jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No, there's a big difference between your bribing experiment and the thought-experiment I described. The value 7 * 1.01 is the amount it costs me to conduct the attack. I don't need anybody to collude with me.

The bribe is an unknown quantity that has to be greater than the revenue the operators of the centralized ledger forgo when they decide to collude with me and attack their other users.

The equivalent to the bribing the centralized ledger would be me trying to bribe the top 5 or so pools to conduct a 51% attack on my behalf. This is obviously going to cost me a lot of money because the pools have little interest in becoming accomplices in my criminal conspiracy.
"Gremlin" is way too perfect for this type of application. The graph traversal API should not have wasted this name.
I don't think you need to reach for Turing machines to specify P or NP, but I think it's fair to say that Turing machines* play a key role in establishing NP-completeness. (And other completeness phenomena.) Computational hardness is computational universality turned on its head, e.g. a problem X is NP-hard because someone has been able to figure out how to smuggle full-blown time-bounded nondeterministic Turing machines into instances of X.

*Or some other simple model of computation that's polynomially invariant wrt Turing machines, but at this point I don't think "you don't need Turing machines" remains as salient.
You're saying these are risc-averse people?
Pilots really push back against this kind of safety feature. They want 100% control of their vehicles, including the ability to lift the landing gear while on the ground, because the risk of equipment failure that cannot be manually overridden is high.
Sharing is caring. Anyway we need it more than you ;)
Tech media makes sports media look like The Partisan Review.

EDIT: Stupid bbcode making me look stupid.
You've been doing web development for 7 years and you're not familiar with this practice?

Get involved in a business before you try to start a consultancy/agency.
"public statement by an ex-employee rebuking these practices"

This idea sounds uncannily familiar for anyone from the former Soviet bloc.
Mac binary https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni/releases/download/...
One can easily think it's only half a million. That number while large for many organizations, isn't for others. Simply put, it's cheaper to pay this fine than build out the (likely) necessary compliance team. Were the fine commensurate with income I think it would go further.
Your original post said you didn't understand the outrage. You then explain how Apple goes out of their way to unnecessarily inconvenience the user by forcing them to have multiple Macs. I can't understand why you don't understand the outrage...
Yeah, it's almost like it got merged with Austria, given it says "Austriaia"
I'd recommend reading Taubes followup to that hit piece.
Damn, before clicking through I actually thought it was a translator translating between "Microsoft" and English.

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/04/15/nativity-scene
It's no big deal if you don't mind having a few partitions on your system. Personally I have a large partition for my /home directory, and smaller partitions for testing out new releases, distributions and such. If one of the releases is/becomes unstable, you can just select your old reliable release in the boot loader and get work done on that. It has worked out really nicely for me.
Cut out the cars and he's down to $50k/yr. Though it can be a social disadvantage to varying degrees, it is possibly to live without a car in most urban areas in Australia. Still $20/day per a person is much higher than average. It's possible to cut down on that quite a lot and still enjoy nice food. Then again, it might be these people who will spend anything who are pushing the food prices up here. Food inflation has been rather significant in Australia in recent years (it's still at least a percentage point higher than general CPI). Though probably also a result of the duopoly held by Woolworths and Coles.
I think the main difference between HN and Reddit is not the quality of the links (in the stories they share they have similar links and most of them come to HN later than Reddit) but the ensuing discussion. In fact most of the time I don't even click on the link on HN (for topics I already know about) but go directly to the discussion. I also tend to save the HN discussion page to my Delicious, not just the link, because of the value of the discussion.

That being said, I don't think the discussion on Reddit is worthless at all. Yes, there's quite a bit of joking, which is good to read at 4pm when you are stuck at a bug. But this particular topic is an excellent example of the value of the Reddit discussion: reading through the jokes, etc. provides interesting thoughts about implementing the TWSS bot.

So, the two discussions are complementary. For particular stories, I head over to proggit and see what the Redditers have commented.
I've always believed it's time for Apple to embrace running some of their software on other platforms. Not only would it take the competitive advantage away from other companies providing multi-platform products, but it would also show confidence in their products that users will ultimately use their products for the best experience. Sure, some products may not make sense on other platforms (e.g., Mac OS X), but many others do make sense.

In many ways, history is repeating itself here with Microsoft and Apple 20 years ago.
The delivery was the really impressive part of stuxnet, IMO. Which wasn't technical at all.
This may not be what the parent meant, but I think teaching logical reasoning in grade school would be a good first step. Understanding logical arguments and fallacies would go a long way to having a more informed, and less gullible populace.
Coming from Israel,
What I'm writing is about Pfizer but related to the article above.

Since the Pfizer vaccine is much more complex to maintain. Once you unfreeze it, there's a time window for it to be usable.

In addition to many other factors "modified" by the Israeli HMO, an interesting one related to the above is the allowance of an extra dose from each bottle. The Pfizer bottle were tested as 5 dozes per bottle.
The HMO here allowed 6 dozes.
Congress needs to give twitter an ultimatum to police crypto spam the elon musk profile and other highs profile accounts or else be held criminally negligent for aiding and abetting fraud. At this point ,twitter is an accessory to fraud
Do you still have incandescent bulbs in the US? Its really hard to find them here in Australia. I thought they were banned but I just read that they are not, but have been phased out.
When you have multiple people, there's an increasing amount of overhead, from communication, from coordination, needing someone to manage and lead. Now if a single person is able to do the work of multiple people, or even more so multiple people from different disciplines and different teams, then you are gaining much more efficiency. Because you've now replaced 4 people, and then you're moving 4x faster than those 4 people were working together, because there's no overhead required. So now it's actually a 16x speedup. In the same time that it took someone to schedule a meeting with the other team's manager to ask for resources to prioritize time in the next sprint, for someone to review the design and then help out, your superstar already did the whole thing herself after lunch.
Agreed.

In any case, Swedish doctors knew not to abuse ventilators, as did doctors in many other places. This point got lost in the usual assumptive attack on Sweden, but it's the only reason I mentioned that country. A friend in biotech talked to an ER doc in Stockholm who confirmed that they would never intubate + vent on a closed system, as NYC hospitals apparently did in an unethical attempt to control spread.
> I think Fauci fell a beat behind the narrative marching band in March when he said no to masks for the general population, and so had to make up a dumb story in June about how he nobly lied to save PPE for frontline workers in March.

Consider this interview, done early March, in which Fauci argues against masks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI . You don't even have to read between the lines because he explains his reasoning bluntly: "Exactly, that's the point. It could lead to a shortage of masks for people [(healthcare workers)] who really need it." He never at any point thought masks were ineffective. When he did say so in March as you see from this interview, he said it because he was concerned about shortages for medical staff. There doesn't exist evidence with which one can credibly accuse him of committing this sort of revisionism.

Bringing up Kramer betrays a lack of familiarity with Fauci's history. Kramer and Fauci eventually came to be very close friends, and Kramer is on record saying Fauci was LGBT community's best friend. Mullis lost his marbles later in his life, sounding fringe views on HIV, astrology and lots of other stuff. His contribution of PCR technique is undeniably one of the great discoveries in chemistry, but he's not an authority on much else.
Being a police officer is an unskilled position. Something that can be filled in an afternoon. Break up the union, force them to quit en masse. The good ones can be rehired on individual liability insurance like nurses or doctors.
Then hand over the computer you're typing this on. It doesn't belong to you, and I've got some people who want to use it.

That is, I'm pretty sure that on some level you operate as if private property is both normal and right, no matter what your theory says...
Complete tangent: I've never heard the term "an 18 flight". What is that, and what is it from?
Yes there is. It becomes harder to separate the wheat from the chaff.
If you want to stay alive that is blatantly false.
> http://a16z.com/2015/01/22/digital-health/

LOL, I love these stories, especially when featuring games like these:

> [...] Tomorrow? To understand your personal diagnostic data, you might soon depend more upon an iPhone app developed in a garage than on your local MD.

<rant>
This garage theme is annoying. The fact that Jobs and Woz had a garage ruined garages... Seriously. They literally changed use in the post-jobs era. If your father owned a garage and you didn't come up with (at least) Dropbox, you're a loser!!!!
</rant>

On a more serious note now.. The author seems to prefer applications written in a garage to measure things like blood glucose levels instead of machine-based lancets. If he were diabetic, I wonder, would he use an iPhone application to measure his blood glucose levels, or the MD?
When everything on the wire uses strong crypto, the only useful network data will be metadata. It will be interesting to see how traditional network IDS/IPS evolve to handle this. The signatures will be useless when they can't parse plaintext packets. Of course, orgs can always attempt to terminate SSL and do things with the cleartext packets, but that can get dicey.

Strong encryption on the wire (in transit) also renews the focus on the end points. The data are plaintext in memory on the devices. If the end points can be compromised, the data access problem is solved. Lot's of people are writing exploits (both good and bad guys) to do that.

When you combine network metadata with local device data, you've got a pretty complete picture.
https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain would help secure that vulnerability if we could gitchain://gist
I suspect that if we're in this boat by fall, school district dollars will be spent paying for wireless hotspots or in-home connections.

Until then, we'll see band-aids. I've seen one school district parking busses with wi-fi repeaters near apartment complexes, or near student houses.
Perhaps you over looked the quote included an ellipsis for brevity> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
Do you have some data to back up the theory that they all paid themselves huge bonuses? Most billionaires lost huge amounts of money as their wealth was in the market and in real estate so when that crashed so did their net worth. The ones who paid themselves bonuses were the wall street bankers who received bailouts from TARP. To be clear less then 20% of the worlds billionaires made their fortunes via finance.
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Vim works perfectly fine as a professional IDE with the Julia language for me.
Well pushback is a negative or unfavourable reaction or response.

If I'm absolutely wrong you then hope meditation gets unfavourable reactions or responses? Curious why you think what most would consider a positive and healthy thing as worthy of pushback? What does meditation do to deserve this pushback?
> - Most public bathrooms don't have soap and I've rarely seen people wash their hands after using the bathroom anyways.

Where are you from? I see the opposite in Tokyo.

> most people I know are arranging or participating in flower viewing parties despite the government's requests not to.

Doesn't sound like the majority to me either.
What's wrong with something looking "old-fashioned"? That seems to be better from my point of view.

I just finally got switched to Windows 10 on my work computer. Every time I start up a simple calculator, it takes up most of the space on my gigantic 27" QHD screen! Do they think I'm blind or something? The old Windows 7 calculator looked just fine and was an appropriate size.
No it absolutely isn’t. Developers are not being allowed to construct high density housing. One of the last bits of local politics I heard before moving away from my home town was some drama about a developer not being able to build an apartment building because it would “mess up the character that the local home owners bought their property for.” This happens consistently across the US and many people say that’s why about half the homeless people can’t afford a place to live.
I honestly have no idea. The marketing material suggests old people show health improvements. I'm no expert but so far it seems officially it doesn't do anything but looks promising.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021100/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC385349/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383356/
What percentage of the sky do you envision will be occupied by man made objects?
As others stated, you have the public and the private system. The latter is accessible after you earn above a certain threshold for a certain number of years (no idea about the specifics as I would have been eligible but never bothered to change). You also have niche solutions for certain free professionals (doctors, artists,...).

I would call the system pretty robust, as you cannot be uninsured. From personal experience: Having my kids insured under my name, under my wife's name when I earned less than her, being insured under my wife during a certain time of a sabbatical, insured through unemployment and now as an entrepreneur I never changed insurance provider. Only the status changed.

Interesting detail, even the public health insurance sector is run by commercial insurance companies. The minimum plans are defined by the state. Regardless of how many people are insured under your name, premiums don't change and stay at a certain percentage of your salary. Again, slight differences between providers but usually around 15 or so percent. Currently I pay much less, as there is no revenue yet.

Also nice, premiums don't change with previous sickness and preexisting conditions. Also 6 weeks of paid sick leave per sickness, resets for each sickness after a certain number of months (again, don't ask the exact number).

One important insurance to add is continued salary after the six weeks are over. Costs close to nothing when done early and can save you. Non serious things tend to be over well within 6 weeks. But serious ones can take considerably longer. And the last thing you want is money problems the. I spend 6 months on sick leave once, didn't have to worry about my job nor money. Was a nice thing.
Excellent explanation in the article. Also note that in x86-64 mode, the low 8 bits of all registers can be accessed, namely: AL, BL, CL, DL, SIL, DIL, SPL, BPL, R8B, R9B, R10B, R11B, R12B, R13B, R14B, R15B. Previously, there was no equivalent of SIL, DIL, SPL, and BPL. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
I didn't use the word evil so I'm not sure where that's coming from. I pay less than 45% of my income in tax to the government. With the rest I invest a large chunk in the private sector anyway. So I know it's not black and white. But in times like these I'm glad I invest in the government.
+1

I've become more pessimistic about the human race to work together to solve problems now. So much jingoism around me, and around in the news. I understand that's not everyone, but to be it seems like it's every country for themselves.
What are these people even leaking these days?

I want to know what happens when the telcos and internet go down? Do we still get Netflix through Army satellites or not?
It is the level of testing isn't it?

Death pr. infected goes from 0.4% (Germany) to 1% (Diamond Princess) to 7.8% (Iran) to 9% (Italy).

If you have plenty of resources and you do contact tracing you are going to find many cases and the denominator will be high. If you are pressed on ressources and only test people admitted to hospitals with obvious symptions then the denominator will be low.

Demographics, overall population health, polution explains some of it but not a difference of factor 20.
> FFS, some people should finally learn

I realize you were commenting in a neighborhood with a whole lot of broken windows, but please don't do this here.
Uhm, I think your comment is a real show of confirmation bias, or I suppose reverse confirmation bias.

HN is deeply entrenched in the current Startup culture, a movement that is HEAVILY connected to both Apple and libertarianism...
Hi, I'm the founder of BigStash.

The idea is simple: this is an archiving service in the cloud. If you want to test an archiving service in the cloud, you will probably want to upload multiple GB. We wanted our users to feel free to use the service in order to decide if it fits their needs.

Yes, if you store 5TB it will cost you $500 next year. But that's relatively cheap compared to most other cloud storage services.
"Carbs from the meal convert to glucose, and the glucose goes to the cells. When glucose goes into the cells, water goes out - that means the water balance changes. The bioimpedance sensor used measures this water flow, in and out."

How can this account for water differences produced from drinking water?
It seems a lot of problems in technology can be explained by a conflict, often between the cathedral and the bazaar, over who is going to control the market of a natural monopoly; in this case, it's native apps versus the open web. (This isn't to say that a new third alternative won't supplant them both in mobile.)
I run a Plex media server on my laptop, which is already serving up content to my local network over http. It would be very simple for them to host their Chromecast app on the same local server and for the cast button to send that URL.

The Chromecast checks the URLs against a whitelist. Presumably as a security measure, which is a perfectly valid reason, but it's still a "restriction".

To allow people to run a self-hosted GMail, huge changes would need to be made to the code. To allow me to serve my own Chromecast apps, it would need to remove a whitelist check.
I agree that it shouldn't have been downvoted so hard as to be grayed, but it's not like it's any more useful of a comment than a tautology..
OK, so suppose you are flagged. It could happen; it might have already happened. What's next: you'll end up on a no-fly list? You'll be arrested?
Not many PostgreSQL DBaaS offerings out there. This is great news.
First of all, this is great news - I use compose for Mongo and have been waiting for a PostgreSQL option. However, is the ram allotment similar to that given in the Mongo deployments - 1/10th storage? So, about $125/month for 1GB ram and 10GB storage. Making the obvious comparison to Heroku (which, granted, doesn't offer the autoscaling feature), Compose looks quite expensive. At a glance, it seems that on Heroku one gets the same amount of ram and 6 times the storage for less than half the cost of Compose.
Magit. Tramp. Org-Mode. Macros. Ido. Flycheck. Hilock.
I am not interested in, what philosophers say or what the government says, or even what the law books say.

It is just obvious to me, that living together (and that is basically what laws, governments etc. are all about) is only possible and can last, when some fundamentals are respected. One of them is privacy (this becomes more and more obvious in the digital age).
He's for some public option, but nothing mandatory. Generally nothing that would hurt big business too much, although he has shifted a bit to the left in recent years (and even weeks) as the Democratic Party has been doing so (Bernie's influence being significant also now).
No one taking into account he runs the Emergency Broadcast System. He can still get his message out.
I'm sure it's true that it's not intended that way, but it's coming across that way, especially when you do it 5 times. Please don't hound anyone like that on HN.
Yes! Breathing like that will purge carbon dioxide from your blood more quickly and result in higher oxygen levels. There are some really powerful exercises based on oxygen breathing in quite a few different traditions. Some names I've heard of are "holotropic breathing", "circular breathing", "breath of fire", "round breathing", "bioenergetics breathing", and "Wim Hoff method". Wilhelm Reich made use of oxygen increasing breathwork in his orgone therapy back in the mid 20th century.

This stuff can really bring about powerful alternate states of mind, and I've personally experienced some deep spiritual and psychological release from oxygen breathing exercises.

At this point I've come to think that peoples' natural response during an anxiety attack, which is to hyperventilate, might actually be a healthy, desireable reaction. But we socially repress and stigmatize it. Fear and anxiety are uncomfortable to us, so instead of holding space for working through that stuff naturally, we stuff it.

I'm telling you though, the feeling relief that controlled hyperventilating can bring is unbelievable.
That's a different argument -- whether or not the HEPA filter really is a HEPA filter.
Not to be heartless, but many militaries are fairly experienced in rapid reductions in manpower resources.

Also, acoup's blog post does a really good job of going through the differences in Modern and Static military doctrines. Much better than my TLDR of it.
> - Hongkong and Palau has much worse eating wild animal habit than Wuhan.

Curious how you get this impression, do you have specific examples in mind? For example, bats, wolves and civet cats are consumed in Wuhan, which is not the case in Hong Kong.

> - Hundreds of Wuhan gov officials got punished due to inefficient response, more investigation is still continuing.

On the flip side, I wonder how the cases for the eight whistleblowers reprimanded by local authorities, including Li Wenliang, are being investigated. More importantly, the real question is: does it actually solve the problem? Replacing officials (especially the local ones) is easy, solving the root cause (lack of accountability) is hard.