skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How utterly shocking. This headlines make normal behavior sound scary
Let's look at it from the perspective of "I'm going to put my life savings into this thing" and hold on to it for at least 10+ years.

Do I put it into Bitcoin which is simple, secure, battle tested, moves slowly but with broad consensus, has had a much fairer distribution, is not controlled by the whims of it's creator, etc?

Or do I put it into eth that's been forked pretty easily after the dao hack, moves much faster, has significantly more complexity and critical bugs go unnoticed for months[1], that's in the middle of switching over to a significantly more complex, not battle-tested long enough PoS system with significant technical and also philosophical problems like embedding "rich gets richer" deep into the protocol, that's been pitched as a smart contract platform for years?

You can still use the smart contracts using Bitcoin on top of eth, so it's not like you don't have access to them.

The way I look at it, Bitcoin is my data (aka value) and eth is my computer (aka financial transaction platform), I switch computers every other year, but my data comes along with me.

This is the question I've been pondering lately and it's pretty clear to me which one I'm choosing. That said, I have a stake in both and hope both succeed.

1: https://cryptonews.com/news/disclosed-ethereum-lived-with-a-...
Sorry for a long answer to a one-liner. Whatever people's opinion about what they should use... CVS works for them, everyone of their users and developers is used to it, and they've been self hosting their code for ... 15 years at this point... 20 years? Even more? How many projects can actually say that?

Using OpenBSD for servers at times their use of CVS has never been an issue for me. So I get it, it's not the newest tool around, but if it works, is understood, maybe there's no immediate need to switch? The same crowd which says "they should just use git already", would probably follow up with "and how come perl is part of the base system and the pkg manager is written in it?... could we get Rust into the kernel while we're at it?"

OpenBSD's conservatism is what makes the system so immensely well documented, vetted, therefore secure and easy to use. They may switch at some point, and if they do it will be swift, and done right. But if I think about it: as a user I don't really care. It's not a huge deal to me what they're using for source control.
Just wait a few months, when millions(?) who "own" ethereum on Robinhood realize not only do they not really own ETH, they actually "own" a security that tracks the price of Ethereum 1.x, and therefore can't upgrade to ethereum 2.0 or earn "staking" rewards. Proof of Stake is genuinely neat, but the transition to Ethereum 2.0 is going to be rocky because it will involve another hard fork that will create severe confusion for millions of Robinhood users. Furthermore, there are other cryptocurrencies, such as Tezos, which currently offer proof of stake, with staking rewards, etc. I don't get how Ethereum is better set up as a store of value at this point.
I would be interested in reading some actual reporting on this. I have heard plenty of third, fourth, and fifth hand reports of how horrible homeless shelters are. But I don't have anything verifiable.
Do you think the value that we all attribute to gold is not a figment of our collective beliefs? If not, where do you think it derives its value from?
What a fantastic way to dismissively say "Raising children is work that is of zero benefit to the human species and a complete waste of time. Women only have any value if they are doing something other than traditional women's work."
Or, you know, the whole "massive upheaval of lifestyles caused by a pandemic and the responses to it" thing.
Your reasoning goes against the person you’re replying to. The vast majority of gold’s price is as an investment. If the investment demand went away, the price would plummet. Not 100% because of the industrial demand, but it would be a huge amount. If you want something where the value is backed by industrial use, literally any other metal would be a better choice.
Having read a lot about the air campaign over Europe over the last couple of years, I would gamble this weakness was known at least informally among Luftwaffe pilots, if not stated explicitly in training materials. This is exactly the kind of information that was passed around both informally and formally in the Allied air forces. Bomber commands on both sides used this kind of information to develop high-level tactics (for example, the evolution of the Allied box formation, and the responsive evolution of German attacks of Allied bomber formations).
I have the same feeling every time Amazon announces some amazing thing and their Top Rated sort still isn't weighted by review count.
> And unfortunately RLIMIT_NOFILE is inherited down the process tree unless explicitly set.

I go into common ways to configure the NOFILE/ulimit here:

https://wakatime.com/blog/47-maximize-your-concurrent-web-se...

Mainly, keep checking the ulimit of your daemon process while configuring each layer until the ulimit bubbles down and shows up on the process.
I’d say density is a must, and neither cities have it
This is the first I am hearing about Landlock, but a major part of my job is writing SELinux policy.

First, it should be possible to use both this and SELinux as they are stackable.

The main benefit I see to Landlock over SELinux I see is that it is far more dynamic. With SELinux, you need to know what accesses a program will make when you write the policy. Since Landlock creates the rules at runtime, it can be used in cases where you do not know exactly what it needs to do ahead of time. Obviously, this can also be thought of as a drawback instead of a benefit.

For a toy usecase, consider a hex editor. You want to be able to open and edit any file on the system; however you are concerned that a maliciously crafted could compromise the editor. With Landlock, you can let the user select the file they want to use, then dynamically restrict your permissions before you actually open the file. With SELinux, you would need to give the editor access to the entire system because you do not know ahead of time which file the user will want to access.

Granted, this toy example is simple enough that I could come up with a workable SELinux solution if I had to, but sometimes the application actually knows best what it needs to do.
Because this offers different obstruction levels to different rates of flow and because it works in one direction could it somehow be used to create a version that could operate like Maxwell's demon with particles with a certain temperature rather than a fluid? Temperature being a mscroscopic measure of the microscopic velocities of particles.
“Responsible” AI was what Google invented after the Ethical AI purge.

The appearance is that it’s about AI being responsible for advancing corporate image and interests.
If there's anything SoTA AI researchers love and have experience doing it's writing blog posts and papers explaining how.

The lack of details makes me think they're either hiding a new technique they'd rather keep secret because it provides a competitive advantage, or that it's really only a marginal improvement over existing NLP models (or an ensemble of them with nearly no improvement on any given metric) and the 1000x improvement is on a metric that no actual ML scientist would respect.

I don't have the slightest bit of information about Google's AI team to know if those are the only two options and if so which is more likely.
Yes, recently they have also sent an email regarding this change and other changes in their policy.

Even after all these measures, are they even making any profit yet?
All parent processes above you need to first increase their ulimit. Check the blog link in my other post here for details. Changing the daemon's ulimit in with systemd is actually super easy with one line: LimitNOFILE=<your-limit>
The leading cause of death in children is driving.
Nice stories. I just did the physical labor and hacked on my C64 as a hobby. Luckily I did the "unpleasant" physical labor and I learned to push through hard work.

Actually after 20 years working in IT I hade some successful own companies worked as contractor for others. It was nice but now I'm longing back to a honest days of work. I'm preparing to retire soon and building out a self sustainable farm, providing most needs I have. Hope to go back to "hacking" stuff for fun.
I guess anything will raise someone’s eyebrows these days, but there’s a long history of those groups supporting those specific causes.

To pretend it never happened is to deny credit where credit is due.

https://outofthecloset.org/

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-souther...
> Granting bureaucrats the power, for example, to require YouTube to silence Jordan Peterson, fine Spotify for something Joe Rogan says on a podcast, or impose on independent podcasters such as Sam Harris an obligation to contribute to the production of Canadian content is as dangerous as it is absurd.

I wasn’t able to find sources for this. The article is confusing considering it was written by a lawyer
the knuckleheads will tell your insurance covers everything as if business is in to lose money guaranteed...
Generally one doesn't invest in currencies. Currencies aren't an asset class [1], and a currency isn't an asset. One uses currencies to buy assets. Conflating the two would be an economic catastrophe, as nobody spends an appreciating asset. That's why currencies and assets are forked the way they are.

Proof is in the pudding: Pomp's Bitcoin Pizza cannot be paid for in Bitcoin - or any other crypto.

[1] https://www.commonfund.org/blog/is-currency-an-asset-class#:....
There has really been a dramatic shift on HN in the last couple of years.
Louis, while sometimes brash, has got to be one of the most genuine people on YouTube. As far as I can tell there is nothing about his content which is abusive. While I’m still not really sure how I feel about right to repair, I would hate to see him be censored as one of his best qualities is his uncensored nature.
1. There are plenty of cryptos that this applies to right now. Cheap is not true for ETH atm, but it may soon be given the very real scaling solutions that are soon to come online.

2. Why does a means of exchange need to be fungible? Regardless, Monero and others are fungible.

3. Not sure what this means or why its required for money, but still seems like crypto can apply here.

4. Stablecoins exist, and I'm not even counting the shady AF ones like Tether. For example there is DAI, which is fully decentralized, runs on the Ethereum blockchain, has held stable very well (certainly well enough for the above use case) and which saw $2.6B trade volume in the last 24hr.
I'm completely sold on the sugar argument. It's a home-run. Sugar is the new smoking. Our food environment makes it difficult to minimize sugar, but it's an extremely straightforward rule, and you will join an rapidly increasing number of people who are on the crusade.

I asked the question about fat, because I accept that chronic disease in developed nations does have other components.

Exercise is similar to sugar, in that it's quite difficult to work into our lives, but it's a simple and obviously worthwhile rule.

With fat, on the other hand, it feels like people are all over the place. Nonetheless, there are bad fats. I don't know what "bad fats" are scientifically, but I'm pretty sure potato chips have them.
Tesla's bio is fascinating I highly recommend Wizard: https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Times-Nikola-Biography-Genius/...

..that whole period is wild for inventors I'm surprised there aren't more movies about it!
"Based on anecdotes I feel like this doesn't tell the full story"

Not even remotely. Within a compact area, the three major poles (SF, Oakland/Berkeley nd San Jose) have different histories, and narrative threads that lead to different spaces between. Even by age, you'll see widely divergent attitudes about what constitutes "home" (SF is the most insular and aloof in general, and not always in a derogatory way), San Jose the most maligned (sometimes legitimately, sometimes very much not) and Oakland (until recently) treated as a crucial but often 'a part, yet apart' microcosm unto itself, with Berkeley its neighboring city-state. People in different stages of life have often moved around and between the three, for varying reasons.

Many who are from here and certainly many who have moved TO here, move "around" the area more than truly exodus out.
It's really tough to find an unencumbered name these days. Even made-up names like 'eelo' (Android distro) got in trouble because a tiny human resources company in the Netherlands was using the name 'eelloo'. Not even the same name, totally different business type but still they lost. Trademarks are applied ridiculously wide now and because of that all the good names are gone.
Indeed, neither are productive assets, and I'm only interested in investing in and advocating for productive assets.
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[Anecdote]: pros of SF bay area is that it is a large metro area where tons of businesses have point of presence. No complaints re. the climate and the geography.

However crime and overall cleanliness are bad even though the cities must be rich with cash and this is coming from someone who used to live in a "third world" country (even though the term original usage wasn't about wealth).

So some meaningful changes in policy need to happen.
>> life savings into this thing

If you put your life savings in crypto currencies you should be prepared to loose it all. Consider working on your FOMO before to start investing/gambling. It's a risky asset and I would say it will become worthless as store of value but that's a different discussion.
Ok, where are they getting chips from? Or have the chips been all ordered and this isn't some puffery?
I really don't think shoplifters wake up early. Please don't abandon basic human rights, recognized since the 17th century, just because you can't wake up early.

Somehow, people today think being a victim is okay, even worthy of merit. They also think laws, self-control, idealism, action, and self-determination are fake and worthy of contempt. Barbarity and animalism won the popularity contest over humanitarian virtue and effortless paradise. In their wake is a toxic wasteland.

Here's an idea. Punish the victims. It's not okay for you to be a victim. No. You don't get it. It's NOT okay for YOU to be a victim. You are sentenced as a nuisance business. The crime goes away. The surrounding property values go up. Or your overseas principle investors wake up to the news that their fingerprints are on the rifle that shot Xi Jing Ping, Putin, African warlords, landless pirates, narco leaders. Take your pick. One problem with an evil lawless world is there's no shortage of enemies to set up petty manipulative profiteers.
Doesn't everyone do this? I remember at the age of five finally learning to control my falling dreams at night, to be able to freeze in the air and eventually fly (the Matrix scene definitely resonated later). This was the beginning of a continuous exercise of imagining things more and more exactly and controlling that imagination. Now as an engineer, I spend most of my time staring at a wall simulating and refining designs in my head. As Tesla notes, they are usually accurate. The most interesting cases however are when I can't quite be sure what will happen. Building those projects are some of the most exciting and often most valuable work. Besides imagination, simulating on a computer is useful, but more to explain an imagined design to others. Occassionaly, when simulations scale to a certain level of parallel interaction (like neural networks), those simulations take on the character of reality which may defy imagination. At least until enough experimentation and observation develops intuition.
This is SF. It’s literally illegal for them to take a crap.

After all the public bathrooms were eliminated, the city made an app so you can send them pictures of human feces. That way they can send someone out to clean it up. I guess that’s cheaper than maintaining actual restrooms.
So Ethereum is better because it's deflationary, and proof of stake in which the rich get richer? Both of those are terrible.

The reason why no one trusts Ethereum as a proper store of value is because it's not very decentralized, has a clear owner that can be pressured by governments to reverse transactions, the owner + early developers hold the vast majority of the Eth in existence, and there's been a clear precedence of the developers reversing transactions due to a bad smart contract.
The comment I was replying to said two odd, incorrect things: 1) water is our primary source of hydrogen (it isn't), and 2) that people were researching animal droppings as a source of hydrogen. Though people are looking for biogas to be a replacement for fossil-natural gas, there won't be enoug my for that, and certainly using it for steam methane reformation to hydrogen would be a poor use for biogas.

Hydrogen is an essential industrial input and feedstock for many processes, including production of fertilizer in the form of ammonia. So we will be producing hydrogen for that, without a doubt.

It is estimated that by 2030 or so that electrolyzers will be as cheap as steam methane reformation (SMR), with or without carbon capture on the SMR. We will see if that prediction pans out! The IEA has put approximately 850GW of hydrogen production as a feasibly goal by 2030 as part of their plan for keeping climate warming at 1.5C, with half of that from electrolyzers. This may be fairly plausible, as Europe has mandated 40GW of electrolyzers by 2030, and there are currently 154GW of hydrogen electrolyzers in the pipeline:

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/growing-ambit...
I’m gonna regret responding after saying I was removing myself but I’m hoping this will help you or at least other people reading understand what the harm is.

I’m not objecting to an algorithm that exposes me to more cleavage. I couldn’t care less. I’m objecting to an algorithm that exposes millions of men to a subtle but routine equation of men with faces, and women with breasts. It’s not a privilege for women to expect not to be casually sexualized because someone thought their algorithm was helpful but didn’t bother to find out it wasn’t.

Likewise the impact of racial bias. I’m not offended by seeing white faces. But it’s not a privileged position for POC to object to being basically erased from images because whoever developed the algorithm didn’t bother acknowledging more than one skin tone exists.

These things have real impact, not just on how it affects the people who are directly underrepresented. It also affects how the people who are overrepresented perceive and ultimately act toward them.
According to https://femtostar.com/faq there access tokens available for purchase.
>philosophical problems like embedding "rich gets richer" deep into the protocol

Proof of work is a pretty clear "rich get richer" system, except it's the rich with stakes in energy companies, semiconductor fabs, and mining hardware that get richer, not the rich in Bitcoin.
Thanks for the Wireworld link. This is indeed fascinating. Cheers.
This looks like a major screwup, rather than some kind of corruption as I interpreted the headline. The electrical generators couldn't meet the load, so they shed load by paying customers to go offline. This is standard grid management 101. Unfortunately some of that load was the machines that pumped gas to the generators. Oops. Classic positive feedback loop. My question is Why in the hell wasn't it somebody's job to ensure that fuel suppliers weren't on the load shedding list?
Up to Windows XP, having many additional fonts registered notably increased system boot time. It silently did full font enumeration on start, like fontconfig without cache does. That's at least one problem.
Eth 1.x ownership doesn’t get rolled into Eth 2? (I’m firmly an outsider observer here)
It rose along with the recent rise in popularity of socialism.
tl;dr she had a special fighter jet or component

it was known as her orifice

In case anyone was curious about that part of the article
Record disks broke the distribution of taverns and pubs.

Radio broke the distribution model of record disks.

YouTube broke the distribution model of old content producers.

People still make music and more content than ever before. People are not gonna suddenly stop generating knowledge because of Wikipedia. The prediction that "there won't be any new content" is hyperbolic and just plain wrong as demonstrated by history.
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"but the amount of nature you can be in within 30 minutes of driving from anywhere in the Sacramento region is drastically more than 30 minutes from anywhere in the bay area."

Not true at all. The sad truth is there are more hiking trails and options for "stuff" involving nature than a far majority of folks realize. Even in areas like Los Altos, Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc, are dangerously close to non-urban reserves and other spaces, but often have no idea.

Many feel fine driving from Palo Alto to go to Marin for Alamere Falls and brunch in Mill Valley, but have no idea Butano or Purisima or Skeggs and brunch in Woodside or Pescadero or Davenport and is a fraction of the distance and comparatively stunning.
According to my understanding they are referring to parameter count. If we go by that logic, BERT has 340M parameters. GPT3 has 175B. So this will have 340B parameters?
I agree, which is why I stopped speculating on cryptos last year. That's not to say I don't think you can speculate and make money, because clearly you can. But the movements do not seem to behave very rationally, even by finance industry standards, which is saying something.

That being said, I think the one difference is that ETH actually does have some intrinsic value assuming the Ethereum network is actually used to build useful things, which so far it seems like it is. As long as that is true, people will need ETH in order to pay gas fees. And if you need ETH to pay gas fees, presumably its value will scale somewhat proportionally to the real-world usefulness of the network.
For sure, it's very risky, highly volatile and nobody should put more money than they are willing to lose.

But if you don't trust your gov/central bankers then crypto is one(only?) way to opt out.
It looks like the equirectangular Mars projection. Details can be found on the HiRISE or THEMIS sites.
It's super easy to end up homeless in CA. Just run out of money.

Source: I ran out of money in CA in 2009, ended up homeless.
Lots of perspectives here:

https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-c...

A specific account of sexual abuse in a shelter here:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/mayor-orders-probe...

There's plenty of reporting on it. As with all news, it's tough to get realistic accounts of what's going on in shelters because a lot of the people being asked are involved with shelter administration, so obviously there wouldn't be as much emphasis on the bad living conditions. Getting more info from actual homeless people would be helpful, but obviously the entire point is a lot of them are battling substance abuse issues and/or mental health problems, so there are complications on getting decent information out of them.
Can a one-man operation beat a BigCo Marketing team?
The answers depends on which 10 years of your life that you’re in
True. It's similar to cryptocurrencies that way, but there is an underlying demand that I find comforting. Bitcoin etc. can be completely abandoned without consequence, but we need gold. Gold will probably always have some value. And as long as it is scarce, that value floor will probably allow its price to recover from a confidence crisis.