skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting academic paper that I can't find anymore where the authors analyze the game theoretic edges of PoS systems. Basically: since the thing you need to mine is the same thing that gets mined the optimal strategy for anyone holding a majority of a PoS coin is to never spend more than half of your mining reward so that even someone who manages to buy all the coins that become available on the market can never catch up to you.

Of course, this does omit some real-life considerations like people needing money for other reasons (to pay taxes, when they die, to buy a house, etc) but the basic principle stands: any initial whale in a PoS coin will basically never be dislodged if they play the optimal strategy.
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Then really its a global problem we need to figure out.

Every day on HN we have debates about the trading of privacy for data for a more secure world. This is an indication that our efforts are broken, because people. But also that those people held a lot of different roles, in a diversity of offices across our judicial system.
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This is just whataboutism again. There's nothing constructive to say to someone who's entrenched in ideology like you clearly are. I'm not taking about the right, and never have been. The right is irrelevant in this conversation. All you have done is derail this into but the other guys are bad too. Did I say "the right is fine?" No, I explicitly did not. I actually said both are tyrants when they can be.

You've addressed nothing I've said and launched a demand for sources on cherry-picked words from the point I made. I don't want to, and won't, argue with ideology and party lines.

You've made nearly identical points to me just about the right for some reason, despite the fact that I'm not even talking about them. I've used the word 'right' once in any other comment until this one. Not sure why you're trying to turn this into a right-left partisan shit-slinging match. Not every discussion of the left necessitates a discussion about the right's negative traits, and vice-versa. If you truly believe this, I suggest you get your head out of American partisan ideology.
I don't blame you in the slightest. My wife and I had been toying with the idea of renting out our current home when we purchase a new one but that's pretty much gone out the window in the past year.

We're not rich and probably will never be...but according to an increasingly larger contingent people on the left we must have Scrooge McDuck money for even _considering_ the idea.
Duh, it's a seasonal spike, averaged.
>California is in a megadrought.

To be fair, we had big, honkin', town-killin' fires back when it rained and snowed more than average for decades.

It's hard to tell how much is due to drought, how much to a shift from snow to rain, how much is home development, how much is homeless people torching off areas (more than you'd like to think).
> Healthcare staff have great animosity towards the unvaccinated patients. They aren't victims here, they did this to themselves.

That smacks of in-group signaling, victim mentality (portraying themselves as a victim) and is deeply unprofessional to say the least.

When you have an obese patient, you still treat them just as anyone else. When you have a chronic smoker patient, you treat them just as anyone else. When you have a drug addict patient, you treat them just as anyone else. When you have a motorcycle enthusiast patient, you treat them just as anyone else.

Being a healthcare worker is about healing. That's the job we signed up for. It's not about judging and condemning people you don't even know, while putting oneself on a self righteous pedestal.
Imagine an email program that, knowing how many total items there are in the inbox, gives you finite scroll! Even if it only streams metadata for nearby items, so if you suddenly drag the bar it has to wait for a network round-trip to show content, one of the problems with infinite scroll is that the scrollbar no longer shows a reliable absolute position.

A better case for infinite scrolling would be chat history, where you'd want an entirely separate UI widget for "jump to date", with bidirectional infinite scroll that unloads distant content, and a way to grab permalinks. Missing any one of those features, or the fact that messages will never be re-ordered for marketing purposes, infinite scrolling becomes a hinderance.
I'll join the other poster in asking for a Linux version (foolish demand I know) or at least making it possible to run Affinity on Proton/Wine.

Also, please for the love of God implement paragraph wide justification. Without it Publisher is a toy (in my opinion) and not implementing it is unacceptably amateurish when it has been implemented, and open source, since 1981 [1].

[1] http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf
When I went to engineering school in 1995, most of the computers on campus were UNIX machines… Sun SPARC in the dorm, IBM AIX machines, a few others. But the fastest and shiniest by far were the SGI IRIX machines. They not only had a webcam built in, but ran at (IIRC) 200MHz. These all were my introduction to not only UNIX, but also the internet. I first got ImageMagick compiled and running on an Indy, and later, even played DOOM in the lab. <3
Can you explain why you downvoted? Just making a snarky comment doesn't add anything to the conversation or explain why the post is incorrect or misleading.
"The iPhone continues to store location data even when location services are disabled, contrary to Apple’s previous claims. The Wall Street Journal did independent testing on an iPhone and found that even after turning off location services, the device was still collecting information on nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi access points."

2011: iPhone's Location-Data Collection Can't Be Turned Off - https://www.wired.com/2011/04/iphone-location-opt-out/

"Your iPhone tracks your location for a variety of reasons. It tracks you to calibrate sensors and to improve services, but also to show you ads."

2019: How to stop your iPhone from tracking your location - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/19/your-apple-iphone-tracks-whe...

2019: It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/28/its-mid...

"The best way to keep something secret is not to capture and store it in the first place. And that’s the crux of the privacy versus convenience debate now redefining our applications and software-based services ... Yes, maybe what happens on an iPhone stays on an iPhone, but some data should not be captured in the first place. Nothing more so than the significant invasiveness of Apple’s significant locations concept—a perfect illustration of just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. This is a continually building data repository of the locations you visit, along with times and dates, detailed maps, even the mode of transport to get you there and how long it took."

2020: Why You Should Stop This ‘Hidden’ Location Tracking On Your iPhone - https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/10/04/apple-iph...

“Both iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user explicitly opting out of this,” wrote researcher Douglas Leith from Trinity College in Ireland, in a recently published academic report ... “To date, Apple have responded only with silence (we sent three emails to Apple’s director of user privacy, who declined even to acknowledge receipt of an email,” Leith wrote. Since then, Apple has made public statements critical of Leith’s research and insisting privacy and opt-out measures do exist.

2021: Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out - https://threatpost.com/google-apple-track-mobile-opting-out/...

"And there’s also a more fundamental issue with this technology. Its euphemistic description as a “crowdsourced” way to recover lost items belies the reality of how these items are tracked. What you won’t find highlighted in the polished marketing statements is the fact that AirTags can only work by tapping into an Apple-operated surveillance network in which millions of us are unwitting participants."

2021: Remember, Apple AirTags and ‘Find My’ app only work because of a vast, largely covert tracking network - https://theconversation.com/remember-apple-airtags-and-find-...

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As for "anonymising" user data, Apple has enough data points on its users from various services and sources it collects its user data from to make it meaningless.
Sidetopic, but I am rather disappointed that Venmo has been pressuring me via email to embrace crypto and imagine behind the scenes they own however much, trades only get executed internally, and they do their best to extract transaction fees. To me this is the antithesis of what the crypto community was looking to stand for in terms of privacy and independence from traditional banking systems.
And then you slip up, the IRS finds out, and on a connecting flight on your way to another country you get arrested for tax evasion.
I needed to laugh really hard at this because it encapulates the US citizen's mind so perfectly. Partly because the US lives in my head rent free.

Is it because every single US diplomatic relation is in one way or other tied to the military?

If a jibali captures an operator then fair enough. The US is very preachy about their soldiers. But for a civilian to think about that as a benefit is just wild.
Thank you, @endofreach. I hope you enjoy it!
So we should trust someone who has already used half-truths and manipulations about RMS as proof that RMS is a bad person.

Not saying that RMS didn't do that, but the only evidence offered is in a section with two other anonymous quotes:

“He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. Many female students avoided the corridor with his office for that reason…I was one of the course 6 undergrads who avoided that part of NE43 precisely for that reason. (the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…)”

I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

Honestly, looking at this: to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. ... the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…

Makes it seem like RMS might like to have shirtless men hang around his office and the writer sounds homophobic.
Have to jump in here, that last sentence really erks me.

This thread was about people perceiving a new vaccine, as one not tested enough.

This is vastly different from someone which has resistance to vaccination overall.

I am quite concerned that such mislabelling of people, could lead to disaster.
The unofficial CV Project Android app is entirely open source and available on F-Droid:

https://github.com/Sav22999/common-voice-android

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.commonvoice.saverio/
What a good, tough question.

I'd suspect that it's less of an absolute "magic number" and more like a ratio compared to the alternative. Like a 2X or 3X salary increase, maybe more.

If I was making $30K a year (slightly less than the national individual median income) and had kids, I'd have to strongly consider a $150K job that could open up a completely different set of opportunities for the kids. In a lot of places in America that's a leap from "borderline poor nutrition and you better hope you're smart enough to earn a full college scholarship... and try not to get shot in the meantime" to "safety, healthy food, and we're able to invest in your future."

If I was already making $125K a year that $150K wouldn't be so persuasive. Not upending my life for that.

Although, I suppose, once we start talking nannies and tutors we're probably looking at closer to $250-$500K anyway. A full-time nanny is... well, a full-time employee.
This article has pretty good data on the patient safety impacts of doctor shift length.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1900669
Not sure what you're trying to get to here.

So what if "many people" believe X, Y, or Z. Who cares?

NZ decided on a course of action. They implemented it. They arguably saved tens of thousands of lives. That's the truth.

Their government was presumably elected democratically, so what more is there to say?

The OP said he felt bad for NZ'ers. I don't, and I said why.

What more would you like?
This is why I think XRP will ultimately be a winner. No mining, no staking, just validating transactions.
And his lawyer, the judge, the mental institution and doctors in it.
It was a different world then. RAD: was pretty amazing in 1989, when I added another couple megs of RAM to my Amiga 500. It took 30+ seconds to boot off of floppy, and a few seconds to boot off RAM disk.
Why throw away the user trust they have earned in the App Store for the short-term profit of subscription scams?

There's no business sense there

The trust they have in their brand is worth far more. And they are allowing it to erode by featuring scam apps and by providing a subscription mechanism which is easy to abuse
I wonder if a state actor could pull it off more cheaply. Start buying large amounts while letting it leak that you're going to take over the network. See if enough people will panic-sell on the leak to drop the price of your takeover.

It's kinda like taking over a condo building on a much larger scale: the people you buy out first can charge a premium; by the end, you set the terms.
It seems rather unprecedented that there are currently US citizens who are billionaires because of their crypto holdings, without the government having any insight into precisely who these people are. It seems like eventually the government is going to push for more onerous reporting laws to return to the usual equilibrium, where the government has at least some basic idea regarding who owns what (which I think they currently have, even for offshore bank accounts)

(not that I in any way support more aggressive reporting laws)
Isn't crypto a direct threat to their power?

If finance can't be tracked it can't be taxed.

If it's mainstream more and more people could potentially switch to crypto, which would reduce their tax collections.

Just theorizing. I have no idea if this would happen.
i wonder what implications this has on mating? will she find a mate? Presumably the male would need to dominate her in order to procreate, that does not appear to be the case, currently.

Will she attempt to assume the male role in the mating process?

Lots of questions here around this issue.
Venmo is pushing crypto hard because Instant Payments are coming down the pipeline from the Fed in the next 18 months (already in beta testing with a handful of smaller banks, they're ahead of schedule based on my reading of the roadmap), and that kills Venmo (and Paypal to a lesser extend) if they don't have something to pivot to.

That's what you're seeing Visa, Paypal, and others attempt to go upmarket (business payments) or branch out (crypto, Plaid acq attempt).
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Linux version when (sorry, but I bought their product 4 years ago because they said they were making one)
Thanks, that's really interesting, especially how video lag is more detectable than audio lag. I recently set up a display with a 130ms lag and this explains why it was so bad before I corrected the audio!
It is awful - I'm glad you never had to deal with. It provides little revenue and causes a huge amount of hassle and makes living overseas way more difficult.
If you are so sure it's _not_ commercial content you have lost the ability to distinguish real content from adverts.
That's a skill 7 years olds need to develop.

Maybe Facebook are being played, but not by anyone in my list of friends so they are complicit or we are expected to believe that they can't filter content by your social graph.

Potentially that's true: it does not paint a very good picture of The Social Network's ability to target ads.

More likely, Facebook have no real content for me because noone in my list of contacts posts on Facebook anymore and Facebook push this shitty content so thier pages are not bare. Perhaps one in ten is a real ad. It's still 100% low grade ads, just 90% is Facebook trying, and failing, to drive traffic for itself.

I imagine they logged me looking at the titles long enough to write them down as active user engagement.
True. One which unfortunately we can't stop with vaccines. Even if vaccines were 100% effective (which they are not), we would have to violate constitution and humans rights of millions to really exterminate the virus with vaccines. That's unthinkable (the consequences would make the whole COVID situation a boring detail of history). The COVID is here like flu, cold is, can't get rid of it, we should let it exist and go on with our lives.
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> Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

> The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

This quote from Einstein always comes to mind when I hear of people that get a lot of "success" with money but then feel empty as a result. I feel like it has to be, at least in part, a knowledge that they aren't giving back what they know they should be for the amount they are taking, but you can't really blame them too much because it's what everyone is "supposed" to do :/
This may vary by region, but I believe that the original idea of the 24 hour shift is that a physician is present, but only working as necessary depending on patients. A slippery slope if the hospital is generally understaffed.
Now try the same with India. See how many here on HN push similar propaganda.
> You need permission from an existing player in order to start participating.

This is an incorrect explanation of what a permissioned blockchain is. A permissioned blockchain is one in which the ability to add blocks is limited to a certain collection of entities whose public keys are hard coded into the blockchain's consensus mechanism. We don't say that needing to buy tokens constitutes needing "permission" any more than you need permission from a chip manufacturer to buy ASICs to mine a PoW cryptocurrency.
It is not. Look at poster’s other comments.
Thanks for checking it out. I'm not quite done yet, but I believe that if you come back next week it should be stable enough.
Unrealistic. My non-tech family and friends don’t care about this, and I can’t make them care. They don’t understand why it’s a problem; they agree with the motive and don’t understand that it’s not actually a solvable problem. It’s not totally dissimilar to the crypto backdoor problem. Normies think it’s great for only the feds to break encryption. Doesn’t work that way, but you can’t explain why to someone who doesn’t want to know.

The only progress for things like this comes at the political level, through pressure on politicians or corporations. That’s where you should be spending effort if this sort of thing matters to you.

A few Linux nerds buying some fantasy spook-free glibertarian phone will not make a dent in the problem.
Can you explain how this does not benefit people who have the capital to set up massive CPU farms, with all the advantages of scale that that implies? After all, you can get discounts on both power and CPUs if you buy in bulk so anyone who starts off with enough capital will only get further ahead.
I don't agree. We thought this about adults about a year ago then started to notice brain damage, clotting problems, heart problems, and other organ damage. I'm willing to entertain that children are less vulnerable but I'm not willing to simply assume it and say whoopsie after the fact. Ask me again in a year when we know more.
Can you back this up? Labor laws vary significantly by country/state.
Auxiliary languages are kind of inherently doomed to fail to function as they're intended because in order for them to function as such, commitment needs to be made to adopt it multilaterally by governments with sufficient influence. If today the United States and China bilaterally decided to force Esperanto into their school curriculum it'd likely be adopted very quickly by everyone else, but that isn't the case and I doubt it ever would be under almost any circumstance, because learning English is just immediately more practical, even if it's a significantly more difficult language to be picked up.

And that's how it's played out. Nearly every developed nation teaches English as a second language or is a native population of English speakers. The universal language is English. The JVM bytecode for people is English.
Wasn’t NY the hardest hit back in March 2020. Literally bodies shoving in trucks?
His kid is sick. That’s very much human.
In my opinion, there's also the fact that very few people know what an old growth forest looks like compared to 2nd growth in the PNW. There's a profound difference in ecosystems with new growth having tremendously more undergrowth. If you spend enough time in the forests, you'll start to see it too. The 2nd growth stuff looks and feels imbalanced.
BTC can be tracked better than cash
That is false.

These issues were known to the US Forest Service at least 20 years ago, and broadly speaking nothing was done about it.

Climate change is helping forest fires to ignite and burn hotter due to reduced moisture in both trees and the soil. To the extent that it may also increase the incidence of lightning, and thus the probability of naturally started fires, it can also influence the numbers of fires.

But gross mismanagement of forests for most of the 20th century caused by misguided ideas about what keeps forests healthy is what has led to an almost unimaginable pile of fuel sitting on forest floors that would never have existed in the past.
You will have a ton of meetings with customers if you want to stay in business.
With most of the responses, I am also not clear on this.
I think it's better to say you don't have answers than to keep being wrong:

* no human-to-human transmision

* masks don't work -> masks hurt you -> masks are mandatory

* transmitted by a pangolin -> we don't know what the intermediary was

* it's racist to say it came from a lab -> it probably came from a lab

* restrictions for a few weeks -> restrictions for months, and maybe brought back seasonally

* it will all be over when x % get vaccinated -> we never said vaccines protect from infection, just bad reactions to covid
I used to live internationally and the taxes weren’t that much more complex. It really shouldn’t cost thousands, it’s just two extra forms if I recall correctly.

If you Are living in high tax regimes like Switzerland you don’t have double tax on the first $xx,xxx in income, it used to be close to 90k.
Wait until you discover how well made old clothes were. It's this x100.
Just post something about india and trolls from that country will similarly pop up. I dont understand what is it with failing countries and whitewashing their internet image using trolls. Just fix your bloody and stop spamming.
(Unless you're the one robbed of your 43 years or 2 years of life while continuously claiming - correctly - your innocence).

Its beyond Kafkaesque.
The appeal of RAD: makes more intuitive sense if you think of it as a kind of clipboard that you access via filesystem operations, rather than clipboard operations (though the Amiga had a clipboard too). It did make more sense in an era when disks were slow and a huge proportion of Amigas had no hard disks. Thinking about it now, it might be interesting if someone developed a FUSE interface to the system clipboard on modern OSes.