skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selfish mining is a strategy, or exploit, miners can employ against their competitors to reduce their profitability by selectively withholding valid mined blocks rather than always publishing them immediately.

Long term this can drive honest miners out of the network and concentrate power into the hands of miners willing to form cartels or who can rent large quantities of hash power.

A preemptive response to those who would say PoS is superior for this reason: PoW is an armor and selfish mining is a flaw in that armor - PoS does not have this flaw because it does not have that armor. There is no cost to fabricating disruptive chains in PoS and the security landscape is built up around that fact - if you use selfish mining to compare the two you are likely to misunderstand the differences between the consensus mechanisms.

One notable solution is a consensus protocol which does not orphan all work on the addition of a new block - that is the fundamental tool which allows selfish miners to render real competing work useless. Deriving work from transactions can fix the orphan problem, but that alone is just one piece a fully secure blockchain consensus.
For startups I agree, they should definitely customize their interview rather than copying big tech pattern.

The kind of interview you describe is something Stripe also does, but I have seen even this resulting in non objective selection criterias. Like one Stripe employee told me that they prefer if someone uses a map rather than iterating on a list, as it is cleaner. While I agree with the sentiment; I don't think it is a good filter to add in the interview.
Looks like there is compose support - https://podman-desktop.io/docs/compose/podman-compose
they're sitting on a bench right behind him. One could fall off and get smashed. a third party could steal them. the fire alarm could go off and then what would they do?

It's just a dumb way to run this, if this is what you want to do. The amazing part is that they found so many people willing.
Carpentry would be my recommendation. Even feels a bit like working on a react app because you are constantly making new tools to make your work easier.
> You're not actually purchasing a copy in perpetuity like a physical book.

I own the physical book. Why does the publisher have any further rights to tell me what I do with it?
Let's not forget the often-overlooked strategies of infiltration (recharging aquifers vs the typical drainage/hardscape paradigm) and the restoration and preservation of wetlands (which buffer and purify water).
But I'm entirely confident I can DOS your phone in 10 attempts.
AI based SEO will be way worse, if Bing chat catches on then you'll be wishing to go back to the stuff that was written by humans with a vague understanding of how SEO works. SEO for AI LLMs is basically impossible to figure out as a human, since they are actually just complete nonsense, and the most optimal thing is to mine for phrases that will give you the answer, and OpenAI just sells access to the tools to test for that.
Please direct me to the place where NPR retracted their reports/comments about the Hunter Biden laptop which was 100% really his laptop and not even a little bit of Russian propaganda? It's so really his laptop the FBI is using it in investigations and Hunter is suing the guy who released it for violation of privacy.
Running the `doc estimate` command on the Wordpress repository says it will cost $58.47. The estimates are usually +/-10% of the actual cost.
Ok I hate to be that guy. I always advocate that people should be good, blah blah.

However… non-profit is largely a tax designation. In exchange for tax exemptions, non-profits can’t basically give their profits to shareholders.

While the IRS does outline general examples of what we think of as charitable organizations, and the thing you claimed probably isn’t terribly clean (they do specify that nobody should profit from it, and one could claim that the for profit OpenAI is profiting from the non-profit, so is Microsoft), being a non-profit generally says next to nothing about morals.

It’s probably closer to an academic institution spinning off a company from the product of its research, which happens quite often.
Granting that some hallucination is likely, still seems like a step in the right direction.
I kind of do - I often just ask for feedback on things (more detail? less? happy with the prose or want bullet points?), or work on things together on a screen share where possible, etc.

Sometimes people help and provide feedback which is great... but sometimes they don't, because I guess my boss is busy with his own stuff / reports / etc, or if I am writing my own objectives / appraisal for him, then he is in fact the person that needs to be persuaded, or has his own competing interests, etc.
It was funny how for years the only documentation of BuildKit was some .md file in the middle of that repo with all the magic incantations for running apt install with cached layers... to be fair, I actually found it clearer than the real Docker docs.
Well depends, Apple has been refining their arm chips for many generations now. Generally the Arm competition (non-apple) hasn't caught up to Apple yet.

CPUs are amazingly complicated. A major new CPU designs can take 3-5 year, consume many $100M, and end up not competitive. Even Intel has had serious issues after many years dominating their market.

The ecosystem of OS kernels, platforms, testing/verification tools, compilers, debuggers, and related can take awhile to mature. Android is a major platform for phones, and while by default apps are portable, assuming the vm is ported, but some apps write native code to avoid the Java related overhead. Intel tried a phone and ended up emulating ARM chips for native arm code and delivered terrible performance and terrible perf/watt. That project died with a total design win of (I believe) just a single relatively low volume phone.

So making a CPU to compete with a flagship android phone isn't easy, and even if investing some multiple of $100M and years you might end up still behind, or bankrupt when you scare Arm into cutting prices again.
This page has some interesting ideas about "safety" without any pre-conditions.

As a starter, Java is safe. Probably safer than most of the C-based candidates on this list. And we are only speaking about Java without tooling vs C with tooling.
> Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.

Somehow it feels like we'll never have legends in an age when GPT-4/5/... are accessible to everyone.
perhaps not a problem one some people's mind, but certainly a material difference:

utilities prioritize the welfare of the citizens who reside in an vote for the (local/regional/national) political apparatus VS exploiting resources with the aim of maximizing profit for shareholders

one benefit that private water companies like Perrier / Fiji Water / Nestlé et al provide to society is that they "distribute" water to locations where there's less. Or at least that what it seems like.

However, on the one hand very little of the water consumed this way is by people who do not have access to local water. Two; they try as much as possible to underpay the "community" from whence they extract the water, so that should be made more fair.
I don’t see how you’re refuting their point
yea I find it to be wrong a lot when coding
But its faster for me to fix existing code than to write code from scratch so its still better than nothing for me
SVB also did not have "worthless assets", but the extreme rate hikes by the Fed significantly reduced its value. Wait until tightness of credit conditions will cause chain of defaults and we will see how well banks will fare. We already see the first signs of it in the auto loans market.
As Marshall McLuhan said, "The new medium starts out imitating the old medium"
I'm often found in the back lot, walking around and yelling/gesturing to no one at all about the problem I am trying to solve.
I think there's some sort of clipping effect distorting things. If your losses are limited at your assets, then the bet (heads: I gain 2X my assets, tails: I lose 2X my assets) has positive EV.
Oh yes, while everything and everyone is exactly same as they were 20 years back.
I haven't been on the internet much this week - what happened?
I just tested it and looked at the code briefly; the client fortunately does seem to remove all keys not provided by the server: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/36c6c3eff5e...

It seems like at least a `known_hosts` compromise would be "self-healing" after connecting to the legitimate github.com server once.
What’s stopping IA from using the physical book while it is simultaneously lending out a copy?

Nothing. Which is why losing was inevitable.
> makes you sound like you have absolutely no awareness of anything

almost like a fancy markov chain? :)
I actually took some classes from professor Boghossian. His agenda is to make you think, I'd put money on it. He loves the discussion and debate. He's a true philosopher, loves digging into things for the sake of it and to discover what's there.

If there were a per-story bias, or even a per-author bias, I might agree with you, but NPR has a very clear per-topic bias. And the goal of every reporter should be to eliminate their personal bias and report the facts. NPR's bias is so pervasive on certain topics though that one can only conclude that they too are taking dictation from some overlord, or are so caught up in group-think that they have fundamentally misunderstood reality.

I don't actually think this is too bad, as long as you know what you're getting and can correct for the bias.
Ask HN: Anyone out there trying to help new devs avoid career pitfalls?
I'd like to know if an org or collective exists that helps new developers with providing the less concrete, less tangible assets that helps people from falling into career traps, the kinds of traps that make professionals comfortable where they are at and miss red flags or "wake-up calls" because they don't see them.

I'm interested in having less experienced people see those things before it takes a toll on their career, or at least find a cause where these actions are currently being taken.

Real life examples of "lost common sense" that people can help new developer avoid:

* I thought it would be okay to be unemployed a few months so long as I have savings to tide me over. Up until recently did I not know it also makes it harder to bargain for higher pay.

* Didn't change my job search strategy for a long time after graduating. For the first 7 years I was only using Craigslist for local jobs and didn't consider many bigger boards or alternative avenues (direct apply on corp websites, contact recruiters first)

* I don't really keep up with my co-workers outside of work for other things like referring them to jobs etc. so my network is rather weak for getting job leads.

Things that I did not know I want to see others help prevent these knowledge gaps and fill them, before they start their career or when they are early in their career. Especially for the self-taught people.

I'm still learning a lot myself, as I still haven't yet succeeded in re-launching my career. But I'd like to find out if there are others out there who are making efforts at preventing new developers from making the same mistakes I did. Having people in your life generally raising your awareness that there’s more out there and having drive and motivation is crucial, and I especially think the former is a bigger problem.
> What's wrong with it?

nothing in an of itself, but if you look at the strategies that Nestlé employ around the world to gain access to water while cynically damaging communities, it is hard to be on their side.
None of SVB, First Republic or Signature were retail banks either they were commercial banks. Regardless nowhere have I seen it reported that the current sequence of events is somehow a "retail banking crisis". It's amusing that you feel an investment bank somehow shouldn't be included in a discussion about a potential banking crisis. You might want to read up on the 2008 financial crisis and shadow banking. Bear Stearns and AIG weren't banks at all.
I may be missing something, but the page I posted has very similar numbers to those referenced for the StLouis Fed. You have to click on "25 years" to have a comparison with year 2000.

The post you replied to referenced the St. Louis Fed chart saying 4x M2 growth from 2000 to now. The page I referenced shows the same 4x M2 growth for the UK: from 750k at 2000 to 3000k at 2023 (values in GBP Millions). Virtually identical.
I don't know how I didn't know this, but today I learned from zackmorris on HN that you can type in the name of anyone in congress to see which (social media) companies they invest in:

https://www.capitoltrades.com
I don’t understand why people are shocked at this outcome.

Nothing was stopping IA from both reading the physical copy purchased (or potentially lending it out, physically), as well as lending out the copy that was created as a result of digitization.

Losing this was inevitable.

In fact, the analogies to libraries were flawed from the start. Libraries purchase a book and lend out the very book that was purchased. Clearly that’s not what’s happening with the internet archive.

I’m other words: a library lends out book b. The internet archive buys book c, puts it through Digitize(), which returns book cprime and lends out cprime. However fair use would only permit lending out c, not cprime.
> about the same result

Can you qualify this? Is it still useful or not?
No. Those laws were made to curtail drunkenness and the numerous social woes that come with it. Same reason we passed total prohibition. Those religious minorities were negligible in the times and places where they passed blue laws and the only groups that were negatively associated with alcohol were Christian.
AMEX allows you to have a rotating credit line now on those cards.
It's a good point for text input, but if you go multi-modal and somehow find a way to make good use of audio and video, there's practically unlimited data available.

Also considering that humans will probably still only publish the output that looks good, even that still provides a weak signal on quality.
Bummer! Had a lot of reach and great tool to encourage future engineers. These events make it seem like the era of big fancy cool tech companies is over. Of course you have the emergence of other tech companies like open AI.
Whoever allowed him to be rehired should be fired and also lose their pension. This is ridiculous.
I'd like to see this same technique applied to x86, and what the performance is like without the "illegal instructions" (omitting them from generation would probably be trivial). It's relatively well known that one of the ways Asm programmers can beat compilers is on instruction selection, and that's what this technique seems to excel at.
There is a decent chance that model weights are not copyrightable (and I think that's the clearest definition of the law, I don't think they're a compiled work, at most they might be patentable. Particularly in situations where multiple models might converge towards the same weights, that seems more like a discovery than a creative act?

That being said, I don't feel like I know for certain how a court would rule. And I wouldn't like to fight Facebook about it in court regardless, that sounds like a pretty bad time even if the court sides with you. But on the other hand, Facebook might not be keen to test this either.
Sorry, but I don't find the railroad (or whatever kind it is) diagram shown in the example helpful at all.
> a digital copy for myself

"myself" being the operative word here.

you can make 100 copies for yourself. what you can't do is make a copy that you give to someone else while simultaneously retaining access to the original (or another copy).

the way libraries work is by relinquishing posession, which replication would circumvent.
You got a lot farther than I managed to.
Production-Ready Node.js Boilerplate Using TypeScript, with Yarn Zero Install
Was bored and dropped this. We use this for our app and thought it might be useful for others. It's missing .github actions which I'll add at a later step.
Also low-tech exploits, like holding the screen at an angle to the light, to see finger smudges for the unlock pattern.
All of the food consumed in Vegas has to get shipped in. That is not efficiency. In what universe are golf courses in the desert efficient?
That’s technically true. But frankly it seems like such people have a giant stick up their ass. The digital version would be infinitely more accessible, while still maintaining effectively 1-1 access restrictions. I’m not even sure if they’re _is_ a physical IA library one could go to. For all I know they’re in a vault somewhere. Even the USD isn’t backed 1-1 with physical tokens. It seems patently ridiculous that books be held to this standard in this day and age.
Yet, we should proscute GPL violations when the original GPL code is untouched.
That's why I'm advocating against being (almost) unconditionally "for" or "against" a certain technology.

It seems like some people struggle with the notion of something being good in some areas and bad in others.

Why not Evaluate it on the merits of what is possible now and extrapolate in the near future. Any prediction beyond that is most likely futile anyway.

Unless you are planning to run a business or work in academy there is most likely no need to overreact even if it ground breaking next month. Everything moves more slowly than we expect anyway.

In the end useful technologies will stay while the rest will disappear into the void sooner or later.
His perspective must have been pretty gnarly. Starting from literally the ground floor when it comes to transistors and personal computers - and living to see stuff like the 13900k. RIP.
The whole point of the bin packing in the blog post was to increase cpu utilization, so Amazon is clearly saving money if you are blocked on io.
Just like how crypto was going to revolutionize everything that required trust, and cryptocurrency was going to replace cold hard cash?

We're good for 10 years at least. That said, I would hate to be a frontend developer for the next 10 years.
“Echoes of Atlantis”, 12 chapters, 115 pages, zero human input
> Why pay for say MS Word when I can just list all the word processing features I want to AI and tada there is my custom version of word.

I mean, if AI gets to that point, you don’t need to pay for Word, sure. (Of course, if AI gets to that point, what are you going to be using Word for, anyway?)

> Why is Microsoft (insert any software company) necessary if they can just replace all developers with AI is what I was getting at.

Microsoft is a heavy investor in OpenAI, and incorporating GPT-4 in its offerings. The thing they plan on you paying them for in the future is “access to the AI”.
I’m of the view that the authors/publishers should have to have willingly given up their rights to allow this. When I put something down on paper and sell it, my intention isn’t to allow it to be traded every 35 seconds on the internet, it’s to have made a single copy. Now if the authors/publishers want to allow the physical copy to be lent digitally like IA is doing, I’m all for them having some lic they can sell which allows it. I expect this lic would be 100x more expensive than the simple physical copy.
Typing in small textboxes always makes me feel stupid.
I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory
It's difficult to imagine a lifeform bigger than a worm surviving more than a few meters beneath the surface.

Mammals just require too much energy to function.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/5/18251924/self-dr...
Is cramming a term of art? It’s always seemed low brow to me? In any case, RIP, you were a giant.
> Sadly it's gotten steadily worse since. Now it's now much more useful then setting alarms/timers and asking about the weather. Seems like it's WAY more limited now. Even gets confused by simple queries or just plain fails to work.

I swear, there was a golden age around 2015/2016 when voice assistants worked _very_ well, and it has all gotten significantly worse since then. I used to use a Google Home all of the time, up until a year or two ago when I finally got rid of voice assistants.
The programming language?
Oh, wow, that's absolutely terrible :-( I've never known NPR to play region locked games like that, and doubly so when turning away donations. But I guess that does explain why KQED isn't an option even out here
I once had a nightmare that Knuth died, and at first there was a thin black bar on the HN site. Clicking around, suddenly the whole topcolor turned black. Lastly the entire HN page turned black text on black background. I was just like "it's cool, they're taking this seriously". It was just so weird and believable at the same time.
I asked Bard Why did Google didn't create ChatGPT:

Google did not create ChatGPT because it is a text-generation chatbot developed by OpenAI. Google has its own text-generation chatbot called LaMDA, which is still in research mode.

Google is a company that is known for its innovation and its willingness to take risks. However, the company is also very careful about its reputation and its customer relationships. Google does not want to release a product that is not ready for prime time, and it does not want to damage its reputation by releasing a product that is not accurate or reliable.

ChatGPT is a very impressive piece of technology, but it is still in its early stages of development. There are some concerns about the accuracy of the chatbot, and there are some concerns about the potential for the chatbot to be used to spread misinformation or to generate harmful content. Google is not willing to take these risks, and so it has decided not to release a ChatGPT competitor.

Google is likely to continue to develop its own text-generation chatbot, and it is likely to release a more polished and more reliable product in the future. However, for now, Google is content to let OpenAI take the lead in the development of chatbot technology.
Me: Summarize this article.

ChatGPT: Does this guy ever get to the point?
The USA government absolutely had a hand in the Maidan revolution. There was even a leaked phone call where state department officials discuss who to pick for the new government.
Scrapeghost is an experimental library for scraping websites using OpenAI's GPT
This is awesome , will you be able to share the initial prompt. When I tried the same prompt to create epic, it’s missing multiple stories on GPT-4. Like validating OTP, Resending OTP and Logging for audit it did generate the other 3 though. Not sure why. But yours is spot on.
If docs can be generated, they're not worth reading.