skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because nothing-at-stake attacks only allow double spending, not arbitrary forged transactions.
This is really helpful. Saved a lot of time for me, Otherwise had to go through multiple docs in detail.
Does anyone know what tech this is built with? React?
I've ended up deciding for myself to never write JS and instead using TypeScript. So far it's working well. I just couldn't really see all that random guessing by the IDE as an advantage. If the only way to figure out whether the code is broken is to run it, then it's pointless to guess potential problems on every single expression because dealing with those takes more time than just testing the code – or results in the developer completely ignoring all diagnostics.
Agreed. Working with rust in e.g. CLion (or even the free PyCharm CE with Rust plug-in) beats vscode by a large margin, it's nowhere near comparable, especially when working with larger projects often requiring major refactoring etc.
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Was there ever any doubt? I mean religious skepticism aside, there's plenty of accurate or sane information in the bible.
My father said honking is common going around corners on small roads in the mountains in Columbia.
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We have download support and "To Read" might be a collection or a readlist, so you could just download those series onto your device of choice if you don't want to user our web reader. If you use the web reader, of course, progress is tracked for you.

If you're talking more like how Plex does sync, I literally just tried that with a Progressive Web App last week, but it didn't pan out. There wasn't enough control with a PWA (which means I'm going to have to write something native-ish in the future).
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https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
See also: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/330a

In the U.S., as a non-government organization, if you’d like to modify the weather you need to fill out the NOAA form 17-4(a).

All weather modification projects that have been filed can be found here: https://www.library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections...
Around 1995 the Massachusetts driver's manual said something like "Only use the horn in an emergency" or "Only use the horn to avoid an accident."

I've found that most Massachusetts drivers abide by that.

> and car in front of you has not begun moving within 20ms

No... It's more like 2-3 seconds. But you THINK it's 20ms because you're not paying attention.
I believe the stifling of innovation the parent comment refers to is that of browser engines, not of PWAs.
We should have infrastructure for sharing things like this without putting a centralized entity like archive.org in the crosshairs. Bittorrent comes to mind, but it could only be part of the solution.
I addressed it in the first paragraph of my comment above. Let me quote from it here: The theoretical attack argument is indeed "applicable, not just to Algorand and other block chains, but also, more generally, to ANY transaction platform" -- VISA, Mastercard, Amex, ACH, Fedwire, etc. No one disagrees that it is applicable, i.e., a theoretical threat, to all transaction platforms.

Now, if you think such an attack is an important problem for block chains, then you must also think it is an important problem for all legacy transaction networks. Yet we're all comfortable using our credit cards and bank accounts every day, and for virtually all practical purposes, we don't worry about a "Doctor Evil scenario." Why should we think and behave differently for block chain networks?

Moreover, as I wrote before, in practice, legacy transaction networks (like, say, regional VISA networks run by 100-year-old banks) are easier and cheaper to attack. If the Doctor Evil scenario were a real threat, it would be more profitable for him to target one of the legacy networks!
It would be better if we could take a look at the application before we decide if we're going to buy or not. There's so little information on the website that makes us convinced to buy this app.
from what I understand travel restrictions are more effective earlier in the pandemic (as you pointed out from the Science paper) and less effective as the virus becomes ubiquitous.
Wasn't Servo team disbanded?
Study digs up roles bacteria play in global carbon cycle
No. Commercial airlines generally don't fly in the coffin corner. That's just asking for trouble.

AF447 had nothing to do with the coffin corner - that accident was caused by the aircraft flying through icing conditions, the speed-sensing equipment icing over, the computer detecting that and switching the autopilot off and handing control over to the pilots, who then flew the aircraft into a stall and couldn't work out what they were doing wrong.
I am not sure how I feel about this. JetBrains either get things very right or very wrong. At this point I feel like there a pattern: Their desktop applications(IDEs) are usually great. However, my experience with their server-side solutions(teamcity, upsource) has been nothing short of explosive diarrhea. With the "remote" word tossed in there, I'm not entirely optimistic.
thats funny I've always found jetbrains IDE to be error ridden annoyances where I end up spending more time dealing with problems the IDE has caused than developing software.
You’re going to need to define terms to get me to even closely believe what you’re saying.
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There are a couple of misleading things in this post.

The assumption that Chromium (& Webkit) is controlled soley by Google, is outdated.

If you think Microsoft would have made a strategic shift like basing Edge on Chromium without ensuring they had a seat at the table, you would be very mistaken - and they did not.

Microsoft, Google, Brave, and Samsung all contribute to the core, Microsoft very significantly.
A blog post opening with a painting called "the triumph of death" in relation to the Black Plague of the 1300s in Europe.

Most importantly that multiplier discounts that lockdowns had huge effects on the performance of routine health procedures.

How many cancers were missed? How much did the rate of failure for medical procedures go up? Also how much slower were the ambulance services due to all the COVID protocols?

I suspect that if we had done nothing that graph would have been more skewed to the right
That gave me a laugh. Had no idea this existed, thanks.
We had them, it was a matter of installing Real, Flash and Quicktime plugins.
Don't feed the trolls people. Great satire though.
My mistake on the wording, I should have said "mediocre", perhaps. I can't edit the comment now, oops sorry.

I am referring to lack of an installer, and also the default shortcuts which clash with the distro, and in general I've seen features come to Linux a lot later. So a better way to put it is that Linux feels like an afterthought to Jetbrains. I do follow and also raise issues you on YouTrack but find they often languish.

Their IDEs are still overall pretty good, but I gravitate towards VS Code now.
It cannot do any of that. My research has long summations and they have to be broken manually to multi-lines. Tables are a mess. Spacing between paragraphs is a hit-or-miss. Figures again need to be hardcoded, tailored to the target output.

If your standard is to just throw information with random formatting on a screen that ultimately cannot be read, then yes latex can do that for you.

But if that is your goal, pure html suffices.
Firefox isn't an acceptable alternative, over the past few years it's completely obvious the priorities of the organization in control of it are not to build a great browser and to de-homogenize the web tech stack.

Best thing that could ever happen for the browser problem is for Mozilla to go under and FF be taken over by the community who actually care about the problem that FF is the solution for, not just some overpaid executives who think selling a VPN is a good use of their time between private jet flights.
Golden Ball Lionel Messi?
Wow, I think it's been more than a decade since I even thought about Winamp, let alone used it.

It still seems to be free to download though? What is even the point of keeping the code closed?
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This whole thing is so bizarre
I'd reckon sense of humor to be good indicator. If you're about to tell a joke in a room full of people, some people can consistently gauge early where you're going with it. And I find that intelligent.
Thunderbird accepts donations directly. You might be interested in buying a Pocket subscription for Firefox. Finally, make sure that you test the websites you create under FF and that you recommend it to family and friends.
I don’t think kotlin native would beat the JVM in performance though, only at memory usage. Not even Graal AOT beats it for long-running tasks and I imagine it has a bigger mindshare behind it.
As someone who has lived in the west and northeast, I’ve never heard the word score used to mean 20 outside of Lincoln’s address. In most dialects in the US, scores has just been relegated to another synonym for many and doesn’t get used outside of it’s plural form. Interesting to hear that there are places that still use it occasionally, much like I occasionally hear “gross” used as you mention.
I was going to ask if someone did an analysis of the sort! Kudos!

It'd be great to get a distribution graph as well, even if we can't know how long would the lines have been without a line length limit.

My gut feel before reading your comment was that:

* I like short limit because majority of the lines _are_ short

* Shorter line length limit allows me to have more windows side-by-side-by-side, without wasting whitespace on the right side

* I am willing to accept occasional awkward line break to achieve the above

The question I had in my mind was how "occasional" was it, so thanks for answering that to a large extent. We could also do a deeper analysis to re-format all lines not to use line-breaks before running the numbers too.

Basically, if 64 was the natural limit for 90% of the lines (sure, some are this short because of the 80-character limit), then a 20% buffer should be good enough.
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> did you enable the telemetry that lets them know you use it?

I have all telemetry and Nightly studies enabled wherever I can (unfortunately the option is unavailable in custom builds, and I use custom builds on my main OS, since I contribute code to Firefox occasionally).

> removing configuration options and "dumbing down" the UI

I never understood the whole "dumbing down" thing either. It's fundamentally the same UI as it was in Firefox 2.0 back in the day, except the menus are more well-structured (there's now a convenient hamburger rather than everything being in a crowded "application menu" bar at the top).

> I'm not sure what they could do to make Firefox a thriving, independent, sustainable browser

I think it's still all these things. But to make growth possible, they need to somehow fight against Google persistently advertising Chrome right on the fucking google dot com main page (and YouTube and so on).
The answer to this question can be pretty complicated. Here are a few of the reasons a company might still need a coding test from you:

1. Using the same test allows them to normalize your "skill level"[0] against the rest of the employees and/or candidates.

2. HR may be using test as a screening method before they loop in another developer to do an assessment. HR typically won't be able to evaluate your Github projects.

3. Your projects may not demonstrate skill in the specific areas they care about.

4. Your projects might be niche and not easy to evaluate directly by someone not familiar with the problem you are solving.

That said I find that if a candidate is in that rare group of people with meaningful github projects that I get a lot more value from just asking them questions about one of the projects rather than asking a whiteboard or coding test question in an interview. Most candidates do not actually have a github profile with meaningful projects that are not forks in them.

[0]: I use quotes here because I'm dubious of any claims that a coding test can give clear signals for truly useful skills in software engineering.
Everything depends on the innovations by application
developers. I believe thus far the industry has been
far too obsessed about blockchains and tokens, but I
hope over time this is where all the activity, capital
& innovation shift to.

TLDR: "web3 will have better UX because WAVES HANDS REALLY FAST"
Does work
Or have a Google team size, https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...
haha this is very true, we decided to launch now to collect feedback and be ready for when the weather will be nicer
Mozilla does not handle data over to Google.
Apparently even graphics cards that are terrible at actual graphics can run this (GT 710) at full FPS.
Just worked for me. Try again? Check ad-blocker settings?
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Agree. I paid for PyCharm on the basis that a) it all just worked in the community edition, and b) it offered remote development in professional (this was a main selling point over community).

I quickly discovered that b) was false (or extremely oversold) compared to VSCode and switched back, couldn't get PyCharm working remotely and saw the loooong-standing issues on the bug tracker that indicated it wasn't a priority despite the marketing.

I still admire the plug-in-and-go-ability of PyCharm, but no longer trust it to fork out money for features which are clearly not what they are implied to be.

Perhaps the latter has changed; I'll await the reviews.
One problem with a tax (morally speaking, as the world continues to globalize) is that it mostly benefits citizens of the copyright holder's country of origin, whereas the value of the public domain is global (assuming copyright treaties).

Also, buying out copyright against the valuation seems like a good market incentive to have an accurate valuation, but I'd argue that the original creator should at least retain some license (e.g. to create derived works).
To both points, how would the political risk that looms on the horizon every 4 years be mitigated? It’s tough to see a long term solution that isn’t constantly at risk of being reversed when a new camp rides into town. Maybe some govt orgs like NASA who’ve been dealing with this for decades can shed some light
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OK, fine, maybe that doesn’t work as a universal principle. But I am compensated very well for a job where I rarely have to do anything that demanding and in exchange I can’t easily make plans for one week every two months. Hardly comparable to being a helot.
nope, we're just saying that to compete for the 1st race the avg. speed needs to be under 18 km/h, maybe the 2nd race will be just commutings > 25km/h ;)
Is it / does it? I thought the JRE as a deploy-time dependency was the very first conscious tradeoff one makes with Java, and always has been.
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Indeed, I've seen the horn-on-corners thing mentioned a few times in this thread and I think it's dangerous:

- If the road is hilly, there is a significant amount of rock and soil between you and an opposing car and the sound will be quite muted as it has to diffuse around the corner.

- If the other driver has their window up and/or their radio on then they won't hear it at all.

- People who are hard of hearing can and do still drive.

I used to live on top of a 4200'/1300m mountain, and occasionally people would do this and then think it was OK to cut the line. Please just don't, you're only disturbing the countryside and residents/hikers and giving yourself a false sense of security.
Interestingly enough, there has been a community project dedicated to keeping the last Winamp version alive (last version from the original creators), and it really great to use.

https://getwacup.com/

It includes a skin that allows it to work on modern display resolutions. It's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor.

Edit: I was too young to remember the releases, but replies are indicating that version 5 was in fact, not the most popular :P
Feedly or Google Reader but more simple and personnalized
Can the title be edited to include the ,, please?
> Travel restrictions bought Taiwan and South Korea lots of time in the beginning

They are islands and from what I understand travel restrictions are more relevant earlier in a pandemic

> There seem to be no real papers linked to the base of this guidance

There are a few in the article. Did you read it?
HN folks are all pseudo, amateur, professional scientists of all fields, at least that’s what I pickup from the conversations. A true scientist, ex. Marie Skłodowska-Curie, will perform every kind of test possible to ensure he gets to the truth.
Here’s a scientific test for COVID: turn off all media, news and information sharing apps for 3-5 days, report daily your findings, continue with the test after 5 days if no abnormalities detected. Share your results with others.
On the whole, people using their software just to go about with their lives don't notice pointless UI changes of the scale you're talking about (changing the appearance of tabs). They don't even know what parts of the window are controlled by the application and which parts are controlled by the web page (if they even understand that distinction), and web pages change their UIs a lot faster than Firefox does.
The Apple of today has a very conflicted relationship with webkit, the anticompetitive reasons they want to keep their platform "webkit only", simultaneously encourages them to support and neglect webkit development. i.e on the one hand, webkit must be reliable and secure and compatible "enough" to provide a decent basic browsing experience. But should not improve so much as to make developing applications competitive with the apple store.

The difference between the resources Google and Apple contribute to their respective open source browser engines is night and day, and as any web developer will know - it shows.

In an ideal world two things would change at the same time: Apple is forced to allow other browsers, and webkit gets some genuine love and decent resources to make it a legitimate competitor again, instead of being used as a pawn in a game between Apple and Google.
> Yesterday we were discussing something dropping support for some platforms from an open source project and the issue is... we have no way of determining how many installs are on such platforms.

You seem to be assuming that your users are always online and not sitting somewhere isolated, the ideal place for platforms old enough that you want to stop supporting them. Telemetry only tells you if something is there, it doesn't tell you if something isn't.
What you say is true of historic artworks like a Van Gogh.

Almost no NFTs are in any way like a historic artwork.

An algorithmically generated cartoon character that is one of thousands, simply isn’t valuable. The fact that you have what amounts to a receipt for paying for one, is more a mark of stupidity than prestige.
I’m pretty sure the process works like this:

1. Someone makes a good newsletter and reports high engagement

2. Anecdotes circulate in the pre-alchemy world of marketing

3. Everyone tells their boss they’ll get great engagement if they launch a newsletter, omitting the “if we do the hard part of producing good content”

4. Nobody remembers that if they’d put good content on their website people would have read it there, too.
You still have to consider how much new stuff got added into the overall Web (HTML+CSS+JS) spec since the old KHTML days though.
CPython is orders of magnitude slower than modern JavaScript engines. Especially so when the interpreter is compiled into WASM.

It is interesting from an interoperability point of view, but this purely negative from a performance and maintainability point of view.
Acids can make that much thicker. Acids that exist in the environment in small amounts...
But the only one who did that was you.
It used to be you could put a quote next to a picture of Lincoln and that meant he said that quote and then we collectively got wise that this wasn't how reality worked.

Except if it is a website with pictures next to a claim of a creative commons license.

How can you ever be sure a digital asset authentically has the license someone puts on the page?
yes, the link was mangled by gmail's spam protection. after marking it as non-spam it worked