skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ETH PoW is almost dead. We’re in the multi-client test net stage now. We’re rehearsing the switch multiple times on test nets to make sure it goes perfectly since there’s no takebacks on prod.

The bellow comment calling it “vapor ware” is ignorant.
I would like people to be able to do basic math and estimation using publicly available datasets themselves.

Get list of 10 largest banks and major credit card companies.

Get their ESG reports.

Add annual energy and emissions summaries together.

Multiply by 2.

Stand in awe that it’s still a fraction of Bitcoin.

You can then go find some other incredibly ignorant tangent to argue about to promote your belief in a crypto Ponzi scheme.
Agree in general with you that lying is big No in interview process.

However, asking salary is a very delicate question that they are not supposed to ask. Making such question a mandatory to get offer is a very shady and questionable practice. I have no problem in telling employer my Desired Salary number (that I know they can pay) as my Current Salary is just another negotiation trick. The ultimate goal is to get both parties to agree and make a deal. By volunteering your true salary you are just giving up your negotiation edge
Nope, that's not how Twilio works. Yes, someone else sent a spam message, but Twilio did not forward it to "their customer's list" whatever that means. Twilio forwarded it to their customer's application, which was the end of the line for Twilio. At that point, their customer's application sent out that spam message to whoever was configured to receive it. As far as Twilio is concerned, the incoming and outgoing messages have no relation.
AI Dungeon (and its successors like novelai [1] and holoAI [2] following its infamous censorship purges and mutinies) is basically designed entirely around that problem and has a lot of clever solutions that let writers keep relevant context in memory in a story that is longer than the model's maximum input length.

* "Memory", which is a customizable block of text that is repeated at the top of each API input. If your story revolves around your character being a vampire who melts in the sunlight, you can include something like "you are a vampire who will die if you go out in the sunlight" in the memory, and even 1000 characters back a paragraph of context can prime the AI accordingly.

* "Author's Note", which is a customizable short block of text that is inserted invisibly a few lines before your current place in the story when it's sent to the API. A note such as "[A/N: The following section includes depictions of graphic violence]" or "The following section is written in Shakespearean old English", as obvious and blunt as it might seem, actually works surprisingly well for nudging the AI towards a certain style or content.

* "World Info", which is a customizable dictionary of short text blocks that are conditionally added to the top of the API input like memory when a certain key appears in the current context. Imagine you have a story with 10 important characters who cycle in and out of the story. If you create an entry in the world info about Bob, then when you write that "Bob appears from behind the shrub", the blurb about Bob is automatically tacked on to the context so long as Bob is mentioned by name in the last few dozen inputs.

In general, both GPT-3 and the open source alternatives by EleutherAI such as GPT-J-6B are able to use a context primer from 1000 tokens prior to affect the current tail of a story. It's actually kind of uncanny how good they are at it -- you can have a story that in the memory at the top says "goblins always have purple skin" and notice that the AI will mention it as an offhand detail much farther down in the context.

[1] https://novelai.net/
[2] https://writeholo.com/
> There are generally two main categories of tests. There are unit tests [and] Integration tests

Later on there is a mention of fuzzing. However, there is something better called property tests. Where the on failure there is automatic "shrinking" of input complexity to find a minimally failing test scenario.

For Erlang and Elixir I recommend https://propertesting.com/ book and the PropEr test framework https://github.com/proper-testing/proper.

As an example, here is the use of an advanced feature called targeted property based testing: https://proper-testing.github.io/tutorials/PropEr_testing_wi... used to test a labyrinth.

EDIT: as spockz mentioned below, the original idea was developed by QuviQ as QuickCheck http://www.quviq.com/products/erlang-quickcheck/. It's a commercial offering but there is a QuickCheck mini offered as a free download as well.
I am also a huge fan of Lamport. Paxos is so concise and of such beauty that once you understand it, all other consensus protocols seem just different ways of phrasing Paxos with additional features (e.g. membership changes, make it into a log, etc.). Paxos is the smallest, most elegant consensus building block that I have seen so far. Raft's protocol covers a much bigger area than just consensus (it gives you a log, supports reconfiguration, etc.). Paxos' entire protocol fits a single slide. Period.

I wrote a few posts about how to understand paxos, and this is my personal favorite – https://blog.the-pans.com/understanding-paxos/.

Lamport did comment on it (via email) saying that understanding Paxos is less important than proving it works (via TLA+).
Phosphorus is one of the more common elements on Earth. It's more common than carbon, sulfur, or nitrogen (to name 3 other elements essential to life):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Lower grade phosphorus-bearing minerals could also be refined to concentrate the phosphorus. But there's little current incentive to do so when the tried-and-true process starting with phosphate rock will be adequate for a couple more centuries.
> Younger folks are more interested in privacy.

I believe this.

I'd like to understand how, exactly, moving from a non-profit foundation's browser to a for-profit corporation's fork of that browser with a built in ad marketplace is a net win for my privacy. That seems like a net loss: the incentive is now to make money off of me, and the browser is actually running non-website code with that goal in mind.
There is no doubt that India will soon face a huge flood of Omicron infections
Edit: It was a series of errors. Please check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29830131
> what if crypto becomes anathema? What if accepting crypto or holding crypto starts become so closely associated with directly causing climate change, that no company is going to want to be openly associated with crypto, NFTs, etc due to the negative association?

This is how the current wave of “web3” marketing started: everyone in cryptocurrency saw the bad reputation building and, being keenly aware that the only value was what you could find a buyer for, started hawking “web3 and pumping up things like NFTs trying to find new reasons for people to put real money into the system.
Exactly. I watched one of his presentations. His burn rate is quite low since he needs many fewer inputs to farm.
Nope

I only got in because I happened to do the exact LeetCode questions asked the night before, and the questions relied on knowing special tricks

I really doubt when people say they got in to LC heavy companies without studying much, its more likely they just lucked out and got a question they happened to be able to solve

For any candidate you can create an arbitrarily hard/tricky LC question they won't get
When your decision impacts others (through health system overload), they’re not your medical decisions, these are community/social fabric decisions. Unless we’re going to triage hospital care for the unvaccinated to the back of the line, in which case I support vaccine choice (vaccinated myself, adult family members who aren’t). This is a group project we're being graded on.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7046a5.htm (Impact of Hospital Strain on Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, July 2020–July 2021)

https://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/covid-19-staggering-stati... (Staggering COVID-19 Statistic: 98% to 99% of Americans Dying are Unvaccinated)

https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/health-details.aspx?newsid=15... (Vaccines Work: 97% Of COVID Deaths, 95% Of Hospitalizations And 94% Of Cases Are Among Unvaccinated Pennsylvanians)

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1036023973/covid-19-unvaccina... (Unvaccinated People Are 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19, New Research Finds | September 10th, 2021)

https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/18/health-workers-overwhelm... (‘It’s soul-draining’: Health workers deployed to Covid hot zones are overwhelmed by deaths among the unvaccinated)

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination (Our World In Data: How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not?)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-us-hospital-icu-bed-short... (Veteran dies of treatable illness as COVID fills hospital beds, leaving doctors "playing musical chairs")

https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2021/9/14/22650733/u... (Americans are dying because no hospital will take them)
I mean the beacon chain is online, but the "merge" is always 6 months away. I think it's crazy to see so many billions locked up in a contract for software that hasn't been written yet, but hey, its all funny money anyway.
The non-proof-of-work schemes are all either small experiments or World of Warcraft gold with signatures.

I genuinely hope for the environment that other schemes work out, but we’re not there yet.
Read this before you start negotiating: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

It covers salary history and much more, all of it useful.
How drunk was he when he posted this? I’m thinking like a 9.
>Calling taxes "Being robbed by your government" is such a cliché

Tell me, where are you from? Do you have free access to other currencies where you live? Because I don't, and where I live we have 50% inflation (even 100% for groceries). It's not taxes when we don't get anything in return and we can't even save in the currency we are paid.

I'd like to see how you live here for a year.
I like it a lot this way actually, haha.
A keyboard tray helps since you can’t comfortably keep your eyes on a keyboard that’s under the desk.

Forcing myself to stop looking at the keys initially increased error rate to an unacceptable/demotivating level, but in a couple of weeks I was touch typing quite a bit faster than I could hunt and peck with no loss in accuracy.
They just chewed through a Rubbermaid tote to eat all my dog's treats. I had to break the bad news to her...
As a meta reply - it's quite funny to see this meme in textual form.
This was my first thought after I understood what locking down the world meant. I wonder if the death toll with be worth it in the final analysis.
No. I really think that people aren't taught to do this, or they feel that they're not allowed to. If someone brought this concern to me, I'd tell say: it's your life, define your goals and determine how you're going to reach them. Don't rely on an employer or anyone else to get you to where you want to be. They can't read your mind. If you're uncomfortable asking for more, then tell a future employer that you're uncomfortable asking for more, but you'd really like to discuss that possibility. Honest communication is key in those situations.
We often believe the opposite is true, so…why not?
Yes, they are. They count anyone admitted to a hospital in NYC, at any time, for any duration:

https://github.com/nychealth/coronavirus-data/blob/ced762b25...

> Hospitalization counts reflect the total number of people with COVID-19 ever admitted to a hospital, not the number of people currently admitted.

If you go to the ER and make it to a treatment area, you're admitted. These are bright-line distinctions. Nobody is making judgment calls on the data ("did this person really get admitted, or is it just someone in the ER for an hour? Let me look at the chart!") at this level of analysis.
Yeah, worked in medical billing for a while. It's insane. One particular example I remember was that there was one code for "blood pressure taken while patient lying down" and a completely different code for "blood pressure taken while patient sitting up" (rather than, say, one code for "blood pressure" and another for "patient position").
Sadly it is not: they still get taught, and then juniors come and they expert-beginner projects to death. And yes in 2022 expert-beginner is a verb! Cheers
It's not even good business practice you are paying for something that is essentially free if implemented in every other way. This is not creative this abusing a system going against their ToS and blaming them for your own failure. I am suggesting you ingest the received messages and distribute it any other way like a lot of twilio customers probably do. This is merely a hack and a bad one at that.
I'm sure it's that simple. You'll need big bucks to get a lawyer and prepare a compliant. The regulator will have bigger fish to fry. One or two people whining about "their" interview data is laughable. Your little complaint will land on the bottom of the stack, where it will stay, forever.
Some people do it for the lulz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
Variants disaggregated by locality within US:

https://outbreak.info/
The actual law says that all cars after a certain date should have a system that can:

"passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired; and prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected"

There is an OR for detecting high blood alcohol level.

There are a few years to get input, come up with preliminary rules, get more input, finalize the rules and give time for manufacturers to implement them.

This could save 10,000 lives per year and tens of billions of dollars per year.

The law says "prevent or limit operation". That is pretty broad.

If it is a breathalyzer, or a speed limiter when you are swerving over a 2 minute period, I am fine with that.

If it shuts you down for going over the speed limit for 10 seconds, or make an emergency maneuver, then I am not so happy. But that is why we have a representative form of government, and input on regulations.
If you'll forgive my use of an anecdote...

I stopped getting cavities when I started using a good electric toothbrush, not when I started drinking fluoridated water.

So no idea if the statistics bear this out, but personally I don't care much about the fluoride.
RSS is still used for podcasts. I use is every day.
I have stopped reading my news sites using my RSS reader... For reasons I have not thought about enough.
I'm hearing about eth moving to PoS since years now. It won't happen.
To be clear nobody is supposed to save in the currency they are paid, ever, anywhere on earth. I’m not saying that makes 50% inflation ok just that this not the argument. Not least because bitcoin has once again seen 50% inflation in the last 60 days.

Again though, why not USDC?
No, it doesn't. A video might help you _feel_ like you understand it but it doesn't really help you understand it. That's just not how distributed systems work.
That's incredibly unlucky! I know several people who got Covid pre-vaccine (including myself) and we're all still alive. Although it wasn't exactly a party and most of us (including myself) have been vaccinated since so we could be fairly certain we wouldn't get it again.
Awesome comment. I went from using Firefox (back when it was still called Mozilla) to Brave, mostly because of the Firefox/Mozilla org.
I’m not pro Bitcoin. I’m just pointing out that your tire burning scheme is the other 99.9%. You like those tires, but not these ones.
Authentication on RSS feeds is a thing, and I get RSS feeds from several premium subscriptions.
> Studies, including by friendly investigators have been done, fairly extensively. Not only is it clear why homeopathy shouldn't be able to work, it's also clear that it doesn't beyond placebo effect; not only do most studies show this, but meta-analysis shows that contrary findings and their apparent strength are directly tied to weaknesses of the studies involved.

Links? All of them?

ETA: https://www.hri-research.org/2021/12/rachel-roberts-promotes...

https://youtu.be/oACBheCzE9U

Etc. I don’t have to dig up stuff to reply to lazy responses when those interested can do so themselves. The quality of the discussion here on HN on this topic has been very disheartening to me and it’s simply mud slinging. I had hoped for a more rigorous and scientific discussion. The hostility..I find that interesting. I think we are done here. Have a nice day.
I just realized I made a mistake but can't edit it anymore: the last one should say "ösztrogén".
Good question!

We'll be deleting comments on dead links; I don't think they serve much purpose since they don't show up on the main site's aggregator, nor will people likely be visiting dead links with the extension installed.

There's quite a bit of funky edge cases with URLs actually, and we'll just keep chipping away at them based on the feedback we're getting!
A new language has been born in the Northwest
Amazing work, you guys rock.
Building this right now. No need for a specific client, every device and it's grandmother has a browser. Intermingling happens because the reader software for all the subscriptions is built into the website software that publishes it's own feed (or multiple feeds).
Hasn't that been a few months from launch since 2019?
I feel like the "West" [0] is a pretty clear referent and is not synonymous with "any source that disagrees with my position." What is it a dog whistle for?

> conventional wisdom

Talk about unclear referents! I question the existence of a universal "conventional wisdom" on political issues like these.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
Unbinare brings a reverse-engineering toolkit into recycling
I think it is still Java in bank cards. Even Apple Pay implemented all their thingies in Java.
Did you see the photos of him in the Wikipedia article linked?

Regardless of his intent, I can't imagine him thinking he'd do well in a "white ethnostate."
The roots of the problem you described are many. One is that there are very good unit test libraries out there, which encourages writing unit tests. That sounds good, and is a good starting point, but it often become the be-all end-all of testing.

In my experience working on many very large software, I have encountered one that was head and shoulder above the others in quality. This is not just a hunch. There were metrics tracked, thing like MTBF, and percent of sessions with clean exits, etc and this software was ridiculously better than the others.

The difference lied entirely on the fact that the better software had almost no unit test, but had 21K+ integration tests. I've worked on other software that also had more integration tests than average, and they too were of better quality.

The problem is making integration testing easy needs to be designed in from the start and requires not just one simple trick but multiple inter-locked design decisions that accumulate into making integration testing easy. In this particular case, one could write a new test just by using the software and a new test would be generated automatically. That's how you achieve writing 21k integration tests.

There are many unit test framework, but I've yet to see a generic integration framework. The reason is that integration tests are run with the whole software, so the whole software needs to be designed around them.
Most people don't understand that fertilizer is made from petrochemicals. It's not old-fashioned manure.

Not all fertilizer. But I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of it is made from chemicals.

Chicago's poop gets processed and spread on farms downstate, for example.

Just an hour ago I got a food delivery from a farmer who uses only her own livestock to fertilize her fields.

(As a side note, it's wonderful to see — since the pandemic — how many farmers where I live have set up web sites so they can deliver their goods from their farms straight to the doorsteps of people living the city, in addition to farmers' markets. So far, I get my beef, pork, eggs, some cheeses, and honey delivered right to my doorman. Still looking for a milk option that isn't raw, or $11.99/gallon.)
Not full up retro, but I remember one dial up BBS service in my local dialing zone had a 6 disc CD changer and the sixth disk was loaded full of porn. Downloading at 14.4kbps meant getting about 100kb per minute, but since even the high quality stuff was only 640x480 that wasn't so bad.

The big difference on the 8-bit micros is no Internet, so you would have to find someone physically selling the disc, which was very hard to find. Plus digital scanners were extremely expensive professional gear and digital cameras basically didn't exist. Production was seriously bottlenecked. Still, like life, porn finds a way.
Highlights:

* Finalsite provides hosting-- both of public websites and private (parent/faculty) portals -- to thousands of schools worldwide.

* There's been an outage now for 2 days.

* Only in the past few hours, they've shared that the cause of the outage was a systems compromise and ransomware.

* Finalsite claims they believe that no sensitive information was taken.
nasdaq is a kind of a biased source for this. I checked the linked article and it still doesn't answer the question. Energy usage was only for green house gases emissions and it was an estimate, and it doesn't include drilling or expanding new mines, like the one that's 4km deep under the surface.

The article still says:

>Galaxy Digital also showed that a significant part of the world's energy production is wasted — about 2,205 TWh per year which is 19.4 times that of the Bitcoin network.

>Cash and card (made available by banks) daily transactions are just on another level, more than 1 per person in EU for instance

Totally agree, like I said in another comment, I think BTC holds trading value and sentimental value, but should be replaced by any other from dozens of better adapted networks.
Governments across the world have debased the currency over the past decade which has especially accelerated since Covid. The inflation has finally started to take off. Most people in HN who are among the wealthy end of spectrum have no idea how inflation is affecting most people lives. Most are desperately looking for opportunities to make enough returns. They don't give much thought about climate change when they can't pay for education or medical bills.

While most shitcoins and NFTs will tumble, the topcoin rallies are not going to stop until the economy gets roaring back and inflation is controlled.
I wonder whether the credit card transaction energy includes the energy spent by thousands of bankers traveling to work each day in petrol powered cars to issue the fiat loans that fuel our modern currencies.
Of course it's luck based - it's mastermind with a preset number of mnemonic arrangements. I struggle with it too, but the problem with systems thinking is that you don't get to enjoy the magic which drives the fad.
This seems more my style too.

I notice that I can listen to rap and write code this way, but if I shift to trying to write a comment or a docstring then I just get stuck. Its like all English circuits are busy, please hold. But the effect goes away when I know the lyrics very well.
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I'm glad I'm a fast typer because I can spend less time replying to pointless emails.