skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How come people's only definition of value of currency is that it can pay taxes?

Everything else's value is determined by the market and not the government, so how does Bitcoin have trouble finding value if the market thinks it has its utility, which is a storage of value without any third party intervention which is its unique capability that people can't seem to figure out after 10+ years of its existence.
I have celiac and often feel the same way about gluten free foods. Please stop trying to feed me gluten free versions of things that rely on gluten to be good. Just give me a rice bowl or tacos on corn tortillas. With Veganism/Vegetarianism it makes even less sense to me. Not eating gluten is not a choice for me, but Vegans and Vegetarians chose this lifestyle because they don't want to eat meat, why make fake things that resemble meat?
Universal Crossplane is now available from the Amazon EKS console
Exactly. It's honestly a funny video, insofar as it demonstrates how ridiculously divorced concept fashion is from everyday clothing.
Half the world uses only Jus Sanguinis. It has some benefit in terms of clarity and incentives. If you want to be generous and welcoming, that is fine, and could work perfectly well in that framework. All such liberal values would just need to happen through a legal naturalization process.

Under Jus Soli, we encourage people to violate the law and create situations where some members of families are citizens and others aren't.

Nationality in general is a pretty arbitrary concept, of course. But if we are going to have it, my programmer brain likes the idea of minimal ambiguity.
It is only possible to pay taxes with BTC in a few failed states like El Salvador. So that's hardly a positive. And I expect that little experiment will probably be terminated soon after Bukele leaves office.
Let market economics drive the behavior/buying decisions. Sure there are edge cases but for the most part EVs are more convient, comfortable, cleaner. The downsides are long recharge times during road trips and initial upfront costs. Studies show a lot of promise in improving charge speed and cost in the near future.
As opposed to socialism and communism where morally bankrupt leaders are unable to get rich off their decisions with no consequences?

Power and corruption are ubiquitous in every system.
Apple's value proposition is "it's easy and convenient to see what subscriptions you are currently paying for, and to unsubscribe from them in a few clicks—without having to find a form or send an email or call a phone number"
The main beef I have with frameworks isn't actually with the framework. It's teams fork lifting / re-writing to the "next best thing" to fix a problem instead of polishing what they have.

You wind up with a perpetual revolving door of immature implementations instead of incrementally improving something with known flaws.
Not just near stuff... most people don't want to live in the middle of a desert, or where there's snow on the ground 9+ months a year (a lot of that undeveloped land is in Alaska, and not the little coastal strip where 90% of the population lives, either)
Balenciaga was trying to be edgy and got sucked into the culture war.

In the culture war, the right often raises the issue of sexual abuse of children where it exists and not, or the depiction of children in any proximity to sexuality. The right is reacting to a view on the left that we should "treat children like adults". Following from this, many on the left see nothing wrong with exposing children to sex, nudity, stip shows and so on. This is related to the problematization of sex (the left would like to unproblematize sex; the right sees the problematization of sex as necessary).

I would say that we're constantly negotiating new norms and it's not surprising that norms regarding children (and how they are depicted) are a particular flashpoint. Consider Slouching Towards Bethlehem. One of the eduring images from that essay is aimless hippies feeding their children LSD for breakfast. Still, I'm optimistic about this process. The left and right both have a point and we'll slowly work towards a middle ground.
Snap is ordering employees back to the office 4 days a week
I hated ^S until I disabled it with `stty -ixon`. The thing is, this key is actually bound to a really useful command: the reverse of ^R, ie. search forward in history. It's very useful when you assemble a new command from a few separate ones. You just ^R to the first one you want, mark and copy the part you want with ^Space and Alt+w, then search forward to the next one with ^S. I do use fzf, and it's great, but not for this specific use case.

Also, it's worth noting that you can give a prefix argument to many commands by pressing Alt+1-9 (possibly multiple times). For example, the sequence Alt+2 Alt+. pasted not the last, but second to last word from the previous command.

Oh, and Alt+x also works! With completion under TAB!

The terminal looks simple, and most people prefer GUIs for good reasons. Not to mention the actual complexity of interpreting escape sequence and emulating the teletype (TTY). By the same token, though, terminal is something that was developed and polished by hordes of programmers since the teletypes. It's amazing, and the result is quirky as hell, but also incredibly powerful.
Chinese Police Conduct Stop-and-Search Checks for Banned Foreign Apps
Any idea why this thread is flagged? Is it because most of the comments are just back and forth between who likes and dislikes this?
How people expect anything else from a huge corporation is mind-boggling to me. They open source something and people think they are being alturistic. Just like android. You start with open source, then move more and more things behind the corpwall.

Emacs is free and is free for life.

Also Davids channel is most excellent. There's a discord channel where people are very friendly and helpful as well.
No, you're not. The fact that a misfeature exists in the toolchain doesn't force you to use it.

You can order the init sections on your own when you generate the binaries and add your own constraints, and if your toolchain doesn't give you that control, you can generate and call your own init functions. (Since I didn't want to dick with the linker too much, I generated my own init functions in my natively compiled language to solve this problem).

Your language's dlopen wrapper can also dlsym the initializer and call it if it's present.

This is very much a C++ problem, because its separate compilation model throws away initializer ordering, and prevents the compiler from doing anything about it. And, of course, compatibility makes this a tough sell for C++ -- languages unconstrained by history don't have to worry about this.

tl;dr: Ignore the constructor attribute/init section, and generate your own function that orders things correctly. Then call it before main.
A political bet, with enough funding it might make it so… https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/japan-hydro...
I was really looking forward to not hearing ICE sounds everywhere. But alas, scary stories about "silent" cars means we'll have to live with that for a while longer.
I was an avid user and it's amazing how it's able to port abstractions between its various modes. For example, you can use an auto complete plugin that replaces text with regexes to rename a batch of files.

But nowadays I tend to prefer technologies that work reasonably well with a set of sane defaults. Emacs works really well when you are working on really hard problems and programming fringe things from scratch, but it pales in comparison to the productivity of simple no code tools that's been flourishing recently.

That's the experience for the kind of work I've been doing recently, which are mostly CRUD apps to support a business. It might not be true in other domains.
As someone who recently switched from DS to platform engineering, this post really captures why I also jumped ship.

> Shitty code & shitty data science

In my opinion the bar should be higher for code quality but also general engineering know-how in data science. You'd be surprised how many are uncomfortable with git, using the command line, interacting with APIs, managing environments, etc. Being able to only work within a jupyter notebook is not good enough, at all. Otherwise, you end up with people who's entire job it is to productionize and deploy the code which is a waste of time and effort.

> Poor mentorship

There is either a lack of quality leadership and mentorship or an inability for upper management to see the value in hiring for it. What ends up happening is you have a team who doesn't know how to grow, scale, or work together. They instead focus on building models and learning statistics when they should be focusing on building systems and process for helping the business scale analytics and building models when appropriate.

I enjoyed data science but found it to also not matter in the implementation that everyone thinks it should be. Data science isn't building nothing but ML models. In most companies, in my opinion, it is actually about scaling analytics. Being able to reach further up into data engineering, get raw data, explore it, shape it, give it back to DE to automate, and then automate the delivery of data to upper management and guide them through using it. If the team thinks their job is to just build models, everyone is going to have a miserable, miserable time.
You are saying USDA controls may not be so successful at this which could be true but then in veg there seem to be just no controls of similar extent (different from "have controlls but they don't quite work). Some comment on HN mentioned every single dead animal in US meat industry is inspected and signed for, imagine like this but with each carrot
It's not though. Some cryptocurrencies are still perfectly valid money laundering devices, and that means they carry transient but quite persistent value.
Oooh, the goosebumps of running Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 in Windows 3.1 as in 1994, while writing a React form by hand in 2022.
It would have been more Borgesian for every book on this list to be a completely made up citation, backed with excerpted quotes and a brief biography of the fictional author, sprinkled with actual facts so that you can't quite tell if it's real or not.

FWIW, I liked the book Professor Borges, which is (or purports to be) notes from an English literature class he taught. Whether it's accurate or not, it has a lot of what feel like the kinds of observations he would make.
EVs almost never need 48A charging, but for times when they do, it’s what makes EV only households practical.

The answer isn’t to ban high AMP L2 chargers but instruct cars to only use high amp when lower amp charging isn’t sufficient.

For most users who do home charging, they leave them plugged in for 10+ hours at night and drive nowhere near their battery’s capacity, so trickle charge them each night, ensuring car is ready at their scheduled departure time.
> Because what would I do with it?... It isn’t going to do anything.

This isn't strictly true. The fundamental utility of crypto assets is to pay for transactions that execute on blockchains. Blockspace is a scarce resource, and running transactions on-chain requires bidding for inclusion in a fee market that's denominated in the native currency of the chain.

This isn't just hypothetical. Currently, more than $2 million worth of Ethereum per day is being paid to the network as "gas" necessary for Ethereum transactions.[1] The blockspace demand comes from a variety of blockchain applications, such as NFT marketplaces, DeFi applications like Uniswap and AAVE, and stablecoin payments such as USDC[2]. (Not to mention simple peer-to-peer Ethereum transfers.)

We can debate a long time about whether blockchain based applications are here to stay or just fads. But there is a compelling case that some users and use cases will value the decentralization, immutability, censorship resistance and credible neutrality that comes with on-chain applications. In that type of decentralized digital economy, native crypto is very useful in the same way that crude oil is very useful to the industrialized economy.

[1]https://cryptofees.info
[2]https://etherscan.io/gastracker
The language support is great with Emacs 29. Hope it work well with LSP modes/servers.

On a tangent anyone knows a good LSP setup or LSP server for Javascript?
I'm just pointing out that if you're too uncomfortable to educate yourself on the superficial level of googling if its actually real/a problem, you're likely unable to engage with this subject matter in a way that actually works to prevent child abuse. Yes, it's an ugly subject. Most children who are sexually abused are abused by their own family, not by random drag queens, not by whatever viral thing you heard but you can't google because it's too gross for you.

If you want to actually make a difference, educate yourself on the very real harm that is done to children. Volunteer for anti-child abuse organizations. Advocate for real policies, such as banning child marriages across all states. Call your government about the hundreds of migrant children that ICE just "lost". Advocate for the removal of domestic abusers from police and civil servant positions. etc.
How do you use NextDNS with hard-to-configure devices? A lot of its config seems to require DNS-over-HTTPS which I'm not sure my Smart TV would support.
https://archive.ph/Tw2RG
Quite early on there were indications it was airborne. I distinctly remember a group of researchers making a stink that the CDC wasn’t changing their position in it.

Honestly, I’m a bit amazed that isn’t something we can easily test. I’m no biologist but couldn’t we just take people sick with COVID in a room and have them breathe/talk/whatever with the equivalent of Petri dishes at differing distances?
You're missing the point of the entire field of "Public Health." It's not to communicate the minutia of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. That's what academics are for. Public health is more like marketing, but with the goal to reduce harm rather than make profit. And that's OK, and a good thing, and to lambast them for trying to convey a simple, straight-forward message is really just not understanding what the role of public health is.
I guess you're right and that the type of government wouldn't preclude the development of dystopic weapons.
I'm vegetarian and I get asked how I like these "meat replacement" things often enough. The thing is that I just…don't like burgers, steaks, etc. so these are basically of zero interest to me (e.g., every veggie burger I've had I would consider to be better than every beef burger I've ever had; there was one kind of steak I liked growing up and it being mostly pre-marinated juices was most of what I liked about it). These products are not, IMO, for vegetarians for vegans but more for meat eaters looking to reduce their (actual) meat consumption.
Neat. Published anywhere?
People should not have the power to set paddings of less than 4px, and only do so in increments of 4.

If you do it this way it becomes harder for anyone to go wild with every variant of padding under 8/12.
We used Micro to build and offer Micro services on M3O. Every API to you see there is powered by the open source equivalent Micro service here https://github.com/micro/services
The first use was in Neuromancer by William Gibson, in 1984, referring to a classic analog TV showing gray-white static.

Modern digital, smart, auto-tuning TVs will show an error message rather than static when there's no signal available [1], so later authors have used modified homages like:

"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel." in Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/comments/3mgxca/what...
>For all three HaikuOS users out there, good news, you now have access to Emacs! (In all seriousness, I should check out HaikuOS one day)

That's great news!
Kill people breaking into cars? What an excessive reaction.
I replaced 4x4TB disks with a 10T helium drive, and was shocked at the noise it made.

The build went from nearly silent to keep my wife up at night.

There is a certain thunk-thunk-thunk sound they make, which was awful, but I'm almost positive the 10T disk managed to resonate through the front panel and use it to make itself known. I don't think I can blame the disk for that second part.
At least in the US, mortgage rates currently are around 7%, not 2%. That eats a lot of margin, especially on a managed property.
This is somewhat captured in the article as well.

"Managers will say they want to make data-driven decisions, but they really want decision-driven data. If you strayed from this role– e.g. by warning people not to pursue stupid ideas– your reward was their disdain, then they’d do it anyway, then it wouldn’t work (what a shocker). The only way to win is to become a stooge."

In science, a good scientific result can be bad for business. There is often little appreciation for the "science" in data science.
An extra problem there is that phone numbers get reused. They might have verified the number at the time the previous person still had it.

I get all kinds of messages to someone called Amy from multiple sources, so I believe Amy really had my phone number earlier. No medical results yet, but healthcare appointment reminders for sure.
It also has a de-facto underlying physical asset, since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will only sell oil to you in USD since ~1974 (based on the backroom deals between US & Saudis).

That's why our system is called the Petrodollar system.
And the so called conspiracy theorists can now say they were right.

It’s super concerning that you’ve basically given legitimate ammo to the most paranoid of society. This shouldn’t be the case. But now it’s going to be twice as hard to convince the fringes of anything coming from authority of anything.
Hydrogen is a mature industry used in many ways with extensive long standing regulations which are plausibly overzealous because of the hindenburg and fear of hydrogen. Nobody will want to get their car's hydrogen tanks inspected several times a year.

95% of hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels. So if the intent is to get away from fossil fuels, which we must do regardless of political movements, then you haven't gotten away. It's a total failure path.

Furthermore, they have produced hydrogen explosion engines but such vehicles will be of low torque and low range. In most actual cases a hydrogen car is actually an electric car with minimal batteries and hydrogen range extension in a non-explosive fuel cell. Why not just put more batteries in your electric car and remove the hydrogen range extension?

If you want to do 'electrolysis' of converting water to hydrogen. It literally has a ceiling efficiency of around 60% depending on how industrial you wish to go. Your at home rig is going to be more like 15% efficient. Batteries are like 95% efficient. Why go hydrogen?

There have been claims of being able to use platinum or something to be more efficient but these have all died on the vine. Not unlike the dozens of new better batteries you will hear about.

In reality, even if they could produce hydrogen at >95% efficiency without fossil fuels. It's still the wrong solution.
I really want to use Emacs but I can't get Company + any LSP to come close to vs code or coc.nvim. When I configure company to trigger instantly on a single keystroke, Emacs completely locks up pretty much every time I hit a key.
Sure, but the argument wasn't that BTC was merely overpriced, but that it was mathematically worth zero.
> the founder of the new currency wants to be the one that centrally controls it

By its choice of emission, Bitcoin ensured a concentration of wealth on early miners including Satoshi.

Some founders, on the contrary, want no-one to be able to control their new currency, by making the emission purely linear, thus diluting any early adopter.
I’m really surprised there isn’t a solid batteries loaded framework in JS. There’s just no way I could use node + express over Rails / Django
Didn't know math equation is literally nothing.

You may get amazed as many times you need before learning why people find value in it.
I think this hits the nail on the head. People are learning the meritocracy they were taught growing up isn't real so why would they work 80 hour weeks for a 25% bonus instead of a 10-15% bonus. The calculus gets even worse when the bonus people get is insignificant to that of switching careers often.

For what you specifically experienced, my opinion, the bigger the organization the more inevitable this seems to become. To make things worse the size of the organization isn't limited to just a company or non-profit but to the size of all groups involved, i.e. a small charity or non-profit that's part of a huge government program is similar to a small engineering team in a huge tech company. They could do huge things or be completely worthless and so long as they pass along positive messages up the chain and the org or company as a whole is doing well then yay no consequences.

We're (hopefully) at the beginning of a cycle where companies realize they are causing apathy amongst the majority of the employed and hopefully experiment (and succeed) in providing meaningful pay raises to the lower echelons which will come at the short term costs of profits but are justified for long term productivity. Or we'll just keep divolving into a dystopia
Well I'm sure there will a huge amount of negative takes on this, I haven't looked yet, so here's a positive one to balance them all out, this person is an artist who may care very deeply about the environment and is using their talent to draw attention and start a discussion about the topic. It's difficult to measure the impact that discussion or experiencing this art may have on people. I expect a lot of children and students will visit this installation and learn about waste, they may change their world view based on this. Yes this is a very sugar coated idealistic view I'm taking here. Also I would like to apologise in advance if this thread is wall-to-wall platitudes about the art installation.
"Second homes" isn't targeted. Many (most?) second homes aren't investments-- they're vacation homes, in places which aren't hot markets, and will almost certainly lose money compared to just sticking it in a broad market ETF (even with the home leveraged via a mortgage).

> I know that's not a direction most people agree on (hitting real estate as an investment),

Most states have substantially lower and/or increase restricted property taxes for a single owner occupied home, so I don't think you can say that taxing investment properties at a higher rate than owner occupied properties a direction people don't agree on, generally. (California is weird in that it restricts tax increases for all properties, including commercial).

One problem you run into is that most investment properties are rented out and increased taxes on them will be passed onto the tenants, so any increased taxes on these properties is arguably regressive since the tenants tend to be a lower income part of the population.
Should we call deep learning “statistics”? It’s mostly empirical. Should recommendation systems be called “statistics”? What about multi objective non convex optimization?

Not everyone is doing regression and classification all day.

The above were studied in the Computer Science curriculum at my university. I work with a statistician, like someone with a degree in mathematical statistics. They know nothing about any of those.