skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're in SV-adjacent circles, lots of people are throatily anti-crypto, to the point where they start seeing red when you mention crypto, and pelt crypto with the same anti arguments repeated ad nauseum.

Oh I know just the type you mean. Of course, a type of person that is infinitely more annoying is the crypto evangelist explaining to you why they are making the world better because their startup is making it easy for grandma get in on the crypto revolution with her retirement fund.
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> Coding a compiler for your language in your language demonstrates only that you could afford to waste the time

You seem to be presupposing this is true, but this is a pretty controversial claim. Do you have any justification for it?

As other people in this thread have mentioned, there are other benefits to programming your compiler using your own programming language:

- You learn your language (and its rough edges) first hand

- You can try out & experiment with new language features

- The authors of Zig clearly think zig is better to use than C++. (If not, why would they bother inventing zig?). It makes sense that if you think Zig is a better language than C++, you'd want to write your compiler in Zig and not C++.

Lots of compiler authors (you know, the people who get a vote) disagree with you on this: Clang, VC++, etc are written in C++. Rustc is written in rust. The main zig compiler is written in zig. DMD is written in D. And so on.

And anyway, whats so great about C++ that it would make a good language to write compilers in in the first place? Why shouldn't I write my compiler in plain C, or Rust, or Zig, or Go, or whatever strikes my fancy?
> Remember the story of that special astronaut pen that cost $1 million? We already have pens on earth, for like $0.10, and they work better!

This is a myth. Those pens were not that expensive, they were made for use-cases on Earth and happened to be used in space, and they actually work better than the $0.10.

> In the same way, everything about the crypto economy is worse than the regular economy.

Good that they realize that.

> The only excuse is that it’s decentralized.

Except it's not. Not really.

I'm surprised they did not go on with "the other excuse is that it removes trust", to which I would have answered: "Nope, it doesn't".

So yeah, it's worse, except in countries that have bigger problems (corruption, unstable political system, no banks). Ever thought that maybe it would be worth fixing the bigger problem, rather than trying something that is worse?
If blockchain bulls were only claiming it to be the future of money, that would already be a huge improvement to the full claim implied by “web3” — which is that it will be the future of the entire internet
Yes, this is an attempt to teach ChatGPT how to Rot13 and demonstrates that this isn't possible. The model doesn't learn. It can extend an input to produce a longer input, but its memory is limited. It can find the exact definition of Rot13 because that was in its training data, but it can't apply that definition.
I’ve been noticing this for a while. Both my laptop and my wife’s have this problem. Both are M1.

Both our iPhones seem to have similar issues.

I went mad trying to figure it out with my router/APs etc.

I was certain there is no way it could be Apple’s issue. But in hindsight this makes sense.

Especially so, if Apple is sharing some driver logic between M1 laptops and A16 SOCs on the phones.

Edit: I want to add that this most-noticably manifested as websites loading incompletely. Looking at the network tab, this would show some HTTP requests fail even before establishing a connection. Other requests were fine. So most sites were broken, or don't render correctly without css. Restart was the only fix.
… which is why hairdryers have warnings like “do not use while sleeping”.

I mean…
> what's between his fingers

The fingers basically always seem to be off in these AI generated images.
The accusations you are repeating have all been pretty resoundly debunked:

• https://stallmansupport.org/debunking-false-accusations-agai...

• https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
Why not, sounds like there's going to be a spot open
What? They paid him exactly what he agreed to. Nothing in the story suggests otherwise.
I've been playing Diablo 1 for about two decades, not every day and not every year, but I assure you it is countless hours. I have not found all the items that would perfect my characters. It takes an extraordinary amount of time to find them. Some items I may never find in all my life. I enjoy playing the game. Some people are willing to play, some pay.
>It's similar to the choice of having or not having kids. The trade off in life experiences is neither better or worse, just different.

i'm not so sure about that
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Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63
They’re so undeniably useful though. It’s a real shame.
The problems you attribute to how American's live are not unique to America. Therefore, correlation does not equal causation.

> tiny town in rural Arizona

I don't think most of us would say a tiny rural town is anything like a suburban area surrounding a moderate/mega city.

My suburb is near one of these moderately sized cities (less than 1 million population). None of these fantasies are working well for this moderately sized city. All of the same problems exist... drugs, crime, safety, privacy, homeless, trash, exceedingly expensive... plus public transit isn't sufficient to rely on either. It's literally the worst qualities of both combined into one special dump.

And... if you truly believe suburbs are a deterioration of quality of life in America, you really need to try living in one. I can just as easily wave my hand and exclaim mega-cities are the root of all problems in this nation. In fact, I'd have a lot more evidence to support condemnation of mega-cities, including how they doom people into permanently impoverished lives.
Yeah, if you powdered pure caffeine and did a line you'd be in a bad way too I'd guess? The ld50 for caffeine is only roughly double that of cocaine. Pure nicotine has half the ld50 of cocaine. It just no one boils down tobacco juice into oil and drips it into their eyes for a bigger hit. At least not more than once. Essentially all plant based recreational substances found in their dilute natural forms absent any breeding programs to concentrate intoxicants, are probably relatively safe. It is the processing that is an issue. The alcohol buzz from eating overripe fruit is probably even innocuous.

Edit: there had to be exceptions, and I think jimsonweed is probably one now that I go looking. The recreational dose even in raw form is way too close to the lethal one.
If memory serves Bezos knew Amazon had about 5 years before the competition caught up. That's why he started AWS.
I hope that if you try it again some time, you have a better experience.
I am unfair, because they really are trying to maintain a "we need to know, its FOI stuff" posture, but they don't appear to me to publish anything which accepts the limits of their own skepticism. So https://usrtk.org/category/covid-19-origins/ for instance is really driving pretty hard one way.

Their footprint is over a lot of corporate science. They don't like science for commercial gain, especially in GM and related fields. So https://usrtk.org/category/gmo/ has "GMOs are controversial in many countries due to the lack of epidemiological data, safety testing and transparency. " but says nothing of the use of anti-GM for trade management across bilateral/multilateral treaties which is the other side of the coin. There are pro-GM scientists and they are not all paid flacks for Monsanto, basically.

This is where the precautionary principle drives a lot of the time: People with a lot of passion persuing a story but then they get down in the weeds. I think a lot of their story rings true, there is a science-FOI-industry question out there, but I don't think they are a neutral voice, they are in the advocacy space.

ALL of the risky research headlines are Covid on the first page. I think there's a lot more risky research going on out there. It makes me suspicious that they're so solidly in this one story, which of course at scale is the story of the day. But that means they're playing to the populist tune more than actually asking what are the wider questions in science risk to explore:

They've decided it's covid. That makes me suspicious.

My own bias' should be clear. I do not believe in lab leak, or a grand conspiracy rooted in the FDA, or that the FDA is owned by Monsanto and Coca-cola, or that GM is ab-initio to be feared, or is a giant trick. That doesn't mean I think its all peaches-and-cream, I think gene IPR is anathema (for instance) and suing farmers over cross pollination is bad. As is sugar. But does it mean the FDA are stonecutters? no.
I'd like to introduce you to Carl Icahn...
Well you could project the wasm back to C with wasm2c, package maintainers can continue the illusion that they are bootstrapping from C.
Courts of law would beg to differ

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/12/01/dodge-v-ford-what...
Given differences in traffic management and public transportation, as well as the availability of toilets in the developing world, on top of the fact that the US is only some 350ish million people, I'm pretty sure my US-based experience of those aspects, never mind the rest of daily living, aren't representative for a billion people.

Question one: do you have a uterus?
Such a graph could be misleading, and I agree that there's no information about magnitude.

But I don't think it's actually misleading in this case, and we have other information available that clarifies that there is not a single Vietnamese cryptocurrency user in the world (and, I guess, 0.37 of an Indian user...?).

There is a measurably large amount of cryptocurrency activity in the world, but most of our (or at least my) awareness of it is as a western techno-futurist/financial/cryptobro phenomenon. This graph is really useful in demonstrating that that's not a very accurate view.

It would be very bad if it were the only datum on cryptocurrency the reader had. But that's not the audience of this article.
My objection is not really that they hired him. I believe that people can change and no one is irredeemable, but I don't think they should advertise it like this. It's like hiring an ex-con who used to use your product to victimize others and then bragging about it and getting upset when people are unconformable with it.

If nothing else, I think they should show more respect for people who are victims of the police and state-sponsored surveillance.
To the "Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter" question it says things like:

"Additionally, he was offered a high enough price by the shareholders that they were willing to sell their shares to him."

or:

"He acquired Twitter in April 2016 for $44 billion."
Sounds like a 'pre-startup' investor. You know, someone with zero ideas of their own.
Digging into the source of its dependencies a bit, it looks like it uses NIFs (inlined functions) to bind into your choice of a couple of different potential C backends, the big ones being Torch and Google's XLA compiler.

So performance shouldn't be an issue at all, when compared to similar "high-level language calling low-level language for heavy tasks" situations, like Tensorflow or PyTorch. It does, however, come at the cost of sacrificing the extreme stability BEAM applications typically enjoy: misbehavior by the backend can cause hangs or even crashes of the BEAM node they're running in.
So I take it that your current workplace, which is somewhere that you do prefer to work at, resembles pre-acquisition Waze? Or why else would you want to work there?

And according to your bio is Dropbox? Well good thing you let the whole HN know that Dropbox is toxic to work at.
I do encounter weird Wi-Fi issues on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro.
Not sure if it is related to this bug.

Sometimes I am just unable to load any web pages, but I can ping those sites. I have to reboot it regularly to reconnect to the internet. The issue is most likely to occur after waking from sleep.

The issue is so bad that I have to fall back to a Hackintosh at home. I originally was using an Intel-based WiFi card is great; later, I switched to a Broadcom card to enable handoff / AirDrop / AirPlay. After switching, it seems to degrade internet stability. The symptom seems like it has something to do with awdl0, so it might get helped from the post.

All my Windows computers work with no issues on the same network. I followed some instructions online to change the MTU [1] it seems to fix the issue somewhat.

[1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/177873/full-wi-fi-...
"We are rich. Please make other people more poor, so we are more rich."
It could be spurious correlation like https://xkcd.com/882/
I stream at a pretty high bandwidth a remote system for gaming. I noticed this immediately. I disabled location sharing and it got a little better. I noticed that everytime my spouse started using his iPhone or opened his M2 Air to do something that my game stream seized. I guessed at something like this being the issue and disabled Airdrop. The problem immediately went away. I cursed about software quality in 2022 but also had a "HugOps" moment where, ... I get it. This stuff is hard stuff and most of the time I don't experience serious defects like this after upgrading OS X.

I still have an issue every now again and for whatever reason a reboot addresses it. I will ifconfig down the interface next time. I suspect that will resolve it.
Getting some major ANSI / Prodigy vibes
Particularly since the New York Times article he links to talks about crypto expats flocking to Ukraine because of lack of regulation:

> Ukraine has already lured some Americans and Brits in the crypto industry, and they didn’t come because they’re sticklers about the rule of law. Instead, they rhapsodize about everything from affordable restaurants to unhinged raves. Better yet, the government has not a clue about what they are doing or how much they earn.

> “There are no rules,” says Mr. Chobanian, with an odd kind of civic pride. “Well, there are rules, but you can break them. It’s the perfect balance between absolute anarchy and possibilities.”
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> Even without another revolution, Steven Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and a vocal Bitcoin skeptic, argues that the combination of Ukraine and crypto sounds like a fiasco in the making. Most studies he’s seen have found that roughly half of all Bitcoin transactions are for some illegal purpose. To him, this is not an industry that Kyiv should target with enticements.
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> “I like that it’s corrupt here,” says Mr. Sawhney. “Here, we get to play the game that only elites in the U.S. play. I don’t need a lobbyist. I need to pay someone at the border, I can. I need to pay politicians, I can.”

Framing it as just being about people trying to escape a broken financial system and nothing more ("Do Vietnamese people love trading monkey gifs? Are Ukrainians especially susceptible to Ponzi schemes? Is Venezuela laden with techbros?") is extremely misleading.
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I'm not trying to play "pick your favorite character" here. I'm just explaining what I believed 'infinitely hostile to cryptocurrency' to mean.
As recently as just a few days ago the European Central Bank did a look at where things currently stand with crypto and among many other issues they raised they mentioned that in their view: “cryptocurrency is rarely used for legal transactions”

Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date/2022/html/ecb.blog...
There was an xkcd comic set in the future with the exact date calculated from the stars. https://xkcd-time.fandom.com/wiki/Astronomy
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Tbh in the hypothetical scenario where all of a company's configuration were handled via nix, you'd be staring at tens to hundreds of thousands of lines of company-custom .nix files where one single line might cause the bug you are encountering.
Congrats on the launch, this is fantastic. I love seeing these releases. They bring me so much joy & excitement.

Can you provide some thoughts on the benefits of doing ML on Elixir vs. Python? Is the benefit the language semantics? Is it much easier to get distributed work in Elixir ML vs Python ML? Are the tools better/smoother? Are there ML ops improvements? Perhaps there’s a blog post I missed :)
Also, much of what Zig improved over prior art and much of what Rust improved are orthogonal and can coexist. The ideal language for me would be one that takes the syntax unification, the arbitrary-width integer types, the meta-programming, and the explicit allocators from Zig, and the traits, borrow checker, scope-based destructors, and move-by-default from Rust.
Interesting, what made Dart less limiting than Python?
Raycast.app has an integration https://github.com/abielzulio/chatgpt-raycast
To be honest I don't believe this to be isolated to just modelling and production code, I feel as though this issue presents itself in most of the job ads I see today, Backend roles with requirements for React, Python roles with requirements for Javascript, Backend roles with requirements for DevOps/SRE.

I don't necessarily have an issue with widely skilled engineers, but I would prefer it's for the right reasons, and I largely believe that it's an exercise in laziness on most companies behalf. They just want to hire less people and have more of their workers do tasks that are outside of their remit.

I have zero interest in writing Javascript, absolutely none, I don't want to do it, and I have pushed my career in directions that mean that for the most part, I don't have too. I'm happy with this decision and have made it willingly.

It's the same with a lot of "DevOps" tasks, having previously been a DevOps Engineer, I now just want to write code, real code, but it feels as though most places now are just not hiring DevOps/Infra people, and just telling their other engineers to do it, which I understand, but it results in a far worse experience for both sides of it. I have to regularly force my hand down from volunteering for things that I have the technical experience to do, and do properly, versus colleagues that don't have the experience, because I'm tired of being shoehorned back into a role that I intentionally left. All of this is because the idea of "cross functional teams" no longer means hiring specialised engineers to do specialised roles, and just getting everyone to do everything, and then being surprised when the context switch penalty actually exists, and it's done to a worse standard than someone who is skilled in that role.
I agree most people today should not be entering into a marriage as they only view it as 'till inconvenience do us part.

I would rather have no legal method of separation from my wife other than infidelity. I made a commitment that is going face challenges. Like Ulysses bound the mast I want to be bound to my wife. So I have external forces binding me to that agreement.

Much like a personal trainer at the gym helps hold you accountable and achieve greater things than you could on your own.
Thanks for responding. You're right, I misunderstood, and I apologize for being dismissive.

I thought you were making a legal argument, but instead, it sounds like you were making the moral argument: mass algorithmic searches by private entities are obviously bad if they eventually result in criminal prosecution (assuming no warrant). Presumably you don't like it when e.g., Google and Facebook conduct mass searches of your data for advertising reasons, either, but that's a separate conversation.

I'm sympathetic to that argument in the abstract.

When you get to the specific case of CSAM, though, that argument results in this position: mass automated searches for known CSAM hashes causes more harm than allowing that CSAM to be shared unchecked.

And that I don't agree with.

My logic is that Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have already been scanning for NCMEC hashes for years, and I'm not aware of any injustices as a result. Please note that I'm specifically talking about hash scanning, not the ML-based classification systems that presumably caused your [1]. I'm not an absolutist; a few cases where people were referred to police as a result of fraud (e.g., a jealous ex-lover planting evidence) is not necessarily a deal breaker for me, especially since the real source of harm is the fraud, which could have been conducted in any number of other ways. I'm also not sympathetic to the slippery slope fallacy.

On the other side, I believe that there are mass pedophile rings and that these scans have helped detect them and take them down.

So for me, the harm of mass CSAM hash scanning is low and the benefit is high. The balance is in favor of CSAM hash scanning, but not in favor of ML-based CSAM classification.

That's a "from specific consequences" argument, not a "from abstract principles" argument—there's probably philosophy terms for those positions that I'm unaware of—and I respect that other people could see it differently.

PS: I've actually been thinking about Google/Facebook/Microsoft in this thread, not Apple—since they never rolled out their system—but, in my mind, Apple's proposed system threaded the needle perfectly. Combined with their recently-announced e2e encryption, they provided just the right balance of privacy, hash scanning, and protection against abuse and false positives. I'm sad they've shut it down.
Is there an open-source implementation of Q? Syntactically, it seems more approachable than other array languages, especially due to the use of identifiers instead bespoke symbols for non-standard operators.
If you’re interested in trying Zig out and want an easy way to update/use multiple versions I’ve been working on a Zig Version Manager for the past few weeks.

It works on Windows, Mac, Linux, a smattering of BSD’s and Plan 9. Arm and x86.

https://github.com/tristanisham/zvm
You're right. Vandenberg, Kirtland, Canon, Altus, and Little Rock are all matches for the latitude and there is no text explaining them away. Even the "it must be California because Northrup" is both (a) debatable and (b) doesn't exclude Vandenberg.
One use-case is a HUGE success for cryptocurrencies: ransomware.

But sure, let's defend a system that is "worse than traditional finance", because it's "sort of decentralised" (traditional banks are sort of decentralised too, to be honest), even though that creates big problems like ransomware.
That's making a specific argument (which you are doing without supporting it in anyway).

I am saying you don't get to hedge your argument like this: crypto cannot be both an important part of evading government censure, and too small to be worth government effort to censure.

If someone wants to make the middle ground argument, make it, but you're starting from the position of government already engaging in significant regulatory interest in the use of cryptocurrencies.
It's tragic if it's true about the drone. It's my worst nightmare whenever I'm flying these days.
The Outer Worlds mostly lacked a compelling main narrative, but it was a pretty fun RPG. I dunno, the soul was a bit missing I think.
How is it that can I just buy this drone, then? It fields a 640 × 512 px camera working at 30 fps:

https://www.dji.com/mavic-2-enterprise-advanced