skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could somebody help me understand the valuation of Ether?

Let's assume for a second that future developments in the the Ethereum protocol really unlock the widespread use of distributed apps, and herald a new technological era. As far as I understand, Ethereum optimists are betting that then people will be forced to buy Ether to participate in this Internet of distributed apps, driving the price higher.

In this (optimistic) case, wouldn't someone just start a new blockchain with the Ethereum protocol? It's open source, right? To me it seems that a new blockchain that e.g. gives every human a wallet pre-filled with the amount of Ether needed for staking (plus some extra) would appeal more to the vast majority of people than a blockchain where the early adopters are the new rubber barons of the Internet.
While true that the last parameters are completely unknown (IE, wether a planet with life has intelligent life, and wether they have radio transmission capabilities) the other parameters are something we can most certainly estimate. The absense of precision in this case is why it was written in the first place.

"As I planned the meeting, I realized a few day[s] ahead of time we needed an agenda. And so I wrote down all the things you needed to know to predict how hard it's going to be to detect extraterrestrial life. And looking at them, it became pretty evident that if you multiplied all these together, you got a number, N, which is the number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This was aimed at the radio search, and not to search for primordial or primitive life forms."

So the sample size isn't 1 and there are known ways to detect all but 2 or 3 parameters of the drake equation.
They are only automated because there is no easy process to counter wrongful DMCA takedown requests. If there were fines like $2,000 for each fraudulent takedown request, all of this automation would go away instantly.
https://xkcd.com/927/

seems relevant.

On a more on-topic note -- this data-oriented structure seemed to be at the core of the goals of Vue 3, to the point where you don't even need to use their Flux implementation, Vuex, anymore for 100% vue3 projects.
You absolutely can talk about probabilities, and it's an interesting thought experiment. You just can't -- yet -- plug in meaningful numbers derived from experimental data.
I have been seeing Nano shills pop up on HN recently. This is not the place. Please restrict your operations to Reddit, 4chan and Facebook. Thank you.
Take a look at the article:

"Rather than being an actual means for quantifying the number of intelligent species in our galaxy, the purpose of the equation was meant to frame the discussion on SETI. In addition to encapsulating the challenges facing scientists, it was intended to stimulate scientific dialog among those attending the meeting. As Drake would later remark:..."

Then follows a video of Drake speaking.
Ok, maybe not 10 years. But look at WebGL2. From wikipedia:

> Development of the WebGL 2 specification started in 2013 with final in January 2017

Moreover, WebGL2 support was only added to Edge since January 2020, and as of now it's still not supported in Safari (excluding Safari TP) (from https://caniuse.com/webgl2).
Great insight and quotes from some of the hottest VR companies. Thanks for synthesizing this all into one book!
I mean, do you want to live in a world where no one ever sleeps?
> This is in no way inconsistent with the need to price externalities, which is the default assumption in free market theories.

There's nothing in free markets that will make this happen without regulation, as evidenced by the fact that it so far hasn't happened.

> Just because somebody does something doesn't make it a good idea.

No, but it also doesn't make it impossible or something which can just be dismissed. There blatantly are mechanisms that can be used other than the ones you mentioned. You don't like them, that's not the same as them not existing.

However ridiculous you want to make the results - oh my god now you're into planning! - this already happens in quite a number of pretty successful countries, so it's clearly not some bizarre fantasy.
Ask HN: Do you have a template for your CV/Resume?
I have seen various applicants CVs over my years working and they're all laid out differently. Some put emphasis on how much experience they have with different technologies, some rate themselves on technologies, other just include a simple work history, others give more details.

What templates do you use and/or recommend?
Browsers are too big and the web is too complex. Engineering failures all around.

As engineers, we should not accept this status quo; we should replace it. We need a new web and new software.
The crux of it is that you can't rewrite history trivially, you have to expend a lot energy to change history, and energy can't be created nor destroyed.

For something specific to bitcoin/blockchain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwgYDAoZV0
You have to be smart about how you process the video.

Yes, if you just use AOM directly you'll have a hard time saturating the core with work.

However, if you split your video up into scenes and start an AOM instance per scene, it becomes trivial to outperform the 12 core ryzen with a 128 core machine. The main bottleneck becomes memory bandwidth.

This is what the av1an project is doing https://github.com/master-of-zen/Av1an

All that said, you need videos long enough for there to be a benefit here. The Ryzen will still win if you are talking about making 10 second av1 gifs.
I also hate when sites use ever-changing 3rd party urls (e.g. $randomchars.cloudfront.net)

Use uMatrix on a site for more than a week and annoyances will show themselves. Twitch is the biggest site I've found that loves ever changing 3rd party urls.
Don't try and talk sense into the commenters here. Their use case is the only one that matters, and they lack the imagination to think that other people have different budgets, time, or expertise than them.
There is nothing simple about hash functions :-) They rely on unproven mathematical conjecture that one-way functions exist. Their existence would imply that P!=NP :-)

Re: shell game. Are you implying that fraud or misdirection is involved? Some bitcoin scientist should be able to point where it is hidden. Or is it just a claim without evidence?
Absolutely feel that. The `runtime.exs` config that they added a while ago has been an absolute godsend and really fixed 90% of my complaints with deployment. It unified all config for deployments and development and made it all runtime!
So they now have to pay the ransom twice?
Why does checkout depend on Google APIs?
It looks great, congrats
> Apparently carrying large sums of cash is evidence of criminality.

It's not even large sums of cash, people have had what amounts to a part-time paycheck at minimum wage seized because they made the mistake of having it on their person while they drove a car.
Turns out that yes, I thought that the vaults were encrypted as a whole, but according to the security white paper that changed at some point. So you can decrypt individual passwords.
I have to admit that with the previous mocking of "web scale", I initially assumed this was satire.
Pathologizing hobbies, even as a joke, doesn't really make for a great start.
People will have a hard time googling it :)
Is this not just a broad ad hominem against people with whom this venture capitalist has had prior disagreements? If only you choose to do risky things that are (inexplicably in many cases) capital intensive -- i.e. engage investors in ways good for them -- then you will be a good nerd. Investors will make you rich. Everyone will be happy. But if you don't engage investors, then you will become a bad nerd! Bad nerd! Bad!
HN rules state that I should take the most charitable reading, however, my first thought after reading your comment was "Is this satire?"

Restoring previous functionality for "less than ten dollars" would certainly fit into a nefarious scheme for selling Bluetooth headsets - those who do not want bluetooth headsets are still forced to buy something: buying a less expensive item is still buying. Self-cannibalization is not an old trope.
And since you don't really know for sure if a hacker is sanctioned or not, you're at risk if you pay any ransom.

Not quite a ban, but a disincentive to make a deal, for sure.
I don't know if you could call it "sleep" per se, but there are certainly plenty of plants that need a daily period of darkness to grow properly. This comes up when growing indoor plants when people say you shouldn't run a grow light 24/7.
Before GitHub launched, I built some large eCommerce sites, and for a vcs we used CVS, and then Subversion. We had a person on our team with the title of release manager, because branching in Subversion, and merging back to make releases, was a specialist effort that took time, patience, and managing a tremendous amount of fighting between teams of what features and fixes could even be merged together in order to ship this release.

When I started using git, it broke my brain. I wasn't really sure I understood it, but the idea of cheap local branches soon became the most important thing to me in a vcs, and everything became easier and so much faster. You could just work on code the way real life happens, not in some methodical pre-planned release schedule that always rubbed harshly against the reality of bug fixes and ever changing minds.

Planetscale is a lot like that transformation. We've been thinking of databases as this specialist thing, where the arcane knowledge required to make it perform well is a specialist role, and something completely untouchable by mortal engineers. While we've learned about the importance of good data modeling, we've dealt with a layer in our stack that is essentially static. Shipping features that require changes to a database schema sit and languish, because the pain and coordination required can often be too much for a team to want to deal with.

What PlanetScale has done is solve two massive problems in one platform. First, since it's built on Vitess, it Just Works At Scale. You don't need to fiddle with knobs to get it to perform well. You most definitely are not even in the top 10% of what is already running on Vitess, so you don't really need to worry about ever outgrowing PlanetScale. But the BIG innovation here is what is possible now that a database works the way the SDLC has evolved with git. Make a branch, change the schema, roll it out with your code. Just like anything else, really. Use the PlanetScale CLI to actually USE your database. Change the schema because it will make your code better, and don't worry that you're somehow going to do it wrong.

PlanetScale just made databases useful for developers beyond a nearly-static data store. It's a high-scale database that you can change like code. It will break your brain a little at first, just like git did. And then you'll wonder why the hell we waited so long to have a database this good.
Centralization meaning those who have more gain more? I'd love to hear about any currency that doesn't have this feature/bug. Those who gain power tend to be able to acquire more by bootstrapping from prior power; it's pretty much universal. Even PoW has its own form of centralization in that those who have more can become richer and more easily gain therefore leading to maturation (centralization) of the currency.
Brazzy is right and you are wrong.

For big pharma to extort, first they need the product that actually works. Most gene therapy is pipe dream. There are some drugs on the market for some orphan (rare) diseases but the development is very costly and the market is very small.

Obviously it will mean that the price will be very high. Most people are not in the position to pay it and it is up to the insurers or the government to decide if they can afford it or not.

Here is the story of the first approved gene therapy drug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alipogene_tiparvovec

They sold the drug to 1 person only. The original company developing this drug went bankrupt.
You're only proving our point. USD is a reasonable currency for savings and/or as world-wide currency as long as it's liquid, non-volatile, backed by a big, stable and powerful economy. This could change, but not overnight.

BTC's main uses (speculation and laundering) are possible only as long as it can be exchanged into fiat. This can change tomorrow if the right strings are pulled.
> What usually happens is that you need to read the GUI library C or C++ code and examples to understand it, because the bindings documentation is not enough, and then translate that to your scripting language, can become a bit tedious with trial and error if it not obvious how to do it.

Yes, this is very true.

> XML as descriptive source sounds good in theory,

Agreed, and it could probably work in practice with enough investment (ideally forego XML altogether in favor of a markup language that isn't hostile to humans and machines, document the schema thoroughly, provide reference implementations, etc).

> I think I looked at Go-Qt binding but if I remember correctly it was alpha and had problems. Python-Qt exist but I don't know much about it. Read somewhere that I was just easier to use C++ directly, less hassle, don't know if that is true.

Yeah, the Go-Qt binding was just incomplete. There was a Go/QML project early on, but I don't think it allowed for data to flow both directions, which seriously limited its utility and then it just kind of faded into obscurity. Pyqt (there was a competing Python/Qt binding as well, but I forget what it was) was okay, but again it didn't have very good documentation and it would still segfault all the time. One or both of the Python/Qt bindings were also poorly supported.

> Vala looks like a nice solution if you want to go full GTK.

I tried this as well, but it's a thin veneer over GObject and still has many of the same problems. It also lacks any kind of build tooling or package management, and again, it's not adequately invested in and the documentation is poor (or this was the case when I last tried it).

> I think for Gnome and other desktops that uses this technique, it is in the right direction, but the quality of the plugins I have used is most of the time poor, memory leaks etc, you end up using just use the approved ones if you don't like to restart your desktop once a day. If that is because of poor bindings or poor plugin implementations I don't know.

Agreed.
It doesn't increase the amount of exclusive content, though, does it?

If this is your objection: "It is a bad thing for the consumer because it means more exclusive titles which is gives rise to a false market. It looks like consumers have a choice of platforms with content, but when that content is exclusive the consumer ends up having to pay for all the platforms to see the content they want to see. This in effect means more costs for the consumer and less choice."

Then wouldn't consolidating existing exclusive content mean consumers pay for less platforms?
So the last time this happened Elon Musk quickly tweeted that autopilot was off and not even available in the car that crashed but later it was revealed that it did have some features like cruise control but did not have the full package, so he were technically stating the truth, kinda. I wonder how he will react this time.

I don't understand how this is a road legal system. To be safe you have to be ready to take over and react after the car have given up so you now have to react faster than if you were driving without it. IMO it should be either illegal OR Tesla should be on the hook for all crashes with it turned on since in reality they are driving.
This commentary is by Robert Zubrin who is an aerospace engineer himself and in the past had developed technically and financially (albeit not politically) viable missions to Mars ("Mars Direct") himself. He is also founder of the Mars Society. It really shows that he knows what he is talking about.
That's not the question. I'm asking if the top 1% earn 38.5% of taxable income, or if they earn more than that. If they earn more than that, then 38.5% is clearly underpaying on their taxes. Doesn't really matter to me if they did so illegally or by bribing a legislator to change the laws for them - it's still evading their fair share of taxes.
Well, I had never really researched this, but I'm from Quebec, and I know 3 Jolie. Maybe it's more prevalent there, or maybe I happen to know a coincidentally large number of them. If the latter, I guess that is a good learning experience for how your own life experience can easily bias you in your opinions and understanding of some things.
By a lot, mostly. The liquid hydrogen eventually doesn't have enough pressure/cold enough temperature to stay liquid so it turns back to gas and most bubbles out of the water (with some of it reacting with Oxygen and becoming more water). It's possible if it were a "big enough" and "concentrated enough" spill it might briefly create anoxic zones where fish will die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_waters (But humans and dumb algae accidentally do that "all the time" and the ocean does have recovery methods from anoxic waters. It's not great for the climate or the ocean, but it is mostly survivable and much more "temporary" problem than the long term effects of oil pollution.)
I don't remember the reaction to Hezbollah's attack. I remember the incident, but not the reaction in the news. If you felt that was one-sided, then I will defer to your opinion and accept that I don't have an explanation for it, other than the fact that news organisations are very often prejudiced and their reporting is dictated by their political affiliations.

Regarding Syria, Yemen, Armenia and Ethiopia, perhaps you are right that the atrocities committed there are not given the same atttention in the news (it depends on where you are; in my country, Syria received the same amount of coverage, mainly because we received a large number of refugees from the war).

However, even if those atrocities were given the same attention as the atrocities committed by Israel against the Palestinians, that would not necessarily mean that the latter atrocities would somehow be considered less severe, or that public opinion would turn against the Palestinians. Is that what you would expect?

I should also say that the Palestinian issue has been going on for more than 40 years now without resolution and it's natural that there is more attention paid to it, if nothing else because everyone would like to see the end of it.

In any case, realistically speaking, the occupation is a cause célèbre and there's nothing anyone can do about that, except perhaps ending the occupation.
Maybe, but cars like Tesla have minimum operating/storage temperatures, usually on the order of -30c. With modern telemetry systems I don't want a warranty repair to be rejected because I had to park it overnight at -40. It hit -46 one night last winter, staying below -40 for several days in a row.

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/how-cold-is-too-cold...

"Do not expose Model S to ambient temperatures above 140° F (60° C) or below -22° F (-30° C) for more than 24 hours at a time."
> it might be possible to achieve wide enough consensus among stakers in Western countries to punish China (for some reason), e.g. willingly losing part of their stakes to empty major Chinese wallets.

According to Ethereum's PoS implementation, this would require more than 33% of all staked Ethereum coordinating with modified clients in order to pull off. Then, another percentage of the stake adding up to 66% would have to be complicit in the attack, rather than actively defending against it by refusing to finalize blocks.

Compare this to PoW, where only 51% of hashrate needs to be participating/complicit to censor certain transactions, the other 49% have no way of fighting back, and the only tool the community has to fork away is to change the PoW algorithm.

Because of this, I actually believe PoS is more resistant than PoW to these kinds of attacks.
Tax it.

Banning one form of advertising simply raises the value of the unbanned forms. The problem with advertising is that there is so much of it. That is because it is cheap for the value that the purchaser receives. If we tax all forms of advertising, it will become more expensive, and less advertising will be purchased.

It would be better to tax it by volume (i.e. per billboard, magazine page or banner ad) than by dollar since this would encourage better targeting. However, people would likely find a way to work around the easiest ways to define advertising volume, so it really would be best to start with a tax on advertising revenue just to raise the effective price.

Think of ads like ammunition. If a bullet is 10 cents, it pays to spray and pray. But if a bullet is 10 dollars, it pays to make sure you hit your target. We have too many advertisers spraying and praying. Their ammo is too cheap.
> I'm sorry, but this reads very much like someone looking at their own past

What makes you say that?
Yes, it was beta until now. What was it that didn’t work for you? I’ve had a perfect experience myself.
Drake equation needs to take in consideration more factors, for sure.

Stars have lifecycles, and they can only support life in a stable manner in some stages of that lifecycle.

I guess Drake just assumed that stars lifecycles have such a slow progression that for the purposes of determining alien life we can just assume it is constant.
Framing this as an excercise in acquiring expensive accountants is missing the forest for the trees. Large corporations have such immense power that they can bend the legislation and receive special treatment from governments that smaller shops just can't. See all the tax breaks apple will be getting now, all the incentives programs that Amazon was shopping for when building HQ2.
There are linguists who quantify and measure this, of whom the most prominent is Deborah Tannen:

http://www.deborahtannen.com/scholarly-articles

("Prominent" here meaning "writes popular books as well as academic ones".)

One of the things that jumps out is that "culture X" is rarely as broad as an entire country (except perhaps a microscopic one). There are always cultures within the country, defined by gender, age, religion, wealth, location, ethnic heritage, etc etc etc.

There genuinely are cultural groups who will speak less directly ("Would you mind passing the salt?") and those who will speak more directly ("Pass the salt.") It's not just more-and-less; you still have to hit the correct level for the specific instance.

Tannen is perhaps most famous for writing about the different styles that men and women use (in different groups; it's very much taught by culture, not biology). I found it immensely helpful for understanding not just what women say but also what I say. I highly recommend her books.

I'm sorry I don't have direct links to scholarly articles that provide exactly what you're looking for, but that's where I'd start looking for them. It's entirely possible that they exist -- but they almost certainly don't come down to "The Dutch are more direct."
completely agree. every React app that I have ran across that used 'best practices' for React development has been an unmaintainable dumpster fire.
Zappos and Zoox were also both $1 billion acquisitions by Amazon

Why only consider acquisitions over $1 billion though? They have quite a few $250 million+ acquisitions that were pretty big or key players in their respective niches.
That might actually save the utility companies some power usage - the resistance of a material increases with temperature and the homeowners would be reducing the temperature of the ground.
My wake up time is a 2 hour window between 7:30 and 9:30 but usually around the middle of that. It varies day to day. Whether it's earlier or later mostly depends on how much exercise I do the day before. My training has large spikes where I go out rock climbing all day and then have multiple "rest" days so I let my body get whatever sleep it needs.