skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are both mostly right, as I understand it.

If I had >50% hashing power of BTC(for exactly 1 transaction), I can make the current chain say anything I want, like give me all the BTC, and it would become valid and "permanent". To re-write actual history takes a lot more work, and wouldn't be possible with 51% for 1 transaction.. If I was able to maintain 51% control for a long time, then I can do anything I want for as long as I have 51% control. Though I imagine after that very 1st transaction, the world of BTC would blow up and everyone would stop hashing BTC as there would be zero point as the current chain is now effectively useless.

This is the real issue that I see, 1 transaction of 51% power is enough to permanently wipe out all of BTC's worth. As far as I'm aware every crypto currency basically has this same problem.
QoL is much much better in the city IMO. The only downside is rent, and maybe parking. I have access to lively nightlife, food, shops, etc, whereas in suburbs stuff is closed by 8/9PM.

Of course, this varies by stage of life; I don't have kids, so I'd prefer the city to a suburb.
This will be banned in the next 15 minutes.
> football making billions from people watching some people kick a ball about

Presumably ritualized tribal combat has a long history.

As does religion.
Remapping CapsLock on Solus Budgie
> Texas felt the same way until February!

And I have a friend who lives in Texas. The pipes in the outer walls froze and burst, the ones in the inner walls did not.
He totally got out of Japan though.
> "not mandatory but really you should show up to play politics"

Yep. Enough of that bullshit already.

> Currently working from home gives me all of that and I haven't been happier with a job ever.

Same here!
Friends and family are my largest reason for wanting to live in a location. A lot of my friends live in very high cost of living areas. So I will aim to be comfortable living in those same places. It definitely is a lot more expensive than state I grew up in, Oklahoma, but it’s cost I accept.

I still like full remote for flexibility it gives especially with a trip for a couple weeks/months but long term location I’d probably end up in the Bay Area independent of my work just from friends.
At this point, Asians should stop supporting BLM.

No BLM influencers (e.g. Trevor Noah) criticize blacks on Asians violence. One time they criticized is when it was white killing Asian (you can look it up).

If BLM happens, Asian people, please, just be against it. Nobody would help you when you are attacked by black.

Blacks do not stand with asians
I am with you. Imo the shell is where I go to focus. Not constantly get distracted by colors and popups. Also, I don't need a VC backed disingenuous tool spying on me
> How many people are we?

We are Steven, Simon, and Sarah.

> How many berries do we need to collect for each.

A handful for each.

> How big a foundation is needed for this building.

What building? You haven't even built the foundation yet.

And so on. You can do without numbers. And in fact people did all of the above without measuring quantities in any meaningful way in the history of humanity.
Play armchair critic with your hypothetical scenarios all you want, but the objective outcome of this ordeal was preventing a bad actor from getting away with a legally and morally unjust act. The only thing violated was his pride by getting caught by someone a full head shorter and probably >50lbs lighter than him.
> it might be good advice in Seattle

Jeez, of course one pays attention to the local climate. I don't worry about tornadoes in Seattle, but would if in the midwest.
It is interesting to compare to the state of play in understanding sauropod vasculature, which is at best wholly incoherent, with published calculations showing that their heart would need to be larger than would fit in their rib cage, and others carefully demonstrating why suction from blood draining back down the neck wouldn't help lift it up. The incoherence is visible even in Wikipedia pages.

There are claims published, in all earnestness, that they couldn't lift their heads above shoulder level.

It is apparently taboo to discuss the necessity of auxiliary hearts in the neck, or even of check valves.
This headline feels like it is written to generate outrage. It’s not that it’s inaccurate (since it’s factual), but rather that it invokes a feeling of bailing out the world’s richest man instead of focusing on the company and what capability they bring. Bernie Sanders is quoted in the article, also with the same spin: “It does not make a lot of sense to me that we would provide billions of dollars to a company owned by the wealthiest guy in America”.

This is about ensuring a healthy and competitive space technology ecosystem in the US. It’s about redundancy. It’s about not losing all the progress an organization like Blue Origin has made, since starting from zero will be more expensive. To me it seems prudent to make a $10B investment here, which is small when compared to other policy packages the Biden administration has proposed.
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The crowd is also attacking the white female passengers, but black-on-white crime is generally ignored by the media, including in this story.
Does black-on-asian violence have some kind of special status in comparison to black-on-any-other-skin-color violence?
"This means that concrete structures, for all their stone-like superficial qualities, are actually made of the skeletons of sea creatures ground up with rock. It takes millions upon millions of years for these sea creatures to live, die and form into limestone. This timescale contrasts starkly with the life spans of contemporary buildings."

This description is fairly accurate. The CaCO3 (used as a source of calcium in the cement component of concrete) is completely decarbonated in a 1450°C kiln in the process of cement manufacture, combined with silica (from shale) +/- SO4 (from gypsum) and sintered to form an anhydrous calcium silicate (clinker: e.g. tricalcium silicate, Ca3SiO5, ‘alite’), then powdered (e.g. ordinary Portland cement, OPC). The skeletal limestone is long gone — and the above decarbonation step is the reason cement manufacturing process is a significant GHG source (in addition to fuel consumption by the kiln itself).

Mixing water with the powdered clinker generates a very rapid, exothermic, partial dissolution of the primary silicate. The rapid release of silica results in nucleation and growth of calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) plus Ca(OH)2. CSH binds the remaining unreacted solid mass together, giving cement its durability and strength.
It's just yet another substack. Zaid Jilani has been reporting for a long time. He's been associated with totally disreputable outlets like truthout and mostly disreputable outlets like thinkprogress. For the last year or two he's been playing the role of useful contrarian minority for a variety of right wing thinkers.
Ha, thanks for asking. Sure, all that works (and more) except the karaoke. Long story short, I have another chronic illness known as hyperacusis. Google it if you care.

But a more valuable answer has less to do with me personally and more to do with people with tons of food allergies in general:

-We are probably down to invite you over and cook for you. Just be prepared for stuff with lots of alternatives, or somewhat strange dishes. That said, I can eat steak and potatoes, so I'm always down to grill.

-If we go do a thing, like bowling, understand that the time might be a little earlier or later than we'd like, because I might want to eat first or duck out early to go home to eat. I can get by if I bring snacks, but unfortunately there just aren't many non-perishable snacks that I can eat.

-Day trips tend to be limited since I can't just grab food somewhere. Same deal as above applies. This is honestly the worst. I miss just heading out somewhere for a long day on the weekend, getting brunch, then dinner, then ice cream...man. The freedom is incredible.
Correct me if my understanding of how tax credits work is wrong, but if Pelton said they'll only build the factory with a $47mm tax credit, the two choices of Ohio's government are as follows:

1. Not collect the first $47mm/$??mm of taxable revenue they generate

2. Not collect any taxable revenue since they didn't build there

Not to mention that there are other ancillary benefits to choice 1 since they'll be paying for land, paying wages, paying truckers to shop things ect.

Therefore there are no other programs that $47mm in uncollected taxes could have been spent on, since the money only exists if they even choose to move there.

Are we on the same page about that or is that not how tax breaks work? (assuming the company refuses to operate at any dollar amount fewer of tax break)
Looks like there's a mirror channel ##ob-freenode-policy-feedback on Libera if you want to peek at the insane drama happening on freenode right now.
> Is 35 the End?

I'm well over 60, and doing my best work.
Thank you. I put pride into my writing, so I really appreciate you saying that.
Just an hour ago, my comment on HN linking to an Asian NFL coach being rejected for “not being the right minority” was flagged https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/05/22/eugene-chun...
> The Socratic method is good for that.

In most social situations, it is the opposite of that.

Or at least, the way most people perceive the Socratic method is the opposite of that.

In the communications books I've read, the emphasis is to ask questions only out of genuine curiosity, and on top of that, find ways to signal it (including with body language). Never ask questions to make a point. Never ask what could be perceived as a leading question. Even if you are genuinely curious, but don't signal it well, chances are high the other party will interpret it as you trying to make a point and will respond poorly.

In sum: Have a conversation. Express your perspective. Ask questions only if you don't understand.

Bad Question: "If that were true, how would it explain Y?"

Instead: "The trouble I'm having with that perspective is that it doesn't seem to square well with Y."

The latter is expressing your perspective, and is seen as a contribution to the conversation. The former isn't.
wow thanks for calling that out. Just spent an hour browsing through it and was basically an Operating Systems refresher course. Great resource!
Currently, the quarantine system for returning residents is entirely overloaded. Leakage of cases from quarantine has been common, leading to snap lockdowns.

Additionally, there aren’t many commercial flights right now, resulting in the government needing to supplement these with charter flights (but needing to balance this with not further overloading quarantine facilities). Some people have been waiting six months or more to find a flight home or to get onto a charter flight. There are constant news stories about desperate people who are trapped with no way to fly back.

So, the government has decided you need a permit to leave, either stating you have no intention to return in the medium-term, need to leave for compassionate reasons, or have an urgent need to travel.

I entirely disagree with the policy. People should be free to leave, but then if they can’t find a flight home, that’s their issue.

However, the government seems concerned about the optics of seeing people on the nightly news, crying that the government won’t give them a seat on a charter flight.
I'm realizing that the loss in the system means this wouldn't make sense. Better to use existing light.
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Nobody should feel bad about opting out of telemetry. It is your privacy. They should feel bad for not asking for your permission and getting consent in the first place. And making it obscure. Ironic coming from a "discoverable" app. Please donate money to actual free software and standards. Not some VC coopted "open source"
I can confirm that these statements just don't ring very true at most major technology companies; it may be a thing specifically for startups which I have little recent experience with. I know plenty of people in FAANG, Microsoft, Salesforce, etc. that are still ICs that are well over the age of 35.

Ageism may be alive in startups, but in technology as a whole, it doesn't really seem to be a big deal if you are up to date on your skills.
Was this responsibly disclosed?

I tried, but I also talked about it on public IRC before I knew it was a bug and not a feature, so I couldn't do much about that part. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This whole site is a good read. A great mix of real information, jokes, and a good send-up of how some security releases appear these days (I understand to a degree the incentives that cause those sites to be as they are, and I don't think they area all bad, but it's still good and useful to poke fun them I think).
I hypothesise that the majority of active SO users are beginner or intermediate programmers. I was using SO quite frequently when I started learning how to program. Now, I don’t have a need neither do I participate in their surveys. My senior colleague does not use it as well, moreover he doesn’t even have time for that. You can occasionally look up a few things but that’s that. In comparison, just three four years ago it was my goto website.
What you see in the results of their survey is a sample of the active users who are predominantly between this and that age nothing more and nothing less.
There are some hard truths missed / glossed in this article. I’ve thought a fair amount about this because my own career path is relatively unique, and included me needing a job very close in time to become extremely wealthy, so I had a chance to see both sides.

In short, if you are under 40 and an engineer, you currently probably are massively underestimating how hard it will be to get an IC or junior management job at a quality tech firm once you turn 45 or so. There is a ton of inertia against hiring mid 40 engineers.

There are some what I would call organizationally rational reasons to be wary of hiring engineering talent at mid 40s and above, and some organizationally poor reasons.

On the rational side, you have to remember that most of the industry works on a promote-to-management methodology for engineering ICs. There are a few rare companies that have distinguished engineering type tracks for lifers, but most do not. So, the first thing anyone looking at an engineer in their mid 40s is thinking is: “this person was never a good enough employee to get promoted into management.”

I would say that this is generally a reasonable prior to have while assessing someone, and a hiring manager who is open minded will at least want to understand why that is. Many of the whys mean they might not be a good fit at a growing engineering org.

On the bad Nash equilibrium side of hiring, esp. at a fast growth company, there will be, guaranteed, large team managers in their mid-20s. Some of them will turn out to be stellar leaders, or are stellar leaders. The rest, ... do not want to manage people twice their age. So, this is a suboptimal outcome that comes from pretty normal group hierarchy type tendencies, compounding with the above it can mean even a pretty progressive org can feel principled about not hiring engineering that is ‘too old’.

There is more negative selection bias as well - engineers with good negotiating skills that know how to strategically lever their talent can head into consulting or other other performance based situations and make 10-100x a base salary.

All this adds up to, in my mind, that engineers in their 30s need an exit strategy - and they need to execute on it fast.

The “best” exit strategies, if you have the skill and talents would be: startup co-founder, quant fund partner, high value high leverage consultant, CTO, SVP/Engineering, SVP/Product roles.

The “middle” exit strategies would be engineering management, product management, ‘fixer/number 5 employee/adult for startups’.

The “lower” exit strategies would be single-platform specific engineering skills at large, wealthy, slow-moving companies. DB2 engineering at IBM, Java IC at Oracle, or esoteric tech skills in mid to low value industries (e.g. wordpress guru, adobe plugin developer)

Any of these would, in my estimation provide a nice landing pad through to retirement. But if you miss it, I think the outcome is going to be some harder times scrambling as a consultant / building a small consulting practice trying to maintain standard of living against a whole raft of household expenses as your kids get older. It comes fast.
Yes, thank you Swype keyboard
Might this age distribution merely represent the age of people willing to answer the survey?
(But, to be fair - s360 is quite dead at this point, and Rust supports s390x fine, even if not as a tier-1 platform. Anyone who claims that C compilers support every platform equally is a liar anyway, Rust just makes the support tiers explicit).
No, but Asian people have been on the receiving end of hate crimes more recently
As sad as this incident is, equally sad are the comments on this post here- People who are using this incident and youtube's actions to fit their own agenda, rant against youtube (instead of addressing the real elephant- uber exploiting its drivers) and justifying their own sense of racial wrong and injustices. Nothing in the article indicates that this incident was racially motivated in any way. Grow up. Read the article first
You might be able to use Apple’s “shortcuts” app to hack something like this together.
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Mild Covid-19 induces lasting antibody protection
Github is just a secondary or tertiary home for Dercuano; it's also on, for example, Zenodo: http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano
Mind that Monika was reporting for largest communist daily in Poland - her books are good reporting, lots of focus on people involved in the war but there is also a propaganda narrative.

On the other hand her reporting angle is much better then some Western "useful idots"[1] like Tiziano Terzani [0] (der Spiegel), who had been calling Pol-pot 'great man with a vision for a nation' even on his deathbed.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/231066
Try bully a Russian
The first two of those win points in my book. Autoplaying video is a monstrosity.
I thought you were about to say they are fantastic money laundering vehicles.
Sorry, typo: fairly inaccurate
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yeah webgl off . command line flag
hit resize button to fit your screen.
Remember, on a Mac it's not an Enter key, it's a Return key. It's not used to enter a file.

On Windows, you use Ctrl-O to open a file from within an open program.

On a Mac, you use Cmd-O to open everything from everywhere; it's a universal (within Apple) convention applied consistently.
If you dislike the CSS, you'll hate the PDF formatting I hacked together in a few days before my deadline: http://canonical.org/~kragen/dercuano

You're welcome to reskin Dercuano with a different stylesheet that you like better! You might have better taste than I do. I hope I get a chance to see it!

I'm glad you're enjoying the content!
WhatsApp sues India govt, says new media rules mean end to privacy
I couldn't be happier with Stripe, specially when collaborating with European projects, that made local payment integration a breeze.

I formerly lived in Sri Lanka, and the country lacks a payment provider worth their salt, let alone an innovative one like Stripe. Perhaps extending the countries that Stripe supports can have the biggest impact.
>It can only mean one thing, the elephant in the room, black-on-asian violence

Is there anywhere I can read about this elephant in the room? I'm not sure why the label is important here; is the implication that black people are ideologically motivated to attack Asians? Are you sure this was a hate crime (the driver was attacked because was Asian) or a crime of oppurtunity (the driver was attacked because he was an easy target)? Unless you are sure it was the former, the rhetoric sounds awfully close to the 13/52 dog whistle.
It doesn't fit the white supremacist narrative. Several articles and news stories were attempting to sell violence on Asians as a result of the white supremacy / privilege, but that died down when the truth didn't fit.
OK. And that drives the value of creative output to zero... how? To zero. How?

I'm not seeing the part where the possibility that one's work might flop for a decade or three and then be made a smash-hit by someone else keeps people from creating almost exactly as much original art as they do now. I'd expect the effect on behavior to be negligible, especially with terms closer to 30 years. Meanwhile it would free up an awful lot of material for creative inspiration. I have no doubt that would result in more good art, overall.
Fighting Procrastination with Orgmode
I was going to make a snarky comment about how all CPU architectures die, but it's not so easy to find a major one that isn't still used somewhere by someone—either in its original form or a distant derivation of it. Whether it's the Zilog Z80 or the Motorola 68000 series, there's probably still someone still actively using them embedded into cheap devices, or industrial computing, or automotive parts, or in military systems, or rad-hardened aerospace.

Examples—

Z80: Ti graphing calculators

68000: NXP ColdFire

6502: Pacemakers and defibrillators
Let's not play minority Olympics. Everyone's problems are equally valid and by advocating for one you're advocating for all.
Please delete this post it does not conform to the agenda set by the ministry of truth.
Usually that's about the time that people start wanting to have a life, so yes.
I so wish American people learn a little history. Seeking narrative instead of truth always led to deceit, fiefdom, and atrocity.
For some context, consider the amount of programming jobs over the last few decades though. We got a real boom for them relatively recently, and the market of general IT is still growing. That shouldn't surprise anyone their environment at work is mostly younger people. Percentages don't show this well, because adding thousands of fresh people to the market and removing a couple older ones skews the graph.

This is kind of mentioned with "According to Evans’ data, there are around 24 million developers worldwide and this will increase by 20% to nearly 30 million by 2024." but not followed up on - guess what age represents virtually all of those new positions?

But going as far as "35 is the end" is a joke. People doing this job will continue on higher positions. If they were actually being replaced by entry-level people at current place, there's a lot of places that look for experience instead.