skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas has proposed a gold-backed digital currency, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866856

> The comptroller would also be required to create a mechanism that would allow the new gold-backed digital currency to be used by citizens for their daily transactions. “In establishing the digital currency the comptroller shall establish a means to ensure that a person who holds the digital currency may readily transfer or assign the digital currency to any other person by electronic means.”
> demand that all roads should be put underground

That's called subway.
> At some point I worked on a Python product written by a person with some good business knowledge, but essentially not a trained developer. They handled our team a bunch of cron-scheduled Python scripts that somehow implemented a complex data processing pipeline and our job was to maintain those. I remember my horror of looking at the code which had zero abstractions and essentially written as a bunch of linear scripts with copy-pasted bits of logic all over the place. Of course, our team has decided to bring some order to that. We have rigorously created abstractions for individual business logic workflows, implementations of those abstractions, factories to instantiate them, and more, and even more on top of that. Fast-forward a couple of months, I wasn’t working on a product for some time and then came back on the team. I looked at the code and I came to realization: the older version better. I had no idea what new code did. Instead of linear logic I had to jump between interfaces, their implementations and a bunch of other abstractions to gather together a complete understanding of the overall implementation. The voice of an experienced developer in my head said: “chosen poorly abstractions are here”. But another one annoyingly replied: “what does it mean to be a poorly chosen abstraction?”.

Unfortunately this is a very commonly observed difference between "software engineers" and "business people who write code". The latter want to get a job done, while the former are often looking to implement engineering doctrine that may not be relevant to the problem at hand.
I'll take this massive shift of the goalposts as agreement that DNSSEC is much closer to solving some problems today than DoH is.

I would appreciate it if you would update your other comments in this thread clarifying that, as we both now agree they are incorrect.
My nephew performed CPR on my mother (his grandmother). It wasn't successful, he gets to live with the psychological consequences. I imagine not acting would have worse psychological consequences, but only because society has built up unrealistic expectations regarding CPR.
In cases like this I always recommend meditation as the best strategy. In fact, in almost 100% of the case of worries and anxiety resulting from your thoughts, meditation is the right answer. And if you try being the best in meditation, you are in for a wild and worthy ride.
I have a pet theory that in the future air conditioning will generate small amounts of electricity rather than requiring a great deal of it. I think perhaps a large volume of these, self powering a fan could fit the bill.
But could you sell $30m of Bitcoin without tanking the price?
It is that simple. CPR -- if done properly -- is only done on dead people. Dead people don't come back on their own. And if CPR is done on somebody who "doesn't need it" then by definition it was done wrong, because they weren't dead in the first place.
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Ok got it, so this means that your previously statement, where you said "My basic human freedoms should include the right to not do business with a hate group for example", is not true, or not your full opinion.

You actually think that there are certain situations where it is OK to force basic utilities to transact with everyone.

You just disagree where exactly the line is. But at the end of the day, yes you also agree that some companies should be forced to engage in certain transactions.
Bhutan’s implementation of GDH aside. What matters more than happiness? Surely any other metric is just an (often misguided) approximation.
What happened to copy editors? It seems like half of every article I read online has some grammatical error
The stock market isn't based on the present state of the world, it's based on future expectations of earnings. So no, the current state of the world hasn't changed much in the past 6-12 months but clearly perceptions of the future have.
Lenovo carbon x1 optioned with oled display.
Is llama performance not basically bound by the memory hierarchy?
In 2020 I scraped fortune top 500 companies for dnssec and found iirc one domain using dnssec.

It certainly feels like the wrong way of solving problems (ramming more into the domain registry always seems like a bad option). Is the technology dead or destined to fail?

Edit: rationale: dnssec solves domain validity, but https tls solves almost the same problem but has better backing (azure said they don’t support dnssec and recommended tls as a better alternative). Dnssec also does not solve bgp hijacking, which combined with ip based tls signing servers moots any value dnssec has - sure you could registrar lock your domain via dns (preventing letsencrypt signing things), but if a threat actor has the capability to bgp hijack to perform such an attack and is targeting you, you probably have bigger issues elsewhere.
TLDR/non-crypto summary: Bitcoin's developers made changes recently that allow much larger transactions, with blocks up to 4MB in size on the Bitcoin blockchain in support of "BRC-20" tokens, which is Bitcoin's feature reduced version of Ethereum's ERC-20 token.

These same developers block attempts to increase the block size in Bitcoin, which would allow more throughput and transaction capacity.

The increased demand for Bitcoin transactions from BRC-20 combined with the limited block size caused transaction fees to skyrocket, making Bitcoin too expensive (again) to be used for normal retail use.

The article points out that 80% of these giant "BRC-20" transactions were coming from a single individual/entity in control of one private key. Effectively one individual caused the backlog in Bitcoin with sky high transaction fees.
I've read a few research papers that say essentially the opposite. I think you can find a study that supports your side most of the time.
What about slavs? The irish? Italians?
Under what atmospheric conditions is that possible while preserving conservation of energy?
Sorry, I should have been clear. The citation I was looking for was about people outside of East Asia not being aware of this. Where I live (in Canada), among everyone I know who knows anything about the second world war, Imperial Japan's massacres of civilians are common knowledge, as are their other war crimes like treatment of POWs, medical experiments on civilians, "comfort women" and so on.

However, outside of the fringe neo-nazi / holocaust denier / Japanese ultranationalist crowd, which is a very small group, you won't find anyone who thinks this was anything other than Very Obviously Bad, to the point that there's not really much discussion worth having about it. If there's a controversy to be argued, it might revolve around whether Japan has done enough to apologize or pay reparations; whether Japanese civilians deserve blame for the actions of a military dictatorship; whether ethnically Japanese young people today should feel ashamed of their country or their heritage; whether it's unfair to single them out for something their grandparents did; whether these injustices are being used today to foster hatred and resentment instead of good-will and understanding; or something like that.

But I don't see any insight that can be gained from a discussion of "was the USA's atomic bombing a less super-villainous action on the scale of other, universally condemned super-villainous actions like the holocaust or the rape of Nanjing?" Because on any objective scale the answer is obviously that it's not as bad. But since everyone will instantly agree about that, we can then move to a more interesting conversation of did the nuclear bombing of civilian populations fall below the moral standard we should hold ourselves to?
Time's a flat circle. We've reinvented cable and have it delivered via the internet. The quality of the content has fallen off now that folks have been roped into the platforms and everything's getting bundled back up so you have to subsidize garbage just to watch a show or two you like per platform.
Try not to let these corporations know that we squishy humans need food, water, clothing, shelter, and medical care or otherwise we will each literally die forever. If they learn it then they will drive up the prices because of our inelasticity of our desire to continue our existence, while the immortal corporations calmly trade other goods amongst each other at more reasonable prices.
Having any access to paying for the necessities of life should NEVER be in the hands of a system that can be corrupted.
The entire site is an exercise in delusion and marketing bullshit. I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people.

Some other choice quotes from the page:

> Users have a bad association with difficult photo CAPTCHAs.

> Instead of type what you hear (or alphanumerics) puzzles, we ask users simple questions using delightful and amusing scenarios

> All are incredibly easy for legitimate users

> Every Arkose MatchKey challenge is tested on humans. We release challenges only when they meet very strict usability benchmarks. Our strongest puzzles, designed for bad actors, have no impact on good user completion-rates.

> In fact, Arkose MatchKey is the strongest CAPTCHA ever made.
The biggest gain comes from mod_wasm using a Wasm runtime to run the PHP interpreter in a sandboxed environment. And mod_wasm can be used the same with Python or Ruby, or anything that builds for WebAssembly.

- No errors (even fatal) from the Wasm module will bring down Apache HTTPD.
- mod_wasm's code base is small enough to inspect thoroughly and test thoroughly to ensure it is secure
- Indeed you will now have to trust the embedded Wasm runtime (wasmtime as of today). As a naïve analogy, this is the equivalent of trusting a virtual CPU(Wasm)+OS(WASI), which gets tested in thousands of other scenarios than the ones used in mod_wasm and issues get fixed and corrected asap.
>Probably that it’s very centralized. Or at least that the price is able to be highly influenced by a few individuals/groups.

The article and the parent comment are about Ordinals. Your comment appears to be an opinion about Bitcoin the asset and/or network itself.
Piezoelectric energy harvesting is cool though, even if the paint stuff is a pipe dream
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Inverse captchas or honeypots are a great idea. Just make a HTML input box with id=captcha, and hide it in some unconventional way in CSS so real users do not see it. If a bot was not deterred by seeing a captcha (a possibility), they would probably fill it. Whereas a real user won't.
> But then, in the 1820s, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky and János Bolyai independently discovered hyperbolic geometry.

As I understand it, Gauss discovered this first bit didn't publish.
The cognitive load increases the furthest away you get from the problem you're trying to solve.

I've worked with some really smart people that couldn't program themselves out of a 24hrs challenge because they went deep in lalaland with patterns up the wazoo and didn't just consider what the program needs to do.

A program is a set of instruction for a computer to do stuff. It takes data in, does stuff to it, and pushes it out. Whether you're doing a UI or an automated landing system, it's all the same. In one case, you're waiting for user input to do stuff with it, on the other you're reading sensors at a high frequency and affecting control inputs as a feedback loop.

Patterns should only be used if they actually solve a problem. E.g. the command pattern in systems that require Undos.

The simplest way to manage complexity in any program is to manage state carefully. Avoid global state, and use as much pure functions as you can. The net effects of this has been evaluated ad-nauseam and the results are clear: easier code to reason about, easier to parallelise, easier to test and less cognitive load.

Over-using patterns and abstractions is throwing cash in a pit. The harder a system becomes to reason about or change, the more it will cost to maintain.

Over-abstraction will result in

main() { application_here() }

which might look good in reviews, but the metrics won't add up.
Idk, I've had a great career for 4yrs - getting laid off in January has been a death sentence. I've found some startup consulting work but the industry is either pretty shot or my resume is a death knell.
Not surprising at all. Glaciers are merely the cold equivalent of 'boiling-off' weak solutions/suspensions to concentrate the solid components.

What is surprising, possibly, is that glaciers' terminal moraines aren't used as a source of economic materials as much as they could be.
More importantly and amusingly the Vatican flag is square - [|] vs [ | ]. Your emoji viewer may render it wrong (check your flag section, iPhone gets it right) but don’t feel bad - most of the flags are incorrectly rectangle.
Quite a lot of people/families can find £500-1000 for something important. The more that can, the cheaper it will become.

AEDs/Defibs are just an expensive battery powered thing, that we just don't bother to discuss. With around an hour or less training, you can expect to be at least 10x more effective than the best CPR. CPR is horrible to deploy and very complicated but I will if I have no choice.
In the US they will be cancelled.

/s
You know one service which has never stopped being reliable, easily available, high quality, and free to use? Piracy.
Are we talking about in the present day US? If you can find strong evidence of modern comprehensive anti-slav racism and discrimination then sure, if not then no.
Sure but what if you have a 2% chance of saving them by a thump to the heart, or a 20% chance by running to the store/business a couple blocks away and grabbing their AED.
24 hour BTC-USD volume is > $15bn so yes.
I can imagine this scenario:

Cashier: Your total comes to $8.45.

Customer: All I have is a $20. Is that okay?

Cashier: Yes, it’s San Francisco law that we accept cash.

Customer: Okay, here.

Customer: …

Customer: Where’s my change?

Cashier: We accept cash, we don’t give change.

The San Francisco law doesn’t require that change be given. Be prepared to carry small bills and coins.
Guessing they mean something more like "lowest common denominator". An otherwise good game without this complexity between systems/AI will sell just as well and cost much less to make.
Someone is creating tokens with the hope of selling them onwards. Most of them are created by a single entity, who spent about $30M in fees to do so, so presumably they expect people to buy them, and thus profit.

The only reason most Bitcoin users care is that they pushed up fees for everyone else (there is limited block space, so miners take the highest bids). Such few pressure is expected to be the norm eventually, and has happened before, but there's been a prolonged period (years) of low fees so it was a bit of a surprise to many.
You still can. And will probably be incredible as a developer in that domain.
Please don't use lossy formats to show screenshots of a terminal.
You need to use KDE to the max if you want a polished graphical experience on Linux. You can have it all with KDE.
Someone (possibly, as nothing here is certain) mined most of this worthless "NFTs". Maybe out of passion, maybe hoping to sell them to idiots, maybe just to spam Bitcoin's blockchain.

That's it. That all the conclusions to be had here.

The whole thing is a big nothing.

Idiots duped to pay for this stuff raised the floor for price of blockchain space from artificially low (due to still low adoption) to a more reasonable one (reflecting the value of global replicated censorship-resistant database). It doesn't change much in a great scheme of things. Some Bitcoin users are annoyed that Bitcoin transactions aren't nearly free as they used to, but it was always just a matter of time.
This is an old trick. For example all MailChimp embed forms have dummy inputs that are visually hidden but might be filled in by bots.
you've got every single financial record

Like these records of 7-figure financial flows? https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/09/3-count-felon-jpmorga...

> secret documents leaked from FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a unit of the U.S. Treasury .. “show that five global banks — JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after U.S. authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.”
I can't help but feel compelled to pause my current tasks and contribute wholeheartedly to this. My frustration with Intuit has reached its tipping point, especially after they acquired a Brazilian financial management software called Zeropaper, which my company heavily relied upon. Intuit then proceeded to discontinue the product and withdraw from the Brazilian market without offering any viable alternatives, leaving us scrambling to migrate promptly. The experience was an eye-opener, teaching me a valuable lesson: regardless of any reassurances given after a product acquisition, it's best to start preparing an exit strategy as soon as possible.
I don't know what your standards are in terms of someone looking like "someone you'd want to marry" are, but if you think that the amount of depth most people want in a relationship with their partner is something that a non-trivial number of people could fake over a multiple year relationship, you're wildly off base. You're either grossly underestimating the degree of emotional connection that some people (including myself) would require for a long-term relationship or you're grossly overestimating the proportion of the dating pool who are highly skilled, manipulative sociopaths willing to spend years on con with a high risk of no payoff.
One of the most interesting insights I learned, second-hand from my wife's medical education, is the essentially bi-modal distribution of CPR need. Note: This is an observation based on memory. It may or may not be actually true.

* Group One is people like you. Otherwise healthy people who've had some sort of crazy event. CGR gets your body through an acute moment so it can heal and recover on its own.

* Group Two. People that are already sick or very sick. Cardiac arrest is essentially their body failing. Even if CPR is successful, they're have lots of physical trauma that is extremely hard to overcome. Another cardiac arrest is inevitable.

The article does a terrible job of identifying this difference. If you're a member of the general public and you need to give CPR, there's a huge chance you're giving it to someone in Group One. Most people in Group Two are already hospitalized or in some sort of care setting.
This is why you cannot learn CPR by watching people do it on TV. The actor playing dead would be seriously injured if they were receiving proper CPR.
> Compared with every metric in history, we are better.

I call this the "Hobbes fallacy" and it seems to be in vogue among a certain literati a la Steven Pinker who have taken up the task of proving that lay people's pessimism and anxiety are unfounded.

I propose an alternative: that when we expand the timeline of humanity back far enough, many of the improvements in the modern era disappear and are seen to only be improvements from local minima occuring during the last several hundred or thousand years.

Go back further to pre-agricultural times when big game and forage were still abundant and hadn't been depleted from population growth. Humans had excellent health, a modal survival after childhood comparable with modern humans, easily obtainable food, few working hours, lots of social support, living with friends and family. Nowadays that type of lifestyle would be an idyllic luxury for many.

After the resource crunch and transition to sedentary agriculture you start seeing lifespan and health plummet, food insecurity, caste societies, endemic war, slavery. These things were not widespread for most of human history, just the agriculture era, which can be viewed as a time of unusual scarcity that created a high degree of competition and adaptation.

Technology has merely clawed back much of what used to be the common human condition.
The only invariant way of specifying gain is ADC linear brightness units per incident photon per subtended angle, in which case the iPhone's gain is vastly higher.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based?

We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human.

Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control of the Internet because the spam and AI bots have made it worse for everyone.
That's not practical. You wouldn't be able to refute charges. Payment processors couldn't price in risk for sprcific industries. You've created more problems than you've solved.
Exactly, and even the people most skeptical of AI don't think it's going away any time soon.
Wouldn't this log you out of everything?
Naturally, these are personal anecdotes.

But I'm fairly certain the divorce rate is severely affected by scripture. I have seen a decent number of unhappy Mormon marriages in my admittedly short time.

The individuals that divorced were usually not allowed on the premises or excommunicated.

(Or whatever the more appropriate term is for cutting them off from the church without ceremony)

There were people who were more afraid of divorce than anything else. Personal happiness was secondary.
This is what I love about HN. A post on silent films leads to a really interesting comment like this.

I really appreciate how generous everyone here is with their knowledge and that HN exists at all.

Many thanks to everyone that keeps the conversation going.
You will not find meaning in executing other people's dreams
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No, DNSSEC does allow for multiple signatures. You can use tools like dnsviz.net to see which key is valid from upstream (if you don’t know how to do it manually).