skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pixel 6 camera is still terrible, and unless you want to edit every single picture you take, the colors are incredibly unrealistic. From what I've seen online, iPhone is not nearly as bad
I believe filling the golf course holes with concrete in an area with water shortage was an awesome act of resistance.

The 1% generate 10% of the problem with their lifestyles and exclusivity.

If there was no civil disobedience nobody would care or even hear ever about so these problems.
Read 'Mastering Ethereum'
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Con...

The short of it is:

- The block chain is a distributed ledger database, where all peers hold a full copy to avoid manipulation (faking an entry is only possible by controlling >50% of machines in this peer-to-peer network).

- Spending money is implemented by adding a transactional record to the blockchain ledger at the end saying X amount moved from account A to B. A block is like a page in a paper ledger and they are appended with cryptographic hashes to avoid improper interference.

- Ethereum supports smart contracts, which are little scripts in a language called Solidity. So you can implement legally binding (and unstoppable) contracts along the lines of "if (condition) then (pay some money to someone)". Executing smart contracts cost a little bit of money. All Ethereum nodes collectively implement a distributed VM, and that money (called "gas") is the incentive to keep the network running. Smart contracts are highly interesting, and they have applications far beyond electronic currencies. For example, we played with implementing electronic rights management (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-36691-9_... - which turned out to be less than ideal due to a stack size limit in the current Ethereum VM, but hey).

- Whenever a new block (page in the ledger) needs to be created because the previous one is full, a randomized alg. determines who is permitted to do that ("mining"). The old process (proof of work) was environmentally a disaster (it still is for the Bitcoin ecosystem), which is why the Ethereum people implemented a smarter method (proof of stake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake).
A randomly chosen crypto project (including ones that use Ethereum) will probably be mostly nonsense, but Ethereum itself is a serious project with interesting deep engineering.
"Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network"

...

"The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com."
In Europe it's very usual to charge consulting rates that are double what the employee is paid. After the employer-paid portion of taxes and insurance it's necessary, the actual margin is just around 15-20% then.
good wager (though a but underspecified, efficacy of preventing spread, illness, hospitalization, or death?)

as far as I know the numbers are here and show otherwise

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/in-the-era-of-omicron...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/briefing/masks-mandates-u...

of course for personal health choices it's best to go for a P100 respirator and getting the vaccine
I wonder if there is some very surprised power plant technicians out there right now scratching their heads because they didn't get the memo.
Let me introduce you to carbon credits.
I wonder if it’s because of intersection designs.

Traffic lights often result in rear-ends (they commonly increase after red light cam installation, though are still safer than the t-bones red light cameras reduce.) Roundabouts, which are more common in Europe, cause these much less, and since you have to slow down to enter one any sort of crashes in one tend to be at slower speeds.
There is lot of talk and debate about building wind, nuclear doing the green transition etc. in Finland. I guess like in every country. Somehow it makes me sad that group of open source developers could do more today than we ever can to help the planet no matter how much we scale back.

Although they built the hell machine in the first place, so maybe better if they would not have ever done anything.
> A) allow for secure payments without giving away something like a bank account # or debit card number

We have a whole bunch of these systems, like Open Banking payments in the UK, Pix in Brazil, and to a lesser extent stuff like Apple/Amazon pay and other payment proxies which don't require you to expose account numbers to merchants. Physical credit-card transactions work this way too, as the chips have built-in cryptographic processors.

> such as people at a bank just deciding to initiate an account with one million?

This is not a problem people really have. Having a limited quantity of your means of exchange is not a desirable quality in a currency.
I think about this a bit. I had the temerity to try and write to Dawkins about this some time ago. I think I got a sense of "yes, given the chance, I think use of more statistical language would have been beneficial, but none of us realized how strongly the intentionality would be misunderstood" in reply, but I can't find the emails so I suspect I may have mis-remembered.

Really I'd like to ask it face to face. For the experience.
Thanks Donald for messing up this institution.
>So as that risk dissipates I would expect a decent price run.

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.

I look forward to the increased GPU supply.
All my local stations are still on mag stripes.
Maybe if you turned your mind off 12 years ago. Fast Zero knowledge proofs only left the research labs a handful of years ago and are now being used to power layer 2s that deliver 10 - 1000x scalability improvements. DeFi is barely 2 years old.

The consensus and scaling mechanisms being rolled out were only just created in the last few years (that's why Ethereum PoS took so long, thery were still making changes to the design as new research came out).
https://kanaria.codes/
This is fabulous.

>If you have the temerity to submit a video or pdf, I should be grateful if you would mark it as such, so as not to cause the undoing of my fragile sensibilities.

The temerity, the absolute temerity of assaulting my fragile sensibilities with a pdf or video! I will not countenance it. I say good day to you, sir.
Your bias shines through here.

What visible ways? Machine generated photographs? About as useful as NFTs...

I can, right now, send liquid assets to any human being on the planet with an internet connection without asking a financial institution, government, bank, payment processor or phone company for permission. That's utility, that's changing the world in a visible way.
This is quite visible on the grassy ridge picture, the trail looks smudged over.
Curious to see if this plays out anything like the insider lockup period expiring after an IPO.

Anyone with ETH locked up in a 2.0 beacon validator has suffered brutal drawdowns from the peak.
This is the thing I don't get about HN.

Crypto is one of the primary grounds for hacking right now. Not just hacking in the sense of writing code, but hacking in the sense of defining a system from scratch.

Cryptocurrency is so quintessentially hacker that hackers have a "no true scotsman!" moment about its ascent.

Similar feelings abounded with this thing called the Internet if you look in the archives.

Edit: Yes, it's raw. Yes, it's messy. The beginning of every new era of protocols is always like this. Look in the history of computer science and tell me that the Internet's origin was materially more orderly than the chaos that is web3. It's always a mess until it becomes boring, and then we do the dance again.
They offer it for 85+ year old people right now, soon to 50+ people.
What happens in the future is still open. There is no spin.

If you are young with 3 shots you have relative good chances against covid.
Right now there are 6 people with covid in a intensive care unit and 0 on respirator in all of Denmark.
Hey, that’s not how vaccines actually work. I think you’ve had fragments of the truth presented in a way to try to make you believe things that aren’t true. Vaccines aren’t a platform that can be triggered to do different things. It does use RNA which is cool because it allows for more rapid changes. The vaccine will mostly work with a wide variety of RNA payloads with the only difference being the exact antibodies it encourages. In a few decades that might mean we could start developing and deploying vaccines in weeks. But rna doesn’t last long. It’s pretty unstable so the only thing getting updated is your bodies natural immune response
It’s been always like that. Every other release of iPhone was called „S” for that reason.

So if there ever was a peak with iPhones, it was with the iPhone 3G, and it just went downhill from there ;)
Of great importance was not rewiring or modifying all the engine controls: the new engines had to slide right in and attach to the controls the old engines used. This alone demanded 8 small engines. Read about how they solved the flutter problem on the 747 and you’ll appreciate how important it is not to change the aerodynamics of the wing in any way. Finally, competition for the contract was fierce as there were many different engines that approximately fit the profile: it was very close to competing business jet designs with successful production histories. Rolls Royce, I think, was a surprise winner.
I had not even thought about the ability to connect my iPhone with my Ubuntu machine. But it seems like I need to look a bit more into the possibilities.

I already use digiKam for my photography workflow. It is really awesome for managing photos, adding tags etc.

For importing photos I actually use Rapid Photo Downloader in order to import photos into "date-ordered" folders. So if I can get Ubuntu to recognise my iPhone then I can probably use the same to import photos from my phone if I ever need that ability.
PoW is different to all other categories of energy usage and should be feared more. Ill let you have a think about what the reason for this is. If you need a hint,
read the bitcoin whitepaper.
I guess oscillating pain is also "chronic pain" and you want calibrate for that.
Mastering Ethereum is pretty good

Came out about 4 years ago
Those things are not as coupled as you make them sound: the vast majority of people getting paid interest on their ETH won't be running a node. They'll be receiving interest passed on by exchanges or other centralised entities that are staking their ETH.
> The only downside of course being that it essentially hard-codes the "1% of people make 99% of the money" principle.

This is only true if the only or best way to make money is through staking. This is unlikely to be the case - the ability to deposit your cash in a savings account or park it in government bonds doesn't stop people from investing in stocks. What it does instead is put a floor on acceptable rates of return from more risky options.
You can pontificate all you want about what is contained in the model, the fact is a case related to infringement is going to hit an EU court soon enough and any sort of commercialization of those models will be banned. And good fucking riddance to the AI bros, the monkeys of engineering.
It's like Medium but wants you to pay for newsletters.
What about the disks?

Edit: or linear TV means the recent stream can be all in ram?
> Early in my career, I thought my lack of "getting OOP" was due to some profound missing piece of understanding

It simply does not have formal definitions and examples. Almost everything in OOP books and content is defined like "imagine you have this situation and you want to do this thing..." and then it starts with ships, containers, ports, cranes or animals and lions.

The thing I like about fp is that there's surprisingly little things to know, and they all have formal definitions. The definitions are also quite simple and build on previous definitions. If you know what a data type and a `map` operation is, you can easily understand a functor. You add to it another ingredient and you have an applicative functor. Another one, and you get a monad.

You make small steps towards knowledge that are solid.
Super! It greatly reduces lock-in (burned too many times by this), facilitates interop (mobile apps!) and sync, backup, and all other integration that is possible with a mere directory in a file system :)
Proof of stake is a application not computer science. What fundamental new knowledge into computing are you thinking about attributing?
That was true with proof of work too. The merge doesn't change it.
This phase doesn’t unlock validator funds
Perhaps, but also tons of issues come from people's stupidity and shortsightedness. People become greedy and callous in large part due to bad childhood experiences, and bad childhood stems from parents being stupid or making bad decisions (like having children while 17 years old). The only way to stop the perpetual vicious circle of bad parents raising another generation of shitty parents (and shitty people in general) is to improve people, not by keeping them ignorant.
As someone pointed out to me recently when I argued the same thing, crypto and blockchain does have a use case: funding organizations and people through anonymous means as to circumvent the scope of the law/avoid the eyes of state or corporate authorities. This includes funding politically persecuted groups or terrorist groups as well as buying drugs or other more or less recommendable things. After all it's mostly what it's been used for so far (if we ignore speculation and various scams).

I think it's hard to argue with this.
> “Oh,” my dad said, waving his hand dismissively at the small army, “Everyone knows this coffee shop is owned by loan sharks. It’s probably a money laundering operation.”

A long time ago, I went to a Czech restaurant in San Francisco (I am always interested in finding Czech food, as it is somewhat rare in the US anywhere but where I'm originally from: near Chicago, aka Czech-ago ;P). The food my friend got seemed to be literally microwaved (he said half of it was very cold while the other half of it was very hot), and they were entirely out of at least fruit dumplings I remember for sure but I also think there were a couple other things missing. I definitely remember someone commenting that it felt a bit like a money laundering scheme more so than a restaurant.

Years later (still a while ago... maybe a decade?) I was again in San Francisco, and I went to the same restaurant--I mean, at least it is Czech food, right?! ;P--and now it was in a different much fancier dining area (though I also remember being somewhat difficult to find and sort of almost in a basement; it was just furnished almost ridiculously fancy). I was the only person there, however. This time, their menu didn't have a bunch of options they could be out of: they had exactly three dishes.

There was, however, multiple wait staff at the restaurant, all just kind of doing nothing. I ordered a goulash I think, and it was OK. I mean, I was coming into this expecting it might just be them microwaving frozen scoops of food, and didn't care as, again, "at least it is Czech food". It was tasty enough that I went back the next day for the svickova.

Again, no one was there. They also seemed so confused by how I was there. Now twice in a row. Ordering food off of their menu of only three options ;P. At the end of the dinner, I asked them "do you ever have... fruit dumplings?" and suddenly the guy--who maybe thought I was a cop casing the joint ;P--suddenly had a realization: "are you... Czech?!".

I did not return for a third day ;P. I remember checking and a number of the reviews on whatever review site I was using at this point were also people who stumbled into this restaurant and started to think "how is this even a restaurant? are we sure this isn't a money laundering front?!". That said, it also isn't clear to me how money laundering can work if everyone suspects it at your business!
Its SF salaries. Why are these nonprofits based in SF anyway? Same goes for Mozilla.

Seems like anywhere else it would be pretty insane money for nonprofits.
>The only downside of course being that it essentially hard-codes the "1% of people make 99% of the money" principle.

Anyone can stake, and the more people that stake, the smaller the reward, so the result should end up being that more people join in until the expected reward is lowered to that of other widely-available investment opportunities.
Yeah I had a jacket that had worn through, and sent it back to them for repair for free. Brilliant.
Although reluctant to substantially invest (and hence still working for others ;-), I know some of the people involved.

They're as smart as they come.
I happened to reread part of an original EJB book, and with hindsight I am now wondering if EJB = microservice was the intended use. The app server would, on multiple machines, start and stop EJB instances like kubernetes does with node instances. The whole thing tries to hide there is a network in there, automagically connecting everywhere.

Which would make the whole bloat thing moot and the whole EJB stack comically misused.

But look at it as an EJB providing an interface to the outside world. Forget about making almost every class an EJB. Then the 2 styles start to look quite similar, especially if 'the network is the computer'.

There were of course still plenty of bad design decisions. Every vendor has its own RMI variant, requiring drivers instead of a standardized http+json. 4 files for the interfacevis iver the top. The EJB database interface was bad.
Congrats to the devs. This is a historic moment for computing and distributed tech, and will pave the way for Ethereum’s next updates: scalability, privacy, stronger censorship resistance, easier UX and account abstraction.
smart contracts offer legitimate efficiency gains over some traditional models

Even something like a Dex can be far superior to traditional order book exchange models in some cases
The majority who trade crypto use stablecoins for payment all the time. It's the default on most exchanges, and for a lot of the biggest pairs on DEXs.
I think it's systemic, there's other diseases like stomach ulcer disease that took a long time to pin down the exact cause.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_dis...
In most countries when a law is basically dead it means they won't even file charges. Prosecutors are overloaded and they don't have all the bag of tricks US prosecutors have for reducing the number of trials so charging an ancient law is one way of increasing your trial count.

However, it seems rather odd that I say I have nothing I need to hide I just have things I want to hide. People are insisting I must have somethign I need to hide. This is where I think many activists screw up. They're too busy trying to push their framing of the issue on to people. Instead of getting behind the idea that people have stuff they don't want others to know, which we all do, it seems everyone here is busy talking about the need to hide illegal stuff because what they currently do might become illegal. That isn't going to wash with most people. Most people are going to be againist it because now you're keeping privacy in the mindset of committing crimes and all these privacy tools aren't for keeping your personal secrets but for committing crimes. Who wants to support these crimes? Especially when instantly the other side talks about child porn.

It's like how when the protests in the US kicked off in 2020. They framed it as black lives matter which instantly allowed detractors to point out that white people are killed by police more often and silence them. If it wasn't just framed as a racial thing and instead of a police brutality problem against all people, it could have gone further.
I loved it..but when I learned the true story after I watched it, I felt lied to, way past what is acceptable. Like, he played large venues in an Australian tour in 1979, and returned in 1981, but that wouldn't fit the story the documentary wants to tell at all, so is not mentioned.

edit: I just learned his 1979 album Alive was recorded live in concert in Sydney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga5aR0MwWOs
Here's your executive summary. Proof of stake...

is much cheaper - less inflation.
is more environmentally friendly.
with PoS, only people who already own ethereum can mine. Rich get richer.
has less desirable consensus properties.
Many people keep coins on a handful of exchanges - now those will control the network.
Nothing-at-stake attack.
I really wish there was a normal conversation on this topic. If you would state that it might be better to offer vaccinations to the 50+ a few months back, you were an anti-vaxxer. That wording alone is also just to ridicule everyone that is somewhat critical on the Covid vaccination rules.
There has been hardly any science in the regulations and mandates, just as there has been little science in the conspiracy people. And that is where we are now: A soccer match with hooligans shouting non-sense.
So I agree with people that have to listen to specialists. At the same time your statement (2nd part) tells me that you are not open to listening, or having a conversation with anyone saying anything outside the allowed communication path.
>on a good day nothing happens, on a bad day you might have to do hours of digging to find the source of an error.

That sounds exactly like modern software-stacks ;)
The vast majority of terminals in the US use chip, but I doubt the US will ever require pin numbers for credit card purchases. It's just too inconvenient. Banks are willing to eat the tiny reversed transactions in exchange for making the payment flow more efficient.
Isn't it a little unfortunate that the acronym for Proof of Stake would be PoS? Couldn't they think of something else?
The difference is that PoW is not "inefficient". Rather, it is intrinsically wasteful by its very nature.

Take an inefficient car for instance. There are diminishing returns in its utility after a certain point of energy use. On the other hand, there are no diminishing returns in PoW. The more energy you use, the more money you make.
So it's 10 years got it.
Emphasis on you can’t find any uses

and other people’s use cases aren't legitimate to you

We’re past the point of playing with people’s goal posts
You could also do that in big cities like Boston and NYC.
It is early stage in the sense it only support commands that operate on the strings and some on the key space.

Other commands are planned to be added soon but the ones already implemented cover already a lot of different use cases.
A new non-computer hobby. Rock climbing maybe?
I'm also expecting a lot of GPU's to flood the used markets. Coupled with the next generation of GPU's being released soon.
What if viral and parasitic reproduction is different and produces a "Clone" instead of an "Offspring" ? That would explain so much about how these things seem to work as one.

Either that or there HAS to be a form of distributed communication technique here that we haven't yet discovered.
I’m skeptical that Al will replace artists. The existence of computer chess and go, though superior in every way, has not killed interest in human competition. I see no reason we couldn’t have the same thing happen with art: people see AI art as a novelty and something worth studying but otherwise preferring human art for its relevance to the human condition.
From what I gather you would want the M40 if anything as it is a single GPU with access to all of the 24GB for SD inference. But if you are going to do smaller you might as well get a 3060 12GB as it will be about 3x faster.
Credit card transactions may at some point involve cryptography, but at the bottom is the credit card number, and that can still be exposed.

Cryptocurrencies don't necessarily have to operate on an (effectively) fixed supply, and actually if you are concerned about modifying the supply frequently it is possible to design a cryptocurrency that gives you much better control over that.