skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly that's not completely true: proof-of-stake doesn't solve the initial wealth distribution problem so often proof-of-work is still necessary in some capacity even in proof-of-stake coins.

Furthermore it's possible that a purely proof-of-stake currency would have never gained the widespread trust that proof-of-work did at a time when cryptocurrencies were a new idea. Or maybe not... but people did have ideas about proof-of-stake quite early on and it took much longer for those ideas to gain the same level of acceptance that proof-of-work did.
I find this strange, as there are low-power transceivers, low-power microprocessors, etc. and you could power the device inductively during communication.

And perhaps a simple solution would be to implement a door-knocking scheme, where you first apply a well-defined series of magnetic pulses before the device starts listening.
It's also plausible to interpret the futures depicted in science-fiction that humanity would eventually reverse cause on AI technology, fearing it would become too dangerous. I feel like there are hints of this in Star Trek as well. A somewhat related topic of gene-manipulated gets a lot of attention in Star Trek, and it is clear by DS9 that such is strictly forbidden.

Movies like The Matrix also highlights the dangers of letting AI run rampant.
I see PoW more as a stepping stone to bootstrap a crypto currency, and I think it might just go away over time.

Ethereum has done it this way:
First you build a stable blockchain, secured through tremendous amounts of power.
Then, once your system has been widely adopted and people have "skin in the game", you switch to Proof of Stake to minimize power consumption while still maintaining security.

PoS is the better solution, environmentally speaking, but it necessarily depends on there already being value in the system that people can be held accountable with and thus kept honest. But to reach that state, people have to trust your system first, and if you're not an already trusted entity, PoW is one way of achieving that initial phase of trust building.
The rushed executions and glorified middle east ops were awful as well...
Ironically it’s those same suits who are paying for the bottle service.
The machine learned models might feel there is a purpose in keeping humans around. Just like humans feels there is a purpose in keeping cats around.
I suspect it's because an entire AirBnB can be had for 1/10th the price of a table.
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"So while it’s not crazy to say that we should be less risk-averse"

Surely the way around that is to expand temporary/experimental approvals. This would require the patient to be properly and adequately informed of the risks of taking any new drug after which he/she would sign consent which would indemnify pharma, researchers, FDA etc.

That said, any such approach should be very tightly controlled to ensure unethical cowboys in the pharma industry don't take advantage of it.
COVID is a trend accelerator.
Konjac is a plant that has been eaten in East Asia for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac

And if you find yeast "revolting", I take it you don't like bread or beer either?
Sadly lack of O365 support is a deal-breaker for me (and I suspect many others) as that is where my company work calendar resides.
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That you don't care to understand how and why the global monetary system works is not an excuse to start believing in "digital gold". There are good reasons why bad ideas, such as limited supplies of currency, have been abandoned.

The huge problems of the monetary system lie more in the direction of Bitcoin (the unbridled speculation of Wall Street) than fractional reserve banking and fiat money.
They aren't that tall. 300m buildings are everywhere in China.

Quite ordinary residentials are creeping on 200m.

But 300m+ building all require very special engineering. Glazing designs for <300m building will not suit a 300m+ building.

HVAC, water, and savage systems for supertall skyscrapers are still more or less a case, by case designs.

I lived in a few quite tall 200+ buildings. Leaks seem to be unavoidable with curtain walls, and the only remedy is to have glazing engineers fixing them every year.

Water supply is also finicky, and that's an inherent property of having so much apartments relying on a single pipe run.

Booming noise in ventilation is possible to avoid with extra equipment, or simply solid vent shafts at extra cost, but I experienced it even in buildings with $1m+ apartments. So, I doubt construction companies will bother ever fixing this en masse.

Sound insulation! Yes, there is no trick for it than thicker walls, and bigger gaps in between them, and it costs a lot, really a lot. You don't get it in highrises no matter the cost, unless it's being sold on this specifically.
This[1] is probably the best, easiest and most (visually) effective way to learn about SSH tunnels.

[1] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/118650/289353
Divorce is a benefit in the US as well.

If you are married for some years in a state without common law marriage and then get divorced, you are probably due some of the house value, for example, even if it was in your husband's name. And one of the cars, and so on.

The same couple, not married, might have to sue to get one of the two cars and might not get any value from the house, even though they helped save for the down payment.

And there are lots of little things like that.
Whom I consider learned persons here cannot come to a consensus on Covid... A similar stalemate when discussing the US elections?
Thanks for sharing. I might have read it wrong but the point is tesla shills in here wont like what you are sharing as well. This place is full of them lol
Do you feel the same about almond milk, coconut cream and peanut butter though ?
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At the risk of bringing up The Culture series in every HN thread about sci fi, Iain M Banks does a thoughtful job of exploring this. In particular, in the book Look to Windward there's a discussion between the orbital's AI Mind and a renowned composer about how it could mimic their work perfectly if it chose to.
Some of the science fiction classics have a lot to say about this and go well beyond what is currently possible and realistic in the near future.

The author either vastly overestimates the capabilities of current AI or didn’t read Asimov and the like.
It's important to remember that Bitcoin (and other proof-of-work coins) have a very real and direct environmental cost. Given the state of global warming and how urgent it is to stop it, I believe that letting miners continue to waste energy is a much more extreme stance than stopping them today (with some kind of compensation program for their and others' investments in bitcoin, of course you can't just delete a trillion dollars worth of people's money in a minute).
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I never understood the details of it: So if you download 2GB from SSH, does it have to store it, encrypted, as is? Or just the IP packet headers, i.e. where from and where to, in which case it is practically useless?
> That's not that great, since it uses infix precedence

This is not true. I was careful to not use operator precedence as I agree it's bad. I said that the syntax I had in mind reads left-to-right, hence the operators also work that way. So `5 * 3`, assuming `` takes 2 parameters, is all you need to know about the operation (you don't need to check what's next, you have no precedence to worry about).

> to read Lisp you need to learn to read syntax based on nested lists

Exactly! That's why it's so hard. Our brains are not good at keeping several levels of nesting. Any code that is deeply nested is inherently hard to read.

> But the brain can be trained for that,

That's something we should avoid to make programming more approachable. People already have a hard time learning other more important things, so let them use their mathematical intuition for this.

(a - b) + (100 * y^1/2 * x) + (50 * x^2)

You seem to not have fully understood my point. This is not what I am proposing as being better than Lisp.

This is what this expression looks like in my proposed notation:

a - b >> 100 * x * sqrt y >> x ** 2 >> 50 * >> + >> + ;

There's zero nesting, but you still have to keep a few intermediate values (that's inherent to the calculation and this approach keeps that to the optimal minimum).

I thought it was obvious, but let me point it out explicitly: there is no operator precedence in this notation.

I believe this is fundamentally better than Lisp and C-like languages.
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At least this one is actually visual. Perhaps the author meant "A written guide to SSH tunnels"?
I’m not into ancient aliens stuff actually. I believe in engineering and science.

Clearly we follow quite different kind of researchers and see things from different perspectives. Which is great, I hope your way works for you as well as my way works for me :)
I love cooking and I program. I like the slight monotonous process of cooking such as chopping vegetables finely and measuring with a beaker.
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It shouldn't have been, because many plant-based dishes do not include the same amount of nutrients if they are cooked as opposed to consuming the raw vegetable ingredients, and people are either unaware of this entirely or completely neglect taking it into account in regards to actual nutritional value. That's before we even address nutrient bio-availability of ingredients pre-and-post preparation. You will always see tons of people crow about how many vitamins and other nutrients certain foods have, but they rarely if ever mention that with many of them you'd have to eat a dump truck full of it to even approach your daily recommended value because your body simply refuses to process much of it and passes it on as waste.
> A somewhat related topic of gene-manipulated gets a lot of attention in Star Trek, and it is clear by DS9 that such is strictly forbidden.

I believe it was already mentioned in the TOS episode "Space Seed"(the one with Khan) that genetic engineering on humans was banned after the Eugenics Wars.
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> I’m curious what’s your opinion on Bitcoin

a Ponzi scheme by any other name .. which primarily works because it exploits the uncertainties which many people feel about yet another system we are all invested in (whether we like it or not), sporting an extremely unfair distribution and being fundamentally broken too (in fact, at this point it pretty much functions like a Ponzi scheme too): The Dollar dominated world economy.

It is a Tulip mania in the making, which is going to make smart/early investors very rich (as long as they act quickly) when an sudden event (unexpected for most people) will trigger a serious crash of the world economy (which at this point appears almost inevitable). I'm pretty sure that plenty of serious investors are cynically gambling on exactly just that.

Sadly, an increasing proportion of primarily the US economy (and plenty of foreign ones, somehow dependent/reliant on it) revolves around stocked-up capital (potential power, but not used for anything useful, just speculation and political influence) on one hand and increasingly desperate fraud and deception, trying to access this piled up capital. The daily news is distracting most people away from this reality, but I think it is getting worse, rapidly. Something will crack, eventually.

Bitcoin isn't the real problem. It's mostly a symptom of a far bigger problem (will only be "solved" with a crash).

Similarly, plenty of technical/science news these days appears to be no more than deceptive marketing campaigns. But that is again, just like bitcoin, more like a symptom of an even bigger problem than the actual problem itself.
> Let me compare this to physics

It's not quite the same though. You are operating in uncharted waters and writing the rules with a feedback loop between theoretical and experimental. But the only bounds are what can practically be achieved given today's technological limits and understanding. Whatever both groups are working on, it stays between those 2 groups of experts.

In civil engineering you add a thick layer of regulation. Because what the architect theorizes about, and what the engineer ends up building will be directly populated or operated by the general population. An architect delivering something that isn't actionable as-is or an engineer implementing approximations that don't do the job will sit somewhere between worthless, fraudulent, and maybe even to criminal.
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If the device malfunctions, you don't want people to be unable to do something about it because they don't have the right version of a disabling device, or trying to figure out what the knocking scheme for the specific patients device is (so changing it to a different system is also an issue, since there is then multiple things to try).
Tried to send you an e-mail, but it failed to deliver. I think something is up. Can you check your e-mail service?
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"''Koyaanisqatsi'' is the first feature by the 42-year-old Godfrey Reggio, a former member of the Christian Brothers Teaching Order, who, according to his official biography, more recently has been ''interested in the impact of the media in conveying ideas rather than promoting commodities.'' Mr. Reggio must be something of a promotor to have been able to get the film's financing - approximately $2.5 million - from an organization called the Institute for Regional Education in Santa Fe, N.M. He was also successful in obtaining the collaboration of two talented artists, Philip Glass, the avant-garde composer (''Einstein on the Beach''), and Ron Fricke, the cameraman. Together, the three have made a frequently hypnotic ''folly'' of a movie.

I'm not sure that it conveys the ideas Mr. Reggio has in mind, but it's certainly not boring. At one point or another while watching it, one is sure to be reminded of everything from ''Modern Times'' and ''Fantasia'' to ''This Is Cinerama'' and ''Billy Jack.'' However, more than reminding me of any single film, it recalls the briefly fashionable 1960's idea that going to the movies should be a psychedelic experience. At its best, that's exactly what ''Koyaanisqatsi'' is."
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I use the number of stars as a measure for how much the guide is of use to people.

If it’s not useful to anyone then I know not to spend time on that. Short though as the guide is, and even though it is based on much hard work of others, it still took time to make, much in part because when I write stuff like this I spend a lot of time actually redoing steps to ensure to the best of my ability that what I am writing will work for others too. So I like to know that people find it useful.
I think the first sentence

> A while back, a digital acquaintance of mine went to work for the company Zora, which made me aware of its existence and curious about its purpose.

should be a pretty big hint that the article does not presuppose that the reader knows about Zora. But if you don't know what bl—ch— in the third paragraph refers to, the article is probably confusing.
In a sense how miserable our actual achievements will be comparing to what sci-fi expected in 2021? Agree.
I think GP is saying women face greater risk than men in dating and society. (I’m using man/woman here instead of male/female as the former seems less clinical)

I honestly wonder at this and prefer to not take a stance as I have too little information. Watching some reflections from transgender people after their transitions may help. I’ve heard female to male trans report society treating men with much less care. Meanwhile I imagine women get a lot more engagement from society than men.
> "the article also berates self-checkout systems, which everybody I know perceives as a net benefit to their daily lives."

You don't know me, but I want to provide a counter anecdote. My wife and I are both people that see self-checkout as a net negative. The error rate is just too high. They'd be fine if the error rate was low enough so that delays or required assistance was rare. It's not rare.

The best shopping experience is when there are plenty of human cashiers and plenty of lines open.
I've had a nice scheme for naming my devices for a while. I have a list of my devices here, with explanations.
https://pvin.is/post/my-device-naming-scheme
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> News stories about ML invariably invite readers to imagine autonomous agents analogous to robots: either helpful servants or inscrutable antagonists like the Terminator and HAL. Boring paternal condescension or boring dread are the only reactions that seem possible within this script....

The point is that AIs are typically imagined by our culture as independent agents that act kind of like humans, not as tools or forces that participate in human culture in a more inhuman way.
> salt mine of Wieliczka was really the inspiration for Moria (the guides do imply so, based AFAIK on a visit by Tolkien there)

Hmmm. Not heard this one. That said, I've read quite a lot of Tolkien biographic material, and I'm not aware that he ever visited southern Poland before writing the Lord of the Rings. He wasn't particularly well travelled before he became famous, and as far as I know he had only visited South Africa (where he was born and left as a very young child), Switzerland (walking holiday) and France (WW1) before the bulk of the LOTR writing occurred. After 1939 a trip to Wieliczka would have involved him entering a WW2 war zone or crossing the Iron Curtain, something I'm certain he didn't do before LOTR was published in 1955.
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The AI in pretty much every science fiction movie is human in its ability to conceive of itself as a separate entity, and human in its ability to have wants and desires for itself that are wide ranging.

The AI in all the movies you mention have personalities and drives that bring them into direct conflict with humanity.

Machine learning can perhaps undermines humanity or makes things worse for humanity by its functioning, but it does not directly go to war against humanity.
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Trying to sell something like UML again
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Yup.

Time to refer to this image again I guess: https://www.thejach.com/imgs/lisp_parens.png (Though that's technically Scheme -- I find Common Lisp more readable and encouraging of smaller functions and modularity. The clean code culture of tiny functions and unit tested everything is not there, though, and a lot of stuff is done by individuals so the benefits of code review aren't often captured.)
I'm increasingly concerned that the impact of ML is going to be limited. This sounds laughable at face value. And it is: ML has impacted my own life in a few ways, from being able to generate endless video game music (https://soundcloud.com/theshawwn/sets/ai-generated-videogame...) to... well. Thus my point: I can't think of ways it's seriously impacted my life, other than being an interesting challenge to pursue.

As someone on the forefront of ML, you would expect me to be in a position to reap the benefits. It's possible I am incompetent. But I often wonder what we're doing, chasing gradients and batchnorms while training classifiers to generate photos of lemurs wearing suits.

I try not to dwell on it too much, since I truly love the work for its own sake. But one must wonder what the endgame is. The models of consequence are locked up by companies and held behind an API. The rest are nothing more than interesting diversions.

I've been reading some history of math and science, and it seems like many of the big discoveries were made from people pursuing the work for its own sake. Feynman loved physics long before physics became world-changing. But if physics never lead to the creation of the bomb, would it have been so prestigious?

We seem to be lauding ML with the same accolades as physics during the postwar period. And I can't help but wonder when it will wear off.

ML will be a fine tool for massive corporations, though, for endless reasons. But I was hoping for a more personal impact with the work. Something like, being able to enable a blind person to use a computer in a new way, or... something more than memes and amusement.

Perhaps doing the work for its own sake is enough.
Inventing the technology and getting it adopted are two different things.

For example, I happen to believe that decentralized coins are a horrible idea in and of themselves, even without proof-of-work also helping to increase global warming. So, from my point of view, any adoption of a crypto-currency is a net-negative, and I would be happy to know that the technology exists, but is staying abandoned as long as we have no use for it other than non-centralized money.
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It’s simply not true that all of the candidate vaccines worked.

- The Sanofi-GSK one produced meh immune responses in the elderly, which is the population most at risk. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sanofi-gsk-vaccine-covid19-tr...)

- Merck/MSD abandoned TWO candidates, V590 and V591. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of...

- CSL/Queensland abandoned theirs because it interfered with HIV tests. https://www.csl.com/news/2020/20201211-update-on-the-univers...
There is a good point to the drift of functions. You just need to run this one thing, and you do have that server which could just run it. It's a very real thing.

Where I see this most often is with companies that place a unusual high cost on servers, virtual machines or containers. In those cases I normally just application servers, that's a good a description as any. The only difference is that I won't thing twice about deleting a server called app01 and recreate it using Ansible, Puppet, docker-compose or whatever deployment tool that customer uses.

In my mind there aren't "pets" any more, and if there is that's a mistake that needs to be corrected. The customers I deal with who have pet servers are the most dysfunctional and the ones with the most challenges, both technically and organisational.
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