skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it all falls down to OS preference more than anything. I've been using macOS for a long time and wouldn't feel comfortable with something else.

Owning an iPhone and iPad don't help escaping the walled garden for sure.
The author suggests proof of space as an interesting option but then deliberately avoids commenting on Chia’s implementation of proof of space time. Can someone explain that to me? Is it the pre-mine that drives people away? If so there is already a fork (Flax) with a much smaller pre-mine that is surely worthy of assessment and scrutiny at an algorithmic/system level... Or is the author simply acknowledging they aren't ready or qualified to comment on PoST versions of Nakamoto consensus?
I have the complete opposite experience. I used word for years and years. I started studying a bit later in life and learned latex first when I was 27. I was flabbergasted that it was not the default tool in the business world. Now I'd rather take an ice bath then write a larger document in word.

I still really disagree with the poster though. Latex is not a good fit for Web pages.
In practice PoS chains have hundreds of nodes or more. In Bitcoin, nodes can't stop a 51% attack and I don't know if the software would even alert you when a 51% attack is likely going on.
I assume the reason is that draining it just moves the toxins elsewhere. No one else wants to drink this stuff or have it in their surface water either.
I don't know their exact definition, but I'd assume something like all members of an occupation - e.g., a name like "pilot's disease" would probably fall into the banlist.

I mean the whole pandemic is dubbed the "Coronavirus pandemic" - and while that's not an officially designated term, the WHO frequently uses it.

If they had had any consideration for Corona the beer brand, they'd probably have made that known.
I don’t quite understand how you associate accountability with not naming the virus Nu or Xi. There needs to be accountability for sure, and I do feel like the WHO is trying to please China in other instances.

But in this case, I feel it’s sensible. I don’t think there was any other case where the naming could’ve been easily associated with a certain group of people.
You’re right. It’s in the realm of not paying sales tax on stuff you buy out of state. No one keeps track of that shit but also it’s illegal to not do that.
UBI is unequivocally a good thing.
Yet in that same article they admit they hadn’t seen any actual negative impact.

If you’re going to name your airline after the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet you can’t exactly claim ownership over the name or insist that nobody else ever use it for anything.
Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?
For however you choose to define "worth".
Supernote A5X however has been amazing for me for the last 3 months and a joy to use.

The eraser function alone makes it an upgrade (!) to pen and paper workflow
Did you also have the same feedback from your IDE?

In other words would it have been less painful if you didn't have to suffer the long iteration times required to get feedback from some remote CI job?
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/somos-cuba/#omishambles
This article completely misunderstands proof-of-stake and the distributed consensus space in general. Both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are mechanisms for making distributed consensus sybil-resistant.

Distributed consensus is the problem of getting a bunch of computers to agree on some state when some of the computers can behave maliciously. In the case of cryptocurrency, the state is a log of transactions, which when replayed tells you who owns what. There are well-known algorithms for distributed consensus, such as Paxos and Raft, that are used in real-world applications, e.g., the Chubby lockservice.

Distributed consensus algorithms can be proven to reach consensus as long as at most a fixed percentage (e.g., 1/3) of the computers are behaving maliciously. This assumption is fine for applications like Chubby, where Google is running all 5 of the computers participating in the consensus, and no one can add additional computers. However, this assumption breaks down in the case of cryptocurrency, where anyone can spin up computers to participate. In fact, an adversary can effectively spin up an infinite number of computers. This form of attack is known as a sybil attack.

Proof-of-work and proof-of-stake add sybil-resistance to distributed consensus algorithms by requiring the adversary to commit a scarce resource in order to participate in the consensus process. In the case of proof-of-work, the scarce resource is computing power. For proof-of-stake, the resource is the currency secured by the system itself. This may seem a bit circular, but it's fine. In order to attack the system, the adversary would have to purchase or borrow a bunch of the currency on the open market, which has an economic cost. Proof-of-work permits the same attack, where the adversary buys or rents computing power instead.

From this perspective, the bitcoin consensus algorithm is in fact the odd one. Most distributed consensus algorithms (like Paxos and Raft) rely on some kind of voting system.
It would make burning your credibility more permanent.

Deleting banned accounts whitewashes the history of the person that got banned, allowing them to repeat the cycle without changing names/pseudonyms.

That’s probably a win for engagement and trolls, but a loss for everyone else.
My thoughts exactly. Clickbaity title and clearly no substance. In my experience there is a strong negative correlation between the confidence and young age. A little disappointing this made it to the front page.
But like PoS, PoW returns all spent resources and more back to the miner - both are designed to be profitable and self-sustaining.

I don't see much difference between a PoW mining setup that does $1000/day gross, $990/day expense, $10/day profit and a PoS staking setup that does $12/day gross, $2/day expense, $10/day profit. Both earn $10/day, both require maintenance, and both are run not at a net cost but at a net profit.
MIDI happens at the note level, and the controller level for parameter management. MIDI has no concept of chords or chord languages.
Testing more will uncover more benign cases, that's true, but it is also possible that people are testing more due to having more symptoms.

Vaccination has continued in Denmark so if vaccines were killing people we'd expect to see that rocketing as Denmark has one of the highest vaccination rates.

I think the causality is:

More illness -> More people get tested

More illness -> More people get vaccinated

More illness -> More people die
> The reMarkable was panned pretty hard by every major tech outlet as being useful for only one thing, and worse, not very good at that one thing.

yet my colleagues who loved the first one love this one to and keep recruiting new users so there is obviously a market for it.

Personally I returned mine because I couldn't justify both the iPad and the reMarkable at that time but the writing experience was fantastic.
PoW should actually stand for Proof of Waste. It's not even unprecedented in nature: many species will intentionally waste energy or resources to demonstrate mating fitness, as with a peacock's tail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
IMO there's too many things to get right and no easy standard way of doing it.

Is there at least a checklist? It should ideally be automated. IIRC there's some library, maybe BLAS, that at compile time computes some machine-specific constants and also refuses to do it if a few things are not right.
Most systems languages (that aren't C) force you to be explicit about demoting casts between formal variables; that's the easy part. But no language I know of (not even Rust) gets rid of implicit promotion during math operations, in favor of 1. forcing you to specify the size of the destination register you want the instruction to use (i.e. the working precision), and then 2. requiring an explicit demoting cast if the destination formal variable is smaller than the working precision you specified.

I mean, C's inline assembler, and LLVM IR, both require this; but they also require you to specify which work register you're talking about, rather than just the size, which breaks the conceit of a "portable systems language."
Author here if anyone has questions about this classic synthesizer's internals.
Had a mac pro 32GB for job(use it like a desktop basically).

And a few Lenovo carbon x1 that can be carried around(including travel).

Carbon X1 is 14", which is large enough for real coding on the road, Nano is 13" seems a bit too small for coding to me though. I feel 14" is the perfect size for both daily work and travel.
As others have said, median is more interesting, but also remember that there's a selection bias: these are people traveling to or living in one of the country's most expensive cities.
Im a bit surprised that it is a5. I was thinking to purchase one, expecting it to be closer to a4 from the pictures on the website. Either they are composites, or those models must have tiny hands! (or maybe i dont look at other peoples hands enough to know what is "normal" :))
People should be literally at software houses' headquarters with pitchforks and torches, revolting against such wastes of resources.
The difference IMO is the scale of individual social networks. It used to be relatively smaller independent forums which had all their own particular rules and populations. Things were more truly distributed in an organic way.

Now we have these massive scale social networks who attract all the absolute worst scum of the earth, botnets, etc. The companies running these networks are super massive and formed connections to political parties and financial interests.

The saddest thing is we could all just decide to get off these massive networks and use the smaller ones again, but the genie is out of the bottle and a critical mass of people can’t be convinced to leave the new networks.
I was taught the industrial revolution got kicked off in america by samual slater memorizing the design of english textile mills

hollywood was a place for the film industry to build not just for the sunny weather but because they were far away from edison’s patent lawyers

and of course we all know how america handed intellectual property to china without any hope of enforcing IP, they seem to have developed quite rapidly

but i grant you USA and China may be exceptions, but stealing IP looks very profitable to me
> When I turned it on, I had one of my first disappointments. It was really hard to to type my wifi password.

Not only that, but there is no supported way at all of getting the MAC address of the device, which makes it incredibly irritating when users want to use one in an enterprise/academic network.
> They will probably need a few incidents before learning some lessons from the windows crowd.

Hum, thank-you but no. The lessons the Windows crowd learned are mostly bullshit, officialized due to people's helplessness and total lack of any reasonable alternative.

Linux people are very serious about things like supply-chain verification, auditable software, and machine activity monitoring. All actions with viable engineering principles and real impact, differently from the "you need to install an antivirus" insanity.
I wrote a little R package to write tables. I knew what HTML tables and Word tables could do. I wrote the interface to use all those features. LaTeX nerds were super proud of their tables. Should be easy to reimplement the features in TeX, right?

https://github.com/hughjonesd/huxtable/blob/master/R/latex.R

TeX is an abomination from hell.
Is everyone at GitHub based in America?
You’ve created an impossible straw man: crypto is only running on renewables and the rest of the world isn’t because crypto hogs it all. That’s just not ever going to be reality.
> in a country our previous president was regularly stoking racism against

No, Trump did not stoke racism against Asians. Seeking accountability from the CCP is not racist. Factually stating the origin of the virus is not racist. Stating something that inconveniences the CCP is not racist. Also names like “Wuhan virus” were in common broad use both in China and the US until it became a political tool to attack Trump. And also not everything is racist or xenophobic more generally. Such labels are applied inconsistently and selectively, especially in the case of Trump. For example consider how travel bans were allegedly racist and xenophobic under Trump but completely acceptable under Biden (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-biden-suggested-t...).

> There’s also been a massive influx of Asian hate crimes

I’m not sure where you live but the biggest fear of hate crimes against Asians has not been from something related to COVID. There is a massive spike in black on Asian crimes in the Bay Area (and a few other locations), which news media won’t even cover honestly (by either not running the story or not showing mugshots or not providing a description that includes race). Instead activist researchers have been gaslighting the Asian community with false studies claiming that the majority of hate crimes against Asians are from whites spurred on by COVID, based on those very news reports which often omit race when a black suspect is involved. Among the Asian community, these claims that white on Asian hate crimes are the majority are now seen as racist gaslighting.
One of the companies I worked for did. They would always make these vary pretty mockups that would be hell for people to use.

Information density is ugly and it makes software hard to sell. This is part of why commercial software is almost universally crap.
The English data on vaccines and mortality, revisited
Do predators mutate to the point where they live in symbiosis with prey? No. Not always. While symbiosis exists it is erroneous to think that this is always the outcome. In fact, in biology cooperation is just a side effect. Competition is the norm.

Every biological entity on the face of the earth only cooperates because it helps them better compete.
Is Omnicron related to Unicron? For the uninitiated the latter is a Transformer the size of a planet. The prefixes alone would suggest that a robot the size of a solar system would be called Multicron. Omnicron would be something bigger, perhaps as large as an entire galaxy.
Godot’s Signals work like this.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_signal....
WD-40 is pretty good stuff but I understand it is not permitted on eg Lloyds insured ships. The problem being that it is a very good solvent for oil products but it itself is reasonably volatile and once it dissolved the oil coating on steel parts it will evaporate, leaving the steel exposed in a marine atmosphere which will allow it to rust more than if you just left it. There are other compounds which are preferentially used to provide a lubricating or anti-corrosive coating (eg Boeshield T9)

WD-40 is excellent for cleaning your hands after working on your bicycle chain. Of course, you could wear nitrile gloves but..

Also, WD-40 is a good coolant/lubricant for machining aluminium.
You should blog about this. Super relevant now w booming boomer demo.
Try the more friendly WYSIWYG TeXmacs. Its output is comparable to TeX/LaTeX.
It’s time to stop demonizing “invasive” species
What about the depth of dependencies of any part of the standard libraries for a given language?
How enforcable will that be on platforms that are neither owned nor hosted in Australia?
90% of the time is spent on browser and editor these days, the OS is not a major factor for me to choose computers anymore.
Came to mention TB, as well. I've been running it for years (I originally learned about it from a HN comment) and believe that I will probably use it, or some variation of the protocols, for the rest of my life.

That said, if I were new to barbell training, I would pick up the Starting Strength book and read it cover to cover to understand the mechanics of the main compound lifts. Then I would pick up the Greyskull LP program and run it (it's more or less the SS program but with some sanity in the progression and it doesn't ignore conditioning) until I was regularly hitting plateaus on the main lifts. Then I'd transition to the TB protocols starting with base building and going from there based on my goals and other fitness related endeavors.

edit/ I'd also encourage people to read TB I: Strength, TB II: Conditioning, Mass Protocol, and the Ageless Athlete entry. I incorporate pieces of all 4 of these books into my training week.

Additionally, there is another book specific to law enforcement that has interesting information in it. And, on top of that, there are 2 new books being worked on at the moment.
> I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators

sure they are lmfao
DRM will never stop the pirates. As long as you can reproduce something, you can always record the output. For example, you can always record your audio output from Spotify or video output from Netflix.

DRM is a minor annoyance and nothing more.
The hardware maybe yes but I really don't like macOS so it's a pass for me.
They didn't fabricate their data.

They simply switched the labels.

Not very well. You can see they didn't change the axis labels in this image here: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cf58cd_449149dafb04485eb2...

So the data is valid, the point is valid, but the point isn't about ghostbusters.
I've used LaTeX for my bachelor thesis, but i found it such a pain that i wrote an markdown-to-latex converter in PHP, which i found to be less painful.

Today i finished an improved version of that converter in AWK, intending to use it to generate pretty PDFs from markdown, but aside from that, i wish not to interact much with LaTeX itself anymore..
You have a very niche set of requirements there; few others care about the things you listed.
No, no, no, that's not how Web<number>.0 works! You have to make it worse as the number goes up.

Web 2.0 added more interaction, more tracking, and more advertizing.

Web 3.0 adds crypto scams.

If Web 4.0 is going anywhere near LaTeX, it needs to add not just the typesetting language, but also the whole system of peer-reviewed academic publishing, and you have to publish at least 4 websites a year or perish.
Guys, I really like the iPad Pros with the pencil but the thing is I want just a simple notebook app. I want to draw on a page and then add a new page easily and draw on that one and so on. If I could screen share that would be great but if I can’t, so be it.

Who knows what app I should get?

Procreate and Fresco are what I’ve tried.

I was thinking about the Remarkable 2 but now I don’t know. Seems like a bad idea if all I want is a sketching tool that I can quickly take notes on.

This sync issue is just a nightmare. I don’t want to pay big bucks just to post to my own Google Drive. It isn’t the money, it’s that I won’t get it because I know it costs money and then I won’t use it and then I’ll use the device less as a result. At least on an iPad I can just airdrop it.
I was able to download the image on iOS just now, using Firefox on iOS.
I'm 41 and still working a software engineer. When I was younger I wanted to get a job in SV but could never pass those interviews - now I no longer care and work remotely from rural Alaska :) I may step away from being a FTE and go full time consulting/contracting eventually, as being involved in company politics and chasing promotions is something that no longer interests me. After spending nine years as an Army officer I have no burning desire to be in charge of anyone.

My ideal working environment is a small team of very experienced/talented engineers working on greenfield projects. I've had that a few times in my career, though not currently.

My mother is well into her 60s and still working as a software engineer (also mostly remote now). She declined promotions that would have taken her out of coding over the years - so we're at about the same level of seniority now. I imagine she'll keep working as long as she's able - she seems to enjoy the work more than I do.
Are you really asking why we expect the WHO to be transparent and honest? Because they are an institution that has been given a lot of trust and power. Because their attempts to shape a narrative can harm important efforts like accountability for the virus’s origins and early reporting/containment (or lack thereof). Because people don’t like being lied to or propagandized by overt attempts to shape public opinion. Because an allegedly scientific institution should not play political games.
The intentional one.
Because ignoring the elephant in the room just makes that elephant all the more conspicuous.

“We are skipping the name that collides with a prominent world leader, and will extend that courtesy to world leaders in the future”

It would still be criticized but would have the advantage of being transparent.
You have good taste!
Texans love Texas like Kanye loves Kanye.
I found a tool[0] that helps me debug potential floating point issues when they arise. This one has modes for half-, single- and double-precision IEEE-754 floats, so I can deal with the various issues when converting between 64-bit and 32-bit floats.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370883
Or LyX.
Consider: The Earth cannot save itself from asteroids without humanity.
It showed up in my camera roll immediately, which seemed to ruin the joke until I read the explanation.
The problem is not computer processing speed. The problem is human cognitive load.
I think PDF should be replaced with some SVG-based document format. HTMLs inability to model the concept of "pages" is something I'm missing from current web. Also, a LaTeX-style document creation language rendering into SVG would be really cool.
I’ve been steering into “just write” territory as well. And for me it’s Markdown instead of Latex. Easy to write, simple rules, sufficient formatting.

Would be interesting to imagine a parallel universe where the web is a bunch of Markdown documents linking to each other. Like Obsidian, but global and shared.
I have only ever heard good things about rowing. Because exercise is a chore for me, I want to minimize the amount of time I have spend doing it.

I got a rowing machine recently. It hits a ton of muscles all at once, and is not bad for cardio. It won't challenge your heart as much as running will, but it gets the blood pumping.

I am no fitness expert, but it feels like a really good solution for me. I hope to work up to 20-30 minutes of rowing at least every other day.
>with Web3/NFTs/cryptocurrency people are building an abstraction layer on top of the web and want to decentralize all the things, which is good to see

Hate to disappoint, but decentralization won't happen at any real scale. The "sameiest" thing of all will be the manner by which the democratizing hope of technology is once again dashed as it's recaptured by capital (as with the Internet itself). It's already happening.

See: all of the VCs currently touting Web3, NFTs, etc as if they discovered it.

There will be a few new winners, but they will largely win through centralization, and will frequently have the support of incumbents/capital.
Statistics and probability are formally defined using calculus, so that doesn't really work.

Maybe basic introductory statistics is more useful than basic introductory calculus though.
Isn't it possible to make a little script to run bazel clean or the equivalent whenever you run Cargo to actually add, remove or update Rust libraries, and ignore them as dependencies because they are immutable apart from such user interventions? Are Bazel and/or Cargo too smart?
Exactly, HTML would be amazing if people weren't trying to use browsers as application runtime environments.
Latex would certainly make it worse. Latex is among the worst languages (to use) that I've ever encountered.