skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
failing start up looking for someone to pin their failures on, I’m guessing they got hacked in some trivial way ... I’d resolve it by giving the twat who is taking crap a slap ... or you could do the lawyer thing, sounds more American.
It doesn't matter though.

Other governments are going to see the facts on the ground (Twitter can and will restrict the speech of a head of state to his people), and rush to sanction local alternatives which will allow them to reach their people and ban American versions.
Understand. It's unfortunate that those fleeting trendy datasets are hard to monetize. At the same time they seem equally important in terms of the degree to which people care about. Just look at the stuff on r/dataisbeautiful, which is a mix of the two. IMO fleeting datasets could be pretty good marketing if done right.
> basically converges to "block reward is equal to electricity cost equivalent"

the electricity cost falls significantly with the difficulty, see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty

..and: https://breakermag.com/difficulty-adjustment-is-why-bitcoin-...
With that kind of control, they could just put a gun to anyone's head and ask them to start mining bitcoin and do it the way they want them to. It wouldn't have to depend on how many bitcoin miners are in China at the moment.
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/

Dairy Products, Milk — $7.34 billion
Almonds — $6.09 billion
Grapes — $5.41 billion
Cattle and Calves — $3.06 billion
Strawberries — $2.22 billion
Pistachios — $1.94 billion
Lettuce — $1.82 billion
Walnuts — $1.29 billion
Floriculture — $1.22 billion
Tomatoes — $1.17 billion

Not seeing wheat or rice on this list. Sue me for saying this, but I don't think strawberries are critical to survival.
It's also kinda like how Al Capone might not have ordered the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and we'll never really know for sure, but most people conclude that he probably did, even though no one could definitively prove it.

And also kinda like how Kim Jong Un might be the preferred candidate of 100% of North Koreans, and we'll never really know for sure, but most people conclude that he is almost certainly not.
As noted in her pinned tweet (https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1357819673455202304), she was locked out of Google's system after sending an email supporting Timnit Gebru. (EDIT: and allegations of systems abuse; see child comment)

This new tweet makes the firing official.
So will this lead to a cure since I've tried 15 and only mirtazapine worked for a few years?
We steal genes from fungi without rewarding them for their work, and do you know what they do to silk worms? Why should advanced aliens treat us any better?
Follow up question, as someone who knows even less about forensics, what kind of traces stay on a hard drive if you just delete a file?
>you have to think about scale of investment

That's what I was doing...

>currently fusion is not an appealing private investment outside of philanthropy. There are a lot of up front costs and uncertainty for a payoff that is way down the road

As opposed to the Mars rocket business? As opposed to money-losing biotech? Bitcoin, now representing around $1 trillion in total? Is the disinterest in long term investments why the US government is thinking about issuing 50 and 100 year bonds, as well as the 30 year that already exist?

In 2021, saying that significant capital is only available to non-speculative investments with short term payoffs sounds like something from another dimension. One without the GameStop hearings.

Elon Musk isn't literally the sole litmus test of whether fusion is feasible; he just represents the general zeitgeist. If a few billion dollars would make it happen in the near future, how could it be that everyone is disinterested? Especially now that taking climate change seriously seems to be snowballing.
> If the government is going to be the one to decide what hate speech to ban

Yes. The government, typically democratically elected, should be the ONLY authority on making such rules. Not a commercial / tech company which, for all intents and purposes, was setup with the sole intention of making money. So in the US, even if you take the best case scenario, we have certain sections of the government shooting over the shoulders of companies like Twitter & Facebook. That way they get the results they want without the flak they would have typically received. In return, those sections of govt can confer favors, monetary or otherwise to the tech companies.
Correct; unfortunately I can’t price that effectively for my specific house since I bought it with the solar, and can’t separate the numbers out cleanly.

That being said, we know that in the long run rooftop solar reduces electricity cost, because otherwise most people would never buy it. From my numbers above rooftop solar only needs to reduce electricity prices by ~40% to put them within striking distance of a heat pump being cheaper than gas.
Can anyone recommend an authoritative blog, explainer, other covering water rights in the USA?

I volunteered at an Audubon project trying to save the pacific salmon. The water rights issues break my brain. Farmers, timber, fisheries, native peoples, power, flood control, sanitation, household use, commerce, industry, etc.

I know nothing about this GA vs FL (vs TN) fight.

I've heard our legal context in The West is it's own crazy. For instance, IIRC, we have "use it or lose it", so Idaho potato farmers end up growing too many potatoes to avoid risking losing their water rights.

Insane, right?

I'd love to follow the thought leaders on water stuff. Like maybe create a market for water, so those Idaho farmers could sell / rent their water to others interests. I'd love for the Freedom Markets™ partisans to actually propose market designs and reforms that'd address these kinds of challenges. Similarly, I'd love for the treehuggers to get smart about using markets to more effectively and efficiently allocate scarce resources; a constructive alternative to the never-ending legal battles.

After carbon, water will certainly be one of our more pressing policy challenges, for a long while to come.

Please set me straight, point me in the right direction.
Will Bitcoin even be that decentralized in 50 years? The miners control the network, and most mining is done by big companies now and their data centres. If it’s like other companies, won’t they gradually acquire one another until there is only 1-2 companies controlling almost the entire future crypto economy? The scale of the computing power we are talking about is not something that individuals can compete with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevinism
EA makes 1,5 billion with FIFA ultimate team cards. It's disgusting.
I predict Jeff is going to leave sooner or later.
That's assuming you want to copy the the whole thing.
And even if you do want to do that, this is what you do with copy_file_range as well, just that in many cases you can do it with a single call instead of multiple read/write calls in addition to being able to take advantage of performance optimizations (such as reflinking).
Nationalism can mean different things to different people and countries. It can be bad in former colonial powers and good in former colonies.

And the BJP today under Modi is considered a "Hindu nationalist" after 70 years of Independence.

This is in sharp contrast to Pakistan which started killing millions of Hindus & Sikhs, and has more or less completely wiped out their non-muslim population. This ethnic cleansing started even before they were created as a country.

So perhaps the "Hindus" should have a say in the only country meant for them.

Pardon me for saying this but Christian and Islamic values have been enforced on much of the world, which includes India much of whose laws and education are Christian/Leftist leaning.

As for those who are not aware, "Hindu" (of India) is the catch all phrase for anyone who did not fit into the other major faiths. And the "Hindus" themselves mostly consider anyone who are not openly inimical to their pluralistic practices as being in the fold.
If a handful of governments that control fabs agree Bitcoin has to go, the efficiency of ASIC mining becomes a big threat.

Governments can purchase large runs of ASICs while other mining will revert to GPU. Controlling 51% of the hash rate in this manner isn't as outlandish.

Further, you're not limited to double spend attacks. If you're the government with a decent advantage, you just treat your own chain as true and never accept blocks from other miners. The reward for mining will collapse, since even if you produce a valid block it'll not be on the longest chain once government miners catch up.

And once the reward for mining collapses you can probably even power down some of the ASICs.

There are counter measures, but combined with attacking the financial onramps and making possession criminal, it's hard for me to believe that BTC would survive an attack like this.

But of course, it's predicated on large governments agreeing it's worth seriously attacking. I don't know how likely that is.
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I was one of those users who made the move from Twitter to Koo. I think what really pushed me and several several others to do so, was the arrogance that Twitter showed to an elected government, for a legitimate takedown of accounts that were fanning flames of hatred and violence through blatantly fake reports on the ground.

This was pretty much like the Capitol hill violence - hooligans stormed the Red Fort on Republic Day and hoisted a separatist flag.

One "farmer" died when he rammed a barricade with his tractor and it turned turtle. Despite there being a clear video of this, several Twitter accounts began maliciously attributing this to police firing, and trending hashtags saying there was a "farmer's genocide."

The government rightly asked Twitter to take these down. Twitter's response was wholly inappropriate for the situation and the contrast to their actions during the Capitol hill incident was really stark.
I'm not saying there isn't a biochemical component to depression (or any other mood disorders). The specific theory that I'm talking about is "low serotonin causes depression" (as in the proximate cause, not the ultimate cause). When SSRIs were first discovered to be useful for treating depression, one of the theories about why they worked was that they boosted levels of serotonin, but we know now that's not true. It doesn't mean it can't be explained in other ways (like the one this article discusses).

Also, if there is a behavioral component to depression as well, then it doesn't necessarily mean someone is to blame for their disorder. You don't control the environment you grow up in, which has an enormous impact even on traits that are highly heritable (the whole subject of heritability is very misunderstood anyway).

So basically if I were going to describe depression's cause, I'd say it's a mixture of biochemical reactions, behavioural traits, and environmental stresses that cause it.
They used to do it that way and wouldn't get much uptake in the media. Newspapers/websites want big colorful high resolution photos to use as header images for articles. The tiny grayscale HazCam images are technically interesting and useful but are visually boring to non-technical viewers.
carbon emissions.
Monolith First.

The point of this idea isn't that it says "monolith"; it's that it includes time as a factor. Too much of our discussion focuses on one state or another, and not on the evolution between states.
Yea I can't see a power like China controlling bitcoin to be a good thing. I also can't see myself maintaining a substantial fraction of my wealth in a unit of value subject to the whim of a totalitarian government.

It's not inconceivable (to me at least) that leaders could decide it's personally beneficial to them (or politically beneficial) to damage Bitcoin, even if it cost a ton of their tax payers money.
This is very cool actually.. neat idea! And this just uses ssh protocol for all communication? Nothing needs to be installed server-side right?
> Trash is now auto-emptied.

After 30 days, IIRC. That's not helpful if you're trying to manage quota now, and certainly isn't an excuse for the truly astonishingly bad UX around the trash bin.

> You can also view objects by the quota they consume at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota

Objects as in individual files. It does not show you which folders are, in aggregate, consuming large amounts of storage. As a result this is utterly useless unless your quota is taken up by a few large objects. I legitimately have no idea what use case they thought they were addressing when they built that view.
Same, but I quit after Ultima 7.2. I remember trying 8, and just never getting into it. Huge disappointment, as 7.2 had improvements over Black Gate, and I just expected 8 to be an iteratively better new adventure. I wanted Ultima 7.3 and instead got Diablo 0.1.
I'm not proposing to code like a monolith - but I don't see a reason there can't be a programming model that unifies that.

APIs like Spark, for instance, make it largely transparent - processes are scheduled by the driver in nodes w/ hot data caches, and processes that fail are transparently retried; and yet this doesn't impact how you write your query. Effects systems are another thing can help us reason around i/o as function calls and handle the fail-ability.

I would bet it's a matter of lacking good accepted patterns instead of a theoretical impossibility.
Remember UASF? If incentives align amongst users, nodes, merchants and exchanges Bitcoin absolutely will switch to another mining algorithm and now the attacker has to start from 0.

If the attacker attempts to keep up the game of cat-and-mouse long enough they will eventually go bankrupt and will no longer be able to participate.

And this theoretical discussion completely dismisses the fact that it's nearly impossible to execute an attack like this at this stage in the game anyway.
The NFT market is only providing scarcity to digital collectibles. There is no NFT market for physical assets, markets might exist but "the market" is not choosing them because of the obvious shortcomings, so therefore that's not really an argument because we aren't talking about those. The remainder of this post is referring to digital-native collectibles:

> Why would I need an appraisal of a painting I bought at an old fashioned auction? Doesn't everyone know its market price at that moment?

Because of the structure of that market, the purchasers are not seeking liquidity at the time of purchase. The available lenders are not there as soon as a purchase occurred, and are lending to the universe of fine art not just yours, so the price history is not available. Between private sales, theft, duplicates, inheritances and liquidations, the appraisals are necessary to prove provenance and price history. If you had a banking relationship with the banker right there with you at the auction, you may be able to get liquidity for your purchase very quickly in the matter of a few business days. Such "privilege" is not necessary in the NFT market, making it faster and more efficient.

> So compared to owning a physical painting, an advantage here is I can do fancy financial maneuvers with it more easily?

Royalties to the original artist are accomplished more easily. There are a lot of NFTs coded to pay X% to the original artist upon transfer and other use cases. This is a world's apart better for artists and shifts the incentives of that whole market, and so the "market of artists" is immediately choosing that because its a new century with better options. They are also people more aligned to "support living artists", so the market is forming rapidly as artists get liquid. There are also a lot of other creative people that have been doing other things with their life, that are finding it economically viable to be a creative now.

They all inherit the same financial infrastructure.

> What happens when there's a competing blockchain that also claims to represent digital ownership of this artwork?

The earlier date proves earlier original existence. Consensus can also be managed by the market and the issuer as a fallback. And then of course the courts are a further fallback. The existing art world relies on issuers to not dilute their market and trust of it (if they say its a limited edition, we have to trust that well after the artist is dead). This on-chain world provides efficiencies that don't have to be a cure all, but will function as such most of the time any way.
I have mixed feelings on this. One the one hand, yes, true friends will use smoke signals to reach you if needed.

On the other, like you, I’ve missed many events of people I like but am not that close to, because everyone is on WhatsApp, why didn’t you come, oh, right, you’re that one guy.
And vice-versa. I'm taking vilazodone and lamotrigine (anti-epileptic), and they're just barely working.
> PoS is still vaporware - debate me if you want

Tezos has a fully working Proof of stake system, and there are others. Feel free to share whatever you're on about, but I have a feeling "the debate" will be an exercise in goalpost moving.
No, I'm actually asking for ideas for why they haven't destroyed it yet.
Debugging with GDB – Tenth Edition
Have a look at PineTime. No ECG though unfortunately.
90k Packages Are Stolen in NYC Every Day. How One Building Fought Back
Not really. If I say "she is an Amazon!" you will think I'm saying she's a female warrior instead of a megacorporation.
I assume there are also distinctiveness considerations. I'm guessing the "ex" phoneme is natural to pronounce but not super-common in English. And 3 syllables is probably a good compromise between distinctiveness and being too long.
So a company known for ridiculous mark-ups on memory and storage upgrades is now judge and jury of how other companies price things?
If they executed a 51% attack, it will most likely result in a hard fork. Every full node would be able to tell where China branched off. We'll have BTC and BTC-China, with their individual markets. Keep in mind that while China has the bulk of miners, the majority of reachable full nodes are in North America.
How widespread are cases like this? I'm not an expert on this topic but from reading this it feels like such an investigation is expensive and time consuming. I imagine for every person identified there must be many more whose secret affiliations with the foreign powers won't be uncovered.
Fortunately, it is immensely more difficult for the Chinese state to exercise its monopoly on force outside of Chinese borders.
My gut tells me that fusion power is better analogized to a space elevator than reusable rockets.

But you're suggesting what I already alluded to as a reason for doubting that economic fusion power will ever happen - he's the type of person who would be pursuing fusion if it seemed feasible. It's not that he's the only one, or that he knows about nuclear physics, but it's the sort of risk he would plausibly take if he didn't know of a good reason why it can't be done. Also, of course, you need power for Mars bases.
At least part of the outrage is that, while that use is quite reasonable, the TOS did not constrain the sharing to only that use.

So they were saying one thing in legal terms (we can share your data with facebook to improve facebook products) and another elsewhere (we will only share minimal data about and with businesses you communicate with, within this feature).

Personally I trust them to adhere to their TOS far more than their newsroom blog. So while I believe their short-term plans are reasonable, in the long-term Facebook has demonstrated repeatedly that they will do whatever they can get away with.
Was she out of her mind keeping this kind of stuff? Can't believe the stupidity.
I set it up for my handrolled homelab server automation ( all Arch Linux servers ), back when I was doing everything with virsh.

It worked "ok". It required pulling in a bunch of dependencies I wouldn't have normally installed. I had it set up behind an HAproxy LB, with ssl terminated at the LB. When I was using it ~1 year ago, it was pretty buggy, and certain components would crash and I would have to restart the web page.

Overall it was a mediocre experience, but I suppose better than having to ssh into every server. The main pain point was that I still had to go in to every server, and install cockpit.

In the end, I ended up just moving on to Proxmox. But I suppose cockpit is nice if you don't want a centrally managed cluster, but still want a web interface.
Maybe we can say that GPL is contagious instead?
Windows biggest advantage is it's UX which the GUI is a part of.

"Take away the GUI, and Linux becomes a pretty easy choice. "
An external machine can become the GUI. It's not because your machine can't render that it can't have an external GUI.

VSCode SSH is popular because it's able to bring a decent GUI to any linux server.
Supported in Chrome and Edge today.
It's not inconceivable (to me at least) that at some point in the future it would be politically or personally beneficial for the leadership of a totalitarian government to do something that is economically costly to it's citizens (in this case we're talking about damaging bitcoin, but it could be anything).
>They are worried about Modi taking away all these privileges that they have enjoyed for 70 years.

>So all these elements are ganged up against the BJP and Modi.

I have to say, this is a pretty misguided impression. Seems like you haven't actually read up on the farm bill.

Your comment history seems to expose you as a BJP/Modi supporter who doesn't think much before proposing policies. Here's an excerpted comment of yours from a while back:

>Put some armed sentry that shoots on sight,, no more refugees.

>It is part of Turkey's strategy fill Europe with Muslims and them wanting to reinstate the Caliphate.

I mean, I think that speaks for itself.
I don't like having to install cockpit on every instance/devices. That means I have to keep all of them up to date in addition of installing them and configuring the devices to make it operable.

I'd rather have a client-only app that connect through ssh and get its data from standard binaries installed on the server.

So, yes. I'd give that a try.
I would compare it to a space elevator (for earth, not the moon). Do you think we can attach a timeline to that?
It's a lot easier to point a gun to someone's head and say "Switch your equipment over to the network pipe that we give you" rather than point a gun to someone's head and say "Build a datacenter, secure an extremely large source of power, buy a few thousand Bitcoin mining boards, hook them all up in this extremely technical way, and then switch it over to the network pipe we give you."

The gun in the head strategy works best when you're only asking your populace to do simple things. For complex, technical tasks, the usual response is "Oops, I can't concentrate while you've got a gun against my head", and then you can shoot them but that's not going to help your task get accomplished any quicker. (This is also why working conditions at say Google or Apple tend to be pretty good, and why Soviet scientists were treated relatively well even if the rest of the population wasn't.)
Lots of coverage on technical aspects but what's often missing is the sales and marketing functions and their ability to pull the whole thing out of water. They mentioned Salesforce and Oracle. Salesforce was pushing sexy company image from day one, while Oracle has a reputation of a death star. Salesforce community screams off rooftops how great it is, while Oracles customers fighting their legal teams. Could more companies build successful CRM system? Yes, and many did, but I can't recall MS Dynamics fans walking out of the conferences with big smiles over their face as they'd just won the lottery. It's not necessary hard to build the product, but how it gets pushed to the market is what makes or breaks it. Google cloud,anyone?