skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your example proves proof of work isn't vulnerable to the same effect. At best it proves it's not always vulnerable to that - but the same could technically happen with proof of stake.

Like it or not the Pareto principle or 80/20 rule may well be the most powerful law of the universe. It applies to everything from physical systems like stars and galaxies to social systems and individual human achievement.

I don't see why crytocurrency should be any different. Proof of work through cost of capital investment exhibits the exact same concentration of wealth and power, but at least PoS doesn't destroy the environment as a side effect.

I'm skeptical about why we need the decentralized aspect of cryto when it ends up centralizing anyway. Seems like a very inefficient way of doing things. Maybe we just want an immutable public ledger - but I could be wrong on that. It hasn't lived up to the hype yet.
This is so horrendously wrong. I've experienced this on many different online retailers. I don't suddenly not want/need the product, I just go elsewhere. If a physical store I go to has their checkout system go down, I'll go elsewhere. Online isn't an exception to me, prior to this article, I NEVER realized that it was a possibility that my adblock was the cause. I just went to a retailer that didn't have a broken checkout. Going elsewhere is a more simple and easy fix than troubleshooting "WTF is wrong with this site?".
Keep being angry. It will be much larger in future, and use magnitudes more energy. Either make peace (with the drumbeat of human progression), or spend your days being angry at something you don’t understand. Your choice!
I have no particular love for MSFT but I don’t think any of the issues you mentioned began after the acquisition.
Sleep might have helped to maintain the first sleeper’s rudimentary nervous system, but it could just as easily have been for the benefits of its metabolism or digestion. “Before we had a brain, we had a gut,” he said.

I will note that the nervous system of the human gut is so complex that some people speak of it as "a second brain" and there is growing evidence that the gut biome and what we eat significantly impact brain chemistry.

If jellyfish sleep, that suggests sleep may have evolved more than 1 billion years ago

This is sort of off topic.

When me and my adult sons were first homeless, we spent a month in Port Aransas. While we were there, there was a big storm and this storm left a lot of jellyfish stranded on the beach.

My oldest son set out to rescue some of them. He would take a plastic container and plastic utensils and flip them into the container so they couldn't sting him. He would get five or six of them into the container and in his first attempt, he just walked out into the water and dropped them in the water and then he had to get the hell out of the way so they wouldn't wash into his legs and sting his legs.

So he began walking out onto the jetty so he could drop them into the water while standing on a rock. That way he was in no danger of being stung because he wasn't standing in the water he was dropping them into. The other reason he began going out onto the jetty is because they were getting washed back up onto the beach. He felt it wasn't working at all.

And he told me that the jellyfish stranded on the beach all closed themselves up as best they could, as if trying to conserve water while on dry land in hopes of surviving long enough to wash back out to sea.

He reads really fast and has always been interested in science. He knows more about science than I ever will and he told me he had never read anything like that about jellyfish behavior.

Once he dumped them in the water, they "uncurled" and began to pump immediately. So perhaps they were sort of "asleep" or hibernating while on land and once they were in water and safe from this harsh environment that was threatening to be the death of them, they would revive and resume pumping.

He went on a bit about that. He thought it was really exciting and interesting stuff.

I think he saved a few dozen jellyfish over the course of about three days.

Edited for accuracy after fact checking with my son.

In talking with him, he said that at first he thought it was coincidence that they were kind of closed up. But after seeing them all immediately open up and start pumping, he decided "No, I think this is deliberate."

Additional update:

He quit trying to rescue ones that were flat and a different color because he concluded they were dead. Those didn't pump when they went back in the water. The ones that were curled up were still alive.

(Read by my son, edited in accordance with his wishes and signed off by him as an acceptable telling of the story. There should be no further edits after this.)
It will be extension spaghetti as always.

Note that not even with the same browser version there are any guarantees regarding GPGPU support.

A big difference between browsers and native 3D APIs is the blacklisting of client hardware/drivers, so one never knows what is actually being accelerated.
You summed it up perfectly, react-query aims to literally solve this exact problem.

It does it quite well I might add.

React, Mobx etc are all reactive frameworks exactly for this reason. Given a set of data render x, update the render every time the data changes.
Deadshot: Keep Sensitive Data Out of Code
There is such a thing as being too haughty and thinking, "why not?". Given the impunity with which they're currently carrying out their massacres, it wouldn't have seemed to them that blowing up a media building would be problematic. Now they're getting railed even by people who would normally not care otherwise.
full node != miner

Run your own full node,

easiest option: getumbrel.com
I’m not the person you asked, but I evaluated and passed on Notion (and Coda, and Airtable) for similar reasons.

I need a system that syncs, works offline, helps capture structured-ish data, is quick+flexible, and has fabulous linking.

I discovered and am currently using Obsidian.Md. I use Ulysses to access and edit on iPhone+iPad.

I love that it is markdown-based, linking is super easy, and everything is fast.

Cons: doesn’t work super well with native macOS features (e.g. services), native app for iOS/Android is still in private beta, and I don’t like the separation between edit and view modes. Also it could probably use a stronger UI for database-like features (e.g. tags). I wish there were better options for inking on mobile, but that’s not really their thing.

Previously was a OneNote devotee, but as I get into more complicated community engagement work, I needed something that could cross-link and find patterns.
Looks cool!

FYI, the About/FAQ/Pre-Order links at the top of your site are currently broken.
> very hard to avoid microstuttering

It's not just very hard to avoid microstuttering. It's quite literally impossible. And it's not just the timer precision. Chrome's `requestAnimationFrame` actually provides a full precision frame start time, but even if all your page does is render a single solid-color triangle (that alternates between cyan and magenta every frame), you still cannot avoid microstuttering, because the compositor will periodically drop frames. Ironically, the browser engines on mobile phones seem to do better, presumably because of limited multitasking.

Source: I've spent more hours than I care to admit trying to avoid dropped frames in https://sneakysnake.io . To see how bad it remains, check out the triangle in the bottom left corner of https://sneakysnake.io?dev=true . If it looks anything other than grey, then the browser is dropping frames.
Agreed, 10Mbps is likely where it'll be, probably less. If I were to guess, they are going to apply a lot of smarts to texture mapping to avoid needing a lot of bandwidth.
Yeah, I honestly hate how much Zoom has won because I've found it's the worst for latency. I have a mumble server running on a pi that blows the doors off Zoom for audio-quality and latency but it's unusable for casual groups because nobody wants to wear a headset and feedback destroys it.
Hydrogen leaks into confined spaces have done the boom thing. My impression is wavefront speed may be supersonic or somehow drive a lot of intensity (not my area)

Wheat is scary in a silo, but in a 50 lb bag not so much. I liked the cell engineering idea with hydrogen - not sure of weight / etc tradeoffs.
My question is whether ctenophores sleep. These are the critters we used to call "comb jellies", and thought they were related to jellyfish. But it appears, according to some biologists, that they invented nerves independently of the other animals; they use different molecules for the job, controlled by different genes.

For an eye-opening introduction to ctenophores, look up some youtube sequences of Beroe eating other ctenophores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkNPp6mzzI , e.g., at 37s in, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDS_NMrPPKc at 2:50.

I don't know if anybody has studied ctenophore sleep. You could be the first!
How about the people of the country that those agencies are supposed to be serving?
I think it's something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI__qNx8Gdk

Track both eyes, and then project an image to each eye based on its image in the room. The part I don't really understand is how it's possible to target the image to each eye. Maybe we have displays now which are like the 3DS screen, but with variable focal locations?
Google employees call to support Palestinians and protect anti-Zionist speech
Sounds like a very one-sided story based on an interview with Onetto and nobody else...[1]

> people in top jobs who can’t articulate their ideas clearly and support them with data..."

That IS a legitimate problem. Through the lens of Hindsight, and based on an interview with Onetto it's easy to retell this story as "Bezos was told upfront, had all the available information upfront, and chose to do nothing until it was too late."

But another way to present the same story is "Onetto didn't articulate the importance of his ideas. Did not present data to support it. And it led to a catastrophic outcome."

I'm not saying the latter interpretation is correct. The truth is somewhere in the middle - probably closer to the original telling of the story. But the key is that good ideas are useless unless you can convince the right people of them. Ultimately, Onetto did not convince Bezos of his ideas. The blame for that can't rest solely with Bezos, because clearly there is ample evidence throughout Amazon's history that people can convince him, and situations like this are an outlier.

[1] If his strategy for this book is anything like for his first: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1Q4CQQV1ALSN0/re...
This is getting downvoted but it really is a valid concern. Google’s been losing users on each discontinuation and only the most pro-Google techies I know are still jumping in to something new, especially given the trend towards one cool feature and a bunch of “QA is boring” stuff which will take a year to get fixed. Given their past reputation, it’s really cautionary as a shareholder to hear C-level questions about services like GCP questioning the risks of not going with AWS/Azure and getting stranded.

That’s a big deal for anything which requires hardware you wouldn’t otherwise own. Once you hear “custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment” that sounds like something you really want a commitment to not just begrudgingly patch but to continue to seriously invest in the product.
What I think you're trying to describe already exists as a product from Cisco called "telepresence". It is/was insanely expensive, was a permanent installation that only Cisco contracted techs could install, and did what you describe: It is a series of large, curved HD displays with desks at an appropriate distance from the screens/cameras, and copious amounts of indirect lighting from behind the setup to make each party look good.

It seems like the imaging/rendering technology that Google is using is much more advanced.
Fair enough. Maybe I should've used "underestimated".
Monero has some super advanced tech involved. Here is an okay review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58STfvxZnY
I think we call it WiFi ;) but yes I agree, I expect to see incremental bandwidth improvements moving forward.
Satoshi mined every single one of it and anyone would have been able to do same also he never sold his coins and left the project early on to avoid having too much control. Quite the opposite with Vitalik who on the other hand premined his eth, has been selling them Ever since, and continues to have significant control over ehereum.
> Does this behavior anger anyone else on a deep level?

Yes. A lot of what has angered me about the situation is that there's these claims that these companies are going to help us as consumers but aren't actually doing anything that helps us. It is just show. They know it, we know it. So stop saying you're on our side and stabbing us in the back. As an example, look at NewEgg's product shuffle. It is a clear scam and actively helps miners. Microcenter, BestBuy, Amazon, and everyone else does the same thing but NE is the worst because the bundling with useless stuff.

You want to help consumers? I have 2 models for you:

1) Create a signup list (like EVGA, but just select the number, not this list for every variant). Send out cards as they come in.

2) Only sell cards once or twice a month and in large pools (many cards in stock). This way you have a reasonable quantity of cards to hand out for the high demand instead of the small quantity that bots are always going to get to first. It should take only basic statistics to understand this. If a bot has an 80% chance of getting a product first and a consumer 20% then we need a bigger pool to draw from, not more pools (with small number of cards). More (small) pools helps the bots and harms the consumers. Larger and less frequent pools results in a larger set of consumers getting the products.

With these two models you can better fight bots and stock doesn't need to be on the shelves for long periods of time.
Proof of work consumes a real world resource. Proof of stake does not, therefore proof of work exchanges REAL value for virtual value. It literally takes actual value in the world and deletes it. What’s the difference with the US financial institutions buying up all the big mining rigs and then buying up all the stakable tokens ?
Id just be really uncomfortable with google monitoring, recording and analyzing my personal communications to sell me ads or worse later. Everything google does now feels.... invasive for lack of a better word. This is something Id like to see from Apple, and Im not an Apple fan at all.
Gamers need games to play and if gamers buy more AMD cards because high end NVIDIA is not an option then game developers will focus their efforts more towards AMD. Going by steam NVIDIA currently has three quarters of the PC Gaming market cornered, that is a lot of motivation to focus development on their hardware and an edge they do not want to loose.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
> In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from dealmakers to technicians — from the charismatic to the competent

... writes a man who was evidently not paying attention to the US presidential election of 2016 or the UK Conservative Party leadership election of 2019.
Don’t be angry. Just try to understand it. It’s all we can ask.
No. Thus the coining of "BIPOC".
Yeah, in some states, the majority of land is owned by the Federal Government. (Nevada and Idaho for example)
How does having GA integrated into your sales flow prevent these situations from happening?
It's actually way funnier than GOP presets to be. Flashloan must be paid back in the same transaction. Since whole thing happens in the same tx, it's atomic. So you can use smart-contract logic to determine if you are actually making a profit, and if you are not - revert!
I had the same as some point and using their website to notify them that you do not need a licence (as advised in the letters) does stop this. After that they only send you one letter every couple of years to ask you to confirm again.

However, I do consider it is harassment to keep sending these aggressive and threatening letters.
I really would hate to see Texas Instruments bought and buried by a coastal company. The Midwest really needs some of its own tech giants to drive their economies. I suspect TI would be absent from North Texas if Apple bought them or they'd participate in the typical nastiness of moving all engineering to the coast and leaving sales and marketing in it's wake.
From my experience business travel is as much about sharing an experience as it is the discussion or dissemination of information. That's a hard thing to replicate
About 30+ years ago I was working as a busboy / dishwasher in a hospital cafeteria, some Doctor left a real estate magazine lying around, all sorts of 200+ secluded acres in rolling Virginia countryside with equestrian racing attached and Luxurious one of a kind ranches formerly owned by country music legends and so forth.

I wonder if the Doctor was in the target bracket, or just dreaming big. I mean there were a few smaller colonial manors in vermont with your own stream and mill affairs as well, it was not all turned up to 11 but there was nothing turned lower than 8 that's for sure.
I don't understand what is so absurd about the proposed solutions. Can you provide a citation, in context, of something particularly outrageous?
On Hospitality
...or any Western country. See here for the influences China is having with British Universities:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/05/alarming-c...

It wouldn't surprise me if the whole woke culture was dreamt up by China/Russia, or they seized upon it seeing it as a way to gain an advantage. Clever really, I'll give them that.
Reading the Nvidia announcement it's not a software upgrade, but a change in hardware. It only affects cards made after late May.
There was a paper, I think it was also linked on HN via quanta magazine, where some researchers seemed to have pinpointed the reason why sleep is necessary to live, at least for animals and insects.

However, it seemed too good to be true (I can only wait to see if there is a Nobel prize) and it's not clear to me what to make of it.

The gist of it was that the fundamental damage from lack of sleep actually originates in the gut, not the brain, across rather different species, (mice and fruit flies) where "reactive oxygen species" (iirc) cause cumulative damage that is eventually fatal.

The researchers claimed they had confirmed causality by reversing the shortened lifespan in fruit flies deprived of sleep by feeding them antioxidants.

I have never seen a paper that seemed to so thoroughly eliminate the possibility of a misleading correlation, but the sticking point for me is, if it is so simple to avoid the need for sleep, why hasn't it been eliminated by evolution in the first place?

(Sleep Loss Can Cause Death through Accumulation of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Gut Vaccaro, Alexandra et al. Cell, Volume 181, Issue 6, 1307)
The situation fascinates me. It's one heck of an expression of capitalist market forces. Gamers can't get computational capacity for their graphics, because the market-clearing price for computing is the value of the cryptocurrency that that GPU could be mining instead. Every pixel you calculate has an opportunity cost of that calculation's worth in cryptocurrency.

Nvidia wants to serve gamers over miners, presumably to establish and maintain brand loyalty for future purchases. If they can't increase supply, the only other way is to reduce miner demand. That's their goal; this limitation is just a technical detail of implementing that. Hardware segmenting to serve different markets has been a thing forever and I don't see any reason to call this out as any worse.

That said, I like that Nvidia and AMD are taking different approaches here. That's free market capitalism, let the invisible hand guide the outcome.
Only for Woman – How to Get over a Breakup
I’ve created a short video to explain what I discovered and why it helps women create the relationship they want.
The idea that anarchists reject all hierarchies is baseless.
We're witnessing magical tech and innovation, and here we are back to making fun of signing in, ads and cynicism about Google shutting down projects.
On building a fluid user interface for Instagram Threads
Given that the default state of being is "not awake" it's reasonable to suppose that sleep evolved first, and then wakefulness.
This is exactly why I'm worried. I took an ML class last semester and having access to CUDA on my 1080Ti (explicitly purchased for gaming) was a boon for my project group, since we could actually tune models efficiently.

This might be good for the short-term, but it sets a precedent I'm really not happy with. I know they already do some of this with Quadro, but my understanding there is that the value add is in its reliability and certification, not ability to operate on workloads that have been artificially crippled on the gaming cards.
"GeForce Is Made for Gaming" Yea just like Microsoft Windows is made only for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Piss off.
The Pope can remove Bishops and replace them with persons of his choosing so it’s probably fair to say he ultimately controls diocesan resources. However, there is a great deal of custom and tradition keeping that from being abused.
I want to try this just to see what happens, if I will have again the feeling something is more real than reality.

Because optometrists are illegal in my country (here only medics can decide what glasses you can use), currently I don't have stereoscopic vision, although my brain CAN do it, if I had the correct images sent to my eyes somehow. (one of my eyes muscles is slightly shorter than the other side thus the images on that eye are shifted unless I had an optometrist design me glasses with a prism).

So when I watched Avatar, an actually well made 3D movie, it literally felt more real than reality, despite it being obvious fantasy with aliens, floating rocks and all that stuff.

EDIT: for those wondering, I am from Brazil, here medical professionals often sue the shit out of anyone offering any service remotely similar to an optometrist, they are quite aggressive about it, some attempted to make even discussion of the subject illegal. And when I was trying to get the prism and asked around my medics about it, one of them went really ballistic, I honestly thought the guy was going to punch me. I believe the reason for that is that for many medics, designing glasses is their only source of income, a guaranteed one, since here is ALSO illegal to buy glasses without a medic desining them for you first, even if the new glasses are supposed to be identical to the old ones!
well I am (or rather my company) is a paying customer aswell. they offering is really cheap and you get tons of family accounts for free.

but I think a subscription model always depends on the use case, I mean it's probably impossible to pay for everything (considering that every software that we would use, will be using a subscription)
I'm on a mac and lots of small tools are priced like 4-5 € which means I only need to buy a new version ones apple updates his os.
Yes, I should have been more clear, it is a multiple year roadmap.

The long term plan is to remove all support for any kind of kexts.

As presented at WWDC, after a kext gets a userspace alternative, its support is removed on the following OS release.