skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if our assumptions are incorrect then so are your conclusions. Who said you can't get a skin from one game to a similar skin on another game?

This is, for now, a way for them to create a marketplace where digital game items are freely sold, and where they will collect royalties ad eternum.

However if these items become valuable, it might create the beggining of the "play to earn" economy you already have on Axie. Axie Infinity, a terrible game by most standards, now has a marketplace worth hundreds of millions. The idea that this is a "buzz" thing, it's a money thing.
First author here. Thanks for your comment!

> there's a lot hidden in the "if physically possible" part of the quote from the paper: "Average-optimal agents would generally stop us from deactivating them, if physically possible".

Let me check that I'm understanding correctly. Your main objection is that even optimal agents wouldn't be able to find plans which screw us over, as long as they don't start off with much power. Is that roughly correct?

> Theories on optimal policies have no bearing if

See my followup work [1] extending this to learned policies and suboptimal decision-making procedures. Optimality is not a necessary criterion, just a sufficient one.

> if as we start understanding ML models better, we can do things like hardware-block policies that lead to certain predicted outcome sequences (blocking an off switch, harming a human, etc.)

I'm a big fan of interpretability research. I don't think we'll scale it far enough for it to give us this capability, and even if it did, I think there are some very, very alignment-theoretically difficult problems with robustly blocking certain bad outcomes.

My other line of PhD work has been on negative side effect avoidance. [2] In my opinion, it's hard and probably doesn't admit a good enough solution for us to say "and now we've blocked the bad thing!" and be confident we succeeded.

[1] https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/nZY8Np759HYFawdjH/satis...

[2] https://avoiding-side-effects.github.io/
Confusingly domained web site. I thought this was a link to TikTok predecessor, Musical.ly.
You see, it'll be this really large triangle shaped thing! Every level of the triangle will make money off the levels below it. The best place to be is the top of the triangle, you'll make money off every transaction. Obviously the worst place to be is the bottom where transactions just cost you money.

It's all really exciting and has never been done before! Just buy some of this Invigeron, the reverse funnel system!
Every time I need to write up a research paper in TeX and insert a graph, I make the same mistake of searching "latex images" and getting some pretty exotic results
Legitimate liquidity would disappear, market makers can't manage risk
No entertainment industry? So... nobody could sit and create a movie studio or a record label?

What a weird thing to rail against. I'm certainly unconvinced the world would be magically better without people organizing to produce content.

Maybe there's some issues with copyrights, but as far as I can tell, almost any organization would attempt to preserve profits. We, as a people, then go through and create legislation which curbs rampant abuses whether that's environmental pollution, or unsafe kids' toys, or overly lengthy copyright claims.

But the idea people can't get together and make movies, that's a new one.
Well I got to bugger off home early so good job Amazon.

Edit: to be clear this is because I’m utterly helplessly unable to do anything at the moment.
So continuing that, let's say OP moved to a small rural town. 10 years later, the media proclaims the town for best schools, living, etc. and a lot of folks want to move there and want to build up in OP's backyard.

What's OP's course of action now? To move again?

I'm not excusing the effects of NIMBYism, but it's natural phenomena for many people and often not about raising property values, but resistance to change--especially as folks age and become less willing to adapt or move elsewhere.
OK, not nasty. Terrible. Outdated. And I even like old things, but bash never wakes up any nostalgy in me, it just wakes up a monster.
Onyx is the (parent?) company that produces Boox devices. I don't truly understand the hierarchy, the names seem to be used interchangably.
I think that's a pretty blatant mischaracterization of this situation. My understanding is that these laws are put in place very specifically to combat the BDS movement, which works very hard to distance itself from even a whiff of antisemitism to avoid exactly the optics you're describing.
This is how many large OSS libraries that aim for portability operate. I don't see how this is novel.
Exogenous testosterone inevitably leads to your natural production going down. Same reason it's a bad idea to even dose a small amount of testosterone in order to help gain muscle quick.
> The best model I've seen is people are being radicalized with nonsensical viewpoints. With the new belief system comes toxic aggressive self assurance that dismisses others.

I agree, although I hope people start finding middle ground, in general.
It makes more money for the artist. The promoter generally pays a fixed fee to the artist to play, rents a venue, and bears the risk on ticket sales. The band has to pay the road crew, etc. and pay for food and buses, and what have you. The label gets by far most of the money from album/streams.

The merch table is one person (maybe 2-3 for big bands) selling stuff with margins of hundreds of percent.
Density is great if you can't afford a big house + a car.

Back in my younger days I had a 600$ apartment in LA right next to the train. Moderately safe area, and I didn't need a car. 10$ an hour was livable. Hell it was downright nice. 3$ bottles of Soju and 4$ Tortas. LA used to be a great place.

Now that same apartment is 1300$. In most of LA, really America, you need a car. With a car you're out like 500 to 800$ a month on the low end.

Before you know it even making good money your very very poor. If I get fired I don't need to keep making my car payment, having a car loan puts you in a bad spot.
> - True async up and down the stack. Not a small task within the Python ecosystem, but I think for folks who are not already invested, looking at Elixir/OTP/Phoenix is too tempting. If you don’t have kids to transport with you, a Lambo looks much more fun than an S-Class Sedan.

This has been in the works for a few years. Everything in Django works with async except the ORM at this point. Which in practice, means it's not really async. But hopefully they are getting close.
Yes there was a non-zero number of anti-communists in the United States at any given time. That wasn't what I was saying.

What I'm saying is that anti-communism to the point of orchestrating quasi-false flags to get drawn into another World War was not a focus of FDR's administration. As I pointed out, FDR's admin fully and materially supported foreign communist governments.
I just want to serve 5 terabytes of data
I've been studying the space for a few years now and from what I gather is similar to what @saurik is saying. Blockchain-based applications are prime candidates for adversarial networks where a centralized entity will at some point be incentivized to take actions that benefit itself and not the network.

This is why I believe that these applications have little use in spaces other than finance. For example, the NYSE is governed by a central entity that acts as a market maker, buying and selling securities to "make" the market. This is all done behind closed doors in a way that the vast majority of people do not understand. A Blockchain-based market maker provides much more transparency and stability than a centralized one governed by human decisions and thus emotions.

However, very few, if any Blockchain projects are truly decentralized as they are still developed and changed by a central organization. We need more projects that are simple, efficient, financial tools that are immutable on the Blockchain that people can use and there is no incentive from a central authority to change the system in order to achieve their goals or boost their profits.
My favourite set of pragmas:

set -o errexit -o noclobber -o nounset -o pipefail
shopt -s failglob inherit_errexit

These are all easy to find in the Bash manual.
Look at Nym, it uses Sphinx packets, cover traffic and other techniques. It is explicitly designed with a global passive adversary in mind.
Is WalMart.com awesome?
The beginning of the article sounds so modernist mid-20 century, I couldn't stand that.

Old roads that formed on old paths are much more stable because people went where the area was dry, and then dirt roads were stable and didn't move down or cause rain erosion. The generalizing phrase, that terrain is just an obstacle that should be plowed through, is laughable. People lived very well without retaining walls and without such huge excavations, until transport engineers decided to please cars, and not slow them down, or not make them go too steeply.

Same for the sentence about buildings. There are plenty places where slopes are taken adavtage of. In Stockholm, there are some houses that have +2 storeys on one side, and entrances to 3 storeys from different sides. In my town, a mall built in 1960s has 2 storeys, the top one can be entered without steps at all. In Finland, they used sloped ground to build stadiums, and even to make basements with windows.

People like parks with slopes, children like to ride sleighs in winter on them. The most stupid thing you can do near housing is a flat surface and a concrete retaining wall. That generates more problems than benefits: the wall may float, it may create new concentraded areas of water running on the surface, and mini-waterfalls in rains. This never happens with natural slopes, because with grass they're very stable at 3-10 degrees, unless you concentrate water runoff on them.

Finally, the place becomes completely uncomfortable to stay at. It's pretty normal to lay down on a grass on a slope. But unthinkable if there's a retaining wall above you.

Unfortunately, nowadays I see the architects and clients prefer not to think and adapt to terrain, but just bulldoze the ground.

Otherwise, yes, there are engineering solutions to making retaining walls and making them stable.
> If you're amazing at interviews... Accomplish that special human ability

"It's easy, you just..."

Most of us are not amazing at interviews so telling people to be amazing at interviews isn't too helpful. Interview feedback tends to be pretty sparse. Often you don't hear anything back unless you got the job. Even if you do get a "no" response it will be light on details (and it's usually this way due to legal concerns). It's difficult to improve a skill when there's little or no feedback and what feedback you do get is vague.
> Portability of software is a language problem

I think this is one of those statements that sounds good at face value but doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
If the guns were unique it would be interesting but why would I want to own a serial number?
It's also the case that adding infrastructure for cars makes everything else (walking, forms of public transit other than bus) less convenient, by taking up space and making everything far apart.
I have seen production servers run for ten years upstairs a dirty bus repair shop. The room is never cleaned so there's a few millimeters of black dust on everything.

In fact you know the age of a server depending on the amount of dust on it.

There's a defective A/C unit that sometimes throw some water all around.

There's power cut 2 or 3 times a year, the batteries are old so the servers get their hard reboot.

As far as reliability is concerned, sometimes a disk fail, but that's about it.

Now if you think I'm describing something from the third world, you're wrong. It's in France and I'm not exaggerating about it.

So what I'm saying is that for a homelab, don't fret over cleanliness or optimal conditions.
It's 0.001; the first 2 9's count.

5N = 99.999%
3N = 99.9%
1N5 = 95%

5N is <43m12s downtime per month.
You can, as long as you give the user the ability to replace the library. Such as by providing .o files.
There are a multitude of reasons not to have servers in the US if you are doing anything privacy centric.
Yep, it's actually a criteria I look at when I choose a house/apartment. It's a nice "third space" where community events often happen, where you can meet new people (easier before COVID), and where it's easy to spend an afternoon working or reading. Kind of like a park but with dedicated food, drink, and bathrooms.
Subscriptions also sell ads.

If you can tell an advertiser you've got XX,000 subscribers paying some nominal amount for your newspaper, that tells them that there are that many people who (probably) read the paper, and that they have some small amount of disposable income.
They never would have been able to access my funds in the first place if this was on a blockchain.

Your argument amounts to the same as relying on the police to return your car after it has been stolen and then declaring that as security.
I'm not entirely sure if the Russian strategy on the Eastern Front was a "good strategy", but the Russian soldiers at least had the benefit of knowing where the enemy was.

A drone flying out to sea doesn't know where the enemy ships are. The horizon is 30km away to 50km, depending on how high the drone is flying. E2 Hawkeyes fly very high, so they see out 300km.

Any reasonable fight will have the E2 Hawkeye spot the mass of drones long before the drones spot the ships. Once we account for how cheap bullets are and how effective they are on an aimbot (be it an F18 fighter or a CIWS on a ship), it seems impossible for a swarm of drones to even think about approaching any ship.
I'm not sure your argument works here. When people complain about gentrification, they don't mean (as far as I can tell) tearing down high-rise apartments to build a McMansion. They mean first-ring suburban homes being driven up in price. So it seems to me that densification is the cure for the complaint about gentrification. Create enough higher-density housing to overcome the price increase of the gentrification.[1][2]

[1] This presumes that the gentrification complaint is a good faith one. Instead, it could amount to "I want my neighborhood to be remain one of small, single-family homes, but I don't want it to rise in price." I guess it's fine to want it, but I'm not sure that it's a problem that policy should solve.

[2] Increasing density in this way may also hinder gentrification. People who are causing gentrification by buying up homes in such neighborhoods are looking for that style of neighborhood. If some of the houses get replaced by high-rise apartments, well, do the gentrifiers really want to live in that neighborhood?
>The newspapers have missed the opportunity to monetize for themselves

What do you think that opportunity was for most even decent-size city newspapers? A few national/international brands have done OK but that's because the NYT, say, has subscribers all over the world. Even something like the San Francisco Chronicle never had that same opportunity.

Maybe if everyone had pushed back harder on making content available for free and paywalls were more the norm in the early days of the newspapers going online. But I sort of doubt that would really have worked.
I don’t know how I did that. Safari seemed to generate two logins! #celeb
Not sure if it passes the “don’t have to screw with” test (as configuration generally requires a decent level of networking knowledge), but I’m quite happy with Mikrotik Audience access points/routers.
Sorry. My mistake absolutely. Thanks for the correction. Not the first time I've accidentally mixed up the two finance companies named for common one-syllable words starting with s and ending with e. I'll be more careful next time.
But if you use CloudFront, there you go.
Hard to tell. I lean in the direction of click-bait due to incomplete background research.
The referenced author ended up retracting her primary document
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45584-3
in March, 2020 before another one
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23328940.2020.1...
was published in August 2020.
The linked piece, of course, doesn't cite its sources
Sure, and those suburbs are for people that want the benefits of the city and are willing to pay a premium for less of the downsides, and also create more traffic for themselves to sit in. They've made a trade off as well, they live a little more densely packed than I do, but a little less than true urban dwellers, and their commute is longer, property maintenance is higher, living cost is usually a little more, they rely on a car. Personally not worth it to me, so I don't choose to live there either.
Somewhat in this same vein, it's a shame that clients and networks like Hotline/Curaco/BigRedH went under. I think it would be very popular today. People are still on KDX and preterhuman still has a tracker, but the experience these days is not the same. I still wonder sometimes what hinks is up to these days.
I like my setups to be as configurable yet minimal and resource light as possible.

Lately AwesomeWM[1] with Lain[2] seem to provide the flexibility and easy configurability I like with the minimal overhead I love.

[1] https://awesomewm.org/

[2] https://github.com/lcpz/lain
>>Who the hell cares about territory status versus actual military capability?

Literally everyone. Welcome to the martial history of earth. Remember 9/11?
>The reality is that poverty amplifies loneliness while reducing the ability to socialize

Without diminishing how incredibly unequal/bimodal some areas of America are, I wonder if the second part of this statement is statistically backed up.

When I was poor I frequently interacted with different people waiting for the bus, riding the subway, hanging out outside the mobile home park drinking, etc. Now, borderline-rich, I find it much harder to interact with people. I drive alone in a car, live in a luxury condo complex where no one talks to each other, etc. (Although there's also a pandemic going on so apples-to-oranges)

Stats seem mixed [0]

[0] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_the_rich_m...
I think this is true to a certain point as it provides signal for high enthusiasm for a given role - huge plus if you meet all the other weightier requirements.
Now now, you did click on a URL from an unknown host, didn't you ?
Ask HN: Why can't the Raspberry Pi be properly cloned?
Since the earliest days of the PC. companies having been creating clone computers.

There's big money for whoever can identically clone the functionality of a popular computer - witness Compaq.

Is it "hard but doable by appropriately skilled modern engineers", or "impossible"?

Surely the rewards are there for whichever company can do it properly.

So why is there no proper clone of the Raspberry Pi?
You get one /64 per server. How often do you need to divide a range within a server and run SLAAC for one of these subdivisions?
Me thinks Venmo uses AWS because they are down as well. Status gator has AWS as on off on off on off. I can access my servers hosted in the west coast but I cannot access the AWS console, this is making for an interesting morning.
I agree 100%, if your money can't be used for meaningful things (housing, savings with interest, etc.), there is little point in working for it beyond the minimum effort required.
We've been using Hetzner since the last article about their VA service appeared last month on HN and are truly impressed in all respects with the performance and cost. We plan to move all our servers over to Hetzner from AWS, however continue using S3 (We didn't see a comparable service on Hetzner for S3)
That was of course the long-time model of the trade press. You had XX,000 qualified subscribers and you supported sending an issue out every week or month with ads sold against those subscribers.
Resizing an image is computationally intensive (at least compared to the average HTTP request). You can sidestep that by using caching: resize once, then serve the cached version from then on.

Dynamic resizing opens you up to a DDOS attack, essentially: someone would request the image at 1x1, and 1x2, and 1x3... you get the idea. But yeah, if there was anyone able to mitigate that risk via other means you'd think it would be Cloudflare.
Oh yeah totally I mean, one of the first bonkers things I learned about money is that its value changes and there's nowhere you can put it where it doesn't evaporate (devalue from inflation) where it might not instantly disappear (crash). Everything is a balance. But like, for locking up $130k in a wildly volatile market, I'd expect way more than 2%. That's way out of balance. Like, there are no reasonable (sure there are some bond ETFs or the one ESG ETF under 2%) Vanguard ETFs below that, and the ones you'd invest in are at worst 8%, none of which are anywhere near the risk or volatility of ETH.

So to me, the 2% doesn't seem like an incentive. But I don't think it was designed that way? I thought it was to make the rewards more equitable, and also continue to keep validator skin in the game (why would you corrupt Ethereum, you get paid in ETH). I don't know if it really succeeds at these things; I think rich people can stake multiple times and the initial big miner investment are probably sufficient skin (plus like, are people committed to ETH because of their mining rigs or because of the gains?), but that's just conjecture, hard (impossible?) to know for sure.
>The world is not that presented by the distorting effects of the shrill voices of the doomsayers.

I completely agree. These doomsayers are powerful because we give them our attention, so if we ignore them they are impotent. We've collectively decided as a society that our attention is valuable so when we give it to people who want to do us harm by enraging us so we follow their political ideology, terrifying us so we doomscroll through the news all day, or showing us a highlight reel of the lives of our peers to make us feel like failures we're pretty much stealing from the pockets of our own futures.

Each of our realities is a canvas and we let some of the most ruthlessly calculating human beings of our generation scrawl all over them every day, but we as individuals can choose for this not to be the case. You don't build a brighter future by hoping someone at the top notices you, the people at the top are there because they benefit from the status quo so of course they're not going to help. You build a better world by starting small, and one small change is kicking the doomsayers out of your precious attention span.
My biggest grip with Python documentation is that it often leaves flags and options underdocumented.
I HATE clicking on a Google link and discovering that it's paywalled. It's a massive waste of time.
"I can spend the money on what I want today and let the next guy who holds office deal with the problem"
Oh god in 20 years reverse NAT (reverse as in reverse Proxy) will be a thing because IPv6 still won't be supported by all network providers.
this is true but if the details in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29456593 and others in that thread are to be believed, they have some serious security problems.
that popular "mathemathics for machine learning" book will teach you almost everything in that sentence, authors even had/have a mooc on coursera.