skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The DAO was a very extraordinary event that occurred under very unique and unrepeatable circumstances.

1. Ethereum had just launched. There was a sense of everything being in beta.

2. The Ethereum stakeholder set was very small, so obtaining consensus for such a controversial hard fork was much easier to accomplish than it would be today.

3. The economy on Ethereum was very small, so

a) a hard fork was far less disruptive than it would be today.

b) an undermining of Ethereum's commitment to neutrality/immutability jeapardized far fewer decentralized application projects than it would today.

4. Smart contracts were completely new, so there was a sense that people could be forgiven for their mistakes.

5. The Ethereum Foundation had promoted the idea of a DAO on their website, and several Ethereum founders had promoted the specific DAO that ended up being hacked. These facts made the DAO appear to be more than a completely third party app.

Ethereum is very different today than it was in 2016, and a DAO-scale mishap would never lead to a hard fork again.
> A common complain lot at /r/espresso is that most of us are pulling better shots than at the local “third wave” cafes around us.

I have mixed feelings about this. Cafés are businesses. The average person on the street isn't going to pay the premium for a consistently great shot, and there simply aren't enough people who care to support more than a small handful of shops that won't compromise on quality.

I know that I'm not pulling shots that are anywhere near as good as what a barista at one of the better cafés in my area can pull (and there are several who have placed highly in international competitions). However, I don't know if this translates over to what you get when you order something during the morning rush, and if the difference in quality in this situation is enough to justify the price.

> Sure, it requires expensive home equipment AND shipping in fresh beans from all over the world… and time… and those things are the rub.

$500 usd puts together a good setup if you stick with used equipment - espresso machine, grinder, and something like an old IMEX roaster. The beans in my experience are only slightly more expensive than what you can buy in a store, but the difference in quality is noticeable ($9 per kg vs ~$11-12 per kg).
The quantity of hardware required is also a source of carbon emission, energy is not the only parameter
The BBC News website similarly disables comments on any article that's even remotely controversial. While some would undoubtedly consider that a good thing to protect the quality of the conversation, I'm not so sure myself. UK citizens are forced by law to fund the BBC through what is effectively a tax on television ownership. In addition, the BBC's takes on certain issues are known to be quite out of step with the feelings of the majority of the UK population. Allowing the BBC to selectively disable comments on such articles, which are forcibly funded by the people who might like to comment on them, seems wrong on some level. I'd rather the BBC removed commenting across the entire site than have the power to remove comments on specific articles they know are going to result in disagreement.
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I wouldn't.

The idea has been around since at least 1961. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_computing .

In 1989, PVM was developed "to allow a network of heterogeneous Unix and/or Windows machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Virtual_Machine

In the late 1990s, people started building Beowulf clusters. ("a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them.") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster .

These were so popular, the phrase 'a Beowulf cluster' was an in-joke on Slashdot, the leading tech hangout of the time. ('a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans eating some hot grits' - https://slashdot.org/poll/1483/best-meme-in-slashdots-first-... ).

I remember several startups trying to turn this concept into something profitable. I don't think they panned out. At least, I haven't heard about them in 20 years. Instead, most projects use dedicated or rental hardware, and call it 'grid computing' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing .

People find it much easier to use dedicated rental compute machines. For an established system like EC2, customers know the billing, accessibility, stability, bandwidth availability, type of processor, etc., there's extensive documentation for the big systems, and support for HIPPA compliance, and more.

On the other hand, people who want to contribute cycles for projects have a choice of research projects to choose from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...

Setting up a distributed system is not hard. There are many off-the-shelf packages for doing it. If you want to go this route, become someone who knows how to use those packages and apply them to specific projects, and go the consulting/contracting route.
Docker's default goes against best practices. Just look at all those opened issues on Github. Clearly people get caught by surprise and may suffer a security compromise as a result.

Docker is 100% to blame here and they need to change the default! Just put it in the release notes and get it over with.
Perfect solution fallacy
Lots of us petrolheads like electric cars.

What we don't like are cars plagued by build quality issues and that we're not even _allowed_ by the manufacturer to wrench on it ourselves (a quality we also strongly dislike about modern ICE cars as well). The black box nature is what makes it antithetical.

The rates that Teslas are getting totaled out for what should be repairable issues are also a hot issue for us.
DLLs shipped with the OS (and quite some 3rd-party ones too) are ARM64X. This means that they expose both the ARM64 and ARM64EC ABIs.
No, "technically" and in all other regards, it's composition, plain and simple.

There's nothing special about composition that it requires language support, or that it has to be static for it to be considered composition. You can implement dynamic composition in OOP simply by having a List of components, and that's how many games that don't use ECS did and still do. Composition has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance or with requiring static data members.

Unlike you're claiming, the relationship between entities and components definitely does exist in ECS, just not in an OOP way, because ECS is not OOP (even though ECS can be implemented in any language).
I've seen quite a few NeRF demos so far, but it appears that all of them are not much more than slightly distorting and remixing the input images. Also in these examples, the water looks like plastic and the NeRF clearly cannot reproduce the colorful grass but instead turns it into one large smooth surface.

But without transparency effects, all of this can be rendered fast and efficiently using geometric textures - i.e. what the Unreal Engine 5 uses. Here's how "traditional" real-time rendering looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBktSo0bXas

Compared to that, I find "AI rendering" which is blurry and much slower (15fps @ 800px) somewhat underwhelming.

In case anyone here is working on AI rendering, I'd suggest that you focus on transparent glass. That's where all game engines slow down 2x to 4x because of the need to render things in multiple passes. So if you can make fake glass look nice, that's when AI rendering becomes a useful improvement over the state of the art.

As for the scenes in this demo, I'm pretty sure that structure from motion + mesh reduction + normal mapping can reconstruct the original images almost pixel-perfect, and at 200+ fps on modern GPUs. So there's simply not much benefit to having a neural raymarcher over a highly optimized raycaster.
Agreed.

However... I'd still argue if you have a car today that you own... Stretch ownership to another 5 years.

I'm currently on vacation in the lake District in the UK and the car I have is Volvo T8 twin engine. I can't charge this thing anywhere. Charging spots in hotels aren't available to non residents, the solitary charging spots in car parks are taken, and the cottage I'm in has a very strange weak circuit that I can't charge the car from. Anecdotally I've seen no Tesla's or Porsche Taycan, or even Leaf's... Those were left behind at the M6.

It feels like infrastructure has yet to really catch up to need. It will. But today, if you still own a hybrid, ICE, twin engine... Keep it a while longer.

By that time Polestar and the like will have incredible cars available for less than the current price. The wait will be worth it.
> During review of the article in what the journal refers to as “the provisional acceptance phase,” Fenter says in the statement, members of Frontiers’s research integrity team identified “a series of strong, unsupported claims based on studies with insufficient statistical significance, and at times, without the use of control groups.”

The statement continues: “Further, the authors promoted their own specific ivermectin-based treatment which is inappropriate for a review article and against our editorial policies. In our view, this paper does not offer an objective nor balanced scientific contribution to the evaluation of ivermectin as a potential treatment for COVID-19.”
Wait, does that mean that you can pick up salvage title Teslas…?
Petrol cars have significantly longer driving range, which is important for transport efficiency.

Petrol cars are significantly cheaper to buy.

Petrol cars refuel significantly faster than electronic cars recharge.

Petrol cars don't have a costly battery which degrades over time and pollutes.
Which were?
Yes, I 100% agree that reality is complicated and not everything is about race, but some things are still about race and we shouldn't be afraid to talk about it.

Racists aren't idiots, most of them know they can't openly spout racial slurs any more and still be taken seriously, so they use proxy issues framed in ways that do more harm to the groups they hate than to middle class white Americans.

You can't simultaneously solve every single social problem in existence out of fear of being called the real bigots, and making it all about whichever example of bigotry or injustice you're talking about in the moment. Sometimes you have to zoom in on a particular sub problem, be it income, education, crime, pollution, housing, disability, race, class, homelessness, or whatever.

So no, in short I don't think the worst racists of today are the ones who talk about the privileges or difficulties that come with being born into one race or another. The worst racists are still the same people they've always been, the people who try to hurt or kill the racial groups they don't like using every tool at their disposal, be it he media, the police, the law or whatever.
A bit tangential but it seems that architectural trends over the last couple of decades has been to do away with the standard human size door that used to be common in garages. Probably 90% of the times I open my vehicle size door, I could have used a human size door instead. I was planning on building a shed in the backyard, which would eliminate most of these door opening events, but then lumber prices went insane so maybe by autumn the time for that will be right.

I'm curious as to why human size doors in garages have become so unpopular in residential architecture. Security concerns? Energy efficiency? Streamlined appearance? Cost cutting?
I can experience something similar with the ventilation system in my apartment. Usually, the sound of it is immersed in the background noise together with other sounds coming from the outside, so most of the time I'm not aware of it at all. However, sometimes when I meditate I hear it and if I focus my attention on it, after a while it becomes clear and loud, rich and versatile, not unlike a music played on a wind instrument.
Yes, but you won't be able to supercharge them (if not now, then at some point soon).

Rich Rebuilds has gone over the headaches of this extensively and you'll notice the last year or so of his content has nothing to do with Teslas.
The best thing they could do is make it so you can login without having to google for "gov uk login".
> Starting with the Arduino starter kit. But somehow my brain doesn’t seem wired for it.

Have you looked into Raspberry Pi. I use these for even very simple things, just because it’s so easy to get up and running. Way over spec’d of course but if you jus want to “get something done” they can’t be beat.
Ok I did a really shallow search of the smart contract space and it looks like the trend is towards creating simple languages that are easy to reason about and formalize their semantics. Simplicity seems to be the best example of this.

With such a language you can write proofs about the behavior of the runtime using some proof checker and then programs in it should be simple enough to reason about in a rigorous way.

What I have not seen and what I am curious about is a smart contract language more in the spirit of Idris. That is to say a more complex language design with full dependent types, which would be a lot more difficult to formalize, but would allow you to do really nice things like treat proofs as first class citizens in your actual smart contracts.
GDS used to recommend matomo, especially for services with 'sensitive' content (each service on gov.uk is actually developed, hosted and deployed separately). I know the foreign office used it, unfortunately the trend amongst the designers/analysts/product managers had been to push GA without any real thought process (because frankly it's easier than getting permission to setup and maintain a self-hosted product)
Try their desktop browser version. All the ads can be blocked by uBlock Origin, there are no limits on what you can do whatsoever (I have no idea what are these "hearts" you're talking about), and most importantly - you can switch to the "write your answers on a keyboard" mode.

That last bit makes a hell of a difference. One thing is to click through, another is to actually translate a sentence or to write it down in "type what you hear" exercises, with hints showing up only when you explicitly ask for them. It makes the whole thing harder, but is absolutely worth the effort. You'll pound not just the words into your head, but also the grammar.

I learned two foreign languages in the recent years (as in: can read a newspaper or talk about my last vacation, humble brag!), and Duo was one of the keys to success (Anki & having an actual teacher were another ones). I believe it wouldn't work so well if I was just "clicking through" on mobile.
Fractional reserve banks have the assets, just not in liquid enough form that all customers can withdraw their deposits at the same time. For example, some of it is loaned out to various businesses that buy industrial equipment with it, lets say an oven for a big bakery. Over the lifetime of the loan, they can use that equipment to make enough money to repay the money with interest but during the lifetime of the loan the value is 'locked up' in the oven and can't be withdrawn. A non-bankrupt fractional reserve bank always has enough assets but (during a bank run) not always enough liquid assets.

The allegations against Tether are that it is not backed by anything at all, not even illiquid assets. It has so far refused to provide any audited proof that it does and other means of trying to find out (such as reporting by trading desks in a sibling comment) also indicates that there does not seem to be enough money in the pot to redeem all the tokens for their fiat counterparts.
> •users feel that their experience is diminished as a result of the decisions we make with respect to the frequency, prominence, format, size and quality of ads that we display;

They should show short video ads in the language you're learning, so the challenge is to understand the ad. Free learning, better engagement and actually relevant ads.

I'd be up for that I think
A big problem in my city is that street charging stations have to compete with regular parking spots, so a spot is either just a normal parking spot, or blessed for EVs only. Bit of a thorn in the eye of less rich people who can’t afford an EV.

Second, they’re competing with bicycle parking and bicycle lanes. Spots are getting fewer because of this.

Third, cars are getting larger, leading to larger parking spots required, and therefore a lower spot density.
There are good reasons for buying an EV but this article is not convincing. The author thinks an M3 is a “real sports car” (it’s definitely not), so no surprise that the article doesn’t talk about a big downside that makes EVs less fun to drive - their higher weight.
> We can now measure and analyze dimensions of personal and social life that we wouldn’t even have thought to measure a decade or two ago. It was always theoretically possible for us to count our steps, but altogether impractical. Now we can have it done for us passively.

Pedometers are much older than "a decade or two": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedometer#History

https://walkertracker.com/the-evolution-of-the-pedometer/
There is no system to being lucky. I’ve always found it odd when people say things like that because I’ve personally experienced luck strictly as “completely unpredictable outcomes that are either favorable or not.”

You don’t make luck. Luck happens to you.
Petrol cars actually work in extreme climates.
I’m actually fine with that. Other than me scrounging around in the usual places, any links to where I should start looking for salvage titles?
These two articles claim to debunk iron cluster-dependent magnetosensory mechanisms but not the "radical pair" mechanism described by OP.
Are you sure? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/wow... suggests otherwise.
I would buy an electric car but the problem I have living in a terraced house is charging it. I don’t have off road parking and the street I’m on can’t easily accommodate chargers on the pavement.
I'm sorry, I edited to clear up what I was referring to.

I was taken aback by Pomp choosing to comment on Mircea's life in terms of how his death would personally enrich him. I've edited to leave this note. I suspect he realized the optics himself as he has since deleted the tweet. To me it read as "Mircea died huh? Well good news, our bitcoin's more valuable now."

I've nothing against the mechanism Pomp was pointing out, per se, other than I suspect any random saunter down the time line results in all coins eventually lost. I'm also aware of the counter-argument that infinite divisibility mitigates this.

Thanks for calling out the lack of clarity.
They are not the same, and the term comes from Lisp in the early 90s, not JavaScript. Tree-shaking is actually "live code inclusion" - in other words, it approaches the problem from the other direction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaking
> This magazine from 1995 had a CD full of stock images for sale for $18.98

..."for 100 stunning photos on each CD-ROM. $18.98 each" [1], just in case anyone else wanted to square the comparison in proper context.

[1] https://i0.wp.com/the-avocado.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03...
That's actually why I clicked on this thread. Glad I did though, was a great read.
Yes, same here. Your brain is trying to find patterns, make sense where there is none.

It also becomes more prevalent when using mind altering substances.
Looking forward to the imminent expansion of the Klingon-language advertising sphere.

https://www.duolingo.com/course/tlh/en/Learn-Klingon
Petrol cars can be easily fixed in a driveway.
I've ran a few webhosting companies back in the heyday of LAMP/LEMP.

This is a feature and a dangerous one.

Our provisioning had to carefully manage the firewall during installation, because MySQL would be open to the world *while provisioning*. Often this is mere seconds or less, but on a reasonable popular webhosting, this is enough time for automated tools to take over the server.
If, during that provisioning some other tool would start punching holes in the firewall you carefully manage from provisining, I would be enraged. I dislike Docker for a lot of reasons[0], and this kind of behaviour is one of them.

So, yes: what MySQL or MongoDB do is dangerous and poor security practice. But what Docker does is worse: it breaks the countermeasures you take and rely on. IF all your layers of protection are removed by poor security practices of a tool that says "yea, but you need more than just this one layer" you still have no protection.

[0] yet I do use it a lot on development-machines to run the services needed on localhost and not have to manage all those with apt/snap/brew or whatever they come with.
If you can it sounds like a wild ride getting various parts to coexist. I'm expecting components to be "smart" enough to self-report and disable each other in obscure ways.

I recall a few people doing mod work on recovered teslas and building a working one from two broken vehicles, but then having various usage issues.
I don't think that this implies that they store CVV codes.

They have the card's details on file. They may simply use the CVV code provided by the customer during the call to run a check without storing anything.
They're already breaking old.reddit.com. The image gallery viewing UI is hilariously bad on old, and recently I've had a lot of post links having the wrong href (usually to the page you're on or the same as the Next link at the bottom of the screen).

Oddly enough, the video player on old still works way better than the one on new.
Heh...speaking of weight...Hoovie's Garage has me wanting an Austin-Healey Sprite Mark I. That'd be a real hoot to drive.
That’s 10qps assuming working hours indeed you don’t need more than one server for that.
Hmm, interesting. In London at least it doesn't look like the on-street charging is particularly over subscribed, although it obviously would become so if everyone followed this without drastic improvements. I think it really depends on the area but parking by my old flat had chargers in the lamp posts, by my friends there are proper electric only bays with faster chargers, etc.

If your main use case is long trips though I agree, although service stations in the UK do have pretty good electric charging infrastructure.

My parents have just switched to electric and while its a slight change in how you operate (maybe stop for a coffee and let the dog stretch his legs while they are plugged into a fast charger for 20 mins) they seem pretty happy with it.
Ecosystems "inert and predictable"?. Nobody thinks that.
> I'm a white guy (actually from Spain, so I don't know if I qualify as "white" from the USA point of view)

No, Spanish-speaking countries are considered nonwhite.[1] Portugal and France are both white; Spain not so much.

Brazil is a hazier issue.

(The reason is that Spanish speakers in the US don't tend to be Spaniards, and the laws were written in a sloppy way.)

[1] Technically, the "Hispanic" category is not supposed to be exclusive with the various race categories. But that is how it is treated.
Other interesting solutions in this space:

- https://tailscale.com/

- https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

- https://github.com/tonarino/innernet

- https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

Something I'm missing?