skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are webGL and webasm mining "omnipresent" in web pages? What does that even mean exactly?

You can turn off local storage, cookies, sound and javascript itself in per page permissions, you think every web page is going to have an unavoidable crypto currency miner embedded in it when webGPU becomes more common?

Do you think that people won't be able to see that a specific iframe is using 99% of their GPU or do you think people will just live with it and won't care?

I don't even think that you really believe this.
> at least as a short burst

Ok, I worked in telecom and saw the roll out of priority bursting... to me, this makes your data a yes.

Every ISP does in fact over sub.

They put in boosting and over provisioning to stop complaints.

The service would be far more expensive if they had to guarantee sustained speeds, or rather that you had a guaranteed bandwidth potential.
2006 was 15 years ago
Yes, I did forget the OP. I don't understand how people getting paid is evil either. Whether that comes in a huge lump sum at the beginning or in interest overtime, it doesn't really matter. There is going to be a cash flow analysis that will tell you how much one version of the contract is worth relative to the other. My comment was more that these contracts aren't new, they just aren't particularly useful because it is hard to think of a contract in perpetuity.
I haven't encountered that issue on Solus Budgie. My first thought was an issue with your mouse, but since you've ruled that out, and it apparently works for you in Brave, I'm stumped.
I'm a happy customer for their reasonable prices. If the prices require banning extreme cost outliers like crypto mining I'm okay with that.
> Before the pandemic I would frequently get distracted by getting irritated at other people nearby talking, chewing, walking, just being around me at all.

That sounds like it could point to some form of undiagnosed (possibly mild) sensory processing issues—which are exactly the kind of neurodiversity they are likely referring to.
Some people don’t appreciate the existence of kulaks, it is true.
Maybe! One of the bets the Chia team is making is that there's a lot of over-provisioned storage already out in the market that organizations and individuals will start to turn toward farming. This is obviously a lot more profitable than buying new drives just to farm since they're existing assets. And if in the long-run it continues to be profitable to farm Chia by buying new drives then it will likely help lower storage prices for the entire market.
But it's not a modern system. At it's core is an 8Bit CPU.
YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?
Yep, she can write about whatever she wants. Some people like it, I thought it was unhelpful. I wish it were something else and you're glad it isn't. Cool.

I mostly wanted to say I can relate AND didn't like it, responding to the parent.
It's due to the "unattended upgrades" feature. You can blacklist FF from getting those upgrades with a change to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Add "firefox" to the "Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist" section. I find manually upgrading much less annoying than having my browser randomly lock up on me.
No desire to comment on the rest of the OP points, but the one about gym was the most baffling one to me. Out of all places I could think of, gym is one of the most accepting places ever for all kinds of people (including extremely obese people).

From my own observations, people at the gym tend to fall in one of the 2 categories: they are either (a) extremely supportive or (b) totally not caring about anything but getting their own workout done and getting out. Of course there could be exceptions, but the only time i've ever even heard of such a thing happening, those types of people usually get shunned by the rest of gym goers for being assholes and ultimately banned from gyms.

In fact, more often than not, when I see a person at the gym who is clearly a very beginner (judging purely by how they are walking around for a while trying to find a specific piece of equipment, regardless of whether they are obese or not), I almost instantly see other gym goers helping them out with minor stuff or cheering them on weeks later once they accomplish a milestone. From my personal experience, the most intimidating-looking fit people at the gym end up being the nicest and most helpful towards beginners.

This sidenote aside, I find it extremely suspicious that the OP just said "It was crystal clear I don't belong" in reference to gym, without any specifics. What made it "clear" to her? The fact that she was looking at other people and realized that a lot of them were a bit further along their journey to being fit? Or did something actually happen that made her feel that way? Because a lot of her other points and complaints seem to have a lot of specifics, but this one has absolutely none.

It is also a bit strange how she is all about utilizing all other benefits and perks provided by the company, as evident by her mentioning tons of specific instances of that (no shame in that, as everyone should feel empowered to take advantage of things offered to them by the employer for free). She even rationalizes a lot of it as something due to her being from a rather poor background, even if she knows she shouldn't utilize those as much (drinking until getting sick, because it is free). But when it comes to the gym membership covered by her employer, she is totally willing to give up this perk, despite it usually being a pretty valuable perk in terms of costs covered.
Behind the scenes the NFT is just a smart contract standard. The royalty isn't really baked into the contract itself, but the platform that's using to exchange it.... So lots of projects with this perpetual royalty might get moved to another platform like opensea or rarible, and the royalty goes poof.

Also, the royalty is just artists getting commission on their work. Most NFT minting platforms worth anything allow the artist to mint from their wallet.
I'm not sure it is possible to be bullish of crypto in general. Surely at most a small number of tokens will win and the rest will drop to zero. Owning the entire ecosystem isn't diversification like investing in many companies.
Yes, and if we as a society were more accepting of these types of situational disabilities, workplaces would be much healthier.
This wasn't even a shitty take -- most of the developed world has government-owned utilities so the thought that the entire east coast gas infrastructure could go down just because some private company had their billing infrastructure locked up is not only laughable, it's morally outrageous. This situation is just begging for federal regulation, and that's the conversation we should be having -- should laws be passed requiring companies like Colonial to keep pumping gas (on their on dime) even when their billing infrastructure goes down? I think yes and I think most of the general public would as well.

Instead of having that discussion, we have no discussion because people like you have decided to flag this issue. This is the problem with HN.
That's pretty much the use-case (+filtering and merging of feeds) for which I resurrected pipes, at https://www.pipes.digital/. This specific example might be hard to parse though, but you probably already have the selectors figured out, then it should be easy to port over.
just sounds like automated royalties to me (with infinite copyright). AT least when an NFT does this, it is known in advance; as opposed to legistative action changing the goal posts during the match.

Also, I suppose there can be a way to cancel the royalties by making a meta-NFT (of sorts) that "owns" the NFT which stays in one place forever so that the meta-NFT can be traded instead.
It is more fun to play in person!
> I understand that. But when I rent a server, I want to be able to use the hardware. That is, if I want to roast the CPU or write to the disks 24/7, I should be able to do that, because I rented the full server.

I wonder if the legal concept of “wasting” has been (or could be) applied to rented servers.

Edit: Wikipedia[1] for anyone curious but the article seems a bit incomplete/inaccurate to me because it insinuates the concept applies only to "real property" but it can apply to trust assets, including personal property, as well. I suppose the difference is a trustee owes an equal fiduciary duty to all beneficiaries, including future beneficiaries, while a server user has no such duty to the server owner or future potential server users. I don't see why an anti-wasting provision couldn't be included in the rental agreement, though.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_(law)
reminds me of Ultima (the Dungeons parts), or Wizardry/ Bards tales bit, if they were in an arcade.

Nice work, esp the music. Fun
If you’re really looking to minimize hand movement and type fast while doing it, perhaps a better option would be steno keyboards (http://www.openstenoproject.org/) where entire words are produced by specific chords. It’s definitely learning a new way of typing, but the keyboard showcased in the article here also looks alien enough (apparently each finger has a set of letters assigned to it and one types by moving each finger in a particular direction to produce a single letter) that the learning curve is probably substantial as well.
This looks great. I’d love to throw up an instance locally and play with it at work, but that likely wouldn’t happen for a long time (local gov -> slow processes).

That being said, I’ve got a fun project in mind which I may find a use case for this. I’ll give it a shot.
Great hopefully you never need a compute resource they consider an outlier.
Right, but if you're testing the 'why' and calling it a unit test... confusion ensues...
The Hells Angels are weird, apparently they are technically a corporation. This dispute was ultimately settled by a lawyer.
But the IRS still gets a perpetual royalty on every subsequent sale. Why can't the producer?
Sounds like they should have communicated these changes to their customers. If the customer is not breaking the TOS and you cut them off with no notice because you want to change your TOS going forward that's a bad look.
I'm curious what they mean by "bandwidth problems".

At most, wouldn't you upload enough data to the servers to fill the drives once and then use a trickle afterwards? That seems like the best case for a storage box's bandwidth.
Bitcoin Plunges: A Bust or a Buy?
Unless you use an erp-system, which most companies have. In such systems, you cannot change things at will, because of compliance. Acctually, if you consider compliance regulations, a blockchain based approach would be useful...
Not surprising.

Something used in some countries is a briefcased-sized glasses making kit. Eyeglass lenses have three parameters - spherical radius, cylindrical radius, and axis of the cylindrical curvature. The trick is that for round lenses, you can use the same lens for all axis angles, which reduces the number of combinations to a set you can carry around. Once the right set of lenses has been decided, a notcher is used to cut a small notch on the side of the round lens so it locks into the frame and can't rotate.
For Hetzner's business model chia is a big issue. The run an auction system to resell machines others no longer want. If you mine your SSDs to death for chia and then cycle them to newer ones, someone unhappy is going to bid on that machine.
It shouldn't even be up to them to make a rational choice. It should be required via federal regulation on utilities.
Why leave feedback if the book was unexceptional?
Private prisons incarcerate 8% of the total US prison population. I strongly suspect if they were banned, little would change for the average inmate.

The rest of the inmates are in prisons that are state-owned and thus inherently nonprofit, and the guards & other staff are either state or federal workers. Contractors do things like provide commissary goods or run the inmate telephone system, but the guard in the tower at your local prison is a state employee.
Air travel and cruises provide unique and tangible benefits.
This is a case of the contrarian dynamic: an initial wave of objections to the article, followed by a wave of objections to the objections. The latter get upvoted, and so we end up with a top comment saying "I can't believe the comments in this thread" or (as in the current example) "the comments here are so $bad_somehow". Recent explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145616. More: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

It's important to be aware that this is a mechanical process. The first comments to appear in a thread are there because they're the fastest to write, not because they come from "the average HN commenter". Another way of putting this is that the initial comments tend to be reflexive rather than reflective: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... (Objecting to objections can be reflexive also, but at least the second wave tends to be more substantive and charitable.)
We are in agreement on being technically disabled. But having a disability also has a legal meaning that is separate from that. For instance, we as a society don't call someone disabled for not being good at math, unless something else has been diagnosed that causes that. If you created technology that assists with mental math, we wouldn't call it "a tool for the mathematically disabled".
I can understand the reasons, but it would probably make more sense to transfer the costs to the customers (for example for excessive IO, energy consumption,...) and let them be if they are willing to pay them. It's not illegal after all.
> I have no idea what you would use such a thing for.

Ditto. Every few years I look at this again, and I never can figure out what to use it for. At any rate, yours is a very good summary, thank you.
Taleb is a legend in his own mind.
How would you know if an NFT is legitimate? There's no "legitimate" bit on the NFT that distinguishes it.

If you wanted to support the artist, wouldn't it be faster, easier, cheaper, and more reliable to support them directly, through Patreon or something similar?
I agree with this. Most people need just 2 years during grade 11 and 12. Starting earlier might give minor edge at best but more damage to other aspects of personality and growth!

In IIT, in under 1000 rank, most people who spent more than 2 years were people who were intelligent but didn't take preparation seriously during their grade 11-12 but put in effort after that.

I also know people who were extremely intelligent who could crack under 100 if they gave the exam in grade 8. But they were outliers.
Seems fair enough - just like you can't take your rental car racing because it causes more risk + wear on components than day to day driving. These guys are wise to ban this activity if it causes more wear on their SSD drives and attracts more risky customers.

I do wonder how they'll monitor it though?
> purists don't consider a "real blockchain"

Sure. At that point its semantics, but fair. I certainly wouldn't recommend a proof of work blockchain with hundreds of thousands of nodes for this. A federated blockchain would be ideal for a situation where the final source of truth is a centralized system.

> the implication that only a blockchain implementation can provide sufficient transparacy

I don't think anything I said implies that. I certainly didn't intend to imply that. Certainly there are other secure solutions, however I'm saying that a blockchain is a pretty well understood solution that should work.

> If you are losing your job (and get sued) because you changed data in the production database without authorization most people are less likely to do it.

I think people are looking for better solutions than "most people don't screw up the system".

> The idea that we need to be 100x safer than that is just absurd.

Again, not something I said at all. But if there's a solution that's 100x safer and no more costly (in fact maybe even cheaper), why not do it?
Create a conversation with Elixir with real code examples
Awesome, is there a python version of this, never touching test code and having a full test suite with corner cases and whatnot would be awesome
TPMs are... extremely flexible. It's hard to summarize what they can do, but I'll try:

- a TPM is a crypto co-processor with HSM-like functionality (e.g., key wrapping).

- TPMs can be and are used to secure the boot process by having the CPU/ME do a core root of trust measurement of the BIOS, and then the BIOS can do a static root of trust measurement of all the option ROMs and such and the next boot stage for the OS, and the OS can continue the measurement process, and if you're willing to you can make sure no code is ever executed that isn't "trusted".

- TPMs have very flexible authorization policies, so you can make sure that use of some key requires multi-factor authentication (biometrics, smartcard, password) or multi-user authentication (two or more users have to authenticate), time of day restrictions, approved root of trust measurements, etc.

- TPMs can be used to attest root of trust measurements, authentication status, etc.

I recently contributed some tutorials[0] to TPM.dev[1].

[0] https://github.com/tpm2dev/tpm.dev.tutorials
[1] https://developers.tpm.dev/posts/14297688
> You can't win at the moment....

What?? "You can't win" because this language model tries to avoid saying bigoted things? You say that like it's some sort of catch-22. It's a very desirable property and is a hard problem that needs to be solved to safely deploy these sorts of models to billions of users.
What I dont understand is what stops you from minting the same thing on multiple NFT blockchains and why is it any diferent than something centralized, and thats why I dont like all the NFT hype

(I may be dumb and dont get what NFTs really are)
But it doesn't. Not at all.

Society cannot be boostrapped on top of cryptodelusions, exactly because people will not accept it.

If your bank account gets drained through something "unfair" (hack, robbed, bug, etc...) society delegates power to courts to order your money back.

Society will drop "the blockchain" like day old garbage every time, because people Do. Not. Care, about it. They care that they live in a society of relative fairness, judged by their peers. Not by a bug in a program.

There is no link between the blockchain and reality in the shared delusion of society.

There is a link between the courts, and the government, and the treasury, and the shared delusion of society.

There have been armed uprisings against governments that don't live up to the promise. And to the extent people DON'T rise up against the government it's because the government has guns.

The blockchain has no guns. Society will just stop believing in it, when it's wrong. You can't just "stop believing in the government" (i.e. look at the success of "sovereign citizens").

The government of all levels doesn't go away when you're not looking at it. Nor the dollar (because of the government). The blockchain does.
Spoken like someone who would let critical public infrastructure get privatized by a corporate monopoly.
Do you potentially have Misophonia?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/18/7027840...
Seems like gradually making the game quieter would be far better for building tension.
I don't know if this qualifies. We have our standard model, general relativity, etc. But they don't align precisely with observations. If we threw our understanding of physics to aliens who had much better models that don't look anything like the math we use to approximate the universe it wouldn't make sense. I would hope they have more math with better correspondence. Maybe an alien child might recognize Newton's laws from a children's tale.
I guess being anti-crypto is virtue signaling now. Guess that means we're at the turning point where crypto isn't this cool magic money thing anymore now that the harsh light of day is being shone on the industry.

Or, I think more likely, is that the parent can't actually form a cohesive argument and is part of a group of people for whom the term "virtue signaling" has become synonymous with "bad" but is used to try carry more intellectual weight than it actually does.
I think it's easier to make the case that "Google" killed RSS rather than "Chrome." Google certainly killed Google Reader.

I understand how you feel; improving RSS support in Chrome feels shitty, considering what they did to Reader. Even bringing back Google Reader would be unwelcome, at this point.

Having said that, since Google killed Reader, it's not the least bit clear what would you even want Google to do now, in 2021, beyond what they're doing in Chrome. What could possibly make amends for killing Google Reader?
Polarized thinking aka Black or White thinking is a tell tale sign of clinical depression.
I think group e2ee is overblown and self-defeating in principle. Good luck auditing a ratcheting e2ee algo. Plus it breaks often, and group encryption is defeated by any user in the chat.

Direct e2ee is far simpler and can be expanded to small groups without the need for complex ratcheting trees. Anything larger and you may as well fall-back to client-server with e2e communications.
NFTs don't liscence or provide rights to artworks; they are useless to artists.
> These next-generation technologies showcase Apple’s belief that accessibility is a human right and advance the company’s long history of delivering industry-leading features that make Apple products customizable for all users.

I read this more like: We saturated the laptop market. Then we saturated the smartphone market. Then we saturated the smart watch market. So how the heck are we supposed to grow revenue? So someone smart came up with the idea: Disabled people!

I sure applaud that they eventually cared, but I don't think their PR is honest.
Don't forget Libra coin/currency that was going to solve all the worlds problems :P
In most places in the US, if you don't have a car, you can't get to your job. Or you can, but it involves a fragile set of bus transfers that take you 2 hours (when driving would take 30 minutes) each way, and if you miss a transfer (because the transfers don't actually line up with any reasonable schedule), you're late and risk getting fired. So instead you add a 30 minute buffer in the morning and waste even more of your time.

Or you can walk 5 miles each way. Maybe it's good for your health (though the winters might be brutal where you live, and your route might not have sidewalks, and walking into work covered in sweat in the summer might not be allowed where you work), but that's pushing 2 hours each way as well. Getting a bicycle would reduce the time requirement, but most streets in the US are pretty bike-hostile, and you still have the weather issues to contend with.

Sure, technically a car is not "required" in that scenario, but people who are poor essentially have their time as one of their few precious assets. Saving 3-4 hours a day on a commute could mean picking up another job[0] that helps reduce financial insecurity just a little bit, or allowing a parent to spend a little more time with their kids.

I think people just really don't understand what it means to be poor. I have (fortunately) never experienced it, but have heard enough first-hand accounts to get the gist of it. Everything is harder when you don't have money. Everything.

[0] And that's a whole other issue, that so many jobs don't pay a living wage, requiring someone to hold down more than one just to make ends meet.
he will live on through the notion of "black swan event"
I wonder if you could add the game to F-Droid?
I think there are quite a few Android users that don't load apps through the Google Play store. Game looks interesting, but I suspect it would be better to play on Android as app, instead of website.
To persuade others not to read it?
Government run public digital database might be much simpler and efficient solution. No point involving blockchain for something where it is not needed.