skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a lot of trust involved in a cryptocurrency transfer. You have to trust your technical competence to have securely mounted your wallet. You have to trust the wallet you're sending money to is the wallet it's supposed to go to. You have to trust the person you're sending money to will do what you're paying them to do. You have to trust the network to maintain the value of the currency you're sending and receiving. Et cetera, et cetera

That's clearly not the point. The transfer itself does not require trust. That's the value.
And Brazil, IIRC.
Thanks for the resources and feedback.

I'm not really looking for vocational training from a college. I have a bachelors in a non-tech field, and I've actually worked in the education sector for quite some time. I've become very disillusioned about the efficacy of higher education.

I was more just curious about people's experiences in the field, and whether the lack of a bachelors makes it harder for career advancement down the line. Thanks again!
It's an ad hominem on the comment itself to just dismiss it as insane though, is it not? Just because it's not something you want to talk about doesn't mean it's not going to have traction with other people who have the ability to just say stuff.
well, there's a difference in supporting a technology and actually making chips with it. They are just investing in tech and research that might help them down the road.

I doubt any of those companies (aside from SiFive) will be actually using RiscV within the next few years.
Office napping climbs out from under the desk and into high-tech pods
CityPlace has gotten much better as retail has improved in the last year or so. A new Ramen place just opened up, as well as Bubble Tea place, a decent barber shop, a marijuana dispensary, a coffee shop, etc. More restaurants and retail places are coming as well now that most of the major construction is completing and the bottom floor retail spots are for rent.

Otherwise it's great for having a gym/pool/parking in your building which was the main draw for living there. But I'm not under any illusion it's a great cultural neighbourhood in itself. But regardless it's a 2min bike ride to King St W, 2 more to Queen St W, not far from Trinity, next to Spadina streetcar line, and Queens Quay waterfront. Walking distance to 75% of downtown tech companies.

Plus it's right off the highway making it easy to visit family in the country.

City place has many benefits and has improved, but it is what it is.

Renting a floor of a half renovated Victorian house or above a store on a main street has plenty of it's own downsides as well. Not to mention having to use a dirty packed Goodlife gym or public pool.
Arrogance is arrogance, whether stressed or not. Hiring arrogant people tends to create an environment non-conducive to empathy.
The shed isn't actually serving world-class meals or anything that appears as such.
Appreciate the simplicity of the test. With CRA-type debugging, my colleague thought that was how debugging was done with web dev in general (which would have been awesome!) He was fresh out of uni.

A lot of console logging gives you a indicator that the person either doesn't know what is happening or that the person does not trust the CRA debugger.

If (s)he doesn't trust such quality tools by default it is a sign of paranoia. They are too good to doubt as an initial user. It may have flaws, but ir's like doubting your compiler.

It is probably you.

If the person has a lot of logging you should ask hir why.

Lacking experience in a given language is not a real objection to a quality developer. Lacking general programming ability would definitely be.
Brave Browser / Basic attention Token is very successful although in it's early days

But Brendan Eich, the founder of the project, is much more experienced then any random ICO project founder in this space

I'm not sure he will succeed where Flattr failed, but we'll see !

Check out how many websites are already Brave/BAT publishers:
https://batgrowth.com/publishers

Vice - freeCodeCamp - BitTorrent - xhamster - The Guardian - Washington Post - TinyUrl - JS Bin - Sitepoint - Smashing Magazine and much more are already verified publishers...

Even dappradar.com that was quoted in this thread !
For me ‘toxic culture’ means high stress, agressive unwarranted behaviour and dehumanizing the people to justify things.
Yes, I definitely enabled all the beta/testing features. Tabs may have been limited "depending on screen resolution", but as a gamer I had probably one of the biggest screen resolutions you could run, with a CRT to match. I'm pretty sure I was using an AMD K6-2 500Mhz with between 128 and 256MB RAM. Sometime after 2002 I built an Athlon-based system with a gig of RAM, so I could be mis-remembering my computing platform when "peak browsing performance" happened, but I know that no browser has ever been as fast as Phoenix was.
Ask HN: Are hourly priced dedicated servers for AI/ML a good idea?
On Hetzner or other providers, one can find lots of high performance dedicated servers, some even with graphic cards as powerful as a GTX 1080.

The problem is, you have to rent them for 100 EUR minimum per month plus set up - which doesn't make sense if you're a ML/AI engineer who just needs to train a model or two for a few hours.

Thus the plan is to buy some of those servers upfront and rent them out on a cheap hourly basis to ML/AI researchers, or even some cloud gaming companies. I've done some research on the technical side of things and I think this should be entirely possible to do.

I calculated that with about 50% usage one could sell an instance with a Nvidia GTX 1080 with an i7-6700, 64GB RAM and 500GB SSD for about 0.5 USD/h - which is significantly cheaper than AWS/GCE and probably ideally suited for AI/ML tasks.

But is this really a good idea? I'm always very excited about new side projects to do, but often overlook critical flaws in my ideas. For instance, why are companies like Hetzner not already doing this?

Thanks!
embryo gene editing or sperm/egg screening could work too.
Putting aside MLM and similar companies that actively prey on employees...

I'm sure it's possible that there are people who have never heard any of the statistics about how many startups fail, who have never worked at a startup, don't know anyone who has, never talked about a coworker who left to work at a startup, and who go through the recruiting process without anyone mentioning it.

It's understood by everyone else, though, so I think that qualifies as "well understood" generally.
Well, actually, that was delayed until 2020 now.
I encountered a similar argument in Clean Architecture by Robert Martin of correctness vs maintainability, where he argues for maintainability over correctness. The argument goes that if you had to choose between code that did the wrong thing but was easy to make do the right thing, and code that does the right thing but is hard to change, you should always pick the former.

He also talks more abstractly about the value of software (as opposed to hardware for instance) being primarily in its "soft"-ness, or ease of changing.

Ultimately this comes from his point of view as an architect, who fights more for system design than say, a PM might for user features. I've encountered the opposite school of thought that says: MVP to deliver features, refactor/rewrite later. I think the strategy to use will depend on the project and team (budget, certainty, tolerance for failure, etc)
Worth reading a few times!
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The rl-hard.html article was discussed on HN only four months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16383264

Makes for an interesting trail of additional breadcrumbs to wind into the stack :)
> The transfer itself does not require trust

Cash transfers and barters are trustless. Wires are trustless (in being reasonably irrevocable) in a manner similar to cryptocurrencies (i.e. if we ignore the plumbing). Cryptocurrencies solve for trust in the most reliable part of the trust chain while exacerbating every other element of transaction risk.
I'm vegan for a reason.
That's not really accurate though. Only in a perfect, unhackable world would you not have to trust anyone. People have their local wallets attacked and stolen through an incredibly diverse set of attacks, people fell for "mental wallet" concepts that were then easily stolen, and people have lost an enormous amount of value by trusting storage mechanisms and memory for passwords and wallets. Then on the flipside at least what, 80% of exchanges now have had compromises? Do you think this technology has really moved the bar forward around trust as a concept?
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A non-security ICO coin is not a share, it's a pre-order for a product that may or may not ever exist.

It's like a Kickstarter project[1], except most of the backers don't actually want the backed product, they want to resell their pre-order to someone who does.

At least, that's how it's supposed to work, in theory. In practice, it's a hotbed for scams. Most of the re-sales happen from one speculator to another, until some fool is left holding a bag of worthless pre-orders.

[1] Which is also incredibly constrained, because it needs to do something useful with a cryptocurrency, and all the overhead and complexity associated with that. [2]

[2] Building a file-hosting service is not good enough - you have to make it a file-hosting service with a crypto-coin bolted on to it for some weird reason.
hir: him/her
Reminds me of a thread I saw on the Google Inbox mobile app a while back. Brilliant app, but no 'unread message counter'. There was a huge number of people on the thread begging for that feature and going so far as to say that it was the one thing that prevented them from using the app. Their thinking was apparently that you should have filters for everything and it all should've fallen neatly into little boxes, but for people that have been using email 10 times longer than those developers have been out of college, that's not very practical. One G dev chimed in and said 'But that's now how I use email' and closed off the discussion.
One of my worries about going back to school is that I'll return to the PHP web development class where they were teaching about what GET and POST requests are. I've been a web developer for 10 years, and such a class really feels like a waste of time.
What's up with it?
I'm getting "data processing failed" after following the instructions from arctux on how to find my relation ID.

HN hug of death perhaps?
It's working on that. Entropy's a slow process.

Shannon was right.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kt3csIz3hEk
Initial coin offering. Like selling shares to raise capital but instead of shares, you get cryptocurrency tokens. Without regulation, it has a much lower barrier to entry, but some barriers are safety barriers.

There are people getting into crypto currencies purely because they hear about others making money doing so. This means there are also predators taking advantage of the lack of barriers. A crypto might not be a scam but when scams are easier to make than real things, the scams will be more numerous.
And to satisfy precedent, pipe any leftover power after running the pacemaker to a ring of white LEDs.
I thought wikileaks was reputable. What documents have they released that turned out to be fake?
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Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16214066
I understand them to be totally different services. How would someone with ML training data on hand use nicehash to get any work done? Is snark setup to do mining? As I see it they serve totally distinct and separate markets.
Stop merging if you need to cherry-pick
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"The difference between the ones that make it and the ones that don't? They just keep going."

Survivorship bias anyone?
> I would imagine OP is referring to "Professional Engineer".

In part yes in part no. PE's will be held to a MUCH higher legal standard but every engineer is taught to hold themselves to a high ethical standard. That you are not supposed to do something dangerous even if you think you won't get in trouble for it. Even if it isn't directly your responsibility you are supposed to report something that looks dangerous. PE's do the final sign off and their ass is on the line much more than the engineers that actually did all the building and designing. But the code of ethics is supposed to be there all throughout the chain.

So what I'm saying is that in software we are part of that chain. And therefore the ethical obligations should still hold. They should hold at every part of that chain. At no point in the process should anyone say "well it is someone else's ethical obligation or concern". If you touch something, if you see something, then it is part of your ethical obligation. At least as an engineer, but I would argue that it is also if you write software.
Re: definitions are important

Yes and no. Some of the biggest conflicts I’ve seen started because of misunderstanding ‘basic words’. So definitions matter in the sense that they help clarify intent. But they also can make things harder if you insisting on a certain definition comes across as condescending.
> We should give him the proper respect that his office demands.

Disagree 100%.

Blind respect for your country's leaders leads to dark paths.
This is literally the model that AWS/GCE does.

Due to their economy of scale, you won't be able to outprice them for on-demand usage unless you have an added value/gimmick.
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> It's weird because people compare it to the early days of the Internet... but the early Internet was useful from its beginning

That really depends on where you put 'beginning'. But more to the point, blockchains are useful now, just like the internet was. They're just not useful for all the things that are being promised (yet). Also, just like the internet wasn't.

> Now, all we see is rampant fraud and a complete disregard for the environment [0] with no gain in efficiency.

People never tire of pointing this out. Yet it completely ignores the fact that there are solutions to this problem that are in the works, and have been planned for a long time.

There are lots of problems with the crypto space. Fraud is rampant. Energy consumption is wasteful, temporarily. It's also not clear that dis-intermediating human institutions is actually what we want to do. But if you think it's all a fraud, or that there is no value, then you're just not thinking very hard.
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Great. Now we just need enough spoiled rich 12yo girls and some get-rich-quick guys that bid on some imaginary kitties.
I prefer console logs to the debugger for the following reason -

I tend to know about where the problem is. I've been working on this code, I know it's a couple things that could be breaking it in the way it's breaking. I prefer to console.log those things because I find stepping through code tedious, though I understand some people would prefer to use the debugger.

If on the other hand it is code I don't know anything about I guess I would probably say well I guess I should set a breakpoint.

That said, because I find stepping through code tedious I will often use console log statements when I should use the debugger because I am apt to think oh I will know the answer with just another try. Thus I can end up wasting my time by using too many console log statements.

Finally this situation is also affected by the problem of specialized debugging tools for particular frameworks.
I hate learning tools. I have to click on things etc.
I like learning languages.

If there was a debugging environment that was a specialized console with a particular api to interact with the code I would learn it.

I don't mean a debugger statement before anyone suggests it.
You make a good point. The cost balance may depend on your use case and size. I'm currently at a B2C company that sends hundreds of millions of transactional emails per month. We use Sendgrid. They provide basic open and click tracking, which is more information than our small team has the bandwidth to make use of at this point anyway.

If you're a B2B sending 10,000 emails per month with high potential value per interaction, integrating transactional and marketing mail and tracking email interactions with transactional mail on a granular level may be worth the additional cost.

And a large team may have use for more detailed data, or the capacity to build out reporting and integrations for themselves.

But super early stage, that's not the low hanging fruit you should be worried about.

And even if you end up using the same platform, for conceptual purposes, for compliance purposes, and for optimizing deliverability you'll want to consider marketing and transactional email separately.
I thought beer was naturally carbonated! Not being a drinker, I never gave it much thought.
That's it, I'm returning my LEAF.
A better article about from an industry insider is https://www.gasworld.com/co2-shortage-lessons-learned/201500...

An interesting fact that he picks out is that coordinating shutdown periods between suppliers would be in breach of anti-competition rules.

The crisis has overall highlighted the fact that shared production can cause issues. Ammonia is worth about $50 billion whereas CO2 is worth about $7 billion worldwide. This makes the CO2 market about 7 times more inelastic in supply than ammonia.
I do. I just verify. They can also use Firefox or any other browser's tools if they are more comfortable.

We are not hiring junior devs, and even if so I would still probably ask. But experienced front end devs should know how to use a browser's debugger.

Like others said, it's a flag that they potentially don't have problem solving skills. I mean, if they put a single console.log near what they think is going wrong and find the issue, I wouldn't dismiss them so easily.

It's just that so far if they resort to console.logs, they are just randomly trying things.
Sorry. I don’t want to abandon my mode of transportation to appease you OCD. Get over it.
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At a practical level, your initial instinct was right. In space, nobody can feel you convect. Essentially all of the waste heat has to be disposed of via radiation, and this is orders of magnitude less effective than convection at the temperatures that any known material can withstand. Worse, you don't have to radiate "just" the waste heat. Eventually, all of your electric energy becomes heat, too. In other words, all of the energy you extract from your decay source will end up as heat that you have to get rid of via radiation. (Well, you could wind a giant spring, I suppose. But, a spring that large would be a better radiator than energy storage device.)
Fermentation produces huge amounts of CO2 and some breweries collect it and sell it as a byproduct
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> and macOS's Hypervisor Framework

Tangentially and asking the crowd:

What products on the market use macOS's Hypervisor Framework? Virtualbox apparently doesn't [1], but Docker For Mac does [2]...

Edit: and QEMU added experimental support in 2.12 [3], released in April

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14217

[2] https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/docker-toolbox/

[3] https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.12#Host_support
> Cash transfers and barters are trustless

Yes, but they require physical presence.

> Wires are trustless (in being reasonably irrevocable) in a manner similar to cryptocurrencies (i.e. if we ignore the plumbing).

Irrevocability is not the same as trustlessness. Your transaction is still being intermediated by an entity that can choose to appropriate your funds otherwise.

> Cryptocurrencies solve for trust in the most reliable part of the trust chain while exacerbating every other element of transaction risk.

I think I agree with this statement literally. The question is what price are we paying for that reliability? And does blockchain offer an alternative tradeoff that we might like better?
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There's no product though, just a roadmap. The first item of which is "raise ICO money"
Ask HN: How did internet penetration increased so fast in USA?
The internet penetration in USA in 1990 was 0.8%. In year 2000, the internet penetration increased to 43% in 2018 now stands at 89%. The rise from 0.8% to 43% in just a decade is way too fast than other countries that adopted the internet.
I don't hold off important info. I mean, I won't give the answer but I encourage dialog.

And your console.log example is valid, but this isn't the same situation. It's a button press, the fetch call is made.

I tell them what it should do, I say I would use the debugger but ask them what they would do.
> it's a pre-order for a product that may or may not ever exist

I'm not even sure it's this. Pre-orders come with rules. ICOs do not. (Or more accurately, they make them difficult and unrewarding to enforce.)
>Now the concept of citizen is much different and a lot more contentious

Right, and _both parties agree to the current definition_. That's the entire point.
The plants you eat are also indirectly made of your cow farts, though. And much more than just the farts.
Was it obvious back then that Flash would be dead by now, Microsoft gives up on phones, x86 fails at gaining any foothold in the phone business and intel fails at performing the next structure shrink?
I didn't elaborate on my train of thought because it's a three-point train of thought. No offense.

"conspiracy theory" is widely understood to be a derisive term the CIA had to invent after they shot Kennedy.

Here's a contrail next to a chemtrail on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kcTvqiMNl8

My comment is not erratic. Saying my comment is erratic is like saying you're afraid of loud noises.

My comment does not have "spurious" relation to the article. My comment has a holistic big-picture relation to the article.
>neighbors would crowdsource approvals for block-party permits

Oh boy, a digital HOA. Wow, Google, I can't wait!
I feel confident enough that I don't think it will, and I wouldn't describe myself as generally very confident in matters of group psychology.

Anyways, I checked out your other comments and I regret getting into an argument about this. You seem much smarter than me in many ways, and I welcome your contributions, and while I personally feel that 'the collective' here will consider some of it noise and very downvotable (possibly even hellbannable), I hope that doesn't happen and that you stick around. Again, my apologies for what I suppose could be considered participating in or enforcing groupthink.

EDIT: let me add that I'm certifiably weird and perhaps that's made me sensitive to these kinds of things. sometimes it's best to 'soften' the edges so that engagement is possible in the first place, and sometimes that increases the chances that I can actually discuss my 'weird' beliefs without being dismissed. I've not figured out the right balance, and I'm not even 100% sure that finding a balance is the right thing. but it's what prompted this.
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They're professional. They're not engineers, in the (legally) strict sense of the word. I think that's the distinction you meant to make.