skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people have largely missed the point of the article. This is specifically in relation to a "magic hash" on a block that was mined on June 19, 2018 with the hash: 00000000000000000021e800c1e8df51b22c1588e5a624bea17e9faa34b2dc4a

The leading zeros are the "proof-of-work". The bitcoin mining algorithm tries various nonces and generates many hashes until it finds one with (currently) 18 leading zeros. Surprisingly, much of the Bitcoin community doesn't know this and think that the leading zeros are special.

The 21e800 is supposedly 'special' because it relates to the E8 'Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything'. A physics theory proposing a basis for unified field theory.

Anyways, people have mistakenly calculated the odds of such an occurrence and believe it to be exceedingly rare. They are claiming that someone must have left it there and that it is either the result of:

1. A quantum computer

2. Time travelling

3. Something related to the Bible

This doesn't really make sense and we can calculate the odds ourselves. It works out to roughly 3%. (1 - ((16^6 - 1) / (16^6)) ^ 500,000 blocks) = 0.03.

There are 18 hashes with the leading non-zero digits 21e8

There are 3 hashes with the leading non-zero digits 21e80

There are many other "vanity hashes":

(57ea1 or steal)
https://blockchain.info/block/000000000057ea16558140e0b3995a...

(1055e5 or losses)
https://blockchain.info/block/00000000001055e54d1d11bae837d5...

These things are not rare, but as mentioned in the article, people have ascribed a sort of religious aspect to them. It's really weird.

I also wrote about this today. If you're interested in some of the other weird responses see: https://medium.com/@thisisjoshvarty/lets-talk-about-hashes-o...
They're limited by the H1-B quota.

And remote work usually pays local rates (proportionally better than average, but still), not what you'd get in US.
I have to say that the book never grabbed me the way the movie did.

Really? I read the book first. I was profoundly disappointed in the movie. I was angered by how artificial and contrived the deviations from the book were.
You can have both, if social safety net does not automatically apply to every resident.
Though I don't agree, I acknowledge this as likely the best counterargument to my point above.
Nice work! How did you convert csv to parquet? That is the step I currently struggle with, most tools I found require me to run some kind of server part.
I feel the responses to you were somewhat unhelpful. Would they also claim that something of type `MyFun Char` is not a function, where

data MyFun a = MyFun (() -> Char)

Technically they'd be right.
Hammer.js can detect more gestures:
- Pinch
- Rotate

GestureHelper detects:
- Touch
- Tap
- Pan
- Swipe

GestureHelper and the component-based library behind, which is zuix.js (https://genielabs.github.io/zuix), are specifically designed to work on modern browsers only.
> If you can afford doing the initial transition in one short, later improvements are much simpler than having to maintain an internal (moving) front between remaining C code and new Rust code as e.g. librsvg does.

That's all well and good... if you don't have to maintain the project while doing the necessary C-as-Rust -> "proper" Rust conversion. This C-as-Rust output seems[1] like it woul d be incredibly difficult to do bugfixes in and there's also the issue of what happens if the C code happened to rely on implementation-defined behavior (or even UB which the implementation happens to "do the right thing" with).

Unless you have a trivial amount of code, I'd say the right thing is to do the conversion in small chunks. This also gives you a much better way to ensure (through test suites) that you're not introducing excessively many new bugs when rewriting C-as-Rust to "proper" Rust.

[1] I realize this is early days, but I'm talking about the present time.
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Not immediately, no.
10 years back, Duracell seemed a very strong brand. All it is going to take for LVMH, etc. to start getting replaced is a new generation of online shoppers seeing Amazon house brands right next to these and subconsciously associating them together as brands of equal value.
>Simpler code almost always wins

I strongly agree !
At my current company we are ramping up the team and want to go from 4 very senior engineers to 35.
The very complex architecture based on functional programming that we are using will probably be a major hindrance here.

I don't understand your remark on interfaces though.
I tend to have many, even for one click method.
If I want to have a callback for a list item tap, I create an interface for that very specific item, that way it is very easy to decouple view and business and it also is extremely easy to debug in Intellij.
In one click I get from the interface declaration in the viez to it's implemenentation in the business logic.

Why does it hinder debugging in your use case ?
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When I first got into bitcoin I thought it could be a wonderful alternative to the current monetary system, I especially hoped it would be more equitably shares. Unfortunately it’s turned out to be as unequally shared as our current wealth is, if not more.

Perhaps some kind of coin where everybody in the world is issued the same amount or something.
A lot of things are cults and it doesn't have to do much with social media or the behaviors he is outlining.

Apple - You can argue Apple, the hardware company, is a cult. The fans are rabid in their support for the company. Often the discussions are not at all civil and in this particular case there is no financial incentive.

Let's move even farther away.

There are cults for clothing companies. Companies that make drinks. Gaming companies. Youtube streamers. Heck, there even cults in processor companies.

Take for example AMD. I have had chats with people who just get livid when Intel vs. AMD conversations come up and I am thinking to myself "We are talking about CPUs right?".

There are even cults with Operating Systems. Just ask the nix vs. Windows folks. Those discussions get heated.

So I am not sure what he is trying to argue here. There will always be folks developing who will have a civil discourse and try to make the currency better and then there will be the peanut gallery. That comes with anything that gains wider exposure.
It's not just a technical demo, it's a working component.
See a practical application of it with the ViewPager example:

https://genielabs.github.io/zkit/docs/controllers/view_pager
Just another BALL-PIT and CLOWN NOSE company.

Notice that the engineering question (e.g. describe a cell phone architecture) is reasonable and job related. But the software questions (shuffle coins, compute gas quantity, etc.) are BALL-PIT questions. They presume you can understand how a person thinks by giving them random questions, which is nonsense. If you don't think it is nonsense, please post references to the psychology studies that use these questions to model thinking. I'll wait.

When I've faced difficult problems the usual solution is to "load my head with related material" and then I find that a possible solution occurs after a good sleep. That's a bit hard to demonstrate in an interview.

How about an interview question like: We face the following problem (insert description). What demostrated skills do you have that might help in the solution? You know, the kind of question you might ask a professional. I need a kidney. Have you ever successfully replaced a kidney before? My house needs a new set of windows. Have you any experience in replacing windows?

Restaurants hosting professional meetings don't have BALL-PITS. Five-star restaurants hosting professional lunches don't require CLOWN NOSES. Try, at least try, to conduct professonal interviews.
Just for information it seem that only the installer from their website first download page[0] is bundled (it has "bundled" in the name). When in the same page there is a link that says "Show additional download options"[1], in that page you have access to "clean" installers.

The way they did it is quite shady.

[0]: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client
[1]: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1
The free tier is to get paid users. If you have no chance of being paid, Spotify hardly cares whether you stay or go.
RSS. We need it more of it in use.
The thing is... morality is a lot more fluid in the years < 20. Doesn't absolve him from responsibility, but the protagonist was hacking Xbox code at 10 and was into serious stuff long before being an adult. If someone, anyone would have put him aside and gave him serious options, he would have probably taken them.
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I don’t know the answer to that. Electronics like phones seem to get a minimum of 2 years and extended warranties are generally not worth buying here, though some do extend for 10+ years.
Firefox has enough features and customization available that it's the only non-native browser that I'll use. I don't think Chrome or the others are worth it.

Otherwise in general, the native browser is usually the best bet for battery life. They render differently and have tighter integration overall as you noted. Firefox or native is the way to go, and if native browsers keep improving, even Firefox should watch out.
Being enslaved and raped is bad, but not quite as bad as being enslaved, raped, and also being used as a source of meat.

I think it was one of Neal Stephenson's characters who observed that it really brought into perspective what assholes the Aztecs were when you consider that bringing in the Spanish Inquisition was actually an improvement, vis-a-vis the cruelty of the dominant religion.

The Inquisitors tortured their victims, true enough, but they didn't eat them.
Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
Depends. If it's the Aztecs we're talking about, I'm sure they'd prefer to die of starvation in at least some cases - Aztec deities were fairly inventive as far as their sacrifices went, and at least one of them required the victim to be flayed alive, for example.
> Where is the opioid crisis right now?

Pretty much everywhere in the country, but heroin et al have been problems in the cities for generations.
I don't trust any conventional online broker in itself, I trust the regulatory framework that keeps them under control. I'm having increasing anxiety that what I see as the cryptocurrency mental virus, as well as the current US Presidential administration's anti-regulatory tendencies, will undermine conventional finance in some unforeseen way. Especially when I read about Vanguard getting into "blockchain".

From articles I've read about Tether,[1] I've become extremely doubtful that the cryptocurrency community has any understanding of what audits really are, and suspect they are completely off in cargo (or other) cult land when it comes to validating "trust".

The more "independent rating services" we have, the more we need rating services for the rating services. I feel like the popularity of cryptocurrencies is a harbinger of the financial system unraveling much more than in 2008, and people cheering it on won't benefit like they expect.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cryptocurrencies-tether/c...
> trends away from net neutrality globally, and towards greater government surveillance / suppression of encryption ...

Is that a trend?

It strikes me that these are ongoing points of conflict, at least in particular with encryption. Whether it's illegal numbers, Wassenaar, or the UK sitting on a version of RSA for over two decades, keeping it top secret. Or the enduring controversy over TOR, a tool of government surveillance.

I think the only thing that's changed is the degree and immediacy with which policy related to these issues affects the public.

More generally, for all the 'consumption' Facebook and Instagram, you also have Arduino and 'maker' culture, Soundcloud rappers, Youtubers of all stripes (from the old dude in his garage machine shop, inexplicably addressing an audience of tens of thousands a few times a week, to the flavor of the month pop-drama garbage), an endless list of self-directed learning resources, Wikis, etc. etc.

I certainly see the merit in the 'Wu' observation, but it strikes me how robust and resistance the internet is -- has been -- to this erosion.
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I think that would lead to a nasty civil war in Mexico; it would be unlikely to leave many people better off.
No, it absolutely is not.

And even if that were true, we're talking about suburbs, not rural areas.
Woah - potential upsides in 8-9 figures ?

So without digging in to who the client is etc, are you saying that serverless architecture is today, validated enough that the AWS bill can be cut by ... what 25%? more?

That sounds like great savings (plus nice fat contractor bills for rewriting as lambda) - but is it a hit for amazon

(I suspect amazon views it as "kill your own babies" survival but am interested in the margin effect on the data centre business - it's twenty years since i touched a business model of a DC)

PS
I get the prolongment issue - it sounds sensible in the 20 seconds it was covered in the approval meeting, but not when the details are looked at.
Yeah, effect systems in general are a really cool idea that I wish we saw more of. Haskell and its derivatives are the only semi popular languages that have some sort of system, and those are just a few points in the design space that admittedly aren't perfect.
That's non-controversial, but it's not the argument that the linked Twitter feed makes. It says that not only that culture didn't see it as horrific, but that we can't morally judge what they did "through our Western colonial lens" by saying that it was horrific.

Last time I've seen similar reasoning, it was when a person was attacking the term FGM (female genital mutilation) on the basis that it is "colonialist misjudgment of a different culture".
The fact that you’re concerned is a red flag. If things were good you wouldn’t be worried.
I read an article on this topic about a month ago, but I can't find it now.

In short, cheap energy in the post-war US meant that mechanical heating and cooling were affordable. Builders moved away from a vernacular architecture style, which had adapted to the local environment, to a more standardized style that was cheaper to make.

While it didn't cover this detail, I think another aspect was that many people decided to move to other parts of the country, and wanted the architecture of where they came from. For example, people from the NE who moved to the desert SW and wanted a Cape Cod bungalow-style house.

The vernacular architecture in the SW is for thick adobe walls and small windows. The walls are thick enough that it takes 12 hours for the heat of the day to reach the interior, and help keep it warm during the cold nights. While it's a better fit to the local weather, it's also more expensive to build than a stick-built home + insulation + A/C and heating systems. (Traditional adobe can be built using local mud, but that needs yearly maintenance, because the rains will wash it away.)
I work in the public sector, we’ve done quite a few proof of concepts on blockchain over the years, because we have actual use cases where a decentralized system makes sense. Like land registry, keeping bi-temporal records and case flows where citizens can follow their progress from home.

We’ve yet to make it work though. Decentralized voting is too vulnerable and mining is too anti-climate, so it’s really all turning out to a big pile of nothing.

My colleagues in banking are running into the same issues.

The only place I’ve seen blockchain put to good use is at Maersk, who runs their claims of ownership on the tech. Because of port corruption, the claim of ownership linked to a container is more expensive to ship than the container itself, even though it’s a single a4 document. Their blockchain isn’t really decentralized though.

By comparison the arpanet had an instant use case, so did electricity. They took time to spread, like everything new does, but they are very different from the blockchain in the way they weren’t searching for a reason to exist.
I think DRAKON (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON) worth mentioning in Visual Programming. It is very different from other visual programming systems and had clearness for complex algorithms that other visual systems lack (no line intersections, skews and other).
How do people (parents?) use AOPS? In terms of logistics is it like after-school math tutoring? All in-person at their campuses or is there online?
Here you go. This works for many npm packages. https://npm.runkit.com/wink-lemmatizer
"Civic religion" is a concept that some people subscribe to. It doesn't have gods per se, but it has abstract concepts (like e.g. justice) that can be similarly worshiped.
Ahh ... to be 15 again, and believe that someone like Al Gore actually trades, which would imply a mostly-fair exchange of things of actual value. That such a man actually cares for anything other than his own aggrandizement and money.

I miss that. Don't ever take a consulting gig at the EU headquarters. It may pay ... decent. I wouldn't say particularly well paid, but decent. It will also kill any remote ounce of hope you may harbor for politicians improving matters.

Here you find an indication of who the man really is[1]. Some tidbits:

(high school) He was the captain of the football team, threw discus for the track and field team, and participated in basketball, art, and government.

Was 25th in his class but got immediately accepted into harvard ...

Gore was an avid reader who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories,[19] but he did not do well in science classes and avoided taking math.[18] During his first two years, his grades placed him in the lower one-fifth of his class. During his sophomore year, he reportedly spent much of his time watching television, shooting pool, and occasionally smoking marijuana

Gore earned an A on his thesis, "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947–1969", and graduated with an A.B. cum laude in June 1969

Truly a man of science he is ... and his life mostly a great example of exactly how fair government is in the US (and sadly, I would agree that the life story of president Macron illustrates that the US is in fact pretty fair, or at least that it can be a lot worse than the above)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Early_life_and_educati...
Maybe it’s because I’m European, but 8 years ago I could buy coffee with crypto in both Copenhagen and Berlin and today I can’t.
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I think 2400B support is coming to the FreeDV GUI soon. I've seen some work done on that. That'll let you use a cheap FM radio and a laptop to get on the air with something codec2 based. I'm slowly chipping away at a TDMA mode for SDRs, but that's still probably a ways off.
This could honestly be turned into a movie.
does anyone know when/why we started going from the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago to now 66 million?
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I don't know where you live, but the only place I know of in my city that takes it is CEX, a place to buy and sell second hand movies, games and computer equipment. And I don't imagine the staff would know what to do if someone actually tried to use it.
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The real ripoff is that none of the alkaline batteries have a mAh (or mWh) rating. They literally sell energetic cylinders without telling you how much energy's in them; how is this still a thing?
The sentences of 18-24 months seem entirely reasonable for the crimes committed too. At least compared to some other horror stories you hear about sentencing for computer crimes. These kids definitely have a chance to put all of this behind them and be productive members of society.
Repost from 2012 :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=eartharchitecture.org
It seems to me that the government provides a "Schelling point"[1] that we can't do away with for many purposes, particularly trust. We can't just have many private regulators or certifiers, because then everyone has an equally difficult problem of determining which one to trust, and no benefit to doing so, since they are stuck with what the market decides. Trust requires information, (not data) and information is a public good.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
People up thread merely noted that Cortez was likely correct, and we shouldn't have so hastily disbelieved his claims. They said nothing about him being a "good guy" etc.
That title had me thinking he was trying to unthink an epiphany the radio presenter had enlightened him with.
Altcoins are exactly the same
Why do waiters make more than cooks? There's your answer
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Interesting, in the fact that small acts could define a relationship. Less interesting from a global perspective of a relationship.

I don't think (but I may be wrong) that a lot of people take fights at random (the med school example looks very dumb, to me) unless there's a underlying cause.

And, learning to give _and accept_ criticism is as important as well. It's very easy IMHO to be positive when everything is fine, the sun shining, and you've got plenty of free time for yourself and your partner.

What if life/job/kids make you feel "squeezed" and you can't totally and always fulfill somebody's emotional requirements? The art of compromise, alas, is the hard part of a relationship.
Mark Reinhold already stated on a few talks, including at JavaONE that Sun designed it that way on purpose as they wanted to keep everyone true to WORA without carrying native code around.

Which is also a reason why a replacement is being done as part of Project Panama, initially advocated by Charles Nutter due to the JRuby project issues.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/191

In alternative, if you have the source code available there is a way not to any transitions.

Java now has GraalVM and .NET had C++/CLI (nee Managed C++) since the beginning.
the only thing that is certain in life is the grave, all else is vanity (Ecclesiastes AMP).
Great comment. My counter for people that may have misunderstood it before your post is that... if these people think 3% and “magic” occurrences of leetspeak are something note these are people I want to keep myself and my money far away from.
what are some of the examples of the entries, that make DragonFly BSD far behind others?

I just finished setting up a number of simple dev/test environments for a simple jdk8-based backed service, on DragonFly 5.2.2, using default DF configs. So wanted to understand what I might need to look for hardening (I am still rather far from production, though) ).
Tirukkural is quite famous. Thanks to the massive Tamil and South Indian diaspora living in foreign lands.
Yeah. People like that.
>Besides, I think think it even actually _is_ idiomatic since you used reflection.

https://appliedgo.net/generics/

See point 4 and 5. It is idiomatic.
Really great interview. Ideas should be challenged, and the value we, the audience, get from the responses to challenge is great. Not enough of this in the mainstream today.
I think maybe you are confusing or just being hyperbolic on the difference between fan club and religious devotion.
Good choice, but if you don't know Kannada then you have read it in English. And the charm goes away in translation.
>based on ability to experience pain (rather than the higher bar of self-awareness/higher consciousness)

But without talking about consciousness what does experience pain mean. Insects respond to and attempt to avoid certain stimuli, but that's not really the same thing.
Only very recently in Western Civilization has this been enshrined in law in most countries and is still a very highly contested issue in many.
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Who else wants more sales in their business?