skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't 'just add any transaction', the transaction has to follow the rules of the protocol (such as respecting prior owners of coins, respecting the total number of coins in circulation, etc) otherwise the block will be ignored (no matter how much work it has attached).

The general technical audience tends to greatly overestimate the amount of power that a 51% attack has. A 51% attack can only do two basic things:

1. prevent certain transactions from making it onto the chain (somewhat expensive)
2. re-write history so that previously confirmed transactions are no longer on the chain (quite expensive - increasingly expensive the further back in time you rewind)

You can't change the rules of the system, you can't arbitrarily steal funds from users, you can't change the inflation rate, etc.
But, I was told (by Cantrill and echoed by HN), that Oracle is a rotten company that "ships mediocrity"?

Do they actually have the best RDBMS in the industry in terms of performance and feature set? (I guess this is a hard thing to answer given how these things can be fairly subjective)

Maybe the real problem is that it's better, but still not worth the cost (both money, and the cost of being an Oracle customer).
These are solar powered.
Amazing. It carries its "sled" back up to the top, stands on it, and pecks it get it started.

Whenever I see stuff like this, I can only think about this[0] (normal operation in US and AU at least), and how absurd it is that we treat animals like this, knowing how intelligent they are.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ucJNZoX.png
Scala – Just enough rope to hang yourself (2013)
Came here to read about J Lo's phone.
Much of the money of rocket internet is coming from other sectors these days. A major sector here is real estate, where they founders have created a massive network of companies / holdings.

I still don't quite understand how they could be that "successful". But maybe its just a reflection of society...
Can you write up a journal entry on your phone or in a notebook? Maybe some thoughts on yesterday and how you're feeling today.

I've found journaling to be a great productivity enhancer, especially since I can do a debrief of the last month and see where things went well and where they did not so I know what to do (and not do) again.
Facebook might owe you $400 if you live in Illinois
> and a subtle topic that's easy to misunderstand

You're right, yet there's a higher level of responsibility for people who are claiming to be able to teach others about these things (which grandparent comment does) to understand and to use language which doesn't tend to mislead.
Ignoring the very clear bias/agenda you're trying to present, the lag time of 47 years is huge compared to some other high-profile instances of people being "cancelled". Also you can apologize for something and lack sincerity, which is even more insulting.

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the intense court of public opinion of cancelling, but it's absurd to paint it both as a leftist-specific act, or that if you're a leftist then you're allowed to get away with it.

I believe in people being able to actually talk and treat each other like human beings instead of monsters. The conversation unfortunately is hyper-polarized and many people aren't willing to even engage with someone who doesn't share the same belief set, and to me that is a shame. I don't think it's fair to paint this as a left/right issue. This total lack of engagement occurs on both sides.
Some part of the company is surely not okay with it. I assume many employees have been wrestling with their conscience for months or years.

I had my own experience, once, leaving a company due to ethical concerns: it took me a year and a half to finally follow through and quit. I had coworkers who felt the same who stayed on for years.

No doubt the thought that occurs to many FB employees when they read these articles is "I need to gather my resolve and get the hell out of here!"
Consumers do not prioritize Android devices as a market for buying apps. Android has 75% market share but iOS users have spent twice as much in total on apps.
> 4. Parallel Query Execution

Available since Postgres 9.6 and getting better with every release.
Why not a chrome extension that would overlay recommendations on top of a regular youtube page? Then you just have to convince users to install it once.
Yes, as of today, trash was counted against the storage limit.
> CW: Yes, I move them to the recycling bin to make them new again so I can reuse the files.

> IT: This is the trash bin, you would move files here to delete them off of your computer.

> CW: IT IS NOT A TRASH CAN, IT IS A RECYCLING BIN! IT SAYS SO RIGHT UNDER THE ICON!

Ok, now wait a second, why the hell is it called a recycling bin anyway?

"Recycling" doesn't mean "plan to throw this away later, but maybe I'll still grab it out of the trash can in case I made a mistake." Who came up with this metaphor?
Reading the comments here, it seems to me that there are two sides to the debate: One side says it's not FOSS unless it's completely free, and the other side says it's fine for a small subset of use cases to lose a modicum of freedom if it means that everyone else benefits with more software that's essentially OSS.

I think that what the "purist" view is not considering so much is that, when it comes to a company like Timescale, the choice isn't between "OSI" and "source available", it's between "source available" and "closed source". They're a company that wants to make a profit from the software it spends resources to develop. The debate seems to be mostly on whether this license should be called "open source", but I think there's an implicit value judgement there, which I'd like to make explicit.

I'd like to clarify that, given that it's almost impossible to make money when AWS can just take your OSS product and undercut you, Timescale is doing us all a great service by giving us a product for free and making the source available. However, does it really make sense to argue over the license is OSS or not?

The FOSS ecosystem has a monetization problem, and it's largely being funded by our collective donation of our time. I think that having options that allow us to grow the ecosystem in a sustainable way is important, even if they aren't as pure as we'd all like. Practicality usually beats purity, and "source available" is better than "closed source".

I haven't really seen any concrete dangers that come from a "source available" license, especially any that make it worse than just having no source (which is the real alternative here), so if anyone could educate me, I would be grateful.
It does seem like a bit of a missed opportunity - even slipping in the most basic ots equaliser or dsp would add a minimal amount to the BOM, whilst moving from a late 70s format aid to late 80s, albeit in a dated form factor. (Chest worn isn't too terrible IME, but expect to replace the "wiring harness" to the earphones on a regular basis.)
Remember Ring's partnership with 1300 local police departments?

https://www.wired.com/story/ces-2020-amazon-defends-ring-pol...

Remember Ring's Android app being full of 3rd party trackers?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-pack...

Remember Ring's implementation of E2EE?

Neither do I.

While I don't really care from the perspective of 'I don't do anything illegal', I don't own any ring / Alexa / Nest / Home automation. Mostly because I don't like the trend towards optimal laziness personally, and it doesn't provide much in the way of value. The video shows this, the guys house is already broken into, is a drone going to stop a burglar from taking your laptop off that kitchen table? I have a better deterent, a dog which is much more effective according to felons (https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/we-asked-86-burglars...)

This is just too creepy to me.

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That's why there should not be a hard metric set by people who don't even know how to code. Performance review should be conducted by people who have a direct understanding of what is being done, and if that's impossible, at least people with a capacity to understand what is being done.
You don't have the power to cause inflation. There is a material difference between stealing coins and double spending. Stealing coins implies you can rewrite anyone's balance to be your own balance.

Double spending requires having counterparty, confirming a transaction with that counterparty, and then re-writing history to eliminate the transaction that the counterparty accepted. Coins that aren't in motion during the 51% attack can't be stolen, and coins that are in motion but aren't being sent from the attacker also can't be stolen.
Growing up in the USA, my impression was that licorice is one of the most popular candy flavors among children. As an adult, I was surprised to discover that every Korean and Japanese I offered licorice to reacted violently to the taste...wouldn't even try to be polite about it. I doubt it's genetic, so I've often wondered what about their diet predisposes them to have such a negative taste sensation.
The fact that is is my primary communication device is the REASON I want my iPhone to be a console. I'm paying extra for it.

But this is very important: Nobody has to buy an iPhone. The majority of people around the world buy Android, which does allow side-loading. If you need side-loading as a feature, you have many, many options available.

There's no coercion of consumers going on. There's no mandate to buy an iPhone or to use any part of the Apple ecosystem, and there are abundant alternatives.

Ultimately these arguments against the Apple model are very judgmental and paternalistic. "I think that Experience X is the only morally right thing, thus society must prohibit people who bought and like Experience Y from enjoying it, because I think it's morally wrong."

To me that's a really dangerous line of thinking, and I hope it fails in court.
umm, good?
Here's one such compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jto2peSOLac
Ask HN: Good Tools to Make Landing Pages?
I find that a lot of startups (esp B2B ones) have very similar landing pages.

You know, the one with the call to action, alternating graphic-image columns of use cases, banner of companies that use their product, and the same little icon on the bottom right to chat with someone quickly.

I know there are general web-builder tools such as Squarespace or Unbounce, and I'm sure it's straightforward to code a static site, but curious if anyone knows a popular tool or web framework that is commonly used?
TeMPOraL was making the case that menthol was not superior and novel, and I was contesting that specific assertion.

That aside, if you consider the addictive quality to be the overriding, and believe that "Breaking Bad" possesses (some of) it, then why doesn't BB's addictiveness override its superiority and novelty?
> our moral duty

Yes, but NOT by censorship, but with counterfactuals! And certainly not by a gigantic megacorporation like Facebook.

They are not the arbiters of speech and quite frankly it's too much to ask of them. And imo, anyone who is happy to be an arbiter of speech is somebody you should be very, very afraid of.
It seems the innovation here is that the dependency structure of the model is explicit which allows the algorithms to do interesting things like block updates, beneficial for correlated variables. They also have Newtonian Monte Carlo, an exotic, new technique.

Oddly though, Stan is still faster in their own benchmarks, despite their statements. In other words, while Bean Machine has a lower wall time, Stan produces more effective samples per second than Bean Machine (and this, not wall time alone, is the important metric).
Considering the computation necessary to downscale every video I'd suggest this join would be a small drop in a big ocean.
empire?
Security Basics: Path Traversal
>all drugs

Maybe not all drugs. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater here. There are very dangerous drugs that can cause addiction such that people will kill for more (and can never get enough).

That said, wiping away weed, peyote, and LSD from the list of criminal substances should make the DEA’s job much more realistic.
Sure, I see your points, just 2 counter arguments:

1. The reason why it cost less for Boeing to offer the 748, and the reason why the 748 is well suited for cargo, are both the result of choices made several decades ago not just the result of a bet made by Boeing in recent times on the point to point model. (IIRC at some point during design it was thought that supersonic aircraft would soon replace all conventional airliners so they developed the 747 in such a way that it could be easily converted for cargo).

2. The A350 suits the point to point model so well that I believe it was developed by Airbus with that model in mind.

Airbus comparatively spent more then Boeing on the hub and spoke model, sure, but unlike Boeing they didn’t have a pre-existing 4-engine type to build upon.
let's hope those tourists and foreigners read Dutch if and when labels are added to packaging!
I made that mistake as a kid. Got a 3-pound bag of Milky Way Dark Minis for Christmas, and I'm sure it was supposed to last me several months, but I went through about half the bag watching TV that afternoon.

The next morning I was so sick I don't have words for how sick I was. Once I finished with the first kind of sick, I still had a pounding headache, acute sensitivity to light and sound, etc.

I described the symptoms to my dad, pleading for help, and his first reaction was "...do you have a hangover?"

Good lord if that's what hangovers are like, why do people drink? To this day, I point to that experience as the reason I've never had more than two alcoholic drinks in a day. I just can't imagine...
It's an interesting point. I would tend to agree with that in the sense that it's a log graph of "difficulty" required.

However I'm not sure how that would be supported without assuming there is some base-rate that would smoke no matter what, as though smoking specifically is a natural inclination, with everyone above the base rate on some log distribution of "ability to convince to stop smoking."
Hydraulic despotism remains the best despotism.
Even without GDPR, I downloaded my location data from Google Takeout, it was whopping 1.7GB of pure json. Same data was few kbs in 2012or 2014 when takeout was new.
Nat gas is subject to pretty wild discrepancies between regional markets. It's not unusual for the price to go negative in the Rocky Mountain region during many summers.

The market mostly seems to work fine. Henry Hub is somewhat arbitrarily picked as the most canonical price point. And then a lot of price discovery occurs in robust "basis" markets (i.e. region-specific contracts).
The Stanford Prison Experiment is based on lies. Hear them for yourself (2018)
It seems like making Facebook a government regulated public utility is the only way to square this circle. Because otherwise we either unjustly infringe on Mark Zuckerberg's use of his private property (Facebook); or Mark Zuckerberg is the de-facto arbiter of global public opinion for a broad swath of the population.
Reminds me of a tale here in South Africa. An ostrich farmer contracted an electronics company to develop a product to determine which of his ostriches were sick. The company realised that a sick ostrich do not eat, and as such developed a neck band with a tilt sensor, to detect which ostriches were not eating. Great, problem solved. Except now you have to seperate the sick ostriches from the healthy ones. And the farmer said he will put food in a connected camp, and as the ostriches move between camps, he will seperate the sick ones from the healthy ones. Except the sick ones weren't interested in food, and thus automatically stayed behind in the camp, also negating the need for the original electronic neck band.
> You don't have to agree with apple, but they clearly think the halo effect of having just one reasonably fair app store on their platform increases their platform brand power and profits both. I think they are right.

I agree, but "it makes us more money and gives us more power" has never been a defense against anti-trust law. Indeed if this was not true I imagine that anti-trust law would never have been necessary in the first place.

> Can I ask a question. When your elderly parents or kids ask for a phone (assuming they are not developers), does it give you no comfort that if its an apple from end to end including app store things will be a bit more reasonable?

First I have to point out that the unbundling solution solves this problem entirely. I just install the "lock this to the apple ecosystem" software before I give them the phone and I get all the current benefits as it pertains to children and elderly tech-dependents with none of the anti-trust issues.

I have to admit that I can only answer this question in theory. I have no kids (and don't plan on future kids) and my parents are more technically competent than average. The extent that I manage their technology is "this is good value for the price" and installing ublock origin everywhere.

The honest theoretical answer though is I don't think it would. There are a number of reasons for this.

- I really don't trust the app store to stop abusive behaviors in the first place.

- I could lock probably lock down an Android to the extent that I'm as happy as I would be with an apple (not very).

- I would (and do) worry a hell of a lot more about the internet than I would (do) about apps.

- I worry about the internet a hell of a lot more on IPhones than I do on androids, because I can't install a proper adblocker, because of Apples anti-competitive policies regarding browsers (the ad blocking api's in safari are gimped compared to firefox).

- At the point where I don't trust someone with a phone, I also wouldn't trust them with a credit card in general... at which point none of the payment stuff is problematic (But I acknowledge that the social reality w.r.t. the elderly and credit cards makes this a hard problem).

> And you do realize if things are unbundled, then EVERY phone company will dump their crap onto every users phone except for the folks who know enough to go uninstall / use the lockout thing you are talking about. And you don't think that will damage the overall apple brand?

This can be solved with apple only providing phones to sellers who agree not to do that easily enough. While I know epic has some issues with this strategy (as it pertains to Google and pre-installing fortnite) I do not.
Honestly, if Zuck pushed out the SJW types, I'd love to work there for half my current salary. He's showing solid leadership right now and just needs to go slightly further.
> Anyone can share what makes PostgreSQL so successful? Maybe other projects can learn adopt a few of these good practices.

Since honesty is a theme of this thread, let's be real here. PgSQL is popular now only because Oracle killed MySQL.

This is not to denigrate the work of the Postgres team -- it's easily one of the best-managed open-source projects and my admiration for them is immense -- but ~95% of the time, the tech stack is chosen as a fashion statement.

MySQL was fashionable until Oracle showed up. Postgres has been trucking along for decades and has essentially won by default. I don't know if there are many great marketing insights to take away, other than "stay out of the way of the $50B gorilla".
Ultimately you'd have to decide which one you want to treat as the canonical chain. There would be two (or more) parallel histories, and users would have to figure out which one they wanted to follow.

By default, all users would go along with the original chain. To follow the chain with the updated rules (whatever rules the developers couldn't agree on), a user would have to manually opt-in to that updated set of rules.
The only people fed up are the social media luddites and the cyber activists (atm mostly angry democrats who still can't believe they lost 2016).

Most people are still content with these services and find then entertaining or useful. The only reason it looks different in the media is because if you don't take an extreme position to justify an extreme headline you don't get clicks.
Historically, if you wanted good information, you paid for it. Whether that was a king's intelligence network, or a peasant's daily paper. However in today's world the consumers of media are not paying for it. The advertisers are. So we end up with incentives that lean away from journalistic truth. Could it be that simple?

If you want good information, you can still pay for it. Nation-states do this. Hedge funds do this. There is more data available on the open market than ever before. But the buy-side of that market has shifted considerably.
Perhaps it’s humans that lack the higher intelligence that would allow them to understand that other species may also be intelligent.
$400 per user might actually make them think twice before doing it again...
Ok, point taken, TIL.

Serves me right for not checking the user name before replying...
Lets say theoretically PC gaming didn't exist. If the only way to play games was with a console from Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo do you really think they would be selling consoles at a loss[1]? PC gaming is what keeps consoles priced competitively. If smartphones are like consoles, then currently you can only buy consoles. Sure Android is a little bit more open than iOS but not by much. There's not a problem with the existence of walled gardens / console-like devices, but there needs to be options available that aren't so restricted. Currently 99% of the smartphone market is controlled by Apple and Google, neither of which are willing to give up their control so I think this is a case where some kind of intervention is required to introduce competition.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/playstation-4-to-sell-at-a-loss-bu...
AMD Is Hiring to Work on New Radeon Driver Tooling Written in Rust
In a similar vein: a cat discovering it has ears in a mirror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akE2Sgg8hI8
> Granted, I don't even like cars or driving

Don’t you feel like you answered your own question there?

It’s like asking why anyone would spend money on tasty food when some cheap foods are all you need to survive.
> The Devil can indeed cite Scripture for his purposes.

My point exactly. Aphorisms such as "Liberal consensus" don't exist in a vacuum, and are often used as an excuse for intervention rather than a protection against intervention.

> So, without knowing anything about me, would you guess I'm pro-blacklist, or anti-blacklist?

Do you think the Trump administration should outlaw certain subjects from being taught, such as Critical Theory? You surely would agree that the stranglehold certain departments have on academic discourse makes free speech impossible, correct?
how to drive on a bike trail

Hint: don't.

Stay at home and do donuts in your Walmart parking lot instead. People like you created it. Enjoy it.
You can have a PC experience by buying literally any non-Apple phone. There are hundreds to choose from. The large majority of phones sold around the world are, in fact, not made by Apple.

What gives people who prefer the PC experience the right to ban consoles from existing?
> a lot of consecutive work
It might depend on your specific domain but most performance problems I've encountered are in this class i.e., I have the opposite experience: cases when performance problems can't be solved because Python is used are rare.

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On reproducible builds: given your examples from other languages, Python has such tools too e.g., pip-tools package.
When can we talk about our systems?
There was a case when a woman in Germany also ate lots of liquorice on a daily basis and developed health problems. The case went to court because she thought that she should have been warned by the producer. It was dismissed with a reason like "common sense dictates that this was a bad idea" (think: "lol, wut? u dumb").