skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So "decentralized" doesn't necessarily mean "no servers" it means "the servers don't matter". If Infura went down tomorrow, nothing would be lost, because Infura was just hosting something anyone could have hosted. You want to be the next Infura? You just download the same code they did and run it: Infura isn't holding any state. If Facebook goes down tomorrow, everyone's accounts and all of their data is destroyed.
Thanks, looks super interesting.
Its a bit of a well kept secret. It does not represent maliciousness on the part of Ethereum or centralized node providers - its a consequence of the network doing nothing to compensate for nodes to deliver data to-and-fro. Miners and businesses stand to lose if the whole network crumbles, so the bare minimum is done to supply nodes, which means centralized node hosting.

A fully scalable, sustainable and decentralized network compensates all infrastructure important to the network, which means mining (consensus) and transaction/data routing. A nice side effect of rewarding data transmission is that you incentivize speed, so scalability can happen naturally with no conflicts of interest between miners and users.
Glibc has this strange attraction to having SIMD everything for SIMD friendly functions even though average length to these functions is generally less than 16
>youtube basic linux tutorials

Well i don't help with that, it's too slow and not searchable, the linux terminal is text and so are manpages...on the other-hand i also don't care if someone wants to use a *nix.
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Indeed and price i pay is that I pay my taxes and do not vote. Freedom of speech remains. People's freedoms of assembly or thought have never been curtailed contrary to what a lot of media outside Poland makes it look like.

I consider my bad mouthing a service because contrary to what might look like, Poland's path is very similar to Portugal. The only difference is that Portugal has good diplomacy(another failure of the current rulers). Rule following, strong institutions and checks and balances are all for foreigners to see in Portugal. Portugal has the gall to diplomaticly promote integration of foreigners and refugees, to then beat them to death on government premises.

More, the model of putting the working class' wealth working for subsidies for the elders and non workers voting blocks is a classic move in Portugal. Everybody knows the population is aging and that the elderly's priorities are low catch fruit,due to their needs being short term in nature.
Poland has everything to not fall into the middle income trap, specifically a very highly educated work force and a strategic position between a lot of prosperous countries.

To finalize i owe no allegiance to socialism and left the country exactly to remove myself from its vice. I find it hard to believe you conflate birth with ideological allegiance. I owe no allegiance to no institution but my family and myself. Unfortunately I did not choose where I am born not where my family is. If we did not have roots here and the language barrier in other European countries was not significant we could have packed, and already froze further commitments here unsure a polexit would wash away our way of living. One thing I picked up from polish experiences in world War 2 is that one should be ready to flee. I call it living like a jew after world War 2. Do not get caught.

I like a lot to live here and would not return to Portugal except on vacations with family and friends and even then...
You either have to dig through your change to find the exact change, or wait while he gets your change... either way is annoying.

Also, if you break a dollar bill and get change, that change will likely end up in a change jar, which keeps it out of circulation for you and also takes time to wrap into rolls to trade in (they didn't have coinstar back then)
Curious, does anyone know software that could generate body sizing for an individual based in image stills or video taken from a normal mobile phone? Essentially creating a 3d human model but with high degree of accuracy.
Yes, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have very illegal content. So far, nobody cared about this aspect.
>though, because that's not possible in their heterogeneous architecture

Nobody asks them to enable both AVX-512 and E-cores. People want them to not disable the mode that already works today -- P-cores only mode with AVX-512. There are no OS or driver reasons to not do that.
could you elaborate more on the pandas bugs?
Enigma Machine in Excel
Which today is an Amazon distribution center…
Linux desktop is very big in VFX at least.
"Can you check this part of your code against our YAGNI principle?" seems sufficiently passive-aggressive for software.

But everything from the language used to the memes to the emoji-splosion on the page made me miss Angelfire because it was peaceful in comparison.
Web 2.0? It doesn't exist (2005)
I have a rule which searches for the keyword OTP in incoming SMSes so not all messages get forwarded.

With this Shortcut her information is posted to a url, iOS requires the user to click okay to execute the action. So, you still have control on whether a message gets broadcast or not.

E.g., if a friend messages me asking “hey, did you get the OTP?”, my shortcut will prompt me to broadcast the SMS via the url but I can choose not to.
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Lukashenko and Tokayev talked about the situation in Kazakhstan
> What surprised me about the standards was that there’s no hash commitment for the data located at the URL.

I hear a lot that some of the smartest people work on web3/blockchain/crypto.

It blows my mind that the NFT standard doesn’t enforce a content hash. I genuinely thought that was part of the standard.

How did no one foresee that content at a URL can change?
Isn’t it a lie to to invite folks to a lecture where it’s understood that you will lie, only to tell the truth instead?
If you could keep an acceleration of 1g, it would take about 40 days to accelerate to 0.12c, and as much to decelerate.

The problem, of course, that with a Bussard ramjet, you won't be able to achieve nearly as much acceleration.
Those neighborhoods are architecturally unique make up a tiny amount of the housing supply. Trying to place mass produced random crap under historical protection is just another form of NIMBYism.
I should add that the WebSub (previously PubSubHubBub) spec goes some way toward spackling over the gap between raw webhooks and what's needed for long-lived TCP-like relationships. https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
At least Windows has audio.
Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-Ordering Go Struct Fields (2020)
if you do this often and want some automation, `git absorb` [1] may be worth a look. it will try to find lines that can be unambiguously attributed to a diff based on when the line and its surrounding lines are last modified, and then generate fix-up commits or amend existing ones.

[1]: https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb
> That sucks, up till now we have "too bad you got delisted from this platform, all your content is gone". But that isn't the case here, his contract is still on chain, and will work with anyone who calls it

Well, it is still "content on a platform", which is Ethereum. If another blockchain comes into existence and most people say that this new blockchain is the source of truth for digital ownership, your old NFTs are worthless, because nobody cares about old Ethereum.

The same is true for wallet apps. If 90 % of people use one specific thing (OpenSea) and think that only this thing is the source of truth, it simply doesn’t matter that your NFT is technically on the chain.

The sense of ownership and the value comes purely from where the attention is right now – and this being the internet, everything can change.

Compare this to the physical world. Here, the attention and trust is in your local laws. If this changes, you can lose ownership (government seizing properties).

The solution is actually to acknowledge that there is no ownership without society.

With Ethereum, people want to build another society, again based on trust/attention. That society has not much overlap to the physical world.

It is not much different than any group of people doing a thing together, like say, an open source project, a clan in EVE or whatever with the only difference that web3 enthusiasts think their hobby has some link to the real world.
There are of course exceptions but mostly finding wealthy targets to rob or kidnap is not an issue for criminals. I'd argue that the opposite is a bigger issue for criminals in the US: plenty of people pretending to be rich that are deep in debt.

Finland and Norway have plenty of rich people walking around without protection and completely unarmed. Kidnappings are not a regular thing in those countries nor are they getting robbed regularly. They might install burglar alarms on their properties though.
If your solution is to trust the Internet Archive, why not just skip the blockchain part?

Any hash can match virtually unlimited number of different turd images.

And even if you trust the hash function to never be broken or brute forced with future technology, it can only verify the image, not prevent it from being deleted or altered, rendering the NFT broken and useless. Verifiably broken and useless, but still...
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That’s today. The prognosis when the behavior change you’re referring to happened was much different.
Conquerors and national movements of the past should have had more ecological awareness.
Never click the link in an email to access your account, never trust a caller who calls you first, you call them.

And don't use the number from the email.
You're being disingenuous, when people(including the comment you're replying to) say "memory" when they're talking about people they obviously don't mean the same thing as when you're talking about a computer. He's clearly referring to his longterm recall which is directly analogous to "hard disk" as you put it.
One might argue that you shouldn’t need a manual to do many of the things on Linux you definitely need a manual for.
Not really.

The barrier to hosting your own email is that you'll spend a day configuring everything, and a year later, the big providers will slightly change a spam detection algorithm, your mail won't be delivered, you won't know, and there will be bad consequences for you.

The barrier to changing your git origin is spending five minutes setting up an account and repo somewhere else. Everything will work absolutely fine, you'll still have all your git history, you'll just be slightly less discoverable and some potential contributors might not want to create an account.
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How would you introduce this breaking change if you were the maintainer?

Maybe this:

1. In the first release, introduce a config value which enables the new behavior.

2. In the next release, print a warning or refuse to compile if the config option is not set.

3. In the final release, make the new behavior the default.

Plenty of time to adjust your code to the new behavior even if you don't read the changelogs. But it won't work if several releases are skipped during updates.
Oh, that's amazing! Thanks for the reply :)
I did this years ago and lost some weight doing it at the time, but the basic premise of "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" is provably not true. The body's metabolism plays a massive part in determining how many calories are consumed, and this in turn is driven by availability. Long term calorie deficit will result in your body learning how to operate more efficiently, and slow down your weight loss.

I've also tried low-carb twice, the first time I lost a reasonable amount pretty quickly, but gained it back over a few years when I reverted to a normal diet, and the second time when I shifted to intermittent fasting as I went back to a more normal diet.

There's lots of good advice available if you search for intermittent fasting, but the key take away is that insulin is produced in response to excess carbohydrates, and not only promotes storage of carbohydrates as fat, but also inhibits burning existing fat. Of course, if you are at a calorie deficit, you'll probably still lose weight especially with regular small amounts, because the insulin effect will be low, but if you have few carb-heavy meals, your body will still create a lot of insulin to get rid of all the carbs, and then after you work through the hunger phase after that's happened, then you will start converting that fat back to energy, and in a calorie restriction situation hopefully burn more than you need.
I would recommend using openSUSE MicroOS.
As usual in biochemistry, it is the dose that makes the poison. But also mode of consumption.

We are indeed well adapted to consuming fruit. Even though modern fruit is bred to be much more sugary than its natural predecessors (ever tried eating a wild apple from a tree on a hike? Insanely sour), there does not seem to be any kind of health problem associated with consumption of raw fruit. We have a lot of metabolically sick people around the world - over a billion probably - but few of them, if any, have gotten to that point by eating too much fruit.

Fructose is not fruit, though. Even very sweet fruit like mango has only 16 per cent of fructose per weight. Fructose itself is 100 per cent, it is refined, concentrated stuff, from which all fiber has been removed.

Fiber that naturally occurs in fruit and veg slows down processing of fruit and veg in the digestive system - it takes fairly long (hours) to extract all the fructose from an eaten piece of fruit. As a result, the liver isn't overworked - it receives manageable quantity of fructose over a long period.

Now compare a situation when you drink a litre of sweetened beverage. That is a lot of fructose - you just drank an equivalent of seven? eight? apples in half an hour or so. And all that sugar comes in liquid form, so it enters your blood very fast, producing a huge spike. The liver is overwhelmed. It can cope somehow, but do this ten thousand times and some negative outcomes are bound to follow.

There is a scientist (Robert H. Lustig, professor of endocrinology at UCSF) who, more than a decade ago, published a long video called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth". It is stuffed with various biochemical observations and longish, but I found the information useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
> There can’t be a replacement for industry standard tools (like Word, Excel, Illustrator, Premiere) unless the replacement becomes the new standard

I thought about this in the past and disagree. You can already see it with google docs. Office file format interop is becoming irrelevant because the new format is just an url you point your browser to. I worked at a company that used gdocs and had a total of 0 complaints about sending customers a link to a gdoc instead of a docx attachment. There is no need for an industry standard anymore.

As for adobe tools, ok they might still be an issue currently.
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Hi everyone, I'm a freelancer in python, and I want to learn other things. currently, I only know python, js. what other technologies that will help me move forward?

P.S. I'm not a professional in python, and I probably need to learn it more. but I just want a new useful thing.
It is very refreshing to see this from a primarily technical angle.

In common with many HN-ers, I actually did a lot of cryptocurrency and blockchain dev work 5+ years ago, and was actually very exited about it at first, before realising what was behind the curtains. It is a similar story with many early Bitcoin developers, including one famously describing it as an experiment that failed[0]. I also get the distinct impression that the vast majority of pro-cryptocurrency people on HN at the moment are relatively new[1].

I stopped looking at it primarily from a technical angle because I realised that, firstly, the technology isn't anywhere nearly as useful as some people make out and might never be able to do the things which are promised, but secondly and more importantly, the technology really isn't the important part - what matters is the belief that technology might work, and sustaining that belief for long enough to make money. Moxie hints at this when he says "you can’t stop a gold rush".

There were an increasing number of people at the tech meetups etc. who knew nothing about the technology. Many were gamblers, refugees from the 2011 "Black Friday"[2], who knew full well that many of the schemes they were putting money into would never work or were even out-and-out scams, but they enjoyed the thrill of trying to get in and out and make money before the collapse.

The was also a growing sense of people being involved just to be anti-establishment. The ironic thing is that, back in 2008, you could make a reasonable case that the established banks were the bad guys and the cypherpunks were the good guys, but the situation has now definitely reversed - the banks have cleaned up their acts considerably (anyone who has worked in one for a long time will say how completely different the cultures are now vs then) with new regulations (e.g. Dodd-Frank) and most have plans to become carbon neutral, etc., and it is all the cryptocurrency scammers and fraudsters and climate-destroyers who are the bad guys now.

But there is more to it than that. There was also an increasing undercurrent of very non-technical people coming in and trying to exploit the technologists excited to work on the next new and shiny thing. I know that kind-of thing happens with everything, but this was much deeper and more malicious than in other contexts.

So while the technology isn't the important part, it is useful to be reminded of the intractable problems with the technology.

[0] https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experi...

[1] Yes I know there may be exceptions, but just for example compare all the newbie comments on the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29635907 with the highly technical ones on the related post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365663 from 8 years ago (including "I'm one of the thieves mentioned").

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
Is it very difficult to set up a good event listening architecture? It doesn't seem very difficult from the outside, but I would like to read about bad experiences.
You seem to readily assume there is such a thing as universally "illegal" content. Can you elaborate? Who decides what is "illegal"? Which jurisdiction? Who enforces it?
In addition to playing I use Foobar2000 for tagging, ripping, managing and converting.
Even with time stamped signatures you can clone the signature onto a fake watch.
It was a good meassure when there weren't any alternatives.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lockdowns-idUSK...
The etymology seems sort of different.
I disagree with your conclusion that the odds remain 2/3 even if the host doesn’t know where the prize is. If that were the case, it would mean that if the same scenario is repeated many many times, then in 2/3 of the cases you would still pick the door with the prize with the same strategy. But what about the instances where the host picks the door with prize before you even get a chance to pick the other door? These cases happen with a probability of 2/3 * 1/2 = 1/3. Therefore, you only get to choose in 2/3 of the cases and in 1/2 of those cases you have already picked the correct door the first time.
Yeah, the scenario is often stated ambiguously. The important points:

1) The prizes are placed behind the doors before the game begins.

2) The host will open a door regardless of whether the contestant have selected the door with the prize or not.

3) The door to open is always selected from the remaining doors. The host will never open the door the contestant selected.

4) The door is not selected at random. The host knows where the prize is, and will only open a door without a price.

The counter-intuitive part is not the probabilities, it is the rules the host operates. Some of the rules (2,3) depends on the host not knowing or ignoring where the prize is, while some (4) depend on the host using the knowledge of where the prize is.
I also lived next to a high school. Anecdotally I can say that the amount of kids being driven to school has risen. There is a huge traffic jam now every morning, people in the nearby buildings have adapted to either leave 30min before or after the traffic jam. It definitely wasn't as bad when I was a kid.
Here, public transport is super normal way to go to school, work, whatever. High schoolers generally do manage to catch those busses. Middle schooler do manage to catch those busses.

Once in a while someone comes in late. But, it is not that regular thing. Most of them in fact catch busses just fine.
IIRC this happened years ago on the bitcoin blockchain. I guess that nobody seems to care about that data being shared across every full wallet because bitcoin's primary use case is too remote from data sharing ?
This is in rats.

By way of perspective, a hamster can drink the equivalent of 21 bottles of wine in a single day with impunity.

https://twitter.com/LawtonTri/status/1461456068857499652

A rodent's sugar metabolism might just be different to a human's.
Haha, this was the best thing I read today :)))
I would argue what mainstream stores would call "asian"/exotic, like dragon fruit.
Devs prefer webhooks because it's easier to write edge triggered logic than to fetch the full state and calculate the diffs.

The webhook doesn't have to actually be edge triggered though, you just want it to look that way for the user.

I would compare this to tcp/udp vs ip. When writing apps it's convenient to have lower level protocols do the transmission and error handling for you.

I think about this a lot with robusta.dev where we run edge triggered webhooks and actions for Kubernetes. We're letting developers write edge triggered logic, but it's extremely desirable to provide higher level guarantees that triggers will run eventually even if the moment of transition was missed
In this regard, my favorite is to read about direct game [1], how to touch people when conversing (on the shoulders and arms etc.), learning how to dance bachata [2] and doing meditation. Trying to figure this out when traveling was even more awesome. I'm not 18 anymore for a long time, but before I got onto a bunch of long-term relationships (3 years or more), this was my final style. Relationships seem to be a very different beast.

[1] Last time I checked "60 years of challenge" seemed to have a good philosophy on this style

[2] Not salsa, bachata is more intimate and teaches you a thing or two
Nope, that wasn’t the only alternative. If it was really meant for seniors, they should’ve made it age-based, and they should’ve set reasonable limits - the yearly tax exemption should’ve been set at a 1 bedroom condo level, with them paying whatever the excess is. This would’ve encouraged the behavior many seniors in other places engage in - downsizing when their kids leave home, to allow family-sized housing stock to open up for people with growing families.

And they certainly shouldn’t have made the tax exemption inheritable. And it shouldn’t apply to corporations.

As it’s designed, the whole “don’t let seniors lose their homes” argument is pretty obviously just political cover for a pretty egregious wealth transfer scheme.

No argument about the pension liability problem, CA’s governance issues are a big reason we decided not to put down roots long term. Prop 13 is one of the bigger examples of that, in our minds.
> perfect for two groups of people: the nearly computer illiterate, and coders

But what if their children all use FaceTime to communicate?

I think the illiterate place is already taken by Apple.