skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bitcoin is simple. The rules are simple.

Compared to the likes of Ethereum, Bitcoin is super simple.
Compared to others, it's still somewhat complicated.

While the use of PoW for consensus is super simple (most cumulative difficulty wins), Bitcoin script is a huge source of complexity in itself, with tons of warts. As it turns out, you don't need script to do payments, multi-signatures, atomic swaps, discreet log contracts, bidirectional payment channels etc., i.e. nearly all of the functionality that script is used for.
All those can be done with so-called script-less scripts [1], which is mostly creative use of Schnorr signatures.

Bitcoin's emission is not that simple either with the reward halvings every 4 years. A fixed block subsidy (i.e. pure linear emission) is not only simpler, but arguably fairer too, avoiding a concentration of wealth on early miners/adopters, and leaving later generations more than mere crumbs.

[1] https://suredbits.com/schnorr-applications-scriptless-script...
Thank you, I've been piping to cat -n for line numbering. This is really flexible!

... and that is how I came to appreciate curl.
They can just load the real payload as a second stage.
Baianat ip is an extension of SMAS Company, as it included all the founding expertise of SMAS to be a clear development of the company under the leadership of Prof. Dr Saud Al-Shawaf, Mr Nawaf Al-Mutairi and Sheikh Ayyad Al-Otaibi.
I remembered his name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Smith_%28poet%29

I think I actually met him, before he was famous.
I didn't downvote you, but as I see it human stereoscopic vision is kind of irrelevant.

If you close one eye, do you really feel like your ability to determine depth is significantly impacted?

And even then, the stereo effect is basically negligible at the distances relevant for driving.

A human missing one eye would have no trouble driving, except maybe for the reduced field of view.
Kantorovich's applied maths was very applicable indeed. During the siege of Leningrad, he was calculating things like optimal baskets and convoy distances to maximise utility of the only route not Nazi-held.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_of_Life#Construction_and_...
Good guess. While London was 87% white British in 1971, that is now down to 37% (54% if counting all whites, not just Britons):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London#Ethnicity...
No it's not. That a different product. FSD is still what they call the "full autonomous" mode. Enhanced Autopilot is just the highway auto lane change and some other minor gimmicks.
OK, why don't you and cactus2093 tell us a joke YOU think is funny?
It's almost as if someone invented an amazing new technology that really works, then some VC came along, bought it out, (er, I mean invested!) ran the original inventors out of town and bolted on some unasked-for snake oil. Now, you can still buy the still-awesome product (mostly made in America too) but you have to take all the VC crap along with it. Welcome to America!
Even still - they could access deleted content from this breach.

I’ve always said I don’t have social media, I get enough of what I want without logging in, and anything online is a fake/scam account not to be trusted. Sure. It’s got a user icon with my face in it. That’s easy.

The more deepfakes become … deeper? more faker? … the easier it will be to say “it wasn’t me.”
This is excellent work.

It also shows how Tiktok may be in violation of several US/EU privacy laws. I really wonder now who this data is shared with. Perhaps someone should bring this article to the FTC’s attention for further review.
Because labor is half of supply, in this case.
Genuinely curious - what is your explanation for why the recusal happened?

Your arguments paint it as clearly unusual or invalid but not knowing you or the details of the case, what is your case for believing you rather than the facts of the case, that a professional judge made this decision? Could you lay out an alternative explanation for why this happened?

i.e. you're making strong claims that this is obviously wrong, yet not explaining why it happened. Barring detailed knowledge, tie usually goes to reality rather than the HN commenter.
I wish it were possible grow a hive of native bees the way that we grow honeybees. I've put in local pollinating plants, set up bee hotels etc, but this only seem to attract commercial honeybees and not the natives.
Nobusuke Kishi
Insomnia 2.0 Avicii Remix https://youtu.be/h198WJrquXQ

This track was how I came to know of Maxi and now they're both gone.
> So few days of good weather [in Texas].

That's why I tell disbelieving Californians that we have better weather in Texas than they do: When we have nice days, we appreciate it, whereas when they do, they don't even notice .... :-)

(Source: Spent several years in California long ago.)
Haven’t you seen the Matrix?
My version from 2016 that lets you choose the color space and whether to cycle colors over a minute, hour, or day:

http://lumma.org/code/js/colortime/

85 lines of legible source right on the page.
If your spanish is decent, just go to any country in south america and find a farmer/owner. Farms aplenty out of every major metro about 1-2 hours from the metro, in every direction. A quick google will help you find the regions in every country where coffee is grown, or maybe even google maps.

They will gladly talk to you for hours and show you the ropes. If they like you they will give you carte blanche to come in to the property unannounced and speak to their employees, anytime.

Because in the end, its possible you buy their plants or seeds, and many farmers make money from that too.
Most of it is actually less boring than the saying seems to imply if you choose to actually look at the problem in a complete full stack manner.

The issue is that much of it needs a craftsman not a scientist or engineer. Virtually all of the value I have added to software in my career has involved doing the equivalent of a "This old house" renovation and bringing things up to code.

I go in and untangle years of small hacks so that the data path is clear and special cases happen in the same place. I get things onto boring technology rather than bleeding edge or high availability stuff. Most mid-size companies, even serving the enterprise don't need "scalability" in the sense that Google does or a startup hopes for.
Chaos CEO by Overwhelm
Apple’s stock apps on macOS (it’s pretty good, fast, stable, has almost all the features I need) and iOS (sucks but I haven’t found anything better), Thunderbird on Windows and GNU/Linux (sucks badly in terms of performance, but everything else is much worse in some regard).

Rainloop for the web, but I almost never use it - it’s a backup option for me, I’m mostly hosting it for friends and family.
It doesn't seem to be that hard, but keep in mind that staking requires you to be actively validating. There are major penalties for screwing up (attacking the network), and minor penalties even for going offline. You still need hardware, network, and electricity to run the validator.
Sure, I've known real, diagnosed situations like this, but I'm talking about the self diagnosis types and they behave differently.
It's a little more complicated than that.

For one, Visa just does funds transfers. If Ethereum just transferred ETH, it could do 700 tx/sec, based on the gas limit per block divided by the 20K gas for a simple ETH transfer. A lot of Ethereum transactions are more complex and use more gas.

Second, second-layer "rollups" already support transaction rates up to a couple thousand per second, without losing base-layer security guarantees. Essentially they compress the transactions on chain. (Actual traffic is much lower than that, so far.)

The longer-term plan is to move to rollups in a big way, and add a form of data sharding to multiply the on-chain data storage. That's where the 100K/sec comes from.
Call me cynical, but every time I see interesting threads like these - I can't help but to think that somewhere, a hiring manager is thinking to himself "Nice, I'll add these to the technical (interview) questions"
I’m talking about historically under conditions of high CO2
Indeed. Why do Tesla go for ML to poorly solve problems long solved by well understood PID controllers?

The cynical in me feels this is to do with employees at Tesla want to work with new and shiny ML instead of old boring PID tech for the sake of "resume driven engineering".
You are right, but a better place to follow progress is https://ethtps.info/. It shows TPS across all layer-2s.

Current network demand doesn’t really require them, but after EIP-4844, “100 000 TPS” should be possible.
It's just not as much fun when you're not renting your UX so next year could bring you better collision avoidance or require you to pay for an upgrade to continue to be able to recline your seats
She is not going to see the inside of a jail cell more likely. Woman, educated, fragile looking, and well aware of the political game.
> it’s a crop that essentially grows itself and has a huge market demand so selling is easy.

I'm sorry but you're hilarious.

There is no such thing as "grows itself" and there is no such thing as "easy selling".

Many years of experience can make growing LOOK easy.

Many years of experience and contacts can make selling LOOK easy.

But the reality is it isn't.

I mean, look at programming.

Anybody can learn to program. Anybody can use boilerplate code and WYSIWIG editors to make code that "essentially writes itself".

There is also "huge market demand" for programming.

But the reality is people, especially the good paying people, want experienced programmers, not noobs.

An experienced programmer can make programming LOOK easy. An experienced programmer can have a book of high-paying clients. But that is due to the experience.
I don't know the book, but I assume the criticism is that a rich person can give money to alleviate suffering, but by the same token their wealth means they will not have to experience the suffering intimately. The richer they are, the more money they can give, and, also, the more remote the suffering.
Sadly, there are very blockchains that focus on simplicity. Most seem to think that more features is better.
The causes of lag in Second Life are complicated, and are, at last, getting a lot of attention right now.

I've been working on that with a multi-threaded viewer in Rust.[1] After I started posting videos like that, there was a lot less "can't do" attitude from the Linden Lab devs. Now there's a "performance viewer" project out of Linden Lab, using many of the same techniques. Key concept: the backlog of assets to be loaded needs to be on a priority queue which gets reordered as the viewpoint moves. Otherwise you bottleneck loading stuff that you were previously near, not stuff near where you are now. There's a nice B-tree solution to this. Once you have that, everything in close-up is present and at high resolution.

Hardware helps. 100mb/s networking and putting the viewer cache on an SSD will help a lot.

There's still a big problem server side with the transient load when a new user enters a region. A mall or event with a lot of traffic can slow way down. The server devs are trying for more concurrency, but it's hard in an old single-thread 32-bit C++ program.

It's striking that, despite all the "metaverse" hype, there are very few people, even among game devs, talking about the nuts and bolts of making this stuff work. The metaverse conferences are mostly about branding, NFTs, and moderation/censorship.

[1] https://video.hardlimit.com/w/sFPkECUxRUSxbKXRkCmjJK
Definitely the right questions to be asking, and I have no idea of the answers.
No, futures.
Hi there! I hate to pile on, but I have a very similar issue and was wondering if you'd be willing to help. About a year and a half I lost access to a Gmail account with emails going back all the way to the beginning. Lots of sentimental messages, stuff like that. Logged into it after a long while, started looking at picture attachments out of nostalgia and somehow tripped an algorithm that locked me out. I stupidly did not have 2FA set up as this was not my primary account, so had no other way to offer proof that I was the rightful owner, despite having the correct password. I tried all the usual things - waiting a long time, trying old devices (phone, laptop), going back to the old location I used to live... nothing worked. Would love to regain access to years of memories.
The question we all want to know is if using the self driving features make them more or less safe. There is no independent data to show either way.
I would love to vist that library, I think they would have lots of interesting photos.
I agree for the most part but government is always going to have the power to regulate what property in city limits can be used for. This prevents things like me opening a shooting range or a night club in a single family home neighborhood. Laws are put in place to prevent a worsening of living conditions for people that already live somewhere. 100% with you on free speech though. Government has no right to control what we say. I would go even further and ban companies being able to fire people for expressing unpopular or even racist opinions away from work. I'm a jew and if a dude is a Nazi on his free time but professional in the office he should remain unfired. Applies to speech only, if he's breaking the law via assault, arson, etc. then sure, fire him.
Also (and this should be obvious) our own ability to harness primary production is confined to a small number of species; backing these into an adaptive corner could play havoc with our large heterotrophic society, where calorie production from the CHON cycle has very little slack relative to our ability to keep adapting at pace (i.e. R&D doesn't like starvation)
Nitpick:

Why do the first two images after the LMD-Ghost section [1] look like they were made on an iPad? All the other images are made using proper tools. I didn't realize that the letter in the first image was a V because it looked like a N. Feels slightly inconsistent.

[1] - https://github.com/ethereum/pos-evolution/blob/master/pos-ev...
I was interested in the topic.

You think nobody should care, but you cared enough to comment so I was just curious. If I'm not interested in bananas I don't visit threads about them. HN seems mostly rational, so I'm legit interested what has driven you to click and comment.
If you want to see beauty, look at a blockchain that focusses on elegance and simplicity.
Not all humans are the same either

Some people can flawlessly do stunts with their car after driving for a few years and have a perfect driving record

Others make you shake in fear every time you sit with them as you see them fail to notice other cars when they change lanes, despite driving for 10 years

It’s a bell curve and I think the median is better than current car driving AI, even with LIDAR, can achieve

But combo AI (or just safety features) with humans and I think it shifts the bell curve up a lot
Users report Google Calendar bug creating random, fake events
Omwani coffee in the UK has recently released a Madagascar origin specialty coffee, and they claim to be trying to work with local producers, it might be worth reaching out to them. You might also want to reach out to other boutique coffee producers, many of them have farmer education programs (counter culture and square mile are the first two that come to mind).

Meta-advice, find people who actually understand the business and get their opinions. This forum is great for CS startups, but it’s full of people who think their success in one field means they are experts in everything they’ve read an article about. Be skeptical.
It is in testnet now.

Given that they successfully transitioned an entire consensus change and things didn't implode (yet), I'm feeling a bit more optimistic that they can do withdrawals.
> Google asked me two interview problems involving these back when I was in college. Have I ever needed this in practice? Nope!

This is the shame of the Big Tech. I've used bloomfilters, tries, and many other of these multiple times on side projects with constraints, but would something like this ever make it into a deployed system at FAANG by all the regular devs?

No, just use dynamo, spanner or a bigger cluster + more workers, more queues, add more k8s nodes, plus whatever cloud tech you should be using to "horizontally scale" and be "distributed".

Not that there aren't awesome devs at these companies which do code responsibly, but I don't often see it.

I can't believe how unperformant the systems I've often seen in Big Tech are. I want more people to read the article about fitting the whole level into a single byte[1] and stop using big budgets as a way to be irresponsible.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095954
scrollbar-gutter: stable

Seems like someone else in this thread might have solved this problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34116719

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-g...
I think the move you're missing is getting in on the ground floor with a solid ownership share to an experienced coffee grower. A 51/49 ownership split or a similar arrangement could be a life-changing opportunity for an experienced farmhand or manager. (Of course OP will not be able to tell the sharks from the real helpers and this would still be a gamble unlikely to pay off--it just could also be an incredible life experience that assists in later success.)

I would say that if OP has a family and isn't already loaded, sell outright, but if they're younger and willing to go through hell they definitely should try to be involved in growing coffee beans.
Let’s say I use a car once a year.

Just how would owning a car be cheaper than getting an uber that one time per year?

Now do the same math for driving 5 times a day.

Do you see why you can’t just say “Car ownership is cheaper than Uber”, unqualified?
I haven't had a much trouble with this on my MacBooks, but based on observation (relatively small sample size, so take with grain of salt) this is exacerbated by tightly packing them in e.g. a bag with books/tablets/etc or stacking things on them. As long as I've avoided those situations I don't get key tracks.
If it wasn’t my own car doing that, it would be a friend using their own car, or a taxi, so I doubt I’d be increasing the total number of cars on the road.
Doesn't matter if he's kidding; address the people who will take it seriously. folks who think they're smart but lack systems thinking ability are capable of believing anything; they're like early socialist dictators without the power.. which makes sense given the commonality which is the failure of rationalism in the face of large unknowns
Every Apple Lightning cable I own has a tear around the cable housing just outside of the strain relief.

There's guides on how to workaround it using things like Sugru or tape, but still frustrating.
In the UK at least, about a quarter of mortgages are on variable rates. Of those on fixed rates, all their other bills have gone up, and will continue to do so. In many cases this means people’s mortgages are no longer affordable even if they haven’t changed. It’s not a good situation, and telling people they’re technically incorrect in their complaints because some day in the future they might be able to heat their house again is standard economist fare.
The judge is also the sister of Dan Abrams
Doubt, he s going to meet the DJ
I think parallel parking works wonderfully (only know autopilot 1)

Remember it uses sonar to park, not the lines.

Strangely, I've never tried backing into a spot - I guess because the backup camera is great at seeing the lines and I can back in quickly.
I came here to post exactly this excellent video on splines by Freya Holmér.
This discontinuity of reflections effect is directly mentioned at 29 minutes in chapter 4 on geometric continuity.
I think the distinction in what's obfuscated is important. Casino apps are trying to hide their code that detects cheating, number generation, etc, while TikTok is trying to hide its data collection. Obfuscation itself isn't necessarily bad.
It wouldn’t have to do that much driving flawlessly - many crashes occur without there being a fatality.
I feel like humans in general work fairly well when story or myth is tied to an explanation, but can understand that's not for everyone. I'm reminded of oral histories that humans make in order to warn about tsunamis. Her linking her brother's ailments with the state of the planet drew me in and I learned a few things that I can look into myself. For example, The Great Unconformity I'm sure I can look up a bit about (and sources are provided in the article) and similarly for the possibilities of things that might give us insight into that time period (also referenced and sourced in the article). My experience is that Nautlius in general has this type of lyrical prose and doesn't really pose itself as a peer-reviewed journal or anything. All that to say that to minimize the story as about "some writers day" feels disingenuous to me.
Great. Now retired grandma , who happened to buy a house in a forgotten part of town that suddenly became a bohemian mecca, is stuck with high taxes. She can't move because she doesnt know how to drive and can't take a bus in the suburbs...now must pay half her retired in come due to land value taxation.

This literally describes 2 people I know.

Grandma didn't do anything to you or me.

Why would you punish granma who just want to live out her retirement ?

Why not just go after the foreign demand to hide cash, making housing expensive for everyone else ?
A technical manager might in most cases defer to the judgement of the developer. However, provided he knows his stuff, he can also mentor the developer to grow.

If you are arguing that managers with technical knowledge of the work being done are wholly unnecessary, then you are necessarily arguing that all teams are doing optimal work all the time, and have nothing to gain from external feedback.

I call bull on that. There are several times where, after discussing some estimates with my developers, it turns out that the overall approach was inefficient. By pointing them in the direction of a more efficient approach to the problem, and leaving them to work out the details, and making them feel free to discuss other alternatives, we have been able to get stuff done in reasonable time.

Your whole point of view seems to suggest some kind of conflict between technical managers and developer teams, where I see none necessarily. Managers are a resource for the team, not people who lord it over their teams.

I have been contracting and consulting for years. Without exception, the worst managers I've had in terms of demanding the impossible, and failing to appreciate the work I have put, were those without any clue what it takes to do what I did. The technical managers would work with me to write specs that made my work a breeze.
Strange bait is strange. Too random to be obvious.
I’m curious! What are its trade-offs?
> In the recent past, ham radio has kept the spectrum allocated to it...

The 13cm band has lost more than half its bandwidth, cutting the band in two. 9cm is gone. I'm sure it would be worse without ARRL though.
There are well recognized patterns in specific types of ‘neuro divergents’ that are fundamental to the conditions and that make it very difficult, if not impossible, to recognize or process common social cues in useful ways. It makes them categorically have a much harder time in this area, for those categories.

What you’re saying is essentially ‘meh, don’t just assume you are hallucinating sometimes just because you’re schizophrenic’.

Maybe? but if they think they are, they very well might be right.
Those forces are a non-trivial part of what is driving the consolidation of land-ownership to commercial mega-farms.
That's odd. My 2015 Model S auto-parks very well, faster and neater than I can do it myself.
https://withdrawalsdevnet1.ethpandaops.io/

Testnets already happening. Q1 2023 on the table.