skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The stereotypical Reddit "in-joke" thread has no place on Usenet because the principal reward of karma is entirely missing.

Nope. `rec.arts.sf.written` and `alt.folklore.urban` immediately come to mind as having extensive in-jokes. The phenomenon of replies to a post being almost incomprehensible to the uninitiated because they use/rely on the existing ecosystem of said in-jokes is as true for such newsgroups as it is for any subreddit. The only difference is that on Reddit said comments will be at the top of the tree, but the metastructure of their replies is otherwise the same.
Thank you for posting this. I've been searching for an example of a net positive use of crypto, this is it.

Thank you
This is what passes as academic studies these days, it's so pathetic, just look at how it fails to identify what it is that they are establishing:

> It has been a totem of the cryptocurrency community that the numeric addresses of Bitcoin and other wallets will protect the identity of those using them to buy and sell.

A new paper, released this week by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University, has shattered that presumed anonymity.

Which is it? Is it Bitcoin's or some alt's public address wallets? No one who has read the white paper, which is fewer and fewer people including researchers, would make such an ignorant claim because as you said it's designed as a pseudonymous system.

Furthermore, since the advent of centralized exchanges that require KYC and AML (everything after MTGOX that wasn't BTC-e) and blockchain forensics would know that its not hard to track IDs that way. Its why the notion of red-flaging and tainting was so prevalent with these exchanges: they just went back 2-4 transactions and associated with things like DNMs or online gambling and refused to process the tx and froze accounts entirely as was the case with CONbase.

The truth is that this is a feature of mainchain since we have not made full use of Taproot and other OPSEC/Security features because of delays (Segwit/USAF caused so many delays), and even LE has made it clear that BTC main-chain is perhaps the dumbest way to commit any crime because of it's relative easily traceability [0].

Privacy and security are concerns and should be addressed, but Bitcoin moves incredibly slow for a reason, and the only one's stupid enough to use it to commit crimes when other alts (monero, zcash etc...) exist at their MO deserve to get pinched. I'm sure we will have default mixing at some point with batching but until then it will always be an additional cost and legwork if you have some link to a KYC/AML exchange in your tx history.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/12/28/using...
(11) HTTP is a highly inefficient protocol and abandoning it would help a lot against global warming
At least an older version of flockdb is open source. He's got somewhere to start.
> It doesn't matter if it was at random or deliberate. It matters that a non-prize (goat in most versions) is revealed. The question is about one very specific scenario, even in what antris was originally given: The goat is revealed. In that scenario, you switch.

You can just go back to the simulation numbers and check. If you eliminate the games where Monty "wins" (i.e., reveals the prize), you are in the specific scenario you described. You have chosen a door and Monty has revealed a goat, and you win 3309 times by staying and 3307 times by switching.

If you rewrite the simulation to follow the correct problem statement (that Monty knows and always picks a goat), you will see that switching is in fact the correct strategy.
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Yikes, he's a White South African! Thanks, I unfollowed him on Twitter. Genuinely thought he was a Blue Martian.
Why would you assume that all software is written for servers in datacenters? Rust tends to be used in embedded devices, WASM, and other weird contexts where there might not be as many resources available.

If you're writing a CRUD app, sure, do it in PHP and spin up a thread per request.
Faraday bags
Increased productivity in manufacturing z-folded Lithium-Ion-Batteries
Mirror protocol. https://mirror.finance/

It wasn't buying an equity, it was buying a token that was the same price as the equity. Buying the token had no effect on the upward price of the equity. I can see why the SEC is protective of that, for sure.

The bigger issue is that Mirror was hacked and nobody knew about it, for seven months. https://rekt.news/mirror-rekt/
Anecdata: I've been using it for a couple of years and not had any concerns with speed. I don't know what faster would be. I occasionally have to use firefox or something else on corporate machines and Vivaldi doesn't seem any slower than that on any sites I visit.

I do use Pihole to get rid of ads so maybe that's a factor
Your comment reminded me of this:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Exactly. Managers are there to facilitate people and communication, business leaders are there to facilitate capital and strategic vision, engineers actually make the thing and master the detail in the process. Good businesses learn to listen: not just to their customers, but also to their domain experts.
> Mind providing some references as to how removing $1bln of shares from the market doesn’t increase every remaining shareholders value by $1bln, assuming market cap stays the same (which it generally does, independent of another variable)?

The market cap definitely doesn't stay the same. When $1bn goes out the door (either as a distribution of dividends or to repurchase shares) the value of the company goes down quite a lot instantaneously. [Maybe somewhat less than $1bn though, as cash on hand may be discounted due to the risk of mismanagement, the tax on the dividend is considered, etc.] The market value adjusts instantaneously when a dividend is distributed as it's known in advance, in the case of buybacks the company only discloses them from time to time but the adjustment to the fundamental change in value happens eventually.

Can you provide a single reference that says that the value of a company doesn't goes down when it gives money away?

> Every other shareholder now has their actual voting power/control/share increase proportionally.

All the shareholders together own a company that is worth less than before - the only difference is that it has less dollars in it's current account. [That is, all the remaining shareholders. When all the previous shareholders are considered they jointly own a company that is worth less than before and a bag of money - their aggregate wealth is essentially unchanged as discussed above.]

> Take the hypothetical case where all but 1 share was bought back by the company. The owner of the one remaining non-bought back share is now the controlling shareholder and that share should be valued at the prior market value of all public shares, modulo what everyone things about it’s new future in such a scenario.

Ok, let's assume that I have an Intel share and everyone else agrees to sell their shares to the company at the current price of $40 and the company can somehow get the $160bn financing required to buy those shares. Then my share is worth $160bn?

Yesterday, all the shareholders together had a company worth $160bn. If today I own a company worth $160bn and the other shareholders have $160bn in cash, where do you think the extra $160bn came from?

A simpler case: Alice and Bob are equal shareholders in a company. The company has $10mn in cash. They reach an agreement about the valuation of the company being $20mn. The company uses the $10mn in cash to buy back Alice's interest. [I said the company has $10mn in cash for simplicity. It could have more or have less and take a loan for the rest without affecting the argument.] Now Bob is the sole owner of the company. How much is the company worth? Do you really think that the company is still worth $20mn?

What if I'm a sole owner and sell half of my shares to the company? Has my wealth doubled? Can I have the (half) cake and eat it too? Can I keep selling half my interest to multiply my wealth?
> It mostly comes from businesses throwing a bunch of under-skilled labor at the problem, and demanding more and more too quickly.

Even if you have plenty of skilled engineers, it doesn't mean that the business won't impose unrealistic timelines (and insist the timelines be met even if it means taking on loads of tech debt which never gets paid down) or change the requirements abruptly or even demand things that are inherently complex (without understanding the complexity).

In other words, there are plenty of ways that management can create complexity, and in my experience management-induced complexity is the most common kind (note that I'm faulting "management" for things that include "communication between engineers and management" because management ultimately owns the software development process).
The beautiful irony would be if he was cashing out and holding all these "laundered" funds in Luna/UST. I guess time will tell.
In words, but I don't have aphantasia. I can imagine anything (but, for some reason, faces. I can't do them)

And I think in both my native language and English, with what language being used determined by what I do. I browse something online? English. Otherwise, Polish.
Though for short sentences I default to English for some reason.
> Deflationary currencies are Ponzi scams because anyone with a brain knows that it will never function as a currency with that property and all that is left is a speculative bubble

The gold standard was the basis for the international monetary system from the 1870s to 1971 with some brief interruptions. Before that, other commodities were used as the underpinnings of the monetary system for as long as humanity has utilized currency. These are all deflationary currencies. In fact, inflationary currencies are a relatively recent invention. The one notable feature it has is that depressions don't seem to exist (instead being converted to bad recessions). That being said, it has only 50 years of history behind it so who knows how stable it is in the longer term.

I'm a huge crypto skeptic because the cost/benefit isn't there for the amount of pollution it creates and the amount of crime it enables, not because it's a deflationary currency.
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I think blockchain is an interesting technology that does have some unique qualities. It's cool that you can setup a system where the people running it don't have admin powers.

I also think that relatively few real-world problems are made easier by blockchain's strengths - and many of them are situations where you're seeking to avoid some kind of censorship. I think avoiding censorship is important and I'm glad we have a technology that is useful there - but by volume most human interactions do not have to worry about censorship.

An under-rated problem of blockchains, imo, is how the system shifts incentives for the stakeholders: if code really is law every system is one mistake away from giving away its entire value, if code isn't really law then we're just back to systems of social consensus and there's no need for all this blockchain nonsense. Very, very few people have the technical skill to implement a useful system which is fully automated. I'm extremely skeptical that we've been missing something that is going to make that dramatically easier in the future - and without several orders of magnitude decrease in programmer error smart contracts seem like a bad bet.
He may be alluding to the fact that money laundering is easier to get away with using regular trace-less cash than through an immutable public ledger where your criminal activity is stored in perpetuity.
You should also swap in the example I gave.
My resume and LinkedIn original had "vice president" as my title (as a bank SWE). It seemed to be detrimental to finding a job at a tech company, so I've long since replaced it with just "senior software engineer" to much better results.

One FAANG hiring manager outright told me he found it very intimidating.
The bean counters at the SEC and various AG offices, while not being friends of mine, are nowhere close to "the worst people in the country." Nor are the main street investors who've been burnt and now see it for what it is.
I like that the author is working for Salesforce <3
There was a proposed constitution, but it was rejected by referenda in both The Netherlands and France. As the constitution was not ratified, talking about constitutional makes very little sense.
I understand and appreciate the philosophy behind crypto. Self-ownership and privacy are core values to me.

But I've spent two years in this space and I've come out thoroughly disillusioned. The vast majority don't even care about privacy or ownership or decentralization - they just want to know "wen pump?"
You're agreeing with me. I'm saying that it is in fact hard to just run a printing press, which is why US dollars are worth something and Zimbabwe dollars are not.
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Black box optimization such as CMA-ES or Augmented Random Search (ars) are used by researchers, for example:

CMA-ES:
https://blog.otoro.net/2017/10/29/visual-evolution-strategie...

ARS:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07055

Those optimizers are efficient up to certain neural network sizes.
We used to have devs bringing in frameworks and libraries without reading the manual. Now they spin up entire services or subsystems without reading the manual. You should read through the docs for MongoDB Atlas...which plainly illustrate that you now need a DBA unless you're cool with people pressing buttons in a panic during some type of self-induced performance issue.
Erm, that should be endorheic basins, not enteric, which has a different set of guts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric
There is no reason there can’t be one agreed upon blessed way of doing things in Linux while still enabling users like you to have choice. Heavily enforced defaults are important for growth.
That’s an enormous amount of money! I’ve really gotta figure out where I can make friends with these crypto whales so I can be like “Hey would you mind hooking me up with a fraction of a percent of what you pay yourself in one month?”
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I'm open to proposals for an ethical basis for technological work that's better than "well it's not nearly as societally destructive as what I was building before!"
Whether the goalposts have moved depends on whether you consider speculative investment to matter for whether something is "irrelevant".

I think you could reasonably read that post as a critique of speculative investment in assets. With the conclusion that if that's the only meaningful activity with cryptocurrencies then they're not doing very well.

Investing in companies or in future production is a different matter. If cryptocurrencies can actually get that going at some point it'll be interesting!
> there is an optional part at the end for testing more tricky concepts.

If the candidates are anything like me then any optional or bonus features will be considered mandatory. I have no way of knowing what percentage of other candidates do the optional work and so I have no way of accurately assessing the risk of not doing the optional work myself. I will ignore your suggested timebox if the optional work will take longer and then I'll be a little pissed off at you for how long your take home assignment took me.
Marc put it extremely well. I agree with every single word of his thread. I should have applied a narrower and more specific definition of cache invalidation in the blog post. I apologize for any confusions it caused.
From the article:

The original problem:

>The host acts as noted in the specific version of the problem.

>Switching wins the car two-thirds of the time.

The random door pick:

>"Monty Fall" or "Ignorant Monty": The host does not know what lies behind the doors, and opens one at random that happens not to reveal the car.

>Switching wins the car half of the time.
Nice. I would add % of it played vs. median and how many std.deviations from it.
This article is less about ethics and more about utilitarianism/economics.

Nor is this stuff obvious to the average person. I mean they might follow some of these ideas instinctually, but they wouldn't be able to explain why if asked.
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There's a ton of commercial apps for the Mac and they seem to be doing just fine. Until more recent mainstream adoption, Macs were traditionally most used by professionals, people like photographers, artists, designers, musicians, publishers, etc so there's always been a healthy ecosystem of software for these people. They're still there, although I expect a lot of the growth of the Mac user base has been home users.
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There's life down there.
If there was false information provided by Twitter (a little irony there) I believe that agreement’s validity would be in question by common sense or in any court of law.
A) is this real? B) if it is, will it still happen during this crash?
I guess because it's easier to avoid the shitcoins than the inflating dollar.
I'm guessing they have limited functionality, but Pidgin is free software and has both discord and Facebook plugins. They've certainly made it difficult for the free software clients, but people continue trying to maintain this ideal.
Idea: Apply this to personalized advertising. Client sends his interests + habits + personal info encrypted to the server. Server finds and sends back to client the best ad based on clients info.
If your account got frozen it's because while you were idling your truck in downtown Ottawa protesting mandates that have already been mostly lifted you were being funded by suspicious folks abroad.
I'm honestly surprised this isn't trending higher, given how it's spiked over the past day.
Right now Elon is searching stackoverflow:

“how do I get out of buying twitter?”
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It's imbecilic and baffling to think this is all one would need.

Edit: to be clear, I'm saying this about what Elon said, not you.
As someone who lived in Argentina, it made me think of "pelotudo", which means "asshole" or maybe "dumbass" depending on the situation.
> Wait for the next recession. All this nonsense will evaporate.

During a recession companies will have to cut costs wherever they can. So they might start with high cost office space. So yeah, office nonsense will evaporate. In the same way banks cut costs with less branches, more online banking. Or how cars are now being sold without dealerships.
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And almost every successive power grab by the federalists was sold as temporary, but has become permanent.
That would be a remarkable inversion of the standard Bitcoin argument: for years, the argument was that Bitcoin was more anonymous, and that the government simply had no business determining the legitimacy of transactions.

(The factuality of these claims is not being offered or challenged; only the observation that the justification seems to have completely flipped.)
You could say the same thing about tradfi.

Seriously, both the finance industry and politics needs to return to a time when it was boring a.f., just ordinary people getting on with their day-to-day jobs. The artists are the ones that should be entertaining us, not the NASDAQ, and not the latest political (bowel) movement.
I’m not sure what to say. Some of us have been saying this at every single NFT release, every influencer-backed shitcoin release, before every rugpull. They all predictably collapse, the community swoons in astonishment and immediately move on.

There’s maybe a utility in crypto, but every one of these dumb scams erodes trust in it and lessens the likelihood of widespread adoption
> In the original implementation of the program, 'pid monsters' could be killed not only by the program's user, but also by other 'pid monsters' and normal Doom monsters on the level. The reasoning behind this behavior was that "on very heavily-loaded machines, it is not uncommon for the OS to kill random processes." Unfortunately, the number of monsters in a given area must be depressingly small in order for them to avoid both intentional infighting and friendly fire. Since monsters would tend to kill each other off until only a few remained in the area, the user was severely hampered in the ability to orderly control processes on the machine. Therefore, the default behavior of psDooM is to ensure the player is the only character in the game who can wound and kill 'pid monsters'. This avoids accidental process deaths from monster infighting. Unfortunately, it doesn't prevent accidental process deaths from a user's poor aim. ;-} The original behavior of 'pid monsters' being as vunerable as other monsters may be enabled with a command line flag.

That's amazing lol
The fragmentation issue is with user choice, and the amount of learning and experimentation you have to do to make all of those decisions. There's no de facto "probably the best for you" Linux flavor, or method of installing applications. Whereas on Android, generally if you don't know what Android to get, you get a Samsung. You want to install an app? No matter which phone you have, you tap the Play Store icon.

Plus there's large corporations selling these devices, and they set everything up to work for you out of the box. You're not gonna run into an equivalent of the experience setting up Linux desktop where it's not recognizing your monitor correctly and you have to mess with drivers and running mysterious commands in a terminal to make it work. Samsung made the phone and hardware work, turn it on, and you're good to go.
Same could be said about the collective brain power going to the likes of Facebook, TikTok, etc etc etc.
So, like Facebook? Twitter? Or any other social network.

Ok, they are not notary certified identities, but bit's pretty common and depending on the platform also demanded and enforced, with enough people following the demand. But I don't get the impression it made the platforms a better place.

People only learned to better hide their tracks, or don't care about it.
I was once asked "how do you sort a list of integers?" - the question was so ill defined that I thought it was a joke (in a database?, how long is the list?, in a flat file?, memory only?, on an embedded system?, a dataset in spark? ...).

Thinking, ok, this must be an ice breaking joke I responded, "I don't know, how _do you_ sort a list of integers?". In a condescending tone they responded "are you even a programmer?". At the time, I had been in the game for more than 10 years.

I am really not sure how one could successfully build several companies and have shipped several products without knowing "how to sort a list of integers".

Trying to find a good place to grow your career is difficult on many levels, but if you find leetcode questions silly, you might be too advanced for entry level jobs. ...and you probably don't want to work there.
Sometimes a hack should be exposed so a better alternatives could emerge. Sometimes they do. Most of the time the hack stops working.

Circle of hacks, I suppose.
That’s what I read from the title as well.
The history of rural electrification says otherwise.
2015 was 7 years ago.
I'd do more research before making generalizations. Helium, Livepeer, Arweave, The Graph, LinksDAO, and many, many, many more examples counter your cluelessness. But apparently, it's "nothing but pollution, speculation, theft, and crime" that's an ignorant statement.
The Rural Electrification Act and subsequent subsidies was very successful. Electricity is a compelling technology.