skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
with a debugger, after you fix the application, you still have to restart and run it again. the big benefit here is that no restart is required.

smalltalk can do the same btw. i had been working on a small website where a specific request from the browser would fail. instead of sending a failure message the request would just hang. in the mean time on the server in my pharo smalltalk window an error would pop up. when i fixed the error, the download of the request resumed in the browser as if nothing had happened other than a delay.
I’ve been writing ship software, for my entire career. Most times, I’ve been quite involved in the entire process; from napkin sketch to shrinkwrap.

For me, it is quite gratifying to ship, but for many people, the 50% (or more) of shipping software that is non-coding work, isn’t fun, and is usually deprecated, during the planning process.

Examples are things like end-user documentation (not just maintenance docs), training, error handling, accessibility, localization (a huge task), continuing customer support, legal checklists, patent searches, copyright searches, branding strategies, glossaries, distribution channels, evangelists, usage feedback support, synchronization between all of the above, and the Web site, etc.

Big fat, not-fun pain, but needs to be done. A lot of this stuff really needs to be considered before the first line of code is written, and the journey can take years.

The app I’m working on has been in development for over two years (but to be fair, I did “wipe the slate,” and restart, after about a year). The basic “business logic” is in one SDK that I wrote in about a month and a half. All the rest of the work has been chrome.
Pix surpasses credit and debit card transactions in Brazil
I’m guessing the second. Nothing in the interview suggests that he doesn’t stand behind the data. Sounds like he’s taking a wait and see approach and it’s a very good sign that he’s offering to help other researchers try to replicate
> Now you are back to the “it works on my machine” issues. Seen a couple of times where a precompiled binary works okay on one OS but the behavior changes when ran on another OS.

Sure, but containers don't protect you from that - you're still exposed to differences in the host kernel. For that kind of issue you'd want a full VM rather than a container.
That’s sort of the proposed mechanism for Cooper pairs forming, but I don’t think I’d call Cooper pairs themselves “lattice peristalsis”
If this is True, then definitely name the company! This is excellent customer service!
lol scam.
OK, I think I can fully understand and agree with your point, but what you are describing is really not a "smart contract" as it is usually described, at least by people who think of it as revolutionary technology. It sounds like you just want a title company with better technology, and that I can wholeheartedly agree with.

But the fundamental raison d'être of smart contracts (i.e. that they are "trustless", that "code is law", there is no intermediary) do not really support the use case that you are describing.
Right and he wrote a whole book on it and cited facts with multiple papers backing up his claims.

And ask yourself this - how is it that that book is still sold if it’s all bullshit?

That was one of the many things bouncing around the back of my head as I smugly dismissed him until I watched the Lex Fridman podcast.

Look, I used to think exactly like everybody on hacker news, until I actually listen to the man. Do I agree with everything he says, no, but pretty close… And if you take the time to actually listen to him, you’ll find that he’s pretty reasonable on every single topic. And he’s willing to change his position if anybody can refute and/or provide actual evidence to do so. No one has.

This is why no one will debate him either by the way, isn’t that a little curious? A.k.a. nobody from the virology community. Because they simply can’t refute him based on actual science and facts.

Seriously go listen to rfk on Lex Fridman, if you don’t, then you will never really know the truth will you? And I personally prefer the Lex Fridman podcast but he’s been on Joe Rogan and numerous other podcasts over the last few weeks and truthfully they’re all excellent.
Well, that's the whole problem, from the feds' point of view they are not operating lawfully. I'm no fan of the Visa/MC duopoly but from a legal point of view they don't really have a choice here.
When I was a student in the nuclear propulsion program in the US Navy there was a category of incorrect answer called “gross conceptual error” (GCE) which meant the student not only had no idea what the answer was but was guessing in the wrong direction. This title deserves a GCE designation because a phone is not an app. Elon wants to create the WeChat of the western world: an “everything app” for all needs, all scenarios. App, not a device.
> Why should sites be obligated to let anyone in? […] This notion of destroying the open web is so nonsensical.

I mean.. I think you’re answering your own question here.

You can argue that the web shouldn’t be open. In fact, there are many arguments for that, which I don’t mind arguing against.

There are many things that do not belong on the web, precisely because it’s open. For instance, a registry of people’s political views. Or naked pictures you don’t want the world to retain forever. And so on. The fact that the (open) web is not suitable for everything has been true since its inception. Openness comes with trade offs.

The honest way of putting it, is that WEI wants to make the web less open so that it can have more content, or protect content better.

On an opt-in basis, this is fine in theory. But WEI would never ever be opt-in with meaningful consent. It’s entirely dead in the water there, because non techies will not understand what or why this is “needed”. Heck, people don’t even grok cookies. In practice, this will be enabled by default, which is exactly the fear. Alt browsers would be bullied to support it, and users would be forced to use it.
The point of these type of articles is for rich politicians to be given more power over peons and an excuse to raise taxes endlessly.

Science has nothing to do with anything here.
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If not, than what does or will...and why?
Well, here’s some of the most interesting videos I’ve seen taken by people.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/13dmaif/black_triangl...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/12kaed7/2010_ufo_that...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/t4smpl/flyby_uap_foot...

* https://imgur.io/a/seWVHB6

I’ve done some basic research and can attest none of these are at least CGI made. Some of these predate photoshop. The issue with all of these videos are they are hard to prove definitively without corroborating sensor data. But they are interesting none the less.
Some folks get upset when something is reasonably experienced as outrageous and not merely to agitate others.

Some folks also seem to find it reasonable to let others know when something is unsafe.

Seen in that light, I don’t really see an issue and don’t think it’s cool to diminish the video by suggesting it was merely to produce outrage.

I, for one, don’t want to run into a wayward Tesla while on the highway.
Nothing in the article indicates Mastercard's concern is fraud nor does it sound like it came to their notice by way of fraud.
Im going to go on the record that the Bush Cabal, with HW Bush killing JFK, and then with his minion, attempted to assasinate Reagan, but failed - then succeeded in the CIA take over of the USA with clinton, Obama, etc - does not make that true - but its all on record...
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If you have, then this blog post is for you. In this blog post, we will explore the secrets of bird migration and learn about how they do it. Why they do it? And where do they go? We will explore some of the secrets of bird migration, and learn more about the amazing abilities and challenges of these winged wanderers.
In my experience, it's definitely better for prototyping because if you hit an error that is difficult to reproduce, you can update your code and try again, without having to try and create reliable steps to reproduce the problem.
Neuropsychopharmacology

Medicine

Higher level mathematics

Material science

Chemical engineering

...

There are specialized journals for blockchain tech now.

Maybe 'diverse' would be a better word than 'complex' for blockchain tech because projects aren't all financial. The OP made the claim that he couldn't think of use-cases for smart contracts. The problem isn't that there are no use-cases but that there are too many. What use-cases are there for a language for structuring trust when it can touch so many areas?

Every time we have these threads ignoramuses wander in and expect those in the industry to justify their whole field and area of expertise. Even though from their questions the only thing they know about the industry comes from news headlines and memes. Yet this is what passes for discussion around here. They expect to be spoon fed an entire area of knowledge they know nothing about. And when failing to instantly grasp the years of knowledge people have in this area they declare that it doesn't exist.

I'm over it. Pick up a book.
For me personally:

When architected correctly (as with pretty much all software), it allows for a service to live (effectively) forever, independent from the creators of the service.

Example: I create a smart contract where everyone can post an IPFS hash to it, with added functionality to be able to post on someone's behalf if they give a signature to do so.

(This simple example is deliberately chosen to be a starting point. More complex functions & services can be derived from this starting point alone.)

If I were to kick the bucket, or if I'm not capable of contributing to its development, the service is still accessible to everyone else. If someone else wants to keep developing the service, they can do so via the contacts defined endpoints.

To me, the positives of this starting point outweigh the technical complexities involved with its development & maintenance. It varies wildly for others, but for me, this is the anchor point from which I can build something that can last long after me.
Have they tried paying more? I know lots of people that would rather make chips than software but software pays better.
Got my popcorn right here...
Reminds me a little of "The Thing"[1] — remarkable WWII-era passive listening device.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
That you for staying true to your word!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31114620
How do you plan to update such natural language code? Words change meaning. This is what I meant by stable
this is an age old argument, but given the popularity of other slower languages, i'd rather think that approachability is the more critical issue.
To so many on that list of "bad" and the reasons for it I can't help but think of James Brown and "I feel good" or a song like "Twist and Shout" which have had pretty damn good saying power and few would say are actually bad. A lot of Amy winehouses music too, as well as many "punk" songs.. repetition is not a hallmark of quality nor lack thereof.
subprocess.run(f"curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh", shell=True)

Just went from "cool project, might try it" to "nope".
And with all 3 combined you get 2007 Google Maps
> I have exactly one C to C cable in my house, and a lot of A to B or C cables. So what if it violates the USB C spec? The Nintendo Switch violates the C spec too. Perhaps they should have made the spec a little more straightforward?

You may or may not be surprised, but other people have different mixes of tech. I'm past the halfway point in A to C, it's more troublesome now to find an open A port or cable than the other way around.

If you excuse bad behavior by companies, they'll gladly take advantage of that. Letting them blame the spec is foolish. It's not _that_ hard to get at least the basics right. Many do it fine.
their AI would never
> What would be nice is some automation to allow yt-dlp to subscribe to channels and pull down the latest videos for you.

Point yt-dlp at the channel url, and use yt-dlp's --download-archive option.

Result, new, not before downloaded, items get downloaded.

Wire up to cron to run periodically, you have an "auto-downloader".
>...ask if he is credible

It would not matter if the most credible source alive said it, I would still ask this question: if what they are saying is true, then it's possible to prove it without needing to take what they or anyone else says on faith alone. If you remove what he or people in general from the question, to date I have not found the evidence in support of extraterrestrial visitation of earth very convincing. Plenty of plane-recorded footage capturing strange visuals, but an absolute lack of anything that does not also have a plausible non-alien explanation.
I’m a huge skeptic, but I’ve been following this very closely over the past few months.
Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already. They should be here already. The paradox is about why we don’t see them.
Being skeptical is different than doubt-by-default. A skeptic is curious and slow to judge. So with great curiosity, I’ve dug deep into the rabbit hole.
It appears that the vast majority of those in “ufology” are in it for the money. Many claims about extraterrestrials also veer off into the supernatural. Conspiracy theories have a funny attraction to one another, creating clumps of exuberant irrationality.
But the recent case of David Grusch and the rebranding of UFOs as UAPs and aliens as NHI (non human intelligence), are a sign that clear (but skeptical) thinking is growing on this topic.
Grusch isnt (yet) making money off this. He appears entirely trustworthy in a way that is off-color for this topic. Assuming he isn’t a world class con playing the long-game, his credibility suggests three possibilities:
1. He has bad data, by accident or incompetence 2. He has bad data, by purposeful deceit 3. He has good data.
The cool thing about Grusch is he doesn’t claim to have first-hand knowledge. He claims to have the names of people who do, and the locations associated with the “crash-retrieval” program.
What’s more likely, that there is no other intelligent life in the galaxy, or that an advanced civilization that has been around for eons isn’t all that interested in engaging with the local wildlife? The most credible UAP reports don’t involve the fantastic stories of abduction, crop-circles, ancient pyramids, etc. The credible reports have what appear to be reconnaissance craft with a strong interest in the military and nuclear weapons.
In short, it’s worth supporting Grusch and having his names and places checked out. The answer to Fermi’s paradox is an important one for humanity — as central as whether the sub revolves around the earth or the earth revolves around the sun.
At the very least, we should be curious skeptics.
As the head of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Sean Kirkpatrick, said recently, “wouldn’t that be fun?” if we discovered evidence we were not alone.
Back in the 90s when the PlayStation was released, Sony Computer Entertainment America implemented rules about which sorts of games would and would not be approved: specifically, you needed to be developing 3D polygon games. If you were developing a sprite-based game, you were likely unable to get approval to publish it. We missed out on a lot of great Japanese sprite based games this way, simply because they didn't fit into SCEA's marketing strategy based around the idea that sprites are old hat, and the PlayStation is the sexy new console that leaves all that behind in favor of 3D polygons.

Of course, Sony made exceptions to this policy for major publishers and their big-ticket franchises like Capcom with Street Fighter...
Ublock Origin works better on Firefox. I see no ads on there.

Not that it's going to matter anyway:

- Youtube's experimenting with a strike system for adblockers

- while they're getting spammed with AI generated content

- and trying to charge a stupidly high $15 a month for "ad-free" access for a bundle where no-one wants what's in the bundle except for no ads and background-playback on phones.

If youtube goes ahead with their strike system, doesn't clear out their AI spam, and doesn't unbundle their overpriced premium subscription, I'll probably end up switching to nebula. $50 a year (~ $4 a month) for human created content without ads.
When it happens in an article like this it's more commonly called a strawman.
Kinda hard to make a competitor if you can't scrape the web because curl hasn't been blessed
I don't know that wooden fence posts get warrantied because its highly dependent on the install.
Smaller target, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854102 https://github.com/e2b-dev/agent-protocol "Agent Protocol" was submitted yesterday, & reminds me of this a little. This is definitely a bigger, more overarching thing.
Not high enough fast enough, if the current policy is to be trusted.
I use Clojure at work but wow do I miss just about everything about Common Lisp whenever I have to debug anything or want performant code. Being able to be in nested errors and click at any part of the stack to inspect lexical bindings is extremely useful, and more importantly, clicking on an object then pushing M-<RET> to copy it to my REPL is much nicer than what Clojure offers (tap>, which I consider a glorified pretty printer even if you use tools like Portal).

As for performance, well, Common Lisp lets you statically type things, and SBCL can emit really efficient code if you do this. I find it helpful to run DISASSEMBLE on my own code to see what exactly is being emitted and optimize from there. And more importantly, packages like SB-SIMD and Loopus are a god send for any number crunching application.
> I wonder what it was like 30 years ago.

Aside from "people were watching movies or playing games on their phone", it was the same.
Well, the main one was my Ph.D. dissertation, which I can’t really describe because it’d dox me. But suffice it to say lots of other people thought it was a good idea too (journals, conferences, dissertation committee).

I came up with and implemented a programming language too, that was fun. Dunno if that was a good idea but it was certainly new.

Also an operating system based on that language.
Someone is or someones are launching a book, public speaking, vlog, and Netflix series to get some of that sweet Discovery Ancient Aliens' cash.
Right there with you. I didn't start listening to hiphop until college. Did a lot of Indie in highschool, that's sorta out now. Electronic music has completely changed for me. I've been loving this new wave of music that'll change genres mid song to just hit the right vibe. It's fun to watch all the stuff that you heard in middle/high school be thrown in a blender and turned into Hyperpop. DnB has been sneaking into all sorts of genres as has chiptune. The availability means things like city pop can shine.

What do I want to listen to today? Japanese garage rock? Phonk? Industrial Hip hop? This was so much harder to do even in the torrenting era. Music has such a low amount of time investment to listen to, why not just try everything if there's no additional cost?

There is one part of me that sorta misses the era when I'd get twenty albums and that was 3 months of music. I'd know them back to front, get excited at the ending notes of one song as I got hyped about the next one. The lack of commitment has made me more like a humming bird flitting from one flower to the next.
Lol yes this is what I am trying to run away from ironically! Forget Elm and HTMX for a second: I would like to use Django because it should be boring tech to get the job done. HTMX allows you to have interaction without JS using HTML-like primitives. I would just learn what I need. Elm is something I used before but not really needed! More of an indulgence. Vanilla JS will do though. No need for Elm or React for side projects.

I am trying to avoid the nextjs/react/ etc stuff where I spend half my time on tooling issues. JS itself is nightmarish (people complain about python dependencies but I haven’t yet seen a big issue yet) but node JS weird module errors and myriad places things are configured and that you usually have build steps etc. Makes me want to get away from that.

You don’t need to “keep up”. You don’t need to know all 100 ways to make a sausage. Just make sausages. Occasionally tweak the machine.
Why do you think that the effort required would be significant? All they have to do is paint anyone claiming to have experienced it as a delusional crank and relegate those beliefs to the fringe. Even people like Michael Burry who had some level of insight into the GFC before it happened is these days often written off as a crank or is the subject of cliches like "even a broken clock is right twice a day". I don't think keeping it a secret is as important as keeping the idea in the domain of fantasy.
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What do solar panels have to do with it? What color are solar panels? Do they produce less heat island effect than "blacktop"?
You think the kind of people who know about things like this would have told Trump?
> with a debugger, after you fix the application, you still have to restart and run it again. the big benefit here is that no restart is required.

We like to make sure everything running in prod is verifiably built from source in-repo. So that's the thing, while it's a really snazzy feature for sure, the value over the rest of the world is on the questionable side. At least for our use case, but I think it's true for most use cases.

edit: Also really curious about your smalltalk and pharo experience. Sounds fascinating!
In fairness to her, I went into a US Greyhound trip expecting it to be like long distance Australian coaches and got a similar impression to hers.

Crumbling mouldy stations. Buses that were four hours late with no announcement, and staff that literally laughed and said "it's Greyhound" when asked how late the bus would be. Weird invasive disempowering things, like bag checks because someone was seen flicking a knife shut in the station, or getting kicked out of the station to wait. Every other passenger was hostile at needing to run the Greyhound gauntlet, with the exception of the meth addict from Arizona who was absolutely lovely and had a nice chat with me, and I couldn't blame them for it.

It's hard to describe because it sounds like the kind of problems that apply to any bus system. They are, but for some reason they happen every trip with Greyhound, and they're all dialled up to 11. Anyone who's ridden one has the most godawful stories about it.
These are my go to cables

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093YVRHMB

- USB C/USB A on one end

- USB C/Lightning/micro USB on the other end

- 10 GB/s data

- supports video over USB C (I have a portable external display that gets power and video over USB C)

- 100W charging

- USB 3.1
> How he procured it should be of no consequence

The procurement was part of the agreed-upon conditions of the sale, so it is.
No problem here you go, an entire book - backed by facts - that all but prove his case:

https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1...
I’m just thinking aloud here but would this enable actual perpetual motion machines? For instance, wouldn’t the pushback from the quantum locked superconductor be an infinite source of energy?
Ask HN: What is your stack (hardware, OS, apps, subscriptions)? Cost per mth/yr?
I am redesigning my life right now and am exploring ways to do more with less.

HN is where the heavyweights doing big things hang out, no better place than here to ask.

Hope this thread is useful to others.