skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What's the thing with CBDCs?

Potential scenarios include a digital euro/dollar/yuan that lives alongside existing paper cash, "Johnny's Cash and the Smart Money Nighmare" (search for that video which has a short half-life on YT), or something in the middle if elected legislators represent their citizens in negotiations with the BIS/IMF, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlem....

There's an intro in this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32777875

And a few hundred comments in earlier threads, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
He might have meant instead, either the Nanjing, or Xi’an libtard schools. Two colleges known for the recent protests are the Xi’An Fine Arts School and also the Nanjing Media School. These two majors are coindicated with libtardation in the West are they not? The equivalent term in Chinese is, I think,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baizuo

>The term has been referenced approvingly by American conservatives, including Tucker Carlson and Rod Dreher.[12]
I’ve played a lot of Flow. I enjoyed the three puzzles for today. I don’t think I would come back every day to do it though. But I rarely play Wordle, so maybe I’m not the right audience.

My only feedback is to think more about why Wordle is popular. I think it’s because it’s the right level of difficulty for most people and it has the social element of comparing the number of guesses it took you with your friends. If you solved the Wordle of the day in 2 guesses and it took your friends 4, you have bragging rights. But in your game, it’s a bit messier with how to compare your score with your friends. Comparing times is ok (maybe not as good as # of guesses), but it’s really hard to compare with your friends if there are 3 separate puzzles each day. I think you might get more traction if you had a single, harder puzzle to solve each day.

It’s also possible to lose in Wordle, but not possible in your game. Maybe you could add a Give Up button or Hint button if someone gets stuck. I was able to solve all 3 puzzles, but I could imagine someone getting stuck and getting frustrated and never coming back after that. My idea for the hint button is it would connect a pair of nodes for you.
I used to work for the post office in the early 90s and a couple coworkers got into one of these visible frustration violent communications with the one who started the argument getting two weeks paid leave for ‘stress’.
Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
It sounds like this is a difference in personal values. You can certainly assess the morality of one’s work based on its methods, but it’s also valid to assess the morality based on outcomes.

On outcomes: You framed building things and creating new things as inherently good, but entire fields of the philosophy of science question whether technological progress is inherently good. Is AI-generated art necessarily good if it causes artists to lose jobs? Are ad trackers necessarily good if it increases engagement at the loss of privacy? Are hackers/crackers seen as more noble than salespeople, as they create new exploits that make hospitals pay ransom, and expose people’s information? If a new chemical weapon or bioweapon is created, are its developers inherently noble for creating something new? Even Einstein expressed deep regret for his role in developing the atomic bomb (and Feynman went into a depression) after its usage.

On methods: most methods start as morally neutral. A person training to be a soldier may or may not end up doing immoral things, depending on what they do in their career. Research scientists may or may not do moral things (though nowadays most abide by research ethics, in the past and likely the present, many studies have caused far more suffering than their benefits). Lawyers can go on to defend fundamental rights, or end up filing frivolous lawsuits or chasing ambulances. Developers can create something genuinely useful, or cause people to lose jobs or get killed due to bugs.

To be charitable to your point: yes, I intuitively have a deep sense of respect for the discipline required to become a good software developer and create something new. But it’s completely separate from a moral respect and moral judgement: I have to know what that developer is actually creating, and how that will impact real people.
As far as I know, and feel free to correct me, string theory has received many million in funding and yielded exactly zero empirical results. I agree that you won’t become an expert in theoretical physics from a YouTube video, but one can definitely tell when nothing of use has been produced.
For new experimenters of languages, "array" is the perfect word to use. It's a very common word that everyone learns whenever they start with C or Java. All the people looking to try things will use that term first before learning the proper terms.

Someone who never used rust will search for "rust array". Someone who did will search for "rust vec". You're trying to figure out trends for people who have never used the language.
My first time SCUBA diving was at Boy Scouts. I was 12 years old. The pool was only 3 or 4 feet deep, but they still gave a safety talk before turning us loose with tanks, regulators and buoyancy control devices: "never stop breathing". They told us that if we inhale at 3 feet below the water surface then stood up with our mouth closed, the air will expand in our lungs and cause a lot of damage to our lungs: barotrauma. All it takes is a constant stream of little bubbles to save your lungs from the changes in pressure.

The tragedy of our last 3 years is that if all our critical care doctors were trained in basic SCUBA diving, they would have known better than to have slapped people on ventilators for 'pneumonia', and would have known better than to treat patients' low blood oxygen saturation levels with supplemental oxygen.

This article covers the physics, but curiously doesn't use the terms: barotrauma and oxygen toxicity. Nitrogen washout is another problem experienced by people who breathe oxygen-enriched atmospheres. Not a problem for brief trips underwater, but a huge problem for patients kept on oxygen-enriched atmospheres for long period of time.

tl/dr: Breathing higher-than-atmospheric levels of oxygen will destroy your lungs (#OxygenToxicity), as will pressure differentials (#Barotrauma).

Medical Hyperventilation [0] is a medical tragedy. If only our doctors were all trained to be SCUBA divers.

After the first few months of using high-pressure differential ventilation on their pneumonia patients, doctors switched to using different ventilator management strategies. But they never issued a Mea Culpa [1].

The other problem experienced by patients treated by SCUBA-naive doctors is #OxygenToxicity. From the article:

>> But underwater, the problem is likely to be too much pressure. If the partial pressure of oxygen gets around 1.6 ATM, it can cause people to have convulsions.

Healthy people can tolerate a pure oxygen atmosphere for about 24 hours...

The third problem is nitrogen washout, where the nitrogen in patients' lungs was replaced with oxygen, leading to collapse of the air sacks.

I wrote a blog post about "Medical Hyperventilation", but it was too late, and I've no credentials to speak of. Oh well.

[0] https://www.taxiwars.org/2021/06/folly-medical-hyperventilat...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa
Have you ever tried taking Sudafed before a dive to see if it helps your ears? I've had minor MEBT (and plenty of discomfort) without, but so far I can shoot right down after taking it.

From the research I did before making the decision to try it, results are very mixed (there are plenty of anecdotes, but studies are few) [0] but it seems like as long as you try it on land first (on a non-diving day) to ensure no side effects, there's not much reason not to give it a go [1].

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1610044/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931412/
They're paid so much because you need to pay twice for the bad ones. My house's previous plumber threaded a copper line directly into the stainless steel DHW tank. That wasn't a problem, until it was.
Is Unreal 5 now mostly software-rendered in the Nanite mode and only large triangles (>32 pixles diameter) are HW-accelerated?
This just gives you results for people who know that dart has lists, therefore, not people currently learning and experimenting the language.
ESL is not a likely explanation for someone using a pronunciation of "foliage" that is counterindicated by the spelling. (It is a much more likely explanation for pronouncing cupboard according to the spelling.)
Interesting to see this now, because a few months ago, color 35mm film was sold out everywhere and prices went up a couple of dollars per roll. Kodak in particular seemed to be sold clean out. The local shop had nothing but novelty color tinted film for about 2 months, and B&H would sell out of Portra within a day or two of restocking. I had guessed that film maybe was a late-coming Covid activity trend and the manufacturers didn't anticipate such a big increase in demand.

I actually quite like Fuji stuff, so I guess I'll try to grab a few rolls from the local shop before they sell out. Ironically Kodak inventory now seems to be fine.
True, but there’s nobody else you can do it but you.
The VFX studio puts out what they are briefed to do. When you go to Siggraph or FMX and watch the long making of presentations most of the time they had better design or comps and had to change because of the director/studio. The cats presentation was fascinating they had really good designs for the cats and had to go with the abomination we saw.
They very likely already have that.. they’ve detonated >50kt nukes and have mobile ICBM launchers that have demonstrated rockets with thousands of miles of range.

They could almost certainly detonate a nuclear weapon in Korea or Japan. I’d put even odds on a strike on Guam, but probably not quite capable of hitting Western US.
hemp fiber > PTFE tape
I think some industries are going to be "better suited" to this than others. But it doesn't have to be that way. If we could shift ever so slightly away from "Biggest Number at end of year - bigger than last years number - at all costs" we could increase staff by just a little bit and move just about any industry to 4 or even 3 day work week.

This and worker-cooperative-businesses. I've yet to hear a legitimately compelling argument against, especially when we see the results. (I mean, the arguments are typically, "They have problems, too!" and "Bob Votes to be CEO") Theory is great but how can you hold onto the theory when the experimental data is at least promising?
Extinction is on the table: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat
I like the idea of a co-op, but I'm always worried about "in a perfect world," not happening (like Communism sounds like a great idea, but human nature screws it all up).

For myself, I'm not competitive. It's a life choice. When we compete, we win, and winning always means that someone else loses. I've spent my entire adult life, in an environment, where I help "losers" to get back on their feet, and it has had quite an impact on me.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

Using fallacies to invalidate arguments should be a fallacy by itself. Maybe my argument is a fallacy logically speaking, but in the real world, not everything is ruled by formal logic. If A is completely negligible compared to B, the « A not as bad as B » fallacy doesn’t apply anymore.
Film is "coming back" a little bit, much like vinyl records. I am hoping that this helps keep prices from going up, because film photography has already become quite an expensive hobby. Film alone is expensive now ($15 for 36 exposures for 35mm, for the good stuff), even if you develop and scan your own negatives.
How so? Specific laws might define specific distances. The spirit of the law is some reasonable distance, and the letter of a specific implementation of such a law might define a distance, which you could demarcate on your property if it were an issue, much like people may demarcate the boundaries of their property if trespass is an issue today.

> fair to me means "not one inch across my property line"

Then the compromise should be that vast wilderness can’t be privately owned.
Hacker news and Wikipedia are both good sources for new books or topics to research potential books for.

Some YouTube content is really good but can be tough to find. Likewise with podcasts.
> Wasn't the same argument made against going to the moon?

Was the argument wrong? If it was wrong, are the reasons it was wrong applicable to the current situation?
>I am not suggesting you are wrong for interjecting off-topic straw-man arguments, but your naive input lends credibility to the observations on human nature.

I find that comment odd, given that they cited papers that directly spoke about the functioning of coops. Conversely, your comment mentioning the tragedy of the commons seems very off topic. Could you explain more how it relates?

Best of luck =)
You shouldn't be allowing grandchildren if you are being 'responsible'. Overpopulation is out of control and a major reason for the pollution that causes such anxieties.

https://populationmatters.org/the-facts/
Surprisingly, a not so tiny portion of the friends I made in my teenage years/early 20s, and who went on to be financially successful, happen to be psychologically unfulfilled if not distraught.

And they mostly subscribe to FIRE and some variants of the pseudoscientific idea of quantum suicide. In their terms: that they can't die because they're living their statistically best-of life; that, if they last long enough on this earth, they will likely get to see immortality, and have the mean to opt in -- buy in -- the forever train.

It's representative enough (in my circle of friends/acquaintances) that I think about it a lot, how this way of thinking -- hating your life but thinking you're vesting into a dream that cannot not happen -- is impacting their future prospects, and their ethics.

I don't have answers here; I am just perplexed.
The New York Times has the "x min read" stat listed under articles on its homepage.
I'm reading this book right now and its so good. Great to see a review in the new yorker but I'm a little surprised by somewhat negative take.

The land in the valley is like 5k for 5 acres and the people are struggling to survive and often almost dying in the winter. And Conover goes and lives with them, and meets with them, helps them, as an outreach person for a local rural help-the-poor organization and reports on their lives in a fairly neutral way considering some of the craziness going on.

He is definitely the center of the story, but he is also a somewhat benign character, like Nick the narrator in the great gatsby.

It's also interesting that there are more well healed off-griders in some the area he is in, on more expensive land with more resources, but because he is working as a rural outreach person and probably because those people are less exciting characters, the book's focus is more on the lower income off-griders, who come to it not from some ideological reason, but from a place of survival and adventure - more like pioneers who also have grow-opps.
> masters of Earth

I think this is unfortunate phrasing closer to the problem than the solution.
> ‘issue’

??
Movement of 1.5 billion of bitcoin in two days seems at least _curious_, Worthy of Note. What don’t I get? This is just another day in bitcoin world I’m not aware of?
Genuine question:

NPD is probably rare, but narcissism-lite is endemic to humanity. What are the indicators that tell me I should start inducing a collapse in myself? How do I make it obvious that my ego has diverged from the world around me?
How well does it work with Python or Julia as well as R? Does it support Jupyter kernels, or does it use its own system?
I am a physician (specialty surgeon) in the US, so can comment from that perspective.

Clinical documentation is often the bane of my existence, so there is definitely a need for innovation. But entering this market (in the US, anyway) may be challenging. I do not know anything about the German market, but in the US, there are a few things to note. First, this market is already pretty saturated. There are some big players (like Epic) that dominate the hospitals, as well as many smaller companies that cater to specialized markets, such as solo practitioners or mental health providers. If your clinical documentation system is not outrageously better than these (and even if it is), it may be hard to break into this market.

Another challenge in the US is around regulations and CMS requirements. Clinical documentation is the way providers ensure that they can get paid. CMS has a lot of requirements in what needs to be in your software. I don't know this area as well, so can't comment too much. But if you want to come to the US, you will need to know it really well.

As a physician, I find it hard to believe that you could cut the cost of clinical procedures by 20% with just documentation software. How are you calculating that? I'm also skeptical about such large profit margins.
> "... (and not just by passing opaque strings to it, but by actually expressing awk-style commands in a proper datastructure) ..."

Explicit, in language data structures are not a feature at the chomsky language level that traditional awk targeted at, but in-place file block state manipulation can be setup/arranged in a data structure form.

Something like a bnf/ebnf language data structure description would need to be used/processed by an awk script to make use of data structures within an awk script. aka ANI spec in BEGIN section. Something akin to overlaying a script on top of a script and/or printf being passed description of string format.

awk not traditionally set up to do homoiconicity forms within same script instance. (abuse of system call & gawk exentions not withstanding)
This is sort of classic problem. First, you need to assume the attacker is capable of measuring checkMac's runtime reliably. Second, you also need to assume the attacker is able to control the message and the mac, but not the secret. How the attacker got there is not really relevant, the point is figuring out whether or not the system is possible to crack by having the attacker full knowledge of everything, but the secret.

In most languages, a similar implementation of checkMac would not pass the test, because they will usually implement some sort of short-circuiting. Which essentially means that checkMac will take longer to execute the closer you get to the true mac of that message.

Let's say computeMac(secret, "a") == "a21a". The attacker could pass in message="a" mac="0000" at first. Let's say that takes 1 unit of time, because "0000" == "a21a" only has to look at the first character. So the attacker knows that 0 is wrong. They then try "1000", then "2000", up until they get to "a000". Then, the algorithm takes 2 units of time, the first one is comparing '0' == 'a' and the second one is '0' == '2'. Now the attacker knows the first character of the mac. They keep going like this until they find out the entire mac of the message. In a nutshell, the time the function takes to execute leaks informartion that an attacker could use.

In this language, when you do use the secret(string) type, it will always compare all the characters of the string, even after it knows it will be false anwyay, just to make sure no information is leaked.
> But I think it's fair to say that the US really did need to enter WWII.

Sure it needed to enter the war - it wanted to put down Japan and take control of the pacific. Plus, the war allowed it to gain massive influence over Europe and better containment of the USSR.

But that doesn't mean the people of the world needed the US to enter the war. Just like they didn't need the other imperial states to engage in their world wars.
Seems more like a test of the speed of the random number generator. Never mind that the JS version doesn’t use “slice” to copy the array…

Edit: they’re not even using the same data types in the arrays. Very misleading. I would caution against drawing any conclusions from this article.

Edit again: someone pointed out that the random number generation happens in an outer loop, so probably not a big impact. The point about slice still stands.
Two friends who aren’t on other social media.

A few bands who don’t announce shows elsewhere.
Yeah I'm not holding my breath for a "Xi steps down to spend more time with his family" headline
Came here to also plug PEX. A friend used it for his remodel, did most of the work himself, and set everything up so all the lines come down to a sort of "switchboard" panel in his basement, so that as he did more remodeling work in the future he could disconnect individual loops trivially. It just makes so much sense and is so easy vs copper pipe.

Amusingly he told me one of the plumbers he did get a bid from said something like "well all PEX does is save you time and money" like it was a bad thing lol.
Basically you have just given reasoning for why there is a job description „engineering manager“.

I am actually all for monitored work hours and I clock in an clock out of my unionized 35h work contract. But frankly i expect from a sw eng Organisation more insight into their own development processes
Working remote has the potential to reverse this, but it will take time. When I had the opportunity to choose where to live around 10 years ago, I chose a city with many of my friends in it. Now if only house prices would drop a bit to make it easier to increase mobility/liquidity...
i got worried at this point:

"imagine putting a tapered male in a straight female"
It took me a while to understand what all those "growth hacks", shady tactics, dark patterns lead to in the end. In the beginning I was very excited (as an engineer) about A/B testing and how you can nudge people to boost clicks/revenue/whatever, measure everything and experiment.

A few years ago it got to me that this was how business sociopaths operate and why most modern things are broken. Chasing some holy grail and gaming the system instead of making useful things that matter to people.
This is undoubtedly spot-on. I saw this happen with print design. Many job categories like typesetting, pasteup, layout, archiving, plate production, and other prepress and press work simply WENT AWAY as pages were designed on-screen and spit out of printers.

At first, there was great resistance and many cries of "It's not as good!," which were, of course, true. But it didn't matter. Desktop publishing as it was called (now something your child does in elementary school) was good enough and opened the door to many uses of "the press" which were simply unaffordable before.

The same is coming for media production.
High Noon: We Need New Approaches to Global Problem Solving, Fast (2001)
Git hook to automatically and safely sync .env variables with env.sample
I wish someone would invent scuba lite.

Say limited to less than 10ft of depth. Maybe three minutes of breathing - who cares. Just enjoy being underwater for a little bit and seeing things you can’t normally get to.

But way less expensive and dangerous.
I don’t understand why anyone would pick the redis wire protocol.
TIL! Thanks for sharing
This is not true. The RSU grants converted to cash but maintained the same vesting payment schedule; so effectively the same as RSUs with all upside removed. You don't get the money if you don't stay. And also, the $54 price is not a slam dunk for employees with RSU grants issued during the market highs from last year. TWTR peaked over $80, so depending on when you joined your equity is still down a significant amount.