skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a somewhat credible theory that the inventor of bitcoin is dead now. That could explain why his bitcoins are untouched and why he doesn't emerge to claim credit for his invention.
Tatsuaki Okamoto is actually a real, living cryptographer however. Not hard to google.

https://www.rd.ntt/e/organization/researcher/fellow/f_001.ht...
reply from Juan Linietsky (BDFL of Godot)
https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef...

discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598985
We have an inalienable right to privacy. That means it doesn’t matter what others say or do, it’s ours to have. The UK government is now failing to guarantee this.

“He who sacrifices liberty for safety deserves neither and will lose both.”
OpenStreetMap also shows it as disconnected, as part of a change made after this happened.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/35.78116/-81.28272
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/126938081

The nodes on either side claim that there are barriers here.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10072951700
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10072951701

The comment on the changeset says "24th St Pl NE bridge over Snow Creek has been out for several years and will not be repaired. The road continues down to the creekside (and bridge wreckage) from both sides and is a serious hazard to drivers not familiar with the area. A man was killed"
The risk of technology was predicted by Michael Scott:

https://youtu.be/DOW_kPzY_JY?si=CLFdmmo1zqyZste-
That's disturbingly brutal for a professional interaction. I wouldn't want to work in an office where that's a thing that happens–whether it happens to me or watching it happen to someone else.

("Then you would never get to work for a genius like the great Miyazaki, haha!" Sure, I understand that. That isn't a novel observation: he's far from the only celebrity genius in the world who gets away with abusing their underlings, who's so great and amazing that people are willing to turn a blind eye to their personality issues. They say "never meet your heroes").
One of the details mentioned in the article is that the ICO (the UK data protection regulator) has reportedly already given its blessing to what is going on here. That's interesting because it suggests that either the nature of the system and any potential risks it brings are being overstated by its critics or the public service that explicitly exists to regulate such systems isn't effectively limiting the power of the state where it should. Those are very different situations and I don't think there's enough objective information in the article to tell which is happening.
There were some scientific studies done that support exactly what you suggest. People in expensive cars are less likely to yield. However the research may have been done by some of the behaviour economists recently busted for cheating. ;0)
And a bunch of travel cards under Felica, like Suica, Pasmo... The Suica card also stores a quite long travel history.
you should finish reading. they failed with replacement and went back to erlang. though it's not 100% pure erlang
This argument is valid word for word for art, domain names, houses... So I guess you should be willing to follow your logic to the same conclusion in those cases too.
LOL , exactly what I was thinking .

Either he has 0 self awareness, has gone complete senile , or he is at the top of cow dung pushers.I tend to think he is at top of the dung pushing business.
I can imagine several security issues with accepting any kind of input in your program.
Maybe a guidance counselor or pastoral role? Who do the police call when they find a student misbehaving, who calls the parents when the kid is repeatedly absent, who talks to CPS if the kid is avoiding going home.
By the same token (no pun) the inventor might not have been alive in the first place, at least not as a singular individual. Individuals sitting on billions find it very hard to keep quiet about it.
The straightforward thing to do is tax the carbon atoms in fuels.

Carbon credits, carbon footprint, biofuels, ESG investing, etc., are all nonsense.
Sadly a lot of kids only have one portal to the internet and that’s through a school device.

Otherwise the advice should be, as you said, to never use a school device for anything not explicitly required by the school. But when there’s no other route, surveilled access is better than none, I guess?

It’s a tough quandary though - schools can be held liable, at least socially so if not legally, if kids use school provided devices for all the things kids use devices for that they shouldn’t. Meeting sexual predators, bullying, etc. Many parents are technically incapable of monitoring their online activity, others too busy. Schools are being put in a weird spot of being access providers to an adult world online, not just educators.

I’ll wager a lot of school surveillance started with parents demanding it.

It’s a tough subject, I don’t have the answer. My intuition tells me schools shouldn’t be involved in access OR monitoring, but I also understand the “digital divide” isn’t just a media term. A lot of pretty smart kids live in a pretty neglected context, and without access to sources of fact like Wikipedia or sources of dubious plagiarism like ChatGPT (tongue in cheek), they’re at a structural disadvantage that can’t be overcome through hard work alone.
I only read the first Dune book, but I feel like the recent-ish movie did a pretty good job following what happened in the book.
VR headset sales are about 7% of laptop sales in the US, about 20 million units a year vs 280 million

There's no way 280M laptops are being sold in US every year. Where did you get that data?
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Even if he is alive the lottery curse is probably good enough reason to never claim them now.

When the coins were only worth a few million he could've cashed out then but now he's just in for permanent trouble.
>Even assuming 1%, for an airline to lose $10,000 in profit, you would have to be spending $10,000 / 0.01 = $1M per year on that credit card.

I think you missed the part where they're losing ALL of my business, including dozens of flights a year.

>I assume there are lots of smart people working at airlines that can work out which of their policies earn and lose money, especially now that all the competition is minimal except on the most popular routes.

I assume they think customers with lots of miles banked won't go through the effort of dropping them entirely. I think they're wrong.

When you're losing customers that have million miler+ status, you've made a pretty poor decision.
I've used all except Kakoune. For me, Neovim is the one that stuck. Helix is cool, but having no plugins is a deal breaker (for now!) The onboarding experience is much nicer for sure, and Helix's LSP is way easier to set up than Neovim's.

That being said, Neovim, once you get it set up, is great. The biggest hurdle for me was the config, but if you just start from scratch and make a light config (mines about 200-300 lines, with LSP, hints, etc) you can get through it. And you never have to touch it again, since most likely you configured it in a way you like. Well unless you wanna add the occasional plugin. There are also distros of Neovim that contain a fully baked IDE-lite experience, but honestly those have extremely complicated config, and often IME don't feel nice and light.

It's definitely not for everyone. There is that time investment to get started, but it's definitely been worth it for me.

My config: https://github.com/wrapperup/nvim-config
> Helix plugin for VSCode

Which one?
Back in school (mid-90's), I made a point of taking a FORTRAN introductory class to go along with all the other work I was doing in Pascal, C++, Lisp, etc.

For most of the class, FORTRAN felt mostly like a penalty box. It was full of behaviors and limitations that dated straight back to the early 1960's, if not earlier. It was at least easy to make it do the things it could do.

Where my opinion of FORTRAN changed was in the last time that class met. By that point, we 'knew' the language and the instructor was on to more advanced topics, including optimization. He made a point of how an optimizing FORTRAN compiler could re-nest three nested loops for the purpose of automatically improving memory access patterns. Vector Cray machines (which implemented common looping patterns in hardware) shipped with FORTRAN compilers that could take normal-looking loops and turn them into code that optimized for the hardware.

I don't know if it's still the case (thanks to restrict and better compilers), but he made a compelling point at the time for the simplicity and restrictions of the language leading to more options for optimization.
Pollination by more than one bee species found to improve cherry harvest
Lisp was a thing before PHP, and software engineers did use it but it never reached the popularity of PHP. It is in the end a question of being pragmatic, which PHP and Perl are.
Fortran has a lot more (N-dimensional) array logic intrinsic to the language than C or C++ does, and in general, Fortran has a fair number of "little" things that can add up for optimization:

* Fortran arrays do not alias by default. (This is the most well-known, and is indeed repeated in the answers on StackOverflow)

* Fortran N-D array indexes are UB if they go out-of-bounds in a way that isn't true for most other languages. In C, if you have a declaration `int x[2][3];`, the expression `x[0][4]` is a legal way to access one of the elements--it's only UB to go outside the bounds of x as a whole, not individual rows. In Fortran, the equivalent expression (well, modified because Fortran is column-major) is illegal.

* Fortran has built in array expressions--you can express a vector addition just by adding the arrays themselves. This makes it easier to autovectorize.
They tried buying Linksys, and it was neither of those. They sold them later.
> Germany is still a great country for people like me:

Any country in the world is great for people like us, even the dumbest IT worker will make 2x the min wage of the locals.

Don't forget we're the main cause of gentrification too, we're the reason why locals have to flee the city centers
The reply where one asks ChatGPT if it's an anagram of Satoshi Nakamoto made me laugh.

Not because of the answer, but because of even thinking of using an LLM to figure out it can't be.
It was raining, night and the barriers weren't there in 2022. The bridge also has a very unfortunate still in place guard rails going from one side to the other, so only the bottom of the bridge is collapsed, which adds to the illusion that the bridge is still there in the previously mentioned conditions. :/
Simple ballpoint pen can write custom LEDs
It’s harder to compare these numbers than you might think.

The US numbers get seriously fudged via the 12.4% cough 6.2% social security payments etc. Germany pays 7.3% for health insurance which looks bad except we pay 2.9% for Medicare without being able to use it so it’s more like 4.4% for health and dental insurance for 366/Month @100K which doesn’t look so bad.

Of course when people are talking 100k salaries in the US this stuff is baked in so the underlying numbers aren’t necessarily important only achievable take home pay and cost of living.
Everyone had a little radio/tapedeck/cd player. I had like a half dozen of these devices laying around my home. You go on a walk and everyone has one of these things strapped to their hip. I assume business people still want to listen to the baseball game taking the commuter rail home.
Sorry to hear. My aunt died of ALS, so my sister and I scheduled some tests with a neurologist for some peace of mind.
https://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/author.php?authorkey=59

Is the insinuation that Tatsuaki Okamoto is Satoshi Nakamoto? Or that Okamoto worked for the NSA?

It seems plausible that Okamoto adopted a pseudonym which shares DNA with his real name if he's a private individual, but I rather think that if he worked for the NSA, he would go to greater lengths to conceal his identity.
It's definitely possible. But one could think of plenty of other hypotheses for why they're unmoved and why he hasn't taken credit.

In my opinion, there was a real (but vague) clue to his identity that was not a red herring: the IP leak in the debug logs he sent to Hal Finney. He used Tor most of the time but briefly slipped up and likely divulged his real, residential IP address. If that's the case, then he was living in California, possibly around the LA area, as of January 2009.

https://whoissatoshi.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/satoshi-in-cal...
The flipside is, which alarm bells should be rung? At the time there was not much concern over the other more popular curves being backdoored, and now there is. Some people have switched curves because they saw Bitcoin use another curve. Maybe that was it. The alarm bells were possibly already rung.
So is Justice Thomas.
Aside from the high-level concept of some cryptography based cash, there's nothing there to indicate any similarity with bitcoin.
Why can't Canadian tech companies be just as profitable? The North American market is fairly unified; there are few obstacles to Canadian companies selling in the USA. What are they missing?
This looks great!! I really love how it clearly explains the expected input format, and the real-time validator is super-slick! Seriously one of the best mass-entry tools that I've seen!
I'm so glad I don't have children in school in the UK. There seems to be so much going on that has nothing to do with education. I'm glad that when I was at school in the sixties and seventies in the UK none of that existed and teachers pretty much just taught.

How did this sort of thing creep into schools without anyone protesting?
Show HN: Open-Source Player for TV Apps (can stream URLs + YouTube/Vimeo/Twitch)
## Why Another Player?

I've spent years working with various OTT players on big-screen devices. During this journey, two persistent challenges surfaced time and again: performant UI and compatible media encodings. These hurdles often forced me to heavily customise libraries and tackle streaming issues, leading to added costs and frustrating delays.

So I decided to build an open-source media player component for big-screen TV devices, that aims lower the barrier to entry.

## What Sets It Apart?

It's designed for TV experiences out of the box, complete with customisable UI and arrow key navigation. In addition to handling HLS and Dash streams, it tackles the challenge of playing YouTube and Vimeo urls directly on TV, saving the hassle and cost of additional custom video encoding.

I hope it's of use to some of you in your big-screen web apps. Feedback welcome.
I'm curious about this memory things with the Macs. I was looking at Airs with M2, and the memory is only 8G. Is that the limit, if I'm say... running containers and applications?

Where can I learn more?

I don't understand how one can ship a computer today with only 8G of mem. My phone has more than that. Are developers able to work with this amount of mem, or are they forking out $3k + for a Pro with 24G?

I went with a Framework because I got good hardware for way less money
Does the subscription count at all, towards “selling”?
sure, but that's the same argument against any form of incompatible change.

it was used against the fish shell for example. yet eventually it started getting acceptance. the same may happen with kakoune. i tried using it myself. i wasn't so much bothered by the changes. i had different issues. i got burned by kakoune overwriting a file without warning me. vim would not have done that. and i couldn't get over the fact that kak means shit in some languages. it will take some more effort to overcome that and give it another try.
This is a bit racist. So they cite a source with a Japanese name that sounds a bit like Satoshi Nakamoto, so he must be the same guy?
Fair, but this is getting fixed. Postgres 16 (which was just released) adds an origin tag to logical replication, so that you can know whether or not to pass on a change (and avoid having an infinite loop where a change is replicated back and forth). That's the first step to having multiple mains. I think in theory, if you had deep Postgres knowledge, you could set up a high touch, bespoke multi-main deployment today.

I expect the replication story with Postgres will get much better over the next few years.
The people who actually act responsibly tend to be ousted and replaced by those who instead primarily look after profits. See my other comment.
Are paper wine bottles the future? These companies think so
Just curious. Why are you so motivated by getting into a FAANG company?
> when you have a golden parachute deal it's better for you to literally bankrupt the company than to play it safe

Never thought about it this way, but yeah, it makes sense to me!
MobX does not rerender entire components.

Unlike Redux at that time (~2016), it was a first approach where minimum rendering was happening effortlessly.

You can have a list of components where each component references a bit of global state and rerenders only if that bit changes, even though the list might have enlarged or other elements changed.

Last time I used it (2016-2020), they used all of the tricks of the trade, get, set object attributes, dropped decorators and it still worked the same.
I was thinking way earlier than that. My grandparents had a Scientific Atlanta box connected to their giant piece-of-furtniture Hughs and Mathis TV. This was late 80s, early 90s, long before digital TV, or cable having more than 30 or 40 channels.
I am not trying to say the boundaries are clear between the choices, but that the government and regulation shouldn't be making that decision for you. Prophylactic law or trying to legislate intelligence.
They're not asking you to 'do' anything, the opposite, they list items that you should not delete in case they are needed during the discovery process.
When I signed up for OSM about 8 years ago I checked the box "I consider my contribution public domain". I then saw what looks like my edits show up in google maps a few months later. (I have no idea if google maps imported OSM, or if they did an independent edit) I don't see such a box in my account settings now, so I'm guessing they removed it, but at one time at least it was legally possible.
I am not as inclined as you to think that accidentally creating an unsound type system is no big deal. Soundness is exactly the property that makes type systems useful. Note the adverb at the beginning of the paper’s abstract:

> Fortunately, parametric polymorphism was not integrated into the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), so these examples do not demonstrate any unsoundness of the JVM.
> On stage, Gelsinger teased what he claimed would be the "world's largest AI supercomputer in Europe," and one of the "top 15 AI supercomputers in the world."

Disregarding what constitutes an "Ai supercomputer", surely "world's largest AI supercomputer in Europe" would just be Europe's largest Ai supercomputer?
Douglas Adams didn't mention billionaires, but they should definiately be on the B Ark as well.
https://everything2.com/title/B+Ark

BTW "Don't look up" is worth a watch. Although it seems almost as much a documentary as a parody.
Is anyone else annoyed by headlines like this? It's clickbait adjacent "Counterintuitive, I must click to learn more."

But the reality is, airlines are still airlines. They fly people from A to B, employ many thousands of pilots, flight attendants, baggage handlers, etc. In other words, no, they're not banks. Not by any normal definition.
Inside the West’s Mammoth Effort to Turn Ordinary Ukrainians into Soldiers
> They frequently refuse to provide builtin drivers for standard interfaces and, whenever they do, usually as second class citizens, _even_ when it is their own standard (e.g. MTP).

At least Windows comes with MTP support OOTB. macOS to this day doesn't.
Yeah I noticed they moved to a “hub” model which I think encourages that. Not a bad thing imo, companies were already treating it this way and they just formalized it. Fwiw, this was our first product hunt post for our product.
>destroyed tens of millions of families by purposely dividing the USA with your half-truths, your lies, and your dog-whistle pandering

This makes it sound like there are two sides, where one side is smart and is never fooled by propaganda, and the other side is easily gulled by flashy TV effects.
Other than that the NSA have large amounts of cryptographers working on the exact problem of digital cash, some of which they release to the public and academia.
Visa and Mastercard just operate the network, they do not control the funds or take on any credit risk. Amex and Discover do operate as lenders, and also operate the network.
Rust has aliasing guarantees. In theory, Rust code can pass noalias annotations to LLVM and become more optimized.

In practice, it took years for Rust access these optimizations because the noalias annotations kept hitting codegen bugs in LLVM. It was an area of the compiler that had not seen much active use before Rust, and they were causing a lot of dormant bugs to become issues.

The feedback cycle was also very long because LLVM didn't fix the problems quickly. I didn't pay close attention so I don't know if this is prioritization or because those fixes required major surgery, but Rust sometimes had to wait for major version bumps in LLVM before seeing if "this time was the last time."
This was a roller coaster
not me thinking about the “not emulator” first, and I drink it!
For those interested, a podcast episode from 2021

> The Smoke and Mirrors of ESG Investing with Tariq Fancy

https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-es...

> Environmental, social and governance investing, also know as ESG, has exploded in recent years. It promises to help us solve problems like climate change and inequality all while allowing investors to still turn a profit.

> But BlackRock’s former global chief investment office for sustainable investing, Tariq Fancy, says it isn't what's being advertised. Recently, he penned a blog post claiming that not only are ESGs not making societal problems better, they may actively be making them worse.
Precisely. Cronkite did one thirty-minute show per day, and he himself was only on for part of it.

It's not difficult to acquire the ten minutes worth of actual news per day. If you're consuming more than that, the problem isn't with the anchor. It's that you want to be entertained rather than informed.
Dude, if you want to make women second class citizens, just come right out and say it. No need to be shy about it.
It's mainly because he thinks "Tatsuaki Okamoto" (達明 岡本) sounds suspiciously like "Satoshi Nakomoto" (サトシ な子元). But that might be more due to the syllable structure of Japanese, compare the hiragana of each: たつあき おかもと and さとし なこもと
Is this a blog-article? Why is there so much meaningless talk about irrelevant details?

And why has a project that claims to offer new views, no example of those views? No screenshots, video, whatever to explain what it really sells.
This isn't new at all. Why do you think those big companies have company "boxes" at major sporting stadiums? its certainly not so their rank and file employees can enjoy the game.

or golf trips, fancy dinners, etc.
Is there a place where you can try those (from a user perspective)? I only saw screenshots not a link, but I may have missed it.
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