skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is fairer imo than paying for the whole site. I prefer creator control on which content is paid and which content is not.
What could possibly be wrong?
All datacenters and network infrastructure in the world account for 2,5% at most (I don't remember the source anymore, I read this months ago) so I can't imagine machine learning is more than maybe 0,5% total.

So instead of going after actually useful technology that consumes a tiny fraction, how about you look at some of the truly unnecessary users that consume much more than that. What if we added up all the electricity used by the entire supply chains of all the smartphones people throw away prematurely due to planned obsolescence? Or all the other unrepairable disposable devices? How about all the clothing that's made of increasingly shittier materials and often needs to be replaced every two years? Some estimates for the clothing industry are as high as 10% of global GHG emission, primarily from fossil fuel power plants. And don't get me started on all the cars that wouldn't need to be produced if we fixed public transport and americans stopped building cities like idiots.

The only reason people go after the IT sector is that it's easy to stick a current probe on the wire and get a relatively large number. Turning it off is simple and makes the number, however small, go down. All the actual big users are complex systems that are difficult to analyze and "turn off".
There’s plenty of nuance you just want don’t want to see it because anyone not 110% in favour = bad :)
> In a world with 400 Gb/s NICs, being IO bound takes some doing.

Amen. CPU have stopped improving significantly a decade ago or more. IO never stopped.
Well, the iphone 11’s CPU is roughly on par with the best the Android side can offer today. So it is not that surprising, especially given apple’s care for their older devices. Even an 8 is plenty fast/smooth for usage today.
Genuine research states claims for the methods and discovery, making it often quite easy to work backwards from the conclusions to the theory. No such logic seems to exist in the crypto culture.
> The risk you're describing is a social-political one. As long as the users do not fork with the etherium developers, that will not happen. Change to PoS has nothing to do with it.

Are you saying that the market did not price in any technical risk? I don’t follow crypto markets closely (and don’t own any), but given the number of crypto bug exploits and the unprecedented nature of this merge, that seems unlikely to me.

Even a social-political risk averted is a risk averted.
You mean people might confuse it with Point of Sale? /s
In that case I suggest https://vitalik.ca/ and dip into articles with titles that appeal to you.

He covers a range from high level opinion essays to (imho) good technical simplified explanations of the special kinds of low-level cryptography. I've personally found the articles on how SNARKs and STARKs work very helpful.

Note that Ethereum and the other "smart contract" blockchains which link general program execution with transactions, are very different from Bitcoin and the other "money only" blockchains.

I also suggest https://ethereum-magicians.org/ if you want to get more into the guts of protocol discussions or just see them, and the Eth R&D discord.
A good moment of humility I hope for all those HN experts who implied Ethereum's transition to Proof of Stake would never happen.
If there were two tokens, one of which was stakeable and the other not, traded separately but convertible, then sure. But that's not reality. ETH's value is in part defined by its ability to bear interest. Whether you personally stake or not has no bearing on whether your ETH is a security.
> However, is paying $120 per year that much when it helps you in your at least mid-five-figures job? I would ask for the reimbursement if it was annual, but filling out a form to ask for $10 back every month seems a bit over the top. Maybe I'm a spendthrift?

It's a slippery slope. You can't start giving freebies to your bosses (who are almost certainly much wealthier than you are) or it'll never end, just like you can't ever pay blackmail
I got my original two vaccines. I refused pfizer and moderna on principle. I refuse to get any boosters. The signal to noise ratio is basically 0 at this point and I am having a hard time "trusting the science".

You know the only people more full of shit than the anti-vaxxers? The "trust the science" shills. The anti-vaxxers may have the wrong idea but from 2020 to...well about the last few months we saw that anyone who even remotely questioned the efficacy of vaccines was "anti-science" and a "science denier". Major platforms spent millions (billions?) to kill as much of this as they could despite the fact the "fact checkers" had no idea either. Fact checkers by-and-large are editorial writers on a power trip. I don't think anyone whose been awake at the wheel for the last 4 years is surprised at this. But they gained an entirely new level of unjustified power in 2020.

A few years later all of the sudden some of the "conspiracies" were at least shown to have some veracity: the vaccines aren't nearly as effective as advertised, the studies were rushed/manipulated, boosters are not effective, the lab leak hypothesis, etc.

Now, a real "science believer" would simply change their view at this point to match the reality of the situation. We spent two years pretending we have a full view of exactly what COVID is, what caused it, where it started, etc. The truth is we have no idea. The best scientists so far can't even agree on if a booster works or not (and by works I mean is effective along a wide population of varying demographics). People are seemingly religious bound to the "wear your mask, trust the science" non-sense. If anything, these people are just as bad as the people saying the vaccine is carrying nano-robots.

If you recall, in 2020 especially, the idea that the virus originated in the BSL lab in Wuhan was put into several papers. None of which can be found anymore (at least I cannot find them). These scientists were "canceled" immediately.

There's a lot of nonsense coming out of both sides. But to pretend it's simply "those pesky anti-vaxxers" as if none of them can rub a collective two brain cells together is frankly funny. I have a feeling the Pfizer documents once fully released and analyzed will be a treasure trove of hindenberg level disasters once the religious party-line fervor comes to an end.
The proper medical response, and ethical one, is pretty simple.

To any medical intevention there is risk. A chance of adverse events. A chance it won't work. Side effects. Your physician should make you aware of these potential issues, making you aware of them, before treating you. We call it informed consent.

The ethical angle is a little more complex. Considering above, but also, knowing the statistics around fatality rates of various conditions, and the adverse events that go along with the interventions. Some cases it means they should, or shouldn't be treated. Also, you have to consider a patient's personal beliefs, religion, etc. Running roughshod over patient beliefs is considered unethical.

Each person should make their own decisions based on knowing their health, and consulting with a competent medical professional that understands all of above. There are simple calculators that exist for fatality rates around covid depending on age, weight, mordibities, etc. Thank JHU.

Which I do, thanks mostly to my wife that is a dual board certified surgeon.

> This line of debate leads nowhere other than a dead end where each side is convinced that the other is a spy. And considering your post history, I don't know if there's a reason to lend you much credence at all

Either I am a liar, well-informed, or quite crazy. Take your pick. I'd just like to think that I married well
Congratulations miners, validators, and hosted validator services!

Big win for sustainability and industry!
the closest you'll get to that is probably vitalik buterin's upcoming book "proof of stake: the making of ethereum and the philosophy of blockchains"
There's a new block about every 13 seconds. Each validator will get its share of "wins" over time.
That annoying shade of blue (2018)
Many citations needed
Censoring anyone saying ageing is natural or not a disease or arguing against funding an anti-aging project would probably have an even bigger impact, but still seems like a bad idea.
and yes: the proxy does have some intelligence around "just" forwarding requests. Mostly caching related, but also some upstream routing decisions and a ton of observability.
UK Gov. - Her Majesty the Queen's Lying-in-State – Queue Tracker
So . . deliberately concealing poisonous gas emissions on a scale so massive, it affected every living thing in the United States is a little different to a highly subjective interpretation of a dominant market position and an even more suspect ruling on abuse of said monopoly.
Just the sound of goal posts moving.

But these posts are more easily ignored now.
you can obtain the poap if you attended the party like so: https://youtu.be/Nx-jYgI0QVI?t=10993
https://www.creativebloq.com/netmag/burned-paypal-9126093

I can sort of see why Paypal is behaving this way — where there's money there's fraud. Fraud is ugly and fraud prevention a bit less so.
A good question worth considering, IMO. Take the Susan G. Komen Foundation as a present-day example of a foundation that, although founded with a righteous cause in mind, has (in some folks' estimation) lost its way, and/or become a somewhat negative force on cancer treatment, women's health, and charity efforts generally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure#Co...

Of course for a foundation that relies heavily on continuing donations, the "market" (so to speak, in this case arranged for the generation of social good) can send a corrective signal by cutting donations. For a completely self-sustaining trust, it stands to reason that society would have little chance to "fix" a wayward organization.
webstorm as best paid option, vscode as best free option and probably better than most paid ones as well (can use vscodium - oss vscode build without telemetry; if you're really scared about privacy and stuff)
I had pretty bad case of Delta, all symptoms were gone in 2 weeks, smell returned after 3 weeks (one week later after other symptoms). I'm grateful to my immune system without any COVID "vaccine".

I don't see anyone claiming loss of smell is long COVID, it's two entirely different things, loss of smell is symptom of COVID and you can have it longer or shorter. "Long COVID" is now catchphrase to cover pretty much anything for hypochondriacs. Sure minority of people claiming they have long term issues after COVID can have something which we could call "long COVID", but most of people claiming they have long COVID are hypochondriacs. Ocassional headache? Long COVID. Tiredness? Long COVID. Etc. I've had "long COVID" years ago before COVID.

Honestly I'm not surprised US nation addicted to drugs especially antidepressants is major nation experiecing long COVID, while this long COVID pretty much doesn't exist poorer the country you go and it's exclusive to few western countries.
The most likely "end game" is not replacing all backend financial systems.
I don't understand why people are so excited about computers, integrated circuits have been around since the 60's. You have companies like Intel and AMD coming out every year with announcements like it's some new thing.
Active Directory uses Kerberos for authentication, it's safe to say it's pretty widely used outside of MIT. :)

Our user accounts live in an AD DS. We use FreeIPA (actually Red Hat Identity Management) to manage a second domain for Linux stuff. There is a trust between the domains so that users can log into systems with their AD credentials. It all works pretty well; most of my frustrations with the system are because of AD's limitations (chiefly, lack of built-in MFA; awful documentation; lack of decent tooling for creating keytabs & configuring resource-based constrained delegation, seriously, I can't believe how bad the AD admin tools are) and flaws in how we have configured AD (obsolete protocols and ciphers still in use; the trust is one-way so users on Windows machines can't authenticate to services in the FreeIPA domain).

This is for logging on to end user devices & accessing servers. Web apps we don't configure (any more) to use LDAP for authentication, rather OpenID Connect (against Azure AD, the confusingly similarly named service from MS, that syncs user accounts from AD DS). Where web apps want access to Kerberos-protected resources, we have some... interesting... setups to allow web apps to use constrained delegation to impersonate the users who have logged in (and this is another thing about AD DS that surprises me... it's incredibly easy to create a service principal that can impersonate any user when authenticating to a resource, including highly privileged users... there's nothing anywhere near as flexible as FreeIPA's Service Constrained Delegation mechanism, that can say "this service can impersonate anyone in group A to resource B")

CI/CD is a bit too advanced of a concept for our AD audience :), we just keep an eye on the platforms and products that our users use & make sure they're doing the right thing with respect to token handling, etc.
A probably naieve question. If the VPU can be used as the bootstrap loader for the CPU, much as a PDP11 on the door of the Vax 11/780 acted as bootstrap loader for the Vax, can we not simply replace all the complex VPU resident functions with 'just run on the CPU' and then resolve the external device bindings in normal CPU code?

Maybe I misread it, but it read like the VPU does more than the tiny necessary bootstrap to find an image, and chain load it. It reads like it has to do some timing critical initialisations of subsystems, but I cannot but think a CPU should be able to do this for itself, once it has some run state with a kernel in memory.

It's as if the VPU has to make the other bits of blobby hardware be alive, for the CPU to be able to see them. Most odd.

Oftentimes there are magic bits of this to do with ring states, and priviledge to alter ring at runtime. Maybe this is part of the story: the VPU initialises a specific ring state and some outer higher trust ring MUST be pre-initialised for the CPU ring state to be allowed to talk to it: it would violate the ring model, if the CPU did it.
It was, for previous methods of image recognition. Generative adversarial networks and models trained on huge amounts of data might change that.
The core of what they do needs maybe 2% of what they spend. That they spend more doesn't mean they need money, it means they are frivolous spenders.
Unreal Rust: Opinionated Rust Integration for Unreal Engine
Any way to search by URL / part of the URL?
Excess deaths are partially due to the official reactions to COVID, but disintangling the two is probably impossible.
In theory, yes. But in practice, most miners have joined a mining pool. Mining pools allow miners to share in the rewards, which means they have a vastly more predictable income per block. A solo miner would probably not have a statistically significant chance of finding a single block for the next 100 years, while pooled miners earn bitcoin through finding blocks roughly equivalent to the mining pools relative size compared with the total hash rate. Since mining is a cutthroat, bleeding edge, hypercompetitive system, that means dependability and stability are very important.
Ah, thankyou. I was struggling to find the right word.

> But semantics aside, I don't really get that line of argument. Do you think the US invading parts of the middle east was justified? If you do not, how can this comparison be used to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

Both invasions were horrific. But the response to the US invasion of central Asia by other Asian powers was "eh, what can you do?". I don't see why the Russian invasion of Ukraine needs to be treated so differently, pouring in weapons, levelling sanctions, triggering various crisises, increasingly aggressive rhetoric and so forth. If Asia can get invaded and we all take it in stride, Europe can get invaded and we can admit the idea that we could again take it in stride. These people aren't so different from each other.

The response should be a lot more thoughtful. More people need to acknowledge that in all likelihood that Russia is acting deliberately in response to long-term pressure and not because Putin is a special evil.
Myanmar<->India is a bit tricky. When I passed through, you needed a permit to go to that part of Myanmar and to cross the border. Not long before, the border had been closed, and I think it was closed again more recently due to the situation in Myanmar. Not sure of the current border situation.

The people doing the permit in Yangon were quite serious about it, but the actual border was incredibly laid back. I walked across after stamping out of Myanmar in Tamu, and the buildings on the India side of the border were all closed for the weekend, so I kept walking to Moreh and found a policeman, who went and found the immigration guy at home so that I could get stamped in.
Don't be obtuse. They clearly imply people might think it means Point of Service.
not just work in the future, work is being done right now! https://www.eip4844.com/
> Principal

> I haven't had a single phone screen for the past 47 applications I've submitted these past 6 weeks.

That sounds very weird. Perhaps they're all worried that they won't be able to meet your salary expectations?

Regarding taking a break, my CV has almost as many breaks as jobs [1] and I'm still somewhere in top 10-20% of earnings for Western Europe, while contracting remotely out of Poland. So, it hasn't hurt me in the slightest. I dunno about US culture, with FAANGs and tier-2/wannabe unicorns over there though, maybe they expect people to demonstrate more single-minded devotion to their careers that is expected over here in Europe.

[1] Meaning, I almost always take a 6-18 months break between quitting one job and starting in another.
> was concerned that a cancer drug called Avastin, was not widely available in the UK

One of the important points here that the "privatisation is great" people are missing is that the reason Avastin isn't used off label so much is because the makers of Avastin have already spent vast sums of money suing the NHS to stop off-label prescribing, and they refused to allow Avastin to be licensed for one common off-label use (for AMD).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30138097

https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/nhs-wins-landma...
If we're really going down this rabbit hole, look up what reserve currencies held by large entities such as private or central banks are and what the SDR set by the IMF is.

The parent comment was a joke it it wasn't clear. A call for malicious compliance given the abject subjectivity of the ruling here. It also illustrates how the pettiness displayed by European entities acting hostile towards western tech companies while ignoring alarming abuses by Chinese companies is silly and dangerous.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind and all that, extend this petty exchange that the rulers of the EU at present seem hell bent on, and we lose so much as a society for negative gain.
Excellent and very clear summary, as far as I can tell. My only niggle is that smart contracts are, in practice, neither legally binding nor unstoppable... the story of the DAO Hack/Hard Fork [0] proved that consensus can overrule "the invisible hand of the blockchain" during a particularly egregious incident.

[0] https://ogucluturk.medium.com/the-dao-hack-explained-unfortu...
They might live in Germany, where not being vaccinated essentially barred you from public life.
> they are constantly experimenting and if certain behaviors get them what they want

I am fairly doubtful that infants can want things that they don't need. If infants cry, it's because they feel pain - I don't see any other explanation, and projecting adult traits (such as wanting things they don't need) onto infants doesn't really make sense to me. Of course they "want" their parent's attention. They're infants, they probably feel pain when their parents are not around.

Of course, there is a period around ~2 years old when babies start experimenting with crossing the lines to see what they can and cannot get away with. But at age, they aren't infants anymore.
You make it sound as if financial institutions and banks didn't have a purpose. There is far more negative utility in this. Governments, banks and financial institutions prevent tax fraud, apply workers' rights, redistribute money, etc. Of course they're not perfect. In that case fix your government, not the money system.
>Do you see Google or FB investing in this? No? Ok then

As if AD-Company's are any measurement for innovation, you could have said Oxide or hell even Amazon...but NOOO you take the lamest two Firm's out of the "FAANG"-Gang.

You obviously never worked with mainframes....that's sad.
If anything, it incentivized the production of GPU artificially limited for the exact work needed for PoW. Good job!
I don’t think any of the apps truly make an iphone from the last 4-5 years sweat at all - I would even question the “lag” parent commenter claims. It’s just probably a psychological effect of the new being better + promotion does make everything appear smoother.
PoW was a system where you could buy lottery tickets by investing capital.

PoS is the same, except it doesn’t ALSO burn electricity that needs to be paid for by parts of the mining rewards.
In that video he searches for the griftiest projects and treats them as defining the whole technology. Suggesting it as an answer here is like responding to a question about how eBay is engineered and showing off the scammiest eBay auction pages you can find by searching for the lowest-rated users.
The risk with trusting the people with "niche knowledge" is that they are susceptible to corruption. Now, given the choice between a corrupt capitalist expert and a doubtful idiot, I'd choose the latter.
I imagine this way you can launder on the order of 10-100k dollars/month? With 30-40% payed for taxes and employees?
You are talking about trading, I am talking about anything but trading.
I find the complexity of that algorithm both impressive ( since they seem to have made it work), but also quite worrying. I'm really not sure how such a beast can't be filled with bugs, not in the implementation but rather in the protocol.

I know a lot of very smart people are working on this, but i'd rather have something conceptually simpler to work as the base layer for a whole new economy.
It creates a system where money makes money. It's hardly surprising if that leads to the richest people making the most money. The result won't be more people joining in until the expected reward is low enough, The result will be that a few rich people will join in with enough ETH to push the reward down. There's probably be a bunch of small-time investors doing it too, but again, more ETH in is more ETH out.
It turns out that "distributed linked list" is actually a difficult problem that involves very interesting challenges
Over a million patient contacts per day. How many court cases?
A recent study by an American governmental organisation (I don't remember which) recently showed that Bitcoin can be used to reduce methane emissions. This in turn would make Bitcoin mining and Proof-of-work net carbon negative (significantly so if my memory of the graph accompanying the news isn't letting me down).

edit: also, this is a new frontier that combines the best of both worlds for energy suppliers, bitcoin miners, governments and the environment.