skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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?

The current iteration of the civil rights movement is solving a different problem than that of 1968. Due to LBJ's actions, minorities are equal under the law. You can't just pass laws to make them more equal. They already are.

But if you look around, they clearly aren't, so the question becomes, well why not? If you subscribe to woke ideology, the answer is something like "pervasive cultural and systemic biases across various aspects of society". I'll draw a parallel to another evergreen topic, "cancel culture". The idea being that a large group of distributed people can ruin someone's life by changing how they interact with that person and making them a pariah.

Well many of these systemic biases are similar, if less sudden. People and systems trained to see or treat people as lesser. How do you solve that problem? I only see one solution: to get the distributed group of people to be aware of and ultimately counteract those biases, to undue the incidental cancellation of these people. And what is that but raising awareness of and reducing those ingrained prejudices.

All of the other approaches are things that routinely get called "reverse-racist" themselves, things like affirmative action and such which ignore the individual.

> "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."

And the response to this is that while your difficulties are particular to you, it's likely that the best tools and practices to empower you when you are mistreated are allies who are willing to stand up for you agains the person mistreating you. As in the limit, if no one believes you are being mistreated except you, you will have no recourse.

There's no law that says that PG isn't allowed to say things that make GGP uncomfortable. In fact, there's laws that say that we can't prevent PG from doing that. All we can hope for is that said mistreatment is recognized by others, and that people pressure him to correct his behavior.

Wokeness is a recognition that this is a political (in the sense of like human-interaction, not election-related), not legal issue.
> Proof of Stake is already how our current financial system works.

This is a naive viewpoint. Ethereum (as a currency) is an "M0" token, like cash or Fed deposits. There's a lot of handwaving about bonds and whatnot, but essentially the Fed can create new money simply by changing numbers on a balance sheet, and they can make that money into folding money and change which they can issue.

The banking system is a complex system that creates IOUs on top of that base. Some of those IOUs are even better than the cash layer -- you can't buy stock, for example, for cash, you need bank IOUs to do that.

That said, then, what is PoW and PoS used for? They're essentially distributed methods of ensuring that nobody can forge money. So the equivalent in the world of dollars is not a bunch of bankers chuckling to themselves about how they're fleecing the plebes. The equivalent in the real world is a bunch of aircraft carriers and planes and bombs and people with big guns, which gives the ability to say (credibly) that it is a crime to forge dollars no matter who you are or where you live.
That's one trick I've often seen deployed against the older generation (were salesmen more moral in the past?). I vividly remember a salesman getting quite angry because he was trying to slam my mother in exactly this manner, and my "well, we'd like to think about it" really pi*ed him off.
We’re divorcing – has my husband got hidden bitcoins?
One of my least favorite aspects of websites is change and redesigns when the original design worked perfectly well. Given that change is bad when a site has already hit the "meh, good enough" threshold, I doubt that testing and iterations would do anything positive for existing users' experience.

Furthermore, I don't want hyper-optimized experiences. These experienced tend to be addictive, whether intended or not. Using an interface shouldn't feel "magical", it should work. I know that you weren't implying addictiveness or engagement, yet these values are (consciously or unconsciously) prevalent enough in the field that they've lowered my level of trust in analytics-driven iteration. Other responses in this thread should also show that I'm far from the only one who feels this way. Earning back broken trust in these situations typically requires going above and beyond past expectations.

User research is research, and should require informed consent held to the same standards of consent as actual research. In any human research, participation should be opt-in. Participants should be given complete information about analytics and how they will be used (with the option to see source code), own their data, be able to revoke their data, and see conclusions of the studies in a format they can understand. Any questions they have should be responded to before and after they opt-in. This shouldn't be buried in a confusing privacy policy but provided upfront, in a language they can speak. People frequently learn interfaces in languages that are foreign to them, but reading details of user research is a different story: you might need a translator. Otherwise, your sample will be even more heavily biased.

This is a lot of work, and might make analytics more trouble than they're worth.
Is it? Companies have removed the wired option, forgetting that current wireless audio tech is abysmal in many aspects - latency, bandwidth, codecs, Bluetooth being an awful spec. Yet in their book it was comparable enough to replace wired completely.
> EIP-1559 itself will address this problem on layer 1.

1559 addresses fee stability and will help reduce fee spikes. It's purpose is not to reduce fees in general.
This would be like playing whack-a-mole. Other PoW cryptocurrencies are out there and it does not make sense to just shut down the mining hardware. Miners will just mine something else.

The only answer that works is a carbon tax.
Judges must defer to experts, and experts are often really wrong.

https://nndda.org/the-double-blind-attack/

>While the scientific community highly endorses double-blind testing, it can have disastrous effects on canine teams. As there is no way to determine whether the canine responded correctly at the time of the alert, the question is, should the handler reward the canine? This is a vital question due to the fact that detection canines are largely trained on a fixed ratio reward system where the canine is rewarded immediately for almost every correct response.
GA? Some carts have 20 other sites they contact.
According to https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen..., the 99th percentile household accounts for 5.75% of the income. In reply to the sibling comment about the bottom 50% paying 4% of federal income tax, the bottom 50% is responsible for 18.3% of income.
Bitwarden is a great option. It has all the features you could need, and is cheaper (and critically has a free plan). That's basically my default recommendation for most people. I know most people won't consider anything other than free.

I still choose to use 1Password personally, because the higher polish and experience is worth the slightly higher price for me.

Both are good options really.
>> Apple Inc. is preparing to release several new Mac laptops and desktops with faster processors, new designs and <b>improved connectivity to external devices</b>, accelerating the company’s effort to replace Intel Corp. chips and leapfrog rival PC makers.

How would they do that if there are no ports on the new devices? Seriously though, I do not buy devices without HDMI and UTP port. Dell is pretty generous with the ports and 5300 is pretty amazing. I wish Apple had some sanity in the team that decides what ports go on devices.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
Correct, the US Federal Reserve is a Proof of Stake system. Members earn 6% dividends for the last 100 years, and this was to entice them to join the system at all. Just pointing out that the idea of an omnipotent US government is a fairly new concept, and it must incentivize and entice people to join its payment network as opposed to other private ones.

The private networks for final settlement are becoming more interesting to market participants. And they are also aiming for distributed (sharded) proof of stake.
Companies should be punished harder for outsourcing or lowballing security specialists
Cool article, but I'm not impressed by DropBox's upload speed on my Windows computer, at all.

I just tested rn with DropBox, GoogleDrive, and OneDrive, all with their native desktop apps. I simply put a 300MB file in the folder and let it sync.

DB: 500 KiB/s
GD: 3 MiB/s
OD: 11 MiB/s (my max bandwidth with 100Mbps)

I don't know what causes the disparity here, but I have been annoyed by this for years, and it's the same across multiple computers I use at different locations.

Another funny thing is if you just use the webpage, both GD and DB can reach 100Mbps easily.

Edit: should mention Google's DriveFS can reach max speed too, but it's not available for my personal account (which uses the "Backup and sync for Google" app).
The answer to the contradiction is to test with uBlock.

The existence of Firefox as a counterweight to Chrome means that the web standards are not going to win. Ads will be blocked. Cope and deal.
> exhausted themselves with petty disagreements and arbitrary hills to die on

In a more broad sense, you can be smart but easily work on the wrong thing or put your energy into the wrong area.
> Anybody can be a miner

This is patently false, endgame PoW centralizes mining around 3rd world coal/cheapest possible (stolen?) electricity. The overwhelming majority of the world has been priced out of BTC mining, not that they could get ahold of an ASIC anyways.
> robots can help you so you must send your id, birth certificate, and firstborn" is becoming the new trend

I often browse through online hack/leak forums and there are frequently leaks of these "verification information" including selfie with government ids/credit-cards, which is extremely frightening.
Insane. That's nearly the price of a DGX station.
This article might help: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...

Specifically, they have a graph that shows the breakdown of "share of adjusted gross income" vs "share of total income tax":
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/itOyNXaN9ah...
> PoS will be controlled by US-based custodians...

You might as well claim that the Chinese Communist Party controls Bitcoin. Not entirely wrong, but misleading.
>Does it need it?

Yes. It's that simple.
This is really cool! I would have liked to have incorporated this into my vaccine appointment slot finder tool a few months ago. I like using git commits for change tracking too. Seems not dissimilar (though not identical) to what they're doing at Dolt (https://www.dolthub.com/).
I'm pretty sure it's managed by people, and doesn't need to constantly surveil people to function.
Ncish Annual Report 2021: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Thanks,
A carbon tax will be a boon for stranded/wasted energy as well, I wouldn't see why a bitcoin mining operation can't use better sources of energy to mine and be more profitable. It's based on consuming electricity for starters (not natural gas), unlike say ICE vehicles which can't switch to another source of energy.
> sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned/possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors

You mean an average person will uninstall MicroSoft Windows?

Peope were telling of the inevitable downfall of MicroSoft since before I was born.
Yeah, forget those 25% (I assume it is something like roughly 100 million people in USA). In other parts of the world it is even smaller percentage...
You're begging the question a bit there. I'm not at all convinced that the free market is the optimal method for allocating scarce resources, especially energy. Just look at how well that went in Texas earlier this year.
Terraforming an Early Stage Startup
And were subsequently labeled racist and likely lost their jobs.
Can you please give an author's name for your reference on the book Traction? There seems to be several possibilities.
Sure you can! and we will make it worth it.
> This isn't exactly a massive obstacle if you've set out to build a complex game in the browser.

It is an obstacle (at least a massive annoyance) for library authors (like this: https://github.com/floooh/sokol). Those libraries can be used for extremely simple and small WASM snippets embedded in blog posts (like here: https://floooh.github.io/2019/01/05/wasm-embedding.html), or in "proper" games hosted through "proper" hosting services which allow to set the response headers.

Right now the choice is to either support WASM threading, but tell library users that the library will most likely not work on the hosting solution of their choice, or not support WASM threading and work everywhere. At least to me it's clear that "works everywhere" is better than "it's complicated", so I'll ignore WASM threading until the problem is solved somehow (either most hosting services turn on those response headers, or there's another way to enable threading without requiring control over the web server configuration).
>See my comment to another in the thread. Existing stakers can prevent new people from staking

There is little to no evidence of this. Completely unsupported conspiracy theory.
This makes way more sense than linktree! Congratulations on the launch!
Does it mean you can write 10 million rows every month for free or does it mean you can write ten million rows, however many months that may take, and then pay for all use after that. The first one is how pricing generally works, but the page could be read as the second.
That's a big problem with Kickstarter items. If the initial batch is tiny, buyers may think "they'll never get this into production" and avoid buying some hand-made prototype that might not work.
>> If you don't allow components to mutate state locally,

Code mutation is, in my personal experience, a shit show. With Elixir, you I have to worry about some random process mutating your data because it can't, as it's literally immutable. I have never, not a single time, wished I could mutate a data structure in Elixir, because I can think of no case where it makes my life easier. Even quasi-objects, in the C++/Java OOP sense, like GenServers w/ internal state may appear to be mutating data from the outside, but from the inside they still rely on copying the data to update the state. It's so much easier for me to reason about.

Maybe different things simply appeal to different people. I could make arguments for OOP being harder to scale, but maybe that's just true for how my brain works.
Maybe that's where current hydrogen R&D is going, but it isn't inherently true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_e...
Google doesn't really want to have a big market share in the Android ecosystem. If Google achieved that it would almost instantly be under anti-trust suspicion from the DOJ.

What Google does want is to provide provide clean excellent phones where the advertising budget is reduced and the money saved goes right into the quality of the phones.

Having said all that I've had a few Pixels and what I appreciate most is the low light performance of the cameras. I happen to be fond of this kind of photography and so it really works for me.

What I don't appreciate is having to disable both third party cookies in the Android Chrome browser and location tracking. These are both very creepy data scrappers that Google turns right around and sells to advertisers. No thank you.

Next phone though I'm likely to go with Apple just because they are much more privacy forward that Google. I don't appreciate Apple's walled garden approach and therefore I don't have any other Apple products but a standalone Apple phone will meet my needs.
There doesn't have to be an answer. We could just be "the first"[0] life to evolve - someone always has to be. Now, if we were to say that ours is the only life to exist in the entire past and future history of the universe, that would probably require a more specific explanation.

[0] to the extent that events across vast spans of space can be said to be ordered
This is completely false, late/end game PoW centralizes mining around the cheapest electricity. It is impossible to mine profitably in the overwhelming majority of the world now.
> This would come to be known as the "Drake equation," which is considered by many to be one of the most renowned equations in the history of science.

Uh, this might be a tad bit hyperbolic. Does anyone even consider it serious science?
Ethereum transaction cost is independent of ETH price.

Tx fee = gas * gas rate
It's about time. No matter if "autopilot" is a technically correct term or not if most people think it means something different then it does mean something different. That is how words work. Tesla isn't some entity outside the real world. Of course HNers will say they know better but since HN readers doesn't buy the majority of the 500.000 cars sold a year that is irrelevant. What the average person believe an ad says is what it actually says. Tesla knows full well that the average person doesn't hear the same thing when an ad says Autopilot as when it says Driver assist etc. and they should be on the hook for any accidents caused by these misunderstandings.
Personally, I'm starting to lean toward the Rare Earth hypothesis.

I do, however, like the "solution" posited in the short story "The Crystal Spheres": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Spheres
Is Apple even going to refresh any of its Mac products with Intel CPUs at this point?

When they first announced the transition last year, it was implied that some products will still get refreshed during the 2-year transition period. But based on this article and common sense, there is minimal incentive to do an Intel refresh. Refreshing both discourages buying of Apple silicon-powered Macs and lessens the performance jump that Apple is so eager to publicize.

For example, Tiger Lake H-series was just announced/released and it'd logically target the Macbook Pro 16.
Anyone who has bought a car in the last 50 years is already well aware of how much EPA mileage differs from actual mileage.

My old 2010 Prius was EPA-rated for 50 MPG. If I drove it with kid gloves over flat terrain, I could hit that mileage. If I drove it in a way that doesn't piss other road users off, I would get closer to 46 MPG.

If I was doing 80+ MPH over the Rockies on the Trans-Canada, I'd be getting a cool 35 MPG, because air resistance is very high at those speeds, and because most of my braking was exceeding the regenerative capacity of the car.
I think the universe is slowly standardizing on WebAuthn/U2F for this.

The US Government got rid of passwords in 2004 by switching to smartcards, and Google also did so in 2017 by switching to hardware security tokens.
Maybe the difference is that I'm not often using the laptop with the cord strung out around animals (not that there is anything wrong with doing that). For me, at home where I have a dog and several small children, the laptop is usually on the dock. The same is true at work. When on the go, I don't usually have the dog/small children.
If your site put a selfish arrogant tracker in the way of completing the order... then you lost the sale. And the customer, who won't be coming back. I don't give a good god-damn about how it's "part of the site". It's not part of the transaction, and you put it there, and it broke things.
How long are we guessing it'll be until it is broken/bypassed? 1 week?
Hard drives are large enough nowadays to contain a whole copy of the internet. Instead of connecting to the internet to access the web, computers should serve up local copies of the sites instead. Then it is 100% secure and there is no more need for passwords or insecure WiFi connections.
NCISH (National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Self Harm (formerly NCI into Suicide and Homicide by mental health patients)) is an important research project.

If you have an interest in suicide and suicide prevention this is essential reading.
The world financial and banking systems moves literal quadrillions of dollars around the world on an annual basis.
"Equation" is an unfortunate name because some view that like the Drake Equation is meant to produce a quantifiable number. It isn't and never was. It's a thought experiment and a way to frame the problem (the article states this explicitly).

What has changed is the assumptions about how we would detect a starfaring civilization. 60 years ago we were assuming radio communications because that seemed to be where our future was and, by extension, what we might expect other civilizations to do.

Obviously the values in the equation are unknown. We use such things to frame problems that involve unknowns like this. A good example: the anthropic principle [1].

Anyway, the more prevalent line of thinking now is that starfaring civilizations are likely to end up building Dyson swarms. This is a long and complex discussion. There are many objections but those objections tend to suffer from the problem that, if that objection is true, there should be more not less starfaring life (eg any form of FTL).

If matter is the ultimate limiter to civilizations then it makes sense that civilizations will try and amass as much of it as possible. It doesn't matter if not every civilization goes this route because even one such galaxy-spanning civilization within a million light years will stand out (based on the IR signature).

Even without that it probably wouldn't take more than about 10M years for humanity to colonize the Milky Way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
It places on some victims to prevent a lot of others from becoming victims. That is fairly standard trade off in any society. Also this is always the case for paying ransom for hostages, and is only simply being extended for data.

Without a legal way to make payments, companies can no longer justify the tradeoff of paying up and fixing the leaks as they spring up. This incentivize them to give importance to security and actually overhauling their infrastructure properly.
Okay, so the chain of transactions that is regarded as correct is the one that has been more expensive to create. Instead of wasting energy, the same result could be achieved by wasting other stuff, such as bitcoins themselves, for instance?
I do not think the movie is "a not very distorted glimpse of what it was like".

More importantly, if movie is accurate, then nerds are no better then evil jocks. They are just two groups of bullies and assholes locked in a fight where everybody who avoids them is doing something smart.

In your school, did the girl that got her nudes public got together with the dude that took them and sold them? You can peel levels of that movie how much you want, you won't get meaningfull image of reality.
Small nitpick. On mobile, I was convinced the site header was a form field.
Lets revisit this in 5 years. Everybody regrets selling their bitcoin for magic beans eventually.
To be honest, the thought of AI doing therapy (and it's reliance on big data) sounds very black mirror to me.

How long do you think it'll take ad companies to do an end run around patient protections and start serving ads based on "metadata"? Got anxiety? Try our new meds! Worried about the future? How about some life insurance or annuities? Etc. Things will get very exploitative very fast.
>> Okay, which site was this?
>The site it said it was?

I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what sites fall under the banner of the "FooBarBaz.NET" dark web data dump.