skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pooling in PoW still means the pool operators are the ones to vote on proposals through the block mining. That is the whole point of decentralization...if one or two large pools (Ethermine and Sparkpool) get too big then they can sway proposals almost single handedly (they have 45% of ETH hash rate now).
> My desktop editor of choice is not and likely never will be emacs

That is a shame. Why?
Going through the Clerky process right now. It's OK not blown away. Used Gust Launch in the past and recall that being super easy
Does anyone know what software the author uses to prepare Figures 1 and 2 (the figures showing the syntax, with colored labels)?
This is one of the very well known biases.

Thinking that just because something has been true for a million years it is also going to be true tomorrow.

This is how our brain is wired and it helps us function, most of the time, but sometimes it is wrong and leads to overlooking things until it becomes too late to react.
Yes, my history was Linux 95-04, Mac 04-15, and now back to Linux from 2015 onwards.

Its been clear Tim Cook was going to slowly harm the brand. He was a wonderful COO under a visionary CEO-type, but he holds no particular "Tech Originalist" vision. He's happy to be part of the BigTech aristocracy, and probably feels really at home in the powers it affords him.

Anyone who believes this is "just about the children" is naive. His chinese partners will use this to crack down on "Winnie the Poo" cartoons and the like...before long questioning any Big Pharma product will result in being flagged. Give it 5 years at max.
The next downside is whether anyone would use such a tunnel, given that plane travel would be much quicker, probably safer, maybe cheaper (tolls on such a tunnel plus gas would be quite expensive), and possibly more enjoyable (better views in a plane, it’d probably be depressing and claustrophobic being down under for so long)
Most security is based on the honor system
Not OP, but for me adding or deleting a character in the middle of a paragraph in a latex doc hangs for maybe .5s or more, often. This is a fairly new phenomenon, never happened 2+ years ago.
cough eIDAS cough
I get all the points but the eating meat part. We simply don’t need it, there is no benefit anymore. Not contradicting your overall point though, even if some things are luxury. We got used to it which is why we might not consider it as luxury. I don’t think we’ll have solar powered planes but maybe emission free trains?
There was another in the CDC article. So 5 so far. And these were vaccines that had passed trials unlike the current COVID-19 vaccines that haven’t even passed trials yet. The COVID-19 vaccines in the US are ALL under emergency use authorization. Many, many vaccines don’t pass trials because of adverse side effects. Also these 5 were what I found with just a little research.

It’s as if you don’t actually know whether the vaccines are safe since no long term trials have been completed. And that even after trials have been completed, some vaccines are actually unsafe and not just due to manufacturing defects.

Use your brain people. Don’t let someone else think for you. Keep your agency.

Feel free to take the vaccine if you choose but do your own research first. Don’t be affected by the screamers. When someone tells you something, go find out if it is actually true. When someone tells you something absolute then be extra careful.

When someone approaches a topic without an open mind be extra cautious. Signs of this are not looking for evidence, not considering evidence, not allowing for the possibility that we just might not know, and not allowing for a more complex reality.
GitHub does render Org-mode documents to an extent. I haven't done a comparison with its Markdown rendering though.

There do exist mobile apps for Org-mode, but it's been a while since I've used them.

I agree with your third point and wish that Org-mode support was better in non-Emacs editors.
I know. I know. It's bananas. People keep making time more and more complicated. Different kinds of smears, changes in the dates of daylight savings times, timezone shapes influenced by geography instead of the amount of light.
He knows how to engage people and run a profitable business.

I know, YC still has a large audience in the Bay Area. Many of those folks live (or have lived) in San Francisco. A city that has enjoyed the fruits of their successful policies regarding business. Policies that continue pushing people with jobs away while attracting homeless folks. Not to mention electing Chesa Boudin, a district attorney literally trained by a failed socialist.

California needs help from someone who isn’t a career politician/socialist IMHO.
Fixed point math, cryptography, setting and testing flags in C code (or C-like API) are just some of the most common scenarios I use bit shifting for.

I've never written any kernel or driver code though.
Isn't this what engineers that build tangible things do?
IIRC, the vast majority of Neanderthal genes that have persisted in to Modern human populations relate to immune system function, but I haven't read anything about depression or addiction-related genes being in that set. Is this a new discovery, or have I just missed it?
That's an issue you don't have if you provide source code.

If a customer relies on bad architecture/undefined behaviour, that shouldn't pull back all the other customers that want their subscription materialize into engine improvements.
These processes seem to only move in one direction. In 5 years this exact comment will probably make you sound like an "extremist" if you say it to a random person. "What, why wouldn't you be okay with apple searching through your photos?"

I see it everywhere and it literally seems like some kind of one-way entropic process. I can't think of anything that would reverse it. It would be like turning an omelet into an egg.

Is there something about modern life that just inescapably creates this complacent, servile temperament in most of the population? Or has it always been there and I'm just overthinking it? It's really depressing either way so I try not to think about it
It sounds like you are looking for an excuse to give org-mode a chance.

Github will render org-mode documents now, so there's that.

Don't be afraid to give emacs a test drive, it's very possible to avoid getting sucked into the ecosystem and configuration if you aren't interested.

Either you'll decide it's what you've been looking for, or you prefer your current approach. Win-Win.
What?

People in houses are probably using more plastic than people who don't have money for a house. They have more money to spend, and a large % will go to plastic, on average.
Was it the drugs that made him genuinely unfit to stand trial?
You're using vague words like "promise". "Hope" would be more accurate. Someone can correct me, but if Congress passes a law tomorrow saying they're not going to pay social security after 2025, that is probably allowed. The only "promise" is to people who are currently retired.

Furthermore, if you renounce your citizenship, it is you who are choosing not to get this benefit. It is a defined benefit for citizens, and you are choosing not to be one.

As for similarity to pensions: Far from it. When the government has an excess (i.e. total SS taxes collected is greater than payouts for a given year), they are not allowed to hold it or invest it. Pensions are/were always invested, or at least held.
If you accept regular drone accidents involving buildings, people, animals, vehicles and perhaps even aircraft, sure. I know regulations are heavy but self-piloted craft can do really weird things when they think they're right.

It's no wonder the difficult part was when the drones came in to land. That one washing line that's hard to spot, the overjoyed dog jumping up at what he thinks is a new toy, that grass field that was actually an overgrown pond...
Does this applies to UWP games (the ones you can run on Xbox with the Creators Program)? I was considering learning and doing some hobbyist games with Unity and Xbox.
Buy a dumphone with J2ME support, install just the minimal stuff. TXT reader (on a PC with Linux/BSD/OSX this can generate a TXT file from an EPUB):

#!/bin/sh
#epub.sh
unzip -qcp "$1" "*ml" "*.htm" | lynx -force-html -dump -stdin -nolist > "$2"

[ Usage: epub.sh file.epub file.txt ]

MP3 player, simple HTML browser, FM radio (it's nice often), Gopher (there are a few J2ME browsers, and there are lots of nice stuff out there). For gaming, IF thru the T9 kbd it's effective, or a GB emulator with custom ROMs (itch.io has several free and a lot of games are long and turn based).

Use a smartphone for work and for nothing else. If any, the news over a dumb web interface, as these will run on current dumbphone with ease:

https://lite.cnn.io

https://text.npr.org

http://68k.news

Have fun.
33 minutes and it's already off the front page with 161 votes in one hour, compared to items on the front page with 167 votes in 5 hours or 24 votes in one hour.

No official source is protecting this one from users flagging it off the front page.
If you are interested in this history in its larger context, give Jane Mayer's Black Money a shot. It's extremely well researched, despite the lack of much of a paper trail.
There are several lines of evolution for modern policing.

The US instance is one.

Robbert Peele's "Peelian Principles" (UK) are another, which is how the UK ended up with a largely unarmed and civillian institution "policing by consent". (It also has its darker elements, but that's the thumbnail sketch.)

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

A French "gendarme" is literally a "man at arms", and is derived from military forces, representing a third tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie
Show HN: Guess the Word – Car Game
Full paper: https://rdcu.be/cspBH

Link courtesy of https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/oykg1y/climate_cri...
Sounds like this is specifically for the switch. Which I’m finding to be a great platform for indie devs IMO.
https://develop.spacemacs.org/doc/FAQ.html#why-does-my-color...

Seems like an appropriate FAQ item.
JVM and CLR has the long tail of libraries that just doesn't exist for smaller languages. What happens when you want to integrate with Parquet files or some common but sort-of-obscure proprietary system like ClickHouse? I've done a bunch of FFI integrations with C libraries and I never enjoy it. You always have to make sure you're handling object lifetimes correctly and you just don't have that issue if you're able to use Java or CLR as your FFI target.

For small apps where you know you'll never have to leave the native ecosystem it can be fine to stay outside of JVM/CLR. But for business apps I think there's a lot of security to be had by being able to integrate with JVM/CLR.

Edit: I'm not saying it's a good idea to choose ABCL, I hope this article made that clear. SBCL is much more mature in most dimensions.
Global warming is just a couple of degrees, so if it's freezing in Europe, it's going to be really hot somewhere else...I wonder where that will be?
> It seems to be the left telling other people how to live. Heaven forbid folks live in smaller houses in the US

This doesn't seem like an exclusively left-wing ideology - anti-housing sentiment is strong across the board across US politics. Try building an apartment building in a conservative part of town and you'll get much of the same bad faith opposition as anywhere else (and more often than not, apocalyptic caterwauling).

NIMBYism is sadly a scourge that knows few political boundaries.
I for one would have no idea what "Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation" refers to.
As a teenager, I scored a sweet job installing new SPARC 5 workstations at an electronics company for a few weeks during an otherwise quiet summer. Man, those were some amazing computers. The cases opened with a thumbscrew and were so easy to work with. Elegant design. Super robust. For a kid who had only ever worked with cheap PCs, Sun hardware was an absolute dream.
Mellanox ConnectX-2

I'm running Linux
My company frequently has campaigns with prizes: we pay the taxes, so the prize looks "tax free" to the winners. It is just where the tax and paperwork burden is placed, on the payer or on the winner.
I imagine it's in the user agreement when you create your iCloud account. The isn't a device thing, it's a web service thing.
In fact, the plastic replacements often cause more emissions. Because of production or because more trucks are needed for the same products with thicker packaging. Supermarket chain in my country changed their packaging, the same amount now needs 2 trucks instead of one.
Also glass bottles or cardboard are heavier so more fuel consumption.
if you would research this a bit more, you will find that the dollar number favour a particular side.
Things I learned from Wikipedia as a result of reading your comment:

Cellophane is not plastic.

Cellophane is biodegradable.

Rayon is the same substance as cellophane, but in a different shape.

Cellophane and Rayon are often made using the "viscose process", which requires the use of carbon disulfide, which is toxic, and the process has toxic byproducts.

I wasn't able to figure out if this process has more or less toxic byproducts than processes for making plastic films.

I wasn't able to figure out if this process is more carbon-intensive than processes for making plastic films. Harvesting plant matter, pumping water around, etc. sounds energy-intensive. Is it better or worse than digging carbon sludge up out of the ground?
For a relatively limited number of people and with a standard of life that doesn't compare to western/northern Europe. It will be 'a bit of an adjustment' to put it euphemistically.

I've lived in Northern Canada, which is somewhat comparable to Northwest Russia and sure, it's doable, but civilization as it currently exists in the countries that are exposed to this will cease, the present day number of inhabitants will be unsupportable.

Just trying to imagine the UK with a climate shift like that and the mind boggles. What works for Iceland will not work for the UK without a massive reorientation, which is probably a friendly way of writing 'mass die-off'.
Probably refering to available resources for feral cats, it decreases with more domesticated cats out hunting.
Tbf, every major conflict the warmongers seem to be dying off.

Just a few hundred years ago people were burned at the stake, impaled, cut open alive in front of a crowd.

Every war kills off the most violent and aggressive. The next big one should wipe a lot of them.

Then again, push someone hard enough and they'll turn against you. Don't even need violence and death, a miserable existence in fear and doubt can be a way better punishment. The sociopathic rich prove it works.
That's a rather generous assessment of how my money was used in Iraq, for instance. That sounds glib, but if you could pick and choose which things your taxes funded or not it would kind of make the whole concept of the state untenable.
> Banking: SVB is the only bank option

I’ve used SVB for over 20 years in multiple startups, but they have sadly really lost it and won’t use them anymore. One of my partners, who used to go skiing (etc) with the SVB team has given up on them too.

First Republic (which I would not have guessed) has really built a good startup practice (and poached a bunch of people from SVB).

The big banks are terrible and at best treat startups like small businesses, though the two have different needs.
I did some napkin math once for artificially replacing the salt content in the ocean where it is diluted by glacier runoff. It was on the order of all container ships in operation re-purposed to just dumping salt into the affected region.
Biden is sending a “task force” into Chicago to curb crime: https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-chicago-violence-strike-for...

Why can’t the governor send in the national guard to build housing for the needy?
After having implemented this recently, I have to agree with many points. It just feels so clunky to me and there are really shitty caveats with sign out and session lifetime that I still don't fully comprehend after reading 2 dead trees worth of Azure docs.

Ignoring all other business constraints, the most secure architecture in my mind is integrated security w/ single-instance applications which are isolated to their own physical hosts.

Integrated security can include MFA as long as the additional factors are scoped exclusively to each applications' secure environment.

There is obviously a huge convenience speed bump if you leave it here, but there are small, incremental enhancements you can make to dramatically improve the UX without centralizing everything at the convenience of your attackers. For instance, you allow users to link accounts between 2 popular systems, and then rely on a simple pin code or similar for quickly jumping between them.
This conspiracy theory doesn't really check out. Private prisons exist, but only account for 8% of the US prison population. There's probably a larger vested interest from corrections officer unions than from private prison contractors.

Regardless, there isn't even a need to find some shadowy special interest to explain the high incarceration rates in the US, when the laws that led to those high incarceration rates were passed very publicly for very straightforward reasons: to curb the late-20th-century crime wave of the 1970's-1990's. This was a major, high-profile political issue, and the majority of voters at the time favored "tough-on-crime" measures that led to mandatory sentences, longer sentences, three-strikes laws, and fewer judicial prerogatives. That's why they elected the people who promised to pass those laws before getting elected and kept those promises after being elected. And just like every other well-intended law that's ever been passed, there were unintended consequences that we can and should fix.
Don't give up hope. We licked CFCs and leaded gasoline. There are probably plenty of other times in history when we mobilized to solve a problem at scale. These are discouraging times for sure. But ultimately there's just no point in being hopeless.
I had similar feelings when breaking down my family's old Gateway 2000 for scrap. That was the computer on which I started learning about how operating systems work (or don't, if you delete system files to free up space). The experience from that computer and the Apple ][e that preceded it has really shaped my trajectory since then.

PCI SCSI controllers are around and fairly cheap, looks like there are even some PCIe ones out there (not as cheap). I've never gotten as far as the software side of it though. I imagine one might create an image of the disk, and use it with Mini vMac, but I think I still need to figure out the SCSI setup. (I have a PCI SCSI card that I was attempting to use to interface with some tape drives-- different story.)
I find it highly ironic that you believe the losers "administrative paper pushers" when 90% of the paperwork needed by the medical industry is a result of GOVERNMENT regulations. Medicare is full of all kind of "administrative paper pushers"

It is beyond me why people think the solution to a government created problem is more government
How is this relevant, is Eritrea one of the great countries on this planet?
Aside from editing on mobile devices, I think Emacs isn't as hard to pick up as it once was. It's certainly not easy but tools like Spacemacs or Doom make it much simpler to get started and really limit the need to create and edit a complicated little library of your Elisp code.

http://spacemacs.org

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
A very large fraction of the population is still in denial, and will continue to be so until they are personally hit.
Sad news. It sounds like he must have been a really influential and inspiring person to work with. We could all hope to have the fortune of having people like this in our cohort of colleagues around us! :)

I love this bit of the 1993 bio on Mobygames: "I do this computer work on the side as a hobby"
I created a shareable link from my university's account. I checked it, you will be able read the article in the browser but can't download it:

https://rdcu.be/cstep
> And in all of the places around the US that I have lived, these sorts of laws are rarely enforced [on white people]

Fixed that for you.
I think the issue is that what the tech community sees as privacy is different than what the general public thinks of as privacy.

Apple, very astutely, understands that difference and exploited the latter to differentiate its phones from its main competitor: cheap(er) android phones.

Apple didn’t want the phones to be commoditized, like personal computers before it. And “privacy” is something that you can’t commoditize. Once you own that association, it is hard to fight against it.

Apple also understands that the general public will support its anti child exploitation and the public will not see this as a violation of privacy.
I've only observed it from the outside (I worked on an aircraft carrier - but nothing to do with the power plants) but what I observed is that it takes a lot of people that get payed a lot of money in the private sector to safely operate and maintain reactors. I'm guessing that the building costs would be dwarfed by the long term cost of manning nuclear ships.
What if one of them gets lodged sideways in the Suez Canal?
> potential downside through false positives

I just spent the last hour of my life digging through the material. It seems like they've calibrated the system to have an expected false classification rate of one account in one trillion, per year. Based on the threshold secret sharing math, they won't know anything until a user has a significant collection of CSAM and the secret key is recovered.

> I’m also struggling to imagine scenarios where a child predator is clever enough to acquire illegal photos

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but CSAM has been shared openly on the clearnet on places like 4chan for years. The internet is a pretty wide open search space. Many of the people who download CSAM don't do so from some sketchy underground website. This is why Tumblr, for instance, burned their platform to the ground: lots of people sharing CSAM with no way to detect and stop it (without costing Verizon a ton of money to work on the problem).
Dedicated bus lanes are our transportation future. The capital expense and engineering are minimal (but not nothing), the capacity improvement is vast, and route to zero emissions clear (electric buses).

Taking the bus on a dedicated lane is a thing of beauty.
Perhaps you are being sarcastic in the parent comment, but United States "screwing" its successful people and forcing them out means that these successful people will no longer contribute to United States, but to their new home country instead.

Without their contributions the Unites States will be less successful, thereby "screwing" everybody in it.

This trend within United States is especially ironic and alarming considering that United States gained its success specifically by giving home to persecuted people from other countries with capacity for success. Conversely, other countries, some obvious examples being Nazi Germany and USSR, were not successful specifically because they forced out their successful people.