skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I invite you to inspect, even if only cursorily, my above exchange with mr. antonvs. My point is that Micro$oft was created by programmers (in fact in its earliest days it was mostly a compilers company), that to this very day the vast majority of what it does falls into the category "by programmers, for programmers", and it may indeed be the case that they are extremely good at that. And if you are yourself a programmer, then it is obviously only self-evident that you are then going to praise/applaud Micro$oft for what they do. It's just that this "programmer perspective" may yield a hopelessly narrowed down tunnel vision on what the real goal should be. That real goal being : making complete sense to the final end-users. And as an example of "not making complete sense" : I open an xls file with multiple sheets in it. I browse through the contents, paging up and down through the sheets. I'm done browsing and I close the file. Microsoft asks me if I want to save my changes. The reason of course (or presumably) being that somewhere hidden inside, there's a "current sheet" indicator and it is considered part of the data because it gets saved alongside the actual sheet contents, so the file can open up with the last sheet displayed already active. But you show me one single user (and especially one not coming from an IT background) who never once in his life reacted to that with "WHAT FRIKKING CHANGES ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ? I CHANGED NOTHING.".
> Re: the figure for terrestrial fiber service, I'm curious how the presumed residential last mile "fiber" link in Geoff's example which is not real gigabit service would compare to one of the symmetric gigabit last mile operators that exist in some cities. Where you can see actual 980 x 980Mbps speed test results from fast.com or speedtest.net in a browser.

Well if you pay for gigabit over GPON it means you have at worst a 2:1 split, which gives you 1.2/1.2 Gbps. Even assuming they're still using an MPoA/ATM transfer layer like they did on DSL (keep in mind, these are ITU standards - GPON is not Ethernet - though there are fiber networks which are Ethernet, these are AONs by definition (no splitters possible), and use 1000BASE-BX10), that doesn't have nearly enough overhead to reduce 1.2 Gbps to below 1 Gbps.
Just because it's getting ignored, doesn't mean it doesn't matter.

I bring that up on all Blockchain discussions.
Military gets open source code. Military doesn't have to publish it for everybody.
“Remortgaging every couple of years takes a bit of time, and shopping around, but is much cheaper”

This is an incorrect statement. It is true only if short term interest rates (on average) remain flat or decrease over the next 30 years.

Put another way, by getting a fixed rate loan you are paying for insurance against rising interest rates (+inflation), you’re saying it’s ALWAYS cheaper not to buy insurance - but the honest answer thsts probably been true recently, but not always historically, and may not be true in the future.
2) that he'll be free to board and fly? - thus he is free to leave Russia whenever he likes.

Freedom to do something does not mean that there will be no consequences to doing that thing.

Interpol isnt what you think it is: there are no Interpol agents out there carrying guns, breaking down doors, and arresting suspects, nor does it operate in every country of the world. Nevertheless, depending upon the country he travels to, around 70% of the world, he would be detained. However, as the holder of a shiny new Russian passport there are quite a few destinations he could travel to with no problems.
Sadly, I can't remember, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to google them up.

They had a hilarious part of the employment process which was figuring out if the new hire was in the EU or not, because if so, then legally the software could not be operated without consent. But that obviously lead to awkward conversations where consent given in that situation would be pretty questionable...
Yeah the author is conflating low entropy with a low number of microstates, which is consistent with the thermodynamic assumption that maximal entropy means a uniform distribution of microstates, but is confusing.

The purest mathematical justification for why low entropy means a low number of microstates probably comes from the fact that (classical) physical systems are a dynamical systems that preserve the measure induced by the standard metric of the phase space. The measure theoretic definition of entropy then implies the entropy of a partition of the phase space (i.e. a set of macrostates) is indeed the average of the logarithm of the number of microstates.

So indeed if W is the number of microstates in the current macrostate then entropy = log(W) (on average).

And using the typical set you can show that the probability that the average of log(W) over n samples is within 'epsilon' of the 'exact' entropy goes to 1 as n goes to infinity. This is the mathematical justification for the second law of thermodynamics.

The trick is that all of this is true no matter how you partition phase-space. Though that does mean that what is and isn't a high entropy state depends on your perspective.
A lot of CS programs are ABET accredited.

CMU and Stanford don't need anyone or any organization to tell the world they do a good job educating CS students. Not so clear if the CS dept is at the Small Town Liberal Arts College and Seminary.

But the other 4,999 schools CS programs, like the one being discussed at WGU, the source of the accreditation is a valuable signal.
It seems more reasonable than civil forfeiture. And it is hardly isolationist to support allies and beef up NATO.
Something I wrote in the last 2 weeks on fb was autoflagged as spam. As a result I set my account to be deleted. I thought I was shadow banned. When I reactivated it yesterday I received the post marked as spam, object or confirm wizard.
Idk if that's new. But it does feel like they're training a new AI and crowdsourcing that process.

But then again they might genuinely suppress this initiative, idk.
The exact likelihood of being able to max out your lan side 1GbE interface to a home gpon terminal also depends on some factors you can't know unless you are the ISP, such as the usage patterns and traffic volumes moved by your neighbours on the same port. Could be wildly different if you happen to be in a condo with some person that is seeding popular torrents or if you're in a neighborhood of mostly retirees for instance.

Not sure what you mean by at worst a 1:2 split since GPON last mile can be implemented at the physical fiber level as many possible configurations such as a 8:1, 16:1, 32:1 split. Your ISP isn't likely to tell you or share with you the optical link budget and split of your segment.
WA has a lot of cheap hydro so theoretically it's more efficient.

In reality everyone who isn't of highfalutin HN levels of income is gonna fire up ye olde wood stove after their first heating bill.
That's correct. Smart contracts are absolutely bleeding edge features that work on top of an Ethereum-like chain which by itself doesn't mind advancing the roadmap even if something breaks. People should be advised about that before participating in smart contracts, which unfortunately doesn't always happen due to greed and hype.

It doesn't mean however that we should just throw everything blockchain cryptocurrency related into the same sack and say its nonsense.
If I should guess, mostly because of the staggering complexity of the pricing and the marginal utility of that information for anybody big enough to matter. Procurement and forecasting is done in quarters in most enterprises.
A digital car... yeah.

The more i've tried to hack with smart contracts for physical stuff, the more I realize that's not what it's good for. But if you stop thinking of the physical world, and only think of the digital world, and you use a modern chain (I use avax). It works pretty good. I think there's a few missing pieces of infrastructure still, but the people who "are in it to build, and not for the money" (I include myself in this) stick around to build what I consider the first purely digital economy.
What am I missing?

78 books totaling $160k makes it ~ $2K per book.

If it takes 2 days to write a book, this is not passive income rather belated income..

If it takes more (and it should if you want the books to bring value), then simple programming is more profitable.
I love the autocorrect fail, really makes it.
“PSA: iOS isn't secure – thief managed to bypass FaceID and access keychain”
>buying an asset class that has a history of appreciating in value

Correction - over a time period of decreasing interest rates. Housing, on its own, is a depreciating asset. It is a consumable like a TV. It deteriorates with time.

"Housing always goes up", without an understanding of why it has been going up, can be a dangerous belief and could be one of the reasons why housing at the moment is so expensive relative to rents.
It's the Daily Mail, even if you expect the worst and they will plumb new depths.
PranaDB – A distributed streaming database, designed to be horizontally scalable
You don't understand. People didn't have tomatoes and grass-fed chicken until Blockchain came along and solved these problems. /s
A conversation about data pipelines is never complete without discussing ingestion practices, such as ETL and ELT (extract, transform, load, or extract, load, and transform).
ETL transforms the data before loading it into a data warehouse, while ELT loads the data and allows the transformation to be handled within the data warehouse.

Each practice is rooted in strong business needs, and are necessary parts of modern data flow practices. However, discussion of these practices is often couched in a competitive narrative, asking which one is better.
There are strong reasons why both are seen in use today, and neither one is going away anytime soon. So in this article, we’ll cover these two methods, the reasons they are so often pitted against one another, the situations in which one or the other thrive, and why, with Kestra’s unique capabilities, you might want to consider a hybrid solution. Let’s get started!
I use pulumi to write infra code and I like it better than TF because I can do things "in the middle" like bring input from external files and write out values to files and it's far more natural to me than contorting myself to TF's DSL. I have an example up where I do some SES work[0].

Terraform's 0.12 release[0] was the shining light realization for me that Pulumi's was absolutely the better paradigm. When you start adding expressions, type systems, and ad-hoc iteration primitives to a DSL, you probably should be using a fully powered programming language.

As far as what is kind of offputting to you, I argue that of the two of them Pulumi is the only one with a shot of not doing it the write-it-out-to-text way. Building a representation of desired state is necessary to achieve the goals of both tools -- Pulumi gives you exposure to the objects that make up the tool in your programming language of choice, before they get serialized.

Another key innovation of Pulumi is that you can build those objects and abstractions much easier (IMO) than with TF (i.e. writing a provider), and you can build them with the tooling you're familiar with -- if you're using a supported pulumi language.

[0]: https://vadosware.io/post/setting-up-ses-with-pulumi/

[1]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-0-12

[0]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-0-12
And by “marginal utility of that information” I mean “marginal utility of that information being available in near real-time (anything below an hour in this context).”
Something that maybe interesting: running it under DOS. That would allow porting some apps to FreeDOS.
This is actually a much harder problem than it seems. GDPR is quite strict about what is considered PII (and rightly so). For example: you may think replacing sensitive data with fake data is enough to anonymise customer data. It's not:

> "Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data."

So it's not enough to, for example, replace all names, addresses etc. when you can still see which products someone has interacted with, when their account was created (which in the production DB would relate back to their actual account!) or any other unexpected pieces of information that links back to their identity.

In practice, this means that any realistic production-derived data is either very likely to be still considered PII (and therefore much more demanding to handle safely and securely) or has to be mangled so much that it is no longer representative of production data.
The article says that the trust is being shifted from humans to code, ("in code we trust"),

However, that's NOT true with blockchains.

For public blockchains, the trust is still with humans. The only difference is that there are many more humans who are looking after the open-sourced code, verifying the databases, checking the transactions. Participation is opt-in, and anyone can look in, and since there are many humans participating in it, it is very hard to change something.

Therefore, we do not simply trust the code. We put trust in decentralization, and make sure that power is not concentrated by just a few humans.

In contrast, our legacy financial system is mostly digital now, and it's a giant back box. All of the code is closed source, we can never review it, yet we are forced to participate in it. The data of our legacy financial system is stored in centralized databases that only a few unelected officials control and gate-keep.

Decentralization is the main feature.
Ceefax: The Dawn of Interactive TV (BBC 1977)
Yeah, so the question is not whether north korean surveillance is bad,we agree on that. The question is what meaningful difference is there in the surveillance? The fact that the surveillance is legislated and lawfully conducted seems to be a rather technical distinction vs the situation corporations are simply unregulated and, by default, permitted to own any data they collect, even without consent.

The only material difference seems to be that, in North Korea, the state is (feels) so insecure that it has to monitor what people say. Wheras in the US, they don't care what people say because there's nothing they can do to challenge corporate power anyway.
If the alternative meant starving, I'd agree. That's rarely the case for software developers though, so I think it definitely shows of their values.

Doing it "for the money" is not a free card to do anything unethical when it's easy to say no and get another job.

An extreme example: Was voluntarily being a guard in Auschwitz fine because it was legal? Should you be able to get away with saying "I only did it for this money"?
> The whole point is peer to peer transfer of digital assets and digital state that is recorded on-chain. The goal is not “how to transfer a physical asset.”

Yes I understood where you were going. Just pointing out that the scope of the problem you're solving is way smaller than that of a generic transaction, to the point that it has very little relevance for pretty much anything real.

> The TLD/ICANN is irrelevant, as “.eth” is a construct for Ethereum clients, not HTTPS clients.

What do you think would happen to the value of the xyz.eth domain registered on Ethereum if ICANN decided to have .eth as a TLD and somebody made a website on a xyz.eth reachable natively via mainstream browsers?

This value would decrease, independently of what actually happens on the blockchain. Value doesn't exist independently from the real world.

Trusting a certain smart contract about what's at xyz.eth rather than another is also arbitrary and is a matter of social capital, again something that's not embedded within the blockchain.
The populations of zero-CoVID countries aren't unprotected. They're vaccinated.

In mainland China, about 90% of the population has had two doses, and a good faction have been boosted (in total, 2.3 doses/person have been administered). The problem in mainland China (and in Hong Kong) is that many old people refuse to get vaccinated, for whatever reason, though there's now a big campaign to convince them to finally get their shots.

There has been a lot of unjustified bashing of Chinese vaccines in the popular press in the West, but this isn't justified by the data. Chinese vaccines have similar efficacy to AstraZeneca. In the Hong Kong outbreak, 3 doses of Sinovac turned out to be just as protective as 3 doses of BioNTech/Pfizer, which was actually somewhat surprising. The bashing of Chinese vaccines in the media is just nationalist prejudice, I'm afraid.

> the zero covid countries will have saved the few and sacrificed the many

Zero-CoVID countries got through most of the pandemic with fewer restrictions on everyday life than countries that decided to live with the virus. One of most consistently frustrating elements of the media narrative in Europe and the US about zero-CoVID is that they depict it as never-ending lockdown. In reality, life has been closer to normal in mainland China than in the US or Europe for most of the last 2 years. International travel is extremely difficult, but inside mainland China, almost everything has been open since about April 2020. The current lockdown in Shanghai is the first major lockdown the city has had since early 2020.
added to my rss. Really nice and the idea of limiting your writing to lists helps to focus your thoughts. Will give it a try
So how do you coordinate this so called decentralized transaction? Over the internet through SSL certs that are centrally signed? You're still putting blind trust in something.
Nothing is stopping a peer-to-peer network from having a central database administered by the a randomly selected group of peers, for example.

The bigger issues in pure decentralized and distributed networks in finance are around KYC/CFT etc. Who ensures compliance if there is no control about flow of funds, for example.
I don't consider forking to be a problem, though it very frequently gets treated like it's some silver bullet to the blockchain concept. Forking is the democratic nature of the system at work. A few key players in the system are not the only "Generals" - everybody acting as a verification node is a General, and which fork they choose to follow is still a decision that they hold. Bitcoin being young and having hiccups prompted people to listen to the "expert generals", but this isn't a function of blockchains, just society overall. Collectively choosing to abandon a long chain in favor of a short chain based on the opinions of experts is a great solution to the permanence of blockchains, which poses its own challenges. Before this incident, it was believed that a blockchain had to be 100% correct upon initialization, and any software developer should realize how much of a pipe-dream that is.
If you're interested in chatting about this sort of stuff, let me know.

I'm a UK doctor working in the field, always looking to optimise processes while keeping quality.

Email is in my profile.
>(c) enough time has elapsed to give a new audience time to see it again.<

Thanks ColinWright, has the submisson time in the url fifo changed?
Nice. Reminds me of longtime security tactic for web servers of shipping logs and mounting the entire file system as read-only so that intruders have no means of installing their root kit.
> We laugh at pictures of managers wearing near-identical suits and ties, and then we can look at a bunch of techies wearing near-identical tee shirts and hoodies and somehow not see a culture using clothes to signal belonging to the tribe.

Who is "we" here?
Sorry if my comment wasn't clear - I wasn't trying to compare cash to credit cards, of course.

Regulation around "cash" transactions are quite strict here (including the definition of a verbal contract etc.), so unless one is engaged in "under the counter" activities, you can benefit from similar protections. Of course, in contrast to credit cards and online transactions, recovery from cash fraud/mistakes is more complicated since you'd need to contact the authorities/the other party yourself and deal with the whole process "manually" (instead of just clicking a button in your bank's web portal and letting them take care of it)
Trust is a short-cut for the complexities the physical world presents. But in a purely digital world you can build things that doesn't NEED the short-cut. And that's a new capability. It let's you build things not possible before. DeFi exists because trustless transactions are possible. Not everything can and should be trustless, it's just a tool not a new society. But it's SUPER useful.
Agree, 100%.

Of all my hobbies, electronics is probably the one that takes the least space. When I was a kid, I had all kinds of fun with those "100 in 1 Electronics" kits that RadioShack sold (smaller than an autoharp). Did not even have a multimeter then, ha ha.

The modern equivalent is indeed a breadboard. You can get component kits that cover the spectrum for resistors and capacitors (the size of a recipe box).

I find a handful of transistors, some op-amps, some IC's can be a lot of fun - but it depends on what you are interested in.

If you just want to learn general electronics (as opposed to say, digital, or audio, etc.) do a Google search for "100 Transistor Circuits", "200 Transistor Circuits", "100 IC Circuits", etc. So much free stuff out there.

And this amazing site:

https://worldradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm
You bought near the peak of the market then. Definitely been some downward pressure on prices since covid as people sold up in London, took that premium price and moved to larger properties elsewhere. Not saying it was a bad investment, just that the return will take longer than it has in the past.
Well actually, at 1/40 the regulatory tritium limit for drinking water, it is perfectly suitable for any backyard and/or swimming pool.
Or “join my list for free X” in the cheap book, a email campaign which then promotes the upsell smorgasbord.
That is a minor nuisance when dealing with raw bytes. Any sane language representation would probably store it as a separate field egen not on the wire.

I would probably do BOM, LUT, BYTES. Where LUT is a lookup table of indices for every 64 chars so that you could do o(1) random access for the vast majority of cases.
Perseverence and Ingenuity just keep on giving, I love it.

I have often wondered if you could get more benefit from sending several similar rovers to the same place so they could cooperate and do more, but this mixed mode approach seems better.
What you are suggesting sounds like a consensus mechanism. How do you safely choose which peers to assign this responsibility? How do you ensure it is resistant to a Sybil attack?

Suddenly the answers begin to look a lot like Proof of Work or Proof of Stake.
As opposed to Bitcoin, whose money supply grows with over 1.7% a year currently, giving miners around $50m a day to burn coal with.