skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay so now suppose that some one finds a way to break the hash function used in a way that allows to quickly compute partial collisions.

This person is able to mine valid blocks very quickly because they can have a number of zeros at the beginning of their hashes thanks to the vulnerability they found.

So they do what you're saying and rewrite history. In a few minutes, they start with block (N - 10), and rebuild an alternative chain up to block N and then add two new blocks so their version of the chain in longer.

Yes, what is supposed to happen, in theory and according to you, is that their version of the chain will prevail.

What would happen in practice? People would notice. A fork will be decided. Such things have happened with blockchains already, either the community, or worse, the developers, decided against the rogue version to hard switch to the original version. And everyone except the attacker will agree…

So I repeat: the only way to actually modify the recorded history is to do so discretely. And that requires computing full hashes collision. Even for a single one it is much much expensive than mining hundreds if not thousands of blocks.

Another point: if PoW is what guarantees immutability, what about PoS blockchains?

The truth is: PoW and PoS are not immutability mechanisms, they're adversarial distributed consensus mechanisms: i.e., complex ways of selecting someone at random such that no one else can dispute the choice.
Show HN: Pip – Connects Web3 to social media, making it accessible to everyone
You've never authored a SQL query that does things like check special functions that don't exist in a table?

For example:

select @@version
What if a random old guy she didn’t know commented that exact message?

I don’t think the mother would be as accepting then, so it also matters who posts the comment to who
My favourite of these was “stick your carrot in my fluffy bunny”. Humans are good at coming up with new ways of “being toxic”.
OK, I don't have any data either but I'd be pretty surprised if there were a lot of murders by people trying to acquire cocaine. I mean, it could be true?

If you were seriously addicted but not high at the time, I expect you might feel agitated, but also kind of sorry for yourself / miserable and not so much in a murdering frame of mind.

Large amounts of money (which large amounts of cocaine can be exchanged for), on the other hand...
Shhh don't tell them, let them stay unambitious. It makes it easier for the rest of us.
Governments should commit to creating this type of SuperClusters designed for AI workloads with the latest technology every 2-3 years for academic use.

It is really peanuts for US government or EU.
So are we poised for a really extended winter or depressed summer?
Some of us were in Kindergarten about then so we would have missed the original Show HN for that. Glad to have found it eventually though.
Does skipping sleep during finals affect your ability to recall the material long term?
You don't need them to understand it. You need them to repeat the right words after donating to their campaign. That's how everything works.

So you would be against crypto getting bailed out by the government?
It wasn’t a paper test and cramming. I had to create a product from scratch. I could have made a simpler product but I’m type a and challenged myself. 3D modeling, waiting for a 3D printer to complete, designing and manufacturing creating circuit boards, programming them, setting up a server, modifying the printed case by hand to insert glass, iterating when tolerances aren’t right. …it was a lot of work.

But now I get to make cool shit for a living.

Honestly believe if you give me enough time and money I can make anything. Worth it.
This is precisely my point. Rest of the world tests, they test actual exhaust emissions, and there are regulations and penalties.

US on the other hand legislated computer DRM "for engines" because its cheaper/faster, anything beyond is a super special case. My favorite is actual tailpipe test commercial trucks must pass in NY - they test opacity of gas aka "is the smoke visible?" :o and look for physical presence of all mandated emission hardware for that model/year/exemption status. All of that theater instead of using proper exhaust gas analyzers.

>Parts and computer test equipment is readily available.

Can you download standalone John Deere service software? or did you mean signing up for their paid SAAS package?
https://archive.is/EaIsU
And in modern day, we have FDA, which is a very-tough-to-get-by filter for public medication.
That is a great example of irony.
I devoured Star Control II as a kid. It was such a great combination of the adventure, simulation, exploration and arcade shooter genres. I had the strategy guide that came with a huge map that detailed all the secret locations. I enjoyed the fighting bits but I think they feel a bit dated today. The other parts still hold up quite a bit!

In the 90s there were a lot of games that did interesting combinations of genres, like Star Control II, Magic Carpet, Dune CD, and others I'm forgetting. The cost makes these kinds of non-formulaic experiences so much rarer today...

One of my dream projects is a Star Control style game in VR... stay in your Precursor warship and dictate the battle from afar, or hop directly into your ally's cockpit... can you imagine the inside of an Umgah starship surrounding you in full 3D?
The gamble isn't just for the value of the currency...

By putting some effort to displacing the US dollar, El Salvador gains negotiating power with the USA. The USA might provide incentives to end the bitcoin project all together, or some kind of anti-inflation guarantee to persuade El Salvador to hold dollars.

That extra power is what makes this a good gamble. It's a thing that you and I don't get on top of what a regular investor wins or loses.
Indie games is where it's at. There is so much interesting original content out there, you just have to find it.

Like Fallout 2? Check Atom RPG and Wasteland.

Like classic RPGs of 2000s? Check basically the entire 'Spiderweb Software' catalog.

Like Xcom? Check out Mutant: Year Zero

Metroidvania? There's a bunch (played Blasphemous recently, pretty good)

Zombies? Project zomboid

Pokemon? Monster Sanctuary

Lore you have to discover? Kenshi, Vagrus

Weird? Let's get weird: Library of Ruina
I've worked across industries in everything from a 2-person startup to an F500 investment bank, and I've very rarely seen a 2 year SLA for anything. (Rolling 6 months was the standard at the investment bank). Buying all your open source frameworks is an expensive luxury (and rarely worth anything), at least if you're in a position where you actually need to deliver.
The crucial crux of this is whether the complexity is worth its weight. Different programmers will disagree, not least of which because this is tightly bound to how you prefer to think about programming. Moreover, what seems complex to one person might seem entirely straightforward to another.

However, at the end of the day my personal worry is that the central thesis of the article is often inverted. A complicated programming language might not tame complexity within itself, rather it may instead breed even more complexity in its community and the code that is written in it. That complexity spirals ever more outward as new features grow that attempt to tame the complexity, but only add to the growing morass.

This is not necessarily true, but I've seen it happen often enough that I'm very wary of how new features in a programming language interact with each other.
The adversarial context is everything, but it doesn't exist in most case, because the blockchain is not self sufficient, it needs an external authority to make what's written on it relevant.

As for diplomas, I didn't choose this example at random. A lot of startups are trying to sell exactly that. I've been approached myself multiple times about that. And some higher education institutions already do it…
Its the other way around. Older/weirder stuff is usually fully exempted.
> A language with a short learning curve is like a toolbox that’s nearly empty. You quickly run out of ways it could help you.

Very quotable!

That's why I like it when languages allow you to start writing simple code and gradually make it more complex. Haskell for example is not like that. Python does better here. I think Scala is one of the best languages in that regard.
They set themselves a task that they weren't up to, and they failed at it. It doesn't make sense to say "it is remarkable that they made it", because they didn't make it.
There’s a genetic component - don’t remember which gene, but only some are subject to its effects.
One of my childhood friends was told by his parents they'd dock his pocket money if he kept insulting his brother. So he started using the names of cheeses. Worked just as well at insulting his brother, and created a quandary for his parents who couldn't well dock his pocket money for saying "camembert" to his brother.

Now consider a large group of people upset about censorship and motivated to adjust their language to circumvent it...
~15 years of taking Adrafinil and then Modifinil on prescription and "recreationally" says otherwise. The actual effect of a drug and then the psychosomatic effect of those who expect it to have a certain effect are two very different things.
I find

cc -S test.c

fastest to type.
Reading the past news from Romania would be enough for a research, the 'small fish' generally get convicted for 500k-5M EUR the big ones never get caught. You can google "romania 30 years of democracy" to get a background of the country and some information and then continue with all the material from 'recorder', most of the bribes come in form of contracts 'clanul marelui alb' is another good documentary centered on the corruption inside the Romanian Orthodox Church and how the bribes and kickback works.
Backend web dev has been cited as one of the key reasons Google wanted to create Go.
How is it a straw man, when it pretty much repeating what you said?
Some sports personalities in the states have taken their salary in bitcoin and will lose a lot of money as a result of this crash.

Not sure what is happening in el salvador with that.
“ The Soviet Union trained dolphins for similar harbor protection.

After the fall of the USSR, the program was said to be in limbo, and the Soviet-trained dolphins are believed to have been sold to Iran in 2000.”

Ah, good old 50’s paranoia: when one enemy sunsets, the next one is built-up with the scraps of the former.
TrashEmail – A hosted disposable email telegram bot
Yes, something which doesn’t look like changing as it is a dismal currency.
What’s happening immediately east of the eruption? There is a point water vapor variability in the center of the shock wave start and another single point of water vapor variability of equal size without a shockwave.
actually I was going quite fast when I wrote it, and I wrote auto focus when what I was trying to convey is step 3 of the intent - focus is changed to another component when that component receives focus;

If for example you have an application for finding service errors in an area you might show a form when people first enter the application, search for address, users search and select the address the form goes away and shows results (this right there would be an accessibility error although quite reasonable for a non-disabled user) at the top of results there is a change address button, clicking that brings the search form back into view and sets the focus in the search field.

The loss of context with that operation could be a real problem for a blind user (there are of course lots of forms of visual disability, so I will in this case specify it is blindness that is most seriously bothered by this common functionality that benefits sighted users, but at any rate I have interacted with some applications that did this which navigating blind was an irritant and navigating with sight a benefit)

So what I mean by generally recommended is - don't do things like my scenario above which violate point 3 https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/on-focus.html even though that behavior is a minor benefit for the sighted user with no disability, and in the case of a sighted user with motor disabilities probably a real benefit.
There’s documentation when people die. Someone in could check and see that those people voted (in a somewhat automated way), then trigger an investigation where authorities look up what address were those ballots mailed to. Again, seems very risky (at least in the US where elections are litigated and governments are scrutinizing individual votes in close elections to find cases like this).

I’m not saying it never happens, but rather that it’s easy enough to discover that people who do it have a decent change of getting caught. That constraints how widespread the issue can be.
You should use a virtual notary if you want to use Germany.

You have to decide what is important. A non-resident business in Ireland can be setup in 3 days for 300 / 12.5 corporate tax rate.

Easy for Doing Business: Denmark, Sweden and Lithuania.

Starting a Business: Greece, Estonia and Ireland.

Paying Taxes: Ireland, Denmark and Finland.
It's kind of sad that the copyright (and now copyleft) trolling is so successful, but the actual enforcement of various companies and projects that very much do violate FOSS licenses is vastly ignored. There are huge companies out there redistributing modified versions of GPL software that fail to ever publish their source code even when contacted for request. Sometimes when they actually do publish the code it's missing significant portions or build tooling to actually make it work - which the GPL is very specific that it MUST be included as part of the source.
With regards to writing extensions, I wrote one [1] to integrate the Luacheck analyzer for Lua code which pipes the buffer to an arbitrary program. It doesn't put the result in a pop-up (for that I think you can use Workspace.showInformativeMessage() [2] and its siblings, though I haven't tried it) but it does show how the output of the program can be fetched and parsed. Feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions I might be able to help with. The dev forums [3] are useful too even though they use that godawful Discourse forum system.

1: https://github.com/GarrettAlbright/Luacheck.novaextension/bl...

2: https://docs.nova.app/api-reference/workspace/#showinformati...

3: https://devforum.nova.app
My pet peeve with all of those studies is who they consider as an expert. It is usually adhoc random group of enology students.

There is great video of guy trying to reconstruct red wine from whites + coloring and serving it to master of wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN83j5ZOUm0

And there are a lot of other tricks and blind tasting sessions in his channel. This is how expert taster works.
> You're not kicked out if you "dare" (how brave!) ask a question about it. You're welcome to chat about it on #nonguix. Is it really that hard to accept that #guix is not #nonguix and that we don't discuss proprietary software on the main channels?

So... if I go to the official channel to discuss guix and I said the forbidden word "CUDA" I get kicked off? You wrote a sentence in a tone that implies it disagrees with what I said, but it just restates my point.

Guix puts ideology over the welfare of its users.
As in "very slow though flexible is better".
> For starters, you can't unless you actually include the context in the training set.

It's worse than that. The context doesn't just have to be in the training set. It also has to be available on the other end, when you're using the model to make a determination. And it isn't.

Which is why even human censors can't get it right. The parties communicating can, and almost always do, have external shared state that The Decider doesn't. Which gives the same words different meaning.

Imagine hearing an inside joke you're on the outside of and then being asked to adjudicate whether it was offensive.
I have high confidence that you will never find this study, and that it doesn’t exist. I’m not accusing you of malice, but I think you must be misremembering something.

But I’d love to be wrong. That would be a very interesting result.
Amazing book. I think the concepts around the whole Uplift trilogy are great. The first one was a little tough for me to get through, but the next two are among my all time favorites. It's interesting to think about the potential of different species.
Reminds me of a story from few (5 maybe) years ago when The Economist reported that USA milk producers had to throw X amount (X being in tons) of milk due to a sudden shift of preference to another yogurt type, driven by social networks.
I think abut it kind of like this (as someone who has never used Gemini):

There are all sorts of uses for cryptographic proofs; e.g. you can sign a document and prove that you were the one who signed it, or you can do a bunch of double-SHA hashes and prove ownership of a Bitcoin, you can prove via a SSL certificate that the content that claims to come from somedomain.example actually does, etc etc.

But there's no way, via currently existing protocols, to deliver a document with a proof that the document does not contain code designed to track the user or that the document will display properly without running arbitrary scripts.

Gemini is bikeshedding, yes. But it solves this social problem - a problem of expectations. You can't make a webpage with tracking scripts and deliver it over Gemeni because there's no point. No one who received the document would actually execute any of the scripts. So Gemini succeeds at creating a little insular community where tracking and web analytics are not just forbidden, but impossible.
"If, moreover, naturalism is correct (however implausible that is), and if consciousness is then an essentially material phenomenon, then there is no reason to believe that our minds, having evolved purely through natural selection, could possibly be capable of knowing what is or is not true about reality as a whole. Our brains may necessarily have equipped us to recognize certain sorts of physical objects around us and enabled us to react to them; but, beyond that, we can assume only that nature will have selected just those behaviors in us most conducive to our survival, along with whatever structures of thought and belief might be essentially or accidentally associated with them, and there is no reason to suppose that such structures—even those that provide us with our notions of what constitutes a sound rational argument—have access to any abstract “truth” about the totality of things. This yields the delightful paradox that, if naturalism is true as a picture of reality, it is necessarily false as a philosophical precept; for no one’s belief in the truth of naturalism could correspond to reality except through a shocking coincidence (or, better, a miracle). A still more important consideration, however, is that naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range. The one thing of which it can give no account, and which its most fundamental principles make it entirely impossible to explain at all, is nature’s very existence. For existence is most definitely not a natural phenomenon; it is logically prior to any physical cause whatsoever; and anyone who imagines that it is susceptible of a natural explanation simply has no grasp of what the question of existence really is. In fact, it is impossible to say how, in the terms naturalism allows, nature could exist at all.”

Excerpt From: David Bentley Hart. “The Experience of God.
>> Nova requires macOS 10.15.7 or later. It is not possible to run Nova on earlier versions of macOS.

I can't run it on my old, BUT STILL HIGHLY USABLE Macbook Pro 2011, OSX 10.13.6.
Not if you’re selling a real product. The only world where people can scale from 1000 orders a day to a million orders a day overnight is one where you’re not selling anything physical.
I watched this movie a long time ago. But I am 100% sure: No such thing is implied.
> A number 1 ranking on Hacker News gets millions of views

I don’t think this is strictly true. I had a post go #1 for like ten hours. It’s more like 50k views, counting the visitors from the Reddit repost etc too. A million visitors is a lot, even for HN to generate. (I suppose the comment thread itself might gets millions of views.)
In other news Philip the Bold broke the Burgundy Wine industry.

In 1395.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_the_Bold
That’s why you introduce USA-style puritan PoCo.

there are enough trigger happy people with less understanding than an AI, all eager to kick enough rages to wear down a saint…
The data comes from openstreetmap, so send your data there.
Efficient and Easy Training of Large AI Models – Introducing Colossal-AI
Freeze a driver ABI, release drivers separately; ta-da, your OS is still finished within its scope, and new hardware works.
Indeed, one could at least argue that gopher was a simpler protocol, gemini makes short work of that, too, and leaves it to be only an incompatible and less capable https protocol with some other convention for the markup.

I entirely agree that there's no good reason not to use HTTP[s] as a transport for textual information, which is kinda what it's made to do anyway..
I'd argue against a gemini content-type, I'd get as far away from the association with gemini as possible.

text/feather is a better content-type, it makes it clear that it's text, with a feather-light structure imposed on it.. That structure should probably be very little more than support for line breaks and hyperlinks.
def bark(dog_dict):
print("WOOF!" if dog_dict["weight_kg"] > 25 else "Woof")

rex = {"name": "Rex", "weight_kg": 35}

This code is actually better, but it would even be better with structs and traits

https://gist.github.com/rust-play/ceb5a292a22e55e27d56a83253...

We separate the concept of a Dog, the concept of something that barks, and the actual implementation in this case

We also don't immediately print it, but just return a slice so you can print it later or pass it to another function

It's a bit longer than the class example, but conceptually cleaner because multiple structs can implement the trait, some of them without a weight

and of course I'm only going to print things in my main, the interface only returns a slice which can be passed to other functions
> Bitbanging like this is fine for synchronous protocols

Yes, it might be (easier if the timings are more flexible), but a naive sleep (that might be trying to use an internal timer) will throw you off

That's exactly my point, they would need assembler for that (or at least "predictable" C instructions)
OpenProject comes to mind. It has a community edition, which comes with annoying limitations, though.
Honestly I don’t know how prevalent murdering for drug money is at all. My belief that this happens with some regularity for cocaine is based on suspect info now that I think about it.

The DARE program told me that definitely 100% of illegal drug users eventually turn to murder to acquire more, but that might have been an exaggeration.
It's absurd really. Sleep deprived doctors with heavily impacted short-term memories are making life and death decisions for patients.
I have no knowledge except what I read here, but this is obviously false. Or perhaps not obviously but at least suspiciously. As apparent by the "_YC_STARTUP_ is hiring" posts, that don't even take comments, as well as the "work at a startup" (YC's hiring portal) posts, that are commonly on the front page. Without publication of the ranking algorithm, I would be _very_ hard pressed to believe these are organic. I mean even if all YC alums mass voted for those topics, vs the total number of users voting that has to be a small fraction.

So there are at least a couple classes of topics that seem to be artificially promoted, in preference of YC companies.