skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really helpful thanks. I had a couple of questions. You mentioned:

>"So if you own 1% coin you can only run 1% validator and won't be able to flood the network."

Is this the reason that companies are pay interest is because the more coins they hold means their validator percentage in the network and so their profits go up?

Also you mention:

>"However running a validator is hard, requires custom servers and hardware, ..."

I was under the impression that PoS meant there was no need for special/custom ASICs in the same way that PoW mining has. Is that not true? What types of custom servers and hardware is necessary for participating in PoS validation?
Is this about rebasing vs merging or is it about whether to use `git rebase -i` to polish my own commits?

Sometimes I think maybe we should have two different names for these commands.

I think an interactive rebase requires a good mental model of the changes to split or merge them correctly in addition to knowing the CLI. I find it quite hard at times.
Different standards, too. I've become used to US/Canada restaurant standards for food when I go out to eat. Everytime I leave the country I'm thoroughly impressed by the quality and taste. Still, I'll be somewhere like Osaka and read reviews online. Locals will rate a place 3 stars and stay they could make it at home, it's nothing special. Place that outclass 90% of US restaurants averaging 3.5 stars, while at home there's pig slop getting rates 4.8.

Cultural differences impact what a person believes is the correct answer.
Jon Worth's [1] CrossBorderRail project [2] aims to highlight missing cross-border rail links in Europe. He's recently embarked on a huge rail and bike journey that crosses every internal border inside the European Union (and EFTA countries) that you can cross by train. En route he's stopping off to organise a meeting in the political capital of each country to discuss the missing rail links with local activists.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jonworth
[2]: https://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/
If you have access to it maybe experiment with using snippets from Windows code, like find Wine or Windows code on GitHub and copy the start of a function that is pretty unique , see if it completes it as the original or not.

Other experiment maybe test if it just repeats text that iot seen and has realy no idea about stiuff.
I would use missleading variables, like

int namesLis;
int[] counter;
string i ="test";

add some comments or unrelated stuff here like print heelo world 12 times

then start with
for( int ...
and see it it just completes it correctly or will do something stupid and have 3 or more error) If it is a bit smart it will know what variable is the list because it associated the [] with a list
GGP contains a quote from the article explaining why. To summarize, honeybees compete with wild bees for food, and can spread illnesses that they can’t defend against.
This is cool + reminds me of [Konnakol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konnakol) , which is a similar system for time signatures in music. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2LzlLMbqpM) is a good intro.
Compared to the game that I played as kid, Minecraft is totally unrecognizable. Microsoft ruined it IMO.

I spent a few weeks last winter developing a Minetest server and I believe it is a viable Minecraft alternative. The main trade-off is that you need a more powerful server to have a good experience with Minetest, even in single-player.
Does Southern France has a climate close to the Bay Area?
If the climate is relatively close, why is the region (between Nice and Montpelier) not a top place for technology? In Zug, Switzerland - not that far - there is a hub for blockchain but it looks like a financial paradise more than a full-time living place.

Sophia Antipolis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Antipolis) is definitely an attempt to build a Silicon Valley in Europe but why did it not work? It was pushed and funded extensively by the government, it doesn't feel natural after all. In the Bay Area, the government was there too, no delusion but private sector has shaped California for about 150 years. What always stroke me is the urban planning: the houses and roads are big and pretty even if they look old sometimes. It might be part of the Californian dream: a big job, a big car, a big home, etc. Also the administration and mentality is different, more Republican perhaps?
Not really true, bumble bees are the furry fat ones, but there are lots of other types of wild bees.
The key question as it pertains to the law isn't the intent, but the meaning of the words (informed by context, intent, etc). It is the meaning of the words written that form the law, and the meaning of the words is clear. The operative clause clearly is not limited to the context of a standing army.
It's not just the lack of space, growing indoors allows you to control the climate. This has a massive impact on efficiency.
Are you under the impression that Ukraine is a part of the EU or that helping Ukraine defends itself means anything for the defence of the EU? Both of those are untrue.

We are all helping Ukraine because it's the right thing to do (being invaded by a genocidal regime is not a nice thing to happen to anyone).
And Erlang / Elixir. These are also some of the most widely used FP languages in delivering real world software.
It’s relative. I’ve been in countries where the care is both top-notch, and you can get specialist attention and full-body checkups in a matter of days.
Ok, how do you plan to eradicate Covid? I mean, a polio vaccine is one shot and you're set for life, pretty much. It's incomparable.
Speaking about SVN, what about Bazaar?

It has been described as distributed SVN. I really hated SVN, almost to to point of wanting to go back to CVS, so I didn't want anything that took any inspiration from it. But maybe, in reality, it is not that bad.
I agree with you and would be excited to see a resume like what some of these cert masters could present.

However, I understand that some people shut down when they see a lot of extraneous detail. Think of it like reading a news article. You'd get confused if you started reading "Ferry sinks, injuring 11" and halfway through it starts talking about cricket, then a fire, then congress, then...
In American history, the topic of personal liberties and privacy is a national, constitutional topic. This is especially important given the history of some states abusing humans via slavery and enforcing it via the federalism argument.

Just because we have a federal structure it doesn't mean that rogue states should have the leeway to abuse human freedoms.
Your WiFi module in any ThinkPad should be a M2 card and there's a wide selection of alternatives for about thirty bucks.
There's also a separate dimension for consuming vs developing. Probably this sits under the category of "too obvious to point out". But still, in large orgs I frequently see wikis that have stuff meant for team members and stuff meant for consumers of the service, with no clear separation.
The AWS ones are cheap and I genuinely learned useful skills. Not helpful on my resume but certainly don’t hurt either.
Bumblebees are a genus[1] (_Bombus_) of (wild) bees. There are many more genera of bees (taxonomic superfamily _Apoidea_) out there. They are, however, adorable chubby fluffs.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank
(For anyone wondering, Wikipedia says it was written in 1958 and first published in 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon)
Officials paper is here:

https://www.trailofbits.com/reports/Unintended_Centralities_...

DARPA contract information is here:

https://govtribe.com/award/federal-contract-award/definitive...
____

* Note: To be clear, DARPA is very interested in distributed ledgers. They’re doing what they have always done, which is advanced research to avoid and create surprising results knowing that failures are frequently required to do so.
Demonization of neonics is misplaced. You can spray at night when bees aren't active. You can spray when your plants aren't in bloom and attracting bees. Oh well, the 2 minutes hate have emerged against neonics and farmers pivot like they ways do.
Yeah you're correct, I'm just making clear the example of wild bees that most people know. There's a ton of really interesting species that don't even really look like bees (Different coloration like iridescent and black) for sure.
There is a negative, though, and I have experienced it diving. Diving is often a razor thin or no margin business, and selling cert courses can be easy money. Few scuba schools will fail students who are not up to snuff, because they might have to issue a refund or endure bad reviews. Some of these certifications will give incompetent divers a false sense of ability, and in an emergency situation, rather than staying out of the way, they create another problem.
I like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874308 ( https://ohshitgit.com/ ) better... Great stuff!

BUT hopefully the author is reading this: PLEASE PLEASE remove the part about `sudo rm -r fucking-git-repo-dir` or at least if it's satire tell people not to really do this. It should be:

cd ..
tar -cvzf fucking-git-repo.tar.gz fucking-git-repo-dir
echo "Please for the love of god help me I've fucked up and <describe problem>" | mail -s "NEED HEPL! git disaster" git-expert@xyzcompany.com -A fucking-git-repo.tar.gz
git clone https://some.github.url/fucking-git-repo-dir.git fucking-git-repo-dir2
cd fucking-git-repo-dir2

As long as you don't delete or muck with the `.git/` folder or files that aren't not be checked in, you have pretty fair odds that the mess can be untangled by someone either more knowledgeable about git or less pissed off.
How did they eat for the first 2.5 years before they started paying themselves?
Just as a note, it is important that people plant native wildflowers and not just any wildflowers.
very cool!

tiny nit: solid grey blocks are paths and gradient tiles are walls, but my expectation is reversed
I guess you are right, seems like I was mislead by reading the headlines on Reddit. That just shows the power of media distorting facts.
But semantics aside the situation starts to get a lot worse in some countries, like in Hungary there is a fuel shortage already.
> the idea of the free software movement (...) was born as a response to fundamental conflict between a business environment (...) and independent individual creators

This is a skewed and very narrow view. The main contrast is not between "businesses" and "individual creators", but between people who control and people who use software. For example, between governments that hire programmers to write software, and citizens that get to use this software. The idea of the free software movement is that users of any software should have the right to know exactly what the software does, and to change it as they see fit. This has really nothing to do with business.

> The members of the movement are also quite often criticizing Copyright laws.

Do you have a reference for that? My impression is that the FSF is quite respectful of copyright laws, and acknowledges their importance. This is an orthogonal issue to that of software freedom.
Gitkraken has too much information density, since it weights nearly everything equally or alphabetically. Next to impossible to see what you or your colleagues are working on when there are a lot of branches in flight and half of what Gitkraken is showing you are merged or abandoned branches you don't care about. It also gives up and freezes when opening large repos, like my small company's monorepo.

I canceled my subscription and returned to the CLI + VS Codes native SCM UI because GitKraken is now useless in my work environment. Never mind the startup time is in minutes. And no, I'm not paying more for the ability to write a bug report and get it to them (their support is functionally non existent)

Great for a tiny project. Awful for companies. Not worth the money given how much more time it takes for me to do my work than use the CLI.

Sorry for the strong words, GitKraken is just a great example of bad design.
Odd comment given how that area of Harlem is much much safer today than it was in the 90s
Pretty far from you there.

First of all, not all games are art. A lot of mobile games are effectively slot machines optimized to get you to keep pumping in quarters for a chance to feel rewarded.

And music is quite different from most apps. The entire purpose of music is to convey a feeling, emotion, or energy level. The aesthetics are deeply intertwined with the intrinsic value music brings to the world.

An app might only exist to give me directions to the nearest grocery store. The aesthetics are adjacent to function there.
I would agree with that. I check it every morning and browse until I catch up with where I left off the day before, reading the interesting things I see on the way. But then I'm done until the next day. No need to keep refreshing.
Well, given their record, it would be rather hypocritical of the current UK government to demand these things from other governments.
The subtitle is usually fine here (but sometimes the mods rever them if they don't like the change). A random sentence in the middle of the article is not fine here (but sometimes the mods use it anyway when the title and subtitle are bad).

The subtitle has more than 80 characters, but it can be reduced to

> Tusk of a mastodon has a record of time and space that helped explain his death
Re-AOL: An AOL server emulator
Does anyone here have any of the CITA certs from IASA?

I've been thinking of getting one of them to get taken more seriously as a software architect, but I'm concerned that it will be all about creating complexity for the sake of complexity.
But it is just not true. Rust has a hard time writing algorithms where objects don’t have a singular owner. That’s all, it is not low level stuff. It for example has proper SIMD support, while the supposedly low level c doesn’t.
I'm guess they mean, this is a shop that specializes using Indian engineers to do contract work for us clients.

So basically this is SEO spam, with a side of plagiarism or vice versa
Also unlikely to be cutting edge in the murder drone department, IMO.
Haha YES thank you for noticing! I feel like I don’t get enough credit for finding a cleaver as fuck swear-free url
BRIN lazily summarizes blocks _at the end of the table_. When you build the index (by either creating or reindexing, concurrently or not) it will generate summaries for all full block ranges of the table. As such, it is possible that even a BRIN index was corrupted by concurrent reindex in PG14 < 14.4 because it didn't receive all tuples that it should have summarized.
See also "Flowers for Charlie", S9E8 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2999352/
I did something similar for a while, but I still found myself distracted when the phone was out of the case. I ultimately opt to simply make the phone less addictive.

On Android, I used Digital Wellness to monitor how I was spending time. Then I uninstalled all the timewasting dopamine-trap apps, set limits on Firefox (10min day), disabled vibration/sound notifications except for phone calls, removed all app icons from the home screen, and set a complex unlock passcode (disabled face unlock). I also started using the phone for "harder" things, like writing long emails.

At this point, my ADHD brain just sees the phone as a tool... because that's all it is.

Next step is figuring out how to apply the same lessons to my laptop.
> Europe...a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable

Germany has had national health for 140 years, and people have said it is "rapidly becoming unaffordable" for 140 years.

I talk to older people who get US health care. It is incredibly expensive compared to other countries (which few deny), and nowadays they can barely get ahold of their doctor.

> a business climate that has produced essentially zero large companies in decade

Cisco hoovers up many network companies, FAANG hoover up startups, US mobile and land is basically either Verizon or AT&T, the ad agencies, accounting firms, media firms and on and on are all consolidating into a small oligopoly, I can't think of any major sector around a few decades where this has not happened. Europe is not much different.
I think that smartphones merely illuminate a pre-existing problem.

That problem is that people, as a rule, live in a dream-world. The smartphone just provides the most convenient exterior manifester of dreams that we've invented so far.

The cellphone is a dream-amplifier. The natural evolution from books, radio and tv.

But the central problem isn't the phone. It's our habitual-dwelling-in and preference-for the dreamworld. The phone is just the enabler.
I found the Hemingway style of getting to the point in simple English is the best way to get my point across. There are several apps that will help you write like Hemingway.

Get to the point. Usually in the first two paragraphs. The entire meat of a memo or chapter is on one page. The rest of the memo or chapter is supporting material with examples, clarifications, diagrams, and context showing how this idea relates to a different idea.

In meetings, I usually present only the first page or one diagram that summarizes the entire memo. I usually tell people to read the whole thing if they want more details.

I am also in the habit of sharing my drafts with a lot of people so they know what I am up to. By the time it’s completed the audience has probably already seen it twice . This helps with buy-in. As I have already met with people who have concerns or objections.
Princeton is indeed beautiful. The housing stock is a little mixed -- the apartments near the university are pretty old, and there wasn't much new construction happening when I attended the university in the late 2000s, but the homes (manors, really) nearby are nice (but expensive). You will absolutely need a car. There are buses, but the routes are sparse. It is indeed possible to do a day trip to NYC, as I did many times. You will end up in Penn Station, which is awful, and midtown, which is awful, but the subways will take you where you want to go.

I overall do not miss living in Princeton, though I know a fair number of people who stayed after graduation, or moved to Princeton after living in some big cities. It's monocultural, to borrow a term some other commenters have used. It is mostly people who work in or adjacent to the university; it is mostly affluent, white people; there is some art, centered around the theater or the museum scene, but it is the art of that one culture. However, take my subjective experience of the city with a grain of salt.

Moving is hard. Moving to a new country doubly so. Make sure you have a strategy for finding friends, likely through your wife's work, or perhaps through meetups. Americans are easy to make friends with. That is, at least, one thing we have going for us, still, in these troubled times.

Freelancing for software engineers is very common. I have many friends who do it. You do not even need to file for a corporation to do it. The taxes are not much worse than being a salaried, full-time employee: as with the W-4 form, it is copying numbers off a page someone mails you.

Ageism is a real thing in the tech industry here. It is not difficult to find a job, but you will likely work with younger people, probably people in their 20s. Some companies do a good job of integrating people across the age spectrum, but some -- the ones that expect late or odd hours, especially -- do not. That is changing though! The tech industry only gets older each year.

If you do move, find a place with central air conditioning. It gets hot and humid during the summers, and only more so now, a decade later, with climate change. Check out, also, the McCarter Theater, which is beautiful. David Sedaris, one of my favorite authors, often gives a talk there each year; and the students from the university put on a pretty good revue each year as well.
Disgusting behavior on behalf of Dell.

Btw, why is it companies replace defective shit with refurbs, rather than delivering on the promise of what was originally purchased - a NIB item?

Even Apple (which is overall the gold standard for customer service at scale) replaces defectives with refurbs.
"Learning poverty" is defined right at the outset as the inability to read and understand simple stories.

So it's a low-threshold indicator of basic literacy.

[edit]: Here's the wording from p 5:

"One of the most intuitive indicators of the learning crisis is the learning poverty rate, which measures the share of children who cannot read a simple text with comprehension by age 10. "
I've already told you what the error is and where it occurs. If that isn't enough information for you then I am sorry to tell you, you don't have the necessary skill set to work as a programmer.
> But seriously though, on what planet does checkout -- make sense as the best way to undo a file?

In recent versions of git you can use git restore, which besides having a better name and not being overloaded with other checkout functionality, has a better interface IMO.
Hm, I'm not sure I'd go that far. I'd use "staking" for anything that's done programatically as part of a smartcontract, regardless of whether you have to run a node yourself. For example, The Graph (GRT) where you attach your tokens to a node to strengthen its signal and share of the rewards.

And yes, I know, it's fighting an uphill battle to discourage the use of "staking" for lending out on a centralized platform. "Words drift in meaning, deal with it". But it's also important for people to be able to know what you mean, and there are pretty substantive differences between that kind of staking and "anything that earns a return on your coin" and it's helpful to have a separate word for it.
That’s quite a substantive claim with little to no evidence that adds little to productive discussion.
How can it be an ethnicity when Germany itself was founded out of the leftovers of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 19th century? You might have an argument for some of the constitute elements like Prussia(ns), but even that's a stretch.
Which places?
One of my very favorite books. Read at a young age; it would be hard to say what parts of myself are me and what parts came from this book and became me.
Long live High Fructose Corn Syrup!
So that’s exactly my problem and I’ve yet to come across a guide that explains the underlying concept well. Any recommendations? I often feel like I’m uttering spells without understanding it when I use git. I hate working like that. Thanks in advance!
For the same reasons that domesticating any animal leads to the extinction of the wild variant

- habitat displacement
- competition for food
- disease
It's an organizational and personal thing, but you really have to get in the habit of treating commits as single diffs to the codebase and not the equivalent of ctrl + s in your editor.

I try and make a habit of squashing my commits so that git log is a narrative of development and each commit is a page number, not a sticky note.
I love that. I also love that the opposite can be true: they’ll riff on a classical piece and create something new that still fits the key and time and feel of the initial piece.
Hrm, many of those guys are only 15 - 20 years older than I am. But, I don't feel old at all.

Well-written article about WWII pilots.
I get that as how it currently stands. But somewhere in the sqlite codebase, everything is a projection.

Still thinking and reading through sqlite source ...
In my career I got quite some technical certifications. Any cert shows you are taking your job seriously and you are willing to learn.

The following three certs helped to show I know my field really well and these separated me from others that just say they know it. Cisco CCNA/CCNP, Linux institute LPI and Agile Alliance certified Scrum master.

Later on I used certifications to quickly pivot into a niche, sometimes when already practicing the role. Architecture (togaf) and product management.