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by aserafini 4y ago
Your comment made me realise it would probably be fairly easy to program a ChatGPT-like model to generate its own ‘what-ifs’ for any given assertion. Ie. The birth certificate is an ‘exception’, a safety measure for a model like this in ope
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by aserafini 4y ago
It’s also possible to write Python extensions in Zig: https://github.com/adamserafini/zaml
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by aserafini 4y ago
It makes sense if the self-fulfilling prophecy is outside your control.
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Proof of Association, an elegant consensus mechanism(contenthub.coil.com)
5 points by aserafini 4y ago|3 comments
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by aserafini 4y ago
I think a catch-all top level exception is totally fine and not ugly at all! That’s why my Python APIs never fatally crash, they just log an exception and move onto the next request.
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by aserafini 4y ago
Because the property of being wrong is not binary. It might be partly wrong but correct enough for your current situation.
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by aserafini 4y ago
Indeed, I expect the ONLY application where this combination of requirements makes sense is.. a global currency.
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by aserafini 4y ago
This is totally true, I worked at Amazon when it first launched Kindle. There were multiple software engineers 100% dedicated to ‘making the Kindle product page work’ at this time.
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by aserafini 4y ago
But even taking those %s at face value: it's 40% of a much larger amount of money (a whole CD versus some streams).
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by aserafini 4y ago
Even if you want to ‘fire and forget’, it’s still essential to keep a reference to the task, otherwise it can be garbage collected mid-execution: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio....
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by aserafini 4y ago
It shouldn’t be a pain to maintain OpenAPI files. The same code you write to validate your request/response should automatically generate the OpenAPI see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221395
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by aserafini 4y ago
This is exactly how FastAPI/Pydantic in the Python ecosystem works (and also in Django-ninja for Django). You compose types representing your request and response shape. Those types validate the API request and it’s response, and also
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by aserafini 4y ago
You can generate valid alternative Ethereum PoS histories in private without getting slashed: just don’t propose them to network? This is unlike PoW, where even generating the history is expensive. This leaves a problem: how should new node
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by aserafini 4y ago
Sounds like Nim could be what you’re looking for? https://nim-lang.org/
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by aserafini 4y ago
The most "popular" chain in PoW is the one that has the most work. How should someone determine the most "popular" chain in PoS based on the chain history alone? Is it the one with the most 'staked'? The proble
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by aserafini 4y ago
You know which PoW chain is the one true chain because it is the one with the most work. What is the equivalent mechanism in PoS?
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by aserafini 4y ago
And in this last scenario, how does someone joining the network know which of the now forked chains is the ‘one true chain’?
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by aserafini 4y ago
Why not?
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by aserafini 4y ago
You don’t even need to write your own functions: the JavaScript ecosystem has the concept of packaging functions and publishing them as useful libraries! https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery
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by aserafini 4y ago
I often think about this. We have 100s of services running on 1000s of servers and 10,000s of containers but I wonder how much of that is ‘waste’ in the sense that we are running 10,000x Operating Systems, 100s of load balancers, database
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by aserafini 4y ago
The parallel with Mythical Man Month resonates with me. Of course 'executing code' and 'human minds' are bound by physics, that's a relatively uninteresting insight. The point is: the process of human minds writing
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by aserafini 5y ago
What case/camel-insensitivity are you referring to?
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by aserafini 5y ago
But the problem is not only storage but also bandwidth (on a runway).
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Aquilla: federated package manager for Zig(aquila.red)
3 points by aserafini 5y ago|0 comments
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by aserafini 5y ago
But a smart contract is reusable.. (that applies to paper contracts though as well!)
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by aserafini 5y ago
100% agree, it is also impossible to quantify so can never really be a useful factor in decision making. And Python is not a business with customers. It’s an open source volunteer project.
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by aserafini 5y ago
But if you submit your trade ‘first’ you miss out on any information that arrives afterwards. Maybe it cancels out the advantage of being ‘first’? I am admittedly well outside my area of expertise.
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by aserafini 5y ago
That was my initial thought as well: this would just become an arms race to submit your trade last? But maybe if the trades were priority queued it would negate that.
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by aserafini 5y ago
The price of a coin will go up but it won’t necessarily stimulate more expenditure of ‘mining’ energy because there are no more coins to ‘mine’. At that point the activity of miners would be better described as ‘transaction processors’ and
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by aserafini 5y ago
> Resources of building clean energy capacity have an opportunity cost I don’t understand this point, are you saying a project that stimulates additional clean energy capacity is a net negative somehow? Why?

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