skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I played (few years ago) there seemed to be some controversy about the direction the project lead was taking the game. Something about realism over fun. Did that ever get resolved in some fashion?
> The creation of new ideas being restricted to only experts, those who "actually know stuff" shrinks the pool of creators of new knowledge.

Abstractly, I agree with what you've said here, but I don't think the part of Gerard's post that you quoted is making the point that you're countering.

Broadly speaking, a lot of discovery work comes from domain experts precisely because of the work it takes to become such an expert. My read on the phrase "actually knowing stuff" is that it refers not just to a solid understanding of the nuts-and-bolts of your field, but also a more general grasp of the field's history. This kind of contextual knowledge is extremely helpful when attempting new or experimental research because it gives you an idea of which areas of knowledge might contain some novel insight while also cluing you in to which approaches might help you arrive at that insight. I interpreted Gerard's critique of Buterin here not as one of insufficient academic clout, but of arrogance, a reification of great man theory [1] through a techno-libertarian lens that positions himself among a host of other so-called "great men" and frames every societal problem as solvable through whatever lens the Great Man might think is particularly interesting.

Gerard's critique of Buterin's approach to sharding (which goes into further detail here [2]) seems to back this interpretation up:

> Buterin blogs extensive essays full of great thoughts on how to reorganise the world, and how Ethereum will be the basis for this once they add amazing new functionalities that will only require solving P=NP.

> Remember that Buterin spent years working on a sharding plan for Ethereum that, had he done Intro to Theory of Computation, he might have realised was probably impossible.

Seems less like "Buterin is a fool for not Being An Academic" and more like "Buterin is arrogant enough to assume he can solve a really difficult problem without understanding why nobody's solved it yet."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
[2] https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/04/04/if-you-want-...
TLDR - PPP adjusted disposable income is much lower than the average of developed countries for people in lower income percentiles in the US and UK.

Anecdotally speaking, I have observed that it is a much harder existence to be poor in the US compared to Europe. I spent a few months in Germany when I was a student and a couple years in the US a student. It was much, much, harder to do even basic things in the US (like grocery shopping) without a car compared to Germany.

As someone on a visa myself, I asked a US citizen why there was such a stark inequality in living standards between rich v/s poor for the richest nation in the world, and was told it was a necessary condition for US prosperity. I didn't get it, but also didn't want to push it further because usually it ends up with "if you dont like it here, why are you still here ?"
A really, really, really long cable?
Please stop and ask yourself if you’re engaging in a harmful way, or if you could be more considerate about how other people experience police confrontations. My anxiety is through the roof from this interaction. I’m reliving physical and psychological trauma I don’t often revisit, including being bludgeoned while trying to get people to safety away from police and having guns drawn on me for asking about the safety of others.

I’m far from the most vulnerable to police abuse. If it’s affected me this much, I have no reason to doubt how much it’s affected people who are more vulnerable. If having my relatively mild experience so callously dismissed feels like being left on my own to suffer whatever trauma I remember, I can’t imagine how it feels for people who experience police violence alone.

No. I don’t give the police the benefit of the doubt. And you won’t convince me to by dismissing my relatively minor traumatic experience and expecting me to extend that dismissal to people who have much worse experiences.
Their PSUs are actually quite decent quality and are usually good value for the money. Not a big fan of their motherboards though (hardware is largely fine but the BIOS can be rather flaky).
I dunno — torturing a sentient being to to death for your own amusement is fucked up no matter how you slice it. A calf is about as smart as a cat, has an emotional life, and cares about its family. Eating meat is not necessary for survival; we do it for convenience or entertainment.

The primary difference between a cat and calf in Western culture is that we view one as a pet, and the other as protein on legs. If you subjected a dog to what a veal calf goes through you’d be hauled into a police station.
This issue isn't round-tripping integers through object pointers, but round-tripping object pointers through integers.[1] C only guarantees the latter to occur through intptr_t, if at all. And you can't use plain pointers to round-trip integers because they have no observable structure by which you could inspect them for these user space tagging tricks. So you're stuck with intptr_t.

Also, none of your points pertain to NaN boxing in particular. NaN boxing literally requires floating point types, and nothing in the standard permits floating point types to be used this way. NaN boxing fundamentally relies upon undefined behavior. All the modern hysteria regarding undefined behavior notwithstanding, however, clearly people can manage to implement workable solutions even in the face of what the standard makes undefined. But such de facto allowances are the first to be discarded as situations change, otherwise they would have been codified as part of a standard. As the article describes, most of what can be achieved from an optimization point with NaN boxing can be achieved by smuggling floats through pointers or integers, rather than vice-versa, but strictly speaking NaN boxing is especially problematic.

[1] The standard says "Any pointer type may be converted to an integer type. Except as previously specified, the result is implementation-defined. If the result cannot be represented in the integer type, the behavior is undefined." But in CHERI 1 bit of capability data (the most critical bit!) is stored outside addressable memory and by design cannot be represented as part of an integer, except intptr_t, which as I described requires special compiler treatment. Moreover, this special treatment might not be free, obviating the performance advantages of type punning tricks. I forget the details, but IIRC in some cases a call into the kernel is actually required to preserve C's existing conversion semantics. And intptr_t semantics in CHERI more generallly likely present barriers to other kinds of compiler optimizations, even ignoring the fact that our memory saving type punning hack doesn't actually save memory anymore on account of both pointers and intptr_t being double the width of every other type in the union.
Nothing wrong with having an opinion.
You saved a small infants life in the # of cumulative minutes you just saved us by not watching that video, thanks
I see a JSON error straight on HTTPS. Must be an API directly.

But HTTPS is 443, not 80.

The fact that Cloudflare was privy to all Ethereum ecosystem communication with flashbots gives me the heebie jeebies.
These are very wise words that I needed to hear today; thank you.
I do recall starting my comment with the explicit note that I'm nitpicking.

If, to you, "command line games" just means "something I can run while in a terminal" then cool, but that's not technically what that term means, and we're technical people here on HN. Especially those of us who use (any flavour of) the terminal day in day out.
My UPS, home network, home server, and some Raspberry Pis are all packed onto an Ikea Kallax, and if you look in the jumbled nest of Ethernet cables you may even see them.

I've looked into 10" racks before but came to the same conclusion - I'd either have to pay a bunch to get them in Canada, or put the work into tracking them down.

On the flip side, I did steal some K'nex from the kids so modem and router could stack with room to breathe, and I think that's pretty awesome.
Hoardiculture
Even with a low temperature difference, gas compressors still win.

I'm not aware of any point in the input/output temperature chart where peltier wins on efficiency.
Same here. I was already considering AMD. Only thing keeping me back was driver stability. Is it as good as NVIDIA’s?
Slash/Back (Movie)
There is a fair way: it’s the open market.
Here is a movie for anyone tired of it always being Americans who fight off the space aliens. Made by Inuits on location in Canada's far north, it takes inspiration from The Thing rather than Independence Day. It's not a great movie, but it's earnest and has great scenery, and hey, it's Inuits vs. Aliens!
Maniac is a great watch. Really hit some good dystopian/alternative future vibes.
As someone who works in insurance, I'm not clear about the implication of your comment.

This is a pretty quantitative industry.
Revenue does not matter on a private company profit is more meaningful. What’s the point of doing 10b in volume if you loose money on it and have no path to profit. It’s smarter to do 1B and make 2-300m profit
The most difficult part about software engineering and IRL engineering is the feeling of “everything’s broken always” and just constantly needing to fix or tweak things. I understand that’s the job description basically but nice to hear it articulated by someone else
Starbucks Singapore says customer data illegally accessed in data leak
The bank of course has much greater incentive to get their siting estimate right—but it’s hard for me to see how the bank-local REAS feedback loop would work in practice. There’s no ability to test a counterfactual, and local branch performance only becomes apparent years after the siting decision, and with many confounders.

In contrast if the professor’s paper a) actually gets noticed and b) the study conclusions are actually sensitive to the details of the distance estimation methodology, there’s a possibility (not guarantee) of someone writing a rebuttal in six months, which is embarrassing. B is important—spherical cows are frequently good enough!

Fundamentally, we shouldn’t be surprised that the methods appropriate for “decide where to spend $20M on a building” and “spend <$100k of researcher time to perform population-level analysis” should differ.
And that server was: Cloudflare:

https://relay.flashbots.net/
You have to pay before fighting it? That seems odd to me. The few tickets I received (Maryland and Mississippi) I had the option to pay or to go to court to fight it.
Same thing different name. I said ultrasonic because that's the wavelength you need for it to be compact

The basic way of working it is basically

* lowering the pressure of gas causes it to cool, increasing it causes it to heat

* creating standing wave in a gas in pipe means the low pressure part will be cold, high pressure part will be hot, and the difference will equal to basically pressure induced thermal difference

sooo a fancy speaker in the tube. Already stuff that can be bought, just didn't get to the level required for consumer stuff.

Supposedly they can be pretty efficient too. Would also be basically noiseless, as the ultrasonics are limited to the cooling tube and easier to dampen anyway.
Space guide. When you and your billionaire friends and family go up to Bezos space cock orbiting facility you’ll need a full concierge and guides to show you around all the interesting bits you can observe from your temporary phallic residence.
Yes, it's worth it, for multiple reasons.

There's already lots of good advice here. Here's a variant idea:

Take a two week vacation from employment very soon. Spend the first week doing nearly nothing aside from your version of recreation. Spend the second week thinking about whether your current pattern really brings you fulfillment, and along with that, make the plan for your mini-break (resignation plan, negotiate for unpaid time off, etc).
Is there another example besides the Veritasium one (considering they both say it's sponsored in the video and in the description)?

> This reminds me of the scandal where Youtube science channels did glowing paid reviews of Waymo’s self driving cars

You mention channel(s)
"Be vigilant out there, and be sure to use ad-blockers to block sponsored Google ads."

I often say that there are two different internets these days. The one with an abundance of adblockers seems somewhat safe and surfable. No adblockers and a few vulnerable searches, god forbidden on a small no-name search engine and you are going to have one hell of a ride!
I'm curious, did we ever have a situation before in history when a vaccine led to a "noticeably large" decrease in life expectation?
EU Cyber Resilience Act does not allow FLOSS to be 'commercial'
Tangential… Airtree historically has a pretty poor reputation amongst founders who have taken money off them and amongst angel investors. I don’t have first hand knowledge but at least half a dozen unique second or third hand data points => dodgy tactics even at early stage and can micromanage founders.
Why outside the south? Is there something special about the south so that the police take more or less bribes or something?
Welcome to HN, where you read a story like this at least once a month.

For this reason I ditched my google account years ago and switched to a paid mail provider that offers support and isn't operated entirely by robots.
I’m my limited experience, a reliable CRDT implementation necessitates a CDRT-first design baked into the core of any data / transaction model. Like I’ve heard some game developers say- multiplayer needs to come first because tacking it onto a single player game is a nightmare.

I need to revisit the space soon. Hopefully I’m wrong because I think CRDTs will play an important role in the next generation of applications. A smooth on-ramp for existing apps would do wonders for adoption.
Personally I've always enjoyed Vitalik's blog. It's definitely brought a new perspective on a lot of things and that's more than enough for me. If not technically impressive, or even "right", I take it these as what they are: personal ramblings.

Dude's not really trying to convince anyone, as far as I can tell, but more like sharing his thoughts. It's fine. I appreciate it.
y'all are right
Not getting bored with it.
I don't know what the rules are in UK these days, but in EU you can always deal with the seller (assuming they still exist). That would be guaranteed to be free for you. If they want to import replacement they can do that & deal with the customs.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... & https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
What competitive advantage do you get from having dairy farmers on staff?

Compared to the competitive advantage of having a software developer on staff?
You can protect downside by switching jobs. For many people on this thread there’s no mistake.
Excuse my lazy reading of the site but - is this web based, built on top of IndexedDB?
It's the kid. He released the worm
Thought that was a typo! But no: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ard
I'd be very interested!
It's ok to be happy.
FedEx's on-time delivery rate is the worst I have seen in 40 years.
The English word thing is derived from it! had no idea
Keep it unopened? Might be a collectable.
Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?
What were they a professor of? I don't see a paradox of choice here; none of those Colgate products, or anything else sitting on the shelf that's ADA accepted, is going to rot your teeth.

It is, however, a classic result of oligopoly. Oligopolists compete among themselves--and, more importantly, prevent entry from newcomers--by hyper differentiating their products. The "artificial" product differentiation also makes comparison-shopping harder and softens price competition between the oligopolists. It's a really fascinating, kind of counter-intuitive, but well known dynamic.

E.g., Crest offers a slightly differentiated product--"gleaming white plus plus" or whatever--and Colgate responds with "extra pearly white super plus."

Or a newcomer tries to sell "natural something," so the oligopolists introduce "natural stuff" and "pure friendly paste" to prevent customers that like the sound of "natural" from defecting to the newcomer.

Hotels are the classic case. Hilton and Marriott have tons of brands. Take extended stays for example. Marriott has three extended-stay hotel brands. No one thinks extended-stay hotel customers started a letter-writing campaign to Marriot saying, "I really want an extended-stay hotel that's just like Residence Inn, but with a different color combination. That's where you should invest your money. I don't need nicer furniture or lower prices, thank you. Just give me the new color scheme, thanks."

The dynamic is a counterintuitive feature of oligopolies, but it's very well known. But academia is hyper-specialized, so, yeah, everyone sees their own pet theory in everything.
China Seeks Bids to Build Nine CSP Plants
that's so moosh of you
For the uneducated like me: what is a "reactive data store"?
Understand and disagree, nothing I say will likely change your mind. If it matters, had multiple similar exchanges in past with people who happened to get lucky, have their systems used by 10s of millions people and my objections still hold true.

Being recorded 24/7 is not healthy and in my opinion a net negative for any meaningful future; yes, it has the potential for good, but way more potential for abuse. Please stop spending time on the idea.
Yea, that's the messed up bit. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, this puts a huge dent in your cash flow. I'm convinced this is intentional.
Sort of like sheep? Except what about the context "get out of here, you little shits"?

Edit: a_mechanic got here first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32872443
has this power ever brought down a company? Has it made bosses responsible for worker injuries at work? Has it given maternity leave?

if not, its not really power
"It's not the fall that kills you, it's the landing"
Pretty sure if I wasn’t gaming these few hours per week, my carbon footprint would be much higher. E.g. 2kWh is only 8 miles on an efficient EV and probably less than 4 miles on ICE. We have to measure avoidable costs in this case, not essential.
Reputation?

Folks will stop sending them their TX if they never come out in blocks, but competing copy TX with someone else's address systematically do. So that they do their job is, to a degree, verifiable.

It's a small community who all know each other, so antisocial behaviour can be punished using traditional village politics technology.
In fact it really is not likely flawed. The only way you ever get proportionate presence in anything is if there’s a finger on the scale.
I just want someone to remake Solar Realms Elite/Barron Realms Elite...
SolarPACES Conference Sept 27-30 Plenary Highlights
You never met my ex-boss
pretty much, yes. And that it's not just Buterin, it's a type, and he learned this error from this type.
Ask HN: How Google recaptcha v3 works?
The recaptcha v3's documentation doesn't reveal much about how it works.

I'm just curious about the recaptcha v3's tracking and analytics flow.

Does the tracking and analytics being processed in the client side, or are those tracking data passed to the google servers and being processed there?
If those tracking data are passed to their servers, what kind of data is that?
ASCII sector looks supreme but link is broken. Anyone got link?
Typically comes from the buyback pool, and buybacks are preferred to dividends for a variety of reasons, so in practice what you’re saying doesn’t apply.
"all of a sudden" is definitely a standard idiom. In fact:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22all%20o...
It's just the way I prefer to learn stuff. Learning for learning sake without making anything out of it isn't for me, I learn best when getting knowledge in process of making something.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/08/biden-didnt-accept-putins-re...
Ray Kurzweil was always taken as a bit of a loon and over-optimistic. Even way back at the peak of his popularity a decade ago. Just look at any of the old HN threads, anyone paying attention would have noticed.

He's still a useful mind to have around. Like having scifi authors and philosophers. They don't have to be completely grounded in reality to provide useful projections as sources of inspiration and to challenge our grasp of history and growth.
Zero gravity personal trainers. They get you physically ready for the flight. Help you to stay in shape in space. Then retrain you for 1G of force back on earth.
Oh, no, generally buybacks are timed strategically.
I claim "jawn" is very little known here on the West Coast (Seattle representing) but I am delighted to learn about actin jo
whats your top 5 interesting things aside from crypto?
This is an AP story reprinted by insurance journal, see https://apnews.com/article/technology-iran-violence-new-jers...
In case anybody out there missed the most faithful reproduction of Australian culture to be captured on film:

https://youtu.be/dik_wnOE4dk
This is it, isn't it. Leave your hotel tidy. Trash in the bin, crumbs in the bin, stuff more or less where you found it so its easily made to look nice. Leave your used towels in a pile. Makes house cleaning easy and costs you basically no time or effort, and that keeps everyone's prices down.
Productivity is generally lower.
> How does that work?

Not at all complicated.

1. They have no debt based on the video

2. They own their HQ so no long term rental contracts. They would need to sell the building.

3. California's Labor Code contains a presumption that employees are employed at will. This means that either the employer or the employee may terminate employment at any time, with or without cause or prior notice.

4. They file and pay any outstanding taxes.

5. Since EVGA is a Stock Company they need to hold an election to dissolve then file two forms with the California SoS and you are done. The required forms each are one page long, takes a few minutes to file them online but here's the paper version: https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/corp/pdf/dissolutions/corp_stkdis...
The belief that an airtight definition is required in order for a concept to be meaningful is just philosophically confused. That isn't how concepts work. Conceptual boundaries are always fuzzy, with confusing edge cases and ambiguities, and that's ok.

I'd challenge people who think definitions are necessary to grapple with coming up with a definition of a chair, in the form of a list of necessary and sufficient conditions. Make sure you don't exclude anything commonly thought of as a chair, or include anything not commonly thought of as a chair. For an extra challenge, come up with a definition most people would agree on. This endeavour will be a struggle.

And yet we manage to discuss chairs without difficulty. We have a generally understood concept of what we mean by a chair, with central examples like dining chairs or lounge chairs commonly held to be chairs. In the case of ambiguities of communication, we can clarify on a case by case basis ("Did you want me to take the ottomans to the other room too?")
This is like asking people if they've properly guarded against a malicious AI before making hobbyist computers.

> Will the output of your product prevent the cells from procreating/multiplying?

Why would this matter? We have immortal cell lines like hela cells that have been alive for decades.

> Will the output of your product prevent pathogen creation?

No, but no one is going to "accidentally" create a new pathogen (you'd need this as well as some expensive labware and a lot of expertise), and the people with the incentive can already do so in labs.

> Will the output of your product require a specific, unnatural energy source that can only be man made?

What lol