skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read two pop books this year that were way better than I expected.

Circe by Madeline Miller. This is a fantastic genre defining classic. This book gave me BIG emotion.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Obviously, everyone should read this, it's great. I would insist that white Americans born between 1980-2000 especially consider it. It's a quick read and the insights are profound. It's a book I would buy a box of and pass out to people who I think would either enjoy it or benefit from reading it.
I feel this study is incomplete - we should ask Austin Powers and Fat Bastard to weigh in as well.
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In fact, on (2) this isn't even something an exchange can do through their Ts&Cs. Local law will decide creditor priority so in the absence of a regulatory framework that treats exchanges as "bank-like" and makes, as a minimum, customer balances "special" in some way, this simply isn't possible.
Sure, feel free to drop me am email at kylem at mammothbiosci.com
Bezos built Amazon to solve the traveling salesman problem.
Gift for anyone who wants to feel safer online: Mozilla privacy product
Just some pop singers I think. What a mess.
Globalization means culture clash, even if one side looks the other way in the name of profit, it doesn't mean cultural hegemony has actually been achieved in either direction. Just a truce, and resentments fester.
I'm not the person that you replied to, but have you tried searching for e.g. usb memory sticks on Amazon?
Definitely, https://gomakethings.com is what I instantly thought of after reading the OP.
So far it seems Elon wants Twitter to be a maximalist free speech platform, the most accurate source of information (by far), profitable, and kind of like...a bank? So yeah, it will take time...probably heat-death-of-the-universe-esque time. My guess it that a few years from now, he'll accept what he will have created by that time, and simply rename it TwitterChan.
In terms of keeping time and no unrelated features, the CASIO G-shock tough solar radio are the best. Cheap, durable, solar and synchronized via radio (plus other things like chronometer and word times).
Yes, I kind of bristled at the arrogant word "correct". Correct in what sense? What metric does the "correct" side boost over the "incorrect" one? How was correctness measured? Is it correct simply because it conforms to some document that some company wrote? Most of the choices to my eye are subjective and could go either way.

Then again, I'm not a UI designer. But I wonder what a UI designer thinks of someone boiling his/her design judgement down to a simple 'correct vs. incorrect' choice.
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There was no suggestion of it being the only alternative, just the choice he would choose if his career was no longer location bound. Someone else in the same situation may choose differently, but there was also no attempt to speak on behalf of others, only himself. There is nothing weird about people having preferences.
tl;dr: because ossl_a2ulabel had no unit tests until a few days ago, the fuzzer could not have reached it through any combination of other tests.

That fuzzing is tricky was not the problem here. The problem is the culture that allowed ossl_a2ulabel to exist without unit tests. And before some weird nerd jumps in to say that openssl is so old we can't apply modern standards of project health, please note that the vulnerable function was committed from scratch in August 2020. Without unit tests.
I wouldn't call function typedefs a quirk, they seem pretty useful and common, at least in my world of hobbyist microcontroller programming.
In some countries it is a Heads-Left-Display...
This seems to be a phenomenon that appears with any animal group that tends to congregate.
Have you ever implemented a smart contract? If not, I highly recommend you do so before holding an opinion on blockchains. I've never owned crypto, and I've recommended others to stay away from investing in crypto. Yet, I think the computing platform has a lot of promise. Implementing a smart contract for fun helped me see why.

The block-chain can be thought of as cryptographically secure state. That is, everyone agrees on the state of the blockchain and no one can modify it save for modifications in accordance with the "rules". A smart contract can be thought of as a cryptographically secure program, i.e. it cannot be modified. So you have cryptographically secure inputs (the blockchain), and a cryptographically secure program (the smart contract), which means the output is also guaranteed to be cryptographically secure. That is quite a strong premise. You can give your program to anyone and they can execute it for you without you needing to worry about nefarious modifications. This level of trust allows for the creation of a global computing platform. Software authors need only to bring their program and can have it executed on-demand without needing to maintain their own infrastructure. That is quite an innovation.

Of course, in its current form, this "global computing platform" is actually pretty shitty. It is prohibitively expensive to store / operate on a lot of data. However, crypto-currencies are there first viable "apps" built on this platform. If you think about it a crypto-currency is basically a very primitive program that stores a series of transactions as two addresses and an amount. The total amount of data per transaction is tiny. And yet, just by operating on this tiny amount of data you can basically implement the entire financial system: currency, stocks, bonds, options, etc.

We're basically in the dot-com bubble for crypto. People are starting to realize that this new computing platform is cool and has a lot of potential, just as many realized the computers and the internet were cool in the late 90s. Yet, just like in the 90s, the tech sucks and isn't good enough to bring much of anything valuable to the market.
It's like AWS serverless compute with inefficiency built-in as a feature and a jacked-up billing rate.
In my case: because writing C code (specifically C99 or later - designated init and compound literals!) gives me joy in a way that neither C++ nor Rust provide (C++ was my go-to language for nearly two decade between ca. 1998 and 2017), and I tinkered with Rust a couple of years ago, enough that I realized that I don't much enjoy it.

IMHO, both C++ and Rust feel too much like puzzle solving ("how do I solve this problem in *C++*" or "how do I solve this problem in *Rust*?"), when writing C code, the programming language disappears and it simply becomes "how do I solve this problem?").

PS: I agree that the C standard isn't all that relevant in practice though, you still need to build and test your code across the relevant compilers.
That doesn't sound SO absurd to me when I think about it. Limes do go through a fair range of colour space, after all. Maybe there should be a limeyellow?
I believe Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist, would have a different opinion. To everyone interested out there, i suggest reading The strange order of things.
It's about the development of emotions and feelings, culture and ideology, technology and whatever else makes as human through the lenses of evolutionary biology, namely through the development of the neurological systems.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32335976-the-strange-ord...
Show HN: What's today's date if we used a perrenial calendar
I was thinking about a decimal clock as totally normal people sometimes do and eventually ended up doing some research about a decimal calendar (which might sound appealing at first, but ends up being very impractical) and came across other calendar proposals.

I wondered what dates today, my birthday, and holidays would be on those calendars and how one would find that information. I looked for websites that did what Better calendars does, but couldn't find any that I found appealing so I decided to build it myself.
The odd's are stupidly long, but they aren't lining up to play when the prize is $50m. They're lining up to play when it's $1B+. $2 for a ticket and a chance to become a billionaire.
cornflowerblue? That's happy little mistake in the making.
and nobody can hear you scream
100% with you on that. I live 4km from the city centre, so essentially walking distance.

I went there on the weekend. It's very lively, but I wouldn't want this sort of liveliness during the evening when the only thing I need is to wind down. I prefer living here, halfway from the centre to the city limits.
Where's the simple line that gets crossed? If I ask for a refund but am refused, am I being "entitled" when I push it? There are some obvious examples of both ends of the spectrum, but a lot of less obvious ones in the middle.

I worry these memes encourage timid people not to even ask for what they are legitimately entitled to, for fear of ending up on some Reddit channel.
Keyboards I’ve used in the past two decades
When Carmack did his work, the computers he had were 386/486 class. So the distinction you're making doesn't make sense. Working code is code that works in the computer you have at the time you're writing the software.
I think the pilots focus on simulators to manage controls not learn to fly per se. I know there's a lot of overlap in the concepts, but it can be as simple as: flying is more complicated so you have to add extra steps to deal with situations appropriately.
>> You're still missing the forest for the trees. All of this was created in the last 2-3 years and already it's replicated most of what's in traditional finance.

Making a copy of an existing technology while repeating every historical mistake on the way is not innovation but rather poor learning ability. It's been 13 years since the advent of blockchain and we are yet to see anything actually useful. Yet all we see is smuggling, money laundering and fraud. With stories like FTX we also see incredible ineptitude, incompetence and ignorance. I am so tired of seeing these same groundless arguments over and over again, especially now, once money got dear and all of the crypto started crashing down.
One key role for a manager is being able to detect who's feeling unmotivated or trying to bullshit you or has something going on in their life that's affecting their work, so that you can dig in to understand more and address the issues proactively. When you casually see people in person every day throughout the day, it's easier to notice when someone's demeanor changes, vs. mostly talking on slack and having a couple of zoom meetings per week.
> It sounds like you’re throwing hands up and stating that no change is possible.

No, they're saying there must be a point to the change. If adding blockchain doesn't help in any way, why add it to the mix?
His full name is Alex Jackson, it says so on Wikipedia.
A database works if you have a central authority that manages it and accepts inputs. I’m going to switch to a different animal for a better perspective.

In the Pacific, tuna is caught within the EEZ of a number of (mostly) poor island nations. Some boats are part of the national fleet, but most are foreign flagged. The privilege to fish in an EEZ is costly, so there are a number of measures used to ensure that there is no cheating. The boat owners keep records, there are third party observers on board, and vessels broadcast positions. You need to cross check all these records, and do it in an environment without broadband.

To make things more complicated, there are incentives between countries. Fishing days are a finite resource governed by treaties. Poor countries have an incentive to oversell, and it’s possible to look the other way within an EEZ sometimes. Not only that, but countries have legitimate reasons for not broadcasting anything but gross yields from their EEZ.

All of this means that there’s not one central authority that can provide a single database.
Same for me, and the "springgreen"/"mediumspringgreen" are practically the same color on my screen. I'm wondering what was the reason the original spec included those colors. Were CRT monitors of old that much better?
> Now, let's take Catholicism ... They also don't really attempt to control most, let alone all, domains of of members' lives.

Really?

"The Catholic position on contraception was formally explained and expressed by Pope Paul VI's Humanae vitae in 1968. Artificial contraception is considered intrinsically evil, but methods of natural family planning may be used, as they do not usurp the natural way of conception."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_birth_contr...
NLnet Funding Comes to an End
They release content on streaming websites. You can find it on Spotify and download it: https://open.spotify.com/album/09hLaixeAaAClNfmgfPuG8

There is also a "Order as an Audio file" button on MyNoise where you can buy the result of a customized generator.

(Not directly associated to them, just a big fan and power user)
Very nice article. As others have alluded to, I think Tim does miss an important point about trust. He writes:

> we just couldn’t convince ourselves that the real world wanted zero-trust; so there was a transaction manager you had to trust.

And then later:

> It seems a good idea to have a land-registry database but, blockchain or no, I wonder if the large landowners might be able to find another way to fiddle the records and still steal the land? Perhaps this is more about power than boundary markers?

Yes. Blockchain is about decentralization of power. It's exactly the most interesting in situations with no trusted third party (i.e. weak rule of law) and an imbalance of power. I think Tim missed that aspect of this discussion (which is no knock on him in 2016, but should be reevaluated now). The rest I found insightful and very interesting.
I co-founded MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/

While the site has had its ups and downs, and changes of ownership, it is usually the first validating reference for any computer game entry on wikipedia (which it pre-dates by nearly two years).
This sort of nonsense thinking is exactly why governments have been such a soft touch and allowed scam after fraud after Ponzi after rug-pull to bloom.

Fingers crossed that sort of time is over and the cryptocurrency space can be made to comply with regulations or be cut off from on-ramps.
> My scenario doesn't abolish the United Kingdom, it abolishes it as a country

But surely a kingdom has to have a defined territory over which the monarch is sovereign?

Of course there is precedent for having a government in exile (which claims a territory it has no control over), and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (which doesn't claim any territory at all), but I think if you want the "UK" to refer to an institution, then it should stand for "the United Kingship".
Alaska is continental but not continuous. Just imagine living in Porto Rico or any of the other random us protectorates that have no legal voting authority.
"In the same way, you may be able to simulate a mind perfectly, but that doesn't make consciousness."

How do we know that?
Indeed. The author seems to think he has a knock-down argument with this:

> If you disagree, your counter-argument should probably start by outlining some proposed input or output of the brain that it would not be possible to encode numerically

Which, even speaking as a Physicalist (though leaning agnostic) I think sounds quite unaware of all the hard thinking that has been done so far on the subject. (AKA the Hard Problem of consciousness.)

Here’s one to get started: the qualia of the color red.

It’s not established that just encoding information about the world with enough complexity would produce a mind that experiences qualia, and we think those are quite important as humans.

If you need a couple thought experiments along this line of reasoning, consider p-zombies, or alternatively, imagine if consciousness is actually some sort of physical field in one of the microscopic string-theory dimensions that we can’t access yet. So it’s fully objectively detectable and requires a specific physical structure to generate. The proposed system of philosophy of mind just ignores these possibilities and asserts that they don’t obtain, without evidence or justification. (Of course I make no claim that this is how things are; I’m just pointing out the valid potential-physics that are being ruled out from an armchair.)
Transparency, for one.
I read it as a rather uncool appeal to South Asian stereotypes.
> one cannot feasibly produce resistors with values as elements of a dense subset of the real line, being, as analysis taught us, an uncountable set

The rational numbers are an example of a countable dense set.

Unfortunately, countably-infinite product catalogs are still a bit unwieldy.
This is great! Would be useful if selecting a colour changed the URL so you could link directly to it.
Apple could absolutely fire 80% of their engineers. It'd be stupid, but they could do it and look great for 6-12 months until everything starts to fall apart.
Loads of bugs aren't detected by fuzz testing, as this technique exhibits stochastic behaviour, where you'll most likely find bugs overall, but have varying chances (including none at all) of uncovering specific bugs.

Which is great news for those of us who approach such research by gaining a deep understanding of the code and the systems it exists in, and figuring out vulnerabilities from that perspective. An overreliance on fuzzing keeps us employed.
> but I’m building it again. This time in rust.

Good crab.
My usages are similar to yours, but new C standards still benefit me because I can opportunistically detect and make use of new features in a configure script.

To use my baby as an example: free_sized(void *ptr, size_t alloc_size) is new in C23. I can detect whether or not it's available and use it if so. If it's not available, I can just fall back to free() and get the same semantics, at some performance or safety cost.
Everybody preparing their own meal requires more energy.

Everybody heating their own workplace requires more energy.

In general: Anything you do alone is more resource intensive than a comparable group activity.
The data that matters is all on-chain: the smart contracts and the balances. This is why what Tim talks about has actually played out, and we have seen incredible composability between different protocols.

> We've seen this play out with OpenSea and how its view of NFTs is different from what's on chain.

If anything, the NFT ecosystem proofs this point. It consists of a dizzying array of aggregators, lending platforms, fractionalization platforms, alternative marketplaces, curation tools, API providers, all interacting with another. The fact that OpenSea retains a large marketshare among marketplaces is true (though now down to 60% - https://dune.com/sealaunch/NFT), but hasn't stopped this interoperability at all. Because in fact, what matters is on-chain, not what OpenSea exposes.
There is a distinction between 'working code' and 'working code that runs at interactive frame rates in a severely memory-constrained environment'.
Asking the big questions here!!

What I really want to know is what happens to "ghost feces"... Sometimes you know one dropped into the toilet but it is nowhere to be seen...
The difference is that your smartphone and iPad are hiding a ton of complexity from you, whereas an Apple ][ or a Commodore 64 hid almost nothing from you -- it did less, but was much more transparent about it.
"we were 10+ years too early to market, i.e. the tech is not ready yet."

"Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools."

"We built the most-advanced AI for helping developers, but it fell short of the 10× improvement required to break through because today’s state of the art for ML on code is not good enough."

So basically, everyone's fault but their own. Got it.

Edit: Also I want to say, that WE DO pay for stuff if it brings us value. Out of my pocket I pay for JetBrains, Github, Temius, and the SublimeText 4.
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> It might be an attempt to mimic Tik-Tok's success by switching Twitter over to essentially an entertainment channel?

Considering how badly the $8/mo feature launch was botched, how threadbare their staff is, and how bad video on Twitter always was.....I think this is unlikely.
The road to low-carbon concrete
in beta still but https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/ is worth a look
I can't speak for anyone else, but I try to include rebeccapurple whenever I can in the web sites I build.

Some may consider it an Easter Egg. I consider it being a human, and a throwback to when computing was more of a community, and less of a competition.
Is this written by "AI", or auto-generated? or?

Stuff like: "Phosphorus cycles took place at the same" as a title.. Hmm... Or perhaps someone with a keyboard that inserts random commas in the text?

"We have learned before that oxygen levels decrease, creating mass extinction on Earth. Besides, the evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions, according to a new study."
It's not the only country with that, for instance the USA has both .us and .gov for its government domains.
Here is a calendly link if you'd like to find time to chat. You shot down my book recommendations, why not talk with me about all this?

https://calendly.com/veganism-chat/30min
You're setting the bar for "genius" too low, which unfortunately is commonplace in computer programming. If you take something that already exists and apply it to your code I don't call it genius. Hi quality programming, yes, but genius no.
What is the value proposition of "can't be disappeared by anyone" exactly? Reversibility and deletability are actually features of most systems.

Scales without bound is cool, but generally lacks use and is expensive. I would rather scale to my actual usage bounds rather than paying for infinite scalability.

Composed without restriction is cool, but I got that with the MIT and BSD licenses. Forked and restricted has already been possible using traditional open-source computer infrastructure.
They are called intransitive dice, and it's just about the opposite problem: as unfair as possible.

Wikipedia lists sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_dice
Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi22-barman.pdf
Having a strong stance in one domain != moral totalitarianism. Some branches of Jainism recommends brushing the sidewalk ahead of you so as to avoid destroying any insects unnecessarily. A totalitarian religion controlling all aspects of life? Or just a profoundly intense moral doctrine that, naturally, has ramifications throughout many aspects of life if you accept it?
Thankfully in the pre cellphone era, I was on a canoe trip in Algonquin Park. In the middle of a large Lake, the call of nature struck with a sense of urgency that required a solution quicker than just, "Paddle harder to land."

A jump into the lake and removing of trousers resulted in an "Aqua Dump". But alas it was a floater, rather than sinking to the unknown depths. It was a shocking discovery at the time.
If you have to rely on someone else with a copy of your keys then isn't that poor opsec?
I second the Garmin Instinct Solar as a really good everyday watch. I got tired of charging my Apple Watch everyday and getting annoying notifications all the time. I just wanted something to keep track of my walks, track my sleep and give me basic watch functions such as alarms, timers and stopwatch. The Instinct is perfect for that.

I also have it set so that the backlight turns automatically on when it's dark and I flip my wrist. I wear it to bed (sleep tracking) and I can always check the time if I wake up in the middle of the night.
You need supporting data that using high quality tools to ship next-level product will, in fact, upskill you as a developer?

Can you list any alternate ways that one upskills?