skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pick your 10 favorite GitHub project with more than 10k stars and see who the primary contributors are.

Hugging Face transformers has >60k stars and fewer than 30 employed maintainers, many sharing other responsibilities. Arguably, part its success comes external model contributions from FAANG companies (among others), but the key ingredient was the creation of an open platform.

Disclaimer: I work there
Who are the SV crowd? If you’re speaking about Bitcoin SV, yes everyone knows that’s nonsense.

That still doesn’t prove your original statement.
This is a very good example of the typical argument that shows the critical flaw.

The flaw is that there is never any way to actually tie the real world to the Blockchain. It's literally impossible. You can have all the fancy mathematically proven Blockchain records you like, but it's just impossible to tie that to an actual tomato or actual pesticide.

We have track and trace system already for crops and they have the same problem: all the paperwork in the world can't prevent someone from, say, weighing a box of tissues instead of the box of cigars you intend to sell. In the end you need to trust someone.
Tell me you have not used Defi without telling you have not used Defi.
While water is indeed a fantastic radiation shield, tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen and quite capable of replacing normal hydrogen in a water molecule, so even pure water can absolutely be radioactive.

It’s one of the least dangerous radioisotopes out there, so I’m not particularly fussed, but it is incorrect to say water can’t be radioactive.
Documentary trade finance - e.g cross-border trade where importers and exporters transact physical goods using letters of credit issued and endorsed by banks on both sides of the transaction. A good example is a container load of crude oil shipped from an upstream exporter in India to a refinery (importer) in the States.

Banks act as facilitators of such as transaction on import / export side, often have to interact with shipping / logistics and insurance providers to ascertain that goods have been sent in order to clear and settle payment from buyer to seller. It’s an entirely event-driven and very paper-based business with lots of complex processing logic which can very well be replaced by a smart contract, especially because each party may not trust each other a lot (eg exporter wishing to audit transactions of the importer’s bank). A blockchain works quite well for this type of problem.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Corda.
Similar to arguments about getting human support from Google being impossible... There is a very simple solution: allow users to pay a modest amount, say €25, to get 10 minutes of real human support. This will immediately rule out people spamming at scale. The other side of this equation, is that if the ban is upheld, they must justify it in human terms, beyond : "the ML said it's bad". A positive judgement could then then be used to train the ML to be more lenient on this user going forward, at least when it's a borderline case
I worked on Google Fiber and one of the things I did was write a pure-JS speed test. At the time, speedtest.net still used Flash. Why did we need this? Installers used Chromebooks to verify an installation so we wanted to be able to tell if the install was successful. That means maxing out the connection (~940Mbps for a gigabit connection). This speed test is still up [1].

Actually figuring out the max speed for a connection is a surprisingly hard problem. Here are some of the things I found:

1. Latency is absolutely everything. With sub-2ms latency I could get 8.5Gbps downloads in a browser on JS over 10GbE on a Macbook Pro. Bump that up to 100ms and that plummets. I forget the exact numbers but this has real world consequences. Australia, for example, rolled out it's ridiculous NBN network with a max speed of 100Mbps. Well Australia has a built-in latency of 150-200ms to the US just by distance and the max effective download speed would be a mere fraction of that;

2. Larger blobs are better for overall throughput but depending on your device this may blow up your browser. Unfortunately for the Internet you're never really going to reliably get an MTU >1500 unles you control every node on the network;

3. This sort of traffic exposed a lot of weird browser bugs, even with Chrome. For example, Chrome could get in a state where despite all my efforts the temporary traffic would get cached and would fill up your /tmp partition on Linux and blow up with weird errors that don't relaly give you any clue that that's the problem and only restarting Chrome will solve the issue. I could never figure out why. Not sure if it's still an issue;

4. The author I guess was talking about Linux defaults but there are a lot of kernel parameters that affect this (eg RPS [2] is absolutely esential for high-throughput TCP beyond a certain point);

5. BBR was in development at the time (ironically I was next to that team at the time for a few months) so I can't really speak to how this changes things. I was going this development back in 2016-2017;

6. Among people who knew more about this than me the consensus seemed to be that BSD's TCP stack was superior to Linux's. Anecodtally this is backed up by real-world examples like Facebook having extreme difficulty moving away from freeBSD to Linux for WhatsApp. That took many years apparently; and

7. I agree with the author here on the impact of packet loss. It's affect on throughput can be devastating and (again, pre-BBR) the recovery time for maximum throughput could be really long.

[1]: http://speed.googlefiber.net/

[2]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
It seems like interest rates need to get to maybe 9% to bring down inflation… see: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/recession-of-19...
Well yes, although around the size of a lentil is where they start sounding acceptable. The characteristics of a microphone will differ when used as a speaker and vice versa, there's a reason music studios don't just use some speakers passively to record sessions.
I know they are always paying attention to things and trying changes to improve problems they see. But the FAQ says this:

Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Multiple times I have seen permitted dups with less than 24 hours between them ... good posts that gain no attention are often reposted to give them a second chance.

Worrying about the details leads you to trying to game the system ... it's better just to roll with it. Behave nicely and the system works well. If you really want to understand the underlying details you can always ask the mods, but they are always busy, and might not have time to respond in full.
Most Social Media users have one of these, it's at Mark Zuckerberg's Desk...
>The idea to get rid of having to trust centralized organizations might sound tempting, but it doesn’t work: Blockchains don’t get rid of “trust”, they just change, who has to be trusted.

I see this argument against crypto a lot. It's valid, but it's also missing a very very important point. With crypto, practically, you still have to trust external entities. However, you can choose who you trust. You can choose to trust entities far beyond the reach of your corrupt local government, or you can choose which financial institutions you entrust. You can distribute your trust among multiple entities. You're in control.

This isn't the case with the traditional financial system where you're pretty much forced into trusting a specific pre-selected set of options that are all substantially identical.
Exactly. I believe interest rates bottomed sometime in 2020-2021. Those rates are not going to be seen for another few decades. It remains to be seen what this will do to house prices. What happened to most speculative tech stocks since 2021 can also happen to other asset classes.
> "conspiracy theory"

Do we not all conspire together, to make plans, etc? So what are we talking about?

The 'grand conspiracies'? Do grand conspiracies really exist? Is that impossible to conceive of? Is there any reason to think that heads of corporations, governments do conspire to gain the maximum benefit for themselves? Would money and power be a motive? Of course.

But when you say "conspiracy theory" this is intended as pejorative term to close down what may be an interesting investigation. You have labelled something, and now think you have got to the bottom of it. Wasn't that quick? Without looking at any of the evidence too!

Have you read the Great Reset by Klaus Schwab? He details the plan, or 'theory' if you prefer.
> But it is also likely to be most effective at delivering progress to humanity, considering the difference between innovation over the last 200 years, has it happened in places with more freedom or less?

It has happened in places with just enough freedom. The Wild West wasn't exactly known for its great pace of technological innovation. On the other hand, China today is a major innovator (e.g. in solar tech), and it is a much less free country than, say, Indonesia, which is not nearly as innovative.

In particular, legislation and enforcement against fraud are extremely necessary for a functioning system. Fraud directly keeps resources away from innovators (since people who thought they were investing into/buying an innovative solution are giving money to a fraudster instead); and it also indirectly dis-incentivizes belief in innovation, as someone who has been burned by a fraudster will be less inclined to believe the next innovator.
Broken Homes
Also, once you finally get the zip file of source it will be a giant mess that doesn’t have build scripts, nor documentation, etc.

So you’ll win, but won’t get want you want- a way to view, understand, improve, and share.
Consider maintenance costs over the following decades. If the software is owned by the vendor, they can ask the highest price they can get away with, and the customer (government in this case) has no option but to pay it. Of course they also have the option of stopping maintenance, or switching to another solution, but those are very expensive alternatives.

However, if the software is open source, or alternatively owned by the government, than they can ask for competitive bids for maintenance. The vendor can no longer ask huge sums for basic maintenance. The projected savings can even justify significantly higher costs at the development stage.
> When using a separate SD card, the user is asked to select between “use as a memory card” or “use as internal memory.” If the user chooses “use as internal memory,” it then requests initialization of the SD card so that it can only be used on the current phone. When “use as a memory card” is selected, initialization is not required but folder access is blocked.

This sounds suspiciously like Android's "adoptable storage", except the folder access part.

But meh, they got the thing, but didn't do any kind of technical analysis on it? Didn't dump the ROM for everyone curious to poke at? How so? The article itself, too, is almost annoyingly un-technical.
yes, everybody has a right to filter and also the restrict readership.
what makes it perhaps a bit hypocritical as that twitter is supposedly a soapbox of free speech to the world, but that some people are not worthy of reading you.

So perhaps leave it up to the client software or don't be public about who you block and why (or perhaps do make your "killfile" and comments public). Personally I have never blocked anyone and assume the measure is made to make bullying and stalking more difficult. I don't see people who I disagree with not as such.
They don't have to look at every single post manually. But there needs to be a proper appeal process in place for posts/comments flagged as spam by their algorithms that doesn't require making a big fuss about it on social media / HN to get an actual human to respond to you. Big companies like Facebook, Google, etc. would have absolutely no problem affording that, they're simply greedy and prefer to maximize profit at the expense of users.
There are 950k homes for sale in the us today (down from 1.05m a year ago)…if I sold $50b of homes tomorrow @ $430k median price = 120k that would bring inventory levels back to where they were a year ago and represent 2% increase in annual home sales (on ~5.8m), by your logic national home prices would drop…I don’t think that’s a large enough number for that to happen… maybe if I sold $0.5T?
Who tried to hack Hawaii’s undersea cable?
I did download of a film using torrent via StarLink once for performance test. I saw up to 5 Mbytes per second in torrent client, which is impressive speed to have in woods. Sadly, StarLink is not suitable for audio or video calls yet, because of frequent pauses.
Not a car person but we have a 2012 Kia Picanto without any visible software, just a CD radio and it's one of the better cars I've ever used for prolonged time. Yes, it's tiny and cheap, but wildly better than the other comparable ones I've driven.
Ah the typical insane discussion about anything even remotely connected to nuclear.
I think the word entropy is science’s largest mistake.
> When alls said and done, the initial promise isn’t even kept, there’s very few “super miners” who if they worked together would be able to control the entire bitcoin economy, which is the situation with central banks.

There is no way to actually proof that.

> You can see exactly what I mean when you look at Monero. Objectively Monero solves the problems with bitcoin, but because it’s very difficult to trade with (due to it being privacy focused and no exchange willing to trade it) the price is very stable, since it can’t easily be used for money laundering or scams due to it’s higher barrier to entry.

Monero has more privacy and with it come other problems. There could be someone mining 1000 Monero per second and no one would know because the ledger doesn't allow you to see who has how much.
You can send dollars and euros on Ethereum as well.
Limited and deflationary currency is a good thing, because it limits power and disincentivises impulsive decisions.

An umlimited supply of currency like that underpinning our current financial system is hugely predatory and benefits only those in power and those closest to them.

Fiat incentivises huge environemntal destruction, you can just print more money and allocate it to those closest to you, who are inventivised to spend it as quickly as possible because it is always losing value. This encourages short term thinking and quick turnarounds, which results in mass produced crap that is horrible for the environment, or long drawn out wars that are even worse for it. At the bottom of the pyramid, rampant consumerism is caused by this same reason.

A rational, limited digital currency is a miracle. It will incentivise the opposite. Because you can't just "print more" and watch its value halve over your lifetime, you'll be much more careful in how it is spent. Look at how many shoddy products there are now, and how much consumer habits have changed since currencies moved off the gold standard. I loathe having my finances tied up in such a mess. We have a chance to right this wrong with all the benefits of an open and distributed system. That's the promise of BTC.
I've also bought property in Sweden, it's very simple. No need to involve a lawyer even.

So where do smart contracts come in? Who would want to use a smart contract to buy an apartment? Unless possible the apartment deed was stored on the blockchain or something, but that is highly unlikely. Real estate is a very poor fit, since it's very heavily regulated in numerous ways. It's not just about ownership, and anonymous ownership of real estate is definitely a non-goal. It's an anti-goal.
And believers always pull of this subtle shift in frame: you bring in trust-less peer to peer decentralised networks, and of course there's no other solution, because it's a setting invented by the same people who came up with cryptocurrency. The rest of the world relaxes the trust-less assumption and talks about Web of Trust, about decentralised roots of trust, federation etc.

And this is a rhetorical technique: When we talk about economics, we talk about business or human problems.
But the trustless-online-decentralised-ledger problem is a technical one.
So the GP was saying "there is no business problem that crypto solves that hasn't been solved in a better way already. And then the crypto-bros come in and say "nuh-uh! If you for whatever reason want to run digital assets on physical infrastructure that needs to be maintained off chain without trusting anyone (say, the person the network depends on for maintaining the power infrastructure) then this is the only solution!".

YES! Well done. This is even useful, in a horrible hellscape where dog eats dog, everyone carries their own portable nuclear reactor and uses unstoppable point to point laser communication to run the internet and we forego all of the efficiency gains offered by using social consensus and democratic decision making to build webs of trust and centralised infrastructure with checks and balances (for example, by having the root certificates expire and be re-legitimised by some social ceremony repeatedly...say in an election). But in the real world, at some point everyone wants to build a society, put some basic trust down and improve living standards. And while people like Putin and the Kims and warlords still alive can fuck this up

1. They generally only survive because they are leeching of the more functional parts of society which uses trust (not unlike crypto with its Ponzi structure)

2. Crypto won't save you from them because they'll physically take away your electricity and/or torture you to get your keys

So what problems that aren't technical toy problems but real business and coordination problems in realistic settings (remember, if you have a state you trust to protect your private property rights, you can probably also use that to run the root certificate and organise the ledger) does crypto solve again?
In a big city if you're on a last mile service like webpass (Google fiber) you are most likely 2.5ms, not more, from a speedtest.net server that has a dedicated 10GbE port off some regional ISP's aggregation router. Possibly even within the same ISP and your same asn hosts the server internally.
"He is free to leave Russia any time he likes."

That's not true is it? I thought the state department cancelled his passport?
Very interesting, thanks.

Another silly question. As is known that Tritium is bioaccumulative to the point of probably acting as a persistent organic pollutant, why they don't use biology to concentrate and eventually remove it from the tanks?. Or to keep it safely trapped in the tanks?
Ask HN: TSA stole my wallet from checked luggage. What can I do?
I was leaving NYC and didn’t think it made sense to bring my vacation money on my persons, so I put it in my checked luggage. I land in another country only to realize my whole wallet was stolen. Does this happen often? What recourse is there?
When you say 'blocked as spam' - I Just pasted it into a new post, and it worked just fine?
Or do you mean other people can't see it?
Thanks you for doing what you. We need every possible person to teach about nuclear issue. The amount of wrong information out there is just insane.
What a disingenuous argument. Of course nobody can prove that this wouldn’t make the endangered Samoan saltwater frogs gay or something. But is this really a possibility that we need to be taking seriously?
How the world sounds to animals (an exploration of time perception)
I am not trying to make this about China in particular, but I'm biting: I would love to see some peer reviewed papers about vaccination efficiency of Chinese vs. European vs. American vs. Russian vs. Cuban vaccines (bonus points if it distinguishes about efficiency against different strains). Just like with infection numbers, which appear suspiciously low in some countries, there does not seem to be much good information on the vaccinations.

> The problem in mainland China (and in Hong Kong) is that many old people refuse to get vaccinated, for whatever reason

Geez, I wonder why especially old people - who lived through the CPC's chaos years with misguided policies at best and open human rights violations at worst - are reluctant to trust medical treatment that is strongly suggested by the CPC.

> In reality, life has been closer to normal in mainland China than in the US or Europe for most of the last 2 years.

And that I didn't contest. I am just saying that when an outbreak eventually will escape controllability, we will see a delayed mass dying.

> The current lockdown in Shanghai is the first major lockdown the city has had since early 2020.

I think you should also take into account that lockdown, China-style is a whole different beast from lockdown as understood by the rest of the world.
Or you could just add this to your chrome search engines and set the shortcut to r. Now you don't even have to press control.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s
The assets are “real” in the same way domain names are “real.” These are social constructs, maintained by social consensus.

It is very easy to come to a shared consensus about what address “mattdesl.eth” points to, because the history is recorded on-chain, and can be verified locally. I’m sure the exact valuation of this domain will go up and down, but as long as the the chain and network continues to exist, the asset holds value within the network, regardless of what occurs with ICANN/TLDs.
> Idem for Blender

What does this mean?

> there are a few steps to make it usable in Video Sequence mode.

What steps do you recommend?
Yes, and you could make this hypothetical Kenyan cryptocurrency work the same way. One KCoin is one shilling, redeemable for minutes.
> trust-less

Trusting a central authority (bank) is not a solution to trust-less prevention of double spending.
They are trying to get as much as they can. Any small win will matter because they will have more than at the start of the war.

They stated what their goals are: stop Ucraine from joining NATO and obtaining the independence for Donbass region.

The easy thing for Russia is to conquer Donbass - where the population is very pro-russian and won't feel as being invaded by a malevolent country. They will probably try to conquer all Black Sea coast to cut Ukraine's access to the sea. And they will try to maintain a frozen conflict in Ukraine, so it won't join NATO. We even might see other invasions in Ukraine after the current one ends.
How I learnt electronics: Big Clive.
I have always loved this song about a shipwreck on the Great Lakes. https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI
Copyright law has provisions to protect educational purposes.
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1. How do you solve the oracle problem? Blockchain can only deal with things that are on the blockchain already. Any interface to the real world suffers the trust and bias issues you described. You're just shifting the problem ever so slightly. (That's why the only real application is crypto currencies so far, because those can be realised wholly within the blockchain.)

2. How do you incentivise expending the PoW work without cryptocurrencies?

3. Why not have one central/permissioned authority issue chains of blocks, and everyone that wants can verify them cheaply? That is millions of times more efficient than PoW.
Sounds like a recipe for the cobra effect.
By that logic, would you say that Bernie Madoff's enterprise was useful, as it made him rich?