skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

For me, the PoS vs PoW debate is a question of system resiliency. In PoS compared to PoW, you not only lack an in-band means of identifying the chain used by the most people (pick the wrong one and you're screwed), but also if sufficiently many staked tokens are knocked offline at once, the system loses quorum and freezes forever. PoW has neither of these weaknesses -- it provides an in-band way to rank forks by usage, and it provides an in-band way to recover from loss of hashpower.

Governments (i.e. the people) will naturally set limits on what blockchains can legally be used for, since they exist in the Real World and create Real Negative Externalities if abused. This may be an unpopular opinion in most cryptocurrency circles, but I actually welcome sensible cryptocurrency regulation.
>I'm morbidly curious as to what would happen if it was allowed to do that.

Probably get sued into oblivion after screwing up. It's really easy to do when you're not the government and can't raise taxes to cover your stupidity.
Presumably not including chickens... broilers only live for 33 days on average
Bitcoin falls after China calls for crackdown on Bitcoin mining and trading
If a coin is worth a trillion dollars, could a nation state just start buying up huge amounts, essentially indicating a 51% attack will occur soon, causing a rush for the door, causing prices to drop, despite the clear demand?

Or would prices go up because there'd be a guaranteed buyer and a group buying at the moment.
> Also, in our current system the people with actual power are not at all anonymous. I can name all the elected officials. There are some people with influence whom I don't know, but the power is ultimately in the hands of voters and elected representatives. One way you can tell: Many people will spend billions trying to influence those two groups.

I think it is more accurate to say that we know some of the people who have power, but influence, money, and violence are also major vehicles for real power, and we mostly don't know who has and uses them throughout the world.

The evidence you gave, that some entities out there expend billions to influence the visible power-holders, only actually shows that spending money has a good ROI for the actors doing it. It does not show that all power is in the hands of democratically elected government officials, nor does it show that power cannot be expressed or utilized in other ways which may be far less visible and more difficult for common persons to direct.

I want to be clear that I'm a fan of government, and I think it has a lot of power and should! Also not a big fan of crypto for solving nearly any problems -- just a drive-by reader on this topic right now. But it does not help any normal people to be naive or optimistic about what power is, who has it, who uses it, or why.
I thought the Red-billed quelea was the most abundant bird?

There are about 1.5 billion apparently and they form flocks of 2 million+
I am aware, I'm asking if the model, however, is infringing. Surely you can't distribute them in a dataset but is training on copyrighted data legal, and can you distribute that model?
That's interesting; back when I was in high school I learned Logo, BASIC, then C++.
Thanks! This is what I needed
Wait, I thought it was prions. See?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18648043
This would be an interesting study.
Its because environmentalism is quite literally a religion for a subset of users on this forum and they cannot believe that other people don't want to optimize their entire life around reducing their carbon footprint.

The attitude in this thread is even more ridiculous considering that this is the exact sort of product which could bring EVs main steam (so you would think environmentalists would love it), but of course this vehicle is unacceptable because you aren't forced to make a whole series of quality of life compromises to use it like you are with a bike, public transportation, or an impractically small car.
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It seems like the sort of thing where they'll be "Looks fine to us." It does get up to rated speeds. It's just that it sometimes is quite slow and now and then drops entirely.
Well, the servers are owned by the sponsors, and the sponsors have informal agreements with the staffers who are no longer with Freenode. Freenode Ltd (which apparently will cease to exist in a few weeks due to Lee's lack of taking care of company admin) apparently owns the domain name. Lee owns Freenode Ltd. Other than that there is nothing to own.
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I gave you sources that discuss their models in detail and you apparently don't have anything to back up your contention. Provide it or let's end our discussion.
>To actually tease out the effects of mask use from jurisdictional case statistics, you’d also have to (1) have stats on mask use, which (despite people making claims about it in coordination with blatantly false claims about cases), I haven’t seen, and (2) have good stats for the other things that would reasonably be expected to contribute to differences in infection spread, (3) either have enough a priori knowledge of the contribution of the items in 2 to control for their effect in 1:1 comparisons, or have data from enough different places to do an analysis that determines the contributions of different factors.

Absolutely, 100% with you. And effectiveness of a mitigation should be determined before mandating it, and the positives and negatives of the mitigation should be well understood.

> I didn’t offer any conclusion except that the upthread claim that California had a much higher rate of COVID cases than FL/TX was bunk.

I was responding to the parents claim that masks “ drastically reduce the spread” which I think I’ve showed is an unsupported claim, although I stated my initial claim too strongly. There is no significant observable effect on state covid case count or state death to confirmed case count (which would to some degree control for some differences in testing).

> Even with good mask stats, a head to head comparison of a couple states case numbers with mask stats wouldn’t otherwise be useful for anything.

After one year of mandating this mitigation we should be able to see some observable difference to continue mandating that people cover their faces. This is not zero-cost, especially for the ones living alone, as the masks block facial expressions showing emotion and the masks make it harder to breathe which can on aggregate cause health issues. For instance, a large number of dental issues is caused by mask use [1].

[1] https://fineartsdentistry.com/how-face-masks-are-affecting-o...
In my fifties, I finally figured out that the INTEGRAL constuitive relations for inductors and capacitors were much more fundamental than the differential ones. Solved virtually all understanding problems for me.
I thought of people who have deep frozen themselves because of medical reasons. That's kind of forward time-travel, no? (Assuming they ever can be successfully resuscitated)
The freenode live conference was another thing not supposed to be "part" of the network. Freenode Ltd was created for the conference purpose, not the network (according to what christel said at the time).
Not all. I live in the countryside (rural Scotland), in a house with a decent sized garden, and only need something as big as a pickup or van 1-2 times a year at most.

Same deal with almost everyone I know nearby - the ones with a pickup I know are farmers, or one guy that's honest and just likes the aesthetics and the way it drives (and it counts as a "commercial vehicle", so it was some kind of tax dodge too).

I get it's indispensable for a farmer or business owner, but for for the vast majority (not all, obviously) of regular folks, even outside of cities, it's really not needed.
In a certain sense the scientific community has always been a cartel. It wouldn't work otherwise. This is precisely the element that was missing in antiquity when we talk about knowledge, science, and the intellectuals of that time. There's no such monopoly on statements and this is why all the 'scientific' work back then is philosophico-theological in nature. Aristotle's zoology fundamentally derives down the chain of existence from a First Mover, his works Of The Soul (his theory of mortal things) and Metaphysics (his theory of non-mortal things) are all a single continuum.
From the article:

> In the hours that followed, it became clear the app was mistaken. The man pictured had no connection to the fires, and once he was located by law enforcement, he was quickly released for lack of evidence.

"Released for lack of evidence" sounds like he was arrested which can show up on arrest records in background checks. IANAL but if this individual gets a job offer that's later rescinded after a background check due to that arrest, that sounds like grounds for a libel lawsuit. The CEO also put up the money himself, so whatever safe harbor exception Citizen could have claimed is probably unworkable (again, IANAL in bold letters).
Until violence is used to gain access to people's key chain passwords.
>Public safety departments everywhere are in denial how absolutely, utterly, batshit pissed off people are about property crime.

Someone from SV assumes the whole world is like SV. Water is wet. More news at 11.

Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.

I live in an city most SV techies would sneer at and things don't go missing from my porch or the neighbor's porch.
Google's still in it, so you could still expect to be giving google a cut of everything that happens on one
A better question to ask might be would you change anything about your behavior if either way was correct? I'm not planning on digging a bunker and learning subsistence farming and how to rebuild civilization so the answer for me is that it really doesn't matter if the "everyone will die!" is correct.
I wished they'd filled in all of the metadata so I could find the artists from my backgrounds folder in 5 years.
"I have lived through many great tragedies in my life, and some of them actually happened"

Mark Twain
I like the idea, and decided to try doing some validation. The first thing I noticed is that it asks me to make a yes-or-no judgment of whether the sentence was spoken "accurately", but nowhere on the site is it explained what "accurate" means, or how strict I should be.

(The first clip I got was spoken more or less correctly, but a couple of words are slurred together and the prosody is awkward. Without having a good idea of the standards and goals of the project, I have no idea whether including this clip would make the overall dataset better or worse. My gut feeling is that it's good for training recognition, and bad for training synthesis.)

This seems to me like a major issue, since it should take a relatively small amount of effort to write up a list of guidelines, and it would be hugely beneficial to establish those guidelines before asking a lot of volunteers to donate their time. I don't find it encouraging that this has been an open issue for four years, with apparently no action except a bunch of bikeshedding: https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice/issues/273
The damage may happen too quickly, similar to how typical fuses or circuit breakers won't protect you from a power surge or nearby lightning strike. Other tech would probably work though. Unfortunately, there's a lot of conflicting info on how powerful HEMP attacks, CMEs, etc would be/how much protection would be needed to have any effect at all. Having reliable info would greatly help for determining the feasibility of protecting systems all over the world. Regardless of 'criticality' even, as what good would the internet be if HN's servers and such are all down? ;)
I disagree: If you summarize the difficulty of all Bitcoin blocks from the chain's tip and you're trying to "rebase" the chain at point x, you'd have to calculate at least the amount of hashes between x and the current tip to display a convincing fork with a similar cummulative difficulty.

In proof of stake, since there's no "work" that's connecting the blocks, but just a sortition of who gets to submit a block, this ever growing hash tree doesn't gain more difficulty over time to rebase.

That's what Bitcoin Maximalists always cry about and are never able to express in words.
This is also an argument against most people owning a car larger than a subcompact like the Honda Fit.
>I don't think society should pay for students' university books.

Then society should stop accumulating savings beyond what is reasonable. There are two sides to every discussion.
I was right there with you until this:

> diesel car

Just a little reminder, the planet's gonna be on fire if we don't reach carbon neutrality ASAP.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384158
Imagine the suffering that exists in nature at any given moment. Billions and trillions of creatures in various states of pain, fear, and want. Then multiply all those experiences for every time frame back to the first organisms.

I don't think people think about the implications of a billion years of natural selection.
I'm not sure if it counts as "contemplation," but I spend a lot of ideas pre-packaging responses to the various beliefs I have that are unintuitive and therefor will make me look dumb (or evil) if expressed poorly.

I used to think about the future and dreams and stuff... nowadays, I don't think I'll ever really find a place I fit. So I live in the mountains, and nature is very good up here.
You should add the fingerprint as an EC2 tag or something from a boot script.
I agree that “do nothing” is inaccurate (I think Ben later walked it back).

But overall, I'm surprised how common the take is in the software industry that this is a fine state of things. How much of Apple's cut is because they run a good distribution network, vs. how much is because they are the only distribution channel?

Surely we don't think it's a bad thing that desktop software went in the direction of being an open platform (which, it's worth noting, may not have gone in that direction without DOJ intervention). Why aren't we rooting for the same on mobile devices, which have become just as essential?
Autosteering / lane-centering (which is increasingly standard in driver assistance technology, including bluecruise which will be available on this truck) is not the same as lane-keep assist.
It isn't them though - it is a far narrower group. All blockchains have a rich get richer problem - the earlier you are, the cheaper it is to amass an unassailable position.

Even in something more difficult to collude/setup like BTC, 4 pools could execute a 51% attack. As of Q2 2020, 65.08% of hash power was in China.

It doesn't take many people, especially because you need both money and a desire to be in Ethereum. As another example, 2241 individual wallets hold 42% of all BTC, while 35,604,096 wallets hold 1.24% of BTC - I would expect concentration to happen even more quickly in PoS.
I retired at 32 and its been about 5 years. Its pretty fucking cool. One thing is everyone else looks super retarded. I missed out on all this Me-Too and covid and social justice insanity, so thats cool. But man, it really makes everyone look really insane if you are not a part of it.

I don't think I could go back at this point. Also, I tend to give less of a shit about social pressures if you are not always worried your boss or whoever might see something to say or type.

Overall I feel bad for people that have to live the life of working.
Lots of smart French folks from the Polytechniques (Paris and Montreal) and ENS here in the valley.
Anyone can recommend similar articles/blogs that focus on optimization of networking/computing in Linux/cloud environments? This kind of articles are very informative, because they refer to advanced mechanisms that I either haven't heard about or newer saw in practical use.
A paying customer is a better target for ads, too. They've already shown the willingness to pay for something
The most surprising thing I discovered was that it took me 3 months to lose a jittery “I.SHOULD.DO.SOMETHING.NOW” feeling. Only after 3 months did I feel truly relaxed to pursue whatever interest-driven nerding project and at the same time letting go of a sense of achievement or progress. 2021 was supposed to be a “me” year until an interesting project came along. I said yes. Taking time off is hard.
The author's central argument has been formally proven: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/919.pdf. PoS protocols cannot offer a client with no a priori knowledge of the history of transactions a way to distinguish between an honest validator set and a corrupt validator set. There's no way to compare chain quality in-band.
The Akronomicon: An Extreme-Scale Leaderboard of the Largest ML Models
In most of Europe you now need a special extra driving test to be allowed to tow any reasonable trailer.

It effectively means trailers are now only for professionals.
There's a new console feature which addresses this, but yes, the previous incarnation was very frustrating. I'd like to see this on all instance types.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/introduci...
> If people are free to create new chains out of thin air and build networks around it, how is anything digital "scarce"?

Say I just created HNCoin, a copy of bitcoin, and offered you one HNCoin for 0.001BTC. Would you take the deal?
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> There's a reason we don't use the gold standard.

Some things take a long time to fail, but will undoubtedly fail. There are numerous examples of failed fiat currencies in modern times and ancient times. Just because dollars, euros and yen survive now, doesn't mean it will survive forever.

The core reason for this is simple: humans are bad at decision making in groups. Economic policy becomes sensitive to election cycles, populism, partisan agendas, etc. Every economic recession becomes a dire problem to be solved with state intervention. Every economic expansion becomes evidence of good policy decisions that emboldens some economic theory, convincing people that good times can continue indefinitely with the right policies.

The rules for that govern economic systems SHOULD be concrete, they should not be subject to human opinion so frequently. But we find ourselves pushing the edges of what amount of debt is acceptable, or how inflation is even measured.

The rules for money should be transparent, mathematical, algorithmic.
Coffee is a lot like wine, in that the flavor varies a ton from farm to farm and batch to batch even based on small changes in the terroir, climate, or just randomness.

The central challenge to running any sort of mass food chain is to keep your product as consistent as possible. People expect the Starbucks drink they order when they get off the plane in Miami to taste exactly the same as they one they order back home in Boise.

In coffee, the darker the roast the more the individual characteristics of the beans are replaced by the flavors of the roast itself. Starbucks, and most mass coffee chains, char their roasts because it's a way to homogenize away the variance in terroir that comes from beans sourced across a wide range of farms and batches.
Yes accepts a max 3 year old v3 license. Mine is 8 and been worth it, just not another 70$ now that I’m force learning myself vi :-) 3 will remain fine for the quick things I want it to do
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Two point: the consensus is that the 'most difficult' (not longest) chain which follows the agreed consensus rules is the 'real chain'. This is not necessarily the one with the most computing power associated with it, especially in the case of a fork, where two different sets of consensus rules diverge. The main issue with being the smaller side of the fork is that if you are still using the same proof of work mechanism then you are vulnerable to 51% attacks from the larger fork, which tends to lower prices and so discourage mining which makes the situation worse (and this has happened to multiple bitcoin forks, including 51% attacks). This may in principle be less of a concern with PoS, because the 'mining resource' also splits with the fork and stakers can continue to stake both sides, reducing the strength of the positive feedback loop (though not completely, since the less popular and lower priced coin is more vulnerable to someone trying to buy enough of it to execute a 51% stake attack).
I think an app like this is depicted in Westworld. It’s basically Uber for “crime” fighting vigilantes/mercenaries.
Yes, 16+ feet with a simple mechanism.

It works like old typewriters. You align the corners of the paper and then clamp it.

Compare that, at the time, to the top of line of a Gerber (or 3M) plotter that was the only one able to handle 12+ ft. It used an array of sensors that at runtime adjusted the clamping-wheels pressure to keep the paper/vinyl roll aligned.

It was around $15-18K, while my Ioline was ~$1,300.

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Could you tell me more about your markers?
I actually don’t believe any of these attacks will amount to much. Even in a scenario where some nudge of change is required, Apple probably has about 5 different “next moves” to mitigate any effects.
I can't afford a private chauffeur, but I can afford an Uber Black.

I can't afford a private security force, but I could afford an on-demand subscription.

You want to defund the tax-paid police? Go right ahead! Now I want to collectively fund my own security force, for crimes that the police is understaffed for, what _exactly_ is the problem?

If your concerns about police abuse or neighbors calling security on minorities, then focus on fixing that (defund them?) and let me interact with the private market. Or is this controversial from a rich-get-security perspective?
Of course they don't have to, but it opens the door to make it easier for existing employees and candidates to ask.

So many people are uncomfortable talking about money, and companies push that it's taboo. This law does a tiny bit to push the information asymmetry back to the employee.

EDIT
I've always been a pretty aggressive (not in a bad way) negotiator. So for me, asking why not the max would be question one and probing the answer would be the next set of questions. Maybe this wasn't obvious to those less apt to negotiate?
The more localized the change in the magnetic field, the less it matters.
This study does not seem to consider or count farmed birds, such as chickens (and others). Yet it mentions impact on ecology, as if farmed animals don’t count. Just the farmed birds on earth would add up to 25 billion or more.
Citizen is another example of the trend towards private security systems over public. Not good.

(Your neighbor, while a member of the public, does not constitute public law enforcement)
Higher, larger pickup trucks did not come about as a result of safety requirements, they came about from fuel efficiency requirements (or needing to get around them).

So net result of indirect regulations to decrease fuel consumption is increased fuel consumption, and more dangerous vehicles for everyone to contend with who is not inside as large of a vehicle.

Simply making people pay more for fuel would have incentivized them to prioritize what kind of vehicle to buy, and make it possible for smaller pickups to still exist and/or a rental market for pickups to flourish.