skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For about half of its lifetime at least, the vedas were meticulously passed down orally with a priest present at its ritual to catch for any errors in word or deed.

A teacher I had of Jewish descent said something similar about his tradition.

It was a lot more common to memorize texts and cultural highlights. In the even recent past most people could recite complete poems and stories by heart.
Cults (and cult-deprogramming) rely on socio-psychological hacks. So it's definitely related to hacking, though maybe not in the way most tech folks default to.
I also pay for JB tools. But that's because it's well beyond me or other open source developers to make a product that's competitive with it, and the competition is well behind (VS Code and Eclipse are good, but once you learn IntelliJ more advanced stuff, you feel like a programming God - something worth paying for ;) ). An IDE is insanely complex nowadays. I am not sure what Kite had in mind, but to me, what they were proposing would be "just" an IntelliJ Plugin. And I don't pay, and can't see myself paying, for any plugin.
Seems like those numbers are likely all within a margin of error. If you hover over the times in the table, it also gives you min and max values, which are often +/- 2ms or so.
I do have electrolytes. I have a case of coconut water bottles that I have frequently (usually after or during gym). But thanks, I didn’t know coffee affected me that way.
May be Vulkan can be the first priority since OpenGL can be provided by Zink when it's in good shape.
The Martian robots that came to life
I remember when I got the iPhone X I was so used to higher latency that it felt like the iPhone was typing before I was. It was a very strange sensation until I got used to how quick it was.
Yes.

I showed my 12 year old son Die Hard for the first time the other day.

He absolutely (...) loved it.

Unprompted, he talked about how good all the effects were - they didn't look like the bland CGI he is used to.

And he absolutely loved the movie. Zero political correctness. So incredibly liberating.

(A few scenes had me question the parenting choice of showing DH to a 12 year old, but it'd been at least a decade since I saw it last).
The credential management system at my college was called ISIS, so you had an ISIS identifier, you had to go through ISIS login, etc.
An organization made to help is https://amazonfrontlines.org , they do a lot work in this regard.
10/10. Funny or alarming?
There is a lot of overlap in symptoms with other conditions. OCD, Autism, MDD etc.
Knowing exactly what the underlying issue is gives you the best way forward in treating effectively.
Few of the newer vendors have evangelized the "capture everything, ignore costs" mantra leading people to places where angels fear to tread.
Agreed. JetBrains and GitHub Copilot are the two exceptions for me as an individual programmer.
That's fair. Did not think about that.
Sad to see, but happy they're open sourcing things.

I went ahead and filed an issue on kiteco-public[0] about their derived data because the readme states:

> By the way, we are happy to share any of our open-source-derived data. Our Github crawl is about 20 TB, but for the most part the intermediate and final pipeline outputs are pretty reasonably-sized. Although please let me know soon if you want anything because we will likely end up archiving all of this.

However, I have no idea if this is the right way to contact them

0: https://github.com/kiteco/kiteco-public/issues/5
We understand the difference between a proof-of-work/stake/waste blockchain and a merkel tree.

Do you?
What is this? Crowdsourcing design work via gamification?
Bob Iger was a tremendously successful CEO. CEO’s tend to have big time egos, and successful ones seem to not like the prospect of being outdone by their immediate successor. Perhaps it is similar to the phenomenon of presidential candidates picking lackluster VPs for their running mate?

If you really want to think in a Machiavellian way, perhaps Iger hand picked Chapek to act as a fall guy so that market pressure would hit the stock during his watch and not spoil his own tenure.

The most likely thing is that Chapek was simply seen as failing to maintain all the growth Iger managed to deliver and they want him back in order to try claw some of that stock price back.
Yup, that’s where I stopped. The fact that most correct is a dark pattern means there’s likely other bad lessons in this exercise and I’d rather just stay away.
Idk, I'd try something like "you know how the number one is a single 1 digit, and eleven is two 1 digits? If you have 49081 one digits, that number is really big! We don't even have a word for it, so we call it R49081. Some very smart people worked really hard and found out that number is prime!", after explaining what "prime" is (which I think would be a lot easier).
> It's like trying to sell magic tricks to magicians. Sell magic to regular people, and you'll see some significant revenue.

Just FYI, magic tricks are basically only sold to magicians. There's a thriving market of magic shops, especially online, where magicians go to buy new tricks (in the form of books/videos), new "gimmicks", etc.

I'd wager that a significant portion of all magic that is done is actually by magicians, for magicians, and partly in order to sell magic tricks.
In the exercise took part Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/06/baltops-22-mult...

Seafox is German produced and operated by United States, United Kingdom, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Japan.

Blowing up pipelines? Russia?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russian-tr...

Nord Stream 2 has damaged the West enough. Time to put an end to it. by Polish and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers:
https://www.politico.eu/article/nord-stream-2-pipeline-has-d...

So, your "basis" did not narrow down it too much for me.
> There’s so much in LA (and NYC) that gets released in theaters only locally, and the city is better for it.

There are arthouse movie theaters throughout that play the same movies that you think are only locally shown in LA/NYC. You just need the right context (near a university, for example).
>magnetometer or IR photodiode that I could use to build a low-bandwidth communication channel

Maybe I'm missing something, but why not go for something more straightforward like BTLE? There will be some hit to battery, but probably not that much, in exchange for a huge gain in convenience if you want to sync with your phone or whatever
If we're including git in 'blockchain' now then that changes the nature of the discussion. But we both know that systems like git are not what's being talked about here.

> Just use given technology for what it’s designed for, and stop being full of yourself.

The point is that there has been hype after hype after hype about "blockchain" revolutionising damn near everything for years and so far it has failed to deliver on this. It's not wrong to call the phenomenon out for what it is.
> But it's worth getting to the fundamental issue with the right half of this design space: dealing with user errors. By far the most important type of error is: what if a user forgets their password, loses their devices, gets hacked, or otherwise loses access to their account?

> Exchanges can solve this problem: first e-mail recovery, and if even that fails, more complicated forms of recovery through KYC. But to be able to solve such problems, the exchange needs to actually have control over the coins. In order to have the ability to recover user accounts' funds for good reasons, exchanges need to have power that could also be used to steal user accounts' funds for bad reasons. This is an unavoidable tradeoff.

> The ideal long-term solution is to rely on self-custody, in a future where users have easy access to technologies such as multisig and social recovery wallets to help deal with emergency situations.

Not to dismiss this out of hand, but isn’t that the central problem? Users want to use Coinbase for convenience as much as for any other reason.

Saying “we’ll make it easier to host your own coins” is a bit like saying “we’ll solve the #1 problem with mass crypto adoption”.
You can't change the wake word because a separate, dedicated chip is listening for it and is not connected to the rest of the device except to wake up the main processor.
Perhaps the law text was so vague that even passive radar system as this are on the radar?
There are no good Twitter clones because, despite all the memes about "I could build that in a weekend", reproducing Twitter would be a very significant undertaking. And even if you managed to make a good knock-off, there's no clear path to profit.
Next focus on quality instead of quantity. Less She-Hulk and more Loki. Maybe every single Star Wars character doesn’t need a six or ten episode backstory. Maybe Cars doesn’t need four sequels. The Lone Ranger has kept his mask on since 1933, the Mandalorian couldn’t do it five episodes.
From an Indian pov my take is the boundary markers use-case sounds pretty good. I don't expect an American flying around from EWR to Seattle to ever understand this intuitively without being exposed to the realities in this part of the world, but having thought about it for all of 20 seconds it sounds like a very good idea.

Yes - it is a solution to the problem of power and corruption. In India there is corruption at all levels of government. The wealthy and powerful could absolutely influence some levels and steal land. Even petty regional criminals are able to do it. It has happened to my own family - imagine the odds. 1 billion people here, and I read this article and even I can personally relate to the issue of stolen land.

A blockchain that stored GPS coordinates and could realistically withstand a 51% attack, would solve the problem in my view. Are there other architectures that can also solve this problem? No doubt. Is the blockchain solution perfect? No it isn't.
Automatic prompt to unlock remote encrypted partitions
oh god no please don’t put this idea out into the universe
Rent a car and drive, then drop off the car at your new location.

At the end of the day you have to sometimes make sacrifices for your choices. This is one of those times.
We're already 14 years in. Where is the evidence it can make anything better? Why hasn't the amazon thing happened in the last ten years of blockchain?
Which involves decentralization and a ledger.
I think the "incorrect" examples are too obviously wrong for this.

Unless only the "hard" section is the crowdsourcing part and the previous sections are a qualification exercise to determine a weight for your votes. Hmmm...
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that even small snippets of licensed code can be problematic. I don't know exactly what the cutoff is, but when I tried Copilot it often suggested to auto complete snippets of code that were long enough that if I was intentionally coping them from a licensed codebase, I would handle the license. I'm not talking about whole giant functions, but small functions or large chunks of a function.

It is true that more commonly it suggested at most a few lines of obvious code which could really only be written the way it suggested, but a number of people in the comments on this article mentioned using Copilot to come up with test cases, so I think people are actually using it to suggest larger snippets of code.
Besides open sourcing code, are there any datasets of interest, code generation related?
Yes! Exactly. You can find glimpses of the indie scene in many places, if you know where to look for it. But they’re not as pervasive/all-encompassing outside those two cities. Chicago/Austin have scenes, but they’re smaller; Georgia sort of does, too, but it’s more corporate/extensions of big Hollywood studios than an independent community.
All of your arguments are great, for why you need to treat observability as a core product feature and tie it to core product features.

Engineers need to be serving the orgs goals, and one of the best ways to do that is to give them incentive and tooling to be thinking about the same things the product owner is. Have them build metrics for business metrics. Those are the things you should be alerting on, and to the extent you alert on technical pieces it should be in the service of those business metrics; don't alert on latency because it's an arbitrary goal, alert on latency because you can see how it affects user experience.
As documented by Scott Codex[0], there is a medication that may address these issues, but you may have trouble getting it prescribed.

[0]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines
Plutocracy
> Sublime is too expensive. $99 is too much.

On the other hand I have 437 games in my Steam account and countless gadgets I don't use. I guess I can skip a couple of games and a gadget or two to pay for software I use.
For what purpose or enabler does permissionless benefit this use case you have in mind? Or in another way, what does requiring permissions block your use case?
Bought a Canon EOS-3 year ago and it's funny how it almost feels like DSLR but with film. The amount of electronics and what in can do is amazing. Well DSLRs are basically film SLRs but with a sensor instead of film + some R&D improvements throughout the years. Also DSLRs got the back display which is a lot more better than the configuring late-90s SLRs with some weird function button setups with super small display on top of the camera. If my memory serves me right the last pro camera, EOS-1V had some serial link cable and a desktop software to configure things properly and get the exposure data for the film rolls. Like exif data but before exif data :D
You never linked to it, so here is the video (your [1]): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5-rSxilxo

And I have to say, I'd never watched it before, and it is hilarious and awesome. Especially since I'm a big Larry David fan. So thanks for that!

It's definitely funnier seeing it with the last few weeks' context.
All I can think of is non-specialist labor like store chains rather than any whitecollar work. I know my best engineer has failed to get a summer job in one based on a personality test. Even then I don't think they select the management like that.
The issue is not that nobody can hold these systems in their head, they can - they're just not paid to.

Your average developer will be working in a new job, on a brand new tech stack, in 2 years. Is two years enough time to understand the intricacies of doing serious work with that set of tools?

The additional bit is that operating system kernels and hardware have gotten really, really, really good - so very much of the programming paradigm is to spend as little effort as possible to write the stupid thing, because most work is boring and stupid and doesn't get you a competitive edge, eventually the compiler, the operating system, or better hardware will fix it for you. However, if you spend a lot of time working through something and doing it right, the timeliness gets you put on performance review.
I think neither extreme is right. Tech debt can be a deliberate tradeoff decision. I also understand that in reality, unless managed, tech debt is rarely considered by non-tech people.
I've written about how to reason about technical debt: https://leadership.garden/tips-on-prioritizing-tech-debt/
Looks like it's been hugged to death...
This is good advice. There are many vaporizers on the market. Nobody has a reason to combust and smoke anything in 2022.
Still wrong. As was the one where half the guitar is cut off to “fill the space”. It’s like zooming in on a 4:3 tv show and cutting the top and bottom off.
Even that extremely minor step counts as “more work” for the clientele we’re talking about here.
Blockchain skeptics are all defending the tech of the current financial system, and implicitly arguing it can’t be improved. They are wrong. The tech underlying the current system is really bad. For example:

(1) How can I perform an atomic transaction across two stock exchanges?

(2) How can I take stock held on one exchange, and use it as collateral on an unaffiliated lending platform?

(3) How can I launch a new financial app, as a small startup, and open it to assets held on ETrade.

All of these are impossible in the current system. In contrast they are all trivial using Ethereum’s blockchain.

https://ortutay.substack.com/p/the-computer-science-case-for...
Reporting millions of videos is a good thing, but having millions is pretty crazy too.

And Bing doesn't host things.
> I’ve never been able to take the idea of smoking your “medicine” seriously.

Search for videos of multiple sclerosis patients using cannabis and you will understand.
As we've learned from the "They've stolen my apes" scenarios, the very nature of blockchain as the central authority of trust means that there is no such thing as theft on the blockchain.

Today, corrupt powerful people use violence and intimidation to go move physical markers to change landownership.

If land ownership was on the blockchain, the same corrupt powerful people will use violence and intimidation to force digital transfer of ownership.

The same threats to the safety and wellbeing of family members works equally well to induce the desired actions in the physical word or the digital one.

This is why Tim wrote to be wary of technical solutions for political problems.
Berty: Privacy-first messaging app
This is very similar to another article posted recently[0].

I both agree and disagree with what the author is saying. Like, they claim:

“The processors in our laptops are over 1,000 times faster than they were thirty years ago. So it’s natural to ask, as Joe Armstrong does, why our programs don’t run 1,000 times faster.”

I wrote this in the linked thread:

“It really does seem to be dependent on the type of work you’re doing. In 2000, I started writing plugins for Final Cut Pro. You could write “real time” plugins for it! That meant you were working in YCbCr 4:2:2 at 320x240 and 30 frames per second (so quarter-sized frame, with 2/3rds the data that an RGB frame would carry and half as often). 22 years later, I’m still writing such plugins, but on the top-end systems you get multiple streams of 8K uncompressed RGB video at 60fps and you can play back in real time.”

And I forgot to mention that that video is also processed in floating point (usually 16-bit half float). According to my calculations, that’s about 862x more data being processed in the 8k case.

But some of the other points I think are way off. They talk about piping data from one command to another. That’s not how typical users work, and I don’t think it’s how they want to work. I don’t want to pipe data from /dev/MIDI into one command that stores it, and pipe /dev/microphone into another command, and use a third command to mash them together and compress the result so I can listen to it on my phone. I want to use a DAW that records tracks (which are not textual data and would be very inefficient to represent as such) and sometimes I want to render the result to an audio file I can put on my phone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31798580
> Since we literally build all of this our B.S. detection meter is really high.

Oh no. The only thing that's high is our conviction that our BS meter is high. We fall prey to, come up with and promote as much BS as the next person.
Interesting. Illegal where? Mind elaborating on this?
But how will poor people own enough computation to ensure rich people can't mount a 51% attack?

If the database relies on trusted nodes run by eg, the government, why can't the government use MySQL and periodically publish a dump?
So I choose what I think is best and I’m wrong?

No. I’m right, you are wrong. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In most of them.

It's not difficult: You simply dictate requirements that can be only solved by one engineering solution.

But that, in essence, is part of the challenge with blockchain. People treat it as a self-describing requirement. ("This must be on the blockchain") rather than a technical solution for a dubious set of problems most people don't have.
What kind of FUD shilling is going on this thread?

All legitimate dispensaries are required by law to only sell products that have been accurately labeled with respect to their content.
I opened the site thinking it would be serious but got a popup for web3. So I closed it.
As someone currently trying to find a new, vibrant metro to live in, could you list some you like, and specifically why they are attractive?
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>A huge, almost incomprehensible, volume of venture capital was flowing into the sector, and that money was localized in the Finance sector, specifically in Manhattan.

I think the worst part about this whole thing is there are still millions if not billions of dollars being pumped into it. I literally just got a job interview request for a crypto exchange with hundreds of millions supposedly in the bank. It's absurd.
People do bring bikes on trains in Japan. The catch is that the bike must be in a bag. Many times, people use folding bicycles for journeys like this, because those bikes can be folded down into very small dimensions, no bigger than a small suitcase. For full-size bikes, those are allowed too, but must be in a bag and disassembled. People don't do this so often because it's a PITA (and is still cumbersome even when disassembled), but it is an option.
> “The processors in our laptops are over 1,000 times faster than they were thirty years ago. So it’s natural to ask, as Joe Armstrong does, why our programs don’t run 1,000 times faster..

If I had a choice to swap from the current paradigm of running the programs we have now at the speed we have now or running things 1000x faster but only being able to run programs that were programmed 30 years ago, I don't think I'd take that swap.
Related: Are there any standards, APIs, best practices for p2p peer discovery?

I found this https://github.com/status-im/bigbrother-specs/blob/master/da... (mentions Gossip and Kademlia) but it is several years old and doesn't contain much info on peer discovery.
Well maybe we should accept crypto isn’t for the masses. Maybe banks are good enough for that use-case (users who want convenience because they can’t be bothered to learn how to manage their own coins).

Maybe vitalik should focus on preserving decentralization instead. As far as I can see it the biggest flaw in cryptocurrencies — including Bitcoin - is when you look hard enough you realize the decentralization is a facade.