skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even easier than that -- all you have to do is get a stake and then brute force mine for an alternate reality where your stake is the sole decision maker for the DAG.

You can't really double-spend that way, but you can get a disproportionate amount of the shard rewards. In order to defend against this, other participants will also have to mine for a "more fair" alternate reality, so you end up getting a standstill where nobody can get economic advantage as long as the total power being devoted to preventing chain-shopping is greater than the amount spent on chain-shopping.

In the end the energy expenditure would likely be unchanged from the status quo, it would just be hidden behind a facade of inexpensive proof-of-stake validations that conceal the actual work being done to ensure that this is not abused. This way everyone can feel warm and fuzzy because there's no actual way to measure how much work is being done to keep the validation from being monopolized.
I have to disagree. It is useful to be able to quantify the exact state of ignorance that we currently have and as our observational reach expands, the values of the variables in the equation should become less and less fuzzy.

The problem isn't with the Drake equation, it's with the pop science articles that extrapolated things from it way beyond the original intent or scope.
Absolutely, nobody is talking about spatial audio in this thread though...
Accuracy: dog alerted -> no drugs found -> dog was incorrect, hence inaccurate

I consider 95% to be highly accurate and reasonably acceptable, which is what I'd want in a drug dog. But I have no knowledge of what it should be, I'm not a dog expert. That's who I'd ask when making the determination of accuracy %. If it's anything less than 95%, though, I'd remove dogs completely.
Maybe this new wave of ransomwares and the attention it's getting will finally force IT on a more quality driven path. Right now I see a lot of projects with small budgets sent to fast lane to finish asap, security be damn. Or project with big budget wasted on middle men paying scraps to interns sold as experts.
I want the government to look seriously at things that are using the energy footprint of a mid-sized country simply to spin up a new financial instrument. Particularly when there appear to be equivalent things that don't.

If cryptocurrencies didn't have the energy footprint, I would find them pretty uninteresting and/or ridiculous for various reasons, but ultimately it wouldn't bother me that people do what they do with them. When they start adding seriously to the global energy load in a time of climate crisis that makes them pretty offensive.
That sounded interesting but I couldn't understand from the links how a blockchain can be carbon negative:

>To achieve a carbon-negative network, Algorand and ClimateTrade will implement a sustainability oracle which will notarize Algorand’s carbon footprint on-chain for each epoch (a set amount of blocks). With its advanced smart contracts, Algorand will then lock the equivalent amount of carbon credit as an ASA (Algorand Standard Asset) into a green treasury so that its protocol keeps running as carbon-negative.

I'm pretty familiar with the basics of cryptocurrency and blockchains, but the above paragraph makes almost no sense to me.
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The article describes how sleep has been found in simpler and simpler animals. But I wonder if you could go further: do plants sleep? It seems like an absurd idea, but on the other hand there was an article a few months ago, "Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591443
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I agree. Ropsten is the proof. Still, I'm fine with Ethereum moving fast and breaking things.
Wozniak was the nerd. Jobs was just a manipulator. As a nerd he never progressed beyond assembling circuit boards.
How long till we have a VDF ASIC that lets block producers fuck with this?
But I was asking about Canada.
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Not if everyone is trying to buy the same parts at the same time.
Mandatory to mention when talking about Sphere: read the book first, then watch the movie if you feel so inclined. The book is very very good, the movie is okay but so much of the book takes place in the characters' heads that most of the plot is lost in the film.
> Okay, which site was this?

The site it said it was?

> Is there a password I'm supposed to change?

Do you have a password saved or memorized? Does the site have a link or form to log in?

> Was it actually a password I stopped using 5 years ago, but is still floating out there somewhere?

They can't be sure. Why not change it to be safe?
I think you need to consider changing the title of your article. If I understood correctly, you're saying: TeeSpring needs to fix their stupid checkout. I think your title should be: Your checkout should not break because of ad-block. You have it the other way around. It's important because most people understood it like how I initially did and I was prepared to write a lengthy comment on how wrong this argument is.

It's your job to fix your site so it doesn't break because of ad-block. If you're determined on refusing service for people who don't want to be tracked by breaking checkout, that's fine as well. But then you don't get to complain.

Side note: my pet peeve these days is emojis. People need to stop it with shoving emojis everywhere, just like TeeSpring needs to stop shoving evil analytics everywhere. Not everything needs to have 4x emotional emphasis ffs.
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A fascinating idea.

For your hypothesis to work, and I think this is what you mean by the article supporting it, sleep would have had to evolve very early. Because being awake activates a great deal of a modern organism’s complexity, and that complexity wouldn’t have evolved in an always-sleeping organism that doesn’t benefit from it. So either the predecessors were awake, or sleep came before all the complexity that is now activated only when awake.

For the first wakers, then, being awake was little more than a period of increased activity. A boost mode. And indeed we’ve already seen the utility of boost modes across a variety of technology, from CPUs to cars to high output flashlights.

But does that make the predecessors really asleep? To use a very HN analogy, were pre-boost CPUs always idling?
Does someone have a deeper understanding into Proof Of Stake? For what I remember it never had the same security promises that Proof Of Work had.

In other words if PoS is conceptually sound why don't all cryptocurrencies switch over to it?
This is intentionally obscure, so you think rich people pay taxes. I guarantee you we all pay less than you.
At least they stopped with the "you deserve the best"
The Subject is part of data; you can't say you want end-to-end encryption and agree that some parts of the content is in clear.

I understand why you're saying Signal is proprietary, but it's also the standard for encrypted messenger that scales. Any protocol (or group of protocol) aiming to provide encryption and claiming to protect privacy should be doing at least as much as Signal. That bar is impossible to reach with email, short of coming up with an incompatible protocol in which case we might as well do it proper... that's what XMPP is for ;)
Well I think we have to take "woke" to mean the most plausible worst version of this ideology; or else we'd just name it charitably. Ie., the OP comment is nervous about being associated with the type of thinking i'm talking about.

It's entirely fair to say that whilst accommodating and judging people individually we need to account for that person's particular difficulty in first being judged in this manner -- because we, the judger, may be unable to properly understand their situation; and likewise they may not be able to argue their case, state their need, etc.

The problem enters when we take the goal of our project to actually be removing such "prejudices and obstacles" and, not rather, the empowerment of each individual. The former is an often optional detour to the latter.

Consider, for example, the most effective civil rights president in US history (LBJ) was a racist: did we need to solve his prejudice first? Would that have done anything positive?

Wokeism, if it means anything at all, I think has to be identified with this ends-means confusion. It's raising to the status of an end in itself the elimination of (minority) group hatred, (minority) group prejudice, etc.

This a deeply confused project; and routinely gets in the way of the actual end everyone cares about: each person, in their own particular situation, being able to live the way that best suits them.

If I read the message here correctly, the woke-dissenter is saying this: "My difficulties are particular to me, and all I want is to be able to solve them. I don't want to participate or "ally" with a society-wide war against the possibility I will be misunderstood or mistreated; rather I simply want the rules (,tools, practices) in place to empower me when I am."

Wokeism is the political incarnation of New Atheism, or likewise Evangelism: first we fight a total war against The Sins of The Mind themselves; and then, much much later, we help people in their particular situations.
> Government is made out of people.

Maybe in theory but in actuality it is comprised of moneyed interests which is why it needs to be limited to preserve the freedom of the people.
When we started, circa 2003, SaaS wasn’t a thing! Initially I focused on commercial support - we still do it for those who want to self host with someone to blame.

That said - there’s no reason not to explore both options from the start.
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Spock Framework 2.0 has been released
I feel the issue in this case is more a tablet being used to record a show versus a phone. The larger tablet blocks more of the view of people behind you. This does kind of fall apart with the blurred distinction between large phones and small tablets though, so in this case I feel like their decision was the right way to go (in addition to the other issues like false positives, complexity, etc).
> Timer precision has been reduced to around 1ms

> threading is also disabled or behind HTTP response headers post-Spectre

It seems like you've written a long-winded complaint that you have to add a http header (like this[0]) to your server's response? Though it's true that the Spectre stuff broke everything for a little while there (and there are still ergonomics-related teething problems with headers that are being worked on).

> Games need UDP style non-guaranteed networking, but we only get this as a tiny part of WebRTC (DataChannels).

WebRTC DataChannels work fine though? Does it matter that it's a small part of the whole WebRTC spec or that server-client use is a bit of a hack? Either way, WebTransport hits origin trial in Chrome in about a week, and it's specifically designed for UDP-like client-server communication, so the WebRTC approach can be swapped out once that is stable.

[0]: https://web.dev/coop-coep/
> Should every line of code get wrapped in try/catch?

For third party dependencies that might not get loaded for whatever reason? Yes, sure. There are better ways to do it, but that's the idea.
> This has a decent chance to be pro-consumer. I don’t see any reason for the FTC to object to this on antitrust grounds.

> If your prediction is that this will result in a welfare loss to consumers I would ask that you offer some evidence.

You are going to need to bring some evidence to support that notion, it's not on average people to prove that your merger isn't going to cause harm. Thankfully the Borkist era is very quickly coming to its end.

Consolidation should be blocked by default once companies reach a certain size. In order to proceed they should have to substantially prove that both consumers and labor are not going to be harmed by the merger. Any other arrangement results in speculative handwaving by lawyers and economists, and the supposed benefits almost never materialize, except for shareholders.

> Most of the hate Amazon gets on this site for being a “monopoly” is extremely wide of the mark.

What nonsense. Amazon has consistently used their platform anti-competitively to take over valuable product lines. They keep expanding into unrelated verticals in violation of federal law, and they are committing substantial, transnational labor abuses. Use whatever term you want to describe it.
I'm pretty sure they're done with the touch bar
>Less competitive marketplaces harm consumers.

That's not a law.

There are a lot of examples of more competitive markets harming consumers - the trick is regulating the products and the relationship between producer and consumer.
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The value add of Skip/UberEats/GrubHub is more obvious now. At some point it's just nice to have an app that worksz even if you pay a premium for it.
Well, its not called interest, its called 'staking rewards'. You can also earn interest lending out your ETH, but that's a different process and entails counterparty risk.
How long until this is integrated product side? It seems like they bring up these really cool demos that seem like the Star Trek computer every couple years, but Assistant can't do a whole lot more than Siri or Alexa still.
Ropsten coins are worthless, and cannot approximate or prove anything cryptoecomically.

Moving fast and breaking things is great for things of no consequence, but for decentralized money -- I'm not a fan of this philosophy! I like slow, methodical, well tested, well reasoned code from the best minds in the space -- aka Bitcoin.
> If you're forced to be there, they have to pay you

But you're not forced to be there. If you walk to the factory (or otherwise have a very predictable commute), you don't have to show up early at all.

Also, the source you provided doesn't really support your claim. The examples under "Waiting Time" are all instances where they have to be present, and are waiting for work (which appears randomly/sporadically) to arrive. This is different than having to show up to work at a precise time.

>I believe another against Amazon relating to how long it took to get into their parking lot

I searched around and can't articles referencing this.
I think the OP is just making an observation not a value statement consider his last bit is he doesn't know whether or not its a good thing. I also think this kinda doesn't follow because during down turns higher ups also commit suicide at much higher rates because they are likely to fall from much higher up. If you are already poor continuing to be poor while terrible isn't really a change in your perceived state
I started reading the book a few days ago. Found process rep to be an interesting way to build a business.
> I'd immediately buy an M1 MBP with MagSafe and actual ports

Looks like you won't have too long to wait:

Apple ransomware leak corroborates 2021 MacBook Pro ports: HDMI, MagSafe, SD card slot https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/21/apple-ransomware-leak-new-mac...
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> a site misbehaves and locks things up

Why/how can this happen? That sounds like a bad failure of the browser.
I'm a bit surprised at the criticism. I always thought of it as more of an equation template than a very specific equation. Of course if you take a specific version of it, there are things it won't capture that we discover over time. But the idea that we can take a very large number and whittle it down seems reasonable.
That's a pretty aggro response. "Unix Philosophy" sounds like a convenient straw-man.
Same here. I'm now an Amateur Radio operator. I wonder if there's a connection.
Ha, yeah, I based it on Cory Doctorow's anti-spam form: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
Just stop using Google spyware. Takes zero amount of resources.
Branching wasn't mentioned in the linked blog post, but I assume that is what the parent comment is excited about: https://docs.planetscale.com/concepts/branching
> where also some functionality serendipitously adapts/fits/evolves into one of those modes without specific regard about where it semantically sits in this hierarchy of complexity.

That did make sense, I oversimplified your reduction on first pass :D yea, I agree, nice generalization. And I like this idea re: it not caring where it sits. edit how to even place it on a linear complexity scale anyway...

> it started sounding a bit like unit testing

In the book I mentioned elsewhere in the thread (Why we sleep), there are some interesting theories related to this... sifting through memories, colliding them together, decisions being made on what to keep, and so on. I sometimes wonder if REM sleep as we experience it is, in part, the phenomenological perception of a kind of encoding and compression process, looking from the inside, as it were. Well, in a way I didn't say much I guess, because you can model so many things as a type of compression :D but anyway. Yea, cool stuff...
Sorry, ignore me I was wrong
Are there any rumors about that?

That's the only change that my next laptop isn't a ThinkPad
It certainly all "depends". My main point is, that if you don't actively plan in to fix your TODOs, then they usually won't be fixed, which you can also kind of see in a lot of the charts where the amount of TODOs just goes up. And as such the question arises whether you really gain anything from them.

I much rather have someone finalize their implementation and create follow up stories/tasks to indicate what needs to be done next, than having hints of what should've/could've been done and nobody ever going back and cleaning those up.
Of everything I've used over the last 20 years, nothing has felt more simple than re-frame[0].

It's built on React but it's ClojureScript, so it probably wouldn't be an easy option where already invested in another ecosystem, but it's a real pleasure to work with if you can, especially if you buy into the tooling for your editor and browser.

[0] https://day8.github.io/re-frame/re-frame/
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Good point, but `pacman -S gopass` is wa-a-ay easier ;-)
Man, working from home has the advantage of a power nap, or a "coffee power nap", which basically makes you feel like it's the second morning of the day.

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-s...
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You can certainly have it, you just can't use it with any sense of accuracy until you have more data.
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But isn’t analog audio identical to lossless?
Ah, I align with him then.

Regarding mortality and the 7 hour mark, this is such unfortunate bullshit, that keeps being propagated by people who should know better. Ill people sleep more (even if you catch a cold, once you get past the peak, you sleep more for a few days) because their body requires more recovery.

In chronically ill people this continues for a long time and the body never is able to catch up to the problem it's trying to solve.

But despite all the "correlation not causation" mantras repeated by everyone, we keep citing this as if we decide to sleep a bit more that'll make it more likely to die, which is nonsense.
> It seems like you've written a long-winded complaint that you have to add a http header (like this[0]) to your server's response?

So how does this work on Github Pages or other hosting solutions where the user has no control over the web server configuration?

> WebTransport hits origin trial in Chrome in about a week

How long until this shows up in Firefox, and will Safari ever support this before it's deprecated in Chrome again because another better solution shows up?
will this support blob as well like S3?
Here I thought Stripe was getting into the lumber and nails business. Can we get a [verb] tag? /s
I don't have any philosophic objections to the existence of extraterrestrial life, but what does bug me is when people claim that simply because the universe is so big, that somehow makes it not only likely but practically certain that life has developed on other planets or in other solar systems or galaxies. That kind of thinking presumes some very important information that we just don't have. We are currently unable to enter any coherent value into the portion of the Drake Equation that pertains to how frequently life arises from non-life.

We have an admittedly very limited knowledge of events outside of our own planet, but so far as we know, abiogenesis has occurred only once, and from that one event, all life on Earth proceeded. (It's possible that abiogenesis occurred independently multiple times during the beginning of life on Earth, but I don't think we yet have a compelling argument that it must have happened more than once.)

My favorite analogy:

Suppose you see a number with this pattern:

0.1001000101001000101001000___

What would you say is the likelihood that a 1 is the next number in the sequence? Not that hard to compute a probability, is it?

But suppose you see a number with this pattern:

0.1000000000000000000000000___

What is the likelihood that a 1 is the next number in the sequence? You could say the odds are 1-in-25, but that doesn't takes into account the clear pattern we see in the sequence. Unless and until we start to see some more ones pop up, it's reasonable to assume that this is a sequence of infinite zeroes, or at the very least that it could perfectly well be a sequence of infinite zeroes. Suppose the sequence goes on for many trillions of numerals. No one's going to say, "Well, if there are trillions of 0s, it's highly unlikely that there won't be some 1s sprinkled in there somewhere."
Are there any estimates of how much power crypto mining has consumed and how much running all of the Facebook/Instagram/whatever servers has consumed?

Best i found for Bitcoin was 40-100 TWh per year: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

And for Facebook it appeared that they used 5140 GWh in 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac...

So essentially:

Entity Consumption (GWh)
Facebook 5 140
Bitcoin 40 000 - 100 000

I wouldn't have expected Facebook to consume comparatively so little energy, if i'm doing conversions right.
What’s the harm on storing your passwords on someone else’s machine, as long as they’re encrypted with a good password?