jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The network never "choked" at 1.3tps. There are peaks of activity near the theoretical max of 7 tps (check for blocks close to 1MB in size). There are thousands of unconfirmed transactions because their senders chose to include fees that are too low (or no fee at all), so miners decide to not process them.

> When new coins are no longer being awarded to miners then people will have to start to pay the transaction fees themselves

That's not how it works. People (senders) already pay the transaction fees themselves.
Apple’s Kernel Engineering Manager posted a walkthrough for building and running a kernel from these sources:

https://kernelshaman.blogspot.com/2021/01/building-xnu-for-m...
If it's good enough to have access to nuclear buttons, why not Facebook/Shopify/Instagram/Twitter etc. ? Confused by what is happening in US.

EDIT:
"The president has supreme authority to decide whether to use America's nuclear weapons. Period. Full stop," said the Arms Control Association's Kingston Reif. A president could only be stopped by mutiny, he said, and more than one person would have to disobey the president's orders.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/06/politics/nuclear-football...
> Let’s say the Fed prints 1 quintillion dollars, and then gives it to me. I then put it under my very big mattress. I will never spend a single one of those dollars. Has this quintillion dollar print changed the value of the dollars that are actually changing hands? It has not.

Probably, very slightly, because even if you plan to never spend them, the fact that you have a quintillion of them in your mattress probably changes the value you attach to other dollars (because, in extremis, you could break into that stash), which has an effect on the overall value of dollars (but only imperceptibly, because you are a very small part of the market.)
A/B Street is much, much more ambitious as far as traffic simulation goes, but still in progress.

https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet#ab-street

If someone is looking for interesting Rust project to contribute (also as a beginner) I really recommend it. Author is great, friendly to PRs (what includes PRs made be programmers with no Rust experience).
This is also basically what happened right at the beginning when the rioters very violently broke through the first fence badly injuring at least one cop. As soon as it was obvious the mob was overwhelming things and the police had rescued their colleagues they fell back at a run to the next line. Pretty standard defensive tactics from time immemorial. That there were only three officers and a fence that was easy for the rioters to lift and batter the police with is concerning.
Agreed. I will argue that a benefit of the gig economy is the average person has more masters (and so is beholden to any one master less). I'm open to other models, but that's a feature we need to keep in whatever comes next.
If he really knows kana, he should write it as sarari-man as the third vowel is long vowel.
It seems unfair to impugn the peloton bike as being "$$$" where a direct drive trainer is only "$" when the price difference is far from an order of magnitude, especially when you consider that you still need an entire bike to use with the direct-drive trainer.

Granted, the direct drive trainers and related software have functionality the Peloton does not have, particularly the pre-Bike+ peloton.
Be an endlessly fascinating and brilliant friend/relative but refuse to communicate with them via WhatsApp.
>Coal use is declining sharply, especially in the United States and Western Europe, according to an analysis by Carbon Brief. Renewable energy is expanding fast, though not nearly as fast as necessary. And city and state governments around the world, including in the United States, are rolling out stricter rules on tailpipe pollution from cars.

>Those who have followed the diplomatic negotiations say they are confronted by something of a cognitive dissonance when they think about this moment. The world’s biggest polluters are nowhere near where they should be to draw down their emissions at a time when the human toll of climate change is near impossible to ignore.

>And yet, renewable energy is spreading faster than could have been anticipated even a few years ago; electric buses and cars are proliferating and young people are protesting by the millions in rich and poor countries alike. Even in the United States, with its persistent denialist movement, how to deal with climate change is a resonant issue in the presidential campaign.

>“There’s a bit of a best of times, worst of times about this,” said David Waskow, director of the international climate initiative at the World Resources Institute, a research and advocacy group.
The "Church" is a government/country, not a corporation.

They've executed (lots of) people with their power via sovereignty.

If you mean the church on the corner, well there is no difference, they are simply a profitable business that pays no taxes (the clergy are often owning nicer homes and driving nicer cars than their patrons).
People have different learning styles. Some learn best by doing, others by being shown how and yet others can study and learn from books. Doing CS at university is only a good option if you learn well in that environment. As many others have pointed out, CS degrees teach you a lot of stuff you will never use. On the flip side, the risk of being a self taught hacker is that you pick up lots of bad habits, could end up with a limited world view.

Instead of going to Columbia and racking up a huge student loan debt, seek out a startup or open source project where you can be an apprentice to some masters who have a verifiable track record (majority of professors are lousy programmers if they do any at all). And never stop learning and seeking out ever better masters.
> - 6 months access to VIM Adventures

> - 13 fun and engaging levels

> - More than 60 commands and motions

> - Covers most of the keyboard

> - Now for only $25

I personally think it is a wonderful idea and love how it is implemented(got very excited the first time I saw it). But I can not justify $ 25 for a game I can only use for 6 months, but I will pay $ 25 once off.

Then again one need to take hosting costs, and the time it took the creator to make the game in to account; and lastly it is his product so he can set the price point to whatever.

It will just not bring the joy of vim to African kids in Uganda.
It's a technique that one uses to cut through with people who don't care about anything but the bottom line.

Essentially, you say that first and foremost, it's bad for business. Plus, it also has some negative effects on society and the ability for people to participate as equal members in society; you know, for airy fairy types with lofty ideals in ivory towers who care about such things.

It's somewhat upsetting that people see the need to frame things this way, but unfortunately it's an effective way to deliver a message without being 'partisan' (whatever that is).
> but mockery seemed plausible

How about we stop assuming mockery just because it might seem plausible and instead we lean toward "no offense intended" by default?
> everyone would raise their hands if they were asked if they would want their children to go to college.

I don't at all believe that college is an unalloyed good. For some individuals seeking some career paths, it can be, granted, but it has very large costs even if money is no object, and I doubt the benefits exceed the costs for most people.
From what I gather, there are 25-30ish or so child abuse sites on .onions; law enforcement knows about all of them; and law enforcement bots probably make up the vast bulk of their traffic.

My take is that the very unusual spike is probably law enforcement bots (Internet Watch Foundation, et al) regularly spidering the sites - if they restarted Tor each time, to try to make it harder for the sites to block the spider, as I believe they probably do, then they would cause a brand new HSDir lookup each time, which would skew Dr Owen's stats considerably compared to even high-traffic hidden services used by regular users - as we see reflected in the data. Dr Owen also thinks (from his 31c3 talk) that this is indeed a plausible explanation, although of course there is insufficient data to test this hypothesis (and nor is there any reasonable way of getting it).

Oh, and by the way, it is not only impractical for Tor to do anything about child abuse - it is not for Tor to do anything about this. Tor is a censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving computer network, by design. Please do not disrespect the value of liberty by asking anyone to find a way to censor it. If it can be censored for any reason, then it is vulnerable to being censored for every reason, and that vulnerability would need to be fixed. There is no fairy dust that can change that, and Tor is far too important for that - the devs know that well. Indeed, the anonymity that Tor provides can be (and is regularly) used by law enforcement to infiltrate the few online child abuse networks. (You'd probably see more on Hotmail, Yahoo and Facebook than on Tor.)

The big problem of child abuse is not at all new, and it is not an internet problem. You're not even scratching the surface by saying it's a problem of poorly-resourced childrens' services; lack of appropriate treatment of the most at-risk people; of vulnerable young people being failed by the people and services they trust to protect them most; and of vicious organised crime exploiting the most innocent and the most guilty alike. It is complex, and multifaceted - and though it might make headlines to do so, absolutely no part of it can be solved by just blaming a convenient scapegoat like "the dark web" and fucking up the internet in revenge. That just makes everything worse. If you want to take action there, maybe donate to Sure Start or something instead, that might actually do some good.
You missed my point. No, the human species doesn't have races in the scientific sense. What you shouldn't assume is that all mentions of the word "race" are referring to the scientific concept. Quoting census.gov:

The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically.
Is it just me or does this site waste 80% of the browser with whitespace? I've never seen such big margins.
nothing about context, then function called in expressions

var a = { b:function(){...}};
a.b() // a
var c = false;
(c || a.b)() // window

this context is always global
I'm not defending what's going on here, but CHAZ/CHOP had a higher murder rate than Somalia because of unelected volunteer "private security". Not sure how you see that as peaceful.
Joe Kennedy almost certainly stole the 1960 election for his son. Nixon knew this but decided it wasn't worth the national grief to fight it.
Especially such in small amount.

It sounds like a lot of money, but the US War in Iraq tallied over a trillion, with Afghanistan matching that amount.

The CARES Act is estimated to have cost $2 trillion.

Countries are not going to go to war over such a petty amount of money. The costs of such a war would be 100x that amount, easily.
A person can believe anything they want.

If there were evidence of a stolen election, then Trump would have won a number of court cases from one of the MANY judges, mostly ... well, conservative, to use a label ... that he placed his cases in front of.

Anyone can look at these cases and have an understanding of the actual evidence presented, and see, objectively, that there was not significant election or voter tampering, and definitely not significant enough to change the election.

I'm far more concerned about attempts to make it harder to vote before the election - the one drop box per county in TX, for example, then I am that any election was stolen.
Isn't any labor statistic from India suspect because so many people work in the "shadow economy"?
I hope your cynicism is a force for good in your life.
Like I said, most states use a paper trail.

It would be great to do a full, transparent audit of the complete system and apply national standards. Let's do it! That's part of the point of the Federal Elections Commission, but that's been politicized and intentionally crippled.

But make no mistake, people who are crying about massive fraud are not actually serious about doing any of that.
Transcript from today's rally.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-sav...

At the end, he literally calls for an unruly mob of armed insurrectionists to march down Penn Ave to the Capitol. Sure, he never used the words "break down the doors" or anything like that but what did he think was going to happen? He's been using dog whistles that hint at this for a month and here we are. Particularly given the armed stand-off at the Michigan statehouse earlier this year.
Here's a police officer taking a selfie with one of the people storming the capitol today. https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520
I chceked their counterfeit policy[1] to confirm; it's pretty clear and hews to the plain meaning of the word:

> Counterfeit goods are goods, including digital goods, that are promoted, sold, or otherwise distributed using a trademark or brand that is identical to, or substantially indistinguishable from, the registered trademark or brand of another, without authorization from the trademark or brand owner. Counterfeit goods attempt to deceive consumers into believing the counterfeit is a genuine product of the brand owner, or to represent themselves as faux, replicas or imitations of the genuine product.

An unauthorized copy simply isn't counterfeit unless it is promoted as official. There's a legit copyright argument, but Twitter's rules (correctly) don't apply unless the copyrighted material is on Twitter.

> Anyhow, another case of Twitter capriciously moderating content and quelling free speech. The worst part though is that Twitter HQ sets the policy to whatever suits their fancy.

The suppression of speech is the symptom here, not the root problem. I doubt Twitter is doing this because they have an axe to grind against SciHub. Likely, an executive got a call from the journals and then told the moderation teams to figure out how to ban them.

I think the root issue is that tech/media companies are becoming a bit of a shadow-government where people with influence can shut down their competitors. And the journals probably feel they were entirely justified in "lobbying" Twitter, since SciHub is violating their copyright.

This isn't new, businesses have always made private agreements to screw each other, and the only reason we don't have smoke-filled back rooms these day is people don't smoke much. What's new is that big information / infrastructure / financial platforms are a far more influential feature of the modern political economy.

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/counterfeit-g...
Thanks for asking this.

I recently took a job with $MEGACORP after 5 years with start ups. I forgot how much $MEGACORP likes meetings. I found myself thinking about how gumroad has no meetings. I asked myself the same question as the OP.
Completely. At this point its obvious there was collusion with elements of law enforcement. The bigger issue is that the FBI and DOJ have known for a while that many local law enforcement departments has been ideologically compromised by Right Extremism and doing nothing about it[0]

[0]https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidd...
There is a "favorite" link which adds a comment to a public list of favorite comments on your profile.
The point is the whole frame of the debate has changed. It used to be that exploring Mars would have required massive investment in single-use rockets for a vanity mission. Now we are on the cusp of realising an order of magnitude drop in the cost of access to space. Recovering F9 first stages is only phase 1. The next step would be a redesigned SpaceX rocket allowing for a recoverable 2nd stage as well.

It's no longer about massively costly media shows, but inexpensive, sustainable projects that may be achievable within our lifetime.
My opinion of the whole ordeal changed quite a lot once I realized that only reason this became a "big deal" is that Khashoggi was well connected.

It was portrayed as "this is bad because they killed a journalist."

In reality it was "this is bad because this guy had lots of connections"

Journalists are killed by bad people every year, usually to very little fanfare.
The problem is not naive software, the problem is that you can't predict the future. There will always be dates in the future that will be impacted by some rule change that hasn't been officially enacted yet.
That second point is really interesting. It seems sketchy on both ends, really. Either they are intentionally circumventing their own privacy feature, or they are giving their own browser an unfair competitive advantage.

Huh, maybe the level of integration here is just inherently problematic and companies shouldn't try to fulfill every role in the market.
Theoretically nothing you said is wrong. However the truth in my experience is that people who casually refer to their coworkers using language like "scam artists, MBA's and ego-tripping managers" have a lot wrong with them.

If this guy engages with his colleagues with that mindset, what kind of experience can he possibly expect?

And my point is - if he brought that attitude into academia he'd get he same outcome as well.
Not to get too Jordan Peterson-ey but I really think this is the result of postmodern, social-constructionist ideology spreading through the humanities. If there's no such thing as objectivity and all truth claims are just manifestations of who has power then there's no need for journalists to strive for objectivity and everything you publish is just another salvo in the war against dominant power structures. If social constructionism is true then you're no longer a neutral conduit for facts, you're a culture warrior shaping reality with your words. There's no debate, no 'marketplace of ideas', only dominant discourses and power differentials, and your moral duty as a journalist is not to debate bad ideas, expose them, or allow the reader to make up their own minds, for that only gives oxygen to harmful discourses; instead you must destroy bad ideas through any means necessary, no matter how dishonest (and dishonesty isn't a real thing anyway because there's no such thing as true and false, only that which advances the power of a given group and that which weakens it.)

This nonsense is now the reigning ideology among humanities departments at our elite schools and outlets like the NYT are increasingly staffed by young graduates who have been indoctrinated into this cult; is it any wonder that the NYT has gone off the fucking deep end?
Thats not the point. I’m sure whales can hear the doppler shifts just as easily—or even easier—then we. And I’m sure they can deduce the direction and speed of a vessel just as well. And I’m sure being in the line of attack of something really big and really fast moving is just as stressful for a whale as it is for us.
KOHLER sh*tbowls are harder to implement but you can flush the cache.
It's like a someone who has been asleep for 68 years. He wakes up and has no clue about the world he now is in. Only this guy was awake for those 68 years and aged all the while. So not only doesn't he have a clue, he's very old. He won't be able to survive without massive assistance. I wonder if he'd been better to have stayed in prison.
of cows?
This sounds like a Devo album name.
He appears to agree with Murray that some class differences reduce to heredity.

Is this now a forbidden hypothesis? If IQ has a large effect on life outcomes (it does) and is significantly heritable (it is), then it would be surprising if that were not the case.
The WHO is a useless organization. For political reasons, it will be necessary to engage, but hopefully US authorities will not treat it as an information source.

The US should use its own primary sources in future to evaluate disease spread. China will lie to the WHO and the WHO will protect it.

But to know the truth, we should use our modern equivalents of Key Hole. There is no truth but that which you have examined yourself.
Great work. I love the "Golden Rules" list you compiled. It seems like teams develop their NLP systems without sharing a common training set which leaves some teams without testing things like the "a.m. / p.m." thing.
These kind of posts keep making me think I should go work for a FAANG so I can actually retire one day. Anyways, as someone on the other side, who has never worked for or applied to FAANG, I have a few reactions.

First, your salary is absolutely ridiculous. I know hard working people who have built their own businesses with blood and sweat, and they still don't make as much as a slacker engineer at FAANG. So I'd say try not to take it for granted - you will find it difficult to even make a fraction of your comp if you leave FAANG.

Second, in my experience working with ex-FAANG - these engineers, while they all tend to be very smart, tend to be borderline junior engineers in the real world. They simply don't know how to build or operate something without the luxury of the mature tooling that exists at FAANG. You may be in for a reality shock when you leave the FAANG bubble. On the other hand it could be a great challenge if you're bored, and will broaden your engineering experience greatly.

If I was in your position, I'd look into FIRE and then you can just relax and do whatever you want without worrying about finances.
I never worked at a FAANG and have way less experience then you, but here's my 2 cents for whatever it's worth.

If I were in your shoes making a "ridiculous" compensation, then I'd calculate how many more years you'd have to work to get to FIRE (financial independence). If you're only 2-5 years out, I'd consider just sticking it out. As far as I'm aware, nowhere outside of the FAANG pays anywhere close to $500k comp. I'm guessing most startups generally don't pay more than $250-300k, which is like a 50% paycut meaning you'll have to work at least twice as long to retire.

At the same time, life is too short to be wasting it doing things you don't enjoy and being bored to tears. Just be careful of "grass is always greener" syndrome / FOMO. You might find startups to be way more work and way more demanding, and then regret having taken a steep paycut to give up a cushy job.

Or maybe you'll find yourself working on projects you're much more passionate about, start your own company that goes on to be successful, and be both personally and financially better off. It's hard to say as everyone's experience will be different.

I'd seriously consider the sabbatical route, and definitely wouldn't recommend quitting without a plan. The beauty of making so much money is that you can afford to hire people for your projects which you'll be doing anyways as a founder, and if things fail it doesn't matter because it's play money.
It doesn't make them lazy. You're not lazy for not wanting to hike the Oregon Trail.

No, it simply makes good systems brutally improbable.

Re: Surgeons - precisely the point. A perfect result demands a high level of skill which the average developer has nowhere near. As a result there are lots of casualties.
Same thing happens with youtube, at least in my experience.
The time i click by mistake on a video that really doesn't interests me i feel like i'm doomed.