skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's possible for it to be patched out, the default behaviour of any application with similar scope to systemd should be to respect the users privacy. If every application required the user to "opt-out" of privacy infringing features, it would be a very time consuming and costly activity that only knowledgable users could do.
I've reached the consensus that any company investing in Bitcoin doesn't actually care about the future of the planet.
Same with Scaleway's, both just work and are fully free.

Some time ago i compared them against the competition and they fared very well even against GKE:

https://atodorov.me/2020/06/14/comparing-kubernetes-managed-...
It seems to be conventional to use the homoiconicity of Tcl to serialize data out in a way intended to be interpreted back in again as code [0], but I don’t think I’ve seen this recommended by Lispers.

[0] - e.g. https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/7660/03-1728....
Mozilla has a massive conflict of interest.

Massive funding from Google has changed the org.

In my opinion, this issue could be swept up in that.
So they’re buying bitcoins with the money generated from their payment business. This is far worse than any toys Zuckerberg ever bought for Facebook (except for Libre).
Since the fringe people were on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube it seems like we should be banning them not Parler.
Aren't a lot of companies buying BTC as a way to help their perception of growth, given BTC is going up? Square is a payment system, sure, but a bunch of non payment system companies are doing the same.

If companies invest in BTC instead of growing themselves and hiring people, isn't that bad for the economy?
This is irrelevant. The general public has no interest in "General Purpose Computing". I am a nerd, but while I have an interest in a laptop that is general purpose, I have no interest in a phone that is general purpose. I want it locked down. I also have to keep my mom online, and tend to steer her towards her iPad rather than her iMac, because there's just been less tech support (on my part) required for it.

General Purpose computing and Privacy have little to do with each other. There is more malware installed on General Purpose computers than there are iPhones. Facebook tracks you on your computer just as much as your phone. However, the phone is becoming a place where they can't track you, and there's little Facebook can do about it. Contrast with Sony found installing exploitable root-kits on PCs (to stop you copying CDs IIRC).
When I read the first paragraph of your comment, I thought to myself "SourceTrail seems to be designed for this problem". Reading the second paragraph, it seems you have tried SourceTrail and found it lacking. Can you please elaborate those short comings. I recently became aware of SourceTrail from an HN post few days ago, but have not used it.
Well, sometimes a short reply like "HODL!" hodls (!) paragraphs of meaning.
For added interest, Ultima VII - The Black Gate contains satirical references to the then ongoing conflict (SPOILERS):

- The game's villain, The Guardian, is described as a destroyer of worlds, which is the antithesis to Origin's motto: We create worlds.

- The Guardian uses two acolytes named Elizabeth and Abraham (EA) who, benign in appearance, spread funds throughout Britannia for evil purposes.

- The Guardian has set up three devices named Generators that prepare his conquer of the land in the shape of a Cube, Sphere, and Tetrahedron, respectively (EA logo).

- Alagner's notebook reads: "(...) Already, The Guardian is promising to be a powerful threat. Magic in Britannia has taken a turn for the worse in the past few years.", a possible side reference to EA's push for creative control over RG.
> Defense contractors? Government entities? Entities worried about chain of trust in packages? Choice of upgrade path instead of forced? Ability to keep working when the net is down?

I think you partially misunderstood the parent comment - he was talking about requiring the internet for building the app ("Who in 2021 is building web apps with no internet access [while developing]?"), but you responded to using web apps w/o internet ("Who in 2021 is building web apps [for use] with no internet access?").

A bit of your point still stands, but, as the sister comment correctly pointed out, when you're building a web app for offline usage, Firebase is not the right choice of technology.
> The debt did ensure I stopped pursuing grad school for physics as the math became impossible to justify.

I appreciate that this comment can be read two different ways.
> Do you know how it is taught in graduate programs?

If a professor presents these assumptions as "truths" (as they have done, quite literally, via this article), graduate students are strongly disincentivized from thinking about challenging or contradicting them - if they want to pass their course, if they ever might want to get a job in that department, etc.
This makes me wonder about 'white noise'? I finally caved and bought a non looping white noise machine after years of being woken up by car engines, ambulances, god forsaken LEAF BLOWERS cranking up at 7am every morning. Now, I notice I often sleep until my alarm.

I would think that constant white noise would have a positive, or at least no negative impact but I have no evidence, and googling only pulls up intermittent noise studies.
Vitalik Buterin himself said sha256 is likely not hackable by quantum computing, certainly not any time soon. If it is then consensus or a fork is needed to change the security.
What the heck is a meat hog? Also curious where does that omega 3 come from? Can’t be much in pasture grass? Is it like free range beef / chicken where they get more nutrients from accidentally eating a bunch of insects?
Strong encryption turning into weak encryption is a severe problem, but it's a manageable and resolvable one also. The ease of exploiting quantum encryption-breaking might not be comparable to exploiting a public ledger of trust like the blockchain.

If BTC has a multi-trillion-dollar market cap, and quantum exploitation occurs, the only thing that backs the currency (trust) vanishes, and the values quickly drops to zero.

If we are reliant on BTC for global finances in the future, as many are proposing, this could result in a global depression.

This might be the single biggest problem quantum computing could bring us, short of the "talking to alternate universes" theoretical use cases some people are talking about (that probably won't happen).

Encrypted data can be re-encrypted to be quantum-secure. The vulnerability is temporary

A compromised blockchain dies forever. A brand new quantum-secure blockchain would need to be invented.
Twitter banning an account at the behest of the government is absolutely censorship. Sure Twitter is free to ban me. But Twitter is free to allow me to speak without retribution from the government.

The government has no business threatening companies to silence people.
This feels like the most rational reason - the other would reason would be trading BTC with shareholder money so let's hope you're right.
What I dislike about footnotes like that is that they pollute the browser history. If you want to leave the page but clicked on a few footnotes and their backlinks, you have to go “back” through all of them.

Thank you so much for posting gwern’s sidenote article! I want to use sidenotes on my site and this was a very valuable resource!
Dr. Bernice King on how technology can transform the Black economy
> Git actually enables this, because you get to pick and choose what to add to the index (`git add`) before committing.

That assumes the changes are in separate files though, right? I know you can do use the "-i" flag, but it's fairly labor intensive.
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hahaha (facepalm)
I use remark, too. Sorry wooorm!
I view it more along the lines of business owners being more and more willing to take company funds to the casino.
I was always able to correctly identify GPT2 but on a few occasions, I misidentified human-written code as being written by GPT2. Usually when the code was poorly written or the comments were unclear.

GPT2's code looks like correct code at a glance but when you try to understand what it's doing, that's when you understand that it could not have been written by a human.

It's similar to the articles produced by GPT3; they have the right form but no substance.
Oracle cloud pricing seems competitive against the big 3, and providing 10TB of free egress is very generous by comparison (that'd cost you around $1k with the big 3!). But Oracle has such a terrible reputation for behaving like an absolute shit, that I've never really considered with any seriousness, or even signed up for a trial.

Would be interesting to see a comparison of Oracle cloud to AWS/Azure/GCP, from the perspective of a developer or architect. If of course Oracle allows such comparisons in their terms and conditions...
All good points. Thanks for that answer! Maybe it's possible to make a device that shows a single point of the color perception space of the human eye, but could show all the points? I'm thinking lots of monochromatic sources and optical mixing. The you could at least pick a point at a time of CIE 1931 and look at it.
Microsoft forms coalition to censor “disinformation” online
The easy mode is just doing the work in another branch/merge request and then ticking the "squash on merge" checkbox. You may or may not want this depending on how important the individual commits are but sometimes you end up with 50 "fix it" commits that add no value.
Meh 170m isn't really that market moving for bitcoin these days.
How would this be different from saying that anyone who drives an SUV or plays computationally intense computer games doesn't care about the future of the planet?

If it isn't different, is it really that much of an insightful statement beyond "people tend to do what they think is their own personal self interest"?
None of these are peer reviewed journals
Eh? By your own reckoning the existing defense of freedom of speech doesn't extend to general purpose computing, so why would you focus on increasing that which already exists and has proven to not have a connection?

IMO one of the greatest enemies to success is broadening scope. General purpose computing: it's a good, specific focus. "Freedom in all areas of human activity" means endless conversations about what that means, what to focus on, what to prioritise, blah blah blah.
> If you go back and read my comments, I've not once made any prescriptions of what is "desirable" or what "should" be; I am strictly making descriptive statements about what currently "is"

When talking about ideals and values, the wider context is what should be. Explaining the current law and its current application is straightforward, and isn't particularly worthwhile without a larger point. I don't see where your comments disclaim that you're only describing the current legal interpretation as opposed to physical reality or how things ought to be, which means that you're advocating for the status quo.

But sure, taking your comments as pure factual description of the legal situation - thanks for explaining the rationale leading to part of the problem of corporate entities becoming emergently unaccountable to us humans. If you'd care to discuss the problems with this, please go back and read my previous comments in their intended framework.
Maybe. Definitely not illegal though.
First of all, "insults" are not excluded from free speech protections in the US, except in very narrow circumstances.

Second, the distinction between normative and descriptive statements, as you define them, is not always clear-cut. As a simple example, is which bucket is "I think these doors are the same color" when said about a red and green door? What about (to use your example, but with a slight tweak), "I think all <insert group> are criminals"? Note that the "I think" was implicit in your phrasing, though maybe the implicit vs explicit distinction matters.

Third, even for statements everyone agrees are descriptive there may be widespread disagreement as to whether they are true. Example: "Donald Trump is a criminal." The US approach to this is to generally try to avoid having the government be the arbiter of truth, with some narrow exceptions for libel and the like. The German approach, as you note is different, not least due to different historical experiences. Which approach is better depends a _lot_ on circumstances and culture and norms and so forth. The German one places a lot more trust in the government not abusing it's truth-determination power than the US one does.
This is something I never considers. I know Etsy had handmade items, I just never thought about the custom aspect.
I wonder why it took so long, Dorsey has always been in bed with Blockstream
Thanks for taking the time to answer, sorry for coming across bluntly, but it is a pretty big sell. I appreciate you taking the time to address those points and yours and the above commenter did clarify things.

In industries relying on large machines, there's always companies promising their tools or their parts or their systems will increase profits and efficiency etc.

In many cases i've seen, the benefits end up being marginal, while complexity in the current systems are increased.

They end up bringing their own maintenance challenges and other unexpected challenges.

Availability of proprietary attachments and parts was always a big issue. We'd be at the whims of the sole provider as far as availability, pricing and delivery time went. This factors in to the amount of downtime when inevitable down time occurs.

There's a big difference between waiting a week for your fancy proprietary doodad to show up than sending someone to the hardware store.

Every external proprietary system you add to your current system is another layer of 'things' that comes with it's own problems eventually.

My questions aren't so much about how much money this will save from down times, but how much extra money will it cost when inevitable problems do occur with it.

Is it going to cost more in the long run than current human error does?

What i've noticed a lot of these systems actually do isn't reduce losses or increase profits, it just hides the losses further down the road.

From what I can tell, this system would be applied to hundreds of individual grease zerks across an entire industry, requiring likely at least a dozen or more of your proprietary ends.

Now, we're reliant not only on every one of those zerks functioning properly always, but we're limited in the amount of greasegun's we can actually deploy.

As the other commenter said, the greasegun attachments are expensive. They're going to be used a lot, everything that's used a lot wears down. Hell, normal greaseguns die pretty regularly.

This is now a new expensive part that the company will have to rely on to perform basic maintenance, which itself will need either maintainance or replacement at some point.

At which point, the company's waiting for their delivery instead of just going to buy a new greasegun.

On gun down means a loss of a person's worth of greasing until it's replaced. That's time and money lost there on top of the cost of replacement.

A zerk down means no data from that one until it's replaced meaning it's back to human error again.

I appreciate your zerks and attachments may be built ruggedly, but everything in a machine is prone to wear and breakage and eventually, they will bring maintenance issues.

What are the extra costs this will bring on top of initial and other ongoing service costs?

Are they low enough to actually save money in the long run?

5-10 years down the road?

These aren't tech startups with ephemeral existences, these machines will need to be relied on for years are you offering that kind of reliability?

A decade from now, will I still be able to buy your proprietary attachments and your zerks?
> Why does a classics degree cost the same as a CS degree when the market value of a classics degree is basically zero?

Maybe I am deluding myself because my daughter has decided to get an expensive classics degree, but the most valuable skill one can acquire in college is how to communicate, particularly how to write well. The second most valuable skill is learning how to master complicated material. Each major teaches these skills in a different way, but the value of learning these skills is basically the same however you accomplish it. It might be easier to get a high paying job right out of school with a CS degree, but the ability to communicate and the ability to learn will still pay dividends long after your technical knowledge is obsolete.
> the web slides further into irrelevance

This borders on FUD.

The state of PWA functionality today, and the amount of large and new orgs that want a single super well-maintained codebase doesn't have me thinking native is the future.

Change my view?
Awesome. Just a heads up, I've already finished it and just submitted it. HOWEVER, the plugin has to be licensed as GPLv2, but it shouldn't affect your license (since it's just using your code as a library). I'd feel better about it (and it will probably be smoother sailing during the review process) if I could submit your names as authors on the plugin.

If you want to be listed as an author, just drop over to https://github.com/withinboredom/expounder-wordpress/tree/ma... and let me know your wordpress.org user names in an issue.
What's the difference? Whenever i get free beers i get to pay the next morning and id rather clean a puppy's mess than ache all over
In most casino games you can’t really influence you chances of winning
> Curious on your age range.

This is going to be the dominant driver for female infertility. My wife and I waited until she was 32 and I was 40 and we struggled for two years. Eventually we talked to a doctor and both got tested. I was in the 98th percentile for sperm health, but unfortunately her egg production was closer to a woman 10 years older. We did IVF and got very lucky on the first try, with one viable embryo, who is now a curious and amazing four-year-old.
A quick look at Len's public Twitter discussions of Bitcoin makes this seem unlikely. Yes, yes, long con, deep cover, etcetera, not totally impossible. But still.

https://twitter.com/search?q=bitcoin%20from%3Alensassaman
> Quick rant on just scaling the tech: It's a monolith rails app with a react front end. I chose a boring tech stack because I feel that speed is the most important thing when creating a company. From there, I typically see progressive steps like this:

> 1 Pure vanilla proven web stack of choice (rails, django, laravel). Automate eveything like linting, testing, PR app builds, 99% of devops work.

> 2 Then the front end grows into an SPA as functionality becomes more complex

> 3 More microservices like search emerge into their own thing

This is pretty much the pattern that we've followed for a few companies and has worked great for us. Rails monolith, carving out parts of it to React as they need more interactivity. Has let us iterate quickly with few engineers while still keeping a (relatively) solid base.
It all heavily depends on how your specific college manages your curriculum and how open the choices are.

My personal example: decided to ignore most of the general studies classes I could ignore (aka those that weren't prereqs for any major-related classes, like most social studies) for the first year, did two 14-16 hour semesters for the first year, about 12 hours (each semester) for the second and third year (aka minimum required to be considered full time), took one fall semester off and then did one summer semester instead, and then finished off my last year with two back-to-back 22-24 hour semesters (during which I took a lot of those classes I ignored during my first year).

My school let us do it pretty much free-form, and it was amazing. Taking all the important major-related classes early on let me become knowledgeable enough for internships before a lot of peers (since I ended up taking some important major classes a semester or two ahead instead of taking gen ed classes like a lot of others did at the time), and during my last year I got a bit of a break by taking some of those "general ed" classes that most of my peers took early on.

I love this system, because it allows people to balance it all as they see fit. Some people would like to get all the gen ed classes out of the way first. Some would want to save them for last. Some would like to take them regularly at a "one general ed class per semester" pace. Some people would like to just do 16 credit hours every semester. Some would like to slow down at times and them ramp up heavily at times (which is what I did). Some would like to graduate early, others would like to take their time. Whichever style works for you.

And yeah, we had a general guideline for every major, with every class planned out every semester serving as a "sample workload", but it was just a guideline. Most people followed it to a degree, but not close. Others completely threw it out of the window, because they sorta knew what and how they wanted to do it. I think it is helpful to have for those who don't want to plan out things to their max efficiency and just want to not worry about it. But it isn't something that everyone is forced to abide by, it is more like an advice.
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are a clear example of the latter group in my previous comment.
There's nothing stopping courts from demanding that XMR.to keep records of the chain of custody when users buy XMR via BTC on their service.

Almost all exchanges adhere to KYC laws, so there's a good chance that following transactions backwards will lead to an identifiable buyer or seller of Bitcoin.

What technical features of Monero make it a solution for actual anonymization of BTC?
Yeah, I trained my own BPE tokenizer for this and it results in pretty good compression. From 1024 BPE tokens you can generate anywhere from 2000-6000 actual characters of text. My guess is that it's a bit more efficient than English-BPE because there's a lot of repetitive stuff in source code (think spaces for indentation, or "if("/"while("/"for (int").
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Those restaurants have a fixed set of ingredients but many ways to combine them.

Take protein, take vegetables, take carbohydrate, take sauce--cook.

That gives you an explosive number of combinations.

The best dishes at the Chinese restaurants, though, tend to be the ones that aren't in that mold. If the restaurant keeps a dish that isn't a "combinatorics" recipe, there's a reason it stays on the menu.
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> “Classics graduates are also likely to have superior reading and writing skills compared to a typical CS graduate.”

“Typical” might be doing a lot of work there. I wouldn’t buy it in the general case.
I was really confused for a bit about what a video game developer wanted to do with bitcoin, turns out it's a different Square.
If the discrete logarithm problem turns out to be not so difficult, the entire concept of proof of work is meaningless. There is no patch or fork that can possibly fix that.
MSNBC has a history of misinformation contributing to the highly polarized environment today.

Here is a video showing how MSNBC purposefully cropped footage of an armed protester at an Obama townhall to hide his race (he was black), and used the clip to immediately launch into a discussion claiming that town hall protesters were motivated by racism. Soon after that media cycle my peers in college started assuming that most criticism of Obama is motivated by racism. These kinds of attitudes directly contributed to the current culture war of bad faith ostracism and tribalism.

https://youtu.be/fvBQDHqdCck?t=130

Remember, a left wing activist also took violent action and shot up Congressmen at a baseball field. The argument of a "sufficient level" of misinformation and/or butterfly-effect-violence can be used to justify arbitrary intimidation and censorship against any outlet.