skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would that address the core question being asked which is whether work spent reviewing should be paid? In any case, while there are problems with peer review, I don't think it's related to technology.
Breaking Down the 2020 Am Law 100 Rankings
I joked that schools that are serious about teaching CS should just get a rack with *NIX machines properly configured and networked together and have everyone serious enough ssh/remote to them. For the students that just wished ReplIt could let them do that one thing it can't...

With regular back-up so that when a student inevitably mess up beyond repair (rogue rm or dd command or something modifying his path) he can time-machine like roll back to a previous version.

Then you get to enjoy the show. Someone will inevitably start pen-testing the school. Why is one machine constantly maxed-out? Is that a Quake server they are running? Oh they have their own chat client/protocol now, interesting. Basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...
Nike exec quits after son's trainer resale firm revealed
I'm shifting to brick and mortar or online retailers that I feel vet their sellers like Costco.
I think you are wrong, stating it prominently and repeatedly makes the warning disappear into noise for users so there's little downside and a lot of upside if it were in fact being operated by the FBI.

I doubt it is though, I don't think the FBI has the capability to be frank, but even more if the FBI were operating it as a honeypot somehow I doubt that the websites would have been banned from AWS and such.

I'm sure that if it were true the FBI could have easily just told AWS that the presence of extremist content was being allowed by law enforcement specifically to identify terrorists.

I think the idea that it's a honeypot is a very poor fit to the available information.
> Reducing the demand for real beef is probably one of the best things we can do in the short term for the environment,

And reducing the amount of food we eat in general! If the 66% of the U.S. population who are obese or overweight just started eating no more food than they needed, we'd go a long way to reducing greenhouse emissions.

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/oby.22657
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Google says publishers don’t want collective bargaining
There's a whole subreddit of them at /r/buttcoin.
Financially aligning people through greed, speculation, is certainly one way to gain "consensus" - however that ignores, attempts to circumvent the harder work - which takes healthy individuals who have genuine community via regular, conversations that go deep - of building trust; Bitcoin is a virus that has spread because our immune system isn't working, we're currently weak due to a lack of real connection, interconnection.
I disable automatic updates on all software on my machines, and update them periodically on a schedule, using downloads that are verified as authentic.

I'm not sure where the rest of your questions come from. "Do you not upgrade them ever?" does not logically follow from being opposed to the major security vulnerability that no-interaction automatic binary modification poses.
I'm sensing a small nuance missed here, I'll clarify pro-actively: Adding more energy to your mining operation won't result in more bitcoin for you, you will only make the network more secure. Mining bitcoin is mostly about securing the bitcoin network and there is a small reward for doing so.
> energy usage due to Proof of Work is growing astronomically, and the higher the price of bitcoin

Not true. The energy used to power the bitcoin network has been stable for a few years.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
True, there is still a perf win however since CDNs are located geographically closer to a global consumer than keeping the libs on your own box.
Yes. For quick small things.

When I need a to write a small web service, I usually just grab a python micro-framework and do the work. Not much complexity and not a lot of setup required. When I need to do something more elaborate that needs structure because it will get extended over time, I will take my time to setup something like Django... but it would be too much unnecessary work do to that for small web services.

The same applies to front-end.

When I need a few quick HTML pages that need some quick DOM manipulation, I usually just grab jQuery and do what we have been doing for years. Whenever I know that something will get extended over time and needs structure, that is when I take the time to setup React/Redux and all the build scripts necessary to make it work.

Just personal preference, but I am sure I am not alone...
Randomly reminded me of George Carlin's bit on that.

It’s like “fine.” Another weak word.

“How are you?”

“Fine.”

Bullshit! Nobody’s fine. Hair is fine.

“How’s your hair?”

“Fine.”

That makes a lot more sense to me.
> No authoritarian would EVER cut off or filter the internet in their country. Nope, has never happened, will never happen.

You're right, Myanmar just did that! Scary to think of it. Fortunately Bitcoin works over more communication protocols, but no internet is certainly not in any way easily defendable today. But i still think that physical and banked usd, euros and gold are more easily seizable by a government. A no internet scenario is probably economic suicide by any government.

I really don't get what you mean by financial manipulation in regards to bitcoin.
Coming this summer!
You're right on here, but don't underestimate the network effect of Extensions for Roam.
> Would Amazon be possible without trucks? How about Walmart?

Not Walmart, but Amazon makes even more sense in a horse-driven economy: First, you don't have to ride to the store and back -- mailing a small item is much cheaper than that. Second, with the price of shipping per mile per pound being higher, there would be more of an incentive to ship items directly from the manufacturer to the consumer. Mail-order catalogs existed before the age of cars.
> Keep in mind that BCH transactions are "zero-conf" (there is no return-by-fee issue, so double spends aren't viable in the vast majority of transactions [1]). So, in case of a big peak in, most of the transactions would "settled" without the 10-minute confirmation, and after the peak they would be confirmed eventually. It's not the ideal situation, but the final user wouldn't see any difference (unless they are buying something expensive like a car).

Wat? You realize that without the “10-minute confirmation” as you called it (10 min is not enough, there are stale blocks from time to time) you can spend the same money indefinitely? (double-spending)

> If someday Bitcoin Cash gets to that level, the price will rise (and the number of tx per block) and so the coinbase will be much higher. For example with 2000 tx/s, around 200 bytes/tx, and 1 sat/byte, the coinbase of a block would be 2.4 BCH in fees + the reward (currently 6.25 BCH), and then you can expect coinbases of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Miners get that reward. (non-mining) Full nodes get zero, which is the fundamental problem of the bitcoin protocol (Nakamoto didn't envisioned that there could be miners that wouldn't run full nodes, and that most full nodes wouldn't be mining).
This is really meat-dependent, ironically - the biggest thing we could do is cut consumption of steak and other prime cuts of beef, since ground beef is made out of what's left after those expensive, sought-after cuts are taken. I would guess that eliminating ground beef consumption doesn't really get us anywhere for the environment.
Half a meg of SRAM is typical for the ASICs I've worked with, so...not as insane as you might thing.

Working with a 50 MHz ASIC on an old process with 256K of SRAM shared between two different companies and codebases, now that was fun.
I don't mind this as 7% per year seems like a reasonable safety measure to me. The issue is they need to make it much easier, cheaper, and faster to build more housing along with it. Portland is probably particularly bad about this, as I see plenty of new apartments and rowhouses going up in Hillsboro and Beaverton. Still, these units aren't what I'd consider affordable.

I think we need to seriously reconsider the effect some building requirements and property taxes have on housing prices. It may not be ideal but very small apartments with shared commons and no parking for a few hundred dollars a month would be better than living in an RV or on the streets. This is a pretty common setup in Japan, not to mention college and military dorms. This isn't even that different from having roommates.
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>> The problem, I have found, is no one wants to pay for hosting. No one wants to self host.

Self hosting needs to be as easy as plugging a box into your router. This means some type of DNS or other way to find your node given all the ISPs failure to provide fixed IPs. Also a super easy management method and access controls (public, private, friends).

I have a lot more thoughts on that.
It’s ambiguous what you mean by “cut,” but Taco Bell has cut their ground beef with soy based product for years. The biggest question is how far can meat preparations be diluted with fillers... I don’t think we have to eliminate meat to have a meaningful impact (e.g. a 50% reduction in meat consumption would cut about 3% of US greenhouse gas emissions.)
That study seems to be comparing cropland to pasture. The problem is that the tradeoff is not between cropland and pasture, but pasture and forest. Eg: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/02/revealed...

Due to increasing demand for meat, we have people burning the forest and releasing all the carbon sequestered in the trees, and reducing the efficiency of the land as a carbon sink going forward.
Thanks vegan meat, now I can enjoy my prime beef steak with less remorse. Go vegan meat!
I'm very interested in how do you run the said network analysis? I'm considering buying an Android again but I'd like to properly tame it by cutting off as much spy traffic as possible.
The point of the argument is catching errors at compile-time. Typescript doesn't make (and can't make) any guarantees at runtime.
> It's not possible to create an insane level of supply for appartment rentals

This is technically true, but not for the reasons you list, and it isn't the case here.

You can always build up. 150 floor buildings are not possible - if rent goes high enough they are worth building. Nobody is going to build that if they don't expect a return on investment though.

It isn't a problem in reality because jobs face the same pressures. eventually some company will decide rent in those dense neighborhoods (sometimes cities as well) are too high, and move. That moves some housing demand with it.

Secondly, studies have shown that 10% increases in supply lead to 1% decreases in price, more or less. Coupled with 4% rent increases over inflation every year, it's just not feasible to rely on additional supply.

That doesn't follow. To build more supply the question how much it costs to build vs how much you can rent for. A a landlord the total profit in rent for the city isn't my concern it is my marginal profit that matters. Even if we double the supply of apartments in the city, my building 100 more isn't going to make much a difference in that, but I get a larger share of that 10% decrease in price and so my profit is still higher building 100 apartments than zero.

I don't know what is going on in Berlin (I can guess). I know in San Francisco the city has for many years refused to allow building at anywhere close to demand. Thus more people want to live in the city than actually can get an apartment there. Plenty of builders are willing to build more supply, but they are not allowed to under reasonable terms so they don't. (as a result of this there is a lack of experienced people in construction and so even if SF allowed unlimited building in practice there would only be a gradual uptick in building over 10 years while the industry gets experienced people back)
I just posted this in another comment: "Convincing yourself that someone commenting negatively about Bitcoin is simply jealous is also a common thing I've seen many Bitcoin owners use to justify ignoring legitimate counter-narratives of a lot of propaganda."
> The 2017 data showed that converting annual cropland to perennial pasture, under holistic and regenerative grazing practices, had the effect of storing more carbon in the soil than cows emit during their lives.

Does this continue storing more carbon, or does it just store a constant amount of carbon? It reads to me like it's a one-off reduction in carbon that's already cancelled out after a couple of years.
type
TPerson = record
name: string;
age: integer;
end;
TThrteenPersons = array[10..22] of TPerson;

procedure Check(const aPerson: TPerson);
var
vPerson: TThrteenPersons;
begin
vPerson[11] := aPerson; // this is ok
vPerson[1] := aPerson; // this one gives compile error
end;

alternatively if runtime range checking is on then vPerson[i] = aPerson will raise the exception if i is out of range
>The author isn't claiming to have had an informed opinion of types. They're saying that they found learning about types to be difficult and stressful. That's a real problem that I think people who understand types forget.

I don't understand how one can be a great (or even half-decent) SWE with such an aversion to learning something so common and foundational as types.
There's been a lot of attention given to this in Rust:

- Defining semver requirements for the ecosystem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41185023/what-exactly-is...

- There's also a library that attempts to automatically check sermver adherence of a crate: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-semverver

- And there has been quite a bit of effort into preventing semver requirements from fracturing the ecosystem. This revolves around the compiler working with multiple major versions of a single library: https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick
You need to find out why you are listed in MATCH. Being listed there could have a major effect on the prices you'll pay and who will take your business.

At the same time, you better find out a new provider quickly as I doubt Stripe can do anything for you. When Stripe gets their agreements setup with the card networks they agree to a fee based on client risk and they can't accept clients that would be outside that category without being in violation of their agreement. So I doubt you'll get much relief from Stripe without getting off MATCH so they can say you aren't a "high" risk.

Good luck! I think the 5 days is total BS, but not sure how they came to that number and if that is imposed on them. Seems totally unreasonable to ask a business to change integrated card processors in 5 days IMO.
That would be akin to banning people from hoarding toilet paper. Not a bad idea, but the reason why hoarding affects prices is because there's already scarcity to begin with. Unoccupied units are not driving up the cost of housing, increased demand is.
Eh, the bottom of the market is made from the "bad" cuts of meat. As long someone wants the good cuts there's no reason to waste the rest. Nobody's making hamburger out of cuts of meat that could have been sold as a steak.
Shinigami Eyes
The video seems to show it "beating" the team without either using brooms, but both still playing a game. I.e. they all have stones in play at once and therefore there is theoretically strategy not just accuracy. Am I wrong? I don't know anything about curling. It seems fair to call this "beating" - just not fair to call it curling.
"The Nakamoto coefficient is a way to quantify the decentralization of a blockchain or other decentralized system. It's the number of entities you need to compromise at least one essential subsystem."

If a 51% attack occurs, the bitcoin full nodes are still fundamentally in control. Full nodes decide whether or not to accept a blockchain, they socially decide whether to accept a 51% attack. They can hard fork and change the hashing algorithm, firing all current miners.

How does Nano prevent me from setting up two servers, sending the money to different nodes, and double-spending the money?
Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets say Feds
Thanks for the article. I was just telling someone that jQuery was most likely already in the browser cache so don’t worry about it. Guess I need to go back and say I was wrong...
The Law of Conservation of Testing Effort
I've had a fly.io tab open for months. I haven't had time to use it yet, but something in me won't let me close that tab.
Svelte has been on my list to try, thanks for the reminder. I've also liked htmx (from intercooler) for keeping complexity managed. Any comparisons?
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"Aren't you forgetting about the even less affluent people who wouldn't be able to afford a bigger apartment even at the same price per area as their current apartment and who'd be priced out of the market (a.k.a. forced to move out) by rising rents?"

What? No... the whole point is the answer is supply, not rent control. Supply keeps prices down, rent control pushes prices up (for those units that hit the market, which are the only ones that matter in this case). Having a lot of supply on the market is what those people need, and rent control is what drives them out.

"I think not being able to move to your city of choice is less bad than being forced to leave it."

Okay, that's a fair preference, but the problem is it's never what anyone says they're trying to achieve when they enact rent control. The reasoning is always to help people who aren't well off financially, not to keep outsiders out of your city. If xenophobia is the goal, then by all means rent control away.
> Countries around the world have culinary traditions older than America itself. Many of these traditional preparations of various cuts of meat are a huge part of culture and history.

Many of these traditions include "new world" ingredients such as tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers, corn, squash, some beans, &c that wouldn't become common in europe or asia until the 16th or 17th century. While still older than the founding of the united states, they're still "newer" than many people realize. These new ingredients were incorporated into older traditions just as new ingredients will be. Noöne will force it on anyone, but people will experiment and find culinary and economic reasons to use new ingredients.
>Where did you see that? It's not mandated

My AP teacher mandates the use of BlueJ, I was under the impression it was AP. I asked if I could use another full IDE because the keybinds in BlueJ suck, he said no because the Intellisense/other smart features may make it easier and I won't be able to use it on the exam. Which is sort of fair I suppose.

>Well, if they use Replit, they'd never know they didn't know! And they'd never get a chance to learn to troubleshoot. They'd never learn general computing knowledge. But that's part of my "ecosystem" point.

Very true.

> Students 10 years ago at my school learned Linux, MongoDB (why not? lol), Java, Eclipse, bash, git, etc

That makes me glad that I'm learning with good tools. I hope the trend doesn't continue to fully learning college courses in a browser. :/

Then again, I'm literally in high school hating on the new-fangled tools...
I think I mentioned that the extreme left side of things also had hateful adjacent messaging. But I personally haven't observed as much of it, and it also doesn't seem there is a big enough market on that side for a startup to capitalize on. Maybe I just never heard of them though?

I'm personally more centrist overall, but I've tried as much as I could to give an unbiased summary, though being unbiased in those cases is hard. I'm trying not to judge the behavior, just observe it.

One thing I have observed is that the current moderate left in the US does seem to align more with Canada/UK/France style of free speech, with a broader definition of what is considered hate speech and stronger enforcements against it. Where as the right seem more aligned with the traditional American view on it, where hate speech is limited only if it can be shown to have directly and immediately caused lawless action.

This seems to be the crux of the issue as well. With the big social media platforms available today, it has enabled hateful speech to have more reach at a wider scale than ever before. It also enabled not only Americans to reach others, but even non-Americans can promote and propagate hateful messaging in a targeted and strategic way. The question is what if anything should be done about this, could it lead to instability and divide and throw the country in turmoil, or maybe it's actually a good thing and will allow more voices to be heard and considered.

It's the age old trade off of free speech and restricted free speech. Where do you draw the line? What risks are there on either side of it?

And my observation has been the right leaning Americans seem to still consider that there should be no regulations on this, and everyone everywhere, even non Americans, should be allowed to freely share, promote, upvote, and target any message they want, even hateful, no matter the intent behind it, because upholding the right to speak up and against the government is more important and so we should stay as far as possible from threading water or any slippery slope.

And my observation is the left leaning Americans seem more cautious, and think some regulations might be needed, to make sure that no bad actor takes advantage of this, or that discourse doesn't rely purely on emotions and hate targeted reasonings. And that not doing so would actually bring more instability and chaos, and the risk of threading the line between restricted but still free speech and non free speech is worth it, or maybe an exagerated concern, where they don't think in practice it would be difficult to distinguish dissenting views from hateful ones or those with bad actors behind them.
Goods could have passed through many intermediaries before they reached China.
Why didn't you consider cannibalism?
> Right, that works in theory, but in the real world it’s not happening.

This is a fair reasonable and response to the article. In essence you are arguing: the housing market can act irrationally and is seemingly disconnected from the underlying asset. Furthermore, people get hurt by these spikes in prices.

The reason I responded to your original comment was not to pick apart who is right but because you seemed to be attacking a point that the article didn't make.
90-95% of deepfake videos are of non-consensual pornography
The 15% is globally also. In the US it's as low as 7% (all of agriculture is 10% - directly from the EPA website).

We buy a 1/4 a cow from a local farmer once every six months. It's a pretty low impact way eat meat.
The Recommended Allocation to Keep Up with Inflation Has Changed
I look at this as good but cautious news. People really need to be eating more vegetables in their diet, but I just don't think we need to go to such measures simply to mimic meat, when there are so many vegetarian options already exist. Remember that there is a large population of the world that doesn't even eat meat and that Beyond Meat is not serving those people, even though they are in the "vegetarian" market.
> There are modern solutions to transportation that are superior to cars, like rail, frequent busses, and bike infrastructure,

Bicycles are nice but have lower capacity for cargo and passengers; mass transit is less flexible. So they aren’t strictly superior.

> Bitcoin does not solve any problem that any other transaction network technology can't solve,

How else do you propose to have a distributed ledger that is resistant to inflation?
Sounds like it could be an interesting comparison. I'll look into it.