skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>- Marijuana isn't really on the same axis. It only becomes the same axis once you allow _all_ drugs -- cocaine, opium, etc. Once you ban one drug, government has control over which drugs are legal or illegal.

It is on the same axis that alcohol is on. Actually, marijuana is far safer and less problematic for society. There is no logical reason to allow all drugs if you allow marijuana. It is pretty evident that different drugs pose different risks to society, and marijuana is pretty far down the list. I would even rank sugar and saturated fats as more dangerous to society.

>- You don't need to align 100% to be an outlier in a given direction. Zoning, gun ownership, freedom-of-speech, and a hundred other issues collectively make up this particular ideological axis. No one will align 100%.

That was my point. Some people like to think of Texas (and Republican states in general) as having more freedoms and having a "small" government, yet reality shows they lack many freedoms for things that have no effect on others, such as marijuana and abortion. In reality, they are no more free than any other place, and I would argue less free for many people in their day to day lives.

Another one that just came to mind is Texas bans gambling.
Anyone who shamelessly changes their debate opponent's quote from "might kill" to "will kill" as a form of gotcha is either an asshole or stupid. If, after it was pointed out to them they don't even acknowledge it, then it could even be both.

You think the reader doesn't notice stuff like that? You think the reader doesn't notice when you disingenuously equated the current "overwhelmed" health care system with the pre-covid "overwhelmed" health care system? And then in your latest reply, never claimed that's what you did?

It's right there for anyone to read: You're not engaging in the conversation honestly.

Don't bother replying - I'm looking to converse/debate with only capable, intelligent people.
not all of them. Hence the eth classic fork.

A majority of eth miners and users decided to change the rules and ignore the promises of immutability previously made to all.

Having a majority does not make an action ethical. Hence the term: tyranny of the majority.

This serious breach of faith soured many people on the project, and the mis-trust continues to this day.
Tammany Hall did corruption better than anybody. Robert Moses would blush.

It’s worth reading the line items from that construction. Carpenters getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars - multiple millions now - for a couple days of work. Enough carpeting ordered to cover whole parks several times.
The paper that calculated the rough size of the object that could be pushed by one of these random pulses was fascinating and was posted to Hackers News a few months ago, but I'm struggling to find it. I would like to read it again, and would appreciate if anyone has the link.

The gist of the paper was that these beams would be plausible to push an object in the order of magnitude of the size of a spacecraft. But the calculated energy levels of the emitter (as we observe it) would require something like a dyson sphere, which would mean that if it were actually a light sail emitter, we'd expect a highly sophisticated civilization.
The CFAA has a statute of limitations of 2 years.
I'd love for the world to see that Option 4 would be great (I'd chose that one too!), but it's not a politically viable option. I was limiting the options to the "realistic" ones, given our current constraints.
I once got hired to fix an application where the original dev heard "message queue" and implemented in using email boxes because... wait for it... because email has queues full of messages. So, instead of reaching for an actual message queue, everything was queued via emails, and worker tasks started by fetching an email message. About all I can say, is, it worked... sometimes slowly.. but it did work, and had the benefit of allowing you to inject stuff into the queue by sending in a properly formatted email.
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No college degree? More employers than ever just don't care
Study finds extract of the plant Corydalis yanhusuo prevents morphine addiction
thank you Paul for the references, will def take a look mainly in the early stopping problem.
Solving NP-hard puzzles with the oldest trick in the book
Why not Marx and Mao? Could never understand why some murder memes are OK but others are not.
I'm interested to know how was he able to remote access to seemingly any machine in the network, from outside?
> VR games aren't really better than regular video games

I thought the same thing until I tried Half Life: Alyx

There is definitely a lack of games like that though.
Yeah, the ads are a double-edged sword. We've been running this site for... ten years? And for the longest time it languished with some Google Adsense ads on there, making enough to keep the servers running, but not enough to invest more effort in it.

Then we recently switched ad provider, and the site grew a bit as covid started easing up, revenue doubled with the potential for more, and boom it's worth it to invest in it again.

I don't like the ads. I'd rather offer the site without them. But without them the site wouldn't be up - I'd have to turn off the servers, and there wouldn't be a map of temperature fingerprints at all.

I really wish there were a better solution. But so far there just isn't.

At least we don't do anti-ad-block ;)

(I'm one of the site creators)
MIND indeed and thank you for pointing that out. Unfortunately, my time to edit the post has elapsed.
I think, the excact opposite could be the case.

An transparent open source platform with a globally decentralized payment mechanism at protocol level could be the one reason blockchains could win, despite everything else of them being "just worse AWS".
I hope that happens to me some day, I would immediately try to find out if it was a quasi-crystal!
Consider it an anti-godwin measure and it's still a win, whoever is saying it.
ah! I always wondered about this distinction, but I guess it makes sense that it's due to people's fear over "nuclear".
some leetcode is good, too much is pretty much useless. There are people who study all solutions to hundreds of leetcode problems to crack the interview, while this hard work is admirable, i feel like they wasted so much time studying that than something that actually makes them a better engineer. For example, i studied Floyd's hare and tortoise algorithm for cycle detection in a linked list a couple months ago, its a beautiful algorithm but i doubt it made me even a little better as a software engineer, that is just one instance of my leetcode adventure, which after a certain point i felt like "man i learned a solution to this random problem which does not extend in a general way to increasing my knowledge and i will most likely forget the solution in a couple months anyway"
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I don't work in the space but my intuition tells me that the problems are mainly hardware related.

These technologies have a lot of promise but are currently limited by the state of the art. My personal opinion is that neither of these technologies will really take off until they are put into a stylish form factor - imagine a pair of ray-bans with embedded screens and chips that was nearly indistinguishable from the regular kind.

Naturally, there are a lot of problems in the way of developing such a thing, including optics, miniaturization, durability, energy storage, etc.
Whoa! TIL

Edit: fixed now. Thanks you guys.
In middle school I used Javascript to change Google's button text from "I'm feeling lucky!" to "Andrew is the best!" (javascript:getElementById('').text='blah')

I showed some other students who were so freaked out that I had "hacked Google" that I got the attention of the librarian, who promptly banned me from the library computers for the rest of the year, even after I refreshed the page to show them it wasn't "real". Oof.
The population has to have access to the truth though.

One bellend (idiot) spouts lies in front of a bus, supported by media magnates. A couple of years later we have fuel and food shortages, myriad supply chain issues, broken off from a treaty that gave us relatively stable local peace for 50+years, etc.. Now COVID has plummeted us into a place where the exchequer has been exploited to the hilt for 'contracts for the boys' (nepotistic corruption) because the oversight of our former arrangements have been stripped away.

Our representatives are actively conning the population into voting against their own (the populations) best interests.

Just having generally good education levels isn't seemingly protecting us from powerful ruling classes who simply don't care and are willing to use their power to exploit the population.
> the PostgreSQL interface implements a core subset of PostgreSQL data types and DDL syntax.

> Familiarity and portability are the goals, not 100% compatibility

So, is there a compatibility matrix?

In general I see this as a good thing. It allows using Spanner without requiring a big rewrite should one want to migrate away from GC. Or using Spanner as a secondary data warehouse with the same queries.

But both of those do require a high level of conformance.
My definition is separation of infrastructure and deployment cycles. Everything that always in one deployment is one service or stuff thats part of your code-base is definitely not a different service.
Malicious hackers could have shown something unspeakably vile on all those screens. If this kid reduced the likelihood of that... he's a hero. Alas, I totally hear you.
> That is, two insecure hashes may be secure together for git's purposes.

Generally that's not true for Merkle–Damgård (e.g. sha1, sha2) hashes - afaik the difficulty of finding a collision in the more difficult hash is the same (up to big-oh) as finding it in both hashes.
Usually stems from lack of leadership. Different legal arms not knowing what the mission of the company is, etc.
HTML also has a script tag, hell js has an eval! Should we stop using those as well?
> There hasn't been a nuclear detonation on the planet in almost 29 years. At this point that argument is out the window.

That's clearly not true.

France 1996

China 1996

India 1998

Pakistan 1998

North Korea 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests
I have seen that too in a previous job! It worked until there was a restart in the e-mail relay server, or something in the message (I think it was Java, sending multipart messages with some custom message format).
Oh, when I say "line up", I literally mean, "line up".

Here's the Russian view of the battle: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Tsushima...

Here's the Japanese view of the battle: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Battle_o...

And later: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Battle_o...

It seems insane, but for hundreds of years, "lining up" all your ships into neat little columns and firing all together was one of the main strategies. It was largely assumed that enemies would also try to do this, so you end up with big ships just broad-siding each other up-and-down the "line of battle".

I have to imagine that radio-communications obsoleted the practice. But pre-radio, it probably made more sense to send signals to each other up-and-down the line and coordinate the fleet. Tsushima was one of those awkward transition points from semaphore flags into radio communications.
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> a prank

Why do we tolerate pranks? You shouldn't be able to interfere with someone else and say 'just a prank bro'. Leave other people's things alone. Don't create work for other people. Don't bother people just trying to do their jobs. Don't impose your sense of humour on others. These all seem like basics to me?

If you think someone's funny? Great. Just don't bother other people with it. Do it with your own stuff, not other people's.
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> there are some pretty strong vote rings avoiding the HN systems.

Something I've noticed spending time online is that people tend to really over-estimate when this is actually happening.

These accusations seem to have accelerated a lot since the 2016 election and related claims around astroturfing.

Regardless, your comment is against HN rules.
How was your approach different?
Put differently, algorithms favor satisfying viewer over discovering new options.

This favors the established players, but this is because the average viewer is more likely to be satisfied with the most popular option than a random option.
Same FBI that's about to start arresting "terrorist" parents for having the temerity to speak at school board meetings? That FBI?

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/575658-fbi-shou...

https://www.newsweek.com/concerned-about-your-childs-school-...

Don't rely so heavily on "fact checks" - their sole raison d'etre is to provide ammo to the "official" narrative peddlers nowadays. Read the original letter.
Trust the public with hard truths is exactly right. Thats what China did and Trump did not IMO
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We already have artificial continuous flow hearts, next up: continuous flow lungs.
Multi-party ECDSA
The next big cyberthreat isn't ransomware. It's killware
Far be it from me to defend the FBI, but it's actually probably the least political it has ever been in its sordid history. The FBI was explicitly aligned with far-right American politics for the better part of 50 years[1], and has only (publicly) cleaned up its act with respect to that in the last 25. The idea that the FBI is "left wing" is impossible to entertain seriously.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
No one, outside your anti-vax group would describe an everyday needle as an "invasive medical procedure".

But go ahead and keep using it for oh-so-dramatic effect. The rest of us will just keep rolling our eyes and laughing at you whining babies.

Edit: Here's the entire legal definition -

Invasive procedure means a procedure involving puncture or incision of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body including, but not limited to, percutaneous aspirations, biopsies, cardiac and vascular catheterizations, endoscopies, angioplasties, and implantations. Excluded are venipuncture and intravenous therapy.

You see that last sentence?

Source: https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/invasive-procedure
Ethereum enthusiast are quick to disagree, the author of the article might not have a deep understanding of how everything works but headline of the article holds somewhat true.

Metamask is a centralized service with centralized team, if Google removed this extension from Chrome as they temporarily did before, it would make adoption for new users harder.

Open Sea has centralized operators, the orderbook is not on the blockchain I believe.

Uniswap the "decentralized exchange" has acentralized team with vc funding and registration with the SEC.

Infura is another centralized service, that so many Ethereum projects depend on.

It is hard to call these services decentralized. Although the small mainstream success of these services and markets, show that fully decentralization is probably not needed for most mainstream users.
You would think so, only this is a bit opaque when dealing with a local school and a district bureaucracy with various computer labs, internet and phone systems. As a student, you may think that the right person to ask is the local teacher who has control of the asset. Especially if that teacher has been assigned IT duties.

But to many school administrators consent of teachers is meaningless. Those assets aren't owned by the teachers but by the district, even if they are the apparent authority figures and stewards in the eyes of the students.
> Having a majority does not make an action ethical. Hence the term: tyranny of the majority.

Pricing is not "tyranny of the majority." If nobody wants to buy what you are selling, you are not being oppressed.

Given that people decided they would much rather buy the coin with the altered ledger, it is more valuable.

As a meta note: Crypto seems to bring out the most low-brow critiques on either side. Maybe because it has become popular with a mass audience?
Capitalism is fine when people aren't funneled into fake ideals of creator success... Capitalism assumes that people start out on somewhat of a competitive basis, but on major platforms that's clearly not the case, things are nowhere near equal and fair, and it's all buried deep into algorithms and moderation. If 90% or more of the population fails totally, there's probably something wrong going on.

If most creators knew the real truths of how these platforms worked, they'd probably not waste years of time in creating and uploading their content to them for free.

I understand your take, but these platforms are littered with false hope, misrepresentations, and even flat out lies about who is successful in order to keep people grinding on the competition to grow.

Take YouTube for example, where it is REALLY difficult to find independent content, and where only the most popular content is featured. It's no wonder why people are frequently gaming the system, and overspending to compete... Pyramid schemes are alive and well with monopolistic social media.

If youtube was more fair, they'd have sever ways to find content, not just one search for everything on the platform.

To assume people just don't succeed because they are not good enough in the modern world of capitalism is turning a blind eye to obvious potential for corruption and bias within monopolies.

If creator success is a myth because of any factor on large scale platforms, it's better to identify that as truth and to apply time and efforts as a creator to better means.

I also wouldn't have much to protest if the same monopolies weren't fighting so hard against net neutrality so that they can impose even more of a strangle hold on consumer choices and pipelines for equal success, but here we are in time...
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I genuinely don't know what you're referring to. You should probably provide links.

Edit: All of the recent FBI stories I can find are about a manhunt for a (presumed) murderer or about the nuclear espionage case.

Edit 2: This is the only reference I was able to find[1]. It sounds like the current governor of Florida falsely claimed that the FBI is "going after" parents. It's not clear what "going after" means, or where that came from.

[1]: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/11/rick-scott...
> In-house improvements. There's a need for a change of tech stack in the company, of which the author of this article isn't aware. The developer did a project in new technology as a part of moving in this direction.

Certainly something that would probably get messaged at all levels of the company, not something you surprise drop on the rest of your coworkers and pull them kicking and screaming towards.
How does it make Caesar’s Palace problematic? The Punic Wars were long over by the time Julius Caesar was fighting Gauls. He literally overthrew the republic which caused that mass murder in Carthage a century earlier.

Are you trying to be sarcastic? Satire is dead because no one can tell any more. The internet is so vast that at least a few people have your absurd opinion, possibly including you.
This seems completely devoid of any real content. Maybe I'm just dumb, but I have no idea what this is supposed to be or what's being offered here.
Still waiting for the day JavaScript isn't one of the top Pwn2Own contenders. The idea that there is any part of the web stack that isn't a Swiss cheese of security issues would be funny if reality wasn't so depressing.
Ethereum researchers have worked very hard to meet both requirements, for exactly that reason. You can run the beacon chain plus execution node on very modest hardware, and L1 scaling will be based on sharding to keep it modest.

It's looking like L2 scaling will end up mostly zkrollups, which are easy for modest clients to verify. The only heavyweight hardware then would be zkrollup block producers, who could potentially engage in censorship, but the nice thing about zkrollups is that users have a cryptographic guarantee that they can exit with their funds without a waiting period.

All this together would take Ethereum well into transaction rates comparable to legacy banking.
I think the usual way of phrasing that joke is:

"What's the difference between nuclear power and Facebook? One is a giant centralized free-loading subsidized secretive toxic industry, and the other is a way of providing low-carbon electricity."
Pretty sure you could just price in carbon. Poverty is more like not driving an f150 2 hours to your job at office, not max eating 6 steaks a week, taking shorter showers, and turning your AC in south Texas in August from 62 to 78
Your examples really fall out of the scope of the premise.
A link to the aforementioned Rustonomicon: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/

(I seem to recall a comment that it hasn't yet been fully updated for recent versions.)
Prometheus is much easier to deal with (setup, operate and understand) than Monarch. That's why Prometheus gains increased adoption.

There is constantly growing ecosystem around Prometheus with hundreds of various exporters, client libraries, integrations and long-term remote storage systems (Thanos, Cortex, VictoriaMetrics, M3DB).
Trading cards, but crypto.
Kind of crazy that we're still spending money on this. Do we really need better H-bombs?
This is stupid. The probability of any attack happening at random is close to zero. E.g. the probability of a buffer overflowing just right to give you a shell through random chance is less than being eaten by wolves.

The question is about the risk of someone intentionally performing the attack, not the probability it will accidentally happen at random.
The advantage here is that you are not repeating the type of the property twice (once as optional in the base type, once as mandatory in the extended class).

Even though the code may seem inscrutable, note that the resulting type is fairly easy to understand in your IDE. That is, if you hover over the "B" to see what the type definition is, you see:

type B = A & {
foo: number;
baz: number;
}

If you defined the type like this (which is equivalent to extending the class as you were proposing) and later on someone changes the type of one such mandatory properties in the base and/or extended class without changing the other, the error becomes much much weird, on the lines of:

> Type 'number' is not assignable to type 'never'.(2322)

Here typescript is saying that a prop cannot have a value (type never) because the base class defines it as "number?" but the extended one defines it as "string", and the intersection between them is empty. This is hard to understand when it pops out where you don't expect it. Harder than ignoring the weird "Ensure" thing, seeing what it does (the resulting type B definition) and moving on.

Defining advanced types may be cumbersome, but dealing with code that uses them is still approachable. This allows the more experienced team members to "shape the ground" and less experienced members still reap the benefits even if they don't fully understand how the thing works.
Social consensus should _always_ override rule of law. Society is not formed around people's relationship with the law, it's based on people's relationship with each other. The hard fork required social consensus to trump rule of law, and they got it.

"but what about eth classic?"

The ETC chain exists, yes, however it is not "Ethereum". There's a timeline where the majority was against the fork, and ETC would have remained "Ethereum", with the forked chain taking on a new name like Ethereum Cash or something.
As a person who relies on my voice for work, and as a person who creates video content for youtube, this interests me.
NFT's are something of a mystery to me, but as someone who doesn't get value from Patreon, wonder if this would work as a fundraising option.