skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The difference between Bitcoin and TradFi shrinks every day.

It has been fascinating to watch society rethink/rebuild financial regulations from first principles and largely end up with the same conclusions. If anything, hopefully getting people to realize that all the rules tradfi institutions follow aren’t just made up for no reason.
They were on Vista/7 for years, but couldn't be bothered to upgrade the ancient Windows 3.x stuff. The problem seems much bigger than metro.
Heavy duty vehicles will move to either diesel/biogas hybrids (they can replace ~30% of the diesel with gas nowadays without any major engine mods) or to full CBG with combustion engines. Farms can produce their own CBG with relatively minor investment, basically fueling all work vehicles with cow farts =)

Some kind of hydrogen/biogas generator hybrid might be viable too.

Some will become fully electric, but it's heavily dependent on the usage profile. There is a mining truck in use today that's never charged - but it's a special case where it goes uphill empty and comes back down in full load with regenerative braking.
Sorry for being dumb, I thought I've enabled it in ./cargo/config.toml for rust. Checked it again and it appears that I did not (the file name was wrong). -march=native for CLang also did better than just avx2

rust - By-Copy: 1831, By-Borrow: 1850
c++ - By-Copy: 2411, By-Ref: 2458

Interesting why Rust wins with such a large margin. Maybe will try to find out later.
the funny bits here are if the stolen funds are sent to binance.com (not binance.us) cz/binance will claim they don’t have jurisdiction.

it’s apparently illegal for cz to help americans via binance.com.
>It seems to me like a significant discovery for the researcher.

A researcher not being aware of something openly used for centuries and already covered in relevant studies, research literature, symposiums (and even popular articles) well before they learn about it, does not quality them made aware of it as being a "discovery".

That's not how the term "discovery" works in an academic context, and certainly it's not what discovery as implied in the article means.

>People are preoccupied with alleviating illiteracy in Africa, it's interesting that these illiteracy figures may be inflated, and it makes me wonder what groups are trying to make Africa look more illiterate than it is, and why

The use of Ajami (which doesn't affect the kind of illiteracy people are concerned about, or even is widespread enough to be used as a substitute for it), and wouldn't much affect that concern (which is about people being able to participate in the official languages and writing systems of their country, and beyond that, for people going to school in general, beyond reading and writing).

>It seems at least in part some of the people classified as illiterate like it that way, since the government can't monitor your communications if it refuses to acknowledge they exist.

It's a system that has been used for half a millenium. It's not like it keeps any communication unreadable or even more difficult to read from the government (another incorrect information in the article).

The government just doesn't bother with it in any official capacity, precisely because it's not official. The same way some patois dialects are not part of many place's publicized literature, are not taught in school, are not used in official documents, and so on. Aside from that, anybody who knows the target language and is familiar with the arabic alphabet, can easily read it - which is exactly why it was used by "illiterate" people (meaning illiterate in the official, colonial or otherwise, languages and writing systems of their country).
He was the father of modern genetics. Isn't it possible that this is a way to celebrate his accomplishments? By understanding the man using the very tools he provided the foundational discoveries for?
Is this the one that was discussed on Joe Rogan by Randal Carlson recently?
I can write a check in my home or office, put it in an envelope with a stamp, and put it in the outgoing post, all without going anywhere or paying anyone. I can complete the whole payment task in 5 minutes.

Money orders have a fee and require time and gasoline to go somewhere to get them. In 5 minutes I haven't even arrived at the nearest location to purchase a money order.
I don't see a reason why the compiler couldn't implement error-sum return values the same way that exceptions are typically implemented (the way you describe).

(I don't see why it should, either. The blanket "efficiency" argument is unconvincing to me).

Ok, I see one reason: The programmer might want control which implementation is used. That would require an additional mini-feature in the language syntax/function types. But this still wouldn't be an argument for a whole different syntax and forced separate code paths as required for traditional exceptions. And it's theoretic anyway -- I don't think it's important to give the user this "control".
It's interesting how we've been robbed of the same public domain rights that contributed massively to the success of corporations like Disney.
Long haul is better served by rail, and EV trucks work perfectly well for short haul. I don't necessarily see that that is the case.
That link 404s. Got a backup?
https://ipfs.io sans the filecoin aspect that creates incentives for long term/proven storage of data is what you are likely asking for.
I don’t really know just regurgitating the communication I followed while my device was in limbo. Even if it’s from China, maybe there’s info surrounding the container that it’s a Russian company selling a hacking tool.
I've been considering applying for Georgetown/nyu law.

What is the acceptance rate like? Do they consider your actual grades or your references or both or neither?
It might be worth using for non EVs once we give healthy prioritization to sustainability?
everyone is watching the avi case now to see whether a court will rule code is law. going to be super interesting to watch play out.
GP's description looks more like DH Key Exchange.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Pu...
Being Australia based, I can't really gauge if some of the teaching time was spent on computer science, how that would impact on the teaching of the other subjects. I don't think the subject would be appropriate for every student.

While I see programming and the fundamentals of an operating system as a worth while venture for a good proportion, much of what I've seen offered around my locale as whatever the local schools name their computing course for their students, (I don't have my own kids so my bubble is mostly adults, so I'm basing this only on two kids in my area, more so the kid who's school laptop I was subsequently asked as a favour to sort out) don't seem to avoid the indoctrination of bad habits while reinforcing there's only one main OS. I dare say this might just come down to the individual teacher or staff assigned to oversee the course and possibly adjusting accordingly, to the needs of each of their students.
You and I will be six feet under before any of those graphs will even put a minuscule dent in our quality of life and lifespan.

And I am saying us, but the same is true for 2-3 generations down the road. Perhaps more.

There are countries with millions of people which have a median lifespan of 48 years.

It's high time to get priorities straight.
1) How much of this fuel could be made at scale — how much of the type of agricultural waste they use is available worldwide?

2) Petrol is great for passenger cars, but the world runs on diesel and fuels that are more or less equivalent to diesel, like Jet-1A. Can they make that?
Sometimes in my career I wonder: Is this finally it? Have we finally hit the point where software will stop getting slower and chonkier every year? I can’t think of sensible sounding ways to justify making software run orders of magnitude slower than it does now. And yet, I don’t know how but every time … it happens.

Java came out when I was young, with a huge JRE installation, slow startup times, GC pauses and Java Swing.

Then Electron came out, making a “hello world” gui app need 800mb of RAM. Electron makes Java feel light and nimble.

Honorable mention for docker convincing windows and macos developers to write software inside slow virtual machines for no reason.

Recently, despite the tireless work of photoanalysisd on my Mac, and Microsoft teams on windows, things were starting to get faster again. Thank goodness for you, parent commenter. I can worry no longer. I was starting to wonder if the curse might be lifted.

I can see it now. It’s 2026. My fans spin up as a 8gb neural net live-translates the UI of notepad.exe for the modern age. My $4000 graphics card is showing its age. My mouse lags while I try and click on the menu. The UI is rerendered because Microsoft couldn’t be bothered porting the windows 11 UI code to the new windows 13 UI look and feel. Windows 13 looks different yet again for no reason. So they do the translation live on my GPU instead because it’s cheaper (for them). Programmer time is still expensive. In the background ChatGPT quietly makes web requests to live-translate all the menu items into the new social media acceptable language. The start menu is now on the right.

What a time to be alive.
That something is reasonable theoretically, does not mean it will be done in practice.
>Microsoft actually had workable tablets by the mid-2000s. With Windows XP Tablet Edition.

The problem was that the "Windows XP Tablet Edition" was utter crap. A desktop OS and its mentality shoved into tablet form with modifications that fell way short of what was actually needed for that form. The iPad was the first tablet that got it right - and feel like a tablet meant for tablety things, as opposed to a PC without a keyboard and crippled in all sorts of ways.
> I never used a check my entire life, it‘s just not a thing in Europe (:

Which parts of Europe? I use them all the time in France. A bunch of taxes companies have to pay can't be paid by credit card. It's either check or bank transfer.
I would never eat a not fully cooked ground beef product from a random burger store. That's just common sense, ask your mother.
Alternative for cases where electrification is hard (long haul trucks) or impossible (cargo hauling via planes)
This is a long-winded refutation of an article [1] that ignores economies of scale.

[1] https://ensorial.com/2020/dont-raise-money/
Yeah doesn't help that the upfront cost of Oura isn't an easy swallow. It would have all the functions I want but the things that make me iffy about it are the cost and repairability. even if they have a decent return policy.

I was looking into the Withings watches but their software (according to reviews) seem to be bad.
There is a dream that synthetic fuels or hydrogen will suddenly get their own Elon Musk who will drive down the wholesale price to a viable level.

But in the end (25 years+) I think synthetics will be used for hobbyists to run their vintage vehicles on track days and weekends.
It's actually a lot more difficult to quantify the total emissions of electric car than it might seem at first glance. For one, the electricity might easily be generated through carbon so this doesn't offset emissions as much as direct use of fossil fuels.

Not only that, but focusing just on emissions is not comprehensive enough when thinking about the environmental impact of these technologies as a whole. As an example, the extraction of lithium in south america is decimating extremely delicate ecosystems (such as ancient archeon that resides in these extreme environments).

So I do wonder if trying to offer an similar but not quite alternative to car transportation is actually doing as much good as we think, it might be better for governments to push for more collective solutions to transportation that will drastically reduce environmental impact as a whole. Not that electric cars are not better than petrol or gasoline cars, but still, I think as a whole the car industry (this includes electric) is probably a net negative to environment and electric cars in particular are prolonging the life of technology that we should be thinking of reducing as much as possible.
Of course it's ugly. As hell.

All the unnecessary syntax noise everywhere. Unnecessary braces, unnecessary semicolons, unnecessary commas, angle brackets, some wild mixture of symbols and words (where clauses in types, WTF…), ill lambda syntax, etc.

A modern language shouldn't be designed to be foremost convenient for the machine, but instead convenient for the human in front. Parsing is cheap nowadays. Very cheap.

But OK, syntax is much of a personal opinion based thingy. It wouldn't be a show stopper, at least for me, if the actual language has merit.
Unbelievable that anyone still uses handwritten checks. Unbelievable that anyone has done so in the current century. There exist diverse alternatives both more secure and easier to use and they have existed for many, many years.
Business payment terms, and more importantly their handling (read: usually ignoring) seem bonkers to me. I understand why net-something makes sense, but the apparently universal tendency to agree to a term then routinely pay an arbitrary time later seems crazy. I just don't understand how it became so normalized.
If you click on one of the cards, it opens a modal that has a store link.

The duplicates unfortunately don’t have identical titles. They’re close and I think I could do some matching, but it will be something like “Cool Game” and “Cool Game - Windows Edition”. Except that subtext isn’t the same for everything.
yes, but that obviously doesn't apply anymore when you add it to an exchange, which seems fair tbh. I'm not a blockchain shill by any means
It's ancient stuff which can be interpreted and translated to modern language but should not be taken literally.

Apart from this, religions were created as means of society control. Some people need religion, some can find spirituality without it, some don't have such needs. This guy appears to be a person who would set someone on fire to make sure that they're not a witch.
Live Coding Tutorial – Diffusion Models from Scratch
It's the classical circle of (dreadful) life:

CRITICS: MS Y U SO SHIT REMOVE OLD CRUFT! NOW!

MS: but backward compatibility?

CRITICS: NOW!

MS: *removes moricons.dll*

SOMEUBERCRITICALAPP: *crashes*

CRITICS: MS Y U SO SHIT ?!
I'd find practical learnings from a bootstrapped one-man SaaS far more valuable than the examples used in the original post (all more large-scale companies with more room for refactoring).

Any specific insights you can share?
At least where I live, what car you drive has mostly come decorrelated with wealth. Obviously at the extremes there’s still a relation (the guy with the beat-up 1990 civic is probably not rich, the girl with the $120k AMG wagon is), but is a new Tesla 3 driver richer than the person with a 2005 Subaru Outback? Who knows!
Here are some other examples: http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=8711454161308077109

Here are some new keycaps: http://move.rupy.se/file/blue.jpg
http://move.rupy.se/file/brown.jpg

Unfortunately they are a bit fragile:
http://move.rupy.se/file/fragile.jpg

There is also Mechboard64 for a new Cherry-switch keyboard, unfortunately it uses 3D printed adapters.

For the CPU you can replace it with this but it has alot of shortcomings: https://monotech.fwscart.com/MOS_CPU_Replacer_(65108501)/p60...

The CIA, SID and VIC2 are unreplacable... the ARM/FPGA versions don't look or sound anything near the originals.

That R1 is too rare to only put sticky heatsinks on it.
Synthetic fuels should only be used going forward for hobbyists who want to keep classic cars going. They likely will be, and should be, expensive. Even if they are "carbon neutral" (unlikely as they still have higher costs associated with transportation than electricity), they still involve burning which always creates pollution, and any ICE requires lubrication and cooling which also today involves toxic chemicals.

EVs are much more efficient and better for the environment beyond the most obvious and biggest benefit of not having a tailpipe that spews CO2 into the air.

In other words; nobody should be hoping "carbon neutral fuel" is a path to continuing our status quo.
Oh this is a cool idea; I will add it to the list!
Yes, but debuggers are useless without the source code. And if you have the latter, re-compiling to match the new ABI is easy.
This guy is an absolute nutcase though: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...
Thanks for writing this. This was my sentiment as well.

I feel that the anecdotes about cash flow are somewhat interesting, but the whole 'proving an argument' narrative is unsubstantiable fluff.

The cash flow strategies are things which can be leveraged in specific situations, but are generally not global truths that most early stage startups can action on.
In Spain I've never seen a check except ones sent to me from the US and bank checks to pay mortgages.
The usual theory here is that fuels made from plants are carbon neutral in that while the fuel produces CO2 when burned, the plant it was made from consumed an equivalent amount of CO2 while alive. (Which, even if true ignores particulate and NOX emissions. See also: green washing.)
> The committee chose an endorsement of indefinite ABI stability.

It actually didn't. It chose to further delay an actual decision here. The effect is almost the same but it means different things when it comes to understanding how the committee thinks and whether they largely agree or not.
Then it seems like your plugin API was not specified well. extern "C" and ABI will stay the same, no matter which compiler is used.
At the edges of Moore’s Law, connecting components is increasingly the game
I assume you must understand how Bitcoin works, so…

Moving cryptocurrencies around barriers such as custodial exchanges freezing/losing/stealing it is one of the “superpowers” that makes real Crypto valuable.

Any thief dumb enough to deposit their stolen goods onto someone’s exchange deserves to have it frozen — heck, if they deposited it into my wallet, that’s what I wound do!

Explain again how this defeats “code is law”?
Damn, it's almost like centralized exchanges are the exact antithesis of everything cryptocurrencies stands for. I wonder if that's why everyone warns against using them?
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Ask HN: Learn cpp or rust this year?
Happy new years everyone! Last year I got my first job writing go. I like my work but I think I would like high performance application development more (trading, video games, etc). C++ seems like the default for these things but after dipping my toes in both c++ and rust I have a hard time committing to either. I am looking to get a job using one of these languages. Rust is more fun but c++ has more jobs. I can’t tell if the jobs are coming for rust or if it will always remain a hobby/crypto language. I like in NY and there are practically no non-crypto rust jobs at this point.
at what point do people stop caring about this kind of thing? 300 years? 500? a thousand? a few thousand?

in reality it doesn’t matter and this outrage is irrational sentimentality

when I die, you can throw my bones to the wild, but make sure to give me a stick to fight off the dogs
Yes, it's a low risk. Perfectly executed this is maybe a risk of one in ten million. So on a worldwide scale this means that it would happen every day, to someone.

But it won't be perfectly executed. Let's say you need to do a transaction while you're moving house. And maybe one of your relatives is in financial trouble.

You (probably) don't have the means to do what banks do, and hire an armored transport.
I actually just pulled the images from the Xbox API. I unfortunately don’t have a generic source for game images. Does OpenCritic offer something like that?
I'd say, RAII and the template system are the main difference between C and C++, not the OOP features. "Zero cost abstraction" is mainly just a welcome side effect of the compiler's optimization passes, and those work in C just as well as in C++ (but typical C++ code depends more heavily on compiler optimizations to clean up redundant "left-overs" from template resolution).
The global agricultural waste production isn't enough to run the current amount of vehicles on compressed biogas - never mind this synthetic stuff. It's an amazing option among others though. CBG is easy to produce locally and gasoline powered vehicles can be modded to use it quite cheaply as long as you can fit the CBG tanks somewhere.
> curious what the world would look like if everyone was expected/required to pay within 2 weeks of services rendered?

You’d need to generate credit through the financial system versus trade at some nodes.

Consider a diner. It orders ingredients. Adds value to them. Serves and collects payment. Let’s enforce instantaneous payment on this system. Now the diner has to borrow to buy ingredients. Or maybe it pre-sells “tickets.” The way some high-end restaurants do. Now the customer is financing them. If they don’t have credit, maybe this encourages their employee to pay them earlier. Et cetera.
Rust has its rough edges, but what people do is gripe about those in language development spaces. Then the rough edges get filed down in the next release trains, or sometimes the next language edition. In C++ they are totally unfixable.
I live in the Netherlands and we're almost there! ;)

No not really but, when it peaked I saw 2.40 eur/litre (9.71$/gallon, now down to 1.80 eur/litre) in places... Of course, much of that is taxes, but hey, this stuff would receive a lot of subsidies.

Fwiw, I once (4 years ago or so?) spoke to someone from an ICE conference (a parallel conference to my breast cancer conference) who explained that ICE's can be made 100% clean (just output CO2 and H2O) and 100% circular (take all that emitted CO2 out of the air again), it's just an economic consideration, technologically we are there (I guess that is true for many if not most environment related technologies, we just never take environmental damage along in the price of products, in a way we make them artificially cheap).
The main thing you need to know about a CO2 sensor is that you also need a pressure sensor for its readings to mean anything.

Expect to pay ~$50 for an actual CO2 sensor. The cheap "organic gas" VOC sensors don't qualify. But you probably should add on one of those anyway.
Most of what you sent under this link falls under the general idea of reflection, e.g. the quoted macros, and is fairly similar to the kind of things that are being proposed for c++. Of course all the reflection systems proposed for c++ are purely compile-time, no one even proposed runtime reflection I think