skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A challenge with targets is gaming metrics which isn't great

My gut is that we are in this dark age of the field where we are stuck between low hanging fruit and doing this exceptionally well. I'm not sure how we achieve balance, but I do ponder it.

For example, in the domain of building a small game, then coverage is not really needed as the quality is measured more by playing the game.

In the domain of infrastructure where I have toiled for over a deacde, I have come to expect amazing coverage since so many CoE/SEV/prod issues have "did we have a test for that?". I've worked with teams getting not just 100% but all sorts of E2E and other stuff to test software.

A key problem is that what is good in one domain is awful for another, and we can't speak in general metrics as a good rule. Is 70% good? Well, maybe... Maybe not...

As I reflect on simple games, I am working on a way to automatically build unit tests for a class of games I care about: board games. As I look into how to do AI for arbitrary games (I have a random player model for giggles at the moment), I find that I could use a bit of AI to build a minimal spanning set of cases which exercise all the code paths in different combinations.

This is possible because my language tightly couples state and compute ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ), but I believe this provides an interesting clue out of this mess. As we look into AI to write code, why don't we start with using AI to find how to automate testing and then bring a human in the loop to be like "Yo, is this the right behavior?" and then go from there.
Watched this the other day. Great talk by a legend lockpicker.
It took 3 years of practice to develop an internal movie-CAD.

But now I have it. It's worth it.
What I like about tailscale is that it's a no-brainer to set up and use. I have no technical difficulty seeting up a VPN, but I really don't want the hassle of "doing work" at home. But the main reason is that my wife doesn't want me to over-complicate things. I've found myself looking only at simple solutions that work for both of us.
It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few years. As the tech sector has grown there has been a big slug of people entering the industry. They are rapidly approaching this threshold.
Now the support is strong, it wasn’t as strong in 2016 when refugees were marching in Europe and EU’s proposed solution for the refugees was to distribute them evenly to all states.

EU managed to sign(actually, re negotiate the one signed in 2013 that Turkey no longer wanted) a send back deal with Turkey, now it’s all good.
From abstract: "It is used in the HotSpot and OpenJDK virtual
machines" => Isn't HotSpot part of OpenJDK?
You never mentioned why you think mining should be illegal. Probably because of the outrage published by the media based on intuitive assumptions that end up not being true. That bitcoin mining long term is bad for the environment. However, this is not true even though it intuitively seems that way. (Similar to how making highways wider actually ends up making traffic worse, not better).

We can actually start with 1 question: If electricity demand from PoW mining spurs new renewable plants to be built, is that bad for the environment?

I (and many electricity companies) actually think PoW mining is good for the grid/renewable adoption in the long term. Let me explain why:

Some indisputable facts to get us started:

1. Most renewable electricity has unpredictable supply

2. Introducing marginal capacity of the same type gives diminishing returns. Eg: you're producing more during high supply times where electricity rate is low. During lower production periods all of the same type of renewable will be producing less so you can't even take advantage of the higher rates.

3. Rational bitcoin miners will turn off their machines when cost of power is greater than marginal return.

As a result, PoW mining will help the economics of building new wind/solar plants. Eg, currently it may not be profitable to build a new wind plant because base load is too low that the excess power generated would need to be sold off at 0 or even negative prices. However if bitcoin mining could be turned on during these times and off during periods of high demand, there will need to be fewer peaker plants in operation and it would positively affect the economics of opening a new wind plant.

Bitcoin mining only cares about the cost of electricity at a given time, it is not like most other electricity demands that are very time based. With the large variance of electricity generation by renewables, I think bitcoin can in the future help smooth demand according to the real supply/demand curve.

It's kind of like a different implementation of the Tesla utility grid batteries. Instead of deploying batteries, you force the grid to build more renewable capacity (that the miners are paying for) that miners use except in peak periods, where you turn off and effectively provide the grid with more power.
Came here to say the same thing, Matt Levine's article is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-18/zillow...
How granular is this tracking data? I'd imagine anything more than 10-20m would produce too many false positives.
Fortunately, we have a consensus system called 'voting' that can be used to decide such things in a way that hurts the least amount of people.
Reading attention is a skill that can be trained ... and forgotten.

When I was a kid, I read books by the meter, regular at the local library. At age 35, after life happened and after I was immersed in quick internet articles, I realised I haven't finished a book in ages. Which made me slowly read more, having that extra page after "mental exhaustion", slowly working my way up to a while chapter ... trying to get back into the habit.

Now at age 41, I read long stuff again - best decision I've made. But I am under no illusion that I won't fall back into bit-sized consumption if I would stop keeping it up.
Oh boy is he going to be disappointed in fucking Plano... Talk about the epicenter of souless suburbia.
Why is floating heart icon that overlaps with image considered better than being under the image? The so called «importance» you add makes it so that it's harder to see the image and I'd say it's more important.

Why would a heart icon need to be important? Image is important, it's part of the content, and each image is different. Hearts, well, are generated elements, there's a heart on each item, and they are all the same. Do you really want your heart buttons be more important than item images? Looks like you are making image the least important element.
I don't see the problem. It's just letters of the alphabet.

(I'm Greek).
You will find the opposition to cryptocurrency is strongly correlated with believing that people should not be free from the government.
Everything else about cryptocurrency in a scam, and people promoting it are scammers, so this is not exactly a surprise if true.
This looks interesting, but is hidden behind a login/paywall.

I can see how wihdrawing into your monks chamber away from the world to chase that ellusive contact to St. Helens while pounding brass for hours might have some effect in your marriage.
Or waking up four or six in the morning to catch the grayline propagation.
There’s fiction books on Z Library that you can’t find on Library Genesis, especially in French for what I know.
Has there ever been a lock which he could not pick?
If bitcoin mining uses renewable power (and pays for it), is that destroying the world or is that encouraging renewable adoption?

If bitcoin mining uses co2 producing power (because the economics supports it), is that the fault of bitcoin or the government for not sufficiently taxing the negative externalities of that means of production?
I don't think Indian academics have that kind of power.
> from my knowledge .DS_Store is something everyone hates and no one actually benefits from,

Small correction then; "something non-mac users hate and non-mac users don't benefit from"

I doubt you'll ever hear a Mac user advocate for DS_Store files because by design they do their job best when you never realize they exist. I think for __some__ users once they realize icon positions are maintained there, they'll be a bit more defensive. For many users (myself included), since it can also control view settings for a given folder [0], that I would be pretty peeved to lose.

Computers create junk files all the time and carry a lot of bloat, and furthermore one person's bloat is another person's workflow.

No joke, back when I was still doing general helpdesk support we had some "sort of clever" users who found out that they could recover some project files from %appdata% and relied on this for "auto-saving" their projects. When a new fileserver was spun up and this time the admin forgot (decided not to?) to toggle redirection for Appdata, this user was in for a shock when we had no backup of their Appdata and they had lost months of work.

Personally DS_Store is a very minor annoyance at best, if even noticeable. For version control it's just another file to add to ignore lists, and for network shares it's a very simple MacOS command to disable writing them to network shares. But it's not fair to call it worthless, it has a lot of good uses if you're a Mac user.

[0] https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
Unless the game logs are in json or xml, the easiest language to get started in (assuming a few regexs isn't enough) is whatever language you know, that has a good packrat parser library.
> As for auditing the the integrity of the code or binary, it is signed by GPG keys > hosted on public key servers accessed using X509 certificates pinned by a a
> couple of trust anchors preloaded in your OS. So much for distributed consensus...

You can literally validate the entire chain with a simple python script. Millions of those on github.

>Not to mention very few people actually bother to verify the full chain (360GB and counting) from genesis.

Absolutely wrong. The chain is validated in its entirety upon first sync. 100% from genesis to tip.

>Bitcoin for example still relies on a list of hardcoded nodes for bootstrapping clients.

It doesn't. Longest valid chain with most work is the canonical chain. Hardcoded seed nodes exist to speed up the discovery.
I don't think they are. If you see a picture of a wrong bike you can immediately see that it is wrong. So it is probably not the case that people are vividly visualising a picture of a wrong bike and then drawing that.
Or, instead of creating Bitcoin with excess energy, one could produce e.g. hydrogen. Which, compared to Bitcoin, has a lot more uses.
NFT. They meant they want to pay $40m for NFT of NBA team.
But...if you no longer have value on the network, doesn't that mean you no longer have enough stake to control the network?
Why the dots?
There's rarely such a thing as 'wasted energy' outside crypto. Energy can be exported (even if at low efficiency) or stored in various forms (pumping water up a mountain, hydrolisis of water to fuel hydrogen plants, etc). Unfortunately, Bitcoin, Ethereum et al are actively making these productive uses of energy un-economical, as they have worse return on investment than simply burning that energy on crypto.
The way you learn anything. 0_o

You need a journal. You need deliberate practice. You need progressive goals.

I did about 5 minutes every 2 to 10 days.

First, no other thoughts. I did mindful boxed breathing for about 3-4 minutes.

Then, a point. Something that is in a spot.

Then two points. Something like a distance.

When you have that, advance to a triangle. Then colored triangle.

Then a pyramid that you spin around, coloring different faces in different colors.

That alone took about 6 months of practice. Then it gets easier.
Oh, I consider flamebaiting trolling. But flamebaiting isn't cyberbullying or harassment or whatever these people think trolling means.
You are wrong. Covid might exist in bats or deer or dogs with mild illness just fine yet kill all humans.
When I read it I too found myself recognizing almost everything it says and it all felt almost obvious... I already had most of those insights myself, am I learning anything?

The real value is that it is much much harder to pass that sort of insight along to engineers you work with or (especially more junior) manage. Books like that didn't make me a better writer of code, but I think they made me a much better communicator, engineer and manager.
There is no deception behind the marketing for the ConstitutionDAO. No one has made any claims of it being a profitable venture. It was explicitly marketed as a non-profit venture to democratize ownership of important cultural pieces. The PEOPLE tokens appear to be going up in value solely due to the sentimental value attached to them.
I think it is a matter of months, before crypto mining is banned in Europe and the US. Just because cryptomining is a bottomless well : The more crypto miners earn money, the more they invest on graphic cards and the more they consume electricity. Inevitably, there will be supply problems
They won't because their entire career hinges on publishing in these journals. Blaming them for not publishing is like blaming aspiring programmers for grinding leet code. Yeah it would be great if everyone stopped at once and suddenly it became useless, but that's obviously never going to happen. The blame lies squarely with the Universities and Governments at this point for allowing faculty to publish in paywalled journals.

If Universities stopped recognizing work published in paywalled journals when making hiring considerations, this debate would be over in a year. Parasitic journals like Science and Nature would lose their product and the business model would basically fall apart.
I have an idea for a LPL-proof lock: Take a decent padlock, one that gets high marks from LPL, and then weld a curved steel tube to it ending at the keyhole. Then take the key and cut it in half at the head, welding a long stiff spring to attach the two halves, like a plumber's snake. To unlock, you simply stick the key bit down the tube around the bend and (with some fiddling I'm sure) into the keyway, then you can turn the key to open.

Without direct access to the tumbler, I'm not sure how you'd be able to pick it.
Charlie Munger is on record saying he hates crypto. I doubt Buffet is far off. How many billions would they need to sink into destroying something they hate?
Look at the dead in Peru. Plenty of young healthy folks died.
I'm a happy https://simplelogin.io user. Seems much more feature rich than this service?
yeah, save all that money in a monetary system that is controlled and literally changed on the whim of it's creators... sounds vary familiar to another monetary system we currently are on...
oh, well here are some interesting links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8LXLoTUJ5g
https://twitter.com/CryptoLanroc/status/1458144922867957761
https://betterprogramming.pub/the-encyclopedia-of-smart-cont...
https://twitter.com/SpillyGuy/status/1432370045758447625?s=2...
Signable have a path plan
No because they include a lot more information than that. For example, where files in the recycle bin came from is stored in DS_Store.

I know this because there's a bug in MacOS they refuse to fix where you can't restore files put into the recycle bin programmatically. This is because the API doesn't write the correct stuff to DS_Store.

Further, the format is proprietary, and I've even read that its structure changes depending on how it's used.

Frustrating crap.
By convincing the people in all of those country to vote the same way - ideally through pure argument, realistically through various carrot and stick negotiation techniques. This is really not rocket science.
Glad you shared these valuable resources. As a self-taught coder, I always admired the quality in writings published by these big orgs but I couldn't emulate them.
On the links you get access to various clear guidelines which are quite helpful for open-source technical docs and project description. Thank you Ser.
From the time I entered the world of Crypto (2012) until now. Both speed and ease of use were major selling points for many, if not most alt-coins. Sure, it's not the core promise of ALL those alts, but I remember a period (Raiblocks/Nano), where no crypto could even dare to under deliver on the promise of speed.
As I posted here > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366087

It's a crap-shoot, We and other infection able animals are mere in vevo 'petri dishes' for the RNA which is highly mutable.

'An infinite number of Monkeys, with an infinite number of typewriters', So it is a Chance and Probability game.

Infinite Monkey theorem - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA

The hypothesis that 'as viruses mutate they become more infectious but less deadly',

and wildfires will burn themselves out, only work when there is limited fuel, i.e. small communities with limited travel,

hence the lock-down/lock-out option is prudent at this time.
If it's a non-profit organization, acting as the intermediary between the DAO and the legal system, that takes legal ownership over the team, then it could eliminate the expectation of profit, and be free to engage in this transaction, right?
It's not an infectious disease, and in my case wasn't a disorder of some kind. I just never was told that it's a learnable skill. I just told you it is.

You might have luck starting with a point, or maybe with a word – try tracing letters and read it backwards.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367198
Mandatory arbitration is only mandatory by way of the public court system.
There was this local BBS. You dialed into it on a modem and got a text terminal that listed forum messages, last one at the bottom. I added a message "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to continue" and then the mods booted me. Bored teenagers trolling is as old as the internet itself.
Because you can keep dialing customer service with various stories. ”A shark ate my phone”. ”It’s my husbands account. A shark ate him and I want to post a funeral invitation on his page”.

Just keep dialing, and you’ll find a compassionate and helpful person at some point
a coalition of wealthy interests can trivially dictate the consensus rules with very little to no recourse on your part. Even if the chain splits, they can maintain their share on both chains, and even suppress the minority chain.

In PoW miners risk going bankrupt overnight for egregious behaviour like that.

I'd like to see how one defines "slashing" programmatically that is impartial, works algorithmically, and does not have edge cases that can lead to catastrophic failures without handwavy assumptions that every single PoS network has today.
> EU got to the brink of collapse with 1 million Syrian refugees (...)

That's quite the extraordinary claim. Can you offer any extraordinary evidence that supports your claim? Because from what I've gathered, it barely holds any bearing with reality.
Four Tips to Demystify Financial Models for Early-Stage Startups
Glass half full view: Thx to Omicron, the vaccine producers finally will be forced to distribute an updated version - something which ideally already should have happened with Delta.
Even extremely generously scaling it up by population that still means Bitcoin uses three orders of magnitude more.
Did you see this?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/01/spacexs-starlink-forms-ind...
I use SignNow.com - the level of subscription I need is something like $8/mo.

However, I probably use it less than 1/3 of the months that I pay for. This is true for dozens of memberships: Adobe, Canva Pro, Netflix, HBOMax, The Economist, etc.

It'd be nice to have a service that automatically unsubscribes me after every use, but rejoins seamlessly the next time I sign in.

If I pay for a month of Netflix on Jan 1 and immediately unsubscribe, I'm good to use it until Feb 1. If I don't log in for a week, it'd pay on Feb 8th and unsubscribe again. I'd have til March 8th to watch, and I'd save ~25%. For less frequently used services I might save 50% or more this way.
it's "decentralized" in the sense that most anyone can confirm that the bar of gold they are holding is real. Gold being taken out of the ground is literally Proof of the work that was put into it. Exactly why bitcoin takes work
One solution can be to regulate the price of these journals so they are affordable and not cost exorbitant prices . Large scale might still keep it profitable for publishers and researchers.
> Why would they structure it otherwise?

It gets a lot more complicated than that because setting up competing systems is cheap. It is like saying "nobody would write this piece of software for free". What we learned with open source is if the cost of distribution gets low enough then there needs to be just one person somewhere on earth willing to maintain it and it can work.

If the cost of creating trustworthy local (or international) monetary systems is basically 0 then it isn't obvious that plutocrats have an advantage beyond the one they already have by virtue of being powerful. If they can force you to use their system they already control the government so didn't need any technical help.
> academics

> business model

In a perfect world, we should be able to say: pick one.

Heck, even in our imperfect world with us mere human beings, I still believe that it would be for the better of academia to keep any "business model"-aspects out of it.
Other merit's aside, Bitcoin's incentivizing cheaper energy provides nothing new of value.

All uses of energy incentivize the search for cheaper energy.

Not all energy uses are optimized to increase usage over time, to cancel efficiencies. Proof of work, whatever it's merits, is anti-efficiency with respect to itself.

This is a significant difference.
So by "broken" you mean you can't actually break anything. Got it. MEV is well known, and the system operates just fine in its presence.
Collecting and keeping this data isn't something any police department is capable or permitted to do. Network operators don't just pass along their complete cell tower logs to the authorities. At least not where I live.
It's in fish, so I can't use it myself (zsh), but I like this idea because where I live it's hot right up until about 45 minutes to sunset and everyone, including my family, goes out for a walk right at that "cool time of the day". I'm going to write a similar one for myself that I can use to find out when "walk time" is, thanks for the idea.
https://www.crikey.com.au/dossier-of-lies-and-falsehoods/
Sounds perfect for experimenting with.
Worth little and no likely problems with anybody.
An Open-source FireStore UI tool to make development with Firestore less pain
How is that different from PoW or our current political system?
Is the perception of corruption the same as incidence of corruption? If anything this only shows that this country takes corruption way more seriously than "developed" countries.

This shady ISP from a known market manipulator should have a license before they started getting pre-orders. We don't want another FSD pre-order snake oil.. Do we?
yes, there are a bunch of permutation invariant operations - such as sum, max and pairwise interactions
Imagine being able to generate docs like these using the office suite , google docs or libreoffice. Bye docusign.
nothing new of value? I know this sounds cliche but maybe consider you dont know enough about it?
The client told the cloud provider that I had been unauthorized to speak on the company's behalf (untrue)

Apropos of nothing, it's funny how nearly every single consulting contract I've seen which has been prepared by an attorney on the client side tries to slip in a clause like "you shall not act on our behalf or hold yourself out as having authority to obligate or bind us", when that's actually exactly what they're looking to hire me to do (eg. "Please come manage our projects, employees, customer relationships, vendors, banking relationships, products, research branch" or whatever else the role entails).