skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's no worse than sports, pokie or video game gambling and those are "accepted" in society.

The public has been casting lots forever[0]. Some people want to put their fate/outcome in some random system like dice, stocks or crypto. Those systems aren't truly random, but from the perspective of the participants it's close enough.

There is a theological topic on Cleromancy[1], the attempt to perceive gods will by casting lots (rolling dice or whatever) and interpreting the outcome as divine will. Many people do amazingly dangerous things like banging their mortgage into a crypto stock and rationalize the outcome for the winner as being "lucky" or the "universe" made it happen. These overlap with faith based patterns we've seen before.

Casinos and all that rig the odds so that the system of providing "random" outcomes can last forever as a corporation. But the human desire lasts forever, to put their fate in the hands of an external uncontrollable source. Crypto is just another method of casting lots for some members of the public.

Crypto is riding this wave of Roaring Twenties style excess we're living through at the moment. Get out by the end of the 2020s and you'll do okay.

[0]https://earlychurchhistory.org/beliefs-2/casting-lots-in-the...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleromancy
if mold has multiple advantages over the official ones and no drawback, can't you send them an RFC once mold reaches 1.0?
My 2c: you don't need K8s unless you are google-scale. Even if you think you are google-scale, you are not. Maintenance-wise and $$-wise, two VPS boxes with Cloudflare (even with an enterprise account) setup is usually cheaper than an ordinary K8s setup.

But again, it all depends on your use case, and people usually overestimate their use cases and the company's growth.
It wasn't just about the play tester reaction. Other benefits of broadcasting:

- Sometimes AI characters can't act on their knowledge in a way that is obvious to the player, so they might seem more dumb than they are. The fact that they can vocalise their knowledge even if they can't act on it makes it clear that they are more intelligent than they appear.

- By vocalising their knowledge about the situation, fortuitous incidents will more easily appear like consequences of AI direction, even though they were not actually related. (Narrative bias in the human.)

- Since the AI actually works with a shared mind, it can seem unnatural that each AI character knows what all the others are doing without any voice communication.
Should I argue over magic, or…?

Also, I don’t believe that’s the proper usage of that term. It would go like this “It cannot be magical, because math is logical.”

Edit for maxdepth reply: The example is looking at any code for a model released in TensorFlow or PyTorch, because it’s 1) quite (exactly) concrete 2) linear algebra with autograd bolted on top. I did a quick search and there are plenty of translators on GitHub that demonstrate that. Here’s an annotated example of neural nets from PyTorch https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/blitz/neural_networks.... What’s incomprehensible about it and would the authors of a ML paper also describe those features as incomprehensible?
> So what if methane is more "potent"?

If you are concerned about global warming, swapping one thing for something else that has a greater negative impact is bad.

Having a process or animal that converts CO2 to methane is not neutral just because the CO2 was already in the atmosphere.

> How potent

25x more.

> and in relation to what,

CO2 over a period of 100 years usually.

> and in what amount?

Any amount, it's a relative figure.
Use case: decentralized, censorship-resistant, programmable money. Sorry if it takes more than a decade to disrupt the most entrenched and powerful status quo on earth.

Personally, I never thought it would come this far so quickly, and am quite happy with the pace of adoption and progress.
I'm actually very curious to know where you've heard of something like that that predates the Bitcoin protocol's mining difficulty adjustment algo.
Seriously, i use Windows because i could play video games after coding.

Coding in linux machine is 10000x easier than Windows.
They're great not in that you may have to wait for them 20+ year to catch up with inflation. Still way better than crypto though.
Look into cognitive therapy / rebt, go see a therapist, and read up on it yourself. You can see it as a valuable activity both on a personal level, for your future and your family, as for your professional future. So appreciate working on that aspect of life! (ask for a certification from your therapist, jk :P)

Because it seems like you need to reframe things. There is enough uncertainty in the world as it is. You are doing a commendable job it seems for yourself and your family, but you can't control everything. A little less thinking in opposites would go a long way. You seem to be chasing certainty.

Why not allocate some time to work on a social cause? Don't worry about optimization, just start with doing something. Also nothing wrong with 'just' taking care of your own family, they are an important part of this world too!
He's stealing from society to feather his own nest. I'll bet he also thinks this makes him smarter than other people.
There would be no return rate.
This seems valuable to me:

> Scientists and engineers should focus on building models that meet people’s needs for different tasks, and that can be evaluated on that basis, rather than claiming they’re creating über intelligence. Similarly, we urge the media to focus on holding power to account, rather than falling for the bedazzlement of seemingly magical AI systems, hyped by corporations that benefit from misleading the public as to what these products actually are.
> it seems like an unfortunate accident that some of these languages must have not had much printing press and typewriter use

it wasn't an accident, the printing press was banned by the ottoman empire in 1485.
OpenHands
Indeed, life is not easy going when someone is senior enough to work with a CxO at a giant company, and writes emails with thoughts that influence entire organizations.
I’m the opposite. My company has this thing where people that leave send an email they’re leaving literally the afternoon they disappear, and sometimes nothing at all.

It feels like they’re sneaking out under the cover of night, and it makes everyone I need to work with feel very fungible. Getting attached to any given person is a dangerous excercise, since one day they might suddenly be gone, and you wouldn’t know it.
Any way to limit this to feeds with .mp3 links
Please elaborate how "most" cryptocurrencies are green.
Depends on what you use. To me Visual Sudio is the best and most gestire complete IDE on the market and C# one of the best language.

Every time I program on another system I miss Visual Studio.
Kubernetes are amazing at what they do, but only relevant to ~0.1% of the companies in my opinion. It's way too complex and too much work for the rest of the world, and not worth the time invested.

A lot can be accomplished with simple virtual machines and some sort of auto scaling groups (depending on your cloud provider they have different names).

Kubernetes are amazing at unifying your workloads on any clouds though. If you care about portability, you should either consider using kubernetes for everything or using a tool that abstracts your configuration in a cloud-agnostic way. Although I'm a bit biased on this one.
36k BTU multi room split unit installs are like 4-5K USD here in South Africa, including installation from the rough prices I've seen.
On a tangential topic, naive question: what does the programming language landscape looks like in China?

English is almost universally spoken among western college graduates, and it is the same character set. But I can’t imagine the difficulty of learning programming compounded by it being in a language you barely understand with a character set you are unfamiliar with. Did Chinese language based programming languages appear? Or is everyone eating the bullet (or perhaps I am overstating the difficulty, hard to get an idea of how much english the average chinese college graduate is exposed to).
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If one person buys all of bitcoin, and no one else wants it, what value does it have?

Less than zero, because you have to keep putting energy into the network to keep it running.
For the past 20+ years, I've ignored Emacs because I chose Vim at the beginning... but only the past few months I've started to read about Emacs and now know what people mean. Emacs isn't "just an editor"... consider it a library of macros that you use to create your own editor!
This article interests me as it has been a bucket list todo to get a good sense of some of the key/value offerings, thank you for posting them.

Quick ask:
I don’t see “some” of the other offering out there like MemCached… what was the criteria used to select these?
I don’t see any source of how the test where run, specs of the systems, how the DB where set up, etc. Would be very valuable to have in order to attempt to re-validate these test on our own platform.
I also came back and saw some of your updates to the outcomes, While the Get/SET numbers are provided, I don’t find a reference to time, resource utilization, or time which would IMO make the data more valuable in understating how the numbers where achieved. * I might be a factor of the benchmarks themselves, but would add value IMO to your fantastic post.
NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test
> Were any of their typewriters black?

Yeah, both in their electric and Selectric lineup.
> And why did he announce his departure before his benefits were locked in?

This happens when people trust their team and managers. Which is why I consider it the worst sort of betrayal to fire people over it.
Sufficiently Advanced Testing (2019)
"Mostly by lights that aren't shielded." Overall, the lighting is still necessary, it's just not as efficient as it could be. By that standard, over 99% of Bitcoin mining is waste because because most of the power goes into solving artificial difficulty.

The only people who genuinely care about PoW are miners and a handful of enthusiasts. I'll generously estimate that 1 million people fall into this category. So you have a million people using .5% of the world's electricity just for one of their interests. Contrast that with the billions of people who enjoy videogames or outdoor lighting.
Stealing from society and burning fossil fuels in order to profit yourself.

It's disgusting.
It may be not intuitive, but tools tend to be better because they are open source.

My personal problem with Pylance or ssh tools is that they are not working with VS Code based forks. That means that VS Code is not that open source as it trying to look like. And this is suspicious for me.
We do very occasionally go into our telehouse data centres, maybe one person once every year.

Our in house data centres we visit more often, usually to add new equipment, doesn’t take long to walk down stairs.

I can’t think of the last time a hard drive failed
Still, the price of Bitcoin can have (and has had!) serious effects on the entire crypto ecosystem.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe it's different in your country, or things have changed since I was in college.

In my experience teenagers are eager to establish their own identity, independent of their parents - to the point of being embarrassed, at some ages, to even be seen with their parents. Until they're grown enough that their relationship is more like one of equals. Most people over the age of 17 would be embarrassed if someone said they were merely transitioning to adulthood.

Leaving home means doing your own cooking, cleaning and laundry, and paying your own bills - in exchange for freedoms like exploring your sexuality; experimenting with drink and drugs; and occasionally staying in bed until noon.

Granted, some students choose a school close to home and some even keep living with their parents - but it's far more common to choose a school 2+ hours away from home. Having a parent drive two four-hour round trips to collect and return some laundry, to save their child 15 minutes loading and unloading the laundry machine would be very unusual.
This is not even true. Not at all.

Because bitcoins don't exist as physical objects. They are fully virtual. So you need to make money virtual in order to buy them. So you need to connect to the banking system eventually. You can add middlemen, sure, but it's unavoidable.

And then you arrive to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31462909
Thanks to rent seeking any improvement in lifespan will be captured by land owners and monopolists.
Since it is the customer who chooses the payment method (or just won't buy from the seller if they aren't happy with the options offered), what is the benefit for the customer?

The lack of fraud (by which you really just mean lack of charge back) is only a benefit for the seller, and not the buyer. You are just moving risk to the buyer, and it is just like the old days of the Web when some sellers would try to get you to use western union to pay.

I've not seen you describe this yet in the thread, which tells me there is no benefit or you haven't thought this through.
You might try Use of Weapons. If nothing else, it might change your views on a certain class of furniture.
This one? I remember it as an earnest description of the difficulties the WSL team had with the speed of NTFS - and I think it was one of the reasons for the switch to virtualisation in WSL2.

<https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...>
No, and no.

"Manipulated by governments" primarily means "tax evasion and crime".
I am particularly surprised by the agile statements. I wonder if this flies in the face of the "state of DevOps" reports some people wave around.
IMO, the term web3 is tainted by VCs using retail to dump their tokens faster than they can dump equity in traditional IPO which is less transparent to average schmuck because most of the money comes from the retirement funds passively investing in everything.

It's their shortcut to liquidity which resulted in overpromises and dumps.

It's not unreasonable for someone to be sceptical but to dismiss it all together is a mistake.

We need to go back to the core. Decentralized financial instruments built to help people prosper economicly. To uplift poor people in unbanked countries. To stop dictators from rugging poor people and investors. To provide individual freedom and highest level of personal attainment.

The yield bullshit needs to stop.

Edit: I don't mean all yield strategies, just ones which are unsustainable (most of them).

I want unsecured lending products in crypto based on on-chain reputation which happens automatically on taking small loans or doing a lot of transactions maybe endorsement system where institutions stake money in return of verification.

Banks won't provide loans to people who need them the most. Even self employment people and founders with millions of dollars in exit struggle with a home loan because banks refuse to deal with anyone who doesn't fit their cookie cutter.

I believe crypto has potential to disrupt it.

I love flash loans for this exact reason. They are unique to crypto, allowing freedom to anyone to increase market efficiency by taking advantage of arbitrage without creditionals and needing absurd amount of capital to start.
well, if he was going to be running a space heater otherwise then this is basically the least harmful instance of mining
I don't know what any of that means, but they are looking for the sweet spot for releasing new stuff that's better than the old stuff.
I worked for a modern car rental company where you just need to download an app to drive a car.
The tech was super interesting, there are vendors that sell a box with both gsm and ble interfaces and the cars are fitted with these.

You can send messages through ble or their cloud api / gsm.
The app needed to first acquire a token to successfully establish a ble connection.

I'm not saying you can't buffer overflow through ble messages but at least the authentication was solid.
Except that unlike C and Go it doesn't work.
None of gold, lld or mold can replace GNU ld entirely because they don't cover all features that GNU ld has.
I really enjoy that it’s basically impossible for my company to fire me on a whim (at least it’ll be a multi month process that you can see coming months away).

I can be openly critical to my boss, or leadership, or mess up in general and recover my good graces without constantly worrying that my job and life depend on it.

That said, we have to work with one another, so it’s in all our interests to keep a good relationship.
There had been correctly functioning vertical videos on YouTube for a 3-4 years. That I can watch in full screen on my phone.

So it's possible, but don't know how easy it is for the uploader.
Unfortunately that's needed nowadays to succeed. Java, Rust and many other would not be successful without standing on the shoulders of its big lies
Because computer games do not consume 1% of the world's electric power.

Because computer games give entertainment to three billion people.

Because no one pretends that their computer games are going to overthrow the world's economic systems, and then try to sell them to some greater fool for much more money.
This looks pretty cool!

I can't ever imagine using it tho :) If my bash scripts are so complex or critical that I feel the need to type check, I will probably use another scripting language where I can do that more easily while still having readable code.
Funny part is that „competent generalists“ (those Brent-style types) are very rare and most technology needs to be designed for incompetent specialists. Also funny is that these generalists typically build as if everyone has their own skillset which renders many systems unusable once Brent has left the building.
You might survive. I would be a protein source for snakes on the first afternoon.

What does your theory have to say about that!?

Oh. Oh I see.
Into the Future with IntoFuture
I played D3 the first month after it came out and enjoyed it the great deal. Was in the first wave of players who ever got to Inferno Hardcore.
Iteration > Recursion
Seeing that something like ONE-EIGHTH of the Russian Army's total forces are in action in the Ukraine (about 120K out of about one million), the article is more than likely to be clickbait propaganda.

Otherwise, what is Russia doing with the other 850,000 soldiers?

Mind you, it's always possible that those other 850,000 guys are on landing barges about to hit the beaches in Louisiana. /s
Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
I understand, but a law like this wouldn’t actually make tuna cheaper. It would just increase the minimum amount you can buy and price you have to pay. When prices are up and people are trying to economise, is requiring them to buy more of expensive products if they want any at all really benefiting them?
That's not enforced centrally (or visible by the reviewer) so hard to trust it that everyone will remember having it.

Though even without that, I'm not sure how it'll even mechanically work.
Hollywood and China
Dev Jam – Build projects to learn and improve your skills
I read deadly maneaters and didn’t even see the typo because wilderness gonna wilderness.
We moved from Windows doesn't do it, it does but isn't available to non admins, it is but non admins can't do files,....

Yep.
It's an alternative financial system with many of the same (and some different) primitives than the existing ones: Liquidity via AMMs (instead of human or HFT MMs), derivatives, loans, yields, fixed-rate instruments, etc. These are used in the same way the equivalents in TradFi are used, just implemented differently, permissionless and with an API.

I believe that many people don't understand the traditional financial world or how any of the above are useful. They want to see something like Twitter on the Blockchain because that's what they can wrap their head around. That's why so many people in the crypto space come from a more traditional finance background. They understand how the above instruments are crucial for an economy even though they are not end-user products like Twitter is. They are one layer below that.

Also, the decade argument is misleading in the case of Ethereum. It's true that ETH itself has been around for a while, but DeFi with sufficient liquidity has really only been a thing for 2-3 years and has made quite rapid progress since then.
Basically everyone who hasnt reached retirememt age has learned pinyin which is a phonetic transcription using latin characters. For the english language used in programming the difficulty should be the same as lets say an Italien student would face.
>> Why is time spent on System is so much higher than the other one even though that one takes longer?

> Good question but I don't know the answer.

Don’t know if that’s the final answer here (didn’t actually investigate), but system is the time spent in syscalls, and locks are usually provided by the OS, aka syscalls (though there might be userland components to avoid the syscall e.g. futex).

Thus the need for synchronisation of threaded program generally leads to higher system time. Though here mold is clearly a lot more efficient as well (lower user time).
> The correction will then "over-correct"

What matters is whether the system is convergent. The best thing that
could happen (for POW digital currencies in general) is that it
stabilises, around the current value long term. Then we know an upper
bound on the energy cost and speculation will evaporate leaving BTC as
a utility. The worst thing that can happen is it stays oscillatory with
increasing amplitude as various interests try to push it one way then
the other. After that most systems go chronically and irreversibly
chaotic, and that will be the end of that experiment.
Bitcoin issuance halves every 4 years, it's a geometric series. It's like the lily problem but in reverse.

> Lily pads are growing in a pond, and the number of lilies doubles every day. After 30 days, lilies cover the entire pond. On what day did the lilies cover half the pond?

The answer is Day 29. Very late on the timeline.

With Bitcoin, we've got halving instead of doubling, so most issuance happens very early on the timeline. In fact, 99% of Bitcoin's issuance happens within the first 28 years of the protocol's life. Bitcoin was launched in 2009. So a mere 15 years from now, in 2037, only 1% of all bitcoins will still remain to be issued.

Will 1% be sufficient to attract enough miners to properly defend the Bitcoin protocol from attack for the entire rest of its useful life? I have my doubts.
What are the qualitative levels in your opinion?

The V compiler is self hosting for example, there are useful examples done in the main repo, people are using it for writing web servers.

What it should do, to "qualify", and to qualify in what?
I guess it depends. Crypto in my country doesn't have such a negative attitude. Some places allow you to pay your taxes in crypto, our main Amazon competitor is accepting crypto for years now, even our 'old people paper magazin shop' accepts crypto.

In Switzerland you have banking privacy, no or high cash limits, you can privately buy a new car in cash without anyone raising an eye brow. Crypto isn't actually a real danger when your whole society is based on monetary freedom.
Super Planet Crash – A game of gravity
How do will the founder avoid his own product?
It's not entirely clear what you mean. But, you say "if you could really ..." as if ground-source/air-source heat pumps don't do this exact thing; do you think they don't work?

Running a steam turbine by pushing water down a borehole to come into contact with a high-temp (>100°C) source has been done; it's not perpetual motion. Energy pumping the water is << energy output from the steam produced. It's solar energy that's being used, ultimately.
Looks like you can only build highly inefficient, economically infeasible car-dependent suburbs with this game.