skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exFAT is great other than its lack of journaling, which has bit me in the ass more than a few times. file system durability is really important, especially for one for a drive being frequently moved between environments
That’s going to be the effect with every currency as the people starting it are going to have the most.

Just how it works.
> The leader who wins has the privilege of proposing the next block.

No, the hash that you win with, deterministically points to the only possible block that you can “propose”. Your understanding is completely backwards. You seriously don’t know how bitcoin works.
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>It’s actually more consistent

In theory, yes, yet my adult brain cannot process correctly decoding this reversed order quickly, under pressure, over the phone in writing, even though I learned to be fluent in German. I guess you have to grow up with this system so it imprints on your subconscious from an early age, else, if you grow up with another system, and need to switch later in life, it's game over.

Learning this number system is easy, but under pressure over the phone, this reverse pair system falls apart quickly as you tend to write the first digit you hear instead of waiting for the full pair, which is why it's not used in military/critical radio transmissions, because it opens the gates to many errors and proves the system is broken for anything else than casual private use.
When I developed software for Windows, I had two machines on two different networks, on one I could read e-mails, file expenses, and so on. On the other, I was a local administrator. I had access to the internet through a proxy that blocked some websites (so, for instance, I wouldn't be able to look at patents) and nothing else.
Global aphantasic, dyslexic, problems with recall at times, hard to traverse memory and also in process of being diagnosed with ADHD. When I’m deeply interested in something I don't read forums and join community's as it spoils the fun of working things out, and helps in leaving out mistakes of others. Once I've rinsed the topic, created my construct and can find no new worthy vein to mine, then I will compare with the consensus. So what I have to contribute is only from my own half finished ideas, there may be errors, in fact and terminology, I'm still playing with my toy.

I'm annoyed I didn't work out I had aphantasia before reading about it, but I was close, from a young age. As many mention, counting sheep to sleep was a riddle, I discussed this with my sister about 8, I revisited that conversation after the revelation. She can not create visuals but can recall what she has seen. I can do neither. Many hints I was given, Henry Miller for one said I do not have much of a visual memory, Dracula and LOTR were too descriptive for me to appreciate fully.

There's so many nuances with this topic, I have no sensory memory, touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing but I can remember feelings. No sense of taste is the most common in the people Ive talked to. To recall experience everyone has, to create new experiences everyone has. I dislike the name aphantastic, without imagination, as I have an uncontrollable imagination and is separate, it throws more confusion onto an already confusing subject.

I have trouble recognising people, some aphants don't, I think this is due to my poor recall. I'm not sure if I believe in a subconscious as others do, that's another rabbit hole, but to be brief, my subconscious has access to that look up table that my consciousness dosnt.

You can have hyper Aphantastics who have beyond 4k abilities. You program yourself with I (not AI), but the memory bus might be differently wired restricting read write permission’s, a hardware limitation because it is not something you can learn.

A screen, a speaker are all only interfaces, we are all unique machines crafted by the universe, each one of a kind, and maybe, just maybe, for a specific purpose, that we have been blessed with I is astounding, I love playing with tech, my mate had a NES, I had a Master System, the enjoyable conversations we had describing our experiences would never have happened if we both had both.

Its funny that I is the one thing we cannot fathom, in philosophy, maths, physics. What troubles me is why has it been such a secret, why have Ya all so quite about your visual imagination, sounds like your all watching stuff you don't want to to tell anyone about :-) and if it is a gift are they going to be happy with what your doing on their hardware.

And finally, IMO, if you have a screen, you it you know, if your unsure you probably are.
Depends on how far you want to go with "English-speaking", but Sri Lanka also fits that bill (warm weather, English widely spoken, affordable, at least locally).

I still think SA loses more than the poor UK tourists who have to stomach going to Madeira or Morocco and listen to heathen languages instead of SA.
Grep the code for rand_reset. The code uses a fixed seed, fixed sizes for all programs, stable nop baseline, etc. also the pointer indirection blocks compiler optimizations.
I still remember the night when logrus's author decided to rename his Github account and broke our production build (https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/pull/384). Since then, I always vendor third party dependencies.
If a halving forces a bunch of miners off the market (because their expected revenue drops below operating cost), there could be a huge glut of hardware flooding the market that is not profitable for honest mining but allows a bad actor to temporarily accumulate hashrate.
Absolutely.

While I don't know for sure, some blame the new (mixed) way of reading numbers on the proliferation of colonial languages (English and French); i.e. people trying to mimic how the numbers are in these languages, but only doing it half way through.

The problem though is that this mixed way is used across the region, so it developing independently each time seems a bit way too improbable to be a solid cause.
Everything is mutable with the possibilty of physical destruction and long time scales. Even the existence of humanity is mutable when we play stupid games in MAD geopolitics, have foolish energy policy, and lack an ability to cooperate to mitigate tragedy-of-the-commons problems like, for example, what Proof of Work is causing.

If we do not bound the growth of PoW energy usage, I think it could easily destroy itself in a roundabout way: by destroying the fragile global order that keeps humanity going.
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no the difference is, to build a side chain you have to produce the work, work that has a real cost and takes time, remember in POW the chain with most work wins.
From my experiences with it, in LibGen you have to search exactly what you want. A simple typo ruins it. Z-library is a better in that regards, so typos don't really ruin the search, allowing you to find stuff more easily.
Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator
I created a little web page (<10kB) that generates a random 4K (3840*2160px) wallpaper image using Javascript and the <canvas> element. Right-click to save the image (desktop only for now).

No two images are the same. You may need a few refreshes to get an interesting result.

Code: https://github.com/roytanck/wallpaper-generator
Recycling is NOT the same as putting in a drop-off point. Having worked in waste management, I can assure you they are not recycled the way you think (either sent to a victim country who needed to accept your countries' plastic in exchange for an extension on an IMF loan, or straight to the landfill - only paper and its derivative, if well cleaned, had any sort of value for reuse where I worked).

Reuse yourself, or get stuff that existed 200 years ago (wooden boxes, soft papers, leaves, whatever) if you want to "recycle", but nothing modern is made with recycling in mind, since you refuse to think beyond the trash bin with a green logo on it when you decide to pay.

I googled FOGO, and it's nice but it's not really new recycling, it's "more targeted recycling", where instead of feeding the local worms in some random place you threw your oganic wastes to, they will specifically reuse them as compost for more productive agriculture. Which can reduce the use of other type of chemical composts, so it's positive certainly.
"Packaging" is an industry; they've been looking for more opportunities to seel their product for a long, long time. Individually wrapped potatoes and bananas are an often cited example. Big packages of (even generic) paper towels now have each roll within individually wrapped in plastic.

How much money goes into the design phase of these fancy things? I wonder if the manufacturer of the item buys that, or the people who make the box do, on the same principle inkjet printers are cheap but the ink costs a bomb. "Sure Mr Apple, we'll design you a fancy box, and then charge $15/unit for them" ... Mr Apple don't give a damn because its a $1k item.
I’m not sure that’s so easy https://www.reddit.com/r/cringe/comments/jwpr1e/guy_tries_ki...
Primarily, but there are others. Yandex and Baidu in 2020 and presumably still: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f.... Others in the past, not sure if any are still active: https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-and-bing-together-at-last/. They're currently trialling Bing too: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/17/firefox-experiment-is-test...
"The letter we received from the agency did not identify any safety concerns about the Smart Sock; rather, the FDA asserts that the Smart Sock should be classified as a medical device in the U.S. because of the heart rate and oxygen notifications,”"

Their "its not an issue" response is scary -- if I'm reading the FDA letter correctly, its not just about marketing, they never proved the safety or critical features, and the FDA has been after them since 2016. Part of premarket approval is determining device class and appropriate regulations.

Of course they have no immediate safety concerns if the product was never even submitted for approval! How could they know? Tickle-me-elmo probably has no immediate safety issues till you compare it to a medical device.
The neighbourhood might hear it but if nobody reacts who cares (from a burglary point of view)

If a car alarm goes off my reaction is not "oh no, someone is stealing a car" it's "man I hope they know how to shut that off quickly"
> Ubisoft made a donation of €500,000 to the restoration effort

So they did help, and the title is a lie.
.DS_Store files are also a PITA for Mac users who mainly work on the command line. I don't understand why this data isn't stored in filesystem attributes instead of 'user-visible' files (for some reason I didn't have problem with .DS_Store on my previous Mac, but now on the new Mac they're suddenly everywhere again, might be that I somehow disabled them years ago on the old Mac though).
Whether leader election happens at the same time as the block is proposed or not is completely irrelevant to the nature of the problem from a distributed systems perspective. The point is that in each round, the leader both wins the election, and proposes the next block. There are other variants of proof of work in which the leader is allowed to continue generating new blocks for a period of time and (AFAIK) these inherit all of Bitcoin's security properties.

Here is my question to you: if the node that wins the election (and the ones that accept its mined block, of course) is not the one voting on which transactions get to go into the chain, rather than be stuck in the mempool somewhere, who is? Do you genuinely think there is no decision being made there?
Estonia has had electronic signatures since 2002. Cryptographically signed PDFs (or any files), backed by the government, free to use, and widely used by common citizens. All you need is residency (an ID card) and a cheap USB reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature_in_Estonia

(yes, "free to use" means tax-funded, no need to point this out)
Average age to reach a millionaire in the usa is 55.

https://www.lexingtonlaw.com/blog/finance/average-net-worth-...
Not enough social housing and market housing is expensive af. Shelters suck because there's no security and often have loads of restrictions that make them impractical for a lot of homeless.

How is this a difficult thing? Why is it so difficult in the US to come to the conclusion that other developed countries have come to? The government needs its own housing stock so that it can just house people in expensive cities. Half the population of Hong Kong, capitalist city of the world, lives in either government housing or government subsidized housing. Singapore? 81 percent live in some form of government housing.

Buying or building housing stock at either the state or federal level needs to happen in the long term. California is big enough it should be able to do this at the state level and the failure of the state government to do this is embarrassing.
I really like my Pentel Graphgear 1000s. The retractable tip means it doesn't stab you if you want to carry it in a pocket and at least somewhat reduces the probability of it being ruined by a drop.

https://www.pentel.com/products/graph-gear-1000-mechanical-d...
Arrests in Pakistan for fake fingerprint biometrics, NADRA breach alleged
Ask HN: Horizon Worlds Development Studio?
Does anyone have thoughts on creating a development studio for Horizon Worlds to build experiences for brands?
A top-down org where employees don't have the power to vote out management is exactly that - an authoritarian structure. That's why is called privately owned.
Turkey might soon become a great place to remote work from.
As in the nursery rhyme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence

That form of counting is still understood, recognised, but viewed as archaic in England.

I guess it got lost in the evolution of Old English to Middle English, and the interplay of Old Norse plus the subsequent influence of Norman French, all of which bashed the Germanic core of of English in to its modern form.
But that won't be the case, bitcoin and Crypto growing to 25% of the energy production is just nonsensical let alone 50%

As OP mentioned this issue is already getting addressed and in process to become more debated

If anything, solving existing real problems ought be priority rather than such a niche thing
FP analysis is a measure for the "amount of functionality" not complexity. Maybe in relation to, e.g., the number of statements (statements/FP) it could make sense.
At least now I know why my nix builds are failing...

Odd for something like this to slip through and not be rolled back immediately.

Unless it was intentional, in which case it would be even more odd to not communicate this widely beforehand.
Say what you want about "cloud" reliability, but my little home server in a residential ISP has been up for more time than Github.com in (at least!) the past year.
https://moscow.sci-hub.se/2943/9ad3c080a6fdfa75416b9a42bc505...
That was the alleged (but false) reason they picked WGSL over SPIR-V, not the justification for designing WebGPU. Vulkan’s C API isn’t really compatible at all with JavaScript and has memory safety concerns and so forth. WebGPU has a slightly restricted, but vastly nicer interface. Plus there are a bunch of downsides to require browsers to emulate Vulkan over DirectX or Metal.
Well, it also has a lot to do with whether or not you want good teams, or good individuals. The "Marine Bootcamp" methodology is hundreds, if not thousands, of years old, and is how we make good teams.

Teams are how we make awesome stuff, but individuals are how we conceptualize awesome stuff.

I've found that the best products come from hybrids of the two.
That's just not true.

https://github.com/GenieFramework/Genie.jl
https://github.com/JuliaWeb/HTTP.jl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsxJt4prFG4

And with upcoming improvements to binary size and structured concurrency (it already does go-like lightweight threads) it will get even better.
Did you mean to say "I cannot take any cryptocurrencies conversation seriously unless it includes the topic of climate change"?
I think this is organizational more than technological.

There are plenty of PoW coins with unfair or absurd distributions, and plenty of PoS coins with somewhat equitable distributions.
Isn't the general goal rather to avoid/eliminate overly complex cruft (that every programmer should be able to recognize) than to find the maximally simple solution to a problem?
Nobody in China cares about Elsevier and nobody in India should either. Frankly, national research interests should trump some cushy Dutch billionaire corporation.
Can you write more about this or provide some examples? Of course, memory access has had variable timing “forever”, but the idea that other functional units can vary their timings for instructions is new to me.
He is a real lawyer after all, I believe that these are important skills in the profession.
You keep throwing stuff together, seemingly without understanding the terms you use.

There's no media pushing for 7B because there's no global medium. If you count the nation-wide newspapers and add the numbers you'll end up with about 7B, modulo nations that have no free media, of course.

People that don't want vaccinations will at some point be treated like people that don't want blood transfusion. Sad, but it's their choice.

IP legislation has nothing to do with any lack of doses. The BionTech vaccine could be manufactured in one plant for world-wide consumption, if needed. The current pace is dictated by supply chain constraints, manufacturing setup effort, orders, and distribution. Any other vendor would face the very se issue. If someone would want to order an additional billion of doses, BionTech/Pfizer could certainly deliver. In fact, there are so many ways to code the spike protein that there's no way IP is preventing other vendors from setting up a competing product. It's manufacturing experience that makes the difference now.
So true. Direct feedback is way under appreciated.
Anyone who programs low-latency software knows std::deque is an absolutely horrible-performance deque implementation due to how much it allocates and the pointer chasing involved. In most cases it's better to use a vector-backed deque (ring buffer) for anything performance-sensitive.
Use the tool, don't become its slave.
I somehow missed you wrote pseudo english. Not sure how I managed that.
As someone who never learned the "dreadful notation... discouraging legions of programmers", this was really helpful! The "canonical" equation doesn't mean anything to me and the window/offset explanation does.

I'm sure the author intended to keep the article short, but I think it would benefit from more examples, including a number like 5e-5 or something. It isn't clear to me how the window/offset explains that.

Edit: to clarify, I do not understand how the floating point representation of 0.00005 is interpreted with windows/offsets.
Exactly. Every dependency is a liability.
There are positive sides also. They will have more money for R&D and probably can launch more products.
The last paragraph from the FDA letter:

"Finally, you should know that this letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the violations at your firm. It is your firm’s responsibility to ensure compliance with the applicable laws and regulations administered by FDA."

If they skipped step one, I doubt they didn't skip more.

FDA letter: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...
now, I'll admit I'm no expert.... but I don't see any petroglyphs!!

All I see is a stone with some scratches on it! It seems as plausible to me that a bison (or something else) got a rock and scratched it against another rock...
Time is free. My usage of that time is not.
https://youtu.be/7JlgKCUqzA0
I don't think the author was arguing that PoW is perfect, only that PoS doesn't even solve some of the problems PoW does and is therefore even less viable as a currency.
Ask HN: Do FAANG and hire designer developers?
Hi all,

For my entire career (15+ years) I’ve worked at startups as a designer who codes. I really enjoy the startup scene, wearing multiple hats, and shipping quickly.

The older I get though, the more the opportunity cost of not joining a FAANG type is weighing on my mind financially.

I’ve never applied to one of these companies, and while I know my skill set is incredibly valuable to startups where urgency and velocity are important, I’ve wondered if I could even be hired at a much larger company where urgency seems less critical, and roles seem more specialized… I’m sure I could apply as only a designer or front end dev, but I really enjoy both and would hate to give one up.

If you work at one of these companies, have you ever worked with a colleague who does both? or do you? And if so, how was the experience?

Thank you!
I think this might well be a case of: not a lot. This might be a pretty straightforward win:
Pentel makes 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9mm

After trying all of them, I really gravitate to 0.4 and 0.7 depending on what I'm doing with it.

0.7 is great for general writing and notation, while 0.4 is better for drawing figures.
There is no leader election. You trying to insist on this terminology is like trying to explain that the earth is really flat by proposing some very special space metric.

All miners “vote” by hashing and one of them wins. They don’t win because somebody voted for them, they win because they happened to find a satisfactory hash. The chance to win that hash faster than other miners is proportional to hashrate. The hash is determined by the block of transactions entirely, so once you win the race, you don’t get to propose anything other than that one predetermined block.

Which transactions go into a block is decided before any mining for that transaction happens.

Just read, please.
Two remarks:

1. During a recent Scrum Master course, I was shown this picture[1]. It comes from Gerald Weinberg's "Quality Software Management: Vol. 1 System Thinking". Some people will only believe multitasking degrades performance if you have a reference to material, so I like to keep that graph around.

2. In a recent talk by Joe Justice on Agile at Tesla, it was mentioned that Tesla works in 3-hour sprints. This raised the question if this doesn't give the overhead that I link to in #1. Joe mentioned that in his opinion task switching is only detrimental if the task that is interrupted is not finished. I can't remember him stating any source for this.

[1] https://unito.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Context-Switchin...
Serious question -- how is crypto more accessible to people without banks?
Did it also handled similar load and feature complexity as well?
>What would be the unintended consequences to porting this to the U.S.?

Some Elsevier, Wiley, Springer and ACS lobbyists and counsels would lose their income.
He also talks about things he can't pick - here's a video on the Bowley where he almost immediately admits he can't pick it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8QKZNFxLw

There are a couple of (old) videos on Medeco locks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyC7KM5Qxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fh6IHCr7uo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avwt39uHDOQ

Related to the Disc Detainer (come for the tooling discussion, stay for the picking):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRO5wzAaT00
It is worse than "backwards". It is mostly forwards except for the special case of the second digit that is transposed with the first digit. For example, 123 becomes "one-hundred-three-and-twenty". It was driving me nuts for ages.
I just use tor when I download off it and spam changing my IP when it doesnt work till it does
Thank you. Follow up question if you have time. For these native Android apps, I'm interested in building apps that have good backward compatibility and thus low maintenance costs. Is backward compatibility easy to achieve with Android apps? If not, what tips can you provide?