skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes -- the network could soft-fork to require post-quantum transaction signatures. Naively, you could make it so that each transaction would put the hash of its parties' post-quantum signatures in an OP_RETURN output, and distribute both the transaction and the post-quantum signatures to the network. Miners would package the transactions into blocks, and separately validate them with the associated post-quantum signatures and distribute them as ancillary block data (e.g. the coinbase transaction could contain a Merkle tree root that authenticates all the block's extra post-quantum signature data).
Does this war exists in the real life?
Is there any evidence that "the lords of technology and their masters" are making any moves against IPFS and general computing?

Because I see the opposite. For example Sony, one of the most proprietary companies, is now releasing source code and bootloader unlocker [0]. Could you imagine this 10 years ago?

[0] https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/
I think there's two purposes:

- They have cash, and want to cover against inflation

- They want to eventually accept payments or provide withdrawals or pay salaries or bonuses in crypto, and they need to stock up to be able to have or provide liquidity
Garden-variety germs may explode in Covid’s wake, study suggests
Few states have ever pretended that speech should be absolutely free. The U.S. draws the line at speech that incites the imminent and likely violation of the law[1]. Canada only guarantees free speech within "reasonable limits"[2]. It's still worth fighting against governments natural desire for control to ensure "reasonable" speech remains as free as possible.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_expression_in_Can...
I list mine here: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/podcasts

Need to update though.
> at its peak

All time high yes, but we don't know that this is a peak
And intelligence seems to be specifically driven by chaotic processes, built to amplify small signals until they cascade.

A few different photons impinging on an eye can completely change the state of the brain a few seconds later.
I have to sound like a fatalist but today's software resembles yesterday's malware. It does not matter if you're running a general purpose computer if you have no control over 'your' applications or even OS (Windows 10).

In addition, new privacy features such as HSTS and DNS over https, ESNI, etc degrade what control you had even further stopping you from even knowing what data gets out of your network and when.
Not everyone agrees that disinformation should be curbed. And the reason many people, including the authors of the US Constitution, don't agree, is that they feel the risk of false positives is far too high.

That is _because_ I have no confidence that anyone doing the curbing, including myself, will correctly identify "misinformation", I don't want such curbing to be happening, period.
This is the first company for whom you've reached this conclusion...and Bitcoin was the forcing function? Never heard of BP or Shell?
WOW!!

I'm astounded. Zero-shot visual reasoning?? As an emergent capability?? Um. wat.

>"GPT-3 can be instructed to perform many kinds of tasks solely from a description and a cue to generate the answer supplied in its prompt, without any additional training. For example, when prompted with the phrase “here is the sentence ‘a person walking his dog in the park’ translated into French:”, GPT-3 answers “un homme qui promène son chien dans le parc.” This capability is called zero-shot reasoning. We find that DALL·E extends this capability to the visual domain, and is able to perform several kinds of image-to-image translation tasks when prompted in the right way."
I'm talking about using a library like privacyID3A or something else, not writing your own.
>Journalists generally are just people trying to do their jobs within the constraints they are given.

And this is exactly what I wrote about.

>impose their view of the world on everyone else and don't want journalists ruining that

This assumes that journalists are not like us humans, and never want to impose their views. And never work for people who want to impose their views, of course. And their incentives/constraints never push them to publish incorrect, or doctored stuff.
Fukushima disaster: New information about worst-case scenarios
Investment. Any large company has a stack of cash on hand, this is just required for operations. Traditionally many of them have been putting that cash into government bonds. Lately when many bonds have negative yields, it becomes more and more stupid to hold money in bonds for every year of guaranteed lost money in them.
Your book was close to perfect I think in terms of learning the core language, it was very easy to read front to back. Most programming books tend to fall prey to being categorically "project" based which I hate.

To be honest there were some sections that I glossed over that I should probably go back and annotate. I have to agree that finding some good github projects that are well documented to analyze would be a good start, I only wish programmers put more effort into commenting and documenting their code, ha.
I feel they also underestimate the ability for governments to ban cryptocurrency completely.
Even though I agree with what you said in terms of internal politics, I think when it comes to geopolitics, things start to get much uglier and multiple times more cruel. And since this topic is about foreign politics, I don’t think the US is any better than China. An American might think different, but I’m not one.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26192988
I'd be interested in hearing about your experience with Dreem. We're building a similar product at https://soundmind.co

Though Apnea is not in our initial target group, we'll be looking into ways we can resolve apnea in the future. I have central apnea (brain stops breathing).

Do you continue to use your Dreem? How does knowing the "quality of your sleep" help you? We're more interested in improving the quality of your sleep than in just giving you the data.

Details are in my profile if you feel like reaching out.
I agree with you that comparing applicants objectively is a tough nut to crack. I don’t know the right answer but I would imagine looking at as diverse a set of inputs as possible is a good starting point; I could also see universities coming up with some means of weighing inputs differently to not let any one input (like standardized test scores) be an arbitrary disqualifier. But until that’s the case, I don’t think individuals should feel guilt for not letting a flawed system run them over, even if that means needing to “cheat”.
Freedom of speech all around the world is eroding (some places more than others of course), step by step, we agree on that.

But I disagree that the US is any different, and is certainly not at the top of the ladder. To be clear: I mean freedom in practice, not freedom in legal theory.

"freedom of speech" is to the US as "politeness" is to Canadians: mostly true, but generally a stereotype that is fading with time.

I always thought it was funny in a tragicomic way, that a country that has freedom as one of its top virtues is the same one where you would quickly get sued (if not imprisoned) for acts considered harmless in other countries.

Perhaps the true free citizens of the US are corporations, to the detriment of natural persons.

Maybe this is not obvious until you've lived both in and out of North America for long enough.
Ferlinghetti and company pre-dated Dylan by at least 10 years. I would never consider Dylan a Beat.
This made me worried, so I went and spot-checked 5-6. Using the "cheat sheet" I was always able to guess correctly, so I think the site is working fine.

The list of packages the real snippets are drawn from is here (maybe if you want to avoid using them... ;) ):

https://moyix.net/~moyix/sample_pkgnames.txt

Note that the GPT samples are prompted with 128 characters randomly selected from those same packages, so you will see GPT2-generated code that mentions the package name etc. However, these packages were not used for training.
people writing comments like these is a good indicator that a crash is incoming
Also, Europe has been torn apart for centuries by religious, ethnic, or nationalistic hatred. The current laws reflect that. And communities that had to endure such hatred in the past will not be easily convinced that free speech is always a good thing.
Here is the rationale for using Google as the default for ntp which appears to be a problem with ntppool.org than any supposed favouritism for Google.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/16148

However I was under the impression an OSS project could use *.pool.ntp.org as their default but was preferred that they get a vendor zone.

https://www.ntppool.org/en/vendors.html
Everything I'd do differently if I could go back and rewrite my Android app
There's no upstream firmware being patched by Google. The phone is effectively unpatched once the hardware manufacturer gives up on maintaining its security.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding for, I'd guess, well over half of the custom ROM/custom phone OS community. ie: Lineage is customizable, and helps certain activity be more private - but it shatters security.
That's interesting, rig renting has been available for a while now but I never connected the dots and just assumed it just made sense for some people.
> Can you clarify? Because the Gospels are largely the accounts of a man who spent the most impactful years of His life disputing Judaism as it existed at the time.

He disputed current practices of certain groups/sects, and his law superseded the "old" law. The key point is that Jesus did not "back date" his laws. He did not claim they applied to the ancient Hebrews and that they should be judged according to them.

> Also Christianity cannot be an offshoot of the religion now called Judaism

I make a point of noting that I was talking about Judaism as it was at 0 BC/AD.
Unfortunately, they didn't reduce the rates. It was the same tuition price per semester, regardless of credit hours (as long as you still stay full-time, because the price for part-time is half). Which meant that people who graduated in quicker time spent less money. The cost was also the same for all undergrad degrees.

But it wasn't much of a concern at GT, because of the statewide Hope/Zell Miller scholarship covering the tuition based on the credit hours (and not on the actual semesters, you just have to have GPA high enough to qualify, which wasn't that high at all). So if you wanted to speedrun it and risk your GPA, you could do that. But if you wanted to take it slower, that scholarship allowed you to do so, because they paid regardless of how many years you took to graduate, as long as you were full time (with some nuances around part-time that aren't worth getting into right now), had high enough GPA, and you werent over the total cap of credit hours needed to graduate from your program.
> If you hire one with a CS degree they will probably be decent.

I'm saying from experience, this is not the case. I've found ivy league CS students to consistently under perform. School in general is not a strong signal, but for whatever reason the ivys consistently produce people who struggle to ship.

My original point is that OSS contribution is a strong signal and what people should look at if they want strong developers. I'm sure other industries have other work oriented methods for determining aptitude.
I'm assuming you mean error-prone and not error proof? =D Took me a couple of reads to get it.
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You can do a much much more deep fundamental analysis than a simple checking {if price_at_ATH then..}. Many of the companies have likely done such deeper analysis.
The whole field of quantum computer science would like a word. It's possible to predict what quantum computers will and won't be able to do.
> more of these as wikis, or GH repos

The people who live on GitHub are unfortunately unable to recognize any distinction.
UX people are quite informed about FOSS, but it seems that FOSS is not extremely informed about how important UX is.
I'd argue that computing has never been more accessible than it is today.

A Raspberry Pi costs less than an HDMI dongle for an iPad these days and there is more free educational material available on the web than ever before.

When I went to high school and started becoming interested in programming, I was using Windows XP on my general-purpose PC back home, as were all my classmates – yet only two out of more than 20 ended up going into tech.

I think articles like this commonly make the mistake of romanticizing the author's personal way of getting into tech and thinking it's the only way possible for others as well.
Hacker News discussions always mention Bitcoin's energy usage, but fail to consider a couple points about this: for example, the 2nd-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, is moving to a model that will use a fraction of the electricity it currently does, and that mining is a far smaller pressure to migrate the renewable grid than other industrial uses of energy. It is, basically, an unconsidered meme. I suggest you do some research on the topic; the Tesla you drive (I drive an EV, too) needs a renewable grid, too.
A big chunk of what chef Ramsey does on a show like kitchen nightmares is cut down the menu to fewer higher quality items.
What? I didn't mean to imply that. I'm an associate member of the FSF. I pay my dues with the money that comes from my corporate job which is open source all the way. I use Emacs, and keep my personal hardware as close to free as I can. One day when I'm into the ecosystem enough, I'll start contributing code to GNU projects.

The more we can build up free software as an alternative to open source, the more the business world will be forced to use it. They need your dollars more than anything.
Very cool! I work in industrial automation and deal with grease all the time. All my equipment is indoors; sometimes it feels like the cast iron foundries are some of the most hellish places on earth but I know your Outback mine sites will give them a run for that unenviable title!

Most of the new equipment we build has automated grease dispensing systems, where my PLC dispenses a fixed amount of grease through hard-plumbed tubing onto ball screw nuts, linear rail trucks, bushings, slides, or whatever else the machine requires. Those don't need GreaseBoss fittings, but perhaps chould be able to tie into your cloud if they've got some of your equipment and some of mine.

A lot of robotic equipment and repurposed older equipment, however, plus some new equipment with hard-to-plumb areas, has automatic greasing distance counters that pop up a warning/fault on the HMI that reads something to the effect of "Grease Warning: 20km travel on Z axis ballscrew, follow the greasing procedure and enter maintenance password to dismiss or OK to continue".

Those, I suppose, could benefit from GreaseBoss in three ways: First, you could guarantee that the procedure was actually followed (that both the easy-to-access top nut and the buried bottom nut were greased). Second, you skip the maintenance password step by detecting the grease being applied. Third, you could dismiss/reset the warning automatically if my PLC could query your API to determine when the zerks on my machine were last greased.

However, Haas is a machine builder, not a viable business model. A subscription to use the equipment is not going to fly with most of my customers. They're not stingy, CapEx is already huge and grease zerks are cheap compared to the engineering costs they're paying - you're putting in a $2.5M piece of equipment, they don't care if the optional RFID grease zerks are $0.25 or $2.50 or $250 - but OpEx and equipment lifetime are critical. The idea that their equipment stops working because someone in the front office didn't pay a third party is anathema to them. They'd rather spend $250 per zerk once than $2.50 for the tag plus a yearly fee of $5/zerk for the 10-year lifetime of the equipment.
my points still stand. History has shown us that defining ethics and writing them down merely spreads falsehood. I don't think we are actually better off morally now then 50 years ago. In some areas yes, in others we have regressed. (look at addiction rates now)
Now to categorically state that ai ethics is as diverse as "traditional" ethics can't be true by definition. (mine, if you ask)

As for killing random people on the street never being socially acceptable...
...Just look at europe 80 years ago.

AI Ethical research can never be an accurate representation of the majority of humanity - or even the majority of its users! If it can it is not sustainable for any long period of time.

What about far more stable principles, such as murder and racism, you ask?

They are prone to being overplayed or downplayed, are state executions murder, or justice? What if the victim/ hangman happens to be black? Why should it matter? Just ignore some issues?
That's misleading by omission.

It would be better to just admit
"yes, we at Giant Tech know our ethics are bs, but we had to put something down or our machines won't work.
Maybe we are not ready for advanced ai. Maybe there's a limit on what programmers can do. Yea. We know. turns out computers DO have limits. We'll have to find other ways to make money."

"But why should we say that!" cry all the executives when this speech is proposed to them.

"because it's true, and if we don't act now the company is screwed. And our clients will also get screwed" is the answer of the timid executive who first suggested this.

"how will the truth help us?" respond all the execs in unision.

"if we can keep up the lie for long enough, we shall all long be millionaires and retired before it implodes! We shall long be out of danger! who cares if some people lose money?"

"Yes, but don't you feel bad for all the shareholders? And how can we possibly fool people for decades to come that our ai isn't bs?" Responds the poor executive weakly.

"By creating a fake team and telling everyone they are ethics researchers" they say. "Really they are just pawns to help us earn more money. Fish get eaten by bigger fish you know?"

"can you just help me change a few lines on my press statement?" Asks the first executive.
That kind of depends on your tooling. e.g., I use Magit (an Emacs front-end for git) which makes interactive mode really, really easy.

(But easy or not, other version control systems such as Subversion don't offer the feature at all. We kind of take Git for granted these days, but it wasn't always like that.)
Quantum computing is not incalculable. Solving sha256 by traditional means would need the energy of the sun. Quantum will only further the goal by so much. And Vitalik didnt just invent ethereum he was/is a cryptography expert who wrote many publications.
We dont use Rally, but my team has essentially always done this and its been very healthy for us. Even on rough days, people join standup and its like catching up with your friends after a long day at work, except they all _get_ what you do and they can constructively work together to "unstuck" whoever needs it.

If your scrum is about tickets and not about people, I think you're missing the point of "keeping the team in sync".
Same thing for me.

Generally I am against rewriting history unless there is a big mess to fix. For me, git is my work process, and bugs, typos, bad merges and code that doesn't compile is part of it and I don't try to hide it. Personally, I value historical accuracy more than cleanliness.

But some people have compelling arguments for the opposite, like the author. These people tend to view git as a release schedule where every commit is workable code. It is good for bisecting, and git log is your actual changelog. But you lose information about how you solved problem, when you did what, etc... it is also more time consuming to maintain.

You can use a hybrid solution with two parallel branches and merge commits, or you can just use tags.

Git is not very opinionated on how you should work. Merge or rebase, clean or historically accurate, push or pull, etc... There is more than one way to do it.
Decentralized Finance Will Change Your Understanding of Financial Systems
THIS!

It's the ecosystem. Niche phone OS is not going to dominate the market until they have a competing app store that as good as Android's or iOS's. People uses Adobe will forever bounded by whatever OS Adobe truly supports. People uses MS Office will forever bounded by whatever OS MS Office truly supports.

Nobody really cares about UI. Everybody hates new UI. Once you are settled in the local comfort zone of the app that you use the most, nothing else would replace it unless that app goes out of support.
"1950's, the percentage of Americans with a college degree was measured in single digits (Bachelor degrees then were as common as Ph.D.s today). And, yet, we still somehow managed to have a functioning democracy"

You could argue the world in 1950s was totally different, and today that education is necessary.

Alternatively you could take a view that the world was comparable enough to draw conclusions. But then, 1878 was 'equidistant' to 1950's, as 1950's is to today. That's the year US had witch trials. Lynching was still happening, and continued untill 1960's. Now I am willing to bet that folks here do not want to descend into barbarism, and that education has a huge role to play here.
When I lived on a similar main road, I ended up with some form of noise turned up as loud as possible (to attempt to mute sirens), and I wore ear plugs to minimise that, and I still occasionally got woken up by the vibration of a large or loud vehicle passing by.
> think the magnitude of the lies on the Fox side is far larger than those on the CNBC side.

It’s not a scaler. There is the overt-ness of the lie, as well as the significance of the lie. Fox gives air to some significant and bald-faced lies. MSNBC gives air to a lot of misconceptions that are monumental in scope but less bald-faced. On the flip side, the journalism side of Fox stood up to the bald-faced lie about the election. Nobody at MSNBC never stands up to the less bald-faced misconceptions aired on that network.

With respect to elections. Trump made up a big lie about one election that Fox’s news side pushed back on, and which some opinion commenters face air too. MSNBC has given air to less bold lies about election integrity ever since 2000. How many people know from watching left-leaning media that 7 of 9 justices, with two Democrats agreeing with five Republicans, thought the Florida recount was unconstitutional?

In other examples, look at COVID response. Do you think people watching CNN have an accurate idea of where US COVID deaths stands in comparison to similar countries?
> listen to music and watch movies

I guess that’s what they call “computing” now... Anyway, does my using of a GPC as an HTPC count? (Still, you can take my iPad from my dead, cold hands!)
Answers from two months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553772
I lived in NY for about 4 years, and I'm still amazed by the similar things I saw. For example, one day my upstairs neighbour didn't feel like pulling up the drive way, so she just parked her car in the middle of our cramped, busy one way street so she could run upstairs and grab some things.

Of course all the people stuck trying to drive down the street started honking and yelling. She got back to the car, yelled back at them and drove off.

I wouldn't consider doing something like that in a million years, but for native New Yorkers, it's par for the course.