skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering there are still new bugs found in chip designs, operating systems, and compilers that have been around 4 times as long as any cryptocurrency I have literally no idea why you would feel safe in “smart contracts.” At least if my bank account is hacked, I have a solid legal standing for compensation and I have good reason to believe centralized financial institutions will keep extensive documentation and logs. With decentralized finance, all I have is some Medium dot com post on the “Forward Plan” and an ominous message that “SAFEDOLLAR IS UNDER ATTACK.”
Isn't the investment too small? I think 1B or even 4B are pocket change when you want to boost a whole economy sector.
As an extremist on many axis, I object to the use of extremist as a pejorative. I support people and ideas that while extreme, seem right to me. Or even extremely right. I don't support favoring moderate ideas that are right but less right than more extreme versions. If someone isn't extreme about anything, I suspect that they don't think for themselves. To me, not-at-all-an-extremist is mild pejorative.

If you don't like it because the politics are wrong, fine, explain that. If you don't like it because the politics are extreme, you haven't yet described why I shouldn't like it.
> Recognizing a legal right to think is only a pretext for someone to justify taking that right away. Of course you can think freely, and it's ridiculous to even imply that taking that away is an option through stating so in the law.

Have you heard of the Lumières ? These principles basically created modern Europe, but sure, it's just a trick to steal your freedom of thought...

> there isn't any real evidence that outlawing speech protects people's rights.

Plenty of people are being harassed in public for their sexuality, race, etc. you don't need a 20 years long control study to prove that outlawing hate speech will improve their rights.

> Rights are not given by anyone's graceful speech - that's why they're rights.

? People wrote the laws. Rights are made up, they're not universal constants
This is an excellent question that I never thought of!

My guess is that

- there is a large range of cal concentrations that work fine without tasting bad, and

- the amount of water absorbed by the corn is very hard to predict, as it varies from batch to batch, and

- unlike brining meat, it is unlikely that two people doing this by hand would vary how much water they are adding by 5x or even 3x, because there is no reason to add a lot more water than is needed, and

- recipes are simpler if you base the cal amount on the corn amount and then add "enough water" (which may change once you start cooking).

So maybe no one doing it for non-industrial audiences has bothered narrowing it down.

I use around half as much as you (3:1 water to corn and 1% cal by weight of corn) and it works well for me.
If you want to make a website, that’s your right in our free market system. If you want to allow the public to post on your website, to add value to your product, again that’s your right. If it benefits your business, then you should do it. You can even moderate the comments to the point your website is inherently fraudulent. That’s your right as it stands today.

So to lament how one can’t get only good comments, which disagree with your views only when your views are wrong, and then write long essays about how certain people will not comment the way you want them to, doesn’t seem very practical.

I’ve been reading troll comments, and many non troll but equally destructive and yet clearly well intentioned comments, for decades and that won’t change as long as the internet is free. Accept that freedom or don’t try to profit from it in the first place. Write books instead of blogs.
The economics of this situation are pretty complex. The short-term benefits may also be forcing employers to raise long-term wages to compensate. The long-term wage increases for low-income jobs may result in lower usage of other government programs such as food stamps, and housing assistance.

I passed by a giant sign next to a McDonalds offering $17/hr starting wage for McDonald's employees at a roadside operation in Western Mass.
So a user couldn't just change their timezone? What if they moved?

Also who is this to protect? The user? What if they work midnights or their days are backwards?
They share salary information with data brokers.
> So if you're a Texas resident, the CA company would have had to register in Texas to have you on payroll, and that relationship would be governed by Texas law.

I don’t think this is fully correct. My understanding is that it’s about where the work is being done, not the residency.

For example, many businesses in Portland, OR employ residents of Vancouver, WA (right across the river). When COVID hit and those WA residents became remote employees, many Portland businesses had to become registered in WA because that is now where they had employees located.
Amazon considered buying Signal before acquiring Wickr, sources say
> If you're not careful (or if you're trying to be clever), you can insert a String into an object that had been declared to be a List<Integer>

It's less about type erasure and more about missing covariance/contravariance in Java generics. Scala also has type erasure in generics (same JVM), but won't allow that (unless you explicitly upcast). HM doesn't recognize inheritance, so it's in a completely different category.
Indeed. Even the largest DCs are putting so few racks up per day (still many, many racks) that throughput is rarely the problem.

Actually getting the parts on time has been more of an issue in my experience, or finding out that your entire rack is forfeit because it fell over at the docking bay.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen rack-and-stack go too slow for the consumers to actually use the hardware. Usually the hardware is sitting waiting to be provisioned for eons.

The real labor is pulling bad drives/boards and rejiggering the network after the racks are in. So many outages are caused by magic hands making an error and pulling the wrong cord.
I never thought about that, but it makes sense. Can you share a couple of such startups?
For a quick check they could run the generated compounds through these databases
Zinc15 - https://zinc15.docking.org/
Chembl - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/

Also as an aside I believe there's a current trend to generate chemical compounds by creating SMILES strings using BERT which is a cool way to incorporate language and chemistry (An example of a team doing that https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)00237-6)
"States cutting off unemployment benefits are forcing poor people back to low-paying jobs" FTFY
Put simply: your logic is insane and no government adopts it, for good reason.

Longer version: governments adopt rules based on what works for them and their population. This includes rules that govern what can and can’t be sold in a business transaction. This is a principle as old as government itself. It makes sense that governments then apply these rules to things going in and out of its borders. It would be nuts to ban the sale of guns inside a country but allow them to be sold into the country, for example.
Because you presumably want to find bugs in applications that are not smart contracts.
By this logic most e-commerce is a mistake as well, since a serious flaw in the linux kernel could take down most web servers.
All the Microsoft presentations have that now - every second sentence describes something as “awesome”. It’s really off-putting, I don’t mind if someone is feigning enthusiasm but they lay it on so thick
Linus of Linus Tech Tips had a video [1] where he tried just that on a new Chamberlain opener with MyQ built in, and couldn't get it to work, the wires would act as antennas and trigger the door randomly, just from stray RF.

The button panel for my ancient opener runs off of two wires, and each button is connected through a different value resistor, so I'm assuming the way it works is it measures the voltage drop to tell if you pressed the door or the light button. But, just connecting the two leads from the opener is enough to open or close the door, and I never use the built in bulbs on the opener anyways.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pSkVarixU
How many bugs had a direct financial return in the same way? If you found a bug in maker (or any of the other big contracts) today, you can walk away with billions of dollars worth of coins, that's a huge sum.
AI Creates False Documents That Fake Out Hackers
Politics mostly.

I'm no good at it. So I'm stuck in most places. The last big Corp I worked at gave me all the projects from a guy called dave. He was lazy and useless but he went to school with the bosses boss. So he was being promoted and moved to the states.

In tech he'd have been sacked or sidelined. But on the business side he was allowed to wade in, break things (piss off clients I spent months calming down for instance) and then wonder off and act like it was all my problem. Which it was.

There was little chance if get promoted (I don't play golf and there were plenty of people who went to school with management waiting for a nice job).

Partly it was my mistake: I am not very charismatic. But they kept saying they wanted someone who'd tell it like it is and deliver projects and get clients off their backs.
What if the anti-conspiracy videos start spewing conspiracies like in this case?
Apple did this concurrent with reports that their laptops had poor battery life. They were likely exaggerated but I don’t think the reason was exclusively that the number was misleading.
Extroverts are mentally ill usually suffering from ADHD. This propaganda that extroverts are somehow normal and to aspire to...is just that, propaganda from the noisy, mentally ill extrovert.
I also think introversion is confused with social exhaustion.

If you crave some alone time after several hours on back-to-back meetings, you’re not necessarily an introvert, you’re just human.
That's actually a pretty good idea. I had a similar idea to discourage the gaming of upvotes on sites like HN and Reddit: make each upvote cost a point, but then you get a point for everyone who upvotes after you, divided by the number of votes the item had at the time you upvoted (or something like that). So people who upvote popular stories early, i.e. people who successfully predict what people will like, get rewarded.
Congress has been bought by big pharma. There is nothing the American people can do at this point other than revolting on the streets.
Both sets of "verts" have historically had their realms, strongholds and fiefdoms. What may have changed is where the profits are now increasingly flowing from...
"[All] information should be free" is Zuckerberg's view in its entirety. But even if privacy was no longer an important value how that information is collected is still going to be important distinguishing factor. Information is not and cannot be monopolized. Facebook does not have special powers to extract information directly from individuals. Facebook's "monopoly", if that's what you want to call it, is in employing the best statisticians and data scientists to draw abstractions and correlations to pack and sell to advertisers. It's not about the data taken, but the metadata that's created and the secondary and tertiary observations about your life that can worked back from what you do on the website or any website with a Facebook Pixel.
> Similarly as you rise 'up the ladder', you have to communicate more, you cannot be an introvert.

Introverts can be excellent communicators both in 1:1 and group settings. Introversion doesn’t equal shyness. I’m an introvert who communicates all day at work. When work is done, I’m quiet and recharge.
Anki is free though..
Closed Source Libraries in the Arduino Library Manager
The next title below this one on HN says "Biohackers Take Aim at Big Pharma’s Stranglehold on Insulin". Which category does it fall in on Findka? It offers tech, culture, marketing etc but I am primarily interested in biohacking, medical stuff, cognitive science etc but can't find a category for that.
You made decision to not get involved in the conflict. That's not censorship.

Have others been allowed to state that position? Has some body tried to suppress that speech? If yes, then they (but not you) have been subject to censorship.
...And Facebook reaches $1TN market cap too.

To Downvoters: So Facebook DID NOT reach and close above $1 trillon dollars in market cap after the dismissal of this antitrust complaint? Are you prepared to refute this claim which is backed by an article which is from the SAME NEWS SOURCE as the one in this thread? [0]

Discuss.

It seems that having any sort of evidence-based logical discussion or providing links to a reliable source does not apply to this orange site and the illogical downvotes and zero replies to this comment prove this.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/facebook-hits-trillion-dolla...
Can confirm, used to work for an SBIR farm. Good times...

Wouldn't touch China with a ten foot pole though.
First, I do think you’re right that open floor plans and many other factors have a major impact on people in this industry. Introversion is one potential contributor to why this is a big deal.

But something about the way you’re describing introversion doesn’t quite match the traditional introvert’s reality.

> Similarly as you rise 'up the ladder', you have to communicate more, you cannot be an introvert.

Having to communicate more (and being successful at it) do not make one an extrovert. Anecdotal: I’ve risen up the ladder, and I am without question, an introvert. The difference between me and my extroverted colleagues is that they’re energized by it, and I’m not. I have to take intentional steps to recharge later, while they're charged up by the process itself. This also means that I'm not better or worse than my extroverted colleagues at communicating or climbing the ladder, I just need to think about my source of energy differently.

While I’m sure there is some truth to the broader issues caused by shared work spaces, etc. I also find that the concept of introversion/extroversion is often not what people think it is.

Introverts can be well adjusted, social, and easy to talk to. People often mistake the lack of these traits for introversion, and while there can be some overlap in observed behaviors at times, the two should not be confused.
> The fancy Dijon ketchup never tastes better though.

To your taste, sure. For lots of people, the same thing is true of dijon (and other not-French’s-yellow) mustard.

OTOH, plenty of people disagree with you on that, which is why there are established, succesful—if individually mostly niche—alternatives.

> Heinz has had decades and armies of food scientists and tasters to dial in their recipe.

So did French’s. The hard part of getting broad reach on alternatives isn’t making some alternative that enough people will like if they try, but getting enough people over the activation energy threshold to try. Grey Poupon’s breakout marketing campaign in the 80s did that for mustard; there hasn't been an equivalent for ketchup.

And, sure, that probably doesn’t unseat the dominant player, but that’s not what thr uothread discussion of “dijon” alternatives was about.
Employment rate is not "1-unemployment", there is a third component ("inactive" or something like that) so generally they're correlated but do not coincide.

I do not know the exact numbers for this.
Seriously.

Meanwhile on boomer news

> A single web server caught fire somewhere in Bolivia, is social media over? (+20000 points)
Perhaps, but pretending that this doesn’t happen is gaslighting.
The bugs found in smart contracts equal large sums of money right away unlike 0-days in OSes or other systems where the link is much more indirect. For example, if you find a 0-day on Windows, sure you might sell it for 7-8 figures on the black market, if you found a bug on maker (or any of the big contracts), you could walk away with billions of dollars in a practically untraceable way.
Surely you see the difference between managing money on the open internet and closed systems such as planes and spaceshipts.

The incentives to break those other pieces of software are different.

Very few people are incentivized to hack planes to crash and kill people. Even fewer are incentivized to hack the space shuttle. Not to mention those pieces are rarely exposed on the public internet, or have connectivity at all.

But massive amounts of nigh-untraceable free money? Ton's of people are incentivized to go for that.
I'm not sure this follows.

It's a fair point that any easy-to-find bugs in large, time-tested contracts will have been found. Any medium- or hard-to-find bugs also will probably have been found. But there might still be a very-hard-to-find bug lurking; and given the value of finding such a bug, people might look hard enough to find it.

In other words, the same scale that ensures there is no low-hanging fruit, also provides the incentive to pick high-hanging fruit.

> I have a lot more trust in that kind of product than in a product where contracts are subject to interpretations by humans which may or may not be reliable.

This is a valid concern, but it's also extremely well-understood at this point; we have centuries of global-scale experience with traditional financial and legal systems. They're certainly not flawless, but it's rare for gigantic new flaws to emerge. An important point is the existence of mechanisms for rolling back bad transactions and challenging / appealing flawed decisions.
Just to add, things like type checking are the comparatively easy part. The world itself and many of our constructs for thinking about it are not well defined. The trouble in reconciling these things are why things like appeals courts exist. Smart contracts built on this ill defined world will always have bugs. The world isn’t going to become significantly more well defined for smart contracts, either. If that were possible, we wouldn’t have those aforementioned higher courts.
The gangs who are promoting coronavirus comment spam create two kinds of victims.

(1) are the people whose free speech is impaired by relentless toxic comments

(2) are the posters themselves who will be increasingly isolated by their behavior and feeling persecuted. It is like the cult member who is driven into evangelism not to recruit new members but to become convinced that the outside world is corrupt.

These will become increasingly radicalized and over the next few years will be recruited into more violent attacks and other forms of exploitation such as spending their income on scam alt-health supplements.

The most difficult problem in all of this is the the type (2) victims and many observers will insist that their disingenuous communications be taken at face value which is absolutely exhausting for the the type (1) victims who really ought so say that we don't want to hear about their dog pills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4
It's not clear what fallacy you're thinking about because the fallacy of the inverse is not it.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse:

> Confusion of the inverse, also called the conditional probability fallacy or the inverse fallacy, is a logical fallacy whereupon a conditional probability is equated with its inverse; that is, given two events A and B, the probability of A happening given that B has happened is assumed to be about the same as the probability of B given A, when there is actually no evidence for this assumption.[1][2] More formally, P(A|B) is assumed to be approximately equal to P(B|A).
The entire hamburger market is for profit, but that isn’t a problem as I can buy good hamburgers at many different price points. The issue is that the industry is controlled by 1% of the population who have exclusive rights to decide what you buy, and a government agency that limits the hell out of who can sell anything in the name of safety.

When Europeans can pick from 5 different spring loaded epinephrine injectors and Americans can only legally buy one from a specific manufacturer, of course Americans pay 5x as much.

In plenty of places around the world you can buy all humulin you want without a doctor or the FDA for $30 vial.
Unfortunately, Bitchute appears to be a complete and total cesspool of conspiracy theories.
Very interesting use of reco engines! I always thought that the current state of newsletter discovery is very poor. At the same time, I would not be ok with a product owning the full newsletter stack (like eg. Spotify with podcasts). Good luck with the project!
They can't ban Left-Wing Conspiracies, there would be no media left.
This must certainly be a joke, right?!
Did YT or anyone else ban comments or posts about the lab leak theory or vaccine heart inflammation? Sure people initially dismissed it but the proponents of those theories seem to have not only kept talking but have presented enough credible evidence to change minds about dismissing their theories out of hand. And it seemed to hit a tipping point almost overnight. One day the lab leak was nonsense and the next it was put forth as a possibility worth considering. Isn’t that a sign that things are working?

Don’t get me wrong, it absolutely sucks to feel “silenced” and I’m sure it sucks even more to feel silenced when you are indeed correct or at least aren’t as dead wrong as others claimed. But isn’t the crux of the free speech “marketplace of ideas” that the “good” ideas will find listeners and gain traction anyway? Even when “everyone” initially disagrees or thinks you’re crazy.

Because that’s free speech, too. You have a right to say things even if they sound kind of crazy and I have a right to say “hey, that sounds crazy!”
Oh yeah, it gets messier for sure, and I think that providing the protocols is probably the smaller part of it. Teaching people to use them is probably harder. But the benefits of taking on those challenges strike me as too big to ignore.

As for the botnet thing, I really like how CirclesUBI handles it. "Trust" is a pact to treat tokens minted for the other party as indistinguishable from tokens minted for yourself. So by all means, go simulate a small town doing "useful" work. Nobody is going to value the fruits of that labor unless they've seen them, and so your tokens will be worthless.

Once you have the base web of trust set up, you can layer other types of trust on top of it, like returns-borrowed-tools-undamaged trust and other things that lower the cost of doing business.

It's about using technology to take things that already work (cooperation) and make them work at scale (1000 people instead of 10). No need for global consistency, the resources are all local anyway.

As for being called a commune, that's fine. Communism allegedly doesn't work, so the idea that people might be doing this in tandem with traditional economics ought to be considered "not-a-threat" except in cases where traditional economics produces exceptionally troublesome outcomes.
I know lots of other vegans would. I'm far more excited to be able to give my cats a cruelty free diet. I just hit 16 years and I'm honestly not sure that I'd want to go back to eating meat at this point - even ethically produced.
Meanwhile in Silicon Valley, single companies can raise the same amount of money in one round of funding. It's quite pathetic in its lack of ambition.