skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. A lot of people enjoy having a safe yard for their kids to play in and where they can have friends and family over for a cookout. They also enjoy not sharing walls with noisy neighbors who fight and/or play loud music at all hours, not having heavy traffic in the area, and so on.
As far as I looked at Syncthing, it required n^2 config steps for n connected devices. Not really feasible unless every person with access to the folder knows every other person.
Thanks for the reply, this is everything I was looking for, and more
8%? What are you referring to? The recent BlockFi FUD (or not, depending how how you look at it) news?

What I'm referring to isn't the same at all. BlockFi is CeFi. DeFi is a whole different ball game, which is a big reason why these DAO's exist.
Our first daughter was born right as the hospital was changing ownership. They billed the c-section as a natural birth. Cool. Then a year later they called and told us we had to pay the full cost because they’d messed up the paperwork. My wife said that was their problem and she wasn’t going to pay. The hospital maternity ward closed down, and the bill vanished and has never shown up on our credit report six years later, so that’s cool I guess. Telling people you won’t pay and to gleaned you alone works sometimes.

I was unemployed for our second daughters birth (I started a new job a week after she was born) and her birth and subsequent care was all covered by Medicaid. So I guess the best financial decision is to time job changes for births, which really shows how messed up the system is.
Brilliant. I wonder how it was made?

I solved this in about 1.5 hours by starting at the top left, entering any string that satisfied at least one condition, then moving on to the next condition and “fixing up” any previous entries. I was fearful that I might arrive at a nearly correct solution that I would have to massively backtrack from, but it didn’t happen - I only needed a few short backtracks. I think the large number of constraints helps a lot.
Online Hacker Simulator
> You know these territories regularly vote on independence, right?

No. Tahiti doesn't get to vote on that.

That news is old. New Caledonia has in the recent past very narrowly voted in favour of continued control by France, but that will change soon.

For the first time, NC has a pro-independence government.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975273437/new-caledonias-new-...
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>There are no groups (as far as I know) for people who eschew social media. They don't meet up at the pub and talk about it, they don't have any kind of organization, even a loose one.

Hacker News is basically that culture. A lot of people here spend their time complaining about how much they hate every aspect of social media, the web and modern culture (except for HN, of course) and make a point of virtue-signaling how unplugged, and detached from the mainstream they are, including their refusal to touch any form of social media.

I think it's fair to say that a part of the userbase here has built a cultural identity around its contrarianism.
I've seen some hard to understand opinions on the web over the years, but church as counterculture really takes the cake.
Plenty of alternative approaches that can get you there. Here’s one:

* distributed file system like gluster or ceph for repos
* clustered db (eg replicated Postgres)
* redundant instances of gitea
* load balancing

Am I missing something?
Only if you're just playing on ETH. There are other chains now that don't suffer from that issue.
Usually for urgent care you go to a hospital if it is not urgent you go to your doctor or walkin clinic.
This was maybe 8-10 years ago, but I think it was a Kroger.
US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations
How is your explanation different than memory propagating through RNA? If memory is being passed through genetics, isn't the employment of epigenetics essentially a tautology?

Saying that the ability to pass memories is limited to a specific type or granularity doesn't negate that a learned response (a memory) was passed on.
Sure it is. I love the show, can't wait for the second season.

Oh, you mean that other Space Force? That I'm not sure of, but I hear it was just a much-needed reorganization of who does what in the US military.
Look at the original MIT Mystery Hunt page (and solution). It was part of a puzzle hunt. (I was one of the people who successfully solved it on my team during that very event back in 2013...)

See this comment for the link to the original, including the author's name and the puzzle in context with its official solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439598

(I wish that other comment would get upvoted to the top -- this was written by an identifiable person for a specific identifiable puzzle event, so it's not like mysterious anonymous Internet folklore or something.)
Haha the parallels with the real world are uncanny, I almost thought this was satire.

Honestly I've barely paid attention to ethereum and still knew they were moving to proof of stake for years now. Why would you invest so much in mining hardware when this was going to happen? Also can't they use that same hardware to mine other cryptocurrencies? There's plenty out there.
It... might.

But if moving masses can create moving "magnetic like" gravitational fields, then one could plausibly come up with some history of motion of conventional matter that could create the configuration of gravitational fields that we see in the bullet cluster. Can any such history result in the observed current configuration of conventional matter? I don't know.

Note well: I have only a BS in physics, and have not stayed in the field. Take all opinions with a train of salt. (Yes, I stole that typo from someone here on HN. Don't remember who, but it was worth doing deliberately.)
See this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439598

for proper credit to the original author (and place of publication).
They do use discord like we used IRC, but discord is centralized under one company. So, they will eventually do what companies do and try to find that sweet spot of "how much abuse can our users take" versus "how much money can we extract from our market position" as with all such free services. Discord is a trap, both in the latent monetization sense mentioned, and the sense that all your communications there are gobbled up with little to no privacy guarantee.
The Affordable Care Act laid the framework to allow for this to happen, under the “Sunshine Provisions”

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2014/affordable-care-a...
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Harvard MBA class of 2011 hits $100B market cap
Framing it this way is probably inaccurate, and if inaccurate, unhelpful.

From decades of observing the system, it seems extremely unlikely to me that it was deliberately engineered to be this way. Rather, different parts of it grew and changed organically and the parts and changes that benefitted moneyed interests in power stayed, while those that did not were discarded.

It does not take a deliberate will behind something for it to be pulled toward this sort of inequality, and presenting it as if that's what's happened suggests that if we could only defeat the Evil People who "engineered" it this way, we could make it better. It's a very compelling idea, and it makes for a nice dramatic narrative, and humans love good stories.

Unfortunately, it's not the case. In order to make it better, we need to take a good, comprehensive look at many aspects of our systems of economics and government, and redesign them deliberately and with a strong intention to inhibit the flow of money upward from the 99% to the 1%. It's hard, it will take a long time, the people with the most wealth and power will fight us every step of the way, and there's no silver bullet, but there's also very little that's more worth doing.
"everything means nothing yada yada yada"

You know exactly what I mean, cut the bullshit. Point being, deplatforming may be okay for the group who exercises it, but not for the group that is being deplatformed. Who the fuck decides? The government? Some out of touch Big Tech CEOs? Fuck that.

Just take a look at Venezuela's current "Law against Hatred" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_against_Hatred)to get an idea of how dumb this whole approach is.

Now, if I'd be willing to argue that this is a antitrust issue (FB, TW, Google / Amazon AWS, CloudFlare / PayPal, Stripe / Visa, MasterCard) having too much power to the point that they decide whether you live or not, and that there should be way more alternatives.
I don't think it's that hard or expensive to build and host a static site. You could even use github.io if you're desperate.

Hard for the average person? Probably, because most people aren't good with technology. But there are a lot of tools and support out there, for anyone motivated enough to learn.
When Algeria was French performing nuclear tests there in the Sahara was not much different from the US performing nuclear tests in Nevada/New Mexico. The British performed tests in Australia for the same reason.

It was not a question of 'caring' but simply that it was sufficiently big and empty while still being accessible to be deemed an acceptable option taking into account that having nukes was a top strategic priority for national security.

As it happens nuclear tests continued in the Sahara even after Algerian independence under an agreement with the new independent Algerian government (so clearly they did not not 'care much' either) before they were transferred to the next possible location... French Polynesia.

It should also be noted that the British and the Americans had already carried out nuclear tests in the Pacific when the French moved theirs there as well.
L2 (second layer) solutions like Optimism will fix the scaling issue. It's live with a limited Synthetix release now and will be open to the general public on the 15th. Many large projects including Uniswap, Compound, and Chainlink have said they will be migrating to Optimism L2. It's very simple to do (little to no changes needed) and with big names committing it seems to be the L2 of choice. WalletConnect, Metamask, and Coinbase have also said they'll be supporting it with Metamask and WalletConnect integration complete and WalletConnect in beta testing.
While dangerous, it's not necessarily MAD-breaking. MAD stands on nuclear-armed submarines these days.

Now, if someone figured out how to reliably detect submerged submarines from orbit, that would be truly MAD-breaking.
> Sorry to be pedantic, but modern rifle muzzle velocities are in the 1.2km/s range

what caliber do you have in mind for that?
(I didn’t downvote you). Because we still have to make decisions as a collective. We need to have a functioning government and we have to suffer each other in our communities and workplaces. How does a government run when it is highly polarized and there are no common epistemological institutions that both sides can turn to for resolution? How does a business make decisions when different parties have different ideologies?
I've started using Pixelmator Pro, and I've been impressed so far. Much faster, snappier, and things like filters and color correction adjustments better designed, and without the bloat and cruft that comes with Photoshop.
> the reality distortion field would just target the next-lowest hanging fruit.

social media in a nutshell, unfortunately.

> people can't distinguish a rigid ideology from an internally consistent one.

I think this is one of the things people like about Bernie, tbh. I think his consistent and reliable world view (and voting record to match) is why he's been so successful. It's just sad that he's not the standard.

It feels like even when we "win" (air quotes are doing a lot of work ehre) e.g. Joe Biden or something, the goal posts get pushed and somehow all of a sudden it was catching an L when Biden won?

The recurring theme in American politics, to me, is that the right falls in line and votes, the left eats their own. I keep seeing it right now and I'm worried we won't hold it together in 2022 or 2024.
How would you roll out testing for a feature as risky as this?
As for your tangent: don't sweat it too much.

Obviously no kid is a criminal because of pirated games. When I was a kid, you bought C64, Amiga* -- and later, DOS -- games at shops, and every game was pirated. This was the norm in third world countries. I didn't even know there was anything out of the ordinary. I don't think I owned a single legit C64 game. As for my first legal PC games, which a relative from abroad bought for me: I didn't really make the connection; to me they were "boxed games" because they came with a fancy box and a manual.

I don't feel the need to "repay" anyone about this, or feel any guilt. Of course, a real C64 boxed game is probably a collector's item today, and I'd like to own an original of the games I loved as a kid.

* though nobody I knew owned an Amiga. I marveled at the color graphics on display at the pirated games shop, and wondered who owned one!
What a game! Thanks for this.

It took me close to three hours to solve this, hahaha
Learning from Videos to Understand the World
Such things do exist, particularly for medical purposes. What type of "fitness tracker" are you after? Explain more and I am certain that i can offer at least three sensing devices that suit your needs that record data offline.
> I hadn't thought of boycotting much of popular online space as being counter-cultural. It's an interesting thought.

The only winning move is not to play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw
If you want a fun emulator project, try building a RetroPie arcade. I just finished one with my son for about $150, including the raspberry pie, the joysticks and buttons Amazon for $35), the wood for the enclosure and a super cheap screen and speakers.

I’ve found so many fun arcade games that I never had a chance to play in a real arcade as well as galaga and other classics. Highly recommend!
Pollution is a negative externality, I agree. Paying illegal immigrants to work in the U.S. is illegal, but it is not a negative externality. I'm also not convinced that small farms are better about either of these things than big ones are.
Does your phone have stalkerware?
This is absolutely perfect and is exactly the type of knowledge that I'm so afraid we'll lose with even one generation of major civil disruption.
I predict this will be deemed racist and sexist.
Forget the hospital, let’s talk doctors office. I saw a PA for barely ten minutes, I got a $326 bill.

When my wife takes our baby in for a visit, we wait 2-4 hours and get a $200 bill for a routine visit. We get charged if we cancel an appointment with notice or late.

They are always fumbling around with bills. Pay $150 at the visit and get a $80 bill in the mail, and then they bring up a $60 charge from last time.
We did this in HS chem class, with a block of dry ice that we cut in half and hollowed out. Then we coiled up some magnesium ribbon so it would perch in the hole, lit it with a MAPP gas torch, and closed the block. The magnesium continued to burn long after any lingering air in the hollow could've been consumed. After a few minutes the magnesium was gone and we opened the block, and there was black carbon dust in the bottom of the hollow.

And that introduced the conversation about using the right extinguisher for the job!
I'm sure it would have been well received, look at the folger shakspear library.

That said: also America: all your gold you stashed here, and 99 year leases on naval ports on your Caribbean territory (which btw we will talk to you about after the war) and then we'll discuss lend lease
Hmmm, I seem to recall the //e being released much later in 1983. But yeah, maybe they were co-released.
It's so great to hear people using it like this!

https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-saved-queries is the plugin for storing queries - it's pretty basic, there's lots of scope for improving the story around that.
Funny how it's only when regulation is involved that it begins to pull back the curtain.
I've read the headline and thought to myself "sounds like something from Locklin". And surely enough... It's just how he writes (sometimes), I think. Doesn't bother me too much but I see how it could be off-putting to some.
Your smartphone is a sensing devices that can record medical and fitness measures. So it is important to raise alongside a wristband
US inches toward payments modernization while China races ahead
Oh yeah, I love the "office suite". It reminds me of when I ran Linux and used some of the lighter, alternative office-type options (OpenOffice was so damn heavy and not all that pleasant to use) like Gnumeric, Abiword, et c., except... well, much better in almost every way. But I don't have to interop with MS Office very often so I'm not sure if they're much good at that. Certainly they beat the hell out of using resource-hog Google Docs tabs, though, plus they're way more pleasant (far less laggy, for one thing).

Notes is nice. I wish it had a 1st-party export solution. Markdown as an option for formatting would be good but it's not a deal-breaker. Being able to drag all kinds of crap, including entire PDFs(!) into Notes and have it Just Work is pretty great.

Preview is so, so good. Thanks to it, macOS is the only platform I've ever used where I don't hesitate even a second to open a PDF. Plus it's great at so many other things.
It's the author's style: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/about/

I bet it gets more clicks than a moderate tone would.

"Cosmologists hate him! See how he solved dark matter with this one weird trick..."
This only allows reading data from the current process. Chrome and Edge have something called site-isolation where every site has its own process. In principle, this means that a site can only read its own resources. The catch here is that there are a bunch of different ways a site can include potentially sensitive resources from other sites (e.g. via referencing them with an `img` tag). So sensitive endpoints need to opt-in to additional protections that ensure they do not end up in cross-site browser processes.

But no, this isn't game over for running untrusted JS. It just means that we need to assume that JS can access anything in the same process.
Definitely OS patch. Currently neither Intel nor AMD have Specter free CPU's. And one would be in like a few years on the market. Until then it's OS patches as protection, and you know very well the history of those :).
How many orders of magnitude more power do crypto miners require vs. cannabis farmers? I don't think you get to say they are equally 'large energy use'.
I wouldn't put my wealth into NFTs any more than I would into Magic The Gathering cards, sports memorabilia or any other collectibles. But that's the point. If you do put your money into it, it's dissociated from central control, online services that might go belly up at any moment and so on. It completely solves the problem of never really owning anything online (software licences, items in video games and so on).

Fads like CryptoKitties are completely irrelevant to the core tech, just like Bitcoin is in the grand scheme of things irrelevant to the potential of block chains.
> It is not just a random preference and it is not something that anyone can just switch off, therefore it is not a matter of morality, as you are trying to portray it

Every declaration you made in this sentence is incorrect.
OrdinarySausage?
Ah! I’m very sorry. (Doubly sorry? I know being misunderstood hertz?)
I didn't have a TV for a long time out of spite towards the TV licencing system in the UK and the heavy-handed way it's enforced. I'd love someone with a background in RF engineering to explain how those TV detector vans are supposed to work with modern TVs and the massively higher electromagnetic noise floor!
How open source conquered the world
Anyone out there remember esheep? :)
Have you tried using the CHECK constraint mechanism for this? https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-check-constraint/
Yongbyon Nuclear Center: Additional Activity at Lab and Uranium Enrichment Plant
It wouldn't be necessary to echo every minor change at lower levels of the sport. Racing is no different. Kids grow up racing karts, then the serious ones maybe move to Formula 3, Formula 2, before (a very select few) move up to F1. The equipment (car) at each of these levels is massively different, but the skills carry over, as they would for hockey, even if the goalie pads weren't identical.
When I lived in Italy, I once went with private care for a thing I wanted taken care of same day. I called, and they told me all the prices. I think I paid something like 120 euros out of pocket for a chest X-ray and consultation with an ENT specialist.

The US health care system is so screwed up.
Trolling the AI, maybe?
My software does both!
Evolution has had a long history of various sorts of predation. Some that have survived are the various parasites that plague all species. This means all manner of attack on an organism have been randomly tried. We know we have viral invasions in the past - we have many relice of dormant viruses in our genome - some have even become involved in core processes of various organisms.
This means that any method of attack via the alimentary canal are very unlikely to succeed = no acquisition of traits or attributes by eating meat. Some simpler organisms, like nematodes have demonstrated the ability to learn what was trained into a task to acquire some aspects of that training by cannibalism = eating + learning...
You've replied with this article to multiple comments as if it carries any weight. Why do you feel like we're bound to the same dietary behaviors as our ancestors?
Would the Texas FD be prepared for this in the area of their new plant?
It is worth noting that this POC was specifically targeted at Chromium based browsers. To quote the blog post, they also developed "a PoC which leaks data at 60B/s using timers with a precision of 1ms or worse". So Firefox's protection's are likely not sufficient to mitigate all Spectre attacks.
> you can't even discuss changes to the laws.

This is a type of speech, and there's no reason all speech should be regulated uniformly, just as speech and actions should presumably not be regulated uniformly. We could just prevent actions without bothering with speech at all, but (for instance) it seems similarly doable to ban certain forms of speech that cause unreasonable harm while leaving other forms alone.

An argument could be made that this would be yet another slippery slope, but I think at some point every law falls into that category and a society must decide whether the benefits are worth the tradeoff of starting down this path.
It also is very disheartening to see few launch HN's not even getting 20-30 up votes.

I can't even dare to imagine how demotivating it can be for the founders. I really wish YC can cater to as many startups as it can and hope the reason for this is not the growing batch sizes.
The Curse of the Black Lotus – How MtG Avoided Becoming Beanie Babies (2015)