skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Establishing trust between seller and buyer is not a new problem. The same scenario that you described could be had with mailing checks, physical cash etc. wherever there is not a trusted escrow service.

Ironically, blockchain technology is the first technology that actually solves the age old problem of how to establish trust within a truestless system.

imho Bitcoin is a novel implementation of open-source technology, cryptography, and decentralized networks. I realize hackernews community has a disdain for greed and the avarice that is commonly connoted with "cryptocurrency" aka crypto-assets, but the reality is that bitcoin and crypto-assets are here to stay, and I for one am glad they are open-source.
No. Blocks will always be mined with a 10 minutes interval between each other. It doesn't matter how much energy is being invested.
More readable link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1344404814256504832.html
Interesting, do you know what they were called?
This doesn't explain why consistently interrupting REM sleep will lead to death.

Also, the exposition suggests that this is somehow particularly necessary for visual information because we can't see while sleeping. They originally suggest that this is because it's dark at night, but later modify it to be because one's eyes are closed while sleeping. However, to my knowledge, very little hearing is done while one is sleeping, certainly not enough to protect the auditory portions of the brain from being taken over. Furthermore, if other senses like hearing or smelling are in fact unused while sleeping, it seems like there wouldn't be much need to protect certain regions of the brain from takeover, since there would be no other sense to take them over. Finally, it seems like there are multiple situations where senses are required in a periodic way, such as an animal active during dusk, where its senses transition from being more to less sight focused. Being able to cycle the role of brain regions in response to these changes would be widely beneficial, and we would expect the capacity for this to be deeply ingrained. Insofar as we need non-sight senses while we are sleeping, it seems like the circuitry to deal with cyclic use of senses would be able to protect the visual cortex from total reuse.

Stronger than all this, it seems like REM is fairly fundamental to sleep, in that understanding it ought to offer deep insight into why we sleep in the first place. The proposed explanation offers no such insight, and generally answers no other questions besides the one regarding dreams. It seems like answers to deep questions usually provide insight into questions we didn't even know we had, whereas this answer provides no such insight.

I saw an answer to the dreams question to the effect that the brain cools down while we are sleeping, and REM sleep heats up the brain to prevent it from becoming too cold. This answer potentially provides insight into why we sleep, in that it proposes the cooling of the brain to be important to sleep, rather than incidental. It also explains why interrupting REM would kill a person. It doesn't obviously preference visual portions of the brain, suggesting that visual information is the focus of the brain simply because it is what the brain focuses on while awake. It potentially explains the data of these researchers, if the brain cools down more during sleep whenever the brain is more flexible.

I am not suggesting that I think this answer is definitely true, but merely trying to demonstrate that the standard I am measuring this new theory against is not impossible to reach. I think the explanation of why we dream will look more like the brain cooling answer, rather than the brain reuse answer.
Is there a way to make money with this? I often find cool products on the food section which unerringly disappear after my first purchase.

I am also good at watching fads and as soon as I join they are over.

I definitely envy some people I know who have a talent for jumping on trends early. I often feeloput of sync with society
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That's not what I mean at all. JIRA doesn't imply any sort of top down approach. In fact, I'd argue it's the best tool for those tight feedback loops. Each ticket is a versioned history of the decisions, feedback and work history of a single task. Startups can get away without tools because they can communicate very tightly. That doesn't scale much past an org of even 20 people. Not everyone can talk directly to the CEO or the budget makers, nor are they all sufficiently cognizant of the business constraints to make the right calls on prioritization. There isn't a tier of professional managers as much there's a tier of experts in their discipleship who have visibility across multiple teams and into the business decision making. People who need to allocate budgets and resources without attending every scrum or sprint planning.
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Changing it up or down?
>On the other hand, I've worked for companies that are in the press and sometimes the external viewpoint helps counteract the kool-aid.

The idea that the drones in a company know more about the company than the public is laughable. Unless you have your own office you do not know what the company's goals actually are.
This seems like...word salad. What are you actually trying to say here?

Autonomy vs social control is a modern trend? That's not what totalitarianism was?

What change of governance? From who to who? (Or what to what?)

Shamelessness was previously only found in rulers and jesters? There weren't ordinary people who were assholes, and shameless about it?
Is this 2021 or 2015?
The 2600 was not exactly easy to make any good games with either, containing only 128 bytes of RAM and having very primitive graphics capabilities.
I’ve been thinking for a while that the ideal developer view would be just a 1 dimensional queue. You have 1 ticket at slot 0 that you work on and if someone wants you to work on something urgent out of order they’ll insert it at slot 1, otherwise you just keep popping off the queue. Managers and scrum priests could add more complexity to the metadata and the ordering as much as they want but the developer view would stay the same
Hell yeah, I want to create a kinder world too. The recent headline I read says that violent video games had zero effect on actual violence.

Happy New Years yall.
> I would consider being able to install the app to the homescreen part of having a "native app-like user experience

There's some more relevant discussion on this bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407202

For now you can supply --ssb on the command line - but I suppose that will go away, if the feature discussed in op is axed (it's not entirely clear to me if axing the pefrence/feature flag includes axing the command line flag - but it seems so).

At any rate - most desktop os' should allow shortcuts to urls - so should support "installing" apps.
This is all kind of moot because of how popular DocuSign has become.

You get no opportunity to redline anything -- unless the signature-requestor decides to grant you that permission, which they basically never do, because DocuSign has become "take it or leave it as a service". Sort of like how arbitration has become "no class action as a service". I mean sure, in theory arbitration clauses can allow for class action, but I've never heard of that happening.

You might say that people can always ask for a wording change out-of-band via email, but this neglects the subtle dynamics of contract negotiations -- not just in employment agreements, but elsewhere (my pet example: the aggressive NDAs put forth by semiconductor foundries).

A lot of negotiation is about who ends up looking unreasonable if talks break down, and the reputational cost of appearing unreasonable. If you send back a signed document with a totally reasonable redline, the other side looks unreasonable for not countersigning and moving forward. With DocuSign's "adhesion as a service" the other side will just claim that their legal department doesn't read external emails so they never got your proposal.
The world would be a better place if people unqualified to do so stopped labeling people with whom they disagreed as "insane", "narcissists", "psychopaths", etc.

When you do this, you dehumanize the person, and minimize the positive aspects of their contributions.

If you are not a qualified doctor, please make a new year's resolution to stop doing this.
Is that just ateji or the semantic meaning intended?
I really wish the licensing and activation code would be removed as well.
Nope.

The only time I seem to remember dreams is when my sleep is disturbed. Most nights I go to sleep and wake up in the morning, no (remembered)dream. If something wakes me up like indigestion or needing to pee I’ll often remember a dream.
Not unless your iphone is a hand-me-down from someone who themselves got it as a hand-me-down?

https://caniuse.com/?search=wasm
I think it's an unfortunate omission from this article, but, with every question like this you have to consider things on balance.

Everything you do to generate power will have some impact and conversely some benefit.

They talk a lot about the impact here, but, not at all about the benefit.

All of the dams on the Klamath River produce a combined power of only 169MW (and this isn't even removing all of them, I think its actually removing not even 40MW of power generating capacity.

Again, you have to consider everything on balance. This is an absolutely pitiful amount of energy. For example, three gorges produces 22,500 MW of power.

Common designs for self-contained PORTABLE nuclear reactors easily outclass the entire generating capacity of these dams.

The balance of impact vs benefit on these is incredibly tilted against these projects continuing to exist.

Also, Chinook is delicious and anything which means more lox is a win in my book.
> Wouldn't it be better to replace the EU with an expansive multilateral free trade treaty that encompasses the same states? Why do we need an additional layer of government?

I don't know much about it, but I suppose if you want a free trade without a race to the bottom or a "giant sucking sound," you'd need something like a government to set standards across the area.

Also, it seems like there's some obvious benefits to a currency union (drawbacks too), and if you want to have that, then you need some kind of body to manage it.
Good. I would love to see the rationale for the fee.
USDS isn’t going to hire a new grad at GS-15. Also government benefits are not as good as FAANG benefits.

Also GS-15 is the absolute max. 2 yrs at FAANG and your comp will be closed to 220-250k, which is already passed the absolute max you can get paid on the government pay scale.
I think it's one of his most underrated albums- at least I never hear about people talk about it. I had it burned to a CD because my college car was too old to have anything else. I would only go through the effort of burning CDs I loved front to back and this was one of the most-played. The Space Ghost song near the end used to make me feel nostalgic. Now I feel nostalgic for that nostalgia... meta-nostalgia?
Let's hope it's not the initials of the researcher's alma mater: https://www.wired.com/2003/01/he-loves-uk-her-uterus-doesnt/
SHOW HN: REST, GraphQL and gRPC Services via NPM or Docker
I've spent a much of 2020 developing a project that auto provisions REST, GraphQL & gRPC services that support CRUD operations (with full validation) to tables, views and materialized views of several popular databases (postgres, postgis, mysql, sqlite).

The project is named `Service-Engine`, and it can be implemented via an NPM package and as a Docker Container.

The README on GitHub has extensive documentation on the setup & features, so here I'll just list the primary features: full CRUD, geoquery (bbox, radius, custom wkt polygon) complex_resources (aggregate & sub queries), middleware (access the query before db execution), permissions (table/view level CRUD configs), field redaction (enable query support -- without publication), schema migrations, auto generated openapi3/swagger docs, auto generated proto file, full validation.

GitHub Source
https://github.com/sudowing/service-engine

Forkable Docker Implementation
https://github.com/sudowing/service-engine-template

I've also put together a few videos showing how to configure Docker app & how several features work. Videos have been produced covering the following topics:

Quick Start
https://youtu.be/zwpPLM5LPgo

Insomnia Import
https://youtu.be/PzV19iHs-IU

Key REST Endpoints
https://youtu.be/sfmAO4pWC14

Permissions
https://youtu.be/4ptSSnaqvqw

API Response Metadata
https://youtu.be/fjuTBT08ELE

Query Context
https://youtu.be/wITo_oHjSvM

SQL Operators
https://youtu.be/698lXrclFIs

CRUD Operations
https://youtu.be/KUDqqlxb26M

Debug Mode
https://youtu.be/LjRpv6JZxhI

Complex Resources (subqueries & aggregate queries)
https://youtu.be/rzhQlPAoVeI

Middleware & Redactions
https://youtu.be/AopYx2XM3yc

GraphQL Playground and Geoqueries
https://youtu.be/8y5BMjHVRUA

gRPC Service (CRUD & Geoqueries)
https://youtu.be/HFzwwLIqrfQ

DB Schema Migrations
https://youtu.be/84D8_--K5cs

GIS DB Setup & Load
https://youtu.be/UjvvPgdT_Y8
This was exactly my response too. Wow. Old-school eighties.
Twilight Princess is actually my favourite Zelda game. I enjoyed the darker atmosphere, and found the level of emotion in the game to be on par with Skyward Sword <spoiler type="rot13">(Gur frpgvba jurer lbh genafcbeg Zvqan gb Mryqn, naq jura Zvqan yrnirf ng gur raq ner gjb bs gur zbfg zrzbenoyr zbzragf va nyy bs tnzvat sbe zr)</spoiler>. I also still enjoy the dungeons and boss battles, The City in The Sky, Icepeak Ruins, and Arbiters Grounds all stick out in my mind as having difficult components. I also think that combat in general peaked in that game with the number of techniques you could learn. All of that being said, it's the first Zelda game I beat, so this should be taken with a grain of salt.

I do also love the dungeons/bosses and atmosphere in Skyward Sword however, and have to agree that it is where bosses peaked.
I’ve heard Stilton cheese has a similar effect. (Haven’t tried)

Also whatever malaria drug I took was supposed to have intense dreams as a side effect. (Don’t remember any)
Some of this was covered in Connections series.
I think it misses the point that's key for my view of life: expanding to reagents around it, so it does not stay isolated in one Goldilocks location.
Thanks for sharing. I purchased it and took a look at the "web apps list". I was a bit disappointed -- it looks like this is just a scrape of product hunt? There isn't much metadata associated, just the information product hunt shows.

It would have been great if you actually rated the execution of each site, i.e. your own personal opinion of 1 to 5. As well as potential market size or that company's current MRR (as is popular on IndieHackers).

Is it fair to say "validated" just means "submitted to product hunt"? If so, I think it would be better to state that up front.
bitcoin has beaten western union, international wire transfers for years now and will continue to do so as notoriety and adoption of crypto-asset grows. However, that in no way justifies its marketcap, which is just over 500 billions.
However overvalued it is, and however many times the price crashes dramatically, it is likely that the blockchain will continue to exist in 50-100 years. As long as computers and the internet still exist that is.
I think it would be extremely helpful to map the math into code. Nobody has done this as far as I've seen. I mean you can find Github repositories for some papers but really a set of explicit tutorials from the math to the code would be really helpful.

To say something is "machine learning", I think means that you should show the code not just equations and derivations.

I mean if you only show math and derivations, what's the point? To show off what you know? How is that helpful?
I'd guess that it's Amazon
I’d say about once a month I’m dreaming as I wake up and the dream quickly fades... but if I had a dream journal there’d be something to write down.

Every other morning there’s nothing.
'JIRA thinking' is good for bug fixing and resulting issue tracking.

It's maybe not so good at the front end of the process.
Tbh naval warfare posts, and in particular submarine posts, are probably my favorite category of articles I find on this website. Im an Army vet and barely interacted with Navy folks while I was in (except for that one time, on a FOB in a country far far away ...), and I’ve become quite enthusiastic about naval history and combat. Always fun seeing this stuff here and learning about the other side of the house, especially the more technical reviews of how operations run.
Try both.
Fascinating, this is the first time I've heard of Pix. Can you own the private key? Can you create an account without having a bank account?
I've lived in Beijing (sub-zero winters) and currently live in Singapore (30 degrees/80%+ humidity year-round).

I would much prefer to face a cold winter than hot and humid year-round. The weather is the main reason I'll eventually leave Singapore, there's simply nothing you can do to escape the heat/humidity. I work from home and literally run the A/C 24/7, and even then I still never feel "comfortable" (because it's too cold when it's too low, and when it's too high it doesn't evaporate enough sweat).
That's because there's a ton of legacy PHP code to deal with. I shudder to think about it.
Yes, and it's important to remember with any lock, safe or other security measures is that the goal is not for it to stay locked, but to open when certain criteria are met.

Designers of such mechanisms intend those criteria to be met a certain way, but that isn't required. Like standard locks, which are intended to open with a key, but the design simply requires the pins to form a certain configuration-- key optional.
Well, if I were to talk about addiction and the "opioid crisis", I would most likely be down-voted (happened before) even though what I would say would be supported by tons of evidence. When I bother, I just recommend a credible book instead that talks about it and supports it with lots of evidence.

Actually, I am going to suggest it here just now because it is a great book and I would like more people to have a more accurate view on addiction: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/addiction-and-choice... (Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the relationship by Nick Heather and Gabriel Segal). It is from 2016, but most people's views on addiction is more than a few decades old, and all things considered, it is still fairly recent and all recent studies support these views. Please, if you are interested in addiction, have a read. :) It will get you up to date with it, and dispel lots of misconceptions that are still in the head of laymen.
Sure, could be.

My testing pointed towards a DRM problem, since it doesn’t happen with other video streaming or with rendering outside the particular Chrome + Hulu combination.

My point is two-fold:

1. Even if the driver crashes, the OS should blue screen (like it used to) rather than just hard freeze the machine.

2. Using an HP laptop with Windows and Chrome to view Hulu is so mainstream it should “just work” — so it’s a sign of industry breakdown it doesn’t.
I think eurozone collapse will begin in germany, centered around the collapse of deutsche bank. No other scenario will make sense. Although it will still be bad, the uk will have dodged a bigger bullet with brexit.
There's also the "executive schedule" [1] for management, but it doesn't pay much better: $220K for the highest paid ES-1, and a PhD is a requirement. In fact, the president of the US makes only $400K.

[1] https://www.federalpay.org/ses/2020
From the article:

“ We still have no idea how big or far away they are. They could be objects in our galaxy, perhaps a few light-years across, or they could be far away in the universe and maybe millions of light years across.”
Do you think Brexit reaching a conclusion could spur reunification between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (a “United Ireland”)?
One strange thing I noticed on HN is that some of my most upvoted posts are in area outside my field of expertise. I do everything I can to fact check myself, but I'm sure I have been wrong several times and there are people more qualified than me to answer.

And some of my posts that are well within my field of expertise stay at zero.

When I get downvoted it is usually when I post an unpopular opinion, but rarely as a result of being wrong.

All this to say that while HN is, I think, one of the best communities, it doesn't mean you should leave your guard down. I'd say it is even more insidious here because you won't find easily debunked bullshit, no flat earthers here. Falsehoods here are to be subtle enough to go unnoticed by an educated mind, and you are not guaranteed to be corrected by a real expert.
It's amusing. If one were to actually follow your links and start fact-checking, they would see some pretty obvious factual errors in the sources, or cases where the actual source doesn't support the argument made here.

If your mission was to be a false flag to reinforce the notion that conservatives just lie, lie, lie to support their positions, because they are incapable of supporting them with facts and reason, then: well done sir! Very good job.

In any case, I hope you have a happy new year and stay safe.
> Trump will remain President

How?
The Splendid and the Vile. My favorite non fiction book of 2020.
>I think that you want people to draw a conclusion from this story.

Yes, that conclusion is exactly what I already said, which I worded very precisely: "some companies bias positively towards people based on their race and/or gender". So we should not automatically assume, as the person I was replying to suggested, that someone will be biased against because of their race or gender for affirming work boundaries.

You reading into that to try to sniff out hints of racism and prejudice says more about your motives and your intentions here than it does mine.

>You believe these companies "bias positively". Which may or may not be true.

I didn't say "these companies", I said "some companies." And "some companies" is true, because I have personal experiences at "some companies" that show backroom positive biases towards employees and interview candidates, without their knowledge, explicitly because of their identity (both race and sex).

You seem to disagree that my experiences are valid, and if they are valid, that I must be sexist or racist for even sharing them.
I just checked. 25% of all HN accounts have posted at least one comment. That's higher than I thought I remembered.

6% of accounts have posted 10 or more comments, accounting for 96% of all comments.

2% of accounts have posted 100 or more comments, accounting for 83% of all comments.
> Tensions between China and USA will increase, but will decrease between USA and Russia.

Unlikely. Biden once said to putin directly that "he had no soul".
But dropping his own name can ascribe no more importance to himself. Dropping in another famous name, and one from a complete different field no less, ascribes greater credibility than Michael Crichton alone can manage.
The majority of content isn't made by the Grady Harps and Justin Knapps of the world. Those are the individuals with the most contributions in their respective areas, but their total input still amounts to a rounding error. Given that's the case, the fact that we even recognize people like that as outliers means that the majority of what you read on the internet isn't written by insane people (for any meaningful definition of the word).
> On 17 November 2020, a new agreement was signed between PacifiCorp, the Yurok and other stakeholders to facilitate the dams' removals. Should federal regulators approve, the project will begin in 2022, with the demolitions slated for 2023.

These damn removals take too dam long. The Matilija Dam has been waiting for over 20 years and has only been symbolically demolished. Everyone agreed it was a good idea to remove it in 1998, and it’s still standing.