skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd imagine this is the primary usecase of bitcoin?

Existing transactions cover other usecases just fine
Can't forget the wonderful Esolang <https://esolangs.org/>, a wiki of esoteric languages
Most flat-file formats I'm aware of can't be updated in place. SQLite databases can.

SQLite is used throughout Chrome and Firefox as a storage format, e.g. for browser history, bookmarks, cookies, etc. It's also commonly used as a storage format on macOS, iOS, and Android.
> a handful of flashy programs

This only works if "core" refuses to use Rust, so it's not sustainable. We already can't build Firefox and GNOME without Rust. Maybe Apache and curl next. And then?
Bigger screens are better.
> I think the author was coming from a place of sharing one's work on the internet, he pretty much said as much in the article.

Did he?

"I’ve mostly stopped sharing unsolicited “helpful” just-a-thoughts and comments at work. I save them for Twitter"

This is why I said it's not even clear what exactly the author is talking about. I actually have no idea, but everyone else seems to think they know, despite the fact that they have very different interpretations of what it is.
It will totally work if you build from source ^^

I use this https://code.wildfiregames.com/P241
but basically you need only this after cloning and installing deps

cd build/workspaces && sh update-workspaces.sh -j4
cd gcc && make -j4

See also https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/BuildInstructions
Of course you can understand your own goals. You decided to reply to my comment, that's a goal. You used your existing knowledge of the world, language and technological tools to achieve it. And you did! Can a goal-oriented model do something like that, in a general sense?

Note that I'm not talking about life purpose, but goals in the sense of wanting a result and performing the tasks needed to achieve it.

Asking if your wants are "real" or just part of a purposeless process doesn't really add much to the discussion at hand.
Huh? Aren't we following addresses (If you have the private key to an account that accepted a ransom, chances are you are the same person (or in cahoots enough to be legally in trouble)
Hey, there's no need to by so impolite. My argument is not wrong, it's just a different argument to yours (which I fully understand, and is not difficult to grasp). Your example doesn't discount mine in any way; a slow algorithm is still better than no algorithm at all. The point about proving the correctness of an existing algorithm is moot, I'm talking about mathematical proofs which in themselve lead to algorithms. I'm not claiming we should abandon non-constructive mathematics, just that formalizing mathematics constructively leads to more useful algorithms. Similar to the argument that some programmers make about constraining themselves to think purely functionally in order to produce less buggy code.
Goodnight.
It takes a whole lot of time and effort to learn to write well enough to be at all worth listening to.

I do see your point that the tech may eventually make writing skills the only crucial element in filmmaking, though.

... actually, I'll put acting / characterization on the crucial list.

I doubt software will ever be able to read a script then infer and depict a character's emotions and motivations as well as a skilled actor can.
Not exactly. Tens of billions of dollars worth of BTC changes hands everyday and percentage of transactions associated with ransomware is absolutely minuscule.
I like this part best:

"What I hope I've done today is shown you the dangers of being too smart. Hopefully you'll leave this talk a little dumber than you started it, and be more immune to the seductions of AI that seem to bedevil smarter people."
Online Volunteering
A website where you can learn lessons from volunteerrs.
As in if you buy 50 acrobat licenses and 6 months later you only need 30?
> Nobody is reading messages or selectively withholding them

Facebook is selectively withholding messages sent by users who haven’t agreed that Facebook should get to arbitrarily and unilaterally change contract terms at any time.
Fun fact that's the point, so we can "justify" artistic license for some things :D
There's a slightly interesting history to this feature, which should still work on a conventional land line. It was mandated as a partial solution to a scam called "slamming," in which a disreputable long-distance carrier would inform a customer's local exchange carrier that they had 'requested' that their default long distance carrier be changed... without their knowledge.

"Slamming" is not to be confused with "Cramming," another common telephone billing scam of the post-breakup period, because all of these got fun rhyming names.
> All of your problems are people problems, the tech parts are much easier to manage.

This cannot be emphasized enough. I have seen lots of smart engineers attempting to "architect" the engineering manager role, while not being able to handle the people aspect at all.
Very nice idea - exactly what I was looking for!

I just uploaded my own side project (http://spot.gifts) but the image I uploaded is showing as broken (was initially .svg). I tried to upload a .png and delete my previous post but that didn't work. Just thought I'd give you feedback. Keep going!
Not at all.

Service is the airline's/owners respobility.
https://reclaimyourface.eu
It's sunny and 72F in Dallas today, up 74 degrees since Tuesday. That kind of swing is not unusual although the magnitude obviously is.
Availability is 1/3 of what we traditionally define as security (Confidentiality, Integrity, & Availability), so it definitely is a security problem.
> Do you consider Church-Turing Thesis couched in a culture of human exceptionalism too?

there is a branch of philosophy called logical positivism or logical empiricism, which in my understanding only deals with statements that can be proven a priori or via verifiability. Church-Turing Thesis exists within this framework, as far as i can tell.

i think that's supremely boring and leaves out the entire other half of epistemological discussion.

but honestly i dont see how this thesis holds any bearing on AI, maybe you can bridge the gap for me.

> life would loose a lot a meaning for a lot of people

this is so loaded with metaphysical assumptions it's hard to engage with.

to rephrase "if i was deterministic, my life would be meaningless" is exactly the kind of reasoning somebody who is a human exceptionalist would use without realizing that's what they are stating.
can you open that webpage in 10 in or 13 inch eink devices ? Plenty of them out there. I even watch youtube videos on mine.
> The only argument presented against static linking is that when a library is updated rebuilding dependants takes longer (and people will have to download bigger updates but I doubt many people care about that).

Not really, the argument is that instead of rebuilding one library you now have to rebuild hundreds of applications to see the benefits for whatever the library update was for...assuming upstream even cares enough to bump the version number for the who knows how many libs they are vendoring because they have other stuff to do which is way more important.
Or you could admit you spoke incorrectly like an adult and move on.
Trust me the boundary between the shadow market and the real economy (where such systems would be illegal) is where the friction will always be and remain. Trade away, have fun, as soon as you try and convert to real money they’ll come down on you like the sword of Damocles fell. The only reason this isn’t more frictional is because the government has bigger things to worry about. They simply don’t care about you. The second that changes you’ll be trading in the digital equivalent of suitcases full of prepaid gift cards.

This isn’t a new game lol, it’s been played to death and one side has a lot more experience than the other.
No. It is only a single motor in the SR model.
Pepper, Cumin, Coriander, Honey: All readily available.

Lovage: Easy to get hold of if you're in Europe according to Wikipedia "its flavor and smell can be described as a mix of Celery and Parsley, but with a higher intensity of both of those flavors". So, literally just add in a large amount of those to compensate for the strength.

Caroneum: According to this website[0] "as long as you can find a carton of white grape juice, you're set" to make it, so that's readily available.

Rue - According to Wikipedia "Rue extracts are mutagenic and hepatotoxic". It's bitter, so you could very likely substitute a fair amount of Fenugreek for it, which is bitter but fragrant.

Laser Root - Also known as Ailphium, this no longer exists. However, Asafeotida "had similar enough qualities that Romans, including the geographer Strabo, used the same word to describe both". So literally just use that.

So in other words you use Pepper, Cumin, Coriander, Celery, Parsley, Homemade Caroneum, Fenugreek, Asafeotida, and Honey.

Which really doesn't sound that difficult to get hold of, does it?

[0]: https://pass-the-garum.blogspot.com/2013/03/caroenum.html
> Lack of distribution costs

What are the "distribution costs"? Presumably any cost besides the cost of infrastructure to connect to the grid are negligible, and you have to pay the infrastructure cost anyway (or rather, if you pay to over provision on production and storage such that you can be truly off-grid, then you're going to be paying far more than the infrastructure costs).

> Distribution of maintenance costs. Right now the biggest cost is installation. But it doesn't seem at all infeasible that this could be simplified to the point that it is something that people could easily install themselves.

I doubt it. First of all, making plans based on some unknown innovation seems, uh, unwise to put it nicely. Secondly, it's very unlikely that such an innovation would reduce the cost of rooftop solar but not farmed solar. Thirdly, such an innovation seems very unlikely since we already have ubiquitous tasks that every home needs (electrical, plumbing, roofing, dry-wall) for which we still hire professionals--the ubiquity hasn't manifested an innovation that lowers the technical barrier enough that we all do these things ourselves.

Moreover, economies of scale work in the other direction. It's much cheaper to maintain a single 1MW solar farm than it is to maintain 50 20KW rooftop installations.

However, we don't need to speculate about tradeoffs. According to https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/what-is-a-solar-farm-do-i-..., rooftop solar costs 2-3 times as much as farmed solar, so it seems the economies of scale dwarf any advantages rooftop solar might convey.

> Places like Germany already have somewhat significant contributions from rooftop solar.

If I'm understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany correctly, solar only accounts for 8.2% of German electrical capacity and of that 14% comes from rooftop solar. So something like 1% of Germany's capacity comes from rooftop solar?
> In this context, solar and wind are atrocious and a total disaster because they have massive land-use requirements.

No, they don't. There is a lot of empty land in the world that isn't useful for people to live in or to grow crops due to lack of rainfall, which also makes those sites more valuable for solar energy.

We'd consider a utility-scale solar array that's a couple square miles to be absolutely huge, but plotted on a map of, say, the United States it would be a barely visible dot in a massive sea of land-that-isn't-devoted-to-solar-power. The Earth is very big, and when you get outside the areas where people congregate there's a lot of wide open spaces.

This says that US electricity consumption was 3.9 trillion killowatt-hours in 2019:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...

39 quadrillion watt hours divided by (36524) gives us average power consumption in watts.

Let's say a pretty good solar panel gets 100 watts per square meter, then reduce that to 30 to account for night-time. If we divide average power consumption by 30 watts per meter and divide by 1,000,000 to convert to square kilometers, we get:

Prelude> (((3.9 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000) / (36524)) / 30) / (1000 1000)
14840.182648401827

So, about 15,000 square kilometers of solar panels would satisfy current US electrical needs. Let's double that to be conservative, that's 30,000 square kilometers. Sounds like a lot, right? That's a rectangle 100 km by 300 km. It's slightly more than 10% of the land area of Nevada. Definitely big, but attainable. Compared to the land we use for farming, it's barely anything (and it can be done in places that we don't farm). And in practice it would be spread out, not just in one place. And it also assumes we get 100% of our power from solar, which we wouldn't.
Again, nothing wrong with it, but your home network is far more complex than most small (10-20 person) offices I've ever seen. It's the kind of thing you do because you're interested, not because of a practical reason. I guess you mentioned it was for learning purposes which is a good reason.
Transclusion is an appealing and beautiful seeming idea but it's an extremely difficult thing to implement. Even more, it's not at all evident in the end if it's desirable. Transclusion involves effectively conditionally including text or other fragments within documents.

It's easy for schemes of this sort to become fragile constructs. Moreover, the primary motivation for such an approach is copyright management - IE, fighting the "information wants to be free" tendency.
Not having your key fob is huge for... Well... Accessibility by multiple definitions of the word. ADHD for instance makes it very easy to forget your keys and very easy to remember your phone.
Old man yells at cloud. (literally)

I feel so sad for Scorsese to have gone from maverick outsider to becoming the epitome of ossified establishment insider. I guess the Oscar and legendary status make up for knowing that you have survived the industry long enough to become what you once despised.
from years of doing wiki documentation, document rot is fine, if it rots, so be it. Most of the time I write the docs for me but with a "getting started" frame of mind. On our wiki there are a whole bunch of actively maintained pages now that were initially seeded by myself or other devs, and there's a bunch of dead pages which are occasionally very useful , some of it is horribly dead. But the active pages are great, they save everyone time. Main thing is to not invest vast amounts of time to the docs, don't spend time drawing diagrams unless its a photo of a quick hand drawing, and just put in more effort as things prove useful
Yup. PIC locks for the win.

Also, it was neat to use the equal access codes to dial around and see what numbers mapped to what carriers, and what their "welcome to XYZ" recordings sounded like.

Ah, being a kid and being bored.
It doesn't exist because ETH2 doesn't exist. It is the one blockchain that I see as being focused on full decentralization, instead of just stopping at variations of tendermint and a bunch of "approved" validators.

Contrary to popular belief, PoS isn't zero energy usage. My very very very large ETH1 gpu mining operation sits next door to the same large data centers powering all the cloud providers. All getting power from the same hydrodams that would just go to waste otherwise. It isn't like the power can be easily used in other ways... transmission of power is expensive and intrusive.

Bitcoin is an issue because of supply/demand... when the reward goes away, so will the miners. Difficulty will drop to more acceptable levels to cover the loss. ETH1/ethash at least tries to peg to a specific type of hardware that actually has a better roi with older models and doesn't need the latest / greatest.

The tricky bit to make ETH2 work will be the use of zkSnarks. What nobody talks about is how compute (energy) heavy they are currently. It is a bit of moving the goal post if we're going to just end up building asic's again.
> I think that anyone developing a social media app for the 2020s will need to make a conscious decision to not let users pick their own unique identifiers.

Completely agreed. If I were to ever set up a forum, I'd find whatever "adjective-adjective-noun" generator that Gfycat uses to generate their URLs and present new users with a list of 100 of these to choose from.
Constructive mathematics does not affirm excluded middle. That's distinct from rejecting it.
I added my project but on the dashboard,I can't see the picture and there is no edit button ?
In a way it reinforces that the status quo has some kinks that could be adjusted every now and then. I'm not saying it's good. It's just a feature of humanity.
> We couldn't create an ant AI right now, imagining we are pretty close to a human is pretty absurd

i dont care about "human level intelligence," just a general unsupervised learning agent that can interact with the world (i recognize the insufficiency of this definition. i'm not writing an essay here) will suffice for me. human level is just another iteration(s) after that.
Relax, francis
AFAIK big studios use perforce.
As it happens, macroeconomics and microeconomics are different, like chemistry amd physics are different.* The printing presses are not running in order for governments to buy more stuff.

That printing could be good or bad, but any argument based on “run printing presses as a way of raising money” doesn’t address any of the issues. Nobody has advocated that in decades (the odd Zimbabwean despot aside).

* I’m not claiming economics is anywhere near as scientific as chemistry or physics, heavy trappings of math notwithstanding.
Bitcoin transactions use almost no power. Bitcoin SECURITY uses an immense amount of power, in order to make a 51% attack difficult.

I'm not saying that's a good thing, I'm just saying its not the transactions that use power.
There's other mining software and native OS's out there, like minerstat that you can seperately link to NiceHash or other pools, that abstract it all a level further, swapping between pools based on profitablity and probably over a year offer a better pay out, but I've not started diving into that yet. Minerstat charge 1.65eu per worker/per month after the first rig, but seem to offer a lot more options/flexibility (more stats, more pools, etc.).
> When someone deems it not profitable to mine on a set of 50 GPUs they purchased, they can resell those to gamers.

Except they can't. GPUs used for mining are trash - too much heat and stress continuously.

Think about the average load on a consumer card used normally - maybe a daily 4 hour gaming binge max?

Meanwhile a mining card is running near 100% capacity 24/7, probably without enough cooling.
That's essentially a POC. Be prepared for many vendors -- including the company I work at -- to refuse, at least for most prospects.

The reason is some mix of 1. we have real onboarding / startup costs, and those costs are frontloaded; 2. like many saas companies, we don't make much money on the first year; 3. if a prospect can't commit, it's a sign that implementation is highly likely to fail. We require work and resources from the customer to make this succeed. To use examples you've given elsewhere, an ESP requires training, engineering to import workflows, creation of new mail rules, etc. An annual contract is a component of our executive buyer's leverage to hammer through the work to realize value from us.

What OP may be able to make happen is a POC with written success criteria. Be prepared for vendors to be hard asses about the success criteria however. We refuse these for small (enterprise small) contracts.

OP should consider that perhaps their vendor selection process sucks? Or maybe -- if they're a high enough contract value -- getting references from other customers?

Note also that people here decrying annual -- or multiyear -- contracts will be the first to scream if a vendor raises prices. Which is absolutely fair play if a customer doesn't want an annual or multi-year contract. A customer's right to alter a deal with 30 days notice is a vendor's right to do the same.
I don't think AGI has ever moved in its goalposts, defined rather well by the Turing test. AGI must be general, capable of reasoning at least as well as a human in any domain of inquiry, at the same time. Showing more than human reasoning in certain domains is trivial, and has been happening since at least Babbage's difference engine.

However, while AI has been overtaking human reasoning on many specific problems, we are still very far from any kind of general intelligence that could conduct itself in the world or in open-ended conversation with anything approaching human (or basically any multicellular organism) intelligence.

Furthermore, it remains obvious that even our best specific models require vastly more training (number of examples + time) and energy than a human or animal to reach similar performance, wherever comparable. This may be due to the 'hidden' learning that has been happening in the millions of years of evolution that are encoded in any living being today, but it may also be that we are missing some fundamental advancements in the act of learning itself
Note that a mouse does not need to solve the problem from scratch like a computer does. They are born with a general solution to the problem of movement in their brain, which has been arrived at by evolution.

Only for some cases. I've watched a horse being born and seen pictures of other newborns. The foal can stand within minutes, and the right sequence of moves is clearly built in because it works the first time. Newborn horses can walk within hours and run with the herd within days. Lying down, though, is not pre-stored. That's a confused collapse for the first few days. There's an evolutionary benefit to being able to get up and escape threats early, but smoothly lying down is less important.
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy
Germany: 847.6 million Mt (2017 est.)
France: 341.2 million Mt (2017 est.)

Germany: 57% from non-co2 sources
France: 69% (50% from nuclear, 19% wind/solar/hydro)

https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/germany.france/e...
> That doesn't diminish the hashing power of the equipment you already bought though (and the topic was obsolete equipment).

It means even more equipment to go obsolete when improvements come through - and more equipment deployed does not equal more bitcoins generated, so it is an issue of more hardware that will ultimately end up in landfill / being scrapped.

> And I'm skeptical if people blindly extrapolate past trends

Well I'm also sceptical of people who blindly assume progress won't be made. To quote someone in 2014 predicting what would happen to ASIC design...

> As an emerging field of IC design, bitcoin mining ASICs have experienced rapid evolution over the past two years. However, they cannot keep evolving and developing at the current rate.

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-can-longer-ignore-mo...

Well, still, try see how profitable your 3 year old ASIC miner is today...
The downvotes begin from “meh”. Many of these people reasonably thought they would die.

What you so casually dismiss could have been a tragic story if only one more failure had occurred.
The other half of what the grandparent said also seems completely completely false. Texas is subject to federal (indeed international) regulation through the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, same as the rest of the U.S. and Canada. I don't fully understand why this is being reported otherwise, though, so maybe I'm missing something.

https://www.texasre.org/compliance
You can always emulate FHS environments for things that are hard to turn into a Nix package without significant effort.

Aside from that, Guix is an alternative implementation that might have what you need.