skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

Fantastic writeups and interactive animations; iirc, he does the WebGL by hand! His website gives me the same feeling of discovery that I got at the Exploratorium as a kid.
The point is that the bug appears in many programs, particularly C and C-like whatever, and, apparently, Google programs.

You could try to claim they are in all programs, but your selection-bias slip is showing. Programs they are not in (e.g. mine) are nowhere in your list. You can have no idea about the number of such programs. To pretend you do, as Google has done, is not honest.
From my experience, it's practically always middlemen. I don't see a problem though - this is easier for me. I found a few good recruiters that I keep in contact with, they know my requirements and anytime I ask they have a good, well-paid project for me. I don't see the practical difference.
And locked down and limited immigration.
>Anti vaxxers tend to not discuss nuanced details and instead come out with unsubstantiated claims like “vaccines cause autism” which is going to get most people to stop listening to them

Have you actually read any of the publications by prominent anti-vax scientists?
For instance, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359989585_Innate_im... is hardly lacking in nuanced details or full of unsubstantiated claims, nor is https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog... .
Ethereum isn't supposed to be money (though it can be), it's fuel you use for doing other things. Do people use less oil because it's deflationary and gets consumed when used? No, because it's useful now.

The most likely end game for Ethereum is being a replacement for all backend financial systems. Instead of having to hire teams of people to verify things or integrate various legacy systems together, everyone can build on one neutral platform and pay a little ETH as the fee for using it.
There's a lot of slang and jargon (metaphors, some good, some silly), to the point where most crypto projects are scams, hiding what's going on (many DeFi projects built on Ethereum).

And this is my opinion as someone who loves the value proposition of what cryptocurrency was supposed to be (see first line of Satoshi whitepaper), and care more about seeing the technology gain mindshare than hype cycles and price movement.
Can we have our GPUs back now?
A. 12 years old is relatively new for tech / computer science. There aren't that many novel / widely adopted computer science ideas introduced each year.

B. This "merge" in particular utilizes innovations in computer science that were non-existent 12 years ago when the original Bitcoin whitepaper was published.

C. There continues to be loads of cutting edge CS research that is broadly applicable to the entire industry but is being spear-headed by blockchain development, for example work on Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts; proof of stake is not 12 years old (Sunny King and Scott Nadal, 2012), and certainly there have been a lot of other hard problems solved since then.

There's a lot of other stuff beyond Ethereum, too. Privacy coins in particular look very little like what was envisioned in Satoshi's paper.

Whether that's all worth anything from an economic perspective, I'm not sure (and even less sure whether it's worth what it's valued), but crypto is legitimately a bunch of very clever technological solutions to hard problems, invented by actual hackers, so I'm a little sad to see people minimizing it on Hacker News.

Especially since this particular innovation is ameliorating the whole global warming problem, which is the prime criticism leveled at crypto. Take that away, and isn't it just open source software that we're talking about here?
It's weird to celebrate the electricity savings of Ethereum like this. It's good that it's less energy-intensive now, but it was that energy-intensive before because of Ethereum in the first place.
There are validator pools that let people stake smaller values.
> mandated vaccines

They were mandated? That's news to me. I'm pretty sure the OSHA mandates never went into effect.
But what bigoted and uninformed, how could a question about an article be uninformed, I could get a wake up call for defense and still understand that destruction is destruction and that there are some people like me under those bombs and talk about it with a bit of sadness, instead of acting like I am talking about coffee machines. You should just play less the victim considering sufference you've caused to the world, and be a bit more human and understanding that once the powerful in both sides are taking out, what's left is people like you, so that's where my "sick in the brain" comes from, you show no remorse whatsoever
They have largely already switched to renewable energy so they can operate cheaper. Depending on fossil fuels has been a bad business plan for quite a few years now and no new data centers are coming online that depend on it. Some of the older data centers are the exception to this rule. But even those are the target of massive efforts to de-carbonize as soon as possible.
The use case is that it's fun and with PoS you don't need to feel guilty having fun at the expense of the environment.
They’re being sued for misleading statements about their sustainability: https://www.thefashionlaw.com/hm-is-being-sued-over-misleadi...

Don’t fall for their narrative.
As a Dane, I have to agree with you. Generally I trust the health authorities to recommend the action they deem appropriate and nothing more.
Yeah,

Fully distributed consistency algorithms running on N nodes on linked list in which each node is a Turing-machine program run concurrently on N nodes, whose consistency shall also be insured, and which can write on said linked-list. Everything has absolutely tons of edge-cases related to the distributed nature of the thing to take care of.

Of course, I haven't even begun anything about the whole "crypto" part, and minimizing power usage.

Absolutely no meaning besides "linked lists", riiiight...
This is unconscionable. Most groups considered at risk had less than a 10% mortality risk ergo almost all of them are still alive albeit potentially damaged and actually at higher risk.
A single node is single socket AMD EPCY node with 32 cores, 64 or 128GB RAM, 1x NIC with 2x100 GB/s. Ja, es ist waipu.tv.
That's the whole point though -- if you only see someone in media or on a stage, then you never know them at all. I personally believe that they are acting to an extent -- I would be very surprised if Mike were actually a scumbag who abused his best friend and that Jay is either too stupid or too sadistic to have empathy. You can see glimpses of their actual interpersonal dealings if you watch the special feature on the Space Cop blu-ray call 'How Not to Make A Movie' which is a kind of documentary-style collection of them behind the scenes starting when they first mean up with Jay in the 90s. They seem like normal mid-western white boys who like weird films and probably got a bit bullied in high school.

That said, I remind myself that even though it is tremendously fun sitting and watching them and thinking that we would probably have a great time being friends, they are real people with real faults and I already have great friends who have those. The difference is that if I met not sets of those people on the street one of those sets would have no idea who I am and the other would be my actual friends.
Hahaha. Oh that's hilarious.
In general I love what RDBMS and postgresql in particular can bring to you, but this is one corner of them that I hate: Planners are too smart for their own good.

This is a standard story: A query ran for a long time without issue, and then, one day, some minor shift in your statistics happens, and now you have a major performance issue in your hands, without any real change on prod. No non-productive environment can help you: They don't have the same data or they do have the same data but the statistic sampling was slightly different.

If it happens, you have to find an incantation that makes the planner comprehend what's going wrong. Postgresql has things like the statistic object and in this case the statistic column property, but finding the right incantation can be black magic, and adding indexes/statistics/... can take hours so trial and error is slow.

Dumber databases have an edge here: Their performance is probably lower, but it is predictable.

Some RDBMS have mitigations, e.g. Oracle's optimizer plan stability allows you to make the plan unchangeable. It's a 2-sided knife of course: It won't get better if the data has a chance for it, but it won't get worse either.
Ethereum Completes Long-Awaited Energy-Saving ‘Merge’ Upgrade
Putting an infant alone in a room of their own seems to be an exclusively western practice and is completely foreign to me.

3500 American babies due suddenly and unexpectedly from SIDS every year. I wonder if there is any research into where these babies were sleeping when they died. Am I an idiot for wondering if they died from the sheer terror of waking up alone in a dark room?
This one is shorter but more recent with more photos. Seems it's still going now the taliban are back in power.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220904-the-kabul-restau...
They have plans for more issues but they are a little delayed. Takes quite a bit of work to put each issue together!
I wonder if this gets accounted for somehow, where power prices drop slightly causing bitcoin miners to pick up the savings.

I’m gonna assume there won’t be some huge shutdown of power plants so this power is still being produced.
Influenza was significantly more lethal before the 50s.
There's also chaum's e-cash
Ethereum has actual users who pay to run applications built on top of it.
When will those endless possibilities meet reality though?
Great!

Unlike BTC the miners can sell their gear so they are not down on their investment.. I imagine BTC miners putting up a good fight if this was on the table and they stand to lose all their asics
> There actually really isn't any difference between the two groups. They differ only in how they articulate the same bad logic.

I think the high number of adverse events, and the weirdness around allergies, and my wife's colleague that was receiving a huge amount of pressure to get a 2nd shot, despite having a severe adverse event, has ruined it for me personally.

> Going with what your emotions proves you are intellectually incapable.

No emotions. The adverse events in any number of journals, and the VAERS reporting data, as passive surveillance which underreports signficantly, convinced me there were issues.

> I respect people with the aptitude and the niche knowledge to break new intellectual ground even if they turned out to be wrong. I do not respect the 1000 idiots following that one fellow into the brush who ignored all the other smart people going the other way and neither should you.

Please don't call anyone idiots here on HN. We read the articles, and the medical journals, and the pros and cons and came to an informed opinion, not including all the noise that was public pressure.

Having had covid, I can definitely say I am happy I did not get vaccinated. If you have a bunch of comorbidities or are old, or you want it just cause, go get it. But don't force those of us that are healthy, with no comorbidities that already did the social distancing to get some therapeutic with a shady safety record and likely negative efficacy. I don't believe we needed to rush these vaccines, or therapeutics, or whatever ineffective thing they are, out the door.

What is really tragic is when I hear about the infants with severe adverse events to these vaccines..........
What I would like would be github copilot for terminal completion.

based on my bash history and folder structure.
Have a look into DeFi and what A16Z is investing in is a good start. When many of the biggest SV firms are investing billions and you still don't understand it, don't you get curious and dig deeper?
This is how all tech works - trains, cars, power stations. We build things that are initially inefficient. We eventually transition to energy efficient tech. We celebrate. It’s rare the transition can reduce 99.95% of energy footprint the size of a country within a minute of activating the new tech.
Bumbing the baby in the cart over a threshold worked very very well initially, for like 3 months, and suddenly stopped working at all.

I feel a great deal of confusion is stemming from that advice might come to late or to early in the childs life.
This reads as something written at the height of anger and frustration. Unless you’re a vaccine scientist/researcher, and unless you worked on/studied COVID vaccines, you’re parroting the position of experts: both on vaccines and on skepticism of vaccine effectiveness.

Usually, in matters with very personal consequences, I don’t submit anyone’s position to the rigor of, say, a mathematical proof—irrationality is allowed. Most people refusing the vaccine have either died or survived multiple infections. I believe the individual has unquestionable sovereignty over such matter of life and death. Likewise the vaccinated dead, either from COVID infection or vaccine complication.

Overall, it’s really quite simple to understand that different people view this life thing differently and make trade-offs accordingly. It may not favor you, but calling the other sides names or applying a pretend touchstone of intellectualism is the height of intellectual laziness. Given that your position is also the position of the majority, I wonder at all if “intellectually incapable” should be used here. The majority is provably the intellectually incapable.
We can't use sendfile since all the traffic is HTTPS. Sendfile can only be used if we can use KTLS. Internally we have some kind of cache hierarchy for video objects, these files are transferred out via Sendfile, but the performance gain here is negligible.
Crypto being full of grifters does not mean that the actual developers in the space are using "technobabble" in order to sound smarter without actually introducing new concepts. Crypto is actually innovating in ways that are broadly applicable to computer science in general, e.g. with all the work being done on Zero-Knowledge Proofs. And those innovations require new words because they are new concepts. I think it should be somewhat obvious to anyone that has actually looked at the space that devs are not just re-naming existing ideas.
Meaning the comments you make regarding defending C++ above all, without any proven credentials in the security domain, while World renowed companies in the area assert otherwise?
This remains a far better usage of energy than ETH. It's not optimal but at least it's preserving some food. You can hardly do worse than consuming energy just to eventually get a proof that you burned a big amount of energy.
eh, as a former contributor to Dolphin, and a current game developer who has worked on the Switch, I'd say Dolphin has it quite a bit easier easier -- the GX API maps pretty well to modern GPUs, the lack of programmability means shader recompilation & reverse engineering is far from as big an issue, and Dolphin doesn't have to implement from scratch a giant OS and all of its services.
Even if they did nobody buys anything rn
That’s how I always thought about it yeah.
There are two interesting things I want to watch from this. The first is I'm interested to see what kind of bull run ETH goes on. The merge has been incredibly long coming, it has huge risks and I think that puts downward pressure on price, you really don't want to be doing stuff in ETH at the moment because there's a fairly good chance something goes wrong, someone stealds $XBn and runs off and the Ethereum guys go "Well I guess we're going to have a centralized intervention and reset the chain back to date Y" (this famously happened with the first DAO). So as that risk dissipates I would expect a decent price run. I'll be very interested if that doesn't happen since it says a lot about broader market conditions.

The second thing I'm interested in is that ETH was the vast majority of revenue for GPU miners. I read an article on HN a few months ago about how once ETH is gone the rest of the PoS chains put together won't yield enough revenue to be profitable for the vast vast majority of current ETH miners. This alone could have a massive ripple effect on the used GPU market. Interesting to see where that goes.
Time for AI!
Just Fiat 2.0
Yeah it's like Medium except it has less fluff/self-promotion.
So is this _only_ for developers, paying other developers? Can users donate to projects? What if you don't have any projects?
It immediately improves the environmental story if you had previously wanted to use smart contracts but didn't think it was ethical for environmental reasons.

ETH was already potentially useful in the real world if you were on an L2 like zksync - low fees, fast enough to work, decent UX with wallets like Argent. Only thing missing was wide adoption.

Having said that, the merge is actually just the first of a multipart set of upgrades that should make the L2s massively better than they are today. We're still at the 'potentially' useful rather than the actually useful, but things improve the whole time.
Has this been updated since the new BA.1 and the BA.4/.5 booster have been approved in the EU? Because currently e.g. Germany has the same recommendation but it is expected to be updated in the next few days since they started rolling out the omikron boosters.
The issue comes how can they make it profitable and realistically that is probably going to be a problem they solve rather quickly.
So talking about incentives.

Efficient money laundering will get you caught. Incentive is not to get caught and not having all the money seized.
The real issue is that flying cars need a lot more energy since they need to stay up in the air as well as move forwards, and the oil crisis quickly put an end to that kind of per-person energy consumption being realistic.
the easiest use case to grok (and one that's being used right now) is a near-instant global settlement layer

e.g. startups today are able to accept funds in USDC[0] without the hassle + cost of sending/receiving a wire transfer or waiting up to 2 weeks for an ACH to clear.

Another interesting use case is tracking provenance for physical goods.

e.g. the ownership history of a bottle of whiskey[1] or wine[2]

[0] - https://help.venture.angel.co/hc/en-us/articles/682949304692...

[1] - https://whiskeyraiders.com/bourbon/justins-house-bourbon-bax...

[2] - https://www.decanter.com/premium/spotlight-on-blockchain-win...
You don’t have any comfortable furniture at home?
I wonder how much the contributors are being paid...
Wasn't it supposed to have been Leyland Honda and we got the Austin Allegro instead?
I'm playing the devil's advocate and I'm not very comfortable with it, but I think it' valuable to the discussion to do so.

You are oversimplying and again conflating both groups. You assume people made their mind first and then looked for experts' to support which it's not fair to a lot of them.

Let's focus on an specific case. A healthy 25 years old male living in on of those countries. If he's an skeptic and decides to make a data oriented decision, the truth is that his chance of dying or getting a severe infection was really slim and probably comparable to the odds of getting a myocarditis because of it.

Yet the media and the government, at least in my country, did not make any difference between his case and a 60 years old with hypertension. Everyone had to take their shot or be denied his right to go to a pub or restaurant.
Smalltalk came after Simula, which created the "poor imitation" you refer to. The reason you remember Kay instead of Simula is because Simula's ideas actually worked and so instantly got adopted by too many languages to care where it came from.
> Operating systems, browsers, etc are not distributed systems

This is a hilarious statement.

> Their deployment procedure has no availability or liveness requirement.

Only to be followed by this.
Discogs is the ULTIMATE way to discover new gems, from old times as recent stuff.
Discogs is more than a platform for buying records. It is the BIGGEST database for music. You have many search tools and you can easily find music by year, style, genre, label, artist, area, combine everything. You have the "Hot", "Most Wanted", "Recent" algorithms that allows you to adapt the kind of stuff you want in your result (If you need to check your classics, go for "Most Collected"). It's really powerfull.
It's not the best for listening music on it (lot of links for youtube videos are broken), but from Discogs you can then type the artist on Youtube, Bandcamp or Soundcloud.
You can make your own lists and check other peoples lists, going from one track and see familiar music by seeing numerous selections containing this song made by other users.
I've been a DJ since 10 years and I tried a lot of platforms and Discogs is the one I'm using the most.

An other way to discover music is to talk with people from your surroundings that you like the music taste and propose to exchange some music. Make some selections of tracks and send them files transfers, sometimes people will be kind and send you back some music they really enjoy.

And we can just simply start discovering new stuff from the songs we already have by checking the other projects of the artists, the labels that released the songs and have hours to spend exploring music that will really fit our tastes.
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You might want to ask the folks behind Flipper Zero how relying on PayPal worked out for them: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/flipper-zero-paypal/
Game consoles provide utility.
So, we have 30 years to wait until SARS-CoV-2 becomes like the flu?
> allows for scarcity

Sounds great...
I switched to 13 pro last year, and gave the 11 pro to my girlfriend.

There is a significant difference in cameras between the 11 and 13 - especially during the night photos. To the point where, in our case, I often need to tell my gf to use my camera for a shot when we’re together, because it will
be so much better.

If you take a lot of photos then for this reason alone it’s worth to upgrade imho.
Training exercise at Ft. Irwin: "At sunrise this morning a swarm of 40 quadcopters all equipped with cameras, MILES, and lethal munition capable launched in advance of 11th ACR’s attack on a prepared defense by 1AD."

Explanation: The U.S. Army's National Training Center at Ft. Irwin is a place where large unit training is done in very realistic full-scale war games. All weapons and targets are equipped with coded lasers and sensors (that's what MILES is) to track who hit whom. The training operation has just added 40 quadcopters armed with weapons to the mix. "11th ACR" is the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment (which means tanks, not horses), and "1AD" is the 1st Armored Division. Both are famous heavy US Army units.

What this means is that the U.S. Army is getting real serious about drone warfare.
This is not how SIDS works.

Children just stop breathing. Some newer research suggests this is a genetic issue.

Of course there is misdiagnosis for children that suffocate because of toys/blankets.
> “Proof-of-stake is like running an app on your MacBook,” he said. “It's like running Slack. It's like running Google Chrome or running Netflix. Obviously, your MacBook plugs into the wall and uses electricity to run. But no one thinks about the environmental impact of running Slack, right?”

People do think about that. But definitely an improvement!
What technical projects have no impenetrable to outsiders terms at first glance? Try to read information on React, Django, Tensorflow or whatever software project you like from the PoV of an outsider and tell me you won't find plenty of jargon, metaphors etc.