skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, other users can easily institute a new lower difficulty in the upgrade to counteract the drop in POW from the defection of miners.

Sure, you can alternatively anticipate that your fork will not get miner support and give it low difficulty, leaving it vulnerable to spam instead.

It doesn't change the fact that this fork now only has a tiny share of the hashrate, no better than some random altcoin. Why should it be considered the "real" chain? Because it has Vitalik Buterin's face on it? Maybe that works for Ethereum, but it wouldn't work for Bitcoin.

> The subservience of miners to users at large in the determination of the market leading fork is best exemplified in the scenario of users switching to a PoS chain.

...which hasn't happened yet. Of course, if your users don't care about hashrate or PoW, you can transition the software to anything. Maybe that's true for Ethereum. That doesn't make miners subservient. Either they're highly influential (PoW) or they're not part of the picture at all (PoS). There's no scenario in which you can force miners to adopt some change.
Injecting spores into your blood stream can infect your body with mushrooms. DO NOT DO THIS, it can be fatal.

https://www.insider.com/man-injected-with-mushrooms-grew-in-...
Very interesting. The connection to French is not immediately obvious as both "purchase" and "buy" would translate to "achat". However, "por chase" in French is "for the chase/hunt" which begins to resemble some definition of "purchase".
> If I explain to a client it is because Slack is down, odds are they'll blame Slack, not us. This is especially true if they're impacted by the Slack outage as well or the outage makes news outlets.

My perspective is skewed b/c I work at a place that invests 8-9 figures in their supplier risk management program, but in that domain you don't get any breaks here. This dependency is discovered during pre-contract due diligence and your plan and test history to continue operations in the event of a vendor outage is assessed in the overall risk profile of your company.

It's obvious this type of consideration in risk management is picking up steam and I'm expecting an industry to start forming around it. I'm also waiting for 'chaos engineering' features to start creeping into SaaS products.
> -Require names be in the format of first initial, last name since "everyone has a first and last name and that's how we keep track of purchases"

Also there is only one John Doe in the world, and he sometimes goes by Jeffries or Jane.
I don't think that applies here.

If you are doing a Bayesian analysis on if a suspect committed a crime at 2:00 AM and they told you they were sleeping then - does this tell you any new information?

I would say without outside evidence it shouldn't update your probability on the subject. If they truly were sleeping they are going to say they were sleeping. If they were committing the act they are going to say they were sleeping.

Saying "the fact the suspect said they were sleeping at 2:00 AM is what they would say if they were committing the act" is not the same as saying "the fact that the suspect said they were sleeping at 2:00 AM is proof they committed the act"
Well the issue is that at this time we aren’t in a position to accept new business logic change request proposals. You’re welcome to bring your issue up at the bi-quarterly documentation stakeholders meeting, oh but I’m seeing here that you actually haven’t been trained to attend that meeting. I’ve CC’d your manager to ask why they assigned this work to you, since as we know the human capital utilization policy is to only work on assigned projects.
Have they tried introducing these worms into drosophila or even mice? I’d be curious what the effect would be.

Also what effect does it have in the birds that carry it?
I can well imagine Zulip failing for FOSS for as stupid a reason as users finding juggling user accounts tiresome, but the Zulip codebase offers servers plenty of flexibility in authentication options.

https://fmcthanos.zulip.com/help/configure-authentication-me...
> What evidence is there that masks provide no additional protection for vaccinated people?

The question is what evidence is there that they provide additional protection.

You don’t disprove things, you prove them.

Since there’s lack of evidence of efficacy, so that affects the decision.

This is kind of why I think people are logically waking through available evidence. There’s some material on CDC’s page [0] but I’m not familiar with the field so don’t know all the specific papers and studies and what not.

As a layperson, just reading the CDC site I think it’s that a vaccinated person, almost always, does not produce vaccine particles to spread. Since masks reduce spread of particles from infected people, the principle of the mask would not apply. Since vaccinated means no particles to prevent spreading.

Of course the vaccine isn’t 100% effective, but I assume protective enough that wearing masks produces no additional population protection, or that the benefit does not outweigh the cost.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vac...
I am a little reluctant, but I will add Kindle Oasis.

I upgraded to Oasis from Kindle Paperwhite. But my favorite Kindle is Kindle Keyboard 3. It is the easiest to hold among all Kindles. As it doesn't have touchscreen, I never worry about inadvertently turning the page or activating some menu. Only reason I got Paperwhite was because I wanted waterproof and builtin light.

PW is really awkward to hold especially when laying down in the bed.

Oasis is obviously ridiculously over-priced. But I got it because I got tired of PW. I like that Oasis has a large area to rest your thumb or fingers on, and also physical buttons definitely makes reading experience better. But it is not perfect, metal on back is too slippery, I still end up turning pages by accidents especially when switching hands. And did I mention it is way too expensive.

But it is still one of my favorite items, it is so much easier to read on it for extended period of time. I also send blog posts, news articles, docs, etc to Kindle via chrome extension and read them later when relaxing in the evening.

Also while I enjoy reading on Oasis, I am going back to physical books as much as possible. Mostly because I want to gift my books to my kids, and I don't know if Kindle would be around in 20 years or not. So the stuff I read on Kindle is mostly borrowed books from Prime library, personal docs, free books, or books that I am pretty sure will be useless in a few years like books on Kubernetes or other hot technologies.
You can actually do this with WebContainers today :) Try it out here: https://stackblitz.com/fork/node

Full WASI support in WebContainer is landing in the next 1-2 months.
Very true, it's mainly an exchange thing. Thanks for pointing that out.
Exactly!

Going further with another Beatles tune-- listen to the mono mix of "Helter Skelter" and tell me what in the first 10 seconds clues you in to the fact that a) it was recorded in 1968 and b) that it's even in mono! And don't cheat by comparing it to the stereo version.

In any case-- compare that experience to video recording/playback quality. I can't even show digital videos recorded in, say, 2004, to a young audience because the general quality is already considered complete crap. My own confirmation bias can't even fill in the rift. Standard DV stuff from that era-- even if it's something I care deeply about-- simply looks blurry to me now.

The funny thing to me is that silicon valley still markets improvements in audio fidelity/spatialization as if they are the same qualitative jumps in quality as video improvements. Ok, I get it that VR probably necessitates sounds emanating from behind your head. Fine. But generally speaking there is a ton of hype around audio that simply isn't warranted, at least for a consumer or even prosumer audience. It's not blockchain-level hype, but still...
Well... the utility of the web was evident pretty early on.

Gopher was released in 1991, the first web browser (WorldWideWeb) also in 1991, Mosaic in 1993. The first German online bookshop, Telebuch, went online in 1991 (via BTX), and was on the web in 1995; Bloomberg.com, IMDB, Wired was online 1993, Amazon was founded 1994, Google 1998, Napster 1999, Frienster 2002, MySpace 2003, Facebook 2004 - all within 13 years of the invention of the WWW.

It is now 13 years after the first release of Bitcoin, and what do we have (except dark web narcotics markets, and exchanges that take a cut around 50x greater than stock exchanges)?
The general term for Tornado.cash is a Bitcoin mixer and it has come and gone through the existence of Bitcoin.

Eg. Monero doesn't leave a trail by default.
It’s good that it’s used in some places and hopefully will grow in acceptance for stuff like basic purchases.
> with zero understanding of how it works, naturally

Perhaps you don't understand it either, if you think it has failed.

"Few understand" is a meme and said tongue in cheek, but there's truth to it. To actually understand Bitcoin and crypto, you have to spend 100+ hours on it. Of course few put that kind of time in. Most default to either a blind acolyte or naysayer, depending on whether they got in early or not, or depending on what position is popular with their political tribe.
There's a Futurama episode that anticipated this. Fry eats an egg salad sandwich from a truck stop restroom vending machine and acquires a parasitic worm infection that gives him super powers.
> and when faced with a tiny police presence ended up overrunning them

..they're on video being let in by the police.
The issue I see with this is that the {} keys are usually just shift + []. Whereas the Fx keys are often pressed together with some combination of ctrl / alt / shift. So not having the row, that would add another key to the combo. Or make it a two-step process.

I actually have the same frustration as GP. I usually want a 75% keyboard so that I can have my mouse close to it, and since I don't ever use the numpad, that works out great.

But I don't care about the keyboard being actually small, so I would absolutely love some of those "macro keys" like on the gaming keyboards and also direct access to media keys.

Yes, I know you can have layers and combinations, and it might not even be that much slower (or at all) with one of those compact keyboards, but I find it much more comfortable to be able to only push one key with one finger.

I sometimes use my keyboards while doing something else besides "full-on typing" with both hands on the keys. Granted, in those cases I wouldn't be bothered by a full-width keyboard, but having two keyboards is just not something I'd consider practical.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be racist against Americans, I know they aren't all horrible. (But, you know, most of them....)
I’d expect Apple already has more than one proof-of-concept M1-based operational data centers.

If they are to be commercialized, I’d expect them to be part of a development stack related to Xcode, or some kind of AWS like services for applications developed for the Apple ecosystem.

Offering generalized compute would invite too much initial cost performance comparison and they couldn’t keep up with demand.
3x sounds about right for France, but that's an outlier.
The multiplicative factor in the US is more like 1.25x AFAIK.
$40K isn't that expensive for a good portion of HN. You can usually get them used for even cheaper, though I'd always be weary about buying from a used car dealership, as they're often clueless about Teslas and will claim a car has FSD when it doesn't. I've also seen them try to sell a used Model 3 Standard Range (The $40K base model) for $60K, which is more than the Performance model.
Thanks for the pointers! A big fan of birds-eye-view books that let readers then follow individual trees. I guess these take time to put together and some fields (like genomics / genetic engineering, are too fast moving now?)
Agree. We got ours in Jan 2020 because we had a new baby and it was hard to make it to the gym regularly.

I played college sports and work out regularly over the past 15 years since then. I'm pretty self-motivated to stay fit. I didn't expect to really enjoy the "class" part of Peloton, but I really find it moderately more motivating than just doing things myself. I end up working out harder, longer and more frequently. Recommend.
Great question :) We have some additional technical info in our core WG repo: https://github.com/stackblitz/webcontainer-core

We also did an hour long podcast a few months back that goes into pretty deep detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9qH-ea5Qk
> pet peeves is hearing people using the word "utilize"

This battle is lost, but mine is "proceeded to". People seem to feel like it makes them sound more official - "He proceeded to enter the room, and he then proceeded to sit down." Once you start noticing it it's everywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy

He's said some truly awful things. It's too bad people are downvoting you - this is part of the story of gamedev. Carmack would never say these kinds of things. Persson did. One is a famous and well-known and loved developer, the other is relegated to parroting talking points of alt-right/Nazi discussion boards and does not associate much with the rest of society.

Notch could have been more famous and well-loved than Carmack even, but his personality and hatred of minorities stopped that from happening.
Similar story here! Got a used 1987MB R107 560 SL. Paid slightly under $20k with less than 80k miles on it with only one previous owner. It’s mechanically in excellent condition with not so great interior. But hey, it’s totally fun to cruise around top down, and can be serviced in a variety of places at somewhat reasonable rates. And when you pull up to Alice’s Restaurant (well haven’t since last spring...) on Skyline blvd, it gets almost more attention than those Lambos and Teslas that ‘everyone’ is taking there! See son, that is class! ;)

Anyways - your mileage may vary, but I’ve been totally happy with this purchase. And driving and tinkering with it has offered great distractions from the otherwise gloomy year.
Well, I guess it differs by country. I haven't heard of anyone meeting someone in person to buy drugs for about 5 years now. It something that doesn't happen around here anymore.
Impressive. Very artsy.
the common analogy would be an FX pair (like GBPUSD)
There is a notion of General or Standard American English [1]. Similarly, in Britain there’s Received Pronunciation [2].

Of course these are a social construct, but it’s not unfair to characterize that:

“General American English or General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm) is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans and widely perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation
No I don't think this argument holds water. Whose decision was it to use the centralized cloud service? Ultimately it's on you if your business can't respond to the customer.
Either the limit on param is guaranteed in some way by the rest of the program, or it is not. If it is, then the loop count is guaranteed in both cases. If it is not, the loop count is not guaranteed in either case.
Thoughts on Ethics of AI
As we speak, the Attorneys for Manhattan and the State of New York are investigating a high net-worth individual for allegedly engaging in clever ways to avoid taxes and other regulations using activities that are legal when engaged by themselves in good faith, but when used in conjunction with each other in bad faith, may be criminal.

The problem with “gaming” any system involving state-level entities is that they always have the power to retroactively look at your behaviour and declare that there is a pattern that amounts to criminal behaviour, even if none of the actions taken in isolation would be considered criminal.
I'm glad you recommended them because if you hadn't, I would have. Like you said they're particularly useful for preserving your hearing at live music venues without muddling the audio. As someone who didn't have hearing protection and attended some really loud venues, the hearing damage I have is a real pain the backside. There's a deep notch in the middle of my hearing range so going to a pub means I hear shuffling of feet and clinking of glasses better than I hear people talking to me even though they're closer and louder. Similarly cranking up the audio on a conference line means getting a painful spike of noise from join/leave beeps when the levels are right to hear speakers clearly.

Can't recommend that people wear hearing protection enough in general and at least for me etymotic make for a pleasant experience.
This was posted by a user with a name closely matching the domain (perhaps the original author?) 16 hours prior, and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27215697

When I stumbled across it last night, I couldn't understand why that would be. The content seemed good enough for readers on here, and this one's placement on the 2nd page of HN seems to confirm that. What's going on?
you’re right /s
> and won a Nobel Prize for it

In Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, or Peace?
> Microsoft Edge has Internet Explorer mode

I wish they would provide the opposite, Edge/Chromium engine in an IE skin/UI.
When I first studied at an English university (having been halfway through a linguistics program in Germany) my fellow students said I "sound like a book".

As being told that is embarrassing, one quickly adjusts...

(Nice examples here on HN, like "utilize the periphery of the barbecue" [to place one more sausage on it].)

But a latter move to the US led to a repeat ("Hey dude,
you talk like an alien?! Goofball!!") although the British
accent was well liked.
It's in fact not plenty fast. My PC heats up considerably watching 4k youtube videos. And in fact it stutters with 4k 60fps. How is that acceptable? How is it acceptable I cannot use one of the most popular websites optimally. And that's not even talking about all the wasted energy.
I'm always very hesitant to recommend "barefoot" shoes since everyone's feet are different and I know some people who have had horrible experiences with them. They definitely are not a magic solution for everyone, and for some people they'll be actively harmful.

But for whatever it's worth, switching to VivoBarefoot (Primus Lite) resulted in a massive decrease in foot pain for me. My shin splints basically vanished. I've had them for maybe a year and a half, and I am never going back to traditional shoes.
Do you also have to report cash transfers of 10k? Wasn't aware of that. I had thought it was just KYC for money banks deal with - not paying someone 11k cash for some construction work, for example.
Analyzing a More Resilient National Positioning, Navigation, Timing Capability
Azure Standard (in Dufur, Oregon) “unifine”[0] flour (I buy mostly rye, whole wheat, bread flour, AP, corn meal). I think these flours taste better than from other processes. I make simple sourdough (no waste: feeding over several days to a week at 16-19 degrees C, setting aside a cup for the next batch, mixing in new flour and less than 1tsp iodized salt for about 8c flour, kneading or not much, oiling, baking flat or rounded at 325-350 for an hour or so; turns out tough, and I like it that way, for toddler face development[1] since we’re not gnawing much meat), pancakes, cornbread. So far I prefer unifine flours for taste and nutrition, since the milling temperature doesn’t get as high as stoneground. I might be misguided, though; feel free to set me straight on this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifine_mill

[1] Breath, by James Nestor http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1249567607
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/09/fall/
Is your perspective that a windfall is less likely to lead to discretionary spending resulting in a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle than a salary increase?

I may be wrong, but my previous intuition was that if people have a recurring increased income stream they'd be more likely to save and invest than if it was a one-off.
> You look too "soft",a "wussy", learn resourcefulness in films from people that go to war. You look too weak for making a company and need to get stronger.

Insulting the poster is really useful here. Thanks for your insight.
This seems very promising. Are the founders able to speak to the backstory and how the came across this product space?
> The average, including the federal bonus, is currently around $32K/year equivalent.

Yeah, this is where you're messing up and completely mischaracterizing the situation. You're looking at weekly benefits and multiplying it by 52. The thing is:

* In my state, benefits are capped to 26 weeks, with a temporary 13 week extension.

* it's very difficult to continue receiving benefits.

* Those enhanced federal benefits are ending in September. Sooner in some states.

* Past weeks 8 or so, you are forced to take a job or stop receiving benefits. The only way out of this is to disabled or elderly, where requirements to be able to life 20lbs will disqualify you from employment.

There are tons of places out there, mostly factories and the like, which offer jobs to anyone whose been on unemployment long enough. The only way to avoid being forced to take these jobs is to be unable to meet the (modest) physical requirements.

Again, I've been on unemployment before. I remember this headache pretty well. Even with help from family getting my ducks in a row, I was booted off it after a week. Only very specific types of people really benefit from unemployment.
Yes, they just contain numeric userids and tweet ids; not usernames or tweet data. The information is opaque and useless, you can't even construct URLs from them.
That's my point. The system was saved but the people down below had to pay. They lost their houses and jobs, most managers didn't even lose their bonuses.
The crisis made the rich richer and the poor and middle class poorer.
And now they still behave the same and the next bubble is sure.
A carbon tax should be levied on the miners too.
Ford F150 Lightning, 11 outlets and power your house
I don't understand why able-bodied/minded people remain in minimum wage jobs their entire life. And I made minimum wage myself working at a grocery store and video rental shop. The lady in the article was 60 in 2014. Why didn't she ever consider learning skills along the way that would offer salary growth or just flat out apply for higher paying jobs? I managed to raise my hourly wage from $5.15 to $27 over 6 years with only a high school diploma. And I was morbidly obese at the time too so it wasn't for my looks. We could at least push young minimum wage earners today toward learning a trade or other areas experiencing labor shortage like truckers, etc.
You might have more luck running them in Proton or Wine.
First, congratulations! This is an astonishing advancement.

I found this on the GH repo:
"Is this open source? Today no, but the API will be open source to developers at GA."

I'm confused by what "the API" is, exactly. Is WebContainers a technology you plan to make available for others to use node, in the browser, in their own apps?
I had no idea doves and pigeons are the same animal. Fascinating!
The real question is “how many types of parasites ALREADY modify human behavior”.

We know toxoplasmosis does it, but how many have we not yet detected?