skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will never become cheap enough to do a 51% attack because there are multiple parties that all would be interested in doing a 51% attack competing against each other.

Furthermore, Bitcoin is "self-healing" in the sense that an attacker does not gain persistent control; they lose control if they lose 51% compute vs the rest of the planet (unlike, say, Ethereum with proof of stake).
Yes. And I think anywhere that leaf blowers are noticeable is almost certain to have a central authority with that power.
> It's digital currency without counterparty risk and no inflation risk. Similar to why gold is useful as a store of value.

Not being able to reverse transactions is itself a risk, and a deflationary currency that is susceptible to hoarding isn't a great idea IMHO. And given gold's fluctuating value (though better than BTC's), I'm not sure I'd consider it a good store of value; it certainly isn't a good inflation hedge:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w18706

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3667789

Neither in the short-term, nor the longer-term:

> Andre Sharon, head of the international research department at Drexel Burnham, Inc., notes, “the value of gold essentially derives from its capacity to preserve real capital and purchasing power.”† I select this particular quotation because of the prestige of the organization and the position of the spokesman, but statements in this vein can be found in great numbers. They can be traced back for generations and in many countries. How can this proposition so contrary to statistical fact become so widely believed and quoted? Possibly because gold has preserved capital in cataclysmic cases it is easy to infer that it can be trusted to do the same in less severe circumstances. To extrapolate from gold’s protection in singular catastrophes to its use as a strategy against cyclical infation is an example of faulty inductive reasoning.

* PDF: http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RoyJastram...

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/will-gold-save-the-day/

And being gold-backed does not help with price stability either:

* https://archive.is/FWKcL / https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

In fact, having a currency / monetary base that cannot be easy grown can hinder economic growth:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine

The sooner countries abandoned the gold standard, the sooner they started recovering from the Great Depression:

* https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/10/the-great-depression-...
If I remember right, magnesium supports production of a range of neurotransmitters, including those involved in dealing with stress. Specifically I believe it supports the metabolic processes involved in regulating the nervous system. I believe there have even been studies finding people with certain mental health conditions known to cause stress have chronically low magnesium levels.

But yeah it's an essential mineral and these days they don't feed the plants that grow food minerals as often as they used to. They feed them nitrogen but not necessarily minerals!
Can anyone please recommend which type and even brand to take?
I've been trying to be active on X and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/swiftapplab/).
Also I tried cold emails campaign recently (via Instantly).
Yeah I've been thinking about checking out this as an option too
It would be very expensive to meet your RDAs with L-threonate alone, in both absolute and relative cost. Mg glycinate probably does as well, the evidence for / against L-threonate form having any impact in the brain is marginal at best.
I've always been hesitant about LL(1) since it requires a hack for something as common as expression-parsing, whereas LR is fine. Note that the linked article is misleading about LR having a problem with right-recursion: it only affects (data) stack depth, rather than breaking the machine like the LL problem. Still, LL and LR have common ground against the heresy of backtracking at least.

I've never met a sane grammar that's not LALR(1). It's unfortunate that LALR(1) is such a leap of complexity beyond SLR(1), which is not practical for real languages.

I imagine that LL(1) "mostly" works after the expression hack - what's your particular motivation for LL(2)? A lot of weird grammars lead to code that's hard to parse for humans.

(Note also that, for languages (Python, Javascript, etc.) that lack an efficient `switch` statement, table-based is likely to beat function-call-based code)
Not often, but it’s been helpful to find non-obvious causes of bugs.
that's why in medicine you do trials randomized and double blind so that no one knows if it's the drug or the placebo, could have been the placebo effect after all
You claimed this based on vibes without citing any sources. Do you really think North Korea is thriving right now? How about Iran’s booming economy? The mighty Russian bear is so crippled by sanctions that China effectively owns them, with Russia entirely dependent on them to for everything besides oil.

Every day that these sanctions against Iran, North Korea, and Russia are in place those countries fall further and further behind. Every day their economies become less and less competitive
Doctors can prescribe supplements. They are saying that random not-doctors should not call it prescribing when they tell someone to do something, whatever that thing is.
So, is Intel just too far behind to catch up at this point?

It looks like there is a lot of progress by quite a few companies, but Intel is still floundering.
Totally agree and think it mostly the industries with a heavy population of far leaning individuals (tech, defense, etc) that like to discuss this stuff. I work in local government and very rarely hear any opinions about anything relate to politics or religion.
Don’t count. Wheels have spokes.
The only part that stuck with me was when the ai plane pirates literally all the music
Beginner's Guide to Demo
It's fair to say that in the early days of the FOSS movement, people were contributing for prestige and recognition. The commercialization into "Open Source" meant that work was appropriated for profit by organizations that weren't interested in either the "free as in beer" or "free as in freedom" aspects. Naturally people followed their mercenary lead and started to work on them for the financial benefits.
The O1 is a visa for models, actors, artists, chefs, etc...

It's, in essence, a storytelling exercise whether you're Brad Pitt or the best pizza chef in Italy. They ask you to show why you're "extraordinary"

It's essential to make the Immigration Officer understand what you're doing. If all you share is true, it's not fraud in any way.

Lawyers aren't trained to understand what is a machine learning engineer and why what you're doing is important. USCIS agents don't know anything about tech and what YC is either. This isn't a visa for founders, it covers every talent category.

So it's on you to help them understand, to share the story.

Always consult a lawyer whatever you do, just help them out.
The actual place where CFGs fail tend to be if types and expressions aren't parsed the same. This especially causes problems if your language's generics use `<>`, but even C has the `T * v` problem.
Just the blood pressure. It wasn’t a diagnosis so much as a “this seems concerning, you should get this checked out”.
AKASH is doing pretty well, have you looked into them at all? https://akash.network/gpus/

More of a decentralized compute marketplace rather than a PoW/emission mechanism, but if general compute is what you're looking for, then there it is.

PoW requires that the "work" have a few special properties, which makes it really difficult for it to be something useful. I feel like we're kind of past the whole "looking for a better PoW" phase though now that most consensus runs off really mature PoS mechanics.

Try thinking of a useful problem that allows everyone in the world to endlessly generate puzzles worth solving, whose difficulty can also be ratcheted up and down to regulate block timing.
Cosmic rays: interfering with Mario 64 speedruns since 38,976 BC
QUIC is a step back, IMHO. Especially, given how many national networks work poorly with UDP protocols.
Might integrate this into my git workflow
Point and click games (and puzzle-based interactive fiction games while we're at it) tend to lose me right around the halfway point. The puzzles start to get more difficult and I just can't figure out how to solve them. Could just be a matter of patience, I tend to give up after 1-2 hours at most if I just find myself rotating between locations not knowing what to do next. But I think the genre's reputation for being obtuse is pretty well-deserved.

Broken Age was actually interesting for me, because it's the game I got closest to finishing without a walkthrough. I only needed to consult one once, for the last puzzle that you encounter in the game.

Consulting a walkthrough generally ruins the game for me so once I use one once, my patience threshold for using it again drops significantly. At that point how much I enjoy a game depends on how much I like the characters, story, etc. Grim Fandango is one of those I still look back fondly for that reason, even though it lost me WAY earlier than halfway.

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Somewhat of a tangent, but I've always wondered if this genre of games is good for development of mathematical thinking. Like, in an adventure game you usually know the broad strokes of what you need to do, but you need to solve lots of puzzles to get there. Something I've always struggled with in math is the ability to think laterally, think of analogues, lemmas, auxiliary problems, etc. that can help prove a theorem. It's always felt to me like the two struggles are different forms of the same issue with my cognition.
In practice — I've heard some founders done it with 2-4. It's better to have a year.

Like all things with immigration it's always case by case
Counter-anecdote: I took magnesium glycinate for a couple of months and saw no effect on sleep, blood pressure, or anything else.
Some people pay a lot of money for paper bills with interesting serial numbers, far above the bill's denomination. This is no different.
> Why shouldn't people support the fork?

That's a valid question and to be fair to Redis, we should also ask ourselves what are the incentives for Redis (or any other commercial oss) to continue development of truly free and open-source Redis?

If the answer is opensource ideals, it is not an honest or realistic answer.

If the answer is they can always get paid through hosted offerings and product support, Redis folks are saying that's not a sustainable option because of cloud providers.

Redis users fall into broad categories of individual developers, startups, medium level companies and enterprise scale companies.
Individual users are unlikely to pay. Enterprise customers are big enough to have dedicated resources for support. It leaves startups and medium level companies. These users are leaving on-premise and moving to cloud providers and if there's a frictionless hosted solution by the provider itself they are likely to prefer that over paying Redis. There are always exceptions but I don't think this is far from reality.

If the quip is, Redis should offer a better product, they cannot! Not when competing with cloud provider's own offerings. They will be always be at a disadvantage in terms of total cost(for marketplace products) and resources spent for development of the core product itself.

I believe their license changes is about them trying to reduce the impact of cloud offerings.

I don't know if there is a better approach for Redis and the community but as users of their product we are also responsible to provide a sustainable path for development and come up with a solution for this common problem. Otherwise, Redis will not be the only product to take this direction.

PS: There are exceptions like postgres but there aren't enough of them at that scale.
Has there been any founders that took the money and ran?
which groups do you see as beneath you, therefor punched down upon?
Sorry to ruin your afternoon but ALS is the terror that slowly cripples
"who was and wasn't involved"

pretty big set of folks.
What sorts of timelines are we talking here? You say quick but that can mean a range of things.

I've tried magnesium in the past for a couple weeks but didn't notice a change in that period that was likely attributable to it.
No. I don't use it very often. However when I do it's typically, "ChatGPT improve this letter. Don't lecture me. Obey."

Then it's just the same letter, but way less candid.
That’s totally true, though there’s a difference between “founders of $100M startups” that already have that valuation, and working on a company in a market where $100M is the max you could expect.

If you aim for $10B and hit $100M that’s great, you aimed for the Sun and landed on the Moon! But if the max you can hit is $100M, then everything needs to go right to reach the Moon, and the Sun is fully out of reach — and it will be much harder to raise money.
Technically true! However, if you want to be dead and have nothing to pass on to your heirs, there are many other options which are easier and more fun.
Is there any significant chance of catching it without getting hot water from a freshwater source up your nose or being immunocompromised?
This is unbelievably unethical and should be made illegal, with retroactive fines. I’ll be writing my city and state attorneys and legislators about this tonight. I’ll ask that all banks with this practice have their physical locations closed.
ntttcp only has packages for Debian, Ubuntu, and NetBSD:

https://pkgs.org/download/nttcp

No user of the other commercial Linux distros (RHEL, SLES) is going to install ntttcp from source or random binaries.

Of course, the Windows kernel team could support POSIX system calls that iperf and other network applications require, instead of removing that feature altogether:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/technet-wiki/10224...

But hey why provide customers a good product when you can just write a blog with a useless recommendation instead.

Microsoft is a big company with many teams on many products. Some of those teams really understand interoperability with modern developers and applications. This team don't.
The corporations are democratic but the voters are the shareholders/board. It is the employee’s job to execute the orders they are given not decide the direction of the business. It is very odd that this needs to be explained on this site.
It doesn't sound like a compliment until one day you become "illegal". I don't think you'd be happy with most laws that have existed throughout history.
So sad. I just listened to an interview he gave to Babbage podcast from the Economist. Highly recommend listening to his thoughts, he was an incredible luminary.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qNJBiPgkgf29cqpAcPfvf
How do you not feel thirsty?
Congress has the Congressional Research Service.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Research_Servi... and https://crsreports.congress.gov/search/#/?termsToSearch=&ord...

CRS reports are a phenomenal source of information.
To my mind it’s a very natural reaction. We rarely are in situations, like a doctor’s office, where out of the blue you may be told you are dying, etc.
The "utility" of the lambda calculus, in my opinion, comes down to Church's original choice of terminology. He did not call the things denoted by lambda "functions"; rather, they were abstractions. What makes the lambda calculus so cool is that it lets us see that abstraction is the root of all computation, at least through one perspective (as opposed to the Turing point of view). Learning the lambda calculus directly will allow you to appreciate functions ("abstractions") and use them more effectively; you can reason about their computation and composition.
Imagine having to awkwardly sit there with the person you're trying to bribe while you wait for your transaction to synchronize. This is where someone says something about L2 or whatever, usually.
We all experiment personally. I make a point of not looking for, or attributing any causality, to any immediate change.

Then see how I fair over time.

Obviously not a high standard, but reduces bouncing around between different regimens chasing coincidences and placebo effects.

After several extended periods of taking multi-minerals and not taking them, I am convinced I get better sleep when I take them. I could add less anxiety and more, but better sleep alone could account for other benefits.
Project Nimbus did not exist 3 years ago
Discouraging, sure, but now the real question: did you apply anyway? :) I hope you did!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve a few of the seven mothers of Eve seem to have lived around the same time. Just an observation.
You are forgetting space satellites running Bitcoin nodes and nodes running behind EMP-Shielded building.
> I'm not saying people are individually accountable for every little detail, but they are for the collective of their misdeeds.

That has been used to justify a lot of atrocities throughout history. Which is to say, if you're using that to justify an action, you'd better take a dozen steps back and take a couple months to think about what you're doing.
Sure, not. But now it is conscious decision of NN, to become military pilot.
Previously tried policeman duty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA-NRyWoYII
It is more accurate to say that long-happening preparations will continue unimpeded - by all countries with an interest in performing adversarial action.

This would include the US, who fairly well pioneered aggression against networks and systems.

Meanwhile, news orgs will dutifully sound klaxons when it suits them to do so (ex: Cyber Pearl Harbor). Dire reports can be expected to be free of details that can be verified by qualified, independent netsec experts.

Rounding out news org duties will be serial omissions of events that meaningfully deteriorate society like bulk surveillance of people not suspected of a crime and the routine trading of law/power for campaign cash.

Sounds like a [day of the week].
If you believe Wikipedia's mission is important, but their amount of spending is creating risk, what do you do? Starving them of cash isn't a great answer.

That's why speech is cool: people can say "hey, maybe you should be building more reserves and be used to running as a leaner operation, to be able to tolerate downturns. It's not clear all your spending is really supporting the mission."

> If fundraising dips in the future, so what? They cut back? It's sad to see folks get laid off, but that's essentially what the author is arguing for, so it's kind of moot.

That's often easier said than done. Figuring out how to constrain growth now (and build reserves) is better than facing hard choices in a panic later.
I would pay for something with proven results that is geared towards making me better at work at building soft power / managing stakeholders, etc. I’m a PM that’s great with written word but not great with words talking and it’s the number one skill I need to improve
Fixed, thanks for pointing this out.
I was going to add an additional question - answer there and it slipped from my attention.
I'm pleased to see that the vendor and vendor management got the dressing-down and the trainee was not thrown under the bus, at least not by the customer.
In about 20 years from now, you you could write this exact same article but instead of Oldsmobile Trofeo and Trinitron CRTs it will be LCDs and any car sold today.
From some intelligent specifies like squids we don’t know: maybe they are disturbed by it and fear and hate humanity and plan their lives to be far away from them. They do plan and they remember things over generations. Not believing they can reason or proving they cannot reason are different things.
Define "typical person". The average person does not live in a first world country with relatively stable banking systems.
Before you solve a problem, you always have to watch out if the person/team who created the problem are still around.

If they are, then you need to apply special tact to the way you solve it.
So is llama 3 the new ERP king or what?
People circumvent currency controls and financial regulation over the internet with gift cards, airline miles, WoW gold farms, and more. Bitcoin's notable quality is not technology; it's the social psychology which drew enough speculation that it covered for laundering black market financial transactions at unprecedented scale. Some of that illegal volume might be sympathetic oppressed citizens; my guess is the vast majority is old fashioned crime and terrorism.

Notably, there is nothing technically notable about Bitcoin's censorship resistance. It's no more resistant than the internet itself. What's notable is the scale and efficiency at which it attracts clean money to wash dirty money, and none of that is about Proof of Work or Merkle DAGs.

The argument I was responding to falls apart when you notice that The Pirate Bay, Libgen, and Scihub are all extremely resilient despite lacking all the Game Theory gobbledygook which BTC adds.
Chromium is still useful but it's not Chrome.
Having read Laurie Gannet’s The Coming Plauge the possibility of air transmissible Ebola is on my list after Prions.
Pay! Expert interviews can be had through expert networks. I know it’s a hustle to get free ones, and worth it, but you could go to GLG, Coleman, ThirdBridge etc and just pay for interviews if you need them done. An interesting alternative is with Arbolus, who lets you write questions and get asynchronous video responses. Research interview sourcing is very hard, and made harder when it is commercially motivated since people are wary of SUGR (selling under the guise of research). The expert networks impose codes of conduct and fees that make the process more costly, but also much more productive.
What Sam Altman's Prediction About the $1B One-Person Business Model Means 4 You
There are only packages for Debian, Ubuntu, and NetBSD. Not even include-everything Arch or Gentoo has ntttcp apparently.
Transformation to information economies really re-centered urban areas as well. People used to flee from urban areas (and for reasons like crime) now they're flowing in the opposite direction.

In the US though I see a lot of attitude for "ugh who wants to live in a building with people, I want huge lawns where I don't have to see my neighbors on the end of a cul-de-sac with no traffic. I want to live in a town thats as far from 'walkable' as possible." So many people I come across especially when talking about how housing has a supply-side problem and needs to build more with better density and access to transit.
After my first few years in Python (before types), followed by my last few years in Lisp/Elixir, I am skeptical of types. Can someone point me to specific examples where types are not just more code to maintain/make things uglier?
Yup.

> ...the results showed how the chemicals are powerful surfactants that concentrate on the surface of water, which helps explain why they move from the ocean to the air and atmosphere.

And skimming the surface sounds great, except for the fact that the oceans are awfully large. Maybe create PFAS-eating bacteria? What could go wrong? ;-)
Being smart (in the all ways we exhibit intelligence) is what humans evolved to do, but it'd be hard to argue that that doesn't make us smart after all.
Pretty sure Wikipedia will have a Google style reaction to this article.
Three Russians parachute from stratosphere to North Pole