skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think any company exploring ways to improve the financial system should be given plenty of space to do so, but I think the fundamental issue facing Coinbase, and all other crypto-based firms is: when will we see mainstream adoption of crypto as something other than asset speculation?

Or, is speculation the only use-case for crypto? Sure we've had example use-cases for crypto as a value store and exchange medium, but outside the bleeding-edge of technology, and away from the VC fever dream (let alone con-artist central), where does crypto fit into society?

There are major incumbent forces all the way up to government that are keen to control the rise of this technology so it's clearly not an easy task, but for the likes of Coinbase to survive I think we need to see real value in using the things you actually trade on their exchange. Unfortunately right now it seems that Coinbase is a company predicated on the assumption that “crypto is going to become the main way to exchange value at some point in the future”.

Companies powered by hype and VC speculation invariably collapse as markets move on, so if I were investing in them I'd be really keen to have them allocate the majority of their resources at pushing crypto adoption into non-investment-based use-cases, which is to say, banks having large crypto teams is much less important than average people actively using crypto for goods and services (if that's to be the dominant use-case for crypto.)
The advantage of making cute is that you can also make them small.

I would really hate using shifting-priorities-routing-service all over the place, in particular in combination with steady-allocating-routing-service.

Between cute/descriptive, long/small, it all depends on how often/where/long these names are used.
> would benefit greatly from some kind of standard compression libraries

Correction: standard compression dictionaries
The stock is up 15% pre-market. Maybe if they cut 90% staff, they'd go back to IPO levels.
I interviewed with them last year and while I didn't get the job, looking back now I'm kind of thankful it turned out how it did. From my limited perspective interviewing there, it seems like they started branching out into all things crypto.

One manager I interviewed with explained that they wanted to become the "Amazon of Crypto" where any service related to crypto such as wallets, NFT's, etc are all on Coinbase. It was clear back then to me that Coinbase wanted to dethrone both Metamask as the wallet of choice and OpenSea as the NFT marketplace of choice. You hire a ton of people for these projects but end up letting them all go when they realized those projects weren't going to pan out.
Open Source in Environmental Sustainability
Saying that something exists isn't a complete thought.
I'm reading some arguments and counter-arguments in this thread, and in my opinion it kinda boils down to what point of view you're having.

If you look at it as a framework that minimises the networking overhead, then fine, it's an interesting piece of software.

If on the other hand you look at it like a "fast" web framework then things start to change and the discussion gets a bit more complicated.

So for example, you look at the source code of the applications being benchmarked (example: https://github.com/cirospaciari/socketify.py/blob/main/bench...) and you immediately see it's simply returning the string "hello world"). Which means that it's almost 100% of the time running in the fast path / best case.

My guess is that as soon as you start doing any kind of computation in the request handler in normal non-super-optimized python (trival example: validating some headers and/or checking some signatures as you would do with jwt tokens for example) then the python-vs-golang gap will start to go back to favour golang.

And then again, it boils down to what you're doing: anything io-intensive might benefit from the unetworking/uwebsocket beneath, anything cpu-intensive will benefit from the golang compiler producing native executable code.

Nice work anyways.
Is modern software really slower or are we just noticing when it is slow because we're used to it being fast? I am genuinely asking.
Really? Try these charts for size: https://twitter.com/henrywismayer/status/1612531409339711488
Depends, PlayCanvas, BabylonJS and ThreeJS are written in JavaScript.

Although you might say that there is still the C++/Rust code of the browser rendering engine to take into account.
Wait you are honestly claiming that Venezuela is captialist nation? Really?

The once shining example of Socialism that has now collapsed as socialism always does is "capitalist" now that it has failed? that is rich right there.

Russia is more or less the same... A Collapsed socialist state that never really adopted free markets, sure they adopted some aspects of capitalism but only because after the inevitable collapse of socialist policies the people in power divided up all everything of value between themselves and their friends. That is not capitalism either.
This is not just an UK phenomenon though. You can find reports from countries from all the continents, except for Africa. It seems they fared the best in the last 3 years notwithstanding all the apocalyptic news headlines in early 2020 predicting a blood bath once Covid reached them.
Make a law that hospitals must have menus. Pricing ought to be clear upfront, not negotiated through back channels.
Never again in my life will I wear a mask.
Disney CEO Bob Iger mandates employees return to office 4 days a week
It's worse than that - the name is a brand so develops value in its own right. It's not just hard to change the name in peoples' minds, it's downright damaging (unless your product was crap, in which case changing the name might be a good strategy).
You just made three generalizations about three billion people in two sentences.
> Right if you asssume your case will be mild t

You don't have to assume. You know it from almost Day + 30 of the pandemic that the people at real risk of a bad COVID were old and with 3-4 comorbidities. It was never a secret. The media has just been hyping up the risk to make it look like everyone could die from it for absolutely no reason.

> And on myocarditis it still seems like the risk is greater with covid: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/22/covid-19-infection-...

This data has virtually no value because it is based on myocarditis that was diagnosed and detected and who knows how many goes completely unnoticed or undiagnosed. You can't compare the rates of rare events this way.

Interesting to look at the footnotes for disclosures too:

> A.S. is a member of the Scottish Government Chief Medical Officer’s COVID-19 Advisory Group, the Scottish Government’s Standing Committee on Pandemics, and AstraZeneca’s Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Advisory Group.

> J.H.C. is chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) risk stratification subgroup and a member of Scientific Advisory Group for Emer-gencies (SAGE) COVID-19 groups and the NHS group advising on prioritization of use of monoclonal antibodies in SARS-CoV-2 infection.

> A.H. is a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

Color me surprised that people whose livelihood depends on recommending vaccines and COVID19 treatment end up "finding" that vaccines cause less side effects than COVID19..
How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart about the Numbers
Overwhelmingly majority of dev in Shanghai (or China in general) are still native Chinese. "Easier to get around with very bad Chinese" isn't a factor, at all. Not even rounding error.

China is better than Japan in software development simply because they pay (much) better, which causes more people (esp. more "smart" people) to pursue this career for the money.

And the reason why Japan doesn't pay software dev as well is in the article.
I'm a compulsive note taker. I find that most practical style books can be shortened into a 10th of the size.

However, some books end up with much longer notes than the books themselves. One of my favorites was actually Aristotle's Poetics. A lot of the classic non-fiction are like that; the article versions are longer.

But what I've learned is avoid most practical books; things that tell you what to do. I think the problem is that the advice is generally weak, and the extra "fluff" is just finding support for this weak advice. An exception is the Pomodoro Technique which works perfectly fine when you don't read the book.

Instead go for the books that study the phenomenon, like The Power of Habit instead of Atomic Habits. Something like 33 Strategies of War is written as a historic book. The summaries tend to be much weaker than the book. Those are the kinds of books you should be reading.

Poetics was actually recommended by a lot of screenwriters, who basically called the rulebook. So you can also go from articles to books when the same books are emerging in multiple sources.
I guess you can restate "cut" to suit your point. I'd even accept "cut" if it was less money in real terms (i.e. after inflation). But I don't think you can define "cut" as "not giving the NHS all the money it asks for, even though it got more than last year".
Literally right now it’s being reported that 300-500 people are dying weekly just because of extreme delays to emergency medicine. It doesn’t take many years to rack up 120k deaths at that rate (though I recognise the study was prior to this collapse and references primarily more diffuse causes)
Any insight on how the planes keep the Wi-Fi going? If the cell service internet provider’s handoff speed is too slow, does that mean they’re doing satellite internet in-flight? It was mentioned in the article that the tech has won some legal arguments regarding in-flight Wi-Fi refunds. (When the paid-for service didn’t work.)
> Trouble is, names are hard to change.

> No they’re not. People just aren’t determined or organized.

This is very untrue.

Many moons ago my company changed its name, and we still have the old name lingering around in stupid places. There are e.g. several third-party services which simply won't let us change the name and carry our data forward, or where proper migration would take eng-months.

I guess you could say we're "not determined enough" (pause development! take the data loss!) but it just doesn't make business sense to pursue it.
You probably got downvoted because there is literally no alternative (except perhaps being airlifted to a different country). The NHS is basically the only provider of emergency care.
I actually read their comment as positive, with a small caveat about the benchmarks. It's pretty common to see benchmarks here, where the load is very artificial and hence doesn't translate to real world usage, for instance. So I think it's an okay disclaimer.
Nope, look at both pictures and you can see the one posted by the MP is altered. There are clear editing artefacts
> They literally had people with 1-2 years of experience conducting interviews last I remember.

I interviewed at a place where 75% of the interviewers didn't show up.

The only dude who did, had started the day before...
So the only thing real in the picture is the sky? I like that!
You're missing the difference between ownership and money. People who make extremely useful companies own parts of them. They don't have that money in cash. The only thing they can do with that ownership is to sell it, which the market also seems a valuable thing. They have to constantly do valuable things to have money. They aren't like a government, which can lock you in a box for not paying them. Companies have to earn it.
Next that AI Lawyer will argue for it's own personhood and rights.
I'm surprised it's not fentanyl. I work at a homeless shelter and there isn't a week that goes by when I'm not either trying to recessitate a client who has overdosed or finding their dead body.

It's an epidemic, and it's killing males and females who should be in the prime of their lives.
Actually the benchmark is on https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks with is basically this with more headers, but you are right, is not enought, i used TechEmPower because is very popular. I have some issues (new features comming) open to create an better JWT token support, database and much more, i will post these in the future!
My thoughts exactly. Cute names are identities: you apply them to things that are unique and where the purpose is malleable. Functional names are descriptions: they capture the thing's purpose, not its identity.
Agreed. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-boosters-i...
I wanted to read this but its behind a paywall. Disappointed
Public defenders are state entities. The state failing to fund its justice system to guarantee speedy trial, competent representation, etc. is a state problem, not a problem of technology.
This article doesn't really explain _why_ eating earlier is supposedly better. The only explanation it gives is related to weight-loss. Conflating health and weight-loss is an unhealthy (pun intended) obsession of the media and society writ large. Lots of people do in fact need to gain weight to become healthier. And if eating late at night helps with that goal, then eating later can be considered healthy.
My inspiration is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gECj1AE9D2c

But I actually only watched the first 30 seconds and then got hooked on the idea. The impl is mine :-)
I would probably have used the first because it would not have occurred to me I could use the second.

FWIW the following prints 1, so it's probably a matter of taste:

int main() {
printf("%d\n", 3.986004418e14 == 3.986004418 * pow(10.0, 14.0));
}

I prefer the second one for sure.
I still do! People like to talk about Lisp on here because Paul Graham made it cool to. That's it. Are any major/important things be done today that are using Lisp??
It wasn't Trotsky, it was Yezhov, the man in charge of NKVD during the worst of the purge. Fun fact: of all occupations/organizations NKVD officers were at the highest risk of a speedy trial and execution.
Are you saying Buddhist thinking helps SV or hurts Japan? Or both?
This is false. Making a new implementation is a practical purpose. Any new implementation will have to work with the spec, instead of idiosyncracies of other implementations. Ergo there are practical purposes which go by how the language is defined in its specification.

Some languages have more of a proper spec than others, of course. If we look at for example Scheme dialects, then they often change their implementation for better conformance with the various rnrs standards. New Scheme dialects often early on try to conform very much to the standard to avoid issues later on.
I've been double vaxxed and boosted, so I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I don't know for sure if the vaccine is causing more heart-related deaths. I do however believe the government (any government) would lie to get people to take a vaccine if they thought the number of heart deaths due to vaccine would be lower than the eventual number of COVID deaths without a vaccine.
>So, when Robert Patrick’s T-1000 arrives on the scene, the structural repetitions position him as the T2 analog of Kyle Reese. As in, we are led to believe that he is another human rebel fighter sent to protect Sarah and/or John Connor.

Actually, that's the biggest flaw "reveals"-wise for T2 in my opinion.

Robert Patrick plays his character as too robotic and even icky even before the reveal. He looks off, so people start wondering if he really is a "Kyle Reese" type or some enemy, perhaps robotic...

He should have been played the "cop" with more neutral maunerisms until the reveal, so that the reveal has bigger impact.
Miele quality has gone really downhill last 10 years. But they do more or less guarantee that you will be able to buy replacement parts for 10 years. (NOT 20!)
As long as they don't offer warranty for 10 years or 20 years, I consider the machine to be on a 5-10 year lifecycle, like most appliances today.

If their machines really would last that long, they would market the hell out of it !explicitly! and offer you that assurance to get your money. Now they are just cruising by on their reputation they built last millenium

The good days are over sadly.
> We commissioned this new short story from Robin as a little love-letter and thank-you to the city and people...

Sure, it's right at the bottom, and "short story" is not entirely unambiguous, but I think most people would commonly use that phrase to refer to a work of fiction. I think I would have enjoyed it just as much if I'd known it was fiction from the start, but making that too obvious at the beginning may have removed a little of the charm.

The synth itself is real, however. Here's a video of someone much younger than Maisie making noises with it...
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/05/21/modular-synth-...
That way over hired. The company missed the nft wave. And their expenses went out of control. A good ceo would have recognized during the first round of layoffs a deeper cut was necessary to bring the company to profitability.
FWIW, the vast majority of graves are for a few dozen years. Then the descendants don't renew the lease, the cemetery disposes of the remains and the spot is reused
NHS management overhead takes up approximately 8% of the total NHS budget [1]
In the US that number is more like 15-20% [2].

[1] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/health-and-social-care...
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2785479
Good idea, and we need the same thing for code repositories.

I want a derivative version of the GPL that says "this code or its output cannot be used as training data for machine learning, or any other artificial intelligence, unless explicitly authorized in writing by the copyright owners."
I actually thought the Russian invasion of Ukraine would result in more Bitcoin usage and the price going up again.
Nooo, we need the inverse. Don’t train without explicit permission.

Bloody entitled, this lot of AI entrepreneurs are.
I agree we need an easy to reach endpoint like favicon or robot.txt for general copyright notice like creative commons or public domain. It should be a JSON utf file like domain.com/copyright.json. it will allow certain paths to have different copyright
Couldn't have said it better.

Overall, common sense should be the rule, not "always descriptive / always cute".
What about a Humans.txt (different than the existing one https://humanstxt.org/ ) that can dictate what humans can do with the information on my website? I might want to publish my thoughts, but I don't want people to be able to use that information, so I could have a humans.txt that forbids people from learning or remembering anything they read.

Like the footer in some emails about "Reading this email if you aren't the intended receiver is forbidden" but for websites, so I can protect my writing without having to suffer the consequence of not being able to publish it.
Just curious, which kind of exchanges do you mean that are 100 years young? The first stock exchange came to be >400 years ago and I guess there are currency or other exchanges that were there before.

(Sorry if I just seem to want to point out a mistake - your first sentence just sounds so specific that it just got me interested in what you mean.)
Comparing every single thing to the evils of nazism and communism is a bit too trite. I know that most people default to last century's events because they are the only ones fresh enough to have a grasp on, but deleting people from inscriptions, annals, murals, paintings, coins, etc. has been a common practice throughout history.

Saying "this is just like what emperor Flavius did!" causes a lot less outrage than saying "this is just like what Stalin did!", even though they are both true. This is why, unless a phenomenon was exclusive to a certain ideology, I feel like constantly mentioning nazis and commies is just a rethorical tool
It was a long time ago, but I remember reading Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space - Safe at Any Speed" about a future society where aging is stopped. All I remember was that safety became very important even to the point where a vehicle protects a passenger after being swallowed by a giant bird on an alien planet.

It made need think that it would kind of suck that one would only die in some kind of unnatural death like an accident.
There have been no NHS funding cuts: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

"Nominal healthcare expenditure rose by 7.4% in 2021 and was £54 billion greater than spending in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic"
Mobile Telephones (1940s Video)
So... why did the author give this blog post a descriptive title? Wouldn't a better title be "Fluffy Bunny"?
Author here: The editor can be expanded via plugins and several features are presented as plugins (LSP, linter, formatter and auto-complete). But the plugins API it's not as friendly as other editors since I want to keep some control over the plugins. I think we already have many editors very expandable but also with very little to no control over the plugins/extensions environment, and that ends up creating a big mess for the final product (inconsistent UI, bad implementations, etc). Currently the plugins can only be implemented with C++ native code and new plugins will need to be merged into the project. I would like to keep control over the new features and supervise that the implementations are correctly done (mainly I care about plugins not locking the UI thread). I understand this can be bad for some but I want to keep a certain vision that needs some kind of control over the end product.
Support libraries are a blessing, our app last year still supports Marshmallow with no issues.
The edge of BoJo's right elbow is still there!
There was a lot of hype and an expectation (IMO wishful thinking) that NFTs would have a very broad penetration in the society, for example replace physical collectibles. If that did turn out to be true, most people would require a lot of handholding for taxes, complex global regulation, etc. which the Coinbase would provide, as well as collecting the exchange fees.

Under this premise it is reasonable to hire up to build this framework if the investors are willing to foot the bill during the discovery phase. I am not saying this is prudent, just that it is a consistent story that they sold.

This is not unique to crypto: biotech startups are raising billions a pop in a Series B (not a joke) promising to use generative AI to find miracle drugs.
I am happy to see one more open source GUI text editor that aims to be fast, minimalist, yet has some essential features (at least for me) like LSP support, minimap, and terminal support. I hope this editor will have a good plugin manager in the future.
If you watch martial arts movies you should know that the attackers wait in line and only attack once the previous one has gotten a beating :). They never attack at the same time.
I suspect that this was a playful take on the notoriously dishonest character of the ex-Prime Minister :-)
One-time pads have to be stored server-side. If you're going to do that, you might as well just store the data itself under a GUID server-side so you avoid network transfers and then put the GUID in the URL.
And now Shapps is claiming he wasn't aware it was edited.

It really is remarkable how bad politicians' memories are. Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.
Fascists are very often proponents of "the third way". Not saying you are a fascist, just adding some context to this. A little guilt by association.

I think the problem with the "third way" and with "communism" vs "neo-liberalism" is that they are all not focused on anything it's just a way to create a new "tribe". Conservation of Nature and worries about environmental decline used to be an elitist right wing conservative topic. Now its a leftist topic. Its not really about the topics, its about drawing lines in the sand and saying: "We from the left/right/third way, stand firmly behind this line! Who is with us?"
It is just a way to define a group that can be used to gain power.