skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But without the early movers incentive to increase the coin value, how could that work?

Are you seriously asking how having the value distributed out to a large number of people could ever have utility without oligarchs to "set the value" to some "proper" value?
This app idea seems to be in the zeitgeist. https://www.yac.com/ same thing also released recently
What a pile of horseshit. This article had as much ecological impact as whatever he in whining about.
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I wonder how much we'd see a spike in crypto UBI fraud, where people find ways to scam people into transferring their crypto or claim it on behalf of non-computer-owners. We saw a lot of this with stimulus checks and tax returns in the US over the last decade.
> If it was equality of outcome that was officially mandated, that is exact opposite of true freedom of opportunity.

I have said nothing about equality of outcome.

There is no freedom of opportunity without societal context. I am, as a man, legally free to wear a skirt in my country, yet I've never done and I've also met almost none who did - because of the socials costs this would incur. And skirt wearing is obviously 100% culture, 0% genes.

The surrounding society frames what opportunities are actually free to embrace.

Interests, BTW, are by their nature not really empirically measurable (you can give people questionnaires, but that's about it). You can't infer girl's interest in math from their chosen profession, that's why I gave an example of actual ability. This is also why serious psychologists usually research other concepts - and I suspect this is also why Peterson likes to talk about interests: they are essentially an unfalsifiable topic.
The Rotary Phone Dial was invented out of pure spite
Yup indeed. :)
So Amazon isn't just handling counterfeit products anymore, they're now doing the counterfeiting themselves and putting their own branding on it?

This is absolutely despicable, I hope this story gets the attention it deserves.
We have concrete evidence from the recent storms in Texas, where CO2-producing power generation was spun up in order to respond to demand once the price caps were lifted so it could be profitable. It's up to you to decide whether Texas is an outlier.

If the power was literally not being used the cost would be negative - this is a real thing that happens. If it costs you more than $0/kWH you are creating demand and potentially increasing CO2 emissions.
this reminds me of the phones that had the 'chirp' / push-to-talk feature that were popular in the early 2000's - which were hugely popular with people in various trades, service industries, etc - think telecom repair crews, construction crews, live event staff, etc - jobs where permanence of the information is not so important but realtime/async/hands-free was. could be a good fit.
A first look at the R-universe build infrastructure
No, not paying attention to performance at all is how that happens. Optimising all your code in advance is just being frivolous with your time.
> I don't believe that games are inherently immoral otherwise I wouldn't make them.

Neither do I, maybe you read my reply incorrectly. I said, feel free to extrapolate the criticism to all game devs who explicitly try to make the games addictive and hook people with micro-transactions. So your whole line of reasoning there kind of falls flat.
Wish these would grow and wither on terminal activity..
Does this verify for side-channel attacks?
You're welcome ;) I don't get HN sometimes, people seem to have a stick up their ass and always way too serious in comments
> Probably trivially solvable

It doesn't matter if it's difficult to solve or not, what matters is that it's not fixed for a long time.
> Does PoS actually work today? AFAICS it's vaporware.

Yes. PoS chains using real practical byzantine fault tolerance like Cosmos Hub, using Tendermint consensus, have been running since 2018.
The United States doesn't "need" Ukraine in the way the United States "needs" access to the most advanced digital chip creation technology in the world.

If Ukraine disappears tomorrow, we lose the next Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis. A bummer, yes, but not an end to our way of life.
It's as old as Lisp, but there's a reason symbols exist separately from strings - they're used differently. Strings are frequently transformed, symbols almost never are. String are frequently taken from end-user input, symbols very rarely. Strings sometimes are very large, symbol names are almost universally very short.

The problem is, interning is an expensive operation. It means adding to an ever growing database of strings, but first checking if the string isn't already there. You don't want to do that every time you change case or flip a letter in a string, or use it to access a hash table. I'm not saying it can't be done, but I honestly have no idea how to implement sane, generic, automatic interning of strings. I feel more comfortable having a symbol type, and control over turning strings into symbols.
The code doesn't compile, i.e. is in the broken state. The author is missing the comparison operators.

https://godbolt.org/z/5EWhec
and these applications give people a fuzzy warm feeling that lasts for about a month before it recedes and attention shifts elsewhere.

I have it on good authority that owning bitcoin gives people a very similar kind of feeling and there is nothing wrong with that. humans doing human things.

of course now there's plenty of arbiters of what constitutes proper warm fuzziness, and apparently a new BMW made from aluminium and steel is AAA+, but buying 0.1 of a bitcoin is not.
one could just as simply make the inverse statement without qualifying it: "Why don't more gamers simply use slack? Discord is slack for zoomers" - although having used both, the feature set is not identical, so ignoring the obvious generation predjudice, both statements are equally invalid.
The NTP conclusion is wrong.

chrony also uses randomized transmit timestamps:

Transmit Timestamp: Feb 2, 2045 15:47:48.317625828 UTC

As per [0] this is a security feature:

[0] https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/comparison.html
> The better argument for Amazon is that "Everyday Sling" is too generic of language similar to "Daypacks,"

I don't really agree with that, because the "everyday sling" is not a sling, it's a container. It would appear to be a fanny pack supported by your shoulder instead of your waist.

A sling is a piece of cloth which supports something against gravity; the major applications are holding an injured arm and holding a baby. See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sling ; the ordinary sense is noun 2(a), and there is no sense that includes a container.
The username is Dutch and means "ostentatious" (more or less). I wouldn't think too deeply about it.
I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm. But I never know these days because a lot of people actually avocate things like this. After seeing what happens to most people after they receive a lot of free stuff, especially large sums of money, I would never advocate something like this. There's also the rather obvious issue about how it would be paid for but, again, there a lots of people who think you can just print money out of thin air forever and nothing will ever happen.
Why do people believe there are all these hydroelectric plants in China that are too far away from consumers and therefore ran idle before Bitcoin? Is there something about China that makes people believe the laws of physics and/or economics don’t apply?

A few minutes with Wikipedia and a calculator would also lead to the conclusion that transmission losses in the worst case of having to transmit the power the longest straight line within Chinese borders are somewhere between 5 and 10 %.
> Games could be a great artform, but the money/power structures we live in make them cashcows first and foremost.

There's lots of indie games that don't have those issues.

But, the problem with making games is the same problem with art or music or opening a coffee shop or becoming a doctor or nurse: it's something that people want to do, and so supply will overwhelm demand until conditions and pay get bad enough to outweigh the romantic appeal.

Programmers in the game industry are treated much worse on average, than programmers working on in-house CRUD apps.

(Similarly, I assume working conditions at Tesla and SpaceX must be comparatively bad. Not necessarily absolutely bad, but compared to what the people working there could get elsewhere.)
Well-written complexity guarantees specify the operations they count. Otherwise sorting in O(n log(n)) also "sidesteps" the cost of comparison too.
Also, try to select any text on that page. This is Flash all over again IMO.
Thanks for the kind words!

We think our value prop is better suited to automating a business process, like order fulfilment (and other processes in e-commerce).

There are definitely better scrapers out there than axiom, particularly LinkedIn scrapers. We find axiom is better suited to e-commerce cases like yours though.
The likelihood of your computer experiencing a bit flip at the wrong time is microscopic. The likelihood that some computer, somewhere on the planet at any time? Much higher.
>I think until NFTs can actually be minted and distributed via PoS, PoS doesn't matter. It's been "coming soon" for ages

It's been coming soon on ETH. Again, you can use PoS options today outside of ETH. Tezos is a popular one, and even the biggest ETH marketplace (opensea) is adding Tezos as an option right now.
I'm not a big fan but this particular video is spot on.
> That is weak evidence in favour of there being innate gender differences.

But my example showed that this isn't an innate gender difference. The effect disappeared after the kids grew up in another system.

> As far as I can tell I owe my employment path to the fact that, as a gender, girls appear to be refusing to compete for it.

It was the same for actual professions: The female share of engineers was significantly higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, and is no sinking since the reunification: https://www.industrial-production.de/wirtschaft---unternehme... (German source, sorry)

(Edited with a better source)
Nice, but I do not see how this is related to data products. You can change data to pretty much any relevant word and this article is still useful.
> I think this is said to express "simply replacing that function call/method/... without changing your calls/methods/coding style is not going to magically solve your problems"

I agree, but you're doing all the work in conjuring this interpretation. Saying it's not magic doesn't say anything substantial.

If it were possible to mechanically replace all references to push_back by emplace_back for an easy performance boost, then we wouldn't need emplace_back to be its own member function, it would just be a compiler optimisation. You have to make shallow and localised changes to make proper use of emplace_back, but isn't that the best we can hope for? Far easier than parallelism, say, where sweeping architectural changes may be necessary.
Are you suggesting that the vast majority of mining operations are running on direct/dedicated links to local power generation facilities? I can understand the argument that some significant fraction are, but there's still a huge amount of mining that would by necessity have to happen on the grid. If consumers or small-time business owners get involved in crypto they have no choice but to use the grid. The costs involved in building out dedicated lines like that are not trivial, so I'm kind of skeptical that it would be widespread enough to make on-grid mining a rounding error. Do you just mean that in terms of revenue, all the big-earning miners are hooked directly up to dams?
If you can solve Sybil attacks in a fully decentralized network — such that the rich can’t buy an arbitrarily large number of lottery tickets, then not only is this particular idea possible, but so many others.

If you devise a way to have a proveably fair worldwide lottery for every human on the planet at essentially zero cost to each participant, in a decentralized network, I think you would will win a Turing at least if not a Nobel, aside from making billions of dollars.

You need a random oracle that outputs a value that maps 1:1 to a human in the world, probably without any form of pre-registration, because any registration function can be reused by the same human multiple times.

Basically a decentralized technology that can identify souls on the planet and randomly select them in a Byzantine fault environment. As of today, entirely indistinguishable from magic.

Of course it’s possible to do with a centralized registration system, but building and deploying such a tracking system IMO is akin to a war crime.
But the politics she’s talking about have always been in mathematics (and other areas of academia), even if that’s not apparent to people who aren’t negatively impacted by them.
I’m seriously asking for new ideas. This space is new and free to rethink incentives in all sorts of ways, it doesn’t need to repeat the same mistakes as fiat.
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We are no longer purely instinctual animals unable to control our drive towards reproduction. Oppertunity for sex is no longer the controlling factor. Economic realities now dictates when and where we choose to reproduce.

But after seeing footage of a highschool prom where, because covid, the kids were only allowed to dance back-to-back, and the health advice about having sex through walls, maybe we are soon going to have more basic issues too.
Quick question: At the top of the parser they define

const char VERTEX_STR[] = "vertex ";

And a few lines in

data += strlen(VERTEX_STR);

Would parsers optimize this out? Seems like an easy win to replace that with a "7" (or a constant or something), although I don't know how much of a win it would be.
TL;DR: Ethereum uses a lot of energy, we shouldn't use it for anything non essential because it wastes energy.

Contrary to the article title, 90% of the arguments exposed are just rehashing why energy waste os bad, and why we shouldn't make use of it for NFTs.
10% of the article ("the many other reasons") is a critique of the art circuit and imho, a little ranty about how hard it is to get rich from art.

The actually interesting part of the article is at the end, but its just an enumeration of the ways in which cryptoart world:

* Cryptoart creates artificial scarcity for digital objects, creating an “original” which can be owned

* Cryptoart recreates the some of the worst aspects of existing art markets

* Cryptoart offers no intellectual property protection and there is no regulatory structure in place to keep copyrighted materials from being minted into and sold as NFTs

* Cryptoart smart contracts offer no legal protection, and any talk of contracts baked into the NFT “requiring resales to cut in the artist” or “compensate gallery workers” depend entirely on the goodwill of the purchaser.

The rest 4500 words are a repetition of how bad it is to waste energy, woth a note at the end about how the author was "never as bored with a subject to write 5000 words about it", which to me is pretty passionate.

edit: formatting
> Many times I've found myself wanting to write a function that I only need to use once.

Then write a function that you use once. Give it a short name, or just call it f. You could even give it a leading underscore, and that will signal that the function is private to that module and it won’t get imported on * imports.
This is a good thing. The carrying capacity of the planet is finite, and our large global population is largely responsible for the destruction of the environment and climate change. Further, the high standard of living of Americans places a significant burden on the resources used to sustain this lifestyle. 300k fewer Americans will have a much greater impact on the environment than 300k fewer people of any other country.

There's also the fact that the global population has to decrease at some point, à la Japan.
> The trolls get out-trolled regularly

Maybe in a rare case, here and there. But you better believe this modern moment isn't trolling.

I've met plenty people who strongly identified with this movement and had several lengthy discussions with them. Literally all of them showcased not just a strong belief in a flat earth (and other easy to disprove conspiracy theories), they also clearly suffered from myriad of clearly identifiable psychological pathologies, underpinning all of it. Not the kind of things that someone who's just trolling would be able to fake (easily, or at all). More like the kind and severity that any sane society (both as a social group and as an institution) would provide psychological or even psychiatric assistance with. But that might just be the bigger issue at hand here.

It appears that insanity has increasingly become a somewhat acceptable (or unstoppable) norm rather than an exception in our modern societies. In particularly in the Western ones driven by capitalism, or so it appears. Instead of treating psychological pathologies for what they are, today pretty much "opinion" has become a "valid" opinion.

I guess that taking the concept of freedom of expression (itself no doubt a good thing) to absurd extremes, clearly doesn't help.

It probably doesn't help either that politicians (of all colors) appear to have no issue with exploiting these collective insanities for their own equally insane goals.

All in all, I think all of it are rather indicative sings of a society that is gradually running off its tracks, like a barometer is indicative for weather to come. I don't see this getting any better anytime soon. Particularly not in the US and EU.
Imagine if in 1975, the editor of your local news paper said that solar cells are the worlds least efficient energy source ever invented and they were the technology industry's greatest failure. Or in 1995 you read the same article about websites... now remove all journalistic integrity and quality from those misinformed articles and you have what this post is about.

This is an editorial fluff piece with a very poor core argument. I'm very surprised has risen this high on HN, usually the opinion pieces here have far better formulated arguments.

e.g. "Ok, so what do we even mean when we say “blockchain”.The answer is really that nobody knows, it’s not a term that has any precise definition and it really depends on who you talk to and the context. (Source: https://threader.app/thread/1363418896301228033)"

The irony being... the author also never bothers to spell out /which/ blockchain he is ranting against.

Again, he get's sidetracked on his own strawman argument of what a blockchain is...

"Now some introductions will tell you a blockchain is a data structure from computer science which consists of a linked list of blocks which are iteratively hashed so that subsequent blocks depend on the hashes of previous blocks. (7/)However the utility of a term of art for any piece of software that includes two of the most common concepts in computer science (hashing, linked data structures) is just bad classification. (Source: https://threader.app/thread/1363418896301228033)"

He entirely misses the point that the novelty of what a blockchain is, isn't a fancy linked list, it's a mechanism for distributed consensus. Where by distributed computing algorithms from Paxos -> RAFT and private implementations of distributed databases like BigTable, Dynamo, Cassandra, and now next generation iterations like Hazelcast, Redis Grid, Spanner, etc... have enabled the greatest leaps in computing scalability of the past 10 years. However these are all privately maintained databases.

The "blockchain"... whichever implementation to which you refer, must be defined in its usability as a trusted distributed database. The mechanism of the datastructure to represent it is the least interesting or novel part of the technology.

The rest of the author's "points" regarding utility and energy consumption are equally misinformed and poorly formulated.

All in all the author just doesn't seem very informed of what blockchain is beyond the sorts of talking head gossip you'd seen on CNBC. His own limited imagination into the possible uses are akin to people from 1995 who couldn't imagine why websites would be so big or that solar panels would ever be efficient enough to generate energy.
I think the general lack of a common communication platform between China and rest of the world is pretty disappointing. There’s a lot of cool innovative stuff going on inside China which isn’t readily covered in-depth by mainstream tech media and you have to rely on a few substacks or twitter handles to fill the gap.
So this is just the author's personal gripes? "proof of state is against social justice," and "I like the non-rivalry of Internet art." No one if forcing you to use crypto art.

> Cryptoart lets a few artist early adopters get rich from a system made to reward investors, not artists.

This is true in the same way as Da Vinci pieces are expensive because Da Vinci was an "early adopter" (one of the first great artists)
Every time I read a thread on Bitcoin / cryptocurrencies, its filled with assmad people who talk about how it destroys the environment, solves a problem no one has/had (moving $50 million for $1.00 in under an hour is, I guess, admittedly a problem very few people have), sucks up their precious GPUs that they would be using to train a deep learning model that identifies the most handsome pigeons in Central Park, etc. so forth.

I always enjoy the few people like yourself who call it like it actually is.
The other week I optimized some processing in a web app from 3 minutes to 11 seconds.

The customer was ecstatic, but I still think it is 2 orders of magnitude too slow.
What is your basis for the ecological impact of this article? A static html file can be served to thousands of users by a single ARM-based PC in a datacenter or on a home connection, probably drawing less than 100W if not less than 20W.
My machine says `MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)`. It doesn't get too hot from just coding for me. What are you doing?

(It does get hot when watching the highest resolutions youtube has to offer these days, though.)
This would be very hard to do because the code isn't explicitly calling the constructor. It just happens to be passing arguments which get passed to a constructor. I guess with a fancy set of heuristics or special-casing std:: it could work.
I'm not surprised. I was recently tasked with a very simple change in a bootloader in an industrial product used in the nuclear industry. Part of the task was also to find the latest sourcecode that was actually compiled into the product. The last known changes was some 20+ years ago!

I, as a contractor, and an employee (who was the one who actually coded the last change!) spent more than a week trying to hunt down any leads to anyone who could know where the source could be found. In the end we gave up, we had no leads at all it turned out. The code was not developed in the same company, and not even those working peripherally with these things were still working in the company.

In the end, the 15 lines of assembly that was supposed to be reverted/removed was done, but the uncertainty of the C-code part of the bootloader and some evidence that the known code was in fact no the latest and greatest, the change was abandoned altogether and a workaround in another part used instead.

I reverted to binary comparisons of machine code, and I also suggested editing the actual machine code to avoid recompiling other parts of the code, but it wasn't a very popular option and I advised against it if there were a possible workaround.