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Substack bundling is inevitable as subscription-based blogging matures. It's just a matter of time until we start seeing offers "Subscribe to top authors A, B, and C, for only $X/mo".
I can only recommend reading this [1] digest.

[1] https://blog.bitmex.com/walkaway/
Too many electron apps? :P
The dude who got a tummy ache from this was even funnier than the story itself. This is a great site.
A much bigger assumption is that this will even be necessary, considering the last BTC mined will be in 2140. With such a long time horizon any prediction is basically fanciful guesswork; at that time miners might have all moved to renewables after they become cheap enough, we may have new forms of energy generation which make supply both super easy and cost negligible, or Earth may have entered a post-apocalyptic state and mining is no longer even a consideration. To assume no advancement in tech between now and then seems reductive.
The US first amendment protects all speech, not just political speech. Most particularly it protects offensive speech because that is the only kind that needs protecting. We endure many inefficiencies for the freedoms we allow, the idea is that those freedoms are worth the cost.
Ask HN: How necessary is encrypting IndexedDB?
I'm developing an app for a client and frontend security is a major concern. It's React on the frontend and Node on the backend.

I've looked at all the Web Storage API's and IndexedDB seems the most promising, however all web storage is stored on disk unencrypted.

Since I have access to the backend I generate the encryption key no problem, but since we only plan to have short lived sessions (~ 1 hour) and the delete the data locally, I'm wondering how to quantify the risks of leaving that data unencrypted.

It seems that most websites that use IndexedDB, don't encrypt that data, and they have a much longer storage time.

So, if you have any experience with this, I'd love to get your take on the cost/benefit of encrypting IndexedDB.

Thanks
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Sure, if you're chasing protein then potatoes aren't the best choice. Tofu is close in protein content to meat though (about 17%) and is also cheaper, if you don't go for the overpriced hippy tofu.

I don't spend anything on meat, stopped eating it a while ago. But when I did, it still wasn't breaking the bank of course, not like I was spending hundreds of dollars monthly on meat.

While meat is definitely one of the most delicious foods out there, I don't really miss it that much. The cognitive dissonance wasn't worth it.
The video has to be grainy. Otherwise it's much easier to see that it's fake.
Could you elaborate? Assume we convert all our happy path estimates to minutes. What I'm saying is that each "estimated minute" is more likely to have a gaussian distribution than a uniform standard distribution,because normal distribution is more likely to occur in nature.

while I can understand that this is a controversial assumption, I'm not the first one to make it. Referring to numerology seems a bit odd?

I'm really looking for a proper way here, I'm quite a rational person, so numerology is not really my cup of tea TBH.
I find this entire field of study fascinating. The reason is simple; ever since the start of the Scientific Revolution everything has become quite complex and multivariate and we have gotten into the habit of trying to solve them all using mathematical models. This has the advantage that once proven, it can be applied "mindlessly" towards a desired result. With Heuristics so many factors have to come together in a individual for any given event that repeatability is not certain. Therein lies the difficulty.
> Yes, but I guess I wouldn’t label them as scientific processes, which I would assume be in line with the scientific method.

It's that exact assumption which is common, incorrect, and which I'd like to see addressed in K-12 education.

The scientific process in my discipline works as:

1) Graduate students come in to do research

2) Ones which align with hot topics have venues to be published, people to cite them, sources of funding, etc.

3) Some people do diligent work, and write a publication a year. Those don't go anywhere. Some people write 12 publications per year, often based on poor scientific methodology and buggy analysis algorithms.

4) The highest-impact results often come from methodological errors, and never replicate. Most errors are never found, but even if they are, by that point, the people who wrote those papers have found tenure.

5) No one has time for good peer reviews, so reviewers glance at the abstract, sometimes to see if they were cited, and skim the paper.

6) Press picks up the sexiest results, which almost always are nonsense. People also cite the sexiest results.

Increasingly, this has moved from sloppiness to intentional gaming of the system. About half of academics I saw hired in the past decade had some level of intentional sketchiness going on.

This doesn't align well with scientific methods.

In the same way, I think high school civics courses should talk about issues like buying influence, polarization, and corruption as part of civics.
Fortunately we have tools like Docker and to a lesser extent Python Virtual Environments to help deal with this in a sane way.

But yeah for 1 off zero dependency Python scripts I won't be using the new features until major distros ship with 3.10 by default. Part of the appeal to me of Python is most distros and operating systems have it installed by default. Being able to curl down a single file and run it is really nice. For that to work requires using a version of Python that most folks have by default. That means coding against 3.6's features (at least we can use f-strings now!).
The solution is for funding bodies to insist on open access publication. This isn't just a pipe dream. [0][1] All government funding should have this requirement.

[0] https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/digitalresearch/openac...

[1] https://www.openaire.eu/how-to-comply-to-h2020-mandates-for-...
That is absolutely not the reason that they publicly stated they stopped allowing purchasing and only allowed selling.

I’d dance on the grave of this company.
So basically coinbase needs competitors on transaction fee prices
Negligible impact of CoV variants on Tcell reactivity in donors and vaccinees
Sunde understands the value of propaganda, so it's fairly obvious he expected this outcome. He wanted to highlight the undemocratic and corrupt nature of one of the most critical parts of our global infrastructure, and he did it.

Ironically, this was a better proof of transparency than what most "problematic" people would subject themselves to. If any vanilla oligarch wanted to be in those circles, he would just pay some squeaky-clean individual to be his stooge, and then make it known, after registration, who the real power is. Sunde could have configured himself as a freelance consultant to his friends, and he would not have appeared on any radar. This would have made his business work, but it would not have advanced the perennial conversation about ICANN's original sins, which have become more and more untolerable with the years.

ICANN were pretty stupid to just veto his admission. That's not how you deal with institutional critics. They could have simply brought him in, then informally and formally vetoed anything he wanted to do. They have experience with people who tried to blow up things "from inside" in the past, so clearly they've developed countermeasures ready for that scenario. Or they could have given him something, enough to behold him, so he'd have an incentive to stay in the tent and piss outside rather than the other way around.

This attitude proved Sunde is fundamentally right on the subject matter, like him or not as a person.
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The filling was necessary, but the deduplication (in linear time as it works over an array) indeed was not as the input is unique.

I can see why the devs would not trust that though. So it’s the inefficiency of the dedup’ which bugs me more than the dedup itself.
> It's always nice and slick on the surface, and then a twisting pile of mess underneath.

You kind of just described Linux, Unix, modern Web dev, iOS dev, Android dev etc.
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Regarding keeping updated, I find small hobby projects to be a good outlet to try new technologies, architectures or processes. Often times I’d end up translating those to valuable additions to the code base at my day job.

As for being stuck in a position where learning opportunities are limited, try pushing for taking on tasks on other teams that are working on technologies you are interested in learning. If the company you are in frowns upon this sort of work then sounds like you should find a more open environment. They are companies out there that value this sort of curiosity.
From the article:

> Lotus 1-2-3 was ported to a bunch of systems, including OpenVMS, Xenix, and even System/390. In 1991, Lotus released a version for SunOS4 on SPARC.

Word (according to Wikipedia):

> ... were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1994), and macOS (2001).

Excel was originally a Mac program, but hasn't been available on any Unix platform since (as far as I can tell.)
If I have no apples and get 1 apple I don't have infinite more apples...
When there's nothing else to do, I can see people who are bored and lonely increasingly likely to spend money on something that they used to enjoy pre-pandemic in order to try and gain some enjoyment in an otherwise pretty depressing situation.
Building REST from GraphQL – an story of engineering in Haskell
Where are you getting data the the flu is less severe in developing countries? The data I'm finding shows the complete opposite https://championtraveler.com/news/the-us-flu-season-is-bad-t...
Oh, I didn't know about workoutizer, it seems like it could work for me. Thanks !
Prof quits works re Covid hostility over his findings on low threat to children
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.. and almost ten ongoing movie, television and documentary projects about the GameStop fiasco
> and I think it's probably racist

I know that you think you're being performatively stupid, but in a system where the benefits are captured almost entirely by a few techbros, and the pollution from the coal power plants powering it is felt mostly by ethnic minority rural poor (1) ... yes?

I suggest that the burden of poof is on the other side: attempt to make a coherent case why this technology is somehow egalitarian and not going to drastically worsen inequality. Good luck.

1) https://qz.com/1978807/bitcoin-has-a-xinjiang-problem/

https://twitter.com/ericholthaus/status/1362279679630204929

https://diginomica.com/bitcoins-damage-planet-coal-powered-c...
It's weird to hold that against someone though. Interpol is not judiciary. It's not even proper part of any executive.
This reminds me of that famous poem.

"First they came for the nazis, and I defended them because I am a staunch supporter of free speech.

Then the nazis exterminated me and my entire family, just like they had always promised they would.

The end."
Hey guys! Great news.

Looks like Google just removed us from the blacklist. Maybe somebody from Google saw this or maybe I got reviewd quickly but I couldn't be happier.

Here are a few things I did

- Removed all inline images (As mentioned in my other comments a lot of virus sites were tagging me base64 embedded due to inline images)

- Disabled test uploads for now. I will probably make the test file expire after 2 mins and never host them on the same domain

- Moving the external scripts to another domain. You never know what can get you blacklisted so best to keep customer facing part separate from main domain.

I cannot be more thankful to all the people who replied and offered suggestions. You guys rock!

P.S. In case you guys still seeing the red screen of death, please let me know.
> If this came from an institute for virology, that must be the WORST of its kind of all times.

Not really. SARS escaped from laboratories (at least) 3 times. Once in Singapore, twice in Beijing. SARS doesn't have the long asymptomatic but still contagious period that SARS-CoV-2 has, so the lab escapes were much easier to contain before they spread widely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
I said break up, not move to the ITU.
Diddums the people using your site send thousands of death threats on it every day. Try to toughen up, buttercup.
I keep checking, but I'm surprised at how often Home Depot, Office Depot and Microcenter are NOT lower than Amazon.
Good luck compiling large sources on 4gb
I haven't found this much use because you still can't assume the default version really and pip seems to be broken all the time by default.
This article is all over the place. It takes an obviously negative stance right from the start by complaining that Coinbase has frequent outages and poor customer support (that hasn’t been my experience as a long time happy Coinbase customer), then it switches completely to the author complaining about how they didn’t research the fees, and got surprised by high fees that earnestly reflect the cost of operating the business. This is somehow better than the way brokerages fund zero fee retail investing transactions, but also somehow vaguely dishonest and predatory at the same time?

It’s a very weak, meandering article with no significant point. I usually expect better from Bloomberg on financial topics, but I guess it’s just the usual trendy anti-cryptocurrency drivel.
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For the record, why did Robinhood stop the trading? I know there's been an uproar, but due to the volume of articles it's been difficult to get a clearheaded idea of why Robinhood actually did it.
Addendum: this is what I was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral
It has a competitor, it's just sadly afraid of being in the US so it pulled out most of its offerings from there recently. Only Coinbase gets the preferential treatment.

Binance has 9x the volume of Coinbase, 5-10 times less fees, much more offerings and its 'stock' is at least an actual cryptocurrency rather than a US IPO.

>I was wrong, spending about $1,200 on those trades at a commission rate of 1.49%.

Anyway, the author could've had 0.50% fees even on Coinbase (still 5x higher than the lowest Binance fees) by switching to Pro which is free. The author for some reason thinks "it wasn't worth the effort". Well, if you don't want to spend the 10 minutes to use the market rather than the 1click solution, I dont see how its the exchange's fault.
> These classes are for teaching the bare basic of bio, chem, and physics to see if the kids enjoy them. As it stands they can barely do this.

Has anyone heard of a setting for discussing doing transformatively better than this?

Not in PER sense of "if only we could teach intro physics classes successfully", or bio's "if only undergraduates had a firmer grasp of central dogma", but more like Larimore's[1] suggestion, in the context of preK science education, that students have a human right to make sense of their world, now. Big hairy audacious goal. And the heavy lifting for it, would have to come from the science community.

As in, kindergarten students have a right to be told the Sun isn't yellow, to not be given popular intro astronomy college textbooks which have that wrong, and to not grow up to be first-tier astronomy and physical sciences graduate students who are still confused about that, and about color in general. Students have a right to chemistry education content which chemistry education research doesn't describe using adjectives like incoherent. A right to content which reflects current insight and understanding of the physical world, not "it's traditional to teach it this way" wretchedness.

Consider a dedicated professional teacher, in a hypothetical country, whose education system is focused on call-and-response rote memorize-and-regurgitate, who argues the implausibility of teaching US-style intro-physics problem solving. That can be both individually correct, and still reflect a profound collective failure of their community and society. Now consider a system focused on plug-and-chug toy problem solving, with no feel for reasonable values, narrow scopes, and topical descriptions divorced from current understanding. That can be both a professionally-pursued local maxima, and still reflect a profound collective failure. Including a failure to explore how to do transformatively better.

Imagine a speculative early-primary atoms-up progression, one emphasizing atoms as nucleons, and building from nucleosynthesis, through a sense of physical size/scale, to a broad grasp of modern material science. Insane amount of interdisciplinary work. But I even found ways to explore it, sort of kind of, and explorations like it - mainly conversations with "the usual suspects" before/after research talks around MIT and Harvard. Then covid. Now... has anyone heard of an online setting for discussing transformative improvement of science and engineering content? Even if we're back to normal next year, I'd appreciate finding a less ad hoc and restricted setting. Thanks.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=Lar...
If you're conducting a business relationship, why are you talking about trust in the first place?

Contracts are written and signed to ensure that trust isn't necessary, because the contracts can be enforced.
I’m American, and I don’t know anyone who eats this much hamburger. A lot of us find them to be pretty heavy, so it’s more like a meal that you have once in a blue moon. However, someone commented below that it might just be the income bracket we’re in. Poorer people might be consuming more of them because they’re cheap and fast to get.
I took over the knowledge panel for a central bank in an African country. Had no problem at all. They asked me if it was my business, I said 'yes', that was all.

People have also edited the panel for Yucca Mountain to say it was open 1 hour a week, I guess for household nuclear waste disposal.
If you're using same amount of paper at the end, why bother with a bigger device with higher maintenance costs?

Edit: Some to same. Big Sur's autocorrect is a bit too aggressive it seems.
Not on topic for the actual product... but please remove that terrible scrolling behaviour. I hate when websites do this, it makes the user experience (imo) much worse to just "jump" sections if I try to scroll a tiny bit.
I understand the bickering between media and social networks. Aggregators have disrupted the standard media business and a clash was inevitable.

Including Substack in the fight, on the other hand, is pathetic. One would expect journalists to support each other and Substack is a tool _tailored for them_.
I’d wait to buy a computer that might stop supporting software I wanted to use.
Maybe.

But Bloomberg is not to be trusted anymore ( The Phony Hack ), especially on subjects which may partially compete with its own core business.
This wasn't about landlords. It was about a business publication being pro the rules of economics.
Google and Facebook have attributes of "virtual" governments. Similarly to an IRL government, they provide to citizens identity, protection of assets, and policing. From that perspective, their ad-based monetization is indirect taxation.
Disturbing perhaps, but not surprising.

And, given the arrival of ENS, IPFS, etc., probably not of any enormous consequence either.

Centralized services in the vein of ICANN are clearly on the way out.
> I know the newer apple watches are quite slim

They’re really not. I’ve owned three different Apple Watches (including the current model), and even the most recent models are heaps thicker than even my old Citizen Eco-Drive watch, which already seemed absurdly massive on my wrist when I bought it.

I’m still using Apple’s smart watches for just one reason:

As thick as they still are relative to regular watches, they’re heaps smaller than phones. And if all you want to do is basic phone functionality (check the weather, make/receive calls and text messages, listen to music, set timers, etc), you can do all of that from a cellular-enabled watch+wireless earbuds, without carrying the bulk of a phone around with you at all.

For those of us who feel like phones are getting too large to reasonably carry around all the time, having all the critical functionality in something that just sits on your wrist until you need it is kind of amazing. If it wasn’t necessary to have an up-to-date phone in order to configure the watch, I’m not certain I’d still own a phone at all.
Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere.
And yet bitcoin have delivered just that since it's inception.
Just open the stapler in half and staple on something soft. Most office upholstery doesn't mind being stapled (loosely woven thick fibers do not get damaged).
Stablecoins have taken over the Ethereum Network
Mars exploration is first and foremost a human experience. Dry observation and engineering wet dreams are OK for a few elite but what we're looking at here is a legacy for all humankind. It should be treated that way, and that includes emotional interpretations.
This is one of those pieces of content that makes me so happy that I know about HN.

Printing is something that I never questioned. I never needed to, but some one, some where thought about a better way. This better way solves a problem I encountered many times in college when I was copying pages of a textbook on loan from the library.

Potentially out of place, but my oh my is this community the best.
> Bitcoin is an investment cult, but at some point you have to leave the cult, making you an apostate.

Bitcoin is more than a cult, for what it's worth. Bitcoin has value for rich Chinese to circumvent yuan capital export restrictions (https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3098981/c...), for Iran to sort-of bypass international sanctions (https://observers.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210203-in-ir...) and for North Korea to fund their nuke program (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/un-says-north-korea-funded-n...).

In addition to that, it is a perfect tool for Western people to buy drugs, weapons and other contraband (Silk Road and its countless successors), for sending large sums of money across borders, and soon-ish to buy Tesla cars.

Basically, there are many people and governments with massive stakes in keeping Bitcoin operable and its dollar value somewhat high-ish.
Show HN: Which one to train, anyway? Machine Learning Algorithms Comparison
If you’re still writing unit tests consider using a strongly typed functional language instead. Typescript will get you most of the way there. At some point you’ll realize all the assertions you’re making are already covered. Integration tests are the only valuable tests in my experience, using something like puppeteer, playwright, or cypress that automatically runs as part of a build pipeline.
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A battery that can add 200-300Km of range in 10-15 minutes would probably do a lot for the people who can't charge at home.

Fortunately this is already the case in cars with 250kW charging capability.

That being said I don't think habits from combustion engines can and should translate to EVs, so you don't need such quick chargers in cities - cars are normally stationary 90% of the time. Lamp post chargers are a cheap and easy to install solution:

https://airqualitynews.com/2019/05/02/1000-ev-charge-points-...

Better still, their output could be throttled so as to not introduce too much demand.