skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This property is called Weak Subjectivity and is indeed a compromise that PoS makes over PoW. However, in practice, the trust assumptions aren't much higher than when you, say, download node software from a source that you trust.

> I do not feel I can trust the majority to be correct every minute or every day forever.

With weak subjectivity, you only have to trust them to be correct on a timeframe of every few months. If consensus is actually broken somehow over such a long period of time, there will be big headlines about it and you'll be able to configure your node accordingly.

Further reading:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/25/proof-stake-learned-lov...
> The awake state only appeared as a survival strategy, to better adapt to the natural environment.

Well. Given that "awake" creatures react to stimuli, that might not be too far off the truth. If we could passively survive and not have to forage or hunt for food, what's the point of 'waking up'?

Sleeping is advantageous (less energy use). Efficiency is usually selected for, unless there's some other kind of environmental pressure.

Maybe that's why we haven't found other civilizations. They are all 'sleeping'. Maybe consciousness is also unnecessary (on that front, I love https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm)
I love Halide but never remembered to open it. Luckily iOS 14 shortcuts made it possible to trigger open Halide whenever the Camera app is opened. It now acts like the default camera app.

Specific instructions:
https://www.daviddegner.com/blog/change-default-camera-app-o...
It's like Bitcoin except it has vulnerabilities so will be hacked (and it already has been) or taken over by the Zuckerbergs of the world when the incentives are high enough in the future (maybe 5 or 10 years) then it will implode.
Spotify killed music piracy and Netflix did it for video content. Now that copyright holders got greedy and there’s 5+ services, none as good as Netflix, none have all the shows anyone wants people are turning back to piracy in a big way and services like plex and Emby make sharing easy, people even setup serves and sell access!

It’s their content and they can do what they want; but you can’t stop piracy
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> firms founded by forced entrepreneurs are more likely to survive, innovate, and receive venture-backing

Actually this result surprises me.

The survivorship bias I was expecting was that upper middle class and upper class people got opportunities to try ideas over and over again because their funding never ran dry. And therefore we get to hear misleading stories about entrepreneurs starting from their garage, but turns out the garage was at a home in Atherton, the most expensive zip code deep in Silicon Valley.
> wouldn't someone just start a new blockchain with the Ethereum protocol?

Sure, and many have, but they don't have the security, decentralization, dev mindshare, community, tooling, or ecosystem that Ethereum has.
Very much agree on not taking Watson's word for it. As for Franklin, it would be nice to think the Nobol committee would have agonised long and hard had she lived long enough to make it an issue for them (given at most 3 people can share a nobel, her early death ruled her out - a fact often ignored).
The argument stands for itself. If your uncle gave a good argument against tax exemptions, it's a good argument for tax exemptions. Just pretend somebody else gave it that doesn't have the same alterior motive.

Attacking the motive or whatever is not said out loud is responding to a weaker interpretation
Thanks! Useful. Is there any reason they don't rotate, say, once every 3 months rather than once every 2 weeks?
It's mentioned in the whitepaper - https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/

> Note that in the future, it is likely that Ethereum will switch to a proof-of-stake model for security, reducing the issuance requirement to somewhere between zero and 0.05X per year.
Ask HN: Why do AirTags need camera access?
Has anyone else seen this? When you try to find an Airtag, iPhone will complain if there is not enough light in the scene, and the camera is clearly running in the background. What are they doing with this information?
Why focus on the Geekbench test? I thought the industry standard for CPU testing was Cinebench and AIDA64.
It becomes the cost of doing dirty business.

Solar is taking off not because we banned coal, but because it's cheaper than coal. If coal and natural gas were taxed according to their carbon output, solar would be even more ahead, nuclear may become more attractive as well.

Aluminum is heavily recycled not because it's green, but because it's significantly cheaper than mining new.

Incentives work. The free market responds to incentives, and works around regulations.
Thanks for the answer. It sounds like pretty much the same thing good exception handling would do.

I suppose they're two sides of the same coin. Both can be done well or poorly.

I do resent the idea that error values are automatically better or easier to understand, because I'm dealing with some poorly done error values now and wishing for traditional exception handling.
Unless you calculate an actual efficacy, the above numbers are not very informative. What efficacy is implied by the numbers?
Yeah, and Woz had to convince him to make the Apple II have more than two slots. But the G3 and G4 towers were also easily expanded and modified.
Because a billion is a nice round number, and if you compare to other companies the same size, they've had a remarkably small number of acquisitions.

Google has had Youtube, DoubleClick, Android, Motorola, Nest, HTC, Nest, Looker, Fitbit, Waze... and that's just what I remember.

Facebook has had at least Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus, but they've been around close to two decades less.

For a company of Amazon's scale, it's lack of acquisitions is relatively surprising.
This is factually untrue. Site isolation wasn't enabled by default in Chromium until v67 in 2018.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/site-isolati...
> Stars have lifecycles, and they can only support life in a stable manner in some stages of that lifecycle.

That is what the 'L' is in the formula
It provides work for your marketing and sales people.
Wouldn’t it be nice if energy were free, and caused no environmental damage? Well, how about cheaper and cleaner. Whether you think spending energy on coin mining is worthwhile or not, energy is required to do any work (by definition), so to feed our innovations, easy energy is important (and not evil). We will need to work on that.
As someone unfortunately in the market for an old (60-80 years old) SFH due to the location I'm in, I'd have to strongly disagree.

First, all houses settle and a good rule of thumb is if it's not a horizontal crack, you're probably fine. The giant crack does sound worrying but that's not your typical modern home especially if you went with a good builder. Your house probably has loads of cracks that were sealed with epoxy and covered up (not a bad thing but it's not like your house is pristine).

The "bones" of an old home isn't going to be better either. For instance, if you have a basement, you can't ever make it into a proper livable area due to the lack of moisture proofing. A rule of thumb is basements older than 1990s are probably not worth renovating into a living quarter due to this issue. And your house probably has had countless termite treatments which overall weakens the "bones" of your house.

And don't get me started on asbestos, tube and knob wiring, or lead paint.
Sounds great!

One question about pricing -- I can't tell if the "free" tier costs are for one month, or ongoing. That is, do you get the free tier amounts for one month and then pay from then on, or is that level of service free from then on?
It's a thought experiment meant to highlight known unknowns. If we could perfectly measure each field, we would necessarily have an idea of the number of intelligent civilizations. Each term raises interesting questions, even if they can't be precisely measured (or even guessed at with any confidence).
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What's the password recovery process like with 1Password for family accounts?

I'm the administrator for my family's account on LastPass and my wife forgot her master password and has now burned the associated email.

The account was unused and empty so nothing was lost but it highlighted to me that account recovery was not smooth or seamless. As an administrator you can't just issue a password reset on their behalf.

If you're testing out these password managers, try a recovery first with a burner account before fully entrusting them with valuable passwords.
Ethereum's PoS design is censorship-proof up to 33% and censorship-resistant up to 66% of staked Ether. Compare to PoW's 51% and you'll see that they're somewhat comparable.
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I know something about addiction so to me Bitcoin enthusiasts sound like alcoholics who justify their drinking by saying "many people drink and doctors say a little drinking is good for you so lay off me." The fact that I couldn't even criticize Bitcoin's energy usage on HN util Elon Musk came out against it reinforces my opinion that it's an addiction. I imagine Bitcoin is a game like poker with a bluffing and holding strategy. Bitcoin as it is currently played has many addicted to it without regard to disastrous environmental consequences.
The project seems to miss the fact that when you build an English to DSL compiler, if there are problems with the compiler, the English will prevail under our court system ... not the compiled DSL.

As a result, the computational legal infrastructure will slowly diverge from what the actual legal outcome would be.

That's problematic.
Companies would just add the cost of the punishment into the cost of the ransom, re-evaluate the risk, and probably decide to just keep doing what they're doing.

The problem is not that companies are paying ransoms. The problem is that companies who operate infrastructures of national importance and who collect sensitive data about us are loosing control of said infrastructures and data. If paying ransoms is part of the discussion, we're already in a very sorry state. Legal action should be focused first-and-foremost on preventing that loss of control.

First we need to decide what is important enough that we should legally require companies to protect it. Certain data or services may require special licenses, depending on scale and importance.

Then we need to decide on how to evaluate whether or not the company has provided sufficient protection and what the punishment should be for failing to provide sufficient protection.

Then we need to establish an government organization of white-hat hackers who are charged with evaluating the protection measures implemented by companies - much like how a health inspector goes around evaluating the conditions of food service companies.
Imo Polkadot is "obsolete" now with Ethereum moving forward with a rollup-centric roadmap since L2 rollups are pretty much the same as parachains.
I feel like many science-y people have an intuition that a measurement technique should not be used until you have explored its false positive rate. Perhaps judges don't share that intuition. Presumably judges receive their training in law school. One solution might be to persuade law schools to teach that to their students, by adding questions about this to bar exams.
official blog post/writeup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27198593
PoS can be easily copied and modified by the powerful. There's little cost to create the system and force adoption rather than incentivize. There's an enormous amount of investment and technology dedicated to bitcoin that makes it more resistant to devaluation and duplication. But it saves electricity. That's the trade-off.

Why not focus on the source of the electricity rather than what the electricity is used for?
Re: valuation. The biggest contributing factor is speculation. I think it dwarfs every other possible factor. The second biggest one - fees are paid in ETH, and fees will continue to be paid in ETH. More, EIP-1559 will actively decrease amount of ETH in circulation by requiring miners to burn ETH to include transactions via base-fee mechanism.

Re: new chain / forking. Just network effect. Ethereum currently secures huge amount of value in DeFi. Any new network will not have those funds in it. There are also stablecoins. If blockchain-native assets (BTC, ETH, DAI etc) can be "doubled" by forking (e.g. BTC to BTC+BCH) it's not possible for fiat-backed assets such as USDC, USDT, EURc etc. Issuing bank has to pick a side of the fork.
In other words, the reporting was slow.
For my mom, her iPad (Mini) is her only computer, including for taking photos. She much prefers the large screen (vs a phone or camera-sized screen) and wouldn't know how to transfer photos over from a traditional camera.
I imagine my mom is pretty close to the average demographic that goes to theme parks in this way.
>The PoW used in Bitcoin has demonstrated resiliency against attacks

Multiple PoW coins have been successfully attacked, like ETC. Because they are already on GPUs there's no fix - just hope it doesn't repeat. Those successful attacks prove that any attack on PoW is only a question of external resources (sha256 ASICs for btc).

It's also surprisingly hard to profit from a 51% attack on pure speculation coins like btc or etc because next to zero actual economic activity is happening on them, which is why such attacks were rare and small in scope. The best you can actually do is to try to double spend an exchange. If they were actually used for real commerce profit becomes much easier. It could also become a military goal - if Iran relied on a PoW-coin for its economy, blocking their coins would destroy their economy.

This is one of the reasons why ethereum absolutely must switch to PoS - PoW is extremely insecure for smart contracts because there are many more ways to profit from an attack, like censoring price updates for defi.
My understanding is those who have more coins on a PoS network have more stake / power. This can matter if there are things like on-chain governance / voting rights, depending on their stake. Those with more stake would also get more staking rewards (it's like an APR % return based on the total staked), and if they stake their rewards as well, then they'd have even more total stake on the network. There also are concerns with those having a majority of the stake in a network being able to disrupt or attack the network (things like slashing based on poor behavior can prevent bad actors from wanting to do that, as they would lose some or all of what they had staked in that case). There are also different kinds of PoS though, and I'm not an expert on it.
It's a nice piece of machining, and an illustration of how much work it takes to machine something. Redesigning that mechanism to be in balance would be a nice improvement. Look at the vibration when it's cranked.

Here's the pro version of a yarn winder.[1] This approach has less vibration. It looks like doing this at high speed gets inertia working with you to make it easier. Textile machinery often relies on that. You can't push a rope, but you can throw one. That's how a jet loom works.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/yarn-roll-winding-mac...
There are already new Ethereum-compatible blockchains like Avalanche but they're missing out on the network effects that exist on the original Ethereum chain.

The only use of crypto is to get rich by being an early adopter. It's easy to design a new system that doesn't benefit early adopters but no one will care about it.
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> If lithium battery technology in general proves to be unsustainable, we may as well pack up and go home, because decarbonization isn't going to happen.

Nuclear + Hydrogen would still be available.
I am not convinced that PoW is immune to those pressures or even resistant to it. The people with capital control the mining.

At least the environmental problems are reduced with PoS
Essentially, the Space Launch System is just the Space Shuttle, but with the airplane-like orbiter deleted, allowing its mass to be replaced by an upper stage and/or a greatly increased payload. Such a simple variant on the Shuttle should have been flying by the mid-90s, and had it been, we could have seen it serve as an enabling technology for a much more capable space program for the past quarter century.
I don't think this is a very good analogy because we know far more about the nature of life, what is required to make it, and the abundance of those ingredients throughout the cosmos. Life isn't a lengthy, specific sequence of precise things. It's a phenomenon that occurs when certain kinds of things come together in certain kinds of ways -- many variations of these ingredients and permutations exist on Earth alone.

Your perspective reminds me of the anthropic principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

The popular conception is the "puddle analogy." You can imagine a rain puddle becoming conscious, seeing the intricacies of its perfect fit with the pavement that surrounds it and concluding "wow, this hole fits me SO perfectly, it must have been made for me."
I find it depends. I wear glasses and have fairly big ears [0], so headphones become painful fairly quickly.

Some earbuds are uncomfortable, I can't stand the standard iPhone ones, and the Samsung's' wire makes a lot of noise when touching something ever so slightly.

I have a pair of intra-articulars with foam tips (like the ones you buy for studying) and they're very, very comfortable. I can wear them for hours on end. The tips come in several sizes, so it's important to pick the right one.

The only issue is that they're not easy to put on: I have to squish the foam, put them on, then hold them in place a bit until the foam expands. In an office setting, if I have to do this often it gets old really quickly. Noise isolation is great, too, so I can't leave them on if I have to talk to someone.

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[0] I've tried "around ear" phones, but they don't go around enough, and end up pressing on the outer ear, which, with the glasses, gets painful.
That'd be better solved by human interaction, not machine learning.
How should one reconcile bloomberg saying "Redesigned MacBook Pros are expected to debut as soon as early this summer" and everyone else saying that they're being pushed back until next year?
“Our Apache Hadoop-based data platform ingests hundreds of petabytes of analytical data with minimum latency and stores it in a data lake built on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).” “Did you just tell me to go fuck myself, Bob?” “I believe I did.”
I've not seen a single study to demonstrate causative link, or conclusively eliminate other variables (which is frankly quite impossible anyway).

Unfortunately a lie repeated a thousand times (by media) becomes truth. And it's just too juicy of a news to say "sleeping too much bad for health". Especially managers, they love that kind of news ;-)

BTW my frustration is pointed at general media and society, not you in particular, I wasn't clear.
Show HN: Generated Pixels – Programmatically generated artwork
I would like to show my project Generated Pixels. In my spare time I like to write scripts and algorithms that create pixel art. I've now created real artworks that your can acquire for your office or home.

I wrote algorithms that create these artworks and additional scripts that make them available on a webshop where you can order them.

Each artwork is a unique combination of material, dimensions, colors, pattern and frame. Each artwork will only be sold once.

The first released algorithm generates a random pattern of colored squares layered on top of each other.

The generated artwork is printed on canvas or as a poster and delivered to your office or home. Currently we offer 40x60cm, 60x40cm, 80x120cm, 120x80cm posters and canvas prints. You can use HACKERNEWS as a coupon for a 10% discount.

I am working on new algorithms to generate other cool patterns.
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The amazing thing about the Drake Equation is that it's a funneling pipeline where we're spitballing numbers with huge orders of magnitudes difference across different people's guesses. They're just random guesses, where one person says one particular odds are one in a million, the other guy says one in a billion, the other gal says one in a trillion. Yet in spite of a huge range, for each of the winnowing factors in this funnel, the odds of there being life are often significant.

Which is to say, two things are certainly true:

The universe is incredibly fantastically basically unimaginably vast. Practically countless (~10 million estimated) super-clusters of galaxies dot the heavens. There's just so many chances, so many opportunities, so much probability that, if you believe in life arising from a primordial soup, seem almost certain to be replicated.

Sometimes chaos, in it's fumbling teaming randomness, happens upon patterns. Patterns which sometimes stick, which sometimes reproduce, which sometimes grow. Entropy amid complex systems sometimes produces it's own enclaves of stability, sometimes.

The other true fact is that time is long and deep. Life on earth is not a flash in the pan, not an instant thing; it emerged slowly, over time, in differing waves, across time. The promise that life, once began, has a chance to ride these waves of time & to become significant, that it grows to fill rich biodiverse roles, grows to complete, that it thrives: if we believe in the soup of life, believe in the complex chemistries that powers cells, and believe in time, then a belief in other life seems not certain, but to me, highly highly probable.
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> I'm suggesting that you bypass the problem by eliminating corporate taxes...

The problem doesn't go away— there are a hundred and one ways that companies can receive favours from the government other than tax breaks: land giveaways, pollution exemptions, utility discounts, trade/tariff deals, infrastructure like highways/rail/fibre being routed in such a way that benefits their locations or supply chains, etc etc.

If your government officials are corrupt or untrustworthy, that's a problem to deal with at the source, not by trying to tie their hands by taking away some of the tools they use to set policy.
Only a few left? Well I don't really need it that much, I'm not an asshole so I better leave them for someone who actually needs them.
I feel the same way, but it could be a really big commitment to choose ClojureScript for a lot of projects. I have my own shop and haven't had an opportunity where I felt comfortable suggesting it, even though we have a few devs that would love to use it.
> how does this work on Github Pages

Spectre called for some drastic measures, and it'll be up to Github/Netlify to decide how they react. Developers who want simple hosting solutions for their little projects will host elsewhere (e.g. replit.com, glitch.com) if they need to. This isn't exactly a massive obstacle if you've set out to build a complex game in the browser. It's just a couple of headers...

>How long until this shows up in Firefox

WebRTC data channels work fine in the mean time. Have you seen games like krunker.io and dotbigbang.com et al? It's perfectly possible to create real-time games in the browser using WebRTC.
If I understand correctly, PlanetScale = hosted Vitess? I assume it was started by the creators/maintainers of the project (similar to Confluent and such)?