skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because stolen crypto effectively lowers the supply.imagine if binance were hacked and everything stolen. 50 billion taken out of circulation because its not like a hacker can cash out to fiat or sell their loot on an exchange.rather it must be sold very slowly or on the street. A major hack is sorta like a bunch of ppl at once losing their keys
The premium would have to be insane for someone not to go bankrupt when they have to cover a 600M theft or even the more common 50M level. There are only a handful of profitable DeFi companies to buy the plan and I’d imagine most have a policy of YOLO when it comes to security
> Knowledge workers are wasting their lives at work when they could get the same amount done in fewer hours.

I'm curious what job you have. I'm a SWE who is in the process of moving into a manager role. As an IC, I am 100% certain that I could get the same amount of work done in a 24 hour work week. In fact, I was probably working less than that already and still meeting my deadlines and getting great reviews. As a manager for the same team, at the same company, I am now working a full 40 and there's no way I could cut 40% of my hours without a massive drop in output.

I'm not against a 4 day work week (in fact, my manager is talking about trying it out in Q4 for our department), but not everyone is an IC knowledge worker. There are plenty of roles where time does directly correlate with productivity, which is why this discussion is so complicated.
Why the down votes!?
How is their current roadmap? Will they move to POS and do sharding like Vitalik's Ethereum?
"Code is law" is either nonsensical or redundant when applied to a complex Turing complete language such as Solidity.

If you can't accurately predict the implications of the lines of code in a smart contract, then it's as good as saying "The laws of physics are laws. That ball ended in my garden following the laws of gravity and thermodynamics, asking for me to return it to you is breaching the initial promise of the physical world". This may change with better smart contract languages that can reconcile intent with effect[1], but while talking about complex Ethereum smart contracts, the "Code is law" argument has no value.

Furthermore, as long as you keep within the bounds of trustless cryptocurrency (unfortunately not a tautology these days), code is indeed law. The ETH this person acquired cannot be confiscated.

[1] e.g. https://scilla.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Also, just to flog that old dead horse for the umpteenth time: Nobody said that "COVID-19 does not spread from person to person". What the WHO reported, on January 14 2020, at the very beginning of the pandemic when very little was known, was that "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission".

If you read that tweet and conclude that the WHO says that there is no human-to-human transmission, then you have a problem with reading comprehension.
And South Park too
Autoplay is toxic. I think all webpages should be completely static by default. By law.
Much too much mass. The atmosphere on Mars is 6.518 millibars. Look to the structure and mass of terrestrial birds for a guide.
Yes, sorry. I meant he started a good conversation with his tweet.
Time to call an old fashioned debt jubilee like they did in the early Roman Empire days. It worked really well for situations like this.
Maybe QuickLook outlived itself. It was a technology tailored to the HDD era of hardware, when complex apps required dozens of seconds to start. In a world were even LibreOffice cold-starts in under three seconds on middle of the road hardware QuickLook is just a familiar workflow instead of a necessity?

Initially I missed QuickLook a lot after switching away from macOS, but now I haven't thought about it in years.
This brings up the whole Multi-speed Europe thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-speed_Europe

Regardless, anyway you view it, these dumpings are a failure of the particular way the current EU has been implemented. There were other options.
This is cool, but seems pretty limited. It looks open sourced. Is there a way to integrate this data with a smartphone app? A useful added feature I think would be taking a picture of the camera too, allowing people to know exactly where the cameras are. (Could also add IMSI data too?) But I think a smartphone app would really help increase the data collection as it makes it easier to fill in the data.
Plutonium is really heavy, if you were to do that it strikes me that you'd be better off having some kind of wireless charging device which the helicopter lands on (But at that point why not solar power).

You'd probably already need some batteries anyway as I'm guessing that the transient spikes in power usage would probably exceed any RTG you could fit in a helicopter anyway.
There's a book called "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" that goes into the history of zero in detail, admittedly I haven't finished reading the book myself but got at least partway through and it was fascinating to read about it and I'll one day finish it :)

What you said about it not being in the numeric system is definitely part of it (ex: roman numerals not having it) but also all the problems that come up with zero have to be dealt with (e.g allowing dividing by it allows you to prove anything, and there's a great proof that winston churchill is a carrot in the book showing as such), and there's some overlap with religions in fearing "nothing" and what that might mean
I think its pretty clear in context that they mean the traditions of the people who view the book as holy, particularly Jews and Christians. They go in more detail if you click the link.

The big difference is that "Some scholars believe X" and "Some scholars believe not X" are basically true for most X. The traditional view of Jews & Christians being that moses wrote genisis is a fact about the world. It can be either true or false. They either believed that traditionally or they did not. Both it and its negation cannot both be true.
Tbh I wasn't aware of Syncthing. In this use case it would work just as well I suppose.

One of the advantages of MinIO would be the wide compatibility with other S3 storage services.
If my NAS had downtime while on holiday I could spin up a new bucket on S3/Backblaze/Wasabi and backup everything in a few minutes.
Jupiter rising: SpaceX just scored another major NASA contract
just like with real laws
There are plenty of non-cloud connected digital cameras out there.
This is just nascent technology leading toward something like this:

"Computer, I want to play a game."

"Okay, what will the game be?"

"I want to be a starship captain, give me a cool space ship I can explore the galaxy with"

"Okay... like this?"

"Not quite, make the galaxy more realistic, with real stars and planets. Also make it 3d. I want to be the captain inside the ship."

"How about now?"

"Cool, and there should be space stations I can visit near planets, and I can fly my ship to stars with hyperspace. Make it so I have to trade for fuel at the space stations, maybe I need to mine asteroids or search derelict space ships for treasure. I want to play with my friends too, they can have their own ships or walk around my ship."

"Done, was there anything else?"

"Yes, add different alien races to some of the star systems, and make some of them have alliances. I want to talk to the aliens about their history and culture. Sometimes aliens are unfriendly and we'll have space battles if talking doesn't work. Make it so I can command a fleet and call for reinforcements."

"Processing... Done. Anything else?"

"Actually this is boring, can we start over?"

"Game erased. Please provide new prompt."
I totally understand abandoning ExForce. It got better once the writer went full time but it still leaves a lot to be desired. I put up with it because I’m a completionist and the author has a plan to end the series in just a few more books so I’ll stick it out but I get it.

I think the core ideas in Bobiverse keep me hooked as I just enjoy them but I see your point and don’t begrudge anyone who gave up on it.

This is a totally random question but have you ever read the Honor Harrington series? They aren’t related at all (other than “sci-fi”) but I’m always interested in other series people have read and enjoyed (or not enjoyed) and Honorverse is one of my favorites.
A radioisotope thermoelectric or betavoltaic generator would probably be too heavy for a helicopter, so you'd probably need something a lot more intense than simple radioactive decay.
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> Why, in 2021, does every single Linux desktop require me to open a file first to see what's inside it?

KDE's file manager has a previewpane that you can enable if you wish.
One thing Hitchens said that really stood out to me was, "the crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could—or should—be the property of the state."

I recently listened to Rogan's interview with Yeonmi Park and you get a real sense of this in action - how you go from being secured by the state to being the property of the state. Rather sobering.
TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app
I also noticed that starring repos was not working. At that time, a couple of hours ago, only GitHub Actions was listed as having problems on githubstatus. So I was unsure whether being able to star things was malfunctioning for more people or just me. And I was also thinking about how much cruft has been added to the GitHub web UI lately, ever since the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft. And I yearn for GitHub as it used to be. But the greatest value in GitHub for me is browsing and starring stuff that others have made, so it's not like I can just set up my own instance either. But I wonder about the future of GitHub. I think it will be more and more geared towards big enterprise users, and less and less a place that will be what it used to feel like for individual developers.
> Isn't it more productive to have a kitchen staff produce food for 1000s of people vs. every person ordering delivery, cooking for themselves, etc.?

Depends on the comparison, someone microwaving lunch at home or the office is basically identical. Restaurants can be more efficient than cooking at home, but for example the open air style refrigerators used in some restaurants have terrible energy efficiency. https://www.kitchenall.com/open-air-merchandisers.html?p=2 At the extreme end when talking out door heating for guest comfort etc restaurants can be shockingly bad because it’s generally the least important aspect of the business.

> Surely cooling/heating 1000 separate homes would cost more than an office optimized for it.

Depends, the comparison might be to not having an office and therefore not needing to heat or cool it at all. There is some opportunity to let empty homes get closer to ambient temperature and therefore reduce heat gain or loss, but it’s not clear cut. We can say that total electricity demand dropped in the pandemic which suggests WFH is likely more energy efficient even with empty office space.

So, sure in some cases it’s better and in some cases worse, but that really doesn’t cover the commute costs.
If anything that proves inactivity is unhealthy, not a life without work.

Not all activity has to be done in the service of providing value to a corporation. You can retire and take up fishing or rock climbing, play chess, write a book.

This idea that we've been conditioned to, that the only valid life is the life we trade for money, is insidious.
This is what I do, I have it clear cookies every 60 seconds, but it keeps my container cookies.
Just set the site to 'always open in ..' the specific container, and all is good.

In settings for CAD, enable container support

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/wiki/...
Why would anyone ever pay their debts, and why would anyone ever lend money out, if they knew debt jubilees were possible?
How do you know how deep the support for regime change is in Minsk? I mean, using primary sources.

It's easy to fill a plaza with people. And Minsk's regime is terrible. But I was duped into supporting the Iraq war in '03. with the promise that we'd be greeted as liberators. I remember the young men shaving their beards in Kandahar. Look how those turned out.

I'm not making that mistake again.
Then again the cameras might just remain active, having comforted you into believing all the cameras pointed at you are disabled.
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Could a novel be as moving as real life?

Possibly more, I'd argue: that work of fiction may have a much more emotional arc than your own life.

Not everybody's direct immediate "real world" life is great, or has the ingredients available to be great "in person." This goes back as long as we've been telling stories.
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That doesn't appear to be their plan [1][2].

It is worth noting that they also have been subject to several 51% attacks [2].

[1] https://investorplace.com/2021/06/ethereum-classic-will-stan...

[2] https://ethereumclassic.org/knowledge/roadmap

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-classic-blockchain-subject...
> I think you might be missing the point. It's not that an utterance/proposition has "only one meaning", but that it is meant to represent only one concept (the speaker's) at the time it's spoken.

While this is closer to a coherent point, i'm not sure it's particularly relevant to the idea of "natural language understanding". We consider humans to be understanding of natural language, but humans interpreting the words of other humans are constantly confounded by various forms of ambiguity or polysemy. The idea that you don't have NLU until you can perfectly ascertain the exact singular meaning of an utterance in the mind of the speaker implies that no human has achieved NLU either.

> Also, I thought that the argument about the impossibility of distinguishing between equally probable meanings (in terms of frequency in a corpus) was a good one.

It's certainly a good puzzle to pose for model building, which implies statistical models will need to be a bit more nuanced than simple word frequency correlations. But it certainly isn't impossible to assign latent attributes to words, and study the statistical properties of those attribute relations, which is exactly what would be necessary to solve their puzzle. In fact, modern word vectorization techniques (i.e. language models using lstms to predict the missing word in a sequence using adjacent context) essentially do this.
Audit finds gender and age bias in OpenAI’s CLIP model
The list of sample projects a beginner can take on is very cool and something I wish more tutorials did.
A language's core values is not determined by a small, vocal, subculture of its ecosystem. In Java's case, it was set early on to be a "blue collar" language [1]. If programmers fail to follow the spirit of the language then it will be awkward.

"So, how does Java feel? Java feels playful and flexible. You can build things with it that are themselves flexible. Java feels deterministic. You feel like it’s going to do what you ask it to do. It feels fairly nonthreatening in that you can just try something and you’ll quickly get an error message if it’s crazy. It feels pretty rich. We tried hard to have a fairly large class library straight out of the box. By and large, it feels like you can just sit down and write code."

Please do not push the programming community towards a tribal, us vs them, hostile environment where one belittles their neighbor. We can have interesting, fun, insightful technical debates! There's no reason to devolve into bigotry to "win" an argument, it's a lot more fun to learn from each other and do cool, new things.

[1] https://www.win.tue.nl/~evink/education/avp/pdf/feel-of-java...
There was this horse named Clever Hans whose trick was that you could give him a math problem and he would tap out the answer with his hoof. Of course, his powers were fake, but the way he actually did it is brilliant.

When the number of taps approached the correct answer, his trainer became excited. Hans picked up on this and stopped right when the trainer's excitement reached its peak. The trainer had no idea this was happening. He was fooled by a horse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
I am unable to find a satisfactory answer for the following:

Whose money was stolen? PolyNet's? Random user? Someone "betting/buying" on a contract?

What is Curve.fi and why is transferring the proceeds there advantageous for the hacker?
I left the city last year due to the lockdowns. One benefit is I now have a woodshop in my garage again. I have built a grandfather clock, china cabinet, and some other really cool stuff about 20 years ago. Just got my workbench built and am about to start some more fine woodworking. It is feeling like I have come full circle in life.
It's pretty easy to get GPT-3 to say things that are incredibly sexist and racist. I think OpenAI is more concerned about the bad press associated with that than AI-safety.
i think the 1/20th of the time was mentioned was only at start, i dont think you will gain a lot after that as the spaghetti AI will come to collect.

You have a debt to pay.
-- Davy Jones
> Or if you're more conscientious, you ship it to China instead

Are you seriously claiming that the Chinese government is better than the Polish government at making sure this kind of trash is handled correctly?
Do you see any nuclear-powered aircraft flying around on Earth?
I hate this logic.

I'm from a developing country with few independent local companies. We're basically the reductio ad absurdum for your comment.

Well, life does not magically become better if most of your local companies fail.

Don't root for local companies to fail and don't be exclusively a "trickle down economics" cynic. Companies still pay salaries, still pay taxes, still contribute to the development of related local industries.
What effect will it have on the housing market at large?
I liked Century Rain for the well-done mix of Casablanca-style film detective noir finding himself in hard SF story
McMaster grad?
Online translation? Not for a literary piece, but it will still let your e-commerce site get the gist of a customer complaint.
-- Uh, in my experience with FB translation, it gives a coherent "gist" 70% of the time. Which sounds good except that seems involve 15% gibberish and 10% wrong in the sense of a plausible but incorrect meaning. How can a company act on a consumer complaint if there's a significant chance what you're reading is totally off base? If "your product is too small" gets translated to "your product is too large" etc. Of course, a lot of companies ignore complaint or send form letters. Their approach wouldn't be impacted. Broadly, a lot of companies produce streams of barely meaningful vacuous bs - that really does serve some percentage of their purposes. This technology may allow the creation of this sort of thing in a more effective manner but I would claim that most of the cost of this stuff already editing it to avoid saying things that can cause real problems and so even here, the savings may be less you'd think.

Frustrating phone or bot interface? Average customer spends 10% more time, but the company saves 50% of its costs.
-- The phone robots have been around for a while. The distinction really is between number pad robots and voice recognition robots. The primary advantage of the voice recognition robots is more choices and primary disadvantage is sometimes they just don't work at all whereas the number pad robots are fairly robust.

lots of technologies have gone through this maturity curve: (1) solve toy problems, (2) solve lame but valuable problems, (3) do interesting "real" things.

-- And lots of other technologies have stopped somewhere along the way.

My point, getting back to OP, is mostly around the corpus-based approach. I wouldn't deny that there's not progress here. But I'd agree with the OP that there isn't fundamental progress. A lot of what happens is this approach is much cheaper. You turn a huge amount of data into application using a small team and a bunch of compute where previously, you'd have had to have hired many people for an equivalent. But equivalents existed previously and even had their advantages. Which isn't to say previous methods can come back - the cheapness of a brute-force solution isn't going to go away. But I would say fundamental progress needs more than this.
They probably mean an old revolver such as the 1851 Navy revolver. See the loading video here https://civilwarhorror.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-load-and-...

The barrel of the revolver is effectively 6 terribly short smooth bore muskets. Be sure to load them before the shooting starts. Then you can fire six shots in rapid succession, before changing to your other revolver. You did remember to buy two?
Some anecdata: my parents own a ten unit apartment building in a small (fairly poor) town. In the last 18 months, only one of them was creating issues worthy of eviction (and it was unrelated to non-payment - most tenants are on some form of SSI). So they took the moratorium with a bit of a shrug.
So at first glance it seems like there's no way this is actually possible. There are 21 meals a week, plus enough snacking that we could probably just think of it as 28 meals a week. Kids just eat constantly, it's bonkers. Anyway, with 28 meals a week, you'd need about 20 of them to be ultra-processed in order to meet this. That's a lot!

Except that it's actually really not. If we take my 5 year old son as a normal kid, a bowl of cereal for breakfast and then whatever random food they feed him for school lunch and we're already 2/3rds of the way to the goal. He snacks on fruit and stuff, but also on pretzel sticks and honey roasted peanuts and all sorts of other kind of junky things.

I make dinner from scratch very nearly every night, and my kid still falls into this 70% bucket! And so I really don't have a good idea about how to change that. Maybe make our own bread and have them have toast for breakfast every day? That's going to get old quick.
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Programming languages do not have a why. The turing machine is an arbitrary model of computation, as is the lambda calculus, as is horn clauses. The 'why' is deciding which one is most convenient to solve a particular problem. Given that very good computer scientists come up with very different means of solving the same problem, it's clear there's no universal agreement upon which paradigm is better and that there's a lot of subjective reasoning as to why particular models are better.
So if you meet a friend in town, you cannot bring them over to your property for drinks? (the number of guests remains well under 6)

Sounds extremely restrictive compared to hotels or short term rentals.
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> during the interview process

I think assuming management is greedy and selfish until proven otherwise is a good way to approach interviewing. Negotiating compensation will give lots of clues. Ask for more money, or a different TC structure and see what happens. For comparison, ask for something that doesn't cost anything.
terrestrial birds which would all have far too low of a lift to weight ratio on mars to ever have any hope of flying. The current mars helicopter is pretty incredible
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I'm wrong. It does not say this.
> I also don't use a dishwasher. Utter waste of energy and water.

If you run it for a plate or two, sure. If it's even remotely full, it uses way less energy and water than you do washing in the sink.
I can't see how we'd call any descendants of ours 'human' in a billion (or even a million) years, but I would be surprised if modern humans were wiped out in the next thousand years - we've lasted tens of thousands up to now. We certainly need to make some changes, but I'm at least semi-optimistic we can do that.