skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a quite a bit of truth in speedrunning the history of finance. I don't see that per se as a negative, there is a lot of lessons that were learnt for good reasons. Many of these lessons are still valid and some lessons are valid but do not need to be enforced through regulation because the cryptography behind takes cares of them programmatically. This is the main advantage that is being explored IMHO, that you can enforce through code things that before were dependent in a complex network of trust, institutions, auditing, and humans doing busy work and moving papers. The speedrunning part can in itself be an advantage as it allows to iterate quick until you reach maturity. But this is just my personal opinion and I can understand skepticism until these products prove their maturity.

Regarding the comparisons you propose. I don't see how [1] is equivalent. The mechanics are quite different. In Alchemix you receive a lump-sum at the beginning and pay it back gradually through the protocol that is using your collateral to obtain yield in various yield-bearing assets.

[2] is closer in spirit. But as far as I know you can get liquidated. You have a repayment schedule and if you don't meet your obligations then your collateral will be impacted. In Alchemix your collateral is locked bringing some yield, there is no fixed repayment schedule, it adapts based on the yield.

Anyway, the point was not to promote any of these smart contract and I have no affiliation with any of them. It was simply to illustrate the OP that it's not vapor ware, it exists, is implemented and is working today. It's niche, it's not for everyone, but is not vapor ware.
It’s marketing.

It is only a small group of people who seriously consider the names of bills, and an even smaller group who gets upset if the bill doesn’t match the name. The US does not dominate the globe relative to most other cultures because we make everything at random, we are extremely good at propaganda/marketing
Hm. I'm not sure about cost. I haven't done any sort of analysis but I would guess with 75 % certainty that the techniques we use need more watts per byte of data than modern techniques. Modern techniques are very efficient in terms of their operation -- it's just that they achieve performance by needing to do so much operation!
There aren't that many homeless killed by the harsh winter any more (or in decades). There were in the 1950s.

> This is clearly not so, because the source I gave shows long-term homeless people in Finland, who survived winter using "tent villages and huts".

The source you gave is an Australian magazine, and what was said in it was not accurate.

There were indeed "tent villages and huts" during that time, but they were 1) there only in the summer 2) predominantly transient people that were a part of a human trafficking scheme from southern Europe.

I do remember these tent villages as there were two near where I lived at that time.

Tent camping is not legal in city areas and they were effectively evicted. There are some transient people still living in allowed camping areas during the summer, but mostly the transient people are now housed somewhere by the people trafficking them.

During the late 20th century there were a few homeless villages built in shacks in urban wastelands (near the airport and close to garbage dump sites) but they were of a more permanent nature.

Winter in Finland is not survivable in a tent without constant heating.

The shacks were built from waste materials and had rudimentary insulation and heating. They were built on waste sites where fuel (wood and garbage) is readily available. The most "famous" site is Simosentie, Vantaa, next to the airport (remains of the "houses" are still there). These shack villages had mostly disappeared by the early 2000s.

The homeless of the 1950s were predominantly war-torn men with mental and addiction problems. Due to their service to their country a decade earlier, Finns adopted an understanding and forgiving attitude to homelessness which is to some degree still present to this date.
Afghanistan is growing rapidly. It basically doubled its population in the last 20-something years. It'll be a world leader very soon....
This site identifies me as Russian (I am not) and all it shows to me is some anti-putin propaganda in Russian language instead of at least proper html markup. Screw you zdziarski for doing this to your visitors even to Russian ones! Information must be free to anyone despite of race, territory, political views or anything else or you are no much better than the side you are against.
I would probably just avoid all GNUism in C. Some GNU C extensions are just plain crazy:

// this compiles in GNU C
int * foo(int x) {
return x;
}

Just stick to -std=c<year> -pedantic-errors if you have to write C.
> How do you escape the trap? How do you make yourself happier without worrying about happiness?

I think part of the answer is in the quotation you quote: "the happiest people are probably those who are content and don't spend all their time wondering about how happy they are.".

My experience agrees with that! For instance, less than 30 minutes ago I went take my kid to the kindergarten and on my way back saw an house for sale, and my automatic response was something like "why do others have money and I can't get a higher paying job". Fortunately, I was paying attention to my thoughts, caught that one on time, and reminded myself that I do already own a house, it's almost payed, and I do have a good (enough) life.

> It seems like a meditation discipline could be helpful for addressing this. How else would you tackle it?

What I try to do is to catch those kind of thoughts before they make serious damage, and realistically remind myself of the path that I chose and what I have now as consequence.

I wouldn't say that I can do it successfully every time, as I've been lately fighting these exact thoughts that I should earn more money (because of small kid, family, inflation, etc.), and I enter a spiral of reading HN for posts about people switching from academia to industry (my current dilema), and lose sleep, and get tired. But after some time (used to be months, now weeks), I try to calm down, realize that yes I'm bored but I do have enough free time, earn above average (for the country, not for the industry), and an interesting opportunity may appear eventually.

So, I'm not a perfect example of success, but I do try my best to remind myself to be content with what I have achieved so far. It's a balance, and it's hard to strike. And being content (some of the times) doesn't mean that I've reached "nirvana".

Don't know if what I wrote makes sense (still tired), but hope it helps.. :/
That is just how the word is commonly used.

Just like people associate "server" with a specific hardware form factor and not an android phone running apache. For many people "a NAS" refers to a dedicated hardware device with a specific look and which provides network storage services.
World’s first RSV vaccine approved by FDA – breakthrough 60 years in the making
One guy at the entrance collects phones and puts them in a locker. Fine for unofficial pics. Solved.
Probably paying the bank back for money borrowed for the mortgage, bigger house, elderly/senior care service, being distributed as part of an inheritance, used to pay off debts or as part of a divorce settlement.

Or something else - people sell houses for lots of reasons.
python newbie here, why did messages change from [ to (
To me, pain differs from suffering. Pain is of the body and suffering is of the mind.

But I think your point still stands. There are plenty of reasons to purposefully subject yourself to pain (e.g. exercise).

I'm not sure about suffering. Suffering is an unavoidable side-effect of love and other delights of life, but it doesn't seem like something to ever be sought after. I'll need to think on that some more.

Also, your "when should" trick is clever! Good strategy for keeping things concrete.
> How do you make yourself happier without worrying about happiness?

In my limited experience you do so by aiming for content. You'll stumble on happy every now and then without trying to.

Content can be a continuous state, Happy cannot.
The headline sounded interesting but this is apparently just another Mastodon instance.
The Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) of the Norwegian government is doing exactly that, we have been opening up our code since 2018 and are accepting pull requests across our 2000 public repositories from those who want to improve government services https://github.com/navikt this has also enabled a much more close collaboration between new and existing partners that was previously unheard of!
Not exactly the same concept, but Life (2017) [1] comes close.

[1] https://letterboxd.com/film/life-2017/
The actual election that happened is not a simulation, at least not the same kind of simulation that was run by Nate.

That qualitative difference is fundamental. It suffers from the same problem when results of simulations are applied to the "real world". The quality of the simulation is paramount, and there's no way to determine whether the simulation is good enough besides assertions that the simulations are really sophisticated and Nate is very smart.
Why does code review suck so badly? What can we do?
> I'm much more interested in systems that reliably lead to good questions and good-enough answers.

There's no such thing, less so in the extremely simplified form that you attempted. If your goal was to create some content to attract customers (which I suspect) then it's OK I guess. If it's to explore ideas about life... Every idea you wrote can be turned 180 degrees and be just as valid.

"prevent yourself from immediate suffering" - what about when it's productive in that it generates a valuable life lesson at a moderate cost?

"prevent yourself from future suffering" - at what cost? Paying now for futures is a risk that involves chance. There's plenty of occasions when it does not make sense to invest for an uncertain future.

"maximize attention" - Downsides: burnout, narrow focus, etc.
Yazz Visual Javascript on the Mac App Store - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/visual-javascript/id1551448939...
Amazing effort!
Nobody is trying to use Cyc ?
SaaS company THB raises $20M in growth equity round, led by Filter Capital
The Senate makeup changes every 2 years, even though an individual Senator’s term is 6.
Try studying or doing stuff before work.
What?

That money isn't disappearing, it goes to the company but also to its employees.

They then return it to the economy.

What you're suggesting is that the tax payers spend their money and get nothing in return - it's corporate socialism.
How exactly do you aim for contentedness? What series of steps would you recommend? Is it like being "cool", where you have to find it without seeking it?
Sure, if Python were Ruby-like, it had `do` blocks, static typing, was compiled to native language with LLVM.

But yeah, it has "if", "class" and a not-great multithreading story like Python.
> but they were 1) there only in the summer 2) predominantly transient people that were a part of a human trafficking scheme from southern Europe.

Thank you for the correction.

That doesn't change the fact there were still long-term homeless people, contrary to bboygravity's proposition " If you're literally homeless in Finland you would die during winter season? Could that be a contributing factor to the "success"?'
Yes, we definitely do that! Talking about cake, can someone form HN make a pull request, please?!
> thanked for publishing what they and they alone claim works.

Fixed.
> you can't start business without German national cofounder

That's an outright lie, you need a Visa though if you're not a citizen from
a Schengen country.

> strict residence laws

Ever tried to get a Greencard? And if you have the financial backing, up until the start of the Ukraine war there were plenty of states with a golden visa program.

I think you're being too harsh on german and european policymakers. I agree, the climate for startups is abysmal and the room for improvement is huge, but in terms of being inclusive EU is leading over the US.
That would make an excellent 'not to be confused with'.
Even though Word Lens was first released over 12 ago, I keep surprising people[0] by showing them the same technology built into Google Translate.

[0] even other tech developers who, like me, migrated somewhere where a language barrier came up
Blinded by Brighter Headlights? It’s Not Your Imagination (2021)
> they cannot choose their own thoughts

can YOU? Isn't that just electricity following the laws of physics?
That's just a more specific version of the second failure mode.
Thankfully the flag was removed. And I don't believe the post actually gets censored, it just gets hidden from non logged-in users, which is great. I don't consider that real censorship at all.

And an exceptionally dramatic writing style is somewhat justified in response to a moral panic which is likely to end up destroying many innocent people's lives, people who have done nothing wrong. As countless other moral panics have done throughout history.

Because, I know from past experience, that only a small minority of these 'incels' have done anything seriously wrong, and the rest are going to end up on government watchlists for expressing the wrong political opinions. Political opinions that have been deemed inappropriate by pressure groups which are influencing the government to enforce their agendas.

And because of the lack of separation of powers nowadays, we will have intelligence agencies such as GCHQ monitoring the Internet, using powers that should be only used against foreign states, turned against the general public to hunt down these 'incels'.

Yes, these pressure groups have so much sway over the government, they can even eventually get GCHQ to enforce their agendas. Many of these pressure groups being fronts for those with radical feminist or evangelical christian agendas, i.e. they are the modern equivalent of puritans.

This stuff plays out over the decades, and finally we got to the point where we are now, after extensive lobbying by these groups for a very long time indeed.

And it's ruining society, these pressure groups are in effect, a national security issue and nothing is being done about them by the government. When in fact it should be a top priority. After all, they are extremist organizations.
I'm only going to comment on the salary bit.

GP lives in an company world. The cost of a developer to a company is the developer's salary as stated in the contract, plus some taxes, health insurance, pension, whatever, plus the office rent for the developer's desk/office, plus the hardware used, plus a fraction of the cost of HR staff and offices, cleaning staff, lunch staff... it adds up. $3500 isn't a lot for a week.
Someone on one server trying to get a user on another server is maybe a bit much, but I don't know the content of the posts in question. For me it'd have to be something pretty extreme to take those actions, otherwise if I saw something that irritated me I'd just consider ignoring or blocking that person depending on the severity.

Remember though that the war is a pretty delicate subject and that a position that from your perspective seems perfectly peaceful could be seen differently by others. So to a German the message "no weapons to Ukraine!" could be seen as de-escalatory, but to a Ukrainian it could be seen as a betrayal or it may remind them of bad faith pro-Z/Putin trolling even if that doesn't describe you or your intent whatsoever.
Break down means "to biodegrade" in American English, among other meanings
Then those systems are maintained, then then could correct their legacy C code to "fixed-C" (which should be not that much in-real-life anyways).

It would be possible to do a quick-and-dirty work with preprocessor definitions. The real thing is when you want to write "fixed-C" with a legacy compiler: you realize than it does so much things without telling you, you would need a really accurate warning system in order to catch all those things. I was told gcc can report all integer promotions, true?
As a gold partner, Forlinx managed to complete the SoM and Evk research work at the processor’s α phase, and the FET-MX9352-C system on module was launched.
Right that's been my experience too. The initial build of dependencies takes a bit but that's never a problem for me personally.
Thank you for the explanation, that actually makes sense. But I still think that serving a 429 is some kind of backwards old-school sysop kind of response. "It's the right HTTP-Code! hohoho!". It's obviously running nginx and serving a static copy of that url or setting up caching would take the same amount of time as serving the 429. It's 2023, it's possible to serve some thousand requests to static content on pretty much everything now.
The metaphor only works if you assume that software has only aesthetic utility.
Term limits would help fight this

Yes lobbyists have forever but they wouldn’t be in with the new legislators
Hey, this is really neat! I've taken a very similar approach in TypeScript. +1 to the sibling comment that recommended parsing with json5 (but don't tell the AI you're doing that, it's a waste of context space and it might get more confused anyway).

I've had luck doing chain-of-thought prompting in the JSON payload as you've described, too. Cheers, really validating to see someone taking a similar approach.
What is a Vector Database? (2021)
Try again it’s very likely you will have better results if you try to ask more then once…
Look, there are two possible definitions of "ownership" and "property". One is, you own whatever you can physically keep. If you have a pretty stone, and I come to you, and bash your head in, and take your stone, guess what, it's mine now. If I scoop your brains out of your half-broken skull, I'll have a new ashtray too, so I profit off this exchange!

The second definition is, whatever set of rules the society enforces to prevent the scenario described above, which define what I can keep, and under what conditions. You could say these rules "violate other people" and is "communist cancer", and you're right in a way - my natural right of coming over to you and bashing your head in is surely being violated now! But I prefer this anyway, because it also protects me from getting my head bashed in by someone stronger than me.
To continue the analogy then -- they'd better be hoping that in this case, the parents aren't the kind that will beat their kids, or worse.
> They miss many things including Scale.

Yes, it's very easy to completely miss scale, as well as missing sensible priorities, etc, and embrace a mantra of exceptionalism as a convenience.

Apropos ranking, the United States spends more on military / defense than the next 10 countries combined.
So people who would otherwise be extremely against it, feel as if they should support it.

Like the ironically named PATRIOT act, which went against much that the original US patriots fought a revolution for.
Ask HN: Why should I enable GitHub 2FA?
Github has been nagging me to enable 2FA and now says I have days left to enable it.

I did follow the process and midway it told me if I loose access to recovery keys I will loose access to github account. I don't have a locker or similar safe place to store codes physically.

Why should I risk loosing my github by enabling 2FA?
Perhaps we should have elections every week then. Because the public can also change their mind.
Aaaah! Thanks! Great write up!!
React Native Experts (context: react-native-callkeep)
We are trying to get some help on this issue. https://github.com/react-native-webrtc/react-native-callkeep...

Gist: The issue is related to using RNCallKeep library in a React Native app on Android. When a call is initiated while the app is in the background or closed state, the RNCallKeep UI is invoked, but the desired behavior is to open the app's screen and handle the call through the app. The RNCallKeep.backToForeground() function is used to achieve this, but it causes the audio to stop working properly when using Agora to connect VOIP calls. This issue does not occur when handling calls manually and is only happening on Android, not on iOS devices.
I meant the syntax of novelty languages we have on HN regularly.

And Ruby is Python-mimicry open your eyes.
My personal favourite is that an anagram of Banach-Tarski is Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.
Those arm and x86 licences are so much toxic, I would support anything risc-v, even if it is bad.
As I get older and (hopefully) wiser, I’ve come to the conclusion that vision is about 50% of success, and getting that vision to market - execution - is the other 50%.

The moment you lose the vision or drop the ball, you’re doomed.
:%s/ugliness/beauty
Element is one of fourteen messaging apps blocked by Central Indian Government
> Not to mention all the sea life that isn’t going to respond well to high temp water spewing out..

Ideally, you're not dumping the hot water back into the harbor. At least from a naive theory perspective, you could put huge cooling towers on deck and cool the reactor 100% through evaporative cooling. Bonus: the huge steam/mist cloud out of the cooling tower could help delay global warming through marine cloud brightening [0]. Whether the deck of a floating reactor has enough space and stability to support cooling towers of the appropriate size is a question for the engineers.

That's how most reactors in first world countries with temperate climates work anyway. Because it really messes up the biosphere of your river/coast, if you just dump 3GWh of thermal power straight into the water.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
But you can overflow one bit into the carry flag, though :).
On the earnings call, Tim’s answer to a question noted that the iPhone active install base is over 1 billion (of the over 2 billion total active devices).

At a replacement rate of 200 million per year, that’s 5 years to turn over the iPhone active install base. Replacing a 5 year old phone sounds pretty reasonable.

Earnings call transcript:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/05/this-is-tim-apples-q2-202...

“The iPhone base is well over a billion active devices.”
That's a good point, though we (humans) tend to eat only herbivores and not many carnivores/predators, probably because of that reason. I can't think of any actually, apart from fish.
Makes sense with ISOs. Until you sell the contract or the shares from exercising the options, you don't have any actual money, and those options or shares can go to zero tomorrow (let's say extremely unlikely to happen, but that's not relevant to the point). So there isn't really any actual money to take from you until then.

The second you convert it to actual money by selling, you get hit with taxes (or Nintendo standing behind your shoulder), and you pay off your responsibilities using a chunk of money you've just received.
The funny (not at all funny) thing is that it's not even window dressing about protecting children, it's window dressing about punishing offenders.

Ironically, the "child protection" part has already failed once punishment is required.

All of it, however, is a facade built in front of the real work of continued normalisation of increasingly intrusive, increasingly ubiquitous surveillance.
> Why it is not a required that if you get taxpayers' money, the results should be available for free to everyone, let's say after 12 months of grace perioid ??

Probably depends on the development in question, but in general the ability to resell something to someone else changes the calculations for contract work. If you want me to develop something and then own it is not the same deal as me developing something that I get to sell to someone else, too.

Some might also consider it undermining their own industry. Instead of building up software companies, it is essentially the government building a huge software department.
I used to see homeless sleeping in the doorway/building entrances in DC in the evenings while it was snowing outside. It terrified me. They had a few blankets and would huddle up.