skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason this happened is that Nomad's contract was "upgradable". This is a pattern where the source code of a contract is able to be replaced by a privileged developer account. This was not how Ethereum was intended to work and it actually needs some pretty convoluted stuff to make it work (see the UpgradeBeacon related code here: https://etherscan.io/address/0x88a69b4e698a4b090df6cf5bd7b2d...)

The reason developers make their contracts "upgradable" is simple greed- they want to be able to launch more quickly than other projects without needing to ensure their code will stand the test of time. This may be OK for a social networking app MVP, but it's not OK for a smart contract which a user ideally should be able to audit and understand (or at least rely on the audit of someone else). "Upgradable" smart contracts can always be changed after the fact, as happened here, which means that any audit is meaningless.

Top tier projects still do use simple un-upgradable smart contracts. Uniswap first wrote v1, then improved it and launched v2, then v3. The Uniswap v1 and v2 contracts are still running and usable, and will be for as long as Ethereum is around. Their security properties will always be the same as they were the day they launched.

"Upgradable" contracts mean that you are trusting your money to some anonymous fat fingered (or at worst, criminal) dev, and it could disappear at any minute. They defeat the entire purpose of even using a blockchain.
China isn't ready to meet up with tens of thousands of the newer US 12-inch torpedos (CRAW - compact rapid attack weapon) either. The Franz Ferdinand line was funny, though. We've just seen a demonstration, in the Ukraine, that defense is now extremely strong compared to attack - maybe more so than even in WWI. Small is beautiful and ever-cheaper AI has everything to do with that.
In fact, I believe they now do both. Starting in 2005, Taiwan has started using the name "Republic of China (Taiwan)."

Not that it really matters, but I wonder which would actually bothers the PRC more. I would have thought that the real source of irritation with, "Republic of China," is that it references the name used by mainland China up until the revolution of 1949, thus manifesting Taiwan's historical claim to be the legitimate Chinese government in exile.
I bricked my zx81 just plugging in the ram pack (dixons were good enough to replace it) so soldering probably wouldn't have gone well.

I'm working for a startup in Canada and I'm the oldest person in the company by a fairly wide margin. It's a bit weird when your bosses are young enough to be your children but apart from that I haven't experienced any ageism. I can't say whether or not I would've got the job if I didn't know someone here though.
I am interested in knowing which newsletters you are subscribed to if you're willing to share ?
This is why all my services use multiple hosting providers.
Much better than the alternative.
It should be noted that the St. Louis Stormwater Drainage System was built in the 1910s and 1920s. For context, most American infrastructure was built with the expectation of a ~50 year lifespan. While upgrades have been made in the intervening decades, most have been towards water treatment to reduce pollution and public health risks. In fact about half of the drainage outlets have been blocked off over the years to reduce untreated water runoff. The deficiency of the system has long been a known problem, and there are multibillion dollar plans to replace this system, but even in the best case scenario these new drainage tunnels will not be operational until the 2030s.
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It's the same reason to learn alternatives to anything: to have a wider breadth of knowledge. Your thought process becomes more open and can better way alternatives because you actually have alternatives.

My compiler course in college was in SML and it was excellent for teaching more more than just compilers. It taught me a lot about recursion and the idea of composing a problem in terms of itself, which has been incredibly powerful in my career.

Being exposed to other great concepts like algebraic data types (sum types/Rust's enums) just helps expand my way of thinking when I write PHP code at work.

The idea of using a function as a fundamental building block for abstracting ideas has also been fantastic. Mostly in the form of using functions as arguments to alter behavior.

As with everything, there's a balance. I don't write pure FP, nor do I want to, but the ideas are huge. Same with OOP. OOP has some good ideas, but I don't lean on the words of the GOF as if they were GOD. Pulling in the best of all worlds has been really huge for my life as an engineer.
Did you read the rest of the comment? It's not clear it's worse than before.

> It doesn't change the fact that we used to be able to do routine maintenance that covered this, and now we don't.

When you first build a road you don't need to do said maintenance. So as we expand the number of roads and convert them from gravel to concrete, you'll have more potholes. It's not clear it's any worse per-mile of concrete road than before. But even if it was "worse" we have significantly more road than say 30 years ago.
Raising one's hand to speak is generally taught in kindergarten and future coworkers will likewise expect that everyone mastered this basic skill. These days there are raise hand buttons in video conference software. When raising hand is not applicable, a quick "excuse me" is not considered a big imposition on either current speaker or person who wishes to speak next.

I used to be too shy to talk on the phone, coming to US from a country where I only had phone conversations with relatives by coming to a communication center at time prearranged via a telegram. I got over that and if someone accommodated me instead, they wouldn't have done me any favors, because things like this are generally expected and accommodations will not always be available.
I've tried it all except this, including renting bare metal. Nowadays I'm in the cloud but not cloudy camp. Still, I'm intrigued.

Apart from the $4-5k server, what are your running costs? Licenses? Colocation? Network?
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Better support when at least in the neighborhood of the herd.
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I got sick of spending 5 minutes finding a class I liked. I got even sicker of constantly taking the three instructors that just dump new courses out daily.

Built something that uses my class history to make a recommendation in each activity for me.

Would love to hear if these classes look right to you, and of course any general feedback.
I’ve had luck with similar things by being careful about my text prompt. Asking for tiny icon sized images also seems to clue it into the stylistic constraints of tiny icons (like what you mention).
It’s like when med chemists trialled a cannabinoid-blocker as an experimental appetite suppressant. Surprise surprise, it gave the participants depression and suicidality.

Like, what did you expect?

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrcardio.2010.148
A useful reference for that: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastruct...
Well, I love my therapist, and research suggests that psychedelic assisted therapy is effective. I've never taken a large dose of mushrooms because I am nervous about where it would take me, so personally doing that with my therapist could be pretty nice. Tho expensive lol.

I've only really done LSD once tho and it was interesting, and seemed more low key than shrooms, so maybe I should try that again.
in crypto land, you would never do that! You'd set up a smart contract to automatically move money from your wallet to his as milestones are hit in the project! It's beautiful! Maybe they could run off with your $1k upfront, but maybe your smart contract can even get that back if a milestone isn't hit in time.

Now all you need is connected oracle that can judge completion percentage of a bathroom and communicate with the blockchain! /s
Meant to say 365 days/year.
The problem isn't the framing. The problem is a post-truth political climate that refuses to acknowledge climate change is a problem that needs solving to begin with.
I've had many bad trips throughout my life, and they have always been the most educational. Learning about your shortcomings and confronting your demons and traumas isn't supposed to be a pleasant experience.
MacBook lineup without 15″ MacBook Air
I wonder if Apple may end up with a MacBook lineup which mirrors the current iPad lineup, with a MacBook mini and 5 devices including a super budget device. There would be no 15" MacBook, which goes against some currently suggested rumors.
Advent of code and 25 days of Haskell (2017)
Modern languages assimilate ideas from all paradigms. Besides, FP isn't some theoretical obscure stuff. I'd except most programmers to know some rudiment of Scheme or ML.
I use Tandoor [2], and open source meal planning software. It is fully open source and be hosted in many ways including docker etc.

If you don't want to bother with self hosting they offer hosting plans as well [1].

[1] - https://tandoor.dev/
[2] - https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes
The first one looks like the Bacardi logo with a dragon instead of a bat and the second one looks like a Charmander. I think the second one is interesting because most art I see with baby dragons look more dragon-like and less salamander.
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I genuinely thought this would be about the pigeons when I read the title. Seems more appropriate for a "syndrome" than what it actually is.
Turned down Google receuiters way too early to know if that's typical, but Facebook recruiters told me from the outset the process was 6 months and that they'd provide me with a reading list, and was then surprised when I told then I'd let them know if I was willing to consider that if they provided me with a compensation range. Days after, once they'd figured out the comp range, I told them I wasn't interested. This is London, and while their total comp was good, it was not SV good and not a big enough step up to be worth 6 months of interviews and a reading list.
Definitely check out this[0] presentation for tips around working with Dalle.

[0]: http://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%C...
It's not that simple at all. Bad trips can be more therapeutic than good ones. If you have tripless neuroplasticity, (a possibility I doubt) then what's your feedback mechanism? You might wind up selecting for shitty or dysfunctional behavior.
Am I crazy for thinking that its hard to take these posts seriously without ANY indication from the op of what they're up to?

I know that obviously there's no obligation to share etc, but I can't help but feel like if they truly weren't up to anything sketchy they would be more forthcoming?
Not sure if this will be considered off topic, my apologies if so.

The article says that octopi is the plural of octopus, but it's actually octopuses. Octopus is originally Greek, not Latin and thus does not get the Latin plural -i, but instead would get the Greek plural -odes. Since it ends in a way English can deal with, the commonly accepted usage is octopuses (English) over octopodes (Greek) with octopi being the least correct.

https://qz.com/1446229/let-us-finally-resolve-the-octopuses-...
As a person inside such a complex and incomprehensible system as the world socioeconomic machine it's far from apparent that anything is obvious, except that humans are incapable of perceiving all of the complexity at once.
The previous title was just terribly uninteresting, no wonder. It wasn't even what the article was about -- it was four things that were much less interesting, combined into one even less interesting blob.
It doesn't seem elucidating to make an analogy between a thing-- math-- and it's own subset-- crypto.

Worse, crypto is defined by essentially having the added requirement to at least not be the weakest link in keeping jewels locked in a safe. In that sense the addition of axioms becomes a liability in a way they are not in broad math.

Put another way, math as a field was able to mature because it lacked this hard requirement that crypto has. If mathematicians suddenly decided add this requirement of jewel-keeping to math broadly then-- bam-- math instantly becomes the same "immature" field that crypto currently is.
"Basis of land"? LOL. Are you referring to the 50 individual state governments that make up the United States of America? Most Europeans don't know this, but the first government in the world to ban slavery was the U.S (Vermont). The US isn't one homogeneous zone. There are 50 individual governments that write their own legislation, have their own taxation systems and have military's (state guards). California is free to create their abortion access legislation as is Texas. Many states in the US legalized Weed despite the fact that the federal government has some bizarre policy in place (which isn't constitutional).
>Re: startups and compensation one major thing that has changed since 20 years ago is that it is simply not possible to become wealthy (like "I can afford going to retire wealthy" or "I can now afford to seed my own startup wealthy") out of the equity package that a startup will offer unless you're the cofounders or a founding employee.

I guess it depends how you define a "founding employee". I know several engineers who made enough to retire who joined unicorns around the pre-series A time or at the time of the raise itself but were not founding engineers.
Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for PFAS
The problem is the only situations where crypto is more effective than the alternative (a well operated SQL database owned by a bank headquartered in a geopolitically secure jurisdiction with stable courts) is a really shitty one: when you live in a Mad Max world with no stable rule of law.

In other words, it just so happens that the exact situations where crypto is useful, are the same situations where it is very hard for capitalists to earn a good return on their capital. Unstable places or illegal markets.

It's not that the existence of crypto doesn't make sense. It's that investing in it makes no sense, because it will only be successful in scenarios where "investing in things" at all is a lost cause.
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I so confused. Listen to music and get alt coins? is that what is happening here? whats the catch?!?!
> The big drawback of using a single big server is availability. Your server is going to need downtime, and it is going to break. Running a primary and a backup server is usually enough, keeping them in different datacenters.

What about replication? I assume the 70k postgres IOPS fall to the floor when needing to replicate the primary database to a backup server in a different region.
Big pretrained models are a huge contributing factor. Being able to take a model that already mostly knows language and a model that already mostly knows images and hook them up means you don’t need to do the entire end to end learning together.
The problem is that the venn diagram of those two groups is nearly a perfect circle, especially the ones influential and powerful enough to effect any change that would reign in the excesses.
This happened to me too, earlier in the year. Fortunately I wasn't doing anything important with the single instance in my account. It was comically impossible to find any information about what had happened. And then a few weeks later, the account re-activated - again, without explanation.

I don't think you unknowingly violated some ToS. The best I could figure, there's a periodic automated internal process that accidentally sets some accounts to an invalid state. Accounts with paid support can complain and get fixed manually. The rest of us need to just wait for some other automated sweep to come along and fix all the broken accounts.

Needless to say, I wouldn't use OCI free tier for any kind of production workload. And I'm not sure I'd trust that this type of issue is limited to free tier accounts. It seems like stuff in OCI... just breaks sometimes.
> Use One Big Database

Yep, with a passive replica or online (log) backup.

Keeping things centralized can reduce your hardware requirement by multiple orders of magnitude. The one huge exception is a traditional web service, those scale very well, so you may not even want to get big servers for them (until you need them).
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Thanks for this explanation, the other comments were baffling me, so it was probably self evident to many who this Nancy fella was.
At a meeting between executives and Google employees, Pichai said that the company’s productivity has fallen behind its targets considering its number of employees, CNBC reported, after speaking with attendees and reviewing internal documents.

My initial impression was that this was a memo that had been fanned out to the majority of Googlers, which is the sin I was referring to. Now that you mention it, though, it's possible that the "Google employees" the above quote is referring to is actually just select members of management, which would be much better.
Ask HN: A list of resources to follow on Data and Business?
Trying to cut through the data science, machine learning and A&I noise.

Any suggestions on people or books, preferably SMEs, to follow to get the latest ideas on how to use data to impact business?
> "U.S. Infrastructure" is some of the best of the world…

Is it? At best it seems average, on average.

https://infrastructurereportcard.org/
Google is also the corporate manifestation of peterpan syndrome so i'm not surprised
My first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 A less expensive version of the TRS-80 Color Computer. The worst part wasn't the 4k of RAM, but that I had no storage device for it so would spend entire days writing programs only to have to turn it off and lose it all.

Thankful, less then a year later I went the Commodore route starting with a VIC-20 with a cassette drive, then C64 with a floppy drive, then an Amiga with a hard drive before fulling moving into Wintel PCs in the 486 era.
And it seems LAION was the “first” to offer it up for free.

https://replicate.com/laion-ai/erlich
Which reinforces the top of this thread: "Reason #5734 why cryptocurrency is a non starter for real people."
This blog post proves that Dall-E 2 will not make human taste and design ability obsolete. The final image he ended up with is a lot uglier and more complicated than most of the intermediate steps. I think generative art AIs will have a similar effect on design as compilers have on software development, and will not put artists out of a job.
OneLoneCoder has a good introductory video about using SIMD instructions with C++ to speed up a Mandelbrot calculation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Scb5Mku1g
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I think it helps if your Hetzner account is at least a couple of months old, with usage. Quite often these things happen to new accounts. Lock your server down and monitor resource and bandwidth usage. You don't want to be banned because someone else is abusing your server. I'm on Hetzner too but will consider moving my hot spare out of Hetzner to a different provider.
Personally I hope it is and I don't see how it couldn't be. Bitcoin is uncensorable as far as I can tell. Countries have not proven themselves capable of stopping internet traffic and thus countries have shown they do not have the power to censor bitcoin transactions.

I am sure countries will want to censor it, but I don't believe they will be able to, as such the only risk to bitcoins long term viability is the markets demand. There are numerous examples of illicit goods that governments have proven incapable of reducing the demand for, e.g. drugs. So I don't think bitcoin is going anywhere.

I think bitcoin will take a different censorable form and we'll start seeing companies on top of the blockchain that can do things like refund unauthorized transactions and things of that nature, but the base layer will remain uncensorable and thus bitcoin could become both convenient enough (although not better, in my opinion) for rich countries to use as currency while holding the characteristic of providing tremendous benefits to citizens in oppressed poor countries.
You might enjoy The Ratio, by Michael Ruhlman [1]. It focuses on the ratios of ingredients.

It is centered on baking, although. Still you might enjoy it.

[1] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ratio/Michael-Ruhlman...
It's used for the desktop app, as you can see here[1].

[1] https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/355527f7e8034e...
Not quite, this is just your standard server side rendering for providing a convenient GUI alongside your erlang vm. There's no layering here, just bundling of things that are usually distributed separately (editor and vm).
That's not how time limited actions work.

In most of Europe at least there are strict laws on pricing so if you make a discount, it can't just time out after 10 minutes, it needs to last the end of the business day or until the stock is depleted.

These stric pricing regulations is probably why electronic shelf labels were invented in Europe, to make sure there will be no discrepancy between the price on the shelf/discount and the price on the register, otherwise the store is liable.
>long-term positive changes.

Proponents frequently mention things like this, yet _no one_ who publicly admits to psych use is someone I want to be.

All the people I've ever met, and friends who didn't but started down that road, aren't "all there" anymore. They'll preach day and night about the "benefits", but from the outside looking in it's obviously a coping mechanism.
“Systems analyst” and “programmer” used to be separate jobs. The former worked on paper, the latter typed what they were told to into a keypunch (not a terminal, because computer time was expensive). Eventually the “programmer” job became obsolete when we could afford to let analysts run their own text editors and compilers.
If you take a look at the Skybison Python runtime, I would be happy to chat and help you poke around integrating it: https://github.com/tekknolagi/skybison
Nope. Not emacs vs vim. The biggest thing is what kind of music. Also, what kind of slang. I know this because I was young once, too. When I got a coworker who was twenty years older than me, it made me uncomfortable. Weird 'dad' jokes. Musical references that were completely out of it. Stories about the past. I like people and I liked them but, it was also, always a little uncomfortable. We were peers but they, well, nobody is a true peer with a twenty year gap. Uncomfortable.

Today, hiring authorities are more likely to be young. They also feel uncomfortable with someone who has a huge amount more experience.

Ageism is real.
On most recent version of Android, they have a whitelist feature where repeat callers (2 times withing 15 minutes) can bypass DoNotDisturb.

Only my close family are whitelisted.

Most time people call twice during an emergency. You could also say to call back again in case of emergency in your voicemail message.
This point isn't really relevant to the identification of a "runaway Supreme court" overthrowing precedence with politically outcome-motivated reasoning.
Yea, I would love it if FE cut the crap and made it "purer". I think that would help the racing and convince people that it's not a joke. There's no reason the racing can't be good.
No wall street banker was running around telling everyone how awesome MBSes are.

However, morons spamming TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and every social network to find a sucker to invest in their super 20% profit moon monkey future currency can be found in a minute, reaching hundreds of thousands. Plenty of normies lose their money in this.