skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't mind me asking, what's the situation with Ethereum 2 and Polkadot in terms of maximum supply?

(i.e. if bitcoin is 21M max, what about these other two? I'm pretty sure they don't have a cap, but what's the inflation schedule/regime?)

Personally I view the supply cap as the killer feature for bitcoin, which is why I'm asking.
While I understand why someone might think like this, the evidence, unfortunately, is that some jurisdictions use court as a revenue source. The most famous example is Ferguson, MO, because of the death there of Michael Brown. There, the city so aggressively enforced BS ordinances that there was an average of 3 warrants per household[1]. But there are other examples as well, and penny-ante enforcement may actually undermine serious crime prevention.[2]

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/08/fe... --- this blog post also gives an example of one of the more troubling barriers to court appearance: judges who close their courtrooms to non-defendants, meaning defendants without child care can't appear.

[2] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/107808741879177... --- ungated version: https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents...
HN is both and I see the opposite
> Slow lorises are one of the world’s only venomous mammals (nytimes.com)

a better title might be

Slow lorises are one of the world’s few venomous mammals (nytimes.com)
Not sure you are going back far enough. This is a clearcut case of "Render unto Caesar". The church lost 200 years ago when governments got involved in marriage.
I guess the idea is that those two parties would have more to gain from having evidence-based policies, and more to lose from outright lies.
There's no best way and time is a limited resource. Weigh up the time it's going to take and the pros/cons for your specific project. If you've done this and think mocking is going to take up too much time for not enough benefit then you've made a good tradeoff.
Now re-do it as a percentage of cash activity and as a percentage of bitcoin activity.
I have toyed with providing a confidence indicator with each date but % or these average numbers are rife for interpretation. What has worked for me is highlight the eta then state the hard facts - these dates are based on the following assumptions and here are the potential risks that will push these dates out. But as codingdave says, you choose when to deliver or what we deliver - basic constraint theory (cost, scope, time)
and this is how the President of the United States is spending his time... valuable work there.
This article would benefit tremendously from illustrations.
How to Take Personal Development Off the Backburner
> Barrett is Catholic, and has strong support from Evangelicals at this point: until now the religions are aligned on gay marriage and abortion.

The activist politically conservative segment of the Catholic faithful tends to be in line with the political right and out of line with the Church heirarchy on a number of policy issues (just different issues than the activist left within the Church is, naturally), the heirarchy moving in a leftward direction on an issue where they were previously in line just adds one issue to that list, it doesn't move the position of conservative Catholic activists like Barret. Not in the short-term, and probably not much in the long term, except insofar as it increases the likelihood of such activists separating from the Church altogether (though, of course, from the PoV of such activists it will be the earthly heirarchy separating itself from the genuine Church), and thus no longer being regarded as Catholic conservatives.
Well, assuming we can drill very deep, I would think the supervolcano calderas have massive amounts of energy that we could exploit and ... possibly ... avoid future extinction-level-event eruptions.

I also wonder how deep would be sufficient to "dump" nuclear waste. I would think once you get to a sufficiently viscous level, heavy-element nuclear waste would slowly descend into the core.

What could go wrong?
You can, almost randomly, take any well known, synthetic drug, and trace a wildly eclectic history of use.

If anyone is interested, the history of anabolic steroids is almost comical... https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/ster...

And the period of time over which the change took place, is actually quite remarkable.
But that's a concept entirely orthogonal to system architecture and solvable with appropriate process and/or tooling.
A lot of bitcoiners are long-term holders who either don't care what happens with Tether, or want the price to crash so they can load up on more bitcoin.
I use per-domain isolation, so I don't run into this issue.

However, I need 2 manual persistent containers for sites that are broken with per-domain isolation (Gmail and Outlook 365). Both visit many different domains after login. Within those containers, I need to be careful not to click on external links, but to open them in a new temporary container.
How does the AGPL differ from some of the other cloud protected licenses that have been discussed here recently? Specifically, the polyform licenses[1] and the TimescaleDB license[2]?

[1]https://polyformproject.org/licenses/

[2]https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-busines...
When the dust builds up to the point that its as much effort to clean things up and prepare them for use as it would have been to unpack them and set them up, it balances.

If it gets to that point and you dont feel guilty about "i wanted to spend more time doing that but didnt," then it wasnt actually a passion... not a bad thing, but a good way to correct ones own perceptions of ones priorities vs the reality.
You're a libertarian, aren't you? Frankly, business's interests and worker interests are fundamentally at odds solely because labor is so expensive and having to accommodate workers' needs is expensive.

In what reality are you living in that Obama didn't give corporate America billions of dollars in hand-outs in the aftermath of 2008? Republicans aren't any better, but Democrats like to pretend they care about workers, when all they really care about is enriching the wealthy.
Indeed. For some reason I keep thinking back to this :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0BD4jmTS_M
Not YC itself, but other investors that have an actual board seat and invested more than 125k likely have a vested interest in seeking a lucrative acquisition.
I saw a few instances of trains on top of each other! I guess its simplified not to show each track.
By not associating the domain with the container, and instead juggling it manually.
Nice, bit Would want many monitors and hopefully VR soon.
So crypto is going mainstream...
demands i enable js...

when i do, it is abysmally slow.

seems about right.

i,ll go back to using my saved image, tyvm
To me, this map is less readable then the old one (you can't see all the stations), it's like it was made to look nice, but not usable.
No it really wasn’t. DirectX, OpenGL and Glide were really the start of Windows games and they didn’t become the norm until around 98 (bare in mind I’m talking about release date, not purchase date). In fact even as late as then some games were still written in DOS using special Glide or GL drivers for DOS. The 95 era of Windows was very much DOS orientated when it came to gaming.

Citation: I was a gamer and games developer in that era.
The dispute here is over the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Your insistence that everybody who agrees with this core tenet of justice should "go outside" is doing nothing to support your argument. Besides, we've got smartphones and can continue the conversation out there.
I agree with the edit. I think some people just enjoy running or lifting more.

I used to run regularly but I never looked forward to it. Even with goals like 5Ks or half marathons, I didn't enjoy the experience of improvement. I had to drag myself out of the house to do it.

I look forward to and enjoy lifting weights (deadlifts, front/back squats, presses, cleans, snatches). I enjoy the idea of being able to lift something that I wasn't able to lift a year ago or even a month ago. And, even if I added just 2.5 lbs to my personal record, it is such an accomplishment in my head. I don't drag myself out of the house for lifting. I cancel plans to ensure that I can lift.

Maybe it is the difficulty in tracking improvement. I find it hard to track how much I improved in running. To me, it isn't discreet improvements over time because so much can happen during a running session (traffic, lights, people) which can vary results. Whereas lifting, it is usually in a more controlled environment and you add discreet number of lbs/kg to the bar.
Ask HN: How to Securely Share Passwords?
Hi,

How do you or in your company share passwords?

thanks.
Labels should reference GUIDs behind the scenes. If a user does this, they will just be unsure which one is the actual Trash label. When searching, Gmail should give results from both labels.
I lay all of this at the feet of email not evolving into the use cases people have.
For RSI folks, my experience is that RSI can “move” to other parts of the body pretty easily, including eyes and vocal chords. Somehow doing “work” with a part of the body can strain it, even when talking all day long socially wouldn’t.
Well in a country where company lobbying is legal, it's very debatable if political parties are really defending the interests of people.
You know this is The Internet right?
All I want is one of those plain text formatting based languages that preserves newlines

so that you don't get a shopping list like this if you type the following in a HN comment with a newline between each:

eggs
milk
bacon
toast

well, it exists, it's BBCode
But what if you have a custom label bin or trash?
> A test that can only explain 64% of the variance in its result based on the fact that I am still me is suspect.

The WISC full scale test correlation is 0.97, so R^2 0.94. As a reference point, you might compare to the 100m sprint [1], where the correlation is something like 0.9. If you believe that a timed run is a reliable way to determine speed, you should strongly believe an IQ test is a reliable way to determine mental ability.

> I said significant impairment

This is basically a statement about statistical power: you claim IQ is subject to large measurement error, so given typical sample sizes, we're not able to detect anything but the largest effects. But no part of this is true.

1. Good IQ proxies are reliable, i.e. they give consistent answers for a given individual.

2. Good IQ proxies are usually measurement-invariant (certainly for US samples), i.e. they measure the same thing for different groups [2]

3. Sample sizes are massive (the entire pool of SAT takers, AFQT takers, NLSY participants, etc).

> in which contexts do you think IQ suffers from denialism?

Basically all of them! You yourself just denied its validity in all but a handful of narrow situations.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09608...
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2016.1...
I love the fact that the Youtube ideal has let independent creators make so much good content for the world. And after some haggling, Youtube has let the creators retain full ownership.

But the various de-monetization and search algorithm changes show that Youtube retains full control over distribution (and ability to make said living). The creators are totally at the mercy of Youtube and their advertising.

Imagine if there were Utube, Vtube, and Wtube, and a creator could shop around for the best placement and ad deal. It would not be better for the viewer (more like which network now has my favorite show, and do I have to subscribe to all 3), but it would be better for the creators.

Come to think of it, I'm surprised Netflix hasn't gone after some of the big YouTube channels or that Patreon hasn't expanded into curated video hosting. Imagine if Netflix Community had 100's of what we now call Youtube channels--all the respectable ones and none of the dreck.
I'd be curious to hear what someone who is just visiting NYC would think of something like this. From my experience, once tourists enter a subway station, all bets are off in terms of orienting yourself. I feel like the little LED indicators in most stations at least in Manhattan with the line and time-to-arrival is really all you need.

Or, instead of investing in a virtual map, invest in better speakers in the actual trains themselves so that people can actually hear "now arriving at 14th St Union Square next stop Astor" instead of "now arcshcshcshcsh Uniocshcsh next cshop cshcshcsh"
Agreed. I'm hoping to see more analogous stateside laws like California's CCPA as well.
Apologies for being off-topic, but would you be willing to email me at hn@ycombinator.com? I have a question based on an interesting comment you posted in a past thread.
PubMed is a great resource for this kind of research.

There's not a lot out there that would support non-ionizing radiation causing widespread health issues. Most of it is targeted to specific individuals or diseases.

There are some studies that show EMF from high-tension lines can slightly increase specific kinds of pediatric cancers, but don't show the same effects on adults (UK study of about 6000 kids was the best I've seen). There have been several papers suggesting a link between exposure to cellular frequencies and wifi and decreased sperm count. There has also been research suggesting a link between cell phone use and specific types of brain tumors.

I wouldn't be too concerned. You can take basic measures to reduce your exposure by small changes. Using speakerphone instead of holding the phone to your head, or sleeping with the phone on the other side of the room for example (understanding that the RF radiation is about 1/4 the original power when you double your distance from the source is helpful to estimate your reductions). You can schedule your router to turn off the wifi durning the hours you normally sleep. Use ethernet instead of wifi whenever possible.
AI outperforms humans in speech recognition
I've been having a localization issue in Gmail that's even more frustrating and unacceptable than this one.

I speak English but regularly correspond with people who speak Hebrew. Hebrew is written from right to left, so "john doe" is written "eod nhoj." This is normal. But when Gmail writes Hebrew names in English, it often transposes the letters only and not the first/last fields, so you end up with "Doe John." The problem is that this happens inconsistently, so you never know if it's going to occur.

I can't tell you how many times I've mixed up people's first and last names, which is embarrassing! Because I don't speak Hebrew, I don't have a natural sense for which names are first names vs which names are last names, so sometimes it's impossible for me to decipher which is which.

Very frustrating.
I won't argue that an ideal situation is to stop all feature development and refactor into an ideal data model. That's a technical debt ROI discussion, the kind that we always have, and sometimes the business value just doesn't support the rewrite.

However, even in an ideal data model, I don't always agree that multiple applications accessing the application's database is bad. That's a matter of being thoughtful and communicative, instead of just wantonly running "rails g migration" every time you need to implement a feature (that's true of Monorails even). FWIW, we've never had any real issues with multiple applications accessing our single database.
I live in NYC...you can see the exact same info on both the MyMTA app as well as in the Subway Time app. This is nothing new...
Going up a meta-level, for different types of research/analysis, its also important to ask "when is it important to look at gut/contents of gut as separate" and "when should we use a systems understanding".

My personal opinion is that modern medicine doesn't really like to think about the systems, because it's easier to look at something in isolation. Sometimes this is helpful - simply the problem space and you can simplify the solution - but much of the time it is inappropriate.
Inclusions are absolutely stellar, I know some people dismiss Asciidoctor because it feels neither here not there kinda lang. It amazes me how pliable the tool actually is (for Rubyist off course), there are some things there that would make org-mode aficionados and LaTeX die-harts envy.
Majority fb/chrome users are just telemetry and deserve to be data mined by big data corps and 3 letter organizations.
There is a meme in the carnivore community that animal products are healthier by default, as most plants defend themselves with toxic chemicals and most animals do not. The evolutionary explanation is that animals can usually defend themselves by running away and/or use of claws or teeth. Plants (and fungi), stuck in one place, have to resort to chemical defenses.

Slow loresis reinforce this story by being such a rare toxic exception among mammals, and by being slow, so less able to defend themselves by flight.
Just yesterday I was almost killed while driving back home, because some jackass left a camo-painted trailer in a poorly-lit alley right next to my home. There is no “autopilot” that could spot it in the dusk / sunset. Until Tesla adopts a Lidar, I wouldn’t use the “full self-driving system”
Ask HN: What is the diff between engineering team efficiency or effectiveness?
Are these terms mutual exclusive? Is one a better indicator of teams success? I am curious how the engineers have to say about this. This is something CTOs and Eng VPs always say or talk about as their goal for their orgs.
It could be a useful feature, but marketing ruined it, just like everything else web related.
One Writer’s Journey to a Scentless Life and Back
Hi, I did my thesis on browser fingerprinting. Most algorithms that build profiles and look for combinations of features that are unique. The best way to hide your fingerprint is to be as similar to everyone as possible.

So that means use as much of the standards as possible that comes with the OS. Do not use anything that would not be considered mainstream (e.g. don't be the only person from Guatemala on Opera, Linux, DVORAK Keyboard using an odd screen resolution.)

The absolute hardest thing to create a browser fingerprint on is corporate laptops as they have identical setups!
1password for Teams. Also saved us a lot of hassle with on/off-boarding people.
Signal: Multi-device calls with ICE forking
The Aztec L2 for Ethereum uses zkSNARKS for privacy and allows for execution which means a decentralized exchange can be made in a fully private environment. It just released but it's a very exciting protocol for those who like Monero.
Swift Service Discovery
Why always erase your field if something else was wrong on submission?
I doubt that many economists would "argue that the present state of affairs is natural, good, and maximally value producing", they'd say it was a legacy of "last century's engineering limitations" which the bureaucracy adopted, and subsequently ossified around.

I think most economists and business people would agree that real-time auctions similar to what happens with internet ads would be much better.
Damn I also hate the Google accounts mayhem. I will look into those containers.

Right now I manually type ?authuser=1 into my URLs to have Google Docs open in the right account, but this breaks when I restart the browser and the page reloads with the wrong account... Why Google removes this parameter from URLs after loading is beyond me.
That’s interesting. “C# list”, “java list”, “js list”, “lua list”, “nim list”, “php list”, “python list”, “rust list”, “scheme list”, “visual basic list”, “zig list”, all show canonical-looking docs at the top on DDG — some in convenient sidebars, which are one feature I prefer DDG’s implementation of.
An automatic clean up bot could help but is usually not thought through (as numbers examples in this thread describe).

There are two common cases where some automation can help:

- User reports bug, dev explains that "it's not a bug, here's why, xxx" (or otherwise provides a satisfactory response) and user, even if satisfied, fails to return to close bug. So instead devs have to remember to close the bug which they usually do immediately after responding, which comes off as abrupt, even though it's not meant that way.

- User reports bug, dev responds with request for more info ("I can't duplicate; could you provide a better test case?"), user never responds.

In both cases it's OK to time out these old reports (which are essentially clutter). You could provide a way for the dev to flag this as one not to be auto-cleaned up.

Another improvement, while I'm at it: provide a Godbolt-like way to submit a test case that can be outrun (i.e. a CI case). Then the bug could be auto-closed if it's in the current release but already fixed in the dev sources. Not all bugs or applications could take advantage of this of course.
Does this work with Firefox Sync? I'd love to have different bookmarks/cookies/accounts/etc. for work and home but use the same sync account - sometimes I work from home and want to use my work profile, but also don't want my home bookmarks showing up when I share my screen at work.
“The country’s telecom revolution only took off after the government moved away from auctions and started assigning spectrum to licensees in return for a share of their revenue. The new system brought in twice as much in fees as the auction bids would have.” [shortened].

It seems such a slippery slope to tax infrastructure: although I guess it has the advantage that tax avoidance is difficult!
Manipulating Colors with CSS Variables and HSL
The paper The Origin of Modern Atolls: Challenging Darwin's Deeply Ingrained Theory [1]:

> In 1842, Darwin identified three types of reefs: fringing reefs, which are directly attached to volcanic islands; barrier reefs, which are separated from volcanic islands by lagoons; and ring reefs, which enclose only a lagoon and are defined as atolls. Moreover, he linked these reef types through an evolutionary model in which an atoll is the logical end point of a subsiding volcanic edifice, as he was unaware of Quaternary glaciations.

> Here, a comprehensive new model is proposed... During the multiple glacial sea-level lowstands that intensified throughout the Quaternary, the tops of these banks were karstified; then, during each of the five mid-to-late Brunhes deglaciations, coral reoccupied their raised margins and grew vertically, keeping up with sea-level rise and creating the modern atolls.

All coral atolls, therefore, were formed in the last 500,000 years with 100 ky glacial cycles and their associated 120m sea level change. Very cool.

Blue Holes like the one in Belize [2] are collapsed sinkholes created by the same mechanism.

[1] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-marine-122...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hole
I have found that editing other people's drafts (e.g. a colleague's proposal / memo at work) also helps me improve my own writing skills.