skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you not see that it's draconian?

You may think it's no biggy since the limit will be so high.

1. First of all, when party A contracts with party B, party C (that's you) does not have a moral right to dictate an upper limit on how many times they can do that or what the terms can be as long as the transaction is legal and A and B are willing participants.

Thus, either A or B can build up an arbitrary amount of wealth and you have exactly zero to say about it. Would you have similar concerns for people who have a disproportionate number of friends, or sex partners, or hit songs, or hell, even votes?

2. If there were to be an upper limit, what is the limit? Today it's a billion dollars. What if it's 100m next, then 10m, then 1m, then 100k? What happens after a couple of decades or centuries of inflation? I suspect you don't care about this because the limit seems far out of reach to you. And so it might be - for now.

3. If there was a limit, who will decide what it should be? What are their incentives? Do you really want a jury of your peers reviewing your financials and drawing lines through it?

4. If there was a limit, who will enforce it? And how? Hand over a check or you go to prison?

There's no way to implement this without an authoritarian regime that has unlimited power over its citizens.
Not quite.

islower is actually supposed to account for the user's "locale", which includes their language.

The key takeway is that lowercasing a string needs to be done on the whole string, not individual characters, even if std::string had a way to iterate over codepoints instead of bytes (or code units, in the case of wstring).

And there isn't a standard way to do that, you either meed to use a platform specific API, like the windows function mentioned, or use a library like ICU.
You could perceive (maybe? Depends on how it's hooked up) a future (a simulation based the information you have), but there's no reason to think that's what the future is with certainty. Map/territory stuff too.
You literally listed all things that are funded by taxes (schools, FEMA, medicare/medicaid). Sigh.
Also they didn't bother to ask Peter the story behind this? There is a story regarding an entirely different pot of coins.
Billionaires flaunt their wealth via yachts, mansions, space rockets and super-PACs. Which to me seems way more fun than getting your name on a tax list…
These 11 peope were kidnapped for their bitcoin.

https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-home-invasion-crime-ring/
Headline: ‘I am not Satoshi Nakamoto’: Subject of HBO documentary denies he invented bitcoin

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/08/investing/satoshi-nakamoto-i...
Well I wouldn't put it quite like that either.. because you have to be careful what you mean by 'simulate' and 'easier'.

There could be multiple ways to simulate the same system, i.e. produce the same evolutionary output steps. Wolfram tends to imply there is only one most-expensive way for systems that are computationally irreducible and that way is grinding through a recursive computation. I think that's partly because the simple experiments, like cellular automata, he used to come up with this principle actually explore the 'space of simple rules', not the 'space of ordered sets of states of systems'.

Of course the latter is a much more computationally expensive things to do but it seems to me it would generalise better to the universe. Because in the universe what we're really observing is the evolution of states not the outputs of rules. There may be other hidden assumptions in the principle if you assume that all systems can and do evolve from simple rules as much of Physics does. Nevertheless, you need a high bar if you're going to state universal principles.

Perhaps the simplest way to state the principle is: say we set up a simple iterative computation where the input to step n, is the output of step n-1. Then there's no way to compute state n without having previously computes states n-2, n-3 etc. That's what he means by irreducible. In other words it's "necessarily recursive" which may be a better and more focused term.

I'm cautious about making it mean more than that, since Wolfram tends to write in great leaps of conclusions without showing us his working. Nevertheless I enjoy following his ideas, and I did find aspects of this article quite thought provoking.
"Alleged Satoshis" are generally public, almost by definition. We would notice if they disappeared. We would also notice if the well-known Satoshi-associated wallets had any activity, which would be an unavoidable signal if any such kidnapping succeeded in finding the real one. Not everything is a deep mystery.
Some schools ban simple classics like Mark Twain or To Kill A Mocking Bird. They can F right off.
Frontend is a perpetual hamster wheel I've never wanted any part of. Meanwhile, as an end user, sites are slow and unreliable to interact with.
Here is what I dictate: this is fucking stupid and I'm tired of seeing this nonsense parroted.

Working on your own engine gives you a level of understanding that cannot otherwise be obtained. It's like writing your own OS. This is very much a worthwhile endeavour. People should be encouraged to write their own crap, even if they don't end up using it on the job or whatever (whoever the fuck said this was the only metric for deciding what to work on?) because of the level of insight it provides.

Generic engines like UE5 and Unity break down both in terms of functionality and performance the moment you do something they are not intended to do. They are also an overkill for a project of the scale shared here. From an engineering perspective, it's absolutely ridiculous to use an engine for this project.

So please stop parroting this nonsense. Use your goddamn brain to form opinions. There isn't an off-the-shelf engine for that.
A mockumentary on crypto would be much more interesting at this point.
I am an armchair economist regarding SG, but I would that say semiconductor manuf has been heavily subsidised by the gov't. As I understand, the "one trick" is to "get the plant built". They do whatever it takes to get the next plant built. Once built, it is very hard (economically) to stop running a semiconductor plant. This creates long-lasting, genuine economic growth for SG.

Also, their petro-chemical industry is surprisingly large for a tiny country. I'm not talking about the simple trading of crude oil and gas; I'm talking about real value add by refineries and chemical plants. Again, I am not an expert here, but I assume that the SG gov't provided handsome benefits to the global supermajors to build huge refineries and chemical plants.
Would be a pretty amusing black comedy. They kidnap the potential Satoshi, who is actually Satoshi but they’re not sure. [hijinx added here]. Then in the process of torturing him, they accidentally kill him before he reveals the password. And then it’s confirmed he’s who they wanted.
I’d say it stops being a useful descriptor at that point. If any activity that a person can possibly find rewarding in any way can be addictive, then everything is addictive. Because for any activity that you can possibly think of, you’ll find definitely find somebody who likes doing it.

By this criteria, I’m sure you’ll be able to find at least one eating glass addict somewhere in the world. But if we can stretch the definition to include glass as an addictive substance, then it kinda stops meaning anything at all.

And when I say these innovative addiction diagnoses are controversial, I mean within the community of clinical experts, which they are.
Oof polymarket betters rekt
That smells like the Universe is the best Computer for computing the future of the Universe tautology.
This is from 2023
An algorithm for truth maybe (2023)
Truth Discovery
It's incredibly dangerous of these "journalists". Putting targets on people's back as well as possibly being slander.

Any bitcoin oldheads know it's not Peter Todd based on tons of behavioral, timestamped, and logistical evidence. The actual leading candidate is Len Sassaman if you look objectively at the evidence.
Related:

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778633
Pretty sure the guy who goes around saying "I am Satoshi" is not, in fact, Satoshi.
I think about the truck driver who drove the first batch of Covid vaccines, or the driver of the first batch of h100's or whatever you deem significant. If they wanted 15 minutes in the spotlight and were denied, or if it was never offered.
The human internet is dying. AI images are taking over Google top results
Cypherpunk and cyberpunk are totally unrelated.
One of my favorite hacks of yore was somehow some folks managed to compromise the iPod to that point that they could run some of their code, and make a beep.

They compressed the ROM, and "beeped" it out, wrapping the iPod in an acoustic box, recording it, and then decoding it to decode the ROM.
He literally only cites himself in that article…

https://media1.tenor.com/m/v6Awsd0YO7IAAAAd/metal-gear-risin...
You must be aware somewhere that both sides of every single trade are in it because they find a benefit in that trade, right? Some need the cash, some need to turn cash into investments, some are changing their minds from favoring firm A to favoring firm B, etc, etc. All the way to pension funds ... doing the exact same thing.

You can imagine other ways to do it (but good luck making these other ways "fair" or "efficient" or "fast") - or you can recognize that a market is an elegant (in the engineering sense) way to do it. Once you have a market, you also want liquidity. Anyone who tried buying or selling illiquid shares (or illiquid goods), knows how much of a pain is lack of liquidity. It truly is desirable.
linear algebra notation is the real notation (on a blackboard). aka the language of AI. the medium is just the message format.
What material was your pipes besides the joints?
Most kidnappings seem to involve kidnapping people who do in fact have the resources to pay to some extent.

They don’t seem to occur in a speculative fashion where “maybe this person can pay…”.

Anyone who knows, knows the coins haven’t been touched in a suspiciously long time, and moving Bitcoin is not always anonymous…
Intelligence Killed Genius (2021)
The author certainly makes this a plausible explanation. And yet I am thinking- if this is indeed the case, why we did not see similar payments this size more often?
Funny you should say this, because most work on the halting problem is reducing the systems down to equations that are easier to calculate.
Without time you’d be everything all at once, which isn’t capable of having an experience, that is to also say: a location.

To have experience, requires position relative to the all, the traversal of the all is time.

More like a play head on a tape, you’re the play head traversing and animating your own projection.
>“Until then, it was considered eccentric to care so much about an animal that you would bury it,” Koudounaris says.

The thing that I think is evolving rapidly in our era is empathy for other beings, human and also animal. To understand what it would be like to be in their shoes and understand that very little separates us from them. It's not all about selfishness and just looking out for yourself and what happens to you. I know many will disagree, but that's what it looks like from a zoomed out view of our history to me. I think love and empathy is a natural progression that accompanies intelligence. And that comforts me about the universe.
Ask HN: What's your worst programming blunder and/or code you're most proud of
This was a question that went around at a monthly team social meeting, (might be common for all I know) but I thought it incited some good discussions/laughs.

I pushed a "fix" (what ended up being breaking changes) to our demo environment 20 mins before a company wide demo. Fortunately I live in a terminal, so I was able to ssh in and spam cli commands + vi fast enough to get things going again with only a slightly awkward introduction delay. I also neglected to remake the MX records when migrating our domain, leading to a few days of email silence.

Nothing too bad tho, all things considered. Would love to hear other's responses.
A lot of old timers in this space have been subject to kidnapping and ransom attacks, some real and some merely threatened, as well as more mundane phone porting and SWAT'ing. These don't make the news.

Then there are the other crypto people who have met grisly ends: Bob Lee and Li Chiming, as well as the suspicious deaths of John Forsyth, Tiantian Kullander, Vyacheslav Taran, and Park Mo. Not candidates for Satoshi, but it goes to show that "outing" potential Satoshis is not a safe thing to do.
Show HN: WikiTables - Wikipedia, but just tables
Static single-page website on GitHub Pages. Extracts and displays tables from Wikipedia articles for quick reference.

Great for quickly looking up actor/director filmographies or pro sports stats.

Repo: https://github.com/a4v2d4/WikiTables
I reckon it's James Simon (now deceased) from Rennaisance, heading up a team.
what a weird argument.
> Confiscating all the US billionaires' wealth wouldn't even lower the US's debt by 20%.

so in other word confiscating the wealth of < 1000 people would reduce the US (a nation of ~300 M people) debt by nearly 20%. In other words we could significantly reduce the budget (much less interest payments) by taking away the wealth of ~0.0003% of the population. That seems like a no-brainer in terms of policies (the government makes decisions that takes peoples wealth away every day).
It's basically the same belief system.
GPUs can even run APL as a higher level programming language. It's the only abstract language I've ever heard to run on a GPU. Arrays in, Arrays out. A gpu is array programming hardware.

I hope one day its normal like the 1000s of CPU languages. Would be nice to have more than 10 gpu languages.
Yes "nuclear Winter" was the preexisting cultural artifact. Instead of tossing it off to indicate a world rendered sterile by misuse or overuse of AI, they decided to make it mean "a lack of interest or obsession with the subject" in 1984, while the Cold War was raging.

Since then AI (and Google) has been on a culture jamming rampage to repurpose common dictionary words and common phrases in the age of searching for information. As if their computers were never smart enough to make up unique words and simple phrases for concepts to find people talking about them. Or maybe, everyone is talking and no one is searching or listening?
PMF?
Can you please cite and copy the exact text of the constitution which bases this?

I use this english translation of the constitution for citations:

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2017

Every point in the text is linkable.

Searching the constitution's text for article 4 gives me these:

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2017#s...

An enumeration of the republic's objectives in the context of its international relations.

https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Brazil_2017#s...

What appears to be some historic details concerning the transition from last century's military dictatorship to the democracy.

I still cannot find it.

Anyway...

I'm not exactly a fan of the "it's the court's interpretation" argument. It's an appeal to authority. The authority of these judges is questionable. They aren't real judges whose knowledge of law was tested by competition via concurso público. They're there due to their political connections. When it comes to correct application of the law, I'd sooner trust the judges in the lower courts than the current president's former lawyer.

I'm also not a fan of the word "interpretation". It opens the door to the selective and creative applications of the law. These judges usurped power when they started legislating instead of applying the law as written. I've had actual lawyers complain to my face about cases where these judges just made up their own interpretation instead of doing what the written text says.

I really want to see the article you speak of so that I can at least try to understand the logic they're using.
Nakamoto Satoshi is more like "guy with a lot of wisdom and lives inland".

This is exactly the picture I'd expect from a guy who read a Gibson novel and gave himself a Japanese name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman#/media/File:Len_S...
I don’t really understand the question, because based on the details in the article, SOME people knew he was wealthy, but he wasn’t a public figure

Most people aren’t public figures, wealthy or not

He had a job, a bunch of kids, multiple wives, and a 250 M divorce, among other things.

Obviously some people knew this. It just wasn’t in the public interest, like 99.99999% of things that have ever happened :-)
Our son died. Now we can use his sperm to have a grandchild
Gift tax is a tax on gifts. It's not a tax that happens to be a gift.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Did you mean to write Netscape instead of Netflix?
Howard T. Odum
> Uranium supply is not an issue

I disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783584

> you need to replenish uranium fuel like once in 5 years

At best. Then, if you cannot obtain uranium, your reactor is just a pile of hot waste.
I said to him, ‘What disguise will hide me from the world? What can I find more respectable than bishops and majors?’ He looked at me with his large but indecipherable face. ‘You want a safe disguise, do you? You want a dress which will guarantee you harmless; a dress in which no one would ever look for a bomb?’ I nodded. He suddenly lifted his lion’s voice. ‘Why, then, dress up as an anarchist, you fool!’ he roared so that the room shook. ‘Nobody will ever expect you to do anything dangerous then.’ And he turned his broad back on me without another word. I took his advice, and have never regretted it. I preached blood and murder to those women day and night, and—by God!—they would let me wheel their perambulators.”
Found a rather odd site that seems to have a collection of references about her [1]. One account from The People's Almanac, Vol. 2. says:

> Another of her admirers was Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, who presented America's petition to the Senate on Jan. 29, 1839. "She is without a country, without fortune, and without protection," the Missourian pleaded. "She asks that we grant her a corner of the land which bears the name of her glorious forebear, and for the right of citizenship among those who call themselves Americans".

> Benton did his best, but two committees ruled against the exile. Sen. Robert J. Walker of Mississippi explained that her requests were without precedent. He advised that the lady should take her case to the American public. “This generous, patriotic and enlightened people will do all that Congress is forbidden to do,” he promised.

> His speech touched off a rousing demonstration of faith and affection for the outcast. Senators, representatives and Supreme Court justices contributed varying sums of money to launch a national campaign to help her purchase the “corner” of land she desired. The drive under way, she embarked on a tour that took her to Philadelphia, New York, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cincinnati and Louisville. She was idolized everywhere. “Her path”, one report says, “was strewn with roses, open hands, and confiding hearts.” However, in the spring of 1840 she abruptly terminated her travels. She sailed for Europe, leaving behind the shocking announcement that she did not want the money raised for her because it was not “a national gift.”

So it seems that a group of political elites did privately raise money for her to purchase land, but she abruptly turned it down and returned to Europe for a year instead. Kind of an incredible story, really.

[1] http://fourth-millennium.net/cordwainer-vr/lady-who-sailed-t...
Dogs have been buried even by human hunters millennials ago. Sometime with a last bone in its mouth for the passage to the afterlife.

The dog lived between 25,000 and 24,000 BC....
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-makes-us-human/...

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, lies buried beside his dogs, as requested in his testament. I have lived as a philosopher and wish to be buried as such, without circumstance, without solemn pomp, without splendour. I want to be neither opened nor embalmed. Bury me in Sanssouci at the level of the terraces in a tomb which I have had prepared for myself…
Q: Why are they trying to catch it instead of landing like the Falcon 9s?
reminds me of the way dubai auctions off the 3 digit car license plates, then hotels do things like only letting low number license plates park out front
Cryptocracy
The Future of Work in San Francisco
This panel discussion explores the impact of the pandemic on San Francisco's tech scene, discussing the 'Doom Loop', the rise of remote work, and the potential for a new era of innovation. Experts weigh in on the city's future and the challenges of affordability.
US Says It's Weighing Google Breakup as Monopoly Case Remedy
That still sucks and is prohibitive for indie developers. As the post mentions, in reality this program adds very little value for any of the involved parties.
A Cozy WWDC – Todd Heberlein
Short Seller Hindenburg Goes After Roblox
This coin goes up to 11.
here we go again: criminal speech != free speech. A lot of, if not all of Alexandre de Moraes's decisions are around a real crime that happened Jan 8 2022 with a real coup attempt in Brazil (federal buildings were severely damaged). Some people pretend this didn't happen and come here and hide arguments behind free speech. These "censored" political influencers are investigated under the umbrella of this major case based on people who potentially had a major impact on influencing very simple people to commit crimes against democracy. Brazilian democracy is still at risk and should get support from digital platforms so we don't end up in a digital wild-wild west. This is still under secrecy investigation and the decisions cannot be judged by people who don't even have access to all the case material to begin with. I'm happy that Elon did the right thing. Hope he keeps collaborating with the law so we all can live in peace.
Is there anything positive at all in the Crypto industry?

CO2 emissions, fraud, attacking democracy is on the negative side. What’s on the positive? Why is it still legal?

It feels like Crypto at the systemic level is an open vulnerability not an asset. It’d be nice to have this vulnerability to get fixed.
I've been ignoring frameworks and focusing on mostly vanilla JS and have worked on some of the most interesting and well paying projects for 15 years now. Haven't been following any of the hype, even Typescript. Was forced to do some React/Typescript at work for the first time last year and it was fine. Was able to get up and running in a few days.
https://archive.is/1CSDl
I worked on a data science platform that is being used to accelerate research for diagnosing cancer at early stages and for researching treatments for cancer and other diseases.
This is so true. Anyone trying to learn frontend as a newbie today has an unreasonably hard task at hands. So much unwarranted complexity.

I feel like the backend is just an inherently simpler problem to solve, request in, response out. Largely stateless. Of course there are harder things to do like stateful 2-way connections, but the solutions are mostly concentrated on a couple of technologies. Like yeah we have stuff like graphql, but at the end of the day the principle is the same.
Also in the URL. Both are totally okay, and even desirable. We’ve become so accustomed to managing state in abstractions of the DOM that this seems like a crazy idea, but it has led to all kinds of pain points from complexity to, well, the DOM and URL not always reflecting the state of the application accurately. It’s pretty awful.

The better we can keep state out of abstractions without losing maintainability or performance, the better.