skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude's a real jackass for sure. Either sign any kind of transaction to the chain using Satoshi's private key or GTFO.
That’s so awesome, congratulations on your success
His mind might have been on other things. He might have intended to, but in the end not had the chance. He might have been worrying about his family.
What you need are royalties, which happily enough come from creating art or inventing.

The rest of passive income is exploiting an edge (like an install base in desktop software) or rent-seeking, both of which if left to be truly passive will be captured by someone willing to put in slightly more active effort.
Exactly this. Nearly anything on the internet that is concerned with speed does this in some fashion.
We keep logs for either 3 or 7 years, depending. journald is a waste of electrons for us, and that's one (of several) reasons why.
Vsync off can sometimes produce tearing, but I find this preferable to vsync on, which eliminates tearing but introduces latency.

Edit: Freesync/G-sync is an attempt to eliminate tearing AND latency. Unfortunately, this often requires a higher response time on many monitors. For example, on my simracing setup with a Samsung CHG90[1], you can't both enable freesync and the fastest response time on the monitor. I opt for the faster response time as it just feels faster and most of the time I don't notice the tearing.

[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--chg...
Something I think about is how there have been outstanding games that the majority of people will never play. Just in recent years - Red Dead I and II, Horizon Zero Dawn, Last of Us, etc. These have quality/polish up with Breaking Bad or any acclaimed movie/TV, but no one else in my extended family would have played a second of any of them. How do you bring that experience to people?
That in no way means that Ned’s work hasn’t impacted yours or that you haven’t used his work without being aware of the dependency. Just say’n is all.
No, this particular example is a group of partisan trolls looking to discredit science through quasi intellectual seeming “conferences” which bait this particular response
Both excellent questions. Oddly the tire kicker never says "If you build X then I'll buy it .. unless my needs change or someone else releases a superior product". Requesting a purchase order casts the situation in the cold light of day.
> If there's a vulnerability here that weakens encryption but you still need four acres of Cray computers in the basement in order to work it you kind of think "NOBUS" and that's a vulnerability we are not ethically or legally compelled to try to patch – it's one that ethically and legally we could try to exploit in order to keep Americans safe from others.

Not sure about the law, but I'd say that assuming that nobody else has that kind of computing power is quite arrogant, and it's certainly not "ethical" to keep it undisclosed…
Consumerism always feels like a constant cycle of ditching mature products for newcomers that will undercut and overdeliver, then once that newcomer captures enough
of the market and goes hard on monetizing the product, you bail, so you're always continually getting a high quality product at a good price.

Soylent, unfortunately, hit its mature stage.

Also, I wonder about the longevity of the model, since everyone knows a product starts to suffer once a sizable market share is captured.
Blog Post: The Dark Side of Rust Language
This wasn't even remotely what the Civil war was fought over. It was a struggle against the Federal government system from DC imposing themselves over states rights in the South. Also, you might get more reception for your ideas if you don't paint half the country as a "festering shithole". The majority of Americans don't live in the ivory towers of NYC and San Francisco.
Which also doesn't sound right.

I took the proposal on the table to mean that we systematically harden infrastructure code. If that's what we're doing then a rising tide will lift all boats. Except for the people who fall behind on upgrades. There is a period of chaos where your prediction will play out over and over, but eventually there's a new equilibrium where it's just different rocks to look under. Then people get bored again and they fall behind on upgrades, and now every time new functionality is added to the formal system, by definition people using the old version aren't getting that protection, so you'd look there first.

I think the critical question would be is how quickly does a formal system reach homeostasis? If the rate of bugs (or maybe you call them features?) is negligible after a brief flurry of initial activity, then most of my argument collapses in a divide by zero error.

As to priorities, I don't think penetration and debugging are fundamentally that different. And by that I mean, there's some fuzzy math you do regarding cost (to you) of checking a thing times the value of having that information. Yes, that means a ton of cheap scenarios will be tested very early. But ultimately, how valuable is breaking into a boring system? It's definitely not zero, because you've created another resource for yourself.

Doesn't code that runs on a lot of systems get far more attention than code that runs on a few? Wasn't that part of why OS X got away with fewer viruses? Not because it was profoundly harder to hack, but simply because fewer people cared?
A few reasons have been pointed out by others, but let me include another.

others have pointed out:

- Client side SPAs sometimes don't hit server logs

- Some static sites are hosted places where you don't have access (github pages, netlify, etc)

- Bots are sometimes defeated by a simple js file

But another one that is not mentioned is one that effects large apps and services. Many large apps and services don't exist on a single server. Furthermore servers are launched and destroyed on a whim to meet scalability needs. Javascript analytics easily surmount this. I suppose it is still possible to feed multiple server logs into a single source of truth for analytics, but I dont know if such a solution exists right now. JS Analytics easily overcome this obstacle.
This is really related to the audiobook I'm currently listening to (Reboot) and how this CEO coach works through the childhood problems of different C-level executives like he had to do himself first.

Imagine not having to deal with that during entrepreneurship, without the issue wealth of contacts and money, what an advantage it is.

Sure, you can have more grit if you come from a more constrained background, but I would not know what I would choose between the two.
I live for the day when a single down-voter actually comes back with a cogent argument and engages with the topic rather than cowardly hiding behind a down-vote. I never down-vote anyone. It's lazy, dishonest and contributes nothing to a conversation. If it were up to me I would permanently eliminate the ability to down-vote.

If I am wrong, don't down-vote me, put forth a sound and valid evidence-based argument showing me, and others, how it is I am wrong.

We don't learn with down-votes, we learn through honest intellectual engagement.

That's the problem with this whole climate change thing, both extremes are living in unshakable states of delusion and refuse to look at reality.

The Allegory of the Cave, all over again.
How big of a bet?
In a couple of hundred years we burned millions or billions of years worth of stored energy. And to clean-up that mess you need far more energy than what it took to produce the mess in the first place.

That would be true if the only way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere were to run "combustion in reverse" to turn carbon dioxide back into hydrocarbons.

That is not the only way, though. Enhanced silicate weathering is attractive because it turns atmospheric CO2 into chemically stable condensed phase compounds, without the huge thermodynamic cost of reversing combustion. The energy cost of enhanced silicate weathering (though still large in absolute terms) is greatly reduced compared to combustion-reversal because it's just accelerating the kinetics of a thermodynamically favorable natural process.

MgSiO3 + CO2 => MgCO3 + SiO2

This is a sketch of the geological carbon cycle [1], the same thing that eventually (100,000 years from now) would remove the excess CO2 from the atmosphere. The idea is to accelerate the drawdown by pulverizing silicates so the above surface-area-limited reaction goes faster.

See e.g. "Enhanced weathering strategies for stabilizingclimate and averting ocean acidification"

https://csas.earth.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/...

[1] "The Global Carbon Cycle: Geological Processes" Section 3.6

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/Wallman.pdf
How about a correlation between IQ and race. It seems that no one will touch the subject out of fear the it would end their career.
I'd be open to not receiving benefits. The only one I really need is healthcare and I can get that through healthcare.gov.
Wow great story! Congrats on the new position. I didn't know about the Show HN tag. Sounds like a great opportunity for startups. Thanks for sharing!
it would definitely shift the power balance back to the states. As it is, a large portion of the power the federal government exhibits over the states is threatening to withhold money.
Let say someone made a meta study on what different studies suggest we should do to combat climate change, and we compare how many suggest we should invest in more renewable energy productions and how many suggest we should invest in more nuclear. With renewable being favored by the left, and nuclear by the right, is it that unlikely that we would see a pattern emerge from the data that has less to do with science and more about political affiliation?

I don't doubt you when you say that researchers are open when it comes to the models for which they are competing with. People who conduct research is usually doing it for a genuine interest to find out answers, and in the domain of those models I am not worried. The concern is when they intersect with politics, such as the above example.
It's hard to find an unbiased article about the event, but trans activists got Brown to withdraw a paper for reasons other than defects with the paper: https://thebridgehead.ca/2018/08/30/trans-activists-bully-br...
Doesn't work like that. Not at all.
The medium of video games isn't "inherently stimulating" either. Games need to be specifically tailored to that kind of thing, and many aren't (look outside of the mobile space for examples - 99% of what you see on the steam front page is not a skinner box)
The paper also said, "websites should eliminate SMS based MFA altogether".
How We Type: Movement Strategies and Performance in Everyday Typing (2016)
Sun made a windowing system based on (Display) PostScript way back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
Wright has forged signatures to prove his Satoshiness. Maybe Kleiman was Satoshi, that could explain how Wright had knowledge that supposedly fooled Andresen, but Wright is clearly a scammer of some sort. My money is on this whole charade being a pump-n-dump scheme for Bitcoin SV.
The Navy Has Top Secret Classified Video of an Infamous UFO Incident
Nonsense. You can write a perfectly modern and beautiful site without any JS at all.
Hipmunk’s co-founders tried to buy it back before the shutdown
I will take this one. I use my ps4 mostly for netflix, but recent holiday season left me with some games. You would be surprised how often those games force you into updates. And then there is PS system updates..
Minimums are legal.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 permits businesses to impose a minimum purchase amount of up to $10 for credit card use, but the minimum must be the same for all credit card issuers and payment card networks.
yes, indeed. I've seen a lot of cool apps here. I think one even got bought after being featured on top.
I've had fun with airwander.com for looking at potential stopovers -- never booked through them, though, so can't make it an official recommendation.

Usually when wanderlust strikes me, or I'm going somewhere terrible and want to inject "somewhere better" as a stopover, I find myself there contemplating the "ifs"
Engineering learnings at big cos vs startups are wildly different. If your goal is to learn what it takes to start your own company, you are much better off working at even a mid-sized startup, than a big tech co. There are a number of reasons for this, but a particularly consequential one is that you will learn to build/manage/deploy applications from 0, and if things go well, through a variety of scales thereafter. At a mid-size startup you'll have less of the "from 0" bit, but you are much more likely to learn to deal with the scaling issues that manifest as the software that was built in the early days starts degrade with growing load. You will also likely be using similar open source tools in both the early & middle startup stages.

Building features in a large, existing codebase, in the robust tooling context of a big company, is nothing like building services from the ground up.
ABSynthe: Automatic Blackbox Side-Channel Synthesis on Commodity Microarch [pdf]
Paper-rich startup employees look for 'pre-wealth' help to lock down stock opti
> for not actually having to worry about the impact of those cookies

I'm using a plugin called Cookie Autodelete for this and like it
I second that book recommendation. Very interesting and educational.
Show HN: Get a Merkle-Proof from Ethereum
You are wrong on all counts and exactly the kind of person who makes society suck. You can think all of those things are whatever you want, it's still no reason to try and censor them. You are wrong to try and silence anyone, period, no matter the topic; words are not violence. You don't get to decide what I get to hear no matter what you think of those ideas.
With the exception of our thoughts, pretty much all of our consciousness experience, i.e. involving qualia, is due to perception.

The person in my room (an achromat) can't experience colours at all, and they're able to tell you that. Their eyes have no functioning cones. They see everything in monochrome, so to them, watching a colour movie is how watching a black and white one is to us. Under low light conditions our cones are inactive and we see only in monochrome using our rods, just like achromats do. So people with normal colour vision can experience what it's like to be achromatic, but achromats can't even imagine what colours are like.

In the room, the person can only tell what colours the papers are by observing how dark they look when overlaid with the coloured filters (whose colours they know).

The metaphorical use of colours in the language isn't really important, and as you point out is dependent on culture.
>We have plenty of evidence already showing the concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere going back many thousands of years

Excellent example! I'm no climate scientist, but I am a former geoscientist, and as it happens, all of our estimates for historic atmospheric conditions are based on various proxies which in turn are rooted in assumptions. Let's take a look at ice cores, for example. The theory is that bubbles of gas are trapped during solidification and a very strong assumption is that gas ratios do not change through processes like diffusion while the ice changes state through gradual burial over thousands of years. Now I could not find any literature after a cursory search questioning or even exploring such assumptions. But it is a fact that at least one other indicator contradicts estimates from ice cores. Plant stomata overreport historic CO2 concentrations relative to ice cores.

Now, a hypothetical thought experiment: suppose a scientist is able to obtain funding for and completes research which suggests that ice cores actually underestimate peak CO2 concentrations, indicating that modern levels are actually not as unprecedented as commonly believed. Which scenario do you think is more plausible:

1. The paper is published and the field of climate scientists, quite entrenched in a particular dominant viewpoint, become much more sceptical.

2. The scientist is shunned, if they even find an outlet willing to publish, for being a denier, and their career is jeapordized.

Remember, scientists need to eat too.

I do not wish to turn this into a debate about climate science. But there are other perfectly valid indicators, hard to find in "prestigious" journals, which are in desperate need of scrutiny but are not explored because people who spend their best years pursuing a PhD are unlikely to risk destroying their careers and losing their jobs when they have safer questions to ask. That's a large component of this emergent pressure to research in a particular safe direction.

Honestly, given the massive uncertainty that we deal with in geoscience, with strong economic pressures to be precise (oil wells are expensive) it is extremely difficult for me to see the same wildly uncertain proxies, models, and technologies being used to justify unquestionability of facts in climate science, particularly considering the risks of overestimating warming are far lower than drilling a $200MM dry hole. Climate is a massive, complex, chaotic system which we have only recently begun studying, and requires enormous infrastructure for data collection, processing, and modeling, the latter of which cannot be empirically verified. To believe that the science is settled and beyond questioning is naive. CO2 levels are rising, but how far this deviates from the norm and how bad it may ultimately be for humans and animals is still an open question.
I don't contribute much to open source, mostly due to employment agreements, but a couple I was able to make:
1. Bulk copying null values with Python Sybase module (initialized variable used)
2. ACE high res timer bug under x64. Inline ASM was using the wrong registers in x64 mode (reading garbage upper 32 bits of 64 bit value).

Both of these were bizarre bugs, and neither was immediately evident.

#1 was presented by an error saying something to the effect of "received xXxX bytes, expecting yyyy".

#2 was harder. It became evident because of logging. The high res timer was used gor logging amd intermittently, I was seeing +200 years supposedly elapsed during a db operation. Obviously wrong. It was a bug due to how registers are handled between x86 and x64 code.
so much for "Hipmunk isn’t going anywhere"
What's the use about a study on _correlation_ between these two things? You could also have a study on correlation between IQ and poverty, IQ and access to education...

Not to mention, what's the point of IQ anyway?

Maybe no one is picking up the subject because it would be a waste of time?
And how do they link these between different websites?
The planet has naturally fluctuated in temperatures throughout its entire existence the rocks show us this. there's been several Extinction events due to temperature fluctuations even if humans are increasing the temperature it was going to happen without us anyways.
I've certainly become "addicted" to good books in the same way I've been "addicted" to good video games - reading for 8hrs straight every day until I'm done and so on.

From the way some people talk about video games on here sometimes I assume they think the android/ios market is representative of all of gaming (even then there's plenty of good "buy once" mobile games without microtransactions, the discoverability on the stores is just godawful - presumably to steer people towards more profitable crap rather than what's actually good).
Science is a global effort these days, with a lot of cultures involved, and a lot of immigrants working as researchers. The biases aren't consistent, and vary greatly.

A bunch of liberals at American universities isn't enough to completely throw off something like climate change or genetic influences on behavior. A lot of eyes have looked at a lot of data.
Or liquidate all his holdings?
Does that mean it's unaffected?
Teen Saved from Seizure After Online Gaming Friend Calls Police 5k Miles Away
I’ve worked on a project with DIU. I was really impressed with the process and how they short circuited the often long and bureaucratic process of getting new technology into the gov.
Are you otherwise able to purchase those legs with points?
You are right, it was on the extension cable!
Why can't they do this for ads?
With DomTerm (https:://domterm.org) you can get similar functionality by embedding browser windows. In a running domterm window do:

domterm html '<iframe src="https://example.com" width="100%" height="400">'

I think this is potentially more useful than embedding X applications since an application with an embedded http-server can conceptually do anything an X application can do but with a more portable (and remote-able) toolkit. (DomTerm itself is an application with an embedded http server.)
Making this sort of "the models are uncertain" claims without any mention of the uncertainty being mainly regarding the political choices made in the future is a classic of the last 30 years of climate change denialism.

Further strengthening your denialist status is the fact that you in a separate post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050842) try to pass off state censorship of criticism to its (suggested) policies as suppression of research disproving climate change.

Also, insisting the wildfires are caused more by arson than exceptional drought and heat is also unambigiously mainstream denialism.

If you are serious about going into the climate change discussion, you obviously have some reading to do about the status of the research, and more importantly the over 30 years of organised and well funded attempts to discredit and suppress climate research.
A good book might hook someone into reading it all in a binge, but once it's done it's pretty much done.

A game on the other hand can create a sort of rewards treadmill where no one ever really 'finishes'. A book can't adjust rewards in real time to fuel addictive behavior.

Books don't really exploit gambling mechanics, which is what can drive some of the most pernicious addictions.
> 20+ YC companies (mostly from the LA area)

Are you bad at math?
Back End, Database and Infrastructure Rental (New Business Idea)
Hi, I work in an IT company. Our main business involves creating partnerships with companies who develop enterprise systems.

Our partners will be able to rent our back-end, database & infrastructure, so they only need to focus on developing front-end and end up with a functional enterprise system. The renting part means that they use our API features from an old system maker SaaS tool we created in the past(but the UI is fixed). We don't charge our partners at all for this rent, but we do charge the end-users (the clients of our partners).

We are basically like mBaaS, but we focus on web enterprise systems instead of mobile apps.

I am curious to know if there is a real need for our solutions, and I would love to hear some opinions regarding this as well.

We are also trying to move to the next stage, but it is extremely hard to get investors who do not have a development background as they do not understand the pain of doing repetitive, low value back-end stuff. If any of you could help with the best way to describe the value with our business, it would be great.

I am working in marketing and my main task at the moment is to create a website to attract partners. As I do not have a lot of IT background, and I would also like a fresh view and input, it would be great if any of you would share some of your opinions and insights.

I will be reading each of your comments.
Thank you in advance.