skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussing new token/coin models
Hi guys! I am here to discuss and get your opinion on new coin/token models. I am quite interested in this space and I follow the field since 2016 (btw. I am not a blockchain developer). I generally like the idea that people can build/develop/run/maintain their products and services decentrally. I also like the idea that also non-developers can jump in to help fund projects in return for coins/tokens that grant them some rights or simply some monetary value. Despite this cool features I am also thinking about the disadvantages of such models and how you would have to change them to avoid scams or give them even better use cases.

Specifically, I was thinking about token emissions and why tokens are emitted to the broader public even before some projects have materialized value. I was thinking would'nt it make more sense to employ a token model that only emits tokens to founders and builders in exchange for material/ valuable work? In my opinion this would make crypto companies more stable and expose them to a lesser extent to speculative risks. Also I like the idea of tying tokens to actually created value. Although financing can be also valuable I think of value more in terms of adding some valuable functionality to the product. To determine if an added functionality is valuable it can be tested with users and rated by them. In my view the main advantage of such a token model would be that founders (who might live in different places) can set up quickly an organizational structure with equity rights in the form of tokens without needing all documents and procedures that are needed today when starting a business. I know that stripe for example offers similar services to set up a company with one click. However tokens in my view can in addition to setting up a company also be used to set up the governance of this company.

I still consider the funding aspect of tokens quite interesting but maybe this funding mechanism must be designed differently or integrated in a different way possibly by integtrating Gitcoins funding grants etc. What do you guys think about my considerations? Feedback is highly appreciated since I am looking for interesting new ideas in this field.
Second Room-Temperature Superconductor Paper Retracted for Data Fabrication
On a desktop with a shitty UX. Using the lowest common denominator doesn't help.
IME in Aus, it's mostly recruiters, the kind who ask if I have experience with 'Jasons', who do the initial screening. I'm not sure I'd have much more luck getting past them with a substantial online presence behind me. On the other hand, I was recently referred by a friend for a role with the state gov. The HR person said my lack of experience with X hurt my chances. I passed this on to my friend and said thanks anyway. They later said their line manager scoffed at the HR person's comments. I'd be interested to hear if other Aus/NZ folk have similar experiences. Maybe the online presence works better in the US.
Caffeine increases blood pressure and is associated with arrhythmia. It also disrupts sleep, causing caffeine-induced sleep disorder. Prolonged consumption of caffeine results in dependence, causing withdrawal when dosage is reduced.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5445139/
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Instead of saying "too impractical to use in the real world", which is obviously false, since many other people have been using at least a part of those in the real world for decades with excellent results, you should say that there are such projects that you have never felt the need to learn about, because you happened to find one that covered well your needs, so you never had any reason to explore alternatives, which is perfectly fine.
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It is only marketing. It does not seem to implement anything from POSIX or SUS.
Is flutter next to be axed?
In a typical illicit market, producers are motivated by money, so craahing the (black) market value essentially stops the problem. I suspect, as I think you do, that this is not the case with CSA, where most producers are primarily motivated by their own urges.

Having said that, the current (legal) theory of CSA is that each act of consumption re-victimizes the original victim. If you believe that framework, then artificial CSA could plausibly be a net positive by reducing the secondary damage done by distributing recordings of actual abuse.

More speculativly, there may be social dynamics at play in the production of CSA. If you have a group of pedophiles dedicated to CSA, they group likely provides social pressure on its members to produce it. With easy access to artificial CSA, those social pressures could be lessened, which could result in less actual abuse.
Chuck Norris's tears cures cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
One way to avoid feeling mediocre is to stop measuring life in only one dimension.

Money and a single career path allow you to rank yourself above or below someone else quite easily.

If you consider the endless number of factors that also make you a valuable person, you may lose track and be happy with just being a unique entity anyway.

And be careful of trying to be more unique than others, you'd be falling for the same trap.
You read the compiled artifact. It's not complicated. Source code gives you valuable added context about programmer intent, which is helpful to understand how a program is structured, but you can't trust that intent if you're looking for surreptitious code anyways, and you don't need to to work out what the program is doing.
How did WordPress boost productivity? Fussing with hosting, CMS, plug-ins is a mess. I just went back to good old hand written HTML with pico.css. Got my site down from 8mb to 100kb
For some reason, straight raw performance and theoretical computer science are not really friends, nor is it expected that they should be. To a certain extent, I understand why. Science at a university is done for the sake of the knowledge. Since there is no time-to-market, many things established professors do or make you do are not really efficient or market-ready... But... I am HPC Cluster admin at a university, and sometimes I wish scientists were a little bit more trained in real-life CS.

Case in point: Many years ago, I happened to look at the source of a project running on our cluster. It was written in Free Pascal. The argument of the professor responsible for the project was that algorithmic complexity is all that counts when thinking about runtime. Compilers optimizing for a target architecture was not part of his understanding of the world. And since I had nothing to do on the weekend, I reimplemented their code in C++. And yes, the resulting code was 5x faster, just by making use of a battle-tested compiler. Turns out a speedup of 5x is relevant to a project that was projected to use 5000000 hours CPU-core time...

I was rather young at that time, which surprised me even more. It was pretty clear to me that this rewrite would bring a noticeable performance boost. To this day, I sort of wonder how you can end up with so much theoretical knowledge that you tstart to completely ignore reality.
It seems like there's an wrmsr (write MSR) tool for Windows [0]. I don't know whether it will work the same way as the linux verison.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
I'm not perfect, so I qualify my statements. What is your issue with that? Would you like it better if I pretended that I know everything with 100% certainty?
There used to be a protective Pride patrol in Capitol Hill because there were regular physical attacks on LGBTQ people in the street. I moved here in 2009 and I remember multiple incidents where people were mugged at gunpoint on the Hill just that year. Pulling a gun on someone is not frequent, but it's also not a once-a-year headline act.
Seems like the correct response is no response because you don't want to confirm that the number is in active use? They must at least record a bit that you replied, which makes your number a more valuable commodity.
Yeah we get them too in Switzerland.
Video shows him handling the superconductor with thin latex gloves.
> Sadly, I mostly dislike tree maps. At large, I never actually see the tree structure that they are supposedly helping me see.

I think the tree map examples in the article are missing the padding that you would add to every layer. Apparently, I didn't find any good examples with a quick search. I think this is a crucial feature of tree maps.
Thanks for the comment. After I quit my full-time research job, I became a full-time wildlife photographer and non-fiction writer. It doesn't pay as much but I like it a lot.
On the math section you can for example plug and chug each option rather than use elimination heuristics etc. that are mostly required to complete in the time limit. You can also go back and triple check all your work.
> You're a bit too black-and-white on this situation.

While I agree with your other points, I feel this argument doesn't really hold water.

The output of the c compiler is deterministic.

I struggle very hard to believe that the floating point rounding errors when you compile C will cause it to occasionally emit a binary that is not byte-identical multiple sequential runs in a row.

What any program does at runtime is essentially non-deterministic, and that's 100% not what we're talking about here.

If you consider https://github.com/alantech/marsha/blob/main/examples/web/we... ...

The generated output of this file is a probability distribution with a sweet spot where the code does what you want; there are multiple outputs of code that sit in the sweet spot. You want one of these.

The actual output of this file is a probability distribution that includes the examples, but may or may not overlap the sweet spot of 'actually does the right thing'.

...in fact, and there's no specific reason to expect that, regardless of the number of examples you provide, the distribution that includes those examples also includes the sweet spot.

For common examples it will, but I'd argue that it's actually provable that there are times (eg. where the output length of a valid solution would be > the possible out of the model), that regardless of the examples / tests, it's not actually possible to generate a valid solution from. Just like how constraint solvers will sometimes tell you there's no solution that matches all the constraints.

So, that would be like a compiler error. "You've asked for something impossible".

...but I imagine it would be very very difficult to tell the difference between inputs that overlap the sweet spot and those that don't; the ones that don't will have solutions that look right, but actually only cover the examples; and there's literally no way of telling the difference between that and a correct solution without HFRL.

It seem like an intractable problem to me.

> Different tools for different scenarios, so if that is a huge problem, don't use Marsha as it currently is.

As you say~
Unlike another top poster, this doesn't ring true for me.

I have a blog with 170-ish posts. About half are technical. Three or four have gone viral on HN.

The other half are personal, but I live in a place where people generally share the same values, so those other posts shouldn't be a problem.

I've got a personal project. It's used in production and ships as part of the base install with FreeBSD and Mac OSX.

It demonstrates high proficiency with C. It demonstrates careful work with every function documented in Doxygen comments and a development manual entirely designed to raise the bus factor to infinity. It also shows I've got fuzzing chops.

I have other code. It's not complete, but I've got hundreds or thousands of hours in it, and it's to the same quality.

And I can't get a job.
What ruined the web is one word: monetization.

Before it was used for fun, people weren’t looking at it as a source of income, unlike now, take YouTube for example, in ~2010 it was those amateur captured videos where people are just happy they can share some clips with the world, right now, you have “content creators” with their soulless faces and setup, all have the same LED setup, thumbnails with reaction-face pics, shilling and a lot of it, try hards on everything from the tune of how they speak all the way to staged conversations, why? Monetizing the contents. Remove the monetization factor and you will see how it will fix 80% of the issue, following pareto chart method where 80% of the issues can be solved by fixing the 20% cause.
No terminal :(
Absolute defeat with no possibility to fight the battle again, leading to 20 years of technology stagnation and quite possibly to even worse villains (Google, etc)?
Much more important is the change in the age pyramid. A small society composed of many young and a few elderly can be a very happy one.
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Built-in software death dates sending 1000s of schools’ Chromebooks to the bin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863095 - July 2023 (3 comments)

Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857506 - July 2023 (174 comments)

Software ‘death dates’ are sending schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857208 - July 2023 (14 comments)

Colorado bought Chromebooks to get kids through Covid. They’re already near EOL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114532 - May 2023 (11 comments)

Colorado districts built up a supply of Chromebooks. Some are nearing their end - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083380 - May 2023 (25 comments)

Chromebooks' short lifespans are creating 'piles of electronic waste' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35685576 - April 2023 (1 comment)

Schools bought millions of Chromebooks and 3 years later they’re breaking down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667547 - April 2023 (163 comments)

Design quirks, limited parts, and other ways Chromebooks frustrate repairs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35666832 - April 2023 (89 comments)

Chromebooks Are Trash (Literally) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35649281 - April 2023 (15 comments)
In the very large set of "this was particularly nasty" things that make up the early middle ages, this one really stands out. I have little doubt that this siege and subsequent sacking effectively set back humanity as a whole - and for the sole and simple reason that the caliph sent a snooty reply back to the Mongols.
> I think that's a direct result of the 'weird' way our economy works: we've moved away from customer satisfaction to investor satisfaction.

A lot of this was a consequence of low interest rates. Money didn't come from selling things to customers, it came from selling a story to investors. Now that interest rates are finally above zero it's harder to raise money from investors and businesses will start to remember what it's like to make money from satisfying customers.

And the incumbents who don't realize this may be in for a surprise. What do you do when your business strategy is based on buying up the competition with cheap money and then the cheap money dries up and the competition is willing to sacrifice margins or disavow customer-hostile misfeatures in order to get your market share?
I was tempted to include unicode when I enhanced the URL/Domain generating strategies in Hypothesis to correctly generate from the set of all valid TLDs a few years ago! But I decided against it since technically the canonical storage form doesn't contain the unicode characters as it should have had Punycode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode ) conversion done by the "input" system be it a URL bar of your browser or whatever input handling is in play. Assuming all domain processors are able to correctly Punycode was a bit too much, so I kept it to the set of basic valid characters without needing Punycode conversion, and if someone wanted to fuzz test fully they could just add a layer that generates from full unicode.
You are concerned, and you are a person in developed part of the world, so looks like it's not that bad eh? As long as you don't recuse yourself from the problem, of course

> If this particular thing concerns you and you are not non-stop stressed that only means that you haven't understood it yet.

That's a mentally unhealthy attitude. Whether something is of importance to you or not should not determine whether you are stressed over it, you can approach it on a balanced constructive way.
Yeah there is a bit of a gulf between “is collapsing” and “could collapse if”
No it's starting to get resolved, see recent Zambia debt restructure. The TLDR is western propaganda who owns majority of African debt wants to push PRC debt trap narrative to pressure PRC to take haircut losses while they don't. PRC said lol no, and after 2 years, traditional (i.e. IMF) and private lenders, most from west, finally agreed to debt restructuring on their end to.
Cuban boxing hero who said no to million-dollar fight with Ali
It is getting increasingly harder to find TFM these days.
It depends what do you want to discuss. There are lots of subject forums that are still thriving. Arch Linux forum, Debian Linux forum, for Microsoft stuff you have "Microsoft community" (not that I ever used it, but I read it sometimes in ancient past). For vintage computer stuff you have vcfed.org and vogons.org (BTW, I find it hilarious vogons will not show up in Google searches, unless you know it, it doesn't exist). Then you have the youtube comments on channels like ltt etc.
Fortunately for you, you're no where near being as delicious. That's the trick, remain awful-tasting.
I usually do. I have a 2 liter water bottle that I fill up at least twice a day. Though ironically with the heat this summer, I've been exercising and drinking less.
You can't trust anything Business Insider says. Earlier today they ran a story that was definitely advertising paid for by a VC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866885

So who is to say their other financial stories aren't being paid for by someone.
So write a tool that checks the authors of all your transitive dependencies against your trusted list. (Or, more likely, pull one in, I'm sure someone's written that already). Are you a programmer or not? The amount of pearl-clutching over numbers of dependencies is something I'll never understand.
It sounds like browsers for mobile application
At what point in the job finding/interviewing process are you having trouble with? If you don’t mind me asking?
I sound like browser for mobile apps
Your expectations are unrealistic and detrimental. Caring about their customers does not mean crying themselves to sleep at night, wondering why you haven't replied them.

Having you spend money on a product you end up liking is positive for both parties of that transaction. Imagine it's a book you like, and you recommend it to others - who then buy it too to read it. Or a song you get others to hear. That's a happy customer of an arbitrary product. Does the author or artist know who you are personally? Of course not, but they didn't need to for them to care about their customers and make something that they enjoyed.
Can't hurt to check. If I'm right, blamo, saved him a lot of bad times
Okay, that’s weird. M1 macs?

It’s not like I was very methodical about it, but the results were as plain as day. I mean, yellow vs. green isn’t hard to see. I’ll try the exact same sites/tabs from a fresh boot for safari, chrome and arc and report back.

I haven’t been in reddit since June — Apollo user, and old.reddit.com just sucks so hard.

What about extensions? I only installed a couple, but I had no problem. That
Amen

We spend so much time and energy worrying about terrorists, fascists, guns, etc when it's heart disease, fentanyl, car crashes, and cancer doing all the killing
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I sympathize with him... the horrible things people do to cucumbers. People should start eating cruelty-free vegetables, like brown deciduous leaves already shed by the trees in fall.
I live in Capitol Hill and walk around there and Downtown and no, unless you count graffiti or looking visibly homeless, there isn't much visible crime. The actual worst impact of crime on us is that our car, parked on the street every night, has now been broken into twice in five years, and the local QFC and Safeway have both closed their secondary entrance and have more stuff locked away when you go shopping.
He’s referring to a “Hydrogen bomb”.
This was my understanding too, but the article in the first footnote uses some much larger values for alcohol content. It generally seems well sourced but these numbers are all over the place as if the author first got the numbers and then randomly placed the decimal point and termed some of them 'percentages'.

> Wine is taken to be 0.12 alcohol, the same number is used in modern estimates of alcohol consumption. The amount of alcohol consumed by drinking historical beer brews is between 0.62 to 0.107, the % of alcohol in “small beer” is taken to be around 0.05 and the % in “strong beer” is taken to be around 0.135,
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IME, most companies generally don't care about Github or your blog, but _some_ companies that are heavily involved in on FOSS or OSS, do care and hire contributors.
> Mainstream things aren't fun. Mainstream things are mundane.

Mainstream things are mundane in the way that McDonalds is mundane and yet food as a whole is not.

The real problem is that users have been locked out of their own devices and data to such an extent that you can't easily make your own and share it with your friends, and people are disenchanted with years of eating nothing but Big Macs.
I'm not so sure. See, you could say I'm politically on the left, but I've noticed Something Awful is way too radical for my experience of HN and Reddit-style leftism. There is this paradoxical American anti-intellectual air about the site which I didn't notice until using it for a couple years, that turns me off from talking about anything serious.

I know it's a comedy site, but often people and mods get angry because you don't agree to the same "eat the rich" mob mentality.

US politics has ruined the Internet, and I would like that as far away from my software talk. If a place is politicised, I'd rather have good old anarchism which works well with anti-censorship/cryptography discussion and hacker mentality, than anything on both sides of the political spectrum which turn people into mindless followers.
You're right. It is 100% dumb to be fair!
> There is exactly one secure microkernel ready for production use today, and zero secure monolithic kernels.

I'd be interested to hear your definition of "secure", and why OpenBSD doesn't qualify.
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It can be any part. Usually, the problem is that companies find out that I'm not good as a cog in a machine. That can happen at any time, but once they do, they're not interested.
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"Minimalism is a music that imposes its own listening mode by the fact that events happen less frequently than you expect."