skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When 65% of the currency is mined in China, that's not exactly decentralized. Folks long BTC are exposed to the risk that the CCP will weaponize their mining share into a 51% attack.

[1] https://cbeci.org/mining_map
The most recent plant to go online in the US cost $12 billion dollars, and had decades long construction delays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Bar_Nuclear_Plant
> One feature that cryptocurrencies gain from their decentralised computing design is that they become very robust to potential attacks from national governments.

I was always under the impression that they would be more susceptible to attacks from national governments, since they'll have greater access to the resources needed for a 51% attack.
Dash Robot SDK for Observable
Federal Reserve Notes are legal currency. They're called that because, when they were first issued, they replaced a similar system of notes issued by a system of Federally chartered, but essentially private and fully independent banks (many of which, such as Citibank, still exist today).
Furthermore, when we can not distinguish between "is vs. ought", then we have a complete lack of understanding of the world.

This becomes a circular problem, in that our lack of understanding means that we propose the wrong solutions for attempting to move towards the "ought" often with many undesirable results in direct opposition to the intentions.
It means they don't get children.
This is Phil from Lossless.
I got a notification yesterday about someone having bought the domain skyglide.com .

Upon looking through the sales contract I noticed that instead of the other buyer party being listed in it, the data of the buyer was completely redacted. I repeatedly asked for the data, but was not receiving it. I then withdrew my declaration of intention to sell the domain in the first place, since in Germany and Europe the other party is an essential part of a sales contract. Without listing both parties a contract is rendered void. What is your opinion on this? How can they do this as a professional domain brokerage company?
> Good science validates, disproves, or quantifies common sense.

The problem is even more insidious - good science is prevented from being conducted for political reasons largely by extreme progressives. It is unsettling to me that we have so much politics mixed in with scientific understanding of humans.

The chilling effect of this is that no professor or researcher would these days attempt to conduct good science around gender differences - they fear their life, liberty and right to pursuit a prosperous career.

Just look at the number of gray comments in this thread - it shows how intolerant, childish and absolutely infuriating it is to discuss something that should not be contentious or confrontational. We're not acting like adults.
> My lived experience.

Somebody's “lived experience” is their personal anecdotes. It's often in contrast with “quantify or discard”-type bad-at-science academics who make blanket assertions about things they don't know very much about.
That is a very recent change, post the Trump tax changes, which removed most of the impact of the AMT.

Interesting to see the current numbers. But even before then, the AMT disproportionately affected California taxpayers.
Amazing the bad attitudes on this thread. Perhaps people in the creative arts should realize there is more supply than demand for what they do and stop being jealous that others are willing to take advantage of an opportunity to get notice in some way.

Ironically coming from I am sure many people who will give up their time and energy helping established companies by offering free advice and filling out surveys (without pay) to help them make more money.
A friend of mine is a Japanese person who translates Japanese<>English stuff and machine translation is absolutely unthinkable there, and would take much longer to "tweak" into something that works. It's no wonder there's high demand for people like him.
Sure? But it couldn't have happened with any threadmill, just ones with that issue.

Also, for all I know, it's possible that those threadmills have some safety properties which the Peloton threadmills don't. Is the belt less grippy, so that it would be easier to get out? Do the motors stop spinning when they get stuck? I don't know, but it doesn't seem too unlikely. I'd be interested to know.
The TS/JS analogy is perfect. This is exactly the approach we took with Fig.

We defined a declarative standard that lets you describe the structure of any CLI tool. Fig then uses these to provide VSCode-style autocomplete in the terminal!

Currently specs are manually contributed by the community, but we are planning to integrate with CLI libraries (cobra, commander, click, etc) so they can be generated automatically!

You can see some examples here: https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
Patching kernel modules using DKMS
I read somewhere (a YC video or post I can't find now) that during a pivot, the problem you're working on shouldn't really change, but the solution might change completely.

I interpreted the superordinate goal as the higher level problem you want to solve and dedicate years/decades of your life towards. It might result in multiple startup attempts with entirely different products.

It seems that a superordinate goal which is something you truly believe is worthy is probably well-validated due to deep personal experience. This seems less likely to change easily.
We = everyone who has to work to earn a living. And as I say, most especially people who can afford to take a pass on bullshit no-pay work and try to establish a culture where such exploitation is impermissible (like it used to be).

> you think this free market thing means get the government involved to prevent some kind of exploitation?

Can't parse that.
See the Oberon system for hints as to how to do it.
> Literally _everyone_ who says this doesn't understand what an unpaid internship is, including you.

This looks like a massive conflation of “is” and “is supposed to be.” I’m pretty sure tons of unpaid interns are either doing real work for the company or menial tasks that would otherwise be compensated (like getting coffee for people). The latter is a constantly-recurring plot element in depictions of modern workplaces.

You later claim that these cases are illegal. Even if that’s the case, it’s pretty clear that: A) this is ubiquitous, B) interns generally don’t have any recourse other than just not doing the internship, and C) people in this conversation aren’t actually confused about what internships are.
ETL: That data over there is in that format, and that other data over in that other place is in that other format, and I want it all over here in this format.

So I will extract it (get it out of those other places), transform it (put it in my format), and load it (store it here).

The term has been around for decades and traditionally is used by database people, but it can apply to any process that does this.

A concrete example might be if you run a business where you sell used books through Amazon and eBay. They each have their own format for info about the status of a product you have listed (whether it has sold, which shipping option the buyer chose, whether payment was received, etc.), but you might want to have that data from both sources in one place so you can see a dashboard or analyze it.
This is really key in these discussions and it can never be overemphasized, because it always seems to be forgotten immediately.

The signal that population averages tell you about any one person is so little as to be almost meaningless, that it should be immediately overwhelmed by the signal you get from actually knowing and interacting with that person. And yet people still act as though they can learn something meaningful from population averages about their own friends, colleagues, and even spouses.
> we've already decided to purchase the product. Taking our money shouldn't be the hardest part.

Oof.

I recall one occasion in a small retail store years ago where I got so frustrated at being ignored by the employees, despite already knowing what I wanted and I just needed someone to fetch it from the back. Eventually I held my wallet aloft and asked why nobody here would take my money.

Shut up and take my money, indeed.

There's also the uncomfortable situation where the management model at a company assumes that every sale is the result of customer service, and any time you sell yourself they have to wrangle the system while you stand there watching. I suspect that more companies do this than I think, and some salespeople are doing the wrangling without alerting me to their activity. They are just much better at passing for normal than some other places.
Bad DLC in Paradox games is nothing new. Did you not play HOI3? The reality is that its a coinflip on if a new DLC or patch fixes more than it breaks or not with paradox...
Thanks for the concrete feedback/suggestions!
To build AGI we may need to know more about our own minds
The species barrier in prion transmission appear very strong [0]. Transmitting a prion from a hamster into a mouse often takes multiple passages of direct in brain inoculation. In these closely related species, perhaps it's less strong. It's doubtful that CWD can transmit to humans at typical exposure levels. In vitro, conversion of human PrP is possible, but exceedingly difficult.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736662/
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667731/
> You don't have to spend long on Reddit, Youtube or Facebook to really appreciate just how nice and non-combative it is here

Let me offer a counterpoint (I'm glad you didn't mention Twitter, because I'd have to really agree that Twitter is a Hate Machine. And I'll grant you YouTube as well, to a lesser degree): I use facebook mostly for its closed, special interest groups. For each of these groups, which are relatively civil -- until there's the occasional namecalling flamewar and some people get expelled -- the most common assertion is by far something of this kind: "why, this is the best group about $SUBJECT, people here are so nice and civil and I haven't found a group like this one anywhere on the net!". If you belong to a couple of groups on facebook, you'll see this repeated in every one of them, each of these groups oblivious to the existence of other, similar or possibly nicer groups, each selectively forgetting the most recent fight.

I think some degree of this phenomenon is at play here on HN, too.
If you're a paying customer of gsuite/workspace? It's very easy. If you're not, it's impossible.
> a lot more decentralized than the US/Fed monetary system [..]

The distribution of USD cash across the world would appear be (almost uniquely?) decentralized... If the Fed were to decide that as of midnight tonight, negative interest rates apply on all USD cash balances, how exactly could that affect the suitcase full of USD you buried at the bottom of your garden? [Spoiler: it wouldn't...]
You can't pay rent with that.
I don't think chasing more equality necessarily precludes more productivity. I think you can easily think of some examples where greater equality meant more total productivity.

For example, at least all developed societies have 'chased equality' by providing free, decent-quality public education for people at least until adulthood. Does anyone think dropping that and just leaving poor families to their own devices would actually increase total economic output?
Was going to buy... but unfortunately it's credit card only :'(
> although the article content itself is far from neutral

Can we admit how pernicious it is that the school system itself is manifestly captured by ideological motives and that simply criticizing that is impossible to be "neutral" by any standard people that agree with the program would define?

I guess I'm saying: how do you voice criticism in a neutral way when the program being criticized frames itself as basic human decency.

This is the same logic that lies at the center of something like the Patriot Act. Capture language and you've perniciously twisted language so as to be unimpeachable. This is Pandora's Box.
Your assertions don’t really stack up with the known facts of the situation.

It seems that there was at the very least one instance of behavior that employees perceived as outwardly racist (the names list) and were seeking to address issues surrounding that behavior.

On the outside, it’s hard to know much more about the details, but it also would appear that employees took issue with other somewhat minor slights that may have amounted to a pattern of behavior, in particular relating to someone with a lot of authority at base camp, who was then given a pass under the guise of political differences.
US backs plan to suspend Covid vaccine patents during pandemic
This seems really tone-deaf to me, to sorta market a mostly unrelated feature that's upcoming when a developer just decided against using your product for practical reasons.

I suppose it's nice to know that you've at least acknowledged that there's an issue, but it seems weird to take so lightly someone using your product, finding it so difficult to deal with that they dropped it, and then even dropping an emoticon at the end.

Just my two cents.
I recall a show many years ago where there took about half a dozen people to a bar and told them they would be observed for the effects of alcohol. As the beers flowed, their behavior changed as expected under the influence of alcohol. Then it was revealed that the beer was non-alcoholic.

I guess your anecdata makes me ask the question of whether the trans guys you know felt that way b/c of the change of hormone ratios or because they were impacted by the same social expectations of how guys are supposed to feel and act.
There was an article series I once read about negotiating the terms of a software development job. There is asymmetry there, though not as lopsided for photography. The article also goes on to say how the run of the mill software developer are not getting as much as they could be getting.

I mentioned exploitation in my earlier comment. For me, this is part of a much larger issue stemming from the prevailing paradigm we have that attempts to extract as much value out of things. I don’t frame this in terms of abuse of power; how much leverage one brings to the table matters. Instead, it is the underlying paradigm that treats people as resources from which value is squeezed out of it. Whether we are talking about return on shareholder value, or using adversarial interactions and competition to maximize market efficiency, or maximizing profit, those are all expressions of Value Extraction.

To come back full circle with an alternative perspective: you might have a producer and a production company that enjoys fostering new talent and creative voices. Inviting a photographer to join, not necessarily for the exposure, but for challenging work that cultivates their art. What does a wedding really mean? How can photos be taken to express that? And so forth.
>Huge corporations are harmful to society

Not necessarily disagreeing but I am curious how you ultimately came to such a general conclusion. I can see both sides: E.g., Walmart may be good for many in society by offering lower prices, while simultaneously being bad by putting smaller, better paying jobs out of business
I generally agree.

One thing I'm still not sold on is that interns are a net loss. They would often get to do work that was novel to them and tedious to your full-time developers. Work that was nice-to-have but no-one-wants-to-do. It's hard to put a price tag on it. Especially with externalities that come with that kind of work; bad ones like killing employee morale for whoever has to do it and good ones like increasing the team's productivity. Interns, in my experience, are not prone to the former yet still contribute to the latter. Examples of such work are things like updating tests and documentation or tackling some not-so-urgent tech debt.

Assuming that they still create tech debt of their own because they probably were (and we all are, aren't we?) my experience has been positive.
On the same token, me having low testosterone (age-induced) I became extremely rage-prone, temperamental and aggressive until I started receiving testosterone injections. Immediately calmed me and allowed my "true" personality to emerge.

So I don't think you can come to any conclusion about how it will affect one person based on how it affects another.
Show HN: Quickai – Quickly experiment with state-of-the-art ML models
I am a middle schooler and I created this library to make it extremely easy to quickly experiment with different machine learning models for various tasks.

GitHub link: https://github.com/geekjr/quickai

Please let me know if you have any questions/feedback.
> But still have dark feeling of a room full of wang ladies.

They all either ignored me or were nice to me.

The interesting thing is the supervisor, who sat facing the workers like a teacher in a classroom. When she found I could use the Wang as well as anyone by just looking at the manual for a few minutes, she realized that her fiefdom was doomed. Her moat had been the 2 week training course.

I kind of felt sorry for her.
Among birds, males are the XX ones (actually ZZ, they call it ZW system to stress this difference). Didn't even like biology at school but I admit to be curious what male birds think/feel about this.
The primary bottleneck is monetization, isn’t it? CLI workflows are predominantly FOSS and free, so no one has much of an incentive to do the streamlining and marketing that mainstream products need.

Some of the stuff that is immediately useful to mainstream users:

- ncdu

- youtube-dl

- spotdl

- aria2

- Homebrew Casks

People aren’t dumb. If these were marketed properly to them, they would use them.
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Probably fake, it is http://.
When idiologues try take sidetrack your company, unfortunately there is no other way but to act decisive and fast before the cancer spreads.

There is no reasoning with idiologues as reason does not enter into dogmatic rhetoric.

Act decisive as it will only get worse, and never apologize.
Tech vanguards don’t really get what global scale is. There’s nothing fringe or niche about any of these major products. Your mom and dad use this stuff. Dead to us means absolutely nothing at this point.
>Personally I get it, given that it's not uncommon to find social conservatives who push a sort of gender essentialism very strongly: men are like this, women are like this, period, and if you're different, you're broken.

I think it's far more common to find people with positions closer to the scientific consensus who get falsely maligned as icky social conservative barbarians than it is to actually find these alleged social conservative barbarians in the wild. See, for example, the entire James Damore fiasco (which happened in spite of Damore's repeated insistence that he was talking about averages and trends etc.)

EDIT: Not to mention several examples in this very thread.
US to support lifting patent protections to help produce more vaccines globally
It all depends on the position and industry. In science a ton of menial data entry work is done by unpaid interns. Don’t get me started on my friends who work in fashion. Even in CS, we should strive to protect exploited workers in other industries.
because bitcoin miners can't dictate monetary policy (they can only dictate transaction ordering/inclusion), but governments can do both.
TIL about <meter> and wow is it interesting. Here is the spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/sec-forms.html#the-meter-elemen...

I wonder what else in the HTML5 spec I've missed...

Thanks for sharing this!
I have the same age difference with my father. I have always been a melancholic and curious person so I ask a lot of questions. I think most people will have those questions that naturally come to them at some point. When you realize your parents are people with their own memories, hopes and flaws, a step that's probably called adulthood.

A very common trigger for this, as I've asked about this topic to other people with elderly fathers, is becoming a parent. But for me it was leaving home.

Also make room for such conversations. We had a month long vacation, just the two of us, which I remember fondly, even though there was no big event or deep discussion.
They do, yeah, good catch there. I gotta say 3D modeling/rendering/animation is pretty intertwined with scripting/programming these days.

But I still don't find this very mainstream. It's a bit like the JS console in browsers.
I think humanity can build half a wembley stadium somewhere :) I can store some in my basement if that would help
You still have text. Everything can still be parsed.
Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
> Throwing away equity while chasing equality is a recipe for ushering in the next dark age.

I would argue trying to enforce equity to chase equality is your actual recipe for ushering in the next Dark Age.

Look at your Scandinavian societies for a model of what happens when you allow men and women the choice to live their lives as see fit without interference from the state, in the form of 'quotas' - you get some very interesting distributions. Something like 90% of all engineers in those societies are male, and something like 90% of women are nurses. Would anyone have the gall - to border on sheer stupidity - to claim that Scandinavian nations are holding back their women and oppressing them? Or is that equity isn't a very good goal... and that when you maximum equality, you'll also get massive differences in occupation because different occupations appeal to different personality traits and men and women do not have the exact same traits in the exact same quantities?
Honestly, the only specific thing I can think of is basic formal logic (predicate calculus, sets, functions, formal proofs, and so forth). (For ex: https://www.logicmatters.net/ifl/)

The specific technique may have something more, but generally any resources start by assuming you know nothing more than formal logic (if that) and build from there.
Literally everything you describe in that comment after the first sentence is in accordance with slavery being a founding pillar of the United States.
Many ads fit that description. Many don't. Characterizing ads in general as a dark pattern dilutes your message about the problematic ones, in my opinion.

Some of them are just telling me about, say, a TV show or movie that is coming out. Nothing deceptive, nothing bothersome about it. I think it is quite a stretch to consider that the term "dark pattern" applies to that.

I understand that ads that are targeted are bothersome to many due to privacy issues, but I personally don't mind that Amazon and Ebay regularly show me ads for skateboard/roller sport equipment, music keyboards and other midi controllers, shoes of styles I like, and so on. But you seem to be simply saying ALL ads, even untargeted, non deceptive ads such as for a movie or car or something are "dark patterns." I don't get that.
A clickable link: https://github.com/geekjr/quickai
I would never say one gender simply "isn't suited" for a particular career type, but I do think it's likely that, if there are average sex differences in personality, there are almost certainly average sex differences in occupational preferences.

But, that doesn't preclude there also being sexism present that needs to be dealt with.
Why not the US? Or Russia? It would be easy for a large state to dwarf the hash rate of the network if they wanted to sabotage it.
I don't believe that is what Damore said or intended. The discussion revolves around preference not capability. They are not the same thing.