skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not just talking about denial of service or 51% attacks, I'm talking about refusal of service.

You can't just push some change that 99% of miners will refuse to mine blocks for. The remaining 1% would not be able to mine blocks for a long time with their puny hashrate. You'd have to reset difficulty and the system would be left in a highly vulnerable state. It would be a huge disruption. For that reason, nodes wouldn't attempt to enforce a change without significant miner support.

You can have reasonably clean fork only if enough miners agree on something, but that implies that the interest of miners is given a lot of consideration.
Quite familiar with Fort Mac, have family on both sides there and spent Christmas there every couple years.

It doesn't get to -50C, except as severe outlier. -40C in overnights for short periods of time in the winter.

Average temps: https://images.climate-data.org/location/4623/climate-graph....
Great story, and that approach to troubleshooting ought to be familiar to anyone that worked in IT and seemed to "magically" figure out problems (at least to anyone observing them).

One note on editing - you use the phrase "to be honest" in two consecutive sentences in the first paragraph.
Your Yubikey (but not Yubico's cheaper Security Key product and the dozens of other similar cheaper products) is able to do public key signatures exactly like the ones SSH supports anyway, so GitHub didn't do anything to support those.

But modern OpenSSH can do FIDO, the same technology that drives U2F and its replacement WebAuthn, and is in all those cheaper and more popular products. FIDO won't sign arbitrary data with keys, it will only perform a very specific operations and so OpenSSH grew a whole separate set of public key authentication types to support that approach, and GitHub is announcing their support for these extra types.

There are some neat features beyond "this makes cheaper devices work" but GitHub mostly does not use them, although they do choose to require that your Security Key verify you are present (typically by touching a sensor or clicking a physical button) whereas your existing Yubikey setup might not be doing that and GitHub can't force you to.
How much of that experience is true in USA startup scene? I feel like this might be a special case for SF. Because here in Canada most of the people who work at tech aren’t rich at all and they tend to be more nerdy than snobby. I guess fintech scene might be more classist though.
The other thing I believe they are missing is that they are treating the Earth as a single data point for ambiogenesis.

The entire Earth's history is hundreds of millions of data points.

Each year that a habitable Earth existed prior to life evolving can be seen as a data point. ... and with life emerging very very near its habitability transition, this reduces the drake error bars considerably.

The real limitation of the Drake equation is the duration at which life sends out radio signals - which given technological advancement and AI is probably only a couple hundred years.
in my experience at the gym, you don't need to communicate with anyone at all. you take the free equipment, you lift, you make sure to put everything in its place, you shower and go home. wtf?
And this is across class lines, no?
A lot of this list just reads that they have coworkers who are jerks. Not interacting with cleaning staff? That seems like a personal problem. And I’ve seen plenty of frugal VPs that drive 15 year old cars and make their own lunch.

That said, I was also pretty horrified once when I was waiting in the lunch line and heard the person in front of me complaining that their six month $100k bonus wasn’t as high as they thought it would be right as the person making their plate of free food handed it over to them. There’s always going to be at least some rude, thoughtless people; the best thing you can do is to try to avoid hiring them.
Yeah, and I don’t think there are any direct flights, so it’s even more painful. Best-case scenario is a stop in Frankfurt, IIRC.
Are indoor rock climbing and adult soccer known to be especially expensive activities? I haven't done much indoor rock climbing, but I've done a lot of adult soccer, mostly for free.
What once was the King’s Assembly: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/70308014/kings-assembly...
Development drives dynamics of living chiral crystals
I think it varies a lot by gym.

Ironically (for this thread), all the private rich-person gyms I've been to have mostly been populated by people who were not in good shape, and everybody was very friendly.

But these were also "health clubs" in the old school sense, not a fancy gym like Equinox where I would never even set foot.

Edit: I also have heard enough gym bullying stories to believe that it can and does happen, but it seems maybe only under circumstances that I have never been in.
And how it should taste at this stage of the process. It needs experience to try some dough and extrapolate from it how the cake/bread/... will taste after baking it. Same with many sauces, for example. Things change when mixed with pasta, potatoes, veggies, meat. A sauce is much stronger without them. If you taste it and are inexperienced you may think "just right" and the dish will end up terribly bland.
That got my attention as well, but instead it made me think that maybe the author exaggerated a bit here and there.
So have you seen Gtk+ as of lately?
Do you think it might be possible to appreciate the reality and sincerity of someone's experiences while also questioning the validity of their interpretations? Would this be a form of substantive engagement on the merits of the piece?

Personally, I see someone describing a number of points of cultural difference and an author who wholeheartedly believes they have identified the root of all of them. Is it worth discussing that the real, indisputably valid lived experience of the author, might also be linked to other things?
Humans are genetics + knowledge/culture.

Wars typically are as much about spreading culture as they are about genetics. Religious crusades are a way to spread culture without genetics.

Humans seem to have a desire to increase both their genetic and cultural footprint into other humans. Make sense really - expansionist traits tend to survive.
> There's no point being overly defensive about these things. People with all kinds of life experience can learn from each other.

I don’t think this is the fault of the author. When you’ve never had the chance or experience or bank account to dream of doing something that many people take for granted it’s easy to sort of clam up or realize your different and that you have to try harder to fit in.
> we could make better ones

Who is the "we" deciding what tradeoffs are better?
Leaving Freenode for a new network
And now jess, kline, and Md: https://gist.github.com/jesopo/45a3e9cdbe517dc55e6058eb43b00... https://www.kline.sh https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461
That copy is horrible. How about one sentence that says what the damn thing is.
> The idea the UK was late is doing the rounds inside the UK establishment but it's wrong.

You seem frankly a bit divorced from reality. If you go to a chart of the daily incidence rate before either the first or the second wave, then mark on it when the lockdowns occurred, it's clearly visible that they occurred too late.

I had to discourage my at-risk mother from going to a choral Christmas concert last year, at a time when they were clocking 40,000 new cases every day and that number was doubling every few days. That chart is etched into my brain because of how worried I was, and at the time, conservative ministers were still going on TV and talking about a five day christmas.

If you go to the deaths graph, you can see that as a result of this awful mistake, tens of thousands of people died. This is plainly visible in the statistics. Whatever political axe you have to grind is frankly irrelevant, and to be honest, facetious.
Yep, when you consider a language "done", you can focus on bringing up the DX. I have been loving Elixir since 2016 and haven't looked back since, using it as my primary language for what it's good for, which is web based/distributed workloads.
Administrative control of Freenode and its user data will soon change hands
Got this on IRC just now.

For context, see : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338, https://www.kline.sh/

[Global Notice] Hi all. It feels like my moral responsibility to inform all users that administrative control of freenode and its user data will soon change hands, and I will be resigning from freenode staff effective immediately. It's been an honour to help you all.
Not saying hello is a bit extreme but I feel like often IT people just refrain from initiating conversation with people unrelated to their interests/work
Show HN: Realtime Chat Application with NextJS TypeScript PostgreSQL WunderGraph
But it IS a list of what someone who grew up in poverty did
Professional Development Is a Choice
At least it's not COME FROM.
Thanks for the amazing explanation.

I tried to implement this in C++ where, as usual, everything is possible but nothing is practical:

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/9WGxcPWGd
Would be nice to see Scihub there.
I read the whole thing trying to find something I could relate to, as I grew up in a place that was a proper third world country as recently as in the 90s.

This appears to be American poor - which I think is in its own category, because comparing to American rich it's just so much worse off.

It's not that she's necessarily materially poor. It's just that there's no one around who can even begin to understand her predicament.

I only ever get close to this when I talk with people who have inherited wealth and give sage advice like "you should be saving 70% of you salary".
Some of it is situational though. I only sometimes say hello. I also worked as a janitor before and have no problem with people not saying hello. The bigger issue is if they are ignoring you and messing up your work (getting in the way, ignoring you when you need to get their trashcan from their desk, being an excessive slob like I'm here to clean but you don't have to make my job harder just because you don't have to clean it up yourself).
Poor people would too but it's one of the things they can't afford.
Would you rather sit around, in a cage, in a caged courtyard, in a caged rec room, in a caged gym, or pick up trash on the side of the highway or dig a ditch.

I know what I'd rather do.

Forcing inmates to work under harsh and/or exploitative conditions is wrong but forcing them to do some sort of work for some portion of their time is not inherently wrong. The devil is in the details.
I don't think it's necessary for a language to be in the top 10 to be considered a success. If the people who use it, wouldn't use anything else, then that is the success.
I think one wrinkle in this narrative is that this is about a crypto company, where there was a lot of new money sloshing around too. You won't experience things like this at HP, Adobe, Amazon, or Veritas to name a few companies in the Bay. I've worked at several companies but I've never met someone who went to Greece on a 3 day weekend.
Didn't basically the entire country of Germany fall for it with few exceptions? You think they were evil or just misguided? Maybe they thought they were doing the right thing?
“Less likely”, “more at the mercy”, it still comes down to the individuals choices, it’s not that hard to not be obese when poor.
According to their FAQ, funds are automatically released after the inspection period.

The inspection period can last for up to 30 days, and is agreed upon by all parties at the beginning of the transaction.

https://www.escrow.com/support/faqs/what-if-the-buyer-forget...

https://www.escrow.com/support/faqs/what-is-an-inspection-pe...
I live in Europe now, and it's far less pronounced here. Americans seem much more status and class conscious.
Well yes. That is exactly as society.

We ignore the people that actually feed us (farmers), and instead we focus all our energy on the people that feed us bullshit (Elon M.).
I'm from a developing country where these things are affordable and less wealthy people spend money on cigarettes rather than salads. Here it definitely isn't about money but about having proper food culture
Easiest to use React Form Library in the world
Huh? Elixir isn't memory effecient, compared to what exactly :)?
As Homer said almost 3000 years ago, god likes to pair like with like.
It's a cryptography challenge by a new SF startup, I imagine.
Because it's easy and marketing people can work with it. Access logs don't have all the information ( e.g. viewport) and are cumbersome to parse.
Various different 'societies'.

I mean, humans have lived as groups with rules for thousands of years, I'm not sure what you are getting at.
Many of the comments on this article are so cold. I can’t believe it. When I read the original article I was imagining all the constructive ways HN readers would interpret it and hold a mirror up to their own behaviour. Some commenters are doing this. But it surprises and depresses me how many people are commenting saying “no, this list isn’t what it says it is, it’s a list showing the author has a negative mindset / is not from the Valley bubble, and that problem can be fixed by just getting over it.”. We can do better than that.

As someone who has sat at some interesting class and race intersections during my career in tech, including my time at some very prestigious institutions like the University of Cambridge and FAANG, and has exhibited and noticed many of the listed behaviours and the lack there of, I can say this article had the undeniable ring of truth and made me feel sick to my stomach. Guilty for when I’ve been on the rich side and angry for the times I’ve been on the poor side.

The psychology of growing up with financial uncertainty - and a risk of racial exclusion - is hard to shake and can be passed from parent to child. My life has mostly been financially blessed but you can’t buy your way out of the mindset, or snap your fingers / empty the cache / cycle the power the way the average HN commenter seems to think you can.
I agree that it makes sense for these costs to be factored into a prisoner's pay, since everyone else needs to pay these expenses. That might make a case for someone being paid $3 a hour, not 30 cents an hour. Also, in this case, the savings are passed to private businesses rather than the taxpayers.
There’s a strong correlation, however, which I think comes down to whether you have either done or know someone in that kind of job. People who ignore the staff may not be intentionally mean about it - it’s just outside of their normal frame of reference and they haven’t been introspective about that.
Not sure why you are asking this in this thread, but the implication is that the bullets are fired from ground level, not necessarily horizontally. The maximum distance a projectile can travel when fired from ground level is the basic first result of ballistics.
Society don't "wish to imprison them" they go to prison to pay for a debt with society. Society wishes that nobody committed crimes so there where no prisons. At least I believe so.
Ah. I see. Thanks very much for that insight - so that's why it's possible, but not generally interesting and/or widely pursued.
Coz Scandinavia or Canada....
Also grumble and mniip:
* grumble has quit (Killed (grumble (My fellow staff so-called 'friends' are about to hand over account data to a non-staff member. I'm leaving freenode forever and I recommend you drop your NickServ account to keep your data safe.)))

<mniip> I've resigned from volunteering for freenode for a good reason and I think you should know as well: https://mniip.com/freenode.txt (sorry for the spam (wait that's cliche))
I would like to see this as a franchised service for cafes and bars. It would be nice to be able to treat drinks and the 3d chat experience to a friend who lives in another country. And you know, some conversations are done better at a place other than family home.
Create your own fast mock server with just a JSON file
When I read the title, my immediate thoughts were to the "Silicon Based Life Forms" from Star Trek ;)

But the discovery here is a biological solid state physics: "swimming starfish embryos spontaneously assemble into chiral crystals". Where the structure property relations are determined via embryonic development.
No, you can't. There's no way to get viewport from server logs, and presenting them a form digestible by marketing people isn't easy.
His machine will probably end up costing pretty much as much and be less interesting.

Stefany is a hyper-competent hardware engineer and her machine is excellent. It is an interesting machine -- and it exists. But I personally cancelled my order after a personality conflict with her.

I personally am excited about the Mega65.
My boss once said to me “oh that must drive your cleaning lady nuts” and I just pretended like it did instead of saying that I or my wife take care of it.
Doing mutual auth is great security but it has a horrible privacy story. Advertisers would, I'm sure, love knowing that this visitor to PornHub's custard pie fight section is the exact same person who bought the book "In Praise of the Klan" on Amazon and the one who bought take-out from a Chinese in Denver last Thursday. The clever thing about say WebAuthn is that you get an excellent privacy story to go with your security. Even if PornHub, Amazon and that Chinese place all conspire against you, with the advertisers, they don't end up learning if you're the same person even though you used the same Security Key all over the place.
If you think this person "clearly vastly improved their situation in life" you may need to read the article again.
It is a disadvantage, but it's also the best down detector there is. I think there are a couple of others that just ping websites to see if they're up, and very few websites actually go down down nowadays.

Downdetector.com is meant to be an instantaneous sanity check of whether you should go unplug your router for the 3rd time today or not, and it's pretty great at that, even if it exaggerates a bit.
I didn't know what it was either, but right at the top of the article it says quite clearly:

> Halide, a camera app that combines intuitive, polished design with the powerful features found in professional gear
"if you live in a remote area or small town away from a large city, your access to fresh and non-processed foods is heavily reduced."

This simply isn't true. Most food deserts are in the poorer areas of the cities because nobody is bringing fresh produce in there to sell. If you live in the country or small town, many of these places have farm stands, farmers markets, and local farmers providing seasonal produce to the local stores.

Not to mention, lower density housing generally means that there is enough land to have a veggie garden, depending on the specific circumstances.
Also no scrum!
Liked the look and feel, missing the verses. It's good to do what it proposes: just show text and give basic navigation.

I would just alert users how/where the bookmarks are created, or even better, when they'll be lost if the user performs such-and-such task.
Sure, it's a first class UI mode from the 70's, which is extremely useful. Any development of it would be in direct conflict with its qualities.

> If some tooling doesn't work for us (which means over a terminal), then we don't consider it.

Who is "we"? Even the most die-hard TUI fan uses them through a GUI terminal emulator, making that argument fall entirely apart.
Then eat less of it?
>not noticing missed paychecks is the biggest

I work as a consultant and I regularly forget to send invoices for a month (sometimes two). It's been years since I was living from paycheck to paycheck, I can afford to skip out on months of income and not notice for day-to-day expenses. And I'm lazy about creating invoices (I should automate this and keep a regular activity log instead of pulling stuff from git and emails but yeah).

More importantly I've worked with other consultants and I got the impression that people from finance are used to chasing them for invoices, so I don't think it's that rare.
>From a fairly basic set of morals, both privatized prisons and health care are obviously wrong. [...] In terms of health care, it is providing less and charging more. In terms of prison, it's incarcerating more and spending less / treating worse.

Can't you extended this argument to most things? ie. "privatized food production is obviously wrong because you're providing less and charging more"
I meant that wealthy people should not be too defensive about it.
Close enough. Do I need to buy the "Full Amiga Configuration" or can I build that myself since I had an Amiga?

EDIT: some other sellers:
https://www.amedia-computer.com/en/accueil/275-mist-midi-13-...
https://www.dragonbox.de/en/consoles/other-consoles/mist-fpg...
If you're more into rectanglar shapes, have a look at https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/

"The design system is built React first. We also support core parts of the system in vanilla JS, Angular, Vue, and Svelte. If you’re using a different framework, you can still build components by following our guidelines for other frameworks."

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That would make sense if masks protected me, but that’s not how they work. Masks are not protective of the wearer, they protect the wearer from spreading to others.

The research is months old on this. It seems pretty valid to me, and to public health agencies issuing guidance.

Also from basic logical principles, if vaccinated then masks don’t do much of anything.

I don’t think you owe anyone your rationale for why you wear a mask, but it’s irrational to expect others to wear masks when they are past the point of usefulness. Or to hold negative opinions of people who don’t wear masks.

If anything, wearing masks using faulty logic is something that should be avoided. As trying to avoid all illogical things.
If you want to be even more disappointed in the US look at UNICOR.

Government agencies hire prisoners to do arbitrary work at costs the private sector cannot compete with. License plates are a commonly cited example of a product they produce.

It’s slave labor as the prisoners are paid something absurdly low like a dollar a day.
Cardano contracts won’t be released until August.. optimistically.
𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊: Having expressibility of Riemann integration near a stdlib at all is marvelous!
> Many people simple cannot fathom this. They deny the existing of any such possibility.

Frankly I never thought about it before since I self learned cooking quite easily. Maybe it's my French genetics? ;)

I thought cooking was easy, pastry on another hand requires much more dedication and precision, I would say it's the last 20% of cooking.
Difficult when you're an immigrant. I moved to Canada for this reason, and though the tech scene is great here (Toronto at least), it sucks how everyone here talks about how "terrible" the tech scene is wants to move to SF instead. Feels like a never ending cycle.
Be an ally.
One not really unforgotten but definitely little known is Wisley Airfield [0], right beside the A3 heading into London. Came across it one day on a long bicycle trip, while I suddenly found myself in the middle of a mile-long runway. There are footpaths and a bridleway across it, so it's easily accessible. It also has the interesting feature of armco strips across it, which I think are to stop people from using it for impromptu drag races.

[0] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Wisley,+Woking/@51.30916...
> Personally, I draw the line at a week for non-business travel to Europe, and two weeks for Asia.

Sounds about right, especially when you factor in jetlag.
Why should the site use SSL?

http://n-gate.com/software/2017/