skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the turn this thread took, but weighing in here narrowly with something hopefully interesting...

The memes themselves needn't be "adversaries" for it to be to the benefit of one of them to inspire rage against the other. "X makes people angry at people holding Y" can help X spread because people like talking about things they're mad about, and the presence of Y actually makes that more effective; the memes themselves are, to a degree, symbiotic within the broader society even as they maybe do bad things to the people in that society.

For one particular perspective on this, I enjoyed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc - relevant stuff starts around 3 minutes in.
Yeah, that's what I meant (I think we're agreeing here, just not 1000% sure): This UI is supposed to mimic the real world, so imitating the real world can't be as bad here as it is (often exaggeratedly claimed to be) on a flat screen.
Is it ethical for Microsoft to charge for GitHub Copilot, since they didn't pay the programmers who provided the code it was trained on? Is it ethical for Elsevier to charge for scientific papers, since they didn't pay the scientists who wrote or peer reviewed them?
I can't tell if "waste of bytes" is referring to the blog post shared by GP, or to proof of stake as a whole.

If the former; as someone with little knowledge of cryptocurrency the post read fairly convincingly to me. In what ways is it misinformed?
ETH 'on the beacon chain' today is locked in a contract.
It appears to be a framework for creating and viewing NeRFs and similar for research and experimentation. You could do the same thing starting from PyTorch but then you’d have to write something like this yourself, and now you don’t have to.
> finance

Compound interest is the eigth wonder of the world.

Knowing what will be profitable in the future is analogous to knowing what problems will plague humanity.

And investing for future profit equates to mitigating them.
Since I didn't edit it in time, I'll follow up with:

There are entire areas of San Francisco you have to navigate bus transfers, bus transfers that were not predictable, to get to. Bus transfers nearly always inflate trip time significantly and are subject to the unpredictable force of traffic.

Oh come on. You've identified a great red herring. There are 9 Muni subway stations in San Francisco. The rest of the rail system operates in mixed traffic making it subject to the exact same delays and uncertainty that the buses deal with. In fact because there are no metro lines that run entirely underground (or are otherwise completely grade separated) delays on the street spill over into the subway service.

The best example of this is the 4th and King intersection. SFMTA explicitly prioritizes automobile traffic. During peak hours it's often faster to walk to Market street than to wait in a crowded Muni train while automobile after automobile drives by. Every time you choose to drive you make things like this demonstrably worse. In fact if your only concept of the Muni Metro is the subway that means when you drive your car you're doing so in some of the most densely populated parts of San Francisco and creating the most negative impact.

I can't speak to the NY MTA's standards but in San Francisco Muni's goal is that every resident lives within 1/4 mile of a Muni stop (see the SRTP I linked to in the sibling comment). What's not covered in that SRTP are the finer points. Stops are much closer together on steep grades, and specifically the stops are supposed to be served around 18 hours a day. The standards are a bit more relaxed after hours, but Muni does run 24x7. I lived within a stone's throw of an Owl (1-5AM bus routes) stop and it was great.
Any person who thinks that a computer is going through symbolic formulas and selecting which one to substitute in to find a hash function nonce doesn't know a whole lot about what a blockchain fundamentally is and how computers make it possible. That's either the fault of the explanation they read\are reading (if it was falsely advertised) or the fault of the person (if they're biting on explanations beyond their level) or nobody's fault really because somewhat-hard concepts are somewhat-hard.

Any explanation of PoW worth its salt no matter how basic should - and does in my experience - repeatedly drive home the idea that PoW is inefficient, it's literally right there in the name, Proof of Work, jumping through hoops as an algorithm. If somebody doesn't understand that PoW is extraordinarily inefficient, they don't understand blockchains and why they are cryptographically secure modulo implementations and social engineering.

Nothing new is added or said by emphasising how inefficient PoW is, that's the entire point, that's why it's secure. The comment that started this chain basically said that in very simple terms, and the comment I replied to expressed disapproval about a very minor issue with the terms then re-said what its parent already said in more words that don't add any clarity.

Will people see 'mathematical' and assume the computer is integrating dy/dx by parts to get the next nonce ? You can assume that the average HN reader knows that when we say a computer is 'solving math' it's meant that it's crunching an aweful lot of binary strings. That's why we call classic AI "classic" or "symbolic". Everything a computer do is crunching numbers brute-force style except when said otherwise.
The compressor up front produces enough pressure to prevent the exhaust going out that way.

Another way to see it is you cannot start a turbine by dumping fuel in and igniting it. The turbine has to be spun up first, usually with an electric motor. The Me262 engines had an ingenious tiny gas engine in the nacelle which served that purpose, complete with a little handle to start it!

Next time you're on a jet, watch them do the engine start. You can see it slowly gaining speed, then suddenly it dramatically speeds up - that's when the fuel gets squirted in and ignited.

Anyhow, jet engines look deceptively simple. But they are real masterpieces of engineering.
Could that be from different resolutions?
Just wait until students start using GPT-3 for written essays.

Not giving anyone ideas or anything, but if you feed it your previous assignments and it learns your writing style it should be hard to detect with minor editing.
That doesn’t mean we need more power. It just means the requirements of ZK proofs may need specialized equipment to process them efficiently. Different problem.
who the fuck cares? human factors are much greater......
I am experiencing some form of Poe's Law reading this one.

Particularly due to the choice of the word "understate."
> Disappointed that she brought up nukes without mentioning that they are wholly unable to compete with renewables, on cost.

Is this true? I mean per average watt I imagine solar might be cheaper, but is it still cheaper when you factor in the cost of the energy storage you need to have a purely solar/wind grid?

I'd love to see some numbers on this.
Yes. That’s why diversity of client implementations is important.
Good article.

One of the many things I would add: Don’t get bullied into signing overly broad NDA’s or contracts. Never be afraid to walk away from heavily one-sided agreements. They are not worth the potential future consequences.

On the other hand, amateur-hour super-broad NDA’s are not enforceable. You either need experience or an attorney to spot these. Be careful or you could NDA yourself out of an industry.
Slack was IRC for it’s time. Most of the standard commands still work as testament to what market they were trying to capture. Devshop which ran dual IRC servers, TLS’d and on the WAN went to Slack.

Slack also had SAML, near feature complete web interface, and an easy to swallow onramp cost in 2017.
There is a dominant discourse that is cultural and inevitably ethnic. How is this going to work in a plantation earth corporate future? So dismantling this appears to have been decided.

Looking beyond existing cultural controls, what can replace it? If it is not strictly based on facts and reason (think along "the medium is the message") then control of medium grants societal control. At some point I think this will move on from historic grievances platform to some arbitrary 1984ish 'receive social instructions hour' sort of thing.

I too, btw, am an immigrant, born in Iran. And equally baffled as to what beyond the usual trope of incompetence can explain this sort of clearly orchestrated effort at inflaming social tension along every seam, ludicrously exaggerating the crimes of the dreaded White Man. Reminds me of the Monty Python skit in Life of Brian, discussing all the evils of the Romans. The whole thing is a strawman that you just know at some point will be robustly done away it, ushering in what? Possibly fascism. Certainly someone is insistent on making sure at some point things boil over.
How do you know it's a "fraction of the previous costs?" You do need to buy ETH instead of hardware. I did some quick searches and got varying interest rates, so I'm not sure what the expected return is.
That definitely takes place just because on the internet you can find any anomaly you can think of. But it's not widespread. Also, AWS Route53 also relies on fairly low TTL, so it's a non-issue.
Could POS and POW be combined? Say you have a POS chain that functions as your main cryptocurrency ledger, and a POW chain that runs at a much slower rate that serves as a ledger to periodically record history of the POS chain?
It’s a single train between two major cities. The railroad boom 200 years ago makes it look like a complete joke.
You can find more details on slashing and penalties in the Validator FAQ:

https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/faq
Humans can't learn zillions of techniques, that's why we need to build an AI?
Commercials don't make TV better. In the USA they're like death and taxes: something you may not like, but acknowledge and respect because it's inevitable (except for not watching TV at all). So in that light, one can enjoy the more entertaining commercials. Some companies, such as GEICO and formerly Bob's Discount Furniture (when the real Bob was still involved), make a point of making memorable commercials, but television would be better off without even these. The 80s and 90s also seemed to have many more fun and beautiful advertisements compared to today.

People from Western Europe (I know the UK and France, I'm not so sure about elsewhere) tend to remark on the pervasiveness and obnoxiousness of commercials on American private, ad-sponsored television. I wish we had had more government sponsorship and regulation of television here the way they did in the UK and France.
You can't do this here, so we've banned you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Those cockroach burgers will smell great after you've walked up the 20 storys of your 'tofu-dregs' 'guest worker' apartment in Chenggong.

I'm sure the people who you swapped houses with will be nice to your pets.
Lync for Business’ requirement for Microsoft’s (awful) Threat Management Gateway reverse proxy if you wanted to federate was terrible.
If today's trends continue, such an add-on would mean 1) paying a subscription fee, 2) having to choose among a limited choice of cloud storage providers, 3) warrantless access for law enforcement, and 4) higher cost of maintenance/repair via firmware that requires visits to a dealership.
It wasn't a comparison about the power requirements between PoW and zk proofs.

In other words:

Switching to PoS, removes power allocated to GPUs for ethash mining. Adding ASICs for zk creates a requirement that doesn't exist today, for using power.
soma.fm sf 10-33 ambient music + San Francisco scanners [0]

[0] https://somafm.com/sf1033/index.html
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Maybe the practical way to do this is to start non-profits, e.g. via YC, and ask for donations from SV.

Some urgent areas include assessing biological and climate tail risks.
As mentioned above, FAANG is only five companies, so the overwhelming majority of companies are not FAANG-scale. And down at the opposite end of the scale, yes of course there are lots -- literally millions, across the world -- of companies that don't have anyone with a computer science degree employed, so the owner (or his brother-in-law's 16-year-old "computer whiz" nephew) built any database they may have.
Yea, I'm a bit surprised by the responses. In the case of using it for a Prusa, I'm not sure I understand the idea of buying a $1,000 3D printer and then putting it on a $15 particle board stand.
> So you'd need 51% of the network to agree with your made up chain, which would mean controlling about $100 billion in Eth.

Does that sum assume that every coin will be staked? As I understand it, coins staked for validation are held in escrow and can’t be used for transactions until the validator node unstakes the coins. Surely only a small percentage of coins will be staked at any given time.
yes? what am I missing here?. I've always prefered pointers in my c++ code.
been sleeping without a pillow since college. my neck problems disappeared immediately when i made the switch. there are so many unexamined habits in our culture. a lot of defaulting to short-term comfort without considering what the long-term consequences might be, too.
I'm guessing that is via train widths being based on horse carriages and modern shipping being based on train limitations?
That's precisely why I said "legal" and "constructive" :-)
Technology promises to change the meaning of death – at least for some
They all apply as well.
More about staking rewards and calculators can be found at the Validator FAQ:

https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/faq
The guidance to prefer white wine with fish isn't a hard and fast rule, but a general suggestion if you don't know enough to make a more considered choice. Grilled salmon in particular has a richness and smokiness that pairs very well with certain reds.
In my career I've been laid off and had to lay people off more than once. Choosing randomly seems like a pretty good way of doing it. It eliminates the the decision being made based upon race, sex, religion, marital status, nepotism, sexual orientation, etc. It also removes a bunch of other office politics from the decision. One time I had to fight to keep a high performer over a low performer because the low performer played 3rd base on the company softball team.
You mean, I frequently disagree with what you don’t understand is your dogma.
Not the OP, but after a few web searches I can say he/she was alluding to this [1]:

> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but they had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

I have no idea if that's the real story behind it or not, but it sounds plausible enough. And OP's more general allusion to path dependence [2] is even more interesting, even though less anecdotic.

[1] https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/wtf/viral-twitter-thread...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence
Some wasps are, but unfortunately not the ones that are pests to humans.

Plus it’s ironic to talk about wasps being good pollinators when they attack bees and other pollinators.
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Dunno who you're thinking of, but 200lb is easily a healthy weight for a male human. If they're over 6' tall, then their either noticably skinny or they're about 200lb. Malnutrition can easily bring the average size and weight down a lot though, so maybe you're thinking of an average weight in that context.
Before the mechanization of agriculture, the family farm was subsistence level only. This meant a bad harvest resulted in starvation.
Interesting that he had to FOI the audio.

Tokyo Metro sells its station jingles and announcements on a CD in its gift shop.

I loaded a bunch of them into my iPhone and use them for ringtones.
You started a flamewar with this, and perpetuated it downthread. Can you please not? We're trying to avoid this kind of thing, especially the kind that degenerates into a tit-for-tat spat, and double especially when the topic is something tediously generic like science-vs-humanities mud wrestling.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32522938.
Since the video game developers of that era certainly had access to reference CRTs while building games, you’re experiencing something closer to how it was originally intended to be seen.
Shoutout to Freeplane, an open source mind mapping software available on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

It has a bit of a learning curve to use smoothly, but I believe it’s best in class once configured to your liking. I have had to avoid yakshaving, but I have the same “issue” (hobby) with software like Vim and Emacs.

I’m using Freeplane to outline a narrative non-fiction book, and find it invaluable for this purpose. Would love to hear other opinions on Freeplane or other mind-mapping or concept-mapping software.
I was reading this thread and there are several warnings against using AWS SES: https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/4269bx/ses_for_email_m...

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493127

So far, we've sent probably 5k transaction emails using AWS SES and haven't had any compliants. One possibility would be to get a AWS SES dedicated IP for $25/month and suck up the cost of $300/year to be on the safe side. Thoughts?
The boosters can only be so wide because of the size of road and rails. The widths of which were based on wagons, which could have been pulled by two horses side by side.
I ran multiple phpBB2 forums in that time with them. They weren't "emojis" though, they were emoticons. :)
I think an FPGA can probably compress quite a bit faster than a general purpose CPU, and an ASIC on a card which is network on one side and storage on the other could compress at line speed easily.
> there are plenty of 15 year olds who can pass leetcode style interviews

Are you sure?
Yes, and you'll get a few extra points on your social credit score when you share what your neighbour gets up to.
It's not even free. I have to put in the credit card number to just try it.
I'm not the OP, but I find a lot of the time the University program isn't too relevant and it's really the work experience that matters.

For example, I used to work in our IT department that handled the CS/Math departments at our University. We are a fairly well regarded school in the computing fields. However when we did co-op hiring of students for roles we had in the department there was one thing that stood out. People who only had programming experience through the school were not good programmers. It was the people who either had past work experience or had their own side projects who actually knew their stuff well.

At the end of the day I think CS degrees often go heavy on the theoretical and I find much of the theory is not applicable to the majority of CS/SoftEng jobs out there. I feel like someone who is motivated can gain the skills to be hirable in many software companies out there without going to school. I view things like co-pilot not as a problem. This will hopefully force the professors to make assignments that teach people more complex and work applicable content, rather than having them write generic intro to programming style cookie cutter programs.
China banning miners strengthened the network instead of weakening it. Within a 3-6 months the hash rate totally recovered and it was more decentralized than ever.

The argument that it is easier to move a validator than a miner is a very surface level argument, honestly. The incentives of mining ensure that miners will spread to every corner of the world, in every jurisdiction, in search of cheap electricity.

Meanwhile, proof of stake validation has no such incentive. It is financialized and it even has a guaranteed yield component. Since validators are financial and not industrial like miners, they will be incentivized to locate near other financial centers, like New York and London, and they will certainly comply with sanctions and other financial practices.
Awesome. Sounds like the Sons & Daughters lead singer, but more, well, ambient.
OK, so you stake 32ETH, buy a dedicated server for a validator, and you'd get up to 5% reward per year. How is that going to pay off your dedicated server? Moreover, you are risking losing those 32ETH in case your validator goes down. Your payment would be proportional to the number of attestations, so if only a few people use ETH for transactions, your reward will be low. Did anyone think about making staking actually attractive to infrastructure providers? Infrastructure folks' reward was going down ridiculously even with POW, the POS seems like way worse, and if the number of attestations goes wild, I am sure ETH folks will find ways to penalize infrastructure folks again. I won't be surprised if ETH collapsed just because nobody would want to run 24/7 infrastructure for it.
You perpetuated this flamewar several times. Can you please not? We're trying to avoid this kind of thing, especially the kind that degenerates into a tit-for-tat spat, and double especially when the topic is something tediously generic like science-vs-humanities mud wrestling.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> No country has been invaded by the US military, or any other military for that matter, after selling, or even attempting to sell, oil in non-USD. Not Russia, not Iran, not Venezuela, not Iraq, not Libya, none of them.

Are you sure about that? Iraq was selling oil for euros and was then invaded in 2003.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur... (published about a month before the invasion)

> Almost all of Iraq's oil exports under the United Nations oil-for-food programme have been paid in euros since 2001. Around 26 billion euros (£17.4bn) has been paid for 3.3 billion barrels of oil into an escrow account in New York.
Maybe I'm weird, but I do not get the hype. I was using Copilot for a few weeks as a Go backend dev with occasional work in the React/TypeScript frontend, and I thought it actually reduced my productivity. A lot of times, the suggestions were totally wrong, but looked correct-ish, and I would have to pause and basically debug that code, which generally took longer and snapped me out of my flow.

Some of the autocomplete was okay in that it saved me some keystrokes at times, but in general, it felt like more of a distraction. I especially hated the suggested comments; these were almost never close to what I intended to write, and it would always give me a pause when they'd pop up, and often forget what I was about to write.

There were a few instances where it magically did autocomplete a surprising bit of code, and I enjoyed the novelty when it would happen, but that wore off quick.
What happens if most validators become non-responsive without unstaking? The network can’t create new blocks then?
If you're filtering air right as it comes out of the plant, the CO2 concentration will be much higher, right? So if filters attached directly to the plant have a much lower theoretical energy cost to reverse the associated entropy, it could still be possible that plants are able to power their own emissions capture with a surplus. The surplus can be used to drive the more expensive carbon capture from the atmosphere.
That is one big windmill.
Raindrop.io is my new go-to for bookmarks, web, phone app, works everywhere.