skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unlike bitcoin, it is able to do large changes, since there is a completely different development culture

Can be read as: a 'relatively' small group of people control the protocol to such a level that arbitrary changes can be enacted with relative ease.

An example that comes to mind is Ethereum, which is essentially controlled by a single developer aided by a few others. When a bug in a contract would have cost many people a significant amount, the lead developer lead the charge (to the applause of almost all) in forking the chain.

I haven't looked at Monero in enough detail to confirm this, but your statement is not exactly a selling point. Having decentralization to the point that it becomes hard for developers to force through changes, should be a feature... not a bug.
This is stupid along with most of these comments about commerical farms and whatever made up environmental effects the cult pushes this week.

But for homesteading this can be fun and is talked about with most? livestock.

What they hint at in this article is you can train for urination but not the pooping.

But they often poop afterwards (but they also poop without urination)

It's said the livestock can't control pooping but there are myths of people who teach them to poop in the correct spot. Not sure if it's legend or not.
I don't think it is even possible for a rational person to be anti-science. By definition you are engaged with a scientific proposition or prediction by focusing on it and disagreeing with the veracity of claims.

When people say so and so are anti-science they appear desperately wishing to smear another as ignorant or irrational and themselves as smart and rational. But a pro-scientific accusation would involve the exact irrefutable point the other is being irrational on. They don't do accurate accusations well because that would be to suppose poor use of rational faculty when all that can be proven is none was detected by the accuser, which might too readily expose their flawed non-scientific approach to accusations. I posit that these smears are based on dogma and only a symptom of one's unwillingness to engage in tense moral debate with cordiality.
A company putting an ad for its own product on its own website is not an example of a shady tactic.

"Allowed?" Next you'll tell me that Microsoft should be forced to exclusively advertise other browsers other than their own on Bing before search...

> so if this isn't abuse of market power then I don't know what.

Abuse of market power would be preventing the mention of any other browser when using search and Google has never done that.

Or how about a better example: Apple actively preventing any third party web browsers on iOS, then later only allowing third party web browsers to use the Safari Engine. THAT is anticompetitive.

Google simply has the better product in this case.
From that blog:

> This is why I am now a co-author, along with 16 influential academic researchers, of a lengthy review the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is publishing on Sept. 13. The principal author is David Ludwig, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

How do you call this "blogspam"?
I have used Firefox as my daily driver for 2+ years now. Zero problems with compatibility, including many "Chrome only" business apps. A couple Google-owned sites are the only ones that give me trouble, and spoofing the user agent on those has worked great.
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So much this! Considering how much of my work and play time is spent in a browser, I would pay a hefty sum for a browser that met my needs and kept me safe from the data thieves. I'd even pay a subscription for this, where many current products do not deserve a sub model.
Xenix dev tools can produce x86 real mode objects. Some dev kits even have the full linker and libraries.

The original Microsoft C for the 386 was a Xenix product although the OS/2 1632 cross compiler was certainly around in 1991 when everything was going the way of Windows NT.

The original 1991 NT pre-release could even make OS/2 2.0 32bit OMF objects.
The problem with this theory is that in clinically controlled lab studies, where both food and exertion are measured carefully, the weight gain (or loss) is almost 100% predictable based on the inputs of food, exercise, and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Unless your hypothesis is that the weight gain/loss is going into something else other than /fat/?

I'm guessing the reason nobody runs these studies is that it's solved science?
Why? I cut out almost all meat by simply not eating it. I eat some seafood on the rare occasion but really all it took was just choosing not to. I don't even think of myself as vegetarian, just a normal human who opts for meatless options most of the time.
You're arguing that you aren't free unless you're free to drive a fully armed and operational tank to work, and not be bothered by the authorities. You can value privacy and rule of law, by building in limits to both. Physical currencies do that.

Yes, I think an effectively anonymized digital value exchange is problematic. I prefer physical currency for anonymized transactions because it provides certain physical barriers that make a non-consensual exchange of goods and services difficult, while perfectly facilitating, though often de-anonymizing large exchanges of value.

Something that's perfectly sensible in a state that values both privacy and rule of law. We don't put cameras in your home, we do put cameras in airports and nuclear energy facilities.
Using NFTs in Crowdfunding
I recently launched my first Indiegogo campaign today, and one of the cool things about the campaign is the use of NFTs.

Two of the rewards would be the chance to own one of the 54 NFTs which would be minted. The 54 NFTs will be a collage of 54 dishes from 54 African countries.

54 because there are currently 54 countries in Africa. (Yup you guessed right, the campaign is about something related to Africa)

Please check out the campaign here https://igg.me/at/dishafrik any support is appreciated.

Also, if you have any question, feel free to leave them in the comments. I will be happy to answer.
Firefox is a dumpster fire half the time. I use Firefox still for exactly ONE website: Facebook. To keep it sandboxed.

I still have to restart Firefox at least once every other day because it leaks and becomes a runaway process.

No plugins/addons. As stock as it gets. One single website only... and it still pukes all over itself.
You estimate wrong. I've been in infosec for over a decade. We look at binaries. It's not that hard. In fact, it's often easier, since type conversion errors are often a lot more apparent in a disassembly, where you can see exactly what operations are being performed without having to know exactly what the language rules around signedness and integer promotion are, and without having to follow through complicated type hierarchies. Similarly, a good optimizer will strip away layers of software abstraction and make what's actually happening more evident.

There is value in source audits, but you're wrong that exploits come out of stolen source. That's exceedingly rare, and usually quickly publicly leaked when it happens.
Putting academics aside, high school is not optimized for socialization.

For many students, it's 5-7 hours a day of explicitly not socializing at all, with brief periods of maybe talking to your friends scattered around, mostly at lunch. Plus homework to stop you from socializing as much as you might like after school.

What socialization students do get from school tends to be extremely filtered by age and other factors like academic track. The median student isn't interacting with a diverse range of people- they're almost all within 1 year of age and often share the majority of their background. When you stack compulsory attendance and restrictions on top, it becomes an extremely warped microcosm that can easily breed horrible behavior. Unfortunately, when it gets bad, schools rarely have the ability to deal with it, and students have exceedingly little autonomy. For most students going through that, the 'lessons' learned will rarely carry over because adults simply aren't operating under the same rules or context, and one does not need practice in suffering.

This isn't the system you'd build if your goal was to spit out a well-socialized human.

It'd be far better to set aside a good chunk of hours a week for intentional socialization, preferably across a wide range of activities. Playing with your friends, helping tutor younger kids, apprenticing with adults in meaningful work, trying to work on self-driven projects with peers... all of these are hugely better socialization opportunities than what high school is for US students.
Acquisitions are probably much more unpredictable than actual successful IPOs. I guess the investors will always need to have their preferred shares repaid first, and the exit price might even be lower than the last valuation. I have a friend who joined Snowflake at a pretty late stage and can still get enough money to retire, if he fully vests his options. Though of course, this is very much luck-based and he had no idea what he was getting himself when he joined just a couple of years before the IPO.
> was basically told to fuck off.

Provide information about your issues and they would be grateful.

> official desktop gui clients is completely unusable

It has improved significantly over time, perhaps this was a long time ago?
Even with a real UBI system, having random fluctuations in earnings when you get a cold or break a leg is not reasonable.

Additionally, this idea will incentivise employers to destroy human capital - like an employer could drive their employees to burnout and then discard them because they bear no consequences.

This is already happening to a large extent thanks to gig economy- Uk employers have cut their investments in staff training by 2.4 billion since 2011.
No but they were in military boot camp. They didn't get a special diet but they did get a very special environment. Which actually stresses the point of the article, the question of obesity at the macro level isn't one of "calories in/out" or "diet" but environmental and behavioural.
Imagine if it was a Russian shed
Upvoting because of your honesty, not your position. The reason you can't reduce meat consumption, in spite of data, is because you don't want to. It's selfish but at least it's honest.
HN seems to be getting worse with the feels>facts lately. As have the downvotes with no rebuttal. Just slides closer to reddit every day.

And I agree if it's not in the sidewall or something it would definitely at least get you by. until you get a cheap tire.
But really smart kids: drop out of school ASAP, get together, and make their first $1M by the age of 18.
If you work with kids in an outdoor camp setting - same basic results.

Take away the phones, the ipads, the TVs, the computers, add a (very) healthy diet, literally all day every day outside from morning to night with some small breaks.

No huge weightloss (camp might be a month and half or so) but generally endurance, fitness, etc, kids are remarkable(!) - seriously, their bodies just problem solve it seems overnight for the change (takes about 1 week to start noticing difference).

The idea that high fat / sugar / salt / mental health issues from being plunked in front of screens all day doesn't play a role in all this seems weird. At least with kids, mental health is a big deal actually in lots of behaviors (procrastination / eating etc) and being outside all day does seem to help some kids.
thanks for the sensible answer.
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Hi! I downloaded your app, and convinced a friend who travels quite a bit to download it, on the basis of this post. It’s pretty great!

We have one piece of feedback: the trip page is very spread out, so there is no good way to see a quick overview of my entire trip, i.e. in city A from days x-y, then city B, etc. Unfortunately, a single day takes up the whole screen. If there was some way to have a more collapsed trip view in the app, that would be awesome.

Keep up the good work, I’m rooting for you.
I don't disagree.

>Monero seems much better suited as a weapon against real totalitarian regimes. If it is illegal in both a free and unfree society, then it will only have a practical purpose in the unfree society, whereas the free society will have plentiful alternatives.

From another thread. I think the something like Monero can exist, but also be illegal, and that would facilitate making it's practical use only valuable in truly unfree societies.
> It is physically impossible to gain weight while eating a caloric deficit.

Is it? As much as I want to agree, what if my body decides that 50% of calories input must be stored? It might mean that I will have to eat 200% of my daily required input just to be functional.

Not saying that this is the case, but I think it’s what the article is arguing.
come back in 20 years . why do some people seemingly gain much more weight easily then others, you think a 400+ lb man has the same genes for regulating metabolism and other factors as a 150 lb man?
There are parts of homosexuality which are bad. There are parts of that community which sexualizes children and exposes them to sexual things at far too young of an age under the moniker of "sexual education". There are far too many gay men who believe that just because heterosexual romance (nee crushes) among children are romanticized in culture that homosexual contact should be normalized, romanced and espoused as well (because far too many gay men see sex as the be all and end all of homosexuality) in the name of equality.
Just put a constant tax on carbon and let people choose between their shitcoins, vacation flights, and sirloin steaks.
It would be 28.8% including the NIT for Obamcare. Plus state taxes to 12.3% in California.
Philosophy of Dialogue
dating apps have two systems though, most of them were bought out by a huge media tycoon.
As a longtime user of Firefox for Mobile, the add-on massacre a few months go pushed me over the edge. Now I switch between Vivaldi (syncs with the the desktop, decent built-in add blocking, sadly no support for extensions) and Kiwi Browser (supports desktop Chrome extensions, including uBlock Origin).
With kinds of resources Apple has, you could be writing a PDF parser from scratch in Rust or Swift (it is 100% memory-safe, right?) or whatever else kind of "in the background", maybe as an experimental project, and then replace the existing one with it when it's mature enough.

Microsoft at least started rewriting some components of Windows in Rust. Though they aren't saying which ones.
The point of the article is that energy-in/energy-out is the uninteresting aspect of obesity research.
Yes, AFAICT, many computers of the widely popular MSX standard used Basic made by Microsoft. Frankly, it was pretty nice, and had powerful extensions / special commands to make use of the hardware (graphics, sounds, networking).

For a one-user, one-task computer, you didn't need much of a proper OS anyway.
I had the exact same experience in bootcamp(Army), and it makes me jaded and uninterested in the monthly "groundbreaking" exercise products or diet programs. Front lean and rest position doesn't cost you anything - just sayin...
> Grey goo is not so much fiction as it is the logic consequence of the kind of machine its creator "designed" (on the sci-fi definition of designing, but with a very strong focus on science).

That's true; I think it's one of the reasons Zyvex's designs didn't include nanobot-sized constructors, instead preferring "convergent assembly" using nanometer-sized parts but not nanometer-sized replicators. Instead, they envisioned that the minimal self-replicating unit would be the size of a laser printer. A person armed with a rock could disable a warehouse full of such devices in a few hours if that became necessary.

So, self-replicating nanotechnology doesn't imply a risk of gray goo.

As a more useful point of reference than space opera and Drexler's thought-provoking speculations, Linux and GCC are capable of replicating themselves, but they don't pose the same risks as the Morris worm.

> that is a completely different threat model from any machine we have ever seen.

Even without the bogus gray-goo threat, that's true of self-replicating machines, but so were my other examples at the time. Well, maybe the PEPCON disaster wasn't so different from the items in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ammonium_nitrate_disas... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear..., in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanggongchang_Explosion in 01626, which arguably brought about the end of the Ming 18 years later. Nothing like the Wanggongchang explosion had ever happened before, though, and nothing like it would happen again until the 20th century; quite possibly it was the largest human-made explosion before the US started the first nuclear war in 01945, though there are a couple of other candidates.
Thank you! I found you some time ago in a Github list of free APIs; you made it possible for me to finish my design for a "smart" umbrella hook https://github.com/jareklupinski/umbrella-hook

I'm updating the code now to parse your weathercode for predicting umbrella necessity, and has been an accurate meter in my area for the past week.
YouTube has so many bad practices beyond just this kind of stuff. There are a lot of reasons not to go there any more.

We need suitable alternatives. Maybe something decentralized in nature.
Long ago I gave up on letting Windows use associations. So, instead, I run programs (apps) via a script that makes the associations I want based on more than just a file extension.

Windows keeps thinking that it knows where I want files for music, movies, documents, images, etc. Nope, for me it knows no such things. If Windows was correct, then I would be making only nearly trivial use of Windows. Going back to PC/DOS, I knew where I wanted files, had my own way of keeping track of files, and still do.
I bought a time lock safe that only opens Friday and Saturday from 6am to 10am. "Pre-comitting" to not drinking was very helpful for me.

Used to do the same thing with gaming. Encrypted windows and whensend.com the key to me in the future. Can't game on the linux drive.
Firefox seems to be the only hope to avoid a duopoly dominated by forces that are anti-privacy and anti-user. I recently made the move from Safari to Firefox and I am very pleased.

This being said, I agree with you about the optics of Firefox management. There is a lot going on that isn't good and the personal enrichment of the executives feels all sorts of wrong.

If FF management can not be good stewards of a vital product, who can be? What sort of system could be set up to properly manage, motivate and pay for development?
My favorite t-shirt: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Tilting-at-Windmills-Don...
Was anyone wearing a black hoodie?
That is a modified quote from Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia BTW, if you didn't recognize it.
While it's nice to hire great employees, Mailchimp provides an API to send email. It's not like they're trying to solve cold fusion. Actually, wait, how many employees does Mailchimp even have? Let's check the press release...

>Founded in 2001 and based in Atlanta with offices in Brooklyn, Oakland, Vancouver, London, and Santa Monica, Mailchimp has 1,200+ employees

Sending email must be much harder than I thought.
I really do not like it at in episode 1, of his latest doc series, Curtis did not show the very questionable results from MK Ultra and chose only to cherry-pick the only woman coming forward to say that it wiped her memory and cut it so that it looked very credible. And then went on further to say that it only wiped patients memories which from my understanding all it did was create a bunch of people with PTSD or Nothing at All.

Ironic that the episode is largely about paranoia,disinformation and persuading someone's thoughts based on narratives. Curtis asserts shaky if not outright wrong results about a once popular American Mythos, MK Ultra.

If my suspicions are true; in that which he has assembled a series of facts that he believes fits a certain narrative that he is weaving into this documentary, the irony would further solidify into an ingot. As this first episode is also about succumbing to false narratives via paranoia and the false idea that appearance of patterns alone are evidence enough of a phenomenon. While this episode attempts to dispel the notion that grand conspiracies and higher forces are driving the centuries narrative, his cuts and edits and how he presents the information may weave his own.

It's disappointing because I want to watch something like this that condenses and attempts to form some kind of understanding on how the state of the world is today.
I'm a farm kid, my wife more so than I. Livestock are stupid: they embody the herd mentality. Individual animals are often very smart. The exceptions are sheep and any poultry.

Sheep are the most blazingly stupid animals I've ever encountered, and I've watched a chicken and a turkey, respectively, run into a corner repeatedly because it didn't see the open field behind it, and literally stare upwards into rain until it inhaled water and drowned.

Cows are quite smart, but also amazingly lazy. They will lie in one spot and starve to death, because they're too lazy to walk to food. However, start milking them, and you'll learn exactly how clever they are. They'll plot for weeks just to fuck with you or put a foot in the bucket.

Horses are worse, because they can kill you easily, so you can't just punch them if they threaten you, like you can with cows. (Punching cows doesn't hurt them, just annoys them enough to leave you alone, sometimes). They're all clever, but nothing matches goats.

Goats are horrifyingly smart, and very very mischievous. They'll plan escapes from any enclosure, will manipulate you by looking cute, and will specifically knock you into muddy patches and bleat in a manner suspiciously like laughter.

Thankfully, my wife's family has Great Pyrenees, one of the best breeds of dog known to man (Seriously, give them a look if you have land and are looking for a dog. Smart, amazingly gentle, and will kill a bear [literally, I've seen it] to protect you, and they got the kids out of trouble if the animals got rowdy.

tl;dr: farm animals are actually really smart, have personalities, and are absolutely wonderful to be around growing up. You learn important life lessons, and a good amount of common sense.

Oh, and Donkeys are better than almost any guard dog. They'll kick the shit out of anything that looks mean, and they can bite the head off a cougar, and will. It's nuts.
It’s Not the ‘Great Resignation’ but the ‘Great Reprioritization’
Not sure it’s possible to know the answer without more context. What do they use the averages for? What do you think they should do instead and why is it better?
Supply chain disruptions are not a new threat, and they're not going away
Really great post from Modern Treasury. They are crushing it.

My only question with this explanation is -- to be a 3rd party service provider, this means they would need a somewhat intense bank integration with 1 side of the ACH, right? The retailers definitely just fill out an ACH release form like [1], and I really think the distributors don't do a heavy bank integration either...

[1] https://burkedist.com/application/files/3314/8823/3226/Burke...