skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe nature wouldn't be so metal if genes could feel pain.
prions are one of those things I wish I never started reading about. It's like reading about Lovecraftian gods when you know there's nothing that could protect you if it hits you.
Proper comparison would have to be even slower as you’d need to deal with normalisation & equivalence.

The « slow way » of the post would also count matching code units which is utterly useless, really.
The phrasing is certainly provocative, but a truly conscientious person would pick a side on the basis of merit. There's hardly any point in reasoning with someone who's obviously looking to make a decision based on the emotions evoked by an article.
The chain your bank or your exchange trust.
This is where I'd step in and argue BEM is a terrible idea. Any time you're encoding hierarchy like this into strings you have failed. BEM is the worst of both worlds since you have higherarchical class names and you have still created CSS that's heavily dependent on the hierarchy.

CSS wants you to write:

.element.title { color: red; }
.element.subtitle { color: blue; }

Any technique that depends on discipline and organization has already failed.
Grayskull
One can do both. Even an uneducated poor grunt like me can simultaneously worry about novel diseases and the countless corrupt machinations at play the world over.
The one that everyone else is using. Look at websites, ask friends, etc. After you do that once, you've got the right one from then on. Kinda trust-on-first-use, which most of us use for SSH anyway, and you can verify that you and the people you know are on the same chain beforehand.

I feel like the "I would just choose the chain with the most hashpower" idea kinda falls down in that you still have to choose which crypto - Bitcoin, any of the bitcoin forks, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, etc. You're relying on the internet etc for information to help you decide which cryptocurrency you're going to use when you start out, you can do the same thing for which Proof-of-Stake chain. Most of the time, there should be one obvious choice, more obvious than which crypto to use, I imagine.
Curiously, I have found that my own ability to lecture monotonously on some obstruse topic has (at one point or another) put every member of my family to sleep.

I've though about doing a podcast or something where I just read boring, impenetrable books to help people fall asleep.
Fisker will build an electric popemobile
I totally misread the 1998 above.
One issue I see with the Cybertruck is the angled sides of the bed. There are a lot of things designed to go on the back of a normal pickup truck, from simple shells to campers like this [1].

Cybertruck seems like it would require special versions of these kind of things. One of the reasons people buy pickups is versatility, and you lose some of that with Cybertruck because of its different shape.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_camper
Writing a book is like cutting the letters out of a book, then gluing them back
I fail to see why step 2 is circular in PoS but not PoW. I don't mean to say that my lack of understanding is anyone else's problem, but at the very least I can point out that the author is guilty of circular reasoning by failing to go into detail as to why

"Boiled down to its bare essence, a cryptocurrency is a list of transactions, and a protocol for deciding which transactions are allowed to be added to that list."

is ontologically distinct from their representation of PoS
Honestly it sounds like Citizen is already being run by a malicious actor.
It’s probably more useful to use “coercion” rather than limiting it to violence.

The threat of losing something one finds important is incredibly serious whether it’s through slow motion coercion or fast paced physical violence. You’re being threatened either way.

Concentrated power absolutely exerts coercion in more ways than just through governments.
I have been using this for few years. It's great and I think it fits well how developers want to configure and backup overall.
static void flush(void) {
if (writeall(1, buf, buflen) == -1) _exit(errno);
buflen = 0;
}
static void wrch(const char ch) {
if (buflen >= sizeof buf) flush();
buf[buflen++] = ch;
return;
}
char inbuf[128];
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
long long r, i;
for (;;) {
r = read(0, inbuf, sizeof inbuf);
if (r == -1) _exit(errno);
if (r == 0) break;
for (i = 0; i < r; ++i) {
wrch("0123456789abcdef"[15 & (inbuf[i] >> 4)]);
wrch("0123456789abcdef"[15 & inbuf[i]]);
}
}
wrch('\n');
return 0;
}
My phone claims that it is up to date. iOS 14.5.1

All I see is "Siri Suggestions", no alpha list.
San Francisco has a successful privatized police force.

https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=2672

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Patrol_Special_P...

https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Private_police

https://mises.org/wire/privatize-police

https://mises.org/wire/private-policing-isnt-fantasy
Yeah, I think about this. So many small animals die in slow, painful ways (naturally - i.e. centipedes eating mice, preying mantises eating birds). Makes me wonder if eventually in the future there would be some moral prerogative to somehow tame the natural world
Yeah I feel like a lot of the FUD about the buying and delivery process come from people who have never gone through the process themselves.

Yes: it is absolutely unacceptable that Tesla's quality standards are lacking to the point where you are encouraged to give your car a look over before picking it up. Genuinely, the car should have already been looked over on the lot -- but I guess that's the price to pay for the make-to-order process Tesla has embraced.

But you are absolutely _not_ in a position where you "take it or leave it." You look your car over, note what needs to be fixed post-delivery, and make a (free) appointment to have those issues corrected. The best part? Depending on the severity of the issues, Tesla will send some to your home instead of you having to bring the car to them.

My story is the same as yours: I test drove the car on the 15th, I put my deposit down, and on the 30th I drove off the lot in my new car. There was no negotiation, no up-selling, just me paying for my car and getting what I expected.

Best purchase I've ever made.
And they shouldn’t. Do we all not serialize all data not only to prevent bugs but also because the source isn’t always that altruistic? “Tall fences make nice neighbors” is a nice analogy to say we need limits and boundaries in systems. If being bad is difficult you will be less inclined to invest effort in being bad. You can interpret that as mistrust but I call it boundaries and limits.

Also “this is why we can’t have nice things” is a fun way of saying there are bad actors in every group. You don’t know who they are. So you can give them carte blanche and watch it burn to the ground, or create systems to check, maintain and over all limit privileges and access. This isn’t so much as blatant mistrust for everyone so much as they don’t know everyone’s intent and a great way for a product to not go up in flames is to consider earned trust and security at the cost of some convenience
Having lived next to a boat launching area, I can tell you an average inexperienced driver is pretty likely to make an expensive mistake with a trailer.

I have seen a lot of trailers reversed into expensive cars, flooded cars, trailers falling off and hitting things at speed, cars driving into the sea because the driver got out to check the trailer, etc.

A lot could be fixed with better software and sensors. For example a car should be able to measure the angle of the trailer and apply the brakes when someone tries to reverse-jackknife. It should measure oscillation frequencies and damping factors at highway speeds and set a safe max speed. It should refuse to start the engine at all if a trailer isn't correctly hooked up including electricals and brake lines, etc. Finally, trailer brakes need an overheat/wearout sensor so the driver is aware if their trailer brakes have failed before they find out when going down a hill at 70 mph.
> There's no way to compare chain quality in-band.

Just like with PoW where the longest chain and greatest hash power is the "honest" chain (even that is arguable), PoS functions similarly where the greatest staking power is the "honest" chain.
I'll take all of the above for a $5 million lawsuit.
SQLite in production with WAL
I'm published in the field of solar physics, though I dropped out of getting a PhD. I specialized in space weather modeling, and the solar wind specifically, and studied a lot of larger flares that were Earth directed. I also dealt with the effects of strong solar activity on the spacecraft we used for our measurements (noise, downtime, etc...) so I am kind of familiar with the subject :)

A significant carrington event, in my opinion, would cause some surprising electronic failures, but not likely widespread ones.

The basis for my assumption (and that's all it is) is that previous failures of electronic systems because of solar flares have happened only on large scale electronics systems (power grids) and those systems were older, less shielded, and had bad tolerances.

Modern electronics, at least the bulk that are in daily use are much more shielded, higher quality, and resilient enough to not bring down civilization.

I'd expect it to be something more similar Y2K - definitely hit a few people, cost some money here and there, but literally everyone on the planet heard about it nonstop for quite some time because it might have been bad.

So, I think the tension around this is that, maybe depending on how astronomically large the event is, sure, it could be bad, like, if it stripped away our magnetosphere permanently somehow, yep, that'd suck and probably be a problem for humanity, but I find it to be on the unlikely end of things.

So folks aren't crazy for thinking it might cause some trouble, maybe even widespread, maybe even apocalyptic, but I think it's much more likely it will be an annoying and costly blip for most involved.

As an aside, I bet you'd be surprised with how often modern hardware has bit flips in memory because of cosmic rays alone, and we're mostly OK with that.
Obviously getting it wrong is a problem--but i think you folks are conflating two issues.

If the FBI had wanted to detain this man, would that have made it okay? What if this app had just broadcast the FBIs own reward?

You're reading into it too much, and acting like people want mob justice.

People have been offering rewards for apprehension or 'information about' for my whole life, and no one thought it was weird. But as soon as a tech company does it, the media goes bonkers. This is another example of the ridiculous axe the nedia wants to grind against anything tech.
Based (loosely) on a short story of the same name. I really identified with the character.
A virtual tightrope walk while wearing blinders
> just the ones who decided to sync their photos to it on Android Phones

Isn't that the default? Or am I misremembering having to opt-out of the synching?
That's the dumbest explaination I've ever heard. If it was that simple don't you think the air force would think of that before posting these vids?
I'm surprised you find it tolerable. My Model 3 can get from Portland to Spokane (350 miles) with one charging stop in Kennewick, taking about 6 hours total.

If I use ABRP to simulate the same trip in a 2020 Bolt, it requires 3 stops and over 90 minutes of charging, bringing the trip time to 7 hours and 23 minutes.[1] It's not clear if the trip is actually possible, as the the first stop is at a used car dealership in The Dalles which claims to only allow Nissans to charge there.[2] The latest checkin says it's inoperable.

With the supercharger network, you know in advance if the station is having any issues (including simply being full). Other charging companies are getting better, but the current patchwork is too uncertain for me to deal with. If I had a Bolt, I'd probably rent a car for long distance trips. (Please don't take this as insulting the Bolt. It's far less expensive than a Model 3 Performance. With the money saved, you could probably fly for every long distance trip for the lifetime of the car.)

1. https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=4912118b-c0bd-486...

2. https://www.plugshare.com/location/1538
> Obviously

It's not obvious to me. Can you provide evidence that we can rely on the social dynamics you're describing?
This seems very squirelly. How would they value the equity stake in a privately held company? Just by assets controlled in the company? What if those assets are illiquid and hard to value? If you use the 3K to invest in the business, shouldn't you be capitalizing those expenses? I truly have no idea how these grants work but might be worth talking to an accountant and/or lawyer about
> If people are free to create new chains out of thin air and build networks around it, how is anything digital "scarce"?

For the same reason we speak mostly English, Spanish, Chinese and Hindi, even though there are infinite possible languages.
Another problem is that the models tend to get very very large for what I've seen. A gigabyte to 10s of gigabyes is an undesirable requirement on your local machine.
Put it on your own terms. Every time I've purchased a car for the last 15ish years, I decided on the model, specs, and price I want to pay. I then searched inventory at every dealer within 2 hours of driving and emailed their internet sales manager an offer. I take the lowest two, try to negotiate a few more times via email, sending the lowest quote to the next lowest, etc... once I'm happy with the price, I ask for an out the door itemized price, agree on it, and agree on a meeting time. I show up, sign some papers, drive away.

How is Tesla's process much easier than that?
Christel only legally owned anything of Freenode to sell to Andrew Lee because she took it over in the dissolution of PDPC. If PDPC never legally owned Freenode, it would be owned by... Rob Levin's estate? So I think PDPC did own Freenode in some form.
It affects me and other people working on it. I have to make sure the systems running the dependencies have an appropriate Python and C(++) toolchain installed. If they use Node bindings, they will probably need to be updated for newer versions of Node.

When I come back to the project after some time, the first thing I need to do is update dependencies. I often had colleagues on whose devices some dependency would just refuse to compile for one reason or another.

Sure, this isn't the greatest problem in the Node ecosystem right now, but it's painful enough that I would rather not deal with it.
It doesn't matter where you live, young kids will get into trouble. Most places that is limited to kids and they grow up.
People are absolutely, utterly, batshit about a thing that has been falling steadily for decades:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191208/reported-cases-of...

We can definitely do better -- I'd particularly love to see them start taking death threats on the Internet seriously -- but if people are becoming increasingly incensed despite the fall in the crime rate, it's because their perceptions are for some reason driven by something other than actual facts on the ground. And in particular, there is less of a need for vigilantism, not more.
The history of socialism, communism, capitalism or other isms seem to show an eventual concentration of money and power whichever way it starts. Would equalization be recurring ?
Has anyone had any success getting the software to work?

It's entirely unpackaged: https://repology.org/projects/?search=voice2json https://pkgs.org/search/?q=voice2json

Docker image is broken, how'd that happen?

$ voice2json --debug train-profile
ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/voice2json/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/deepspeech/impl.py", line 14, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 670, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 583, in module_from_spec
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1043, in create_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
ImportError: numpy.core.multiarray failed to import
I mean this is the same forum that whipped itself into a frenzy trying to track down a random kid they collectively decided must have been behind the Boston marathon bombing.
No.

PoS is a trust-based system. No different than fiat.

PoW is a work-based system. Similar to gold.

You can't have a free lunch. Sorry.
Is the China-Hollywood Romance Officially Over?
Maybe they're only using Stripe to remit the payment to the seller.
Serviceable, sure. But the crew cab has a cavernous rear seat area. I used to drive a BMW 5 series and now drive an F-450 w/Crew Cab (my wife and live full-time in a Fifth Wheel RV, otherwise I'd never own such a large vehicle). I was astounded when I saw just how much more rear leg room the truck has compared to the 5 series.
Though how sure were you that it was Chrysler that sent you that USB stick? Not that I don’t think it was legit but is that really more secure than an encrypted OTA update?
I think there's a difference between "One drawback is higher pedestrian fatality rates" and "They're basically custom-designed to kill pedestrians and bikers".
$18mm/year for 5-15 software engineers? Seems just a bit excessive. (maybe you confused the monthly vs yearly rate)
The CEO does want mob justice. The original name of the app was Vigilante!
Por que no los dos?

But really the potential of prions is so bad if they could realise it we’d already be done for, they’d be a homogenising swarm.

Fungi though, fungi already do a lot, and they’re as ridiculously varied and flexible as they’ve been neglected. The next zoonotic threat being fungi makes a lot of sense, and it sounds rather bad.
One question: what is the range at, say, 2/3 of the max towing capacity, with a normally aerodynamic trailer?
And meteors, and murder hornets, and rip current, and sun flares, and cholesterol, and lightnings, tornados, straight-line wind, fast food, microwaves... and ... and ...

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives" - William Wallace
The police are useless for both crime prevention and crime solving no matter where you live.

> Rampant property crime is basically only a feature of the urban west coast and a maybe handful of cities in the mid-west and east.

Surprise when you live near more people, there's more chance you live near a criminal.

It's all anecdata. I lived in a remote rural area that had like no property crime for over a decade, then a spate of break-ins.

The police do absolutely nothing there too. They supposedly dusted our whole house for fingerprints after the break in and couldn't find a single one, including our fingerprints.

Entire house. not a single fingerprint. After receiving federally-sponsored forensics training they publicly boasted about.
Here's some hard data: Amazon is one of the largest internet companies out there, and most of us don't need to write anything approaching that kind of scale. Not by a long shot.
A long rant about Ruby, its value, its innovations, and its (sad) fate
It was a fairly common issue when .dev first launched. https://andycroll.com/ruby/clean-up-broken-dev-domains-after...
You must be a special kind of stupid to mine Bitcoin in Iran. Why bother with the IRG when you could just as easily mine it next door in Dubai?
Yeah, that was one of the worst instances of mob “justice” I’ve ever seen. Innocent people were identified and targeted and investigators were forced to release information about the suspects early, which may have been directly responsible for even more bloodshed [1]. A bunch of internet obsessives playing detective from their keyboards is almost always a bad idea.

As is everything that Vigilante/Citizen is doing. Having the CEO put out a cash bounty, even if it was for the right person (it wasn’t) is gross. Putting out “patrol cars” on the streets of LA when you have no authority is disgusting.

Creating a rent-a-cop as a service model, especially when buoyed by bad data, is quite literally going to get people killed.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/insid...
What's the license on this PDF? It doesn't look like a free book.
In PoW my GPU can only hash one chain at a time so I have to pick a fork to continue on. This is true for everyone else too, so the incentive is to mine the fork that will most likely live since you can’t earn coin without mining.

In PoS, I hold tokens and when a fork happens, I’d hold tokens in both forks now (same parent token in both child forks). I can trivially run 2 validators where I stake my tokens in both forks. This is possible because validation in PoS was meant to not consume much resources, so running 2 is affordable. The incentive is to stake both forks because doing so means I’ll pick the right fork (by picking all) and thus preserve my stake in at least one fork.
It wasn't boring. I made my 4th and 5th kids, grew a big garden, maintained procps, added features to Tux Paint, and messed with reusing CVS's silly single-use video camera.

Maybe it was worth it. It definitely was expensive, despite living cheaply. I didn't prepare at all, aside from my normal habit of living below my means.
How do you validate that a thumbdrive sent to you is actually from the vendor? Is that really more secure than a properly encrypted OAT update? Security has lots of blind corners.
For people involved with technology I think this is a perfect response to "how hard can it be" - no matter if they're discussing how to keep toilet paper stocked or why cURL can be replaced with five lines of shell script - it emphatically shows how complicated something apparently simple can be once you start diving into it.
the space of .com addresses are physically limited. the space in manhattan is physically limited.

creation of a new cryptocurrency does not have such limits. like everything else digital. it is the same difference between physical goods, and software. software costs zero to copy. physical goods are physically limited.

so, with the topic of this post's link - even if someone somewhere perfects the security scheme of a blockchain, in the end it all is futile - because it can be copied. If there is enormous pressure by some powerful entities to an on-chain fork, but it is not feasible because of all the built-in security of the blockchain system and protocol, they can still have enough influence to create a new coin, undermining the "limited" property of the first coin. It is a new brand of coin, operated, mined, minted by mostly different people. The coin has the same features, same security - but liquidity is directly stolen from other coins because we have finite amount of people. Through exchanges, you can exchange them. In the end, when you remove the "get rich quick" scheme, they are all the same, and can be issued infinitely, albeit on different "names". Don't get too hung up on names.

You can't tell me "the network is too valuable, it is impossible create additional coins" either because that is what has been happening from the beginning. All those coins, with slightly different features - in the end perhaps one will have it all, but what is the ultimate purpose? Given enough pressure, it can be copied, new "money" can still come into circulation to be used by people that accept it. It is not impossible, it is happening, has always happened since bitcoin. Each dogecoin minted today, affects the value of bitcoin tomorrow.