skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berenson is not just some nobody. He is a prominent media personality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Berenson
and now the weaseling starts. i asked a very specific question:

1. once the "leader" is "elected"
2. do they have a choice of what block to append?

you said they do, which is fundamental lack of understanding of how bitcoin works.
Are you saying, every fortune 100 tech company's reliability engineers are failing to do their jobs?

MAANG all have on-call individuals even with the fact they're across all timezones and have been growing steady.
Zero covid? You mean eliminate it?

That was never a goal, anywhere.
In Belgium (belgian french) we don't say "octante" for 80 (said in Switzerland maybe) but "quatre-vingts" (four twenty. 4-20). So 87 is said "quatre-vingt-sept" (four twenty seven). For 70 and 90 it is right.
I am wondering why the English have it only backwards for the numbers 13 to 19.
Gosh, you sound like a guy with a political grievance. Why are you bringing that to a simple statement about who paid for an article?
> And the fact that he doesn’t surround his videos with tons of cruft to make them longer.

Unlike most full-time Youtubers, LPL does not need to pad out videos or pander to sponsors to make a living, and he doesn't need to engage in clickbaiting and SEO/algorithm manipulation to lure new viewers. This independency from anyone else is what allows him the complete artistic control to do videos the way he prefers.
If the rewards halve every 4 years but the price keeps going up, wouldn't miners just increase infrastructure to mine the same amount of rewards?
Wow that seemed like a lot of effort to make a point. Often twitter oversimplifies things, but that could legitimately have been a tweet of the offending graph and a few words about how older/sick people are more likely to have been vaccinated, and also more likely to die because they're old/sick.

I do like the original Ghostbusters movie, but I'm not sure that really added to the effect for me.
You're totally right, misread the chart. Edited all out unless I find the weekly report

Still why would people with 1 dose be dying more than unvaccinated?
What big technological shift wasn’t written off before it worked?

Computer, e-commerce, electric vehicles, all of these things have been written off. So? You can’t expect people to be able to see the future. They have to make decisions for the present.

Those decisions don’t damn a technology though. Crypto has plenty of attention-over-time to mature and that’s all it needs.

If it’s ever mature and everyone is writing it off and all the early adopters are leaving, that’d be a problem.
The word genocide literally means racial killing from the latin geno (race) + cide (kill.) It has nothing to do with people except in how it's commonly used. Dictionaries aren't a ground truth or some ultimate reference, they are merely assistive.
That’s absurd.

People will opt out of currency regimes that are abusive. This is not like a terrestrial government where you are fucked for life because a bureaucracy controls the land you live on. You don’t have to immigrate to escape a corrupt currency. And you don’t have to all-in in one currency.

If you own dozens of coins, you liquidate the shitcoin that is controlled by corrupt tycoons.
The best thing I learned in algorithms class is:

For all realizable n, ln(n) is less than 40.

So when amortizing over a large window (say, a block size of 512), it can be the case that, for any realizable n, the logarithmic amortized costs are completely dominated by the constant non-amortized costs (adding an element to a block in this case)... making the operation effectively constant-time.
> I think it's obvious that homeowners know much more about the houses and neighborhoods they live in than Zillow, and this creates a big risk for Zillow.

I really question the idea that most people have any idea what their home is worth without relying on... Services like Zillow. Especially if they've lived there a while.
Fun fact: omicron is anagram of moronic. Someone is trying to subtly tell us something?
Changing minds with humor is better than making points in the echo chamber.
PoW only works for the biggest chains that use the specific heading Algo. Smaller PoW chains regularly experience re-orgs.

IMO PoW for the bigger chains produce far too much waste & none of the supposed PoS attacks have materialized even though hundreds of millions are up for grabs
New world record: almost 30% efficiency for next-generation tandem solar cel
It seems to me that Berenson didn't "fall" for Simpson's paradox. He's a smart person. He peddles inflammatory rhetoric to build an audience.

For example, he portrayed New Zealand's 2-week quarantine requirements for incoming travellers to New Zealand as "indefinite confinement for New Zealanders". When people pointed out the gulf between what he was saying and what the law was, he doubled down. I'd share the exact tweets, but unfortunately his account is now suspended. Twitter really needs a way to access tweets from banned accounts in a way that removes their virality but preserves them for posterity.
it’s in C, not machine code?
A better solution is to display the ratio of likes to views.

I'm sad about them removing the dislike because I would always calculate the like:dislike ratio for kicks, and one of my hobbies had a uniquely consistent 1000:1 ratio.
> I signed up to GitHub almost 11 years ago, and someone else already registered the username I used for everything. So 11-years-ago-me tacked on a hyphen

"I purposefully chose to create a nearly identical username to an existing user" isn't a great defense to someone saying the problem is between the chair and keyboard.

At best you didn't think of the possible confusion you'd cause.
Dude, I want to _be in the office doing my job with my coworkers_.

I don't want the constituent parts.

A bicycle and a car are not the same even if you put a roof on the bicycle and take two of the wheels off the car.

I say that you are trolling because I believe that your line of inquiry is disingenuous. You don't want to know why I prefer in-person work - you want to design workarounds for me which nudge me towards your preferred way. As I've described, I would rather just not do it at all, hence me leaving.

I like cheese and onion crisps man, and that's that. There is no further "why", if they're not available, I'm not gonna eat whatever flavour is in the store instead, I'll just eat something else.
Sure. But without every piece of the pie accounted for we can't tell whether the increase in money to funds is representative of the whole, or caused by shifting preferences
> or not to get pinned down easily?

This. When dealing with legal stuff, it's very easy to commit verbal mistakes that can sink your case - in Canada, they passed the Apology Act of 2009 for that reason.
Maybe that's been your experience. Mine has been that they're eager to cover up issues and explain away those they can't. I mean no hate, that's their job.
On that same scale, your life is insignificant, but you try to preserve that no?. Do you have kids? Family? Their lives are also insignificant in the same way. If you're invested in your own life, or the lives of loved ones, but not in the lives of your fellow man, you're not enlightened to our insignificance, you're selfish.

I want the next generation to have the opportunities I've had, if not more, and I'm sure they'll want the same for the next. Given that, it only makes sense to try and preserve a future for humans in general.
i was using rust numpy for this, i wonder how much faster this is and if it supports passing arrays of strings
Kwikset Smart Key V3 can be picked, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tva7GA9f4

Protec2: Very very difficult to pick, however there are videos of a few picking it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zVSJ_wauwg (https://www.reddit.com/r/lockpicking/comments/edrrjo/hardest...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsG90UGRTpw (https://www.reddit.com/r/lockpicking/comments/mie59t/abloy_p...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UZ6tcvgd9U

The Protec2 I would trust far more than the Kwikset SmartKey V3, since it appears only several of the best of the locksport community have been able to pick it.

I couldn't find record of anyone opening a Cliq. I'd be hesitant to say that's because they are unpickable, though. I believe quite a number of the locksport community would not be very interested in attempting to open a Cliq as it isn't purely mechanical.
Goldman Slams Omicron Panic: “This Mutation Is Unlikely To Be More Malicious; No Reason For Portfolio Changes.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-slams-omicron-pani...
I'm curious how you're (as someone who it sounds like doesn't believe him/fall for it) aware of them?

I believe you, assume you're correct, he's (nor anyone else like that) just not 'on my radar' at all. I just assumed prominence/virality of at least this one post due to the existence of one (the submission) refuting it.
Moderna Says New Vaccine May Be Ready in Early 2022 for Omnicron Variant
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Adding redundancy makes our civilization more resilient. Being more resilient is a good thing. The fact that this increased resilience doesn't make our civilization invincible seems like a weird sticking point, since a) that goal is obviously beyond our capability right now, and b) redundancy is a necessary step in that direction.
Similar to the Zwanzigeins movements, in Malagasy, we have people who'd wish to reverse the counting pronunciation, although in the public sphere it is virtually unheard of. I remember debating on forums on how practical that would be. But IMO people are so lazy they just resort to counting in French instead. Madagascar has so much other worries as of current that it's totally understandable in a way.
Yes, people tend to naturally self select into the parts of the internet that suit them.

There are many wild wests on the internet in the clearnet, yet most of the people I know that would want to be treated like children already exclusively are via fb, insta, etc.

Be that as it is, I see no reason for further controls. Heck, I doubt I would have had any real interest in learning about computers if my only options for internet fun were boring sites like the top socials. From experience, I would imagine most of the appeal of the net for people if it were to become some locked down nanny land would be in breaking out of it or in "misusing" the services. Or, more likely, people would just make new sites that would serve as the wild west. The infinite of the undeveloped is not containable.
Indeed. I once who had a lecturer who used p, rho, and "curly p" as different symbols -- the latter was the Cauchy Principal Part. Suffice to say my (handwritten) notes were full of little arrows saying "pee", "rho" and "squiggle".
That's not a study. It's a blog post.
What if I create a whole new chain? Will the transactions at the very beginning of that chain have to be added to the big, old chain? How far back do the common ancestors of two chains have to be for your auto-merging to happen? What happens if two histories conflict? Then in Version Control parlance, we have a "merge conflict".
This is silly, computer time certainly isn't free and almost anything scaled up on a cloud service can become very expensive within minutes. Just go look at the poor developers that make 1 mistake in their Lambda code and get charged $80,000.
Astounds me Australians have only one drain. In Finland TWO drains is now preferred. Especially in student dormitories and such. The reason is that people pass out in shower and block the drain.

In cold climate water damage can be fatal, because of heavy insulation and subsequent mildew bloom in it.
> Did you read the whole article?

This is Hacker News! Of course not.
> Aren't you just describing capitalism here?

It fairly describes every political system and economic system that has ever existed or will ever exist. What's being described is how humans always organize systems in regards to political and economic power.

See: Socialism, Communism, Fascism. It applies just the same to those. Except in those systems they'll murder you and your entire family, then burn your village/town to the ground, if you attempt to compete with the rulers or party (Chavez, Castro, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Kim, Putin, Erdogan, Lukashenko, etc.).

Whereas I can freely compete with Coca Cola, Tesla, Salesforce, Splunk, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, Starbucks, 3M and most other companies if I'm able to. Nobody is stopping me from inventing a new coffee drink and going after Starbucks with it, or setting up a better coffee chain on the corner. Nobody is stopping me from inventing a better soda-competing drink (see: Monster or Red Bull or 5hour Energy; those people weren't assassinated by the soda cartel). Nobody is preventing me from starting the next great convenience store (ask 7-11 how they feel about upcoming Sheetz; or ask KFC how they feel about Chic-fil-A).
> Okay, and who chooses the block?

well certainly not the winner of the "election", because by the time that "election" starts, the block is already constructed.

and i'm not going to read any of your links until you actually start understanding the basics of bitcoin protocol. though your lack of understanding explains perfectly why you fall for scammy bells and whistles of competing bitcoin-wannabes. "bitcoin new generation". lol, give me a break.
I's ambiguous in British English, at least it used to be. Half five can be short for either half of five (4:30) or half past five (5:30).
In some dialects of German they go even further, using “quarter five” for “16:15” and “three quarter five” for “16:45”.
My understanding is that was the way in Serbian-Croatian but it died out. I personally knew people born in early 1900s talking like that. But I can be wrong: it could be just Autro-Hungarian influence.

Any real data on this?
77% of all statistics are made up on the spot
Alternative explanation: He didn't "fall for" anything -- he's cynically exploiting a weakness in the UK stats presentation, with the help of selective citation, on a project of self-aggrandization. Try a scroll through the blog history.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/
Honestly, I thought about doing it.

It could be a nice passive business to be a small payment gateway provider. It's not rocket science, I could implement it alone.
You invest some money to make it compliant with the security standards of the sector, charge less than all the other fat companies and you have another income stream.

The only cons is you have to abide to so much stupid regulation in order for it to be legal (not secure, I'm fine with the private rules to ensure safety in running the service), and then making sure your customers are not doing something your government doesn't want them to do (like cleaning "dirty" money) and identify your customers (KYC).

I looked also into starting a bank (you can do it with just 1mln in some places!) but you run into similar issues.

It's a legal nightmare; if there was no government, I'd definitely do it.
To benefit old media channels, entertainment companies posting trailers for games/movies/shows, less negativity for ads. A great example is the White House channel which gets a lot of negativity via the dislikes.

Also, they're not removing dislikes, they're removing the dislike counter.
> If an organization thinks their systems should be available 24x7 they should staff people 24x7.

I’m a software engineer. I’m paid well partly because things like oncall are necessary. It’s priced into the compensation.

> There is no situation where it’s ok to contact someone to do work outside of their work hours.

It sounds like you should find a company that agrees with this opinion. I don’t agree.
What's the motivation for that? Infamy?
If they need more money for r&d or improved production quantities, they could:

- Raise prices

- Ask for donations

- Allow for pre-orders

Because, in the end, investors will not "fund" the business for "charity". They will expect profit and multipliers on the company value. So, in the end, they will still have to raise prices, have more proprietary things or cut corners...
Ya, right. And 99% of everyone in UK who died from COVID (of all genders and age groups) were eating bread while alive. Eating bread is a great predictor of COVID mortality!
</end_of_sarcasm>
New coronavirus variant Omicron keeps spreading around the world
Would you care to enlighten us with this data you speak of?
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You have no idea who i am. Try looking on google scholar, or even wikipedia. Im done with you.
>It works for tens of millions of people, including over the phone.

Except it doesn't work well, as proved by the fact that this system is not used in the military since even top comment in this thread where a German agrees that even he gets confused by numbers in pairs over the telephone and as proven by the fact that Norway transitioned from the "German" way to the "English" way precisely to fix this issue.

I see you're very defensive about your culture/way of doing things, but just because some linguistical quirks exist to date in some languages, is in no way poof that they are good or that it works well, it's just proof that inertia is very strong as these issues get grandfathered in over time since transitioning to something better is too expensive for entire countries to make (look at why the imperial system is still used even though it's inferior to metric).

And for some countries/cultures, introducing certain linguistical quirks on purpose and keeping them was, and still is, a matter of national pride and differentiation between their culture and other very similar cultures (see French vs Belgian French vs Canadian French vs Swiss French, or German vs Austrian German vs Swiss German), so changing something for the better would be admitting something was wrong all along in their culture and would definitely face backlash from conservatives and purists, though Norway did the change successfully from the "German" way to the "English" way of speaking pairs of numbers in order to fix the confusion issues I mentioned.
Industrial companies that have an assembly line go down call people in to fix it at time and a half or double pay.

Something is a little fucked with tech for doing it for free.
Take the "Do your own research" slogan for what it is - an attack on expertise.

It is an attempt to lower the status, and presumably power, of "the elites" (credentialed experts), mostly perpetrated by the real (monied) elites.
I think Bitcoin is possible without PoW; decentralized peer to peer network in which nodes verify transactions and make agreements on which transaction came first and then draw consensus. But then someone needs to figure out how new coins would be distributed or in another words what incentive would be to verify transactions.

Btw Satoshi introduced blockchain checkpoint so no attacker can fork the existing Bitcoin chain and make a competing one.
That’s about as odd as the danish ”syv og halvfems” which is “seven and half five” meaning “seven and 4.5 twenties”, so 97.
Creatively using statistics happens on both sides. Example: "Case statistics show us that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated!"

But due to the 3g rule (access to events or buildings is granted to the vaccinated, recovered or people with a PCR test less than 24h ago) in countries like Germany, guess which group is tested most: The unvaccinated. Other groups do not need tests!
This is the best description of how I experience my mind's eye that I've read so far.

I never have trouble imagining things as they do clearly 'render'—I can picture scenes, shapes, faces, motion, the styling of text I remember, basically anything—but it doesn't result in true visual output where I can see things as if I have my eyes open. If the latter is something that people can truly do, then I guess I do have some form of aphantasia.
But what about rolling back someone else’s installation? What if you’re depending on a different user that has a buggy installation?
That's a true statement and does not exclude that undetected cases possibly exist. To claim that CDC are going to be shown to be wrong is what feeds the "See, they tell us different things!" narrative. Of course CDC will say, if and when Omicon appears in the US, that there are detected cases.
Statistics and my AI class taught me it's 100% predictology. I mean just look at Zillow. It's the modern "tea leaf" reading.
On both planets simultaneously?
He is a former New York Times reporter, makes frequent media appearances, and was very active on Twitter before being suspended, so I was familiar with him before anybody had heard of COVID-19.
Last time I looked at a map it was next to Mexico which is as far south as one can travel before leaving the United States. Where do you consider it to be?
If it replicates fast with higher viral kids and spreads easily then it will be more lethal by definition.
A man who shoots at birds to keep them off a toxic pit [video]
Agreed. No one needs to become an expert in every possible field.

What we do need to do is educate people out of new forms of innumeracy and illiteracy, where they are falling prey to basic fallacies of statistics or rhetorical tricks like motte and bailey and cat couplings.

People are generally familiar with logical fallacies like ad hominem, strawman arguments, or circular reasoning. New weapons of persuasion are getting crafted every day; we owe it to ourselves, each other, and the future humans to educate them on defense against the dark arts.
Using the same environmental concern logic, the carbon footprint of traditional banking, which still hauls around, protects, and produces real currency, plastic cards, and financing for every other destructive activity… rather dwarfs Bitcoin.

Where are all your posts pointedly taking apart the system you are surely heavily invested in?

You’re part of the problem by being part of human society. Collective economic inaction must be part of the solution.

Producing less superfluous junk at scale must be part of the solution. That means our individual narratives around value stores must change; traditional banking scales even worse than Bitcoin.
On call typically means you gotta be online and respond within 15 minutes if paged. That's abusive. If you want a person to do that, then pay them for that. As an example, on call in Amazon works the way I described, and yes it is abusive.
"But unfortunately people make the same mistake again all the time."

Exactly what the previous comment said.
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I took high school statistics. I don't think it really had the kind of effect on students that you're going for.

Statistics like any math class was just another pointless and imposed game of symbol manipulation, for most. Not something that affects how they see the world or how they process disinformation (which disables rational thinking by appeals to emotion, so rational capabilities aren't necessarily even the issue).

Humans are naturally using statistical type reasoning all the time and are very good at it. But when it comes to things like in-group out-group consensus-forming conformity mechanisms, the whole point is they _overcome rationality_ for social cohesion. To follow rationality instead of the group, you have to leave the group, which is unthinkable, so your mind prevents you from thinking it long enough to change your mind, by emotional terminations.
Its just in the full text of the fluge and mella study into mitochondria. Im done with you after your attack on me in another comment.