skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I misinterpreted nothing: more white people are being killed by police than black people [1][2]. Which part are you challenging?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
I think it was more interesting when it looked like there would be use cases other than speculation. The first example in the O'Reilly Bitcoin book has someone buying a cup of coffee, these days most cryptocurrency proponents would laugh at it.

(Someone will reply that you're supposed to use a layer 2 protocol for that, but that looks insanely complex for most people.)
oh I did try that approach! it was generally ignored completely except for one hilariously angry person.
That's fine, Miguel. But it should be a choice. Apple's market share is large enough to have them forcibly unbundle their app store and OS businesses (like Microsoft and IE in the precambric era).
I studied many different things and read many books.

I'm about to put down my projects and work with some others on their idea. Maybe you too can find another's project to work on rather than starting one from scratch?
Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
There's a massive, influential economic ideology centered around the idea that "beholden to the bottom line" and "better for the end user" are the same goal. I was amused that you assume the opposite (as do I).

The exception to your rule that I'll mention is that sometimes PE firms will buy a company and reopen it after it stops operating, but that's pretty rare.
No need for iCloud storage. You are only limited by the storage on the iPad itself as everything is stored locally.
I asked about the apps that were banned from the play store. Tusky is still available on play store. Maybe their hardcoded list of hate-speech instances were enough for Google to keep them on the play store?
The content here is a guide on how to teach the concepts outlined in the curriculum, and is not necessarily a self instruction course. See module one: https://www.riotgames.com/en/urf-academy/fun-and-feeling
Roku Built Itself into a Major Gatekeeper in Premium Streaming
Amazon has been sending me someone else's order details for about a year now. It's crazy to me for multiple reasons:

1. They send this information (order details, name, address, tracking numbers, receipt) without requiring a confirmation email. In fact, in their system the email on the other guy's account is labeled "unverified".

2. The emails contain no way to stop future emails. There's no "unsubscribe", "this is not me", "contact us", etc. Every link is to an Amazon page which expects the user to be logged in to the correct account.

3. The system does not sufficiently lock old accounts when the account email is reused. One suggestion from Amazon was to create a new account using my email, which should lock the other account. This did not happen, so now there are two accounts able to send Amazon emails to me with no way to tell them apart.

4. The Amazon website doesn't verify the user's account before displaying order details. If I click on a link from the other person's order return (or other types of links), Amazon opens up to my account but displays information from their order. It's confusing to see someone else's "refund status" alongside my account name on the official Amazon.com site.

5. Getting this fixed is a pain in the ass. I call, they say they'll fix it. I call, they suggest something else. I call, they escalate, try something else again. I chat, can't be handled over chat, they call me, try another thing. I'm not sure why they won't remove the email from his account or contact him and ask him to remove it.
The most affected are elderly and those with comorbidities but even with a vaccine they remain likely to die. Unless you're in those groups there is not much to worry about. If you're in those groups you should be as careful as you wish.

I concluded months ago that the HCQ+ZPAK+ZINC works when given early, so for me, no hysteria. It's a free country however so feel free to freak out.
This comment, that AlphaGo showed "creativity", seems so ridiculous to me. Alphago is operating purely on bayesian statistics (with very good priors) so it's decisions are exactly the opposite of creativity.
TikTok’s format is a red herring – why Instagram can't recreate their magic
The only thing I'll note is that Ethereum has committed to moving to Proof of Stake, albeit at a glacial pace, which * should * mostly remove the environmental destruction. The leadership does seem committed, although the rollout is slow.

Not really a fan of crypto overall (although I own some eth as a hedge in case it takes off), not contesting your other points.
I don’t think we should get to tell Apple what the % is, they’re a private company.

However, i am ok with adjusting the amount we charge them for use of public services - their reliance on the rule of law, that we’re not at war etc. etc. becomes more valuable in absolute terms to a company, the more payments it accepts within a jurisdiction.

I think it’s totally fair to invoice for govt services based on the value of them to the company.

To be clear this would not be like taxes on profits, i’m proposing an invoice against receipts.
Why should the fee be proportional to the price? If it’s about supporting infrastructure, take a percentage based on load on the infrastructure.
Which powerful, privileged people should get to decide what we are allowed to hear about? When the power is inevitably abused, how can we address that abuse when we may not be allowed to know about it?

Is it even necessary for free speech to directly result in a happier humanity? What if it simply preserves the conditions that we need for progress, or merely keeps us from sliding backwards? Would that be enough to make it worthwhile for you?
Pure and Applied Chess
I was thinking the same until I saw this [1] in the references of the Wikipedia article. What's with all the factors of 7? That's oddly specific.

Here's [2] the article it's responding to with further tables.

1. https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2004/PSCF6-04Johnson.pdf

2. http://www.spachurches.com/uploads/5/6/8/7/5687389/numbers_i...
You already have to drop your call letters every few minutes while you're on-air, by FCC regulation. HAM radio transmissions are also subject to FCC restrictions on "obscene or indecent" language.

If it crosses the line where it wouldn't be allowed on over-the-air TV, it's not allowed on HAM radio spectrum. You can report it, and with evidence it can lead to nasty fines and/or revocation of license.
His arguments are simply stupid. I'm paying nothing and get security, privacy and peace of mind. It's called Linux, and it's secure and it works. The rhetoric that locked down systems improve security significantly is fascistic and evil.
I agree. I don't even understand what is happening here honestly, and why it is seemingly so popular. Could someone explain what exactly these bots are sniping, and why it's so hard to avoid?
Have a friend who lost more than $12k in the process of buying a house. Scammers sent the wiring instructions a few hours before the legit closing attorney sent the real instructions. The email looked exactly right except for a minor change to the domain name from address.

After one hour, wire transfers sent in error are no more recoverable than crypto.

How the thieves knew so much about the process and timing is supposedly being investigated, but no one is holding out much hope. And the attorneys have a strong incentive to cover up any evidence of intrusion on their side, assuming it was their infrastructure infiltrated.
Exactly. And PoW systems have built-in dampening ("difficulty") that make sure you need to burn even more energy as the system gets used, just to stay where you are.

I sometimes joke that Bitcoin is the closest we've came towards defining trust as a physical quantity - with the unit being watts. You can get a good approximation of the lower bound of the energy costs of trust by just comparing it with a trustful system that is regular economy. In other words, that is how much energy is saved by not pursuing trustless systems. Trust is a very powerful optimization trick.
you can do that with pure nginx/apache or almost any webserver as well, it's called CGI
How to Migrate from SQLite to PostgreSQL in Django in 3 Steps
I think this: https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/amd-math-library-libm/ is supposed to be the alternative to MKL for those applications.
No one is gonna make 12k at 1000hz for decades, at least. And if they do, it would be irrelevant without a comparable GPU.

A RTX 2080 Ti can't even push 144fps on 1440p at max, much less 4k.
I spend a lot of time on Ethereum and wanted to respond to your points.

1) Yes, proof of work is terrible long-term, mainly because its cost scales with the market cap of the cryptocurrencies it secures. Ethereum is switching to proof of stake, which uses a normal amount of electricity and forever solves this issue

2) There are also a lot of excellent ideas and projects. For example, Gitcoin, quadratic funding, quadratic voting https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656

3) It's true that there are many scams/crimes in crypto, and that many or most holders of cryptocurrencies are speculators. What makes crypto different from tulips is that many speculators believe that crypto will come to power large portions of the world's financial and economic infrastructure.

4) Whether a random crypto startup is likely to be a scam depends entirely on your filters and definition of "startup". If you limit your population to projects or tokens with some level of social validation, such as being top-ranked on coinmarketcap or backed by in-industry VCs, then there're hardly any scams at all. Ethereum now has hundreds of quality teams working on many different parts of the ecosystem. For example, the DEX space (decentralized exchanges, eg. https://uniswap.org/) is very different than the layer-2 scaling space (eg. https://optimism.io/)

5) [It's a wild west...] Respectfully, this is an unkind or perhaps bigoted statement. I have many friends in crypto who are thoughtful, kind people. They think deeply about the ethical implications of the systems we're building. The same is true of many leaders in the space.
Doesn't seem to work if your target weight is higher than your current weight
I can attest that I have a distrust of Brave Browser purely due to it's use of blockchain tech. I don't even have that much against Brendan Eich. I just think any use of blockchain technology for fiscal purposes is a way of financially incentivizing spam.
It's internet food!
WYSIWYG for professional word processing is like training wheels - it lets you start being productive on day one, but if you don't spend the effort to learn how to work without them, they get in the way and make you slower -- although you wouldn't know that unless you've seen someone who can do the job without them.

I have not used Word for ~10 years, but not in the last ~20 or so years, after I realized how much time and effort it cost me -- nearly missed an important deadline because of a Word 2 vs Word 6 incompatibility that manifested in a very inopportune moment.

It's been around for almost 30 years. I'm constantly receiving documents from people who've used it for >25years. And there is never use of styles, often spaces instead of tabs, many "new lines" instead of a page break, and a host of other things like that. References are not dynamic (just typed out) meaning that an item inserted in the middle of a list makes many of them wrong.

The vast majority of people who have used it for decades use it mostly as a smart typewriter, because the "pro" features like styles require a lot of discipline and the "let's just press the bold button" is too easy and enticing.

WYSIWYG needs to die whenever anything professional is needed.
In the broader market there’s still hype for SaaS businesses which Redis can easily become because everyone wants to be a rentier and earn passive income.
Why not exchange call signs in band?
Citibank is in an argument with other institutions that operate in broad daylight. Crypto nets allow anyone, anywhere to jump into the transaction as a feature. These guys don’t care about New York City police. I don’t think regulators will have any control without having a controlling stake in the ledgers.
Why a difference? Internet company censorship is at scale and often works to further censorship by other organizations - some of them are even governments.

Ignoring governments - who can have valid political and strategic reasons to be censors - the social media censorship is more serious because it is operating at the social layer - all those capillaries. Social consensus enforcement touches more people in everyday life.
Now we just need to port all this over to python... or switch to Julia? Which one would take the least amount of effort?
Another possibility is that companies try to guess your email address. I recently got an email thanking me for buying a lawnmower that I never bought. The buyer's mailing address was in the email, so I sent him a letter. He replied saying he's "old school", and doesn't have an email account. He has no idea how the manufacturer got my email address, as he had left the email address field blank when filling out the warranty form. The only explanation I can come up with is that they just guessed it based on first and last name.
To add to your point, Fischer was complaining about chess openings going stale 20 years before computers came on the scene
I made it for fat people
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305296)
The divide between doesn't work, and doesn't work as well is pretty wide.
I hate that they release new champions so often.

My incentive to play is climbing the ranked ladder and, like you, I play in bursts separated by months, but each time I start playing again there are like 5 new champions whose abilities I don't know or understand, which keeps me at a disadvantaged position. I don't have time to study all the new champs abilities.

I think their high champion-release rate drives the casual, but competitive-minded players away.
It has been an issue since the very beginning. The play from Boeing was obviously to cut costs and since many states in the US have been plagued by the complete collapse of manufacturing jobs since at least the 70's they are willing to give Boeing tax cuts and incentives by the billions.

The only small problem is that they turned this plant into a sweatshop, not only the workers have no aviation culture but people in power seem to think they are bolting on just another Ford Pinto like the old days.
Agree. To extend your argument, we find that over the years that the application of the constitution has to be understood in new contexts. It doesn't evolve, but how it is understood to apply is discussed and what it covers does. That's why textualism/originalism is important: if we understand what someone said and why they said it, we can better represent the intention of the rule here, several hundred years later.
Is PoS actually proven to work, the way PoW is? I keep revisiting this topic every now and then, and I always see it in the stage of "we think it should work, but we kind of don't have a mathematical proof just yet". From which I conclude it will most likely be eventually proven to not work at all, and we'll still be stuck with PoW.
I think they're different - RFC 8890 is a particular position statement, and this blog post discusses why they decided they needed to publish it, some specific cases (e.g. the discussion about Parliament) that led up to it, and their decision-making process in general. RFC 8890 itself doesn't mention that, nor does it specifically mention things like DoH and China blocking it.
The fundamental problem of ownership still isn't (and won't be) solved by the existing banking system. Money that you actually own, that you can do whatever you want with (for better or worse).
Would it be at all useful to be able to state the rule for calculating the coefficients (in base-3) from one odd number to the next in the Collatz conjecture's evolution? That is, given an odd number's base-3 expansion, you could calculate the next odd number in the sequence from its coefficients.

I've done some work on this and have an idea of this rule but haven't been able to find anyone that is knowledgeable enough to comment on it.
Isn’t that why sales taxes exist?
I am also very happy with Apple putting down sensible rules in their app store.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are, how can I say it lightly, scumbags that will try to do anything to get more money.

When you think about a couple of rules that do not make sense at the first glance and look like corporate greed, when you think about them in depth, they do make a lot of sense.

Let’s talk about the “Do not
mention that you can subscribe out of the application” rule, for example. It does look like a cash grab, but actually this rule prevents people from offering “discounts” with different terms of service and cancellation options, severely damaging the mobile app platform.
It might be their narrative based journalism and their beliefs for what will happen if they tell their tall tales.
The Ethereum community started talking about this five years ago, which spawned a multi-year effort to move to "Proof of Stake" and stop using large amounts of electricity forever.

The first phase of this effort launches later this year. It's currently undergoing a public testnet. https://medalla.launchpad.ethereum.org/

Since 99% of blockchain app activity occurs within the Ethereum ecosystem, and Ethereum is dropping proof of work, we should put to bed the idea that crypto industry insiders don't care about this issue or aren't doing anything to solve it.
In principle if you are using the GP PRF it is possible to implement it so that there is little additional pressure: the store instruction already has it's data input a register which has been renamed: now you just need to organize it so that the subsequent load that targets the same location is a no-go: simply alias the arch reg targeted by the load onto the existing register used by the store (much like mov-elimination)

So except for a small window in the middle you have the same pressure on the PRF.

I don't know if that is how it is actually implemented, of course!
I’d prefer to live with a system where frontrunning is available for anyone rather than exchanges and brokers only. So that we could upgrade the system to be frontrunning resistant for good.

There’re front running resistant decentralized exchange PoCs on Ethereum. It’s only a matter of time (and governance) before we could have this technology on Ethereum.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24305473)
I have zero sympathy for Apple and how they manage iOS, but I do agree that banning Epic from the App Store is only logical.

OTOH I think it is outrageous that breaking the rules from the iOS App Store now bans you from even having an Apple dev account. Unless I'm mistaken, without an Apple dev account you can't even sign a macOS app (different from notarization).

I'm so glad I decided to not make any new projects for an Apple platform.
I am sure the local water or electricity company can’t refuse to provide you the service because they don’t like your politics. And the gay wedding cake controversy. Those platforms that operate like a quasi monopoly (search, social network, mobile services, internet service providers) could very well be treated like utility companies or something intermediate with a similar obligation not to use their dominant position to control speech in the country.
So what are they compiled with for non Intel processors?
Can you claim you thought it was your account? Then, to demonstrate you knew it wasn’t yours, they’d have to collect various proof, and this demonstration being erratic and risky, they’d probably not attempt a trial.
Sure, but how do you teach these concepts without a source of truth? I can't find any reference material.

Edit: Just discovered the lesson plan download link under the headings, separate from the buttons at the bottom of the page. It helps, though am still confused about how anyone would use this material.
It always makes me think of that STTNG episode where they destroy the Borg collective by injecting a fascinating but impossible geometry problem. Cryptocurrency basically did that to the hacker and startup spheres, wasting unfathomable amounts of money, resources, and brain power.
The queue is not a "first come first serve" queue but a "highest paying customers first" queue.
Aerial drones with thermal imaging cameras to predict where wild fires will occur.

https://apnews.com/3546526d7ce34881a92df0688268e3a4
I can't imagine running (or investing) in a software-based company here without also having an automatic model checking layer for verifying all runs + 24/7 monitoring for disabling any live contract. If you're going to put $10M+, years of your life, and who knows how much customer money into this, why not spend $500K of it so you're running with the blockchain equiv of CI testing? You'd be able to deploy faster, with more confidence and less stress, and fewer of these weird midnight Europe phone calls.

Viable model checkers for basic software contracts existed since the 80's, and the modern incarnations are insanely powerful (Z3, ...) + quite approachable (Rosette, ...). They're used to tackle software verification problems magnitudes harder than "money can only go from here to there in this tiny software contract": race detection in distributed file systems, bugs in hardware circuits, security holes in big javascript libraries, etc. I think of these same not-very-secret tools every time I see one of these articles, and yet the engineering fails keep happening.

A few teams deploy tech here, including built on the above, but it seems like most do not. I'd say mind-blowing, but at this point... mind-numbing?

I do appreciate the author being frank about how bad the status quo is.

EDIT: To give a sense of this -- the same people will talk about meticulous cold storage key exchanges with someone always being there to watch, driving into the desert for bootstrapping secrets, and then for their actual operations, deploy unverified contracts.
You form a bight, and tie an overhand knot with it. Sorry if that sounds facetious - that's really the answer. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOKk1HPjbI
> Since apps run under a “sandbox” that limits what they can do, you do not need to reinstall your iPhone from scratch every few months because things no longer work.

One thing I really wish, is that this would apply to all apps that ship with iOS as well. That you’d be able to remove any application from your phone and reinstall it, including things like Camera, Notes, Messages, Calendar, Wallet, etc, etc. I realize that this is probably not feasible, because these included apps might be integrating with the system in a deep way. But it’d be really nice if it was possible. As it stands, Photos on my phone is consuming a lot of storage space from photos that were removed months ago. The only path forward in order to reclaim my storage is to do a factory reset – I just haven’t gotten around to it yet because I have some device-only data that I need to save elsewhere first.

And furthermore, in this way, if I could replace some of the built-in apps along with their integrations, with custom alternate apps of my own. But this I think will never happen. Still, it is the one thing I wish iOS supported. So that I could for example use a custom camera app directly from the lock-screen instead of only being able to use the built-in camera app from there.
tl;dr People distrust anonymous phone callers.

A better study would involve saying you're from a real pollster, which of course would be unethical.

Or you could just compare polls to ballot counts[1] and look at the body of political science research in this area that shows that shy Trump voters are rare.

1. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/theres-still-no-evid...