skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could be misunderstanding, but I think the problem with this approach is the lack of permanent identity. What's a "supermajority"? Could I get it by making a bunch of fake identities and having them all "trust" me?

Alternatively, we could ask for a supermajority of coins, and then I think we've re-invented proof-of-stake.
The internet archive is becoming an alternative good internet. It has a web archive, film archive, software archive, media archive... and now research papers archive. That is the internet as a giant library as we dreamed in early 90's.
What happens when investment firms acquire trailer parks
There are a lot of other disorders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disorders

“Calling the condition a disorder falsely implies we know of a cause located in the brains of people diagnosed with it—and we don’t”.

Seems like they are making up their own definition of the word. Also that problem applies to most psychology, which is not rectified by removing the word disorder...
> In short, Roblox isn’t a game at all: it is world in which one of the things you can do is play games, with a persistent identity, persistent set of friends, persistent money, all disconnected from the device that you use to access the world. That is the transformational change.

Second Life, The Sims Online. We’ve been here before. Those platforms didn’t nail it like Roblox, but Roblox did not transform anything.
Seems unlikely that everyone making minimum wage would suddenly be making $2 if there was no minimum wage. What’s your reasoning? If it was a pure race to the bottom then why aren’t SWEs paid min wage?
The best thing we can do as participant citizens of the world is to look at the primary source and draw your own conclusion of what the best action to take is. There's 317 footnotes and citations in the attached report document. I encourage everyone to read them directly.

To me it appears to be a recompilation of existing documents from combatants like RFA, UHRP, ASPI, Zenz and common names from the past few years. But everyone should read the source directly.
> This is unusually damning to veganism-as-it-is-practiced if not to veganism itself.

I don't think a sample size of 21 is especially damning. Nor do I think that the study's authors would come to that conclusion either.
I know this won't go down well, but why are Neanderthals white????
>"They're "fundamentals". Did I look at their balance sheet, no."

Please for the love of god tell me you are trolling right now.
I'm making a guess here, but I think he means specifically the (A) "arrives every weekday at 00:37" part. That has a different implied meaning than (B) "the train arrives every weekday at 24:37." (A) implies that it will arrive every Monday through Friday mornings at 00:37 but will not arrive on Saturday or Sunday mornings at 00:37. (B) implies that it will arrive Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 00:37, but not Sunday or Monday mornings.

In the context of the train departure time, it's easy to work out what is meant by a weekday 00:37 arrival, but if they were divorced from each other for some reason, weekdays at 24:37 would be easier to interpret.
It sort of has underlying value, in that owning bitcoin lets you write entries in an extraordinarily inefficient append-only database.

(It seems clear to me that this isn't a valuable enough capability to justify the current price of BTC, but I guess that's a separate discussion.)
No, he's only worked at Yup in SV AFAICT. Maybe he's making $400K+/yr there but I'm somewhat skeptical. It could be his perspective on what is lucrative is very different having come from eastern europe and maybe comparing to there rather than to FAANG TC or what a soon-to-IPO company TC would be. (e.g. Instacart)

I've interviewed with 100+ companies in the bay. His experience is not representative of the industry at all, IMO... 90% of companies use leetcode here. Again, I need to emphasize, I've interviewed with way more companies than most people and most of my peers interview with dozens as well and they all have to grind leetcode.
Anecdotally, I have 4.5 year old boy and see a lot of similar-aged boys and girls at the playground, etc. (unfortunately not as much in our/their homes, during this global pandemic), and from what I see most small kids are just incredibly active a lot of the time.

They crave (and physically need) hours every day spent running and climbing and swinging and rolling around, chasing each-other, etc.

Furthermore, many of them are quite self-directed and stubborn. They get some idea in their head about something to try, and then want to carry the plan through and can get extremely frustrated if thwarted (whether by the plan's intrinsic problems, or by interference from other people). Sometimes the plans are problematic (e.g. «I wonder if I can get adult attention if I take every toy my younger sibling wants to play with, until they start sobbing»), but often the goals/plans are perfectly innocuous, but adults step in and block action for poor reasons or no reason at all, or because the adult wants the kid to be focusing on something different. After being thwarted at a few different projects in a row, kids can become very agitated and defiant, or even melt down completely.

Once the kid has accomplished their immediate goal or given up on it, they sometimes instantly switch to some completely different idea, and don't want to switch back.

It is incredibly difficult to convince a big group of young kids (and especially boys it seems, though many girls are also very active) to sit still and focus on some specific close work without conflicts, especially when they have pent up energy. Trying to force them ends up creating a confrontation, and plenty of kids are looking around for ways to push boundaries and get attention. This is entirely normal age-appropriate behavior, and should not be pathologized. Letting the kids choose their own activities and decide when to switch from one to another goes a long way toward avoiding unnecessary bad feelings.
>Unless the first step by the union is to forbid the use of robots. A union's first mandate is to protect jobs. Any technology that replaces union members with machinery is open to direct attack.

UPS is an interesting similar example along these lines. They have seen dramatic increases in deliveries per driver over the last ~30 years due to many process improvements.

I attended a talk by Jack Levis, a now retired leader on their delivery optimization system. One thing the union negotiated for was driver pay to scaling along with packages delivered. As a result, drivers can reasonably make 100k with some overtime.
I obviously meant human DNA.

Thanks for doing the calculus however given that less than 1% of DNA actually has a coding role then it means that a human can be usefully encoded in 8MB.
So here's my question: HN as far as I can tell doesn't explicitly integrate with webmention, but I'm assuming webmention.io does use it. Does that mean the owner @aaronpk does get a mention every time webmention is linked, say, from Hacker News? The docs don't make it clear, but if in fact, it does, this seems like a killer concept for HN users who want to be notified (among other times) when their service/blog/whatever is shared to HN

edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action
This is what I expect post-hype / tech-novelty. There are interesting pieces being built in the blockchain space, they can be assembled in more interesting ways if you think about trust and rule making differently (more traditionally?)
> Ansel Adams (president of the Sierra Club)

I thought that was interesting, but I checked and no, Ansel Adams was not president of the Sierra Club.
Some great ideas thanks. But I feel most of the examples given are not adequate. By 'this much privacy' I meant going out of way to use 'untraceable' software. I don't think a doctor's office is relative to this, more like a numbered swiss bank account.
Still doesn't make sense to me.

> If they add their brick to the top, other students will pay them (in bricks) to write their own names on it with a sharpie

Other students are paying in bricks? Is that supposed to be transaction fees, mining (that's the sudoku puzzles), or what? And is there any indication that a name on a brick means anything (or can be exchanged for anything)? Is there a limit to the number of names on bricks? Can those names be verified at any instant, anywhere in the world with near 100% confidence?

I know it's a simplification for the purpose of making a point; it's just that the point becomes invalid when the simplification throws out the central characteristics of the thing that's being represented.
I've noticed this too. It feels a lot like hitting the touchpad by mistake, except I don't use a touchpad. The focus is just lost mid-typing and a bunch of shortcuts get triggered.
The British mandate authorities outlawed all Jewish defense forces and tried to confiscate all arms from the Jewish population before they left the region. They also actively prevented Jews from immigrating to Israel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_insurgency_in_Mandatory...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Paper_of_1939

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/british-restrictions-on...

To claim that the British were "a foreign power" that helped the budding nation of Israel is, simply put, the opposite of historical fact.
wut? Programming languages, data structures, things like shortest path algos are taught in every traditional school. You can agree that the quality of teachers might not be great, but the books are the same.

You can argue that crappy code academy schools don't teach right, but personally even the most average college will have a decent curriculum into CS fundamentals.

It is on you to make a use to it. I personally learned most practical things by myself, but college gave me a huge jump start into the fundamentals. What you do with them is up to you.
This is kind of the whole problem with the world right now in multiple areas. We have a delusion that we are in a post scarcity age. I watch modern youtube videos on my 14 year old thinkpad on 802.11b wifi without issue. It works fine, seriously.
I kinda wish that the people behind the Language Server Protocol understood this. The whole idea of that makes no sense to me at all. None. I mean, I get how it works, and why people think it's a good thing, but libraries are the better way to go in every situation that I can imagine. There is no need for the Language Server Protocol or language servers in general, and its existence only makes things more complicated than they need to be.
"We expect you to study for months, on your own time, unpaid, so that our interviewing process can throw questions at you that are unrelated to the actual job we're hiring you for. Because we can, and because we do it that way, and because we don't care about how it comes down on you." Yes, I find that abusive.
More of, it depends who kids in her class etc are. If majority of parents in peer group don't buy, all is OK.

If peer group is snoby or normalized paying, issues like this happen. It is very naive to think that kids don't bully other kids because of issues like this.
Similar questions from last time there was a Webhooks as a Service on HN [1]

1. How do you deal with endpoints that are down or 500'ing? What kind of retry policy or backoff occurs? Related, how do you notify clients when their endpoints are having trouble? (I ask because that's PII that I then have to share with you).

2. Is there support for message signing (e.g., HMAC) to let clients verify that the webhook really came from us? How does it work?

3. Any kind of deduplication support? One use case we had was that certain webhooks only required the latest delivery. e.g., product inventory. If we previously failed to deliver a webhook, but have a newer version pending, our next attempt should try to send the newest version.

4. Is it possible to delay hydrating data in the payload? It seems the expected usage is that I send a blob of data and you take care of the last mile and send it. Is it possible to send you an id and then you call back to my service and fetch the latest version of that object just before delivery?

5. How are webhook subscriptions actually managed? e.g., my app lets users register webhook URLs? How do I get those URLs to your service?

6. The big question: What do I do if your service is down?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992800
I’m a parent who plays roblox (mostly Arsenal) with my kids :)
> The "women are wonderful" effect doesn't stop. I would ask you actually search around a little and read my point again, as well as the many other comments, before dragging down the conversation with phrases such as "convenient excuse".

How do you reconcile this with discrimination towards women?

Also the whole trope that women somehow cannot compete and can only collaborate, as if the two things are at odds, is also exhausting.
A requirement to be involved in narcotics distribution is inability to think things through very carefully.
It's always interesting how the great investments are always so obvious looking in the rear view mirror.
Time travel safe, distributed, 64 bit ids generated in Rust
To whoever downvoted this, can you please provide a rationale as to why?

As a non-expert, the points here are compelling, so I'd appreciate that dialogue.
Hyperledger, Proof-of-authority, coinless blockchain.

Cryptocurrencies are not one-to-one with blockchain, rather one thing you can do with them.
That $1.9 trillion stimulus has to come from somewhere.
Not meant to flame: why do people want these? They always just seemed like spam cluttering up an article's comments, removing the space for actual discussion.
How to improve your GitHub profile by adding badges
Nope. No evidence.

That's why I said that "I would not be surprised if..." which doesn't make a concrete claim. To me, it means, "I don't know, but it seems plausible in my limited experience."

I am making no claim other than pure speculation, and I know it.

Edit: typo.
As someone that didn't get their diagnosis until I was in my 30s, I'd encourage you to talk to a doctor about what's going on. It definitely sounds like ADHD, particularly the social stress triggering acting out or avoidance.

On the whole I've been fortunate in life, but it's not an exaggeration to say my life would be dramatically different if I'd learned what was going on as a kid. Instead it was interpreted as a character flaw: that I just wasn't applying myself. Even though I know that's wrong now intellectually, emotionally I still had that message beat into me for years as a kid, and that doesn't just go away sadly. I'd be particularly vigilant about teachers creating that dynamic, as sometimes they do it with good intentions but fail to understand doubling down on a "tough love" approach will utterly backfire here.
Because that's how Bitcoin maximalists view Ethereum, and basically all other major alts.
I hadn’t heard of Zulip before today, but there are definitely some valid overlaps.

I agree, I think that regardless of methodology, some way to deal with the problem is welcome.

I want to enjoy using group chats, especially as they continue to mature.
It's a common rhetorical device.
Perhaps 'Facebook News' alternative rather than Facebook itself?

Unless you consider getting your friends cousins updates, and liking their posts through an RSS feed as a Facebook alternative.
totally! i have been developing a thesis around this I call the "Third Age" of JavaScript - TLDR: the arc of history is toward ES Modules, and polyglot tooling, like esbuild. Creating much faster dev tools and user experiences.

http://swyx.io/js-third-age
Anyone who has ever taught young boys and girls has almost certainly experienced a marked difference in behavior.

Schooling as a whole needs to be overhauled to better accommodate young boys. Until then, we're going to see wider and wider gaps at highschool and university levels.

Regardless of gender, schooling as a whole needs to move away from this factory-like system with underpaid teachers and an emphasis on test scores. It would be nice if there were an easy solution...
In either case you can use your accumulating capital to accumulate more capital -- PoW just means consuming actual resources to do so, as you fold your earnings into more hardware and electricity to earn more.
jimmyvalmer has no idea what he’s talking about. Probably never even tried Roblox. Just ignore him.
Stellar, I think
Then it should also ban gambling.
I think this site was on HN a few days/weeks ago: https://www.1001pallets.com/pallet-safety/

I checked a few of the pallets where I work; they're heat treated, no chemical treatment. But! While I'd feel safe using the pallets used to ship corrugate bundles, the pallets used to ship the sketchy drums of mystery chemicals look identical and end up in the same trailers headed off to some pallet recycler.

I keep forgetting to check the CHEP pallets.
Cancel culture hits Teen Vogue
You don't need coins, this is a permissioned chain where people agree on who can participate off-chain. Call it proof-of-authority. See Hyperledger Fabric
Bitcoin's energy usage is a feature, not a bug. Debunking myths in this thread
Preparing to solve questions in STEM subjects is what learning STEM is all about.
Hi,

Excited to see you launching this! I agree on the basic premise: existing tools for segmentation labeling leave copious room for an improvement.

I just gave Segments a spin with an image data I work on at the moment. First impressions:

1. When trying to connect segments (by dragging), I seem to lose the original segment

2. Your model seems to be confused by noisy data that I happened to upload - it's a microscopy image. To a human eye it's quite clear what the areas of interest are.
Most places that's actually a crime (extortion).

Now if the police will investigate it is another matter.
I agree. That's why I said "I wouldn't be surprised if..."

I intentionally did not make a concrete claim.
> Spending billions to combat magic internet money when prescription drug prices are sky-high?

I mean that's a rational objection, but I'm not sure it aligns well with US government spending policy. The US is planning to spend $5B per year on missile defence, which has so far not had a very high kill rate in tests. Maybe $5B for a 30% chance of shooting down a nuclear-armed missile that has a 5% chance of being launched is actually a good deal - I'm not saying that's wrong. But large defence spends to guard against strategic what-ifs is quite common for the US.
Nuclear isn't on demand power like natural gas or hydro. It is consistent (like coal, unlike solar or wind), but you can't turn it off when you don't need it! Ideally, you can pair it up with some batteries or pumped hydro to save the power you generate when it isn't in demand. Practically speaking, a nice mix of different sources can cover for each's weaknesses.
You regularly see condescending comments about male career/educational opportunities being oppressed on HN?

We must be reading very different HN posts.
Or changing the unnatural environment.
A service is a bundle of code and resources.
Where possible, unbundle code and resources.
Wherever you can provide the resources externally, you can now reuse the code.

Let's write a manifesto.
Reusing Static Analysis Across DSLs Using Reference Attribute Grammars
The top Bitcoin mining pools in China create their own mining ASICs in house for competitive advantage. You just can't compete without spending years catching up to their hardware designs.
Trader Buys $36M of Copper and Gets Painted Rocks Instead
hi there! this looks awesome. we need something like this but for image matting. is image matting on your roadmap?
Saying "I wouldn't be surprised if..." is not an accusation, unless you count the implied "I don't trust Google" as an accusation.
Just a quick aside for uBlock Origin users viewing NY Times articles:

You can typically bypass both the paywall and scroll lock that comes along its removal via ubo by disabling javascript for the site. This can be done on a per site basis in uBO by clicking this button and refreshing the page:

https://imgur.com/a/HnCM4Su

Some articles will not load all images properly, but I have found that most do work fine.

I know this will be basic knowledge for many here, but not everybody knows how to fiddle with the various uBO settings.
tip for those considering this - i use clientside webmentions for this so that it doesnt add to my build times - and lazy load it so it doesnt drain visitor battery/data:

https://www.swyx.io/clientside-webmentions/
I'm surprised more of these comments aren't focused on how glaringly flawed the 5-star democratic rating system has become. I felt like the rise of Uber made it abundantly clear that anything less than a 5.0 means you were not satisfied with the service and don't think the business should continue.
Could putting it on the blockchain helps prevent the theft? Discuss.
Given that the current trend is to blame any disparate outcome on discrimination, are we to believe that this is sexism?
So you can buy a unique digital pointer to a work of art that doesn't exist
Taking notes for my maths degree I learnt to 'cross' my 7s and zs.
Because culturally the world (At least the western world) has the complete opposite attitude.

Feelings are more important than facts to many people nowadays.
I think I'm picking up that your model of how a typical technical interview is structured is different from what the other commenters have in mind.

It sounds to me like you view the technical interview as being split into a high-level whiteboarding phase followed by a separate coding test that is not done on the whiteboard.

In every interview I've had that involved coding and a whiteboard, I was expected to do everything on the whiteboard, from drawing diagrams and working through test cases to writing the actual code under evaluation, all in front of the interviewer.

Under this (very common) interview system, there is no "other piece" for whiteboarding to be more or less stressful than - it's embedded into the entire interview! (Yes, there are other interviews throughout the day that might only involve block diagrams or ask behavioral questions with no coding whatsoever, but I don't think that's what most people have in mind when they're told to prepare for an algorithmic whiteboard interview).

I think the interview process would be a lot better if it started with a no-coding-required whiteboard collaboration phase, followed by coding solo, and then ending with a mini code-review on the whiteboard. This is similar to the private technical interview procedure described in the paper.

As to your other question, I'm not sure why you seem so dead-set against the idea that performing analytical tasks while being evaluated in real-time would be harder than doing so under normal conditions. That's what this paper set out to investigate.
There are multiple services which solve this problem already, i.e. https://f5bot.com
That's a very good point. Thank you; I had missed that.
Yes. The Elwah dam they tore down recently was built long ago before conservation was much of a concern. More to the point: it wasn't really economical to keep such small scale hydro going.

The large dams on the Columbia and Snake are fairly safe from being eliminated, even if they do cause some habitat loss.
I wonder the extent to which it's possible for such body shops to get accounts that are believed by Google to live in the U.S. (or fake-review destination country of choice). I see sites that purport to offer such accounts for 30-50 cents per account. So I guess it's not that expensive. I wonder how often these accounts get burned and how much revenue they generate with each account beforehand.
proof-of-authority with standard auth(n/z), consortiums is perhaps an apt name?
Under this argument, why should it be legal for anyone to sell Hertz stock? Should trade be halted?

Or if other people can sell the stock, why not Hertz?