skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work for a large provider in the VCS/CI space. While I appreciate the varied opinions in the comments here on the perceived usefulness of Crypto, I think folks outside of the space simply do not understand how much time is being spent combating the issue.

If we, for example, had a team of 20 working on our CI offering, we would have re-allocated at least 50% of them to work full-time on combating the miners. And this trend is not slowing, it is only accelerating.

One week, we may have a breakthrough and find some common heuristic in running binaries that identify _this weeks_ miners, but next week they will have figured out that we have figured it out and make the requisite changes. It's something akin to the early days of anti-virus software, but given the 2021 scale of the internet, the iterations are moving at warp speed in comparison.

If you care nothing of the environmental impact (IMO you should), then take a second and ask yourself what your life as a creator of _things_ be like with no free access to CI tooling? I guaranty you that changes to the free tier of ALL CI services are on the way, and I heavily suspect that when that happens, the miners will take over any service offering paid CI where the return outweighs the price. This will lead to an escalation of pricing such that side-project, FOSS, and anything less than large profitable software will be priced out of hosted CI and be forced into a different model.

Stake: No crypto stake of any kind
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Do you have a study as a source that backs that up? I'm personally skeptical, as public transportation is weighted significantly towards ineffective demand.

This also neglects the question of positive externalities attached to public transportation systems that aren't accounted for in a profit / revenue metric, such as lower property prices, more flexible labor markets, and the quality of life improvements of mixed use zoning that high use public transportation facilitate.
Show HN: Testing GraphQL APIs Using Karate DSL
> USD is paper and bits we believe has value.

Speak for yourself.

> BTC is bits that most people believe doesn't have value.

This is changing rapidly, is it not?
I can't confirm or deny since I've been only using telegram as a way to get notifications for some batch jobs or other things I want to keep an eye out for and that use case has been a breeze. I'm having a script constantly checking when the PS5 will be available on amazon and get a notification when that happens to (hopefully) have a chance to get one. I think I might help there, I'll post an article as soon as I can about that with the hope that it'll get people started.
Some years ago I did use Whatsapp to write bots and there was absolutely no documentation at that time but it's possible. What's your use case exactly? Would you like to use Telegram Channels / Groups the way Discord channels are used?
Can you write an ethereum contract that would ensure ethereum covered by it was not mined with dirty energy?
As someone who grew up before the Internet perhaps I have a less than optimal view of the issue. I think that in the case of non-threatening speech, the school has no business disciplining students for off campus speech.
The QSF2.8 Diesel is a Tier 4 Diesel engine, so it is MUCH cleaner burning that most tractors out there.
We ran a DoubleClick ad engine on the Clear Channel websites right around that time period. The front-end was a Java Web Start application, ugly, slow, but very intuitive to use for ad-targeting. I wrote several extensions for it using their plugin-api and the ad engine worked really, really well. Had several calls with the DART team and they were all smart people delivering a necessary service to keep websites free to use. Hard to believe that something so simple and useful could become the tool for evil that it has.
You underestimated both the number of problems solved and effort put into making those solutions. Law and Currency are extremely complex institutions that solve complex interlocking problems.

Replacing either one completely is probably impossible and any change to them will probably have to be iterative improvement, not replacement.
But not tdesktop, which is the official desktop client.
> Can you expand on the second point? If something can’t be liquidated/sold, how can it be collateral?

It means that to ask for 1 you need to already own 1 in the form of different cryptos from the one you are loaning.

So basically you are asking for money you already have in the first place.

With crypto it makes sense: if I loan you 10 bitcoins and you disappear, those bitcoins are lost forever, so to ask for 10 bitcoins you have to put the countervalue of 10 bitcoins in (for example) ETH and freeze them so they act as collateral.

If it sounds ridiculous, it's because it is.
So it seems Drew is biased here, he is biased because his service is being used by thieves to make money.

My tainted opinion: I think the criticisms of Proof-of-Work are totally justified here. There are perverse incentives for "miners" to execute work in the cheapest way they can, whether that is JS miners, bot farms, abuse of free services, hacked AWS accounts, abusing favorable tenancy conditions etc. and even if the miner isn't downright stealing, there's a good chance they are operating in an environment where the cheapest electricity isn't going to be exactly "green" either.

Practically all of these mining efforts are not done out of some kind of altruistic, utopian goal of shutting down central bankers, but are simply done to make money.

What I think is unfair of Drew is to categorize cryptocurrency as a whole as an abject disaster, when in his own article he writes "attempts at reform, like proof-of-stake, are viciously blocked". Well proof-of-stake still falls under the cryptocurrency banner, doesn't it? Perhaps it's better to say that cryptocurrency is facing an identity crisis.

My opinions on proof-of-storage: I always expected that the price of these coins would naturally level out because you'd have to remain competitive with the likes of Backblaze or S3. I don't know enough about the incentive structures of Proof-of-Storage coins, but if there are incentives to have empty spinning rust then these are the wrong incentives and I'd say those protocols are likely broken. Rewards should be heavily slashed if there's wasted storage (ie. empty storage), so as to disincentivize miners from over-provisioning hardware (hoarding disks).

Disclosure:

I'm currently holding roughly a pay check each of Harmony ONE and Polkadot and have a small, locked stake in ETH2. All of these projects are Proof-of-Stake.

I also own pocket change amounts of Stellar Lumens which are used between myself and a friend to keep track of who's paid for lunch. As I understand it, the Stellar consensus protocol is not computationally intensive when compared to Proof-of-Work.
Yes, that is a fundamental question that governments will need to grapple with:

If bitcoin is inconsequential, why regulate / ban it? And why are institutional asset manager trying to figure out how to profit off of it? [1]

Well, is the answer not becoming overwhelmingly obvious?

[1] https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/jp-morgan-launches-bitcoin-...
With every Telegram update, I keep hoping that they improve their video chat. As it stands, it is much lower quality compared to Skype or Duo.
Creation of First Human-Monkey Embryos Sparks Concern
Well, the radiation exposure was enough to kill several of those workers outright, and the rest had hugely elevated rates of cancer. In one instance the pregnant wife of one worker spent too much time with him and the radiation emanating from his body was enough to give her a miscarriage.

And yet the article makes a very strong claim: all that radiation didn’t cause any rise in birth defects at all! That’s surprising. It certainly caused defects in the animals in the area, who didn’t have the insanely high exposure as the workers- albeit the workers were exposed for a shorter time.

So something is going on here which I freely admit I don’t completely understand.

I just thought of another possibility: all the workers who suffered that exposure were men. Perhaps, radiation on a developing fetus is mutagenic, but radiation exposure in sperm is less so, maybe the sperm that develop after the acute exposure is gone are normal!
If Bitcoin is a total failure then it can't threaten sovereign currencies. If Bitcoin is actually causing the Turkish government to lose control over money then it can't be a failure.
It seems rather poor form to ask someone to disclose their exact crypto holdings for the sake of legitimizing, or delegitimizating their position.

Couldn’t it just be a binary yes or no?

Disclosure: I own some crypto.
Ask HN: Surf-By” WCAG Lawsuits?
Do you worry about "Surf-By" WCAG Lawsuits?
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/surfin-usa-website-accessibility-9470297/

HN has nearly 300 WCAG "errors": https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://news.ycombinator.com/

If you do worry about these (imo) troll lawsuits, what can we do to fortify our sites?

Thanks!
Could we add to the title that the distribution in question is Slackware? The current title is clickbait.
You can also use headers for API version negotiation, for non-browser UAs anyways.
Have the robots answered the age old philosophical question: What is a weed?
You're most likely to have problems with video playback. Most other things should work quite well.
From my understanding, they weren't entirely separate supply chains, since the contracts featured plants in the UK, just like the UK had plants in EU to fulfill their contract.

You're saying yields weren't sufficient when some plants weren't even submitted for EMA approval until late March 2021, that's few weeks ago. And looks like it was submitted after the EU pressured them to, or let's say, when it came to light. Which was quite convenient because such vaccines wouldn't be subject to export controls.

If they have no legal leg, why are they sueing? To show the world they lost a case lol... if they are suing they feel like they have a clear case.
I'm logged into my Google account, and it shows a certain IP address as where I'm logged in from. Checking ipconfig shows the same IP address as being the computer I'm on. The proxy will of course show it as being the actual source, but Google is smart enough to show the IP address that the proxy says it's proxying for. AFAICT, there's no NAT, but there is a firewall blocking traffic that doesn't run through the proxy.
In general favoring IP rights empowers those with less capital.

In general favoring operators over IP holders favors those with more capital.

Our economy already does a lot to favor those with more capital so the idea that companies that monetize IP are all trolls/terrorists is troubling. Surely there are some bad actors and they deserve the blowback consequences at work here, but surely some innovators hold valuable patents that big businesses are not respecting.
> If a role can be outsourced, it can be automated.

This line alone makes the article ludicrous.
That’s still a handwavy theoretical category of vaporware. Not one concrete example of a tangible application where “de-fi” replaced a previous technology with a better solution?
It's alright, every feedback is valuable. What would you have written differently and besides, what alternatives would you suggest and why?
Effectively, you're not paying for "12 months" despite the label, you're paying for a significant chance at finding a soulmate? If that's the case, why not label it as such?
I'm not an archaeologist, but I can already see some reasons to suspect that a lay person's first guess "there must be a connection" would be quickly dismissed.

First off, which phase of Yucatan Maya civilization do the artifacts you're referring to come from? Are you looking at Itza phase or Mayapan phase? (I'm assuming in the first place that it's Postclassic Yucatan, given that the shift of Mayan civilization from the highlands to the Yucatan happens during the transition from Classic to Postclassic). One of those is contemporaneous with Cahokia, the other is not.

Another question to ask is what are you considering as diagnostic of the art and artifacts? Are these features common enough to indicate influences in local style, or are you misdiagnosing occasional trade goods showing up?
One person cannot by her/him self return 3x or 5x profit. Its always about the team. And good team leaders are very hard to get by.
AZs is Uni of Oxford for development.

AZ weren't even in the vaccination business before this. Obviously they can conduct the trials and organise the manufacturing though, but that was their role here.
I too used to think that CEOs were a waste of resources, and that they had minimal if any impact on most companies. But I think people grossly underestimate how important CEOs are, because the vast majority of them do a decent job. When you swap out somebody who does a decent job for another person who performs at about the same level it's not really that noticeable.

That said, you'll come to appreciate those "decent" CEOs after you've had an experience with a truly bad CEO. One such experience was enough for me to decide that who runs the company at the top is critical to the success of most companies.
I think most, if not all, of those things work fine (and arguably better) without using a cryptocurrency.
> Also, no one pressed them to sell it at cost,

Oxford literally said they'd only partner with manufacturers who'd sell at cost.

> they could have sold for profit and pay/raise funding for production expansion

The EU negotiated the price for OAZ down to $2.15 a dose while the US pays $4 a dose for the same vaccine according to [1]

Let's not pretend the EU was throwing cash around, trying to fund expanded production, because they weren't.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281
> would only be usable during certain hours of the day

Limiting usage to when the light will be strong enough to be focused would seriously limit the hours of usage

Maybe adding solar panels to harness solar energy to offset ICE emissions would be a consideration
Isn't part of the problem the overlap between action and effect?

I might join a business as CEO and it does really well for 5 years because of the previous CEO, I could claim that it is my leadership and ask for my bonus.

On the other hand, maybe I do well but my successor is an idiot and makes the company tank so now I won't get my 10 year bonus because they screwed it all up.

Unless your idea only works for CEOs who are prepared to stay for 10 years? That then brings in the complication of when you need them to leave quietly because they are rubbish but you don't want your shareholders to know!
Let me know when we reach post scarcity and no longer need a rationing device such as money.
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You need profits for stock buybacks. Buybacks are just superior to dividends as a way to return capital.
Lombok is great, but Immutables is even better! https://github.com/immutables/immutables
> The idea that companies should only be beholden to shareholders

This concept was popularized by Milton Friedman with his Shareholder Theory. OP is not wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
I feel that getting into the habit of small-talk can long-term reduce loneliness (not fix it necessarily) because the human brain is wired to feel some benefit when interacting with other humans or even being in the presence of other humans. That's why, eg. even though writing is a fairly solitary action, writers are often stereotyped as constantly being in ambiently social places like bars and coffee shops. You may genuinely feel less lonely when you're ambiently in the environment of other humans for whatever reason.
Unless it is an accidental oversight, since the video does not really go over the franchise agreement that much, if what you are saying is true, it highlights an issue that bothered me.

Even though the clear conflict of interest with Kytch is addressed, what is not addressed is that if owners simply buy the Italian machine or McD is sued for the clear corruption and conspiracy to commit fraud, the whole startup essentially becomes worthless over night; so the video does not address that other machines can be bought or that the clear conspiracy to commit fraud should be investigated and prosecuted, or at the very least the owners should join forces to sue McD for fraud.

I wish the McBroken site kept track of performance metrics, i.e., which specific machines were down the most. The dataset would surely clearly show proof of the difference in the machines? This is conspiracy to commit fraud if I have ever heard of one; especially with McD coming out guns blazing to scare owners about adding a totally unobtrusive device to the machine that in no way tampers with anything? That alone could bury McD in court as it shows clear collusion and conspiracy.
This is pretty superficial and obvious stuff... and no mention of empathy and vulnerability.
The Wikipedia article for 1999 in film is there for all to see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_film#1999_Wide-release...

Between The King and I (Disney animated), Baby Geniuses, Doug's 1st Movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, Wing Commander, The Rage: Carrie 2, My Favorite Martian, and Office Space, I see plenty of sequels, low-effort trash, and remakes. And that's just stuff that came out in the first three months of the year.

edit: We got a remake of Wild Wild West, a remake of Tarzan, a sequel to Austin Powers, a sequel to The Brave Little Toaster, a prequel to Star Wars, and our second Shakespear adapation of the year in months 4-6.

double edit: In 7-9, we got another Muppet movie, an Inspector Gadget remake, The Haunting and The Thomas Crown Affair were both remakes, a Universal Soldier sequel, and a Dudley Do-Right remake.

I have no interest in continuing to analyze this list, thing were just as bad twenty years ago
If you keep cutting it off and have control over its whole potential growing area it will eventually die. It has some scary properties like roots that travel 20 feet easily and spring up a new independent plant and a insane growth rate once it sprouts. If it’s out of control you probably need someone to first destroy the hedge with a flamethrower
I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying that one needs to eat 50 kilogram of those daily to exceed the safe annual dose, or that if one eats 50 kilogram over a year, they'll have amassed more radiation from that single source than is considered safe?

If the latter, is it safe expose yourself to more than [annual dose/365] in a short time? Because 50 kg/year is just 150 gram/day, and some people eat more than that in one sitting.
People in the comments are making definitive statements that you can't evaluate CEOs. They should think about it for 5 seconds and realize that they are not experts in the domain.
Possibly intended as a distraction from the EU commission's mishandling of vaccine buying. They tried to get a low price instead of as much as possible as fast as possible.
I think the Internet (in particular, the social media a lot of people are consuming their news from) is really good at providing anecdata, but really bad at giving perspective to determine context and how to fit the anecdotes into a bigger picture. Because of, for example, correlation algorithms determining what someone reads in their Facebook feed and trying to maximize the topic for engagement, a person chasing a few threads of stories of incompetence can quickly end up with a wall that is nothing but such stories. And even if one doesn't use Facebook, other spaces are vulnerable to the same effects... Chasing Reddit karma involves posting stories that the majority will upvote, posting controversial-but-true content in many topic-specific fora will result in some form of moderation or loss of karma-equivalent, and so on.

The unmasking of incompetence is real, but much less clear is the degree to which it occurs and whether it's the exception or the norm. But it's very easy to assume it's the norm from what one sees on a Facebook wall (and on a different Facebook wall, or in a different group, it's very easy to assume it never happens or all reports of it are overblown).
Yah, but they're a deal compared to the alternative!
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/turing-h264-video-encoding...
They sell hardware and lots of it. That requires labs and direct collaboration at many points in the process. It also requires lots of highly specialized test equipment and test facilities. This cannot be done with everyone working from home. It is naive to suggest otherwise.

Also, many of us enjoy and still want direct in-person collaboration. If you don't and your job doesn't require it, then good for you. Enjoy, but there is no need to project that onto everyone else.
There is no cash flow "into the system". Its a forever repeated nonsense idea. If you exchange fiat or maybe gold for fiat there is no cash flow into anything its just an exchange. Crypto to crypto or to fiat is exactly the same. No cash goes anywhere other than to the seller.

(obviously ignoring fees and such but they also dont go into anything its just paying someone for providing a service)

If you look at crypto as the huge trading space and you dont see it produce anything is simply because its not supposed to. You look at the space that just exchanges stuff.
If you look at a grocery store and you dont see anything produced you are right. The store is just where people exchange stuff. Its not where value is created or where you would find innovation in producing something.
I'm stuck on the beginning example. That in a group of at least six people, there are three people who all know each other.

I think I can violate that one.

I get someone I know from work and someone I know from one of my hobbies that I know don't know each other.

To each of them, I have them get someone from their circle that I've never met. Then I get my wife to get someone from her circle I don't know.

Then you put us all in a room.

I know two people, they know two people, there are two people who only know one other person. And then there's the person my wife invited who knows no one.

There are certain potential violations that can happen. Let's label everyone, I'm A, my guests are B and F, their guests are C and E respectively, my wife's guest is D. Our graph is essentially E-F-A-B-C and D. I know F-B can't happen because I've deliberately chosen people in that manner. And no one other than F and B can connect to A as the instructions were to invite people I don't know.

C-E-F-C, B-C-E-B, D-E-F-D, B-C-D-B, and C-D-E-C are all possible graphs however. But it's also possible that they're not. I'm pretty sure I can engineer it so that it won't be.

But this kind of feels like it violates the spirit of the theory as it's not a natural group, it's a contrived group.
This is emphatically not the case in my experience.
That might be what they are supposed to do but apart from my current company, this has happened in precisely none of my previous employers (about 5 of them).

At one company, I didn't even know who the CEO was. We had some company party because we won an award and I had to ask my colleague who the guy was who was speaking. Awkward (but at least I didn't have to ask the CEO who he was).
Aka car-pooling. At least in Canada, car pool lots are quite common, and are used quite heavily.
this all sounds a lot like CEO talk to me...
Do you have a good one in mind? All the open source tools I've tried are MISRAble
Paying workers more is difficult when the price of food is supposed to go or stay down.