skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tough question to answer, and I think people should make that decision for themselves, with all the information they have about their particular situation.

Negative side effects of note with usual ADHD medication (amphetamine salts) include increased cardiovascular load, development of a tolerance (you need higher doses to achieve the same effect). Sometimes amphetamines induce small changes in personality, rarely full blown psychosis (this has happened at therapeutic doses!).

In general you should apply the same sort of risk-benefit analysis we use for every other drug. If you don't experience any side effects so strong you want to stop, and you believe you're aware of the risks, great.

If you're taking them without a script, I'd advise you to find a steady-state dose that works for you and stick to it. Don't let yourself increase the frequency or the dose without a conscious decision. That's how many people have spiraled.

Finally, I think it's important to have a lot of respect for psychoactive chemicals. Nature doesn't care very much for human overconfidence. If you start being careless, chemistry will do what chemistry does.
> PoW in this context is a bit worse because PoW miners can rent out their hash power maliciously without being slashed.

Sounds wrong. Slashing is a means to prevent people from staking on multiple chains. In PoW, computing power is scarce, so if you allocate some compute time to one chain then you have less of it on another chain. You automatically get slashed. The difficulty in designing a PoS chain is in artificially re-creating this slashing and thereby solving the "nothing at stake" problem.
And yet, I would bet money that thefts in the US rarely are from lock manipulation (picking, drilling, but maybe brute force eg door frame). We have too many accessible windows in the US, and a lot lower density, maybe this is why Euro locks are more advanced, but regulation is also a factor, we don’t have it here, at least in residential, which makes me wonder if we need it (I assume our insurance system effectively covers the risk)
The locksmith drills your lock because it takes no skill and allows them to sell (or forces you to buy) a new lock and set of keys at whatever weird time of day it happens to be. The price is almost certainly going to be higher out of normal hours. Plus if he picks the lock in 30 seconds you may not pay such a high fee.
direct listings? or any of the other ways to go public with an investment bank?
For those who may not know, this is a front-end to LibGen. I like the search feature more and use it now and then, but for me the 5-downloads-per-24h limitation is usually quite limiting.
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> … insane schedules, incompetent management, project bloat, abuse and burnout.

… and as TFA says, financial calamities, and yet, we persist, and we love all of love it, and this art will never die.

Why?

It’s the essence of us.

Story telling is the BIOS of humanity.
I’m not sure this resolves anything. The disk format is no longer secret, true, but the patents are still in place and I don’t see a license anywhere in the link. (Even the one that’s present in the FAT spec released with UEFI is only valid as long as you are using it to implement UEFI.) Linux specifically gets a free pass because Microsoft joined the corresponding patent cartel (the “Open Invention Network”) in ’18, but FOSS at large is still at risk.

(I also don’t see why anyone would implement the allocation-bitmap-based exFAT instead of the extent-based UDF. They haven’t even added a third FAT! ... But that’s an unrelated matter.)
This page confirms it isn't: https://www.docusign.com/how-it-works/legality/global/german...

> ...the use of electronic signatures or requires that the “written form” be used (which requires use of a qualified electronic signature), then any non-qualified electronic signature may be used.

As such, DocuSign is an "electronic signature", but not a qualified electronic signature. This seems to be defined directly in eIDAS, so it probably applies to most of EU countries, and countries on the path to joining the EU.
Some locks are surprisingly easy to open, despite being highly in use.

Locks are to slow an attacker. A determined attacker can bypass almost any lock, but not stealthy enough. If you drill the lock in my front door, you wake up the entire street. If you can pick it in 30 sec in the middle of the night, you wouldn't wake up anyone, but some kind of camera probably picked you up.

I used to pass this bicycle parking at a train station twice a day. I'd always look at the locks (or lack thereof) while walking, quickly thinking which ones I could certainly open (and the question is always: how quick). But I never gave in to the desire, despite a lack of locks and peers (for practice/fun).
Interesting take. I have lost nothing for example. I gained a lot over the last 1.5 years.

I am vaccinated. I keep my distance. I do everything to protect those that need societies' help to do so (medical personnel, people that can't be vaccinated like people on chemo or pregnant women in the first trimester).

I additionally used the time not stuck in senseless commute to create a side business. Started to learn a new language and helped local businesses to grow their online presence.

Additionally as foster home we provided shelter for about 25 cats that now live in loving families.

I think it depends on how one views these times. For me it is a massive win.
Can I ask how this is an alternative to DocuSign? I like what your product is offering - actually something I've considered as I use a built in forwarder from namecheap and it's sometimes painfully slow, but DocuSign's big business is in electronic signing of documents, right? The only times I've had to use it was buying a house and once signing an offer letter for a job.
I bet most locksmiths are the drill and replace type and could not pick a lock reliably anyway. Locksmiths are taught how to dismantle and remove a lock these days rather than how a lock works and therefore how to beat it.
You misread that: "SMS and up" is the description for Textform = the variant that doesn't require a qualified electronic signature.
Disabling upnp on your router does not prevent your devices from using it amongst themselves.

The only service advertised by the router is the part you don’t want anyway.
If you read the more recent work, there's figures of 80/90/95%+ mentioned from the ME/CF national association as well as several of the hospital associated treatment centers.

I mean I hope you're right, and it's 35%+, and anecdotally and on a branch here, some of the eerily similar but inconclusive SARS, avian flu, and Covid linked cases seem to be recovering faster from self reported individual data points. But I can't prove this.

What's interesting, and seems to either support or intermingle with an earlier point you made is a recent paper that showed if you had childhood trauma you were (this might be the wrong word) either more susceptible or more likely to be in the MECF group. Which suggests, to your point, maybe the cohort has "weaker" psychological baselines. What's not clear, is once you get it, if that baseline is at all relevant to the actual disease (just like it doesn't matter if you initially got it from the Epstein Barr virus or another viral infection). But it sort of aligns with what you're saying.

However the counterfactual is hard to work against. We know CBT/ACT/DBT/etc are highly effective for other issues.....all these people that are essentially disabled (can't work, require care, often can't even be materially ambulatory). Why wouldn't the self select into CBT/ETC? And if you're right, why wouldn't you see a tsunami of self reported or clinically measured recoveries? And therefore the consensus articles would say "do therapy". But they don't. Theres an old medical school anecdote: listen to the patient sometimes they're telling you the diagnosis. In economics you could draw the comparison to the concept of revealed preferences; we don't have to go through all this hand wringing of mechanisms and (im arguing slandering and blaming the victim) others. If you're right, shouldn't you see these landmarks papers saying "hey xyz protocol of ABC therapy plus DEF manual therapy produces an XX% recovery". Where is that paper? Because you'd think the MDs that work in this space would know about it and center their care around it. Id argue it doesn't exist, it's just internet warriors making stuff up.
We should also not forget that a lot of maths is spoken (in classes and seminars) so there the distinction between, say, \theta and \vartheta would be lost was they are pronounced the same...
> thats why youre taxed into oblivion after a certain point.

Fun Fact: The nordic countries have a fairly flat tax rate (flatter than the U.S.) as well a 25% VAT and a low (20%) corporate tax rate. Most people don't realize this and would howl about regressivity if the U.S. introduced a 25% sales tax and lowered the top bracket to anyone earning more than $59K - which is Sweden's top bracket this year. So "beyond a certain point" for Sweden means "beyond $60K/year income".
This article is complete BS. Proof of Stake is more secure than Proof of Work for a simple reason. The cost of doing a 51% attack (to stop the blockchain or to start censoring specific transactions) on a PoS blockchain is exponential, whereas the cost of doing such an attack on a PoW network is linear. This is because as an attacker acquires more tokens, the price of remaining tokens increases exponentially as the attacker approaches the 50% mark. If the network is well decentralized in terms of token ownership, it may not ever be possible for the attacker to acquire 50% of tokens; also, their incentive to continue with the attack decreases as their stake in the blockchain increases. Unlike with PoS which requires the attacker to keep buying more (limited-supply) tokens, with PoW, ASIC miners don't become more expensive as the attacker gets closer to having 51% of the hash power; this is because the market will produce more ASIC miners to compensate for any increase in demand. The global supply of ASIC miners has no upper bound.

The article is also misleading in inferring that there is a very narrow range of ways to implement PoS; in reality, there are many ways and all of the 'drawbacks' mentioned only apply to certain (poorly designed) implementations which no modern PoS blockchain would ever use.

> What happens if you’re presented with two identical blocks, and have to decide which one to pick?

Easy, you can just have a vote on one of the block and choose the one with the majority votes; it can be chosen on the basis of any attribute of the block (E.g. commonly you can look at block IDs). This is what PoS blockchains like COSMOS do with the Tendermint protocol. Other blockchains like Lisk have a delayed voting so that consensus is reached after a certain number of blocks.

> The entire point of the consensus mechanism was to allow us to tell which transaction was first, without personally having seen it take place.

Anyone who understands distributed systems knows that the exact order of transactions (down to a few hundreds of millisecond) cannot be physically determined due to latency between the nodes and the unpredictable geography of participants. This is as true for PoW as it is for PoS. The most important thing (for certain use cases such as DeFi) is that transactions cannot be predictably front-run; using block ID ordering with voting as the basis for selecting between two valid blocks guarantees this. If the forger tried to cheat the system by producing multiple blocks, the network may not be able to reach consensus on the block vote and the forger would not receive any block rewards.
I had a fantastic math professor in my bachelor of engineering program. Besides promising to do handstand in the last lecture if everybody submitted the teacher evaluation, he would tell math related anecdotes. One about a high school friend, whom just loved the concept of greek letters so much that he invented his own greek letters, upper and lower case. During his hand ins he would regularly define variables as his own invented letters, paw, py or ypricon, and alledgedly did so at his oral exam, causing the censor to be highly confused and embarrased to not be familiar with those characters.

For sure a think-out-of-the-box move, and a good prank for a math teacher
Judge dredd would be proud!
Oh and thanks for the mouse driver :)
Thank you for your thoughts. I fully agree that it's critical to set up the relevant business targets for the integration, both short term and long term ones.

Do you really think a large and important project like this can be efficiently planned in detail ahead of time? And that the people who are not "on the floor" are the people with the insight to be able to pull that off?
You know that libgen has a separate category for fiction, right?
Brand value, in essence.
Exactly. These PoS FUDers fail to realize that largely the same, even if not stronger, economical factors protect the PoS as does the PoW blockchain. Both fundamentally rely on that 50% of validators need to be honest. With PoW, anyone with sufficient computational resources can execute a 50% double spending attack. I am sure that if few of the largest BTC miners conspired, they could right now execute a 50% attack. That's not in their best interest however, as it would permanently ruin the reputation of BTC and they'd be left with whatever proceeds the attack yielded, but also millions of USD worth of mining equipment that'd be rendered largely useless.

With PoS exactly the same works. Most of the holders should be honest, and a successful attack would require spending at least 50% of the market cap of the coin to successfully execute - and then losing that stake as the reputation of the coin is soiled.
>I doubt that any child has ever watched the Wicked Witch of the West and thought, “Huh, what’s her story?”

Also, apparently, I was that child.

Not with Wizard of Oz in particular, but I had a book called "Fairy-Tales Of the People of the World" in pre-K, and I remember being distinctly pissed about most of them having a "good" ending whereby the villain was killed.

I was, like, this doesn't seem necessary. Seems kinda bad from the perspective of the baddie. And the "good" characters became kind of repelling.

My favorite tales were the ones about the Sly Fox and the like, where the stories were about tricking and outwitting.
Lockpicking leaves marks inside the lock which look nothing like what a key leaves behind. http://www.lockpickingforensics.com/
Private keys are used to upload code to github.

It's not about what's "better" but about what users are willing to tolerate. The average user has a very high tolerance for login bullshit, repeated captchas, etc. -- if the site has a monopoly on the social network you need to access.
Anywhere I can read more about this?
There is also https://anonaddy.com which is open-source and has a great free plan
Why does Windows not deal with hidden files correctly?

It's 2021. Hidden dot-files are not a new thing.
Talk about burying the lede!

Info about the movie is right at the bottom:

Neither Miyazaki nor Suzuki will share much about the forthcoming film, beyond the fact that it is based on a 1937 novel by Genzaburo Yoshino. The story concerns a 15-year-old boy in Tokyo, small for his age and fond of mischief, whose father has recently died. In the English translation by Bruno Navasky, published in October, the boy gazes out at the city and is overwhelmed: “The watching self, the self being watched, and furthermore the self becoming conscious of all this, the self observing itself by itself, from afar, all those various selves overlapped in his heart, and suddenly he began to feel dizzy.” The actual content of the film could be anything — Suzuki has described it as “fantasy on a grand scale” — since Miyazaki doesn’t so much borrow stories as liberate them from their origins. (In the pseudobiographical “The Wind Rises,” he gives the real-life Jiro Horikoshi a fictional wife dying of tuberculosis.) All Suzuki will share is that he recognizes himself in one of the characters, who is not human.

It is time. Miyazaki rubs the top of his head and lights a cigarette, one of his signature king-size, charcoal-filtered Seven Stars. I am allowed one last question. “The title of your next film is ‘How Do You Live?,’” I say. “Will you give us the answer?”

The smile comes only after he speaks: “I am making this movie because I do not have the answer.”
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They sell an enterprise solution for companies that sign thousands of documents a month, the market is huge as every co needs it. They hit the market hard and now appear to have major market share, successfully turning investment dollars into contracts and therefore revenue. I don't agree with other commentors in that they have any sort of moat besides their existing client relationships and brand, same as any incumbent. Looking at the business, it looks like that of Canva, Figma or Shopify, the de facto leaders is newish software categories with massive markets.

They aren't as richly valued (in terms of EV/sales multiples) compared to other enterprise software companies despite slightly above average growth rates and an R&D margin 10 percentage points lower than average. In this market, they actually seem cheap or fair-valued based on a quick glance at comparables. For example Asana, is trading at ~60x+ forward revenue, despite being in a more competitive space with much less stickiness (contract signing is more essential than project management).
Whether PoS will work, I don't know. But the author didn't realize that PoW is certainly doomed.

PoW miners tend to spend more and more resources on finding blocks, until the cost approaches the rewards. But the rewards go up as the cryptocurrency becomes more popular, because the price and transaction fees go up. Therefore, a PoW cryptocurrency tends to "eat the world" as it becomes bigger.

That's why Bitcoin is already approaching 1% of global electricity consumption, if it hasn't passed that point already. If the price were to go up tenfold, then so would electricity usage (roughly). That's not sustainable, both technically for grids and economically because electricity prices go up.

Because of that, I foresee two possible futures for PoW cryptocurrencies:

1. The resource usage overshoots and PoW collapses because it gets banned everywhere. (This seems to be playing out now with China having banned crypto mining, Kazakhstan running into grid issues because of the miner influx, and Sweden arguing for a ban in the EU.)

2. The popularity of these currencies stops growing and only some niche applications remain. Speculators leave because there's no more money to be made. Prices go down.
I enjoyed reading what you posted but I think the fact that most people use 365 Word for the same reasons as '95 Word, means there is no usecase-guided optimisations by microsoft. I find that 95 Word runs faster on W95 than 365 Word runs faster on Windows 11.
Ah yes, the “you’re just jealous because you missed the boat” retort. Magnificent!
I think you underestimate the complexity of MMOs. They can host truly massive events, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB . With so many different play styles and optional components (guilds, pvp, official forums, paid content, user made content, etc), I’d say defining an ideal MMO gamer is just as easy as defining an ideal SaaS user.

Not sure if any MMO reaches Github level, most likely not. But I don’t think there is a ceiling or any sort of hard distinction; i.e. I think 5 years from now we could have a MMO with complexity of today’s Github. Maybe it will be called a metaverse though.
"An interesting question is why nobody has stumbled across and widely shared this method before"

Hmmmm... I "discovered" this method when I was like 14, but I didn't think it was a big deal, since it was equivalent to the standard formula. I'm very sure that I'm not among the first million people who "discovered" this on their own. Also, while this allows some quick calculations in your head (the example equation, x^2-2x+4=0, is certainly faster to do with this method than with the standard formula), for more complicated equations it loses it appeal very quickly, especially if the main coefficient is greater than one (think of something like 3x^2+2x+1=0, which is still not very complicated, and you will realise the usefulness of the standard formula).

As someone who has loved math since forever and who has discovered a million of "neat tricks" like this one (mostly useless, though), I've sometimes wondered whether some of them could actually be useful. Over the years it has become clear that all the "neat tricks" that are actually neat and useful are indeed widely shared everywhere, while the not so neat remain obscure despite being relatively easy to be discovered, because they don't have much application. And people like me who are willing to spend the time rediscover them again and again, only to discard them because they aren't a big deal.

An example of an actually good trick: I was so proud of my novel algorithm to find the gcd of two numbers when I was in high school... then, in my first year at the university, I learned that it was called "Euclid's algorithm" and, as the name implies, it was pretty old :) .
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There's a trend now of Bitcoin mining businesses buying fossil fuel power plants in the US, in many cases plants that had already been shut down due to being unprofitable.

https://futurism.com/bitcoin-mining-company-buys-entire-coal...
https://grist.org/technology/bitcoin-greenidge-seneca-lake-c...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/old-coal-plant-i...
In a chain like Tezos, the validator software is relatively easy to run if you have a Raspberry Pi and some terminal chops, and a lot of hobbyists do stake this way.

But it’s easier for most people to delegate to another party. This is where decentralized staking pools for ETH2[1] built around smart contract interactions could be a good alternative for many users, and may compete with centralized staking platforms.

The mere fact that these peer-to-peer and decentralized alternatives exist, and that some portion of users will prefer to use them, is what makes this technology distinct.

[1] - https://rocketpool.net/
>Not every occurrence in the world needs to be leveraged to air political grievances.

But the article is rich with political subtext; the idea that society is declining due to unreasonably soft-hearted attitudes towards undesirables is a fundamental anti-progressive pillar. The author is completely aware of these political lines and directly references them.

Counterpoint - why would you expect articles on a media website funded out of pocket by a hedge fund billionaire with a penchant for political lobbying to be neutral? What's in it for the billionaire?
Reminds me how the old-world diseases wreaked havoc in the Americas in the 16-19th centuries: It is estimated that current-day Mexico's population had plummeted from 25 million to 1 million between 1500 and 1550.

Even the bubonic plague in Europe in the 1350s did not have such a devastating effect.
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SelectKBest with Chi2 score returns incorrect results in scikit-learn
This talks about code complexity a lot. This, however, is not the chief source of complexity in many code bases. The number of tools needed to build things is the bane of the modern software developer. Also, the use of microservices where none are needed results in and enormous increase in complexity. Code complexity is relatively easy to fix compared to all of this.
The time complexity of the libc++ deque push_front implementation is O(log n)