skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are talking about the IT-people, right?
How much do they handle media questions, PR related to global IT security events?
All benefits of cryptocurrencies goes out the window when you introduce centralized exchanges. "trustless" is referring to the protocols, not the ecosystems.
That chocolate, potatoes, avocado, corn and tomato are things. Along with the entirety of the America's.
A double spend attack is a type of fraud for sure, but obviously one of the remedies for a double spend attack is to fork the main chain and change the consensus to nerf the attack.

Ultimately layer 0 of a blockchain is the community that uses it, and if they decide to fork en masse, they will do so. It's an essential property of the system itself. Blockchains would not be antifragile if they could not fork.
> you can't think of a single example that is actually trust worthy

In addition to USDC, USDH, and DAI, we've also got GUSD, RAI, LUSD, and USDP in terms of trustworthy stablecoins.

All of them are audited in reputable ways, either by large accounting firms or directly on-chain by cryptography:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381864
What I find remarkable is that both the word "culture" (as in the culture you were born in) and "cult" have the same stem.

When you think about it, the entire article can out of the box apply to both.
Most defense stocks are up YTD.
decidedly negative sum as a lot of energy has been wasted to redistribute wealth
I wonder if a better approach is to build and train the ML model to recognize the AST of the code in question rather than text. The workflow would be Build AST -> run ML to get an optimised solution render new code out from that optimised AST.

A lot of work I think and as is pointed out here devs wants their tooling for free.
Some folding bikes fit between the backs of seats. It's pretty great.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fe7LjTABOkA/UlebTVDjtTI/AAAAAAAAc...

If you can't view the image, visualize a train compartment with rows of seats with a shared table in between them. If there isn't a table, then the back of the seats are facing each other, and it's a perfect spot to fit a folding bike.

Unfortunately, the bike has to be engineered for it. The more expensive Brompton fits, but my cheap one doesn't.
The idea is that the exchange publishes a sum of their liabilities, and each individual user can check that their balance was uniquely included in the sum, cryptographically.
Even basic intellij suggestions can save you from most instances of NPEs, but you have the option for complete third-party static analysis (with either default to nullable, or default to non-nullable, and then adding @NonNullable or @Nullable annotation, respectively ). These are not standard annotations, but all third party analyzers do in fact understand each other, and they have the stdlib annotated. Oh and debugging story became much better, you get exact property-access instead of only a line number, but that is a JVM-change not java.

If you do some long, chained property accesses (which imo are the primary sources of NPEs) I can only recommend mapstruct. You basically declaratively write what has to be mapped to what and it will generate at compile-time the necessary, performant Java code with proper null-handling, even n level deep.

So my empirical evidence is that NPEs ”million dollar” fallen victim of inflation :D
The difficult part of learning to drive a car in the UK is mastering clutch control and changing gears whilst doing proper observations.

I don't think that we can simulate the mechanical feel of a manual car without spending so much money that you'd be better off just driving around a playground.
I don't think it solves that at all, but, as I understand it, that's not been the problem _so far_. If someone has lent an exchange assets against its users' assets then it's not at all clear that they have the superior claim to those assets if the exchange goes bankrupt can't repay those liabilities.
Sure my point is there should be a toggle in the app that goes - are you interested in dating bisexual men? If you’re not, I shouldn’t see you and they shouldn’t see me, since it’s wasting both our times.
I’m referring to the forum name.
What do you think porting a driver to a completely new GPU means? Doing so will require new kernel space and user space code. The existence of these new components doesn't mean there is a completely new graphics driver. Only parts of it that are platform specific are new.

The graphics driver of a system spans from a talking to the hardware to exposing a graphics API such as OpenGL or Vulkan for applications to use. Splitting up the graphics driver into separate components and calling each component a driver is different from what I mean when I am referring to a driver.
Same here for my Casio Protrek PRW-7000, whose clean, rugged and stylish look I think is hard to improve on:

https://www.amazon.com/CASIO-PROTREK-PRW-7000FC-1JF-MENS-JAP...
This looks like "Here's a crypto problem, more crypto will solve this!"
An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
That actual democracy can work?
Just use "basis points".

https://abstrusegoose.com/389
I guess Haskell is not an FP language then.
Only in an extremely limited sense. You have to trust the developers, for one.

Also it's only trustworthy as far as everything happens on the blockchain. Once you step off it for even a second, it doesn't help. Eg, witness the absolutely amazing number of scams happening in the area, and the number of well known, and supposedly trustworthy services suddenly crashing and burning.
There is also microblog.pub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145095) which is much simpler and can interact with Mastodon.
I dislike that this elevates, canonizes, design decisions out of context.

However, this is how we train machine learning systems. I enjoy this as a social or artistic commentary in that way. How would you like to be trained this way, or what do you learn from being trained this way.

It implies, all knowledge is a convention we adopt and the ability to match or reproduce it.

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I can do what the task asks, almost entirely, score TDB, but it reminds me of surveys with rigged questions. It's technically correct, technically a majority of people answered questions in a predictable way, and "predictable" will be argued "correct".

Searching for fallacy leading questions in surveys, I found
https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/fallacy-surveys-and-stu...
examining misleading net neutrality surveys cited in Congress, a mix of topics able to draw discussion.
> Good hardware is masking really bad software.

If you did not know, the new Pokémon games on Nintendo switch run abysmal - low resolution, even lower frame rate, pop-in, aliasing, etc.

Some people claim the "aging hardware" of the Nintendo Switch is to blame because the games looks just fine on overclocked systems and emulators.

Meanwhile older, probably better coded games like Breath of the Wild run without problem on the so called "aging hardware".
A lot of people here seem to be offended by this essay because of the literal definition of the term "cult" and start looking for potential cults they may be part of. I think they are mistaken.

To me, this essay clearly speaks about the maladaptive conditioning we receive from our families and society in general during childhood and adolescence which causes us to suppress our feelings and authentic selves and treat the pain of it with medication, distraction, and OCD behaviors instead of healthy emotional release.

But I might just be projecting.
The new thing with blockchain tech is that we can now enforce invariants on state transitions in a decentralized manner. Paired with non-interactive zero-knowledge cryptography, we can also enforce those invariants while keeping the confidentiality of transactions.

The tech is rapidly improving and it’s pretty easy to see where things are going from here: soon we’ll have general purpose decentralized databases where data is open as open source code is open. In fact, state-of-the-art smart chains can be viewed as special (financial) purpose decentralized databases.

As to why decentralized databases are desirable: imagine if you could fork databases like you can fork code in a completely permission-less manner. This is how web development would look like:

You, the programmer, take a look at a public data schema (eg. a smart contract that implements the ERC-721 interface) and decide to build on top of it. Then, a user, who has already interacted with what you built on, decides that they like what you built and lets your app use their data. You, the programmer, can be sure that the data you built on remains available, and the user can be sure that they'll be able to port the data produced by your app into new apps.
It's tremolo, vibrato would be oscillating pitch. Real woodwinds can do both. And yes, Fender got them the wrong way.
Humans have been solving the problems of existing technology with more technology for quite a while now. This comment is like criticizing database indexes as a mere technical band-aid over the fundamental problem of having too much data.
Or use popular Wordpress plugins that don’t have captchas or rate limiting
Pretty much any bittorrent library implements peer discovery through DHT (global database of who is interested in what hash), PEX (Peer exchange, ie if you and a peer are interested in the same content you can both exchanges other peers each side is connected to)
So let's say there are some issues that are not anyone else's business (and so not government's business). Fine.

But who gets to decide which ones? Who gets the final word?

I think that the question of which questions are the public's business, is itself necessarily the public's business. Which minority concerns are rights which should not be infringed on by the majority, must still be decided by majority.

There's no way around it. Constitutions don't interpret themselves or enforce themselves, much less write themselves, so they don't get you out of this pickle. At "best" they let you abdicate your responsibility for deciding that question.

As I recall, many of those abuses of minorities you list, were protected by such abdication, in that people would rather abide by the US's antimajoritarian process rules than use their majority to immediately fix the abuses.
> Dear Reader: I think that at some point, in a civilization, there has to be trust. I think that’s maybe the main reason we have civilizations. Call me crazy.

Dead on
”Lung cancer is not specific to smoking at all”
Jesus some of this "correct" examples are borderline unusable for people with colorblindness. I feel like I'm being a test monkey or a neural network that's being trained to use design guidelines that some X company chose, and most of the times their guidelines have nothing to do with generally good practices
Can chime in on your first comment: back in 2014, I tried cocaine for the first and only time in my life, while at a fancy bar. While the rest of the people went pink faced and got "high" from it for the rest of the night, I got extremely sober and calm from it (and it burnt my nose). I didn't know at the time I had ADHD or even what the disorder was all about. Diagnosed last year at age 32: so much of the last 20 years of my life makes sense now, all the little coping mechanisms, impulsive behaviours, my relationship with caffeine and so on. It's like seeing yourself for the first time.

I cannot imagine what any of the ADHD meds feel like for normal people, and I suspect a good chunk people don't have the same experience from caffeine. For some, it probably makes them sharper & more awake and so on, but for others it would calm them down and centre the brain and make you feel "normal" for a bit.
What? I just checked news last week and there was a small thing about an exchange called FTX that seemed to have exactly this problem.
The one saving grace of the Berty app is that is has an iOS versio, unlike Briar which only works on Android.
I think this is something else because reality tends to be the exact opposite. Instead it's small groups of well organized radicals using their organization to impact everybody else disproportionately. To stick with safe examples, look at the KKK. A quick search indicates they hit their peak popularity in the 1920s with some 4 million claimed members, which would be ~3% of society. But of course they had an outsized impact on America. So you end up with a scenario where 3% of people were dominating the zeitgeist of 97% through intimidation.

And there's no particularly clear way to combat this. The internet has only made this worse. Now ever smaller groups can coordinate extremely effectively and instantaneously, while also simultaneously working to create the perception of far greater numbers than actually possessed.
It's not necessarily about covering all liabilities of an enterprise nor all its assets. It's about building a proof that you hold your customer assets and you are not running a fractional reserve. You may still run an unprofitable business and perhaps at some point you go bankrupt. But at least all the customer assets are there and segregated from the business assets and you cannot use them as the piggy bank for your business.
Ok nice circles
there! Rest of the owl is explaining prime factorization or indeed even just multiplication.
Very thoughtful. Thank you.

>there is certainly no cross-over with voice assistants, where did you even think of that?

Disney Land is a beautiful environment where the technical details are hidden. That's what they can replicate with assistants outside their parks.

>Home assistants don't actually assist you in the home

That's the point. Unlike Amazon, who hasn't managed to integrate their home automation with Alexa (see comments in [1]), Disney could approach assistants more holistically like they approach their parks and create a blissful experience of their clients' lives.

Voice assistants are voice assistants because the system doesn't know position, movement and other signals yet. People trust Disney so they can collect all data to react to movements or whatever else is possible.

Additionally, they are skilled in stories, in decision-making. Right now, assistants are servants who fulfill commands. A good assistant supports beyond that. The system has to know what people care about, what moves them, to turn their complex life into a linear, beautiful story.

*edit: If Disney does know everybody's location, they can use their movies for the ultimate gamification of work: You can only watch the next episode of your favorite series if you complete your milestone at work.
You might discuss an SSRI with your docs if you don't already take one. They can help with the depression, and seem to promote neurogenesis which can help the re-wiring process. Of course they can have side effects.

I've been curious about neurofeedback too. You mean the ones that record physiological responses right? Theres also brain stimulation devices which seem intriguing https://www.healio.com/news/psychiatry/20190422/fda-permits-...
When robotic long-haul vehicles become reality, why wouldn't this be a viable biz model ? Every couple of months you contract a carrier to take your container home elsewhere. Connect a few connectors and Hey, presto! Same digs, new view.
It happens
> computers the average schmo could afford never did.

No they really did.

Personal computers from the 80s will still boot (instantly) and
perform perfectly today. I put modest servers together in the late 90s
and they were still chugging away a decade into the next
century. Uptimes of 3, 4 even 5 years were not unusual.

We live in a disposable culture now. I think many of the people
disputing that simply haven't lived long enough to experience high
quality engineering.
Correct. Diablo Immortal was not even launched here because of this.
> But I might just be projecting.

I might be too, but this was my takeaway as well, though I stopped short of the link to medication and distraction. Family and society were enough to consider ;)
However, the linked article is about solving these problems with algorithms. The 'DeFi' systems you mention are not in control of vast sums of money, like the exchanges are. People want to use the exchanges and solving the problem by telling people to do other things isn't effective.

The retort to 'these crypto problems could be solved with regulations' is that traditional finance has these problems already and is regulated. This is a problem with society and not with technology, and trying to apply technological solutions to problems that have existed and will exist as long as people exist, seems to be arrogant and ineffective.

By trying to 'solve' these issues with technology, we appear to be opening new avenues up for gaming the system because there is no technology that emerges completely solved. Since we have been iteratively working on financial systems for a lot longer, it may be practical to work to progress that way instead of wiping everything and starting from scratch, where we are reinventing the wheel and getting all of the tragic consequences along with that.
Pure freedom is what we came from and what we don't want to go back to.
Legal tweaking?
I don’t get the hate for gradle. Sure, one can make some monstrosities with it, but the common case is pretty much just listing your deps, not different to, say cargo.

Yet, when you inevitably have to add something more complex, it will let you do it. Gradle is perhaps one of the most misunderstood technologies, many people believe it is some imperative ant-script, when in fact you have the script write a declarative plan for you, which will be later executed “purely” (much more so than maven for example)
It's very hard to quit Internet 100%. Way harder than alcohol. Most of the people try to limit. When you limit, I guess most of the people would still come to HN, for interesting world news and industry news as you mentioned.

When you limit, articles like this pique your interests (my thinking: "New smoking? I would say it's internet/smartphone addiction, I wonder if I'm right"). So I believe it's not unusual that you find a lot of quitters/limiters in threads like this. Is it still addiction?

Also it's very hard to talk about experiences of quitting Internet. 99% of my friends don't want to quit, don't see anything wrong with Internet. I am alone and can talk about that only through Internet. Ironic I know, but what gives? Internet is not 100% toxic like alcohol, limiting totally would be not only very hard but also probably too strict.
Not as bad as in Lebanon where state power infrastructure totally collapsed, and you now you buy your power from entrepreneurs in the neighborhood who have portable petrol/diesel generators.

I work from home so invested in two 1000KW inverters with 100AH AGM batteries for powering my fibre and servers (it has battery banks at the POP) and looking at replacing them with LifePO batteries when the AGM ones die.

Some companies are selling a rent a solar conversion for your home - you just make do.
Unfortunately this does not prove in any way that the exchange has included all liabilities in the sum, it only proves your deposit is included. A very, very different thing.
Premise: proving that you are solvent using cryptographic means

Answer: let's re-invent accounting.

Look the problem is this, as an "exchange", to be profitable you either need to charge fees, or do some sort of fractional reserve, using deposited value as capital for your Exchange's investments.

If you go for option one, then you will be undercut by someone doing option two. The tradeoff being, number two is more likely to loose all your customer's cash.

The value of something is more often than not irrational. This means that there is subjectivity in the value of assets. You can't technology your way out of that. This means that its perfectly possible to prove that you have liquid assets that will cover your present position. However thats expensive to maintain. So you start buying longer term more illiquid assets (think property, commodities, companies, etc) some of these are liquid in a day, others months.

Worse still the value of them depends on how and when you sell them.

So sure you can have assets that cover all your liabilities one day, then due to a re-valuation, not have enough.

Thats not the same as solvent though.

But, all of this neatly misses the point of crypto. If its a practical payment system, rather than an investment, you wouldn't hold your crypto at an exchange. You hold it your self and move it when you need to convert/liquidate.
Im confused by the difference between berty and briar. Is it all about this new IPFS-thingy?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Read it, great book
The Norwegian startup "Way" does this [1]. They have built an in-house simulation stack where you sit in a real car that you drive inside a simulation which is projected around you, while different metrics are extracted while you learn in different scenarios. They offer a complete driving education track where they use the simulator as much as possible.

[1]: https://way.no/
Number of tokens in the individual holdings - power to crash the market immediately or clog the transactions for months starting a DOS attack on the network.

Number of mining pools - power to hard fork the network, or to attack the network (51% attack is a very real possibility, the only reason it doesn't happen is the lack of general adoption - there are too few places to actually double spend tokens).

Number of people making decisions - power to hard fork at will, change protocol properties etc.

And before you say "but but the banks are also bad!", sure they are often crooks, but proposing to replace them with even worse system, and even less accountable people is weird.
Resharper is really great for VS, and I would probably be willing to pay for it if the performance were a bit better. Some of this is probably VS' fault. I'm excited to try CLion again once my project supports it, but from what I remember the debugging experience is not so good.
That's only two of them. Previous to Iger, Eisner was a Michael. Two doesn't make a trend.
So cult == community?

As a bit of a libertarian, this struck me as anti-Statist (i.e. modern secular states are basically cults)
I agree - Scrimba is terrific.

My only complaint with their system is there is no way for the course to work offline.
Leap Seconds: When the cure is worse than the disease
The challenge is that when you're building software for developers, they already know how it must work.

Do you mean that what you built didn't worked as it should? I don't understand, I've paid multiple times for tools that I find useful, even if they weren't perfect.

This misconception has been promoted by companies with an interest in promoting their platforms, using the expeditive procedure of subsidizing (often inferior) tools, with the collateral effect of making impossible for tools vendors to compete.

But by no means it's a law of physics. Make something programmers want. It's weird how little have the tools improved in twenty years.
Progressive Web Apps are exactly what you're asking for, no?
You have obviously never tasted a fresh, Japanese grown Fuji apple. They are perfectly crunchy, and some of them are so sweet that the core is clear. Once you have tasted one, there is no comparison (not even your favored Honey Crisp).
Isn't that their point? The only reason it worked on a cruise ship connected to the WiFi was because local devices could talk to eachother and were not isolated.
Apple watches are great if you are already in apple ecosystem. But their battery life are disappointing, just like wearOS watches.
It seems that Apple / Android watch OSes are just bad for such tiny devices. What Xiaomi (Amazfit), Garmin and others are doing with battery optimization is way better.
Zepp OS is providing a great SDK documentation, but I went for a Garmin watch thanks to the wide range of apps and widgets already available.