skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having done some work on implementation/migration:

EVERYTHING needs to work.

There's a hell of a lot of software (and, even worse, hardware) that encodes assumptions about IPv4. Everything from userspace asking specifically parsing only IPv4 addresses, to only listening for IPv4 incoming connections, to variables using the IPv4-only type, &c. And let's not even start on the L3 hardware acceleration built into so much networking equipment.

You can't flip the switch when 75% of the stuff on your device is ready. The remaining 25% will break, badly. You need to switch over every single piece of code. And then before you get any benefit out of it, you need to do the same on every remote system you want to talk to.

This is the magic and the terror of internetworking. Before IP, you had to go through this nightmare for changes at many different layers of the stack. With the clean-ish separation of IP, only one layer was make-or-break like this: layer 3. Any change to layer 3 is horrifically difficult, purely as a deployment/management challenge.
Public blockchain systems are distributed databases that anyone can submit write transactions to and where you don't need preauthorisation to join the system. In order to avoid the network being taken over by sybil attacks, it's necessary for participation to be based on locking up / committing / consuming something rare. Anything that becomes cheap or easy is not suitable for basing participation on.

So far I know of systems using computational work (PoW), ownership of cryptocurrency (PoS), or storage space as that rare resource. The idea of using photonics to create a low energy 'proof of time' basis is interesting but there would still be difficult economic considerations. If acquiring the photonics is too hard, then you've got a centralised system, if it's too easy then the sybil resistance and environmental impact benefit goes away (because control of the system devolves into 'who can acquire the most hardware' incentivising massive production).

Perhaps surprisingly, improving the cost efficiency of the work done by a traditional PoW blockchain doesn't reduce its energy usage, because the usage is determined by a competitive market place driven by supply & demand, not by a fixed amount of work needing to be done. Increasing the cost efficiency of the calculations just results in the blockchain doing more calculations.

A huge chunk of the cost is in the electricity used, so power efficiency and cost efficiency are very very similar.
Ultimately I don't think you can improve matters much by attacking power efficiency of the calculations. You may be able to move the economic balance point between upfront/ongoing costs by requiring more or more expensive hardware, but reducing ongoing electricity usage isn't a clear win if it's produced more waste and power usage during the creation and ultimate disposal of the hardware.
> The radical left has [...]

Please don't spread us-vs-them politics. It's bad enough to know you have it, it will not become more healthy if you infect other people with it too.
Undervolting can lead to higher performance as well - for example, my 3080 Ti

Out of the box, it hits power limits and doesn't boost much past 1800/1850Mhz on the core, even in a water block.

Undervolting leads to a rock solid 1920Mhz for hours on end - less power, less heat, more performance.
I like Mathematics but I hate the language of Mathematics.

Mathematicians chose to sacrifice readability in favor of terseness; they invented a large number of abstractions, often with only tiny differences between them. Also, descriptions of concepts tend to focus on the wrong characteristics... Maths would be far more accessible if mathematicians described everything in plain English and reused abstractions to describe similar concepts instead of inventing entirely new words. It's possible, they just don't want to do this because it wouldn't make them sound as clever.

As a developer, I can explain a blockchain as:

1. A decentralized ledger which relies on an asymmetric signature scheme such as EdDSA, zero-knowledge proofs or other mechanism to authenticate on-chain messages.
A blockchain network forms either a structured (deterministic) or unstructured (stochastic) P2P mesh, ideally with each node having a partial view and propagating messages through the network via a gossip protocol. Blockchain nodes adhere to a consensus mechanism such as PoW or PoS (or variants) to provide byzantine fault tolerance and resilience to forks given certain finality conditions.

Or:

2. A ledger which is replicated across multiple nodes/computers which are connected together. The blockchain is usually a ledger of accounts involving financial transactions.
The authenticity of each transaction can be independently verified by anyone by checking that a digital signature on any transaction corresponds to the account which claims to have sent the transaction - This
is possible because each account is associated with a 'public key' which anyone can see and which can be used to verify that a signature was generated by the sender since only the sender could have known the 'private key' (secret)
which was used to generate this specific signature given this specific transaction and this specific public key.
i am so done with OSS communities.
The Indie Python Extravaganza: A Bundle of Python Books – Giveaway Coupon
Decide if it's a business or a hobby
Do you believe that the process will slow? You seem to think that losing a couple species is fine. Have you thought about where this leads to, unchecked? Like, you don't lose 'crows, fucking all of them' except by losing a subspecie at a time.
I don't use Google on my phone because of the ridiculous US copyright law that destroyed their image search. Still upset over that.

Luckily Startpage doesn't care about Getty.
Actually 90% of the food is produced IN the country. Instead of soya they use mostly local corn for mass production.

https://schweizerfleisch.ch/herkunft/facts-figures-schweizer...
IT and network admin people gripe about the long addresses, but when push comes to shove they don't actually make decisions based on that.
Did automotive start it, or was automotive just hit first? I don't know, and I think might take a while until we know. I have to agree that 9 months payment terms are unacceptable. That truck yards at warehouses and factories are full has more to do with bad yard management, or non at all. That is less a problem with JIT or procurement, instead it is a purely operational issue.

That us in SCM and logistics, incl. procurement, have tendency to push issues down to lower tiers is true. it is also true that logistics and transportation is offloading a lot on public infrastructure. Does it have to be that way? On the one hand, yes. Roads are public, railway lines more often that not as well (to an extent that is). That's what taxes are there for, because indirectly everyone if profiting from a running economy. Again, that is less the case in developing countries and should change. I also agree, and that is maybe even more important when it come to the environment at large, SCM should prioritize environmental and climate protection more, along with social standards. That won't happen so until it is financially beneficial to do so. This is a general issue with capitalism running rampant so. Chemical plants giving a shit about worker health and safety or the environment is as old as chemical manufacturing., just as an example.
> When we tell a sexist joke with a woman present, you will get a witty reply from them, not a call to HR.

As a woman working in Europe, those sexist jokes sux. It sux to be in a team where you have to listen to it in the regular. It is tiring to have to be constantly prepared with "witty replies", just because collogues are dicks and need to pick on my gender.

Yes, I tell them off or am witty depending on what I think harms me the least of the two. But the situation itself sux. Working in teams where I dont have to be on guard and dont have to waste time strategizing this is so much better.

It also sux that quite a few people really do want the message behind the joke to be true. Whether they fully believe or sorta kinda believe.
> And of course the typical HN reader is near the top of the curve

I feel as if it is not necessarily "senior," as much as "on the bleeding edge." Lots of smart folks here, with a lot of "exploratory" energy, but as far as highly experienced, seasoned, folks; maybe it's not such a huge demographic. I know we're here, but we're not always welcome.
NFTs are most likely pump and dump. Established cryptocurrencies aren't following that pattern though. They get bigger and bigger until they are no longer sustainable. That's much closer to a pyramid scheme than pump and dump.
I'm not trying to comment on your expertise or about how Spartans actually were, sorry if my rant came out that way. I obviously don't know a thing about you or the Spartans.

I explicitly quoted you, not trying to put words in your mouth. I do think that "read [sources], and make up your own mind" is exactly the same as "do your own research". I can't see any difference in meaning there.

My commentary was on the trend to dismiss authorities in favor of, literally, "making up your own mind". Reading the sources is not enough. They need putting into context, and understanding the positions of the historical authors. I could read original sources all day and come out with an invalid understanding.

Again, I'm not saying this article is correct. I'm saying a layman should read experts instead of interpreting sources themselves if they want to understand better.
IPv6-only hosts will be able to connect to github pages now, if configured properly.

There are a couple use-cases for that, but it should allow cheaper VPSes, or less complicated network configuration by eliminating NAT.

If a host only needs to access GitGub and a few select hosts, it can be granted an IPv6 without setting up DHCP, NAT, IPv4 routing tables, etc.

I've been considering using NAT64 as a way to eliminate the need for dedicated IPv4 configuration at home, unfortunately I recently moved, and the current provider is IPv4-only. This infuriates me to no end.
"AI" is not used at all in ad tech. (This is actually a problem when hiring people today. Nobody can do machine learning without some stupid big neural net framework.)
Do those return the correct CDN servers matching your geographical location and/or ISP?
I didn't try Google or Cloudflare specifically, but I did experimentally used some other DNS provider for a while, until I eventually ran into the problem that by doing so I got the "wrong" set of servers for anything hosted on Akamai, where the route between my ISP and those specific Akamai servers was grossly overloaded in the evenings.

Switching back to my ISP's DNS meant getting a more suitable set of Akamai servers and reasonable download speeds again.
There are various vague touching points of NFTs and real world collectables like baseball cards, but they are not the same. Artificial scarcity is one of them, e.g. there is no reason why there couldn't be a billion baseball cards of the most expensive kind (which would make them stop being the most expensive). Somebody else could create fake ones, but they would have little value for the fact that they are not genuine, which can be verified. You can make the very same arguments for an NFT, including that they are genuine based on who issued them.

But a baseball card, or a Lego set have value on their own. Their collectable value stems from the fact that they are desired as such, and the scarcity makes the price of a certain type go up. Somebody might buy them just to show off or speculate, but another might be a huge Lego nerd and buy the rarest set just to feel joy by looking at it. But an NFT has no value beyond the scarcity. Nobody feels human joy by looking at an NFT beyond being able to show off that they are able to basically burn money in the "i am rich" app type of way. Thus it can only remain a toy for the rich. A van Gogh painting is most likely just a speculation and a show off object, but I might buy a painting from a local artist for $200 because I like it, and to put it on my wall so it makes me happy because it reminds of something nice. I will not buy a $200 NFT just to say I have one too.
A Low Poly Art Tutorial in Python
> ETH (or whatever) ecosystem

"Ecosystem" is a word that I believe sprung to life in the 70s, referring to the entire collection of organisms inhabiting a 'place', along with the weather conditions etc. in that place. The term was coined because without it, you need (or rather, I needed) 16 words to express it.

So it bothers me when people use the term to refer to collections of stuff that's never been alive: the Java ecosystem, the cryptocurrency ecosystem. These are not "ecosystems" - they're called "systems".

See also "epicentre".

Upvoted - I appreciate the observation about where the NFT volume comes from.
Verizon FIOS does support IPv6 in some areas. IPv6 support has been available in my area for a couple of years.
,,We have seen a pattern of decision-making that often prioritizes execution speed and cost reduction over the appropriate resourcing to ensure quality. ''

There are lots of valid points in the article, but Elon talked about the importance of execution speed and cost over fixing all problems with unknown real world impact. The mistake is putting humans in a machine too early, which both Blue Origin and Virgin did.
Guy reports a behavior where date math doesn't return the result he expected and jokes that it might have to do with how women don't like to admit when they're aging.
The big one is the address space expansion, which in addition to solving "can't get addresses" also makes routing cheaper and faster (can allocate addresses based on network topology, rather than on what's available).
Whole they were breaking backwards compatibility anyway, they also introduced a faster way of getting initial addresses, changed headers and dropped some features to make routing easier to implement in hardware, and added some features to make annotation of packets in the network backbone during transit easier.
發樂娛樂城
Also: more and more job interviews are happening via Zoom. It's far easier to find a new job when you can do it without booking a day off from your current job.
Ask HN: Do Google search results have a political bias?
Just noticed when googling "reitschuster volksverpetzer", the former being a German political commentator on the right, the latter on the left, search results are dominated by the left-wing site even though the site is around 5 times smaller. Any ideas, perspectives, experiences, knowledge about it?
> Cambridge Analytica was a good example of this as well. The press fell over themselves to characterise their technology as some sort of election tipping, mind controlling super tool. They probably loved it. In reality there's not even any scientific backing for their targeting and it most likely did barely anything, they just wanted to look like James Bond's Spectre.

Reading what’s still out there about Cambridge Analytica ignores the findings of the UK’s Information Commissioner which indeed found they were basically throwing data at scikit-learn hoping for a result — the script kiddie version of machine learning.

How many of the journalists gone back to correct their misinformation on the topic? Many of the articles are still out there in their original form and those hacks are still making hay on the subject.
So lets start making white men jokes in those teams on the regular. And no, in real life, I did not seen all that many of those.

There is situation in which everyone mocks everyone. But the situation described here is that some people are valid target of jokes and others simply dont.
Some side by sides or UTVs are pretty close to what you are asking for. As these vehicles are not universally road legal they don't have many requirements, it is really up to the market. Many are under $10k and have relatively few electronics. Some of them can be operated on public roads at lower speeds. And when you are no longer designing a vehicle for 70-90+ speeds you can make a lot of other changes, engine 1/4 the size, lighter wheels, brakes, frame while still being able to tow as much as a mid size suv.
We Know What Facebook Knew, and When It Knew It. Now What?
as it is past the edit window I suppose I will just note that the above was in reference to the quote from the article

>Over the weeks that followed, Daniel forced himself to sit down at his computer after those 11-hour days. He grappled with Python and Javascript in the back of his work truck. One minute he was wrangling sewer pipelines - the next minute, CI/CD pipelines.

so the guy was able to work 11 hour days and learn to program, two programming languages, to take part in this contest, and his code was evidently solid as well so - I have to assume he did at least 4 hours a day after the 11 hour work days, and then of course the weekends.

Evidently people thought I meant that only young people can be smart and get things done, which I can only think that misunderstanding arose from not having read the article. Because even if I agreed that smart and gets things done was the answer if someone pointed out young and has no family I would immediately think oh yeah, he was definitely pulling some 15 hour days there without distractions.
The mess was created by programmers who do not care about security.
I have a small Hetzner Cloud VPS with 20TB egress 100Mbps included for about 3€/month. The prices for new instances got up a few weeks ago, because of IPv4 prices, but they are still about 4€.

It's not unlimited, but 20TB is more than enough for the most use cases.
another wonderful, honest, insightful post. Your book and blog posts have helped me immensely in the past two years deploying spark and 'big data' tools/processes at my company. I could not have done it without your help. Cheers!
I say that all the time and I’m Jewish, so I think it’s more about whether the intention was offensive or genuinely meant as a joke.
Does it apply to Crystal too?
Replying to myself - the phrase "the war for talent", coined in 1997, has always been apt for the tech sector and it's just becoming more and more so.

Employers are going to have to compete really really hard for acquisition and retention of talent.

And wishy washy corporate platitudes won't cut it, firms will need to offer both aggressively competitive financial packages and attractive workplace setups - remote, flexible, whatever it takes.
That works if we assume no time travel so we get acyclic graphs. Time travelling incest is beyond the scope of this dsl however.
But a ledger doesn’t prevent copies of the art or duplicate tokens it just enforces uniqueness of the singular token. So you’re still left with the uniqueness problem. Essentially trying to create scarcity where there is none is a spectacularly silly idea.
With the IPv4 internet, that is. You don't need IPv4 to connect to most GitHub pages anymore.

Admittedly, IPv4 internet is a good chunk of the Internet, but maybe not the part of interest to you at a given point in time. http://www.delong.com/ipv6_alexa500.html
Kowbucha, seaweed, vaccines: the race to reduce cows’ methane emissions
I don't think US really wants to "win" these conflicts. The truth may be political but I think they favor more a prolonged conflict as opposed to a quick and swift execution. They seem to "need" these encounters all over the world in order to justify the enormous military budget/spending and you cannot do that without a "threat". My .20
s/sux/sucks
I was one of WebGL's early users. I was working with a team doing renderings of 3d models from World of Warcraft online for a WoW fansite database. We could only do it in Flash before webgl became a thing.
> Sounds like he had a good reason to stretch the truth, but the fact remains.

It's not a good reason - this kind of manipulation is exactly why people distrust governments and "science".
It seems encrypted messengers are turning into cryptocurrency ponzi scam projects.

Keybase -> Stellar

Session -> Oxen/Loki

Whatsapp -> Diem/Novi

Signal -> Mobilecoin [0]

There really is no defence of introducing this at all and it's sad that this is becoming a trend, looks like one has to look at Threema, Wire and possibly Element as our only hope.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-payments-messa...
I think it's clearly counterproductive to shout racist at everything; however, people who don't understand the numbers don't (generally) use numbers to define their stances. They choose what to believe in based on other beliefs, and they justify them with funny math.

The thing I like about your insult vs "you're racist" is that you're attacking what someone is doing, rather than what they are. When confronting someone for being wrong, it's a lot more constructive to say, 'Hey, you're wrong about this, and this is why,' than it is to say, 'You're a moron (or a bad person), and this is why.' It's also more accurate. Labeling is helpful for navigating thousands of people in our communities/millions online, but keep those labels to yourself, and be ready to question them. During confrontation, though, it will cause the other side to shut down, and that's where we are. We're more concerned with defining each other as others than working together to find commonalities and building on points of agreement.

I'd just add that significant power imbalance significantly changes things and how we ought to attack disagreement.
Fractal Brain Networks Support Complex Thought
Baseball cards are exactly what they are and baseball cards were historically viewed as worthless until a craze in the 80’s that in turn caused over production and has made them a pretty poor investment.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-baseball-card-market-colla...
You could also mobilize your military (or similar) to produce masks short-term. In fact, that is what Taiwan did when most of the WHO and the so-called first world countries were still refusing to admit that there was a pandemic.
You should care about that, if truth is your goal. The original sources have biases, disagree, make things up outright, etc.

This is the reason we have historians. To help analyze those sources. The end result often winds up as a book… or an article series. Like this one.
No thanks, I'd rather have a simple and obvious checkbox to disable all this sleazy web crap in the Windows UI. If I want to search the web, I use a web browser. If I want to search my machine, I would like to use the Windows search feature (if it would actually work).
Facebook’s documents about Instagram and teens, published
There's no energy cost to spawning a million algorithmic penguins. They have no inherent cost or value.

The sunk costs of obtaining something rare or difficult to get (like titanium) is a factor only for the next person who desires titanium.

Since there is no cost to see or copy a jpg, there is no "extra value" added in an NFT. Not even energy costs. The end product still has zero value.

A simple corrolary is wine. Swill stored expensively doesn't acquire new use values from the storage. The expense of storage doesn't accumulate to the value of the NFT. Whereas the expense of obtaining real goods like metals is exactly what sets their value.
Sure, I buy that.

But if you think chimps would produce the general theory of relativity if we could just teach them to publish their thoughts, then… I don’t buy that.