skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But in practice, hash power isn't used to choose between forks. Nobody says ETC is invalid because it has fewer hashes than ETH. It's still a valid chain, even though it has less market value. The same would be true of PoS: one fork would have more legitimacy and market value than the other.

If you're not actually forking, but just operating the protocol normally, PoW chooses between branches just fine, but so does PoS. With Ethereum's version, there's even "finality," which means it's impossible to revert more than a few minutes without destroying a third of the total stake: https://ralexstokes.medium.com/the-finality-gadget-2bf608529...

That's a strict improvement over PoW which only offers a probabilistic guarantee. Both systems can be bypassed by a hard fork, but in both cases the fork will face the same challenge of market value and legitimacy.
I used that, once, during the early stages of the pandemic to avoid going into the store.

They showed up outside of the expected delivery window, left a stack of drywall in my front yard in the rain, and didn't ring the bell or notify me in any way. I found it several hours later.

While I understand they were likely overworked due to Covid in this instance, this kind of thing happens often enough I can only use it when I have space to securely store materials delivered several days before I need them.

To their credit, Home Depot did refund me; but I still had no dry wall when I needed it.

Also, you can't get immediate delivery when you're in the middle of a project and mess up a cut on your last sheet of plywood. There's no ctrl+z with a saw.
They address some of it on their documentation.

It’s seems that various version of sign language will be their first target of non audio communication.
Hours into ceasefire deal, Israeli police storm Al Aqsa compound once more
The Chisnall article is a tutorial in incorrect Computer Architecture. PDP11s had caches by the 1970s and always had memory management. IPL was invented in the 1960s and has nothing to do with C. Branch predictors were invented in the 1960s too and one of the first machines C was ported to was the IBM370 which had super sophisticated IPL. Etc.
I strongly feel that an app like this is not appropriate or beneficial to the public.

Notifying people of safety issues effectively? Very admirable and wonderful.

Offering bounties to track down individuals as a private organization? It just comes off as rocky to me, perhaps unethical, and ripe for abuse and mistakes.
> This section seems to contradict the rest of the comment ?

this is intentional. this is why I said pretend to be democracy. like you've pointed out, there's a contradiction, but it's resolved in accepting that we do have an accountable group of people, however they are also being manipulated, but we don't know who the manipulators are. hence, we're being (indirectly) controlled by pseudo-anonymous elites.

in theory there should be a stable equilibrium between the (corrupt) representatives and the population as they are identified.

at least with democracy we can punish the puppets.
Fair, it's been a few years since I rented one. It still works better than a truck in most cases since it protects your stuff from rain, car exhaust, mud splashes etc.
Researchers see atoms at record resolution
Whether you ever take a roadtrip is not 99% psychological. Sure you more commonly stay within range but for instance I drive several hours to see my family regularly. No supercharging stations would prohibit that or 2-3x the time taken.
We only ship downloads from sublimetext.com. Any other avenues like homebrew, flatpak, etc. are supplied by third parties with no relation to us. Sublime Text on macOS has its down update mechanism that you may prefer over homebrew.
To paraphrase Alan Perlis, would you like a lollipop with that?
> And while Citizen said it plans to get it right next time, Frame suggested in a Slack message that it won’t be the last time Citizen offers a cash reward. “We need to build this into the product and we will,” he wrote.

Lesson definitely not learned.
Thanks. Wasn't aware of this. I'm probably never going back to the default view.
It's not like ethereum, zcash or even bitcoin blockchains are essence of simplicity in the first place. They are quite math hardcore anyway.
Try to take 3 months off maximum.

With my paid job I sometimes got overwhelmed and sometimes felt a lack of purpose. At those times I found solace in side projects and would even try to sneak in working on them at my paid job. A few of those projects were successful enough to quit my paid job for a few years.

Since then I've turned to quitting my job first and then trying to start a side project. It's not the same and I haven't succeeded. When you have infinite time you stop to value it. You can always do it tomorrow or next month and the procrastination or perfectionism creep in.

My sister says that if you really want something done, you should give it to the busiest person you know. It seems contradictory, but the busy person values their time and they will get your task done as fast and as efficiently as possible.
Obviously the people who have the most to lose are most motivated to maintain the currencies stability/trustworthiness no? Isn't that the idea? If the people with the most start screwing around, everybody will stop using the currency and they will be left with nothing.
Yes, that one is especially nasty as &p->bar[0] is a constant expression completely solvable at compile time.
It's equivalent to the offsetof() macro of stddef.h
Why wouldn't a fuse protect from emp-like damage?

My understanding is that an emp introduces electrical currents in the lines. Protecting the transformer from electrical overloads should protect it from emp. No?
So I don't like the GP's attitude at all, and I am stunned at how dismissive an unkind they've been on multiple posts about Nyxt.

But I think I'm beginning to realize more concretely what they mean about potential security issues with Nyxt and the way it reuses engines from other browsers.

I think it's something like this: some functions in engines written for other browsers may assume that they will only be called from other parts of the browsers they're designed for, or similar browsers. They may assume some inputs are safe, or that they'll only be invoked in the context of a sandbox or whatever. That assumption may hold in their original uses, but Nyxt could expose them to novel uses where those assumptions are untrue, and that could have security implications.

I think maybe this is the reason that GP assumes Google might go out of their way to break compatibility or discourage the use of their engine with Nyxt.

I guess what I'm left wondering is: is it obvious that this would be a negative for Google or Apple or whomever? Why would we expect the security fixes needed for calling some functions in unexpected contexts to get in the way of the engine developers?

How could you see that relationship playing out, if Nyxt exposes vulnerabilities in these engines that aren't reachable from the browsers they're designed for?
My current employer migrated from AWS to GCP (Before my employment with them) because they don't like Jeff Bezos, things are sometimes... odd when dealing with very small businesses.
I have seen posts and comments about new Carrington events or similar with such frequency, over such a period of time, and with such uniform distribution along the spectrum from "no problem!" to "everyone will die!" that I don't think I can reasonably think about it any more, or make good judgements on the validity of the arguments.

I've seen physicists, power workers, electricians, congressional testimony, and lay loons on all sides over and over, and been convinced in opposing ways multiple times. It feels a little bit like reading about diets!

Outside of "become a physicist", anyone have any recommendations for cutting through the noise on topics like this?
> “Let’s find this guy, activate safety network completely,” Frame wrote, according to screenshots of internal Slack messages obtained by The Verge. “This is a great transition of Citizen back to active safety. We are not a news company. We are safety and we make this sort of heinous crime impossible to escape from. That needs to be our mindset.” The bounty was later raised to $30,000.

> However Frame first saw the false identification, the Slack messages show he saw it as an “opportunity” for Citizen to fulfill its “true mission.”

> “We know the guy is out there,” said one host, according to Castle. “We need our users to get out there and bring this guy to justice.”

> And while Citizen said it plans to get it right next time, Frame suggested in a Slack message that it won’t be the last time Citizen offers a cash reward. “We need to build this into the product and we will,” he wrote.

These are scary quotes. The Citizen [app] CEO apparently wants to reframe their company as some sort of vigilante justice machine instead of a simple crime alert app. And he's willing to throw money at it. Of course their first push for vigilante justice is against the wrong person.

Given that The Verge has obtained company Slack transcripts, I assume some of the employees are pushing back from the inside. Let's hope the employees continue fighting against this.
I don't think I understand the point you are making. Power = product of two quantities. You have these two quantities in various domains: I and V, F and v, T and O, P and Q, ...

The analogizing comes from saying "I is like P and V is like Q", or vice versa.

2nd order ODEs are very common, and I agree that it is unifying to see different systems modeled by the same equation. But I think more fundamental than that is the understanding of "through" and "across" variables, the notion of a "port" [1], and series/parallel toplogies for combining two one-port components to form a new one-port component.

You could still make an analogy between domains, even if you don't have second-order ODEs. This is clear even from your comment because, note that a spring+damper is going to be a first-order ODE. You would need moving mass to store kinetic energy, in addition to the spring to store potential energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_(circuit_theory)
Honestly do not understand it either. It’s nice to have a giant bucket attached to your car! It lets you do all kinds of useful things plus you can still get to all the places that smaller cars can.
Tesla's handle this pretty well, it auto routes you to supercharges and tells you how long to charge, etc.
My first impression was, why is my watch company going after someone. It is not the watch company, it is an app trying to make a name for itself.
Build an Edge Computing System with Nginx, Lua and Rails
A long time ago... used it a lot in 80x50 line text mode, lightening fast, good macro and configuration options (ISTR a separate tool to "reconfigure" the main binary). Had many of the same default bindings as the Borland IDEs, handy since the TurboC IDE used to run out of steam around 1000 loc or so, that's when I learned Makefiles.

Never took to TSE, sequence of bad experiences with stability.
I'd say that if you control both the DNS and own the network data (chanserv/nickserv/etc) you own the network. You can at any point stand up an entirely different infrastructure, staffed by entirely different people, switch over to it and the users just migrate over as they reconnect. It would look like a really bad net split that doesn't resolve without reconnecting. The splintering network can just advertise a new DNS and fork the network although legally they may not have a claim on the data.

In this case it seems the DNS might have been sold in rather murky circumstances a while ago although the technical control of the DNS was not handed over. That seems to be the DNS change that was the focal point for the current crisis, when, presumably under legal threat, the staff handed that over.

The network data doesn't seem to have been explicitly owned by anyone. The volunteers managed the servers donated by other entities. In a court it would probably be really hard to figure out who owned that data given the lack of an entity the users where agreeing to a ToS with. But now the Freenod Limited company does control everything at least technically. If there was a hostile takeover it was that one. The staff apparently didn't think they could just take a backup of the data and move it over to the new network either. Maybe they've conceded they didn't have a claim on that data or they were cautious for legal reasons.
> That is, if there are two competing chains, A and B, then if a validator creates a block on B, they get a reward of +R on B, but the block header can be included into A

What if it can't (we do ETH 2.342 variant (which doesnt cost us anything contrary to PoW forks) with modified header and later it wins)?
I was very involved with Logo back in the 1970s and 80s. I spent a fair bit of time at BBN working with Wally Feurzeig and crew, and ran a number of Logo workshops for teachers here in British Columbia.

I finally gave up when I realized that most of the teachers I worked with saw the pretty pictures produced by the screen turtle as the goal, rather than the deep insights produced by the programming process. For them, Logo was never going to be anything more than an Etch-a-Sketch.

Sigh
No, it's a symmetric system, they're just random values.
> I always find it funny when people bring up "big and virile" type lines about truck owners. "They're compensating for something..." These people need to get their minds out of the gutter, stop thinking everything is about penis.

I used to work at a horse racing track and every single jockey (really small dudes) had the hugest truck you have ever seen. We're talking Ford F-350 with a lift kit and bigger tires. The works. You needed to use a ladder to get in them.

There is definitely a thing that some people want bigger, taller vehicles because it makes them feel bigger and stronger. And there is definitely a thing that truck size becomes a pissing contest for some men where it's not just enough to have a big truck, you need to have the biggest one among your peers.

(And if you think nerds are immune to this phenomenon, perhaps take a more critical look at your gaming PC, boardgame collection, etc. We're a tribal species competing for mates using status symbols. Few of us are totally immune to this effect.)

At the same time, many truck owners are not motivated by that and painting them all with the same brush is uncharitable and unkind. I drive a pick-up. I absolutely love it. I have yet to kill any children, destroy the ozone layer, crush another car in a parking lot, or any of the other many moral crimes this thread seems to accuse most truck owners of.

Paraphrasing Freud, sometimes a truck is just a truck.
Star Trek spent a lot of time dealing with scarcity problems for a show about people who don't get paid a salary.

Waste is a problem that has its own friction built into it. As long as waste costs you something, you have some greater incentive to end it. Until we have some better way to prevent waste, the opposite of scarcity is excess, not satiation.

There are not an infinite number of things, and there are not an infinite number of places to externalize the consequences without feeling them.

On a ship in the literal middle of nowhere, scarcity is still breathing down your neck at every turn, and there is a strong group incentive to controlling waste, otherwise everybody dies. I'm not sure the STNG utopia plays out the same way on inhabited worlds.
That seems irrelevant, unless your company weds people
Consider that part of the audience are developers who've dabbled in HTML/CSS over the years, but never frequently enough to stay current. We have old habits to unlearn. The context helps.
The cryptocurrency world is also implicitly accepting the Austrian economics definition of money as a commodity that's useful as a means of exchange and becomes currency naturally without coercion or government intervention. It's useful to point out that this is not a mainstream economics view of money, at all. The Austrian view is easy to grasp intuitively but it leads to some bizarre conclusions and adverse events in the long run. There's a reason we don't use the gold standard.

Bitcoin looks like a great proposition if you automatically accept the Austrian / libertarian view of money, but its value seems contingent on holding that view, and it seems that Bitcoin proponents are not adequately interrogating their own assumptions about money and economics that underpin their bullish views. Fish that don't see water, so to speak.
Believe me, the market would prefer the older, smaller, steel framed trucks than the newer aluminum ones. But they're no longer an option, new.

EPA regulation and govt overreach/ unintended consequences are what led to these design changes, not market demand.

The blue-book price for my 12 year old steel-framed truck has gone up every year since I bought it used.

>before they turned into a political/biological/emotional statement piece

The anti-truck crowd, which supported all the regulations that led to the current state of vehicle design, are the ones that made this a political/emotional issue, whether they realize it or not.
https://energsustainsoc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

gic resistors

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-19-98.pdf
Anyone without a badge can be assumed to be unvacinated.

Let's use AIDS for example, they make a badge that is certified AIDS free and then offer free AIDS testing then you can assume anyone without the badge has AIDS.

This is a hipaa violation by publishing some users information that has approval and waivers you are exposing the other users information.

Going with this example, let's say you have a group of people who voted wrong and you want to punish them, you don't let them display the AIDS free badge. It is an abuse vector.
> ... how much I hate my local dealer and the whole dealership system in general

I can't recommend enough just how refreshing it is to go to a no-haggle dealership after having experienced a regular dealership.

The wife and I walked into the dealership, test drove a vehicle, and walked out with the signed proof-of-sale in just over an hour.

Obviously, you're not getting THE BEST price, but the no-haggles in our area handily beat the prices of every single neighbouring dealership by a heck of a lot more than I think I'd be able to beat them down to.

Last time I bought a car it took probably close to 6-8 hours of back-and-forth, telephone game with the manager, and I still felt like I got ripped off. Never again.
That article is nonsensical. Seymour Cray and colleagues and Tomasula and colleagues invented ILP, branch prediction, etc. in the 1960s before C was thought of. The PDP11 is much more similar to modern x86s than to the weird architectures of the 1970s.
"Any car with adaptive cruise control and autosteering is gonna behave identically to a Tesla with autopilot for 99% of the time behind the wheel."

This isn't even close to true. Most LKAS and ADAS systems will only last a few seconds before they require human intervention. It is not at all the same experience.
They are relatively easy to recycle, and valuable enough that "metal theft" is a thing. Remember all the rusted-out cars that folks had in their yards? They're mostly gone now.

See "Junkyard Planet; Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade" by Adam Minter, fascinating book IMO.
You are right, dealerships aren't by definition terrible places. It all comes down to how they are run. If they are run by people just looking to make the fastest dollar, then yes you are going to have a bad time. But some are run by people that know a repeat customer is a good customer and therefore go out of their way to make you happy.
Science works that way in the minds of scientists, whose vast experience gives them dozens of actual data studies they've read to speculate from. Researchers have read about thousands of cases, they're the ones with the refined intuition, not forum readers.

Specifically: Is it productive for HN users to have anecdotal evidence rise to the top, or actual peer-reviewed evidence from studies with N=100 or N=10,000? I'd argue if layman HN users have time to read only one comment, we should upvote the N>1 comments, not N=1.

From the guidelines: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

We went from an international article (N=745k) to anecdata, which is a downgrade of substance in my view.
Nowadays in Rails-land there's lots of tools to manage that, [the latest](https://blog.saeloun.com/2020/02/25/rails-strict-loading-mod...) integrated into Rails itself.

ORMs can be bad, but it's not fair to blame them "just because".
Ford released the e-Transit before the Lightning!

https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/e-transit/2022/
I try to avoid contemplation except when I am in front of my computer because that is where it is easiest to transition from contemplating something to taking actions about that thing.

(An example of an action would be my setting a reminder for me to contemplate further in the future.)
Microsoft fought for several years against C, trying to migrate everyone to C++ as the future of Windows systems programming.

Yet Azure Sphere, despite its security message, uses C only SDK.

Meanwhile Visual Studio now supports C11 and C17.

Market pressure, their customers weren't willing to buy into it, and the new Microsoft also wants all those POSIX FOSS packages written in C running on Windows.
Do you really haul 2000lb loads weekly?

Your list of items "(getting plywood sheets/siding/lumber, dump runs, towing, etc)." all seems perfectly doable with a trailer. I never had any trouble hauling trailers with my Subaru WRX sedan.
Anarchism is traditionally another word for communism. Anti-hierarchy. So but reading about seems the term is loaded and can mean many things: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

How this got downvoted is beyond me, if you see the link you will find how intertwined their histories are.

> Major schools of thought of anarchism sprouted up as anarchism grew as a social movement, particularly anarcho-collectivism, anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, and individualist anarchism. As the workers' movement grew, the divide between anarchists and Marxists grew as well. The two currents formally split at the fifth congress of the First International in 1872,
This is great. What would you recommend for someone who wanted to get started painting?

(Particular books/videos? Kit? Or better to sit in on a local class?)
It is the base E Class in the American market. Americans don't drive <150 HP manual cars and would never buy them. Those are the only versions of cars that get substantially better gas mileage then the versions of cars that Americans typically drive.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Edit: the ostensibly good intentions are to "empower community policing".
Hans Hermann Hoppe has written a book (popular in the ancap community) on the anarcho-capitalist ideals. The dilemma you present has been addressed by the scholars in the field. If you are genuinely intrigued by these questions you might find it interesting.

Democracy: The God That Failed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/980031.Democracy
I would add that some proof of work blockchains are non-forkable e.g. polkadot
That kind of feature requires integrating a TypeScript compiler, akin to an IDE. Sublime Text is first and foremost a text editor and such doesn't have that kind of information. You may want to look at plugins like LSP for that.