skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't appreciate zero until you try to invent a positional number system. In the past, when they used positional system they would often just leave a blank spot in the place of zero. This inevitably leads to errors. Is that two numbers or one number with zero between? How do you distinguish between 1 and 10?

Source:

A popular science book

"The history of numbers or the history of a great discovery" (Georges Ifrah)

Contains some fun chapters like "How to count if you can't count". For example if natives in a stereotypical jungle want to count numbers to a holiday. They memorize a sequence of items, for example body parts: little finger of one hand, palm, wrist, forearm, arm, shoulder, neck.... then they measure once and conclude one needs to wait as many days as there are from the little finger on left hand to, say, navel.
I also recently wrote a blog post about this, trying to sum up why different definitions exist.
https://link.medium.com/tC5p4nfYCib
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Australia had a notorious "dictation test" that was used to weed out non-white immigrants.

"Under the Immgration Act, migrants who entered Australia between 1901 and 1958 could be asked to take a dictation test.

To pass the test, they needed to write 50 words in any European language, as dictated by an immigration officer. After 1905, the officer could choose any language at all. A Chinese immigrant, for example, could be asked to write out 50 words in French, Italian or another language.

Few migrants could pass the test in these circumstances. This meant that it was easy to fail an applicant if they were from an ‘undesirable’ country, had a criminal record, had medical issues or were thought to be ‘morally unfit’.

If an applicant failed the test, they could be deported by the Australian Government."

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-ci...
Proof-of-steak is quite satisfying to pass.

And since I'm committing to this literal shitpost, the proof-of-steak misspelling is entirely appropriate to the amount of salt in the article.
I don't have any skin in this game, but I think it's very sad to see that the conclusion being drawn from this discussion is that it's unprovoked hostility. I see disagreements and different values.

I hope both parties in this discussion can disconnect the message from the person.

Having discussions with people we disagree with about topics we see differently is in my honest opinion the way we get out of the "us vs them" tendency to think.
Non-Google link:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Please+log+in+with+router%27s+p...
Miners were very opposed to EIP-1559 and in the end when the talks failed they mostly just ignored them. It's kind of true.
If being homeless is a crime, it gets rectified by the virtue of putting the homeless to a prison, which serves as a home!
The Immigration Restriction Act 1901, also known as the White Australia policy
This is one of the biggest things that stops me from using Signal. I don't have a phone number really any more (I'm a digital nomad, and pick up regional sims)

I'm not really interested in the disappearing message either if I wanted that I could just use Slack Free edition :troll:.

In all seriousness though, my messages are part of my memory. They're shared experience with my partner and a record of decisions.

I understand they're useful for some people, but they're an anti-feature for me.
I do use computers to create graphics, say, a layout for a brochure to be printed. This type of work is best created with a GUI/WIMP interface.
I wrote down my experiences with building delivery platforms, which answers some of this. Might be interesting https://blog.brujordet.no/post/devops/building-a-delivery-pl...

But with regards to purely technical stuff like what tools to choose and how to use them you’ll need experience, either your own or someone elses. There’s really no replacement in my opinion. I had loads of experienced people around me previously, but now that I work more or less alone in the field I rely a lot on community slack channels for the various tools and debugging. It’s amazing to be stuck trying to figure out how to best use Loki for logging, jump on their slack and get advice from the Lead Engineer working on the tool. Or getting input on what tools to use from 50 different people in different companies through /r/devops on reddit.
I wonder if they still hobble performance on non Intel hardware
That's clever! You can use this trick to effectively make items expire and be removed after a set time.

But it makes the whole thing more complicated with parameters that need tuning, and no longer the simple and powerful things that bloom filters are sold as.
Isn't the issue that there are people in control of these new currencies, new people who are sometimes frightening?
>Hardware gets outdated quickly as mining difficulty rises,

People can and still do mine Ethereum with the cards they did 5 years ago, and the difficulty is irrelevant to whether your hardware is outdated or not.
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If a device is not fast enough to run those things natively it's even less likely to run them in sandboxed browser.
I downvoted because it looked like there were people of various skin colours there to me, in the renders, in the illustrations and in the wait-list headshot illustrations. People in renders often look awkward. I appreciate diverse crowds in these sorts of things also, but I think you're reading into it too much here.

Saw renders of an Aboriginal arts building locally where you could tell they struggled to find Aboriginal figures in their set of 3D models, so they seemed to include Indian families. Skin tone was generally fine, but the attire was miles off!
It isn't quite that simple. There is a whole bunch of game effects happening here that add a lot of complexity to a statement like that.

One key one is price, another is that most miners barely understand how the network works and therefore couldn't exert any force even if they wanted to.

Pools concentrate the force, but miners can move to whatever pool they like the best (usually the most profitable... which is where the main store of wealth is)...

disclosure: large scale eth miner
Which, again, any big pharmaceutical company would have offered to a drug developer, and was in no way a special attribute of Pfizer.
I'm waiting to see the more radical young progressives openly praise China for the wise, statewide, uniformly enforced progressive policies.
The distinction he makes between miners and holders seems totally arbitrary in my view, it's not like the miners aren't also holders. The more you mine the more you hold.
What's the endgame here - to point out "Pfizer is awesome!!"? Seems a little strange.
Welcome to Spain.
From an Indy owner, for folks who may be interested:

* The Indy was meant to run IRIX 5.x. It does this pretty well with 64M of RAM, and really well with 128M or 256M installed.

* IRIX 6.5 was not designed with the Indy in mind, and, well, it's a miracle that it works at all. It does not work great.

* A real-life Indy, like I have in my study here at home, takes 3-5 minutes to boot IRIX 5.x, even with 256M of RAM installed. IRIX 6.5 can take a lot longer. early-1990s 2nd gen SCSI wasn't fast.

* Early-90s graphics demos meant for the Indy are often written with old-school GL, instead of OpenGL, and will not work with IRIX 6.5. As an example, the Jurassic Park images of "fsv" require IRIX 5.3 at latest, because that was the last revision to include the old-style GL software renderers.

The MAME emulation is genuinely very slow, but the original item was also not all that fast!

An R4000SC had literally 10x the compute capacity of a contemporary 486dx, but very similar memory and disk bandwidths. These systems were clippy by the standards of the day, but it all "feels" slow to a 2021 user.
Author is looking for perfection in what is essentially a Wild West.

I also think it’s asking the wrong questions in a way. Whether Bill Gates should have made billions or not whether he should be in charge and corporate structure is largely irrelevant to Silicon Valley crushing it.

Fairness equitability and consistency would be nice but is not compulsory at all
Even with EIP-1559 ETH is not projected to be deflationary.

We're getting 0.15-1.1 ETH burned per block, while just the static reward is 2 ETH.

https://etherchain.org/burn

https://bitinfocharts.com/ethereum/
I am a strong believer that typed languages in general should have a compiler annotation mode that with configurable level of verbosity formats explicit types and structural info (dead code, exhaustive matching) into structured comments.

This could maybe also be a pre-commit git hook transformation so that you could see how type changes propagate.

The essential feature must be that the compiler overwrites them often and that they must be informative only.
You could potentially heat up a dessicant to dry it out and use that indoors to survive the humidity without having to go underground or have AC.
According to my iPhone’s screen time stats, it doesn’t look like an addiction. I averaged less than 30 min/day on TikTok. Twitter is over 2 hours.

I would be on TikTok before sleep, sometimes for over an hour but not everyday. It doesn’t induce FOMO.
Every software project ever has been behind schedule
I've been in a few slack communities that were on the freemium plan. On that plan, older messages become in-accessible if you don't pay. They don't get deleted of course: you will get them back if you switch to a paid plan. But in practice that seems to be rarely interesting.

Chat is all about what happened recently and not about what happened weeks/months ago. Ephemeral messages are a good default.
Miners for Ethereum are incredibly profitable and benefit enormously from side-channel MEV (miner extractable value) payouts that tip them for transaction ordering. In doing so, they extract value from users making trades. In addition, a reduced issuance in crypto tends to lead to the underlying asset appreciating in value, as noted by the Bitcoin stock-to-flow model in the wake of each halvening.

The "code is law" is not some universal absolute. Blockchains have always been forkable. But a chain can't have a contentious fork without a cost and it becomes costlier and riskier to do later in a chain's life.
Why consumers can't make decisions
Not true at all. There was never any real consensus among miners on this front.

As a very large miner, I was always for 1559 because I understand the underlying mechanics.

The miners who I watched were just kind of bandwagon on the theme of "wait, I'll earn less cause you're burning my fees"?

Which in reality isn't entirely the case (price and usage have gone up, along with the lack of wallet support).
That's contradictory to leading sleep scientists like Matthew Walker, Peter Attia, etc. which is clear about need for chilly environment for sleep quality, eg < 21C. Granted, sleep science isn't oriented towards the genetics of the tropics yet, but there's plenty of evidence about temperature and sleep quality for more northern genetics anyway.
so they built a better filter bubble for you. Brave New World had Soma and we have TikTok.

I'm not sure humans, flesh and blood, should be handing control of our emotional state to corporations with highly-tuned algorithms.
> And the example is we can’t use company paper to print brochures and stuff.

Communication tools in digital and remote work have become the equivalent of the office environment, so it feels like the same freedom of expressions for union organization should be allowed on them.

Was the spirit of the guideline you're referring to in order to avoid union activies as appearing as if they were company-branded? Or something else?
According to one book I read...

Cheyennes divide birds into 3 groups: plain, great and sacred. They count magpie in the sacred ones :-). There's a magpie on my fence as I'm typing this.

They like magpies because they're smart, talkative, they announce guests, they live close to humans.

Australian "magpie" is not even a corvid.
Table1 here shows Vacuum filters being 11x faster than bloom. https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p197-wang.pdf
The issue I raised (and he hasn’t answered) is where the data comes from. I’m 100% sure some systems were hacked and pretty confident it did have an impact somewhere

But I’m fairly confident his data is BS. I think the only scenario that occurred is if someone hacked into all the election machines... which lol

That being said, I’m not sure that’s the point. How do you prove lindell wrong? Well, you have to do a forensic audit, which is what he’s asking for in the first place.
The term "DevOps" was originally coined to mean organizing teams so that development and operations were merged. That is, development teams were responsible for writing, deploying and operating services. It was a reaction to the then-common system where development and ops were separate.

But it was quickly coopted to be "ops, but cooler" because these sysadmins write code too. And then even that definition started to get coopted by people using it for other things. These days it can mean anything. Frankly, I see it as a small red flag. Anyone who uses it is basically jumping on yesterday's trendy jargon, and that's not a good sign.
Hard to find an English speaking source for it (we know how friendly the UK and Russian governments are lately), but for example, here https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/wirecard-jan-marsaleks-spuren-... are claims that Marsalek himself admitted relations with the FSB.
It’s also built between two massive public parking lots that serve as park and ride locations for the light rail.
"Realistic art" does not mean "represents something". You can represent things and not be realistic, majority of drawings made by humans are in this category.

Neither adam nor eve could plausibly look like this: https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvYX... - altrough proportions are roughly right.
Another point that's underemphasized in the piece: forkable governance with voluntary participation is very different from the scenarios that go with a "ruling class".
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Generally in my experience, a company that's looking for a DevOps engineer does not know what DevOps is.

DevOps is great, but it's not a title. It's beautifully summarized in "The DevOps Handbook" and it's fictional counterpart "The Pheonix Project". It's about culture.

Some people might feel different and want to re-evaluate due to so many company adapting it in a similar vein many companies want to adapt agile. But make no mistake, you can't define it then, since then the context of the company defines the word. Thus sadly the word is slowly loosing its meaning.

This is likely due to lots of management people wanting to adapt the buzzword without understanding it. This since it has have had such a great success in many companies that actually know what it is, have taken the DevOps culture to heart and implemented processes in line with it.
"The study found that extreme heat and cold killed 5.08 million people on an average every year from 2000-2019. Of this, 4.6 million deaths on an average occurred annually due to extreme cold while 0.48 million deaths occurred due to extreme heat"

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/extreme-t...
For what it’s worth, Bezos is associated with Amazon, not Apple.
>I'm a little disgruntled about skimming a longish article to find this 2/3 of the way down.

Me too, the title felt a little click-baitey
Seems to have a little difficulty coping with changes of tone ;-)

https://fairytailor.org/c1a5820376965428a9c8dcf531713851
Or at least allow me to change my number without losing all my history.
Anyone who thought differently when crypto appeared was most likely young and naive. If a system deal with effort credit, some will find ways, whatever rule you think they follow, to get more credit for less effort.

There s no solution, it s the basic of energy limitation: you have an enormous incentive to conserve energy until we can get so much more than we require with so little spending that it becomes irrelevant. But then, we ll find ways, probably, to spend so much energy that we ll reach the limit again.

A bit like in the 2000s when you kept doubling your disk drive space every year and still kept filling it at exponential rate :D
Yep, my travel photos are split between DSLR photos and phone photos, the phone photos are usually way more interesting because they were of things I was otherwise never going to capture.
They brought the miners onto the weekly cat herders (the name for core dev weekly sync) meeting they hold. I watched the stream. They listened to the feedback, some other miners that were for it including Stakefish were present. The arguments weren't strong at all from the miners that were opposed and in the end, they dropped it.
Off Topic:

In case anyone is not familiar with the phrase :
"I've got a bridge to sell you when you're ready"

(1) A con artist who sold a bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker

Not to be confused with :-
(2) Rumoured that the wrong 'London' bridge was sold to Arizona (vs Tower Bridge)
https://www.history.com/news/how-london-bridge-ended-up-in-a...

It could be argued that both apply - but I'm not getting into that argument !
Infrastructure Engineer is also a common title for this role.
This isn't the kind of "storage provider" we were talking about. As long as you simply put blobs in there, you don't need end to end encryption, you can simply do the encryption yourself (like people do with these services).
Dogecoin is inflationary, but not to the extent you are looking for [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin#Currency_supply
I would love to have a lighter version of the 70-200 though...
No place is going to be safe, but some places are going to be a lot safer than others. The PNW or Canada is a lot better bet than the Middle East or Bangladesh.

Reversal is not really an option either; the best scientific evidence I've seen is that we've already past several tipping points that will accelerate warming regardless of what we do, and even if we haven't, we've had about zero decrease in worldwide CO2 emissions and a terrible track record in getting humanity to work together for common good.
I like Bloom filters well enough, but I've noticed them getting cargo-culted into projects where they aren't even remotely necessary. There are a few techniques that people seem to love (Cuckoo hashes are another) and uncritically apply without much analysis.

Where they are good, they're good, but I've seen techniques with Impressive Papers being used more or less at random where the basic data structure would have been fine.
Rule of writing: when you're using an acronym in your text and you never spell it out, you're doing it wrong.
I did a write up on the topic.

https://austingwalters.com/mike-lindell-and-china-hacking-am...

My only question is who provided him the data?

I don’t think he knows how the data was captured.

I also don’t think it matters if his data is even real. If his goal is forensic audits, all he has to do is not give out his $5m and force someone to sue him. He can then use discovery to look at the ballots.
My understanding of MEV was "Maximum Extractable Value", and to clarify: MEV is the process by which a miner takes advantage of their ability to view pending transactions so they can "front-run" (add their own transactions ahead of) the transactions of others, bumping up the costs for the transactions that come after theirs, thus "extracting maximum value" from their privileged position.

Using the original article author's analogy, the "working class" are adding their own percentage to the retail price and taking those profits home.
That's the average burned per block, he was talking about edge cases.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/oyhzop/ethereum_b...
I’m not concerned about wellbeing of China but about the future of the West, simply because I am European.

Quality of our products decline rapidly when they are not optimized for our needs but the needs of the country to compete with China.

What terrifies me the most is becoming like China to compete with them(Where every individual msu provide for its country and not the other way around). I was shocked when TikTok was almost banned in the USA and people were rallying for it because China is banning US social media.

Please don’t become China. If the US becomes like China, I am afraid Europe will follow and the world will be dominated by the Chinese way of life where individual rights and freedoms are limited in the name of national security.
Aren't almost all of them old at this point? The numbers of people using what most people would count as new is pretty small percentage wise.
In many way the adoption of DevOps has many similarities with the larger adoption of agile development. It just looses it original meaning in a world of little reflection and just surface level knowledge.

Those who can manage to surpass that though can get great productivity from it though.
I find your lack of faith in our corporate-federal oligarchs disturbing. Perhaps your name should be added to a list...
99.99% of the Netherlands is planned construction, we seem to be doing allright.
> I was saying you can make a heavier than air aircraft with a LOWER surface area to weight/power, unlike lighter than air aircraft, so you can avoid being knocked around as much, have less drag, etc.

You didn't say that you "can" make a heavier than air craft with a better ratio. You said that "by definition" lighter than air craft will have a worse ratio than any heavier than air craft. That's a very different statement! (And I'm being fair, I'm interpreting "any" as "any reasonable".)

> You can never get a lighter than air craft to an overall density higher than air by definition, and that is hugely limiting.

That's true, but the statement I objected to was that weight:surface-area is worse by definition, not any statement about volume.

> 757 stuff

The problem with that chain of logic is that you're starting with some of the best planes around for surface area vs. weight, and then trying to make a blimp that beats them.

Of course that's super hard to do!

But if you take a slow ultralight plane instead, you'll see that it's not very hard to beat with a blimp. The kind of plane that cruises at 35mph and not 500mph.

The truth isn't that [reasonable] planes automatically beat [reasonable] blimps. It's that planes similar to a 757 beat reasonable blimps. That's a much weaker statement.

There are lots of reasonable plane designs that might only hit 5kg/m^2, and it's easy to make a blimp that beats that. Or the 10kg/m^2 in your math, that's not something that takes unreasonable materials to reach in a blimp.

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tl;dr: If you demand a blimp beat 30kg/m^2, it probably won't happen. But in the 2-10kg/m^2 range, sometimes planes beat blimps and sometimes blimps beat planes, using reasonable designs for both. "[an airship] always has to have a much larger surface area in proportion to the weight it is carrying than any heavier than air craft, by definition." is a false statement.
The Community calls didn't reach agreement with miners, and the fact that they kept protesting it is why the Ethereum Foundation decided to move the ETH 2 timeline forward.

https://cryptobriefing.com/ethereum-miners-protesting-eip-15...

>As a very large miner, I was always for 1559 because I understand the underlying mechanics.

I don't know what mechanics you think others didn't understand. Your profitability has dropped and the move is basically moving miners' profit to the largest holders (e.g. everyone who pushed for the change). It's not like the fees have dropped since EIP-1559 if that's something you thought the change will bring for some reason.
The only value argument of Etherium over Bitcoin is that you can have computation on the blockchain, which is a joke when you consider AWS and Azure exists. The rest are delusional details.