skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is it? Tesla insist that you be ready to take over driving at any time
It's not P2P, it's federated. Anybody can host an instance and probably that one has low bandwidth and isn't mirrored by other instances.

Instances like https://tilvids.com/ or https://video.ploud.fr/ have better bandwidth.
Yes!!

Finally. And the next generation of freenet is maidsafe.

Many people on HN are unaware of most of these things. Tor still has sites hosted on a server. Dat and IPFS still have IP addresses of swarm peers. Freenet and SAFE network don’t.
Personal finance is way different from macro finance though. 'Personal' introduces new problems that cannot always be picked up a textbook. Personal means it's your money. So you have full accountability and so many pitfalls.
That's a fair point. Although I feel like if the same thing happened in the states, head would roll just for the fact a lot of people see horses as pets, not cattle. It would be akin to people learning they've been fed dog meat against their will. I would literally expect people to get murdered over that.
Not in a hundred years. Now. Today. Yesterday. We people, are appalled.
Yet we still see the creep of ever surveillance. No privacy = no freedom.
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I wish there was less "plastic" looking CGI though...
It seems to me that we actually agree on the main points.

I do agree with you that single contract transaction is not turing-complete.
I also agree that turing-complete element happens outside.

My disagreement is with the following:

1. I disagree that "loop is just an implementation detail and is not part of any proof". In the GoL article there is a claim that (a)Game of Life board could simulate a turing machine and (b)article provides implementation of GoL board in sCrypt, therefore "Bitcoin in turing-complete". However, the board in article is limited (due to loop inlining) and cannot be made 1000s x 1000s (as required for the simulation of the turing machine) precisely because of the loop unrolling. I also note that author does not point out this limitation (in any of his articles, it seems) - the claims are always "we can simulate Game of Life, we can do Machine Learning, we can simulate Rule 110 automata" without any mention that these are toy examples that hardly do anything and can't scale even by an order of magnitude.
So loop is indeed an implementation detail, but quite essential one, it seems.

2. More broadly, I am agruing against the claim that "Bitcoin is turing complete" made in this and other articles by the same author. But, again, it seems that on this point we are actually in agreement
Good catch. I will rename it to ecall and provide an alias for syscall instead.
haha having had to deal with developer glazeover from DST implications before I suspect we’re not alone. One may accept the inevitable failures that are implicit with the naive date time representation and possibly get a MVP going, but it’s not really more expensive/time consuming to kick the can down the road and hide the inevitable failures behind an interface. The latter requires you to be explicit about the functionality you expect from a date/time value. This means you need a[0] a way to distinguish the type of value it is by the ways you expect to use it...

In data modeling I hide such things behind a foreign key to create a distinct domain. E.g. “PersonBirthDate”, “StartedAt”, “ValidAfter”, “AvailabilityInterval", “FiscalQuarter”, and “ExpiresBy” are all different representations, possibly also distinct by the source entity, and all treated as a distinct domain. Further I’ll often add UDTs and database functions/procedures to help assure integrity (and possibly quality, not always possible of course). Sum Types are unpleasant to model in RDBMS and descendants of such.

[0] a pun, HHOS. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoneda_lemma>
A couple of related past threads:

Penpot Alpha Release – Free and Open-Source Design Plattform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000257 - Feb 2021 (26 comments)

Penpot – open-source Mock up and design tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25793251 - Jan 2021 (3 comments)
I tried to leave a BSOD screensaver for my replacement at my old job. I found dozens of candidates but none of them would run in Windows 10. Windows 10 built-in screen savers don't properly work with multiple monitors. I know the demand for screensavers is extremely low, but I was surprised that the OS with the best reputation for legacy support couldn't keep screensaver libraries working.
There is absolutely no reason you can’t be a capitalist and against elitism at the same time. If the superrich paid their fair share I don’t think there would be as much animosity towards that group.
> It is full-auto-pilot... so it shouldn't be an issue.

That's not how autopilot works even in planes, and Tesla makes it very clear that you need to pay attention before it lets you enable it for the first time.
I tried to watch it full a few times, but recording is tragic. MIT have an amazing collection of lectures on ocw, but it is unwatchable.

Hopefully new edition would be better.
Literacy is a skill. Skills have degrees of proficiency.

Literacy is not a binary, can be quantified, and is.

And on average, it's far lower than you might think, expect, or hope.

"Adult Literacy in the United States" (2019)

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28348039)
We can’t know if climate change models are correct - it’s way too much code, solid bug-checking of it would cost many billions, and without it, the models are more scientism than science.

The core problem here is that it’s hard to test if you don’t know what is the expected outcome (we don’t know how much the temperature is supposed to increase - we expect the model to tell us that…). In such cases, you don’t do black-box testing (i.e. just writing a bunch of test-cases), but rather have to resort to doing a painstaking and rigorous analysis of the code itself. We’ve done it in the past (e.g. on early space flight code), but the scope of the codebase was way smaller.

Also, I suspect that, a lot of the time, people work on the model (tweak parameters, find and fix numerical problems etc) until it starts giving responses which match their apriori expectations. That’s pure scientism (bs masquerading as science).
My employer has the packets in every port location so the field operators can always have some when they are out climbing the cargo tanks and boarding the ships.

If they haven't got bottled water then potable water is OK too, just need to carry an empty Gatorade bottle in the truck.

I guess Amazon workers would need two empty Gatorade bottles then, and really need to keep track of which is which.
I guess I don’t see the coercion. To me I come from a background where grandparents either plowed the fields or died. Where famines caused starvation of relatives and friends. So coercion doesn’t make sense to me. To me it’s nature, and I do my part for society how I can.

One of my favorite quotes is from Star Trek:

“As with all living things, each according to his gift”.

It’s a play on the Marxist adage “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.

It leaves off the second part since what an individuals needs are and what should be supplied to everyone is a quagmire of a problem, given that humans can be selfish and unfair (hence why socialist countries tend to corruption just like the rest). And I fully agree that voting for policy change is a must. So is demonstrating, organizing, etc etc. I just think goals should be clear, and a willingness to understand ones own role, rather than only point fingers.

BTW, I’ve upvoted your comments even if I disagree with them, since they’re insightful and constructive. More of this is needed, and less moral outrage, so thanks.
I think most dating apps right now target desperate people, since they pay huge amounts of money they could actually make up the majority of sales. There are other apps but I don’t think they’re successful or profitable enough to really stand out.

I think just meeting in-person will replace dating apps. There was a downward trend in chatting up strangers and in-person events, but I think that’s going back upward now. Because most people got lonely during the pandemic, and now that the vaccines are out hanging out is getting back to normal.

The fundamental issue is that dating apps don’t actually give you much information or preferences vs in-person, and most people who are attractive and looking for partners get in-person matches anyways.
Ideals getting watered down is a sign of healthy compromise while still moving in the right direction.
The lesson is that art is much less profound than previously thought. GPT-3 is basically autocomplete with a really big training set.

The main lack is a tie to the real world. If you generated, say, an auto repair manual with GPT-3, it would read well, but would not match the proper procedures for the car.

That might be fixable. The next level would be a system that watches someone doing a task, then generates a how-to guide.
Huh? I wrote this:

> Same with the DNS resolvers: if someone has an open DNS resolver that is constantly being abused, as all of them are, just cut them off right? [etc.]

That's what I'm not understanding why it is not being applied to easily solve those reflective DDoS attacks.
A lot of the very old marketing in financial services was content marketing. So you have seen relatively little disruption amongst the most sophisticated marketers...they do the exact same thing they were doing three decades ago, they just send it by email instead of calling or mailing.

There are differences: Motley Fool and Simply Wall St are two example of "innovators" (nominally SEO but in reality they just got into Google Feeds when it was easy to get in).

My point though is that industry hasn't really changed. They are still selling the same dogshit products. As a startup, you have to literally drag your customers kicking and screaming away from stuff that will bankrupt them...every...single...one.

(I say this as someone who ran a startup in the space that failed and then went into wealth management...the industry is horrible, horrible, horrible...with my startup, I made a couple of thousand and had individual clients who made $100k+ with my advice...still wouldn't listen to reason. When I worked in wealth management, we had clients who had money with us, were doing well, and then sold their business and decided they needed the "big name" financial advisor who would rip their face off in fees...I remember seeing the marketing docs for one of these pitches...$2.5m liquid cash account, I actually laughed at how bad it was (they had tried to construct a stock portfolio to generate fees, it was basically an index tracker)...I now do something else because I was just so jaded...but the irrational behaviour of people is brutally different to comprehend...it is anything to do with financial literacy either, some people just have no common sense, Warren Buffett is an example of how to do things, he decided what he was going to do, only people who aligned with the mission joined him...obviously, that doesn't really work outside of asset management).
WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is built upon WebRTC, but I believe PeerTube should fallback to simple HTTP mp4. There is a download link handy that you can open in the browser, vlc, mpv or your favorite video player.

https://diode.zone/download/streaming-playlists/hls/videos/b...
> until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn't as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies.

Surprising how easy it is to fracture American society then.
This was a lot of fun, thanks. I enjoy Advent of Code and the like -- this is similar, but with less guidance about what to do next.
So apparently we need HDMI condoms now.
She has a very empirical way of looking at things which is somewhat uncommon in theoretical physicists and appeals to interested outsiders who haven't been "inducted" into string theory or what have you. E.g. we might be able to do without dark energy, so why put so much emphasis on dark energy? We don't even see one superparticle at LHC, but grad students are still being pushed into stringy shit – why not cut our losses? Or on the flip side, here's a 6 sigma result!!! – why don't her peers seem to care?

The other side would be someone like Luboš Motl, who used to be quite popular too. His main point is that the mathematical completeness and coherence of string theory means it's the only game in town. Which, that might be a fair point, for all I know, but I'm a maths grad and I can only vaguely appreciate what he's going on about most of the time. It just needs a lot of study to get to grips with these theories well enough to judge them in the absence of confirmatory empirical evidence.
The moon is really small, visually - half a degree in diameter. That's the size of a dime at six feet, likely means such billboards would not be noticeable enough to be worth the effort.
What does it mean for meaning to be the endgoal of art?

I've spent the last two months making carvings and blockprinting them. Sometimes I try to come up with an idea or concept I want to convey. Other times I sit with a block and start carving without any sort of plan or idea for what will come out, just filling in the blank spaces until something emerges.

Upon completion I can often come up with various interpretation of the abstract results, but a lot of the fun comes from hearing how other people interpret my work. A veritable Rorschach test for the soul.
Make 1 vaccine brand "endorsed by Republican" and other brand "endorsed by Democrat"
It's still a dead end job though. Even if it pays $100k/yr, if that's all it'll ever be, it's just not worth if the alternative is something with an actual career path.
> I’m not sure I can do anything about it.

Make sure every single parent and child knows about this paragraph. And the name of every individual that put it there. At every school meeting, ask them why that paragraph is buried, instead of prominently displayed on the laptop itself. Ask them to install cameras in their homes, controlled by you.
Very cool :) The results look really good!

It looks like the pen plotter has 3 degrees of freedom, I'm just curious if you think adding any more would possibly have any benefits?

I've got a very cheap robot arm, I plan to teach to draw sometime, but I don't think it's going to work well, partially because the lowest servos don't seem to have enough torque and I don't think it's especially accurate/repeatable.
I think it's kind of a reverse anthromorphization, where you don't really think about the specific thing that's happening (some random person getting access to your kids private communication), but think of it as just some abstract thing
And for many people, Firefox (or Chrome, or Edge) will be the default browser.

Seeking out a different browser to use takes similar, if not greater effort than just installing uBlock Origin (or a similar extension, or a few) and possibly altering some browser settings.

Plus, there's the issue of trust - how many people can vouch for a particular browser, or an extension? If a malicious piece of code would get into a niche browser or extension, how long would it take for someone to notice and bring that to the attention of the wider community? Would there even be such a community? Or maybe if they'd sell out and the product would change ownership?

The more eyes there are looking at code and how it runs, the safer it is, or at least i'd argue so. Therefore, sticking with the popular options is probably better, in general. In this case, that would probably (hopefully) be Firefox with some addons.
I completely forgot about Blade Runner, but I loved it.
It's working better now, with 144 views. Do more views cause more replication?
Oh, I don’t mean the physical things. I instilled the appropriate level of paranoia already (do you want creepy-teacher “…” spying at you).

It’s more about fighting the ridiculous policy, which shouldn’t be a thing.
You don't love getting envelopes in the mail that appear hand written but turn out to be mass produced promotional garbage?
I don't understand the economics of this at all. Video distribution is bandwidth heavy. If you're running your own peer tube instance the server costs are surely going to outstrip any revenue you make from it. if users have to carry that load and seed your stuff they'll have to waste their own storage. What is the incentive for anyone to do this? Exacerbated by the fact that the entire thing mostly seems to attract people who get banned from anything else so the content isn't even going to attract advertisers.
“Reality” the way it is used can be broadly subjective. Unless we’re referring to physical laws, almost everything is an abstraction that can be changed with the right societal impetus.
Your belief is that if people aren't scared of poverty they won't work. Literally you are saying if they're not forced to work by the threat of poverty, they won't. And of course being forced to work isn't voluntary.

Now we don't have debtors prison, so nobody is actively going to take them and throw them into a gulag, but I already talked quite a bit about why that distinction doesn't matter above, so not sure what to say other than go back and reread previous comments if it's something you're confused about.
I guess that's fair. What about Scala's _ syntax, though? Does it solve the problem?
> > de facto monopoly on video hosting
> How do people believe this is even remotely true?

I think if you add "...that people actually visit and watch", it's more accurate. Sure, I can host my own videos or put them on Vimeo or PeerTube - but YouTube is going to get me more eyeballs more quickly (assuming I play the promo games.)
first-class continuations & "stackless" are still my platinum standards for platforms. being able to treat work like data is incredibly powerful & next level.
The Expanse Series: Babylon's Ashes (Book 6)

Potential spoilers

A couple hundred pages in, the pacing just felt too slow. The "high stakes" that kept me on the edge of my chair felt like they disappeared. Where I stopped reading, Mars was collapsing, Earth had collapsed (something that might be fixed in many generations), and the Belt was divided with Marco facing mutiny. And the Marco character went from seemingly having some grand plan and being 10 steps ahead to seemingly being just a charismatic thug who got lucky. Who really built the Protomolecule? In Holden's vision, who were the people who killed the people that built the Protomolecule? Where did they all go? Are any of those civilizations still alive? The first three seasons of the show and even books had a political/human struggle angle, but the Protomolecule and the alien tech were the glue that kept the story progressing. Even in Book 4 with New Terra from one of the ring gates. But seriously – Book 6 – the pacing of the story just turned me off. They could tell me in one chapter that Inaros and his crew got blown up and we don't have to talk about them anymore, and I wouldn't even be mad.

I know there are more books. At some point between now and when the next season of the Expanse airs on Prime Video, I'll probably finish Book 6 and move on to the remaining books. But seriously – Book 6 has hurt my brain. And I'm sad to learn that it'll be the final season of the show.
In Texas, the county puts a value on your house that then determines how much you pay in taxes.

Usually they just kinda eyeball it. The homeowner is allowed to protest and say "hey that's super wrong, I protest!" It's a pretty broken system tbh.

We are property tax agents that homeowners hire to do that "protesting" process for them. IF we save them money, we get paid a percentage of the realized savings. If we save them nothing, we get paid $0.00, so it's a pretty compelling offer.

As for conversions, it's extremely hard to track because it's physical mail. But yes, the campaign did quite well!
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.[1]

[1] hhgttg
I didn't like Tenet at all.

Under the skin and edge of tomorrow were pre-Interstellar.
By no means, SUV drivers and boy racers are also serial hazards where I live. What's a bit different with those is it's easier to make eye contact with drivers in SUVs and sedans. Many modern pickups tend to be elevated to the same height as vans (especially if the suspension is lifted), but unlike vans and minibuses they still have a long front hood, which offsets any benefit from the increased elevation while still making it hard for pedestrians to make eye contact with the driver.

This is a worry factor for people with kids, walking a dog etc., because while the pickup driver may well notice people of adult height, anything below shoulder level is effectively invisible in close-up situations. Most unpleasant close encounters don't come from a speeding vehicle but going in a straight line, but drivers turning right on red or at a stop sign and focused on traffic coming to their left, while ignoring the existence of people trying to cross the street to their right (and sometimes to their left too, because they're gazing into the middle distance and literally overlooking people nearby even though the pedestrians have the right of way).

200 pedestrian lives a year seems like a lot to me, even 100 seems like an excess loss. If you factor in cyclists (though many cyclists are their own worst enemies) I think the number might swell.
Telegram is made by Russian entrepreneurs. Can you really expect them to not bend the knee for Putin?
> What pisses me off more, is when it's the other party that inserts some third parties into the process. When you have a kid attending a school, there's a degree of trust and responsibility shared between you and the school. But then the school outsources data management or remote learning to some random vendors, vendors who absolutely cannot be trusted. And as a parent, you can't do much about it.

I don't understand why the parents are letting the school into their kids heads while they're at home to begin with. School administrators shouldn't be parenting (and we should ask ourselves why this seems reasonable for them to explicitly assume parenting roles over all the kids), and they should probably be more concerned about what kinds of porn their teachers are watching. They should never, ever be concerned with the question of which kids are watching which porn unless it somehow literally cannot be avoided because the kid drags it explicitly into the classroom.
How would you know if someone shared data with someone else (using any kind of communication system, not just anonymous) without telling you? How would you gather statistics of such transfers?

Some time ago, certain people used Freenet to transfer enormous amounts of data (for such a small network) in the open, and most users did not notice, and it rarely got mentioned (if at all). So when people state they have estimates of network usage, I get really skeptical.