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> If the best argument against PoW is that people can ignore it, then I don't know what to say to you. Like, don't let me stop you then:

Your counter-argument is "try it, then!". I'm not sure why I have to say this and we can't have an intelligent conversation, but here we go: just because something is possible to do and an argument can be made for its possibility, that doesn't mean that I specifically have the means to pull it off. And talking about my capacity to pull it off derails us from having a meaningful discussion about the potential attack. You're not discussing in good faith I think...

> I never once brought up monetary policy, so I'm just going to ignore what you wrote about it

It wasn't about monetary policy, that was just the context. It was about how the hashrate just goes where the money is, and the money is subject to politics, therefore PoW is subject to politics.

but anyway if you're not going to read my comments, we can't have any meaningful exchange here... especially since you're trying to make this about the BCash cryptobean for some reason, but my point has nothing to do with it. My point is about Proof of Work being ultimately useless.

> PoW is ultimately subject to market forces.

Exactly! Have a good night.
So r/cars ?
What’s different?
How does the bank profit if all shareholders, board, CEO, and their progenity are wiped out by the end of mankind? Seems money REaLLY becomes worthless at that point.
I'm a little lost. Current title is

>Patagonia cuts ties with tech bros; won't add logos

I read the linked text, but didn't mention anything about tech, bros, etc. I'm likely missing some obvious context, but have no idea what cutting ties with tech bros has to do with this. Little help?
There are coding questions and there are "coding" questions. If what you say is true nobody needs to "practise" leetcode intensively for 3 months before applying for a SWE role (or have a daily routine that involves leetcoding). Yet our interview philosophy is geared towards those who are actively able to workout before doing a tech interview.

If all you want to know is to see if someone "can" code why not ask someone to write something they are familiar with and branch from there? You not only get coding but also an evaluation of maturity. Even if somebody memorized and regurgitated you can easily catch it rather than putting forward a contrived LC problem.

PS - I am actually reasonably good at LC but only seasonally as I spend 3 months working out before a job search (thanks to an amazing wife who lets me ignore my kids as I lock myself in my study). The moment i start a job my LC skills drop pitifully and yet I am able to do well at my job (if reviews are anything to go by). I wonder how?
Who said Nazi...? Not bigotry, ignorance. But you really just proved my point...

Oh you're continuously studying sex work? Please link us to some of your publications then.
Firebase is easy to set up but pricey to scale and hard to migrate off of.
I did this, but found I was saving way more articles than I ever had time for. Before long my backlog of stiff to read was overwhelmingly long, so I quit saving articles.
The architect who was responsible for that has a recent blog post on it: https://ricomariani.medium.com/visual-studio-why-is-there-no...
I'm surprised they're not porting the windows full fledged version over to Mac. I've used the VS for Mac edition and it's lacking too many useful features that come with vscode out of the box (ex. emmet)
This is a shame. I would never install the Facebook apps on my phone.
I largely agree. But tone is, in practice, more than just the pitch. I know that in Mandarin it ends up affecting vowel length, volume and quality a little bit as well. I'm pretty sure you could do much better than chance just with lip position over time, for example. And practical lipreading looks at much more than just lip position.
> I don't know what the folks at Amazon were thinking when they make the browser suck this much.

I've heard it's quite simple: the browser was only ever included in the first place as a way to log into public Wi-Fi networks like coffee shops which have a screen you need to log in through.

As long as the browser is good enough to log you in, Amazon's happy. Which is why, after almost 10 years, I think the browser is still labeled as "experimental". (At least last I checked.)
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the end result of the Ian knot is supposed to be identical to the standard shoelace knot, see https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknottech.htm.

There is also https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm.

There is a handy listing of which knots are actually different towards the bottom of this page: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knotcomparison.htm#identica...
Title has been editorialized. Actual title:

"Beyond the Office, Out of the Landfill: Why We’re Transitioning from Adding Logos"
Kudos to you!
I wonder, will any anchor have qualms of conscious or give push back in the future. Is it not obvious to them, that their teleprompter tells them to speak hearsay as if it were fact? Or are they so insulated from this that they never give it a second thought?
> And as "megabar" update has shown, this new "tab" style will probably be reverted in future redesign.

Did they really revert the megabar? I can't find anything about that with searches. (I fixed it to look exactly like the old design with usercss, so I can't easily check myself.)

As a side note, anyone using TreeStyleTab is probably immune from Mozilla's awful tab style revamp, as the tabs in TST are styled using CSS by the extension.
I mean it’s not bad, but it could definitely use some work — the black highlight is far too large and overused, blasting its way through the article. It needs a secondary “lesser emphasis” styling for code snippets and maybe keep the blackout for real highlights
Will you expand on what you're trying to say? This doesn't make sense to me.

Goals are a desired result.

Habits are deeply ingrained practices that are formed with repetition, and may or may not help you achieve that desired result. Some habits might actually hinder progress.

The only way to know which habits to cultivate (or rely on) is to have a desired result in mind.

Setting goals is important, because it helps clarify what you should spend time on, including the cultivation of habits that will help you achieve the goal. I could invest a lot of myself into the formation of a new (good) habit, but it may not help me achieve my goal.

And goals can also be reached without the formation of habit.
What was your point?

Yeah it can, but it didn’t.
Gratuitous images by each story, slow enough to load that it benefits from a cutesy loading spinner, cookies for tailored marketing, email signup box after the 10th story, fat banner that uses the hamburger menu icon but doesn’t trust it to be communicative enough so also has “Menu” in text on the button...

That’s...not a Hacker News for X.
If you want a DECwriter very $7K much, :) one of the photos in this current eBay listing looks like it might include one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Applicon-DEC-Digital-PDP-11-34-Main...
Why do you think so? They're expensive and have some unnecessarily intrusive policies.
Most of your 32 bit extensions probably won't work on the 64 bit version. I'd wait a year or so before bug testing for Microsoft.
Why share this news?
The way HN users think they know they can design something themselves is the same way a client thinks they can code something themselves.
It's weird, nowadays I think the only times I use SO as a reference are when I'm hitting something that is very product-specific (i.e. a weird error message in Typescript that doesn't quite make sense). In those situations, there's usually some SO thread that explains the quirky behavior and workarounds in depth. Otherwise, I'm never there anymore, which certainly wasn't the case years ago.
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Yeah, I made the thing to run on mobile.
Not parent, but I was also confused by the tool -- if the square (which is by definition 90 degrees where the two sides joined) is x and y long on the two sides -- then what's the purpose of being able to make a square from the 3/4/5 rule that's limited to the x and y lengths?

I'm having trouble explaining more succinctly why this seems like a totally pointless feature of a woodworking square - so it's possible I've misunderstood how it could be used to extend beyond the length of its arms.
I wouldn't call it prescient. It came out in 1998? At that time, I was already living like Lain, cooped up in my room spending my entire evening/night online, building computers and tinkering with stuff. Lots of people were already like that. In fact, it just accurately represented a person like that, who's an outlier in their obsessive interest in the net and online communities. I felt huge relation to Lain when I watched it at that time. It was "current" for me. I imagine many others felt this way as well, though probably not the article author :)
good habits are amazing, but picking which habits you need is often related to having goals to give those habits purpose.
If your filesystem is on top of lvm you can force it to be truly read-only. There are other flags required if /etc is on a read-only fs.

lvchange -pr vg00/www
mount -o remount,ro /var/www
HIPAA isn’t nearly as prescriptive as PCI. It’s more about defining what PHI is, and what the consequences are for mishandling it.
At a minimum, I’d expect a similar design aesthetic, rather than obtrusive JS, email harvesting, and a need for a tailored marketing cookie warning.
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Yeah, CLion is just superior to any other C++ IDE out there.
This is where I am, too - long time .NET dev, have gotten increasingly frustrated with Visual Studio's awful performance, especially with ReSharper. I've tried taking that out given VS has a bunch of that stuff built in, but working without R# completions feels like trying to work with one arm tied behind my back.

Between that and my preference for Macs for my personal laptops -- and I've been very excited at how good .NET Core has gotten on non-Windows platforms -- as well as a ~3 year sojourn working with Java 8/11 in IntelliJ, I've gotten very comfortable working with JetBrains IDEs and generally prefer them when I have the option. Structure View is great, the search is nice and snappy.

The only thing that frustrates me with Rider is I don't think you can apply fixes from Roslyn analyzers at the file/project/solution level like you can in VS. We enforce our team's coding standards using those, so it's a minor pain point, but not enough to get me to stop using Rider given how much faster it is.
Manage Work, Not People
We'd have to build that into HN itself, since upvote data is private (extremely so). But it's the sort of feature whose value grows as the site continues, so I could imagine us adding it eventually.
In classical music at least it's often referred to as a "memory lapse"
You can use less hues/shades, and make the shape change instead. That's also easier to commit to memory. If a friend's avatar is a circle with shades of green/purple, and another friend is a gem with shades of green/purple, the hue doesn't matter as much.
It's almost like there was a mob mentality leading a mob...

Many came prepared with plenty of non-lethal weapons. There's video evidence of the use of bear spray, assault of police officers, and property destruction.

Just because it could have been worse doesn't mean each person shouldn't be held to account.
After realizing the unbelievable CPU hog that the Github globe is, I simply added an element hiding rule for that crap. Not sure if element hiding rules help preventing fingerprinting from such sources.
That doesn't add up - it is Craigslist who surplanted classifieds, Monster and other for job postings.

Furthermore why are media companies assumed blameless for failing to adjust their business model. "Millenials are killing X industry" was widely mocked because it was understood that it was undue entitlement to think their business model was sancrosanct and anything which went against it was guilty. How does the news differ?
Check the net.* usenet groups. net is the one of the oldest usenet hierarchies, stretching back to the early 1980s, even before the great renaming.
For example, trust plays factor too from PM perspective at DARPA, it is not all conspiracy.
One previous discussion:

You are not 'behind' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155202 - Sept 2017 (209 comments)
Canada's wireless problems and mobile costs (most expensive int the world) could be solved in very short time. Allow US Carriers to enter the market.

The problem is the Wireless Oligarchy that the current Government supports would crumble. It's one of the reasons Rogers pushed so hard during the NAFTA 2 for Trudeau to classify them as a Canadian Media company (along with the other 2 Amigos, Bell and Telus).
This was very common back in the 1980s. Though for extra versatility, it was accomplished more often than not via software, which could enable or disable the PROM at will.

Another thing that was common way back when was to have the ROM/PROM/EEPROM socketed, so it was just a matter of lifting one out and then inserting another.
Here's a free book on physically based rendering

https://www.pbr-book.org/
The reason for the ban was for failing to have a content moderation system at all. I think that was a fair thing to require.

And now that Parler has proven it has a system in place, Apple has allowed them back on to their storefront.

There are a lot of potential issues with the Parler ban -- namely the revelation of how monopolized online distribution is. But the ban had legitimate reasons behind it.
Very cool! Unfortunately, the paper (the hardware device this is using) is sold out, and M5 doesn't know if they're ever going to make it again: https://twitter.com/M5Stack/status/1376691939018350593

Would LOVE one of these devices, but unfortunately I don't know if I'll get to have one. Really hope to see more devices that are this form factor in the future. I loved my palm pilot way back when, and would love to be able to replace it.
That’s not exactly what I’m saying. Veteran isn’t really the same thing as “age”.

Also, I think it is pretty controversial for one to claim that some people don’t really use Stack Overflow
Well, we could always dismantle capitalism .. write it off as a failed experiment and try a more collectivism approach like non-statist socialism... aka libertarian socialism.

I find it funny though when people who fear socialism and communism so much and who consider themselves libertarians (as in the libertarian party of the USA - not left-libertarian) - start to tear down capitalism and claim they want smaller government, less oversight, less regulation on companies which would allow companies to become even MORE powerful, while at the same time crying foul when these companies push any agenda they don't approve of...as if they should have a say in what capitalists do with their own money/time/etc.
Money... at $1/hour?
Can I ride your coattails and introduce a "Hacker news" we made just for Cybersecurity?: https://cyber.report/
I would almost say iterators could/should be treated as a special case here (in terms of informing the compiler message). It's extremely unintuitive that adding a transform to an iterative gives you a totally different concrete type. I understand why this is, but most people won't, and it's one of the most prominent cases of this general problem in my experience.
I use Reddit for this
I only watched the 1997 Berserk. I tried to watch the continuation, but I couldn't get past that awful CGI animation. Is it worth it?
It’s another case of having to wait for the right people to die, probably.
That is such a great term. Instantly communicates what you’re talking about and how frustrating it is.

Yoink, I’ll definitely be borrowing that. Thanks!
From 2019: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagon...
Yes, my parents had one and it was our only computer from 1991-1995. Sadly teenaged me thought it would be good to pull the then-obsoleted machine to bits. It was a good learning experience but I'd rather still have it intact. :(
This is very relatable. Most of my 20s was spent like this – why haven't I reached senior/staff eng yet? Why have I not started a company yet? Why don't I own a house yet? After all, so-and-so could do it when they were my age.

As I entered my 30s, I managed to give up on the fake urgency while still retaining my overall drive. I can say that things are a lot better now (both in terms of success and mental health) than the days I spent hating myself for being an underachiever.
anyone figured out how to disable this?
This is one of the kinds of things that happens when you remove "Don't be evil" from your mission.
Because the publisher/platform distinction is propaganda and it has never worked that way.

Section 230 was only a thing in the US because a vapor brained judge applied third party liability to a financial forum for not catching fraud with one hundred percent perfection when moderating.
Comparing yourself to someone else is a complete waste of time. You can never be that person with the exact environment they grew up in, let alone your genetic makeup.

You do you, Set your own goals, and work to make today your best day.
I think the fundamental issue is that most languages these days use dynamic-dispatch invisibly and by default. Rust seeks to empower users to be more efficient by default (which is good), but sometimes, especially on this iterators case, it creates deeply confusing/frustrating barriers that have to be explicitly stepped around.
I've used alternative knots since high school, but about five years ago I woke up with no recollection of any knot except for the Balanced/Granny Knot. It was as though the knowledge had been wiped from my brain despite years of daily use. All that was left was the traditional method, which I used for a couple weeks until I learned the Ian Knot, which is my happily ever after.
Well, depending on the design, it might be possible to "come out the other side" .. but yeah, that's probably a bit like hoping to be thrown clear in a car accident. You MIGHT be better off, but statistically the average person will not, so wear a seatbelt.
I appreciate the validation, as much as I like to see things eork, I also love to break things. Pathological unit tests are fun, but the real low hanging fruit is in finding how two services implemented the same service contract with different assumptions.
I don’t know if it’s just that complex 3D topology is hard or what, but those blue-yellow knot diagrams have never helped me understand a knot.
He is 26yo, he clearly states he needs a job, he seems desperate or untenably bored. Not uncommon, to be fair, but this ad is sort of a Hail Mary... so I would NOT suggest him to start his own firm right now... hopefully, next year.
On the (mobile) NYTimes home page it's the 24th story down, and entitled "Officer Attacked During Capitol Riot Died of Multiple Strokes" and redirects to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/19/us/joe-biden-news/ - some sort of political live feed? The Sicknick story is the 6th down in this feed, buried a couple thousand words in. Not exactly the clear and unambiguous retraction I'd expect from a serious newspaper.
It seems that if you want to be supremely picky about what you do, and don't care what you get paid, then the obvious answer is to just do your own side-projects, open source them, and have a paypal tip jar where people can send you some money. This pays closer to the $0/hour side than the $100/hour side.

You might also consider working on side projects with an emphasis on them making money, but then I think you'll quickly find that you'll be required to do work that you don't consider fun and interesting, so you'd probably have to give up before it got far enough to become an actual money-making venture. So again, closer to $0/hour.

Or maybe you'd like to do contract work, but again, to fully complete a project for a client is most certainly going to require that you do some work that you don't like, so I don't think anyone is going to pay you for delivering something that's only partially complete, so again, $0/hour.
Why does it say a post has 12 comments, but when I open it it has 0? Or from 14 comments it has only 2?
I use python/flask on GAE or express js on firebase functions. React for fe. (In all cases, no managed instances.)
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> HIPAA isn’t nearly as prescriptive as PCI.

For odd historical reasons HIPAA is passive-aggressively prescriptive through the definition of secured PHI in guidance issued under the HITECH act, whereas the basic Privacy and Security Rules are less so.

> It’s more about defining what PHI is, and what the consequences are for mishandling it.

Well, the Administrative Simplification part of HIPAA (which is far from the whole thing, and which the Privacy and Security pieces are in turn smaller components of) are really more about standardizing and encouraging use of health IT in multiparty interactions in healthcare. The Privacy and Security aspects were included largely to mitigate public fear of shared, common-format digital transactions and records being a privacy risk.
This blog post is really difficult to navigate. It's about Box, so... ^Fbox, right? No, because the author uses a directory called "whatbox" and so their examples are littered with "whatbox", so... ok, ^Fbox and match word, but now the section titled "What the heck is a Box?"... says nothing about Box.
Makes me wonder if you could effectively apply Chernoff faces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face) to make different hashes easier for humans to recognize. TLDR map parts of the hash to modify aspects of a face (position, size, orientation of eyes, ears etc.) and you can take advantage of all the in-built circuitry in the human brain which can identify very small differences in facial appearance.

The idea is explored a bit in Peter Watts novel Blindsight - not for hashes, but visualizing high dimensional multivariate data via clouds of tormented faces :)
Haha, you're getting more efficient with signaling for me to stop reading... only took one sentence this time!
The problem is that we only hear about outliers. Genius teenage whizkids and college dropout billionaires are constantly in the news, but successful tech founders are, on average, 40-45 years old. So if you feel like a failure at 28 it doesn't mean that you are necessarily on the wrong path, more likely just looking at bad data.
I cannot speak for the grand-parent, but the general idea is captured in Atomic Habits [1].

[1] https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
MotionEye works very well. Read all the docs first before messing with the settings as they are not intuitive - trying to tweak the motion trigger settings is a bit of a pain (frames threshold, timeout, etc.) but can be done and there is a debug frame setting which is helpful. Works with the Raspberry Pi cameras but also with any USB cam as long as you choose the correct driver. I have an IR nightview USB cam that gives superior night shots and doesn't require additional power outside the USB connection. You can save all files locally or send them to any number of services - I have all my photos and videos dropped into Google Drive. I'm also using DuckDNS for external access to the IP cam port for a real-time view into my home whenever I am out and about. The network stream feature in VLC on mobile works really well for that. The only issue I've come across (and this was ~4 months ago) is that 8GB RAM Raspberry Pi 4's are more trouble than they're worth for this application - software support was very much lacking but the 4GB Pi's work very well.