skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Face masks couldn’t be doing that because they don’t work to slow transmission whatsoever. The whole theory of face masks - even before accounting for real world usage - rests on the assumption that the primary transmission mode is respiratory droplets and not aerosols which is not the case. They’re just medical security theater, except worse because they have obvious negatives. I advocate instead for performing rain dances; they’re no less effective but provide a bit of exercise to boot.

Anyway, on a related vein, non-infection-protecting vaccines can do exactly what you’re saying and select for more virulent/pathogenic strains. Take a look: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou.... Because all the COVID/19 vaccines do not prevent infection nor transmission (they reduce it but don’t fully block it), our incredibly shortsighted mass vaccination campaign is likely to select for more pathogenic strains. Go science!

> Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces transmission. Vaccines that keep hosts alive but still allow transmission could thus allow very virulent strains to circulate in a population. Here we show experimentally that immunization of chickens against Marek's disease virus enhances the fitness of more virulent strains, making it possible for hyperpathogenic strains to transmit. Immunity elicited by direct vaccination or by maternal vaccination prolongs host survival but does not prevent infection, viral replication or transmission, thus extending the infectious periods of strains otherwise too lethal to persist. Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts.
> - immune to spoilage: bitcoin can’t dissolve in water like salt (a previous form of money) and is quite robust, and can be backed up!

I presume that in societies that used salt as money, anybody who lost it to "spoilage" was considered to be responsible for their own loss and this was not considered a downside of the salt-based economy.

Similar to throwing out a hard drive with your Bitcoin wallet on it, or sending coins to an address nobody has the private key to, or dying without telling anybody how to access your bitcoins.
You're spot on. It's possible to trace every wallet a coin passed through. If your coin ever passed a blacklisted address, it's tainted and nobody will accept it. Exchanges are already rejecting deposits containing coins that passed through mixing services.

Monero is fungible because it's private. Every transaction is signed by lots of users and nobody can tell where the coins are actually coming from. There's no way to tell them apart.
Because there is no original thinking going on here. The idea is basically what a 5 year old would come up with if you told them to invent "the bestest most coolest game ever", with all the complete lack of deliverability that entails. Except the founders don't even seem to have game dev experience.
Inexperienced game devs that want to make a huge MMO is very common in the game industry.

What is new here is that ycombinator is going along in their Dunning-Kruger delusion.
I'm not sure that it's "better", we now have crazy high asset prices, the bubble is bigger than ever, all while the average worker's compensation has stayed relatively stable.
Yes and in some cases that matters. But for most practical purposes, two coins are interchangeable. As in,if you're sending me bitcoin, I don't really care which coin in the wallet you send me.

I could use your argument to say U.S cash is not fungible because each bill has a serial number. And the government occasionally tracks bills with a given number.
Can you give me a citation on the "10% of the milder COVID cases still are not recovered after 6 months"? I haven't found any good studies on this, and the "milder" in your sentence implies that you not only found research, but you found research that breaks it down by infection severity.

My google fu is failing me when I search for it though, so I would very much appreciate a link.
But it's also a startup. Don't those usually gather up investment and hire more people?

Just looking at it casually I would have guessed that there's a small founding team, and they are trying to snowball the investment to a point where they can actually do it, with a much larger team.

That's how they all work, isn't it? There's not a whole lot you can do with just two people, it's a matter of attracting investment.
Perhaps this will be accompanied by an increase in shotgun ownership.
"is associated with" is a much more neutral phrasing. The phrasing did not denote causality but does imply it to a casual reader.
Show HN: EventReduce – Algorithm to optimise db queries that run multiple times
Because the long term holders could try to dodge the irs.
How is he lying though? He did, in fact, work at all of those companies.
Hi, Daniel here.
About a year ago, I made this algorithm called EventReduce. It is able to optimize database queries that run multiple times (aka Realtime-Queries or Live-Queries).
Before making EventReduce, I scouted over about 2 years if something like this already exists but couldnt find something similar other then MongoDBs OPLOG_DRIVER.
After finishing EventReduce last year I added it to my little side project database, RxDB[1] where it is sucessfully in use over the last year.
Also I already made a hackernews post [2] with mixed comments about how this can work and when this is usefull.
So now I am here again with the goal to get some feedback of people who try out EventReduce on top of their database.

[1] https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888239
Blacklisting definitely changes fungibility. Some bitcoins are different than others, because of their history.
My main concern is why the choice of a (slow) genetic algorithm vs a more traditional Delaunay triangulation algorithm?
Your statement about history is probably correct, but I don't agree about energy efficiency. Bitcoin is more energy efficient than gold. Most bitcoin power use is waste power— eg power generated which exceeds instantaneous demand, and bitcoin’s entire power usage is still 1/6th of what is currently thrown away... if bitcoin ever fails to deliver utility beyond its power cost, the network will reduce mining because mining will no longer be profitable.

Cheers!
Not always effective as it's trivial to protect against if the program bothers to do so.
Yes, but how do you know that? And why should we believe it?

We're literally in a thread about wrongful conviction. Evidence. It matters.
I don't think many people expect a literally unlimited world. I'm almost 40 so I don't have enough time to finish most of the non-infinite games I start. I just take issue with his statement that promising literally unlimited content and then delivering a lot of content isn't a lie. I'm not a great programmer (or a pro) and I suck at math so I don't actually know what's possible in terms of infinite worlds.

There have been attempts at delivering more content than a person could play in a lifetime. However, the broader the scope of a game is, the less compelling the content becomes. For example, No Man's Sky is probably the best attempt thus far at a literally infinite world (I don't know if it actually is or not). Its a really great game and I sank about a hundred hours of time into it, but after a while even though you're going to different places it begins to feel too familiar.

The 2nd Elder Scrolls Game, Daggerfall wasn't infinite but it did have 16,000 cities and quests generated in all of them. Supposedly someone figured out it would take about a week to walk from one end of the world to the other but you could actually do it (unless it experienced one of its many crashes while you were attempting it) Its one of my favorite games of all time. While by today's standards the quests were frequently shallow, there was enough hand crafted content to make the overall experience feel pretty authentic.
Now apply that logic to gold.
Congratulations on your success!

YC are just people, not some infallible oracle.
Here's the quick summary of the case.

1. Palm print evidence was suppressed by the prosecution.

2. Another man's confession of guilt (including details that were not publicly known) as well as detailing how the palm print got there pointed to another killer -- which the police did not pursue.

3. Everything else was a sideshow.

In this case the Alford plea is good since the prosecution would have to had retry him, and probably look silly in light of new evidence.
Fungibility implies interchangeability not privacy.
What's the difference between a mobile app POC, Prototype, and an MVP?
In the United States that's why we have the 14th Amendment.
Walsh Matrix
we should be pushing for N95 masks to be cheaper and more available. those masks block aerosols when they're properly fitted (and we should make them easier to fit.)
It could be the opposite: a way out through the great filter. Due to imperfection of gold or any resource-based money (symmetrical security), people can never stop fighting for it and build wasteful political hierarchies with ever-escalating arms race. Bitcoin being cheaper to secure than to steal (asymmetrical security) solves two problems: de-escalates arms race and flattens the hierarchies because now savings can be more organically spread in society. This allows redirecting a lot of energy from wars onto cooperative multi-planetary infrastructure or whatever.
> Better is defined as causing less harm to individuals

Inflation sucks for more people than deflation. It causes social strife, environmental destruction through overconsumption, a widening gap between the rich and the poor, more expensive healthcare for lower classes, stress and the need to live on the corporate treadmill, a general inability to identify worthwhile investments versus ponzi schemes because TINA, pushing more people into partial servitude to the economic system by encouraging borrowing.

It's great for the rich, though. Lowered interest rates things like financial games, leveraged trading, and corporate agglomeration become favored. And the devaluing currency pushes average joes to participate in the wall street casino, which is good for CEOs.

It's not the deflation of the great depression that was causing starvation. Remember that during the part of the great depression where people were starving (nobody was starving at the onset), the government was doing things like buying food and burying it on the premise that this would create demand and stimulate prices.
I'm a bit unsure of what you mean, but the genetic algorithm is used to find an optimal set of points, and then a Delaunay triangulation is created from those points.
I remember back in 2008 when we reached 256k prefixes, the then limit of Cisco 6500 and 7600 routers, which were kind of the workhorses for a bunch of ISPs. Lots of places were buying memory expansion for those devices to cope. 6 years later, 512k day occurred.
Gold still makes up a percentage of global reserves for all major countries.
Musk's digital dart board... funny!

My crypto investing strategy is mainly to only look at assets that are not based on proof-of-work. Electricity consumption is only one aspect, all the hardware built to do nothing but search sha256 hashes seems equally wasteful.

I prefer the idea of proof-of-stake and smart contracts as a less volatile, long-term investment. My 2 cents.
Hi, creator here. I've sent you an email.
This is untrue. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that masks reduce the spread of Covid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_sca....
Hadean is a general-purpose distributed object system. People have tried to use those for games. EvE Aether Wars used that. They got 10K players in the same space. But it's all spaceships in a big space, not interacting much. Xsolla’s Game Carnival was only 500 users.

Spatial OS is more geographical. They have regions, and dynamic boundaries between them. If more players are in a region, the regions get smaller. Inter-region interactions are possible but slower.

Second Life has fixed-sized regions. Each region talks to its neighbors on four sides. The user's viewer talks to all the regions within visual range of the viewpoint. Assets are stored on AWS front-ended by Akamai. The servers are mostly single-thread per region, because the design is old. Crossing regions works most of the time, and since moving to AWS with faster networking, the delay is usually under 0.5 second. The whole system is sluggish but works reasonably well. (I'm writing a new client for it in safe Rust, using Vulkan and multiple threads. It's going well. The existing C++ client gets CPU bound on the main thread and can't keep the GPU busy.)
No, I'd raise the XMR price for my services. We still need fiat in order to pay for everyday things.
As someone who listens to true crime podcasts, there are loads of people who brag to their friends about committing a crime they didn't do.
True. Claiming you are going to make a huge MMO when you are an inexperienced game developer is pretty common. Therefore we also know at which stage of Dunning Kruger they are.
The 2nd layer always maps to the settlement layer as in you're still transacting in Bitcoin, you just don't broadcast the signed transactions to the whole network because you expect to continue your transactions.

You can use eth or any of the thousands of other crypto-currencies, Bitcoin benefits from being the most secure and also having the largest network effects due to being the earliest. When it comes to money, security is the most important thing and Bitcoin offers the most secure settlement layer.
Isn't this what a well-functioning democracy supposed to be?
And, you can't be a Catholic and pro-Russian at same time.
OP is cherry-picking one piece out of the story. Getting karma for it, but in a most sleazy way possible.
The tutorial is presented well. My biggest takeaway was that one can use 'Deepnote' to run Linux commands.

If you are interested in knowing how to customize `pandoc` for generating PDF/EPUB, I have a tutorial [0] based on books I've written. I also have links at the end with related resources, including tools others than `pandoc`.

[0] https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/
Why? If cash is stolen it becomes tainted. If it becomes too damaged for circulation it is no longer spendable. We don't then say this makes paper currency not fungible.
Gold is a usable, consumable product.

Unlike Bitcoin, the value of gold in a given market has a tangible backing that isn't purely speculative.
So the professor in center of this event, Kangjie Lu[0] is also program comitee at IEEE S&P 2021.[1]

I'm by no means an security expert nor a kernel contributor but considering he's program comitee, is these kind of practices a common place in Security/Privacy researchers?

Does idea/practises like this get a pass on conference publishing regularly?

[0] https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/
[1] https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2022/cfpapers.html
I would love for N95 usage to become more widespread, but that is hampered by the dogmatic clinging to the belief that cloth masks actually work, unfortunately.

Do N95s work for source control though? They certainly do work for self infection but I haven’t personally read any N95 studies on source control so am not sure.
I can vouch that’s not a true statement. The deprecation policy doesn’t cover breaking api changes. Forced k8s version upgrades.

Among other edge cases that caused pain.
You would hope, a lot. There’s plenty of types of damage that can’t be repaired by money, but it’s generally how the courts choose to settle damages between parties. If one party illegally were to cause a comparable level of damage to another party, the damaged party would likely be entitled to a rather large amount of compensation for those damages. The fact that the government sees itself as above that level of accountability seems to be a significant part of the problem to me.
Anyone else think Bitcoin is false hope hidden in layers of impressive technology? Like Q conspiracies targeting smart people. Heh, I was duped by both.
Putting unfathomable astronomical distances into human perspective
The problems weren't 'initial'. I had to abandon a BTRFS partition that could only mount read-only just two years ago. It wasn't all that long ago that I had two separate installs experience ridiculously bad performance issues just because they had rolling hourly snapshots happening in the background for a few months, but I suppose I could be convinced to restart that test...
Developers Are Buzzing on Fuzzing
Standard conservative thinking.

Society is meant to be hierarchical, bottom feeders are supposed to serve the small percentile of elites.

This is the natural order of things.

Social support systems for the bottom feeders makes the bottom feeders entitled. Democratic government focus inevitably moves towards social programs which must be pushed back hard by the elite.

Most elites inherit their elite status. We must ignore this and talk about anecdotes of how some software engineer made a lot of money in Silicon valley. Buying bitcoin and TSLA a few years ago is also an undeniable marker of extraordinarily elite thinking, which society must reward.

We must never bluntly state our beliefs but cloak it in other acceptable words, so you don't get canceled by the SJWs and bottom feeders.

The naturally superior and their offspring will and must be allowed to ascend the social hierarchy.

BTW, conservatives have larger amygdala. Anterior cingulate cortex, an area that helps detect errors and resolve conflicts, tends to be larger in liberals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs
I'd say, it's understandable why rich/developed countries oppose ethnic cleansing in other countries: they want to deny them the benefit of stability which the rich countries have, brought long ago by ethnic cleansing, to make their position more exclusive - which results among other things, in lower borrowing costs/higher P/E ratios and attraction of investments.

Same cynicism as "nuclear non-proliferation": "we have the nukes so we are safe from you, and we want to make things stay that way by denying nukes to you losers".

Both things are understandable, and both are morally untenable.

Also, give me a counterexample - a country that lost something because of ethnic cleansing? Not counting those that lost because of being punished for that cleansing from the outside.
Nazi Germany comes to mind - they cleansed Jews and lost a lot of science and engineering skill, keeping which could probably give them a chance to achieve somewhat better war outcome (while hardly any chances to win the war in any case). But, they made a big mistake in choice of target group, it's always a bad idea to mess with the Jews. Ofc there are also cases when ethnic cleansing did not work out because they didn't have resources to pull it off, and it turned into a civil war...
In India Supreme Court can do the governing?!
The only RCT ever performed for self infection of SARS-2 in the community failed to reach significance. No RCT of community masking for SARS-2 transmission has ever been done, probably because it’s unfeasible (translation: we’ve constructed an unfalsifiable hypothesis).

Can you point me to a non mechanistic non associative study that demonstrates that face masks work to prevent community transmission of SARS-2?

EDIR: I can’t reply to the child comment about condoms (does HN have a nesting limit?) but suffice to say we only have 1 RCT on SARS-2 so playing the significance game is silly. You can’t point to a single RCT showing an effect because it doesn’t exist. That’s the problem. We’re mandating an intervention that is unproven to work and rests on theoretical assumptions that are now known to be false.

You can go look at non-SARS-2 RCTs if you want but those also look abysmal. For example go read Macintyre’s cluster-randomized controlled trial of cloth masks in healthcare workers. It’s not encouraging.
> and we should make them easier to fit

Not to mention make versions for unusual face sizes (big and small). I cannot find one large enough for my face.
> The Great Depression was caused by the government making gold illegal

Look, I'm not going to try to convince you. You're trying to protect your assets by denying reality, maybe you have a family to feed, maybe you just want to go to the moon, whatever.

For everyone else, I invite you to study history. The depression happened before anyone touched the gold standard. Countries that abandoned the gold standard earlier have recovered faster. Don't believe me, please read books.

Other important note. You can become rich with Bitcoin, yes. Being richer doesn't make you smarter.
The Atari 2600 has no BIOS or any other built-in ROM. Maybe you're thinking of the 5200 or 7800?
Oh that? That's a different thing. You need gfx.color_management.enablev4 for ICCv4 profile support.
If a credit card is the example of a layer 2, with dollars being the base layer, would you say that dollars don't matter then, and the only thing that matters is the layer 2?
"Not funding" and "looked silly" is a difference, but perhaps it's my limited understanding of the English language.

My wife bootstrapped a startup, got "no funding", scaled it and sold it successfully to a competitor. I guess the idea "was silly" because no one wanted to fund it?

What about all these successful "one person bootstrapped SaaS" companies from time to time in HN threads that didn't get funding?

"But PG said so."

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-...
I've been thinking, what would happen if someone intentionally hacked a university and erased all data from all their computer systems, and then lied to their faces about it?

New white paper due soon
It has happened before, aluminum is a good example.
the ones without exhalation valves do. the barrier is bidirectional. the ones with valves bypass this which is why those shouldn't be used for source control but are popular for wildfires etc.
In monero's case, the blockchain privacy is what provides fungibility. The fact nobody knows where the coins are coming from makes them interchangeable.
I remember there being something called Chirp (I think) that had a neat demo where you have two phones download the app, put the phones into aeroplane mode, and then you can still make a box on the other phone move etc -- the implementation was ultrasonic sound I believe.

I tried to find them again but it looks like they were bought out or equivalent by Sonos?

[1] https://medium.com/chirp-io/data-over-sound-and-other-data-c...

[2] https://medium.com/chirp-io
Inflation is a form of tax, or rather a corporate handout, it transfers value from the poor to the rich. I have no problem taking on the risk of volatility to help destroy it. It can also be mitigated with implementation of different monetary policies, inflation is not the only mechanism that can be used.
Twingate Announces SOC2 Compliance
They don't have a lot of resources so they only take on cases that are clear injustices.

Usually this means that there's good evidence that the person is actually innocent and the trial was completely botched. There are plenty of rural areas where the court decides that someone "seems" guilty and then suppresses any evidence that doesn't support that.
This was literally the topic of my PhD thesis and it is absolutely not trivial. It's one of those things where it's easy to think it's simple from the outside, so I'm thinking naive over scam too (I was there a decade ago)
But look at the low median wages. There are already so many poor people in the US, whats 1 million more?

/sarcasm