skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: is it possible to make a cryptocurrency that does not rely on some real-world scarce resource (e.g. chips, electricity, drive space)?

This seems to be a cornerstone of what makes any crypto valuable in the first place (scarcity), and as long as that scarcity has real-world consequences, it seems like it would have the same result.

Chia claimed to "Save the world from proof-of-work wastage", but it would just turn a GPU crunch into a HDD crunch.
Right, all you're changing is the mRNA, but that can still be really dangerous. What if you code for a protein that causes cross-reactivity with a human protein and you give millions of people an auto-immune disorder?

I'm 1000% pro mRNA vaccines and pro covid vaccines, but they still need to be tested.
I have capital I want to deploy. Zero/Negative interest rates are a reality. Traditional broker managed investments are a hot zone for fees. Newer tools for access to markets is covered by reddit day traders; real estate is also highly competitive due to airbnb businesses and other forces.

Capital will always find the easiest path, and right now that's crypto and no one on HN is complaining about micro-VC activity.
Is it really an mRNA vaccine ?

It seems to be a 'multivalent protein subunit vaccine' [0]

[0] https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...
Yes that's very common. Patients are admitted to the hospital for some other condition and then test positive for coronavirus.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/26/exclusive-half-c...
It's like a name drop. Saying "a11y" instead of "accessibility" let's other people know what you're familiar with the industry jargon.
Do you have any links to the raw clinical trials data?
And yet almost every example of malware in the article is a native app.
> 1. This is specifically mainstream node, or everything except leading edge 3nm / 5nm.

Yes, but only because leading edge is contracted out well into the future. Prices for those nodes will definitely be higher when contracts are written.
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Because they dont have access to everything in the cloud.You dont have to use iCloud, or Siri, or Spotlight.

This was specifically addressed in the San Benadino and other cases. Apple gave the FBI everything in the cloud. FBI was looking for everything on the device.

What this change does is all a method, without an opt out option, for them to scan for anything on the device. Be it a string of text/keywords, or certain pictures of a place with certain metadata etc.
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WW2 had the Red Scare, Japanese interment camps, and shocking amounts of human experimentation. I would like to hear about the fear mongering and downright lies that were going on during WW2 from someone who was there. I’d bet there was lots of misinformation going around, social media has made those types of things flourish.

If you look back at history through rose-tinted glasses everything will appear better than it was.
To be fair this war isn’t over yet and WW2 wasn’t exactly a walk in the park for any allied power.
TSMC has a few smaller fabs currently outside of Taiwan, 2 in China, 1 in the US (WaferTech not the Arizona plant under-construction) and 1 in Singapore.
I do expect images with "alpine" in the name to be based on the Alpine distro. And not some weird bastard of Alpine. And I see no problem with them asserting their trademark here.
Theres only so much even an inexperienced admin can do wrong when hosting something as basic as a chat platform. The various limits a potential machine could have are very obvious immediately. If people could host their own servers the artificial limitations discord is using to extract money from its userbase would be even more incomprehensible, and the network effect wouldn't be nearly as strong because every instance would presumably have its own account registry, both points will prevent discord indefinetly from ever allowing self managed instances.
This would be an interesting product especially to those who are relatively price insensitive such as companies.

One of the perks of working for us is a google no-ads subscription! could work?
I was away when our printer ran out of toner. My son called me concerned that he had an assignment due and needed to print something out.

As I wasn’t home I had to resort to online. Amazon would deliver an entire laser printer in an hour for less than the cost of a new toner cartridge (no generic cartridges in the one hour service).

Five years later we are still on the starter toner cartridge that came with that printer.
This is the sixth "product" you've launched in the last month or so - are you actually working on any of these?
Agreed. BUT if we price in the true cost of carbon at all levels it balances out. In a world we’re there is sufficient DAC you could charge the extractors and refiners and delivery companies and consumers. The price of a unit of gas goes way up at that point. Take the original commentor’s guess at $10/gallon - is the new cost $25 or more? I think we’d get to reduced consumption quickly.

Oh, that’s only net zero. In this fantasy we should also charge fossil fuel industries for past infractions too - maybe they need to pay an extra 20% for extra dac capacity.
I haven't seen any research that says that infection acquired immunity is stronger or longer lasting than from vaccine. The opposite in fact.
> Are there going to be vaccine for everything in the future?

We should be so lucky!
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” – Henry Ford

If you have the users design a car you end up with a Homer bubble car.

A better strategy is don't be an asshole.

You know telemetry on by default is wrong.

Putting sane defaults that the users must opt in instead of opt out is right.

No one wants to make an account for your product, other login choices are usually available, but don't force it if you don't need it.
There might be a pattern, both of these states (and some other southern states I sampled) had surges in during the summer months of 2020 and 2021, unlike some northern states, like NY [0].

Perhaps because everyone is hiding inside with the air conditioning to escape the heat?

[0] https://www.statnews.com/feature/coronavirus/covid-19-tracke...
My thought is, if it can’t be read it can’t be discussed, so why is it here?
> Just yesterday I had to accompany my sister to the phlebologist, because of severe side-effects from Pfizer, he told us he was seeing troves of patients for similar reasons even though officially no causal-link was established.

This is the issue with correlation vs causation. When you look at sufficiently large group, like tens of millions of people, some percentage of them are going to die for various reasons. Some will have medical emergencies. Some will get cancer. So, you can’t just say “these people got the vaccine and then had this effect”. You have to look at how many were effected and compare that with the “normal” rate.

For instance, venous thromboembolism (VTE) already effects 2 out of every thousand Americans (600,000 cases a year) [1]. So, many people that get a vaccine will also experience some form of VTE because they were going to anyway. However, preliminary information is showing that the mRNA vaccine does cause about a 3 times increase in the risk of VTE, while covid causes about a 15 times increase [2]. For reference, taking hormonal birth control causes a 1.5 to 7 times increase risk of VTE [3]. So just taking birth control can be far more “dangerous” than the vaccine, so I wouldn’t beat yourself up.

[1] https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(09)00946-5/ful...

[2] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210801/Risk-of-venous-th...

[3] https://helloclue.com/articles/sex/hormonal-birth-control-an...
A fun wrinkle is that there are (infinitely many) models of set theory which are pointwise definable. Thus in the right model of zfc, every mathematical object is uniquely addressable by a certain finite formula.
(see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.4597.pdf )
I’m saving up for the flood of old GPUs. I can finally realize my dream of taking all my ML work off the cloud once I scoop up some old mining GPUs for relatively cheap
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Where is the analysis that shows this to be of greater benefit than the total environmental cost?
To stop the auto-rotating, paste this into your address bar:

javascript:app.three.controls.autoRotate = false

Note that Chrome will remove the "javascript:" prefix when pasting, and you'll need to manually add it back yourself.
No love for automotive infotainment systems and dashboard gauges? Those have actually caused real economic damage due to manufacturing shutdowns.
As long as it doesn’t break or give up backwards compatibility, I don’t want the web to stop improving. It’s one of the most important platforms in history. I thought we can’t teach the old web new tricks because of backwards compatibility?
For a very long time glibc was the only game in town. so to some extent glibc was Linux. you can forgive people for not testing with other libcs if none was available to test against.
You'll notice that all of his examples of user-hostile software lack a universally accepted standard. This is not new.

Do you need to install special vendor software to use your bluetooth devices? No - everyone follows the standard, so your OS just knows how to hook up your headset. With USB it's different, because the standards are insufficient for the gadgets that we use, resulting in specialized software for your extra buttons, light shows, sensitivity, etc.

Two prime older examples are graphics cards and printers. There has never been a driver standard for either that was universally accepted (after VGA and VESA local bus), and so the only alternative is bespoke software. Remember when game controllers needed specialized drivers (Sound Blaster)? I do.

And it's not like this is limited to software either. There are plenty of standards and lack-of-standards in construction, automotive, even electrical in some cases. One of the most expensive explosions in history was the result of a mismatch between metric and imperial measures.

Want to get away from this nightmare of custom-implementations-for-everything? Push for sane and comprehensive standards.
I've never worked with a Javascript developer who was responsible in any way for their employer's adtech and dark UX patterns strategy. In my experience, those decisions are always made by PMs and approved by the board.

Your comment seems like an opportunistic attack on a type of developer you don't personally like rather than something that is rooted in reality.
In my entire life, no one has directly sneezed on me except for my own kids when they were little. I'd rather they cover with their elbow than us all wear a mask.

If they are covid infectious, I've already inhaled their particles before they sneezed if we were both wearing surgical masks. See that study I referenced.
Wouldn't other people catch up quickly?
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It does if you try to understand that system. CSAM scan on-device won’t work at all without that encryption part.
We do not talk about the offerings to the paperclip optimizer aka the crypto cracker aka rokos basilisk in this house in this way young man.
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I meant to point directly here: https://github.com/MITDDC/clu-1976-1989
I don't understand your objection. The cost includes all tax.
“Work” doesn’t have to be wasteful. It could be based on the number of pieces of litter that were collected, the number of meals to the homeless that were served. It’s just easier to measure when work is something wasteful.
This is very true, but you hear the same thing from craftsmen. Another commenter further up said that a HVAC repairmen told him that making $200k/year in that job was pretty average, and a reply to that pointed out the median was $50k/year.

Not saying I disagree, but yeh, its not unique to software dev it seems
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Some of your linked comment was valid but your "negative natural selection" take was just nonsense. Superbugs have nothing at all to do with vaccinations. It's the result of overly zealous use of antibiotics that gets cut before the point of complete pathogen destruction.

There are also sufficient rates of infection of even healthy subjects to warrant concern considering that Covid cases are far more serious than most Flu cases - another illness that affects the healthy far less but can still lead to hospitalisation or even death. Also, before you mention it, the fact that there are more deaths caused by the Flu than Covid statistically per year is due to the greater proliferation of the Flu virus and it's variants over Covid.

On an individual basis, you are far more likely to develop complications from Covid than Flu, even for healthy subjects.
Undersea by rail. Ninety minutes from New York to Paris: 5600 km
Currently, the best science says if you had COVID you should still get the vaccine. The CDC and all of the evidence points to that. This isn't close. This isn't like, what happens if you fall into a black hole, where there are multiple interpretations. If you had COVID, you should still get the vaccine. If you don't believe that, you are not using science to make your decisions.
An order of magnitude more users are more familiar with iOS and Android than Mac System paradigms from 80s.
Afaik, it was backed up behind a lack of safety trials.

Given how expensive those are to run, and how mRNA's primary benefit (speed of development) wasn't a competitive advantage in "normal" times, we had something that we thought was better, but no financial case to toss the gobs of money at it to get it certified.

If SARS-CoV-2 is remembered for one thing, it should be for finally breaking the logjam and "giving" us approved mRNA platforms.
but that's what my argument in the second paragraph was about?
A modest new desktop will be definitively much better than anything you could have had 11 years ago.

Unless you are looking for high-end gaming, the most important parts will be your motherboard and SSD (nvme) speed. You could get all high-end components except for the graphic card, and just wait it out and replace it later when the prices come back.
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> still has Google Play Services and so the F-Droid repo should be a separate code base without GPS

A simple/single F-Droid patch could be enough.. Such a simple change doesn't have to be a huge maintenance burden.
It exists and it’s called “proof of stake”, see Cardano and ETH2 for example.

The pros and cons are debatable but the technology is interesting. If you want to know more I recommend the Ouroboros whitepapers by IOHK.
How much higher are CO2 ratios in/on smoke stacks?

Wouldn't it be better to put treatment where the ratios are higher than 0.042%?
Depending on the organization, a VP title may not have "a seat at the table", which can lead to HR taking a back seat. This can include being overshadowed by Finance or Operations if HR rolls into the CFO or COO, respectively.

So the "title inflation" is a recognition that people is a tier-1 function, and needs airtime and visibility at the most senior levels.

As an aside, "Human Resources" is falling out of favor given the Dilbert-esque implications around HR. And "People Ops" always struck me as overly operations-focused and tactical vs. strategic.
Convenience. You can google the answer faster than your calculator app can even open.
I found Microsoft's course[1] to be better for the less mathematically/academically inclined, who just want to get a background in ML.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
This was posted last night https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307224
>But when it came to choosing the permanent host, they defaulted to a white male with a background as a television producer and game show host. His credentials included stints behind the scenes at The Price Is Right and Let’s Make a Deal, shows featuring avarice more than advancement. The choice of Mike Richards was business as usual.

It wasn't even a teacher, or a celebrity involved in educational charities, or anything. It was some guy who'd been an executive producer, and more recently, the executive producer of Jeopardy (and host of nonsense gameshows, but that's barely applicable to hosting Jeopardy). More notably, he had a storied history of shittiness, which includes firing a Price is Right girl because she "would not take us to great". [0] Maybe he can do some grammar learnings. The host of Jeopardy doesn't have to be highfalutin, but using correct fucking English should be the (not exactly high) bar to clear.

>The ideal host for Jeopardy! should embody what the show means to its viewership: a passion for knowledge and a respect for a diverse community. Maybe the host would also reflect that diversity in order to show that it’s not just white males who can be the gatekeepers to these values.

Frankly, making the jump from "the host should be someone who's publicly interested in knowledge and not an asshole" to "white men are decried for their original sin" is a bit of a leap. Or maybe it's just a startle reflex from a dogwhistle. Anyway, I think the reaction to Mike Richards has something to do with that fact that he's on-tape (well, on-podcast) making dodgy comments against Haitians and Jews. [1] To paraphrase Donald Trump, the prototypical "innocent-white-man", I like people who aren't on the shitlist of the Anti-Defamation League.

[0] https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/08/jeopardy-front-...

[1] https://deadline.com/2021/08/jeopardy-mike-richards-adl-call...

edit: Oh HN, never change. I guess these downvoters must have gone to the same private Christian college as Mr Richards, or something. Without typing out some words in response, we'll never know!
Because they’ll only read what they believe is essential to their goal. Small text below a form element does not scream “critical” it doesn’t get read. I’ve watched many users use websites: they only read what they think is important and skip everything else.
Why would it though?

mRNA vaccines just get your body to produce a particular protein you want to induce an immune response to, instead of injecting the protein directly.

Is it really the slow uptake of mRNA techniques that's prevented an HIV vaccine? Or is it HIV's capacity for rapidly mutating into large numbers of disparate strains inside one person, let alone in the entire community?

I mean, look at the delta variant of Covid, the mRNA vaccines reduce the severity of infection, but do not prevent infection or spreading thereof.

mRNA vaccines will enable rapid iteration, which is good. But they're not a wonder drug at all.
Is there a source for this?
It might not be forever. I had an admin shadowban me once across the entire site for daring to post on r/indiegaming and r/gaming, two subs I commented on constantly, a single link to a video game I made over six months (well at least that's the best reason I can come up with, I was never told a reason why, I know certain subreddits are super anti-self-promotion for some reason though). I didn't even notice for six months until a moderator PM'ed me and told me he had been manually approving my posts for months in one sub (the rest of the subreddits I posted to I just thought I had suddenly stopped being interesting to people).

I tried to appeal the shadowban and heard nothing from the admins.

Anyway I stayed away from Reddit for a while but eventually created a new account to talk about board games. A few years later I decided to check my other account again, and discovered it wasn't shadowbanned anymore (you can tell by going to your user page in incognito mode, it won't show up like other accounts do if it's shadowbanned). And so now I'm using that old account again.

Although I'll never talk about anything I've ever made on that site ever again, which seems kind of stupid to me, but whatever. Reddit's rules are crap (and new UI, I only use old.reddit), but I do enjoy checking and commenting in a few of the subreddits still.
No. I oversee our HR/benefits. Company pays 50% of premium, employee covers other 50%.
See my other comment. It very much exists and is very much the basis for NZ law. You said it was 'fringe': it isn't.
> Nobody is going to come after you.

You should doubt this.

I filed several complaints with unauthorized newsletters and failing to comply to my GDPR requests. German officials went after the companies and asked them to provide the necessary information. For sure it took its time but it worked and for the companies it's been a warning shot.
Wouldn't it be cheaper for Apple to just buy DDG or Brave?
You're making the incorrect assumption that catching some new, dangerous strain of COVID is a guarantee. It isn't.

Pushing out a vaccine that causes harm, even if it's substantially less than the virus it protects against, is asking for a lot of trouble.
Why is purchase prohibited from the USA or other countries outside the supported ones? You can get unlocked Android phones and SIM cards just fine. Some tax nonsense?
> Worker representation on boards is one example. Imagine if the board of public companies was 50% shareholders and 50% workers.

You are free to found a company with such a board structure. You are also free to either bootstrap it or crowdsource the necessary capital for it.
That's not really how it works, First, vaccines prevent infection in the first place so the virus never has a chance to replicate and mutate, unlike antibiotics which are given after infection and there are a massive number of bacteria and only the most resistant survive. Second, there isn't anything about vaccine acquired immunity thats different from infection acquired immunity, so any evolutionary pressure would already be there.
Is the response proportional to the potential harm? Consistent with other responses? It seems like it would at least be worth thinking about it.
So just to be clear this was pretty exaggerated right?

> "waiving" here means you're still paying thousands per month (between employer and individual) in premiums

I get it that American healthcare sucks but let’s at least try to be accurate about how much it sucks.
Pfizer... didn't these guys tried unauthorized Trovan on children in Nigeria during a meningitis epidemic?
If it is safety regulation you're talking about, that is not exactly a plus for the local population. Sure, it is a non-renewable source of power, but it doesn't produce CO2 after it starts to operate. Ideally, it could be even used to capture carbon from air.
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Which frankly is the best argument FOR using the built-in multiple select, since the custom widgets often fail on touch.
Thanks a lot for listening.
Has anyone experience with Sailfish? Can it run apps like Signal and WhatsApp? Is it stable?
I know the website says that it can, but I'm looking for actual user feedback.

EDIT: What about the KDE Connect app?
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> Also only the last 2-3 months have required being indoors in most of Texas and Florida.

And that's when cases exploded in Florida and Texas [0], from 1-2k per day to 15-20k, coinciding with the spread of delta throughout the world.

If delta hit in a different season it might have been the northern states who fared worse than the southern states.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/feature/coronavirus/covid-19-tracke...