeah sprawl is induced. If you only have to drive 2x week — you may tolerate a 50 mile commute vs before you aimed for 10 mi. In that scenario no reduction in miles driven (maybe even more if you run errands during telework days) and greater incursion of development beyond the city.
That’s what many people do as well, I feel. Not joking.

That aside, copilot works well as a proactive search tool for idioms, templates, and boilerplate. It can also do things like build the invocation of a CLI tool, with arguments, from a comment line. To me, if nothing more, is the next step in the use of reference. I started with man, .hlp files and books… then progressively replaced them with Google because it was faster even if more noisy… now I use copilot first.
Like what is happening at twitter. For a startup working until 1am was pretty normal. Lots of 100 hours weeks. Working a 40 hour week to me seems like slacking. This whole attitude of 4 day weeks, or just a few hours a day seems completely crazy, I dont think it will last.
I guess that's why laptops batteries last exactly the same whether the computer is idling or not. Also, the reason they get very hot when you're not doing anything CPU intensive - it's all that unused electricity going to the dump load resistor!