skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you joke, but you wouldn't believe the number of artists and users that initially rejected our NFT app based on environmental concerns until we explained that transactions weren't on blockchain. Not saying the concerns aren't valid - they absolutely are - but it was just surprising.
I feel like cedricd and OP of this chain are talking about different things, or at least it's hard to discern from the conversation.

If you care about Days, you normally absolutely -should- use DATEDIFF('DAY' instead of DATEDIFF('YEAR' and act accordingly. The bigger thing is the semantics they provide.

Frankly, this can be a pain point at times, but IIRC PostgreSQL at least is very work-aroundable, IIRC you can get the equivalent for most common cases off the interval from an add/sub.

Honestly, Dates in SQLite are harder to deal with in the long term, since without a native data type you have to write at least the level of conversions you would in PostgreSQL. (e.x. just convert everything to/from tics at the abstraction layer.)

Edit: Also I would suggest considering instead use of getdate() <= DATEADD('day', signup_date,1) or a variant as that is probably more cross DB friendly
Yes, apologies to all.
Ordnance survey of Scotland, 1890. Holy crap, the effort represented there.
Interesting. Not sure * has such semantics. Must check next year.
(Shrug) What ended up in the document is what counts, the rest is just commentary.
I don't think so. I think the issue is that people don't multiply correctly. A 1 in 1000 chance of death is actually very high, it just doesn't seem high because 1/1000 seems like a small number. But a small number (1/1000) times a very big number (how bad death is) can still be a big number.

As an example, if you would pay $100 to extend your healthy life by one day (I know I would), that means each healthy day of your life you have ahead of you should be worth at least $100 to you. Assuming you have 10 years left of healthy life, your life ought to be worth at least 10×360×100=$360,000 to you. So a 1/1000 chance of death costs you 1/1000 * $360,000 = $360.
Quit, get a job at a startup again.
Felony murder is a controversial crime. It's not in the Bible.
It's not inherent, but having a powerful technology you understand may tempt you into applying it to things you don't understand to force them be more understandable. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it does not, and one has to have a measure of humility, so that having a powerful hammer not to start treating everything as a nail. European civilization, unfortunately, fell into this failure mode not once (maybe others too, we just know about European failures the most). We still can observe it in hi-tech where "we just add some ML and big data to it and it's solved" led people astray many times. Sometimes it worked, surely, but sometimes the amount of subject domain knowledge required to deal with the problem was vastly underestimated. One example just from recent days is the Zillow fiasco. It doesn't have to be on the planet Pandora, we can see it everywhere, both in history and around us right now.
Eeeeexacly. Working at a big company is a skill itself. I mean lets face it...we all can code, but can you code in a big company and work around bureaucracy and try to deploy at the speed of a startup (or close to it)? I know people may laugh, but it's a question to ask. For example you can't plan your infrastructure a week before you deploy because you gotta have the infrastructure team approve your requests (which requires architectural and security approval), and you gotta have the allocation for your project in the first place (of course the trick is if you forget you get a resource from an existing parallel project on your team!)

In ops case there is a disconnect. Whenever I had something high priority and I get red tape...there's 2 solutions

1) Escalate escalate escalate. Their manager doesn't help? Their director will. If their director isn't helpful...then sorry it's not really a high priority. I've NEVER had to gone above a director for escalation because the entire org was aligned with what was a priority. You might face a manager trying to protect their team but if their director says jump, they ask how high. Perfect example is a firewall rule takes 2 weeks to open up (security approval, firewall engineer allocation, etc etc). Guess what...I got like 3 open up with 24-48 hour turn around time each (kept getting blocked at different hops) for a high priority project.

2) If you've been around long enough and you have a good track record, you know people on a personal level, you do favors for them...people will do favors for you. You ping them, add a few emojis, reminisce about old times...and an hour later it's done. The other week we had a deploy and we forgot to contact an infrastructure team to let them know they had to promote something in production. Usually your deployment is dead in the water, because a new prod change request needs approval, yada yada. Well, of course there's a deviation for that (In Big Corp. there is ALWAYS a deviation for something). And I know their team lead, their manager and their Project Manager...we were back in business after negotiation what we needed to do to do it 'properly' and not get flagged for an authorized change.

1) Learn the skill of cutting red tape which a lot of times is escalation, planning ahead or being creative.
2) Be nice to people. If you're the new kid on the block and already pissing off people...you're going to get enough red tape to wrap everyone's Christmas presents at the company.

Use your new found knowledge sparingly. You don't want to be the boy that cries wolf.
This seems like a really fun, potentially profitable, arbitrage experiment (using existing blockchains to identify "underpriced" NFTs of existing art; not making your own)
Sorry that's a typo. The sentence should have stopped at consumer electronics.
Pedant: Fortunately SHA256 and ECDSA are proven to be quantum proof, so we'll need some massive new discovery in the field of computation to hope to break these. Probably easier just to hack the keys out of the wallets via rubber hose method.
> What are your thoughts on Baseball cards that sell for absurd prices?

I wouldn't buy them. But they're things that actually exist, and nobody needed to burn more energy than a refrigerator uses in a month so that they could record its existence in one of a dozen rivalrous venues--or to do so again to hand it to somebody else.

The absurdity here isn't just the tulip mania. Which is absurd. It's the vicious abuse of a shared planet to attempt to plant one's own batch and get out of Dodge before the whole thing collapses.
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That's literally Doge, and then Shiba.
Sorry that's a typo the iPod ran on an internally devised software and a mobile CPU but the real thing they were targeting is a large amount of storage.
There's no inherent reason superior technology would lead to the destabilization of an ecosystem (aka 'harmony with nature'). A good example is the introduction of the hunting rifle to Inuit culture, as I understand it. Prior to this hunting near the Arctic Circle was a far more difficult endeavor, as sneaking up on seals and caribou is not easy even with a high skill level. As a result, famine became much less common and hunting took much less time.

Now, if the Inuit had tried to get extremely wealthy by using their rifles to hunt seals and caribou as the basis of a large and ever-growing export industry, they'd have indeed destabilized the ecosystem and there would have been a collapse in the population of seals and caribou, as seen with European hunters of wildlife in North America with beavers and bison and passenger pigeons. If that had happened, the Inuit themselves would most likely have followed the local animals into extinction.

[edit] Note with bison, there was a deliberate extermination policy pursued by the US government as a means of destroying the food supply of various indigenous tribes that relied on bison for sustenance (aka the genocidal starvation program). This doesn't explain the extermination of beaver and other wildlife populations, however.
That's what parent was saying. Two-full-time-income families cause wages to plummet dur to excess competition.

Working full-time is is stealing jobs from others.
Sure, but you have to pay a fairly large fee for every transaction and since it's public the process of sending takedown notices can easily be automated. Are the bragging rights for a receipt really worth playing that game until you run out of money even if you do live in a jurisdiction where you can do that indefinitely without consequence?
The physical force of law is consensus by violence.

State/NFTs on a secure blockchain have a force of law, which is what the proof-of-X consensus mechanisms are. Consensus by game theory/computation.

On a normative note, saying "actual human people" don't care about something you either don't like or don't understand is closer to what I would describe as cringe.
Why use software at all? Use a paper title registry. Ownership and potential for profit are the value propositions. Most users don't care about decentralization or file formats at all (disagree with your premise on security). Oh wait - that's how the actual Olive Gardens are owned ;)
Exactly. The square root of 2 had no more basis in reality than the so-called imaginary number i. Don't confuse the "real" in real numbers with reality, at this point it is just a name.
I'm a photographer and actively block any NFT activity I see on Twitter on sight.
Intel's processor's ME does not have a backdoor and the chance there is a remotely exploitable vulnerability is minimal.

Hardly anyone cares because it is mostly schizo people who fall for these conspiracy theories.
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Plausible.

Of course, the first things lost online are context, subtlty, and irony.
That isn't what the parent said. If the highest rating is set such that vehicles that achieve it demonstrate a high level of safety, it would then be preferable if all vehicle makers strived for this rating. Assuming you want to drive a safe vehicle, it would then also be preferable if this rating was also the most common since that would indicate that most vehicle makers are building vehicles with a high level of safety.
Agreed on the adaptive cruise. Glad to know there is a braking sensitivity. It gets very jumpy about oncoming traffic on curves and hits the brakes for no reason. The cars following me loved when it did that twice in ten minutes.
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There is too much noise in this data to conclude anything. When I google denmark covid cases and hospitalizations, the trend is increasing for both around the same time.

However, the ratio between hospitalization trends and infection trends is lower than for past waves, but by a smaller factor than your cherrypicked datapoint would suggest.
> the Honeywell 1800 with two program counters that can go forward or backward

Wow! What is the point of that? How is it used?
I don't nap but I have definitely found it easier to keep a regular sleep schedule. Probably because I can intersperse my household chores (laundry, tidying up, grocery shopping) in the workday as a break so I it doesn't compete with personal time after work. Much easier to not stay up late and therefore get an earlier start.

Also I don't drink as much at home so my sleep quality is definitely better.

(Note I don't yet have kids and my partner has a similiar sleep schedule as me)
NFTs allow you to have your breadstick and eat it too!
It seems quite likely that cutting off Pi at the quintillionth decimal place will not hurt your simulation simply because your knowledge of the initial conditions in the physical universe won't be exact either. If a quintillion digits aren't enough, run your simulation with another quintillion places. Eventually you will match reality to within the accuracy of your ability to measure.

Any issues introduced by using a finite approximation to Pi will eventually be swamped by the uncertainty in the initial conditions. If there's no uncertainty in the initial conditions, there will still be some finite approximation to Pi that will give you results as accurate as you can measure...
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Yeah, we run certbot. It fails for some reason at least once a year and we have to do something to fix it. At the very least you have to find a way to run it on the regular and you can't forget about it or else your simple static website starts looking like malware. Tell me again how trivial it is for a 15-year-old kid using their parents' Windows 10 machine to get certbot running reliably.
Yes, yes yes! This is an interview question I (at big tech) like to ask candidates: "You have a very high priority project and need another team's help. You find they already have many "high priority projects" that they are working on. How do you go about getting this help?" A good answer to this question often separates the actual senior engineers from the junior "Senior Software Engineers". Navigating a corporate bureaucracy and influencing across it where you have no managerial control is a skill you have to develop in Big Tech, and when you get good at it, it's a superpower.
Haha, that sounds exactly like buying a fake Mona Lisa print. “I’ll consider it, sounds like a bargain”.

You’re right, and that is a totally rational thing to do. I suspect that the market of fake paintings and prints is in few billions at least. They’re quite popular. But that doesn’t stop the art auction “scams” at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
It won't be long before someone sells their soul as an NFT
It’s amazing how the media can be manipulated so easily.

NFTs weren’t really a thing until someone did a media splash (some random artist). From a splash it turned into a story. Then the old non-tech people get scared/FOMO, so they of course have to write something up. And if big news sites are talking about it, it must be real news!

About 10 people could have just ignored the bullshit and NFTs would be some niche thing that no one ever heard about. I wish more newsrooms had the self-confidence to filter out obvious bullshit. See also: all the metaverse nonsense Facebook spun up to distract everyone from their huge moral failings.
Mint NFTs for each other NFT.
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Reading code is harder than writing. It's good to make writing harder so reading is easier.
The way I read that is that they have their price locked in(The price they are paying is 5k less the current asking price) but they are unable to make any changes to their order: trim level, battery range, etc.
From my adventures in finance, I notice that nobody really understand what the experience is like for the issuer.

All the perspectives are about the secondary market.

SPACs: great for issuers

Crypto: great for issuers

NFTs: great for issuers

IPOs: great for issuers

Direct Listings: decent for issuers

Bonds: AMAZING for issuers

Be an issuer. Concepts become a lot more obvious alot faster when you think "what do the issuers get out of this" and dive and dig to find out the answer. If you're reading Matt Levine's digestible breakdown, it's too late.
I mean, those earlier timestamps are on a different blockchain my users don't care about. My personal blockchain with 2 users says I bought the Mona Lisa NFT in 1993. But nobody cares, because to almost everyone my blockchain is just some random "other blockchain". I don't have as many nodes, how many do I need?
Every simulation picks some rational approximation to Pi, because they have to. Either they will run out of time or space or collapse into a black hole before needing more than a finite number of decimal places, so for all plausible purposes we can make do with the first googleplex digits (or whatever) of Pi.

I guess my argument is, since you can always just pick a rational approximation to Pi, you cannot prove empirically that we live in a universe where more than a finite number of digits of Pi matter. That is, the mathematical irrationality doesn't really matter, physically speaking, since no experiment could ever prove that every digit in Pi actually contributes to the result.

If the universe does have ways to do this, to mix an entire irrational number into a physical outcome, that means hypercomputation is probably possible, since Turing machines definitely can't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computation
That logic is disingenuous at best.

Planetary orbits are chaotic. Long before your imprecision in pi is going to significantly mislead you, shifts in mass due to, for example, earthquakes and weather patterns are going to cause orbits to be impossible to predict.

There are theoretical systems where the exact value of pi matters. But no physical system is going to match that, and measurement error is going to quickly exceed calculation errors from pi.
Effectively no, first if you look at the picture there are holes on the sides and no body is putting the lid on.

More widely Cold CO2 from dry ice or pressurized tanks is a problem because it’s both releasing a lot of CO2 and that CO2 is very cold which means it sinks quickly. On the other hand babies breath is both fairly slow and has a relatively low CO2 concentration which makes it easier to mix with the air. On top of this breath is warm so combined with a convection current from body heat in otherwise still air it has a tendency to rise which improves mixing.

An extreme version of this happens when a baby or small child falls down a pipe and can avoid suffocating for hours.
What if I want to run a simple but non-static website? It was a lot easier to just do CGI with a small perl script in the 2000s.
yep. Likewise with USD monetary aggregates growing - one would imagine that the value of the underlying US economy would be diffused among more USDs (inflation) but it often seems that loose policy helps the US economy grow and somewhat make up for it (eg we have inflation now, but back post 2008 it was really surprising to me that we didn't). Of course with crypto you have the factor of more forks/coins rather than more of the same...
I guess, and I would not use it on a production server, but on desktop both Ubuntu and Windows can be unstable as well despite spending months instead of weeks or days testing their updates. Arch keeps it simple, there is not much to test, basically just the core, if the kernel, systemd, X, pipewire and gcc or llvm works I can do my job or take care of the rest. Even if they don't I can take care of it. There is not much to it. One can always revert too, the packages are all git based as well. A working system is always a few commands away.
So isn't that `age ( timestamp, timestamp ) → interval`?
No, the opposite. Some might 'hope' that you could represent everything in QM with simpler Real numbers, and avoid Complex numbers (or equivalent formulations that include rotation symmetries, as other commenters point out). But the title and article claim that any such hope is falsifiably dashed. Now, the use of Complex numbers to represent QM is basically standard for like half a century, so this result is more along the lines of "things we figured were true for a while because the math just works out so much better this way but we weren't certain enough to call it for sure until now".
You're a forking genius.
Actually the US is #12
And that's totally fair, but this app is honestly rather trivial.. I think the surprising thing is that there are fewer Mac devs spending time making free software. I don't think Apple makes things better either by forcing devs to pay for a dev account to sell signed apps through official channels.
Yeah I feel like I'd have to artificially push my head back an uncomfortable distance to keep it against the headrest.

Looking into getting a 3 or a Y next year myself.
Of course it is going to fly. If we can, overall, save lives with these systems, then we are letting people die if we wait too long to deploy them. A lot of people think that way.
The giant UK study found it's 6x less severe outcomes per case.
So publish your Merkle-tree hash in a classified ad in the NYT hardcopy edition at the close of each business day.
If we have that kind of progress in 60 years, what will another 60 bring? Or 120? Will we ever recognize computing?
Sure, that’s true. However, I would personally like to know whether “all my files being out in the open forever” is a thing I need to worry about in addition to all the default problems
Link without paywall: https://psyarxiv.com/pvz24

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371309

Previous studies:

- 2008: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00605.x

- 2016: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002851...

- 2020 (large-scale replication study) (could not replicate results): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emil-O-W-Kirkegaard/pub...

- 2021 (reanalysis of previous studies) (could not replicate results): http://refhub.elsevier.com/S0010-0277(21)00245-6/rf0045

- 2021 (reply to 2021 replication study): https://englelab.gatech.edu/articles/2021/Tsukahara%20et%20a...
You know, I die a bit inside everytime I find something like this out.

This is why we can't have nice things.

However... This is still markedly different than baking in heuristic, application specific optimizations into the hardware transport and lower levels. At that point, who sends what where should be a foregone conclusion. No hardware manufacturer should even be thinking of accommodating this niche case or that. I mean, they are free to, but everything I've seen says that isn't the best idea.

Leave it to the Application layer to optimize.
I had also read a few weeks back that Kellogg intended to hire permanent replacements for those on strike. Seems that must not have worked out too well for them...

> The Kellogg Company announced Tuesday [Dec 12] that a majority of its U.S. workers have voted against a proposed five-year contract and that the company would hire permanent replacements for the employees who went on strike

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1062240467/kellogg-to-hire-re...
As soon as you said it, a bizzaro-klyrs in another reality actually created ForkCoin.
There are better jokes possible.

Who came to your blockchain and sold it to you? Is there a bridge to move value from the existing blockchains over to yours? Who runs the bridge? Alternatively is there an exchange that allows withdrawals to your blockchain, again, to move value there for transfer at all? Its not just about the nodes.
Can't agree more. I have wasted so many hours using their side-by-side maps:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=13&lat=51...
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A power nap of 15-30 mins at noon is a huge productivity hack for me. By self-observation, I think it is a natural need and should be addressed.
> But equally cool how bad it gets if you try the same to compute the position of earth 2^64 years later.

In 2^64 years, Earth will be inside of a larger body. How many digits of Pi you need to predict that?
Nobody can agree on which software is easy to use, or which guidelines to follow, or which things count as configuration.

For example, if I put my source code in a different directory than you do, do I have to configure anything? Does that even count as configuration? My compiler is in /gnu/store/…, and yours is in /usr/bin. Oops, one of us has to configure something. You write in code Raku and I write in Self. Oops, more configuration. It’s an incoherent goal.

Emacs has 1.3 million lines of code that you don’t have to reinvent, all written in a language that is extensible and doesn’t need a lengthy compilation and restart cycle every time you make a change.
it's a digital signature. You can simply agree with a group that it will be valid - just like you can agree in trading that closing a deal by saying 'done' on the phone is valid.
Hmm, valid analogy. Arguably they're satirizing Olive Garden as well, here, though? Alternatively, the creator could crank up their Olive Garden satire a little more to pass this test?