skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure. If you don't need proof of work to secure a blockchain, then why is the free market of Bitcoin consensus continuing to expend huge amounts of capital to stick with it as its sybil resistance mechanism? If it wasn't considered a value destroying move, the transition away from PoW would've happened already no?
I don’t think it does any of the things you mentioned. It’s a vehicle for speculations and money laundering.
Keep telling yourself “we just need to X” and someday it will surely happen. Could be our State motto.
The same reason they got into it in the first place; you can make money by doing it.
In the next episode: fb automatically creates public fb accounts for all whatsapp users and publishes your chat messages on your timeline for everyone to see.
For the GUI-parts (and more) there's always wxWidgets and Qt, at least.
Cash is held for it's stability. bitcoin is the polar opposite of stability right now.
didn't musk going to TX for lower taxes/less government made the front page some 4 times? Isn't our industry based on companies from texas exclusively because of environmental laws, before they split into production in china/design+software in CA?

my framing was kinda of sleazy and inflammatory (but so is writing a full article about this topic and not mentioning it, instead focusing on bureocracy implementation heh), but saying that it is unsubstantive[sic]/not backed by common sense/out of topic is kinda of stretch.

and so is accusation about creating accounts. i just rotate them every few months because i value privacy over internet points.
It’s funny because of the dual meaning of “crash.” It’s possible that OP was not making a literal statement about the reliability of Windows.
In the UK, which is what we're talking about, the situation goes like this:

For most people there is FTTC or FTTP owned by "Openreach" the successor to the national telephone monopoly which thus owns most of the "last mile" of copper cable either under pavements in urban areas or hanging from telegraph poles elsewhere.

Openreach doesn't offer service to end users, its products are wholesale only, ISPs buy the wholesale product, at prices fixed by regulation, and sell Internet service (they also of course need to buy backhaul, routers, set up a call centre and so on, Openreach just makes the "last mile" work)

Thus, most big UK ISPs are using Openreach and you could switch to any of the others (including A&A), in principle literally overnight, since all the physical infrastructure is unchanged, just somebody has to plug different values into a database so they're billing a different ISP and your traffic goes to that ISP not the previous one.

[ Under the hood it's slightly more complicated because you can buy some backhaul from Openreach or from competitors who own long distance fibres. In a major city it may be cheaper to use some startup to get 10Gbps of data from your customers in that city to your data centre in another city, after Openreach gathers it all up somewhere, rather than paying Openreach, who also own fibre, to move that data to your data centre. ]

The main exception is if you have cable TV in your area (most larger cities, some suburban regions) you can choose to buy the DOCSIS service from the only company that owns all large cable TV service in the UK, Virgin Cable. In this case Virgin is your only possible ISP. For maybe 10% of UK residents this is the most practical way to get "good" Internet access, a larger percentage could buy this, but they could also switch to an ISP using Openreach and still get acceptable Internet access.

A relatively small number of users live somewhere with no decent Internet via Openreach, no cable TV, but enough local enthusiasm plus money to bury fibre and build their own network. In these cases again the only ISP is the one that buried the cable, but they're usually community owned, so I guess if they do censorship (and I don't know if they do) you'd be better placed to argue that policy should change than I am.
That’s the whole business of most stores. Trying to pin that on the web hosting platform seems odd. Being on Shopify is basically zero signal as to whether the product is any good.
> So I assume that you are doing hyperparameter search? Can you share what optimization method you are using for search (e.g. random, gp )?

Short answer is optuna and ax but only sometimes.

Long answer lead me down a rabbit whole and it's 10k+ words and a few experiments deep. If you're interested in this are specifically ping me, but I've got nothing concrete, however I like discussing it. A recent paper I saw that somewhat echos my thoughts is: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03034.pdf | but some bits feel either over my head and/or overly pedantic and/or overly formal | and I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion | and loads of it is irrelevant. But if the problem interests you I'd suggest giving it some time, with those disclaimers in mind

> Also, is the search can be distributed in parallel to multi node ?

Theoretically yes, practically it's still WIP to get this to work, but the architecture we have right now is very much conceived with massive distribution in mind (see our docs for more details on that).

> And, if mindsdb is not part of the db, what happen if minddb fail ?

The select query you use to make a prediction returns an error, essentially. Assuming you mean "what happens if it crashes or if the model you are using crashes?".

e.g:

psql> SELECT diagnostic FROM mindsdb.flu_detector WHERE headache=true AND temperature=37.5 AND cough='mild';

psql> Error: External table returned error: "Segfault"

OR

psql> SELECT diagnostic FROM mindsdb.flu_detector WHERE headache=true AND temperature=37.5 AND coughsfsagsa='mild';

psql> Error: External table returned error: Input column `coughsfsagsa` doesn't exist

(or something like that)

> Also, do you support automatic retraining?

Not at the moment, but we're going to add it very soon, with the first implementation allowing retraining with a certain user-set frequency (e.g. once every 2 hours).

Which will allow the model to be always fresh as new data comes in (assuming there's no time limit on the query)
Given China’s political structure, wouldn’t it just take one participant (President Xi) to wake up and decide “party over” if it became politically favorable to do so?
I wish this site would be less heavy handed when it comes to shadow banning. It seems like a significant number of comments ends up getting shadow banned and I find it both frustrating and a bit insulting. Compared to here, Reddit is an oasis of free speech.
I just wanted to reply to say this was a great explanation and that I broadly agree.
> China gains no benefit from destroying Bitcoin;

Citation needed on this one I'm afraid. If nothing else, a currency that the Party cannot control would be A Problem. China did not have much economic benefit in halting the ANT IPO, yet it did not go through all the same. There _might_ be a benefit in allowing bitcoin to continue to exist of course, if they think it advances their cause more than it hurts it. But as soon as that calculus changes, it seems quite likely that the big mining corps (with as you say at the moment of speaking about 65% of total hash rate)
will receive some "friendly invitations" (from unfriendly people with guns) to stop their business operations.
The gantry is enclosed, it's not possible to get close to the router unless you are doing something really... really wrong.

This is the machine I was running like 20 minutes before posting that comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AuwwPdBSf8

I have no idea why the people in that video cut a hole in their door. Seems like a really stupid idea to me. But you can see in a normal machine that someone hasn't modified to be more dangerous you can't get to the the spiny sharp bits.
Interesting perspective actually. Never looked at it like this.
It's been a persistent myth perpetuated in the media/journalism/society/etc for a few decades, but there is a lot of scientific evidence showing that it doesn't really explain how depression works, and the fact that SSRIs boost serotonin doesn't explain why they work as a treatment. See https://sci-hub.st/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art... for example.
> Note that China already controls ~65% of Bitcoin hash rate, so if they wanted to execute this right now, they probably could.

When you say "China" do you mean like an actor that can make coordinated decisions? Or just a geographic region? I'm asking out of curiosity because yeah there's a lot of miners in China across many geographic regions but I never saw any evidence that they even talking to each other, even less coordinated enough to agree on making a decision as drastic at attacking the Bitcoin blockchain.
I agree Glenn should hate both sides equally. It's also hurting his credibility being used as a mouthpiece by right-wing media.

He's just given time on Fox so they could say "See - the swamp is real, even this leftist says so! That's why you should never trust those liberals."

But please give Glenn some slack. If it wasn't for him Edward Snowden may be in Guantanamo, instead of regularly giving interviews over livestreams.

Calling the last 6 weeks "reporting mistakes" is way too generous. These are planted stories to shape public opinion. Glenn recognizes this and clearly explains using these events as a basis to censor the entire internet is unbelievably dangerous. Not since the Patriot Act has there been a danger to democracy so egregious. I hope people see realize it before it's too late.
> I don't think China being a dictatorship is much of a conspiracy.

But china enacting authoritarian measures isn't good enough. The blog post did not suggest that the attack vector to worry about was a single country banning crypto.

Instead, the blog post said that the attacks would only happen if every major country in the world colluded together, to all being authoritarian, and banning crypto everywhere.

If only China decides to take over crypto, the solution is relatively simple. The developers of bitcoin/whatever simply change the proof of world algorithm, and turn all of china's ASICs into space heaters.

That would be disruptive to crypto, sure. But lots of disruptive things have happened in the space. People would move on. And if china spent another X billion dollars building even more asics, then the algorithm could be changed again.
Distributed Proof-of-Work is not vulnerable to this:

https://org.saito.tech/eliminating-51-attacks-in-proof-of-wo...

The community of users simply attaches harder cryptographic proofs to their transactions, forcing up the cost of producing empty blocks. The approach is capable of bankrupting nation-states as a side-effect of eliminating 51% attacks.
So was I. Only a very slight majority of human beings have an option to access the internet, and a majority of human beings do not use the internet at all.
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Not really, it’s just proposing a different chemical imbalance than the “monoamine hypothesis” (i.e. serotonin, etc.). That one has already been disfavored for the past few decades, due to a lot of findings that it has trouble explaining. In particular the discovery of effective antidepressants that don’t affect the monoamine receptors enough or in sufficiently similar ways.
Also interesting.
I've never had a customer report performance issues relating to memory usage or a market analysis that suggested we should improve memory size or disk space used in the binaries we ship.

What I have gotten are expensive bills for network bandwidth and cloud platforms when backends are too chunky or download sizes too large.

Which of the two do you suggest we optimize for, the one that costs money and gets complaints, or the thing people argue about on HN and Reddit but mysteriously never materialized in reports?
Divide and conquer is all well and good, but it often ends up being:

A: We have a problem. I know, we'll use divide and conquer! Runs off.

B: Uh, that's actually Banach-Tarski^W^Wmicroservices? Wait, come back!

later

B: Now we have two problems, contorted to fit into a spherical subspace^W^WIO monad, and a dependency on the axiom of choice^W^W^Wasyncio library.

A: Wait, why are there monads? This is Javascript!

B: There are always monads, it's just a question of whether you type system is overengineered anough to model them.
Amazon has ruined the name Amazon.

A word that used to command respect and awe now connotates shipping waste and overworked warehouse laborers.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi should do it
Ideally yes, but most of the time I find I have no idea about what I want to do. Idea leads to code, code reveals constraints, those lead to other ideas. If we could specify things, code writing AI would be easy. But most of the time, we just have no idea.
This is terrifying and impressive :)

We built a similar system for 3D printers. There's nothing quite like intentionally giving access to someone on the other side of the globe and having them make something for you in front of your hands and eyes. It's not technically teleporting, but close enough to have that same magical feeling.
>>Also, some of these MSP crops like rice require lot of water for cultivation, and considering the shortage of water in most places in India, govt wants to reduce the farming of such crops.

This is very a important point. Most farmers who are protesting are from the province of Punjab . However, their choice of crops and farming methods is leading to depletion of undergroup water and not sustainable in the long run.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/paddy-tu...

Also, historically speaking -- Punjab farmers never grew rice as paddy cultivation uses a lot of water. Thanks to government subsidies, Punjab is now a prolific producer of rice and this has had a major impact on water table.
They won't go, not in big enough numbers. They will have families, friends, other connections locally. Moving away is easier said than done, you need a visa/long term residence rights, you need to learn the local language and customers, you'll probably remain a foreigner for the rest of your life.

And another thing, if currently wealthy people live, what do you think will happen? Everything turns to a wasteland? People left behind will just take advantage of the new opportunities that are suddenly available.

* * *

This is kind of like those discussions where people say that Gates is not actually a billionaire because his wealth is tied up in shares and if he'd sell all of them he'd be poor because this sudden influx of shares being sold would reduce the share price to 0. Like:

a) the price would actually go down to 0 if he suddenly sold everything

b) he'd actually sell everything all at once.. he'd probably just do it in stages and he'd still probably get something like $50-60bn cash, at least
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A very simple way to increase block rewards is making blocks SMALLER.

It is game theory: If you really want your transaction to be on-chain, you pay for it. And smaller blocks means less transactions will fit in one block. So fees will need to go up.
> Yeah I don't understand the outrage?

Same here. Don't get me wrong, I'm as deeply suspicious of everything that Facebook touches as the next person.

But here Facebook is seemingly doing a pretty normal/expected thing, and people (and more or less reputable news sources) portray it as a data-privacy scandal?

What's worst is that at least in my country, at least half of all articles about this were mentioning Telegram as a "secure, encrypted alternative to WhatsApp". This makes me very sad.
Who needs processors when you've got big guns?

They don't need the processors - they can simply change the laws.
i've also heard of this alternative
https://www.outrunlabs.com/revery/
Earth's magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago causing mega climate change
This is probably the comment you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449. I was unconvinced then, and I am even more unconvinced now as I run a fully native Cocoa Slack client on my Mac that was written by one person reverse engineering APIs.
Well that only works with people that are not afraid of fighting you and possibly winning against you - and there's always somebody that's better trained and/or stronger then you.
When you encounter that kind of person, if you challenge them, they will step up and fight you, because they will feel they have no other choice. Reasons could range from pride, (imagined) loss of (self) respect to just being aggressive bullies that enjoy hurting other people.
Of course if you're 6'7'' and 240 lbs not a lot of people would want to start arguing with you in the first place.
I really don’t share your point of view, but I understand it, for me feels like we as developers are getting worse and worse with the time, we get every year more powerful machines but our software is getting worse every year, who cares about performance if is cheap to develop, maybe if our apps uses less resources it would have less impact in the environment (less energy consumption is better for everyone, except for the lazy developers).

I really hate electron apps, for example you have teams, that is written in electron, in linux is somehow better than the web version but is just way worse than the windows/mac versions, in web you can view 2 cams, linux 4 but in mac and windows you have more cams at the same time and also a lot of features that are missing in linux, so I don’t see too much the benefits of electron here, just pure laziness of microsoft not willing to invest in a better cross platform app.
Why haven’t they destroyed it then?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-laundering...
> I am not sure what the point is of Electron: a shitty-resource hungry app that literally is a wrapped web-app

The point is that its effectively a web app.

> What value does electron add to the user?

They have a desktop app faster than if it was being built natively.
> rather, it'll be because the U.S. has destroyed the dollar. There's value in cryptocurrency simply in it being an alternative that's readily available, so that civilization doesn't stop if the U.S. does end up miscalculating and hyperinflating the dollar.

Even before Bitcoin, we had plenty of other alternative currencies that could have replaced the dollar. I’ve been reading headlines speculating about the dollar being replaced by other currencies as long as I can remember, before Bitcoin existed.

To your point: If Bitcoin somehow did become an alternative world currency and USD was out of the running, wouldn’t that create great incentive for China to crash Bitcoin prices and drive everyone to use their national currency?

I’m not happy with the current rate of inflation, but I think it’s also clear that true hyperinflationary scenarios aren’t likely in modern countries. As much as we like to criticize governments (often rightfully so), it takes orders of magnitude more incompetence and malice for a government to enter hyperinflation. It’s not something that is stumbled upon by accident.
They made not having medical insurance illegal. Quite controversial, at the time.
This is fascinating. Cholesterol has long be associated with depression.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606915/
I don't dispute one might want to have this control. At the same time, I don't see a theoretical reason one can't have the same programming model, and choosing what computation runs local vs. distributed is just a configuration. A function call or a remote call won't change the domain logic, it's an implementation detail - but today, this leaks into all kinds of decisions, starting from microservices and working backwards to glue everything together again.
That’s not a terrible system from the sounds of it. Speaking of fibre, how is the rollout going? It seems like, if private companies own the last mile for fibre, the system described will eventually not really exist in 20ish years as people gradually upgrade?
These are amazing questions Streetcat,
We do some hyperparameter search using Optuna, we may be moving to Ray Tune because it can be highly parallelized.
If MindsDB fails, it depends on how various DBs manage federated storage, but essentially you will get a query error.
Funny that you mention automatic retraining, people have been asking for this recently, we will be supporting a retrain_frequency parameter in the coming releases, would you like to give it a test drive?
> Stellar

kek
Is there a way to get the raw percentages rather than the rank?
If the difficulty is low then re-attacking the forked chain is inexpensive so you have exactly the same problem. Additionally, reducing the hashrate reduces the settlement assurances increasing the number of confirmations required to be sure your transaction is finalised.
Have you seen how Sciter.JS has been developing https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk

There are a few working examples, and they have dramatically lower memory footprint and are quicker to start than full fat browsers.
The Rover-to-Orbiter is 2Mbps, whereas the X-Band High-Gain Antenna link is 3Kbps:

> 160/500 bits per second or faster to/from the Deep Space Network's 112-foot-diameter (34-meter-diameter) antennas or at 800/3000 bits per second or faster to/from the Deep Space Network's 230-foot-diameter (70 meter-diameter)
(Note: I consider interests, waking dreams (ideas, meditations, & imaginations), and dreams to be on a sort of subjective-metaphorical continuum.)

Anyway whenever I "dream" about programming it's almost always a scheduling cue. The exact type of programming, technique, language, etc. will provide details as to the type of scheduling that needs to be done.

For example, an interest in lisp seems to point to high-level, conceptual plan-making/life-design which leads toward a schedule. BASIC interest seems to point toward making a simple schedule / zeit-plan and working up from there. Getting with the program, metaphorically.

I mention this in part because you brought up the deadline...and that is related to schedules and timing.

If I dream about debugging, there's almost certainly a timing issue in my schedule, something unrealistic or problematic.

Just my subjective experience...
I think the concern is that the authoritarian Chinese government can exercise an awful lot of influence when they are inclined. For a supposedly decentralized system it's an awfully big risk.
We currently have this approach. One graphql backend-for-frontend server in front of an arbitrary number of BE servers. The UI always has a consistent interface and the BE can focus on its business logic instead of how the FE should display it. The two layers can change fairly independently. We're still early in the project, but in theory I love this architecture and would use it again.
> Expressing opinions is the whole point.

To say I was thinking it was about actual arguments the whole time
'The year when the name Alexa was most popular is 2015. In that year, the number of births is 6052, which represents 0.311 percent of total female births in 2015.'

From https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
In an elegant tautological argument: because at the moment it does not advance their causes to do so (yet).
Changing the hash function doesn't solve the problem. The mining game doesn't remonitise becuase everyone knows where it ends (denial of service and collapse, rendering mining hardware valueless).
The question is whether CCP has sufficient control over them. If it does not yet, it might consider working on that. OTOH I like the game-theoretic argument: they don't need to.