skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, okay? None of that refutes anything I said in my summary of the Smarter Contracts report.

All the Law Commission essentially said is that there doesn't need to be any new legislation created for the courts to be able to deal with what they call 'smart legal contracts'.

In their summary report the Law Commission also said:
"Solely code smart legal contracts are likely to be rare in practice, given that commercial contracts are typically too nuanced to be reduced solely to code."

Their definition of a 'smart legal contract' includes traditional natural language contracts in which the implementation of some of the aspects is automated by code.

Note also that in this context, 'code' is not confined to 'smart contracts' on blockchains. A web server that automates some contractual activities by connecting with an API, for example, would count as part of a 'smart legal contract' by the definition that the Law Commission is using here.

I'm not sure what point you're actually trying to make by linking me to this Law Commission report. Maybe my brain is just not wide enough / too deep to understand? But if you're trying to convince me that the Law Commission said that we're increasingly going to be using blockchain smart contracts for things, you're seriously misrepresenting the conclusions of their paper.
Are you feeling tired of searching for a global remote job?
I guess the right question to ask about DNA is, does it contain all the instructions required to produce a copy of the DNA itself? DNA translation involves a bunch of RNA, sure. But DNA copying is mostly done by DNA polymerases, which are typical peptide based proteins encoded in the DNA itself, right?

So in a real sense, the DNA contains the blueprint for the machinery to copy the DNA itself, but not the instructions for building that machine from the blueprint, the same way a software quine doesn't necessarily include the source code for a compiler.

Definitely a definitional problem, but that's my shot at resolving it a bit.

Then again, DNA polymerase is not perfect, and DNA is not immune to single nucleotide changes having a real effect, so it's only a quine in the "spherical cow" way of looking at it anyway. But it's certainly the most "quinish" thing in nature that I can think of.
> I'm not sure why people treat mobile users so horribly bad, but here we are.

Maybe because those people "don't care" about usability, or better said, never got to know what this even means. The young generation was socialized on mobile. They just don't know better so you can treat them like that without consequences.
No pagination, as mentioned.

No way to keep up with new comments on a post (Reddit doesn't have this either).

No notifications on reply, so it's difficult to get answers to clarifying questions (/threads helps but isn't it).

Ever-increasing indentation makes deep threads hard to read.

Generally hard to read and hard to click on mobile.

None fatal, but also none particularly tough to fix!
Its always slow loafing for me, old loads way faster
You’re surey free to speak, but keep in mind othes are free to ignore it if it only adds as noise to a conversation.
> Why should it not? You’re literally breaking the content.

Strings are just an array of unicode codepoints rather than "characters", so all I'm doing is asking for the first three of those codepoints.

> Though in reality, indexing strings is a broken operation. That you’re using it at all is the core issue.

Substring is a broken operation? What's the justification for that idea?
With a parachute deployed, or not?
Thank you for sharing this lovely memory.

I've recently gotten into birding as an adult, and have heard that in some parts of the world basic bird identification is part of the curriculum (e.g. the Netherlands). If you don't mind me asking, what country/region did you go to school in? Was this the initiative of one teacher, or something more standardized?
A lot of commenters here seem to be thinking of the sense of "charisma" that one unusually encounters in conversation nowadays, the quality some people have of being very outgoing and engaging. This article isn't about that. The author is talking about the sociological concept developed by Weber and others; the book at this link is a pretty good treatment: https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/3823
Reddit conveniently unchecks the “redirect me to old Reddit” button every ~6 months. Quite annoying. I’ve been using Reddit for ~8-9 years and it’s gotten palpably worse. I knew it was dying the first time I saw an emoji on there. Seems they want to go the way Digg did.
I wonder how this differs from inkplate. I bought a inkplate 2 just for fun and received it yesterday, and I was flabbergasted at how long it took to clear the screen. I mean it flashes the screen well over 20 times... I can't imagine thats really required. I just want to basically display some temperatures from my Home Assistant instead of from my standard wireless thermometer, on a bigger display.
Astounding that you're claiming monetary policy can lead to hyperinflation, but not inflation. As if those are unrelated concepts.

You are very eager to put nails in coffins and claim that the common sense understanding of inflation (if you print too much money it loses value) is an urban legend.
It came from cheap unreliable cars they made in the early 90's. Those things were through away vehicles.
By the early 2000's they were just cheaply made(material wise) but reliability has improved vastly.
It diminishes the horror of slavery to assert that LGBT people experience anything remotely comparable. There are no restrictions on travel for LGBT people (much less restrictions that vary by county based on one election cycle). No one is out there capturing LGBT people to return them to captivity. The majority of residents of every state have come to accept L, G, and B people, and at least 25% of residents of every state accept T people. There's no need for an underground railroad; our many above-ground (ie, not secret) transportation networks are more than capable of safely moving people who can afford to move.

Sure, some states are targeting Trans people with the worst offending state being Texas, whose recently indicated-and-stripped-of-power AG ken Paxton criminalized provision of gender affirming care to children as child abuse. But this map goes across the full length of the worst state for trans people, so I don't really see how that map helps LGBT people.
AI will create ‘more losers than winners’ even as Nvidia soars
It works just fine in a browser.
https://archive.is/LfBHP
Colson Whitehead’s novel “Harlem Shuffle” takes place partially on Radio Row pre-WTC.
>You think the guards protect pedos in state/federal facilities? He's no different.

He was very very different, as most pedos are not part of a huge network of prominent politicians, financiers, academics, entrepeneurs and even royals.

Nor are they the most talked about in the media prisoner of the whole prison, in a case whose suspect list includes at least two presidents...

Nor are most supposed to be, like he was, on constant watch.

Nor are most pedo friends known to have visited their pedo residencies, where pedo parties were documented to take place, left alone, with just the facilitator pedo's wife getting prosecuted.
Ask HN: List of YC Startups in Europe
Is there a list of all YC startups in Europe? Not just those hiring on Work at a Startup.
under normal football tournament rules, the reason this doesn't happen is because only zero-sum games go to extra time and anything else simply ends in a draw (i.e. no goal difference change)

you are correct that if they simply didn't count extra time goals towards goal difference the problem would also be fixed, but that would feel artificial as counting extra time goals as normal goals is typical in football - for example, extra time goals always count towards aggregate scorelines, whether the previous legs had extra time or not. it is comparing apples to oranges, but that's the expected behaviour, whereas forcibly avoiding draws is equally at fault, but not the expected behaviour in football
He's got a book! ...in Japanese. I hope someone can help him translate it into English so more people can learn about this kind of thing and he can be rewarded for his adventures.
Phantom Types
It should be optional period. You want to save lives how about disable stolen cars, so joy ride Kias dont kill pregnant mothers. Imagine emergency braking a F-350 with a gooseneck and two tractors on it. Does not end well.
Oh, but what if you had a text based implementation of cyberpunk? Where your imagination is the GPU (the best one there is)
I thought it was cool when the Spec Miata racing class was added — until, years later, you can hardly find any old Miatas that are not either automatics, or stripped down ex-racers.
"many users" and "popular" don't always overlap.
Unpopular opinion (as revered in tech space): but this is the vibe I always had about Raval Navikant / Naval Ravikant. sorry. Can someone help me understand why I'm missing something about that folk?
Dude, I've already linked you to the full Smarter Contracts report that Sir Vos was referencing and explained to you how much of it isn't even referring to blockchain technology at all. I know you're a VERY busy CEO, but you could at least try and directly address some of that?
Be warned, either new reddit or the mobile apps (not sure which) deliberately insert extraneous slashes or underscores into links, so many links are broken when viewing on old reddit / need manual editing.

I'm pretty sure they're going to kill off old reddit, which will 100% certainly mark the end of my 15 years there.
How could this be enforced?
It is a similar problem to YT. Coding the site would not be that hard, but running it at scale is. Moreover, it's expensive. That is what reddit has struggled with itself, because the platform doesn't monetise their users as heavily as Google or Meta, and has always had more open and laissez-faire approach.

The only way to launch a competitor that is profitable is by going the Google/Meta way, but then users will just stay on reddit. Otherwise you need deep pockets or lots of VC money, but why would they invest in reddit clone that will just end up in the same place that the original finds itself in?

As for the corporations, you need them and their ad money, unless you want to run a subscription model. But that doesn't work either, because the majority of users will just stick to the free sites if you try.
For me HN is nearly unusable on mobile without a client
Is it more capital if they are using RSUs in compensation?
Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it
The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is not uniquely determined by the fossil record. The fossil record is at least as consistent with other macroevolutionary theories and with non-macroevolutionary theories too. Look at it this way, the existence of gravitational experimental data doesn’t determine Newtonian gravity to be correct. And biology is a considerably more tricky subject than mechanics.

I think we can all agree that physics is farther along than biology. But I bet you’d have no problem telling me at least one major open problem with General Relativity. Can you bring yourself to tell me even one major open problem with the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection? If not is that a psychological deficiency on your part, or is that theory somehow uniquely flawless?

As for consensus, it’s as irrelevant to reality as computer simulations. Historically speaking the vast majority of human consensuses on anything, including science, have been wrong almost all of the time. The overwhelming arrogance to believe that we’re now fundamentally different is stultifying.
They all read like they were bot-generated too.
I'm also interested. I'm still using Materialistic, but it's not even in the Play Store any more so I would like to find something maintained.
America’s Dysfunction Has Two Main Causes
I feel like this is a strong contender for the 2023 Ig Nobel prize in psychology

They have banger entries for psychology

> Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows

>Fritz Strack, for discovering that holding a pen in one's mouth makes one smile, which makes one happier—and for then discovering that it does not.

> Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers.
The Coca-Cola Foundation and the American India Foundation
Celebrating the Success of Support My School Mission Recycling Program...
Coding it is easy, getting traction with users is the hard part. I'm honestly tempted to build one but I dread building it and having it be a ghost town because getting people to adopt sites like this is tough.
"The output of an artificial neural network can be roughly defined as a conclusion obtained by generalising a limited set of observations. Surprisingly prejudice can be defined in the same way."

Not really surprising. The first thing they teach in data science is that bias is everywhere. One of the first things taught in programming is garbage in garbage out and that computers do exactly what we tell them. Once you start making decisions with biased data you will start to prejudice some group.

The quest for non-biases systems is a little like a perpetual motion machine. If we all have biases and these machines learn from the same data we do, using systems we write, how could one expect a different outcome?

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Ask HN: AI Commercial Appications
Now that the dust has settled a bit, can people point to current concrete business end use cases of "AI" - specifically large language models? I'm aware of the kind of things they can do, I'm just curious now to see if that's translated into actual use cases. To be clear, I'm talking about end uses, not "selling picks and shovels in a gold rush".
Do you have a better system in mind?
The vote arrows -- if that's an essential part of the UI, why is it so bad?
And text sizing for mobile varies greatly by mobile device -- why?
I generally praised Reddit, as the opposite of endless service. I can check updates from couple niche subreddits that interest me and I'm done, there's nothing more to get until later.

I guess there's no money in that.
It's because it's not optimised for users, it's for ads.
HN is popular within certain demographics and tends to have somewhat circular discussions as a result. As someone who works in finance in NYC, I know nobody else who reads it. I imagine if I worked in tech in Redwood City, I might think differently.
Probably for readers to learn about critical thinking.
Curious how this matches as I put my wife (attorney) cv into this and it kept giving me product designer or front end engineer roles (none of which have anything to do with her resume.
One of my favorite examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH9lp-Nms-o
Amazon Is in Talks to Offer Free Mobile Service to US Prime Members
The other day I was talking with someone here in Estonia who is working on a similar system that looks at real-world AWS usage and moves customer machines on to reserved instances, using a marketplace so customers don't have to take on the 12-month commitment of a "real" reserved instance.

It looks like a new wave of AI-enabled cost-cutting cloud startups is emerging. Exciting times!
Might be so, but as we know, photos can mislead as well. In addition to that, they should have corrected the news instead of censoring them out.
I guess the AppleTV. It's cheap, and it doesn't require me to use the ecosystem to get anything out of it.

The Homepod is getting cheaper but still feels redundant for most households. Airpods... are expensive plastic earbuds. Maybe the most profitable option, but the least valuable to me.

The Apple Watch is weird. It's definitely got a pricing issue (somewhat mitigated by older models), but the larger issue I encounter is that nobody really wants to wear them. The only person I've ever known to consistently wear an Apple Watch was my ex-boyfriend, who took it off and left it on the counter when he got home every day. It's value is middling for others but low to me.
Or they could have users be members of Gold to use third party apps.

It's ridiculous to claim that "Apollo" generates reddit traffic. Reddit users generate traffic, via web client of choice.
> while testing showed it produced more power and better emissions, people beta testing for me reported it felt 'too smooth

How hard would it be to made that user-selectable? Because I would guess that some would prefer it that way while driving in the city.

Can you send CAN bus commands to the ECU?
Not just charged. Charged an exorbitant and unrealistic amount meant to kill off third party apps.
All good, and thank you for the follow-up.

I had friends that tried to get back from the UK to here around that time, and the delays were awful (several months) though somewhat complicated by immigration for one, rather than outright citizen return for both. As it happens they spent two weeks in that same center, before being allowed to proceed back to the southern states. From the outside looking in, it felt like a small price to pay. Most of our escapes through 2020 and early 2021 were due to poor process control at airports

I think that AU and NZ citizens were pretty happy, for the most part, with the isolation & controls --> good health outcomes, so the two week quarantine was doubtless uncomfortable for many, but these exceptional cases of some tiny number of sociopaths trying to selfishly circumvent due process were so rare that they were necessarily notable, especially amongst the international press.

BBC was probably pretty even-handed, but certainly some more reactionary media outlets (you know who I mean) were keen to try to beat-up the situation into something it was not.
> It's not a matter of style.

This is unnecessarily pedantic. Provided attribution is present in some form, cleaning repeated licensing headers from other files should be perfectly legal.
Yes.

The first warning shot for me was when they pushed stages really invasively in the UI to compete with clubhouse. I'd thought the high rate of nitro subscribership might have stalled it longer, but no.
My priors are that if the WSJ is making obviously BS headlines in the format "California spent <big number> on something. It failed" then California is likely half-heartedly doing the right thing and should do more of it.

And is likely saving money compared with whatever the WSJ is pushing as an alternative.
The problem isn’t really the cards. It’s the implementation.

If you just reshape shape old.Reddit.com it wouldn’t be a horrible UI/UX. Maybe not great either.

Back button is effectively broken with constant reload of front page. 2 links you wanna read? You need to click around carefully especially on mobile if you don’t want the page to reload and show you a different set of stuff.
BERT is 500x smaller than GPT3, it doesn't hallucinate (it might make wrong predictions, but it won't make unexpectedly wrong predictions), it can run on a CPU in 500ms. I really like BERT style models (there are a couple newer models that better than BERT but are very similar)
It's not like the users know what they really want though. You talk to a bunch of Salesforce users and they'll tell you that what they want is Salesforce+. This may not be what you want to be building as your product.
hardware modifications definitely can. A few years ago I've read ([0] - the article is in russian but google translate does its job) about hardware bugs installed in iphones - with a mic and an own SIM card, everything is powered from the phone's battery.

[0] https://service-iphone.ru/blog/proslushka-v-iphone-teper-bez...
- Lacks basic responsiveness (would not be difficult to make links/buttons larger on phones while impacting nothing for desktop; as it stands they are very hard to hit on mobile)

- Long threads become unreadable due to shifting right with no end as replies come in, occasionally becoming comical

- Supports just enough markdown (asterisk italics, indented code blocks) to lead people to think they can use all of it (want bold, or in-line code? You lose.)

- Code blocks are unreadable on mobile since they cannot be scrolled

- Despite being an obvious design choice, breaking accessibility by reducing the contrast of unpopular comments is a deficiency.
C23 improved struct compatibility so you might be able to leverage that to craft macros that better emulate slices. [1]

There is an RFC proposal for the Clang frontend for adding bounds checking reminiscent of Microsoft's SAL. [2]

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3003.pdf

[2] https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-enforcing-bounds-safety-in-...
It reads more like an excuse than the actual reason.

Endpoint protection solutions can be installed in iOS devices. The device could also be wiped clean, eliminating the malware.

The latter should not be much of an issue in any serious organization. If any executive keeps critical data in a phone, that is already an issue.

The former is a hassle, but I have had to use locked down iPhones before, and the tradeoffs are still better than facing an intrusion.

The vulnerability and the vector could also have been present in a different form in Android devices.

All in all, I don't think this is the response Kaspersky should have come forward with.
This map makes me a little sad at all the things we seem to have lost.

Contrariwise, the limited palette of 6-color art is fascinating to pore over — see where the artist used color rather than line, absence of color in other places to suggest highlights...
> Why should we expect invalid utf-16 strings to be representable in utf-8 or 32?

We shouldn't care. UTF-16 should just be an encoding and its internal details shouldn't leak into Unicode code points. There's just no good reason to exclude code points U+D800–U+DFFF merely because 0xD800–0xDFFF happen to be used specially in UTF-16 encoding, just like U+0080–U+00FF aren't excluded merely because (most of) 0x80–0xFF are used in UTF-8 encoding.
Location:New Zealand
Remote: Yes
Willing to Relocate: No
Technologies: Golang, Java, Postgres, Kafka

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francis-stephens/

Email: francisstephens@gmail.com

I currently live in Germany, but am moving to New Zealand in August.

I have a strong interest in system performance, at my previous job I spent 6 years working exclusively on performance for a high throughput backend system written in Go. I do enjoy development work in general, so I am not exclusively looking for performance focused work, but I do like it.

Some github repos representing my work

A small set of performance focused packages, most importantly including a very fast lock free queue implementation:
https://github.com/fmstephe/flib

A high performance matching engine, such as would be found in a financial stock exchange, in Go.
https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine

I developed an application for solving SAT problems on high core count CPUs. This was run on a proprietary AZUL machine with 756 cores back in 2001 (which was exciting).
https://github.com/fmstephe/P2P-Distributed-Sat-Solver

Here is an example of a bug-fix I made to an existing open source project https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache/pull/17
I think Musk has shown that this is not accurate. Established players will play and smaller fish will die off as intended further consolidated a given field.

For the record, I am not happy about it, but I disagree with your assertion that LLM is not part of the consideration here.