skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Solidity-based tokens, learn Solidity to be able to know the syntax for creating your contract.

After developing the contract, use something like Truffle Suite to validate that the contract is good, and add a testing suite around it.[1]

Find a test net for the coin that you're developing for and create an account. Generally testnets will allow you to have "play money" to work with. This will allow you to learn how to deploy your contract to the testnet (which is functionally identical to mainnet)

Deploy it there, test it further. Write apps around it with tools like web3.js or eth.js as appropriate.

Buy some currency for the applicable mainnet and deploy your contract to mainnet just as you did with testnet, only this time it'll cost actual currency to deploy -- this will vary wildly by network and token and such.

This guy's videos are pretty helpful:
https://www.dappuniversity.com/articles/the-ultimate-ethereu...

Different tokens have different protocols and such. The above works for Eth and Eth-based tokens. Cardano is Haskell-based, and refers to smart contracts as programs, and the process is wildly different. Some other tokens use Rust, or other languages, but the BASIC outline I've laid out is basically the same no matter which (except for Cardano, which may be the same, I have no idea.)

[1] - https://trufflesuite.com/
> Sure, that's the beauty of democracy though.

In the United States we have a Constitution that enumerates a set of Rights about which nobody gets to vote. It doesn't matter if you (or even 99% of all people) think it should be illegal for me to express this opinion, for example; you don't get to vote on that.

Private property rights in my view quite clearly fall under this rubric and it's only because of a few laughably bad SCOTUS decisions that this is even a live debate at all. For most of our history this was well understood.

If given the chance, most people will vote to ban new construction in their neighborhoods. I presume that if given the chance significant percentages of the population would also vote to ban certain kinds of speech. In neither case do I believe those positions are made legitimate by virtue of having majority support.
In my view, he has already tainted Twitter beyond redemption. Now it's a matter of getting more people to make the switch already. So yeah, that's a lot of people and a lot of inertia keeping them there so it'll take a lot more of this to drive more of them off. So keep going.
> the inflation Numbers exclude Gas Prices

Technically the inflation numbers are posted both ways, including with and without “core energy” so everyone can see the effects either way.
Perhaps the government could create vast extended families and assign them to people via last names like Daffodil-11 or Oriole-2 .
That is also fairly bad, the justices view here seems extremely reasonable. I don't necessarily like it but legally it is pretty clear from how the US is set up that we have a strong federal overreach.
> I just wish Tesla would focus on this stuff without hyping an AI feature that can never happen.

There's a good argument that Tesla wouldn't exist today without the hype. The enormous positive public image mad Tesla's cost of capital extremely low, and ditto its cost of marketing. Tesla needed a lot of both to get to break-even. Musk himself has talked repeatedly about coming close to bankruptcy. It's reasonable to believe that less hype would have meant less capital and fewer sales, nudging them at some point over into bankruptcy.
> We're not even that civilised

Elaborate?
Crypto? I feel like that must not really count.
Seems silly to write such a comment. Place your vote, collapse the thread and move on.

Btw the comment was a result of the article in the OP, not pre written.
It describes someone who is generous giving to institutions acting elsewhere but miserly to those directly around them.
You don't recall correctly. All the standard inflation numbers in the newspapers, economics papers, COL adjustments etc. include gas prices (as well as food prices). You're probably confused with "core inflation", which excludes food and energy prices, or some other special purpose measure. The Bureau of Labor Statistics which computes the official US inflation numbers publishes several of those. Core inflation in the US is pretty much only used by the Federal Reserve, as a crude form of smoothing rapid fluctuations (alternatives could be using trimmed means, or rolling averages).

Krugman explains it all fairly accessibly: https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...
"Paywall" might not apply.
"Premium" is the term in play at an otherwise "freemium" website.

The question really is: how do you want to pay for your free lunch?

Substack is one of many such "freemium" infrastructures; authors can gain some level of remuneration for their work by publishing general information in the free zone, but adding deeper analysis in the premium zone.
Thing is, people aren't asking you (and people like you) to do anything, but simply to stop actively blocking things (like building new homes). You're getting the vitriol because you're simply sharing your views. You're getting it because based on your views, it seems like you support measures that actively blocks progress for others.
This is true. But most of the things perceived while driving are outside of the stereoscopic depth perception ability of humans. IIRC that stops around 20 meters or so.
The last 2 sentences are why the article was written:

The way inflation is looking these past five months, the Fed should take a break from its interest rate hikes before, rather than after, it causes the next recession. That would be a much better choice than the course it is on.

We all know that something will break, but I guess they have to break before politicians can respond to the will of the voters.
Haha! I love that term, totally going to use it going forward! It really is a thing.
> Citation?

Plenty of papers listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
> OSGrid, which is a third party grid of simulators. That really is the metaverse - a federated system of 3D worlds.

I had no idea this existed, and have been looking for it [conceptually] for years. Thanks!
Anything that connects to the physical world makes little sense at the moment as it defeats the purpose of such a smart contract.

What you can do is anything that is related to moving ETH or ERC tokens/NFTs between addresses.

So an example that you see often is a Kickstarter type contract. This contract collects ETH from many sources over a period of time but will only pay out to the payout address if the minimum is reached in that time period. Otherwise all the funds are returned. This contract is fully autonomous and can be validated to do what it is supposed to do. You don't have to trust a single company like Kickstarter to follow the rules or not cancled your compain. The project being a scam or not compleeting is another story.

So in other words what you can do in a smart contract are financial constructs that are zero trust.

The reason many scams happen is also in part that people are not checking that the contracts are solid and prevent rug pulls etc.
Of course only inasmuch as your wages keep up with inflation.
If you want to see lots of freely available scanned artifacts, check out scan the world.

https://www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld/full-collection
OK, but my car insurance went up 40% since the last policy update, 6 months ago. That certainly was movement faster than I knew, but not in the direction that this think tank wants me to believe.
What, that they are #1 in understanding the self-driving technological landscape? They remain more responsive than the other 49 states.
This metaphor doesn’t hold. Lots of people will in fact be happy that their dollars are worth more than they were a month ago.
Absolute bummer.

For anyone unfamiliar, Faithless was a huge group in the electronica scene in the 90s and early 2000s. Some well known hits include "God is a DJ", "Insomnia", and "We Come 1". If you're young and don't know them, check them out. For us older folks, lots of early morning memories of better times. :)
Isn't that because those corners are rendered as Bezier curves that are H/W accelerated?

Usually, small radii are emulated by beziers:
https://spencermortensen.com/articles/bezier-circle/
Some justices recuse themselves some of the time. Others do not
They do not exclude gas prices. The Consumer Price Index, which is what most people pay attention to and to which this article refers, currently weights gasoline at 3.7% of the basket of goods it tracks.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2021.htm
I've decided to actually base my vote on the status quo now. I want divided government because of how radicalized both parties have become. If something is very important, it will get votes from both parties. The current status quo is better than what either party wants
5,700 years of Micronesia sea-level change hint at humans arriving much earlier
Google's Unusual SEC Filing (2004)
Because that's how it actually works. It generates the text token by token and you're seeing it live. GPT-3 Lab does the same, you can see when it gets slower/faster.
Gas has been the biggest inflation talking point this year
I find that cultures who keep things as taboo tend to create a vicious cycle of education problems. Education does not encourage, it exposes both the good and the bad. You learn the navigate the problem instead of being trapped by it. I lost many friends to alcohol/drugs when it was more taboo but easy to access.

There was an old expression "say know to drugs". I spent a lot of time as a teen reading about various drugs and their effects. Ultimately, it made me stop exploring. Otherwise I probably would have taken way more risks (which I did before discovering sites such as Erowid back then).

I have a teenager, and so far so good. Whether it's fast-food, drugs, alcohol, sex or porn, they exist. My logic usually has been: 1) wait if you can, 2) be moderate, 3) know the good and the bad, learn to set boundaries.

My main grief is with alcohol. It's glorified, associated to socializing and sports. The bad impacts of alcohol are taboo, and yet they're everywhere, but it's a big business. I like a drink now and then, with my partner or with friends, but with my partner we have a hard boundary of 2 glasses per week each, and with friends it's max 3 pints, max twice per month. Cannabis twice per month, in small quantities.
Mass Destruction: https://open.spotify.com/track/7syjiyRgeBlnhJLLlswvM7

God is a DJ: https://open.spotify.com/track/1pUFYb9peWkK8m1WCKNRjp

Insomnia (Monster Mix): https://open.spotify.com/track/2FH3BLTMhJlCH1Dmkua5DW
That would apply also to anyone who made a campaign issue out of some train or car being too jerky. Later examples might include the Toyota unintended acceleration?
Looks like they are more active on Mastodon.
What customer service? I tried to take a Lyft ride a couple weeks ago because I knew parking would be a mess at my destination. Even though I scheduled a ride in advance, Lyft switched me between 5 different drivers and none of them were actually coming to pick me up. In the end I ran out of time and had to drive myself.

And that's not the first time I've had such poor service recently. Lyft used to be pretty good a few years ago but not it's just garbage.
An invaders game written using HTML, JavaScript, Canvas, and Web Audio
A simple DIY air filter is an effective way to filter out indoor air pollutants
You're trapped in a Blizzard. Do you know what to do next to survive?
I wonder if one could employ a legal strategy to 'taint' as many judges as possible by retaining spouses etc. to get a favorable judge. Brings to mind an episode of The Sopranos where Tony Soprano is advised to consult all the leading divorce lawyers in the area to deny his wife the opportunity to retain them if a divorce were initiated (he ends up doing that and crippling his wife's chances of retaining a good lawyer).
That's been done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Germany: Inflation to stay high two more years – top advisor
Six arrested after Sunnyvale gas station Hacked
Only if humans are banished altogether from the roads. In which case the current attempts at FSD are pointless anyway and we should focus on building the infrastructure for simpler automated cars. As it stands today, every current automated car in existence is quite a lot more timid than a typical human and will cause gridlock very quickly as a result. An awful lot of driving relies on behavior assumptions that computers aren't good at making yet.
Obviously click bait title - comes out once per month - usually FoxNews. But I whole heartedly encourage people to leave. Housing is expensive - earthquakes - liberals ick. Much better in Texas. You can own whatever gun you want. Want to shoot animals - Texas has hogs galore - you can hire a helicopter and shoot the from the air. Life couldn't get much better:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ir6LDRH7J0
Seems like more of a class thing right? The non-natives are likely travelers and people who travel to other countries frivolously tend to have more money.
Apple should buy this and make Siri useful again.
Global heating is the only thing that will save our planet from ending up like Mars. Do you know why there are no dinosaurs? Because the atmosphere is literally too thin for them to breathe now. Every decade the atmosphere thins even more. The world has been dying slowly for hundreds of millions of years.

Humans with our vast knowledge of how the planet should be, gleaned from measurements taken over the last few hundred years interpreted through a lens of scientific hubris, have determined that artificial cooling, blackening the atmosphere and the continued decline of breathable oxygen is necessary to maintain an environmental “status quo” which definitely will put a stop to our current mass extinction event, and all future mass extinction events.

Humans know what is best for ecology. Like that one time the scientific community decided to put a stop to forest fires in Yosemite and accidentally fucked the park ecology in the process. Turns out those fires, which had been happening longer than even the residency of the native Americans who we stole Yosemite from, those fires served a useful ecological purpose for the reproduction of rainforest trees. But everyone makes mistakes. I’m sure blackening Earth’s atmosphere will be fine.

Or maybe, just maybe, the only way to prevent our planet from becoming the next Mars is to start terraforming the shit out of it right now. We should make it like it was when the dinosaurs thrived. More oxygen, more nitrogen, a lot more CO2 and giant plants.

We should start burning all the fossil fuels possible. Just burning them. Release quadrillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Green house to the max. Heat the earth. Plants will love it. The atmosphere will be thick with a beautiful cocktail of oxygen, nitrogen and diesel exhaust. Finally we can clone and rebirth all extinct species from the Jurassic age. We will bring back the dinosaurs! We will all drive around in supercharged V12 armored SUVs that get 20 gallons per mile! The Earth will be saved, at least until the sun fans into a red giant and engulfs us in flames in 800 million years.
Yes and when they do they are ticketed or otherwise charged. Who holds liability when someone purchases a package that is supposed to do this for them.
What about prices and costs?
I used Mathpad for longer calculations, a bit of a niche application by Mark Widholm, which exists since System 7 or 8. It's a bit like Matlab, and also a bit like those apps where you write small steps and can track the computations (Soulver is one of those), but simpler and more direct than the former and much more capable than the latter.

For simple calculations, I used the standard calculator in "normal" mode. I've also always got one or two calculators on my desk (currently a NumWorks and an HP Prime). And since a few months, I also have Free42 on laptop and iPhone. If you like RPN, check it out: https://github.com/thomasokken/free42
The fun hardware aspects of this are how they choose to form curves for the aluminum MacBooks using cold forging to get create the broad curves of the device and then post-machining the keyboard, chamfered (angled) edges, and form tapping the screw boss threads - ie pressing not cutting the threads into the material.

Variable radii curves take forever to machine and must be polished, so that's only done on the cold forging die (and takes forever to do), so the die can then impart the geometry on the aluminum blank in only seconds in the forging press.

This is also how high-end aluminum car wheels are made with all their complex curvature.

Funny enough, they don't cover the forging in this video that describes most of the rest of the process, so I think Apple must've not wanted to talk about it, as least back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxbiIpXZfG8
> Personally, I hate owning vehicles and desperately want a self-driving taxi service that I can order via an app to get me and my family around.

This future sounds great until you consider what it really means to let “someone else” become the arbiter of you being able to get around.

If I have a car in my driveway, I can make sure it is charged/fueled for whenever I need it and I can just turn it on and go. Compare that to a system who’s goal is not specifically moving you, but keeping cars/assets always on paid trips. Sure, you may in luck if you live in a well-off areas where many trips are taken, but I fear peak hours will become something of a bidding war where nobody wins.

If you do not control your means of transport, someone else does and they can take it away from you at any time. This “rent seeking” is one of the biggest cancers on our society and I will be no part of it given the choice.
If you moved to Texas specifically to get a bigger house for your money, then of course you are going to hate it.

We moved to Austin-adjacent and downsized on the house. We put away about 100$k from the sale of our previous house, and used the rest for downpayment, netting us a <$1000 mortgage payment per month. During the periods of heat or cold, we now just peace out and travel, because we have ample cash to do so and still manage to put away for retirement. Currently chilling in Miami till middle of next week.

The rest of the time, weather is nice, plenty of good food, plenty of things to do.
Facebook increasing satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications
I can’t stop listening to his music ever since I heard Insomnia for the first time.

Rest in peace. You made a difference and left a mark in millions.
This is a really thorough and understandable explanation. Helped me fill in lots of gaps I had.

One thought it does raise in my mind, though - this is complicated.

Bitcoin is simple. The rules are simple. Simple is really good when it comes to securing a currency.

This, in comparison... I mean, oof. I get the high-level "proof of stake" idea, which (in my mind) has a similar mental complexity to Bitcoin's. But all the algorithms that need to work to support it... it introduces the idea in my mind that somewhere in one of those algorithms is a small oversight. Even if that's not the case, the thought is there.

My opinions on proof-of-stake hasn't changed (seems much better than PoW in real-world use for so many reasons) but it does seem to erode the beautiful simplicity of proof-of-work.
This article isn't citing any sources, but here is a relevant article from the NOAA: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/e...
I think the implication is that the current software is just not very good.

It's obviously fine for techie early adopters, who like the new shiny and are willing to put up with a lot. But it sounds like from the perspective of a normal person's sustained daily use, the gee-whiz feelings wear off and leave you with annoying issues.

But it could also partly be a case of differing expectations. The web has trained us all that software generally gets better over time. I never expect a car's too-low doorframes to make room for my head. But on an ICE car when I'm confronted with, say, the same clunky dashboard nav system, it seems more frustrating that, year after year, it's still just as bad. In fact, I ended up paying good money to replace the car stereo with something that was compatible with Android Auto mainly so I could have an ever-improving Google Maps in the same spot on my dashboard.
That's why Loder was banned!

Since he was banned at the same time than crimeth!nc i thought it was political.
One of the big reasons HN works is the clear rules and heavy moderation.

I don’t know how to scale something like that to a global scale. A global audience have hugely different values.
Reminds me of that people who are 3D printing firearms and parts to sell off at gun buyback programs [1][2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/new-york-gun...
[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/akee4e/someone-made-dollar30...
Start here https://remix.ethereum.org. This IDE lets you test smrt contracts in an emulator. You can get a quick overview of solidity here https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/solidity/ and the docs are here https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/

>alice and bob contract to sell 100 watermelons for 1 BTC and sarah is the arbitrator in case they have a problem... something like this

You create an owner variable that is used to show who can withdraw from the smart contract and is set to 0 at the start. You add 2 methods. The first is a method that is only usable by Sarah that lets her change the owner variable. The second is a withdraw function that is only usable by the owner. You can even enforce that the owner can only be set to Alice or Bob if you want.

Bob deposits 1 wrapped BTC. If Alice gives him the watermolens Sarah sets Alice as the owner. If Alice doesn't Sarah sets Bob as the owner.

>a smart contract to validate a sale of a house for 2 BTC.

You don't need a smart contract for that. Every transaction already gets validated by the network.

>a partnership deed for a business between alice and bob with 3 clauses

This depends on the clauses but you would put all the company assets into the smart contract and then write methods that let you spend those assets while not violating those clauses.
Second Life has always really interested me, seems like it's got a quite the meaningful heritage behind it. If they are looking to move into the full VR/AR/Metaverse space, I can see that wisdom/prior art coming in very handy.
Except most people's wages didn't keep up with inflation, and they're now paying more out of pocket for other necessities every month
Yeah absolutely, early morning memories of better times.
Considering that bullies might choose to bring peanut butter as contraband?
Elon Musk is disconnecting random Twitter-servers just to see what happens
All of the "actual AV companies" have only released curated marketing videos and/or restrict operation to curated geofenced areas. Meanwhile we've seen exactly one company's autonomy technology exposed to unsupervised and uncontrolled adversarial conditions across hundreds of wildly diverse cities in the USA. Whether you are impressed with their state of progress or not, there's nobody you can compare them to.

Operators like Waymo do look plausible while operating within their tiny geofence. Driving pre-validated roads is impressive in its own way. Right now if you dropped a Waymo and Tesla FSD on an unsealed road in Michigan, one of them will drive at least as well as a human learner driver and the other will probably refuse to move.

The point is, I agree that there could be many firms which are far ahead of Tesla, but there isn't enough information in the public domain to say this with any confidence. Right now Tesla's is the only major system which can be assessed with critical objectively.
The setup is left as an exercise for the reader.
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