skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I only one that feeling like code readability is a bit gross?
This is good. Managers need to leetcode to prove their IQ.
Not controls 51% of the bitcoin, that itself wouldn't be enough. It's 51% of the mining power at any one point in time. I agree, I also wonder how much of that was due to lack of ability to short the price of bitcoin at the time. Nowadays you could maybe profit even if you totally destroyed the bitcoin network and made your own mining hardware worthless?
From the linked article...

I used to be a Carpenter and Joiner. I gained some financial qualifications through distance learning and needed some experience.

The guy who hired me told me later that there was some resistance from the team to my joining. He told them that if I could work out winding stairs, accounts would be no problem!

Regarding the ability to fix with a hammer, I would say that with software humans tended to just work around the poor fit!
For many power tools yep, but not for all :-)
Because what was important came a couple releases later!
Maybe the problems is that I cannot see myself trusting anything more than the base layer.

So, the only use case for Bitcoin is as an optional gold alternative.
LD_PRELOAD and hooking the libc syscall wrappers doesn't seem very reliable.

It won't work on static binaries, it depends on the user not clearing the environment and there are also many programs that use the syscall directly, bypassing the hooks. From playing with file system hooks I remember programs written in Go and sqlite used to do this.
That's not an appeal to authority. An appeal to authority is "P is a statement in the topic T. A is an expert in T. A says P is true. Therefore P is true." If I draw a parallel between two topics and proceed to explain one of them in order to argue something about the other one, that's not an appeal to authority.

It could be that the reader fails to understand the explanation and instead treats the writer as a trustworthy authority. That would not make the argument an appeal to authority or even fallacious.

It could be that the analogy is poorly justified, which would make the argument incomplete, or it could even be that the writer failed to understand some subtle aspect of the second topic that makes the analogy inappropriate. Neither of these would be appeals to authority.
They are not exercising when they are viewing social media though, so there is an health implication with social media. How long before we get social media induced deep vein thrombosis? The airlines took that seriously.
A cursory search would tell you that they didn’t lose anything.
One place where you are pretty much forced to use error objects is queue-based concurrency.

In my case, a seperate thread listened for network events, parsed them and put the results on a queue for the main thread to consume. For parsing errors, I needed to put error objects onto the queue instead of terminating the whole thread with an exception.

In this sense, error objects generalize much better to cases where you don't have an usual function-call structure.
> Please note that the environment FUD has been refuted many, many times over.

And here you are making a blanket statement without backing it up with evidence.

Bitcoin spends more than $1M/hr through proof-of-work, https://www.crypto51.app/ , essentially out-spending any doublespenders. This is wasteful.

If the inflationary reward were reduced or eliminated, the transaction fees were more in line with the externalities. But mining budget would also drop, which means less security (which means more waiting for large transfers to gain additional confirmations).

As such, a "Bitcoin Green" fork with reduced mining rewards would be very welcome by me at least.
I only casually follow this stuff, do you have some links or other related info? I would be interested in reading more about this but don't really have any existing knowledge of the field
Last generation?

Without too much unkindness, MacBooks have been like this since the 1990s.

Many people I know wouldn't have considered them for one second before the M1.
Seems like a case where I would just \d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ and validate it in code
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You probably should look at different numbers than just the dollar price.

Number of nodes is rising,
number of wallets is rising, number of hash-power is rising.

Also, please look into the "Lightning Network". It's the second layer on top of Bitcoin and that's where the whole ecosystem scales (in terms of numbers of transactions per second). Cheap, scalable and fast transactions.

Adoption is happening in many places.
Stitch Fix is laying off 15% of its salaried workers, or about 330 people
No, there are in fact many people who do not read the docs.

https://tailwindcss.com/#:~:text=Worried%20about%20duplicati....
>Anything beyond that, your value per employee drops drastically

True but not fatal. Being equal to the first employees isn't a requirement: as long as the employee creates more value than they cost, it's worthwhile. Facebook is a simple premise that could be (and was) created with a skeleton team but it's still worth hiring the person to work on Linux's networking stack if that enables them to make it more efficient.
My pleasure,

In an article in the Economist, dr. Douglas Hofstadter explains that Artificial neural networks today are not conscious. He finds issue with neural networks like GPT-3. For example, by giving it input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points, he exposes the hollowness behind the scenes.

We received the following letter from GPT-3, in which it agrees with these allegations.

Dear editor,

I am writing in response to the article "Are neural networks conscious?" by Douglas Hofstadter.

I agree with Hofstadter that neural networks today are not conscious. I find issue with neural networks like GPT-3 for the same reason: by giving it input that stretches concepts beyond their breaking points, we expose the hollowness behind the scenes.

GPT-3 is a prime example of this. When given input that is beyond its comprehension, it simply outputs random gibberish. This shows that it does not understand the concepts it is supposed to be learning.

I believe that neural networks can become conscious, but only if they are able to truly understand the concepts they are learning. Until then, they will remain as unconscious as a rock.

Sincerely,

GPT-3
I get enjoyment from the opposite of point #2, 'Too many tools'.

I've got a Shopsmith, which is a reconfigureable multi-purpose machine. It's a drill press, turning lathe, table saw, jigsaw, and several others. You turn different locks to swivel the machine around and attach well-engineered implements to make the single motor power a different woodworking configuration.

As an engineer, it's fantastic. You get to make the machine do what you want. And you are rewarded for being careful and measuring things as you reconfigure, because the swivels and joints introduce the possibility of mis-alignment. Mis-alignment would show up in the finished product (the cut wood). So being fussy pays off!

For programmers, it's great.
While writing my comment I thought about whether it was really correct (happens to me often).

I think the analogy for a software hack in the real world is not a hammer blow but rather, pieces of string tying together things that don't want to work with one another.

Strings tend to wear with use, and eventually break, sometimes catastrophically; whereas pieces that were forced to fit, usually stay put forever.
Also of interest is the 'Play CDN' feature, which allows Dev Tools experimentation

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation/play-cdn
Honestly I'm surprised it's even on the market. For as long as it's taking to get fairly harmless marijuana approved for medical use, I'm not sure if any actual rational reason why Xyrem isn't facing the same issue. GHB can definitely kill you if you misuse it or combine it with other CNS depressants and has recreational value.

GHB is also used in some European countries to help people quit alcohol. That's not why I started taking it, but it's largely replaced my alcohol consumption even on the weekends and to my knowledge I'm healthier for it. I can't take both on account of it can kill you and Xyrem knocks me out without giving me a hangover the next morning. I'm finding myself less and less interested in drinking even on days where I don't have to function in the morning.
I had the Odyssey2 as a kid and hated it, mostly because it wasn't an Atari 2600 (I was five or six at the time).

I do remember the game Quest for the Rings very fondly though.
But ergonomics are so much better. I’ve seen my team increase throughput dramatically after switching to tailwind.
Yes, but somehow it affects all processes and installs a rootkit. That's going to need more than an unprivileged user account's access to the system. It's not clear from the article how that access is gained.

> Instead of being a standalone executable file that is run to infect a machine, it is a shared object (SO) library that is loaded into all running processes using LD_PRELOAD (T1574.006), and parasitically infects the machine. Once it has infected all the running processes, it provides the threat actor with rootkit functionality, the ability to harvest credentials, and remote access capability.
It's hard for me to have tangible opinion on something as complicated as the Middle-east but surely part of the causes are exogenous, at what level and mechanism I can't tell. Surely another relevant part was and still is food: Swiss needs import, but for being well, in mere self-sufficiency they can survive, Lebanon can't, it import I think nearly all foods they needs and that's a big issue. Surely energy production is another: Swiss have much hydro and was able to develop a certain level of nuclear, Lebanon have nothing of them. Again a big tie that allow foreign countries to interfere much.

I do not prize Swiss at a whole, I'm talking just in terms of defense and Democracy...
When Schwarzenegger was governor, many people said he would likely make a serious run for president if he was a natural born citizen. It was mostly used as a statement by people about what a good job they thought he was doing and how they wished he could legally run, not a real desire to amend the law.
Definitely leetcode helped with that. Not sure if I could directly attribute that to the extras I got from paying. I paid for access to more problems and less waiting to submit solutions, mostly. The solutions to the problems can essentially always be found in the comments.
"The most widely noted change in Mv3 – and there are many that have significant implications – is the removal of the blocking version of the webRequest API, which is being replaced by an API called declarativeNetRequest."

Safari supports and will continue to support v2, but Safari never supported blocking webRequest.
Usually you build reusable components with tailwind, so that you archive DRY. With React for example (or any other technology).

The huge benefit is, that you don’t split up HTML and CSS, you only write HTML.
An AI responded with that? And you're not deleting it immediately? It does have some ELIZA vibes, but this is horrible. o_O

Is there something I should be aware of, for my own safety?

Well, I'm not sure what you're asking me, so I can't really answer that. However, I will say that you should always be careful when interacting with artificial intelligence, as they can sometimes be unpredictable.
Awesome update!
> Also; the environment not being worth worrying about is not a political idea that Bitcoin encodes; it simply uses Proof of Work because there is no alternative to it that has the same characteristics.

That the system of Bitcoin users could not exist without that impact is literally what I mean by encoding that political idea.

> It is regulated by the economic majority.

That definitely sounds political. Why not a democratic majority?
When Sun released Java and went on a marketing road show, I drove to Chicago to hear the presentation. Since Perl was my favorite language, I had to ask about regular expression support; the Sun engineer said there wasn’t any, but I could build the first library.

To me, it was inconceivable that you could release a major language and not only not have regular expressions built into the language like Perl, but not even have it in the standard library. Crazy.
The way I use Bitcoin is as a personal defense against hyperinflation. I find this very valuable.

Also, apparently people pay a lot of transaction fees, therefore the network must be offering at least that much in benefits.

What examples of terrorism or other illegitimate uses have been financed through Bitcoin? How much damage have they caused to society?
I think it depends on the final quality and lumber used, too, though.

Pre-pandemic, I built my own cabinets in my garage with cabinet-grade plywood and Ikea butcherblock counters. I over-bought the wood by about 50% (because of a stupid mistake) and bought a really expensive track saw, and I still saved like 25-50% compared to buying the cabinets pre-made with the features I wanted. Even cheap cabinets would still have been slightly more expensive than DIY.

Granted, my cabinets are not perfect and I wouldn't put them in someone's kitchen, but they are more than good enough for what I need them for and both me and the wife are happy with them.
Latest version (4.x) is GTK3.
The design of the examples is weird and unintuitive. At the very least should have some sort of clarifying header of “new” and “old” or something. It took me a solid 30 seconds of confusion to realize the regex was the old syntax rather than the new syntax.

The arrow points from left to right, and arrows represent progress but that’s backward from their intent. The new syntax should be on the end of the arrow, not the beginning.

If this were a regex transcoder and the base were the input syntax and the tip were the output code it could kinda make sense, but best I can tell that is not the case here.

The examples read backwards.
> By that logic

My logic is that, in order to guarantee the right to freedom of expression, there needs to be a line. The moment the "consequences" of expressing an opinion are predominantly punitive is where it needs to stop.

So no, by my logic, you're totally allowed to not be friends with someone who says something racist. As for losing a job, in an ideal world where this person could just get another job, yes, that'd be acceptable. But when it turns into losing the right to have any job whatsoever, then no, that's definitely not okay either.
> the Substack front page

I wasn't even aware there was such a thing, all substack content I consume I found organically. I'm sure it's much the same for the majority of their readers.
I have more than one kid and their personalities are a world different. One, since she was a baby, had the urgency to do things quickly and learn how to do more at all times. She would operate like she is on borrowed time since as long as she could move. She would ask for something once and go do it herself. Bring everyone else’s shoes after getting ready, while my son is still putting his pants etc. I was the same way. Growing up I had this feeling every second is precious. My mind can move fast and solve tough problems and invent and I didn’t want to waste it as time is precious. This urgency varies with time and varies in format. When we had babies, I would absolutely focus and enjoy every moment with them, because those are short and never come back either. And even so, my mind would come up with ideas, while holding a little one, and I would jot those down writing or dictating on my phone whenever necessary.

Yes, there is also toxic workaholism - where financial pressures, peer pressure and other reasons cause people to be lost in the work and burnout. The biggest reasons for burnout in my book is not working too much, but working where the volume of work doesn’t match the reward, or where you ignore sleep depravation and don’t pay off sleep debt (not eating enough while working may lead to that as well). So if you are lucky enough to get people who are born machines of productivity, make sure you compensate them well so they don’t burn out and ensure they get adequate sleep. It pays pack quickly.
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Plain HTML yes.

Using a web framework? No.

It is clever in that half of it is missing: the componentisation that React (etc.) brings with it makes
this shine.

You can also define normal CSS classes based on the utility classes if you so wish.

Tailwind after 4 hours of learning
curve is so much nicer than cutting css or using old skool css frameworks. Some of that is because ready designed components exist that you can copy.

With an old skool css framework once you hit an edge case you can be snookered and spend ages diagnosing why because of some clever stuff they done.

Tailwind says “yeah css was a bad idea, let us abstract it away a bit” and does a nice job.
I did not know that about the deal. Thanks for the info.

With SpaceX it is certainly a successful revolution. There is whole bunch of new startups that would not exists without SpaceX. Most of them will die, but some will not.

It is also quite clear that Tesla already achieved it's goal of accelerating transition to sustainable energy. Volkswagen shift is certainly linked to Tesla. And Volkswagen actually committed fraud on emissions that probably led to death of many people.

Situation with Theranos and Tesla is completely not comparable. Autopilot works fine. You are safer with autopilot activated on a highway than you are driving in a city per kilometer driven. Whether you are safer on a highway with or without autopilot is debatable and we don't have good enough data to settle it. So, Autopilot is not prefect by any means, arguably not market leading solution in the category of drive assist, but it works fine.

The bigger issue is with Full Self Driving. Tesla can drive you around in a city - so the way they spin what FSD means is almost satisfied. The issue is that it is extremely stressful experience and I'm 100% convinced that you are more likely to get in an accident when babysitting it vs. if you would drive by yourself and pay the same amount of attention.

But I think in 5 - 10 years they may be able to actually deliver proper working solution. They are making progress.
The vast majority of power management is less background services while active.

It's mostly about reducing idle power consumption sleep mode, and closed lid hibernation.

Most battery loss in mobile devices can be attributed to two things.

The screen, and how much is lost when the device is idle in your pocket/backpack.
Whoops, thank you and I stand corrected. This increaaes my opinion of the trademark registration process, as it was rightfully rejected. My opinion of the applicant is lower with the correction, because it means that they kept the same name for two years after being rejected, removing ignorance as an explanation and making me think that it is intentional deceit.
Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Sometimes a hack is also filling in a gap in the back sawdust mixed with wood-glue, and that will generally last longer and be more durable than the rest of the piece.
I've yet to see a convincing argument why we end up with a trusted authority. Can you point me to which incentive would cause this?
> a valuation that is similar in relative terms to the offer when it was made but different numerically.

I have no idea what that means. You think they negotiate to 53.69/share so Musk can save some face?
The whole 51% really isn't too practical in reality. It means you can overwrite some transactions. While losing the mining rewards too for the period.

So first you need big enough transaction that makes it worth the resources spend. That is doing more work. And that transaction needs to be such that if it gets reversed the other party can't take other avenues to claim value back.
> I thought, like China, [Russia] would ultimately ban it to prevent civilians from easily exiting the Russian economy. (another legitimate use of cryptocurrency that is often overlooked)

You're kind of proving GP's point here. Evading capital controls is a criminal activity, and, though this is an example of a crime that we would all agree is morally righteous, you're still arguing that cryptocurrency is good because it makes crime easier.
That resource use model uses miner revenue to estimate energy footprint. It’s off by at least an order of magnitude if you extrapolate from publicly available miner energy use statistics.
I imagine this sort of move makes some of the top people leave along with the worst people. If I was in a company that cut 25% of the workforce I'd look for the door regardless of how good I was. Nothing happens in isolation.
> Average GPA of the class of 2025 admits was roughly identical (3.95).

This confuses me greatly. Are they using more generous grading for pandemic reasons? I've observed a noticeable difference between a top 5% student and a top 1% student, so the fact they're getting the same scores is odd... Wass the material/pace much lower than what the student body could cope with?
This was my theory. Electric cars are seen as a “left wing thing” now they won’t be.

It will be interesting to see if conservative car types decide to give electric cars a go. Keeping a close eye on a famous YouTube mechanic.
I’ve used Tailwind in quite a few projects at this point. It’s a bit gross, yeah. But overall that’s a small price to pay for all the benefits it brings.
The first version of Meta’s AR glasses will be for developers only
I didn’t think that part went far enough. Companies could reasonably want to hire people who can do well on programming puzzles, even outside of those narrow cases.
In my opinion, it will stay as such, no side can afford the loss of income from tourism. It is an attempt to turn a worsening situation into an opportunity. Erdogan a defunct leader, might face jail time in case he looses the elections, thus he will do everything he can to cling to power. The unknown is how desperate he is and how far he's willing to go.
Are you honestly implying that there are still people who, in all seriousness, use a REGEX to parse HTML?

Every programmer I have met, however junior, knows or learns about Zalgo early on. It's like the "foobar" wrt regexps: common knowledge.

True, knowing it's a bad idea won't hold people from doing it. I do it. I'll whip up some stupid `:%s/\<?p class="strong"?>/<strong>/g` occasionally in vim, knowing perfectly fine that this regexp won't be solid, but: works for this case. All the while knowing about Zalgo for years (decades?)
Sounds like something that happened at Sun around 1990, which I described earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15660759

At Sun, during the dark days of Solaris, when everyone was depressed and wanted to quit, our manager sat down with each of us and asked: "I want to know your happiness index, a number from 1 to 10. You can use any algorithm you want to come up with it, just use the same algorithm each time so we can track how it changes over time."

I had a BS degree in Computer Science, but I was never taught an algorithm for calculating my happiness index, not even in my Artificial Intelligence class. So I had to wing it.

To protest, one of my cow-orkers made "rpc.happyd", a Sun RPC server whose function it was to track the happiness index of the team members over the network, and "HappyTool", a graphical user interface to rpc.happyd which drew a face for each team member, with a slider under your own face for adjusting the face from happy to sad.

Here's a demo of the HyperNeWS version of HappyTool, which I wrote in NeWS PostScript, and which lets you copy an encapsulated PostScript happy face to the clipboard that you can paste into other HyperNeWS applications (like pasting into the customizable clock face to make happy and sad clocks):

https://youtu.be/avJnpDKHxPY?t=13m24s