skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this weird idea of an experiment, actually two experiments:

- I want to use my computer with my eyes closed (or blindfolded). Because I'm really interested in exploring the limits of my sense of hearing combined with my speech, plus my ability to use keyboard and mouse. It's like learning to ride a bike. I have not used any accessibility features of any of my OSes (linux, and windows) mainly because of my bias that those features are more like "lip service" than making sure that they are a full fledged replacement of visual user interface (well I have many gripes with the state of visual user interfaces, and by extrapolation, non-visual UIs can only be equal or worse, not better). So a big part of my experiment would be to explore, from first principles, what an ideal non-visual UI would look like, and then develop that software. The funny thing is that my interest in this experiment is not fueled primarily by the desire to help others, sorry to say, but by the fun and the thrill of being able to efficiently use a computer with eyes closed, almost like getting a new mini-superpower. (Surprisingly, my interest in this experiment came about as a result of thinking about going from mouse/keyboard based GUI usage, to keyboard-only vim and tiling window managers and touch typing, while your four fingers of each hand are constantly in the home row and move away only to carry out a specific task. It's almost as if restricting yourself makes you more efficient in some sense).

- As an extension to this, I'm interested in being able to live in my apartment for a few days blindfolded (including leaving-the-apartment in the experiment would make it too open-ended/challenging). I'm allowed to plan as much as I can beforehand, to memorize what is where in my rooms, kitchen, restroom, etc, and also make a list of strict rules about where a certain thing should be placed after it has been used (e.g., a toothbrush, etc), and then I blindfold myself and see how far I can get. I would need to know where each thing is, but there are too many things in my apartment, so maybe I would want to reduce the number of things I have, and this way it connects to the idea of minimalism, another interest of mine. And again part of the reason for this experiment is the fun, but also to learn what changes can be made in typical apartment indoor so a person doesn't have to rely on his/her sense of sight to live fully (e.g., cook, clean, move around, etc). I guess this is the kind of experiment that vsauce gets to conduct. I think it would be interesting if he creates an episode based around this. (Though I'm ignoring the biggest effect of being in this experiment, the psychological effect of not being able to see).

(edit: It also appears to me that there is a connection between trying to carry out operations blindfolded, and trying to code up something by imagining what that code would do in run-time, because a piece of code running on a computer is almost like a blind/blindfolder agent carrying out operations based on values of variables, etc. So does such an experiment make you a better programmer in some way? or give you a new perspective about running code?).
Consensus forking should always exist as an option. The problem with PoW blockchains is not the visible governance options. Those are a very positive feature.

The problem is the invisible governance patterns that an unreliable consensus algorithm creates.
Since the HN crowd seems to strongly support GDPR, how is this in line?
The only way this changes is removing the choice from the surgeon doing the cutting.

Sounds a bit dramatic but if they think action is genuinely inappropriate, they should make the case to their colleagues, or a Multi Disciplinary Team, and let them have the final say. Together they should be able to enforce the Royal College and NICE guidelines for operating and the CQC —the main monitoring body— should be able to work out (both from data and on-the-ground inspectors) whether hospitals are doing as they should.

I realise that's pretty UK specific but the ACS should be able to achieve something similar.
Holocaust is a word that has its origin long before The Holocaust happened. [0]

I did not call the non-human animal holocaust as The Holocaust (committed by the nazis).

Here's a Jewish Holocaust survivor https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h8df0/i_am_an_80year... that gladly uses the word holocaust to talk about what is happening to docile, domesticated animals all over the world.

Here's a notable survivor too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer#Vegetari...

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/holocaust
Confirmation bias or lives somewhere with a much smaller white population.
True. Which is why ICE isn't going anywhere anytime soon. But if prices could be brought down (i.e. by mass production), fuel-cell/hydrogen vehicles would work, but electrics still would not.

Although at this time I do wonder what could possibly move one to purchase a Mirai.
By the time the "GENT-rification" reaches Chattanooga and Pittsburgh though, it's become something more akin to "SQUIRE-ification". The people moving in are not nearly as wealthy, so people are not really being pushed out in the numbers that they are pushed out in places like Manhattan or San Fran.

It's the difference between a few thousand hundred-thousandaires moving in, as opposed to a few thousand millionaires and billionaires moving in. There really is a material and nontrivial difference in the housing market ripples resultant from these two hypothetical immigrant waves. Far fewer people, if any, wind up displaced in the third and fourth tier cities that the hundred-thousandaires move into. Developers operating in these cities simply can't afford to remake the markets the way you can in the larger cities. The numbers typically don't allow for it. Whereas in the first tier cities, the market in entire swaths of these cities can be remade and become astronomically unaffordable in a matter or 5 or 10 years. And the numbers in that large market make it very profitable for a developer to do so.
Your claim about fluorine being essential for organophosphate nerve agents is incorrect. The original nerve agent, tabun, contains no fluorine at all for example. Neither do VX, parathion, or paraoxon.

The mechanism behind organophosphate poisoning lies entirely in the phosphate part of the molecule. Among the enzymes present in the human body are a large class known as serine hydrolases. These enzymes hydrolyze chemical bonds in a wide variety of compounds (such as sugars, proteins, and lipids), and their function critically depends on a nucleophillic serine amino acid in the enzyme's structure. This serine attacks the bond to be hydrolyzed, freeing one half of the victim molecule and leaving the other half attached to the enzyme. Then water comes in and breaks the bond between the serine and the second half to restore the enzyme and in sum hydrolyze the original bond.

Organophosphate nerve agents act by entering the active site of a serine hydrolase. They are attacked by the active site serine to release a counterion (which depends on the specific nerve agent) and a phosphate ester of the enzyme. However, this enzyme ester can only be hydrolyzed extremely slowly-- the enzyme cannot be restored to its original form, and the entire enzyme is nonfunctional.

Now, the released counterion could be many things (it just needs to be something that will leave if pushed out by the hydrolase serine). On the other hand, it should not be too eager to leave like something like chlorine would be: if it was the potential nerve agent would be attacked by things like water before getting to the hydrolase, wasting the agent. Thus, a balance needs to be struck between something easy to displace but not too easy to displace. This gives the classic functional groups present in most nerve agents and organophosphate pesticides: fluoride, cyanide, thiols, and phenolates.

By the way, fluorides and fluoride minerals are virtually impossible to regulate trade in: they have a large variety of legitimate uses from toothpaste to aluminum production, and fluorspar is a fairly common mineral in the world. What is usually regulated instead are the phosphorus precursors such as phosphorus trichloride and red phosphorus as well as some chlorinating agents like thionyl chloride.
This sounds exactly like the middle ages.

Royalty would pay the equivalent of millions of dollars today for spices because they would balance your humors.
Honestly, probably just best for the club to shut down and reform as a Venturing Crew. Same concept, much more independence, and you get access to the properties and resources that Scouting International and the Boy Scouts of America both offer.

I've yet to run into any issues going on trips as a gay couple in crew, its solidly not bad. Much more of a collegiate atmosphere than Boy Scouts too, and no uniform requirements or competitions either!
IDK about Boise, but the few mid-sized cities I'm familiar with are bemoaning a tech talent crisis and citing huge numbers of unfilled positions.

But when I shop around for jobs in those areas, two things stick out:

1. While they'll generally do better than 58k for non-entry-level positions, midwestern employers won't touch 1/3rd of my coastal salary. Housing doesn't even come close to compensating. Even if someone straight up gifted me a house in the midwest, I'd still net close to 6 figures better on the coast.

2. More importantly, and 100% related to #1, midwestern employers have no idea how to leverage my skills. Therefore, the work is generally less interesting (lots of not-so-challenging implementation roles and a lot of that is web stuff; very little industrial R&D) with no room for growth (except perhaps into vaguely technical mid-level management at a particular type of company, which I'm not interested in).

3 (This one is admittedly purely about personal taste). The local support for public schooling k-12+ is spotty. Some of the best schools in the country, but also some of the worst. And you basically have to live in sprawlville to use the good schools. Meanwhile, the interesting jobs are still mostly where you'd expect and the bike/transit infrastructure connecting wealthy suburbs to downtown areas with interesting jobs just doesn't exist... so, better buy a comfortable car.

IMO this won't change for at least one more decade. The tech talent for one type of computer science will begin to fill in just as demand shifts to a different type of computer science. I'd be unsurprised if that continues indefinitely. The only way out is for these communities to build out their own talent pipelines a la Pittsburgh or Chicago. But Chicago is Chicago, and Pittsburgh can pull on its rich institutions from a glorious past. So, IDK how you bootstrap that sort of thing.
> Consensus in [proof of work blockchain] design is:

> 1. Perhaps the single most expensive consensus algorithm ever designed.

It's like arguing that bubblesort is one of the most expensive graph traversal
algorithms. It's not, because it's a protocol for document timestamping, not
establishing a consensus.

> 2. Deliberately one of the slowest.

Indeed. It was designed so verification of the timestamps is much, much faster
than producing them. In previous work, with trusted third party operating
a timestamping service, it was enough to control a single service, so there
was no need to design this into the very data structure.

> 3. Does not actually provide trustless consensus once 1/3 of the miner nodes decide to collude.

Indeed it does not, because it was never designed as a consensus protocol.

> [...] what, is the proper application [of blockchain]?

When you need to establish an order in a sequence of related documents, like
with trade contracts. Outside of this very narrow purpose, blockchain is
pretty much useless.
I really love this idea and greatly appreciate the brevity in implementation, the sales pitch, and the landing page. If I had one suggestion it would be a slightly different visual treatment so as to not conflate it with battery percentage so easily. Maybe small clock icon in the middle of the bar or something.
I think (or at least hope) gp was being sarcastic. These has been a huge uptick in folks trying to blockchain all the things.
It's interesting how much blame you attribute to the developers. I would lay this squarely at the feet of city planners and voters; they hold all the keys.
The history of basketball is full of these: repeatedly widening the key because big men were OP, introducing offensive and defensive goaltending rules because big men were OP, outlawing zone defense in the NBA because zone defense was OP, followed by legalizing it because isos were OP.

Baseball and soccer are two of the most traditional and conservative sports, so it's not as fair to single them out, even though baseball goes through periods of raising and lowering the pitchers' mound.
Is IPFS for you?
This is the kind of dishonesty that gives risk assessment a bad name. Note that they weren't even allowed to see and contest the assessment, and Alpine ski racing was allegedly deemed safe.
I'd have to agree with the parent post.

They create things for the 99.9999% that don't care about privacy and will never touch those settings. When you leave that massive group, that's when bugs will be way more common.

We could argue that they intentionally only care about UX when you give them your data but then again that's capitalism, right?

They might have to give you choice to turn those things off, but nobody can force them to give you the same experience. Imagine any executive saying he will focus on giving a great experience for the users that they can't make money out of. He'll be out of a job very quickly.
Root cellars can be built anywhere food is grown. The Wikipedia page has pictures of very large buildings.

My point is that it's more efficient to eat locally-stored produce than to ship lettuce from Yuma to Maine in the winter.
Because it's still a huge screen with high quality audio?

Why would you care how the image gets on the screen of it ends up looking better?
Or Portland in the 80s and 90s.
That's interesting, I always feel the opposite -- when I open a page about some software that doesn't have a video I often close the page immediately because I want to see how something works in practice not just in description.
I guess I'm not the target market for them because I don't see the point of any of these things.
I have a PS4 Pro, which provides for all my entertainment needs, including Amazon Video, Netflix, iPlayer, YouTube, and whatever else, and seems to sidestep all the annoyances and limitations. Snappy UI? Check. 4K video? Check. Frequent upgrades and ongoing support? Check. Storage, if you need it? Check.

So you “don’t see the point” of a Cheap streaming stick to stream videos over a $400 PS Pro?

What would you suggest for a cord cutter with multiple TVs - for them to spend $400 for each TV?

For perspective, for the price of PS 4 Pro for someone who only wants a streaming video solution, you can get a 55 inch 4K TCL Roku TV.
Sometimes 1 mile, sometimes 20. Or I might want to visit friends, who don't have a charger and live 50 miles away.
Because of its size and because of the sound system, and also because movies are released to cinemas earlier than you can watch them at home?
This is the unfortunate part. But if you are concerned with scaling salary it can work to your advantage for a time.
Wow. This is amazing. Makes me want to make my software way more accessible to users.
> I have a hard time finding people in the distributed systems platform community who believe that blockchain is even remotely as significant as the hype wants to make us believe.

Right here! Take eBay or Amazon for example, the entirety of their business can be run as decentralized smart contract software. The blockchain is a distributed ledger whereby storing information is incentivized. It's unbelievably significant. The scale problems will be figured out and reliable and auditable databases will be the defacto choice.
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The farmer in the article does it that way. Cows produce the most milk right after birth. Then they reduce the production, because the calve starts eating on its own.

I think keeping the calves with the mothers is the smallest part of the problem. The premature slaughter of cows and the slaughter of male calves and "surplus" female calves is the bigger issue for me.
Watching a high school baseball game this weekend, I was thinking of how little the rules of the game seem to change and also how slow performance gains are relative to other sports. Occasionally innovations like the infield fly rule come into play. Small tweaks of inches to the height of the mound seem to be the great majority of changes. Gridiron football grows faster and the style of play changes every year. Baseball is just baseball.

These are the subjective impressions of a fan who mostly dropped the game after the ‘95 strike. Perhaps the slow pace of the game shapes my perception.
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Snow is a pretty localized event. Surely call centers could be built to support entire regions/countries where spikes would average out.
It’s one thing you can use, especially if you’re a fan of Dexter, but back in the real world we already control the actual precursor Methylphosphonyl difluoride. If you take sodium cyanide and drop it into H2SO4 and water, you get poison gas. If you want to stop that, control the production and export of cyanide, not the water or sulphuric acid!

Isopropyl alcohol is not a chemical weapon precursor, just like water isn’t a cyanide gas precursor.
Yes, I’m very familiar with GiveWell.org and 80,000 Hours. They’re great orgs.

I attach absolutely no strings to any of my donations, but I think you bring up a great point. There’s a huge inherent power differential, so you really have to make sure the the relationship doesn’t become subtly coercive in some way. I spend a great deal of talking to my receipients and get a lot from it. I think they do too, but I’m sure they also realize I enjoy it and may feel some obligation to indulge me. I try my best to make sure they don’t feel like there’s any quid pro quo, but there’s a chance that they feel like there is, and that obligation, in theory, could affect them negatively.

Perhaps I’m gravely misjudging, but the relationships I’ve formed seem very genuine and, in some cases, almost familial. The mere fact of someone half a world away reaching out and opening their wallet for a total stranger really warms people’s hearts and leads to a kind of bonding that seems to be about more than mere self interest. It’s quite amazing, really.

And, because of that, I’m donating $1k a month to people who, at the very least, need it more than me. Would the best choice and the morally right choice been to just have donated $1k a month to GiveDirectly? Absolutely, but I don’t think I’d ever have done that.
Please add the mirror functionality to CE.
The title should say "free-return", not "fere-return".
Who is the Bolt considered extremely stylish by? To me, at least, it screams "econo-box". Has it won some design awards or something?
Regarding 3D - a lot of people have slightly (or completely, for example me) different eyes. For these people, 3D movies cause headache and it's not a pleasant experience overall - the last time I visited a 3D cinema, I wasn't even able to look at the projection without my eyes hurting, thankfully it was just a short educational sketch.
> set up triggers to build the site statically whenever content is updated

That's not only the same gnarly problem as cache invalidation but with a metric ton of filesystem writes on top of it.
Just FYI, Go Veggie isn't vegan or dairy free (at least last time I checked), it's lactose free.

Also, Daiya isn't the state of the art by a long shot. If you're adventurous and have a large grocery budget, Chao (served cold) is the most cheese-like cheeze that I've had so far.
That's why I said "anecdote", i.e. "an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay."
Much of the milk isn't produced in the udder, but transported through the blood.

But there is also a whole lot of immune tissue and hormonal regulation going on. I doubt that the way towards "cow less cow's milk" will go through ex-vivo mammaries.
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16898970

It is not the choke-point in that reaction either, while DF is. It also requires a trivial amount of easily produced or smuggled rubbing alcohol to make enough sarin to kill everyone in Syria. Isopropyl alone gets you nothing, and is easy to store and move around. Meanwhile...

Methylphosphonyl difluoride is both reactive and corrosive. It is absorbed through skin and causes burns and mild nerve agent symptoms. It reacts with water producing HF fumes and methylphosphonic acid as a result. It is also capable of corroding glass. It has a boiling point of only 55.4 °C at normal atmospheric pressure, and thus a fairly high vapor pressure at room temperature.

There’s a reason that Methylphosphonyl difluoride is class 1 controlled chemical weapons precursor, and you can buy rubbing alcohol anywhere.
To me it sounds like you've essentialized the target of your ire, while contextualizing what you prefer.

Even google shouldnt be above your reproach in a situation like this.

VLC is one of the shining beacons of the open source community, in my opinion. Just like every successful project that retains it's core values, compromise is key. The dude is all over this thread calmly explaining everything to anyone who asked. How does any of his behavior fit into any reasonable definition of diva?
> The more people collude, the more profit they get, the more rational it is to join them.

This is not true. Colluders diminish the value of their PoW reward by reducing the trust of all other participants in the system and honest actors have an even strong incentive not to join them. Just a few years ago a mining pool that gained a very large share of the Bitcoin hashrate had members choose to leave -- https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-miners-ditch-ghash-io-pool-...
Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music
To add to this, since I've started using GSuite for my personal account, I feel a hundred thousand times more comfortable with Google.

1. My Google identity is now my real email, the one tied to my real domain that I myself own. That's so much better. I can comfortably sign in/sign up with Google to other sites, have them tied to that email instead of my @gmail.com one.

2. I feel way more comfortable sharing every single detail of my life to Google. In fact, it turns what initially comes off as really creepy, into a useful life service because I'm now using things such as my map activity etc as a service I have a paid contract with Google for. And if I don't like it, I can hard disable the entire service.

3. I have access to a lot of stuff that regular free Google doesn't offer. Things such as undelete email/drive (which has been useful on a couple of accidental occasions), and, get this, support. Live chat and phone!
Wow, thanks! That's super interesting. I have to redo some of my mental model of the ancient world.
As a normal geek, my entire knowledge of baseball comes from DS9 - hence the "infield fly rule" immediately ringing a bell.

If the player touches the umpire does that player get kicked out of the field?
I don't see what stops cities from planning keeping some kind of growth in mind though. Rail, Bus systems are expensive but how about changing building codes to make it easier to build higher density near the downtown areas of these cities? And then maybe acquire land (at least) for a future mass transit option (monorail, subway etc.).

For Gods sake don't be like Austin, which totally ignored the problem and is now scrambling to get it together with some very very expensive options (likely to be even more expensive in the future).