skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I still think you don't get it.

You seem to think that mining a block is something that takes a long time, and that work is wasted if someone else managed to mine a block first. Mining a block takes an incredibly short amount of time, but pays off with incredibly low probability. You have to do lots of attempts to find a block. You don't spend 10 minutes trying to compute one hash, and then throw up your hands in disappointment if it wasn't low enough.

> Or until someone else mines a block, in which case you have to start again from scratch.

You always start again from scratch after every single hash. Billions of times per second. You're no more likely to find a block on your millionth hash than on your first. The work doesn't add up. Each hash you try is either low enough or it's not, and either way you try again.

> The "random number that satisfies some property" is dependent on the transactions included in your block, and if other miners include those transactions that are mined in blocks before yours, then you have to start from scratch.

That's correct, but you only wasted a small amount of time during the overlap between the other miner finding a new block and you hearing about it.
> the builtin types are:

> [...]

> boolean: a shortcut for returning a number (as numbers are booleans).

Can someone explain? I can understand booleans being numbers (e.g. #define TRUE 1 in C), but how are numbers booleans in bash?
This jumped out at me. Software has always had grandiose marketing and I figure that a successful large-business image usually works better than mom & pop imagery. But it probably encourages people to see the person or team behind an OSS product as at least a cog in a big machine, if not a successful entrepreneur.

I'm reminded of the scene in Cinderella Man where Jim's wife Mae goes to tell off Joe Gould calling him rich and entitled, basically, and they invite her into the big apartment and they've sold all the furniture except a table and two chairs.
I get what you're saying but you ever tried biking in Amsterdam at rush hour? There's just as much congestion. Nobody's going to die in a crash though, I'll give you that. But the experience itself is more crowded.

I think what you're looking for is a more rural existence.
I think it will be delayed a bit if necessary but it is still clear that a working PoS is completely feasible.

I had a lot of doubts too about the pace of dev but the shadowforks and ropsten testnet makes me thing it's going to happen.

I think that even if the devs don't care about the price, they care about the image and they want to get rid of the stigma that eth is bad for the environment.

When that stigma became so widespread is when eth went all in on the PoS development.
It takes nothing to get a can of spray paint and deface a wall with an insult or any crude depiction. Imagine the commitment required to carve an insult on stone. This man was truly angry.
How does it compare to zld?
Git Internals – Plumbing and Porcelain
Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) Portfolio Tracker
Sounds like the are looking for Qovery
If you do any sort of that you are instantly marking yourself as suspect
Yeah for recipes in particular I guess it's odd there's no kind of recipe equivalent of Wikipedia
Although on reflection you’d want this to be a continuous flow process not shutting down at dinner each day, which would require vast batteries.
No that’s not how physics works.

If you keep pumping a constant amount of CH4 into the atmosphere, it keeps degrading into CO2, which is transformed into grass, which is transformed into cows.

It’s a cycle. There is no long-term impact.
The True Self Is the Person You Want Others to Believe You Are
private labeled securitized mortgages were the defi of early 2000’s. even if you over collateralized with us treasuries you would be at risk for a volker style sudden increase in interest rate which would decimate your stablecoin. Unless the fed opens a facility to backstop your stablecoin, which they might do I guess if it became important enough.
Romania doesn't have Netflix, Apple, Facebook and barely has Google through Fitbit.
I almost never watch Bollywood. Some of the reasons why I hold the opinions I do can be explained partly by the references listed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31795739
if you have an open mind, and care enought about the truth to hear different points of view, then I recommend this short overview talk by Prof. Benjamin Pikman:
https://youtu.be/yKdBdK_OXxI
Actively attempting to trick people who aren't aware of something is totally different than assuming we know something better than someone else. Are you serious right now?
> until signal strength (or another metric) falls past a certain threshold

Not sure that is working correctly/using the right metric/using the right thresholds if what OP is saying is true.

> my phone is still talking to the range extender even throws poor connection/no internet

Seems like if you're sitting right next to another AP while being connected to one that you're almost fully out of range of, it should be switching to the closer AP already.

Or, scary thought but hear me out: Let users configure the threshold themselves so users can configure it to what works for them. But this is Apple we're talking about, so probably impossible to implement.
In academia, a sabbatical is an opportunity to work on a new project, in a new environment with new collaborators. It is not a time to just goof off.

Many advances in CS/SE have come about as a result of focused projects at places like Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc.
I suppose what they can do is write some code and figure out where their specific situation lands them on the Static Typing is good/bad spectrum.

In this scenario, I honestly don't think it matters whose objectively right. Software is not a clean, normalized and organized set of use cases after all, maybe static typing works for person X and doesn't for person Y because of their background, or preferences, or codebase requirements, and so on.

Maybe one day we can conclusively prove that on aggregate static-typing/{insertThingHere} is overall less buggy, but even if we did, it'll still change depending on circumstances.
Comparing App Engine and Kubernetes makes it feel like we took a step backwards. Rather than just deploying code and have everything managed, now I suddenly have to worry about networking and load balancers again.
You mean a USB A port? They brought back MagSafe, HDMI, and the SD card slot, but for USB it's still only USB C.
Booleans in shell scripts are little more than zero (true) and non-zero (false) exit codes.
> It doesn’t feel very efficient, especially residential construction. My neighbor is building a garage with some finished space above. It’s sat without a garage door for literally months now - everything else is done.

If all you have to improve the construction industry is better scheduling and supply-chain management, that's something. But the poster above seemed to be hinting at things more like new construction techniques.
> You will see how financial products work in traditional finance. You can understand them by reading their smart contract code.

But this doesn't need DeFi. You could have open-source trading software without Ethereum.
> Take a step back and look at what you're doing: lamely attempting to justify and carry the water for Bitcoin's horrible energy waste and pollution

I think I'm not doing that. I'm just part of a conversation and my goal is not to make excuses for Bitcoin. Broadening the view and mentioning other facts doesn't mean that I make excuses for something else. I just don't want to argue pointlessly about this. I'm already in the "ban bitcoin" camp, so anything you try to say to convince me is also time wasted :)

I would advise, do more conversation and less argumentation on the forums
I have zero idea what the ice poseidon community is. I always presumed it comes from Toy Story, with Andy being the annoying cowboy
I think the point the OP was making is that they still want their break :P
> It's clearly a Core derivative with a uop cache, if you look at the overall structure of the pipeline.

Er, no. The structure of the pipeline is exactly what it took from the P4. P6 derivatives, including core, store in-flight results in the ROB, and then write them back to the RRF at retire. RRF read ports are a limited, shared resource, with full throughput only achieved when most instructions get their operands from the ROB.

P4 and SNB store only pointers in the ROB, putting all results directly into the PRF, with no work done on retire. The PRF has enough ports to serve all requests. This is an entirely different way to organize the cpu.
K8s is not about scaling, it's about declarative configuration management, which gives you the opportunity to easily scale as an added bonus. It feels extremely liberating to have my code and Kubernetes files in a repository, knowing that I can deploy this with one command to production on any Kubernetes cluster. It's a great infrastructure abstraction layer.

I agree it's expensive though. A docker-compose.yml on a VPS usually works fine as well. Requires some additional configuration outside the Docker ecosystem though.
Clearly riding a bicycle on roads designed for much heavier, much faster vehicles isn't the safest pursuit in the world. Of course you would be much safer sitting at home. But that's a calculation you make any time you decide to step out the door. The way some people talk about cycling you'd think that merely getting on a bicycle for longer than 10km means instant death. That's obviously not the case, because there are always far more people who have successfully cycled any given stretch of road than ones who have died on it. The question people should ask themselves is if the risk is worth the benefits for them. And, if they have decided yes, then it's certainly more enjoyable to not spend every moment on that road terrified of other vehicles, whose behavior you have very little control over. If you want to do it, just do it.
huh, I've never seen something like that in the EU, except on early Samsung and HTC smartphones. These days you get completely standard Android even when buying on contract
The contentious claim was:

> At difficulty X you are expected the same number of blocks regardless of how many others are mining, so others' dropping out doesn't increase your bitcoin income per hour.

So, yeah, you're right. Others dropping out increases your total income because you get to mine at low difficulty for longer. But the claim was about income per hour.
Then why do you think factories are as useless as bitcoin, if you think bitcoin should be banned, and why are you using whataboutism as an argument? Do you also want to ban heavy industry?

You're the one who is throwing whataboutism arguments around. So don't say you don't want to have an argument, after you started with an invalid whataboutism argument and an inconsistent position, in defense of another invalid argument that bitcoin is "a way of exporting abundant renewable electricity from isolated areas".

In case you haven't been paying attention for the past few years, of if you're only pretending to be incredulous, your argument and the argument you're defending are regularly made by bitcoin shills, and always shot down by the facts because they make no sense.

If you'd watch Line Goes Up or read any other comprehensive analysis critical of cryptocurrencies, you'd already know quit well how terribly bad and insincere your whataboutsim argument and the "exporting abundant renewable electricity" arguments you're defending are, and how thoroughly they have already been debunked, and how tired the HN community is of hearing them mindlessly parroted again and again.

You're not the first person to think of using whataboutism to justify bitcoin.
Merchant Adoption of Digital Currency Payments Survey [pdf]
Note, there's an "update" from the supposed spurned employee, that sounds just as, if not more fake.
I've never really understood the point of these bots. I could understand if an issue had a test case attached to it, and the bot was auto-closing the issue if/when the test passes. That way, if it is resolved when fixing some other bug, or when refactoring, the issue is closed. But closing an issue due to inactivity gives the false impression that the issue has been resolved.
Simple is subjective and dependent on where you're coming from. If you're used to Kubernetes then managing virtual machines seems needlessly time consuming and vice versa.
> I also occasionally returned to issues that hadn’t been resolved to [..] ask if there was an ETA on a fix. I felt I was being helpful.

I irrationally get annoyed when someone asks for an ETA like this, I'm sure it's a genuine question but it just feels like a nag to "hurry the fork up already!"
Too complicated. Why not simply get a WiFi system that works? Or, have someone who knows what they're doing set it up.

There seems to be quite a bit of engineering AROUND the problem, without actually dealing with it head-on.
There is none. But in this divisive world crypto must be either perfect, or every single part of it broken, according to people.
That's a good analogy, because just like when an intersection gets enough throughput, relying on drivers to navigate their way through becomes unrealistic. Once a codebase reaches a certain size or complexity, it starts becoming really time consuming to follow untyped logic all over the place and you run the risk of a rockstar developer putting a scooter object into the side door of your minivan object.

Static typing gives you assurances and tools with which to test your assumptions in the code, for those times when reading the whole stack is cumbersome, and you need to defend against less careful developers. It also transfers a bit of knowledge between developers in a trivial way that would otherwise be a pain to communicate.
C#'s null safety is not sound. There are situations where even a fully annotated program without reflection, code generation, unsafe or other tricks will crash of a null pointer exception:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-refe...
Let's say you have 100 units of CO2, and 0 units of CH4 in the atmosphere, you are producing 100 units of warming per year. Then you do something that converts 20 of those units of CO2 to 20 units of CH4, you are now producing 80 x 1 + 20 x 84 = 1,760 units of warming per year.

If you are performing this action at a rate that keeps replenishing the CH4 as quickly as it is degrading, let alone faster than it's degrading and subsequently increasing the amount of CH4 in the atmosphere, the amount of CH4 in the atmosphere is constantly being kept higher than it would be were you not performing this action, for as long a term as you continue to perform it. So you've now ended up with a planet that is constantly experiencing more warming than you would have otherwise.

If the permafrost requires 1,000 units of warming to melt and release its stores of CO2 and CH4, then this further makes the difference between triggering this tipping point or not.

Am I misunderstanding something?
But you don't have to do that, if you plan accordingly. There are dedicated long distance cycle paths, see e.g. https://en.eurovelo.com/
AWS ECS isn't much better. It's weird Cloud Providers don't see DevX as a priority, they are at serious risk of becoming commodities due k8s and likes.
Yeah, why would Apple fix any issues with their devices if people can just buy new access points? Duh, that I didn't think of that.
> Much cooler temperatures (13°C) are found just a few feet below ground. (Memorable to those who've visited 'root cellars.) Before long those mysterious 'underground cities' in Anatolia may not seem so mysterious.

When the London metro was built (over a century ago), the clay was at 14 degrees C. But over time, it heated up from all the power dissipated by the metro system. Now it is around 20 to 25 degrees C and doesn't really act as a heat sink anymore. The same happened in the NY subway.

So soil can act as a great heat sink for a while, but not forever. I suspect the same would happen if you'd put a modern city underground and relied on the temperature of the soil instead of pumping heat out somehow.
Getting to Gnome Mode
So what happens if society is inauthentic itself?

People having to mangle their minds to feel authentic?

Climbing up the karma ladder so you go down the slide at the top with glee.
I have no interest in mining crypto
Healthcare isn't about saving lives. It's about making money. Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, children's hospitals, medical schools, all of it.

I suppose you can say that some healthcare is about doing good and/or providing a necessary service. Smile Train, Doctors Without Borders, national healthcare systems, etc. But all of these are subsidized with money from capitalism or tax revenue, and they's evaporate overnight if they were unfunded.
> It's not some sort of race to find a block

This is precisely what it is, every pool operator I've worked with put considerable engineering expense into ensuring that they could broadcast their solved blocks as quickly as possible to the network.

This is the definition of a race. It's somewhat common for a pool to mine a block a second or two before another pool.

Mining is zero sum. If you have more guesses per second than your neighbor, you will win. Only in a pedantic sense could this not be considered a race. If my neighbor then doubles his hashrate, I will lose comparably to his increase. We just each make less overall money as the difficulty increases since we're engaged in an arms race with each other.
> Sounds like you demand that people walk on eggshells around some thin skinned psychopath.

If you're almost vested and planning on leaving very soon, that is not a terrible approach to take, even if the parties involved are not psychopaths.
This looks really interesting, does anybody have an insight on whether or not all families on gfonts are also on bunny fonts?
This is rust remover and Bondo on a used car.
> In practice, high-quality simulations seem to be interesting but not all that fun.

I think a great deal about good games is the communication of their black box of rules and mechanics. In a simulation this is especially hard, as much to communicate, and they are usually created by more techno-orientated people, which simply suck at these things. So the player is confronted with a highly complex world where things happen, but for the player it's not always obvious why something happened, which impact their actions have, and sometimes they don't even get that something happened. Thus, giving players a way to explore the rules of the simulation, and understand the state of the world they are playing, is far more important in a simulation because of it's complexity.
Maybe. There was a vulnerability [1] with BlueLink and that could have been an attack vector, but the article mentions:

> The attack can’t be done at scale, because the local network that the vehicle owner is using would have to be infiltrated by the attacker.

Wikipedia says BlueLink uses Bluetooth [2]. So I'm not sure what connection is actually used, but if it's Bluetooth/local wifi and there are no further security bugs, then it would be unlikely that someone else could connect to the car in the first place.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hyundai-blue-link-vulnerab...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Blue_Link
> Use cool framework or language X? Use Kubernetes? Microservices? Lambdas? No-SQL? Two fingers to BigCorp, I'm CTO/tech employee #1 at a new startup and I get to do whatever I want. If and when it goes down in flames, I now have these skills on my resume I can leverage into a better opportunity.

I was building a SaaS application (as a tech co-founder) and chose rails. It was newish to me (I'd done 1-2 projects) and I admit, I wanted to get better at rails. But it was also, after assessing the options and my (limited) knowledge of the future, the tech with the best chance of helping the company succeed.

I have definitely run into startups where there was overly complicated technology, but tended to be later stage and have raised some money. As a founder/employee #1, I have a hard time believing anyone would pick tech just to burnish their resume; they should be trying to ship so the company succeeds.

What am I missing?
Sure it better.

But instead of making dozens of people learning something you paid for school lunches for 200 students each month?

It’s a limit pot of tax payer money and it needs to be used on the highest impact things.
I think its Paul Graham that made the argument to have a "weird" language as your startup language for this reason. Sure there are a billion C#, Java or Javascript developers out there. But if you make your start up in obscure lang you'll get a lot of high minded hard working engineers that will go there and build something awesome because its interesting.
Pfizer's primary mRNA injections “temporarily” impair semen concentration
I remember reading that the SIM card in your phone was equivalent [or superior] to a Commodore 64..
Given the failure rate of startups, "I now have these skills on my resume I can leverage into a better opportunity" may be the actual goal of most employees.
All these hoops we have to jump though and products to create, juste because the USA decided that no other country matters, and pushed the CLOUD Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
The conquistadors were not set on carrying out genocide, and did not carry out genocide. They were just vastly more advanced than the nations they encountered and consequently were able to conquer many of them.
So useful to talk about protocols like this and a pleasure to read. I look forward to going through these protocols later today.

However, to take it there, I'd conjecture that the limit on the best possible group security is being able to verify the integrity of group membership on a per-message basis, and use some kind of forward secrecy / ratchet whereby the given message key can only be derived from being a verified member of the group of the time of the message.

The only way I think we know how to do that is with consensus proofs about the composition of the group membership. For each message, you would need to encrypt it with a group message key that is derived with an authenticated proof of group membership that includes only all authorized members. It's like there is a direct trade off between the complexity class of the protocol/algorithm, and the security guarantees of the protocol.

The best secuirty outcome is that only a member during the period of that message can recieve and disclose the plaintext, and without some way of diverisfying the plaintext per user, you don't know which user leaked it. The other limit appears to be that if you get a message from the group, you can't know who else is in the reciever group - only that the complete group may have r ecieved it.

Just for discussion sake, I think there may be some high level lemmas about the necessary trade offs in these protocols.
I feel differently about her work. I think she is doing the less popular and therefore less lucrative work of summarising what is just not correct out there. She spends time deflating amazing claims. The medium of YouTube is not conducive to lengthy expositions and is definitely not academic grade but it shouldn’t be! She is making pithy responses to headline grabbing sensational mainstream hype reporting. There is an audience for that and she caters to it. You don’t like her aesthetic, fine. That’s a valid opinion but it doesn’t invalidate her work or make her the equivalent of what she is criticising. Headlines are to grab attention and sorry but that’s a fact for YouTube, trade books and even peer reviewed papers. The content is what ultimately should be judged and her content is high quality for what it aims to be. Want academic level peer reviewed literature? Go read a paper, text book or take a course.

We need more Sabines not fewer.