skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> asset owners becoming a minority of the electorate.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that one - something like 95% of governors are also property investors.
How many deaths would we expect from the injection of a billion “doses” of injected saline solution?

I don’t know that that number is zero.
just signed up here and already unsubscribed. way too kool-aid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis

Syphilis used to be called "the great pox", which is where smallpox got its name from.
Having kids, while not a hobby, can certainly be expensive, and is probably the most obvious missing consideration here. It also makes a lot of other things less flexible, which tends to cost more money. (Want to go to a movie at night? Now there's a babysitter involved).

Kids aside, lots of things cost money. You like eating at nice restaurants? Money. Prefer to home cook nice meals? Great, equipment costs, therefore money. (And maybe ingredients).

Want to work out? Gym subscription or trainer = money. Buying your own home equipment = money. Want some form of cardio? Biking = buying a bike. Etc.

Nice clothes cost money. A nice TV costs money. Nice tech gear costs money. Etc.

And of course, travel costs a lot of money, depending on where you live.

There are obviously lots of other examples and hobbies. None of these are necessary. You can choose to be frugal with all of them, absolutely.

But - that's parent's point. Most people earning a relatively nice salary will naturally spend more money on nice stuff. That's partly because of natural tendencies to "use up" what we have, partly because of trying to be like other people, etc. But it's also partly because spending more money gives you nicer stuff / experiences, and people like them. And if you have the money, why not? There are reasons, but parent is right - you have to consciously choose to be different than normal and not spend money the way other people do when they can.
Whether it's new, high-performance chains like Solana or Avalanche, or better Ethereum scaling, things will definitely get cheaper eventually. You can also buy tons of NFTs for cheap thanks to the gold rush, not that you'd want to.
> The safety of soldiers was paramount even to the Nazis.

I wouldn't say paramount: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet

(the Komet had a tendency to blow itself and its pilots up due to the hypergolic fuel)
I‘m using [Decentraleyes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentraleyes).
GitHub! It's all open source.
EIPs are Ethereum Improvement Proposals. You can view them all here: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues

Ethereum Foundation blog is a good read on technical detail with no price discussion: https://blog.ethereum.org/
I don't know much about whole world, but I don't want to say the country that police kill innocent black people as "one of the least racist places in the world".
Does anyone know the relationship between SymbiFlow and YosysHQ?

https://github.com/SymbiFlow/

https://github.com/yosyshq

I see there is a lot of overlap between the projects (both in tech and people involved) so I wonder if there is any sort of chosen canonical project here or if they are being developed separately. It's a little confusing since I see yosys and nextpnr in both. How do things fit together?

Anyway regardless of that, the development of all of this is really cool. I've had a lot of fun playing around with yosys/etc. as a hobbyist and hope the project continues to grow.
I like Netlify CMS except I can't see a way it could provide live previews for edits when used with a (Go based) static site generator like Hugo. Waiting for staging branches to deploy to see your edits for complex pages isn't practical.

I'd love to have a solution to this if anyone knows one. Hugo is really fast and simple so I'd want something similar from a JavaScript static site generator if switching static site generator is the only option here.
The world has become deeply un-serious in the last few decades. To the point where I'm not alone in being unsure we can predict any particular reaction, including farcical dismissal.

Perhaps like this upcoming comedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbIxYm3mKzI
I enjoy erratic driving, within legal limits of course. I’m perfectly legal. Is my car going to subvert my interests? Whose car is it?
Alberta, Canada is the largest inhabited region on earth with zero (0) rats
don’t listen to experts, they knowingly lie to you. just wait a bit and the truth always comes out. it’s unlikely all the hand washing and not trying to touch your face had any effect overall considering covid can spread through the air. nobody would have been able to keep themselves clean for that long.
> A "Logo" for the modern web is something that I've felt has been missing for a while.

Not nearly as pretty and cool, but here's another
https://theintelligentbook.com/thinkingaboutprogramming/#/ch...
I think it's interesting to see Apple's old slogan mentioned since Apple, and most big tech companies, are fairly user-hostile these days. They can spy on the user, roll out buggy software, lock down what the user can do, use vendor lock-in, have poor tech support, etc. And this is all because they're big enough that users don't have sufficient choice.

I sure hope some of these startups will take this to heart and serve the users.
And the keyboard shortcuts! Don’t forget the keyboard shortcuts! Which could help you automate, if you save a Windows macro and repeat it.

And the F1-Help! In context, boring but always available.

And the rearrangeable toolbars, native!! The status bar, not the flimsy tooltip at the bottom which disappears.

And the treeviews! And the files ordered by name! Nowadays everything is ordered by “Most recently seen” so you can go back to the past because of the infinite roll. Everything was ordered and safe there. But you would lose your mind if you didn’t reorganize your desktop regularly, and that has faded away, no-one needs to organize files nowadays.

Windows had reached an incredible level of usability, complete with blind and disability support, scriptable, standardized, reorganizable, repeatable UIs.

Then the web appeared and despite having a searchbox in every app, there still isn’t a keyboard shortcut for it.
I don't see how that can be an objection to using a single timezone globally? We don't have to choose UTC.
Can we get new commentary from a person effectively living in a world without timezones, ie, China?
Two Anecdotes: I have a friend who recently sold his house because he expects a collapse (sell high, buy low). I am waiting to buy a house because I also expect it to collapse.

One is active, the other passive
Forums are centralized planning. Microblogs are the free market. Your feed is precisely what you design it to be.

If you say "4chan /b/ is terrible", it can have meaning. If you say "Twitter is terrible", it doesn't have meaning because ultimately you only receive things you subscribe to on the latter. You can only say "The Twitter feed I've made is shit".

Of course, Twitter isn't perfect. You can click through to the replies and see replies from people you dislike to people you like.
Seconded. Dude is super positive and a hacker in the OG sense of the word. I watched him port Diablo to serenity in like an hour. Mindblowing. Quite frankly his ability is almost intimidating.
> How about the compilation cycles

When the code will be deployed on 10K-1M machines, compilation costs are noise. In fact, FB does all sorts of expensive optimizations to ensure that the deployed executables are as efficient as possible, and the effort is worth it many times over. I'm sure the same is true at Google and elsewhere.
The Lure of Emotionally-Complex Video Games
> If you have an alternative to the monopolistic web and mobile dystopia we find ourselves in

I do. I am working on it as a side project. It isn’t blockchain or IPFS.
> try to remember that crypto doesn't solve technical problems, it solves problems at a societal level.

Let's test that with ransomware - how does it solve that societal problem?
Any zero knowledge / zksnarks communities are usually noise-free I found.
ok but what if one says it? then what?
"Great pox" is another name for syphilis.
Not really. Good advice is often specific and actionable. People have to adapt it to their circumstances. OP included a warning to make it clear that this isn't a guarantee and to give specific circumstances in which his advice is sound.

What's the alternative? How else could you write an article that conveys the steps you took to achieve a goal, if not to write the steps you took?
I'm quite happy being a cynic in the field. Helps projects I work on stay measured. Not everyone in the web3/blockchain space is money oriented, some are interested in the technical stuff that's hard to find as easily in other fields.
I think some of those animations make the desktop behave a little more like objects would in the real world.

For minimize, whether it's a line that shrinks, a genie lamp, a simple shrink effect, it's all the same. A simple visual cue telling you where it went.

A little form with the function is fine with me. There's a ton of computing power in even the weakest of machines. That said, I hope we'll always be able to turn it off.

Even a default install of Raspberry Pi OS uses a composited window manager on the RPi 4 now.
I read the article and my concerns are still unaddressed. Like what's the point?
You might be surprised to find that opium wars haven't been fought to gain access to opium.
This is consistent with my experience as well, as a researcher in industry with a fairly high open source profile. I get a trickle of emails along the lines of, "your work is awesome, can I be your apprentice?" This has never panned out. But if you come to me with specific questions demonstrating that you've read what I've written and are passionate about the ideas, you'll get a mentoring call and an openness to consider collaboration. I've had two such in the last two days, in fact, one through an introduction, the other from a cold IM. For me, academic status is not a factor, but then, I'm not actually in academia.
Maybe not in Manhattan, one of the central points of one of the biggest cities of the world.

Where I live, the only form of non-personal (your own car or bike) transport was the bus, which comes by 5 times a day, only once on saturdays, and never on sundays. Uber and its local equivalents have allowed me to participate in social events that the long and restrictive bus rides would not allow, and which taxis would be too much of a luxury.

I think that for me it is fair to say it was life-changing. Maybe not as life-changing as other things, but if it wasn't for this kind of service, I wouldn't have some of my best friends.
True, but with mRNA it is a lot easier to pivot. If there by chance had been a flu vaccine using mRNA we would have been able to switch to COVID much faster. Most vaccine technologies don't pivot that fast.
Sunk cost fallacy. If someone invested money into a game they might be reluctant to switch to a different game. But what if they can just take their investment with them and import it in another game. Then spend more in the new game.
Sounds like when you teach a neural network chess, it ends up learning many of the same concepts that we do.

To me, this is a great illustration that superhuman intelligence is not magic. When a superhuman AI plays chess, the moves usually make sense to an expert. And even if they don't immediately make sense, they usually make sense once the expert plays out some lines to see what happens. Superhuman AIs have crushed humans at chess not by discovering new, wildly counterintuitive openings that dumb humans missed (it actually plays many of the same openings). Rather, it just does what humans do - win pieces, keep your king safe, attack, gain space, restrict your opponent's moves - but better and more consistently.

This paper builds on that concept and finds that not only are a superhuman AI's moves usually understandable by experts, but even some of the superhuman AI's internal representations are understandable by experts (!).

In the 5th century BCE, Greek philosophers thought the Earth was a sphere. Although they were eventually improved upon by Newton's ellipsoid, they still had arrived at the right concept. And here I think we see the same thing: although a superhuman AI 'understands' chess better than human experts, its understanding still builds upon the same concepts.

Thinking broadly, like, suppose we invent some superhuman AGI for $100B in 2100. And then we ask it how to optimize our paperclip production. I don't think its recommendations will be magic. Paperclip production is a fairly well understood problem: you bring in some metal, you reshape it, you send it out. It's probably gonna have much of the same advice we've already figured out: invest in good equipment, take advantage of economies of scale, choose cheap but effective metals, put factories near sources of energy and labor and raw materials, ship out paperclips in a hierarchical network with caches along the way to supply unanticipated demand, etc. Like, an AGI's suggestions may well be better than a management consultant's, but it's not like it's going to wave a magic wand and flip the laws of physics. Rather, I expect it to win within the same frameworks we've developed, but by doing things better and more consistently than humans.
You ignored the Obama quote. It also sounds like you’re saying you know what’s best for an entire class of people. Is that accurate?
I think the masks issue was a bit different. In the past, medicine was practiced without adhering to the scientific method. This is luckily no longer the case. However, medicine has not fully embraced the scientific method but some strange "evidence-based" variant.

During the early stages of the pandemic, high ranking officials suggested we should not use masks because it was not yet "proven" the virus was transmitted via aerosols. And this was a catastrophic decision.

We always need to reason under uncertainty. The correct interpretation of the scientific method would have led to the conclusion that COVID was likely to be transmitted via aerosols (e.g. due to sequence similarity with other coronaviruses, which are known to be transmitted via aerosols) and imposing mandatory masks (because this is a very innocuous intervention).
Or now there's 6 people living in 3 bedroom home because rent is so so sooo high...
> You know who's not canceled? The endless parade of conservative pundits and politicians complaining about "cancel culture." You know who is canceled? George Floyd is canceled. Breonna Taylor is canceled. Ma'Khia Bryant is canceled. Andrew Brown Jr. is canceled.

Lol. This is the first paragraph of the article. Is there any intellectual honesty in the discussion any more?
> There's a reason pretty much all of Earth's biology uses hydrocarbons as its fuel of choice.

Carbohydrate != hydrocarbon.
Nation-state scale science programs notwithstanding, I think the possibility of independent sovereignty will be the main draw of going to Mars, if/when independent survival is technologically (and economically, in the local scope) feasible.

There are absolutely exploitable resources there; they are just irrelevant to an Earth-centric economy because of the prohibitive cost of hauling them out of Mars' gravity well and down to Earth. But if you've gone to Mars to be independent there, Earth's economy will become similarly irrelevant to you.
NASA's Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars helicopter
A similar transition happened with the advent of smartphones. Before smartphones, anybody on the internet was someone who owned and could operate a computer.
If you're going to publish information that people might rely upon, especially in an emergency, you're taking on the responsibility of maintaining the accuracy of that information, including possibly taking on the responsibility of ensuring stale data is retracted.

The greater the details, the greater the burden. People naturally make assumptions about credibility according to the depth and breadth of the information provided. If you're not prepared to make the commitment, then it's quite prudent not to publish so many details. If you don't publish it, then people can't mistake it for up-to-date, accurate, and/or comprehensive information, and they'll be more likely seek it out somewhere else or otherwise hedge their reliance. If you do publish and it's inaccurate, then you're misleading people and possibly redirecting them away from other, more reliable sources.

It's difficult to say without more details what the fundamental concerns in your case were. But note that the real, nuanced reasons for certain decisions aren't or can't always be adequately explained to employees. A lawyer or emergency services expert might give the sophisticated analysis, but by the time the directive makes it down to people implementing it the rationale is "because people are dumb". But in truth it's really more that people are trusting.
Because some drunk can't keep from driving I have to pay extra for my car? Why are non-alcoholics subsidizing some pet project tech company? This is a ridiculous mandate.
A modern full-frame camera will have 14 stops of dynamic range. Five shots 3 EVs apart is enough, you'll get a total of 29EVs of dynamic range. Well beyond your ability to actually tonemap properly. That's equivalent of, practically speaking, going from a shutter speed of 10 seconds to 1/3200ths of a second, and still having fourteen stops of headroom left (7 at both ends).

FWIW I can take pictures in a room with a window looking at the sky and change the exposure to clearly see both the sky and the room without even bracketing on a full frame camera.
Autarky on Mars, sure now. But now, the richest man in the world is existentially dedicated to building 1,000 Starships to build a city on Mars and I'm pretty sure he's going to pull it off.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1461235511511633922

... the second richest man in the world is existentially dedicated to building the a city in Earth orbit.
Also have you ever seen a picture of someone with smallpox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Child_with_Smallpox_Bangl...

If that doesn't convince the vaccine hesitant, i dont know what will.
I think the most likely thing you'll see popping up is NFTs as tickets to sports games. That's one of the few NFT use-cases I really love and think makes sense.
The best argument here I think is the self-referential nature of Web3. Many of the other ones are basically saying "It reminds me of the dotcom bubble", but ... in the end, the Internet won big. At any rate, I miss the old web sometimes, where people threw up bizarre websites ranting about the occult, or their academic passion or what have you.

Crypto definitely does have a "playing with our food" feel a lot of the time, but I also think there's a privileged American perspective in turning your nose up at DeFi. In America we can generally count on a well regulated financial system, a stable currency, and a good climate to transact and do business. Many, MANY other places do not have this. If inflation is 10-20% like Turkey or Brazil, or your bank might bail in your assets to socialize losses like in Greece or Cyprus, or the only way to invest is through shady brokerages who might rip you off, DeFi is a fantastic alternative.

Not to mention some coins helping with the right to transact anonymously. The writing is on the wall for cash, and how many of you are thrilled about a world in which your every purchase and transaction is easily available to governments and corporations? It gets lost in all the hubbub, but Monero is one of the best privacy enhancing tools to come along in years. While it can be used for horrible things, it can also be invaluable to dissidents and other benign actors, just like cryptography in general can.

Fred Wilson's post on "the opening" re: the potential of NFTs I think is also worth a read -- https://avc.com/2021/08/the-opening/ It's hard to understand the memetic disease NFT participants catch until you're actually in the middle of it. Whether everyone will catch it or it will peter out is still up for debate.
It depends on what you're looking for, both in terms of what you use React for and what you expect of the new hire. Basic React can be learned in a day, but there's a lot of hidden complexity regarding state management, contexts, render lifecycles, async, etc. that take a while to get up to speed on. Throw in another framework like Next.js on top of it and it's even more complex.

Not to say any of it is impossible to learn, but it does take more time. It's a lot more complex than jquery because of the shadow DOM and all the timing issues arising from that vs working with real HTML nodes.

All else being equal, I'd definitely choose the candidate with direct React experience who already understands the challenges around that abstraction vs direct DOM manipulation.
I heard that truffle is a little outdated unfortunately, and doesn't add much value nowadays over hardhat.
It's not that weird; longer prompts require more compute. This pricing is directly proportional to the total compute required for a query, which scales with the sum of the input and output sequence lengths.
Everyone in a technical role at my company uses one “normal user” browser and one “privileged account” browser.

This is to avoid confusion; no chance of doing some administrative action accidentally because I recognize the different UI elements of Firefox vs. Edge.

Browser containers/profiles/whatever don’t present visually different-enough UX to each distinct persona.
Ransomware is going to be much more expensive to do.

Right now there is little cost to doing bad things on the internet.

But the point is a little different.

Crypto solves among others the problem of technology moving faster than legislation in ways that can't be tampered with.

That's the big innovation of bitcoin. Someone created a store of value system and threw away the keys to the engine room which means it can't be tampered with by rough actors.
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Instead of talking about risk compensation, talk about why we have no long term planning in this area.

We could have had a decades worth of n95 stockpiling for less than the cost of one tank for every living American.
“it feels weird to wake up at 3 pm and work from 5 pm to 1 am.“

It feels weird to start work on Monday and get off on Tuesday. idk how we’ll deal with words like “tomorrow”.

Edit: i guess night shift people deal with it. But having worked night shift I can’t help but remember that time really revolves around the dayshift workers. “Tomorrow” to your night shift peers meant one thing, but to the world at large I always was explicit with which day I was referring to.
At this point, it's a long evolved set of heuristics based on any available data. Some quick rules around IP, Country, and email provider gets you a fair bit of the way there. But like any heuristic system that evolves, tweaking can get you to something that's "good enough".

The next step would be an AI system (like the very impressive Stripe Radar (which admittedly is in a different context)) but we're not ready for that, nor would it bring us significant value over our current system. And again - we pipe things to human for things in the grey area.
> And one last thing for the sceptics, try to remember that crypto doesn't solve technical problems, it solves problems at a societal level.

It seems to me like it does the opposite. It takes the problems rampant in society thanks to capitalism and moves them into the digital space, with no real benefit.

Data has the advantage of almost free replication, a lack of scarcity that might finally allow us to move forward as a society, allowing culture to be shared freely between free people. Instead crypto folks, blinded by their ideology, try their best to remove that advantage so they can make it just another capitalist asset to be traded.

And that's not all - the price we pay for their attempts to keep shackling culture to capitalism is the destruction of our climate and acceleration towards the apocalypse.
How's that? Curious.