skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Detoxification is not any part of “conventional medicine”, or, to give it appropriate weight “medicine”. It’s also not part of any “school of thought” that isn’t crackpot garbage (so called “alternative medicine”)
The value of a currency isn't exactly decided by what it is worth to Americans. Russia still has everything they had before the war, which is still as intrinsically valuable as ever & they are still willing to trade. They haven't changed their regulatory environment in crazy ways and haven't suffered major hits to their productive capacity.

In some senses, it is difficult to see why a sanctions attack against Russia would damage their currency that much. The fundamentals are still much the same. I still bought US products after Iraq and I'd still buy Russian products after Ukraine. I imagine most of the world feels similar. There are even some hints that parts of Europe feel that way.

Although, because I'm something of a gold bug, there are some unreliable claims they've re-introduced the gold standard (https://theconversation.com/why-russia-has-put-the-rouble-on...). That is an interesting thing that happened on the way through.
> Everything is political

How about "almost everything can be mapped onto a Bell curve" instead? So whereas almost everything can be remotely connected to something else if you look hard enough, there are outliers where the connection is more evident and other outliers where it get's really strained to find a connection. Politics is certainly like that.

But if the politics in everything is all that catches one's attention, then sure. But that doesn't seem all that healthy, and could be one of the reasons young people seem to struggle with more mental health issues nowadays: the demonizing of the other (party) is increasingly venturing into personality traits and identity, instead of focusing on questions of policy.
I’ve read several technical, non-fluff books on the topic, and I’ve developed smart contracts on Ethereum for decent hourly wage (paid out in fiat).

And I’ve still come to roughly the same conclusion as you. Either my reading comprehension is poor, or there is little actual value in the vast majority of blockchain applications. Digital cash, as defined in the Bitcoin whitepaper, still seems like the only real use case.

Other uses are fun for a developer to read and learn about, but that’s just about the only real value you can extract from them.

Well, and making quick developer buck, which is the equivalent of selling shovels to prospectors in a gold rush. The main difference being that it’s merely a jpeg of a shovel.
Binary data import was probably the antithesis to Tcl's "everything is a string".
These are always a hoot to read.

Attitudes toward dust ingress in particular delight me. Look inside any old Dolch data acquisition unit or tire alignment computer from the 1980s and find minimal reason to be horrified.

To think a home environment would necessitate anything special is excessive.

Pizza restaurants,OTOH.
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Crypto is scam. Some people at Stripe are trying to capitalize on the hype. We'll see how it goes.

Something can't be both a currency as well as a speculative asset. Bitcoin was conceived as a currency. It promised fast transaction, low fees and no central trust provider authority like a government or a bank. But it and countless other cryptos have morphed into something people speculate on for gains. There is still very little you can actually buy using crypto. It's useless as a medium of exchange (volatility, high fees, non-reversible, slow etc). The high volatility and lack of any underlying utility whic can give it a value means it is a ponzi scheme and only those who got in early will come out richer. Late entrants will end up holding bags of worthless digital tokens.
This is a fair point.

I still feel that my criticism applies to where the money and development effort seem to be focused, even for Matrix, but I am a big fan of Matrix overall and agree that it does at least have a variety of better clients.

It’d be great to see every Slack replaced with a Matrix server for sure.
Edit: if you are saying blockchain allows non-tech people the benefit of something like a git repo to run there everyday business, then this is a view I sympathetic to but it is arguably failing in this aspect as well since there is no non-tech people using it.
We use heavily overclocked 10980XE and beyond common teething issues with voltages and some specimens just frying the survivors definitely offer stability if you don't push them insanely far.

But I'd agree on the bleeding edge being generally more bleeding than edge (esp. from a performance engineer perspective) with problems ranging from kernel not supporting TSC calibration correctly to acpi issues to faulty (fried) instruction cache.
> blockchain also prevents censorship

well... sort of. Naturally, government can regulate and censor the on- and off-ramps [0], exchanges can censor [1a - Coinbase blocking Russian addresses][1b - Coinbase blocking scammer addresses], and developers or "the community", ie other unelected players, can decree a software change if something happens on chain that they don't like [2a - The DAO/ETH/ETC][2b - BTC 0.7/0.8 accidental fork].

[0] https://cryptonews.com/guides/countries-in-which-bitcoin-is-...

[1a] https://decrypt.co/94513/coinbase-blocks-25000-addresses-lin...

[1b] https://beincrypto.com/freedom-vs-protection-should-crypto-e...

[2a] https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/what-is-ethereum-classic-e...

[2b] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-network-shaken...
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Bitcoin has no unique use cases. It's simply a form of money that's secure, a worldwide trading economy that works.

The reason that's interesting is because as humanity we never had one of those before.
Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe
I would tend to agree with you. I believe that payments is probably the major driving force here but we have yet to see anything that rivals the Visa network for example.

Having some concept of money that isn't tied to a government is compelling. Take Lebanon for example which has seen 90% inflation in the last 2 years, the worst economic collapse in modern history... People's savings have been wiped out. This may not have been the case had there been a global alternative to keeping your money safe.

Big trading firms now make billions of dollars trading crypto. In some sense they are "keeping the networks alive"...

There's a ton of creativity in the entire space. I think maybe 98% of it goes away and we're left with the few gems that are useful or truly change society. In that sense there's a benefit.
Proof of contrary opinions is required, but proof of yours isn't?

Typical.
Which Redis started out as a relatively short (~300 lines) Tcl program.
Yep, and San Francisco made laws against theft/shoplifting and clearly there's no theft/shoplifting there.
The roof should be around a foot if not more above eye level. Eye to top of head, headroom, thickness of roof.
Cardano is a cryptocurrency that offers ~250 transactions per second but should soon scale without a layer 2 solution. I mention this as I run a validator on a 8gb raspberry pi with ZRAM swap enabled with no issues consuming ~5W the whole network could run this way if needed. This is lower power due to a mechanism called proof of stake. BTC uses proof of work. Ethereum has been 'trying' to migrate to POS for some time.

As for layer 2's this could partly be the solution to some high costs. But risks sacrificing decentralization.
I agree. “Home Data Center Lab” is not always implied.
To get somewhere you have to be able to take risks, gather quality feedback (feedback tethered to reality) and create knowledge out of it.

For the poor there are scarcely any opportunities, because they can't afford to take risks. For the rich however there are less opportunities to learn from mistakes, because of the lack of consequences.

This is why the middle class is important, the lower class is usually pinned down by reality, and the upper class is hardly affected by it. Neither is a healthy relationship with reality.
You've never lived in a rural area before.
(where blockchain here is used in the sense of a public blockchain plus a consensus mechanism such as PoW)
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> 'the second draft is where you make it look like you knew what you were doing the whole time'

That's why I qualified with "even during the later stages". It seemed to me that OP implied that the book would be completely finalised for publication without the author having gained the required perspective on their ideas. And that would surely defeat the object, since their insight wouldn't make it into the book; otherwise, I agree with your point.
Not just overeating. If the body performs to use the alcohol as energy as claimed, then the normal amount of calories that you already ate would be stored instead of used. Alcohol and it's metabolites can directly cause organ damage.
> problem

Makes you think about the inherent subjectivity of certain words.
In tiny, gray text, with words that look similar to those with imperfect eyesight. It could easily be improved without breaking the site's entire aesthetic, IMO.
>"Here's 100PiB of unlabeled neural net weights. Knock yourselves out."

You need to give the user an explanation on why you blocked his account, but if Google is kind enough to add on top the secret neural network then some people would be happy to have a look at it and find even more garbage in it.
Except with git repositories there's no built-in consensus mechanism, and we have the potential for a double spend.

Say we're assuming the git repo includes gpg signing and users can make commits attesting that they've sent some amount of their balance to another user.

John makes a commit saying he sends his entire balance to Alice.

John pushes that to a central repository, and Alice gives him her house in return.

John then pushes another commit with an older date saying he actually sent his entire balance to Bob.

Which commit does the network trust?

Aside from that, there are also smart contracts which (to my knowledge) are the first example of code that can be run in an open distributed manner with verifiable source.

It's pretty interesting stuff.
As is usually the case when monstrous plots are afoot, the villain cheerfully told the world exactly what he was planning to do and why. He wants to recreate the Soviet Union.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/22/putin-...

Initial "peace proposals" from Russia included a rollback of NATO's military assistance to its 1997 condition, explicitly limiting the sovereignty of Poland and the Baltic states:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/17/russia-issues-...

It is, of course, absurd to think that Putin would have stopped at Ukraine's borders, if given a free hand (and a functioning army). He is a follower of Alexander Dugin's geopolitical school, in which Russia is the rightful caretaker of "Eurasian" civilization:

https://theconversation.com/alexander-dugin-eurasianism-and-...
I have read that whitepaper. That was the first think I read when I started researching about the whole crypto and blockchain space. And this is the culmination of my research https://bit.ly/3OB5G18
Imagine holding a child in your arms and pressing a button with your fingers. This is basically a low bar to jump over in multitasking/human dexterity, however it’s the core value of summoning your vehicle.

You may say multitasking is hard or impossible but we humans manage to approximate it anyways because it’s necessary for life. For example, if you are the parent of two fussy children in a busy parking lot, you better know how to multitask or one of those kids will escape your sight!
You can only create "tamper proofness" aka security with social coordination.

Your bankaccount is somewhat secure due to layers and layers of agreements and interdependencies of people. Bitcoin works the same way, but in a much more modern way and achieves much better security.

The git repo you mention elsewhere is something completely different. There is no security baked into git. A git repo is just a bunch of files.

No workflows have been transformed in a decade because workflows do not change that fast. TCP/IP and and the rest of the internet protocol suite was developed the 60s. It started to disrupted workflows 40 years later.
It didnt stabilize, only an illusion. The government introduced strict currency controls forcing business to hold rubles. Also foreign stock holders are not allowed to sell stocks and covert to dollars. The price listed isnt real because the market isnt real, I imagine buying an iphone in Moscow right now would cost much more than the rate would lead you to believe.
That post text is the same color as a downvoted comment is truly baffling to me. What benefit could that possibly have?
I think it's still very much relevant within the context of the stock dive though - no-one invests in what you've done, they invest in what they think you're going to do next. So they've disappointed their investors, and their investors have disappointed them right back.
I don't see how that can really work unless the published rate isn't the actual market rate which would be ridiculous.
> Sopranos season 6
A new episode of TNG, VOY and the Sopranos every single day!
In theory sure but in reality merely 2 days ago I saw calls from both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for governments to adopt more internet censorship. I don't have confidence that the new crop of lawmakers are in sync with the constitution, particularly on the subject of free speech.

Ultimately this becomes reliant on the judiciary, which is also political.
Putting my bias at the front, I own crypto and am "pro" crypto if we can boil it down simply. I'm also deeply skeptical of a lot of projects in crypto, most OG's are because there is a lot of vaporware and scams and ponzis.

Nonetheless, the vision of having a shared consensus truth that the whole world can rely on for transacting I find very compelling.

I like the way Anatoly from Solana puts it:

"Global information symmetry"

Source: https://youtu.be/35_rr8Vf-4k?t=28939
A single message queue piping to Google notification service can do that for podcast apps with simpler setup / more efficiency. The sad state of podcast feeds doesn't make podping a particularly good system.
I find it disturbing someone takes 3-4yo to comic book store to be exposed for sure to inappropriate content.

As non American what US movies taught me each US school class has bully(ies) and all unpopular kids have asthma and must use inhaler, which I don't a bit strange because I had asthma and never used it it in my life, but it seems life saving in US.
> Another thing; even though this effort might be doomed to fail, do you think there are good reasons to attempt to change language in such a way?

I'm not categorically against it. I'm not in the right country to properly judge "master/slave". Those words have no association with people to me. But I don't care about "master/slave".

Though I can't find it now, I remember encountering cases where actually "blocklist" was a less descriptive term, even misleading.

I think it's great even though "crewed" is a terrible word, I can't think of a better one, and it's good to change away from "manned".

I'm perfectly willing to surrender the word "niggardly".

So it depends.

Banning words like "ninja", "dojo", "white glove treatment", "blind"... like... really?

What I think is doomed to fail is banning any language that involves color.

I'd say some words are in a "grey area", but I've seen people wanting to ban that term.

Mandating language like this is double plus ungood.
> The main purpose of blockchain is to attempt to replace the messiness of human governance with the certainty of algorithmic governance.

Right, and as is shown inevitably in real life (The DAO, BTC 0.7/0.8 fork, censoring of scam or Russia related BTC addresses, ...), the messiness of reasonably well understood and regulated human governance (law, elections, ...) is replaced by governance of the algorithm plus a bunch of unelected, unaccountable, and largely even unknown humans.
People were using money online just fine well before Bitcoin, and even today, actually using BTC for non-investment purposes is a tiny minority. What exactly makes a dollar or euro less "online/digital" than a bitcoin?
This is sensible take, and arguably backed by the fact that apart from bitcoin there are no other examples of practical blockchain tech.
I agree that it could get out of hand. We'll have to wait and see how it turns out. Since this is an EU law I wonder if it applies to content hosted on EU servers only, or any content that shows up in their users' results.
If you've developed smart contracts, I'm surprised you don't consider the capability of trustless financial instruments (peer-to-peer lending and pooled lending, for example) to be pretty useful as well
If the miners don’t like you what stops them from not including your transactions in the chain?

It is my understanding that if a large enough pool of miners decides they don’t like you (>50%) they can completely prevent your ability to spend money.
Ukraine was "not negotiable" Russian according to multiple statements from Putin, so that part about "negotiating concessions" is provably false.

Why that was the case is indeed complex.

Russia did not try to negotiate Ukraine away initially. The messaging was clear: it's ours. Now they might negotiate something because Ukraine is kicking their teeth in, but that's after the fact and completely forced.
20% interest rates.

Yes, just raising rates to a high enough level is enough. This is macroeconomic policy 101. It will seriously deflate the Russian economy, recent World Bank projections are for a -11% GDP drop (Ukraine: -40% drop). That's a very severe recession. You can always defend a currency at the expense of jobs, it was done in the US too, by Paul Volcker.
You can decompose an entire scene into a collection of 3D GANs, each of which is fit by GAN Inversion to the object instance which best explains what is seen in the images.

Also, we absolutely can tell the difference between trash cans with and without lids, as well as brick walls vs painted walls. This falls under many areas of ML-based Computer Vision, such as metric, contrastive, and zero shot machine learning, also open world object detection / recognition. These frame level semantic discrepancies can be detected by discriminative DNNs, which we can use to provide a temporal consistency loss to guide the generator to produce temporally consistent videos.
Actually they did it for a PR event with ASUS to get the record when the platform launched.

Liquid Helium is too expensive and difficult to handle otherwise. Even for extreme overclocking.
Love it.

I do think there is more activism at play than you might. At a minimum it provides the fear mechanism that prevents employees from challenging the work, particularly if they aren't even on the project (why stick your neck out?).

However, the code format for prose analogy illuminates the writing quality angle brilliantly.

I'm sure I'm not alone in having distinct communication modes in work documents, each with their own reasons to be excluded from the ML dataset:

1. Keep it simple -- when achieved it is highly effective for communicating a work memo, but would be terribly dry if used in auto suggestions for an English major struggling through crafting moving prose.

2. Lazily verbose -- going long is more expedient than crafting a compact message. It's mostly unrefined garbage. (exhibit a this comment)

3. Everything is awesome (positivity inflation) -- a deluge of great, love, awesome, wonderful, perfect, etc. all applied to far too many things, far too often.

Imagine if an ML code formatter included psudeo code inputs, or was given a data set of every local file change
(pre-commit) instead of what is sitting in a main branch? My Docs are filled with things that I'd never commit much less pass a code review.

If Google Docs was only used in corporate settings, and we wanted to double down on our drab corporate communication styles, I guess the feature would make some sense.
Many complain that shell scripting isn't suitable for anything longer than few lines.
Neither I think? But I must admit I have no idea how blockchain tech would apply to the hacking of a computer. My bank account I want handled by humans and courts in the end.

There is nothing wrong with having public immutable ledgers making tampering visible. This is useful. But the question there is: what is the drawback of centralized ledgers, e.g like the ones for interbank transfers? Even git a git repo represents a kind of public ledger like that.
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It's not shaped like a prism. It has some functionality to it (there are mounting points and a pivot of some sort). Also, I think it came from a military aircraft, so not a 747.
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> The entire gambit was to take UA quickly and then use it as a pawn to get concessions from the West

How does your comment follow logically from this one?

"We'll occupy Ukraine and we'll keep occupying it and we want you to give us more!"

What kind of negotiation with Ukraine was that?
This happened to my BBC micro, but after I'd cleared away the explosion and bought a replacement cap kit on ebay it worked fine.
Supply and demand.

1. Capital controls. Russians are legally not allowed to sell their Rubles anymore. This decreases supply and keeps prices up.

2. A healthy dose of foreign currency ($1B/day from Germany alone) gives the Russian central bank plenty of tools to buy Rubles and increase demand for it to keep prices up.

This does not mean that the existing sanctions aren’t working. Eventually Russian factories will run out of machine spare parts and everything will grind to a halt, people will use their jobs, demand for goods will decrease, other factories will have to close due to lack of demand for their goods, their workers get laid off - you get the idea. This takes time though.

Disclaimer: I’m not an economist, but I do have a subscription to the Economist :)
You do seem to meet some of the DSM5 criteria for depression.

40 is the time of life when we are most prone to look back on our lives to see what we have achieved. Asking those hard and difficult questons about life in general.

Is this really it? Who am I? What does this all mean?

The busier we are with life, socialising, work and family the less time we have to question our own reality. Then suddenly the children grow up, the mortgage is nearly paid off and we have more time to think about our lives, in particular the meaning of life.

Hence, this is a time we see men in their midlife crisis reliving their youth when they did not live the life they expected as a young man. A consequence of taking on too much responsibility as a young man.

Happiness is a modern fantasy. We can search for it our entire lives but never actually reach the final goal.

Go and have a chat with a therapist and find new meaning to your life
Climate change may be the problem that defines our generation.

In that light, and given the ludicrous power estimates that blockchains use, are we not morally obligated to kill all the blockchain projects if these estimates are in the right ballpark?
I found that as a result, dialog was clearer. I really hate how loud everything other than dialog is in most movies for the sake of 'immersion'. I eventually gave up and settled on using subtitles when I don't want to miss any parts of a conversation.

FWIW, I'm way more fluent in English than French.
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