skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, there's a lot more to it than just "the blockchain says you have influence over it", sure it's a self-referential system, but so is just standard PoW so it's not really a good argument in my opinion.

The author is right about one thing, though: Conflicts of consensus will absolutely test blockchains of any type or flavor, and doubly so when Dear Leader is gone. Ethereum does have the most prominent leader of any chain I can really think of, and that changes how the community and the chain at large reacts to external stimuli.
Very good summary (commenting as another outsider).

> So what does it mean to own Freenode?

I think this is the very crux of the issue. Andrew claims to own Freenode in its entirety, even though its not very clear what that means. And that claim apparently rubbed the staff, tomaw in the forefront, in a very wrong way. As far as I can tell, the staff thought that Freenode the network was collectively "owned" if at all, so Andrew waltzing in and claiming singular ownership naturally resulted conflict.
That's exactly it. IIRC they even said so at the time. They were already producing the "new ranger" elsewhere at the time so they could have just imported it but looking at the MSRP difference between it and a based f150 vs the size of the market they decided it wasn't worth it.
Yeah, you're right. I guess it wasn't up to the volunteers; sorry.

It wasn't a very nice move by the sponsor to yank support without giving any notice – usually you'd get a week, or 30 days, or something – but it sounds like no one had any obligations to.
I know nothing about proof of stake but it sounds like he's saying it is vulnerable to the same kind of 51% attack as proof of work but you need 51% of the coins instead of 51% of the hashing power?

If so that sounds safer than proof of work. What am I missing?
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I just scuba dive and a truck is a lot better for hundreds of pounds of wet smelly gear than anything else. Plus you can go to the dump, or pick stuff up from Lowe's, etc.

But its only an old Ford Ranger and not a F950 that is raised enough to crawl over boulders on Mars.
re: your username

Adult Bobby buying his first pickup truck but it being a Toyota Tacoma feels like a real episode of a KoH sequel
Freenode doesn't have any sort of non-profit. Freenode Ltd was created much later and only for organising Freenode Live.

Libera.Chat does have a non-profit, however, according to the announcement.
Bother the freedesktop project?
What if someone dislikes pickups (and other vehicles with those size/height characteristics, purchased for vanity) that objectively make life more dangerous for kids playing in the street, pedestrians, bicyclists, and others in smaller vehicles?

Is that in the same category as racism?
I'm constantly baffled at how the US can be stuck in this situation, being a country known for high tech businesses like Google etc. Especially when well-tested and proven solutions are readily available if politicians were interested. For example the problem with only one ISP is easy to fix (in theory, I know it isn't politically): Force infrastructure providers to open up for competitors. All electricity companies can be picked as a provider on the local infrastructure where I live and the same with internet. Even very rural areas have fibre (though there's nothing as rual as rual America of course). In my opinion all these problems stem from the two party system where nothing really changes so everything becomes inefficient in the long run.
Everyone does. That's what's amazing about the poem. On a first read, it's a life-changing message about positivity so strong that it's endlessly requoted worldwide. Do you know how hard it is to write a poem that good? There are perhaps not even 100 of them in all of history.

And yet on a second or third or tenth reading, you start to realize that he was also writing a much more cynical poem with the opposite message. I can't even imagine how hard it is to wrap a meaning like that into the first kind of poem.

Robert Frost is frickin' amazing.
Not only that, but video uses far more data than text, which is terrible for mobile data users.
As someone else was noting, this result is based on Landauer's limit, which is itself ultimately based on the second law of thermodynamics. If Maxwell's demon existed, the second law would be wrong, so Landauer's limit would be wrong, so there could be a way to erase information without increasing entropy.

I'm also not sure why Maxwell's demon would require erasure.
Fidelity has a similar program. I've only gotten a handful of small allocations over several years. In general, if the IPO allocation for a new company filters down to retail investors, it's because the big boys took a look at it and didn't want it.
https://archive.is/tqdS9
Ethereum PoS has finality. It doesn't matter if someone later comes out with a different version: full nodes accept the first valid block it sees as final and immutable, after a short period of time.

Is this perfect? No, but maybe its worth all the energy savings?

If you run a node, by definition you can never end up on the "wrong" chain, because your node,s chain is immutably the chain, and so is everyone else running a full node, thus making it the canonical chain.
Trucks have been getting taller, with higher hoods, steeper windshields and worse forward visibility for the same capability. Not to mention more common in the US in general.

https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1338051592856092672

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-11/the-dange...

https://theweek.com/articles/929196/case-against-american-tr...

As a cyclist and pedestrian in the city it's a nightmare - you can never tell if the driver can actually see you vs sedans and hatchbacks at your eye level.

Unsurprisingly pedestrian deaths from drivers have spiked in the past few years.
> What was particullary easy implementing GDPR for you?

Deleting people's private data upon request, namely when they click a button -- in my case (unlike yours) there's not many places to delete the data from.

The most challenging thing is instead writing a DPA, and wondering what to write about inspections and auditing, in a remote only company with servers in the cloud (any thoughts about that?)
Logo was one of the 3 I first picked up on Assembler, BASIC and Logo. My first computers weren't capable of running LOGO (no real display). I didn't have a LOGO interpreter so I coded one in BASIC. By god it was slow. But I did pick up structured programming and it led me on to LISP (and SASL/CLU,Pascal,Modula 2). Somehow I still ended up using C/C++ daily. I guess that's just how it goes. But LOGO was and is nice. It (almost) has what my dad calls IKR (Immediate Knowledge of Results) and if LOGO were to develop further it is exactly the area of realtime interactivity I think it should move. Great language with a lot of thought put into it but still very much a product of its era.
'Clyde's Spot' on Jupiter has a wild new look in NASA photo
> other than cutting a couple interviews short and leaving

Could you please elaborate here? What prompted you to do that?
> Due to some bizarre breakage in EC2 — which I've been complaining about for ten years — the serial console is very "laggy". If you find that you're not getting any output, wait five minutes and try again.

This is the single most frustrating bug with EC2 I've experienced. In my case, I have Jenkins spinning up temporary executors in EC2, then getting the SSH host key from serial log to verify the connection (I appreciate the "importance of SSH host keys compared with flossing" comparison in this article...)

Machines take <1m to boot, then sit there for 4-8m just waiting for the log message to show up.
What's fascinating about the proof-of-stake vs. proof-of-work debate is that there's sometimes (not always) a tinge of anti-government sort of sentiment.

The ultimate irony, though, is that even with proof-of-stake, the entire crypto-economy becomes owned by a bunch of pseudo-anonymous elites. The end result is the exact same as our current system. At least with our current system we can pretend to have a democracy and kick out people who are being too visibly corrupt.

i assert there is no scenario in which cryptocurrencies, or any economy, doesn't devolve into what we currently have. as long as people are involved it is impossible to not have a government, in one form or another.

the question is - do you want to be governed by a bunch of anonymous people or do you want to have some modicum of ability to hold them accountable?

ugh
That's a good point but it seems like fiat currency has similar snake-eats-tail flaws (he who has the gold makes the rules), but somehow the global economy hasn't completely collapsed, yet.
I have structured and unstructured contemplation.

I journal every morning right after I write my to-do for the day, which is pretty much self-reflections.

I also have a weekly review on Sundays where I reflect on my week, what I did well, what kind of sucked etc.

For work, I contemplate first, then write code second. A lot of times I do it while typing my thoughts. An actual example after a failed test

> FAILED: the container doesn't have git so it can't run...so that means git tagging should happen prior to the gradle or docker container...
> I kind of like this because that means it will only have to happen once outside both workflows....which eliminates a bunch of the issues
> I need an init workflow in a way....checkout workflow
> I can't test this, I think test jenkins pushing to prod gitlab is causing issues. Commented it out.

Then I pretty much think during most of my spare time whatever piques my interest at the time. The only times I am not contemplating is when I try to be present for my children, or watching a show with my SO.
When you choose to call one spintronic component a capacitor and another a inductor, you've determined which of the two analogies is the correct one. You could swap the names for the components, and you would swap which analogy is correct.
The field of Open Information Extraction has been trying to do that in a generic way for a long time, but the results are still far from good. A few references: OpenIE [1] Graphene [2] MinIE [3].

If you already have a Knowledge Graph (KG) and want to populate its instances from documents, that's called KG Population, and Knowledge-net [4] is a good reference.

Relation Extraction is another interesting approach if you know which kind of relations you're interested in, OpenNRE [5] a good example.

[1] https://github.com/dair-iitd/OpenIE-standalone

[2] https://github.com/Lambda-3/Graphene

[3] https://github.com/uma-pi1/minie

[4] https://github.com/diffbot/knowledge-net

[5] https://github.com/thunlp/OpenNRE
Since when stating facts deserves downvote? Did the media not say the protests were "most peaceful"? Was it not CNN reporter who said the exact words in front of a burning building? Did Nicole Hanna-Jones not say "Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence"? Was it not justice warriors (I use it as a neutral word, as it does not makes sense to use left vs right) who protested last year? What did I miss?
>We do know since the researchers have told the linux community, the university and IEEE what those patches where. Please do not spread further misinformation about the case.

We should just trust the liars when they pinky swear to tell the truth? There's a certain saying about what you win when you play shitty games that comes to mind. Being deceptive causes people to lose trust in you.

Or, my personal favorite: fuck around, find out. UMN fucked around, now they're finding out.
Please stop writing things like this. The guidelines ask you not to. I don't know anything about you except that you're an advocate for Handshake; you're promoting a DNSSEC-related cryptocurrency that attempts to replace the DNS roots, so of course you and I are going to intersect on HN.

Or, in the words of Marsellus Wallace: there is no "me and you".
Oh yeah, I'm not saying there isn't a use case for this sort of thing.
I think you'd need human level AGI to do the sort of real world use case personalization I did on sales demos, but there's definitely plenty of sales processes and parts of sales process where the generic product copy/video isn't enough and yet another demo/call isn't good time management. Not to mention jazzing up final proposals with reminders of things clients should have already seen.
> Some things are less intuitive because of the dense equations. You'd have to be slightly insane to say that "x^2 = y^2 + z^2" is a more intuitive way to explain what a circle is than a picture of a circle.

It's the difference between qualitative and quantitative descriptions. Which one captures the full depth of the concept? Neither on its own; you need to contemplate both at the same time to capture that depth ("range" may be a better word). There is information hiding in the interplay between the two that is missed when considering them in isolation.

I don't believe formalism is all we need, but it is necessary if the problem at hand requires more than just intuition. Conversely, formalism without qualitative understanding is opaque and sterile. Together, they combine operational ability and simple intuition into a higher form of intuition (operational intuition), the most desirable kind.
The effort of learning how to set up and maintain vlans is WELL worth it.

for example, many of my machines are on a private vlan that cannot get out (except through a proxy). This is one of the most effective ways of managing your devices since this means by default you will have to opt-in to talk to the internet.
> If you live in an apartment complex it's ridiculous to have a truck.

Many tradesmen that don't get company vehicles like to own pickups because they can haul stuff for work and their jobsite. Some of those people might even live in apartments. Imagine that!

The amount of arrogance on this site is ridiculous. Just because you might know how to hook up a NAND gate or write some javascript code doesn't mean you are qualified to decide what vehicle someone should own. Please just stop the judgemental posts.
It's not designed to overflow, and automobiles are not designed to crash, but airbags are good engineering anyways
In the age of purposeful blackouts for fire prevention or due to an undersized grid it makes all the sense in the world.

There's a lot of $10k-$15k natgas whole house generators going in around my neighborhood.

Your view of electricity reliability depends on where you live.
Given the design it seems he could "only" simulate 2d fluids in his mind. I wonder if the design would also work when extended to 3d, because 3d turbulence is very different from 2d turbulence.
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(This guideline isn't there because such complaints are wrong or inaccurate; just the opposite.)
> yes. but I think it's better for it and obviously plenty of others do too including apple

This is unfalsifiable, and the line of thinking that generates it is trivially rebutted with a quick look at recent history. All of the limitations I mentioned were lauded as not-actually-useful by Apple (and their partisans) until they launched me-too version, at which point everyone immediately flipped to excitement.
With slashing PoS, if stakers tried to rewrite the left 2 weeks of the chain they could have their stake taken away as a penalty for signing votes on multiple forks.
If p is statically null, it should emit compile time error.
If not, it should emit machine instruction to deference p.
The emperor doesn't lack for clothing its just only bulletproof up to a point and a lot of security is actually down to trust and so when an apparently trusted individual walked up and put a rifle to the emperors chest the bullet got through. Nothing of value was learned. Everyone on earth knew a bad patch pushed by a trusted party could potentially get through.
happens to me all the time. i'll also often return from a dog walk with several potential solutions to try.
There's a link on each image that lets you order a print from canvaspop, I would guess they get a cut of each order.
I disagree. For the largest derivatives markets -- a: interest rate swaps, b: FX swaps, and c: credit default swaps, they formed (and grew) because market participants wanted to express a particular view, but could not easily find enough of the required "cash product" -- a:gov't bonds, b:spot FX (or simultaneous, dual currency, short-term LIBOR lending), c:corporate bonds. For (a) and more so (c), it is difficult to short, even for large/institutional clients. Synthetic equivalents (interest rate swaps are _effectively_ synthetic gov't bonds) 1:can be created upon demand, specific to a client's needs, and 2:can be trivially shorted.

When a client is buying or selling a derivative, they don't care about the notional -- they care about the delta (or gamma/other greek). You just turn the dial for notional to achieve the target delta/gamma.

Your second sentence does not make sense with respect to single name equity options. (I pick a simple product as a counterpoint.) I doubt anyone is losing sleep in 2021 over 'rho' (interest rate sensitivity) in their options trading book for any floating currency with short term rates below 1%. Thus, everything about the underlying price (including expected future divs and its historical volatility) drives the prices of single name equity options. (If you are referring to delta one derivatives, that is a whole different discussion. And yes, they trade -- equity swaps, because you can get implied leverage through financing.)
Hah, imagine if someone makes a competitor. Is Twitter going to ban me tweeting to my 1000+ followers to come pay to see my talk at (some URL)? Or just derank that tweet so that very few people see it? (At which point the anti-competitive lawsuit should be interesting..)
Not quite. Used to be that any normal ISP provided a news server. Now with it being so heavily used for distributing dodgy binary files, finding a freely available and usable server is not trivial.
They're hiring at the moment apparently - looked like some interesting roles. https://www.earthspecies.org/jobs
(No affiliation - just saw it via Twitter earlier today)
Why not use a small trailer instead? I have a small hybrid, have driven 2200km since last time I filled the 40 liter tank, when I want some plywood, lumber or dump run I connect my trailer which I can load 1000 kg on. I do live in a country where petrol isn't almost free so am not only saving the environment but also lots of money from not driving a lorry
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Likewise and I've always been like this. Wife is a very hardworking woman who gets the job done physically and she thinks I waste a lot of my time contemplating, she rarely does so, she's a doer. But this is my way of getting stuff done and moving the needle, a lot of time I look like I am doing nothing but my brain has a life of its own. Some years ago, like 10 years to be more exact, I found the prefect outlet for this: contemplating while painting. Brain is free to go wherever it wants while paintings get done and now I have a way to justify all my contemplation.
(Lotta downvotes but y'all don't have anything to say?)

Alcohol has greater energy density than batteries; the by-products of alcohol production are organic and can be e.g. fed to animals; the exhaust of burning alcohol is non-toxic; the energy is from the sun, the molecules are from the air and water, burning the fuel is carbon-neutral because the carbon came from the atmosphere (not underground); you don't need lithium or other rare chemicals.

C'mon y'all, think it through.
> Similarly reduced, proof-of-stake systems work like this:

> 1. The list of valid transactions determines who has coin.

> 2. <complexity>

> 3. People with coin decide which transactions are valid.

> You don't need to know any more detail about proof-of-stake systems to be instantly suspicious.

I am instantly suspicious of the author's reasoning here.
Congratz, you found the crux of the matter.

There's a volunteer community called freenode, an IRC network called freenode, and a private company called freenode, and nobody seems to be able to agree on who owns what.
I use DC fast chargers for road trips, yes. I don't have my Tesla anymore, just the wife's Bolt, but conceptually it's the same.
I don't think you would find a pedestrian or cyclist in the US that would prefer being around an SUV vs sedan or hatchback.

But the trend of stock pick-up trucks getting lifted, having high hoods, small windshields vs their equivalent models 10 or 20 years ago is so much worse than the default cross-over SUV in the US. Sales of trucks have gone up, so have pedestrian deaths.

https://theweek.com/articles/929196/case-against-american-tr...
>> If you live in an apartment complex it's ridiculous to have a truck.

Maybe better to say, if you live in an apartment complex, it can be difficult to keep a truck.

There are a lot of people in the trades (carpentry, construction, etc.) who can't afford to own a standalone house.
Fiat currency is backed by something like “proof of military,” or “proof of governmental power.”
I'd put it like this: you always have a government and regulators if you live in civilization.

Best-case scenario, you get to participate in a free election to choose them.

Crypto governance claims to be democratic, but it practice it is plutocratic.
Not the same. Deliveries are often late, incorrect, or don't show up at all. It can wreck an entire day of work. Read that page...you have to pay extra to get even a 4-hour delivery window. This is great if you want to sit around with your thumb up your ass instead of building. "Just deliver the day before." Oh yeah, I'll take every Friday off of work to wait around to receive a delivery that I could have picked up in an hour with a capable vehicle.
' Large high-voltage transformers are not things that normally wear out. Since they have long service lives, their production is quite slow. People speak of lead times of months or years for ordering one. I have not looked into this aspect in detail, but expect that production could be sped up considerably if need be: there's nothing fundamentally difficult about manufacturing a transformer, even a high voltage one. Whether, in such an event, it actually would be sped up is another matter; highly competent people would have to be in charge of the effort, and both our political parties are weak on technology.'

There have been historical political efforts to have off line back up transformers in place ready in the event of an EMP. also fuses built in to protect the transformers from overload.
These have not got as far as legislation.
Sure, except that with fiat there is more accountability.
to all the idiot downmodders, I am not advocating against electric cars, I am advocating against their software allowing unfettered acceleration as well as the lack of audible cues to pedestrians (some hybrid cars are now adding artifical sounds for this issue).
Good speech recognition generally requites massive mountains of training data, both labelled and unlabelled.

Massive mountains of data tends to be incompatible with opensource projects. Even Mozilla collecting user statistics is pretty controversial. Imagine someone like Mozilla trying to collect hundreds of voice clips from each of tens of millions of users!!
I don’t mind it. I drive a v8 Mercedes and love the sound etc... but at the same time, I’ve moved to NYC so the odds that I even keep a car aren’t particularly high.