skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like it. I think a lot of the criticisms could be solved by finding a bunch of royalty-free images to have preloaded, neutral patterns/graphics so it's not restricted to working for specific genres, and across the images put some subtle text saying "Demo graphics, replace with your own..."

You basically want to show the best possible example of it working, right out of the box, as that very first impression is what sticks.

For your demo video I'd also have it change music genres during the demo, and with each change also change the images to suit that genre. Show 10 seconds of generic rock and have the images be a concert, then switch to 10 seconds of classical music and have the images be nature/space, etc.

I think I'm one of the few who still have a large local music library and listen to it lots, usually while working on hardware projects or writing/sketching ideas, so I'd happily use something like this up on my monitor while doing so.
I don't particularly care to rebut the author point by point, but "asset valuation" is an extremely common term that anybody discussing the properties of a novel currency should understand: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/assetvaluation.asp

In relation to that I was specifically referring to the misunderstandings present in "Nothing at stake".

You say:

"There are blockchain projects raising literally Billions of dollars on this false guarantee so it is valid to criticize them."

Are you not presupposing the correctness of the author's argument by calling it false? Have you already made up your mind?
Yup exactly. I hate these super general statements like "better ecosystem". These blanket statements obviously make no sense since you can pull out 20,000 counter examples off the top of your head. Instead of "Go beats Julia in parts where python is not good at", name the one example where this might be true, maybe possibly, if there is one (is there is one?) to have a concrete discussion on. The internet and its vacuous statements are better for comedic value than discussion. We're at least on the same page.
On the internet there is no separation between private and public. There will be no laws telling you not to be a troll in your bedroom. The question is if people are allowed to be private in the place where they spend increasingly more of their time, the internet
Ask HN: Tell me the story of the first time you connected to the internet
Lol. If this isn't proof that we are close to the beginning of the end of a bubble the likes of which the world has never seen before, I don't know what is.
You're missing the point.

If we're going to start legislating how we're all allowed to use energy that civilization has made available, who gets to decide what's allowed?

Numbers I've seen suggest that global PC gaming alone (excluding consoles) currently uses about as much electricity as bitcoin. Should we ban that too since playing cards are readily available and use almost no energy? Maybe we can make a concession and only allow low powered handheld consoles?

If bitcoin mining actually becomes problematic, then by all means we can definitely ban it or add some sin taxes to it, and we probably will in a lot of jurisdictions. I'm actually kind of eager for that to happen, because it will force miners to actually become novel/stranded energy ventures. They'll be the capital drive that builds out energy sources that not enough humans live around to justify tapping and/or we can't economically justifying building without expensive transmission infrastructure. And once it's built out and paid off, it may be a lot easier to justify investing in building out long distance transmission infrastructure so the rest of civilization can also tap into these sources.
> Each of those uses significantly more energy than Bitcoin.

These discussions should talk about the ratio between a certain measure of productivity (e.g. GDP generated for the country) to the energy use; energy on its own does not mean much. I'm sure worldwide food production consumes more energy than Bitcoin.

Other than that, a problem with POW (at least as implemented in Bitcoin) is that technological advances won't result in less energy consumption as it's mostly a function of (price of Bitcoin, price of energy).
would like a search field in the filter panel that lets me search of key words in the keyword list.

yes I know I can ctrl F, but if I didn't have to that would be faster :-P
This attack has happened, at least twice to ETC and many others.

Proof of work networks with the same hash algorithm are a threat to one another, particularly, if a network exists that is profitable enough to have exorbitant resources dedicated to mining, those resources are available to attack a much smaller network if that becomes more profitable for some period than just continuing to mine the bigger one.

Proof of work then only protects the largest projects using unique hash algorithms.
It’s actually rather straightforward.

If the amount of throughput and everything else remains constant while more and more computers are in a zero-sum arms race to waste electricity to solve a useless hash problem, then it is by definition not useful except for “securing the network”.

And if you can secure a network some other way, then it definitely becomes better by any arbitrary order of magnitude, assuming your utility function doesn’t place infinite value on securing 10 transactions a second with to over 99.9999% certainty and willing to waste all the world’s electricity to do it.

Literally even if you value all other uses of electricity put together as 1/100000 of securing Bitcoin then in a few years banning PoW becomes the right move.

But I imagine it will be like the war on drugs — impossible to totally eradicate, since mining rewards become more lucrative every year forever. Until bitcoin blackouts are frequent in the first world, msot people won’t care though.

Imagine if people asked how many emails (SMTP), conversations (VOIP) or websites (HTTP) the Internet can ever handle pet second and the answer was 10, no matter how many computers joined the network. Because every time you had to make progress, everything went through one bottleneck called a miner. Would this be the topology you want to reward with ever-more-valuable rewards?

Imagine if BitTorrent worked this way, and every computer would seed every file. And maximalists said that this was the ONLY AND BEST WAY.
My understanding was that this was demoed with some small coin by just hiring the 51% on niceHash for a few hundred usd.

Edit: I was lookimg for the artivle I was referring to and saw that Ethereoum Classic (ETC) has been attacked simce via just that method.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/08/29/ethereum-classic...
I have personally used \varsigma in one of my papers, where I had two different things that needed short and memorable glyphs and both started with "s". \varsigma turned out to be surprisingly different enough both from \sigma and s, but I would just give up an urge to make everything a single letter if I were rewriting that paper today.
Here’s the relevant section from the Copyright Act in India:

2[39. Acts not infringing broadcast reproduction right or performer’s right.— No broadcast reproduction right or performer's right shall be deemed to be infringed by—
(a) the making of any sound recording or visual recording for the private use of the person making such recording, or solely for purposes of bona fide teaching or research;
What is preventing someone from DDOS a cryptocurrency network by spamming it with inane transaction between 2 people?
Think you’re massively overplaying KSOs influence on the changes in the lockout laws. If anything KSO distracted younger voters away from the Greens, and to a point Labour, who are far more useful parties for that demographic.
The New Yorker is one of the few places you'll see this regularly

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
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Wall Street trades assets, mostly ownership of companies, bonds and other things that have underlying value, which is also objectively measurable.

'Investing' is a key part of our financial infrastructure, it underpins everything.

Most bankers make their money off of financial services i.e. investing for others (Private Wealth, Retirement Funds), Investment Banking, providing special financing vehicles, market making etc. etc.. Some investors make their money from 'trading'.

Most trading is a financially valuable thing, it provides liquidity to investors.

Now - yes - it can get into bubble like territory, detached from underlying reality, and very speculative, in which case there is some analogy to crypto, but by and large, it's a secondary issue.

And FYI this has nothing to do with the 80's or 90's.

'Access to Markets Behind Glass Ceiling' is actually false.

You have 'access' to 100% of publicly traded stocks. You have for several generations. You even have access to private investments and hedge funds, so long as you meet a minimum criteria (i.e. 100K in the bank). While working at those banks it'll help to have an Ivy League background, even then it's still possible to work there.

The more money you have, the more access to investment opportunities, but that's rational and inherent in the system.

Other than 'any asset can be speculative' there's almost nothing to relating crypto to equity and bond markets.
European diesel RVs get around 25 MPG (US). That's better than a Ford F150.
I think the difference is which kind of hash you needed.

For PoW, you'd have to know the hash of the start of the chain (the "genesis block") in advance to verify you downloaded the correct chain. That's true, but this hash doesn't change during operation. You could get that hash from a history book if you will.

For PoS, the hash is from the end of the chain and therefore constantly changing. This means the challenge of finding out whether the hash is the right one is a lot more real than in the PoW case, because there is no "common knowledge" to go by which hash is right.
Sort of. Tech companies have an incredible lack of investment in actual customer service though. With many services it's easy to get on the line with a human - even if it can take a while there's a straightforward path.

Tech companies seem to invest far less into customer service, make it impossible to get on the phone with someone, resolve issues in a sane way, etc.
> yet another libertarian cess pool

> The reason so much stupid policy comes out of Australia

Here we go, the real reason.
Well I was confused too. And for exactly the same reason as the other commenter. For a minute I assumed they were in the US buying furniture and equipment from Turkey and they were complaining about not waiting enough to get a better deal.
> What about TIMESTAMP? DATETIME?

I usually use TEXT and store ISO 8601.

Datetime and timestamp is fine if you need date functions ("- interval '7' day", etc.) but most of the time you can just convert the text to datetime when running the query without much performance penalty in other databases.

What is the usecase for TIMESTAMP and DATETIME that cannot be solved today?
So you don’t dream, when you read a book you don’t see those wonderful scenarios and you are unable to imagine things.
The proof that it is a real phenomenon is exactly in your inability to imagine things.
I can imagine how people with Aphantasia experience the world. You, by your own admission, can’t imagine how other people experience it.
To me imagination seems a pretty real and powerful ability.
To understand spirituality, walk into the middle of a national park and just stand there for 5 minutes.

It makes you understand why early tribes worshipped nature - it's beautiful, powerful, humbling and eternal, unlike anything man-made.

Regarding organized religion, I think some prophets had worthwhile things to say, and some didn't.

The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is how accurately it depicts both human evolutionary biology and early human civilization as understood today. Archaeology over the past 200 years basically confirms what it says. I would agree that it's the greatest book ever written.

Marxism/Communism has tried to replace the Ten Commandments with an alternate doctrine for the past 100 years, and has failed miserably.
And not even a mention of AMULET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_microprocessor)
Pretty fun-sounding family! Must have been a fascinating conversation.
For sure! I was merely saying that it's not a unicorn, it _can_ actually be achieved with high probability and lots of effort, as opposed to being flat out impossible for the minimum wage workers, for example.
Dino – A web app, mobile app and desktop app for jotting down thoughts
> [regulation of social media]

> muddied with libertarianism

Right.
A Data Science Approach to Optimizing Internal Link Structure
A new way to note stuff you want to find easily and quickly
HI there, I'm sure most of you must have heard of Notion, the note taking app used by many people and companies for productivity. Well, I'm making a similar website for jotting down stuff that you want to be organized in a simple and concise way. Currently, I'm working on the product, but I have some screenshots of what it looks like currently at https://github.com/japrozs/dino .

All this started once I hear from many people whom I recommended Notion to that it was very difficult and was just confusing. So I created a very minimalistic yet powerful editor (for now, only for text) which helps your to do what you plan to do and not waste time planning it.
Also, if you have any feedback, I would love to hear it.
thanks
https://github.com/japrozs/dino
There was a really great short story by Ted Chiang about this concept (finite communication between forks): https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed... . I found it from an HN post a couple months ago.
> Even if I think of my wife and kids I can only see the faintest fleeting flicker of their faces in my mind’s eye, and even that is in very murky black and white.

Hmmm. Supposing that problem were to be applied at a subconscious level to the mechanism that recalls faces, perhaps poor connectivity between visualization and (that area) is one potential reason/mechanism why people have face blindness?
Damn this post is solid. Even if I don't really get it, I can tell you do.

My takeaway is that what makes DAO LLC unique is that it allows for "algorithmic management".

I'm familiar with LLC management, where there are owners, wondering what advantage the algorithmic aspect adds. I'll go read up on CityDAO. Congrats on the upcoming project)!
Someone in the UK made a drivable sofa and was able to have it legally registered:

https://youtu.be/CTgLnUgzZYk

The requirements for custom vehicles are much less than for mass produced vehicles. Of course it is going to vary by country though. My country is very strict and doesn't even allow retrofitted LED license plate lights...
Oh yeah! I work for a Swedish company and live in South America. Just for some perspective, I make quite a few times _more_ than the president where I live. Albeit this all comes at a cost of some things like lacking tech advancements and lots of corruption and things just not working as well as they do in EU, but overall, can save a ton of money all while not sacrificing life quality and being able to go out and do fun stuff without having to think about money much.
Yeah, if property taxes are the only taxes I see your point.

But when you also have sales taxes or value added taxes, chances are the billionaire is living a little more exorbitantly than the regular guy. If you want to get more progressive than that you can introduce luxury item taxes.

More importantly though, the brunt of the tax burden is still resting on the higher value properties. If we decide that progressive means "pays more of a percentage of their wealth/income" then you're right, but if we decide it means "most of the overall tax burden falls on richer people" then it is still more progressive than income tax schemes that exist now.
Global leaders unite in urgent call for international pandemic treaty
We need the SEC to provide some leadership in these nutty times when people try to re-invent kooky business plans from centuries past.
> For PoW, you'd have to know the hash of the start of the chain (the "genesis block") in advance to verify you downloaded the correct chain.

Nope. You could fork the chain at a period of low difficulty and it would still stem from the genesis block. It would either be a short chain, or have clearly low difficulty though, so it wouldnt fool anyone knowledgeable. Im not sure how you would leverage that chain for fraud.
Utility companies operate at the pleasure of the state. The state implements right of ways that contain the equipment.

Right of ways are real, tweets are not.
Human operators I suppose. I'm not saying it's not a great feature to be able to bump into things, it's probably the entire design goal of enclosed coaxial design even. But the intention isn't to bump it's way down a corridor, it's still got object avoidance.
https://imgur.com/a/60ArLwg – here you go!
Transaction costs.

It's actually suspected that happened during the blocksize wars when proponents of forks like Bitcoin Cash may have been spamming Bitcoin with transactions to feed their narrative that it is too expensive to use.

You'll eventually go bankrupt if you do this long enough.

This is actually another reason unlimited blocksizes that can allow for very low to no cost transactions are risky, and DDOS protection is likely why Satoshi added the 1MB limit in bitcoin to begin with.
To make progress, every few seconds or minutes, all transactions in the world must be gathered in ONE place, and placed in ONE block, as the network and adoption grows this becomes more and more expensive for everyone.

There are various aspects of centralization. This is one major aspect: a bottleneck. Just like when all Web 2.0 conversations in the world would have to go through a centralized server. Even if it was a different server each time, it’s still an extremely centralized topology for that state transition.

It means that there can only be one transaction at a time for the whole world, no matter how many computers join the network. No concurrency — it is also why you can have flash loans. This is why Ethereum is called “the world computer” and why Bitcoin failed at being a peer to peer cash system and became a store of value.
Because of mandatory voting, Australia is one of the very few countries in the world where the government has real democratic legitimacy. A very large percentage of the population votes, voting is easy, the voting systems are preferential and reasonably fair, and so a majority of the voting population actually did vote for the government of the day.

The Australian system is certainly not without its issues, but it is far better than most other countries in the world, especially the madness of the US federal FPP system.

I suspect that this is why Australians are seen to be complaint/obedient. It’s because we know that half of us explicitly voted for this government - either directly or indirectly through preferences - and if it fucks up too much they will change their minds and this mob will be gone (and good riddance if you ask me).

I believe that this is also why Australian politics is quite centrist relative to many other counties.
> There is an incestuous relationship between the media and the politicians

this is indeed correct, but then you say

>hat party is almost always the conservative LNP, if you're ever wondering why Australia has such a prominent right-wing authoritarian streak, know that the Murdoch media has a dominant print market share, a monopoly on cable TV, and a large majority of the free to air TV market is ideologically aligned.

The fact that people make statements and believe things like this should make it clear just exactly who is in control of the Australian media, and what the propaganda is pushing.

First let's look at the facts. Murdoch owns 25% of the Australian print media and 1 cable news network. They own zero, (yes zero) of the 5 major TV networks. Yes that is all! The remaining 75% of the Australian print, and almost all the free to air channels are controlled by mostly ideologically left wing groups and they try desperately to push their views on the Australian people, yet the Australian people refuse to listen, and continue buying Murdoch papers, then switching off the free to air channels, and paying their own money to watch the Murdoch owned sky news.

It is a good thing too because the only news media putting any effort into resisting the Authoritarian lockdowns and other authoritarian measures being taken by the state governments are the Murdoch owned media (yes you wouldn't know all the authoritarian measures have been taken by the left wing state governments and not the right wing federal government from listening to the media would you, why is that?).

The Authoritarian streak is being pushed almost entirely by the left wing media, and I have personally seen people who consume this media become radicalized by it. They push, non stop, the idea that freedom of speech is bad, that working class people are stupid and don't know what is good for them, and the country needs people from the professional classes to take control (and therefore systems like China's would be better). They have been pushing for and, in the left wing controlled Melbourne succeed in, instigating the harshest lockdowns in the entire world. Melbourne is Australia's version of San Francisco - that is where the video of the police beating up and pepper spraying the 70 year old lady came from. They also try to inflame a lot of racial hatred and get people to fight among themselves.

Thankfully, Australian is a very down to earth, working class culture, and most people don't fall for it. Despite the endless propaganda being pushed on most channels and media, they switch it off. Unfortunately, as the parent commenter does correctly point out, it comes with a downside, that people don't really know what is going on. They don't care because life is good. Most people don't watch news at all and that is how the government can get away with a lot of the things it does.
I am very specifically highlighting how it's not all in the motivation (I said as much in my very first comment), but that instead we need to work on developing walkable areas at the same time. You might have an argument that the GP was not saying that, but then you continue to argue something I didn't say either (if you disregard my point of motivation not being the only issue for people to drop cars, the rest of my comment doesn't follow).

As with everyone else here saying they've got kids and no cars, it's obvious you are already living in walkable areas.

You are instead taking my comment in bad faith: nowhere did I mention banning of cars. It seems it's fine to consider individual cases in support of your view as proof of it, whereas counter examples are "edge cases".

I've got small kids, and my baby hates both the car and a pram. If I want to get somewhere nice, it's faster with a car.
> Bitcoin for example still relies on a list of hardcoded nodes for bootstrapping clients.

It does, but it doesn't have to. You can use any mechanism you want to obtain one initial node and take it from there. You will still be connected to the network just as well, and you will be guaranteed to obtain the same results. This differs from Proof of Stake, where the quality of the results will be influenced by the quality of the bootstrap.