skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The year is 3000 AD. Civilization has collapsed, governments are non-existent, and the remaining human tribes need some sort of currency to facilitate trade. I need a goat for my farm, so I walk up to the goat breeder and hand him a pile of gold. Does he take that gold and smelt it into something? Probably not, he's a goat breeder. He might be able to take that gold and trade it to someone else for something he needs, but I'd imagine the person making gold jewelry or semiconductors will also sell goat food. So he'd have to give that gold to a hay farmer, who would trade that gold for a new plow and now the plow maker might be able to smelt that gold into something useful. But the gold has no use for the goat breeder or hay farmer.

Now I hand him a stack of papers with numbers printed on them. The goat breeder has no use for these papers, but he also had no use for the gold. He'd need to trade them for something. Let's run it all back up the same line and we see it doesn't end at "and now the smelter has something useful" because paper isn't useful to the smelter either... but running the paper through that chain of merchants has proven that there's value attached to the paper. The smelter then recognizes the value of the paper and trades the paper to the miners who supply the metal, because the traders who supply the metal want to buy some goat milk from me and they know I accept this weird paper in exchange for my goat's milk.

That's how currency has worked since the beginning of civilization. Ancient people weren't melting down coins to make something more valuable, they were trading the coins as-is without a worry about how useful the raw materials are. They just needed something anything that everyone agreed had a certain amount of value to it that's also difficult to fake. Gold has no intrinsic value for 90% of all humans on the planet, it's just a way to exchange goods and services based on an arbitrary-but-universally-recognized token.
Being a cyclist and a driver, I see sharrows as a middle finger to cyclists. They are worse than nothing as they cause confusion, which then leads animosity between drivers and cyclists.

I’m all about incremental measures to test theories. This is not one of the situations that warrants that approach. If a city wants to test out increasing bicycle infrastructure, they unfortunately have to build bicycle infrastructure.
I'm so envious of your experiences. Geek me was completely oblivious to all that practical stuff.

Scott Galloway (?) has observed that successful entrepreneurs and CEOs are nurtured, just like all other professionals. So 20 somethings doing leadership stuff are more likely to be pretty good once they're 40 somethings. Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Michael Dell, many others are pretty good examples.
Yes. Any conversation like this can be expanded, because limits are only one tool among many that need to work together, and changes in each location need to be evaluated case by case - where divided roads / freeways would be the primary beneficiaries. But that article indicated the larger problem even in the city was infrastructure design and people exceeding speed limits rather than the limits themselves.

In places where we now have a 25 mph speed limit, if modern tech proves able to reduce accidents by 95% because of accident intervention tech / fsd etc in 5-10 years, should we raise the speed limit to 35 even though the accidents would then be more dangerous to pedestrians? Surely the answer in some cases would be yes, and others no. Or since most people drive above 25 anyways right now, should we just increase the limit now and increase enforcement and penalties? These are the types of changes I am proposing, as well as reducing the incentive to speed due to frustrated drivers passing road hogs unsafely, etc by enforcing minimum speeds and requiring courtesy yields as well. Just because you are driving slow does not mean you are not part of the problem.
‘Nation state’ is such a stupid term for them to use as two of the usual suspects, Iran and Russia, are not nation states but rather multiethnic states. If they don’t have a clue who it is, it seems unlikely they would rule out these two states specifically and do so in this subtle way.

For some reason it is very common amongst people who are interested in cybersecurity (or national security in the US).
This was a fascinating look at the history of a subject i must admit i know very little about.

However the author lost me a bit when he started talking about bitcoin. I get why bitcoin might be appealing to a country like Iran with cheap energy and sanctions preventing them from participating in the world economy. I also get why it would be appealing to individuals in developing countries with unstable local currencies, and perhaps limited access to harder assets. I don't get what the benefit would be to national reserve banks and finance between countries in the general case, where special circumstances (like Iran) don't apply.
Hard to point at one thing! I started with a deep learning for artists course, and adapted the stuff I saw there to an audio mini project. And then started reading the big papers in neural networks independently.

I found it helpful to read the source material (eg, ml text books and academic papers), paired with blog entries (which often have a good basic idea, but skip out get wrong some details), and actually building things for my own interests.

On the work side, I'm doing low bit rate speech coding, which is good fun.
Fatrace: Report system wide file access events
Specialist vocabulary for specific disciplines is also quite graspable.

(Disclaimer: I say this as a physicist, where all the German words for physics concepts are quite straightforward.)
It's possible to both be glad trump lost but also sad biden won
> They're not. One can't cut taxes below zero, for starters.

You might want to check with the IRS, since that's exactly what the EITC does. It's also the de facto result when a company takes a tax loss (e.g. from deducting more expenses than it had in revenue, common for startups) and can then sell the tax loss to another company to offset its tax burden.

> Tax cuts didn't build the Hoover dam, the interstate highway system, nor send a man to the Moon.

As opposed to Tesla's plant at Niagara Falls, or the various privately-owned rail networks in the world, or SpaceX?

> The day that the US government announces that they'll buy 100 million masks a month for a strategic reserve or replace all of the mobile devices for all federal employees, as long as they're at at most a 50% premium over the cheapest option and are fully traceable from raw materials to finished product as being fully built in the US and allied countries, is the day that people will start investigating if it's possible to do so, and start trying to do so if it's possible.

But that's actually more expensive, and less productive, than just making it more cost effective to manufacture things domestically than somewhere else, because domestic production has low taxes and efficient regulations and production in countries that engage in currency manipulation or have inadequate environmental protections are subject to tariffs.

> It takes two to tango.

That's the problem. It doesn't matter how willing one side is to negotiate if Democrats are too busy fabricating lies about Russia collusion to come to the table. Compromise requires both sides to be reasonable.
Interesting, but as per the guidelines, politics is offropic and this should be removed.
Looks interesting!
Quick question: it's a distributed log, how do you establish consensus to keep its entries ordered?

If it's not ordered, then it's a set, not a log. Still cool, but not as impressive.
Unexpected cloud security benefit, for foreign government!
America under Trump is seen as weak by its adversaries, it should come as no surprise that the last days of the Trump administration will see a lot of saber rattling. Let's hope it stays at that level.
Reddit: Enable HTTPS in Localhost with OpenSSL for a Node.js App
I know very little to nothing of the works you cite, so my ideas are to be taken with a grain of salt, but...

I don't think the author was born thinking those complex thoughts, so clearly they were persuaded by something that didn't rely on previous belief. What could that be? Why isn't that persuasive to you? What sort of person does it persuade and why? Are there other arguments that could persuade you of the same thing? Or of something similar?

Intellectual exchange requires constructing the steel man argument of your counterpart, as impossible as it may seem at times. Underneath, we're all humans, longing for food, shelter, companionship, and stability.
The bottom line here is that there are essentially no repercussions when cars injure or kill cyclists. This needs to change, and hopefully we can also add proven separated bike lanes which make it safer and more efficient for cyclists as well as drivers.
Espionage is less aggressive and overt than perpetrating coups in democratic societies.
40 people coming from Mexico is highly unlikely to lead to 230,000 US cases/day.

It may be inaccurate news, but calling it fake is needlessly hyperbolic. The contention isn't that overall funding was cut, it's that certain groups within the CDC saw significant cuts, and those cuts reduced readiness.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN21C3N5

Regardless of whether Trump's missteps were politicized, they were still missteps. Doubling down on something after someone calls you out doesn't make them responsible for your actions.
One I remember fondly is Soldat [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldat_(video_game)
Yes. The whole Apple M1 chip has turn up the volume of fanboyism. I think it would be better to wait a little longer for things to settle before any serious discussions.
Worth trying Emacs 28. The speedup is impressive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24117853
I think there are plenty of job sites for people who are really looking for a job. What is missing is something where people who are generally not looking but would be open for the right opportunity. These people are usually doing well in their current roles but something is missing. Just not enough for them to look actively but would be open for the right opportunity.
Yes, entropy can only be measured in relation to an expected probability distribution. You need to have an a priori model for how the password is generated (selected) to estimate its entropy. So the dichotomy you set up is IMO a false one, in that you are guessing about how the password was generated.
>Germany still has a strong industrial base

It's because they build the machines to build the product the Chinese manufacture. The Germans have forced themselves to be at the top of the Manufacturing Food Chain (engineering, etc) while letting the Chinese/Rest of the world build the crap we buy.

I don't think we could get there manufacturing the "Trinkets" the Chinese mostly manufacture, that is a a race to the bottom where either automation or cheap labor win.
This is actually pretty fucked up
I no longer work at Atlassian but I spent my last year working on a Jira frontend refresh that no customer ever asked for and few considered an improvement. So..... no? Haha sorry.
How do the teams working full time on a project onboard contributors who are doing it with their 20% time?

Naively, I imagine developers would get annoyed or bogged down having to skill up these contributors rather than viewing it as a “free hand”.
I worked at Google 2006-2009. I joined a 20% project with an awesome staff engineer, then recruiting one of my team-mates to join 20% too. We ended up working on it full-time. It didn't end up launching but I think the core code ended up being used as part of other products. It was incredibly rewarding and a great outlet from my typical day-to-day improving Adwords.
The way I've heard it expressed is "if you want to hire racehorses, sometimes you've just got to let them run"
and I have a new one out! Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money
Why would one do twice the hours that one is paid for? That makes no sense. :)
If you want lots of amateurs overfitting to a dataset they found online, maybe.

Though I will say Kaggle is immensely useful for cataloging the zoo of approaches to your particular problem.
True; blue light concerns are not related to eye strain:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-ha...
Sounds like in the early days it was worth something then Google became like every other massive corporation and lost it's soul!
Unfortunately ctrl-x-a also reproduces that crash for me - https://paste.sr.ht/~jamii/a1cd701eae0c2416eb9750d7c559e4b3b...
You still have to email them to ask about for the on-premises version; they only just got set up to take credit-card payments for the subscription version. I happen to know that they don't have a sales department, so at least there's that.

As I understand it, it would be delivered as a pair of docker containers. One is for serving up the UI you see when you're debugging (I think there's one instance of this container per debugging session, but don't quote me on that), and the other ingests rr recordings into the database. A presentation they gave a while back stated that for the cloud version they send all recordings to 36-core AWS instances with 144 GB of ram, that it often takes as much as an hour to process a single recording, and that it can generate a 100GB database. Hopefully most recordings are simpler and quicker than that, but I don't think this is something I'll be running on my laptop in the next few years.
Welcome to the world :)
This is very much how I feel, which is why I've started a dedicated team for this at Wealthfront, with the support of our CTO, our VP of engineering, and our president (who used to be the CTO). My team is specific to the backend but we have equivalent "infrastructure" teams for the frontend platforms too.

If anyone feels like it's hard to get your company to care about this stuff or even let you work on it, maybe it's time to consider a move? :-) You can reach me at andyf@wealthfront.com if you prefer not to reply here.
A new REBOL like language is in the making:

https://www.red-lang.org/

Definitely worth a look.
Thanks for the explanation, make sense.
If the provider deliberately reduced speeds to ensure that you would never be able to get past a certain amount, then it's a cap. A naturally occurring limit wouldn't bother me, but that's not what we're discussing here.
Your formula `(A --> B) ^ (¬A --> C)` expands to `¬(A & B) & (A | ¬C)`. I would propose that `(A & B) ^ (¬A & C)`, which expands to `(¬A | B) & (A | C)`, comes closer to actual `if` semantics.
Don't be so hasty, the first five hits^Hsubmissions are free.
I studied the safety impacts of new bike ways in Los Angeles, and found that sharrows reduced collision rates just as well as bike lanes. https://blueskiesabove.us/entry/to-live-and-ride-in-la-do-bi...

(I emailed this to the author a few days ago.) I’m not saying these findings would hold up with better ridership data. But they were surprising findings, nonetheless. Plus, nobody wanted to hear it.
I feel like at a place with expensive lab equipment, 20% time can go a lot further. Take smart people and give them a free day once a week to use all that expensive equipment they couldn't do on their own, and maybe magic happens.
> It's also not positive if it helps reinforce beliefs that Asians are unreflective drones that are good at piano and math but lack personality and originality.

That's just like, your opinion, man
As a general rule, yes, i think all things being equal, history tends to repeat itself.

Of course, all things aren't always equal, but if you're going to argue its going to be different this time around, i think there is some onus to argue why the present would be different from the past.
These are so haphazardly placed in NYC. I can think of a few roads where the sharrow abruptly switches from one side of the road to the other, encouraging I suppose lane switches within traffic. It's abysmal.

I do occasionally appreciate them when they're in the _middle_ of a one-lane road, so it's more clear that I as a cyclist have equal right to take over the lane.
I’m torn, but I think I lean more towards agreeing with you that we just have to build the infrastructure.

I don’t think sharrows do nothing, that feels a bit hyperbolic. If a city were to build infrastructure for example, starting with sharrows seems fairly logical to get everyone used to the upcoming change.
I'd like to add that it also depends on the culture of the team.

In team A, I challenged many ideas coming from the designer and the product owner. I was also pushing back on technical decisions coming from the CTO. They always listened: I would change their minds a couple of times, sometimes I realized I was wrong. Only a few times could we not resolve the issue, but in the end I felt that they heard me and considered my point of view.

In team B, I started out with the same mindset and was trying to challenge the validity of their product decisions. It was superficially acknowledged, but 98% time my input was basically ignored, and I felt like a party-pooper for pointing out contradictions and mistakes in their thinking. After months of trying to be listened to, I realized I'm here to be a coding monkey, they don't want my input neither on product, nor on technical problems. I learned to just nod and smile, cheer them on on their bad decisions, they felt great because they felt validated. It was also better for my happiness short term, as it's not a great feeling to feel that I'm bumming them out.

Long term, I started looking for new positions, and since then quit already. I still feel it's a shame as the "idea" had great potential.
I think sometimes the proof they have isn't proof they're willing to publicly admit they have because they don't want to let on how they know.

After Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated, for example, it turned out audio of the entire murder had been recorded through surveillance. (I'm still not sure we ever found out how exactly it was recorded?) So there were lots of announcements that certain governments "knew" or "suspected" it was Saudi Arabia with little or no substance to back up their claims until the existence of the recording was later leaked.

I think there was similar discussion after MH17 when western governments "knew" Russia-backed rebels had shot down the plane and only later did we learn there was a recording of a conversation about what happened.

I guess even after Snowden governments like to do their best to pretend they don't have the entire world under surveillance at all times.
If you can reproduce the crash, it's an ideal candidate to record with rr and try to debug :)
I don’t understand. A PhD is a degree in research. If you have a PhD and are building web servers you sound misqualified.
Agreed. In my experience bike commuting on a road with "sharrows" provoked a lot of anger from drivers. I don't fully avoid them because I'm a fairly aggressive city cyclist, but I don't prefer them and most of the people that I have ridden with avoid them completely.
I think I'll have an alpha/beta testing period with interested volunteers. Then hopefully sell it. Then after some years and waning interest, probably open source it.
Honestly these two comments speak to how confusing sharrows are.
It doesn't work very well for me - https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-state-of-linux-de...

This is perhaps related to using zig, but it's frustrating that gdb itself works fine with zig but each gdb frontend manages to break in different ways.
it appears magic wormhole requires both clients to use a fixed known "mailbox" server (its own separate daemon) to communicate with and discover each other.
Hi Funes,

Great points here

1. The banner happens last month of the year (Wikipedia being the perfect analog). Yes, there are mixed feelings and it's not the world's best experience :P

2. Our entire data set is available to download as in bulk https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps because we'd love to see a decentralized p2p version

3. https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm Mouse who used to work @ Internet Archive has a decentralized version of Open Library (Bookwyrm) and it's worth checking out.

4. For the last 5 or so years the Internet Archive has been cultivating a dweb/dapp community and integrating with IIIF, Dat, IPFS, gun, bittorent, webtorrents, and others and hosting regular summits and meetups
https://blog.archive.org/2018/07/21/decentralized-web-faq/

5. The wayback machine is an interesting case study: it turns out, incentive structures (even things like FIL/filecoin) haven't been able to perfectly crack the nut on getting folks interested enough to preserve the whole wayback machine. There's petabytes of material and there's a powerlaw about what people care about today. Internet Archive realized what we care about today may not be the same as tomorrow, and so there's a cost eaten (the incentive comes from economies of scale generated by intrinsic desire rather than $). And in a way, this centralized solution (economies of scale) IS the solution a community came up with. It has flaws and advantages (tradeoffs), such as centralized points of failure, and I think the archive would be (and has been) ecstatic to explore improving these opportunities.
What should disturb you is that there were far more deaths caused by right-wing terrorists than by left-wing terrorists in the past year, like, by a factor of 20 or 30.

So no, the violence is not equal on both sides. One side is, objectively, worse. White supremacy and neofascism are the biggest threats to the country right now. It's not Muslims and it's not immigrants. If letting Antifa have their music-festival autonomous zones is the price we must pay to stop nazis from running amok in America's streets, so be it.

Also, I hope Biden restructures the Supreme Court and they overturn Brandenburg v. Ohio, paving the way for criminalizing hate speech in America so law enforcement can finally crack down on these groups.
The rich (particularly banks) are always going to game any system, so saying anything is unworkable because the rich can partially game it is defeatism. If we use UBI to inflate the currency, everyone gets the same chance to use uninflated funds, which ends up benefitting those with less.

If we inflate via UBI, those on fixed incomes wouldn't be hurt unless it was a fat fixed income, in which case it's disingenuous to refer to them that way since they're basically just independently wealthy, and most people think of fixed income means pension/disability.
Russia may not be currently, but is aspirationally a nation-state.
Every so often, listen to your body. Do you feel tired? Feel your eyes if they are dry, or uncomfortable. Some ppl can go longer on a screen, you just need to find your range and make sure you don’t over extend those all the time. Rest them by doing a completely different activity for a few minutes.
In California, bicycles are defined as vehicles, so they're allowed to take the whole lane if there isn't a bicycle lane and a car and a bike can't fit side-by-side. Sharrows are an indicator of this state of the law.
you only hire 1-2 for your team, and it's a longer term commitment
Still a bit slower but much more competitive. Thanks for the additional investigation/validation!