skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually see two conflicting chains (either proof-of-work or proof-of-stake) with large numbers of people vouching for both, then the correct chain is not necessarily "whichever one is longer". Well, it could be, for you; "correct" is subjective. But by assumption in this scenario, a large number of people disagree, and you might want to transact with some of them. There is no way for software to decide this objectively; it has to ask the user to decide based on factors external to the network.

Where proof-of-work really does have an advantage is that you can more easily distinguish that scenario from the scenario where either one of the chains is actually a Sybil attack, i.e. a single attacker pretending to be a large number of people. Similarly, if you only see a single chain, with proof-of-work you can try to detect an eclipse attack (which implies a Sybil attack) by seeing if the hashrate has gone down dramatically.

That's a real advantage. I don't think it's even close to enough to mitigate proof of work's disadvantages, especially since the circumstances where it would practically come into play are extremely unlikely, but it's not nothing.

However, it's undermined by the fact that proof of work naturally encourages centralization. Bitcoin is centralized enough that it's not completely impossible for the vast majority of the hashrate to end up on one side of a fork (either soft or hard), while the vast majority of users and developers end up on the other side. (To be clear, this is very, very unlikely to actually happen, but so are all of the attacks we're talking about.) If this happens, the objective proof-of-work standard will side with the miners, but not with the people you actually want to transact with.

Of course, a proof of stake currency can also suffer a schism, but there is (probably) less tendency for stakers to be centralized, and if a schism did occur, at least the client wouldn't provide a false sense of objectivity.
The end game is that we get to all enjoy some fresh air, isn't that enough? I've been doing this for years, long before any covid.
There aren’t enough administered vaccines. Many areas have vaccine doses but lack infrastructure to deliver them or just simply have ineffective government.
I encourage you to try out locksport as a hobby. Pretty much anyone can learn to pop open a masterlock padlock in 30 seconds or so with maybe a couple hours practice. Don't get me wrong, he makes even really, really hard to pick locks look easy, but that doesn't negate the fact that a lot of locks are just actually easy.
Robert Malone advanced mRNA research and technology, but no one "invented" mRNA. mRNA is a naturally-occurring biological molecule and a key component of protein synthesis.
I went through a series of phases just like you're describing, but I eventually settled on vim + COC as my "home" editor. The COC plugin has been a game changer for me; all of the conveniences of a language server without the bloat of a full-featured editor like VS Code.

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
Power users are just "disappearing". Modern UIs made it impossible to be a power user.

Either you learn 490 tools, methodologies, framework, libraries and become a developer or push button on apps.

The distance between the two extremes is increasing and the middle ground is disappearing.
I have noticed this on multiple sites and Reddit locks up constantly on the latest iOS (so does the browser when performing certain actions.)
> what's the alternative?

Let it crash. If you can't afford to pay people enough that someone /wants/ to fix it at 2am, and you can't arrange a retainer for a contractor halfway around the world to be available if needed during their worktime, and you (owner/manager) don't want to do it yourself, then it can be off until someone starts at 9am next business day. (Most products and services aren't life critical).
I'm surprised the opening the window part is still not been mentioned much. It's been several months since Hong Kong made all establishments to maintain air flow of 25 times per hour (something like that).

It's definitely more difficult to tell colder climate countries to open windows, but really just wear a sweater or a jacket.
"S.African doctor says patients with Omicron variant have "very mild" symptoms"

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/safrican-doctor-says-pa...

Yeah, I'm getting sick of the communist propaganda here on HackerNews.
It means you probably shouldn't listen to Twitter philosophers too much?
My car has the same horsepower (or luggage space, or windshield size, or more seats, etc.) as a Porsche.

For some reason nobody here brings that up. Considering that AAPL is the most valuable company on the planet, they might just have a good understanding of their market.

AAPL is serving their market well, and then make enough money each year to buy the entire Dell company. You may prefer Dell, and many people obviously do, but I don’t think AAPL needs to stuff 64Gb of Ram into everything.
“Being an island helps” doesn’t mean “the only thing that helps is being an island”.
Viruses lyse (explode) the cells they take over in order to exit the cell, since packaging for membrane transport is much more complicated.

Unchecked, they would just exponentially destroy your tissue.

Cytokine storm responses are a particular kind of immune system over-reaction that can make relatively benign viruses much more dangerous to a healthy host then a more immunologically suppressed host, but that's not the behaviour of COVID-19 which is showing pretty standard lethality profiles.
They have much better trains / public transit to bring both workers and day tourists in and much denser towns with lots of old small living spaces.

I'm no expert but do live in a western mountain town and have an old climbing friend who just bought a closet to live in in the Alps.

Part of the issue here is towns have very limited sewage and water systems so its not like you can just build new apartments/duplexes/tiny houses/trailer parks on the outside of town ... you need a pretty big lot to put in a septic system and well and at that point you buy a lot you might as well build a 3+ bedroom McMansion to maximise returns.
The bangladesh study showed that groups of people that are spending large portion of their days inside small huts will benefit from mask. One particular area was also mosques which has a large number of people coming and going, with people being near each other indoors.

Mask makes great sense in specific contexts. Near vulnerable groups. In tight spaces and areas of low ventilation. In areas where a large number of people meet. The further away from such areas, the less evidence we get.

There is a reason why conferences is generally associated with people getting sick, while the same can't be said about the beach.
I have a DX7IID that has been in constant use since it was built in the late 80s and aside from a single battery replacement it's still in perfect condition. They are extremely durable.
Many influenza infections are asymptomatic. Unless you've been getting tested every week, it's entirely possible that you have had the flu more than twice.
> Like there are still people who believe the millions that have been killed is fake news and part of some media conspiracy.

Without going into the medical and scientific reasons why this perception may exist among people, I'd just like to point out that trust in the media and other institutions has been sabotaged over the last 5-6 years among a non-trivial percentage of the population, perhaps permanently, just for the sake of political victory.

The lesson that these institutions should learn is a self-reflective critical one that they'll forever refuse to acknowledge. Don't cry wolf repeatedly for years and then complain that the ignorant villagers won't believe literally anything you have to say on any topic ever again.
Update overnight from assistant minister to the attorney-general:

> When defamation ruins reputations and destroys livelihoods, there needs to be an avenue to peel back the mask of the username, get to the identity of the person who’s engaging in appalling and trolling behaviour that breaches our laws if they were don’t face to face, so that person who has been defamed or have their reputations destroyed or faced criminal acts online can get accountability for that, can take them to court, can sue if necessary or can deal with them through the police.

The Guardian's commentary here:

> There was this bit, which states what the legislation is actually about. The government is focussing on children and women in its sell of the legislation – but it’s actually all about defamation actions. Which, given the expense, is not an option for the vast majority of people.
不好意色。那個看法沒有養。I don’t know if HN supports hanzi so those might be boxes.

Anyway, unfortunately that opinion is wrong, having studied that time period I would definitely say a different political organization has far more similarities to the red guard. And the similarities I see go well beyond demanding unquestioned loyalty and being anti-science.

I am not going to name any names, if any come to your mind that is purely on you.
I’m amused that the whole open source community depends on what is effectively Microsoft’s closed-source proprietary service.
Can’t believe we still have to deal with this FUD.

No, China “hasn’t been arresting doctors”; in particular Li Wengliang was never arrested. He had “a talk”, similar to certain American YouTuber visited by NSA for not being patriotic enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
I think that there will always be a dynamic balance between GUI interactions and command line interactions.

Command line is efficient and good for applications and function that you use on a regular basis, but can be difficult with apps that you are new to or only use occasionally.

A proper UI should be able to accommodate both the efficiency of familiarity and the discoverability for a novice.
This article on Covid in Africa supports your theory / case.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...
I'd rather a car with usable USB ports than using antiquated cigarette adapters.
100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.
By infection you mean people actually getting sick, or just dead virus DNA fragments detected in the nose with PCR?
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Hey lovelyviking. I just wanted to say that you are right, and I agree with you.

The problem is that we are actually living in a medieval type of society. A pretty dark time actually. We have many people who enjoy exercising power over others. The trouble is that we think we are more advanced than we actually are.

We need to progress emotionally, spiritually, morally, and in our understanding of the natural world (physics: our reality). We need a new rennaissance, an enlightenment. To get there, we need clarity of thought from people like yourself who are unafraid to speak up and challenge the status quo.

keep shining your light and speaking your truth. Ignore the naysayers.

onwards.
You see the problem is one of incentives.

New people want more housing but can’t vote because they aren’t residents. Old people want high real estate prices and can vote because they’re residents or own property.

Guess who wins when it’s time for local political leadership to decide on important issues.

Now if housing wasn’t considered an investment and prices were kept flat somehow, that would solve the nimby problem immediately. But it would also bankrupt several generations of existing homeowners so we can’t do that.
There were never great fears of a new ice age in the 60s/70s.

> This distinction can be made because a serious review of the literature shows that there was no such “scientific verity”. There are anecdotes that can be plucked from the record, primarily from the popular media. But a rigorous review by Tom Peterson and William Connolley (with some minor help from myself) shows that, even as the planet was in a short term cooling trend in the 1970s, concerns about greenhouse warming dominated the scientific literature. The paper documenting our results has been accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Doyle Rice did a nice job summarizing the paper last week in USA Today.2

From http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2008/02/global-cooling-the-und... but there are lots of places where you can find the "we once worried about global cooling" myth debunked.
Indeed!

"I wanted to write you a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time"
And even better, you can just go into system preferences and turn off what you don't want!

At one point I had a newish version of OS X spotlight pared down to be about as functional as the Windows 7 start menu Search. If I had wanted command-space to be closer in feature parity to a Windows 10 start menu, it's approximately five reasonably intuitive mouse clicks to get to the settings prefpane with those checkboxes. I too have yet to find similarly well made functionality from any other major-ish desktop OS.
Politicians that do the right thing regardless of election prospects simply aren’t in power long enough (or even at all) for you to notice them. A real “survival bias” at work.

The alternative (an autocracy) doesn’t work out any better, so even though our system has flaws, it is still better than the alternative.
How does one get a concession to operate like this in Antarctica? Or do you even need one considering its not a traditional sovereign area? Some brief reading on Wikipedia suggests that tourism operations down there are allowed and they effectively self regulate themselves.
> I have seen a team be forced to use microservices for things still running on the same machine years later, with absolutely no benefit other than the powerpoint architecture slides looking fancier.

The main driving force for microservices is not technical but organizational. Therefore, there are plenty of non-technical issues, such as for example budget to grow and split a team, that make or break the adoption of this style of architecture.
I was really struggling to run all the stuff for web development on a 16gb dell xps. The database, text editor with plugins and browser all consumed too much. I don’t know why but I have even more running on my M1 MacBook and I have never bothered to check the ram and I don’t have my system crawling to a halt every day.

I think some of this is very smart and fast swapping because I do sometimes notice a tiny hang when I use a window I haven’t touched in a while.

I don’t know if the M1 is the best laptop, but it is the best I have used by a wide margin.
But only as long as they get the USB power spec right. Because, if not, the cigarette lighter with an adapter is going to be more useful.
I'm fully in favor of more ventilation and improved indoor air quality, however they aren't really thinking things through long term. Since the virus is now endemic and can't be eradicated, we'll all be exposed occasionally regardless of whether the windows are open.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
I don't understand what this website is supposed to be demonstrating. Some sort of genius version of disabling right click I suppose. But I did download the image, because its contents were transferred to my computer's memory and displayed on my screen. I can see it clear as day.

If Web 3 is just willfully misunderstanding how computers work, I don't see a very bright future for it.
While there are upsides to compulsory voting this is one of its downsides IMO. Because you can't "refrain to vote" the parties know all they have to be is slightly better than the alternative and they will get your vote. In some ways it entrenches the two-party preferred system and means they only have to differentiate on minor issues. In the end they don't have to be good to get your vote, they just have to be slightly better than the next party in line.

If you are not satisfied with either party you still need to vote. Even if you vote for a minor party you know many who aren't as engaged in politics will vote for one of the two majors anyway on relative, not absolute basis limiting the power of your "politically engaged" vote.

That's my impression of Australia's politics. There's no perfect system.
> how many applications are so novel that blockchain is actually the best and/or only application of said tech?

Decentralized stock exchanges.
This is consistent with the findings of positive manifold and singular g-factor from psychometry.
Whoops, author here. That was a mistake, I meant to say the copy_file_range syscall since that's what Rust uses by default under the hood on Linux (or copyfile on macOS). Updated the article with those corrections.
I thought that for a change Linus wrote something remarkably noncontroversial. Turns out I was wrong.
That's interesting; where I'm from, people only get votes at one municipality (I they qualify for multiple, they choose one as the primary residence), so any people with secondary homes for vacations or rentals are automatically outvoted by the actual residents in local elections.
What, specifically, are you hinting at?

"Vagueposting" is really annoying. Tell, don't make us guess.
Thank you all for the replies I'm glad to hear that I'm not going crazy. I did have some suspicions that this might not be HN specific but I'd mainly noticed it here since I spend a disproportionate amount of my mobile browsing time here or in YouTube. I couldn't remember if I'd seen it before my update to iOS 15 but from all the comments the WebKit views in 15 are looking pretty suspect.
>naysayers arguing against strawmen enthusiasts

I hear you, but not sure who the "strawmen enthusiasts" are. The plain case that's being made for the accessible value of NFTs right now revolves around ownership of digital assets, full-stop.

But, when detractors point out their critiques of this use case, some enthusiasts pivot to "well, that's not all an NFT can do or will ever be". It's kind of slippery, and seems to be the straw-manning here.

>it's pretty clear most of those people don't even know the technical definition of an NFT

It's fair enough to say that NFTs are in their infancy. But, enthusiasts are selling the current use case really, really hard. So, maybe they are undermining your arguments for the future use cases of NFTs more than anyone.

And, really, technical definitions of NFTs (or anything) don't matter WRT adoption. What matters is what's been actually implemented of real value. You can't really fault people for not buying into NFTs based on the present-state. But, if other valuable use cases come to fruition, they'll come running. Thing is, their behavior could be considered rational now and then.
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Dragon age inquisition has an amazing visual programming system, you could set whoch cajaracter will do what under which circumstances, like 'cast spell X when main character is low on HP' or 'when there are more than Y enemies"

It really isnt too much to use or ask for
Docker works fine now. It took a few months for them to release an M1 update.
The art in the image editor on Macintosh is Combing the Hair by Hashiguchi Goyo, if you were wondering like me.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1930-0910-...

P.S. Super annoying how the website intercepts my Ctrl+F.
I think one issue is places like Vail, PC, Tahoe are already spread out. Going there on vacation doesn't feel special at all, just feels like you're in some generic suburb. Places like Tremblant are nicer as there is a compact walkable town where all the buildings are 5 stories tall.
> Lots of other fields have on calls or out of work expectations.

Yes, and in many of them there are call-out fees and overtime. Programmers and sysadmins have convinced themselves that, as "professionals" they are not aligned with traditional working-class constructs like this.
All the thymes and oreganos? Wow
We have seen this issue locally and traveling, North America and Europe.
A very good solution, but requiring cooperation and strong town Council (and perhaps some retro-action) is that every single business in town,
provides staff housing - alternatively builds staff housing above their business.
Imagine if their was an apartment for every employee.
Just repeating that something is "the end game" doesn't make it so. That isn't how public health works.

There is no certain amount of privilege required to "play this game" for 2 years than 1 year, or 1 month. You're setting up arbitrary lines in the sand and pretending they're laws of nature or maybe government.

I understand 2 years is as long as you want to wait, but we're all doing things we don't want to be doing. Such is the cost of living in a society.
If it turns out that it is indeed extremely mild, does not cause deaths, and an infection with it confers immunity to covid in general, shouldn't it be allowed to run like wildfire?
Great tool, something I didn't know I need in my life. Thanks.
> This sort of belief (that corporations do extensive testing and tuning of language) seems quite widely held, but I've never seen much support for it.

I recall integrating with a beta AWS A/B testing sdk back in ~2015 (may be off on the year) and I'm certain that some the examples in the docs were along the lines of, say, testing two different wordings for a label in your app and measuring the change in engagement. But that's not inherently nefarious, it's just analytics. They ended up shutting down that SDK and the web dashboarding for it IIRC.

Now, A/B testing for the purpose of tuning languages towards deceptive dark patterns? It's harder to prove, but I think it follows that if they're A/B testing other changes, there's no reason that deceptive changes wouldn't also be A/B tested as a matter of course.
This issue is nationwide(as noted), and only going to get worse.

The only way out of this is to find a way to eliminate or make very, very difficult investment housing, full stop.
That sounds really scary.
Nowhere have I said juniors can't learn SQL either.

This is such a pointless argument anyway. You aren't bothering to read what I'm writing, you're twisting what I'm saying in what little you do read by filling in your own blanks, and you're insinuating that I won't use other best practices just because I won't agree with your subjective definition of best practices.

I have read many arguments about this, and again, I am experienced enough to know when to use it. The issue here is you have a completely condescending view of anyone who's not sharing your exact view. Your posts repeatedly insinuate that your experience outweighs my own, without actually providing anything other than YOU think ORMs are bad.

Not every college teaches SQL, not every junior comes from the same technical background, and you're assuming a lot more about someone else's workplace than you have any basis to.

You're also kind of a jerk by further insinuating that I put up with shit code. Perhaps I just don't put up with shit personalities who have a chip on their shoulders.
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Fwiw, this is more op-ed than it is medical science. Nothing wrong with that per se. Just worth mentioning.
The way I have seen this done in mergers I have been involved in is quite gradual. First, do some quick "day one" changes, where you change branding, and make the systems interoperable to some degree in terms of logins, file formats, terminology, import/export to each other, etc.

Then, gradually make changes to each system over time towards a common direction, and either they'll end up similar enough that you can pull the plug on one and nobody will notice, or they'll become two different offerings in the same family. Think of Windows 96/98/ME + NT 4, XP, etc - make them look and feel similar, different implementations that co-exist for a while.

Refrain from trying to make the long term decisions and planning on day one, and just see what happens with the market, personnel, etc.