skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why they claim that the total time grows quadratically.

If tasks arrive arrive randomly at the same average rate as they can be processed, then the amount of time that the nth task will have to wait is proportional to sqrt(n) in expectation. So one would expect a total waiting time of n^1.5, which incidentally fits much better to their plotted curve than n^2 does.
>"All of this, over gifs, jpgs and fake land in a theoretically infinite digital universe that was probably procedurally generated anyway."

Sorry if this a naive question but what does "procedurally generated" mean here?
> People adjust - paper straws are servicable for most purposes

What purposes are "most purposes"? They don't work for shakes, they don't work for anything that takes more than a minute, etc.

Given a choice, people pick plastic straws. Who are you to say that plastic straws aren't better?
> You're confused. Bitcoin does not have such fees

This is an Ethereum thread, is it not?

> Ethereum, while it does have such fees, is moving to proof-of-stake and the energy argument no longer holds up.

Um, excuse me, Ethereum very much has these fees still, so the argument is extremely valid in the moment; additionally, this "proof of stake" movement was meant to occur in 2019 no? They are 3 years late and at best 1/3 complete, 9 years of delay sounds about right - this space is full of speculation and grifters treating that speculation as truth to grift.

> There are numerous non-PoW chains

That have extremely unstable financial valuations, destroying the credibility of them as alternatives to existing financial systems.

Your arguments hold no water, they require hypothetical futures and blatantly false things to hold, so why are you making them?

> This is the only way we know how to avoid double-spending in a trustless, permission-less way

The value prop of this is 0 today. Maybe it's even a net negative on the world, with the transactions on these chains having an extremely significant scam rate while also using more energy than entire mid-sized countries do to literally exist. You need to justify why "trustless and permissionless" are important before you can just say "we need systems with these properties!". I can only feel that you are financially deep into these systems and rationalizing to hold your position, you seem like you'd be perfectly capable of constructing good arguments when not emotionally compromised by the topic.
I had a really good mentor for many years. He was my manager starting back when I was in high school, and he was always working with us to improve our code. He recommended good books and articles, put in place systems of formal code reviews that emphasized egoless programming, so we could review, learn about, and improve our code without feeling threatened. He helped me think about the code development process and how to be constantly improving it.

He helped me establish many good habits that helped me to grow throughout the years. More than 3 decades later we are still good friends.
Because you're migrating a living document.
When I created my own Roam clone from scratch, I completely left out the "knowledge graph". I agree it's a failed idea.

My clone is optimized for terminal usage, since the clunky javascript UI is the other flaw of Roam.
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You can't can't use a use a dropper and compare color hex/HSL values on different pictures with different lighting and say "Yup - that's the same", otherwise SFX wouldn't need color grading[1]. The second picture seems to be from a very brightly-lit environment - to the extent of washing out his blue shirt (collar), but the first picture gives no such cues, and appears less well-lit (virtually).

AI models have no implicit knowledge of environmental lighting, and if the training data is exceedingly made of brightly lit images, may end up generating images that belong in well-lit environments (fairer-looking skin tones), but in low-light contexts. When looking at these generated images, the human eye does what it does best: determine relevant gamma-correction using all available cues.

[1]. Assets rendered in the same color under all scene lighting conditions.
Yes, I am (perhaps a bit sloppily) using "particular contexts" to refer to particular use cases. And while your use case is the C5M problem, since we're bringing up other languages (which optimize for different contexts) I think it's worth emphasizing that these features also lend themselves to other use cases. Here's an example of using Rust's async/await on embedded devices, for reasons other than serving millions of concurrent connections: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/async-on-embedded/

> Many languages/runtimes want just a single coroutine/continuation construct to cover both concurrency and generators — which is a good idea in principle — but then they, especially low-level languages, optimise for the less useful of the two.

Notably Rust appears to be the opposite here, as it is first focusing on providing higher-level async/await support rather than providing general coroutine support, but its async/await is implemented atop a coroutine abstraction which it does hope to expose directly someday.

I'm sure you don't need to be told most of this, but I bring all this up to help answer the more general question of why not every language builds in a green thread runtime, and why one approach is not necessarily strictly superior to another.
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I got the same response from GD...somehow costco got their site back up...different CA.
I'm just an outsider, but to OP's point, in 2017 they had none of what you just cited yet they were making the "within a year" claims, and continued to do so year after year. One can't help but draw a comparison to the boy who cried wolf.

Edit: This isn't me taking a position, just observing.
I'm not even from the US and i hope this will stop soon.
Hi all- I have 2 sites with SSL certs with Godaddy and both started having this exact problem a few hours ago.. only with chrome, works fine in bing and firefox. on windows 10 desktop. I tried costco.com and got the same error. Called Godaddy a minute ago and they said they can't comment on any other customers but said using chrome on his end he could access both my sites and costco without any error. My sites' certs are due to renew in 2 months. Do you think if I rekey them today and install the rekeyed certs that might solve the problem? Thanks! ~Jerry
Just thinking: Is it possible the (probably fast-growth trees) used in the production of these straws are the actual source of the PFAS chemicals? I mean, they are "forever chemicals".
This is if he wants to take notes in the first place.
Mistakes happens
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I don't understand how that contradicts what I said. I'm not arguing against public goods. And I'm not arguing against improving systems for those who don't do due diligence.

I'm just saying take responsibility for your own actions and your own decisions. The world doesn't owe you anything. Such statements are not incompatible with improving the standard of living for everyone, even those who are actively liabilities.
its gonna sound crazy but...
practice.

i made toy apps and widgets. chrome extensions. took on a bit of client work.

read some books.

stay up all night and hack on projects for a few years while people are sleeping and youll get some where.

never had a sideporject or 'startup' that actually made money, but thye taught me the skills i have now that are paying the bills, and i pretty much have my pick of jobs at this point.

but also suffer from extreme impostor syndrome and try and use that to fill my (perceived) gaps
> Toyota lost the lawsuit on their development processes and firmware design. As far as I know, no specific bug that would cause unintended acceleration was ever found.

I truly believe that it was human factors and not a computer failure.

I've been in similar situations and had a acquaintance drive through a wall because of human factors. In our case, the parking lot was relatively flat but had a drainage channel at the front. So, you could put your car into reverse, release the brake, and your car would roll forward. Quite unnerving if you are driving a stick, but your brain processes it because you are used to rolling in the wrong direction. If you are driving an automatic, you smack the accelerator, jump across way too small gap between you and a building, and bury your car trunk in an office wall.

Nevertheless, I'm also quite happy that Toyota got smacked as their development process was TERRIBLE. They 100% deserved what they got even if it wasn't a computer bug.
I very happily pay Strava for their premium features. I love their community and software.
Yes, and from what we have seen so far the malware taking advantage of the exploits is extremely sophisticated, such as the one taking advantage of a flaw in the iPhones PDF reader which was used to bootstrap an entire custom made virtual machine used to read contents from memory.

Even if you patch one exploit and analyze the malware, there are plenty more to be found, and it seems like they develop custom made malware solutions for each one.
With Bitcoin there was the promise (and to a tiny extent still is) the promise of it becoming a disruptive technology.

With the apes there is no illusion of this being a greater fool
scheme.

I wonder how close they are skirting to illegally running a ponzi or pyramid scheme?

The only source of income or growth for this investment is new people buying in. It is worse than amway, herbilife, penny stocks. Probably similar to madoff except the idiots who buy will not be angry at the creators when they lose their shirts. See safemoon exit scam for an early view, or indeed any other crypto ponzi since 2008.
> I saw an actual Tweet by Gebru that said some loss functions are more racist than others. (I am not making this up.)

Do you have this source? I'm curious what she said. Is this L1 vs L2 but limiting to race?
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My favorite part is when the paper straws come individually wrapped in plastic.
Thx for posting this reply from GD.
I have no position.
The other problem I think is that "software engineer" is such a damn broad role. People try their hand at coding and try some specific niche and either don't love it or get frustrated and then don't really try much else. When in reality there are tons and tons of avenues and flavors and areas requiring more or less technical expertise and different kinds of technical expertise. Some of these people might make excellent QA or cybersecurity researchers, some might be interested in front end development of UI or oldschool low level chip stuff. Or maybe they are more broad, macro infrastructure type people. Without already working in "the industry", however, it is hard to know where to start and what to try.
How do you feel about movies portraying settled wars or real life disasters? Or even movies about individuals that died?

What about hypothetical wars in general?

Or movies that bear a striking resemblence to current events?

Personally, I don't think there's any moral issue with making a film based on current events, although there may be some artistic issues. And sometimes there's issues around misrepresentation or use of likeness, which might have a moral component.

A hyptothetical WW3 movie might also have moral issues about glorifying violence or vilifying populations, depending on the film. But that's not an inherent problem with the setting, just a hazard to hopefully be avoided.
Cops, like any other predator, pick easy targets.

They're much less likely to get shot back at stopping stolen cars then they are kicking in the doors of people who know they are engaged in the kind of business that gets your door kicked in.
I'd be happy to make a bet based upon this statement.
> Imagine promising your clients and telling them to wait 'for a year' for the team to fix these fundamental issues in your product and have them lose millions on your missed estimates whilst you keep postponing and delaying the fixes for 5 years.

Basically any large organization IT project, defense project or anything which a politician touches after the sign off, then.
Ignorance and mediocrity have much more explanative power than malice
Feelings aren’t an emergent property of intelligence, with intelligence being defend as some nth derivative of optimization capability. So I think no.

Human consciousness isn’t just a brain. It’s a system of which the brain is a part, occurring through time.
Veeam Endpoint Backup is free and works great for me. I use it for both windows and Linux and I’ve been able to restore fine after botched upgrades or unwanted NVidia driver updates.
Except that anyone with a minimal involvement with Ethereum already knows that the base layer is not meant to be used on day-to-day operations.

We already learned about the decentralization trillema. The strategy to scale Ethereum through will be through the adoption of "layer-2" systems, where users are expected to be doing their transactions and avoid these costly transactions altogether.

There are roll-ups already dealing with NFT marketplaces [0]. There are roll-ups that can execute any type of ethereum smart contract [1] [2]. There are payment channels that allow completely decentralized and gas-less transfers of ERC-20 tokens [3].

[0] https://loopring.io

[1] https://optimism.io/

[2] https://offchainlabs.com/

[3] https://raiden.network
> Goldeneye, though it controls differently to modern shooters, was an excellent use of the single stick at the time. You could also use dual sticks by using two controllers at once - groundbreaking!

Wait, what!!? Can you really play dual-stick Goldeneye on original N64 hardware this way?

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDQ_ri2ZbY4

Amazing!
That's quite a claim when, until Grindr's practice of selling PII was disclosed, no one had any reason to imagine that by using the app they would be disclosing their sexual orientation and behavior. In light of that I have no idea what preference you imagine to have been meaningfully revealed here.
I suggest scaling nuclear power all the way, while still innovating and investing in non-nuclear clean energy in the meantime.
In the end my vision doesn't matter. If you can agree that land speculation is bad you can agree that LVT is good. People should not make money for owning empty land that they do nothing with, it's really that simple.
> I’ve tried a bunch of these sorts of tools. And nothing stuck over the years.

Yeah same with me, I've tried many tools like Org-Roam inside Emacs which is yet another Zettelkasten type of system, doesn't really make sense for me.

So I just stuck to using plain text notes with whatever structure I want them to have, no standard structure, just whatever structure I want on a given day, and that is how I can actually get myself to write shit down, rather than wondering about structure and how this note links to that etc.
"cryptocurrency" hah! It's not a viable currency until its transaction costs are comparable with me using a $20 note at the corner store
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seems to good to be true... But really I worry where else these will appear if we start looking.
- A lot of practice, which stemmed from a lot of fooling around and abandoned side-projects. I would deliberately start projects which were way over my head, with no intention of even getting something working, just to see how far I could get before getting bored.

- Learning new languages which had vastly different paradigms than the ones I was used to. Java to Perl to Javascript to PHP to Erlang to Clojure to Go to... Over time you learn patterns from one place you can bring to another, and learn patterns which exist in most places which you'd rather didn't.

- Lots of experience in the actual workforce, building things people (supposedly) wanted. There are aspects of programming which people spin their wheels on which really don't matter in the long run, and conversely there are aspects which go ignored but are very important. Working on real, rubber-to-the-road projects gives you perspective on what actually matters.

- Being a daily archlinux user (I don't use any non-archlinux OS on any machine I own). Yes, it's hard. Yes, it's an incredibly good use of your time to figure out. Once you're comfortable in arch, every other Unix-like OS (ie, most of them that you'll ever probably work with) will feel familiar.
Why is the world so obsesed with plastic straws? Are those really the most polluting item right now? Why do we not focus rather on plastic bottles for eg. soft drinks, which are the only option in many markets? Or useless double and triple packaging? Even the term "carbon footprint" is used to shift focus from "big oil" to "average joe" [0]... how many years of plastic straws is equivalent to eg. deepwater horizon oil spil?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi...
I wonder what hobbyists and historians may find in future decades in our old chips. Clever techniques that were invented much earlier that anyone suspected. Weird Easter eggs. Security flaws and backdoors. Features that were implemented but never enabled. Whole designs that were stolen from one company and used by a competitor.
Well the goal is that the reconstruction would be "him". Obviously the reconstruction isn't Obama. Limiting the discussion to race isn't a productive means to resolve the errors. There are more than race and they are likely coupled.
The chain is probably a dozen people long. If any one of those dozen people had an incentive to give a lot of shits about false positives this wouldn't happen.
Writing lots and lots and lots of code.

Being really interested and motivated to write my own projects.

Learning everything I possibly could about every topic I found interesting relating to computing ans software.

Focusing my effort on a small selection of technologies.

Making the decision to be able to build an end to end application on my own.
You can still get it from https://win7games.com/#calc (via WinAero).
I'm possibly one of those people who aren't genetically inclined to these kinds of applications...all I know is, if an app doesn't work seamlessly across MacOS, iOS/iPadOS and Windows, it's no good for me. Obsidian is great, but totally failed for me on the iPhone. I couldn't navigate at all. I don't know if that's my fault or Obsidian's, but that meant it was broken, and I moved on. (OneNote is great these days.)
Kadena is probably the only proof of work blockchain that's infinitely scalable, has low gas fees, even introduces the concept of gas stations. They just announced a $100M fund for development.
Cryptocurrency trading can be a legitimate way to diversify risk. Of course people should know what they're getting into before they start and it's very likely to fail but I trust institutional traders more than anyone else to actually make money off of cryptocurrencies.
That's effectively where the pareto principle comes from: that many distributions tend to follow the power law [1] [2] [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
Honestly, I agree. It can both be true that 1) a system could be improved so as to reduce harm to the average user and 2) ultimately the users are responsible for assessing risks before participating in the system.

The problem is as soon as you argue for (2) everyone reacts like you're the most evil, heartless person on the planet.
> Crustaceans are not negatively impacted by acidification.

Anything with an outer skeleton made of Calcium carbonate will die in a high acidic environment, or will be eaten that is the same
> If this is the system working as intended, and you think that is a good thing, then I don't think there is any way to convince you otherwise.

They have just admitted that Ethereum is a millionaires playground, and it isn't useful for the 98% of users. If it wasn't a problem, why are many users complaining about it?

Also, if a bunch of rich whales wanted to rush and mint hundreds of JPEG apes or virtual land, that would mean 98% of all transactions for wallets on the platform would either fail or take their left over ETH to spend it all on fees for a single transaction. That could be bots with over >100k worth of ETH to snipe and mint these NFTs quicker than most.

If that is 'working as intended' then they are also saying that it is designed not to globally scale be useful at all. If you wanted to send payments or buy something at the supermarket store using a crypto debit card with ETH, the unpredictable fees will make the transaction fail or use up all your ETH for the fees; paying thousands for a $10 purchase at the supermarket which is wORKiNG aS iNTEndeD; even in the real world.

The banks are really scared and shaking in their boots over Ethereum's absurd and unpredictable gas prices. /s
Something else I have also noticed are the comments people leave stating that they don't like to unsubscribe, rather they report the unwanted email as slam and leave it at that.

So people are reporting tons of emails as spam instead of just unsubscribing
Naked shorts are not possible with crypto unless I'm very mistaken. You could do it in some secondary market, but the blockchain AFAICT only works on "real" assets.
Why are they [0] offering a return of the gas spent, then?

[0] https://twitter.com/yugalabs/status/1520612364839661568
I don't believe it was an exhaustive list of ingredients, only one set of concerning ingredients common to most.
So, what I don't understand is chemists and industrial engineers. There are highly educated humans somewhere who sat around and said, "you know what would sell well right now is straws that looked like paper but were actually durable in water," and one of them said "oh just coat that stuff in PFAS, it'll work!"

Not only that but the product then got all the way through all the other humans required to reach industrial scale manufacture and distribution.

So a large number of people decided that it was worth exposing other humans to known toxic chemicals[1] to sell a product.

Do the people involved just not care as long as they get paid? Do they not believe that chemicals do any harm? Do they think the harm is so tiny that it doesn't matter, and the people who are concerned are idiots? I genuinely don't understand it.

1: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/index.html
scientists recently found microplastics in rain and human blood… so let’s not burn them unless the exhaust is heavily filtered
I can buy the argument that async/await is a design choice. In which case this is what is “best if the user”

But the GP replied to a comment that was claiming threads of execution are better than async. So in the context of the reply the threads are the “best for the the user”
You get energy out of it instead of wasting that energy.
When should a software engineer switch into management?