skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to draw a comparison to obsessive compulsive behavior. The compulsion (which is often what drives use and relapse) is a learned behavior and one that is reinforced by the reward.

People with OCD often find the obsessive and repetitive behavior helps with anxiety, although the anxiety ends up reduced in the short-term, it worsens in the long term as the behaviors have negative consequences of their own (disruptive and time consuming, interfering with normal life activities, shame for lack of self-control).

We wouldn’t tell someone with OCD to just “quit doing that” (and for the person it would just increase anxiety to stop doing what helps their anxiety), but provide an alternative that addresses the core cause of the behavior (anxiety) and “unlearns” the harmful behavior, replacing it with self-help tools to address the core problems (anxiety) in ways that are less harmful and likely more effective in the long term. That can be done through a number of approaches, none of which are surefire and often take a few attempts.
This is exactly the attitude that moves us forward. "Us" not being just those who happen to get in early on the solutions to the solvable problems, but hopefully including everyone who can get a benefit from using truly decentralized services.
Well... Most Asian countries seem to only fail your definition because the situation there was mostly okay 18 months ago, so they didn't have room to improve.
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thank you for response
I think the kudos is only the „container“ for the value in dollars you transferred to it. So one kudos could be one dollar or 100 dollar. Its written down in the kudos. Did I get that right?
The pandemic is constantly reminding us how our institutions weeded out all agency and were running on inertia. Still are trying to, in fact.
Instead of cookie warnings, could every NFT/web3/crypt0 discussion be preceded by a warning about implicit trust?
It sounds like you did understand my two examples, not sure how they could have made no sense. The two scenarios point to competing ideas of what "secure" would mean, and my point was that security can't be a goal because its relative
Linus is my god :) dont like it? Switch off all your servers :) and as anyone he has right to be pissed off from time to time. From what ive read its not first time.

So youre nice 1 time, then 2nd time, then 3rd... And well then you loose your patience.

Dont take it personally, just shut up and fix that shit xD
Gambler's Fallacy is caused by the artificiality of roulette table. In nature and for the hunter-gatherers there were no roulette tables.
Why, yes, of course. I wonder if it's possible to run a children's defense organization, or a women rights one, or maybe an agriculture union, and get labeled as terrorist. That would qualify all money transfers to and from your entity as money laundering.

I wish I was making this up... https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/inside-israel-s-decision...
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OpenSea could very easily die. They have momentum, but not a lot of moat. They also don't have a lot of community good will. A well funded competitor could take them down quickly.

Might not happen, but as of now it definitely could.
If you wait until the employee has given their notice to begin their knowledge transfer, the company has completely lost the plot.

Not only are you asking to compress years of learning into a couple of weeks or months in the best case that they remember everything and want to turn over that knowledge, worst case is sometimes the person is just not available or has forgotten important chunks. And that's not even mentioning layoffs and firings.

Companies don't pay attention to knowledge transfer for the same reason they don't pay attention to technical debt and scope creep - no incentives to do so for the managers who would have to dedicate engineer time to it.
> Every user will have to pay for everything.

Ahahaha. No.

More seriously: if "everyone" pays it means there will be a few who are going to reap all the profits. Glorious future, indeed
fair point, clarified with an edit. (i.e. the standard is not "what were you doing 18 months ago", but "how prepared are you for schooling in a covid wave now vs how prepared you were 18 months ago")
Hard to tell whether it supports proper tail calls or not. The readme mentions Scheme, so it's not impossible I suppose! One of the nice things about wasm is the formal semantics; a project like this could benefit from one of those, too.
And what about all users that got their code fucked up? Yeah, that return statement was just a joke. Goes aggainst all good practices of programming.
That's a common idea in capitalist theory, but it's not necessarily true. The opposite of hoarding wealth is not poverty. If you don't hoard wealth, it doesn't disappear, it just becomes available to more people.

In most situations, money is a zero-sum game. Any wealth you make is by taking it from others. That's not fair or desirable.
End to end encryption and open protocol give user more control of their data and has the same decentralized feature as blockchain. It should be the future we should build.
In these systems you typically can list blobs based on prefix. If you shard blobs sharing prefix to different nodes that becomes difficult.
The article is written great and was enjoyable to read. I do have issues with how it is focused on NFT marketplace to the detriment of explaining what the real benefit of the blockchain/crypto is. Which I am going to try and explain to the best of my ability. Here goes. The article omits to mention that whatever is stored in the blockchain is immutable. This means that there is not google or Zuckerberg behind it all with ability to actually change what's on the chain as this is not possible at all. Instead the author focuses on the ability of OpenSea to remove things from their marketplace and also how it uses centralized apis to get the info. This, while true, is orthogonal to the immutable ledger use case which is still true.
Until recently the best Fortran compilers were proprietary, I guess having gfortran catching up and those adopting LLVM not wanting to be left behind has helped.
There is no issue to sell a used phone as long as the original owner removes ALL Google account BEFORE doing the factory reset. In that case you won't be asked to log in.

Yet this is still safe as you need your unlock code to remove an account, even if the phone is already unlocked
Thank you for having a look.

The reason MiniVM is so benchmark-oriented in its presentation is that MiniVM is ver benchmark-oriented in my workflow.

I have tried to find a faster interpreter without JIT. It is hard to find benchmarks that don't just say that MiniVM is 2-10x faster than the interpreted languages.
If the goal is to remove trust in a third party you would either need to code or verify the software before running it. Short of that and you still have to trust whoever coded it and all the distribution infrastructure that let you download it.
Very well raised points!

Having a cryptographer taking up this topic has become a rarity, and that says something. I have not delved into the NFT world much, although I am quite familiar with blockchains and smart contracts. I've argued with more knowledgeable colleagues and friends that there is not much meaning in "owning" the hash of a piece of art for various reasons - a) you don't possess the art and are the mercy of systems which you need to do anything with it, b) someone can make an imperceptible modification to the art and invalidate the hash while retaining full artistic value except perhaps as a pedantic statement ... and then some.

What baffled me is that the accepted protocol for NFTs currently just requires a URL, any URL! ... with no hash validation! How did the blockchain world get here? Well, perhaps a IPFS URL would be "best practice", but it is shocking that currently any URL with no content validation goes! It should be impossible to mint an NFT for a URL with no content validation.
GCD Grid on the Front Cover
> When you think about it, OpenSea would actually be much “better” in the immediate sense if all the web3 parts were gone. It would be faster, cheaper for everyone, and easier to use.

I really love this idea. Why doesn't a company with already established authority (say, Google) build this? An NFT-free NFT marketplace. That would be hilarious, as well as probably useful.

Or maybe someone else than an established player, but then with some mechanism to compensate for the lack of intrinsic authority. For example, a database with a hash of the whole db stored on a blockchain. To keep costs low, the hash could be stored only every x inserts (or, for a fee, one could force a hash store after a given transaction).
What high performance BLAS do you have written in Fortran? I don't know of one (though I think I could write one with decent performance on simple targets). It seems the rule that this will come up whenever Fortran is pushed, though I don't want to disparage Fortran after so long.
How do I disable fingerprinting via my browser's cookie settings? How do I disable other tracking technologies?

GDPR applies to all tracking, not just cookies. My browser's settings don't, and can't.
That's my understanding of it. Kudos is like a gift card.
Why update at all if the current version pass all tests though?

So in order to update a dependency you must first write a test that fail on current version and is green on updated version.
This used to be the case, but it's not true any more.

For example, previously Amazon S3 performance guidelines recommended randomizing prefix naming with hashed characters to optimize performance for frequent data retrievals. You no longer have to randomize prefix naming for performance, and can use sequential date-based naming for your prefixes.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimi...
It took you 5 minutes to find the info because you knew what you were looking for.

Expecting programmers to audit all of their code before a minor update is ridiculous.
>> I never wanna hear you say, "I want it that way" <<

Probably?
People are certainly free to use alternatives, but if they aren't spinning up their own nodes what will they be using, another centralized node service? Most people aren't going to run their own node and for good reason, its expensive and profitless. Sure a cryptographic/economic layer on top of Ethereum could incentivize people to run nodes and have users pay for decentralization, but at the end of the day people will use Infura or a competitor because it is cheaper, and when these companies control who gets transactions they also influence who can make blocks.

Ethereum is fundamentally flawed in this sense - it only pays for mining (and in the future, staking). The work of routing and storing data is done by the most prolific miners and businesses reliant on Ethereum to keep it from collapsing; there is no sustainable model where a decentralized cohort of nodes can run Ethereum without fundamentally changing how Ethereum pays for infrastructure.
There is only 3 ways that i can think of. Either forget/lose the routine without thought, or observe/choose to quit, or being deprived by others.

Only the realisation and choice is definitive. Thats the quit. There is no try. I decided to quit once.

If your quit failed, you just didnt fully realise yet.
It’s even more worrying once you consider that both NPM and GitHub are owned by the same company.
Could not agree more... strong post. Moved from Chicago to Texas in 2020 and have been grateful for in-person schooling from the onset of the move. Watching my son's 60 year old 1st grade teacher stumble through hours of zoom was what did it for me.

Sadly, fear porn still has concerned parents forcing their kids to mask up, outdoors - even in Texas. My heart breaks for them.
I don't think that's what money laundering means. Surely it would be “financing terrorism” or something, rather than money laundering (which is about faking / hiding a paper trail)?
I am only interested by money aspect of crypto and especially on ability to fund companies easily via labor (actually that worked well in Communism). Will see if central bank currencies will allow for the same. That could be big boost to economy and big hit to VCs so I expect this to come from EU.

All those creator economy apps show that there's a need to democratise economy. I am again tempted to quote hustlers here.
Privacy does strongly imply the potential to effectively evade taxation (if one chooses), however, although it does not of course imply freedom from tax obligations under a defined legal code.

It's sort of how the right to keep and bear arms does imply freedom from government overreach. Privacy rights are similar. They can be used to do things contrary to the desires of the state, if the end user wishes, but having transactional privacy no more means one will be evading taxes than having a rifle means one will be murdering government employees as a revolutionary, though in both cases the option is there.
You are not buying a "product". You are buying a license to use the software under some conditions one of which could be that if you use it year after year you must pay more.

Nobody is "forcing you" to pay for updates, they are selling you a license. And since they are the seller they can write the terms of the sale.
David Lancashire has given numerous interviews on the subject of Ethereum's issues around node operation.
It requires a change in mindset from “efficiency first” to “robust first”.
That’s a tough learning curve for trad web devs, the best web3 dev I know comes from aerospace engineering where resilience and redundancy are part of the process.

But ultimately succeeding in making something that can live in the sometimes hostile environment on chain means you make something that can last and is reliable. There can be awkward UX issues with that though.

Relying on stable gas fees won’t work because the network has to have a priority list when it’s busy, so those willing to pay more will be prioritised and you’ll be stuck. If you want to inherit the properties of the chain that are why you would build on it in the first place then you have to work to those constraints.
Good sentiment but so so tricky to get the wording right. You've got to write a sentence so perfect the fraudster can't pervert it or persuade the victim to ignore it.

For your example, the fraudster could say "yes, your account is being targeted by criminals, that's why I'm calling you". The warning inadvertently backs up their story
> To be clear, there is nothing particularly “distributed” about the apps themselves: they’re just normal react websites. The “distributedness” refers to where the state and the logic/permissions for updating the state lives: on the blockchain instead of in a “centralized” database.

This is one way to do it, but ideally you would host the site on IPFS so that you don't have a web server involved at all.
As much as C11, C++11, Java 11, C# 8, Python 3, and later exist in the wild.

After a certain threshold is very hard to get people to move on when the IT managed compilers just work, and coding isn't a full time activity.
A lot of what teachers do is exactly just that—basically talking at the pupils, as if they were vessels who are supposed to have their heads filled up with knowledge.

Proper learning is supposed to be more active and pupil-directed. Look at the Deweyite schools in America.

If you find that to be a belittling description then I’m sorry, but that’s largely what teachers do. And it’s been critiqued for a long time by thoughtful people who care about pedagogy, so you can’t simply dismiss it as some kind of “woe be the state of education” phenomenom.
Author here, Tail calls can be implemented in MiniVM bytecode. There was once an instruction that performed a tail call, It bit-rotted due to not being used.

MiniVM is moving very quickly currently. A lot still needs to be done, like JIT and optimizers.

Eventually a formal specification of MiniVM should happen, just not yet as things are changing too fast.
I wonder what will happen when shipping switch to e-fuels (or any other non fossil), will it be produced on ports directly or shipped again?

Some links:

* Maersk Makes $1.4B Bet on Methanol Ships https://gcaptain.com/maersk-new-methanol-ships/

* financing https://gcaptain.com/maersk-issues-first-green-bond-to-help-...

* engine https://www.man-es.com/company/press-releases/press-details/... "This is a massive milestone as these engines will be the largest methanol-burning engines ever constructed. They will be based on their well-proven 50-bore counterpart, which has already been in our engine portfolio for some time gathering more than 100,000 running hours on methanol alone."

* https://www.iea-amf.org/app/webroot/files/file/Annex%20Repor...

* https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2021/08/24/maersk-accel... "" In the first quarter of 2024, A.P. Moller - Maersk will introduce the first in a groundbreaking series of 8 large ocean-going container vessels capable of being operated on carbon neutral methanol. The vessels will be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and have a nominal capacity of approx. 16,000 containers TEU""

* https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2021/08/18/maersk-secur... ""The methanol facility will use renewable energy and biogenic CO2 to produce the e-methanol. The fuel production is expected to start in 2023. The energy needed for the power-to-methanol production will be provided by a solar farm in Kassø, Southern Denmark. "

* process https://info.topsoe.com/emethanol "The required electrical input will depend on how the hydrogen is sourced, and whether the methanol process is integrated into an existing plant or a stand-alone plant. If the hydrogen is sourced from an electrolysis unit, the power consumption (for hydrogen generation only) will be approximately 10.5 MWh per ton methanol."

* process https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/methanol-sy... "Transport Fuel, Arno de Klerk, in Future Energy (Third Edition), 2020 "Methanol synthesis, Eq. (10.9), is a very exothermic reaction" "With water-cooled reactor designs, higher once-through conversion is possible,"
Everyone is a middle man,ARM doesn't own factories.
Do you think Cardano can aliviate some of the clear issues we are seeing with Ethereum? I've been reading a lot for the past two weeks and I must say I'm close to start developing stuff in Cardano.
The value of the nft drops to near zero if it’s not accepted on dominant popular marketplaces
A central authority can be advantageous, until it becomes dysfunctional or prioritizes its own interests over the interests of those it serves.
> my brother had managed to install two 3rd-party anti-virus programs on top of Windows Defender

Well, uhm, I knew for a fact that proprietary antivirus software for Linux* makes the system unstable, and two of them will crash the whole system. I know that Windows has ELAM APIs, but I'm still impressed on some of my relatives' computer on how their computer still runs despite having McAfee/Norton and Avast (for example).

* The kind that closely matches Windows' (aka with real-time scanning), not ClamAV scanning mail attachments.
Your feelings are really not relevant here, because any country will do whatever they can get away with. See China, the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia for examples.

So if the Dutch want to "go isolationist" and their laws and European laws allow that, then they do get to do it.
Regarding 2, France is still not in lockdown despite having a much higher number of cases per capita than the US (400k cases for 66M people last monday), and schools are run to the ground in a similar manner than what is described in the reddit post, if not worse (they relaxed the isolation and testing rules very recently). edit: maybe you were referring to the "vaccine pass", but since vaccinated people can have and transmit the virus, it is not helping at all (the stated goal being to annoy the non-vaxxed people to death and nothing else).

Lockdown is not being implemented because "omicron is mild". We have a somewhat good vaccination rate despite the strong antivax movement, but that is still leaving millions at risk, not in small part thanks to our asinine so-called leadership.
I'm fine with you dropping the principles of decentralization and accepting that the current situation is ok.

You can construct many great arguments that the increased centralization is a good thing, or that the upsides are better than the downsides.

What I take issue with is attempts to classify ethereum "Full Nodes" as more than what they are. Yes, they technically contain all the information requires to reconstruct an archival node (at least until statelessness becomes a thing).

They are simply not anywhere near the same thing, and attempts to brand them as the more or less same thing just comes across as denial.
In my testing (years ago, don't have the data) there was no detectable difference between PKs of the uuid and bigint types in my application, but there was a difference between uuid and int (int was faster). uuid is 16 bytes, bigint is 8 bytes, int is 4 bytes, so at some scale there will be a performance difference.
I used Minitel for many years. It worked well.
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I tracked every minute of my time several years ago, for about a year. The shock of how much time I was spending playing Battlefield is what helped me kick video games.
Incrementing major version number usually means breaking changes so it's the latter.
That's interesting, what was his name and where can I read more about it?
No, in a real deployment, the denomination will not be KUDOS, but USD, or EUR. You just pay 100 EUR to the bank, the bank issues you, for example, 100 digital coins of 1 EUR each. And you pay with these coins (simplified, there are different sized coins and a mechanism for giving change) It's more like paypal or visa than like bitcoin in this regard.
See also: http://www.offlineimap.org/
No personal experience, but maybe start with the "mix" playlist from Haltech's YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPjIS9Tg83M&list=RDCMUCU8HZc...
I believe it's hard to appreciate the frustration and costs that closing schools causes, at least for children to be too young to be left without supervision.

I can't think of any other measure that gets even close. The effects of restaurant closures can be mitigated by throwing money at the problem. If you have to stay home and take care of children, your career will suffer even if you are compensated for lost income.

There really isn't an easy solution to it. Maybe getting creative on the local level would help: taking turns among a (small) group of parents, or hiring a single person to take care of maybe 5 or 6 kids. Maybe getting the older children to watch the younger ones, etc. But everything comes with its own drawbacks, usually by reintroducing pathways to spread.

One measure that seems to be missing, and that I cannot find fault with right now, is changing structures to keep classes fixed, possibly with only a single teacher (per week?). For younger children, it's quite possible for, say an English teacher to also teach biology. Having fixed classes is also common in many countries. It means you can't accomodate electives, of course.
Redefining a word to only be offensive is silly. Some words are bad, full stop. Other words have definitions that pre-date their offensive usage and are still used in regular speech.

Pointing this out to someone looking to be offended is an attempt to fight back at that nonsense. The original comment asking to use a different word was unnecessary and not relevant to the discussion in any way.